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Fantasy sport
A fantasy sport (also known less commonly as rotisserie or roto) is a game where participants assemble imaginary or virtual teams of real players of a professional sport. These teams compete based on the statistical performance of those players' players in actual games. This performance is converted into points that are compiled and totaled according to a roster selected by each fantasy team's manager. These point systems can be simple enough to be manually calculated by a "league commissioner" who coordinates and manages the overall league, or points can be compiled and calculated using computers tracking actual results of the professional sport. In fantasy sports, team owners draft, trade and cut (drop) players, analogously to real sports.
Online fantasy sports are a multi-billion dollar industry, and fantasy NFL football is by far the most popular fantasy sport.[1]
Simulation games such as Strat-O-Matic are not considered fantasy sport, because they are not scored using real results of actual sporting events.
- 1 History
- 2 Industry overview
- 3 Fan experience in fantasy sports
- 4 Legal issues in the United States
- 5 Popular fantasy sports
- 6 See also
- 7 References
- 8 External links
Early history[edit]
The concept of picking players and running a contest based on their year-to-date stats has been around since shortly after World War II. One of the earliest published accounts of fantasy sports involved Oakland businessman and one time Oakland Raiders limited partner Wilfred "Bill" Winkenbach. He devised fantasy golf in the latter part of the 1950s.[2] Each player selected a team of professional golfers and the person with the lowest combined total of strokes at the end of the tournament would win.[citation needed] Golf is a simple fantasy game to administer and keep tabs on, since each participant is concerned only with the scores of his or her team members without anything else to complicate it. However, it was never organized into a widespread hobby or formal business.
In Oakland in 1962, Winkenbach formed the first reported fantasy football league, called the Greater Oakland Professional Pigskin Prognosticators League (GOPPPL), with eight teams.[3] George Blanda was the first player taken in the first draft in 1963. 1963 draft results
The first reported fantasy baseball league began in Boston in 1960. Harvard University sociologist William Gamson started the "Baseball Seminar" where colleagues would form rosters that earned points on the players' final standings in batting average, RBI, ERA and wins.[4] Gamson later brought the idea with him to the University of Michigan where some professors played the game. One professor playing the game was Bob Sklar, who taught an American Studies seminar which included Daniel Okrent, who learned of the game his professor played.[4] At around the same time a league from Glassboro State College also formed a similar baseball league and had its first draft in 1976.[5]
Modern founding of rotisserie[edit]
An important development in fantasy sports came with the development of Rotisserie League Baseball in 1980 (although research suggests a team of players from Southern New Jersey have been running the same style league since 1976 making them the first Rotisserie players).[citation needed] Magazine writer/editor Daniel Okrent is credited with inventing it, the name coming from the New York City restaurant La Rotisserie Francaise where he and some friends used to meet and play.[6] The game's innovation was that "owners" in a Rotisserie league would draft teams from the list of active Major League Baseball players and would follow their statistics during the ongoing season to compile their scores. In other words, rather than running realistic simulations using statistics for seasons whose outcomes were already known, the owners would have to make similar predictions about players' playing time, health, and expected performance that real baseball managers must make.
Because Okrent was a member of the media, other journalists, especially sports journalists, were introduced to the game. Many early players were introduced to the game by these sports journalists, especially during the 1981 Major League Baseball strike; with little else to write about, many baseball writers wrote columns about Rotisserie league. A July 8, 1980 New York Times Article titled "What George Steinbrenner is to the American League, Lee Eisenberg is to the Rotisseries League" set off a media storm that led to stories about the league on CBS TV and other publications.[7]
In March 1981, Dan Okrent wrote an essay about the Rotisserie League for Inside Sports called "The Year George Foster Wasn't Worth $36."[8] The article included the rules of the game. Founders of the original Rotisserie league published a guide book starting in 1984.[citation needed] In 1982, Ballantine published the first widely available Bill James Abstract, which helped fuel fantasy baseball interest. Fantasy fans often used James' statistical tools and analysis as a way to improve their teams.[9] James was not a fantasy player and barely acknowledged fantasy baseball in his annual Abstract, but fantasy baseball interest is credited with his strong sales.[9]
In 1988, Peter Olenoski and Joseph Kikosicki formed the Managerial Baseball League "The Reality of the Fantasy" which they pioneered the first 5x5 format by accounting for Runs and Strikeouts.[citation needed] Previous rotisserie leagues used a 4x4 system, where the numbers refer to the number of pitching and hitting categories that are tracked for scoring purposes. They went on to develop their own statistical program since there were no fantasy statistic companies that could accommodate up to 16 teams.[citation needed] What made their Managerial Baseball League so unique is that they paralleled their rosters just like MLB with 9 position players (one at each position and any extra player on the bench for the DH), 5 starting pitchers, 3 starting relievers, and 8 players on their bench - the reality being that every player on their roster does not get to play. To date, the Managerial Baseball League is the largest league in the world with 18 teams participating and expansion to 40-man rosters in September.[citation needed] Soon the hobby spread to other sports as well and by 1988, USA Today estimated that five hundred thousand people were playing.[citation needed]
Growth and early participants[edit]
In the few years after Okrent helped popularize fantasy baseball, a host of experts and businesses emerged to service the growing hobby. Okrent, based on discussions with colleagues at USA Today, credits Rotisserie league baseball with much of USA Today's early success,[citation needed] since the paper provided much more detailed box scores than most competitors and eventually even created a special paper, Baseball Weekly, that almost exclusively contained statistics and box scores.
