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I run about 5 blogs (depending how you count), and by far the most read or visited one never had any comments - although its engine supports them. Blog comments are for the weak.
I run about 5 blogs (depending how you count), and by far the most read or visited one never had any comments - although its engine supports them. Blog comments are for the weak.
So the "Chinese Wedge" was used for a spammer to gain a foothold. To sum, a wedge (hjclub) gained a certification from a Master (atai), who is Taiwanese, by presumably [mis]using some Chinese codeword. Then it certified normal spammer(s). The response (by chalst) was to call for ostracism, or a purge, which is the normal social response. However, suppose that there is no way to make atai to drop the cert of the wedge. What then? I think we ought to get used to the idea of imperfect protection. Raph actually said that in the book example some books will be given away improperly and that is all right. Still, there is probably some fertile field for research here...
Notes from listening to Red Hat Cloud Computing Forum
- Brian Stevens, RHT CTO -
Reduce the cost of EXIT from the cloud. Sounds like "well, duh", but yeah, something to be kept in mind.
- Matt Aslett, the 451 group -
http://nebula.nasa.gov/services -- example of cloud
Japan is behind in Cloud
- Jeff Garzik talks about CLD. It's improved from the
time I heard it last. More concise and makes sense.
AMQP - does it help?
Jeff is talking about distributed storage stuff to be built over Hail. I wonder. If there's no consistency/coherency underneath, it's hard to build it on top.
HyperTable, port over CLD?
- Michael DeHaan, RHT - Cobbler (mdehaan@)
Cobbler works before the system exists, Puppet works after the system exists.
- Matthew Farrellee - Condor (job scheduler)
[maybe I should use it to build Map/Reduce, unless Hadoop of course]
- Rich Wolski, Eucalyptus Systems Inc. - "Yuakaliptus",
in Santa Barbara
Emulates AWS but not designed to replace AWS... Too modest.
Has S3 ("Walrus") and EBS (root filesystems etc.), APIs to attach/detach to VMs.
So, are Ubuntoids going to ship this Eucalyptus or other Eucalyptus? Yes.
* Google App Engine: emulated in UCSB by AppScale
rich@ eucalyptus
RabbitMQ - commercial (proprietary too?) SQS implementation.
- Mike Olson, CEO of Cloudera
V.interesting history bg
"Hadoop provides people with a v.powerful NEW tool to do data analysis."
Hadoop sits on top of HDFS (Hadoop Distributed FS). Ah-ha!
- KVM skipping
- libVirt skipping
- Skipping Sunny Gosain and ERP talk
- Brian Kearney RHT "Sr. Consulting Engineer" - project
Thincrust (how is it different from Cobbler?)
Thincrust.org creates a text that can be fed to Cobbler (or elsewhere).
- Chander Kent, CEO of Zmanda - backup to a cloud. A
commercial Duplicity?
APIs: Amazon S3, CloudFiles, SunCloud, Microsoft Azure.
libzcloud - open library
zmanda.com/blogs wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Libzcloud
On the topic of Tbird mangling patches (in twisti's entry), Bryan Clark made an extension to expose the knobs in the UI, Asalted:
Also, contrary to twisti's assertion, the mangling was very much intentional. The flamewar between programmers and those in Mozilla who think that programmers are not a relevant userbase for MUAs was... educational.
Follow focus nazi
I have a laptop with Synaptics touchpad, and one of the biggest annoyances in its implementation is how the "wheel" strips act upon the GUI element where the mouse is pointing regardless of the current focus. It took years to beat focus-follow-mouse people into a marginal submission, yet they still find every crack to seep through, like kerosene. Naturally, this behaviour is not tunable.
Another retardity in this area is the behaviour of the panel. Some genious came up with an awesome idea to flip windows if panel receives a wheel click. The problem with that is, a strip on the laptop is difficult to make to deliver just one click, so the function is useless to me. Also, it is too easy to hit the strip accidentially (which would not be a big deal if not for the enforced focus-follow). So, for one reason or the other, I would like to disable this behaviour. I don't even want to seek excuses for this wish. Just do it. But it's impossible.
