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We managed to get our hands on the Wii U last E3, but a fair bit has changed for Nintendo's new console in a year. Not only has the controller, sorry, Wii U GamePad, been redesigned a tad, but there are actual games available to play now, so the concept is easier to grasp.
Initial impressions of the new GamePad - in both white and black - are good. It's plasticky, yes, but the buttons are all cunningly placed and it feels better in the hand than you'd imagine. The touchscreen is also brighter and better defined than you might think from Nintendo's videos and former teasers. It's also light, which is essential for much of its uses in gaming.
Not much has been said about the console unit itself, and we have to say that Nintendo has wisely made it inconspicuous. Gone is the gimmicky shape of the original Wii, which was a bane to anybody who wanted to keep things tidy in an AV cabinet under the TV. Instead, it looks like a modern DVD player. Small and unassuming.
There's an optical disc drive on the front and, er, that's about it. It is currently understood that the drive will accept Wii U discs only, so we're not sure if it will be able to play DVDs from the box. It definitely won't play Blu-rays. Think Xbox 360 rather than PS3.
The Wii U GamePads that were dotted about were all wired, presumably from power/security reasons, but the home version would more than likely be used wirelessly 100 per cent of the time.
We also spied a few Wii U Pro Controllers, which do indeed look, feel and play like Xbox 360 joypads, albeit slightly lighter. Oh, and there were plenty of Wii remotes in action too. Many of the games required them.
In a private VIP room at E3 2012, Pocket-lint managed to get playtime with several games including the superb ZombiU, Project P-100, New Super Mario Bros. U, and Nintendo Land in several of its guises, and we're impressed.
To be honest, before actually getting to hold and play with the Wii U GamePad and the new games, we were sceptical that Nintendo could genuinely make something that will progress gaming rather than a new, unnecessary gimmick. And we're happy to say that we were wrong. The controller really adds to the experience, even on more hardcore games, such as ZombiU.
Over time, developers will find new and interesting ways to use the GamePad, but that specific Ubisoft title already offers plenty of examples of what is possible. For example, sniping. Hold the pad up to the TV and you get a scope to take out zombies from a distance. Simple but effective stuff.
We're also impressed at the variety of titles shown by Nintendo at E3. Pikmin 3, a Mario game, cutesy IP use with Nintendo Land are all par for the course from the Japanese company, but to exhibit non-family violent titles like ZombiU and Ninja Gaiden 3 is a welcome curve ball. It shows that, unlike the priorities of the company when it launched the Wii, its intentions for the Wii U are broader. And that will help.
It only now boils down to how the company will price its new console when it arrives in time for the holiday season. With a touchscreen tablet as a vital part of its physical make-up, we suspect it will be pricey. Perhaps too pricey for the average family. And although the hardcore gamer will appreciate some of Nintendo's new focus, that will be its bread and butter.


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Down 35-7 at the half, Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow needed a miracle to send his team to the AFC championship. Sacked five times by an aggressive New England defense and picked apart by a marvelous performance by Tom Brady, Tebow was unable to deliver any magic in a 45-10 Patriots win.
Brady's five first half touchdowns, a new NFL playoff record, three to tight end Rob Gronkowski, fueled the New England Patriots in the AFC divisional playoff encounter. The victory sends them to an AFC championship match-up against the winner of the Houston/Baltimore game next week.
After 170 first half passing yards last week against the Steelers, Tebow, with 42 combined yards, fumbled and was sacked twice through the game's first two quarters. The only Bronco to produce any significant offense in the first half was Willis McGahee, who scored the team's only TD and rushed for 68.
Denver's defense was worse. Brady worked the middle of the field and terrorized Broncos linebackers at will. Three of his five first half TDs connected in between the hash marks.
Even with a 35-7 lead at the half, New England didn't let up. Just 3:14 into the third quarter, Brady hooked up with Aaron Hernandez for a 17-yard score. The defense followed suit and shut down Tebow on the ground and in the air. A 41-yard field goal from Matt Prater was all Denver could muster in the third quarter. Pats kicker Stephen Gostkowski hit a 20-yard field goal with 12:39 remaining to maintain the five score lead.
Even in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds, Tebow continued the rally attempt in the fourth. A 41-yard completion to last week's hero, Demaryius Thomas (six catches, 93 yards) got the team on the goal line, but Tebow was unable to avoid the New England push rush (five sacks), who chased him to the 20 yard line before he threw another incomplete pass on fourth and goal.
With the ball then deep in their own end, the Patriots ate up the majority of the remaining time, running the ball on five of their next six plays. After that, Tebow had one last chance to get his team in the end zone, for pride more than anything else, but was unsuccessful.
For 60 minutes, Tebow was unable to create any magic. The Patriots, powered by Brady and their defensive line, ended the Broncos' season.

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24 hours in Rotorua - Forest Fun
Grab a coffee from an award winning barista, before heading to Rotorua Canopy Tours where you'll get a birds eye view of some of NZ's most pristing forest.
Grab breakfast and a coffee from the award winning barista at Fat Dog Café before heading to Rotorua Canopy Tours where you'll get a birds eye view of some of NZ's most pristing forest. Zipline from platform to platform and learn about conservation from their passionate guides. You might even hand feed some of the inquisitive native birdlife.
Take a picnic lunch out to the Whakarewarewa Forest where you can enjoy it amongst the towering redwoods. From there, kit up and get a guided tour with Mountain Bike Rotorua. Discover why the International Mountain Biking Association (IMBA) listed Rotorua as one of only six gold level ride centres. These are some of the world's best trails.
Voted by the New Zealand Herald as one of the top 15 spots to visit in 2015, Kerosene Creek is "possibly the greatest of our natural springs". Walk through the forest where you will find the hot water cascading into a big pool. It's the best way to soak those weary muscles. That night head to Eat Streat for quality restaurants in a buzzing atmosphere.
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Geo-thermal wonders, living Maori culture, endless adventure activities, beautiful natural environments and rejuvenating hot mineral spas. There is something for everyone from adventure seekers to families in Rotorua. #RotoruaNZ #NZsCoolestHotSpot


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10 Greatest Sidekicks in Wrestling History
Anyone who has watched wrestling over the years knows all about the managers that stand in the corner of their favorite wrestlers. From the late great Miss Elizabeth to the "Mouth of the South" Jimmy Hart, but what about a wrestler's faithful sidekick? You know, the people that are really just there for moral support or to entertain the crowd with their ridiculous antics. Some sidekicks were real people while more than a few were animals, socks and even figments of a wrestler's imagination. Today, we pay tribute to the top ten wrestling sidekicks of all time.
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Little Jimmy
Who would have thought when R-Truth started the whole "Little Jimmy" gimmick that it would turn into quite possibly one of the most recognizable (invisible or not, R-Truth says he isn't) sidekicks in the history of professional wrestling. Little Jimmy started out as an antagonist against Truth making him angry and frustrated at every turn, but eventually he realized that Jimmy was right all along and they have been inseparable ever since, for better or for worse. Now that's what's up!
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Long before Damien Sandow mumbled the words, "You're welcome" Perry Saturn made it famous roughly a decade ago after suffering a storyline concussion. This concussion led Saturn into falling in love with a mop, introduced to wrestling fans as Moppy. Perry fell in love with the mop leading to his eventual face turn. Even the lovely Terri Runnels couldn't come between Saturn and Moppy as he chose the mop over her leading to the on-screen couple's break up. This led to Moppy's untimely demise as Terri fell into the arms of Raven who fed poor Moppy to a wood chipper.
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Ricardo Rodriguez
Ricardo Rodriguez has truly been the jack of all trades when it comes to a side kick. For that reason alone, Alberto Del Rio's career has been better than most could have ever imagined it being. Whether it's being his personal ring announcer or parking his car. Ricardo does everything Alberto asks of him to do, even interfere in matches and take the brunt of the punishment that Del Rio should have been the one taking.
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During the golden era of wrestling in the 1980s, gimmicks were everything. It was a lot more than just being a great wrestler. Ask Davey Boy Smith and the Dynamite Kid who were known as the tag team, the British Bulldogs. During that era, the idea was to actually pair them with up with a real life Bulldog that went by the name Matilda. Matilda was even in the spotlight of their heated feud with the Islanders as she was "dognapped" during that storyline.
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Who would've thought that someone who debuted with the nickname of "The Little Bastard" would end up becoming one of the most beloved WWE sidekicks of all time? Hornswoggle has certainly had his fair share of adventures throughout his time in the WWE. Horny served as the sidekick to many superstars and talents over the years, from Finlay to the always entertaining D-Generation X. Some fans would even argue that he was single handedly responsible for the face turn of Finlay. Even Mr. McMahon himself found him paired up with Hornswoggle for a fair amount of time as it was revealed that he was Vince's illegitimate son.
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What does everybody want? What does everybody need? Who could forget Al Snow's mannequin head sidekick, simply known as head. Al Snow's career wasn't going anywhere. After several failed gimmicks in WWE under such names as Leif Cassidy and Avatar, Snow found solace in the land of Extreme under the watchful eye of Paul Heyman. It was in ECW that Head was born and the wrestling world hasn't quite been the same ever since.
