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Yanks, Marlins mostly praise new Miami park

By TIM REYNOLDS

AP Sports Writer

Associated Press Sports

updated 6:11 p.m. ET April 1, 2012

MIAMI (AP) - Marlins Park is just about ready. Same goes for CC Sabathia.

Derek Jeter and Nick Swisher each had two hits, Robinson Cano drove in two runs and the New York Yankees beat Miami 10-8 on Sunday in the first exhibition between major league clubs at the Marlins' new $515 million ballpark.

Sabathia tuned up for Friday's opening day start at Tampa Bay, allowing four hits and three runs in four innings.

"He didn't feel great today," Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. "He's physically a little bit under the weather. I think it'll be there when the bell rings. I really do."

Yankees closer Mariano Rivera worked one inning, allowing his first a spring training earned run since March 15, 2008.

Giancarlo Stanton had two hits and two RBIs and Gaby Sanchez homered for the Marlins, who host the Yankees again Monday, the stadium's last rehearsal before Wednesday's season-opener against St. Louis.

Marlins starter Ricky Nolasco gave up eight hits and seven earned runs in 5 2-3 innings, his spring ERA rising to 5.47. He yielded five runs and six hits in the fifth inning.

"One bad inning," Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen said. "But besides that, pretty good."

Logan Morrison, Austin Kearns and John Buck had two hits apiece for Miami, which hadn't scored or allowed as many runs in any game this spring before Sunday.

"I think if they left CC out there a little longer I don't think we would have scored eight runs," Morrison said. "He's pretty good."

Jeter doubled off Nolasco on the game's first pitch and Swisher hit his first homer of the spring. And Sabathia, who he had difficulty locating his fastball, pronounced himself ready for the season.

"Always the biggest issue for me is my fastball command," Sabathia said. "It wasn't there today, but there's no reason for me to feel like it won't be there Friday."

The Yankees went ahead for good when Bill Hall led off the ninth with a double off Chad Gaudin and scored one batter later on Eric Chavez's double. Pinch-runner Ramiro Pena later scored an insurance run on a wild pitch.

It was the fourth event in the building, preceded last month by a high school game and then Marlins games against two college opponents.

A painter applied another coat of white to a column outside the ballpark before fans arrived. Underneath the stadium, pallets with supplies were scattered about. Outside the Marlins' clubhouse, a team logo awaited installation. And the 450-gallon aquariums behind home plate needed a pregame scrubbing.

So far, there are about 35 fish in each. Soon, that will probably double, said Kevin Mathis of Living Color Aquariums.

"Very unique and distinctive, that's for sure," Mathis said, though Sabathia said he didn't notice the fish from the mound.

One complaint from the Yankees: Swisher didn't care for the infield dirt.

"Like running in sand," said Swisher, who raved about the park otherwise.

For Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez - a Miami native - the day was particularly special. Rodriguez played two games in 2009 at the Marlins' former home, 16 miles north of the new ballpark, but said Sunday was different.

"This is our neighborhood," said Rodriguez, who went 1 for 2. "It's also spring training so you don't have to go out there and put your game face. You get to go out there and really enjoy this and take it all in."

A few minor glitches popped up. A pair of televisions in the Yankees' clubhouse weren't working. Some Marlins players suggested their clubhouse didn't have enough clocks.

The ribbon board around the second-deck facade had some programming issues. (Instead of "Mark Teixeira," for example, it showed "Baseman, Mark." As an organ played, the same board read "Music Playing.") One elevator needed repair, and a couple ushers acknowledged they were still learning their way around.

Marlins closer Heath Bell decided the clubhouse needed some remodeling, too.

He twisted athletic tape into a necklace and draped it over the mannequin displaying the day's uniform scheme, saying he wanted to make it look more like Hanley Ramirez. Bell then pushed a table in the center of the clubhouse closer to an electrical outlet, so a stereo could be powered up.

"It's going to be great that we have these two exhibition games, we have opening day here, then we're gone for a week," Bell said. "And then we come back and what doesn't work or what we see that needs to be fixed will be."

As for that much-discussed sculpture in center field with pink flamingos and jumping fish that lights up when the Marlins hit a home run, it stayed silent, even after Sanchez homered off Sabathia.

It won't be put into use before Wednesday's opener.

NOTES: Girardi said he expected Sunday's lineup - Jeter, Curtis Granderson, Cano, Rodriguez, Teixeira, Swisher, Raul Ibanez at DH, Russell Martin and Brett Gardner - to be his opening-day lineup. ... Yankees LHP Andy Pettitte is expected to throw a bullpen on Monday. He'll likely throw again Thursday, but not Wednesday against the Mets in the spring finale. ... Carlos Zambrano starts for the Marlins on Monday against the Yankees' Hiroki Kuroda. ... The Yankees signed RHP Jason Bulger to a minor league deal, and expect him at Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre on Monday. ... The roof was closed Sunday, and the Marlins plan to have it open Monday.

