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basset horn
is a
musical instrument
Musical instrument
A musical instrument is a device created or adapted for the purpose of making musical sounds. In principle, any object that produces sound can serve as a musical instrument—it is through purpose that the object becomes a musical instrument. The history of musical instruments dates back to the...
, a member of the
The clarinet is a musical instrument of woodwind type. The name derives from adding the suffix -et to the Italian word clarino , as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet. The instrument has an approximately cylindrical bore, and uses a single reed...
Construction and tone
Like the clarinet, the instrument is a
wind instrument
Wind instrument
A wind instrument is a musical instrument that contains some type of resonator , in which a column of air is set into vibration by the player blowing into a mouthpiece set at the end of the resonator. The pitch of the vibration is determined by the length of the tube and by manual modifications of...
with a single reed and a cylindrical
Bore (wind instruments)
The bore of a wind instrument is its interior chamber that defines a flow path through which air travels and is set into vibration to produce sounds. The shape of the bore has a strong influence on the instruments' timbre.-Bore shapes:...
. However, the basset horn is larger and has a bend near the
Mouthpiece (woodwind)
The mouthpiece of a woodwind instrument is that part of the instrument which is placed partly in the player's mouth. Single-reed instruments, capped double-reed instruments, and fipple flutes have mouthpieces while exposed double-reed instruments and open flutes do not.-Single-reed instruments:On...
rather than an entirely straight body (older instruments are typically curved or bent in the middle), and while the clarinet is typically a
transposing instrument
Transposing instrument
A transposing instrument is a musical instrument for which written notes are read at a pitch different from the corresponding concert pitch, which a non-transposing instrument, such as a piano, would play. Playing a written C on a transposing instrument will produce a note other than concert C...
in B or A (meaning a written C sounds as a B or A), the basset horn is typically in F (less often in G). Finally, the basset horn has additional keys for an extended range down to written C, which sounds F at the bottom of the bass staff. Its
In music, timbre is the quality of a musical note or sound or tone that distinguishes different types of sound production, such as voices and musical instruments, such as string instruments, wind instruments, and percussion instruments. The physical characteristics of sound that determine the...
is similar to the clarinet's, but darker and less brilliant. Basset horns in A, G, E, E, and D also were made; the first of these is closely related to the
basset clarinet
Basset clarinet
The basset clarinet is a clarinet, similar to the usual soprano clarinet but longer and with additional keys to enable playing several additional lower notes...
The basset horn is not a
Horn (instrument)
The horn is a brass instrument consisting of about of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. A musician who plays the horn is called a horn player ....
; its name probably derives from the resemblance of early, curved versions to a horn.
Some of the earliest basset horns, which are believed to date from the 1760s, bear an inscription "ANT et MICH MAYRHOFER INVEN. & ELABOR. PASSAVII", which has been interpreted to mean they were made by Anton and Michael Mayrhofer of
Passau is a town in Lower Bavaria, Germany. It is also known as the Dreiflüssestadt or "City of Three Rivers," because the Danube is joined at Passau by the Inn from the south and the Ilz from the north....
Modern basset horns can be divided into three basic types, distinguished primarily by bore size and, consequently, the mouthpieces with which they are played:
The small-bore basset horn has a bore diameter in the range of 15.5 to 16.0 mm (still somewhat larger than a soprano clarinet bore, though it is often erroneously thought to be the same; even a large bore English clarinet, such as the old B&H 1010 design has a smaller bore of 15.3 mm). It is played with a B/A clarinet mouthpiece. Only
The Selmer Company
Henri Selmer Paris company is a French family-owned enterprise, manufacturer of musical instruments based in Paris, France in 1885. It is known for its high-quality woodwind and brass instruments, especially saxophones, clarinets and trumpets...
(Paris) and
Stephen Fox
Stephen Fox (clarinet maker)
Stephen Fox is a clarinetist, saxophonist and clarinet maker based in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada. He is widely regarded as one of the world's foremost makers of custom, hand-built professional clarinets. Born in England, Fox completed a master's degree in physics at the University of...
(Canada) currently make this model.
The medium-bore basset horn has a bore diameter in the region of 17.0 mm or slightly less. This is the most common type made by German-system manufacturers (e.g., Otmar Hammerschmidt (Austria)). Since no French-style mouthpiece with an appropriate bore is mass produced, this model requires a matching German basset-horn mouthpiece. (This model is not usually recognized in North America, where it is confused with the large bore type described below.) Stephen Fox (Canada) currently makes this model also.
The large-bore basset horn, with a bore diameter of about 18.0 mm and played with an alto-clarinet mouthpiece, is in constructional terms an alto clarinet pitched in F and with the extra basset notes. The
Leblanc (musical instrument manufacturer)
Leblanc, Inc. is a musical instrument manufacturer based in Kenosha, Wisconsin.The company was purchased on 1 August 2004 by Steinway Musical Instrument Company, which now operates Leblanc as a division of its Conn-Selmer subsidiary.Leblanc inc...
basset horns (bores c. 18.0 to 18.2 mm) are of this type
The current
Buffet Crampon
Buffet Crampon et Compagnie is a French manufacturer of woodwind musical instruments, including oboes, flutes, saxophones, and bassoons; however, the company is perhaps most famous for their clarinets, as Buffet is the brand of choice for many professionals....
basset horn could be called a hybrid "medium-large bore" model, since it uses an alto-clarinet mouthpiece but has a bore diameter around 17.2 mm.
A number of composers of the classical period wrote for the basset horn, and the famous 18th-century clarinettist
Anton Stadler
Anton Stadler
Anton Stadler was an Austrian clarinet and basset horn player for whom Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote both his Quintet for Clarinet and Strings and Clarinet Concerto....
, as well as his younger brother
Johann Stadler
Johann Nepomuk Stadler was an Austrian clarinet and basset horn player and younger brother of the clarinet player Anton Stadler....
, played it.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...
was by far the most notable composer for the basset horn, including three basset horns in the
Maurerische Trauermusik
Maurerische Trauermusik
The Maurerische Trauermusik in C minor, K. 477 , for orchestra, is a piece composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1785 in his capacity as a member of the Freemasons. According to Mozart's own catalogue, the piece was composed in July 1785...
(Masonic Funeral Music),
The Köchel-Verzeichnis is a complete, chronological catalogue of compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart which was originally created by Ludwig von Köchel. It is abbreviated K or KV. For example, Mozart's Requiem in D minor was, according to Köchel's counting, the 626th piece Mozart composed....
477, and two in both the
Gran Partita
Serenade No. 10 for winds
The Serenade No. 10 for winds in B flat major, K. 361/370a, is a serenade by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart scored for thirteen instruments . The piece was probably composed in 1781 or 1782 and is often known by the subtitle "Gran Partita", though the title is a misspelling and not in Mozart's hand...
, K. 361, and the
Requiem (Mozart)
The Requiem Mass in D minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was composed in Vienna in 1791 and left unfinished at the composer's death. A completion by Franz Xaver Süssmayr was delivered to Count Franz von Walsegg, who had anonymously commissioned the piece for a requiem Mass to commemorate the...
, K. 626, and several of his operas, like
Die Entführung aus dem Serail
Die Entführung aus dem Serail
Die Entführung aus dem Serail is an opera Singspiel in three acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The German libretto is by Christoph Friedrich Bretzner with adaptations by Gottlieb Stephanie...
