Social networks provide important opportunities for children's further learning, particularly the development of cultural identity and sense of belonging that contributes to children's feelings of well-being. Social networks also provide crucial support for parents as they endeavour to increase the family's cultural capital (e.g. by adding further pedagogical strategies to their repertoire) in order to raise their children's achievement.
Peer groups, especially at secondary school level, can profoundly influence children's achievement. They can do so in positive ways, or in negative ways. Their influence can override parental expectations, and can also promote mediocre educational norms.
When parents and children can access local community institutions (e.g. libraries, medical facilities) and social agencies children's achievement can be enhanced beyond the level which schools alone can accomplish.
A number of recent studies suggest that high levels of poverty within the community can adversely affect children's development regardless of the quality of the individual family environment. For example, Brody and colleagues (2001) studied the influence of neighborhood characteristics on 10- and 11-year-old African American children in Iowa and Georgia. Their data suggest that children who lived in disadvantaged communities, whether urban or rural, were more likely to affiliate with antisocial peers than were children living in more affluent communities. Affiliating with antisocial peers had a negative effect on children's academic progress, even when those children came from nurturing, supportive families. Swanson (2004) examined how community poverty affected high school completion for different ethnic groups. He found that high school graduation rates for African American students were more adversely affected by high-poverty environments than were graduation rates of white or Asian American students. The graduation rate for African Americans in very high-poverty school districts averaged approximately 50 percent, the lowest graduation level observed among the racial and ethnic groups studied.
Shumow, Vandell, and Posner (1999) focused on how various community demographic characteristics affected the academic performance of students in the 3rd and 5th grades. Fifth grade students who lived in neighborhoods with lower average household incomes, lower adult education levels, more female-headed households, and more violent crime performed worse in school than did students who lived in neighborhoods with more socioeconomic resources and less crime. The 5th graders' academic performance correlated negatively with neighborhood risk even after controlling for demographic indicators of family risk, such as family income and employment status. This negative impact did not extend to the study's 3rd grade subjects, however. The researchers speculated that before students reached 5th grade, they spent more time in the home and had less opportunity to be influenced by the larger community. Baker, McGee, Mitchell, and Stiff (2000) studied how a variety of community characteristics—including average family poverty level, average education level of adults, family median income, and students' socioeconomic status—affected the standardized test scores of 8th graders across Virginia. Community education level and students' socioeconomic status were the strongest predictors of success on standardized tests. The researchers concluded, however, that all of the factors studied were interrelated and that programs to optimize education opportunities for economically disadvantaged youth must address more than these two factors. They recommended implementing a holistic approach to adequately address the complex variables at work in communities.
Results of a study by Bickel, Smith, and Eagle (2002) suggest that high-poverty neighborhoods can vary in the kinds of support they give their residents and that supportive neighborhoods can mitigate the harmful effects of economic disadvantage on student achievement. These researchers examined the achievement test scores of 292 kindergarten students attending 12 elementary schools in two poor rural counties in western West Virginia. Some communities fit a conceptual model in which social accessibility and common outlook provided a supportive social order. In these communities, residents expected their relationships with their neighbors to be friendly, informal, socially useful, and based on similar worldviews. Controlling for family background and social class, the researchers found that as neighborhoods more closely approximated this model, students' early school achievement was enhanced. As neighborhoods departed from this model, achievement was diminished. These results suggest that policymakers should not assume that disadvantaged communities have a "culture of poverty" that adversely affects student achievement. Supportive neighborhoods exist even in poor areas and can provide students with a foundation for high academic achievement.


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Photo2Video: Semantic-Aware Deep Learning-Based Video Generation from Still Content
Viana, P; Andrade, MT; Carvalho, P; Vilaca, L; Teixeira, IN; Costa, T; Jonker, P;
JOURNAL OF IMAGING
Applying machine learning (ML), and especially deep learning, to understand visual content is becoming common practice in many application areas. However, little attention has been given to its use within the multimedia creative domain. It is true that ML is already popular for content creation, but the progress achieved so far addresses essentially textual content or the identification and selection of specific types of content. A wealth of possibilities are yet to be explored by bringing the use of ML into the multimedia creative process, allowing the knowledge inferred by the former to influence automatically how new multimedia content is created. The work presented in this article provides contributions in three distinct ways towards this goal: firstly, it proposes a methodology to re-train popular neural network models in identifying new thematic concepts in static visual content and attaching meaningful annotations to the detected regions of interest; secondly, it presents varied visual digital effects and corresponding tools that can be automatically called upon to apply such effects in a previously analyzed photo; thirdly, it defines a complete automated creative workflow, from the acquisition of a photograph and corresponding contextual data, through the ML region-based annotation, to the automatic application of digital effects and generation of a semantically aware multimedia story driven by the previously derived situational and visual contextual data. Additionally, it presents a variant of this automated workflow by offering to the user the possibility of manipulating the automatic annotations in an assisted manner. The final aim is to transform a static digital photo into a short video clip, taking into account the information acquired. The final result strongly contrasts with current standard approaches of creating random movements, by implementing an intelligent content- and context-aware video.
Improving word embeddings in Portuguese: increasing accuracy while reducing the size of the corpus
Pinto, JP; Viana, P; Teixeira, IN; Andrade, MT;
PeerJ Comput. Sci.
The subjectiveness of multimedia content description has a strong negative impact on tag-based information retrieval. In our work, we propose enhancing available descriptions by adding semantically related tags. To cope with this objective, we use a word embedding technique based on the Word2Vec neural network parameterized and trained using a new dataset built from online newspapers. A large number of news stories was scraped and pre-processed to build a new dataset. Our target language is Portuguese, one of the most spoken languages worldwide. The results achieved significantly outperform similar existing solutions developed in the scope of different languages, including Portuguese. Contributions include also an online application and API available for external use. Although the presented work has been designed to enhance multimedia content annotation, it can be used in several other application areas. © 2022. Pinto et al. Distributed under Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0
Emotion Identification in Movies through Facial Expression Recognition
Almeida, J; Vilaca, L; Teixeira, IN; Viana, P;
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Understanding how acting bridges the emotional bond between spectators and films is essential to depict how humans interact with this rapidly growing digital medium. In recent decades, the research community made promising progress in developing facial expression recognition (FER) methods. However, no emphasis has been put in cinematographic content, which is complex by nature due to the visual techniques used to convey the desired emotions. Our work represents a step towards emotion identification in cinema through facial expressions' analysis. We presented a comprehensive overview of the most relevant datasets used for FER, highlighting problems caused by their heterogeneity and to the inexistence of a universal model of emotions. Built upon this understanding, we evaluated these datasets with a standard image classification models to analyze the feasibility of using facial expressions to determine the emotional charge of a film. To cope with the problem of lack of datasets for the scope under analysis, we demonstrated the feasibility of using a generic dataset for the training process and propose a new way to look at emotions by creating clusters of emotions based on the evidence obtained in the experiments.

