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Excitement builds as All-Stars align in New York
Mets welcome Midsummer Classic back to Queens for first time since 1964
NEW YORK -- For weeks, All-Star managers Jim Leyland and Bruce Bochy stressed over their rosters, trying to find the right mix. Chevrolet Home Run Derby captains Robinson Cano and David Wright made their selections, preparing for a night of free-swinging bluster. The game's elite players wrapped up their stellar first halves, finalizing arrangements to fly to Queens.
With those players now arriving from points around the country, more than a year's worth of planning has culminated in this: the 84th All-Star Game at Citi Field.
"I'm thrilled with the situation now," Leyland said, "because now's the enjoyable part."
The 2013 All-Star Game will take place at Citi Field on Tuesday, with airtime at 7:30 p.m. ET and the game beginning at 8 ET. Visit MLB.com for extensive online coverage of the All-Star Week festivities.
The final phase of All-Star Game voting will again have fans participating in the official voting for the Ted Williams All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award presented by Chevrolet. During the Midsummer Classic, fans will vote exclusively online at MLB.com via the 2013 All-Star Game MLB.com MVP Vote, and their voice will represent 20 percent of the official vote determining the recipient of the Arch Ward Trophy.
This year's game takes place at Citi Field in Queens, a borough that has not seen an All-Star Game in nearly a half-century. Though New York City boasts a rich All-Star tradition, most recently hosting at the old Yankee Stadium in 2008, the Mets held their only Midsummer Classic during Shea Stadium's inaugural 1964 season.
"It makes for pretty good excitement," said Wright, a seven-time All-Star who, along with pitcher Matt Harvey, will play in his home park.
The last time New York hosted the Midsummer Classic, Josh Hamilton put on a show in the Home Run Derby in the Bronx. The American League outlasted the National League in 15 innings the following night, creating one of the most memorable All-Star weeks in recent history.
That was five years ago and the game has changed significantly since then, thanks in large part to a remarkable infusion of young stars. Among those making their All-Star debuts at Citi Field will be Orioles slugger Manny Machado, Giants and D-backs lefties Madison Bumgarner and Patrick Corbin, Rays pitcher Matt Moore, Harvey and others -- all aged 24 or younger. It's a list that does not even include phenoms Mike Trout and Bryce Harper, both of whom will be making their second All-Star appearances.
"It feels good," Trout said. "I'm just happy to be a part of something special. Making the All-Star Game, it feels great."
"I mean it's crazy," Machado said of earning a ticket at such a young age. "It's crazy what I've been through my first year in Major League Baseball."
That's not to say the game is all about youth. Wright, who turned 30 last winter, will headline an NL starting lineup that includes 36-year-old Cardinals outfielder Carlos Beltran, 32-year-old Reds second baseman Brandon Phillips and 31-year-old Cards catcher Yadier Molina. Combined, those four players boast 23 All-Star appearances.
The AL will counter with a mix of young stars and established veterans, including Twins catcher Joe Mauer, Yankees second baseman Cano and Red Sox designated hitter David Ortiz.
The field also includes Orioles breakout star Chris Davis, who is on pace to flirt with 60 home runs, Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw, who will make his third All-Star appearance at age 25, Final Vote winners Steve Delabar of the Blue Jays and Freddie Freeman of the Braves, and so many others.
"Somebody asked me, 'If I told you you would be up for consideration three years ago …' I would have laughed at them," Delabar said. "You just go day by day, and [you] just work hard for the future and hope that all things play out. You never expect something like this to happen."
Now he and others will descend upon Citi Field, which is uniquely suited for the event. In building their new stadium, the Mets drew upon the best elements of parks throughout baseball, from the bridge motif of PNC Park in Pittsburgh, to the right-field overhang of Comerica Park in Detroit, to the vast outfield gaps of Coors Field.
The ballpark also draws heavily from old Ebbets Field in Brooklyn -- particularly with its Jackie Robinson Rotunda -- and incorporates elements from Shea, such as the Home Run Apple in center field and the fluorescent skyline mounted above Shake Shack.
Consider it an All-Star setting for the Midsummer Classic, which should be a spectacle of New York-sized proportions.
"A lot of players don't get the opportunity to participate in one All-Star Game," Wright said. "This year being at home, obviously it's special."


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Maporama International, a French location services company, has partnered with Microsoft to use its Virtual Earth mapping and satellite imagery, the companies said on Thursday.
Maporama's business is focused on location-based services, such as back-end Web server technology to incorporate various mapping features into Web sites, said Ludovic Broquereau, Maporama's vice president for corporate marketing. The company also provides services and creates software incorporating GPS (global position system) data, among other products.
Maporama, a 45-person company founded in 2000, already works with about 30 different mapping providers, Broquereau said. Google's mapping and satellite products were also initially under consideration, but Broquereau said Microsoft's product road map is a better fit for Maporama's needs.
Maporama was also attracted to Microsoft's oblique imagery, which is so far not available with Google, Broquereau said. Microsoft calls the feature "bird's-eye view," so buildings and landscapes can be viewed closer up at a 45-degree angle.
Overall, negotiations with Microsoft were easier than with Google, and Maporama already uses Microsoft's products, Broquereau said.
Virtual Earth will be integrated into Maporama's product line over the next few months, Broquereau said.
One of Maporama's clients is Accor, the European hotel company. As an example, Broquereau said Virtual Earth satellite and oblique imagery could be woven into Accor's Web site as an attractive feature for the site's users.
Maporama did not disclose the financial arrangement with Microsoft.

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TOP 25 CBB CAPSULES: Curry leads No. 1 Duke over Santa Clara
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) -- Seth Curry scored 12 of his season-high 31 points during the late run that helped No. 1 Duke pull away for a 90-77 victory over pesky Santa Clara on Saturday.
Mason Plumlee added 22 points and 13 rebounds for the Blue Devils (12-0), who needed a huge run late to overcome both a big game from Kevin Foster and a real scare from the Broncos (11-3).
Foster scored 18 of his 29 points in the first half, and his soaring baseline dunk put the Broncos up 45-41 with 16:30 left. But the Broncos managed just one field goal over the next 8½ minutes.
Curry hit two 3-pointers and followed with three layups during the Blue Devils' 26-5 run.
Ryan Kelly had 10 points and 11 rebounds, and Quinn Cook finished with 15 points for Duke, which is 12-0 for the 10th time under coach Mike Krzyzewski. The Blue Devils won their 101st straight nonconference game at Cameron Indoor Stadium.
Evan Roquemore added 17 points while Marc Trasolini and Raymond Cowels III had 10 apiece for Santa Clara, which was playing the No. 1 team for just the second time since 1981 and fell to 0-12 all-time against top-ranked opponents.
No. 4 LOUISVILLE 80, KENTUCKY 77
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- Russ Smith scored 21 points and Chane Behanan had 20 and Louisville ended a four-game losing streak to rival Kentucky.
Peyton Siva added 19 points as the Cardinals (12-1) won a hard-fought Battle of the Bluegrass. Though the Cardinals trail the series 30-15, their victory followed last spring's 69-61 national semifinal loss to the Wildcats, who went on to win their eighth national championship.
The Wildcats (8-4) trailed 51-34 but outscored the Cardinals 28-14 to get within 65-62 before Smith's two baskets keyed an 8-5 run to give Louisville some space.
Behanan sealed Louisville's win with late two dunks, the final one following his steal of a pass by Archie Goodwin with 18 seconds remaining.
Goodwin scored 19 of his 22 points in the second half for Kentucky and Ryan Harrow added 17 points.
Poor foul shooting doomed the Wildcats' comeback. They shot just 11 of 23 (48 percent) from the line, matching their percentage from the field.
No. 6 KANSAS 89, AMERICAN 57
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) -- Travis Releford scored 19 points and Kansas hit a scorching 13 of its first 18 3-point attempts, rolling to a victory over American.
Kansas (11-1) took command with a 21-4 spree in the opening minutes and wound up with six players scoring at least nine points against the outmanned Eagles (4-9). Releford was 7 for 8 from the floor, including 5 of 6 3-pointers. Elijah Johnson had 12 points and was 4 for 5 from behind the arc as the Jayhawks finished with 15-for-24 3-point shooting.
Freshman Perry Ellis had 11 points and 10 rebounds for his first double-double.
Stephen Lumpkins had 16 points and six rebounds for the Eagles.
No. 9 SYRACUSE 57, ALCORN STATE 36
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) -- C.J. Fair scored 13 points, Trevor Cooney added 12, all in the second half to key a late surge, and Syracuse beat Alcorn State in the final game of the Gotham Classic.
It was the 901st win for Orange coach Jim Boeheim, one behind Bob Knight for second place all-time among Division I men's coaches. Duke's Mike Krzyzewski leads with 939 wins.
Syracuse (11-1), coming off an 83-79 loss to Temple at Madison Square Garden a week ago, increased its home winning streak to 31 games, longest in the nation. Alcorn State (2-13), which was late arriving because of the weather, dropped to 0-9 on the road in losing its ninth straight.
Marquiz Baker, who had averaged 25.7 in three games since returning from a knee injury that had sidelined him since November of 2011, finished with 15 points to lead the Braves.
No. 10 OHIO ST. 87, CHICAGO ST. 44
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Deshaun Thomas scored 17 points and Ohio State regained its shooting touch in its final tuneup before beginning Big Ten play.
