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The Rangers are rolling through their August slate, blitzing through a stretch of baseball that has vaulted them into the top spot in the American League West.
Texas began the month facing a four-game deficit in the standings. A 19-6 record during August -- best among AL teams -- has the Rangers on the inside track to the AL West crown.
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"Last year, we were more comfortable," said third baseman Adrian Beltre. "This year, we are more hungry."
To notch their 20th win this month, Texas will be tasked with topping the Twins, a team that has impressed Rangers skipper Ron Washington.
"As the year has progressed, they're getting better," Washington said. "All those young kids are starting to perform better and starting to compete. Minnesota Twins teams usually compete well. They're so young. They have a couple of veterans, but for the most part they are a young team. But they will give you a tough time."
In Friday's series opener, Minnesota will send Australia native Liam Hendriks to the hill. The 24-year-old has logged an 0-2 record and 6.20 ERA in four starts for the Twins this season. He surrendered seven runs on seven hits in 4 1/3 innings in a 7-2 loss to the Indians on Saturday.
"I got ahead of guys. The secondary pitches, they just weren't working," Hendriks said. "I couldn't throw a strike when I needed to. They took advantage of some bad pitches and hit them in the right spots as well."
He has just one career win in 24 starts.
"It's irritating, but I don't let it affect me," Hendriks said. "I'm happy to have at least one. Now it's just trying to string a couple together and move on and then move forward and it's further back in my mind. I want a couple more [wins]. Outings like [Saturday] aren't going to help."
Yu Darvish (12-5, 2.68 ERA) will toe the rubber for Texas. The Japanese right-hander has compiled a 3-0 mark and 2.23 ERA in five August outings.
"At this point of the year, it's about the game at hand," Washington said. "It's day to day down the stretch. I know we're playing well. To be in the hunt you need to play well."
Twins: Willingham put on waivers
Minnesota placed outfielder Josh Willingham on revocable waivers earlier in the week, and the Orioles were awarded the claim. The two teams can work out a deal or the Twins can pull him back off waivers.
"I don't think every player who has been through [waivers] has been tweeted, but that's just the way it is now," Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said the news coming out. "People find out. I'd imagine most of our players have been through waivers. You read about names like that, and I don't know how they get out there, but they do."
The Orioles, in need of a right-handed power hitter, also were awarded a claim on Seattle's Michael Morse.
Rangers: Darvish dominating
Darvish has posted a 4-1 record and 1.85 ERA over his last seven starts. During that span, opposing batters are hitting .186 off of the right-hander. Darvish has racked up 68 strikeouts in the seven outings, including four starts with 11 or more.
Whether he has established himself as a legitimate ace of a pitching staff remains up for debate. Darvish said he does not believe in such a role.
"I know what kind of pitcher I want to be ultimately," Darvish said. "I'm trying to get close to my expectations. I'm not trying to meet other expectations. I know what kind of pitcher I want to be."
Worth noting
• Rangers shortstop Elvis Andrus has at least one hit in 32 of his last 38 games. Over that stretch, he has raised his batting average from .242 to .264.
• Twins right fielder Wilkin Ramirez left Thursday's game against the Royals in the fifth inning after fouling a pitch off his left leg. The team announced the injury as a shin contusion. • Twins starter Samuel Deduno left with a right shoulder strain.
Zack Meisel is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @zackmeisel. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.

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#3 is Pet Sematary. Most of the others look familiar, but they're just not coming to me.
I had a thought (yes, sometimes I have those!) is 2 Something Wicked This Way Comes? You know, remember remember the 5th of November or something?
#5 cujo #7 Near Dark #9 Phantasm....The others I know have already been said.
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2 - Day of the Dead
3 - Pet Semetary
4 - My Bloody Valentine
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6 - The Exorcist
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And numbers 9 and 10 shall continue to bug me. I think every time you do one of these there are always 2 I don't get, always.
Silly me, of course 4 is The Fog. Those red eyes! It just hit me while I was puzzling 9 and 10.
Still stuck on 9 and 10 though...
I suck... Only one I can recognize is #4, The Fog.
More silliness on my part! Number 6 is of course Exorcist 3! As a fan of the original, hell as a fan of horror, I should remember how Exorcist ends, with a shot of the steps. And that date, 1975, is obviously not right for a film made in 1973. A film made in 1990 set 15 years after the original however...
*L* I think I got the two Everyone else got.
6-Exorsist 3
I would also like to point out that Nik Holmes is a freakin' Encyclopedia and I envy his brain.
Everyone has already said the ones I knew...9 and 10 = too hard!!!!
All have been answered correctly except #10! Here are all the correct answers so far....
