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Well, that was quick. After two losses, the first rather exciting as losses go, the second rather putrid, manager Lou Piniella has shuffled the lineup.
He used 125 of them last season and now has two in three games. Alfonso Soriano is back in the leadoff spot, after starting the season hitless in the second spot. He swaps places with Ryan Theriot.
(Somewhere message-board Moneyball Martin is preparing a 20-slide power-point presentation on why Soriano is even worse than Theriot in this spot. Not that anyone would disagree.)
There are numerous theories and/or explanations here. One, that Soriano was put in the second spot in anticipation of the long-rumored-but-never-happened Brian Roberts deal. Two, Piniella put Soriano back in the leadoff spot because the $136-million dollar baby is incapable of and/or unwilling to hit anywhere else, like, say, fifth. Three, that Ryan Theriot and his propensity to not reach base is not the answer in that spot, even though, have you, he had two hits yesterday after taking an 0-for-5 in the opener. And finally and least plausible without getting into a theological discussion despite the century's worth of circumstantial evidence, the Cubs could bat anyone anywhere and it won't make a lick of difference because God hates the Cubs.
Remain calm. All is well. Reclamation project Ryan Dempster takes the mound today. Dave Bush throws for the Brewers. Here's today's
. OMG, Ned Yost has used two lineups in three games, too!
First inning
Dempster starts Rickie Weeks off with a strike. Comes right back with a ball to even things out. Monday it was cloudy yet a little warm for the season. Yesterday it was sunny yet cold. Today's it's a little of both, cold and cloudy: mid-40s with a slight wind. Full count and Dempster just misses off the outside corner. Tony Gwynn dumps a double the other way down the left-field line and Prince Fielder comes up with two on and no outs. Fielder is still wearing those baggy pants but has the high socks going today and looks like the late Payne Stewart. Fielder hits a flyball to right. Kosuke Fukudome's throw is on target but late and takes a high hop off the grass.
Weeks runs over Geovany Soto and takes him out and both runs score.
The ball got away from Soto when Weeks ran him over. Ryan Braun grounds out to short. Hall strikes out swinging but the Brewers score two runs in the first.
Brewers 2, Cubs 0
Tremendous start for the Cubs. Soriano fouls off a few pitches from Bush to even the count at 2-2. Sorriano waves at ball in the dirt for strike three.
. Here's "the versatile Ryan Theriot," as Len calls him, which means he can fly out from either the leadoff or No. 2 spot, which he does -- to right. I'll try to get the updates as fast as they come. You know, wouldn't want to upset some donkey named Bill on the message board. Derrek Lee grounds out to short and the Cubs go down 1-2-3. in the first.
Brewers 2, Cubs 0
Second inning
Corey Hart bounces out to third on the first pitch. J.J. Hardy flies out to right. The pitcher Bush lines out to Lee and Dempster has a much easier time with the bottom of the Brewers' order.
Aramis Ramirez takes a couple of balls to start the Cubs' half of the second. Ball four high and Ramirez takes a walk. Fukudome digs in and a bunch of shirtless kids in the bleachers have his name spelled out on their chests. Gotta support the team, I guess. Fukudome pokes one the other way. Braun starts in, retreats and the ball goes over his head. Ramirez takes third on the gift double.
DeRosa bounces one towards third that eats up Bill Hall, allowing Ramirez to score.
Runners on first and third. That ball took a big hop off the dirt and bounced over Hall's glove. Credit Roger Bossard.
Soto knocks in Fukudome with a long flyball to center.
DeRosa did not advance from first on the play. Pie singles up the middle past a diving Hardy. Yes, you read that right. Ryan Dempster with a bat in his hand with runners on first and second and one out. Dempster bunts the first pitch foul. And the second one. He takes two balls. He bunts foul what would've been ball three for the second out. Soriano grounds to short and they force Pie at second. But we're all tied up.
Cubs 2, Brewers 2
Third inning
Jason Kendall grounds out to short to start the third. Weeks beats out a slow roller to short. Theriot made a nice play on it but the throw was just late. Gwynn takes a called third strike on a tailing fastball over the inside corner. Dempster throws one up and in on Fielder. Weeks steals second on the next pitch. Fielder grounds out to short right with the shift on.
Theriot breaks his bat grounding out to third. Lee grounds out to third on the first pitch. Ramirez sends one deep to center but not deep enought. Gwynn gloves it at the edge of the track.
Cubs 2, Brewers 2
Fourth inning
Braun bounces one back through the box that Dempster bare-hands. He throws to first for a quick first out. Hall strikes out on a pitch in the dirt and Dempster is rolling right along here. Dempster nibbles away on the outside corner but Hart lays off and draws a two-out walk. The count goes full to Hardy, too, and Dempster has settled down a bit but thrown a lot of pitches -- 59, I believe. Hardy flies out to Fukudome in right to end the top half of the fourth.
Fukudome draws a lead-off walk. Dave Bush and that glacial windup makes Steve Trachsel look like Mark Buehrle. Fukudome swipes second and that gets Len and Bob all worked up. Bush drills DeRosa on the shoulder. That's six
plunkings in this series, two each for DeRosa, Weeks and Fielder. How about a fight already. Soto takes two straight balls and that bring's pitching coach Mike Maddux and his moustache out of the Brewers' dugout. "You see this 'stache? It's mesmerizing, isn't it?" He heads back and Bush promptly walks Soto to load the bases with no outs. Pie quickly falls behind 0-2. Pie swings at a pitch near the pressbox for strike three and heads back to the dugout. Solid at-bat there when you need some contact. Dempster bats, the Brewers bring in the corners and I can't imagine this ending good. He's down 0-2, squares for the first time in the at-bat and misses for strike three. The upside: He didn't hit into a double play. The downside: It's the second out and the Cubs have failed to put the ball in play with the bases loaded. Now 3-0 to Soriano.
Soriano takes ball four and Fukudome scores on the bases-loaded walk.
I didn't think he would take that pitch. Theriot grounds out to third and the Cubs manage one run out of a bases-loaded-and-no-outs situation.
Cubs 3, Brewers 2
Fifth inning
Bush bounces back to Dempster for the first out. Kendall singles back up the middle. Weeks pops out to Theriot on the outfield grass. Gwynn grounds out to Lee and we move on.
Lee grounds out to Hall.
Ramirez golfs one into the left-field bleachers for his first hit of the season.
That helps us forget about yesterday's error and two bad throws. Fukudome draws another walk. DeRosa grounds to short on the first pitch and Fukudome is forced at second. Soto pops it up, and then snaps his bat in two slamming it to the ground.
Cubs 4, Brewers 2
Sixth inning
Dempster makes quick work of Big Prince for his fourth strikeout. Dempster gets Braun looking and Vito from "The Sopranos" is in the house. Hall pops up to shallow center and Fukudome makes a basket catch on a dead sprint and keeps on running all the way to the dugout.
Gabe Kapler comes in to play center, replacing Gwynn. We'll be dipping into both pens here shortly. Carlos Marmol is up for the Cubs and Bush has throw 90-something pitches on the other side. There's also the possibility of a little payback. Dempster pitches well and then the pen blows it for him. You know, just to even things out. Pie flies out to right. Mike Fontenot hits for Dempster and doubles to the gap in right center. Soriano takes a ball to start his at-bat and I wonder if that's the first time in his career he's taken five straight of those.
Soriano bloops one into left, Braun has some issues with it and Fontenot scores.
That's Soriano's first hit of the season and that chases Bush from this party. Hi, I'm Seth McClung. Soriano takes off for second on McClung's first pitch and Kendall has no shot.
Theriot doubles to right, scoring Soriano.
With Lee up, Theriot steals third without even drawing a throw from Kendall. 'Bout time they ran on this guy. Though, I'm sure the ol' scouting report on McClung reads: Run at will. Lee chases a full-count pitch in the dirt for strike three. The count goes full to Ramirez and McClung pitches like he has nothing to do later. Ramirez pops out to Fielder to end the sixth.
Cubs 6, Brewers 2
Seventh inning
Marmol joins the fray and gets Hart to pop out to Lee. Hardy flies out to center. Craig Counsell hits for the pitcher and he draws a walk. Kendall flies out to right and here's the Fremd high school gymnastics team to sing TMOTTBG.
