Interview with Justin Roper

Justin Roper

•   I interviewed Justin Roper who was a Chicago Rush player and has been recently traded to Orland.
•    He is a reliable source because he has experianced some of the situations first hand because he actually plays the sport. 
•     I e-mailed them to get information on Thursday April 26, 2012.

     1.) What inspired you to play Arena Football over trying to get into the NFL?

     4.) Why did you choose Arena Football over NFL?

Basically no one chooses the afl over the nfl. Every players aims at playing in the nfl and they play arena when they are unable to play in the nfl.

That answers number 1 and 4.

 2.) What inspired you to start playing football? Did money play a factor in your decision?

2) I've been in football my whole life; my dad was a college coach so I've always played it and it's something I'm good at. Money is not why I play but it is obviously a huge bonus.

   3.) Do you think that Arena Football players are thought less of compared to NFL players? ( In any part of the game)

3) afl players alot of times have played in the nfl at some point so there's not really a huge talent deficiency. Afl players typically are guys who might not have ideal height or ideal speed for the nfl but still have alot of talent.



Effects of Exercise

http://www.livestrong.com/article/444358-effects-of-exercise-on-the-personality/#ixzz1t9cF6uhq

May 17, 2011
Victoria Weinblatt, Live Strong

References:

Biomedical Research; The "Senobi" Breathing Exercise Ameliorates Depression in Obese Women Through Up-Regulation of Sympathetic Nerve Activity and Hormone Secretion; K. Sato, et al.; 2011

Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases; Impact of Exercise Training on Psychological Risk Factors; C.J. Lavie, et al.; 2011

MayoClinic.com; Exercise and Stress; Get Moving to Combat Stress; 2010

EurekAlert!; Exercise Helps Overweight Children Reduce Anger Expression; 2008

American College of Sports Medicine; Exercise Is Medicine Month, Lauds the Benefits of Physical Activity; 2011

Read more: http://www.livestrong.com/article/444358-effects-of-exercise-on-the-personality/#ixzz1tMuHZEyQ

• Exercise enables you to think towards more of a positive outlook

• Exercise also helps individuals clear their mind by focusing on the activity they are performing. 

• In addition, exercise also provides physical benefits that help weight lose, prevent chronic diseases, diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart disease. 

• Endorphins are neurotransmitters that signal your body to be in a positive/happy mood. When an individual works out or exercises, these neurotransmitters are exerted which therefore leads your mind to be clear and energized. 

• Study was shown that people who tend to workout on a regular basis have dramatically lower anger levels than those who do not. 

• Internal Medicine at the Aoyama Clinic in Japan conducted an experiment with 40 obese women and had them participate in 60 second senobi breathing exercises. Results had shown that this activity had increased levels of sympathetic nerve activity. This type of activity in the body is said to promote a happier personality. 

• After 30 days of continued senobi breathing exercises, patients have said to find there depression more tolerable. 

• Today the English team Arsenal has only 2 native players and is managed by a Frenchman
• 15 years ago there was only one Swede on the team all the rest were from England
• Soccer has long served as a form of combat which whole neighborhoods could be passionate about
• Globalization is changing the long standing traditions of soccer by eliminating boundaries
• Players no longer feel passionate about playing for their country, they just market themselves to the highest bidder
• Ukriane looks to Africa's second teir as the prime source of imported talent since it cannot compete with Europe in buying "star" players
• It is estimated that about 1,000 African players make a living playing in Europe
• Before Manchester United would sell about 30,000 replica jerseys, now they sell millions

Time Magazine

July 2004

Tony Karon

Interview

Part A

- Jason Gogo- Trainer for athletes

- Played college and minor league baseball. Has experienced and taught others training and medicine

- I interviewed Jason Gogo on April 26 at 9pm.

PART B

1.   What was the medicine like during your time with baseball?

- The medicine is relatively the same for professional athletes. They get the same treatment as younger athletes. Some professionals take illegal medications, but they are not given by the doctors. many athletes used pain killers.

2. How is the competitiveness raised from high school to college?

- The athletes raise the intensity a lot since some want to make their sports a living, so they have to work harder. Some players are just there to have fun, so they compete with less intensity in developing as a player.

3. How has training athletes changed over the years?

- The science behind training has changed or "revolutionized" the game so much. When I played, it was not a dynamic workout, but still getting a lot of time to practice. Now the training is a lot more specific, and has a lot of more areas to focus on. Science has changed the way athletes train.

