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BALTIMORE -- Nationals third baseman Ryan Zimmerman had a career day at Camden Yards on Wednesday night in Washington's 9-6 loss, hitting home runs in each of his first three at-bats against the Orioles.
It marked the first time Zimmerman has hit three home runs in a game and third time in Nationals history that a player has accomplished the feat. Prior to Zimmerman, the last player to hit three home runs in a game was Adam Dunn, who hit three against the Padres in 2010.
"Big players step up when the team needs him," Ian Desmond said about Zimmerman. "I think he understands what's going on with our team. I think he feels inside he needs to carry some of the weight. That's what superstars do. He is definitely that. He has turned it up a notch."
All three home runs by Zimmerman were hit off right-hander Chris Tillman. In first inning, Zimmerman swung at a 2-2 pitch and hit the ball over the left-center-field wall.
Three innings later, after Roger Bernadina clubbed a home run, Zimmerman followed with a blast over the center-field fence.
In the fifth, after Danny Espinosa came home on a Denard Span double, Zimmerman did it again with a two-run homer to right field to make it a 6-2 game.
"The way the ball took off his bat, I definitely knew that it was going to be a home run," Span said.
Zimmerman had a chance to hit his fourth home run of the game against reliever Steve Johnson, but Zimmerman struck out looking to end the seventh inning. Zimmerman said he didn't think about hitting a homer once he stepped into the batter's box.
"It's tough to have a night like that and not be able to celebrate and have fun with it, because we lost," Zimmerman said. "I've been swinging the bat better, and tonight everything came together in one game. Hopefully, we can keep swinging the bats like we have the last few days. We know our pitching is good enough. If we score that many runs, we are going to win more than we lose."
Desmond brought up that Wednesday was World MS Day, a day where people raise the awareness about Multiple Sclerosis, an illness that has hit close to home for Zimmerman. His mother, Cheryl, was diagnosed with MS in 1995. Zimmerman established the ziMS foundation, which is dedicated to the treatment and ultimate cure of Multiple Sclerosis.
Desmond found it touching that Zimmerman hit three home runs on a day that people raise awareness about the disease.
"For someone that has such an impact in that field and does so much charitable things for it, I think for him to step up today, I think there is a sign from God," Desmond said. "Ryan delivered, and that means a lot to a lot of people."
Zimmerman got off to slow start to start the season. But in his last 24 games, he is 30-for-88 (.341), with five home runs and 17 RBIs. For the season, Zimmerman is hitting .298 with six home runs and 28 RBIs.
"Early on in the season, he had some adversity. But he battled through it -- the shoulder, the media, his own doubts, I'm sure." Desmond said. "But he battled through it. Now no one is talking about that stuff anymore."


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And yesterday's call did not disappoint, at least as far as getting a handle goes. As to what is happening out there…well, it's a downer.
Here's CFO Richard Galanti, courtesy of the indispensible StreetEvents, highlighting one of the most disturbing developments during the quarter:
…one of the other things that jumped out at us was health care costs. Particularly during the month of October and into early November, and in talking to our third party administrators of the plan, they said they have seen this a lot of places around the country and putting two and two together myself, it's almost in sync with the stock market decline that we saw health care costs go up dramatically above and beyond what you see at the end of the calendar year anyway when people have just -- they have already hit their deductibles and they want to make sure they get their free eye exam in or their teeth cleaning.
As far as trends during the last three months (ending November), Galanti had this to say:
…the trend during the quarter of weaker comps are mostly on the non-food side of our business. Needless to say, that hit earnings as well as the trend line from September to October to November was slightly down each quarter, the underlying comps. And with those weaker sales results, I might add those were despite more aggressive pricing, conscious effort on our part, to drive sales during the quarter.
How much "more aggressive" was pricing? Here's a mind-blowing observation about television sales during the quarter:
…our television sales have been way up in November…. [W]e had unit sales up over 50% in the four weeks, but that translated into a dollar sales increase of only 3%.
Yes, he did say that: television unit sales were up 50% in November—but dollar sales were up only 3%. Here's why:
If you go onto Costco.com, you can see that we're selling two packs of flat screen televisions for less than $1500 for the both of them. And so…notwithstanding what's going on in the economy and with big ticket items, we have taken advantage and been opportunistic and going to vendors that have been stuck with inventory when other cancellations have occurred elsewhere and taking advantage of that.