OK, there was a double switch when they brought in McClung. Counsell is playing third. The gymnasts were shuffled right out of the booth and McClung strikes out Fukudome. DeRosa flies out to left. Soto flies out to center and so much for the seventh.
Cubs 6, Brewers 2
Eighth inning
Marmol remains and will face Weeks to start the eighth. Weeks doubles to the left-field corner. Marmol blows a fastball past Kapler for strike three.
Fielder hits one right into the shift but DeRosa, playing in shallow right, can't back-hand the one-hopper. Weeks scores on the play.
Braun pops out to short. Gabe Gross hits for the pitcher. Gross pops out to shallow left to end the top half of the eighth.
Cubs 6, Brewers 3
Gross remains to play left; Derrick Turnbow to pitch. Pie to hit. Kerry Wood is up and throwing and, barring any more runs, will try to earn his first save. Turnbow hits Pie in the hand and that can't feel too good. Daryle Ward will hit in the ninth spot. Pie steals second. Kendall double clutched and then threw the ball into center. Pie wasn't really paying attention and didn't take third, though I think Kapler was in backing up, so not sure. That's four steals today for the Cubs and that's the Jason Kendall we all know and ... I guess the only word to describe Fielder's pants would be billowy. Ward walks. Ronny Cedeno runs for Ward. Soriano hits a grounder to the shortstop side of second where second baseman Weeks back-hands it and throws out Soriano. You do not see that every day. The other two runners advanced, and I'm surprised Cedeno didn't continue on and join Pie on third base. Theriot lines out to a drawn-in Counsell at third. Pie gets back to the bag in time. Lee bounces out to short and we move to the ninth and Wood.
Cubs 6, Brewers 3
Wood starts out Hart with two strikes down the middle. Hart lays off a slider once but can't the second time. One out. Hardy grounds out to second. Counsell singles to left and he's just that kind of guy, getting a hit with two outs in the ninth just to be pesky. Counsell takes second on the next pitch. Wood starts Kendall off with three straight balls before coming back with two strikes. Kendall takes a called third to end this one.
Final: Cubs 6, Brewers 3
That was more like it. Everyone can go back to liking Ryan Dempster. He looked sharp today. First win of the year. See you tomorrow.


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Charles Lindbergh risks his life to complete his historic flight from New York to Paris.
In 1927, in a hotel near New York's Roosevelt Field, air pilot Charles A. "Slim" Lindbergh has been waiting for seven days for the rain to stop, so that he can embark on what he hopes will be man's first successful nonstop trans-Atlantic flight to Paris. While Lindbergh lies sleepless, his friend, B. F. "Frank" Mahoney, guards his hotel room door from the numerous reporters who have waited with him for a break in the weather. In his room, Lindbergh reminisces about his former days as an air mail pilot flying over the Midwest: On a wintry night flight to Chicago, Lindbergh lands his antiquated De Haviland in a tiny air field to gas up. Although snow seems imminent, Lindbergh takes off, unaware that the Chicago landing field has closed due to snow. While in the air, Lindbergh's plane ices up and stalls, forcing him to parachute out with the mailbag. Continuing his journey by train, Lindbergh meets a suspender salesman who, recognizing he is an aviator, reports that two airmen died competing for the Orteig prize to be awarded to the first pilots to fly across the Atlantic nonstop. His interest piqued, Lindbergh calls Columbia Aircraft Corporation in New York City from the diner at St. Louis' Lambert Flying Field. Pretending to represent a group of prominent businessmen planning to buy a plane to compete in the trans-Atlantic race, Lindbergh is quoted the price of $15,000 for a Belanca plane. For the next six weeks, Lindbergh proposes his idea about entering the competition to St. Louis financiers. Eventually, with the help of his flying student, Harry Knight, Lindbergh meets with bank president Harold Bixby and other prominent St. Louis citizens. He explains to the group that, according to his calculations, flying nonstop, he can cross the ocean in forty hours in a single-engine plane by stripping the craft of all non-essential weight, thus allowing room for extra fuel tanks. The men are excited by Lindbergh's vision and create a name for the plane, Spirit of St. Louis . With a $15,000 check provided by them, Lindbergh proceeds to New York, but upon arriving there, is told by Columbia's president that the company will not sell the plane unless they choose the pilot. Dispirited, Lindbergh returns to St. Louis, where his sponsors immediately send him to San Diego to check out a small aircraft factory, Ryan Company. There he meets Frank, the president who promises to build a plane in ninety days. At the factory, Frank, Lindbergh and Ryan's chief engineer agree upon a design that puts the gas tank in front. Although it blocks Lindbergh's forward view, he is confident that he can use side windows and a periscope to compensate. To further decrease the weight, Lindbergh refuses to install all heavy indicator panels and plans to navigate by "dead reckoning," using the stars, sun and magnetic field. In the race to complete the plane ahead of schedule, workers at the factory agree to work twenty-four hour shifts. Meanwhile, a radio broadcast reports that a team of two pilots, who were vying for the Orteig prize, were killed flight-testing a plane. The Ryan plane is completed in sixty-three days, but it seems all for nothing, as two French fliers competing for the prize take off for New York. Confident that the pilots will succeed, Lindbergh flies the Ryan to St. Louis, where he apologizes to Bixby about losing the prize money to the French fliers, thus depriving his backers of the opportunity to recoup their investment. However, Bixby reports that the Frenchmen, now missing, are believed to have gone down from ice on their wings. Although other pilots are preparing to attempt the crossing, the businessmen are reluctant to risk Lindbergh's life. Determined to carry on, Lindbergh explains that the dead pilots would understand his resolve and proceeds as planned. At the New York hotel, where reporters type that he is sleeping like a baby, Lindbergh breaks out of his reverie and worries about building enough speed to take off in the mud. To decrease the weight of his plane, if only by a pound, Lindbergh unpacks his toothbrush, razor and extra shirt. He also unpacks the St. Christopher medal given to him by his student, Father Hussman, and reminisces how the priest's special prayers for every occasion seemed to compensate for his poor flying skills. Finally, unable to sleep, Lindbergh goes to the airport, where his plane waits, filled with three hundred gallons of gas. To decrease the plane's weight by twenty pounds, he eliminates the parachute. Limited space in the compartment necessitates placing the magnetic compass in an awkward position, so he determines that he needs a small mirror to see it. From the crowd waiting to watch the take-off, a young woman offers her mirror, which is then glued into place. Surreptitiously, Frank slips the St. Christopher's medal into Lindbergh's lunch bag. After a risky take-off, during which Lindbergh barely tops the trees, he discovers he has a stowaway, a fly, and passes time by calculating whether the insect flying within the plane adds weight. Every hour, Lindbergh switches fuel tanks to keep the load balanced. After passing over Cape Cod, he realizes his foot is numb and that he has not slept in twenty-eight hours. This prompts memories of sleeping on railroad tracks, short bunk beds, and under a windmill. When Lindbergh begins to doze, the fly, which he named "Jasper," awakens him by alighting on his face. Passing over Nova Scotia, Lindbergh spots a motorcyclist below and remembers his own Harley-Davidson, which he traded for his first plane on which he taught himself to fly. Eleven hours from New York, and with 1,900 miles of open water to cover before reaching Ireland, Lindbergh sees mountain peaks and wonders if the downed pilots are lost there. His own dangerous stunts come to mind and he recalls performing in a "Flying Circus." During his sixteenth hour of flight, as darkness falls, he worries that the plane's cylinder might crack from the cold. The sight of a "white ship," which he soon realizes is an iceberg, is evidence that he is near the Arctic Circle. Exhausted, he longs to land on one and sleep, and remembers the time he landed an old clunker of a plane at Brooks Field army base. After eighteen hours of flight, the plane's wings ice up, and when the engine stalls, he turns the plane toward warmer air. As the stalled plane begins to plummet, he prepares to bail out, but the ice breaks off and the engine resumes running. Upon returning to his course, Lindbergh discovers that his compass has become inoperable, thus forcing him to resort to flying by the stars. By dawn, he is so tired that he cannot do calculations and falls asleep, causing the plane to circle and descend, but sunlight reflecting off the mirror awakens him in time to regain control of the plane. A seagull alerts him to the nearness of land, and he soon realizes that he has reached Ireland ahead of schedule. When he prepares to eat his sandwich, he finds the St. Christopher's medal and hangs it on the dashboard. At the coast of France he turns northeast to follow the Seine River, noting he has only ninety-eight miles to go. Anxiety strikes when his engines again cut out, until he realizes he forgot to switch gas tanks. With a flick of the switch, he remedies the problem and the plane continues. Evening falls and he sees the lights of Paris. Flying toward Le Bourget airfield, he is bewildered to see spotlights and crowds of people. Exhaustion causes him to panic as he lands and he cries out one of Father Hussman's prayers, "Oh, God help me!" On the ground, hordes of people rush to Lindbergh, blind him with camera flashes and carry him triumphantly to the hangar, to which others are dragging his plane. Tired and confused, Lindbergh eventually realizes that the crowd is cheering for his great achievement. Upon Lindbergh's return to New York, the celebrations continue with a huge parade in his honor.
