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Before St. James's was a luxurious boutique hotel, it had a distinguished past as an exclusive Gentlemen's Club. Previously owned by Sirs Michael Caine and Sean Connery -- and frequented by Winston Churchill and Gregory Peck -- this striking building on a quiet cul-de-sac in prestigious Mayfair now houses lavish accommodations. A recent multi-million renovation brought in bespoke furnishings, and rooms offer high-tech perks such as free Wi-Fi and iPod docks. An outstanding feature here is the Michelin-star restaurant directed by executive chef William Drabble. The hotel is also filled with notable Cubist paintings and offers close proximity to shopping and galleries.
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Brown's Hotel, located in prestigious Mayfair, is part of the luxurious Rocco Forte Collection. The hotel is made up of 11 historic Georgian townhouses and no two of the 117 rooms are the same. Spacious, elegant rooms have a soft, soothing color scheme along with stocked minibars, big flat-screen TVs, and upscale bathrooms (some have a separate soaking tub and walk-in glass shower). Hotel highlights include quality dining and drinking venues such as HIX at the Albemarle, the English Tea Room, and the Donovan Bar. With a spa and fitness center, Brown's has all the features guests would expect at this price point, but there's a pesky fee for Wi-Fi.
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Favorites and new faces join in on the fun of Day Out with Thomas 2014 (March 28-30 & April 4-6) in Grapevine! The Museum of the American Railroad and the Grapevine Vintage Railroad pride themselves in bringing guests topnotch performances and entertainment each year, and this year we have expanded!
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Dec. 14, 2013 will mark the first anniversary of the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn where 20 children and six adults were killed. Along with other tragedies, it has resulted in profound examination of the nations mental health system.
Whenever such tragedies occur, all Americans are deeply affected. That includes the approximately 60 million adults who live with mental illness. Their reaction and that of their families is much like that of everyone else: feelings of anger and anguish. Most people living with mental illness are not violent, but when violence is a risk, we all want a system that can prevent future tragedieswithout stigma or discrimination.
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After Gov. Nikki Haley signed into law Monday a bill pledging to spend close to $1 billion over the next 10 years to repair S.C. roads, state Department of Transportation Secretary Robert St. Onge said what a lot of people were thinking.
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Transportation officials say the state needs $29 billion in new spending over the next 20 years to meet its road maintenance needs. The bill Haley signed into law, which includes spending half of the states income from auto sales taxes on road repairs, would generate close to $1 billion in new spending.
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What you saw today is a commitment to infrastructure. Thats something we havent seen in years, Haley said. Lets celebrate that. Why cant we just be happy?
The new spending on roads was a key part of a budget compromise that lawmakers approved last week. Haley declined to say Monday if she would veto the other part of that compromise: an expansion of the states 4-year-old kindergarten program for low-income students, pushed by her chief political rival, state Sen. Vincent Sheheen, D-Kershaw.
Haley has until midnight Tuesday to issue vetoes. To be continued, as Mark Sanford always said, she said Monday.
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Many had wondered if Haley would veto the road spending because it borrowed money to pay for road repairs, something Haley had resisted earlier in the legislative session. But in signing the bill Monday, Haley reserved a pen for state Senate Minority Leader Nikki Setzler, D-Lexington, the first lawmaker to file a bill proposing the state borrow $500 million to pay for roads.
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Im extremely pleased; I think its a major step in the right direction, Setzler said. Our roads are in such terrible shape, and we are so far behind. This wont come anywhere close to solving the problem, but it will certainly make a dent in the problem.
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We purchased a vacation home on Houghton Lake, Michigan that has a Hot Water baseboard heat system. Since we will not live there full-time and may only visit a couple of times during the winter, we're not too thrilled with having to leave the heat "ON" all winter.
We've been told we should never drain the hot water heat system because it's too difficult for the average homeowner to recharge. I'm probably less than average and am not seeking extra work for myself.
We'd also like to turn the well pump off when we leave (it's a 300 foot deep well), but since we have to leave the heat on, that's not an option.
If we could choose to do what we'd like, we would empty the hot water heater and heat system, drain supply lines, anti-freeze all drains and toilets, etc, and turn all of the power off.
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The furnace is new, the heat is transferred through older baseboards, and all of the water is routed through a softener.
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From what you said about the well and softner, it sounds like you are running water through the heating system. Is it really a boiler and isolated water circulating through the system? Your heating system should already be a closed system. All you need is antifreeze of the correct type. You should know the material used in the boiler heat exchanger to pick antifreeze.
You should never use the water from the heating system as consumable water.
Never use automobile antifreeze.
You can use propylene glycol, sometimes called "R/V Antifreeze".
If you have electricity in the place you could protect it to just maybe 20 F and then use electric heat to keep it above that. Houghton Lake gets pretty cold; probably -20 and occasionally to -30 F. I'm from near Gladwin so have lived through those winters.
But how are you going to deal with the water softener and the water supply to the furnace? I would consider using electric heat to keep the whole thing above freezing. I would also put in an alarm with a phone dialer to call me if the power goes off for a long time and the temperature goes down too far. You might also want to have a local look in if there is a problem with power loss.
RV antifreeze does not have the addatives used in boilers and heating systems. It is not generally heated either so I am not sure how any other possible components of the RV fluid would feel about that. I would not do that if it were mine. Even after having to pay for 30 gallons of the correct stuff. Yes that is a lot, and no this is not the diluted stuff.
Also, glycol carries less heat and is harder to pump. This will probably not be an issue unless heat capacity or pump capacity is currently right at the limit for operation. It would also be a good idea to flush the system with a cleaner before going to antifreeze. You should check the chemistry each year and put more of the antifreeze manufacturer's additives in if necessary.
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I caretake a place on Fire Island. Now, me, I'm paranoid - so when I close up for the winter, I drain everything.
I didn't find it complicated to refill in the spring, just time-consuming, because the place has 7 heating zones, plus 3 indirect tanks, and a heat exchanger for the pool... it takes a while to bleed the air out of 11 zones.
Not rocket science - just a hassle.
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Thank you to everyone for your replies. I'd like to clarify, just to make certain my request is clear. I have a few questions.
Here's a photo of the system:
The first item involves the hot water heat. The system is, indeed, a closed system, but it uses water and as needed it gets it from the well (on-demand). I suspect the small tank next to the furnace (about two gallons) is the "water make-up" system.
