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An Investigation on the Effect of Inhibitor Concentration on Reactions involving Acid Phosphatase.
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An Investigation on the Effect of Inhibitor Concentration on Reactions involving Acid Phosphatase. Katherine Pears CONTENTS Introduction and Hypotheses: Introduction...................................................................Page 3 Pilot Study Summary.......................................................Page 3 Hypotheses...................................................................Page 3 Theory..........................................................................Page 4 Methods: Apparatus List................................................................Page 9 Pilot Study.....................................................................Page 9 Method.......................................................................Page 12 Choice of Techniques....................................................Page 13 Controls......................................................................Page 15 Risk Analysis...............................................................Page 16 Analysis: Data Tables...............................................................Page 17 Graphs........................................................................Page 19 Discussion and Evaluation: Explanation..................................................................Page 22 Error analysis...............................................................Page 22 Limitations...................................................................Page 24 Suggestions for Further Study.......................................Page 24 Appendices Bibliography.................................................................Page 26 An Investigation of Inhibitor Concentration on Reactions involving Acid Phosphatase. INTRODUCTION AND HYPOTHESES Introduction I have decided to investigate the effect of altering the concentration of an inhibitor, on an enzyme catalysed reaction. I will be investigating this with the reaction aided by the enzyme acid phosphatase, in which phenolphthalein and phosphates are released. The inhibitor being used will be sodium dihydrogen phosphate. Pilot studies lead to this idea as they were successful and the most interesting theory was provided using this variable. Pilot Study Summary I carried out a pilot study which involved demonstrating the effect of an inhibitor on the reaction involving the breakdown of phenolphthalein. This developed into an investigation on the effect of inhibitor concentration on an enzyme catalysed reaction. Null Hypothesis There will no effect of changing the amount of inhibitor used. The % transmission will remain constant for all solutions despite varying concentration of inhibitor. Alternative Hypothesis As the concentration of sodium dihydrogen phosphate is increased the rate of reaction will decrease. This will be indicated by a decrease in % transmission as concentration of inhibitor decreases. THEORY The reaction that I am investigating is: In this reaction the enzyme is acid phosphatase. The definition of an enzyme is a globular protein which acts as a biological catalyst, increasing rate of chemical reactions, without itself being permanently changed [7]. The enzyme acid phosphatase assists reactions in which phosphate compounds are broken down releasing phosphates. In this case the compound phenolphthalein diphosphate is used to act as an indicator of the rate of reaction. ...read more.
I obtained the following results: Results for Pilot 3 Concentration (M) % transmission (blue filter) 0.10 90.00 0.09 88.00 0.08 88.00 0.07 88.00 0.06 88.00 0.05 86.00 0.04 86.00 0.03 86.00 0.02 84.00 0.01 79.00 0.00 39.00 As expected there was not enough variation in my results to carry out a worth while investigation. I then decided to vary the concentration between 0.00M and 0.01M rather than 0.1M. From this pilot study I decided on the range of inhibitor concentration I would be using. Method 1. Place a 250mL glass beaker on a balance and tare, weigh 30g of mung beans into the beaker. 2. Place mung beans and 30mL of water in a pestle and mortar. Add a small amount of sand and grind into a pulp. 3. Place muslin cloth over mouth of 50mL beaker. Use an elastic band to hold cloth in place if necessary. 4. Squeeze pulp through a muslin cloth into a 50mL beaker. Divide the liquid evenly into a 4 centrifuge tubes use a 25mL measuring cylinder to achieve equal volumes. Centrifuge at 60 r.p.m for 5 minutes. 5. Pour supernatant into a clean 50mL beaker and dispose of pellet. 6. Place 11 boiling tubes in a boiling tube rack. 7. Use a 1 cm3 pipette to measure 1 cm3 of 1% phenolphthalein diphosphate solution, add 1 cm3 to each boiling tube. When measuring volumes of liquids measure from bottom of meniscus and check this at eye level. 8. Use two 10 cm3 pipettes to make up different concentrations of buffer pH5 and 0.01M sodium dihydrogen phosphate. Make following concentrations: Concentrations for Experiment Concentration (M) Volume of 0.01M inhibitor (cm3) Volume of buffer 5 (cm3) 0.010 10.00 0.00 0.009 9.00 1.00 0.008 8.00 2.00 0.007 7.00 3.00 0.006 6.00 4.00 0.005 5.00 5.00 0.004 4.00 6.00 0.003 3.00 7.00 0.002 2.00 8.00 0.001 1.00 9.00 0.000 0.00 10.00 9. ...read more.
I had enough space to carry out the experiment well. As I was only slightly limited by time all that may have been sacrificed is attention to detail. If i had had access to professional apparatus such as a spectrophotometer, then the accuracy in my experiment may have improved. Suggestions for Further Study Obviously to gain a further understanding for this topic I would carry out tests at more concentrations of inhibitor. I would especially aim to gain more results for the concentrations of inhibitor between 0.01M and 0.02M. I would do this as this is where the graph levelled off. By obtaining these values I would find where the maximum inhibition. To obtain these concentrations I would make up the following: Inhibitor Concentration (M) Volume of buffer 5 (cm3) Volume of 0.02M Inhibitor (cm3) 0.010 5.0 5.0 0.011 4.5 5.5 0.012 4.0 6.0 0.013 3.5 6.5 0.014 3.0 7.0 0.015 2.5 7.5 0.016 2.0 8.0 0.017 1.5 8.5 0.018 1.0 9.0 0.019 0.5 9.5 0.020 0.0 10.0 To these concentrations I would add the constants to each boiling tube as in the experiment I carried out in this investigation. These were 1cm3 of substrate, 1cm3 of enzyme and 5cm3 of alkali. I would then obtain these results in the same was as in this investigation. Also to further my knowledge on this topic I would carry out the experiment in the same way but change the variable of pH. This would show me what the optimum pH for the enzyme acid phosphatase is. I have researched this but to be sure which is the best I would carry out an experiment to show this. To do this I would not use any inhibitor, as this slows down the reaction and in this case this is unnecessary as inhibitor concentration would not be investigated. I would add the same volume of buffer, enzyme and substrate to each boiling tube. The variable would be the pH of the buffer. To vary this I would add the same volume of different pH buffers to each boiling tube. ...read more.