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Google Antitrust Case Suggests Apple Should be in the DOJ's Crosshairs As Well
November 2, 2020 Topic: Technlogy Region: North America Blog Brand: The Reboot Tags: GoogleAppleMonopolyBig TechDepartment Of Justice
The agreement seems more like a damning indictment of Apple's own potentially illegal business practices.
by Hemant K. Bhargava
Google's payments to Apple to promote its search engine in iPhones, iPads and Mac computers are at the center of the Department of Justice's antitrust lawsuit against the tech giant.
The suit alleges this creates a "continuous and self-reinforcing cycle of monopolization" by limiting which search engines consumers can use.
But as someone who studies platform markets, competition and industry structure, I believe the agreement seems more like a damning indictment of Apple's own potentially illegal business practices.
Why Google needs Apple
The Department of Justice alleges that Google pays Apple and other device-makers to set its search engine as the default "on billions of mobile devices and computers worldwide," thus controlling how users access the internet.
It's true, Google is dominant in search, which accounted for an estimated 83% of parent company Alphabet's revenue in 2019.
But about half of Google's search traffic originates from Apple devices. If Apple were to replace Google with an alternative default search engine on its devices, I estimate that Google could lose US$30 billion to $40 billion in annual revenue, assuming most users didn't change the setting back to Google.
Even if Apple didn't pick a default and pushed the search engine choice to users, it would still have to create a list of possibilities. Research on search and airline tickets has shown that consumers overwhelmingly tend to pick whatever is at the top of the list, meaning Apple would still wield significant power over user choice.
Because of this, Google clearly has a powerful motive to keep its search engine as the default choice.
Why Apple would pick Google anyway
Apple's role as the gateway to billions of searches is the critical factor here.
Consider an Apple executive preparing the iPhone or another device for launch, choosing whether to set a default search engine and, if so, which one to pick. Presumably, there are two key factors: costs and customer satisfaction.
The cost to Apple of presetting a default search engine is negligible, just a few lines of code. Without a default, consumers would need to set it themselves or type google.com or bing.com themselves to conduct a search, as opposed to the common practice of typing a search term in the URL field.
To prevent this user inconvenience, Apple would be best off presetting a search engine that was, ideally, the preferred choice of most users. The question then is: What would they prefer?
Google became synonymous with search since its founding in 1998 not simply due to its dominance – and payments to browser companies over the years – but because users found the results of its algorithm and simple interface superior to the competition. And Google continues to score high marks with consumers in satisfaction surveys.
If Apple product managers were to preset one default search engine in order to maximize user satisfaction, they would probably pick Google anyway.
A credible threat
So why would Google pay Apple $8 billion to $12 billion a year?
In my view, it comes down to the the fear of being supplanted by a rival search engine if it stopped paying the fee. Apple has done this to Google before.
The iPhone used to come preloaded with two Google apps: Maps and YouTube. In 2012, Apple kicked both off its devices as the two companies began to compete more aggressively with one another, requiring consumers to download the apps if they wanted to use them.
From a game theory perspective, a credible threat or perception of one could be enough to ensure continued compliance.
Since at least 2014 – around when the first Apple-Google partnership on preset default occurred – Apple has dominated mobile web traffic. This power gives Apple, as a platform providing access to users, the leverage it needs to charge and potentially extort a rent – in economic parlance – for a product design decision that it would have likely chosen on its own. This could violate antitrust law, though Apple would likely argue it's merely monetizing a resource it built.
It all comes down to the platform
Platforms provide the technological and economic infrastructure and set the rules participants must abide by.
This gives them significant power as the access point to potentially massive numbers of users, which has been the core issue underlying past antitrust actions against major tech companies such as Microsoft in the late 1990s.
While the Department of Justice lawsuit does have a strong case against Google in other areas, it seems like the part about the Google-Apple partnership should be more directed toward the company that actually controls the access to consumers.
And with new reports that Apple is planning to develop its own search engine, the government's desired remedy in its lawsuit – the end of the partnership and the Google default – may happen anyway, making the case mostly moot.
Hemant K. Bhargava, Professor, Suran Chair in Technology Management; Director, Center for Analytics and Technology in Society, University of California, Davis


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Discover The New Audi Q8 in Merrillville, IN
2019 Audi Q8 in Merrillville, IN
Meet the Exciting All-New Full-Size Audi SUV
We're proud to introduce our customers to the brand new 2019 Audi Q8, which offers a stylish new option in the five-passenger SUV segment. The Q8 boasts a coupe-inspired design that bears significant resemblance to supremely upscale offerings from Bentley, Porsche, and Lamborghini.
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Prominent fenders and an athletic build marry to a sloping roofline, allowing ample space for passengers in the rear seat. The Q8 measures in as lower and shorter than its Q7 sibling, but it's also wider -- while sitting on the same wheelbase, which makes it feel plenty sizeable.
Audi is renowned for its role as a leader in automotive LED lighting, and the Q8 is further proof of that. Dynamic lighting presents an animation to greet the driver when the SUV is either locked or unlocked, while taillights also give off an animated light display when the driver unlocks the Q8 with the Audi advanced key. Naturally, that animation reverses when the SUV is locked as if waving goodbye.
The expansive dashboard is accented by a selection of inlay options, while 18-way contoured front seats offer the comfort and support you crave. The rear seats boast a 40/20/40-split and come with their climate controls to enhance the experience. A panoramic sunroof comes standard, allowing light and air to flow into the cabin at your command.
The hands-free power tailgate makes for easy loading and unloading, and there's a stainless steel threshold to protect the sill. Naturally, there are interior packages available that make your experience even more elegant, from a Cold Weather package that includes a heated steering wheel and rear seats, to an ambient LED Interior Lighting Plus package that offers 30 colors to match your mood.
The 2019 Audi Q8 features a standard 3.0-liter turbocharged V6 engine with a 48-volt mild-hybrid system, which teams to an eight-speed automatic transmission that features paddle shifters mounted on the steering wheel. Together, they combine to manufacture 335 horsepower and 369 pound-feet of torque, delivering a 0 to 60 mph time of 5.6 seconds. The mild-hybrid system allows the SUV to run for a limited period of time on battery power alone, helping to boost fuel efficiency.
Audi's famed quattro® all-wheel drive is included as a standard feature, giving you the assurance and control that you want in all manners of road conditions. When extra traction is required, the system routes power to the axle that needs it. Another standard feature we admire? The adaptive suspension, which allows you to choose from different ride modes to suit a variety of terrains.
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The MMI® touch response system allows you to organize and arrange the functions and content to your tastes, directing personalized menus toward the driver's seat and providing both haptic and audible feedback. From climate control to 3D navigation and handwriting recognition, the MMI® touch response system is geared to your needs.
