2012年12月26日星期三
JUNE BOON FOR SWISHER KING PHIL ING FINE HUGHES READY FOR
OAKLAND - The decision will be made by the Yankees' medical staff with inputfrom pitching coach Larry Rothschild. But, if Phil Hughes gets asay, the right-handed pitcher said he could begin a minorleaguerehab start following Saturday's batting practice/simulated game inAnaheim,DarkBlood RMT."I think so, but I don't make that call," Hughes said ofprogressing past the bullpen portion of his throwing program. "If Ifeel good, I will certainly encourage [them] to go somewhere."Hughes threw in the bullpen before the Yankees' 4-2 win over the Athleticsat the Coliseum and didn't experience any problems with hisshoulder."Everything felt great today," said Hughes, who has been on thedisabled list since April 15 with an inflamed shoulder thatreceived a cortisone shot in late April. "It feels good, but Iwon't be able to tell until I throw against hitters and compete ina game somewhere."Manager Joe Girardi said he will listen to advice from othersabout when Hughes begins a rehab stint."I will let [trainer] Geno [Monahan],カバル RMT, Larry and our doctorsdecide if he needs another [bullpen] or if he is ready to go,"Girardi said. "Does he need two bullpen sessions? I don'tknow,DQ10 RMT."Hughes said Saturday's exercise - even if it's only battingpractice or a simulated game - will provide an indicator."It's nice to see swings," said Hughes, who hasn't pitched in agame since April 14.According to Girardi, Rothschild said Hughes' workout yesterday,which consisted of throwing his full repertoire of pitches in asimulated inning and sitting down before repeating the process,went well."Larry said he was good today," Girardi said. "Larry said [theball] was definitely coming out better."Hughes, who is 0-1 with a 13.94 ERA in three starts, said he ishoping to return before June melts into July."By the end of the month would be great, but . . ." Hughessaid.When Hughes returns, he could bump struggling Ivan Nova from therotation, if Nova still has a spot.Of course, the medical histories of Bartolo Colon and FreddyGarcia indicate that they likely will require a break at somepoint."You can't have too much depth," Girardi said.
2012年12月17日星期一
Martinez free to pursue Villa talks
LONDON (AFP) – Wigan manager Roberto Martinez has emerged as a front-runner for the vacancy at Aston Villa after being given permission to hold talks with the club, it was reported Thursday.
Wigan owner Dave Whelan confirmed to the Daily Telegraph that the Latics had given a green light for Martinez to speak to Villa, who are seeking to replace Gerard Houllier after the Frenchman stood down for health reasons.
Martinez joins a long list of managers who have been linked to the post including former Fulham manager Mark Hughes, ex-England coach Steve McClaren, former Liverpool boss Rafael Benitez and Chelsea's Carlo Ancelotti.
Whelan said although he was happy for Martinez to speak to Villa, he was confident that the respected 37-year-old Spaniard would remain at Wigan.
",maplestory RMT;Aston Villa have acted above board and in a totally professional manner," Whelan told The Daily Telegraph.
"They wrote to me asking for permission to speak to Roberto. He was on holiday at the time and I granted Villa permission.
"He arrived back yesterday and I presume he has spoken to Villa. I have made it clear to him I will be extending his contract,カバル RMT.
"I have never let him down on anything and he has never let me down. I know I can never say never in football, but I would be very surprised if he is Aston Villa's new manager.",ro RMT;
Meanwhile reports said Villa had opted against interviewing McClaren because of negative feedback from fans based on his disastrous stint as England manager.
2012年11月20日星期二
Polanski Party, Table for 2
Lindsay Lohan has just over 24 hours to make it back to L.A,RMT. -- or she will become a fugitive from justice.Lohan has been ordered to come to court ... and as TMZ first reported the command performance is because the judge has determined she has not complied with the terms of her probation. If Lindsay does not show tomorrow, the judge will issue a warrant for her arrest. It's 4 PM in Cannes, and Lindsay is still there.We checked with the airlines,DQ10 RMT. There is no way Lindsay can make it back flying commercial for the 8:30 AM hearing.It's possible, of course, someone could offer Lindsay a mercy flight on a private jet. But so far there's no sign of that.So here's where it stands. No evidence of Lindsay making her way back to L,メイプルストーリー RMT.A. Officials from Lindsay's alcohol ed course have told the judge LiLo is in compliance with the program, but we know Lindsay has only completed 10 of the required 13 classes.Tick, tick, tick ...