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|File 9 Central Government in War in the 1980s
|Conventional war – COBRA and PINDAR
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Even though the planners assumed throughout the Cold War that governing the country on a national scale would be impossible after a major nuclear attack they always saw the need for some form of central government, albeit in a much reduced nucleus form. In the late 1950s, this would have been based at the Corsham site giving strategic direction to the regional governments and to foreign affairs. Later this idea was replaced by the much smaller scale Python concept that would still oversee foreign affairs and retain some semblance of a central government. In the 1950s and 1960s the existence of a Central Government War Room which would co-ordinate both civil defence operations and civil administration was publicly admitted albeit on a very limited basis. But since the start of the care and maintenance period, there has been no public acknowledgement that any special post-war central government function or facility exists. Preparations for the "continuity of government", to use a phrase used by American civil defense planners, is the responsibility of the Cabinet Office. They refuse to release any information about the plans so any comments about the machinery of government in war above the regional level after 1968 are necessarily speculative. But there are some hints available.
The circulars on regional government issued in 1973 and 1984 refer to the Regional Commissioners being responsible for domestic and internal affairs which implies, albeit by default, that some other body would exist to run at least external affairs, notably ending the war, and possibly some domestic matters which needed to be dealt with on a national scale. Delegates to Exercise Regard were told that central government would be re-established by merging the regional teams and that the RGHQs could not expect guidance from central government in the immediate survival period because central government would be in the business of receiving information, not giving it. This seems to confirm the existence of a post-strike central government albeit in a limited strategic decision making role rather than a broad based executive one.
The 1979 Joint Service Manual of Home Defence showed "central government" and "defence staffs" as collocated, although significantly there would be a "liaison link" to the UK Commanders in Chief Committee (Home), which would be responsible for all military home defence activities. Under the original TURNSTILE concept this committee was located with the other service chiefs and the War Cabinet. But this was not the case under the Python Concept implying perhaps that something at least similar to it was used in the 1970s. There is however no evidence that this concept was actually adopted and it may have been replaced by a return to the idea of using permanent sites for central government which would be orientated towards the new problems of transition to war, conventional war and a limited nuclear attack rather than the massive strategic attack envisaged in earlier decades. This suggestion is perhaps supported by the wave of new bunkers built in the 1980s for central government.
The problem of transition to war
The TURNSTILE and Python Concepts were designed to cope only with the aftermath of an all out nuclear war. No significant period of conventional fighting was expected prior to the nuclear attack so there was no need to plan for the continuity of government during a conventional war. This changed with the new strategic doctrine introduced in the late 1970s. This expected what was called a period of "transition to war and conventional war" which would require all levels of government to move to a war footing and then continue to operate throughout the period of conventional fighting. This would entail massive disruption to the normal life of the country and new demands being put on the governmental and administrative system and is in many ways a return to the "due functioning" ideas of the early 1950s.
Until this time, little thought had been given to the period leading to war. The War Books said that departments would set up Control Points, headed by the Cabinet Office Control Point (known as "Cockpit" until the late 1960s then "Monmouth"), to oversee the implementation of War Book messages. However, these were little more than a contact point with a permanently manned telephone. By the late 1960s thought was being given to setting up a new facility which was referred to by various titles such as the Whitehall Situation Centre and the Central Operations Room. In a 1971 report its main purpose was said to be "…to enable the government to co-ordinate executive action to the requirements of NATO" which implies a war role however, at this time, which was one of considerable industrial unrest, it was suggested that it would also "fulfil a useful function in relation to civil emergencies…". A briefing document gave it 3 specific functions –
1. "Central point for collection, collation and display of information
2. Additional facilities for briefing officials and ministers
3. A point at which the principle staff would be and where decisions would be made."
This facility would soon acquire the designation as the Cabinet Office Briefing Room popularly known as COBR or COBRA. By the 1980s COBR had become the term for both the facility and the Cabinet Committee consisting of senior ministers and representatives from relevant central government departments which would co-ordinate the Government's response to any crisis.
Any serious crisis would be monitored by the Civil Contingencies Unit. This was set up after the Miners Strike of 1972 when the then existing Home Office Emergencies Organisation was found wanting. The Civil Contingencies Unit would be supported by the crisis management facilities of the Cabinet Office Briefing Room. Actual management of the emergency would be lead by the Civil Contingencies Committee which was first established in 1974. This is a mixed Cabinet Committee consisting of senior ministers and representatives from relevant central government departments. The peacetime terms of reference for the committee are "to co-ordinate the preparation of plans for ensuring in an emergency the supplies and services essential to the life of the community; to keep those plans under regular review; and to supervise their prompt and effective implementation in specific emergencies". If war seemed likely the Civil Contingencies Committee might be replaced or supplemented by a War Cabinet (constitutionally established as a Cabinet Committee) made up of the Prime Minister, a few senior ministers, defence chiefs, intelligence advisers, etc.
The 3 functions given above for COBR are remarkably similar to those given for the 1939 Central War Room. But there is an important difference. COBR is a suite of offices within the Cabinet Office building and as such would not give any protection against an attack. With this in mind it is interesting to note that from the 1980s a large complex was built under the Ministry of Defence Main Building just off Whitehall centred on the bunker developed there in the early 1950s and known as PINDAR.
Design work for Project PINDAR started in 1979/80 but the main construction contract was not awarded until 1987. The project was beset with problems such as design changes, arguments between the contractors and the government agencies, arguments within the civil service as to which category of expenditure it would be put under (in other words, who would pay for it) and chronic cost over-runs and was not completed until 1992 at a reported cost of £126 million (of which £66 million was for communications). The delays in completing the PINDAR complex has lead to some speculation that a temporary site was fitted out a few miles away in the redundant tunnels dug in the 1950s for the Kingsway trunk telephone exchange.
It has been referred to in Parliament as a "joint operations centre" to "…provide the Government with a protected (author's emphasis) crisis management facility." The PINDAR complex could provide a secure meeting place with extensive communications and accommodation facilities that would survive up to and even beyond a nuclear attack. If the Second World War is taken as a model then perhaps COBR could act as the Cabinet War Room supported by PINDAR in times of actual war to provide the necessary facilities for the Cabinet and other Ministerial and Official Committees, together with their staffs to receive and act on information from all government departments, UK and NATO military headquarters, allied governments and other government agencies such as the Regional Emergency Committees. Its role is described in one file as "...offering accommodation for all Ministers and staff concerned with the central direction of the nation in transition to war". In fact it, has been described specifically as a facility for the Cabinet Office Briefing Room although this was considered sensitive. Conveniently, the Defence Situation Room was also located in the complex allowing the funding of it to be described as "refurbishment of the MoD Defence Situation and Communications Centre for use by military operational staff." Originally PINDAR was planned as a relatively small, short term facility but by the mid-1980s its role had changed to one where it would be used much more often and for longer periods. The fact that one of the modifications added at this time was the installation of EMP or electro-magnetic pulse shielding suggest that the plan was to continue to use it after a nuclear attack.
In addition to PINDAR, each of the armed forces has its own central bunker. These were used during recent conflicts such as the Falkland and Gulf Wars but they were supplemented in 1996 by the new Permanent Joint Headquarters. This is located in a large refurbished bunker at Northwood in north London and acts as the central command headquarters for all strategic military operations.