So far the only group that displayed a clue in this was, strangely enough, Mozilla. They fixed bugs I filed and in general had an understanding of various input and display technologies, despite only being browser people. You'd think desktop developers would know how a touchpad differs from a wheel mouse.
UPDATE: Chris pointed out in comments that a fundamental reason exists why wheel behaves this way: the extra button events are mouse buttons, and those go where pointer points. I knew it, but it didn't click. I still think that applications should be able to work around this, although perhaps at the cost of some extra events being delivered.
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Here's what new pulseaudio does after update in Rawhide today:
VLC media player 0.8.6h Janus
E: core-util.c: Failed to state home directory /q/zaitcev/.pulse: No such file or directory
E: core-util.c: Assertion 'fn' failed at pulsecore/core-util.c:1086, function pa_lock_lockfile(). Aborting.
Talkative library functions are bad enough, but aborting and taking down whole application?! How amateurish.
Go Seth!
I cancelled a yum update because I suddenly remembered that it's Friday and I had to download Tower of Druaga finale. It seems like only yesterday doing so involved ^a-c and kill -9, but today two ^c were sufficient. Yay.
Jim's strategy
Jeremy posted a shorthand of a meeting with Jim, our CEO. I think it's pretty interesting, although it's not very new for me, because it's consistent with his internal message and I've met with him before.
Jim talks about the need to involve companies (and their member individuals) into the Open Source in general. I quite agree, although in my like of work I see it in a very narrow way. I interact with all kinds of customers. Some are used to the old, "black box" way. If a test round is needed, I send them a kernel, they run it, collect the results, I think about it, change something, send it again... etcetera. Other (for example, Stratus, Fujitsu) chose "open box" approach: they look at my patches and produce feedback on patches.
Even though I never play favourites with customer problems, "open box" people tend to come to solutions much quicker.
I used to think that there must be some downside to "open box", because they have to have some expertise in-house to deal with source, and expertise costs money. But it is more and more apparent that basic reading of the source is not black magic. Customers always have engineers who can read it. Sure, they may not have intimate understanding of it, but that's what they pay Red Hat for. The basic advantage is essentially free for them.
Another thing Jim talks about is taking a high road relatively Ubuntu. From ethical standpoint, he is right, of course. But I keep thinking... Ubuntu is popular. Not as popular as Windows, I guess, but it is a success, and you never argue with success. Fat lot of good will it do to Free Software if everyone moves to Ubuntu. Fortunately, Fedora is a success too, for now at least. But it looks like Jim just believes that truth will always prevail... I am not so sure. It is not how the world works.
Syndicated 2008-06-21 02:03:35 (Updated 2008-06-21 02:23:48) from Pete Zaitcev
Whitelist your cookies
I followed the suggestion at DaveJ's comments as an experiment, because I visit way too many forums and other identity driven sites, but so far it worked very well. There was not a single case of website failing to work with explicit permissions to set cookies, and the work required to add permissions was not too onerous.
It would be even better if Firefox threw up a dialog or something, to let me whitelist a website on the fly, without opening the preferences dialog with its tabs.
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
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If you're a C programmer with some spare time, take a look at the mod_virgule project page and help us with one of the tasks on the ToDo list!


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The next version of Twisted will come out of the box with an example that lets you write advogato diaries locally and send them to advogato. If you see this diary entry, this means that this example works :)
XML-RPC seems to be useful, for some things, after all.
The code is here

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On January 18, as the Phoenix went to press, web heavyweights Wikipedia and reddit went dark to protest a pair of bills — the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate — that aim to crack down on Internet piracy.
You know, illegal copies of the latest Mission: Impossible confection or Katy Perry nonsense.
