BYU's Victory

I am grateful for many things this thanksgiving. One of which is that BYU won! For those of you that do not know they played Utah today. Utah Utes and BYU Cougars are pretty big rivals. It was a pretty close game that kept me interested all game. There were many fouls from the players throwing punches, extra pushing, and so on.

BYU was said to win if they played a decent game. The game started with the Utes kicking off. BYU punted on their first and second drive. The Utes scored field goals on their first and second drives. BYU was down by 6 and they did not look like they were doing to well. When they would throw it they would just get pounded. There were many calls for punching and extra pushing but there were many things that were not called. There were many calls for punching and extra pushing but there were many things that were not called. BYU looked like they were going to score a touchdown on their next drive. But because of a 15 yard penalty they went for the field goal. BYU made the field goal.

Later BYU scored a touchdown. This is where BYU started to play. The Utes were not giving up though. They still made some good plays, and made a field goal. BYU scored a touchdown. BYU also made some good plays, including an interception and a field goal. Close to the end Utah made a touchdown with a two point conversion. This made it so it was 20-17, BYU winning. This gave me a shock with only a field goals difference with two minutes left. Utah had the ball they had enough time for a drive to a touchdown. The only hope was to stop the Utes. Utah made a forty yard field goal. Making it tied with a minute to go. The clock ran out just after the kickoff.

Overtime made the game extremely interesting. The rules are that each team gets the ball on the twenty-five yard line. If they are tied than it goes to the next round. Then if the teams tie it goes onto a third round. In the third round the teams must go for a two point conversion. In this game the Utes were stopped and scored a field goal. Then BYU came in and scored a touchdown. The touchdown that BYU scored in overtime looked too easy. It was a soft throw and he ran right through some people then into the touchdown, still on his feet. BYU WON! It was pretty sweet the BYU fans flooded the field it was sweet.

Max Hall made some amazing plays and he also made some not too good plays. Many times he was about to be sacked and he pulled out of it, sometimes even picking up about 15 yards or so. Later in the game he had more pressure on him causing him to through really quickly. This made the ball go faster and harder. This made it so one time a receiver didn’t catch the ball in his dive. I think BYU played a decent game. It was pretty close. It was a very good game to watch.

BYU

I am grateful for many things this thanksgiving. One of which is that BYU won! For those of you that do not know they played Utah today. Utah Utes and BYU Cougars are pretty big rivals. It was a pretty close game that kept me interested all game. There were many fouls from the players throwing punches, extra pushing, and so on.

BYU was said to win if they played a decent game. The game started with the Utes kicking off. BYU punted on their first and second drive. The Utes scored field goals on their first and second drives. BYU was down by 6 and they did not look like they were doing to well. When they would throw it they would just get pounded. There were many calls for punching and extra pushing but there were many things that were not called. There were many calls for punching and extra pushing but there were many things that were not called. BYU looked like they were going to score a touchdown on their next drive. But because of a 15 yard penalty they went for the field goal. BYU made the field goal.

Later BYU scored a touchdown. This is where BYU started to play. The Utes were not giving up though. They still made some good plays, and made a field goal. BYU scored a touchdown. BYU also made some good plays, including an interception and a field goal. Close to the end Utah made a touchdown with a two point conversion. This made it so it was 20-17, BYU winning. This gave me a shock with only a field goals difference with two minutes left. Utah had the ball they had enough time for a drive to a touchdown. The only hope was to stop the Utes. Utah made a forty yard field goal. Making it tied with a minute to go. The clock ran out just after the kickoff.

Overtime made the game extremely interesting. The rules are that each team gets the ball on the twenty-five yard line. If they are tied than it goes to the next round. Then if the teams tie it goes onto a third round. In the third round the teams must go for a two point conversion. In this game the Utes were stopped and scored a field goal. Then BYU came in and scored a touchdown. The touchdown that BYU scored in overtime looked too easy. It was a soft throw and he ran right through some people then into the touchdown, still on his feet. BYU WON! It was pretty sweet the BYU fans flooded the field it was sweet.

Max Hall made some amazing plays and he also made some not too good plays. Many times he was about to be sacked and he pulled out of it, sometimes even picking up about 15 yards or so. Later in the game he had more pressure on him causing him to through really quickly. This made the ball go faster and harder. This made it so one time a receiver didn’t catch the ball in his dive. I think BYU played a decent game. It was pretty close. It was a very good game to watch.

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is supposed to be a time to be grateful for stuff.

I am grateful that we do not have school on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. School is a fun time to see people but it gets old after about a week. I do not think it would be as bad if we did not have the same schedule everyday. One the other hand I am grateful that I am able to go to school and learn and that no one has blown up the earth yet. I am grateful that I have teachers and friends. School would be nothing without my friends.

