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Tigers star not a lock for award ? even if he's first to win Triple Crown since '67
OPINION
updated 9:08 p.m. ET Sept. 27, 2012
Tony DeMarco
Bringing some perspective to the numbers, arguments and misconceptions in the Mike Trout-Miguel Cabrera American League MVP debate:
1) Despite what we're hearing from both extremes, this is not an easy call.
There are possible scenarios for the final week of the regular season that would leave logical arguments for either player as the winner.
What we have here are two players in the midst of seasons of great historical significance. Both also happen to play for similarly underachieving teams whose post-season fates won't be determined until the final days of the regular season, so there's no edge there ? yet.
Still, Tigers manager Jim Leyland was quoted in the Detroit Free Press last week as saying, 'it would blow my mind' if Cabrera isn't the winner.
"In this case, I'm not being partial,'' Leyland added. "I don't have to lobby. It's right there in front of everybody.''
And at the other end of the spectrum, the sabermetrics crowd paints a statistical argument that convincingly tilts the scale to Trout. To them, this is a no-brainer ? Triple Crown and playoff implications be damned.
But much like political debates these days, where the extreme edges see only one right way, the truth lies somewhere in the middle here. And the fact is, it's going to be very tough for either player to finish second.
You don't need sabermetrics to know Trout is the best true five-tool player in the game this season, the best we've seen since a young Ken Griffey Jr. The advantages he holds over Cabrera in defense and base-running are immense. But is that enough to overcome Cabrera's advantage in the power numbers?
2) Which brings us to this: Winning the Triple Crown does NOT guarantee an MVP award.
Not even close. In fact, history puts it as only a 60-40 proposition.
That's right, only six of the last 10 Triple Crown winners also were their league's MVP. (There was no MVP award to win for the first five Triple Crown winners).
The last three Triple Crown winners ? Carl Yastrzemski (1967), Frank Robinson (1966), Mickey Mantle (1956) ? also were AL MVPs. All three played for pennant winners, making the MVP vote an easy call. Robinson and Mantle got all the first-place votes; Yaz missed by one.
Then there's the curious case of Ted Williams, who didn't win an MVP in either of his Triple Crown seasons.
In 1947, the Sox finished 14 games behind the Yankees, who just so happened to get a 56-game hitting streak from Joe DiMaggio ? the MVP winner by one point. The 1942 AL MVP voting went further to support the notion that voters either didn't like Williams much, or really took seriously the idea of an MVP playing for a pennant winner.
Williams absolutely dominated all three Triple Crown categories, and was the clear Wins Above Replacement (WAR) leader. Yet the pennant-winning Yankees' Joe Gordon got 12 first-place votes to Williams' nine, and won the MVP election.
The other Triple Crown winners who weren't MVPs were Lou Gehrig in 1934 and Chuck Klein in 1933. The latter's MVP snub is easier to understand, as Klein's Phillies finished 60-92 while the pennant-winning Giants were led by MVP Carl Hubbell, who won 23 games and posted a 1.66 ERA.
But the 1934 AL MVP voting is among the most-curious ever, as Gehrig finished fifth despite the Triple Crown and league-leading 1.172 OPS and 10.1 WAR total. The winner: Mickey Cochrane, catcher for the pennant-winning Tigers, who hit .320 with two homers, 76 RBI, .840 OPS and 3.7 WAR total ? not even the best on his team behind Charlie Gehringer.
3. Speaking of WAR, this could be the MVP debate that puts the metric on the mainstream map to stay.
Mainly because the argument for Trout lies primarily in his huge lead in the category.
Simply put, WAR is the best measure we have of a player's total value ? with the bat, in the field and on the bases ? boiled down to an estimation of how many wins that player adds to his team's total above what a replacement player (or one with absolute minimum every-day production at that position) would provide.
If Trout wins the MVP, it could have the same long-term effect as did Felix Hernandez's win in the 2010 Cy Young Award voting despite a 13-12 record. And if Trout wins the MVP despite a Cabrera Triple Crown, then we really will have a seismic shift in voters' minds on how to best evaluate a player's ability and value.
Be sure that front offices are making huge financial decisions with the help of WAR and other advanced metrics ? even as they balance that with what is seen by scouts who have spent their whole adult lives watching the game, and opinions of the people who play and coach it.
