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Clint Ligon placed in five events, including a first-place finish in the long jump as the Heber Springs junior led the Panthers to a third-place tie with a meet-high 31.5 points at Thursday' 18-team Eagle Relays in Vilonia.
Ligon won the long jump (21'3.5"), placed second in the 300 intermediate hurdles (40.87), finished third in the high jump (6'0"), took fifth in the 110 hurdles (15.20) and placed fifth in the triple jump (41'8.5").
Class 7A Conway won the meet with 129 points, Class 5A Vilonia placed second (105.5) and Heber tied with Class 6A Russellville for third place.
Senior Jordan Peterson placed runner-up in the 100 (11.14) and third in the 200 (22.81) and classmate Jake Sanders was second in the 1600 (4:33.94). Junior Ethan Bly placed fifth in the 400 (51.65), sophomore Austin Schmidt took fifth in the 800 (2:01.41) and junior Andrew Powell placed eighth in the 3200 (10:42.19).
Heber's 4 x 400 relay team of Peterson, Bly, senior Jessie Hood and Schmidt placed second (3:33.04) and the 4 x 800 relay team of Schmidt, senior Blake Leonard, sophomore Aaron McKellar and junior Zack MacArthur finished fourth (8:53.64).
The Lady Panthers tied for 13th place with 16 points. Jonesboro won the meet (93.5), Vilonia took second (70) and Class 6A Russellville placed third (58).
Senior Savannah Thomas had an impressive performance in the 200, placing runner-up with a time of 2:33.10.
Lady Panthers Coach Johnette Goldman is proud of Thomas and junior Grace Bodron. Both have battled injuries throughout high school. "First, we are very proud for and of Savannah Thomas. She placed 2nd in the 800, running beautifully and at a disadvantage, but also a blessing in disguise. She has worked hard and waited seasons to return from her ankle injury and surgery. Secondly, we are thankful Grace Bodron finally looked fluid again without pain. These two young ladies are truly testaments of patience."
Senior Anna Engler placed fifth in the discus (93' 6.5"), while the 4 x 400 relay team of sophomore Mary Simmons, sophomore Hannah Johnson, junior Taylor Eaton and Thomas placed sixth with a mark of 4:36.34.
Heber's 4 x 800 relay team of Bodron, junior Mattie Cannon, sophomore Amanda Matthews and Simmons placed eighth (11:36.34), rounding out Heber's point total.
Heber's senior high teams were scheduled to compete in Cabot on Tuesday and they are set to visit Beebe on Thursday. Some members will head to Russellville on Friday for an invitation only meet.
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Parallelomania is the particular disease of Jesus myth advocates who see "parallels" everywhere between early Christianity and all manner of pagan religions. Many of those parallels are real; don't get me wrong. Some are even causal (Christianity really is a syncretism of Judaism and paganism, which point I will soundly prove in my coming book On the Historicity of Jesus Christ). But most parallels are not real, or are not causally related (remember that basic rule in science: correlation is not causation). Some don't even exist (and here bad scholarship becomes the disease: see my cautionary review of Kersey Graves' Sixteen Crucified Saviors).
One important example of a "non-parallel" is the Egyptian nativity narrative at Luxor. I reviewed this claim years ago (Brunner's Gottkoenigs & the Nativity of Jesus: A Brief Communication). Acharya S (aka D.M. Murdock) responded to that by claiming I was reading the wrong text (and also not reading it right), but she's mistaken. She also claimed that the meaning of "immaculate conception" is up for debate; it is not. She simply cites other people making the same mistake she did, as if a mistake many people make ceases to be a mistake, which is a non sequitur. It would have been better if she had not doubled down on her error and just corrected herself. But that's her own look out. What concerns me more is her poor treatment of the details of Egyptian history and the texts in the Luxor case.
I just pulled this blog topic out of my random collection of things to do when I found time, so here goes. On the matter of the translation, she's just wrong. There is sex in the scene and plenty of lurid details, pillow talk, and everything I say, couched in the coy terms of ancient writers (this isn't Vivid Video). Of course one should not obsess on whether Egyptian iconography depicts beds the way you see them at a Sears showroom, or whether pillow talk actually involves pillows. That's just silly. It's the words that describe what is going on. And the words say in effect just what I said they do. That I relate them into modern analogs is besides the point. Anyone who reads German and wants to check this for themselves, email me and I'll send you scans of the key texts (although it should be enough to note that Brunner himself agrees with me in concluding that the narrative depicts sex, and he's an actual Egyptologist and a leading expert on the Luxor inscriptions).
More important is that Acharya/Murdock says the bulk of my details come from the "D" text and not the one at Luxor. The D text she refers to is the narrative accompanying the panels at the Deir el-Bahri Temple Complex built by Queen Hatshepsut in the 15th century BC. When I originally posted this blog, I reported that the Luxor Temple was built at the same time by the same queen, but that is incorrect, the Luxor inscription was commissioned almost a century later by another pharaoh, and Murdock's argument is that he stripped all the sex out of it and made it into a virginal conception. That does not follow, but I was wrong on the original point (on other points she raised, see That Luxor Thing Again). The visual panels at Deir el-Bahri are still in essentials identical to those at Luxor (with a few minor variances Murdock speculates from). But it still appears to me that the D text simply expands the abbreviated text at Luxor. To claim that the shorter text at Luxor doesn't simply abbreviate the full narrative provided at Deir el-Bahri is perhaps not nonsense as I had thought, but it is speculation. I do not see sufficient evidence that the two stories are intended to be completely different.
As Brunner himself concluded, the myth being depicted at both temples is the exact same myth understood the exact same way. Thus the full narrative at Deir el-Bahri does indeed describe what is going on in the Luxor scenes. I doubt Acharya/Murdock can find any living Egyptologist who would say otherwise, or indeed endorse any of her convoluted efforts to reinterpret the text to say the opposite of what it says and what the accompanying images show. The Luxor text even borrows verbatim phrases from the Deir el-Bahri text, e.g. the god "did everything he wanted with her," which if you wonder what that means, the expanded text at Deir el-Bahri tells you, in some sexy detail. Likewise, even the Luxor text says (for panel 4; Brunner, p. 45):
"She awoke because of the god smell and laughed at its majesty. He went to her immediately, he was inflamed in love for her. He let her see his god-shape, after he had come before her, so that she rejoiced at the sight of his perfection, and his love went into her body. The palace was then flooded with god smell, and everything smelled like the land of Punt." … "The queen said to him, 'My, how large your power is! … Your smell is gorgeous in every way!' Then the majesty of this God did everything it wanted with her."
The expanded text at Deir el-Bahri elaborates on what these coy phrases mean, very clearly explaining that giant god penises are going into the female places they were intended to and the queen enjoys the hell out of it and is especially impressed by how big his member is (ah, I can see the Onion's headlines now, "Queen Hatshepsut: First Woman Eroticist Carves Her Sexual Preferences in Stone; Rules Empire"). That, plus the other details, rule out any meaningful parallels between Luxor cult and Christianity. The only parallels that remain are paralleled in all Ancient Near Eastern religions of the time and Roman and Hellenistic religions afterward, and thus are not uniquely Egyptian at all.
