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TRIBUTES have been paid to a 27-year-old former Minster stonemason who died while travelling in India.
Daniel Barrett Frost passed away in his hotel room in Calcutta on November 9.
His family said his death was not considered to be suspicious and said he died "suddenly, but peacefully" with police finding no sign of a struggle.
A keen traveller, Daniel had just arrived in Calcutta following a diving trip to the Andaman Islands and had been due to travel on to work in Australia and New Zealand at the end of the month.
Speaking from their home in Malton, his parents Paul and Chris and sister Helen paid tribute to a loyal, popular and outgoing man whom they described as a "big fellow with a big heart".
Helen, 26, said: "He did more in the last few years of his life than some people do in their whole lifetime.
"He was always there for his friends. He was known as a legend in Malton and I was always 'Frosty's little sister'. He was very popular and had a very cheeky sense of humour. He always stuck up for the underdog.
"No matter how far away he was, he always stayed in touch.
"He was loyal to his close friends and loyal to his family."
Chris, his mum, said: "A lot of people would say it in this position, but Daniel really was very special."
Daniel, who was known to his friends as Frosty, attended Malton School before going on to York College and undergoing a four-year apprenticeship at York Minster Stoneyard where he became a skilled stonemason.
He left to travel around the world – visiting South America and Asia, living with a tribe in the Amazon and bungee jumping in one of the world's deepest canyons in New Zealand, his family said.
Upon his return to North Yorkshire earlier this year, Daniel had hoped to return to work at the Minster.
However, there were no opportunities at the time and he decided to continue with his travels, eventually hoping to find masonry work in Australia and then New Zealand.
Geoff Butler, the foreman stone carver at the Minster, said about Daniel: "Straight away we were struck by how keen he was and what a great personality he had. He was outgoing with a great sense of humour.
"He will be remembered with great affection.
"I will always remember the laughs we had."
Daniel appeared in The Press in 2005 when he was presented with apprentice's tools in memory of stonemason Stephen Magson, who died in the 2004 tsunami in Thailand.
A funeral is due to take place following Daniel's repatriation. A spokesman for the Foreign and Commonwealth office said: "We are aware of the death of a British national on the November 9 in Kolkata (Calcutta).
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A man accused of firing shots into a house that wounded a 3-year-old girl made his first appearance in court Saturday on charges of attempted first-degree murder and shooting into an occupied dwelling.
Police said 27-year-old Joseph Chambers fired nearly a dozen shots into a house in the 5600 block of Bishop Lane in Lakewood on Dec. 28. One of those shots hit Christina Downey in the foot as she sat on the couch of her living room.
Channel 4's Kumasi Aaron spoke with the girl's family and neighbors on Saturday about moving forward after Chambers's arrest.
"I'm glad, 'cause this is a nice safe neighborhood," said Ty Pashia, a neighbor who lives nearby. "We have no problems here, ever. This is a fluke. So I feel a lot better about it."
Police said Chambers turned himself in Friday night on a warrant issued earlier in the week.
Michael Downey said he believes the shooting stemmed from a bar fight he had with Chambers more than two years ago.
In the days since the shooting, the family said it's been hard for them to feel safe their own home. It's a sentiment shared by neighbors in their quiet community.
"I was a little anxious like everybody else I'm sure," said Pashia. "I'm just glad it's over with."
Pashia said he's also glad his 3-year-old neighbor is alright.
"It broke my heart. She's just an innocent little kid," said Pashia. "But I heard she took it pretty well. She's a little trooper."
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This demonstration program will support a practitioner-researcher partnership to develop and evaluate new mentoring practices to serve the needs of youth whose parents are incarcerated. Incarcerated parents and their children are a heterogeneous group, and associations between parental incarceration and developmental outcomes are complicated. These youth may be at increased risk for experiencing sexual violence.
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Being right-handed or dextral is the form of handedness characterized by greater coordination in the right hand and arm, and strong preference, in one-handed tasks, for using the right rather than left limb.
A variety of studies suggest that 70% to 90%[1][2] of the world population are right-handed, as opposed to left-handed or having other handedness traits.
Right-hand dominanceEdit
There is no prevailing theory that explains why right-handedness is so much more common than left-handedness.[2] Neurologically, the motor skills of the right side of the body are controlled by the left hemisphere of the brain, so researchers believe the explanation may ultimately be found in the differences between the two halves of the brain. For example, a recent study found that right-handers use the right side of the brain to focus on an entire image, but the left side of the brain to focus on details within an image.[3] This observed difference, like many others, shows the effects of right-handedness but does not clearly indicate its cause.
Left/right-footedness and ocular dominanceEdit
Right-handed people are known to be left footed in rare occasions.
Being right-handed does not always mean that the favored foot is also on the right side. When playing soccer for instance, many people prefer using their left foot rather than the right, despite being right-handed.[4]
People typically also have a dominant eye, a preference known as ocular dominance. There is only a weak correlation between being right-handed and left eyed.[5]
Theories explaining right-hand dominanceEdit
- Main article: Handedness
- Brain hemisphere division of labor: The premise of this theory is that since both speaking and handiwork require fine motor skills, having one hemisphere of the brain do both would be more efficient than having it divided up.