If the efficiency is decreased, that's fine. Again, we'll probably only be there a few days during each winter and can use the natural gas fireplace for cool spring or fall days.
What I am hoping might be an option is this:
To ELIMINATE the water source, so that the system is filled with a fluid, is completely sealed and closed, and that it never needs additional fluid (water or anti-freeze).
Is this realistic? Does the heat come from steam? I have never had this type of heat.
If these systems are capable of using an anti-freeze, does it ever need a recharge or additional fluid if there are no leaks?
Now for specific questions to the replies:
Frenchie: If the system really can be drained and refilled with ease, how do you ensure nothing is left in this intricate system?
Bob NH: It's the water supply to the furnace that I'm trying to eliminate (if possible). Again, I know nothing about these systems.
I'd like to avoid anything electric. I've found electric heat sources to be too costly to use and would prefer to simply shut EVERYTHING off after draining water lines (except the heating system if it is charged with anti-freeze). I would also ensure the water softener is addressed.
Again, thanks to everyone for the suggestions.
If it is a closed system, and not steam, there should be almost no makeup water.
The little tank is an expansion tank to absorb pressure changes as the closed system water is heated and cooled.
The way you want it is the way it should work now. If you are using any significant amount of make-up water there is a leak.
The small tank on the heating system is an expansion tank to allow the water to expand a bit when it gets hot without causing pressure that would rupture the boiler. It has a bladder with air on one side and the boiler circuit on the water side.
You need water makeup if you get a leak, because if it loses water the system could overheat and damage the boiler.
You might operate the boiler to keep the place above freezing during the winter. That, along with an alarm system and an arrangement with a local caretaker might solve the problem.
I would set up a thermostat system to operate the boiler only when the temperature is below about 40 F, and shut it down completely when it is warmer than that or when it is above 35 F outside. By completely shutting down the boiler when it is safely above freezing you will not lose a lot of heat up the stack.
My boiler (and I'm sure some others) has a built-in anti-freeze protection. Even if it is not being asked to provide heat, if it senses it could be damaged by freezing, it will turn itself on to maintain some minimum temperature. this sort of thing is probably only available on newer, computer controlled boilers, though.
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I believe my boiler also protects itself from freezing. But it could not operate zone valves or the circulation pumps so the rest of the system could freeze.
Regarding loss of water. Your boiler should have a protection device to shut it down if it runs out of water. Information only; won't help you problem.
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I blew out all the lines with a compressor. It took hours - but like I said, that house has a huge / complicated system.
I worry about small / slow / un-noticed leak, leading to small infusions of makeup water so that I end up with a "freezable" solution in the system.
I also worry about power outages - we had three, the winter we kept the house open & I stayed there. I know it's not electric, but it still needs power to operate the electronics, pumps, etc... If you keep it running, I think Bob's suggestions of a local caretaker's a good one, if you keep it running.
FWIW, others who leave their houses open there, leave the thermostat set to 55 - for the margin of safety - if the power goes out, you have a day or so grace before the house & pipes cool down to freezing.
Master Plumber Mark:
there is nothing better than the
manly smell of WD 40 in the air
while banging away on brass with a chisel and hammer...
it smells like......victory......
do not hit your thumb...
Just so everyone's clear: I'm the POODLE in the picture ("french", get it?) The hot woman is my wife.
I agree with what the others have said about antifreeze the only thing I would add is that glycol will break down with time and become corosive and needs to be changed every 5 or so years maybe 10 with light use. About the boiler supply line. are you sure thats not feeding a tankless coil to provide you with hot water ? any good plumber should be able to do what you ask
Referenceing the Photo: The picture is not clear but that appears to be an unusual connection on the Temperature/Pressure port of the hot water heater. If the Temperature/Pressure relief valve is not permitted to discharge freely then you have a serious hazard.
Good eye, Bob...
Richard - the pipes in question, are right above that damp spot on the floor in the picture. Is that all one assembly, or just look that way because one's in front of the other?
A picture of same area, from a slightly different angle, would clear thing up.
Master Plumber Mark:
there is nothing better than the
manly smell of WD 40 in the air
while banging away on brass with a chisel and hammer...
it smells like......victory......
do not hit your thumb...
Just so everyone's clear: I'm the POODLE in the picture ("french", get it?) The hot woman is my wife.


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AlertRocket API: AlertRocket is a service that allows users to send mobile push notifications via their web sites and web applications. The service embeds links on web sites that users can then click to subscribe to receive notifications on their smartphones and tablets. The API exposes this functionality and makes it available to developers. Calls include sending push notifications, modifying registrations, and viewing registrations and feedback. The API uses RESTful calls and responses are formatted in JSON.
Allen Brain Atlas API: The Allen Brain Atlas is a collection of public online resources integrating extensive gene expression and neuroanatomical data. It is especially rich in resources relating to human and mouse neuroscience, but also includes some resources on non-human primates. The Allen Brain Atlas API consists of a set of URLs that make most of the data behind the project available for download.
Amazon Gift Cards API: The Amazon Gift Codes On Demand service lets companies create and distribute electronic Amazon Gift Card claim codes on demand, in real time, in virtually any denomination. The corportate program allows businesses to use the Amazon brand in their promotions as well as order physical cards in addition to the electronic codes. The API allows users to request individual gift codes and receive them instantly. The codes can then be distributed in any chosen format instantly. Documentation is not publicly available and interested developers should contact the provider for more information.
Bachbill API: The service provides a SaaS platform for application support, with bundles and subscriptions combining services for charging and provisioning applications according to specific needs. Applications can assemble packages of billing, payment, and delivery services to implement system capabilities and designs without unnecessary custom development.
API methods support definitions of events and actions for interacting with service resources. Methods also support management of account functions to integrate administrative actions of the service with an application's own functions.
BrandMyMail API: BrandMyMail offers a platform that lets users customize their email using social media. Users can add dynamic social content such as Twitter and Facebook updates, YouTube videos, blog posts, videos and more. In addition the platform gives users analytics tools that count the total emails sent, open rates and clicks. The API allows users to integrate the BrandMyMail platform with enterprise software. It uses HTTP calls and responses are formatted in XML and JSON.