For supporters of the legislation — Hollywood, the music industry, the US Chamber of Commerce — it's a no-brainer: web pirates cost the country billions per year and trade not just in illicit movies, but in counterfeit pharmaceuticals and defective auto parts that pose real safety risks.
For critics, though, the measures are overly broad attacks that could stifle the next Facebook and wreak havoc on the Internet's open ethos.
The debate has upended all the usual alliances in Washington. Among the opponents, for instance, are liberal doyenne Nancy Pelosi and cackling Texas libertarian Ron Paul.
It is the left and right, it seems, against the center.
But even that maxim goes only so far. Look no further than Rhode Island, where Senator Sheldon Whitehouse — a reliable liberal if there ever was one — is a co-sponsor of PIPA, calling it a "sensible, bipartisan response" to a "serious problem."
Congressman James Langevin — Rhode Island's steady centrist, and a Cassandra on cybersecurity, no less — declared his opposition to the bills weeks ago. "I think SOPA and PIPA are taking a sledgehammer to a problem where perhaps a scalpel would serve," he tells me.
And with the netroots ablaze, Senator Jack Reed and Congressman David Cicilline came out against the legislation as the Phoenix's deadline approached, joining other newly-minted opponents in Congress. With the Obama administration voicing deep misgivings, a measure that seemed destined to pass just last month likely won't without significant revision.
But it isn't dead yet; and the concerns of copyright holders at its root are still very much alive, leaving some confounding questions still to be answered. Who's right: Disney or Google, Whitehouse or Langevin? The answers are not as clear-cut as partisans on either side would have you believe.
Piracy is, undoubtedly, a big problem; the Motion Picture Association of America claims it costs the nation $58 billion per year and the Chamber of Commerce says it puts 19 million jobs in jeopardy.
The numbers are probably inflated — as are most claims in this debate. But there is little doubt that online theft of copyrighted works is a major issue for the legacy entertainment industry; just ask the teenager next door where he got the last Kanye West record.
The trouble is many of the so-called "rogue sites" engaged in piracy are based overseas and beyond the reach of American law enforcement. The SOPA and PIPA remedy: starve these foreign sites out of existence by compelling search engines like Google and Yahoo! to eliminate links and forcing payment processors like PayPal and ad networks to stop doing business with them.
Sounds clever enough. But critics are skeptical that the bills would do much to slow down the pirates. And the measures, they say, would inflict unacceptable collateral damage. Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren, who represents Silicon Valley, says SOPA would be "the end of the Internet as we know it."
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Baker, Fredrick, J. 3/4/1941 - 9/15/2014 Claremont, CA Dr. Frederick J. Baker, International Educator March 4, 1941 September 15, 2014 Dr. Baker, born and raised in Saginaw, was proud professor emeritus of Cal Poly Pomona (1988-1993) and former professor at U.C. Irvine and Central Michigan Univ. He held a B.A. from Central Michigan Univ., an M.A. from Antioch Univ. and a Ph.D. from Michigan State Univ. During the 14 years he worked overseas, he was a Peace Corps Volunteer, a Foreign Service Officer, a Fulbright Fellow, and a Teacher Corps Dir.., and he directed programs in Thailand, Belize, England, China, Mexico, Latvia, Micronesia, Malaysia, Guyana, Yemen, Laos, and Vietnam. Dr. Baker received grants and awards from the Asian Foundation, Teacher Corps, Peace Corps, Fulbright Foundation, Asian Development Bank, and World Bank. He authored over 120 publications, including Reforming America's Schools: From Teachers and Curriculum to Globalization and Interdisciplinary Projects and Ways of Coexisting: Urban, Suburban, and Global Communities. A fluent speaker of Thai and Lao, Dr. Baker developed friendships through shared linguistic and cultural experiences. He worked as an international consultant, especially in curriculum development, teacher education and educational policy. He enriched the lives of family