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Waiver Wire: AL, Week 8
Statement of purpose: I am forever locked in Mortal Kombat for the souls of sports fans everywhere. Statistics are my science and "the immeasurable character of men" is the obsolete religion of blind faith. My job is to prove that God doesn't exist and that athletes are merely cold, metal machines with no hearts or souls.
All stats current through at least May 24, 2010.
Jake Fox | Oakland | 3B, OF, DH (and C in Yahoo standard leagues) | 0.3% ESPN Ownership
True Talent: .275/.330/.495
It's no secret that I have a man crush on former catcher, now backup catcher, and 2010 Wiggy Award Nominee Jake Fox. As a Cubs fan hoping to see Aramis Ramirez and his $16 million per year contract walk away after the offseason, I was sad to see the Cubs sell low on a cost-controlled slugger who could (barely, but adequately) play multiple positions for a middling reliever. After lighting up Triple-A in the first half of 2009 to the tune of a ridiculous .409/.495/.841 line with 17 HR in just under 200 PA, the Cubs gave Fox a bench role on what should have been a playoff-bound team (grumble, grumble) and Fox held his own (.332 wOBA, 21.8% strikeout rate, .208 ISO) despite sparse and scattered playing time and a slight allergy to walks (5.8 BB%). In 241 major league PA, Fox hit 11 HR with a respectable .259/.311/.468 triple slash line that was slightly depressed by a .274 BABIP (.325 xBABIP, per the THT xBABIP calculator). Now with the Athletics in 2010, Fox is struggling to find playing time thanks to the recent call-up of Jack Cust and early season struggles (.205/.263/.315 triple slash line, .260 wOBA). Though Fox has been unlucky in 2010 (.255 BABIP), it's not exactly like he's being robbed of hits (16.1% LD%, .110 ISO). Though Fox's Triple-A line last season, per Minor League Splits, translates into a .325/.401/.645 major league line, Fox's career MLB equivalent triple slash line is a less-than-inspiring .240/.292/.411. Oakland's spacious Coliseum, which has the lowest HR index thus far this season according to ESPN's Park Factor Data, might be to blame for some of Fox's power outage, but the real problem, if you ask me, is the sharp spike in ground balls that Fox is hitting this season at the expense of fly balls (Fangraphs' take on the GB-to-HR ratio). This all said, Fox is a player in his prime with the promise of 20 HR power upside with a decent BA to boot. In terms of immediate impact, most of Fox's prospective value (if the A's find him ABs) will come from the fact that he's caught five games this season and gained C eligibility in most Yahoo standard leagues. Long term, Fox's fantasy relevance will hinge upon his GB/FB ratio going forward (80 PA is too small a sample size to draw statistically sound conclusions) and BABIP luck.
Recommendation: Where he is C eligible, Fox is a must own in multi-catcher formats and AL-only leagues, while he's is just a guy to monitor in AL-only/deep mixed leagues where Fox is not C eligible (yet).
Carlos Santana | Cleveland | C | 0.9% ESPN Ownership
True Talent: .270/.380/.480
The No. 2 minor league prospect entering this season, who just happens to also be a catcher, is not too far from the majors. Carlos Santana, who the Indians stole from the Dodgers a few years back for Casey Blake (were the Dodgers really that desperate for a slightly above average, aging 3B?), is tearing the cover off the ball in Triple-A this season, hitting .308/.443/.575 with 10 HR in 146 AB. Per Minor League Splits, that translates into a major league triple slash line of .268/.383/.477 with 1 HR per 19.12 AB (or a pace of 31 homers per 600 AB). Unlike Jake Fox, who appeared out of nowhere last season to destroy Triple-A, Carlos Santana is a career minor league .289/.400/.495 hitter with 75 HR in 1764 minor league AB. Carlos Santana, in short, is the kind of guy you save your No. 1 overall waiver priority to get. Santana has not yet got his call up to the majors, but with June and the expiration of probable super two status just around the corner, the Indians, whose catchers are currently hitting a combined .212/.270/.267 (.252 wOBA), are likely to give the starting job and a long leash to the young stud. Given his minor league track record, Santana will likely break into the majors as and finish the season—or at least the rest of the season—as a top-15 catcher. But hey, we all know how the Matt Wieters saga has played out to date. Just get him now, while he's still relatively obscure.
Recommendation: A must own prospect in all leagues (even NL-only leagues!).
Luke Scott | Baltimore | OF, DH (and 1B in Yahoo standard leagues) | 46.5% ESPN Ownership
True Talent: .265/.345/.500
Luke Scott, like Jose Guillen and Alfonso Soriano, is a player who gets 90 percent of his production in 10 percent of the season. When a guy like Luke Scott gets hot, you ride him hard (wow, that didn't sound dirty at all). In the 10 days (May 27-June 6) following a DL stint last year, for example, Scott had a torrid streak where he hit .400 with eight HR and 18 RBI (25 HR, 77 RBI all season). Likewise this season, Scott is currently hitting .432 with eight HR, 12 R and 18 RBI in the month of May. Given his massive HR/FB% spike (25% this season, 15% career) and decreased FB%, Scott probably won't keep up his current pace despite a .293 BABIP (.298 career BABIP, .322 xBABIP) and .233 career ISO. However, in Roto league where you can afford to be patient or in H2H leagues where you need a short-term boost, Scott makes a palatable four-category option for those in need of HR and RBI. Get him while the gettin's good.
Recommendation: Must own in AL-only leagues and deeper mixed leagues with five OF/CI requirements (Scott is not yet 1B eligible in ESPN standard leagues), worth a waiver pick up in most mixed leagues (but not a long-term roster tenant).
Julio Borbon | Texas | OF, DH | 34.2% ESPN Ownership
True Talent: .290/.325/.360
Quick Disclosure: I personally hate speed-only guys because they will kill your team's HR/RBI totals
After bursting on the scene last year with a .312 BA and 19 SB (plus four gravy bonus HRs) in a meager 179 PA, Julio Borbon has burned a lot of owners with his Adam Dunn-like batting average and Ryan Theriot-like SB attempt rate. Hope is on the horizon, however. Over the past 28 days, Borbon has hit .297 and he possesses a ridiculous 7.9 speed score (tied for fourth in the majors, second in the AL) on the season. As most of Borbon's value comes from his speed (the rest being his BA), OBP and BB% will be the linchpin of Borbon's prospect for success in 2010. If he gets on base, Borbon may be a 50+ SB asset for the rest of season. If not, he might top out at 35-40 for the whole season. The major league walk rate is around 9% and Borbon has not reached that mark at any level above Rookie ball. Nonetheless, Borbon's current 1.5% walk rate seems awfully low for a guy who walked 8.4% of the time in the majors last season (200 PA threshold for statistical significance) and 6% in the minors. Borbon won't cost much and has too much upside to ignore. Bottom line: in a world where Juan Pierre is owned in 96.2% of leagues and Rajai Davis is owned in 80.4%, Borbon's 34.2% ownership rate is criminally ignorant.
Recommendation: Must own in all but the shallowest leagues, especially where you are in dire need of speed.
Max Scherzer | Detroit | SP | 38.1% ESPN Ownership
True Talent: 3.90 ERA, 8.55 K/9, 3.30 BB/9
Entering this season, I had high expectations for Max Scherzer (per 180 IP, I forecasted a 3.78 ERA, 1.30 WHIP and 173 K's for the Dirty Scherz). However, as I later noted a few starts before his demotion, Mad Max had a decreased GB%, a significantly decreased (2 mph) FB velocity and a neutral LOB%/BABIP (no substantial bad luck) on the season. At that time, I suggested Scherzer's upside was not worth the present risk or opportunity cost. Fast forward a demotion and a few minor league starts later and the Dirty Scherz has taken a complete 180 turn. In his last Triple-A start last Thursday, Scherzer pitched eight shutout innings, struck out 10 hitters, walked only one batter and—and this is the important part—hit 97 mph on the radar gun (hat tip to Yahoo). With the Tigers' pitching staff middling around in mediocrity (bottom 10 in xFIP, 15th overall in ERA) amidst a razor-close pennant race, Scherzer will not be long for the minors. I am firmly convinced that long term Scherzer will be a top 15 starting pitcher; he's got to start somewhere and he's well worth the risk, especially if it comes at the mere cost of a postage stamp (as certain late night infomercials might say). Even if Scherzer does not reach his potential this season, his general peripherals indicate that he'll likely be better than Clayton Kershaw.