BuyAds API: BuyAds.com is the largest catalog of Class 1 advertising. It lets web sites such as TechCrunch and Mashable create premium, guaranteed ad packages that users can shop through and buy. Everything through BuyAds is site specific and guaranteed/reserved campaigns – making it a programmatic futures market for premium ad inventory.
Through the API users can access the catalog of websites and their inventory, see pricing and availability, submit orders and offers, and complete the life cycle of an order including approval, payment, trafficking, and more.
The API is not available to the public. Select partners, like DSPs, RFP managers, or other similar marketing solutions are invited to access the API. Please contact the provider for more info at firstname.lastname@example.com. BuyAds.com is powered by www.isocket.com.
BuzzData API: BuzzData is a service that offers data hosting and management services. Users can upload data, track revisions, share data, and interact with the data with BuzzData.
The BuzzData API allows developers to access and integrate the functionality and data of BuzzData with other applications and to create new applications. Some example API methods include downloading datasets, listing datasets, and managing user information.
Capptain API: Capptain is a mobile apps analytics service that allows users to track and communicate with their users in real-time. Features of the service include the ability to track installs and their origins, monitoring of an app's performance, targeted push campaigns and more. The API allows developers to enable real-time app communication. It uses RESTful calls and responses are formatted in JSON. Full documentation is available with login.
Card.io API: card.io is a mobile payment service. card.io can be integrated within applications for mobile payments. card.io uses the mobile phone's camera for credit card scanning and payment processing.
The card.io API allows developers to integrate the functionality of card.io with other applications. The main API method is accepting payments and retrieving credit card and payment information.
CashFlows API: CashFlows is a web and mobile payment service. CashFlows allows businesses to invoice and collect payments from their customers via web or mobile payment platforms.
The CashFlows API allows developers to access and integrate the functionality of CashFlows with other applications and to create new applications. Some example API methods include payment management, user account management, and invoicing accounts.
Cent2Cent API: Cent2Cent is an on demand ecommerce platform specializing in digital content. The platform gives users the ability to offer promotions, affiliation and a purchase flow that are optimized for the digital content market. The platform is compatible with all devices, provides management capabilities, analysis tools and supports local payments, currencies and languages.
The Cent2Cent Platform API lets users leverage the functionality of the platform while selling digital content on their own web site. The API uses JavaScript and responses are formatted in XML and JSON.
CSC PairsDB API: PairsDB is a collection of protein sequences and the BLAST and PSI-BLAST alignments between them. Instead of running BLAST or PSI-BLAST individually, results can be retrieved from a database of pre-computed alignments. PairsDB is continually updated as it aims to become as comprehensive as possible. Alignment results can be retrieved from PairsDB via SOAP API.
Cubify API: The service provides a platform for designing three-dimensional objects and then generating copies of the designs using 3D printing technology. It also allows sharing of designs among the user community, with potential to buy and sell rights to produce objects based on the designs.
API methods support creation and management of object designs, including raster images and collections of images constituting a model of an object. Methods also allow management of groups of designs as "brands" as well as interaction among users of the service and purchase transactions.
Don Best Sports API: Don Best Sports is a web site that provides real time odds, information and news on various sports. The Don Best Sports API allows users to access the site data via web calls. The available data includes schedule, messages, injuries, betting lines, scores, teams, leagues and SportsBooks. The API uses SOAP protocol and responses are formatted in XML.
EBSCO Host API: The service is specific to the biomedical libraries within provider's general reference search tools. It is intended for quick online access to authoritative resources to support clinical settings, nursing activities, patient education, and general medical research. Applications gain topic-based access to comprehensive Electronic Health/Medical Records (EHR/EMR) to receive contextually relevant, evidence-based summaries for conditions and procedures from an network of resources, including DynaMed.
API methods support search within the provider's EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) or its integrated EBSCO Health Information Service (EHIS) collections. Methods also support browse access to system resources and retrieval of authority records for standard medical terminology.
Enrycher API: The service provides text analysis and processing at two levels. Shallow text processing reviews a sample to detect topic and keyword coverage and extract named entities, including people, places, organizations, and some numerical entities like percentages and amounts of money. Deep text processing attempts to resolve named entities detected with standard sources and linked datasets, including DBpedia, while also merging references to identical named entities, disambiguating word senses, and performing other complex semantic processing.
API methods support identification of named entities within sample text and merging of separate references to a specific entity. Methods also detect matches for those entities within standard repositories, disambiguation of references to different entities, categorization, and export to RDF formats.
Floorplanner API: The service provides online tools for creating building layouts and floorplans then sharing those images via web URLs. Some of that functionality is exposed via the API to allow other applications to incorporate planning and floorplan image management functions.
API methods support create/read/update/delete (CRUD) functions for floorplan images. Methods also allow inclusion of floorplans in larger user projects, publishing or protecting project collections, and exporting designs in standard formats.
Flow API: Flow offers real-time information solutions, such as the Flow cloud-based platform as a service. Flow allows users to retrieve and curate the real-time information and data needed for a variety of applications and services.
The Flow API allows developers to access and integrate the functionality and data of Flow with other applications and to create new applications. Public documentation is not available; interested developers should contact firstname.lastname@example.com for more information and API access.
GamerCV API: The service logs scoring history for online games, allowing reporting and comparison across individual game platforms. It is intended to promote social interaction among players, which increases awareness of the games.
API methods support updating and retrieving scores logged for a specific game. The API facilitates recording and reporting player histories to build reputation and interaction around a game.
GeoAdmin API: GeoAdmin by the Swiss Confederation is a geospatial and mapping tool. GeoAdmin allows access to geospatial data provided by the Swiss Confederation.
The GeoAdmin API allows developers to access and integrate the functionality and data of GeoAdmin with other applications, websites, and to create new applications. Some example API methods include mapping, map rendering, creating layers, and managing and editing maps created.
Geocoda API: Geocoda is a service that allows users to add geolocation and geodata to applications. Geodata can be stored and managed with Geocoda's database.
The Geocoda API allows developers to access and integrate the functionality and geodata of Geocoda with other applications and to create new applications. Some example API methods include retrieving and listing location information and finding and returning geocordinates.
Google In-App Payments API: The Google In-App Payments API gives developers the ability to add an in app purchase flow allowing them to sell digital and virtual goods from within their app. The API uses a JSON Web Token (JWT) to represent the items that can be purchased. For buyers the service allows for purchases that require a minimum of clicks and lets them purchase across the web and mobile with a single secure account.
