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GOODYEAR, Arizona -- Talking to myself about what the Indians should do at third base?
Question: Will Carlos Santana be the every day third baseman?
Answer: Yes … no … maybe.
Q: What kind of answer is that?
A: Let's start with what Santana has accomplished. As Manager Terry Francona said Sunday morning: "He looks like a third baseman. He has earned our trust."
Q: Doesn't that sound like he is the third baseman?
A: Francona did add, "It's always different when the bell rings," meaning when the regular season opens. He added, "You can't make them hit balls to third."
Q: Meaning what?
A: I've watched Santana play parts of five games at third this spring -- and maybe he's had five grounders hit to him. It's so hard to judge, other than he appears comfortable and confident. But he hasn't been tested.
Q: Will he open the season at third base?
A: That's my guess. He will play there at least a few times a week.
Q: So what about Lonnie Chisenhall?
A: That's the question the Indians are discussing.
Q: Would they send him to the minors?
A: They could, he does have a minor league option left.
Q: Then who would play third when Santana catches, plays first or is the DH?
A: Mike Aviles started 37 games at third last season. He made three errors. Aviles is batting .351 (.906 OPS) this spring. He's a career .273 batter in six big league seasons. He can play anywhere in the infield or outfield. That same versatility is true of Elliot Johnson, who has made the team as Aviles-type bench player. While Johnson is a switch-hitter, he's also a career .218 hitter.
Q: So when Santana doesn't play third, the Tribe would probably use Aviles?
A: Unless they keep Chisenhall.
Q: Should he make the team?
A: At this point in his career, I'd open the season with Chisenhall in the majors. Yes, you can send him back to Class AAA. But he has been in Columbus enough times in the last four years to run for mayor. He batted .390 (1.132 OPS) with six homers and 26 RBI in 125 plate appearances for the Clippers last season.
Q: What kind of spring has it been for Chisenhall?
A: Here is what Francona said a few days ago: "It was a little bit different situation. Lonnie came in last year and he knew he was going to be the third baseman. This year, we have Carlos over there and we don't quite know yet what we're going to do. So what we've asked Lonnie to do is play the best he can and let us worry about the decisions. I think he's done a good job of that."
Q: What does that mean?
A: Who really knows? On Saturday, he mentioned that it made no sense for Chisenhall to be on the roster if plays only once or twice a week.
Q: What do you think?
A: Chisenhall is batting .289 (.855 OPS) this spring with four extra base hits, including a homer and seven RBI in 52 plate appearances. He still looks bad against lefties. He has been up and down at third base, charged with two errors. He definitely is feeling the pressure to make the team.
Q: Wasn't he good last spring?
A: Chisenhall was Mr. Goodyear at this time last year. The Indians gave third base to him, and he produced to hit .400 (24-of-60) with four homers, 12 RBI and a 1.123 OPS. He had only one error in 120 innings.
Q: Then what happened?
A: By May 12, he was sent to minors, batting .213 at the time. He pounded the ball in Columbus. He came to Cleveland and never really grabbed the job. He finished the season hitting .225 (.668 OPS) with 11 homers and 36 RBI in 289 at bats for the Tribe.
Q: Why does he hit so well in spring training and the minors, but not with the Tribe?
A: Chisenhall tends to look for fastballs, and he can really crush a mediocre to even slightly better than average fastball. He doesn't walk much, only 32 in 643 official big league at bats. But in the league, the lefty batter sees a lot of off-speed stuff. Because he's anxious at home plate, he tends not to work the count in his favor. And that tends to lead to fewer fastballs for him to hit.
Q: Will he improve?
A: That's what the Indians are wondering. The glitter is gone from him being the team's 2008 first-round draft choice. Last season was his third attempt to stick in Cleveland, and it was his worst year of the three.
Q: Do you write him off?
A: At the age of 25? I don't. They can open the season with him playing 3-4 times a week against right-handers. Santana can play third the rest of the time. Santana is not going play third every day, because Francona likes him also as a catcher a few times each week.
Q: I don't quite follow your point…
A: Would you rather see Chisenhall receive another shot at third base 3-4 times a week, or would you prefer to have Aviles or Johnson in the lineup instead on those days? Forget it against lefties. Chisenhall is a .194 career big league hitter against them. Facing righties, he's .256 (.714 OPS). He also struggles some seasons in the minors against lefties.
Q: You're supposed to be answering the questions, not me.
A: Finding the answer often means framing the right question.
Q: Meaning what?
A: It's worth giving Chisenhall another chance to prove he's more than a good Class AAA player, because the alternatives at third (Aviles and Johnson) are not that attractive. If Chisenhall fails, he can sent to the minors again. But for now, I'm ready for one more round with him at third.
Q: What do you think the Tribe will do?
A: Aviles play some third base season when Chisenhall falters. Johnson already has been told he's on the roster. Santana has earned "trust" at third, it appears Chisenhall may be saying hello to Columbus one more time.


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Glacier Peak committed fewer mistakes to earn a 2-1 win over Oak Harbor in the opening game of the district baseball tournament Saturday, May 4, in Snohomish.
Oak Harbor (11-10) will now have to win three straight to grab the third berth out of district for the regional tournament.
Moving on won't be easy. The Wildcats travel to Wesco North champion Maryville-Pilchuck at 4 p.m. Tuesday for a loser-out game. The top-seeded Tomahawks (16-5) were upset 4-2 by fourth-seeded Meadowdale (10-11) Saturday.
Oak Harbor lost all three regular-season meetings with Marysville-Pilchuck this season.
The Oak Harbor/Glacier Peak contest was well pitched, but the pitchers had a hand in the mistakes that led the game's runs.
After three-and-a-half scoreless innings, the Grizzlies scored in the bottom of the fourth. Jack Richter walked the leadoff hitter, and the Grizzly stole second, moved to third on a fly to right field and scored on a passed ball.
Oak Harbor came back to score its one run in the top of the fifth and could have possibly had more.
Andrew Snavely led with a walk and moved to second when Grizzly pitcher Tanner Braun threw wide of first on a pick off attempt. Snavely was replaced by a pinch runner, who was thrown out at third trying to move up on a pitch in the dirt.
Clay Doughty walked and moved to third on Glacier Peak's second error of the inning (the only two GP errors in the game) and scored when Braun balked.
In the bottom of the fifth with one out, Glacier Peak strung together two hits to put runners at the corners. The winning run scored on a wild pitch by reliever Grant Schroeder.
Braun finished with a two-hitter, striking out eight and walking five. He escaped a one-out, bases-loaded jam in the first with a pair of strikeouts.
Richter and Schroeder combined to throw a four-hitter.
Oak Harbor coach Tyson VanDam said, "I'm really pleased with the way we pitched. We pitched well enough to win."
He was upset by the inability of his team to bunt. Twice with leadoff hitters aboard, Oak Harbor was unable to bunt runners into scoring position.
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The Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) and wood pellets
Get Paid To Stay Warm
The Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) is a government scheme to support the use of renewable-heat technologies, such as wood-pellet boilers. The government pays the owners of eligible installations for every MWh of renewable heat that they use.
As of autumn 2013, commercial, public sector and "community" (i.e. district heating) schemes receive:
|Tier 1 (p/kWh)
|Tier 2 (p/kWh)
|Small (< 200 kW boilers)
|Medium (200 - 999 kW boilers)
|Large (> 999 kW boilers)
For small and medium boilers, Tier 1 tariffs are paid on the first units produced in the year, upto a maximum calculated by multiplying the boiler capacity by 1314. All units produced over and above that amount in the year are rewarded at the Tier 2 rate. Payments are made for 20 years, with annual indexation.
As of autumn 2013, domestic boilers receive no support. The Government intends to introduce a domestic RHI in Spring 2014, provisionally at a level of 12.3p/kWh for 7 years. The domestic RHI may be limited to boilers with a capacity of 45 kW or less.
Ofgem (the energy regulator) manages the RHI, including processing applications and quarterly claims for payment.
There are many complexities to the RHI. We have set out some of the details below under the following headings:
- RHI tariff rates
- Comparing the RHI with your fuel costs
- Which installations are eligible for the RHI?
- How long will I get the RHI for?
- Where do I go to register/get paid?
- Phase 2 (domestic boilers, etc.)
- Northern Ireland
They may (probably will) change the rules. You should not rely on this information. If any detail is important to you, you should confirm it with Ofgem, who are administering the scheme.
RHI tariff rates
For eligible pellet boilers below 1 MW in size, the value of the RHI is greater than the cost of the fuel a lot of the time, i.e. you have a negative cost of running your boiler (or to put it another way, the government is paying you to stay warm). To avoid this creating a perverse incentive to burn more pellets than you need to, simply to make money, you only receive the high level of support for an amount of heat equal to running your boiler at full capacity for 1,314 hours each year. This is known as the Tier 1 rate. For example, a 100 kW boiler will receive the Tier 1 rate for the first 131,400 kWh that it produces each year.
If you use any more heat than that over the course of the year, these additional units are supported at the Tier 2 rate, which is set at a lower level that results in a net cost for running the boiler (albeit significantly lower than the cost of heating with fossil fuels). There is no point producing heat that you don't need if it costs you to produce it.