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2. Service station properties have environmental risks. Those that are clean have a greater risk of environmental problems in future
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There are 5 essential, but simple actions to follow, which I believe are necessary for seemingly impossible objectives to be achieved.

Step One

Devote some quiet time and write down exactly what the change or alterations will probably be and why you would like them, this is the initial essential step towards achieving goals. At this stage, write only what it really is you?d like to obtain and why. ?The ?how?s? and ?when?s? can come later.

Step Two

This step too is quite essential, and it has almost everything to complete with you accessing a state of inner peace. The peace I write about has small to do with listening to relaxation music, important oils inside a burner or harps playing (though they can assist). Achievement of your objective needs getting peace via a quiet mind and inner calmness regardless of the chaos about you and how lengthy this chaos reigns.

Whenever you have this (peace) you?ll have higher clarity, your inventive self will make itself known, you?ll gain foresight into how you may achieve your outcome, concentrate, and negativity will have minimal impact.

Step Three

This important step is about gifting oneself with a fresh outlook on life. Taking a look at items within a completely different way and from a brand new angle will give you a a lot more international perspective revealing greater possibilities.

Step Four

By now you realize just what you want; you can step into profound inner peace at will; have picked up wonderful self-help and self-healing tools; eliminated limiting beliefs; and worked out your values. ?Now it is time to finally pinpoint specifically how you are going to go about achieving your purpose.

Step Five

This final but crucial step (they?re all crucial) will be the calculation of when your outcome will lastly eventuate. ?If you?ve followed the prior actions adding Step Number 4 into the equation, you?ll be able to establish the time you?ll be able to celebrate in a really, large way of finally reaching the pot in the end of the rainbow!

Any person can attain objectives by means of inner peace, perseverance, patience, flexibility and often viewing circumstances from an completely different angle. If you would like to read my 100 Day Challenge Review, head over to www.100daychallengereview.com.

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Major Investors Warn Energy Companies of Business Risks in Flaring Gas at Shale Oil Wells

Letter to 21 firms warns of threat to the bottom line; calls practice "economically wasteful, environmentally damaging"

BOSTON, Mar. 29 /CSRwire/ - With escalating shale oil production putting the US on track to become the world?s largest oil producer, investors are challenging an increasingly common industry practice ? burning off or ?flaring? associated natural gas from shale oil wells ? as environmentally damaging, economically wasteful and a threat to the industry?s bottom line.

?We are concerned that excessive flaring, because of its impact on air quality and climate change, poses significant risks for the companies involved, and for the industry at large, ultimately threatening the industry?s license to operate,? wrote three-dozen investors in a letter sent this week to 21 of the industry?s largest shale oil producers, including Continental Resources and Chesapeake Energy.

The letter notes that in North Dakota alone, which produced an average of 418,000 barrels each day last year and is now the third largest source of domestic oil production behind Texas and Alaska, annual flaring-related emissions were equivalent to more than two million tons of carbon dioxide, as much as adding 384,000 cars to the road.

Shale oil holds the potential to transform the US oil industry, but its benefits will be drastically reduced if we don?t address flaring head-on,? said Mindy Lubber, president of Ceres, the business-investor coalition that helped organize the letter. ?The industry?s current approach to the issue raises serious questions as to whether that will happen, and merits a red flag from an investment community that looks to companies for long-term sustainability.?

?Excessive flaring is not only environmentally damaging but also a waste of a valuable resource,? added Karina Litvack, director, head of governance and sustainable investment at F&C Asset Management, one of the investors sending the letter. ?We want to encourage companies to articulate plans for resolving this issue while shale oil production is still in its relative infancy.?

Shale oil production is growing rapidly as a result of advances in recovery technologies, particularly directional drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. These technologies have opened up previously inaccessible reserves of oil in shale formations in North Dakota, Texas, California, Colorado, Ohio, and several other states. Goldman Sachs recently forecast that the U.S. is poised to become the world?s top oil producer in the next five years - a position it last occupied in 1973. Nearly all of this increased production would come from shale oil fracking.

The letter focused on the industry?s practice of allowing billions of cubic feet of natural gas to be flared or vented as a byproduct of shale oil production. The practice is only loosely regulated at the state level.

?Few if any companies appear to have well-articulated plans for managing this growing risk,? said Steven Heim, director of social research and advocacy at Boston Common Asset Management. ?As long-term investors, such a short-sighted approach raises significant concerns.?

?On a lifecycle basis,? the investors? letter continues, ?emissions from oil produced with high flaring rates may be comparable to those from Canada?s vast oil sands region? - a particularly high-carbon oil source. ?This could make it subject to penalties under clean fuel standards like those adopted by California, and being actively considered by the 13 Northeast states that are members of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.? Such standards reduce the carbon intensity of fuel over time and limit the market for more carbon-intensive sources.?

Shale oil fracking takes place in an environment where regulation hasn?t kept up with booming production. At the moment, this type of energy production is mostly regulated by the states, many of which are relatively new to oil and gas production and don?t yet have strong regulatory regimes in place.