LaQuinton Ross added 15 points, Lenzelle Smith Jr. had 13, Amedeo Della Valle had career-high 11 and Aaron Craft scored 10 for the Buckeyes (10-2), who complete an eight-game homestand when they host Nebraska in the conference opener on Wednesday.
The Buckeyes hit 33 of 58 shots from the field (57 percent).
Quinton Pippen, a nephew of ex-Chicago Bulls star Scottie Pippen, had 12 points for Chicago State (3-12), which fell to 0-11 away from home with its fourth straight defeat.
Tuckeyes opened the second half by making their first four attempts from the field. A 10-2 blitz at the outset of the second half swelled the lead to 47-26. The Cougars never got closer than 17 points again.
No. 12 ILLINOIS 81, AUBURN 79
CHICAGO (AP) -- Tracy Abrams scored a career-high 27 points for Illinois.
The Illini (13-1) saw an 11-point lead shrink to one in the closing minutes but they prevailed after falling to Missouri in the Braggin' Rights game a week earlier -- their first loss under coach John Groce.
Frankie Sullivan buried a 3 for Auburn (5-7) to make it 68-67 with 4:29 remaining. Illinois then hit 13 of 18 free throws the rest of the way for a rare win at the United Center, where they had dropped three straight and five of six after winning 18 in a row.
Abrams, a sophomore guard, was 6 of 11 from the field and 13 of 15 from the free throw line while eclipsing his previous high by five points.
Brandon Paul finished with 13 points for Illinois but was just 3 of 12 from the field and missed all five 3-point attempts.
Sullivan led Auburn with 21 points. Rob Chubb scored 13, and Allen Payne chipped in with 10 points and 10 rebounds, but the Tigers dropped their second straight.
No. 14 FLORIDA 78, AIR FORCE 61
SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) -- Kenny Boynton snapped a shooting slump with three 3-pointers in the second half when Florida pulled away.
Boynton had made only 4 of 32 from 3-point range over the previous five games, but he hit three in a span of 8 minutes to break the game open. The Gators used their superior size and smothering defense to grind down the Falcons, who shot 48 percent in the first half and 33 percent in the second half.
Florida (9-2) won for only the second time in the past four games. Air Force (8-3) fell to 2-77 against ranked teams.
Boynton, who ranks third in career 3-pointers made at Florida with 282, went 3 for 7 from long range and scored 14 points.
Erik Murphy of Florida scored 21 points, had seven rebounds and added four assists while missing only two shots in 29 minutes. He was chosen the game's MVP.
The Falcons matched the second-best start in school history in their first 10 games but hadn't faced a team of Florida's caliber. Air Force's Michael Lyons was held to 11 points, nine below his average, and he shot only 3 for 14.
No. 16 CREIGHTON 87, EVANSVILLE 70
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- Doug McDermott scored 14 of his 29 points in a 6½-minute stretch of the second half when Creighton pulled away from Evansville.
Gregory Echenique had 13 points and 13 rebounds, Jahenns Manigat added 13 points, and Avery Dingman had 11 for the Bluejays (12-1), who won their Missouri Valley Conference opener.
McDermott, the Bluejays' returning All-American, also had 10 rebounds for his second double-double of the season.
Colt Ryan, who scored an arena-record 43 points in his last visit, matched his season high with 25 for the Purple Aces (7-6, 0-1). Troy Taylor added 10 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists for Evansville, which has lost 14 straight in Omaha since 1999.
Evansville cut a 17-point deficit to seven early in the second half. McDermott wasn't much of a factor as he went scoreless during a span of 10:32 over the halves.
No. 18 BUTLER 68, VANDERBILT 49
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Rotnei Clarke hit six 3-pointers and finished with 22 points and the Butler Bulldogs shook off a sluggish start and routed Vanderbilt for their seventh straight victory.
The Bulldogs (10-2) missed their first seven 3-pointers and led only 25-22 at halftime before taking control of the game with a 14-3 run to open the second half.
Clarke, who missed his first six shots, had another memorable game in Memorial Gym. He scored 36 points in January 2011 playing for Arkansas, hitting 6-of-8 beyond the arc in that game.
This time around, the senior guard hit 6-of-9 from 3-point range before Butler coach Brad Stevens starting pulling his starters. Kellen Dunham added 12 points.
Kyle Fuller led Vanderbilt with 10 points. Kedren Johnson finished with nine, well below his average of 17.8 points and didn't score until nearly three minutes into the second half.
NORTH CAROLINA 79, No. 20 UNLV 73
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) -- P.J. Hairston scored 15 points in his first career start for North Carolina.
Dexter Strickland added a season-high 16 points for the Tar Heels (10-3), who led by 15 points in the first half and by nine at the break. But UNC had to turn away a second-half surge by the Runnin' Rebels (11-2) to earn the program's 63rd straight home win against nonconference opponents.
Freshman Anthony Bennett had 15 points and 13 rebounds for UNLV, which led by a point briefly in the second half but spent most of the game in catch-up mode. Katin Reinhardt and Anthony Marshall each added 15 points for the Runnin' Rebels, who also got Mike Moser back from an elbow injury after a four-game absence.
Hairston started in place of Reggie Bullock, who sat out with a mild concussion suffered in Thursday's practice, and finished 5 for 10 from the field and hit two 3-pointers. He made two free throws with 28.5 seconds left after the Runnin' Rebels had closed within 76-73.
No. 23 NORTH CAROLINA ST. 84, W. MICHIGAN 68
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- C.J. Leslie scored 19 points to lead North Carolina State.
Richard Howell added 18 points on 8-of-8 shooting for the Wolfpack (10-2), who won their sixth consecutive game.
N.C. State shot 55 percent from the field, padding its NCAA-leading field goal percentage.
T.J. Warren scored 15 points, Scott Wood had 11 and Lorenzo Brown added 10 for the Wolfpack.
Nate Hutcheson scored 16 points to lead the Broncos (8-5). Shayne Whittington added 14 points and Darius Paul had 12 for Western Michigan.
No. 25 KANSAS STATE 52, MISSOURI-KANSAS CITY 44
MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) -- Rodney McGruder scored 17 points, Thomas Gipson had 13 points and six rebounds and Kansas State struggled to a victory over Missouri-Kansas City.
Playing without guards Angel Rodriguez and Martavious Irving due to injuries, the Wildcats (10-2) shot just 32 percent from the field and went 2 of 10 from beyond the arc in their first game since beating then-No. 8 Florida on a neutral floor.
They certainly looked nothing like the team that beat the Gators last weekend.
Fred Chatmon had nine points and 16 rebounds for the 'Roos (4-9), who were within 40-36 with 3:11 remaining before Nino Williams' three-point play gave the Wildcats some breathing room.
McGruder's soft floater in the lane moments later helped put the game away.


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Bond funds took a big leap in September, with two tracking firms reporting heavy gains in flows for the fixed-income sector.
Bond funds gained another $32 billion, and were projected to amass over $300 billion in net inflows for the full year, exceeding the 2010 and 2011 pace, according to Strategic Insight, a business intelligence provider to the fund industry.
Morningstar reported similar figures, noting investors added $16.5 billion to long-term open-end funds, as inflows of $29.9 billion into taxable-bond funds overcame redemptions of $16.8 billion from U.S.-stock funds.
"The largest fixed-income category, intermediate-term bond, collected new assets of more than $13.2 billion, bolstered by inflows of $2.8 billion for PIMCO funds and more than $1.4 billion for DoubleLine," the Chicago-based research firm said Thursday.
Strategic Insight added that mutual fund investors, already adding more than $1 trillion to their bond fund holdings since the 2008 crisis, continued to search for income and safety in bond funds during September.
"Investors in stock funds remained cautious, despite stock markets double-digit returns so far in 2012," according to the company. "Equity fund shareholders are taking some of their recent profits 'of the table,' as stock fund redemptions during September were at the highest monthly level this year, climbing to $17 billion."
"Insatiable demand for income and a lingering, semi-permanent state of investment anxiety continue to drive the choices for most mutual fund investors," Avi Nachmany, Strategic Insight's Director of Research, said in a statement. "We anticipate recent investors' preference to persist in the coming months, but that a slow rotation towards stock funds may emerge in 2013."
The Morningstar report noted that September was the 17th consecutive month of outflows for U.S. stock funds and "further evidence of investors' preference for the perceived safety of fixed income over equities."
The Morningstar report also found:
- Following the Fed's announcement that it will keep short-term rates near zero through mid-2015, investors revealed a willingness to take on risk within fixed income. Riskier categories such as emerging-markets bond, high-yield bond, and bank-loan each saw inflows of approximately $2 billion during the month.
- Within equities, nearly every category saw outflows, led by large-growth with redemptions of $5 billion. While open-end equity mutual funds lost assets of $16.8 billion, nearly an equal amount flowed into equity exchange-traded funds.
- Dividend-focused funds have attracted $17.3 billion in assets this year, even as U.S.-stock funds lost $82.6 billion overall.


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Teddi Lip Sync Battle
The Teddi Dance for Love Committee invites faculty and staff to take part in their Lip Sync Battle!
