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ChemistryTitrationsI found a bottle in the stockroom of my lab about a year ago. When I opened it, I knew from the burning smell that it was a bottle of nitric acid. However, I had absolutely no idea what the concentration of the acid was. Without knowing the concentration of the acid, it would be difficult to find a use for it. Fortunately, there's a way to solve this problem. As I remembered from way back in Chemical Equations, acid-base reactions occur when an acid and base combine by the following general equation:
The Mole SaysIn the lab, it's common to determine the point at which a solution has become neutralby using an indicator. When the indicator turns from the color for an acid to the colorfor a base, the titration has taken place. The use of indicators, however, does cause error because they don't change color at a pH of exactly 7.00. As a result, the point at which an indicator changes color in a titration is the "endpoint" (distinguishing it from the "equivalence point"). This sparked the following line of reasoning in my brain:
When the solution is perfectly neutral (called the "equivalence point"), the number of moles of acid that I started with will be equal to the number of moles of base that I added to make them neutral. As a result, we get the very handy equation: MaVa = MbVb for neutralization reactions at a pH of exactly 7.00. Titration is the process in which neutralization reactions are used to determine the concentration of either an acidic or basic solution. Here's how I did my experiment: You've Got ProblemsProblem 4: If it took 245 mL of 0.500 M HCl to neutralize 175 mL of a NaOH solution, what is the concentration of the NaOH solution? I placed 175 mL of nitric acid into a beaker and added 1.00 M NaOH solution to it. I found that the solution was completely neutral after I had added 365 mL of sodium hydroxide to the acid. Using the earlier equation, M1 = 175 mL, V1 is unknown, M2 = 1.00 M, V2 = 365 mL, we find that:
The nitric acid had a molarity of 2.09 M. Why anybody would make a solution with this molarity, I have no idea, but that's what it was! Excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to Chemistry © 2003 by Ian Guch. All rights reserved including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. Used by arrangement with Alpha Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. To order this book direct from the publisher, visit the Penguin USA website or call 1-800-253-6476. You can also purchase this book at Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble. |

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text: How to Shoot Better iPhone HDR Photosmatt buchanan9/08/10 4:00pmFiled to: Iphone 4Ios 4.1CamerasDigital CamerasHDRTopiPhoneiosAppleLifehacker2961EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink The iPhone 4's best new feature in iOS 4.1—besides not hanging up on people with your face—is its ability to capture HDR photos. But you've gotta use it correctly. To revisit, a high dynamic range photo combines multiple photos taken at different exposures to create a single picture that looks more like what your eyeballs are able to detect than a standard digital photograph. (Dynamic range is basically the range between the darkest and lightest parts of an image. Check out Ansel Adam's Zone System for more on this.) HDR photos solve two problems in the iPhone 4: Most digital cameras tend to not have fantastic dynamic range, and the iPhone 4 also lacks manual controls for adjusting exposure beyond tapping the area of the image you want to expose for. This can cause problems in bright outdoor scenes, forcing you to choose between blown out skies or shadowy figures (see above). With an HDR photo, theoretically you'll be able to capture and correctly expose the whole picture, just the way you saw it before you framed it with your iPhone. (Sadly, this is only available for the iPhone 4, not other iOS devices.) Freeze, suckerIn HDR mode, the iPhone 4 captures three exposures to combine into an HDR photo: underexposed, normal, and overexposed. Even though it's shooting those sequence of pictures pretty fast, it's not instant. So, if you move the phone, or if your subject is on the run, you're going to wind up with some mutant friends with three arms or whispy ghosts when the phone tries to mix all the photos together. As you can see in the picture above, taken while walking, we've got phantom cars, mutant trees and weird road markings.Focus, focus, focusHaving your subject in focus is key to making it look right when the iPhone 4 combines everything into a single image—in part, so it's easier for the software to do its job mixing all of the photos together without scrambling them into a fuzzy, weird mess. Is it an HDR-worthy photo?The key is to make sure you have a lot of dynamic range to capture in the first place. In other words, something with a decent range of light and dark areas. Photos that are relatively flat (like in low light), at best, show no improvement or at worst, suffer when you slap HDR on 'em. Given the iPhone 4's basic HDR capabilities, you'll get the best results with photos where you're trying to do basic things like properly expose somebody's face against a bright outdoor scene. A photo of planks on a boardwalk that's already properly exposed, not so much. (When it's not clear what it should do, the iPhone tends to lean toward an overexposed or washed out look. And with HDR in general, you definitely lose the iPhone's tendency toward pumped contrast and saturation, which I usually prefer.) Play AroundThe great thing about the iPhone 4's HDR feature is that it preserves the original photo along with the hopefully new-and-improved version, so it doesn't cost you anything to experiment. If you hate the result, just delete it.The iPhone 4's camera was already awesome. While its new HDR feature doesn't produce miracles, it does make our favorite phone camera even better, so it's hard to complain too much. Reply296 repliesLeave a reply


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The Grecian Highway is located south and slightly down-canyon from the group campsite. It is a 2 pitch route that climbs the lower slabby section to gain an exposed banana-clip shaped feature on the top half of the wall. The first pitch is a little dirty but dont let that deter you - the second pitch is worth every inch! This is a fantastic route, one of my favorites.Pitch 1: Start left of a huge pillar and follow bolts that Zig Zag back and forth across the face. Near a horizontal weekness (just under the summit pitch) work left to a belay station under the overhang. 175'
Pitch 2: Pull through the short but exposed roof on good holds (stellar climbing!). Follows enormous jugs on the left edge of a huge flake on the wall. 80'
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How is the Crawley family coping with Matthew's death? We'll find out when "Downton Abbey" returns to American TV screens on Sunday, Jan. 5 at 9 p.m. ET/PT. The show's fourth season, which already aired in the U.K., will pick up six months after the tragic event.
