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Baldr is a god in Norse Mythology associated with light and beauty.
In the 12th century, Danish accounts by Saxo Grammaticus and other Danish Latin chroniclers recorded a euhemerized account of his story. Compiled in Iceland in the 13th century, but based on much older Old Norse poetry, the Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda contain numerous references to the death of Baldr as both a great tragedy to the Æsir and a harbinger of Ragnarök.
According to Gylfaginning, a book of Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda, Baldr's wife is Nanna and their son is Forseti. In Gylfaginning, Snorri relates that Baldr had the greatest ship ever built, named Hringhorni, and that there is no place more beautiful than his hall, Breidablik.
In the Poetic Edda the tale of Baldr's death is referred to rather than recounted at length. Among the visions which the Völva sees and describes in the prophecy known as the Völuspá is one of the fatal mistletoe. Yet looking far into the future the Völva sees a brighter vision of a new world.
In Gylfaginning, Baldr is described as follows:
Apart from this description Baldr is known primarily for the story of his death. His death is seen as the first in the chain of events which will ultimately lead to the destruction of the gods at Ragnarok. Baldr will be reborn in the new world, according to Völuspá.
He had a dream of his own death and his mother had the same dreams. Since dreams were usually prophetic, this depressed him, so his mother Frigg made every object on earth vow never to hurt Baldr. All objects made this vow except mistletoe. Frigg had thought it too unimportant and nonthreatening to bother asking it to make the vow (alternatively, it seemed too young to swear).
When Loki, the mischief-maker, heard of this, he made a magical spear from this plant (in some later versions, an arrow). He hurried to the place where the gods were indulging in their new pastime of hurling objects at Baldr, which would bounce off without harming him. Loki gave the spear to Baldr's brother, the blind god Höðr, who then inadvertently killed his brother with it (other versions suggest that Loki guided the arrow himself). For this act, Odin and the giantess Rindr gave birth to Váli who grew to adulthood within a day and slew Höðr.
Baldr was ceremonially burnt upon his ship, Hringhorni, the largest of all ships. As he was carried to the ship, Odin whispered in his ear. This was to be a key riddle asked by Odin (in disguise) of the giant Vafthrudnir (and which was, of course, unanswerable) in the poem Vafthrudnismal. The riddle also appears in the riddles of Gestumblindi in Hervarar saga.
The dwarf Litr was kicked by Thor into the funeral fire and burnt alive. Nanna, Baldr's wife, also threw herself on the funeral fire to await Ragnarok when she would be reunited with her husband (alternatively, she died of grief). Baldr's horse with all its trappings was also burned on the pyre. The ship was set to sea by Hyrrokin, a giantess, who came riding on a wolf and gave the ship such a push that fire flashed from the rollers and all the earth shook.
Upon Frigg's entreaties, delivered through the messenger Hermod, Hel promised to release Baldr from the underworld if all objects alive and dead would weep for him. And all did, except a giantess, Þökk, who refused to mourn the slain god. And thus Baldr had to remain in the underworld, not to emerge until after Ragnarok, when he and his brother Höðr would be reconciled and rule the new earth together with Thor's sons.
When the gods discovered that the giantess had been Loki in disguise, they hunted him down and bound him to three rocks. Then they tied a serpent above him, the venom of which dripped onto his face. His wife Sigyn gathered the venom in a bowl, but from time to time she had to turn away to empty it, at which point the poison would drip onto Loki, who writhed in pain, thus causing earthquakes. He would free himself, however, in time to attack the gods at Ragnarok.
Nevertheless Balderus took heart of grace and again met Høtherus in a stricken field. But he fared even worse than before. Høtherus dealt him a deadly wound with a magic sword, named Mistletoe, which he had received from Miming, the satyr of the woods; after lingering three days in pain Balderus died of his injury and was buried with royal honours in a barrow.
It relates that Hother was the king of the Saxons and son of Hothbrod and the daughter of Hadding. Hother first slew Othen's (i.e. Odin) son Balder in battle and then chased Othen and Thor. Finally, Othen's son Both killed Hother. Hother, Balder, Othen and Thor were incorrectly considered to be gods.
As referenced in Gylfaginning, in Sweden and Norway, the Scentless Mayweed (Matricaria perforata) and the similar Sea Mayweed (Matricaria maritima) are both called Balder's brow. In Iceland only the latter is found.
In Belgium, the name Balder is also used in dialect for a village called Berlaar and in another village (Tielen), the Balderij is a street and a swampy area next to it.
The Balder Oil Field is a small field in the Norwegian North Sea discovered in 1967 which started production n 1999. It is operated by Exxon Mobil Ref The Balder Formation is a prominent marker within the North Sea Sedimentary Basin. It is a layer of volcanic tuff of Early Eocene Age, and is present throughout the Northern and Central North Sea. Ref
Baldr has, also, found mention in various media outlets, including a video game franchise, Too Human, where he is the main character and is accused by the other Norse Gods of being "too human." In the storyline of said video game, The other Aesir are cybernetic beings of godly worth. Baldr refuses to use such blasphemies, as he calls them, which lends itself to his air of purity and light. The Accuracy is very close to that of the actual myth, with some different interpretations as to the trickery of Hoad and other events. He is also paralleled as Balder the Brave in Marvel's "The Mighty Thor", where he serves as an ally to main character, Thor. He also has an honorable namesake in the Baldur's Gate series.


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Ernest Samson served as the President Ernest's past corporate affiliations include Ifc Professional Association, Insurance Portfolio Management, Inc. and four others.
The registered agent for the company is Douglas J. Frye. Also known as a statutory or resident agent, the registered agent is responsible for receiving legal notifications regarding court summons, lawsuits, and other legal actions involving the corporate entity.
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Sadko (musical tableau)
Sadko, Op. 5, is a "musical tableau" by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, written in 1867 and revised in 1869 and 1892. It is sometimes called the first symphonic poem written in Russia.[1] It was first performed in 1867 at a concert of the Russian Musical Society (RMS), conducted by Mily Balakirev.[2] Rimsky-Korsakov later wrote a musically unrelated opera of the same name in 1896.
Sadko (Russian: Садко) was a legendary hero of a Russian bylina (a traditional East Slavic oral narrative poem). A merchant and gusli musician from Novgorod, he is transported to the realm of the Sea King. There, he is to provide music to accompany the dance at the marriage of the King's daughter. The dancing grows so frenzied that the surface of the sea billows and surges, threatening to founder the ships on it. To calm the sea, Sadko smashes his gusli. The storm dissipates and he reappears on the shore.
