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GAINFORD, Alberta (AP) -- Firefighters battling a major blaze caused by the derailment of a Canadian National tanker train west of Edmonton, Alberta, early today have decided to withdraw and wait for the flames to burn themselves out. No injuries to people or livestock have been reported.
The latest derailment has raised more questions about rail safety that became a major issue after a runaway oil train derailed in a Quebec town in July, triggering explosions that killed 47 people.
A Canadian National spokesman says 13 cars -- four carrying petroleum crude oil and nine loaded with liquified petroleum gas -- came off the tracks around 1 a.m. local time in the hamlet of Gainford, about 50 miles from Edmonton. Three cars began leaking and caught fire.
A local fire chief says with no further explosions expected from the 13 cars, withdrawing the firefighters is the safest thing to do.
About 100 people from the village of Gainford have been evacuated.
LOS CABOS, Mexico (AP) -- Mexico's Baja California peninsula has been rattled by a 6.4-magnitude offshore quake.
There were no immediate reports of injuries or damages.
The United States Geological Survey says the quake occurred at almost 1800 GMT on Saturday and was centered in the Gulf of California, between the Baja Peninsula and Mexico's western coast.
Eldest of Mexico's Arellano Felix clan killed
LOS CABOS, Mexico (AP) -- Police officials say the eldest brother of Mexico's once-feared Arellano Felix drug clan has been shot to death in the Baja California beach resort of Cabo San Lucas by a gunman wearing a clown costume.
Authorities with the municipal police force and Baja California Sur state prosecutor's office said Saturday that Francisco Rafael Arellano Felix's son confirmed his identity at the scene.
The officials were not authorized to be quoted by name. They say Arellano Felix was shot late Friday during a party held at a rented beach house. The costumed gunman wore a round clown nose.
Arellano Felix was the eldest of seven brothers, most of whom have died or been arrested.
He served time on drug charges in the United States but was released and deported in 2008.
1 killed in attack on coca eradicators
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) -- Bolivian authorities say a group of locals armed with rifles and knives has attacked police and soldiers who were destroying illegal coca crops, killing a soldier and injuring at least 16 of his comrades.
It is believed to be the first fatal attack on a coca eradication team since Evo Morales, a coca-growers' union leader, was elected president nearly eight years ago.
The Interior Ministry said in a statement that an army lieutenant was killed with a shot to the chest.
Authorities said eight local men were arrested after the attack in the community of Apolo, about 90 miles north of La Paz.
Bolivia's government considers two-thirds of its coca crop to be legal and dedicated to traditional uses. But it dispatches joint military-police teams to eradicate unapproved coca fields.
SAO PAULO (AP) -- Animal rights activists and police have been clashing in front of a laboratory in Brazil that used dogs for drug tests.
The confrontation came a day after activists broke into the lab and released 178 beagles being used to test for adverse effects of drugs manufactured by the pharmaceutical industry.
Local police say about 500 activists, including members of an anarchist group, today tried to break through barriers set up in front of the lab, threw rocks and set fire to a police car and media vehicles. Police responded with tear gas and pepper spray. There's no word on arrests or injuries.
None of the dogs take from the lab Friday have been recovered.
AMSTERDAM (AP) -- A fire has gutted a building in the Netherlands where Mata Hari, the exotic dancer and World War I spy, was born.
Dutch television broadcast images of the building, now occupied by the Hari hair salon, showing it engulfed in flames on Saturday in the northern city of Leeuwarden, 70 miles (110 kilometers) north of Amsterdam.
In 1876, Mata Hari was born there as Margaretha Zelle, the daughter of a Dutch businessman. She later fled an unhappy marriage and won acclaim as an exotic dancer in Paris in the early 1900s.
She was executed by firing squad by the French in 1917 on suspicion of spying for Germany, though her guilt was long a question of historical dispute.
Greta Garbo portrayed Mata Hari in a famous film in 1931.
BRUSSELS (AP) -- A plane carrying parachutists planning to celebrate a birthday with a skydive crashed in Belgium on Saturday, killing all 11 people aboard.
Minutes after the aircraft took off from a small airfield near the city of Namur, witnesses saw part of a wing break off, sending the plane into a spiraling nosedive and crash in a field close to Fernelmont town, said its mayor, Jean-Claude Nihoul. The skydivers and their instructors "were not able to jump out," Nihoul said in a telephone interview.
"It has been a long time we have suffered a tragedy of such kind," said Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo, who traveled to the site of the accident.
The victims were almost all between the ages of 20 and 40, and many families lost a father, Nihoul said. "There were 11 on board, and the trip was a birthday present for one of them," he added.
Everyone aboard was killed and no one was hurt on the ground, Nihoul said, adding that three parachutes were found near the crash site. "Some were trying to get out but could not," he said.
The 11 victims were not immediately identified by name, and the cause of the accident was being investigated.
The Pilatus PC-6 Turbo Porter plane took off in partly cloudy conditions over the wooded and hilly area about 40 miles (60 kilometers) south of Brussels.
Nicolas Hormans of the Paraclub Namur, whose skydivers were among the victims, told RTL network that the plane was probably about 3 kilometers (2 miles) high when it suddenly went down. He said the nosedive would have thrown everyone aboard around with such force that they would not have been able to jump out and parachute to safety.
Such plane crashes in Belgium, a small country of 11 million people, are fairly rare.
King Phillipe was visiting the scene of the accident Saturday night with Prime Minister Di Rupo.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Afghan officials say a national meeting to discuss the fate of a future security deal with the United States will likely be held in the third week of November.
Organizing committee member Sadeq Mudaber said Saturday that the consultative assembly of tribal elders, or Loya Jirga, will start at some point between Nov. 19 and 21 and could last as long as a week. He expected 3,000 people to attend.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and President Hamid Karzai a week ago reached an agreement in principle on the major elements of a deal that would allow American troops to stay in Afghanistan after 2014.
But Karzai said a potentially deal-breaking issue of jurisdiction over those forces must be debated by the Loya Jirga before he makes a decision.
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Gaza's Hamas chief is calling for a renewed violent uprising against Israel.
Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh called Saturday on all Palestinian factions to oppose the recently restarted peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians and take up "armed resistance."
Israel is negotiating with the West Bank government of President Mahmoud Abbas. The Islamic militant group Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, does not recognize Israel and calls for its destruction. It was responsible for scores of suicide bombings and other attacks against Israel last decade.
Israel recently discovered a pair of tunnels from Gaza it says was aimed at carrying out attacks. Haniyeh spoke on the second anniversary of a prisoner swap with Israel that freed more than a thousand Palestinians in exchange for captive Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit.
Syria reports blast in Damascus suburb, casualties
BEIRUT (AP) -- Syria's state-run news agency says an explosion has occurred in a suburb of the capital Damascus, causing casualties.
SANA says Saturday's blast in Jaramana killed and wounded a number of people.
Rebels have previously targeted Jaramana, a Christian and Druse area mostly loyal to President Bashar Assad, with bombings and mortar rounds.
Assad has drawn support from Syria's ethnic and religious minorities, including Christians and members of his Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam. The rebel movement is dominated by Sunni Muslims, who are a majority in Syria.
At least 100,000 Syrians have been killed in the country's civil war, now in its third year.
Turkish pilot and 9 Lebanese s arrive home after kidnapping
ISTANBUL (AP) -- Two Turkish Airlines pilots held hostage in Lebanon by militants since August have returned home.
Turkish television channels showed live images Saturday night of pilots Murat Akpinar and Murat Agca arriving at an airport in Istanbul. They arrived on a Qatar Executive private jet.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and other officials greeted the pilots on the tarmac.
The two were freed as part of a deal that saw nine Shiite pilgrims from Lebanon freed from captivity in Syria.
It's unclear if the third part of the deal has been executed, which calls for the release several dozen women held in Syrian government jails. That was a key demand of Syrian rebels who were holding the Lebanese pilgrims.
Egypt asks Libya to free drivers held by militia
CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt's foreign ministry says it has asked Libya to secure the release of dozens of Egyptian drivers held there by an armed militia.
Badr Abdel-Atti, a foreign ministry spokesman, said Saturday it was not clear how many Egyptians were captured when fighters stopped more than 70 vehicles earlier this week in the northern Libyan city of Ajdabiya.
Libyan security officials said about 200 Egyptian drivers were detained by the armed militia, which demands the release of their relatives arrested in Egypt on accusations of arms smuggling.
Armed militias have increased in number and force after dictator Moammar Gadhafi was overthrown and killed in 2011. In the aftermath, Libyan weapons have flooded Egypt while authorities struggle to contain a low-level insurgency.
Car bomb hits military compound in Egypt
EL-ARISH, Egypt (AP) -- Egyptian security officials say a car bomb has detonated near a military intelligence compound in the Suez Canal city of Ismailia, wounding four soldiers.
Ismailia borders the restive Sinai Peninsula, where the military is on the offensive against insurgents who frequently target Egypt's security forces and facilities.
In recent months the militants have expanded the scope of attacks, carrying out bombings in the Suez Canal area and even Cairo.
The Saturday blast attack in Ismailia came on the first work day after a major Muslim holiday. The officials said part of the military intelligence compound's wall collapsed and a building nearby was damaged.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not allowed to brief the media.
