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Google's 'Place Pages' Replace Destination Sites
Good news: You never have to leave Google again! The search engine giant announced Friday that it is starting up Place Pages for Google Maps, which are essentially Google-hosted Web pages for businesses, points of interest, transit stations, landmarks, and cities.
If you search for a location in Google Maps, a More Info link appears in the left-hand results bar and in the info bubble on the actual map. Click on it, and a Yelp-esque page opens with reviews, directions, and other info.
"If I'm visiting Sydney, I can visit the Place Pages of popular destinations like the Opera House, Aquarium, and Garden Palace to see photos, find nearby public transit, and even discover related maps users have created with landmarks in Australia," Avni Shah, senior product manager for Google's Place Pages team, wrote in a blog post. "For businesses, I can check out "More Details" to see where all the information is coming from or even edit to add my own information or reviews."
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I Am Done with BET's "The Game", Finally
I missed last week's episode and have just finished watching the rerun before tonight's new episode.
And I'm done. Between this episode's treatment of Tasha Mack and the news that the show's stars, Tia Mowry Hardrict and Pooch Hall, will not be returning next season, I just can't.
I had hoped that Tasha and Pookie getting together would provide the writers an opportunity to resurrect the Tasha Mack that was so compelling on the CW's version.
But no. Now she is a sex addict. It wasn't that she had distrust and anger issues with Coach T. It wasn't whatever broke her and Rick Fox up that has never been explained. Nope, now she's a ho. Now we are supposed to believe that she's always been motivated to pick men solely because of sex.
Except nothing that the show has really done to date suggests this is anywhere near the case.
This is a manipulative, insulting and downright abusive and sexist treatment of the character of Tasha Mack. There is no reason for this to occur other than to create artificial conflict in the new relationship. But it would just be nice if the show would root these conflicts in the characters we know, rather than just try to be over the top and soapy.
I get that The Game is a different show from Girlfriends – which I believe to be the best black television show of the last decade – and I even somewhat kinda understand the desire to soap it up thinking that it would appeal to a broader audience even though it was a flagrant misread of the show's core audience, but the treatment of Tasha Mack (and, to a lesser extent, Malik and Melanie) in the BET version is appalling and offensive in the extreme.
I didn't even watch tonight's episode. I'm done.
I'm sure folks have thoughts. Share them with me in the comments.
Posted on May 22nd, 2012 - Filed under Television,The Game Episode Reviews
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Nutrition Facts
Percent Daily Values (DV) are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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Cups of Fruits and Vegetables Per Person: 3.0
Ingredients and Preparation
- Preheat oven to 450ºF.
- Place butter in a 9 inch pie plate.
- Melt butter in oven, about 5 minutes; tilt plate to coat evenly with butter.
- Meanwhile, in a medium bowl combine eggs, milk, flour, 1 tablespoon of sugar and salt until smooth.
- Pour batter into plate; bake for 8 minutes.
- Reduce heat to 375ºF. Bake until pancake is golden brown and sides are puffy, about 8 to 10 minutes longer.
- While that is baking, combine blueberries with the remaining 2 tablespoons sugar and cinnamon in a small bowl.
- Remove pancake from oven; scatter bananas over pancake.
- Spoon blueberries over bananas. Cut into wedges; serve immediately.
- For more servings, double all ingredients; bake in 13 x 9 x 2 inch baking pan about 20-25 minutes at 425°F.


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The IBM Linear Tape File System Storage Manager V1R1 software solution provides storage lifecycle management of archive files. While both the Single Drive Edition and the Library Edition of the LTFS have the ability to write data on tape, the LTFS Storage Manager provides the interface to manage files of all types in a Filesystem structure that makes the management of the lower level library transparent to the user. LTFS Storage Manager also provides policy based management, job scheduling and automated file management. LTFS Storage Manager V1R1 provides a more integrated solution to tape library users designed to more easily manage Archives at a reduced cost.
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My mom actually made these this weekend for our Super Bowl party, but the man and I devoured them before I had a chance to take any pictures. (I know - we're the worst and have zero impulse control). But I recreated them, and here they are for you in all their glory!
They take all of 15 minutes to whip up and require no baking, so your oven can be free to bake wings, pretzels, or absolutely nothing.
Football Rice Krispie Treats
makes about 2 dozen treats
Treat Ingredients:
1/4 cup butter
1 tbsp vanilla
1 package (about 4 cups) of mini marshmallows
6 cups Rice Krispies
2 ounces unsweetened chocolate
Glaze Ingredients:
1 cup icing sugar
3 tbsp water (or cream or milk)
In a very large saucepan (I used my dutch oven), melt the butter and chocolate over medium/low heat. Add the marshmallows and stir until melted and evenly mixed. Remove from heat, and stir in the vanilla. Add the cereal, stirring until evenly coated.
Allow to cool for 10 or so minutes while you line a large baking sheet with parchment paper.
Using wet hands, scoop 2-3 tablespoons of the mixture and roll into a ball between your palms. Shape into a football and repeat for the remaining mixture.
To make the glaze, whisk together the icing sugar and water in a small bowl. It should have a stiff consistency, so if it's too watery add more icing sugar. If it's too stiff, add 1/2 tsp of liquid at a time.
Using an icing bag with a small circle tip, or a sandwich bag with a corner cut out, gently pipe the icing onto the cooled football treats in the shape of football lacing.


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The New York Post has started to block iPad users who access their site via Safari.app. Now when you access their site via Safari.app on iPad, a message tells you to download their iPad app. In my opinion, this is a response to the new feature Apple introduced in iOS 5; "Safari Reader". Safari Reader eliminates ads and offers the user a clean reading experience, and possibly costing ad revenue for news corporations. Also, if you try and access their site in Opera for iPad or Skyfire the site isn't blocked.
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The rates for subscription are $6.99 per month, $39.99 for six months or $79.99 for the year. Unfortunately, there's no way to purchase single-issues. In addition, NYPost has received lots of negative feedback for their decision. Hopefully other news corporations don't follow their game plan.