This is a common mistake too many make. They get stuck on one way of seeing the evidence that fits their preconceptions, then they go "Aha!" and claim causal influence (Why, surely the Christians just borrowed the nativity scene of Horus from Luxor!). But when their interpretation of the evidence is shown to be wholly wrong, they don't abandon the idea but double down and refuse to let go of what they felt was so attractive that it "must" be true. But more importantly, they don't try to figure out what the causal channel was or to find evidence of causal relation (because correlation is not enough, even when there is correlation). If they did, they would find that there is often no direct connection at all with what they were obsessing over originally; or that we must be agnostic about it, and not tout it as established.
The nativity stories in Matthew and Luke look like a combination of Jewish nativity apocrypha (e.g., extant and lost Moses haggadot in Matthew; and Isaac haggadot in Luke) and Hellenistic king nativities and their influence on Roman imperial nativities (e.g., tales told of the births of Alexander the Great, the Ptolemies and Seleucids, the Roman Emperors), structured in specific ways unique to Christian needs. For example, there are magi in Matthew's story because Matthew is deliberately reversing the Daniel narrative of the Jewish exile among the Magi (Daniel being the only book in the Bible that mentions magi). In fact, Matthew doesn't just ape Daniel at the beginning, he also apes him at the end, turning the empty tomb story into an update of Daniel in the Lion's Den (as I show in The Empty Tomb, pp. 360-64, and Proving History, pp. 199-204). Thus, Matthew is not copying Egyptian religion, much less the story at Luxor, where there are in fact no magi … which is not an irrelevant point, since we have to explain why magi are in Matthew's story, and "he copied Luxor" simply doesn't explain that, whereas "he is constructing a midrashic haggadah on Daniel" does (magi being specifically Persian priests, not Egyptian).
In the Daniel narrative, kings are troubled by omens and summon their wise men to explain them, including the magi and a foreigner, a Jew named Daniel (whom Christians regarded as among their principal prophets, having predicted the messiah would die to atone for the sins of Israel in Dan. 9:24-26; see my discussion of the Dying Messiah). In Matthew, a king is again troubled by an omen and summons his wise men to explain it, including the magi, who this time are the foreigners, and (in reversal of type) are the ones who get the omen right, and have come, in obedience to the decree of their ancestral king (Darius the Great, or so we're to believe), to worship the one true God, as all nations ought, thus fulfilling Daniel's message in Dan. 6:25-28, thus confirming Jesus is the Son of God, the very same God who rescued Daniel from the lions (and who will thus rescue Jesus).
Other elements of the story are just commonplaces in divine king nativities (even in real life, not just stories), and thus do not connect directly to Egyptian mythology at all. By analogy, the elements of the nativity of Moses that Matthew borrowed also match elements of the Akkadian Sargon narratives, but Matthew is not borrowing from the Akkadian myths (he probably had never even heard of them), he is borrowing from the Jewish myths. That those myths just happen to be adaptations of earlier Akkadian myths is something we now know, but is not likely anything the early Christians knew. Likewise, possibly Egyptian god-king nativities influenced Hellenistic god-king nativity stories (or possibly they were both separately influenced by earlier Babylonian and Sumerian god-king nativities, or by actual royal ceremonies common to all kingdoms of the time), but it was the Hellenistic stories and practices that most likely influenced Matthew and Luke, not the earlier Egyptian material. They probably never heard the story told at Luxor, and would have been repulsed by it if they had. (See Not the Impossible Faith, pp. 76-78.)
More importantly than all this is the fact that the nativity stories of Jesus are later add ons. They were not part of the origin of the religion. Thus you cannot explain the origins of Christianity by saying they just revamped a godking narrative about Horus-Osiris (which was really a narrative applied to the Pharaohs). The godking narratives of the Gospels were never a part of Christianity until the Gospels were formed many decades later. There may have been an original nativity story, but we don't know what it said, so we can't make claims about what its influences were (although see Not the Impossible Faith, pp. 247-57). The earliest version we have is Matthew's, and we can see he invented it to suit his own literary aims; Luke's version is (in my opinion) a deliberate rewrite of Matthew (what we call a redaction); in fact Luke is really trying to argue against Matthew, by changing every key element of his narrative (which reflects how these kinds of religious narratives get written: they are propaganda built to the occasion; although I did not make this argument there, I did list some of the evidence from which one can construct that argument in my work on the Date of Christ's Birth; as for Luke being a rewrite of Matthew, and not writing independently of him, see The Case Against Q). Egyptian religion is wholly irrelevant to all of this.
The fact is, we can fully explain every element of the Gospel nativities by appealing to (1) their Jewish background (thus Christians, "pesher style," constructed a narrative out of various Old Testament passages, such as reinterpreting a prophecy in Isaiah as being about a virgin born messiah; although most Jews disagreed with them, we know fringe groups of Jews treated scripture the same bizarre way Christians often did, so their doing such a thing in this case is not contextually implausible, even if it was linguistically specious: see The Problem with the Virgin Birth Prophecy); (2) their Hellenistic background (conceptions of sons of gods being announced by omens and prophecies, and achieved by spiritual rather than sexual means, were all common ideas in Greco-Roman religion, and virgin born gods were a known fad at the time; and all this could be made to agree with popular Jewish theology regarding the capabilities of the Holy Spirit); and (3) their immediate inter-community context (the Gentile Luke arguing against the Judaizer Matthew arguing against the adoptionist Mark). That leaves nothing for Luxor to explain, nor any evidence of any knowledge of the specific narrative we now find there.


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Samuel Cook, better known as Sam Cooke, is born in Clarksdale, Mississippi. He grows up in Chicago, where his father, the Rev. Charles Cook, becomes minister at Christ Holiness Church.
Sam Cooke replaces gospel legend R.H. Harris in the Soul Stirrers. Previously, Cooke had sung with the Pilgrim Travelers and the Highway QC's, both gospel groups. Cooke will sing with the Soul Stirrers for six years.
Sam Cooke leaves the Soul Stirrers. He is replaced by Johnnie Taylor.
Sam Cooke's first solo recording for the pop market, "Lovable"—a reworking of the Soul Stirrers' "Wonderful"— is released on Specialty Records. Wary of alienating his gospel following, Cooke releases the single under the pseudonymous name "Dale Cook."
Sam Cooke's contract with Specialty is assigned to Keen Records, for which he begins recording ballads like "(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons."
"You Send Me," Sam Cooke's third single, released on Keen Records, becomes the #1 song in the country. It deposes "Jailhouse Rock," by Elvis Presley, from its seven-week run at the top of the charts.
Sam Cooke, the singer's debut album, is released on the Keen label. It reaches #16 on Billboard's album chart.
Sam Cooke's "Only Sixteen," a sop to the teen market, and "Everybody Likes to Cha Cha Cha," an ode to a dance craze, make the lower reaches of the Top Forty.
Sam Cooke hits #2 on the R&B chart and #8 on the pop chart with "Young Blood".
RCA signs Sam Cooke to a recording contract that pays him a $100,000 advance.
Sam Cooke signs with RCA records.
Sam Cooke hits #12 with the Keen released "Wonderful World."
The gospel-style "Chain Gang" hits #2 on both the pop and R&B charts, becoming Sam Cooke's second million-selling single. It is held back from the top spot from the abysmal novelty song "Mr. Custer," by one Larry Verne.
Sam Cooke hits #29 with "I'm In a Sad Mood".
The initial release on SAR Records, the independent label founded by Sam Cooke and manager J.W. Alexander, is by the Soul Stirrers (now featuring Johnnie Taylor as lead vocalist). The label serves as an outlet for Cooke's prolific songwriting and production talents.