Mily Balakirev, leader of the Russian nationalist music group "The Five," was long fascinated with Anton Rubinstein's Europeanising Ocean Symphony and wanted to create a more specifically Russian alternative.[3] Music critic Vladimir Stasov suggested the legend of Sadko and wrote a program for this work,[3] giving it to Balakirev in 1861.[4] At first Balakirev relayed the program to Modest Mussorgsky, who did nothing with it.[5] (Mussorgsky's comment to Balakirev on hearing Rubinstein's Ocean Symphony was "Oh Ocean, oh puddle"; he had much preferred Rubinstein's conducting of the work over the work itself.[6]) Mussorgsky eventually offered the program to Rimsky-Korsakov, after he had long given up on it.[5] Balakirev agreed, counting on the naval officer's love of the sea to help him produce results.[3]
Instead of direct experience of the sea, Rimsky-Korsakov fell back on Franz Liszt's symphonic poem Ce Qu'on entend sur la montagne for inspiration.[3] Acting as bookends to the middle of the work are two sketches of the calm, gently rippling sea.[3] While Rimsky-Korsakov took the harmonic and modulatory basis of these sections from the opening of Liszt's Montagne,[7] he admitted the chord passage closing these sections were purely his own.[8] The central section comprises music portraying Sadko's underwater journey, the feast of the Sea King and the Russian dance that leads the work to its climax.[3] Typical of Rimsky's modesty and self-criticism, he offers several influences for this section: Mikhail Glinka's Ruslan and Lyudmila, Balakirev's "Song of the Goldfish," Alexander Dargomyzhsky's Russalka and Liszt's Mephisto Waltz No. 1.[9] Rimsky-Korsakov chose the principal tonalities of the piece—a movement in D-flat major, the next in D major and then a return to D flat major—specifically to please Balakirev, "who had an exclusive prediliction for them in those days."[8]
Rimsky-Korsakov began the work in June 1867 during a three-week holiday at his brother's summer villa in Tervaïoki, near Vyborg.[10] A month's naval cruise in the Gulf of Finland proved only a temporary interruption; by October 12, he was finished.[10] He wrote Mussorgsky that he was satisfied with it and that it was the best thing he had composed to date, but that he was weak from the intense strain of composition and needed to rest.[11]
Rimsky-Korsakov felt that several factors combined to make the piece a success—the originality of his task; the form that resulted; the freshness of the dance tune and the singing theme with its Russian characteristics; and the orchestration, "caught as by a miracle, despite my imposing ignorance in the realm of orchestration."[8] While he remained pleased with Sadko's form, Rimsky-Korsakov remained discontented with its brevity and sparseness, adding that writing the work in a broader format would have been more appropriate for Stasov's program.[8] He attributed this extreme conciseness to his lack of compositional experience.[8] Nevertheless, Balakirev was pleased with the work, paying Sadko a combination of patronization and encouraging admiration.[12] He conducted its premiere that December.[2]
After an encore performance of Sadko at the RMS under Balakirev in 1868, one critic accused Rimsky-Korsakov of imitating Glinka's Kamarinskaya.[13] This reaction led Mussorgsky to create his magazine Classicist, in which he ridiculed the critic of the "rueful countenance."[13] At Balakirev's behest Rimsky-Korsakov revised the score for a November 1869 concert. Alexander Borodin wrote on the day of that concert, "In this new version, where many slips of orchestration have been righted and the former effects have been perfected, Sadko is a delight. The public greeted the piece enthusiastically and called Korsinka out three times."[14]
Subsequent history[edit]
In 1871, RMS program director Mikhaíl Azanchevsky had Sadko programmed as part of an effort to recruit its composer onto the faculty of the St. Petersburg Conservatory.[15] (This was also the only time conductor Eduard Nápravník performed an orchestral work by Rimsky-Korsakov for the RMS. Four years later, Azanchevsky asked Nápravník several times to conduct the symphonic suite Antar. Nápravník finally refused, telling Azanchevsky with apparent disdain that Rimsky-Korsakov "might as well conduct it himself."[16])
In 1892, Rimsky-Korsakov reorchestrated Sadko.[17] This was the last of his early works that he revised.[17] "With this revision I settled accounts with the past," he wrote in his autobiography. "In this way, not a single larger work of mine of the period antedating May Night remained unrevised" (italics Rimsky-Korsakov).[17]
Rimsky-Korsakov conducted Sadko several times in Russia during his career, as well as in Brussels in March 1900.[18] Arthur Nikisch conducted it in the composer's presence in a Paris concert given in May 1907.[19]
Harmonic explorations[edit]
"The Five" had already been using chromatic harmony and the whole-tone scale before Rimsky-Korsakov composed Sadko.[20] Glinka had used the whole-tone scale in Ruslan and Lyudmila as the leitmotif of the evil dwarf Chernomor.[20] "The Five" continued using this "artificial" harmony as a musical code for the fantastic, for the demonic, and for black magic.[20] To this code Rimsky added the octatonic scale in Sadko.[21] This was a device he adapted from Liszt.[7] In it, semitones alternate with whole tones, and the harmonic functions are comparable to those of the whole-tone scale.[21] Once Rimsky-Korsakov discovered this functional parallel, he used the octatonic scale as an alternative to the whole-tone scale in the musical portrayal of fantastic subjects.[21] This held true not only for Sadko but later for his symphonic poem Skazka ("The Tale") and the many scenes depicting magical happenings in his fairy-tale operas.[21]
Sadko is scored for Woodwind: piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 Oboes, 2 Clarinets in A, 2 Bassoons Brass: 4 Horns in F, 2 Trumpets in A, 3 Trombones, Tuba Percussion: Timpani, Cymbals, Bass Drum, Tamtam Strings: Harp, Violin 1, Violin 2, Violas, Cellos, Double Basses
In 1868, Rimsky-Korsakov's future wife Nadezhda Nikolayevna Purgold arranged the original version of Sadko for piano four-hands.[22] P. Jurgenson published this arrangement the following year, in conjunction with the orchestral score.[23]
- Brown, David, Mussorgsky: His Life and Works (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002). ISBN 0-19-816587-0.
- Calvocoressi, M.D. and Gerand Abraham, Masters of Russian Music (New York: Tudor Publishing Company, 1944). ISBN n/a.
- Maes, Francis, tr. Pomerans, Arnold J. and Erica Pomerans, A History of Russian Music: From Kamarinskaya to Babi Yar (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2002). ISBN 0-520-21815-9.
- Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai, Letoppis Moyey Muzykalnoy Zhizni (St. Petersburg, 1909), published in English as My Musical Life (New York: Knopf, 1925, 3rd ed. 1942). ISBN n/a.
- ^ Rimsky-Korsakov, My Musical Life, 79 ft. 21.
- ^ a b Rimsky-Korsakov, 82.
- ^ a b c d e f Maes, Francis, tr. Pomerans, Arnold J. and Erica Pomerans, A History of Russian Music: From Kamarinskaya to Babi Yar (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2002), 71.
- ^ Rimsky-Korsakov, 74 ft. 10.
- ^ a b Rimsky-Korsakov, 74.
