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The stunning drop in global child mortality is proof that poor countries are not doomed to eternal misery. Here's how it happened.
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Global health has substantially improved in the last two decades. This article explores the improvements in global health that have been made this year, and the attached interactive feature allows users to explore the changes in global health risks. Click here for the Guardian's version of this same data and interactive.


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Night-time volunteers Suni Davis, right, and Colby Richards, greet walkers at 1:40 a.m. during Relay For Life.
By KIRBY NEUMANN-REA
News editor
July 23, 2005
"Stay awake, Marker Boy."
Suni Davis jostles Colby Richardson alongside the track at Hood River Valley High School track.
Colby marks off N-24 from the master chart used in Lap Bingo, playfully elbows Suni — "Numbers Girl," and wraps his down parka tighter.
Nicknames sink in fast in the middle of the night. It is July 18, 1:05 a.m.
Suni, Colby, and their friend Anna Hidle ("Just call me 'Sleepy',") sit by lantern light on a table strewn with the candies that are rewards for walkers in the American Cancer Society Relay For Life.
"This helps keep 'em going," says Anna. "Keeps 'em moving around the track."
Every few minutes, "Number Girl" draws a ball from a miniature Bingo hopper and "Marker Boy" records it. Walkers complete their lap and check in. Whether or not they have the number, they still get a piece of candy.
"Okay, give us the next number," walker Tony White says as he approaches the bingo table. No new score on his three-by-three card. He selects a Jolly Rancher.
"I know how many laps I've done by the number of candy wrappers in my pocket," says White, a Hood River insurance agent.
White walks for Granny's Gang and Kevin, Too, a close-knit team that participates every year in the 24-hour fund-raiser. Kevin refers to his son, Kevin, who died of cancer in 1991. Tony himself is a kidney cancer survivor. The 1 a.m. shift is one of two Tony takes during the relay. He likes the quiet of the wee hours walk.
What stands out at night, besides the chattering of nearby sprinklers and the hushed conversations from within the tents and shelters on the field, are the lights.
There are the pale-blue squares from cell phones walkers hold up to make a call, check Instant Messages, or perhaps the latest Major League baseball scores.
There are the luminescent necklaces worn by people such as Pauline Smith of the team from Dr. Kyle House's dentistry office.
But mostly, there are the luminaria.
These candle-lit paper bags line the inside of the track, as symbols of what the walk is all about. Each bears the name of someone who has died of cancer, someone who has survived, or someone recently diagnosed. "Papa Jack," reads one. Another bears a peace sign, another a flower. "We miss you," read many.
They are lit in a ceremony shortly after dark, and create a guiding path for anyone up and around at Relay For Life.
Most years, by 1 a.m. the luminaria are a patchwork of bright lights, flickering ones, or darkened candles. Not that any luminary loses its emotional power if the candle goes out, but to see them all lit is a sobering and uplifting thing.
This year, at 1:30 a.m., all but a few of the 400 or so luminaria remain bright beacons.
Another light source is turned off this year; the Relay For Life committee opted not to turn on the scoreboard. In the past, the bright running clock flooded the south end of the field. The clock created a certain comfort, but it was bright for those trying to sleep at that end.
In 2005, the stamina of the luminaria made up for it.
"Those luminaries really make you think," Tony White says on the ninth lap of the hour, at about 1:50 a.m. He walks the last half of the lap in silence. Then Marker Boy, Numbers Girl and Sleepy come into view, with their bright lantern.
"Okay, I know I've got a winner this lap," Tony says, pulling out his card.
"Want to hear the next number?" Suni says.
"We're due for a winner. Tell us it's I-46," Tony jokes.
"Nope — there's about six of you waiting for that one."
Tony smiles and says, "I guess I'll just have to take a treat," and selects another piece of candy before setting off along the cordon of luminaria.
Hope is as simple as a Tootsie Roll and as long as a string of lights.
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Real Housewives of New Jersey Season Finale, Part I: Awkard Central
On the first installment of the two-part Real Housewives of New Jersey finale (aired 9/16): Caroline
Manzo and the husband visit sons Chris and Albie in their apartment, and as usual Caroline is a She-Bear Mega-Btch. Albie's girlfriend Lindsay, who seems perfectly nice, is cooking breakfast for
everybody. "It smells all the way down the hallway!" Caroline announces as she enters the apartment.
For a moment, it seems as though she is offering a compliment to Lindsay, which does seem strange
considering how cruel and withholding she normally is. Then she finishes her statement: "Can you
open a window?" In other words: "Lindsay, your food smells bad, and you will NEVER marry my son! If he can't legally marry me, he will marry NO ONE!"
As everybody digests her remark, an awkward silence ensues. Caroline then proceeds to tell Albie how great his apartment is, his career... but never mentions his girlfriend Lindsay. The camera passes over said girlfriend's face and she's flushed with shame.
(Side note: Caroline,, you remind me of Garfield. You really, really remind me of Garfield. The red hair? The lasagna? The angry expression? The hatred for all things cuter than you? And also the fact that you told a clothing store owner, "I don't do sparkles!"? Am I the first to make this comparison?)
The scene in Chris and Albie's apartment only gets worse. Caroline and hubby Big Al talk about retirement, and Al passive-aggressively jokes that once they start spending unlimited amounts of time together, he could realize "this chick (Caroline) is a btch!" The room erupts with laughter, but Caroline scowls and a cloud of darkness settles around her. She looks at Al like she wants to cut his head off with a laser. AWKWARD! Get this woman some lasagna, stat!
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Offense stays on roll as Reds down D-backs
Ludwick has first RBI, Frazier homers as Cincinnati backs solid Arroyo
By Mark Sheldon /8/19/2013 11:14 PM ET
CINCINNATI -- The Reds' offense hasn't just heated up, it's cooking with gas.
A 5-3 victory over the D-backs on Monday night made it wins in seven of the last nine games for the Reds, and the fifth time over the past seven games they have scored five or more runs. It's the type of offensive output the club has been waiting, wanting and searching for -- but hadn't gotten until lately.
"You always envision that, but you don't always get it," Reds manager Dusty Baker said. "It's better to get it late than never get it. Like I said, our best days are ahead of us. I'm convinced of that."
At 71-54, Cincinnati is back to a season-high 17 games over .500. As it keeps the pressure on the first-place Pirates and second-place Cardinals in the National League Central, the win put the Reds six games up on the D-backs for the second NL Wild Card spot.
"We've got to leave it behind and come tomorrow and even it up and try to win as many games as we can in this series," D-backs third baseman Martin Prado said.
Each of the top six spots in the Reds' lineup had at least one hit in another well-balanced attack. But it was the run production of Ryan Ludwick that was most welcomed. Ludwick hit an RBI double in the three-run fourth inning -- his first extra base hit and RBI in a season marred by a four-month absence from a right shoulder separation.
"The key is team victories," said Ludwick, who returned to the lineup Aug. 12. "Since I've been back, we've been playing pretty good baseball. We went 5-2 on the road trip. We just beat a pretty good ballclub over there that's chasing us in the Wild Card standings. That's a good start to the series."
Four times in the game, the Reds put the leadoff man on base. That included Brandon Phillips' second-inning triple to the center-field wall before he scored on a Zack Cozart sacrifice fly. The Reds are 52-19 when scoring first this season.
Reds starter Bronson Arroyo kept his 1-0 lead until the fourth inning, when Aaron Hill hit a two-out solo homer to left field. Cincinnati responded with a big rally in the bottom of the fourth.
It began with four straight hits against D-backs starter Randall Delgado, as Joey Votto and Phillips both lined singles to left field and Jay Bruce lined an RBI single to center field. Ludwick followed with a double grounded down the left-field line. Standing on second base felt very good for Ludwick, who was 2-for-15 entering the at-bat since coming back.
"I actually felt better tonight than I felt yet," Ludwick said. "I don't know if that's being home, being in a familiar place. I actually felt like I had a chance tonight. Baby steps, you know?"
Bruce scored on Cozart's groundout for a three-run lead. Leading off the Reds' fifth, Todd Frazier crushed a first pitch from Delgado over the center-field fence for a home run, his third long ball over his last seven games.
"The offense is clicking a little bit, getting some big hits in some big situations," Arroyo said. "Ludwick getting a big hit tonight was nice for him, and [Ryan] Hanigan also getting in there and getting some good swings. It feels as if we have a whole team now, and it feels good going forward that at we least we can give it our best effort. We don't have too many guys missing."
Benefiting from the output on a night he didn't feel his best, Arroyo gave up three runs and seven hits over six innings with no walks and six strikeouts. Arroyo is 3-0 with a 1.80 ERA over his last three starts, and 12-9 with a 3.40 ERA in 25 starts overall.
Arizona stayed in the game with two runs in the sixth. Arroyo gave up three singles in the inning, with Prado reaching all the way out to pull a soft two-run single to left field that made it a two-run game. Manny Parra, J.J. Hoover and Aroldis Chapman picked up the final three scoreless innings. Chapman notched his 31st save despite giving up two hits, but got a nifty double play turned by Cozart and Phillips.
