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Computer software, or just software, is a collection of computer programs and related data that provide the instructions telling a computer what to do and how to do it. We can also say software refers to one or more computer programs and data held in the storage of the computer for some purposes. In other words software is a set of programs, procedures, algorithms and its documentation. Program software performs the function of the program it implements, either by directly providing instructions to the computer hardware or by serving as input to another piece of software. The term was coined to contrast to the old term hardware (meaning physical devices). In contrast to hardware, software is intangible, meaning it "cannot be touched (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Software)
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Book Review: The Virtual Reference Desk |
Lina Coelho feels that digital reference has come of age and that this work is one of its adornments where reference information professionals are concerned. |
Editorial Introduction to Issue 46: Ten Years of Pathfinding |
John MacColl, Lorcan Dempsey and John Kirriemuir reflect in turn on the rationale and history of the founding of Ariadne. |
What Users Want: An Academic 'Hybrid' Library Perspective |
Reg Carr reflects on the development of a user-centred approach in academic libraries over recent decades and into the era of the hybrid library. |
February 2006, issue46, feature article |
The (Digital) Library Environment: Ten Years After |
Lorcan Dempsey considers how the digital library environment has changed in the ten years since Ariadne was first published. |
February 2006, issue46, feature article |
Research Libraries Engage the Digital World: A US-UK Comparative Examination of Recent History and Future Prospects |
Clifford Lynch looks at how the emergence of e-research has changed our thinking about the future of research libraries on both sides of the Atlantic. |
February 2006, issue46, feature article |
Excuse Me... Some Digital Preservation Fallacies? |
Chris Rusbridge argues with himself about some of the assumptions behind digital preservation thinking. |
February 2006, issue46, feature article |
Accessibility Testing and Reporting With TAW3 |
Patrick Lauke gives a run-down of the free TAW3 tool to aid in accessibility testing of Web pages. |
C21st Curation Summer 2005 Public Lecture Series |
Neil Beagrie and Helen Forde report on the public lecture series 'C21st Curation: working with digital assets in the new Millennium - challenges and opportunities' held at University College London over May and June 2005, and on plans for a second series in 2006. |
February 2006, issue46, event report |
Digital Curation and Preservation: Defining the Research Agenda for the Next Decade |
Philip Pothen reports on this two-day conference at Warwick University over 7-8 November 2005. |
February 2006, issue46, event report |
Joint Workshop on Future-proofing Institutional Websites |
Maureen Pennock reports on a two-day workshop on Future-Proofing Web Sites, organised by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) and the Wellcome Library at the Wellcome Library, London, over 19-20 January 2006. |
February 2006, issue46, event report |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
February 2006, issue46, news and events |
Web 2.0: Building the New Library |
Paul Miller explores some of the recent buzz around the concept of 'Web 2.0' and asks what it means for libraries and related organisations. |
October 2005, issue45, feature article |
Putting the Library Into the Institution: Using JSR 168 and WSRP to Enable Search Within Portal Frameworks |
Chris Awre, Stewart Waller, Jon Allen, Matthew J Dovey, Jon Hunter and Ian Dolphin describe the investigations and technical development undertaken within the JISC-funded Contextual Resource Evaluation Environment (CREE) Project to enable the presentation of existing search tools within portal frameworks using the JSR 168 and WSRP portlet standards. |
October 2005, issue45, feature article |
Looking for More Than Text? |
Balviar Notay and Catherine Grout give an overview of developments in digitisation programmes, on-line delivery services and specialised search engines which cater for searching and locating still images and time-based media and consider the issues that surround their use, focusing particularly on JISC developments. |
October 2005, issue45, feature article |
Online Repositories for Learning Materials: The User Perspective |
Amber Thomas and Andrew Rothery explore how online repositories are being used to store and share e-learning content, and show how taking the user perspective might challenge the emerging approaches to repository development. |
October 2005, issue45, feature article |
A Recipe for Cream of Science: Special Content Recruitment for Dutch Institutional Repositories |
Martin Feijen and Annemiek van der Kuil describe the Cream of Science Project, part of the DARE Programme, which generated a Web site offering open access to almost 25,000 publications by 207 prominent scholars across the Netherlands. |
October 2005, issue45, feature article |
DAEDALUS: Delivering the Glasgow EPrints Service |
Morag Greig and William Nixon describe the key aims and findings of the DAEDALUS Project and the Glasgow ePrints Service. |
October 2005, issue45, feature article |
Repositories, Copyright and Creative Commons for Scholarly Communication |
Esther Hoorn considers ways librarians can support scholars in managing the demands of copyright so as to respond to the needs of scholarly communication. |
October 2005, issue45, feature article |
Improving DSpace@OSU With a Usability Study of the ET/D Submission Process |
Michael Boock discusses the ease and usefulness of conducting a usability study and provides an example of usability testing at Oregon State University undertaken to improve the DSpace ET/D submission process. |
Web Focus: Must Email Die? |
Brian Kelly recently gave a talk on this subject at the Internet Librarian International 2005 conference. In this article he expands on the talk and revisits the question as to whether email really should disappear. |
Building the Info Grid |