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Sometimes sidekicks don't really do a whole lot, but leave a lasting impression on a generation of fans. In the late 90's "The Master of Crowd Control" Ralphus was hired to be Chris Jericho's sidekick wearing a white dirty shirt that was way too small for him that read "Jericho Personal Security." Originally a member of the WCW ring crew, Jericho came up with the idea to make Ralphus his sidekick and as he explained in his book "The Lion's Tale" went better and became bigger than anyone could've possibly imagined.
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While Uncle Eddie was always about lying, cheating, and stealing, Chavo never really did much to follow in his footsteps. Being forced to do so led Chavo to lose his mind and find his friend, and horse, Pepe. Unfortunately for Chavo, during a feud with "Screaming" Norman Smiley, Pepe was met with a similar fate as another sidekick on this countdown. Much like Moppy, Pepe met his end in a wood chipper.
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There are some wrestlers in the history of this business that can thank their side kick for the longevity of their career. WWE Hall of Famer, "The Bird Man" Koko B Ware is a prime example. When Koko joined the WWE in 1986 he was repackaged in "The Bird Man" gimmick and paired with the parrot known as Frankie. Frankie instantly made Koko a fan favorite among young kids all over the world.
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The master of the DDT, Jake "The Snake" Roberts hands down had the most iconic side kick of all time in his 12-foot Burmese python known as Damien. Damien surely left a lasting impression in the 1980s, especially around the necks of many fallen opponents. Used as an intimidation factor to even colossal of Andre the Giant, Damien was a psychological tool that Jake used to get inside the heads of his opponents and it paid dividends throughout the man's career.


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Whether you're driving the combine harvesting corn or riding your horse checking calves in the pasture, chances are you might have missed some of the big news items that have hit the mainstream media related to the beef industry. Today, I've rounded up the top five items I think you should know about -- some fun, some political, all relevant.
1. Tuesday was National Cheeseburger Day. Chef Rachael Ray cooked up several different burger recipes with Guy Fieri on her show. Although the holiday is over, the celebrations can still go on. What are your favorite burger toppings?
Read More: Rachael Ray's Book Of Burger Renews Old Classic
2. More than 70% of the students at Mukwonago High School in Wisconsin boycotted the school lunch program. In an effort to fight childhood obesity, the protein serving in school lunches was slashed to a measly 1.5-2 oz. and total calories were capped at 850. According to Fox News, "Mukwonago High class president, Nick Blohm, says the healthier food is not so much the problem as it is portion size. A 6-ft.-3-in., 210-lb. linebacker, Blohm says he burns around 3,000 calories during three hours of football practice and weight training. He's taking various Advanced Placement classes. But the new caps, he says, are making it harder to perform both physically and academically."
A Closer Look: New USDA School Lunches Lack Protein Power
3. If you love beef topped with bacon, then you're going to love this new real-life adventure called, "The Great American Bacon Barter Goes Cross-Country." Comedian and actor Josh Sankey is being sponsored by Oscar Mayer to travel from New York to Los Angeles with nothing but 3,000 lbs. of bacon. He will be bartering for everything including food, gas and lodging. He started on Sept. 9 in New York City by bartering his way into a New York Jets game. Sankey is making his way across the U.S. to 12 other cities and will complete his journey in Los Angeles on Sept. 23. His next stop is Las Vegas, NV, on Sept. 22, where he will try to get someone to marry him in exchange for bacon. Footage from his adventures will be live here. Fans can also follow him as he tweets about his journey at @BaconBarter.
Read more: "Bacon, The Gateway Meat."
4. Last week, producers gathered in Washington, D.C., for the Farm Bill Now rally, urging Congress to make a decision and pass a version of the Farm Bill. According to the Huffington Post, "Farm-state members of Congress have campaigned for decades on the back of farm bills delivering election-season subsidies and other goodies to rural voters. Not this year. The bill is stalled, primarily because House GOP leaders don't want a noisy fight over food stamps this close to the election. That poses a particular problem for some Republicans in tight races for the Senate or the House who will go home empty-handed when Congress adjourns this week." More than 80% of the farm bill consists of the Food Stamp program, an area that Democrats and Republicans are divided on how to manage and how big of a cut it should take. What do you think the solution is for the Farm Bill? Do you predict a version will pass before the November election?
BEEF Audio: Congress Must Move Forward On The Farm Bill
5. I continue to follow news coverage from BPI's recent press release announcing a lawsuit against ABC News. The company is seeking $1.2 billion in damages. The challenge will be for BPI to prove damages in the courtroom. With three plants closed and 700 jobs lost, News Busters also reports that, "Analysts say the pink slime reports cost the economy more than half a billion dollars." Sounds like damages to me.
A Closer Look: BPI Fights Back
Weigh in on any or all of these topics in the comments section below. Thanks for your participation.
Also, don't forget to vote in the "Workhorses" Of The Ranch Photo Contest. Voting ends Sept. 26.


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An Indiana woman intended her bumper sticker reading "unmarked police car" as a joke, but two police officers didn't think it was funny. Now, they're being sued in federal court for allegedly violating the woman's free speech rights, and officials aren't laughing.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana filed the lawsuit last week on behalf of 56-year-old Pamela Konchinsky of Franklin. The complaint says Konchinsky was followed by two squad cars when she pulled into a parking garage near the mall where she works in downtown Indianapolis. The first car had its lights flashing. Konchinsky knew she hadn't violated any traffic laws.
The officers told her to remain in her minivan after asking for her license and registration, and then scolded her for the sticker taped in the rear window of her minivan.
One of the officers warned her during the June 17 incident that someone would think she was impersonating a police officer, and that someone might shoot at her, believing her to be an officer.
The bumper stickers proclaiming "unmarked police car" sell for $2.50 online. Konchinsky, the mother of one adult and one school-age child, works three jobs. She had received the sticker as a gift from a friend and taped it to the inside of her minivan's rear window about seven months ago.
"It's a joke — it's ironic," Kelly Eskew, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana, told The Indianapolis Star. "It's like you or I wearing a T-shirt that says, 'Undercover cop.'"
But the officers took the issue seriously, and didn't allow Konchinsky to leave until she had removed the sticker from the window.
She didn't receive a citation, but the fuss made her late for work and her pay was docked as a result.
The lawsuit filed late last week claims the officers violated Konchinsky's First Amendment right to freedom of speech and her Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable search and seizure.
Indianapolis corporation counsel Samantha DeWester said her office doesn't comment on pending litigation, but she did tell the Star that "We take every lawsuit against the city extremely seriously."
Indianapolis police spokesman Officer Chris Wilburn said police don't comment on pending litigation, either.
The complaint seeks to recover Konchinsky's lost wages and other costs, including legal fees.
"Ms. Konchinsky has not put the bumper sticker back on the minivan but wishes to do so as a humorous and ironic expression," the complaint reads.


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94 N. Main Street, Jasper, GA - (706) 253-2457
Gordon Hamrick, Jr.
Mr. Gordon ?Phillip? Hamrick, Jr., age 86 of Jasper, Ga., passed away Monday, Nov. 23, 2009 at his residence following a period of declining health.
Born July 21, 1923 in Pickens County, he was the son of the late Gordon Phillip Hamrick, Sr. and Maggie Chapman Hamrick. He was also preceded in death by brothers, Bill and Richard Hamrick; and sister, Dorothy Otwell.
Mr. Hamrick was a US Army veteran, having served in Germany during WWII. He had worked in the poultry industry for 30 years, but most recently had worked as a real estate agent. Mr. Hamrick was a member of Jasper United Methodist Church.
Survivors include his wife of 63 years, Mrs. Freddie W. Hamrick, Jasper; daughters and sons-in-law, Phyllis H. and Howard (Peewee) Walker and Cheryl H. and Steve Sewell, all of Jasper; granddaughter, Stacia Walker; and great-grandsons, Wesley Roland and wife Megan and Matthew Mullins. Several nieces, nephews and other relatives also survive.
The funeral service was held at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 25 from Jasper United Methodist Church with the Revs. Chip Wilson and Max Caylor officiating. Entombment followed in Sunrise Memorial Gardens Mausoleum. Pallbearers were: Louis Hamrick, Jim Otwell, Kip and Chris Wilbanks, Kirby Young and Kirk Garner. The Jasper Banking Co. Board of Directors served as honorary pallbearers. Donations may be made to JUMC Building Fund, 85 W Church St., Jasper, Ga. 30143. Roper Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
Rose Taylor
Rose Lee Taylor, stillborn infant of Hugh and Julie Taylor of Danielsville, Ga., died Friday, Nov. 20. 2009 at St. Mary?s Hospital in Athens, Ga.
Survivors include her parents, Hugh and Julie Taylor; brothers, James Wolf Taylor, Danielsville, and Anthony Wayne Taylor, Jasper; sister, Shannon Lee Taylor, Jasper; grandparents, George James Edwards and wife Sharon, Blue Ridge, and Linda Diane Terrel, Marble Hill. Several aunts, uncles and cousins also survive.
A graveside service was held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 25 from Lake Forest Memorial Park with the Rev. Donald Phillips officiating. Roper Funeral was in charge of arrangements.
