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Antares is amazing
My very favorite thing that T&D ever did, I think, was in a short film shown as a public television special, with Yo Yo Ma playing one of Bach's unaccompanied cello sonatas. One of the movements is on YouTube (starts with "Bach" recounting a tragic event from his life):
My other favorite is this original dance rumba. Shows what good actors they are, and how they can capture the style of a particular dance:
And who can forget:
Their original set pattern Rock and Roll--imagine doing this once, let alone three complete patterns!
What a great resource this thread is--thanks for coming up with the topic!
My favorite routines of 'all time'
Michelle Kwan 1998 Nationals - both Rach SP and Lyra Angelica LP
Michelle Kwan 1996 Worlds - Salome LP
Chen Lu - 1996 Rach. LP
Chen Lu - 1995 Last Emperor
Kristi Yamaguchi - 1992 Oly's SP - Blue Danube
Sarah Hughes - 2002 Oly's LP (the only skate of her's that I've enjoyed.)
Sasha Cohen - 2006 Oly's SP
Alexei Yagudin - SP Winter
Brian Boitano 1988 LP Olympics
Torvill/Dean - 1984 Olympics Bolero
With regards to non-competition:
Torvill/Dean - Encounters, Red Hat
Kurt Browning's Brick House
Brian Boitano's Carousel Waltz (I think he did this in competition as well), Wild Elephants (Gap commercial song)
Kristi Y - Doop Doop, Bridge Over Troubled Waters, Some Day I'll Fly Away
Gordeeva/Grinkov - The Man I Love
Scott Hamilton - Hair, Figaro
I have heard similar "what was so special about her" remarks refering to Janet Lynn. But to appreciate Janet or T & D one has to be familiar with the skating of their era and not just from the last 5-10 years.
It is important to acknowledge the skaters who brought about change to figure skating through their artistry and innovation. Their influence is still felt today and any newer skating fan could enrich their appreciation of figure skating by taking a little time to become more familiar with some of the skating legends of the past.
I've started watching the ice dance videos, and I gotta say, they look fun. Might as well start with the most definitive program of them all (or so I've heard) Torvill and Dean's Bolero. Pretty cool moves, which I think (although Im not sure) would still be pretty cool if performed today.
Although what really caught my attention was the anissina/peizarat R&J program. So fast and seamless. I loved it.
Aesthetically, I'm starting to get ice dancing. For me, its beginning to feel like the very thing I can't do in ballet - freedom in movement where you almost float on your feet without ever stopping.
I think what I meant about not knowing what to watch for in ice dance is that I don't know how to judge a program's difficulty without the jumps and the throws.
I can't thank you guys enough for the suggestions!
yeah why have figures, it's only FIGURES skating...
As for the figures - yes or no question, they were gone by the time I started watching. Maybe it would be better to bring those back, at least for younger skaters, but not to have a situation in which a skater builds up an insurmountable lead in the figures, like Trixie Schuba usually had (and deservedly so).
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so the sport took the name from figures?Just curious..cause in other languages figures are not included in the name.
edit:sorry B i had not seen your message, i said the same
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it was a skill and a showcase of control on the blade. I think it's extremely important, and I am not a figure skater...
I think Janet came out very strongly in support of school figures amongst other somewhat surprising views about the state of US Skating - and skating in general. I think mathman knows about this and I would appreciate any views he or others would care to share about Janet's speech.
ETA: If that doesn't work, PM me. But please, GS experts: figure this out before I get inundated. And maybe start a new thread for this topic? It seems we should be discussing this speech!
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The first link should work without having to register or log in. Main page->Famous skaters->Janet Lynn's speech (the thread with the paper clip)->full transcript.
However, I think you need one of the newer vesions of Acrobat Reader to open it (I can open it on my new computer but not on my old).
IIRC this speech was given at the skaters' banquet at the annual meeting of the USFSA, and it ruffled some feathers. These banquets are feel-good affairs where speakers are expected to get up and say how wonderful the sport of figure skating is and what awesome people we all are.
Instead, Ms. Lynn basically said that compared with the quality of skating in her day, what skaters are putting out there now is crap. This was not well received by the audience, who, after all, comprised the very skaters that were being so severely critiqued.
When asked later to clarify her remarks, she committed another public relations faux pas by refusing to allow the transcript of her speech to be published by the USFSA. Instead, you could contact Ms. Lynn by email and, for a fee, she would send it to you (and by the way, do you want to buy some of my other self-published essays?).
So it took a little while before everyone settled down to actually read what she said in an objective way.


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Skip to comments.Just a thought about Connecticut
Posted on 12/17/2012 9:12:43 AM PST by pabianice
Like most of you, I have been thinking of the massacre in CT last week. When we were kids we also played violent games -- cowboys and Indians, Germans and Americans, etc. We "killed" each other all afternoon, went home, then came out the next day after school and battled on. Many hammer-dumb commentators have been braying that a cause of the CT shooting is the violence of video games. I think that's only half-correct. What these talking heads fail to take into account is that video games are free of feedback. When we oldies played cowboys and Indians, we got hurt. We fell. We got hit with sticks, rocks, dirt, thrown toy weapons. We got stuck-up with thorns and nettles and burrs. We got cold. We got thirsty. Our noses ran. Our hands got cut and raw. All this is missing from video games. There is no feedback from the most horrendous violence on your TV.
Could hurt-free video games be contributing to violence in public?
Yes, and recalling my own past, we sometimes lost it and started beating each other up. But then at the end of the day we apologized and made up.
As far as I was concerned, I only had so many good friends, and I didn't want to lose them.
One part of controlling your temper is to lose it every so often, and then pay the penalty—and learn to control it better.
I like violent video games. Doom, Quake, Halo...
I have lots of guns and I'm pretty much a nut.
Got no interest whatsoever in blasting a bunch of innocent folks.
It's something effed up in the PERSON who does such things.
Maybe a father figure who whips your ass once in a while
imparts something undefinable but infinitely important.
In the end, what Solzhenitsyn said about the destruction brought by Soviet Communism can be said of American relativism: "We have forgotten God. That is why all these things have happened."
Video games, availability of guns, whatever. All these are not what caused the problem. What caused the problem is we have raised our children to believe there is no such thing as right or wrong and no God who demands righteousness from His creatures. We have accordingly created government policy that attempts to alleviate all consequences of sinful action, and that is the "feedback mechanism" that has been removed from our society: The consequences of sinful behavior.
We learned life by living life, even if it was an imaginary portayal of life, it was real to us by our hands-on participation ... not an insulated game.
Interesting post!
Yes, of course that must be part of it. I remember getting hit with an iceball (in the face) as a kid and thinking: maybe this game isn't for me. These real games may very well have been teaching me to be leery of violence.
The thought of installing electrodes in the video game controllers makes me LOL!
What the CT, AZ, CO and VA killers all had in common were that they were young males with emergent paranoid schizophrenia.
That is the commonality that most observers are ignoring.
In 1965, all four would likely have been institutionalized.
Nonsense. It's what we are putting into our kids blood streams, not their eyeballs.
The only answer is that there is evil in this world, there has always been evil in this world, and will always be evil in this world....and there is nothing you can do about it.......and anyone who thinks they can do something about it, is most likely to make the "cure" even worse than the disease.