But one problem the WAR statistic has in gaining further credibility is that it's calculated two different ways by the two primary sites tracking it ? Baseball-Reference.com and FanGraphs.com Uniformity would go a long way to increasing its perceived accuracy, it says here.
What does history say about Triple Crown winners and WAR totals? Curiously, every Triple Crown winner has lead the league in WAR, most by wide margins. However, Cabrera does not, and even trails teammate Justin Verlander and Robinson Cano in the Baseball-Reference.com rankings, far behind Trout.
Ultimately, 28 BBWAA voters ? two from each AL city ? will cast ballots before the start of the playoffs. And the Triple Crown race and postseason fates of both teams will be factors.
Remove those, and Trout's chances increase dramatically. But if the Tigers win the AL Central, the Angels can't sneak into a wild-card spot and Cabrera puts a Triple Crown atop his season (or maybe even misses by a homer), you can expect many voters to go Cabrera 1, Trout 2 ? no matter the Trout-was-robbed arguments you'll read.
LONDON (Reuters) - What does the author of the most eagerly awaited book of the year do on publication day?
If you are J.K. Rowling, whose adult fiction debut "The Casual Vacancy" hit the shelves on Thursday, you watch a movie in your hotel, avoid reading newspaper reviews and later in the evening address 900 people at a question-and-answer session.
The 47-year-old read from her new novel and took questions on death, digital publishing and the Olympics opening ceremony at her first public appearance to promote The Casual Vacancy held at London's Southbank Centre (southbankcentre.co.uk).
She engaged openly with fans, at one point accepting a gift from a breathless visitor from Spain whom she embraced and kissed on stage, and later personally signed hundreds of copies of her new book.
Asked by moderator Mark Lawson how she had spent her day, she replied: "I've spent most of the day trying to avoid newspapers. I will read reviews, but I don't like to do it on a day where I've got to go out and talk about the book.
"We sat in our hotel and watched 'Men in Black 3'. I'd never seen it. It was very good".
Rowling, who received mixed reviews for her gritty tale about a small English town, added that she probably would read what critics had to say eventually, just as she did with the seventh and final Harry Potter instalment published in 2007.
"With ('Harry Potter and the) Deathly Hallows' I didn't read any of the reviews at all for ages.
"I kind of felt about Hallows the way I feel about this book. In both cases I felt well, I've done the best I can do, the book is what I want it to be, so, I don't mean it in an arrogant way, that's it. I'm done. So it doesn't really matter.
"I did later. It was months later. It takes the heat out of it if you're not reading them on publication day."
"SOCIALIST MANIFESTO"
The release of The Casual Vacancy is one of the highlights of the publishing calendar this year, with hefty sales expected for a writer whose Potter series sold 450 million copies and who went on to become the world's first billionaire author.
Rowling could not resist mentioning one review, however, which she had clearly either read or been told about.
Jan Moir wrote a scathing assessment in the Daily Mail, a newspaper considered the preserve of the middle class which Moir felt Rowling had unfairly lampooned in her book.
Moir described The Casual Vacancy as "more than 500 pages of relentless socialist manifesto masquerading as literature", a description Rowling, who was an unemployed single mother living on state benefits when she started writing the Potter books, took as a compliment.
"A 500 page socialist manifesto. I high-fived my husband!" she joked. "I thought that's all right. It made me laugh so much. Apart from Men in Black 3 that was the highlight of my day."
Rowling was asked why death was such a prominent theme throughout her work.
"Death obsesses me. What can I tell you?" she said. "I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone. I think it does really, I'm just maybe a little more out about it.
"It's made me much less afraid of it," she added later. "I think things lose their mystique when you think about them a lot and you consider them a lot.
"I'm frightened of leaving my children. It's the thing I dislike most about the idea that I will die, but death itself doesn't frighten me really."
POTTER MISTAKES
She said she understood why her publishers, Little, Brown Book Group, had imposed strict conditions on allowing journalists to read the book before publication.
"The internet really has changed everything. It's the net that's done it," she explained, quoting examples of other leading writers who had seen their manuscripts end up online or proofs being auctioned on eBay.