The Government announced on 26 October that the level of support for large biomass had been revised down from 2.7p/kWh to 1p/kWh. On the face of it, this degree of change without supporting evidence in such a short space of time seems vulnerable to legal challenge. Cross your fingers that the policy is not subjected to Judicial Review and further delayed.
Comparing the RHI with your fuel-cost
A1-grade wood pellets typically have an energy content of around 4.8 MWh (4,800 kWh) per tonne. You can use our price calculator to work out what wood pellets would cost you on average. For example, if your average delivered cost of pellets over the year were £192/tonne, that would equate to 4p/kWh.
Allowing for efficiencies
You cannot compare the cost of the fuel directly with the value of the RHI. The RHI is paid on the amount of heat that you use in the building, not the amount of fuel that is consumed to produce that heat. So you have to allow for losses in converting the fuel to heat, and in distributing that heat to the building (if the boiler is not in the building).
You also need to be careful of both fuel suppliers and equipment suppliers quoting misleading figures for the energy content of the fuel and conversion efficiency of the boiler, and forgetting to mention the losses in the heat-distribution system. We set out how you may be misled if you are not careful in our page on the energy content of pellets.
The relevant energy content for you to look at is the Net CV, as-received (or wet) basis. You can then combine this with the net efficiency figure quoted by your boiler supplier, which will almost certainly be based on the Net CV of the fuel, to give you the energy output of the boiler relative to the fuel consumption.
It wouldn't be unusual for the net efficiency of the boiler to be around 85% and the Net CV (as received) of A1 pellets to be 4.8 MWh/tonne. If you are paying £192/tonne, the cost of the energy output from this combination of boiler-efficiency and wood pellet energy-content is 4.7 p/kWh.
Then you need to allow for any losses in the heat distribution network, if the boiler is not in the building where the heat will be used. At 10% distribution losses, for example, the cost of the usable energy in the above example is around 5.2 p/kWh.
That (the cost of the energy net of conversion efficiency and losses) is the figure that you should compare with the value of the RHI. For a 100 kW boiler with the above efficiencies and losses, that means that the running cost of the first 131,400 kWh will be minus 2.7 p/kWh, and the remainder of the heat that year will cost plus 3.2 p/kWh.
Allowing for avoided costs
Of course, you would have had to pay for heating fuel even if you hadn't installed a pellet boiler, so for calculating the return on investment on the net cost of installing a pellet system, you should also net-off the avoided cost of the alternative fuel. If that was heating oil at 60p/litre (5.7 p/kWh) in a system that is 75% efficient (7.6 p/kWh), the value of switching to pellets in the above example is 10.3 p/kWh for the first 131,400 kWh and 4.4 p/kWh for the balance of the heat used during the year.
If, in the above example, you used 200,000 kWh in total each year, the RHI would be worth £11,750 per year, the net running cost would be minus £1,350 per year, and the value of replacing the oil-fired system with a wood-pellet system would be £16,550 per year. That is the figure that you should compare with the net capital cost of switching to a wood-pellet heating system, in order to calculate the return on investment.
If you are replacing a working boiler with plenty of life left in it, you would compare that value with the simple cost of installing the new system and disposing of the old one. If the property needs (or will soon need) a new boiler anyway, either because it's a new building or because the old boiler is on its last legs, you should net-off the capital cost of a new oil-fired boiler against the capital cost of the pellet system, to get the net capital cost that you should compare with the above net annual benefit.
Which installations are eligible for the RHI?
Phase 1 of the RHI, which began at the end of November 2011 is limited to certain types of installations. Phase 2 of the RHI is supposed to begin in autumn 2012, and will cover many of the installations that are not covered under Phase 1.
The main limitations of Phase 1 from a wood-pellet perspective are:
- "Domestic" heating is excluded. This a slightly-odd, narrow definition of "domestic". It refers specifically to individual dwellings with their own boiler, whose main purpose is for residential use. So boilers for properties where people live may receive the RHI if:
- the boiler services more than one residence, either within the building (e.g. a block of flats) or in multiple buildings (these are referred to as community schemes), or
- most of the heat in the property is used for commercial purposes (e.g. a B&B with enough bedrooms that the commercial heat-use outweighs the owners' heat-use).
- Systems that are not easy to meter are excluded, such as stoves and blown-air heating systems. The RHI requires the heat to be metered, and that is not easy to do if the heat is not transmitted by a liquid medium. The Government has not yet grasped that, in the case of wood pellets, the energy content is known to a reasonable degree of accuracy, and one can therefore calculate how much energy has been supplied simply on the basis of the quantity of fuel used. They may wake up to this in Phase 2 (if this affects you, you should lobby them on this issue).
- All systems installed and commissioned before 15 July 2009 are excluded, on the basis that the investment was made without any knowledge that the RHI would be introduced, so it would count as "state aid" to give additional support. The Government and its civil servants have forgotten one of the two key principles of designing any mechanism: don't penalise early-adopters (if you ever want anyone to move early again) and always grandfather existing rights. Again, if you are affected by this decision to deter innovation and risk-taking, you should lobby the Government and your local MP on the issue, in the hope of modifying the policy in Phase 2.
- The heat must be useful. In effect, that means that the heat needs to be supplied for internal use, and not for uses where it will be easily lost (e.g. outdoor swimming pools).
- Boilers of 45 kW or less in capacity must be both MCS accredited and have been installed by MCS-accredited installers. This cannot be fixed retrospectively - the system and the installers must have been MCS accredited at the time the system was installed.
- Grant-funded installations are not eligible for the RHI. Systems installed between 15 July 2009 and summer 2011 may repay their grants and become eligible for the RHI. If you are in this situation but do not have the funds to repay the grant, contact us to see if we can help you to repay it as part of a fuel-supply contract. If your grant was for equipment associated with the heating system but not the boiler itself (e.g. a grant for a district heating network), you should check with Ofgem whether this would affect your eligibility to the RHI.
The Government is looking at introducing values for the first two of these categories (amongst others) under Phase 2 of the RHI.
From 2012, boilers are likely to have to meet strenuous emissions limits on particulates and NOx to retain their eligibility for RHI.
How long will I get the RHI for?
20 years.
The values will be indexed annually to the Retail Prices Index.
How do I register/get paid?
Ofgem is administering the RHI. They are also providing the detailed guidance on how the scheme is implemented. Various pieces of information are linked from Ofgem's main RHI page.
Only the owner of the installation may register and receive the RHI. Agency/sub-contracting is not allowed. The owner may retain the services of consultants to help apply for the payment, but the money must come to the owner.
Payments are expected to be on a quarterly basis.
Phase 2 (domestic boilers, etc.)
See the section on eligibility above for the types of installation that are affected by Phase 2.
The Government originally proposed to issue its consultation document on Phase 2 in Autumn 2011, then before the end of 2011, and now it looks likely to be delayed until February or March 2012.
They also promised that Phase 2 would be introduced in October 2012. It is claimed that the delay on the consultation will not have a knock-on effect on the introduction of Phase 2. On the basis of past experience, you may think otherwise.
We have no inside information, but if we had to guess, we would expect the introduction date to slip as well, but probably not beyond the end of winter 2012/13. If so, it is reasonable (but not safe) for those people who are ineligible in Phase 1 to make plans to install a pellet boiler from spring 2013.
We would not recommend financial modeling on the basis of any assumptions about the values in Phase 2 until the final version of the legislation has been published, unless the Government issues firm assurances that the values are guaranteed. But you could make all your plans bar placing the order, and run sensitivity analysis on a range of likely RHI values, ready to place the order once the values are secure.
As the RHI is subject to a limited budget (approx. £850m for four years), there may be a first-come-first-served element to the funding.
For those people wanting to go ahead now with projects that are currently ineligible but proposed to be covered by Phase 2, the Government offers the Renewable Heat Premium Payment (RHPP) scheme to help towards the capital costs. The RHPP is worth £950 for suitable projects.
Northern Ireland
The RHI that was about to be introduced at the end of September applies to England, Wales and Scotland. The Northern Ireland Assembly is considering a similar scheme (as of October 2011): the Northern Ireland Renewable Heat Incentive. The consultation, which closed at the end of September 2011, proposed significantly different bands to the arrangements in the rest of the GB:
- < 45 kW: 4.5p/kWh
- > 45 kW: 1.3p/kWh
There is no second-tier level proposed, as there is for the rest of the GB.
Like the mainland scheme, they propose to exclude domestic properties from the NI RHI. Write to your local MP and the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment, if you don't see why the government's business pals deserve to have the option to cut their energy bills, but domestic users are stuck with heating oil, electric, or the other exorbitant options off the gas grid.
They propose to introduce the scheme on 1 April 2012.
No reliance should be placed on the details proposed in the consultation. The final arrangements may change significantly in the light of responses to that consultation.
Enhanced Capital Allowances
HMRC published a consultation document in 31 May 2011 named Capital Allowances: Feed in Tariff and the Renewable Heat Incentive outlined below are the key measures that have come from this consultaion.