I don't buy the video game argument. I'm a "gamer" and play such PC games as Battlefield 3, Medal of Honor, Borderlands, Duke Nukem, Assassin's Creed, etc. I also play strategy games such as StarCraft, Tropico, Red Alert, etc. And finally, I play MMOs such as World of Warcraft, EVE Online, etc.
I've been a gamer for decades. I played Atari and Nintendo when they came out in the 80s. I've played D&D. I played cops and robbers, cowboys and indians, Americans and Russians when I was growing up. I've played with cap guns, water guns, slingshots, and paintball guns.
I also grew up in a single-parent home, but I was raised in the church. I was raised by a morally upright mother who regularly punished me and expected As and Bs in school. I wasn't given anything for good grades, they were expected. Going to church on Saturday night/Sunday morning wasn't debatable. Going to catechism class wasn't debatable. Going to school wasn't debatable.
These days, kids are left unsupervised in front of trash televisions with hundreds of channels, most of them peddling dreck. Kids are left unsupervised with wide-open wireless network connections and laptops or tablets to use as they see fit. Kids are left without parents, without God, without a moral or ethical compass. They are left to socialist public schools preaching reliance on government and not once given the opportunity to excel on their own. If they do so, they are smacked down and told that it's not "fair" to the rest of the students.
When I was in 3rd grade, my mother was told that I was reading at a 6th grade level. My teachers asked if it was okay for me to be taught after school for advanced reading and composition. By the time I was in high school, I'd read Tolstoy, Solzhenitsyn, Twain, Emerson, etc. It wasn't considered "unfair." As a matter of fact, my teachers were overjoyed by my interest in learning. They'd say they wished other students took education so seriously. Now, teachers are forced to teach to a federal curriculum that bores many students, because they teach to a lowest common denominator. They don't challenge the dumb, they dumb down the intelligent.
That's where I see this all went wrong. This "hyper-intelligent" kid wasn't challenged. His idle mind was able to run free with delusions of grandeur. Instead of being challenged intellectually, he decided to challenge authority with force and died in the process.
In the case of Newtown, I blame the kids teachers. I blame the system. I blame a lack of morality. I blame a lack of God in the public square. Everything the liberals and progressives have pushed for the last 100 years has destroyed the moral, ethical, intellectual, and emotional fiber of this nation. Unfortunately, it would likely take twice as long to rebuild it.
These are random acts. I don't know if such acts are indeed becoming more common vs. the past - perhaps only the media coverage is increasing.
Trying to "prevent" such random, and rare, occurrence, is like trying to prevent lightening.
Look at where we start with kids. Everything they see from the earliest age is a liberal manipulation of reality. They see it on Sesame Street. Then when they go to school, they're told that the parents are ruthlessly destroying the planet and don't care about the kids or their future. They're told that thoughts of homosexuality are normal and not having those thoughts are abnormal. Society is creating a shield of fantasy around them and as they get older reality begins to intrude and they can't cope.
I saw this with my liberal sister. When her son was 6 or 7 years old he told me that all the animals had to move to build a house for people. I pointed out that his house was no different than any others and my sister went ballistic because I told him the truth.
My point is that kids can't distinguish between reality and fantasy because they don't have a reality based frame of reference any more.
BTW my nephew is now 18 years old and my sister is having a tough time coping with the fact that he isn't different from other 18 year old boys. She built the fantasy and she began to believe her fantasy and she can't figure out what went wrong. Fortunately her son is coping a lot better than she is.
What age are you, roughly? I was late teens when the gory video games came out, and we all thought they were hilarious because they were so over the top. But I remember the strange fascination some very young children had with them (preteens) bothering me even then. I really don't think there's a need for kids under 18 to be playing first person shooter games. Maybe I'm an old fart, but it just seems there's a vulnerability to influence at those ages. I mean, there's a reason silhouette targets were created for training soldiers.
Great post. You've described the problem better than I could. Bottom line it's about parenting, or the lack of it, and relinquishing control of your kids to leftists' agenda via entertainment media and public education.
I'm 48.
Started off with Doom 1 about 20 years ago.
We seldom, if ever, had enough kids to play nine on a team. So the catcher was almost always furnished by the batting team and he doubled as the umpire to call balls and strikes.
It worked pretty well because if he wasn't fair about it, we'd get our revenge the next inning.
I usually got to play the coveted position of pitcher. Not because I was necessarily better than the other kids, but because I had the sense to buy two or three baseballs when the local hardware store was marking prices down in November. If you owned the ball, you were the pitcher. However, if you were having a bad day, you'd cede the position to another boy and take your spot in the field.
I'm certain we got more at bats in an average day than a kid in modern adult supervised youth baseball gets in a whole season, including practices.
A christian church burned down in some shit hole in Africa by muslims where dozens of people are killed? Not really a big deal by today's media standards. Sure they don't usually have a TV or electricity but it's probably video games or antidepressants. How many Mexicans were murdered in the last week by drug gangs that this administration helped arm? Again it doesn't fit with the anti-America meme, but if push came to shove I bet it could be blamed on desensitization to violence by popular (American) culture. How many have been killed in Chicago in the last week with illegally obtained guns? We don't want to talk about that but again if forced we could use all of the above as excuses.
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I often think about my childhood, in relation to that of my own children and wish that things could be different. I regret that they can't know the innocence of childhood like I did. It disappoints me, that to keep them safe, I have to keep them sheltered to some degree. Sure I let them go outside and play, but it's much more limited than what I wish they could have. And I also keep my eye on the electronics they use and the games they play, that's why LeapFrog is a huge product in my house, so they are learning as they play.
When I was growing up (70's/80's), we didn't have many electronic toys to occupy our time, unless you want to include Pong... We didn't have computers, or Ipods, or Ipads. We had to use our imagination and create our own play environment (if you will). We had to interact with each other, which is something I think is HUGH when it comes to what is happening in society with our kids today. I mean, what ever happened to Pac-Man, Frogger, DigDug, Tron?....I can't even think of a truly "violent" game back then. But now, everything is so life like and real...even in 3D. And every where you go, you see kids with their noses, stuck in their little electronic gadget....tuning the world out, or texting when they are standing right next to each other, instead of talking.
I lived in a small town, up in the woods, so my playground was a forest. And we only got 2 channels on the TV, so going outside to play was the best thing ever. And I remember not ever being made to wear helmets, knee pads or protective gear when playing. If we got hurt, we got hurt. We put on a bandaid, scratched ourselves off, and went back to playing.
Even still, when I went to the city to play with my friends, we didn't want to hang out inside, and when we went out outside (in the front yards) we played without fear of being picked up and/or taken by some psycho. Neighbors watched out for neighbors, and the parents watched out for other kids (not just their own).
But now, I refuse to let my kids out the front door, unless I am with them. And it really disturbs me when I see little children (obviously under 10, and especially under 5) riding their bikes or playing ALL ALONE, with no parent in sight. Because I know there are sick people out there....who could very easily come and take that kid and hurt that kid. I know people don't look out for other people anymore. Parents aren't willing to keep their eye out on the neighborhood kids anymore.
I think this has caused a lot of kids to resort to their electronic gadgets too. They get bored SO easily. Even when my kids go out and play in our backyard, they eventually would rather come in and get lost in their video games. And I think too many parents don't bother with that. They let their kids just close themselves off and isolate themselves in their electronic world and don't try to MAKE them interact like we used to. I can't imagine getting my teen his own cell phone, let alone give one to a younger child, but I know people who have given smart phones to 6 and 10 year olds....WTF for? I just can't imagine why a child needs a smart phone....let alone a cell phone.
