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Less 'wishy washy' needed on renewable energy in SA
South Africa has been "wishy washy" on the issue of renewable energy and needs a more visionary rollout of renewable energy if it hopes to combat climate change.
This is according to Joanne Yawitch, former deputy director general in the department of water and environmental affairs and now chief executive for the National Business Initiative.
Yawitch was speaking at a critical thinking forum on energy diversification hosted by the Mail & Guardian in Rosebank on Tuesday.
She pointed out that South Africa contributes about 2% of world's greenhouse gas emissions and is among the world's top 20 emitters, so has a major responsibility to take action to prevent climate change.
"We're always told that renewable energy can only be an adjunct to mainstream forms of energy and we really need to address that issue," she said.
Yawitch said that South Africa could learn from the Desertech project, a solar- and wind-energy scheme to be based in North Africa and the Middle East, that could provide up to 15% of Europe's energy needs in future.
"If that's the level of ambition they have then we certainly can have a similar level of ambition," she said.
Gas as an alternative to coal
With the controversy concerning hydraulic fracturing or "fracking" in the Karoo, natural gas has been mooted as a possible solution to diversifying the country's energy mix but climate experts on the panel expressed reservations about gas as an energy source.
Yawitch said natural gas could be a possible solution to diversifying South Africa's energy mix as it is a cleaner solution than coal.
"But we need to get our gas supply situation sorted out," she said. "Can we find more gas fields? Could we be importing more gas? It's not just fracking we should consider."
But chief executive for WWF South Africa, Dr Morne Du Plessis, warned that natural gas is simply a stop-gap in the struggle to prevent climate change.
"It's just another form of hydrocarbon The WWF feels we need to be more careful with this because there are a lot of unknowns and gas as a low carbon [alternative] needs to be explored further," he said.
Greenpeace Africa climate campaigner Melita Steele agreed, saying that one should be careful about creating a dependency on gas rather than on coal, and that it should rather be seen as a "bridging fuel" in the move towards renewable energy.
Eskom International divisional executive Dr Steve Lennon also warned against seeing gas as a quick-fix solution, saying that the volatility of gas prices could quickly destroy the business case for gas. South Africa's lack of gas infrastructure would also be an obstacle. "You'd want to use it not just for power generation but also for heating in homes and cooking, and that would require hundreds of billions of rands of infrastructure investment before gas could play a role in South Africa," he said.
Coal and the dirty energy future
Steele argued strongly against coal, saying that South African's should be made aware of the hidden costs associated with this form of power generation. She said research, commissioned by Greenpeace and undertaken by the University of Pretoria, showed that Eskom's new coal-fired power plant, Kusile, will cost the country R60-billion per year in hidden costs.
"Coal is far from cheap and it's a fallacy that because this country has been investing in coal since the 1870s, it's the best option," she said, adding that if one "internalises" the costs of Kusile—that is, if you build its environmental impact into the price—South Africans would be paying 2.29 kw/h as opposed to the current 52c kw/h.
Eskom's six-unit Kusile power plant is currently under construction in the Delmas area of Mpumalanga. Upon completion, it will be one of the largest coal-fired power stations in the world and will provide 4 800MW of power.
Earlier this month, Greenpeace activists invaded the Kusile construction site, scaled a crane and were later arrested by police.
Lennon did not comment on these findings but admitted that South Africa's reliance on coal power poses a risk to its energy security.
However, moves towards energy diversification needed to be taken slowly, he said.
"You can paint this vision but take it one step at a time," he said. "Renewables need baseline power. The only technology at the moment that can provide baseline power are coal, nuclear, hydro, and combined cycle gas turbines."
Lennon said that Greenpeace and Eskom did not disagree on the need for energy diversification but rather on the timing. He suggested 2050 as a reasonable period by which to switch to greener alternatives. But civil society organisations, including Greenpeace and the WWF, believe substantive moves towards renewable energy must be made now to head off dangerous climate change.
Du Plessis argued that diversification of the energy mix alone would not provide South Africa's answers to climate change.
"If it was a single dimensional problem then, someone would have solved it a long time ago. There are many competing interests that need to be looked at in a trade-off scenario. But in the background we need to look at what needs to be done by 2015 to head of climate change which in turn will slow down our economy," he said.
Expectations for COP17
Later this month, South Africa will host international delegates at the 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17), a global negotiation to help agree prevent climate change. Science, politics and economics will intersect at the hotly-contested annual conference.
Steele said it's important that a second commitment period for the Kyoto Protocol should bring about a reduction in emissions. She also said she hoped COP17 would raise awareness about climate in the country and encourage people to put pressure on the South African government to commit to change.
Du Plessis said negotiators at COP17 must refocus their attention on the ultimate purpose of the discussions. "We mustn't fall into trap of incremental change. We need money in the bank of the green climate fund so that developing countries can invest heavily in a low carbon future," he said, adding that developing countries have a lot of work to do to head off the worst impacts of climate change and to deal with changes that are already in effect.
Lennon agreed that it will be important to maintain the momentum of negotiations going forward. Previous negotiations have been bogged down in political horse-trading and a lack of good faith among the parties.
Yawitch called on government to put greater pressure on countries taking part in the negotiations to step up to the plate.
"The developed world needs to meet a set of obligations," said Yawitch. "At COP17 South Africa must put pressure on those countries which are trying to move backwards from the commitments that they have; those countries that don't want a second commitment period for the Kyoto Protocol; and those that haven't committed to the Kyoto Protocol like the US."
She warned that because of the low levels of resilience and development of people in Africa, development in the region is under great threat from water scarcity and failing agricultural economies "in a way that is not dramatic but is very slow and debilitating".
She added that, as this is an African COP, and African countries are disproportionately affected by climate change, "we need to ask very seriously what we as South Africans want to come out of the COP."
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Temperature vs Viscosity chart
August 18, 2008
I would like to know temperature vs Viscosity chart. Here in our region atm temperature varies from 15°C to 45°C. please provide us the comparison chart.Ganesh Chadaram
Paint shop employee - Pune, India
August 19, 2008
I would obtain some motor oil, place it in a fridge. when cooled take its temp and viscosity. Repeat as oil warms up(or is physically heated). This way you would make your own chart.Terry Hickling
Birmingham, United Kingdom
August 20, 2008
The original post does not specify what the material is--oil,water, paint or how he proposes to use that information IE: how is he going to verify the dilutions or ?James Watts
- Navarre, Florida
August 21, 2008
Conversion from one viscosity scale to another is essentially independent of the identity of the liquid.
But the effect of temperature on viscosity is extremely dependent on the identity of the liquid. Two different liquids with the same viscosity as each other at one particular temperature, may well have viscosities that are different from each other at some other temperature.
The thing to do is simply apply the principle that Terry suggests, except that you must use whatever is the particular liquid whose temperature-dependence you wish to know.
