...In 1962 the founding fathers of fantasy football created a game that today inspires, infatuates and confounds millions of players. After a seemingly endless night of labor pains, the discomfort soothed by a little alcohol for medicinal purposes, the birth of fantasy football finally took place at a hotel in New York City back in the fall of 1962. History does not record the exact date of birth, but it occurred in obscurity sometime within a dozen days of Halloween that year. America can be forgiven for not noticing at the time, since a little distraction called the Cuban missile crisis had nearly thrust the world into nuclear war in the last week of October. Now approaching its 32nd birthday, fantasy football was born of three fathers -- the founding fathers of a game that slowly matured into the sports colossus that today inspires, infatuates and confounds millions of players. At first glance, 1962 may not seem such a long time ago. American Graffiti offers a snapshot of that era, nostalgically asking the question, "Where were you in '62?" But it was the dark ages in football years. We're not simply talking about a time far enough back that the Raiders still played in Oakland. We're talking about a time so distant, so remote, that the Raiders played in Oakland and were absolutely terrible. Our three founding fathers went on a road trip back East with those terrible 1-13 Raiders, a trip worth remembering only because of the bundle of joy that came bawling into the...
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...This week on the Fantasy Football Fanatics Blog Posts we’ll briefly go over the game from last Thursday night, starts of the week, and a few streaming options. Any point total referred to are in standard scoring. Storylines from the Buccaneers Vs. Patriots TNF game Doug Martin- Doug Martin had 13 carries for 74 yards and a touchdown along with 1 reception for 8 yards. In his first week back from suspension Doug Martin was the clear RB1 for the Buccaneers as Jacquizz Rodgers only had 3 carries for 2 yards and Charles Sims had 1 carry for 3 yards(though he did have 31 yards through the air). Doug Martin’s usage will only increase as he gets back into shape and gains the coaching staffs trust. Martin impressed all offseason and during the preseason....
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...2013 Third Year Keepers and Beyond Foot Notes. ADP is taking from http://www.fantasypros.com/nfl/adp/overall.php If the ADP of a third year keeper has already been slotted to a first or second year keeper, said player will be moved to the next round available. ADP is in italics 1st. Pattis Pulfizers(jacob) - Third Year Keepers and Beyond Average Drafted Position Larry Fitzgerald 28.3. - Third Round Maurice Jones Drew 23.5 -Fourth Round 2nd. Any D will do (Katie) - Third Year Keepers and Beyond Average Drafted Position Jamal Charles 4.5 - First Round Matt Forte 15.2 - Second Round Steven Jackson 17.5 – Third Round Vincent Jackson 37.3 – Fourth Round 3rd. Willnumbers(will) - Third Year Keepers and Beyond Average Drafted Position NONE 4th InTrestmanWeTrust (James) - Third Year Keepers and Beyond Average Drafted Position Aaron Rodgers 12.8 - Second Round 5th The Power Tower (David) - Third Year Keepers and Beyond Average Drafted Position Marshawn Lynch 5.7 - First Round Adrian Foster 3.3 -Second Round Roddy White 31.5 - Fourth Round 6th Coyotes(Justin) - Third Year Keepers and Beyond Average Drafted Position Chris Johnson 18.8 - Second Round Marques Colston 42.3 Fifth Round 7th Ketchup Bottle - Third Year Keepers and Beyond Average Drafted Position Hakeem Nicks 54.7 - Sixth Round 8th Inflatable Dates (Mike) - Third Year Keepers and Beyond Average Drafted Position Ray Rice 7.0 - First Round Peyton Manning 20- Second Round 9th Rocky’s Renegades (Marcus) - Third Year Keepers...