Right-handedness in societyEdit
In the past, many schools around the world forced left-handed children to write right-handed.[1] In Hinduism, the right hand must be used for all auspicious and respectful activity, including eating, giving, receiving, and worshipful offering. In the Islamic and Arabic culture, one prefers using the left hand for tasks such as wiping oneself after using the bathroom and the right hand for eating so they can keep their level of hygiene high. Also Muslims believe that on the day of judgement your good deeds will be represented in a book and in your right hand and your bad deeds also in a book will be in your left hand, therefore whenever Muslims do something they must do it first with their right hand then their left, even with such small things as putting on a shirt, so that they are forever reminded about the day of judgment.[6]
A very good number of technological devices are made primarily for right-handers; examples of everyday objects primarily designed for right-handers include refrigerators, scissors, microwaves, cameras, can-openers, computer mice, and padded kitchen mittens (padded on one side only). Left-handed golf clubs are more difficult to find than right-handed ones. Many classical-era Japanese swords were (and even modern cooking knives are) favored to cut more efficiently for the right-hander. Musical instruments such as guitars are also set up for right-handers, although one can usually find a similar, yet reversed shape to play left-handedly. Military rifles designed to be shot only from the right shoulder have resulted in injuries from spent cartridge casings hitting left-handers in the eye and head.[7]
Applying more specifically to cultures where text is written left to right, writing either with a pen or a pencil in the right hand is definitely more favorable. This is because as a right handed person writes from left to right, part of the hand resting on the writing surface would be resting on plain, unused surface. In the case of left handed writers writing from left to right, their hand is much more likely to accidentally rest on the newly written text which may still be wet in the case of ink, and this would cause it to smudge and look unprofessional, and in some cases render the writing unusable and it would need to be re-written. This is one reason why right-handedness is encouraged when children learn to write.
See alsoEdit
- Asymmetry
- Cerebral dominance
- Chirality
- Handedness
- Interhemispheric interaction
- Footedness
- Lateral dominance
- Left brain
- Ocular dominance
- Right brain
- Sinistral and dextral
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Holder, M. K. (1997). Why are more people right-handed?. Sciam.com. Scientific American Inc. URL accessed on 2008-04-14.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Psychology for A-level second edition, page 309
- ↑ BBC website
- ↑ Toddler Today website
- ↑ Porac C, Coren S. Is eye dominance a part of generalized laterality? Percept Mot Skills. 1975 Jun;40(3):763-9. PMID 1178363.
- ↑ Muslim Restrooms
- ↑ BBC NEWS | Health | Left-handers have different view
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Keith Andrews has been voted Senior International Player of the Year by the Football Association of Ireland.
The 32-year-old's honour was announced on Sunday night at a ceremony in Dublin.
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HOUSTON - Parents in one neighborhood were on edge Thursday after learning the man who lives next door has been accused of sexually assaulting two toddlers.
Cesar Chavez, 58, is married to a woman who ran a day care out of their Katy home in the Sundown subdivision.
Harris County sheriff's deputies said two young girls told their parents that Chavez, who they called "Tio," touched them and made them perform sex acts.
The victims were evaluated by a forensic interviewer with the Children's Assessment Center and a counselor. They said the assaults began in October 2011 and happened on numerous occasions.
A Child Protective Services representative said the home day care in the 2200 block of Gray Hawk was not licensed by the state, as is required. Investigators told the family to stop caring for children back in January, when the allegations first came to light.
Neighbors describe Chavez as friendly, outgoing, outspoken and sweet. Neighbors said he stayed home most of the time, occasionally taking carpentry and handyman jobs.
It doesn't appear that Chavez has any prior criminal record.
In court, he told the judge that he is a citizen of Peru, but he is in the US legally.
Clarence Murphy, who lives just a few houses down, said it's a good reminder to his two children that people are not always what they seem.
Murphy said that the school bus stop is actually in Chavez's driveway.
The yard at Chavez's home is neat and tidy, but what one 4-year-old told a counselor happened inside is an abomination. She described forced sex acts too explicit to repeat. She also said Chavez did not like her because he hid her in the closet and hit her with his hand and it "made her sad."
"It's kind of sickening. It's sickening," said Murphy.
Chavez has been booked into the Harris County Jail on two counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child with a $30,000 bond for each.
KPRC Local 2 knocked on the door Thursday, but no one answered.
Investigators said the alleged victims told counselors that Chavez touched other children at the home, too. Detectives want to hear from anyone who believes their child or a child they know may have been touched by him. The number to call is 713-830-3250.
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Jacob Beeler 1751-1843. Parents are not known.
The source of any connection to the Ulrich Beeler family was by a so called "Family Bible". It has been found to provide no proof whatever of any connection to Ulrich Beeler or any other of his children. It consists of only 3 or 4 sheets Xeroxed during the 1980's by a RaNae Park. There are a few names listed on blank pages without a single letter of print on them. There is no proof whatever of any connection to Ulrich to be found on it. We have a copy and there is no value that can found in it.
We kept hearing references to it and discovered during exchanges of posts on one of the Beeler forums we did indeed have the so called "Bible".
Next to the name Jacob Beeler is the date 10 October 1750. No wife is listed and no entries on any printed sheet are to be seen. To use the term "Family Bible" is entirely out of order and does nothing but mislead to its authority. It has none.
We did not realize when we received those copies several years ago what it supposedly represented. I apologize for the place of birth and death because they are both incorrect. The parents are also unknown. They are not Ulrich and Maria Buhler.
Continental Line service shown by U.S. Government marker. It is Pennsylvania Continental Line. Other information may be found in Pennsylvania just as the VA did in 1982 when they furnished the marker now at his grave.