"As a writer that is a horrible, horrible experience."
On Potter, Rowling admitted she had made mistakes, in particular a mirror belonging to the character Sirius Black in "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", the fifth book.
The "Marauder's Map" used by Potter was also problematic.
"Half way through the series I cursed myself for giving Harry the Marauder's Map, because it was far too useful an object so I had to take it away from him and then give it back to him.
"That's the trouble. You invent these amazing objects, and then they cause you as much trouble as they solve. So quite a bit of that went on."
In a separate BBC Radio interview broadcast on Thursday, Rowling said that the world of witches and wizards "does sometimes tug at me a little bit," although she had no plans to write anything else Potter-related.
"I've always said never say never purely because I liked it and I might want to do it again, but Harry's stories I am as sure as you can be it is done."
Rowling added that two books for children "are pretty well developed" and she knew what her next one for adults would be, although it was "not very well advanced."
Mozilla's Persona, the organization's experimental distributed login system that's an alternative to OpenID and OAuth, is now officially in public beta. Mozilla bills Persona as a "login system that completely eliminates passwords on websites while being safe, secure, and easy to use." Persona uses your email address to identify you to third-party sites and?uses two existing Mozilla services to make all of this work: BrowserID, which handles the authentication and encryption of your data, and Firefox Sync, which takes care of the connection to Mozilla's servers.
Whether you are planning to place your home on the market or make it more comfortable to live in, there is a lot to be gained from making home improvements.
Improvements in your home could involve:
- Fixes of already existing structures,- Remodeling certain parts of the home to give them a facelift, ? Making additions to your home to improve calibre of life, ? Home improvement projects in order to make a home more energy efficient or environment-friendly.
To decide on a home improvement project can seem pretty daunting. But armed with a few handy home improvement tips, you could be well on your way to the saint home of your dreams. Most of these tips are simple to follow and will make deciding on home improvement projects a breeze for you.
- Before deciding on a home improvement project, you have to decide exactly why you think your home needs it, how much you should be spending on it, and what is the result you would be satisfied with.
- The first home improvements you should think about are repair moves. Attend to any ceiling repair problems, the plumbing job you have been putting off or that attic insulation that has become necessary. This holds true whether you are planning to live in the home yourself, place it on rent, or place the home on sale.
- Remodeling your kitchen or bathroom is a smart home improvement move if you are planning to place your home on sale. This increases the value of the home immediately, and if researched properly, can be done with very tiny investment.
- Home improvement projects that involve remodeling need to be well thought out, so that they do not look out of place in the house. They are usually done to improve lighting, wage more space or glamorize the home. Remodeling a home can also mean an improvement in the atmosphere. For instance, if a kitchen surround is broken down to create an open kitchen, it immediately makes the home more friendly and sociable.
- Making additions to a home like adding a deck, a pool, or an outdoor storage area are usually the result of what the family needs, but could also be excellent selling points if the home goes up for understanding some day. Additions to the home should be considered as home improvement projects if there is extra outdoor space which by itself does not improve the value of the home. A good tip for an improvement in the exterior spaces of the home is also to think about the neighborhood and only make changes and additions that would blend in.
- Helping a home improve its energy efficiency is also a great intent for a householder, because not only does it cut down on the electricity and gas bills, it is a great thing to do for the environment. Improvement in the insulation of the home can be a long-term blessing. Investing on a home so that it at least partially harvests solar energy could be another way of improving the home for posterity.
It is obvious that home improvement projects should not be carried out on a whim. It is essential to evaluate why a specific home improvement project is required, and what would be gained from the investment. While home improvements that involve repair increase the comfort in the home and its longevity and are therefore essential, all other sorts of home improvement need to be carefully evaluated before embarking on them.
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Patient safety improves when leaders walk the safety talk Public release date: 26-Sep-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Sara LaJeunesse SDL13@psu.edu 814-863-4325 Penn State
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- When nurses feel safe admitting to their supervisors that they've made a mistake regarding a patient, they are more likely to report the error, which ultimately leads to a stronger commitment to safe practices and a reduction in the error rate, according to an international team of researchers. In addition, when nurse leaders' safety actions mirror their spoken words -- when they practice what they preach -- unit nurses do not feel caught between adhering to safety protocols and speaking up about mistakes against protocols.