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- Combine salmon, coriander, mint, and oil in a resealable plastic bag. Shake gently to coat. Marinate in refrigerator for 15-20 minutes.
- Prepare grill or indoor grill pan.
- Remove salmon from bag. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Place on grill coated with cooking spray. Cook until done, about 5 minutes on each side. Serve with lime wedges.


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It was a volatile two sided trade today at the Chicago Board of Trade. Corn and wheat were called 20-25 cents higher on the open, but at mid-morning session the markets started to come off their highs. September corn finished 1 ¾ cents higher on the day and September wheat finished only 4 cents higher. November beans ended up closing 4 ¼ cents lower.
Yesterday crop progress showed a decline in conditions for both corn and soybeans which immediately put upside pressure on the market overnight. This morning's weather models are putting a high pressure ridge back into the 11-15 day forecast.
The Brazilian President will decide whether to lower the ethanol blend rate from 25% down to 18-20% before August. At one point this year Brazil was actually importing US ethanol.
Weather is still dictating this market. We expect volatility to remain high as we go through pollination and during the morning/mid-day forecast updates. We want to remain with the current hedge recommendations. For anyone that wants more upside coverage on current hedges, we can look at September corn and soybean calls.
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Do Bring a Phonecam to a Snowball Fight
By now, you've probably heard the story—and seen the video. During the weekend's Snowpocalypse™ in DC, a gaggle of young urbanites, using Twitter and other social media, announced a big group snowball fight at the corner of 14th and U Streets. For a while, it was all good fun, with the participants periodically stopping the skirmish to help dislodge a motorist for a snowdrift, amid collective cheers. But an off-duty plainclothes cop whose Hummer had been hit by a few snowballs lost his cool—and advanced on the crowd to berate them with his gun drawn. You'd think an angry, out-of-uniform guy brandishing a gun might set off a dangerous stampede in the snow, but true to form, the DC crowd responded with chanting: "You don't bring a gun to a snowball fight!"
Initially, the Metropolitan Police Department "reviewed the evidence" and concluded that the officer had only been holding a cell phone after all—folks who'd said it was a gun must have just imagined it, what with all that snow. But it turns out there were a whole lot of video cameras and phonecams there, and still shots and recordings began to circulate on the Internet, making it impossible to deny what had happened. By Monday, the chief of police had issued a statement calling the officer's behavior "totally inappropriate" and announcing that he'd be relegated to desk duty pending further inquiry.
As anyone who follows the excellent work of my colleague Radley Balko will be well aware, things often play out quite differently—with departments circling the wagons, and no serious accountability for far more egregious abuses of authority. But video—increasingly ubiquitous and portable—can make a difference. And it strikes me that, in one sense, it helps remedy other kinds of social inequality. Reviewing that video of the snowball scene, you might point out that the crowd is full of white 20-somethings, many of whom (given the city's demographics) are almost certainly college-educated professionals, while police misconduct toward less privileged groups is far more likely to be ignored.
What is privilege, though? In cases like these, it consists largely in the ability to be seen and heard—to attract media attention, to articulate your story in a clear and compelling way, to be considered credible by press and the community. All of these, unfortunately, depend enormously on class, status, race, and education. Unless there's video. And video is democratic these days. You'd have to poke around a bit to find even a bottom-of-the-line cheapo cell phone that didn't come with at least a still camera, and likely video capture to boot. So while there's been some attention paid to the potential of this kind of "Little Brother" surveillance to increase accountability—the to lessen disparity in power between citizen and cop—it's also worth stressing the way it can lessen certain kinds of disparities between citizens.
That said, and just going by memory, it seems like most of the stories I encounter in this vein still involve white, middle-class, college-educated young people. One possibility is that this shows I'm wrong, and that other aspects of privilege still play into their videos circulating while others languish. Another, though, is just that they're both accustomed to this kind of routine use of technology and sharing of data, and that they take their social power for granted. That is, it occurs more naturally to them that the right response to this kind of misbehavior is to record and circulate it. If it's mostly the latter, we're on an interesting precipice, where the main remaining precondition for the leveling effect to kick in is just awareness that the other preconditions are in place. If that's right, the next few years should be interesting.