1. The Blob
2. Day of the Dead
3. Pet Sematary
4. The Fog
5. Cujo
6. Exorcist 3
7. Near Dark
8. April Fools Day
9. Phantasm (major props for that, Johnny W.)
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quote: You can't compare teams 1/1 like you are doing with the Hornets and the Heat. First of all the personnel doesn't match up, and even if it did, it doesn't mean we can/will duplicate the exact same results. That's just not how it works. You are also assuming that every player on our roster will reach their potential (and then some) in addition to staying healthy. While it is possible, the chances of that happening are 0.00000000000000001%. Just because Gordon has been playing great these 3 weeks, doesn't mean he will miraculously be playing 82 game seasons for the rest of his contract. Comparing Anthony Davis to Lebron is just not fair. Lebron is top 5 in both offense and defense while Davis is maybe top 15 defensively and (at this stage) bottom-tier, offensively. He can not take over a game offensively. Also, our bench – outside of Anderson – is putrid. Although last night's win was nice, until proven otherwise it was an aberration and with the way the roster is right now, we are one Eric Gordon pop to the knee away from being the team that we were for the first couple of months of the season. This is not to say we are not on the right track, because we definitely are. We have a young core of guys that build the foundation for the future. Of the players we have on the roster right now, Gordon/Davis/Anderson/Vasquez/Lopez are players that can definitely have a solid role going forward. The jury is still out on Rivers and only because this is his first year. If he can improve and be a competent off-the-bench combo guard, it improves our stability that much more. As for the amount of money we will have to spend this offseason, we have to utilize it. There is no point in letting that stay open when there are players out there that we can fit into our system, whether that is as a starter or a key cog for our second unit. This post was edited on 1/17 at 11:03 pm Reply Back to Top |
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Posted by RonBurgundy on 1/18 at 1:29 am to aswemajor quote: best players ever? on the Hornets? let's pump the brakes. Also the rest of this is asinine. Gordon will be fortunate to make 2 All-Star teams. Anderson won't make one in the west. I'd put my house and car on that. Reply Back to Top |
Posted by drake20 on 1/18 at 1:51 am to RonBurgundy quote: damn. it may not be probable, but those things could happen Reply Back to Top |
Posted by RonBurgundy on 1/18 at 2:11 am to drake20 quote: Not saying they couldn't, but the label "annual" and "bordeline" are extreme scenarios here. The Hornets/Pelicans will be lucky to have two and Davis will take any spot in the frontcourt that Anderson would be considered for. Gordon has a slightly easier road at the moment but after Kobe, there are 3 guards ahead of Gordon- Paul, Westbrook and Harden. Tony Parker is in there as well for at least 2 more years. I'd be willing to bet Gordon is more likely to make an All-NBA team (accounting for an entire year-especially if the Hornets make a playoff run next year) before he makes 2 All-Star games. * I will concede with the game back in NOLA that he MIGHT get some reserve love that year. This post was edited on 1/18 at 2:12 am Reply Back to Top |
Posted by Jester on 1/18 at 6:06 am to RonBurgundy Dwight Howard is an all-star starter this year. All-Star games playes is not a great indicator. I'm surprises Yao Ming wasn't voted in again.Reply Back to Top |
Posted by Hazelnut on 1/18 at 8:09 am to LosLobos111 quote: The problem is, I dont know if we'll have all these people on the team by the time we start consistently making the playoffs. Will we be able to hold onto Smith? I doubt it. Reply Back to Top |
If Rivers/Anderson are gone by the time this team makes the playoffs, then something really awesome or something really terrible happened. Roberts isnt going to get any offers the team cant match if they have no better option. Smith is going to be the Hornets Nick Collison. Solid, dependable backup big who could make more on the open market but will stick around. Monty loves him. Smith seems to love Monty. And there would be too many inconsolable women in the city, state, and region if he left. Reply Back to Top |
quote: If both are gone, yeah, but Rivers may very well be irrelevant. From the start, I've kind of looked at the 10 pick as lagniappe. If Rivers booms, awesome. If he doesn't pan out, no worries. Reply Back to Top |
Yea my post was mainly directed at smith and not Rivers/Anderson. I hope he stays with us. But you rarely find a guy who loves a coach/team so much that he's willing to take a pay cut while he is still young. Reply Back to Top |
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quote: Me too. If he does get a big offer and leaves, I do like Monty/Dell's track record at finding and developing unproven big men. quote: Agree completely that Rivers may not even matter and that it isnt a backbreaker if he busts. More that Monty wont give up on him until he absolutely has to. Playoffs are a good bet next season and a must in 2014/2015. I dont see Rivers leaving between now and then Reply Back to Top |
quote: I hope so. quote: I definitely agree, unless some unusual trade pops up. I don't see Monty letting him wash out before then. I think you need to give most youngsters until about 22 until you really know what you have. That's what makes me worry about Aminu. It seems like one of his biggest flaws is consistency of effort. That should improve with age and he's about to turn 22. I know declining his option helped push his performance, but would it have been worth it to have him around for another year playing as an actual adult? I guess we'll find out when we see for how much and where he signs. I would normally say it was a no-lose to decline his option because of FA flexibility, but I feel like we have more space than the market justifies for this offseason. Does Aminu somehow get a Landry-type deal from us if his play gets more consistent? Reply Back to Top |
quote: I dont know how big of a market he will have. Bad teams wont want to spend on him because he is limited offensively and good teams who could use his defense/rebounding wont have cap space. I could see a Landry deal if there is nothing out there to spend on. I wouldnt be upset with a 2 or 3 year deal for about 4-6 million per, assuming he continues to play like this. Would be a nice trade chip at that value as well. Reply Back to Top |
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The TV spots bankrolled by civil rights attorney Molly Munger, the daughter of a billionaire businessman, represents the first significant opposition against Brown's Proposition 30, which would raise taxes on the wealthy and hike sales taxes to stave off another round of cuts to K-12 schools and higher education.
