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Garden City was one of the first teams to take up six-man football back in Texas during the spring of 1938 as part of the Pioneer School Athletic Association, which was a rival to the UIL. The Bearkats moved away from 6-man in 1957, playing some 8-man, before moving to 11-man. Then, in 2004, Garden City made the move back to six-man. Former Whitharral head coach, Ken Hoskins, who won a state title in 2001, took over the program that season and set Garden City on the path for six-man success, going 18-5 with back-to-back district titles and winning Bi-district in 2005.
Vance Jones took over as the Bearkats head coach in 2006 and began building on the base of success set up by Hoskins. Garden City won 11-straight games that season before losing to Meadow in the quarterfinals. They went 8-2 in 2007 and missed the playoffs because they finished in a three-way tie with Rankin and Grady, losing out due to point differentials. They then put together a 10-3 season in 2008, bowing out in the quarterfinals. Expectations were high going into the 2009 season, as they would return all but two starters. However, the peerless magazine devoted to football in the state of Texas, Dave Campbell's Texas Football Magazine had the Bearkats picked to finish second in their district and weren't ranked in the magazine's preseason top-10 poll. (Editor's note: as the person who created those rankings, I will add they were ranked 11th)
Garden City opened their season in the annual Hico Six-Man Super Saturday, facing off with the preseason #7 Throckmorton Greyhounds. Throckmorton won handily, 74-46. That would be the only loss Garden City would suffer on the season. Garden City went on a tear, winning their next six games and beating their opponents by a combined score of 392-54! Their eighth game was a big district showdown with Fort Davis, the preseason favorite to win district 8. It was a tighter game, but Garden City walked away a 72-50 victor. They then beat district foes Water Valley and Rankin via the 45-point mercy rule, to win the district championship and finish the regular season 9-1.
The Bearkats offense was their main weapon, as Vance Jones' main formation was a tight version of a veer. His players, now in their third season running the formation, were becoming masters at the option-based offense. While they scored a lot of points in the regular season, they were able to score even more in the playoffs! Running back Josh Colunga was a threat out of the backfield and on special teams with his kick returning ability; quarterback Blayne Batla commanded the offense. His main targets in the passing game were linemen Brett Chudej, Reggie Halfmann and Aaron Long.
For Bi-District the Bearkats drew Spur and beat them by 50 points, 76-26. In the second round of the playoffs, they defeated Crowell by 50 points as well, 86-36.
The quarterfinal game would be a rematch with Throckmorton, who handed Garden City their only loss way back in week zero at Hico. Throckmorton was the number one-ranked team in Division 1 and by this time Garden City had clawed their way to the number three spot. The game was a constant back-and-forth battle. Throckmorton led 38-32 after the first quarter, Garden City led 62-60 at halftime, and Throckmorton led 80-74 after three quarters of play. In the fourth quarter, both defenses final showed up. The Bearkats forced three turnovers on downs and a fumble, including holding the Greyhounds on fourth-and-nine at the Bearkats 23-yard line, with 42 seconds left to play. Garden City scored the only touchdown of the fourth quarter, with less than two minutes remaining, to take the lead for good, holding on for the 84-80 win.
The semifinal matchup was with Follett, who were Division 1 state runners-up in 2008. The game was pretty competitive. Josh Colunga returned three kickoffs for touchdowns in this game, all in the first half and scored three more touchdowns on the ground for the Bearkats in the 76-55 victory. Garden City would now advance to the state championship game against the defending DI state champion Strawn Greyhounds. This would be the first title game appearance in football for Garden City.
Interestingly Strawn, 13-1, boasted the same record as Garden City, with their only loss also coming in week 0 at Hico at the hands of Valley 50-40; and interestingly enough just like the Bearkats, the Greyhounds signature win came in the quarterfinals, as they crushed Richland Springs 70-22.
State Championship Game – Saturday Dec. 12th 7:00pm in Shotwell Stadium, Abilene
Garden City faced off with Strawn in the second game of the state championship double header in Abilene, following Borden County's defeat of Highland, 28-14, in the Division 2 game earlier that day. That afternoon game was the lowest scoring state championship in history. In a strange twist of fate, the Division 1 game would go down in history as the highest combined score in state title game history.
Strawn struck first, running a balanced line Tight-T formation offense, they moved the ball down the field running the ball and scored just 53 seconds into the game, taking an 8-0 lead. On the Bearkats first possession, Strawn forced a fourth down and four when Josh Colunga broke loose from a tackle and scored on a 31-yard run. The PAT was good and the game was tied at 8-8.
Strawn's next possession, while just the third possession of the game and with only about two minutes into the action, proved to be a crucial point in the game.
Starting on their own 20-yard line, the Greyhounds ran three straight times, netting only five yards and facing a fourth-and-10 on their own 25. On fourth down, they ran a screen pass to their big, strong running back Trey Doyle, who was hit instantly and dropped for two-yard loss, turning the ball over on downs. Two plays later, Garden City scored on a four-yard, play action pass from Batla to Chudej.