Seth Holloway
Mr. Seth J. Holloway, age 25 of Canton, passed away on Sunday, Nov. 22, 2009 in Sevierville, Tn.
Mr. Holloway was a member of Shiloh Baptist Church.
Survivors include his mother, Tena Holloway, Ball Ground; father, Ricky Holloway, Canton; sisters, Lacey Campbell, Canton, Shawna Roland, Jasper, and Starla Holloway, Canton; brother, Shane Holloway, Canton; and grandmother, Martha Holloway, Canton. Several aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews also survive.
The funeral service was held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 25 from Shiloh Baptist Church with the Rev. Robert Matthews officiating. Interment followed in Cherokee Memorial Park. Sosebee Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
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Earnest Fields
Mr. Earnest Hamilton Fields, age 55 of Talking Rock, passed away Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009. He was of the Baptist faith. He was preceded in death by his father, J.C. Fields; and brother, Loyd Yancey.
Survivors include his mother, Lillie Fields, Dahlonega; sisters and brothers-in-law, Donna and Tommy Roper, Gainesville, Lisa Franklin, Canton, and Sue and Gerald Coker, Lavonia; brother, Jimmy Fields, Dahlonega; and friend/cousin, Gene Garland, Talking Rock. A number of nieces, nephews and other relatives also survive.
The funeral service was held Saturday, Nov. 28 at 2 p.m. from Ingram Funeral Home Chapel with the Revs. Charles Blackstock and Frank Whitmire officiating. Interment followed in Long Swamp Baptist Church Cemetery in Jasper.
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Barbara Ray
Mrs. Barbara Ray, age 49 of Jasper, passed away Friday, Nov. 27, 2009 at her residence.
Mrs. Ray was employed in the lunchroom at Teasley Middle School. She was Baptist.
Survivors include her children, Christopher (Brandi) Couch and Kimberly Ray, all of Jasper; step-sons, Kerry Ray, Jasper, and Ricky Ray, Marietta; grandchildren, Peyton and Parker Couch and Justin Ray; mother, Betty Marshall, Canton; brothers, Grady Marshall, Cartersville, Billy Marshall, Ellijay, and Jimmy Ray, South Carolina; and sisters, Debbie Green, Cartersville, Gina Swaney, Canton, and Renea Moore, South Carolina. Several nieces and nephews also survive.
The funeral service was held at 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 29 from Sosebee Memorial Chapel with the Rev. James Chumley officiating. Interment followed in Philadelphia Baptist Church Cemetery in Jasper.
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Roy Collis
Mr. Roy Collis, age 94 of the Jerusalem Community, passed early Friday morning, Nov. 27, 2009 at Piedmont Mountainside Hospital in Jasper.
Survivors include his sons and daughters-in-law, Coye and Sulane Collis and Troy Lee and Janice Collis, all of the Jerusalem Community; brother, Lloyd Collis, Pine Log; and sister, Estelle Childers, Jerusalem Community. Three grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews also survive.
The funeral service was held Sunday, Nov. 29 at 2 p.m. from Jerusalem Baptist Church with the Revs. Buddy Roper, Leon Goodwin and Eugene Childers officiating. Interment followed in the church cemetery with Pickens Star Lodge #220 in charge of Masonic graveside services. Pallbearers were: Joel, Noel and Tyler Collis, Bryant Herron, Mitchell Silvers, Troy McElroy and E.C. Kelley. Honorary pallbearers were: Luke Collis and Conner, Kamryn and Reilly Herron. Cagle Funeral Home in charge of the arrangements.
David Johnston
Mr. David Richard Johnston, age 67 of Jasper (Bent Tree), passed early Saturday morning, Nov. 28, 2009 at Piedmont Mountainside Hospital in Jasper.
Survivors include his wife, Lyn Johnston, Bent Tree; sons and daughters-in-law, Christopher and Antonella Johnston and Eric and Mary Johnston; step-sons and wives, Brant Marklund and Erick and Julie Marklund; grandchildren, Christina and Chad Johnston and Marshall and Ethan Marklund; sister and brother-in-law, Judy and Don Tatge; and brother and sister-in-law, Ron and Edie Johnston. Many of his friends also survive.
A celebration of life was held on Tuesday, Dec. 1 at 5 p.m. from New Lebanon Presbyterian Church at Bent Tree. Memorials may be made to the CF Foundation, Pickens Animal Rescue or New Lebanon Church. Cagle Funeral Home in charge of the arrangements.
Calvin DuBose, Sr.
Edwin Calvin DuBose, Sr., age 75, died peacefully on Nov. 27, 2009 surrounded by his loving family.
Calvin was born near Monroe, N.C. on Sept. 13, 1934 to John Calvin and Estelle Margaret DuBose. At the age of three, Calvin and his family moved to Jacksonville, Fl. where they resided until moving to Atlanta in 1951.
He attended Georgia State University and Southern Polytechnic State University. In 1956 he married the love of his life, Mary Ann Hornsby. On Oct. 12, 2009 they celebrated their 53rd wedding anniversary. They have two children, Carol Griggs and Calvin DuBose, Jr., and two grandchildren, twins Isabella and Grayson DuBose.
Calvin loved the insurance business. In fact, he saw to it that both his children and younger brother joined his profession. He was a life-time member of the Million Dollar Round Table, which is a distinguished honor.
In 1976 he was instrumental in establishing a bank which later became part of Regions Financial. For years he served as chairman of the board of the Jasper and Ellijay branches of Regions Bank. He also served as chairman of the Friends of Pickens County Library. Calvin loved the Lord and faithfully served his church where he was a member of the Gideon Sunday School Class.
Calvin loved sports of all kind. He once said, ?If you can bounce it, throw it, catch it, kick it, hit it, ride it, shoot it, ski it,? he wanted to be a part of it.
Calvin is survived by his loving wife, Mary Ann DuBose, Jasper, Ga.; son and daughter-in-law, E. Calvin DuBose, Jr. and Karen DuBose, MD, Cumming, Ga.; daughter and son-in-law, Carol Griggs and Richard Herring, Marietta, Ga.; brothers and sisters-in-law, Francis and Joan DuBose, Marana, Az., and Dale and Ann DuBose, Suwanee, Ga.; grandchildren, twins Grayson and Isabella DuBose, Cumming, Ga.; nieces, Tara Anderson, Lake Charles, La., and Shannon Campbell, Tucker, Ga.; and nephews, Kevin DuBose, Apex, N.C., and Brent and Wesley DuBose, both of Suwanee, Ga.
The funeral service was held at 11 a.m. Monday, Nov. 30 from Jasper First Baptist Church with the Rev. Jimmy Lewis officiating. Interment followed in Big Canoe Cemetery. Pallbearers were: Brent, Wesley and Grayson DuBose, Tom Sloope, Stephen Campbell and Chris Jarrett. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Calvin?s honor to the First Baptist Church of Jasper Building Fund, Friends of Pickens County Library or Georgia Mountain Hospice. Cagle Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Charles Austin
Charles F. Austin, age 78 of Marietta and Talking Rock, passed away on Thursday, Nov. 26, 2009.
Born and raised in Wenatchee, Wa., he later attended Los Angeles City College and University of Southern California. He served as a court reporter in the US Navy during the Korean War. He lived in Hollywood where he worked as a Press Agent for such notable stars as Debbie Reynolds, John Wayne and Pat Boone. While in Los Angeles, he reported for UPI and handled Public Relations for the Ice Capades. Moving to the Atlanta area in 1967, he began a career in advertising for Georgia Power, then as a copywriter for Liller, Neal, Battle and Lindsey and as Creative Director for the McDonald and Little Agency.
He is survived by his sons, Michael Patrick Austin and wife Amy, Smyrna, Ga., Rex Austin and wife Sherrie, Nashville, Tn., and Richie Austin, former wife Malline Austin, good friend Liz Helenek. Eight grandchildren also survive.
His many creative talents were only exceeded by his keen sense of humor. He will be missed by all who knew and loved him. Graveside service will be at Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, in Villa Rica, Ga.


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DragonForce Book Studio Time in May to Start Recording New Album
DragonForce now have one full album under their belt with new frontman Marc Hudson and are moving full steam ahead toward their second disc with the singer. In a new update, the band reveals that writing has finished on their second album with Hudson and recording will begin in May.
Hudson replaced former frontman ZP Theart on 'The Power Within' disc and gave the band a new dimension. In our interview with guitar great Herman Li last year, the axeman praised the new vocalist, stating, "Marc's voice because it's so large in terms of range from low to high, we're able to try different things out and have more dynamics on the album with. We're not just singing high all the time, we can sing low, we can sing mid range, we can sing everything."
As for the new record and their recent writing sessions, the band laid it all out in a new Facebook posting. The group will enter Fascination Studios in Sweden next month with producer Jens Bogren, who has been behind the boards for standout releases from Opeth, The Devil Townsend Project, Amon Amarth, Katatonia, Soilwork and Symphony X among others.
Li says of the band's current mindset, "Right now, everyone in the band is itching to get into the studio to record probably the most epic DragonForce music ever written. With so many ideas flying around and songs already written, we decided to team up with producer Jens Bogren to help us take the DF sound to the next level and beyond!"