members, students, friends, and colleagues around the globe. He made the world a better and more peaceful place. Dr. Baker was predeceased by his parents, Benjamin George Baker and Mary Ross Ross Baker. He is survived by Dr. Rosalie Giacchino-Baker, his wife of 47 years; by three children, Sarah Baker, John Benjamin Baker and his wife Rachelle Baker, and Michael Thomas Baker and his wife Tamar Baker; and by three grandchildren, Nikolas Remo Guevara, Benjamin Nathan Baker, and Isabella Rachelle Baker. He also leaves a brother, Floyd Ross Baker and his wife Lee Ann Baker; three sisters-in-law, Mary Crosetto, Jean Giacchino, and Josephine Connor and her husband Matt Connor; as well as many nieces and nephews. An avid golfer, he will be remembered fondly by his golf buddies. He is mourned by his family and friends around the world. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/saginaw/obituary.aspx?n=Fredrick-Baker&pid=172739279


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European Film Festival 2008
Top row: "Je crois que je l'aime" (I Think I Love Her) (France) and
"One Day in Europe" (Germany)
Second row: "Resurface" (Greece) and "Qui m'aime me suive" (Who
Likes Me, I Follow) (France)
Bottom row: "Lenz" (Switzerland) and "La seconda notte di nozze"
(The Second Night of Wedding) (Italy)
San Antonio European Film Festival is Sept. 8-11
By Tim Brownlee
Assistant Director of Public Affairs
(Sept. 8, 2008)--The fifth annual San Antonio European Film Festival is Monday, Sept. 8-Thursday, Sept. 11 at the Santikos Palladium cinema at the Rim shopping center, 17910 Interstate 10 West. Admission is free and open to the public with showings 10:30 a.m.-11 p.m., Monday and Tuesday; 10:30 a.m.-9 p.m., Wednesday; and 9:30 a.m.-11 p.m., Thursday.
Today's headlines
- La Prensa Foundation is newest member of UTSA Lone Star Society
- UTSA alumna Jordan Kaufmann wins $50K for new stent-graft start-up
- UTSA begins new way-finding sign installation this summer at Main Campus
- USA Today: UTSA long jumper Tyler Williamson rescues three-year-old boy
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>> View the film and panel discussion schedule and film synopses at the European Film Festival Web site.
>> Read tips for viewing a foreign film.
According to John Collet, former consul to France and president and CEO of the European Film Festival Corp., the festival is a unique opportunity for the San Antonio public to see 24 recent award-winning European films at one venue. Each film will be screened four times.
Organized and managed by the not-for-profit European Film Festival Corp., the festival is co-sponsored by the consulates of France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Spain and Switzerland in Houston and Atlanta, the City of San Antonio, Santikos Theatres and the UTSA College of Liberal and Fine Arts and the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures.
From 5 to 6 p.m. each day, discussion sessions at the festival will feature local actor Craig Rainey, professor and former film editor Ron Wojnar (Northwest Vista College), Marita Nummikoski (chair of the UTSA Department of Modern Languages and Literatures), Christopher Wickham (UTSA associate dean of the College of Liberal and Fine Arts), Pierre Verdaguer (University of Maryland), Dora Fitzgerald (University of the Incarnate Word), subtitling specialist John Incledon (Albright College) and Nancy Membrez, UTSA associate professor of modern languages and literatures.
Concurrently, the first UTSA European Film Conference is Sept. 8-10 at the UTSA Downtown Campus. Organized by UTSA's Nancy Membrez, the conference will include some 60 scholars from across the country participating in morning panel discussions. Open to the public, registration is $150, $100 for graduate students and $10 for undergraduate students per day.
>> Download a European Film Conference registration form.
>> Download a European Film Conference schedule.
Keynote speakers will be: (Monday) Dona Kercher, Assumption College, speaking on her upcoming book on Alfred Hitchcock's influence on Spanish film; (Tuesday) Steven Kellman, UTSA professor of English, classics and philosophy, discussing the shifting role of the film critic; and (Wednesday) Cathleen Rountree, freelance film critic and scholar, lecturing on the film director as modern-day shaman.