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Terry 2019-01-14
I saw this movie in the theater , when it first came out . Loved it then ,love it now . see it every chance I can . To the reviewer who thinks Lindy is not... MORE>
bologna on dry white bread, hold the mayo...
don letta 2018-10-21
Had Wilder produced a film tinged with his trademark mocking sarcasm... one that would have fit the character of Lindberg, it might have been a winner. As... MORE>
well done, historically interesting
Karen Ellis 2018-02-07
well I managed to go to bed and have a nap during the first hour of the movie, got up turned it back on again and was able to catch all the good parts. it... MORE>

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"Crazy Stupid Love" stars Ryan Gosling as a stone-cold Lothario named Jacob who offers to help a newly single middle-aged man, Cal, played by Steve Carell, reclaim his manhood. But just as his star pupil is beginning to enjoy success with the ladies, Jacob falls for a sexy redhead, Hannah, played by Emma Stone. We recently met with first Gosling and the Stone to talk about their new film, with each good-naturedly mocking the other for their deep-seated fears.
There's a scene in "Crazy Stupid Love" that calls for Gosling to catch Stone in the same fashion that Patrick Swayze caught Jennifer Grey in "Dirty Dancing." Despite the newly buff physique Gosling was sporting for the role, Stone refused.
"I tried to do it on Emma Stone, but she wouldn't let me, she was too scared. She thought I was gonna drop her," Gosling explained.
"I kept trying to lift her up, and her whole body would turn into a bagful of rats, I'd be trying to wrangle it, and she say, "You're gonna drop me, you're gonna drop me." And then she said, "Prove (you can do it)." So we got a stunt lady in and I did it 10 times in front of her, never dropping this young lady. And them when it was over, Emma said, 'Well now that you've done it 10 times, you've got to be tired."
While Stone confesses to having refused to take the jump, she say her fears ran far deeper that any lack of faith in Gosling.
"I had a panic attack because when I was 7 I was standing on the parallel bars in gymnastics, and I fell off of them forward, breaking both of my arms," said Stone. "Two casts. Think about it---all summer long in Arizona? Sexy. I mean I was 7 so that's disgusting to even say 'sexy' as a joke…So I had this dormant primal fear that came out when he took me over his head and I was afraid I was gonna topple forward. And Ryan keeps thinking it was because I thought he wasn't strong enough. But the guy was clearly strong…he had a muscle-y body.
For Gosling, just doing comedy was terrifying enough. Asked if he'd be interested in doing something like "Saturday Night Live," the actor recoiled visibly.
"Oh, I'm too scared. I had to get up the guts to do this."
When this is relayed to Stone, the actress' head lolls back as she rolls her eyes. A nerve has been touched.
"You don't know how extensive this conversation is…("SNL") was the highlight of my life… I hate that he said that in an interview. He's not too scared put him on the show. Oooohhh… He would be great—he would be great. It makes me so mad. He would be so great on that show. And I wanna go do a little sketch with him. It's so much fun and that cast is so warm and welcoming and great—it's just the best experience ever. The adrenaline that goes into something like that, I think it's good for everyone. If you get the opportunity to do something like that, why wouldn't you want to do something like that?"
It's seems pretty clear that Gosling and Stone need to do a "Dirty Dancing" sketch on "Saturday Night Live."
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A real $2n\times 2n$ Hamiltonian matrix has the general form
$$H=\begin{pmatrix} A & B \cr C & -A^T \end{pmatrix} $$
where $A$, $B$ and $C$ are $n\times n$ matrices, and $B$ and $C$ are symmetric. Are there any results regarding the eigenvalue distribution of an ensemble of such matrices? For example, the above condition is equivalent to the symmetry of $JH$ with
$$ J=\begin{pmatrix} 0 & 1 \cr -1 & 0 \end{pmatrix}, $$
so it would be natural to consider the Gaussian orthogonal ensemble for $JH$. Generically, the eigenvalues come in quadruples: $\lambda, -\lambda, \bar\lambda, -\bar\lambda$


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Mammoth, Mines, 'n' More
A Bucket List Adventure
Do you have a "bucket list?" You know, the list of things you want to do before you "kick the bucket." I do and although it's in constant flux, there are a few things that haven't changed over the years.
I've wanted to see the ghost town of Bodie, California, ever since I read about it in a guidebook called Where Can We Go This Weekend? Meanwhile my wife, Collette, has long wanted to see Devil's Postpile, a spectacular volcanic formation near Mammoth Lakes, California. We recently had the chance to check off both items in a single trip when Jaime Hernandez, a friend I've made through the off-road industry, invited us along on a trip in that very neck of the woods. Jaime's wife, Beth, grew up in Mammoth Lakes and still has family there.
Many, many times during this trip we were able to see and do things we might have missed had we undertaken this trip on our own. The local knowledge and hospitality offered by Jaime and Beth was top-notch and very much appreciated.
Now that Bodie and Devil's Postpile are checked off, are we ready to kick the bucket? Hardly. The trick is simply to add things to the list. Follow along as we experience Mammoth, mines, and more.


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The Crimson will go for its fourth win in a row when it returns to Lavietes Pavilion Tuesday (Gil Talbot).
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The Harvard women's basketball team returns home to Lavietes Pavilion after spending the last month on the road to face North Dakota Tuesday, Jan. 17 at 7 p.m. Harvard has won three straight to improve to 8-6 on the year, including a 71-63 win at Dartmouth on Saturday to open Ivy League play.
Fans can watch a live video stream of Tuesday's game on GoCrimson.com with play-by-play man Greg Kadetsky on the call by clicking here.
Last Time Out
Christine Clark's 17-point, 10-rebound effort helped lift the Crimson to a 71-63 win at Dartmouth Saturday as the team opened its 38th season of Ivy League play.
Clark's double-double was her first of the season and second of her career. The sophomore converted 4-of-8 attempts from the floor, including 2-of-4 from three, and was a perfect 7-of-7 at the line. Brogan Berry also notched 17 points and was 8-of-8 on freebies, and dished out eight assists to jump into seventh place in Ancient Eight history with 465 career helpers.
Four Crimson reached double-digits with Victoria Lippert and Emma Golen adding 12 points and 10 points, respectively. Harvard matched its season-high with nine three-pointers, and combined to shoot 46.0 percent from the floor, 40.0 percent from three, and was 16-of-20 at the line.
Click here to watch highlights from the game.
History in the Making
Brogan Berry has been an impact player over the last four years for the Crimsson and has etched her name into both the Ivy League and Harvard record books. Berry currently ranks seventh in conference history and fourth in school annals with 465 career assists, and is the 10th all-time leading scorer for the Crimson with 1,253 career points. She needs just 127 more points to break into the Ivy League all-time top 30, and is on pace to join Emily Tay '09 (1,263 pts., 514 ast.) as one of only two student-athletes in program history to score 1,200 points and dish out 500 assists.
Click here to visit the Media Center on GoCrimson.com to access Harvard's most up-to-date career records.
Career Scoring (Harvard)
1. Allison Feaster '98 2,312
9. Emily Tay '09 1,263
10. Brogan Berry '12 1,253
Career Assists (Harvard)
1. Jennifer Monti '02 558
3. Jessica Gelman '97 485
4. Brogan Berry '12 465
Career Assists (Ivy)
1. Jennifer Monti '02, Harvard 558
6. Jessica Gelman '97 485
7. Brogan Berry '12, Harvard 465
Career Free-Throw Percentage (Ivy)
1. Angela Soriaga '06, Dartmouth 89.9
6. Brogan Berry '12, Harvard 82.1
Lavietes Love
The Crimson has enjoyed a distinct home-court advantage since the 2008-09 season, posting a 33-7 record at Lavietes Pavilion in that time including three-straight wins in home openers. Harvard is 3-1 at Lavietes this season and is averaging 65.5 ppg.
