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Audion Premier Quattro 2 and 4 Box Pre-Amp
What's the best car? The best guitar? The best wine? The best loudspeaker? The best watch? In most categories, there is no "best," just contenders. In high-end audio preamps, however, this is the best, right now in 2006 and probably next year too: The Audion Quattro in 4 box or 2 box configuration. Preamps are troublesome components, having to accept a small magnitude and delicate signal and amplify its voltage so that same signal can inform the muscle needed from the power amp. Along the way, there are sockets, switches, volume and balance controls, and myriad solder connections to degrade that signal and, by extension, your sound. Then there's noise to be dodged, various amplifier input impedances to be mated to, and the circuit has to make as little imprint of its own on the sound as is possible in an imperfect world. At the end of the chain before hand-off to the power amp, the original signal must maintain its fidelity and meaty tone. All this is why many audiophiles are frequently heard declaring, "Preamps suck!" Well, they don't. There are always a few good ones and while nothing outward about an Audion Quattro suggests why it is the best preamp, it nevertheless is. From their first preamp well over a decade ago, Audion has consistently demonstrated special insight about preamp circuits. Using vacuum tubes, their circuits combine speedy transient response with seamless, fluid tone that preserves the emotion and expressiveness in any music you play. If you play vinyl, Audion phono sections have always excelled as well. The new generation Quattro delivers these qualities same as before, but just more so. Even driving other manufacturers' power amplifiers, the full-bodied holistic tonal fidelity of the Quattro preamp informs the performance of everything downstream from it. Not the last word in convenience, the Audion Quattro is a multi-decade purchase with dual-mono construction, so yes you have separate switching and volume controls for each channel in a stereo system, but effort is low and the rotary volume switch makes channel-to-channel matching quick and repeatable. No, there isn't a remote control option either, at least not yet. I've owned or heard every preamp worth mentioning in high-end audio for the past 40 years and owned several during that time. This preamp will place more tonal realism and impactful emotion in your system than any competing preamp you can buy. If you look through my list here on ThisNext, you're probably getting the idea that an Audion + Zu soundchain is something you ought to be playing your music through. Americans can contact Ray of Sound at the link, to find a US retalier. Everyone else can find what they need at Audion's UK web site, below.

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The letter published today by the Treasury – from BAE Systems to David Cameron – is a bombshell that explains in stark outline why ministers pressed ahead with an order for two aircraft carriers despite fiscal constraints.
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Friendship Groups Work In Films But Not In Reality
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants was released in theaters today, and this time around the women have been apart all year, but their summer plans will keep them separated. According to the film's website, "Now it will take more than a hurried note…or even a treasured pair of pants passed back and forth among them to keep their lives connected." But this got me thinking…Do friendship groups like The Sisterhood and Sex and the City, in which all the friends get along and are connected equally, exist in reality? In my experience, the answer is a resounding, "No."I've never been the sort of girl who enjoys being in a group, so most of my friendships are based on one-on-one relationships. A few years ago, my BFF Nicole decided to take me clubbing for my birthday. Now, it's pretty sad to go to the club for a birthday celebration with only two people, one of whom is the birthday girl, so she invited two of her friends (my acquaintances) along. Let's call them Tania and Yvette. We had so much fun dancing for hours, and we all started hanging together on the weekends.
I started putting my fears of friendship groups to rest, but I always wondered whether our little group could exist without Nicole. So in order to forge a deeper bond with Yvette and Tania, I started attending events with them even if Nicole wasn't going to be there. And after a weekend getaway with all "my girls" last summer, I finally started to feel connected to each one individually.
But then disaster struck. We and some others went to a club for Yvette's birthday. Before Nicole and I left the house we had a nagging feeling that things wouldn't go well. And they didn't. The night was a total fiasco, to say the least. Yvette drank too much, passed out and had trouble breathing. And I got into a fight with her younger, immature cousin. We never came to blows, but there was serious neck-rolling and name-calling on the streets of Manhattan.
I took a break from the group after that night, but I continued to chill with Nicole. We all needed respite from each other. We came back together when Nicole had a crisis earlier this year, but we haven't hung out like we did before. Then, Nicole moved out of state and the friendship group totally dissolved. I've made contact with both Yvette and Tania, but nothing has come out of that. I learned that they continue to get together occasionally, but haven't invited me along. I'm not too sure I'd go anyway because things could be weird.
I learned a great deal through this experience. First, friend groups don't work unless there is a dominant friend who is connected to everyone and works at keeping the group together. Two, nothing beats a one-on-one friendship with someone you've known since you were four. And lastly, I'm too damn old to be up in da club. What do you ladies think? Was this an isolated case or are friendship groups doomed from the beginning?


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INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION - Commander Chris Hadfield made history by becoming the first Canadian astronaut to lead the crew at the International Space Station. On Sunday, Hadfield performed another first -- singing and recording the first music video in space.
Celebrating his return to Earth, Commander Hadfield showed off his vocal talents by singing David Bowie's famous "Space Oddity" while floating around in zero gravity.
Hadfield altered the lyrics to fit his personal experience in outer space. For example, Hadfield sings "lock your Soyuz hatch" instead of "take your protein pills" from Bowie's original lyrics.
The Canadian commander also displays his skills on the guitar, strumming the brief solo two and a half minutes into the video.
The video has quickly gone viral. More than one million people have watched the music video since it was posted on Sunday.
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Hadfield, along with NASA astronaut Tom Mashburn and Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko, will land in Kazakhstan on Monday at 10:30 p.m. EST.
Commander Hadfield has paved the way for future crew members to use social media to spark interest in space missions. During his time at the space station, Hadfield has consistently tweeted pictures, provided updates through Twitter and posted videos to YouTube to help the average person experience life aboard the ISS.
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The Crap We Missed – Tuesday 7.8.14
Welcome to Tuesday's The Crap We Missed where I'm once again in familiar territory, alone, below some fantastic nakedness and free to write whatever I want without caution. So before my presentation on some of the good ideas the Nazis had (Did you know they invented frozen yougurt?), I'll describe the questions that my in-no-way-severely-damaged brain created for my favorite pic of the day. Here's perpetually shit-faced Kiefer Sutherland drunk shuffling down the sidewalk in NYC. Is he about to slur out a show tune and attempt a swing around a lightpole? Will teenage Ben Foster heading home from his shift at T-Mobile catch him when he falls?
I like to think so…I like to think so, *pushes thumbtack into Pierre, SD on wall-size U.S. map, pets imaginary cat on shoulder* It's all coming together now, Prince Charles, soon, soon,
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HOUSTON - There is a new push to find out who killed a 74-year-old man in northwest Harris County.
