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KELOWNA - Rutland's very own Kelowna Chiefs six game winning streak came to a halt Saturday night.
The Chiefs were defeated 4 – 3 by the Summerland Steam at Rutland Arena.
Summerland got on the board at 10:54 in the first period to take the early lead.
The Steam would dominate the second period, scoring three goals back to back to back to take a 4 – 0 lead.
It wasn't until 6:40 in the second when Brady Mende (1G, 1A) would score on the powerplay to get the Chiefs on the board. Dylan Jamieson would add one as well.
Kelowna fought back as hard as they could with Matthew Naka scoring in the third to make the game 4 – 3 but it wasn't enough.
Adding assists for the Chiefs was Nicholas Gnazdowsky (2A), Alex Gran, Chase Astorino and Ryan Baim.
Next up for the Kelowna Chiefs is a home game against the Osoyoos Coyotes on Tuesday November 12th at Rutland Arena. Puck drop is at 7PM.
Meanwhile, the Chiefs defeated the North Okanagan Knights 3 – 1 on Friday November 8th in Armstrong.
Scoring for Kelowna was Jagger Bowles (1G, 2A), Nicholas Kovacik and Nick Josephs (1G, 1A).
Tyler O'Donnell and Connor DeMelo split time between the pipes in the victory.


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The winger, who had a spell playing for Glasgow Warriors in 2015, will leave Waratahs at the end of the 2018 Super Rugby season and make the move to Franklin's Gardens.
Northampton's technical coaching consultant Alan Gaffney believes Naiyaravoro will be a big hit next season and is looking forward to seeing him develop.
"Taqele is an immense talent and we feel that he can really fulfil his sizeable potential at Saints," he said.
"He clearly boasts the physical attributes to cause teams a lot of problems in the Aviva Premiership and in Europe and he showed that during his time with Glasgow."

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20 tried and tested ways to make money
New blog – I'm frequently asked by people how I make money each month. So I thought I'd share here 20 different ways to make money in the hope that it can help others to make more money as well!
- Mystery shopping. I'm a great fan of mystery shopping as a way to make an extra income and get some new stuff as well! Basically, you get paid to enter a store, assess the condition of the store and the levels of customer service offered by that store. Usually, you also get given a budget as well to buy a product with so you can test how good the experience is from browsing products to buying one. If you're new to mystery shopping I highly recommend signing up with Marketforce who will give you a nice easy start to mystery shopping. If you're interested in joining them then click here.
- Test websites. Another great way of earning money (usually about £5 for every 20 minutes) is through user testing new website designs. Basically, you get paid to be filmed using a website and sharing your thoughts on its design. It's not for everyone as you do have to feel comfortable with giving your opinion even if it's a negative one and you do need a laptop or a computer with a microphone and webcam in order to participate (although there are some tests on smartphones and tablets as well). If you're interested in signing up then two companies I've worked with are usertesting.com (click here for their website) and whatusersdo (click here to sign up for them).
- Prolific. I've written before about Prolific which is one of my favourite survey sites. I use them to earn about £20 a month but if I'm at home a lot this can be up to £50 a month. If you're interested in signing up with Prolific and earning some extra money yourself then click here. Or if you'd like to know a bit more about them first then you can read my briefing on how to get the most money from prolific by clicking here.
- Inbox Pounds. Inbox pounds is another website that I'm a great fan of and which I use to earn a minimum of £20 a month from the comfort of my own home! Inbox pounds is a combination of a paid to click website and a survey site. Some of the surveys can be quite low paying but others can pay quite lucratively so it's worth sticking with. They also offer payments for signing up to other companies as well so it's possible to make quite a decent income from them. I will be publishing a blog in the future sharing my experiences of using inbox pounds but it the meantime if you want to sign up and earn a free £1 for your trouble then click here.
- Branded surveys. Another popular survey site for me that I use to earn about £15 a month (sometimes more if I'm motivated!). You get points for completing surveys (and also for being disqualified from surveys if you don't meet the eligibility criteria). You also get points for completing daily polls. Once you reach a 1000 points you can cash out through a variety of ways such as into your PayPal account or as Amazon vouchers which you can use to buy nice stuff with! Another advantage of the website is that the more points you earn, the more badges you earn and when you get a gold badge you can earn a lot more points a lot quicker! If you're interested in signing up then click here.
- Cashback websites. Although these websites generally give you cashback on purchases (which can be great if you're looking to make some online purchases, switch bank accounts take out insurance, etc). But they also offer money for free signups e.g. for getting a quote on insurance, joining a survey site or entering competitions. I make hundreds of pounds a year from cashback sites because I funnel most of my purchases through them. The two main cashback sites I use are TopCashback and Quidco. I find TopCashback offers the best rates so if you want sign up for them click here. However, Quidco can also offer exclusive deals so it's always worth checking both sites before making a purchase. If you're interested in signing up for TopCashback then click here. Or for Quidco click here.
- Airbnb. I'm a great fan of Airbnb and tend to book the majority of my accommodation through this website. Airbnb is a room letting website where you can list spare rooms (or even your entire house) to rent to holidaymakers or just people looking for a room. It works like any holiday booking site where prospective travelers go online, select the dates they wish to travel and pick from a list of options. It can be particularly profitable when the hotels in your area are full due to a major event. You can set up the type of tenants you're looking for and make it so that they have to contact you before they can make a booking so that you can vet them properly. If you're interested in signing up as a host then click here. As an added bonus for money mental viewers I also have a deal in place for new users of Airbnb who are looking to book a trip (rather than host someone themselves). By clicking here you can save £25 on your first booking! Note this is a different link to the one provided above for becoming an accommodation provider.