Google Payment Express API: The Google Payment Express API lets merchants accept Google Wallet over mobile devices. With the API merchants can access and store payment information in the cloud. Buyers payment information from Google Wallet is passed to the merchant to complete the transaction with their own payment processor. The API currently is only for partner merchants and does require authorization to use.
Grove.io API: Grove is a hosted IRC chat service for teams that goes beyond basic IRC servers. It offers archived and searchable chat logs, channel management and access control, private messaging, and web client services. It also supports the major IRC clients and bots. Grove offers three API services: Simple POST for posting basic service messages to channels, HTTP API for building applications on top of Grove and pulling a variety of usage data, and Live API for requesting real-time updates via long polling.
HarperCollins Open Book API: HarperCollins is a large book publisher. HarperCollins publishes a wide variety of genres, including fiction, memoirs, business books, biographies, cookbooks, and children's books.
The HarperCollins API allows developers to access and integrate the HarperCollins book information, such as authors, titles, and previews, with other applications and to create new applications. Some example API methods include retrieving author information, retrieving book previews, and retrieving other book information.
Healthfinder.gov API: Healthfinder is an example of a government health agency's API. Their Quick Guide to Healthy Living API provides developers the latest version of the healthfinder.gov Quick Guide to Healthy Living content. This API allows developers flexibility to create customized products. To assist with this process, they have made the same content and updates available via content syndication for users with less web development experience or fewer resources.
HipCricket API: Hipcricket is a mobile marketing and advertising company. Hipcricket offers AD LIFE, a messaging platform that lets users create, manage and measure mobile marketing campaigns. The platform gives users the ability to send messages out via SMS or MMS. The Hipcricket API allows developers to integrate the platform's ability to send and receive mobile messages into their own existing systems. Documentation of the API is not publicly available.
HoundSleuth API: HoundSleuth is a cloud-based search engine. Users can index documents and search for other documents in real-time.
The HoundSleuth API allows developers to access and integrate the functionality of HoundSleuth into other applications, websites, and to create new applications. Some example API methods include indexing documents, managing documents, search management, and scoring documents.
iBuildApp API: iBuildApp is a "do-it-yourself" mobile application building platform. iBuildApp offers features and services to help companies and organizations build mobile applications. iBuildApp's features include design tools, media management tools, and social network integrations.
The iBuildApp API allows developers to access and integrate the functionality of iBuildApp with other applications and to create new applications. Some example API methods include managing images, managing events, and managing news items.
IMSLP API: The International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) is a community built library of public domain music scores, the originals which have been scanned to PDF. The project contains over 170,000 scores and 10,000 recordings for over 50,000 works by over 7,200 composers. The IMSLP API allows developers to query the data stored in the library. This data includes composer, work, file, category, record ID and more. It uses RESTful calls and responses are formatted in JSON, PHP and WDDX.
InfoNgen API: InfoNgen is a content discovery engine and service for industry professionals. InfoNgen offers customers cloud-based services for content discovery, analysis, and reporting in fields such as corporate, financial, and legal.
The InfoNgen web services API allows developers to access and integrate the functionality and data of InfoNgen with other applications. The API allows for searching and retrieving results. Public documentation is not available; API access is available through accounts.
Jet2.com API: Jet2 is the UK's leading low cost airline flying from 8 UK airports to over 40 European cities. Jet2.com offers an affiliate program that allows partners to monetize their website traffic by referring sales to Jet2.com. Partners have access to the Jet2.com API that profides access to live pricing on flights. Interested developers should contact the provider for more information. Documentation is not publicly available.
JISC Monitoring Unit API: The service is provided by the UK government organization that champions integration of technology within higher education. Its role includes overseeing technology initiatives it funds within UK colleges and universities, which file required reports tracking their service performance against established metrics. The Monitoring Unit provides access to reported data, both to JISC to measure service usage over time and to inform interested third parties.
API methods support search against the database of technology programs within institutions and sites monitored by JISC. Methods allow retrieval of summaries across sites or detailed reporting on individual sites.
Kii Cloud API: Kii Cloud is a cloud-hosted backend solution provider for mobile applications. Features of Kii Cloud include user management, application monetization, and analytics and reporting tools.
The Kii Cloud API allows developers to access and integrate the functionality of Kii Cloud with other applications and to create new applications. Some example API methods include managing user accounts, managing data and media, and requesting ads.
Kippt API: Kippt is a bookmarking application that users can use to save web files. Users can organize their bookmarks, search them, and share them with other people.
The Kippt API allows developers to access and integrate the functionality of Kippt with other applications and to create new applications. Some example API methods include managing account information, retrieving lists of bookmarks, and searching lists and bookmarks.
KT Ucloud API: KT is South Korea's leading telecom company and among their products is the ucloud public cloud service. The KT ucloud is a public cloud service serving the Asia-Pacific region. It delivers resources including infrastructre, platform and software for on demand elastic computing. The RESTful API can be used for managing user creation and storage information as well as creation and management of file boxes.
LoginRadius API: LoginRadius is a service that allows users to log in to multiple websites with their existing social network accounts, such as Facebook and Twitter. Companies can integrate LoginRadius into their websites to allow their visitors to log in with their social network accounts.
The LoginRadius API allows developers to access and integrate the functionality of LoginRadius with other applications and websites. Some example API methods include authenticating sessions, managing user accounts and data, and retrieving user data. Documentation is available with an account and login.
Meridix API: Meridix is a service that lets users webcast their own sports and events with live audio and video. The webcasts have the ability to launch game trackers and live scores. When an event is completed, users can send automatic text or email alerts.
The Meridix API allows users to retrieve data from any of their Meridix accounts for use in their web sites or applications. This includes live data from from webcasts, scores, news, photos, polls, and other content. It uses RESTful calls and responses are formatted in XML.
MintChip API: The Royal Canadian Mint has created MintChip, a digital currency that can be used online, on mobiles, and on other devices as real currency with real value. MintChip also works offline at physical point-of-sales.
The MintChip API allows developers to access and integrate the functionality of hosted MintChip with other applications and to create new applications. Some example API methods include retrieving chip information, retrieving chip log entries, and retrieving the value of the chip.