Recommendation: Jim Cramer has given the green light to buy in all but the shallowest of formats (especially AL-only leagues).
Carlos Quentin | Chicago (AL) | OF, DH | 72.3%
True Talent: .260/.345/.450
Full disclosure, I am from Chicago. However, I am a Cubs fan, so I hope my love for certain Sox players is not taken as any homerism. That said, let's look at CQ. Quentin, a former top pick with unreal minor league numbers, seemingly came out of nowhere in 2008 after a pair of failed stints with the Diamondbacks in the homer haven that is Chase Field. In the two years since hitting .288/.394/.571 with 36 HR in only 130 games, however, Quentin has failed to impress, hitting a meager .231 with decent pop (24 HR in 485 2009-10 ABs). Given his .221 BABIP and .219 ISO last season, Quentin entered the season as a seemingly great low-risk, high-reward guy with an ADP past 150. Quentin has not fulfilled any of his promise so far this season and the low BABIP is seeming less like bad luck and more like true talent (career .252 BABIP, 16.1% LD% and 3.7 Speed Score over 1580 PA) everyday. Quentin has only four HR on the season and a decent, but unpromising, .164 ISO on the season. Given his continuous struggles with effectiveness and health (plantar fasciitis tends to be a lingering health problem), my expectations for CQ are substantially diminished at this point (20-25 HR ceiling, less than 80 RBI). Quentin likely has salvageable brand name and stock value remaining and less sabermetrically endowed fantasy owners may be enticed by his "low" BABIP (.225 on the season). 50-60% on the dollar seems reasonable.
Recommendation: Jim Cramer says sell. Ownable (and probably must own) in AL-only leagues, only roster worthy in deep (14+ team, 5 OF) mixed leagues.
Russell Branyan | Cleveland | 1B | 2.5% ESPN Ownership
True Talent: .245/.350/.490
Amongst hitters with 2000+ career PA, one man reigns supreme, topping even Rob Deer, as king of the Three True Outcomes: Russell Branyan, the only player in the history of major league baseball (2,000 PA qualified) to either walk, homer or strike out in at least half of his PAs (51.2%). Nothing much about that has changed this season (47.8%). Despite his strong power and keen walking skills, Branyan never caught on as a full-time major leaguer (probably because of the career 38.9% strikeout rate) until last season. When given the opportunity (and healthy), Branyan raked to the tune of a .280/.382/.573 triple slash line with 22 HR, 49 R/RBI and even 2 SB for good measure over his first 341 PA. Branyan even managed to muscle out nine HR in 164 PA in the second half while dealing with back problems. Given his prodigious strikeout rate, Branyan's BA will likely sit somewhere between Carlos Pena's and Adam Dunn's, but the rest of Branyan's game is legit. Though his loss of 3B eligibility this season is disappointing, Branyan still makes a decent 1B/CI/DH option for leagues in need of some HR/RBI help (though RBIs will be elusive if the Indians continue to underperform offensively). Though Branyan's home run output this year is down in the early going (1/23 PA) compared to his career rate (1/15 PA), but he is nonetheless on pace for 26 bombs per 600 PA. ZiPS projects Branyan to hit 14 HR in 269 PA for the rest of the way, which extrapolates out to 21 HR if he can stay healthy for the rest of the season (400 PA). Thus, if home runs are your need, Branyan is your man. Just be warned, the BA won't be pretty.
Recommendation: Should be owned in AL-only formats, ownable in deeper mixed leagues with CI needs, watch in standard (12-team) mixed leagues.
Will Ohman | Baltimore | RP | 23.0% ESPN Ownership
True Talent: 3.90 ERA, 8.50 K/9, 4.30 BB/9
Like the closer situation in Milwaukee, the Baltimore bullpen is a mess. Ideally speaking, you do not want any part of the Orioles' closer roulette situation, as each new option is less enticing than the last. For instance, Cla Meredith—a groundball guy with average control and no strikeout ability—is rumored to be in the mix for saves. Really? Cla Meredith? Yea, the closing situation in Baltimore is that bad. Kameron Mickolio, a guy who came into town with the Bedard trade that keeps on giving and who was supposed to replace Jim Johnson when Johnsen fell pray to injury, has struggled heavy with his control (7.39 BB/9) and now that Alfredo Simon (and Koji Uehara) are on the DL, the team has few, if any, realistic closing options. Baltimore might play the dreaded-for-fantasy closer by committee game, but the name that currently stands out as Baltimore's best option, despite being southpaw, is former Cub Will Ohman. In the early going this season (15.2 IP), Ohman has a sparkling 0.00 ERA (2.47 FIP/.352 xFIP) with 17 Ks with a 48.6% groundball rate. Ohman's big problem as a reliever has always been the walks (4.60 BB/9 this season, 4.45 career) and sadly, the ground balls are probably an outlier (career 39.2% GB%), but if Ohman can keep pitching the way he has thus far into the season, he may be able to hold onto the closing job until someone better comes off the DL. Ohman's by no means a great option and he might hurt your ERA/WHIP (even in limited sample sizes) more than he helps your saves totals, but saves are saves and desperate needs breed desperate measures. Personally, I'd rather poach/speculate for saves where higher quality options exist (guys who could potentially unseat/succeed current closers and actually keep the job) such as Luke Gregerson/Mike Adams, Evan Meeks, J.J. Putz/Matt Thorton/Sergio Santo and Kevin Jepsen/Fernando Rodney (though Rodney honestly isn't that much different in ability from Ohman).
Recommendation: Must own (for now) in AL-only formats and deeper mixed leagues. Avoid in shallow mixed leagues.
Joba Chamberlain | New York (AL) | SP, RP | 23.0% ESPN Ownership
True Talent: 3.40 ERA, 9.80 K/9, 3.30 BB/9
Do not let the high (4.50) ERA fool you. Joba is pitching almost as well this season (2.74 xFIP, 11.25 K/9, 20 IP) as he was at the end of 2007 (2.42 xFIP, 12.75 K/9, 24 IP). Mo Rivers is golden as the Yankees closer, but like any other pitcher, old man Rivera does need his rest every now and then. With the Yankees winning 69.2% of their games, that means Joba will get a save chance here and there (he has two on the season). Joba's high strikeout stuff, refound control and improved groundball rate make him an enticing ratio stabilizer to balance out volatile guys like Clayton Kershaw. Joba won't light the world on fire, and his expectations are substantially diminished from what they were entering the 2008 season, but he is a quality middle relief option who will help your numbers where you can spare the roster spot.
Recommendation: Should be owned in AL-only formats, deeper mixed leagues, and all mixed leagues where you own guys from the Jonathan Sanchez All-Stars.
Aaron Hill | Toronto | 2B | 91.7% ESPN Ownership
True Talent: .285/.335/.450
Following a 2007 season where he hit .291 with 17 HR, Aaron Hill seemed like a plausible break out candidate for 2008—especially given a stellar September (2007) where he hit .406 with three HR and 23 R to finish the season. Hill started 2008 strong with a .328 BA, 2 HR, 8R and 12 RBI over the first 15 games of the season. Hill cooled off considerably over the next month and a late-May concussion from a collision with then-teammate David Eckstein ended his 2008 campaign, resulting in a disappointing .263/.324/.361 (.307 wOBA) triple slash with only two HR over 229 PA for the year. 2009 came and many people forgot about Aaron Hill, while those who remembered him were rewarded handsomely (.286/.330/.499 triple slash line with 36 HR, 6 SB, 103 R and 108 RBI). Entering this season, Hill was ranked 76th overall by ESPN (and comparably high by Yahoo and the free market system known as Mock Draft Central), making him the seventh-ranked 2B. While I personally thought that while Aaron Hill was definitely a top-10 2B (arguably Dan Uggla and Ben Zobrist were better options and deserved to be ranked higher than Hill) and that a seventh overall 2B ranking was not unreasonable, I strongly felt that a 76 overall ranking, let along a top-100 ranking, was unreasonably high for a guy whose true HR ceiling was around 20-25, not 35, who did not steal a whole lot and who was going to play on what was predicted to be an offensively inept team (limited R/RBI opportunities to capitalize upon)—even with positional scarcity considered. In my person draft day rankings I had Ben Zobrist ranked 68 overall and Hill at 114. Clearly I wasn't getting Hill and I had other targets than Zobrist, but the point nonetheless remains. Hill, despite the .288 BABIP last season, was overrated due to his overpeformance in power last season. At this point, Hill's stock has fallen considerably and many have pegged him as a fluke/one-season wonder. I would not go that far, but if Hill is your primary option in a 12-team or shallower mixed league, there are reasons to be concerned. Hill is still flashing good power for a 2B (on pace for 24-25 for the season), but the K% is up around 19% this season, which is way too high for a guy with a .174 ISO. Hill is still lower-end top 10 option at 2B, but he's clearly not a top 100, let alone probably a top 150, overall player for the rest of the season. In AL-only formats, you are probably handcuffed with Hill given the shallowness of the position (especially in the AL), but in mixed leagues where you have alternatively satisfactory options for 2B at your disposal (such as Rickie Weeks or Casey McGehee, perhaps), Hill is a player worth moving for a better overall player given his position eligibility and potential remaining name-brand value.