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Sorry for writing a great deal slower than you can read - maybe it's due to the fact that I write much faster than I am able to think.
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* 1 pound beef boneless sirloin steak
* 1/4 cup soy sauce
* 1/4 cup dry sherry, white wine or chicken broth
* 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
* 2 teaspoons chopped gingerroot or 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
* 1 teaspoon sugar (or sugar substitute)
* 1 clove garlic, chopped
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Calories: 100
Protein: 17 g
Sodium: 200 mg
Cholesterol: 45 mg
Fat: 3 g
Carbohydrates: 1 g
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(999) 999-7777, Email Address
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Food Process Worker
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When he kicked off, Florida mob boss Frank DiCilia left his gorgeous widow, Karen, everything, but with strings attached. She loses the millions, the cars, the palatial Gold Coast mansion if she ever gets involved with another man. And there's a crazy cowboy-wannabe thug named Roland who's acting as Frank's eyes beyond the grave, making sure Karen doesn't dally, with serious muscle, if necessary.
But now Cal Maguire's come into the picture. A sexy, street-smart Detroit ex-con, Cal's got a line and a scam for every occasion. And he's got the perfect plan for getting Karen DiCilia her money and her freedom...if it doesn't get them both killed first.
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"Frank Muller is good, the story is not"
The story is weak; but thanks to Frank Muller's great performance it is tolerable overall.
The characters were typical Elmore Lenorad people - the underbelly of society. they're funny, clever and always ready to con a con.
The entire story was memorable. Elmore Leonard had "the gift."
I enjoyed so many stories narrated by Frank Muller. He did narrations for John Grisham, Stephen King, Elmore Leonard and many others. All his performances were great. He was the best of the best.
the end. The whole story was great and then - the end. It just hung there.
"mediocre Leonard"
Plotting was far weaker in this one than so many of the other books he has written. a disappointment
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TALLAHASSEE -- Florida State hasn't lost to three unranked teams in the same year since Bobby Bowden's first season 30 years ago.
That could end Saturday if the 17th-ranked Seminoles don't beat Clemson, which is coached by his son, Tommy.
Florida State has lost nine games to unranked teams since the beginning of the 2001 season -- more than all of its losses to unranked opponents during the 1980's and '90's combined.
The Seminoles lost four games to unranked schools in Bowden's first year, 1976, but just seven in the 1980s and only one (at N.C. State) in the '90s.
Four of Bowden's 25 losses to unranked teams were to Florida, including last year.
The Seminoles stormed through the decade of the '90s with a 109-13 record plus the 31-31 tie with Florida that most Florida State fans consider a victory in light of a 28-point, fourth-quarter comeback.
Oh yes, the last time Florida State visited Clemson -- they were upset by an unranked Tigers' team.
The coaches:
Bobby Bowden, who turned 76 Tuesday, is 358-104-4 during a head coaching career that began in 1959. Son Tommy is 67-37 in seven seasons at Clemson and two at Tulane. He is 1-5 against his dad. Florida State has lost just once to Clemson in its 13-year ACC history and leads the overall series 15-3.
Don't look now
Baseball's Satchel Paige is credited with an adage along the lines of "Don't look back because somebody might be gaining on you," and that could be how Bobby Bowden feels these days with Penn State's Joe Paterno moving closer in the rearview mirror.
Bowden, major college football's winningest coach with a 358-104-4 record, is six games ahead of Paterno, who now has 352 coaching victories in 40 seasons as head of the Nittany Lions. Bowden observed his 76th birthday Tuesday and Paterno turns 79 next month.
Oft-injured offensive lineman John Frady is out for the season after shoulder surgery Monday.
Starting offensive tackle Matt Meinrod suffered a season-ending leg injury last month and several other key players can't participate in contact drills. Defensive end Kamerion Wimbley will be out Saturday with a knee sprain and tailback Leon Washington remains hobbled and is doubtful for Saturday's game.
"We've just got too many wounded walking around on our team right now to suit me," coach Bobby Bowden said Wednesday.
Wide receiver Greg Carr (hip pointer) and defensive tackle Brodrick Bunkley (ankle) should play while the Seminoles expect wide receiver De'Cody Fagg back for the first time since September.
It hurts so much
Ann Bowden, Bobby Bowden's wife of 56 years, and the mother of Clemson coach Tommy Bowden considered not going to Saturday's game.
"For the first time she's thinking about not coming," Tommy Bowden said earlier this week. "On Sunday morning somebody's going to be hurt. We get paid well to hurt," he said. "She doesn't." (Although Bobby says she spends all the money).
But with so many family members on hand, the matriarch of the college coaching family decided to go after all, husband Bobby Bowden said Wednesday.
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When we last left the Lamberts, the family whose eldest son Dalton (Ty Simpkins) had been trapped in a comalike state in Insidious, the boy had awakened from his supernatural trance thanks to a rescue mission by his intrepid father. Like a paranormal Navy SEAL, Daddy (Patrick Wilson) had metaphorically rappelled, under hypnosis, into the spirit realm, where his son was being held captive by ectoplasmic terrorists.
Insidious: Chapter 2 picks up the story there.
Where do you go with a tale that ended so over the top, in a fog-shrouded netherworld called "The Further"? Apparently, even further.
Although Insidious had built up a nice head of suspense for much of the film, its final act was absurdly out of proportion to the delicious sense of dread that had been created by director James Wan and writer Leigh Whannell, who, since collaborating on the 2004 Saw, have made a name for themselves as horror auteurs. Here, they try to outdo what they did in Insidious, piling on plot twists borrowed from a host of other movies that, while in some cases are genuinely creepy, turn Chapter 2 into a bustling, overly busy mess.
Remember Poltergeist? It's essentially the model for both "nsidious films, which presuppose a parallel universe beyond the physical one, inhabited by malevolent entities who can drift in and out of our world, and into whose world we (or at least some of us) can also enter, willingly or not. That 1982 film posited an alternate "sphere of consciousness" that could be entered, quite literally, by spiritual spelunkers tethered to a rope. Similarly, Insidious: Chapter 2 features a visit to the Further by someone tied to (I kid you not) a piece of string.
Talk about String Theory. Just contemplating the physics of this will make your head explode.
"I suppose I should have explained something," says one of the spirit mediums (Steve Coulter), who is called in to assist the Lamberts when they discover that their nightmares are far from over. "This isn't an exact science."
No kidding.
Those who missed the first film will get a recap in Chapter 2, which centers on the father, Josh Lambert, who now appears to be haunted instead of Dalton. "Is something wrong with Daddy?" the boy asks, after Josh starts talking to himself and pulling rotten teeth out of his mouth.
Yes, kid, but it's the movie you should be worried about, not your old man.