That's what good companies can do: take advantage of bad companies when things get rough.
And they are rough.
The few bright spots in Costco's sales came not in the fun stuff you look for at the wholesale clubs while you're loading up on oversized detergent and giant boxes of raspberries and bags of frozen shrimp—not iPods or digital cameras, say.
No, it is in the basics where Costco's business is booming:
In terms of merchandise categories for the quarter, within food and sundries, which is about half our business…virtually all sub categories were up year-over-year with groceries, canned goods and what have you being the strongest comp in the mid teens.
Canned goods and half-priced television sets—the new economy, available at Costco.
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Friday, December 12, 2008
The Consumer Trade Down, Costco-Style
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- Mark B. Spiegel said...
As a long-time Manhattan dweller, I'm an all-too-rare visitor to Costco (the existence of which is one of the truly great perks of suburbia). However, I had the privilege of meeting and speaking with Jim Sinegal (the company's co-founder and CEO) a couple of years ago, and found him to be one of the most humble (as in, "entourage-free") and straightforward CEOs I've met from ANY company, much less one with a market cap north of $20 billion.
By the way, I love the concept of the flat-screen TV "two-pack"... For better or worse (and currently, that kind of frivolous imported consumption is probably "for worse"): Only in America!
- Anonymous said...
Jeff said: "Canned goods and half-priced television sets—the new economy, available at Costco."
I don't want to pop your retail bubble of what is normal or not, but Costco made its business by doing exactly that during non recession times as well. Although now, it is done with low price consumer and business hardware subsidized by a whopping $50 a year subscription fee enhanced by the continued increase of the average unit package cost. Now around $7.50 to $10, up from what used to be unit packaging under $5.
While advantaging massive product volume buy opportunities out there, they have been able to leverage an increase in basic retail pricing against the lower purchase prices due to the economy.
But my point is that the reduced television costs is just what Costco has always done as a company, maybe more so in products like business printers or coffee, but certainly since the opportunity exists, they are indeed leveraging the lower priced TVs too.
- DaveinHackensack said...
My local Costco seems to be booming. I wonder how Costco's sales of other company's gift cards are doing. I've been buying the $100 in Starbucks cards available at Costco for $79.99, along with Costco's similar deal on McCormick & Schmick's cards (except with the M&S deal, they throw in a free cookbook).
- Anonymous said...
Costco is the perfect velocity-driven retailers for disinflation or deflationary times. This is where they accelerate their business.
- Anonymous said...
Well I bought one of thoose Visio 37in. tv's in November. Great buy, great picture for the buck. I bought it from the review I read in Barron's. Another thing I saw on Friday 12Nov. at the Costco in Montgomeryville,PA at 3:30pm was the many customers. Costco definately has customers, and they do buy stuff.
- Brent Tharp said...
Not that it changes the thrust of CostCo's comments, as the magnitude of change is still significant, but the televisions are not "half-priced" if there are 50% more units sold but only a 5% increase in revenue. They are reduced by 30%, or roughly "a third off."
- Anonymous said...
One remarkable thing i'm seeing consistent with Costco is the significant volume of cars in the parking lot. Although the parking lot remains full, i was perplexed as i kept walking into the stores and noticed the lines are much shorter.
I attribute this to a reduction in loitering at Costco. People are buying just the items they need and are then leaving, making the trip through the line and out the door a speedier process for the shoppers.
This has me wondering if Costco (famous for their re-shuffling of their shelves) will end up dispersing more of their non-perishable products among their food items.
- Anonymous said...
The TVs weren't half price. The average selling price per unit dropped 31.3% over the year.


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SAN FRANCISCO Sergio Garcia arrived in the U.S. illegally 20 years ago to pick almonds in the field with his father. But that was not all he wanted for his life.
Working the fields and at a grocery store, he attended community college, studying to become a paralegal, and passed the California bar on the first try, a boast Gov. Jerry Brown, former Gov. Peter Wilson and nearly 50 percent of all first-time test takers can't make.
Now, still living in the U.S. illegally, he will ask the California Supreme Court on Wednesday to license him.