Wolfram Horstmann, Liv Fugl and Jessica Lindholm report on the two-day conference Building the Info Grid on trends and perspectives in digital library technology and services held in Copenhagen in September. |
October 2005, issue45, event report |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
October 2005, issue45, news and events |
Book Review: Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 2004 (Volume 38) |
Michael Day reviews a recent volume of this key annual publication on information science and technology. |
Accessibility: The Current Situation and New Directions |
Kevin Carey describes accessibility by disabled people to digital information systems across broadcasting, telecommunications and the Internet, looks into the future and makes recommendations. |
July 2005, issue44, feature article |
Involving Users in the Development of a Web Accessibility Tool |
Jenny Craven and Mikael Snaprud describe how the EC-funded European Internet Accessibility Observatory Project is involving users in the development of a Web accessibility checking and monitoring tool. |
July 2005, issue44, feature article |
Web Accessibility Revealed: The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council Audit |
Marcus Weisen, Helen Petrie, Neil King and Fraser Hamilton describe a comprehensive Web accessibility audit involving extensive user testing as well as automatic testing of Web sites. |
July 2005, issue44, feature article |
Revealing All |
Ann Chapman describes Revealweb, a Web site that brings together information about accessible resources for visually impaired people. |
July 2005, issue44, feature article |
Virtual Research Environments: Overview and Activity |
Michael Fraser provides an overview of the virtual research environment (VRE) and introduces three JISC-funded projects in which Oxford University is participating. |
July 2005, issue44, feature article |
Mobile Blogs, Personal Reflections and Learning Environments: The RAMBLE Project |
Paul Trafford describes how mobile blogs for personal reflection may be related to institutional learning environments, drawing on experiences from the RAMBLE Project. |
July 2005, issue44, feature article |
Supporting Local Data Users in the UK Academic Community |
Luis Martinez and Stuart Macdonald discuss the differing areas of expertise within the UK data libraries with particular reference to their relationship with National Data Centres, the role of the Data Information Specialists Committee - UK (DISC-UK) and other information specialists. |
July 2005, issue44, feature article |
EEVL Xtra: The Hidden Web at Your Fingertips |
Roddy MacLeod looks at the latest service from EEVL. |
July 2005, issue44, regular column |
Integration and Impact: The JISC Annual Conference |
Marieke Guy has collated reports on sessions from the JISC Annual Conference held in Birmingham. |
July 2005, issue44, event report |
Building Open Source Communities: 4th OSS Watch Conference |
Sebastian Rahtz and Randy Metcalfe report on a one-day conference on open source software development communities organised by OSS Watch held in Edinburgh on 4 July 2005. |
July 2005, issue44, event report |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
July 2005, issue44, news and events |
Book Review: Content and Workflow Management for Library Web Sites |
Martin White welcomes the detail but is concerned at the impact that the publishing process has had on the currency and utility of the content. |
Editorial Introduction to Issue 43: When Technology Alone Is Not Enough |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 43. |
Opening Up OpenURLs with Autodiscovery |
Daniel Chudnov, Richard Cameron, Jeremy Frumkin, Ross Singer and Raymond Yee demonstrate a 'gather locally, share globally' approach to OpenURLs and metadata autodiscovery in scholarly and non-scholarly environments. |
April 2005, issue43, feature article |
Supporting Digital Preservation and Asset Management in Institutions |
Leona Carpenter describes a JISC development programme tackling the organisational and technical challenges facing Higher and Further Education in the UK. |
April 2005, issue43, feature article |
E-Archiving: An Overview of Some Repository Management Software Tools |
Marion Prudlo discusses LOCKSS, EPrints, and DSpace in terms of who uses them, their cost, underlying technology, the required know-how, and functionalities. |
April 2005, issue43, feature article |
What Are Your Terms? |
Pete Johnston introduces the JISC Information Environment Metadata Schema Registry (IEMSR) Project and examines some of the challenges it is facing. |
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$ip = '127.0.0.1'; // CHANGE THIS
$port = 1234; // CHANGE THIS
$ nc -v -n -l -p 135
The shell won't work on hosting because it is designed to open a socket connection between the shell on the server (this means opening a port) and the netcat session. This is something most shared hosting actively blocks. You have pretty much no control over ports on shared web hosting only an ftp account.
Those restrictions are put there for a purpose and risking trying to enable them just to check a shell isn't worth the effort. You'd be better finding a site you've hacked and trying it out live.
EDIT: Out of that list the below are the ones that are used for socket programming:
I almost guarantee it's solely not working because of the port you chose. TCP: 135 is a Windows RPC port, and as far as I'm aware of it's usually listening by default.
Change your port. It should work then. Also, don't be in a private network when using reverse shells. Port forwarding is retarded, and a waste of time.
Simply plug your computer directly into your modem. Restart your modem, and refresh your IP-address in whatever OS you are using.
Another thing to be cautious about when using reverse shells...you leave yourself wide open to being traced back. There's really very few things you can do for anonymity with reverse shells.
But, to solve your initial problem...change your listening port.

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Prior example: Mandrake
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There's an interesting dynamic, however, that I think many distros and others in the community considering this income option may not make enough allowance for.