- Slicethepie. Another online opportunity to make money is via Slicethepie. This is a website where you get paid to review music, adverts, new fashion items and sometimes other more specialist items. The better quality your review the more you get paid. I use it very rarely through the course of the month (usually only when the survey sites are quiet) but still get at least $10 a month from it (which is worth about £7.10) so if listening to music and getting paid for it appeals to you then you can sign up for it here.
- Swagbucks. A lot of people go crazy over Swagbucks. The concept is that you earn 'Swagbucks' i.e. points for taking part in tasks such as watching videos, answering surveys, doing web searches, taking part in competitions and various other fun activities. You can then trade these points for vouchers or money into your PayPal account. I tend to use it very rarely myself as I find there are too many demands on my time to be watching videos etc, but there are people who make tens or even hundreds of pounds a month from it so it may appeal to you on that basis! If you're interested in signing up you can do so by clicking here.
- Qmee. Qmee is an extension that you can add to google chrome which can offer money for searching the web as well as completing online surveys. It pays into PayPal or if you save up £5 you can earn vouchers. I usually find it good for £5 – £10 a month of minimum effort work so it's worth having! To get you started you can make £0.50 by clicking here. Even better you can withdraw it your PayPal straight away so what's stopping you?
- Zeek. This is a website for buying and selling gift vouchers at a discount rate. Quite often I earn gift vouchers through the work I do (through surveys, focus groups or competitions). Sometimes I can get hundreds a months in gift cards which can sometimes have a short expiry date on. So if there's nothing I need to spend the money on then Zeek is a fantastic tool for reselling those vouchers to make some cold hard cash out of them! Vouchers are sold at less than the face value on them but if you're not going to use it anyway then it's literally money for nothing! It's also a great site for buying gift cards at a discount rate as well (especially Amazon vouchers). If I'm planning on making a big online purchase then it's often worth me checking Zeek to see if I can get some vouchers at a cheap rate for that retailer so that I can save even more money! If you fancy earning £5 for making your first purchase via Zeek then click here to sign up and start saving today!
- Clickworker. is a website that houses lots of different tasks that you get paid for completing. Clickworker offers many tasks to make money such as completing short surveys, searching the Internet and giving feedback for what you find, recording audio or even shopping for shampoo! Pay is into Paypal so make sure you have a Paypal account setup before joining. Earnings can vary wildly with this site going from the equivalent of £10 up to £50 a month so it's worth checking the site regularly to see what jobs are available. If you're interested you can sign up here.
- Lose weight. I don't mean here earning money by eating less and spending less money on food as a result! Instead, I'm talking about using a website called Dietbet. Dietbet is an online website where you bet on yourself to lose a certain percentage of your weight (either 4% over 4 weeks or 10% over 6 months), You verify your weight loss by sending in photos of yourself and your current weight and then what you end up at and can then win a share of a prize pot. However, you do have to put your own money into the prize pot so it is at risk if you don't lose weight. When I did it I ended up losing weight and made about £7 profit in the process (as well as the money saved by eating smaller portions as that was my route to weight loss). If you're interested in signing up to it then you can click here.
- TakeNote. I've mentioned TakeNote before in my blog about earning money online (which you can read here). Basically Take Note pay users to type up transcripts of meetings such as focus groups, interviews, conferences etc. Depending on your typing ability it is possible to earn up to £12 an hour. You must have a good ability with speaking and typing English, be able to type more than 65 words per minute accurately and have a computer with Microsoft Word installed. If you're interested in applying then click here.
- Focus groups. Market researchers are always looking for people of all kinds of demographics to take part in market research opportunities. They also pay a very good hourly rate, although there are rules about how many you can take part in over a 6 month period. I've seen rates of pay vary between £25 and £50 an hour with free product tests or food offered. There are too many companies looking to recruit for me mention here so it's probably worth spending a bit of time looking on google to find out what opportunities are out there. However, one company I have worked with in the past is 'take part in research'. You can sign up with them by clicking here.
- Curious Cat. This is an app for your smartphone and is one of my favourite ways to make money from my phone. I like it so much in fact that I even wrote a blog with my experiences of using the app which also contains links to download the app. If you want to learn more about it then click here to read all about it!
- People Per Hour. This is a website where you can 'freelance' by offering your skills whether they be things like writing a blog post, setting up a facebook fan page, creating logos, commenting on blog posts or recording audio books. There's a couple of ways to earn money on it. The first is by setting up an account and offering services for a set hourly rate. The second is by checking the jobs board and submitting proposals for jobs that are on offer. Those proposals are basically selling yourself and your skills to the client. If you're interested in learning more about it then you can find out more details by clicking here.
- Selling unwanted items. In my house, I have cupboards full of items I never use. I'm sure you do as well! A while back we'd have put these items in the back of the car and taken them down to a car boot sale to make some money. Whatever we'd be left with after paying the site fees and the cost of fuel for getting there we'd count as our 'profit'. Often we'd be selling things with no idea of there real value. Thankfully now though we have access to things like eBay, Facebook marketplace, and Sphlock. With a few carefully taken pictures you can publish items on these websites for sale and see what the interest it without having to leave home! You can also set a realistic price as well based on seeing what other items are selling for so no more undervaluing items. So the next time you clear out one of your cupboards take a quick look on eBay to see what some of the contents of your cupboard are selling for. You might be sitting on a decent amount of money!