Also returning to screens after a holiday hiatus is "The Good Wife" (9 p.m. ET/PT on CBS) with "Goliath and David," which sees Alicia representing a band suing a TV show for copyright infringement. The case gets much more complicated when Will helps the opposing council by using her strengths and weaknesses against her.
"Revenge" (9 p.m. ET/PT on ABC) picks up shortly after Emily's shooting, when the newlywed wakes up in the hospital with amnesia and can't remember anything that happened.
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"The Simpsons" – "Steal This Episode" (8 p.m., FOX)
Homer becomes annoyed with movie theaters, so Bart teaches him how to download movies illegally. Homer is delighted with his discovery of free movies until he's caught for piracy. Judd Apatow, Leslie Mann, Paul Rudd, Seth Rogen, Channing Tatum, Will Arnett and Rob Halford all guest star.
"The Bachelor: Countdown to Juan Pablo" (8 p.m., ABC)
Before the new season officially begins, check out this special that will first take a behind-the-scenes look at the casting process before highlighting a day in the life of sexy former professional soccer player and dedicated father Juan Pablo Galavis on his home turf. We will also meet his devoted parents, loving siblings and cousins as they share stories from his childhood growing up in Venezuela.
"Family Guy" – "Peter Problems" (9 p.m., FOX)
When Peter finds he can't perform his, um, er, uh, manly duties, he enlists Quagmire and Joe to help him get his mojo back.
"The Mentalist" – "White Lines" (10 p.m., CBS)
The FBI is tasked with finding the killer of several DEA agents, and Jane goes on a date with a beautiful woman associated with the case.
"Betrayal" – "…the Karsten way." (10 p.m., ABC)
Jack's confession sends shockwaves through the McAllister and Karsten families. As Elaine, Valerie, Victor and TJ come to grips with a future of Jack being in prison, the truth about Lou Mrozek's murder finally becomes clear. Meanwhile, Sara is resolved to exonerate her lover and tries to find evidence to clear him by revisiting their past.


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There was a lot of excitement when the New York Times wrote about a small company promising to make focus errors a thing of the past. A camera that allowed you to focus after you take the picture. Its subject was Lytro, a startup promising to make its technology available in a consumer product on the market within a year. And, sure enough, here is the Lytro Light Field Camera.
Over the intervening months, we've talked to Lytro's Founder and CEO, Ren Ng, and attended a photo walk with the company's 'Light Field Camera' but it's only now, with the product about to hit stores, that we've had a chance to spend enough time shooting with it to really get to grips with what it can do.
Just to recap, the Light Field Camera (LFC) doesn't capture 'pictures' in the way your current camera does - it's capturing information about where the light is travelling. This information can then be turned into a picture or, more to the point, a series of pictures with different focus points.
It works by placing a microlens array in front of the sensor, which scatters the incoming light, based on the angle from which it approached. This information can be then used to calculate where the light would have ended up, had the camera been focused differently. What precisely that means for its output will become clear, but it's worth knowing that the additional information gained about the source of the light comes at the expense of image resolution.
As a result, it's best to step away from assumptions you might have based on traditional photography. Because the LFC is capturing different information about the light that hits it, it fares pretty poorly if you try to judge directly against the camera you already have. This isn't a conventional camera that somehow lets you set the focus after shooting. That can be done but to do so leaves you with a 1.2MP point-and-shoot camera. From our use, we'd say the camera is best understood by learning how its two shooting modes work.
The camera's default 'Everyday' mode is the one that attracted all the early publicity. It's a point-and-shoot mode where you don't have to think about focus when you take the photo. You can simply point the camera at your subject and press the shutter - the shot is taken almost instantly. The end result can be refocused from fairly close to the camera, out to infinity.
However, even in this simple mode, you're not magically freed from the other concerns of conventional photography - behind the scenes it's still having to set a shutter speed and ISO, so there are still the same risks of your subject moving too fast and appearing blurred in your images.
Creative mode is a recent addition to the camera that allows a little more control over the process. In this mode you can force the camera to refocus its lens closer than in Everyday mode, such that the zone over which the image can later be refocused is concentrated around your chosen point. This allows you to gain greater quality at the point you've selected but means you restrict the range over which the output can be refocused.
To a degree, these two modes give a hint at the two uses of the LFC - as a camera that allows simple snapping with the ability to correct focus, and a device that allows the creation of sharable objects that can be explored by the end-user. However, as we shall see, the story isn't quite that simple (and nor is getting the most out of the camera).
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Federal prosecutors say several addicts died soon after receiving shipments of illegal prescription drugs sent via FedEx.
The deaths were included in a new indictment filed late Thursday against FedEx that adds money laundering to a list of charges the company is facing over allegations it knowingly shipped illegal prescription drugs from two online pharmacies.