On their next possession, Strawn's Doyle suffered a leg injury that hampered him the rest of the game. A big sack and open field tackle forced another fourth-and-long for the Greyhounds at midfield. Again, they elected to go for it, and a slowed-Doyle was tackled for a two-yard loss.
Garden City was held to a fourth down and six by the Strawn defense, but as on their first possession, the Bearkats, not only converted, but scored on 29-yard pass from Batla to Chudej. The PAT extended their lead to 24-8, with 2:08 left in the first.
The Bearkats defense again forced Strawn to a big fourth down play, a fourth-and-four at the Greyhounds own 31, and again they forced a turnover on downs. The first quarter ended with Garden City leading 24-8 and having stopped the Greyhounds three-straight times on fourth down.
The Bearkats scores again just 49 seconds into the second quarter when Batla hit Halfmann on a 20-yard pass and catch, extending the lead to 32-8.
Strawn then came fighting back. Trey Doyle scored on their first play of the next possession, a 48-yard run, and after finally forcing GC to punt, the Greyhounds scored on a 68-yard run by Joseph Sharp and now only trailed 32-24.
From this point on, a game which had featured some big defensive stands early, became an outright scoring fest. Garden City scored the next two touchdowns before the two teams traded blows for six more touchdowns up to halftime, when Garden City held a 68-48 lead. When the dust had settled, the two teams combined for 88 points in the second quarter, with the highlight of the first half being a Josh Colunga's 79-yard touchdown run with 2:52 left in the second.
The second half was more of the same: score after score, long play after long play, and excellent PAT kicking by both teams help run the score ever upwards. The third quarter featured another eight touchdowns and perfect 8/8 kicking PATs, making for 64 total points in the quarter. Garden City extended their lead to 36 points, as the score was now 108-72. One of the highlights of the third quarter was the longest pass in a six-man state title game, when with 6:15 on the clock Batla connected with Aaron Long for a 78-yard touchdown strike.
Compared to the three previous quarters, the final stanza was slow paced, as the two teams again traded touchdowns, with Garden City scoring the final touchdown with 5:03 left in the game to take a 122-88 lead that would be the final. It is somewhat amazing that this game ended with the final 4:57 not having a touchdown.
The game was crazy. There was over 1,600 yards of total offense, and a new record of 210 combined points scored in a state championship game, as 27 touchdowns were scored. Both kickers, Brett Chudej for Garden City (13/16) and Luis Elizondo for Strawn (11/11), combined to go 24/27. Individual statistics were also outlandish. Josh Colunga rushed for over 400 yards and seven touchdowns; Blayne Batla passed for over 300 yards and seven touchdowns; Joseph Sharp of Strawn had over 200 yards receiving on just six catches and Brett Chudej caught five touchdown passes with over 150 yards receiving. The 79-yard run by Colunga tied a state game record and the 78-yard pass from Batla-to-Long also set a new record for a state game.
This game was in sharp contrast to the Division 2 game played earlier that day. For most of this scoreboard exploding nightcap, I was sitting in the stands with Borden County's head coach Trey Richey, watching in shock at the lack of defense after the first quarter. I was also tracking Josh Colonga's rushing totals throughout the night and keeping Coach Richey informed after every carry where he was thanks to texts from Granger up in the press box. I was eager to see if he would break the state record for most rushing yards in a game. He came close, but fell short of Trey Richey's 461 yard, eight touchdown performance in the 1985 state game.
-You read that right, the UIL was not the first athletic association to bring six-man football to Texas. The PSAA beat them to the punch, as teams out west, Garden City included, took up the game in the spring of 1938. Of course, some schools were already playing six-man football before 1938, just not members of any association. The first inter-school game was played in Rotan between Sylvester and Dowell in 1936.
-Vance Jones coached at Garden City from 2006-2011 and has been at Balmorhea from 2012 to the present day.
-In the quarterfinal game, Throckmorton spreadback Michael Everett had over 700 yards of total offense.
-I have looked at box scores from the Abilene, San Angelo, and Dave Campbell's magazine for the state game and all conflict on just about every single yardage total in the individual statistics section…but the most rushing yards credited to Colunga was 441 by DCM (SA 427, ARN 398). This will give you an example of what I'm talking about on how crazy it was trying to track stats that night. (Editor's note: that was me doing those stats for DCTF)


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New Mexico Rock Helps to Explore Mars
SOCORRO, N.M. September 4, 2012 – Thanks to the Bureau of Geology, a division of New Mexico Tech, a piece of the Land of Enchantment is on Mars. The Curiosity rover is carrying a small disc of basalt, sampled from rocks found in Box Canyon, near Socorro. The basalt disc will help ensure the accuracy of the analyses the rover makes of materials it encounters on its journey up the slopes of Mount Sharp.
Dr. Richard Chamberlin (right) working in the field with Bureau of Geology scientist Colin Cikoski and Tech geology professor Dr. Bruce Harrison.
Dr. Richard Chamberlin (right) working in the field with Bureau of Geology scientist Colin Cikoski and Tech geology professor Dr. Bruce Harrison.