"Patient errors remain a major source of avoidable patient harm in the United States," said Deirdre McCaughey, assistant professor of health policy and administration at Penn State. "The Institute of Medicine report, 'To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System,' charged that avoidable medical errors in U.S. hospitals kill at least 44,000 patients a year. Feeling comfortable reporting errors also leads to a stronger commitment to safe practices, which ultimately reduces error rate.
McCaughey and her colleagues examined the notion that care providers may experience a conflict between the strong enforcement of safety procedures on the one hand, and the reporting of safety/patient errors on the other hand.
"Despite this conflict, prior research indicates that a climate of safety requires both prioritizing existing safety protocols and constructive responses to errors," said the research team leader, Hannes Leroy of Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and the University of Calgary. "Achieving this balance highlights the importance of leadership to foster team priority of safety."
The researchers surveyed 54 nursing teams in four hospitals in Belgium to determine if the leadership actions of head nurses were aligned with the verbal expectations they had given to staff nurses, as well as to examine the effect of that congruence on nurse/employee commitment to following safe work protocols and willingness to report a patient treatment error. Six months later, the team then examined the relationship between fostering safety and reporting patient errors to determine if they were related to a reduction in errors regarding patients.
In their study, the researchers considered a team to be composed of one head nurse and a minimum of three nurses who reported directly to the head nurse. They distributed paper surveys to nurses and head nurses within the different nursing departments, and asked the nurses to deposit the surveys in a sealed box or envelope to assure anonymity.
The surveys examined the behavioral integrity of head nurses, the psychological safety felt by staff nurses, and team priority of safety using a variety of statements that participants ranked on a scale ranging from "completely disagree" to "completely agree." To examine the behavioral integrity of head nurses, the surveys included such statements as "My head nurse always practices the safety protocols he/she preaches." To examine the psychological safety felt by staff nurses, the surveys included such statements as "If you make a mistake in this team, it is often held against you." To examine team priority of safety, the surveys included such statements as "In order to get the work done, one must ignore some safety aspects." The researchers then analyzed the data using structural equation modeling.
The results appeared online this week in the Journal of Applied Psychology.
The researchers found that when nurse managers' spoken expectations regarding safety aligned with their commitment to safety, their teams had a stronger commitment to acting safely while carrying out work duties, as well as a greater rate of reporting errors. In addition, this greater emphasis on safety resulted in a reduction in patient treatment errors.
"The study offers support for the efficacy of leaders' behavioral integrity -- walking the talk, if you will -- and it demonstrates the importance of leadership in promoting a work environment in which employees feel it is safe to reveal performance errors," said McCaughey. "This benefits patients because work environments in which error is identified offer employees the opportunity to learn from those errors and, ultimately, prevent similar errors from occurring."
According to Leroy, the researchers' findings suggest that by staying true to the safety values they espouse, leaders can start to solve the managerial dilemma of providing clear safety directives while encouraging employees to report errors.
"This is important as the results of our study indicate that the combination of both a high priority of safety and a psychologically safe working environment predicts the number of reported patient errors in hospitals," Leroy said.
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Other authors on the paper include Bart Dierynck of Tilburg University, Frederik Anseel of Ghent University, Tony Simons of Cornell University, Jonathon R. B. Halbesleben of the University of Alabama, Grant T. Savage of the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Luc Sels of Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
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Patient safety improves when leaders walk the safety talk Public release date: 26-Sep-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Sara LaJeunesse SDL13@psu.edu 814-863-4325 Penn State
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- When nurses feel safe admitting to their supervisors that they've made a mistake regarding a patient, they are more likely to report the error, which ultimately leads to a stronger commitment to safe practices and a reduction in the error rate, according to an international team of researchers. In addition, when nurse leaders' safety actions mirror their spoken words -- when they practice what they preach -- unit nurses do not feel caught between adhering to safety protocols and speaking up about mistakes against protocols.
"Patient errors remain a major source of avoidable patient harm in the United States," said Deirdre McCaughey, assistant professor of health policy and administration at Penn State. "The Institute of Medicine report, 'To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System,' charged that avoidable medical errors in U.S. hospitals kill at least 44,000 patients a year. Feeling comfortable reporting errors also leads to a stronger commitment to safe practices, which ultimately reduces error rate.
