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QBR Season Leaders: Week 2
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Total QBR is a quarterback rating that takes into account all of a quarterback’s contributions (passing, rushing, sacks, fumbles, penalties) to his team’s scoring and winning and summarizes them into one number on a 0-100 scale, on which 50 is average.
Total QBR
ESPN introduces Total QBR:
For a game, the number can be interpreted as a percentile, so a score of 80 means a quarterback’s performance was better than 80 percent of all quarterbacks’ games. For more about the methodology and statistics behind the Total QBR, see here.
With back-to-back spectacular games to open the season, Tom Brady is the NFL leader with a Total QBR of 89.7 through two games. The Patriots QB led the league with a 76.0 Total QBR last season, and he is off to an even hotter start so far in 2011.
Behind Brady in second place is Ryan Fitzpatrick, who followed up his league-leading 91.2 Total QBR in Week 1 with a 82.2 in a comeback victory over the Raiders in Week 2. Those two quarterbacks will face off with the AFC East lead on the line in Buffalo in Week 3.
Bringing up the rear with Total QBR scores below 10 are AFC South QBs Luke McCown andKerry Collins. McCown had the lowest rating on Sunday (0.4), while Collins held that dubious distinction in Week 1 (2.3).
Below is the full breakdown of Total QBR and its component statistics for the 32 NFL QBs with a minimum of 30 total action plays through Week 2.
2011 Total QBR Leaders
| Rank | Name | Pass EPA | Rush EPA | Sacked EPA | Pen. EPA | Total EPA | Action Plays | Clutch Weight Avg | Total QBR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tom Brady | 27.3 | -0.9 | -1.9 | -0.9 | 23.6 | 107 | 1.0 | 89.7 |
| 2 | Ryan Fitzpatrick | 17.1 | 0.4 | -0.5 | 1.8 | 18.8 | 89 | 1.1 | 84.8 |
| 3 | Matt Hasselbeck | 17.7 | 0.8 | -3.0 | 1.0 | 16.4 | 86 | 1.0 | 83.3 |
| 4 | Tony Romo | 19.3 | -0.4 | -2.5 | -1.0 | 15.5 | 84 | 1.1 | 81.6 |
| 5 | Matthew Stafford | 10.9 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 11.9 | 84 | 0.9 | 79.6 |
| 6 | Aaron Rodgers | 15.0 | -1.8 | -1.8 | 0.0 | 11.4 | 86 | 0.9 | 77.2 |
| 7 | Matt Schaub | 10.8 | -0.5 | -2.5 | -0.1 | 7.6 | 66 | 0.8 | 76.2 |
| 8 | Drew Brees | 12.4 | -0.2 | -2.9 | 0.3 | 9.6 | 99 | 0.7 | 72.3 |
| 9 | Jason Campbell | 13.9 | 1.0 | -3.3 | -0.9 | 10.7 | 75 | 1.1 | 71.3 |
| 10 | Rex Grossman | 13.3 | -0.4 | -4.3 | 2.4 | 11 | 93 | 1.2 | 63.2 |
| 11 | Philip Rivers | 12.2 | -1.7 | -2.2 | 1.9 | 10.2 | 110 | 1.0 | 60.9 |
| 12 | Josh Freeman | 9.0 | 1.7 | -3.8 | 0.0 | 6.9 | 93 | 0.8 | 60.0 |
| 13 | Eli Manning | 5.1 | -0.3 | -1.4 | 2.2 | 5.5 | 81 | 0.9 | 56.9 |
| 14 | Chad Henne | 6.9 | 2.3 | -3.5 | 0.5 | 6.2 | 102 | 0.9 | 53.4 |
| 15 | Michael Vick | 10.3 | 0.1 | -3.5 | -0.6 | 6.3 | 88 | 1.1 | 53.3 |