These new measures will ensure that enhanced capital allowances are not given for expenditure on plant or machinery where tariff payments are received under either of the renewable energy schemes introduced by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) i.e. FiT or RHI
These measures will affect expenditure incurred on or after the 1st April 2012 for all eligible equipment relating to the FiT or RHI except for Combined Heat & Power equipment where the measure will not affect expenditure incurred on such equipment until 1st April 2014.
Impact on our Customers
Businesses investing in Wood Pellet systems which currently qualify for ECAs after April 2012 will not be able to claim the ECA as well as tariffs. However there is no impact on earlier expenditure.
If you have any questions about these changes please contact Sue Pennicott on 020 7147 2610 (email: email@example.com) or Malcolm Smith also on 020 7147 2610 (email:firstname.lastname@example.com).


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By Mike Cox
When the doors are locked at night and the kids are tucked safely inside, most parents probably let their guard down a bit. After all, what is more reassuring than the security offered by your own home?
However, incredible changes in technology mean your family may not be as safe as you think. Today, more than 70 percent of children can access the Internet from home, many in their own bedrooms. While the Internet puts information and entertainment right at our fingertips, parents must understand it also can put child sex predators in direct contact with our kids.
Children can quickly be targeted after posting their age, gender and contact information online. Predators use that basic information to start private conversations, targeting children even as they sit at the dining room table or in the privacy of their bedroom.
Internet child predators pose a serious threat. Since creating a specialized child protection unit in 2003, my office has arrested 246 Internet child predators. And earlier this year, MySpace found a stunning 90,000 registered sex offenders among its membership nationwide. There is no doubt that child sex predators are online, searching for their next victims.
The first line of defense starts with parents and children.
Parents must monitor their kids' Internet habits, keep computers in common areas and know who their children are talking to online.
After all, you would never allow your child to take a phone call from a stranger, so why allow it online? Parental involvement is a key to keeping kids safe.
Toughening the laws in Michigan will also keep kids safer. Last week, Sens. Cropsey, Patterson and Kuipers, along with Reps. Schuitmaker, Haveman and Lori, joined me in introducing legislation to strengthen state child predator laws.
First, convicted child sex predators should never be allowed on Web sites like Facebook, MySpace or Craigslist, where they can hunt for their next victim. Our legislation would ban convicted Internet child predators from logging onto these 21st century youth hangout spots, making it a felony to do so.
Second, the sex offender registry loophole for convicted Internet child predators must be slammed shut. Current law does not require convicted Internet child sex predators to appear on the state sex offender registry. That means a parent investigating the names of people talking to their kids online or wanting to know if a predator lives nearby are not getting the information they need.
Our bill corrects the problem, helping parents keep predators away from their families.
Third, our legislation would increase the sentences for predators that possess or are distributing child pornography. By creating longer sentences for the worst offenders, we can keep predators offline longer.
There is an urgent need for action on this legislation. Just last week, agents from my office conducted an undercover Internet predator sting that resulted in nine arrests, with more likely to follow. The predators were so determined to reach what they thought was a young child home alone that one took a bus from Ohio and another took a cab, later arriving at the house on foot. Our experiences in these cases repeatedly show the threat predators pose to our kids. But by taking action to ban convicted predators from sites like MySpace and Facebook, we can knock them offline.
Please contact your legislators to voice your support.
- Mike Cox is Michigan's attorney general.


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A fast-moving storm brought down trees and power lines and left some Vineland intersections flooded Wednesday evening.
The mobile home park, which suffered heavy damage in the June 30 derecho storm, suffered additional damage, with reports of downed wires and trees and more heavy damage to property.
Jovan Villafane, his wife, Alisha, and 8-year-old daughter, Jazmin, were at home Wednesday evening as the storm bore down on Vineland around 7 p.m.
"It started raining and it got really windy," Jovan Villafane recalled. "The wind started blowing really hard. All of a sudden, I heard a loud 'boom.'"
Villafane ran to his daughter's room.
"She was playing right below where the branch fell," he said.
He grabbed his daughter, and the family fled the home. His daughter suffered no injuries.
"She's really shook up," he said.
The whole side of the trailer where his daughter's room is located was buckled by the giant branch, which fell from a tree Villafane estimated at about 80 feet tall.
The damage could have been worse.
Villafane credited some recent remodeling work he had done which strengthened the side of the mobile home.
His wife and daughter will stay at his mother's house for now. Villafane plans to camp out in his living room in order to protect the family's property.
The trailer is not insured, he said.
Elizabeth Roedell, who is staying with her parents at the park after the June 30 storm left her family's Vineland Hills mobile home uninhabitable, was stunned by this latest storm.
The storm tore the roof from another trailer where owners had just finished paying for repairs from the last storm.
"They just paid $7,000 to get back into that house after the first storm," she said, her voice quivering with a mixture of shock and frustration minutes after the storm.
"Our kids are in this house screaming at the top of their lungs, shaking on the floor," she said. "Is there enough damage now that they're gonna help?"
President Barack Obama issued a disaster declaration related to the June 30 storm, but the federal funds to be released as a result will only aid in repairs to public infrastructure and will not benefit individual residents.
"What about the people that are still homeless?" Roedell pleaded Wednesday night.
Federal officials indicated in July that an announcement regarding compensation for private property owners and individuals displaced by the storm may be made at a later date, pending the results of further damage reviews.
Roedell's family wasn't spared by this latest blow from Mother Nature on Wednesday night. Another tree smashed the storage building at her parent's home.
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Diesel Cruze to be unveiled next week
Auto enthusiasts next week will get their long-anticipated first glimpse of General Motors' first diesel passenger car since the 1980s.
The clean-diesel Chevrolet Cruze, set to be built at the Lordstown GM complex, will be unveiled publicly at a news conference Thursday morning at the Chicago Auto Show, GM officials announced Friday.
Manufacture will begin in Lordstown soon thereafter, and the auto will hit showrooms during the second quarter of 2013.
Don Johnson, GM's U.S. vice president of Chevrolet sales and service, said he expects diesel sales to make up about 10 percent of the total Cruze sales but was cautious in his predictions because the concept is new again for GM.
"It's been quite a while since we offered a passenger car diesel, so we will see. I think success for us is going to be establishing Chevy as an industry leader by offering technology like this that other manufacturers are not," Johnson said Friday during a conference call from Detroit.
Company officials have said they are counting on the passion and loyalty of diesel fuel auto buyers to drive their purchases of the vehicle.
And despite the limited current small U.S. demand for diesel cars, GM's marketing director for Chevrolet small cars Cristi Landy believes there is a void that the company can fill.
National Automobile Dealers Association chief economist Paul Taylor agreed with that assessment.
"If consumers like the characteristics of the diesel, if it runs smoothly and reasonably quietly, it should be extremely popular," Taylor said.
He also pointed out that competition among diesel cars in the U.S. is very limited, creating what could be a niche market for the new small car.
The diesel Cruze, one of Chevrolet's 13 new models scheduled to be launched this year, will contain an engine manufactured in Germany, the home of successful European diesel Cruze models.
Gas mileage and torque are the factors Landy believes will lead buyers to a diesel car.
The company has not yet released diesel Cruze mpg and output stats, but Landy indicated fuel economy should be comparable to a Cruze Eco, listed at 42 highway mpg, but with added range. By comparison, a hybrid model delivers better fuel economy in the city, she said.
Due to a higher compression rate in the engine cylinders and greater density of energy in diesel fuel itself, diesel-powered engines are able to produce more power per gallon than gasoline-powered engines.
The three existing shifts at the already highly productive Lordstown plant should have no problem producing the new line of Cruzes, company officials said.
GM stats list the Lordstown plant as the most productive GM car assembly plant in the U.S. The plant produced 310,183 2012 model year Cruzes last year.
Worldwide, the Cruze has been billed as Chevrolet's best selling nameplate around the world. The company has sold more than 1.7 million Cruzes since the vehicle was launched in 2009.
In the U.S., Cruze recorded a total of 237,758 sales in 2012, up 2.6 percent from 231,732 a year earlier.


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It was just a month ago that Mike Pelfrey was on his way to the greatness that made him a 1st round pick so many moons ago. He had his confidence, partily thanks to renewed work with sports psychologist, Harvey Dorfman.
Pelfrey gave Mets fans confidence that Johan Santana wouldn't be alone in this playoff push and just like a great con, we look back at that time and can't figure out exactly what's gone on.
Despite Pelfrey, his manager and catcher, saying the pitches just aren't as effective as they were earlier in the season, I must disagree to an extent.
I watched the Mets at Arizona on Monday night and saw Pelfrey get ahead of just about every batter in that horrific first inning. He could not miss bats with his breaking pitches and they neutralized his sinker by slapping it foul again and again. That led to our No. 2 starter throwing pitches completely out of the zone and eventually working backwards into a hitters' count, like he did with Mark Reynolds.
It was painful to watch but it was clear there was nothing anyone except the guy on the mound can do about it. Maybe it's as simple as throwing his fastball and sinker more, getting away from the cutter and slider so early in the game. Maybe it will require a trip to the DL and the doc's couch to get him straight, but we have no hope for "meaningful games in September" without something resembling the Pelfrey we saw before...