Mxit API: Mxit is a social networking application for users in Africa. Users of Mxit can share updates, chat with friends, text message, and upload images and media, among other things.
The Mxit API allows developers to access and integrate Mxit with other applications and to create new applications. Some example API methods include sending and receiving messages, listing and retrieving elements, and managing user accounts.
Norwegian Bioinformatics Platform API: The Norwegian Bioinformatics Platform hosts a collection of APIs for accessing the Eukaryotic Linear Motif (ELM) database and the Jaspar database. The ELM database contains descriptions, representation, and known instances of functional sites in proteins. The Jaspar database contains profiles of transcription factor binding sites in DNA. Data can be retrieved from these databases via SOAP calls.
Nutritionix API: Nutritionix is a search engine and database for nutrition information. Users can browse or search by restaurants and food to find nutrition information. Users can also share their nutrition data with Nutritionix.
The Nutritionix API allows developers to access and integrate the functionality and data of Nutritionix with other applications and to create new applications. Public documentation is not available; interested developers should sign up here: http://www.nutritionix.com/api .
OpenLigaDB API: OpenLigaDB is an open community operated database for entering and retrieving sports information. This information, primarily centered on football results can be used in the creation and running of leagues. The API provides access to the data stored on the site. This data includes date and time of games, group information, name and URL of teams, game outcomes, latest updates to the game data and more. The API can also be used to manage leagues including adding and editing of teams and schedules and entering the game results. It uses SOAP protocol and responses are formatted in XML. The site and documentation are in German.
Pathbase API: Pathbase is a database of images showing pathology in mutated or genetically altered mice for educational and referential purposes. Image types include histopathology photomicrographs and macroscopic images. The desired images can be retrieved by searching for specific lesions or classes of lesion, by genetic locus, or by a wide set of parameters shown on the Advanced Search Interface. The Pathbase API allows users to access the database programmatically via SOAP calls.
PicMonkey API: PicMonkey is an online photo editing service from the makers of Picnik. The current API uses Picnik endpoints and is designed to be compatible with the Picnik API to help existing Picnik API partners. Functionality includes using PicMonkey to upload, edit and save user images. Public documentation is not currently available but interested developers should contact the provider at email@example.com.
PlantTFDB API: The Plant Transcription Factor Database (PlantTFDB) contains over 50,000 transcription factors (TF) from 49 species of green algae, mosses, ferns, gymnosperms, and angiosperms. Each identified TF is given comprehensive annotations, including functional domains, 3D structures, gene ontology, expression information, and annotations from various databases. By inferring orthologous groups and constructing phylogenetic trees, evolutionary relationships among identified TFs can be inferred. Data from PlantTFDB can be accessed programmatically via SOAP API.
Pontiflex API: Pontiflex is a digital content advertising platform. Pontiflex offers advertisers services to place ads in digital applications and lets publishers run ads to make money.
The Pontiflex API allows developers to access and integrate the functionality and data of Pontiflex with other applications. Public documentation is not available; API access comes with account sign up.
Precog API: Precog is an application building platform. Precog's APIs allow developers to access the functionality of Precog to build, support, store, and analyze features and applications. Some of the API methods include managing jobs, user account management, and retrieving lists and specified paths.
ProDom API: ProDom hosts a comprehensive database of protein domain families. These domain families are automatically generated from global comparisons of all available protein sequences in the UniProt Knowledge Database. In recent years, ProDom has placed increased emphasis on 3D modeling of proteins. A series of SOAP-based APIs are available that allow ProDom information to be retrieved programmatically.
PSNapi API: The service logs and provides access to information about game-play on the PlayStation 3 platform. It allows creation and updating of player profiles and social links among players. It also provides information about games and player history, including trophies gained through game-play over time.
API methods support creating and updating a player profile, with name, avatar, progress levels over time, and trophies won. Methods also allow management of friend links among player profiles and updating of overall player experience for specific games.
Purifyr API: Purifyr is a service that mines web content to extract information based on semantic analysis. Purifyr turns websites with a lot of graphics and "noise" into the written content it contains without anything else.
The Purifyr API allows developers to access and integrate the functionality of Purifyr with other applications and to create new applications. The API method returns content from a website URL when submitted to the API endpoint.
PushWoosh API: PushWoosh is a service for push notifications to devices and applications. PushWoosh offers a variety of accounts and plans, based on the user's needs.
The PushWoosh API allows developers to access and integrate the functionality of PushWoosh with other applications. Some example API methods include creating messages, registering devices, and removing devices.
Reactome API: Reactome is a publicly available, peer reviewed biological pathway database. The core unit of the Reactome data model is the reaction. Entities (nucleic acids, proteins, complexes, and small molecules) participating in reactions form a network of biological interactions that are grouped into pathways. Pathway annotations are authored by expert biologists in collaboration with the Reactome editorial staff and cross-referenced to many bioinformatics databases.
Redbus API: The service provides ticketing free of booking fees for bus travel within India. It generates ticket documents for users to print or distributes valid "mTickets" via SMS text message, avoiding crowds, long waits, and sell-outs at physical ticketing locations.
API methods support submission of ticketing requests, including review and selection of routes, boarding and drop-off points, and seating layouts. Methods allow creation and cancellation of tentative bookings as well as completion of the ticketing process.
Redis To Go API: Redis To Go is a platform for hosting and managing instances of Redis.
The Redis API allows developers to access and integrate the functionality of Redis To Go with other applications. The available API method is retrieving lists of instances.
Regulatory Sequence Analysis Tools API: Regulatory Sequence Analysis Tools (RSAT) offers a series of applications dedicated to the detection of regulatory signals in non-coding DNA sequences. The only input required is a list of genes of interest. From this information, users can retrieve upstream sequences, discover putative regulatory signals, search matching positions for these signals, and display results graphically in the form of a feature map.
SaaSpose API: SaaSpose is a cloud-based document generation, conversion and automation platform. Developers can use Saaspose to allow their apps the ability to work with Microsoft Word documents, Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, Microsoft PowerPoint presentations, Adobe PDFs, OpenDocument formats, and email formats and protocols.
The SaaSpose API offers the following functionality to be integrated into a users web site or application: Document Assembly & Mail-Merge, Reporting, Document Conversion, Text and Image Extraction, Device Targeting, Metadata Removal, Barcode Recognition, Generation & Embedding, Email Templating & Tracking. It uses RESTful calls and responses are formatted in XML and JSON.