The Memphis, Tennessee-based shipping giant is not charged with any of the deaths.
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WASHINGTON -A small band of Christians is planning a rally in Washington, D.C., in a bid to make Good Friday a national holiday.
Organizer Sharon Jones, a New York-based missionary, recalled growing up observing the holiday in her native Britain.
She has scheduled a rally on the National Mall for today. She hopes thousands will attend and watch a film about Jesus during the midday event.
"Growing up in the U.K., I remember nothing was open," Jones said. "It was a true day to just look unto Jesus and to say, 'Thank God that we are saved by the blood.' Now, this is a perfect opportunity for an awareness of who Jesus is."
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The Department of Homeland Securitys new deportation policy is being tested in Denver.For the next six weeks, prosecutors will review all 7,800 cases in Denver Immigration Court, to determine which immigrants pose a threat or security risk and which ones do not.Its all about resources, said Julie Gonzales, director of organizing for the Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition. Do we blanket deport them all, or focus on those who are a threat to the community?The new policy, announced last month, will allow illegal immigrants facing deportation who have no criminal record and who meet certain criteria to be classified as low priority for immigration enforcement and have their cases closed.Its a small first step, said Judy Cardenas, whose husband, Raul, is facing deportation.Raul Cardenas told 7NEWS that he came to the U.S. 11 years ago to find work.He said he worked for eight years straight, until immigration authorities discovered that the Social Security number he was using didnt belong to him.Raul Cardenas admitted he got the number on the street simply to get a job and said he always paid his taxes.I turned myself in, in order to things right, he said. Since then, I havent been able to work.Judy Cardenas said even if prosecutors decide not to proceed with the case against her husband, the couple is still in limbo.Its almost as if he is wearing an ankle bracelet, she said. He has to stay inside the country. He cannot leave. And yet, hes not allowed to do anything. He cant get a work permit, but hes here and he has a family.Gonzales said prosecutors will look at positive and negative factors in deciding which cases to pursue.
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There's one thing K&N filters will get you, and that's airflow. This can get you those last couple ponies you need to catch your rival while streaking toward the finish line. Combined with the lifetime warranty (handled by going through K&N directly), you can expect to be set for the life of the bike. Fitlration lags behind OEM filters relative to the increase in airflow, so you'll want to make sure you keep an eye on your rings and cylinder walls along with your spark plug changes (something you should be doing anyway!). If you don't mind somewhat lower filtration in trade for greatly increased airflow, you're looking at a great option.
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U.S. Africa Command Debates TomDispatchPosted on Jul 26, 2012
By Nick Turse, TomDispatch This piece originally appeared at TomDispatch. Because of its unusual content and form, an explanation from TomDispatch editor Tom Engelhardt appears at the beginning. On July 12th, TomDispatch posted the latest piece in Nick Turse's "changing face of empire" series: "Obama's Scramble for Africa." It laid out in some detail the way in which the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) has, in recent years, spread its influence across that continent, establishing bases and outposts, sending in special operations forces and drones, funding proxy forces on the continent, and so on. As last week ended, TomDispatch received a "letter to the editor" from Colonel Tom Davis, director of the U.S. Africa Command Office of Public Affairs, disputing in some detail a number of Turse's points. (Colonel Davis also sent a copy of the letter to the Nation Institute, which supports this website.) As readers know, it's quite possible to write this editor. I read everything that arrives at TomDispatch with appreciation and answer when I can. There is, however, no "comments" section, nor a place for letters to the editor at TD. In this case, however, I found the obvious time and effort AFRICOM took to respond to the Turse piece of interest and so, today, we're posting Colonel Davis's full letter, and a response from Turse. After all, whatever highlights the changing U.S. military position in Africa, about which Americans know remarkably little, seems well worth the time and space. Two things remain to be said: first, beneath the detailed critique and response that follows lies an obvious difference of opinion that seems worth highlighting. Like a number of other TomDispatch writers, I believe that the U.S. military should not be responsible for Planet Earth; that it is not in our interest for the Pentagon to be dividing the globe, like a giant pie, into six "slices" covering almost every inch of the planet: U.S. European Command, or EUCOM (for Europe and Russia), the U.S. Pacific Command, or PACOM (Asia), CENTCOM (the Greater Middle East and a touch of North Africa), NORTHCOM (North America), SOUTHCOM (South America and most of the Caribbean), and AFRICOM (almost all of Africa). Nor should the U.S. military be garrisoning the planet in the historically unprecedented way it does. This imperial role of ours has little or nothing to do with "defense" and creates many possibilities for future blowback. Instead, it seems far more sensible to begin to shut down or cut back radically on our vast array of global bases and outposts (rather than, as in Africa, expanding them), and downsize our global mission in a major way. AFRICOM would obviously disagree, as would the Pentagon and the Obama administration, and the results of that basic disagreement about the role of the U.S. military in the world can be seen in what follows. Second, one of Colonel Davis's criticisms below is of a passage in my introduction to Turse's piece. "[O]nly the other day," I wrote, "it was revealed that three U.S. Army commandos in a Toyota Land Cruiser had skidded off a bridge