Date: October 7, 2019 - October 7, 2019
Time: 6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Location: Campus Center Mainstage
Hosted by the Teddi Dance for Love Committee
All funds raised will go benefit Camp Good Days and Special Times. Participate in a battle or come watch! Tickets are $3.
To perform, fill out the Goggle sheet, noting your name and the song you would like to sing: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18vpktViusdB-4m7AmOOMflJO60lLtZ3zvbGhf6K_4ZY/edit?usp=sharing


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This was shot by the guys from Akihabara News on a Digital SLR Camera, namely the Canon 5D Mark II. It looks nothing short of amazing.
It really conveys the feeling of living in Tokyo.
I kind of miss my video camera that I decided to bring back home last time. Recently I'd be toying with the idea of getting a HD camera that was smaller than the one I have, and being able to edit them on my mac. I read a lot about the AVCHD digital format used for the latest line of camcorders.
From what I read, it seems like you need some pretty high-end, powerful gear in order to edit videos which feels like a hassle.
An alternative to all this is the Nikon D90 DSLR which being a step up from the D80 also includes a movie mode! In essence I'd be able to do cinematic HD filming on a camera, and I'd finally be able to auto-focus with my fisheye as well as other older lenses my D40x can't focus with. Imagine, fisheye movies!
The only small drawbacks are manual focusing movies, and a sensor-imposed 5 minute limit (at full resolution). Oh, and mono sound, but that's not a biggie. I had a play with it in Yodobashi. It was quite fun.
So in a nutshell, if I get this camera I should be able to do videos similar to the one at the start of this post. Cool huh?
So where was I? In less than a week I am back in Akihabara. I arrived quite late and didn't manage my time so well. I bought a lens so whoever gets my D40x can use it, with a lens. I bought a cheap but good, 18-55mm for 7,480 yen.
My plan was to run to the best priced place to get a D90 (for 73,500 yen), but I was too late. Looks like if I want to get this I'll have to go ONCE more to Akky. Sigh.
It wasn't the only thing I got. Oh no.
I got a Powerbank battery pack (4400 Mah) that I can use on my iPod, iPhone, Nintendo DS, and even the old Windows phone too when they run out of juice.
Battery life ain't that great on 3G, so this'll be useful. I got it from here, but be aware, I got the last one left.
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As I blogged a few weeks ago, we have stopped the ability for one process to look at another processes memory even if they have same UID, with the deny_ptrace feature.
But today I want to talk about PrivateTmp. One of my goals over the years has been to stop system services from using /tmp.
I blogged about this back in 2007. Any time I have found out a daemon was using /tmp, I tried to convince the packager to move the content to /run directory if it was temporary or /var/lib if it was permanent.
Over the years there have been several vulnerabilities (CVEs) about this. For example:
CVE-2011-2722, which covered a case where hplib actually included code like.
fp = fopen ("/tmp/hpcupsfax.out", "w"); // <- VULN
system ("chmod 666 /tmp/hpcupsfax.out"); // <- "
Meaning if you setup a machine running cups daemon, a bad user or a application that a user ran could attack your system.
I have convinced a lot of packages to stop using /tmp, but I can't get them all and in some cases services like Apache, need to use /tmp. Apache runs lots of other packages that might store content in /tmp.
Well systemd has added lots of new security features (more on these later).
PrivateTmp, which showed up in Fedora 16, is an option in systemd unit configuration files.
> man system.unit ... A unit configuration file encodes information about a service, a socket, a device, a mount point, an automount point, a swap file or partition, a start-up target, a file system path or a timer controlled and supervised by systemd(1).
> man systemd.exec
systemd.exec - systemd execution environment configuration
systemd.service, systemd.socket, systemd.mount, systemd.swap
Unit configuration files for services, sockets, mount points and swap devices share a subset of configuration
options which define the execution environment of spawned processes.
Takes a boolean argument. If true sets up a new file system namespace for the executed processes and mounts a
private /tmp directory inside it, that is not shared by processes outside of the namespace. This is useful to secure
access to temporary files of the process, but makes sharing between processes via /tmp impossible.
Defaults to false.
PrivateTmp causes systemd to do the following any time it starts a service with this option turned on: Allocate a private "tmp" directory Create a new file system namespace Bind mount this private "tmp" directory within the namespace over /tmp Start the service. This means that processes running with this flag would see a different and unique /tmp from the one users and other daemons sees or can access. Note: We have found bugs using PrivateTmp in Fedora 16, so make sure you test this well before turning it on in Production. For Fedora 17, I opened a feature page that requested all daemons that were using systemd unit files and /tmp to turn this feature on by default. Apache and Cups now have PrivateTmp turned on by default in Fedora 17, along will several other daemons. Giving three options as a Developer of System Service, I still believe that you should not use /tmp, you should use /run or /var/lib. But if you have to use /tmp and do not communicate with other users then use PrivateTmp. If you need to communicate with users be careful...


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Bob Crane
There's more than enough blame to explain why the 1978 murder of Bob Crane goes unsolved.
The 1978 murder of Bob Crane, the likable actor who played Col. Robert Hogan in "Hogan's Heroes," goes unsolved. The truth behind his murder is lost in a web of lies, ineptitude, and downright carelessness. Who's to blame? The Arizona Department of Safety, charged with examining the evidence? The Scottsdale Police Department? The Maricopa County District Attorney's Office? There's more than enough blame to go around.
Sex, Lies & Videotape
Bob Crane was 49 when he was found bludgeoned to death in his Scottsdale apartment on the morning of June 29. Though he spent years searching for stardom, Crane's rise to notoriety as the charming, clever and always funny Col. Hogan was not an overnight success. He spent years playing bit parts in small theaters in the Los Angeles area. He made a living as a disc jockey for KNX in Los Angeles from 1956 until he caught his major break in 1965 when he was cast into the new television sitcom that propelled him into the spotlight and made him an international star.
Behind Crane's dimpled grin and wise cracking persona lay a darker side. He was obsessed with sex, cameras, and videos. He had countless extramarital affairs, taking hundreds of photographs of his escapades with women. When Crane traveled, he took his cameras with him. He developed his own film and photographs, and he didn't hesitate to show them to his friends.
Being a television star enhanced Crane's ability to pick up women. But his success in television didn't last long. After a six-year run, "Hogan's Heroes" was cancelled in 1971. And though Crane next launched his own series titled, "The Bob Crane Show," it was a short-lived attempt that lasted only 14 episodes before being cancelled. His decline into obscurity was as abrupt as his rise to stardom, forcing the middle-aged actor to resort to performing at dinner theaters to pay the bills. Days before his murder, Crane told a Phoenix radio station, "Since we stopped filming ("Hogan's Heroes"), I don't think I've been in the right place at the right time."
In June 1978, Crane's play, Beginner's Luck came to Scottsdale. He took an apartment at Winfield Place Apartments on East Chaparral, using the bathroom for his makeshift darkroom. Hundreds of women posed for Crane, and some even agreed to allow him to videotape their sexual encounters. But many did not. Crane spent hours editing thousands of feet of videotape, and on the day of his murder, negatives of nude women sat waiting to be developed. Propped on the back of the toilet in his apartment's bathroom was a photo enhancer.
A ladies man, Crane had only a few male friends. His proclivity for flings and sex proved devastating to his first wife, Ann Terzian, Crane's high school sweetheart. Though they had three children together, the couple divorced in 1970. He turned around and married Patti Olsen, who used the stage name Sigrid Valdis. Olsen played the part of Hilda on "Hogan's Heroes." But his affairs continued. Olsen filed for divorce six months prior to Crane's murder, but subsequently reconciled according to Crane's son Scotty Crane, who was interviewed in connection with this article. According to police reports, Crane had "personal encounters" with at least eight women in the last three weeks of his life. But while Crane's charisma and magic with women gave him the attention and sex he craved, it quite possibly also brought about his violent demise.
The Crime Scene
Crane's co-star in Beginner's Luck, Victoria Berry, knocked on Crane's door at around 2 in the afternoon of June 29. The door to apartment 132-A was closed, but Berry told police that she found it unlocked. She entered the apartment and found the room dark. She walked into the bedroom: "… At first, I thought it was a girl with long dark hair, because all the blood had turned real dark. I thought, 'Oh, Bob's got a girl here. Now where's Bob?…' I thought, 'Well, she's done something to herself. Bob has gone to get help.' At that time, I recognized blood… it was like a strange feeling."
She took a closer look and realized what she was looking at. "…the whole wall was covered from one end to the other with blood. And I just sort of stood there and I was numb. He was curled up in a fetus position, on his side, and he had a cord tied around his neck in a bow." Oddly, Berry is the only one who recalled seeing the cord tied in a bow. The crime scene photos and police reports reveal no bow.
No physical signs of a struggle were apparent, and a later autopsy determined that Crane had been asleep when the fatal blow to the left side of his head was struck. The police investigation determined that two separate parts of a camera tripod struck Crane's head, inflicting two separate wounds. Paulette Kasieta, the first Scottsdale police officer to arrive on the scene, immediately secured the area. At approximately 3 p.m., Scottsdale's Police Lt. Ron Dean arrived at the apartment and took over.
The initial suspect in the case was Crane's long-time friend John Carpenter. He and Crane were introduced by another star of "Hogan's Heroes", Richard Dawson. The two men shared a common passion: women. They both enjoyed chasing and sleeping with any woman who showed the least amount of interest. But more often than not, Carpenter was relegated to Crane's leftovers since, due to Crane's popularity and legendary charm, there were plenty of women to go around. In return, Carpenter showed Crane how to operate the most up-to-date video equipment.