4. How do nerves affect professionals?

- In the average athlete, nerves cause a less satisfactory performance, while professional athletes use nerves as a motivator to improve even better than usually. Nerves can break down an average athlete, though.

                                                                                                                                                               

Hybrids vs Muscle cars

                  I read that the average person drives 15,000 miles anually. As i said in my last blog post the Prius plug-in gets 95 miles per gallon. But not everyone would get that car, others woul look in the used market, or just a different kind of hybrid. For example lets look at a more spacious, higher quality car; the Ford Fusion hybrid

             The ford Fusion gets 47 MPG with a 17.5 gallon tank. That means on one tank you could get 822.5 miles per tank which is astounding. Now at 15,000 miles a year that means you would only fill up the tank about 18 times. so at 17.5 gallons 18 times at about $4 per gallon. That is only $1,260 a year on gas. That sounds like a lot yes but now lets do a little experiment with a popular sport car, the Ford Mustang GT.

             The Mustang gets 17 city and 26 highway which averages out to 23, and believe it or not the Mustang gets some of the gratest gas milage among these muscle cars. With a 15.4 gallon tank, so the owner would average 354 miles per tank. So far that is almost 1/3rd the Fusion. And he would have to fill up his tank 42 times a year.$2,587.3 dollars.  Now yearly cost? $2,587. almost $1,300 more than the Fusion.
              That is 520 Hot Pocket packages, or a very, very good laptop. Hybrids are just so much more pratical, so much better for our enviornment, the people would save so much money. But the thing is you do not get that feeling of freedom in a hybrid that you do in a Mustang,or a Camaro, a corvette etc. Those big sport cars make you smile, give you a warm feeling, butterflies, and when you show up somehwere, people will notice you. In my opinion, They just make you feel exciting and happy in so many ways that you can not put a price on. Because laughing until your stomach almost explodes when you are lightihng your tires up at a stop light and speeding away, is priceless. They may be more expensive to drive. But whats important is they get you where you need with a smile.

blog post 7

http://historyoftennis.net/

The first tennis tournament was in 1887
Over 600 people compete in the U.S. open
The french open was in 1891
Monks first played tennis during religious ceremonies
The first tennis ball was wooden
At first it was very popular in france
Then it spread to the rest of the world

Blog Post #6, Interview

PART A

1.) To get some additional information, I contacted my riding trainer, Sarah Bryan. She trains at the Trillion Equestrian Center in Naperville.

2.)  She is a reliable source because she has lots of riding and showing experience, particularly in the Hunter/Jumper discipline. She has also trained many students for these shows, so she has been around the show ring a lot. 

3.) I contacted Sarah through e-mail last weekend. She replied with lots of useful information for my project. 

PART B

Interview Questions:

1.) What is a medal class and how is it judged?

A medal class is judged on how you ride the course, usually the course has many technical options. 

2.) What is a Hunter Derby, and what is it judged on? 

This is the defninition of a hunter derby that I use to explain it to people "The Hunter Derby revives traditional horsemanship and adds excitement to the hunter ring, returning hunters to their hunt-field roots, and promoting hunters as a spectator sport. It is the purpose of the Derby to challenge both the horse and rider. The courses should be built to encourage and reward brilliance and daring from the rider, and true athletic ability from the horses. It encourages riders to show what their horse does best!" 

3.) What are classics?

Classics are classes with money in the prize

4.) How are equitation courses usually set up/designed?

It depends which equitation class you are talking about- lower level classes are usually the same as the hunter classes but scored on the rider, higher level courses involve rollbacks, bending lines, etc.

5.) What is the main thing hunter judges look for?

Normally in the hunter ring they are looking for a floating smooth strided horse that tucks his/her knees neatly over fences and has a mild temperament. 

6.) How are jumper classes set up and scored?

12- 18 fences. First round you must go clear (no time or jump faults) then in the jump off round the winner is the person who goes clear and the fastest

This interview was very helpful for my project because it gave me a lot of information on hunter/jumper, which is the discipline I ride in and would like to focus my topic more on, and there are no articles online that tell this information easily and simply.