La Clemenza di Tito
La clemenza di Tito
La clemenza di Tito , K. 621, is an opera seria in two acts composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Caterino Mazzolà, after Metastasio...
which features Vitellia's great aria "Non più di fiori" with basset-horn
, and
Die Zauberflöte
, where they prominently accompany the
March of the Priests
, as well as chamber works. He wrote dozens of pieces for basset horn ensembles. (His
Clarinet Concerto in A Major
Clarinet Concerto (Mozart)
Mozart's Clarinet concerto in A major, K. 622 was written in 1791 for the clarinetist Anton Stadler.It consists of the usual three movements, in a fast–slow–fast form:# Allegro# Adagio# Rondo: Allegro...
, KV 622, however, appears originally to have been written for a clarinet with an extended lower range, a
basset clarinet
Basset clarinet
The basset clarinet is a clarinet, similar to the usual soprano clarinet but longer and with additional keys to enable playing several additional lower notes...
in A, though there is an earlier version of part of the first movement, KV 621b in the Köchel catalogue of Mozart's works, scored for G basset horn and pitched a major second lower, in the key of G major.) Other early works for basset horn include a concerto for basset horn in G and small orchestra by
Carl Stamitz
Carl Stamitz
Karl Philipp Stamitz , who later changed his given name to Carl, was a German composer of partial Czech ancestry , and a violin, viola and viola d'amore virtuoso...
, which has been arranged for conventional basset horn in F (it has been recorded on this instrument by
Sabine Meyer
Sabine Meyer
Sabine Meyer is a German classical clarinetist.-Biography:Meyer began playing the clarinet at an early age. Her first teacher was her father, also a clarinetist...
), and a concerto in F by
Heinrich Backofen
Johan Georg Heinrich Backofen
Johann Georg Heinrich Backofen was a German clarinetist and composer.In his time Backofen enjoyed great fame; he was not only known as a composer for, and virtuoso of the clarinet but also played the harp, flute and basset horn.His year of death is not known with certainty; a year of 1839 is found...
In the 19th century,
Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn
Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Barthóldy , use the form 'Mendelssohn' and not 'Mendelssohn Bartholdy'. The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians gives ' Felix Mendelssohn' as the entry, with 'Mendelssohn' used in the body text...
wrote two pieces for the basset horn, clarinet, and piano (opus 113 and 114). These were later scored for string orchestra.
Franz Danzi
Franz Danzi
Franz Ignaz Danzi was a German cellist, composer and conductor, the son of the noted Italian cellist Innocenz Danzi. Born in Schwetzingen, Franz Danzi worked in Mannheim, Munich, Stuttgart and Karlsruhe, where he died....
wrote the
Sonata in F, for Basset Horn and Piano
, Op. 62 (1824)
Antonin Dvořák
Antonín Dvorák
Antonín Leopold Dvořák was a Czech composer of late Romantic music, who employed the idioms of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia. Dvořák's own style is sometimes called "romantic-classicist synthesis". His works include symphonic, choral and chamber music, concerti, operas and many...
attempted a half-hearted revival, using the instrument in his
Czech Suite
Czech Suite (Dvorák)
The Czech Suite in D major, Op. 39 was composed by Antonín Dvořák in 1879 and published later in his life. Adolf Čech, who was soon to conduct the first performance of the D major symphony that would be published as Symphony No. 1, in 1880, gave the premiere. The Czech Suite in D major, Op. 39...
(1879), in which he specifies that an English horn (cor anglais) may be used instead, but the instrument was largely abandoned until
Richard Strauss
Richard Strauss
Richard Georg Strauss was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include Der Rosenkavalier and Salome; his Lieder, especially his Four Last Songs; and his tone poems and orchestral works, such as Death and Transfiguration, Till...
took it up once more in his operas
Elektra (opera)
Elektra is a one-act opera by Richard Strauss, to a German-language libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, which he adapted from his 1903 drama Elektra. The opera was the first of many collaborations between Strauss and Hofmannsthal...
Der Rosenkavalier
Der Rosenkavalier
Der Rosenkavalier is a comic opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to an original German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. It is loosely adapted from the novel Les amours du chevalier de Faublas by Louvet de Couvrai and Molière's comedy Monsieur de Pourceaugnac...
Die Frau ohne Schatten
Die Frau ohne Schatten
Die Frau ohne Schatten is an opera in three acts by Richard Strauss with a libretto by his long-time collaborator, the poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal. It was written between 1911 and either 1915 or 1917...
Daphne was a female minor nature deity. Pursued by Apollo, she fled and was chased. Daphne begged the gods for help, who then transformed her into Laurel.-Overview:...
Die Liebe der Danae
Die Liebe der Danae
Die Liebe der Danae is an opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to a February 1937 German libretto by Joseph Gregor, based on an outline written in 1920, "Danae, or The Marriage of Convenience", by Hugo Hofmannsthal...
, and
Capriccio (opera)
Capriccio is the final opera by German composer Richard Strauss, subtitled "A Conversation Piece for Music". The opera received its premiere performance at the Nationaltheater München on October 28, 1942. Clemens Krauss and Strauss himself wrote the German libretto...
, and several later works, including two wind serenades (Happy Workshop and Invalid's Workshop).
Franz Schreker
Franz Schreker
Franz Schreker was an Austrian composer, conductor, teacher and administrator. Primarily a composer of operas, his style is characterized by aesthetic plurality , timbral experimentation, strategies of extended tonality and...
also employed the instrument in a few works including the operas
Die Gezeichneten
Die Gezeichneten
Die Gezeichneten is an opera in three acts by Franz Schreker, libretto by the composer.-Composition history:...
Irrelohe is an opera in three acts by the Austrian composer Franz Schreker, libretto by the composer.-Composition history:Schreker wrote the libretto in a very short time in 1919. The work takes its name from a train station called Irrenlohe which Schreker passed through during a journey to...
Roger Sessions
Roger Sessions
Roger Huntington Sessions was an American composer, critic, and teacher of music.-Life:Sessions was born in Brooklyn, New York, to a family that could trace its roots back to the American revolution. His mother, Ruth Huntington Sessions, was a direct descendent of Samuel Huntington, a signer of...
included a basset horn in the orchestra of his
Violin Concerto
Violin Concerto (Sessions)
Roger Sessions' Violin Concerto was composed between 1927 and 1935, and is scored for violin and orchestra .-History:The concerto was begun, at the suggestion of Serge Koussevitzky, in the summer of 1927—although the composer later postdated the beginning of this work to his years at the American...
(1935), where it opens the slow movement in a lengthy duet with the solo violin. In the last quarter of the 20th century and first decade of the 21st,
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Karlheinz Stockhausen was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. Another critic calls him "one of the great visionaries of 20th-century music"...
wrote extensively for basset horn, giving it a prominent place in his cycle of operas
Licht , subtitled "The Seven Days of the Week," is a cycle of seven operas composed by Karlheinz Stockhausen between 1977 and 2003. In total, the cycle contains over 29 hours of music.-Origin:...
and other pieces.
Other works
"Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind" for solo clarinetist (soprano clarinets, basset horn, and
bass clarinet
Bass clarinet
The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family. Like the more common soprano B clarinet, it is usually pitched in B , but it plays notes an octave below the soprano B clarinet...
) and
string quartet
String quartet
A string quartet is a musical ensemble of four string players – usually two violin players, a violist and a cellist – or a piece written to be performed by such a group...
Osvaldo Golijov
Osvaldo Golijov
Osvaldo Noé Golijov is a Grammy award–winning composer of classical music.-Biography:Osvaldo Golijov was born in and grew up in La Plata, Argentina, in a Jewish family that had emigrated to Argentina in the 1920s from Romania and Russia.Golijov has developed a rich musical language, the result of...