"I was just struggling a bit physically," Arroyo said. "Some days you go run a marathon, and a third of the way in, you're like, 'I don't know how I'm going to make it to the end of this road.' That's the way I felt tonight, but fortunately enough, I made some big pitches in some big situations in the first five innings, got some strikeouts that I really needed and the offense put up enough runs to give me that cushion there to keep it manageable for the bullpen late."


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When the Boston Bruins hit the ice tomorrow night for their match-up with Toronto, it'll be their first game since last Saturday's win over Atlanta.
Most of the Bruins spent two of the four days off the ice — with only a handful of players taking advantage of an optional skate Tuesday and everyone taking Monday off. But head coach Claude Julien isn't worried about his team losing its edge, especially after what he saw in today's practice at Ristuccia Arena in Wilmington.
"I thought we had a good practice today. We had a lot of things, some fine-tuning, a little bit of competing drills and that kind of stuff," Julien said after practice. "I think, when you look back at what we had gone through, two days off the ice was probably a good thing for them at this stage. Yesterday they had a pretty good off-ice workout. We really felt that mentally, physically it was the right thing to do. I thought they looked like they had energy. And tomorrow again, a good morning skate, and hopefully be ready for tomorrow night."


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Services planned this weekend in Dallas and Fort Worth to remember, honor the more than 200 trans people murdered worldwide in the last year
Tammye Nash | Senior Editor
Marcal Camero Tye, 25, was a friendly, outgoing young woman who got along well with most people in the small town of Forrest City, Ark., where she lived — despite the fact that she was openly transgender in such a conservative atmosphere.
But sometime after leaving a party at a friend's house on the evening of March 7, somebody murdered Marcal Tye.
Investigators say that Tye, whose body was found early in the morning of March 8 on a rural road outside Forrest City, was shot in the head and then run over by a car, her body apparently getting caught in the vehicle's undercarriage and dragged for some distance.
St. Frances County Sheriff Bobby May has insisted that the killing was just "a regular murder" and not a hate crime. But those who knew Tye and LGBT activists who have been following the crime believe Tye was killed because she was transgender.
Marcal Tye is just one of the 22 trans people murdered over the last 12 months who will be remembered by name during Transgender Day of Remembrance services on Sunday at the Interfaith Peace Chapel in Dallas. And she is just one of 221 trans people murdered worldwide in the last year, according to the Trans Murder Monitoring Project.
Transgender Day of Remembrance began in November 1999 when trans activists and their allies gathered in San Francisco for a candlelight vigil to remember Rita Hester, a trans woman who had been stabbed to death a year earlier in her apartment in Allston, Mass., just outside of Boston.
Her murder has never been solved.
"There had been a candlelight vigil the year before in December, right after she was killed, there in Boston. But a year later, people felt the need to do something to bring attention to her murder and to the murders of other trans people," explained Erin Roberts, one of the organizers of this year's TDOR service.
"Just six weeks before Rita Hester was murdered, Matthew Shepard was murdered in Wyoming, and that made headlines around the world. Everybody was talking about his murder, talking about doing something about hate crimes. But when Rita Hester was killed, very few people paid any attention. It seemed like nobody really paid attention when a trans person was murdered," Robert said.
"And it's not that we have any problem with all the publicity around Matthew Shepard's murder. It was a horrible thing, and it deserved that attention," Roberts continued. "But there was just such a stark contrast in the way the two murders were treated, especially in the press. People wanted to do something to bring attention to the fact that trans people are murdered every day in horrible, brutal ways."
Also on the list of those killed in the past 12 months are six trans women who were killed in a 60-day period in the Honduras, beginning last November. The most recent additions to the list of 22 are 19-year-old Shelley Hilliard, who was killed then decapitated, dismembered and burned on Oct. 23 in Detroit; and Jessica Rollon, 32, who was strangled to death in Bergamo, Italy on Oct. 30.
Roberts pointed out that when transgender people are killed, the murders are often characterized by extreme violence and "overkill." They aren't just shot, they are shot and beaten. They aren't just stabbed, they are stabbed over and over and over.
"And as long as trans people continue to be dehumanized, it will continue to happen," Roberts said. "We are real people, with real emotions. We feel love and pain and joy and sorrow, just like anyone else. But people don't see us that way. They see us as 'other,' and something besides regular human beings."
Roberts said this week that "one of the last things I did as a boy" was to attend TDOR services last year in Dallas. And after transitioning earlier this year, she said, she got involved in helping organize this year's service. And she will do it again next year, too.
"As long as we continue to be killed and brutalized, we will continue to have Transgender Day of Remembrance events," Roberts said. "Because everyone deserves to be mourned."
TDOR services in Dallas will be held Sunday, Nov. 20, beginning at 6:30 p.m. at the Interfaith Peace Chapel at Cathedral of Hope, 5910 Cedar Springs Road. The evening will include a performance by the singing group Mosaic and speeches by Rafael McDonnell with Resource Center Dallas, Roberts, Oliver Blumer and Rosemarie Odom.
The names of the 20 victims will be read aloud, and flowers will be placed on the podium in memory of each one. There will also be a candlelight vigil.
Blumer and Nell Gaither were co-organizers of the event with Roberts.
Fort Worth TDOR
Agape Metropolitan Community Church of Fort Worth and Trinity Metropolitan Community Church of Arlington are joining forces to hold an interfaith gathering for TDOR on Saturday, Nov. 19, at 6 p.m. at Agape MCC, 4615 E. California Parkway in southeast Fort Worth.
The Rev. Stephen V. Sprinkle from Brite Divinity School at Texas Christian University will speak on the topic "Unfinished Lessons," explaining "five lessons that LGBTQ hate crimes murder victims have to teach us, if we will only learn them."
Tori Van Fleet, a forensics expert with the Fort Worth Police Department who came out as a trans women when she joined the fight to get the city of Fort Worth to add protections for trans people to its nondiscrimination ordinance, will also speak during the service.
Van Fleet said this week, "I am looking forward to the day when the TDOR bells are silent due to there not being any more violence against my transgender brothers and sisters. Until then, we will continue to bring attention to the violence we face due to bigotry, hate, fear and even misinformation, simply for being ourselves and trying to live our lives as best we can."
Several Brite Divinity student clergy have also been active in planning and will participate in the service through music, media and readings.
The 20 trans people who will be remembered by name during Transgender Day of Remembrance services Sunday in Dallas are:
• Idania Roberta Sevilla Raudales, 58, Comayagüela City, Honduras; died Nov. 29, 2010; had her throat slit.
• Luisa Alvarado Hernández, 23,Comayagüela City, Honduras; died Dec. 22, 2010; was stoned, beaten and burned.
• Lady Óscar Martínez Salgado, 43, Tegucigalpa, Honduras; died Dec. 22, 2010; was burned and stabbed.
• Reana 'Cheo' Bustamente, age unknown, Tegucigalpa, Honduras; died Dec. Jan. 2, 2011; was stabbed multiple times in the chest.
• Génesis Briget Makaligton, mid-20s, Comayagüela City, Honduras; died Jan. 7, 2011; was strangled to death.
• Krissy Bates, 45, Minneapolis, Minn.; died Jan. 10, 2011; was stabbed multiple times.
• Fergie Alice Ferg, age unknown, San Pedro Sula, Honduras; died Jan. 18, 2011; was shot multiple times in the head and chest.
• Tyra Trent, 25, Baltimore, Md.; died Feb. 19, 2011; was strangled to death.
• Priscila Brandão, 22, Belo Horizonte, Brazil; died March 2, 2011; was shot in the head.
• Marcal Camero Tye, 25, Forrest City, Ark.; died March 8, 2011; was shot in the head, run over and dragged by a car.
• Shakira Harahap, 28, Taman Lawang, Jakarta, Indonesia; died March 10, 2011; was shot to death.
• Miss Nate Nate (or Née) Eugene Davis, 44, Houston; died June 13, 2011; was shot to death., Washington, D.C.; died July 20, 2011; was shot to death.
• Didem, 26, Findikzade, Istanbul; died July 31, 2011; had her throat slit.
• Camila Guzman, 38, New York City; died Aug. 1, 2011; was stabbed repeatedly in the back and neck.
• Gaby, age unknown, Jalisco, Mexico; died Aug. 6, 2011; was beaten and burned.
• Unidentified male dressed in women's clothes, estimated age 30; Paris, France; was stabbed to death.
• Gaurav Gopalan, 35, Washington, D.C.; died Sept. 10, 2011; suffered subarachnoid hemorrhage due to blunt-force head trauma.
• Ramazan Çetin, 24, Gaziantep, Turkey; died Oct. 6, 2011; was shot to death by her brother who claimed to be defending the family's honor.
• Shelley Hilliard, 19, Detroit, Mich.; died Oct.23 but body was not identified until Nov. 10; was killed, decapitated, dismembered and burned.
• Jessica Rollon, 32, Bergamo, Italy; died Oct. 30, 2011; was strangled to death.
• Astrid Carolina López Cruz, 30, Madrid, Spain; died Nov. 4, 2011; was beaten and stabbed.
This article appeared in the Dallas Voice print edition November 18, 2011.