Recommendation: Hold in all AL-only formats, sell in mixed leagues
Justin Smoak | Texas | 1B | 11.3% ESPN Ownership
True Talent: .280/.370/.465
Don't let the poor batting average or lack of monstrous home run totals deter you. Unlike Dustin Pedroia, Rangers' first baseman Justin Smoak can hit 400 home runs. And unlike Chris Davis (career 34.7% K%, 6.2% BB%), the man Smoak succeeded to the first base throne, Smoak has good control over the strike zone (17% K% and 15% BB% in the minors, 18.8% K% and 14.3% BB% in the majors) and should, therefore, be less prone to extended slumps. Smoak has been smacking line drives this season at an elite 22.9% clip and his batted ball profile makes him out to a .290 BABIP hitter (per the THE xBABIP calculator), which is well above his current mark of .165. If we normalize Smoak's lack of luck using his xBABIP and pessimistically assume that all hits gained would merely be singles, Smoak's currently triple slash line would inflate to .266/.368/.414. Smoak's minor league numbers do not project him as the "slugging type," a la Ryan Howard, but rather a 2007 Derek Lee-like hitter (20-25 HR power, good BA, strong OBP), which is still valuable in his own right. Given his skills and the Rangers' offensive lineup, Smoak should have plenty of R/RBI opportunities to provide owners with fantasy gold. Just give him a chance.
Recommendation: Buy low/pick up in all AL-only formats, monitor in mixed leagues
Jose Bautista watch (5/17-5/24): .240 BA, 4 HR, 5 BB, 9 RBI, 6 R. His ownership is up 25% in ESPN leagues this week.
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Jake Fox is a nice guy and well spoken. But he cannot hit bro. Sorry, just watch his AB's and you will understand what I'm saying. His head is usually pointed behind the 3b dugout on his swing's finish. If you don't trust your lying eyes, take a gander at his contact rates. Teh. Dude. Can't. Hit.
He's not even the A's best hitting backup catcher, or maybe even the 2nd best (Landon Powell, Josh Donaldson).
you guys realize everytime you put an articale on twitter the URL gets malformed and the link is unopenable—invalid get data
Fwiw, I think the stats are current all the way though 2010.
Typo: Luke Scott plays for Baltimore, not Oakland.
Typos corrected. Sorry!
Bautista's ship has sailed in any leagues with any kind of participation. Scott's tear appears over for now, to return at a later date. Joba's a great add for what he does, good to see him mentioned here.
Agree that Fox is lousy. Who would trade for Aaron Hill now? Quentin, what's wrong with that dooode?
Finally Santana is a catcher. Who cares? This season I've used Irod, Snyder, Buck, Suzuki, and it really makes no difference. Ride the hot C. Simple as that
Whither Dexter Fowler? I'm considering cutting him—despite the fact that I'm in an OBP league—and adding Borbon. Would you make that swap?
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Thanks, Jeffrey. I've done exactly that swap – Borbon for Fowler. I'll see what shapes up. Now if I can just get a closer and an upgrade from Alcides Escobar, I'll be in good shape . . .


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Electronic Arts is set to raise thousands of pounds for Comic Relief via its best-selling The Sims franchise.
The publisher will donate £1 for every Sims title sold in February and March to the charity – including the PC expansions and console versions of The Sims 3.
"Humour is an integral part of how Sims fans play with life in the game, so we're naturally excited to be aligning with a worthy cause like Comic Relief as a supporting partner," UK product manager Bolu Akindoyin told MCV.


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MIAMI - Meteorologists often talk about the uncertainties in tropical cyclone track and intensity forecasts. We don't often talk about the uncertainties associated with the size of the tropical cyclone circulation. Size is an important parameter in the case of Hurricane Sandy that will make a difference in how strong the winds get over South Florida.
There is the usual uncertainty associated with the track and intensity of Sandy, but the National Hurricane Center (NHC) has been very consistent in forecasting the center of Sandy to track across eastern Cuba and into the central and/or northwestern Bahamas. The strongest winds will be fairly close to the center and well away from South Florida. However, the computer models are indicating that the wind field is going to expand over the next few days. The extent of this expansion and timing will dictate, in large part, how strong the winds blow over us in South Florida.
NHC creates a probability graphic to help describe the likelihood of tropical storm force winds. This graphic takes into account the uncertainty in the track, the uncertainty in the intensity, and the variability of the size of the tropical cyclone. The current graphic, based on the forecast issued at 5:00 pm Wednesday, shows relatively low probabilities along portions of the Florida east coast but these probabilities have been increasing.
The National Weather Service forecasters thought there was a high enough chance of tropical storm force winds to post Tropical Storm Warnings from Ocean Reef to Sebastian Inlet which includes Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach coastal areas.
Based on the current forecast, sustained tropical storm force winds (39 mph or greater) are likely somewhere in the warning area with the highest probability in Palm Beach County. And we could easily see gusts to 50 or 60 mph, most likely from late Thursday afternoon through Friday.
Regardless of precisely how high the winds get, we are in for a prolonged period of strong winds. these winds will likely be enough to produce some major beach erosion and possibly minor coastal flooding during high tides.
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Congress leaders claim the rising price of onions is due to hoarding by pro-BJP traders. Renu Mittal reports
With Assembly elections in four important states just around the corner and prices of onions touching Rs 100 a kilo, the Congress party has asked the government to take urgent steps to bring down the prices. The government has called a meeting on Wednesday to take stock of the situation.
People have not forgotten that the Bharatiya Janata Party's Delhi government headed by Sushma Swaraj was voted out of power when onion prices touched Rs 60 and since then the BJP has not been able to make a comeback in Delhi.
But the Congress now is trying to win a fourth term in Delhi with prices of onions touching Rs 100.
The blame game has begun in New Delhi. One of the proposals before the government is to ban the export of onions and begin imports to flood the market and bring down the prices. The details of this would be worked out once senior ministers take a call on how the issue will be resolved.
The Congress spokesman blamed hoarding as the reason for the increase in prices. Party leaders claim it is a conspiracy by big traders who are known to be pro-BJP.
A senior Congress leader alleged that some traders have paid money for the entire stock of onions that has not even been harvested but with the specific instructions that the onions are not to be moved out till the buyers give a go-ahead. The example is from Alvar in Rajasthan.
A section of the Congress party and the government are blaming Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, very influential in Maharashtra, particularly Nasik, the biggest onion mandi in India.


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At Origins 2009 I had the pleasure of playing in an Introduction to HackMaster Basic session run by Steve Johansson, one of the designers (Dave Kenzer, another designer, was running the other table). Full disclosure: I'm a staff writer for Knights of the Dinner Table but when it comes to HackMaster I'm as much newbie as anyone else.
HackMaster Basic ($19.99, Kenzer & Co.) is a new beginning for HackMaster; the first edition of the game was based on Advanced Dungeons & Dragons with a number of supplementary (and often humerous) mechanics tagged on. After losing the D&D 1E license , KenzerCo decided to reboot HackMaster with their own game engine.
The end result, featured in HackMaster Basic, is a mix of old and new. It's touted as being the very best in old school gaming, but in truth it manages to sneak in a number of innovations into the old beast. The end result is something that I think could work for a lot of folks who enjoyed the older editions of D&D, but are looking to mix up their games.
Character creation is a prime example of this. Characters are generated using the decidedly old-school "3d6" method of rolling three six-sided dice and adding up the result. It's a roll-as-you go approach; if you rolled a 8 for Strength, you're stuck with it.