; later arranged for solo clarinetist and
string orchestra
String orchestra
A string orchestra is an orchestra composed solely or primarily of instruments from the string family. These instruments are the violin, the viola, the cello, the double bass , the piano, the harp, and sometimes percussion...
Serenade on
Carl Maria von Weber
Carl Maria von Weber
Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber was a German composer, conductor, pianist, guitarist and critic, one of the first significant composers of the Romantic school....
Oberon is a legendary king of the fairies.Oberon may also refer to:-People:* Merle Oberon , British actress* Oberon Zell-Ravenheart , Neopagan activist-Media and entertainment:* Oberon...
for basset horn and two guitars, op. 28, written by
Heinrich Neumann
Etudes for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 39 (1992) by
Peter Schat
Peter Schat
Peter Schat was a Dutch composer.Schat studied composition with Kees van Baaren at the conservatories in Utrecht and The Hague from 1952 until 1958, and then went on to study in London with Mátyás Seiber in 1959 and with Pierre Boulez in Basle in 1960–61...
calls for 3 basset horns in the orchestra.
Alessandro Rolla
Alessandro Rolla
Alessandro Rolla was widely acknowledged in his time as a violin and, especially, viola virtuoso, composer and teacher. His contribution to technique, repertoire and history of music is greatly underestimated...
- Concerto in F Major BI. 528 for basset horn and orchestra
Basset horn soloists and ensembles
Lotz Trio - performs on replicas of basset horns made originally by a phenomenal instrument maker Theodor Lotz from Pressburg (Bratislava) and Vienna. The ensemble endeavours to follow up with popular wind harmonias from the 18th century. The repertory of the Lotz Trio ensemble is formed by original music called by a German name Harmoniemusik. It is presented predominantly by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's music, nevertheless, the ensemble performs also music by other Central-European composers – Georg Druschetzky, Martín I Soler, Anton Stadler, Vojtech Nudera, Johann Josef Rösler and Anton Wolanek.
The Prague Trio of Basset-horns, based in the
Czech Republic
Czech Republic
The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....
, has a repertoire of music (originally written for, or transcribed for, three basset horns) by composers including Mozart,
Scott Joplin
Scott Joplin
Scott Joplin was an American composer and pianist. Joplin achieved fame for his ragtime compositions, and was later dubbed "The King of Ragtime". During his brief career, Joplin wrote 44 original ragtime pieces, one ragtime ballet, and two operas...
, and
Paul Desmond
Paul Desmond
Paul Desmond , born Paul Emil Breitenfeld, was a jazz alto saxophonist and composer born in San Francisco, best known for the work he did in the Dave Brubeck Quartet and for penning that group's greatest hit, "Take Five"...
Suzanne Stephens
Suzanne Stephens
Suzanne Stephens is an American clarinetist, resident in Germany, described as "an outstanding performer and tireless promoter of the clarinet and basset horn" .-Biography:...
is a leading basset-horn specialist in contemporary music. Starting in 1974, the German Karlheinz Stockhausen composed many new works for her, including a large number for basset horn.
The Italian name for the instrument,
corno di bassetto
, was used by
Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60...
as a
A pseudonym is a name that a person assumes for a particular purpose and that differs from his or her original orthonym...
when writing music criticism.
See also
Alto clarinet
Alto clarinet
The alto clarinet is a wind instrument of the clarinet family. It is a transposing instrument pitched in the key of E, though instruments in F have been made. It is sometimes known as a tenor clarinet; this name especially is applied to the instrument in F...
(a somewhat similar instrument, pitched one whole step lower and without the lower extension keys)
Further reading
Dobrée, Georgina. 1995. "The Basset Horn". In
The Cambridge Companion to the Clarinet
, edited by Colin Lawson, 57–65. Cambridge Companions to Music. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521470668 (cloth); ISBN 0521476682 (pbk).
Grass, Thomas, Dietrich Demus, and René Hagmann. 2002.
Das Bassetthorn: seine Entwicklung und seine Musik
. Norderstedt: Books on Demand. ISBN 3831144117.
Hoeprich, Eric. 2008.
The Clarinet
. The Yale Musical Instrument Series. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-10282-6.
Jungerman, Mary C. 1999. "The Single-reed Music of Karlheinz Stockhausen: How Does One Begin?".
The Clarinet
27: 52.
Weston, Pamela T
Pamela Weston
Pamela Theodora Weston was a British clarinetist, teacher and writer....
. 1997. "Stockhausen's Contributions to the Clarinet and Basset Horn....".
The Clarinet
25, no. 1:60–61.
External links
Lotz Trio
Lotz Trio on Facebook
"The Basset Horn"
by Georgina Dobrée,
Music Associates of America
Stephen Fox
(maker of basset horns)
"National Music Museum"
(more images and info)
CD: George Druschezky: Divertissement Pour Trois Cors de Bassett
by Lotz Trio
CD: Mozart, Stadler, and the Basset Horn
Michael Harris
Michael Harris
Michael Harris is an award-winning Canadian author, investigative journalist, and radio personality who hosts an afternoon radio talk show, "Michael Harris Live", on Ottawa-based CFRA, and was a columnist for The Ottawa Sun newspaper until March 2011.Born in Toronto, Ontario, to Audrey McDonald ...
, Colin Lawson, and Timothy Lines
CD: Mozart Divertimenti for Three Basset Horns
by the Mannheim Ensemble
CD: Mozart Music for Winds
by the New World Bassett Horn Trio
LP: "Mozart: Music for Basset Horns"
, a double LP by members of the
Chicago Symphony
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Chicago, Illinois. It is one of the five American orchestras commonly referred to as the "Big Five". Founded in 1891, the Symphony makes its home at Orchestra Hall in Chicago and plays a summer season at the Ravinia Festival...
Winds. This 1986
CBS Masterworks Records
CBS Masterworks Records
CBS Masterworks Records was a subsidiary of CBS Records, producing classical and spoken-word releases as well as Broadway albums.It was started in 1927 as Columbia Masterworks Records, a subsidiary of the Columbia Records label...
release was nominated for a
Grammy award
Grammy Award
A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...