Sam Cooke hits #17 with "Cupid".
Sam Cooke hits #1 on the R&B chart and #9 (3/24) on the pop chart with "Twistin the Night Away", #2 on the R&B chart and #13 (8/25) on the pop chart with "Bring It On Home To Me" and #2 on the R&B chart and #12 (11/17) on the pop chart with "Nothing Can Change This Love".
Sam Cooke hits #9 with "Twistin' the Night Away".
One of the great double-sided 45s of the rock and roll era, Sammy Cooke's "Bring It On Home to Me" b/w "Having a Party," is released. Both are huge R&B hits (#2 and #4, respectively), and each also fares well on the pop side (#13, #17).
After getting hurt during a jump, Jimi Hendrix gets an honorable discharge from the Army. Over the next three years, he will play numerous gigs and studio sessions with such R&B stars as Little Richard, the Isley Brothers, Ike and Tina Turner and Sam Cooke.
Sam Cooke hits #17 with "Havin' A Party".
Sam Cooke hits #13 with "Bring It On Home To Me".
Sam Cooke's late show at the Harlem Square Club in Miami, Florida, is recorded by RCA for possible release as a live album.
Sam Cooke hits #10 with "Another Saturday Night".
Sam Cooke is shot to death during a confrontation with a hotel manager in South Los Angeles. The death is ruled a justifiable homicide. Over 200,000 fans pay their respects to Cooke's coffin in Glendale, California, where Cooke was buried one week later.
Another epic single, "Shake" b/w "A Change Is Gonna Come" is issued posthumously. The latter, a civil-rights song written by Sam Cooke after hearing Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind," is considered his greatest composition—and a hint at the direction Cooke might have taken had he lived.
Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963 is finally released, 22 years after it was recorded. The album reveals a rawer, grittier side to Sam Cooke, prompting a critical reassessment.
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In early November, Georgia Anne Mudlrow crept out with a new release called Owed To Mama Rickie. And a couple days ago, a video for an uplifting song called "More & More" popped up.
Directed by our friend Brian Deka Paupaw, the sunny video features a montage of friends and loved ones accented by flares and flickers of vibrant color and designs. Laid against the red, green, and black palette of the Pan-African flag, "More & More" shows Georgia loving her African roots more and more as she reflects on the beauty of her people. The wondrous Bilal also makes an appearance.
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Senior Aziz N'Diaye was honored with three awards, including the Harshman Award for the team's top rebounder.
Season Wrap - UW Made 6th Straight Post-Season
The Huskies finish the 2012-13 campaign with a 18-16 record; drop in the first round NIT at BYU.
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After two years, six cities, two continents and not being drafted, 2011 Huskies captain Justin Holiday suits up Wednesday night for his first NBA game - with his brother Jrue.
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Ranked fifth in the Pac-12 with 4.6 assists per game during the 2013 season.
21-year-old senior was the nation's youngest college player as a freshman. McDonald's HS All-American.
Rated as the No. 2 point guard by Scout.com (No. 1 was John Wall) and ranked 14th regardless of position by ESPNU.
2012-13 (Senior) - Finished his career as the No. 2 all-time assist leader at UW with 469 ... 157 assists were the 7th most in a UW single season and he is the first Husky with 150+ assists in two seasons during their career ... double figure points in 19 games ... Pac-12's active leader in career assists by more than 100 over Oregon State's Joe Burton ... 2012-13 ranks in Pac-12: 5th in assists per game (4.6), 7th assist/turnover ratio (1.5) & 30th in scoring (10.9 ppg) ... was 4th in Pac-12 only action with 4.7 assists per game and 6th in assist to turnover ratio (1.8) ... started the season with 4 double-figure scoring games, which was the longest steak of 10+ points during his career up to that point ... stellar debut with a career-high equaling 17 points vs. Loyola-Md., plus a new career high 2 blocks ... scored 16 points on career-highs of 14 FG attempts and 7 FG makes ... averaged 14.5 pts during Connecticut portion of Hall of Fame Tip-Off tourney ... had 14 pts in first half vs. Seton Hall, but finished with 16 in a career high 41 minutes ... 16 points vs. Saint Louis ... had to leave the game vs. CS Fullerton with leg cramps but not before dishing out a season-high 6 assists ... scored 12 of his 16 points vs. Nevada in the 2nd half ... played all 40 minutes at Seattle U, scoring 11 points and dishing out 5 assists ... 12 pts, 6 assts & 5 rebs vs. Northern Illinois ... had career-best steak of double-figure scoring snapped at 5 games at UConn ... averaged 13.5 ppg during Oregon road trip after not scoring in double figures the previous 6 contests ... 14 pts at OSU and 13 points, 5 assists on his 21st birthday at Oregon ... averaged 6.1 assists over the final 15 games ...10 points, 6 assists, 6 tunovers vs. Arizona, his 3rd straight double figure scoring game ... season-high 7 assists vs. ASU ... averaged 12.5 ppg and 6.0 apg during UCLA/USC swing ... scored 13 points and had a season-high 8 assists at UCLA ... equaled his career highs with 17 points and 7 rebounds, also had 5 assists vs. Oregon ... season-high 9 assists vs. OSU ... averaged 12.5 ppg and 5.0 assists in Arizona/ASU road trip ... 12 points at Arizona and 13 points on 6 of 9 shooting, 7 assists, 5 rebounds and 0 turnovers at ASU ... 9 points and 6 assists vs. WSU ... 8 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists on senior day vs. UCLA ... averaged 11.5 ppg and 8.0 apg during the Pac-12 tournament ... season-high 11 assissts vs. WSU in Pac-12 first round ... 9 points and 9 assists in his final college game.
2011-12(Junior) - Started all 35 games a season after tearing his ACL. One of two Huskies to start every game (Terrence Ross was the other) ... his 182 assists ranks 3rd all-time in UW single season history ... 8th all-time in UW career history with 312 assists (204 more will break UW career record held by Will Conroy) ...led the team in minutes played (1185, 33.9 mpg) and assists (182) ... ranked 2nd in the Pac-12 in both assist/turnover ratio (2.4, 182 assists/75 turnovers) and 2nd in assists per game (5.2) ... also 7th in Pac-12 with 33.9 minutes per game ... was a nominee for the 2012 Bob Cousy Award ... played 31+ minutes in 20 of the last 21 games ... had 5 or more assists in 24 games and 0 or 1 turnovers in 14 games ... 10+ points in 12 games ... was named to the World Vision Classic all-tournament team after averaging 12.3 ppg, 5.6 apg and 4.7 rpg over 3 games ... scored 15 points and dished out 4 assists in exhibition opener vs. SPU ... played in first REAL college game since Dec. 31, 2010 and grabbed a career-high 7 rebounds and dished out 6 assists in season opener vs. Ga. State ... scored 15 pts and dished 6 assists vs. Fla. Atlantic ... scored 15 points on 6x8 shooting, had 5 rebounds and 5 assists vs. Portland ... scored 10 points and dished 6 assists in career high 39 minutes at Nevada ... had a career hi 11 field goal attempts vs. Marquette, but only made 3 ... avg 5.5 pts and 4.5 assists on NYC trip ... scored a career-high equaling 17 points vs. UC Santa Barbara ... 7 assists, his 3rd game of the year with 7, vs. South Dakota State ... career best 8 assists and career hi 5 three-point attempts vs. Cal State Northridge ... started Pac-12 season by averaging 13.5 pts & 5.0 apg vs. OSU/Ore ... 15 points on career high tying 7 FG makes vs. OSU ... 12 points with a career hi-equaling three 3-pt FGs in 3 attempts vs. Oregon ... turned the ball over just once and collected 7 assists in 69 minutes of action at Colorado and Utah ... set new personal highs with 7 FTs in 10 attempts vs. Seattle U ... averaged 10.5 ppg & 4.5 rpg during Bay Area split, shooting 53% (8x15) from the field ... helped UW hold off OSU with a late 3-pointer to put UW ahead for good and a big steal. He ended up with 8 pts, 5 rebounds, 4 assists and 2 steals ... had 14 assists and just 3 turnovers in ASU/AZ series ... career high equaling 8 assists vs. ASU ... 9 pts, 6 assts and 0 turnovers vs. Arizona ... 10 points & 4 assists at WSU, ending a stretch of nine straight games without scoring in double figures ... averaged 8.5 ppg and 8.5 apg in LA road trip ... recorded just the 16th game by a Husky with 12 or more assists at UCLA on March 3 ... 13 points (most since Pac-12 opener 12/29 vs. OSU) and career high 3-pt FG's (3) & attempts (7) along with 6 assists vs. OSU in Pac-12 Tournament ... averaged 8.8 ppg and 7.0 apg in 4 NIT games ... 10 pts on 4x5 shooting and 6 assists vs. UT Arlington ... 11 pts, 10 assts and 7 rebs vs. Oregon in the NIT quarterfinals for his 1st career double-double ... 9 pts and 5 assists in semifinals vs. Minnesota.