Except, you're not. You can choose to rearrange some or even all of your stat values, but you're rewarded for not doing so with build points. Build points are used to buy classes, skills, and other essential character abilities. Your given some to start, but you'll have even more if you let the dice fall where they may.
Races are another example of this: each race has certain classes associated with them (dwarves are natural fighters and clerics, halflings are exemplar rogues, and humans are good at almost everything). Rather than have hard limits on what classes a race can or can't play though, Kenzer takes a more nuanced approach. You buy your class, and certain classes are naturally cheaper for certain races. Conversely, some are naturally much more expensive. This allows you to have that wizard dwarf if you really, really want such an abomination, but you'll pay dearly for it.
After you buy your class and race, you need to buy skills, which available in increases known as "tallies". Tallies are similar to ranks in D&D 3.x, with a twist: each tally you buy allies you to roll a die, and add that to your total skill rank.
Your base skill is a percentage based on your ability score, plus any tallies that you bought. Tallies let you roll a d12 and add that to the skill value. It's tiered; once you reach 26% in a skill, you roll d8s.
Exploding dice, in which you re-roll any die that gets a maximum result, are called called penetrating here. The penetrating mechanic is prevalent through out the game, as most weapon and spell damage penetrate, as do mastery skill bumps from buying tallies. This can cause lethal combat results, and I am concerned it could wildly skew skills. My wizard with high Int/Wiz got a boatload of bonus skill points. I bought a tally in interrogation as a minor skill bump; then the mastery role exploded 4 times and it ended up being my best skill. It's easy to see how these kinds of random results could frustrate players who prefer fixed point buy systems (e.g. GURPS)
My finished character was a glutonous myopic elven wizard (yes, Hackmaster has hinderances), who arrived at the Dew Drop Inn and threw himself into the buffet (getting out his own custom oversized bowl).
We had the obligatory gather information and diplomacy skill checks as we searched the inn and the town for the plot hook. Skill checks involve a d100 roll plus your score in that skill; if you bet a target number, you succeed. I could see this being a little slow for those who can't quickly add double digit numbers in their head (unless said person has a calculator handy).
Once we discovered it -- there had been a kobold raid on the outskirts of town -- we got into our first fight. The game uses an interative initative, like that found in Kenzer's western RPG Aces and Eights. When you roll initiative, you use that initial number for your first action. You then add the value to the initial roll, and that's when your character gets to go again (e.g. if you roll an 8 on initiative; you'll go again on 16, 32, etc.) This makes combat surprisingly fluid as each person takes a single action on their go. It avoids the "hurry up and do nothing" problem that plagued some D&D 3.5 games, while also avoiding the D&D 4E problem of giving someone somethign to do every ... single ... round.
Combat involves opposed d20 rolls; one by the attacker, one by the defender. The higher roll wins. Critical fumbles cause attacks of opportunity. Perfect defense - rolling a natural 20 - causes an attack of opportunity as well.
As promised shields are useful for defense, but particularly strong hacking attacks can knock them aside. This makes them good for against kobolds, not so good against hill giants.
Magic users and clerics get a handful of spells in HackMaster (at least in comparison to D&D 3.x, D&D 4E, and Pathfinder). Wizards can choose to memorize spells or cast them spontaneously; the chief difference is cost, as spontaneous spells cost twice as much as memorized ones. The mechanic is a nice alternative to D&D 3.x's traditional Vancian system, but it didn't feel quite as high-powered and frantic as what I'd expect form the KODT comic book (then agin, we were only first level, and you can only expect so much from newbs).
Overall, I think they're doing some mechanically interesting things with the game, but the crunch factor is high. In many ways HackMaster Basic is the anti-4E. D&D 4E is about maintaining a near-perfect balance between the classes, strict adherence to rolls, and maintaining it all through an exceptions-based rules engine. HackMaster is about randomness tempered by mechanics. You may go in with a particular character concept in mind, but you could walk away with something very different. This randomness, this unplanned evolution of the character, is very different from what we see in 4E. It's more in keeping with the old "let the dice fall where they may" mentality of early RPGs, and I found it to be refreshingly different (yet very familiar).
I look forward doing a proper playtest of HackMaster Basic with my gaming group after I've had a chance to digest the book. I don't know that it would fly in my gaming group as a replacement system for our Greyhawk campaign, but if nothing else it would make for a great mini-campaign and/or one shots at our local game convention.


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This week, we continue our ongoing series of interviews with important figures from the UK housebuilding industry by heading to the East Midlands and speaking to the managing director of a long-established, Nottingham-based Rippon Homes, Ian Dyke.
Hi Ian, please tell us a little about yourself and Rippon Homes.
I have been in housebuilding since taking up an engineering apprenticeship with Mason Richards Architects in Wolverhampton back in the 1980s.
Having gained my qualifications I jumped ship from private practice into frontline developing. Therefore, my experience is varied and covers most aspects of building new homes from inception to completion and maintenance in the future.
Rippon Homes has been in existence for over 60 years, starting out as a builder with local authority contracts before moving into an outright new housing development.
In the interim period the company also had its own joinery business for windows, stairs and doors. Operating generally in the East Midlands within an hour from its traditional base in Mansfield, we are able to build homes in the key East Midlands cities and assist in the regeneration of the old minefields.
What kind of homes is Rippon currently offering?
Our current portfolio is traditional two-storey homes with in-curtilage parking for owner-occupiers ranging from two to five bedrooms. We also look out for and develop sites for bungalows.
Do you have a "star" development and if so, what do you think makes it so popular?
This last year saw us complete on Kings Meadow at Wingerworth, Chesterfield, we sold very quickly. The properties had a high specification to reflect the area's affluent nature. We have an upcoming site in Welton, Lincolnshire – a very popular village to the north of the city of Lincoln which is already proving to be very popular before launch. These two locations are very popular villages with a recognised sense of place and good facilities making them sustainable places to live.
How have schemes such as Help to Buy and Part Exchange (and others) had an impact on your buyers?
We have many schemes to help buyers find their next home. Help to Buy has helped younger home buyers and singletons purchase the home they want and need and keep the mortgage repayments affordable.
Part Exchange is available for those that want to move quickly and don't want the hassle of dealing with sales agents and visitors to their property. We also run a sales assist scheme where we will organise the sale of our purchaser's property at an agreed price to enable them to upgrade to a newer home.
Has the political and economic aftermath of the EU referendum affected the property market in your region?
We have not seen any overt signs of any downshift in the market apart from the usual summer recess. We do not have a large investor purchasing base for our product as we principally target owner-occupiers.
Do you think the buying public are fully aware of the benefits of buying a brand new home and what do you think are the main reasons people choose them in the end?
The industry has to do more to promote the benefits of new over old and the efficiencies in heating and maintenance alone swing the pendulum in favour of new build, and the benefit of an unchanged home not messed about by well-meaning 'amateur builders' has to be a plus to promote new over old.
Location is still key for any home purchase decision and the cost, layout, style are all subordinate to that single item.
Generally new homes now are well built and benefit from a warranty against defects for 10 years or more – this gives purchasers peace of mind on structural defects. The old myth that new homes are small boxes and all look the same is being dispelled by the industry's move to better internal layouts and planning to maximise the living area and facilities in a new home. Indeed we strive to bring variety to our street scenes by using different styles, sizes and elevational treatments which sometimes the big developers struggle to do.
How have buyer expectations for specification (eg bathrooms, en suites, utility rooms, home tech) changed over the past few years?
New home buyers are more discerning in branded goods and fittings relative to the value of the home – for example, en suites are still popular whilst utility rooms have disappeared in favour of living family kitchen spaces.
Garages have become storage/playrooms and parking has had to increase to avoid on-street parking and cluttering up the street scene.
There has not been a huge demand for state-of-the-art tech but a good network system is installed to enable audiovisual around the home, with the onset of wireless communications hard cabling is a thing of the past. Home security has gone through a phase of homes with an alarm everywhere to only a few homes being fitted with an alarm.
'Grand Design' style programmes have influenced to a certain degree the decision to offer 'glass walls' and folding doors to bring the outside in but we all have to remember this island of ours sits at the junction of the North Sea and Atlantic Ocean and not near the equator so hot, dry, sunny days are few and far between.
What is it about your homes and service which differentiates you from your competitors?
