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3,798 | 584 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 42 | 11 | 248 | head of one individual rests under the tail of another in what may be a courtship display. Internal fertilization and similar courtship behavior are seen in modern salamanders.
=== Growth ===
While most types of temnospondyls are distinguished on the basis of features in mature specimens, several are known from juven... |
4,050 | 640 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 43 | 11 | 248 | However, some fully mature temnospondyls also possess hyobranchial bones but did not have external gills. A dense covering of scales is also seen in larvae and adults. Major body changes occur in metamorphosis, including the reshaping and strengthening of skull bones, the thickening of postcranial bones, and an increas... |
4,046 | 592 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 44 | 11 | 248 | ones are poorly developed, ribs and fingers are absent in the early stages, and the scapulocoracoid and ischium are entirely absent through most of development. Once maturity is reached, most bones have fully formed and growth rate slows. The bones of some temnospondyls like Dutuitosaurus show growth marks, possibly an... |
3,994 | 576 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 45 | 11 | 248 | letons developed quickly but were still partly cartilaginous when fully mature. Adults likely had an aquatic lifestyle similar to juveniles. Recently, large specimens of Apateon gracilis were described with adaptations toward a terrestrial lifestyle, indicating that not all branchiosaurs were neotenic.
While most temno... |
3,902 | 660 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 46 | 11 | 248 | at a greater rate than the rest of the body. This is not the case in metoposaurids, meaning that as their bodies grew larger they became less adapted toward a terrestrial lifestyle.
=== Hearing ===
Temnospondyls and other early tetrapods have rounded otic notches in the back of the skull that project into the cheek r... |
3,850 | 596 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 47 | 11 | 248 | homologous tympanum — to the inner ear. Temnospondyls also have a stapes, which projects into the otic cavity. The stapes likely evolved from the hyomandibula of lobe-finned fishes. The positioning of the stapes and the shape of the otic region suggests that the tympani of temnospondyls and frogs are homologous, but th... |
1,870 | 300 | 4 | 482 | 119 | 48 | 11 | 119 | have been able to detect vibration in the ground. Later temnospondyls like Doleserpeton had otic regions adapted to hearing. Doleserpeton has a structure in the inner ear called the perilymphatic duct, which is also seen in frogs and is associated with hearing. Its stapes is also a better transmitter of sound. The hear... |
3,486 | 552 | 4 | 999 | 249 | 0 | 12 | 249 | = Osbert de Bayeux =
Osbert de Bayeux (floruit 1121 to 1184) was a medieval English cleric and archdeacon in the Diocese of York. A relative of Thurstan, the Archbishop of York, Osbert probably owed his ecclesiastical positions to this relative. After Thurstan's death, Osbert was opposed to one of the candidates for ... |
3,558 | 576 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 1 | 12 | 248 | .
== Early life ==
Osbert was first mentioned in the historical record between 1121 and 1128 when he appears in a charter, which although likely a forgery, probably contains an authentic witness list. This document lists him as "Osbert archdeacon", which means that he probably held the archdeaconry of Richmond. He wa... |
3,786 | 592 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 2 | 12 | 248 | had deposed one abbot and appointed another. In 1153, Osbert deposed Murdac's choice as abbot of Selby and appointed another abbot. Originally, Osbert had supported Elias Paynel, Murdac's choice for abbot, but then changed his stance and helped with the deposition.
After Murdac's death in 1153, Osbert was opposed to Wi... |
4,106 | 680 | 4 | 997 | 247 | 3 | 12 | 247 | King Stephen of England at Michaelmas in 1154, but Stephen's subsequent death prevented a resolution. Osbert attempted to have the trial switched to an ecclesiastical court and was supported in his efforts by Archbishop Theobald of Canterbury. A trial was finally held in 1156 and Osbert's accuser did not produce any wi... |
3,694 | 664 | 4 | 1,000 | 247 | 4 | 12 | 247 | contemporary, Gilbert Foliot, who was Bishop of Hereford, wrote to the pope to remind him that although Osbert's accuser had offered to prove his accusations by undergoing a trial by ordeal, this was essentially meaningless since canon law forbade the clergy from the ordeal.