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100 Hours of Astronomy Poster
12 February 2009
The International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009) is about to reach new heights as the Global Cornerstone Project, 100 Hours of Astronomy, scheduled to take place from 2-5 April 2009, ramps up. The project invites amateur astronomers, educators, professional astronomers, planetaria, science centres and more to arrange events around the world during this 4-day period and to publicise them now on the project website. For those wishing to visit the frontiers of astronomy from their home, a 24-hour webcast from the largest telescopes on the planet will take a unique look behind the scenes at state of the art research facilities.
Poster available in different formats: http://www.astronomy2009.org/resources/posters/detail/poster_100hours/
More information: www.100hoursofastronomy.org
Credit: James White/signalnoise.com/IAU/IYA2009
(Thanks James for the amazing poster!)
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Warning! Don't eat the chilies unless you love very spicy foods; they're added for flavor.
Nutrition Facts
Ingredients and Preparation
- In a small bowl, combine broth, soy sauce, orange zest, and cornstarch until cornstarch dissolves. Set aside.
- Heat oil in a wok or large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add steak and stir-fry for about 3 minutes, until browned. Stir in garlic, carrot, and bell pepper, and stir-fry another 3 minutes, or until carrot is slightly tender.
- Add chilis and cook entire mixture 2-3 more minutes, or until meat reaches desired degree of doneness.
- Pour cornstarch mixture into pan and stir-fry for 2-3 minutes, until sauce begins to thicken.
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Okay guys, I have a special treat for you all and I know a lot of you will flip out over this next submission. To really celebrate Halloween, you must, at least once, eat and or draw a candy apple. I had several ideas as to how I wanted to draw my candy apple. I either wanted to cover it with just plain caramel, chocolate, or maybe both. But instead, I turned a red apple upside down, and draw a chocolate dip around it. I also added some candy corn, and some candied specs. The candy apple also has a chibi style or look which makes it even more exciting to recreate. So I hope you enjoy drawing a candy apple, I will be back with more Halloween fun.
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Bicycles and Bibles event makes dreams come true for Vidor family
The Reaud Family Foundation's Bicycles and Bibles program, which took place on Saturday, Dec. 15, made a difference in the lives of more than 1,000 children this holiday season. Vidor resident Wendy Rendon said hers is one of those families.
Rendon, who was recently laid off from her job, said the event made her family's Christmas. Her daughters Lily, 6, and Rebecca, 11, received merchandise worth about $1,000 each, including new bicycles, coats, hoodies, shoes and more.
"It was a godsend," Wendy said. "Lily's bike had recently gotten stolen and some of the things that they gave us (at the event) were things that the girls actually had asked for this Christmas."
Wendy said she wasn't sure how or why her family was chosen but is very grateful for the gifts her daughters received because her family didn't have any money for Christmas this year.
"We had never heard of (Bicycles and Bibles)," she said. "We were really excited."
The volunteers at the event made Lily and Rebecca feel really special, according to their mother. Lily even got a chance to receive The Children's Bible — a Bible that she had been asking her mother for for weeks — from Dana Reaud.
"We actually went to the library a week prior to the event, before we even knew about Bikes and Bibles, because she wanted to read the stories," Wendy said. "That was the Bible they had (at the event). It was really neat."
Wendy said the Converse shoes that the girls received were shoes they had been asking their mother to buy them as well.
"It all came together for us," she said. "It was pretty amazing."
Lily was even more excited than her mother about receiving the gifts from the Reaud Family Foundation.
"It was awesome!" Lily said. "Someone stole my bike, so I needed another one."
The girls love to play basketball and soccer, Wendy said.
"They are down (at the playground) playing with the balls (the foundation gave them) right now," she said.
Wendy's oldest daughter, 13-year-old Destiny, wasn't eligible for the event because of her age, but that isn't stopping her from joining in the fun her sisters are having with their new gifts, her mother said.
"She ended up with some of the outfits," Wendy said. "The whole neighborhood is benefiting, actually, because they are playing ball with the other kids."
This is the 14th year the Bicycles and Bibles program has helped make children's holidays happier. The inside of The Children's Bible reads "Do not be afraid to dream. All things are possible," and according to their mother, the event did indeed make the girls' dreams come true this Christmas.
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Musings of a Night Nurse
My journal for musing about being a night nurse, life and death, life in general and my passion for knitting
About Me
- Name: Knitting Dreams
- Location: New York, United States
I have been a nurse for 30 years in long term care. Now don't make that face! I believe we need to care for our elderly and they deserve a loving, dignified end of life experience. I am married to the most wonderful man in the world for 18 years. I have no children of my own, but due to my step-sons I have a wonderful 5 year old grandson! I am mom to 2 17 year old cats and a BIG black lab/great dane Buddy (yes he weighs 146 lbs) that is either the dumbest or smartest dog around! LOL


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Below is what I have to do and the code is what I have done...I am having trouble with the parts in red... Can someone help me and tell me how to fix it..or show me how to fix it.Thank You!
C. Write a program, which consists of following three classes and one interface.
Class Fruit with following members:
o protected String color;
o protected double weight;
o public abstract String getColor();
o public abstract double getWeight();
Interface Edible has only one abstract method getTaste().
An Apple class inherits Fruit and implements Edible.
A test class called TestApple will create an instance of Apple and call all above abstract methods and print out an apple objects color, weight, and taste.
import javax.swing.*; import java.awt.*; public class Fruit { private String color; private double weight; Fruit(){} Fruit(String color, double weight) { this.color=color; this.weight=weight; } public String getcolor() { return color; } public double getweight() { return weight; } public interface Edible { public abstract void getTaste(); } class Apple extends Fruit { public String getTaste() { return null; } public class TestApple { public void main(String[] args) { Apple Apple1 = newApple(); [COLOR="Red"] Apple1.getColor(); Apple1.getWeight(); Apple1.getTaste(); System.out.println(); System.out.println ("Apple Color is: " + Fruit.getColor() ); System.out.println ("Apple Weight is: " + Fruit.getWeight() ); System.out.println ("Apple Taste is: " + Fruit.getTaste() + ".");[/COLOR] } } } }