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He has the support of the state bar and California Attorney General Kamala Harris. The U.S. Department of Justice, however, is trying to block his request.
The DOJ argues in court filings that granting Garcia a law license card would violate a federal law barring people in the U.S. illegally from receiving government benefits.
The agency argues the state Supreme Court and California bar officials use public money to license and regulate Garcia's practice.
The federal law was "plainly designed to preclude undocumented aliens from receiving commercial and professional licenses issued by states and the federal government," the DOJ said in court papers after the state's high court asked for the federal government's position.
"It was a real slap in the face," Garcia said.
The dispute is the latest high-profile immigration clash between state and federal laws. Usually, it's the Obama administration opposing state laws in Arizona and elsewhere thought to be anti-immigrant.
The Obama position surprised some, since it had recently adopted a program that shields people who were brought to the U.S. as children, graduated high school and have kept a clean criminal record from deportation and allows them to legally work in the country.
At 36, Garcia is too old to qualify for the Obama program. But he and the immigration groups supporting Garcia argue that he his is exactly the type of candidate the Obama administration had in mind when it adopted its program.
So the administration's flat-out opposition stunned Garcia, who self-financed his education at Cal Northern School of Law in Chico while working at a grocery store and publishing a self-help book in 2006.
"I was very upset by" the administration's position, he said. "I worked hard and have never been a burden to the state."
But legal scholars and others say Garcia faces a number of obstacles even if he wins his law license.
Garcia will have to work for himself because no law firm or other employers could legally hire him. And he may be automatically disqualified from representing certain clients and taking on some types of cases because of his citizenship status.
"Garcia is not qualified to practice law because he continually violates federal law by his presence in the United States," former State Bar prosecutor Larry DeSha told the state Supreme Court in one of the few "friend of the court" briefs filed opposing Garcia's licensing.
A similar case is brewing in Florida. That state's Supreme Court has so far refused to certify a person living illegally in the U.S. as a lawyer, but has not issued a final ruling. The California Supreme Court has 90 days to rule after Wednesday's arguments.
Garcia and his numerous supporters argue that he is deserving of his law license on legal and moral grounds.
State Bar officials and California's attorney general argue citizenship status is not a requirement to receive a California law license.
Garcia said he's deserving to practice law in the state for those legal reasons, plus the hard work and dedication he put into passing the bar examination.
Meanwhile, the immigration groups backing Garcia's bid in the Supreme Court say the man's narrative is exactly the type of immigrants the Obama administration had in mind when it adopted a policy last year to allow people who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children to work legally.
Garcia first came to the U.S. with his family from Mexico when he was 17 months old. He returned to Mexico with his mother when he was 9-years-old and returned eight years later and applied for citizenship in 1994, sponsored by his father who is now an American citizen.
Garcia said there is nothing unusual about an application pending for so long and estimates it could take another five years to approve given the backlog of applications.
He said he doesn't fear deportation because of the national notoriety his case has received and the fact that he has formally notified immigration officials of his prolonged presence in the U.S.
What he does worry about is being barred from practicing law in California. In the meantime, he has supported himself as a motivational speaker and paralegal when he can find the work.
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Alex Rios is an avid reader, but he doesn't read the sports pages. He's an avid follower of Formula 1 racing, but he doesn't consider himself a sports fan. In a game that feasts on failure and invites constant critique, Rios' ability to punch out then tune out is something all baseball players would love to possess.
"This is a game based on opinions," he said. "If you are immune to those things, you make it so much easier to go out and play without any distractions or stuff like that. I really believe that it helps a lot."
It's too bad, though, that Rios isn't paying attention to what's being written and said about him these days, because it's all pretty positive.
Remember when the baseball populace was generally bewildered by the White Sox willingness to take on the nearly $70 million remaining on Rios' Blue Jays contract in a waiver claim in August 2009? And remember when then-manager Ozzie Guillen was constantly peppered with questions about why Rios was still in the starting lineup during Rios' lowly '11 season?
These are storylines lost to the winds of change, because, by every statistical measure that matters, Rios has been one of the most productive outfielders in baseball since the beginning of the 2012 season.