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Brown has spent months pulling together a pro-Proposition 30 coalition that includes labor, educators, celebrities, President Bill Clinton and even some business groups. Still, the measure has been polling just above 50 percent -- which means an aggressive ad campaign against it could easily cause it to fail.
Munger has already spent more than $30 million pushing her measure, Proposition 38, which would provide more funding for education by raising income taxes on nearly everyone. But polls show that measure is headed for defeat, so attacking Proposition 30 could result in an ad war that brings down both education initiatives, experts say.
"It's almost as if Molly Munger was a Cyborg created by a conservative super PAC," said Jack Pitney, a political-science and government professor at Claremont McKenna College. "This is what happens when you have tons of money. Consultants are eager to take your money and not tell you that you're crazy."
During the summer, Brown tried to talk Munger into dropping her measure -- fearing that just this kind of thing would happen. But she refused.
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Then, on Monday, when vote-by-mail ballots began shipping out around the state for the Nov. 6 election, Munger created the "Committee to Defend Prop. 38" and deposited $3 million. A day later, she began airing her first anti-Proposition 30 TV ad.
The ad says "the politicians" are misleading people into believing that Proposition 30 would help schools, implying that only politicians like Brown would benefit. It features stick-figure politicians dancing around as money flies in from schools to their arms.
Munger set her sights on Proposition 30 after Brown's team began airing ads last week that "stole" Proposition 38's pro-schools message, said Nathan Ballard, a spokesman for Munger's campaign.
"We had to make the differences between the two measures clear," Ballard said. "The Prop. 30 campaign drew first blood. Our hand was forced."
Yes on 30 campaign spokesman Dan Newman conceded the attack ads could have a "devastating" impact on their effort. And he accused Munger of having more interest in bringing down Brown's measure than in passing her own.
"It's one thing to advocate for a different solution for funding our schools, but nobody who truly supports our schools would spend millions of dollars attacking Prop. 30," Newman said.
Proposition 30 would raise the sales tax by a quarter of a cent and hike the income tax by up to 3 percentage points on those who make more than $250,000 a year. Proposition 38, on the other hand, would raise the income tax by 0.4 to 2.2 percentage points, depending on how much you earn. And that has proved to be a tougher sell to middle-class voters.
Both measures attempt to prevent $6 billion worth of K-12 cuts, which threatens to trim the current school years by as much as three weeks. If they both gain more than 50 percent approval, the one with the most votes wins.
Munger "understands that at this point in the campaign they're in direct competition, and she's behind even though she spent all this money," said Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, a senior fellow at the University of Southern California Price School of Public Policy. With the attack ads, "she may well take both of them down."
Until now, opponents of Proposition 30 had raised just $4.9 million from anti-tax groups. That includes $3.5 million from a political action committee funded largely by Molly Munger's brother, Charles Munger Jr., a Stanford physicist and conservative who has not taken a position on Proposition 38.
Proposition 30 backers are now calling the Mungers "California's Koch brothers," after the billionaire oil tycoons that have spent huge sums to sweep Republicans into office around the country.
Still, the Yes on 30 campaign is hardly poor itself. It's tapped teachers, employee unions and even celebrities like Steven Spielberg and Barbra Streisand to raise more than $26 million.
Ballard said Tuesday that Molly Munger was unavailable for comment. But he rejected the notion that she was going negative, saying the new ads "gently make the point" that only Proposition 38 will help schools.
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Some recaps from
Adam Gretz
at Steelers Lounge, from
Dave Bryan
at Steelers Depot, and a look at the OL
from Byran as well.
8/17/11 Updates
: WR Limas Sweed injured-waived and TE Eugene Bright waived; DB Victor "Macho" Harris signed and CB Kevin Dockery signed.
I'll admit confusion as to Tomlin's MO with putting Dixon in for cleanup duty. I suspected he'd receive the lion's share of first team reps to better eval value going forward, or to promote trade value. But it could be that Tomlin is simply rotating
the backups to give them each a chance in preseason with the first team, so Dixon's horrible performance and seeing demotion may yet need to be taken with a grain of salt. It would not surprise me to see the next three preseason games go something like this:
Philadelphia (8/12): Ben (1 series), Batch (rest of first half), Dixon (~3Q), Lefty (~4Q).
Atlanta (8/27): Ben (1 series or sit out), Dixon (rest of first half), Lefty (~3Q), Batch (~4Q).