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"First Snow (Guide Me Home)"
Berens paints visions of his internal universe as if he sees it through an ancient handmade lens which warps and obscures his view of that curious place in unpredictable ways. His kaleidoscopic mirror world, inhabited by an exotic menagerie of beasts, mysterious Madonnas and lost children, is richly represented with color palettes, environments and themes reminiscent of Golden Age Dutch painters like Jan Vermeer and Rembrandt, yet its overall effect is vaguely disturbing, in the manner of Rosamond Wolff Purcell and the Brothers Quay.
Despite appearances, Berens' work is completely hand painted – there are no digital or photographic elements in his paintings. He starts off with raw pencil sketches, which he then refines into drawings in colored drawing ink and bistre on glossy inkjet paper which has been coated with a clear layer of parquet lacquer. The intermediate drawings are then divided into fragments. The glossy coating on the surface of the paper is peeled away from the base and then collaged onto wooden panels with bookbinder's glue, creating a deliberately layered semi-transparent assemblage which often consists of hundreds of separate elements.
Once he is satisfied with the composition, Berens begins marrying the fragments into a unified whole using drawing ink and alkyd varnish. His soft-focus effects are achieved in part through allowing the wet ink to blur under the influence of a hair dryer. The combination of many layers of ink with the transparency of the varnish seems to approximate the luminous shine-through effect of glazing in oil painting, and the water-based inks and synthetic varnish have a way of reacting with and against each other, creating interesting textural effects which recall the time-ravaged surfaces of the 300-year-old paintings of Vermeer.
Perhaps coincidentally, Chris Berens' paintings remind me of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials novels, in which humans have animal spirit guides called daemons which remain inextricably linked to them for life. Interestingly, Pullman's daemon concept was inspired by three paintings of women with animals – by Da Vinci, Tiepolo and Holbein. Like many painters of a pop surrealist/magical realist bent, author Philip Pullman was heavily influenced by William Blake, so there may be some synchronicity at work.
Chris Berens was born in 1976 in Oss, Netherlands, and studied illustration at the Academy of Art and Design in Den Bosch, graduating in 1999. While working as a freelance illustrator, he began to paint in makeshift studios he set up in several semi-abandoned buildings in the countryside near his childhood home. More recently, he relocated to Amsterdam, where he began showing his work in 2004. His first solo show was at Amsterdam's Jaski Gallery in November 2005.
"Just Above the Well (Birth Day)"
In Berens' strange alternate world, gravity and the nature of matter itself seem to be mere suggestions, rather than laws – some float while others walk, and space seems to shift in ways unknown to earthly physics. Despite its surreal nature, his body of work exhibits incontrovertible evidence of an expanding narrative. Berens says that he began to have visions of the mysterious world he paints at an early age, and his desire to represent it faithfully has led him to improve his painting skills at a remarkable pace. Nonetheless, he feels his skills still fall far short of expressing the true nature of what he envisions.
"On a Midnight Voyage" (after Paul Delaroche's "The Young Martyr")
"What I make is not a distortion or reshaping of the reality which everyone sees around them, or of events which actually happen. That is not what my work is about. I simply try to paint the world inside my head. This world has been with me since I was a child. It is populated by people and animals and is filled with landscapes, villages, cities and scenes. All kinds of things happen in this world and various stories unfold. But it's not the 'normal' world, and they are not the things that happen in the regular world."
"Party of Three"
"I take very good care of this world inside my head, and it provides me with an endless source of inspiration. Just as I develop in the regular world, so does this private world of mine develop on its own as well. In many ways, it's similar to the regular world, but at the same time looks and feels quite different. So what I paint is not an artistic representation or adaptation of animal or human figures or landscapes from the regular world. For me, it's an actual representation of what I see, no more and no less."
"I can't live without my sketchbooks, and end up practically panicking if at important moments – for example during a visit to Paris – I become convinced that I've left my sketchbooks behind. I need them because there is so much I'm experiencing and wish to record. I can't store it all inside my head. A photograph might seem to be a useful tool in such cases, but that doesn't work for me. It can't really show what is inside my head and what I see."
"In the Waitingline"
"The creatures that populate my world are alive. They have their own character, and I try to discover that character and get to know it. That's what I use my sketches for. A human or animal creature develops along a certain line in my sketchbook. At first, I have just a vague idea of a character and simply start drawing. Slowly, the character then develops under my hands and in my head. Before such a character becomes fully formed, possessing all the characteristics I consider important, I search for it in innumerable sketches. Only after I have become familiar with and really understand this living creature and its characteristics can I place it in a particular setting and start dealing with the compositional aspects of the painting."
"Waits at the Window (Where Do They All Come From?)"
"At first, I was able to transfer only a small part of my inner world to the canvas, perhaps 5% or 10%. At the time, my technique was still too limited for what I wanted to express. Fortunately, my ability has increased, and I can now represent almost half of what I have in my head and wish to reveal. I've definitely come a long way, but I'm still far from satisfied. There is so much happening in my inner world that I'm never short of inspiration, and never will be. And my inner world wants to be revealed and seen – and therefore painted – by me."
"Her Majesty (Mr. Sniffles)"
In 2007's "Heaven Show" at Jaski Gallery, Berens introduced a body of work which represented a great leap forward in both skill of expression and depth of meaning. Much of the work in that show, as well as his previous show, "Silver," was influenced by the long illness and death of his father.
"There is a great deal of beauty present in the moment of death. After witnessing the pain and struggle of dying, you also experience the lightness of acceptance and letting go. For those my father left behind, there was the weight of sorrow. But for my father, it was a beneficial transition to peace and lightness, to a new heavenly world.
When I made the last paintings for the "Silver" series, my father had just passed away. The painting titled "In Paradisum" is a portrait of my father, surrounded by loving and protective angels in the shape of polar bears, rabbits and other animals, on the way to heaven. For me, the entire process of creating paintings for "The Heaven Show" was a kind of search. I didn't have a predefined goal in mind – heaven as a target would have been much too presumptuous. Heaven itself is not an easy target to aim for, in terms of a painting – the path there was much easier for me to visualize and deal with."
"Circle of Friends" (Triptych interior)
"As a follow-up to "In Paradisum," I painted a parade of people and animals leaving for good in a peaceful migration, escorted by the guardians who had previously watched over my father. For me, this triptych was my most important work at the exhibition. I chose to execute it in the form of a triptych due to the symbolic significance of this form in the history of art and its historical connection to depicting the heavens. For me, the "Circle of Friends" represented the closing of a circle, the end of a physical journey and the beginning of eternity. All the main players meet once again as friends for eternity."
"Heaven on Their Minds"
"I treat every painting as I would a diary, in which I, instead of using words – because they are just too straightforward – draw and paint my thoughts and feelings," Berens says. "Naming a painting feels like closing a case. To me, a title is the affirmation of something I have suspected all along. Peace at last."
Chris Berens is represented by Jaski Gallery in Amsterdam and will have a solo show at Seattle's Roq la Rue on December 12th. There is little doubt that we'll be hearing a great deal more about him before long – to quote Kirsten Anderson, "I'm trying to figure out how to make people understand the insanity of what these things are in person." Rather than making any further attempt to encapsulate what is so compelling about his work, I'll simply leave you with a sneak peek at the phantasmagoria we can look forward to at Roq la Rue this winter...