2010-11 (Sophomore) - Tore the ACL in his left knee during practice on Jan. 4, missing the remainder of the year ... had surgery on Jan. 14 ... led the Pac-10 in assist to turnover ratio at 3.1 (49 assists/16 turnovers) and was 7th in assists per game (3.8) and ninth in three-point shooting percentage (40.6) when he went down ... was second on team with 49 assists ... surpassed three-point total of 2009-10 (3x20 in 36 games) after just two contests ... averaged 8.5 ppg, up from 3.9 ppg as a freshman ... 6 games with 5+ assists ... started his last 41 games dating back to 2009-10, 42 overall in his career ... 10 career games scoring 10+ points, six coming this season ... scored 12 points and dished out five assists in exhibition opener vs. St. Martin's ... 10 points, 5 assists in season debut vs. McNeese State ... career-high equaling 13 points and also dished out 6 assists vs. E. Wash ... averaged 9.3 ppg and 3.7 apg during Maui Invitatioinal ... set career high with 17 points on 7x9 shooting, 3x3 three pointers vs. Long Beach State ... scored 10 points (including his first college dunk) and recorded a career-high equaling 7 assists vs. San Francisco.
2009-10 (Freshman) - One of 21 players invited to U18 USA Basketball Team trials...the youngest player in the Pac-10 and one of the youngest in the nation turned 18 on Jan. 26...dished out 81 assists, the 7th most ever by a UW freshman...third on team with 2.3 apg...started the final 28 games and 29 overall in his career...dished out 6 assists in exhibition game vs. Central Washington...scored 5 points and played 16 minutes in UW debut vs. Wright State...played 26 minutes and scored 8 pts vs. Belmont...9 points and 4 assists vs. Portland State...established a career-high with 7 assists vs. San Jose State...made first career start on Nov. 29 vs. Montana...broke out of a 1-for-11 shooting slump over previous three games with career high 11 points on 5-of-8 shooting vs. Cal State Northridge on Dec. 6...career-high 4 rebounds vs. Georgetown...ended a scoreless draught as a starter with 6 vs. San Francisco...career-best game with 13 points in 32 minutes at Arizona, the school he originally commited to play for during high school...set career-highs with 32 minutes, 5 steals, 5 rebounds and attempted 7 free throws on his birthday against Seattle U on Jan. 26...had high of 6 turnovers, but 4 assists vs. UCLA on Feb. 20...played a season-low 8 minutes vs. WSU after getting in foul trouble...scored 7 points at OSU on March 6...averaged 2.3 points, 2.3 assists and 1.0 rebound in three NCAA Tournament games, including 5 points and 3 assists vs. New Mexico.
HIGH SCHOOL & PERSONAL: A 2009 graduate of Bellarmine Prep in Tacoma ... considered the No. 2 point guard prospect in the country according to Scout.com ... ranked 14th overall in the ESPNU 100 ... averaged 25.3 points per game as a senior ... led Bellarmine Prep to a 15-11 record his senior year ... Washington state Class 4A player of the year by the Associated Press ... lists career highs of 42 points, 15 rebounds, 12 assists and nine steals ... averaged 23.2 points and led the Lions to a 25-4 record and the Class 4A state semifinals as a junior... named to the first-team all-state tournament team for Class 4A ... scored 26 points in third-place game, including 18 in the second half ... became first underclassmen in Washington to win the Gatorade State Boys Basketball Player of the Year honor in 2008... selected as a Parade Magazine All-America ... named to the USA Junior National Select Team that competed in the Nike Hoops Summit at the Rose Garden Arena in Portland ... named co-MVP and led team to title at the Nike Global Challenge in 2008 ... selected to play for the West team at the 2009 McDonald's All-American Game ... played in the Jordan Brand Classic at Madison Square Garden in New York ... named to play in the 2008 Boost Mobile Elite 24, held at the iconic Rucker Park in New York ... two-time Tacoma News-Tribune Player of the Year ... Seattle Times first-team all-state and Class 4A Player of the Year ... played AAU basketball for the Northwest Legends ... listed by Sports Illustrated's Seth Davis as the best point guard at the NBA Players Association Top 100 camp ... played four seasons under coach Bernie Salazar at Bellarmine Prep and led team to a 73-33 record during that time.
Career Statistics
|Gaddy's Career Highs
|Points: 17, 4x, last at Oregon, 12/16/11
|FG: 8 vs. Oregon, 2/13/13
|3pt FG: 3, 5x, last vs. Ohio State, 11/18/12
|FT: 7, vs. Seattle U, 1/10/12
|Rebounds: 7, 2x, last vs. Oregon, 2/13/13
|Assists: 12, at UCLA, 3/3/12
|Blocks: 2 vs. Loyola-Md. 11/11/12
|Steals: 5 vs. Seattle U, 1/26/10
|Minutes: 41 vs. Seton Hall, 11/17/12
Gaddy Career Game-By-Game Stats


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After the Beatles achieved success, they could afford the kind of instruments they had only dreamed about as struggling musicians. Although Gretsch guitars were primarily associated with George Harrison, John Lennon acquired this particular guitar in 1966. He used it during the recording of "Paperback Writer" in April of that year.
In this video, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum curatorial director Howard Kramer discusses the guitar and the unique circumstances that brought it to the Rock Hall, where it is on display as part of the Museum's Beatles exhibit.
WATCH: Spotlight Exhibit: John Lennon's 1963 Gretsch 6120


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Toshiba Laptop Battery Problems
by goodrob13
Toshiba Laptop Battery Problems
Toshiba has come a long way when it comes to the laptop battery life in their laptops, but that does not make them immune to the occasional hiccup. Poor charging practices can cause issues with battery life, and power-sucking settings can deplete a charged battery, especially an older one, at a surprising rate. For many Toshiba laptops, even temperature can affect whether and how your battery charges and discharges.