Speaking of strange trips to the DL and the hopes of resembling the past is the news that Oliver Perez has joined the big club again. Sadly there are only two schools of sensible thought on this issue.
You can either side with Adam Rubin on ESPN New York, who basically calls the season a wash is Perez is kept on the roster, since he'll be the last man in the pen.
Or you can take a more measured approach like Kevin Kernan of the New York Post, viewing his next appearance as the Last Train to Paris. No, not that upcoming Sean Combs musical effort but the last resort or we, as a fan base, must gather up pitchforks and storm the Bastille.
It was hard enough to digest the deal when Oli signed it so long ago and for him to continue this downfall, in the midst of what could still be a magical season, will absolutely be the last straw that broke the camel's back and shows this organization for the frauds they are.
Or are we just playing the role of The Mark in this con game since we continue to live, love and die by the Orange and Blue?


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Where is Notre Dame as a program? In a recent ESPN poll, with over 70,000 votes cast, 67 percent of those voting felt ND currently isn't an "elite program." What is an elite program? Why would those voting not think ND was in the upper echelon of great programs? With all the championships, Heisman's, tradition and exposure, how could that be?
Obviously, there's the: "Notre Dame, you either love them or hate them" factor that will certainly influence such a vote, and that likely played a large part in this vote. But, is Notre Dame an elite program?
ND is a program who has their own TV contract. They just signed the largest apparel contract in history. They're a national school whose reach goes far beyond North America. They are clearly the New York Yankees and Dallas Cowboys of college football. But like the Yankees and the Cowboys in past and present, these great franchises have had their lean years as well.
The Irish had a great 12-1 season in 2012, including a berth in the BCS Championship game, but I think some ND fans don't realize the mediocrity Notre Dame has been immersed in for quite some time.
In fact, since 1994, 18 seasons, the Irish have won 10 games just 3 times. Just 3 times……
The Irish have won 8 games or less 11 times in those 18 years.
When you look at those facts, an unbiased person might actually agree with the voting. The Irish, currently, are not an elite program in my personal opinion, at least if you're judging them by the only thing that truly matters, results on the field.
However, I strongly feel they're on their way to getting there.
I think the two most important ingredients to having a healthy, elite program are having strong leadership amongst the team, and amongst the administration supporting the program.
I'm going to say this because I honestly believe it to be true. Jack Swarbrick is the best Athletic Director in the country, and I'd argue anyone who says otherwise. He's successfully navigated Notre Dame into the most favorable position he possibly could have in every major event Notre Dame has faced in his tenure. In my mind, "Savvy Jack" is batting almost a perfect 1.000 since arriving. Has he always hit a grand slam? No, but I do think he's always landed the most realistic and favorable situation Notre Dame could possibly hope for in regards to coaching hires, conference affiliation and clothing deal. I think he's done a masterful job on the stadium improvements, and pretty much everything else he's put his attention to.
But Jack can't do it on his own. He's had a lot of help from Father Jenkins and those who truly make the decisions at Notre Dame. I believe this group finally, truly, understands the importance of Notre Dame football in helping further the overall Notre Dame brand. Finally!
When a program has strong support from those who make the decisions, very good things can happen. I think we'll see the improvement Irish fans have been hoping for very soon.
The second piece to the puzzle is strong leadership amongst the team. It starts with the head coach, and it goes through the assistants, to the players, to everyone on the support staff. You have to have strong leadership to motivate the others to keep pushing forward.
Is Brian Kelly a great leader? Is he a master motivator like Lou Holtz?
I'm not sure we have a definitive answer to this, but I do think we have a pretty good indication. When Tommy Rees went down in the USC game in 2013, Brian Kelly knew he had no shot to win the game unless the defense played lights out—and they did.
Not many felt the Irish had a shot against ASU this year—they were wrong. Not many felt the Irish would bounce back after the Pittsburgh loss—they did. When the Irish struggled against Rutgers in the first half, a different team came out in the second half. How can the Irish possibly beat MSU and their great defense? No way ND can travel to Norman, Okla. and beat Bob Stoops and the mighty Sooners. Stanford is going to pound the Irish…….
Sure, there is a flip side to this story—-Michigan this year, the egg against Bama, the Pitt loss—there are others.
But my point is, I think until this year, we saw a lot of great leadership from Kelly, and even a lot this year as well, but the results were not what many wanted. This year, I think the team lacked team leadership, and I believe that was a big reason Notre Dame struggled, among others.
I don't believe a master motivator can be the key ingredient in every game. Sooner or later the actual players are going to need to lead themselves, especially when Stanford is on the goal line. Brian Kelly didn't do any master motivation on that series—that was all the players, and you need both to be successful, I believe. I think you saw the same thing at Alabama this year. Did Nick Saban suddenly forget how to coach and motivate? To be a great team and strong program, you need to recruit not only great players, but also great leaders who will step up when their time has come.
I believe the next important ingredient is both talent and depth amongst the team. Is Notre Dame there yet? I don't think so, but they're much closer than they've been in the past 18 years, I'm pretty certain of that.
I believe with the Barnett commitment, Notre Dame hasn't been anywhere near as deep in talent at QB in a very long time. You can say the same thing about wide receiver, offensive line and cornerback. You may even be able to say that about linebacker as well, but we'll have to see how some of these young players develop.
Is ND "good enough" at tight end? They would certainly be if Niklas had not left, but you just have to move on—it's still a talented group, but they're just young. The Irish have two outstanding talents at running back, but I think you'd love to have at least one more of their equal. At defensive line, they certainly have a lot of bodies, and a lot of athletic ability. However, I don't think many are "developed" at this point. D-line coach Mike Elston's ability to coach up this group will likely be a very large piece in how good the Irish will be the next four years.
At safety, I'm not sure the Irish are at an elite level, or even a top 25 level at this point. It's clearly obvious they have one truly gifted athlete, another arriving this fall, and then a bunch of guys who have all been given the opportunity to play and haven't impressed. Can this be fixed any time soon? Will C.J. Prosise be moved back, or maybe even James Onwualu? This is clearly one area they need to get better results.
When you look at the overall roster, the Irish are in great position in almost all positions in regards to both numbers and talent. How much of that is elite talent? Potential NFL first round talent? No team is going to have that kind of talent at every position, but they do matter. There's a reason less-than-athletic QB Tommy Rees was sacked so little this year—his name is Zack Martin—among others. And just as important, you need to have a lot of second, third and fourth round talent as well to truly complete with the elite teams out there. How many on ND's roster do you see with that kind of talent?
I've said this because I believe it to be true. If the Irish want to get back to the very top, they need to recruit two elite players every year. Two Jaylon Smith's. One on offense. One on defense. And they need to make sure the rest of the class they sign have a legitimate shot to develop into NFL draft picks as well. Not everyone will, but you need to find great talent who can be developed. I think the Irish staff did a great job of that this year with many of those they ended up signing. Not many are ready to be stars now, but many of those they did sign have a great shot to become NFL prospects if they put in the time and effort.
There are a lot of other key, important ingredients to a great program. A well designed recruiting plan that is also executed every year being one. A sound strength and condition program and plan. We've seen great improvements in both the strength and conditioning as well as nutrition, and Notre Dame stepping up to help in those improvements. Obviously there are many other important facets I could point out, but I think you get the point.
Finally, I think this is more important than many realize—-the quarterback. I believe in today's game, you have to have an above average quarterback to become a great team. An elite quarterback can take an average team and make them a contender, see Texas A&M. An average quarterback can turn a great team into something less, see Stanford. But talent alone does not make a great quarterback. Leadership and dedication also has to come into play.
Is Everett Golson a great leader? Is he finally dedicated? Will his teammates follow him? With the loss of Zack Martin, Chris Watt and T.J. Jones, the Irish offense is now rudderless in regards to leadership.
Who will pick up the torch and lead? I believe Golson has "it" when it comes to being a playmaker. He feels pressure and never panics. He's at his best when the play breaks down. Very few people have that ability. But it's during crunch time that you need a leader. All of his "it" factor won't matter if his teammates don't want to follow him.
When you look at the total package of the current state of the ND program, one has to realize the Irish are very close to getting back on top. They have the support they need from the administration. They have a very good leader at head coach. I think they've improved their coaching staff with their recent hires compared to last year. And, they've finally gotten their quarterback back—the one who led them to the Championship Game.
I truly see the Irish knocking on the door of greatness. Who will be the first to open the door and walk through? Golson and Kelly need to be the men to do it. Will it finally happen?


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Congratulations to the Baltimore Ravens for their win in Super Bowl XLVII.
This team won against all odds and in defiance to all of those (this columnist included) who refused to believe in them at every turn. Many thought they couldn't ride that wave of emotion over every single opponent they would face in the postseason.
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MOBILE, Alabama -- Alabama Power announced it expects power to be restored to 90 percent of residents affected by this morning's tornado and storms by 7 p.m. tonight.
The prediction is hours ahead of a schedule first announced around noon today, when officials expected power would be restored to most residents by midnight.
"It's going more smoothly than expected," said Beth Thomas, external affairs manager for Alabama Power. "Provided a car doesn't hit a power pole and there's no more severe weather, we should be finishing sooner."