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...Recommendations With fantasy football the expansion options are sky high. There are a variety of add-ons one could get. First Down Fantasy strives for future growth and profitability in the near future. With this main objective in mind our first priority going forward would be to add more layers, thus adding more leagues to our database. Adding more leagues would provide us with the opportunity to increase our users. These additions would allow us to differentiate our leagues. We could provide various match ups for teams within varying leagues such as a total points league, an all play league and a head to head league. An all play league allows teams to face every other team each week. The team with the most points wins that week. For example if there are 15 different teams, the first place team would have a record of 14-0, the second place team being 13-1 and etc. A total points league is like any other fantasy football league. It...
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...Before we get started, the basic premise of Fantasy Football is to field a team of 30 AFL listed players within a given salary cap. Players scores are calculated on a range of statistics taken from an AFL game. Players prices rise and fall based on these scores and users are given a certain amount of trades with the aim of creating the best team capable of maximising scoring. The two recognised competitions I will be conducting my research on are Supercoach and AFL Fantasy. Both have substantially grown over the past few years and developed a cult following (Cooper, 2012). 1. FanFooty Fan Footy provides the user with live scoring of both competitions updated in real time, allowing the player to watch a game and keep track of players in their team. This means that all information provided on this site are actual statistics, immediately making it a reliable source of information for fantasy players. The site also offers forums, opinion articles, and even an easy to read mobile format. This allows a user to maintain constant contact with the Fantasy Football world, and the ability to monitor scores for their team from any location. Fan Footy was published in 2005 and has since become the premier source of fantasy players to track their players scores. I found that as a result of the site being based purely on the real statistics of an AFL game, other users found this to be a very valid source of information to use. I will also continue to use this with the aim of constantly...
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...Is fantasy football gambling? This is a debate that has been ongoing over the past couple years, as more states try and profit from this booming industry. It is important to understand the premise of this debate and what sports betting or gambling actually is. Webster defines gambling as “playing games for the chance of winning money”, however, I will argue that fantasy football is a game of skill and not a game of chance and therefore should not be subject to the typical sanctions and regulations that are placed upon sports betting. The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006, states that in order for a fantasy sports to be legal it must follow predefined rules. I will cover these stipulations in depth and demonstrated how each...
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...Ada Deniz Tan Dr. Aslı Değirmenci IED 134 20 May 2015 Stereotypes of a Fantasy Novel Protagonist Fantasy novels are very popular between not only children and teenagers, but also people of all ages. There are so many fan of the fantasy novels, films and television series of them are produced and almost each other was in vogue usually at young population when they are released. As fantasy novels have gained a great population and so many example of them released in time, they have become obviously an extended part of world literature. Moreover, they have so many genres, subgenres, rules, aims and stereotypes like other types of literary works. In fantasy novels, it can be said that elements and genres are usually similar, however, characteristics of protagonists, which means main character, and other characters are sometime strictly differs between themselves. I read the book The Magicians by Lev Grossman, the first book of Magicians trilogy, one of New York Times Bestseller books, which is published in 2009. In this research paper, my aim is to analyze stereotypes of a fantasy novel protagonist with analyzing the characteristics of Quentin Coldwater from the novel The Magicians. Lev Grossman was born in 26 July 1969, in America. He graduated from Literature Department of Harvard University in 1991 and has worked as a journalist and a cult critic for Time Magazine, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Entertainment Weekly and so many other newspapers...
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...hill towards a volcano this is a big turning point. This was because he used to be a skater; he was rediscovering is old self. This image encouraged by the green hills in the background and the happy music playing. In this scene he is not wearing a suit and tie as he was in the beginning of the film; he was wearing camo green pants and a long sleeved T-shirt. As the movie progresses his clothing becomes more colorful and rugged, so does his face, at the start of the movie he was freshly shaved but now he has a beard, this is a metaphor for the internal changes he is experiencing. Secondly another journey is to go from fear to confidence. He was helped to face his fears by Cheryl singing Major Tom as he is in the bar. Even though it was a fantasy it helped him get on the helicopter and go where he needed to go. From this point he faced his fears by jumping out of a helicopter into the ocean, getting attacked by a shark and running away from the volcano. All of...