- Etsy. I've mentioned Etsy before in my blog post about making money online with a tiny budget (you can read it here). When I wrote that blog I was coming from the perspective of selling printable designs on the site to make money. But did you know you can also sell some of your handmade crafts if you have that kind of talent on here as well? Handmade jewellery and knitted items are particularly popular. If you're interested in learning more then click here for the Etsy website.
- Medical testing. Perhaps not one for the faint-hearted but if you're fit and healthy you can earn over £3000 for testing cold and flu medication and treatments. So if you fancy having enough money to buy a car in your back pocket or just want to find out more about this then you can sign up by clicking here. Hopefully, you won't end up like the Elephant Man!
So there you have it. 20 proven ways to make money, some more obvious than the others. Using a combination of the above it's possible to make hundreds every month in your spare time. So if you're looking to save for a holiday, buy a new car or even save for a deposit on a new house then why not give some of the above a try and let me know how you get on in the comments section below.
Finally don't forget to follow @moneymentaluk on twitter and instagram to keep up to date with the latest money mental news.
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Optimizely lets you create quite complex AB tests on your website without much effort. You can set up the test yourself as a designer and even as a normal everyday person without involving the developers. We are very happy with it, but it is very expensive for a startup.
Georgi Nikolov
Co-founder - Flexpat
Optimizely is user friendly.
Stuart Sopp
Founder & CEO - Current
We use Optimizely for A/B testing on the client side. On the server side we developed a custom product.
Fabio Zecchini
Co-founder & CTO - Musement
We do AB testing with Optimizely.
Talal Bayaa
Co-founder - Bayzat
We use Optimizely to optimize our landing pages.
Perry Oostdam
Co-founder & CEO - Recruitee
We kind of like but never got to use Optimizely--where you can just upload your entire webpage and change little things. I essentially do that with Unbounce; I replicate our website and change little things.
Brian Feldkamp
Founder - BabyBin
Optimizely is a key part of our site optimization. It has the right tools to let you quickly and easily do A/B testing to optimize performance.
Ken Davis
CEO - TaskEasy
We use Optimizely for split testing on our marketing side to see what performs better and optimize it (it's not just a clever name they have over there). It's been great for operating in a data-driven way as opposed to what "feels right" or "looks cool."
Tad Milbourn
Co-founder & CEO - Payable
Optimizely for A/B testing helped us get high conversion on our homepage and onboarding. New Relic helps us with performance. It helped keep costs down and performance high. It's how we've been able to work as a low-cost team, because we've optimized our operations.
Karan Gupta
Co-founder & CEO - Mammoth
We integrated Google Analytics, Optimizely, Intercom & Mixpanel with our application to give us insights, primarily into donor behavior. We use Google Analytics to monitor our web traffic, such as sources and top content, to see where donors are coming and what pages users spend the most time on. Mixpanel & Intercom are used to store & process usage data, such as what wording and features converts those viewers to donors etc. We use Optimizely to A/B test different solutions with live users.
Rose Broome
Founder - HandUp
We use Optimizely for A/B testing and personalization.
Bismarck Lepe
Founder & CEO - Wizeline
We use Optimizely to study user analytics in our testing environment.
Jiyan Wei
Co-founder - BuildZoom
We occasionally use Optimizely for A/B testing on our website.
Brett Scott
COO - Chat Sports
UserVoice, Optimizely, and Kissmetrics suit our needs, which are not super complex. Our customers are only asking basic questions, so they fit our needs. But we're still exploring what else we can use.
Samar Birwadker
Founder & CEO - Good&Co
We've used Optimizely, Kissmetrics, and Segment, but none of them fulfilled their promises. They always required lots of engineering to get the data we needed.
Samar Birwadker
Founder & CEO - Good&Co
Optimizely is handy for A/B testing.
Andrus Purde
Head of Marketing - Pipedrive
For A/B testing, we use Optimizely.
Erez Rusovsky
Co-founder & CEO - Rollout.io
We've used Optimizely in the past. Optimizely was a great tool to A/B test homepages and landing pages.
Basha Rubin
Co-founder & CEO - Priori Legal
We use Hootsuite, Marketo, Optimizely, BrightEdge, and Google Analytics, but it all goes back to Smartsheet. Everything is planned and captured in Smartsheet, and then linked outbound to bookmarked reports. Our workflows always come back into Smartsheet.
Tisha Leslie
Senior Product Marketing Manager - Smartsheet
We use Optimizely for A/B testing.
Tisha Leslie
Senior Product Marketing Manager - Smartsheet
Optimizely is the most powerful tool we've used for BI/analytics. We use it to A/B test everything.
Anthemos Georgiades
CEO - Zumper
Optimizely is great for creating highly customized and personalized landing pages, which leads to better conversion. Its A/B testing is extremely useful.
Guillaume Cabane
Head of Growth Marketing (former) - Mention
Optimizely is an easy-to-use, straight-out-of-the-box tool. It will walk you through setup and provides data in an easy-to-understand format. For analytics, I always like to have the human element, so I'd still get an experienced data analyst to review and interpret your findings.
Victoria Kimura
Director of Operations - Inxent, Inc.
Making decisions based on data and learning from them has become one of the most critical competencies of successful startups companies. Optimizely makes it incredibly easy to start A/B testing various elements of your website and thus accelerate your startup learning.
Peter Komornik
Co-founder & CEO - sli.do
Optimizely is very good. We haven't used it to its full potential yet because our digital marketing person is only part time, but it's been a very good tool for easy testing that requires no incremental development time (we also only have one developer).
James Rohrbach
CEO - Fluent City
Optimizely is easy for non-coders to use.