For more information on the European Film Conference, contact the UTSA Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at (210) 458-4377.


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March already! And this is my beauty shopping list for this month. Ok, you're right.
This is probably more like a wish list…
First up on the list are two skin care products by Mad Hippie. A brand whose name made me jump up and say "Hey, I'm a Mad Hippie!" You'd think that this little infatuation of mine is nothing but branding and marketing. You would think that. But no. It's not just about the name which stirs something in every secret hippies' hearts. These skin care products are serious. And they are packed with crazy amazing ingredients.
The next pair on the list is a makeup stipling brush by Makeup Geek and a makeup highlighter by Benefit Cosmetics. If you know me, then you know that I am still feeling my way around when it comes to makeup. I've really been eager to play around with highlighting and contouring. But these two products can be easily replaced if I can find a better alternative for them.
Next up is Secret de Nuit by Phyto. This is a hair serum that you leave on overnight. It's supposed to moisturize and regenerate your hair fibre in order to leave the hair feeling very soft. I am really looking forward to trying this one.
I think I am just into any product that has the word Magic in it. Egyptian Magic's All Purpose Skin Cream is one of those cult beauty products that I'm so curious to try. And just as it says, you can use it to moisturize anything. The skin on your face, your eyes, your lips, your hair, your nails. From what I've read, this is actually more like a balm than a cream. And the ingredients list is so basic: Olive Oil, Beeswax, Honey, Propolis, Bee Pollen, Royal Jelly.
Now my questions for you are:
1) Have you tried any of these products?
2) Do you have suggestions for better alternatives?
3) What is your beauty shopping list like for this month?


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- In Trinidad, Christmas is Parang! (video & holiday recipe roundup)
- Trinidad Pastelles (recipe) now with Delicious Vegan Option!
- Punch de Creme (recipe)
- Sorrel Drink (recipe & video)
- Carmen's Jamaican Ginger Beer (recipe)
- Trinidad Black Cake (recipe)
- Trinidad Paime (recipe)
- Jamaican Sorrel Rum Punch (recipe & video)
- QUICK GINGER BEER Recipe at Epicurious.com
- TRINIDAD EXPRESS FEATURE: Pass The Ponche! (includes recipe for Beetroot Punch de Creme)
When I first made this in 2006 it was my first time using a pack of dried sorrel for a recipe. I was pleasantly surprised. If you allow it to steep overnight the results are pretty good. The below recipe is my adaptation of the Jamaican Sorrel Rum Punch Recipe at Epicurious.com. Because the pack of dried sorrel that I bought already has cloves added, as well as chunks of cinnamon bark I didn't need to add any additional flavorings. If you can locate packs like these I highly recommend it.
JAMAICAN SORREL RUM PUNCH (adapted from the following recipe at Epicurious.com)
1 pack pre-spiced dried sorrel -OR- 2 ounces (about 1 1/2 cups) dried sorrel calyxes
Two 1-inch cubes of peeled fresh ginger, chopped fine
3 whole cloves (omit if using a pack with spices)
5 3/4 cups water
3 cups sugar
1 amber/dark rum
2 cups ice cubes, or to taste
Lime and orange slices for garnish
1. In a heat-proof bowl combine the sorrel, the ginger and the cloves.
2. In a saucepan bring 5 cups of the water to a boil, pour it over the sorrel mixture, and let the mixture steep overnight.
3. While the mixture is steeping, in a small saucepan bring the remaining 3/4 cup water and the sugar to a boil, stirring until the sugar is dissolved, and let the syrup cool.
4. Strain the sorrel liquid into a pitcher, discarding the solids, stir in the sugar syrup, the rum and the ice cubes, and garnish the punch with the lime and orange slices.