SmarterMeasure API: The service helps educators to assess a learner's readiness to engage in an online learning program and overall prospects for success in an instructional environment heavy in technology. It provides assessment tools to evaluate student skills, knowledge, and attributes suited to technological instruction.
API methods support learner account creation and management, reporting of assessment results, and charting of results. Integration kits allow connection of the service with the Blackboard and Pearson Learning Studio environments.
TalentAnalytics API: The service provides custom human resources and recruiting content to support recruiting, HR management, and staffing planning. Its functions support identifying and researching candidates for open positions, creating interview questionnaires and screening instruments, and engaging existing team members.
API methods support creation and updating job candidate records as well as assembly and delivery of system content elements. Available content elements include text discussions of the optimal work environment, indicators for performance assessment, and tips for communication, managing, and motivating employees.
Telsolutions API: Telsolutions is a multi-channel communications company that offers voice, email, and text messaging, analysis and security services. The Telsolutions Web Services API modules allow users to integrate selected Telsolutions services into their own custom business applications. The API modules provide solutions for automated data exchange, real-time messaging, and Computer Telephony Integration (CTI) capabilities like call routing and call pacing.
TFmodeller API: TFmodeller scans a DNA-binding protein sequence against a library of protein-DNA complexes and builds comparative models of how the protein might bind to DNA. The resulting output includes complex coordinates, schematic interface diagrams, interface alignments, and DNA motifs. TFmodeller's functions are available as either a web interface or a SOAP API.
Thru API: Thru is a provider of secure and managed file transfer solutions. The service is used for the secure sending, sharing and collaboration of files and folders worldwide. Thru can be used to work with confidential financial records, sensitive healthcare data, advanced architectural/engineering designs and more. The Thru API allows for integration between their Managed File Transfer as a service and third party applications. Functionality includes enabling users to publish content to portals, perform searches, set file expiration and more. The API uses SOAP protocol and responses are formatted in XML. Public documentation is not available.
TogoWS API: TogoWS aims to integrate and simplify API access to databases provided by major bioinformatics centers, such as NCBI, EBI, DDBJ, KEGG, PDBj, and CBRC. These databases' APIs are especially useful for high throughput analyses. TogoWS provides users with a way of accessing all of them uniformly via SOAP or REST calls.
The TogoWS website and API documentation are available in both English and Japanese.
UseFunnel API: The service provides a data-collection platform for smartphones designed to invite and log user responses for any application. Forms and collection tools provide touch-friendly controls for ease of use, logical question selection and branching based on user responses, and configurable themes. Data analysis and report tools retrieve responses with a range of visualization options.
API methods support creating and viewing questions to be presented as well as user responses, either by individual submission or in summary.
Validator.nu API: The service validates html code against a range of standards specified in the request. Options include generic or html5 validation, or validation of the document object model. Input includes an http or https URL or data resource IRI. A range of preset schemas can be specified in the request.
API methods support submission of a resource URL to be validated, along with a number of parameters for parser, schema, and Unicode options. Returned data provide references to departures from relevant standards.
VetMedStat API: The service provides remote collaboration and advisory services in veterinary medicine. It offers consultation on animal radiology, cardiology, and other diagnostic and clinical actions. In addition to detailed reporting based on submitted observations, consultants from the service provide expert evaluation to help guide animal medical interventions.
API methods support creation of new cases and retrieval of existing cases, addition of new diagnostic information and reports, and related functions. API interactions enable interactions of veterinarians with the service and timely responses to patient situations.
Visual Omics aGEM API: aGEM (anatomic Gene Expression Mapping) is designed to integrate phenotypic information from spatial and temporal distributions of expressed genes. It provides easy access to information on gene expression in humans and mice. For those who are developing an application and wish to integrate with aGEM, API documentation is available by request.
WEHUB API: The Water and Environmental Hub (WEHUB) is an open-source, open-data project that collects, aggregates, and connects data from various sources on water and environment. Features include a spatial map, database, and tools for data visualization.
The WEHUB API allows developers to access and integrate the functionality and data of WEHUB with other applications and to create new applications. Documentation is available with free account registration and login.
XML Team FlexSport API: XML Team Solutions is a sports news and data provider offering various solutions for businesses in need of syndicated content. These solutions include sports feeds, fantasy games, player analysis as well as local content creation. XML Team Solutions offers syndicated feeds covering all major North American sports leagues and events. The FlexSport API lets users query the site databases for all available XML feeds. Documentation is not publicly available.
XSPAN API: XSPAN is an internet-based cross-species anatomy network designed to support access to tissue-based genetic information. It provides interoperability between databases of key model embryos which, in turn, facilitates access to gene expression and other tissue-based data across species. XSPAN's database of cross-species anatomy information can be accessed programmatically via SOAP calls.
YESpay API: YESpay is a payments services company that provides secure EMV Chip and PIN credit and debit cards, and e-commerce card payment processing services. YESpay provides APIs to enable integrations with all of its EasyV-Suite products. With the API users can add a card payment flow directly into their system. Additionally the API allows for transactions reporting, automating the capture process, viewing delivery addresses products that have been ordered by customers and more. Documentation is available with a partner account.
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1. San Francisco (1-0). Thanks to three touchdowns from the least-appreciated quarterback-running back combo platter in football, Alex Smith (211 passing yards) and Frank Gore (112 rushing yards). The 30-22 win over Green Bay didn't seem that close.
2. New England (1-0). The rookie cavalry for the D -- end Chandler Jones and linebacker Dont'a Hightower -- came up big. They're players.
3. Houston (1-0). Does J.J. Watt have a big impact every game he plays, or is that just my imagination? Another 1.5 sacks and three passes deflected against Miami. Incredible for a 290-pound, 3-4 defensive end.
4. Green Bay (0-1). Not jumping off the Packers bandwagon just yet, but tempted. They have lost the last two games by a combined 25 points.
5. Denver (1-0). It's not a dream. Peyton Manning really was that good, 129.2-rating good, in his first real game in 20 months. Really agree with Tony Dungy: The Broncos waited too long to use the no-huddle. Peyton Manning should live in the no-huddle.
6. Dallas (1-0). I'm not sure the offensive line is going to hold up, but I know one thing about one of the 2011 weakness that killed last year's team: These Cowboys can cover.