The standard Audi virtual cockpit and head-up display provide you with essential information right in front of your eyes, so you can keep your focus where it belongs -- on the road ahead of you. An available Audi phone box boosts your cellular signal and charges your phone, making communication with the world outside that much easier to accomplish.
The Audi Q8 offers driver-assistance features that make life on the road that much safer, from adaptive cruise assist, pre-sense® 360, and a top-view camera system with Virtual 360° view. Not only do these features inspire confidence, but they also help take the surprise out of driving.
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Creativity Extravaganza at HMP Whitemoor
By claire| 2019-08-05T13:26:41+00:00	August 5th, 2019|0 Comments
A true celebration of creative collaboration between HMP Whitemoor, prison charity Sing Inside and Cambridge University founded initiative 'Learning Together' took place at the prison last week.
The event showcased the artistic talents and achievements of the men at Whitemoor who found a way to express themselves through music, photography and film with encouragement from Learning Together and Sing Inside course teachers.
The event also marked the day of the opening of a new Learning Together study centre at the heart of the prison which will be used for future workshops.
The Learning Together partnership between the University of Cambridge and HMP Whitemoor is now at the end of its third year. In 2019, 148 residents from Whitemoor have taken part in 11 workshops and courses, including the ones on display at last week's event.
During the photography course, called 'No Admission' and led by PhD student Ellie Brown, 25 men explored the importance of photography in contemporary society along with themes of identity and what it means to be an artist in prison.
For Ellie, art allows us all to convey visceral ideas – to communicate our hopes, our dreams, our pain, vulnerability and the frailty of humanity. The beauty of art is that it is accessible to everyone, in a way that few things truly are. It didn't matter whether the men had ever held a camera before, or whether they had picked up a pen and attempted creative writing before.
Sing Inside also ran a three-day singing course, bringing 11 volunteers into Whitemoor to work with a group of eight residents to learn the basics of music theory and perform a range of songs at the event.
'The whole day was an uplifting experience for me, like a breath of fresh air.'
'The group dynamic helped me to feel that I was part of a team and was contributing to it. I don't think that I could have enjoyed it anymore.'
The exciting agenda featured the 'No Admission' photography exhibition, various choir performances and the showing of a self-made short film. The men played a big part in the day, performing poetry, conducting the choir and showing their achievements of the past weeks.
For many of them it was the first time doing creative work so it gave them a whole new way of expressing their emotions and hopes for the future. Prison staff and guests were very inspired by the event and the residents' energy and passion.
This article is based on an article that was published on the HMPPS intranet on 1st August 2019.
If you'd like to work with Learning Together or Sing Inside at your prison, please find more information here:
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Why Is Metazene The Most Effective Odor Control Chemical?
Posted on March 19, 2018 by Alpha Aromatics
Offensive odors have plagued mankind across all of human history. They were more or less tolerated as an inescapable evil until about 200 years ago, when sewage systems, garbage collection and other control measures were institutionalized.
In the U.S., as late as 1914, there were still more privies than toilets and the burning of incense was commonplace. Hand-held atomizers were used to disperse low cost perfumes into the air. Heavily scented salt, mothballs or soap cakes were used in public bathrooms and are still in use today.
However, due to the resurgence of lightly fragranced air fresheners and the demand by today's educated consumer, the method of "covering up" is simply not a desire control method anymore.
This was the cause for the tremendous resurgence of "true odorless neutralization" for all industries and what inspired the chemists at Alpha Aromatics to originate Metazene®; a counteractant that has become the most effective molecular odor neutralizer in the marketplace today.
While creating magnificent scents is our speciality, eliminating malodors is just as much of an art form. But how exactly does Metazene work, and what makes it dominantly more effective than other odor neutralizers out there?
This article delves into the history of air fresheners, a number of industrial methods for controlling airborne odors, the secret behind Metazene's powerful effect on every type of malodors and its multitude of commercial applications.
A Bit On The History Of Aerosol Air Fresheners
The aerosol-packaging mode was invented by Rotheim in Norway during 1931, but wasn't used commercially until 1947. Almost immediately after that, aerosol air fresheners were catapulted into the second largest product category (after insecticides), since chemists had discovered that the unprecedented degree of break-up produced such tiny particles that virtually all the fragrance power was unleashed within a few seconds.
Most particles were well below 0.001 inch in diameter as dispensed. They rapidly got still smaller as solvents and dilutents evaporated, leaving tiny microdroplets of almost pure fragrance that could remain suspended in the air for very long periods.
By 1949 at least 20 firms were actively selling aerosol air fresheners, and the race was on to develop still better formulations. The perfumes did little or nothing to control malodor; they merely covered them up, to a degree. In other words, they were reodorants, not deodorants. The industry needed something more. It needed an ingredient that would cancel unwanted odors by various physicochemical means, yet not react with any pleasing odors that the product might leave in their place.
After a lot of fruitless experimentation with odor masks, odor control agents, aldehydes, sulfonates and unspecified materials, Metazene® was discovered, and found to function as a odor-counteractant without anesthetizing the nose.
It was able to form a coordinate bond with a variety of osmophoric, or odorproducing sites that are unique to malodorous molecules, such as aminoand thiol (mercapto-) moieties. The Metazene molecules actually surrounded these sites, clustering about them as polymeric bonds developed, and also changing their electron configurations. As a result, odor was dramatically reduced — often eliminated altogether.
The anhydrous aerosol air fresheners that were in use until about 1962 (and to a limited extent up to the present time), produced sprays where the particle size was mainly from about 20 to 30 microns (0.0007 to 0.0012 inch) in diameter. This small size was important for two reasons. Since a typical 25-micron (0.001 inch) particle with a density of 1.00 g/ml settles in tranquil air at only about 2.01 cm/sec (3.9 ft/min), most of the released material was able to remain in the air for over 60 seconds.
If the formula contained Metazene, then the odor counteractant generally had a minute or more to contact and destroy those offensive odors that might be present.
The second advantage lay in the large number of particles released every second. If all the particles were 25 microns (0.001 inch) in diameter, the number would be 121,000,000 per ml, or about 100,000,00 per second. Actually, there are so many almost invisible particles in the 5 to 25 micron range, that the true number exceeds a billion per second. Given this huge number of particles, the likelihood of impaction with odor molecules is enhanced. The situation can be likened to that of a person shooting into an oak tree loaded with acorns — more acorns will be struck by the many small pellets from a shotgun than by the single bullet from a rifle.
Around 1960, with so many marketers now offering aerosol air fresheners in a market of about 105 million units and one which was beginning to be fragmented by the disinfectant/deodorant sprays, timed-release products and sachet sprays piece inevitable became of extreme importance. Many marketers began to weigh the option of deleting the typical 2.5 percent or so of Metazene and adding another 0.50 percent to 1.00 percent of fragrance, perhaps with the idea of drowning out the offensive odors in a flood of scent. A few opted to take this less sophisticated approach.