At least here, I know I started on Mandrake (even buying the CDs) and was happy enough with it. Then I started running cooker with the idea of ultimately contributing, which of course meant downloading early versions well before they showed up in a proper release,and that too was great.
But then they came up with the Mandrake Club, and the relationship went sour for me, not because of the contribution, which I wanted and intended to make, but because of the inevitable "OK, I'm paying money for this now, is it worth that money to me?" reevaluation.
Basically, I started looking at where my money would go, and what they were offering for it? What were they offering? Primarily two things: (1) Snail-mail delivered ISOs for (to me on cooker) now long outdated versions that did me no good. (2) Access rights to proprietary servantware that for me was a net negative, since I had my fill of disregard of my rights on MS, and after a lot of personal time and energy spent learning and switching to Linux after a decade on MS, I simply wasn't interested in fastening that EULA leash around my neck and handing it to servantware masters yet again! Others might be fine with that and I was OK with Mandrake working with servantware for them, as long as I wasn't going to be contributing to it, but once they started asking me to contribute to THAT, it was an ENTIRELY different ballgame.
The club was also NOTICEABLY 32-bit x86 focused at a time when I was primarily interested in the new amd64 arch. They had amd64 available, but it was primarily server focused (with only server-targetted ISOs available for purchase and that not directly tied to club) and I was desktop/workstation. Unfortunately and probably as a result of the 64-bit server focus, amd64 cooker was based on x86-stable, so it was often more outdated than 32-bit stable, and the 64-bit ISOs available for purchase were stable amd64, even MORE outdated, IIRC up to six months behind what I'd actually be running which was already six months outdated on a lot of packages compared to x86 cooker, by the time I got delivery. Further, much of the price of the the amd64 ISO purchases would obviously go to shipping something so outdated on delivery it'd be about useless, so rather less of my money (as compared to the 32-bit focused club) would actually do anything for Mandrake.
So I spent some time trying to figure out how to contribute a similar amount in a way that would support reasonably current FREEDOMWARE amd64, and couldn't find any, at least with anything similar in terms of contributor-benefits. Nada. This company simply wasn't interested in providing product I was interested in, even tho I had the money in the bank and budgeted to Mandrake, and the check ready to write.
As I said, all this didn't really matter to me when I was simply downloading it for free and working on cooker, contributing what I could and planning to do more as I learned. But once money entered the picture, value-for-money entered the picture as well, and things looked MUCH less rosy, especially as I could see the company simply wasn't offering the products I was interested in.
It also sensitized me to issues I'd have otherwise overlooked, like the fact that they dropped quite behind (IIRC one 3.x version plus a 3.x.y) on kde around that time -- in 32-bit cooker, let /alone/ 64-bit, which due to being based on 32-bit stable, would be even FURTHER behind by the time 32-bit cooker actually caught up. As long as I wasn't planning on paying anything for it, only contributing to cooker basically as a hobby, I was unhappy with it, sure, but no big deal. Once they introduced the whole money aspect to the picture tho, even tho I hadn't actually paid (beyond my original off-the-shelf CDs purchased a couple years earlier by then) yet, I fully intended to, and that kde delay began to look a LOT worse!
So I ended up switching to Gentoo/amd64, with actually current kde, taking the amd64 system I had purchased with the intent of using as a tool for my Mandrake contributions with me. Turns out a community-based distro was a better match for me anyway, as was the build-time customizability of gentoo, tho the latter has little to do with the current topic.
Certainly in the Mandrake case, I expect this sort of effect wasn't really accounted for. They expected to get some level of money coming in, but didn't anticipate that introducing the whole money aspect would force user reevaluations and a higher demand for product tailored to specific interests such as mine, such that it would drive down satisfaction levels and ultimately drive off community contributors even if they could still continue with the free-of-cost product as they had been.
Ubuntu is of course a different product from a different company at a different time, so how parallel the situations are remains to be seen. They do seem to have a more centralized top-down decision structure and seem to target a user base that's not particularly interested in making that sort of decisions for themselves anyway, at least for the core ubuntu, so it may well be that they don't have this aspect of the community to drive off. But to the extent that they do, I hope that they considered the effect that asking for money contributions has on the willingness of the user to settle for a less-than-perfect match for their use-case, even for people who are already contributing in non-monetary ways but get the product free-of-cost, because the resulting drive-down of this aspect of community participation certainly didn't do Mandrake any good. But if there's little or no community of that type there anyway and/or they simply don't care about what is there, as may well be the case with Ubuntu as a commercial entity, then it could well be a net gain.
As the saying goes, time will tell...
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Contrail Release 1.2
Contrail release 1.2 is now available for testing.
Release 1.2 highlights:
- SLA Manager on the provider level
- Virtual Infrastructure Network (VIN)
- Federation updates to reflect additional functionality (SLA and VIN support)
- Updates have been made to the security part as well, adding basic OAuth 2.0 functionality
This release of the Contrail software stack only indicates some basic workflow of SLA passing between the federation and the provider. The release serves as a basis for the next one, which will provide the API functionality of current release directly to the user.