In addition to Poltergeist, Insidious: Chapter 2 cribs from The Shining, The Exorcist, Psycho and other films. If it has to steal, at least it's from some of the best. The problem is, it's also reminiscent, in parts, of Mommie Dearest and, as a friend of mine pointed out, A Reflection of Fear. (Yeah, I had to look up that 1973 B movie, too. Don't Google its plot twist if you don't want a major spoiler.) Certain scenes in Insidious: Chapter 2 look like outtakes from a zombie movie, with ghouls staggering around in the dark, arms outstretched.
And you thought this was a simple ghost story?
Stick to Wan's The Conjuring (also starring Wilson) for that. Unfortunately, that exquisitely restrained fright-fest, which is still in theaters, is starting to look more and more like a fluke for the filmmaker, who seems to be running out of ideas, even as he amps up the demand for them. Get ready for even less of them in Insidious: Chapter 3, a sequel whose inevitability is ensured by the teaser ending of Chapter 2.
But there's only one number that matters here. Considering how creatively bankrupt and stylistically profligate this second installment of the franchise is, the new movie should really be called Insidious: Chapter 11.
GRADE: One and a half stars
Rated PG-13. Contains frightening sequences, violence and brief crude language.


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Toad stowaway receives new home
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — They say cats have nine lives. Now a Chinese toad has joined that club of wily survivors.
South Africans are marveling at the endurance of a toad that got trapped in a cargo shipment from China to Cape Town after jumping into a porcelain candlestick that was made there.
South African officials reportedly planned to put down the creature, fearing it would cause harm as an invasive species if it were let go in the wild.
But the toad got a last-minute reprieve. Mango Airlines, a South African airline, transported the toad on Friday to Johannesburg for delivery to an animal sanctuary after officials decided to find a way to let the globe-trotting toad live.
The two-hour flight was a breeze compared to the trip from China, an odyssey of many weeks and thousands of miles across the Indian Ocean.
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Cathy Brown has spent more than 10 years as president of Children Affected by AIDS Foundation (CAAF), and for her, October always seems to be particularly busy. From her base in Los Angeles, Brown oversees the foundation's annual Dream Halloween event, a production-heavy affair that brings family activities set in a Trick or Treat village to three American cities. This year, the event comes to Chicago's Windy City Fieldhouse on October 18, New York's Roseland Ballroom the next day, and Barker Hangar in Los Angeles on October 25. The event is expected to draw 1,200, 700, and 2,200 guests, respectively.
Along with planning the three-city event, Brown spent the past year facilitating a surrounding campaign, which launched October 1. The campaign aims to raise funds and awareness for CAAF and features everything from specially designed Dream Halloween costumes to an interactive e-card available on the CAAF Web site and a promotional video starring Jamie Lee Curtis. We recently spoke with Brown about these efforts, building relationships with corporate sponsors, and working at a nonprofit in the current economy.
Give us some background on Dream Halloween.
Halloween is the second largest retail holiday, and it's a time of fun and celebration for both children and adults. Fifteen years ago, CAAF decided to capitalize on this and celebrate Halloween in a fashion that would also enable us to raise funds. This last year, we have expanded the event into a full-blown campaign that involves corporate partners, a Halloween e-card, and a text-message campaign.
Tell us about some of those corporate sponsors and the roles they play in each city.
Toys R Us and Mattel have sponsored this event since its inception [in 1993]. Toys R Us has been the presenting sponsor in New York for the past two years, and will act as the presenting sponsor in Chicago for the first time this year. Nickelodeon is also one of the founding sponsors of the New York event. Disney is another long-standing sponsor, and has supported us for 15 years. Disney and Toys R Us developed the special Dream Halloween costumes, which are sold in Toys R Us stores and help raise funds for CAAF and bring awareness to the campaign. At this year's Chicago event, we're honoring Resnick Automotive Group because they have given us a car to auction for the past nine years. American Airlines has been our official airline all year long, and they're helping us with the auctions.
Our relationship with each of our sponsors has really become a meaningful exchange, where they're not only giving something to us, but we're giving something back. We show them what we're doing to change the lives of children affected by AIDS and how their partnership helps us in those efforts. In turn, we can help them with corporate outreach and philanthropy efforts.
What kind of auctions will take place this year?
We have silent auctions in all three cities, and we've had to make sure to structure them extremely well in this economy. This means bundling items to make them more attractive to donors. Instead of just a dinner, for instance, you add a hotel stay and make a weekend out of the package. We have live auctions in Chicago and Los Angeles, and this year people will be able to sponsor activities for children for the first time. Our new texting campaign allows people to donate by texting the word dream to a certain number.
CAAF also has a promotional video on Facebook and MySpace that stars Jamie Lee Curtis. How do you measure the results?
We have a tracking system to measure how much is coming in through online donations, and we measure an event's success through money raised and surrounding publicity. The texting campaign is brand new—and, I might add, it cost very little to set up. Whatever amount we raise from the texting campaign will be new revenue.
Which promotional tool has proven the most effective in raising funds or awareness?
At the moment, we're still measuring the results. Some we won't know until after the events have taken place, but we do know that the Jamie Lee Curtis video has been picked up very widely.
How effective is it to have a celebrity's name attached to a fund-raiser?
Celebrity involvement makes a tremendous impact. Jamie Lee Curtis has been our national spokesperson for 11 years, and we have several other celebrities that have supported us. They're so open to greeting guests and spending time with our donors—Jamie Lee Curtis has even hosted cocktail parties for our top-level sponsors. For the past seven years, Chris Meloni from Law and Order: Special Victims Unit and his wife, Sherman, have helped out with our New York City event. Melina Kanakaredes from CSI: NY has helped us in Chicago. This year, one of the stars of Gossip Girl [Leighton Meester] is coming to our New York event, so we know that will help us get lots of press. So there's no question that celebrity involvement helps call attention to a charity and helps with outreach and attracting donors.
How do you think the current economic situation will affect planning for next year?
To be better prepared, we'll have to move all planning efforts up by one quarter. November is our wrap-up month [for the current year's event], and we approach top-level donors in January. Usually, we wait until April to start approaching mid-level donors, but next year our proposals will go out in February or March. We'll also look to our treasurer and board of directors to help us with forecasting, and they'll find out what next year will look like.
As a fellow in the American Society of Association Executives and the Center for Association Leadership, you help identify best practices and cutting-edge thinking for nonprofits. What are some of the techniques planners can employ, in light of the financial crisis?
Planners will need to take advantage of social networking, and really use it as a vehicle for raising funds and awareness. It's important to stress partnerships in this kind of climate. Also, make sure that your relationships with corporate partners are two-way, so that you're not just asking your partners to write checks. Leadership will have to be realistic and have programmatic plans in place for next year. Also, keep in mind that it's an election year. Next year, fund-raising for the election will be over, but there will be a change of administration. And regardless of which that administration is, there will be a new political climate, and the resulting policies and programs will take a while to fall into place. Planners will have to look at what that new administration will be doing policy-wise.