Charging New Batteries
1. If your laptop is brand new, you have an opportunity to maximize your battery's health from the get-go. CNET authors Asher Moses and Brian Nadel state that long-term battery vitality can be ensured if "when first using your notebook on battery power, [you] let the battery completely drain before you recharge it. Don't recharge when the toshiba PA3615U-1BRS battery is only half drained. Do that for at least the first two sessions." If you continue to do this every time you use your laptop battery, you will extend the length of time your laptop can run on battery power.
Power Settings
2. One of the main reasons toshiba laptop battery life is so short on many laptops is because of the power settings. You can access the power settings on a Toshiba either by right-clicking the battery tray icon in the lower-right corner of your screen and click "Power Options", or by going to Control Panel > Power Options. Here, you can select the settings your computer will use when it is running on battery power, adjust when the display turns off, choose when the computer will go to sleep, and decide how bright your display is. The default "Power Saver" settings adjust the display brightness to about 40%, turn off the display after 3 minutes of inactivity and put the computer to sleep after 15 minutes. Think about which settings make the most sense for you, and adjust your computer accordingly to save power.
3. Extreme temperatures can negatively affect your toshiba PA3399U-2BRS battery. According to Moses and Nadel, you should not expose your battery to extreme heat or cold. Heat causes batteries to lose their charge very quickly and cold batteries don't perform as well. In addition, some Toshiba laptop batteries can detect when they have heated up too much, and will not charge even when the AC power is plugged in. The computer will display "AC power plugged in; battery not charging," in this case. If this happens, you can charge the battery by shutting down your computer and letting the battery charge while the computer is off.
4. Laptop batteries generally last for 2 to 3 years. If your laptop battery is not holding a charge and it is older than 3 years, consider purchasing a new battery. Remember to fully deplete and fully charge the new battery the first few times you use it.
Still Not Charging
5. If you have considered all of these possible Toshiba PA3535U-1BRS battery problems and find that they are not the reason for the problem, try taking the battery out and gently cleaning the contacts on the battery and in the laptop's battery compartment with a dry, lint-free cloth. If there is no improvement, you may need to look into updating the computer's BIOS or using the recovery CD that came with the laptop to clear any internal problems that may be affecting your battery.
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Research Projects
DevCloud - Towards Software Developer Targeted Cloud Benchmarketing and Cost Estimation
In cloud-based software development, applications are deployed to virtual machines using a predefined cloud instance type. These types differ in provided performance as well as costs. Software developers currently struggle with selecting the best (i.e., cost-optimal) instance types to deploy their applications. In DevCloud, we provide methods and tooling that enable cloud benchmarking for software developers. Our approach is based on application-specific performance models, which combine a statistical model of cloud instance performance as delivered by cloud benchmarking research, an architectural application model, and example load and usage patterns.
Duration: Jan 2016 - September 2016
Funding: Hasler Foundation (Total Costs: 44.791 CHF)
Contact: Philipp Leitner
Partners: IBM Israel - Science and Technology Ltd (IL - Coordinator), SAP AG (DE), Intel Performance Learning Solutions Limited (IE), Telecom Italia S.p.A (IT), Atos Spain SA (ES), Cloudmore OÜ (SE), University of Duisburg-Essen (DE), Universita Degli Studi di Messina (IT), Technion Israel Institute of Technology (IL), University of Zurich (CH)
Duration: Nov 2013 - Oct 2016
Funding: The European Commission's FP7 ICT Call 10 (Total Costs: 10'331'392 EUR)
Contact: Philipp Leitner , Thomas Fritz, Harald Gall
Autonomous Control for a Reliable Internet of Services (ACROSS)
Duration: Nov 2013 - Ongoing
Funding: European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST)
Contact: Philipp Leitner
Personal Developer Analytics
Most developers nowadays face the problem that there are days when their development work goes well and days when they cannot seem to get anything done. Our aim is to create tools to help developers better reflect and improve on their development work and productivity.
For more information, please contact André Meyer Send Mail or Thomas Fritz Send Mail.
SoSYA - Systems of Systems Analysis
Given today's plentitude of software systems, we need to address the complexity of what is called software ecosystems or systems of systems. Such systems of systems and the associated knowledge are the most valuable asset of their owners: they typically form the very basis for the success of companies, organizations, or communities. They have become a reality of the current IT landscape, where companies and open source communities manage in parallel dozens or hundreds of projects belonging to the same product family or IT portfolio. The challenges in this context are not only an exploding amount of information, but also completely novel types of data not taken into account so far: systems have multi-dimensional dependency relationships between them. Indeed, managing the co-evolution of systems, application programming interfaces (APIs), services, and libraries is emerging as one of the next grand challenges of software engineering. We argue that there is a need for novel approaches to analyze systems of systems and to tackle the challenges that they pose.
The goal of this project SoSYA is to build on our previous work on distributed collaborative software analysis in the context of the predecessor project DiCoSA, and to devise theories, models, and prototypes for "systems of systems analysis." In particular, we will address theories and models for systems of systems, algorithms and techniques for systems of systems analysis, and methods for tangible rendering of systems of systems.
Duration: Oct 2010 - Sep 2013
Principal investigators: Harald Gall, Michele Lanza (Univ. of Lugano)
PhD students: Giacomo Ghezzi, Alberto Bacchelli, and two more to be hired
Funding: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
DiCoSA - Distributed Collaborative Software Analysis
The goal of the DiCoSA project is to devise a distributed and col laborative software analysis platform to allow for interoperability of software quality analysis tools across organisational boundaries. Such tools will adhere to specific meta-models and ontologies for their category of analysis and offer a common service interface that enables their composite use on the Internet. These distributed analysis services shall be widely accessible in an incrementally augmented software quality analysis portal, where organisations and research groups can share their tools.
Duration: Oct 2007 - Sep 2010
Principal investigators: Harald Gall, Michele Lanza (Univ. of Lugano)
Funding: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
Enterprise Computing
The goal of this ProDoc in Enterprise Computing is to establish a graduate school that, in close collaboration with industry, prepares highly skilled professionals and researchers who (1) are familiar with the problems encountered in enterprise computing; (2) contribute to formalizing the problems and outlining comprehensive solutions; and (3) are well versed in the all the areas that are relevant to enterprise computing (with an emphasis on data management, distributed systems, operating systems and networking, and software engineering). The graduates of the program will then have the necessary background to lead new research in the area and formulate teaching plans more adequate to industrial needs, or to join the Swiss industry, thereby enhancing the expertise available in the Swiss IT market.
Duration: Oct 2008 - Sep 2011
Principal Investigators: Gustavo Alonso (ETHZ), Harald Gall, Nesime Tatbul (ETHZ)
Funding: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF), ProDoc Programme
EvoSpaces II - Virtual Collaborative Spaces for Software Evolution
This project will make a significant contribution to current software visualization: multi-dimensional software structures can be effectively navigated and analyzed by new means of metaphors and visualization. This project devises a collaborative multi-level and multi-user software analysis platform by means of visualization, interaction, and navigation both for single and multiple users to facilitate software comprehension and evolution tasks for large software systems.