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...The Familiar In this essay, “The Familiar” by Andre Norton will focused on the relationship between the main character, Fossi and Jeseca. The focus will be on, how it develops from a relation with the toy with trust, to become a relation based on friendship and I will examine the fantasy elements and why is makes this short story to a fantasy story. “I exerted the invisible bond, we shared and she hugged me tightly against her breast” The relationship between Fossi and Jeseca from the start based on trust because Jesaca do not know that Fossi is a real cat, only that he is a stuffed toy. The relationship changes fast to a friendship because Fossi is taking care of Jeseca “Jeseca gave a cry of pain and flung the hilt from her a though of had suddenly become too hot to hold”. In this quote make Fossi the knife too hot to hold because he do not want Jeseca to kill, but still he wants to see Jesaca used his power. . Fossi can control with Jeseca “As though controlled by the strings of a dance-doll, her right arm lifted until it pointed to blank barrier before us” and mental can Fossi also control with Jeseca “ My familiar had trown back the lid of the massive chest that stood on that corridor. Now she knelt and reached in, stripping away the layers of cloth stored until she came to the cloak that had been folded over me. A moment later she brought my forth. I could feel her surprise at this actions which I had directed; why should she place herself in peril to retrace...
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...Visual 1 This visual message is not clear at all. This visual does not tell a story about the overall pyramid. The sections in the pyramid was properly labeled accordingly. The visual was from a credit source being the United States Department of Agriculture. The visual was designed properly and the colors was used properly. The visual was free of any form of chart junk. The visual was misleading because it did not tell a story about the pyramid. The pyramid just stated food groups and servings but not real overall picture. Visual 2 This visual message was real in this pyramid. The stories in this visual was determined in thorough sentences what occurred in this pyramid. Business Training Center (2013), “When pre-senting important information, a visual – such as a chart or graph – is worth a thousand lines of da-ta”. The sections in the pyramid was properly labeled accordingly. The visual was from a credit source being the United States Department of Agriculture. The visual was designed properly and the colors was used properly throughout he visual. The visual was free of any form of chart junk. This visual was easy for the readier to follow and was well organized. The colors were used great according to the information in the pyramid. This was a well put together visual. Visual 3 This visual message was not clear. The visual did not tell an overall story of the bar chart. This visual could have told more information about malaria mortalities...
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...Fantasy is a broad concept discussed for over many years. Many writers have tried to define fantasy according to different perspectives. Fantasy is something which takes you into imaginative and supernatural world and allows anything to happen (JoAnn 2005). Fantasy is a field involving and practiced in different media. It is greatly related to imagination and mythology ( Laetz & Johnston 2008). The genre of fantasy is most widely used in arts and entertainment world where writers and art related persons us this concept to gather public interest. The Harry potter series is a good example where writer has use fantasy genre and gained huge success. Fantasy is a process which shows the thinking capability of person that how far he/she can think beyond the actual world. Fantasies lead to creative idea generations. As successful in other walks of life, fantasy is widely used in business. Marketers usually use this concept of fantasy in their product promotions. The main motive is to seek maximum attention. The promotional campaigns and ads are designed in such a way that they take customer into an imaginative world. The customers impressed with promotional campaign tend to think that the product will give them ultimate comfort and is the best available solution to their needs. The fantasy campaigns go a step further and create artificial need by making a customer realize that his personality or surrounding will remain incomplete without this product. This particular ad is...