Dr. Richard Chamberlin, who recently retired from the Bureau, collected specimens of volcanic rock to be used as a calibration target for the Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer instrument, or AXPS, that is aboard Curiosity, also known as the Mars Science Laboratory. That spectrometer is one of 10 state-of-the-art analytical instruments on the roving Mars Science Laboratory.
Dr. Penny King of the Institute of Meteoritics at the University of New Mexico first contacted Chamberlin in 2007. King was helping NASA search for a basaltic rock that might be useful as a reference standard for the Mars mission. Chamberlin recognized the NASA scientists requirements would be met by a rare type of volcanic rock that is unusually uniform in composition, in addition to being dense and fine grained like many volcanic rocks.
Chamberlin suggested the 8.5 million-year-old "basalt of Broken Tank" as a possible candidate, because it is a very fine grained lava devoid of any crystals visible to the naked eye—a texture that geologists call aphyric. Of many ancient basalt flows in the Socorro region, only the basalt of Broken Tank is aphyric. In November of 2007, Chamberlin and King collected a large "test" sample of the basalt of Broken Tank (BT-2) near Box Canyon, which also happens to be a popular rock climbing site west of Socorro. About 200 other samples were considered for use by the Mars mission.
"As basalt magma ascends from great depth in the earth's mantle it tends to cool and partially crystallize before it erupts at the surface. So most lava flows contain a few percent of small crystals suspended in the liquid at the time of eruption; this makes them non-uniform in composition." Chamberlin said. "They were looking for an unusual variation of basalt — one that was erupted as 100 percent liquid. That's pretty rare in geological processes because it requires basaltic magma in the mantle (at about 60 miles depth) to be transferred rapidly to the surface with minimal cooling. Magma under high pressure can fracture overlying colder rocks and then drive the fracture tip toward the surface, allowing the magma to flow upwards behind it. This process, called dike injection, can transport magma from the mantle to the surface in a few days."
The road to Box Canyon west of Socorro. The red dot signifies the location where Richard Chamberlin found 'aphyritic' basalt that is now on Mars.
The road to Box Canyon west of Socorro. The red dot signifies the location where Richard Chamberlin found 'aphyritic' basalt that is now on Mars.
"The source volcano isn't known. It is probably buried under younger sediments in the valley near San Antonio," he said. "Geologic map patterns and precise age determinations indicate the lava flowed westward from the San Antonio area to Table Mountain and then north to the Box Canyon area. We also mapped the character of the sediments under the lava flow, which allows us to estimate the downstream (down slope) direction just prior to the eruption. It's detective work, using rock layers as clues– that's what geology is. We look for patterns and clues and solve the mysteries of Earth history"
And that particular mystery uncovered samples that will soon help NASA unravel new mysteries on Mars. The BT-2 basalt sample will be used to provide a baseline for samples analyzed on the Martian surface.
Chamberlin – like many Techies – has been paying attention to the progress of the Mars mission both during and since the landing. He said the recently returned images of Mount Sharp give the distinct impression of layered rocks.
"It certainly looks like sediments, so they have a lot to learn," he said. "Curiosity is a $2.5 billion scientific endeavor and I guess I helped a little bit. And my work didn't cost them anything either. The State of New Mexico paid for my time. I was glad to help."
The Broken Tank sample was selected because of its toughness, very small interlocking crystals, homogeneity, and lack of vesicles (gas bubbles that often occur in volcanic rocks). The calibration standard needed to be elastic and tough—resistant to fracture — because of the intense vibrations and stresses placed on it during its journey to Mars. A rock with very small evenly distributed crystals and no holes in it is useful for a standard because repeated calibration analyses of such a sample should predictable results. Thanks to NASA, the BT-2 sample is now probably the most intensely analyzed basalt from New Mexico.
The AXPS uses X-rays to determine elemental chemistry of rocks or other geologic materials. The instrument is one of several sophisticated analytical tools aboard Curiosity. Repeated measurements of a known standard will ensure that results from the AXPS continue to be reliable, especially in the situation that unexpected results are encountered. The calibration target (BT-2) was cut into a disk that is 4.2-centimeters in diameter and 3-millimeters thick. The New Mexico rock is one of several calibration targets, including a 1909 penny, that will be used by Curiosity's many instruments.
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Little visited just a few years ago, the island of Taiwan is drawing new travelers with an alluring blend of rich culture and physical beauty.
The year is 1542. The place, 100 miles off China's southeast coast. As a Portuguese ship passes a large, uncharted island, the sailors become the first Westerners to glimpse an Eden of golden beaches, fertile coastal plains, and a mountainous interior carpeted in mist-shrouded forest. Ilha Formosa, they call it. Beautiful Island.
Now called Taiwan, the island retains its startling physical beauty, alongside a rich cultural landscape where prayers echo through incense-perfumed temples, bullet trains zip between cities, and the world's most fabulous trove of Chinese art dazzles museumgoers. Throw in one of Asia's liveliest food scenes and it's no wonder that the number of people coming to this Switzerland-size isle of 23 million residents is growing rapidly. Since 2001, the tally of annual visitors has more than doubled thanks to warming relations with mainland China and a promotional push in the United States.
