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calcium chloride in a phosphate buffer - how to avoid calcium phosphate precipitates (Sep/26/2008 )
so this is my first post in my first forum - I guess my question is kind of important to me ;-)
I want to do a Calcium Imaging experiment - first following a group's described method step by step. They use a sodium phosphate buffer. For a pH of 7.25 they want me to mix 8 mM of the monobase and 2 mM of the dibase sodium phosphate. This adds up to a 10 mM phosphate solution of the desired pH. According to a source from our beloved internet it is possible to dissolve up to 0,3 mM Calcium chloride in that solution. Unfortunately the paper says: 1,5 mM!!! Theory and practice go hand in hand as I can't avoid having the precipitates. I tried warming, coming from different pH and I changed the order of putting the solutions together.
What am I doing wrong?
- The group published two papers (Neuroscience and Cell Calcium) and in both the recipe of the buffer is identical. So I assume they didn't do a mistake in writing it down.
- The first author is not to be found anywhere on the internet and I don't want to annoy the professor with a buffer question.
- Other groups use HEPES buffer instead. So did I - and couldn't reproduce the groups' results. So I want to try it with phosphate buffer.
- One option would be to go down with the phosphate concentration to a total 2 mM. Then 1,5 mM Calcium chloride should be possible to solve. But what about the buffer capacity? I assume it would be too weak then, wouldn't it?
I'm excited to listen to your comments,
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calcium ions and phosphate tend to precipitate; you have to calculate the amount of free calcium ions in a Pi-buffer with an appropriate program f.i. Eqcal; temp, pH and other ions are also relevant
You could try dissolving the calcium in half the volume (at 2x concentration), the phosphate in the other half (also at 2x), and mixing. Local concentrations of calcium will be much higher if you add a concentrated solution to an existing phosphate buffer. This still may not (likely will not) solve your problem. I like the HEPES approach. Perhaps the paper is wrong, or they ignored the precipitate.
I agree with phage 434 suggestion. the immediate local concentration of ca ion upon addition of the stock solution will cause precipitation.
Aside from Phage434's suggestion, might the paper have used a chelator to bind to the calcium? Something like EDTA will keep the Ca ions soluble by chelating ion, preventing it form actually binding to the phosphate ion and precipitating.

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Am I Pregnant?
The twins say no. My husband says no but….I think I must be!
Am I cranky, moody and having cravings? Yes! But that's normal.
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Because I keep receiving baby diapers, baby formula and numerous certificates, coupons and discounts on baby items in the mail.
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So many people underestimate it, but one thing I know from experience is just how painful asthma can actually be, be that due to strained muscles, sore and stiff airways or just because of the medication. Sometimes it can be so bad that it does get distressing and I do start to feel miserable and down, but when you're in that state, you start to just care about making it stop and getting some rest. The worst pain I get from my asthma is this horrible pleuritic pain which comes about when my asthma has been exceptionally evil and has irritated the inside of my chest. At its worst, it has made me cry and beg for it to be over because honestly, you can't actually do anything when it is that bad.
It has gotten to the point a few times that I have considered some pretty drastic measures just so it went away, including trying to end my own life. After that I felt even worse because I stopped and thought about all the people who would be hurt if I did such a selfish thing. I then promised myself that I would stick it out and raise my hand to people who can actually help me. I then decided that we need some answers because over a year of chronic infection and severe attacks which have been vicious at times. It kind of got to me that the GP was offering little answers and was just trying to shrug it off and ignore it. So we tried another route.
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Basically we are still trying to find out what this thing is, we may never find that out and there is a chance that I could have developed a small abscess in my right lung, air doesn't get down to the bottom anymore and things could get even trickier over the next few months. Does that scare me? Yes. Of course it does. I am scared that this could mean a drastic line of treatment and I am scared that something could happen. It's alright to feel scared in that situation and I know that no matter what happens, I have those I love most ready to back me up, keep me supported and make sure that I get well. The most important thing to me has been my support network and its the one thing that I have come to rely on.
