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In evaluating the incoming crop of rookies for fantasy, we have little choice but to marry together all the bits of available information to develop an informed projection. After all, this is a data-driven site with no available data at the NFL level. Well, almost.
While some rookies in this year's class can be more easily pegged for expected fantasy production, others are more dependent upon certain variables breaking their way – or not — to finish at one end of the fantasy spectrum or the other. Injuries won't be factored in here, but in assessing the rookies below we will take a look at historically predictive data, landing spot, available opportunities (i.e. touches and targets), and variances in our staff rankings, to name a few.
Up first are the most predictable rookies for whom there is some level of consensus for expected fantasy output. What you see is what you get, as the adage goes. Wednesday, we'll tackle the rookies with the widest range of potential outcomes.
Sam Darnold, New York Jets
With four years of PFF college data now at our disposal, we have a better roadmap to predict success at the NFL level. A midseason rough patch and a penchant for turnover-worthy throws are of concern, but ultimately, the metrics suggest that Darnold has a good shot at a productive pro career. He led the draft class with 34 "big-time" throws last season and also led all Power-5 QBs in passing yards against pressure. For fantasy purposes, his path to a Week 1 starting job is blocked primarily by the ageless Josh McCown, although the Jets' receiving corps remains a work in progress. While a viable second-round pick in dynasty rookie drafts, Darnold is still merely a two-QB option or bye-week replacement in redraft.
Josh Rosen, Arizona Cardinals
Sam Bradford has a leg up on the starting gig in Arizona – for now. Considering the Cardinals traded up to select Rosen 10th overall, it's not hard to envision him earning a promotion if he manages to turn in a decent camp. The Aaron Rodgers comparisons are a bit silly, save for Rosen's presumed draft snub and gunslinger mentality. He did rank 12th among draft-eligible QBs in deep-ball accuracy (50.0) and was the top-graded passer on intermediate (10-19-yard) throws, which makes for an interesting fit with new coordinator Mike McCoy. The Cardinals will also boast a solid WR corps along with a healthy David Johnson, although playing in the NFC West presents a challenge. Once Rosen takes the starting job (that is the less predictable part of the equation here), he profiles as a bye-week fill-in without much higher upside.
Running back
Saquon Barkley, New York Giants
The most complete back in the draft class, Barkley will get all the work he can handle right off the bat. Just how predictive is a running back skilled in the passing game? PFF grade per route run correlates at a rate of 0.48 from college to pro. Barkley is not just insanely elusive, he also led all qualified RBs this past season in yards per route run (1.90), turning 65 targets into 611 yards. As our Pat Thorman recently noted, the Giants have 219 handoffs and 70 RB targets unaccounted for from last season, and they upgraded the offensive line by signing tackle Nate Solder and drafting guard Will Hernandez. Barkley is at worst an RB2 in fantasy, and his first-round ADP in PPR is justifiable.
Royce Freeman, Denver Broncos
Admittedly, I only caught a few Oregon games this past year, but Freeman initially struck me as a back who merely got what was blocked. Upon further review of Freeman's PFF stats, it quickly became apparent that my assessment was wrong.
What's more, the Broncos have a league-high 314 handoffs up for grabs after parting ways with C.J. Anderson and Jamaal Charles. New quarterback Case Keenum and tackle Jared Veldheer upgrade the offense, while Freeman's main competition for carries is Devontae Booker and his career 3.6 yards per carry. The main concern is that Freeman ranked only 59th in pass-blocking efficiency, an area he'll have to clean up if he wants to truly be The Man in Denver.
Rashaad Penny, Seattle Seahawks
Mountain West, East, North or South, a back who runs for 2,248 yards (7.8 YPC) and 23 TDs in 13 games is not to be taken lightly. Penny can create on his own, and that's just what he'll have to do behind Seattle's offensive line (Penny held his own against Power-5 schools, by the way). He ranked in the top-two in this year's draft class in elusive rating, missed tackles forced (80 as a rusher alone!), breakaway percentage, and percentage of carries not tackled on first contact. Like Freeman, Penny has room for improvement in pass pro after allowing two sacks and seven additional hurries on 66 pass-blocking snaps in 2017. Still, he's expected to be a weekly starting fantasy option in Year 1.
Wide receiver
Michael Gallup, Dallas Cowboys
Dez Bryant's release opens up the door for Gallup, a solid all-around wideout who posted a 92.0 PFF grade this past season at Colorado State. Gallup's deep catch rate (23.5 percent) ranked outside the top-100 WRs, although he was better in that department the previous season. However, Gallup also racked up the third-most yards among FBS wideouts on screen passes, and the yards after catch has proven to have a high correlation with NFL success (0.49). Another metric that translates well to the NFL level is catch rate (0.50), and Gallup dropped only 12 of 191 catchable targets over his last two seasons. What's more, no collegiate wideout faced press coverage on more targets (64) than Gallup in 2017. He'll be a bankable weekly flex play with WR2 upside.
Calvin Ridley, Atlanta Falcons
Expected to line up opposite Julio Jones in Year 1, Ridley's dynasty outlook is brighter than his immediate prospects for fantasy success (even though he is 23 years old). Still, considering that Mohamed Sanu has averaged six targets per game over the past two seasons as the Falcons' No. 2 option, Ridley figures to be a fine flex option more often than not. He clocked a 4.43 40-yard dash and is a superb route runner. Don't look too deeply at Ridley's college production (only one 1,000-yard season in 2015), which was affected by Alabama's run-heavy offense. Of greater concern is that he dropped 23 catchable passes in three years caught only 10 screen passes for 40 yards this past season.
Anthony Miller, Chicago Bears
Another wideout who needs to clean up drops, Miller's production at Memphis is nothing to sneeze at, as he racked up 1,400-plus receiving yards in each of the last two seasons while totaling 32 touchdown grabs. Miller ranked sixth in this year's draft class with 12 "deep" catches (20 yards or more downfield), and he averaged a healthy 3.47 yards per route. His 546 yards out of the slot were the sixth-most, and you can expect the Bears' coaching staff to find ways to get Miller free releases off the line. He averaged 6.9 yards after the catch per reception over the past three seasons – a figure that would have tied Golden Tate for fourth-best in the NFL in 2017. In fact, Miller led the nation with 288 yards on screen passes. Mostly, there's just not a whole lot standing in the way as far as competition in Chicago, giving Miller a nice chance to develop an early rapport with Mitchell Trubisky and become a rather steady PPR flex option.
Tight end
Save for Evan Engram, history has shown what we can expect from rookie tight ends in fantasy: not much. If you want predictability, it's "predictable" that they don't do a lot.