Video EA on 'travelling the world' to bu
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Next year's FIFA Street reboot isn't just about upping silky-skills to the max, EA Sports has travelled the world to recreate a diverse range of street football cultures, rule-sets and all."Street football's played differently across the whole world," creative director Gary Patterson told us at GamesCom,ドラクエ10 RMT. "We sent some researchers out to figure out how people are playing it, the style and what the game types are.""We want the same core design to our football game. So, we're going to have 1 v 1 to 6 v 6 gameplay. We're also going to have Futsal, which is very popular in mainline Europe and South America For those of you who don't know what Futsal is, it's essentially indoor football but without the walls that might be utilised in a normal 5-aside match. The ball is also smaller and less bouncy than a typical football."We're also going to have some different rule-sets," Patterson continued. "Something that's very popular in freestyle football is you have a very small goal. You get one point for a goal but two points for a nutmeg."So it encourages that different style of play and we wanted to be authentic to the sport in that way as well."Watch the full interview with Patterson below to find out more about the new direction of FIFA Street. Watch in HD No comments yet, be the first,DQ10 RMT! Tom Pakinkis
2012年11月14日星期三
Canadian mayor backs Niagara Falls high-w
NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. — The mayor of Niagara Falls, Ontario, has become the first Canadian official to publicly support an attempt by daredevil Nik Wallenda to cross Niagara Falls on a wire, a newspaper reported Tuesday. Mayor James Diodati wrote to state Sen. George Maziarz to say that he supports the high-wire stunt because it would draw people to the area, The Buffalo News reported.Maziarz co-sponsored legislation to allow the first wire walk across the falls since 1910. The measure, which was approved by the Legislature last month but not yet sent to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, directs the state parks agency to write rules and regulations specifically for Wallenda's walk across the Niagara River Gorge,aion RMT.In his letter to Maziarz last week, Diodati wrote: "Bringing an act of such exceptional quality and stellar reputation as the Wallendas to Niagara Falls would be a great highlight for our city,ro RMT."Niagara Falls, N.Y., Mayor Paul Dyster and tourism officials on the U.S. side of the border support the stunt, but Dyster has said his economically struggling city needs to take into account concerns that the event could be perceived as a "sideshow" to the falls.If Cuomo signs the bill into law, Wallenda would still need permission from Canadian officials if he is to end the walk in an area overseen by the Niagara Parks Commission. The Ontario commission has denied such requests in the past.The 32-year-old Wallenda, a seventh-generation member of the "Flying Wallendas," has said it has been his dream to walk a tightrope across Niagara Falls."I almost tear up thinking about being out in the middle of that and what it's going to look like," he told The Associated Press on the day the state Assembly passed the wire-walking legislation.___Information from: The Buffalo News,ドラクエ10 RMT.