The first experts on record as having written fantasy baseball articles for USA Today were John Benson, Alex Patton, and Ron Shandler.[citation needed] Perhaps the most well-known fantasy baseball expert in the late 1980s and early 1990s was Benson, who published his first fantasy baseball book in 1989. Later that year Benson developed the first draft-simulation program, software that he still sells today.[10]
Patton published his first book ("Patton's 1989 Fantasy Baseball League Price Guide") in 1989 and his dollar values were included in USA Today Baseball Weekly's fantasy annual throughout the 1990s.[citation needed] Ron Shandler published his "Baseball SuperSTATS" book in November 1986. At first the book wasn't meant for fantasy baseball fans, but rather as a book of Sabermetric analysis.[citation needed]
Fantasy football also saw new businesses and growth. Fantasy Football Index became the first annual fantasy football guide in 1987. Fantasy Sports Magazine debuted in 1989 as the first regular publication covering more than one fantasy sport. Fantasy Football Weekly was launched in 1992 (later becoming Fanball.com) and had $2 million in revenue by 1999.[11] A large number of companies emerged to calculate the stats for fantasy leagues and primarily send results via fax.
In 1993, USA Today included a weekly columnist on fantasy baseball, John Hunt, and he became perhaps the most visible writer in the industry before the rise of the Internet.[12] Hunt started the first high-profile experts league, the League of Alternate Baseball Reality which first included notables as Peter Gammons, Keith Olbermann and Bill James.[13]
The hobby continued to grow with 1 million to 3 million playing from 1991 to 1994.[citation needed]
Modern times[edit]
Internet boom[edit]
A large factor in the growth of fantasy sports was the rise of the Internet and personal computers in the mid-1990s. The new technology lowered the barrier to entry to the hobby as stats could quickly be compiled online and news and information became readily available.
In early October 1995, what would become a popular fantasy hockey website was released by Molson Breweries.[14] It was part of the company's "I am Online" strategy and centred on its "I am Canadian" advertising campaign; it would focus on music, entertainment and hockey.[15] The website allowed visitors to register accounts and participate in hockey leagues of nine teams in which the visitor would be the general manager for one of those teams.[14] The general manager would draft a team from a pool of NHL players, and could later negotiate trades with other teams in the league.[14] Disputes would be arbitrated by a commissioner by email.[14] The site included daily updates of NHL statistics, and also featured content from the Hockey Hall of Fame.[14] On 24 May 1996, Molson Breweries won the International Digital Media Award for best website of 1995.[16]
Fantasy businesses began to migrate to the internet in the mid-1990s. In 1997, two such sites that debuted were Commissioner.com and RotoNews.com.
Commissioner.com launched on January 1, 1997 and first offered a fantasy baseball commissioner service that offered real-time statistics, league message boards, daily updated box scores and other features. Commissioner.com was sold to SportsLine late in 1999 for $31 million in cash and stock.[17] The sale proved fantasy sports had grown from a mere hobby to big business. By 2003, Commissioner.com helped SportsLine generate $11 million from fantasy revenue.[17] Commissioner.com is now the fantasy sports engine behind the CBSSports.com fantasy area (after SportsLine was sold to CBS in 2004).
RotoNews.com also launched in January 1997 and published its first player note on February 16, 1997.[citation needed] RotoNews added additional value to fantasy sports players by creating player notes, which were snippets of information every time a player got hurt, traded, benched or had a news event that impacted his fantasy value - all search-able in a real-time database.[18] Most sites today follow how RotoNews had a "news" and "analysis" element to each player update.[citation needed] Within two years RotoNews had become one of the top ten most trafficked sports sites on the web, according to Media Metrix, ranking higher than such sites as NBA.com.[citation needed] RotoNews.com was sold to Broadband Sports in 1999 and later survived as RotoWire.com.
The growth in fantasy sports revenue attracted larger media players. Yahoo.com added fantasy sports in 1999 and offered most of its games for free - a largely new business model for fantasy sports.[19] A trade group for the industry, the Fantasy Sports Trade Association was formed in 1998.