Soldier is buried in the Beeler Cemetery, Bristol, Tennessee. Listed in the Tennessee NSSAR Patriots buried in Tennessee.


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Here is a look at the life of Britain's Prince Harry.
Birth date: September 15, 1984
Birth date: September 15, 1984
Birthplace: London, England at St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington
Birth name: Henry Charles Albert David
Father: Charles, the Prince of Wales
Mother: Diana, the Princess of Wales
Education: Eton College, 1998-2003; Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, 2005
Military: British Army, 2011-present, Captain
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Military name is Captain Harry Wales.
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Founder of the Invictus Games, an international sporting competition for injured servicemen and women. The first games were held in London in 2014.
December 21, 1984 - Is christened Prince Henry Charles Albert David at St George's Chapel, Windsor, by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
December 21, 1984 - Is christened Prince Henry Charles Albert David at St George's Chapel, Windsor, by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
September 6, 1997 - Attends his mother's funeral.
November 1997 - Accompanies his father to South Africa where he meets President Nelson Mandela, goes on a safari, and meets the pop group the Spice Girls.
January 2002 - A confession of heavy drinking and marijuana use when he was 16, prompts Prince Charles to send him to the drug rehab center, Phoenix House UK, for a day.
September 15, 2002 - For his 18th birthday, Harry receives his official coat of arms as a birthday present from his grandmother Queen Elizabeth II. He gives an interview, and a series of pictures by top photographer Mario Testino are released.
May 18, 2003 - Is promoted to cadet officer, the highest rank in the Combined Cadet Corps.
January 2005 - Pictures surface of him wearing a Nazi uniform to a costume party. He apologizes days later.
May 2005 - Begins military training at Sandhurst Royal Military Academy.
September 15, 2005 - Replaces his uncle Edward, the Earl of Wessex, as a Counsellor of State. As a counsellor, Prince Philip and four adult members of the royal family in the line of succession, are to carry out the duties of the Queen in her absence.
December 12, 2006 - Prince William and Prince Harry announce their plans for a concert and memorial service to mark the tenth anniversary of their mother's death. The Concert for Diana is held on July 1, 2007, and features Elton John and Duran Duran. The memorial service takes place on August 31st.
April 12, 2006 - Graduates from Sandhurst as a 2nd lieutenant.
April 2006 - Harry and Prince Seeiso of Lesotho co-found a charity to help Lesotho's AIDS orphans. The organization is named Sentebale, which means "forget me not" in the language of Lesotho.
February 2007 - The British Ministry of Defense announces that Harry will be deployed to Iraq this year with his army unit.
May 16, 2007 - Sir Richard Dannatt, the chief of the general staff, announces that Harry will not deploy to Iraq because of a number of threats against him.
December 2007 - Works with US Air Force 336th Fighter Squadron in Afghanistan air strikes.
February 28, 2008 - The British Ministry of Defense announces that Prince Harry has secretly been serving in Afghanistan with his Army unit on a four-month mission since December 2007.
February 29, 2008 - Harry is withdrawn from Afghanistan for security reasons a day after the media discloses that he has been fighting there for several weeks.
May 5, 2008 - Princess Anne presents Harry and his unit, the Household Cavalry Regiment, with the Operational Service Medal for their time in Afghanistan.
May 2009 - During his first official visit to the United States, Harry visits Ground Zero and leaves a wreath of flowers with a signed note.
May 7, 2010 - Completes the Army Pilots Course and receives his provisional "wings."
July 2010 - Begins Apache helicopter training with the Army Air Corps.
March 29-April 5, 2011 - Accompanies the Walking with the Wounded Expedition to the North Pole.
April 14, 2011 - Is promoted to captain and qualifies as an Apache helicopter pilot.
October 2011 - Trains in the California and Arizona deserts with Apache helicopters during Exercise Crimson Eagle.
August 21 2012 - TMZ posts photos of the prince partying nude in a Las Vegas hotel. A few days later, British tabloid The Sun publishes the photos.
September 7, 2012 - Prince Harry arrives in Afghanistan to begin serving a 20 week deployment as an Apache helicopter pilot. He returns home in January 2013.
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DETROIT - The day has come for Bret Michaels to take over Detroit. After a full day of racing action, the excitement will kick into high gear Saturday at the Chevrolet Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix.
READ: 2013 Chevrolet Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix tickets on sale
Bret Michaels will rock the MotorCity Casino Hotel Entertainment Stage to liven up the Saturday night activities at the Grand Prix. Michaels, lead singer of the band Poison, reality TV star and avid philanthropist, will take to the stage at approximately 6 p.m. ET on June 1.
--Poison with Bobby Dall, Bret Michaels and C.C. DeVille
With Michaels leading the way, Poison was one of the most popular rock bands of the 1980's with hits such as "Every Rose Has Its Thorn," "Talk Dirty to Me" and "Nothin' but a Good Time." Michaels, an admitted "car guy," has had a successful solo career as well with four studio albums released. His latest CD, Good Songs and Great Friends, was just released last month. His solo hits include, "All I Ever Needed," "Nothing to Lose" and "Get Your Rock On." In recent years, Michaels has also established himself as a reality television personality starring in such hit shows as "Rock of Love with Bret Michaels" and "Celebrity Apprentice." He is sure to have more success with his new show "Bret Michaels Rock My RV" coming in May to the Travel Channel.
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"Bret Michaels is a tremendous talent and we are excited to watch him perform Saturday night on the MotorCity Casino Hotel Entertainment Stage at the Grand Prix," said Bud Denker, Chairman of the Chevrolet Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix. "We know Bret will put on a great show for our fans and this will be a perfect way to put an exclamation point on an exciting Saturday at Belle Isle."
