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December 11

Sebastian's Journal?

Does anyone know where I could find a journal that closely resembles the one Sebastian used in Cruel Intentions ? I've been searching all over the internet with no luck. Thank you Breadchastick (talk) 02:31, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

It looks like standard A4 paper with plastic ring bind. SN0WKITT3N 10:12, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

NFL kickoff - what does the official throw?

During football games, during a kickoff (and maybe punts), an official (back judge?) near the receiver throws something on the ground, usually in the vicinity of the receiver. It almost looks like a black piece of rubber, but could be something like a black flag. What is it and why does he do that? (I've been trying to find videos, but have so far been unsuccessful, probably due to the NFL removing videos from YouTube, etc.) Also, looking through the Digest of the NFL Rulebook and and older version of the official rules, but still nothing. Any thoughts? --Bennybp (talk) 04:20, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Here's a link to read about all their duties. I had wondered the same thing.

http://football.about.com/cs/football101/a/bl_officials.htm —Preceding unsigned comment added by JelloTube (talk • contribs) 04:46, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

He's marking the point at which the return began. I'm not sure of the specifics, but I expect it's for penalties like holding. On a standard play from scrimmage, holding behind the line of scrimmage is enforced from the line of scrimmage (holding downfield is enforced from the point of infraction). Generally holding on kickoffs/punts is downfield and thus from the point of infraction, but perhaps if the return man retreats backwards, penalties back there are enforced only from where the return began. I can't say that I've ever seen this rule, if applicable, come into play. — Lomn 14:28, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

The official throws a small blue beanbag. The beanbag is used to mark "change of possession" in certain situations where the exact location of the change of possession matters to the rules. You will see it come out at all punts, kickoffs, and fumble recoveries (but, interestingly, not interceptions!), where the location of the change-of-posession matters. There are different rules for advancing the ball past the point of first contact of fumbles, kicks, and punts, and in situations where the actual spot of first contact with the ball matters, the beanbag is used to mark that spot.

For example, on punts, the kicking team may ONLY recover the punt if the receiving team touches the ball, so the beanbag can be used to show that the ball has been touched by the receiving team and is thus "live".

Likewise, there are rules about the offense advancing fumbles (specifically, the team which fumbles may not advance the recovered fumble further than the location of the fumble if the defense doesn't touch the ball, to prevent plays like the Holy Roller and the Fumblerooski. In these situations, the beanbag is used to mark the location of the fumble to determine the spot of the ball should the offense try to advance it past this point. In some plays (for example, with a fumbled snap exchange from center to QB) the beanbag is not often used, since the location of the fumble (officially, the old line of scrimage) is clear, and thus the beanbag is not needed. There are no rules where the location of an interception is important, so they don't mark those either.

Here's a pdf file: [1] that discusses proper use of the beanbag.

The other things that officials throw are a) a yellow flag if there is a penalty and b) their hat to indicate that a player has gone out-of-bounds, and is thus inelligible to return to the play. They will also throw their hat if they either don't have their flag (for example, for a second penalty on the same play) or beanbag (if, for example, there are 2 changes of possession on the same play). --Jayron32.talk.contribs 14:48, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks a lot! I had wondered that for a while. Kinda makes sense now :) --Bennybp (talk) 22:02, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

There was an incident a couple of years ago, where an official threw his beanbag into the middle of a fumble pileup, and hit one of the players in the eye, injuring his eye and putting the player out of action for a while. Little Red Riding Hoodtalk 00:27, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

Actually, the player, Orlando Brown, was hit in the eye by a flag. Usually, officials "wrap" the flag around a heavy object (like another bean bag, though I don't know if there is a standard object) so that the flag will actually go where the official throws it (the flag is supposed to hit the ground where the infraction occured, again for marking yardage purposes). It was a tragic event, as Brown never made a full recovery. It wasn't really anyones "fault" since officials are instructed to throw the flag at the player who commits the infraction. There was some buloney about how the flag was "improperly modified" but it was always my understanding that this was mainly a legal move so that Brown could get paid by the NFL for his injury... --Jayron32.talk.contribs 03:09, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

Hockey

Is ice hockey the only sport where the players are allowed to go behind the goal? I'm not counting baseball where the catcher is behind home plate since you obviously need someone there to catch. Dismas|^(talk) 07:25, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

They can do it in lacrosse, too. Adam Bishop (talk) 08:11, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Hmm, maybe not, nevermind... Adam Bishop (talk) 09:20, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

They can definately do it in lacrosse, men's lacrosse anyway, I'm not sure about the ladies game. MookieZ (talk) 15:07, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

Well in Rugby you can go behind the 'goal' to get a try, or you can kick it over the 'goal' for point. I've been thinking about it a bit and I can't think of any other game where you can go behind the goal with the ball in the same way as in ice hockey. In Basketball you can be 'beyond' the hoop but it's only a tiny little amount of space and it's not like in ice-hockey where a big amount of the play utilizes the feature. I guess what you're looking for is a sport that is played in A) A confined space and B) Has fast-paced movement that can't slow down quickly - after all it'd be much harder to rush the goal in ice-hockey if you didn't have those 4/5 yards after the goal to slow-down, so it might as well be playing space. I'll look and see if I can find another one, good question! 09:51, 11 December 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.221.133.226 (talk)