On the evening before Crane's murder, Carpenter sat with Victoria Berry at the Windmill Dinner Theatre while she wasn't onstage. Berry claims that after the show, she saw Crane and Carpenter walk together to Crane's car, where Crane called to her to not forget "their appointment" the following day.
While Berry wrote out her statement in the kitchen of Crane's apartment at around 3:15 p.m., the phone rang. Lt. Dean told her to answer the phone but not to say anything about Crane. John Carpenter was calling from Los Angeles. The police lieutenant took the phone, identified himself, and told Carpenter that the police were at Crane's apartment investigating "an incident."
Carpenter told Dean he had been out with Crane until around 1 a.m. but later changed the time to 2:45 a.m. He then said he'd driven by himself to the airport later in the morning for his return flight to Los Angeles.
Carpenter called Crane's apartment again at 3:30. Dean said later that he found it strange that Carpenter had not asked him why the police were in Crane's apartment or where Crane was.
In 1978, the Scottsdale Police Department did not have a homicide unit. Dean's chief case officer, Dennis Borkenhagen, commenced the investigation at the apartment. He concluded that nothing of value had been taken. He observed some blood on the inside of the front door, but found no indication of forced entry. The glass door leading from Crane's apartment to the swimming pool outside was unlocked.
Later that day the police interviewed some of Crane's colleagues and friends, discovering that though Crane was personable, charming, and fun to be around, he had made enemies. There was also a fellow actor who had argued with Crane in Texas and later had sworn vengeance. And, inevitably and unsurprising, given Crane's reputation with the ladies, there were numerous angry husbands and boyfriends.
Still, Carpenter remained the prime suspect. Some who had been interviewed claimed that Crane's relationship to Carpenter had begun to show some strain, though actual evidence of any rift was not readily available. Any physical evidence that might have tied Carpenter to the crime was also scarce, as was the motive that would have compelled him to murder his best friend. But the possibility of a loan and one bit of compelling evidence, however slim, seemed to point to Carpenter.
Rumors flourished that Carpenter had borrowed $15,000 from Crane. Crane may have been demanding repayment. Perhaps even more compelling, the police discovered a small blood smear on the passenger side door of Carpenter's rented vehicle. Carpenter had complained about a problem with the electrical wiring with the car and it had been sent for repairs at the Phoenix dealership. Scottsdale Det. Darwin Barrie inspected the vehicle and claims to have noticed a small amount of dried blood in the interior. His commanding officer, Dean, ordered the car towed to the DPI compound in Phoenix. The car was examined and photographed by criminologist Bruce Bergstrom of the Arizona Department of Public Safety. Bergstrom's job was to find and process any blood or tissue evidence found in the car. And it was there that the investigation phase of the case began to fall apart even before it really got started
The blood in Carpenter's rental car was tested and determined to be Type B -- the same blood type as Crane. Carpenter had the far more common Type A blood. Type B is found in only slightly more than 10 percent of the population. Though its presence in Carpenter's car was suspicious, the police, in these pre-DNA testing days, had no way of positively identifying the blood as Crane's.
The Suspect
Carpenter was an expert in the then-growing video-technology industry. In the mid-1960s, he was one of Sony's first American-based sales reps. At the time of his friendship with Crane, Carpenter was also what could loosely be termed a sex addict, and one who taught Crane about how to use video cameras to record his sexual escapades.
After Carpenter was informed that he was a preliminary suspect in Crane's murder, he voluntarily returned to Scottsdale to answer questions. He declined to contact an attorney and told police that he had arrived in Phoenix on June 25 to visit Crane, something he often did during the course of their 10-year friendship. Carpenter said Crane picked him up at the Sky Harbor Airport that day and drove him to the Sunburst Hotel where Carpenter was staying. After Crane was through with his evening performances at the Windmill Dinner Theatre, they hit the town.
Carpenter's last evening in town was June 28. Because Crane's car had a flat tire, the two drove to a gas station to have it repaired. Afterward, they returned to Crane's apartment, where Crane engaged in a phone argument with his estranged wife. Upset by the phone call, Crane hit the town early and before midnight the two drove in Crane's car to a Phoenix disco called Bogart's. There the men met two sisters, Carole and Christi Newell. Though Crane wasn't particularly interested, Carpenter hooked up with Newell while Crane called another woman, Carolyn Baare, a woman he'd met some time earlier in the Valley. They all agreed to meet at the Safari Coffee Shop in Scottsdale for an early breakfast and said their good-byes at around 2 a.m. June 29. Crane went home alone, though he made plans to meet Baare for lunch the following day. Carpenter drove off with Newell, but failed to entice her to stay with him in his room. He told the police that he ended up driving her home at around 3 a.m. According to the coroner's report, Crane was killed sometime between 3 a.m. and 8 a.m., but closer to the 3 a.m. time. Carpenter stated that after he returned to his hotel, he called Crane to find out if he had "scored" with Carolyn Newell. Crane said no, that he was in the process of editing the swear words out of a movie so his son could watch it. Carpenter then told Crane he would get his own transportation to the airport later in the morning.
Records show that Carpenter left the Sunburst Hotel at 8:24 that morning and turned in a Cordoba at an Avis counter in the hotel, along with the complaint about the electrical wiring. He then stated that he took a cab to Sky Harbor Airport and caught his flight to Los Angeles.
In 1978, Carpenter was separated from his wife and lived with a 20-year-old woman from Inglewood, Calif. On the evening of July 1, the day after the blood smear was found in Carpenter's rental car, it was she who answered a knock at Carpenter's door. The visitors were Dean and Borkenhagen from the Scottsdale Police Department. Carpenter wasn't home but happened to call moments later. He told Dean he was at his mother's house about 70 miles away, but that he would drive back right away and meet with the detectives. When he arrived home, Dean read Carpenter his Miranda rights. At that time, Carpenter told the detective to ask whatever he wanted.
He told the detectives that he had kept the Cordoba locked all the time and had no explanation for the blood found in it. He agreed to fly back to Phoenix the following morning to answer more questions in Scottsdale. On July 2, he returned to Arizona with the two detectives, again waiving his rights to an attorney and agreeing to answer all questions.
According to Dean, he and Borkenhagen wanted to arrest Carpenter then, but Maricopa County Attorney Chuck Hyder declined to authorize the arrest due to lack of evidence and motive.
Errors in Judgment
During his first meeting with the police, Carpenter volunteered to take a lie-detector test, to take a sodium pentothol test and/or to be hypnotized, anything to help police to find Crane's killer. He still hadn't hired an attorney. For obscure reasons, the police department declined to take Carpenter up on his offer to take either a polygraph or a sodium pentothol test. Why didn't they? Fifteen years later, Dean says, "I believe you have to know two or three things more than the bad guy does… we wanted to know a few more things before we put John on the machine." But those elusive facts they were looking for never materialized.
Carpenter returned to his Inglewood apartment, but on July 12 Dean and Borkenhagen returned to speak with him. Again, Carpenter agreed to meet with them at an Inglewood police substation. On the evening of July 14, the previously cordial relationship between Carpenter and the police rapidly deteriorated. The investigators pushed Carpenter for a confession, but he maintained his innocence. The police were forced to release him. It would be the last time they spoke directly to him.
Just days after Crane's death, the usual bane of law enforcement politics developed into a rift between the Scottsdale Police Department and the Maricopa County prosecutors office, which did nothing to aid the resolution of the weak case. County Atty. Hyder antagonized the Scottsdale police by suggesting that a more experienced agency aid them in their investigation.
As it turned out, Hyder may have been making a legitimate suggestion. The Scottsdale police proceeded to contaminate what physical evidence there was by tossing all of it indiscriminately into about 10 boxes in the property room. It is doubtful any of that tainted evidence would have been admitted at trial.
Chasing Tails
Nothing happened with the case until three years later, in 1981. The Scottsdale Police Department and the county prosecutor's office, under new County Atty. Tom Collins, took another look at the case. Collins had run a successful campaign to take Hyder's seat the previous November by promising Scottsdale voters that he would "take a new look at the Crane murder." Though they remain unnamed, there were some Scottsdale police officers who were still frustrated and angry that previous County Atty. Hyder never pressed charges against their prime suspect, Carpenter, compelling them to cast their votes with Collins. True to his word, Collins paired Chris Bingham from the Scottsdale Police Department with Ron Little from the prosecutor's office and told them to reinvestigate the case. While the end result never changed, something curious did come to light.
Twenty-one color photos had been taken of Carpenter's rental car in 1978, one of them being a photograph of a speck of tissue on the inside passenger-door panel of the rental car, yet neither Bingham nor Little mentioned the "speck" photo in the separately written reports each filed. Why didn't the 1978 original police reports mention the photograph of the speck of tissue? And what happened to the negatives of the photographs taken of Carpenter's rental car? And why and how could such a photograph been overlooked in the first place? Still, by June of that year, both the police department and the county attorney agreed that there wasn't enough evidence to compel Collins to file charges.