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For almost eight years I have served my country in the United States Navy. Initially, I enlisted as an Operations Specialist, but after two years I was picked up for a commissioning program and the Naval Aviation training pipeline to become a Naval Flight Officer (NFO – think Goose from TOPGUN, but a different aircraft). In that time I've served on three Nimitz class Aircraft Carriers, been on two combat deployments in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) in Afghanistan, and been on countless other detachments away from home for training and exercises. In the last two and a half years I have either been deployed or detached for a total of 18 months. From these experiences I would like to impart to you conversations that I have either been a part of or witnessed during my time away from home.
Their surprising decision to require the Xbox One to receive a message from the "mother ship" every 24 hours has already been lighting up the internet for a myriad of reasons. But, the reason that I am so infuriated about it is that I, and my brothers and sisters in arms, will not ever be able to play Xbox One when deployed or on detachment...Microsoft has single handedly alienated the entire military, and not just the U.S. military, the militaries of the entire world.
This next point is for the developers. Although the PS4 will not have an online requirement to run, developers will still be able to make games that require persistent online authentication. Do not do this to us. The video game industry has made a fortune breaking not just video game records, but entertainment records as a whole, with properties that simulate what my brothers, sisters, and I do on a daily basis. Don't alienate us with online requirements for games. It will cost you money and respect. This is a lesson that Microsoft is, tragically, about to learn.
We decided to talk to a few Marines, Sailors, and Soldiers about what this will mean for gaming in the military. It's worth noting the military is comprised mostly of males, ages 18 - 35, the key demographic for video games.
"I predict a major shift to PlayStation Marine Corps-wide," said a former Marine who's done two tours aboard a carrier strike group at sea and who has beta-tested games for various companies. "Xbox is going to tank in the military."
"Xbox was the previous favorite," the Marine said. "'Halo' has always been an essential team LAN game aboard ship. It was almost a standard. Lots of people had it so easy to link Xboxes for 4 on 4," said the Marine. "Xbox was king of social gaming aboard ship."
A group of gaming Marines, Soldiers and Sailors broke down some numbers for us, and it turns out that somewhere around 25 to 30,000 troops do duty aboard ship at any given moment. Another Navy Sailor pointed out to us that there's at least 6 to 7,000 troops aboard those submarines Mattrick so flippantly referenced. Not to mention the majority of the stateside military living in barracks rooms, where random room changes occur regularly.
Counting the Coast Guard, the number of active duty military, most of which lives in barracks housing, rests at around 1.4 million. That's a lot of units sold or not sold — [take our POLL] — even more of a reason Mattrick might want to step tenderly around the subject of uniformed members.
We contacted Microsoft for a statement about Mattrick's punchline and its implications. In specific, we wanted to know if there was any consideration at all for troops serving in austere conditions.
This was the Microsoft response we recieved:
"With Xbox One you can game offline for up to 24 hours on your primary console, or one hour if you are logged on to a separate console accessing your library. Offline gaming is not possible after these prescribed times until you re-establish a connection. Although we're very excited about Xbox One, we remain dedicated to Xbox 360 now and for years to come. In fact, we are expecting some of the greatest blockbusters of 2013 and 2014 to come out on Xbox 360 such as 'Grand Theft Auto V,' 'Call of Duty: Ghosts,' 'Madden NFL 25' and 'FIFA 14.'"
Navy Lt. Scott Metcalf was eagerly awaiting the arrival of the new Xbox One. Now he's not even sure if he'll buy one. Metcalf called that a "showstopper" for any service members who rely on their Xbox for off-duty diversions downrage, in the field, or at sea. Which is to say, just about everyone. And it gets worse for on-the-go troops. The Xbox One:
- Can play only in Xbox One-friendly countries. Even if you're lucky enough to have a regular, reliable Internet connection while overseas, you'll have to be in one of 21 countries included in Microsoft's server network. So, if you're stationed in, say, Germany, Italy or Great Briatin, you're good to go. But if you're based in Japan, Kuwait or Afghanistan, you're out of luck.
- Will have region-locked games. Games bought in the U.S. can be activated only in the U.S. That means no more ripping open the latest title that just arrived in a care package from home while you're deployed. And forget about buying games locally when overseas — if your Xbox Live account isn't tied to the region when you activate a game, it won't play.
- Serious security concerns. Even when the Xbox One is in sleep mode, its built-in microphone can always listen in. It's a feature developers say will provide quick voice-command access to games and apps — but that could spook commanders who might worry the always-connected device could also capture more than just idle chit-chat among troops.
OFFduty asked Microsoft officials if that empathy might translate into practical workarounds for the military.
"I don't have additional details to share and can't speculate on workarounds at this time," wrote Xbox rep Danica Stickel in an emailed response to questions, repeating the suggestion that troops could just use the 360 instead. "Although we're very excited about Xbox One, we remain dedicated to Xbox 360 now and for years to come. In fact, we are expecting some of the greatest blockbusters of 2013 and 2014 to come out on Xbox 360."
She did offer some encouragement for Xbox One hopefuls, however, saying the regional lock restrictions aren't much different from other content protections.
"Similar to the movie and music industry, games and other content must meet country-specific regulatory guidelines before they are cleared for sale — which means that games will work in the broad geographic regions for which they have been cleared, much as today with Xbox 360," Stickel wrote.
"While the console itself is not geographically restricted, a user's Xbox Live account, content, apps and experiences are all tied to the country of billing and residence," she wrote.
"Military personnel will be able to take their Xbox One and play their games with them without an issue as long as the game has been 'activated' once in the U.S. Your games go with you and play, no issues," she says.
"This is shameful, says Joel Hruska, a writer for Extreme Tech website. "Telling troops that you 'empathize' with them is both embarrassing and hands Sony perfect ammunition."
"Do I think Microsoft is going to change?" writes Hruska in a recent post. "Honestly, no. The remarks that've come out to date paint a picture of a company that's so drunk on its own Kool-Aid, they aren't listening to outside criticism or commentary any longer."


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Effective Date: 02/01/2008, Docket: RP08-174-000, Status: Effective
Original Sheet No. 147 Original Sheet No. 147 : Effective
GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS (Continued)
Deliveries of Gas by KPC to, or for the account of, any Shipper are
absolutely dependent upon confirmed receipts of Gas scheduled for
delivery. KPC shall not, under any circumstances, be obligated to
deliver any Quantities of Gas for which the Thermal Equivalent, adjusted
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MORE wintry showers, and ice, could be on their way today – after a blanket of snow yesterday turned South Yorkshire white.
Plummeting temperatures predicted for today and the rest of the week are set to turn the ground icy. The mercury was due to fall to -2C overnight, getting colder throughout the week, dropping as low as -5C tomorrow and Thursday.
A MeteoGroup weather forecaster told The Star: "Into Tuesday there may be one or two showers that could fall as sleet and snow and there will be a north-easterly wind which will push some sleet and snow inland.