Shane Snow
Co-founder & Chief Creative Officer - Contently
Optimizely's strength is that it offers the easiest A/B testing.
Dan Friedman
Co-founder - Thinkful
I actually don't use it yet, but I plan to. I have a friend who works there and he's told me its suite of options is very, very useful.
Jeff Witten
Founder & CEO - Coin Out Inc.
We love Optimizely for A/B testing.
Nishant Mittal
Co-founder - Monaeo
Optimizely is very easy to set up and use, but it's very easy to accidentally break pages.
Adam Seifer
Co-founder - Everplans
7%Stacklist Startups Are Using Optimizely
Optimizely is a website optimization platform, and prides itself on being the "simple" service. It's the quickest analytics tool to set up, the easiest to understand and enables users to easily accomplish a variety of optimization workflows, like A/B testing, personalization of content and audience segmentation. Startups especially appreciate Optimizely's out-of-the-box analytics, which include real-time dashboards that allow them to quickly act on their data. Optimizely doesn't have the customization capabilities of other BI platforms, but it's a staple among companies that want their numbers delivered quickly and easily.
Optimizely is simple to use and easy to set up, but because it lacks customizability, it's used most frequently by Seed-stage startups with simpler data needs. More mature startups put Optimizely to work, as well, but most often use it together with another, more powerful tool like Mixpanel.
Optimizely offers a free version with limited features that can only be used on one "project" (defined as one website, one iOS App and one Android App), and can only be used by three collaborators. If you need more projects, collaborators or advanced analytics features, you can upgrade to Optimizely's enterprise package. These are priced differently for each business, so contact a representative for a quote.
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Sunset Dinner Cruises You Will Never Forget!
We do things a bit differently, and that's the way we like it!
Dinner Cruises
Enjoy a breathtaking sunset while watching the porpoises play along the beautiful Virginia Beach coast. After spending an hour on a relaxing sightseeing cruise, dine at one of the local favorites, Chics Seafood Restaurant. We'll pull up to the dock and the waiter/waitress will serve us right on the boat. No need to sit around waiting for a table, and with menus on board you can be ready to order when we tie up. Only $360 for up to six people for a total of three hours, meal not included. We are also available to take you to the Virginia Beach waterfront restaurant of your choice at a rate of $150 per hour, two hour minimum. Cruises are available from Memorial Day thru Labor Day, from 5:30-9 pm.


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An article from the 2008 economic crises written by the two scholars above makes for worthy reading.
I see it as evidence of calling the bluff of practitioners who dabble in nothing more than conventional finance twisted to fool millions who are easily swayed by superficiality
Platforms are rarely provided to scholars who wish to take one step back and question some of the fundamental concepts that are being applied. Few questions are raised regarding the validity of Islamic debt financing, limited liability structures, speculative methods of market trading, or the nature of the monetary system. Such matters are given little attention in the headlong rush to copy interest-based methodologies and this has resulted in a number of embarrassing paradoxes


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James Bond's Aston Martin DB5 is an incredibly cool car, which is why I'm inappropriately excited it's now a LEGO kit. Just like the car Sean Connery drove as agent 007, it has retractable tire slashers, rear window bullet shield, headlight machine guns, hidden tracking computer, and ejection seat that really works. It has the frakking ejection seat! The 1,295 piece kit is available now to LEGO VIP members and the general public can buy it soon, too.
Check It Out: LEGO James Bond Aston Martin DB5: Shut Up and Take My Money


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2014 Baseball/Softball/Tee ball Pool Party
The Salem Parks and Recreation Department will celebrate the 2014 Baseball/Softball/Tee ball, with a pool party Tuesday, July 8, from 6-8pm, weather permitting. Teams are encouraged to bring their team food and drink. The Salem Myer's Swimming Pool will be furnished by the P&R for teams to enjoy. Thanks to the coaches, league directors, umpires, scorekeepers, players and their families for supporting the program this season. All who participated, are invited to the event.


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Some Neighborly Advice on DTV
Nice neighbors who move always seem to want to leave something behind with you as a reminder of the good times spent together.
Often, it's something old, ugly or obsolete that they'll never use again and don't want to take to their new digs.
One such gift our family received recently from our dear, departing neighbor was a portable TV/cassette machine with a four-inch screen. She said she enjoyed watching her soaps while sitting in her backyard and wanted us to get as much enjoyment from the small, dingy white machine.
While that might seem a bit old school, there are a lot more of these portable sets in the marketplace than you might think. The Los Angeles Times recently reported that about 8 million homes owned handheld TVs in 2006 — the most recent figure, according to the Consumer Electronics Association.
That includes the older men glancing at the Yankees game on a nine-inch, battery-operated TV while playing dominoes under the shade of a park tree and the elderly, weekend office security guard watching Friends while making sure everyone signs the register book upon entering and departing the building.
What's the point? All of those portable TVs will be obsolete in less than seven months when the government-imposed digital transition switches all analog TV signals that can now be picked up by those TVs to a digital feed that will be unrecognizable by such sets.
The big question: Do all of those people using portable sets know about the Feb. 17, 2009 analog D-Day?
Recent surveys on America's knowledge of the digital transition deadline reveals mixed results — particularly among minorities, who, like millions of other Americans, rely on such sets for an inexpensive form of entertainment, as well as to provide information in case of blackouts, inclement weather and other unforeseen emergencies.
Minority advocacy group CivilRights.org recently quoted an NAB survey stating that 39% of African-American households and 29% of Hispanic households that watch television via analog sets incorrectly believe they will not be affected by the transition, which is higher than the rest of the nation.