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Freeing unused memory
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Lampard: Goals record for my mum
Chelsea's new record goalscorer Frank Lampard dedicated his achievement to his late mother, his team-mates and the club's fans after two strikes in the win at Aston Villa saw him overhaul Bobby Tambling's 202-goal Blues milestone.
Lampard struck twice at Villa Park to haul Chelsea back from 1-0 down and seal a 2-1 win that effectively ensures Champions League football for the Stamford Bridge club next season.
And the England international said his new 203-goal record was for all those who had inspired him since his arrival at the club in 2001.
"It means everything - it's amazing," he told Sky Sports 2. "The support I've had from team-mates, you saw that at the end, and I'm thankful to every one of them because they're the ones that put it on a plate for me sometimes.
"And the fans, they've been with me for a long time and were probably frustrated alongside me [at] not getting there, so I'm just delighted. I've been here a long time.
"I lost my mum a few years ago and she was my biggest supporter, so it's for her."
He said breaking the record had meant more to him than equalling it and praised Tambling, who had been at Stamford Bridge to see him move within one goal of the record against Swansea last month.
"Bobby Tambling is a great man. He's not been well lately, but he's a great man," Lampard said. "I was pleased to level it, but I didn't want to overcook that celebration out of respect for him. But to then go and break it, I was delighted.
He said the record-breaking achievement ranked with his other finest moment in a Chelsea shirt - last season's dramatic Champions League final win over Bayern Munich in Germany - explaining: "It's right up there. "Not much beats Munich, because that was amazing for the team and the club, but, personally, it's another great day."
Chelsea's interim manager Rafa Benitez hailed the midfielder for his "fantastic achievement" and said he was hoping for more goals in the games to come - the Europa League final against Benfica in Amsterdam and the final Premier League match of the season at home to Everton.
"I said before [the game] that hopefully he can score two goals, then we don't need to talk about Frank [any more]," the Spaniard added. "It's a fantastic achievement for him to score the number of goals he has."
Chelsea had been struggling at Villa Park, having gone down to ten men when Ramires was sent off for a second bookable offence just before the break, but the game changed when Christian Benteke - who had put Villa in front in the first half - also saw red for two bookings.
Lampard said the Blues had shown character to come back and get all three points, a haul that all but assures them of Champions League football next term.
"It's huge for the team," he added. "With the games coming up next week, and particularly the [Europa League] final midweek, we wanted to put it to bed.
"It's a massive game Wednesday. We need to rest and be ready for that because it's a very tough game. At Chelsea, we're all about trying to win titles - we've done it for a long time now.''
Villa boss Paul Lambert disputed the sending off of Benteke, saying he did not believe his second offence - a high boot on John Terry - had merited a yellow card.
But he praised his players for their efforts, saying: "My team were absolutely fantastic. They gave everything they had and certainly didn't deserve that [to lose].
"They were fabulous. You can see it in the crowd, the way we played - they're getting better and better. They certainly never deserved to lose the game."
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Some of the faster players are getting slow
ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Georgia (AP) — Five tournaments into his rookie season, Brian Harman realized his game wasn't suited for the PGA Tour.
He played too fast.
At a time when tournament golf is getting unwanted attention for taking too long, Harman is among several young players setting a good pace, not to mention a good example. But after more than a month of standing around, he needed help. So he called Lucas Glover, a mentor with a quick trigger.
"I talked to him about playing slower," Harman said. "I said, 'Look, man, it's driving me nuts out here.' "
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Glover gave him a few tips from his own experience. Be the last player to leave the tee box. Walk slower to the ball. Get water when you're not thirsty. Use the bathroom even if you don't have to go. Take a little more time studying the yardage book.
A week later, Glover was driving from Sea Island to south Florida for the Seminole Pro-Member when he asked his girlfriend to check the scores from the second round of the Honda Classic. She mentioned that some guy named Brian Harman had shot 61.
"The kid listens well," Glover said.
Harman is not alone, which is encouraging. The shame of it is that you never hear of slow guys who are consciously trying to pick up the pace. It's always the other way around.
Dustin Johnson is another player who pulls the club, sees the shot and hits the shot. He was the second to tee off on the par-5 12th hole at Doral a few years ago. It took him 14 seconds to take the driver from the bag, place the ball on the tee, find his target, take a practice swing and step over the ball. Four seconds later, the ball was airborne.
Johnson might have been fast to a fault. Think back to the second hole at Pebble Beach in the final round of the 2010 U.S. Open. Before Johnny Miller could complete a sentence, Johnson took three chips — one from the left side — on his way to a triple bogey that cost him his three-shot lead. Then, he quickly pulled driver and hit into the bushes for a lost ball and double bogey, and his Open was over.
That wasn't what led to the change, though. Just like Harman — and Rory McIlroy, Rickie Fowler, Brandt Snedeker and others — Johnson figured if no one else was going to speed up, it would only help him slow down. That or lose a piece of his sanity.
"Guys out here play really slow, and they're not going to speed up," Johnson said. "I can be miserable, play fast all day and wait, or I can slow down a bit, which can't hurt."
Johnson is still quick, and much quicker than most. He takes a little more time when he gets to the ball, waits a few seconds to pull the club from the bag. And he's taking more time on the green, looking at putts from multiple sides of the hole.
But that's what golf has come to in this generation. Instead of the faster players bringing everyone else up to speed, they have to downshift.
"It can be painful if you play quick," Fowler said. "You're going to be spending a lot of time standing there. It almost starts hurting your legs and feet when you're just standing there. I learned quickly that you have to be patient."
Criticizing slow play is as easy as shooting fish in a barrel. For all the anecdotal evidence, the fix is not as simple as it might seem. When greens are firm and fast, there are going to be more putts that run 4 feet by the hole. Those aren't considered tap-ins. Rules officials have lobbied for years to reduce the size of the fields because too many players can turn a golf course into the 405 in Los Angeles during rush hour, which is just about any hour.
Meantime, players have a choice — stand around or slow down.
McIlroy gave golf a jolt of energy with his exciting game, and adding to his appeal was how quickly he went about his business. He can be an inspiration to young golfers not only with the way he plays and his good manners, but his pace. Now, however, even Boy Wonder has joined the ranks of fast players who have learned to slow down.
He traces that to the final round of the 2011 Masters, although he places the blame on his epic meltdown to his swing and his putting, not how long he had to wait. McIlroy was in the last group with Angel Cabrera, as fast as any golfer on the planet. Ahead of them were K.J. Choi and Charl Schwartzel, with Jason Day in the next group.
"I played with Cabrera, who's really quick," McIlroy said. "After that, I realized I'm just going to slow it down a little bit, and it's helped. I hate slow play. I don't want to get frustrated by me playing quick and having to wait all the time. I just sort of try to take my time a little more."
Brandt Snedeker says he has slowed down, which is hard to believe. Snedeker walks fast and talks fast, and even his practice strokes on the putting green are done in rapid-fire succession. He learned that from his father, Larry, who instilled in his sons at a young age not to make anyone behind them wait. That's the only way Snedeker knows.
But even he concedes to marching to a slightly slower beat.
"Otherwise, I'd end up waiting all day," Snedeker said. "We're conditioned to slow play. Unfortunately, it's become that way. I wish we could play every round under four hours. But you've got to get used to that."
That's what Pat Perez has done. He doesn't slow down. He doesn't like the pace of play. He has just learned to accept it.
Perez was paired with one of the more notorious snails in the final group one year when someone asked him if the pace would hurt his chances. Perez has never blamed his failures on anyone but himself, and he wasn't about to start.
"I wait on every single shot, every single day on the PGA Tour," he said. "I've gotten really used to doing that."