7. Atlanta (1-0). Two points in a game, as happened in the playoff debacle at the Meadowlands last January? Not going to happen with this crew, and this offensive playcaller (Dirk Koetter). All of a sudden, the Denver-Atlanta Monday-nighter next week is the Must See TV Game of the Week.
8. Baltimore (0-0). Excited about seeing the Ravens hurry-up offense tonight.
9. New York Jets (1-0). How cool is this: Tim Tebow was in the game on the first play of the season, a second tight end. But we never saw the full monty with Tebow, because as offensive coordinator Tony Sparano said afterward, why empty the ideological saddlebag when you don't have to? (Actually, "ideological saddlebag'' is mine. Don't you just love it?)
10. Washington (1-0). This seems low. Tenth? If the 'Skins didn't let the Saints have a prayer late, they'd be a few slots higher.
11. Chicago (1-0). It was only nine times that Jay Cutler found Brandon Marshall against the Colts, but it seemed like 19. Every time I looked up, there was Marshall making Colts miss.
12. New Orleans (0-1). Mulligan. But it's not a good sign for Steve Spagnuolo and the new defense, surrendering eight scoring drives and 464 yards to a rookie quarterback.
13. New York Giants (0-1). Jints' regular season record over the last 20 games: 10-10.
14. Detroit (1-0). Sloppy opener, but maybe the Rams are better than we think. The Lions are going to have to be much better Sunday night at Candlestick.
15. Pittsburgh (0-1). Even if Ben Roethlisberger didn't gift-wrap that pick-6 to Tracy Porter, I didn't like the Steelers' chances to go the length of the field in the last couple of minutes to win. But that's not a disastrous opener for the Steelers. Roethlisberger played well, and the Steelers got good contributions from the wideouts and from an unknown back named Jonathan Dwyer. Kid runs very hard.
Offensive Players of the Week
Peyton Manning, QB, Denver. "I don't how Peyton's neck is doing, but his brain's doing fine,'' Cris Collinsworth said on NBC with about five minutes left in a game. It was a vintage Manning game. He controlled the defense with his eyes, cadence and movement back and forth from the line, using the play clock as effectively as ever. He's had better days than his 19-of-26, 253-yard, two-TD, no-pick performance, but this wasn't about the numbers (even though he did join Brett Favre and Dan Marino as the only quarterbacks ever to throw 400 touchdown passes). It was about the maestro back with a new orchestra, and performing beautifully.
Mark Sanchez, QB, New York Jets. Didn't seem like it'd be Sanchez's day after he threw a stupid early shovel-interception, but he rebounded to throw three touchdowns, complete 70 percent of his throws (by far his best number of the day, considering he completed 57 percent last season) and move the chains for 266 yards. And he kept Tim Tebow on the sidelines for much of the day. Tebow didn't throw a pass. Excellent performance by a player facing the most pressure of any other opening-day quarterback.
Defensive Players of the Week
Tracy Porter, cornerback, Denver. Eight tackles, five deflections and a 43-yard game-sealing interception return for touchdown in the Broncos' 31-19 win Sunday night over Pittsburgh. The Broncos paid Porter $4 million for one year of his services, and I daresay he earned most of that before midnight Sunday.
Ronde Barber, free safety, Tampa Bay. In his 200th consecutive start for the Bucs, Barber, transitioning to safety, had an interception and a sack in the stifling defensive performance against Cam Newton and the Panthers. I think I'm going to be writing about this amazing player when I'm 75.
Dr. Z Unsung Man in the Trenches of the Week
In honor of my friend Paul Zimmerman, the long-time Sports Illustrated football writer who has been sidelined since November 2008 after suffering three strokes. Zim still is fighting to come back from the strokes, but can't write yet, nor can he speak well. A former college and semi-pro offensive lineman, Zim always thought we in the business concentrated too much on the pretty boys and not enough on the men on the lines who did the real hard business of football. Thanks to many of you for suggesting this new category in the column. I'll use it all season.
Nick Sundberg, center/long-snapper, Washington. Zim would love Nick Sundberg, who took a helmet in the left forearm in the second quarter of Washington's game at New Orleans, breaking the forearm for the second time in his life. It also happened in high school, about an inch higher. "I just had to keep telling myself it didn't hurt,'' Sundberg told me from the Redskins' bus to the airport after the 40-32 upset of the Saints. "We really didn't have anybody else. I've always told [special teams coach] Danny Smith I'm never coming out of the game anyway, no matter what happens to me.''
After the break, Sundberg, a third-year undrafted free agent from Cal, had the arm wrapped and snapped six balls to the punter and holder the rest of the game -- flawlessly. How exactly does one snap a ball on a line to a kicker or holder with a broken arm? "Well, it was my guide arm, my left,'' he said. "So if it had been my right arm, the arm I use to snap, I would have been in trouble. I was able to guide the ball through my legs and get it back OK.'' If you say so.
Special Teams Players of the Week
David Akers, K, San Francisco. At the end of the first half, his 63-yard NFL-record-tying field goal bounced over the crossbar, giving the Niners a nine-point lead. Three field goals got him off to a good start defending his NFL scoring title.
Jeremy Kerley, WR/PR, New York Jets. After catching Mark Sanchez's first touchdown pass of the year in the first quarter, Kerley took back the first punt for touchdown by a Jet since 2002, a 68-yard dream-weave through the Bills' entire punt team. The Jets are really going to need him.
Greg Zuerlein, K, St. Louis. New special teams coach John Fassel, son of Jim, was told to go find a kicker before the draft this year, and his choice was a kid who started his career at Nebraska-Omaha and finished it at Missouri Western. The Rams picked Zuerlein in the sixth round, and in his debut Sunday, he repaid the faith. Four of his six kickoffs were touchbacks in Detroit, and he had field goals of 48, 29 and 46 yards without a miss.
Blair Walsh, K, Minnesota. Walsh, in his first real NFL game, went 4 for 4 in field goals, forcing overtime against Jacksonville with a 55-yarder at the Metrodome and then winning the game with a 38-yarder in overtime.