@Carolina (9/1): Ben (out), Dixon (first half), Lefty (second half), Batch (N/A).
That rotation would boost Dixon's reps with the first team late in the preseason, while giving all the backups their turn. While I find it impossible to fathom cutting Dixon and going with Lefty and Batch as the Senescent Backup Duo, I admit my previous confidence that Dixon would likely stick is shaken some. Still, I think this is all part of a longer-term motivational strategy to build Dixon's workload. Odds adjusted some.
B. Roethlisberger – LOCK
B. Leftwich – 80%
D. Dixon – 70%
C. Batch – 40%
*Free agent waiver (QB3) – 10%
The RB competition seems to be all but over, with the injury to Batch, and some ineffective play from Dwyer and Clay. What's surprising is that despite batch tearing an ACL, the FO has yet to put him on IR. Perhaps their belief is that if Batch were injured-waived, another team might see enough value in him to pick him up, add him to the roster, and sit on him for an entire year. I find this to be dubious logic, and I really like Batch. If he were such a hot commodity, some team would have drafted him prior to R7. I still believe Batch will land on IR, but what the FO is doing here is a mystery to me.
The original rankings had Redman as a "near lock." Redman is such a lock that Schage is looking for him to do endorsements. As solid as Mendenhall is becoming as an all-around feature back, if Arians ever comes up for air he would see the incredible potential of letting Redman share some of Mendy's workload, which would allow Mendy to have a longer career.
With all the ugliness past those two, the solid and dependable Mewelde Moore is also a lock. Dwyer looks like he won't get a second season here unless he really flashes over the next three, but he should have had his shit together as a second year guy. John Clay reportedly walked out of practice but was cajoled back by coaches: as someone who looks ready to quit, he gets no lovin' here.
R. Mendenhall – LOCK
I. Redman – LOCK
M. Moore –LOCK
B. Batch – IR (?)
J. Dwyer –5%
J. Clay – No fucking way
The receiving crew in Washington was part of the problem with the offense: without Ward, Sanders, or Cotchery, it was basically Mike Wallace and Antonio Brown. Brown is quickly proving himself to be a complete receiver who can make every catch, which should mollify concerns over Sanders's foot.
The rest of the WRs were dreck. With every damned kick going for a touchback, Battle's stock is diminished, and what was supposed to be a coming out party for Tyler Grisham (
He's the next Wes Welker!!!
) was a yawner. Big Wes Lyons was, well, big, but he can't catch an elephant turn in a fishnet. Limas Sweed has apparently gone from being the ace in the hole to the next Bill Belichick reclamation project, as soon as the first round of cuts comes along.
I still see 6 WRs as being
, but it seems far less likely now.
H. Ward – LOCK
M. Wallace – LOCK
E. Sanders – LOCK
J. Cotchery - LOCK
T. Grisham – 10%
A. Battle – 10%
L. Sweed – Time to get on with your life's work.
Johnson had a bad game, but I think he sticks nominally as a TE, realistically as a FB and blocker. Expect improvement over the rest of the preseason. Gilmore was better than expected, so if Saunders can't capitalize over the rest of the preseason, Gilmore could beat Saunders, vet experience over rookie upside. Gilmore's been having a pretty decent camp so far.
I still think Saunders will show something that makes him a guy the coaches won't want to cut. With the shortened preseason, it's understandable that his first showing would be rocky. For Saunders, it's a game of beating the clock. He needs to show something soon.
H. Miller – LOCK
D. Johnson – 85%
J. Gilmore – 60%
W. Saunders – 45%
*Free agent waiver (TE3) – 10%
Stock down: Chris Scott. After a year on IR, Scott was reportedly blowing up camp and looked ready to seize the RG starting job. Scott, like the rest of the Roly Polys, is indeed big and strong, but he's not adept at picking up stunts and twists. He did settle in some, and Tomlin gave him a long look, so I think the coaches like his potential. But he's not starter material.
Stock up: I had basically written off Tony Hills, who had shown as much as fellow former Longhorn Limas Sweed to date. Hills actually may have found a home inside at guard, and was reportedly taking reps with the first team at RG. His (theoretical) ability to back up LT may give him an edge, since the other OT backups appear to be rookie Marcus Gilbert and second year guy Ramon Foster (RT only).
Ironically, having Hills show well may hurt rookie Keith Williams more than it does Chris Scott. Scott still appears to be more interesting to the coaches, who may send Williams to the practice squad. Scott versus Williams should be the bubble battle here.
Also keep an eye on Kemo. As the paradigmatic Roly Poly, his mental shortcomings are documented, but if the knee is an issue, coaches could determine that he has one of those mysterious "season-ending knee injuries" a la Darnell Stapleton. Kemo's partway into a 5-year deal (through 2013), but there is a lot of flexibility in that if we want to go younger. Still, I expect Kemo to be, you know, whatever it is he is.
Nine remains my magic number for OL.