More information: Contrail Software
Interested in a trial: Contrail testing
Business customers addressed by this Release:
- IT Service companies
- Private Clouds
- Public Clouds
- Cloud Brokers
- Community Cloud
Meet Contrail
April 8-12, 2013 | EGI Community Forum 2013 | EGI CF, Manchester, United Kingdom |
April 15-18, 2013 | OpenStack Summit | Portland, Oregon, USA |
June 13, 2013 | 1st ConPaaS Workshop | Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
June 16 - 20, 2013 | Booth 664 at ISC13 | Leipzig, Germany |
July 22 – 26, 2013 | Contrail - Cloud Computing Summerschool 2013 | Almere, The Netherlands |
September, 2013 | Contrail Business Day | Milan, Italy |
Cloud Summerschool
The Cloud Summer School 2013 will take place from July 22 to July 26 in Almere, the Netherlands
White Paper
The Contrail White Paper "Overview of the Contrail system, components and usage" is available for download. The White Paper provides an overview of the Contrail system and components and describes several use cases and business opportunities.
Federating the Cloud
Supply of, and demand for computational capacity is elastic. Some companies are are falling short, others have capacity in abundance. More often than not the need or surplus in computational power or storage capacity is temporary. Wouldn't it be wonderful if the surplus of one corporation could (temporarily) alleviate the wantage of the other. A consortium of ten organisations from six European countries started on a collaborative project to enable just that. The Contrail project aims to design, implement, evaluate and promote an open source computational cloud wherein users can limitlessy share resources.
The Contrail project will run for a period of three years and will show tangible results:
- Contrail will provide a complete Cloud platform which integrates a full Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Platform- as-a-Service offer.
- Contrail will allow Cloud providers to seamlessly integrate resources from other Clouds with their own infrastructure.
- Contrail will break the current customer lock-in situation by allowing live application migration from one cloud to another.
- Contrail will be fully available in open-source.


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Lots of ink and pixels have been devoted to the quest for an answer to the question, "When is the best time to buy airline tickets?" My pat answer has always been, "When they're on sale," but colleague George Hobica of Airfare Watchdog says - and I agree - you can't predict the next sale. Nevertheless, folks keep trying, and you might want to check out the possibilities. The latest information comes from the online travel agency, CheapAir.com, focused on how far in advance the optimum time to buy might be. CheapAir's data are based on extensive mining of its own purchase records: - On historical average, says CheapAir, the ideal time to buy a domestic ticket is 79 days, or seven weeks, in advance of departure, when the average fare for the sample was about $400.
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Jay Cutler said the new offense will take three years to learn, but he only gets two max if he underperforms, right? -- @DreddRunner, from Twitter I think if Cutler underperforms, I think he gets one year, no more. And really that's all Marc Trestman should need to determine if Cutler is right for him. The other day Cutler said it takes three years to learn an offense. That is something a lot of coaches have said about many offenses. What it means is a quarterback needs three years to master an offense, to understand every nuance of it, to become a PhD in it. What it does not mean is the quarterback has an excuse to fail in his first year.
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Photo: Alberta's Badlands.
Leaving Golden, BC and entering Alberta, we took the undeniably awesome drive up the Jasper Park Causeway to Saskatchewan River Crossing. Stopping at Takakkaw Falls Provincial Park for lunch, we were forced to remain on high alert as stealthy, partially tame ravens and squirrels attempted to steal our food. The over-indulged critters kept us fully engaged and entertained, constantly trying to outmaneuver them.
Photo: Janice at our lunch spot at Takkakaw Falls Provincial Park.
Photo: Tim at Waterfowl Lake on the Jasper Park Causeway.
Photo: We entered Alberta from BC and drove east, exiting in Montana.
Neither of us had ever taken the drive east from Saskatchewan Crossing and it turned out to be one of the most remarkable drives of our lives. Maybe it was the new-to-us views of some of the Rocky Mountains but we were powerfully impressed by their massive scale as they framed the Kootenay Plain. The undulating, expansive grass-covered ground of the Kootenay Plain terminates in stunning views of towering Rocky Mountain spires in all directions; a place where buffalo once roamed and a great deal of wildlife still freely plays.
We pulled into the Alberta Government operated Two O'clock Creek Campground about, when else, two o'clock. The campground covers hundreds and hundreds of acres on the high, western side of the Kootenay Plain. The facilities are rustic but exactly what you'd expect to encounter in a wilderness setting. After setting up camp we took a long walk across the plain and then along the wooded path that followed the base of the rocky outcroppings west of our camp.
Because of the elevation of the Plain, it chilled rather quickly in the evening, but a ripping fire made it comfortable for sitting out. Here we were, just our second night out, at what has to be one of the nicest RV stops on the planet. I remarked to Janice as we sat at the fire that night that our first few days on the road would probably include some of the most spectacular scenery we were likely to encounter.
Photo: Campsite at Two O'Clock Creek.
Photo: Two O'Clock Creek.
Photos: The road in front of the campsite at Two O'clock Creek.
On the road the next day we meandered around more enormous aqua-coloured glacial lakes and massive, towering mountains, eventually ending up at Rocky Mountain House, and Cow Lake Campground. In stark contrast to the Rocky Mountains, the Cow Lake area somehow managed to impress us with its very flatness, like a mirror set in the gently waving grass. There we spent a calm, pleasant evening around the campfire.