Other entries to the market during this era included Fanball.com, launched in 1999 by the parent company of Fantasy Football Weekly.[20]
An early survey of the fantasy sports market in the U.S. in 1999 showed 29.6 million people age 18 and older played fantasy games. However, that figure was reduced in later years when it was determined the survey also included people who play NCAA bracket pools, which are not fantasy sports, since they involved picking teams, not individual players.[21]
Dotcom era[edit]
While fantasy sports were fueled by the dot-com boom of the Internet, there was a turbulent period when many of the high-flying Internet companies of the era crashed in 2001. Fanball.com went bankrupt in 2001,[22] (later to re-emerge in 2001). RotoNews.com's parent company, Broadband Sports, went out of business in 2001. The company would re-emerge as RotoWire.com.[citation needed]
There were also different business models. RotoNews.com launched the Web's first free commissioner service in 1998, quickly becoming the largest league management service.[20]Yahoo.com became the first major media company to offer games for free in 1999. Due to the rising competition, Commissioner.com, which had charged as much as $300, offered its commissioner services for free starting with football in 2000.[citation needed]
Two years later the trend reversed. Sportsline moved back to a pay model for commissioner services[23] (which it largely still has today). TheHuddle.com, a free site since 1997, started to charge for information.[24] RotoWire.com moved from a free model to a pay model in 2001 as well.[25] Despite the economic instability, fantasy sports started to become a mainstream hobby. In 2002, the NFL found that the average male surveyed spent 6.6 hours a week watching the NFL on TV; fantasy players surveyed said they watched 8.4 hours of NFL per week.[26] "This is the first time we've been able to demonstrate specifically that fantasy play drives TV viewing," said Chris Russo, the NFL's senior vice president. The NFL began running promotional television ads for fantasy football featuring current players for the first time. Previously fantasy sports had largely been seen in a negative light by the major sports leagues.[citation needed]
Fantasy sports continued to grow with a 2003 Fantasy Sports Trade Association survey showing 15 million people playing fantasy football and spending about $150 a year on average, making it a $1.5 billion industry.[27]
In autumn 2008, the Montana Lottery, one of only four U.S. states to legalize sports betting, began offering fantasy sports wagering for the first time.[28]
Since 2012 there has been a boom of apps being built for fantasy.[citation needed] These apps, and the nature of play within them, are changing the fantasy sports landscape and how users consume them.[citation needed]
Daily fantasy sports[edit]
Due to the growing popularity of season long fantasy sport leagues, a new platform, daily fantasy sports emerged. Websites such as DraftKings, Starstreet (since acquired by DraftKings) and FanDuel have offered up to $1 million prizes for one-day contests.
Industry overview[edit]
Size of the industry[edit]
In May 2015, Australian research company research firm IBISWorld reported that fantasy sport was a $2B industry, experiencing 10.7% annual growth, and employing 4,386 people in 292 businesses.[29] As of September 2015, the Fantasy Sports Trade Association estimates that 56.8 million people age 12 and above in the U.S. and Canada played fantasy sports in 2015.[30]
Growth of the market[edit]
A prior study conducted by the FSTA in 2013, showed 33.5 million people age 12 and above in the U.S. with the 2011 FSTA Study showing 3.1 million people in Canada played fantasy sports.[31] A 2006 study showed 22 percent of U.S. adult males 18 to 49 years old, with Internet access, play fantasy sports. Fantasy Sports is estimated to have a $3–$4 Billion annual economic impact across the sports industry.[32] Since 2011, yearly non-betting fantasy sports users have grown 25%. [33] And with the help of media and the growing fantasy sports market, daily fantasy sports leagues FanDuel and DraftKings were able to generate over 300 million dollars in investments from companies like Comcast, NBC Sports, and Time Warner.[33] The new development of daily fantasy sports is where major growth can be seen, "...the daily fantasy spending is where the numbers jump: $257 per year in 2015, while players only spent $5 in 2012."[34]
International growth of fantasy sports[edit]
The fantasy sports hobby has also moved beyond the U.S. Fantasy leagues for soccer, cricket and other sports have come up. For example, according to a 2008 study by Paris, France research company Ipsos, the number of British fantasy sports players aged 16–64 is estimated to range between 5.5 and 7.5 million.[citation needed] Of those, 80 percent of these players participate in fantasy soccer.[35] The current leading fantasy sports provider in the UK is the English Premier League, which tallied about 3 million users for their season. In comparison to the United States, the UK has roughly 5% of the population participating, whereas the U.S. has about 10% of its population playing fantasy sports. [36]
The FSTA industry group collected and presented statistics showing the percentage of fantasy sports players compared to the general population in the United States and Canada (Age 12+).[30]
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Projections for the market[edit]
In September 2015, Forbes reported that Eilers Research was projecting that daily fantasy games will generate around $2.6 billion in entry fees this year and grow 41% annually, reaching $14.4 billion in 2020.[37]
Trade associations[edit]
The Fantasy Sports Trade Association was formed in 1997 to represent the growing industry. Beginning in 2000, the FSTA has honored past members and contributors to fantasy sports with induction into its Hall of Fame.
The Fantasy Sports Writers Association was formed in 2004 to represent the growing numbers of journalists covering fantasy sports exclusively.[38] The Fantasy Sports Association was formed in 2006.
Fan experience in fantasy sports[edit]
Fantasy sports fans are considered an ideal demographic for advertisers and by extension the sports leagues. Fans are younger and more affluent than non-participants, they watch the sports live, meaning they don't skip through commercials, and they will watch a game even if it's no longer competitive, as long as a member of their team can still score them points.[39] And while a traditional sports fan might only follow and watch one team, fantasy sports fans watch more games, since their players can be on different teams.
Legal issues in the United States[edit]
Fantasy gaming is legal in the United States according to federal law, as per the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 (UIGEA). The government allows each state to set their own guidelines regarding the games.[40]
UIGEA was an amendment to the larger and unrelated SAFE Port Act, and included exceptions to the Act that clarified the legality of fantasy sports. It was signed into law on October 13, 2006 by President George W. Bush. The act makes transactions from banks or similar institutions to online gambling sites illegal, with the notable exceptions of fantasy sports, educational games, online lotteries, horse/harness racing and other online contests that meet certain conditions.