In that timeframe, there are just four American League outfielders with a higher OPS than Rios' .864 mark -- Mike Trout (.946), Josh Hamilton (.938), Josh Willingham (.908) and Jose Bautista (.878). Adam Jones and Hamilton are only AL outfielders to log more extra-base hits (80 and 77, respectively) than Rios (76) in that span, and only Trout (.321), Torii Hunter (.320) and Austin Jackson (.309) have hit for a higher average than Rios' .307 mark. And across the Majors, Ryan Braun is the only player at any position to join Rios in logging at least 25 homers, 35 doubles and 25 stolen bases since the start of '12.
It's too soon to say for certain if Rios' career-best '12 season -- a season in which he hit .304 with a .334 on-base percentage and .516 slugging percentage and was an AL Comeback Player of the Year Award candidate -- is repeatable.
But the early returns in 2013 -- a .362 average, .412 OBP, .681 SLG, four homers, three doubles and eight RBIs in 12 games -- are positive.
"I feel like I made adjustments last year that helped me through the season," Rios said. "It seems I've carried them over into this season, and they're working fine. I'm pretty pleased and right where I want to be."
The White Sox are not where they want to be after dropping five of six thus far on their first road trip. As with the 32-year-old Rios, there are questions about this Sox club's ability to repeat the surprising successes of 2012, when they won 85 games and challenged the vaunted Tigers for the AL Central crown.
Those questions arise not just because of the way the White Sox skidded in September last year but because their winter activity -- i.e., adding Jeff Keppinger to the infield -- was rather lackluster when compared to their division peers in Detroit, Kansas City and Cleveland. People wonder if Jake Peavy, who was brilliant against the Indians on Sunday, can stay healthy and whether Chris Sale, who was battered on Saturday, will have any lingering ill effects from his big innings jump. The questions and concerns all have a degree of validity to them, no doubt.
But the biggest question of all might be whether a Sox lineup that ranked fourth in the league in runs scored last season can repeat the feat. It's a question the White Sox, as a unit, have not done well to answer, to date. Among AL teams, only the Rays (3.0) have scored fewer runs per game than the White Sox (3.5) in the early going.
So the Sox, clearly, need more than just a hot Rios to get the bats where they want to be. But a productive Rios is a positive starting point, because, despite all that angst he caused earlier in his Chicago tenure, he's become a major part of their middle of the order.
"I think coming into last year, you felt like he was a three-hole hitter, but last year he ended up hitting fifth," manager Robin Ventura said. "This year, he's hitting third. But it doesn't matter where he hits, he just goes out and plays. I said last year he was probably our best overall everyday player. He does the most things in a game that can help you win a game."
Perhaps Rios' 2012 season shouldn't have been quite as surprising as it was. A closer look at the numbers reveals that his 2011 struggles were mostly attributable to a disastrous dip in his batting average on balls in play (BABIP) -- a stat somewhat tied into the otherwise immeasurable impact of good or bad luck. While Rios' line-drive rate was steady and his ground-ball rate decreased from 2010, his BABIP dropped from .306 in '10 to .237 in '11. When the BABIP rose to .323 last year -- much more in line with Rios' career norm and the league average -- his production rose accordingly.
Unsurprisingly for a guy who doesn't read the sports pages, let alone the advanced metrics, Rios neither knew nor cared about this.
"Stats and stuff like that, I don't pay any attention to," he said. "It's not something that keeps me up at night. I just believe that if you have a good approach, you don't focus on results."
The results have been much more positive for Rios since the beginning of 2012, and that might have something to do with his shift from center field to right (where he already has a Major League-leading four outfield assists this season). More likely, it has to do with him simplifying his stance and playing with increasing confidence.
"For some reason, you never hear a lot about Paul [Konerko] or Alex," teammate Adam Dunn said. "But Alex is one of the most exciting players to watch in the game. He has speed, power. He's kind of the rare five-tool guy."
High praise. Not that Rios is listening.


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Mac. .... crossed posts. just noted yours. Need time to consider.
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You know, G.T., we don't make anybody do anything, at least directly. Again, I will use restrictions on auto emissions as a guide. Originally, it was California, then followed and strengthened by the US Government, that provided the leadership needed for the world on auto emission regulations. Certainly, Europe and Japan got on board. To be strong economically, you must be able to compete, and if you can innovate you win in the big scheme of things. It takes time, but there are results in the end. Do nothing, and the long term outcome is dismal.