M. Pouncey – LOCK
W. Colon – LOCK
M. Gilbert – LOCK
J. Scott – LOCK
C. Kemoeatu - LOCK
D. Legursky – LOCK
R. Foster – 90%
C. Scott – 65%
T. Hills – 55%
K. Williams – 55%
K. Jolly – 5%
*Free agent waiver G/T – 30% - includes F. Adams and M. Starks
With 3 QB, 3 RB, 5 WR, 3 TE, and 9 OL, that makes 23 offensive roster spots. It seems awfully likely that 2 more offensive players will be added in. Will we retain 4 QBs? Add a FA WR or RB? Keep 10 OL? There's certainly some flexibility here.
My guess at this point would be that the Steelers might keep 10 OL, given some of the injury issues that plagued last year (and that might mean signing back Starks or Adams), and also picking up a RB4, since that seems to be their preferred depth at that spot. I'm just not confident of Dwyer yet.
One other possible gambit would be to retain 4 QBs, with the idea of dealing Dixon for a draft pick in case a team needs to bolster depth, or to swap under-performing QBs (i.e., Clausen).
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I had six as my magic number previously, and I believe that remains so. I'm moving Hokie from 95% to a lock, because I think Gray is a guy who looks destined for the practice squad. He and McClendon and Corbin Bryant all showed some decent stuff, but only McClendon has a real chance to stick, and his value is diminished by the rookie ends. Bryant may be another practice squad addition.
Sunny Harris was injured-waived. Not a ton of mystery remains.
C. Hampton – LOCK
A. Smith – LOCK
B. Keisel – LOCK
E.Z. Hood – LOCK
C. Heyward – LOCK
C. Hoke – LOCK
S. McClendon – 15%
A. Gray –5%
As expected, the backup ILB duties were primarily handed to Larry Foote and Stevenson Sylvester, who played both mack and buck. Foote showed the power of the wily vet, while Sylvester got the radio headset, signaling the team's interest in developing him.
My previous writeup had Chris Carter erroneously listed at ILB: he's an OLB. Mortty Ivy got some cleanup work but looks to be odd man out. I expect the FO to push to get him on the practice squad. Mario Harvey was MIA.
J. Farrior – LOCK
L. Timmons – LOCK
S. Sylvester – LOCK
L. Foote – LOCK
The OLB position makes much more sense with my brainfart of Chris Carter resolved. Worilds is still not playing instinctively, but I still think he's too valuable an investment not to make the cut: expect him to get a lot of early reps from here on out.
Chris Carter and Chris Ellis got an even number of reps, but I have to think Carter is favored here. The FO could retain 5 OLBs, but it seems more likely that they would want to add an extra DB.
J. Harrison – LOCK
L. Woodley – LOCK
J. Worilds – LOCK
Chris Carter – 75%
C. Ellis – 25%
With Polamalu and Will Allen sitting out, and Ryan Clark injured after 5 plays, we got to see more of Ryan Mundy, Damon Cromartie-Smith, and Brett Greenwood. Greenwood remains a dark horse, Mundy allowed 7 completions of 8 targets, and DCS flashed both good and bad (giving up 21 yards of YAC on one completion).
I could see the coaches possibly keeping a bubble DB who could adapt at either CB or S, and my two early contenders would be DCS and Donovan Warren. But as abysmal as Mundy was at times, and as interesting as DCS might be as a potential fifth, I think it's awfully unlikely it pans out that way.
Keep an eye on longshot UDFA Brett Greenwood from Iowa. He may only be practice squad material but he could flash something in the preseason.
T. Polamalu – LOCK
R. Clark – LOCK
W. Allen – 95%
R. Mundy – 85%
D. Cromartie-Smith – 20%
With Ike out most of the game, and McFadden held out, we got the full horror of William Gay and Keenan Lewis. Cortez Allen was inactive, while Niles Brinkley and Donovan Warren got some work, and Warren especially seemed to show flashes of potential. At one time a highly touted CB from Michigan, he came out too early, ran too slow, and went undrafted. Keenan Lewis shat the bed and Warren may be the biggest beneficiary.
I hope we get to see what Brown can do for us this week, but he's all but a lock as a high round pick anyway. I'd keep Lewis and Gay inactive and take a peek at Allen this week, but there's a lot of questions to our CB depth, and the situation may have only gotten murkier. Donovan Warren is the wild card, and I suspect the magic number may not be 6 after all, but rather 7, especially if one of DCS or Warren sticks as an all-purpose package back/safety.
Like it or not, even with the new DB arrivals, Gay and McFadden seem to be on the coaches' good side. Keenan Lewis has never started, so he's iffy. Curtis Brown has reportedly shown some good stuff in camp recently.
I don't think either Macho Harris or Kevin Dockery will have much chance of making the 53-man unless they play lights-out. Late camp additions (even vets) rarely clear that hurdle. But we'll see. For now, I'm pooling Harris and Dockery in with the free agent percentages below.