We tend to search for smaller select developments, attention to detail in the layout planning of the site with focal points and interesting street scenes, build quality, value for money in terms of the size of the property being offered, concentrating on single- or two-storey style homes of a traditional nature.
We take pride in listening to the customers and providing a greater level of personalisation and needs. For example, we have recently amended one of our designs so that a family with grandparents could live independently in the same property.
What's in the pipeline for Rippon over the coming months?
Growth and expansion are key at Rippon Homes. Rippon Homes has been a traditional builder for a long time and we are looking how we can incorporate those traditional values with energy-efficient modern methods of construction. We are looking at the internal layout of the homes to maximise living space but still provide the right level of facilities in the new home.


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A group of builders from the Fraser Valley recently joined forces to demonstrate that it's possible to construct a new hospital from the ground up in about 90 hours.
How? You need skill, patience, creativity and about 7,000 pieces of Lego. The result is a two-foot tall replica of Surrey Memorial Hospital's new Critical Care Tower. The structure even has its own ambulance, helicopter and medical staff — all made of Lego.
The replica was commissioned by Jane Adams, president & CEO of Surrey Memorial Hospital Foundation, as a unique auction item for an upcoming charity golf tournament organized by EllisDon, the company that orchestrated the construction of the real Critical Care Tower.
The idea of creating a Lego tower came to Adams after she learned that the Child Life specialists at Surrey Memorial use these simple building blocks to help young patients and siblings in the Children's Health Centre and the pediatric emergency department cope with their time in the hospital.
Earlier this summer, Lego enthusiast and Langley resident Lee Wager rallied members of the Abbotsford Lego User Group (AbbyLUG) to volunteer their time and take on the challenge.
EllisDon supplied Wager with photos and drawings, and he also paid a visit to the hospital for a closer look. He notes that one of the biggest challenges of using Lego to build architectural pieces is working with Lego's geometric shapes and figuring out how to accommodate unique features, such as curved walls.
For the hospital tower, Wager and the group had to replicate the one-of-a-kind windows above the lobby and source out enough blue bricks needed to build the distinctive coloured walls of the main building. It's all part of the Lego building challenge, he says.
"It's fun to try to create or innovate with Lego, because it has its limitations."
The Lego enthusiasts' creation was on the auction block at the golf tournament on July 22. The golfers and guests included many of the contractors, trades and suppliers involved in building the province's newest and most technologically advanced health care facility.
For more information about Surrey Memorial Hospital Foundation, visit www.smhfoundation.com.
To find out more about the Abbotsford Lego User Group go to www.abbylug.com.


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Yigal Yadin. a former chief of staff and a world-renowned Hebrew University archaeologist, announced yesterday that he is forming a new political party to be called "The Democratic Movement" which will seek to win enough Knesset seats next year to be able to form a government.
At a press conference here. Yadin introduced a list of 78 people who form the "founding group" of his new movement. Among those on the list are: Mrs. Renana Leshem, daughter of the late Premier David Ben Gurion; Isser Harel, former chief of Israel's intelligence services; Mrs.Yael Uzzai, a former Cabinet secretary; Pinhas Koppel, former inspector general of the police; and Gen. (Res.) Meir Zorea.
Yadin said that the principal objectives of Israel are to create a secure homeland for the Jewish people and a spiritual center for the Jews of the diaspora. "Unification of our people, closing of social gaps and the fostering of immigration and our ties with the diaspora are essential conditions for the attainment of these objectives." he said.
On the question of peace in the Middle East, Yadin said that a true peace must come through good faith on both sides. "We should refrain," he said, "at this point from presenting final and detailed plans for peace, since for the present no plan has been accepted by the other side," However, Yadin said any peace must be based on the acceptance of a united Jerusalem as Israel's capital, Israel's willingness to relinquish territory, to a single Arab state that will exist on both sides of the Jordan River and that Israel will be able to hold on to areas on the West Bank that are essential for its security.


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Award-winning stage and screen actress Fiona Shaw returns to Broadway tonight, April 22, for the opening of The Testament of Mary, by the acclaimed author Colm Tóibín, directed by Deborah Warner. The production will run for a twelve-week limited engagement through Sunday, June 16.
The Testament of Mary takes place after the Crucifixion. Mary, the mother of Jesus, is in the city of Ephesus where she is both guarded and protected. As two of her son's followers set about giving shape to Jesus' story, Mary tells her own story - the one which has not been heard.
This historic collaboration between actress Fiona Shaw and director Deborah Warner results in the creation, for the first time, of a new work for Broadway, written by acclaimed author Colm Tóibín. Scribner published The Testament of Mary last fallto international acclaim. The New York Times called it "beautiful and daring." London's The Independent proclaimed it as "a searing, stunning work." "Flawless. Touching, moving and terrifying," said the New Statesman. Entertainment Weekly raved, "it's spellbinding; exquisitely emotional. A generous leap of imagination," and The New York Review of Books called it "subversive and ruthless, Tóibín's boldest jump yet," and lauded it for its "sensational theatricality."
The Testament of Mary has scenery designed by Tom Pye, costume designed by Ann Roth, lighting designed by Jennifer Tipton and original music and sound designed by Mel Mercier.
Tickets for The Testament of Mary are available at the Walter Kerr Theatre box office, at telecharge.com and testamentonbroadway.com or by calling 212-239-6200.


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The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement:
"Lawyers fill an important role in American democracy, as the conduit for transmitting social mores from the nation's elite to the people, and vice versa. How they do this is something sociologists have spent relatively little time researching, but Steven M. Teles has taken a step to remedy this by producing an engaging, insightful, and remarkably objective analysis of how the climate of legal ideas actually changes. His book is neither history nor polemic, but a scholarly study of how an ideological minority organized despite overwhelming hostility, knot an effective (if still minority) force against the prevailing orthodoxy. . . . [T]eles's book is an important and persuasive account of the growth and success of a corps of intellectuals who are challenging the hegemony of big government in American society."--Timothy Sandefur, California Lawyer
"[T]his new book by Steven Teles . . . will appeal mainly if not only to legal and politics specialists, and those interested in the USA at that. However, his survey of the ways in which conservative law grew from the 1960s to the turn of the twenty-first century reveals even more of interest to anyone trying to understand how conservative values and beliefs . . . were and have been internalized in US law schools and the education there, as well as in legal practice and the federal bench."--Stuart Hannabuss, Library Review
"No published study about the conservative legal movement of which I am aware can compete with the information, detail, perspectives, and stories that Teles has packed into his book."--Roy B. Flemming, Law and Politics Book Review
"Well written and well researched. . . . Activists on both the Left and the Right can learn about the tactics of intellectual insurgency and networking. Political scientists can benefit from Teles's explanation of how liberalism became entrenched in legal institutions just as conservatives were starting to dominate electoral politics. And grant-makers can learn the importance of adopting a long time-horizon when engaged in a battle of ideas."--R. Shep Melnick, Claremont Review of Books
"Teles provides a thorough analytical chronology of the emergence of intellectuals, networks, political entrepreneurs, and patrons as a new level of political competition in the legal arena, which he contends has made elections themselves less significant. . . . This is an exceptionally valuable resource for understanding recent changes, both liberal and conservative, in the legal and political spheres."--R. Heineman, Choice
"This fine book will surely become the leading authority on the efforts of modern conservatives to shape law. It should be of interest to a wide range of scholars and lawyers."--James W. Ely, Jr., Law and History Review
"This excellent book deserves to be widely read and discussed. . . . It can be read with profit by historians of conservatism, by political scientists interested in American political development, and by scholars interested in the complexities of large-scale change in legal doctrine and structure and its relation to conventional politics."--Richard Adelstein, Constitutional Political Economy
"[T]houghtful and well-researched."--Andy Lamey, Metapsychology Online Reviews
"Teles draws on extraordinarily rich data to show how a conservative legal movement emerged and altered the ideological landscape in the legal profession and in the judicial branch of government. . . . The author artfully examines the interplay of structure and action, as he describes both the successes and failures of the movement's architects."--Rory McVeigh, Contemporary Sociology
"Steven M. Teles has written a remarkable book that reinforces the truth that ideas have consequences. . . . Teles offers a fascinating account of the myriad moving parts that did and must work together to effect large-scale political change."--Bradley C. S. Watson, Intercollegiate Review
"[A] remarkable book. . . . Teles adopts an approach that is both highly effective and radically divergent from the typical foci and methods of contemporary scholarship on American politics."--Paul Pierson, Perspectives on Politics