in Mali in April. They died, all three, along with three women identified as 'Moroccan prostitutes.'" The Colonel questions the accuracy of that word "revealed," since his command had issued a brief press release on April 20th stating: "Three U.S. military members and three civilians died in a vehicle accident in Bamako, Mali today." Advertisement Square, Site wide FROM: Colonel Tom Davis Director, U.S. Africa Command Office of Public Affairs Kelley Barracks, Stuttgart, Germany TO: Mr. Tom Engelhardt, Editor Dear Mr. Engelhardt, We read the recent article "Secret Wars, Secret Bases, and the Pentagon's 'New Spice Route' in Africa" with great interest. It is clear the author, Nick Turse, conducted a great deal of research, including reaching out to us, and we welcomed the opportunity to highlight U.S. Africa Command's mission and activities. However, there were several inaccuracies and misrepresentations that we would like to address. My hope is that you, through your publication, will correct the record. As a thought provoking, responsible, and professional journalist, I know that you would want to ensure all reporting was based on facts, not innuendos or misperceptions. Below are the items U.S. Africa Command would like to address: "They call it the New Spice Route": This was a term used informally by a few of our logistics specialists to describe the intra-theater transportation system, primarily land shipments from Djibouti, which provides logistical support for U.S. military activities in Africa. The network is officially called the AFRICOM Surface Distribution Network. However, to call it a "superpower's superhighway" is very misleading. The U.S. military cargo transported along these different transportation nodes represents only a mere fraction—i.e., a handful of trucks per week intermixed among the thousands of others— of the total amount of fuel, food, and equipment transported along these routes each day. "Fast-growing U.S. military presence in Africa": While the size of the U.S. military footprint in Africa has increased since the creation of U.S. Africa Command in October 2008, to call it "fast-growing" is an exaggeration. At the end of October 2008, there were about 2,600 U.S. military personnel and Department of Defense civilians on the African continent or on ships within the command's area of responsibility. The number today is about 5,000, more than half of which represents the service members who serve tours at Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti, with the remainder serving on a temporary basis ranging from a few days to a few weeks. Much of this change is attributable to an increase in the number of exercises and military-to-military engagement programs in order to better enable African nations and regional organizations to strengthen their defense capabilities. On a much smaller scale, it also reflects a modest increase in the staff sizes of DOD offices resident in U.S. embassies, which average just a small number of staff members. But even 5,000 personnel—about the military population of a small Air Force Base in the U.S.—spread across an area that covers 54 countries and major portions of two oceans can hardly be called a "scramble for Africa." In our view, this is very positive, and testament to our desire to be a security partner of choice in Africa. It reflects an increase in military assistance engagement activities—all of which are requested and approved by the host nation. While we work to advance the security interests of the U.S., we are together addressing what are clearly shared security interests. New and Improved CommentsIf you have trouble leaving a comment, review this help page. Still having problems? Let us know. If you find yourself moderated, take a moment to review our comment policy. Join the conversation
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but, with a gound loop issue....between the two grounds (1) at the headunit, and (2) the amp- you can have a volt or two difference , evidently you misunderstood what I'm saying... I do know well enough about this...
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Metal can't get any more cold blooded than in Sweden, where you'll find brain-freezing, below zero temperatures and snow drifts taller than concert halls. Despite having the most frostbitten, blackened and disfigured hands in the metal world, the Swedes rip apart metal like nobody else. As brutal as a ceaseless blizzard and with growls more bone-chilling than falling below ice, Swedish death metal will always breathe fire into the hearts of metal fans worldwide. Keep reading for the ten best Swedish metal bands.
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10. Arch Enemy With vocal chords boiled in a cauldron, Angela Gossow is one of the few females in metal that puts growling vocals at the front of her arsenal. Walled along with the Amott brothers, a tight-knit duo shredding their own private language of leads, solos and melodies, Arch Enemy could knock the head off of any headbanger all the way from the swells of Sweden.
9. Entombed Not only did Entombed crawl out and lead the way for Scandinavian death metal in the late '80s, the act's sound also evolved, adding body parts of garage rock and hardcore punk, which eventually Frankensteined into something called Death 'n' Roll. The band's first two albums Left Hand Path and Clandestine features a unique sound similar to cutting up bodies with a chainsaw, but without snagging on bones -- BrrrBBRRrrrbbZzzdrrdZzzbrddZZdrrbZzzz.
8. Amon Amarth Longtime conquerors of metal music, sailing the ocean blue with lyrics that are armor thick with Norse mythology, old worlds, Vikings, bloody battles and epic journeys, Amon Amarth can still knock out its enemies with double bladed battle axes of exploratory fingering and alcohol corroded vocals fit for a king. If old world warriors had MP3 players and ear buds, they would have easily been pumped up charging into battle with the massive hull that is Amon Amarth crashing in their ears.
7. Dark Tranquility Dark Tranquility is one of the many quality melodic death metal bands birthed from the Gothenburg metal scene. Unlike many bands in this genre, this is one of the few bands that can boast a mostly stable line up, and rather than melting into the past, Dark Tranquility has forged ahead fearlessly with sound that continues to progress.