Apple loses another iPhone prototype
Apple has reportedly yet again lost an iPhone prototype in a San Francisco bar. Mirroring a similar mishandling of a then-top-secret iPhone 4 last year, CNET reports that an employee of the technology giant misplaced an iPhone 5 prototype in San Francisco bar Cava 22 in late July.Apple is said to have electronically traced the missing handset to a two-floor, single-family home in San Francisco's Bernal Heights neighbourhood.However, when San Francisco police and Apple's investigators visited the residence,DQ10 RMT, a man in his 20s denied knowing anything about the phone and police found nothing. Apple employees even allegedly offered the man money for the phone "no questions asked",ダークブラッド RMT, but he continued to deny having any knowledge of its whereabouts. So far nobody's gone public with the missing iPhone, but we imagine Apple's a little concerned after the last missing prototype ended up getting flogged to a gadget site for $5,000. According to CNET,ドラクエ10 RMT, the new missing device may have been sold on Craigslist for just $200.A senior executive at Swiss carrier Swisscom reportedly said in July that Apple is targeting a September US release date set for the new iPhone. Andy Robinson
2012年11月5日星期一
League of Legends The Edge of Glory
By Jason Harper (Hhean), OnRPG MOBA ReporterWelcome summoners, to the patch v1.0.0.124 article for League of Legends, the game in which nothing is true, everything is permitted. This patch includes a rework to sustained healing, UI reworks to pave the way for Dominion, and Talon, The Blade’s Shadow.Talon is walking murder. Seeing a Talon means only one thing - He is trying to kill you. Not later, sometime in the future, perhaps. Now. Right the hell now. Defense and utility are for pansies, a Talon player says, as they step over the bloodied remains of their recently departed foes. If you enjoyed playing ultra aggressive characters like Akali, but felt even she wasn’t aggressive enough, then Talon is your man.The trick with Talon is to use as many of his abilities as possible on a single target, as each one causes the following attacks to deal more damage. This can be through the use of Rake [W], a conical skill shot that slows the enemy, and through Cutthroat [E], a targeted blink that increases the damage output of any attacks following it. His passive, Mercy, allows him to deal more damage to targets under the effects of any crowd control except silence or blindness, so Rake’s slow will, in turn, give him yet another damage bonus, in addition to making him harder to escape from. Once he’s got the two damage enhancements on his desired target, you can then immediately finish them with a combination of Noxian Diplomacy [Q], and his ultimate, Shadow Assault [R].The most common combo to achieve single target damage is to tag the enemy with Rake, getting the slow on them, activating Noxian Diplomacy and Shadow Assault before jumping into their face with Cutthroat. This final act will trigger every other secondary effect at once, while hitting them with all of his most damaging abilities at the exact same moment. Depending where you are in a match, this can do anywhere from a third of someone’s health, to bursting them down from full health to nothing.The problem with this method though is that once your initial burst is done, everything you have is now on cooldown, and the enemy is now fully prepared to drive Talon’s head through his knees. If there is anyone around that might help your victim, don’t expect to survive the following encounter. The safer method then is triggering the ultimate late, using the stealth to cover your cooldowns in the same manner as Akali, and maybe make your escape if you need to. This lowers your burst considerably though, and should only be used if enemies have a vested interest in staying in an area, likely due to fighting a teammate, monster or tower, buying you enough time to hammer them with your second round of burst.Rake is going to be the first ability you should pick up, and the first to max out. This will help his damage, help his escape, act as harass and help his farming considerably. It’s the Swiss army knife of knives. Now, level 2 depends on who you’re up against. If you’re against a squishy ranged character, likely a mage, then Cutthroat’s leap and silence combo will help make them fear you, giving you greater control of your lane. If you’re against some burly meat head who wants to get up close and personal,メイプルストーリー RMT, grab Noxian Diplomacy to make them regret it. At level 4, pick up the choice you didn’t go for, rounding out your combo and letting the fun really begin. Once you’re done leveling Rake, Noxian Diplomacy is going to help with his ganking damage, especially once you start getting some attack damage items to back it up, so max this second. Cutthroat will be your final stop.I’ve been struggling with finding a good pick for him in the laning phase. All of his starting items feel sub optimal. The best pick I&rsquo,pso2 RMT;ve managed is using the Doran’s Shield, or a cloth and five health potions for enough sustain to keep in a lane. After that, I try to stick around long enough to rush a BF sword or Brutalizer. The latter I only buy if I’m suffering in my lane, the former if things are going well. From there, I get my boots and complete the Bloodthirster, which will both help your farm with Rake, adding