But I digress, I just think if more kids were made to use their imagination and to interact with more people outside of electronics, than less isolation and less kids would need to get lost in their video games and virtual realities.
And here's our president, telling the world that Arafat, who did that and murdered countless other unarmed people, including Americans, was fit to bring into the White House and call him "friend".
Just thought I'd throw that out there.
Hee's a novel idea. BLAME THE A$$HOLE WHO DID IT. If he knoew the difference between right and wrong, then he know what he was doing was wrong. He did it anyway. Some people are just plain evil. Hopefully we kill or incarcerate them, but every now and then they win.
Some, perhaps. But not innocent folks.
She was assigned to check on (supposedly) autistic kids as an agency representative to lend family support and help them deal with the situation.
She told me the vast majority of the kids were borderline and would behave normally with a little more parental supervision which the majority of parents didn't make the time to give them.
Every kid without exception, however, had the latest Wii, X-Box or Play Station which was like giving borderline alcoholics the best booze available. In addition, they had multiple flat screen TVs in the house all blaring near full volume.
A few of the families were actually pleasantly surprised at a nearly immediate change in their child's behavior when they followed my daughter's advice to do simple things like play a board game, go to the park and throw a Frisbee or make them earn electronic time by completing homework assignments or simple household chores.
Most of them, however, were simply interested in going through the motions and pretending to listen to my daughter's advice so they could keep their government crazy checks coming.
We all carried little pen knives...to play mumbly peg.....and I'm talking kindergarten...and up. It was no big deal. We were very responsible kids and our parents knew what we were doing all the time.
I studied psychology in college, and your daughter's assessments are correct.
Like always, I blame the feminist movement on a lot of our modern social issues. The feminists wanted women to work while many of them were content being homemakers. The feminists wanted women to be "equal" to men, so they were indoctrinated for decades to be more masculine.
Two-parent households are becoming increasingly rare. When they are together, they're often discontent, too busy to tend to the house and the kids. They want kids, but they don't want the responsibilities of tending to them.
Face it, just like with guns, there are millions of children in this country going through their daily motions, achieving, striving to be better, but there will ALWAYS be one somewhere who's "just not right" and who's lacking the love, the ethics, the moral compass necessary to be a functional human being in a civil society. It just takes that one person to go off the rails and take other parts of society down with him to make the public think it's some sort of global "issue" that needs to be dealt with.
These days, kids are left unsupervised in front of trash televisions with hundreds of channels, most of them peddling dreck. Kids are left unsupervised with wide-open wireless network connections and laptops or tablets to use as they see fit. Kids are left without parents, without God, without a moral or ethical compass. They are left to socialist public schools preaching reliance on government and not once given the opportunity to excel on their own. If they do so, they are smacked down and told that its not fair to the rest of the students.
When I was in 3rd grade, my mother was told that I was reading at a 6th grade level. My teachers asked if it was okay for me to be taught after school for advanced reading and composition. By the time I was in high school, Id read Tolstoy, Solzhenitsyn, Twain, Emerson, etc. It wasnt considered unfair. As a matter of fact, my teachers were overjoyed by my interest in learning. Theyd say they wished other students took education so seriously. Now, teachers are forced to teach to a federal curriculum that bores many students, because they teach to a lowest common denominator. They dont challenge the dumb, they dumb down the intelligent.
Raised by single mom/no father/abandonment issues.
No friends/no peers/no one to hold him accountable.
Possible autism/mental illness/medication/etc.
No "real world" experience, no job, no future, just an isolated existance doing God-knows-what in a huge house, enabled by and dominated by mom.
No spiritual grounding. If this "family" ever went to a church I haven't heard it.
It all adds up to someone who had lost his grip on reality. Of course there are plenty of people who face similar or worse environments and don't murder schoolkids. What's the critical factor? I don't know.
There was a link to a story on Drudge earlier (I think it was Drudge) from the AP indicating that statistically, mass murders are down of late compared to history.
I agree with you.
The teachers in our schools routinely mock the morality of religious parents leaving these kids to feel that whatever they want to do is A-ok. There are no filters or brakes to their behaviors. You see it everywhere from casual lying and cheating to these extremes of violence. We never had these incidences because even the most jaded amonst us had limits.
Now we have raised savagery to a level of acceptance then act surprised and shocked when some poor kid excercises what he learned... and didn't learn.
Paroxetine (Paxil)
Fluoxetine (Sarafem)
Sertraline (Zoloft)
Citalopram (Celexa)
Escitalopram (Lexapro)
This is the problem not guns.
Nobody ever got hurt, and none of us would ever have imagined shooting each other or anyone else. I can't claim we were exactly responsible, but we all had a good idea of how dangerous our "toys" were and practiced as much safety as 14-year-olds are capable of mustering when there are no adults about.
Personally, I feel this was just an isolated incident of a divorced female living alone with a nutty kid — a kid she probably did not have time for, did not pay enough attention to, a kid she just didn't have a clue as to how to handle, or how to get through to ....he was a freaky kid, alone, isolated, no Dad coming over to get him out of his room and away from his gaming. Just easier on the parents to "let him be," or leave him to his own devices.
She then amassed these guns, but likely just was entirely careless about keeping them out of his hands. Period. Nothing else. She paid the price, but so did 20+ families.
I think a return to good old fashioned marriage and proper parenting would have COMPLETELY cured this ...but we don't have that going on here. We had a dysfunctional home. We had an overburdened parent. On top of it all, we had a mentally deficient kid who got into their guns.
How are we to go into the homes of everyone in this country and root out this type of dysfunction to make our society whole and safe again? It's IMPOSSIBLE. It's NTOHING that we can likely EVER predict or control.
Yes, video games and social media contribute to the dehumanization of mankind. So do violent movies and smash mouth leftist players.
If we are going to have "sin taxes" on ciggs., we need high sin taxes on the entertainment media's products promoting violence. Videos, gangsta rap music, movies, etc. That is not messing with the first amendment (banning the speech as liberals want to do to anyone who disagrees with them or Islam), but messing with the profits of the extreme anti-social players in entertainment. Left wing activist.
Porn produces perverts, too. Entertainment whoredom should be taxed out of kingdom come.
Doom 1 was exactly where I started as well. And I always had guns available, yet never once thought of going out and murdering people. But now look at something like Doom 3 or the more modern games with even better graphics where you're shooting realistic looking humans; they crumple and die as realistically as the animators are able to make it. I worry about children virtually acting that out thousands of times. If paper silhouettes could be used to successfully break down adult inhibitions toward shooting humans, what might these games be doing to kids in their formative years, especially those who already have some mental issue like all these shooters seem to have had? People in our generation were really too old to be seriously affected, but kids who have had access to this stuff since early childhood? Parents have to start acting like parents again.
and what is put in their blood streams, is revealed in their eyes.
"Dead eye" syndrome ....
We still have not heard what prescription drugs this evil young man had in his system.
I thought you were a retired, grumpy, old fart!! hehe
It ain't the years, it's the mileage. ;-)
Ain't that the truth!!
Excuse? No. Preventable? Not in a free society. And there's the rub.
Another piece of this puzzle that keeps jumping out at me is the way we think of the shoter as a "kid." He wasn't a kid, he was an adult man. This is symptomatic of a larger problem-the infantilization of American youth. Today many people consider twenty-year-old adults to be "kids." 50 years ago a 16-year-old was considered old enough for most responsibilities. 75 years ago the age was around 13 and the term "teenager" hadn't yet been coined. A healthy 20-year-old guy doing nothing and living on his parent's dime would have been unthinkable. But today the so-called "Millennials" aren't expected to grow up.