Also, it was once thought that combining Metazene with other so-called odor neutralizers was more actively effective, but this has been proven false and was just merely a means of price reduction. Sample efficacy demonstrations with increased Metazene content outweigh all the odds. However, where desired, an alternative compound known as "Metzazene-MLM" was developed as a cost-saving alternative for those who utilize the blended method.
In 1961, S.C. Johnson
& Sons, Inc. launched a
line of reformulated Glade air fresheners that transformed the industry. The new products were water-based. They typically contained about 65 percent water and 30 percent isobutene propellant, and
this acted to remove about 11 cents from the
formula cost of a typical six-ounce can. As a matter of survival, the rest of the industry struggled to reformulate their products.
The only ones of the industry that were immune to this crisis were those higher priced air fresheners marketed to "niche" specialty industries. They viewed the water-based products as inferior, producing coarse, loud, wet sprays that could spot polished furniture, and which also forced the consumer to also spray non-ionic emulsifiers and corrosion inhibitors into the air.
Water is composed of molecules firmly associated together through hydrogen bonding forces, and it is thus very hard to break up into a fine mist. Also, the breakup efficiency that is possible for single-phase (soluble) aerosol systems is not achieved by two-phase (emulsified) formulations. These facts explain the relative coarseness of the water-based air fresheners, which typically emit particles in the 40 to 60 micron (0.0020 to 0.0024 inch) range.
The typical 50-micron particle drifts downward at the rate of 7.8 cm/sec (15.0 ft/min). This can be quickly shown by holding one's hand, palm up, about five feet from the "water-base" aerosol can and about a foot or two from the axis of the spray. A few seconds after actuation, a sensation of wetness/coolness can be felt on the skin.
The typical 50 micron water-based particle is also 8.00 times more massive than the 25 micron anhydrous air freshener particle, assuming they have the same density, so it follows that the aerosol will emit only 12.5 percent as many as these larger particles, per second of spray time.
These concepts would suggest that water-base air fresheners can be only about 3.3 percent as effective as the anhydrous types, in both odor counteraction and "reodorization"; but this isn't true. In actuality, both the Metazene and fragrance ingredients partition themselves between the water emulsion phase and the hydrocarbon propellant phase. The amounts in each will vary according to the emulsifier that is used, but a substantial percentage will remain in the propellant in any event.
Metazene is soluble in isobutane and propane in all proportions, yet is almost insoluble in pure water without the use of nonionic surfactant such as Triton X-114 or Igepal CA-620. Experiments in which the liquid propellant phase is isolated and allowed to slowly boil off, leaving a residue, have proved the preponderance of Metazene partitions into the hydrocarbon layer. This is important, because it explains why Metazene works so well in water-based, emulsion type formulas.
As the product discharges, micro-droplets of water-phase in continuous phase of liquid propellant pass through the aerosol valve and into the air, and in a matter of microseconds, the liquid propellant bursts into a gas, leaving Metazene and any perfume in the air as extremely fine droplets. The droplets are so small that they are able to float about in the air for about six minutes to an hour or more, and this makes them extremely effective.
Tests have been made, adding typically 2.50 percent and 5.00 percent Metazene to water-based, emulsion type air fresheners, both with and without fragrance. Odor-counteractancy and fragrance bloom were compared with a placebo formulation containing 2.50 or 5.00 parts Metazene in 30.00 parts of Propellant A-46 (14 percent propane and 84 percent iso-butane). Valve delivery rates were adjusted to make the emission of Metazene fairly constant between the regular and placebo formulations.
The malodorant tested was skatole, formed by the action of
bacteria on albumen,
fish and many other
substances. It has an
overpowering fecal
odor and is a major
contributor to noxious
odor problems present
in bathrooms. In pre-
liminary experiments, the Metazene in
Propellant A-46 gave
the best control, fol-
lowed by the 5.00 percent Metazene water-based air freshener. The mal-odorant was instantly transformed into an acceptable state reduced to something resembling hot, stale candle wax. The light fragrance was useful in "freshening" the remaining residual odor.
Metazene, delivered from the placebo, seemed to be roughly two to four times as effective against skatole than that from the waterbased formulas. The reasons must be speculative. They could include some emulsification of the odor counteractant in the microdroplets of water, either as original content or rainout impaction. Water might also make the Metazene temporarily less chemically reactive; however, the highly effective 10 percent Metazene formulation was not tested at that time.
"Prescription Series" Treatment" TM compatible deodorizing fragrances have been proven effective in conjunction with the Metazene content to effectively and economically control specific household, institutional and industrial malodorous situations.
Industrial Applications For Controlling Airborne Odors
The main attraction of Metazene is its ability to control existing airborne odors. To varying extents, depending upon application, it may also provide control of nascent or newly created objectionable odors. In parts, this is due to its extremely low vapor pressure of about 0.005 mm at 25oC (77oF), which, for purposes of comparison, is only slightly higher than glycerin. Odor molecules that strike active Metazene films are either mitigated or cancelled through Hydrogen-bonding, adsorption and encapsulation. The addition of very small amounts of Metazene® to solutions that have offensive odors will generally have the same beneficial effect.
Metazene is best known for its ability to counteract airborne malodors in a variety of situations, but its direct addition into many plant-processing operations has opened tremendous marketing opportunities. In public bathrooms, there is a growing awareness of the need for odorless deodorization programs. Air ventilation, urinal cakes and mopping should be augmented by Metazene chemical control measures as a means of preventing complaints.
The VOC (Volatile Organic Compound) limitation is 18 percent in both states. All the ingredients are nonVOC, according to either vapor pressure (below) (.1 mm Hgo at 20oC), or by exemption (perfumes, up to two percent.). Hence, the isopropanol is always at 18.00 percent in three of the above examples. Paperwork submission will be required in both states. The level of perfume is subjective and influenced by fragrance/deodorant strength. It could vary from 0.20 to 2.00 percent.
The use of the above levels of surfactant should be reviewed. Much less may still give satisfactory results. The effect of surfactants should be evaluated from the standpoints of surface spotting, can corrosion and any effects from inhalation of "fines" in the air. Perfume selection can exert a profound effect on emulsion stability or instability.
The spray should be directed upward, toward the ceiling, and with emphasis toward those areas possibly having odorous residues. Additionally, specific surface spraying may be made, such as on toilet rims and the underside of toilet seats, adjacent walls and separators. Plastic containers and trigger/pumps without expose or contact metals components are the most desirable.
Aerosol dispensing is considered most effective for the control of airborne odors. The largest two aerosol cans (211 x 908 and 300 x 709) have net capacities of 894 ml (26.9 fl.oz.), and the product may be safely filled to 85 percent of this volume. A typical formula follows (Aerosol Formula for Air Freshener, page 54.)