McCaughey and her colleagues examined the notion that care providers may experience a conflict between the strong enforcement of safety procedures on the one hand, and the reporting of safety/patient errors on the other hand.
"Despite this conflict, prior research indicates that a climate of safety requires both prioritizing existing safety protocols and constructive responses to errors," said the research team leader, Hannes Leroy of Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and the University of Calgary. "Achieving this balance highlights the importance of leadership to foster team priority of safety."
The researchers surveyed 54 nursing teams in four hospitals in Belgium to determine if the leadership actions of head nurses were aligned with the verbal expectations they had given to staff nurses, as well as to examine the effect of that congruence on nurse/employee commitment to following safe work protocols and willingness to report a patient treatment error. Six months later, the team then examined the relationship between fostering safety and reporting patient errors to determine if they were related to a reduction in errors regarding patients.
In their study, the researchers considered a team to be composed of one head nurse and a minimum of three nurses who reported directly to the head nurse. They distributed paper surveys to nurses and head nurses within the different nursing departments, and asked the nurses to deposit the surveys in a sealed box or envelope to assure anonymity.
The surveys examined the behavioral integrity of head nurses, the psychological safety felt by staff nurses, and team priority of safety using a variety of statements that participants ranked on a scale ranging from "completely disagree" to "completely agree." To examine the behavioral integrity of head nurses, the surveys included such statements as "My head nurse always practices the safety protocols he/she preaches." To examine the psychological safety felt by staff nurses, the surveys included such statements as "If you make a mistake in this team, it is often held against you." To examine team priority of safety, the surveys included such statements as "In order to get the work done, one must ignore some safety aspects." The researchers then analyzed the data using structural equation modeling.
The results appeared online this week in the Journal of Applied Psychology.
The researchers found that when nurse managers' spoken expectations regarding safety aligned with their commitment to safety, their teams had a stronger commitment to acting safely while carrying out work duties, as well as a greater rate of reporting errors. In addition, this greater emphasis on safety resulted in a reduction in patient treatment errors.
"The study offers support for the efficacy of leaders' behavioral integrity -- walking the talk, if you will -- and it demonstrates the importance of leadership in promoting a work environment in which employees feel it is safe to reveal performance errors," said McCaughey. "This benefits patients because work environments in which error is identified offer employees the opportunity to learn from those errors and, ultimately, prevent similar errors from occurring."
According to Leroy, the researchers' findings suggest that by staying true to the safety values they espouse, leaders can start to solve the managerial dilemma of providing clear safety directives while encouraging employees to report errors.
"This is important as the results of our study indicate that the combination of both a high priority of safety and a psychologically safe working environment predicts the number of reported patient errors in hospitals," Leroy said.
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Other authors on the paper include Bart Dierynck of Tilburg University, Frederik Anseel of Ghent University, Tony Simons of Cornell University, Jonathon R. B. Halbesleben of the University of Alabama, Grant T. Savage of the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Luc Sels of Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
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Easy steaming means live news has become a commodity. Four experts offered their take on what this means and what news companies must do to adapt.
With the advent of streaming, live video news is cheap and ubiquitous but no one is sure what to do with it. Established TV companies like ABC must decide how the era of internet streams meshes with their traditional broadcasting model. Meanwhile, upstarts like the Huffington Post are cranking out reams of video streams without an obvious way to pay for it.
Video news experts explored how to go forward at an event held Tuesday at the British Consulate in New York. Here are five takeaways:
Takeaway 1: Live news is a commodity, media firms are responding
Andrew Heyward, former president of CBS News, observed that consumers now take for granted that they can see anything, anytime and from multiple angles. He says this means media companies must work to ??create something bespoke out of this commoditized raw experience.?
News firms are responding to the commodity issue with strategies based on curation and engagement. According to Huffington Post President Roy Sekoff, people no longer want scheduled shows but instead clips and highlights on which they can comment.? ?People don?t want to watch a full hour of Meet the Press, they want a minute and 30 seconds of Romney saying [something].?