Two out of three ain't bad. ;)
I loved playing Army. There were GI's, Krauts and Japs.
One of our contrived weapons of the day (which Chris Wallace would characterize as a WMD as he did yesterday with semi-automatic weapons) was a 2-3 foot length of a 2X4 with two nails at the top that held a narrow strip of innertube rubber. Made a great slingshot for crabapples.
Those were the days.
"Paroxetine (Paxil)
Fluoxetine (Sarafem)
Sertraline (Zoloft)
Citalopram (Celexa)
Escitalopram (Lexapro)
This is the problem not guns."
One of Adam Lanza's drug according to the uncle:
Iloperidone (Fanapt)
It works by changing the effects of chemicals in the brain just like the other SSRI's you have listed.
Thank you for the information. Spread the truth.
Here's an alternate theory. A single, divorced mom that would not accept that the son had a REALLY serious mental disease. She thought with constant attention, extra work and discipline that she could "fix" the problem.
Dad finally had enough, son didn't present well in his circle of executive friends and he decided to split, remarry and have another family.
Mom now has sons, one leaves as soon as he is old enough, and there is Adam who is rapidly approaching adulthood and fading away from her. Adam is put on an anti-psychotic to treat his ever increasing schizoid personality and things really go down from there.
Adam wants to borrow mom's firearms. No way is she going to let that happen. So, he takes brother's ID and tries to buy one himself. Didn't work out well; but, he is determined (obsessed). To get to the guns, he has to go through mom.
Adam is pretty smart guy. He does live in the house and knows where everything is located like the keys (or combination) to the safe that holds the firearms. But, he still has to go through mom. So, he just conveniently kills her. Shoots her in the face (which is interesting). Problem resolved, no big deal and then moves on.
Obviously, I don't know that any of this is completely accurate. Adam Lanzer was so ill that he had blunt affect and was incapable of feeling physical pain. Once he hit puberty and approached adulthood he started the slow decline into wherever these individuals go. He wasn't part of the fabric of life or the world. Mom did admit she was "losing" him.
The big question here is..what triggered the episode of violence. Why did he cross that line?
Yes, your theory sounds about right. No one else's "fault" but the kid's fault. That's what no one wants to admit.
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In the 1990s, compact-discs, popularly known as CDs, worked their way into the mainstream market and started to become the medium of choice for audio. Since then, CDs have gone through little change and have become the industry standard for audio. However, even with monumental popularity, CDs are still largely understood by many.
CDs, the most common type of optical discs, are much like their vinyl predecessors. Like records, CDs are composed of a circular track that winds around the bottom surface of the disc. Audio CDs also spin at a relatively low speed as they are being read.
Obviously, there are some major differences. Unlike vinyls, CD tracks start on the inside of the disc and work towards the outer edge. CDs are also significantly smaller. However, probably the biggest physical difference is that record players use needles and CD players use a focused light beam (a laser).
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In addition to digital audio, CDs are also great for storing data files, like digital photos, typed documents, movie clips and so on (capacities up to 700 megabytes (MB)). Many people have chosen CDs for data storage because they have much greater storage capacities than traditional removable storage media, particularly floppy disks. However, many get confused because transferring information to a CD isn't as simple as transferring information to a floppy, for example.
There are two types of writable CDs: CD-R and CD-RW. CD-R stands for "Compact-Disc Recordable" and will allow one recording. Once something has been added to a CD-R (a photo, for example), it cannot be removed or deleted. However, as long as there is "room" on the CD-R, more files can be added to the disc.
CD-RW discs behave similarly. Once a data file is added or copied to the CD-RW disc, it cannot be deleted or removed. However, unlike CD-R discs, CD-RW discs can be erased entirely and reused. Once a CD-RW disc has been erased, everything that was stored on the disc is gone. How many times a disc can be erased depends on the quality of the disc.
Regardless of which CD discs are used, a CD drive that has "burning" capabilities is required. Most drives will list 3 speeds: reading, writing and re-writing. The reading speed indicates how fast the drive can read a disc (commercial and writable CDs) and is usually the highest number of the three. The writing speed is usually the next highest speed, and indicates how fast the drive can write to a CD-R disc. The last and smallest number indicates how fast the drive can write to a CD-RW disc. As of this writing, the fastest CD speeds are 72x read, 52x write, and 12x re-write. Take note, however, that 72x CD-ROMs are extremely uncommon. Some studies have shown that the extreme spinning speed (measured in rpms) to attain 72x speeds can damage the disc.
The CD writing process is also known as "CD burning" and requires special software to perform. Most drives come bundled with this software. Roxio (recently acquired by Sonic) Easy CD Creator, Nero CD Burner, and Sonic are common CD burning programs for the Microsoft Windows platform.
Most CD burning programs allow you to do these things: burn a new audio CD, burn a new data CD, add to an existing data CD, or copy (duplicate) a CD. Many will step you through the process by asking you what you want to do, and then will provide options based upon the decisions you have made. If you are burning a data CD, the software will allow you to select the files from your computer that you want burned (usually by dragging and dropping the files onto the CD burning program itself).
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Adding files to a disc that already contains data on it is done via a new session (please note that you cannot add sessions to nearly all commercial CDs). Your burning program will check to see if there is enough remaining space on the disc, and will create a new session when the data is burned to the disc. Some programs require that you "import" any existing sessions before you can add a new session (check your software's documentation for details). Note that a session must be "closed" before the data in that new session can be read off the disc.
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Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) is cancer of the lymph tissue. Lymph tissue is found in the lymph nodes, spleen, and other organs of the immune system.
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Low-grade NHL usually cannot be cured by chemotherapy alone. Low-grade NHL progresses slowly and it may take many years before the disease gets worse or even requires treatment.
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National Cancer Institute: PDQ Adult Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Treatment. Bethesda, MD: National Cancer Institute. Date last modified 09/28/2012. Available at http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/adult-non-hodgkins/HealthProfessional. Accessed 01/04/2013.
National Cancer Institute: PDQ Childhood Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Treatment. Bethesda, MD: National Cancer Institute. Date last modified 11/26/2012. Available at http://cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/child-non-hodgkins/HealthProfessional. Accessed 01/04/2013.
National Comprehensive Cancer Network. NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology: Non-Hodgkin's Lymphomas. Version 1.2013. Available at http://www.nccn.org/professionals/physician_gls/pdf/nhl.pdf. Accessed 01/04/2013.
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More dogs and cats are becoming ill - and in some cases even dying - from flea and tick control products, prompting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to place tougher restrictions on the insecticide treatments commonly used on pets and to require revisions to labeling to help pet owners use the products properly.
Spot-on pesticide products, generally sold in tubes or vials and applied in between a pet's shoulders or in a stripe along the back, have been the focus of "high-priority" monitoring by the EPA after some pets developed skin irritations, had seizures or have died.
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Steve Owens, assistant administrator of EPA�s Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances, says the agency is committed to better protecting the health and safety of pets and families. �New restrictions will be placed on these products, and pet owners need to carefully read and follow all labeling before exposing your pet to a pesticide,� he states in a media release.
Better labeling is particularly important because some incidents of illness and death have been linked to misuse such as a dog product being applied to a cat or a dosage meant for a large dog being applied to a smaller dog, according to the EPA.