Even if they're aware of the digital transition, there aren't many affordable options for portable-TV owners. A seven-inch, battery-operated digital TV costs anywhere from $200 to $350, according to the L.A. Times — which might be difficult to swing for the typical part-time guard.
The government is providing a $40 coupon to buy digital converter boxes for analog sets, but not all portable TVs have the inputs and connections necessary to upgrade to digital. Besides attaching a sizable digital converter to a seven-inch analog portable could limit the table room the fellas in the park need to slam down their dominoes.
Ultimately, most people will regrettably discard their valued portable TV, or place them in perpetual storage … right next to the eight-track player and the Atari 2600 video game system left by previous neighbors.


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17 outstanding graduated selected for GIST's WHO
Two of 17 GISTs WHO is IERI's adjunct research fellow, Dr. Kongkea Phan and Dr. Penradee Chanpiwat.
□ The Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST, President Seung Hyeon Moon) has selected 17 outstanding foreign graduates for inclusion in GIST's WHO *.
* GIST's WHO is a graduate management program designed to publicize profiles and accomplishments of outstanding alumni to contribute to the promotion of GIST's international reputation and to attract excellent students to GIST by presenting profiles and achievements of alumni who are active as teachers, researchers, public officials, and CEOs in their home countries or abroad after completing their master's or doctoral degrees at GIST.
∘ In 2017, a total of 17 foreign graduates were selected based on their contributions to GIST as alumni, including social contribution and academic achievements. The nominees were given plaques in recognition of their achievements.
□ GIST will strengthen its network with its affiliated countries and affiliated institutions through the GIST's WHO program and will continue to support graduates to grow into excellent researchers.
□ In addition, by continuing the network with GIST after graduation, it is expected to raise considerable pride and a sense of belonging as a GIST alumnus.
▲Aamir Saeed Malik (Professor at Universiti Teknologi Petronas)
▲Bayarbaatar Amgalan (Professor at National University of Mongolia)
▲Do Manh Cuong (Vice Director of Ministry of Health of Vietnam)
▲Duong Van Hieu (Lecturer at Hue University of Science 강사)
▲Humaira Nisar (Professor at University of Tunku Abdul Rahman)
▲Joey D. Ocon (Professor at University of the Philippines Diliman)
▲Lei Liu (Professor at Changchun University of Science and Technology)
▲Mamona Awan (Lecturer at National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences)
▲Mohamed Shaker Abdelwahed Mohamed (Lecturer at Tanta University)
▲Mannan Saeed Muhammad (Professor at Sungkyunkwon University)
▲Mohtashim H. Shamsi (Professor at Southern Illinois University Carbondale)
▲Muhammad Tariq Mahmood (Professor at Korea University of Technology and Education)
▲Kongkea Phan (Lecturer at International University)
▲Penradee Chanpiwat (Lecturer at Chulalongkorn University)
▲Van Anh Nguyen (Lecturer at Hanoi Metropolitan University)
▲Revocatus Machunda (Senior Lecturer at Nelson Mandela African Institute of Science and Technology)
▲Zubair Ahmed (Professor at King Abdul Aziz University)
|Registration Date
|IERI hosts UNU-INWEH workshop
|Dr. Suil Kang of the IERI was selected as a member of the UNFCCC


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International terrorists are so hot right now. Saturday before last (yeah, yeah, I know, always behind) I opened the AGE Saturday Review or Agenda or whatever it was called that particular week. Page 1 featured an ominously dark coloured graphic filling the best part of the page, depicting a horrified face on which appeared to be under attack from the Spiders from Mars. Looking closer, I saw it was a representation of extremely size-challenged terrorists climbing up the face with ropes – or perhaps it was the Special Operations group and the terrorists were already in his hair. The caption, in big bold letters, screamed:
(Here's the text – but the headline and artwork has changed on the online version). Of course, with that graphic, you'll be screaming, "Yes, yes!! I can feel them already. Aaaaagh, get them out of my hair!"
The week before, Background Briefing aired a program on US homegrown terrorists. Then there's the Australian Jack Van Tongeren, purveyor of firebombs and death threats – admittedly not in the same league as William Krar, featured in the ABC program, who was caught with "…a weapons cache containing fully-automatic machine guns, remote controlled explosive devices disguised as briefcases, 60 pipe bombs, and the chemical weapon for a cyanide bomb big enough to kill everyone in a 30,000 square foot building."
Imagine the drama if someone of Middle Eastern background was found with that kind of stuff, but William Krar's activities were barely reported. Reading the Australian or US Mainstream Press ™ these days, you'd be forgiven for thinking that terrorism is only supposed to come from outside your national borders. According to the Background Briefing program, it would complicate the message too much to admit that homegrown nutters pose as much of a problem as international terrorism. Can you say Timothy McVeigh? Martin Bryant?
It's disappointing the program didn't interview Dave Neiwert; he's been giving us buckets of information on the subjec for years, while most bloggers' attention has understandably been directed outward. Kick and Scream has the goods on Van Tongeren and his unsavoury friends.
My take on it is that we are being told that outsiders are the danger to us because they hate our way of life ™. If we see or hear too much about US/Australian citizens like Krar, McVeigh and Van Tongeren, who seem to have enough hate to spare, it's going to make that mantra sound a little hollow.


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With the Ontario government expected to soon introduce a new budget and the province continuing to head towards its own fiscal cliff, Premier Kathleen Wynne has a chance to make a clean break from the fiscal mismanagement of her predecessor, Dalton McGuinty.