Even if footage of real time news and events is no longer hard to get, it can still offer new ways of attracting an audience. Ray Mia, CEO of Streamworks, a service that helps companies use real-time video, cited a phenomenon in Japan where a live-stream of events in Syria has become an ongoing forum for news discussions.
And even when live news is a pure commodity, there is still money to be made. ?We can get cable news ratings just through streaming events,? said Joe Ruffolo, VP of Digital Meida at ABC News. He added that putting events like Michelle Obama?s convention speech on YouTube video leads to millions of additional, monetizable streams.
Takeaway 2: Streaming is a lifeline to young viewers
?The first time my kids plan to watch a network evening news cast is never,? noted Heyward. He says that networks have failed to engage young people in a systematic way. The streaming format presents a new opportunity to do that and perhaps teach new viewers to associate traditional news brands with a given level of quality.
Takeaway 3: We need a better marriage between video and text-based media
Traditional print-based publications like the New York Times and the Huffington Post are rushing into the video space but the results have been underwhelming. Heyward noted that many of the videos simply amount to a print reporter regurgitating a story. ?There?s a glut of video but not enough quality video? This is better consumed as print ? give me something new.?
ABC?s Ruffolo said his company is experimenting with building fresh types of news by overlaying different forms of textual information onto video. He says text should not be written off because it?s a fast and efficient way to consume information. Combined with video and social engagement, it has a strong future.
Takeaway 4: Metrics are a problem
As with much else in web-based media, no one can figure out how to measure what counts as success for streaming video. Even the experts at the event were unsure if it should be clicks or some more nebulous measure based on ?engagement.? All they could agree on was that the status quo doesn?t work and that everyone ?is waiting for some type of standardized Nielsen rating for the 21st century.
?Analytics need to get better across board,? said Streamworks? Mia. ?The tools and technology are not there.?
Takeaway 5: Unique video experience requires a unique ad experience
Ruffolo says ABC?s goal is to ?create a unique content experience for everyone? but, from a business perspective, the ??key is how to pair that with a unique advertising experience.?
The ad industry should be blazing a trail in the new live video paradigm along with the content industries. But, as we?ve observed before, they have been slower to adapt. According to Sekoff, this is in part because ?brands have to become comfortable with new forms of monetization. They also need metrics to convince [people to commit to] ad spends.?
The panelists predicted the industry will adapt soon and that the present era of pre-roll ads will evolve.
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The panel was moderated by former MSNBC editor-in-chief Merrill Brown and sponsored by Streamworks and by UK Trade & Investment.
Ocean species seeking cooler waters to survive may have to adapt to their new environments by changing their diets
By Mark Fischetti
Blue tangImage: NOAA
Monterey, Calif.?As Earth's atmosphere heats up due to global warming, the world's oceans will warm, too. All kinds of creatures, from the smallest plankton to the largest fishes, will be forced to adjust. Some of them may be able to adapt by altering their body chemistries, but the most likely response?for those that are free to travel (unlike oysters, say)?is simply to move.
Indeed, certain species of fish are migrating away from mid-latitude oceans toward cooler waters such as the Arctic Ocean, according to recent studies. Scientists are finding that, in general, larger ocean organisms such as fishes have less tolerance for temperature change than the microorganisms they consume, such as phytoplankton. So it is possible that as fishes migrate, their preferred food sources may not. To survive, the migrants may have to change their diet once they reach their new neighborhoods. Some of the most recent findings are being released for the first time at a symposium here this week called The Ocean in a High-CO2 World.
Of course, the fishes that already live in colder oceans may not appreciate the arrival of newcomers that could compete for their food. Yet the native species have their own challenges. Research is showing that fishes native to colder waters are even less tolerant of temperature changes than those in warmer waters, according to Hans-Otto P?rtner at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany. "The temperature range that fish are comfortable in decreases as latitude rises," he says. Over time, then, the mix of species could change. In cold northern waters, for example, sardine populations are dropping but anchovy populations are rising.
Other factors come into play: Increasing carbon dioxide emissions worldwide are making all oceans more acidic, forcing species to use more energy to adapt, leaving them with less energy to reproduce and grow. Oxygen levels in certain ocean regions are dropping, adding a third stressor to acidification and temperature rise. Scientists are beginning to unravel how these multiple stressors are affecting species across large spans of ocean, but much more data and analysis is needed. In the meantime, increasing numbers of species may be on the move. What they will eat once they reach their destinations, and which ocean inhabitants they may have to compete with, remains to be seen.