Most people use the products with no harm to their pets, the EPA said, but the an analysis determined that smaller dogs tend to be disproportionately affected by some products and that the exposure of cats to some dog products is a concern.Among immediate actions that EPA will pursue are:
"Pet owners need to be cautious about using flea and tick products safely," EPA veterinarian Ann Stohlman states in a media release. �You need to take the time to carefully read the label, the package insert, and any accompanying literature to make sure you�re using the product correctly.�
- Developing more stringent testing and evaluation requirements for existing and new products to help prevent adverse reactions.
- Restricting the use of certain inert ingredients that EPA finds may contribute to the incidents.
- Requiring manufacturers of spot-on pesticide products to improve labeling, making instructions clearer to prevent product misuse.
- Requiring more precise label instructions to ensure proper dosage per pet weight.
- Requiring clear markings to differentiate between dog and cat products, and disallowing similar brand names for dog and cat products. Similar names may have led to misuse.
- Launching a consumer information campaign to explain new label directions and to help users avoid making medication errors.
The EPA recently met with officials from 13 companies that make flea and tick products as part of its evaluation of the products. According to a summary report of the meeting, the EPA established a team of veterinarians to review the incidents and the ingredients used in the products.
According to the report:
"The agency has historically had concerns about the increase in domestic animal incidents seen over the years and has been looking into this," EPA spokesman Dale Kemery told My Setter Sam. "As a result of the recent sharp increase in numbers of incidents specific to spot-on products, we are making this investigation a higher priority."The EPA put together a group of veterinarians who work for the Office of Pesticide Programs to review incidents involving spot-on products to help determine the cause, Mr. Kemery said. The group had discussions with registrants to learn more about the incidents and gather information to help inform the agency�s evaluation.
- Death occurred in 560 pets in 2007 and 640 in 2008 related to the use of flea and tick products.
- Major illnesses occurred in 610 pets in 2007 and 740 in 2008.
- Minor illnesses occurred in 5,100 pets in 2007 and and 27,000 in 2008.
Some problems also have occurred involving sprays, collars and shampoos, the EPA reports, and it recommends that pet parents take precautions and consult a veterinarian when using flea and tick products on their dogs and cats. It says people should carefully follow label directions and monitor their pets for signs of reaction after application, particularly when using these products for the first time.
When using flea-and-tick control products on pets, the EPA recommends:
If an adverse reaction occurs, bathe the pet with mild soap and rinse it with with large amounts of water, the EPA says. Keep the package with the product container (such as individual applicator tubes), so you will want to have the instructions and manufacturer's contact information.
- Consulting a veterinarian before using on weak, older, medicated, sick, pregnant, or nursing pets, or on pets that have previously shown signs of sensitivity to pesticide products.
- Reading the product label carefully before applying a spot-on product or any other pesticide on your pet.
- Using products only on the animal specified by the product label; dog products for dogs only and cat products for cats only.
- Applying only the amount indicated for the size of the animal being treated.
- Not applying to kittens or puppies unless the product label specifically allows this treatment.
- Monitoring your pet for side effects or signs of sensitivity after applying the product, particularly when using the product for the first time.
- Not applying spot-ons to pets known to be sensitive to pesticide products.
The best time to treat a pet is at the beginning of flea and tick season, according to the EPA's Dr. Stohlman. The length of flea season, which peaks during warm weather months, varies depending on where you live. �It can last four months in some places, but in other places, like Florida, fleas can live all year long,� she states.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, ticks are found in some places year-round. In most parts of the United States, the greatest chance of infection by a tick bite is spring and summer.
More reports about dogs and flea, tick and insect control:Use of flea, tick products a must despite pet deathsStop ticks from dogging - or killing - your petYour dog may have you sleeping with thousands of fleasGet pets ready for invasion of blood-sucking insectsReports about dogs and oral health:The stinking truth behind smelly dog breathSimple home remedy can add year's to a pet's lifeReports about dogs and cancer:Major breakthrough in canine cancer treatmentFirst-ever canine cancer drug developedMaking strides in fight against canine cancerWorldwide effort to cure canine cancerReports about dogs and health:A wonder drug guaranteed to help your petTry this fountain of youth for your petA handy way to stop pets from getting sickThis formula is certain to sicken your petAn all-natural substance that makes pets sickOnly saps let their dogs play fetch with sticksYour dog is at risk of getting the flu, tooPurebred dogs needlessly suffering, report saysAlarming rise in heartworm a threat to petsDog heart medicine research results promisingCushing's drug receives FDA approvalParalyzing diseases of dogs, people linkedMore reports about dogs and health
The Natural Resources Defense Council, an advocacy group for the environment, urges pet parents to use natural flea and tick control methods rather than products containing pesticides. It recommends frequently using a flea comb, regular bathing of pets, and regular vacuuming and washing of a pet's bedding.
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Debates of Oct. 18th, 2010
House of Commons Hansard #81 of the 40th Parliament, 3rd Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was spam.
- Question Period
- Employment Insurance Act
- Fighting Internet and Wireless Spam Act
- Small Business Entrepreneur
- Todd Hardy
- Ahuntsic Braves
- Chilean Miners
- Stratford Shakespeare Festival
- Small Business Week
- Terry Fox
- Louise Vandelac
- Employment Insurance
- Brother André
- Co-operative week
- Status of Women
- Eliminating Entitlements for Prisoners
- Omar Khadr
- Status of Women
- Small Business Week
- Foreign Affairs
- Government Priorities
- Foreign Affairs
- Public Works and Government Services
- Minister of Natural Resources
- Health
- Public Works and Government Services
- Justice
- National Defence
- Small Business
- Foreign Affairs
- Quebec City Arena
- Foreign Affairs
- The Economy
- Citizenship and Immigration
- Infrastructure
- Securities industry
- Agriculture and Agri-Food
- International Trade
- Infrastructure
- Citizenship and Immigration
- Status of Women
- Presence in Gallery
- Government Response to Petitions
- Committees of the House
- Status of Women Canada Act
- National Housing Act
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- Petitions
- Questions on the Order Paper
- Fighting Internet and Wireless Spam Act
- Ending Early Release for Criminals and Increasing Offender Accountability Act
Small Business Entrepreneur
Statements by Members
2 p.m.
Ed Fast Abbotsford, BC
Mr. Speaker, as today marks the first day of Small Business Week in Canada, I wish to recognize an outstanding Canadian from Abbotsford.
Barb Mowat is president and owner of Impact Communications and the founder of other successful enterprises. She is an international leader in the development of small businesses with a special emphasis on women entrepreneurs. Her work has helped business owners throughout Canada and around the world, including Afghanistan.
Barb is a member of a number of influential boards, including the Canadian Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship and the Treasury Board of Canada's joint forum on small business. She is also a member of the Cherie Blair foundation's global membership circle.
Mr. Speaker, you should therefore not be surprised that today Barb Mowat received the Governor General's award in commemoration of the famous Persons Case.
Barb is joined today by her children, Brittany, Paula and Brent, and her sons-in-law, Jason and Alex. On behalf of myself and all the residents of Abbotsford, I would like to congratulate Barb on her remarkable achievements.
Todd Hardy
Statements by Members
2 p.m.
Larry Bagnell Yukon, YT
Mr. Speaker, I rise in tribute to a great Yukon leader, Todd Hardy, who was taken from us at too young an age, yet he accomplished so much to improve the lives of Yukoners.