"There will be frost in the mornings with a minimum temperature of -5C tomorrow and Thursday.
"But it will be mainly dry and fine the rest of this week, with the odd wintry shower."
Flakes started to drift down on Sheffield from around 9am yesterday, getting heavier around 11am, and fading away around 2pm – falling on top of a dusting of snow which settled on Sunday evening.
Geoff Kay, aged 80, of Western Road in Crookes, said: "The council has done really well gritting in our area. They were doing the main roads, and the salt gets passed on to the smaller ones.
"It seems they've been better prepared than other years. The snow hasn't caused much of a problem round here."
But Gwen Clegg, 82, of Wilson Street in Deepcar, said: "We're housebound due to the snow. It's bad down our road, and although there is a grit bin nobody seems to have put any out.
"Saying that, we had time to prepare. I went shopping at the weekend to make sure we have plenty of food."
Sylvia Ludlam, 78, from Woodhouse, said: "I was going to go out to meet a friend at Cole's, but we decided it wasn't worth the risk. It would have been alright getting there but you don't know if you're going to get back.
"Here in Woodhouse it's not as bad as some areas because we are very low down, but I wouldn't attempt to go out in it, and I wouldn't want my partner Bill driving the car in it."
And Mick Daniels, 64, of Firth Park, questioned if enough gritters were on the streets.
"There was a good covering of snow here – I had trouble getting my car onto the drive, but I didn't see one gritter out all morning."
A Sheffield Council spokeswoman said Sheffield's fleet of 20 gritters was back out on the road again last night from 7.30pm, treating priority routes.
A Veolia spokeswoman added some bin collections were affected.
"Due to the snow and ice on some roads and footpaths, a small number of black bins and blue bins and boxes were not emptied yesterday," she said. "We advised households to put them out again for collection this morning."
Sheffield Council cabinet member for environment, Coun Jack Scott, added: "This has been the first major snowfall since the gritting operation was taken over by Amey under the Streets Ahead contract and we are pleased to say there have been no major complaints."


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If I could earn a living doing what I love most, it would be telling people my stories. I hope that my stories will give people courage to face failures and become success.
At the age of eighteen, I went to America dreaming that I would get a bachelor degree and build a good life. Back then, the way to success was beautifully imagined in my mind. Well, the realities jumped in quick; I could not handle the expensive tuition for long while working part time. Additionally, making money was not as easy as I imagined. Shortly, I quit school and felt depress; the dreams of an easy life collapsed too swift and it was hard to comprehend. I was so young; I was nineteen year old.
After a couple months, I decided to earn my education by a different path; I joined the US Army. It was a tough decision but I got what I joined for. The Army paid for my education as long as I work hard and diligence. Often, I had to stay up past midnight to do courses' work; I was keen and had a goal. After four years, I got an Associate Degree paid for by the Army.
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BEIJING, China – China's consumer price index rose 2.3 per cent in July from a year earlier, well below the ruling Communist Party's 3.5 per cent target for the year.
The latest inflation rate was unchanged from June, according to data released Saturday by the National Bureau of Statistics.
The rise in the index was driven largely by higher food prices, which increased by 3.6 per cent. Prices for fruits and eggs rose the fastest.
Experts expect the inflation to stay stable this year, leaving room for interest rate cuts or other measures to stimulate the economy if necessary.


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Mr. Phelan is a banker and a leading libertarian from St. Louis, Missouri.
It is of vital importance that the American people understand the nature of our epic struggle with the Soviet Union. It is likely to continue for generations. Its scope is world-wide. It is not limited to foreign affairs but includes our domestic institutions. Our objectives are twofold: first, to protect our national independence —our freedom from Soviet conquest; second and scarcely less important, to preserve the institutions of a free society. We shall not win that struggle if we become a totalitarian country even though we preserve our national independence.
The announced objective of the Soviet Union is world conquest. It has never been renounced but has been constantly reiterated.
Lenin outlined that objective clearly:
"As long as capitalism and socialism exist, we cannot live in peace: in the end, one or the other will triumph — a funeral dirge will be sung either over the Soviet Republic or over world capitalism."¹ Khrushchev put Lenin's funeral dirge in slightly different language when, at a reception in Moscow, he told Western diplomats, "We shall bury you."
Lenin wrote: "Force alone can settle the great problems of political liberty and class struggle, and it is our business to prepare and organize this force."2
"The revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is power won and maintained by violence of the proletariat against the bourgeoisie, power that is unrestricted by any laws."3
"Until the final issue is decided, the state of awful war will continue."4
Khrushchev in his report of the Central Committee Twentieth Congress of the Communist party of the Soviet Union, February 14, 1956, said:
"Today our party… is confidently leading the country along the path pointed out by the great Lenin."5
"Revolutionary theory is not a collection of petrified dogmas and formulas, but a militant guide to action in transforming the world, in building communism."6
Lenin explains why the smiles of the "Summit Conference" and talk of "peaceful coexistence" have been followed by the savagery of Hungary and the unrelenting struggle of the Soviet Union to take over the Middle East. He explains why the present Soviet tactics will in due time again be followed by a revival of the "popular front" tactics again to befuddle and entrap our gullible liberals. Lenin's explanation is expressed in these words:
"Without concessions we shall not be able to carry out our programme — concessions do not mean peace with capitalism but war on a new plane."7
Our struggle to prevent world conquest by the Soviet Union is not limited to the fields of diplomacy and war. It is fought on every level — it penetrates every institution of our society. A decade ago the Harvard economist, Sumner H. Slichter, wrote this about the United States:
"Its institutions are under attack. In fact the attack against them is the best organized and most carefully planned that has ever been launched against economic and political arrangements. It has its purpose of destroying these institutions and replacing them with very different ones."
The Target and the Attack
The target for the organized attacks against our institutions is individual liberty — the immediate point of attack is directed against private property. This is true because the most effective way to destroy liberty is to do away with private property. Without private property every man would be a slave of the State. He would be a slave because he would depend upon the State for his livelihood. In 1950 Senator Paul H. Douglas, who is no conservative, wrote:
"Men will not be free . . . [if the same group that controls jobs will control the government."9 He suggested that the then British Labor Government would "use their power to crush…their political opponents" if the Labor Government were to take over all British industry instead of the 20 per cent then nationalized."
Capitalism is, by definition, private ownership and control of business. Its only alternative is State ownership and control of business. Under State ownership "one set of men" would control both "jobs" and "government." Senator Douglas says that, if this happens, "men will not be free." If all power is concentrated in the State, it is of no importance, in the long run, whether that State represents communism, fascism, British socialism, or Welfare Statism carried to its logical conclusion, or any other "ism." The men who control such a State may start with the best intentions — but they will end as bloody tyrants. It is impossible to reject capitalism except in favor of its only alternative, the omnipotent State, under which man cannot be free and his dignity will not be respected.