The family of Maglorio Cortes gathered with detectives on Monday to urge anyone to help solve this case.
Cortes was gunned down while walking in the 11000 block of Springsong about 6 p.m. on Nov. 7.
"Some evil doers thought nothing about taking his life," Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia said.
Cortes was a retired welder. He left behind a wife, six children and nine grandchildren.
"It's so hard. We never imagined we would have to do something like this. It's unfair," granddaughter Leslie Cortes said.
Witnesses told investigators they heard a series of gunshots the night of the slaying, and they saw a 2010 or 2011 dark red or maroon four-door Chevy Cruz leaving the scene. Several men were in that vehicle, witnesses said.
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Related story: Ontario City Council embraces new member Paul Vincent Avila
ONTARIO - Despite his election to the City Council on Nov. 6, Paul Vincent Avila made it clear on Thursday night he does not want to leave his post as a board member of the Ontario-Montclair School District.
Avila, who has been a board member for the past 16 years, was told by the school district's attorney, during the school board meeting, that there is a law that prohibits him from serving on the City Council and school board at the same time. "I'm afraid by leaving we are going to go backward," Avila said speaking at length about his desire not to leave the board. "I'm not done yet, " he said.
During the meeting, the school board was given the several options on how fill Avila's board seat, including appointing a successor, holding a special election, or leaving the decision up to the San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools.
Avila questioned the process and whether it would be transparent.
The board did not take any action and will address it again at its next meeting on Dec. 13. By that time, Avila is expected to have started his term as an Ontario councilman. The City Council will meet Dec. 4. Once Avila is sworn in as a City Council member, he automatically loses his post with the school district.


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The UK offers some of the world's best employment prospects for professionals in the beauty and personal grooming sector, and employs a significant proportion of the total workforce in the sector. Just under 1% of the UK population are currently working in the industry, and some 250,000 workers contribute to the field nationwide.
Recruitment agencies often list opportunities for positions such as Hairdresser, Holistic Therapist, Beauty Therapist, and Manicurist. It is also a sector that provides ample opportunities for self-employment, and it is estimated that more than half of all professionals in the area work in freelance or entrepreneurial roles. Typically, there are few professional requirements for entry into the field, although for some positions (hairdresser, for example) professional certificates and licences are needed. Academic degrees and NVQs, though beneficial, are rarely necessary.
Because such a high percentage of workers in the sector are self-employed, it is difficult to give an accurate estimate of typical salaries. The majority of professionals, however, earn in the £15-25K range. The most important skills for employees in the area are sociability, attention to detail, a keen sense of style, and technical mastery of a particular beauty or grooming service. The majority of employment opportunities are found in London.


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ROOKIE reserve Kyle Newman has enlisted the help of a personal trainer to achieve his dream – a top-five berth with his beloved Poole Pirates.
The 22-year-old, an asset at Wimborne Road, has already proved a popular figure on the back of some impressive displays this season after his hometown club took up their option of blooding him as a fast track rider.
Having suffered a torn thigh muscle last month, Newman has been limited to just seven top-flight appearances but has achieved an impressive average of 6.74 with eight heat victories so far.
And the Poole-born talent already has one eye on the future having joined forces with Sean Lillington, the instructor who helped Chris Holder work through his injury problems last year.
Discussing his new schedule, Newman told the Daily Echo: "Fitness has never been my strong point, it did improve over the winter but I want to do everything I can to maintain that.
"It helps everything, the fitter your body is the sharper your mind and decision making becomes and, hopefully, the extra work will reflect in my starts.
"I'm not as naturally skinny as a lot of the guys so if I have to work in the gym five, six or even seven days a week to reach that top level then that's how it has to be.
"I have never been one to find excuses, just solutions and I want this to boost to my push for a regular ride in the Elite League.
"It will also help my injury. I need to build up strength in that area and get the muscle firing again as soon as possible to become more comfortable and flexible on the bike."
Meanwhile, Newman added that Lillington, a goalkeeper with Dorset Premier League club Wareham Rangers last season, was an ideal candidate for the role because of his shale sport knowledge.
"Sean is a good fit because he comes to watch regularly and knows what speedway is about," said Newman. "We're looking into a few different things to work out the best programme to fit round my schedule.
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Mad Ade is looking at a picture, in his mother's, only sibling's, nephew's house.
Someone walks by Mad Ade and asks "Who are you looking at?" Mad Ade answered "I am looking at my daughter's, only brother's, mother's, father's son-in-law's, son's, father's picture. Also, neither I nor my wife have brothers or sisters."
Whose house is Mad Ade in and who is he looking at?
AnswerMad Ade's mother's only brother's nephew is the Mad Ade himself as Mad Ade does not have any brothers or sisters. Thus, he is in his own house.
Mad Ade's daughter's only brother = his son
Son's mother = his wife
Wife's father's son-in-law = Mad Ade himself (as his wife does not have any brothers or sisters)
Again, Mad Ade's son's father is himself.
Hence, Mad Ade is in his own house and looking at his own picture!
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The majority of HBCUs are located in the Southeastern states, the District of Columbia, and the Virgin Islands. HBCUs comprise 3 percent of U.S. institutions of higher education, yet they enroll 16 percent of all African-American students in higher education and award 24 percent of all baccalaureate degrees earned by African-Americans nationwide.
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THE $80 billion Future Fund has signalled it is looking to splash out on more infrastructure assets, in an attempt to shield its portfolio from further bouts of market volatility.
With global growth expected to be sluggish as much of the world remains crippled by debt, the fund said on Wednesday it was eyeing the relative stability of infrastructure.
After announcing $2 billion plans to buy the Australian Infrastructure Fund in August, and investing in overseas airports and power plants in the past year, the fund wants to raise the share of its portfolio held in physical infrastructure to 16.5 per cent, from 12.8 per cent in June.
In the fund's annual report, it was confident of finding more infrastructure assets to buy in the coming year. ''Australian assets are of particular interest to us, given the stronger link to domestic inflation and the fact that we do not need to hedge the currency risk,'' the report said.
As well as targeting infrastructure, the fund also flagged an increase in its exposure to shares - from 39.3 per cent in June to 41 per cent at the end of this financial year.
Despite this increase, the fund said it was still ''cautious'' about taking on a ''very high'' level of exposure to equities due to the likelihood of further volatility on global markets.
In the year to June, the fund said its costs had fallen from $446 million to $325 million, due to a sharp drop in performance fees paid to its external managers. It had opposed 21 per cent of company remuneration reports, and 7 per cent of proposed elections of directors.