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...CLB 9003 Cross-cultural Studies of Children's Fantasy Literature (1st Term, 2013-14) Term Paper “Compare children’s images in Western and Chinese children’s fantasy literature” Name : So Lok Ching Student ID :4028177 Instructor : Dr Tong Man The development of Western and Chinese children’s fantasy literature varies a lot. Western children’s fantasy literature has a much earlier development process. In Ancient Greece and Rome, there was no distinction between children and adult’s literature, children and adults shared the same literature. Until the 18th century, a remarkable French philosopher, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, believed that every child has a unique value and children should not be seen as immature adults. He also emphasized the importance of moral development in his writing ‘Emile’, in which he believed it could be performed by living a simple life. Rousseau’s ideas had a major influence on the development of children’s literature. People raised awareness about children and children’s fantasy literature was flourishing in the 19th century. In this Golden Age, different varieties of children’s fantasy literature were written to entertain children, such as modern fantasy stories and adventure stories. The naughty image of children could be shown in many adventure stories as well, such as ‘The Adventures of Tom Sawyer’ (1876) by Mark Twain and ‘The Adventures of Pinocchio’ (1883) by Carlo Collodi. Up to the 20th century and recent decades, Naughty main...
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...Fantasy Some people believe that fantasy is dangerous for children to read, and some people have a completely different opinion. According to Ursula Le Guin, fantasy is not just for children, but for adults too, “Tales of talking animals and fantastical adventure aren’t just for children, argues Ursula Le Guin – we can and should return to them throughout our lives” (Quote page 1 line 1-3). Right from the beginning you know that ULG is a fan of fantasy being a part of everyone’s lives. You can always use your child or grandchild as an excuse to read fantasy, if you don’t have the courage to do it by yourself. Fantasy has always been perceived as being for children only, and fantasy has been conflated with immaturity, which according to ULG is a rather sizeable error. Many of the texts are poetry and it contains different elements from different genres. Many fantasies which actually were published as for children, is often read by adults, “It begins with, say, George MacDonald’s At the Back of the North Wind and runs on through Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, The Wind in the Willows, the Just So Stories and The Jungle Book, the Pooh books, Dr Dolittle, The Hobbit, The Once and Future King, Charlotte’s Web, to my first three Earthsea books and all the serious imaginative fiction that continues to be published “for children” but is often read by adults” (Quote page 2 line 48-52). Realistic fiction does not affect everyone, but only people in...
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...Tolkien illustrates this element writing,“In a fantasy novel the author must become a ‘sub-creator’ of an effective secondary world, in which a person believes the circumstances occurring in that world” (Tolkien 8). J.K. Rowling, in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, develops this secondary world and readers find it logical, supporting Tolkien's belief of developing a secondary world. Rowling portrays this believable world when Hagrid, a wizard, tells Harry he is a wizard. Hagrid also describes Harry’s relatives as not wizards by explaining to him what they call non-wizards saying, “A muggle, it’s what we call non magical folk like them” (Rowling 53), differentiating between wizards and non-wizards and creating a rationality in the wizarding world. Rationalities are one of the many...
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...Feeding on Fantasy The article “Feeding on Fantasy”- by Lev Grossman, is about the peoples passion for fantasy, which, in his head, is taking over the world of science fiction. The way he’s writing is neither critical nor real passionate. I wouldn’t say Mr Grossman is a real fantasy lover he knows his stuff and is using a lot of facts, but I’m more sure that he doesn’t like science fiction and in that way fantasy isn’t that bad to him. He’s not really into the whole Blizzard1 world, but he still somehow finds it exciting in a mysterious way. He says, “The business of fantasy has become a multibillion-dollar reality, and science fiction is starting to feel, well, a little 20th century.” The “well” in the sentence is clearly a sarcastic way of harassing science fiction, which also clears my statement that he has nothing left for the “so last year” –fashioned genre. This text is referring to that people in these years are tired of the sci-fi (the feature) world, so we are starting to go back and living this vision we have about the past, and we add these incredible creatures to it, that doesn’t exist, so that we can dream about these wonderful landscapes where the sun is always shinning, this passion about this everlasting love between the marvellous man winning his dream girls heart after a rough, very long and extremely dangerous trip crossing the country to defeat the monster who’s keeping them from being together, and this huge gap between being rich and poor and how God always...
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