ESPN Football blogs

I enjoy reading the ESPN National football blogs ESPN http://espn.go.com/espn/blogs .

1.       I enjoy football watching, reading about and playing fantasy. The blogs are all well written and help me keep up with teams or individual player.  They also talk about fantasy football and the individual players which is nice because I started playing fantasy football this year and I need all the help I can get.

2.       There are several bloggers in this section.  They are all very professional and informative and have many of the attributes that Murray talks about.

3.       All the blogs are well written or they wouldn’t be on ESPN. I think you can take all of them and learn from the writing styles of the sports writers.

4.       Important to you? The writing styles and how well they are put together I think you can learn a lot from professional sports blogs. Important to me? All the information that I enjoy reading about involving my favorite sport to watch and read about.

Josh Glick

Interview

Josh Glick born Oct 26 1990 in Peoria Illinois grew up in Farmersville Illinois. He attended grade school at Farmersville.  High school at Lincoln wood in Raymond Illinois and collage at Benedictine in Springfield. Started playing baseball at the age of 5 and continues to play today played outfield until he was moved to pitcher in collage. As a left hander pitcher he has been clocked at 92 mph.  He would love one day to be drafted. Collage major is communications if he doesn’t get drafted josh has always wanted to join the marine core and be a pilot. His hobbies include hanging out with his roommate Dave working out hanging out with friends and girls. Josh has 2 little sisters named Haidyn and Sidney ages 11 and 7. Will graduate school soon.  Josh is a big movie buff. Also Josh loves to watch the Green bay packers with his awesome friend Adam.  Favorite MLB team is the cardinals.

Favorite quote “If the vans a rocking then were in there doing it”. From that 70s show.

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Some of the blogs I currently enjoy looking at have to do with the NFL. More specifically fantasy football. I play fantasy football in a league with my friends from work so it’s nice to have any information that will put me ahead of the other players. The blogs are a way for the experts and novices to post their thoughts and opinions on players and teams regarding how well they will do this weekend or season.

                Blogs in general are a way for individuals to post there thoughts and feelings about any topic they choose. A way for people to network and share with one another.

Computers

I was at work today with the head of our public relations department. We were looking at and editing pictures that have recently been taken for a new line of advertising. Most of these finalized pictures will end up on our website or advertising promotions we do but some will even make it to billboards around town. These pictures will be edited, revised and critiqued several times before being put on any website or billboard. Amongst the conversation of what picture looks better with what background for this add or that add or banners I realized that in no way shape or form have I ever used anything close to this software at school. I will say this is only a small portion our public relation directors job and that every other aspect I have seen him do I have some sort of educational experience I can associate with it. But in the end this is still a part of his job. I doubt I can answer an interviewer with “well that’s only a small part of the job I don’t really need to know that.” and we are only a local business I can’t begin to imagine what nationwide companies especially marketing businesses have available to them.  The computer lab computers we have at school are Windows XP Professional computers. They are everything one would need when writing a research paper. The downside of our school computers is they don’t exactly have editing software comparable to that used by today’s businesses. CS5 Is Adobe’s basic photo editing software used by many small businesses with a system requirement of -

• Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® 64 processor
• Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 3; Windows Vista® Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise with Service Pack 1 (Service Pack 2 recommended); or Windows 7
• 1GB of RAM or more recommended
• 7.7GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on removable flash-based storage devices)
• 1024x768 display (1280x800 recommended) with qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL graphics card, 16-bit color, and 256MB of VRAM
• Some GPU-accelerated features require graphics support for Shader Model 3.0 and OpenGL 2.0
• Some features in Adobe Bridge rely on a DirectX 9–capable graphics card with at least 64MB of VRAM
• DVD-ROM drive compatible with dual-layer DVDs
• QuickTime 7.6.2 software required for multimedia features
• Adobe Flash® Player 10 software required to export SWF files
• Broadband Internet connection required for online services*

This is a basic photo editing software used by many small businesses. Even the addition of something like this would allow student’s exp communication and marketing student’s the real life experience of what many businesses use daily.

Apple Pie Shots

What you will need

• 1 fifth of Everclear
• 1 gal. Apple Juice
• 1 gal. Apple Cider
• 4-8 Cinnamon Sticks
• 4 Cups of Sugar
  
  Mixing instructions
  

1. Mix the apple juice, apple cider, sugar, and cinnamon sticks together.
2. Boil until cinnamon sticks lose flavor.
3. Remove from heat, let cool.
4. Add Everclear, and stir.
5. Refrigerate.
6. Add more Everclear if you want it stronger.
7. Add more sugar if you want it sweeter.
8. Throw it in the fridge and let cool over night.

Can You Read This?

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The Landlord

This video has been out for awhile put out by Will Ferrell on his internet web site funnyordie.com. Although This video sparked a lot of controversy with a two year old using curse words and caring a beer around I think it is a very funny video that in no way will adversely affect pearl. Many are ridiculing the parents for coaching peal into the use of curse words but when it comes down to it this is the choice of the parents not those upset. Watch for yourself and decide but all I see is a very funny Will Ferrell video.

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/74/the-landlord-from-will-ferrell-and-adam-ghost-panther-mckay

Will and Peal decided to do one more follow up video before Peal retired.

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/33f2687080/good-cop-baby-cop-from-will-ferrell-and-adam-ghost-panther-mckay?playlist=287152

There videos concludes the collaboration of Pearl and Will ….so far anyways.