Thomas said crews from neighboring cities and contractors have joined in the effort to restore power. At 11 a.m., 8,800 people were reportedly without power. By 4 p.m., that number dropped to 7,300, mostly in the Crichton and Theodore areas.
"Crews will be working all night to restore power to all customers who can receive it," Thomas said.
Power lines were downed after an EF-1 tornado touched down near Davidson High School and the Mobile Festival Center before 5 a.m. this morning.
Meteorologists with the National Weather Service said the tornado continued on a northeastern path for about seven miles before lifting off the ground in Prichard.
Mobile residents have been working on cleanup efforts since after 10:45 a.m., when tornado warnings for Mobile and Baldwin counties expired.
The tornado damaged businesses along Interstate 65, including 24-hour gym Anytime Fitness and Lowe's Home Improvement.
On Springhill Avenue near Union Street, Roshell's Café & Deli had its roof peeled back and front windows blown out by the tornado.
The American Red Cross, normally poised to respond to severe weather such as this, lost three disaster trailers at their Mobile headquarters, all damaged in the storm.
However, school kids hoping for a chance to skip weren't quite so lucky. The damage wasn't severe enough to close Mobile County's 89 public schools, although school officials said students would likely not be held accountable for missing today's classes. Four schools even held classes without power.
Although it's close to Christmas, meteorologists with NWS said it's not unusual to see suddenly violent weather at this time of the year.
Officials started setting up Wednesday night for the possibility of severe weather. Sirens were first sounded in Mobile around 4 a.m., after an initial tornado warning was issued by NWS.
A warning for Baldwin County was issued around 5:45 a.m.
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You like Tingle?!?!?! He was probably my most hated video game character aswell as the source of many nightmares after Majora's Mask. I mean, he's some creepy elf guy that sells maps! What is there to like in... it?
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Oh, but to answer your question, I hope not. Probably in the DS Zeldas because they are cell shaded and more suited to that sort of character. Although I have not played Phantom Hourglass either so I'm not sure.


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Abbott (ABT +3.4%) moves up after initial results from its "Aviator" Phase 2b study of its interferon-free, investigational regimen for the treatment of hepatitis C indicated that 99% of the "treatment naive" HCV patients - those who had never been previously treated for the virus - showed a sustained virological response. Additionally, 93% of patients in the study who had previously been unsuccessfully treated for HCV also showed sustained virological response.
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As a farmer, you must build fences to separate different animals. As the game progresses, animals increase in number, variety, speed and ferocity.
Kids and adults fence in fun with Critter Round-Up
Review by MATT CUTHBERT
Maker: Konami, WiiWare. See other WiiWare titles at WiiWare World games.
Platforms: Wii.
Hits: The cute critters and simple concept will rope in kids, while parents can find enough challenge in completing the tasks to enjoy playing along. Both the single-player and two-player co-op modes are tough enough to elicit cheers when you finally pen in each of the animals.
Misses: Even though this is technically a puzzle game, a lot of your achievements feel more like task completion than problem solving. It would be nice if there were a way to, for instance, lure a goat away from a group of pigs, but really you're just waiting for the animals to move. Since any of the animals will "kill" you if they touch you, it's really easy to lose a life as you impatiently try to squeeze between two animals.
In two-player mode, when the players move too far from each other, the picture zooms out, making the critters difficult to distinguish.
Most of the two-player mini-games (with the exception of the Tron-like "Fence Trap") are lame -- they won't keep you entertained for more than 5 minutes.
Content Rating: Everyone.
Recommendation: Despite its frustrations, Critter Round-Up still presents an entertaining challenge. While it won't be a hit as a party game, it's a good way to play together as a family.
Grade: B-
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Since 1997 the Deep Impact mission has been engaged in an international program to determine the physical parameters of the nucleus of 9P/Tempel 1 (Meech et al. 2000). So far the size and albedo (Fernandez et al., 2003; mean radius = 2.6±-0.2 km, R-band geometric albedo = 0.072±0.016) and the mean colors (Meech et al., in preparation; B-V =0.744±0.012, V-R=0.475±0.004, R-I = 0.473±0.005) have been determined. The program involves nine observatories and has produced data between 1997-2002. This data set has been fully reduced and collected into a computerized database and studies of the nucleus phase function and dust production are underway. We report progress in understanding the spin of the nucleus. The R-band light curve covers both active (r <4 AU with coma) and inactive phases (beyond 4 AU) and yields 557 data points suitable for rotation analysis. Data taken when the comet was between 4.1--4.8AU yields HR(1,1,0)=14.62±0.02 which, with the mean radius gives pR=0.064±0.016. The data suggest a peak-to-valley amplitude of ~1 mag that indicates a minimum nucleus axial ratio of 2.5. Two periodicities emerge from analysis of the data beyond 4 AU: 1.148 and 2.149 inverse days. One of these is clearly an alias of the true frequency with diurnal sampling. We are working to distinguish the true periodicity by model fitting of the details of the lightcurve. In addition the amplitude of the light curve is observed to change by a factor of ~2 in the data beyond 4 AU. Through modeling we expect to put constraints on the pole direction.
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infant custody input...
Although I dont doubt he will be a great dad not to comfortably with him having her overnight until she is older. He has no job and sleeps on his brothers couch. He helps watch his brothers kids who are 5 and 7 and he is great with them. But caring for an infant is alot different.
My fiance and I have agreed that he will be welcome in our home anytime to visit and be with her. Thinking about even allowing him to stay one night a week. I am planning on breastfeeding and dont want him to take her anywhere without me. He has no drivers license anyway. ...anyway just need some input on what is fair.
Thanks ladies :)
What does he say about visitation?
I nursed my younger two and I have to tell you, they were not near ready for overnights away from me until they were at least three. If you're breastfeeding and baby won't take a bottle, they'll both have a miserable time if he pushes for longer visits or ovvernights.
Custody issues can be tricky. You need to go to court and draw up who has legal, medical, and financial rights for the baby. Without something stating you have custody your ex can take the baby/
Why are you pointing out so many negitive things about your ex??
There is no reason you cant pump enough milk for him to have for over night visits.
If he can handle watching the other two kids, an infant will be a breeze.
Give him a chance.
Please don't take witnessing the birth of his child away from him because you are not together its unfair. I see were you are coming from on the over night visit. I think if the fiancée and baby daddy can get along for him to spend 1 night week why not at least in the begining and then as baby gets older make it one night a week overnight with daddy. Is this your first? Trust me with breast feeding you will be wishing for one night week of 8 hrs asleep.
Quoting lil_momma_vdv: He really hasn't said much about it...be was more stuck on the fact I didn't want him in the delivery room. However my fiance said that was kinda rude of me. However he has already mentioned that I dont allow him to do anything for her because I am with someone else. My fiance has bought everything for her because BD has no job.


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The past year was a successful one for Amherst with the wrapping up of several strategic priorities and the completion of the $12-million sewage treatment plant.
AMHERST – This past year will go down as one of transition for Amherst as it wrapped up a number of projects in and around the downtown and began laying groundwork for the town's priorities for the next four years.
"I think it was a very successful year for the town. From a financial perspective we're in very good shape. We didn't add any debt to the town and in terms of upgrades we continued with a number of streets and sidewalks," Mayor Robert Small said in a year-end interview with the Amherst Daily News.
The mayor said one of the highlights of 2012 was the opening of the $12-million wastewater treatment plant on the marsh near Amherst. That project is viewed as a model of green technology and has removed the last of the sewage from entering the Bay of Fundy.
Small said 2012 also saw a number of upgrades to the downtown continue while the town moved its offices from the Confederation Memorial Building to the Dominion Public Building on Victoria Street.
More work was completed on Dickey Park with the addition of barbecue pits to make it more family friendly.
"This past year was a bit of a wrap up of the four years of work we have been doing across the town," Small said.
Another positive for the town, he said, was the creation of the downtown business advisory committee that replaced the Downtown Amherst Revitalization Society. He credited the committee for promoting the business community and coming up with new ways of encouraging traffic in the downtown.
The past year also saw an election that saw Small and four incumbents returned to office including George Baker, Robert Bird, Dave March and Terry Rhindress. Lisa Emery became the first female town councillor in more than a decade and former high school principal Frank Balcom was also elected.
Looking ahead, the mayor said the town is working on its next set of strategic priorities. He said developing a plan to get people off the Trans-Canada Highway and a tax review will likely be top priorities.
"The message from the election and from people we have talked to is that we've done the bricks and mortar thing to make everything pretty. Now we have to bring the people into Amherst," he said. "The regional marketing strategy will help bring people into towns and villages across the county."
Small said council heard from business and the electorate about taxes and the town will look at ways to ease the tax burden in the coming year, probably starting with the deed transfer tax as part of an overall review of the municipal tax system.
"Let's find out where we fit so we can attack it, but we also have to understand that if you cut revenue you also have to cut expenditures," the mayor said. "We have to know what cutbacks could be coming from the province, but it's a process we're going to get through in the early part of 2013."
The town, he said, also plans to move forward with making a decision on a new permanent home for the police department that was displaced by last August's fire. The department is presently located on the top floor of the library and the mayor is advocating the former town hall building as a permanent facility, although a consultant hired by the town said it's not the best option.