| 16 | Cam Newton | 19.9 | -3.1 | -8.1 | 0.2 | 8.9 | 122 | 1.1 | 53.1 |
| 17 | Alex Smith | 8.7 | -0.9 | -5.4 | 1.5 | 3.9 | 69 | 1.0 | 50.4 |
| 18 | Kevin Kolb | 15.4 | -1.6 | -7.6 | -1.3 | 4.8 | 73 | 1.3 | 48.5 |
| 19 | Matt Ryan | 9.8 | -0.5 | -5.5 | -0.3 | 3.4 | 97 | 0.8 | 45.8 |
| 20 | Joe Flacco | 3.3 | 0.0 | -0.2 | -0.6 | 2.5 | 73 | 0.8 | 45.2 |
| 21 | Ben Roethlisberger | 4.5 | -0.2 | -4.1 | 1.4 | 1.6 | 90 | 0.5 | 43.5 |
| 22 | Sam Bradford | 7.7 | -3.8 | -3.1 | 1.7 | 2.5 | 94 | 0.9 | 42.1 |
| 23 | Colt McCoy | 4.3 | 2.9 | -4.6 | 0.6 | 3.2 | 90 | 1.3 | 41.2 |
| 24 | Donovan McNabb | -1.1 | 4.1 | -2.0 | 0.3 | 1.3 | 62 | 1.0 | 38.9 |
| 25 | Andy Dalton | 5.7 | -1.2 | -5.5 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 72 | 1.2 | 36.3 |
| 26 | Kyle Orton | 7.4 | 1.6 | -9.9 | 1.7 | 0.7 | 95 | 1.1 | 35.1 |
| 27 | Jay Cutler | 5.4 | 0.7 | -6.5 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 98 | 0.8 | 33.3 |
| 28 | Mark Sanchez | 7.5 | -2.1 | -5.6 | -0.2 | -0.4 | 83 | 1.0 | 31.6 |
| 29 | Tarvaris Jackson | 4.8 | 0.2 | -7.0 | -0.3 | -2.3 | 91 | 0.7 | 23.3 |
| 30 | Matt Cassel | -0.4 | 0.0 | -2.3 | -0.1 | -2.8 | 64 | 0.6 | 16.4 |
| 31 | Kerry Collins | -1.6 | -0.8 | -6.2 | 1.2 | -7.3 | 86 | 0.7 | 9.8 |
| 32 | Luke McCown | -1.5 | -0.7 | -3.6 | 0.3 | -5.5 | 54 | 0.8 | 8.7 |
| EPA: Expected points added (could be positive or negative) that occur as a result of an action play. Pass EPA: Clutch-weighted expected points added by the QB through pass attempts. Run EPA: Clutch-weighted expected points added by the QB through scrambles, designed rushes and fumbles/fumble returns on running plays. Sack EPA: Clutch-weighted expected points added by the QB through sacks and fumbles/fumble returns on passing plays. Penalty EPA: Clutch-weighted expected points added by the QB on penalties. Total EPA: Total clutch-weighted expected points added by the QB. Action Plays: Plays on which quarterback has a non-zero expected points contribution. Includes most plays that are not handoffs. Clutch Wt Avg: Average clutch weight on QB action plays. Smaller than 1 means QB was in relatively fewer clutch situations; greater than 1 means he was in more. Total QBR: Total Quarterback Rating, which values quarterback on all play types on a 0-to-100 scale. |
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Only women, children at games? Sure!
If $10 beer, $20 parking and tickets that are quickly approaching the cost of a mortgage payment haven’t done enough for the fan experience, consider that in the past six months:
No men, no problem: Plenty of spirit prevailed at this Turkish soccer game.A Giants fan was beaten into a coma at Dodger Stadium on opening day, two fans were shot in the parking lot at a Raiders-49ers exhibition game, and then, on the 10th anniversary of 9/11, a Cowboys fan decides to bring a stun gun to the Meadowlands and Taser a few Jets fans.