Mubarak trial resumes in Egypt behind closed doors
CAIRO (AP) -- Egyptian state media say top security officials are testifying behind closed doors in the retrial of ex-president Hosni Mubarak, who faces charges related to the killings of around 900 protesters during the 2011 uprising that led to his ouster.
The 85-year-old former autocrat was previously convicted of failing to stop the killings, but that was overturned on appeals earlier this year.
The state-owned Nile TV says two security officials, including former intelligence chief Murad Muwafi, took the stand in the Saturday court session.
The presiding judge previously ordered that testimony of security officials take place under a media blackout for reasons of national security.
In addition to Mubarak, six top police officials and the former interior minister, who oversaw Egypt's feared police for more than a decade, are on trial.
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood facing wave of trials
CAIRO (AP) -- The next phase in Egypt's wide-scale crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood since the military's July ouster of President Mohammed Morsi is expected to be a massive wave of trials.
A large number of senior leaders could go to jail, some for life. Charges include inciting violence and terrorism. Morsi is scheduled for trial next month.
Leaders may also be charged with fomenting violence in post-coup protests by Morsi's Islamist supporters demanding his reinstatement. Security forces have cracked down heavily on the protests and have killed hundreds of Morsi backers.
From nine to more than a dozen cases so far are being put together, each with multiple defendants, according to a prosecution official and Brotherhood lawyers. One rights lawyer predicts around 200 Brotherhood leaders and senior officials could eventually end up in court.
Car bomb kills 3 in Iraqi capital
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iraqi authorities say a car bomb on a commercial street in northern Baghdad has killed three people.
Police officials say 11 others were wounded in the Saturday morning blast in the capital's Qahira neighborhood. Shops and cars were damaged.
Health officials confirmed the casualty figures. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information to reporters.
Violence escalated sharply in late April following a deadly crackdown by security forces on a camp for Sunni protesters in the northern town of Hawija. At least 365 people have died in attacks so far this month, according to an Associated Press count.
Australian authorities fear worsening wildfires
SYDNEY (AP) -- Some of the most destructive wildfires ever have hit Australia's most populous state and firefighters are bracing for things to get even worse today.
It's supposed to get hot and winds are expected to kick up, intensifying the danger in the coming days in New South Wales state. Arson investigators are examining the origins of several fires. One person has died and hundreds of homes are destroyed or damaged.
The damage toll announced today is more than double the count from yesterday. It's expected to continue to rise as assessment teams and police move deeper into the destruction zone. Authorities say 68 fires are still burning with 22 out of control.
Around 1,500 firefighters have been back burning to contain blazes. Several roads in fire-affected areas north, west and south of Sydney have been closed.

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Ever since the departure of Alex Song to Barcelona, Arsenal have been unable to fill the void at the holding midfield position.
Although Mikel Arteta has filled in admirably, his lack of defensive know-how has let him down at times. The integration of Jack Wilshere into the Arsenal starting line-up has also been difficult, so a true defensive midfielder is a must in the summer transfer window to give Arsenal a natural balance in defence and attack.
It took Arsene Wenger a season to fill the position Cesc Fabregas vacated with Santi Cazorla, so maybe the same will happen after the summer of Song's departure. So then, in no particular order, here are the possible names Arsenal should consider.
Sven Bender | Borussia Dortmund
The 24-year-old German international has seen his season cut into chunks this campaign, having only made 20 appearances for Borussia Dortmund.
Yes, he is injury prone. This makes him a less than ideal target to have, but Bender's style of play focuses almost purely on his defensive duties. The Dortmund player loves to tackle, and does so with great success, averaging 3.7 tackles per game in the Bundesliga. But with his strengths lying mainly in defensive areas, he will free Wilshere to move forward.
Bender's concentration rarely lapses, allowing him to intercept the ball with ease and really start attacks. Most of his passes go forward and his hard work, grit and determination will fit in very well with this new look Arsenal side.
He has been linked with moves to Manchester United and City, but if Arsenal were able to snap him up for his £12.5m valuation, it would be a great bit of business for the Gunners.
Lars Bender | Bayer Leverkusen
We then swiftly move on to his brother, Lars Bender. Arsenal are linked to a move for this player after a very impressive campaign with Bayer Leverkusen, helping them all the way to third in the Bundesliga.
Valued at £17.5m, he is much more expensive than his brother - but better. Averaging 4.5 tackles and 2.5 interceptions in the German top-flight, his defensive capabilities and statistics are instantly better. Even more impressive is the fact that he has made 13 more appearances than his brother this term, making him less injury-prone and more likely to justify his value.
He would also settle in quicker to the Arsenal setup as he already is able to play a great short passing game. What justifies his £5m higher value is that he is able to add a new dimension to the Arsenal attack.
His ability to thread a long pass through a team and give the attack a one-on-one situation is sublime and that option would be great to have. The directness of his play would help Arsenal, but at the same time freeing his partner Wilshere from the shackles of incessant defending and allowing him to focus on the attack.
Arsenal having been directly linked to this player makes the possibilty more credible, but quite low considering that Leverkusen achieved an automatic Champions League spot this season. He would be a great addition, and after the season he has had it seems like more is yet to come from Lars Bender.
Etienne Capoue | Toulouse
My personal favourite on this list is Etienne Capoue. The French midfield giant is versatile, having to play at centre-back and in a more advanced midfield position this season - and is a great all-round footballer.
His 2.4 tackles-per-game do not sound that good, but having scored seven goals for Toulouse in his position is very impressive. Unlike the Bender brothers, Capoue also is a great threat in the air. Standing at 189cm, his aerial ability is incredible giving Arsenal another physical aspect to their team, but also another player to aim for from set-pieces. However, his passing accuracy and sheer range of passing give Capoue a true Arsenal look.
He often plays long passes that allow the play to be switched, while his 80% accuracy of these passes shows just how precise they are. He can also thread the ball through to a running Theo Walcott and like all players in this position enjoys the tackle. His 7.5 average game rating is one of the best of the lot and playing at the moment for a seemingly small 10th placed Toulouse, he probably desires a step up.
Should Arsenal eventually target the physical Frenchman, his £10.5m value shouldn't be a massive obstacle to a side armed with £70m. The Gunners have even already been linked to him. All in all, this player is most like Song, but also more disciplined and one who can really give Arsenal's midfield a stronger look.
Maxime Gonalons | Lyon
Already linked with a move, Maxime Gonalons is possibly a close second only to Capoue on this list.
A very capable defender and a born leader on the pitch, Gonalons is technically a very good footballer. Making 41 appearances in all competitions, he has played more games than anybody else on this list. Completing 89% of his passes, you can see why the Lyon captain is being linked with the Gunners.
Rated at £8.8m, his price could drop even further knowing the financial turmoil Lyon are suffering at the moment - he is possibly the cheapest in this list.
But defensively, what is Gonalons like? Well, he wins 4.1 tackles each game and intercepts a further 3.1, making him a solid player to have in any team. Not only this, Gonalons is also very capable in the air, adding to the already tall combination of Per Mertesacker and Olivier Giroud.
Arsenal, and Arsene Wenger especially, have been able to pick out those special players from Ligue 1, so Gonalons could assert himself both in the Premier League and even on the biggest European stage.
Morgan Schneiderlin | Southampton
The third Frenchman on the list is also the first player to have experienced the pace and the physicality in the Premier League.
Morgan Schneiderlin has been the buffer in midfield that Southampton have needed to stay in the Premier League. His value is currently only £2.6m, but it could go up to £10m.
Schneiderlin signed a new four-year contract with the Saints in January which gives Southampton all of the bargaining power if Arsenal are willing to negotiate with them for the player.
The Gunners are already said to be interested in signing the 23-year-old and after such a strong first season you can see why: 4.1 tackles and 3.9 interceptions per game speak for themselves.
But Schneiderlin also possesses the ability to pick out a pass; 0.8 key passes per game coinciding with an 85% completion rate is very impressive. Although Schneiderlin dons many key skills to succeed with the Gunners, I can't help but think that, for £10m, there are better options out there.
Out of the five I would most like to see Capoue donning the red and white of Arsenal, with Gonalons and Schneiderlin coming in a close second and third respectively.
The main reason behind this being that they are much cheaper than the Bender brothers, who seem overpriced compared to the skills that the Frenchmen in this list have.
Only time will tell what Wenger will decide to do in a position Arsenal desperately need to strengthen.
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I'm working on an Omegle bot in Python, but recently I encountered a Captcha on the site. Thankfully, it almost seems like Omegle was designed for bots, and I can get the Captcha public key easily. The way I want it to work is to open a browser window with the reCaptcha image and then ask the user to enter the text.
I have all of it except for submitting the answer. How would I achieve this?


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Why we use templates,in graphics?
to get an idea
so that we dont make the same work twice. when you buy a car, you may be adding some tunning & custom functions or devices, but youre not asking the seller to start from creating/designing the shape from zero... they use a template as well
t make the same work twice. when you buy a car, you may be adding some tunning & custom functions or devices, but you
We use templates for getting an overview about the product which we want to buy, for getting the functionality, features & many more about the particular product.
The Template pattern belongs to the behavioral pattern category. The Template pattern defines a main process template and this main process template calls sub-processes in a sequential manner. Later, the sub processes of the main process can be altered to generate a different behavior.