He stood steadfast to help the poor, the sick and the downtrodden. He was a tireless leader of the Yukon New Democratic Party right to the end, even courageously fighting the last election from his hospital bed.
When a problem confronted the Yukon, he would search the country for a solution and bring it home to make the Yukon a better place.
He sacrificed so much of his time as a community volunteer, in the labour movement and for karate, Habitat for Humanity, Buddhism and many other causes.
But Todd's number one priority was always his family. We express our deepest sympathies to his mother, Gladys; his wife, former M.P. Louise Hardy; his children, Janelle, Tytus, Tess and Lymond; and his precious granddaughter Ellazora. He was so proud of them all.
Todd always asked, "What are people saying?" Today they are saying that they have lost a champion, a friend and a wonderful human being.
Ahuntsic Braves
Statements by Members
2 p.m.
Maria Mourani Ahuntsic, QC
Mr. Speaker, I want to bring to the attention of the House the victory of the Ahuntsic Braves U14 AAA men's soccer team at the Canadian soccer championship, held on October 11 in Moncton. This was the fifth time that a team from Quebec won that tournament since its creation in 1984.
Our Braves won the boys final by a score of 1-0 against the NSD Soccer Club, from the riding of Calgary Southeast, to whose member of Parliament I extend cordial greetings. This tightly contested match does honour to the hard work all the players taking part in the tournament have put in over the years. Also noteworthy is the outstanding, ongoing support of volunteers from all the organizations involved and especially that of the parents of these young players, whose perseverance, determination and skill are a source of inspiration.
Long live our champions and three cheers for the Ahuntsic Braves!
Chilean Miners
Statements by Members
2 p.m.
Yvon Godin Acadie—Bathurst, NB
Mr. Speaker, as a former miner and mining rescue worker, I anxiously followed the rescue of the 33 miners trapped underground for over two months in the San José mine in Chile. Together they courageously survived the difficult conditions of their ordeal. I would also like to commend the excellent work of the rescue workers, engineers, doctors and everyone who worked together to free these men.
This experience serves to remind us of the dangers facing miners every day around the world. Only a few days after the Chilean miners were rescued, an explosion in a mine in China took the lives of 21 miners and buried 16 others underground. And in Ecuador four miners were trapped underground when a tunnel collapsed. Rescuers found three of the miners dead, while the fourth is still missing.
I hope this House will do everything it can to ensure the safety and security of all workers, here and around the globe, and to promote corporate social responsibility.
Stratford Shakespeare Festival
Statements by Members
2:05 p.m.
Gary Schellenberger Perth—Wellington, ON
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to inform my colleagues of a wonderful event that took place on October 4. "Shakespeare on the Hill" gave the Stratford Shakespeare Festival from my riding of Perth—Wellington the opportunity to share its musical and theatrical gifts with the members of the House.
"Shakespeare on the Hill" included performances of songs from West Side Story by actors Chilina Kennedy and Paul Nolan and a special preview from Chilina of next year's production of Jesus Christ Superstar.
The Stratford Shakespeare Festival came to Ottawa to thank our government for its investment of $6 million over the past two years through the marquee tourism events program. These funds boosted the theatre's advertising budget and allowed it to increase its promotional activities in the United States. The marketing campaign was successful and resulted in an increase in U.S. ticket sales, which stimulated our economy and helped the festival weather the storm of the recession.
I hope every member of the House will come to the Stratford Shakespeare Festival next summer.
Terry Fox
Statements by Members
2:05 p.m.
Ed Holder London West, ON
Mr. Speaker, this year is the 30th anniversary of Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope.
This year the Government of Canada has taken significant steps to commemorate this important and historic milestone. A memorial park will be constructed at Mile 0 in St. John's, Newfoundland with a statue of Terry. A nationwide appeal to our youth is now under way for help with the inscription and design. Thirty years later, Terry connects with our youth in ways he could not even have imagined.
Now the national Terry Fox centre project aims to capture his incredible legacy for future generations. The centre, to be located in Vancouver, will be a home where people will experience Terry's values of courage, determination and humility, values that define us all as Canadians. It will document and celebrate Terry's life and the Marathon of Hope. It will have artifacts and memorabilia and include displays and lab space to inform the public about cancer research in Canada.
Once this remarkable facility is completed, I encourage every Canadian to undertake his or her own marathon of hope, visit the centre and honour Terry's legacy.
Louise Vandelac
Statements by Members
2:05 p.m.
Bernard Bigras Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie, QC
Mr. Speaker, Louise Vandelac has just won the Jacques Rousseau award from ACFAS for her scientific achievements and the innovative bridges she has built between various disciplines.
Ms. Vandelac is currently a professor in UQAM's sociology department and is director of the institute of environmental science there. In addition to her academic activities, she has sat on the National Council on Bioethics in Human Research, the Royal Commission on Reproductive Technologies and Quebec's Conseil supérieur de l'éducation.
For more than two decades, Louise Vandelac's research has focused on one fundamental theme: the societal and technical transformation of our lives. Her research delves into philosophical, political, economic, social and ecological issues.
I would like to congratulate Louise Vandelac on her remarkable intellectual accomplishments.
Employment Insurance
Statements by Members
2:05 p.m.
Nina Grewal Fleetwood—Port Kells, BC
Mr. Speaker, the Liberal, Bloc and NDP coalition, headed by the Liberal leader, is at it again. It will try yet again with its relentless pursuit to push its irresponsible and costly EI plans when NDP Bill C-280 is debated this Friday.
Our Conservative government does not support the bill or any other expensive coalition EI bills. The idea of getting a year's worth of EI after only having worked 45 days is offensive to hard-working Canadians. The coalition's EI plans would cost workers and job-creating small businesses $7 billion per year and result in a permanent 35% increase in payroll premiums.
It is our Conservative government that will stand up for hard-working Canadians and fight against the Liberal leader's coalition plans to increase taxes on workers and job-creating small businesses.
Brother André
Statements by Members
2:10 p.m.
Massimo Pacetti Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel, QC
Mr. Speaker, as we saw yesterday morning, the canonization of Brother André is a very joyous and proud occasion for the Catholic community in Quebec and Canada and also for the world's many pilgrims.
His legacy, which is not only physical but also human, is reflected in the magnificent monument that is St. Joseph's Oratory.
He personifies faith and perseverance, and he showed the importance of his charitable work with the poorest and most vulnerable members of society.
Yesterday in Rome, Brother André received the highest recognition the Catholic church can bestow on one of its own. His work and his dedication to others serve as a model of compassion, strength and humility.
We would like to draw members' attention to the recognition of Brother André as a saint and his important contribution to Canadian society and to his religious heritage.
Co-operative week
Statements by Members
2:10 p.m.
Bernard Généreux Montmagny—L'Islet—Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup, QC
Mr. Speaker, Co-operative Week is being held from October 17 to 23. This is a good opportunity to acknowledge the significant contribution that co-operatives make to economic and social development in Canada and around the world.
In recognition of this contribution, the United Nations General Assembly has adopted a resolution on the role of co-operatives in social development. This resolution urges governments to create a supportive environment for the development of co-operatives and proclaims 2012 the International Year of Co-operatives.
Our government fully recognizes the importance of co-operatives and their contribution to Canadian society. The co-operative model represents a valuable tool for urban and rural development. This model has long proven its effectiveness in responding to a host of personal and community needs, particularly in rural and remote communities where co-operatives create jobs and provide the goods and services that are essential for improving quality of life.