Just Like Home
Harvard has won three straight games, all on the road, matching the team's longest winning streak of the year and the team's longest road winning streak since January of 2011. The Crimson is 4-4 on the road this season and is looking for its first winning record on the road since going 10-5 in 2008-09.
Haven't We Seen You Before?
Senior Brogan Berry made her 100th career appearance at Dartmouth and is expected to make her 100th career start on Tuesday against North Dakota. Should she appear in each of the Crimson's final 14 regular season games, she will finish with 114 career appearances, second only to Christine Matera's '11 115. If Berry starts each of Harvard's remaining regular season games, she will set the new program record for career starts at 114.
A New Season
Harvard opened its 38th season of Ivy League play with a 71-63 win at Dartmouth. The Crimson is 21-17 all-time in Ivy openers and 18-12 under Head Coach Kathy Delaney-Smith.
Media Savy
Head Coach Kathy Delaney-Smith participated in the Ivy League's annual media teleconference on Jan. 12 to discuss her team's play heading into the conference slate. Brogan Berry, meanwhile, appeared on the fourth episode of Inside Ivy League Basketball on Jan. 11 to talk about the milestones she had recently reached.
Click here to listen to Delaney-Smith's interview. Click here to listen to Berry's interview.
Players of the Week
Senior co-captain Brogan Berry has earned two Ivy League Player of the Week awards this season, giving her five for her career and putting her one shy of entering the Ancient Eight's all-time top 10 for player of the week honors. She most recently earned the honor on Jan. 9 after averaging 14.5 ppg and 5.5 apg in wins at UMass and TCU.
Sophomore Christine Clark was named the Ivy League Player of the Week Nov. 28 after averaging 17.5 ppg and 7.0 rpg in a 1-1 campaign. This was the first player of the week award for Clark after having been named rookie of the week three times in 2010-11.
Doubling Up
Brogan Berry, Christine Clark and Emma Golen have each recorded a double-double this season, with Clark's 17-point, 10-rebound performance at Dartmouth being the most recent. Berry notched 12 points and 10 assists at UMass for her double-double while Golen recorded hers against Boston University with 10 points and 10 boards. Golen's double-double was the team's first since Emma Markley's '11 22-point, 11-rebound effort against Brown on Feb. 12, 2011.
Miriam Rutzen, meanwhile, matched Golen on the glass with 10 boards against BU, making the two the first pair of Crimson student-athletes to notch at least 10 rebounds in the same game since Jackie Alemany '11 (13 rbs.) and Victoria Lippert (10 rbs.) did so at Cornell on Feb. 19, 2010.
Rollin' Golen
Junior Emma Golen has been on a tear over her last eight games, averaging 10.8 ppg and 5.9 rpg while shooting 52.4 percent from the floor and 53.3 percent from three. Golen has scored in double-digits seven times during this stretch, the only seven double-digit performances of her career, while helping her team to a 6-2 record in the process.
Join the Club
Junior Victoria Lippert has scored 919 career points and needs just 81 more to become the 16th member of Harvard's 1,000 point club. Sophomore Christine Clark, meanwhile, is more than halfway there with 557 points in just 42 career games.
Brogan Berry and Emma Markley '11 both joined the club last year, becoming the second duo in program history to reach the 1,000 point plateau in the same season after Erin Maher '93 and Deb Flandermeyer '93 did so during the 1992-93 campaign. Berry, meanwhile, became just the fifth student-athlete in program history to reach 1,000 points in her junior season.
Nationally Known
Harvard entered the week ranked fifth in the NCAA in free-throw percentage (79.6) and was 44th with a +5.9 rebounding margin. The Crimson also ranked 11th in personal fouls (13.1) and 67th in field-goal percentage (41.7).
Individually, Brogan Berry owned the 20th best assist-to-turnover ratio (2.2) in the land while her 4.9 apg were good for 47th. Christine Clark ranked 36th in free-throw percentage (85.9) with Berry coming in at 37th (85.7)
They're on Fire
Harvard currently leads the Ivy League in field-goal percentage and free-throw percentage, connecting on 41.7 percent of its attempts from the floor and 79.6 percent at the line. The Crimson has led the league in free-throw percentage each of the last two seasons while finishing second in field-goal percentage over that same span.
Individually, Emma Golen and Victoria Lippert rank sixth in the conference in shooting percentage (42.7) while Brogan Berry is eighth (42.5). Christine Clark has the third-best percentage at the line (85.9) with Berry coming in just behind her at fourth (85.7).
From Way Down Town
Emma Golen leads the Ancient Eight in three-point percentage (43.2) while Brogan Berry ranks third (38.9) and Victoria Lippert sixth (35.6). Lippert's 1.9 three-point field goals per game, meanwhile, are good for third in the conference with Golen's 1.5 makes per game ranking her eighth. The two have combined to shoot 44.0 percent from three over the team's last nine games, with Golen hitting on 16-of-30 attempts and Lippert nailing 17-of-45.
Cleaning the Glass
The Crimson has outrounded its opponents in 12 of 14 games this season, including 10 straight from Nov. 22 to Jan. 7. Harvard had not outrebounded opponents in 10 straight games since the 2006-07 season, when it went 15 straight games with a rebounding advantage. Harvard's 39.4 rpg rank second in the Ivy League while its 33.5 rebounds allowed are first. The Crimson also rank second with a +5.9 rebounding margin.
Individually, Miriam Rutzen ranks eighth in the conference with 6.1 rpg while Christine Clark is ninth with 6.0 rpg.
Triple Threat
Returning All-Ivy selections Christine Clark, Brogan Berry and Victoria Lippert are each averaging over 10 ppg and are among the Ivy League's leading scorers. Clark has netted 15.6 ppg, which is good for third in the conference, while Berry ranks eighth with 13.0 ppg and Lippert ninth with 11.5 ppg.
You Can Count on Clark
Christine Clark has scored in double-digits each game this season and in 16 straight dating back to last year. In 42 career games, Clark has scored at least 10 points 35 times and has been limited to under five points only once.
In the Clutch
Harvard has played several games this season which have been decided down the stretch, and two of the team's leading scorers have stood up to the challenge. Christine Clark is shooting 62.5 percent (5-8) with less than two minutes to play while going 20-of-23 from the line for a total of 30 points. Brogan Berry, meanwhile, has totaled 25 points on 55.6 percent shooting (5-9) while going 15-of-17 at the charity stripe.
The Crimson held both UMass (47) and TCU (44) to under 50 points, marking the first time Harvard has done so in back-to-back games since March of 2008. Both the Minutewomen (26.6) and Horned Frogs (23.7) also shot below 30 percent, a feat which Harvard has not accomplished since at least the 2001-02 season, the last season for which complete game-by-game records are available.
What a Start
Sophomore Missy Mullins made her first career start at TCU in place of an injured Emma Golen. Golen pulled down a career-high 10 rebounds against the Horned Frogs while adding four points and one assist in a career-best 24 minutes.
BIG Time Win
Harvard's 63-56 win over St. John's on Dec. 22 was the team's first over a BIG EAST opponent in exactly eight years, following a 73-59 win at Providence on Dec. 22, 2003. It was also Harvard's first win over a BIG EAST opponent at Lavietes Pavilion since a 79-76 triumph against Syracuse on Nov. 22, 2002, and its first over a BCS conference school since an 82-81 win over Boston College on Nov. 14, 2009.
And the Award Goes To...
Brogan Berry was named the CollegeSportsMadness.com Ivy League Player of the Week on Jan. 9 after averaging 14.5 ppg and 5.5 apg in wins at UMass and TCU, marking the third time this season the award has gone to a Crimson student-athlete. Emma Golen earned the honor on Dec. 4 after posting her first career double-double with 10 points and 10 rebounds against Boston University, and Christine Clark was named player of the week Nov. 13 following the Crimson's appearance in the Hawkeye Challenge to open the year.
Now Starting for Harvard...