== Later life and death ==
Osbert was no l... |
810 | 132 | 4 | 242 | 59 | 5 | 12 | 59 | aius. Osbert was a benefactor to a number of monasteries, including Drax Priory, Pontefract Priory and Gisborough Priory. He also gave land to a hospital in York and to the Templars and Hospitallers.
aius. Osbert was a benefactor to a number of monasteries, including Drax Priory, Pontefract Priory and Gisborough Pri... |
3,582 | 540 | 4 | 999 | 249 | 0 | 13 | 249 | = Dvorak technique =
The Dvorak technique (developed between 1969 and 1984 by Vernon Dvorak) is a widely used system to estimate tropical cyclone intensity (which includes tropical depression, tropical storm, and hurricane / typhoon / intense tropical cyclone intensities) based solely on visible and infrared satellit... |
4,322 | 660 | 4 | 997 | 247 | 1 | 13 | 247 | minimal tropical storm intensity (40 mph, 65 km / h). The shape of the central dense overcast is also considered. The eye pattern utilizes the coldness of the cloud tops within the surrounding mass of thunderstorms and contrasts it with the temperature within the eye itself. The larger the temperature difference is, th... |
4,066 | 636 | 4 | 997 | 247 | 2 | 13 | 247 | Vernon Dvorak, using satellite pictures of tropical cyclones within the northwest Pacific ocean. The system as it was initially conceived involved pattern matching of cloud features with a development and decay model. As the technique matured through the 1970s and 1980s, measurement of cloud features became dominant in... |
4,466 | 648 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 3 | 13 | 248 | development of a separate wind-pressure relationship for the northwest Pacific, devised by Atkinson and Holliday in 1975, then modified in 1977.
As human analysts using the technique lead to subjective biases, efforts have been made to make more objective estimates using computer programs, which have been aided by high... |
4,846 | 744 | 4 | 997 | 247 | 4 | 13 | 247 | latitude that helped improve central pressure estimates within the objective technique.
== Details of the method ==
In a developing cyclone, the technique takes advantage of the fact that cyclones of similar intensity tend to have certain characteristic features, and as they strengthen, they tend to change in appeara... |
3,802 | 612 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 5 | 13 | 248 | s, in which case the CI is higher. For weakening systems, the CI is held as the tropical cyclone intensity for 12 hours, though research from the National Hurricane Center indicates that six hours is more reasonable. The table at right shows the approximate surface wind speed and sea level pressure that corresponds to ... |
4,102 | 692 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 6 | 13 | 248 | pattern utilize the size of the CDO. The CDO pattern intensities start at T2.5, equivalent to minimal tropical storm intensity (40 miles per hour ( 64 km / h) ). The shape of the central dense overcast is also considered. The farther the center is tucked into the CDO, the stronger it is deemed. Tropical cyclones with m... |
4,478 | 652 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 7 | 13 | 248 | the cloud tops within the surrounding mass of thunderstorms and contrasts it with the temperature within the eye itself. The larger the temperature difference is, the stronger the tropical cyclone. Winds within tropical cyclones can also be estimated by tracking features within the CDO using rapid scan geostationary sa... |
2,906 | 472 | 4 | 997 | 247 | 8 | 13 | 247 | Tropical Depression 24 (eventually Hurricane Wilma) of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season:
BOTH TAFB AND SAB CAME IN WITH A DVORAK SATELLITE INTENSITY ESTIMATE OF T2.5 / 35 KT. HOWEVER ... OFTENTIMES THE SURFACE WIND FIELD OF LARGE DEVELOPING LOW PRESSURE SYSTEMS LIKE THIS ONE WILL LAG ABOUT 12 HOURS BEHIND THE SATELLI... |
4,338 | 660 | 4 | 999 | 248 | 9 | 13 | 249 | chnique (ODT). This is a modified version of the Dvorak technique which uses computer algorithms rather than subjective human interpretation to arrive at a CI number. This is generally not implemented for tropical depressions or weak tropical storms. The China Meteorological Agency (CMA) is expected to start using the ... |
4,094 | 688 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 10 | 13 | 248 | Selected Tropical Storms and Associated T-Number
== Benefits and disadvantages ==
The most significant benefit of the use of the technique is that it has provided a more complete history of tropical cyclone intensity in areas where aircraft reconnaissance is neither possible nor routinely available. Intensity estimat... |
3,106 | 464 | 4 | 750 | 186 | 11 | 13 | 186 | the 2.5 T numbers per day limit allowed by the rule, which can work to the technique's disadvantage and has led to occasional abandonment of the constraints since the 1980s. Systems with small eyes near the limb, or edge, of a satellite image can be biased too weakly using the technique, which can be resolved through u... |
3,110 | 580 | 4 | 999 | 249 | 0 | 14 | 249 | = New York State Route 31B =
New York State Route 31B (NY 31B) was a state highway in central New York in the United States. It served as a connector between NY 31, its parent route, in the Cayuga County village of Weedsport and NY 5 in the Onondaga County town of Elbridge. NY 31B was assigned c. 1933, replacing New ... |
3,570 | 600 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 1 | 14 | 248 | of Weedsport was urbanized, with the highway passing residential homes and businesses as it progressed eastward through the village. The highway intersected with CR 12B before leaving Weedsport and entering the town of Brutus as Brutus Road.