API President and CEO Jack Gerard said that the ?Empower States Act? introduced in the Senate would benefit jobs and energy production by strongly encouraging continued responsible state regulation of hydraulic fracturing.
?Shale energy development has been a game-changer for economic growth, job creation and government revenue. Hydraulic fracturing has been used safely for more than 60 years, and the states are well-equipped to ensure that record continues. The Empower States Act recognizes states are getting the job done when it comes to robust regulation of hydraulic fracturing.
?The industry supports sensible and effective regulation, but an overlay of one-size-fits-all federal regulation or a maze of duplicative regulations from multiple agencies on hydraulic fracturing is unnecessary and counterproductive. It would increase costs, slow responsible development, and deny Americans the benefits of domestic crude oil and natural gas supplies while doing little or nothing for the environment.?
API represents more than 500 oil and natural gas companies, leaders of a technology-driven industry that supplies most of America?s energy, supports 9.2 million U.S. jobs and 7.7 percent of the U.S. economy, delivers $86 million a day in revenue to our government, and, since 2000, has invested over $2 trillion in U.S. capital projects to advance all forms of energy, including alternatives.
The 5th Quarter - Should Players Be Expected to Take Pain Meds to Mask Injuries
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Back Pain Do's and Don'ts
Back pain is something that many of us experience- in fact, it's the second most common complaint cited in doctor's offices. It is estimated that 80% of Americans will suffer at least one episode of back pain in their lifetime, and it's been reported that in 2010 alone Americans spent nearly billion dollars on the treatment of back pain. Although there are many causes of back pain, there are some common things you may be doing in your workout that may be contributing to an already aching back. Join ACE's Jessica Matthews as she reveals some exercise Do's and Don'ts for exercisers experiencing back pain. Ranked 4.50 / 5 | 68 views | 0 comments
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THE Zambia Postal Services Corporation (Zampost) and Professional Insurance Company have entered a one-year renewable contract which will see post offices through out the country start selling vehicle insurance policies to motorists.
Zampost postmaster general McPherson Chanda said in Ndola yesterday that the provision of insurance policies to motorists was part of his company?s strategy to create value for its customers by transforming the post office into a one-stop shop, and ensuring that customers who came to buy road tax through the Zampost and Road Transport and Safety Agency (RTSA) agreement for example do not queue up twice.
?The provision of the sale of road tax and motor insurance selling services will make the post office the centre of consumer services and products creating a one-stop shop which grows as we embark on the quest to form more strategic business partnerships with other partners,? he said.
Mr Chanda said the response from the public was favourable and the number of motorists seeking the services was expected to increase as the quarter came to an end.
?We expect overwhelming response towards the end of this quarter because most motorists in this country have a tendency to seek these services shortly before the official quarterly deadline,? he said.
The selling of insurance services is the latest service being provided under the postal services transformation programme which was currently underway.
Last month Zampost and RTSA entered into a one-year renewable motor tax sale agreement which has started with a total of 90 post offices spread across the country?s 10 provinces.
?Motor vehicle licensing has now been made easier and more convenient because apart from paying for road licences, customers can now insure their vehicles from the nearest post office,? Mr Chanda said.
Zampost has also been providing various consumer services on behalf of the Digital Satellite Television (DSTV) and some mobile phone companies under the one-stop shop aimed at reducing costs on the part of its clients by bringing services under one roof and closer to the people.
Intel's curious decision to shun the US and release Medfield-powered smartphones in India, China, Russia and the UKmight be because of those countries' underdeveloped levels of LTE. Marketing chief Sumeet Syal told TechCrunch that its current-generation x86 system-on-chip won't support the standard, but a capable version will arrive at the end of the year -- with production ramping up in 2013. He also let slip to the site that dual-core versions will arrive shortly, claiming they'll benefit from Intel's hyper threading know-how. Syal said that Santa Clara is "comfortable" with its progress just months after entering the smartphone space but declined to discuss numbers -- for which we'll have to wait for the Q3 earnings call in October to find out how well (or not) Intel's mobile ambitions are going.
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