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We have bought the Extra Large Rite Farm Products Pro Plucker by CoopsNMore. We want to talk first about the overall construction of the unit. Then we'll talk about how it worked for us in terms of plucking the birds.
The Extra Large Pro Plucker: inside and outside
So it's obviously made of polished stainless steel. It is pretty heavy duty construction. I would say for the price point that they didn't put a lot of their manufacturing effort into a high end fit and finish. It's a little bit rougher. There may be scratches and slight imperfections and dense. And I think that some of that is how they keep the price down for what is an otherwise pretty heavy duty piece of equipment.
But the interior the Extra Large Plucker is a pretty decent size inside, a little over about a foot till you hit the edges of these rubber fingers on the walls. And then on the turntable itself.
You look on the side, it does have a weatherproof on and off switch, which is helpful when you are spraying water all over inside and sometimes on the outside of the unit.
This does come with casters on the front and back. The back casters are fixed, the front casters are mobile, but these are not locking casters. We ended up solving that problem by just taking a piece of wood, cutting it out in a rectangle is setting it down to keep the unit from moving as much.
Does have this discharge chute, which it's easy enough to put some kind of a container in front of it. We used a concrete mixing bin on ours to catch the feathers as they came off – that had holes drilled in the bottom of it.
Looking to the underside of the plucker. It is a very heavily made all steel, a very heavy cast iron wheel, double pulleys coming off of what is a pretty industrial motor. It has a 3 horsepower motor.
Chicken Plucking is simple as One-Two-Three
The most important part of course is how well it plucks chickens. We raised out Cornish crosses. They averaged processed wait between six and eight pounds. So these were pretty large birds that we put into it.
- And we put in one bird. I will say that it was perhaps the unit is too heavy duty and large for processing one bird at a time. It seemed to throw it around. It just felt like it was throwing it around too quickly and that there was too much space inside of this extra large plucker.
- Two birds seem to be the ideal inside this unit that they didn't turn too quickly. It didn't damage any of the birds when we put two at a time.
- With three birds, especially birds as large as the ones we put in here. Certainly, they fit, but some challenges have happened. One is that the motor is slowed a bit. It's still plucked the birds, but the motor was having to work a little bit more to turn those three large birds inside this space. The other issue we found is that when we tried several times with three different birds is that we got one bird each time is located at wing. So for retail purposes, selling birds that's not an ideal thing. The only other issue that we had running three birds inside of this unit was simply the amount of feathers being pulled off so quickly.
Some issues
If you look inside the space between the turntable in the wall you will see that it is very small and you don't want birds and any part of the bird's body or legs getting stuck in there. But the challenge is with these smaller fingers down at the bottom and these fingers coming up that we did find that when you had three chickens inside here at the same time throwing so many feathers that if you weren't very careful of spraying a jet of water into that seam, it could get hung up. And of course, what you would get is that the motor was turning but the belts would start to slip because it was getting stuck. So you had to be very conscious with three birds, not just to mist or sort of spray a mist of water in here, but actually to take a jet of water around the edges and make sure you were pushing the feathers through. If we did that, even with three birds, there were no issues with it turning them and plucking them completely.
Final Thoughts
This plucker plucked those birds with the exception, perhaps of some tail feathers that were easily removed by hand. It removed almost the entirety of the feathers on those birds in a matter of seconds. We had of 24 birds. We had a few feathers that we had to remove by hand. So overall we are extremely happy with this plucker!