We quote from a statement of Jasper E. Crane to the National Council of Presbyterian Men:
"Liberty is the individual person's control of himself, his freedom of choice, his responsibility for his own actions…. Human rights include the ownership of property and the responsibility to manage it faithfully. This involves the private possession and management of tools, sometimes known as 'capitalism.' The denial of the right of ownership is the precise condition of bondage."11
Private Property Threatened
Private property is the only effective safeguard to individual liberty. The persistent and well-organized attacks upon private property and hence upon individual liberty are both domestic and world-wide. In the main they are carried on, at least in the United States, by noncommunists. They have wide-spread support in academic and church circles. For example, in 1948 the World Council of Churches meeting at Amsterdam adopted a report which said:
"The Christian Churches should reject the ideologies of both communism and laissez-faire capitalism."
This naive and unrealistic view equates Soviet slave labor camps and the brutal suppression of the Hungarian revolt with the right to own property which is the foundation of democracy and freedom. In rejecting capitalism it rejects the only kind of organization of society within which man can be free and his dignity respected — that is, a society in which the ownership and control of the instruments of production are in private hands.
In the United States the spearhead of the attack on private property is directed against privately owned electric power companies. The immediate objective of those who oppose the human right to own property is to create a governmental monopoly of the generation and distribution of electric power. Public power advocates are looking to the future and are bending every effort to have atomic power remain a 100 per cent government monopoly.
Regulation and Control
The ultimate objectives of the self-styled "liberals" go far beyond the socialization of the power and atomic energy industries. The goal is the eventual socialization of all large-scale industry.
A free society rests upon voluntary action — a totalitarian society upon direction of individual activity by the State. The efforts of those who call themselves liberals are unremittingly directed toward restricting the area of voluntary choice and voluntary action by the individual and increasing the area of governmentally directed activity. This can be accomplished either by government ownership and operation of business enterprise or by government regulation and control.
The Federal Power Commission's regulation of the price of natural gas at the wellhead is the opening wedge in an attempt to make the oil industry into a regulated public utility. If the price of gas is regulated at the wellhead, then it would be equally logical to regulate the price of coal at the mine. It would be equally logical to regulate the price of oil. Gas, coal, and oil are all used for home heating and for the generation of electric power. Heretofore, regulation has been limited to common carriers and to public utilities. Until the government reached out to regulate the price of gas at the wellhead, regulation had not been extended to cover the commodities that the carriers transport or the fuels public utility companies distribute or use to generate power.
Only during wartime has the public been willing to accept government rent, wage, and price controls. But liberal economists have consistently advocated large-scale government spending, deficit financing, and government created easy money — all of which generate inflation. Then they wish to attempt to control the consequences of planned inflation by permanent price and rent controls. When one of the first acts of the first Eisenhower Administration was to abolish rent and price controls, liberals filled the air with dire predictions that unrestrained inflation would follow. Instead, we had a period of relative price stability and unparalleled prosperity. The abolition of rent and price controls was accompanied by a lessening of inflationary pressure due to Eisenhower's multibillion dollar cut in the budget proposed by Truman.
Inflationary Pressures
Unfortunately, the budget is again so large as to generate inflationary pressures notwithstanding the fact that it is balanced. And the so-called "tight money" policies of the Federal Reserve authorities have not, as is popularly believed, cut the volume of credit outstanding — they have merely slowed down the rate of increase.
Formidable political and special interest pressures are building up to add fuel to the inflationary fires. Their purpose is to keep our inflationary boom going on an ever increasing volume of credit. In a word, it is to promote inflation, which in turn may lead to the imposition of direct price, wage, and rent controls and the loss of individual liberty. There is also the danger that inflationary booms will sooner or later bring on a crash and a depression. They always have done so in the past. The admitted inflationists including many legislators, the "liberals" who are constantly clamoring for bigger government spending programs, the public power lobby, the school lobby, the home-building industry which wants subsidized low interest mortgage credit, and the old-fashioned logrolling political pork barrel are among the formidable forces exerted to promote further inflation and its ultimate consequences of direct controls — loss of liberty and a depression.
In the rest of the world "nationalization" of industry and natural resources, coupled with the rejection of basic principles, are undermining the right of private ownership of property upon which individual liberty depends. In the so-called undeveloped countries nationalization is a thinly veiled disguise for outright expropriation — that is, seizure without any compensation, or only a token payment, to the former owners.
Intervention Abroad
The doctrine is growing in foreign countries — particularly in undeveloped countries — that it is the duty of the United States and other advanced countries to supply investment capital on a continuing basis through outright government grants or loans that could not stand the scrutiny of ordinary standards of investment prudence — in a word, loans that are never intended to be repaid.
Whether or not such intergovernmental gifts promote international friendship and peace is a highly debatable question. But those who debate the question should know that any governmental foreign aid program tends to undermine the right to own private property. The government that gives a gift must first have taken private property from its own taxpayers. This is likewise true of any other government expenditure. Therefore, it is evident that the question of foreign aid is merely one segment of a broader question, namely: What limits should be placed on the amount of governmental expenditures and on the purposes for which such expenditures should be made?
The basic principles involved are easy to express — their exact application to a particular situation is far more difficult to determine. The basic principle is that governmental expenditures, and therefore governmental functions, should be strictly limited and the total "tax take" from our citizens should be the minimum amount necessary to carry on proper and necessary governmental functions. Obviously, aiding indigent nations is not a proper governmental function.
Furthermore, in the case of foreign aid, seldom, if ever, has the recipient government used such a gift to develop or defend private ownership of property within its borders. All too often the aid goes to countries which expropriate private property, as did Egypt with the Suez Canal and Mexico with the properties of foreign oil companies. It is of the utmost importance to recognize that liberty and freedom can exist only when the means of production are in private hands. Otherwise, all men would be slaves of the omnipotent State.
1. Lenin, V. I., Selected Works. Moscow: Corporative Publishing Society, 1935, Vol. VIII. p. 297. (Note: This and many other quotations from communist sources taken from Struggle on a New Plane by J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the F.B.I.)
2. Ibid., Vol. III, p. 54.
3. Ibid., Vol. VII, p. 123.
4. Ibid., Vol. IX, p. 242.
5. Soviet News, London, England, p. 79.
6. Ibid., p. 89.
7. Lenin. op. cit., Vol. VIII, p. 298.
8. Slichter, Sumner H. The American Economy. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1948. p. 4.
9. Freedom and the Diffusion of Power" in Proceedings of the Academy of Political Science , May 1950. p. 125.
10. Ibid., p. 124.
11. "Christianity vs. Totalitarianism" in Faith and Freedom, May, 1950. p. 6.
Ideas On Liberty
Each Man's Duty
The defects of every government and constitution both as to principle and form must be as open to discussion as the defects of a law, and it is the duty which every man owes to society to point them out.
Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man


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The company's joint venture with the UAE-based East Coast Group will develop the project.