It's having those friends and loved ones around that help during the worst days. Days when even getting up and walking from the bed to the toilet and back can exhaust me, or days when I go from perfectly alright one moment to being rushed in to hospital the next. It helps when you don't feel alone and my friends help me push harder when I haven't had an answer. But there is one person who makes me feel the best and when he's here, I feel like nothing can hurt me ever and I feel so loved and that is Jace. We've been together for some time and when he's here, I love it. We have loads of fun, snuggle up and watch films or even just play on the X-Box or something. This has been a different relationship to what I am used to, but it is absolutely wonderful. I feel like I have found my soul mate and when I am in pain or scared, I think of him and it gets me through it.
One day I will be able to say that the pain and constant infection is gone. Of this I am sure and it is what I aim to fight for and that is what will keep me going even on the bad days. I never let anything beat me before and there is no way in hell that I will ever let that happen.
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One of my favorite download/web/technology blogs, Download Squad, has written about LinkBunch. Thanks, DS!
Download Squad also mentioned that a bookmarklet to create a bunch from open tabs would be nice. While a bookmarklet wouldn't be possible due to security issues, an extension is certainly possible.
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From what I can work out, the stroke of a Flash is 84mm which you divide by 180 (degrees). This give a figure of 0.47mm (to two decimal places). This means that for every 0.47mm the piston is moved, it is equal to 1 degree (BTDC in this instance). As I need 32 degrees BTDC, 32 x 0.47 = 15.04mm, so I just move it back until this figure is reached and that should be 32 degrees BTDC. If this is so, then no need for a timing disc attachment.
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The Elo tournament of July will start very soon, with Sum Sam, Shawoman & DJ Korr for the winner (and many other prizes, see the ELo rankings for more information). We decided to ban Kiki, Dj Korr and General from the cards allowed in ELO. We hope this will lead to more creativity in the deck design.
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So. We have a reading list. Or rather – a suggested reading list. Kind of.
If you're new to these parts – we have Interns. Every three months we take on 6-8 new photography interns. We also hold a photography business/marketing workshop for them. See.
In that workshop we tell them everything we've learned and everything we know (that's about 5 minutes of the whole thing, the rest of the time we just watch Empire Records.) So here are some books and some reasons why you should read them. Or at least take pictures with them to make it look like you've read them.
Making Ideas Happen
More important than anything else – we have ideas. About business, marketing, and even a few about photography. The biggest problem we face is focusing (just kidding, we shoot Nikon so we don't have that problem) – and actually executing those ideas to finish. We had to stop jumping from project to project, leaving each one before they'd ever get completed. (Well – I'll admit that this was mostly my problem and not Leah's.) So… I still have this problem, but I'm sure that if I followed more of the stuff in this book… I'd have less of this problem 🙂
So… some of the criticism about this book is that it's not exactly realistic. It kind of suggest that you operate in some alternate reality that's different from the real world. That's exactly why I like it. In case you haven't noticed – we're very much not interested in the real world at all. Considering that in the last two years (while everyone is/was looking for jobs) Leah and I started our own photography business, we now travel all over the United States photographing weddings, and we have an Intern Army – reality is a fun thing that we like to mess with.
One of our favorite points:
Ignore the real world. "That would never work in the real world." You hear it all the time when you tell people about a fresh idea. This real world sounds like an awfully depressing place to live. It's a place where new ideas, unfamiliar approaches, and foreign concepts ALWAYS lose. The only things that win are what people already know and do, even if those things are flawed and inefficient.
The real world isn't a place, it's an excuse. It's a justification for not trying. It has nothing to do with you.
The photography market is ridiculously over-saturated, particularly here in Atlanta. �When we started our Intern program, and our 100% money back guarantee, and we held onto our general view that 'your-gear-does-not-matter', we got a few odd stares (or worse) from local photographers. It's understandable. Who were we to have Interns and start 'teaching' people whatever it was that we knew about photography? We didn't go to photography school. �We started our business with a single Nikon D40 and just the kit lens. We found out that we could do a lot if we learned how to really�use our little entry level D40. Stuff like this.