At first blush, the city of Taipei seems a gleaming, orderly Tomorrowland. A pulsating dynamo of 2.6 million people, it has been the capital of the Republic of China since 1949, when the communist People's Republic of China drove nationalist forces off the mainland. A spotless, easy-to-use subway system whisks you around town. Elevated highways and broad boulevards channel traffic past glass-and-steel skyscrapers and sleek shopping malls. Throngs of pedestrians wait patiently for signals to cross busy intersections where the sound of car horns is eerily absent.
Dive into the densely populated neighborhoods off the main thoroughfares, though, and you sense that Taipei's soul runs deep. In the morning cool of a leafy park, serene tai chi practitioners slowly move through their silent choreography while 50 feet away a Jazzercise group bounces, prances, and sweats to a boom box blaring "Let's Get Physical." The city is full of such contrasts. You can soak in outdoor mineral hot pools at Qinshui Park in the Beitou District, then mingle with crowds at Shilin Night Market, a sprawling bazaar where vendors hawk everything from sparkly pink iPhone covers and Jeremy Lin jerseys for Chihuahuas to fluffy Taiwan-style shaved ice piled high and crowned with sweet beans and condensed milk.
Travelers marvel at the grand scale of Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall and visit Taipei 101, the world's second-tallest building, to take the 37-second elevator ride to the observation deck on the 89th floor. From there street-level neon lights appear as mere blips of color as the sun sets over the darkening city. At first light, visitors to Longshan Temple, built in 1738, can catch a procession of brown-robed worshipers chanting before scarlet and gold pavilions.
The National Palace Museum can display only a fraction of its collection of nearly 700,000 works of Chinese art, most of them spirited out of Nanjing by the nationalists during the communist takeover. But what a fraction it is, from milky-green jade earrings, circa 6000 b.c., to a 19th-century basket of ivory carved so thin you'd swear it was lace.
The city's restaurants serve treasures of their own: crispy-skinned roast duck, beef noodle soup, Japanese-Chinese fusion creations like tender peanut tofu with wasabi and passion fruit dressing, and stinky tofu—a typical dish with a flavor that's cheesy good once you get past the fermented smell. At Taipei's famous dumpling restaurant, Din Tai Fung, guests watch workers in a glass-walled prep room meticulously hand-pleating thousands of pockets filled with shrimp, taro, crab, or pork.
Leaving Taipei on the bullet train that streaks along seamless tracks at 180 miles per hour, any visitor faces a dilemma. The tropical southern beaches beckon, as does Taroko Gorge, with its marble-walled canyons and rushing, blue-green river on the east coast, both among Taiwan's top destinations.
And then there's Sun Moon Lake. Though it may be hard to believe that an island so well known for manufacturing could still be 60 percent forested, the Sun Moon Lake region offers ample proof. The island's largest body of freshwater and the centerpiece of a national scenic area, the lake sits at an altitude of 2,500 feet amid craggy peaks covered in trees and ferns, clambering vines, and towering bamboo thickets that rustle and sway in the wind. In the morning, mist hovers just above fishermen on the lake and cloaks the mountaintops in diaphanous clouds. It is a scene straight out of a classical Chinese painting.
The view is reason enough to visit, but there is much to do here. Boats crisscross the water; bicyclists cruise the shore. An aerial gondola makes a thrilling trip up and over a mountain. Nearby, at the Hugo Assam Tea Farm, co-owner Steve Chen conducts tastings and leads tours through lush hillside terraces where his plants grow prime tea. "I moved here 24 years ago when I fell in love with a tea grower's daughter," the Taipei native tells me. "And then I also fell in love with the countryside and the art of growing tea." The island's many seductive charms make it easy to see how.
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Journey to the Emerald City: 10 Travel Apps for Visiting Seattle
Did you know Seattle played a big part in the careers of then up and coming jazz musicians, Ray Charles and Quincy Jones? And, many of us can still smell the teen spirit wafting from the epicenter of grunge bands of the 90's. The Emerald City is a musical town with a rich cultural history, amazing coffee culture, vibrant tech industry, and home to many museums, conventions, and festivals. So if you're interested in taking a trip up the Space Needle, catching a Mariners game, or setting it as the starting point of a Pacific Northwest adventure, here are some apps for your next Seattle vacation...