Harvard has posted a 7-6 record this season using the starting lineup of Brogan Berry (99 career starts), Christine Clark (42), Victoria Lippert (60), Emma Golen (13) and Miriam Rutzen (26), and is 1-0 with the starting five of Berry, Clark, Lippert, Missy Mullins (1) and Rutzen. Golen had started each of the first 12 games this year but was forced out of the lineup at TCU after suffering a concussion.
Player to Watch
Senior co-captain Brogan Berry, who has posted 15.0 ppg and 4.7 apg season, was featured on Graham Hays' list of mid-major players to watch on ESPN.com.
"The 5-8 Ohio native averaged 4.6 assists per game as a junior and ranked ninth in the nation in assist-to-turnover ratio. She's not all pass, holding onto the ball often enough to lead the Crimson by averaging 13.6 points per game and shoot 39 percent from the 3-point line."
Captaining the Ship
Seniors Brogan Berry and Lindsay Louie were chosen by their teammates as captains for the 2011-12 season. Berry is a three-year starter and two-time team MVP, while Louie earned the Harvard Pride Award following the 2009-10 season.
Catch the Crimson in 2011-12
Harvard fans can watch each of the team's 12 home games in 2011-12 live online through GoCrimson.com. A women's basketball pass costs just $59.95 and this year also includes audio broadcasts for the team's games at Providence, New Hampshire and Brown. Click here to sign up today.
Inside Ivy League Basketball
"Inside Ivy League Basketball," an online radio show dedicated to talking basketball in the Ancient Eight, launched Thursday, Nov. 10 on BlogTalkRadio.com. "Inside Ivy League Basketball" takes an in-depth look at all the news and notes surrounding Ivy men's and women's basketball on and off the courts. Click here to listen now.


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The Tesla Psychosis
The Tesla Psychosis
It's not just a car, it's a hobby.
jtod ++
And a science experiment.
And an engineering PhD.
Why not in the trank of the Tesla for $0,5k
?? "trank" ?? You mean frunk? Trank is English slang for tranquilizer.
Yes,trunk, no drugs!!!
May be underhood for Tesla...
Wrong thread for this. ;)
I haven't even ordered the car and I'm stuck in that psychosis as well. But I promise all of you now that I will always stay clear-headed and pragmatic about it. We'll see if that holds... Welcome to the cult.
"frunk" is Tesla-talk for "front trunk".
Brian H
"frunk" is Tesla-talk for "front trunk"
Great! Mr.Brin, as a friend of Elon, must include it in the Google Translator.
Tesla-talk is not a supported language, yet.
@rch1708 - Would it still be a relaxing vacation if you don't read the forum?
@rch1708 what happened with your car? do you know why production was delayed?
@rch1708: I am hurting with you. I will (hopefully) get my MS in the beginning of November, by then I will have been agonizing in anxious anticipation (not an exaggeration, rather an understatement ;-D) for about 11 months. 2013 will go down in the books for me as "The Year I Waited For My S85".
The story of your wife getting tired of the Tesla fanaticism is very recognizable too. You should have seen her eye-rolling when I said to her last week: "Babe, I've been thinking. We should get some solar panels installed on the roof."
They will be installed this friday ;-D
Yes it is about the only addiction I know of that people around us and "mother earth" actually benefit from :) I wish I had more rooftop to work with though! 2kWp is as much as I have room for.. Not enough to drive each Tesla mile on sunshine, but it helps :)
that's 140kWh. kW is instantaneous power measurement. kWh is for how long it was sustained.
I have already posted in this thread but it struck me that there is another angle to the Psychosis that hasn't been mentioned.
Since I live in the Bay area (San Jose specifically), I run into this a few times each week...
I will be driving around doing errands of all varieties and someone will wave, give the high sign and roll their window down..."How do you like you Model S" they typically query. "Absolutely fantastic" is my response! And now the very interesting part...
"I work for Tesla!" they say with big smiles. In every case, the folks working at the Tesla factory, design studio, etc., seem genuinely proud to let you know that they were part of creating/manufacturing the Model S. When I have a few minutes I will ask what they do and gain more insight as well as giving them more kudos for their efforts. I have now had casual interchanges with folks who work the manufacturing line (paint shop, final assembly, etc.); the research team (3 years on the battery management team and others); and, others. In every encounter, the person has come across as someone who realizes and is proud to be part of this endeavor. Even though NONE of them actually owned a Model S, they all want one and have the Psychosis!!!
@jd3tm Yeah, a friend of a friend is a Tesla engineer and he was very excited about my car. He wanted to hear my story, see my pictures, and share in the experience. :)
It makes me sad that the people who build the cars can't afford them, but between their employee stock and the next gen car some day they will be able to.
I am in the "psycho" portion of the Tesla Psychosis. HPWC is being installed on Friday, car is arriving on 8/15, MVPA in process of being signed and lending getting finalized. I am so incredibly excited! Then the next moment I panic and obsess, oh my gosh I hope I don't get a car with any of the dreaded problems we read about. The net result is that I am cranky.
Hopefully it will pass! LOL
nope--only the W is capitalized, a person's name. So kWh, not KwH. Other units that are names are Amp, Ohm, Volt, and Farad.
Mine's coming next month. It's like preparing for the arrival of a baby
get the house ready
find the right paint
read the manuals and postings
learn the dos and don'ts
tell people about it and indulge the "congratulations"
comb through names
have a new purpose in life
worry if the new arrival will be "healthy"
Now where's my baby shower? hmm, maybe I'll have a party?
@rch; "through" is correct. If not, then Brian will help us with the correct answer.
I originally ordered Model S in April of 2009. A switch to Signature Red allowed a November delivery that Tesla showed in the Febuary blog. The wait was helped by owning a Red Volt in 2010 for about a year. Mom died in 2011, but she got to personally see a beta Model S. She loved the electric drive experience of the Volt. That helps me know how pleased she is that I have the Model S. We miss our departed relatives, but we can be comforted in many ways. A car can cuddle and protect us while we enjoy its design. Model S fits that description perfectly and it will be worth the wait. Thank you for sharing your story and updating us with the delivery status.
@ Cindy123
I don't think I've seen anyone having a "Tesla Shower" on these forums, perhaps you could be the first! Good luck with your new ride. Grin!
To rch1708,
I really appreciate your note of MAY 21st!
Can you explain more about your solar panels on the house roof?
Link to supplier?
Thank you.
18000 kWh per year?? Really? That seems like a typo somewhere.
To rch1708:
Great answer. Being located in Norway it will probably be difficult to match your solar elctricity productuion.
But you have provided me with a starting point. I will now research more around this. The beauty of it all would of course be to charge the Tesla from the sun.
I have also experienced that bying a Tesla stmulates increased interest in other forms of electricity saving - it is great fun!
You lie like a rug! No way did you have 5.5MW peak panel capacity installed on the south roof of your house. >:)
Brian H: Easy Brain, most non-engineer people do not know the difference between a 5500 watt system and a 5500 kilowatt system. I am sure he means it was a 5500 watt peak solar system.
It does not make him a liar.
Joke! Notice the smirking scowl smiley at the end.
Just watched the 1995 "Steve Jobs - the lost interview" (released in 2012) on Nefsis - more than 1 hour of Steve talking. Indirectly, it helped me understand my Tesla Psychosis a little better.
In the interview, Jobs talked about his disappointment in Micro-Soft for its lack of taste, being free of spirit, being pedestrian. Apple products, in contrast, are expressions of artists, poets, musicians who also happened to be the best computer scientists. The products provided the world access to the better things, changed the way we live, and people felt and responded to the inspiration...
The parallel here is quite obvious. I never understood the people who stood in line for hours at an Apple store before. Though still will not stand in line, I find myself mesmerized by the vision of a better future patiently counting down the days for my Tesla's arrival.
My thoughts go out to you! Hopefully you will find a little bit of distraction here on this very personal day for you.
Best wishes!


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The Buffalo Bills have agreed to a 10-year lease to keep the team at Orchard Park.
The Buffalo Bills have agreed to a 10-year lease to keep the team at Orchard Park.