- ^ Brown, David, Mussorgsky: His Life and Works (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), 22
- ^ a b Rimsky-Korsakov, 78.
- ^ a b c d e Rimsky-Korsakov, 79.
- ^ Rimsky-Korsakov, 78–79.
- ^ a b Calvocoressi, M.D. and Gerand Abraham, Masters of Russian Music (New York: Tudor Publishing Company, 1944), 350.
- ^ Calvocoressi and Abraham, 350–351.
- ^ Rimsky-Korsakov, 79–80.
- ^ a b Rimsky-Korsakov, 103.
- ^ Rimsky-Korsakov, 109 ft. 26.
- ^ Rimsky-Korsakov, 115–116.
- ^ Rimsky-Korsakov, 156.
- ^ a b c Rimsky-Korsakov, 312.
- ^ Rimsky-Korsakov, 389–390.
- ^ Rimsky-Korsakov, 434.
- ^ a b c Maes, 83.
- ^ a b c d Maes, 84.
- ^ Rimsky-Korsakov, 87.
- ^ Rimsky-Korsakov, 109.


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NFL Week 4 Picks – Super Six
- Updated: September 29, 2011
NFL Super Six: Week three NFL Sports Betting Picks
NFL week four gets underway this weekend and there are plenty of great games on the schedule.
Each week, exclusively at Bangthebook.com I will release the Super Six in the NFL. This will be the top six football betting games that the NFL has to offer. Last week the picks went a stellar 5-1 and after three weeks of the season the overall record sits at a money making 11-7. Picks are sponsored by BetDSI.
Here are the Super Six picks for week four:
NY Giants at Arizona Cardinals
The Arizona Cardinals had a tough loss to the miserable Seattle Seahawks but this game is in the desert. The Giants beat the might Eagles and will have a tough time regrouping for this game. This small line has attracted plenty of action on the road chalk, but it's going in the wrong direction. Arizona wins at home.
Arizona +1.5
Washington Redskins at St. Louis Rams
The Washington redskins are a pleasant surprise this season, but that is about to change. The Rams are at home and getting healthy again. Stephen Jackson will be back in the lineup and the Redskins will be off a short week. The Redskins are 0-4 ATS in their last 4 meetings and the underdog is 8-2 ATS in the last ten meetings. Rams win in a close game.
Rams +1
Buffalo Bills at Cincinnati Bengals
Emotion is a huge part of the NFL. In week one the Ravens beat the Steelers and came out flat the next week. The same thing will happen to the Bills this week. They beat the Patriots and will be flat for this game. What goes unnoticed by football bettors is that the Bills defense is beatable. The Bills are 2-5 ATS in their last 7 games as a favorite of 3.5-10.0 and they could lose this game very easily.
Bengals +3
New England Patriots at Oakland Raiders
The New England Patriots have big problems. They have the best offense in the NFL, but the worst defense. The Raiders are looking like a legitimate contender after beating the Jets and have the potential to beat the Pats. The Raiders are 5-2 ATS in their last 7 home games and the black hole is getting to be a hard place to play ball at. Silver and Black cover this number.
Oakland +4.5
Pittsburgh at Houston
The Steelers are a very good team, but have serious offensive line issues. They are having a difficult time making holes for the running game and putting points on the board. The Texans are vastly improved and it has shown early in the season. The Texans are 8-1 ATS in their last 9 games in Week 4. The Texans will take it to the Steelers and get a big win this week.
Steelers +4.5
NY Jets at Baltimore
Rex Ryan and the Jets travel to play the Ravens on Sunday Night Football. The Ravens woke up after losing to the Titans and pounded the Rams. Now they will the focus on the Jets. The Ravens offense is starting to wake up and the Jets defense was exposed last week. The Ravens roll on prime time over the Jets.
Ravens -3.5
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In a transparent effort to pre-empt Republican arguments about tax cuts, President Obama unveiled a proposal today for a one-year cut for all Americans making less than $250,000 per year. While calculated to play well with his faux working class campaign rhetoric, the president's plan makes no economic sense. Implementing a massive tax increase on those with the capital to invest it and therefore create jobs is not the sort of thing that will help a flagging economy. Nor will it do anything to stem the bleeding that creates job reports such as the one released last Friday that illustrated the country's unemployment problem. But, as James Pethokoukis writes at the American Enterprise Blog, the president's dare to Congress to pass such a plan or to implement a simpler tax code is pure political baloney.
As Pethokoukis points out, had he really wished to push through a simplification of the tax code, he could have endorsed the Simpson-Bowles Commission recommendations. More to the point, Obama's predilection has always been to eliminate all the Bush-era tax cuts, including those on the middle class. If he is re-elected, he may well implement his promise of the continuation of the current rates on those making less than $250,000. But the significant element of this stance is that he is not promising to keep them for his entire second term but only for the first year.
The key point here is the same one that concerns those who worry about American foreign policy in a second Obama administration: flexibility. Just as the president will be able to implement more "flexible" policies that may please Russia and displease Israel, so, too, he is more likely than not to do what he has always planned on doing if re-elected: raise everybody's taxes.
Indeed, once his job-killing health care bill is implemented in the next four years and the economy is mired in the doldrums without the White House putting forward any ideas other than to spend more, the president will have no choice but to raise taxes. And because soaking the rich will only get him so far, the middle class he is currently romancing is certain to be next in line.


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the next morning it dropped the bike on the cobblestones!
In the next few days Taxco provides a similar set of challenges. While this time I learn from past experiences and arrive with plenty of daylight to spare. The hills are incredible. This town is hanging precariously from the mountainside. One way streets and cobblestones are everywhere. Trying to find myself a place to sleep I miss a turn off as I am faced with more one way streets. I come over a hill and look down. I feel I am at the pinnacle point of a roller coaster. I take a deep breath put the bike in low gear and go down. Little white Beatles taxis infrount of me go screaming down the hill. And then near the bottom, taking leave from the roller coaster rides, the road makes a sharp right turn still on a step slope. I make a wide turn. It's here I discover it's not a one way street anymore. A car is headed my way. Thankfully it backs back so I can try and pull the bike round. My heart is in my throat. Finally, I get to near the main square and try to pull over to walk to find a hotel. Before I have even parked 5 people are at the bike. Speaking fast Spanish, touts wanting to get me to buy silver, hotel, breakfast, whatever! At this point I just want them to leave me alone. The bike is on a slope and I can't place it. I put the side stand down and the bike starts scraping backwards. There is nowhere to park. I ride off again leaving the touts calling at my back. I go on to another square finally finding a flat space for the bike. More touts come at me but I ignore them until the bike is parked, my cover on, and I catch my breath. 'Ok. Hotel'. I take the leave of one man who had been patiently waiting. He leads me thought the streets to find a hotel in my low price range with parking. He helps me unload the bike in it new home and ensures I am settled in. Explaining in broken English the hotels key system. Taking his time to ensure I am settled. While I hate the idea of touts I am thankful for his patience. I tip him and walk out to find dinner.