In Brutus, NY 31B continued to the east through the rural town, intersecting C... |
2,534 | 432 | 4 | 710 | 176 | 2 | 14 | 176 | to be transferred to another highway in Orange County. NY 31B remained unchanged until January 2, 1980, when the NY 31B designation was removed.
Ownership and maintenance of NY 31B's former routing was gradually transferred to the counties it went through, namely Cayuga and Onondaga. The first section to be transferred... |
3,682 | 632 | 4 | 999 | 249 | 0 | 15 | 249 | = Ben Amos =
Benjamin Paul "Ben" Amos (born 10 April 1990) is an English professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Bolton Wanderers. Born in Macclesfield, Cheshire, Amos began his career with Crewe Alexandra's youth academy, but joined Manchester United at the age of 11. He has spent time on loan at Peter... |
3,770 | 708 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 1 | 15 | 248 | 's goalkeeper was injured during the game, and as the tallest on the team, Amos was put in goal; however, he had also been the team's regular penalty taker all season, so when they were awarded a penalty, he went all the way up the pitch to take the kick. He scored, and his team went on to win the game 3 – 2, together ... |
3,610 | 664 | 4 | 999 | 248 | 2 | 15 | 249 | 05, coming on as a substitute for Danny Rose after starting goalkeeper Ron-Robert Zieler was sent off in a 2 – 0 defeat to Bolton Wanderers. He was regularly named as an unused substitute during the 2005 – 06 season – including for two reserve team matches – but became a frequent starter for the Under-18s in 2006 – 07 ... |
3,558 | 624 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 3 | 15 | 248 | Portsmouth on 27 July 2008, with Amos replacing Tomasz Kuszczak after 76 minutes. He made his competitive first-team debut on 23 September 2008 in a 3 – 1 win at home to Middlesbrough in the third round of the League Cup. On 14 December 2008, Amos travelled to Japan with the Manchester United squad for the 2008 FIFA Cl... |
3,734 | 632 | 4 | 999 | 249 | 4 | 15 | 249 | 30 June 2010.
=== Return to Manchester United ===
Following the departure of Ben Foster from Manchester United to Birmingham City, United manager Alex Ferguson declared that Amos would be Manchester United's third-choice goalkeeper for the 2010 – 11 season behind Edwin van der Sar and Tomasz Kuszczak. He made his fir... |
3,686 | 696 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 5 | 15 | 248 | os to join Oldham Athletic on loan for the remainder of the season on 7 January 2011, although he would continue to train with Manchester United once a week. He made his debut against Swindon Town the next day and kept a clean sheet. However, three days later, he conceded all six goals in a 6 – 0 defeat at home to Sout... |
3,670 | 672 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 6 | 15 | 248 | ershot Town, a game which United also won 3 – 0 and advanced to the quarter finals. He was in goal again for United's League Cup game in a defeat against Championship club Crystal Palace on 30 November. It also seemed that he had moved above last season's second choice Tomasz Kuszczak in the pecking order, but was now ... |
3,426 | 596 | 4 | 999 | 248 | 7 | 15 | 249 | 012 in 7 – 6 penalty shoot-out victory over Rotherham United in the first round of the 2012 – 13 Football League Cup. However, after 19 appearances, including two in the League Cup, Amos returned to Manchester United on 3 January 2013.
=== Loan to Carlisle United ===
On 15 November 2013, Amos joined League One team C... |
3,430 | 564 | 4 | 999 | 248 | 8 | 15 | 249 |
=== Return to Manchester United ===
Ben Amos returned to Manchester United after his loan spell at Bolton Wanderers, but on 10 June 2015, it was announced on Manchester United website that Ben Amos has been released from the club along with four other players.
=== Bolton Wanderers ===
On 1 July 2015, Amos returned ... |
434 | 76 | 4 | 138 | 33 | 9 | 15 | 33 | == Personal life ==
Amos attended Fallibroome High School, where he earned 11 GCSEs at grade C or above.