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"You will feel it" is — of course — a line from Clinton's convention speech, but illustrated with the finger pointed up, it takes us back to the Lewinsky days, when we heard about finger-shaped things inserted into vaginas and a finger was famously wagged at us for imagining that he had sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.
Right underneath Bill Clinton — double meaning right there — is Hillary Clinton, and she's getting "snubbed." The snub is by the Chinese VP, but we imagine other snubs. Additional lines under Hillary's picture have her "dubbed" a "sneaky troublemaker."
And, speaking of troublemakers, we're reminded that Hillary is "half a world away" "[a]s Bill speaks." In case that's not a sharp enough nudge to get you to think about things Bill might do while his wife is away, your eyes are drawn quickly to the swelling bosom of Scarlett Johansson, who is one of "Barack's Angels," who will be on the convention stage tonight. (Scarlett's golden hair rolls and flows all down her breasts, while Hillary's hair, in that other pic, is dull, lank, and flat.) And what else are these beautiful young women up to in Charlotte where Hillary is half a world away? In Drudge tease, the trio of beauties "makes push."
And that push? You will feel it.
IN THE COMMENTS: Paul Zrimsek said:
And here I thought the true caption for the Scarlett Johanssen photo was the line above it, not the line below.He's referring to: "Advisers lower expectations for convention bounce..."


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Today With Sean O Rourke Monday 21 October 2013
The mid-morning current affairs magazine with the stories of the day, sharp analysis, sports coverage, in-depth features and consumer interest.
In the aftermath of last week's budget one Ministerial name has repeatedly cropped up in the headlines. Health Minister James Reilly should quit according to Fianna Fail Leader Micheal Martin, but his record has been defended by his colleagues, Brian Hayes insisted the Government had every confidence in him.
Joining Sean was John Downing, Columnist with the Irish Independent.
At a church in Raheen in Limerick on Saturday, and afterwards at the South Court Hotel, over 100 people who were once enrolled at St Joseph's Industrial School in Glin, gathered for the first time for a reunion and reconciliation event and the launch of a book by one former resident. For some, there can never be closure on the horrific physical and sexual abuse they experienced at the industrial school. Brian O'Connell was at the event yesterday and met some of the former pupils.
by Eric Schlosser (Allen Lane)
In the early hours of September 1980 in a small town in Arkansas, a missile repairmen was carrying out routine maintenance on a Titan II missile, the most powerful missile in the US' nuclear arsenal. A socket slipped from his wrench and fell 70 feet below before piercing the fuel tank. His first thought was 'This is not good'. What followed was a race against time to prevent a nuclear explosion that could have incinerated the state of Arkansas.
This was just one incident in an ongoing pattern of near-misses and bureaucratic blunders that have brought America to the nuclear brink again and again, according to my next guest Eric Schlosser, best-selling author of previous books such as Fast Food Nation and Reefer Madness. Drawing on declassified information and interviews, he reveals a world that has until now been shrouded in secrecy and hidden from public view in Command and Control.
Wind turbines have become a common feature on the landscape over recent years, harvesting energy from our island breezes and strong gales.
But if a turbine was placed in close proximity to your home - and if it was the size of the Spire topped off with Liberty Hall - you might think again about how welcome an addition they are.
Plans for a number of wind farms across five counties in the midlands are currently with An Bord Pleanála and if they go ahead, hundreds of those massive turbines will be erected near rural dwellings.
As you might expect, there is opposition to this from many groups and to debate the topic Sean was joined in studio by Labour Senator John Whelan; by Tim Cowhig, the Chief Executive of Element Power Ireland, one of the companies looking to develop wind farms in the midlands and also by our reporter, Valerie Cox.
Hallowe'en being just around the corner, many of you with children will be looking for things to do, not just on the 31st, but for the entire week, as most children will be of school for the entirety for next week.
So, what to do?
Fear not, with a host of suggestions and ideas, Sean was joined by Jill Holtz of website www.mykidstime.ie
Hallowe'en Events fomr www.mykidstime.ie
There are heaps of spooky events on around the country listed on our Halloween Events page. Here are some fun ones we picked out:
Lullymore Heritage & Discovery Park, Rathangan, Co. Kildare
The Halloween Ha ppenings Festival is back for 7 Spooky Days from October 26th to November 1st. Lots of ghastly ghouls and terrifying treats in store at Lullymore including Haunted Holograms, Spooky Train Trips, Terror Treasure Hunts and freaky fun in the devilish den of play—the Funky Forest. Prepare for the Fright of your Life. Come in fancy dress (optional) with prizes for best Fancy Dress costumes in the Indoor Centre every day! NO TIME LIMIT. Open daily 10am – 6pm (Halloween prizes start at 2pm)
Westport House
Halloween Fest October 26th-November 3rd– Westport House is transformed into a not too scarey haunted house and they are running loads of workshops including Jack o'Lantern Carving and a Thriller Dance moves workshop. On Sunday 27th there is an explosive fireworks display and loads of great prizes for the best costumes.
Lough SpoooKey, Lough Key Forest Park, Boyle, Co. Roscommon
Join in the fun at the Lough SpooKey Forest Park this Halloween. Running from October 26th to November 2nd as well as the hugely popular 'Boda Boo' they have a host of events including, Witch & Monster Halloween Orienteering, Lantern lit walk with storytelling & yummy treats in 'The Big Tree', Pumpkin Carving, Falcolnry Display, Halloween Baking, Craft, Art, Music & Kayaking Classes! Many events are free but all must be pre-booked
Glendeer Farm, Athlone, Co. Westmeath
Cast spells with our scary witch, toast marshmallows over an open fire, enter the eerie maze but be warned, it's as your own risk. Enter the forbidden forest and be scared by lots more ghosts and ghouls at Glendeer Pet Farm this Halloween! – NEW this year is the SOFT PLAY BARN for toddlers and the ALL WEATHER outdoor sand pit…just beware of the ghosts and ghouls in the Forbidden Forest on your way there! Great place to break the journey with kids if travelling Dublin-Galway, or driving North or South this mid-term.
Belvedere House, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath
On Hallowe'en Weekend Belvedere hosts its second Scarecrow Festival with local schools, groups and individuals competing for great prizes. The Scarecrows are on public display from Fri 25th until 31st October and there is a people's choice prize. Trick or Treat Tails on 27th & 28th October. On Bank Holiday weekend Sun and Mon at midday Belvedere hosts its Trick or Treat Trail through the ancient whispering woodland where thousands of goodies are hidden on the 160 acre estate but be careful not to disturb the Yeti. Belvedere Spook on Friday 25th, Saturday 26th & Monday 28th
October 2013 from 7pm (not suitable for young children – under 8) & Spook Walk in the Forest of Fear. Pre booking essential
Brigits Garden, Roscahill, Co. Galway
Mid-term week, 27th Oct to 4th Nov open 10am to 5.30pm daily for spooky treasure hunts and more! Their Halloween Samhain Celebration takes place Thursday Oct 31st 4.00 to 8.30pm with a spooky treasure hunt, Ghostly and wondrous stories and music from the Wacky Witch and others. Mask making with natural materials, try traditional games including Apple-fishing. Halloween Bonfire with the Puca.
Hullabaloo Children's Arts Festival, Birr,Clara & Edenderry Co. Offaly
October 30th- November 2nd
Hullabaloo! – Offaly's Children's Arts Festival offers a packed programme of exciting and creative opportunities for children aged 3-12 and offers workshops in arts, crafts, dance, music, story telling and much, during the October mid-term break. You can learn how to dance like a skeleton, write ghosts stories, be a human beatbox or make a scary board game to bring home.
Hawks Well Theatre, Sligo
If you want a break from Scary stuff, The Hawks Well Theatre in Sligo are hosting two wonderful events this mid-term. On October 26thThe Ukranian Clown troupe Mimrichi present Paper World a hilarious slapstick show, inviting you to the biggest paper fight of your life!
On October 27thas part of the Sligo Live Festival Dervish & the Sligo Academy of Music present Mini Proms, introducing children &families to the joys of traditional music.
Bunratty Castle and Folk Park, Clare
For a family-friendly and Halloweeny Bank Holiday Monday, October 28th look no further than Bunratty Castle and Folk Park. The Folk Park and Village Street will be adorned with Jack-o-lanterns while visitors will be entertained by the all new Captain Jack's Spooktacular Show, Unicycle Show and the Monsieur Gusto Escapologist, a Houdini style escape act! Visitors are encouraged to dress-up in their spookiest and scariest costumes, and some amazing prizes will be on offer for the most creative and haunting attire. To complete the disguise, free face painting will be available upon arrival so that trick-or-treating can be at its scariest during the afternoon.
Powerscourt - Wicklow
The Perils of Powerscourt 28th October, 1pm & 4pm This Halloween, ghosts and ghouls are creeping out to play at Powerscourt House and Gardens &and so is Imaginosity, Dublin Children's Museum! Any brave families hoping to enter into the spirit of the spookiest of seasons are welcome to explore the grounds of Powerscourt at their own risk! With only a map to lead them to safety, the walkers will be sure to encounter some creepy characters along their journey through Powerscourt's haunted grounds. The walk will finish at the Pet Cemetery where your hair will stand on end and your blood will be chilled! Fancy dress is encouraged.