Dheeraj and East Coast (DEC) representatives said the project will comprise a 25- and 21-storey two-tower residential component and an L-shaped three-storey complex in front of it with commercial space on the ground floor.
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Nearly four years after the launch of YouTube, it's startling just how much viral videos have come to resemble a highlight reel (or a gag reel) of recent history.
In 2008, the election was constantly reflected on video-sharing sites -- and sometimes even influenced by such clips. But the year in viral video was not all politics; there was still plenty of room for a litter of puppies, brawling late-night hosts and a lion with an excellent memory.
Here are the year's top 10 Web videos:
1. Tina Fey As Sarah Palin: Ms. Fey's impression of the Alaska governor represented a turning point in the paradigm between TV and the Web. More people watched Ms. Fey's sketches on NBC.com and Hulu.com than on television.
2. The Real Palin: Online, many were obsessed with Gov. Palin's every move, and millions logged on to watch clips of her interview with CBS' Katie Couric, her Thanksgiving turkey pardon and her appearance on SNL .
3. Christian the Lion: More than 20 million have been captivated by the heartwarming (and true) story of Christian the Lion being reunited with the two men who raised him as a cub.
4. Yes We Can : In all the songs and performances devoted to this year's election, none connected quite like will.i.am's music video. Pairing Barack Obama's words with music created an indelible campaign message.
5. Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog : The entry to the Internet resulted in perhaps the greatest and most substantial Web series yet. In three parts, the 43-minute film starring Neil Patrick Harris as a wannabe evildoer was distributed for free on Hulu and then for pay on iTunes (and then for free again on Hulu).
6. Paris Hilton Responds to McCain Ad: When Sen. McCain ran a campaign ad comparing Mr. Obama's celebrity to that of Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, the hotel heiress jumped into the fray. In a video, Ms. Hilton announced her mock-candidacy for the presidency. More than 8 million watched.
7. Sarah Silverman and Matt Damon: ABC's Jimmy Kimmel got a surprise from his then-girlfriend Sarah Silverman during a show in early 2008. In the video, Ms. Silverman suggested she was sleeping with Matt Damon. By July, Mr. Kimmel and Ms. Silverman really did split.
8. Puppy Cam: The litter is now being dispersed, but while the six Shiba Inu pups were together, they were stars on Ustream.tv's Puppy Cam . More than 4 million watched.
9. Frozen in Time: In a video posted in late January, the comedy troupe Improve Everywhere gathered 200 people to stand frozen in place at New York's Grand Central Terminal while confused travelers gawked. The video has been watched by more than 14 million on YouTube.
10. Late-night Hosts Brawl: In a mock feud over who was most influential to Mike Huckabee's unlikely rise among Republican presidential candidates, Conan O'Brien, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert convened to settle the score. In a hysterical fight (which is still available on NBC.com), the three hosts battled to a perfect tri-knockout.


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District celebrates 7th-annual Get the Beat Day with AED drills, awareness
Milwaukee Public Schools is honoring a school safety aide who used his district CPR training to save his father-in-law's life.
The honor for Greg Tezak, who serves as a safety aide at MPS' Pulaski High School, comes as MPS celebrates its 7th-annual "Get the Beat Day" to hold AED drills and raise awareness of sudden cardiac arrest.
Tezak was picking up his son Taylor from a January sleepover with the boy's grandparents when the training Tezak received just a few months ago turned into a lifesaving effort.
"My son went to give my father-in-law a hug and all of a sudden, [my father-in-law] just collapsed," the 46-year-old MPS safety aide said.
"I asked him,"are you OK?" He wasn't responding," Tezak said. "I listened for a breath and felt for a pulse. There was nothing, so we called 911" and the school safety aide began using his training and performing CPR.
First responders arrived shortly thereafter with an AED, but a cardiac surgeon told Tezak that his father-in-law likely would not have survived without the safety aide's CPR.
"If I wouldn't have had this training, he wouldn't have made it," Tezak said. "I thank my supervisor, Scott Hirsh, for giving me that training."
The Milwaukee man said his father-in-law is now doing well.
Thursday marks the seventh straight year MPS has held Get the Beat Day during National Heart Month. School emergency response teams use the day to rehearse their response to cardiac arrest. The teams include administrators, teachers, secretaries, cafeteria staff and engineering staff.
As many as 350,000 Americans die each year from sudden cardiac arrest. Every two minutes, a sudden cardiac death occurs. That's nearly 1,000 people per day.
Since the creation of MPS' AED program in August 2005 prompted in part by Children¹s Hospital of Wisconsin's Project ADAM, there have been seven instances of sudden cardiac arrests in MPS schools. Four of the incidents two involving students resulted in lives saved.
This news is available online at: http://www5.milwaukee.k12.wi.us/dept/superintendent/2013/02/for-get-the-beat-day-mps-honors-safety-aide-who-saved-father-in-laws-life/
Milwaukee Public Schools is Wisconsin's largest school district, serving more than 78,000 students in more than 160 schools across the city. U.S. News and World Report named MPS' Rufus King International School and Ronald Wilson Reagan College Preparatory High School the two best high schools in the state and among the 200 best in the country in 2012. In the past year, Milwaukee Public Schools posted a growing graduation rate 17 points higher than the rate for 2000.


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After years of determination, ambition, preparation and sometimes, even frustration, it's safe to say that the aura has returned to Vancouver Whitecaps FC.
It's not always easy to gain attention in hockey-mad Vancouver, but with nearly every major sports outlet in town eagerly covering the opening day of Whitecaps FC preseason training, a change of perception is clearly in the air.
"It's happened organically," Whitecaps FC president Bob Lenarduzzi said. "From the turnout of media over the course of the offseason, and certainly more recently, we're getting more and more coverage on a daily basis."
It's not as if the city hasn't had professional soccer before. Vancouver barely went two years without a team after the old Whitecaps became victims of the North American Soccer League's demise in 1984. The 86ers quickly came to the rescue, commemoratively launched after the FIFA World Cup that year, and the club eventually returned to the Whitecaps moniker in 2001.
They were far more popular than the average D-2 soccer club, but in a city with such a rich soccer history, nothing but the best will do.
"I think that the level of professionalism has multiplied by leaps and bounds from last year," said defender Wes Knight, having played for the D-2 Whitecaps the last two seasons before signing an MLS contract with the club.
It's now been nearly two years since the announcement was made that Vancouver would be granted an MLS franchise, and they've been hard at work ever since, establishing partnerships, signing players, and holding their first training camp last month in Southern California.
The buzz has been building throughout the process, but with the March 19 season opener against Toronto FC in sight, the publicity is being felt now more than ever. As MLS players equipped in the club's new gear finally train at home, it's evident that Whitecaps FC are returning to the forefront of Vancouver's professional sports scene.
"It's not something that we've had to manufacture," Lenarduzzi said. "There's a genuine and sincere interest in what we're doing and how we're evolving."