In fantasy sports, a participant's team (if any) must not be "based on the current membership of an actual team." In other words, a team must have players from more than one real life team. Outcomes must "reflect the relative knowledge and skill of the participants and [be] determined predominantly by accumulated statistical results of the performance of individuals (athletes in the case of sports events) in multiple real-world sporting or other events." All prizing must be determined in advance of the competition and can not be influenced by the fees or number of participants.[41][42]
As fantasy football formats get more specialized, these unique formats could be challenged under both federal and state law. If a unique format varies the skill to chance ratio, it becomes riskier. One such risk is basing fantasy football performance on final scores, which could occur for example if a team's defense was scored based on how few points they allowed.[42]
The legal definition of whether fantasy sports are considered gambling is set at the state level.[40] Under most state laws, fantasy football contests are illegal only if they involve three elements: an entry fee (known as "consideration"), a prize (a "reward", in legal terms) and chance. The legality from state to state hinges on the definition of "chance" that the state interprets. For some states, if more skill than chance is involved, the contest is legal, and passes what's called the "predominant purpose test". Other states with a stricter definition of chance, called "any chance test", have made fantasy football illegal.[42] These states include Arizona, Arkansas, Louisiana, Iowa, Montana and Washington.[42] Only one state, Maryland, has explicitly said that fantasy sports is legal.
A Florida state attorney general's opinion in 1991 called into doubt the legality of fantasy football contests, but companies have operated in the state without any legal action. In August 2015 in Kansas, due to uncertainty with the state's Racing and Gaming Commission position,[43] the state's attorney general issued an opinion that daily fantasy sports was a skill game and thus permitted under state law. Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback signed legislation a month later authorizing fantasy gaming.[44] The head of Michigan's gaming commission said in September 2015 that he thought daily fantasy sports are illegal under Michigan law.[40] In August 2015, Michigan state Sen. Curtis Hertel announced plans to introduce legislation to amend Michigan's penal code to qualify fantasy sports as a game of skill, and legalize it for Michigan residents.[44]
In September 2015, the Boston Herald reported that Boston, MA-based DraftKings initiated a meeting with Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey's Office to get clarity on the legality of the company's business model. The paper reported that the legality of fantasy sports may have to be decided by the courts.[45]
Also in September 2015, New Jersey Congressman Frank Pallone, who had unsuccessfully championed legal sports betting in his state, requested a hearing from the House Energy and Commerce Committee to examine the relationship between the professional sports leagues and the fantasy sports companies.[46]
There have been other legal cases involving fantasy sports and the use of professional athletes' statistics for purposes of scoring.
STATS, Inc. vs. NBA[edit]
In 1996, STATS, Inc., a major statistical provider to fantasy sports companies, won a court case, along with Motorola, on appeal against the NBA in which the NBA was trying to stop STATS from distributing in game score information via a special wireless device created by Motorola. The victory played a large part in defending other cases where sports leagues have tried to suppress live in-game information from their events being distributed by other outlets.[47] The victory also accelerated the market for real-time statistics which were largely fueled by the growth of the fantasy sports industry.[48]
CDM vs. MLBAM[edit]
The development of fantasy sports produced tension between fantasy sports companies and professional leagues and players associations over the rights to player profiles and statistics. The players associations of the major sports leagues believed that fantasy games using player names were subject to licensing due to the right of publicity of the players involved. Since the player names were being used as a group, the players had assigned their publicity rights to the players association who then signed licensing deals. During the 1980s and 1990s many companies signed licensing deals with the player associations, but some companies did not. The issue came to a head with the lawsuit of Major League Baseball Advanced Media (MLBAM), MLB's Internet company, vs. St. Louis-based CBC Distribution and Marketing Inc., the parent company of CDM Sports. When CBC was denied a new licensing agreement with MLBAM (they had acquired the rights from the baseball players' association) for its fantasy baseball game, CBC filed suit.
CBC argued that intellectual property laws and so-called "right of publicity" laws don't apply to the statistics used in fantasy sports.[49] The FSTA filed an amicus curiae in support of CBC, also arguing that if MLBAM won the lawsuit it would have a dramatic impact on the industry, which was largely ignored by the major sports leagues for years while a number of smaller entrepreneurs grew it into a multi-billion dollar industry, and a ruling could allow the MLBAM to have a monopoly over the industry.
"This will be a defining moment in the fantasy sports industry," said Charlie Wiegert, executive vice president of CBC. "The other leagues are all watching this case. If MLB prevailed, it just would have been a matter of time before they followed up. Their player unions are just waiting for the opportunity."[50]
CBC won the lawsuit as U.S. District Court Judge Mary Ann Medler ruled that statistics are part of the public domain and can be used at no cost by fantasy companies. "The names and playing records of major-league baseball players as used in CBC's fantasy games are not copyrightable," Medler wrote. "Therefore, federal copyright law does not pre-empt the players' claimed right of publicity."[49]
The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the decision in October 2007. "It would be strange law that a person would not have a First Amendment right to use information that is available to everyone," a three-judge panel said in its ruling.[51]
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the 8th Circuit Court's decision by declining to hear the case in June 2008.[52]
Popular fantasy sports[edit]
- Daily Fantasy Sports
- Fantasy auto racing
- Fantasy baseball
- Fantasy basketball
- Fantasy boxing
- Fantasy Congress - an online simulation sport using the results of congressional activity by the US Senate and House
- Fantasy cricket - The popularity of cricket in India has led to an increase of interest in online fantasy cricket. A few of the existing players in the fantasy cricket domain in India are offering a 'Cricket Stock Exchange', which is an online trading game that operates using the same principles of a stock exchange. It is still unclear whether these types of games will see mainstream adoption.[53]
- Fantasy eSports - contests played based on the results of multiplayer online games such as League of Legends and Counter-Strike
- Fantasy F1
- Fantasy football (American)
- Fantasy football (Australian rules football)
- Fantasy football (Association)
- Fantasy golf
- Fantasy hockey
- Fantasy MMA
- Fantasy rugby league
- Fantasy sports stock simulations
- Fantasy surfing
- Fantasy professional wrestling
Picking teams instead of players[edit]
One way to play fantasy sports is to have each person pick teams from a league instead of players. There is a predetermined number of rounds and there is a predetermined number for how many times each team gets picked. When a person takes a turn, the player picks exactly one team and then it is the next person's turn to pick. Players may pick a team more than once, as long as that team is still available at least once.