The formula has a VOC content of 97 percent, making it unsuitable for California (after 1992) and New York (after 1993). Complaint formulations must be produced by January 1, 1992 and January 1, 1994, resp.; then marketers have an additional 18 months for "sell through." The following formulations, with 70 percent VOC content, is suitable for use in California until January 1, 1996 and in New York until January 1, 1997 after which approved air fresheners must have a VOC content not exceeding 30 percent.
The non-VOCs in this formula include the first four ingredients, plus the HFC152a (CH3-CHF2). Since the last item, also known as Dymel A (DuPont), presently costs about $1.90 per pound in bulk lots, it may be replaced with methylene
chloride if desired — the
spray will then become slightly coarser, but still acceptable. To make the spray finer, use 20 percent S.D. Ethanol 42.02 and 32 percent Propellant A-46. The revised formula(s) remain at 70 percent VOC levels.
Two additional aerosol approaches can be considered. One has a hydrocarbon propellant, while the other uses dimethyl ether as the propellant. Examples are Aerosol Formula for 70% VOC Air Freshener, above, and Aerosol Formulas for 30% VOC Air Freshener and Aerosol Formulas for 30% VOC Air Freshener.
The density of the 70 percent VOC formulation is about 0.751 g/ml at 70oF. It follows that 507 g will fill a 300x709or 211 x 908 aerosol can to 675 ml, or percent of capacity at 70oF. This is equal to 17.9 Av.oz. Potential marketers may wish to label such dispensers as "Net Wt. 17.5 oz. (1 lb., 1.5 oz.)" and fill to a target and tolerance of 17.7 + 0.2 Av. oz. In order to comply with DOT, state OW&M, and Federal FP& LA regulations.
Similarly, the water-base, emulsion type 30 percent VOC formulation has a density of 0.854 g/ml at 70oF. One may then safely fill 576.5 g into the 300 x 709 or 211 x 908 can. Since this is equal to 20.34 Av.oz., a reasonable filling specification would be 20.2 + 0.2 Av.oz. for a label declaration of "Net Wt. 20 oz. (1 lb. 4 oz.)."
The water-based dimethyl ether 30 percent VOC formula may be identically labeled. In the process of deodorizing and freshening the air in industrial or institutional sites, these large-size aerosol cans may be used in smoke-filled lounges, lavatories, locker rooms, etc. In some cases, odors indigenous to the facility will creep into office areas. When they become noticeable, they can be banished by the use of manual or automated Metazene sprays.
In some cases, a super-strength or industrial grade aerosol product may be needed, so that much larger areas may be treated without unduly depleting the dispenser. A formula is now given for a tremendously effective product of about four times the normal consumer strength. Areas reserved for the temporary collection of storage of industrial waste often generate bad odors.
For example, meat trimmings, grass or vegetable cuttings, fish parts and other proteinaceous scraps will quickly decay in warm weather, producing both amine and thiol odors, along with those rancid, acidic and aldehydic malodors that arise mainly from oxidations. Such odors can be controlled to various degrees by spraying the area with Metazene, and control is enhanced if the top surface of the waste can is also sprayed.
For example, if malodors rise through the contents of a drum of meat clippings, then come into contact with active films of Metazene covering the top layer of waste, the blood, or "high" odor, will be chemically suppressed. The degree will depend upon the deodorant mix and the probability of source contract with animal products, such as meat, butter, cheese and milk, must be specifically approved and registered with USDA. The FDA administers similar controls for the remaining food products.
Industrial Odor Control Methods
Numerous other odors arise in many industrial settings, such as sewage plants, landfills and stack emissions, where large scale fogging generators can be utilized to control odors in the air for long distances. Machine ships often develop somewhat rancid odors from the air-oxidation of emulsion-type "white" cutting oils, such as those thinly jetted onto lathes, milling machines, grindstones, reciprocating metal saw blades, drill bits and the like to prevent overheating and galling. The heated emulsion, now often containing microscopic fragments of catalytically active iron and rust forms peroxide linkages at double bonds of the oil molecules, which then cause scission of the carbon-to-carbon bond and the formation of traces of butyric acid, iso-valeraldehyde and caproic acid.
All three of these examples are present in the noxious effuvium expelled by irritated skunks. The Latin root "capri" means goat. Caproic and capric acids were so named because their odors resembled the body odor of goats. When Metazene is added directly to the fresh cutting oils, cooling solutions of water based sprays are used to wet down areas that might come into contact with spent cutting oils. Here, the odor-counteractant reacts with the new, malodorous molecules as they are formed, and this may reduce the stale odor in the entire shop.
The odor-counteractant efficacy of Metazene can be readily demonstrated by taking small amounts of rancid butter or spoiled milk, dispersing them into very warm water in a test tube or small bottle, then spraying in some Metazene and shaking again. Most or essentially all of the malodor (without fragrance) will vanish.
Consumer And Institutional Applications
The recent development of an industrial strength 10.8 percent aerosol formula offers a demonstration tool for indoor malodorous areas. This formulation was effective when sprayed into a highly odorous perfumery laboratory.
In many cases, buildings will have persistent odors that result from the repeated use of various products. The stale food odors in the halls of some apartment houses is one example… the ethnic odors of tomato sauces, boiled cabbage, fish, cheese, garlic and onions are often prominent. Spraying the air with Metazene containing products is an effective method in place of traditional perfume sprays, which are only temporarily beneficial.
After the treated air departs (through drafts, or forced ventilation), the floors, walls and even the ceiling may exude more of the odor mix from the accumulation of months or years.
To a significant extent, these food, smoking and chemical odors revert into the renewed air over time. This unwanted replenishment can be both mitigated and deterred by treating these surfaces with Metazene sprays. For this type of treatment, a 10 percent Metazene solution in a hydroalcoholic solvent is preferred, and using a backpack compressed air tank and/or airless spray gun of the type often used by professional Pest Control Operators makes for the best application.
Metazene And Smoke Odor Counteraction
In some cases, multiple dwellings will bear the scars and empyromatic residuums of a past-localized fire or in the "smoking sections" of public areas. Spraying Metazene solutions either directly on the burned/smoke-damaged substrate or on the overlaying materials can reduce these characteristics miasmas largely unsaturated or aromatic amines. These treatments must be repeated periodically.
As a notation, all alcohol-based formulations are potentially flammable. Especially when large amounts are sprayed, resident evacuation and use of proper personal protection equipment should be used. Adequate ventilation must be assured, and the area must be free of flames or sparks, and should not be used around stoves, ovens, hair dryers, incubators, incinerators, nonexplosion-proof motors or sparking-type electric relays.
Many odors are produced by chemical degradations brought about by micoorganisms: bacteria, yeasts, mold, mildew, rickettsia and so forth. They include metabolic and catabolic mechanisms. Metazene has shown complete effectiveness in neutralizing organic odors such as cigarette smoke (pyrazines), fish odors (amines), decaying garbage and vegetables cooking odors, garlic and onions…sulfide mercaptans, thiols, etc. Metazene is organic in itself.
