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Others are confined to vast reservations, and not only does the Australian government justifiably not wish them to be viewed as exhibits in a zoo, but on their reservations they are extremely fugitive, shunning camps, coming together only for corroborees at which their strange culture comes to its highest pitch -- which is very low indeed.
The problem is to disentangle the linguistic features of pitch from the co-occurring nonlinguistic features.
The inventory of tones is much smaller, and commonly the contrasts range along one single dimension, pitch level.
Pitchers grumble about lively balls and lively bats, the shrinking strike zone, and the fact that the knock-down pitch is now illegal.
Asphalt or or, also known as bitumen, is the sticky, black and highly viscous liquid or semi-solid present in most crude petroleums and in some natural deposits ; it is a substance classed as a pitch.
The Valley House is now a hostel and bar offering accommodation and pitch and putt golf facilities.
The acre is also approximately 56. 68 percent of a long by wide association football ( soccer ) pitch.
One application of pitch shifting is pitch correction.
Here a musical signal is tuned to the correct pitch using digital signal processing techniques.
* time stretching-the opposite of pitch shift, that is, the process of changing the speed of an audio signal without affecting its pitch.
* In music recording, autocorrelation is used as a pitch detection algorithm prior to vocal processing, as a distortion effect or to eliminate undesired mistakes and inaccuracies.
* WP — Wild pitches: charged when a pitch is too high, low, or wide of home plate for the catcher to field, thereby allowing one or more runners to advance or score
* He is hit by a pitch ( HBP ).
In the first two cases above, " on an error " includes situations where the batter makes a clean hit ( or walks, is hit by pitch, reaches base on a fielder's choice in which no out is made, or reaches base on a wild pitch on a called or swinging third strike ), but should have been out earlier in his at bat on a foul fly ball which was dropped by a fielder for an error.
A hit by pitch is not counted statistically as a walk, though the effect is mostly the same, with the batter receiving a free pass to first base.
A ball pitched in this manner is called an intentional ball and counts as a ball in the pitcher's pitch count.
In order to count as an intentional ball, the ball must be legally pitched, i. e., the pitcher's foot must be on the pitcher's rubber, the catcher must be in the catcher's box, and the batter must be in the batter's box appearing ready to take a pitch at the time the ball is thrown.
In baseball, hit by pitch ( HBP ), or hit batsman ( HB ), is a batter or his equipment ( other than his bat ) being hit in some part of his body by a pitch from the pitcher.

pitch and maintained
He explains that the indicated rhythms should be adhered to, but that whereas in ordinary singing a constant pitch is maintained through a note, here the singer " immediately abandons it by falling or rising.
The high pitch was maintained by Sir Michael Costa for the Crystal Palace Handel Festivals, causing the withdrawal of the principal tenor Sims Reeves in 1877, though at singers ' insistence the Birmingham Festival pitch was lowered ( and the organ retuned ) at that time.
Some other modern Indo-European languages have pitch accent systems, like Swedish and Norwegian, deriving from a stress-based system they inherited from Old Norse, and Punjabi, which developed tone distinctions that maintained lexical distinctions as consonants were conflated.
There are currently 42 laws, which outline all aspects of how the game is played from how a team wins a game, how a batsman is dismissed, through to specifications on how the pitch is to be prepared and maintained.
Club cricket most ofen takes place on a natural grass wicket, often maintained by the players themselves, although it also often takes place on an artificial turf pitch, though the rest of actual field may be natural grass.
It operated under a deal with Holywood Cricket Club which maintained the Gaelic pitch in return for using a small section of the lower pitch as part of its ' out-field '.
Despite his lower fastball velocity, Mussina maintained a significant differential in pitch speed by also lowering the velocity of his changeup.
Other recent works include Alleluia for chorus and orchestra, composed for the reopening of the Royal Festival Hall (" The London Philharmonic Choir, with nowhere to hide in such a revealing acoustic, maintained pitch admirably and delivered a virtuoso cadenza of animated susurration "), and Fantasias, a 25-minute orchestral work premiered by the Cleveland Orchestra in November 2009 displaying a new interest in multi-movement structures.

pitch and by
They, perhaps, gave the pitch of their position in the preface where it was said that Eisenhower requested that the Commission be administered by the American Assembly of Columbia University, because it was non-partisan.
Quite other feelings are evidenced by this style: Af Note the drop to pitch 1 ( the lowest ) on mother with no rise at the end of the sentence ; ;
`` Behind that Charlie Chaplin moustache and that truant lock of hair that always covered his forehead, behind the tirades and the sulky silences, the passionate orations and the occasional dull evasive stare, behind the prejudices, the cynicism, the total amorality of behavior, behind even the tendency to great strategic mistakes, there lay a statesman of no mean qualities: Shrewd, calculating, in many ways realistic, endowed -- like Stalin -- with considerable powers of dissimulation, capable of playing his cards very close to his chest when he so desired, yet bold and resolute in his decisions, and possessing one gift Stalin did not possess: The ability to rouse men to fever pitch of personal devotion and enthusiasm by the power of the spoken word ''.
* AB — At bat: Plate appearances, not including bases on balls, being hit by pitch, sacrifices, interference, or obstruction.
* HBP — Hit by pitch: times touched by a pitch and awarded first base as a result
* OBP — On base percentage: times reached base ( H + BB + HBP ) divided by at bats plus walks plus hit by pitch plus sacrifice flies ( AB + BB + HBP + SF ).
* TA — Total average: total bases, plus walks, plus hit by pitch, plus steals, minus caught stealing divided by at bats, minus hits, plus caught stealing, plus grounded into double plays
* A batter reaches first base on a passed ball ( but not a wild pitch ) and subsequently scores by any means.
Joe Crede of the Chicago White Sox after being hit by a pitch.