The return to Empire Field has helped generate excitement, rekindling a feeling of nostalgia among longtime Whitecaps supporters. Terry Dunfield spent his childhood in Vancouver, and the former Manchester City prodigy says that it's starting to feel just like old times.
"It's great looking up at the mountains here, and it's kind of special being the only boy from Vancouver," Dunfield said. "I'll have lots of family at all the home games."
Dunfield said that he couldn't of dreamed playing for the Whitecaps on this large a scale, even a few years ago. But now that they're returning to elite status, the city's future soccer stars will be able to have such dreams.
"There's definitely something for the young players in Vancouver to aspire to now," he added. "If you work really hard, you could one day play for the Whitecaps in front of 20,000 or 30,000 fans."
Indeed, with each passing week, it's becoming more and more obvious: The Vancouver Whitecaps are back.


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Next up will be a start in the Minor League exhibition opener on Friday, at which point Lester will pitch two innings. After that, Lester will take whatever the Red Sox give him.
His plan is to be ready to pitch in a rotation -- even if it's at Triple-A Pawtucket -- by the time the season starts.
"I think by the end of spring, I'll be ready to go," said Lester. "I'm pitching two or three innings on Friday. That's a Minor League game, a game atmosphere. And then we'll just go from there. Maybe the next step is to come up here and pitch a game up here, whatever. The goal is hopefully to get four or five innings by the end of camp, and come April 1, I'm headed somewhere, hopefully up north."
After an offseason in which he underwent six chemotherapy treatments for anaplastic large cell lymphoma, Lester is now at the stage where he thinks simply about pitching.
He understands why the Red Sox have brought him along on a slower program this spring.
"There's no way I can go out there and pitch against big-league hitters right now," said Lester. "I'm just not physically ready. Like I said, every five days we're going to get some more work in, we're going to up the workload and, hopefully, I'll get to pitch for these guys sometime."
Pitching coach John Farrell has outlined Lester's program in two-week increments, and thus far has watched the lefty pass every step.
"From a physical standpoint, he feels good," said Farrell. "His recovery time has been normal. He's doing very well and we'll look to build him an inning at a time, which we'll do starting Friday. If he's going four or five innings by the end of the month, by the first part of April, I think we would all consider that a success. The approach that we've taken is two weeks at a time."
For Lester, most of his concerns are technical at this point.
"[My] mechanics are there, it's just a matter of repeating them," said Lester. "You get up to 30 pitches, it's hard to repeat them all the time. It's just a matter of repeating and getting the work, building arm strength and just getting back to being normal."
Confidence in Pedroia: With second baseman Dustin Pedroia off to a .143 start this spring, manager Terry Francona expressed no reservations about the rookie's readiness to play every day.
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"It's no knock on [Alex Cora], but we brought Pedroia here to be the second baseman," said Francona. "I don't know what he's hitting. I haven't even looked. Spring Training is still Spring Training. David [Ortiz] hit his first home run the other day. Up to that point, he had really struggled."
Stretching out Okajima: By pitching 2 1/3 innings and striking out four batters on Saturday, lefty Hideki Okajima demonstrated to Francona that he can provide some innings out of the bullpen when necessary.
"That would certainly be of value," Francona said. "You have a left-hander that can maybe go a couple, three innings, that could be very valuable to us. I don't know that he is a left-on-left guy. It looks like he has the ability to get some right-handed hitters out. In Japan, he's done all of those things. He's been a closer, he's been a reliever. He should be able to do things like that. Even though he's new here, he's a veteran pitcher."
Coming up: Knuckleballer Tim Wakefield will take the mound Monday night when the Red Sox play their lone exhibition game against the Yankees. New York will counter with former Sox farmhand Carl Pavano. First pitch is scheduled for 7:05 p.m. ET. Hideki Matsui, Jason Giambi and Robinson Cano are the regulars making the trip to Fort Myers for the Yankees.
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PHOENIX -- Achieving effective organizational innovation requires more than simply aligning information technology and business areas--a company must partner the two aspects of operations, said two CUNA Mutual Group officers during Insurance & Technology's 8th Annual Executive Summit held last week.
Rick Roy, senior vice president, and Tom Gosnell, chief information officer, spoke to more than 100 senior insurance executives about how business and technology have come together to drive CUNA Mutual's current three-year transformation effort to meet the increasing demands of credit unions and their members. "The value of technology and processes is in the sustainability," Gosnell said. "Essentially, we're trying to better leverage technology to make and sustain the organizational structure and drive change. That means using it as an enabler that will optimize processes, improve how people do their jobs and ensure consistency in how we serve our customers, regardless of whom they talk to. That results in the delivery of a consistent, competitive customer experience." "The insurance industry continues to rapidly change as the competitive landscape grows with new entrants," Roy said. "Talking with our industry peers about how organizations can innovate themselves through organizational structures is a valuable experience for us. Many insurance companies are evaluating what they need to do to succeed in this new market environment."
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China reacted angrily Saturday to a US congressional report that accused Beijing of developing sophisticated cyber warfare and militarising its space programme.
The annual China report to Congress of the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission was aimed at misleading the public and impeding bilateral cooperation, foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang said.
"The commission has all along seen China through dark glasses and has deliberately attacked China with slanderous accusations aimed at misleading public opinion and obstructing the development of Sino-US relations," Qin said.
"The report is unworthy of rebuttal and the aims of the commission are doomed to failure," he said in a statement on his ministry's website.
The report issued in Washington Thursday accused China of developing a sophisticated cyber warfare programme aimed at penetrating US computer networks to extract sensitive information.
"China has an active cyber espionage programme," the report said.
"China is targeting US government and commercial computers."
The panel also criticised Beijing of exercising "heavy-handed government control" over its economy and "continuing arms sales and military support to rogue regimes" such as Sudan, Myanmar and Iran.
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Qin urged the commission to stop issuing such reports and refrain from interfering in China's internal affairs.


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In the Wodehouse stories, the dapper British nitwit Bertie Wooster gets himself into silly schemes that he or one of his friends has devised. His valet, Jeeves, always knows how to remedy the situation — without letting on that he's the only one with any brains in the neighborhood.
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A powerful typhoon killed at least one person in South Korea on Sunday, grounded 280 flights and stranded 15,000 passengers on its southern resort island of Jeju, officials said.
The anti-disaster agency reported one dead and two missing on Jeju. South Korea's Yonhap news agency put the total typhoon death toll at six -- on Jeju and elsewhere.
The agency said Typhoon Nari, expected to hit the mainland late Sunday, moved faster than the country's weather office had expected, flooding scores of houses and leaving more than 100 people homeless.
The powerful storm also cut power to some 150,000 homes on Jeju and parts of southwestern South Jolla province for hours.
The weather office said the storm had brought more than 200 millimetres (eight inches) of rain to Jeju.
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