Your reality can be different. It just takes an insane amount of hard work and requires help from a lot of good people.
The Hot Shoe Diaries
Opposite of how most photographers start learning – I learned how to shoot with off-camera flash long before I ever really focused on natural light. It was just more fun. I could control EVERYTHING about the scene. This book helped with that education.
I think going from off-camera flash photography first and then over to natural light – really helped in how I see light. There's just a big shift from being able to control ALL of the light and then not controlling ANY of it. You notice what you would change. You notice what you can't change. Compared to many 'natural-light' photographers who haven't worked with off-camera flash. They really don't know about all of the possibilities. I'm not saying that all 'natural-light' photographers just don't know how to effectively light a scene – I'm saying that a good number�of them probably don't.
Your Marketing Sucks.
It's not a perfect book. But it has the right attitude – which might even turn you off – and that's okay. Because this marketing book is about making money. Not building your 'brand' or just 'advertising for brand awareness' – it's about marketing that brings in clients and sales. Sure it has it's faults, but like I said – it's not a perfect book. What I do like about it is that it doesn't sugar coat anything and it feels a little rough. Like direct marketing. I love direct marketing. I love midway carnies. You know – the people who work the midway and try as hard as they can to get you to throw oversized softballs and try to get them into the milk jugs with openings that are too small.
I'm not saying rip people off – but I am saying that in the end – no matter how you want to put it – our photography business is about finding clients and making sales. Any feelings of 'making art' go out the window when we need to pay some bills and buy food. I don't want nice or pretty marketing that wins any artistic awards – I want stuff that brings in clients.
(We don't have a picture – but an even better book is:�Marketing Outrageously Redux: How to Increase Your Revenue by Staggering Amounts)�
Ogilvy on Advertising.
Going back to what I said earlier – I want marketing that brings in clients, not pretty advertising that just sits there. Ogilvy is a big advocate of giving readers as much information as possible in an ad for them to digest. His advertising was almost always very text heavy. Sure it had photos – but it also persuaded people to take action – specifically, spend their money.
Photographers like to say, "I want my photos to speak for themselves." – Yeah. They do. And what they rarely say is HIRE ME. What most photographs say – even really awesome excellent ones – is 'I'm a great photographer'. And that's as far as it goes in a viewer's head. Viewers/potential clients rarely take the next step and connect it to "I need photography and I should hire this person." Unless you tell them to do that. What's that called? It's called asking for the sale. A call to action.
Any sales or marketing person will tell you that no matter what – you must actually ask for the sale.�Photographers that want their 'photos to speak for themselves' are in NO WAY asking for the sale. So that's what we do. Heck – do you see up top in the menu bar? We don't have 'services' or 'investment' up there. We have HIRE US TODAY. Not only does it say HIRE US – but it says TODAY. That's what we want you to do.
We don't want you to 'Services' or to 'Investment' us – we want you to HIRE US TODAY.
Ogilvy on Advertising. Buy this book.
Within the Frame.
One of the best books on actual, practical photography theory as it is today – by someone who knows how to get those thoughts out of his head and down onto paper in a way you can understand, and be inspired by. Buy It.
Cinematic Storytelling: The 100 most powerful film conventions every filmmaker should know
You know what movies are? They're 24 frames per second. 24 still photos strung together in a row.
Movies are live action comic book panels. There are fundamentals to cinematic storytelling and if you're a 'photojournalistic' photographer then you'd better know how to tell a story. Not just 'capture' emotion or the 'feelings' of a day, or any other ways you want to label that flowery BS marketing you have on your photography website.
You owe it to yourself and your clients to really study and learn how to tell a story with visual images – in a series. Buy this book.�
Thanks. See you soon.