Getting Around & Accomodations
Hop aboard one of King Country Metros buses or streetcars to navigate Seattle. Gain local's knowledge of the city's public transportation system with the OneBusAway app, which shows bus routes, times, and stops close by. And if you're one to easily get lost in a new city, you'll appreciate the recent stop history function, which makes it easy to find your way back should you ever get spun around (the Space Needle always works as an excellent landmark to navigate too!). Free
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Choice Hotels
Choice Hotels shrinks their one-click hotel booking web experience down in a digestible manner, offering access to their database of over 6,000 hotels worldwide. Users can view photos, prices, locations, and amenities to make the best choice for your requirements and budget. I found the app really helpful for weighing options and also made booking a room easy even just before boarding for a flight. Free
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City Guides (Offline Maps)
An offline map is essential for any trip away from home, whether it's visiting the next city over or traveling to another country. Stay.com's offline map app takes it one step further with downloadable maps which include a travel guide and trip itinerary, all available to sync across multiple devices. Read reviews on restaurants, book hotels and venues all within this app without the use of a constant Internet connection, ideal especially in destinations where wi-fi or wireless networks are spotty (not a problem in tech-friendly Seattle though). Free
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Living Social
Those who love a little retail therapy (a long distant cousin to Apartment Therapy) will benefit from this popular shopping deals app, especially since Living Social spotlight's a city's local's favorites at budget prices. So whether you're trying to find discounted accommodations before you arrive in Seattle or a percentage off a planned dinner once you arrive, LivingSocial promises the best of any given place so you can shop like a true Seattle native. Free
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Tourist Attractions
Top 25 Seattle
So you don't have much time and you want to play the role of tourist, what can Seattle offer you? Seattle Top 25 narrows down the possibilities to the most popular 25 locations and 25 restaurants. Each entry is complete with location, synopsis, phone numbers and photos to not only help decide which places to visit but how to get there. Free
Discover Seattle beforehand with this tourist app which showcases a wide range of destinations points of interests. Create a complete trip itinerary and decide the best tourist sites, events, and restaurants to visit using deep details such as location, price, open times and synopsis. I personally get a kick out of reading other travelers' adventures with the trip wolf Travel Blog to gain real perspective about what it's like to experience Seattle (or nearly anywhere else) before I even arrive. Free
Also available for iOS (Through in-app purchase of $5)
Wine and Dine
While traveling, nobody aims to empty their wallet on lunch or waste time trying to find a recommended eatery. That's where GrubHub comes in handy, a restaurant app dedicated to food on the go or for delivery. It's easy to find a place based on cuisine, location, and price. And a bonus: the service offers coupons to save you money which always helps on vacation. Free
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Seattles Best Dining
Every meal in an unfamiliar city must be one to remember and Seattles Best Dining certainly has its finger on the pulse of the cities best dining experiences. Discover somewhere bold, new and hip with this apps selection of over 180 restaurants that can be narrowed down to one based on location, cuisine, price, hidden gems, scenic, trendy and more. I particularly love the smooth interface complete with interior, exterior and food photography. $3
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Seattle Weekly App
Your 100% free guide to the city's best pubs, restaurants, and events is all in one place on your iOS or Android device. The Seattle Weekly app is provided by the same publication of the same name that has delivers a comprehensive eatery guide, up to date concert and events such as fashion shows or special nightclub nights. Free
Also available for Android
Trip Journal
Are you the type to bring back memories rather than physical souvenirs? For those who collect frequent travellers miles with frequent visits to new and fantastic locations, a Trip Journal is designed for housing your travel notes, photos, and a complete timeline in digital form. Trip Journal can track your every move with GPS to regale every step of your journey, document information or opinions and collect photos or videos together so everything about your vacation stays in one bundled app that you can share with friends upon your return home. $4
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It's been quite a while since our last round up from the world of music practice on the web. In that time a few new sites dealing with music practice have arrived and we'll be reviewing some of those in the coming weeks. For now, onto the links . . . . . .
- How to Apply Focused Practice to Music Note Reading from the Music Reading Savant
- Brief article on how to practice a cover song in stages
- Stack Exchanges forums have a section dedicated to Music Practice and Performance
- Dr B's Music Practice Guide provides a comprehensive look at the whole topic of music practice
- Savvy lessons provides some practice tips for beginners and some motivation help
- Here's an interesting comparison between musicians and athletes
- Music in practice presents some ideas on making music fun
- An old favourite, the Musicians Way, suggests Performance-Oriented Practice
- If you need any more persuading here are 10 reasons why you should study music
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The World According To Monsanto
The World According To Monsanto
Most people associate the New World Order conspiracy with things such as the FreeMasons, the Illuminati, Skull & Bones etc. And most people realize that these things are connected with the Federal Reserve Bank and the U.S. Government. However, most people don't realize the role health plays in all of this.
Everyone is running around afraid of "verichips" and "secret police" and "cell phone and computer monitoring." But the truth is that the real way that the diabolical ones control the masses is by controlling their mind and their health. This is why they put neurotoxic chemicals in vaccines and create GMO Foods that affect brain function (dumbing down the population).
The World According to Monsanto (uploaded by MrMaxBliss) is a great documentary on the Health Arm of the Illuminati and it exposes how they are in collusion with governments and control the food supply. This goes deep into the rabbit hole.
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NEED TO KNOW Renewed by PBS Through June 2013
WNET is pleased to announce the renewal through June 30, 2013 of its national weekly newsmagazine, NEED TO KNOW. The series – with Jeff Greenfield, Maria Hinojosa, Scott Simon, and Ray Suarez -- is part of PBS's news and public affairs programming and is broadcast during primetime on Fridays nationwide, with repeats over the weekend in some markets. (Check local listings.)
"I think the show has really hit its stride," said Marc Rosenwasser, the series' executive producer for the past year. "Our new single-topic format gives us an opportunity to go very deeply into important topics that don't get as much time as they deserve on many commercial news magazines. Our goal is to humanize often-difficult topics and add to the national dialogue."