In baseball the runner can go around home plate then come back to tag it, within reason of course.--droptone (talk) 12:47, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

What about basketball/netball?? Technically you can be behind the net and still be inside the court (just)? In fact as long as your feet don't touch the ground you can be completely outside the court and still score over the top of the backboard if you're lucky. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 09:21, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

Korfball. DJ Clayworth (talk) 19:31, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

I believe rugby is a better answer than what 194.221 makes of it. Play can really take place in the in-goal area, i.e. behind the goal posts, for some time. A team can pass and/or run the ball within their own in-goal area to move sideways and try to find a better position to kick or run out from. Also, a try is not scored until the ball touches the ground. Conversion kicks have to be taken straight out from where the grounding took place. Because of that, attacking players will often try to run within the in-goal area to try to make the grounding in a more central position. I.e. they run, and make the grounding when they are behind the goalposts. /Coffeeshivers (talk) 17:18, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

Question on Father Ted

In which episode does tom hit ted in his car after ted tries to hitch a lift? It's on the comedy connections episode of father ted. As the car gets closer to ted he keeps saying "please" as his face gets more and more desperate. Tom then hits him and Ted falls onto the windowscreen. Tom then says "sorry about that Father" to ted. Dougal is not in sight.Darkside2000 (talk) 09:22, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

I'd reckon it's this one. Fribbler (talk) 16:47, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Coverting audio of YouTube videos into MP3

Is there a way to convert audio of YouTube videos into MP3 files? David Pro (talk) 13:00, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Two ways:

1. Directly record from you pc's sound card while the video plays. You can do this with most audio recoding programs, I recommend Audacity. Just set the default recoding device to your sound card, click record and play the video.
2. Or, you could download the flv from youtube with a site like this, then open it in VLC media player. In VLC go to file -> Wizard and chose "Transcode/save to file", click next. Select "existing playlist item", click next, then check the Audio option only and select MP3 as the output. SN0WKITT3N 13:34, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

You can download the audio exactly how it is in the video using this site, just type in the URL and hit download. Just be careful with copyright laws. [2] Strifeblade (talk) 15:03, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Ditto. I'd make sure you read the YouTube terms of use before doing this. Additionally - I don't know what level of compression YouTube uses on uploaded audio, but it can't be pretty. [ cycle~ ] (talk), 17:48, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

When I updated my RealPlayer to the latest version, it automatically gave you the option of downloading videos (including YouTube videos). They download in .flv format, but then you can find another process to convert them from .flv to .mp3. Little Red Riding Hoodtalk 00:29, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

I was about to mention the RealPlayer thing too - once the videos are saved to your hard drive you can then "burn to audio disk" which automatically converts them to MP3... If you don't like the sound quality you get from youtube though then you can use a website called "www.file2hd.com"... On that site you copy and paste the http address of the location of the file you want, and it will go to that site and give you a download link for every downloadable file on that site (not including the graphics of the site itself). If you download the link it gives you for the video it will download it at the quality it was made... Use the techniques above to convert it to MP3 then... It does that same job as RealPlayer but is often better quality download that off youtube directly... Gazhiley (talk) 10:30, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

There's also a website called http://www.vixy.net It can turn Youtube videos into either video+audio files or just MP3 audio files.--el Aprel (^facta-_facienda) 21:34, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

Note that downloading and saving copyrighted music from YouTube is illegal, and perhaps more important, it hurts your favorite artists by depriving them of income. --S.dedalus (talk) 22:10, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

true, but if it's on youtube how is that a problem? it's already been released for free public viewing, so how is that illegal? if it was illegal then why would it give you the option to download it? plus 99% of videos on there are loaded with the author's intention of being available for public use - otherwise they'd host it somewhere private and prevent you from downloading it - for example on the itv, C4 and bbc online "catch up" sites you cannot download the files as they are security protected. There would be an option on youtube to protect your upload this way if you didn't want people to save it... Gazhiley (talk) 12:28, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

the FLV format and the iPod MP4 format are interchangeable, FYI. In reality, all you have to do is change the extension. Then you can have the video as well :)  Buffered Input Output 17:10, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Napoléon (1927 film)

Is that movie in the public domain?--Tresckow (talk) 16:30, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

• Not in the US. Anything before 1923 can be in the public domain, but some had their copyright renewed anyway - so even that isn't foolproof. 1927 is simply too late. - Mgm|^(talk) 23:59, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Um, you have it backwards. Well, sideways. If it was from before 1923 it would have to be public domain in the US; from 1927 it could be, depending on whether the copyright was renewed. I have no idea whether it was -- or, for that matter, what country's copyright the original poster is asking about. --Anonymous, 04:45 UTC, December 12, 2008.

kiss

who sang the original kiss ( i want your kiss) tom jones or prince?77.28.50.27 (talk) 16:31, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Prince. --Richardrj ^{talk email} 16:31, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Yes indeed it was Prince. Our article: Kiss (song) also provides information on cover versions. cheers, 10draftsdeep (talk) 16:36, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

some video game

1: it involves a guy named bouapha

2: it involves big red hammers

i cant remember anything else...i had the game on my computer a long time ago (around 1999) and for some reason i can't find the installer for the game. can someone help?  Buffered Input Output 17:42, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Probably either Dr. Lunatic or The Adventures of Bouapha. --LarryMac | Talk 18:11, 11 December 2008 (UTC)