It’s hard to decide what was more remarkable about that last incident: that with all the heightened security around New York and around that game, which included bomb sniffing dogs, how could somebody could actually sneak a weapon into the stadium?
Or that the offending Cowboys fan hasn’t been used as a campaign prop by Rick Perry. (Ben Bernanke, you’re next! Yee-ha!)
All manner of measures have been implemented at stadiums and arenas around the country to curb unruly behavior — increased security measures, more police, cutting off beer sales — but it hasn’t prevented the most egregious acts.
So, what to do about all these men behaving badly?
How about banning them — all of them?
That’s what is being done in Turkey, where the country’s soccer officials have taken a bold step to halt violence by some of Europe’s roughest crowds. Rather than banning all fans and playing in front of an empty house, any Turkish club sanctioned for unruly fan behavior will be allowed to only admit women and children under 12 to its matches, and must do so free of charge.
The first of those came Tuesday, when Fenerbahce, one of Turkey’s most storied clubs — and with some of its most notorious fans — played a 1-1 draw against Manisaspor in the Turkish League opener in front of more than 41,000 women and children.
The scene was extraordinary on several fronts.
Long lines of women, many holding babies or the hands of children, winded their way around the club’s Istanbul stadium as they waited to be searched by female police officers. Many women and children wore Fenerbahce’s blue-and-gold jerseys, but there were also a number of Galatasaray or Besiktas jerseys in the crowd — something that would typically incite fighting.
Players from both teams tossed flowers into the crowd beforehand. And instead of jeers, taunts — or worse — Manisaspor players were greeted with applause. The women and kids sang Fenerbahce songs, but in a higher key they did not sound as menacing.
It was a far different scene in July, when Fenerbahce’s exhibition against Ukraine’s Shakhtar Donetsk was stopped when hundreds of fans ran onto the field, some of them swinging stools.
“It was such a fun and pleasant atmosphere,” Manisaspor midfielder Omer Aysan told reporters after Tuesday’s game. “At first, we Manisaspor players couldn’t believe in what we were seeing and hearing.”
And with good reason. If it is easy to imagine what a crowd like this would be like in the United States — a WNBA game, perhaps — women are not often seen (or heard) at sporting events in Turkey, which straddles Europe and Asia culturally as well as geographically.
Could a women-and-children-only penalty be in the cards in the US?TURKPIX
“The same anthems and the same chants as usual were sung,” said Yasein Mercil, a female member of Fenerbahce’s executive board. “The women knew all the words. This really is a historic day. For the first time in the world, only women and children watched a game.”
Hopefully, it will not be the last.
Imagine what the parking lot must have been like late Sunday afternoon at Candlestick Park when, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, police said that several fans tried to prevent a car from backing out of a parking space. A fight ensued and three people — including a security guard — were hospitalized. Police arrested three people, one of whom had brandished a knife. While searching the suspects’ cars, police found a pistol whose serial numbers had been filed off hidden in the center console.
This came just a month after the 49ers reduced tailgating hours, hired more police and put their exhibition series with the Raiders on hold after the shooting incident. The NFL security chief came to the next exhibition game and pronounced everything A-OK — after all, it was a different type of crowd that comes to regular-season games.
Well, apparently not different enough.
Not enough women and children to show the other grown-ups how to act.
Coal Power the latest company to gaze at solar storms as a future answer to mankind’s requirement for energy
Coal Power the latest company to gaze at solar storms as a future answer to mankind’s requirement for energy
According to Wikipedia, A solar flare is a large explosion in the Sun’s atmosphere that can release as much as 6 × 1025 joules of energy. Harnessing this energy could solve all energy demands.
(International Journalism Review (IJR) 9/21/2011) Earth Energy Exploration (EEE) said exactly one year before today’s date, “If Doc did it on Back to the Future so can we.” Although obviously years away from harnessing, it actually seems possible, and Coal Power is the next goup to come forward and agree.