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Mac. ... The climate change authorities are clear that, despite the pause (yes, I know) warming will pick up. Even theories of why the Antarctic ice pack is steadily extending OWING to global warming have merit. (Fresh melt water rising to the surface and re-freezing more easily than sea water.)
I see no concensus though as to whether warming will recommence at a steady pace, or suddenly come in with a bang, so to speak. I liken it to volcanic eruptions. Some belch and burp and 'let off' in a regular manner, (tourist attractions with folks gawping into the crater), or bottle it up to sudenly explode as Krakatoa and Vesuvious once did. (Why DO people risk living in Pompeii after what happened in Roman times? It's way overdue to do it again.)
What bothers me though, is how to explain the many intelligent and well versed in science, and who have no motive to deny warming, who are adamant that man assisted global warming is a myth.? They are not just cranks.
They refuse to accept a direct correlation between temperature rise and atmospheric CO2 levels, and they do have some evidence on their side. As they point out, the cosy correlation in graphs, going back over the decades, between atmospheric CO2 levels and measured temperatures is fraudulent.
The computer predictions shown on them are RETROSPECTIVE, (i.e. produced with hindsight, and not at the actual time), to neatly tally with global warming theory. Their falsity is shown when the present day concentration of CO2 does NOT produce the neat rise in temperatures suggested by the graph.
Global warmers did a great disservice to their cause by using dubious science, and more and more people are turning against them. I think those rejecting the warming (to come) are wrong. But they won't be convinced now, especially as we shiver in our coldest Arctic) spring on record! (Yes, yes, I know, but such is life!)
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GT--I think extremists of both camps are to be corrected, and despised if they proceed from a conflict of interest. But I've been watching the science since the mid-1980's, and the trend is clear. The science is clear that there is a relationship between CO2 and temperature. But we don't know the constants, nor understand the chaos, nor the confounding factors.
I'm not sure what you mean by dubious science, as opposed to mistakes. Gore's movie certainly took an alarmist tone, and had a few relatively small mistakes--the man is a politician with a science background, not a scientist. I hew a little closer to Stephen Schneider, even though I am a Cal guy.
Schneider, among others, was subject to relentless attacks from the deniers trying to cut off his funding through fair and foul means. He responded by taking a higher profile in trying to influence public policy. So I would argue that those with deep understanding of climate science decided to respond to the well funded (by coal and oil industries) denier public relations efforts with their own efforts, backed by actual science. I find it ironic that mrgybe now denies his early posts on this subject, where he likened public opinion to the appropriate response. This of course happened with massive funding from those trying to avoid any regulation of carbon emissions, and cooperation from the Murdoch empire. Of course, the fury of last years storms changed public opinion back to the point where 4 out of 5 in America want something done, and Obama has found a little courage on the subject.
The well-funded denier consultants found a total of 3 or 4 errors, and a possible conflict of interest, in the entire body of work by the IPCC. Of course, little of that work was done by the IPCC leadership, the 2007 report collected data and studies done by panel members and other scientists. Screeching about doubt based on these errors, as many have done and mrgybe has repeated here, is an utter failure in critical thinking, or lack of any basic objectivity.
What should be done about climate change is another matter. I have not impugned the motives of those who would be cautious; I share their view. I have even given them links to academically acceptable work that makes that point. But Lord Monckton? Please.
You may wonder at the "heat" I generate. I have a role in evaluating and establishing California's responses to climate change--along with a host of others. That goes with a responsibility to keep an open mind. For years I tracked references back to original sources, hoping that there would be responsible new science that would convince me the problem was less serious. I used my colleague Andy Gunther
and asked him many questions about citations that seemed to have merit. I never had a single citation reveal a peer-reviewed study that shook the foundation of the consensus on climate science. Instead, all of them tracked back to denier sites funded by carbon money, or newspaper opinion pieces devoid of any background in science. I admit I should have been more careful in dismissing the Guardian, and made a substantive response that weather is not climate trend. But even where some post things with some thought behind them (Isobars, who has cited Bjorn Lomberg's work), they fundamentally misstate the conclusions when you actually check the sources. At some point I believe I have done due dilligence, and can make fun of the apologists. Much more human than admirable, but then there you are.