"Steven M. Teles has written a fascinating book on how conservative ideas gained influence over contemporary law and has added an essential chapter to our historical accounts of modern conservatism, which until now have focused on electoral politics."--Linda Przybyszewski, Journal of American History
"[Steven M. Teles'] book provide[s] . . . insights into the causes and contours of the American conservative legal movement and provide[s] a much-welcomed alternative perspective to the regime politics literature by spotlighting the supply side of legal and constitutional change."--Amanda Hollis-Brusky, Law & Social Inquiry
"The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement provides an essential road map to the organizational mobilization of conservatives over the past quarter century."--Al Gore, corecipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize
"Steven Teles's deep, meticulous study of the successes and failures of the conservative legal reform movement illuminates the politics of law like nothing else in the literature. Combining original reporting, political theory, and institutional analysis in just the right proportions, his bold and deliberate investigation leads to a bracing conclusion: idealism, risk taking, patience, and devotion to the intrinsic merits of ideas are not secondary, but essential to the discovery of successful political strategies."--Christopher DeMuth, president of the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
"In this deeply informative and engagingly written book, Teles credits, as many academics refuse to do, the possibility that the success of the conservative legal movement is to be explained in part by the intellectual force of conservative arguments. His fair-mindedness is praiseworthy not only for its own sake, but also for enabling him to produce a more accurate and refined account of the remarkable phenomenon he seeks to understand."--Robert P. George, Princeton University
"A timely and important book. Drawing on inside accounts from key players, Teles tells the remarkable story of how conservatives overthrew liberal legal assumptions; more importantly, he shows how successful ideas depend on building organizations, institutions, and networks to propagate and defend them."--Jack M. Balkin, Yale Law School
"The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement is a terrific, pathbreaking book, and Teles tells the story with verve, clarity, and elegance. Through the quality of its argument and evidence, this book will become the standard authority on the conservative movement in law."--Charles Epp, author of The Rights Revolution: Lawyers, Activists, and Supreme Courts in Comparative Perspective
"The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement is the rare ambitious book that succeeds in presenting both the theory and the details. It offers compelling arguments about entrenchment and countermobilization, organizational strategies and institutional maintenance. It provides vivid pictures of particular organizations, entrepreneurs, and controversies. And it tells instructive stories about failures as well as successes. Useful and important, broad and convincing, this is a great book."--R. Shep Melnick, Boston College
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Thank you for the quick response! I have two more questions...sorry, I am a bit of a paranoid germaphobe at times ;-)
1.Do I need to be concerned about parasites at all? I read some scary stuff about roundworm eggs causing blindness, but it sounds like I would have had to actually eat infected soil/feces for this to be an issue...and I definitely didn't eat her sleeper ;-)
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Sporting leaders on Wednesday accused the government of not doing enough to support the hosting of major events.
Those attending the Sports and Events Tourism Exchange Conference in Durban also threatened to boycott next year's event if the government did not show commitment to addressing the country's sporting challenges, which include transformation issues.
The absence of Minister of Sport and Recreation, Fikile Mbalula, who was meant to present on the topic of South Africa as a sports tourism destination, also seemed to have stirred discontent.
Brenda Madumise, the chairwoman of Cathsseta (Culture, Art, Tourism, Hospitality and Sport Education and Training Authority), did not hide her disappointment at Mbalula's absence.
"I'm not going to say protocol observed because they have all left. Maybe that's the problem," she said.
"I will not attend the conference next year if we are still talking and not acting."
The chief executive of the Gauteng Cricket Board, Cassim Docrat; the president of the South African Rugby Union, Oregan Hoskins; the chairman of the SA Golf Tourism Association, Thabiso Magodielo; and Gideon Sam, president of Sascoc (South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee), were some of those who attended.
The chief executive of the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations Local Organising Committee, Mvuzo Mbebe, said the Department of Tourism should get more involved in sports events.
"We create a platform. We are not marketing experts, but it becomes our responsibility because we are the organisers," Mbebe said.
"The painful thing is, we host these events and it's left to the sports administrators to fight over marketing, travel packages, transport, etc. It is unfair to the administrators."
Docrat echoed Mbebe's sentiments saying "concrete planning" was needed.
"Maybe, financially, cricket is in a better position, but we take the bull by the horns," he said.
Docrat said one of his challenges was transporting fans to and from venues.
"JMPD [the Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department] wants thousands and thousands of rands to put a few cops on the road," he said.
On the issue of transformation, Docrat said: "As much as the government expects transformation from us [Cricket SA], they are not prepared to support us in the transformation process."
Magodielo said South Africa, which was voted the best golfing destination in the world last year, deserved a piece of the booming industry.
"To government, please let's put our money where our mouth is. Eighteen years ago, we were alive with possibilities. The possibilities are here – work with us," he said.
Hoskins said without backing from political leaders, South Africa would suffer as a sporting nation.
"When New Zealand bid to host the 2011 Rugby World Cup, they showed up with their prime minister. Our head of state needs to be with us."
Calling for leaders to give sport greater priority, he said: "There is very little doubt in my mind that while we thought sport should be at the bottom of the list of priorities, putting housing, food, health first, the intangible benefits that sport brings are totally underestimated."
The panel agreed that a "unit" should be established to drive the overall strategy of hosting major sporting events. The panel proposed the establishment of a national body that would operate regardless of the administrators at the time, which would "guide" provinces hosting events.
Speaking about South Africa's hopes of hosting an Olympic Games, Sam said: "If you ask anyone in the street, they'd say, 'Yes, let's go', but the government of the country must have an appetite for it.
"We, as administrators, can't read signs from the government in terms of if they have an appetite for big events."
Concluding the discussion, Hoskins said sport was removed from schools because it was seen as a "luxury", and the disastrous effects of that policy had been clear.
Sport was not a luxury but a necessity, he maintained.
Hoskins said: "When I look at the medals that we recently won at the Olympics, the value that they add is immeasurable. I can't understand why we still think sport is a luxury."


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Bruce Clarke, CAI's CEO, discussed assets employees or job candidates can offer employers in the October 23 edition of his News and Observer column, "The View from HR." Bruce said that the single most important asset employees can offer is their spark.
"When employers see no spark, they assume there is no engine," he said.
Well if their greatest asset is their spark because it shows their willingness to learn, work, grow and produce for their employers, then they are essentially their company's greatest asset. Business cannot survive without the efforts from employees.
As an employer, it is not hard to forget that your staff is your greatest asset. A down economy, lean budgets, and limited resources can stress out the strongest organizations, but not realizing that your employees are critical to your organization's success can cause dismal effects. The American Institute of Stress said that US industries lose almost $300 billion per year because of absenteeism, diminished productivity, turnover, and medical, legal and insurance fees related to workplace stress.
Unhappy employees who feel unappreciated are a disservice to organizations because they interact with customers daily, promote and sell products, and cultivate the processes that help drive business. When given proper attention, workers become motivated to achieve company goals. They will express creativity and a desire to learn if they are engaged with their organization.
There are several steps that can be made to engage and satisfy your most important asset even if your company is struggling with budget cuts or has downsized staff. The strategies below will help foster a work environment that encourages commitment and maximizes productivity:
1. Acknowledge Their Importance
An employer-employee relationship should work as a two-way commitment. If an organization wants its workers to perform at their best, then it needs to make an effort to give them its best, whether it is through information, training or resources to complete their jobs.
Frequently tell employees that their efforts are appreciated and support the organization's survival. Always try to keep commitments with them, and never overpromise if you cannot deliver. This will show them that you respect them, their time and their work, which, in turn, will increase the level of respect they give you.
2. Be Truthful and Transparent
Being transparent and telling the truth are essential to maintaining good relationships with your employees. Your staff members spend most of their week working, so their need to understand how the company is doing should not be ignored. During staff meetings or through company-wide emails, alert them of important changes, data and other items to keep them informed.
Do not avoid questions posed by staff that might be uncomfortable or have unfavorable answers, such as, "How are we doing financially?" Answering questions will eliminate uncertainty even if the outcome is undesirable. Keeping your staff up-to-date with company news will help them feel plugged in to the organization and increase their commitment level.