The deal to keep the Bills at Ralph Wilson Stadium calls for $130 million in upgrades to the facility, with $35 million coming from the team and the remaining $95 million split by the state and county, according to The Buffalo New
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The Bills would face a $400 million penalty if the team relocates during the lease, except after the seventh year, when the team would only pay $29 million.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has had several discussions with National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell, is set to appear via satellite at an 11 a.m. news conference at Ralph Wilson Stadium, according to a spokesman for Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz. (Cuomo was originally expected to attend in person, but inclement weather prevented a late flight, according to his office.)
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It seems that "human remains" from 9/11 are turning up all the time until it's time for a Supreme Court hearing, and then there suddenly there is no evidence of the remains in the "material" transferred from Ground Zero to the Fresh Kills landfill.
Have the courts agreed to hear any lawsuits from the 9/11 families? They've thrown out the lawsuit from the "family members" against Saudi Royals. Why?
Supreme Court Rejects 9/11 Families' Appeal
October 4, 2010 10:31 AM
A worker searches through the debris field from the south tower of the World Trade Center ? New York, NY ? Mar 7, 2002 ? Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The relatives of victims of the Sept. 11 attacks have lost their bid to get the Supreme Court to rule that New York City must provide a proper burial for material taken from the World Trade Center site because it could contain the ashes of victims.
The justices on Monday said they would not hear an appeal from the families of some of those killed when the 110-story twin towers collapsed nine years ago.
Lower federal courts had dismissed the families' lawsuit against the city, saying it acted responsibly in moving 1.6 million tons of materials from the site in Lower Manhattan to a landfill on Staten Island and then sifting through the material for human remains.
No remains have been found of roughly 1,100 people killed on Sept. 11, 2001.
(Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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Supreme Court Declines to Hear 9/11 Family Members' Case
Monday, October 04, 2010 - 06:27 PM
By Arun Venugopal
The Supreme Court has declined to take up a case brought by 9/11 family members. The families have been trying for years to get New York City to provide a proper burial for material taken from the World Trade Center site. Their argument is that the material could contain the ashes of victims, and they've long argued the city didn't make enough of an effort to separate the smallest human remains from other debris.
Mayor Bloomberg says he understands the emotions of the family members, but thinks the city did everything it could to locate and honor the deceased.
"But in a practical sense you could not have done any more," he said. "I remember going over a number of times to watch the process, and people really took as much care as you possibly could."
Lower federal courts had dismissed the families' lawsuit against the City, saying it had acted responsibly in moving 1.6 million tons of materials from the site to a landfill on Staten Island.
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The Center for disease Control is warning Americans about the staggering impact Swine flu could make if no vaccine is ready by the next flu season. Their most recent report said the number of swine flu infections in the U.S. could rise 40% over the next two years.
While that number means twice as many people who come down with the normal flu would be stricken with swine flu, infections could drop if new vaccines, currently being tested, are released.
The U.S. could have as many as 160 million doses of the swine flu vaccine available sometime in October and its success or failure could affect the lives of thousands.
The American Medical Association estimates about 36,000 people die from a normal flu season. Should swine flu vaccines fail, the number of deaths over the next two years could range from 90,000 to several hundred thousand, the CDC has calculated.
"Hopefully, mitigation efforts will have a big impact on future cases," said CDC spokesman Tom Skinner.
The World Health Organization, who believe the swine flu is in the early stages of a new pandemic, paints a much more dire picture. They estimate as many as 2 billion people, or roughly one third of the world's population, could be stricken with the ailment over the same two year period.
So far, swine flu has infected more than 1 million Americans, many of whom suffered from mild cases and never reported it. Of the 44,000 confirmed cases, 302 have died.
In light of the Swine Flu's gripping effect, the CDC is advising all children between six and 18 months to get the seasonal flu vaccine, reports Reuters.


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Try first to right click on the video link and select save target/link as. If it wont work try record / save the stream using / saving the streaming media :
Google, youtube or other flash flv video
Use http://keepvid.com/ or or http://www.keepv.com/ or http://videodownloader.net to download.
Install the Firefox browser http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/ then install the
DownloadHelper https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3006/
or VideoDownloader plugin https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2390/ or
Unplug plugin https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2254/ or
Ook? Video Ook! plugin https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2584/
If that wont help try Replay Media Catcher, http://applian.com/replay-media-catcher/ , it supports all new flash flv streaming protocols (RTMP, HTTP).
WM Recorder
RM Recorder
MOV, Quicktime
Quicktime Pro, right click on the movie and select save source.
Streaming Recording tools
CoCSoft Stream Down
Net Transport
WM Recorder
RM Recorder
mplayer, command line tool and you use it like mplayer -playlist 'http://www.video.com/video.asf' -dumpstream -dumpfile video.asf
VLC Media Player, see https://www.videohelp.com/guides.php?guideid=957#957
Or post your own streaming media recording tips in this topic.
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Thanks. I have always wondered as to how to save a Quicktime movie without Quicktime Pro. The link http://home.sol.se/michael/qtguide/ was quite useful. Thanks for the info.If you do not learn from someone's knowledge and experience, then you are doing it the hard way
Offline Explorer can record streaming Windows and Real video. I like this better than WM & RM recorder. The WM & RM recorder continues recording even if it has to rebuffer the streaming video. This results in gaps in the video. As far as I know Offline Explorer simply pieces the video together as it recieves the data.[/url]
First post...wheeeee! :P
UrlSnooper (a google search will bring up several websites for download) is extremely useful for discovering the true URL for streaming media. It acts as a proxy and logs all incoming and outgoing traffic when active. The logs can be a bit daunting to wade through, but basically you want to look for any URL that ends in the non-streaming extension for the media you're trying to download...e.g. .wmx instead of .wmx or .asf instead of .asx, etc. Copy and paste the URL in your favorite streaming downloader.
Hope this helps...my little contribution back for all the great help I've received on this site!
For the life of me I cannot figure out how to save to disk the following Real Media file:
URLSnooper says the file is at:
I couldn't get RMRecorder 10.2 to record it. I also tried Fresh Download and HiDownload. Maybe it's because I don't have them set up right, but I've tried it on 3 different computer setups and can't get any of them to work.
Can anyone help?
On edit: Oh yes, the clip source is at:
Success! I was able to do it using MPlayer (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/dload.html), a command-line "player". I used URLSnooper to get the exact URL of the file(s) I wanted. Then I launched a Command Prompt window and ran MPlayer using this command:
mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile [outputfilename.rm] -cache 4096 [URL of actual location of file]
For this one it was:
mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile 008b.rm -cache 4096 rtsp://rm1.tv-tokyo.co.jp:554/real1/minisuka/movie/008b.rm
You need to get the codecs at http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/codecs.html and put them in the codecs folder (created when you unpack the app).
Have a nice Day
For google I just use the google player, which downloads to a folder and keeps them. ConvertXtoDVD does a pretty good job of converting gvp files to DVD as well.
For those pesky Flash things like ABC TV shows, I connect the laptops Video and Audio out to my Hauppauge PVR USB2 and record. Then I crop and letterbox in Virtual Dub Mod.
Is there any way that I can capture multiple videos from a single streaming playlist?
WM Recorder used to do it automatically but then it suddenly stopped doing it, and I also switched to offline explorer since it doesn't mess the video up if it has to rebuffer. If there are multiple files on a single stream however, it only captures the first one. Help?
Sorry none of those programs worked for me.
I connect the laptops Video and Audio out to my Hauppauge PVR USB2 and recordLive lightly, think deeply.
After a video is downloaded from youtube as flv file, then how do i convert it to avi/mpeg/xvid?
To peomp:
You can also try to use "Replay converter"
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Why do you say that?
It works perfectly to me.
Anyone have any suggestions for repording clips from CBS (network site or affiliates)? I cannot find a way to grab the url.
It works with WM too. Real Alternative didn't work, however (until I upgraded it. It actually looks a lot better than WMP 9...)
Originally Posted by BlackAdder2TheRescue
Then I tried WM Recorder v11 but the interface isn't as slick or as easy to use. That worked fine but only lets you record a limited size file. I got some memory errors whenever I closed it, so I uninstalled it for now.
Anything else that's free and works?
Originally Posted by olyteddy
Ok, SnagIt's Web site says a blank screen can be a result of your video card's hardware acceleration. Check out this FAQ page to disable hardware acceleration:
After I disabled it on my system, I was able to capture video ok. The status window said it was only capturing at 15fps though...I'm still trying to figure out how to change that to 30fps.