From the beautiful sliver town of Taxco, I head to Puebla. Not wanting to take the toll roads that goggle maps wants me to, I pick a path that looks to me relatively straight forward, yet still classed as a major road, (orange on goggle maps, not yellow, or just a small grey line). I find myself in the hills of Tetela de volcan and San Miguel, struggling over small cobbled farming roads, that at times ver off to the side, so that you hit a dead end, or a dirt track, or simply go in circles in the small villages next to people harvesting their corn with machetes, or carting it to market on donkeys. The occasional bus helps me redirect myself back to the 'major road' or really the small cobbled lane with barely room for the bus to fit one way between the houses. By the end of the day I finally make it to Puebla, just on dusk after approx. 270km took 7 hours of travel, not once stepping off the bike.
I am slowly learning to take toll roads if need just to escape a city, and make the days not so long. Also to try and leave earlier so i don't keep hitting my destination on sunset!
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As per a legal settlement filed this week in US district court, the US Fish and Wildlife Service have two months to look for that in-water nesting and migratory habitat that will be suitable for the endangered species of loggerhead sea turtles. The settlement also mentions that the final protections of the critical habitat must be in place by July 1, 2014.
The agreement was held between the wildlife service and the groups Center for Biological Diversity, Turtle Island Restoration Network and Oceana. They have given time till July 1 of this year to suggest feeding, breeding and migratory habitat in the waters of Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
This agreement came in wake after the Fish and Wildlife Services in March proposed that the habitat of 739 miles of critical loggerhead sea turtles need to be protected on their own nesting beaches starting from North Carolina to Mississippi. And US officials, as per conservationists, approved to look for some suitable nesting and migratory habitat within two months.
Jaclyn Lopez, a Florida-based attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity, was quoted as saying, "Protecting sea turtle nesting habitat will not only help sea turtles but everyone who enjoys clean and healthy beaches along the Gulf Coast".
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LG's new drives are in the Super Multi Blue family, and include the GGW-H20LI and GGC-H20LI. For the functionality of these drives, and in comparison to the drives of last year, they are incredibly cheap: $499 and $399. That's a significant drop in price, and brings them closer to mainstream drives and more attractive to the consumer.
Whether HD-DVD or Blu-ray ends up becoming the dominant format, the dominant optical drive will likely be these combo units. While standalone drives for a single format are dropping in price rapidly, with Toshiba's HD-DVD units dipping below $300, the multi-format units aren't far behind.


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Most of the birds that stick around for winter will be seed eaters. (Think about it, fruit and insects are not very abundant during the cold months). So, a good choice for food is black oil sunflower seed, or even better, safflower seeds (squirrels and grackles don't like it!). The best place to put your feeder for the winter? Wherever you can see it from the warmth and comfort of your favorite room in the house! Position various feeders at different heights to attract a wider variety of birds. Also, try to place the feeder somewhere that it has some shield from gusty winter winds.
Providing water in the winter will make your backyard especially attractive to birds. In winter it is particularly hard to come by water in liquid form. By keeping a heater in your birdbath, you will provide your birds with a much-needed place to drink and bathe. Birds bathe to keep their feathers in good condition. In the winter, birds fluff up their feathers to act as insulation to keep themselves warm.
Be patient, it may take several weeks before you see any birds at your winter feeders. So long as you have clean, full feeders, chances are the birds will find them. Another tip is to avoid filling feeders with mixed birdseed from your local grocery store. These mixed bags often contain filler seed that birds won't even eat. The filler seed will end up making a mess on the ground under your feeder, and your birds will go elsewhere to find better food.
An important thing to know is that in the fall, many birds are noting where they can find food and water. This means that what you are doing in October/November in your backyard may determine how many visitors you get once winter actually hits. Just remember, your birds appreciate what you do for them all year long, but even more so in the winter months.


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The Anderson School of Management at UCLA announced last week that it is evolving it application requirements for international applicants to reflect changing academic systems worldwide. Specifically, Anderson will now consider applicants with three-year undergraduate degrees and also will admit some international applicants without TOEFL or IELTS scores.
The changes, announced via a post on Anderson's MBA Insider's Blog, come as the volume of international applicants to graduate management programs continues to rise. According to data released recently by the Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC), which owns the GMAT, international applicants made up more than half (53 percent) of applicants to full-time MBA programs last year, and 46 percent of graduate business programs saw their international application volume grow.
"We have seen more and more applicants with three-year bachelor's degrees like the new European standard," read the MBA Insider Blog. While the standard for graduate admission remains a four-year degree or its equivalent, Anderson's admissions office states that it will now use its discretion to admit candidates with three-year undergraduate degrees provided their overall academic profile and application are strong enough.
Likewise, Anderson will continue to require a TOEFL or IELTS score from most international applicants to demonstrate English fluency but will now allow for some exceptions. "We will consider applications from those without TOEFL or IELTS scores if the candidate earned a degree where the sole language of instruction was English," the MBA Insider Blog read. "This means that applicants from countries such as India and Singapore no longer have to take the language test if they were schooled in English," the post continued. Anderson will use a range of indicators – other verbal scores, essays, etc. – to ensure that all members of the incoming class are completely fluent in English, and a TOEFL or IELTS score remains "the best way for international applicants to ensure competitiveness in our evaluation process," the post stressed.
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Does the media upload and conversion use the first frame in a video to make it the player idle frame (the image that displays below the play button when someone sees the player for the first time)
Is that something that can be configured? I'm using the free version that hosts up to 10GB of video. Or this is an option for the stand alone version only?
My problem is that I'm allowing site visitors to upload their own videos to the site, and they may upload videos that start with a black frame, therefore making the idle frame a black frame, which isn't very inviting.
Any help is welcome.
I meant "(the image that displays beneath the play button when someone sees the player for the first time)"
Guys at Kaltura, can you please answer how this works? Thanks,
Are you talking about the thumbnail? If that is the case, it can be configured via the editor.
Yes, the thumbnails. The issue is that we're letting visitors to upload videos to the site (we integrated TDOMF plugin with All in One to make that possible), and they may upload a video that has a black frame as the first frame of the video, making the resulting video thumbnail a black frame. You say that is able to be configured through the editor in Kaltura control panel AFTER the video has been uploaded? Would I be able to switch the black thumbnail with a different image if I wanted to? I could not find the option in Kaltura control panel...
Never mind, I just found it.
For other people in need to do the same thing:
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2) Click on Content tab at the top
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5) Drag video player seek control until you see a frame that could work as thumbnail
6) Click on Camera icon next to Kaltura logo in video player (tooltip says "use current frame as the video thumbnail")
7) That's it.