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After months of phone calls, loan modifications and discussions with borrowers, one finally receives the dreaded bankruptcy notice in the mail. A chapter 7, no-asset case, with the loan listed on the bankruptcy schedules as a secured claim. After a few short months, one is notified that the debtors have received their discharge in the bankruptcy case. Since the bank hasn't been paid in months, one discusses internally and decides to initiate foreclosure proceedings. The debtors, faced with imminent foreclosure, ask whether they can sign a new agreement agreeing to repay their outstanding debt, in exchange for the bank's agreement to withhold on foreclosure proceedings. Sound familiar? Probably. Whether it's a refinance, a loan modification or simply a new promissory note, situations similar to the one described above play out as banks attempt to walk the thin line between protecting their interests and maintaining workable arrangements with borrowers still struggling with the after-shocks of the Great Recession. However, banks need to be aware of the risks of entering these agreements – and of the potential unwanted consequences that could arise. As many in the banking industry already know, a debtor and creditor can enter into an agreement in which the debtor agrees to reaffirm a debt that otherwise would be discharged through the debtor's bankruptcy case. These agreements, called reaffirmation agreements, are only valid and binding if made in strict compliance with the provisions of Section 524(c) of the Bankruptcy Code. The Code requires, among other things, the following:
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Boston Red Sox - David Ortiz
An Achilles injury led to Boston's DH playing just one game after July 16 last season. But before that, Ortiz, now 37, was having a monster season. In 90 games, he batted .318 with 23 HRs and 60 RBIs (despite his apparent disdain for then-manager Bobby Valentine). Ortiz hasn't done much this spring as his heels continue to heal. He doesn't need too much movement to serve his role in the middle of the lineup, but if he's held out for an extended period, it would sap a considerable source of pop from the Red Sox lineup.
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Oldenburg mare 2 Attachment(s) Hi all, I have been offered this Oldenburg mare, 7 years old. Would like some opinions on her (conformation and otherwise). She has a head bobbing issue, and has been a handful while she was moved around from home to home, but otherwise sounds like a dream horse. She trots/canters near the end of the video, if you want to fast-forward. Thanks for taking a moment to look! |
She looks like a training project that would need quite a bit of work, but if you feel like taking that on I don't see any obvious conformation issues to hinder her from basic all around stuff. What would your plans be for her? Do you have training experience or work with a trainer? I only watched part of the video, but the horse seemed confused and the person handling her did not seem to have much experience, so not much to base an evaluation on. What is causing the head bobbing problem? That. Can be training, but often is a sign of discomfort or pain. |
I do have a great trainer, who boards at my barn. She is also going to weigh in after speaking with some people who have worked with this horse. |
First of all, she's Sexy As Hell and I like her mind when working with this person. I do NOT like how her back toes are dragging. I'm not sure if there's an issue higher up, as in the lumbar/sacral blah blah-blah, or if my eyes are catching something with the right hind, in particular. That said, many horses go through life imperfect but completely fine for the activities the rider is asking of them, even better with the increase of management products. As a rec mount, I definately like her! Posted via Mobile Device |
What do you mean by head bobbing? Can you give a time in the clip where she clearly does it? |
Head bob = lameness Head toss = attitude Clearly tossing in this instance, unrelated to gait. I'm assuming her dental is up to date and the bit is one she likes. She's certainly light in the mouth. History on this mare..? I get the sense she's used to clear, concisive work, rather than the aimless distracted nonsense in this vid. I think she's looking for the plan and actually likes to work. I see strong dressage values to her way of going around. Jmo. Posted via Mobile Device |
Horse doesn't have an issue.. the people handling her do! Good lord.. get on her, ask her to move.. and WORK. Same with the "lunging.." Nice horse.. pick up contact, sit up straight, drive her forward with your legs and ASK for something. She is being far more patient with all this than some I have trained!!! Horses deserve a lot of credit for allowing us to get on their backs and be so indecisive.. or work them from the ground the same way! |
Don't know if that is you handling her or not but if it is....definitely a pass. She needs a lot of work and she bucks. This handler is not ready for that. She's not made to lolly gag around which is what this amounts to. |
The rider does not ask this horse to work. She throws her arms into the equation.. throws the horse into the canter and then is unable to sit up straight and keep a leg solidly on her to push her forward and into the bit. She bangs the horse in the mouth or keeps the reins too loose. The rider's leg is too short to effectively give this large horse aids. The HORSE is really nice. |
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Will NATO Intervene in Syria?
Turkey and Syria exchanged mortar and artillery fire last week. The dispute need not involve United States, yet NATO membership risks dragging America into yet another unnecessary war, this time in the guise of defending its Turkish allies.
Last week, several errant Syrian mortar shells fell in the Turkish border town of Akcakale, killing five residents. (Some Turks blamed the opposition Free Syrian Army, which may want to provoke Ankara into joining the conflict.) The Erdogan government responded to what it termed "this abominable attack" with artillery strikes in Syria. The Turkish parliament authorized cross-border military operations. The two nations' militaries exchanged mortar fire for the next two days.
Nadim Shehadi of the London-based Chatham House suggested that "Turkey is using this to tell NATO, 'Wake up, we are a member and we are being aggressed.'" The organization held an emergency meeting and criticized Syria's "flagrant breach of international law and a clear and present danger to the security of one of its allies" and promised to "stand by Turkey." A Pentagon spokesman denounced "the depraved behavior of the Syrian regime."
Tensions similarly rose last June when the Syrian military downed a Turkish reconnaissance plane. The circumstances were unclear. Damascus said the aircraft was hit in Syrian airspace; Ankara admitted that the plane had mistakenly entered Syrian territory but claimed the jet was in international airspace when shot down.