The fund's chairman, David Gonski, said its return of 2.1 per cent in the financial year showed it had performed well considering market uncertainty, and the fund had reached a ''new stage in its life''.
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Monsters at Recess
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Monsters at Recess
was a collaborative book-crafting process. The project was designed to reaffirm the importance and ability of art to function as an integral part of our children's school day. Under the guidance of their teachers, the children wrote original sentences that pertained to a pre-discussed story. The children then worked with me in an editorial experience to better understand their places within the story, and better craft their thoughts. Once the children's sentences were written, I began illustrating them, using my pictures as a common thread to unify the children's wonderfully creative ideas. This project also involved in-classroom brainstorming and art demonstrations, through which the children developed an understanding of my creative process as an artist. This book is the result of an interdisciplinary art initiative to regain some of the ground art has
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- Etiquetas fine art, word bubbles, children's, picture, pictures, monsters, graphic, illustration
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GreySoul Studio operates under an equal sharing opportunity that all contributors benefit from their efforts put towards any project. The focus is making quality book projects without the excess ego attached.
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I hope I am posting this in the correct area. If not, please advise what area it should be put in.
Now, I am not a Java person at all. I have copied the stuff into my page from another source, hopefully following the directions. However, I get an error on the page and the expected results are not even close to what I want.
My page is [http://saccc567.com/Test/Pictures09.html but I would hope the result would look something like the following page [URL="http://www.incarclubcouncil.org/photo-gallery.php"]http://www.incarclubcouncil.org/photo-gallery.php](http://saccc567.com/Test/Pictures09.html)
When I use my page, there are errors. I don't understand them or maybe I did something wrong. Please advise as to what is wrong and/or how the best way to accomplish fixing the could be.
http://saccc567.com/Test/Pictures09.html doesn't appear to work, but http://saccc567.com/Test/Pictures.html
On that page, the error is that $ is not defined. Why? Because jQuery hasn't been loaded.
Why not? Look at the following part of your page.

Those files do not exist, which is the cause of your problem.
Thanks. I forgot about the path - changed it and now works but...
Need to understand how to change the font color of the "title". Can't seem to see that anywhere.
Thanks again.
You can do all sorts of fancy formatting of the title, as demonstrated on the tips and tricks section of the fancybox site.
However, to keep things simple, the fancybox css file is where you would go to set the title color.
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font: bold 12px Arial;
padding-bottom: 3px;
For reference purposes, here is the HTML that the fancybox generates for the title.

Image 1 of 14Looks like someone is having a good time!

Thanks. This is not working for my picture page - http://www.saccc567.com/Test/Pictures.html.
I was trying to get my pictures to emulate the example in Tip 7. (Custom title formating - lightbox style) of http://fancybox.net/blog but cannot figure it out.
I know there are things in the page code that should not be there and maybe that is causing things to go "haywire".
Thanks for your advise and helpF
It looks like you've broken something.
Take it back to where it was working before, and I'll help you on from there.
It appears to be working now but not quite the way I want.
Thanks againF
Why not? Because the reference to images/closelabel.gif doesn't exist?
First, I want to have the color of the text black (or dark red) but cannot get it to change.
Second, the closelabel.gif does exist in the images folder.
Last, there is no "shadow" as the example has.
Thanks for keeping up with this.
The color is set in the fancybox.css file, under declarations such as:
div#fancy_title divandfancy_title span.count
That shadow is once again defined in the CSS. Look at the declarations such as:div.fancy_bg_nanddiv.fancy_bg_neanddiv.fancy_bg_e
as well as the others.
I appreciate your staying with me on this. I know that I may sometimes get "overbearing" but am frustrated that I cannot figure this out.
I looked in my jquery.fancybox.css file (on the site) and the color is set to #CCC in the div#fancy_title div area. Also, the #fancy_title SPAN.count has color at #000 and that seems to work OK but the title is still white. Also, all of this, I think, is supposed to have a white background.
I changed the paths for the arrows (which, by the way, are not showing either) to be the full URL of the site. Maybe that is wrong.
SO, am still trying to understand how to make this work like I think it should and also what I am doing wrong (which I know I am doing something incorrectly).
If you need more files, let me know and I can post them.
Thanks again for all you help - I know I will get it sooner or later.F
I am moving this thread to the CSS forum.
Your CSS file most-likely is being locally cached.
That's controlled by this style declaration:div#fancy_title
Figured it out. Cleared the cache (thanks Paul) and had some code in the wrong place and now it almost works


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Education Minister Christopher Pyne has unveiled the detail of his higher education reforms but his behind-the-scenes work has just begun.
He acknowledges it might take months to get a deal but is confident parliament will pass some form of the legislation by the end of the year.
While students protested at Liberal Party headquarters in Melbourne, Mr Pyne told parliament his bill would create "some of the greatest higher education and research reforms of our time".
The government wants to deregulate university fees, expand commonwealth funding for private providers and sub-bachelor courses, cut per-student funding and increase the interest rate for HELP debts.
Private providers will get 70 per cent of the per-student funding amount going to universities.
The minister and the university sector both warned the status quo was untenable.
"If we end the year without the reform, universities won't be thanking the Palmer United Party," Mr Pyne said.
Universities Australia chairwoman Sandra Harding agreed on the need for quick action.
"We shouldn't understate the size of these reforms or the urgency and need for these reforms," she said.
But the sector wants senators to reduce the level of funding cuts, drop or alter the interest rate hike and provide some kind of support package to deal with possible market failure.
Prof Harding warned that without support, campuses and courses could be at risk, particularly in regional universities.
However, universities will continue to help the minister wrangle senators over the package.
Labor's education spokeswoman Kate Ellis says the opposition won't negotiate on "extreme and damaging" university reforms that lump students with more debt.
Greens senator Lee Rhiannon met Mr Pyne earlier in the week but on Thursday called the bill "an ugly piece of legislation".
Without their support the government needs the votes of six other crossbenchers.
Liberal Democrat David Leyonhjelm and Family First's Bob Day are on board, although Senator Day is worried about hiking interest rates on debts.
Independent Nick Xenophon is opposed while Democratic Labour Party senator John Madigan and the Motoring Enthusiast Party's Ricky Muir are waiting to see the detail before taking a firm stance.
With that maths, Mr Pyne is concentrating on the three Palmer United Party senators.
Asked if there was any aspect of the higher education laws they would support, party leader Clive Palmer was definite.
"None, nothing."