Most Government departments and some non-governmental organisations such as the BBC and BT would have their own Control Point. Each department would also have its own contingency plans (the War Book) detailing the various steps necessary to meet each stage of a crisis. Authority to implement the emergency measures would come from the Central Government Control Point. Actual implementation would then be the responsibility of the Secretary of State or Minister in charge of the individual department.
As a crisis developed, the Whitehall machine would gear itself up for the expected extra demands. There would be similar demands placed on the regionally based parts of the administration including the local authorities and public utilities. To assist these bodies the SRHQs were apparently given a transition to war role in around 1980. This was hinted at in the notes drawn up for Exercise Regenerate that was developed in 1981 as a course at Easingwold for designated SRHQ staff. The Regenerate scenarios showed emergency powers being granted to Regional Commissioners who took up their posts shortly after the conventional fighting started. They also suggested that regional policy in the pre-nuclear period, decided by the Regional Commissioner and his Regional Policy Group would include such things as control of wage rates, restrictions on bank lending and compensation for requisition.
This revised role for the SRHQs was also mentioned in 1981 by the head of F6, the Emergency Planning Services Division of the Home Office responsible for regional level home defence. At a planning meeting he said, "We intend to reconsider the need for two levels of government above the county and to consider whether there might not, in crisis and conventional war, be a more positive and dynamic role for dispersed regional government...". He suggested that this might be a type of regional emergency committee, not only assisting with the extra load on government but introduced because regional government would be more effective and efficient post-strike if it had been involved since the beginning. But rather than use the SRHQ teams in their bunkers the Regional Emergency Committees, which had existed in embryonic form at least as early as the 1950s for peacetime emergency purposes were given a formal transition to war role
Each region would have a Regional Emergency Committee, or, as it was usually referred to, a REC although Northern Region would have 2. It would be chaired by the Regional Director of the Department of the Environment and include representatives from most government departments, local authorities, the police, military, and other appropriate organisations such as British telecom
The RECs had no permanent structure or offices and would meet in a suitable government office in its region as required. Circular ES2/1984 suggested that a REC in a region would only be activated if required and went on to give its function as "...ensuring that resources under the control of civil authorities were deployed and co-ordinated in the way most beneficial to national interests: acting as a clearing house and allocating priorities as necessary, for requests for assistance from all public authorities; acting as a channel of communications between central government and the local authorities and other bodies; and keeping regional government headquarters, once manned, of the situation in the region.". The actual wartime terms of reference quoted by McGuire add that the "...way most beneficial to national interest" would be in accordance with the priorities laid down by the Transition to War Committee[1] and the War Measures Committee of the Cabinet and it would report to these two bodies as occasion demanded. The RECs would also "...give sustained and positive publicity to government policy as directed by the Standing Committee on Information Policy or the Press Working Party.". The Emergency Planning Guidelines for Local Authorities refer to the REC responding to requests "...from all public authorities" whereas the less public wartime terms of reference refer to "...requests from the military authorities for civil assistance and requests from civil authorities for military assistance.". This firmly suggests a role for the RECs in putting the country onto a war footing and assisting the deployment of armed forces, both British and allied. The Chairman and members of the REC would not have any specific powers unless these were granted under emergency legislation. Instead, they would act under the authority of their parent Minister.
Terms of reference within the delegated powers: -
a. To ensure that resources over which civil authorities have control are deployed and co-ordinated in the way most beneficial to national interests in accordance with the priorities laid down by the Transition to War Committee and the War Measures Committee;
b. To act as a clearing house and to allocate priorities as necessary, for requests from the military authorities for civil assistance and requests from the civil authorities for military assistance;
c. To act as a channel of communication between central government and local authorities and other bodies in the region;
d. To give sustained, positive publicity to Government policy as directed by the Standing Committee on Information Policy or the Press Working Party;
e. To report to the Transition to War committee and War Measures Committee as occasion demands;
f. To keep Regional Government HQ, once manned, informed of the situation in the Region.
(As given to the Region 10 Regional Co-ordinators Meeting in 1985 and quoted by Stella McGuire in "Emergency Legislation and Civil defence in UK NATO")
The impression given is that at the start of a crisis central government would keep in contact with the local authorities and other relevant bodies in the regions through normal peacetime channels. As the crisis deepened and the need to co-ordinate effort and resources increased the RECs would be activated primarily as a means of communication but also possibly as an intermediate level of decision-making.
The RECS were involved in all the regional based local authority exercises in the 1980s. Two of the aims of Exercise VIREG were "to examine the relationship between county and the REC" and "to test procedures/liaison between counties and the REC". The REC was simulated at the exercise control point at the Home Office. It told counties when to collect RADIAC[2] kit, to announce rationing and to accelerate the discharge of hospital patients. However, the simulated REC only met once for 2 hours to discuss the refugee problem and the government departments involved in the exercise answered most local authority requests to the REC directly themselves, although in war this might not be a practical option. In the post-exercise report the Department of the Environment said that "...it is incorrect to assume that once RECs are convened they move into permanent session and assume executive powers similar to those of regional government. When RECs are activated (individually or collectively) the Secretariat would become a permanent reporting centre but the committee itself would only meet as a clearing house when there was business to discuss..." The REC's main function "would be to resolve conflicts in priorities as required and to keep central government informed of the situation in their region."
However, the original declared aim of the RECs either seems to have been diluted or forgotten. They were little used in the regional exercises after Vireg even though the exercise aims continued to include them and McGuire quotes a Cabinet Office spokesman as saying in 1987 that the REC was "...a local forum to resolve problems". This is in many ways contradictory to the written guidance given in the earlier circulars and the lack of clarity would not have helped the local authorities at a time when simple, unambiguous lines of command and communication would have been vital.
[1] The role of this committee was "To advise Ministers, as required, on the implementation of the Government War Book and to co-ordinate Departmental action in a national emergency".
[2] RAdioactivity Detection Identification And Computation equipment were hand held devices to monitor fallout. They would have been issued in large numbers to Royal Observer Corps personnel, the police and local authority staff.

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For Immediate Release
Kirsten Stade (202) 265-7337
Secret California Park Give-Away
Back Door Proposal to Transfer Lands from Tolowa Dunes State Park
SAN FRANCISCO - Conservation groups are protesting a proposed transfer of interest
in approximately 1200 acres of the Tolowa Dunes State Park by the
California Department of Parks and Recreation to the California
Department of Fish and Game. The deal, which will open up the lands to
hunting, is moving forward without any public notice or environmental
"The Governor apparently intends to save State Parks by
disposing of them," said Karen Schambach, California Director for
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). "While State
Parks can't be sold, Fish and Game lands don't enjoy that same
protection. Is this the first step towards selling our parklands off to
private interests?"