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Mac. ....Sorry to keep on about it but, It seems to me that, taking the whole of the earths geological history from semi molten days through to the present, that a runaway CO2 greenhouse effect would just not be possible, or certainly not possible to maintain for any length of time.
If such could have happened, it would have, and earth, like Venus, would be uninhabitable. I remember discussions on this in the 1950's, but global warming wasn't really on the agenda in those days. It was just musing, with a few 'cranks' showing alarm1
It seems to me that the reason some sensible scientists refuse to accept that high CO2 levels are disastrous must be because they are convinced that the Earth, at 90+ million miles from the sun, and with our ocean protection, cannot sustain a greenhouse effect.
I'm only guessing, but going on instinct (and earths geological history) perhaps it would only be possible to sustain a moderate or partial greenhouse rise in temperature, and that only for a limited geological period before reverting to the Earths normal or default condition.
It does seem to me that earths systems have guaranteed a long term stability, whatever has been 'chucked' at them. (Asteroids, volcanos, Ice Ages, and suns hiccups!)
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GT, the issue concerning humans becomes irrelevant far prior to any atmosphere of Venus or the inside of a volcano. For us, a the atmosphere only needs to "run away" a few degrees before life for all changes dramatically. Acidification of the oceans increases and land-based life shifts in a few seasons. More than a few degrees brings flooding unprecedented in recorded history, as the land-based glaciers melt and dump all their water into rivers and oceans, while others simply slide into the sea and raise the level even more equal to the ice's volume.
We don't need temps of 460 C to fall victim to global warning.
Forgive me, but it seems many think the earth can recover the atmosphere (speaking broadly) we now enjoy for the most part with plenty of time to spare. How much time do you think those of us in temperate climates would survive if temps never dropped below 48 C? For most of us, we'd be dead in a few months. Do you think the earth could stop a temp rise at 48 C and reverse to something we could endure within a few weeks? I doubt that very much.
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GT--the very difficult thing for non-technical audiences is understanding what a relatively small change in average temperature means. From the first studies on CO2/temperature relationships, atmospheric scientists realized that there are mechanisms in place on the planet to damp the effect. The three of greatest significance are a) increased growth of vegetation; b) absorption of CO2 by ocean waters, and 3) increased cloud cover--which allows less heat to reach the surface, but increases trapping. Estimating these phenomena on a planetary scale is very difficult, but good quality studies show that ocean acidification because of CO2 absorption is happening. It is killing coral and changing ocean ecology as well.
Back to the aha factor. The less alarmist modelers have predicted a temperature increase of 2 to 4 degrees, and we have seen an increase of 1 to 1.5 degrees. To the non-scientist, who lives in an environment with seasonal variations of more than 100 degrees, and daily variations of perhaps 40 degrees, this seems very minor. It takes a little deeper thought, and perhaps some technical background, to realize that any system that integrates temperature--the oceans and glaciers most notably--will begin to change profoundly with such seemingly minor changes. Consider only the capacity of the oceans to generate cyclonic storms, and consider the addition of 2 or more degrees of heat over the vast expanses that contribute to such storms. All of that heat is energy that can be transmitted to the atmosphere and increase the power of hurricanes and cyclones. And so forth.
There is no doubt that the carbon industries have indulged in a well funded disinformation campaign to protect their profits. The only accurate accusation that mrgybe has made of my comments in this vein are that I exaggerated the amount of spending from many millions to billions. For a while it was effective--and so bragged the oily one. Now opinion has shifted, and it might again. But opinion does not drive science.
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Ah well! I stand corrected Dan and Mac, and not for the first time. (Or likely, the last.) But I can't help wishing that you were both mistaken in tour predictions.
Caring about the future of the human race (genetically bred into us by evolution, I expect) means that looming dangers nag away at us, in the background of our minds. It can be a form of relief to latch onto half reasonable hopes, and would be cause for celebration if difinitive proof that the worst wasn't going to happen (or just a teensy bit so, perhaps) could be found after all.
But alas .....
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From the WSJ at
IEA says "Scant Gains Made on CO2 Emissions".
