Ottawa is welcoming the world as it hosts the IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship. But first, some new Team Canada fans were sworn in at a citizenship ceremony at the Canadian Tire Centre on Monday. A cheer and many happy faces were seen as 26 people became Canadian citizens. It marked the end of a long journey for Gonzalo Lozano, whose young son was in the stands cheering him on. He first came to Canada as a university student, studying in Ottawa, and has worked toward this moment ever since. "I just feel privileged to be here and actually become, like, a Canadian citizen in this. Such a nice way," Lozano said. This is the first time a citizenship ceremony has taken place alongside the World Juniors. The new Canadians who were sworn in Monday came from 14 countries. Hockey Canada says the game and welcoming newcomers are a great match up. "It really is a commitment to the game and fun, integrity, fair play, and community. Exactly what these people are bringing to Canada as well," said Hockey Canada's Dean MacIntosh. The Canadian Tire Centre is hosting the World Juniors and these new Canadians are excited to take in the game. "I'm here, haha! It's a good thing," said Olusola Matthew Babatunde, watching his first hockey game at the CTC with his family. Canada took on Czechia in a pre-tournament game Monday, winning 3-2. The tournament officially gets underway on Boxing Day. Team Canada will take on Finland at the CTC, with new fans in attendance. "Of course I'm Team Canada. How could I not be?" Lozano said, donning his first ever hockey jersey. Shopping Trends The Shopping Trends team is independent of the journalists at CTV News. We may earn a commission when you use our links to shop. Read about us. 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Miller returned to the lineup following a leave of absence for personal reasons and for Brock Boeser, it marked his 500th game in the National Hockey League. During the second period of Thursday night's game, Brock Boeser managed to light the lamp, which was assisted by J.T. Miller to give the Vancouver Canucks a 3-0 lead. In doing so, Brock Boeser became the 14th player in Vancouver Canucks franchise history to score in their 500th game in the National Hockey League, according to Sportsnet Stats. Brock Boeser comments on scoring in his 500th NHL game After the game, Brock Boeser met with reporters and opened up on how it felt to not only reach the 500 game milestone, but also to score against the Panthers. Boeser said that he's a loyal person and to be able to score in game 500 with the Vancouver Canucks means a lot to him. The Burnsville, Minnesota native has had a pretty good season for the Vancouver Canucks so far, registering 19 points (eight goals, 11 assists), 14 penalty minutes and is a minus-three in 21 games. It's an important season for Brock Boeser too, as he's set to become an unrestricted free agent next summer and wants to prove to everyone that last season's 40-goals wasn't a fluke and he's worth a long-term deal with a higher cap hit than the $6.65 million he's currently earning. Reports earlier this week stated that Brock Boeser is looking for an eight-year contract with an average annual value north of $8 million USD. We'll have to wait and see what the rest of the season has in store for Brock Boeser and if he's able to agree to terms on a new contract with the Vancouver Canucks before free agency opens on July 1st. This article first appeared on Canucks Daily and was syndicated with permission.
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The stock markets in Bangladesh witnessed a mixed performance yesterday as the key Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) index experienced a fall while the opposite happened in the case of Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE). The DSEX, the broad index of the country's prime bourse, dropped by 1.47 points, or 0.03 percent from that on the previous day before closing at 5,169. This was a fall for a third consecutive day. The other two indices of the DSE saw an opposite trend as the DSES index for the Shariah-based stocks rose by 2.78 points, or 0.24 percent, to 1,158. Meanwhile, the DS30 for the blue chips grew by 0.91 points, or 0.05 percent, to 1,923. Of the issues that changed hands on the DSE trading floor, 150 saw a price hike, 159 closed lower and the remaining 86 did not witness any price fluctuations. Turnover, which is the total value of shares that changed hands and a key indicator of the liquidity flow in the market, decreased 9.07 percent to Tk 276 crore. Orion Infusion Ltd emerged as the most-traded share with a turnover of Tk 18.7 crore. In its daily market update, Shanta