As the years passed, the Scottsdale Police Department occasionally reviewed the Crane case, but even as great strides in forensic science were made, there was still not enough evidence to point the positive finger of guilt at someone.In 1990, with the possibility of DNA determination, the 11 ½-year-old blood sample was sent to a private laboratory in Maryland for testing, but it was determined there wasn't enough material to test.
Scottsdale Police Cap. Page Decker, the latest to head up the investigation, was convinced Carpenter was the guilty party, but both Hyder and Collins had declined to prosecute him. The Maricopa County attorney at the time, Richard Romley, formed a committee to again look at the case in early 1990. During the same year, Jim Raines, heretofore a homicide detective with the Phoenix Police Department, went to work as a county investigator for the County Attorney's Office. His first assignment:
Find enough evidence to bring Crane's murderer to trial. Days later, he opened a box labeled "Crane Homicide" and removed the original police reports, newspaper clippings and the 21 photos – including the "speck" photo that no one seemed to have noticed earlier. He took that particular photo to the Maricopa County chief medical examiner, Dr. Heinz Karnitschnig, who stated that the tissue speck "was consistent with human adipose tissue, or fat." Unfortunately, several issues stood in the way of presenting this new evidence:
- The Arizona Department of Public Safety did not have the tissue.
- The DPS couldn't find any written record of the tissue speck found on the inside of the passenger door.
- The DPS didn't have the 21 negatives of the original car photos, leading some to reiterate that the tissue speck photo had been fabricated.
- In 1988, the DPS had destroyed its reports on the murder.
Doug Ferguson, who worked at the DPS in 1978, was now working at the Phoenix Police Department. In his first interview in 1990, he said he only recalled "seeing the blood marks on the inside of Carpenter's passenger door." He said he then called DPS criminalist Bergstrom. Bergstrom, he claims, told him to remove the door panel for analysis. Ferguson also said that up until that time that anything found on the door should have been placed in a vial before the door panel was removed and sent to the lab. At the time of the interview, Ferguson said a man named Janik had taken the car photos. Janik, who then worked for the Tempe police, said he didn't, though he could have held the ruler used in the photos. Janik "vaguely" recalled someone placing a tissue speck in a vial.
When retired DPS criminalist Bergstrom was interviewed in 1990, he said he had been "quite certain" the photos and fingerprinting had been finished before he took the door panel to the lab. None of these men made any mention of the tissue speck in their notes. Later, Ferguson stated that he called Jim Raines and said Raines remembered that he had taken the photos.
Two pathologists testified that the tissue speck would have stayed moist for only hours in the June heat before it began to deteriorate. But the police report states that the photos taken of Carpenter's rental car were taken more than a day after he had turned it in. Dean says he never saw the "speck" photo, only three or four photos of Carpenter's car. The tad of tissue, according to the "new" photo, was still sticking to the door panel.
Also in late 1990, Dr. Vincent DiMaio, chief medical examiner for Bexar County, Tex., had looked at the "speck" photo, Crane's autopsy slides and photos, and then the sides of what Dr. Karnitschnig had already said was human tissue that was found on a pillowcase near Crane's smashed head. DiMaio also concluded that the speck was '
"most probably blood-encrusted brain…" though he couldn't rule out "subcutaneous tissue, such as was found on the pillow." Next, Dr. Patricia McFeeley, at the time chief medical examiner for New Mexico, looked at the photo. She decided the speck was "a piece of human tissue…" but could not say so with absolute certainty without serologic tests or a microscopic examination.
To further complicate matters, Carpenter's defense team, which was kept abreast of the on-going investigation, did know of at least one other man who could have had a motive for killing Crane. His name: Alan Wells… the business manager, boyfriend and husband-to-be of Victoria Berry. The defense team stated that Wells was driving a white Cadillac in 1978. Police never interviewed Wells, but one of the witnesses said Wells was not the man he had seen around Crane's apartment in '78 anyway.
Still, the police seemed inclined to dismiss other possibilities as well. For example, in 1990, investigators interviewed a man who clams to have seen a man leaving Crane's apartment on the morning of June 29, 1978. The man was not Carpenter. Two other witnesses told police that they saw a man drive away from Crane's apartment in a white Cadillac. The investigators did not follow up in either case.
The Arrest
In 1992, Rick Romley was in the process of running for reelection as county attorney. Perhaps worried that he might lose his position, he decided to show the public that unsolved murders would not be permitted within his jurisdiction. In the spring of 1992, Maricopa County Prosecutor Myrna Parker was certain she had enough evidence to proceed against Carpenter, though that evidence was microscopic. Romley and Parker decided to go after Carpenter. But in April, 12 years after the murder, they encountered a major detour when Ferguson told investigators that he -- not Raines -- had taken the tissue speck photo. In pursuing this false revelation, the investigators also found out that Ferguson had lied to the police about his working the Crane case. Both in 1978 and 1990, Ferguson was to have compared Carpenter's fingerprints to all others found in the Crane apartment and the rental car. On both occasions, Ferguson had failed to complete the task but lied and said he had. After the information was revealed, he was forced to resign from the Phoenix Police Department. Though Ferguson shattered his credibility as a key prosecution witness in the case, Parker was convinced she could still win a case against Carpenter.
On June 1, 1992, Parker filed a direct complaint against Carpenter instead of taking the more normal route of sending the case to a county grand jury. At Carpenter's preliminary hearing, the testimony was focused on the critical tissue speck photo. But the prosecution team's love affair with that particular photo actually damaged its case in several ways. At the preliminary hearing:
- Ex-DPS investigator Bergstrom repeated that he had examined the door panel of Carpenter's car and had not seen tissue or brain matter. He stressed that he had examined the car panel with a microscope and magnifying glass and hadn't seen any tissue.
- Doug Ferguson insisted he had taken 21 photos of the car, "about 2 weeks" after the murder, not the 36 hours that the police records indicated.
- Ferguson then said he couldn't remember taking the tissue speck photo, though he did recall taking some photos of blood on the door panel.
- Ferguson then stated that he had stored the photos in his locker at the DPS for at least five years. He didn't say how they'd gotten to Scottsdale and the County Attorney's Office, nor could he explain the missing negatives.
As these revelations unfolded at the month-long preliminary hearing, Superior Court Judge Gregory Martin was irritated with the prosecution's handling and presentation of the case. Judge Martin cited "sloppy work" by the police department, in addition to mishandling, misplacing and destroying evidence (including the critical speck of brain tissue the prosecutor claimed to have). The defense had done well enough for itself that many speculated that Judge Martin would dismiss the case. But, as Judge Martin stated, "…it would not be appropriate to comment on whether the evidence as presented at this hearing would be sufficient to…convict beyond a reasonable doubt." Loosely translated, one can see how close the judge was to throwing out the case. Despite his misgivings, and despite the fact that much of the testimony that had been presented before him exposed evidence of law enforcement misconduct, the judge inexplicably concluded the preliminary hearing by ruling that a jury "should decide the merits of the new evidence. …this case boils down to the blood and tissue-speck photo." Martin ordered Carpenter held over for trial on March 11, 1993 on a charge of first-degree murder.
Carpenter was formally arrested in Los Angeles for Bob Crane's murder. Maricopa County Prosecutor Parker arrived at the Los Angeles Municipal Courthouse and said, "We have medical experts who will testify to what was found in the (Carpenter's) car," while her boss, Maricopa County Atty. Romley spoke of "new" evidence in the case. He told "Good Morning America" that "brain tissue had also been found in (Carpenter's) rental car."
Between the preliminary hearing and the trial, several incidents took place that should have served as a red flag for the prosecutors preparing for trial.
- In July of 1993, Jim Raines stated in an internal report that Bergstrom suddenly recalled "observing the tissue from the Cordoba door panel in a test tube at the Department of Public Safety in 1978 – but claims that he made no mention of it because he didn't realize the importance of the tissue at the time.
- Former Department of Public Safety technician, Doug Ferguson, stated he had taken the photos of Carpenter's car in 1978, but didn't recall the tissue speck. In addition, two other criminalists from the DPS say they never saw a speck of tissue either.
- In two of the photos taken of the tissue speck, the ruler in one did not match the ruler in the other. In addition, the angle in which the ruler was held in each separate photo was different. Because of this discrepancy, there were cries of foul by the defense. Carpenter's defense attorney, Steve Avilla, claimed that someone in the police department had manufactured the story, and due to the ineptness of the on-going investigation, there were many who believed it.
Despite these discrepancies between previous testimony given and what could be expected to be testified to at the upcoming trial, Parker forged ahead.
The Trial
As Carpenter's trial approached, the prosecution team was adrift on a sinking ship. Parker, the eager prosecutor, bailed out by suddenly resigning and moving with her husband to Navaho County. That left K.C. Scull, a chief of Romley's Felony Bureau, to prosecute Carpenter.
The trial lasted weeks, with none of the promised "new" evidence emerging. During the trial, nothing was exposed except the ineptitude of the entire investigation and some of Crane's videos. After so many years, it seemed as if no one really cared. About the only excitement was the day Judge Martin allowed the prosecution to play a video that showed Crane and Carpenter having sex with women in one bed. Though the prosecutors denied charges by the defense that such "evidence" could serve only to prejudice the jury against Carpenter, the prosecutors claimed they showed the video only to display a camera tripod in the background that they contended was the murder weapon.