pitch and Stadium
Famous video footage of the ' battle of Boet Erasmus Stadium ' shows JPR Williams running over half of the pitch and launching himself at van Heerden after such a call.
On the same day, the Marlins played their last game at Sun Life Stadium with Charlie Hough and Benito Santiago being the first pitch battery, the same battery from the first Marlins game.
On that day, Nieves became the first ( and so far, only ) Brewer and first Puerto Rican-born Major Leaguer to pitch a no-hitter, defeating the Baltimore Orioles 7 – 0 at Memorial Stadium.
William Howard Taft started the tradition of throwing out the ceremonial first pitch in 1910 at Griffith Stadium, Washington, D. C., on the Washington Senators ' Opening Day.
* The New York Yankees face the Arizona Diamondbacks in game 3 of a drama-filled 2001 World Series, with President George W. Bush throwing the ceremonial first pitch for a strike at Yankee Stadium.
Lincecum was selected to the 2008 MLB All-Star Game at Yankee Stadium but was unable to pitch due to being hospitalized with flu-like symptoms.
Richard Nixon throwing Opening Day ceremonial first pitch at Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium | RFK Stadium on April 7, 1969 with Ted Williams ( left ) and Bob Short ( right, partially obscured by Ralph Houk ).
While most sports commentators gain some recognition if their career is long enough, Wolstenholme is best remembered for his commentary of the 1966 Football World Cup Final at Wembley Stadium, specifically the impromptu words he used with impeccable timing as the match came to a conclusion during injury time, as a small pitch invasion took place just as Geoff Hurst scored to put England 4-2 ahead:
The city's two main football clubs are Maccabi Haifa and Hapoel Haifa who both currently play in the Israeli Premier League and share the Kiryat Eliezer Stadium as their home pitch.
The concept has been fully duplicated since then by Veltins-Arena in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, and University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, US, and partially by the Sapporo Dome in Japan ( which has a sliding pitch but a fixed roof ).
In the bottom of the ninth inning of Game 3 of the 1964 World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals, Mickey Mantle blasted Barney Schultz's first pitch into the right field stands at Yankee Stadium, which won the game for the Yankees 2 – 1.
After the outbreak of the 2nd World War the War Department took over the Stadium in 1940, where for a while POWs ( Prisoners of War ) were housed in huts placed on the pitch, for this the club received compensation of £ 4, 570 in 1945.
In 1998, Smith accompanied his grandmother to Yankee Stadium when she was invited to throw the ceremonial first pitch.
Strawberry threw out the ceremonial first pitch at Shea Stadium before Game 1 of the National League Championship Series between the Mets and the St. Louis Cardinals on Oct. 12, 2006.
On 24 June 1995, at Santiago Bernabéu Stadium the final was levelled 1-1 when on 83rd minute referee Garcia-Aranda suspended the game due to water collapsing the pitch after a strong storm.
In August 2002, against England at Headingley Stadium, Leeds in the third test match of the series, he scored a 148 in the first innings on a seamer-friendly pitch to set up a famous Indian win.
At Rugby Park, Hamilton ( the site of today's Waikato Stadium ), on 25 July, about 350 rioting protesters invaded the pitch after pulling down a fence using sheer force.
The last publicly broadcast words uttered in the park were by Harry Kalas — a veteran announcer who helped open the facility on April 10, 1971 — who paraphrased his trademark home run call: " And now, Veterans Stadium is like a 3-1 pitch to Jim Thome or Mike Schmidt.
The club was founded in 1946 as Connah's Quay Juniors and adopted the Connah's Quay Nomads FC name in 1951, and have their home ground at Deeside Stadium, Kelsterton Road, Connah's Quay, Flintshire ( which accommodates 1, 500 spectators ( 500 seated )), but for the 2006 – 07 season temporarily played their home games in Flint due to drainage problems with the Deeside Stadium pitch.
In, he threw out the first pitch of Game 3 of the 1971 World Series at Three Rivers Stadium.
The pitch uses a lighting system from Stadium Grow Lighting to ensure the grass can grow at any time of year.
The system, created by Dutch company SGL ( Stadium Grow Lighting ), helps in controlling and managing all pitch growth factors, such as light, temperature, CO < sub > 2 </ sub >, water, air and nutrients.
In June 1992, Indians legend Mel Harder, who pitched the opening game at Cleveland Municipal Stadium in 1932, and contemporary stars Charles Nagy and Sandy Alomar, Jr., executed the ceremonial first pitch at the site of the new ballpark before construction began.

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