Tolowa Dunes State Park is located in Del
Norte County in the northwest corner of California. The Park includes
approximately 1200 acres near Lake Earl, the largest coastal lagoon in
California. For the first time this year, the long-standing ban on
hunting in State Parks is being enforced. This apparently has provided
the impetus for the proposed land transfer, which will reportedly be
completed in mid-November to accommodate the duck hunting season.
In a letter sent last week to State Parks Director Ruth Coleman
protesting the proposed transfer, Friends of Del Norte, the
Environmental Protection Information Center, and the Center for
Biological Diversity accused the Departments of Parks and Recreation
and Fish and Game not only with proceeding with the transfer in
secrecy, but with deliberately ignoring environmental laws.
unique wetlands should be protected by State Parks; not traded away as
a political favor," said Lisa Belenky, senior attorney with the Center
for Biological Diversity. "If State Parks wants to change the status of
the public lands entrusted to its care, it must do so through an open
public process."
"The contemplated giveaway of these dune swale
ponds is particularly outrageous because they are unique in the
California state parks system, and have a tribal heritage that goes
back thousands of years," said Scott Greacen, Executive Director of the
Environmental Protection Information Center. "We were shocked to hear
about this transfer because State Parks in this region is otherwise
doing a good job of protecting tribal cultural resources."
Tolowa Dunes State Park and the adjoining 5,500-acre Lake Earl wetland
complex provide habitat for at least 43 rare and federally and state
listed species, including peregrine falcon, brown pelican, western
snowy plover, marbled murrelet, sand dune phacelia, Oregon silverspot
butterfly, seaside hoary elfin butterfly, greenish blue butterfly,
steelhead, and coastal cutthroat trout. In addition, over 300 different
bird species use Lake Earl with as many as 100,000 birds found there
during seasonal migrations.
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The elephant seal can get to 6,000 lbs and can dive as deep as 2,000 feet. The longest recorded dive is for 119 minutes. Impressive stats for such an ugly beast.
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Private-equity giant Apollo Global Management is reportedly in exclusive talks to scoop up McGraw-Hill's (NYSE:MHP) education division in a transaction that could be valued at as much as $2.5 billion.
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McGraw-Hill's education business generated $836 million in third-quarter revenue, representing an 11% year-over-year decline amid difficulties in the K-12 market and the struggling global economy.
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Photoshoot TFD Style
Just recently, my sister and I got together for a little TFD Photoshoot on my parents property. Ideally, we would have had models, hair and makeup artists, and a real photographer...but that's just ideally! What we actually had was a break in the rainy, gloomy weather that still lingers here in the Northwest, a Suburban loaded down with heaps of clothes, and accessories, two little girls running in and out of photos along with a couple of unexpected animals!
Do you see what I mean???
That is my sister's dog, Daphne.
Daphne, apparently, loves Cowgirl Canteens too!
(ps-those are not my buns nor my hands)
Now, if you are thinking that my baby sister and I are the type to just get together and take pictures of ourselves for fun, you should think again.
We hate it actually, but (haha, no pun intended), I am in the middle of designing a new website for
The Farrier's Daughter (Can I get a woot woot?!?!), and I needed images.
Stay tuned for the big reveal....
(this however, is me...so much easier when you don't look at the camera)
Until then, these are a few teaser photos of our hard day's work.
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Sunday, September 15, 2013
Medieval Fair in Nurnberg
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I love mead! I would have gone to this after the flea market but my friend was very adamant about leaving before the rallies hahaReplyDeleteReplies
Medieval fairs always seem like a great idea until you get there. Birds scare me to death, so that exhibition would have driven me away pretty quickly. Love your pictures of Nurnberg. Looks like I need to add that city to my list!ReplyDeleteReplies
They were pretty scary haha. Luckily they were tied to a post!Delete
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Looks like some great medieval (well fake medieval) fun!ReplyDelete
A medieval fair is DEFINITELY on our list while we're here. After NEARLY going to one before I'm fascinated by the effort people put into them! And I find it amusing how ye olde crepes with nutella seem to crop up just about everywhere.ReplyDelete
Oh, I think I need to hope over the border and go to one of these. This looks like such nerdy fun, and I've not heard of one in the Netherlands.ReplyDeleteReplies
Really? They're all the rage in germany. I feel like when the weather gets nice there's one every weekend!Delete


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Hello after relinking to my ama files all my timelines i am thinking i would like to save all the ama linked files (the original then) in a new folder
i want to store the movie like this instead of storing with transcoded filses, as i think is a smaller size
Now In the bins i have lots of linked clips, much more than the one i acutally used in the timeline
Can i make an export of the project in a new folder containging only the files i acutally used in the timeline?
thanks a lot
Not exactly sure I understand what you are trying to achieve, but if you need a list of all clips that are used in the sequence:
Put your final sequence in a bin, by itself. Then Choose Bin->Set Bin Display, and turn on "Show Reference Clips". The bin should now list all source clips, subclips, sync clips that are used in that sequence. You can drag them into a bin if you want.
i have on my hd some folder wiht all the oroginal clips of my project
all of them are am alinked in my project, organized in bins
Now...not all of theme are used in my timeline
I want to be able to collect all the clips that are effectivley used in my timeline and save them in a new folder
so that i can delet al the uneeded clips form my hd and store the final project with the clips that are actually used
is that more clear?
Select all of the sequences and consolidate them to a new drive. This will copy only those sections of the clips actually used (which is what consolidate is designed to do).
Dave S.
i was trying to save the ama linked clips, the orginal, as i think it would require less ghard drive space..
Also i have in the various bin all the link to all clips even if they ar enot used..is there a way to clean these?
If your sequence consists of linked clips, then consolidating will write out in the format of the linked clips. But there are restrictions on which formats will consolidate. Pick a sequence, do a consolidate (tell it to make a new sequence), and see what happens.
stefanocps:i was trying to save the ama linked clips, the orginal, as i think it would require less ghard drive space..
Job ter Burg:Choose Bin->Set Bin Display, and turn on "Show Reference Clips".
1: Open the folder shown in the Source Path and select all files NOT shown in the printed bin.2: Move these to a new "Dump" folder on the drive with your linked folder. (so you have an almost instant move)Repeat 1 and 2 for each different Linked source folder. (use the same Dump folder for each move)
Open MC and the duplicate final sequence.Check there is no offline media.Assuming no offline media you can delete the Dump folder and all the media there.
If there is offline media then use the Choose Columns and add the "Offline" column. Print BinGo to the Dump folder. Select each Offline clip and Move them back to the original Source Path foldersOpen MC and check your timeline again.