Imaginosity – Dublin
The Festival of Stories is back with a jam-packed schedule of events for families this Halloween. Come along and listen to storytelling, create your own stories and share them with everyone. Throughout the festival there will be a Festival Story Corner with some very special story tellers daily
and a host of workshops and activities including;
Paddy O'Gorman was in Dundalk
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Reviews this month include two major distros -- SUSE 10.0 and
Mandriva 2006. Additionally, CrossOver Office, Sugar Suite CRM and
Gnome 2.12 are put through their paces. Our cover DVD proudly
includes Knoppix 4.0, one of the best live discs and jam-packed with
software. You'll also find the source code for Gnome 2.12, and
binary packages galore for WINE, to run Windows programs on Linux.
Here're a few sample questions from the Eben Moglen interview, the
answers to which will appear on our website in a few days:
# Do you see any confusion surrounding the transition from
GPL version 2 to version 3?
# When relicensing, does it become a matter of contacting
every contributor and asking their permission?
# What are your views on the Creative Commons licence set?
Grab a copy of LXF73 for the full interview. Our regular HotPicks
section, where we trawl the internet for the best new and updated
software, has a mixture of desktop, server and development apps. One
of the highlights is FreeSpeak, a translation engine front-end:
# FreeSpeak -- GUI for internet translation engines
One of the immensely useful technologies bolstered by the growth
of the net is language translation. No longer do you have to rely
on thumbing through dictionaries or faffing around with limited
electronic translators - there are web sites that translate words,
sentences and even full texts from and to a multitude of
languages. Altavista's Babelfish was one of the most popular early
translation engines; today, they abound on the net, and FreeSpeak
provides a smart Gnome front-end to them.
FreeSpeak is writen in Python, and requires the PyGTK bindings for
its GUI. You may also need the 'gnome-python-extras' bundle along
with Mechanoid if you want to exploit its full featureset. As
Python and PyGTK are provided with most popular distros, you can
typically just install by entering 'python setup.py install' (as
root), and then 'freespeak.py' from the shell prompt.
When started, FreeSpeak pops up a simple dual-paned box containing
a text-entry widget in which you enter the text to be translated,
and a section at the bottom which shows the resulting translated
text. It's appropriately to-the-point, with no pointless
gimmickry. A useful touch is the tabbed display, so you can keep
multiple translations open at the same time without turning your
taskbar or window list into an overgrown mess.
By default, FreeSpeak uses the Free Translation and Altavista
engines - Google is also available depending on settings. Due to
the immense complexities of languages, translations are typically
rough and need re-wording, but they're acceptable for reading
instructions or translating short letters. With Altavista, you can
translate between English, French, German, Spanish, Chinese,
Japanese and others. The speed of translation will vary depending
on your internet connection and how loaded the translation server
is, but in most cases it's nigh-on instantaneous.
FreeSpeak is impressively clean, straightforward and fast, having
no pointless bells and whistles. It's only as good as the
translation engines that back it up - still, these are effective
enough and make FreeSpeak a handy desktop extra if you frequently
encounter foreign text that you need to decipher in a hurry.
As usual, there're five and a half more pages of HotPicks in 73,
including a close look at the excellent Cascading Style Sheet
editor CSSED, and wacky action game Gillo.
3. In the news...
Major distro releases took up most of the headlines this month,
but there were plenty of smaller newsbits too...
# Ubuntu 5.10 arrives
http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/modules.ph ... le&sid=113
Right on schedule, Ubuntu Linux 5.10 has arrived and is spreading
out to the mirrors. The single-CD Debian-based distro sports GNOME
2.12.1, OpenOffice.org 2.0 beta 2 and X.org 6.8.2. KDE and thousands
of other packages are available through the Universe repositories.
Ubuntu has seen an explosive growth in popularity over the last 18
months, so if you want to give it a spin, check out the release
notes and download from http://www.ubuntulinux.com
# Mandriva 2006 is here
http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/modules.ph ... le&sid=112
Mandriva Linux 2006 ISOs are now available to Club members. With a
desktop search tool, interactive firewall, new package manager, KDE
3.4 and GNOME 2.10, this release continues Mandriva's focus on
stability -- by including recent software that's not too bleeding
edge. Head over to http://www.mandriva.com for all the details.
# Gnome startup speed tackled
http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/modules.ph ... le&sid=109
One of the most common complaints levelled against Gnome is its slow
startup time. Although it's never going to be as swift as IceWM and
other lightweight window managers, there's still a lot of wastage.
Lorenzo Colitti has posted some interesting findings -- it's pretty
technical reading, but shows what can be done to speed things up.
See http://www.gnome.org/~lcolitti/gnome-startup/analysis/
4. This month on the forum
Skype, a rapidly growing internet phone system, has a Linux client
available. Various forum regulars discussed how usable the software
is, and solved a few problems that came up. Skype is exploding in
popularity, so this thread is worth a read if you're having problems
installing it or just want to find out more. [1]
The LinuxWorld 2005 show, held in London, was a chance for some
forum regulars to meet one another in person. Linuxgirlie, who was
there with a stand for her Karoshi project, wrote about the good and
bad aspects, while Nigel and Marrea joined in with their own
experiences. On the whole, most people had a good time, although the
lack of big announcements at the show resulted in few talking
points. [2]
What's the dumbest thing you've ever done with a computer?
Linuxgirlie asked the question, offering her own embarrassing tale
of motherboard malarkey. Gordon recounted an alarming story of an
end-user cramming multiple floppies into a single drive, and
'overflow' told of a soup spillage incident that provided him with a
second hand notebook! The winner, though, has to be A-Wing for
nearly causing himself serious injury or death on multiple
occasions. Yipes. [3]
[1] http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/index.php? ... pic&t=1166
[2] http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/index.php? ... pic&t=1314
[3] http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/index.php? ... pic&t=1177
5. Special newsletter feature
Most major distros include hundreds of open source programs, all
packaged up and ready to install. Chances are, most of what you
need can be found on the discs or in repositories. But what
happens if a new app comes out? How do you get it? Why won't a
package for one distro work on another? How did the multitude of
packaging formats emerge (no pun intended)?
Debian was one of the first distros to adopt a specialised binary
packaging system. Instead of just supplying software as compressed
tarballs (similar to .zip files), the Debian developers chose to
make programs available in a special .deb format which contained
the software and extra information (such as a list of other apps
on which it depended, and scripts to run).
Shortly after, Red Hat created the RPM system which did the same
thing -- but it wasn't compatible. So, users could compile from
source, find a .deb if they were running Debian, or find a .rpm if
they used Red Hat. Even in the mid 90s, it was hard to find a
single binary that would install cleanly on most distros. Today,
RPM itself doesn't even mean compatibility; a .rpm package for
Mandriva may not install on SUSE, for instance.
Now there are hundreds of distros, and it's increasingly hard
to find a single binary package that will work on more than a few
of them (derivative distros aside). Some of the major projects,
such as OpenOffice.org and Mozilla, put a lot of effort into
making binary sets that should install on most distros -- but even
then it doesn't always work.
One of the problems is dependencies. Almost every piece of
software depends on another program. The tiniest command-line
utility depends on a version of glibc -- and a fully-fledged Gnome
app depends on a gigantic stack of libraries (Gnome, GTK, Glib,
Pango, etc). Frustratingly, there's a high amount of breakage in
the compatibility of these libraries, so a program designed for
randomlib-1.1 may not work properly with randomlib-1.2. And doubly
frustratingly, the GCC and glibc developers (who make the compiler
and C library -- critical system components) often break binary
compatibility too, causing further complications.
Hence a binary for Mandriva 2006 assumes certain libraries, a GCC
version and glibc symbols that may not be in SUSE 10.0. When a
new piece of software comes out, users typically have to wait for
it to be packaged for their specific distro before they can use
it, or compile it (and all its dependencies) from source. Most
stable distros only supply security-fixed packages, so getting the
latest app often entails adding an 'unstable' repository (has its
own problems) or waiting months for the next distro release.
For long time Linuxers, the battle to get the latest software
running is half the fun -- we enjoy experimenting with the system
and hacking stuff up. But understandably, it's an increasingly
large problem for Linux newcomers. Forums around the net are full
of new users struggling to get a new program installed, because it
requires libfoo.so.0.4 and their distro only has 0.3 and they
don't want to download 300 megs of -devel dependencies to compile
from source and and and... well, you get the idea.
So thankfully, a couple of projects have started analysing this
problem and are working towards a solution. Autopackage
(http://www.autopackage.org) aims to make Linux software
installation as simple as a double-click -- any program, no matter
how new, from any site. No need to find dependencies, no need to
upgrade your distro, no need to add 'unstable' repos or compile
by hand. Just download an app from a project's website and go.
Autopackage achieves this by encouraging developers to include
rarely-used libraries inside the package, rather than forcing
users to get them elsewhere. They also have scripts to get round
the GCC and glibc ABI breakage.
Klik (http://klik.atekon.de) is the main alternative at present.