To stem the tide of rising debt, Premier Wynne needs to initiate a radical re-think of current spending and put forth a credible plan to balance the budget in the short term. After nearly a decade of excessive spending and large deficits, Ontario's indebtedness is more than a little worrying. A sign of the province's significant debt is the fact that it performs worse than the poster-child for bad public finances, California, on every measure of indebtedness.
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Consider that in 2002-03, the fiscal year before the governing Liberals took office, Ontario collected $74.9-billion in revenues. Revenues grew to $104.1-billion by 2007-08 (prior to the recession). In 2012-13, revenues are expected to be $113.8-billion, nearly $10-billion higher than the pre-recession high. Put differently, revenues have grown by 50% since 2002-03.
The problem is that program spending has increased at a much higher rate. Specifically, program spending is expected to reach $114.7-billion for 2012-13 compared to $65.1-billion in 2002-03, the year before the McGuinty Liberals took office. This represents an increase in program spending of 75% compared to revenues that increased 50% over the same time period.
Clearly, the Ontario government has a spending problem not a revenue problem.
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Instead, the deficit remains at nearly $12-billion and the province's debt has ballooned to $236-billion or nearly $18,000 per Ontarian. Most worrying, however, is that if Ontario continues its status quo spending and revenues, its debt is forecast to reach more than $550-billion (66% of GDP) by the end of the decade (2019-20).
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As a first step, Premier Wynne should abandon the Liberals' unrealistic 2012 budget that hoped growth in program spending could be constrained to an average 0.6% over the next six years while relying on optimistic revenue growth forecasts averaging 3.7% annually.
The notion that the government will be able to hold program spending growth to an average rate of 0.6% is wishful thinking, at best, given its inability to control spending over the past decade (see nearby chart). In addition, the assumed growth rate is less than that proposed by the much-heralded report of the Commission on the Reform of Ontario's Public Services (the Drummond report), without enacting anywhere close to the level of reforms it proposed.
Herein lies the risk of producing a budget that simply assumes spending constraint and improving revenues. It will likely saddle Ontarians with deficits into the foreseeable future and unfairly burden younger Ontarians with even more debt.
A credible plan to balance the budget in the near-term would strike at the root of the problem: excessive government spending. The key is to both reduce and reform government spending. To that end, the government would do well to take the reforms recommended by the Drummond Report seriously.
One area of spending that deserves perhaps the greatest scrutiny is public sector compensation. Government workers in Ontario earn wages that are nearly 14% higher on average than private sector workers in comparable positions. In addition, public sector workers enjoy significantly greater non-wage benefits including pensions, earlier retirement and greater job security. If public sector compensation was aligned with that of the private sector, Ontarian taxpayers could save billions annually.
Other key targets for spending reductions include Ontario's costly electricity subsidies and corporate subsidies, which unfairly subsidize poorly performing businesses at the expense of investments in successful, high performing businesses.
Adopting two key health policies common in other nations with universal access health care — a change in hospital funding to encourage competition and the introduction of consumer cost sharing– would save money and result in improved access to health care.
Substantial savings are possible if the government is open to reforming programs. Further delay and inaction will send the province towards a fiscal crisis with dire economic and social consequences.
Jason Clemens and Niels Veldhuis are the editors of State of Ontario's Indebtedness: Warning Signs to Act, which was recently released by the Fraser Institute.
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Dubai building more islands?
Over a span of 30 years, Dubai has rapidly become a global hub for both travel and tourism.
With so much to offer from beaches, desert, shopping, entertainment to eye-watering luxury hotels, it's no surprise that Dubai attracts a large number of global travelers yearly… Dubai is continuing to grow with a line of developments under way; recently Dubai's government announced the development of two new islands which will be built on each side of Burj Al Arab.
Wondering how much this will cost?
The project will be an estimated Dhs 6.3 billion.
Who will take on the project?
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It will be owned by Dubai Holding and managed by the Jumeirah Group. The project will be called Marsa Al Arab – meaning the marina.
Just how big are these islands?
The two islands will add around 2.2 kilometers of beachfront. One island will consist of a variety of entertainment while the other will host luxury resorts and 100 luxury villas.
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- A massive Marine Park showcasing exotic aquatic animals and fish.
- A permanent Cirque du Soleil theater.
- Wild wadi will be upgraded to double the size and shifted towards the beach.
- A pearl museum which will show off some of the world's rarest pearls from across the world as well as insights into Dubai's pearl heritage.
- Pedestrian pathways, cycling courses and jogging tracks for outdoor activities.
- A private yacht marina and yacht club equipped with restaurants.
When will these islands be open to the public?
Construction will start by June and the expected date of completion will be by 2020.
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What's a gerund you might ask? It's a word ending in -ing. Swimming, running, smoking…etc! What's difficult about it? Well of course it seems obvious when to use a gerund when you are a native english speaker. More complicated it is when you don't! It isn't always called a gerund for starters. There are three common uses of the gerund.
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A proposal to give the Australian Wool Innovation board the right to expel a shareholder has sparked a new row with the peak body, WoolProducers Australia.
The expulsion powers are contained in a package of proposed changes to the AWI constitution whose fate will be decided by a shareholder vote at next week's annual general meeting.
The sweeping Ernst & Young review of AWI's performance and governance had recommended the inclusion of the powers in the AWI constitution to bring it into line with Dairy Australia Ltd.
Jo Hall, chief executive officer of WoolProducers, said she had been trying to find out why the AWI had decided to seek the expulsion powers while ignoring key EY recommendations such as putting a maximum term on a director's tenure.