The world has made almost no progress over the past 20 years in reducing the carbon content of its energy supplies, despite more than $2 trillion of investment into renewable-energy projects such as wind and solar power, the International Energy Agency said on Wednesday. ... Carbon-dioxide emissions from each unit of energy consumed have fallen by less than 1%.
The IEA estimates that a cut in carbon emissions per unit of energy of more than 60% is needed to prevent global average temperatures rising by more than 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit in the long term ... "The drive to clean up the world's energy system has stalled,"
"had there not been any climate-protection policies over the past few years, the world's greenhouse-gas emissions would have increased even more", he said. [Prove it]
Popular support for renewable-energy subsidies is also falling. [WELL, FRICKING
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Everyone knows CO2 greenhouse effects are self-limiting; they plateau. Thus each extra trillion, or quadrillion, or gazillion dollars poured down this swirling toilet by alarmist ideologues reaps far
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Every once in a while Iso gets a fact right, and then doesn't know what to do with it. But pretty much whatever Rush tells him he'll try. Now he quotes the Wall Street Journal to say that carbon is still rising (duh) and that it would take massive cuts to prevent a temperature increase of 3.6 degrees.
The IEA estimates that a cut in carbon emissions per unit of energy of more than 60% is needed to prevent global average temperatures rising by more than 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit in the long term ... "The drive to clean up the world's energy system has stalled
This much is correct; it is too late to prevent long term climate change. That's not news to anyone paying attention to credible sources. The IEA is projecting or modeling a temperature increase of 3.6 degrees, but nobody knows if that is what will happen. Iso is right that there are factors that damp the impact of both atmospheric buildup of CO2 and temperature increases.
Of course this is a reversal of course for Iso, and other deniers, who said at various times the earth isn't really warming, warming if it is occuring as part of a natural cycle, we're headed for an ice age, yada yada yada, depending on what the carbon lobby told Rush to tell the ditto-heads.
But the simple ignorance of the conclusion is boggling, particularly someone who claims to have some technical background. An increase in average temperature of 2 or 3 degrees means that every bit of ice that is within 2 degrees of the freezing point will start to melt. Not a problem for the antarctic, which is much colder than that (for the most part)--but a collosal problem for much of the ice stored on land. The cost will be many trillions. But as the ditto heads say, when the oil companies tell them to, just enjoy the warm winters! I think that hell will be just the right temperature for those who made big money lying about global warming.
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Rice is the most important cereal crop for human consumption. It is the staple food for over 3 billion people (most of them economically challenged) constituting over half of the world's population.
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which provided an adequate food supply for large populations. These have included corn in the Americas, wheat in the Near East and southern Europe (Greece and Rome), and rice in China and India. The use of rice spread rapidly from China, India, and Africa, and at the present time it is used as a principal food throughout the world. After the discovery of the Americas, the use of rice took hold in both continents. The national dish of Belize in Central America, for example, is composed of rice and beans. There are now hundreds of rice recipes, with each ethnic cuisine having developed individual recipes. Almost all cookbooks have rice recipes, including recipes for risottos and pilafs. Vegetarians, in particular, cherish rice because it is such an excellent food and can be prepared in so many different and appetizing ways. Rice, delicious in itself, readily takes on any flavor that is added. Long-grain rice, when cooked, becomes separate and fluffy, while medium-grain rice is somewhat chewier. Short-grain rice tends to clump together and remains sticky with its starchy sauce. Arborio is an example of a short-grained rice. Wehani rice has a nutty flavor. Basmati rice (aromatic) is very popular, as isjasmine rice.
Rice is the only subsistence crop grown in soil that is poorly drained. It also requires no nitrogen fertilizer because soil microbes in the rice roots fix nitrogen and promote rice growth. Rice adapts itself to both wetlands and dry soil conditions.
Nutritional Properties
Rice is a high-carbohydrate food with 85% of the energy from carbohydrate, 7% from fat, and 8% from protein. However, rice also has a considerable amount of protein, with an excellent spectrum of amino acids. The protein quality of rice (66%) is higher than that of whole wheat (53%) orcorn(49%).Ofthe small amount of fat in brown rice, much is polyunsaturated. White rice is extremely low in fat content.