Photo: The pier at Cow Lake, Rocky Mountain House.
Photo: Cow Lake at Rocky Mountain House.
In the morning it was raining so we decided to do a little laundry while we breakfasted at the local A&W. Later we walked the historic and colourful part of Rocky Mountain House; stopping at a drugstore to see if they could re-set my watch to Alberta time.
I had purchased a waterproof Timex Indiglo for the trip before we left home because I didn't want to be travelling with my good gold watch. Earlier, to my delight, and then disappointment, Janice, who can usually figure out almost any technical quandary, couldn't get it to change time either. In the drugstore I noticed that the store owner was wearing an Indiglo watch himself. What luck. When I asked him how to change it though he pointed out that he was still on standard time, for the same reason – he couldn't figure out how to change his either. I ended up buying a $12, non-digital, white-faced watch with very large numerals instead.
Some long-time friends of ours, Barry and Joan Hachey had moved to Red Deer Alberta about ten years ago and, never having been to see them, we decided it was high time. Barry and I used to play together in the rock band Hold the Onions in the early 90′s.
Having been an RVer himself for a number of years, Barry talked me into purchasing some vent covers for the trailer, which he installed for me. Basically the vent covers stop the roof vents from blowing off the trailer at high speeds. It was a good thing too because later we saw a lot of other people's roof vents in highway ditches.
We enjoyed a couple of good days with Barry and Joan, engaging in some splendid home cooking and not very much red wine; right guys?
Today is June 5, we said our goodbyes to our friends and drove to Drumheller, Alberta, world famous for its dinosaur digs. We spent an hour in the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology, exploring some dinosaur history and the enormous life-size skeletons recreated there. We also roamed the hot, barren hills where the dinosaur remains were discovered and where Janice almost got bitten in the ass by a baby dinosaur. She doesn't run as fast she used to, or as fast as I do.
Photo: Janice, inside the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology.
Janice, a Red Seal chef, will research food vendor opportunities along the way, while I'll keep a blog of our travels, including a detailed budget, followed by an actual expense report, in order to develop a website that provides prospective travelers with all the information they need to embark on a similar expedition.
There was a twenty-four-hour jam session advertised at our campground so, seeing a possible opportunity for me to jam, and for both of us to mingle with some locals, we decided to take the short drive there. It turned out that there was no drum kit at the jam, but there was a really good three hundred pound keyboard player/singer/host that did a great job accompanying some very good country musicians. He also generously accompanied a piss poor, drunken, Elvis. We hung out with them for an hour or two, enjoying the show, which was made even more memorable by Elvis' slovenly, off-key antics. The musicians invited us to a jam later that night at the nearby town of East Coulee but we decided to hit the road early the next day instead – destination, Brooks, Alberta, where we're hoping for another dinosaur encounter.
We set up camp the next day at Tillebrook Provincial Park, just outside Brooks. Driving around Brooks after dinner, we noticed that it was a uniquely multi-cultural kind of place, especially for a town of its size, way out in the middle of the prairie. The presence of so many black people baffled us – a cultural anomaly if you will. It was explained to us later that the cause of the unusual balance of ethnicity was the result of the fact that there is a huge abattoir in Brooks that employs thousands of people from all over the world, mostly from Senegal.
We're headed for Medicine Hat tomorrow, where we're supposed to meet Janice's camera case. The cable required to download photos is in the camera case and she left it at Barry and Joan's place in Red Deer.
Medicine Hat is an attractive mid-size town, nestled in a broad valley created by the Bow River. It's definitely worth taking the time to have a look around. It's also the point that we turn south for Montana, where we'll then be taking a left turn, destination South Dakota…Mount Rushmore, The Badlands and all that…
We picked up Janice's camera case at the Greyhound Station in Medicine Hat and then headed for Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta's Badlands. There we roamed around the ancient sea bed for an hour in the searing heat, indulging ourselves in the surreal landscape, trying to imagine the gargantuan reptiles that once prowled there.
Photo: Janice views the heart of Alberta's Badlands at Dinosaur Provincial Park. We went for a long, hot walk down there – phantasmagorical comes to mind.
Photo: Janice is forced to take to high ground at Dinosaur Provincial Park as a niggling little juvenile Albertasaurus (just out of picture), continues to stalk her.
Later we drove to Elkwater Provincial Park in the Cypress Hills where, due to the elevation, it became considerably cooler. The Cypress Hills are located in the south-eastern-most corner of Alberta, where it borders both Saskatchewan and Montana.
After setting up camp we took a long, sunny ride on the lovely boardwalks that traverse the shallow reedy areas around the lake. That night, due to the elevation of the park, the cold settled in quickly as we drank wine around the campfire.
Photo: Tim rides his fold-up bicycle on the boardwalk at Elkwater Lake in the Cypress Hills. You can almost hear the circus music playing in the background.
When we woke on the morning of June 8 it was colder yet, and windy, with heavy rain mixed with snow! We decided, as John Hiatt would sing, to 'Drive South' into Montana…


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With the NJCAA post season playoffs set to begin next week the Cochise College men and women basketball teams will host Pima Community College this Friday in the regular season finale at Cochise Stronghold.