Oddly enough, Carpenter's trial received little attention, and though one could have expected the courtroom to be crowded, on the morning closing arguments were given, only 15 curious onlookers visited the large courtroom. Deputy prosecutor Robert Shutts gave the closing argument for the state's lame case and said in part, "Cowardly acts committed in the dead of night seldom have any witnesses." How true. And in this case, the person who committed the cowardly act got away with murder. After weeks of testimony, jurors took three days to find Carpenter not guilty.
After the acquittal, Carpenter returned to California, financially ruined and avoided by former friends. He was able to find only part time work at a stereo repair shop. In 1998 and the age of 70, he died of a heart attack.
Bob Crane's murder will probably never be solved. Police, friends and family members have long wondered if an irate husband/boyfriend/lover of one of Crane's many women decided to put an end to Crane's secret hobby. That possibility seems most likely, considering the amount of women involved with Crane. Then again, the Scottsdale Police Department could have been right all along about Carpenter being the killer. He did owe Crane $15,000 and his rental car did have a trace of Crane's rare blood type in it. Carpenter, though, never acted like he was guilty. He was steadfastly forthcoming and available to police, volunteering to undergo a lie-detector or any other type of truth test they wanted to give him.
All that is really known about Crane's murderer is that whoever it was he or she got away with it. Case closed.


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Sarah Michelle Gellar posted this photo of herself with husband Freddie Prinze Jr yesterday on Twitter to celebrate 200,000 followers. Look at his face! That's the Zack Siler expression! It gave me a pang of nostalgia for the 90s. They've been married 12 years now, a Hollywood eternity. And he's happily a "full-time dad...part-time actor".
As you know, it's SMG who works most visibly. Right now it's The Crazy Ones. Which was not on CBS's list of renewals. That doesn't mean it will for sure be cancelled, but it's not great news either. It needs help. If The Crazy Ones doesn't go to season 2, that'll be her second in a row. She needs a win.


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My goodness, the Alba-Warrens are such a gorgeous and sweet family. Cash and Jessica seem like genuinely good hands-on parents.
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The new arrival will join big sister Rumi Joon, 5½.
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Ruby and Otis are so adorable!
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It's been so nice to see Jack Depp bloom into such a handsome young boy! To me he looks like a mixture of Vanessa and Johnny.
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golfnut101 said:Was wondering if you would care to expound further on some comments I thought I read of yours on playing wrong hands as cover and the minimal loss towards your EV this causes. Thanks for all the great threads and helping us rookies along the way !
Renzey said:...., Alex -- Some food for thought. If you have a $50 bet up there and stand with A/7 vs 9 for cover, it costs you an average of $4.50. If you stand with A/7 vs 10, it costs $2.
But if you double down for an extra $2.50 with 12 vs. 2 or 3, it costs 65 cents. Doubling for $5 costs $1.25
Taking random Insurance cover for $2.50 costs 19 cents. Taking it for $5 costs 37 cents.
AlexD30 said:Well, Im not playing at the $5, $10,or even $25 level. My average bet is about $150 per hand and my expectation is around 1.5% over the long run. So, from my $200 hourly income I give back probably $25 per hour for cover. But thats fine with me because I make money while having the most fun one can dream about. In all honesty, I forgot how it feels to have a real job where you perform real work.
By the way Renzey, I enjoyed reading both of your books very much. Extremely valuable advice. I would recommend your books to those who take blackjack seriously though. What I dont agree with is the fact that the counting systems people looking nowadays are to simple and probably less powerful. I see people looking for systems like KO or Red 7 just to avoid true count conversion. Whats the problem with TC? Thats not a big deal. With the system Im using, I have the running count monitoring the insurance for 100% correlation while the true count with side of Aces takes care of betting. It seems to me that people would like to track just a few cards and make money on that alone. Well, This is simply incorrect. This is not my opinion, this is simply incorrect to omit certain cards to avoid working harder but expecting to make money. Is silly to keep track of just a few cards like Aces & 5 or 3456 vs. Tens, because if you are a serious player, you must use all the best tools. People should realize that they figure to win a certain amount per hour in the long run. When we play were coming to work, not at gambling, and we constantly must be playing our best in the hopes that, or in the certainty, actually, that we will win what you are expected to win. So why no using the best? Whats more powerful than 100% insurance correlation? , None! . There is no other strategic play that can give the player an extra 0.35% to 0.45% on top of his edge if hes playing the insurance correctly. That is the move that will cut a big chunk into the dealers BJs.
All the best to you,
AlexD30 said:I would recommend your books to those who take blackjack seriously though.
Andee said:Very stange post Alex. Although the first paragraph sounds alot like your usual egotistical rants where you bore people with how great it is to be you, the next paragraph is a direct contradiction to all your other posts of the past couple of years. You remember like when you totally discounted counting as a way to play blackjack. And then you were trying to sell this supposed system of yours that every experienced player on the board shot holes through until you finally went away. By the way with your other system your top bet never went over $55, I guess you gave up on that system too now that you claim your average bet to be $150.
All I can say is at least for the time being you are realizing counting is the only way to get an advantage. Try to stay the course this time and maybe you'll really get to see what its like to play blackjack with an edge. And please don't bring back your alter ego countfast, he was just an annoying bore. Well I hope this is not just another phase you're going through, because maybe now you can add something to the board beside noise.
Andee said:I just would like to apologize to all the responsible and real members of this board for my posts concerning certain others that I will no longer mention. I realize now that there is no need to point fingers at the elephant in the room. As of now I will just ignore it like the others. Although I do get a certain enjoyment out of getting a rise out of those who deserve it, I understand it doesn't belong on this forum. Again I'm sorry for getting caught up in silly tit for tat disputes on this fine board, and from now on I will stick to all subjects blackjack.
countfast said:The best place to learn this game is live table play.
countfast said:Anyone who has not met a perfect BS player in their entire life at a table is no player.
countfast said:Well spoken..."I estimate that one blackjack player in 500 is a card counter."
-Renzey 8/7/2003 "Hit or Stand"
That's all I have been trying to explain to you "want-to-be-counters" here.
Enjoy your day, -C.F.]:) :) :) :)
ihate17 said:If you asked certain casino bosses or better yet ask people whose business is dependent upon casino paranoia (Alliance/Bally Gaming or Shufflemaster), they will tell you for certain that there is a member of the MIT counting team waiting behind every table waiting for the opportune time to pounce. It is in their best interest to convince casino executives that evil counters are everywhere.
This has nothing to do with cover play, but I just enjoy making a post like this.
jimpenn said:I believe the corporations (owners) purchased MindPlay to maintain some sanity against "free agent hosts" hugh salary demands and pet guests. A woman guest I know very well who is sleeping with a host recently had a five figure marker wiped out in one shoe at the "Dead Kings" Vegas gig. I watched it and she would never even think about splitting 9's verses an 8. She was just around for the ride and the Host set it up. It's a family there and everyone eats but nobody gets fat. Does anyone know a "Super Host" who supported Mindplay? I don't think so. The night before I was playing $25 blackjack with her and she was bitching about losing another dime. It's amazing what an extra room key can get you in Vegas. I'm currently totally comp'd from 12/18-1/1 all the doing of one host. Three top hotels and two of them never received a quarter from me. I did send a half dozen vintage Dom for the Holiday.