At present, the new album is priority No. 1, as there are currently only a pair of late April festival performances before the band hits the studio, and nothing booked again until their June 9 appearance at Sonisphere in Amneville, France. The group has booked a number of European festival shows this summer, but a full-on trek has not been announced. Their current itinerary can be seen here.


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According to my software, this blog post you are reading is the 7000th article I have published on the Bad Astronomy Blog.
That's a lot of words. It's also a lot of astronomy, geekery, science, antiscience, web comics, puns, embiggenates, and "Holy Haleakala!"s (61, to be exact, plus this one to make 62).
I am generally not one to wade into maudlin celebrations of arbitrary numbers, so instead I'll celebrate this milestone by showing you something appropriate: the North America Nebula, taken by Mexican astronomer César Cantú.
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Why is this appropriate? Because the New General Catalog of astronomical objects - familiar to and used by astronomers across the planet - lists it as entry number 7000.
And it should be obvious why it's named as it is.
Of course, I can't leave you with just a pretty picture. This nebula is something of a mystery; we don't know how big it is or how far away it lies. In the sky, it's very near the star Deneb - which marks the tail of the swan constellation Cygnus - and Deneb is a massive, hot, and luminous star. It's possible the gas in the nebula is glowing due to the light from Deneb; if so NGC 7000 is about 1800 light years away and over 100 light years across.
It's the site of furious star formation, too, with stars being born all along the bright sharp region which look like Mexico and Central America. The "Gulf of Mexico" region - the darker area with fewer stars - is actually the location of thick interstellar dust that blocks the light from the stars behind it. Visible light, that is; the dust glow in the infrared, so if you look at it with a telescope that sees IR like the Spitzer Space Telescope, what is invisible becomes ethereally visible:
This mosaic shows the North America Nebula in different wavelengths of light: in the upper left is visible light; the upper right is visible plus infrared, so you can see the two together; the lower left shows infrared light from 3.6 to 8 microns (roughly 5 - 11 times the longest wavelength the human eye can detect), and the lower right is similar but going out to 24 microns, over 30 times the wavelength we can see. The visible light images show the gas, while the infrared show not only the dust, but the warm spots where stars are being born, their new light penetrating the surrounding cocoons of material, reaching across space, and finally ending its journey here on Earth where we can detect it and learn from it.
I've struck upon many ideas for this blog over the past seven years, six months, and one week I've been writing it, but one of the most important is this: not everything is as it seems. Whether it's someone's opinion, a "fact", a picture, an argument, or even a vast sprawling cloud of gas and baby stars a thousand trillion kilometers across, this much is what astronomy and critical thinking has taught me: What you see depends very much on how you see it. And if you want a more complete picture, something that ever-approaches reality, you must view the Universe with different eyes and with an open, but trained mind. Only then will you not get fooled, and not fool yourself.
Thank you honestly and sincerely to everyone who's been along with me this far into the ride, here on my 7000th milestone. There's still a long way to go, of course, but it's the journey itself that's so much fun!
Image credits: César Cantú; NASA/JPL-Caltech/L. Rebull (SSC/Caltech)/D. De Martin


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Misquoting me makes you sound stupid. So does taking what I say out of context, putting words in my mouth, and drawing false conclusions based on things I've said.
That out of the way, I keep seeing the same poor, tired arguments and examples repeated over and over around the Internet. Either folks are writing about self-publishing for the very first time, and naturally falling into the lazy trap of not thinking clearly, or they're purposely trying to disguise failed ideas as something new, like intelligent design and creationism. (Just to be clear--intelligent design is no different than creationism, and creationism is flat-out wrong. Period.)
Here are some outright falsehoods that continue to perpetuate.
Ebooks hurt the eyes.
E-ink technology is passive, just like staring at a piece of paper. There is no eye strain.
I'll never give up print books because I love them too much.
It's always painful to embrace a new technology. But everyone eventually does, and winds up liking it. That's why it gets embraced, and why we no longer read on scrolls.
You can only succeed with ebooks if you have a built-in platform.
There have been too many success stories of people without built-in platforms. If you can't find them, you aren't looking. Try Kindleboards.com.
So much self-pubbed crap will be published, you won't be able to find the good stuff.
Debunked that here.
Low prices devalue books.
The value of a book is how much money it earns, not its cover price. Low priced ebooks sell more copies and make more money.
You can't publish something of quality without a publisher.
Too many examples say otherwise. Go find some.
Konrath is a hypocrite who once said self-pub is bad.
Prior to 2007, self-pubbing was a bad idea. The Kindle changed that, and I changed my mind. I tend to change my mind as new information comes in.
Konrath and Eisler are hypocrites who said they're self publishers, and then they signed with Amazon.
I signed with Amazon for two books, out of 36 I've self-published. Barry signed for one, and has self-pubbed four. We're both still self-publishing. Besides, we've covered, ad nauseum, why Amazon is not a legacy publisher.
Konrath is paying his agent 15% for all of his self-pubbed work.
No, I'm trying it out with one title to see how it works. I'd love to pay someone 15% to manage the business end. We'll see what happens.
Konrath had to self-pub because his sales were lousy.
I've had eight books published by the Big 6. Contrary to some poor reporting, all have earned out their advances, and I kept getting offers up until I stopped submitting. All of my books are still in print. Yet I've made much more money, faster, by self-pubbing.
Self-pubbed books aren't edited.
They are if you hire an editor.
Konrath's legacy sales are the reason is self-pubbed sales are so good.
The opposite is true. My legacy pubbed books are getting a boost from my self-pubbed books, as evidenced by my sales. I sell far more self-pub than legacy pub.
Konrath is intentionally controversial because he wants the attention.
The point of this blog is to help authors, not to sell books. For the past year I've avoided interviews and most speaking engagements. I don't want attention. But I'm not afraid to speak up if I think it will help authors.
Many publishers, agents, booksellers, and even authors, don't want to hear my message, and criticize it, and me. None of their arguments hold any water. They're frightened of the future, and want someone to blame for it, and for their own problems.
Piracy will hurt ebook sales.
No, it won't. And since that blog post, I've been pirated many more times, and my sales have gone up.
Ebooks will never fully replace print.
No one is saying they will. But they're already outselling print, and will continue to be the dominant form of media for quite some time. That said, print will be around forever. There are billions of books on the planet, and they aren't going anywhere (though I do say otherwise in my novel Timecaster.) While the midlist will cease to exist in print, major bestsellers and niche publishers (including self publishers) will still use print, and can still make money from it.
After all, you can go to Best Buy and get Metallica's latest on vinyl. This is, however, for a very small percentage of users, not the general masses.
Publishers are necessary.
I've never born witness to a greater comedy of errors than the multitude of mistakes publishers have made in regard to ebooks. Windowing, high prices, the agency model, low royalties, title grabs–it's embarrassing and an insult to both writers and book buyers. The fact that I've been able to make so much more money once I was freed from the constraints of the "experts" shows how little the experts can do for an author. And let's be honest here–it is all about what a publisher can do for an author. We are the content providers. You need us. We do not need you.
Am I missing any bad arguments? I'm sure I forgot a few.
The bottom line is that it's safer to dismiss me and my comments on a superficial level because analyzing them closer could cause nightmares for those who rely on the publishing industry to earn a living.
What I say isn't Gospel. It is my opinion based on my experience. (If you want to check how ahead of the game I've been on this topic, here's a post from 2009.)
I don't say things without thinking them through and having evidence and logic to back my beliefs up. I'm deliberate. If I'm unsure of something, I experiment and then share the results.
That's what everyone should be doing. Keeping an open mind. Experimenting. Tracking sales and stats and figures. Trying new things. Sharing their results.
Publishing used to be intensely private. No one knew what anyone else was earning or selling. I'm proud to see that trend shifting, with authors more open about their numbers than they've ever been before. The more information we can share, the more we can learn.
Ebooks are the future, the future is happening right now, and self-publishing is a viable way to make money. Anyone who says anything else has an agenda, and they're flat-out wrong. Period.
Thursday, August 04, 2011
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Yahoo is rolling out a brand new search engine today, with its own index and ranking mechanisms, casting aside its long-standing use of Google-powered search results. The move is bound to roil the industry and sets in motion a new race for the claim of web search champion.
Ever since Yahoo's acquisition of Inktomi nearly a year ago, speculation has focused on when the company would replace its Google powered search results with those from the Inktomi index.
In a surprising move, Yahoo isn't replacing Google with Inktomi. Rather, the company has developed a brand new search engine, drawing on the lessons learned from what the company calls the "critical mass" of search engineering talent that it has brought together through hiring and acquisitions, as well as investment in infrastructure and product quality.
"High quality, talented search engineers are in very short supply these days," said Jeff Weiner, Yahoo's senior vice president of search and marketplace. "Regardless of how good your planning process is, at the end of the day it comes down to people and chemistry."
Weiner said Yahoo has waited until now to make the switch from Google to be certain users would have the best experience possible after the transition. "It was absolutely essential to us that we had a roadmap in place that not only let us sustain our quality, but build on it."
Although the change to self-powered search results is a radical change, Yahoo has steadily made incremental improvements in its search capabilities for more than a year. In October 2002, the company made the most significant change to its operation since its birth, replacing its human-compiled directory listings with Google search results.