"That's pretty cute of AWI given there were plenty of other (EY) recommendations such as the tenure recommendation (for maximum 10-year terms) that they haven't bothered to include."
The proposed constitutional changes would give the board or shareholders the right to expel a shareholder "on reasonable grounds".
AWI has told shareholders the issue of director tenure was still in consultation and would be resolved at, or before, next year's AGM.
Ms Hall said she had also been trying to clarify with the Department of Agriculture whether any shareholder expelled from the company would still have to pay the compulsory tax on wool returns.
"You couldn't expect somebody to pay a tax and then not be able to exercise your rights as a shareholder," she said.
Similarly ignored in the proposed constitutional changes had been EY's recommendation for the scrapping of the requirement that people seeking election to the AWI board obtain more than 99 shareholder signatures in support of their nomination.
An explanation in the notice of the AWI annual meeting said broad consultation with woolgrower representative groups had produced a consensus for retaining the current rule to prevent board elections from becoming unnecessarily complex and costly.
The constitutional changes do include a requirement for the AWI chairman to disclose at the start of an annual general meeting the number of proxies she or he is holding and a breakdown of directed and undirected proxy instructions.
Meanwhile, federal Agriculture Minister, Bridget McKenzie, has expressed her doubts about how genuine the AWI board is to making change including cultural change.
In a letter to AWI chairman, Colette Garnsey, the Minister directed the company to provide her with a written update on progress with implementing each of EY's 82 recommendations.
"I also expect AWI to provide me, in response to this letter, with a communications strategy for how it will provide a greater level of transparency and assurance to levy payers about its implementation of the review and its broader operations," Senator McKenzie wrote.
She also asked AWI to provide shareholders with an update on its progress in implementing the review's recommendations at its annual general meeting in Sydney on November 22.
The EY review was highly critical of AWI's lack of collaboration with other research and development corporations and research bodies.
"In an increasingly globally competitive marketplace, it is critical that our rural research and development corporations are focused on delivering benefits to levy payers and enable our industries to jump ahead of our competitors," Senator McKenzie said.
Three vacancies on the AWI board will be filled after the counting of votes at AWI's AGM in Sydney on November 22.
But first shareholders would need to support the resolution to restrict the size of the board to seven directors.
If they don't as many as six new board members could elected as the constitution allows for a maximum board of 10.
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Intel Nehalem-EX Microarchitecture - Image courtesy: Intel Corp.
According to Intel, the Nehalem-EX will offer up to nine times the memory bandwidth of the previous-generation Intel Xeon 7400 platform with up to double the memory capacity through the use of 16 memory slots per processor socket. The processors will also offer four high-bandwidth QuickPath Interconnect links per CPU to provide significant scalability, from large-memory two-socket systems through eight-socket systems capable of processing 128 threads simultaneously.We've got a demo of the Nehalem-EX in action processing 128 threads right here.
In the video, Intel's Kennedy Brown and IBM's Kevin Powell show off an 8 socket, 64 core, 128 thread IBM server based on Intel's Nehalem-EX processor churning though a workload that pegs all cores at 100% utilization. 8-Socket Nehalem-EX Platform Architecture - 64 Cores, 128-Threads, Scalable to 32-Socket Nehalem-EX Architecture Enhancements Vs. Previous Gen.A summary of the Nehalem-EX features and benefits includes:
8-Socket Nehalem-EX Platform Architecture - 64 Cores, 128-Threads, Scalable to 32-Socket Nehalem-EX Architecture Enhancements Vs. Previous Gen.
A summary of the Nehalem-EX features and benefits includes:
The Intel Nehalem-EX is scheduled for production in the second half of 2009, with systems coming from Intel's typical partners in the high-end server space. Intel has not commented on clock frequencies just yet, but if they can come close to existing products, the Nehalem-EX platform could have a major impact on the HPC space, as well as high-end server market.
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that is a beast of a CPU....
Yeah, love it!
yeah, pretty useless until an OS can make use of it, let alone an application break the 2 thread barrier.
I know it's a "build it and they will come" thing, but only in rare cases (VMWare?) are these monster multi-core'd, multi-threaded machines any value.
"We" (who ever we is) need to be pushing software vendors into multi-core areas. Hardware is still greatly outpacing software still.
I know this isn't meant for home use, but even at work (at a large internet company), I don't see a use for this at all. Our dual-core CPU's sit idle 95% of the time...why do we need 126 more cores sitting idle 95% of the time?
FYI: man i want one of these CPU's!!
Although everyone still cringes at the words "Cloud computing" I think this is where the market is. Rather than all of these cores sitting idle, the ability to immediately shift demand of any application across all the servers in your datacenter is going to be priceless.
Agreed, Physics! Though as an enthusiast, I am still a bit nervous about the day the Cloud becomes mainstream. :)
buster, I am quite certain this CPU is targeted toward applications (think HPC etc) that can make use of N number of threads at any given time. And I want one too! [:)]
Cloud... skynet... see the simularities?? The end is coming folks... the end is coming....
Heh, Sorry I just watched Terminator Salvation... it was awesome!!
thats so sweet! but the main question is will it blend???
You're right- this is only so exciting, until developers start taking advantage of it. Developers need to see that multi-cores are the future, and Apple, for one, seems to agree- I have high hopes for Grand Central in Snow Leopard.
Oh man, this looks sooooo sooo goood!!! I want to work on movies with this beast!!!
i don't even know what to do with 4 cores, i can't imagine what i would run 8 cores :X
I have some number crunchers that would use all of the CPU power ... can't wait
WOW in a word!