Just as web tools there are lots of free templates available over the internet, thought with the ones you need to pay for you have the added advantage of support by the template creators if you look at www.webtoolson.com it has a great template that is so very flexible and easy to configure.
To keep consistency; if I have four designers all working on the same job, if they don't all start from the same base template, the colours will be slightly different, the margins inconsistent, etc. Using a template means they all start from the same place. That's a good thing!


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I am using fancybox.js version 2.1.3 to place external content into an iframe. I am doing this by placing the url followed by a div id (e.g. http://somesite.com#about), this seems to work however the problem is I have not found away to stop fancybox from scrolling. preventing scrolling is necessary since i will be placing several div ids on the same external page and then placing them in iframes with fancybox, and i do not want to give the viewer the ability to scroll down within the iframe to view other div ids on this external page.
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The Wheaton Police Department is warning residents about coyote attacks after a small dog was killed Friday night.
Police responded at 11:46 p.m. Friday to the 600 block of Plamondon Court for a coyote attack, according to a news release.
The resident's schnauzer was attacked by a coyote around 10:30 p.m. and died as a result of its injuries, police said. The coyote appears to have jumped over a fence to attack the dog, police said.
"Be out there with the animals; don't leave them in the backyard, especially if they have a small fence or no fence," Wheaton police Lt. Tom Heidank said. "If you do see one, try to scare it away."
In order to frighten a coyote, officials suggest yelling, using a noisemaker, throwing things at it, clapping, running toward it or spraying it with a garden hose.
The city's website also suggests keeping dogs on a short leash and bringing pets inside after dark, as well as storing pet food indoors. Residents also should never give a coyote food or water, because that will encourage it to return to the area.
Several small dogs were attacked by coyotes in Wheaton this fall.


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Here is a Link to the print version of the article [infoworld.com] (that convenientily fits on 1 page instead of 3).
Providing a great GUI for complex routers or Linux admin is hard. Of course there has to be a CLI, that's how pros get the job done. But a great GUI is one that teaches a new user to eventually graduate to using CLI.
A bad GUI with no CLI is the worst of both worlds, the author of the article got that right. The 80/20 rule applies: 80% of the work is common to everyone, and should be offered with a GUI. And the 20% that is custom to each sysadmin, well use the CLI.
dead simple alternative [fairsoftware.net] to incorporating for web startups
What would be nice is if the GUI could automatically create a shell script doing the change. That way you could (a) learn about how to do it per CLI by looking at the generated shell script, and (b) apply the generated shell script (after proper inspection, of course) to other computers.
Exchange Server 2007 (and I assume 2010) does this for many of its GUI operations, gives you the powershell after you've run it.
Just about every Microsoft tool newer than 2007 does this. Virtual machine manager, SQL Server has done it for ages, I think almost all the system center tools do, etc.
It's a huge improvement.
I liked SMIT.
AIX's SMIT did this, or rather it wrote the commands that it executed to achieve what you asked it to do. This meant that you could learn: look at what it did and find out about which CLI commands to run.
It's been years since I administered an AIX machine but my recollection is that the CLI command strings it came up with were generally amusingly-specific unique-to-AIX commands with very long names like resizepartitionandinstallbootblock or something like that. They were generally specialty scripts built t
Aruba's web-based GUI does this. You stack up all of your changes per-page, and you can click on an option at the bottom that shows you the CLI changes that it will make (since it's going to run just those lines when you apply it anyway). It shows you when something is simple and can be done quickly from the CLI, and also when what takes three clicks actually takes five or six somewhat complex lines.
That would be one option. Another would be to be able to drive the GUI from a script (test systems such as Silk and Selenium already do this). Provided standard options were accessed in a standard way, there is nothing to stop you from driving things from this direction. Alternatively, have a configuration server that applications installed plug-ins for. The configuration server can then abstract out the nuances. You then feed it a script in the server's language and it takes care of the configuration detai
"What would be nice is if the GUI could automatically create a shell script doing the change"
AIX's SMIT, and it's... how old? merely 20 years now?
What would be nice is if the GUI could automatically create a shell script doing the change. That way you could (a) learn about how to do it per CLI by looking at the generated shell script, and (b) apply the generated shell script (after proper inspection, of course) to other computers.
Cisco's GUI stuff doesn't really generate any scripts, but the commands it creates are the same things you'd type into a CLI. And the resulting configuration is just as human-readable (barring any weird naming conventions) as one built using the CLI. I've actually learned an awful lot about the Cisco CLI by using their GUI.
We've just started working with Aruba hardware. Installed a mobility controller last week. They've got a GUI that does something similar. It's all a pretty web-based front-end, but i
But a great GUI is one that teaches a new user to eventually graduate to using CLI.
I disagree. The "great" GUIs teach new users that they don't need a CLI, and many of them will never proceed past the point-and-drool stage, but expect a GUI app for anything they do.
When push comes to shove, a single line of awk or perl can easily do what half an hour of GUI clicking can't. And there's no way for a GUI to prepare you for perl or awk, only distract you from learning them.
I couldn't agree more which is why it's really cool that the Exchange GUI tools will show you the exact PowerShell commands they are running if you want to learn how to use the CLI (and in fact that are still things that can only be done in the CLI, though the list is greatly reduced in EX 2010 vs 2007).
Crap. I was hoping they would've encouraged more CLI and less GUI... (using Exch2k7 here - haven't had time to dink with 2010 yet). I'm guessing the typical MCSE types (comprising the majority, not the whole) have decided that command-line stuff must be too hard to learn.
Providing a great GUI for complex routers or Linux admin is hard. Of course there has to be a CLI, that's how pros get the job done. But a great GUI is one that teaches a new user to eventually graduate to using CLI.
Just about everyone reading this is heavily biased one way or another, and there is too much presumption that a CLI is this or a GUI is that.
Why can't we break this down into what makes any type of interface good or bad, and keep open to the possibility of new types of interfaces or better ways of implementing existing ones?
If we can bitch and moan about CLI vs. GUI with little choice in the matter I think the floor's open to made up interfaces too. These are qualities I think any computer interface should have.
Learning curve no steeper than the underlying concepts. Probably even lower.
Consistent, and predictable.
Expressive, and concise.
Integrity. Um.. as in, the state of the machine vs. what's conveyed to the user. Accurate?
Available over a network.
Can be automated.
Online documentation. Of the interface. If you have trouble describing the concepts in your native language, maybe it sucks.
Efficient, in the sense of labor involved, but in the sense of learning too, like my first rule.
That's a start anyway. I don't see why any kind of interface can't shoot for those. For sure if you're going to deliver more than one kind if interface they should relate to each other as much as possible. A CLI is dead simple to turn into script, but a GUI could also be. A CLI should map so closely to a corresponding GUI that it effectively IS a script of the GUI. A GUI should convey state information just by looking at it. Duh. If it doesn't HAVE to be an either/or situation, why make it into one?
With a CLI or a script that's easy: it comes down to "log in as user X, change to directory Y, run script Z with arguments A B and C - the output should look like D". Try that when all you have is a GLUI (like a GUI, but you get stuck): open this window, select that option, drag a slider, check these boxes, click Yes, three times. The output might look a little like this blurry screen shot and the only record of a successful execution is a window that disappears as soon as the application ends.
I suppose the Linux community should be grateful that windows made the fundemental systems design error of making everything graphic. Without that basic failure, Linux might never have even got the toe-hold it has now.
I think this is a stronger point than the OP: GUIs do not lead to good documentation. In fact, GUIs pretty much are limited to procedural documentation like the example you gave.
The best they can do as far as actual documentation, where the precise effect of all the widgets is explained, is a screenshot with little quote bubbles pointing to each doodad. That's a ridiculous way to document.
This is as opposed to a command reference which can organize, usually in a pretty sensible fashion, exact descriptions of what each command does.
Moreover, the GUI authors seem to have a penchant to find new names for existing CLI concepts. Even worse, those names are usually inappropriate vagueries quickly cobbled together in an off-the-cuff afterthought, and do not actually tell you where the doodad resides in the menu system. With a CLI, the name of the command or feature set is its location.
Not that even good command references are mandatory by today's pathetic standards. Even the big boys like Cisco have shown major degradation in the quality of their documentation during the last decade.
If you write a script, you're certain that the changes made will be identical on each box.
One little mistake in the script and you fuck up the whole organization.
Ah, but with a script you have a record of what was done.
True, unless your script was:
rm $0
Well, one little mistake pushing a windows domain policy via GUI, and the same.
This is one of the weakest points in the article, IMO, though. It's quite possible (even if MS MMC is a kludgy example) to GUIfy multi-system administration.
There will always be a place for both GUI and CLI -- status screens, for example, generally demand a GUI (and yes, ANSI menu systems are a GUI.)
If you write a script, you're certain that the changes made will be identical on each box.
One little mistake in the script and you fuck up the whole organization.
It is also easier to fix scripted errors because the error is identical in all places. I often find myself using sed to make complicated changes to config files and keeping backups or putting the changed config into a temporary file to get diffs of the results. In the odd case that something gets messed up in production, then it is usually another sed command or two to fix it.
With a GUI it is harder to verify that you are making the desired changes beforehand, and if you do mess it up royally, then you are
I think the author might not fully understand who most admins are. They're people who couldn't write a shell script if their lives depended on it, because they've never had to. GUI-dependent users become GUI-dependent admins.