3. Help Them Reach Their Individual Goals
Employees know they were hired because of the skills and knowledge they could offer. They know their job description, and they work to deliver on expectations. For all of the work they put into their organization, they deserve its support.
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It was an old interview Fluff. From 1999, I think.
I can't say any of it surprised me... I just don't know how anyone can justify her actions now.
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It was an old interview Fluff. From 1999, I think.
I can't say any of it surprised me... I just don't know how anyone can justify her actions now.
Oh, right.
I'm sure we'll hear how she's grown up a lot on those four years, blah blah blah.
I'm very disappointed by the total absence of people coming to her defence lately.
more winning quotes:
Dogs can be a bit pricey. How would you swing getting a replacement?
My parents buy me anything. Like, they just bought me a $125 pair of jeans for no reason. I guess you could consider me spoiled, but they have the money. Theres really no one else to spend it on. They bought me a car for my graduation gift. I needed it. And who doesnt want a car?
Me thinks she stereotypes just a tad.Quote:
Coming from an Italian family, you have to have some sort of connection. I have a sense of security, like if anybody ever messed with me I could get them taken care of. But if my parents were in the Mafia, I dont think theyd tell me, because they know Id abuse it.
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Not only are all Italians mobsters, but theyre also disturbingly hairy. Does the same apply to you?
My family is pretty hairy, but Im not. Im pretty lucky. Im not like a unibrow, mustache chick. I do wax my eyebrows. Who doesnt?
Just for you fluff:
Poor little Jenna. I bet they edited her answers here and she's really a great chick on some level we peons here will never reach
Wow.....I had said I was on the fence with her and just fell.
She is sickening. This one doesn't suprise me......
JENNA: I commuted freshman year and didnt have any friends. So I picked Zeta because they looked the coolest. I hate to say that, but thats what I base things on.
OK so she bases everything on looks??? SHALLOW. What's she doing hanging with Heidi (haha) ugh
JENNA: Youve been going out with your boyfriend for a year. Arent things getting dull?
We keep it interesting. Always open to new positions, toys, anything like that. You should be willing to explore new things, and that includes sex toys. Anything you both feel comfortable with is good. Id do anything for my boyfriend. But Im not a dirty girl.
OK now I'm far from a prude but, how about some respect for yourself and your relationship? She announces this in an interview? I know a lot of people wouldn't think a lot of it but, if it were my daughter I'd be disgusted. She's just shallow and self-absorbed and has no morals.
(again, not a prude just believe some things should be kept to oneself)
She won't win (If her or Heidi won I swear I don't think I could watch this show again)
At least Rob plays a good game.
Jenna will be on Howard Stern AND posing for Penthouse soon.
probably with Heidi :barf
Well Fluff, I'm sure those 5 Jenna supporters have been VERY busy lately. ;)
Just wanted to clarify some details of the interview.
I was off by two years. Trying to make money the easy way even then, I see.Quote:
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Our latest coed cutie vies for the $4,999 scholarship.
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I am speechless :(
if there is any justice, please let Rob win over Jenna should it by any chance come to the two of them...
She was clearly just going for the publicity here, she doesn't need a $5000 scholarship.
I hope she didn't win it, but knowing the magazine she is probably exactly the type of person they'd give it to.
What I think is *hilarious* is that she won a $30,000 vacation, but complained that the "catch" was that you had to pay taxes on it. Uh, hello? You *always* have to pay taxes on prizes.
That's why I'd never want to win a car on TPIR - it could cost you a couple of thousand dollars of your own cash just to get it.
I would say I'm disappointed, but I'm not. What she displayed in the interview is entirely consistent with what's been shown so far.
Makes me wonder what they've left out in the editing.


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OK, so for the most part, I've been taking vitamin C, 1000 or 2,000mg time released, Alive Men's Ultra Potency multi (Energy & Endurance: Alive!® Once Daily Men's) and Vitamin SHoppe liquid fish oil. I just found out from my new primary care that I'm low in vitamin D. I'm not "deficient" yet but headed there. Big surprise for me because I try to get outside as much as I can but it has been a long, dank winter here in the mid-atlantic, my bikes have been getting worked on and I haven't been able to afford to ski. So the doc is telling me to get a vitamin D supplement but I'm thinking I'm going to have to do without one of the others to do this. I'm thinking go without the multi until the D is back up. Also, what supplements do most of you take? I've been shocked at looking at a lot of the multis out there where they have you taking 3 or even 8 capsules a day! WTF? Thanks.
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D3 and cod liver oil are the only supplements I take. You should always take D3 in the winter.
I take this Butter/Cod Liver Blend - Green Pasture But likely just for the winter.
D3 is pretty cheap if you don't mind a little soy/corn oil in your vitamins (and I don't for such a small amount). This is one of those rare times I'd choose Walmart for price.
I think if you eat a varied diet and are healthy, you probably don't need a multi. I take D3 because I'm not fond of sunlight and that eventually catches up with me mood wise. B-complex for energy. Bragg's ACV for overall health but especially skin health; this one is actually a food, but I put a tblsp in a little water and wash down the D3 and B-complex with it.
ETA: oops, didn't see the post above mine."Right is right, even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong, even if everyone is doing it." - St. Augustine
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Here's a good-quality & very inexpensive ($24 for 360 10,000 IU caps) D3 brand that only contains olive oil:
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Smaller IU doses are also available.
I take the same fermented cod liver / butter oil supplement as Neckhammer. I also drink this green powder drink in the am, but mostly as a coffee replacement. I'm not that consistent with ACV, but should use it more. That's about it - one of the things that put me off the Perfect Health Diet was the crazy list of supplements they recommend. It just seems like way too much.
Buy a D3 liquid. Its dirt cheap and usually only contains a tiny bit of oil. I use Life Extension brand.
Your multi is probably worthless so i suggest dropping it. Almost all multis use inferior vitamin and mineral sources along with a lot of binders so most does not even get absorbed. You could dump the vit c as well and just eat some fruit and veg.
Thanks all. He's told me to start taking 2 1,000IU pills 2X a day and asked that I use these:
I asked about the higher dosages and was told I could use the 2,000IUs if I want but I guess they want to be able to ramp down the dosage as necessary:
I've found that often the cheaper brands do not deliver the same, or nearly as good a result. For example, I've tried about 8 different kinds of Fish Oil for Omega-3's and they all upset my stomach. Mark's Ultimate Omega-3 is the only one that works for me. I've learned to read the ingredients and sources very carefullly.
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Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008 | 2 a.m.
Election Night 2008
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As it turned out, there was no dancing in the streets of Elko on Tuesday night.
As voters in cities across the nation celebrated Barack Obama's victory, the snow-dusted row of bars and western shops in downtown Elko remained quiet as the election news rolled in.
Inside one saloon, mine workers nervously clinked their drink chips on the bar top, slammed hands onto the table in frustration and drank more beer — afraid their way of life in this thriving gold mining and ranching town of 17,000 might change.
"I'm pretty passionate about what affects this area and my lifestyle," Ryan McDonough said.
"Yeah, I'm bitter," Steve Antonini said.
Obama said in his acceptance speech that he wants to heal America and bridge the political divide. But as Obama nation celebrated boisterously late Tuesday, Elko hovered between morose and angry, with occasional flashes of hope. So it is that Elko — a place in red America with patches of blue — could be seen as a kind of baseline to measure Obama's progress as he works through the many differences that still divide the country.
Here, mine workers fretted Tuesday that they will lose their jobs to new regulations, along with their gun rights.
Elsewhere, lifelong Elko liberals, a minority here, remained bothered by the ill feelings the campaigns generated in their community and wondered if they might prefer to move to where more people are like-minded.
Others, however, held out hope that Obama's victory would set the stage for a new age of community involvement.
A block away from the mine workers, at a wine bar and gallery, partygoers looked up from their wine glasses and grinned at the televised image projected on the wall. Some put their hands up in the air. A few let out cheers.
"It's like Christmas," bar manager Jen Anderson said softly.
Democrats worked harder than ever in rural Nevada to narrow the gap with Republicans. Their inroads were modest. George Bush beat John Kerry here by taking 80 percent of the vote four years ago. John McCain pulled 68 percent of the vote on Tuesday.
In the end, it didn't matter. Nevada's urban counties carried the state for Obama.
But the political dynamics were still playing out on the ground even after the ballots had been cast.