Duration: Jan 2008 - Dec 2009
Principal investigators: Harald Gall, Michele Lanza (Univ. of Lugano), Philippe Dugerdil (Univ. of Applied Sciences, Geneva)
Funding: Hasler Foundation, Bern, Switzerland
ProMedServices - Proactive Software Service Improvement
The goal of ProMedServices (Proactive Software Service Improvement for Large-Scale Distributed Systems) is to extend and develop new techniques in software analysis and software service development and to prove their practical applicability in a large distributed system in a critical field. To achieve these goals, the project will formulate methods and develop techniques for detecting software decay. We will integrate expertise from areas of software evolution, distributed and mobile systems as well as service engineering to explore new ways for software service improvement on a large scale. Techniques from architecture reconstruction, refactoring, service engineering and testing will be combined in a software service evolution toolbox to provide a software architect with pro-active tools and processes to ensure and improve software service quality during software development.
Duration: Jan 2007 - Dec 2008
Principal investigators: Harald Gall (Project Leader), Martin Kropp (FHNW), Christian Lovis and Antoine Geissbühler (both from Geneva University Hospitals)
Funding: Hasler Foundation, Bern, Switzerland
NEPOMUK - The Social Semantic Desktop
Duration: Jan 2006 - Dec 2009
Principal investigators at s.e.a.l.: Harald Gall, Gerald Reif
Funding: EU IP - 6th Framework European Union Integrated Project
EvoSpaces - Multi-dimensional Navigation Spaces for SW Evolution
In the current information technology society we are relying more and more on software systems. Maintenance has been identified to be the primary factor of the total cost of large software systems (more than 90% of the total cost). One of the key difficulties encountered in software maintenance is given by the intrinsic complexity of those systems, whose size can easily reach the tens of millions of lines of source code. Software complexity is recognized as one of the major challenges to the development and maintenance of industrial size software projects.
To that respect, the key aspect of software is that it is a virtual product. In other words, it is difficult to grasp the full complexity of a system that one cannot see or touch. However, many attempts to visually represent the structure of software systems have been proposed, essentially through flat representations. However, the quantity of information that can be represented in 2D drawings is limited. Handling the complexity and observing the evolution of very large software systems needs the analysis of large complex data models and the creation of condensed views on the system. In the context of visualization, software metrics have been used to compute and enrich such condensed views. However, current techniques concentrate on visualizing data of one particular software release, providing insufficient support for visualizing data of several releases. The goal of this project is to exploit multi-dimensional navigation spaces to efficiently visualize evolving software systems.
Duration: Jan 2006 - Dec 2007
Principal investigators: Harald Gall, Michele Lanza (Univ. of Lugano), Philippe Dugerdil (Univ. of Applied Sciences, Geneva)
Funding: Hasler Foundation, Bern, Switzerland
COSE - Controlling Software Evolution
We tackle these questions by exploiting and understanding the huge amounts of information which reside in versioning and bug tracking systems, but which seem to be largely ignored by software industry. We focus on large-scale software systems both from the open source and the industrial area.
Duration: July 2005 - June 2007 (extened until Sep 2007)
Principal investigators: Harald Gall, Michele Lanza (Univ. of Lugano)
Funding: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF).
SCSS - Service-Centric Software Systems
Service-Centric Software Systems (SCSS) are software systems that are constructed from autonomous services and bring new challenges for software engineering. Flexible, adaptable and interoperable software services require the creation of new efficient methods, techniques and tools. This concerns subjects such as service life-cycle, service description, interoperability, service levels, and service evolution.
In this project we devise such service-centric technologies for this new kind of software architectures.
Duration: Nov 2006 - now
Principal investigator: Harald Gall (Project Leader)
PhD students: Michael Würsch, Emanuel Giger
SVC Fundamental Programming Modules
The Fundamental Programming Modules project will develop a blended learning basic programming course particularly targeted to courses where entry levels of students and learning objectives are quite different, directed both to informatics students and to students in other technical domains requiring programming skills. For this purpose, the course is conceived as a set of self-contained modules which can be used, according to the target students, at three different levels (beginners, intermediate and advanced). This allows also the instructor to individually assign modules (at different levels) from students with different entry requirements.
The project is realised by the new Faculty of informatics of the University of Lugano, by the Department of Informatics of the University of Zurich and by the Department of Innovative Technologies of SUPSI: the three partners bring complementary competences, especially concerning the programming language used to teach students; this will allow to develop also a set of language-specific modules illustrating the fundamental concepts. All three partners will enforce the modules in their regular course, for a total number of nearly 300 students. However, the course has a large use potential also in other Swiss universities and UAS, as well as in continuing education. Finally, didactical and technical support, as the whole implementation, will be ensured by the eLab USI-SUPSI.
Duration: Jan 2006 – Dec 2007
Principal investigators: Mehdi Jazayeri, Michele Lanza (Univ of Lugano), Harald Gall, Roberto Mastropietro (University of applied sciences of southern Switzerland)
Funding: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF), Swiss Virtual Campus
SEA project
The research project SEA (Software Evolution Analysis) addresses the importance of software evolution and reegineering of large-scale software systems. Gaining higher level evolutionary information about large software systems is a key challenge in dealing with increasing complexity and architectural deterioration. Modification reports and problem reports taken from systems such as CVS and Bugzilla contain an overwhelming amount of information about the reasons and effects of particular changes. Such reports can be analyzed to provide a clearer picture about the problems concerning a particular feature or a set of features. Hidden dependencies of structurally unrelated but over time logically coupled files exhibit a high potential to illustrate feature evolution and possible architectural deterioration.
Duration: ongoing
Principal investigators: Harald Gall, Martin Pinzger
EUREKA/ITEA project SERIOUS
Duration: 2005 - 2008
Principal investigators: Harald Gall, Martin Pinzger
Duration: Oct 2002 - Dec 2005
EUREKA/ITEA project FAMILIES
Duration: 2003 - 2005
EUREKA/ITEA project CAFÉ
Duration: 2001 - 2003
EU Project MOTION
MOTION (MObile Teamwork Infrastructure for Organisations Networking) was a successful European project aiming at the development and validation of an innovative multi-service business architecture to support teamwork and distributed working methods in largely distributed production environments. An emerging direction of manufacturing is leading to a growing need for geographically distributed product development: products are built up of components developed by units located in different cities or countries. MOTION addressed this important business area, and developed an innovative peer-to-peer teamwork service architecture that supports several key requirements for distributed business processes, including: efficient information sharing across a widely distributed enterprise environment; constant and timely update of the distributed knowledge base, with many different sites acting both as potential users as well as potential providers of information; shared access to different, integrated manufacturing engineering services, supporting both local activities as well as mobile working. Many essential parts of this technology have been published in conferences and journals. For more information see our publications page.