This has a similar goal to Autopackage, but is based on an
existing archive (Debian) whereas Autopackages are being created
individually. Pleasingly, more and more projects are starting to
offer their work in Autopackage format, so hopefully we'll see the
day when we can say 'double-click the program' to a newcomer,
rather than 'download a, b, c and d, then add this repository,
then build this from source' ad repulsium.
Fingers crossed...
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Linux Format 74 -- on sale Monday 14th November
# Roll your own distro -- Sick of SUSE? Fed up with Fedora?
Miffed by Mandriva? We show you how to take matters into
your own hands, and make the distro that YOU want!
# The LXF Interview: Andrew Morton -- Kernel hacking guru
who also writes royal family exposes. Although that may
be a different Andrew Morton...
# Ubuntu 5.10: Breezy Badger -- Latest Gnome? Check! Brownish
colours? Check! Silly name? Yup! What other distro offers
all this and more?
# Back to school -- Linux gets top grades in education, and
saves money too. Find out the state of play, and how you
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England and Leicester flanker Tom Croft has been ruled out of action for the whole season following a knee injury picked up in the Tigers' season-opening victory over Worcester at the weekend.
The 27-year-old, who represented the British and Irish Lions in Australia over the summer, has had to have reconstructive surgery after suffering damage to his cruciate knee ligament.
This will be Croft's second long-term injury in recent years after a neck-break against Harlequins in April 2012 left him on the sidelines for eight months.
Returning in January of this year he forced his way back in to the England team and his injury will come as a big blow to the national team as well as his club side.
Leicester's director of rugby, Richard Cockerill, confirmed the news to the Daily Mail.
"Tom had a bang on the knee at the weekend," he said.
"We felt it was relatively innocuous but after further investigation the ACL (anterior cruciate) ligament was ruptured and he has had surgery to reconstruct it and that's his season finished.
"It's horrendous bad luck for Tom because it is only last year that he came back from a very bad neck injury and did so well for England but the Lions as well.
"But these things happen. Tom will make a full recovery but it's his season over. It's a blow but we have just got to get on with things."
Croft was part of the Leicester side which overcame Northampton Saints in the Premiership final at Twickenham last May, but the Tigers will be without him if they wish to retain the title this season.
Cockerill also confirmed his fly half and captain, Toby Flood, would not be fit to face Bath on Saturday as he is still recovering from concussion sustained in pre-season.
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I have my own social networking site, how do i build or create a follow us and share this button generator for my members, similar to what linkedin, facebook, twitter and so on have?
for example
what would i need jquery?
what would be the codes to have a plugin generator like linkedin
if I could get pointed in the right direction that would be a great help.


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The swainson's hawk nests and spends its summers in the grasslands of Western Canada. By autumn it begins its amazing southward migration to winter 11,000 kilometres away in the Argentinean pampas. Here it lives in flocks of up to 15,000--and it encounters a serious threat: toxic pesticides which kill these majestic birds by the thousands. Join Saskatchewans Dr. Stuart Houston as he reveals the secrets of the amazing swainson's hawk--a bird he has studied for over 50 years. Houston and his team use cutting-edge satellite technology along with traditional bird-banding to greatly increase our knowledge of the lives of migratory birds. In order to save the hawks, the governments of Argentina, Canada and the United States have joined forces with industry and conservation groups to protect these birds and other species from horrible deaths caused by pesticides.
More info on this film in NFB catalogue »»


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9 Confessions Of A Former Sports Authority Manager
A former Sports Authority manager came forward to explain why their coupons are so damn useless. According to our tipster, "the coupons are always a sham," but apparently, gift cards worth less than $10 can be redeemed for cash. Read his other nuggets of knowledge along with zesty executive customer service contact information, after the jump.
I saw your post on Sports Authority and I was intrigued… I am a former Sports Authority manager, and I wanted to share some secrets with you.
9) The store has a comment line run by some third party company (an 800 number.) But if you want to get to someone in the company, call (303) 200-5050 and ask the switchboard for INTERNAL customer service. They may want to transfer you to the 800 number, but tell them you want to talk to the corporate customer service. Usually when a problem gets reported to the corporate office instead of the comment line, it will get resolved quickly – usually within an hour. The corporate office figures everything out, and will talk to the store and issue a resolution.
8) So you're having trouble with your store manager and want to escalate your problem to the district manager. They may not want to give you the DM's number, but all district managers have their offices in a store in their district. Ask the manager which store the DM has his/her office in, and call that store.
7) They ask for phone numbers at POS. The under-trained cashiers say it's to figure out where to build stores or how to allocate inventory. WRONG. It's to add you to our mailing list/robo-call list.
6) Still have money on that gift card you got? As long as it's under $10, you can "Tender Exchange" it.
5) The brands mentioned as exclusions on the coupon almost always have a 50-100% markup. In fact, Under Armour is essentially over-priced brand name clothing. A $24.99 pair of shorts costs $12.00.
4) There is no reason to exclude the brands that are excluded, except for maybe manufacturer agreements. I know that Under Armour wouldn't let Sports Authority advertise a discount on their product because they wanted their product to have the same price across the board.
3) The coupons are always a sham. There is always a series of exclusions (the brands people want, such as Under Armour, high-end Nike product, high-end ski and snowboard equipment, etc).Complain to a manager, and they'll usually take the discount.
2) The Sports Authority website is not run by Sports Authority. It is instead run my GSI Commerce. The same company also runs the website for Dick's Sporting Goods. Because of this, returns are not accepted at Sports Authority locations, and the inventory on the Sports Authority website will always differ.
1) The fine text (Any illegal posting of this promotional code will result in immediate disaffiliation. This promotional offer may be modified or terminated at any time without notice.) was posted because what happened in the past was that the employee discount code was posted on Fat Wallet, so they did this so they can cancel coupon codes if they get used too much. How much is too much, is what I'm not certain about.
Now for EECB info:
UPDATE: Sports Authority corporate Customer Service Manager Mike Ash has offered his contact info as a first step for any customer experiencing problems:
Phone: (303) 200-5050 – Main Switchboard
CEO: John Doug Morton – firstname.lastname@example.com
CFO: Greg Waters – firstname.lastname@example.com
Operations/Customer Service VP: Tom McVey firstname.lastname@example.com or Cleo Frye email@example.com
Customer Service Supervisor: Noela Jordon email@example.com
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All desktops have wifi? Those that bother to have wifi on the motherboard will probably have Bluetooth too.
A bluetooth dongle for usb will cost you a few dollars on ebay.
Um, it would work on a desktop with wired ethernet too... It's only the phone which would need to use wifi...
I'm guessing because not all desktops have bluetooth capability.
no no no. it's just MUCH MUCH MUCH easier to code an app to do it over the wifi than to build an app for android(and accompanying app for desktop) that would make it act as a proper bluetooth mouse, bluetooth gamepad and as a bluetooth keyboard.
You can buy a bluetooth dongle about the size of a dime at WalMart for $20 and it will work with any OS. With kubuntu you don't even have to install any software for it to work. Not all desktops have wifi, and a router is a little more expensive.
Bluetooth is short range, so you'll be within reach of the real keyboard and mouse 99% of the time.
same room is usually enough.
it's just a lot more straightforward to do it over wifi(easier to find resources on how to do it).
There is one Android app [google.com] which makes your phone work as a HID over bluetooth, both as mouse and keyboard. However it needs the phone to be rooted in order to work, and I found it to be quite unstable, and severly unpolished.
But it works.
This is the kind of backward progress that is touted as the all-new cool thing... Sorry iOS/Android you both suck! Dumb feature phones from 2006 had bluetooth tethering, bluetooth file exchange, bluetooth mouse input, audio streaming... ALL WITHOUT carrier intervention, some special rom, jail-breaking or the need to install any special app.
Thanks for destroying bluetooth.
CAPTCHA: grapes... sour!
But then we have to take away geek cred for using a Linux box at run level 5.
However if you answer the question "emacs or vim?" correctly, you can earn those points pack. Please note, though, that a response of "xemacs" will result in further penalties.
no, vim. Sure in the old days vi was guaranteed and vim wasn't, especially on the more obscure 'nixes. And yes, maybe using vi instead of vim was more important when 'nix boxes had 8MB of RAM or less and when every speck of HD space mattered. But for modern Linux, you can almost guarantee vim, unless the user actually went to the trouble of uninstalling it.
In fact, on Fedora, vi is provided by the vim-minimal package.
using the latest in technology to emulate a handful of switches and a simple microcontroller, or a pair of rotary encoders and a simple micro, or some switches and a shift register
Today, we have overcome all limits!
sorry whats the point other than gee whiz factor? Its 20(fuckin)12, with a trip to radio shack a child could whip up a fart chair to signal keyboard input to any OS they choose for under 40 bucks.
sorry whats the point other than gee whiz factor?
I would have thought that was obvious: it's the possibility of having a Beowulf cluster of keyboards.
with a trip to radio shack a child could whip up a fart chair to signal keyboard input to any OS they choose for under 40 bucks.
I take it you haven't been to Radio Shack lately. The big shelf of resistors, capacitors, diodes, transistors and such? Gone, along with any employees that even remember it existed.