. (out of print)

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Member Posts: 5 (9/15/02 9:51:34 am) Reply | Edit | Del All Beretta 9000S F40 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I recently picked one of these baby's up. Does anyone else here have experience with this pistol? I've only put a box of ammo through it so far. It functioned flawlessly, but seemed to shoot low and a bit left. (couldn't be the operator.... )Does anyone know if a steel guide rod is available for this gun? Thanks for any help!! kornhauser Member Posts: 11 (10/17/02 7:18:38 pm) Reply | Edit | Del 9000s -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My department switched to the 9000S for the investigators and brass. The department was looking for a smaller pistol for them since they were mostly plain clothes. The general comments once they got them? They hated them. While the gun is smaller than the Beretta 96F us uniform guys carry, the 9000S is wider. That made a whole bunch of problems to find holsters that are not yet on the market. Also, the de-cock level works opposite of other automatic handguns, (hence, you de-cock up rather than down). This made the gun uniformly unsafe without a ton of training. Last, the pistol is accurate only up to fifteen yards. After that, my supervisor said it was best just to throw the damn thing down range. As to it shooting left, that's not you. It's the heavy trigger pull and the wider grip causing your hand to stretch. Get used to it. 75BDdude Member Posts: 10 (10/19/02 9:44:30 am) Reply | Edit | Del 9000s -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the info. My experiences are much like yours. However I don't find the de-cocker going in the opposite direction to be a problem at all. My view is that de-cocking is done in a non-stress situation only, so why is it such a big deal. As for the accuracy, it generally bites with factory ammo. And the stupid thing was shooting 9" low at 15 yards with 180gr bullets, a foot low with 150's. I called Beretta and was told to send it back and they'd look at it. I didn't want to be without the thing for a month so I've filed the front site myself, drifted the rear sight over, and it seems to be doing fine now. But, you shouldn't have to do that on a $440 brand new pistol from a storied manufacturer..... 75BDdude Member Posts: 11 (10/25/02 10:52:49 pm) Reply | Edit | Del Beretta 9000S F40 - Update -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Well... I took the toad to the range after filing the front sight. I had it hitting about 2" low at 15 yards. It was still spraying groups about 6" across at that distance with several cheap factory rounds and some reloads. Surpise.... I fired some reloads with 135gr Nosler JHP in front of 7.2 grs of Accurate #2 and the groups measured about 2" across!!! I fired several mags full of other rounds and came back to those with the same results. Cool!!! I will work on this, along with a couple other powders I have and see if I can make any improvements. PS... No failures of any kinds with all the different loads I tried. I used 4 different bullet wieghts and 3 different powders in my reloads. That's not counting the Federal American Eagle I was shooting also. Beretta9 Member Posts: 2 (2/2/03 3:02:08 pm) Reply | Edit | Del Re: Beretta 9000S F40 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I bought a 9000s a couple weeks ago, starting to like it better each time I use it. Shot a box of Remington 115 gr +p+, 124gr Hydrashok +p+, and Winchester 115gr in the 100 pack. All shot inside 4 inches at 15 yards in the standing position. That would not be too good if I was a marksman and had fired a few thousand rounds through it. But for my first semi-auto I don't think it is too bad. It started out shooting to the left, so I moved the rear sight to the right a little, worked great. Also no malfunctions. Edited by: Beretta9 at: 2/3/03 12:22:38 pm 75BDdude Member Posts: 25 (2/6/03 10:00:37 pm) Reply | Edit | Del Re: Beretta 9000S F40 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I too am beginning to really like my 9000S. While the 2 cheap factory loads I have fired in it still shoot like poo poo, my various reloads seem to do quite well. The only problem is... I can only shoot it well while resting it on bags at the bench. Offhand shooting is a challenge. I think, like someone previously stated... it's the nasty trigger. BUT... that trigger is smoothing out as time goes by. I really like the way the gun handles and feels in my hand.... I just still can't shoot it worth a crap !! But the way I look at it, I can still sink all 10 .40 rounds into center mass of a silhouette at 15 yards.... |
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i have had my 9000s in .40 for about a year and a half now and right from the get go i was putting 1.5-2.0" groups at 15 yards through the gun. i also have a 96fs in .40 with hogue wrap around grips so the grip of the 9000s was no problem for me, despite my small hands. i use UMC factory ammo 180 gr.
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The gang has been asking for enchiladas, I have been putting this meal on the back burner, because I really haven't felt like cooking lately. Yeah, I know, gasp! Do you ever feel that way or am I the only one? It all started after Christmas. I have just felt whooped. I haven't been sleeping lately, what's this about?! Jeff, told me the other day I had huge black circles under my eyes. What!? Did you have to tell me this when we are in the middle of the supermarket?! I even had concealer on! Not that I'm vain, just didn't know that I had big black circles under those peepers. You know when you are shopping and you find that little rinky dink mirror in the store they put next to the sunglasses to see what you look like? Only, the mirror is so tiny you have no idea, what you look like! Well that was me the other day. I could only see one eyeball in that doggum mirror. Uhhg! For the one eye I did see, he was right, darnit. I looked whooped. Time to get some sleep. But not just quite yet, gotta share this recipe. Okay, time to sleep. Goodnight. yields 30 enchiladas
This is a great freezer meal! When I am feeling like super woman, I freeze 5 enchiladas to 6 small disposable tins, making 6 pre-made dinners. When the hubs and I go on a date, the kiddos have dinner. I will also pull these out for a quick meal when I don't feel like cooking. I dislike when you have a freezer meal that doesn't taste as good as before it's frozen, don't you? These are not that way. The chicken is still moist and they tasted like they had just been freshly prepared.
5 boneless skinless chicken breasts
6 garlic cloves
1/2 large sweet onion, quartered
2 cans 28 oz. each enchilada sauce {we use El Pato Brand, Mild}
2 teaspoons cumin
2 teaspoons oregano
2 teaspoons chili powder
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon sugar
1 cube chicken bouillon dissolved in 1/3 cup hot water
fresh cracked pepper to taste
1 can 10 oz. Rotel tomatoes, drained
cilantro, fresh, chopped, desired amount {to top enchiladas before baking}
sweet onion, chopped, desired amount {to top enchiladas before baking}
green onions, fresh, chopped, desired amount {to top enchiladas after baking}
4 cups mozzarella cheese, shredded {combine mozzarella and cheddar in a bowl}
4 cups cheddar cheese, shredded {combine mozzarella and cheddar in a bowl}
non-stick cooking spray
30 ct. corn tortillas
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. In a food processor, combine onion, garlic, cumin, oregano, chili powder, sugar, garlic powder, and fresh cracked pepper. Process until consistency is "Paste Like" scrapping down the sides if needed.
3. Place chicken breast in a 3 t. baking dish and spread onion paste mixture over chicken; meanwhile dissolve bouillon cube in 1/3 cup hot water, pour over chicken. Cover and bake 1 hour 30 minutes or until no longer pink and juices run clear. Remove from oven, shred chicken in it's juices {DO NOT DRAIN JUICES}the chicken will soak up the juice and the juices will help make the chicken moist. Stir in drained Rotel tomatoes. Let shredded chicken cool. Cover until ready to use.
4. Heat tortilla and keep warm. Meanwhile, in a medium sized pan, heat enchilada sauce over medium heat; just until hot. Keep on low, stirring occasionally. By heating the tortilla and the sauce this will help make the tortillas soft and pliable, other wise your tortillas will break when folding.
5. Spray desired baking dishes with non-stick cooking spray. Set aside
6. Dip warm tortillas in hot enchilada sauce, fill tortilla with about 2 tablespoon shredded chicken and about 2 tablespoons cheese. Fold and put in desired baking dishes. Top enchiladas with a small amount of shredded chicken, spoon sauce over the top of each enchiladas, next top sauce with cheese, fresh chopped cilantro, and chopped sweet onion. Cover with a sheet of foil sprayed with non-stick cooking spray, bake for 45 minutes.
Notes: To make freezer meals you will need disposable tin baking dishes with lids and foil, or your handy dandy Pyrex dishes with lids. Assemble as directed. DO NOT BAKE, let cool. Freeze. If using disposable tins, once cooled, cover with foil, then cover with lid. Stick in freezer. If using Pyrex baking dishes, assemble as directed. let cool. Place Pyrex lid on top and freeze. To reheat frozen enchiladas, if using disposable tins, preheat oven to 350 degrees F. remove plastic lid, leave foil on and place on a baking sheet; cook until heated through. If using glass Pyrex, let dish come to room temp. Remove lid. Cover with a sheet of foil sprayed with non-stick cooking spray. Bake at 350 degrees F. Until heated through.
Additional notes: I prepared ours in {two} 3qt. Pyrex dishes plus one small disposable tin that held five enchiladas.
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It's not to say that Cobra replicas at the time were duds-they weren't. Though fiberglass bodied, most were actually pretty faithful to the original concept. In fact, their performance was largely on par with their forebearers.
And that's exactly what the brothers took issue with.