I. Taylor – LOCK
B. McFadden – 95%
W. Gay – 95% (FUCK)
C. Brown – 95%
C. Butler – 90%
C. Allen – 60%
K. Lewis – 50%
Donovan Warren -30%
*Free agent waiver – 35%
Appears to be Suisham and Sepulveda. Robo-Punter answered all questions of leg strength, and Kapinos appears to be going back to being a guy on the rolodex, but the punter situation is no lock so long as Sepulveda is wearing that brace.
S. Suisham – 95%
D. Sepulveda – 85%
J. Kapinos – 15%
Practice Squad
WR Tyler Grisham
LB Mortty Ivy
NT Anthony Gray
DB Damon Cromartie-Smith
OG Keith Williams
T Kyle Jolly
TE Weslye Saunders
S Brett Greenwood
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Quote from: Finnegans Wake on Aug 17, 2011 at 13:27
8/17/11 Updates
: WR Limas Sweed injured-waived and TE Eugene Bright waived; DB Victor "Macho" Harris signed and CB Kevin Dockery signed.
I recall Dockery playing for Giants. Don't think he started. Pretty sure he was nickel. OK player.
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Trai Essex
was in town, picking up some dry cleaning, delivering half-eaten pizzas to Colbert and Co., playing "Guess what?... Chicken butt!" with coach Tomlin, that sort of thing.
He's also promoting his new book on Amazon titled Things on
Trai's Trai: Trai Essex likes to eat and dammit he wants to get his old job back
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OK, haven't updated this since Philly.
The order of QB1 and QB2 is clear at this point. Dennis Dixon remains an enigma, but he's received the most preseason snaps, whereas Charlie Batch has received all of 4 snaps. That tells me that while Dixon isn't getting quality looks, the FO may see Batch as a guy who they don't have to use a roster spot on, and can call up at any time in the season if need be. Besides, Dixon as QB3 can be inserted in packages to add legs to a play.
Every other site will tell you it's Batch over Dixon. If we keep 3, as I suspect, those sites are wrong.
B. Roethlisberger – LOCK
B. Leftwich – LOCK
D. Dixon – 80%
C. Batch – 20%
Moore appears to be a lock of questionable value: a coach favorite who adds little. But there's not much behind him, so that settles it. We've gone with 4 RBs on the roster the last few years, and Dwyer is trying to work his way back into the mix, but it would not surprise me if we go with 3 RBs, or add a waiver wire FA. In any event, Dwyer leads preseason carries but has the worst YPA of all backs with 2.8. Some of that is surrounding cast, some not. John Clay has 5 carries: not enough.
R. Mendenhall – LOCK
I. Redman – LOCK
M. Moore –LOCK
J. Dwyer – 60%
Waiver wire FA – 40%
Again, the new kickoff rule devalues Arnaz Battle's value, and Tyler Grisham hasn't shown enough to warrant a spot. I'd be very surprised if we went 6 deep, but if we do, look for the guy to be Battle.
H. Ward – LOCK
M. Wallace – LOCK
E. Sanders – LOCK
J. Cotchery – LOCK
An uninspiring lot. Johnson looks to make it as the quasi-FB guy. Gilmore looks to make it because he showed decent vet skills. Saunders may be a practice squad priority unless he's lights-out these last two games. Odds are against him.
H. Miller – LOCK
D. Johnson – 95%
J. Gilmore – 85%
W. Saunders – 10%
*Free agent waiver – 5%
Upping the OL depth from 9 of previous versions to 10. We've seen too much volatility on the line, so we stock up in quantity what we lack in quality.
Chris Scott has been a disappointment, and I don't know that Keith Williams is there yet either. I strongly suspect one of either Max Starks or Trai Essex is re-signed.
M. Pouncey – LOCK
W. Colon – LOCK
M. Gilbert – LOCK
J. Scott – LOCK
C. Kemoeatu - LOCK
D. Legursky – LOCK
R. Foster – 95%
T. Hills – 95%
C. Scott – 60%
K. Williams – 50%
*Free agent waiver G/T – 100% - includes F. Adams, M. Starks, T. Essex.
I still have Steve McClendon missing the cut with the young ends we've added, and Anthony Gray being a priority practice squad candidate.
C. Hampton – LOCK
A. Smith – LOCK
B. Keisel – LOCK
E.Z. Hood – LOCK
C. Heyward – LOCK
C. Hoke – LOCK
Appears to be a safe bet, although Mortty Ivy has shown enough to be a practice squad priority.
J. Farrior – LOCK
L. Timmons – LOCK
S. Sylvester – LOCK
L. Foote – LOCK
The OLB position makes much more sense with my brainfart of Chris Carter resolved. Worilds is still not playing instinctively, but I still think he's too valuable an investment not to make the cut: expect him to get a lot of early reps from here on out.
Chris Carter and Chris Ellis got an even number of reps, but I have to think Carter is favored here. The FO could retain 5 OLBs, but it seems more likely that they would want to add an extra DB.