The concert will highlight a full day off the track as acts will perform throughout the day and all weekend long on the MotorCity Casino Hotel Entertainment Stage. On the track, the action will be just as thrilling with three great races on Saturday. The Pirelli World Challenge will host the first of two weekend races while the GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series will also battle wheel to wheel on June 1. The IZOD IndyCar Series will then close it out with the first of two weekend races at the Chevrolet Indy Dual in Detroit presented by Quicken Loans.
"With all of that terrific racing action and Bret Michaels in concert, Saturday is going to be one incredible day at the Chevrolet Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix," said Denker.
In the coming weeks, event officials will announce additional headline music acts that will also perform on the MotorCity Casino Hotel Entertainment Stage on race weekend. For a complete entertainment listing updated frequently as the Grand Prix approaches, continue to visit www.DetroitGP.com.
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Challengers did unusually well against incumbents in both the Democratic and Republican primaries on Tuesday.
Several members of the Texas House and Senate will not be returning.
Sen. John Carona, whose district includes parts of Oak Lawn, lost his bid for re-election to tea party favorite Don Huffhines. Carona, a moderate Republican, has served in the Legislature since 1990.
Staunch LGBT ally Rep. Lon Burnam of Fort Worth lost his bid for re-election to Ramon Romero who has no connection to the Democratic Party and has mostly donated to Republicans, according to the Burnt Orange Report. Burnam has the endorsement of all Democratic groups, including Hispanic groups.
Rep. Linda Harper-Brown, an Irving Republican, lost her bid for re-election to tea party favorite Rodney Anderson. During redistricting, Harper-Brown and Anderson were drawn into the same district. Anderson decided to sit out the last election.
Arlington Republican Diane Patrick lost her bid for re-election to Tony Tinderholt. Patrick was the author of the final anti-bullying bill that passed the Legislature in 2011. Among Tinderholt's complaints against Patrick is a bill she authored that would have required kindergarten children to have a dental exam before entering first grade. He's running on a platform of securing the border, gun rights and fighting Obamacare and abortion and an almost cartoonish picture on his homepage shows him with his buxom blond wife, a former Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader, in a tight red sweater.
Matt Rinaldi beat Carrollton Rep. Bennett Ratliff. Rinaldi is endorsed by Liberty Institute's Kelly Shakelford, Texas Home School Coalition and Texas Values President Joanathan Saenz.
In other races, former Dallas City Councilwoman Linda Koop edged out Rep. Stefani Carter. Koop didn't receive 50 percent of the vote, so they will face off in a runoff.
State District Judge Lena Levario is one of a number of incumbent Democratic judges who lost their primary races on Tuesday. Levario held District Attorney Craig Watkins in contempt of court last March. He was later acquitted, but his prosecutor, Tammy Kemp, challenged Levario, raised twice as much money and won the primary.
Other local judges were defeated for r-eelection by Watkins prosecutors. The list of defeated incumbents includes Lori Chrisman Hockett, Andy Chatham, Carlos Cortez, Marty Lowy, Larry Mitchell, Bill Mazur, Michael E. Miller and Chris Wilmoth.
In the Republican race for lieutenant governor, incumbent David Dewhurst received only 28 percent of the vote. Sen Dan Patrick polled 43 percent. They face each other in a runoff.
Metroplex Republicans President Rob Schlein lost his bid for re-election as Republican Precinct Chair 2069. Former Stonewall Democrats President Omar Narvaez lost his race for re-election as Democratic Precinct Chair 2062.


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Why Have Jennifer Love Hewitt's Breasts Been Digitally Reduced?
In some ads for her new show 'The Client List,' Jennifer Love Hewitt's breasts have undergone a dramatic digital reduction. But why?
-Lucia Peters
Well, this is bizarre: Jennifer Love Hewitt seems to have undergone some pretty dramatic Photoshop in some ads for her new show The Client List… though probably not in the way you would expect. Jennifer's curves have become pretty legendary over the years; furthermore, she's become a role model when it comes to body image, slamming photographers, reporters, and bloggers who called her fat over a handful of bikini pictures. So why the heck have her breasts gotten a digital reduction in these ads?
Here, take a look for yourself. Above is the original ad for The Client List, featuring Jennifer in all her curvy glory; and below is the edited ad, in which her boobs have been drastically reduced (pardon the poor quality; the ads got pulled when the uproar about them started):
It's no secret that rampant Photoshopping in advertising is becoming a real problem (see: Demi Moore's Helena Rubenstein ads); but the wacky thing here is that instead of using it to enhance curves, instead it's been used to get rid of them. This is weird, right? It's weird! And also unnecessarily prudish!
According to the NY Daily News, the original ad is the one that has been widely circulated, so at least there's that; it's appeared in such places as The Hollywood Reporter and on billboards all over Los Angeles. The Photoshopped version appears to have only reared its head in Entertainment Weekly. Furthermore, Jennifer herself had no idea that the ads had been altered until they had already run. Last Friday, she told radio show The Kevin & Bean Show, "Somebody sent me a copy of the photograph, and I was like, 'Ummm… what happened?' I'm not sure what's going on. But apparently somebody wanted me to have a boob reduction." The actress continued, "The thing that's even crazier is that usually when they do that stuff, I had to see the photograph before they went out anywhere, and I never saw a new version of it."