Once the production-car world caught up with the roadster's performance-and by 1995 it certainly had-the Cobra's selling points were its prestige and its ability to accelerate the blood to the back of its occupants' heads. Since they didn't have the former, the garden-variety Cobra replica looked pretty one-dimensional to a sports-car enthusiast. Dave and Mark were sports-car enthusiasts. To make their mark on the performance Cobra world, they had to do things differently.
Released under the Factory Five Racing banner, their Cobra replica entry was more than just a clone of an existing copy. A stiff, hybridized space frame distinguished it from its Cobra replica peers, but it was the suspension and drivetrain components that the brothers designed the chassis to accept that made it truly exceptional. By that point the '87-93 Ford Mustang populated boneyards enough to make it affordable. And even though the garden-variety Five-Oh was no slouch around a track in stock form, when its components were reconfigured in a package that had a lower center of gravity and weighed a thousand pounds less, they made things that resembled Cobras accelerate laterally just as well as they did in a straight line.
Banking on their new car's performance, the brothers' car found immediate success among both street enthusiasts and racers who competed in various vintage and replica sports-car events. Inspired by Tim Suddard's comment in Grassroots Motorsport magazine that the car would make a great vintage-style spec racer, the brothers established the Factory Five Challenge Series, a group of regional points-driven events where the company's customers could pit their cars against one another in legitimate race action on legendary racetracks.
And race they did. Even though Factory Five has produced more than 200 racing-specific spec cars in the meantime, more than 250 out of the 7,000-plus garden-variety and race-spec Cobra replicas that the company has delivered participated last year alone. In light of that, the fact that a Factory Five car is a fully roadworthy car easily within reach of the average enthusiast in both cost and construction almost seems insignificant.
First, make it perform "I didn't originally want to do this car," Dave Smith admitted. "I'd put under the definition of hot rod the clause 'a car that goes really fast...mostly in a straight line.' But for me if it ends there, I'm not interested in it. I need more than going straight."
In fact, neither he nor his brother Mark would have even indulged the thought if it hadn't been for one person: Jim Schenck, head of Factory Five Racing's R&D department. "Jim came to me and said, 'Dave, I can make [a hot rod] handle better than the spec car.'" he said. "That was the charter," Dave added. "I told him 'don't waste your time if you can't make the car perform better than what we're making right now.'"
In development, the project earned the '33 Hot Rod moniker. Thirty-three since it resembles Ford's first-year Model 40; Hot Rod since it's a car that can trace its performance heritage all the way back to legendary sport car/hot rod hybrids like Max Balchowsky's Buick-powered Deuce, Ak Miller's Caballo, and Duffy Livingstone's Eliminator, just to name an esteemed few.
Since chassis design is the backbone of the company's philosophy, development started there. Though identical in theory to the Cobra replica, the chassis Jim and the R&D crew developed is unique to the hot rod program. "Remember, with the Cobra you're a slave to the original design," Dave observed, a reference to the hallmark 4-inch-diameter tubes in the ladder frame that define a Cobra as the real deal-even if it's a copy. "That's what those customers want." Instead, Factory Five Racing engineers dispensed with any existing chassis design entirely and fabricated for the '33 a true space frame.
Rather than simple girth and heft, a space frame employs materials in their most efficient ways. For example, doubling the cross section of a frame section doesn't just double its capacity in that direction; it quadruples it. For context, the original Ford frame measures about 5 inches tall. In the Factory Five Racing design, it measures 10.5 inches tall at its least cross section under the doors.
What's more, instead of making the side 'rails from a simple piece of heavy-walled box tubing, the Factory Five engineers employed smaller, thin-wall tubing and arranged them by girder design principles. In a nutshell, the triangulated arrangement stresses the individual tubes in their strongest direction: in tension or compression. Even though the walls aren't as thick, the horizontal cross section isn't as great, and the design isn't solid-walled, the truss design is fantastically stronger and lighter than a conventional piece of boxed tubing of similar dimensions.
And those design principles go beyond the side rails, too. In fact, from the leading control arm pivot to the rear spring mount, the entire '33 chassis is a space frame design not unlike a skyscraper crane. By testing the design in Finite Element Analysis applications, the Factory Five engineers were able to arrange the individual tubes so a load applied to it dissipates consistently throughout the chassis. While the Cobra's shorter length would technically make it stronger, by virtue of this uncompromised design the Hot Rod's chassis is both stronger and lighter.
Unobstructed by conventional crossmembers, Factory Five engineers designed the car to accommodate any drivetrain package, whether Flathead, pushrod, or overhead-cam Ford, early or late Mopar Hemi-even a Chevrolet. Furthermore, it let the designers slide the engine rearward to improve the car's balance without overly compromising the cockpit. Similar transmission accommodations exist, but we suggest installing one that requires three pedals. To use one that requires any less would be to miss the point of this car.
"With the hot rod, we decided instead of going Mustang II or some original style frontend, we went full-on modern," Dave enthused. It's a clean-sheet-design with optimized roll centers and enough adjustment in its lower control arms to suit any type of surface condition or driving style, whether on the road or at the track. Due to the car's overachieving handling properties, most of us will naturally pick one and never miss the other options.
Moving the engine rearward to improve weight bias had a fortunate consequence: it created a cavity behind the grille that the engineers graciously filled with springs and high-pressure Koni mono-tube coilover dampers. More than merely spindle-locating devices, the upper control arms serve double duty as cantilevers.
The rear axle is not included in the '33 package; however, the chassis accepts either the Ford 8.8 rear axle from the Mustang or a 9-inch that's been modified for Mustang control arm mounts. Factory Five offers two rear suspensions systems: a standard four-link for the corner carvers or the race proven three-link derivative optional on the roadster. "It's the three-link from our racing series..." Dave noted, "...the geometry is the same."
As dramatic an improvement as the suspension systems may be, a key to the car's turn-in manners and ride quality is due in part to the gap between them. "The wheelbase is a little longer (than the Cobra roadster)," Dave noted. For the record, he's being conservative: "a little longer" translates to 22 inches, or about a quarter of the Cobra's wheelbase.
Remember the tangent about the body components bolting exclusively to the chassis? Though the comprehensive interior panels suggest otherwise, it's not a body in the conventional sense. "The body is just a shell," Dave said. "Nothing bolts to the fiberglass; the body's little more than a fairing. You can actually drive the car without the body."
But just because it's a shell doesn't mean it's crude. Factory Five Racing hand-lays every one of its body panels. "There's not a chopper-gun in the entire building," Dave proclaimed. "It's three layers of two-ounce mat and a layer of bi-directional cloth, a finishing cloth that has a tight weave that looks real nice. We're using vinylester (binding resin) with a deformation temperature of about 218 degrees. That's really high-a guy in Arizona can paint his car black, and it won't go all wavy. We're also doing between 12 to 20 mils of gel coat, so it'll be a sandable finish.
"Overall, it's about 3/16-inch thick when it's cured and rolled out," he observed. "I think it's thicker than it needs to be, but there's this perception that fiberglass has to be thick for it to be strong. It's frustrating because 1/8-inch is a lot stronger than people think-plenty strong even if the doors and trunk hinged on the body."
Though the doors are full height, it's only to preserve the body lines. Since the door openings are about 1/3 shallower on account of the taller side members, a vertical panel extends from the actual door jambs to where the rocker panel would be on a real '33 Ford.
Rather than part of the body, the floors are stiff aluminum panels that are bonded and riveted directly to the chassis. Once shrouded in carpet, they're indistinguishable from conventional body floors.


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David Wood – Politics Daily August 8, 2009
Anyone who thinks the Afghanistan troop "surge" is a temporary, one-time deal should watch the construction here of a vast new $17 million barracks building.