The Government of Canada intends to work together with the Canadian co-operative movement in preparation for the International Year of Co-operatives.
Status of Women
Statements by Members
2:10 p.m.
Irene Mathyssen London—Fanshawe, ON
Mr. Speaker, today marks the 81st anniversary of a landmark achievement in the battle for women's equality, the day that women were recognized as persons under Canadian law.
Our Famous Five were dedicated to women's equality and fought for the right of Canadian women to have a voice in Parliament. These women led the way for the appointment of Cairine Wilson to the Senate in 1930. Senator Wilson is honoured with a statue in the Senate lobby.
I would like to express my profound gratitude for the hard work and dedication of my fellow sisters, who are being recognized with the Governor General's Persons Award today: Marie Louise Fish, Lucille Harper, Kerline Joseph, Anne Michaud and Barbara Mowat. They have sought to make a difference in the lives of women.
Shamefully, women still make up only 22% of the members of the Canadian House of Commons. Governments across our nation must make the equal representation of women in places of power, influence and decision making a priority. Our failure to do so fails women's right to equality.
Eliminating Entitlements for Prisoners
Statements by Members
2:10 p.m.
Dave MacKenzie Oxford, ON
Mr. Speaker, our Conservative government believes that convicted criminals serving time in prison should not be receiving taxpayer-funded old age security benefits that are meant for law-abiding seniors. Canadians already foot the bill for prisoners' expenses and it is grossly unfair for them to be paying for incarcerated criminals twice.
That is why we introduced Bill C-31, the eliminating entitlements for prisoners act. Bill C-31, once passed, will ensure that mass murderers like Clifford Olson, Paul Bernardo, Robert Pickton and Russell Williams do not receive these taxpayer-funded benefits.
My constituents in the riding of Oxford have made their opinions loud and clear, as have Canadians all across the country. They want this bill passed. I implore the opposition to work with our Conservative government to get this bill passed quickly. It is the fair and right thing to do.
Omar Khadr
Statements by Members
2:15 p.m.
Josée Beaudin Saint-Lambert, QC
Mr. Speaker, on Wednesday evening, You don't like the truth—4 days inside Guantánamo, a documentary on the detention of child soldier Omar Khadr, directed by Luc Côté and Patricio Henriquez, will be screened on Parliament Hill.
Omar Khadr has been imprisoned at Guantanamo since 2002, and is the only westerner still being held there. When he was arrested by the American authorities, he was 15 years old, which makes Khadr a child soldier. He was completely abandoned by the Canadian government, and could plead guilty to the charges against him, as part of negotiations allegedly being held between his lawyers and lawyers for the American authorities. The Conservative government must immediately recognize its obligations to this young man, whose rights are being violated, and demand his immediate repatriation, as recommended by the Federal Court, the Federal Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court.
I invite all my colleagues, as well as the public, to come out to see the screening of this documentary.
Status of Women
Statements by Members
October 18th, 2010 / 2:15 p.m.
Michelle Simson Scarborough Southwest, ON
Mr. Speaker, 81 years ago today, the judicial committee of the Privy Council officially declared that Canadian women were legally defined as persons, thanks to the hard work and tenacity of five extraordinary women: Emily Murphy, Nellie McClung, Irene Parlby, Henrietta Muir Edwards and Louise McKinney, the Famous Five.
The historic precedent set by the Persons case established that women could hold any political office and marked a milestone achievement for women's rights in Canada. Despite the advances that have been made in women's equality since the success of the Persons case, there is still much work to be done.
The Liberal Party of Canada is leading the way in the fight for women's equality. This past May, despite government opposition, the House of Commons voted in favour of a Liberal private member's bill on pay equity.
Today, on Persons Day, I salute those fearless women who came before us and reaffirm the Liberal Party's commitment to equality for all Canadians.


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STARKVILLE – A big moment for Johnthan Banks turned into a scary moment Saturday night.
In the third quarter, Banks recorded his 16th career interception, tying the school record held by Walt Harris. The senior returned it to the MTSU 25-yard line and was hurt when Chris Sharpe fell into him after the play and twisted his left knee.
Banks stayed down for a couple of minutes before limping off. Trainers checked him out, and "they said everything felt completely stable," head coach Dan Mullen said.
Banks said he'll just put some ice on the knee and should be good to go.
"It scared me a little bit, but I'll be all right," he said.
Banks now has five regular season games and a bowl game in which to break Harris' mark.
His interception came in the midst of a 21-point third quarter for MSU and was one of three turnovers the Bulldogs forced.
"After the game you look back and say, OK, that was the moment that kind of sealed it for our guys," Mullen said.
Bama's next
Fans and media have been pointing to the Alabama game for a while. Now MSU's players and coaches can, too.
"Toward the end of last week we were kind of thinking about it a lot," tailback LaDarius Perkins said. "We know we can't overlook an opponent … but in the back of our minds we were thinking about it.
"Now we can fully think about it from now until game time."
RoJo gets first TD
Robert Johnson has been a great practice player who's not always gotten it done on game day. He got it done Saturday, making two catches for 36 yards, including a 23-yard touchdown in the third quarter.
It was the first career TD for the sophomore.
"Good to see it translate onto game day for Robert," Mullen said. "You see him in practice sometimes, and there's some 'wow' at practice. And then a lot of the times that 'wow' in practice turns to kind of average in the game. …
"I think tonight you saw him get a little bit more relaxed out there on the field."
Key drive
MSU led 10-3 when its defense got a big hold to open the second half. The offense then took it 75 yards in just five plays, with LaDarius Perkins scoring on a 64-yard run.
Key number
Three – MSU forced three turnovers, all in the second half.
"Coach Mullen, I'm not going to say what he did at halftime, but he got us fired up. We came back out and we dominated." – Cornerback Johnthan Banks
Next weekend
MSU visits No. 1 Alabama (7-0, 4-0 SEC). Kickoff is at 7:30 p.m. on ESPN.
Bulldogs bites
MSU has scored 25 or more points in seven consecutive games for the first time in school history. … Right guard Tobias Smith did not play but was available. Justin Malone drew his fourth career start. … Banks and Nickoe Whitley had eight tackles apiece.


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Before the free agent market could even begin, the Calgary Flames made a move, acquiring and signing a puck-moving defenceman.
Numbers Game looks at the Flames' addition of Dennis Wideman.
The Flames Get: D Dennis Wideman.
Wideman, 29, has been a very productive puck-moving defenceman. Over the last five years, he ranks 10th among NHL defencemen with 53 goals and 15th with 201 points and in four of those five seasons, Wideman registered at least 20 points on the power play.
Factor in that Wideman ranks sixth among all NHL defencemen in ice time over that period, 24:15 per game while missing an average of 3.4 games per season, and it shouldn't come as any surprise that Wideman was both sought-after as a free agent and well-compensated once he signed with the Flames.
Upon acquiring Wideman's rights, the Flames signed him to a five-year, $26.25-million contract, which sounds like a lot but, given Wideman's credentials, the lack of depth on the free agent market and that he was just paid $4.5-million for the 2011-2012 season, there isn't really anything surprising about his new financial stratosphere.
In Calgary, Wideman will continue to log big minutes. Barring a future deal, Jay Bouwmeester, Mark Giordano and Chris Butler are the returning big-minute blueliners on the Flames, and each of them shoots left, while Wideman shoots right-handed, so his place on the power play should be most secure.