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The lineup and a good chunk of tour dates for the second annual Ska Revival Tour have been revealed. Las Vegas' Be Like Max and Denver's The A-OKs will be headlining the tour, and other bands will be joining them on select dates.
Find more info on when and where all of the currently announced shows will be taking place below, and stay tuned as more dates are added to the tour.


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So I checked my local CVS magazine rack, and it wasn't as bad as I remembered. As this point, I have no idea whether it used to be worse, or whether I was in a bad mood, noticed a fair amount of weight loss advice, and assumed there was much more than there actually was. I've seen some indications that the public is less enchanted with commercial weight loss advice than it used to be.
Another possibility is that there's a seasonal cycle, with weight loss advice peaking during the holiday season and the swim suit season, so February might have weight loss advice at a relatively low level. This is just a guess, though.
What I saw at the CVS (and I didn't take notes, so assume that this is approximate) was a lot about clothing and sports, celebrities, cooking, and a modest but surprising amount about keeping your stuff organized, A fast glance at the cooking magazines didn't turn up much about weight loss.
There weren't a lot of what I'd call magazines with information in them-- what I saw was Scientific American, National Geographic, Time, and Rolling Stone.
This wasn't a huge magazine rack, maybe 12 feet long by 7 feet high (about 3.5 meters by 2 meters), and even that was an amazing and hard-to-assimilate amount of stuff if you're trying to actually look at all of it.
Another angle is that this is not an especially intellectual neighborhood. There are no bookstores, though there are plenty within a mile or two. It wouldn't surprise me a bit if there were different magazine mixes at different stores.
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Saturday Morning Garden Yoga with Press Tulsa
Saturday, October 24
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Join us from 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. for yoga in the gardens with instructor and owner, Claire Spears, of Press Tulsa. Bring your own yoga mat. Participants must be 18+.
This event is non-refundable. In the event of cancellation due to weather, ticket-holders may contact Philbrook Museum of Art at 918-748-5300 within 7 days of the event to exchange their ticket for an alternate Friday Night Garden Yoga with Press Tulsa class.
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The EFRO subsidized project Fieldlab Multi Material 3D (Fieldlab MM3D) is working on an approach to 3D print artificial colored teeth for dentures and crowns. The resulting technology may serve a billion euro market, provide better-looking results and massively reduce the amount of manual labor that goes into making dental prostheses.
The dental material is provided by NextDent and is suitable for 3D Printing. AMSYSTEMS Center integrates Océ's color jetting technology with their mono color 3D dental printer.
On January 21st, 2019, the 3D Printed Electronics Conference took place at the High Tech Campus, Eindhoven. René van der Meer of Océ Research & Development represented Fieldlab MM3D and gave an inspirational talk about 'Printing Realistic Teeth', showing the first Multi- Material 3D printed objects (photo 1 and 2).
Photo 1. The four quadrants in this object is to check Photo 2. An object with two concentric circles
the alignment of the printhead
These objects are jetted at a high temperature with two Océ printheads in a Fieldlab MM3D printer using industrial grade dental resins materials. This means Fieldlab MM3D has printed the world's first multi-coloured objects with inkjet using two dental resins. In the next quarter coloring inks, developed by Brightlands Materials Center, will be tested together with the TNO Lepus SLA printer. The fieldlab project ends in September 2019.
More information: Presentation AMSYSTEMS Fieldlab MM3D.