It's not temporary. It's three stories of concrete.
Eight years after American forces scattered the Taliban and effectively conquered Afghanistan, the United States is embarked on a frenzied $220 million building campaign at this sprawling and still expanding military air base. Just to meet the base's demand for fresh concrete, it has two of its own cement factories working full time.
There's plenty of guessing these days about whether Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top commander in Afghanistan, will recommend a large troop increase here, and if so, how many, and if he does, whether President Obama will agree. But perhaps the construction of the new troop barracks, and permanent new facilities such as water treatment plants, headquarters buildings, fuel farms and power generating plants says more about the size and duration of this war than any White House press conference or Pentagon power-point presentation.
When I first visited this war-battered former Soviet base in January 2002, the military was erecting canvas tents for incoming troops. Infantrymen of the 10th Mountain Division were hammering together plywood outhouses; hot showers were a cruel rumor, and the few buildings left intact from the Mujaheddin war with the Russians were getting a cursory remodeling (i.e., windows).
"Low profile" was the directive coming down from Washington, senior officers told me then. That meant no big construction. Wartime living conditions. Nothing could be built that couldn't be turned over to and used by the Afghans themselves in a year or two, they vowed. Mornings, we shaved outdoors.
Well, that was then.
Today, Bagram sports a Burger King and Pizza Hut, five mess halls, and living quarters for 20,000 people (so far), office spaces for the command, Joint Task Force-82, and for dozens of other headquarters and agencies. A well-stocked PX sells everything from potato chips to vacuum cleaners.
Russian minefields on the south and east sides of the long runway have been cleared for freight yards, aircraft aprons, bulk fuel storage, hangars and maintenance sheds. New logistics warehouses bake in the sun amid acres of parked armored vehicles. A network of new roads connecting it all is jammed with dusty SUVs, fuel and water tankers, troop buses, cement mixers, dump trucks full of crushed rock and tractor-trailers piled with steel girders and concrete pipe.
Bagram's air facilities, its supersized runway, parking aprons, cargo handling machines and maintenance bays are sized for the stream of intercontinental and local cargo aircraft, aero-medical evacuation planes, bombers, strike fighters, unmanned drone aircraft and cargo and attack helicopters that roar in and out of here day and night.
Although all this would presumably belong to the Afghans, should the U.S. someday pull out, it's hard to see how this air base could be used efficiently by Afghanistan alone. Its civilian air hub, Kabul International, is barely 40 miles away. And Afghanistan's air force of seven medium cargo planes and 13 helicopters would be dwarfed here.
Still, the work continues. Long dust plumes mark where armored bulldozers are plowing up old minefields. Behind them come earth movers leveling off small hills. Gangs of turbaned Afghans lay steel pipe in deep, newly dug trenches. Lines of cement mixers stand ready to pour.
"The whole landscape is changing rapidly – every time I come out here it's something new," Army Capt. Scot R. Keith, a staff officer, told me on a drive around the base.
I recently had a lengthy conversation about Afghanistan's future with Army Col. Scott Spellmon. This combat-decorated counterinsurgency expert, finishing up a 15-month tour here as a brigade commander, said he thinks that in northeast Afghanistan, at least, American involvement will become less military, more civilian. As security improves, with forces hunting down the last pockets of insurgents and Afghan army units and police improving, the work can shift more toward development.
He already sees signs that this is happening, he said, with Afghans taking over security completely in some large areas and the State Department sending out civilian reinforcements. That's the plan for the rest of Afghanistan, too. Just don't look for it to happen anytime soon. The concrete suggests otherwise.
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Five Questions: San Francisco Giants
by Steve TrederMarch 21, 2007
The San Francisco Giants enter 2007 dragging the weight of two consecutive losing seasons behind them, a circumstance the franchise hasn't known since 1997.
That season was general manager Brian Sabean's first in his job, and he plunged in with bold confidence. His first act was to execute a blockbuster trade that surrendered star third baseman Matt Williams, a terrific player and huge fan favorite. The deal was roundly howled as a disaster in the Bay Area sports media, yet it quickly turned out to be anything but: the primary talent received in exchange for Williams, Jeff Kent, blossomed in San Francisco into a great star. That trade worked as the centerpiece among several damn-the-torpedoes Sabean maneuvers that transformed the ball club into a surprise division champion in '97, and a very strong contender for years to follow.
The contrast with the current scene could scarcely be more vivid. Faced with another proven-mediocrity roster, Sabean's response this time around has been wholly unimaginative. No serious rebuilding has been undertaken; instead the near-exact orchestration that produced the off-key melody of 2006 is tuning up yet again: ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together for Barry Bonds and the B-List Veterans!
Well, almost, anyway. There may be a couple of interesting notes in the arrangement.
1. What about Barry?
As always, this is the primary question in San Francisco. But now there's a twist to it, namely: just which Barry are we talking about?
Sabean allowed long-time staff ace Jason Schmidt to depart as a free agent to the arch-rival Dodgers. To replace him, the general manager reached across the bay for long-time Oakland standout Barry Zito. To be precise, Sabean did a lot more than reach: He vociferously handed over a significant chunk of the franchise's future revenue, signing Zito to a staggering seven-year, $126 million deal.
To say the very least, the long-term economic wisdom of this contract can be questioned. But in the immediate context of the 2007 season, the move will likely work out reasonably well. Zito isn't a great pitcher by any means, but his strengths are sure and important: He is extraordinarily durable, and as pitchers go, amazingly consistent. The Giants can almost certainly depend upon Zito to deliver 220-or-so innings of above-average starting pitching this year, and that would be a very valuable contribution.
Zito doesn't have Schmidt's stuff, and will never produce the kind of results Schmidt did at his peak. But Schmidt's peak is almost certainly behind him, and his injury risk is far greater than Zito's. On the field of play in 2007, the essential Schmidt-for-Zito swap will probably be at least a break-even for the Giants, and may well yield an advantage.
2. What about that other Barry?
He's just your garden-variety soon-to-be-43-year-old cleanup hitter, a primary suspect in a high-profile legal proceeding that moves more slowly than the average glacier, one of the most polarizing figures in all of sports history, whose contract details took literally months for the parties to resolve, playing on extraordinarily creaky knees and closing in on the all-time career home run record. Ho-hum.
One thing we have seen many times before is the S.S. Bonds sail into stormy and uncharted waters, so one thing that can be counted upon is for the dauntless superstar to keep his wits about him. But the precise manner in which the various other variables work themselves out is anybody's guess. The range of plausible possibilities regarding Bonds' season pretty much goes from Hank Aaron to Dutch Zwilling.
But amid the swirling uncertainty, there are several facts:
- Bonds needs 21 homers to tie Bad Henry, 22 to break the record.
- Virtually every sophisticated projection metric at our disposal puts Bonds at right around exactly 21 or 22 home runs in 2007 (indeed, the THT 2007 Season Preview has him at 22 on the nose), so it can fairly be stated that his chances of breaking the record this year are just about exactly 50/50.
- In 2006, Bonds did his best hitting, by far, in the season's closing months. Through July last season, he was stewing at .240 with 14 homers in 229 at-bats; the rest of the way he sizzled at .319 with 12 bombs in 138 at-bats.
In all probability, the 2007 season will present Giants fans with little in the manner of pennant race excitement. But the ingredients for a feverish Chasing Aaron drama are present in excess, with all the media circus and steroid scandal trappings. If Bonds doesn't encounter significant injury problems—given his age and the state of his knees, a perilously menacing "if"—the likelihood of the second half of the season providing highly spiced, if not necessarily wholesome and nutritious, entertainment is great indeed.