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April 30, 2013
Raising Aces
There's Something About Farrell
One of the biggest stories of the first month of the 2013 season has been the incredible turnaround of the Boston Red Sox. The team went from a near-lock for the postseason in September of 2011 to the victims of one of history's greatest collapses, and the disaster carried over to 2012. The Sox were a .500 team in April of last season, and were still three games over at the end of June. However, Boston would go 28-56 over the rest of the campaign, winning just one-third of their remaining games in a brutal crash that was catalyzed by bad blood in the clubhouse and the fire sale of August 25th, in which the Red Sox flipped a quarter-billion dollars worth of contracts in a salary-dump that sent Adrian Gonzalez, Carl Crawford, and Josh Beckett to Los Angeles.
General Manager Ben Cherington made a splash in free agency, signing a handful of players to revamp the roster, but the general outlook for this season was bleak. Preseason predictions by the BP staff placed Boston fourth in the AL East this year, but the team and the city have become a symbol for triumph in the wake of tragedy. Going into play on Tuesday, the Sox have the best record in the game at 18-7, and their run differential of +40 also leads the majors.
The Red Sox owe a lot of those wins to their pitching. New manager John Farrell seems to have successfully resurrected a staff that ranked 12th out of 14 AL teams in ERA last season. Farrell, who was Boston's pitching coach from 2007-10, was pried away from the Blue Jays despite being under contract, as the Sox were determined to help their existing stable of pitchers—some of whom had come up under Farrell—return to peak form. The team added Ryan Dempster to the rotation in the offseason, but the main focus for Farrell and new pitching coach Juan Nieves was to fix established starters Jon Lester and Clay Buchholz.
Clay Buchholz
The enormous discrepancy in K's and homers leaps off the page, and this season's strikeout-to-walk ratio is three times what it was at this time last year. Clearly something has changed, and given Farrell's familiarity with his motion, it shouldn't be surprising that Buchholz' improvements are rooted in mechanics.
Buchholz 2012
Buchholz 2013
I covered Buchholz last season, as he was emerging from the doldrums of his horrific start to the year. The article focused on arm slots, and Buchholz was selected due to spine-tilt that artificially raised his arm slot to the detriment of his posture. He had carried the poor posture tag for years, and the inconsistency of his spine-tilt flashed grades ranging from 35 to 55 depending on the day and/or pitch in question. Fast-forward to 2013, and Buchholz has been able to stabilize his delivery to improve posture, the ripple effect of which includes a deeper and more consistent release point.
Mechanics Report Cards
For an explanation on the grading system for pitching mechanics, please consult this pair of articles.
The lowest grade on his report card was balance, thanks to a drop-n-drive delivery that wreaked havoc on his pitch repetition, but the right-hander has reined in the technique to minimize the "drop" aspect. Buchholz was also imbalanced into release point last season, falling off to the first-base side due to exaggerated spine-tilt and an inefficient pattern of momentum. Watch the pitch from 2012: Buchholz had a tendency to fall off to the first-base side after release point, as his rotational energy pulled him off course.
Buchholz has improved his momentum since last season, and though his sheer speed down the mound has always been plus, the 2013 model is more fluid with his delivery and more efficient with the linear components of momentum. This season, he is directing all of his energy toward the target, as indicated by where he goes after release point—his forward momentum is such that Buchholz finishes with an extra burst toward the plate.
The improvement in momentum is mostly apparent in the phases just before foot strike. Buchholz has pretty much the same pace into max leg lift, and he may have even been quicker with his gear change last season, but his steady increase of momentum maximizes his power just as the foot hits the ground. Buchholz then efficiently transfers that energy into the rotational phases, and he has had an easier time repeating the stronger pace to the plate.
So there you have it. Minimize the drop-n-drive, ramp up the momentum, improve the posture and... voila! You have a pitcher with a deeper release point that he can repeat more effectively. And that, my friends, is how you trump PECOTA.
Buchholz 2010
Buchholz 2013
Comparing the current iteration of Buchholz's delivery to the last time that Farrell was in charge of the youngster's development reveals some of the impact that a coach can have on player performance. Buchholz had his best season in 2010, during Farrell's last year as Boston pitching coach, and Buchholz's delivery at that time was superior to what was on display last season. His momentum was not as quick, but he did a better job of directing that momentum on a linear path to the target. Although Buchholz still had the drop-n-drive, his overall balance was more stable than the delivery of 2012. Farrell's reunion with Buchholz has yielded even more impressive results, and one can almost see the progression as if 2011-12 never happened.
Jon Lester
The stats indicate lower rates of both walks and strikeouts in 2012, but what fueled his sudden spike in ERA was a hit rate that jumped above a hit-per-inning for the first time in his career. After a multi-year run of decline since Farrell departed after 2010, Lester has enjoyed an excellent start to 2013—his K rate still falls short of peak, but the mechanical indicators provide optimism that he has turned the corner.
Lester 2012
Lester 2013
Nothing about Lester's delivery was painfully out of whack in 2012, as his basic grades for efficiency were reasonably strong, but he lacked the fluid consistency of timing and sequencing that had distinguished his delivery in the past. His motion appeared to drag to the point of being sluggish, and it looked as if he was laboring through every pitch. Lester's walk rate hid his struggles with pitch command; his tendency to miss by just a few inches resulted in a lot of hard-hit baseballs. His delivery has taken a step forward this season, and in the above GIF he also received the benefit of a friendly frame from batterymate Jarrod Saltalamacchia.
For an explanation on the grading system for pitching mechanics, please consult this pair of articles.
The momentum grade for 2012 was hurt by Lester's inconsistency, which further harmed his grade for repetition. Momentum and timing into foot strike are two of the most important indicators of pitch command, and a pitcher who is slower to the plate has a greater window for his timing to fall off track. The speed of Lester's delivery has only slightly improved, but the consistency of his timing has taking a huge step forward along with the fluidity of his motion from leg lift to foot strike.
I timed Lester at 0.1 seconds faster with his delivery this season as opposed to last, and the combination of stronger momentum and fluid timing has acted to extend his distance at release point. A longer stride as well as a correspondingly high frequency of well-timed pitches have allowed him to reach full extension at release point. Lester has also improved his balance since last season, as a previous tendency to lag with the head during the second phase of momentum has since been corrected.
Lester was able to improve three grades on his report card with a single tweak to his mechanics, as the more fluid rhythm of 2013 has raised his scores for momentum, release distance, and most importantly, repetition. I might be beating a dead horse, but I will continue to echo the mantra that repetition of mechanical timing is the single most important aspect of pitching, and that it influences all of the other grades on the report card. When a pitcher has a bad day, it is most often due to his inability to repeat mechanical timing, as there are merely hundredths of a second that separate a perfectly executed pitch from one that falls right into the hitter's wheelhouse. Consistent timing has guided Lester and Buchholz to a combined record of 9-0 with a collective 1.69 ERA over 69.3 innings this season, helping them to rediscover the skills of their youth.