Then in April of last year, the company rolled out its new Yahoo Search, introducing a streamlined search page. It also added new tabs to search result pages offering access to its directory listings, news, images, and yellow pages.
Today's launch is the beginning of a progressive rollout that will take place over the next few weeks. It is also the beginning of numerous planned enhancements focusing on web search, personalization and vertical search.
It's important to note that the new search engine is for web results only. Image search is still powered by Google, and News search is still a combination of Yahoo's own editorial and technological resources.
How does the new Yahoo search engine differ from Google? The presentation of the results is very similar. Yahoo has wisely opted to keep things looking mostly the same, with a few exceptions. There's a linked to the cached copy of each indexed page — now being served from Yahoo, not Google — but the "more pages from this site" link is gone. Just about everything else on search result pages looks the same.
The actual results returned by Google and Yahoo depends on the query. For popular or common queries, there seemed to be very little difference between the two engines in top few results. But once you get past those, the results tend to diverge dramatically. And for less common or non-popular queries, Yahoo results look quite different from Google results.
While Yahoo and Google are likely using similar algorithms, one reason for the differences in what's displayed is that Yahoo's email and search teams are now working together to leverage what they've learned about spam. Since Yahoo mail processes billions of email messages, this knowledge is likely quite helpful in providing Yahoo with a much deeper understanding of the characteristics of spam — and helping keep the nasty stuff out of the web page index.
Bottom line: I'm impressed with the quality of results that Yahoo is delivering. It's a very viable alternative to Google and the other "last engine standing," Ask Jeeves/Teoma.
What's Being Indexed?
The Yahoo Search index is capturing the full text of web pages, up to a 500K limit. This is greater than the 101K maximum indexed by Google. A broad range of file types, including HTML, PDF, and Microsoft Office documents is also included in the mix.
In addition to indexing the full text of web pages, the new service is also indexing the contents of the meta keyword tag, something that virtually no other search engines pay attention to. If a page has an associated RSS page containing XML metadata (such as this one for Search Engine Watch) the content of that page is also indexed.
The new crawler is adaptive, meaning it attempts to understand how often documents change. Yahoo frequently crawls documents that change often. Documents that haven't changed in a long time are recrawled less frequently. Newly discovered documents and millions of frequently changing documents are refreshed in a daily crawl. New content and pages that have changed are pushed to the index twice per week.
There is no major monthly massive rebuild of the index, in the fashion of the Google dance. Theoretically, this means that Yahoo's index may be fresher than Google's, though Google itself refreshes a lot of frequently changing content without waiting for the monthly rebuild. Until we can do more comparison testing between the two, the jury's out on whether Google or Yahoo has the fresher index.
How big is Yahoo's index? They aren't saying, despite Google's announcement yesterday that it has expanded its index to nearly 4.3 billion documents (6 billion, if you count images and newsgroup postings, as Google does). In my tests, one Yahoo search result reported more than 2.1 billion documents found, so while Yahoo's index is apparently not quite as large as Google's, it's not tiny, either.
"We're very confident in the quality and size of our index, and we think the results speak for themselves," said Weiner.
What About AltaVista and AlltheWeb?
Last year, before Yahoo acquired Overture, Overture itself was busy acquiring AltaVista and AlltheWeb. Speculation at the time was that Overture would kill off AltaVista's technology, and power both search sites using the AlltheWeb index.
To the contrary, both search engines continued to maintain their own independent indexes. Then, in July 2003, Yahoo bought Overture. Less than a month later, Search Engine Watch editor Danny Sullivan and I visited AltaVista and AlltheWeb, and learned that the plan was to unify the two search engines, keeping the strongest technologies from both.
That was exciting news. But then nothing seemed to change. Today, both AltaVista and AlltheWeb continue to maintain separate indexes, and Yahoo isn't saying publicly whether this will change with the introduction of the new Yahoo Search Technology index.
Getting Pages Indexed in Yahoo Search
There are two ways to get content indexed in the new Yahoo search engine: by using a free URL submission box, or by using Yahoo's paid inclusion program.
Yahoo has added a free "add URL" box that you can access by becoming a registered Yahoo user and logging in to the service. Submitting a URL this way is a "suggestion" to have the page added to the crawl, but Yahoo stresses that this is not a guarantee that the page will be included.
To be certain your content is included, you'll need to use the Inktomi paid inclusion program. Somewhat confusingly, Yahoo continues to offer three paid inclusion programs. These are Inktomi's, AltaVista's, and AlltheWeb's (via Lycos). Until now, all three have been important to consider, to assure a broad reach in coverage.
But now, Inktomi's search submit (for small sites) and index connect (for sites with more than 1000 pages) are the only paid inclusion programs that feed into the new Yahoo Search Index.
Rumors have been circulating on many webmaster forums that Yahoo is planning major changes to its paid inclusion programs, perhaps unifying all three programs into a single solution, but the company declined to confirm that these changes are coming or when they will occur.
Should you consider using the Inktomi paid inclusion programs? If you want broad reach, the answer is an unequivocal yes. The new Yahoo Search Technology index not only provides web search results on Yahoo and its various properties, but is now powering Yahoo partners that formerly used the Inktomi index, such as MSN Search, About.com, Goo and others.
Spam guidelines are similar to those previously published by Inktomi and AlltheWeb. While the specific guidelines weren't yet available at the time I filed this story, Yahoo says they will be online soon.
What's Coming Next
In addition to continually working to improve the quality of its web search results, Yahoo plans to put particular emphasis in the coming months on personalization and vertical search. The company's My Yahoo portal already offers extensive content customization options.
Newly released features like the SmartSort option in Yahoo Shopping, which provides very specific product advice for digital cameras, mp3 players, computers and other electronic devices based on criteria you enter, is one example. The ability to add RSS feeds to your My Yahoo page is another.
"Ultimately we want to understand the intention of the user, and I think we're going to get closer to that through personalization," said Weiner.
In the vertical search arena, Yahoo plans to focus on local, travel, personals, and its Hot Jobs search portal.
But these moves are clearly just the beginning of many more to come at Yahoo. "Over time you're going to see Yahoo extend our search technology, and ultimately into our media properties," said Weiner. "To a large extent that will help drive our growth."
And give Google, Ask Jeeves, and Microsoft good reason to be even more attentive to the quality of their search results. The coming year promises to be a very good one for searchers.
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Abgesang: See bar form.
Abhandlung von der Fuge: "Treatise on the Fugue"
Acadamie royale de musique: "Royal Academy of Music"
Augmentation: Statement of a motive or melody in rhythmic proportions longer than the original
Bar Form: German poetic form consisting of three stanzas, each stanza beginning with two Stollen followed by an Abgesang. When set to music, this type of poetry yields a two-part schematic (AAB) in which the repeating section "A" is called the Stollen and the non-repeating section "B" the Abgesang. This form is employed in most chorales as well as much German folk music.
Accademia di Santa Cecilia: "Academy of St. Cecilia" (Cecilia is the patron saint of music and musicians)
Alt-Bachisch Archive: "Archive of the Early Bachs"
Amalien-Bibliothek: "library of Amalia"
Anthem: a sacred choral composition, in English, accompanied or unaccompanied, intended for use in the Protestant liturgy. Analogous to motet in the Roman rite.
Apotheosis: a person or an ideal that has been glorified or deified.
Architectonic: the science of architecture and structural design; the science of systematizing knowledge.
Aria: Movement from an opera, oratorio, or cantata for solo or duo voices as opposed to full chorus. The melodic, lyrical, and often virtuoso, characteristics of the aria stand in contrast to the recitative.
Bach Gesellschaft: "Bach Society" initiated by Robert Schumann in 1850 (sponsored by the publishers Breitkopf & HÄrtel), dedicated to the revival and reprinting of Bach's music.
Bach: in German the word "Bach" means literally "brook" or "stream."
Ballet: a performance by dancers accompanied by music (usually not choral).
Basso Continuo: the part of a baroque score (figured bass part) played on two instruments (generally organ or harpsichord and bassoon or 'cello); the musicians who play such a part.
Blasiuskirche: Church of St. Blasius
Bromide: a trite saying or statement; a platitude.
BWV: abbreviation for "Bach Werke-Verzeichnis" (thematic catalog of the works of J. S. Bach edited by W. Schmieder).
Cantata: an unstaged secular or sacred composition, with several movements, for single voice or voices (alternating aria, duet, recitative, full chorus, etc.), normally accompanied by instruments. The vocal equivalent of sonata.
Cantor: In Roman Catholic or Jewish services, the one who sings or chants solo portions of the liturgy as opposed to the chorus; in the Protestant tradition, a director of music.
Cantus Firmus: literally "firm chant," a pre-existing melody such as a chorale tune to which counterpoint has been set. See Cantus Firmus unit from Mus 303 class.
Canzona: an important Italian instrumental form of the 16th and 17th centuries, evolved from the French chanson, and precursor of the 18th-century sonata.
Cappella Sistina: the papal choir of the Sistine chapel.
Capriccio: an highly imitative precursor of the fugue that was less restrained than other precursors such as the canzona, fantasia, or ricercar, and often featuring a theme intended to represent an event.