A cup of cooked rice has approximately 5 grams of protein, which is sufficient for growth and maintenance, provided that a person receives adequate calories to maintain body weight or to increase it, if full growth has not yet occurred. Asiatic children for whom rice is the chief food source have not developed protein deficiency disorders such as kwashiorkor, as have infants that are fed corn or cassava as a chief staple after weaning. Growth and development are normal on a rice diet. Due to its easy digestibility, rice is a good transition food after the cessation of breast or formula feeding.
Rice and Thiamine Deficiency
In Asiatic populations, rice has been, and still is, a main source of nutrition. Thiamine, or vitamin B1, is contained in the outer husk and coating of the rice kernel. When the technology for polishing rice became available, people took to eating white rice in preference to brown rice, but that process removed thiamine, causing beriberi, or thiaminedeficiency, in many people, as well as heart and nerve diseases.
Dutch physicians in Java and Japanese physicians particularly noted the occurrence of beriberi with edema, heart failure, neuropathy, and many deaths. Thi-amine, of course, was an unknown substance at that time. The history of rice is of interest in illustrating how the technology to make a food more appetizing (i.e., white rice versus brown rice) led to an epidemic of a new disease for those populations whose food intake was largely based upon rice. Studies by physicians in Japan and in Indonesia led to a cure for beriberi that included a more varied diet, plus the use of rice husks and the outer coatings of rice, which contained thiamine.
Today, much of the rice consumed is either enriched with thiamine or parboiled, which leads to retention of thiamine in the matrix of the white rice kernel. Beriberi, as a disease from the consumption of white rice, is now rare if the rice is parboiled or enriched. However, some varieties of polished (white) rice may not be enriched with thiamine. Thus, when thiamine intake from other food sources is limited, thiamine deficiency could still occur. In the United States, thiamine deficiency typically occurs in chronic alcoholics.
Rice for Medical Therapy and Prevention
Rice has been the mainstay of treatment for a number of conditions, particularly hypertension at a time when few effective drug therapies were available. In the 1940s, Walter Kempner developed a treatment for mild, and even malignant, hypertension at Duke University. His hypothesis was that a low-protein diet, free of salt, would be an effective treatment. He devised the "rice diet," which consisted of rice, fruits, and vegetables. This treatment had good results: the blood pressure of his patients fell, and even malignant hypertension was partially reversed. In addition, blood cholesterol levels also fell. Since this was a cholesterol-free and low-fat diet, it was one of the first to document a cholesterol-lowering effect from diet.
The other therapeutic role of rice is in the treatment of allergies. Rice seems to be nonallergenic, and rice milk has been fed to infants allergic to cow's milk. Rice proteins have also been incorporated into standard infant formulas.
Genetic Engineering of Rice
"Golden rice" was genetically engineered to contain beta-carotene, not present in standard rice, to combat the widespread vitamin A deficiency and ensuing blindness in the children of the developing world. Beta-carotene is a vitamin A precursor that is converted to the vitamin by enzymes of the intestinal mucosa. Vitamin A, or retinol, is then absorbed and transported to the tissues, including the structures of the eye. Golden rice would thus seem to be an advance in the fight against vitamin A deficiency in rice-eating populations. However, there are some concerns about golden rice and other genetically engineered foods. Genetically engineered products have not necessarily been proven safe, and environmental or social risks may outweigh potential benefits that they may bring about.
Clinical trials of golden rice are needed before it is accepted universally. Only when it is clearly determined that itcan prevent vitamin A deficiency in experimental animals, and that it presents no hazards, will this genetically engineered food be considered safe for use in human nutrition. Further, society itself must also decide if genetically created foods are acceptable, a point currently in dispute.
Sequencing the Rice Genome
Since the 1960s, the "green revolution" has improved the yield of rice, and now the "green genome revolution" may bring about further improvements.
The rice genome has now been sequenced, an achievement of great importance. The sequence of the rice genome will provide the template for the sequencing of other grasses (maize, barley, wheat, etc.). The genome sequences are now known for the japonica rice favored in Japan and other countries with a temperate climate, and for the indica subspecies of rice grown in China and most other parts of Asia. This knowledge will permit a future harnessing of genes for disease prevention, drought resistance, nutritional improvement, and many other possible modifiable features of rice. As a recent issue of Science suggested, a "green gene revolution" is needed to meet the challenge of "population growth, loss of arable land and climate changes."
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