As a percentage of computer users, people who can actually navigate a CLI are an ever-diminishing group.
You meant Windows admins, right?
I find it rather disturbing the UNIX ideal that sysadmins should be programmers. The opinion seems to be that it is perfectly ok for someone to need to do a fair bit of programming work to solve a system problem. Ok but the thing is programming and systems administration are not identical skills any more than say being a musician and being a recording engineer are. They are related, but proficiency in one is not the same as the other. I know more than a few programmers that are abysmal at system administration, and I know sysadmins that can't program. There is nothing wrong with this.
While I realize a simple (emphasis on simple) script isn't quite the same thing, this attitude smacks of the "People should just get down and code what they need," thing. No, not really. Not everyone should have to learn that skill, and you could well be excluding people you want by requiring it.
Also there's the simple matter that GUIs work better for unfamiliar situations. While it might be easy to just say "Well a good admin should know about this," that is rather stupid. Nobody knows everything, you never get someone with limitless experience. Part of systems administration is being able to solve novel problems. Ok well GUIs help in that regard, at least when well designed. They show you your options, and how they flow, what ones exclude and influence others and so on. That can make it much faster to deal with something you are not familiar with. This is important and useful in real IT work.
They also can help prevent errors. For example I can't count the number of times our DNS has been temporarily broken by a student messing up the file. If you do the formatting incorrect, screw up the serial number, etc and suddenly things stop working (we have it in a versioning system so it can be undone easily, of course). In Windows? Not a problem. The GUI keeps you from screwing things up. You can still make a bad entry or whatever, but you can't go and break the entire server.
I'm not saying there's anything wrong with the command line, or that it should go away. However the idea that everything should be CLI based is silly.
"I find it rather disturbing the UNIX ideal that sysadmins should be programmers."
That should be the case, but it isn't firstly because becoming a good sysadmin is a full time activity as it is being a good programmer and secondly because of subtle character differences between the people that choose one role or the other.
"I know more than a few programmers that are abysmal at system administration, and I know sysadmins that can't program. There is nothing wrong with this."
Yes, there is, and very wrong. Maturity of current IT systems is still far away to what's needed to be able to work in aisles. A programmer doesn't need to be a top notch sysadmin nor the other way around, but they both need to have very clear ideas about the other's trade because is needed both to understand where your program is going to be run and how and what would make proper practices to acomodate the programs within a wider and partially peculiar local environment (and in order to recognize properly engineered programs from lame intents).
"Not everyone should have to learn that skill, and you could well be excluding people you want by requiring it."
And, in fact, not everyone needs to learn that skill, it's only sysadmins that need it. And take for granted you are not excluding interesting people to fill a sysadmin role if they don't have at least clear foundations on programming.
"Also there's the simple matter that GUIs work better for unfamiliar situations."
Quite true (but proper man pages with examples and tutorials work almost as well).
"Part of systems administration is being able to solve novel problems. Ok well GUIs help in that regard, at least when well designed. "
But don't forget a *very* critical point: a new thing is only novelty the first time you do it. Do not let a bit of easiness for your first time getting in your way for the subsequent 10.000 times you will do it again from then on.
And that's exactly why GUIs sell so good. When you are "buying" something new (it might mean literarilly exchanging money, but it means commiting yourself to the effort that will require work with new thingie) it usually will be to do new things, which is the kind of situation when GUIs (and "wizards", for that matter) will help, so the GUI by itself will be a very valuable agent to sell the app/services. By the time you understand that the shiny GUI gets in the middle you have invested too much in the app (money, time and effort) to get away from it. Microsoft, for instance, has learnt that leson very, very well.
"They also can help prevent errors. For example I can't count the number of times our DNS has been temporarily broken by a student messing up the file."
That's not an argument, it only seems to. While "manual handling" is prone to syntax failures, GUIs are prone to knowledge failures which are, by the way, much, much more dificult to debug. For each time you had a student making a severe syntax error on a DNS zone file, I can show you a self-called sysadmin making horrible design choices that led to situations dificult to repair and problems dificult to debug because the GUI allowed for an action on Windows environments (which was not a failure of the GUI itself, because the action was correct under the proper circumnstances, but because the GUI allowed for someone without enough knowledge on the consecuences of their acts to do "something" resulting in an "OK" message: a case of "garbage in, garbage out").
So it's a stalemate on this.
"In Windows? Not a problem"
Now that you mention the text config files vs. GUIs on a multiple admins (some of them students) environment, here comes a hugh problem with the vast majority of GUIs:
You get at work early in the morning and something is not working properly. You summon your minions and tell them "something is broken; what have you messed up since yesterday?"
On a text files-based environment the answer is easy and you already advanced it: "we have it in a versioning system so
"They also can help prevent errors. For example I can't count the number of times our DNS has been temporarily broken by a student messing up the file."
That's not an argument, it only seems to. While "manual handling" is prone to syntax failures, GUIs are prone to knowledge failures which are, by the way, much, much more dificult to debug.
Never mind the things that the GUI just can't do, because the GUI is limited by the knowledge of the person who wrote it. Try entering an rdata_44 record in the DNS thro
I find it rather disturbing the UNIX ideal that sysadmins should be programmers. The opinion seems to be that it is perfectly ok for someone to need to do a fair bit of programming work to solve a system problem.
I'd presume this comes about from the fact that [administration] software used to be very expensive so it was normally cheaper to hire a sysadmin/programmer than to hire a sysadmin and seperate software. The fact that most sysadmins used to be at least minimally programmers (ie, they could write a
All I have to say is: Amen! (in a nonreligious sort of way)
I'm a not very good programmer who is a good system admin. I've been fighting the general apathy to anyone who can't read the source for the linux kernel in the linux world for going on a decade now! I'm always being told 'write it yourself' when I bump into a wall in administering linux systems that would be a simple button press in Windows... I don't want to reinvent the wheel! I'd frankly suck at it! That A) doesn't mean I'm a bad admin and B) Is
"I find it rather disturbing the UNIX ideal that sysadmins should be programmers."
Funny, nobody finds it disturbing when I interview for a job. Usually they just say holy crap
you are a experienced and accomplished programmer as well as a crack administrator, hired.
I find it rather disturbing the UNIX ideal that sysadmins should be programmers. The opinion seems to be that it is perfectly ok for someone to need to do a fair bit of programming work to solve a system problem.
Not only have I spent over 10 years as a professional *nix system administrator, I currently work training professional system administrators. I don't know *anyone* who thinks that a system administrator should be a programmer. That being said, shell scripting is a tool of the skilled system administrator. Writing simple scripts is nothing like programming. While shell scripts can be quite complex, most that a system administrator would write are very simple. Really just a series of commands.
I know more than a few programmers that are abysmal at system administration...
And how! The va
If you type a question mark in the IOS CLI, it will show you all of your possible options from that point. Tab completion is another way to accomplish that, some CLIs use that.
In Unix, you have the tab completion, man and apropos to help you out.
Shell languages are designed with an emphasis on very simple "programming" tasks such that a sysadmin can easily use it for simple string substitutions and such while it remains a turing complete language (meaning anything that can be expressed to a computer can be
Without a GUI it will be hard to sell, but automation is next to impossible with GUIs, so they are expensive to use in the long run because you have to pay for more Users.
Agreed. For instance, I've been trying to figure out how to add a simple "search" entry into resolv.conf in Fedora
Usually there will be resolv.conf.head and resolv.conf.tail files somewhere which get stuck at the beginning and end of the generated resolv.conf.
That way you get a semi-dynamic and semi-static config.
/etc/init.d/NetworkManager stop
chkconfig NetworkManager off
chkconfig network on
At least they named it NetworkManager, so experienced admins could recognize it as a culprit. Anything named in CamelCase is almost invariably written by new school programmers who don't grok the Unix toolbox concept and write applications instead of tools, and the bloated drivel is usually best avoided.
And to drive the point of this article home: how long would your post have been if you'd had to describe how to do this through the GUI? Would it have even been possible without screenshots?
"Realistically, if you're a company with less than a 100 employees [...] it just won't matter to the admin if they can script, say, creating a mailbox for 100 new users instead of just one."
Well... it won't matter till the day your single server dies and you learn that, being a little drop in the sea, you don't have a "gold support contract" and it takes you one week to get a new spec'ed server (if only I weren't such a cheap ass and I'd buy two...). And when you turn on the new server you learn that you d
Config files are one of the problems with linux. Most of them are far too hard to parse and modify so there aren't any GUI tools to do so. For example, how do you change the PATH in linux through the GUI? As far as I know there is no way. In windows it is (fairly) simple.
Of course there's no reason why you can't have the best of both worlds - every program can be abstracted into a CLI and GUI on top of the same base library.
Really? Ever heard of editing
Yeah, instead of flat text conf files, why don't we put a whole bunch of config in some obscure place in the registry somewhere...
i entirely fail to see the point as to why you would want a gui to do something that is integral to the cli.
I have a cheap router with only a web gui. I wrote a two line bash script that simply POSTs the right requests to URL.
Simply put, HTTP interfaces, especially if they implement the right response codes, are actually very nice to script.