Although I can not think of many reasons anyone would need that much processing, I am still excited to see that the technology is here. The technology has to come out before companies can actually use it. SO I'M EXCITED. WOOOO.


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Loving both Tuscany-style's warmness and Santorini's glamorous ambience? Well, they can be both incorporated into your wedding beautifully! It only needs imagination and experimentation.
The Tuscan-like decoration makes a perfect match with the unparalleled Santorini ambience, since both styles are characterized by natural landscape elements. Santorini's volcanic scenery, white-painted houses, red-colored cliffs, the breathtaking view of the Caldera and the world-famous golden sunset falling over the idyllic Santorini terraces go perfectly with natural color palettes. Thus, infusing Tuscan color palettes of terracotta, green, ochre, bronze and gold into the Santorini wedding will just bring over the Tuscan-inspired theme and flair. The convenience and comfort of the Tuscany style can also be integrated into your wedding evoking the Italian charm, through natural and rustic materials like roughly-sawn wood and furniture, as well as wrought iron accessories. Fine porcelain and tableware embellished with colorful details in blue, green and gold will dress up your wedding with character in a Tuscany-like atmosphere. Greenery arches and arrangements will further enhance the look, reminiscing of lush Italian vineyards.
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From Norman Bates to, well, Norman Bates, it seems every medium has taken a stab at the psycho killer plot device.
Still, a show that gets into the mind of a serial killer each week — examining the high body count and mysterious origin stories — is perfect fodder for television tropes.
"The biggest audiences for these types of shows are females," says Jim Clemente, a former Supervisory Special Agent at the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit who has consulted on shows like "Criminal Minds," "The Following" and "Those Who Kill." "I think women have a basic protective instinct, the same primitive part of our brain that causes us to rubberneck at accidents. Our brain is trying to keep us safe because we want to learn what's happening and prevent it from happening to us — the risk, the danger, the allure of the really, really complicated killer all make for a more palatable story. These are deep, dark foreboding topic matters being explored with a silver lining at the end."
Unlike so many real-life killings that are no doubt heart-wrenching for the families involved but would, sadly, typically fall flat in the Nielsen ratings, these on-screen murders revolve around cases with deep intrigue and people with an elaborate, sinister storyline. Some might even liken them to dark romances or trysts, where the audience is teased with red herrings and meant to be drawn back for more until the final scene. Bryan Fuller, showrunner and developer of NBC's "Hannibal," equates this to our enthusiasm for Discovery Channel's Shark Week.
"We are sparrows, they are hawks," he says, adding that he addresses this fascination through the friendship between Hannibal Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen) and criminal profiler Will Graham (Hugh Dancy). "There's an aspect of Will that he shares with the audience in that he's fascinated with serial killers. We're able to be seduced by the predator in that way that we see the character being seduced. I want people to be confused about how they feel about Hannibal Lecter. There's that fun yin and yang in the attraction to somebody like that."
Research into what exactly makes up serial killers (and how common they actually are) continues to evolve thanks to the help of modern psychology, technology and crime scene analysis that allow police departments to quickly share information. This could create challenges for TV shows centered around these premises.
Fuller says his show exists in a "heightened state of reality" and considers his lead "essentially an alien" because "Hannibal doesn't believe in the rules of society in that they apply to him" and that Mikkelsen plays him as "Lucifer, the fallen angel."
Scott Buck, executive producer and showrunner of Showtime's recently departed drama "Dexter," and his writing staff also considered these developments, while admitting that the show's darkly demented hero, played by Michael C. Hall, didn't fit the mold either.
"Over the eight years we worked on 'Dexter,' it kept changing what it means to be a psychopath," says Buck, who says his staff worked with CSI and police experts to get the details right. "Dexter is not a typical serial killer by any means. I don't think there's anyone remotely like Dexter. It's definitely helpful to know what a real psycho killer is … the BTK killer was discovered about that time. He turned out to be an average guy."
("Dexter" did feature its own version of a BTK killer in its fourth season. Played by John Lithgow, the Trinity Killer had the outward appearance of a religious father figure.)
The developing research also helps define what we know about behavioral traits of young people with certain red-flag-worthy characteristics. Kerry Ehrin, executive producer and showrunner of A&E's "Bates Motel," wrestled with this dilemma when developing the backstory for perhaps the most famous killer in pop culture, portrayed in this version in all his high school angst-ridden glory by Freddie Highmore.
"Norman Bates is different in that he was formed more by his life," she says, explaining that "the specific disorder with Norman is dissociative identity disorder. It's basically a disorder that can be brought on by repeated sexual abuse in childhood or repeated violence where the child was in an environment that was so consistently terrifying to him that he literally retreated into himself and created other people to handle things for him."
While the magic of Hollywood can indulge some fantasies of the way serial killer cases are worked and what these people are capable of, Clemente stresses that the most glaring error is a resolution in 43 minutes. He notes the FBI had about "25 serial killer cases open in a given day" and says that the Charles Manson-like cult that first builds with the help of a prison computer system for Fox's "The Following" would be hard to replicate in real life because "charisma has to be transmitted in person, not over the Internet."
Still, a serial killer's backstory and its long-running effect on society remain a compelling draw for audiences.
"It gives you immediate and very high stakes," says Ehrin. "That's important in episodic television. It's focusing on (the killer) as a human being and it tries to explain where he's coming from. It's an unfathomable idea to most people to want to harm anybody, let alone want to kill them."