Now, it would be great if my end users could do that in All in One Video plugin at the frontend, so the admin user does not have to do this for every video with a black frame at the start ... :-)
Thanks guys, you're doing a really great job.
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Greetings from Costa Rica
As a matter of introduction, I'm Andrea Lund, a senior biology and Spanish major at UMM. I will not be graduating this spring, but will have to complete an extra semester or two to finish my two majors. I am spending this semester in Costa Rica studying global health and tropical medicine with Duke University and the Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS). I have always had an interest in the health sciences, but have only in the last year stumbled upon a passion for public health. My current post-graduation plans are to continue my studies in epidemiology working toward a Masters of Public Health. From what I've learned so far, epidemiology uses science in really cool ways to control the spread of disease through populations all the while taking important contextual factors like socioeconomics and culture into account. It's cool stuff - which is why I'm really excited to be here studying this stuff this semester!
OTS is a biological research consortium that maintains three field stations in Costa Rica and is internationally renown for its tropical ecology research and resources. OTS offers undergraduate and graduate courses as well as facilities for conducting research, and only in the recent past have they decided to expand their courses to include curricula in applied fields like global health and tropical medicine. The Global Health Semester is only in its second semester of existence, but it has recruited an incredibly intelligent and talented group of students this semester. There are 19 of us studying and living together this semester, and I am thrilled to be in the company of such people who are so passionate about the same things I am. Most of our time will be spent at OTS' field stations, but currently, we are staying with Costa Rican families and attending language school in San Pedro, a suburb of San Jose.
We have been in Costa Rica for three weeks, since August 17th. We spent our first week of class time at Las Cruces Biological Station & Wilson Botanical Garden near the town of San Vito in the southwest corner of country really close to the Panamanian border. Our accommodations at Las Cruces are the Wilson house, the house that was constructed by (you guessed it) Robert and Catherine Wilson, the couple that bought the property and started the garden back in the 1940s. They built up the garden with plants from all over the world, including a huge collection of palms and bromeliads. Since acquiring the house and garden in the 1960s, OTS has converted it into a student residence with bunks - so we're the lucky ones that walk out the front door into tropical paradise rife with heliconias, bromeliads, palms, banana trees, orchids, birds, frogs, and large insects and arthropods.
We spent our first week before language school learning about the socialized health care system in Costa Rica, its strengths and weaknesses, making comparisons with current health care issues in the United States, and disparities in health between Tico (Costa Rican) and indigenous populations. We have spent time talking with and receiving instruction from Dr. Pablo Ortiz, who is the director of the Area Salud Coto Brus (the public health authority in Coto Brus, the county where San Vito is found). Dr. Ortiz is an extraordinary individual who has worked on behalf of the marginalized indigenous Ngobe (no-bay) population in this region of Costa Rica. Public health issues with respect to indigenous communities are so interesting and so complex. There is so much at work within these issues - cultural differences, economic motivations, lack of political accountability. All of these factors carry a lot of weight in terms of public health impact especially with current concerns for controlling H1N1 flu.
In the future, I will be sure to go into more detail about how I am processing what I am learning here in Costa Rica. It's difficult to summarize three weeks of experience into one succinct entry, but we will continue this journey together as the semester wears on. It's sure to get interesting especially as we return to Las Cruces next week to start designing and implementing our first set of research projects and going beyond introductory lectures to the subjects we're studying.


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Setting up Jabberd 2.x to use Zimbra's ldap directory is very similar to wildfire.
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What the different between an Airport Extreme + Hard Drive, and a Time Capsule?
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Airport Extreme + Hard Drive: you plug a separate USB hard drive into the Airport Extreme. So you would not be able to also plug a USB printer into it since there is only one USB port.
However with both the manual says you can "Connect a USB hub to your AirPort Extreme, and then connect multiple USB devices, such as printers or hard disks. All of the computers on the network have access to those devices."
Both have the same number of ports.
Time Capsule: Is an Airport Extreme with its own hard drive built in. So you could still plug a USB printer into it for wireless printing, without adding a hub.
- Answered by Ron D from Austin
One needs an external hard drive, one has it included, basically. They both work identically beyond that.
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Note that Time Machine backups via an Airport Extreme are NOT SUPPORTED BY APPLE.
This page won't let me post a URL to the tech articles; but see DISKS THAT CAN BE USED WITH TIME MACHINE in Mac Help.
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opinionBy Dennis Kamurasi
The furor and debate of months past on the issue of oil seems to have reduced to public murmurs, boardroom chatter and the occasional parliamentary debate.
What, one may ask, has happened to all those impassioned discussions that so characterised the last quarter of the year past.
One possible reason may be that Ugandans have a tendency to hype up things and then, with the same vigour, relegate them to the fringes of insignificance.
Another reason might be that all grievances were addressed and there remains no reason for further agitation. Your guess dear readers, is as good as mine. But, despite the bliss in which we seem to find ourselves, I cannot help but wonder if the Ugandan business community and indeed the entire Ugandan population is benefitting or poised to benefit from this fabled resource.
We have heard the term 'local content' mentioned in various oil related fora. It is said that this 'local content' is going to change the fortunes of many in the business community and by extension, the Ugandan public. But, 12 years after the discovery of viable quantities of oil in the Albertine has this come to pass? I think not.
Let us dwell a little more on this 'local content'. What it basically means, I am told, is that anything within the oil sector (goods/services) that can be provided by Ugandans should indeed be provided by Ugandans. Only the extremely specialised works may be carried out by foreigners. But, even for these 'specialised' services, Ugandan participation should be encouraged in the form of JVs, MOUs and other partnerships.
This arrangement will not only empower Ugandan business but see an accelerated emergence of a Ugandan middle class and provide skills and countless jobs for Ugandans.
In a country plagued by high unemployment, a huge skills gap, and a weak middle class, this 'local content' if properly implemented, would be nothing short of a God send.
The reality however seems to be quite different. In 12 years of oil and gas, not many Ugandans or Ugandan companies have benefitted
from a resource that is ours by right of birth. Instead, many foreign owned companies are at the fore front of this sector providing services and goods that many Ugandans have the capacity, ability and competence to provide. Let us take a certain company owned by two British nationals. This company has a string of contracts with the oil companies.
The owners of this company setup two other companies; One specialising in heavy lifting and the other providing wielding services. Among them, these three companies provide a myriad of oil and gas related services. As if this is not unfair enough, these three commonly owned companies have been acquired by a French owned company which will see them venture to other bigger services like waste transportation and management.
In effect, they have setup one giant consortium aimed at monopolising the sector and sidelining possible local players and Ugandans. So, again I ask, if we can allow a few individuals to monopolise this sector so early in the game will Ugandan business and indeed Ugandan society benefit from this resource?
Let us remember that these foreign companies are paid in foreign banks. So in addition to denying Ugandan business opportunities of employment and skill acquisition there is also significant capital flight.