J. Harrison – LOCK
L. Woodley – LOCK
J. Worilds – LOCK
Chris Carter – 95%
C. Ellis – 5%
Mundy played well enough to likely seal the deal. Will Allen has spent some time injured but is another Tomlin fave. DCS is a long shot.
T. Polamalu – LOCK
R. Clark – LOCK
R. Mundy – 95%
W. Allen – 95%
D. Cromartie-Smith – 10%
The gimpy McFadden and mostly wretched Wimsy Gay are likely sticking on the bird in the hand theory. Curtis Brown dipped his toes in the action and will hopefully show more, but he's too high an investment to cut. Keenan Lewis showed he can run the deep routes, sort of Ike's skill set.
Cortez Allen will prove you can't make the team from the tub. A long look at Donovan Warren showed a guy with skills that fit our system pretty well. Look for Allen to be a priority practice squad guy, or even wind up on IR. Possibility of a waiver FA exists, or that one of the recently signed duo of Kevin Dockery and Macho Harris could also earn a spot, but it seems less likely now. The big surprise here is Warren.
I. Taylor – LOCK
B. McFadden – 95%
W. Gay – 95%
C. Brown – 95%
K. Lewis – 90%
C. Butler – 90%
Donovan Warren -70%
C. Allen – 20%
*Free agent waiver – 10%
Specialists (3)
S. Suisham – LOCK%
D. Sepulveda – LOCK
Greg Warren - LOCK
Practice Squad (
WR Tyler Grisham
LB Mortty Ivy
NT Anthony Gray
DB Damon Cromartie-Smith
OG Keith Williams
T Kyle Jolly
TE Weslye Saunders
S Brett Greenwood
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Printer Buying Guuide
When it comes to transferring that digital information into something you can actually hold onto, printing it out is one of the only ways to go. It's not uncommon to see computer printers ranging from merely $20 up to several hundred dollars. The thing that isn't always clearly outlined with these prices is what the difference is between them all!
There are two primary mainstream printer types; inkjet and laser. Although only two categories themselves, there are tons of variations on each type when it comes to
features, ability and design itself.
Laser Printers
The first category we'll look at is the laser printer. A laser printer works by using a laser beam to output an image of what you're printing onto a drum. The drum then turns
through a toner reservoir which gets picked up on the charged image on the drum and then transferred onto the paper by means of pressure and heat. You'll often see heat
warning stickers and a fan on the inside of a laser printer because they can get quite hot during operation.
Laser printers themselves can be broken down into two sub-categories; monochrome and colour. Monochrome lasers are still the more common of the two because it's just been in the past year or so where colour laser printers have really started to shine. If you invest in a quality one, a colour laser printer can now match the image output quality of an average consumer grade colour inkjet printer. Going with either option will still leave you with print speeds much faster than their inkjet counterparts. I rarely see any new laser printers with print speeds rated under 18 pages per minute, with most monochrome ones now in the 25+ PPM ratings! Colour laser printers will still have the slower print speeds among the two laser categories. This is because it takes longer to draw the image on the drum, with each colour having to be drawn as opposed to a single monochrome image. Some colour laser printers use a four-pass method, where each colour layer is printed individually and the paper passes through the drum four times to complete the full image.
Although their upfront investment is often worth more, a laser printer will actually help you or your business save money in the long run. A toner cartridge can run you anywhere from $30 up to several hundred depending on the printer. Those more expensive cartridges are often large-scale business laser printers that are almost in the photocopier category. For an average home-level laser, expect to pay $30-$100 for toner. Here's the great part, the average toner cartridge yield is 2000+ pages per cartridge. Some hi-output cartridges can exceed 4000 pages per cartridge. If your printer offers a "toner saver" function, this will help to extend that life even further by not printing as dark when it's enabled. When you're reading the page yield ranking, make sure you also check out the coverage percent that it's rated at. Most toner cartridges are ranked at, say, 2500 pages with 90% coverage per page (which would be an average document text page).
Inkjet Printers
Inkjet printers are often the more common of the two categories because of their ability to print high quality colour pictures as well as often being a cheaper upfront investment. Also, since they don't use a toner cartridge and a drum unit, inkjet printers come in some surprisingly small sizes as well.
Although you used to be able to find both black and white and colour variants of inkjet printers, colour has become the more common these days. It's often just as price efficient to buy a monochrome laser printer if you're looking for good black and white performance. Since inkjet printers use an ink nozzle and print heads to print their image, they have vastly slower print times than their laser siblings. The average inkjet printer will vary between 6 and 20 pages per minute in full-colour. This speed varies because you can choose many different quality levels with most colour printers (some are fast "drafts" and others are full "photo quality" prints). Instead of a single toner unit, the amount of ink cartridges in an inkjet printer can vary. Some models use only two cartridges, a black one and a colour one that's divided up, sometimes called a tri-colour cartridge. Other, and more efficient models use four individual ink cartridges; black and the three separate colour cartridges. Models like this are often more efficient when it comes time to replace the cartridges because if only one colour runs out, then you can replace only that colour. That as opposed to having to replace an entire tri-colour cartridge just because one of the colours inside has run out. Depending on the type of printer, the ink nozzles and print heads may be either built into the printer or built into each separate cartridge. Being built into the printer means that you only replace the print heads when they wear out, instead of having to replace them every time when they are part of the ink cartridge (which leads to that style of cartridge being more expensive for that reason). Also keep in mind that in the models where you only replace the ink, when the time comes that you need to replace the print heads of the printer it can often cost more than the printer is worth. If you use the printer a lot then even though it might cost a little more to replace the type of ink cartridges with the built in print head, in the long run it might be cheaper if you get to continue using that printer for many years.