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Here's the thing: The ads aren't really that scandalous. They're sexy, sure; but given that The Client List is a show about a woman in dire financial straits who takes a job at what turns out to be a happy endings massage parlor in order to support her family, this probably shouldn't be that much of a surprise. But look at it: She's not showing any nipple. She's not spreading her legs provocatively. She's not even that scantily dressed—she's wearing a full slip, not a bra and panties or some weird and inexplicable piece of lingerie. We saw more dramatic things on this year's Oscars telecast (hello, Jennifer Lopez's nipple!), so I'm having a little trouble seeing why this gorgeous, curvy woman would need to be edited down to a smaller size.
Why did Entertainment Weekly run the edited ad? No idea. Nor do we know who's actually responsible for doing the editing in the first place. Jennifer did make a point of saying, however, that she's glad they still ran the ad, and that "they've been very kind to us."
In the meantime, here are some things Jennifer has said in the past regarding body image that are worth remembering:
"People should be proud of who they are and what they look like, and not let all this silliness and judgment sort of get in the way."
"I've sat by in silence for a long time now about the way women's bodies are constantly scrutinized. To set the record straight, I'm not upset for me, but for all of the girls out there that are struggling with their body image."
"What I should be doing is celebrating some of the best days of my life and my engagement to the man of my dreams, instead of having to deal with photographers taking invasive pictures from bad angles. I know what I look like, and so do my friends and family. And like all women out there should, I love my body."
And finally, "To all girls with butts, boobs, hips and a waist, put on a bikini—put it on and stay strong."
True that!
Lucia Peters is BettyConfidential's associate editor.


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I'm wondering if Ruslan Fedotenko might be hurt, or somebody else. Or if they just want a fresh body with some jam against the Bruins.
Though I am guessing the Rangers had to have an injury to make this move.
Just had an interesting thought about Zuccarello's demotion. If he was here and the Rangers had an injury, they couldn't recall somebody. They would be forced to use him.
So with the minimum number of forwards on the team, if somebody goes down, they can handpick the type of player they recall. And with the Rangers' final three games (the final 12, actually) all within an hour of Hartford, they have given themselves some flexibility by sending Zuccarello down.
Here's the announcement from the Rangers:
New York, April 4, 2011 – New York Rangers President and General Manager Glen Sather announced today that forward Kris Newbury has been recalled from the Connecticut Whale of the American Hockey League (AHL).
Newbury, 29, recorded an assist on the game-winning goal in a 4-2 victory for the Whale vs. Portland yesterday. He has registered 16 goals and 42 assists for 58 points, along with 128 penalty minutes in 67 AHL games with Connecticut this season. Newbury has established career-highs assists and shots on goal (192), and leads the team in points and assists, is tied for first on the Whale in game-winning goals, fourth in goals, and ranks fifth in penalty minutes. He led Connecticut with 14 points (six goals, eight assists) and a plus-seven rating in 13 games during the month of March, including a seven-game scoring streak from March 5 at Springfield to March 18 at Manchester (six goals, five assists over the span). Newbury has registered a team-high, 14 multi-point performances this season, including two separate streaks of three games with multiple points – November 13 vs. Springfield to November 19 at Springfield (six assists), and December 3 at Providence to December 11 vs. Manchester (one goal, six assists). The 5-11, 213-pounder established a career-high with an eight-game assist streak from November 28 vs. Adirondack to December 17 vs. Worcester, recording three goals and 12 assists over the span.
Newbury returns to the Rangers where has registered one assist and 35 penalty minutes in 11 games this season. He made his Blueshirts debut at Montreal on January 15, and recorded his first point as a Ranger with the primary assist on the game-tying goal in a 3-2 shootout win at Atlanta on January 22.
The Brampton, Ontario native was originally San Jose's fifth round pick, 139th overall, in the 2002 NHL Entry Draft. He was acquired by the Rangers from Detroit in exchange for forward Jordan Owens on March 3, 2010.


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Hi guys!
Thanks to help I got regarding a question about adding "scoring" option to a table, I've since made the changes, but the query I've ended up with is very slow — previously, fractions of a second, whereas now it's 9+ seconds:
SELECT bookmarks.id, links.user_id, bookmarks.url, bookmarks.title, SUBSTR(bookmarks.snippet, 1, 100) as snippet, GROUP_CONCAT(tags.tag) AS tags, bookmarks.datetime, links.status FROM bookmarks, links, tags WHERE (links.status = 'public') AND (links.bookmark_id = bookmarks.id) AND (tags.bookmark_id = bookmarks.id) GROUP BY bookmarks.id ORDER BY bookmarks.datetime DESC LIMIT 0, 9
Just to recap, the status and user_id columns in the link table were previously in the bookmark table.
So now, I can better track how many times the same bookmark has been added, and build some kind of ranking system.
I'm not a MySQL expert, and I'd really appreciate any pointers here on how to speed this query right up!
please do a SHOW CREATE TABLE for each of the tables, so that we can see the indexes that are defined
what are the relationships between the tables? i mean the one-to-many relationships, which table is the "one" and which table is the "many"
Hi and thanks for the quick reply!
Many tags relate to one bookmark.
Many links relate to one bookmark.