An example of this type of fantasy league is using the 30 teams in Major League Baseball and having 12 players. Each person gets 10 teams total, counting repeats as many times as they happen. Each team gets picked exactly 4 times (12 players × 10 teams per player = 120 and 30 teams × 4 picks per team = 120). This calculation shows that there will be 120 total picks after exactly 10 rounds.
Each individual's score is determined by adding up the total number of regular season and postseason wins by the teams that they picked. If a team was picked more than once, that team's number of wins gets added into the calculation the number of times that the team was picked.
Once the postseason starts, players are awarded points based on their teams that made it to the postseason. Predetermined numbers of points are set to give to people based on the spots in the postseason that their teams had to begin the postseason with: the best record in the league, the second-best division winner in the league, the third-best division winner in the league, the first wild card spot, and the second wild card spot. Predetermined points are also given out based on the postseason results, such as League Championship Series losing teams, the World Series losing team, and the World Series winning team.
Once all points are added up for everyone, the final rankings are based on point totals, going from highest to lowest. (Predetermined tiebreakers would have to be set to avoid ties for any place.)
Non-sport fantasy games[edit]
With the growth of the industry, fantasy has branched out to include non-sports related games focused on politics, sales, celebrity gossip, movies, and reality TV.[citation needed]
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October 26, 2013: SPIEL Rocks!
We are at SPIEL in Essen and our booth in hall 2-C118 is packed all the time! Castellan is getting VERY positive feedback from all kinds of gamers, as is our other brand new release Chupacabra.
The nice folks from our retail partner Tellurian are very happy with sales, and they doubt that they will have any copies of the abovementioned games left when the show ends on Sunday.
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Team director Johan Bruyneel says Tuesday that seven-time Tour winner Armstrong will be joined by Andreas Kloeden of Germany, Americans Levi Leipheimer and Chris Horner, and Janez Brajkovic of Slovenia."
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By lagard on February 17, 2013
I have been struck lately- like a blow to the head, really. With how essential it is not to judge other people in the decisions they make for their lives. Let me clarify from the start that I am not condoning hurtful behaviors that have far reaching consequences. Nor am I giving sweeping approval to choices that are obvious obstructions to moral codes of conduct. For I always feel that it is at this point that some will tune out or dismiss me, thinking I am off on a tirade promoting lawlessness and freedom without restraint. I am doing no such thing. I am not voicing approval of choices, but rather support for people. For choices and people are two separate things. Even when the circumstances are awful. Even when we don't condone the behaviors.
We can still show love, empathy and understanding for the person.
Choices are lifeless things apart from a soul. It is our feelings, thoughts, emotions that fuel the soul. There are myriad reasons for why a person chooses to do one thing or another. And myriad influences to sway a person making life choices. Mental, social, physiological and spiritual influences. Personality, education and upbringing. Parental, familial, peer and church influences. Culture and nationality. Belief systems. Codes of conduct and morals. Faith in God. Or not. And these influences shape the choices people make, choices which are mere reflections of the soul. Lifeless without an understanding of the whole person.
When people make everyday decisions to follow through on choices, it is often at this point that a judgement call is made. We like to conjecture. Speculate. And while at times we commend and applaud others in the decision-making process, at other times, we criticize and condemn. And in truth, we really have no right to do either- make those judgment calls. For who are we? Who are we to point fingers in either applause or blame. In praise or condescension? Do we know all the reasons for why a choice is made? Have we been given a private viewing of a person's private thoughts? Are we present for every move, privy to every piece of contributing circumstantial evidence? How easy it is to look at someone and make a judgment call about what they are doing. Or not doing. How easy indeed.
We like to play little gods sometimes, thinking that we know the big picture about people's live. About choices they are making. About places they are going. About things they are doing. And, true. Some of these choices would for us, be uncomfortable. Wrong, even. But their life is not our life. Their story, not our story. Their shoes not ours to wear. We are walking at times the same path, but we all wear different shoes. And neither are our life stories all told through the same narrative.
The choices and actions of others are not ours to make. Therefore, we can no sooner jump into another person's mind to completely understand a choice they have made than we can sit inside our comfort zone and correctly issue a judgement call, seeing every angle perfectly. We are not God. God is God, and He alone knows the bigger picture. Our job is to live our lives for Him to the best of our God-given ability, love our neighbor as ourself and pray continuously. For both ourselves as well as for others. Regardless of how we feel about them. We just lift them up in prayer anyway. For God alone knows, and He has orchestrated the stories of our lives. And he can make beauty from ashes…even for us. Even for me. And when we pray God's will for our own lives as well as for others, suddenly it no longer matters what we think. It only matters what God knows.
God want us to be so concerned with living our lives for Him, with looking up- that we forget to look around at what everyone else is doing. Not that we forget everyone. We just aren't preoccupied with what they are doing. With the choices they are making. For we are responsible for making our own choices and the for the lives we are leading. As I always tell my Kindergarten students, "You are only responsible for you…and that's a big enough job!"