This capital I am sure would go a long way in infrastructural development and local investment which in turn would boost our economy.
The money paid to these companies by the way, falls under what is termed as 'recoverable costs'. This means that the Government, and by extension the Ugandan tax payer, is the one who pays for these costs.
In addition, one wonders if some of these mergers and acquisitions pay the requisite capital gains tax due to us as a country. Again, we can only guess at the answer.
Some of the oil companies in Uganda have seen their share value soar in the recent past largely on the back of their African successes of which Uganda is a big contributor.
It is only fair that they repay Ugandans by awarding contracts in a fair and transparent manner.
The Government, which has tried to uplift Ugandan business in this regard, needs to implement stricter policies that safe guard the interests of Ugandan business and the entire Ugandan population.
Precedents have been set in other countries like Kenya, Tanzania, Nigeria, Angola and Algeria which we can follow.
I applaud Soroti Woman MP Alice Alaso's amendment which seeks to provide for a 48% Ugandan ownership minimum for all companies in the O&G supply chain.
It is evident that the Government and Parliament strongly support indigenous participation in this industry and we should be proud and commend their efforts. This is the kind of action that will ensure social-economic transformation.
Especially now as we celebrate 50 years of self determination, we should stand united and take full advantage of that which is rightfully ours.
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Baseball: Coach Mazey Media Conference
Coach Randy Mazey
Introductory Media Conference
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - I am so excited to be here. First of all, I would like to thank Oliver (Luck), Mike (Parsons), Keli (Cunningham), Terri (Howes) and Michael (Szul). The hospitality that my wife and I have been shown is really overwhelming. To be a part of the Mountaineer family is something that is easy to fall into. I am very thankful and very humbled to be here. I would like to thank everyone that is involved, and I would really like to thank my wife, Amanda, who has been my rock.
It is exciting. I am really looking forward to the challenge of competing in the Big 12. As I talk to some of the great players and hear about some of the great traditions they have around here, I realize that I want to continue that type of tradition. It is exciting to get into the Big 12. When you look at the commitment that the administration has to the program, with the future plans for a baseball stadium, it is going to do a tremendous amount for the community down the road. Legion baseball is very strong here, and along with the potential of attracting a minor league team, you can't emphasize how important that could be for Morgantown down the road. I am looking forward to connecting to the high school coaches in the state, and my staff and I are going to work diligently to bring this program to new levels that it hasn't seen before.
At the same time, we understand that this is not going to be a one-man show. It is going to take a lot of help and a lot of commitment by a lot of people. I really look forward to reaching out to the alumni, the former players, the administration and the support staff. In baseball, there are only two things that you can control, and that is your attitude and your effort. You can't control where the ball goes when you hit, or where the ball goes when you throw it. If you can control your attitude and your efforts, and everyone is on the same page, you can realize all of your dreams.
Again, I am very humbled to be here. My vision for this program in the month of June in the future is to be on the practice field and not to be holding press conferences. I am excited for the challenge that lies ahead. We are excited to play in a league (Big 12 Conference) that is the most elite baseball conference in the country. Our goal is to get out in the community and the surrounding states to convince families and their kids that West Virginia is where you want to be. I would like to thank everyone involved for the hospitality shown. Thank you very much for everything.
On how the future of the program sold him
The first thing you need to have is a vision. The vision is in place. Recruiting and winning is all about relationships, and that is in place here. This wasn't an interview where you look around and wonder if you want to be a part of this. It wasn't very long before we realized that this is a great opportunity. I would like to take this program to places it hasn't been before.
On a time frame to achieve success in the program
That has yet to be determined. I have not met any of the players. Changing the culture, in my mind, is going to be the easy part. I am the type of coach that spends a lot of time teaching kids lessons that they are going to use for the next three or four years, and if they are lucky, for the next four or five years in professional baseball. I enjoy teaching my kids a lesson that they are going to use for the rest of their lives. I get as much enjoyment out of a player that is a good husband or a good father. Very few of them get to play professional baseball, so I am in the business of preparing kids for what lies ahead of them in life when they graduate from West Virginia. We are going to spend a lot of time addressing those issues. I am very anxious to meet the players, and I hope everyone else is on board.
On the transition to the Big 12
We are going to have to pitch. With college baseball the way it is today, you have to pitch. It is a different game than it was three years ago. If you look at all of the Big 12 teams, they can all pitch. If you put quality pitchers on the mound, you have a chance to win games. At TCU, we didn't swing the bats well all year, but now, we are in the position to put ourselves in the College World Series. Pitching can keep you in every game. One thing that really excites me is the landscape of our league. If you have a league that stretches from the North all the way to the South, teams in the North are typically able to attract quality pitchers that want to compete in the best league in America. I am looking forward to meeting all the high school coaches in the surrounding area. This is an attractive place, and hopefully, the success of the basketball and football teams will help us attract kids from other states.
On the team's returning players
The good thing about that is that all of these guys are just names on a stat sheet to me. When I walk into that locker room, each player on this team has a fresh start. They will have an opportunity to play just as much as the guy sitting next to them does. To me, it comes back to attitude and effort. The guys that are committed to the same things as my staff are going to be the guys that have success. If they want to jump on board and ride this train as far as we can drive it, then I am happy to have them on board. It is pretty hard to answer that question right now, but it is going to be an exciting time for everyone.
On Morgantown and his hometown, Johnstown, Pa.
The thing that excites me about this area is that I am blue-collar guy, and this is a blue-collar area. I don't know the equipment in this area, but if we have one bat and one ball, then we are going to go play a game. We are going to grind it. We are going to grind out at-bats and every pitch. If you have one t-shirt and it gets dirty, you wash it and wear it the next day and be proud of it. We are going to get after some people, but at the same time, we are going to build this thing on the mound. You can teach a guy how to hit a 94-mile-an-hour fastball way easier than you can teach a guy how to throw one. We want to go get guys that are going to go out and compete like it is the last game that they are ever going to play in. Hopefully, we can manufacture some runs.
On a time frame for success
I am kind of crazy in that way. I am expecting big strides right away. I am guilty of saying that you can win anywhere if you just get after it. If you do it the right way, I really believe you can win. As long as we get better every day and better than the game before, I will be satisfied. You can't control wins and losses. You can only control attitude and effort. Like I said, I want to be practicing in June in the future, not having press conferences.
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This was seriously the best short video I have seen in a LONG time! Really great use of music and typography to tell a story. I found myself smiling at the clever stories.