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `bookmarks` (
`id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`url` text,
`title` text,
`snippet` text,
`datetime` datetime default NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
KEY `datetime` (`datetime`),
FULLTEXT KEY `title` (`title`,`snippet`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=4640 ;
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `links` (
`id` mediumint(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`user_id` mediumint(11) NOT NULL,
`bookmark_id` int(11) NOT NULL,
`status` enum('public','private') NOT NULL default 'public',
UNIQUE KEY `id` (`id`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=4627 ;
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `tags` (
`id` mediumint(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`user_id` mediumint(11) NOT NULL,
`bookmark_id` mediumint(11) NOT NULL,
`tag` text NOT NULL,
UNIQUE KEY `id` (`id`),
FULLTEXT KEY `title` (`tag`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=31496 ;
i don't think i understand your data, or what you're trying to do with that query
but never mind that, let's look at your two one-to-many relationships in the query, and see where the performance problem might be
FROM bookmarks
, links
, tags
WHERE (links.status = 'public')
AND (links.bookmark_id = bookmarks.id)
AND (tags.bookmark_id = bookmarks.id)
so you're pulling out all public links, tracing them back to their bookmark, and then finding all tags for each bookmark
notice the two join conditions marked in blue -- neither one of those bookmark_id columns has an index
add those, try the query again, and if it's still slow, do an EXPLAIN for it
by the way, the problematic part of your query that i don't understand is this
multiple links relate to one bookmark, and yet you have a GROUP BY on bookmark.id, which means that all links for a given bookmark are collapsed into one row -- and yet you still have links columns in the SLECT clause, so the particular link that is shown for each bookmark is an indeterminate one, which means that you're getting a random user and a random link status for each bookmark, which i really don't understand why that's useful
OK, just to explain, this is a listing of all the bookmarks for all users, which grabs the tags for each bookmark, as well as resolving who added the bookmark.
Here's a live version of the Under Cloud, sans the changes I'm working on right now.
Does that make sense now?
That's certainly brought the query times back down to what they were previously.
As I said, I'm no MySQL expert; I know enough to hack something into working order. Beyond that, I haunt the halls of forums like this one!
Thanks for your help.
that's the part that doesn't make sense, because multiple users can add the same bookmark, yeah? so you're just showing one of them, an indeterminate one
This is a totally new query, based on the changes to the bookmarks table, and the addition of the links table.
I've not even begun cursory testing yet, beyond this speed issue. But that's what I'll be doing next, now that the query execution time is coming in under a second.
Having skimmed through the results so far, everything appears perfectly in order, with the right users being associated with the bookmarks.
All of the bookmarks are listed in date order, so there won't be any indeterminate issues for these regular listings. However, that may well be an issue for the rankings later on.
Yes, users can add the same bookmark.
The intention is to show the first added and the user who added it. How I do that is anyone's guess right now (and most probably another forum question).
In time, I want to add a ranking algorithm, based on the number of times a bookmark has been added, "liked", used as a relationship etc.


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The Abbott government will reverse Labor's policy of taking money from people's ''unclaimed'' bank accounts after just three years.
The money-siphoning policy, designed in 2012 when former treasurer Wayne Swan was keeping alive his promise of delivering a string of budget surpluses, has angered consumers who found their money had vanished from savings accounts after what they considered a short period of inactivity. Interviews conducted this week by Fairfax Media quoted elderly Australians who were shocked to discover their savings had been taken by the government.
Senior government sources say the Coalition is now certain to scrap Labor's three-year policy, which collected $520 million for the budget in 2012-13.
The only question being debated is how long an account should remain dormant before the government intervenes. Either five years or seven years is considered most likely but the government will reserve judgment until Finance Minister Mathias Cormann has finished consulting with consumers and the banking sector.
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten, financial services minister at the time of the change, stands by his policy on unclaimed savings, pitching it as a consumer protection measure. So does shadow treasurer Chris Bowen, although he acknowledges one concern. He says Labor has written to ASIC - the organisation that collects the ''unclaimed'' savings - to ask why ''it is taking so long for some consumers to claim their money back''. Mr Bowen blames this on the government's budget cuts to ASIC.
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CES 2007 Part I: Convergence Happened and the Most Impressive Demo of CESby Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/11/2007 6:53 PM EST
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artifex - Monday, January 15, 2007 - linkI'm getting offers in the ads from companies who claim to offer "free" stuff provided you join a lot of trial offers and buy a bunch of stuff and sucker your friends into joining, also.
Does Anandtech approve of these ads? Don't say you have no control over them, because you do. You can complain to your provider, IndustryBrains, or switch if they continue to show these things.
The suckier the ads are, the less credibility you have among people who see them, and the more likely everyone will use adblockers, which will kill your revenue. Reply
artifex - Monday, January 15, 2007 - linkYou guys must be too young to remember G-Force, the anime. :)
When Nvidia announced their first GeForce product, I thought they might get sued, themselves. But of course, g-force is a term that predates either. Reply
Houdani - Friday, January 12, 2007 - link<--- that's me being grumpy about Toshiba & Canon not displaying the SED TVs at CES'07 due to legal wranglings with Nano-Proprietary. This, of course, is only pushing out their availability that much farther, further closing the window on this tech. Hrmph! Reply
semo - Friday, January 12, 2007 - link
quote:why is that such an issue? what is performance? some numbers you couldn't care less when playing assuming the fps stay above a certain number. you expect performance to drop when enabling other eye candy, but when it comes to realism everyone seems to complain.