Centenarian: in 1415, a century before Martin Luther, the Bohemian priest John Huss had been burned at the stake with these last words: "They may roast a goose now (Huss means goose), but in 100 years God will raise up a swan they will neither burn nor roast."
Chamber Music: music that is played by one person on a part: e.g. string quartet, trio sonata, solo sonata, etc.
Chamber Piece: music that is played by one person on a part: e.g. string quartet, trio sonata, solo sonata, etc.
Chamber Sonata: originally sonata "da camara" (chamber) and "da chiesa" (church) designated the place of performance, not style. In the 18th century the former came to mean a suite-like work with introduction and three or four dances.
Chamber Work: music that is played by one person on a part: e.g. string quartet, trio sonata, solo sonata, etc.
Chapel Master: English equivalent of Italian "Maestro di Cappella" and German Kapellmeister. One whose responsibility was to direct and/or compose the music in a church or private chapel.
Chorale: a hymn of the Lutheran church.
Chorale Cantata: a cantata that uses the same chorale melody as cantus firmus, or text, in each of the movements. Chorale cantatas typically conclude with simple setting of the chorale upon which each movement is based.
Chorale Partita: see Chorale Variation.
Chorale Prelude: an organ work, composed for use in a Protestant service, that develops motives from a hymn (chorale) or uses that hymn as a cantus firmus.
Chorale Fantasia: a chorale prelude that employs an ornamented version of the chorale melody as cantus firmus See fantasia and Decorated Cantus Firmus unit from Mus 303 class.
Chorale Fugue: a chorale prelude (or other instrumental work) that uses motives from a (chorale) as fugue's subject. In this context the term "fugue" is used rather loosely, more like fugato. Except for the difference of instrumentation, chorale fugue as a procedure is synonymous with chorale motet.
Chorale Motet: a choral work that uses motives from a (chorale) as fugue's subject. In this context the term "fugue" is used rather loosely, more like fugato. Except for the difference of instrumentation, chorale motet as a procedure is synonymous with chorale fugue. See Ein feste Burg Cantata BWV 80.
Chorale Variation: theme and variation work for organ or harpsichord in which a chorale melody is the theme. Chorale variations are essentially a series of chorale preludes on the same tune. Unlike chorale preludes, however, chorale variations tend to display more virtuosic idioms. Chorale variations of Pachelbel and Bach are sometimes called partitas while those of Scheidt are called "versus."
Christ der du bist der helle Tag: "Christ, Thou Who Art the Bright Day"
Church Sonata: originally sonata "da chiesa" (church) and "da camera" (chamber) designated the place of performance, not the style. In the 18th century the former came to designate a four-movement work: slow-fast-slow-fast.
Clavier: Fr. (later Gr. then Eng.) word for keyboard. Could, depending on the century and place, refer primarily to harpsichord, clavichord, organ, or piano.
Collegium Musicum: an organization of amateurs working together to perform serious music.
Combination Tone: phenomenon first noticed by Tartini in 1714 wherein the playing of two pitches produces a third pitch the frequency of which is the difference between the pitches that generate it (usually much lower than the first two).
Concerted: any musical composition that contrasts opposing timbres or performance forces; polychoral music; music involving spacial separation between instrumental/ choral ensembles
Concerto Grosso: a concerto that contrasts the timbre of the full orchestra (ripieno) with those of a smaller group of instruments (concertino). The most important orchestral genre of the baroque.
Concerto: an instrumental composition featuring alternating passages dominated by the orchestra and passages dominated by a solo instrument (solo concerto) or small group of instruments (concerto grosso).
Conservatorio de' mendicanti: music conservatory for commoners.
Consistory: a clerical board responsible for matters pertaining to policies and personnel.
Consonance: an entirely subjective term that is applied to combinatons of pitches considered, depending upon the time period, to be pleasing to the ear.
Contrapuntal: music consisting primarily of simultaneously sounding and rhythmically independent melodies (as opposed to music having a single melody accompanied by other voices).
Contrapuntist: one who writes counterpoint.
Counterpoint: from the Latin "punctus contra punctum" (point against point), denotes the compositional practices that are invoked when one writes simultaneously sounding melodies.
Das Beschützte Orchestra: "The Accomplished Orchestra"
Der Generalbass in der Composition: "The Thoroughbass in Composition" is one of the most important music theory treatises of the 18th century.
Der vollkommene Capellmeister: "The Perfect Chapel Master"
Die Kunst des reinen Satzes in der Musik: "The Art of Strict Musical Composition"
Diet of Worms: In 1521 the Holy Roman Emperor summoned Luther before the Imperial Diet, at Worms, to seek a compromise. When Luther would not compromise he was excommunicated.
Difference Tone: phenomenon first noticed by Tartini in 1714 wherein the playing of two pitches produces a third pitch the frequency of which is the difference between the pitches that generate it (usually much lower than the first two).
Dilettante: a lover of the fine arts.
Diminution: Statement of a motive or melody in rhythmic proportions shorter than the original
Dissonance: term applied to combinations of pitches that are subjectively determined to be harsh sounding or displeasing to the ear.
Dogma: a body of beliefs, tenets, or doctrines authoritatively confirmed or taught by the Church.
Durchführung = German word for middle entries of the fugue's subject subsequent to the exposition (that is, during developmental episodes). This same word is used of the development section of Sonata-Allegro.
Ehrenpforte: "Gateway of honor"
Ein feste Burg (ist unser Gott): "A Mighty Fortress (Is Our God)"
Elector: Title given to German princes who were entitled to vote for the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
Ex nihilo: "Out of nothing," normally used in conjunction with theistic special creation, where God created the universe out of no pre-existing material.
Fantasia: an highly imitative but improvised-sounding composition in which "fantasy" (freedom) takes precedence over form.
Figural Music: a term widely denoting many types of written compositions; in the 18th century, more complicated choral music with instrumental accompaniment.
Figured Bass: a form of musical shorthand used during the 17th and 18th centuries. The bass line was written out while the chords were symbolized by figures or numbers.
Florentine Academics: The "Florentine Camarata" was a group of late 16th-century composers and teachers from the city of Florence.
Forkel: Johann Nicolaus Forkel's "Über J. S. B.'s Leben, Kunst, und Kunswerke" (on J. S. Bach's Life, Art and Work, Leipzig 1820) was the first major biography of the composer, and foundation for all subsequent biographies.
Fortspinnung: term used by the Germans to describe music that is a rather consistent "spinning forth" of the same motive; that is, most European music since 1600, but especially music of the baroque.
Fugato: a passage in a fugal style that characterizes a portion of a composition that is not a fugue. Fugal style means having a motive that functions as subject and is answered at another pitch level.
Fughetta: a short fugue, typically a fugal exposition without development.
Fundamental Bass: term used by Rameau meaning the root of each successive chord in a progression of chords; sometimes used interchangeably with thoroughbass.
Gallant: term denoting the mid- to late- 18th-century style known as "rococo" (light and elegant), as opposed to the serious and heavily-ornamented baroque.
Gott ist mein König: "God is My King"
Gradus ad Parnassum: "Steps to Parnassus"; in Greek mythology Parnassus was the mountain dwelling of the muses. A composer, having climbed Parnassus, would, according to the metaphor--have achieved a perfect compositional technique.
Handbuch bey dem Generalbasse und der Composition: "Handbook on the Thoroughbass and Composition"
Harmonic Series: a series of pitches that are acoustically present in what the ear perceives to be a SINGLE pitch. The relative loudness of each pitch in the series is what determines a pitch's timbre.
Harmony: pitches sounding simultaneously in time; the study of such pitches.
Hausmann: director of music for the town
Historisch-kritische Beiträge: "Historical-Critical Edition (or Reference)"
Hofkapelle: "royal chapel"
HofKomponist: "court composer"
Hofmusicus: "court musician"
Hortus Musicus: "musical garden"
Hutter Compendium: doctrinal statement of the Lutheran Church in accordance with the 1536 Formula of Concord (a theological treatise and military alliance between German Lutherans and certain Swiss Protestants).
'il furibondo Geminiani: "the frenzied (or mad) Geminiani"
Incidental Music: music that is written for a play. Such music might consist of dances, marches, etc. to be played during scenes, or short introductions and postludes to be played before and after each scene.
Indulgence: a certificate declaring that its bearer had been forgiven for a particular sin. Luther preached that forgiveness was not for sale, that one need only ask God, in faith (sola fide), to be forgiven.
Institutioni Harmoniche: "Institute of Harmony," probably the most important treatise on music theory to come out of the Renaissance.
Inventio: literally "invention," a term used by 18th-century theorists to designate the essential motive expressive of the "affect" (Gr. Affekt) of a work, from which the remainder of the work was supposed to derive by elaboration.
Invention: Bach's title for 30 short imitative keyboard works (1720-23) in two and three parts. While Vitali and Bonporti also used the term "invention," their works are very different; today the term is used almost exclusively in reference to Bach.
Inversion: two contrapuntal lines repeated after having switched positions: low voice becoming high and high becoming low. In a canon, inversion means moving the follower voice in the opposite direction of the leader.
Invertibility: the possibility that a triad might appear with the root in a position other than as the lowest pitch; the possibility that two melodies (high and low) might switch positions.