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World Bulletin / News Desk
Nearly 10,000 Japanese Muslims are living in Japan, the president of the Japan Muslim Association said on Tuesday.
This figure was very low in a country whose population was nearly 130 million, Amin K. Tokumasu told AA correspondent.
Tokumasu said that the association aimed to increase the number of Muslims in Japan.
There were no records showing the number of Muslims in Japan, thus they did not know exact number of Muslims in the country, the president said, adding but they predicted that about 100,000 Muslims including 10,000 Japanese were living in Japan.
Tokumasu said that they wanted more number of Japanese people to get informed about Islam, stating that they wanted establishment of a culture center near Tokyo Mosque. The association aimed to introduce Islam in Japan by history, culture and civilization, Tokumasu added.Last Mod: 28 Ağustos 2012, 11:44


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The very best of luck to the poet with her sales. Kevin
Hello everyone,
I am so excited to announce that my poetry book is out. I have worked so long on this book and I have self-published it. Thank you so much for supporting me and my work.
Much love to all of you.
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Family members of a 44-year-old woman, who died in a road accident involving a rashly-driven vehicle, have been awarded Rs 19.57 lakh compensation by a Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT) here.
MACT Presiding Officer Raj Paul Singh Teji directed National Insurance Company Ltd, insurer of the offending tractor, to pay a compensation of Rs 19,57,958 to the family members of victim Saroja Bala, who suffered fatal injuries in the December 23, 2013 mishap.
"It is clear that respondent no 1 (driver) was driving the vehicle in rash and negligent manner and caused fatal injury to the deceased," the tribunal said.
According to the complaint, on December 23, 2013, the victim, a homemaker, lost her life after being hit by the rashly and negligently driven tractor-trolley while she was going to her daughter's school along with her husband.
The complaint, filed by family members of the deceased, had claimed Rs 30 lakh compensation.
The driver and the owner of the vehicle, however, denied the allegations leveled against them.
( Source – PTI )


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The process of reconciling Czechs with their Communist past took an interesting turn yesterday when it was revealed that four officers of the 1st Czech-Slovak Anti-chemical Batallion were agents of VKR, the Communist-era military counter-intelligence.
MFDnes reports that one of the four was the batallion's psychologist, Luděk Lávička, who is privy to the unit's most intimate problems.
The batallion's commander, DuÅ¡en Lupuljev, solved the crisis by convening an open-air "field court" with the entire 400-member batallion present. "I told my people that I trust these four," Lupuljev said. "For example, Lávička has already saved several marriages when he calmed down soldiers' wives over the telephone when they threatened suicide if their partners would not return."
The chemists then voted their confidence in their four colleagues. "They settled it. In the end, the majority even shook hands with them," Lupuljev said.
The records identifying Communist-era military agents were only opened to the public March 20, MFDnes wrote.


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Dr Emilio Mignanelli FRACS
CSSANZ Spring Meeting Scientific Convenor
Dr Emilio Mignanelli is a Colorectal Surgeon at the Royal Hobart Hospital, and is in private practice at Calvary Hospital in the Lenah Valley.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and has been a member of the Colorectal Surgical Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSSANZ) since 2009. He completed his medical degree at the University of Tasmania and underwent surgical training through the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne as well as Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton, in the United Kingdom.
He was a colorectal fellow at the Austin Hospital in Melbourne before completing his training as a Clinical Fellow in Colorectal Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic in the United States. His main interest is in laparoscopic surgery for colon and rectal cancer as well as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
He commenced consultant practice in Hobart in 2009, and is happily married with two children.