I am also grateful that we are going to have a good dinner. This year I am having thanksgiving with my dad’s side. I am grateful that I will see my cousins that I hardly ever see. I am grateful that I get to choose what I eat. I know that sounds strange but I really do not like some foods one of them is stuffing. Whenever I put it in my mouth I look at the rest of the stuffing and it just gags me. Stuffing is a weird name anyway why would you eat something that would stuff you. I hate when I feel like am going to explode it is just like someone is counting down to my death. Then something really fun happens someone hits me in the stomach or something then I loose my dinner from the past week. Not really it just feels like I am going to. Anyway that is why I am grateful I can choose what I eat.

I am also excited for the turkey bowl. The turkey bowl is just a traditional thing our ward does every year on thanksgiving. We all wake up early to go play football. Our ward has done this every since we moved in. After we play we always have hot chocolate and doughnuts.

Davis Darts vs. Bingham Miners

Davis went to state and played at the Rice-Eccles stadium on Friday. I made it to the game with about three minutes in the second quarter. Davis was up by seven with fourteen points. Davis finished up the half by scoring a field goal in the last seconds of the half. Davis looked like they had it under control. Davis was up by ten and it looked good. However after half time Davis was not able to stop Bingham on their drives. In the 3rd quarter Davis and Bingham would have back to back touchdowns. The turning point of the game was when Bingham stopped Davis and forced them to punt. Davis was up by three ending the third quarter. In the fourth quarter the game just fell apart. Davis did not make the tackles when they needed to. Bingham just plowed right through Davis. Davis’s last chance was blown down by an interception with a few minutes left. It was very disappointing. The guy behind me started to swear after every play. Davis ended up loosing pretty badly.

Theseus: Minotaur Slayer

Imagine you had to face a fifteen foot tall monster that is half man and half bull. Theseus had to defeat this monster, it was called the Minotaur. This monster was in a maze called a labyrinth. Every person that had been in the labyrinth was killed by the Minotaur. Only a few people knew the way out of the labyrinth. Theseus received help from Medea, the king’s daughter, to defeat the Minotaur. Theseus was the type of person that makes the person taste of their own weapon. Theseus defeated Periphetes, Sinis, Sciron, and Procrustes by making them taste their own weapon. All heroes have tasks that they complete Theseus defeated Periphetes, Sinis, and Sciron, and Procrustes. All heroes defeat some kind of monster; Theseus defeated the Minotaur. All heroes get help on their tasks just like Theseus did. The myths of heroes are very similar to Theseus’s myth.

Many other heroes have tasks. Perseus had a task that he was to kill the Gorgon Medusa. The Gorgon Medusa was a monster that if you looked at its head directly you would turn to stone. The king asked Perseus to defeat the Gorgon Medusa trying to get rid of him. Jason had a task where he was to get the Golden Fleece. This was a hard task because it was guarded by a dragon. One of Hercules’s Tasks was to clean out King Augeas’s stables in one day. These stables were pretty messy because of the cattle that were oversized. When a hero is on a task they receive help.

Heroes received help on their tasks. Perseus was given help by many things including a mirrored shield, flying shoes, special pouch to hold the head, a sword, and helmet of invisibility. He received help from the god Athena for where and what materials to use. She was happy to help him with this because the Gorgon Medusa terrorized one of her temples. She told him to go to the river nymphs for some supplies. Athena gave him the shield. The river nymphs gave him some flying shoes, a helmet, and a pouch. The god Hermes gave him a sword. Jason also received help from Aphrodite, the goddess of love. She made Medea, the princess, fall in love with Jason. Medea’s help saved Jason a lot of times as he made it to the Golden Fleece. Hercules also received help cleaning out the stables of King Augeas. Hercules cleaned them out by directing a river through the stable then he just shoveled the cow’s crap in the river. So he got help from the water. Without it he would not have been able to clean it out in time. Heroes get help defeating their monster too.

All heroes have a monster that they defeat. Theseus defeated the Minotaur. Perseus’s monster was the Gorgon Medusa. He killed it my looking into his mirrored shield (so he wouldn’t turn to stone). Then he used his special sword and cut off its head. He put the head in the pouch and flew away with the head. However, when he took out the head to show the king, the king turned to stone along with the people in the room. Jason’s monster was a dragon. Jason didn’t kill the dragon but he used a potion on the dragon to get past the dragon for the Golden Fleece. Jason was helped, by Medea, by a sleeping potion that he used on the dragon. Then he made his get away with the Golden Fleece without Medea. Hercules’s monster was the Hydra. The Hydra had more than eight heads. It was unsure because as soon as one of its head was chopped off two grew in its place. The Hydra also had lethal breath. Even a foot print was bad enough to kill an ordinary mortal. Hercules chopped off its head one by one. While his nephew Iolaus seared the neck of the Hydra with a torch so it would not grow two heads in its place. All heroes had an amazing monster that they defeated.