Interesting enough, Solar flares affect all layers of the solar atmosphere (photosphere, corona, and chromospheres), heating plasma to tens of millions of Kelvin’s and accelerating electrons, protons, and heavier ions to near the speed of light. Coal Power (CP) states that this type of energy, if one can imagine, is enough energy to feed all the earth’s human demands for many years. wwwCoalPower.co asks if this could this be our next source to explore?
Although a massive solar storm could leave millions of people around the world without electricity, running water, or phone service, government officials say, Earth Energy Exploration (EEE) and now Coal Power, both believe we must look beyond our capabilities and challenge ourselves like never before. See if we can capture that energy much like Michael J. Fox did in the movie “Back to the Future,” when they captured lightening to produce the amount of energy required for them at that time. movies of yesterday become reality of tomorrow.
Solar storms happen when an eruption or explosion on the surface of the sun sends radiation or electrically charged particles toward Earth. Minor storms are common and can light up the Earth’s northern skies and interfere with radio signals. To illustrate the magnitude and power of these storms, scientists have observed that every few decades, the sun experiences a particularly large storm. These can release as much energy as one billion hydrogen bombs.
The frequency of incidence of solar flares varies, from several per day when the Sun is particularly “active” to less than one each week when the Sun is “quiet”. Large flares are less frequent than smaller ones. Solar activity varies within an 11-year cycle (the solar cycle). At the peak of the cycle, there are typically more sunspots on the Sun and hence more solar flares.
Solar flares rise and fall on an 11-year cycle, and last year (2009) marked what scientists thought was the solar minimum. But through the beginning of 2009, the sun stayed unusually quiet. However in October of 2009, NASA discovered some Earth Energy firsts. A major sunspot appeared on the backside of the sun, where it was captured by NASA’s STEREO instrument (http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/instruments/instruments.shtml).
“This is the biggest event we’ve seen in a year or so,” said Michael Kaiser, research scientist with the heliophysics division at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. “Does this mean we’re finished with the minimum or not? It’s hard to say. This could be it. It’s got us all excited.”
People have been counting sunspots since Galileo first observed one in the early 17th century. Through the 28 cycles that have been well-documented, stretching from 1745 to today, the average cycle length has been 11 years, but shorter and longer cycles have been observed. The polarity of solar storms also alternates, so technically, a full cycle is 22 years. Either way however, being able to track consistency and its outburst of energy allows mankind to also be able to investigate ways to predict and capture it as well.
Newly uncovered scientific data of recorded history’s most massive space storm is helping a NASA scientist investigate it’s intensity and the probability that what occurred on Earth and in the heavens almost a century-and-a-half ago could happen again, but this time being prepared and possibly capturing its massive energy.
Earth Energy Exploration, and now Coal Power continue with their respective missions to educate the masses of alternative energy in various areas to let investors make sound decisions. Most recently, CP has begun to brainstorm in the world of science to look at earth’s energy beyond what we think is possible today.
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Socioecohistory / worldpress /NASA warns of super solar storm 2012
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Mississippi teen charged with capital murder in alleged hate killing
CNN 9/21/2011 22:32:45
A 19-year-old Mississippi man was charged with capital murder Tuesday in the death of an African-American man who died after allegedly being beaten by a group of white teens and run over by a truck, authorities said.
Deryl Paul Dedmon, 19, of Brandon, Mississippi was also charged by a grand jury with hate-crime enhancement in the murder of James Craig Anderson, said Hinds County District Attorney Robert Shuler Smith.
The indictment alleges that Dedmon killed Anderson while in the commission of committing felony robbery, Smith said in a statement.
Anderson’s family, however, is asking state and federal officials not to seek the death penalty in the case.
Relatives of Anderson, who died shortly after receiving his injuries on June 26, sent a letter with their request to Smith, saying the family is opposed to the death penalty partly for religious reasons.
The indictment against Dedmon alleged Anderson was targeted because of his race.