The program's single-topic, 30-minute format features in-depth, documentary-styled reports focusing on how policies set in Washington affect Main Street. During the past season, the show has filed original stories from around the nation on many of the most pressing issues of our times: unemployment and under-employment in a monthly "Help Wanted" series; the foreclosure crisis; the difficulty of getting by on food stamps; healthcare reform; veterans care; prison reform; EPA regulation, the lingering effects of NAFTA, and how Chinese dumping of solar panels has cost Americans jobs.
Most notably, with the help of the Nation Institute, the show also produced two investigative half hours documenting widespread abuses in the Border Patrol. Those reports led to Congressional calls for action and a Federal grand jury investigation.
Need to Know also has done original reporting overseas about Christian persecution in Iraq, the aftermath of the revolution in Egypt, renewable energy in Germany and war crime tribunals in Cambodia.
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"Need to Know with its focus on the most intriguing story of the week occupies a unique place in PBS's programming lineup, and is part of why viewers trust PBS more than any other television news source," says Stephen Segaller, vice president, programming, for WNET.
Need to Know is a production of Creative News Group in association with WNET. Marc Rosenwasser is executive producer.
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SAN MARCOS, GUATEMALA—Guatemala's president says he has been informed that the death toll in a 7.4-magnitude earthquake that struck off the Pacific coast has risen to 39 people.
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Julie Powell must certainly have considered cooking her way through volume two of Mastering the Art of French Cooking as the follow-up sequel to her wildly successful Julie & Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously.
Some writers would have done just that. It would have been a predictable next move, maybe, but one that came with a fair guarantee of readership by the legions of Julia Child fans – many of whom have been Child devotees since WGBH's groundbreaking cooking series, The French Chef.
But instead of cooking her way through Mastering (Volume Two), Powell apprenticed herself at a butcher shop in upstate New York. It was a bold, creative, and decidedly unpredictable move, and I applauded her courage and lack of orthodoxy. Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession was my book club's March's pick, and we met last week at Cornerstone Bookstore in Salem to discuss it in detail.
I was, I rush to say, keen to discuss Powell's descriptions of dismembering steer and disemboweling pigs with the group, fellow food lovers all. But, if speaking honestly, it must be said that we all were more interested in what else Powell writes about.
What else she writes about is sex.
In Cleaving, Powell writes candidly and in detail about her highly charged affair with "D." She writes about her troubled marriage in a tone that oscillates between indifference and agony. She writes revealingly about the emotional and psychological troubles of a life she complicates to the extreme.
It was a racier book than anyone in our group had anticipated. What it had to do with Julia Child – the reason at least some of us voted to read the book in the first place – was tangential at best. And as discussion within the group began, thoughts of Julia or, indeed, of butchery in general, fell quickly by the wayside.
There was a little of this at the start: "I was amazed by what it takes to cut meat." And this: "I liked the parts where she went to other countries and connected with people over the meat."
But the tempo of the conversation picked up considerably when we turned inevitably to the subject of sex.
"I read the whole thing," one member volunteered immediately.
"I finished it ahead of time," said another.
"She hooked me right at the beginning," said a third.
Sex manages to strike those chords. Not that we spent much time on the specifics of the acts, but we did delve into what the acts meant and how we related to them.
One woman related, with startling clarity, the merits of "a love that hurts." Another zoomed into page 22, where Powell describes her grandmother's lifelong feeling of pointlessness, something that was passed down from generation to generation, and her mother's "bone-deep unhappiness or discontent."
It wasn't a pretty story but, frankly, neither is sex nor love nor life all the time. I found Powell's book refreshing exactly because it did not have an ending all tied up in a bow. In fact, members of our book club disagreed on what exactly the ending of the story was. We read the same last pages, but our interpretations of those pages varied widely.
I say that's a good thing.
Because a perfect thing, a perfect, pretty thing, is boring. Powell's story, and how it strikes chords within our own, is life. It's complicated. It has texture, and ridges. It's coarse. And rough. Sometimes that's just what you want. And sometimes that's what you get, whether you want it or not.
Cathy Huyghe writes the WGBH Foodie blog. Read new WGBH Foodie posts every weekday, in which Cathy explores myriad ways and places to experience good food and wine.
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The word "big" doesn't do justice to whales. Humpback whales can weigh up to 40 tons. Fin whales have been known to reach 80 tons. Blue whales, the biggest animals to have ever lived, reach 160 tons — the same mass as about 2,000 grown men or 5 million grown mice.
It takes a lot of food to build such giant bodies, but how exactly the biggest whales get so much has long been a mystery. "We don't have much of a sense of these animals in their natural environments," said Nick Pyenson, a biologist at the University of California, Berkeley. For decades, whale experts had only indirect clues. "It's primarily from dead animals or from a few people standing on a ship seeing whales come to the surface," he said.