Securities said the market movement was driven by negative changes in the market capitalisation of financial institutions, travel and leisure, and paper and printing scrips. Market capitalisation is the total existing market value of a company's existing shares. Meanwhile, there were positive changes in the market capitalisation of food and allied, miscellaneous, and textile scrips. Most of the large-cap sectors, meaning those that account for large amounts in market capitalisation, posted a negative performance, with non-bank financial institutions (NBFI) experiencing the highest loss of 0.92 percent. The NBFI sector was followed by fuel and power (0.87 percent), food and allied (0.19 percent), telecommunication (0.18 percent) and engineering (0.06 percent). However, the pharmaceuticals sector logged a gain of 0.13 percent, and the banking sector recorded a 0.51 percent gain. Companies like Islami Bank Bangladesh, Renata, Eastern Bank, Khan Brothers PP Woven Industries, Taufika Foods and Lovello Ice-cream, Orion Infusion, Fortune Shoes, Heidelberg Materials Bangladesh, Pubali Bank and Olympic Industries drew investors the most, according to LankaBangla Financials. However, Al-Arafah Islami Bank, National Bank, Beacon Pharmaceuticals, BAT Bangladesh, Power Grid Company of Bangladesh, Beximco Pharmaceuticals, Grameenphone, IFIC Bank, Shahjalal Islami Bank and ACME Laboratories suffered losses. At the CSE, the CSE All Share Price Index (CASPI), the premier index of the port city bourse, posted a gain as the index rose by 34.6 points, or 0.24 percent, to settle the day at 14,489. The stock markets in Bangladesh witnessed a mixed performance yesterday as the key Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) index experienced a fall while the opposite happened in the case of Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE). The DSEX, the broad index of the country's prime bourse, dropped by 1.47 points, or 0.03 percent from that on the previous day before closing at 5,169. This was a fall for a third consecutive day. The other two indices of the DSE saw an opposite trend as the DSES index for the Shariah-based stocks rose by 2.78 points, or 0.24 percent, to 1,158. Meanwhile, the DS30 for the blue chips grew by 0.91 points, or 0.05 percent, to 1,923. Of the issues that changed hands on the DSE trading floor, 150 saw a price hike, 159 closed lower and the remaining 86 did not witness any price fluctuations. Turnover, which is the total value of shares that changed hands and a key indicator of the liquidity flow in the market, decreased 9.07 percent to Tk 276 crore. Orion Infusion Ltd emerged as the most-traded share with a turnover of Tk 18.7 crore. In its daily market update, Shanta Securities said the market movement was driven by negative changes in the market capitalisation of financial institutions, travel and leisure, and paper and printing scrips. Market capitalisation is the total existing market value of a company's existing shares. Meanwhile, there were positive changes in the market capitalisation of food and allied, miscellaneous, and textile scrips. Most of the large-cap sectors, meaning those that account for large amounts in market capitalisation, posted a negative performance, with non-bank financial institutions (NBFI) experiencing the highest loss of 0.92 percent. The NBFI sector was followed by fuel and power (0.87 percent), food and allied (0.19 percent), telecommunication (0.18 percent) and engineering (0.06 percent). However, the pharmaceuticals sector logged a gain of 0.13 percent, and the banking sector recorded a 0.51 percent gain. Companies like Islami Bank Bangladesh, Renata, Eastern Bank, Khan Brothers PP Woven Industries, Taufika Foods and Lovello Ice-cream, Orion Infusion, Fortune Shoes, Heidelberg Materials Bangladesh, Pubali Bank and Olympic Industries drew investors the most, according to LankaBangla Financials. However, Al-Arafah Islami Bank, National Bank, Beacon Pharmaceuticals, BAT Bangladesh, Power Grid Company of Bangladesh, Beximco Pharmaceuticals, Grameenphone, IFIC Bank, Shahjalal Islami Bank and ACME Laboratories suffered losses. At the CSE, the CSE All Share Price Index (CASPI), the premier index of the port city bourse, posted a gain as the index rose by 34.6 points, or 0.24 percent, to settle the day at 14,489.Similarly, Cristiano Ronaldo, the Portuguese goal-scoring machine, has been a dominant force in world football for over a decade. His incredible athleticism, goal-scoring instinct, and work ethic have set him apart as one of the greatest players the game has ever seen. Despite his age, Ronaldo continues to defy expectations and deliver exceptional performances for both club and country.