While the mayor has had a running battle with Premier Darrell Dexter over the loss of government jobs, Small said he expects to continue pressuring government to replace the jobs it has taken out of town.
"We've raised the alarm with the province each and every time they've announced jobs are leaving. We'd like to see in 2013 what jobs are coming to Cumberland County and Amherst," Small said.
Besides the loss of government jobs, Small said the industrial park is healthy and he's expecting some good news announcements on the job front.


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Last night's episode was bizarre. Ari's little "I TOLD MY WIFE I WAS STAYING IN BUT I'M NOT OMIGOD SHE'S ON HER WAY HOME AND IS GONNA FIND ME OUT" storyline was like something out of a bad movie. Tom convincing Lloyd to have a party there while he was gone made it even more-so. But, hey, at least we got to learn what gay people do at parties play Wheel of Fortune and skinny dip.
The fish-out-of-water plot didn't really do anything for the main story, but it was worth a few laughs. It takes place in the desert, where the crew (including Ari and ER) have decided to visit the Joshua Tree, hoping they'll get a sign as to whether or not Vince should do Benji; all while high on mushrooms.
Entourage typically does drug-humor really well. Most shows/movies like to do POV "Guy On Drugs" where he thinks he's flying and sees everyone with 3 heads. It's overdone and exaggerated. But the good people at HBO bring us an accurate depiction of what high people actually do sit around mumbling about stupid shit while trying to sound deep. Vince, Turtle, and Drama pretty much just babble back and forth the whole time about what possible "signs" they saw while E who was too high to talk made note of it.
Corny as it was, I couldn't help but laugh at Ari's predicament. He spent the better part of the episode lost and alone after venturing out for better cell phone reception. He has to call Lloyd to help navigate and calm his nerves, since he's tripping balls at this point. Meanwhile we've got a wacky storyline where he's trying to keep his wife away from home, where Lloyd is hosting Gayapalooza. And guess what? He gets caught!
Eventually Ari finds the rest of the guys while they're yelling for Turtle's runaway dog. Vince decides that finding Ari/Arnold is a sign that he should do Benji, but changes his mind after seeing his own face on a firefighter on the way home. Sounds weird? It was.
Some pretty awesome quotes from Ari:
- "I will seal up your asshole with cement." To Lloyd
- "I HATE magic and I HATE magicians." Possibly the least fun sentence ever uttered
And, of course, Drama:
- "I thought I pulled my cock off!"
Other highlights:
- Drama making E a peanut butter and shroom sandwich
- Lloyd speaking as Confucius to appease a belligerent Ari
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Solvay, NY – Mike Tanzella didn't look at the weather forecast when he penciled himself in to work a double shift on Thursday, July 21, 2011.
Tanzella, the owner of Pasta's Pizzeria & Deli in Solvay, didn't know he'd be spending one of the hottest days in Syracuse history working 13 hours, much of it in the pizzeria's oven-hot kitchen.
But as beads of perspiration dotted his brow, Tanzella said he wasn't sweating over the schedule.
"It's not a big deal. It's part of owning a business," Tanzella said.
With windows open for cross ventilation, four box fans and three overhead ones moving air, a tub of ice water to sip and melon to suck on, Tanzella said he was ready to battle the heat promised by the National Weather Service.
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The weather service projected it could hit 101 degrees at Syracuse Hancock International Airport.
The weather did everything to oblige. It already was 93 at the airport at 11 a.m. while Tanzella chatted with a reporter and prepared for the lunchtime crowd. By 2 p.m., it was 100.
The pizzeria wasn't open on Aug. 14, 2002, the last time the temperature hit the century mark in Syracuse with a reading of 101. But Tanzella figured that with his two pizza ovens set between 450 and 500 degrees, it probably would reach 115 to 120 degrees near them.
And he figured on being near them more than usual.
"It's too hot for people to cook," Tanzella said. "People don't even want to go outside to cook on the grill. Your deliveries will go up, too, because people don't want to get out of the house to get in their car to drive down to pick it up."
If it got too hot in the kitchen, he said, he could always make an extra trip or two into the walk-in cooler.
"The only problem with that is you don't want to get used to it, " Tanzella said. "Then, you come back out into the sweltering heat and it can sometimes make it worse."


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Neb. lawmakers hear debate on banning shark fin productsUPDATED 10:22 PM CST Jan 31, 2014
A group of local students working to ban shark fin products in Nebraska had their case heard by lawmakers Friday.Video Transcript
NEBRASKS IS LAND-LOCKED.. BUT THERE'S A NEW PUSH TO CHANGE THE LAW HERE.. ALL TO HELP A SPECIFIC TYPE OF áSEA CREATURE. A GROUP OF LOCAL STUDENTS WPRKING TO BAN SHARK FIN PRODUCTS IN THE STATE.. NEW TONIGHT.. K-E-T-V NEWSWATCH 7'S MOLLY MILES HAS THEIR MESSAGE FOR LAWMAKERS. RIGHT IN MIDDLE AMERICA.. --NATS OF TESTIMONY-- YOU WOULDN'T THINK SHARKS WOULD BE UP FOR DISCUSSION AT THE NEBRASKA STATE CAPITOL.(Bailey kuska/zoo academy) It is estimated that 70 to 100million sharks are killed every yearBUT FRIDAY LAWMAKERS LISTENED TO TESTIMONY ALL ABOUT THOSE ANIMALS WITH GILLS....METRO STUDENTS PUSHING A áBILL THAT WOULD BAN SHARK FIN PRODUCTS HERE.(Brett Homee/Zoo Academy) By the time I finish this sentence more sharks will have been killed than will kill humans in an entire year.LB 921...CHAMPIONED STUDENTS FROM THE ZOO ACADEMY.(homee) It's something important and it needs to be shown it needs to be toldTHEY SAY FISHERMAN PULL UP LIVE SHARKS ONTO BOATS, CUT OFF THEIR FINS AND THROW THEM BACK IN THE WATER.(kuska) When fisherman do this, they only take 5% of the shark and leave the other 95%BUT WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH NEBRASKA? WELL THESE STUDENTS SAY THEY HAVE FOUND SHARK FIN PRODUCTS ON STORE SHELVES IN OMAHA. (homee) Shark fins have very little nutritional value and almost no taste.SUPPORTERS OF THE BILL SAY EATING SHARK FIN IS MERELY A STATUS SYMBOL IN SOME CULTURES AND A PRACTICE THAT IS RUINING THE ECOLOGICAL BALANCE OF OUR OCEANS.(nicki behmer/sen. Nordquist staffer) By prohibiting these products our state is sending the message that we don't want to engage in any way in such cruel practices that indefinitely harm an ecosystem that benefits us allIN TOTAL, 13 PEOPLE, YOUNG AND OLD SPOKE IN FAVOR OF THE MEASURE.(Trent Hollist/ BILL SUPPORTER) More people die from by vending machines than they do by sharks.IN HOPES OF SHOWING LAWMAKERS THAT EVEN IN NEBRASKA, THEY CAN, AND SHOULD, PLAY A ROLE IN SAVING SHARKS.(legislatuor nats) I think it is going to be relatively hard for us to ignore this issue..IN LINCOLN, MM, KETV NEWSWATCH 7. IF THE BILL PASSES --- IT WOULD MAKE IT A MISDEMEANOR TO POSSESS, SELL, TRADE, OR DISTRIBUTE --- SHARK FINS --- áOR PRODUCTS CONTAINING SHARK FIN IN NEBRASKA.
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FOXBOROUGH -- The New England Patriots have listed wide receivers Aaron Dobson and Kenbrell Thompkins and punter Ryan Allen as questionable for Sunday's AFC title game against the Denver Broncos.
Linebacker Steve Beauharnais has been ruled out due to illness. He was not expected to have a major role in the game even if healthy.
Dobson (foot) said Friday that he is feeling better but was still unsure if he was going to play. Thompkins (concussion) and Allen (shoulder) appear to be in the same boat.
LB Steve Beaharnais (illness)
P Ryan Allen (shoulder)
WR Aaron Dobson (foot)
WR Kenbrell Thompkins (hip/concussion)
WR Danny Amendola (groin)
CB Alfonzo Dennard (knee/shoulder)
LB Dane Fletcher (groin)
LB Dont'a Hightower (ankle)
G Logan Mankins (aknle)
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Casilla to the DL (Game 105 vs. Texas)
ARLINGTON — The Twins received a blow to their middle infield today, as second baseman Alexi Casilla was diagnosed with a Grade 1 hamstring strain, and is expected to be out for two to three weeks, according to head trainer Rick McWane.
Casilla, who injured himself while legging out a double in the ninth inning of Wednesday's 7-2 win against the Rangers, is scheduled to be placed on the disabled list after tonight's game. Infielder Luke Hughes is expected to be recalled in his place.
Additionally, to bolster their middle infield depth, the Twins recalled second baseman Matt Tolbert from Triple-A Rochester, and optioned left-hander Chuck James to Rochester to give the Twins 12 pitchers on their active roster.