I don't think they even have radios anymore. Just overpriced cables and cell phones.
the ones near me still have a selection of basic passives, along with propeller boards and 2 arduinos + shields, and I was just there last week.
Yours is quite rare, i could barely get a m-m 1/8 phono cable the other day there. Idiots tried to sell me a cell phone charger cable. "oh, audio...did you mean bluetooth.. " . *sigh* After i drew it out 'oh, we have a bin back there of old stuff'.
R/S was always overpriced but at least they were a last minute option if you needed sometime NOW and the real store was closed.
And don't get me started about them dropping the old radios and such, which were damned good.
The radio shacks (all 3 within 5 minutes of driving) all carry a full set of general use components as well as Arduino and PIC microcontrollers and a shitload of basic sensors now.
http://www.radioshack.com/category/index.jsp?categoryId=2032230 [radioshack.com]
Between the 3 stores in my area I can find basically EVERYTHING they sell online with the exception of a damn strobe transformer that they don't seem to carry anymore
sorry whats the point other than gee whiz factor? Its 20(fuckin)12, with a trip to radio shack a child could whip up a fart chair to signal keyboard input to any OS they choose for under 40 bucks.
Why spend $40, when you can just use the general purpose computer with multiple input devices already sitting in your pocket?
The problem with your statement is this retarded notion that your phone is a general purpose computer.
You may be able to use it as if it is one, but it isn't. You'll do yourself a world of good if you stop trying to act like it is.
The problem with your statement is this retarded notion that your phone is a general purpose computer.
I can attach a keyboard, full monitor & mouse to my android phone & use it to do pretty much whatever the fuck I like. I can run a full-blown-browser, ssh server, apache, transcode videos, anything in the entire debian software stack (via chroot).
So, explain to me, exactly why the fuck my phone is not a general purpose computer? Frankly, I think you'll find the only thing that is retarded around her
I've thought for a while that it might make sense to use an Android phone as a HID for a Raspberry Pi for presentations through a projector. My phone doesn't output to a projector and the bulk of a keyboard is a portability problem for the RPi, but phone and RPi together take up less than half the space of a netbook.
If you want a Pi media/mame server on your tv without the kbd/mouse hanging off it. Tempting
Any Android VNC client will do for remotely controlling Linux, OSX, or Windows from an Android phone; you don't need anything more complicated than that.
I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
VNC is a remote display AND control.
fixed that for you. point is that this article has no point, except to work as an advertisement for the project.
Okay, its not new for Android, its just that this is another one of timothy's 'I live in a box and have no fucking clue what any of the topics on this site are about
Why did my preference to not see timothy and kdawson go away?
Seriously, you guys are freaking worthless
Using wifi instead of bluetooth?
The HID part of the BT stack is already in place in your Linux/Windows/OSX/Whatever system. So, no need for extra software. Maybe a USD 10.- USB dongle.
Then you would use the touch screen of your phone as a trackpad. Or, if possible, the rear camera to understand how the phone is being moved on the desk.
I would call this a nice Android application, not the pesky one shown in the above article!
N900 has been able to do this for years. I didn't even realise this was something other phones *couldn't* do!
And doesn't the N900 have an actual X server so you can use proper X11 forwarding over SSH as the goddess intended?
Taking the best thing from a normal computer and using the worst things about android and what do you get???? hopefully they are not using swipe and having it crash all the time.
BluePutDroid [google.com] will do the same thing. It works by turning your android device into a bluetooth Human Inteface Device (HID). So, it will work with pretty much any device that has bluetooth. Don't have bluetooth? I'm sure you can find a cheap bluetooth USB dongle.
I use it for my PS3. It also has mouse control and has a screen for the PS buttons. I can't handle the 'typing' using PS3 gamepads...
I guess I could use it as a keyboard for my laptop which has bluetooth, but i dunno why, they already built one in!
"Conversion, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will." -- Virginia Woolf, "Mrs. Dalloway"


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December 2012: Contrail Acquisition
A seemingly modest acquisition -- $176 million in cash and stock -- that may have big implications for Juniper's future. When Juniper bought it, Contrail Systems had emerged from stealth mode only days earlier, but it was already among the quickly crowding field of software-defined networking (SDN) startups with good buzz.
Just how Juniper plans to to integrate Contrail and advance its own thus-far-loosely-defined SDN strategy is expected to come out at Juniper's Global Partner Conference. Juniper was previously a strategic investor in Contrail, whose management team includes CTO Kireeti Kompella, Juniper's former CTO and chief architect for Junos.


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By Mary Ann Sigler Stanton '89
On an early fall day in 2007, Bill Lenker '56 was spotted kneeling on the ground in front of Kappa Sigma fraternity. He and his wife, Carol Wanamaker Lenker '57, were planting mums in preparation for the newly re-colonized chapter to take residence. Lenker, known as "Doc" to generations of Kappa Sigmas, was tenacious in his pursuit of re-establishing the fraternity on campus.
Kappa Sigma is close to Carol's heart too, as the couple met there in 1956. As a junior resident, Carol escorted "her girls" from Bucknell Cottage to the fraternity for a "Freshman Tea." "Those boys were smart," chuckles Carol as she recounts the story. "They invited the freshman girls in small hall groups. Bill was the president, bouncing everywhere, making sure everyone was enjoying themselves." Soon after the tea, Bill asked Carol out on their first date — a movie at the Campus Theatre.
Upon graduating, Lenker became a volunteer for Kappa Sigma, the Alumni Greek Council and the Alumni Board. He and Carol married in 1958 and were thrilled when all three of their children — Rob Lenker '81, Nancy Lenker Topolski '88 and Susan Lenker Hitchings '84 — became Bucknellians. Rob, Nancy and Susan also married Bucknellians, Lisa Molke Lenker, Alan Topolski '86 and Brian Hitchings '84, respectively. So far, two Lenker grandchildren, Heather Lenker '12 and Emily Hitchings '16, have followed in the family tradition.
Lenker's legacy did not end with his offspring. He and Carol believed that anyone should be able to attend Bucknell, and endowed a need-based scholarship to that end. A dentist by trade, Doc provided Bucknell internships at a dental clinic in West Chester, Pa., even housing several of the student interns at the Lenker home. Helping students realize their potential was what motivated them. In 2006, when the cheerleading squad needed new uniforms and the Dance Company was invited to China to perform, the Lenkers made both happen.
Tireless in his advocacy for the Bucknell Public Interest Program, Doc spread the word to students and alumni alike about these scholarships, which provide stipends to students who intern at nonprofits. He also volunteered at home in Paoli, Pa., serving as den leader to decades of Boy Scouts, and was the driving force behind buying land and building a log cabin on it for area scouts.
Doc worked full-time at his dental practice with his son, Rob, until he was ordered by his doctor to stop. His diagnosis of aplastic anemia in 2010 put him at great risk of infection. Despite this, he continued the trek to Bucknell, serving as the 55th Reunion chair for his class last June, and working closely with BPIP and Kappa Sigma right to the end of his life.
Several Bucknellians eulogized Doc at his memorial service last November, including Grant Parseghian '10, the first president of the re-colonized Kappa Sigma.
Afterward, Rob Lenker took Parseghian aside, thanked him for speaking and gave him his father's alumni pin. Rob then asked him to take over his father's mentorship of Kappa Sigma, to which Parseghian replied, "Doc, I would have liked to have walked with you to the ends of the earth, but I'll settle for following in your footsteps."
Mary Ann Sigler Stanton '89 works at Bucknell as the Associate Director of Development for Milestone Reunions.
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You can do something good this weekend for homeless animals in Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes by eating crawfish or running a race.
You can do something good this weekend for homeless animals in Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes by eating crawfish or running a race.
My Heart's Desire will hold its second annual Crawfish Boil and Adoption Event from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at Bayou Blue Hall, 2221 Bayou Blue Road.
The third annual Kause 4 Critters 5K and Dog Walk will be held Sunday in Peltier Park in Thibodaux. Registration begins at 8 a.m. The dog walk starts at 9 a.m. The race begins at 9:30 a.m.
Proceeds from the crawfish boil will help cover rent and utilities at the My Heart's Desire shelter and vet care for all of the animals they take in, said volunteer Jessica White. All animals rescued by the group are spayed or neutered, microchipped and comprehensively examined and treated by a veterinarian before they are adopted out.
The adoption fees, which range from $25 to $50 for a cat and $100 to $200 for a dog, barely begin to cover those expenses, White said. My Heart's Desire is caring for as many as 30 cats and up to 50 dogs that need homes.
You can pre-order crawfish by visiting the adoption center at 246 N. Hollywood Road in Houma or by calling Linda Foret at 852-4603. Ten dollars will get you two pounds of crawfish, potatoes, corn and dip. You can get them the day of, but a ticket will ensure you get a tray in the event they sell out. Crawfish is being boiled by Nancy's Seafood Shack.
In addition to crawfish, there will be crawfish sack races, crawfish races, face painting, massages and raffles. Pet vendors and local rescue groups will also attend with some of their adoptable animals.