This is also a problem with Max OS X Server. Apple builds their services from open source products and adds a GUI for configuration to make it all clickable and easy to set up. However, many options that can be set on the command line can't be set in the GUI. Even worse, making CLI changes to services can break the GUI entirely.
The hardware and software are both super stable and run really smoothly, so once everything gets set up, it's awesome. Still, it's hard for a guy who would rather make changes on the CLI to get used to.
There has been a steady transition to PowerShell for all Microsoft server products, precisely so as to enable CLI scripting with full feature coverage, similar to what has been enjoyed on Unix for a long time. It had started with Exchange 2007, but the most recent addition (to the best of my knowledge) is SharePoint 2010 [microsoft.com].
Probably Debian would have been OK, but I was finding admin of most Linux distros a pain for exactly these reasons. I couldn't find a layer where I could do everything that I needed to do without worrying about one thing stepping on another. No doubt there are ways that I could manage a Linux system without running into different layers of management tools stepping on each other, but it was a struggle.
There were other reasons as well (although there is a lot that I miss about Linux), but I think that this was one of the leading reasons.
(NB: I realize that this is flamebait (I've got karma to burn), but that isn't my intention here.)
Funny the article singles out YaST as an example of GUI work. YaST works great in CLI. here an example [howtoforge.com]. I have used it both as GUI and CLI (over e.g. ssh) and alongside 'normal' CLI commands for e.g. the firewall and editing things by hand and what not.
This means that if you want standard options, you can easily use YaST (in GUI or CLI after ssh) or use anything else if you want. So it is very strange that he uses YaST as an example for GUI only ways of doing things.
YaST over SSH in not CLI, it's TUI. The important difference is CLI is scriptable, TUI has the lack of scriptability of a GUI, but the bandwidth characteristics of CLI.
I think it's a nice example of how something running in a text-only mode is not necessarily a sufficient improvement over GUI.
Wow, I can't believe that this is just accepted.
With the advances in GUI design and beyond GUI design technology, a CLI should be obsolete, even if it is not obsolete in practice on the specific examples.
There is no reason a written script should be necessary, when an object constructed visual script could also be generated that is just as specific and functional. Again, just because the tools and technology are not common does not mean it is the standard and will always be a truth.
There was a time that writing software required 'writing code' as well, and today we have technologies that let graphic designers put together robust applications without writing a single line of code. (MS Blend for a simple example of XAML based GUI development.)
By nature Unix based OS models are CLI dependent(textual pipes and generic I/O constructs); however, this is not true of all OS models(NT is an object based OS, where a CLI is counter intuitive which makes PowerShell a brilliant CLI model that came years after the OS, and uses the object nature of the OS design).
Even with some imagination this isn't a 'truth' in a UNIX OS model either. There is no reason that all constructs have to derive or remain at a CLI level with a GUI strapping onto the CLI. Replace the CLI constructs with GUI based interactions and instead of textual pipes, object and graphical piping could be the model that replaces the CLI nature of UNIX.
This line of thinking is a failure of imagination and factually incorrect when viewed from an object based OS design like NT where the CLI(PowerShell) was an achievement to harness objects at a regressed CLI level.
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As a new parent, I've been struck over and over again by just how richly documented our world is today. I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn that, after just seven and a half weeks, my trove of newborn photos had already far surpassed the accumulated total of photos from my own pre-digital childhood some three to four decades ago.
Part of that is the ubiquity of camera phones—and specifically, the iPhone, which has sparked a widespread rediscovery of point-and-shoot photography and a growing number of online communities dedicated to "iPhoneography," as it's come to be called. Puffed-up photo snobs may occasionally complain, but there's no going back—of the five most-used cameras on the popular photo-sharing site Flickr, the three top spots belong to various models of iPhone. Number four is a $3,000 Canon.
But if the scale of it all has changed, the impulse has remained the same. Ever since the introduction of portable handheld cameras, we have documented our lives both public and private, dramatic and mundane. And sometimes—as with Abraham Zapruder's little home movie from Dallas—a tiny moment can change a nation. This week, home movies from another era give us a new point of view on our national history.
Director Penny Lane's new film Our Nixon is an all-archival documentary that looks at the Nixon administration through an intimate series of lenses—those of the Super 8 home movie cameras wielded by three of Nixon's top White House aides. A uniquely personal history made up of over 500 reels of film, it was captured by H.R. Haldeman, Dwight Chapin, and John Ehrlichman (who, it turns out, enjoyed filming hummingbirds), during four heady years, only to be seized by the FBI when the administration was pulled into the Watergate investigation. When the curtain came down, the aides were in prison and their footage was dutifully filed at the National Archives, where it sat nearly forgotten for four decades.
Lane—who, along with producer Brian L. Frye, will attend the one-night-only screening—weaves that footage together with other film from the era to create a complex portrait of a presidency that is so often reduced to its ignominious end. Instead of telling us the same old story yet again, they take the same old story and remind us that, surprisingly, we haven't yet followed all of its threads.
Also this week: Amherst continues its crowd-pleaser Friday night series with a show of Troll 2, a film that got its start in the world as a way for director Claudio Fragasso's wife to get back at some vegetarian friends. Giving you the details about that will not make it seem any more clear, but I can tell you that the film was so gloriously awful that naming it Troll 2 was actually seen as a plus—originally titled Goblins (there are no trolls in the film, by the way), film distributors considered the product so putrid that they renamed it in the hopes it would attract a sequel-friendly crowd.
An interesting side note: the film's child star, Michael Stephenson, went on to direct Best Worst Movie, a documentary about the making of Troll 2. And while that film continues to hold its iron grip on a remarkable zero percent rating on film site Rotten Tomatoes, the documentary about its creation—which is available for streaming via Netflix—tops out at an impressive 95 percent. What better treat could there be for the adventurous filmgoer than to see the curds and the cream alike, all in one weekend?•
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by the Rev. Andrew Kuyvenhoven
Monthly Theme:
Philippians is Paul's love letter. The epistle is also a good instrument for learning the secret of this great man. Paul considered living Christ and dying gain. And, although he wrote from a prison cell, his refrain was "Rejoice in the Lord always."
Bible Reading:
Philippians 4:4–7
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The peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus (Phil. 4:7).
The result of prayer is peace. When we have "made known our requests to God—with thanksgiving," anxiety evaporates, and "the peace of God" takes charge of our lives. That's God's promise.
God's peace is more than we can ever comprehend until we have it. It transcends understanding. Yet our need for it is as basic as our need for food and drink.
The church lives in a hostile environment. Terror and evil are always at the door. Therefore we fear. Poverty, ill health, failure, disaster, and a host of unfriendly forces beat on our hearts and minds. But we have learned how to pray. And in answer to our requests, God places a sentry at the entrance of our lives: "the peace of God will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus."
The hostile forces also surrounded our Lord. Yet there was a serenity in him that makes us envious. After a full day's work he lay down in the boat and slept. Meanwhile his disciples were terrified that they would drown. They cried to Jesus. They "prayed," one might say. They made their "request" known in one loud, panic-stricken cry: "Lord save us; we are perishing!"
Christ stood up and said to the waves and the wind: "Peace, be still." "And there was a great calm."
Andrew Kuyvenhoven's Daylight, a modern devotional classic, was originally published in 1994. This edition is copyright by Faith Alive Christian Resources, from whom may be ordered Daylight, the predecessor of Twilight.
A man of many accomplishments, Andrew Kuyvenhoven is probably best known for his contributions to Today (formerly The Family Altar), a widely-used monthly devotional booklet associated with the Back to God Hour. Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations for this edition of Twilight are from the New International Version
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – The UC Santa Barbara men's soccer team has been ranked 11th in the nation in the initial 2012 National Soccer Coaches Association of America/Continental Tire poll, the NSCAA announced Tuesday.
The Gauchos, who advanced to the Sweet 16 of the 2011 NCAA Tournament and finished with an overall record of 15-7-1, welcome back several key returnees and one of the best recruiting classes in the nation.
UCSB will welcome back one of its best offensive players in junior forward Dom Sarle who had four goals and 10 assists for 18 point. He is joined by senior midfielders Josue Madueno (four goals, two assists 10 points) and Machael David (one goal and three assists in an injury-plagued season). Defensively, the Gauchos welcome several of their stalwarts from 2011, including junior defender Peter Schmetz and junior midfielder Fifi Baiden, both of who started all 23 matches last season. Schmetz was named Honorable Mention All-Big West. Also back are senior Nic Ryan who played in 22 matches and started 15 in 2011 and junior Mathew Glodack (14 matches, 13 starts).
Senior goalkeeper Andre Grandt played every minute between the pipes for UCSB in 2011 and once again will be an important ingredient. As a junior, the German national had a 1.39 goals against average, 70 saves and a save percentage of .680.
The Gaucho returnees are joined by a tremendous recruiting class which includes the Gatorade National High School Player of the Year Ema Boateng, a midfielder from Kumasi, Ghana who attended nearby Cate High School. Forward Dion Acoff, a three-time All-Missouri Valley Conference selection will join the program after helping Creighton the College Cup in 2011.
UCSB will add two other NCAA Division I transfers in junior defender Daniel Welsh (University of Maryland-Baltimore County) and freshman Brandon Brockaway (Redshirted at Oregon State in 2011). The Gauchos also welcome a duo of NAIA transfers in junior midfielder Goffin Boyoko (First Team All-NAIA at Auburn University Montgomery) and junior forward Achille Campion (Belhaven University).