Dedmon’s arraignment has yet to be scheduled, Smith said.
Federal authorities have joined the local investigation, and both authorities are determining “the appropriate venue for the prosecution of any remaining suspects,” Smith’s statement said.
“All options are being considered and with each passing day, more evidence is being gathered,” Smith said.
The death of Anderson, 48, occurred early June 26 in Jackson, allegedly at the hands of white teens who, after a night of partying and drinking, decided to go looking for black people to assault, law enforcement officials have said, quoting one of the suspects in the case.
Watch: Incident caught on video
Anderson’s death drew national attention after CNN first reported it and aired exclusive surveillance video of the killing, captured by a parking lot security camera in a Jackson suburb.
Smith, the district attorney, has called it “vicious” and a “premeditated hate crime.”
The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating the death as a possible federal hate crime and assisting local prosecutors. The killing has also prompted several large marches and prayer vigils in Jackson, a city of about 175,000 people.
A second teen, John Aaron Rice, 18, was initially charged with murder, but a judge reduced the charge to simple assault because Rice was not believed to be driving the vehicle used to kill Anderson.
However, Hinds County prosecutors have said they plan to seek indictments against Rice for murder and a hate crime, and will seek indictments against other teens who were at the scene.
Coal Power looks at fossil fuels and their rarity
Coal Power looks at fossil fuels and their rarity
The American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) defines Fossil fuels or gas fuels as fuels formed by natural resources such as anaerobic decomposition of buried dead organisms, this is in limited supply, and is revisited by Coal Power and not to be confused with natural resources such as coal.
(International Journalism Review, New York, NY. September 21, 2011) The age of the organisms and their resulting fossil fuels is typically millions of years, and sometimes exceeds 650 million years. These fuels contain a high percentage of carbon and hydrocarbons.
Coal Power explains that Fossil fuels range from volatile materials with low carbon: hydrogen ratios like methane, to liquid petroleum to nonvolatile materials composed of almost pure carbon, like anthracite coal. Methane can be found in hydrocarbon fields, alone, associated with oil, or in the form of methane catharses according to U.S. EIA International Energy Statistics.
It is generally accepted and agreed with by Coal Power (CP)that they formed from the fossilized remains of dead plants and animals by exposure to heat and pressure in the Earth’s crust over hundreds of millions of years. This biogenic theory was first introduced by Georg Agricola in 1556 and later by Mikhail Lomonosov in the 18th century, this theory is a key to how oil and gas has been evolved according to CP and most experts in the area of study.
Also was noted by CP, and confirmed by International Energy Annual that it was estimated by the Energy Information Administration that in 2007 primary sources of energy consisted of petroleum 36.0%, coal 27.4%, natural gas 23.0%, amounting to an 86.4% share for fossil fuels in primary energy consumption in the world. Non-fossil sources in 2006 included hydroelectric 6.3%, nuclear 8.5%, and (geothermal, solar, tide, wind, wood, waste) amounting 0.9 percent. World energy consumption was growing about 2.3% per year.
Coal Power says the value in the properties that contain oil is simple, fossil fuels are non-renewable resources because they take millions of years to form, and reserves are being depleted much faster than new ones are being formed. The production and use of fossil fuels raise environmental concerns. A global movement toward the generation of renewable energy is therefore under way to help meet increased energy needs and CP is doing its part by stressing education to the masses.
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The burning of fossil fuels produces around 21.3 billion tonnes (21.3 gigatonnes) of carbon dioxide per year, but it is estimated that natural processes can only absorb about half of that amount, so there is a net increase of 10.65 billion tonnes of atmospheric carbon dioxide per year (one tonne of atmospheric carbon is equivalent to 44/12 or 3.7 tonnes of carbon dioxide). Carbon dioxide is one of the greenhouse gases that enhances radioactive forcing and contributes to global warming, causing the average surface temperature of the Earth to rise in response, which climate scientists agree will cause major adverse effects.
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