With so little information, scientists have struggled to make sense of several enigmas about the biggest whales. "It's always been a mystery why they have really short dives for their body size," Mr. Pyenson said. The bigger a marine mammal is, the longer it should be able to dive for food, because it has more muscle tissue in which it can store oxygen. Other species follow this pattern, but the biggest whales do not.
Mr. Pyenson and his colleagues may have solved some of the gastronomical mysteries of these leviathans by creating the first detailed biomechanical model of a feeding fin whale. In essence, they have created the world's biggest gulp.
The model was made possible by a happy accident. In 2003, scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif., chased after fin whales and stuck small monitors to their backs with suction cups. After several hours, the monitors fell off and the scientists retrieved them. They hoped that the monitors would record fin whale songs, but they had the bad luck to encounter whales that were feeding, not singing.Continue reading the main story
Jeremy A. Goldbogen, then a graduate student at Scripps, realized that the project was not a failure. Mr. Goldbogen, who is now at the University of British Columbia, was interested in how fin whales feed. The monitors had logged lots of valuable information about the movements of the whales, like their speed and depth, that he could analyze. "This is the first time we've ever seen this kind of data," Mr. Goldbogen said.
Working with Robert Shadwick at the University of British Columbia and Mr. Pyenson, Mr. Goldbogen applied some basic laws of physics to the data, combining it with information about the size and shape of fin whale bodies. They ended up with a surprisingly detailed picture of what the whales do when they feed, which they recently published in the journal Marine Ecology Progress Series.
It turns out that a fin whale dives very deep for food. It plunges more than 600 feet below the sea surface, most likely in search of giant swarms of krill. What the whale does next came as a complete surprise to the scientists. "It was still swimming, but it was slowing down really fast," Mr. Goldbogen said. Even as the whale pumps its powerful tail, it comes to a compete stop in three seconds.
The whale grinds to a halt, the scientists concluded, by opening its mouth. Water floods in, pushing its giant lower jaws back until they hang perpendicularly from its body. Suddenly the whale is producing colossal amounts of drag. "The whales are beautifully streamlined so they can swim fast and efficiently, and then they're throwing it all out the window," Mr. Goldbogen said.
In fact, a fin whale's body turns out to be exquisitely adapted for increasing its drag. The underside of its mouth is made up of a unique set of pleats that can stretch to four times their normal size. By continuing to beat its tail, the whale forces more water in, causing its mouth to expand like a parachute. And just as race car drivers use parachutes to slow them down, the whale's inflated mouth brings it to a dead stop.
Mr. Goldbogen and his colleagues calculate that in just three seconds, the mouth of a 60-foot fin whale fills with more than 18,000 gallons of water. That's the same volume as a school bus, and weighs more than the whale itself.
The whale then takes three seconds to shut its jaws. As its pleats begin to snap back in place, it pushes the water out of the sides of its mouth. The water must first stream through a set of thin plates known as baleen. Any krill or other animals in the water get stuck there. Once the whale has pushed out all the water from its gulp, it can swallow its prey and move forward again.
If Mr. Goldbogen's model is accurate, it means that fin whales use a huge amount of energy to feed. This cost of lunge feeding, as this style of eating is known, could explain why the whales spend so little time underwater. While they can store a lot of extra oxygen in their muscle, they burn it up quickly with their peculiar way of sweeping up food.
For all this effort, a bus-size gulp of water yields a fin whale only about 20 pounds of krill. But fin whales can gulp every 30 seconds. In about four hours a whale can catch a ton of krill, which provides enough energy to fuel its gigantic body for an entire day.
Fin whales belong to a lineage of giant whales known as rorquals, which includes other heavyweights like blue whales and humpback whales. All rorquals share several unique traits, like the stretchy pleats on their undersides. Scientists have suspected that all rorquals feed in the same way, and new data supports that hunch. Researchers at the Cascadia Research Collective in Olympia, Wash., have been tagging blue and humpback whales with data monitors, and Mr. Goldbogen sees the same patterns of stopping and starting that he and his colleagues saw with fin whales.
Now Mr. Goldbogen and his colleagues are investigating how rorquals got to be so big. Whales moved from land to sea starting about 50 million years ago, but they remained relatively small until the rorquals evolved about 7 million years ago. "They really evolved very fast," Mr. Goldbogen said. "We think this lunge feeding opened up a new door, evolutionarily speaking."
To test this hypothesis, Mr. Goldbogen and Mr. Pyenson want to compare the size and shape of living and fossil whales. "When we look at all the sizes and shapes, we're going to be able to figure out exactly how lunge feeding evolved and whether it's responsible for these really big whales we see today," Mr. Goldbogen said.
The scientists have been visiting museum warehouses in recent months to make measurements of whale skeletons. It can take hours _ — and forklifts in some cases — to gather the data on these enormous bones.
"I was amazed that no one has measured these things before," Mr. Goldbogen said. "But when I got there, I realized, 'Wow, this is why.'"Continue reading the main story


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Boilermaker Boosts Prize Money
Winners of this year's Boilermaker Road Race will be going home with a little extra cash.
Race officials have announced an increase in prize money, which will be spread among the male and female open, masters and top Americans categories.
First place in the open male/female division is increasing from $6,000 to $7,000.