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text: U-values: definition and calculation About us About usWork for us U-Values provided by John Brennan: Senior Lecturer, Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. What, Why, When, How, Extras What is a U value? A U value is a measure of heat loss in a building element such as a wall, floor or roof. It can also be referred to as an 'overall heat transfer co-efficient' and measures how well parts of a building transfer heat. This means that the higher the U value the worse the thermal performance of the building envelope. A low U value usually indicates high levels of insulation. They are useful as it is a way of predicting the composite behaviour of an entire building element rather than relying on the properties of individual materials. Why use U values? U values are important because they form the basis of any energy or carbon reduction standard. In practice, nearly every external building element has to comply with thermal standards that are expressed as a maximum U value. Knowledge of how to simply calculate U values at an early stage in the design process, avoids expensive re-working later on in a project. It allows the designer to test the feasibility of their project at an early stage to ensure it is fit for purpose and will comply with regulatory frameworks. When to use U-values U values are calculated at stages D onwards in the design process. A critical milestone in any building project is obtaining building regulation approval. For this a SAP calculation for housing or an SBEM procedure for non domestic work is obligatory. As part of this process, the build up of any external construction element must be specified and from this its U value can be derived. How to use U values Key points: To calculate the U value of a building element such as a wall, floor or roof, you need to know the build up of that element. Each building material should be positioned properly in sequence. The thickness of each building material also is required. The other key property you need to obtain is the conductivity of each building material. This is a measure of its inherent ability to facilitate the passage of heat. It is normally referred to as a 'k value' and values for materials can be found in publications such as the New Metric Handbook and the Architects' Pocket Guide The properties of the internal and external faces of the constructional element under scrutiny need to be allowed for. These are called external resistances and are fixed values. The U value is defined as being reciprocal of all the resistances of the materials found in the building element. The resistance of a building material is derived by the following formula:R = (1/k) x d where k is the conductivity of the building material and d is the material thickness. 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The key example is timber frame. Here, you need to take sepearate U values through the frame item and the insulating element and average them. Software packages usually have a module to cope with this. Remember to include internal and external resistances. Typically, the internal resistance for a wall is 0.13 m2K/W and the external resistance is 0.04 m2K/W . Again, information about this can be found in the New Metric Handbook or the Architects' Pocket Book. You can now input data into a software package to derive the U value for the building element under investigation. Current limiting U values [area weighted] in England and Wales are 0.35 W/m2K for walls and 0.25 W/m2K for roofs. 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Kampala — SMALL-HOLDER farmers' incomes can increase if they adopt genetically-modified (GM) crops, a director at the International Food Policy Research Institute's (IFPRI) has observed.
"In the coming years, growing populations, stagnating agricultural productivity and increasing climate change will make it more difficult for Africa to tackle poverty, hunger and nutrition," Mark Rosegrant said.
Rosegrant said in order to fight these challenges, many African countries, including Uganda, are increasingly assessing a range of tools and technologies like bio-technologies, which hold great promise for improving crop yields, household incomes and nutritional quality of food in an environmentally-sustainable way.
He said this during a workshop about bio-technology at the Imperial Botanical Beach Hotel, Entebbe. The workshop aimed at bridging the gap between policy and research and providing solid information on which sound choices and investments related to GM technology can be made.
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Arinaitwe said bananas are the most consumed food in Uganda. However, they lack vital elements like Vitamin A and iron, but can be fortified with these vital elements using bio-technology.
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Gnarly Adventurer
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what am I missing?
I see that a lot of inmates are using their mobile phones (aka Iphone) as a GPS.
I have done this in the past as well,
cheap since I already have an Iphone, I like to listen to music while riding so the voice prompts work pretty good.
some of the issues I have,
- I do not have a water proof case and no way of mounting it to see the screen and even if I did, the screen is pretty small.
- google maps is ok for getting to a city or a postal/zip code but it totally sucks for finding nearby things (will direct you to a gas station far away when you sometimes have one nearby)
- DATA, most map programs use data. I do not have a data plan for the US and a lot of the places I ride have no 3G or cell data.
so my question is, how are you guys finding your way around these issues?
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There is CoPilot, TomTom, Sygic, and others all of which contain downloadable maps and do not require a data plan to navigate.
In fact, I am not sure about the fascination with Google Maps.
I've attached my phones (iPhone 4 and Nexus 4) to my bike using a RAM X-Grip mount successfully. Wouldn't be great for off-road riding, but works great on-road.
There are lots of discussions about using a smartphone as a GPS in these GPS forums...
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I use an open RAM finger grip mount. I seldom have an issue with the rain. The few times I do, I just put away the smartphone and don't use it. I find that during the rain I don't care for any GPS distraction anyway, so even though I can find ways around the rain issue, I don't bother. I do carry a clear bag that I can slip over the phone called an aLocSak. It is transparent and seals it well. Just in case I really want routing in a heavy rain. But even then, I typically hide the smartphone and just listen to the Bluetooth.
Edit: One day I did make a 'game' out of the ride in the rain. I had been out all day and didn't bring any rain gear with me. It started to rain, and I slipped my phone into a bag and brought up a live radar. I was about an hour from home, but it took me about three hours to get home as I road around in circles avoiding the dark clouds on radar. I found a number of interesting roads that day, and stayed fairly dry.
Google maps. Seldom use that. I use offline maps most of the time like OSMand or CoPilot. If you are going to use Google online maps often, you are doing something I don't. use the Gasbuddy app to find the nearest station.
See the previous comment on software. Offline data may work most of the time, but relying on it is a bad idea IMHO. Plus the constant data downloading eats the batteries, and make the smartphone run hot. Just a bad idea IMHO.
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[QUOTE=Rubberlegs;24223535]I see that a lot of inmates are using their mobile phones (aka Iphone) as a GPS.
I have done this in the past as well,
cheap since I already have an Iphone, I like to listen to music while riding so the voice prompts work pretty good.
some of the issues I have,
bad: the iphone has a tiny screen and proprietary connector.
bad: motionx, i think that might be the only offline usable iphone app ?
good: androids are CHEAP and there are TONS of totally offline applications that work very well on it.
bad: you might hate iphone after a few hours on android
good: download all your maps/routes/tracks from WIFI, then leave it in airplane mode to reduce battery usage
bad: i don't know if motionx stores waypoints/poi/etc like the android apps do
most of those issues are related to the platform you're on: ios/iphone
the easiest way around all those issues is to buy a cheap waterproof phone from craigslist and load OSMAND or LOCUS on it.
Yes, Android AND iphone GPS works without cellular data. Use offline maps and enjoy. (thanks drtbyk!)
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CRAWFORD – Many fans who watch the West Oktibbeha football team, might say the offense is fun to watch.
The defense isn't too bad itself.
West Oktibbeha fought its way to a 34-8 win over rival East Oktibbeha Friday night, led by the defense.
"I was pleased with the boys effort," West Oktibbeha head coach Adam Lowrey said. "It was a lot of fun to watch it."
The defense got the Timberwolves going after a Von Smith interception on offense. Smith redeemed himself and picked off Titan quarterback Justin Williams on the very next play to give the offense a chance.
The offense capitalized and scored on that possession to make it 6-0.