== Personal life ==
Amos attended Fallibroome High School, where he earned 11 GCSEs at grade C or above.
== Personal life ==
Amos attended Fallibroome High School, where he earned 11 GCSEs at grade C or abo... |
3,350 | 560 | 4 | 999 | 249 | 0 | 16 | 249 | = Clayton Kershaw =
Clayton Edward Kershaw (born March 19, 1988) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball (MLB). A left-handed starting pitcher, Kershaw has played in the major leagues since 2008, and his career earned run average (ERA) and Walks and hits per i... |
3,282 | 596 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 1 | 16 | 248 | haw was drafted seventh overall in the 2006 MLB draft. He worked his way through the Dodgers'farm system in just one full season, and reached the majors at 20 years old. When he debuted in 2008, he was the youngest player in MLB, a title he held for one full year. In 2011, he won the pitching Triple Crown and the Natio... |
3,682 | 636 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 2 | 16 | 248 | , Kershaw is an active participant in volunteer work. He and his wife, Ellen, launched "Kershaw's Challenge" and wrote the book Arise to raise money to build an orphanage in Zambia. He has been honored with the Roberto Clemente Award and the Branch Rickey Award for his humanitarian work.
== Early life ==
Kershaw was ... |
3,870 | 664 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 3 | 16 | 248 | In a playoff game against Northwest High School of Justin, Texas, Kershaw pitched an all-strikeout perfect game. He struck out all 15 batters he faced in the game, which was shortened because of the mercy rule. He also pitched for USA Baseball's Junior National Team in the Pan Am Championship. Kershaw was selected by U... |
3,294 | 644 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 4 | 16 | 248 | Kershaw began his career with the Gulf Coast League (GCL) Dodgers. He pitched in 37 innings in which he struck out 54 batters (walking only 5), while compiling a record of 2 – 0 with a 1.95 ERA. He featured a fastball that topped out at 96 miles per hour (154 km / h) and he was rated as the top prospect in the GCL, and... |
3,342 | 604 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 5 | 16 | 248 | top prospect in the Dodgers organization heading into the 2008 season.
During spring training in a game against the Boston Red Sox, Kershaw gained much attention for throwing a curveball to Sean Casey that started behind Casey but at the end looped into the strike zone and struck him out looking. Kershaw was 0 – 3 and ... |
3,382 | 584 | 4 | 997 | 247 | 6 | 16 | 247 | seasons: Early career ====
On May 24, 2008, the Dodgers bought Kershaw's minor-league contract, and he was added to the active roster. Sportswriter Tony Jackson called Kershaw's debut the most anticipated start by a Dodgers pitcher since Hideo Nomo's major league debut during the 1995 season. He made his debut on May ... |
3,126 | 548 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 7 | 16 | 248 | .26 ERA in 22 games (21 starts). He also pitched two innings out of the bullpen for the Dodgers in the 2008 National League Championship Series (NLCS) against the Philadelphia Phillies.
On April 15, 2009, Kershaw pitched seven innings, striking out 13 batters while allowing only one hit (a solo home run) against the ri... |
3,078 | 560 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 8 | 16 | 248 | He also posted an ERA of 2.79 and 185 strikeouts. Kershaw also walked 91 batters, which was second most in the National League (NL).
Kershaw made his playoff starting debut against the St. Louis Cardinals in the 2009 National League Division Series (NLDS). He went 62 ⁄ 3 innings, striking out 4, walking 1, and ended up... |
3,646 | 660 | 4 | 999 | 248 | 9 | 16 | 249 | 4, he had his worst start of his career against the Milwaukee Brewers at Dodger Stadium, throwing just 57 pitches in 11 ⁄ 3 innings, while retiring only four of the 13 batters he faced — including the pitcher. He was booed loudly upon being pulled from the game. Kershaw said after the game, "I didn 't give our team any... |
3,202 | 564 | 4 | 997 | 247 | 10 | 16 | 247 | earlier in the game. He threw his first career complete game shutout on September 14, 2010 also against San Francisco and finished the season with a record of 13 – 10 and a 2.91 ERA in 32 starts, pitching 2041 ⁄ 3 innings and recording 212 strikeouts.
==== 2011 season: 1st Cy Young Award ====
After finishing the 2010... |
3,426 | 588 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 11 | 16 | 248 | in the 9th inning since Sandy Koufax's perfect game. In his next start, on June 26, Kershaw pitched another complete game (against the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim). He became the first Dodger starter to have back-to-back complete game victories since Jeff Weaver in the 2005 season and the first Dodger to have double-... |
3,082 | 548 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 12 | 16 | 248 | in 1910.