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The Goo Goo Dolls have added additional shows to their Canadian Tour!
Feb 18 Kingston, ON- K-Rock Centre
(public onsale on Dec. 13, 2013 at 12 noon)
Feb 20 London, ON- Music Hall (Public onsale on Dec. 13, 2013 at 10am)
Feb 27 Saskatoon, SK –Credit Union Centre (public onsale on Dec. 14, 2013 at 10am)
Mar 3 Lethbridge, AB- Enmax Centre (Public onsale on Dec. 13, 2013 at 10am)
Other Canadian Tour Dates:
Feb 17 Montreal, QC- Olympia Theatre
Feb 21 Hamilton, ON- Hamilton Place
Feb 22 Oshawa, ON- GM Centre
Feb 25 Thunder Bay, ON - Community Auditorium
Feb 26 Winnipeg, MB- Pantages Playhouse
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Mar 2 Calgary, AB- Jack Singer Concert Hall
Mar 5 Victoria, BC- Royal Theatre
Mar 6 Vancouver, BC- Hard Rock Casino
Public on sales start on December 13 or December 14 at 10am local time.
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Understanding the Choose Well Score
About the Choose Well Score
Only facilities who have volunteered to be rated will have a Facility Profile Page that displays a Choose Well Score. You can see any volunteer's Choose Well Score by clicking the Choose Well Score tab from the Facility Profile Page.
Choose Well Scores have a range of 1 to 100. Choose Well scores are not higher than 100, and scores below 70 are not published. Volunteer facilities scoring a 69 or below, receive a Participant designation instead of a numerical score. Facilities who are newly licensed, and do not have a public document history are shown as Newly Licensed. Once the newly licensed facility receives a visit by the state that generates a public document, their Choose Well Score will be computed.
- Choose Well Score: The higher the Choose Well Score, the better the facility's compliance with state regulations or Health and Safety Code as they relate to the 11 Quality Measures. The Choose Well Score is a computed score.
- Quality Measure Counts: The Quality Measure Counts next to each Quality measure area a count of the number of citations received on related state regulations. The lower the number the better the facility's compliance with regulations or Health and Safety Code in that Quality Measure. performed in the QM.
The Choose Well Score: All Choose Well Scores have been calculated using the RRS Algorithm Scoring Device, Version 2.1 initiated 1/15/2018. Version 2.1 contains and reflects the Enhancements authorized by the county in 2017.
More About the Public Records Score
The Choose Well Score uses a facility's state compliance history with Title 22 regulations to calculate their score. 94 Title 22 regulations and Health and Safety Codes have been assigned to one of the 11 Quality Measures; it has also been assigned a weight. A regulation or code that is more important to a resident's health and safety is assigned a heavier weight than a regulation that is less serious to a resident's wellbeing.
The Choose Well Scoring Device collects the Title 22 regulations and Health and Safety Code citations that the state has issued to the facility. The Choose Well scoring device computes a score based on the number of citations received by the facility, multiplied by the weight assigned to each citation. The total weighted citation score is subtracted from a perfect score of 100. The more citations a facility has received, the lower their public records score.
Quality Measure Counts
Quality Measure Counts are the number of Title 22 citations or Health and Safety Code received in each Quality Measure. In this way, you can see the number of citations in the areas of care that matter to you.
The best way to understand a Choose Well Score is to know what care and services your loved one needs. You want to match these needs with what the facility can provide. If you review the 11 Quality Measures, you can better match your resident's needs with the care a facility provides.
For example, if you know your loved one needs help with medications, then you want to know the number of citations a facility has received in Quality Measure 11 (Medical Needs and Responsiveness). This Quality Measure tells you how well the facility assists with medications, among other services. If your resident has dementia and wanders in the evening, then you want to know the number of citations in Quality Measure 7 (Staffing), and Quality Measure 9 (Specialty Care). These Quality Measures tell you about these aspects of care.
What do the Quality Measures tell you?
Choose Well's 11 Quality Measures tells you how well the facility is providing care, measured by the number of Title 22 and Health and Safety Code citations a facility has received in the Quality Measure. For example, if a facility has a score of '0' in Quality Measure 1 – Activities and Socialization, that means the facility has not been cited by the state for any deficiencies related to Activities and Socialization. Another example is that a facility has a score of '3' in Quality Measure 6 – Resident Rights. That means that the facility has received three citations related to violating resident rights.
QM #1 Activities and Socialization
This QM looks at how well the facility provides activities and interesting things for residents to do.
QM #2 Emergency Disaster Planning
Is the facility prepared for an emergency, and do they regularly conduct fire drills and evacuation planning? You want to know if the facility is prepared for helping your family member during an earthquake or a fire evacuation.
QM #3 Facility Maintenance & Safety
This QM assesses how the facility is maintained (cleanliness, good repair, good lighting), fire safety equipment and practices, and making sure the facility doesn't take more residents than it is authorized to have. The facility is supposed to provide closet space for residents and access to the telephone.
QM #4 Food & Nutrition
This QM assesses if a facility serves the required three nutritious meals a day, snacks and enough for the residents to drink. The facility also has to have enough food on hand to last a few days. The facility kitchen is supposed to use safe food handling rules. And, if your resident needs a special diet, or needs to have food chopped, cut, or pureed, this QM assesses if the facility does that.
QM #5 Non-Compliance Conference Summary Status
If a facility goes out of compliance with state regulations or Health and Safety Codes, the state inspectors will call a special conference with the assisted living owner to find out why. These special meetings are intended to impress on the provider the importance of taking care of people the right way and reminds facilities they must be compliant with the state regulations or Health and Safety Codes.
QM #6 Resident Rights
Every resident of an assisted living has many Personal Rights. There are also many Resident Rights. This QM looks at how well the facility is protecting and honoring those rights including the resident's right to be treated with kindness and dignity, to have his valuables protected and whether the facility follows the rules when a resident is being relocated.
QM #7 Staffing
This QM looks at how well the facility is staffed during the day and at night and that all staff have the required training. Also, whether the facility administrator has a current certification. Another staffing responsibility of the facility owner is making sure that staff know how to care for a resident's specialized care needs. A facility owner also has to take special care to make sure staff all have the required criminal background clearances before working in the facility.
QM #8 Civil Penalties
This QM is not included in the Choose Well score but you can see how much money the facility has been fined. Violations of some regulations or Health and Safety Codes are more serious than others, and when they are more serious, the facility will be fined.
QM #9 Specialty Care
If your resident needs special types of care for dementia, hospice, and/or if your resident requires total care or is bedridden, you will have special interest in this Quality Measure. Each regulation or Health and Safety Code in this Quality Measure assesses how well the facility follows the rules for these areas specialty care.
QM #10 Basic Resident Care and Supervision
This QM includes the regulations or Health and Safety Codes that state what basic services and care the facility has to give to residents. The basic services include pre-admission appraisals and reappraisals, medical assessments, observation to monitor changes in condition. This category also includes the requirements for a compliant Admissions Agreement, and facility reporting requirements to the state.
QM #11 Medical Needs and Responsiveness
This QM covers regulations or Health and Safety Codes about medication administration, following physician orders, and letting the responsible parties know about falls and injuries. This regulation also tells about how well facilities store and record resident medication, and how they respond to medical emergencies including calling 9-1-1.
If you want to know which Title 22 regulations or Health and Safety Codes are in which Quality Measure, ask the Choose Well Program Team at Contact Us. We'll be pleased to share that information with you.