Ankara pushed for stronger allied action then. The Erdogan government requested that NATO develop contingency plans to establish a no-fly zone to "protect" Turkish territory. Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc advocated that NATO invoke Article 5 and treat the incident as an attack on all members. However, while the alliance criticized Syria, members made clear that they did not want a military conflict. For good reason.
Depraved the Syrian regime and its behavior are, but that's no cause for war. There are many awful governments around the world. Nor, as the Bush administration found in Iraq, is it possible to ensure that good follows evil in war irrespective of Washington's intentions. Americans are best served by remaining at peace, not joining someone else's civil war. And while Turkey is technically in the right this time, Ankara's claims of innocence ring hollow. For instance, the downed reconnaissance plane may have been on an official surveillance mission.
Moreover, while the Syrian conflict is "spilling over" the border, the Erdogan government, once allied with Syria, has invited the war into his nation. Ankara is hosting Syrian opposition activists, allowing the Syrian Free Army to operate, perhaps training SFA soldiers and likely serving as a conduit for weapons to regime opponents. Turkey also is urging UN creation of "safe zones" within Syria for the opposition to operate militarily against the Damascus government.
In short, Turkey has initiated a low-grade war with Syria. And Damascus has noticed. Information Minister Omran al-Zo'aby complained that the two nations' border "is being used for smuggling weapons and terrorists." The Turkish government has knowingly turned its people into targets. If Ankara wants to do so, it should do so at its own risk. And Turkey is capable of defending itself, says its government; "Turkey is a country which is capable of protecting its people and borders," said Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
So it is. Even before fighting erupted in Syria early last year, Turkey's military was much larger and more capable than that of its neighbor. Since then Syria's military has been in almost constant action, with its most elite (typically the most trustworthy) units used the most. There would still be hard fighting in any conflict, but Damascus surely recognizes that it almost certainly would lose.
The fact that Ankara's greatest security threat is posed by a civil war next door (along with the long-standing Kurdish insurgency) demonstrates NATO's lack of modern relevance. Washington's security guarantee served a purpose during the Cold War, when Turkey faced a potentially hostile Soviet Union. With that threat removed there is no plausible justification for the U.S. promising to defend Turkey. Indeed, Washington long was embarrassed by Ankara's brutal anti-Kurdish operations, which relied on U.S.-supplied weapons. At least that campaign did not threaten to drag America into an unnecessary conflict.
Even though the Turkish people appear to oppose war with Syria, Prime Minister Erdogan declared that the two nations are "not far" from war. His government might decide that the public could be carried along in a burst of patriotism. Ankara also might consider provoking an incident in an attempt to force events and invocation of Article 5. Or war could be sparked by another incident, even if unintentional. A seemingly minor spark lit the fuse for World War I. In any case, having routinely intervened all over the world where few important U.S. interests were at stake, Washington could not easily remain aloof from a violent challenge to such a long-standing ally.
The original NATO was directed against a common outside threat, the USSR. The importance of confronting such a large, existential danger caused Washington to take on its allies' burdens. Indeed, the United States was even willing to back its friends when both sides' interests were not perfectly aligned. But none of the original circumstances survive today. There's certainly no reason to backstop Turkey if it decides to forcibly oust Assad.


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Plus: The world's scariest flea, Batman: The Musical, and other weird news of the week!
-Lucia Peters and PJ Gach
Happy March, everyone! We're getting closer and closer to spring, thank goodness. It's been a busy week over here at Geek Girl, with lots of weird and interesting news from all over; but rather than inundate you with all of them, we've picked out our five favorites for you. Enjoy!
Go Behind the Scenes With Zachary Quinto and Benedict Cumberbatch in Star Trek 2!
Well, this is exciting: Following the appearance of the first on-set photo of the currently in production Star Trek 2 comes the first behind-the-scenes video! Trekkies of the world, rejoice! Check it out above!
Okay, so whoever is doing the voiceover probably needs to be taken out back and gagged (is it just me, or is he incredibly annoying?), but if you can ignore him for a few minutes, you're in for a treat. The video takes a look at the fight between Spock as played by Zachary Quinto and an as-yet-unnamed character played by British actor Benedict Cumberbatch. Benedict in particular has been getting a lot of terrific exposure lately; after he burst onto the scene in the BBC's excellent Sherlock, he's landed plum roles in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (alongside Gary Oldman, no less), The Hobbit (he'll be voicing and doing the motion capture for Smaug the dragon), and now this. We don't know much about his character yet, but given that he's beating the life out of good guy Spock here, we can pretty safely assume he's a bad guy. Also, as annoying as the voiceover guy is, he does correctly point out that whoever Benedict is playing has got to be pretty strong—Vulcans are known for being roughly three times as strong as your average human, but he seems to be giving Spock a run for his pointy-eared money.
Like the 2009 Trek film, Star Trek 2 is being directed by J. J. Abrams and stars (in addition to Zachary and Benedict) Chris Pine, Karl Urban, Zoe Saldana, Anton Yelchin, John Cho, and Simon Pegg. Doctor Who favorite Noel Clarke will also make an appearance, although all we know about him thus far is that he's a "family man with a wife and young daughter." Live long and prosper!