Kershaw was selected to the National League team for the 2011 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, his first All-Star selection. In the month of July, Kershaw was 4 – 1 with a 2.02 ERA and NL-leading 45 strikeouts, earning him the National League Pitcher of the Month Award. On August 23, he struck out Matt Hol... |
2,910 | 524 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 13 | 16 | 248 | Sandy Koufax won it in the 1966 season. Justin Verlander of the Detroit Tigers won the American League Triple Crown the same season, marking the first major-league season since 1924 to feature Triple Crown-winning pitchers in both leagues. Kershaw's 21 wins were the most by a Dodger pitcher since Orel Hershiser won 23 ... |
3,402 | 596 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 14 | 16 | 248 | IP (walks plus hits per inning pitched). Kershaw also became just the second lefthander to have a 240-plus strikeouts in a season before the age of 24, joining Vida Blue.
After the season, Kershaw was awarded the Warren Spahn Award as the best left-handed pitcher in 2011, the Players Choice Award for Most Outstanding N... |
3,306 | 580 | 4 | 999 | 248 | 15 | 16 | 249 |
On February 7, 2012, Kershaw and the Dodgers agreed on a two-year, $ 19 million contract. The contract was the second highest for a player in his first year of arbitration (after Tim Lincecum's $ 23 million 2-year contract in 2010).
Kershaw was the Dodgers'Opening Day starter for the second year in a row, where he pi... |
3,282 | 580 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 16 | 16 | 248 | National League's Player of the Week Award for the week of May 14 – 20 after he made two starts during that week and pitched 16 scoreless innings, including his fourth career shutout. Kershaw was selected to appear in the 2012 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, the second straight year he made the team. On August 11,... |
3,326 | 624 | 4 | 997 | 247 | 17 | 16 | 247 | league in ERA in consecutive seasons since Arizona's Randy Johnson in 2001 – 02. This was also marked his fourth year in a row with a sub-3.00 ERA, making him the first to do this since Randy Johnson from 1999 – 2002. He finished second for the NL Cy Young behind R. A. Dickey, receiving two first place votes.
==== 201... |
3,182 | 588 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 18 | 16 | 248 | up his 1,000th career strikeout on April 17, 2013, when he struck out Yonder Alonso of the Padres. He was the second youngest Dodger to reach that mark, behind only Fernando Valenzuela. On May 14, Kershaw passed the 1,000 inning mark for his career. His ERA of 2.70 at the time was the fifth best of the live-ball era at... |
3,030 | 556 | 4 | 999 | 248 | 19 | 16 | 249 | 2013, joining Hall of Famers Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale as the only starters in Dodgers history with at least 4 consecutive seasons of more than 200 strikeouts.
Kershaw finished the season with a 16-9 record, 236 innings pitched (a career high), and a Major League best 1.83 ERA and 0.92 WHIP. He was the third player... |
3,606 | 660 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 20 | 16 | 248 | the first game of the 2013 National League Division Series. That was the third most strikeouts by a Dodger pitcher in the playoffs, behind only Koufax (15 in the 1963 World Series) and Carl Erskine (14 in the 1953 World Series). His six straight strikeouts in the game tied a MLB postseason record set by Tim Belcher in ... |
3,490 | 620 | 4 | 997 | 247 | 21 | 16 | 247 | seasons in a row.
After the season, Kershaw and the Dodgers agreed on a seven-year, $ 215 million, contract extension. The deal was the richest in MLB history for a pitcher, eclipsing the seven-year, $ 180 million, contract signed by Justin Verlander the previous year. The average annual value of $ 30.7 million was als... |
3,542 | 656 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 22 | 16 | 248 | He did not rejoin the Dodgers until early May. On June 18, he pitched a complete game no-hitter against the Colorado Rockies and struck out a career-high 15 batters. The only batter to reach base was due to an error in the top of the seventh inning, costing Kershaw a perfect game. He is the only pitcher in MLB history ... |
3,182 | 600 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 23 | 16 | 248 | left field at Dodger Stadium. Kershaw's streak was, at the time, tied for the fifteenth longest scoreless inning streak in MLB history. He won the pitcher of the month award again in July, the third Dodger (along with Don Sutton and Burt Hooton) to win it two months in a row. He was 4 – 0 with a 1.10 ERA in the month w... |
3,930 | 696 | 4 | 999 | 248 | 24 | 16 | 249 | 7 starts. He led the National League in numerous categories once again, such as ERA, ERA +, Wins, Win %, WHIP, IP / GS, SO / 9, Strikeout-to-walk ratio, complete games, FIP, and Wins Above Replacement for both pitchers and all NL players. He also finished third in strikeouts despite missing most of the first month of t... |
3,886 | 704 | 4 | 997 | 247 | 25 | 16 | 247 | seven runs in back-to-back postseason starts (his previous one was Game 6 of the 2013 National League Championship Series). Pitching on short rest in Game 4, he would again be dominant, but again would take the loss after giving up a 3-run home run to Matt Adams in the 7th inning. It was the first home run Kershaw had ... |
3,078 | 564 | 4 | 997 | 247 | 26 | 16 | 247 | award since Kirk Gibson in 1988.