In circumstances where
the microorganisms are
accessible, the addition of disinfectant chemicals will
allow Metazene formulas
to provide an additional
advantage, by killing the germs and other microphages that digest non-odorous materials and
produce malodorous ones. The best control is obtained where they reside on hard, non-porous environmental
surfaces. Surfaces where
there is re-occurrence, such
as mildewed work boots, and washroom walls and floor and pet accidents on carpet will have to be retreated at intervals.
Synergistic mixtures of certain quaternary ammonium compounds are notable for their persistent effects lasting up to six months on hard, non-porous surfaces. The addition of disinfectant concentrates to Metazene formulas is possible, keeping in mind the potential for can corrosion and the need for U.S. EPA pre-marketing approval. The latter process can be costly and take 36 months to complete.
Where bulk or pre-measured concentrated formulations are prepared by the janitorial staff for application using pump sprays or air guns, they may optionally include synergistic quaternary ammonium chloride disinfectant concentrates at the use-dilutions recommended by the supplier. At least 12 percent to 15 percent water must be included in the overall formula to avoid sporadic efficacy results and this means that any holdover amounts of Metazene bulk disinfectant formulas should be stored only in non-metallic containers, such as 5-gallon polyethylene buckets or drums, otherwise container corrosion could result.
Metazene And Room Air Freshener Odor Control
Thermal and Gel-based fan air fresheners have resurged in recent years, and the addition of Metazene to plastic, oil and water-based formulations have proven to yield a dual effect: Vaporous odor neutralization and overall product longevity. Metazene acts as an excellent fragrance fixative.
Improved Consumer Product Acceptance
Most plastic contain chemical additives to impart such properties as improved stress resistance, non-yellowing, better molding properties, and opacity or color. They are not usually volatile, but when prilled polyethylenes, nylons and other "loaded" plastics are melted as a prelude to injection molding, the temperature of 250oF to 400oF cause some of them to vaporize.
The additives, plus any oxidative decomposition products, will then inject characteristic odors into the air; additionally, they may cause employees to have health related concerns. High-level ventilation is one remedy, but is often costly in terms of the capital expense, maintenance, and (for colder climates) the price of tempered replacement air. Counteracting the odors by means of Metazene spray is often a preferred option. One useful approach is to use a timed-dispensing device that mounts on some vertical surface near the source of the vapors.
Quite often, the still-hot plastic components are conveyed into fairly big corrugated boxes, commonly lined with a polyethylene bag to maintain dust-free environment during handling and shipping. This often caused the released additives, now as surface films, to gradually build up a saturated atmosphere in the shipper. This may be an embarrassment for the supplier if customers complain about the release of odorants in controlled areas. By briefly spraying each filled bag or box with Metazene, just before closure, the odor counteractant will combine with the malodorous vapors, neutralize them, and then polymerize into a miniscule amount so attenuated as to invisible.
Additives Into The Manufacturing Process
The manufacturer of polyethylene sheeting, trash bags, laminates and similar articles will experience the same malodorous problems. Sometimes, over 25 percent of the composition will consist of additives such as those to improve low temperature flexibility and to prevent tearing. The sale of plastic trash bags represents a huge market, with over a half-billion sold each week in the U.S. alone.
With scented trash bags becoming a favored option in controlling odors… the addition of Metazene with or without fragrance will provide better odor counteractant properties when injected into polyethylene, as well as providing the consumer with a superior odor control trash bag.
Metazene can also be added to other molded plastics that might require odor control during hot rolling, edge welding and so forth. The direct addition of Metazene into the process and/or spray can provide the manufacturer with a trace of pleasing fragrance (or no scent) instead of the raw chemical odor, when he or she opens the box.
The difference has advertising potential as well. Similar remarks may be made for the automotive, carpet, rubber fabricating, paper-making, printing and textile industries, etc., where additives are inevitably used to prevent ozone-induced hardening and cracking of rubbers, premature yellowing of paper and so forth.
Many of these additives consist of odorous substituted thiazoles (vulcanizers), sulfitic bleaches, formalins, solvents, aromatic UV brighteners and so forth. They cause odors in both the plant and finished product. In fact, much of the odor of burning rubber is not the rubber itself, but the additives also present. The use of Metazene odor counteractant with or with the "Prescription Treatment" deodorants can be a powerful tool in combating such odors at all stages of production and use in addition to and offering excellent sales potential.
Other air freshening applications merely mask odors; Metazene annihilates the particles that cause foul malodors at the molecular level.
When push comes to shove, there is no more effective molecular odor neutralizer in the marketplace today and can be applied to a multitude of products, including but not limited to thermal air freshener dispensers, aerosols, automated aerosol dispensers, paints, liquid and gel air fresheners, insecticides, inks, carpet cleaners, chemical specialties and processing additives, fabric softeners, laundry products, carpet emissions, automobile interiors, textiles, industrial deodorants for sewage and landfills, dryer sheets, pet odor neutralizers, carpet powders and cat litter, etc.
If you'd like to incorporate Metazene into any of your products or you would like further information on specific applications for Metazene, as well as further literature, logo-branded trademark licensing, MSDS data, pricing, etc., don't hesitate to send us a message today!
Metazene is a registered trademark for an odor-counteractant produced by Alpha Aromatics, Inc. Pittsburgh, PA.
Natural fragrances are complex formulations that contain aromatic raw materials that derive only from nature and are extracted via steam distillation or water. They include: trees, raw fruits, animal extracts, herbs, leaves, seeds, roots and diverse woods. These substances range from essential oils and botanical …


Unseen and ING have announced the five finalists of the ING Unseen Talent Award 2017; an accolade set up to give emerging European practitioners a platform to circulate their work on a global scale and to nurture artists who are shaping the future of photography. The shortlist comprises Stefanie Moshammer, Alexandra Lethbridge, Robin Lopvet, Andrea Grützner and Tom Callemin.
Beirut-based visual artists Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige map out a genealogy of e-mail scams through film and installation in the latest exhibition taking place at Manchester's HOME.
In surrealist black and white staged images, Astrid Verhoef leaves urban life behind, exploring new connections with the organic world.
For his largest UK show yet and his first in a UK public gallery for a decade, British artist Mat Collishaw is exhibiting sculpture, photography, film and installation at New Art Gallery Walsall.


Filtra-Systems innovative Deep Bed Nut Shell Media Filter has overcome the limitations of conventional bed type industrial water filters by leveraging a maximum efficiency regeneration design.
This media regeneration in our walnut shell filter is achieved using the kinetic model of a Continuous Stirred-Tank Reactor (CSTR), which makes the backwash the most efficient, most powerful, most economical, and only scientifically proven regeneration technology offered on the market today.
Designing, building, and listening to customers' feedback for decades has given us the competitive advantage necessary to engineer the world's best filtration products, including these Walnut Shell Media Filters.