Lester 2010
Lester 2013
Based on the early evidence from this season, it would appear that John Farrell has already had a tremendous impact on the Red Sox. His familiarity with the staff as well as his vast knowledge of pitching have paid immediate dividends to the Boston hurlers, and I'm impressed by the ties that bind the performance gains of Clay Buchholz and Jon Lester. The apparent emphasis on consistent timing through greater momentum paints an optimistic picture of their immediate future, and a focus on finding each pitcher's ideal pace has produced a fluid transition from first movement into foot strike, creating deliveries that are as pleasing to the eye as they are efficient.
Special thanks to Ben Lindbergh for suggesting such an interesting homework assignment.
Doug Thorburn is an author of Baseball Prospectus. Follow @doug_thorburn
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Very interesting how quickly and effectively they were able to alter their mechanics and improve. Did you get a chance to look at Lackey at all? Just wondering if he has similar room for improvement (sure he does)and how the ease of making those mechanical changes might compare to Buchholz and Lester.
Apr 30, 2013 05:50 AM
I was watching the start where Lackey hurt his forearm, and overall I was impressed with what I saw. Had been awhile since we had seen a clean Lackey delivery. That said, coach shoulda been on the mound after the previous pitch, when he first started favoring the arm.
Apr 30, 2013 16:57 PM
Sam F
Great stuff Doug, thanks for helping pinpoint the improvement!
Apr 30, 2013 06:33 AM
This is an interesting element, moreso for the psychological implications than some measurable element of mechanical efficiency. But there is something to it for some pitchers, as a solid tempo can help them to find a consistent delivery. There is also the side factor that a pitcher who takes a very long time is more likely to invoke a timeout call from the batter, which would further disrupt the pitcher's rhythm.
Apr 30, 2013 17:05 PM
So why did that #@%$& Farell do nothing for the pitching in Toronto if he is so smart? Maybe this is ALL Nieves? We all celebrated when the classless Farell left town
Apr 30, 2013 07:15 AM
Farrell is a very good manager. Most people if answered honestly would much rather manage the Red Sox than go to Toronto. The fact that he was familiar with the players and environment make it easier. I think he has handled it as we'll as you can.
Apr 30, 2013 07:38 AM
In fact, the Farell report card is: 2 bad-to-mediocre years as manager vs 1 good month. He is, however, permanently without class, whatever his preferences & your chauvinistic attitudes. His behaviour was bad for baseball, without a doubt.
Apr 30, 2013 08:07 AM
Hmmmm, and yet the Blue Jays are still struggling even with the flux of players. Maybe it wasn't the coaches fault after all.
Apr 30, 2013 15:57 PM
Nice to see that stereotypically Torontonian inferiority complex is alive and well. How dare someone choose another organization, one with a more storied history and to which he has personal ties, over the Blue Jays! What a cad and a bounder!
Apr 30, 2013 22:07 PM
Farrell is undoubtedly a very good pitching coach.
May 01, 2013 10:25 AM
Ben Solow
I noticed that Buchholz is lined up on the 1st base side of the rubber in the 2013 GIF, but on the 3rd base side of the rubber in the 2012 GIF. Is this a consistent change he's made this year? Do you happen to know if other Sox righties pitching from the 1st base side as well?
Apr 30, 2013 13:35 PM
Awesome observation, Ben - good eye. This is especially pertinent given that the catcher is set up in virtually the same location for both pitches. The momentum and balance were the big issues that caught my eye, but a stride pattern that better lines up the gears could very well be supporting the more-efficient path to the plate.
Apr 30, 2013 17:01 PM
That actually looked like a fairly terrible frame from Saltalamacchia. Surprised the ump called that one a strike.
May 01, 2013 09:57 AM
Good managing of Lester by Farell last night (Tues.), wouldn't you say? As Lester inflates and then explodes over the next weeks and months, I look forward to your reassessment of Farell. I hear Aceves, Bard don't like him already. Can Lackey, Hanrahan, be far behind? I hear Bailey's arm is about to fall off.
May 01, 2013 10:27 AM
Ben Solow
Alfredo Aceves doesn't like a manager? Shocking.
May 01, 2013 12:13 PM
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Having been begged mercilessly by precisely nobody to contribute to the great, late summer of RR ("worst internet blog") Guest Blogs, I racked my brains endlessly to decide on the subject matter.
Reminiscences of 1994? Got none.
Tales of an obscure incident from Ranger past? Ditto.
A much-deserved tribute to Stanislav Neck·Y's 18-game tenure on Broadway? I couldn't do it justice.
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ASHAM: Atlantic Squad Hobo, Aged Meathead
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NASH: Newly Acquired Salary Hole
PYATT: Phoenix Years Attractive To Torts
RICHARDS: Rather Insane Contract Helps Afford Required Dental Surgery
RUPP: Ratchets Up Philadelphian Paranoia
SAUER: Sadly Always Unavailable. Expect Retirement?
STAAL: Siblings Together At Alternative Location
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…I wrote yesterday how the Mets were fine.
No. Not fine.
Omar Quintanilla hurt his finger making a diving stop last night. So he's questionable for today's game. Ronny Cedeno won't begin rehabbing until next week at the earliest. That leaves David Wright and Jordany Valdespin. I'd prefer Wright on talent, but probably best to keep him away from shortstop, the way they keep dropping.
Meanwhile, Oswaldo Navarro, Buffalo's current shortstop, can certainly field the position. But getting him to New York requires finding a spot on the 40-man roster for him, and that won't be easy. It would require something like sending Reese Havens through waivers, which would be problematic. Havens is a good bet to be claimed, and to fill a short-term emergency, that strikes me as a bad bet.
So for now, it is Valdespin, and Wright backing him up. Hope nobody hits it to short is the real plan right now, though.


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It's an old British tradition - seen in other countries as well - to put silver coins or sometimes other charms into traditional Christmas plum pudding. The idea is that if you find a coin in your piece of pudding you will have luck - especially with money - for the forthcoming year. These days because of the use of base metal coins the tradition is difficult to maintain. So I have created my own slant on the tradition and have made sets of pure silver Christmas pudding 'coins', each of which has been etched with a vintage Christmas illustration. Each set comes with recipes for my family's traditional Christmas pudding and brandy sauce, as well as care and use instructions. Made by me!


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The 2012 ESPY Awards
And now that we've seen how far people will go in the name of sports, here's Jessica Biel, Hayden Panettiere, Olivia Munn and bunch of other people with less famous tits at The 2012 ESPY Awards which reportedly featured Joe Paterno in a video tribute because, yeah, maybe some kids got raped, but a leather ball was moved down a field a bunch of times and it'd be a shame not to recognize that. "For all we know, some of those kids might've liked it," ESPN probably said.