Half of the proceeds from Sunday's Kause 4 Critters 5K Dog Walk will go to an endowment scholarship at LSU's School of Veterinary Medicine named for K.C. Toups, 28, a local veterinarian who was killed in a DWI car crash while transporting animals for Lafourche Parish Animal Hospital in 2011. The driver who hit Toups was sentenced last year to 30 years in prison for vehicular homicide.
The rest of the proceeds will benefit Hope for Animals, a Thibodaux-based animal rescue group that Toups was involved in, said Abby Rivet, office manager at Lafourche Animal Hospital.
K.C. worked at Lafourche Animal Hospital, and the hospital is helping to put on the race.
In addition to the race, there will be jambalaya, white beans, desserts and sweet tea from Raising Cane's. There will be music, a silent auction and a performance by Stacey's Dance Studio.
Debbie Toups, K.C. Toups' mother, said the endowment is a way of creating a legacy for her son.
K.C. was only 18 months out of veterinary school when he died but had found his niche working with local animals.
The heavy student loans he had to take out to complete his education always bothered him, so family members decided to start a scholarship to help future veterinary students complete their education.
The scholarship, which aims to support students interested in working as a mixed animal veterinarian, provides a student with $2,000 a year for school at the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine. This will be the third year the scholarship has been given out. The goal is to raise $125,000 so the scholarship can provide students with $5,000 per year.
"We look at this as an opportunity to keep K.C.'s memory alive," Debbie Toups said. "We get together to help out some causes he supported, share stories and know how much he would love this."
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Just a quick comment... If more of my comments had been printed in that article, it would have come out that Apple has a developer relations guy whose job is providing information and documentation for Linux, both LinuxPPC and MkLinux.
That hasn't been of much help to MkLinux, mainly because the information we need most is about older hardware, and the info may not even still exist. The reason we got a partial bring-up of the b&w g3's in fairly short time was because LinuxPPC spent months working with the developer relations guy and we figured stuff out based on what they did.
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they've missed the best distribution : Debian. Debian PPC runs on Apple, PreP and CHRP hardware. The only pb is that you need to install one other distro (at least on Apple Hardware) and then install Debian.
The debian-powerpc mailing list is very active.
When Linux2.4 arrives (and I can use 3-button USB mice) I'd love to give Apple hardware a test drive. I just don't think MacOS can help me get my work done, no matter how easy it is to drag and drop things.
Well, one thing to keep in mind is that SUN has a long history as a hacker-friendly company. It was founded by hackers, and much of its software was and is written by hackers.Obviously Suns attitude make good business sense - shunt users of old hardware onto a similar platform and get rid of the support headaches. but Sun do seem to have a more supportive attitude all round than Apple. They are far more keen to get people using their hardware, even if it means losing software revenue.
Apple, on the other hand, is and, at least since the introduction of the Mac, was a suit company. Woz was forced out relatively early...
I can imagine young, dynamic silk-tie suits with expensive haircuts trying to jump onto the free software bandwaggon, but I cannot imagine them to understand the movement, or to have lot's of staying power.
So my impression is that SUN supports Linux because of its corporate mentality, while Apple does it in spite of this.
"I own an Apple and I like the OS, but I beleive Apple's business practices are designed to drain every last cent from the consumers pockets."
...as opposed to those other publicly traded companies that are in business for the good of the common man, right? Your statement about Apple's business practices is basically a crude restatement of what the law requires of every public corporation. Welcome to America
The current thread manager only supports cooperative threads. Previously, 68k threads could be preemptively scheduled, but apparantly even that is gone. The Multiprocessing Services manager lets you create preemptive threads, even on a single processor machine, but these threads can't make system calls.
Of course there are all kinds of tricks apps can play to work well, "even when the mouse is down". Anarchie, a popular FTP client, does a lot of stuff using asynchronous network calls, so it works well in the background. There's also a hack called the "Menutasking Enabler" that lets other apps run while menus are down. I don't know how well it works on recent systems, haven't tried it lately.
Reference to information about threads manager [apple.com] (It also mentions this on page 9 of this PDF. [apple.com])
Menutasking Enabler [aol.com]
Sun sells to the Slashdot market; Apple, largely, doesn't. In the Slashdot market, the computer is the job, and the customer gets the highest benefit from the most direct possible access to the workings of the machine as a machine.
In Apple's market, the computer is not the job. It is a tool that must support the mental model the customer has of his own job. The customer gets the highest benefit when the computer presents nothing dissonant with (or even irrelevant to) that mental model.
Apple is a systems-integration house that turns out machines that are ruthlessly designed to get the computer out of the way of the customer's work. They do this by integrating the design of the Macintosh from motherboard through OS to GUI design. There is a large market of decent, intelligent people who need such machines. If you don't want to say Apple serves that market well, at least admit they serve it better than anyone else.
The cost of a Macintosh, its usefulness, and its excuse for existing, come from its tight integration. Apple is uninterested in Linux because Linux boxes don't need an Apple Computer, Inc. to build them. Put Linux on a Mac, and you've thrown away most of the value Apple adds (and charges for).
My rule of thumb is that a new Macintosh is wasted running Linux, and any Pentium is wasted running anything else. I'm writing this from a Mac running LinuxPPC, but it's an amortized Mac on a second career.
From what I've heard of OSX Server, it simply rocks. Not only does it come with a port of Apache, but also with a graphical shell for Apache. AFAIK, nobody else has that. And in the days before Java, more than a few CS grad students looked at NextSTEP and said, "yes, brothers and sisters, this is why we fought the revolution". And oh yeah, I think gcc and its entourage are thrown in as well with OS X Server (not sure about that tho'.)
The new hardware combined with OS X Server would be nothing short of stunning.
One thing that &^%$ess me off, however, is that there's no X server for OS X Server! (Did you get that?) Not without 3rd-party add-ons at least. Granted, the graphical rendering technology on NextSTEP was Display PostScript (cool), and the "Quartz" subsystem of OS X Server is supposed to use PDF (very cool).
But.. what the #%$@ do I do with X-based source code? Hack it to use Quartz? (Yeah, right.) Or try porting XFree86 to Darwin? (Yeah, right.) Or has someone come up with a solution to this snafu of which I'm unaware? (Always possible..)
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This was easy. Mostly because you didn't mention sewing machines. Sewing machines give me fits.
People interested in doing this are gathering even as we speak at http://www.openppc.org [openppc.org].
With an ATX style MB you'd pay a slight premium over x86 hardware
After the 20,000th unit, maybe. Economies of scale, you know. But getting to that point will be a challenge.
but they benefits would be great
What he said!
Hopefully Apple isn't able to put pressure on anyone to prevent them from doing this.
The biggest thing Apple can do is pressure IBM to stop giving out these mobo designs. All the more reason to download them now at http://www.openppc.org/make.html [openppc.org]
For the printer, if using a RedHat look-alike, there is a printtool that let you specify that your printer is "Epson Stylus 600" or "ESC/P2" (you may need to upgrade printtool and ghostscript).
For the scanner and CD-R you need to enable SCSI Generic in kernel (if not done already). For the scanner there is a package called SANE. For the CD-R you should check cdrecord or cdwrite. See freshmeat.net to find them.
There is Sheepshaver that can run MacOS on top of Linux (if it's been released. Note, I don't have a PPC box).
Yer clearing talking about Mac OS X
He may be "clearing talking about MacOS X", but he's equally clearly not talking about MacOS X in his second clause, as he speaks of MacOS X Server in his first clause, and contrasts it in his second clause with the other OS Apple is currenly selling, which is not MacOS X, unless they've started selling the non-server version while I wasn't looking.
Crushing LinuxPPC to fend off potential loss in software sales (Forget the gains in higher-margin hardware sales!) would cut off another revenue stream and do them more harm in the long run.
It didn't stop them from doing it with Be, and pushing them over to the Intel chip platform.
Sometimes Apple is its own worst enemy. It should stop being so petty. It's what gives me the most pause about buying Apple hardwre.
People often forget that the only way (technically) to legally buy a copy of the MacOS is to have a Mac to run it on.
Well, this isn't entirely true. You can buy a copy off the shelf and do nothing with it. =) But I digress...
The reason that I'm a big fan of LinuxPPC is the hardware that it's running on. I'm sure part of it is that I have a lot of experience with Apple's hardware. I know that (at least for all the machines I have) that it's high-quality and standardized. But the installs and configuration of Linux on Apple hardware has been easier than doing the same on Intel hardware. It all feels a lot more stable to me. Maybe it just irritates me that (most? all?) Intel boxes don't support Open Firmware, don't have standardized ethernet, don't have standardized sound. I mean, I guess this brings back the whole default v. custom argument, but for the most part, when it comes to hardware support, I'd rather have good and easy v. great and hard.
But yes, Apple hardware is kind of expensive. But of course, hardware is always just a small part of the cost. The greater concern would be the much better software support and size of the community for Linux/Intel.
Hopefully there is still some ability of recent versions of MacOS to run on some of the clones ( e.g. UMAX, StarMax, Motorola,
I suspect that you've missed the flame wars surrounding contentions over whether successive editions of MacOS will continue to support pre-"G3" PPC Macs...