==== 2015 season: 300-strikeout season ====
Kershaw made his fifth straight opening day start in 2015, the first Dodgers pitcher to do so since Hall of Famer Don Sutton started seven in a row from 1972 through 1978. He recorded his 1,500th career strikeout on May 10 when he fanned Dre... |
3,566 | 608 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 27 | 16 | 248 | roster for the 2015 All-Star Game, though he was included on the Final Vote ballot, which he lost to Cardinals pitcher Carlos Martinez. However, he was added to the roster to replace Nationals pitcher Max Scherzer, who was unavailable due to pitching the Sunday before the game. It became his fifth straight all-star sel... |
3,014 | 560 | 4 | 997 | 247 | 28 | 16 | 247 | pitcher of the month for July.
Kershaw picked up his 200th strikeout of the season on August 12, tying Hideo Nomo's 1995 season for the fastest to that mark in Dodgers history at 156 innings. This was the sixth straight 200 strikeout season for Kershaw, tying Sandy Koufax for the most in Dodgers franchise history. On O... |
3,774 | 660 | 4 | 997 | 247 | 29 | 16 | 247 | York Mets starter Jacob deGrom were the first pair of starters to each throw at least 11 strikeouts in the same postseason game in MLB history. He rebounded in game four, earning the win on three days' rest by allowing one run and three hits against eight strikeouts in seven innings on October 13. Kershaw finished thir... |
3,554 | 668 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 30 | 16 | 248 | he started. On May 12 against the New York Mets, he struck out 13 while pitching a three-hit complete game shutout. He set an MLB record with six consecutive starts with at least 10 strikeouts and no more than one walk and a club record with six consecutive starts with at least 10 strikeouts. He picked up his 100th str... |
3,818 | 684 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 31 | 16 | 248 | ershaw for an indefinite period of time. He continued to feel discomfort in his back after a simulated game.
== Pitching style ==
Kershaw's pitching style relies on deception. He keeps the ball hidden so that it is hard for the batter to pick up the ball and has a consistent overhand delivery on all of his pitches. O... |
3,154 | 624 | 4 | 999 | 248 | 32 | 16 | 249 | 5 miles per hour (153 km / h) and tops out at 98 miles per hour (158 km / h) with late movement, a slider at 84 miles per hour (135 km / h) – 87 miles per hour (140 km / h), a 12 – 6 curveball between 72 miles per hour (116 km / h) – 76 miles per hour (122 km / h), and a seldom thrown changeup (under 3 %). As of late i... |
3,778 | 580 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 33 | 16 | 248 | down the middle. Then three fastballs either side. Three changeups away. Fastball inside. Three curveballs to the middle. Fastball inside. Three sliders to the middle. Then he goes to the stretch position. Two fastballs inside, two fastballs away, two changeups, one fastball inside, two curveballs, one fastball inside,... |
3,318 | 540 | 4 | 997 | 247 | 34 | 16 | 247 | discoverer of Pluto. Kershaw's mother, born Marianne Tombaugh, is the daughter of Clyde Tombaugh's younger brother. His father, Christopher George Kershaw, was a musician and won a Clio Award for his work. The elder Kershaw remarried after his divorce from Marianne and died in 2013.