Makes about 8 cups/2 bottles
Watch me talk about, as well as make a batch of sorrel on the second episode of "Sweet Han': Caribbean Cooking with Sarina"
This post was first published December 28, 2006. It has been updated three times since then.


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I much prefer the UE900 over the TF10. The TF10 sounds very disharmonic to my ears. Even though its bass performance is incredible I prefer most dynamics over the Triple Fi. I also didn't like the Shure SE535 so I picked the W4 at the time. Some things did bother me and it is too mellow for my taste. The UE900 improves in that aspect.
The UE900 has a very light veil over vocals, yes, but it's far less prominent than with the W4. Soundstage of the UE is smaller, but also more intimate whereas the Westone has a much further distance and mostly expanding left and right.
One big problem with the W4 is that the bass loses all of its punch at lower volumes. It just disappears. Bass quantity scales with volume which bothers me a lot - yet you cannot get rid of the mid/upper bass and lower mids hump without proper EQ. With the Logitech I can listen at very low volumes and still have dirty bass punch on Hip-Hop tracks.
If you don't mind the points above, I think the W4 is the slightly better IEM. Personally, I prefer the UE900.
Build quality and comfort is amazing with both. I prefer the aggressive blue looks of the Logitech as it's a kinda offensive punch towards Monster Beats. :D
On other days I might prefer the humble black plastic and skinny cable of the Westone 4.
The UE900 are starting to get more and more apealing, as I keep reading very good reviews and impressions about them... Ultrazino, from the location in your profile, you live in Germany, right? Can you tell me where did you get your UE900, please? PM me if you like...


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Building a web-base content management system is hard. The work isn't necessarily hard, but he decisions are. Mainly, should or should I not include this kitchen sink. There are basically two main classes of CMS that I have seen. Super flexbile, powerful, incomprehensible systems, or simple easy to use systems with few features.
Working on OpenACS 4.5, I was introduced to a new application for OpenACS called edit-this-page. It's goal is a simple, easy to use, and easy to extend CMS. I am working on the next version, and the temptation to add more and more features that would "be nice to have" is very strong. Deciding what is necessary, and what is optional is very tricky. It is also probably impossible. It is better to build a good base that can be extended. OpenACS is a toolkit to build applications. It is a given that there will be code written to customize it. I think this is the way to go. Leave methods to extend and add features available, but do not build in too much.


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Hey hey Hey...guess what? The old cripple killed a big ole long beard today!!
My best hunting bud called and asked if I was interested and able to take a ride. I have been walking some and rode a fair amount and feeling way better than I expected. He said we could go look at some fields to see if we could see any turkeys out. I said heck I'm taking a gun if we're doing that. As we rode by a farm I hunt on the land owner was just pulling out and I told Joe I wanted to stop and thank him for all his kindness, since I got hurt. Low and behold he told us to drive up into his pastures they were birds coming out. Soon as we got into the field there was a flock of poults and hens. Joe turned his Mt curr lose and they run from him and didn't get a good bust. He still took me to a log pile and let me out and I found a log to sit on. Those birds never called. Then we drove to the upper pasture and saw more birds, this time the dog got a bust, again Joe dumped me out and drove back out of sight and I found a seat and waited. Finally birds called and here came two young birds, but the old hen started calling and they left before I could get a shot. The we drove over a bank and saw two long beards in the field, but they spooked and we just went on. after that we went back to where we saw the first flock and I rolled down the window to hear gobbler yelps. Joe let me out by the same log and drove the truck out of sight. I called and they answered but would not come out into the field. Finally I whistled for Joe(I was getting tired). He drove up and I was telling him that the birds were just about 75 yards in front of me but wouldn't come. He suggested he take his dog, bear, and see if they could bust them, which usually is fruitless with old birds, and I said hey won't hurt. So I sit back on my log and Bear and Joe make a loop up into the woods. In a little bit I hear putting and wings beating and a bird sails down the hill and lands 125 yards in front of me. I sit tight and and cluck a few times and I think I hear the bird, then all of sudden here he is coming right towards me....I dropped him at 35 yards. It was weird we never moved the truck it was sitting right below me in plain sight and that ole bird never even acted like it bothered him. He weighed 20 pounds 5 ozs and about an 8 inch beard. How lucky can you get!!