Coach of the Week
Greg Schiano, head coach, Tampa Bay. The Bucs were last in the NFL in points allowed last year, and last against the run. In two games against the Panthers last year, they gave up 86 points. But they've bought into Schiano early, and held Carolina to 10 yards rushing and 10 points at the Pirate Ship. One game's too early to say the rah-rah stuff is going to work in the NFL, but discipline is discipline, and organization is organization. And Kellen Winslow and Brian Price, casualties under Schiano, haven't landed anywhere, have they?
Goat of the Week
Mario Williams, DE, Buffalo. You can excuse a preseason of no production, because no one cares about the preseason. But no team had the kind of crisis the Jets had at right tackle in the preseason, dumping starter Wayne Hunter in favor of the untested Austin Howard, and on Sunday, Williams got nothing done playing across from Howard. This much of nothing: one tackle, zero sacks, zero quarterback hits. A pathetic opening display for a man who will make $40 million over the first two years ($1.18 million for his no-show Sunday) of a six-year, $96 million deal.
This was the first football weekend in 27 years that Hines Ward has not been either playing a football game, practicing to play a football game, or rehabbing from an injury suffered in a football game.
His last such autumn weekend came in 1985, when young Hines, in fourth grade in Forest Park, Ga., a suburb of Atlanta, didn't play football. Since then, it was three years with the Forest Park Dolphins youth team, one season at Babb Middle School, four seasons at Forest Park High, four seasons at Georgia, and 14 seasons in Pittsburgh.
"Half my life ... three quarters of my life. Amazing,'' he said Friday, prepping for another day in his new job analyzing the game for NBC. "What's amazing is how it flew by. I'm a kid, playing, then it seems like I'm in Pittsburgh, just trying to earn a roster spot. And I got so much out of it. No one loved football more than I did. But now, I've got this new life, and I've got to work hard at it. It's definitely going to be weird, but it's OK to hang up the shoes and move on.''
"Oh man, I gotta get out of Cleveland.''
-- Eagles quarterback Mike Vick, after throwing four interceptions (it should have been five, but for a drop by a Browns rookie linebacker on the game-winning touchdown drive) at Cleveland Browns Stadium Sunday and barely surviving. Philadelphia beat the Browns 17-16 on a four-yard touchdown pass from Vick to tight end Clay Harbor with 78 seconds left.
"It's like we were making up for lost time."
-- Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez, after the Jets put up 48 points on the Bills Sunday and routed Buffalo. New York was easily the most pathetic offensive team in the league in the preseason, not scoring a touchdown in the first three preseason weeks.
"I'm still feeling my way out. I still have some limitations."
-- Peyton Manning, after the victory over Pittsburgh.
What would those be, exactly?
I did enjoy the graphic our game guys used at NBC, the one that showed Manning throwing a sideline route, pre-surgeries, at 49.7 mph, and the same type of sideline route this summer at 47.6. His ball looks to be slightly less of the 100 percent perfect spiral it was three or four years ago. But the accuracy, and the way he fits it into small areas looks the same to me.
"We have 12 plays on the wristband. The terminology is the same as we used in New Orleans. The kids said, 'This looks hard.' But I said, 'I've seen your homework. That's a lot harder.' And they've done a great job with it.''
-- Sean Payton, who is working as an offensive assistant coach on his 12-year-old son Connor's football team in suburban Dallas this season while serving a season-long suspension for his alleged role in the Saints' bounty program, in an interview with Mike Triplett of the New Orleans Times-Picayune. Payton was referring to the offensive system he has installed on the team, and how the quarterback is given a wristband with 12 plays he can call, depending on Payton's direction.
Tennessee running back Chris Johnson's tweet on March 3: "Statement is I'm gonna lead the league n rushing this year save this."
I did.
Tennessee running back Chris Johnson's stat line in Sunday's opener: 11 carries, four yards.
Extrapolating ...
Tennessee running back Chris Johnson, at that pace, would have to play 402 games this fall to win the rushing title, if it takes the same number of yards, 1,606, to win the rushing title this year as last year.
I beg you, Delta Air Lines and LaGuardia Airport. Please fix the insane asylum that is Terminal C and D, and the Marine Air Terminal, at the airport. For the unfamiliar, here's how it works if you've got a Delta flight at LaGuardia. Delta is at Terminal A (the Marine Air Terminal), Terminal C and Terminal D. When you approach the airport, the Delta Shuttle (flights to Washington and Boston) operate out of Terminal A. The other flights operate out of Terminal C or D.
If you print out your boarding pass a couple hours before your flight and head for the airport, you'll usually have the gate number on the boarding pass. If not, God help you.
Let's say you're not from New York, and you're just in town, and you have to catch a plane out of LaGuardia on Delta. Cab driver says to you, "Where to?'' You say, "LaGuardia. Delta terminal." Cabbie wonders if that's the Marine Air Terminal, Terminal C or Terminal D. You don't have your boarding pass. So you don't know. You approach the airport, and there should be some signage on site, telling you where your flight is flying out of. Nope. No idea.
And if you guess Terminal D, let's say, and it's Terminal C, you get through the rat's maze of security -- it's always long, because Delta is always busy -- and then have to get sardined into a bus downstairs for the ride to Terminal C. Or if it's the Marine Air Terminal, you've got a long ride on a different airport bus.
I mean, anybody at Delta ever hear of signage?
"Tomorrow is one of my favorite days of the year. 'Overreaction Monday.' ''
-- @RossTuckerNFL, the NFL analyst and former NFL offensive lineman, at 5:23 p.m. ET Sunday.
"Troy polamalu is the most instinctive safety in the history of the #nfl #pittsburghsteelers''
-- @merrilhoge, the ESPN football analyst and former NFL fullback, after Polamalu blitzed in the first quarter at Denver and tackled running back Knowshon Moreno for no gain.
"Victory is mine!!!! -stewie griffin''
-- @JonVilma51, Saints linebacker, after his one-year suspension was overturned by an appeals panel on Friday.
"The good news in all of this, is that I set up my fantasy lineups beforehand. So there shall be no excuses at this point."
-- @BMcCarthy32, from his hospital room Saturday in the Bay Area, recovering from a skull fracture after being hit with a line drive. When Niners linebacker Patrick Willis tweeted McCarthy some good wishes, McCarthy tweeted back: "Thanks buddy, I feel like I just got hit by you.''
"I miss newspapers. It's weird hitting a dog on the nose with an iPad. @4thandpain"
-- @AdamCarriker94, the Washington defensive end.
You're a good man, Carriker.
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