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Biofuels drive millions to hunger, according to articles in the Guardian 3 July 2008 and Washington Times 14 Feb 2008. The charity ActionAid has published a report named "Cereal Offenders" which claims "the 82% rise in food commodity prices since 2006 has directly pushed 260 million people into risk of hunger as a result of the rich world's drive for biofuels." At the same time Robert Zoellick, the World Bank president warned the world is entering a "danger zone" caused by rising food and energy prices. He commented: "What we are witnessing is not a natural disaster ... it is a man-made catastrophe. I urge the G8 countries, in concert with major oil producers, to act now to address this crisis. This is a test of the global system to help the most vulnerable and it cannot afford to fail."
According to Benjamin Senauer, a professor of applied economics at the University of Minnesota, "The evidence linking biofuel production to rising food prices can't be ignored. Between the start of 2002 and early 2008, basic global food commodity prices rose by 220%. The global production of biofuels - ethanol and biodiesel - rose from less than 8m gallons in 2004 to an estimated 18m gallons in 2008." He went on to write: "Current research, that I and colleagues are working on, suggests that 390,000 additional children under the age of five will die because of this increase in malnutrition due to biofuels. If current biofuel development trends continue, child deaths will rise to 475,000, almost one-half million by 2010."
Bob Geldof, who represents a campaign group named ONE, said: "It is tragic and absurd that people are still going hungry in the 21st century. I cannot stand the idea that a food crisis born out of high energy prices and increasing global prosperity is starving the super-poor in Africa."
Editorial Comment: Bob Geldof (and the Guardian) needs to be reminded that the main driving force for using cereal crops to make fuel for machinery, rather than food for people, is that he and his environmentalist colleagues have convinced governments and companies that using biofuels will help stop global warming. He obviously hasn't noticed that the globe has stopped warming, and rising food and fuel prices, made worse by carbon taxes and trading, will not make any difference to carbon emissions, even if they were the cause of global warming. (Ref. Climate change, politics)
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A woman was doing yard work when she saw a car drive by her house much faster than normal.
"My husband said he had to be doing 80-90 mph," she said. "I said, 'He's not going to be able to stop.'"
After hearing screeching and a loud boom, she looked down the street to see the same car in a yard.
Police say 32-year-old Jacorie Pollock was behind the wheel and intoxicated. Investigators say he ran the stop sign and plowed into the fence with children inside the car.
Investigators said Pollock walked away from that accident. Police say this was his second hit-and-run crash in a matter of minutes.
Police said he backed into the side of Gloria Gil's car at an apartment complex at University Boulevard and Barnes Road.
Instead of exchanging information or calling police, Gil said Pollock took off. So she decided to take off after him.
Gil said she followed until Pollock crashed into the home.
It was traumatic for Jackson's family, but when someone crashed through their fence again just days ago, the family said it was too much.
"If that fence wasn't up, there were neighbors sitting on their porch. If that fence wasn't up, they would've plowed through and killed them," said Jackson's mother, Felicia.
Jackson was at home during Saturday's crash and said Pollock admitted he ran the stop sign and apologized to her.
Pollock has a long list of traffic citations, dating back to 2000, including five for speeding, one for careless driving, two for running a stop sign, one for failure to yield, one for disregarding a traffic sign, two for having no seat belt, one for no proof of insurance, one for driving with suspended license, one for driving with no registration, and one misdemeanor arrest for marijuana possession.
Jackson has been pushing the city to make the intersection of Barnes Road and Kennerly Road, by her home safer since her daughter was killed. The city is now planning to make changes to the intersection.
The city said they will be adding a traffic light, letting drivers know the stop sign there is coming up. They're also increasing the size of the stop sign in that area and adding rumble strips to the road before the stop sign.
"That is what I was going for, because my mom is here," said a neighbor, Sharee Tortoici. "I get worried about them coming over here into this house when that 17-year-old girl got killed."
Channel 4 asked Jackson if she felt the city's actions are enough. She said no.
"What the city is trying to do now, we need protection," said Jackson. "We don't need him to be just alerted there's a stop sign. The stop sign was always there."
Jackson said her family wants a concrete barrier put up in front of their house, otherwise she said they will not feel protected.
Road bumps to be added leading up to home
After seeing yet another car plow through her yard, Felicia Jackson wondered if anything would be done to keep her family safe at home.
Jacksonville city councilman Don Redman says it's a battle the family shouldn't have to fight alone.
The intersection is in his district, and he says the latest accident is proof that some type of speed deterrent is long overdue.
"It's a shame we have to have accidents, and most of all that someone has to lose their life before we do something," Redman said.
He said he went to the city Public Works department in August when a van crashed into the Jacksons' home, killing their daughter.
"I talked to the Public Works at that time and encouraged them to do something," Redman said. "They weren't willing to do it at that time for whatever reason, I don't know."
Now things have changed.
The city says it is looking into adding what are called rumble strips on the roads leading to the intersection. A spokesperson says the city began discussing options immediately after the second crash.
Redman says the strips have already been effective on Bowden Road, where before workers put them down, people would run into a barricade.
Since the strips have been installed, there hasn't been any issue.
It's not clear when the strips will be installed at the intersection near the Jacksons' home, but Redman says he's glad the first step to make it safer has started.
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YOUNG football enthusiasts with a passion for volunteering are being handed a great chance to help craft the future of the local and national game by signing up for the Somerset FA Youth Council.
People aged between 16 and 24 have until the start of August to secure a place with the influential group, which plays a key part in "providing a voice" for Children and Young People (CYP) in football across the county.
Committee members team up regularly to discuss ways of increasing participation of children and young people in the sport, whether through playing, officiating or vital volunteering roles behind the soccer scenes.
Aims of the youth council include striving to secure funding to deliver football projects and raise awareness of the many opportunities youngsters have to get involved in Somerset football, on and off the pitch.
The team is also to hand to consult with children and young adults on what they want from the sport in the county and make recommendations for change.
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I just successfuly installed bt3 dual boot using the usb version, but when I used to boot the USB I would get a screen where I could pick which type of bt3 I wanted to run (KDE or a few other options). I dont get that screen anymore now that its installed on my hard drive. How can I reach that menu? The only way I can get into bt3 right now is by typing "startx"
I think he means the boot screen options...
At least the way I'm installing (using bootinst.sh) I always get this screen.
There is a howto on the wiki, as well as on the forums how it's done.