"We worked hard at defense," West Oktibbeha linebacker Tiberias Lampkin said. "This summer we focused on defense. Defenses win championships. We are a hard-nosed defensive team. That's what we count our base on. We know we are going to score on offense, but the main thing is to stop the opponent. We do that and we win."
The Timberwolves did not allow a point in the first half and it wasn't until late in the third quarter when the Titans finally got on the board on a broken play.
"We shut them down and played hard," Timberwolves defensive back Rontavis Clark said. "We have great players. We have a good defense."
Clark provided some fireworks of his own.
Late in the game, the Titans were driving but a wobbly pass over the middle spelled disaster for East Oktibbeha.
Clark read the quarterback's eyes and was in position to make the interception and give West Oktibbeha the victory.
"I read it good and I got an interception," Clark said.
For Lowrey, he needs players to step up and make plays like Clark did in big spots.
"Big-time players make big time plays in big-time games," Lowrey said. "Maybe that's the future for him."
For West Oktibbeha, it improved to 8-1 overall and 6-0 in Class A, Region 3.
The Timberwolves face Noxapater and Pelahatchie to end the season and they need their defense to step up and play like the did Friday night to compete for a district title.
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Senior Night Saturday As 49ers Close Out Regular Season Against UC Riverside
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Long Beach State is locked into the No. 3 seed for the Big West Tournament; however, the opponent in the quarterfinals for the 49ers is still up the air pending Saturday's results; The 49ers will face either Cal State Fullerton or Cal State Northridge in LBSU's first game of the championship on Thursday, March 13 in the Honda Center.
With the final home game also comes senior night, and Long Beach State will honor their two seniors following the conclusion of the contest -- Edgar Garibay, lost for the season with an ACL tear, as well as Dan Jennings, who enters the game with three straight double-doubles and leading the Big West in shooting percentage.
With 18 points February 15 against Cal Poly, junior Mike Caffey blew past the 1,000 point milestone at Long Beach State, becoming the 23rd player to reach the pleteau. Caffey passed one more players Saturday with 19 points at Cal State Northridge, and now ranks as the No. 16 all-time scorer at Long Beach State.
Caffey received Preseason All-Big West honors, one of six players picked one season after earning First-Team All-Big West honors as a sophomore. Caffey is leading the 49ers in scoring with 16.3 points per game, ranking seventh in the Big West and has scored over 20 points 10 times on the year. Caffey is also leading the team with 126 assists, and is third in rebounding with 4.6 boards per game. His 34.69 minutes per game average is also second in the Big West this season.
Senior Dan Jennings continues to put up big numbers for the 49ers in his final season. Jennings ranks fourth in the Big West in rebounding with 8.3 rebounds per game, and is third on the 49ers with 10.3 points per game. Four times Jennings has led the 49ers in scoring, and has topped the team in rebounding 20 times in 2013-14, including recording his eighth double-double of the year against Cal State Northridge with 12 points and 10 rebounds; his third straight double-double. Jennings also became the first 49er in two years to have a perfect day from the field, shooting 6-for-6 against Cal State Northridge on Jan. 25.
After scoring 12 points against Loyola Marymount, junior A.J. Spencer has secured a spot in the starting lineup, scoring in double-figures in 12 times. The junior college transfer helped lift the 49ers over Hawai'i on the road scoring a career-high 24 points, and is fourth on the team with an 8.8 ppg average.
Junior college transfer David Samuels picked up his second double-double of the year against UC Davis, putting up 10 points and 10 rebounds against the Aggies. Samuels finished with 15 points and 11 rebounds at NC State while recording his first double-double earlier in the season. His 5.2 rebounds per game rank 14th in the Big West, and second on the team behind Jennings.
The 49ers also bring in freshman Travis Hammonds, who joined Long Beach State after enrolling for the spring semester. Hammonds is a 6-6 guard who hails from Columbia, S.C., and had an outstanding game against UCI, leading The Beach with 12 points. His true breakout came against UC Davis however, scoring 20 points on 7-of-9 shooting with six rebounds, four assists and three steals to lead the 49ers over the Aggies. The true freshman picked up his first double-double at UC Irvine with 10 points and 10 rebounds, the third 49er of the year to record a double-double. Hammonds ranks fifth on the team in scoring, averaging 6.2 points per game with 2.9 boards per game.
Originally serving as a backup to Mike Caffey, Branford Jones forced his way into the starting lineup as an extra ball-handler against VCU, and responded with a breakout game, scoring 19 points in 37 minutes with just one turnover against VCU's havoc defense. The redshirt freshman is continuing to showcase much of the promise the guard showed before going down with an ankle injury in the first game of the year last season. Jones currently ranks seventh on the team in scoring, averaging 5.6 points per game and is second on the team with 52 assists.
Charles Lockett remains on a redshirt year, and senior forward Edgar Garibay is out for the year with an ACL tear.
Long Beach State once again faced a grueling non-conference schedule. The 49ers faced No. 5 Arizona in their first road test on November 11, and continued to play two more Top 15 opponents in No. 14 Michigan and No. 10 VCU at the Puerto Rico Tip-Off. The 49ers also faced a Big East opponent into the Walter Pyramid when Creighton arrived December 3. The 49ers have also played Kansas State twice, beat USC at home, travelled to Washington and NC State, and closed out non-conference play with a trip to No. 25 Missouri.
Long Beach State's strength of schedule is also objectively among the highest - the 49ers closed out non-conference rank as having the No. 3 Non-Conference SOS as ranked by kenpom.com. The LBSU schedule was also ranked No. 2 by WarrenNolan.com at the conclusion of non-conference play.
With Long Beach State's win Dec. 19 against USC, Dan Monson moved into second-place in coaching wins at Long Beach State with 106, passing Seth Greenberg. Monson currently has 117 wins at Long Beach State. The top spot is held by Jerry Tarkanian, who won 122 games as the coach of the 49ers from 1968 to 1973.
Long Beach State had a hot shooting night in Riverside in the earlier meeting between the schools, with Tyler Lamb leading the team with 23 points while A.J. Spencer added 17, as the 49ers shot 49.2 percent from the floor and 52.2 percent from three in an 88-76 win.
UC Riverside is led on the season by center Chris Patton, who is averaging 13.8 points per game, and is second on the team with 6.1 rebounds per game.
The Highlanders' conference numbers are quite different from their non-conference number however ... Freshman Sam Finley leads the team with 15.3 points per game, coming off of the bench for UCR. Patton is still averaging double-figures with 14.6 points per game, while forward Taylor Johns adds 12.7 points and 7.8 rebounds per game.
UC Riverside comes into Saturday on a two-game winning streak. The Highlanders won a wild 106-105 double-overtime game with Cal State Northridge last Saturday before ensuring their place in the Big West Tournament with a 78-65 win over UC Davis in two straight games at the SRC Arena.
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