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Back in the 1970s, these Rolls-Royce Beetles were everywhere. Whoever made the conversion kit must have cashed in. But countless other crazy conversions have left their flamboyant mark on cars and trucks throughout history. What's the craziest car conversion ever?
Naturally, we're not talking about straight customs or art cars here, just conversions intended for multiple buyers — stuff like this. [Photo by MickL]
(QOTD is your chance to address the day's most pressing automotive questions and to experience the opinions of the insightful insiders, practicing pundits, and gleeful gearheads that make up the Jalopnik commentariat. If you've got a suggestion for a good Question of the Day, send an email to tips at jalopnik dot com.)


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No, you do not need to be a Carole King super fan to love the new musical "BEAUTIFUL" based on her incredible life story. Trust us, you will find yourself very familiar with most every song in this delightful show, and you will exclaim, "Oh wow, she wrote this song? They wrote that song?!" ("they" as in Carole's good friends Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann, another crackerjack musical songwriting team who came up at the same time as Carole and her husband and music-making partner Gerry Goffin).
Jessie Mueller plays the lead role and utterly nails it, singing so evocatively of the real King, and bringing a warmth and good humor to her characterization. "BEAUTIFUL" covers King's career during the years of the late 1950s to the early '70s, a time of epic cultural changes, and Mueller is completely convincing throughout this arc. She is joined by a wonderful cast, in particular, Jerrod Spector as Barry Mann. Spector recently ended his run in "Jersey Boys" after a record 1500 performances as Frankie Valli and is utterly charismatic in his joke-cracking and singing.
"BEAUTIFUL: The Carole King Musical" is exactly what a show is supposed to be — entertaining, captivating, moving, and just plain FUN. Visit the website and get your tickets now.


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By DAVID GREEN
Morenci residents will have a new trash collection service in July when the current contract with Archbold Refuse Service ends.
Councilors voted Monday night to switch to Modern Waste Systems of Napoleon, Mich.
Public Works committee chair Jason Cook said bids were examined from three companies and the committee recommended Modern since it offered the lowest bid with the provision of an annual cleanup each year of the three-year contract.
City administrator/clerk Renée Schroeder pointed out there was no dissatisfaction at all with Archbold Refuse. Morenci has contracted with the company for nine years.
Modern Waste comes highly recommended from the City of Hudson. Company president Philip Duckham said his intent is to keep the same Friday collection day. The company rents trash carts for $4.95 a month.
Duckham said he will work with ARS for a smooth transition.
MAYOR—Mayor Keith Pennington's report to council mentioned that the Public Works committee is discussing a plan for water tower maintenance and should have a proposal soon.
He will have city council consider a resolution next month to pay off the combined sewer overflow bond debt two years early. The move would save residents $120 on their tax bill this summer.
ARBOR DAY—Pennington read an excerpt from an Arbor Day proclamation and Schroeder noted that a tree will be planted in front of the waste water treatment plant in honor of Arbor Day. DPW workers have planted 25 trees recently.
MARKET—Plans continue for a farmer's market in Morenci this summer. Schroeder said she and council member Leasa Slocum will visit a couple other markets in the area to distribute fliers.
ICE GRANT—Pennington learned that 160 communities applied for state ICE grants and Morenci was one of 40 selected. The funds will be used to rebuild and create parking areas.
Nearly all the winning applicants proposed matching funds between 30 and 40 percent, while Morenci's match was only 22 percent.
"Not only did we receive the grant," he said, "but we got in on the low end."
MOWING—Council voted to take the lowest qualified bid from R&W Nursery for mowing city property. A majority of the city's mowing will be subcontracted this year.
BUDGET—The city's tentative budget for 2010-11 will be discussed at a public hearing May 10. The document will be available for public viewing starting May 3.
TABLED—Council tabled the decision on buying a new air conditioner and water heater for the fire department in order to consider higher efficiency units.
CANDIDATE—Former Morenci resident Earl Gilhouse introduced himself to council as a candidate for the county commissioner seat that represents Morenci. Gilhouse lived in the city in the 1990s when he and his wife, Amy, served as managers at York Hills Apartments.