With almost forty years of experience in industrial water and wastewater filtration, we've engineered, built and field-tested solutions for customers in a very wide variety of industries.
The Deep Bed Nut Shell Filter is a proven technology with hundreds of installations worldwide, in a variety of difficult applications.
When your sand, anthracite, or multimedia industrial water filter system stops backwashing properly, the Walnut Shell Filter will do the job, guaranteed.
Deep Bed Nutshell Filters are down flow, deep bed, nut shell media filters designed for oily water filtration.
As the liquid passes through the walnut shell filter's media bed, oil and solids are efficiently retained in the bed and can easily be backwashed out of the media bed with the patented rotating media scrubbing assembly.
These backwash assemblies are the best technology available for fluidizing the media bed, and allows the manufacture of large flow horizontal units. No chemicals, surfactants, or air sparging cycles are required for the backwash.
HOW NUTSHELL FILTERS WORK FOR YOU.
In high volume water and wastewater filtration applications, Deep Bed Nutshell Filters are used to remove suspended solids and insoluble hydrocarbons from oily wastewater, groundwater, plant process water, cooling water, and water recycling and reuse.
In metalworking, power generation, chemical, and petrochemical applications, these industrial water filters treat and remove suspended solids, oily residues, ash, and metallic hydroxides from industrial liquids.
Deep Bed Walnut Shell filtration systems give you double the throughput efficiency of conventional sand or graded mixed-media filters for removal of suspended solids and hydrocarbons.
Under normal operating conditions, they remove 95 to 99% of suspended solids, and 90 to 99% of insoluble hydrocarbons without the use of chemicals.
This unparalleled efficiency makes the Walnut Shell Media Filter one of the best industrial water purification systems on the market today.
what makes the Deep Bed walnut shell filter unique?
Unique to the Deep Bed nutshell industrial water filters is a patented media scrubbing cycle that fully regenerates the media filtration system during each backwash cycle.
This scrubbing cycle is initiated automatically, whenever the filter bed becomes dirt-laden.
A change in pressure differential across the filter bed or an automatic preset time signal activates backwashing.
The current Walnut Shell media design incorporates the high intensity of a mixer to vigorously agitate the media bed during the scrubbing cycle.
The mixer is combined with the separating efficiency of a rotating backwash scrubber screen to produce the optimum separation of the scrubbed media from the concentrated backwash fluids.
Deep Bed Walnut Shell filters provide operation with pressure or vacuum flow to meet your specific on-site requirements.
Filtra-Systems provides engineering, lab analysis, installation, and service support for our Walnut Shell media and other products worldwide.
Meeting the industrial filtration demands of your specific industry, our Deep Bed Walnut Shell Media Filter is available in ten standard vertical models, and six standard horizontal models.
Below you will find some projects that have benefited from our technology. To check out how these Nut Shell Media Filters will increase your efficiency and productivity in your operation, contact us today!
High throughput nut shell filters for purification of oily process water and industrial wastewater.
Single filtration units are available up to 5,000 GPM (175,000 BWPD). Deep Bed Nutshell Filtration Systems give double the throughput of conventional deep bed sand or graded mixed-media filters. Horizontal and vertical models are available for flexibility. We offer ten (10) standard vertical and six (6) standard horizontal Nutshell Filter models. Vertical models provide a flow rate range from 70 GPM to 2800 GPM per unit, while horizontal models provide flow rates from 1200 GPM to 12000 GPM per unit, each depending on the application. Units are pre-assembled at the factory and can be shipped to the job site skid-mounted, ready for installation. Also, larger sizes can be custom-designed to meet your specific project needs.
Pre-Conditioned Media ready for instant installation. Speeds up start up time by 10x.


Philmac has mechanisms in place to monitor, control and continuously improve all of its business operations. This will be done with due consideration to the design, manufacture, assembly and distribution of fluid transfer solutions.
Philmac believes it has an important duty to ensure good environmental performance in all its business operations and to provide the necessary organisation, commitment and training to fulfil this obligation. The business firmly believes in, and is committed to, monitoring and improving environmental performance, pollution prevention and environmental enhancement.
Incorporating environmental responsibility into all business operations by planning environmental protection, reviewing and developing policy.
By creating improvement programs based on objectives and targets set by the Environmental Management System.
We will work with our suppliers and customers to pursue continual improvement in environmental performance (where reasonably practical), particularly the areas of reducing resource use, minimising waste and increased recycling.
Complying with all federal, state, and local environmental agency regulations and codes of practice as well as Aliaxis environmental policy requirements. We will seek to improve on minimum standards where reasonably practical, and expect those working on our premises to meet the same standards.
To adopt on each production site, a policy ensuring not only the strict application of local regulations but also a continuous search for improved performance in terms of environment by using the best practically available technology and introducing environmental management systems which are integrated with quality.
To design in our activities, product which contribute by their own functions to the protection of the environment.
To implement, in respect to manufactured products, Research and Development programs aimed at the continuous reduction of their environmental impact assessed on their entire life cycle "cradle to grave".
To cooperate with all our partners (suppliers, users, public authorities etc) to ensure that a responsible attitude is promoted and developed at all stages of the product life cycle and particularly at the end of life.
To provide relevant information about environmental performance of production sites and manufactured products with a continuous concern for objectivity based on business practices.
To participate in the various organisations involved in the definition of ambition future targets for activities in which Aliaxis is involved, as well as in the evolution of standards and regulations which structure these activities.
Above all, Philmac will promote staff awareness of environmental issues and provide the resources and training that will enable them to actively contribute to fulfilling our environmental objectives and obligations.