Hero myths are very similar to the myth of Theseus. Perseus, Jason, and Hercules all have tasks that they completed, Theseus did too. Theseus received help on his task, so did Perseus, Jason, and Hercules. Theseus, Perseus, Jason, and Hercules all somehow defeated their own impossible monster. This is just four of the heroes in mythology, and they are the same in many ways. Hero myths are very similar to other Hero myths.

Summer Events

I got a music gadget on my blog… I also got a picture this is all because of my brother that is so nice to me. On the first day I tried to do this but it would not work. So today when I had to put my shelfari thing up I just had him help me with the other stuff too. So now I have officially set up my blog. This is sort of sad because it has already been a term, a forth of a school year. I cannot believe it is already the second term. Every year it just seems to go faster. It seems like we have not learned very much in some classes then in others I do not know what else I need to learn. This school year has gone incredibly fast following an incredibly fast summer. Last summer a lot of things happened. First I went to EFY which was extremely fun and had a very spiritual side. Unfortunately I got the swine flu at EFY and had to stay in my dorm for about a fifth of the week. Everyone is so afraid of the swine flu and to tell you the truth it was nothing. My mom had me quarantined so the rest of my family would not get it. My older brother that helped me with my blog also got the swine flu. I do not know if it was because of me or because he was at EFY with me. So I guess it was my fault. While I was sick I just played the PS2 and watched movies. It was fun. Well sort of. As soon as I was better I could not go running. I was pretty dizzy. I did not feel like doing anything. So the after affect was probably worse than the actual flu. I went on a couple of trips in the summer: including scout camp, family reunion, and some others. Scout camp was way fun we hike the narrows in Moab. It was cool to slide in small places and to climb some rock walls. One night we had steak. It was perfect all juicy and full of goodness. It was probably one of the best steaks I have ever had. One person was half way done with his when someone finally told him it was not supposed to be as raw as it was. He apparently had never had steak before. For my family reunion we went to strawberry reservoir. We spent so much time fishing. The only person that caught a fish was my younger brother. He did not even try that hard. He just left his poll on the ground. About ten minutes later he wanted to do another cast when he reeled it in he had a fish. So one thing I learned was that I do not like sports that are all chance because you cannot really become better. There might be more things to learn about fishing that will make you better but the fish just has to be there.

Flagella

For science I had to write a paper on flagella. So I thought I might as well kill to birds with one rock. That is why I decided to use this in my blog. My science teacher for biology gives me many assignments. I think sometimes that she thinks too much of us. She gives us the biggest assignments with hardly any time. She is very persuasive and lots of times you don’t think it would be too hard, but it always turns out harder than what she says.

Flagella are tail-like structures that project from the cell’s body of certain prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells. There are three types of flagellum they are Bacterial, Archaeal, and Eukaryotic.

Bacterial Flagella are shaped like a coil. Bacterial Flagella are made of protein flagellum. Their shape has twenty nanometer-thick and are hollow tubes. Bacterial Flagella have a helical just outside of the outer membrane. This hook lets the helix point away from the cell. The flagellum goes through protein rings in the cell’s membrane that help and act like bearings. Organisms that are gram-positive have two protein rings. One of these rings is in the poptidoglycan layer and the other is in the plasma membrane. Organisms that are gram-negative have four protein rings. One ring associates with the L ring or the lipopolysuccharides. Another ring is the P ring it associates with the peptidoglycan layer. The third is the M ring this is embedded in the plasma membrane. The last one is the S ring it is directly attached to the plasma membrane. Flagella increase and decrease their speed; they do not stay the same speed. Some flagella can operate 6,000 to 17,000 rotations per minute. Flagella spin counter clockwise to move the cell forward. When bacteria flagella grow they grow by addition of subunits at the tip of the flagella.

There are four types of bacterial arrangement schemes. Monotrichous have one flagellum at one place on the cell. The second kind is lophotricheaus, it has many flagella but the flagella only coming out of one place. Amphitrichous has two flagella they are on opposite sides of the cell. Peritrichous has many flagella they are all over the cell.

Archaeal Flagella are very similar to bacteria flagella. They have a very unique structure that lacks a central channel. They spin counterclockwise they move the cell forward. Archaeal Flagella only bundle when they go counterclockwise. When some move the other way it is called tumbling. Even if Archaeal Flagella all went clockwise it is proven that they would not bundle. Bacteria flagella are thicker than archaeal flagella. They grow by addition of subunits at the base.

Eukaryotic flagella are a bundle of nine fused pairs of microtubule doublets that surround two central single microtubules. Eukaryotic flagella are incased in the cell’s plasma membrane. Each of the nine doublet microtubules extends a pair of dynein arms.

Flagellum is longer than cilia. Flagella move in a flagella propeller like motion, while cilia just goes back and forth.