On December 4, 2010, Kershaw married... |
2,786 | 468 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 35 | 16 | 248 | aw announced his dream of building an orphanage in Lusaka, Zambia, which he called "Hope's Home" after 11-year-old Hope, an HIV-positive child Kershaw met while in Zambia. To accomplish his goal, Kershaw pledged a donation of $ 100 per strikeout recorded in 2011. With Kershaw's career high of 248 strikeouts thrown duri... |
3,874 | 600 | 4 | 997 | 247 | 36 | 16 | 247 | money raised in 2012 went to Arise Africa, with 10 percent each going to the Peacock Foundation in Los Angeles, Mercy Street in Dallas, and I Am Second. In 2014, Kershaw continued to support the children of Zambia, with partnership with CURE International, raising funds to pay for 170 children's surgeries and new medic... |
1,654 | 248 | 4 | 519 | 128 | 37 | 16 | 129 |
Kershaw and his wife, Ellen, co-authored a book named Arise: Live Out Your Faith and Dreams on Whatever Field You Find Yourself about their Christian faith and their humanitarian efforts. The book was released on January 10, 2012 through Regal Press.
=== Endorsements ===
Kershaw is a celebrity endorser for www.Fanta... |
3,762 | 576 | 4 | 999 | 249 | 0 | 17 | 249 | = Josepha Petrick Kemarre =
Josepha Petrick Kemarre (born ca. 1945 or ca. 1953, date uncertain) is an Anmatyerre-speaking Indigenous Australian from Central Australia. Since first taking up painting around 1990, her works of contemporary Indigenous Australian art have been acquired by several major collections includ... |
3,790 | 604 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 1 | 17 | 248 | -speaking Indigenous Australian, born around 1945 or 1953 at the Santa Teresa Mission, near Alice Springs in Australia's Northern Territory.
When Josepha Petrick began painting for Mbantua Gallery in central Australia, she indicated that her name was Josepha rather than Josie, and that this was how she henceforth wishe... |
4,030 | 612 | 4 | 997 | 247 | 2 | 17 | 247 | began in 1971 when Indigenous men at Papunya created murals and canvases using western art materials, assisted by teacher Geoffrey Bardon. Their work, which used acrylic paints to create designs representing body painting and ground sculptures, rapidly spread across Indigenous communities of central Australia, particul... |
3,966 | 680 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 3 | 17 | 248 | or 1992 as part of the contemporary Indigenous art movement that had begun at Papunya in the 1970s. By 1998 her work was being collected by both private and public institutions, such as Charles Sturt University, and in 2005 a work was purchased by the National Gallery of Victoria. Her career received a significant boos... |
4,262 | 664 | 4 | 999 | 248 | 4 | 17 | 249 | 8, the highest recorded auction price for an item of Petrick's work was $ 22,800, set in May 2007. An image based on a triptych by Petrick, Bush Berries, appears on the cover of a book on the visual perception of motion, Motion Vision.
Central Australian artists frequently paint particular "dreamings", or stories, for ... |
2,862 | 408 | 4 | 682 | 169 | 5 | 17 | 169 | ceremonial iconography.
Journalist Zelda Cawthorne described Petrick as one of the "finest contemporary Aboriginal artists". Art consultant Adrian Newstead has ranked her as amongst the country's top 200 Indigenous artists, noting that she has become "known for innovative works that create a sense of visual harmony thr... |
3,802 | 632 | 4 | 999 | 249 | 0 | 18 | 249 | = Head VI =
Head VI is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Irish-born English figurative artist Francis Bacon, the last of six panels making up his "1949 Head" series. It shows a bust view of a single figure, modeled on Diego Velázquez's Portrait of Innocent X. Bacon applies forceful, expressive brush strokes, and place... |
3,590 | 632 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 1 | 18 | 248 | is a motif that appears as late as his 1985 – 86 masterpiece, Study for a Self-Portrait — Triptych.
Head VI was first exhibited in November 1949 at the Hanover Gallery in London, in a showing organised by one of the artist's early champions, Erica Brausen. At the time, Bacon was a highly controversial but respected art... |
3,782 | 640 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 2 | 18 | 248 | iconoclasm was indeed one of Bacon's most original strokes." Art critic and curator David Sylvester described it as a seminal piece from Bacon's unusually productive 1949 – 50 period, and one of Bacon's finest popes.