The Capitals Get: Jordan Henry and a fifth-round draft pick.
26-year-old Jordan Henry, who has yet to play an NHL game, is effectively filler. He will be an unrestricted free agent as of July 1, has yet to play an NHL game in his career and registered 11 points, a minus-4 rating and 97 penalty minutes in 68 AHL games last season. His inclusion also gives the Flames a little more leeway when it comes to their 50-man reserve list, should there be any multi-player wheeling and dealing that needs to be done.
The fifth-round draft pick doesn't yield a great deal of value -- approximately a 12% chance that the player plays 100 NHL games -- but considering that the Capitals were going to lose Wideman for nothing as an unrestricted free agent, it's nice to get another pick to throw in the hopper.
In Wideman's absence, the Capitals have to hope that Mike Green can stay healthy, as he's missed 83 games over the last two seasons; he would effectively resume his role as the primary right-handed puck-moving defenceman on the Washington blueline. Otherwise, a young defenceman like Dmitry Orlov could see an expanded role, which might have been coming anyway.
Given their depth and youth on defence, it's not the least bit surprising that the Capitals weren't in the position to compete with such an offer for Wideman's services. That doesn't mean Wideman was worth less than what he received, however. Sometimes, the fit just isn't right and, in Wideman's case, he makes more sense for a stubborn Flames team that is forging ahead rather than a Capitals defence that is built around a younger core.
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The Microsoft search engine gives consumers' status updates, links and comments from the social network.
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Microsoft Corp. announced today it will present consumers with an average of five times more Facebook content in Bing.com social search results than it previously featured.
Bing displays social content—which includes a consumer's Facebook friends' status updates, shared links, comments and photos, as well as content from other social networks, including Twitter, Foursquare and Google+—in a "social sidebar" on the far right side of the search results page. Without leaving the page, a searcher can click the Facebook icon to give the search engine access to his Facebook account, making any pertinent content from his Facebook connections appear in the sidebar.
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The move is aimed at differentiating Bing from Google, says Kevin Lee, CEO of Didit, a search engine marketing firm. "Microsoft is trying to figure out a secret sauce that will get people to realize that Bing is just as good as, or better than, Google," he says.
Since Microsoft, which owns a small stake in Facebook, introduced the social sidebar last year, Bing.com has made only modest gains in its share of web searches. In April 2012, the month before the social sidebar launched, Bing had a 15.4% share of the search market, according to web measurement firm comScore Inc.; in December that share had increased to 16.3%.
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Even months before the Bing announcement, many retailers planned to shift paid search dollars to Bing, according to an Internet Retailer survey published in the Search Marketing Guide. 42.5% of survey respondents said they planned to increase their search ad spending on Bing. Another 28.3% planned to keep their Bing spending the same and 5.5% planned to decrease spending (the remaining 23.6% of respondents don't advertise on Bing).
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Private Enforcement of Corporate Law: An Empirical Comparison of the UK and US
John Armour
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law; University of Oxford - Said Business School; European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)
Bernard S. Black
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law; Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management; European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)
Brian R. Cheffins
University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law; European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)
Richard Nolan
University of York - York Law School
February 13, 2009
as published in Journal of Empirical Legal Studies Vol. 6, pp. 687-722, 2009
U of Texas Law, Law and Econ Research Paper No. 89
McCombs Research Paper Series, Paper No. FIN-02-07
Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1105355
3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers
ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 120
ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 234
IIt is often assumed that strong securities markets require good legal protection of minority shareholders. This implies both "good" law -- principally corporate and securities law -- and enforcement, yet there has been little empirical analysis of enforcement. We study private enforcement of corporate law in two common law jurisdictions with highly developed stock markets, the United Kingdom and the United States, examining how often directors of publicly traded companies are sued, and the nature and outcomes of those suits.
We find, based a comprehensive search for filings over 2004-2006, that lawsuits against directors of public companies alleging breach of duty are nearly nonexistent in the UK. The US is more litigious, but we still find, based on a nationwide search of decisions between 2000-2007, that only a small percentage of public companies face a lawsuit against directors alleging a breach of duty that is sufficiently contentious to result in a reported judicial opinion, and a substantial fraction of these cases are dismissed.
We examine possible substitutes in the UK for formal private enforcement of corporate law and find some evidence of substitutes, especially for takeover litigation. Nonetheless, our results suggest that formal private enforcement of corporate law is less central to strong securities markets than might be anticipated.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 36
Keywords: Private enforcement, corporate law, derivative actions, public enforcement, comparative corporate law
JEL Classification: G38, K22, K41
Date posted: April 16, 2008 ; Last revised: October 19, 2010
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The price move is close to 2% this afternoon in iShares MSCI Mexico Capped ETF (EWW) after Moody's Investors Service upgraded Mexican government bonds to A3 from Baa1, with an outlook of "stable."
The ETF is ahead by 0.8% on the session, swinging about a dollar and moving into positive territory after the ratings change.
From Erin McCarthy of the Wall Street Journal:
The move puts Moody's ratings on Mexico one notch above peer ratings firms. Standard & Poor's raised Mexico's rating one notch to triple-B-plus in December, after Fitch Ratings upgraded Mexico to the same level in May 2013. Moody's had last upgraded Mexico's rating in May 2013.
Mexico's government has embarked on a hefty slate of reforms over the past year, aiming to improve the country's productivity and put it on a more sustainable growth path.
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Last week when they were broadcasting Nhk they announced that they will broadcast S Canada to but i don't know what's happening:|!And you have to clink on "Смотреть НТВ+ Спорт oнлайн" to watch!
Is anyone else watching on Universal Sports??? TERRY GANNON is back to figure skating commentary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OH, Terry, how I've missed thee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *major fangirl moment when I heard his voice* I think I'm more excited for Terry's return than the skating at this point...
I love LaFuente's costume though. Perfect for the music. Very pretty girl, too bad about the fall.
Lafuente landed a 3loop-2t, 3Toe, 2A.
Tactically, starting again was the smart move. the error was REALLY early, and she couldn't do much about the combo or maybe even the solo triple she lost so much time. Glad she's not injured.
Too bad about the fall by Sonja, good thing they let her start over, but the whole time I kept thinking of Oksana Baiul because this music "The Feeling Begins" is synonymous of her pro. program imho. Good job.
That was a smart move on her part. Nice program.
Lafuente: 42.76, only one deduction. How does that work? 2A downgraded, though I don't know what amount.
Gilles: fell on her combo and her solo triple. Landed the 2A. Lifeless program
Score: 41.02
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Darn, I really like Alexe Gilles, too bad about the fall on two of the jumps because I recall she jumps just like Agnes! Pink looks lovely on her, but she's such a tall statesque beauty that I wish her music & costumes would accentuate that fact. No more of this junior type music. Imho she's America's answer to Finland's Kiira Korpi.
Better luck next time, Alexe!
My mom and brother are watching and my mom is IMing me with his comments. Apparently he thinks LaCoste looks like a Bond girl. :rolleyes:
Amelie LaCoste: Lands the jumps but step-out on the end of her combo. This is a good program for her - quite sexy.
Amelie looks like Meryl Davis of the USA except she has bright blue Paul Newman eyes. Nice skate, good job, my favorite part was how she hung on to the 3R/2R combo. (edge jumps are my favorite, especially the axel & the loop).
step-out and hand-down.
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