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1.Thank God for those who give relief,
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Diamanté & Sterling Line Bracelet by Otis1930s Jewelry, Otis Jewelry, Vintage BraceletsThis Otis sterling bracelet is a lovely example of an Art Deco line bracelet, the forerunner of today's tennis bracelet. It features faceted, square-cut diamanté channel-set in rhodium-plated sterling silver. Engraved edges and a diamanté-embellished fold-over clasp complete the design. The excellent articulation speaks to its high-quality construction, which actually was the same as that used by Wachenheimer Bros. (Read about the companies' connection.) Bracelets in this style (known as flexible bracelets in that era) were all the rage in the 1920s-1930s and were typically worn in multiples. You can see this one paired with other line bracelets in the photos. Although the stones have aged a bit, this jewel still has lots of sparkle. Scroll down to see coordinating pieces.USD$195.00
Diamanté & Sterling Silver Buckle Bracelet by Otis1930s Jewelry, Otis Jewelry, Vintage BraceletsThis silver buckle bracelet features two rows of round diamanté set in sterling. The concealed clasp has a flat, rectangular tongue with a floral-decorated release button in the center; the straight safety-clasp swivels. This style of clasp was used by Wachenheimer Brothers ("WB") late in their production. The back is stamped "3 20 17", the date the patent was issued to them for the way the links are connected. However, even though this bracelet has these WB characteristics, it doesn't have the Diamonbar mark. Some of the components or the entire piece may have been made by WB, but I believe this bracelet was sold by Otis, the company that purchased the equipment and inventory from WB after they went out of business. Read more about the connection between these companies. Scroll down to see a selection of lovely coordinating pieces.USD$295.00USD$295.00
Diamanté 1950s Expansion Bracelet by Schreiber & Hiller1950s Jewelry, Schreiber & Hiller Jewelry, Vintage BraceletsThis expansion bracelet is unlike any you've ever seen! Four rows of rhodium-plated curved-top links set with diamanté stretch to allow you to put on the bracelet – it has no clasp. What's amazing is that the mechanism for stretching the piece – a series of springs – is concealed. The last photo shows part of the British utility patent for this construction. This bracelet is the only piece in this group with the 'SIMEX' trademark. I can't figure out how to tell you the size of this piece other than how it fits me. My wrist is 6 ¾", and the bracelet fits me fine. It stretches to the diameter of the widest part of my hand – 8 ½" – that's required to put it on. Scroll down to see complementary necklaces.USD$395.00USD$395.00
Diamanté 1950s Tank Track Bracelet by Schreiber & Hiller1950s Jewelry, Schreiber & Hiller Jewelry, Vintage BraceletsThis tank-track bracelet features rhodium-plated links in raised settings that the maker called "roof-shaped". The surface of each diamanté link is pointed. The edges are engraved. Unlike others with this pattern, this one has a double row in the center. This lovely bracelet closes with a concealed clasp and safety catch. Pair it with other bracelets and/or a similar necklace by this maker for a great day or evening look.USD$375.00
Diamanté 3-row Honeycomb Bracelet by Schreiber & Hiller1930s Jewelry, Schreiber & Hiller Jewelry, Vintage BraceletsThis German Art Deco honeycomb bracelet has tapered links that are staggered to form the pattern, which is a variation of the tank track. Each rhodium-plated link has channel-set stones: a large diamanté in the center flanked by a smaller one on both sides. This bracelet closes with a concealed clasp and safety catch. Scroll down to see a five-row bracelet in the same pattern, by this maker. Both sparkled on the runway at Toronto Fashion Week for Spring 2019! The model wore them with diamanté 1950s Eisenberg earrings, also shown below.USD$345.00
Diamanté 5-row Honeycomb Bracelet by Schreiber & Hiller1930s Jewelry, Schreiber & Hiller Jewelry, Vintage BraceletsArt Deco fashion jewelry made in the 1930s in Germany was unlike anything produced by North American companies. The foundation of this maker's designs is an oblong link that holds channel-set stones. With this bracelet, they took this concept to another level. These flat, rhodium-plated links with three diamanté form a honeycomb pattern – a variation of the tank track. A large stone is in the center, with a smaller one on each side. This bracelet has five rows; it closes with a concealed clasp and safety catch. Scroll down to see another bracelet by this maker in the same pattern with three rows. Both sparkled on the runway at Toronto Fashion Week for Spring 2019! The model wore them with 1950s diamanté Eisenberg earrings, also shown below.USD$395.00USD$395.00
Diamanté German Flexible Bracelet1930s Jewelry, Unknown (Maker's Mark is Unknown), Vintage BraceletsThis German flexible bracelet features curved, rhodium-plated links with channel-set diamanté. Its design and construction remind me of other pieces made in Germany in the 1930s and 1950. A distinctive element of this one is the use of a small disk between each link. This bracelet is wider and longer than most I've seen from these decades. Although this piece has a maker's mark, I cannot identify the company. Scroll down to see a necklace by the same maker as well as an unsigned one with the same construction.USD$345.00
Diamanté German Chevron Link Bracelet1930s Jewelry, Unsigned Jewelry, Vintage BraceletsThis chevron link bracelet has diamanté channel-set in tapered, curved links. This pattern is quintessential Art Deco. The rhodium-plated setting closes with a concealed clasp and safety catch. The design and construction of this piece remind me of the work of German makers in the 1930s. Although this jewel is unsigned, I think it is one of their creations. This bracelet was made for a slim wrist. Please note its length (6 7/8") and measure your wrist before purchasing this piece. Scroll down to see complementary pieces.USD$345.00
Diamanté Link Bracelet by Schreiber & Hiller1930s Jewelry, Schreiber & Hiller Jewelry, Vintage BraceletsThis link bracelet has three rows of diamanté in the tank-track pattern so popular with this maker and in the 1930s. In this case, the set stones have a flat top. From the side, the links are trapezoid-shaped. The rhodium-plated setting closes with a concealed clasp and safety chain. What a great bracelet to wear on its own or with others from this group. Scroll down to see some suggestions.USD$345.00
Diamanté Link German 1930s Bracelet1930s Jewelry, Unsigned Jewelry, Vintage BraceletsThis diamanté silver bracelet has two rows of long, slender, slightly-curved links of channel-set stones. Each link is trapezoid in shape. A single row of slimmer, short, pointed-top connecting links is in the middle. The setting is rhodium-plated white metal. This bracelet closes with a concealed clasp and safety chain. This piece is unsigned, but it reminds me of the work of the German company Schreiber & Hiller. I think this bracelet was made in the 1930s, but it could have been made around 1950, when German companies were re-emerging after the war. Scroll down to see some complementary pieces.USD$295.00USD$295.00
Diamanté Tank Track German Bracelet1930s Jewelry, Unsigned Jewelry, Vintage BraceletsThis German bracelet features four rows of slightly curved, tapered links channel-set with diamanté. The rhodium-plated setting closes with a concealed clasp and safety catch. Although this piece is unsigned, the tank-track pattern and the bracelet's construction remind me of pieces made by German companies in the 1930s. This bracelet may have been made in the early 1950s, when the German companies were re-establishing themselves after the war. This bracelet was made for a slim wrist. Please note its length (6 7/8") and measure your wrist before purchasing this piece. Scroll down to see coordinating pieces.USD$345.00
Diamanté Tennis Bracelet with Buckle by Mazer Bros.1940s Jewelry, Mazer Bros. Jewelry, Vintage BraceletsThis diamanté tennis bracelet by Mazer Bros. is a variation of a 1920s line bracelet. This one features faceted, emerald-cut diamanté, each set in its own rhodium-plated link. The focal point is a raised, fixed buckle adorned with diamanté in a unique assortment of shapes and sizes. This late-1940s to early-1950s piece by Mazer Bros. closes with a jeweled fold-over clasp and safety chain. Well-made, timeless, and versatile!USD$195.00
Emerald & Onyx Link Bracelet1920s Jewelry, Unsigned Jewelry, Vintage BraceletsThis vintage link bracelet features molded sugar-loaf emerald-glass stones framed in silver-tone metal that alternate with onyx glass rings. Decorative metal links and an older-style spring-ring clasp complete this classic Art Deco jewel. The color combination and detail in the workmanship are divine. The clasp is marked sterling, but the entire piece probably isn't. Bracelets of this type were advertised extensively in wholesaler catalogs in the 1920s to early-1930s. Scroll down to see a similar bracelet in lapis as well as several emerald jewels to wear with this one.USD$225.00USD$225.00
Emerald, Diamanté & Rose Vermeil Sterling Corocraft Bracelet1940s Jewelry, Coro Jewelry, Vintage BraceletsThis Corocraft bracelet has faceted, oval emerald-glass stones set in rose-gold-plated sterling silver and accented with pavé scroll links. The color combination is rich and timeless. Designed in the Retro Modern style by Adolph Katz for Coro's high-end line, this graceful piece has a fold-over clasp with safety chain. A lovely addition to the jewelry wardrobe of those who wear warm colors.USD$345.00
Emerald, Diamanté & Sterling Filigree Bracelet1920s Jewelry, Unsigned Jewelry, Vintage BraceletsThis vintage silver filigree bracelet has sterling links adorned with alternating emerald-glass stones and diamanté. The construction of and clasp on this 1920s classic are the same as those of filigree bracelets fashioned from precious metals in that decade. Scroll down to see additional Art Deco pieces to wear with this beautiful jewel.USD$325.00USD$325.00
Gemstone Flower Corsage Bracelet in Vermeil Sterling1940s Jewelry, Coro Jewelry, Vintage BraceletsThis jewel flower corsage bracelet is a 1940s Coro creation in gold-plated sterling silver. The corsage is adorned with ruby- and aquamarine-glass stones along with a diamanté center. Two larger diamanté are at each end. The double snake chain attaches to the corsage with pavé links. Scroll down to see two brooch/pendants and a larger brooch in the same design by Adolph Katz. All are perfect jewels for those who love Retro Modern design.USD$345.00
Gold 1940s Cuff Bracelet by Forstner1940s Jewelry, Forstner Jewelry, Vintage BraceletsThis vintage cuff bracelet is a variation of Forstner's flexible bracelets, a popular style in the 1940s. This piece is formed from a tapering double-row with a decorative, fixed buckle. The polished finish of the center buckle adds a nice contrast to the coiled sides. Jewelry by Forstner was very well made and has retained its quality. Note that this piece is gold-filled, which means it has a thicker layer of gold than a piece that is gold-plated. This cuff is especially nice because the construction allows it to fit small- to medium-size wrists. Please note that dark areas in the photos are only reflections from the camera. Several Vogue ads for this company's flexible bracelets in other styles date this cuff from about 1946-1947. Scroll down to see a sterling necklace in the same style by Walter Lampl as well as a gold-filled snake-chain necklace by Forstner.USD$375.00