The prize money for the top American male and female finishers is going from $1,000 to $2,000.
The 36th running of the Boilermaker will take place on Sunday, July 14th.


text: Sijun Forums :: View topic - Perspective rotations tutorial Log in to check your private messages Sijun Forums Forum Index >> Digital Art Discussion View previous topic :: View next topic Author Topic : "Perspective rotations tutorial" T_EnglandmemberMember #Joined: 24 Feb 2009Posts: 97 Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2010 6:39 pm I did this for a friend a while back after I failed at trying to explain it over MSN. I noticed a lot my concepts ended up with objects perfectly perpendicular to each other, i was finding it really difficult to retain a correct lens when rotating an object, this photoshop method allows you to keep vanishing points at the same relative length. I still don't know if any of this is actually true though. I checked out the perspective stuff on handprint.com and it went waaay over my head, i traced over 3d software to try and find a pattern in the way they maintain perspective and there seems to be some perspective correction stuff going on. Anyway i hope it helps someone, and i would especially appreciate anyone who knows about this stuff to chime in and offer any corrections, i cant seem to find much useful perspective theory on the internet without it being either too simple or too technical to be practical. _________________www.tenglandsketchbook.blogspot.com www.thomasengland.co.uk Back to top durgldeepmemberMember #Joined: 14 Sep 2001Posts: 843 Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2010 1:10 am Yikes, am only vaguely aware of lens issues atm. Good to see a diagram (and useful heads up, for me). Back to top SumalethAdministratorMember #Joined: 30 Oct 1999Posts: 2896Location: Australia Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2010 3:10 am That is an approximation that will only work if the angles are similar. A more robust approach is to draw the objects in plan and project down to find the vanishing points. This shows how the plan is used: http://www.khulsey.com/perspective_2pt.html Francis Tsai posted a good example many years ago, with multiple objects at different rotations, but it's long since gone. This is still only an approximation, and I can't remember if this approach breaks down at the extremes, but I remember finding it worked pretty well._________________Art Links Archive -- Artists and Tutorials Back to top T_EnglandmemberMember #Joined: 24 Feb 2009Posts: 97 Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2010 7:46 am Oh yeah i have seen that method before, i think i even tried it once but found the construction a bit unwieldy i should probably go through it again so at least I'm not ignorant of it, I do agree with you though, I noticed the wider the lens the more acute the rotation the more things fall apart and such. I guess at first it helps keep things square but after really will have to take into account distortion. I haven't seen the method Francis Tai outlined id be interested though I suppose i'm aiming for "within acceptable tolerance" I need to understand lenses more and intuitively take into account distortion and correction. Spooge got me thinking about lenses more in this tutorial he wrote years ago, its great as it deals more with drawing errors and problem solving. http://www.gfxartist.com/features/tutorials/7840_________________www.tenglandsketchbook.blogspot.com www.thomasengland.co.uk Back to top neffmemberMember #Joined: 11 May 2002Posts: 1444Location: Germany Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2010 11:32 pm I prefer Google SketchUp _________________* Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Sijun Forums Forum Index -> Digital Art Discussion All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Digital Art----------------Digital Art DiscussionWork in ProgressGallery/Finished Work Miscellaneous----------------Random MusingsArchive : Sep99 - Dec00 You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum Powered by phpBB © 2005 phpBB Group


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Possible EU funding boost for Rolle Centre project
PUBLISHED: 10:41 22 November 2012
The Rolle Centre project could receive a massive cash boost from the European Union.
The transformation of the former Rolle College into a community hub has hit a crucial stage – the cost of recommissioning the buildings is now an estimated £2.5million.
Rolle Exmouth Limited (REL), a not-for-profit company set up by residents, has been working to turn the former campus into a hub for education, training, community and cultural activities and business units.
Now Devon County Council bosses has stepped into lend REL their expertise to help draw up a funding bid to the European Regional Development Fund (EDRF).
The EDRF is used to 'even up' regional disparities in regional development across Europe by investing in business innovation and support and regeneration.
REL chairman Roy Pryke said: "This bid has to be submitted in outline by next Friday (November 30) and we will know by the end of February whether we are proceeding to the next stage.
"Our aim is by the end of February to have produced the investment case…including the outcome of our submission of expressions of interest and applications to funding bodies, which are currently active and in our pipeline."
He pledged to hold a meeting for investors following the last share issue last spring as soon as they reached the point they would make decisions which would impact directly on shareholders.


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Here are a couple of postcards showing Hyde in quieter times.
Mottram Old Road .
The Low is in the background to the left of the telegraph pole.
Looking down Dowson Road.
How quiet is the road !
Friday, 18 January 2013
Posted by Hydonian at Friday, January 18, 2013
Labels: Dowson Road, Mottram Old Road, Post Cards, Postcards
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Funny how much wider it looks without the myriad painted white lines and the built-out extensions to the pavements/grass verges.
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Don't forget to feed the birds while the weather is cold.
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- downsie21 said...
the very first photograph of Cock & Hen brow I've ever seen looking towards Gee Cross.
- Friday, 18 January, 2013
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