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Calling all investors looking for a property offering a solid return for your money! These two furnished units (to be sold as one property) within the Mantra Pandanas hotel are located in the heart of the CBD and come complete with balcony views.
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- Dual-key units, each with studio-style accommodation
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- Balcony to each room, overlooking the resort pool, city and harbour
- Both units to be sold fully furnished
- Unit 9005 includes a kitchenette, bathroom with disabled access and laundry facilities
- Rooms can be let by the hotel separately or as one interconnecting room
- Infinity edge resort pool within the complex
- Restaurants and cafes located in the hotel foyer
- Situated in the heart of the CBD
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Centrally positioned in the heart of the CBD and within walking distance to the mall, these two units, located in the Mantra Pandanas hotel present an exciting opportunity for the savvy investor.
To be sold as one property, these dual-key units feature elegant contemporary interiors and each has their own balcony overlooking the complex's resort pool and taking in views of the city and harbour.
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I believe I've mentioned my Bath & Body Works obsession here once or twice (or ten or fifteen times…). Even though I could probably survive for an entire year using just the products that are already in my closet, whenever I walk by one of their stores I'm still compelled to go in and buy something, even if it's just a Scentportable refill or a fun new lip gloss. In fact, I was in there doing just that this weekend when, at the register, I stumbled upon a display of the tiny little 1.6 ounce mini-sized candles in the new fall scents.
It's possible I might've shrieked a little with excitement, because not only do I love candles (seriously, I have at least one burning at any given moment when I'm home) but fall and winter candle scents always seem to be my favorite ones. They're just always so warm and cozy and they remind me of growing up on the east coast, where we would spend hours outside sledding and then come inside for hot chocolate with big, fluffy marshmallows. (Not that Southern California doesn't seem like a great place to be a kid too, but I can't imagine growing up in an area where winter didn't mean the possibility of snow days. Snow days are the best!)
The five new fall scents are Hot Chocolate, Cinnamon Sugar Donut, Marshmallow Fireside, Oatmeal Raisin Cookie, and Pumpkin Caramel Latte. I walked away with one of each, plus an extra Pumpkin Caramel Latte for good measure since the miniature candles are three for $5 and I definitely wanted at least one of each. So far I've burned two of the scents and spent at least a few minutes sniffing the other ones to try and decide which one to burn next and I can vouch for the fact that they all smell absolutely delicious. Marshmallow Fireside smells exactly like a marshmallow roast— sweet and vanilla-y with a hint of burning wood in the background. Pumpkin Caramel Latte is just amazing in that they've managed to perfectly capture the scent of strong coffee mixed with caramel and a touch of pumpkin to balance it out. Sitting on my couch as the scent wafted around the living room, all I wanted was to be able to transform the smell into an actual latte in my kitchen. (Or go pick one up at Starbucks. They really need to get on that) I haven't yet burned Hot Chocolate or Cinnamon Sugar Donut, but they smell exactly like their names suggest even while they're unlit, so I can't wait to have the scents wafting around my entire apartment as I lounge in bed reading all the new September fashion magazines.
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The last in a series of 7, the Stena Bulk tankship was named 'Stena Sunrise' at the Samsung Heavy Industries' shipyard.
The Stena Sunrise is a third generation, fuel-efficient Suezmax and, like the other tankers in the series, will be employed on the spot market via Stena Sonangol Suezmax Pool.
This ship is the last vessel in a series built at SHI and ordered at the beginning of 2010. Known as "The seven sisters", with each representing an investment of just under SEK 500 million.
Together with SHI, Stena Teknik has been responsible for the development of the new ship model, where the focus has been on energy efficiency. The vessel's technical equipment and design mean that fuel consumption can be reduced by up to 10-15 percent compared with standard tonnage. As a result, fuel consumption can be reduced by 4-6 thousand litres per day thus saving US$ 3-4,000/day.
"Like Stena Teknik, we are very satisfied with the collaboration with the Samsung shipyard, which has characterised both the development and production of this tanker series. Besides the generally good quality delivered by the shipyard, we have together achieved our fuel efficiency target, which was the single most important objective", Erik Hånell, President and CEO of Stena Bulk, commented.
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The news spread quickly, and al-Sanea issued a statement attributing the trouble to the global credit crisis causing
"a sudden shrinking of available facilities given by regional and global banks." Al-Sanea claimed to be taking drastic measures in response. "We are planning the restructuring of the companies in cooperation with our partners and international consultants. We are confident that we will solve this problem," the statement said.
The freezing of al-Sanea's assets, it turns out, had followed a number of related developments in Bahrain, where The
International Bank Corporation (TIBC), a company licensed as a bank in Bahrain and majority owned by AHAB, had defaulted on its debts earlier in May. The relationship between al-Sanea and TIBC is murky and subject to dispute, with al-Sanea owning a 25 percent stake in the company. According to one source close to the companies, Maan al-Sanea had in fact been running TIBC indirectly via another Bahraini bank called Awal, a charge al-Sanea denies.
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Maan al-Sanea's wife, Sana al-Gosaibi, became one of 20 owners of AHAB following the death of her uncle, Suleiman al-Gosaibi, on Feb. 22 this year. Suleiman al-Gosaibi, the last surviving of the three brothers in Ahmad Hamad al-Gosaibi & Brothers, only ran AHAB for a few years, because until his death in 2003, the master and commander of the al-Gosaibi clan had long been Abdulaziz, the middle brother.