Performance of a game with PhysX enabled must not be lower than with it disabled - you should no longer have the problem of better physics but lower performance. This is a big step forward for Ageia, as it is difficult to justify spending money on getting better physics if you end up reducing overall game performance as a trade off.
this makes me think, are ppl buying better video cards for the increased "performance" or for the more immersive experience. Reply
Houdani - Friday, January 12, 2007 - linkPhysics doesn't necessarily have to mean that more polygons are pushed to the screen (such as when things go boom). When this happens, then it taxes the video card more and has a subsequent impact on performance. I think this relationship is understood and accepted.
However, if the physics don't add more polygons but instead cause objects to interact more realistically then we're at the spot where we don't want overall performance to slow down. This is where Ageia needs to flex their strength and not disappoint their audience.
In *software* we already have the ability to have great physics, but at a loss to performance. For Ageia to excel, they necessarily have to remove that hindrance and give us the physics without the performance hit -- otherwise they've provided us with little or no benefit, really. Reply
semo - Friday, January 12, 2007 - linkthat makes sense. how much of a performance hit are talking here anyway. and how much of the physics calculations are outsourced to the ppu (and are there any big overheads as a result) Reply
LoneWolf15 - Friday, January 12, 2007 - link
The unit itself is extremely light and honestly is one of the first devices of this type that we could actually see being a reasonable replacement to carrying around tons of books. While the demonstration centered around reading novels, what we'd really like to see is this technology used to store textbooks for schools. Rather than having to carry around multiple books each composed of hundreds of pages, a single e-Ink based Reader like this would be a much better experience.
It would be, if you can make sure this product is extremely difficult to damage.
I've seen way too many students that don't care how they treat something a school gives them --after all, it's (in their minds) not like they bought and paid for it with their own money (the concept that their parents' taxes did is irrelevant in their minds in those cases).
I agree that the concept is brilliant on paper, and it should be perfect for higher education. In the K-12 evnironment though, unless there's a way of accountability that works without making parents upset, or a way of making them durable enough that this is not an issue, this could be an idea that falls one tiny step short of a great finish. Reply
bokep - Friday, January 12, 2007 - linkI've been following OLEDs since I first learned about it over half a decade ago. Nice to see it working that well and should be coming out within the next few years. Reply
CSMR - Thursday, January 11, 2007 - linkGreat reviews, thanks for keeping the world updated! Reply
archcommus - Thursday, January 11, 2007 - link...let's be serious here, LCD is surely getting the job done just fine. Reply
Johnmcl7 - Friday, January 12, 2007 - linkCan't say I agree with that, while LCDs are thin and light their image quality leaves a lot to be desired especially given the superior image quality of the CRTs they've effectively replaced.
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PrinceGaz - Sunday, January 14, 2007 - linkThat very much depends on the type of LCD panel used. Maybe it's because my Mitsubishi 2070SB CRT display is about four years old and isn't as good as it used to be, but the overall image quality (including colour reproduction) of my new HP LP2065 which uses an S-IPS LCD panel is just as good as it. The response-time is also sufficiently fast that their is no visible blurring of fast moving images. And the 2070SB wasn't some cheapo CRT either, it was one of the best 20" visible CRT monitors you could get.
The fact that the LP2065 was just a little over half the price of the old 2070SB actually makes modern LCD displays seem superior to CRTs, especially when the lower power consumption is factored in. It is also slightly (ahem!) less bulky and heavy than the old CRT monitor. It makes me wish I'd switched to an LCD sooner except of course that even a year or two ago, the picture quality of the best LCD panels wasn't anywhere near what it is today.
Give a *good* (in other words one that does not use a TN panel) LCD display a chance and you'll probably be surprised. Reply
msva124 - Monday, January 15, 2007 - linkDoes it scale well to different resolutions? I.E. for gaming. Reply
tumbleweed - Thursday, January 11, 2007 - link"the display is superb, making it very similar to reading pages in a regular book"
Hardly. It's dark grey on light grey, thus having less than stellar contrast. No, this really isn't similar to reading a regular book; it's similar to reading an ATM receipt. Once they get it to the point of true blank on something resembling white, then we can talk. Other than that, I'll admit it's nifty, but the display quality ain't there yet. Reply
msva124 - Thursday, January 11, 2007 - linkOMG! It's almost as good as one as those CRT things that Nostradamus said would be here in the year 3000! Reply
GhandiInstinct - Thursday, January 11, 2007 - linkI AM SOLD ON OLED!!!!! Come get me! Reply
BladeVenom - Friday, January 12, 2007 - linkLast time I checked, OLED displays had a very short lifespan. That may be OK if you don't use it much, or like replacing your monitor every year, but I think many will have a problem with that. Reply
psychobriggsy - Friday, January 12, 2007 - linkThey've even got blues up to >30k hours now. That's a lot of TV watching, although some people sure do like to watch TV all day.
Anyway, I'm sure I read that these Sony displays used a single colour OLED throughout, with colour filters on top. White OLEDs can have very long lives. If they're using 100k hour OLEDs, and you have the TV on for 10 hours a day because you cannot bear the idea of not having it on, then that is 30 years before the display is ~half as bright as originally. I think that predicting television display technology in 2037 will be quite difficult.
I'm just hoping that one day OLEDs will actually really be available in large displays! Can't wait yet another 5 years... Reply


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I've noticed a few people on Twitter urging caution about Matt Harvey, who makes what is likely to be his final start of 2012 tonight. And look, it is justified, for a pair of reasons: we haven't seen him last a full season in the major leagues yet, and pitchers are at high risk to get hurt.
These seem like the same thing, but they're not. He could fade, though the fact that he is dominating late in this season suggests stamina isn't a problem. And naturally, injuries happen for lots of reasons, fatigue merely being one of them.