"He's our second-hole hitter and was swinging great and playing great defense," Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said of Casilla. "He's doing all the things you'd like to see, and his head has been in the game. And then all of a sudden this happens. Our depth in the middle infield isn't the greatest, so you can't afford too many injuries like that. Some people will have to step up."
Casilla, who was hitting .259/.322/.369 with 15 stolen bases and a team-high 21 doubles in 96 games this season, said he's hopeful that he can return to action as soon as he's eligible to be activated from the disabled list on Aug. 12.
"It's pretty much the same as yesterday," Casilla said. "I kind of pulled it a little bit, so I'm going on the DL and going back to Minnesota to take care of it over there. I don't think I'll need a [rehab] assignment. I'll be ready in 15 days. … I hope they don't send me on an assignment. I'll say no because it's too much time."
In the meantime, the Twins will have to rely on a combination of Tolbert, Hughes and Trevor Plouffe at second base with Casilla out of action.
Tolbert, who hit .181 in 55 games with the Twins before being optioned on July 18, started at second base against the Rangers on Thursday.
And shortstop Tsuyoshi Nishioka is expected to bat second in Casilla's absence, as Gardenhire said he's hopeful he can handle the bat the way Casilla did in the two-hole.
"I'm hoping Nishi handles it very well," Gardenhire said. "When we signed him, we were hoping he'd be at the top of the lineup. So maybe this will get his confidence going a little bit."
Twins trying to keep things loose (Game 61 vs. Indians)
CLEVELAND — Having won five of their last six games, the Twins are trying their best to keep things loose.
The relievers are certainly doing their part, as they've been coming up with interesting ways to make their way to the bullpen before the game.
Before Monday's game, they were a bobsled team, and before Tuesday's game they were a canoe before closer Matt Capps joined and became a motor to power the boat. Catcher Drew Butera has been the creative mind behind it all, but left-hander Chuck James has been called the ring leader among the relievers.
"It gives everyone something to look forward to," James said. "It kind of eases the weight a little bit out there and lets everyone relax a little bit. We've been winning and it's been working so I guess we'll keep sticking with it now."
He also added the Twins will debut a new creation before Thursday's game at Target Field against the Rangers, so that should be "entertainment" as Ron Gardenhire has been calling it. SportsCenter is also going to do a piece on it, but here's a link to see their bobsled antics from Monday in case you missed it:
Click here to watch the video.
Lineups for the 11:05 CT start at Progressive Field
Twins (22-38)
1. Ben Revere, CF
2. Alexi Casilla, SS
3. Michael Cuddyer, RF
4. Justin Morneau, DH
5. Delmon Young, LF
6. Danny Valencia, 3B
7. Luke Hughes, 1B
8. Matt Tolbert, 2B
9. Drew Butera, C
RHP Carl Pavano (3-5, 4.83 ERA, 3.89 FIP, 1.76 K/BB)
Indians (34-25)
1. Michael Brantley, LF
2. Asdrubal Cabrera, SS
3. Grady Sizemore, CF
4. Carlos Santana, RF
5. Shin-Soo Choo, RF
6. Matt LaPorta, DH
7. Cord Phelps, 2B
8. Jack Hannahan, 3B
9. Lou Marson, C
RHP Justin Masterson (5-4, 3.28 ERA, 3.21 FIP, 2.15 K/BB)


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BOSTON – Boston Celtics head coach Brad Stevens is very interested in seeing how Rajon Rondo and Avery Bradley coexist over the remainder of the regular season.
"Huge, huge priority for me," Stevens said Sunday after beating Orlando 96-89. "Those guys play – they seem to be, on paper, really good fits. But it's better to see them in person."
Why hasn't Stevens seen the duo in action often? Prior to Sunday's win against Orlando, Rondo and Bradley had played together for just 14 games and 293 minutes over the past two seasons. Whenever one was healthy, the other was injured. If they seemed cursed, well, yeah. It was frustrating for them, too.
"It's very frustrating," Bradley said. "Not only for me but for him as well, because we love playing with each other. We just love it because we complement each other so well. But now we get a chance to be on the court together, and to build with this team. We're just excited about it."
It makes sense that Stevens is focused on the Bradley-Rondo duo. They looked great together during the 2011-12 season; Bradley's insertion into the starting lineup energized a rush up the standings, and both guards played great. That season was Bradley's most efficient, and the first season during which Rondo led the NBA in assists.
Furthermore, decisions are looming. With Bradley set to become an unrestricted free agent following the season, the Celtics have about three more months to determine how much they're willing to pay him. They will have the opportunity to match any offer he receives, but they also need to judge his worth before committing long-term. It can be very difficult to determine the value of a player ending his rookie contract, just because players at that age are still so young and developing.
In Bradley's case, it's even more difficult. He's always been a great defender, but he still takes too many midrange shots, can't finish near the rim, can't do much on offense besides score, and has only scored at a league-average efficiency level one year (in 2011-12). He's clearly growing and becoming more confident with the basketball, but he might only be worth a big contract (one report said he might want $8 million per season) if he can take his game to another level, like he did alongside Rondo and so many other talented teammates two years ago.
Obviously, evaluating the duo over the season's final 33 games won't be a perfect science. Rondo, despite his big game Sunday, is still working his way back into elite shape, and Bradley thinks the duo's chemistry won't come back instantly.
Rondo believes otherwise.
"Our chemistry is fine. He hasn't forgotten how I play, and I haven't forgotten how he plays. So it's the same," Rondo said. "We just know how to play the game. He knows the game of basketball, he knows when to make cuts. He's just a smart player, and I think I'm (smart) too."
Added Stevens, "Their strengths fit each other well at both ends of the floor. Hopefully that will continue to be accentuated as we get further along."


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CAMDEN - A pound of marijuana, other illegal narcotics and five weapons were seized and four people arrested during a search of a Carmen Street residence ,Police Chief John Scott Thomson said Thursday.
City police, along with agents from the U.S. Marshal's Service, made an attempt about 8:30 p.m. Wednesday to execute an outstanding fugitive warrant for Hiram Rivera, 26, at his residence. A consent warrant was signed by one occupant in Rivera's residence, police said.
In addition to the marijuana, police discovered 480 Ecstasy pills, 69 bags of crack cocaine, a half ounce of rock cocaine, four handguns, a shotgun and 27 rounds of ammunition.
Rivera and three other occupants of the Carmen Street address - Alexander Lopez, 35, Bianca Nieves, 20, and Kathy Garcia, 19, each were charged with possession of a controlled dangerous substance, possession of a controlled substance with the intent to distribute, possession of a controlled substance within 1,000 feet of a school, possession of a controlled substance within 500 feet of a public park, unlawful possession of a weapon, possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, possession of a handgun while committing a drug offense and possession of a prohibited device. Rivera and Lopez also were charged with possession of a weapon by a person not lawfully entitled to possess a weapon.
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PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — It was the summer of 1994 and a 21-year-old LaTroy Hawkins was in Birmingham as a member of the Double-A Nashville Xpress. They were in town to play the Barons and their famous rookie. Hawkins, scheduled to start later in the day, was jogging along the side of the stadium when a Porsche sped by him.
"He was bumping 'Sweet Sadie' by R. Kelly," Hawkins, now 40, recalled in the Mets clubhouse on Sunday. "I was thinking, 'Dang, it got to be Jordan. I know ain't nobody else driving a Porsche.'"
The scenario repeated itself the next morning so Hawkins turned around and went to the parking lot to greet Michael Jordan, his childhood idol. Hawkins asked the former Chicago Bulls star for his autograph. Jordan said no.
"I was like, 'That's all right, my mom wanted it,'" said Hawkins, who grew up idolizing Jordan 30 miles southeast of Chicago in Gary, Ind. "Then he said, 'Nah, I'm just joking, I'm just joking.' He ended up being cool as [crap]. I mean, really cool."
Arguably considered the greatest basketball of all time, Jordan, who turned 50 on Sunday, shocked the world when he retired from basketball at the peak of his stardom after three consecutive championships. He added more intrigue when he decided to pursue a career in baseball after not having played since high school. His foray into the sport didn't last long – and neither did his retirement.
That summer was Jordan's lone professional baseball season. An outfielder, he posted a .202/.289/.266 slash line in 127 games as a 31-year-old rookie for the White Sox's Double-A affiliate. His on-base plus slugging percentage (.556) was paltry. He hit three home runs and stole 30 bases in 48 attempts.
Hawkins spent just two months with the Xpress, but estimates his team faced the Barons 15 times during his stint. Each time the stands were at full capacity, an electricity circulating through the stadium unlike any other at the Double-A level.
"He made the Nashville franchise that year a lot of money," Hawkins said with a smile. "I know that much."
Hawkins made 11 starts and posted a 2.33 ERA in his brief time with Nashville. He recalled striking Jordan out twice. He also allowed a single, but then picked Jordan off at first.
"I told him, 'My mother told me to let you get a hit,'" said Hawkins, likely the only active pitcher remaining to have faced Jordan. "And he was like, 'Tell your momma I love her.'"
Hawkins said he and Jordan would often chat before games, and believes if Jordan had stuck with it, a solid professional baseball career was possible.