just enough to blow up a minion wave in a single use, and also add some beastly damage to Noxian Diplomacy. From there, keep getting damaging stuff (Focusing on AD and Cooldown) until you start being focused in team fights, at which point a defensive item may be in order. Sheen/Triforce works well on him I’m told, but I’ve been refusing to get it simply because the last two characters were Trinity Force users and I can’t stand doing that build yet again.For his Masteries, you could use a 21/0/9 for an all out offensive build. Personally, I’m not very good at the total offense, so I’ve been using a 16/14/0 build on him, using his defenses to make sure he doesn’t explode quite so quickly. For Runes (now stop me if this sounds familiar) I’ve been using armour penetration marks, armour seals, magic resist glyphs and health regeneration quintessences. I’ve been wondering if it’s worth slipping in some attack damage or more armour penetration in there, likely in the quintessences, to make him a little less item reliant for his damage, but that health regeneration is really needed to help his weak early game.I have to confess, I am terrible with this sort of character. I’ve never been a fan of these high risk, high reward types. If you are the sort of person who likes to go all in for every single fight they enter into, then you should find him a pretty good pick, as his burst is pretty insane once he’s got some farm. Farming though can be difficult on him, due to having a weak laning phase against anyone with some sustain. This usually means that his team’s jungler needs to set up a gank for him early to more reliably get the ball rolling, which is usually more co-ordination than is found in most solo queue matches.I’m going to hazard a guess that he’s not going to be seen much in competitive play, given that conservative play is usually rewarded there far more than risk taking. I will say though that he makes a great solo queue pub stomper, as most of these sorts of high damage dealing glass cannons often wind up being. He also might work out to be an excellent Dominion pick, given his need for a lot of gold early in the game, and reliance on kills aren’t a problem in that game type.The sustain changes have been painful for support players. While I fully understand why the nerfs were needed (I think I’ve fallen asleep in bottom a few times), I don’t entirely agree with some of the exact changes. For example, why was the AP ratios on most supports’ heals nerfed? I’ve never seen a single support who stacked AP and was actually effective. Everyone just grabbed gold per 10 items and bought loads of wards. It seems a bit superfluous to target a nerf at something that no-one who knew how to play their characters ever did. Then again, it’s not like that part of the nerf actually has affected any support players, given none of them are going to be buying AP anyway. You’d think though that Riot might want to discourage this type of play, as the gold per ten stacking encourages passive supports, but evidently they don’t see this behaviour as a problem. Fine by me, I’ll just keep stacking up my wards.The changes to Soraka are not only the most extensive, but also the most bizarre. Her heals have been nerfed so hard that you couldn’t put her on a team as the dedicated healer any more. Her damage output is now really, really high though, putting her more into the role that was once filled by Nidalee (RIP Nidalee) on top as a self sustaining mage. Where once you would pick Soraka to be the team’s heal-bot, now she’s better as a nuker and pusher, with a little bit of added sustain thrown in.My own bit of vitriol at the changes is the odd buff Sona has received for her heal to compensate for its lowered effectiveness. The idea is that she’ll enhance whatever auras she has active on the heal’s target while the buff lasts. This was to encourage clutch healing, giving allies more armour, damage and/or movement speed. The problem, however, is that this is Sona. You can’t choose your targets, only go with what the automated system picks for you, so clutch healing is nearly impossible when you know your mage is going to be burst down from full health, yet your half health tank is the only person you can heal. The buff is worthless when it winds up on the wrong target most of the time. This indirect targeting was fine when it was a good heal, since there was rarely a reason not to heal the person with the lowest health, but as a buffing system this is painful.The most likely result of these changes is we’ll simply see a shift away from the characters that relied on healing entirely, and more towards, well, everyone that didn’t get their ability to support nerfed. Alistar’s healing hasn’t been affected, nor Janna’s shield or ultimate, so they’re going to remain top of the support pile. Karma and Kayle might get a chance to shine now, since neither of their support capabilities got hit, but I’m a bit dubious myself. They both require a bit too much gold to be effective, and if there’s one thing you don’t want your support doing, it’s having to farm.To discuss some of the changes yourselves, post in the massive League of Legends thread in the free to play MMOs section. Also look forward to a review of Dominion mode coming up on OnRPG soon. If you haven't tried League of Legends yet,ダークブラッド RMT, you're missing out.
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