FWIW I would check the Dump folder size before dumping it. If your media is in a highly compressed format you may not be saving yourself very much space. This method keeps 100% of each used file even if you have only 1% of that file in the timeline.
Yes AndreaAction i have considered that, there is possiblitty that saving the original will not end up in saving space rather than transcoding only what is actually used. i should make both thest and see
May be the best solution is transcoding and save it like this...so i can also open and work fluently at timeline anytime i wish (with ama it is not good the editing)
if i do the transcoding..i do get ride of all the clips tha are in the bins and not used?
can you suggest a good transcoding format, that keep an eye to size also?
Don't forget managaing files in that manual way only works for simple individual source files. If they are camera tapeless files its often important to maintain the whole card(folder) structure.
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ok i think i have already all the clips in use in my timeline gathered in one bin
they might be as a copy in other bin also..but the one in the timeline should all be in one bin+now if i delete all the other bin...if some clip in the timeline are locate din one of the bin i delete..ishould notice ?
so that i might definitely delete all those bins that now are in the trash
@AndrewAction i have been able to do do what you told me, and i can see that the original clips i actually use are 75gb
So i think is much less than if i transcide them all
i would like to keep the original files then
Now i need to understand if i can make the final mixdown starting from this point...
and then consolidate would ley me put all the files used in one unique folder?
AMA clips in bins take up very little space. They are just shortcuts to the actual external source files. So deleteing them in a project saves little space. Also gathering them all in one bin is only helpful in listing the files by their source path.
All the work still has to be done outside Media Composer in terms of deleting files.
Also if you move any source files outside MC you will break the AMA link so they will go offline in MC.
You're doing this to save space on 75GB of drive space? Why? Just put it all on a thumb drive.
also: no need to ever delete any bins.
the need to delete bn in avid is not for space reason of course, just because there are so many unusued and i want to store a clean project without unneeded bins or clips
i want to have only what is used in my timeline..it is an arranging and ordering matter
@job ter burg i dont do this to save 75bg. i do this to archive a project with only 75gb instead of some hundred of gb if i would archive it with high quality transcoded files!
but please answer me this now
i have al ama linked clips now in my timeline
can i do the final export without the need to transcoding?do i need render?
what is a suggest setting for exporting inqt movie h264 for vimeo?
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LOXAHATCHEE — Two juveniles who made a deal with a businessman to return some stolen equipment were arrested after the man turned them in to police, offiddcials said Thursday.
The juveniles, both 17, were charged with breaking into the Loxahatchee Green Lawn Mower Shop on State Road 80 late Tuesday night and stealing chain saws and a weed cutter, according to Detective Ed Johnson of the Palm Beach County Sheriff`s Office.
Johnson said the burglars entered the building through a ventilation duct on the roof and escaped the same way.
Dan Koltler, who owns the business, said he learned the next day through ``talk on the street`` who the burglars were. He said he also suspected the juveniles of burglarizing the Loxahatchee First Baptist Church the same night.
``I knew them from the neighborhood,`` he said. ``I contacted them and told them I knew what they had stolen. I said I wouldn`t call the police if they brought the stuff back from my place and the church.``
Koltler said the youths told him they had already sold some of the stolen property, but agreed to bring back what they had and to pay for everything else.
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Koltler set up a meeting with the youths Wednesday on D Road to get the merchandise back. What the juveniles didn`t know, according to Johnson, was that Koltler contacted the Sheriff`s Office. Sheriff`s officers fitted Koltler with a hidden microphone before he met with the two.
``He met with one of the juveniles, and the suspect admitted breaking in to the business,`` Johnson said. ``He also implicated the other suspect in the lawn mower burglary and the church burglary.``
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Andrew McCarthy, star of "Pretty In Pink" and other 1980s "Brat Pack" movies, has released a new memoir that offers tidbits from his childhood and early acting career and details how he got his current second gig as a travel writer.
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In the final scene of the cult 1986 teen romance film, his character, Blane, professes his love for main character Andie, played by Molly Ringwald.
"We reshot the end of that movie," McCarthy, 49, told Access Hollywood in a recent interview. "In the original version, [Molly's character] ends up with Jon Cryer's character ... with Duckie. They test screened it and everybody said, 'No, No!' So we reshot."
While re-filming the scene, the actor was starring in a play, "The Boys of Winter," and had shaved his head for his role.
"They threw a bad wig on me," he told Access Hollywood, regarding the "Pretty In Pink" reshoot. "If they knew we'd still be talking about it 25 years later, they would have paid for a better wig."
McCarthy made similar comments on the 20th Anniversary edition of the "Pretty In Pink" DVD, which was released in 2006.
2. Charlie Sheen almost got McCarthy's role.
Ringwald revealed this tidbit on the DVD. The actress was the one who helped convince the filmmakers to cast McCarthy as her character's love interest.
"For one reason or another ... Andrew and I just had that connection together," she added. "Andrew also seemed to have this appeal to women that guys didn't get. He was one of those actors that girls would sort of say, 'Oh, he's so cute' and guys would say,' Ugh, what is your problem? He's so annoying' or 'He's so this.' And it was funny but all the girls I knew thought he was great looking."
3. Andrew McCarthy's dad did not want him to pursue acting.
In "The Longest Way Home," the New Jersey actor writes that when he was 14, his family moved to a different neighborhood and he began to spend more time alone. His mother suggested he audition for his school's production of the musical "Oliver!" and he then discovered his love for acting.
He later applied to acting school in New York and performed lines from the musical's as character the Artful Dodger during his audition. McCarthy says in his book that after his father learned about the tryout, he told him: "No son of mine is going to be a (expletive) thespian."
The actor eventually became a theatre major at New York University and made his on-screen acting debut in the 1983 movie "Class."
4. He battled alcohol addiction.
McCarthy writes in his book that he battled a drinking problem in his twenties, while he was busy making movies, and at age 29, traveled to Minnesota to undergo treatment.
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McCarthy writes in "The Longest Way Home" that he initially kept a travel journal, detailing experiences from trips to places such as Saigon, Laos and Malawi. He says he "knew someone who knew someone" and then met the editor of National Geographic Traveler.
"I convinced him after much cajoling to let me write a piece for them," the actor told the Associated Press earlier this month. "Eventually I said, 'Let me write it, if it doesn't work, you don't pay me.' And he went, 'I can live with that.'"
"So I did a piece for him and that worked out so I did more for Traveler and then my editor there, I kept pitching him so much he said, 'Look, go write for some other people, would you?' So I started writing for the Atlantic, the Times and numerous things and nobody really put together that it was the actor Andrew McCarthy writing," he added.