Another FF extension that's worked well enough for me is Ook? Video Ook!. There's a handful of others, including DownloadHelper, but I haven't really tried most of them beyond Amazing Media Browser, KeepVid/Video Downloader, Unplug and Ook? Video Ook!.If cameras add ten pounds, why would people want to eat them?
I am a sixties music video collector but only have a dial-up connection (sad, I know).
There are tons of video blogs and sites like YOUTUBE with videos I'd like to convert to DVD.
If anyone here would like to work with me on these videos, please let me know.
Here is an an example; I'd love to get this onto a DVD:
everybody should try ACA capture PRO...aca is a great screenshots program,,,with it you can capture streaming youtube,ASF, WMV,RM,MOV,Quicktime easily,,,,,,,,
I was just turned on to the Firefox FLV download extension recently and it makes life so much easier! Now I can save files for later or offline viewing. This really comes in handy when there are no wireless net connections around and you are bored out of your mind but have your laptop! Right now I'm just saving the FLV files and using a FLV player but I will probably try one of the FLV converters. Any suggestions on which FLV converter is the best, or suggestions on what you convert to (Divx, Xvid, mpg, etc.)?
Who wants to help me put YOUTUBE files onto DVD for me?
My PC is DEAD.
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Gilad Atzmon: The Man With The White Yarmulke
Three days ago Jerusalem urged its 'Western allies' to support Mubarak. Yesterday war criminal Tony Blair complied submissively suggesting that "Mubarak is immensely courageous and a force for good."
The former British PM, who lied to us all, launched an illegal war based on a false dossier and made all of us complicit in the murder of 1.5 million Iraqis, praised the Egyptian president over his role in 'peace negotiations'. Blair seems to follow the Israeli instructions and warns "against a rush to elections that could bring Muslim Brotherhood to power."
Blair argued that the west was right to back Mubarak despite his authoritarian regime because he had maintained peace with Israel. In short, according to the former British PM, 'democratic enthusiasm' is better pushed aside for the sake of the Jewish State's interests. No wonder Lord Levy and the Labour Friends of Israel spent so many sheckels keeping Blair and Labour in power.
Speaking to Piers Morgan on CNN, Blair defended his backing for Mubarak. "I've worked with him on the Middle East peace process between the Israelis and the Palestinians …I have to say, he's been immensely courageous and a force for good."
One may have to agree with Blair that Mubarak's treacherous actions against his people, the Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims could be interpreted as a 'courageous act'. Similarly, some can also see Blair's relentless, treacherous surrender to Zionist interests on the expense of humanity as courageous. We can only hope that both leaders are brought to justice either by their people or by an international court. This would certainly appropriate their 'courage' within the right context.
It seems as if Blair managed to succumb to Zio-Talmudic supremacy. "The region has unique problems that make political change different from the democratic revolutions in Eastern Europe," he said. "The principal issue was the presence of Islamist parties that will use democracy to gain power and then undermine the freedoms people seek." For Blair, democracy and freedom are great except when applied to Muslims. I am left bewildered, what about the 'freedom to be Muslim'? I am also perplexed by Blair's fascination with democracy. As far as I can recall, it was American democracy that annihilated Dresden, Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was Blair's democratically elected government that launched the criminal war in Iraq. It is also democratic Britain that fails to follow due process and lock Blair, his legal adviser and prime members of his cabinet behind bars.
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A Devil, you say: Ottawa standout Semi Ojeleye says Duke best fit
January 14, 2013
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When he walks into a gymnasium, heads turn, eyes inevitably gravitating in his direction.
Quiet by nature and serious in his demeanor, it is nothing more than Semi Ojeleye's physical presence that draws the gazes of onlookers when Ottawa High's boys basketball team takes the court.
At 6-foot-7, 225 pounds, the mammoth senior forward is Thor with a hi-top fade. A teenage superhero in Nike Hyperdunks. And that's before he even gets his colossal mitts on a basketball. When he does, good luck stopping him.
Ranked the class of 2013's No. 33 recruit in the nation by Rivals.com, the Duke University signee has helped the Cyclones (10-0) destroy most of their competition this season, averaging 40.6 points and 7.3 rebounds in the process. Accustomed to elevating and shooting over defenders on the perimeter (43-for-97 from three-point range this year) and going into beast mode to overpower them in the paint (77-for-126 inside the arc), Ojeleye scored a career-high 58 points in December against Wray, Colo. His career scoring total at OHS stands at 2,176 points, and he's on pace to break the Sunflower State's record — 2,554, set by Brewster's Josh Reid, class of 1996.
Ojeleye's talent and the exposure that comes with signing to play at Duke have drawn national attention to Ottawa's living legend. Staff from USA Today and Sports Illustrated, not to mention Blue Devils coach Mike Krzyzewski, have flown halfway across the country to attend Cyclones practices this season. Amid all of this, somehow, the hoopla hasn't gone to Ojeleye's head.
"It's humbling," the soft-spoken superstar said. "I just want to help my teammates out and have a good year."
Modest monster
Actually, humble is the word people around Ojeleye use most to describe him. Senior classmate Dallas Natt, Ottawa's starting point guard, remembers when Ojeleye first began receiving letters of interest from the top basketball programs in the nation.
"He'd try to hide 'em," Natt said. "He's not the kind of guy who would be like, 'Oh, look what I got!' He's the quiet guy, and that's why we like him so much. He doesn't showboat."
The state's best player doesn't gloat on the court, either. Natt said Ojeleye simply plays the game. And dominates.
"Whenever he gets the ball on the block, it's a hassle," Natt said, adding that Ojeleye has an un-blockable three-point shot, too. "He's too explosive, too fast. He has the guard talent, but the post body. It's just insane."
Ojeleye's modest disposition impacts everything he does, according to Ottawa coach Jon McKowen. Sure, he has the skill set and physical ability to attract interest from national college powers such as Duke, Arizona, Indiana, Kansas, UCLA and others. McKowen sees much more in his elite senior.
"You top it all off with his work ethic," the OHS coach said. "It's unmatched. He works like he has absolutely no skill at all."
One can usually find Ojeleye getting in an hour of aerobic work before school. He lifts weights after school at least three days a week. When Ottawa practice ends, he'll goof around with other stragglers in the gym, then end his day with another full-blown, drenched-in-sweat individual basketball workout.
"It's every day with him," McKowen said of Ojeleye's dedication. "You can see it when he plays and when he practices."
It all has been a means to an end for Ojeleye. He said those long hours secured him a spot at Duke, currently undefeated and ranked No. 1 in the nation.
"That's what you work for," he said.
A Blue Devil in Kansas
Of course, as a Kansas resident, when Ojeleye gets approached by people who want to discuss his college choice, it's rarely to ask him about playing with fellow incoming Duke freshman Jabari Parker, of Chicago, Rivals' No. 2 recruit in the country. It's more like: Why didn't you pick Kansas or Kansas State?
"You have to live with your own decision at the end of the day," Ojeleye said, adding he did what was best for him.
His older brother, Victor, walked on at K-State, and KU is the national powerhouse over which basketball fans in this part of the country fawn and fret. The state's two Big 12 programs were on Ojeleye's radar before last summer, when he pared down his list to Duke, Indiana, Stanford and UCLA.
Former KU assistant coach Danny Manning had been Ojeleye's contact at KU. When Manning left to become Tulsa's head coach this past spring, Ojeleye said his communication with Kansas tapered off. He said KU showed renewed interest in him later, in the summer, and wanted him to take an unofficial visit to Lawrence. But by then he already had an idea of the programs best suited for him, and Ojeleye let Kansas know it wasn't on the short list.
Eventually, Krzyzewski and Duke beat out the rest of his suitors.
"I was thinking, 'What team's the best, and what coaching staff has my best interest in mind?'" Ojeleye said. "And I thought Coach K and his coaching staff really meshed with me. That's what it came down to."
It certainly didn't hurt that Krzyzewski came to Ottawa for an in-home visit in September, to meet with the Ojeleye family.
"That sent me a message that I was important to them," said Ojeleye, who committed to Duke during that meeting. "From there, just whenever we talked, we talked about me off the court as well as on the court."
McKowen considers Duke the perfect fit for Ojeleye, a 4.0 student who wants a great college education.
"Duke might have been the only place he could've chose to go that nobody could complain about," McKowen said. "If he would've went to KU or K-State, he would've made half the people mad and half the people happy."