The investor letter requests ?information about the amount (each company) is currently flaring, as well as details about your plans to reduce flaring at existing wells and prevent it at future wells.? The response deadline is May 1. Investors also asked to meet with the companies.

The letter, addressed to the CEOs of companies with major shale oil holdings, was sent to Anadarko, Apache, BP, Chesapeake Energy, Chevron, Continental Resources, Devon Energy, EOG Resources, ExxonMobil, Hess, Marathon Oil, Noble Energy, Oasis Petroleum, Occidental Petroleum, Pioneer Natural Resources, Royal Dutch Shell, SM Energy, Statoil, Talisman Energy, Total, and Whiting Petroleum.

The investor signatories, representing $500 billion in assets, include, among others, Boston Common Asset Management, F&C Asset Management, Local Authority Pension Fund Forum, PaxWorld Management, Portfolio 21 Investments and Presbyterian Church (USA). The investor letter, with a full listing of signatories, can be found at: http://www.ceres.org/files/oil-gas/investor-flaring-letter

Ceres?is an advocate for sustainability leadership.? Ceres?mobilizes a powerful coalition?of investors, companies and public interest groups to accelerate and expand the adoption of sustainable business practices and solutions to build?a healthy global economy.?Ceres also directs the Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR), a network of 100 institutional investors with collective assets totaling more than $10 trillion. For more information, visit?http://www.ceres.org?and?http://www.incr.com.

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We need more glass half-full risk managers :: The Innovation of Risk

Written by: admin on April 1, 2012.

Way too many risk managers, risk experts, and risk professionals are ?glass half-empty? people.

Of course the role of risk management is to?focus on? the potential things that can go wrong, but that does not mean that the risk manager has to be negatively focused. ?In actual fact, it is that negative focus that has made risk managers the type of person that businesses wish to avoid rather than engage.

History has shown that risk managers have been perceived as the road block or the quickest way to get to a ?No?. ?This skill in being seen as such a negative in the business context is really only equalled, and perhaps surpassed, by the perception of an auditor!

Unfortunately, this perception is now causing the risk manager to have to continually fight battles on multiple fronts. ?The battle for being heard, the battle for being understood and then the battle for being relevant and important. ?Yet, in actual fact a high quality risk manager, finds that the information they have, and provide, improves business outcomes which in turn generates increased returns and/or reduces costs.

Therefore, it is with this reasoning that we say we should have more risk managers being positive, innovative, and proactive in their assessments and information for management. ?With more glass half-full people, we would see that risk managers are seen as being strategic enablers to the business.

So, how do risk managers focus on being glass half-full?

Firstly, the risk manager needs to stop seeing the negative in everyone they interact with. and everything they perform. ?Instead, we need to be more focused on finding the positive in those around us, and then working on bringing out these positives to provide better risk management information and decisions. ?We need to be more engaging with others, and really show how we can work together and help each other to succeed. ?Essentially, the risk manager needs to stop being so self-focused and centered and more external focused and team centered.

Secondly, risk managers need to trust people. ?Although, that trust needs to be balanced with healthy?scepticism, without a positive view of people, the risk manager will continue to be seen as a road block and the fastest road to ?No?. ?With a better balanced approach to working with other people, the risk manager can become an avenue to success through getting to the right assessment of the risks and controls, which leads to a ?Yes?.

Thirdly, in order to progress further to being glass half-full, we need to change the approach to assessing risks. ?Quite simply, the approach needs to be more proactive and to focus more on the future than the past. ?Through using these lenses the risk manager will become more relevant at the management table, and may even find itself the first person to be brought into a concept or a new business idea.

So, post-GFC, risk managers are in a unique position to present themselves as the future. ?This is the time for risk management to shine. ?This is the time we show how we have grown since the GFC, and have become the catalyst for making the business future a success.

So, let?s get together and get more glasses half-full. ?Let?s expand our horizons of knowledge and open of eyes to a future that will see change happen at an ever expanding rate. ?For the risk manager that can truly embrace these characteristics and leverage the collective knowledge the best, will become a positive influence on senior management and will find that the battle for being heard has been won.

Cheers, and here is to the future of glass half-full.

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Atari Pong review (1976)

Multiplayer gaming today has become an inherently and bewilderingly antisocial affair. You grab a controller, take up as much space as possible on your couch at home, then connect to some random game hosted by some random server filled with some random people with whom you do your damnedest to fill with some collection of lead thrown from some assortment of futuristic weaponry. Along the way, you'll be taunted, insulted and, if you're playing a Halo game, quite possibly physically shamed.

Back in 1976, of course, things were a bit different. Pong was the height of at-home multiplayer gaming. Two dials, one button and one switch is all you had, and with your opponent sitting in extremely close proximity to you, chances are most of the heckling would be the good-natured variety. It is a vastly simplified experience versus what we have today, but in some ways a vastly superior one. Click on through to see why.

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