3. How exciting is Matt Cain?
Short answer: pretty doggone exciting.
Consider this: At the age of 18, in his first full pro season, in low Single-A Matt Cain had a 2.55 ERA and a 24-90 walk-strikeout ratio in 74 innings.
The next year, split between high Single-A and Double-A, he went 13-5, 2.67, in 159 innings, with 57 walks and 161 strikeouts. At age 20 his combined record between Triple-A and the major leagues was 12-6 with a 3.89 ERA, and 206 strikeouts against 92 bases-on-balls in 192 innings.
And in 2006 Cain worked his first full season in the majors, and went 13-12 for a 76-85 team, posting an ERA+ of 108. He was ninth in the league in strikeouts, fifth in most strikeouts per inning, and third in fewest hits per inning.
Of every sort of player in the sport, young pitchers are, it must be reiterated, the least dependable. Their injury risk is enormous. Cain could yet go haywire in any number of ways. But there is also the very real possibility that Cain is on the verge of major stardom, and within that there's a non-insignificant possibility that he has a Hall of Fame career before him. Only time will tell, of course, but there is good reason to be very, very excited about 22-year-old Matt Cain. (In case you missed it, THT guest columnist Carlos Gomez presented a marvelous analysis of Cain's delivery mechanics here.)
In his decade at the Giants' helm, Sabean and his executives in charge of the farm system (Dick Tidrow as Farm Director, Jack Hiatt as Director of Player Development, and Matt Nerland as Scouting Director) have deservedly taken a lot of heat for their appalling inability to produce position-player talent. But in fairness it shouldn't be forgotten that pitchers are players too, and the Sabean regime's track record in developing young pitchers has been excellent.
Sabean's incomprehensible 2003 trade for A.J. Pierzynski, in which he surrendered Francisco Liriano, Joe Nathan, and Boof Bonser, deprived the team of a large chunk of that young pitching bounty, but still the 2007 roster includes Cain as well as the good young starter Noah Lowry, and intriguing young arms Jonathan Sanchez, Kevin Correia, Brian Wilson, Pat Misch, and Tim Lincecum.
4. Isn't there that little matter of the bullpen?
Oh, yes, there is that.
In Zito, Cain, Lowry, and workhorse veteran Matt Morris, the Giants have the basis for what will probably be a solid starting rotation. But the crew that will be finishing out the games doesn't look nearly as substantial.
For most of his tenure in San Francisco, Sabean demonstrated a knack for cobbling together effective bullpens out of the odds and ends that are the raw material of most bullpens. But in the past couple of years, he seems to have lost the touch.
Just how bad was the Giants bullpen in 2006? Well, the aggregate ERA of their relief pitchers was 4.73, 15th best in the 16-team National League. The median bullpen ERA of the 15 other NL teams was 4.12, or more than half a run better than the Giants'. The only team with a worse mark than San Francisco's was the Brewers, at 5.00.
Armando Benitez, signed to a big-bucks closer deal two years ago, has been a complete bust. Now enterting the final season of his contract, it's an open secret that Sabean would love to trade him, but that suggestion undoubtedly prompts peals of helpless laughter from the GM on the other end of the phone line, and the plea, "Stop it, Sabes! You're killing me!" Thus if the Giants' relief corps is to be improved in 2007, the improvement will have to come from within.
Such improvement could plausibly occur; relief pitchers are a notoriously fickle lot, and as mentioned the team does have impressive young pitching talent, though most of it is unproven. But Correia and Wilson in particular are two who might step forward. At any rate, the contribution from the Giants' pen could scarcely get any worse.
5. And isn't there that other little matter of, you know, the offense?
Well, yes, there is that, too.
The Giants' offense in 2006 compiled a team OPS+ of 95, which tied them with the Reds for 12th in the league. And that performance included a 156 OPS+ contribution from Bonds in 130 games, and a 132 OPS+ from Moises Alou in 98 games. One-hundred and thirty games is unquestionably the playing-time ceiling for Bonds at this point in his career; the Giants would be ecstatic to get that from him in 2007, as there is high likelihood of him being available far less frequently than that. And even though Alou's availability was limited in '06, they'll get nothing from him in '07, as he's moved along to the Mets.
Newcomers Dave Roberts, Rich Aurilia, Bengie Molina, and (assuming he's healthy) Ryan Klesko all bring something to the offensive table, but even under the best-case scenario—Bonds is reasonably healthy again, and everyone else does about as expected—there's little basis to expect anything better than mediocre run production from this roster.
The lineup should present no gaping holes; even its weakest link, Pedro Feliz, drove in 98 runs in 2006. Randy Winn will probably hit better than he did in '06, but Ray Durham probably won't hit quite as well, while the ageless Omar Vizquel can probably be counted upon to do about the same as he does every year.
All in all it shouldn't be a truly weak offense, but collectively the Giants' hitters stack up as being neither especially good at getting on base nor at driving runners home. And if Bonds is out of the lineup for an extended period, then it may well become a truly weak offense.
Steve Treder can often be found spending way too much time talking baseball at Baseball Primer. He welcomes your questions and comments via e-mail.
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Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies (IVACS) Conference 2012
English Language Teaching hosted the sixth annual Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies (IVACS) Conference on June 21st-22nd, 2012 at Headingley Campus.
This was an international conference for corpus researchers and it has an excellent reputation for the quality of the papers presented. The aim of the conference was to continue the sucess of the previous IVACS Conferences by exploring ways in which corpus linguistics have been used in different areas of linguistics.
We attracted 100 delegates who presented papers that explored the use of corpus linguistics and new methodological challenges and benefits as well as delegates that delivered papers that reported on applied corpus research.
The conference included the high profile plenary speakers Dr Paula Buttery from the University of Cambridge, UK, Professor Jonathan Culpeper from the University of Lancaster, UK, Professor Sylviane Granger from the University of Louvain, Belgium and Dr Kieran O'Halloran from King's College London, UK.


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Today I had to fire my nanny. Yesterday she left my 8 year old twins home alone, and chaos ensued.
It had to be done but I didn't like doing it, and I have been in a funk all day. And now I am scrambling to set up interviews this weekend so that I can hopefully have a new caregiver in place next week. I hate interviewing--and then calling the ones who didn't get the job. Blech.
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I have a 1984 vw rabbit and it stalls on me. i can start it up and drive it but after a little while it will stall out on me. then i let it sit and it will start right back up. do you have any idea what that could be.
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Rating: 2 stars (out of five)
All bands are indebted to others from the past, but there are some who seem unavoidably linked to one particular influence. Interpol is one such case, as one can't ever read more than about two lines of a review without hearing the name Joy Division pop up. They have been an integral band in the post-punk/new-wave revival of the 2000s, but while bands such as Franz Ferdinand and The Arctic Monkeys have leaned towards a danceable version of the latter, Interpol tries to stick firmly in the post-punk, Joy Division-esque sound.
The problem with this, though, is that, while they do sound like Joy Division, they don't really sound like Joy Division. The comparisons are not terribly misguided, but Interpol simply lacks the sonic innovation, lyrical depth, and sheer originality of their forefathers. Joy Division was always intensely dramatic; yet Turn on the Bright Lights, Interpol's widely-praised debut album, lacks sufficient dramatic heft–the critical failing. The album sounds too slight, too small, too superficial for its dark sound, and lead singer Paul Banks's lyrics veer towards amateurish.