Their loss.
Again, Apple has given up a major opportunity to expand their base, and still have time to reverse their decision. But, like that article says, if we get in there with our cheap CHRP boxes running LinuxPPC, will Apple have anywhere to grow?
That they said "No MOSX on CHRP" does indicate that it was discussed at a high level. That's good. What will change their minds is money. If they can make money (lots) off of it, they'll do it. The casual observer will probably say that by not doing it, they're going to lose money. Lots of it.
We'll see. Our ball!
The can stop them from including Mac ROMs and installing the MacOS on it, though.
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3 hurt in Baytown plane crash ID'd
Updated 11:11 am, Tuesday, July 8, 2014
Officials have identified a man, woman and an 8-year-old boy who were injured when the their small plane crashed Monday night at a public park in Baytown.
The crash occurred about 9 p.m. at Jenkins Park in the 4300 block of Crosby Cedar Bayou, according to the Department of Public Safety.
Troopers said the pilot, 48-year-old Gary John Flynt, along with his two family members, 44-year-old Linda Sue Flynt, and the boy, whose name was not released, were hurt. They were rushed to Memorial Hermann-The Texas Medical Center. The three are listed as in stable condition.
Troopers said the single-engine Cessna 172 plunged to the ground shortly after take-off from the Baytown airport. It hit a power line, rolled over and slammed into the baseball fields at the park. It came to reset upside down and against a fence.
CenterPoint Engenry officials said power was lost after the plane hit the power line.
Investigators are trying to determine what led to the crash.
Federal Aviation Adminstration records show the plane, which was built in 1966, is owned by a Baytown man identified as Harvey W. Flynt.
According to an online post by The Primary Post in 2013, the FAA recognized Gary John Flynt in its Airmen Certification database for meeting met or exceeding high educational, licensing and medical standards established by the agency.
The mangled wreckage of the plane was still at the park early Tuesday morning. The FAA is investigating the crash.


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Truly sorry. I was being snarky, but in agreement with Miriam, NOT making fun of her. Honestly. I don't understand those people's behavior, and I thought her statement about what they did was massive in it's understatement, which sparked my sarcasm - but I really was completely agreeing with her, nothing more than that.
About two years ago DH and I went to see Lewis Black. The venue had a cash bar and there were a few attendees who were "toasted". I can only imagine what a nightmare this would be for a comedian. One woman, in particular, was veeeeerrrrrry drunk and kep shouting random stuff at Mr. Black. Someone else in the audience yelled "She's wasted!" and his response was "You think I don't know that?". Security removed her.
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How interested would you be in a technology growth company making touch sensor "hover" technology for Samsung phones and dozens of other devices that is trading under 15X next year's estimates? The stock is down over 15% since an early June report that the Korean handset maker was seeing a slowdown in sales of its Galaxy S4 unit. But that's not the whole story.
Synaptics (SYNA - Free Report) is a leading developer of human interface solutions for a wide variety of mobile computing and communications devices and is the leading supplier of TouchPads to the notebook computer market.
Products include the TouchPad input device, TouchStyk pointing stick, Dual Pointing combination input solution, ClearPad touch screen, Spiral pen input solution, and QuickStroke Chinese handwriting software.
Here's how much SYNA shares have been impacted by the Samsung concerns...
Putting the Galaxy S4 in Perspective
Investors need to consider several things when evaluating Synaptics as a buy or a sell. First, Samsung accounts for an estimated 20-30% of overall sales for the company and the Galaxy S4 program, specifically, is only 10% of that.
Second, what is the true extent of the S4 slowdown? The biggest concern was slowing sales to Europe. But from all the analyst reports I've read, it looks like those fears were overblown. The worst downgrade to sale estimates came from the analysts at Needham last week when they lowered their forecast from 100 million units to 80 million for 2013.
"At an estimated average selling price (ASP) for the touch controller of $1.10, the overall impact to revenue is around $30MM in CY13 or $0.30-$0.35 EPS impact."
While Needham analysts recently lowered their revenue and earnings estimates and their price target from $58 to $54, they reiterated their "Buy" rating as they felt that the market was giving the company little credit for winning the design placement in the S4, which was only confirmed in late April when the shares were trading $42.
"We believe SYNA has several design programs in the (second-half of) 2013, both on the tablet and handset side, that could provide upside to our reduced numbers, namely: Samsung Note III, Amazon Kindle tablets, Samsung lower end S4 variations (i.e. S4 Active and Mini) and higher sell-through on existing smartphone platforms."
Meanwhile, JPMorgan analysts have remained consistently positive on SYNA and recently raised their revenue and earnings estimates, their rating (Over-Weight), and price target for the shares, from $44 to $52. They note the design wins beyond Samsung with HTC, Blackberry, Sony, Lenovo, and LG.
As SYNA has invented better high-tech solutions for its PC and mobile OEM customers, profit margins have been in a strong up trend. From March of 2011 to March of this year, gross quarterly profit margin has grown from 40.46% to 49.65%.
And here's how analyst estimates stack up going forward for this $1.2 billion innovator of in-demand capacitive touch technology...
A Bad-Apple Taste?
Investors are probably more cautious than ever these days when it comes to much-hyped mobile device companies and their stocks. I will never forget what I learned from famed short-seller Doug Kass about investing in Apple last fall.
In late October, when AAPL shares were still trading above $600, Kass said "Never buy a tech stock with declining margins that is also over-owned."
Clearly, he had learned his lesson with similar stories in MSFT, INTC, and CSCO in the last decade.
Thankfully, my holding of SYNA shares doesn't qualify on either count, neither being "over-owned" (at barely mid-cap status) and maintaining healthy margin growth as it expands its product and customer bases with next-generation technology.
Unless something changes with the earnings estimate story that takes away its strong Zacks Rank, I would look to add anywhere near the 200-day moving average.
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Cisco: Charging Ahead
Cisco is the fastest-growing of the top server vendors, according to IDC. However, that growth must be taken in context of its much lower existing server sales due to the fact that Cisco's UCS servers only came to market in 2009.
IDC estimated Cisco server revenue was $450 million, up 34.9 percent over last year. Because of the heavy emphasis on blade server form factors in the Cisco UCS line, Cisco had a 17.6-percent share of the blade server business, slightly ahead of IBM's blade server sales but still far behind HP's.


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So it begins. BS Network begins a-courting Juanita for the GOP.
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Hannity: I've 'evolved' on immigration and support a 'pathway to citizenship'
Source: Politico
Sean Hannity said Thursday he has evolved on immigration and now supports a pathway to citizenship.
Hannity told his radio listeners Thursday afternoon that the United States needs to get rid of the immigration issue altogether.
Its simple to me to fix it, Hannity said. I think you control the border first. You create a pathway for those people that are here you dont say youve got to go home. And that is a position that Ive evolved on. Because, you know what, its got to be resolved. The majority of people here, if some people have criminal records you can send them home, but if people are here, law-abiding, participating for years, their kids are born here, you know, first secure the border, pathway to citizenship, done.


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EUGENE, Ore. (AP) -- Crews at the University of Oregon are scrambling to return power to a number of buildings after a series of explosions rocked an underground tunnel.
Nobody was hurt in the Monday morning blasts, but the student health center and a number of residence halls were still dark hours later.
Campus police spokesman Kelly McIver says the cause is still unknown. McIver says there were about five explosions around 10 a.m., followed by a series of blasts for about half an hour.
Videos showed puffs of smoke coming from manhole covers, and the scent of burning rubber lingered in the air.
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AUGUSTA, GA. — Opportunities of magnitude, life-changing moments, should be seized and cherished. Tiger Woods had one Saturday at the Masters, and he shanked it. Same for tournament officials.
This is not so much a golf tournament as it is a monument to sport the way it should be. It wears it on its sleeve, preaches it to the masses.
Fred Ridley, chairman of the competition committee and a man in the eye of a hurricane, along with Woods, stated firmly during an appearance in front of various media, "Integrity has been the underpinning of this tournament."
That's why what happened remains so curious.
In quick summary, Woods made an improper drop after he hit a shot in the water Friday. A TV viewer saw it, called in, Ridley and his rules committee reviewed film and decided the drop was all right.


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Manchester City midfielder Javi Garcia has emerged as a January transfer window target for Real Madrid, just six months after his move to the Etihad Stadium.
Garcia signed for Manchester City from Benfica on transfer deadline day in a deal worth £15.8 million but, according to the Daily Express, could join Real Madrid in the following window.
The 25-year-old began his career with Real Madrid, coming through the club's esteemed youth academy, and may seemingly complete a return to the Santiago Bernabeu.
Roberto Mancini, however, is likely to be reluctant to allow a prominent first-team player to leave at vital time of the season, particularly as Yaya Toure is away on international duty at the Africa Cup of Nations.
Garcia has made 19 appearances for Manchester City this term, scoring two goals, and was signed to bolster the club's midfield following the departure of Nigel de Jong, but has failed to have as much impact as the player he replaced.
But the Spain international appears to have impressed the hierarchy at Real Madrid, and could reportedly be signed with Michael Essien and Luka Modric free to leave in the summer.
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