Duration: 2000 - 2002


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Rated 5 out of 5 by mariej perfect chair for my daughter's 10th birthday, we decided to surprise her with a remodeled bedroom. because all her furniture is white, we wanted to add a splash of color on the wall and with a chair. this chair is perfect. the color is gorgeous and it is super comfortable. it is her favorite spot in her room. it is low, but that is what makes it great, the curve of the back is perfect for reading or watching TV! October 22, 2014
Rated 5 out of 5 by patticm Great color and comfortable. The chair is a great color, it is comfortable, not too heavy so it is easy to move to clean under and it is not too big in the space I have for it. I am very happy with this purchase. January 21, 2014
Rated 5 out of 5 by Karen57 Awesome Chair! My house is decorated with lime green accents. When I saw this chair I absolutely had to have it for my bedroom. I got it on sale so it's an outstanding value for me, but would have purchased it at full price. Love, love, love it. I would recommend this purchase to anyone. December 29, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by Staiph Exactly what I needed I was looking for a green chair to bring more colors into the living room, Since I am not allowed to paint the walls. I didn't think it would have done such a great job to be honest. I will keep this chair for many years October 6, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by Verified Reviewer Great color and comfortable I was first concerned about the color and the fact it had no arms but chair is perfect. It sits low but is wide enough to be super comfortable. The fabric is great. I have four dogs and a kid and it is very durable. Color is accurate when they say green apple. May 5, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by marnieray Unique Accent Chair I had been looking for a unique accent chair for our living room. My accent color is this 'pear green' as I call it. When I first saw the chair in the store I wasn't 100% sure if it was the exact color I needed, but it was definitely the style I was looking for and the price was right. I took a chance and purchased the chair, and it is the PERFECT color. It is quite comfortable, and exactly what I was looking for in an accent chair. February 19, 2013
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Rated 4 out of 5 by DMO93 So cute! I love this chair. It is just as cute as in the picture, the fabric is very nice and soft, and it is quite comfy. The fabric does stretch a little, so the tufting doesn't look as perfect on it after it is sat on for a while. You can smooth it out again, and it doesn't bother me. I definitely recommend this chair. February 1, 2013


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Firefighters on the Moore Point Fire have been release after a successful weekend of mop up operations around the private residences within the fire perimeter. Forest Service and Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Fire Managers will join efforts to patrol the fire edge along the private property as well as monitor the fire within the Lake Chelan Sawtooth Wilderness by aerial support.
At 1,538 acres and 40% contained, the fire continues to exhibit smoldering and creeping activity as interior islands of fuel continue to burn.
"We have concentrated our suppression efforts on the areas our firefighters could access safely," explains Chad Schmidt, Assistant Fire Manger for the Chelan Ranger District. "The shores of Lake Chelan are challenging to fight fire on. They are steep, rocky, and have very limited access."
Schmidt describes the management plan for the Moore Point Fire as similar to that being carried out on the 2,098 acre 25 Mile Fire located roughly fifteen miles southeast from Moore Point Fire area.
"We will continue to monitor these fires until the area receives a high amount of rain or snow," Schmidt says.
Smoke from the fire will remain visible from Lake Chelan as well as from portions of the Stehekin Valley. The Stehekin community is not threatened.
Level II evacuation notices remain in place for the homes identified in and around the fire area until further notice.
Closures remain in place for the Moore Point Campground, and the Meadow Creek Shelter along Lake Chelan. Trails affected by the Moore Point Fire include the Lakeshore Trail #1274 from Prince Creek to Flick Creek, Moore Point Trail (#1247.1) , North Fork of Fish Creek Trail (#1248.1), Fish Creek Trail (#1245), and the Horton Butte Trail (#1250.01). These trails are posted closed to public access due to the fire danger.
Forest Service Fire Personnel are doing reconnaissance flights over the Chelan Ranger District for any fires that may have started from Sunday's lightning storm.
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At 1,538 acres and 40% contained, the fire continues to exhibit smoldering and creeping activity as interior islands of fuel continue to burn.


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SEATTLE -- After nearly a week of getting accolades and attention for claiming a share of the first conference title in school history, No. 5 California responded exactly how coach Lindsay Gottlieb expected.
Gennifer Brandon had 17 points and 16 rebounds and California scored the first 11 points on its way to a 78-59 win over USC in the quarterfinals of the Pac-12 Conference tournament on Friday.
California, the No. 2 seed in the tourney despite sharing the regular season crown with Stanford, will face No. 14 UCLA in the semifinals on Saturday night.
The Bears (28-2) clinched a share of the conference title with a win over Washington last Saturday in Seattle and plenty of congratulations awaited them when they returned to Berkeley.
"Winning that game was a genuine show of emotion because it was their first time doing it. It was true and it was really neat," Gottlieb said. "At the same time we were able to appreciate that moment and move on quickly and there was never a feeling from anyone in our locker room that that's enough, that we have arrived. They've stayed hungry.
"Everyone was locked in after the smiles and everything of last weekend."
California has reached the semifinals of the Pac-12 tournament for the seventh straight year and keeps alive the Golden Bears hopes of earning a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament.
California would likely need to beat Stanford in the title game or have the Cardinal get upset before reaching the final for the Bears to have a shot at a No. 1 seed.
The 28 wins also are a single-season school record. Brandon led a balanced scoring attack with Afure Jemerigbe and Brittany Boyd both adding 15 as California won its 16th straight.
Talia Caldwell scored 12 points and grabbed nine rebounds and the Golden Bears topped the 70-point mark for the eighth time in their past 10 games.
Brandon's 16 rebounds were her third-most of the season. She had a school-record 26 rebounds against USC earlier this season.
"I knew they were going to try and box me out so I just tried to slither my way through and be ready to go get the rebound anywhere I could," Brandon said.
Cassie Harberts led USC (11-20) with 24 points.
USC reached the quarters by knocking off Oregon State in the opening round on Thursday, but the Trojans couldn't be competitive against the Golden Bears for a third time this season. USC took California to overtime in Berkeley in January before the Bears pulled out a 71-63 win.
A month later in Los Angeles, the Trojans rallied in the second half but fell short in a 72-64 loss.
This time, the Trojans were playing catch up from the start.
"They were committed to showing us they were the tougher team," USC coach Michael Cooper said.
California dominated most of the first half, holding USC to 27 percent shooting and forcing 10 turnovers, which the Bears turned into 14 points.
California led by as many as 21, but the Trojans scored eight of the final 10 points of the half to get within 15, a deficit that could have been less had USC not missed its final four shots of the half. California had 11 offensive rebounds in the first half while USC had 16 total rebounds.
The Bears started the second half on a 10-4 run and were never threatened. California held a dominating 53-34 advantage on the boards -- including 25 second-chance points for the Bears -- and led by as many as 27 in the second half.
"We were terrific on the boards and I think our defense kick started everything," Gottlieb said.
Christina Marinacci and Ariya Crook both added 10 points for the Trojans.
"The biggest thing was physicality," Harberts said. "They gave us the punch and we just kind of fell flat on our butt and didn't respond."


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Great Expectations
SAY IT OUT LOUDChristine Andersen, PEPublic works directorSanta Barbara, Calif.
ALL OR NOTHINGHarry WeedSuperintendent of public worksRockville Centre, N.Y.
ALL IN THE FAMILYRonald Calkins, PEDirector of public worksVentura, Calif.
POWER TO THE EMPLOYEEScott Elmer, PEDirector of public works and city engineerMissouri City, Texas
MAINTAINING THE STRIPLeslie Henley, PE, FASCEDeputy director of public worksClark County, Nev.
CLOSING THE GENERATION GAPDwayne Kalynchuk, M. Eng., P. EngGeneral manager of environmental servicesCapital Regional District, Victoria, British Columbia
ONE STEP AHEADSamuel Lamerato, CPFPFleet management superintendentTroy, Mich.
SWEET SUCCESSRichard McKinleyPublic works directorBellingham, Wash.
BUILDING AN EMERALD CITYJudith MuellerDirector of public worksCharlottesville, Va.
STRATEGIC FINANCINGSteven Parkinson, PEPublic works directorPortsmouth, N.H.
It's hard to pinpoint one "greatest" achievement with 30 years of service under your belt. But Christine Andersen says that adding a public information position in the 1980s was a significant move that impacted Eugene, Ore.'s Public Works Department for years to come.
Though such positions in public service departments are fairly common today, hers was a forward-thinking—and unheard of—decision for that decade.