All of this contributes towards the listener wanting to experience Bright Lights as a poppier version of post-punk, but that goal is ruined by the utter lack of melody found on the album. Banks is trying to force a melody on songs like "Obstacle 1," "Say Hello to the Angels," and "Obstacle 2," but there's nothing there. Even a pretty ending, such as that of "Roland," is ruined by the horribly muddled rest of the song. In short, Interpol are caught in no-man's land, too tentative to approach the starkly dramatic heights of their idols but too nondescript and amelodic to produce something more casually enjoyable.
Though Interpol's sound is suitably "dark," it's not foreboding and overwhelming the way Joy Division's is. One reason for this difference, perhaps, lies in the efforts of Banks and fellow guitarist Daniel Kessler. The beginning of opener "Untitled" sounds like Explosions in the Sky; at other times ("PDA") the guitar parts recall Coldplay. In other words, the icy, oppressive, spacious style of JD's Bernard Albrecht gets pushed aside in favor of more modern styles that don't fit the rest of the band's sound. It's this critical distinction that is partially responsible for the insignificant feel of too much of the album.
The most frustrating track is "NYC," which starts off pretty but is soon muddled behind a weak chorus too often repeated, poor and incomplete lyrics, and an overall feeling that we don't need to take the song seriously enough. Banks's lyrics in particular grate; he claims that he's tired of being lonely, yet someone who did everything for him did not impress him. Such a seeming contradiction might be possible to understand with more explanation; but otherwise, we're simply left confused.
I couldn't ever shake that feeling with Turn on the Bright Lights that, by sometime around the eighth song, it all started to blur together—similarly amelodic songs, with a vague undercurrent of darkness but no distinction or muscle. Interpol simply doesn't possess the musical originality to make up for its other flaws.


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Local Woman Makes Olympic History
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Escondido High School graduate Sarah Attar became the first woman Wednesday to compete for Saudi Arabia in track and field in the Olympics and the second in any sport.
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The 19-year-old was entered in the sixth and final heat of the women's 800 meters in London and came in last, failing to advance to Thursday's semifinals, reported 10News. Attar was wearing a head scarf, long sleeved shirt and long pants in keeping with Islamic tradition.The heats began at 3:35 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time and were shown live on BCOlympics.com."A big inspiration for participating in the 2012 Olympics for me is being one of the first women for Saudi Arabia to be going," Attar said last month after her entry was confirmed by the Saudi Arabian Olympic Committee. "It's such a huge honor and I hope that it can really make some good strides for women over there to get more involved in the sport."Attar was born in Escondido but holds dual citizenship through her father.Attar ran in two meets for Pepperdine University in 2012, finishing 12th in her heat of the 1,500 meters in the Cal State Fullerton Ben Brown Invitational in five minutes, 30.51 seconds March 10 and 29th in the 3,000 meters in Spring Break Invitational March 24 at UC Irvine in 11:37.41.Attar, an art major, was named to the West Coast Conference's Commissioner's Honor Roll the past two years and was an honorable mention selection to the conference's All-Academic team for cross country in 2011."Sarah is a wonderful Pepperdine student who works hard in all she does," Waves coach Robert Radnoti said.Participation by women representing Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Brunei means that every national Olympic committee will have sent women to the Olympics, according to International Olympic Committee Jacques Rogge.Wojdan Shaherkani became the first woman representing Saudi Arabia in the Olympics on Friday, being thrown by Melissa Mojica of Puerto Rico 82 seconds into their super-heavyweight judo match.Rogge called the inclusion of women on the Saudi Arabian team "very positive news.""The IOC has been working very closely with the Saudi Arabian Olympic Committee and I am pleased to see that our continuing dialogue has come to fruition," Rogge said on July 12 when Attar and Shaherkani's Olympic participation was confirmed."The IOC has been striving to ensure a greater gender balance at the Olympic Games and today's news can be seen as an encouraging evolution," Rogge added.Copyright Do you have more information about this story? Click here to contact usCopyright 2012 by 10News.com. City News Service contributed to this report. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


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DISADVANTAGED schoolchildren from Swansea will soon have the chance to sail on an historic vessel.
The Olga, a Bristol Channel Pilot Cutter built in 1909, is now back in the city after a major restoration that's returned the boat to its original glory.
She is moored at Swansea Museum's pontoon in Swansea Marina which will be open to the public over Bank Holiday weekends and throughout July and August.
Swansea Council staff at the museum are now gauging interest and working on a programme of activities that will include Swansea secondary schools and organisations like the Swansea Youth Offending Service.
The restoration of the Olga at a specialist Gloucester shipyard is part of a multi-million pound scheme to make Swansea Bay a Watersports Centre of Excellence. The scheme is being funded by the Wales European Funding Office and the Welsh Government through Visit Wales and the Regeneration Area programme.
A grant towards Olga's conservation was also received from the Department of Culture, Media and Sport through the Museums, Libraries and Archives PRISM foundation.
Drawings and specifications from 1909 were used to design the galley, saloon and sleeping accommodation.
Swansea Museum is now interested in hearing from volunteers who may have the skills and experience to help crew the vessel. Trips along the Gower coast and further afield will be announced later in the summer.
Cllr Graham Thomas, Swansea Council's Cabinet Member for Culture, Recreation and Tourism, said: "This is the only remaining Bristol Channel Pilot Cutter that's in public ownership and belongs to a museum. Its restoration means it now looks as magnificent as it would've done in its prime in the early 20th Century.
"It's our intention to start running trips and sailing classes for disadvantaged children aboard the Olga from the early summer before opening up the opportunity to the wider community.
"Swansea has a rich sailing and maritime heritage and this scheme will help bring the past back to life and offer generations to come a fantastic classical sailing and learning experience."
The Watersports Centre of Excellence scheme also includes the construction of a centre for watersports on the promenade opposite St Helen's.
Work that's now started on site is expected to be complete by the end of July. Kite-surfing, kite-buggying and stand-up paddle boarding are among the activities that could feature at the centre.
Other features of the overall scheme include replacing the existing Swansea Council building at Knab Rock with a purpose-built facility that will include public toilets, showering facilities, changing rooms, an office and a tourism information distribution point.
Contact Swansea Museum for more information about the Olga on 01792 653763.


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OKay so Sam is dead? How did they get Sam in the car and Brenda out in front of everyone? I didn't know Sam was leaving the show.
I thought I read that Jason and Sam spend time in her hospital room ( something like that) in SOD or online somewhere??
I doubt if Sam is dead. She will probably be in a coma for about a month. jmo
There is NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO way someone could have lived through that! Theres just no way! I still don't understand how the switched Sam for Brenda right in front of everyone.
Keep in mind this is soapland; anything is possible. As for the switch....well, I can't wait to see how tptb explains that one
It'll be some throw-away character. I WISH Sam were dead. Her character is wimpy pathetic and as useless as teets on a bull.
Are you sure your not mistaking Elizabeth with Sam. IMO Sam is far from being pathetic.....but thats jmo
No...Sam of now is nothing resembling the ballsy character she was when she first came on. No confusing them...for me.But....all the dark female characters are basically inter-changable. They look alike, sound alike, same mannerisms.Save Lulu and Carly, they all look alike. Sam, Claire, Robin, Alexis, Molly, Xtina, (OK they are family) Brenda, Brooklynn, ...It is a very darkly cast show....Dark Hair, darker skin, dark eyes...the list goes on. Look at the differences in OLTL vs GH..So, again, I do not like Sam. Better off dead.
I would rather they killed off Elizabeth than Sam I am one of the few people who wanted her gone. I think I do remeber reading somewhere that Sam was leaving the show though so who knows it was still a shocker to say the least.
I'm with you Rita! I would rather see Elizabeth than anybody else on the show gone.......
I am glad I ain't the only one lol!