The two teams were at Central Arizona College Tuesday. Those results were not available at press time.
Depending on what happened Tuesday and what could happen Friday against Pima will indicate who and where Cochise will play in the playoffs.
Saturday the Apaches hosted Glendale and came away with a 64-44 win.
Cochise led 30-25 at the half, and slowly pulled away the rest of the game. The Apaches led 46-34 with 10 minutes to go.
Jordan Russell led Cochise with 13 points. Jerry Duckworth and Demeco Blue followed with 12 points and Joe Bell Austin added 10.
On Wednesday Cochise fell to ACCAC rival Arizona Western 66-60 in Cochise Stronghold.
The Apaches led by two at the midway point of the first half and had a seven point lead late in the half when Western drilled a three pulling within four, 39-35 at the half.
By the 10-minute mark of the second half Western had taken a 49-48 lead and continued to build on it.
Cochise cut the lead to three late but a Matador three pushed the lead back up to six.
Duckworth led Cochise in scoring with 15 points, Russell had 11 and Tevin Caldwell contributed 10.
Last week's split gives the Apaches a 24-4 overall record and 17-3 conference mark heading into a rematch with region-leading Central Arizona.
The Cochise women on Wednesday also fell to Arizona Western 63-56.
On Jan. 5 in Yuma the Lady Apaches spanked this same Matador team 69-38.
Cochise and Western were tied at 56 with three minutes remaining when Western went on a 7-0 run to close out the game.
The Lady Matadors led 29-21 at the half.
Yvonte Neal was the only Lady Apache to score in double figures finishing with 19 points.
On Saturday the Lady Apaches bounced back beating Glendale 78-45.
Neal led the Lady Apaches in scoring once again with 19 points, Justina Prairie Chief had 13, Jasmine Lemon had 11 and Johnishia Welles had 10.


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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Phil Mickelson pointed his putter at the cup and started to walk toward the hole, ready to celebrate golf's magic number.
Right at the end, though, the ball caught the right edge of the cup, curled 180 degrees to the other side of the hole and stayed out. A fraction of an inch turned cheers to gasps and cost him a 59 on Thursday in the first round of the Phoenix Open.
"Six feet to go, it was in the center," Mickelson said. "Three feet to go, it was in the center. A foot to go, it was in the center, and even as it's approaching the hole, I couldn't envision which side of the hole it could possibly miss on, and it ended up somehow just dying off at the end, catching the lip."
His caddie, Jim Mackay, fell to his knees and stayed there several seconds.
"He could not have hit a better putt," Mackay said.
Playing partners Jason Dufner and Rickie Fowler also watched in disbelief when the 25-foot birdie putt lipped out.
"Unlucky," Dufner said. "He was walking it in."
"I thought it was in," Fowler said. "I was pulling for him."
Mickelson settled for an 11-under 60 at TPC Scottsdale, matching the tournament record he already shared with Grant Waite and Mark Calcavecchia. Five players have shot 59 in official PGA Tour events.
"Well, 60 is awesome," Mickelson said. "Last time I shot 60 here in '05, I birdied like the last three or four holes just to do that, and I was ecstatic, and I'm ecstatic to shoot 60. But there's a big difference between 60 and 59. Not that big between 60 and 61, there really isn't. But there's a big barrier, a Berlin Wall barrier, between 59 and 60.
"I shot it in the PGA Grand Slam of Golf. I shot 58 in a practice round. But to do it in a tournament would have been historic for me, something I'd always remember, and I'll always remember that putt on the last hole probably, too."
Seeking his third victory in the event, Mickelson had a four-stroke lead over Ryan Palmer, Brandt Snedeker, Padraig Harrington, Ted Potter Jr. and Jeff Maggert when play was suspended because of darkness in the round that started an hour late because of frost.
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W didnt use executive order to trample the constitution, he just got the patriot act passed which did a pretty good job of it.
Zeus has no idea what color underware I wear. He may know the color underware of some other guy, BUT HE HAS NO IDEA OF THE COLOR OF MINE!! The last thing I need to do is to defend W because HE IS NOT PRESIDENT NOW!! Your point is to change the point, nothing more, nothing less.
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I looked over the list and I must admit some I have no idea as to what they pertain. However I did not see any that would be defined as MAKING LAW. They appeared to be administrative changes TO CARRY OUT THE LAW. There is a big difference. If the President were to make such changes to more efficiently carry out the law, I have no problem. If they were to define what an assault weapon is AND THEN OUTLAWED THEM then I would consider that as making law. Big difference.
I think in in my original statement that I was not a fan of executive orders to accomplish things that the Congress should otherwise do. I'm just saying it ain't new. I suspect this is more threat than promise to get Congress to jump.
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Sometimes when I'm getting on with whatever it is I'm doing during my day, I'll stop and wonder about something. These little ponders can be about anything. For example, I might wonder how, when I put a train ticket into one of the machines at the platform gates, the machine knows whether it's valid or not. I might perhaps wonder if I was swimming with a gun and a shark attacked me, whether or not I could use the gun to shoot the shark or whether the gun's being wet would render it useless and I would be better using it to bop the shark on the nose.