Giant Fleas Will Make You Glad You Didn't Live in the Jurassic Era
No one really likes fleas. Well, with the exception of entomologists, no one really likes fleas. They're tiny little bloodsuckers that annoy your pet and you. Could you imagine a flea that was so big that it cast a shadow when it dive -bombed an animal? Sounds like something out of a bad sci-fi movie, right? Wrong!
It turns out that back in the Jurassic Era, there were giant fleas. These bad boys (and girls) were 20.6 millimeters (0.81in) long, while males grew to 14.7 millimeters (0.58in) in length. That's big! According to the Telegraph, several fossils of them were found on a dig in China. I don't know what's scarier, the size of them or the fact that they're fossils of them.
The scientists, led by Dr Andre Nel from the Museum of Natural History in Paris found two groups of fossils in Ningcheng County, Inner Mongolia and in the Liaoning Province. The fleas found in Mongolia date back to the Middle Jurassic period (about 165 million years ago), while the Liaoning fossils date back to the Lower Cretaceous period (about 40 million years younger). Even though the fleas are from different eras, they're remarkably similar. Neither has the back jumping legs that are part of the modern flea's makeup. They also both have a siphonate mouth part that would pierce the skin of dinosaurs, enabling them to eat, as the other animals of the period were about the same size.
According to Dr. Nel, "The early mammals were small animals, making the large size of these Mesozoic species and the robustness of their mouthparts seem mismatched.
"It is… possible that the hosts of these early fleas were among the feathered dinosaurs of the period that became well known from the same deposits."
All we can say is that we're thrilled that they evolved into the teeny, weeny monsters we know today. We can't imagine the amount of insecticide (or would you use a sword) to get rid of them.
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Holy Musical, Batman!
Spider-Man had better watch his back, because he isn't the only superhero in town with a musical anymore. Who's about to rise to the webslinger's theatrical challenge? Batman, of course!
That's right: The Caped Crusader (or the Dark Knight, depending on how recent you want to be with your Batman nicknames) will soon be taking the stage on by storm. Even better, it's being created by the wondrous, glorious collective that brought us A Very Potter Musical, which, besides being laugh-out-loud hilarious, introduced the world to future Glee star Darren Criss.
Holy Musical B@man! (see what they did there?) tells the tale of a young billionaire who, after witnessing the murder of his parents, "makes a solemn vow to fress up like a bat and wage a one man war on crime!"—at least, according to the show's synopsis on its YouTube page. The synopsis continues, "But when this solitary savior realizes that 'one' is the loneliest number to wage a war with, he'll set off on a musical adventure to rescue the city from the greatest super-villain of all time and find a super friend." Sounds marvelous! The show is written and directed by Matt Lang and Nick Lang, with music and lyrics by Nick Gage and additional music by Scott Lamps.
Do you live in Chicago? Then lucky you, you'll get a chance to see it live! It will perform at the Hoover-Leppen Theatre in the Center on Halsted (3656 North Halsted, which I assume means something to you people who live in Chicago) and will run from March 22 – 25 with previews March 16 – 18. Tickets, by the way, are FREE; go here to enter the online ticket lottery. The rest of us will have to make due with the YouTube release, which is planned for April.
Watch the trailer here!
Do NOT Tell This Planet That It's Retaining Water
Okay, I know the headline for this piece is really corny, but the story is actually fascinating. Space.com reports that a super Earth (they're exosolar planets that have a mass higher than Earth's) has been found in the constellation Ophiuchus (the Serpent Bearer). That's about 40 light years from us.
The planet, known as GJ 1214b, was discovered back in 2009. The Hubble telescope has been studying it and its findings show that this planet is not like any other planet ever found. Zachory Berta, of the Harvard- Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts said in a statement, "GJ 1214b is like no planet we know of…A huge fraction of its mass is made up of water."
GJ1214b is 2.7 times bigger than Earth. The surface temp is 446 degrees Fahrenheit.
The high temperatures and high pressures would form exotic materials like 'hot ice' or 'superfluid water,' substances that are completely alien to our everyday experience," Berta said.
If anything at all lives on this super earth, it's got to be microscopic. At least we think so…
Spring-Heeled Jack Is Alive and Well and Attacking People in Banstead
Are you familiar with the story of Spring-Heeled Jack? Once upon a time, he was some kind of wacky monster-demon-devil-creature-thing who terrorized people in England during the Victorian era—and yes, he was so named for his tendency to attack via jumping. He seems to have gone into at least partial retirement after the end of the 19th century though; with the exception of one random sighting at the Welsh border in 1986, he hasn't been seen since about 1904.
Until now. According to Your Local Guardian, a family in Banstead, UK believe that they were attacked by Spring-heeled Jack just a few weeks ago. Here's how it happened, as reported by husband and father Scott Martin:
"We were driving down the Ewell bypass and saw a man on the other side of the road. We didn't pay much attention until he started crossing over to our side of the road, the next thing he jumped over the centre fencing in the road and ran across our two lanes. On the side of our road is a bank easily 15ft in height and this figure crossed our road, climbed this bank and was gone from sight all in about two seconds. All four of us were baffled and voiced our sighting straight away with the same detail. A dark figure with no real features, but fast in movement with an ease of hurdling obstacles I've never seen. My last image was of him going through the bushes at the top of the bank. I'm not usually one to be freaked by these sightings but the cab driver was petrified. He didn't want to drive back alone. I am honestly baffled by this sighting and we are intrigued by it because it was so real but so strange."