Ok, I am confused a little bit. I always wonder about it. I have a dual boot machine myself. When I first start up I have the options between Xp and BT3.lilo. I choose BT, then I log in as root and use the default password.Then use startx...now is this a complete install of Backtrack? If not, can do a complete install, on the dual boot?
First Rule of Holes: When you're in one - Stop Digging!
There is no command I can run instead of "startx" to get that menu? or anyother command to doot in the ooz
The menu shown when you boot from the live CD or USB is the ISOLINUX boot menu. This is displayed BEFORE BT3 starts. If you look at \boot\isolinux\isolinux.cfg you will see that each menu entry starts BT3 with different kernel options. By comparing these entries with your existing HDU boot menu you should be able to adapt them to your needs.
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Carrie Prejean appeared on Hannity last night where she acknowledged filming herself masturbating for a boyfriend, according to TMZ:
The former beauty queen told Sean she was just a teenager when she decided to send her boyfriend — who she "loved and cared about" at the time — the extremely intimate video of herself.
Carrie said she takes "full responsibility" for the "humiliating" tape.
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SMWC Volunteers Make Clay Bowls for Fundraiser
November 15th, 2013 | SMWC
Within a three-hour timespan, over 20 people had gathered at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College to give their time and creative energy to benefit the 4th annual Soup Bowl Benefit of the Terre Haute Catholic Charities Foodbank.
The group, including faculty, staff, students and community members, worked with the clay at all stages of the process, from forming on the wheel to glazing and embellishment.
"This is my very first time working with clay," said SMWC senior psychology major, Julie Debish. "I initially wanted to go into art therapy. I have some artistic ability, and I like it – art is kind of a hobby for me." Debish enjoyed the process so much that she hopes to help again when the bowls created at the event are ready to be glazed.
The process of making a clay bowl is extensive. Once the bowl is formed and dries, it has to be fired in the kiln, glazed, and then fired again. Associate Professor of Art Therapy and Director of MAAT Graduate Program, Kathy Gotshall, assisted volunteers throughout the process.
The goal for this project is to give the Soup Bowl Benefit about 25 soup bowls by February. This event is a way to get people involved so that the goal can be met.
"I enjoyed the opportunity to support a good cause, meet new people and have a good time," said community member, Becky Ramp, who also participated in bowl making and volunteered at the Soup Bowl Benefit last year.
The handmade bowls will be filled with soup prepared by local chefs at the 4th annual Soup Bowl Benefit on Feb. 1, 2014 at Maryland Community Church.
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Kiev: Australian investigators are part of an international team that has for the first time reached the crash site of Malaysia Airline flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine, as Australian Federal Police officers were cleared to bring firearms into Ukraine.
On Thursday night Australian time, Australia's Foreign Minister Julie Bishop tweeted that the team had made it to the site.
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Great news as Dutch-Aussie advance-party of experts have just made it on to #MH17 crash site. At last work begins to bring our people home. — Julie Bishop (@JulieBishopMP)
July 31, 2014
''Monitors reach MH17 crash site for 1st time in almost week, accompanied by 4 Dutch, Australian experts. Used new route to access,'' the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe's monitoring mission in charge of facilitating the international probe wrote on Twitter.
But in a sign of the continuing insecurity, a team of journalists following the convoy heard loud blasts just a few kilometres away from the site and saw black smoke rising from a village close to where some of the plane wreckage is lying.
AFP officers will be allowed to fly Australian sniffer dogs to the eastern European nation after the Ukraine Parliament - the Rada - voted in support of the planned Dutch-led investigation.
The Rada voted 324 - 32 in favour of allowing the international effort to access the site outside Donetsk even as war rages across ground where up to 100 bodies from the downed 747 are believed to be lying in the open.
Fighting along the route to the wreckage site between government troops and pro-Russian separatist rebels had for several days kept the delegation from reaching the area.
An AP journalist at the scene on Thursday said it appeared to be under the control of separatist rebel fighters.
Police and forensic experts from the Netherlands and Australia are expected to initially focus their efforts on retrieving bodies still on the site and collect victims' belongings.
It remains unclear exactly how many bodies remain and what condition they are in after being exposed for so long to the elements.
Speaking outside the Rada after the vote, Ms Bishop said: "Our presence here is legal" but reaffirmed that AFP officers still intended to go in unarmed.
''Our convoy will not be armed. It's a police-led humanitarian mission,'' she said.
Ms Bishop said a small "reconnaissance mission" was under way on Thursday. "We are hearing hour by hour of their progress and if they are able to make the site today.
Then they will be able to assess the situation and return, hopefully safely, to our base and then start a full convoy tomorrow of all the necessary investigators and experts who must be on that site without further delay so that we can search the site, retrieve the bodies that we know are still there, and remains, and gather the evidence that is required for this independent and impartial investigation into how this plane was downed and who is responsible for it," she said.
Ms Bishop said the green light to carry arms was an "insurance policy".
"If necessary, only if necessary, both the Dutch and the Australian personnel can bring arms into the country. But we are not taking arms on to the site. Our convoy will not be armed," she said. "This agreement means that, for example, we can bring our sniffer dogs in.
"There could be around 80 bodies on the site and that is why the Netherlands, who lost 194 people, Australia lost 38 citizens, we are determined to access the site so that we can collect the remains with some dignity and return them to the Netherlands where they can be identified and then the grieving families across the world who lost 298 people can have some closure."
Fighting continues
Earlier in the day investigators had been forced to abandon their mission for a fourth consecutive time because of fighting.
Ukraine's military announced on Thursday it would stop its brutal offensive on pro-Russian rebels at the site for 24 hours, to allow investigators to reach the area.
But fighting was continuing around the crash site despite the reports of the day-long pause in fighting.
On the hilltops surrounding the site, locals watched the sky fill with smoke as seven or more battles broke up the scene in front of them. There were no signs of the ceasefire announced on Thursday night.
It appears the Ukrainian army moved in from the north at dawn and are attempting to push the rebels south and west. There was chaos on the rebel front lines - a bus shrouded in bed sheets with red crosses painted on raced toward Shakhtersk.
Outside the town, a rebel fighter named Angel said 30 or 40 people had been killed or wounded in fighting overnight.
On the road towards the crash site, villages and fields were deserted. Harvesting ground to a halt as everyone stayed indoors avoiding the fighting.
Earlier in the day Prime Minister Tony Abbott said: "We will not readily be deterred here. We are determined."
Mr Abbott also announced that a national memorial service would be held in Melbourne on August 7. The multi-faith event will be at St Patrick's Cathedral.
with Paul McGeough, AAP, AFP, AP


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It was nonsense to claim Phillip Bracken shot dead his defacto wife in a West Footscray street because he was a victim of family violence and feared her, a court has heard.