6. His first assignment? Ireland - where he found love.
McCarthy writes in his book that when the editor asked him where he wanted to go for his first National Geographic Traveler assignment, he said Ireland. Dolores Rice, the woman who would become his second wife, lived there. The two have a daughter together. He also has a son with first wife, Carol Schneider.
7. The actor has visited many exotic locations all over the world, before and during his writing career.
The list includes: Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Morocco, the Sahara desert, Mozambique, Sudan, the Amazon, Saigon, Malawi, Laos, Argentina and Spain's Camino de Santiago.
8. Andrew McCarthy fights his fear - of flying - to continue pursuing his passion.
He says in "The Longest Way Home" that he finds it impossible to relax while traveling on planes but that he "decided long ago that my fear wouldn't stop me from traveling."
9. He's kept his day job.
McCarthy continues to act. In recent years, he has appeared on shows such as "Lipstick Jungle," "White Collar" and "Royal Pains" and films such as "Snatched" with Ernest Borgnine, who died earlier this year. McCarthy recently starred in the half-Vietnamese movie "Forbidden Love" with fellow on-screen heartthrob Richard Chamberlain and Los Angeles socialite Bai Ling.


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A new regional office of the Cyberguard has been opened in Surgut, bringing the number of its branches to 36. Local volunteers will be combatting the spread of dangerous online content and raising digital literacy among Surgut Internet users.
Created in 2011 by the Safe Internet League, the Cyberguard movement now welcomes more than 20 000 volunteers from across Russia and CIS countries committed to fighting dangerous online content, as well as helping law enforcement agencies in uncovering cybercrime and bringing the perpetrators to justice. Its members have helped block 10 000 web sites and pages for hosting child pornography, 3 000 for selling illegal drugs, 1 000 for encouraging suicide, bring 800 criminal cases for distribution of child pornography and 30 cases for production of child pornography, as well as solve dozens of high-profile serial paedophile cases.
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Alice, I've Got a Crush on My Tenant
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Hooooooooo boy. While I am generally pro - going for it in matters of the heart, this is a different case because there is a pretty serious power imbalance at play here. When a relationship is based in business and money is exchanging hands, the opportunity for misinterpretation is high. Now I'm sure you are a lovely and respectful person but I can not emphasize enough how you must proceed carefully (should you chose to proceed at all). Because while it is possible for love to bloom between a landlord and tenant, it is also possible for it to be interpreted as sexual harassment.
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Three of Scott Quigg's previous four victories have been stopped before the fourth round and he is 14/1 with bet365 to win between rounds 1-3 again
Undefeated WBA regular super bantamweight champion Scott Quigg will return to the ring in Manchester to defend his title against Spaniard Kiko Martinez, and is an overwhelming odds-on 1/4 favourite with bet365 to triumph.
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Quigg's main trainer Joe Gallagher shares the widely shared belief that his man will comprehensively overcome the Spanish opposition, with a potential match-up against Nonito Donaire on the cards later in the year.
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"They can dress it up all they want but Frampton was offered £1.5m. That's a very good offer and more money than some of Floyd Mayweather Jr's opponents get.
"It's all roads leading to Donaire. That's a huge fight and a name that Quigg is crying out for."
Quigg dispatched Hidenori Otake over 12 rounds last year in his last ring outing, and stopped both Stephane Jamoye and Tshifhiwa Munyai months before then, proving the unbeaten champion is in top form.
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"A TANGLE OF KNOTS," by Lisa Graff, Philomel, $16.99, 230 pages (f) (ages 8-12)
In "A Tangle of Knots," people have magical talents. Cady has a talent for baking the perfect cake and Miss Mallory has a talent for returning lost items to their owners. Other talents, like spitting and whistling, are pretty much useless. The many characters make the book hard to follow at times.
The book also lacks much of the depth of adult fantasy novels; it relies on one character to enact fate and lacks sophisticated world-building. Still, a middle-grader might like how the unlikely events unfold in a magical realism context.
Lisa Graff writes from the perspective of a different narrator every few pages. It's a laudable idea, but its execution leaves the reader unsettled and, since this is a novel for middle-grade readers, probably a bit confusing. The narrative voice remains the same between characters, which makes it difficult to distinguish between them.
Because the various characters sound the same, the story would have improved with fewer characters; the adventurous little brother and the stroke-victim woman could have been eliminated with little impact to the plot.
The events that lead up to the resolution of the "tangle of knots" are contrived by a giant man dedicated to making "fate" happen. Unlikely scenarios are one thing, but to have a deus ex every few chapters is a bit tiring. Graff's writing is usually clear, but it is occasionally marred by excesses like "for better or for worse" and "without a doubt."
A good fantasy novel has changes to how society works based on its differences from our world. "A Tangle of Knots" had a few things that reflected a world where some people have a talent while others do not, like scholarships for those without talents. However, these modifications to our world did not extend to the day-to-day lives of the characters.
Cady has a talent for making the perfect cake. It would make sense for her to be disqualified from cake-baking competitions because of her talent, but she isn't. Graff used talents as a way to add interest to her book without making it an integral part of her fantasy world.
While "A Tangle of Knots" makes for an unsatisfying adult read, a middle-schooler who likes urban fantasy and adventure will probably like this book.
As far as the content, there were two swear words and everything else was clean.
Rachel Helps is a grad school dropout with a bachelor's in psychology. She has a passion for old books and video gaming. Her gaming articles are online at thepretentiousgamer.blogspot.com.


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This home was originally built as a three-room saltbox in the late 1700s. It had a kitchen, a parlor and an upstairs bedroom. Folklore has it that during the Revolutionary War, the British came through the area and camped overnight in a hollow below the house. During the skirmish with the Wilton Militia, the British tried to burn the house down. Some of the beams in the basement looked like they were burned; there was definitely a fire in the house, and maybe the British started it.
The new owners of the home knew they wanted to preserve the exterior structure. All three stories of the interior, however, had fallen into disrepair. The home had been remodeled several times over its 200-plus years, leaving it with endless tiny and chopped up rooms. Most additions were added throughout the 19th century.
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Extreme Exorcism Review – Mixed Ectoplasm (PS4)
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The $3.25 million campaign created by Omnicom Group's Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, San Francisco, delivers a new tagline, "Tools for the New Work," to promote Adobe InDesign, a software for page layout.
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The campaign debuts in New York, where Seybold 2002, a conference of graphic design and advertising professionals, takes place this week. Ads featuring artists' brushes and other tools appear on billboards, transit shelters and kiosks in New York and in trade publications.
The campaign for InDesign is the first part of a new drive to position the company as a major player in network publishing that will also include the San Jose, Calif.-based marketer's other publishing software: Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop software.