Tennis Interviewers

Robert Bayliss
Backround- Notre Dame tennis coach
Why he is a reliable source- Robert Bayliss is a reliable source because he has been coaching for 43 years and he experienced the big changes tennis has made to the game, such as the raquet and coaching changes.
When I interviewed him- I emailed him about a week ago.
Questions- I asked him how has tennis training, preparation and nutrition changed overtime.
Answer- Robert Bayliss responded by talking about the past. He said back then there used to be no dietery measures, no training coaches and no real preparation before the matches. Now, there are certain foods you should and should not eat before playing a tennis match. There is now strength and fitness coaches all around the world. There is also more routines before going into a tennis match, such as warming to get the blood flowing and getting a good swet.

John Naisbett
Backround- Hinsdale Central tennis coach
Why he is a reliable source- Mr. Naisbett is a reliable source, since he is new to the head coaching job at Hinsdale Central. He has learned about how people can improve their games and how people changed the technology overtime, so people on the Hinsdale Central team can improve their games while playing there.
When I interviewed him- I emailed him about a week ago.
Questions- I asked him about how strategy, video analysis and strength and weak analysis changed overtime.
Answer- He responded by saying how tennis has become a more technological game. Players can now analize their game, so they can fix their mistakes and their strokes, from a previous match or practice they played in. Players can also analysis their footwork in slow motion, so they can have better positioning on the court.

Interview with Mrs.North

I interviewed Mrs. North who has studied Neuroscience and Muscles at the children's hospital in Sydney Australia. She is a reliable source because she is an A.M., M.D., F.R.A.C.P. , a Douglas Burrows Professor and
Associate Dean at CHW Clinical School . She also is apart of the faculty of medicine at the University of Sydney. I communicated with her over email.

Q: Does DNA or the conditions of living affect why certain races exceed better in specific sports?
A: Yes, Certain genes are more prominent in specific races that help them exceed in sports. For example the american swimmer has the ACE gene where in African runners the gene EPAS1 is more prominent. This shows that certain genes are found in differnet races depending on the sport they do.

Q: Why is it that these genes are different?
A: Some of this is because of the sport like the dominant allele depending on if the sport is aerobic or anerobic. Also, these differences are caused by the type of excercize done and region the athlete is from.

Q: What have you noticed between sprinters from different countries?
A: Well the gene ACTN3 has been found more in the muscles fibers of elite sprinters. But they are almost all the same in genetic makeup but differ graetly from distance athletes.

Blog Post 6 (interview)

I interviewed a long-time employee at Fullers Repair Shop.  He have worked there for 40 years and have seen how cars have changed in that time period.  This is what makes him a credible source for my project.  I interviewed him on Monday, April 23rd, 2012.  I met him in the shop and asked him some questions. 
Some Questions and Answers:
1. Question: What have you seen change in cars over the course of your career?
Answer: Everything is a lot more computerized.  A long time back, everything was mechanical.  Now there are up to 7 computers in a car.
2. What mechanical or electrical failure occurs on most cars of today (if any)?
Answer: Usually it is a failure of one of the computers in a car.
3. Question: What mechanical or electrical failure occurred on most cars of the past?
Answer:  There were a lot of problems.  Everything was carborated, which made the cars much less reliable than today.
4. Question: What is your favorite brand of car?
Answer: Probably any of the Mercedes-Benz

Prius vs Leaf

in this book "365 cars you must drive" Matt Stone states that the Toyota Prius will go down into history as one of the most revolutionary cars in automotive history. One reason to support this is that the Prius was the first hybrid, ever. When it came out in 2005 it would get 48 miles per gallon city, and 45 highway. A car getting more MPG in the city than highway was unheard of. Another supporting fact is that Since then Toyota had to try to keep it on top because of all other companies making electric cars as well, Toyota came out with 4 new types or the Prius, and one of the types was called the Prius Plug-in. The Plug in got 95 MPG combined. However this car The Nissan leaf currently gets 106 City and 92 highway. That may be less than the Leaf but the Prius can keep its electric engine going for over 540 miles. where with the Leaf you gets at best 138 miles. But Toyota even kept the Hybrid engine in the Plug-in so after you ran out of the electric motor, you had the hybrid with 50 MPG, which adds another 536. So with a full charge and tank you can go over 1,070 miles. Finally, he tells us about the price. $32,000. The leaf? $50,000. Yet the Prius has literally 3 times the space, and luxuries. Goes to prove once again, how amazing the pris us. These ideas are connected to how much our cars can change to see a Dodge viper get 20 MPG and see this get 5X that, literally. The prius will forever be in history.