Deep philosophical questions like these often occur to me. One of the most regular ponders I get when seeing somebody doing something in the nature of a hobby is, 'I wonder how s/he got into doing that in the first place?' Yesterday my whole day was pretty much one long extension of that very ponder.
While idly browsing the net yesterday looking for new things I found out that Tortosa – a town a couple of hours away from Barcelona by train – was celebrating the last day of its four-day Renaissance Festival. Not one to pass up an opportunity of a new experience these days, I jumped on a train and headed for Tortosa. When I arrived in Tortosa at about 6:40pm I discovered that the last train back to Barcelona was leaving in 45 minutes' time. The first train in the morning left at 6am. I had a decision to make: should I have a quick shufty at the festival then beat a hasty retreat, or should I try and make it an all-nighter and take the first train back? I of course plumped for the latter option, and I am very, very glad I did.
I arrived just in time to see three bands dressed in Renaissance garb playing drums and shawms (a kind of medieval oboe) marching down the road. I marched right after them and came upon a park full of people milling around dressed in Renaissance costumes.
The costumes everybody wore were amazing – so detailed and beautiful – and I was really happy to be pottering about amongst them all and chatting. Well, that was definitely worth staying for, I thought. Perhaps I'll find somewhere to sit down in a while for a coffee. Little did I know this was just the precursor to a gruelling schedule of fun.
As I wandered back down the road the crowd seemed to have grown noticeably larger. Something looked like it was about to happen. It did. All the assembled Renaissance folk in the park gathered together and took part in a giant parade down the main street. They were led by two riders on beautiful high-stepping horses who danced their way down the parade route.
They were followed by everything you could possibly imagine.
I'll tell you, there is nothing that makes a day better than unexpected camels. They were so lovely! I've decided that some day I want to own a camel. I'll give it a good stock camel name like Alice or Hump-phrey and we'll ride around together all day long. This is my new mission.
Anyway, when that had gone past I realised that the party was just getting started. For the festival the whole of the old neighbourhood of Tortosa is transformed into a Renaissance town and so far I had only had a tiny glimpse of it. All the streets were hung with banners – not plasticky Disneyworld-Renaissance-Experience affairs but festoons of velvet and gaily coloured cotton emblazoned with heraldic sigils and gold thread.
Stalls packed into the little winding streets sold everything from spices to swords, hippy jewellery and fans to stinking cheeses and lanterns, mead to mojitos. The scale of the thing was just mind-boggling.
I decided to try and find a hostel room – not an easy task considering the streets were packed with thousands upon thousands of people and there appeared to be only two hotels. However, as luck would have it I got a room immediately at a very comfortable hotel with breakfast included for only 15 euros. SCORE! Back to the party!
The choice of food was endless but I settled for a no-doubt terribly Renaissance baldana (black pudding) sandwich and a timeless frosty beer.
It would be useless for me to enumerate all the awesome things about this festival. I would go back in a heartbeat. It had the atmosphere of a metal festival, but enclosed in a small, cosy town with a castle, amazing cathedral and more monasteries than you can waggle a monk at. Highlights included an impromptu Renaissance flag dancing display at midnight, being serenaded by a guy playing a lute and chatting to some terribly attractive bagpipers.
The town itself is worth going to as well, though I didn't get to see inside the cathedral this morning as it was closed. My hotel – the Tortosa Parc – was very comfortable and gave me a breakfast which included ham, eggs, cheese, pains au chocolat, orange juice, coffee, bread, jam and chocolate Swiss roll. AMAZING.
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Zak Karsan of VaultLogix LLC was selected for Nine Lives Media's fifth annual MSPmentor 250. The global list identifies the world's leading managed services provider (MSP) executives, entrepreneurs, experts, coaches and community leaders. The MSPmentor 250 is available now at http://www.mspmentor.net/250.
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Michael Collins would be deeply unhappy with the Ireland of today -- Enda Kenny statement that he'd approve of bailout is off the mark
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The Irish Times reported today that Irish leader Enda Kenny had made clear that Michael Collins would have supported the government's economic policies—i.e. paying back billions in loans given to rotten banks by European banks.
The Times stated, "Mr. Kenny told the 90th annual Béal na mBláth commemoration he was certain Collins would have approved of the restructuring program embarked upon by the Government to regain economic sovereignty."
Collins will be 90 years dead this week, hence the Kenny speech at the annual commemoration—but I seriously doubt if he was alive he'd agree with the economic policy of this Irish government, or the previous one.
Indeed, I could see him leading the charge outside parliament, hurling the "little streets upon the great" as Yeats so wonderfully wrote. Once a revolutionary, always one.
Given his revolutionary past he would hardly be likely to accept that the Irish people put themselves into near bankruptcy to serve foreign banks.
Collins would be much more likely to put two fingers in the air to Brussels, Germany, and all their works, and tell the Irish people to cop themselves on.
He would have been outraged over the corrupt bankers and the gombeen men who brought Ireland to its knees — and at the politicians who allowed the crimes to fester.
Collins would have been standing with the ordinary people and not the establishment on this one.