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Interesting synopsis of a developing story. Note that Al Sanea (his mother is related to Kuwait's ruling Al-Sabah clan) did not work for AHAB until he married Sana, at which time he was effectively given management control of the AHAB owned Money Exchange – akin to a dowry of sorts. Sana and her husband were considered heirs to the business model that her father had built . It was Ahmad, the oldest of the Al Gosaibi brothers, who built the trading operations and laid the industrial foundation, but Abdulaziz who used it as collateral to leverage the family into the billion dollar league.
Cousins Yousef and Saud (Sana's younger brother) are managing AHAB's operations but it is likely that they may not be the market makers their respective fathers were. That Saud may have been jealous of his brother-in-law is possible, but outright incompetence in management – well the owners are to wholly be blamed for that.
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... when you say thank you. They smile and say hello as you pass them in the street or on hiking paths. We met lots of people today looking at waterfalls and they were all lovely.
There are a lot of churches in North Carolina. Every few miles there is another Church, sometimes 2 or 3 in the same block. They all seem to have similar names (in 1 town, the first Baptist Church was on the same street as the reformed Baptist Church), and they all have a little graveyard next to ...
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Before you look for the Digital Product Blueprint Review and start to sell your own digital product, there are some kind of things which you have to know first. For example, how you are able to come up with that idea of yours? What kind of market research which you have been done all this time? One of my friend sell her toys clothes design on the internet, and she does the research together with her 5 years old daughter!
What make her become very successful is her own creativity and the fact that she is an exceptional seamstress. So, the mother of my friend worked as cutter in one fashion house in LA, so you can say she already learned how to sew since she was very small. She started to make doll's clothes for her daughter in order to be able to save money, and people start to like it.
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Just like what i had mentioned in my previous articles, some kind of rechargeable batteries like Nikon EN-EL14 Battery may suffer from a common problem which called memory effect. In most cases, people tend to recharge their batteries for convenient sake. For example, they will recharge their half empty battery before holiday season come in order to be able to make their camera last longer later. You have to remember doing this can affect the maximum capacity of your battery if you keep doing it again and again.
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It is hard to overstate the amount of joy that millions of people get from playing baseball each and every day. The key to really making the most of the sport, though, is learning everything possible about it. Keep reading to get some wonderful information about having an optimal baseball experience.
If you'd like to increase your batting average, try hitting the ball toward the fence instead of trying to hit it over the fence. The idea is to hit the ball in the direction in which it came. If the ball is hit high in the air, it becomes easier to catch.
If you're trying out for a new team, make sure you're on time! Always strive to be at least fifteen minutes early for each tryout, as well as any practices and games. Nothing will hurt you more than showing up late to a tryout. And if you show up early, it can only help you.
Remember that baseball is only a game. Yes, it may be important to you and your team, but you don't want to let it get you down. Even if you make a mistake, if you keep positive there's always a chance to correct that mistake. But if you let it bother you, chance are you'll make another mistake.
If you're serious about baseball, practice every day. The pros make baseball look easy, but they get to that point through hard work. It takes a daily commitment to any sport to be great at it, and baseball is no exception. Decide the position you desire to play and practice hard.
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Alabama kicker Jeremy Shelley (90) raises the crystal football after winning the 2012 BCS National Championship game in New Orleans, La. Shelley set a BCS championship with five field goals in the Crimson Tide's 21-0 win. / Amanda Soward, USA TODAY Sports
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. â?? The game seemed like a blowout, only it wasn't. The national title was basically theirs, yet for so long it was still there to lose. That's what Alabama kicker Jeremy Shelley remembers most about last year's BCS National Championship Game; his teammates marching up and down the field, LSU's offense failing to push past the 50-yard line and the scoreboard separating the two teams far too slowly.
"Even after I hit four (field goals)," Shelley said, "it was just two touchdowns and they could still win. It was never really out of hand."
Shelley wasn't officially named the most valuable player of Alabama's eventual 21-0 victory, but he might as well have been. After Alabama's kicking game was largely to blame for a 9-6 overtime loss to LSU two months earlier, he came back under national championship pressure and made kicks of 23, 34, 41, 35 and 44 yards to build a 15-0 lead that basically put the game out of reach entering the fourth quarter.
Now, Shelley comes back to college football's biggest stage full of confidence from that performance and a senior season in which he went 11-for-11 on field goal attempts and made all 63 extra points. And Shelley knows that against a team like Notre Dame, whose defense gave up just nine touchdowns all season, his foot could once again play a huge role in deciding the championship.
"For the team's sake, hopefully my role won't be quite as (big), but going back to last year and thinking about it, it was a lot of fun," Shelley said. "It breeds a lot of confidence, and I feel extremely ready for this game."
Make no mistake, Alabama dominated in last year's championship game to a degree that would be hard to repeat. LSU couldn't even muster 100 yards of offense, and it never felt like Alabama was in any danger of giving up a big play. But the Crimson Tide couldn't punch the ball into the end zone until running back Trent Richardson broke free for a 34-yard touchdown with 4:36 remaining, which meant the spotlight was on Shelley to make amends for the earlier debacle against LSU.
