Kick, run and goal!

Since beginning of March, every Sunday Adult Soccer league of Rock Hill, South Carolina meets up to play at Winthrop Lake.

This league is all about enjoying sport moments, good exercise and camaraderie.

Still it's competitive but the players are regular men and women who have to work the next day. It's not cutthroat and rough. It’s a friendly tournament.

Participants are encouraged to form their own teams and register as a team, however individuals can register and will be placed on a house team. Players are responsible for their own equipment and uniform.

All participants agree that soccer is all about teamwork, good skills, and giving the best of themselves on the field. The different teams are very enthusiastic every season. The crowed is committed as ever and is a great cheer to the players during the game.

Give the best, don’t think too much, play and try to goal. That’s what it takes!

Remember Me

Starring Robert Pattinson, Emilie de Ravin, Chris Cooper, View All »

Director Allen Coulter

Theatrical Release 3/12/2010 (USA)

Rated PG3

Run Time 113 minutes

Remember Me was shooted this summer in New York while the actor Robert Pattinson was between Twilight sequels New Moon, which wraps at the end of May, and Eclipse, which starts in August.

In this romantic drama, Robert Pattinson plays Tyler, a rebellious young man in New York City who has a strained relationship with his father (Pierce Brosnan) ever since tragedy separated their family. Tyler didn't think anyone could possibly understand what he was going through until the day he met Ally (Emilie de Ravin) through an unusual twist of fate. Love was the last thing on his mind, but as her spirit unexpectedly heals and inspires him, he begins to fall for her.

Through their love, he begins to find happiness and meaning in his life. Soon, hidden secrets are revealed, tragedy lingers in the air, as the circumstances that brought them together threaten to tear them apart.

Set in the summer of 2001, Remember Me is an unforgettable story about the power of love, the strength of family, and the importance of living passionately and treasuring every day of one's life. Remember Me also stars Academy Award® winner Chris Cooper, and Academy Award® nominee Lena Olin.

Remember Me opens in theaters nationwide on March 12.

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Twitter Assignement.

My Twitter experience

As everybody I created a twitter account several months ago. I have to confess that at the beginning I was quite septic and suspicious about the concept.

Indeed at first I thought Twitter was for the ‘no life’, I was sure to find people talking or should I say twitting about their uninterested life and read twits saying for instance

· I ate an apple today

· I hate my in-laws

· I am sick what should I do?

You do see what I mean, don’t you?

A week ago my writing for interactive media teacher gave us a very unusual assignment, which was to get on twitter and twit for a week and then write about this experience. So I decided to get more curious about this trend and got myself out there!

I am keen of the advertising world and wish to work one day in this field so I decided to follow people twitting about this subject. I followed more than 50 persons including newspaper, ad agency, bloggers and random people.

I had so many questions in my head, what would I write about? What were the unwritten rules and codes? How would I get people interested in what I write? I was totally scared and unconfident about myself.

I started to read the feeds, to dig out cool information, got interested in several discussions. And finally got the courage to twit about my favorite subject, posted links to video or advertising article that I think was relevant.

The truth is, there is way less ‘no life’ then I though it would be. I got very excited about all the news and all the interesting things I got to read about.

Today I have 40 followers, which I think is not bad for a beginner.

To conclude I must say that ‘My twitter experience’ is quite a success. I met interesting people who share the same interest and passion. I learned a lot and think that Twitter is more then a social network but it’s also a great communication tools and source of news.

I think I could get addicted!

Headline rewritting assignment

While scanning the front page of my newspaper (The Charlotte observer) I found this headline, which I thought, would perfectly work as an online headline: ‘Idol’ intrigue is mostly offstage.

This headline is quite specific and eye catcher. It takes a few seconds to understand the subject of the article, which is obviously the American Idol Show. This headline could be easily searched on the web.

Whereas reading with more attention the paper, I found this following headline: ‘Fat mass may build bone mass in girl’ which seemed to be unfitted for an online publication.

Indeed the matter is quite important and serious, but to me this headline is not enough punchy and dynamic to catch a user eye.

The article talks about the fact that puberty is a crucial time for a girl to have some padding. It’s quite a revelation in today’s societies in which young girls are always under hard pressure about their Image.

I think this article headline should be rewritten for an online publication.

For instance:

- Big is Beautiful!

- Fat mass is good for you

From Print to Internet asssigment

Web versus Print

Reading from screens is 25% slower than from paper and we know that Web users skim rather than read. It come with no surprised that if you want to write for the web, there are few very important key points to keep in mind in order to have your reader attention.

Forget MLA or APS and welcome in the Interactive World!

The Internet is both a medium and a delivery system. It’s true that as a delivery system, the Internet can provide information in whatever form you want, but still some study has been made on the best way to get your information on the web. There are simple rules to follow to get your storytelling reshape for the Web, it breaks down in four broad area:

Searchability

Obviously you want your article, your paper, or your post to be read. In order to be read it needs to be found by your target right ?

The need for searchability affects the headline because they tend to be used as links. When writing your headlines follow the conventional subject-verb-object structure.

Scanability

Because it is so painful to read text on computer screens and because the online experience seems to foster some amount of impatience, users tend not to read streams of text fully. Instead, users scan text and pick out keywords, sentences, and paragraphs of interest while skipping over those parts of the text they care less about.

Check list:

è Write tight and bright

è Use inverted pyramids

è Get to the point, be short and effective

è Use lists, but not to many

è Use subheads and boldface words

Linkability

Solicit both of your audience hemispheres emotions and rationality have to be stimulate.

Picture, video, audio are also contents. Links are the currency of the online world. So don’t be afraid to send people away to illustrate your subject. It will ad credibility to your article.

The key to effective linking is to find the most relevant information possible and take your users directly to it.

Sociabilty

Today web life is all about sharing, it should be standard for every on line article to have an ‘e-mail this’ link to make the user forward it to friends or co-workers

Read more about writting for the Web

Headlines and leads assignment

A fire engine kill a men

A tragic car accident happened this morning, a men got killed when his van struck a fire engine responding to an emergency call.

Forget your complex, drive a big car

Driving a big car is safer than driving a small or sport model car, shows a study issued this morning by Data Institute.

Who said Dogs were human being best friends?

Hot dogs can kill by blocking a child airway, thats what the report of the American Medical association declared in today's article.

Drama at the morgue

A family forced to re-through their loved one funeral, after finding out the body they buried wasn't the right one.

'Get graduate, then marry' the keys to an happy relationship

A third of the women who starts graduate school after getting married ends up with a divorce, shows the latest research on marital disruption.

Where do criminals get their guns?

The black market guns leads to a lot of worries. 75 percent of the criminals of 11 state prison expect little trouble to find guns after their release.

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