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Michael F. Adams, President, University of Georgia speaks at Terry Third Thursday
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Now in his 13th year as President of the University of Georgia, Michael F. Adams is one of America's longest serving and best known university presidents. A widely respected figure in higher education, he has been elected by his peers to lead a number of national organizations including the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities, the American Council on Education and the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Executive Committee.
He holds a PhD from The Ohio State University and has been awarded five honorary degrees. In addition, he is a specialist in political education and higher education administration and has written in both areas. Adams has held senior positions in state and national government - as Chief of Staff to former Senator Howard Baker and as an advisor to former Tennessee Governor and current Senator Lamar Alexander. He has been involved in the management of state and national campaigns, and is frequently consulted by leaders of both political parties.
Either personally or on behalf of the University he has received more than 50 awards in higher education, including the Knight Foundation Award for Presidential Leadership, the Pioneer Ward for Leadership in Civil Rights and the James T. Rogers Award, the highest honor bestowed by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. He is the recipient of the prestigious Governor's Award in the Humanities from the Georgia Endowment for the Humanities. For nine consecutive years, Georgia Trend magazine has included Adams on its list of Most Influential Georgians.
The UGA campus has been transformed since he took office, with more than $1 billion in new construction, renovation and infrastructure and 6.2 million square feet of new space completed. The East Campus Village, served by the Harris Dining Commons, added space for more than 1,200 students to help meet demand for on-campus living, and another 500- bed residence hall is under construction. The new home of the Lamar Dodd School of Art, also on East Campus, opened in 2008, and an expansion of the Georgia Museum of Art is under construction. A number of historic structures on North Campus have been restored and renovated. A new Special Collections Library began construction in January 2010, and a range of student-serving facilities, including an expansion of the Tate Student Center, have opened recently.
Under his leadership, the University of Georgia has attained its highest rankings ever, has become the most selective in its history, has grown from some 29,000 students to its highest enrollment of 34,885 and in the past 12 years, UGA has raised more money than it had in the previous 213 years.
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WAY back when, say in 1995, they were still something of a curiosity. That was the year that Yahoo first decided to put advertising on its site, a time when the words ''advertising banners'' still conjured images of cloth signs trailing from airplanes on hot summer days.
But Internet banners -- advertisements appearing on Web pages, often randomly, and usually in rectangular boxes -- did not remain a rarity for long. Cheap to put on the Internet, easy to design, they soon were everywhere. And euphoric Web site owners and eager advertisers were convinced that they could do just about anything.
''Like all new advertising formats, banners went through a strong novelty phase,'' said Nigel Hollis, executive vice president of Millward Brown Interactive, an online research firm in Fairfield, Conn. Great claims were made -- for example, that banner advertisements would drive customers in droves to the Web sites of companies that used them. And that, once there, the customers would buy.
It did not happen. In the general confusion attending the dot-com meltdown earlier this year, banners fell into disrepute. Suddenly, they were decried as being useless or worse: a waste of precious advertising dollars in an all-too-competitive world. But banners have not disappeared. And advertisers still think they serve a purpose.
It just is not the one that people originally thought it would be.
Today, banners are for branding.
''In the early days, the guys doing this stuff were technology people, not marketing people,'' said Marianne Foley. Now an independent Internet industry consultant, she was formerly a senior vice president of Ipsos-ASI, an advertising research company in Norwalk, Conn., that has conducted extensive testing regarding banners. ''The technology seduced them,'' Ms. Foley said.Continue reading the main story
Certainly, the technology was breathtaking. Advertisers could count the number of people who actually saw their banners, which are referred to as ''eyeballs,'' or impressions. They could measure the number of people who actually clicked on the banner after seeing it and then traveled to the site being advertised, known as ''click-throughs.'' No medium had ever been capable of anything like it before.
So advertisers began paying for their banners accordingly, usually on the basis of a certain cost per thousand impressions, or C.P.M.'s. And they looked eagerly for a correlation between click-throughs and actual sales.
Trouble was, things did not work out quite that way. Sure, impression numbers were huge, but they had little, if any, discernible effect on product sales or Web-site traffic. Click-through rates were miserable. (They have remained extremely low, Mr. Hollis said, amounting to only one-half of 1 percent today, industrywide.) And the click-throughs themselves, well, they produced incredibly disappointing results.
That should not have surprised anyone, industry experts say. Using the click-through rate the way they did was illogical, said Jim Nail, an analyst at Forrester Research in Cambridge, Mass., who specializes in online marketing and advertising. Advertisers have long known that there is no foolproof way of linking traditional newspaper advertisements or television and radio commercials directly to increases in a product's sale; why should it have been otherwise with banner advertisements?
''Marketing is about a lot of things,'' Mr. Nail said. ''Including getting people to consider your product now,'' even if they buy it later. ''Generating awareness is the best that banners can do.''
He added, ''If you think of them as a branding tool, then they're not so bad.''
Ms. Foley agreed. Though she conceded that all the new talk was to some degree a face-saving exercise in 20/20 hindsight, she insisted that marketing people always knew that the measures being used for banners were incorrect, and that branding was the way to go.
''The best thing banners do is to create an opportunity to put a product in front of someone,'' she said. ''At the very least, they get a glance.''
So how does the industry try to harvest those glances now? And how does it pay for them?
In its fourth annual survey of Internet advertising, released in May, the Association of National Advertisers, a trade group in New York, polled some 100 member companies about their use of online media. Two-thirds of the respondents said they were advertising on the Internet, and 98 percent said that banners were included in their mix, with other formats like e-mail, used by 60 percent of participants, and interstitials, which were used by 51 percent. (Interstitials are the advertisements that appear, either in full or in small size, when an Internet user is calling up another site but before that other site loads.)
BUT while companies are still primarily buying online media on the basis of C.P.M.'s (69 percent of respondents), those C.P.M.'s are going down, to $20 this year from a median of $28 in 1998, said Robin Webster, executive vice president of the association. Moreover, many have begun buying on the basis of flat fees or other models, like sponsorship programs.
Greg Koerner, a vice president of national advertising sales for Doubleclick Inc. in New York, the Internet advertising firm, confirmed the trend.
''People are using banners in different ways today,'' he said, ''and a higher percentage of them are traditional advertisers, who understand these things better.
''Either they put the ads in a place where their customers are likely to be,'' like General Motors, which he said was advertising heavily on Kelley's Blue Book (www.kelleysbluebook.com), a used- and new-car information site, in effect becoming a ''sponsor'' as in the old days of network television. Or advertisers used technology ''to identify potential customers and advertise only to them,'' he said, like people who live in certain geographic areas or those who use only certain Internet service providers.
''These people used to be buying impressions,'' Mr. Koerner said. ''They're not anymore.''