"He was just that good of an athlete," Hawkins said. "Just watching him over as many games as I did against him, I saw him get better. He started in Double-A. That's tough. He probably would've dominated rookie ball and A-ball. In high-A ball he would've been pretty damn good. But he started in Double-A and it wasn't an easy place to start."
Hawkins grew up fanatically following Jordan. Since jerseys with the number 23 were often too small for him, he flipped the digits and wore 32 growing up, both in basketball and baseball. In 2008, Hawkins was in New York to undergo a physical after signing with the Yankees when he ran into Jordan.
"I said to him, 'Michael, you don' t remember me,'" Hawkins said. "'And he said, 'I remember you. I still watch baseball, man. You're LaTroy Hawkins. I'm a Yankee fan.'
"It was cool. I'm a huge Jordan fan. He was the man."
Hawkins was barefoot. He had not yet put on his red and white pair of Jordan sneakers.
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At age 77, William Friedkin has ceased giving any semblance of a fuck. Killer Joe is maybe the most skin-crawlingly nasty picture to come from a major American director since David Lynch's Blue Velvet. Set against the burnt-out landscape of the American Southwest, in an unnamed town on the outskirts of Dallas, it indulges in the ugliest of white-trash stereotypes. If it were the product of a younger filmmaker, the cruelty and condescension would translate as desperately attention-seeking. But Friedkin has been pushing, prodding and provoking audiences for decades. Killer Joe has no underlying message to leaven and redeem the violence and perversion; it has only the visceral charge of a master shit-disturber going all-in appealing to his basest instincts. It's disgusting, but just try looking away. You can't.
- Showing at: Laurelhurst Theater, Academy Theater.
- Best paired with: PBR.
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NEWS: The Miami Dolphins and General Manager Jeff Ireland have mutually agreed to part ways.— Miami Dolphins
The Dolphins aren't calling it a firing, so read into "mutually agreed to part ways" any way you wish.
In 2008, Ireland's first as GM, the Dolphins won the AFC East despite having been 1-15 the year before. But they haven't made the playoffs since, and their chance to get there in 2013 went kaput when they lost to the Jets at home in the season finale.
Ireland is out just one day after the Dolphins fired offensive coordinator Mike Sherman.
One in-house name is already being floated as a possible replacement for Ireland: Assistant general manager Brian Gaine, who worked in the Jets' scouting department from 1999 to 2004, eventually rising to become the Jets' assistant director of pro scouting.


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Does Dating Multiple Men At One Time To "Find" The One Apply To Christian Women?
Me and some of the other single young women from my congregation often joke that being raised in the church made us socially awkward— especially when it comes to interacting with the opposite sex. Since we were 13 and introduced to concepts like abstinence, sexuality purity, and books like Every Young Woman's Battle, we've been drilled with teachings that we should pattern our romantic relationships after Mary and Joseph (minus the immaculate conception, of course) and in some extreme situations, Adam and Eve. Of course, Adam and Eve had it a lot easier considering that they were the only two humans on the planet.
Pursuit. Courtship. Marriage.
We're taught that good Christian women wait to be pursued by good Christian men. We're taught not to date for recreation, but with marriage in mind. Unfortunately, we're rarely offered a realistic glance at what this actually looks like. I've always been a relationship kind of girl, which is in part due to the way that I was raised. But I always found it interesting that while I was being taught about being a potential wife, my younger brother was being coached by our father about why he shouldn't put all of his eggs in one basket. As a result, dating became somewhat of a stressful process for me. It would start off normal, but I'd eventually find myself subconsciously wondering if the guy I was seeing was my God-sent husband or praying ridiculously (and in an embarrassing manner) hard for things to work out. Or, even worse, being taken advantage of by a noncommittal church boy with vague intentions. The pressures, disappointments and unrealistic expectations that come along with dating as a 20-something-year-old Christian woman in the millennial generation eventually led to emotional exhaustion and my decision to go on a sabbatical when it came to men.
I was in my final weeks of graduate school when it dawned on me— my approach to dating was completely wrong and I was pretty much setting myself up for failure. Fate would have it that within a three-week timespan, I met three handsome young men— all of whom I found interest in. As I lamented over which of three I'd cut off and which one would remain, a very simple question emerged: "Why?" Why would I limit myself and my chances of of meeting the right person by only dating one man at a time? What sense does it make to commit to a person during the pre-commitment phase? We're not advised to apply to one job at time. We're advised to explore our options in every other aspect of our lives. Why should dating be any different?
Carson Griffith of Cosmopolitan points out that dating more than one guy during the pre-commitment stages is an emotionally safe way to get to know a man without prematurely investing your heart, energy and time.
"[It's] about weighting your options instead of driving yourself nuts and obsessing over just one man. Not investing all your time, energy, and emotions into any single man, no matter how much he's convinced you he's Mr. Fabulous can have its benefits. You simply don't have time to fret about how much time he's fretting about you if you're simultaneously dating Mr. Semi-Fabulous and Mr. Just-Okay, too."
Just this once, I decided to bend "the rules." I decided that I would try something other than the rigid courtship structure being dictated by youth groups. I decided to slightly venture away from the "blueprint" being offered by Christian relationship experts. I decided that with God's guidance, I'd establish my own personal truths. I chose to give all three guys an opportunity to get to know me in a non-sexual way. I allowed myself to get to know them in a pressure-free, emotionally-safe way. And can I be honest? I'm having a blast. The pressure is off. I'm enjoying getting to know people. I'm fun. I'm relaxed. I'm not sabotaging myself by prematurely setting expectations or becoming emotionally attached to any one guy.
I don't have any grand success stories to give you as of yet, but what I can say is that I'm successfully getting to know a few really great guys. My emotions aren't scrambled. My judgement isn't fogged or clouded with intense feelings, and I can make sound decisions with a clear head. I'll hold on to my recommendations until I've explored this all a little bit more, but from the looks of it, date three (or more) to "find" the one may prove to be a success.
What do you think? Should Christian women consider seeing more than one man at a time before choosing to make a commitment?
Follow Jazmine on Twitter @jazminedenise.
Tags:courtship, dating, love, relationships, single women, successful dating
The Dos And Don'ts Of Dating Someone Who's Insecure
No matter if it's damage from a past relationship or past failures, it's not uncommon for someone's self-confidence to take a hit after a negative experience. Most people recover, but there are some men and women who carry those setbacks with them and in term end up lacking just a bit in the self-esteem department. If you're dating someone who is insecure, you know just how challenging the relationship can be, but, don't give up just yet! Here are 14 dos and don'ts to keep in mind while dating this type of person.
Breathe, Stretch, Date: How To Manage The Stress Of Dating
When you're looking for Mr. Right and seemingly juggling several different men, it can be stressful, to say the least. To add even more stress into the equation, dating typically also involves break-ups, bad first dates, and awkward dating moments. While dating is bound to add a little bit of stress into your life, it doesn't have to be overly troublesome. Here are some ways to manage the stress of dating.
Don't bite off more than you can chew
If you already have a busy schedule, don't try to have three dates during one week. Be sure that you plan each of your dates and meetings with men carefully. With an already jam-packed schedule combined with the stress of ensuring you're on time for each date, you're bound to go a little bit crazy! Pick and choose your dates and schedule them accordingly. If you're really feeling a certain guy, make sure to set up a date with him before anyone else.
One Of The Boys Or THE Boy? How To Decide If He's Really Boyfriend Material
While we all have girlfriends, it's always nice to have a few guy friends in the loop who you can talk to and chill with. In many cases when you have guy friends, it's likely that you're bound to experience some sort of chemistry — it just happens! If you're on the fence and completely unsure as to whether this guy is best as a friend or if he'd make a good boyfriend, here are some tips and advice to keep in mind. Don't let the indecision ruin your relationship!
If You're Going To Take The Chance, Do It Right: 15 Tips For Successful Dating In The Workplace
A lot of people frown upon dating in the workplace as it can easily get in the way of things and cause a lot of problems if the relationship goes sour. However, we can't always stop liking or loving the people we're meant to be with. If you want to date someone in your workplace, here are 15 tips to keep in mind and pull it off as easily as possible.
Don't let your relationship interfere with your work
When dating in the workplace, your job has to come first. You don't want your boss or his boss noticing that your relationship is causing you to work at an unsatisfactory level. Make sure you continue to meet all of your deadlines and put your best effort forward.
Don't Be Scared, We Promise He Won't Bite: Dating Tips For The Shy Gals
If you're quiet, reserved, and shy, you know how hard it can be to make it successfully in the dating world. Though there is nothing wrong with being shy, it definitely makes finding a guy and keeping his interest harder than usual. Here are 14 tips for shy females who want to take the dating world by storm.
You Gotta Keep It Movin': 15 Ways to Recover From A Failed Relationship
We all experience failed relationships until we find that one special person, and while some of us only have to deal with the hardship of a breakup a few times, others have it much harder. If you've had bad relationship after bad relationship, or if a recent breakup has just been awful, here are 15 tips to help you recover and keep a positive outlook towards dating.
Give yourself time.
When a relationship ends, it's likely that you'll be sad, angry, upset, and confused. Always give yourself time to grieve and to adjust.