That said, I'm pretty bullish on Harvey. And I don't put much stock in the idea that "second time around the league", he's likely to have any kind of serious regression in performance.
Let's take a look at his contemporaries in strikeout rate, and how they debuted.
Harvey is at 10.8 strikeouts per nine innings, which for starting pitchers with at least 50 innings pitched in their first years, is sixth since 1901. So, in other words, wow.
The five ahead of Harvey: Kerry Wood, Stephen Strasburg, Dwight Gooden, Mark Prior, Hideo Nomo. The next five after Harvey are Yu Darvish, Bobby Witt, Cole Hamels, Jose DeLeon and Herb Score.
Of that group, obviously, it is impossible to say what Darvish did the next year, since his debut occurred in 2012, too. But of the other nine, here's what happened next:
Wood (injured, missed whole season), Strasburg (dominated early, then missed most of season injured), Gooden (1985 Cy Young Award), Prior (All Star, third in NL Cy Young), Nomo (fourth in NL Cy Young), Witt (actually improved), Hamels (All Star, sixth in Cy Young), DeLeon (some regression), Score (All Star, improved command).
So let's total it up: two injury casualties, six improves/dominant seasons, one regression.
The point is, pitchers who get swings and misses like Harvey don't tend to suffer second time around. They tend to get even better, as long as they stay healthy.


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Here are the numbers: a 7-3 start, thanks to a 2.26 ERA from their starters.
1-5 since, thanks to a 7.80 ERA from their starters.
So they just have to get back to their initial production, right?
Well, sure, to play .700 ball. But the Mets now have a 4.12 ERA from their starters, which is more like what you'd expect from this group of five. As is the 8-8 mark. It makes sense that a larger sample of work would produce a more complete picture.
But wait: there's more. That's a 16 game sample which included 15 starts from their 1-5 starters, with only one game started by Miguel Batista. And that's where the Mets start to run into trouble.
The chances that the five starters make all but 12 starts this year–150 out of 162–are extremely slim. And that's where the starting rotation likely slips to a worse ERA, and below a .500 record.
All this reiterates a couple of basic truths about the Mets: if everything goes right, the Mets are a .500 team. And if everything doesn't, well, the drop is immediately steep.


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DRAGON'S Den star and multi-millionaire businessman Theo Paphitis revealed his new lingerie store at Merry Hill shopping centre today (Thursday November 15).
The successful entrepreneur 'cut the ribbon' at his 15th Boux Avenue store which opened its swanky doors to customers at 12.30pm.
Launched last year - the boutique brand has proved a hit with lingerie lovers looking for attractive yet affordable undies, nightwear, swimwear and accessories.
Theo said at the launch: "We're already in the Bull Ring; it's been phenomenal for us, really brilliantly received by the people of Birmingham - so opening a store at Merry Hill was a natural progression for us."
He added: "The key to Boux Avenue's success has been listening to our customers and finding desirable store locations to satisfy the strong demand."
The high-profile business boss, who revived the fortunes of La Senza and Contessa lingerie chains before selling them in 2006, said Boux Avenue's glamorous product lines for all occasions, top customer service and attention to detail would offer Merry Hill shoppers chance to "treat themselves with very affordable prices".
Kelly Reed, the centre's marketing manager, said: "We are delighted to welcome Boux Avenue and we're sure the store will be a huge hit with our shoppers."
The first 50 customers at the tills received an exclusive goody bag from the new store, which is located on the ground floor opposite River Island.


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Hello! If it runs to my family, conceiving twins, would it be possible that I will conceive such? How much is the percentage? What are the factors or any tips that I will conceive twins?
Hello! If it runs to my family, conceiving twins, would it be possible that I will conceive such? How much is the percentage? What are the factors or any tips that I will conceive twins?
Hi Luch,
If twins run in your family then there's a higher chance you will conceive with twins than a woman who does not have a history of twins in the family. I don't know what the percentages are, but there is another thread on this forum that addresses this, and it's called "How To Conceive Twins".
Warm regards,
Even if you have several sets of twins in your family, you probably don't really have any greater advantage to conceiving twins that anyone else. There is really no specific "twin gene" that I know of but hyperovulation is genetic and if you have that your chances could be pretty good for having multiples. So fraternal twins could run in families on the mother's side due to hyperovulaion.
Indentical twins would not run in families because that occurs when one fertilized egg splits and isn't connected with hyperovulation. However, there has not been any conclusive evidence.
There are other factors that can enhance your chances of conceiving twins:
* Age - the older a woman gets the more eggs she releases at a time.
* Fertility Meds - Fertility medications or treatment can cause a women to produce more eggs (or in the case of IVF they may implant more tht one fertilized egg hoping one will take)
*Have had twins - Once a woman has one set of twins chances are greater that she will conceive more twins. Some say mothers of twins are 4 times more likely to have another set if they become pregnant.
Something I have never heard of before but found on How to Have Twins is that diet may influence a woman's chances of having twins it says:
"No one is quite sure why, but the Yoruba tribe in West Africa has the highest rate of twinning in the world. A study concluded that the mother's diet was the cause, being high in cassava, a type of yam or sweet potato. The peelings of this vegetable are thought to contain a chemical that causes hyperovulation. In addition, a 2006 study found that women who consume dairy are five times as likely to have twins."
Good luck! If you do have twins they are a lot of work in the beginning but such an incredible JOY!!!
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