Still, they are buying. Doubleclick had more than 5,000 advertiser clients in the second quarter of this year, up from 3,100 in the same period a year ago, according to company-released statistics. And it placed some 148 billion advertisements for them during those three months alone. In the second quarter of 1999, it placed only 30 billion.
Meanwhile at Yahoo, ''banners are a very important part of the toolbox and will continue to be,'' said Murray Gaylord, the director of so-called fusion marketing, which the company (www.fusion.yahoo.com) defined as ''an integrated set of sales and marketing tools'' built upon its total audience.
Mr. Gaylord, too, thought that clicks and click-throughs were ''the wrong metric'' and suggested what he called a better measure: ''looking at people who have had the opportunity to see a banner, and seeing whether they later purchased'' the product.
That, of course, would depend upon whether people remember banners. In Internet branding campaigns, in all branding campaigns, the most important issue is recall.
So how do banners measure up? Research by Millward Brown, Mr. Hollis's firm, suggested that people remembered them, but only to a point. ''Up to 40 percent of people we survey will say they remember a banner,'' he said. ''But we lose anywhere from 50 percent to 100 percent of them when we ask them to link the ad to the right brand.''
Why? ''Banners are just like other advertising formats,'' he said. ''Some work, and some don't.''
Ms. Foley put it more bluntly.
''Let's face it,'' she said. In terms of their creative aspect, ''most banners are junk.''
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Friday, September 17, 2010
SUR-13 Gang Members Lay Claim to South Beneva Rd in Sarasota Fl As They "Tag" Fences, Sarasota County Sheriff Dept. Gang Squad Needs to Be Aware.
Gangs that "tag" buildings and fences in a certain parts of a city are virtually laying claim to that area, in other words rival gangs and cops "keep out", note the X3 with three dots, this is the real deal.
On Thursday morning September 16th, 2010, gang members of the latin SUR-13 "tagged" fences and the bus stop on Beneva Rd near the Bee Ridge Rd intersection in Sarasota Fl with their trademark blue spray paint. It appears that the owners of the sub division that owns the fence had already hired a crew to re-paint the fence by 9:00 am. The SUR-13 Gang color is blue.
SUR-13 Gang graffito, the singular of graffiti, is often the first indication that street gangs are active in your community. Graffiti is the newspaper, the billboard, the Internet of the world of street gangs and serves to mark the gang's power and status. Graffiti marks territorial boundaries and serves, as a warning to other gangs that the area marked with unique signs and symbols is the territory or "turf" of a particular gang. Graffiti warns intruders or trespassers from rival gangs and even policemen, that they are not welcome.
Sureno street gang members, SUR-13, often identify with the symbols XIII, X3, 13, and 3-dots (see fence photos at top of post with 3 dots). This refers to the 13th letter of the alphabet "M" which stands for Mexican Mafia. The gang identifies with the color blue and the words Sureno, Sur and Southerner. Other symbols include a black hand, La Eme (meaning 'the M' in Spanish) and MM (Mexican Mafia). Members of the Mexican Mafia align themselves with the Aryan Brotherhood and the Italian Mafia. The Mexican Mafia has been identified in nearly every federal and state correctional institution in the United States. Sureno street gangs have been identified in every state in the country. Members have being involved in all facets of criminal activity.
See Sarasota Herlad Article of December 1, 2009, SUR-13 Gang blamed for series of crimes in Sarasota County. A dangerous street gang from Manatee County invaded rural Sarasota County during a string of burglaries that targeted affluent and secluded homes east of the interstate, according to authorities. The burglaries are believed to be the first time Sur 13, a gang with origins in California, has branched out from its home bases in Oneco and Palmetto into Sarasota County.
Two gang members are in custody and detectives obtained arrest warrants for two others. The first break-in was in August and at least 20 homes -- most of them along Fruitville and Clark roads -- were burglarized. The suspects are high-ranking gang members who planned the crimes, took part in the burglaries and used new recruits to carry them out, authorities say.
Investigators believe members parked their cars on Fruitville or Clark roads and walked into the neighborhoods during the day. They likely knocked on doors to find out if anyone was home and if not, went around back, said Sarasota Sheriff's Maj. Ken Kenney.
"Their dislocation to Sarasota County was something we were gravely concerned about," Kenney said. "And now we're seeing it." Two people, Edelma Santos and Rosario Vazquez Hernandez, 21, were jailed on multiple felony counts Monday. Two other SUR-13 GANG MEMBERS Robert Williams, 27, and 22-year-old Angelica Villanueva -- are being sought.
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Microsoft Band 2 uses an internal lithium-polymer battery. Learn about your Band's power states, how to charge your Band, and how to check its battery level.
Microsoft Band 2 power states
Here's how to turn your Band on and off and how to turn off the display to preserve power.
Turn your Band on and off
Power on
- Press and hold the power button until you feel a slight vibration and the Me Tile appears.
Power off (two ways)
- Hold the power button down until Turn Power Off? appears, then swipe left and tap Yes.
- You can also turn off your Band from the Me Tile. Here's how:
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From the Me Tile, swipe left and tap the Settings Tile
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Tap Turn Power Off > Yes.
Microsoft Band 2 won't turn off while charging. Remove it from the charger first and then turn it off.
Turn the display on and off
To save battery power, your Band display automatically turns off or switches to Watch Mode when you aren't working with the tiles. For more info, see Watch Mode.
Turning off Watch Mode helps preserve battery power. You can also enable Rotate On, which shows the time only when you rotate your wrist. For more info, see Tips for longer battery life.
Turn the display off manually
- Press the power button.
Turn the display on (two ways)
- Press the power button.
- Connect the USB charging cable to your Band.
When you turn on the display, the Me Tile appears automatically unless you had turned off the display for only a few seconds. In that case, you'll see the last tile that was open.
Charge your Microsoft Band 2
- Connect the magnetic charging connector on the USB charging cable to the charging port on the clasp of your Band, making sure that the gold connector points on the charging cable line up with the gold connector points on the clasp. Plug the USB end of the cable into a powered USB port (USB 2.0 or greater).
- The first time you use your Band, you'll need to charge the battery fully. It can take about two hours to fully charge.
- Powered USB ports include those on your computer and those on USB hubs or adapters that connect to a power source. Most USB hubs don't supply power and won't charge your Band.
- Make sure the charging port on your Band and the magnetic charging connector on the USB charging cable are clean and dry. You can wipe off sweat, dust, or grime with a clean, dry, lint-free cloth. For more info, see Clean and care for your Microsoft Band.
A full charge can last up to 48 hours but can vary significantly depending on your settings, usage, and other factors. For tips on making the battery last longer, see Tips for longer battery life.
Check the battery status
To see how much battery power remains on your Band:
- On the Me Tile, drag right to see the battery status.