Italian Concerto: a solo grosso or concerto grosso typically in three movements (fast slow fast) in which each movement often takes a ritornello form.
Jacobikirche: St. James's Church
Janus-faced: in Roman mythology Janus was the two-faced patron god of beginnings and endings; two-faced, deceiving.
Johanniskirche: Church of St. John
Kapelldirektor: "director of music in the chapel"
Kapellmeister: literally "chapel master"; title for one whose responsibilities were to compose and/or conduct the music at a church, cathedral, or royal chapel.
Kitsch: a work of art that is shallow, pretentious, gaudy, without substance, or calculated to have popular appeal.
Klavier: Gr. spelling of Fr. word clavier for keyboard. Could, depending on the century and place, refer primarily to harpsichord, clavichord, organ, or piano.
Klosterschule: monastery (or convent) school
Konzertmeister: "concert master"; in Bach's day this responsibility often included directing the ensemble in addition to playing in it.
L'art de toucher le clavecin: "The Art of Playing the Harpsichord"
Lamento Bass: "lamenting bass" (a bass line descending by half steps) was a gesture presumed by the 18th-century ear to represent the Affekt of sadness.
Lateinschule: grammar school
Libretto: the text of an opera, cantata, oratorio, or passion.
Liebfrauenkirche: "Church of Our Lady"
Liturgy: the authorized or sanctioned acts and orders of worship in a Jewish or Christian church (particularly Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran, and Anglican).
Madrigal: primarily a 16th-century choral idiom developed in Italy, patterned after certain poetic forms (often Petrarch), and later exported to England.
Maestro di Cappella: literally "master of the chapel"; title for one whose responsibilities were to compose and/or conduct the music at a church, cathedral, or royal chapel.
Magnificat: Latin for "magnify" from "My soul doth magnify the Lord," the virgin Mary's song of thanksgiving as recorded in the Gospel of Luke.
Margrave (Gr. Markgraf): hereditary title for governor of a province in Germany 'Markgrafschaft' until the late 19th century, originally military governor of a county's de-marc-ation (same word-origin)
Marienkirche: Church of Mary
Mass: the sacred liturgy first of the Roman Catholic church, and later of the Lutheran and Anglican rites, in which the Last Supper of Jesus, or Holy Eucharist, is celebrated. Derived from the priest's last words "Ite missa est" (the table is concluded).
Mass Ordinary: Those portions of the Mass which are "ordinary" in any service, any Sunday of the church year...as opposed to the proper elements which are linked to particular services in the year.
Mass Proper: Those portions of the Mass which are "proper" to particular Sundays of the church year...not done in every service throughout the year like the Ordinary elements.
Meer: in German the word "Meer" means "ocean." Beethoven is making a pun on the word "Bach," which means "brook" in German.
Meistersinger: German minstrel who competed in singing contests of songs composed according to strict rules formulated by various craftsmen's guilds which offered prizes and status rankings (pupil, friend, singer, poet, and master).
Melody: pitches and rhythms sounding sequentially in time (one after the other).
Michaeliskirche: "Church of St. Michael"
Michaelisschule: "St. Michael's School"
Missa canonica: "canonic Mass"
Missa sine nomine: "Mass without a name"
Missa: Latin for Mass
Monadic: a style of vocal writing developed late in the 16th century in reaction to polyphony; solo song characterized by recitative-like declamation and accompanied by the thoroughbass.
Monochord: vibrating string of a fixed length that, when divided into various equal parts, produces all of the pitches considered to have been consonant. Favorite device of theorists to provide an acoustical justification for the idea of consonance.
Monody: a style of vocal writing developed late in the 16th century in reaction to polyphony; solo song characterized by recitative-like declamation and accompanied by the thoroughbass.
Morte e sepoltura di Cristo: "the death and burial of Christ."
Motet: generally an unaccompanied choral composition, in Latin, to a sacred text that is not part of the Mass ordinary or proper. In the German baroque, the motet was usually in the vernacular, and sometimes accompanied by instruments.
Motive: a very small melodic unit.
Musicalisches Lexicon: "Lexicon of Music and Musicians"
Nadir: opposite of zenith; the lowest point, time of greatest dejection or depression.
Neue Clavierübung: "New Keyboard Practice"
Neue Kirche: "New" Church
Nikolaikirche: "St. Nicolas Church"
Numerus perfectus: "perfect number" (the number six)
Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland: "Come, Savior of the Heathen"
O Gott, du frommer Gott: "O God, Thou Righteous God"
Obbligato: a melody of some independence that accompanies another musical idea. Historically the term has meant that the obbligato part is "obligatory" and cannot be omitted. Unfortunately the term is often used meaning the opposite. In German spelled "Obligato"
Ode: a strophic musical form having a free meter and patterned after Classical Greek or Latin poetry. An ode is usually in praise of a deity; it may contain several movements.
Oeuvre: French for "repertory" or the entire creative output of an artist.
Opera Buffa: "comic opera" in two acts as opposed to opera with a "serious" plot (opera seria), typically in three acts.
Opera Seria: 18th century "serious opera" in three acts and in the Italian style of A. Scarlatti or Handel (vis a vis opera buffa comic opera, in two acts).
Opera: a staged and acted secular musical drama, accompanied by orchestra, often preceded by an overture. The text is called a libretto. See opera buffa and opera seria
Oratorio: an unstaged drama or narrative of Biblical events composed for voices (alternating aria, narrator, recitative, full chorus, etc.) and accompanied by instruments.
Ornamentation: the 17th- through 19th-century practice of improvising decorative pitches in addition to those that are printed in the score.
Oude Kerk: a Dutch Reformed church.
Overture: an instrumental introduction to an opera, oratorio, cantata, suite (or similar instrumental work). Eighteenth-century overtures were of two distinct styles: Italian and French.
Parnassus: in Greek mythology Parnassus was the mountain dwelling of the muses. The implication of Fux's "Steps to Parnassus" was that a composer, having climbed Parnassus, would have achieved a perfect compositional technique.
Part Writing: a synthesis of practices and beliefs that composers of each style period tend to hold in common with respect to the types of motion permissible between related parts. See, voice leading.
Partita: in the 17th century, a variation; in 18th century Germany, variation of a chorale melody or often synonymous with suite.
Passion Music: an extended choral drama portraying the events of the last week of the life of Jesus Christ, traditionally performed in an unstaged liturgical environment on Good Friday.
Pièces de clavecin: "Compositions for Harpsichord"
Prelude: an instrumental piece that was written to be played before a hymn, ceremony, or other instrumental piece such as a suite or fugue.
Probe: a person interviewing for civic, municipal, or ecclesiastical employment would undergo a "test" or "trial" (examination) by the authorities. In the case of musicians the "Probe" normally involved an audition or concert.
Psalm: a choral setting of a Psalm text.
Quartet: a composition for four instruments and players (usually strings).
Rathsmusikus: a musician in service to the city council.
Recitative: a declamatory style of vocal delivery designed to approximate the natural rhythms and inflections of speech. The recitative was first employed in opera, later in oratorios, passions, and cantatas.
Requiem: literally "rest" (the first and last words of the Roman Catholic "Mass for the Dead"); came to designate that burial service.
Ricercar: term denoting a number of 17th-century instrumental types the most important of which was an highly imitative precursor of the 18th-century fugue.
Ritteracademie: School for Chivalry (Gallantry)
Ritornello: In 17th and 18th century opera, a short instrumental passage that recurs at various points in an aria or between sections of a lengthy choral work.
Sacred Service: may refer in its broadest sense to the liturgy of any Judeo-Christian group. A narrower meaning applies to the music of the Anglican or Jewish liturgies.
Scherzi Musicali: literally "musical jokes"
Schmalkaldic War: expulsion of Protestants from Moravia during the nascent counter-reformation (mid-16th century).
Sebalduskirche: "Church of Sebald"
Seconda Prattica: Italian for "second practice"
Secular Cantata: a vocal setting (choral, solo, or both) of poetry that is not from Holy Scripture or otherwise primarily religious.
Seminario musical dell' Ospedal della pieta: "School of Music at the Hospital of Compassion"
Senario: Term used by 16th-century music theorist, Gioseffo Zarlino, to denote the division of the monochord into six proportions, thereby enabling him to generate all consonances from one acoustical source.
Seventh Chord: a chord containing (or implying) four pitches: a root, third, fifth, and seventh.
Signum Perfectionis: "sign (or symbol) of perfection"
Singspiel: beginning in 1700, "Singspiel" was the German equivalent of the Italian "dramma per musica"--drama with music--which included serious and comic opera. Around 1750 the term came to mean comic opera with spoken dialog.
Soli Deo Gloria: "to God alone be the Glory." J. S. Bach often wrote this (or its abbreviation "S.D.G.") at the conclusion of his scores (secular as well as sacred).
Solo Cantata: multi-movement cantata for solo voice accompanied by instruments; may be sacred or secular.
Solo Concerto: an instrumental composition that contrasts the timbre of the full orchestra with that of a solo instrument; usually written so as to showcase the technical possibilities of the solo instrument and the skill of the performer.
Sonata: an instrumental composition for solo or ensemble that contains three or four sections or movements. See chamber sonata, church sonata, and trio sonata
Song: a composition for solo voice, usually accompanied by one or more instruments.