As mentioned earlier, the upfront investment of an inkjet printer is far lower than that of a laser. It's not uncommon to find lower end inkjet printers for around $20 with starter ink cartridges included! When it comes to printers of this price, most can argue that it'll be cheaper to replace the entire printer when the ink runs out instead of buying the more expensive replacement ink cartridges. However, with a lower price comes a lower quality. Inkjet printers come in a few variants; there's the popular multi-function ones which will scan and copy, there's the all-around ones which work great for text and images with affordable ink refills and there's also the photo printer category which can print photos in comparable quality to that of some photo development printers. The photo printers often use slightly more expensive ink which will commonly have elements in it to prevent fading and add other enhancements and protection to your photo. However, this "do it at home" method will often still leave you with some change in your pocket as
opposed to having your photos professionally developed. If you're looking for an inkjet printer, it's often a good idea to sit back and look at just what you'll be using it to print, and what sort of quality you want to achieve with those prints. From there, find a few models that interest you and look into what sort of replacement ink cartridges they use and how much it will cost you to replace those cartridges when the time comes.
Extra Printer Features
In addition to the basic features I've covered here on the two common printer types, there's many other features still available on printers that will interest certain people.
Network printers are printers that don't connect directly to a computer, but rather connect to your router. This allows every computer on your network to be able to install and access the printer without relying on a central computer to be powered on when you need to print. The network printer category can then be narrowed down even further to wired network, wireless network or one that has both interfaces. Wireless printers will give you the freedom of locating the printer anywhere you want and not having to be tied down be placing it near your network router or switch. Dual interface models will often allow you to connect the printer to two networks, a wired and wireless one. Although not quite as useful at home this is a great feature for businesses.
With the price of good printers dropping, we're starting to see a lot more MFP's (multi-function printers) coming to the market. Not only do these units take care of your
printing needs, but they also have integrated scanners which allow you to scan and photocopy your documents. A lot of these MFP's also offer fax functionality. This is sometimes taken care of through software using your computer's internal modem or for the extra price you can get a MFP with an integrated modem to handle this ability. A lot of these units will run your faxing and photocopying jobs in standalone mode without the need of the computer/network they're connected with to even be turned on.
To Conclude
There's a lot more to buying a good printer than just buying the one that will look best on your desk or in your office. If you take the time to look into a few small features beforehand you'll buy yourself not only a great looking printer but also a printer with features that best fit you. By taking care of this, you can hopefully find a printer that will be the most cost-efficient to run for your application. What would be the point in buying an expensive photo printer if you just want to print black and white text documents that a laser printer could do cheaper? Happy printing!
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From Cedric Pinson, "Here a list of changes: Bone now inherit from MatrixTransform?. It simplify a lot the update of Bone matrix. It helps to have the bone system more generic. eg it's now possible to have animation data with precomputed bind matrix. The other benefit, is now the collada plugin will be able to use osgAnimation to display skinned mesh. Michael Plating did a great work to improve this aspect, he is working on the collada plugin and should be able to submit a new version soon. The RigGeometry? has been refactored so now it works when you save and reload RigGeometry? because the source is not touched anymore. The benefit with this update is that it should be now possible to use a MorphGeometry? as source for a RigGeometry?.
The bad news is that the format has changed, so i have rebuild osg-data related to osgAnimation data, updated the blender exporter to export to the new format. The fbx plugin could be touched about this commit, i dont compile it so i can't give more information about it. The bvh plugin has been updated by Wang rui so this one is fixed with the new code of osgAnimation. The examples has been updated to work with the new code too...
The example osg-data/example.osg should be remove, it's an old example that does not work.
For people using blender the blender exporter up to date is here: http://hg.plopbyte.net/osgexport2/ it will be merge to http://hg.plopbyte.net/osgexport/ as soon as the modification will be push in the trunk. "


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Lyle And Scott Mens V Neck Colour Block Jumper
RRP £99.99 Now £24.99
You save £75.00
Lyle & Scott Men'sV Neck Colour Block. Ribbed collar cuffs & hem, colour block panels, Lyle & Scott embroidered badge logo to chest. Advansa Thermo Cool Technology, suitable for Cold/Warm environment, thermal regulation & balance body temperature, UPF 15+. 50% Thermocool Poylester, 50% Cotton. Machine Washable.
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