"Bad relationships happen but it is never justified in killing someone," Crown prosecutor Peter Rose, SC, told a Supreme Court jury.
"You may well know of relationships where one or any other partner is dominant, aggressive, bullying.
"They may even be unhappy relationships.
"In our society, we don't allow people to go and execute their partners because of the nature of the relationship.
"There are other means in a civilised society.
"Separation, intervention orders, seek assistance, perhaps somebody gets someone who is psychologically damaged more health assistance. There are plenty of other options.
"Shooting them five times when they are on the ground is not one of them.
"The one thing you are not allowed to do is execute them because you're angry or unhappy."
Mr Bracken, 45, has pleaded not guilty to murdering Ms Curtis, 59, his defacto wife of four years, on Monday afternoon, November 19, 2012.
He claims he killed Ms Curtis in self-defence after having been abused, controlled, threatened and intimidated by her.
The Crown case is that Mr Bracken had taken a rifle from Ms Curtis' car and shot her five times in the middle of Clive Street because he was angry at the way she had earlier abused and threatened to kill his father.
A defence witness, forensic psychiatrist Associate Professor Dr Carolyn Quadrio, told the jury Mr Bracken was subjected to the most severe category of family violence known as "intimate terrorism" by Helen, who had a bipolar affective disorder with symptoms of anger and anxiety, before he killed her.
"The Crown suggest to you that this issue of family violence is unsustainable in this case," Mr Rose said.
"The prosecution case is that it was an unnecessary killing and has no justification on any basis, and that the shooting of the deceased Helen Curtis by the accused was an act of murder."
Mr Rose said the Crown accepted Helen was volatile, aggressive and foul-mouthed but the picture being painted by the defence "is blacker than necessarily the reality".
"In the Crown submission the weapon is used to execute Helen Curtis. He's got the weapon, he's got control of it, she's on the ground.
"She's not posing a threat to him or her family, but nevertheless he discharges the weapon not once, but five times at least."
In her closing address to the jury, defence barrister Ruth Shann said Ms Curtis was loved by her family and friends.
"She was really loved, and you've heard evidence from people close to her who loved her and who struggled with giving evidence, and you've heard text messages, and you've heard how people observed Phillip with her and how he talked in his record of interview about her, and he loved her.
"But the fact that she was loved does not take away from the fact that she was very seriously unwell, and part of that illness was she had psychiatric symptoms of uncontrollable bouts of rage, of violence.
"She had temper outbursts, there were assaults, there were injuries.
"In a rage, Helen was a frightening person, and that doesn't mean that she's a bad person or that things are black and white, but you cannot gloss over it and say that because she was loved, therefore she wasn't threatening or frightening. Because, that's not reality either."
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Saturday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. The UIC Forum is hosting the first ever Chicago Halal Food Festival, which seeks to showcase Halal food from restaurants around Chicago. Expect a range of cuisines (not just Middle Eastern.) $5. 725 W. Roosevelt; event website
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PEARLAND, Texas - A police officer stumbled upon a marijuana grow house when he spotted what he thought was a house fire, investigators said.
A Pearland police officer was patrolling the area of Northfork near Falcon Ridge about 8:30 a.m. Wednesday and smelled smoke and spotted black smoke coming from a chimney. The officer called for firefighters to go to the 3600 block of Hanover Circle.
Police said the residents admitted they burned plastic sheeting in the fireplace because they were trying to conceal the beginnings of a marijuana grow house.
About 50 marijuana plants and grow lights were found in the home, investigators said.
The home is outside Pearland's city limits, so the case was turned over to the Brazoria County Sheriff's Department. Deputies have not yet released any information about charges in the case.
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The HPV-1000 is a motorcycle in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
The HPV-1000 is a police motorcycle ridden by San Andreas Police Department police bikers. It is very fast and agile (below higher end models such as the FCR-900 and NRG-500), although the player can fall off easily if they have minimal "bike skill". If the Rhino or Hunter is not yet available, this bike is a good choice for completing the Vigilante side mission - mainly because the player can fire a submachine gun straight ahead, allowing them to take out the opponent easily. Although its siren is no longer effective in prompting oncoming vehicles to move out of the way, its compact motorcycle design allows it to navigate around traffic far better than full-sized cars.
The HPV-1000 assumes is a unique model that isn't shared by another motorcycle, and bears resemblance to a police Kawasaki KZ1000. The name may be a reference to the human papillomavirus (HPV).
Prominent appearances in missions
The HPV-1000 makes an important appearance in "Cop Wheels", in where protagonist Carl Johnson needs to steal four HPV-1000s in various places around Las Venturas for the heist and needs to deliver it to a moving Packer.
- In a beta version of the game, there was "911" written on the rear, and "SAPD" was replaced with "POLICE".[1] In another beta version, there was a LSPD HPV-1000,[2] implying that there would be a city-specific version of each HPV-1000, rather than a state-wide version.
- Found patrolling the streets in the main cities in San Andreas (Los Santos, San Fierro, and Las Venturas).
See also
- VCPD Wintergreen, GTA Vice City Stories equivalent.
- Police Bike, The Ballad of Gay Tony equivalent.


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Former Detroit Tiger Jack Morris will find out Wednesday afternoon whether he will be inducted in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
With an ERA of 3.90 spanning 18 years, Morris would have the highest ERA among all pitchers enshrined in Cooperstown if he were elected.
READ: Big names on Baseball Hall ballot include Bonds, Sosa, Clemens
"If I sense anything from the writers that have always been anti-Jack, they're pointing to the fact that I'd have the highest ERA in the Hall of Fame," Morris told MLB Network Radio. "Let me ask you this: When did we decide that earned-run average was more important than wins?"
He has been eligible for the National Baseball Hall of Fame since 2000 - but has never managed to make the cut.
To be elected to the Hall, a player needs to have his name appear on 75 percent of the ballots cast. Players need at least five percent of the votes to remain on the ballot from year to year. They have 15 years of eligibility, beginning five years after retirement.
Career Highlights
Morris played in 18 big league seasons between 1977 and 1994 - mainly for the Detroit Tigers. He won 254 games throughout his career.
WATCH: Who does Jack Morris think will win the World Series?
He was a five-time all star and played on four World Champion teams which included the Tigers, Minnesota Twins and Toronto Blue Jays.
Morris was drafted by the Tigers in the fifth round of the 1976 draft. He signed a one-year contract with the Minnesota Twins in 1991. The next season he signed with the Toronto Blue Jays, followed by a brief stint with the Cleveland Indians in 1994. He retired in 1996.


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