Here is a picture of Joe and his turkey dog "Bear", I could not get across the fence, so they retrieved my bird for me.


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Alternate name: Mustang, Feral Horse
Family: Equidae, Horses view all from this family
Description A familiar animal to most, wild horses in North American are descended from domesticated horses. Large animals with long snout, mane, large, semi-circular, uncloven hooves and long tail. Western race larger than Assateague (East Coast) race found along Atlantic barrier islands.
Dimensions Height: 1.42-1.52 m; Wt: 270-390 kg
Breeding Gestation lasts for approximately 335-340 days and usually results in one foal. Twins are rare. Horses are a precocial species, and foals are capable of standing and running within a short time following birth.
Habitat Alpine & subalpine habitats, Beaches, shorelines & estuaries, Forests & woodlands, Grasslands & prairies, Meadows & fields, Scrub, shrub & brushlands, Swamps, marshes & bogs
Range Mid-Atlantic, Rocky Mountains, Southwest, California, Northwest
Discussion These feral populations are not true wild horses, as this term is used to describe horses that have never been domesticated, such as the endangered Przewalski's Horse, a separate subspecies, and the only remaining true wild horse.


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Carrie Fisher, who is best known for her role of Princess Leia in the original "Star Wars" trilogy, visited "The Talk" on Tuesday. Of course, cohost AishaTtyler couldn't pass up the opportunity to ask Carrie about "Star Wars" being acquired by Disney and the potential for her to return to the career-defining role in future sequels.
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Our favorite baby-faced crooner Justin Bieber turns 18 today and we're celebrating with the world's biggest celebrities. From George Clooney to Adele to Barack "President of the United States" Obama, we've gotten signed birthday photos from everyone you care about. Oh and that's not all. (But it never is with us, is it?) Every single celebrity pictured agreed to don Justin's signature hairdo for the sake of an absoultely awesome gallery.
So put on your "Baby, Baby, Baby" real loud because we're about to make you feel closer to Bieber than Selena Gomez. Think of this as our virtual promise ring to you.


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Fun & Safe Cycling in Toronto!
Check out this free workshop on Saturday, August 14th, that's being offered as part of the Newcomer Cycling Outreach Program. This workshop is just the thing for a newcomer to Toronto, or if you want to brush up on your cycling knowledge. Pass this message along to new (or even not-so-new!) Torontonians.
Date: Saturday, August 14, 2010
Time: 2 pm – 4 pm
Location: Lillian H. Smith Library – 239 College Street (east of Spadina Avenue)
Cost: FREE
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Comparison of 200 KN MR Damper Models for use in Real-time Hybrid Simulation
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Control devices can be used to dissipate the energy of a civil structure subjected to dynamic loading, such as an earthquake, thus reducing structural damage and preventing failure. The Magneto-Rheological (MR) fluid damper is a promising device for civil structures due to its mechanical simplicity, inherent stability, high dynamic range, large temperature operating range, robust performance, and low power requirements. The MR damper is intrinsically nonlinear and rate-dependent. As such a challenging aspect of applying this technology is the development of accurate models to describe their behavior for control design and evaluation purposes. In particular, a new type of experimental testing called real-time hybrid simulation (RTHS) requires a MR damper model that can exhibit stability and convergence at larger fixed integration time steps, provide computational efficiency and speed of calculation, and of course insure accuracy. Several models for MR dampers have been proposed, including the hyperbolic tangent, Bouc-Wen, and algebraic models. This paper examines the relative performance of these three MR damper models as used for RTHS in the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES).
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