That game had played out in similar fashion, with Alabama consistently moving into scoring position but rarely coming away with any points. Cade Foster, who typically handles kicks beyond 42 yards, missed from 44 and 50 in the first quarter. Shelley, who usually handles the shorter kicks, was sent out to try a 49-yarder and had it blocked. The game ended when Foster missed a 52-yarder in overtime, and much of the focus went to the kickers because it appeared that loss would cost Alabama a shot at the national championship.
"I think that got way overblown," Alabama center Barrett Jones said. "We have good kickers. We put our kickers in terrible situations in that LSU game with long, long field goals. We never really put the kind of scrutiny on them that (fans and media) did."
As Alabama got back into the BCS race, however, head coach Nick Saban made a concerted effort to divert blame away from his kickers, knowing he might need them to come through in a rematch with LSU. To their credit, both Foster and Shelley spent the week leading up to the game facing the issue head-on and promising they'd be ready the second time around.
"Going into that game I had a mindset where we did have a lot of errors in the earlier game and we needed to redeem ourselves," Shelley said. "I didn't take on any added pressure, but I put it on myself to make sure I made up for (the first LSU game). I went ahead and put that behind me and approached that week as a new week. It was something I felt needed to happen to be successful that game."
The redemption has carried over to this season, with Shelley â?? recognizable because of his shoulder-length hair and laid-back, unshaven looks â?? carrying a perfect season into the championship game, though all of his attempts have been from fewer than 40 yards. He still rotates with Foster, a junior who has made 3-of-5 this season from more than 50 yards.
Shelley said he always anticipates a game coming down to his foot and said if that's the case, his experience last year should "help calm the nerves" a little bit.
"I think last year was a big confidence booster for the whole kicking game, and they definitely played their part," quarterback A.J. McCarron said. "So many people tried to blame the LSU loss on them last year, and it's never about one person. But they did a great job of responding and not paying attention to others and going out and playing their game."
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Sen. Dianna Duran, R-Tularosa, says she is confident about her chances to become New Mexico's next secretary of state. If she defeats incumbent Mary Herrera in November, Duran would become the first Republican to be elected to the position in more than 80 years.
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There are three new cookbooks out right now with local connections. Ina Garten, a k a the Barefoot Contessa, has come out with her ninth book, called "Make It Ahead." The folks of Edible School Gardens have published the "Delicious Nutritious FoodBook," compiled and written by Judiann Carmack-Fayyaz. And the kitchens of Martha Stewart Living have come out with "One Pot."
With the holidays upon us, it is time to dust off that punch bowl, dig out your finest glasses, and create some memorable "adult beverage" cheer. And of course some drinks for toddlers, teens, and teetotalers.
You are probably familiar with the usual suspects: eggnog, hot toddies, and mulled cider. But have you ever heard of, much less tried, caudle, posset, smoking bishop, or bumbo? Don't worry, you're not missing anything.
Bolero Carrot Gyoza
Here is Chris Polidoro's creation from Quail Hill carrots. It is awesome.
1 lb. carrots, washed and sliced
1 shallot, sliced
2 pinches salt
3 Tbsp. olive oil
1/4 cup water
1/2 lb. savoy cabbage, blanched, well drained, and chopped
1 tsp. fresh ginger, grated
1 package Nasoya round wonton wrappers
Preheat oven to 425.
Lights! Carrots! Action! It was Colin's Carrot-Palooza at Estia's Little Kitchen last week, as splashy a media event as you can expect for a Wednesday . . . in November . . . for a vegetable. There were local rock star chefs and their Daucus carotas, served raw, steamed, and in various dishes. The carrots, that is.
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A few weeks ago a friend asked if I would like to sample some of the best, freshest, cheapest food available, in other words, one of the best-kept secrets on the East End. How is it I didn't know of this special place, this little jewel of a cafe, open five days a week for lunch? One reason could be that it is essentially a Russian nesting doll.
Roasted Root Vegetable Salad With Marcona Almonds
This recipe is a shortened version of Laurent Tourondel's from his "Fresh from the Market" cookbook. It's the Marcona almond dressing and lemon zest that make this sing.
Serves six.
I am a huge fan of fall vegetables, almost all of them. They are durable, adaptable, and malleable. Many can be eaten raw, or cooked a number of ways — roasted, steamed, fried, pureed, stir-fried. And they play nicely together, such as celery root cooked with potatoes for a mash, or butternut squash cubes roasted with carrots, sweet potatoes, and shallots.
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Blue Canoe in Greenport is just plain fun. It's on the water, has an expansive outdoor dining area, an eclectic menu with an Asian slant, great oysters in several guises, and a friendly staff. It is casual, but the food is pretty spiffy.
The following is excerpted from Laura Donnelly's restaurant review in this week's Star. More ideas for meals on the go can be found in the Star's Restaurant Guide: easthamptonstar.com/restaurants.
It's Columbus Day weekend AND the Hamptons International Film Festival is on the East End so I know all of you ladies and gentlemen and black-clad cinephiles want to know where to eat. With movies being shown in 6 locations from Southampton to Montauk your dining options are plentiful.


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Dr. Marietti earned her medical degree at the University of Arizona before completing her urologic training at the University of Connecticut. She then continued her medical education with a pediatric urology fellowship at Rady Children's in association with UC San Diego.
She sees pediatric patients with all urologic conditions but has a special interest in kidney stones. She is the staff urologist of the Rady Children's kidney stone clinic, a multidisciplinary clinic focusing on children with kidney stones. She works with pediatric nephrologist Dr. Ingulli to address all aspects of pediatric kidney stones, from surgical intervention to medical management.
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