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Justine Shapiro kicks off the journey with a road trip west across the United States. Starting in Washington, DC she follows the Blue Ridge Parkway to Nashville and Memphis, birthplaces of American country and soul. After a brief countryside respite in Arkansas, Justine hits the legendary Route 66 from Oklahoma to Arizona, where she visits the world's best preserved meteor crater.
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Finally a decent filler episode! Well we had to wait the end of the filler arcs to have something valuable. Couldn't they do the other fillers like this? Naruto universe has an incredible potential for storytelling: you can do fillers about anything yet they chose the crappiest plotlines and the lamest characters until now!
|2007-01-13, 23:30
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Been a long time since i was excited about a Naruto episode not to mention being impatient about next weeks episode. Nice to see the sand village 3 back in action and wow Gaara is so different hes still cold but not as bad. I was surprised that Tsunde allowed all the remaining Genin to be used for this mention. Not including sasuke all the 11 original genin are in the field now.
My prediction is that each fight is going end up being one on one with these so called ultimate weapons. Of course that wont come till much later, Gaara of course will face off against one and Naruto will attempt too. From my count there were 4 ultimate shinobi and if you count the sand there are 14 good guys in the field but take away almost half since shikamaru sent them assigned some to medical duties. Either way i think this arc will be pretty good. Nice to see some good action going on again in the world of Naruto
|2007-01-14, 02:35
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So I thought the cold opening was pretty exciting, as previously mentioned, how long has it been since we had that? And I don't think there have been any cold openings with part of the episode at the beginning... a few double episodes had introductions at the beginning, but I don't remember any episode with a part of the story before the opening since episode 1.
Also 2 puppets for Kankuro was definitely exciting.
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at least he's not totally evil anymore.
I kind of like the new-style Gaara.
he's like.. cool , cold but cool
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|2007-01-14, 14:05
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What did Garaa do, other then being a bit nicer and play with weapons?
I love the new Garaa, he got feelings now and isn't that cold, emo-kid he used to be, he's probably more powerful as well, but he have still not lost his cold attitude which makes him the cool Gaara he is ^_^
|2007-01-14, 14:56
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Because both Lee and Naruto have a past with Gaara, thus they will end up rescuing him or whatever from the leader of that group, or the little one. Or both.
Kiba + Chouji = Team Destructive that'll save Kankurou since Kankurou was the one that saved Kiba in the past. They'll fight the big guy since he's probably the one that'll weight up to their destructiveness.
Ino + Shikamaru = Strategy team together with Temari who saved Shikamaru earlier. I bet they'll fight the female as well, since Shikamaru somehow always gets involved with the chicks.
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^ That would be troublesome for him ..
I hope for once Gaara would win the match himself >.<.. but Lee and Naruto prolly gonna show up at the last moment
Agrees with Zamme fight assignment, I think that was a given.
Not a bad one.. Wishing the would animate the fight later beautifully ^^
Oh yea.. Temari
The only thing I think is that Kakashi really not proving his worth there ... On an important mission and he was busy reading that book? Kinda lower his image a bit IMO...
Altho, it seems the ED love Sakura no? .. All the character in ED gets big forehead like Sakura
As promised last week, a 5 for Temari ^^
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well this was a good filler to watch
atleast four more episodes to go until "NARUTO" ends and "NARUTO:SHIPPUDEN" starts
i think everyone in the whole Konoha village and the main characters in the sand village all got screen time
and this is a mission that will include everyone from konoha for this mission
man great episode
cant wait for next weeks episode
hopefully there will be something good at the end and the story will stay strong throughout its last few remaining episodes of "NARUTO"
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What's happening in data management today?
Never mind the data buzzwords
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Promo On April 19th at 12:30 BST, our host Jon Collins will be joined by a band of experts to discuss the current state of data management, and how new approaches work with old principles to solve the business problems of today.
The studio band are Günter Richter from the Information Management Group, Martha Bennett from Freeform Dynamics and Microsoft's Anthony Howcroft, all of whom have sworn a solemn promise to limit the use of data fluff words and focus on data management solutions. Whether it's the research, integration, programming and deployment, our panel have the data management scars to tell the tale about where such initiatives have really worked.
The agenda includes:
- How data processing and platforms are changing to cope with large scaling data analysis.
- Combining commodity hardware and software with open source ecosystems.
- Ingesting structured and unstructured data effectively across different sources.
- Integrating external data sources (including social media) via the Cloud.
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January, 20 2006
I fear this is a wee bit late. Nonetheless, I want to raise a toast to TFF's own Founding Father:
Happy Birthday, Mike!
May your glass be ever filled with naught but the finest malt, and may you long and happily roam in the Professor's domains - I love the way you worded it for your LJ: "I am lost in the world of Tolkien. What is more, I do not want to find my way out."
You have company. We here at TFF (and elsewhere) are proof. :)
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[1] Hear hear, and cheers! :-)
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[2] Happy Birthday!
And thanks for maintaining this site -- it's an excellent resource for those of us who like to read good little stories when we're supposed to be working...
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JUPITER, Fla. - Notes from round 1 qualifying in Funny Car at the NHRA Pro Winter Warmup listing lane, driver name, elapsed time, top speed, and position in order following run:
Left Lane: Del Worsham Runs 4.067/311.34, Now #2
Right Lane: Chad Head Runs 4.061/313.15, Now #1
Worsham after taking a couple years off from the wheel of a Funny Car is back and make a really nice pass. Head behind the wheel of his father's car makes a great pass. A great side-by-side drag race to start the night off. Del Worsham's incremental times: 60ft-0.914 sec., 330ft-2.325, 660ft-3.284/267.06 mph.
Chad Head's incremental times: 60ft-0.891 sec., 330ft-2.311, 660ft-3.280/266.58 mph.
Left Lane: Bob Tasca III Runs 4.073/315.42, Now #3
Right Lane: Alexis DeJoria Runs 4.081/308.21, Now #4
Tasca with a good, clean pass and DeJoria was right there with him.
Left Lane: John Force Runs 7.895/87.41, Now #6
Right Lane: Matt Hagan Runs 4.060/312.21, Now #1
Force loses traction right at the hit and Hagan goes to the top of the list with a great pass. Matt Hagan's incremental times: 60ft-0.887 sec., 330ft-2.305, 660ft-3.277/265.59 mph.
Left Lane: Johnny Gray Runs 4.066/311.92, Now #4
Right Lane: Robert Hight Runs 4.048/315.56, Now #1
This was a great drag race with Hight going to the top of the qualifying list. Robert Hight's incremental times: 60ft-0.903 sec., 330ft-2.314, 660ft-3.274/269.78 mph.
Left Lane: Courtney Force Runs 7.505/76.25, Now #9
Right Lane: Cruz Pedregon Runs 4.106/297.61, Now #8
Force loses traction right off the starting line and clicks it off. Pedregon clicks it off early, but still has a good pass.
Left Lane: Ron Capps Runs 4.075/316.52, Now #7
Right Lane: Jack Beckman Runs 4.160/307.16, Now #10
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WASHINGTON — It seems something of an odd combination to link Italian and Irish fare, though it's something that Basta O'Neill's in Washington has been making work for quite some time.
We recently ventured out to see how the two cuisines coexist in the family-run restaurant before a recent Friday night dinner that began in the quiet, dimly lit dining room with only a few tables occupied. The crowd expanded as the night went on, and it's clear that there were a number of regulars at the restaurant.
The choices, of course, come from both ethnicities, a variety of pasta dishes as well as some traditional Irish favorites, rather than a fusion of the two. Yet the restaurant handles both with skill.
As we got settled, our server gave us a moment to peruse the drink menu, with my guest choosing a glass of Riesling ($6) as I went with a glass of red Zinfandel ($7).
We also decided to start off the meal with an order of the fried calamari ($10), which soon arrived hot with a small ramekin of marinara sauce. The lightly breaded squid had a pleasant enough flavor, far more of a seafood taste than that of seasoning, salt or starch from the coating. This is an appetizer that's easier to do wrong, usually by over-breading and skimping on the meat, and they didn't here.
Though there was a bit of a delay between ordering the appetizer and being able to put in our orders for the main course — strange, as the restaurant had yet to really begin to fill up for the night — it was the only down note in the evening's service.
Each entree comes with soup or salad, though neither my Manhattan clam chowder nor my guest's salad was especially unusual.
I decided to order from the smaller, but still notable, Irish side of the menu and selected the Irish stew ($14), a combination of large chunks of lamb and beef, healthy sized carrot pieces, celery and pearl onions in a thick and savory Guinness broth. It came served in a hulking bread bowl that could barely contain the serving.
My guest ordered the seafood casino ($18), a pasta dish in a pink sauce covered liberally in cheese. What was notable here, though, was the extensive amount of seafood in it. She commented that many times a dish like this just uses the fish as something of an afterthought, whereas here it was replete with scallops and shrimp and large — very large — chunks of crab.
Though we were both full at meal's end — indeed, each of us took half our entrees to go — we couldn't pass up the chance to give dessert a quick try by splitting an order of the bread pudding ($6) that arrived warm with a dollop of whipped cream and sitting in a potent sauce. It's not far from the truth when my guest joked that you could almost get a buzz from the sauce itself.