Undercover FBI agents had no role in US Capitol attack: reportThe North Pole is on the verge of a civil war. Santa is missing. It’s elf vs. elf. Factions have formed, and it's up to you to save the day, block a ransomware attack, and untangle multiple cybersecurity snafus to ensure this year's holiday gifts don't get buried under a mountain of snowballs. No, it's not a children's story with a cyber twist. The Holiday Hack Challenge from SANS Institute is back for another season of wintery fun. Open to players of all skill levels, the online competition with real-world cybersecurity problems is set in the world of Santa, elves, and Christmas mayhem. This year's competition is open and will run through Jan. 3, 2025. "There's some really good stuff in there with ransomware analysis, Web application penetration testing, incident response and incident analysis," says Ed Skoudis, founder of the Holiday Hack Challenge and president of the SANS Institute. Skoudis calls the Holiday Hack Challenge, now in its 21st year, SANS's gift to the cybersecurity community. The goal is to provide a learning environment that is freely available to everyone in the world to learn skills while having fun, as well as to build a community where people work together and get to know each other. Players don't have to play through the game in one sitting or in order. Anyone who needs help can ask the elves in the game — the elves are very promiscuous hint-givers, Skoudis says — or join the Discord server to chat with other players. Many of the challenges are taken from real-world cybersecurity incidents. Each challenge is ranked by difficulty, from one to five snowballs, with five being the most difficult. What's new this year is that every challenge can be solved in two ways: an easy mode and hard mode. Players don't know which mode they are in, but if their solution took the easy method, they'll "receive" a silver trophy. Solving the hard way results in a gold trophy. And skipping a challenge gives them a bronze participation trophy. A certain number of points are assigned for bronze, silver, and gold for each challenge, which are then summed into the player's score. A leaderboard displays player scores — and people who signed up as a cohort have their own private scoreboard. "All year long, we're canvassing, looking for ideas of novel attacks that everybody should know about and know how to investigate, know how to do penetration tests for, and we're pulling those ideas together and putting them in holiday hack at the highest quality we can," Skoudis says. This year's challenges fall into the following categories: Winners will be announced in a webcast on Jan. 16, 2025. The grand prize winner will get a free SANS on-demand course, though some previous winners have found themselves with something more: a full-time job. Janusz Jasinski first participated in the Holiday Hack Challenge in 2018 and was hired as a senior technical engineer by Counter Hack in 2023 after networking with people he encountered in the community. He is now involved with the challenge as a game designer. Finding the sweet spot of something that's not too easy yet not too hard is the greatest challenge in designing the game, Jasinski said. He designed this year's mobile app penetration test challenge. "My challenge this year was [a difficulty level of] two or three out of five,” Jasinski says. "It's easy to do [create] a very easy challenge, it's easy to do a very hard challenge. It's very hard to do those in the middle, and just getting the right amount of complexity in there was a bit challenging. But further this year, we had the gold and silver, i.e., easy and hard routes. So to bake that in was now an extra level of difficulty." But the fun part, he says, is having people in the real world playing and actually succeeding in the challenge, then sharing their solutions on Discord or social media. Participating in the Holiday Hack Challenge and joining the community also led Kyle Parrish to a role behind the scenes. Parrish first played the Holiday Hack Challenge in 2018, winning an honorable mention early in his cybersecurity career. "I played it and absolutely loved it — the practical application of the challenges and the just goofy video game feel," he says. "It was a ton of fun. I learned a lot of tools that I literally was able to start using in my work and help me progress as a young security engineer." Parrish says he enjoyed the competition and sense of community so much that he played annually and volunteered to be a concierge in Discord, helping others with the challenges, in 2023. In January 2024, he joined the Counter Hack team as a senior technical engineer and is also now involved in designing the challenges. "My favorite part is how, basically, the entire game is run off an Excel spreadsheet, which just kind of blew my mind," Parrish says. "And to see the skill that was put into it by some of our other teammates on building this game engine ... to create these environments in this virtual world where players can interact with these challenges. It's so much fun." It's also exciting to see how people solve his challenge, he adds. "Somebody found an exploit in it and was able to get root against the challenge, which was awesome," Parrish says. "It was really cool to see that I had an intended path, but you were able to have an alternate path and were able to escalate your privileges. And that just makes for an even better write-up and a better learning experience for everybody involved." Though it may come cloaked in snowball fights and elf espionage, real-world training and building a peer community is the real point of the challenge. "I hope players develop cybersecurity skills that they can use in their actual job," Skoudis says. "That's the bottom line. And at the same time, I hope we have spoonfuls of holiday sugar that helps make the medicine go down, you know?" Jennifer Lawinski is a writer and editor with more than 20 years experience in media, covering a wide range of topics including business, news, culture, science, technology and cybersecurity. After earning a Master's degree in Journalism from Boston University, she started her career as a beat reporter for The Daily News of Newburyport. She has since written for a variety of publications including CNN, Fox News, Tech Target, CRN, CIO Insight, MSN News and Live Science. She lives in Brooklyn with her partner and two cats.
The decision to add a new expressway reflects Jiangxi's commitment to advancing its infrastructure and promoting sustainable development. By expanding its network of high-speed roads, the province aims to facilitate faster and more efficient transportation of goods and people, while also reducing traffic congestion and improving road safety.In conclusion, the "Spring Dawn Plan" represents a transformative initiative that is reshaping the industrial belt industry and empowering merchants to achieve unprecedented success. By embracing innovation, leveraging technology, and putting the customer first, the plan has demonstrated the immense potential for growth and prosperity in the new economy.The sudden jolt of the earthquake was felt across a wide area, with reports of shaking reaching neighboring states. Buildings swayed, and residents rushed out of homes and businesses in fear of potential damage. The quake also triggered a series of aftershocks, further adding to the anxiety and uncertainty in the affected areas.