Golden Topaz & Sterling Diamonbar Bracelet1920s Jewelry, Vintage Bracelets, Wachenheimer Bros. JewelryThis topaz bracelet has faceted, square-cut golden-glass stones channel-set in sterling silver. It closes with a concealed clasp and safety chain. At 7 1/2" by 3/8", this Diamonbar jewel is longer and wider than most made in this style in the 1920s. Though the patent number is not marked on the piece, its construction is in accordance with patent #1,344,365, which was issued to Harry Wachenheimer in 1920. You can see the utility patent here, the second one shown below the maker's name. This piece was part of my personal collection and is the perfect adornment for a woman who likes to wear warm colors. A simple, lovely jeweled accessory for day or evening. Scroll down to see a matching brooch.USD$345.00
Grey & Cream Baroque Pearl & Rondelle 1950s Miriam Haskell Bracelet1950s Jewelry, Vintage Bracelets, Vintage Miriam Haskell JewelryThis Miriam Haskell bracelet has two-tones of baroque pearls and rondelle accents. The embellishments are wired onto a gold-tone hard-mesh-hinged bangle. It closes with a concealed clasp and safety chain. Pieces with these good looks and high quality never go out of style! Scroll down to see a long strand of grey pearls with onyx beads by the same maker.USD$375.00
Lapis & Sterling 1920s Bracelet1920s Jewelry, Unsigned Jewelry, Vintage BraceletsThis lapis bracelet features sugar-loaf stones (3/8" high) set in sterling silver that alternate with square glass links in a darker blue. The links and settings are sterling silver. This type of bracelet was called a slave bracelet when it was made in the late 1920s and 1930s. This piece, which closes with a spring-ring clasp, is from my personal collection. I'm reluctantly offering it for purchase. Scroll down to see some lapis Art Deco pieces that look lovely with this jewel.USD$325.00USD$325.00
Marcasite & Sterling German 1930s Buckle Bracelet1930s Jewelry, Unsigned Jewelry, Vintage BraceletsThis Art Deco silver bracelet with marcasites is extraordinary! With its classic buckle motif, this magnificent and hard-to-find piece has excellent articulation and loads of sparkle. This substantial bracelet is an outstanding example of 1930s German craftsmanship and a real knockout! This jewel was part of my personal collection, and I am reluctantly offering it to a new owner. Scroll down to see the perfect pair of crystal and marcasite earrings to quietly compliment this piece — or wear it alone to make an unforgettable statement.USD$1,495.00USD$1,495.00
Onyx & Sterling Link Bracelet1920s Jewelry, Unknown (Maker's Mark is Unknown), Vintage BraceletsThis onyx and silver bracelet has seven faceted, oval glass stones prong-set and mounted on oval frames joined with links. The stones are 1/4″ high and have points in the center. The setting is sterling silver with a spring-ring clasp. This well-made Art Deco piece, which is longer than most of its era, is signed. However, I can't determine the maker's name. Scroll down to see several onyx pieces that complement this jewel.USD$295.00USD$295.00
Onyx, Diamanté & Sterling 3-Row Bracelet by Wachenheimer Bros.1930s Jewelry, Vintage Bracelets, Wachenheimer Bros. JewelryThis Wachenheimer sterling, 3 row bracelet has a line of faceted, round onyx-glass stones on either side of a center row of diamanté. The bejeweled fold-over clasp, which joins the harp-shaped link at each end, was used by this maker in the early 1930s, when they were no longer using their Diamonbar trademark. This bracelet was made for a slim wrist. Please note the bracelet length (6 7/8") and check your wrist size before purchasing this piece. Scroll down to see a great selection of Art Deco pieces to wear with this lovely jewel.USD$345.00
Onyx, Diamanté & Sterling Bracelet by Fishel, Nessler1920s Jewelry, Fishel, Nessler Jewelry, Vintage BraceletsThis black onyx bracelet with diamanté accents is an Art Deco classic. Each faceted, square-cut stone is set in its own sterling silver box. This early line bracelet (called a flexible bracelet in its day) has a concealed clasp with a safety catch. You can wear this piece alone or with two other vintage bracelets, as shown in the last photo. Scroll down to see a sterling bar pin in black and white by the same maker as well as other coordinating Art Deco pieces. Or wear this bracelet with more contemporary jewels.USD$195.00


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A great little route up good rock, well protected, which climbs the West Face of Piccolo Lagazuoi directly above the museum "Forte Tre Sassi". All the belays are equipped with bolts and the hardest sections along the routes are bolt-protected, too.
Reach Passo Valparola from the Agordo valley, Alta Badia or from Cortina by driving up the SR 48.
Park by the museum "Forte Tre Sassi" and ascend diagonally from the right towards the left to reach the base of the wall and the obvious black streaks (40 minutes). The route starts at the base of left-hand streak (bolts clearly visible from below).
P1: 5+, 35m
P2: 5, 55m
P3: 1, 50m
P4: 4, 40m
P5: 5, 55m
P6: 4, 45m
P7: 5, 50m
P8: 4, 25m
Descend on foot, first south towards the summit, then right to follow the path used by the Austrians during the First World War to reach the Fort.
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How to Establish Your Alpha Position in The Pack
Hey... here's something that every German Shepherd dog owner should know. I call these the rule of thumb that you should follow to ensure that your dog know his position in the family - the human pack. If your GSD gets aggressive when you touch his food or growls at anyone in the family, these rules should be followed strictly. Remember, our dogs are the most lovable member of the family, but they should have a clear rank in the pack and they should know that perfectly. Dogs - especially the dogs like German Shepherds, Rottweillers, Dobermann Pinschers etc. that lack in this clear order are the most unhappy member of the pack and might even become nightmare for you. You need to understand your German Shepherd Dogs and it can be done by seeing the way way he carries himself!
Sometimes, your German Shepherd Dog might not be showing signs of aggression, however the dog might suddenly start showing signs of separation anxiety, such as destructive behaviors when you get out of your house. If your German Shepherd Dog steals food from your hand or from your friend's, this gives an indication that your dog has no respect for the human, and doesn't see them as the leader of the pack. Unquestionably, your GSD shouldn't be the alpha member of the household pack. Such dogs (irrespective of breeds), who questions his place in the household pack are sure to become destructive, because he is confused and tend to take his anxiety out on you or whoever comes in his way. Just on the contrary, if your GSD knows his place in the household pack is a happy companion and would never exhibit undesirable behavior.
If you are a responsible GSD owner you should follow the rules mentioned below to ensure that your German Shepherd Dog knows his place in your human pack.
- Teach your GSD to Heel: One most effective way to make him understand that you are the Alpha member of your pack is to take him for a walk... not the type of walk that you mostly come across. Make him heel not to lead you, but to be led! Don't allow him to pull you and to sniff or eliminate where ever he wants, but where you allow. Sometimes trainers will prefer your dog to pull hard. Don't allow this until he is for show.
- Feeding: Eat before feeding your dogs. If you have to feed your Shepherd before you, you can do so, but do not forget to keep him away from you when you eat. Do not allow any member of your family to feed your dog any table scraps during your meal time. Feedings must be at a scheduled time.
- Rushing through doorways: Do not let your GSD go through any doorways first. Or up or down the stairs first. Your Shepherd must always go through the doorways or up and down the stairs following you or other human member of your pack.
- Act of Ignorance: If you were away for a long span of time your dog will be anxious to see you back. This is the power of love. But still when come back in the room, ignore your beloved boy for a minute or two.
- Obedience Command: Simple obedience commands such as "Sit" and "Stay" must be taught well. Commands should be given to obey before any pleasurable interaction with your German Shepherd Dog. Before all play sessions, feeding, walking, petting your German Shepherd Dog should be know to be quite. Your dog should take the treat from your hands gently.
- Higher Pack Position: During the time you are establishing your higher pack position (Alpha Membership), don't hug your dog, nor pat your dog.
- Eye Contact: Make sure your dog should avert his gaze first when you establish an eye-to-eye contact with him. If you avert your eye contact first this reinforces the dogs higher power position. Do not allow your kids to participate in the staring contest with your dog. If your children avert or blink first, it will make your dog think "He" is the Boss.
- Fetching Games: Games of fetch, pull or play with toys should be started anf ended by you and not your dog.
- No tug-of-war: Tug of war is the game of power. In case you lose the war, it may reinforce your German Shepherd to come to the conclusion that he is more powerful than you and if this happens consistently, your dog may develop a dominating tendency.
- Teach him "Release Command": It is mandatory to teach your German Shephersd Dog to release things. Just teach him the one word command - "DROP" to release things. Any objects your dog has in his possession should be able to be taken away safely by you and othet members of your family.
- Don't Leave Your Kid and Dog Unsupervised: Kids should never be left unsupervised with dogs. This doesn't hold good only for your children but for anyone who cannot maintain leadership over your dog, especially if he is a dominating dog.
- Don't be scares and Avoid anxiety: There's actually no reason to fear your dog, but fear sometimes come if your dog has a highly dominating nature. When you are around your dominating dog avoid emotions like fear and anxiety... also do not be harsh and rude to him. German Shepherds Dogs are highly sensitive and can sense these emotions more effectively than many other dog breeds. If he senses these emotions he might consider you as a weaker member of the pack, which will escalate your problem.
- Physical and Mental Exercise: Most of the people tend to confuse happiness with excitement in your German Shepherd Dog. The most successful way to maintain your Alpha position in the pack is to humanize your dog's behavior, although it's not everyone's cup of tea. Putting him to training session is essentially important! If your German Shepherd Dog runs around insanely excited, then he is lacking in physical and mental exercise. Take him to regular exercise - play session. But make sure you should make him practice the "Sit" and "Stay" activities in the middle of the play. This way you can ascertain your leadership by giving him "Sit" and "Stay" command.