Species Counterpoint: a systematic categorization (simple to complicated) of 16th-century contrapuntal norms according to the complexity of motion and dissonance in each category (species); developed by J. J. Fux in "Gradus ad Parnassum."
Stabat Mater: a 13th-century sequence of the Roman Catholic Church "Stabat mater dolorosa..." that was added to the liturgy in 1727.
Stadtpfeifer: Town "piper" whose duties were to provide music for municipal and civic functions.
Stile Antico: also known as "Roman" or "Palestrina" style, a term used to refer to the 16th-century conservative, basically choral, style favored by the Roman church. Some composers continued to develop this style into the 18th and 19th centuries side-by-side with the more progressive idioms.
Stollen: See bar form.
Suite: an important instrumental form, of the baroque period, comprised of a series of movements (usually in the same key), patterned after popular dances, typically: allemande, courante, sarabande, gigue, and one more optional dance.
Symphony: beginning in the last half of the 18th century, a composition, for large instrumental ensemble, in the form of a sonata (from the first half of that century).
Teatro alla moda: "theater in the latest style"
Temporal: in music, those parameters--such as beat, rhythm, and meter--having to do with time.
Tertian: a branch of music theory that describes chords as pitches stacked on top of each other separated by the interval of a third. This theory is the basis for most tonal music.
Thaler (or Taler): a silver coin that was the monetary unit in 18th-century Germany; the root word from which we get "dollar."
Theorbo: a large instrument of the lute family.
Thirty Years' War: period between 1618 and 1648 when Protestants and Catholics of Spain, France, Sweden, Bohemia, the Netherlands, and the Holy Roman Empire were embroiled in a continuous state of war.
Thomaskirche: "St. Thomas Church"
Thomasschule: "St. Thomas School"
Thoroughbass: 17th- and 18th-century term denoting the basso continuo part or the performance practices associated with the playing of that part.
Toccata: a virtuoso piece for keyboard (usually organ or harpsichord) employing dazzling passage work and dramatic chords in an idiomatic setting for the instrument.
Tonus Contrarius: "contrary melody" (counterpoint) apparently in reference to highly ornamented and harmonically daring chorale variations that Bach composed after his return from hearing Buxtehude's Abendmusik.
Tonus Peregrinus: "pilgrim melody" in reference to a cantus firmus or accompanied chorale melody.
Traite de l'Harmonie: "Treatise on Harmony"
Trio Sonata: composition written in three parts but usually played by four people (the continuo part being "realized" by two musicians). The trio sonata was the most important instrumental form of the baroque.
Ursprung der musicalisch-Bachischen Familie: "Ancestry of the Musical Bach Family"
Versuch über di wahre Art das Clavier zu spielen: "Essay on the Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments"
Versuch einer Anweisung, die Flöte traversière zu spielen,"Method for Playing the Transverse Flute" (literally for playing the flute "widthwise" or "en chamade")
Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule: "School for acquiring knowledge of the Violin." Leopold Mozart's 1756 book on violin technique.
Viennese Classicism: the late 18th-century style of music typified by Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, all of whom worked in Vienna.
Viola Pomposa: while in Cöthen Bach invented this instrument of the violin family which had five strings, tuned much like a viola, but with a range between that of a viola and a 'cello.
Violinschule: "violin school"
Virtuoso: musician with extraordinary technical skills; a composition that requires such skills.
Voice Leading: a synthesis of practices and beliefs that composers of each style period tend to hold in common with respect to the types of motion permissible between related parts. See part writing.
Vorgemach der mus. Komposition: "the Rudiments of Music Composition"
Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern: "How Brightly Shines the Morning Star"
Zippel Fagottist: "nanny-goat bassoonist"


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Designed for a comprehensive coverage of GIS topics, this book is organized into three parts. Part 1 (chapters 1 to 8) covers the fundamentals of GIS including coordinate systems, data models, data input, data management, and data display. Part 2 (chapters 9 to 12) includes data exploration, analysis using vector and raster data, and terrain analysis. Part 3 (chapters 13 to 16) covers spatial interpolation, GIS modeling, regions, and network and dynamic segmentation. Also included in the book are new developments in GIS such as the object-oriented model and research-oriented questions such as the effect of spatial scale.
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Medical treatment for visitors to Denmark
You can get medical treatment anywhere in the country by contacting a Danish National Health Service doctor, during consultation hours. If you are in urgent need of medical care outside office hours, you can contact an emergency doctor (Lægevagten) at the Lægevagten website. Once on the site, click where you are on the map of Denmark to find the telephone number of the emergency doctor in your area.
Emergency medical care
If you are covered by public health care in an EU country, Iceland, Norway, Liechtenstein or Switzerland, you are entitled to emergency healthcare during your stay in Denmark.


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Basketball teams face new season with confidence
Men's and Women's hoopsters look to resume winning ways
The Brandeis men's basketball team looks to return to the NCAAs this season after capturing the ECAC Division III New England crown last March. The Judges lose just one significant player from 2010-11 in Christian Yemga '11, the team's leading rebounder. The Judges do return more than 90 percent of their scoring, more than 80 percent of their rebounding and the top scoring and FG percent defense (63.9 ppg and 41.6 percent) from a squad that finished 19-9, 6-8 in the UAA. Coach Brian Meehan's squad will look to duplicate their school-record 11-0 start and extend it further into the conference slate.
Leading the way among the returners are All-UAA honorees, senior guard Tyrone Hughes and sophomore forward/center Youri Dascy. Hughes finished second in the UAA in steals (1.8 spg) and fourth in assists (4.7 apg) while scoring 8.6 ppg and a career-high 3.4 rpg last season to earn second-team honors. He ranks seventh in career steals and 12th in career assists entering the season. Honorable mention Dascy was the team's leading scorer (10.7 ppg) and second-leading rebounder (5.0 rpg), while also leading the UAA with a 63.2 field-goal percentage. Senior forward/guard Vytas Kriskus, the team's second-leading scorer at 9.7 points per game, is one of just nine players in school history with 100 career 3-pointers and enters the season just under 300 points shy of 1,000 for his career.
Forward Ben Bartoldus, who was named the MVP of the ECAC tournament, matched Hughes in scoring at 8.6 ppg. Junior Anthony Trapasso stepped into the starting lineup for the Judges' final nine games of the season, averaging 6.6 ppg and shooting 46.5 percent from the field in that span. Sharpshooter Derek Retos, returns to bring instant offense off the bench after connecting on 42.5 percent from downtown for the season. Sophomore Ruben Kanya started five games in the backcourt and averaged five points per game in conference action, while sophomore Alexes Schmidt and Stoyle bring size and athleticism off the bench. Newcomers Myles Brilhante (Fall River, Mass.) and Ishmael Kalilou (Wilton, Conn.) look to contribute at guard and forward, respectively.
Warwick, Russo and Eisenbies claim UAA Athlete of the Week honors
In head coach Carol Simon's 25th season at the helm, the Brandeis women are looking to bounce back from their first sub-.500 season in more than a decade after a 12-13 finish (4-10 UAA). They will have to do so without two of their three leading scorers and rebounders from a year ago.
Their top returner is senior guard Morgan Kendrew, a second-team All-UAA and third-team All-New England selection by D3hoops.com. Kendrew averaged 12.9 points per game last season, fifth-best in the UAA. She also connected on a team-high 35 3-pointers and is within reach of 100 for her career, which would make her only the fifth woman in school history to reach that plateau. Kendrew also shot 82.8 percent from the free-throw line (fourth in the UAA) and enters the season ranked second on the Judges' career list with an 80.9 FT percent. Senior guard Kelly Ethier is the team's next top returning senior, having averaged 5.2 points per game, while junior forward/center Samantha Anderson is Brandeis's top returning rebounder at 4.7 caroms per game, 19th in the league.
The Judges will also benefit from the return of two players who missed all or most of 2010-11 to injury in guard Diana Cincotta and forward Shannon Hassan. Cincotta started 23 of 24 games in 2009-10 and averaged 6.8 points, 2.1 assists and 2.0 rebounds per game, leading the team with a 37.5 3FG percent, fifth in the UAA. Hassan averaged 5.3 points and 4.3 boards in 20 contests as a sophomore, scoring in double figures three times, including twice in UAA contests.
Sophomore forward Kasey Dean will look to continue her improvement after starting the final nine games of the season, when she averaged 4.4 points and 4.0 rebounds per game. Brandeis also hopes newcomers Mikaela Garvin, Hannah Cain and Erika Higginbottom – a transfer from Division II Stonehill – can make splashes in their first campaigns.
The Brandeis men lost their season opener, 91-82, at home against Lasell College on Nov. 15 , while the women defeated WPI, 52-42, that night. The women's home opener is part of the 2011 Judges Women's Basketball Classic, when they take on Endicott College Nov. 19 at 6 p.m. Review the complete schedules for the men and for the women.
As always, we'd love for you to join the crowd in Red Auerbach Arena, but if you can't, the Brandeis home games can be followed online three different ways: follow the numbers with LiveStats, watch the action via streaming video or listen the feed from 100.1 WBRS-FM at wbrs.org.
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