It was a nice end to a relaxed and thoroughly filling meal, quite sufficient to guarantee a return trip either for dinner or for a slightly lighter lunch serving.
Chris Kaergard can be reached at 686-3135 or email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @ChrisKaergard.
Dining Out: Basta O'Neill's finds right mix
WASHINGTON — It seems something of an odd combination to link Italian and Irish fare, though it's something that Basta O'Neill's in Washington has been making work for quite some time.


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Lack of transparency leads to fraud....It shouldn't be anonymous, there should be accountability, you should be able to know at all times who you're dealing with,..
Which is why I think there's no real need to extend it to companies as well.
With my
.uk domains are actually open to any registrant from any country, but personally I think that's just an oversight of Nominet and that national domains should be for residents only
So a British citizen resident elsewhere who runs a UK oriented site (i.e. me), should not get a
What happens if someone with a
Would you also ban people setting up British companies (which is quick and cheap) purely to own a bunch of
Residence qua
Which is why I think that companies should show information but individuals should still be allowed to obfuscate it.
Incorrect. Most states that aren't tax dodges (I'm looking at you Delaware) also require some combination of annual reports, corporate bylaws, and principals (often just managing partner).
Yes. I've been data-mining that data for SiteTruth [sitetruth.com], and it's amusing. No two states have the same format, although there's some similarity. Delaware provides less free info than most states. Some states have deliberate weaknesses in their data. Nevada, for example, doesn't require that changes in corporate officer
There already are legal procedures in place to balance personal privacy and security (keeping any miscellaneous yahoo from accessing your info for wrongdoing) with the needs of law enforcement. If someone has sufficient evidence that a particular domain holder is up to no good, then they can go before a judge and get a court order for the information to be released. That is how it is SUPPOSED to work in our system. If they don't have sufficient evidence to start with, then it is the proverbial fishing exped
My first thought was that the holders of internet protocol addresses wanted access to all of the data stored about them in the WHOIS database. I had to actually RTFA (the horror!) to figure out that IP meant intellectual property and not internet protocol.The article summary is vague to the point that one is unsure what the subject of the article is.
The registrars I've used charge nothing to substitute their own details for the registrants in the public WHOIS response. And their "profits far in excess"? On the $15-a-year fees, they're welcome to any profit they can take."If there is no reform they can continue to sell privacy to their users using proxy registrations, making profits that far exceed those they make on normal domain name registrations," said Mueller.
The registrars I've used charge nothing to substitute their own details for the registrants in the public WHOIS response. And their "profits far in excess"? On the $15-a-year fees, they're welcome to any profit they can take.
Ditto. One site I maintain currently is using shared hosting, and the hosting provider [drak.net] (blatant plug for ya, Jen!) charges like somewhere around $15 a year for domains that they maintain (bundled with the account, so there's no separate charge), and like $8.75 a year for domains that you maintain. They charge nothing to use their own details for the registrants in WHOIS. There are companies that have formed businesses around selling unlisted domains [hostsite.com], but their fees aren't much different than that $15.00
If someone is operating a site hosting child porn or other illegal materials, the registrar should be required to give up the registrant.
Unfortunately, one problem with this comes down to defining "illegal materials". By who's laws should that be dictated? There are some countries where child porn is considered more or less acceptable, and plenty of countries where the age of consent is something other than what it is here. All that the owner would have to do to claim that they are not in violation of the law is either have their registered domain or their hosting in a country where whatever they are doing is OK.
So in other words, if I don't want spam, I have to go out of my way not to get it. Thanks, buddy, for a while I was having a hard time there figuring out who exactly was in bed with the spammers.
Thats an interesting comment from someone who doesn't want to share their identity with slashdot.
More significantly, though, is that most people (at least that I know of) don't ask for the spam they already receive. Indeed, I have taken many steps to try to stop the spam that comes into my various email addresses, and that has not helped. So I don't see why someone would expect to be aided in avoiding spam for free. And the fact that to you this somehow equates to me intentionally helping the spa
You could just as well get a PO box...
The thing is, generally speaking, there's no reason for random people to need that information.
I want to agree with you on that. And if there was no such thing as internet crime or rampant spam, I would be able to to. Unfortunately, with the way that domain registration is abused for nefarious purposes, there needs to be some sort of accountability. If the registration data is not made available, then the public has no way to know who the actual owner of a site is. Likewise, if you are receiving spam from a given domain, it would be nice to be able to at least make one whole-hearted attempt t
since spam, while an annoyance, is certainly not life-threatening in 99.9% of cases
Actually, I think my disagreement with you on that statement is probably the root of our disagreement on the issue itself. The bulk of spam that I receive is attempting to sell prescription drugs at a discount over the internet. I do view that as a life-threatening issue for two reasons:
First, assuming that the drugs are what they claim to be, there is inherent danger in selling them without a prescription. If the purchaser were to use them incorrectly, or if they were to go for sale elsewhere afte
Actually, I think my disagreement with you on that statement is probably the root of our disagreement on the issue itself. The bulk of spam that I receive is attempting to sell prescription drugs at a discount over the internet.
That's pretty interesting. I've gone through my spam folder (I archive all of it) and I can categorize it thusly:
36% viruses
32% stock spam
20% drug spam
5% Bayesian poisoning
7% unknown
So perhaps we're both applying preconceptions unfairly.
First, assuming that the drugs are what they claim to be, there is inherent danger in selling them without a prescription. If the purchaser were to use them incorrectly, or if they were to go for sale elsewhere afterwards, they could cause life-threatening problems.
But this is a risk that the buyer takes upon himself. If they re-sell them, they are committing another crime, which ought to be punished as such. But to me, that seems irrelevant, anyway, because on legal issues, the government can get the WHOIS information that you'
As an example, much of the spam I see points to domains that are registered to an individual who alternately claims to live in Tahiti or Finland. Its rather difficult to get either countries' law enforcement to care when there's only a certain set of data to even suggest this person lives there, and the registrars are willing to cover this person's trail continuously.
The cynic in me doubts that having real information would get much more accomplished. I guess there's probably a bit more paperwork involved in getting the real information, and if the registrar is in another country, it may be impossible. I can give you that. But I'm not convinced that the problem it solves (and the few people that the problem affects) is worth the loss of legitimate anonymity. I guess that on this point, we'll have to agree to disagree (to use an overused expression.)
Thanks for not b
The cynic in me doubts that having real information would get much more accomplished.
I guess I can also say that from my own experience having the data for domains available has been definitely useful on at least one event. As I mentioned before, the email addresses I use most often are in
There is a perfectly good system in place (at least in the US) for people who have a legal right to access the private information of a domain registrant. It's called due process.
I see a couple problems with this.
First, its (at least very nearly) impossible to impose US law elsewhere. If your problem is with someone who registered through a foreign registrar, you'll likely never be able to force them to release the data by any action through the US system.
Second, the US system is of course not very quick, to say the least. There is a very long list of registrars in this country, and if you were to start actions against registrar AAA, and the domain owner caught wind of it,
That's not an anonymity problem. That's an authentication problem.
One of the problems with all this "domaining" is that there are far too many domain transactions. The registrars that are "domain-tasting friendly" are worst about this. GoDaddy and ENom, with their multiple pseudo-registrars and affiliates, are heavily into domain-churning sideline businesses [clubdrop.com]. They also have EULA terms much worse than the more legitimate registrars.
This isn't a WHOIS problem. It's a bottom-feeder registrar problem.
"In a blog post on the Internet Governance Project's (IGP) Web site, Milton Mueller, Professor and Director of the Telecommunications Network Management Program at the Syracuse University School of Information Studies and a partner in the IGP, details the Final Outcomes Report of the WHOIS Working Group, published on Tuesday, and inability of the various stakeholders to reach any kind of consensus."
So the best you could do is to spend the Entire quote putting in this guy's title? This isn't the SCO case, whereby all
"Milton Muelle, a partner on the Internet Governance Project weighs in on the ability of the various stakeholders to reach any kind of consensus. [Include what the IGP is...]"
If the registation companies are no longer allowed to provide obfuscation, then numerous 3rd party services will open, most run by the same people who run the registrars.
It's already happened. Some time ago, the nefarious registrar going by the name 'PacNames' started their own obfuscation service 'ShieldedWhois.com'. Strangely enough, I only saw one customer for that service, and they were repeatedly contacting me with great offers on software and v1@gr/\
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LOS ANGELES - The No. 22 Colorado women's basketball team had an opportunity on Friday night to gain a win over a ranked Pac-12 Conference opponent for the first time this season - but the Buffs couldn't capitalize.
Shooting just 20 percent in the first half and 28.6 percent overall, CU fell to No. 18 UCLA 62-46 at Pauley Pavilion.
It was the Buffs' third straight road game against a ranked opponent, having fallen to then-No. 7 California and then-No. 4 Stanford last weekend. Now 4-5 in the Pac-12 and 15-5 overall, CU has just one day to regroup before taking on Southern California Sunday at 10 a.m. MST.
Colorado was No. 1 in the conference in scoring defense going into Friday's matchup, holding opponents to an average of 52.1 points per game - but UCLA's forceful offense was too much for the Buffs to handle.