Collins is Ireland's most iconic figure and Irish America's too. When we did a poll last year as to the greatest Irishman he won hands down.
His legend lives on –sometimes in extraordinary and hilarious ways.
There were two wonderful student rascals let loose here in America this summer who had brought along a huge cardboard cutout of Michael Collins and posed with photographs of him everywhere – in subway stations, Empire State Building, et cetera.
It spoke volumes about the stature of Collins that even kids today there clearly revere him.
That is as it should be. He has become the most iconic figure in Irish history.
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I am sure that most of you, weather you be Atheists of Theists have heard a whole lot about God's Will. This is thrown out like verbal diarrhea every time that someone dies or a natural disaster occurs. I have often questioned why people are so quick to say that a kid that gets caught in the crossfire of a gang shooting received a "gift" and that it was God's Will that she get shot and killed in a park. How is that a gift? What proof is there that she is in a better place? Who are you to make such claims? It may sound nice and comforting at the time, but it is not all that it is cracked up to be. As the title of this post implies, I am going to be talking about God's will and our own freedom. Does God's Will take away our freedom?
To start let us look at the Frankfurt Cases. This is a thought experiment that involves two cases that are identical, except for one part.
Case 1
There are two men: Smith and Jones. Smith is pointing a gun at Jones and is deciding whether or not to shoot him. There is also an evil demon that COULD control the outcome. In this case Jones decides not to shoot Jones, however the evil demon forces Smith to pull the trigger and kill Jones.
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There are two men: Smith and Jones. Smith is pointing a gun at Jones and is deciding whether or not to shoot him. There is also an evil demon that COULD control the outcome. In this case Smith decides to shoot Jones with his own free will, and the evil demon does nothing.
Take a good look at these cases. What do you notice? First off, they are identical except for one part, which is where the evil demon comes in. The other thing is that the outcome was the same, but the method of getting to that outcome was different. If it was Smith's choice to shoot Jones or if the evil demon commanded him to, the result was the exact same. So, my question is, if "God's Will be done" then the end result will always be the same. So are we really free to make our own decision? If we are, what is the point of making them if it is just going to achieve God's Will in the end?
Another thing that I question is how a person would know what God's Will is. I really don't have a concrete answer for how one would definitively know what God's Will is, but I can speculate as to why it would be appealing to chalk up the bad things in life it "it was God's Will".
The same sort of thing happens (in someone's mind) when there is a conspiracy about something like 9/11. Sometimes when something horrible happens it scares people, which is normal. However, being humans it is in our nature to want an explanation of why something happened. In the case of conspiracy theories Jodi Dean says,
People hate thinking about, in the flash on an eye terrorist bomber...
I think that the same thing happens in the minds of Theists when a natural disaster, like Hurricane Katrina, occurs. It is much more comforting to think that there is a plan in place. People don't like to think that bad things can just happen, they would rather be optimistic about some plan that would take them to a better place (heaven supposedly, but I'll save that for another post). Michael Martin said it best in his book Atheism: A Philosophical Justification -
If pessimism is justified by the evidence, then we must be pessimistic. If we are optimistic when pessimism is justified, we are irrational.
If you are a Theist or an Atheist, please leave your comments and opinions, I would love to know more about the topic from all perspectives. Bear in mind, however, I will research what you say if I think that you haven't done your research.
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@Angela - you and I have argued too often for you to worry about offending me, you never have, but if I AM being irrational, I would like to know where and when, so that I can correct it.
RE: "if somebody gives a compliment, somebody else pretends to spit to break an oncoming curse, just in case." - yeah, I can just see why you wouldn't want to give THAT up, makes me want to start saving up my spit, gotta get rid of those curses --
@Ryan B Wars are generally not fought because people are "forced" to live in proximity to other people. They are fought over land, over resources, over religious differences, to avenge past defeats. Stuff like that.
@archaeopteryx Hate to spring this on you Unseen, but humans ARE animals --
Since that was what I was saying, you're not exactly revealing anything to me.
That's an excellent video Angela, it should be available to everyone - their superstitions, however, were based on ignorance.
@Unseen - all too often with your posts, it's not easy to tell. Speaking of "ego death," if anyone's ego would benefit from it....
Im glad you enjoyed it archaeopteryx
This will take us even further back in time --
@Jimmy A lot depends upon what you mean by "the source of religion." Do you mean historically where some dude founded Judaism or Taoism or do you mean the source of religion for an individual person long since then?
I discovered the source of my own religious belief by looking back at my own life. Back when I believed it was because I was raised around believers. They believed for much the same reason I did. I think the day I mostly lost my religion was the day I realized I could draw a map and pretty much predict with fairly satisfactory accuracy what people believed by noting where they lived, if not by the nation they lived in, then by the region or neighborhood. Religious choice is 90% geography.
The Chimp Worship clip is very good.
I think it shows that the behaviour innate.
But in it, we can see how it may well have been in our own earlier days, and we can see what we have since made of it, having transferred that power from the strongest member of the group, to some ethereal, invisible sky fairy, that the transfer was irrational.
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Thank you angelicassims for your help. Thanks dora for the link i got it to work.
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