Returning to 'game 26'
The four seasons Ojeleye has worn Ottawa red and white have been bliss for Cyclones fans. OHS has gone 77-10 since his arrival and advanced to the Class 4A state title game three straight years. Ottawa lost to Kansas City, Kan., Sumner Academy in 2010 (66-45) and 2011 (66-60) before Ojeleye's junior season ended in 2012 with a 56-52 loss to Basehor-Linwood.
The program's only state championship came in 1971, as a 3A school. On slow practice days, McKowen might dangle a 2013 title in front of the players as motivation. They need to prepare with speed and tempo then "for game 26," he'll remind them. But, in general, the top-ranked 4A team doesn't have to talk about its chase for a title. As McKowen pointed out, Ojeleye isn't the only OHS senior. Natt, Austin Blaue, Dillon Boeh, Taylor Graf, Alex Hasty, Jordan Markley, Wyatt Peters and Kaden Shaffer are experienced, too.
"All of them have been through it," their coach said of the previous three seasons. "If they weren't on the (varsity) team, they were in the program, so they've been through the emotional roller coaster, and every one of them was on the team last year."
The group's collective mettle even surprises McKowen at times. He wasn't at all satisfied with how the Cyclones, who hadn't played a game in more than two weeks, practiced the day before their January opener. But Ottawa beat Paola, 77-30, the following night behind Ojeleye's 56 points.
So far this season, Ottawa has averaged 71.7 points a game, winning by an average margin of 32.1.
"I have to be everywhere," he said of his approach. "That's inside, outside. As the game starts to flow, if the guys are going, I just need to step up defensively. If they're not, then I need to carry the scoring load that much more. I just kind of have to read the game and react to it."
The Cyclones, who enter the Basehor-Linwood Invitational as the No. 1 seed, will spend January and February building toward a fourth straight state-tournament berth. If along the way Ojeleye seems detached or businesslike after throwing down an alley-oop as easily as most people tie their shoes, don't think for a second he isn't reveling in his team's success.
"We want to enjoy the moment," he said, "have some fun, and whatever happens, happens."
Ottawa plays its first Basehor-Linwood Invitational game at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday against Platte County.
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ROME — Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's wife wants a divorce, Italian media reported yesterday, just days after she publicly criticized his par ty's selection of young women for European elections.
"I have been forced to take this step. I don't want to add anything else," Berlusconi's wife, Veronica, 52, said.
In a two-line statement, the conservative prime minister said, "This is a personal matter that saddens me, that is private, and it seems appropriate not to talk about it."
Last week, Veronica, who two years ago demanded a public apology from her husband for flirting with younger women, said his party's choice of female candidates for the European elections was a "shamelessly trashy" process.
She also accused him of going to the Naples birthday bash of an 18-year-old woman, the daughter of a political ac quaintance, but not attending the coming-of-age parties of his own children.


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VANCOUVER - Vancouver's mayor says a regional police force is so crucial for the Metro area that it should be a top issue in the upcoming provincial election to ensure a serial killer such as Robert Pickton could never again go undetected for so long.
"It's undoubtedly a very dark chapter in our history," Gregor Robertson told the Vancouver Police Board on Tuesday, after the police chief presented a report to the board endorsing 63 recommendations made at an inquiry into why it took police years to catch Pickton.
"Vancouver sticks out as a big city without a Metro police force and we've seen horrific tragedies in recent years that might have been reduced dramatically if we'd had a Metro police force active at that time," Robertson said.
"The B.C. election is an opportunity to break the logjam on creating a Metro police force," he said. "At this point it's not a top issue that party leaders are addressing directly. There have been comments made towards it but we'll look to see what's in the party platforms and see if this emerges as a key differentiating mark between the leaders and their parties."
Robertson said it's up to the provincial government to bring together municipal police forces and politicians who don't believe a merged force is necessary.
Pickton inquiry commissioner Wally Oppal said in his report last month that a lack of communication between Vancouver police and the RCMP allowed the serial killer to pick up women in the Downtown Eastside and murder them in Coquitlam, B.C.
Vancouver Police Chief Jim Chu said his department made it clear as far back as 2004 that a regional police force would be more effective in solving major crimes.
But Chu said there's no agreement on that among various police departments and that the RCMP, which recently signed a 20-year-contract with the province, maintains their force is serving communities well.
"Among chiefs there's no consensus so we can't go to the government as a unified body or voice on this," he said.
Attorney General Shirley Bond said the government will work with local governments to ensure their policing models meet their communities' needs.
"Any change, whether it be regionalization or further integration, has to meet the needs of both our communities and our taxpayers," she said in a statement.
Deputy Chief Const. Doug LePard told the board that Vancouver's department is working on a real-time crime centre, which is a centralized crime-fighting computer facility that would allow police to access investigative information around the clock.
He said that would mitigate structural barriers to communication as cited in Oppal's report.
"Hopefully that will mean some additional support from the provincial government because of course there are some funding challenges to it," LePard told the board.
"This was an incredible tragedy as the women died, and some of them, we believe, if we had done a better job, wouldn't have died and so we know that we made many errors," he said of Pickton's victims.
Pickton was convicted in December 2007 of killing six women, but the remains or DNA of 33 women were found on his farm.
He once told an undercover police officer that he killed 49 women and was aiming to kill 50 women.
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Malaga - the perfect base
It is the perfect holiday destination of city break. From chic boutiques, gastrobars and cool caf�s it really has got it all and is the perfect base to explore Granada or Serville.
As elsewhere in Spain, M�laga is a great place to buy shoes and leather goods, and Calle Marqu�s de Larios, near the port, is the main shopping strip, a pedestrianised street that has some good shoe shops, as well as all the major Spanish brand names, such as Mango and Zara. The surrounding lanes are also worth a browse for a mix of one-off shops and big labels. If you like a one-stop shop, there's the huge El Corte Ingl�s department store (Avenida de Andaluc�a 4), which sells practically everything, including shoes, perfume, fashion, homeware, furniture and food.
Food & Drink
M�laga has some excellent tapas bars and is a superlative place to eat seafood. You can go for gourmet tapas somewhere like Gorki (Calle Strachan 6), with pavement tables and stylish eats, or feast on plates laden with fish and shellfish at seaside Restaurante El Tintero (Playa del Dedo), overlooking the beach. For Michelin-star chic, try the Caf� de Paris (Calle V�lez M�laga 8), with creative Spanish cuisine and a Parisian-style interior. Restaurante El Refectorium del Campanario (Paseo de la Sierra 36) is close to the Bull Ring, serves up delicious tapas and seafood dishes, and is buzzing with locals.
Procesi�n de Los Reyes
5 January
On 5 January, the three Kings arrive at the port, and a child reads a letter to them, requesting gifts for all the children in M�laga. The parade through the city is then led by the three kings, who throw sweets into the crowds for excited children. Bands, dancers and performers join the celebrations.
M�laga Carnival
This sees parades of costumed dancers and performers, accompanied by traditional murga (street bands). On La Malagueta beach, the ceremonies culminate with the traditional 'burial of the sardine'.
Semana Santa
This is one of the most important festivals in M�laga. There are various colourful processions, including the procession of the palomas (doves), which is followed by the release of 100 doves, and the Good Friday Procession of Silence, whereby the only sound is a slow drum roll.
Noche de San Juan
23 June
To celebrate the summer solstice, at midnight on 23 June, caricatures of public figures are burned on a bonfire. As the fire subsides, people compete to try to jump across the flames, whilst others dance around the fire.
M�laga Fair
This is one of the best times to be in M�laga, with celebrations both day and night, including dancing, food stands, children activities and flamenco performances.
As a gateway to southern Spain, M�laga is packed with a huge range of accommodation, from small, basic hostels to grand palaces. At the upper end of the scale, there's the gorgeous five-star Vincci Selecci�n Posada del Patio (Pasillo de Santa Isabel 7), which offers 109 rooms and deserves special mention for its lovely rooftop swimming pool. Four-star Vincci M�laga (Calle Pac�fico 44) is a designer seafront option. However, there are lots of good lower budget selections too, such as the stylish Apartamentos Do�a Elvira (Jinetes) and Apartamentos Mar�n 3 (Mar�n Garc�a), both of which are sleekly designed and centrally located.