The Bruins (16-4, 7,-2) shot 55.5 percent from the field, improving from 44 percent in the first half to 70 in the second. Senior guard/forward Markel Walker led the Bruins with 17 points, and senior forward Alyssa Brewer added 10.
Junior guard Brittany Wilson and senior guard Chucky Jeffery led CU in scoring with 12 and 11, respectively. The Buffs, however, didn't show their usual scoring depth, with all non-starters combined scoring just nine points.
Rebounding, though, was perhaps Colorado's biggest struggle. The Buffs were outrebounded 25-16 at the half and 44-29 on the night. Four Bruins recorded at least six rebounds, while only one CU player had more than four.
The Buffs did force 29 Bruin turnovers while only committing 17. CU head coach Linda Lappe said that while that may have been the only positive on the stat sheet for her team, the inability to capitalize off of those turnovers was costly for the Buffs.
"They gave us plenty of opportunities," Lappe said. "Obviously they weren't really ever threatened by us, and so perhaps they gave away some passes that they wouldn't have if the game had been closer."
Lappe said her team was capable of much more than it showed Friday night, especially on the defensive end.
"We didn't have any mental toughness tonight," Lappe said. "I mean, we were really a shell of ourselves. We didn't rebound, we didn't really play defense, we didn't play together."
CU started with a bang in the first half, going up six on a Lexy Kresl three with 16:32 remaining. When UCLA's Walker responded with a 6-0 run of her own, though, the Buffs were unable to recover. In the 10 minutes following Walker's run, Colorado scored just three points, allowing the Bruin's lead to grow to 14 with five minutes left in the half.
By intermission, CU had recorded only 15 points to UCLA's 29.
The Buffs found some energy with a 6-2 run at the start of the second half, even closing the Bruins' lead to 11 with 14:43 remaining.
Ultimately, though, an inconsistent CU offense paired with UCLA's dominance on the boards prevented the Buffs from a successful comeback.
With 6:41 on the clock, UCLA's lead had grown to 19 - and while Colorado would not stop fighting, the shots simply didn't fall.
"We were off the entire night," Lappe said. "We couldn't make layups. We weren't necessarily turning the ball over a ton, but we just couldn't get stops. We were on our heels the entire night. When we did get a stop, they'd get an offensive rebound put-back, or they'd get to the free throw line because we'd bail them out. There are so many things to point to that I can't even name just one."
The Buffs have just one day to regroup before taking on USC and Lappe doesn't plan to waste that time.
"We've just got to get back to the drawing board, we've got to figure out how to get ready for the next game," Lappe said. "Play like we can play, play with a sense of confidence, understand what we're trying to do. We've got to play together. We just have to get back to doing the things that we were doing to win so many games that we seemed to not want to do tonight."
CU returns to the Coors Events Center next week for the first time since Jan. 20 to take on Oregon State and Oregon


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MINNEAPOLIS (RNN) - As many as 14 people have been injured, six critically, after a three-story residential building explosion and fire in Minneapolis Wednesday morning.
According to Fire Chief John Fruetel, there may still be people inside the building. Fruetel said not everyone has been accounted for.
A Somali community advocate told TV station KARE that three people are unaccounted for.
The first floor contained a grocery store, the second and third floors were made up of 10 apartments, nine of which "would have been occupied at the time," Fruetel said.
Emergency crews responded to the scene around 8:30 a.m.
EMS worker Robert Ball told KARE the injuries were described as ranging from burns to trauma suffered while falling or jumping from windows.
"Most of the injuries that we've been seeing so far are a combination of burns from the fire and some trauma from people that came out from the windows, at this time we're not certain whether they had fallen, jumped or were pushed out due to the fire and explosion," Ball said.
Freezing weather in the city presented challenges for firefighters, since water used to try to put out the fire can quickly turn to ice.
"We deal with this all year, every year. But I can tell you that it does make the job a lot more difficult for the firefighters working in this because, of course, the best way to put out a fire usually is water and water in sub zero temperatures makes ice and all of the sudden it's very dangerous for personnel working on a fire ground," Ball said.
The building was destroyed, with the roof and the second and third floors collapsing, Fruetel said in a news conference.
The American Red Cross is reaching out to survivors to provide help.
In a statement, Governor Mark Dayton said: "On behalf of all Minnesotans, I extend my deepest sympathies to the victims of today's awful fire in Minneapolis and to their families and friends. We hope and pray for your swift and complete recoveries. I also want to thank the State Troopers, Minneapolis Police Officers, Firefighters, and other First Responders, who endangered themselves to save the lives of those engulfed by this terrible tragedy."
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By Michael Aneiro
The yieldy shares of telecom services provider Windstream Corp. (WIN) are up 33 cents, or 3.6%, to $9.65 (with a robust 10.36% dividend yield) after WIN on Monday lowered its 2013 tax guidance to $40-50 million from $250 million to reflect the extension of bonus depreciation into 2013. From Citi strategists:
We previously wrote that our analysis of bonus depreciation could lead to an improvement in the payout ratio from our current estimate of 95% to a possible 79%. The company's updated guidance for cash taxes could further improve the payout ratio to around 72% of reported free cash flow for 2013.
[W]e believe Windstream shares can trade higher in the nearterm, given the potential (and temporary) benefit bonus depreciation should have on the company's outlook for FCF during 2013. We recognize, though, that the optics for the dividend payout percentage of FCF for 4Q/12 and 1H/13 should remain elevated relative to the 2H/13 when the accelerated investments in Fiber-to-theTower and Stimulus projects are completed.
Citi, which rates WIN "high risk," says it has a $9.50 price target for WIN, 18 cents higher than where WIN shares started the day but 15 cents below where they were trading early Monday afternoon. More from Citi:
Risks that may prevent the share from reaching our target valuation include: 1) alternative carrier competition should grow stronger over time as wireless carriers extend network depth and cable MSOs roll out VoIP products; 2) the company's growth strategies offer limited expansion opportunities, while potentially diluting margins; 3) wireless substitution represents the greatest near-term risk to further erosion in Windstream's access line base, which is likely to pick up over time; 4) sensitivity to changes in interest rates as the stock becomes more of a yield-oriented stock for investors.


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Did you read today's front page stories & breaking news?
From the Wires
Half of Brits Spend Nothing on Their Partners This Valentine's Day
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Feb. 13, 2013 01:00 AM
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM -- (Marketwire) -- 02/13/13 -- It's Valentine's Day, a time for romance...or is it? Recent statistics show that 49.15% of people in a relationship will spend absolutely nothing on their partner this Valentine's Day. And that's not all; only 3.53% believe that Valentine's Day is a good time to propose.
But, don't despair, romance isn't dead just yet - more than 35% of those aged 26 and under would like to get engaged during summer. So, instead of proposing with a token heart-shaped chocolate box this Valentine's Day, perhaps consider whisking your loved one to warmer lands over the coming months. After all, 60% of females hope to be taken on a surprise trip by their partner. In contrast, 67.42% of males would prefer a planned holiday with prior warning. Perhaps a romantic Valentine's card detailing your plans would set the scene for your blissful summer break?
The Co-operative Travel offer dozens of fantastic city breaks and lavish summer holidays to choose from. Paris is still coming out on top as the most romantic destination at 38.24%, followed by Venice, the chosen city of love by 27.06% of people. But, who says you need to follow tradition? The more adventurous love birds would prefer to visit destinations such as Norway, Iceland, Japan, Fiji and Marrakech.
Any tips for the perfect romantic trip? Well, it looks like women have the most expensive taste, so make sure you book the 4(i) and above accommodation that 91.67% of them expect! Men are more easily pleased, with half of them opting for 3(i) and below.
If it's a woman you're winning over, then plan a romantic meal as 91.67% enjoy being wined and dined on holiday. Men on the other hand are twice as likely to opt for a day exploring local culture whilst away.
All this said, don't worry too much about the details. A besotted 4.41% of people believe the most romantic destination is simply the place where their partner is, wherever that may be. Maybe that's because, regardless of the sights, restaurants and culture on offer, a third of women and 16.67% of men are simply planning some serious time in their hotel room! By the looks of things, romance is still very much alive!
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David N. Griffin, 50
David N. Griffin, 50, Valier, died Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012, at UPMC Mercy Hospital in Pittsburgh.
He was born Oct. 27, 1961 in Salisbury, Md., a twin son of Shirley Ann (Autten) Griffin Bennett, who survives, of Delmar, Md., and the late Norman Elliott Griffin.
Mr. Griffin worked as a painter and performed odd jobs, most recently selling items on eBay.
He enjoyed working with his hands and doing mechanical jobs such as tearing down, fixing and reselling motorcycles and parts.
Mr. Griffin really liked to spend time with his little daughter, Audrey.
In addition to his mother, surviving relatives include his fiancée, Debbie Jefferson of Valier; a son, Tristan Griffin of Valier; two daughters, Brandy Griffin of Salisbury, and Audrey Griffin of Valier; and a sister, Ruth Spence of Valier.
In addition to his father, he was preceded in death by his twin brother, Dale Griffin, who preceded him in death Nov. 11, 2011.
Friends will be received from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 18, 2012, at the Shumaker Funeral Home Inc., Punxsutawney.
A funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 18, 2012, at the funeral home with Pastor Paul Thompson officiating.
Online condolences may be made at www.shumakerfh.com.