At Machi's, an elegant bar and grill decorated with old ranching gear in what used to be newspaper offices, a group of regulars had come for consolation.
As McCain delivered his concession speech, Miguel Betancourt gestured to Antonini.
"I gave him two choices," Betancourt said. "I said, 'You could cry or you could drink."
Antonini's speech was slurred. He had chosen the latter.
Antonini grew up in a logging town in California and made a good living there. Then, he says, when Democratic President Bill Clinton came to office, enforcement of environmental regulations ended his town's good fortunes.
"I was 26 years old and there was nothing in the city I grew up in to provide work," Antonini said.
He came to Elko and started to make good money in mining. Now, he's worried the pattern will repeat and he thinks in the meantime he'll have to pay higher taxes under Obama, which he sees as unfair.
As he pondered his future under a Democratic presidency, the giddy faces of Obama-loving bartenders began to make him mad — and confused,
"I just can't understand why they're happy," Antonini said. "They don't understand what they're losing."
Betancourt and another drinker told him to get over it.
"The Democrats had the same fear you do," William Bouie, a medical technician, said. "They went through Bush two times and they lived through it and dealt with it."
Bouie, 27, is half black and half Puerto Rican and from Hattiesburg, Miss. He tried to explain to his buddies the full meaning of this moment: "We were taught in school the importance to get out and vote because people went through so much to get the right to vote. No one had a voice or the right to an opinion. Nobody of color. Black people can say now we've crossed a major, huge barrier. I'm just glad to be a part of it."
He spoke the words tentatively. He wasn't an Obama fan and says he wrote in former professional wrestler (and Minnesota governor) Jesse "The Body" Ventura on his ballot.
Betancourt, a strong McCain supporter, took a philosophical approach.
"You can go home and cry yourself to sleep," he said to Antonini. "It's not going to change anything."
That seemed to resonate. "Regardless of who was elected president tonight, we have to start living with what is," Antonini said. "We've just got to deal with it. That makes more sense to me than anything anyone has said."
A block away Lora Minter greeted her friends at Duncan LittleCreek wine bar and art gallery.
"Things are looking good!" she said. "We can smile!"
Owner Jacques Errecart, an architect, inherited the old, smoky bar that had once been a cowboy boardinghouse. One day, he got disgusted and decided to lock the door and create something different. He filled the gallery with eclectic art and cut a giant hole in the shape of Michelangelo's David to form one doorway.
When he reopened the space six years ago, he had no idea how it would go over. But more and more young professionals are moving to Elko, the economy here is still good, and business keeps improving.
"Times have really changed here," Errecart said. Then again, he said, "it's not changing quite fast enough."
That's true for Minter too.
She grew up in Elko and came back to raise her children, but now she's thinking of leaving. The campaign here got nasty, she said.
"I want to be around people who think like us," Minter said. "I lived here 34 years and it was still shocking to me the racism below the surface. I was disappointed. I thought we had progressed further."
Christina Barr, a Western folklorist, sat at the table with a glass of red wine and followed along as a New York Times election map on her laptop took shape. Like many celebrating at Duncan LittleCreek tonight, she had volunteered for the Obama campaign.
"I worry what happens after, when the energy of the election has evaporated," Barr said. "Will we carry that mantle forward and have opportunities for Democrats to gather and be part of civic life in Elko? I hope we can sustain that energy."
But in this crowd on this night, no one is sure.


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INDIAN SPRINGS 69, BlLOOMINGTON CHRISTIAN 57 >> Isaiah Land had 25 points, 11 rebounds and three steals for Indian Springs (6-16), which plays La Verne Lutheran at home Thursday. Alejandro Hernandez had 10 points, 10 rebounds and five blocks.
LOS OSOS 62, ALTA LOMA 58 >> Tide Osifeso scored 17 points in the Baseline League win. Jamar Akoh chipped in with 16 points for the Grizzlies (12-9, 3-2), who play Friday at 7 p.m. at home against Etiwanda.
PACIFIC 56, CARTER 43 >> Leonard Herrera led the Pirates with 26 points and 11 rebounds. Joey Torres added 10 points and nine assists for Pacific (8-7), 3-2).
RANCHO CUCAMONGA 82, GLENDORA 73 >> Daylan Lawrence scored 23 points and had 16 rebounds in the Cougars' Baseline League win over the Tartans. Victor Joseph added 16 points and nine assists for Rancho Cucamonga (19-3, 4-1).
ONTARIO CHRISTIAN 69, WESTERN CHRISTIAN 44 >> Tyus Dennis had 17 of his 19 points, including five three-pointers, in the second half in the victory. Justin Tazelaar had 17 points, and Damon Haagsma had 15 points for Ontario Christian (12-5, 6-3), which plays Thursday at Aquinas at 7:30 p.m.
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ARROWHEAD CHRISTIAN ACADEMY 48, WOODCREST CHRISTIAN 36 >> Camila Roach totaled 16 points and six rebounds for the Eagles in Ambassador League play.
LOMA LINDA ACADEMY 60, CALVARY MURRIETA 6 >> Cece Ewing led with 12 points and Ericka Dalida and Caryn Clayton each had 10 points for Loma Linda (19-3, 8-2). Lauren Barow had a team-high 14 rebounds and eight points for the winners.
ALTA LOMA 67, LOS OSOS 48 >> Sheldoyn Odom led with 28 points and Amari Terry had 15 points and six assists for the Braves (11-10, 2-3). Camille Parker had 11 points, 11 rebounds and six steals for Alta Loma (11-10, 2-3), which plays at 5 p.m. Friday at Glendora.
MESA GRANDE ACADMEY 44, TEMECULA PREP 23 >> The first-place Cardinals were led by Chairty Underwood's career-high 23 points to go with five steals and five rebounds. Mesa Grande Academy is 13-8 overall, including 8-0 in Victory League.
CARTER 62, PACIFIC 18 >> Jaci Bowman had 14 points and 15 rebounds in the San Andreas League victory. Pa'Shay Barnett had 12 points and 10 rebounds for Carter (10-12, 5-0). which faces visiting Arroyo Valley on Thursday at 6 p.m.
ONTARIO CHRISTIAN 58, WESTERN CHRISTIAN 41 >> Tiffany Bogea had 19 points and Madison Paige had 10 points in the Knights' victory. Ontario Christian (14-4, 8-1) next plays Thursday at Aquinas.
RIALTO 46, SAN BERNARDINO 23 >> Emerald Owen-Taylor had eight points, eight rebounds and two blocks in the San Andreas League win. Brianna Medrano had 10 points and three steals for Rialto (6-11), which plays Thursday at San Gorgonio.
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ARROWHEAD CHRISTIAN 2, WOODCREST CHRISTIAN 1 >> Wyatt Miranda scored a pair of goals for the Eagles in their Ambassador League victory. Arrowhead Christian Academy (9-6-2, 6-1-2) next plays at 3:15 p.m. on Thursday at Western Christian.
RIALTO 5, SAN BERNARDINO 2 >> Andrew Guerrero scored three goals for the Knights in San Andreas League play. Goalie David Rodriguez had eight saves for Rialto (12-6-1, 3-2), which plays at 3:15 p.m. on Thursday against visiting San Gorgonio.
SAN GORGONIO 1, ARROYO VALLEY 1 >> Alejandro Estrada scored the lone goal in the 10th minute off an assist by Manuel Perez for San Gorgonio (10-7-2, 3-1-1). Goalie Daniel Madariaga had three saves in the San Andreas League victory. San Gorgonio next plays at 3:15 p.m. on Thursday at Rialto.
Girls soccer
SAN GORGONIO 3, ARROYO VALLEY 0 >> Leslie Spratley scored two goals for the Spartans in San Andreas League play.
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SAN GORGONIO 20, ARROYO VALLEY 9 >> Grace Hollingsworth led the victory with nine goals and Courtney O'Grady chipped in with three for the Spartans. Sarah Tritt had two goals and 17 saves for San Gorgonio.
ST.LUCYS 20, CHINO HILLS 9 >> Hilary Adkins had 14 goals, Devin Holcomb had two goals and four steals and Lauren Lancaster had three assists for the winners. Nichol Feltz had 12 saves in the Sierra League win for St. Lucy's (13-3, 3-0), which plays at Charter Oak at 3:30 p.m. on Thursday.
Editors's note: Camille Parker's name was misspelled in an earlier version of this article. This version has been updated with the correct spelling.