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The GENES Blog (GEnealogy News and EventS): Top news stories and features concerning ancestral research in Scotland, Ireland, the rest of the UK, and their diasporas, from genealogist, author and tutor Chris Paton. Feel free to quote from this blog, but please credit The GENES Blog if you do. I'm on Twitter @genesblog - to contact me please email chrismpaton @ outlook.com.
Wednesday, 15 August 2012
More on FindmyPast Ireland
1) Previously FindmyPast Ireland had an irritating glitch which meant that whenever you tried to search within a date range, the two years specified as the parameters for that range never had results returned for them. So for example, if I did a search for an event with the year range as 1901 to 1901 (i.e. for an event that happened in 1901!), nothing would be returned - but if I then changed the search range from 1900 to 1902, results for 1901 would appear (but not 1900 or 1902)! In other words, you had to go one year earlier and one later for any year range you were actually interested in. I checked this a couple of weeks ago and it still seemed to be happening - but with the new set up, a search for a particular year range will now include the full range, including the two years specified.
2) It would seem that whichever site you subscribe to for a world subscription, you can use your log in details on one of the other FMP sites with the same collections. I have a month or so left on my Irish subscription, but purchased the US Pioneer sub last week for just under £38. The log in details I use for both sites are the same, so when I tried to log in to the American site earlier, it stated that the details I had were valid for each site - so which did I wish to log into? Out of curiosity I decided to log into the Irish site, which I was successful in, and it told me I now had a subscription on this site until August 2013. There's actually no real advantage to this that I can see - the records on the different sites would appear to be the same, with the only unique parts of the US and Irish sites being the local packaging - i.e. locally focussed blogs, help resources etc - which is free to access anyway. In fact, for client research, I will actually need to access my subscription on the American site, as its terms and conditions allow me to use it for professional purposes, which the Irish site doesn't (on FMP Ireland I need to buy PayAsYouGo credits to do professional research). I just found it curious!
Check out my Scotland's Greatest Story research service www.ScotlandsGreatestStory.co.uk
New book: It's Perthshire 1866 - there's been a murder... www.thehistorypress.co.uk/products/The-Mount-Stewart-Murder.aspx (from June 12th 2012)
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- AnonymousThursday, August 16, 2012 5:32:00 am
Can you access FindMyPast.co.uk using your US subscription?ReplyDelete
I have noticed that the free search options differ between the US and UK sites. An example is the ability to search census records by address on the UK site, which I have not found on the US site.
In the meantime, I am sitting on the fence not buying anything because of the lack of clarity and consistency in the terms and conditions.
I just tried and was not able to, though my log in details are different for the UK site. No idea if that might change when FMP UK upgrades to the new set-up.ReplyDelete


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A morning in Maranello with Venice Festival jury president Michael Mann
Maranello, 31 August – Director Michael Mann took some hours off today from his role as the President of the jury at the 69th Venice Flm Festival. Mann, who is a great fan of the cars from Ferrari, benefitted in the morning from a visit at the Works in Maranello, discovering the latest model from the Prancing Horse, the F12berlinetta.
Mann, direrctor of films such as Collateral and Miami Vice, was accompanied by his wife and visited the Works, where he was especially interested in the Tailor Made department and the assembly, fascinated by the work carried out by hand and the details of the stitches, the precious leather and the cars' interors.
After the Works he went to Fiorano, where he got to know the F12berlinetta and drove it on the track. "It's always exciting," he told Ferrari.com, "sitting behind the wheel of a Ferrari. It's like being behind a camera, they are two similar emotions. I own a 599 GTB Fiorano and a 599 GTO and I can say that the new F12berlinetta is fantastic. You're extremely connected to the car and you create a connection you have with a camera….the same concentration, the same emotion."
In Maranello he also told about his role as the Head of the jury in Venice. It's a great honour for me and for all the members of the jury. As a director the incredible part is that we see innovative and beautiful works, how the way to tell a story changes, how cinema innovates and renovates the research of avant-garade. Events like the Festival in Venice are a unique opportunity to see these movements all together."
Innovation and change are also two main topics for Michael Mann: "The world is changing and the Far East is playing more and more a relevant role also in cinema. Just like new realities like the Iranian "Separation", which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film. Cinema is always in evolution, just like Ferrari," Mann said. "Every 3 or 4 years we see new things, which is very important, because we are telling stories, we represent images. The way of telling the stories evolves with technology and the media… We're exposed to so many stimuli and content these days."
Talking about innovation: before he left Maranello, Mann met Ferrari CEO Amedeo Felisa, talking about upcoming products and the evolution of the range, before e left for work at the Laguna of Venice at the Festival in an FF, the 4-seater with four-wheel-drive from the Prancing Horse.


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I have installed the newest version of OS6 for my BB 9700. But it is still so slow. I barely have any apps just to keep the memory up. Is there some way of increasing the memory? Would it help if i got a bigger SD card?
Please help! Or else its back to OS5 for me!


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Tuesday Morning QB: Manning, Brees rolling but whatever happened to Tom Brady, Matt Schaub?
It's tough to rate Tom Brady. We know what he's done. Which is more than any other active quarterback. But you weigh that against what he's doing now. Which isn't much. The top two quarterbacks stay the same this week with no one playing at Peyton Manning's level. But there are massive changes after Drew Brees at No. 2:
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1. Peyton Manning, Broncos (1)