== 1949 Head series ==
Bacon's output is characterised by sequences of images. He told Sylvester that... |
4,438 | 724 | 4 | 999 | 248 | 3 | 18 | 249 | 48. Gallerist Erica Brausen offered Bacon the opportunity of a solo show for the opening of her new Hanover Gallery. He agreed, but had nothing in reserve to hang. In following years, Brausen became perhaps the most important of Bacon's early champions; she arranged this showing — his debut solo exhibition — publicised... |
4,162 | 736 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 4 | 18 | 248 | a clear progression especially in how they utilise and present ideas he was still clearly developing and coming to terms with. Head I (actually begun in the winter of 1948) and Head II show formless pieces of flesh that broadly resemble human heads; they have half-open eyes and a pharynx, though it is positioned much h... |
4,082 | 716 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 5 | 18 | 248 | , a period when he was drinking heavily and spending most nights in Soho casinos and poker rooms. The following morning he would often approach his canvas "in a bad mood of drinking ... under tremendous hangovers and drink; I sometimes hardly knew what I was doing." He incorporated his appetite for chance into his work... |
4,222 | 692 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 6 | 18 | 248 | subject felt isolated, unobserved, and had abandoned the need to present an outward face. He believed that under these circumstances all pretence falls away, and the social being becomes the sum of its neuroses, which Bacon attempted to convey by reducing the subject to its bare-bones features: a mouth, ears, eyes, a j... |
4,030 | 660 | 4 | 997 | 247 | 7 | 18 | 247 | survive; he was ruthlessly self-critical and often slashed or abandoned canvasses before they were completed. When pressed again by Brausen in 1953 to produce works for a New York show that she had been publicising for a year, he was full of doubt and destroyed most of what he had been working on, including several oth... |
3,842 | 684 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 8 | 18 | 248 | the glass case, falling just in front of the pope's face and partially covering his eyes. It is too indistinctly drawn to identify with certainty, but given the presence of similar objects in Bacon's later works, may be either the end of a hanging light switch or the tassel of a curtain; the hanging cord was to become ... |
3,934 | 716 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 9 | 18 | 248 | sequence in his 1925 silent film Battleship Potemkin. In 1984, the broadcaster Melvyn Bragg asked Bacon about the still, and observed that in his earlier career the artist seemed preoccupied with the physicality of the human mouth. Bacon replied, "I had always thought that I would be able to make the mouth with all the... |
4,014 | 668 | 4 | 997 | 247 | 10 | 18 | 247 | scream more than the horror. I think, if I had really thought about what causes somebody to really scream, it would have made the scream ... more successful". The work evokes memories of the Second World War. The glass enclosure of his 1949 Chicago Study for a Portrait is often seen as prophesying photographs of Adolf ... |
3,698 | 612 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 11 | 18 | 248 | called "space frame" had already been used by Alberto Giacometti in the 1930s, and the two artists became friends in the 1960s. However Giacometti had by 1949 used it only in surrealist contexts before Bacon's adaption, and in turn influenced his use in "The Cage" of 1950. A similar two dimensional construct is found i... |
3,746 | 640 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 12 | 18 | 248 | distance the sitter from the viewer; the black ground-paint is visible through the folds, making the separation all the more affecting. Bacon had already used similar forms in his Chicago panel, and they were to become a feature of his most acclaimed 1950s works, especially in his "screaming popes". He became fascinate... |
3,990 | 616 | 4 | 997 | 247 | 13 | 18 | 247 | Rome. Bacon cautiously avoided seeing the original, even when he spent three months in Rome in 1954. Critics speculate he was afraid of being disappointed, or thought that an intimate knowledge of the painting would dull his imagination. Yet his fascination was all-consuming and he reproduced variants of it obsessively... |
4,230 | 700 | 4 | 998 | 248 | 14 | 18 | 248 | did not try and reproduce the earlier painting. In interviews, he said that he saw flaws in Velázquez's work and that he viewed that social structure and order as, according to art historian Wieland Schmied, "obsolete and decayed". Bacon's approach was to elevate his subject so he could knock him down again, thereby ma... |
4,034 | 672 | 4 | 997 | 247 | 15 | 18 | 247 | Velázquez's portrayals of Philip IV, and agrees with identification of pastels of Edgar Degas as a source. He believes Bacon borrowed from Degas the use of parallel heavy folds to create the illusion of what Degas described as "shuttering", as seen in the earlier artist's After the Bath, Woman drying herself. Sylvester... |
3,822 | 648 | 4 | 997 | 247 | 16 | 18 | 247 | straight out at you but slides slowly and gently through the gaps."
When asked why he was compelled to revisit the Velázquez so often, Bacon replied that he had nothing against popes per se, but merely sought "an excuse to use these colours, and you can't give ordinary clothes that purple colour without getting into a ... |
4,006 | 672 | 4 | 999 | 248 | 17 | 18 | 249 | ated in an Armchair.
== Critical reception ==
When Bacon undertook the series late in 1948 he was something of a two-hit wonder. He had success in 1944 with Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion and to a lesser extent with Painting (1946), both of which were highly regarded but viewed as sensationali... |
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