Eek! There's probably a reasonable explanation for the incident, but I repeat: Eek! The last thing you want to encounter when you're on your way home late at night is Spring-Heeled Jack. He's kind of like the precursor to Slender Man. Not a dude you want to be caught alone with. But hey, at least the Martins made it home unscathed!
What do you think? Is Spring-Heeled Jack on the loose again? Or is there something else going on here?
Have a wonderful week!
Lucia Peters is BettyConfidential's associate editor.
PJ Gach is Senior Editor: Style + Beauty at BettyConfidential.


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A long haired, dark eyed beauty with amazing cheek bones is talking to herself, contemplating her situation in a completely alienating situation. A higher power has her positioned to influence our hero of the future. Sound familiar? That hero could be: a starship commander (Star Trek's pilot episode, "The Cage"), a replicant hunter (Blade Runner), or a psychologist sent to an almost deserted space station, orbiting a distant planet (Solaris).
In each scenario, the female character becomes further and further removed from the simple description of "woman." In "The Cage," the female is Vina, an orphaned girl, horribly mutilated as a result of a spaceship crash that leaves her the sole human on a planet of highly advanced aliens. The aliens are, thanks to their highly evolved minds, able to make her appear beautiful to visiting humans. They use her as bait to capture unsuspecting human visitors to become specimens for their cages. At the time—1960s TV-land—this was pretty far out, but now it's just a quaint stereotype of superior aliens wanting to subjugate humanity.
In scenario two, Blade Runner, our beauty is named Rachael (Sean Young) a replicant—basically a sophisticated robot—with implanted memories. Our hero is Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), and Rachael's boss/creator uses her to test his crucial blade-running ability to spot replicants who are passing themselves off as humans. Rachael's implanted memories make her think that she's a real woman. Despite—or because of—everything, Deckard falls in love with Rachael, as does the starship commander with the orphan in "The Cage."
In many ways, Solaris pays homage to Blade Runner, and would not have been possible without its inspiration. The key visual clue is the continuous heavy rainfall that occurs throughout Blade Runner, which has its correspondence in the heavy rainfall that Chris encounters in Solaris every time he heads outdoors on earth.
But from the get-go, it's apparent that Solaris has upped the ante on both "The Cage" and Blade Runner. The same general plot patterns prevail, but Rheya, our female, is yet one step further removed from the normal categorization of human woman—and our hero is even more engrossed in his mysterious counterpart. This is in many ways the ultimate film noir.
As noted, psychologist Chris Kelvin (George Clooney) is summoned to rescue the survivors of a space station orbiting the distant planet Solaris. To his horror, Chris's immediate welcoming committee consists of several occupied body bags. While he does eventually locate the two remaining crew members (Snow and Gordon), they are anything but helpful. Their sole contribution is to warn him about the "companions." The source of these "companions" is the planet Solaris, but what instigates the generation or creation of these amazing entities is never spelled out. We only know that they are the product of a human's memories. Chris's own memory-generated Companion turns out to be his dead wife, Rheya (Natascha McElhone).
This is where it gets real interesting. For, although Rheya has borrowed memories like Rachael, Rheya recognizes that they're not her memories! (Solaris might also be called Memento II.) The tip-off is that the Rheya-companion knows that she hasn't experienced these memories. The all-important leap that Solaris makes beyond Blade Runner is the acknowledgement that memories—the kind that you build your self-identity with—are not portable. You can't just upload them like software from host to host. They must be experienced in a living, breathing human body or they aren't meaningful. Otherwise they are only facts or statistics.
Another fascinating aspect of all this is that the Rheya-companion's memories are created solely from Chris's memory. As Solaris progresses, Chris begins to doubt the factuality of his memories of Rheya. But since the Rheya-companion is based on his memory, this becomes yet one more factor distancing the Rheya-companion from the real Rheya. All this confusion doesn't, however, prevent Chris from falling madly in love with his Companion.
So does Chris love his memory of Rheya or the real Rheya? More significantly, what is the difference between these two kinds of love?
The lovers escape at the end of all three stories. In "The Cage," their haven is the mind-mirage world of the aliens. in Blade Runner Deckard and Rachael just flee from the horror-show city that was their home in an essentially conventional, let's-get-out-of-here deal. "The Cage" provides the lovers with an artificial, mirage world. In Solaris Chris and Rheya (?) plummet together towards the planet Solaris. The reason for the (?) is that this can't be the Rheya-companion because she/it was destroyed by Gordon using a photon-phase-whatever-blaster, and because of Chris's latest I-didn't-really-cut-my-finger memory.
The key to understanding the identity of the latest Rheya is two lines from a Dylan Thomas poem that Chris and Rheya-companion keep referring to:
"Though lovers be lost love shall not.
And death shall have no dominion."
In context, the application of these lines is that Chris and Rheya's love will live on forever, even after their death. So maybe that's the real Rheya going down with Chris!
The meaning of death also plays a prominent role in Blade Runner. It's worth considering the contrast between the Chris-Rheya death scene and that of the final replicant, Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer) in Blade Runner. Chris and Rheya plummet down to Solaris, merging together as one into a greater one (Solaris). Conversely, Roy Batty's expiring spirit is transferred metaphorically into a dove that flies up into the heavens. So down is a melting pot and up is a solo flight, but death in both cases remains an enigma.