"I knew that communications was a gap that needed to be filled," says Andersen. "If the community doesn't understand the value of services provided, the community can't support those services."
About a year into Andersen's tenure as director, the department undertook an extensive sewer line project that affected 20,000 residents—and required finessed communications between the department and the public. She hired a public information officer for the project, and used the project's success to make the case to city officials for a permanent position.
With the communications position in place, the department was able to educate constituents about public works services and projects through engaging methods, i.e.:
Developing internal communications increased awareness of what was going on inside the department, and external communications helped generate community support. In the case of one environmental project, says Andersen, "it helped turn the concept of wetlands from 'swampland' to 'valued land' in residents' eyes."
Engaging the community also helped the department build volunteer programs and inform residents about recycling and conservation.
"We worked more effectively with the community because we were building communication methods into the start of each project," says Andersen. "If we couldn't tell our story, we'd lose opportunities to show why we needed support and funding."
What Andersen did 20 years ago is now routine for many departments. "We've pretty much turned that corner in most agencies. It's exciting to see."
Public works runs in Ron Calkins' blood.
His father Myron—named Top Ten Leader in 1973—was Kansas City, Mo.'s public works director for 22 years; and his twin brother, Don, is assistant general manager of public utilities in Anaheim, Calif.
And after serving as Ventura's city engineer for seven years, Ron began walking in his father's footsteps when he became director of public works. That was 15 years ago.
Since then, Calkins has spearheaded a community beautification project and coordinated a citywide green initiative that decreased energy use by 25% within two years. He also created an employee recognition program and drought-proofed Ventura's water supply.
Last year alone, he:
Since the mid-1980s, the Missouri City Public Works Department had operated under a top-down decision-making approach that prevented front-line employees from resolving issues while in the field. Instead, citizen requests were taken back to the front office to wait in queues for the public works director to review.
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Satellite, Ariel 2
This is a full-scale mock-up of Ariel-2, the second satellite in an international cooperative venture between the United States and the United Kingdom, to provide data on the Earth's ionosphere and radiation from space. The spacecraft was designed by the Goddard Space Flight Center and built by Westinghouse Electric Corporation. The experiments which it carried were provided by scientists at universities in the UK. The satellite was launched on a Scout rocket on March 27, 1964; its orbit decayed on November 18, 1967. It provided valuable data on the distribution of ozone in the upper atmosphere. Radio measurements from the spacecraft also helped establish the level of general galactic radio noise in the region of 1 MHz. The artifact was reconstructed out of a combination of left-over parts and mock-ups and transferred from NASA in 1975.
Transferred from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
- Manufacturer
- NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center
- Type
- SPACECRAFT-Unmanned
- Materials
- Epoxy-bonded fiberglas, aluminum and other light metals and plastics.
- Dimensions
- Overall: 1 ft. 8 in. tall x 2 ft. wide (50.8 x 61cm)
- Other:
- Top Antennae: 21 3/4 in. long
- Instrument rods: 35 1/4 in. long


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Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev had boxing aspirations
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Charles George Bullough
Position: LB
Height: 6-1 Weight: 238 lbs.
Born: March 3, 1969 in East Lansing, MI
High School: Orchard Park
College: Michigan St. (school history)
Drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in the 8th round (214th overall) of the 1992 NFL Draft.
Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 0 (15060th overall since 1950)
Relatives: Son of Hank Bullough and Uncle of Max Bullough
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The LEADelaware agriculture and natural resources leadership program has launched its third class of 11 Fellows, who will spend the next two years building their skills and learning about agriculture, state and national government and natural resources.
The participants for the 2013-2015 class are: Mike Clay, farmer, Middletown; Ben Snow, farmer, Smyrna; Robert Baldwin, Delaware Department of Natural Resources & Environmental Control; Paul Shipper, MidAtlantic Farm Credit, Magnolia; Lauren Torres, Delaware Department of Agriculture, Felton; Ben Coverdale, Delaware Department of Agriculture, Harrington; Jim Hughes, Delaware Department of Agriculture, Lincoln; Trudy Kruger, farmer, Georgetown; Philip Dukes, farmer, Milton; Linda Wright, farmer, Laurel; Haley Brennan, farmer, Delmar.
There will be 10 sessions beginning Nov. 6-8 in Rehoboth Beach. Participants will attend other meetings held in Delaware and Washington, D.C., as well as an international trip near the end of the program.
For more information: sites.udel.edu/leadelaware.
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Missile, Surface-to-Surface, Loon (JB-2)
The Loon, also called the JB-2 or KUW-1, was an American copy of the German pulsejet-powered V-1 or "Buzz Bomb" of World War II. It was designed to carry a 2,200-pound high explosive warhead to a range of 150 miles and could be launched from the ground, ships, or aircraft. The air-breathing pulsejet motor is the long tube at the rear.
The development of the Loon came too late for use in World War II, and it was not used in combat. However, it provided invaluable experience to U.S. Navy and Army Air Force (and later, Air Force) personnel in the handling of missiles. The Loon was cancelled in 1950. This object was donated to the Smithsonian in 1965 by the U.S. Naval Supply Center.
Transferred from U.S. Navy
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
- Manufacturer
- Ford Motor Company
- Date
- ca. 1944-1950
- Location
- Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA
- Hangar
- Boeing Aviation Hangar
- Type
- CRAFT-Missiles & Rockets
- Materials
- Overall, steel; propellant and pressurant spheres, steel; pulsejet tube and motor, steel; piping, aluminum; electrical wires, with transparent plastic insulation; some wires also with red and gray plastic insulation; nose cap, aluminum; warhead section, where number is painted, non-ferrous metal, possibly aluminum.
- Dimensions
- Overall: 27 ft. long x 19 ft. wing span x 2 ft. 8 in. diameter, 1500 lb. (822.96 x 579.12 x 81.28cm, 680.4kg)


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ZF-159: PDOException thrown "SQLSTATE[HY093]: Invalid parameter" on some queries due to bad parameter handling
from Namolovan Nicolae on the mailing list
class ServersTable extends Zend_Db_Table {
protected $_name = 'servers';
$dbIns = array(
$table = new ServersTable();
$id = $table->insert($dbIns);
I get the follow error: "Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'PDOException' with message 'SQLSTATE[HY093]: Invalid parameter number: parameter was not defined' in ..\Zend\Db\Adapter\Abstract.php:157"
This is because placeholders underscores are removed (in Db\Adapter\Abstract.php:124)
// build the statement
$sql = "INSERT INTO $table "
. '(' . implode(', ', $cols) . ') '
. 'VALUES (:' . str_replace("_", "", implode(', :', $cols)) . ')';
The result are:
INSERT INTO servers (name, os_ver) VALUES (:name, :osver)
My $dbIns don't contain any "osver" key, only "os_ver". That's why I get the PDO exception..
What is the solution to this problem ?
and from Ramon de la Fuente on the mailing list as well
I had the same question a few weeks ago - as I have not received answers I'm kicking this back into the list:
Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'PDOException' with message 'SQLSTATE[HY093]: Invalid parameter number: no parameters were bound'
$db = Zend_Db::factory()
Turns out I had a question-mark in the data, which automatically turns into a placeholder even if you don't add a replacement array parameter. Is this intended?
Also, replacing the $db>query() with $db->insert(), I found that my column names (array_keys) get renamed without underscores. Again, is this intended?
Duplicates [ZF-140]