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American, Animation, art, Artist, Chromosphere, Contemporary, Contemporary Art, Design, Designer, Digital Art, Film, Forms in Nature: Understanding Our Universe, Mankind, Nature, Science, Scientific Achievements, Short Film, Technology, Tribute, Universe, USA, Video
Forms in Nature: Understanding Our Universe
Forms in Nature is an animated film tribute to wonders of the natural world
Created by the designers from Chromosphere, Forms in Nature: Understanding Our Universe is a stunning animated short film paying tribute to the geometric shapes of nature, focusing on the most perfect and pure shape, the circle. An audiovisual meditation on mankind's scientific achievements and the wonders of the natural world, this film celebrates how science deepens our connection to the universe with study and curiosity. This is amazing work! 🙂
American, art, Artist, Contemporary, Contemporary Art, Drawings, Everyday Life, Illustration, Illustrator, Instagram, Jasper St Aubyn West, Photographs, Photography, Photos, USA
Jasper St Aubyn West – Everyday Monsters
Jasper St Aubyn West draws monsters invading photos of daily life
To pass the time, American illustrator Jasper St Aubyn West has fun drawing strange and unique monsters invading photographs of our daily life – this awesome series of amusing and slightly twisted creations can also be followed on Jasper's Instagram. Very cool stuff 🙂
1980s, 80s, Abandoned, America, American, art, Artist, Decay, Images, New York, New York City, Photographer, Photographs, Photography, Photos, Steven Siegel, Urban, Urbex, USA
Steven Siegel – New York in the 80s
Steven Siegel captures a decaying & apocalyptic 1980s New York
Steven Siegel is an American photographer who captured New York from the 1980s in very raw, almost apocalyptic, images. Through his fascinating photographs focused on urban decay, wastelands, and abandoned spaces, Steven Siegel reveals a time when New York City was a much more dangerous and broken-down place – risky, dirty, and chaotic yet somehow had a sense of honesty, openness, and freedom which according to him was lost after 9/11. You can check out all of Steven Siegel's work on his Flickr account. Amazing stuff! 🙂
America, American, art, Blueberry Flowers, Confectioner, Confectionery, Daisies, Edible, Etsy, Flower Lollipops, Flower Petals, Flowers, Food, Gift Idea, Janet Best, lollipops, Novelty, Pansies, Petals, Products, Sugar, Sugar Bakers Bakery, USA
Sugar Bakers Bakery – Flower Lollipops
Sugar Bakers Bakery inserts edible flower petals into lollipops
We love the amazing creations of Janet Best, an American confectioner and owner of Etsy shop Sugar Bakers Bakery who inserts colourful and edible flower petals, such as blueberry flowers, pansies, and daisies, into her original and bespoke sugar lollipops. Fantastic stuff! 🙂
America, American, Animated GIFs, Animation, art, Artist, Bloomberg, Contemporary, Contemporary Art, Design, Designer, Digital Art, Editorial, Editorial Illustrator, GIF, GIFs, GQ, Illustration, Illustrator, Magazines, New York Times, Pop Culture, Stephen Vuillemin, Technology, USA
Stephen Vuillemin's Funny Editorial GIFs
Stephen Vuillemin turns his illustrations into fun animated GIFs
Stephen Vuillemin: We love the work of American illustrator Stephen Vuillemin, who specialises in funny editorial illustrations and has turned them into awesome animated GIFs. Usually creating illustrations for publications like the New York Times, Bloomberg, and GQ, Stephen Vuillemin brings an extra dimension to his work with this fun batch of animations. Great stuff! 🙂
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Rachel Perry – Lost In My Life
Rachel Perry becomes lost in camouflages of everyday objects
Rachel Perry: With her Lost In My Life project, American artist and photographer Rachel Perry takes the stage, becoming lost in camouflages composed of various everyday objects. Through these interesting self-portraits, Rachel Perry illustrates our addiction to these objects and the endless organisation, cleaning, and shopping that manages our lives. Fantastic work! 🙂
1960s, 1970s, 60s, 70s, American, art, Artist, Barbie, Batman, Board Games, Books, Buck Rogers, Childhood, Comics, Contemporary, Contemporary Art, Design, Dick Tracy, Felix the Cat, Hopalong Cassidy, Hyperrealism, Hyperrealist, K. Henderson, Operation, Orbit, Painter, Painting, Paintings, Pop Culture, retro, Space-O, Still Life, Superheroes, Superman, The Lone Ranger, USA, Vintage Toys
K. Henderson – Pop Realism
K. Henderson pays tribute to her childhood and 60s & 70s pop culture
K. Henderson: We love these hyperrealist paintings by American artist K. Henderson, who pays tribute to her childhood with still lifes composed of vintage toys, books, board games and comics, mainly from pop culture of the 60s and 70s. Awesome work! 🙂
19th Century, 19th Century Painting, Acrylic Paint, American, American Painting, art, Artist, Contemporary, Contemporary Art, Design, Hipsters, Jargon, Painter, Painting, Paintings, Pop Culture, Shawn Huckins, Social Media, Text Messaging, USA
Shawn Huckins – Hipsters Be Like
Shawn Huckins recreates 19th century paintings with a social media edge
Shawn Huckins: Check out this series by American artist Shawn Huckins, who, with acrylic paint, reproduces great pieces of American painting from the 19th century and superimposes oversized white lettering inspired by modern social media and text messaging jargon. For many more, pay a visit to Shawn's website. Love it! 🙂
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Stephen McMennamy – ComboPhoto
Stephen McMennamy's clever photo mashups
Stephen McMennamy: We love the fantastic 'ComboPhoto' series by American photographer Stephen McMennamy, who has a laugh on Instagram and Tumblr juxtaposing unrelated photos to create funny and very clever mashups. Great stuff! 🙂


Copenhagen Dip Bass Fishing CHALLENGE!!!
11 Pound Bass!!!! Largemouth bass fishing in Alabama.
Deep Crankbait Tips For Summer Bass Fishing!
The crankbait bite is already starting! Get ahead of the bite this year instead of being the guy playing catch up! Every year the transition from post spawn to full summer pattern happens in the blink of an eye. One minute we're talking about bed fishing, the next its all ledge fishing, crankbaits, and topwater.
Deep cranking is one of the best ways to consistently load the boat with bass during the Summer months. The bite will start now and typically run all the way into September or October depending on the lake. The key to consistently catching bass on deep cranks is to adapt size and color of the baits to changing conditions.
This year we want you to focus on fine tuning your presentations at different depths. Below is a list of baits and equipment that we personally use for this application.
If the Zodias 7'6″ Glass is sold out the Curado 7'6″ Medium+ is a great alternative for an all around rod paired with the same reel/line.
Longtime Southeast Fisheries Biologist John Williams joins host Chad Miles on a chilly winter morning on a search for bass at Laurel River Lake.
Matt's GIANT Crankbait Bass!! Full Catch Footage!
Matt hooks up on this GIANT Bass almost a year to the day after Tim's MONSTER catch! We traveled several thousand miles, drove for hours on the water, and risked an INSANE lightning storm, just for a shot at a fish like this!
Smallmouth are AMAZING predators. If you've never had a chance to target them, put it on your bucket list! Smallmouth bass have traditionally been targeted with finesse tackle but that is changing. These fish are aggressive feeders and have no issue eating crankbaits, swimbaits, topwater, and a variety of other reaction baits.
This bass weighed 6.54 lbs on the certified Salter Brecknell Scale. She was sitting in a school of fish on a current break. If you catch closely you'll see how quickly the water was moving past the boat while we used the Ultrex Trolling Motor (link below) on Spot Lock to stay in place and make receptive casts to the same spot. While we don't show the entire clip, we had caught approximately 15 fish in the same exact spot BEFORE the big one bit! This is classing schooling behavior and something we've covered at length in other videos.


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Q: Высота TextButton в DateTimeRangePicker'е не изменяется Пытаюсь сделать кнопку сохранения в _CalendarRangePickerDialog высотой 16. Но какие бы я ограничения на неё не ставил, её высота не меняется. Глянул в дерево виджетов, где увидел следующее:
В дереве виджетов с привязкой рендер объекта видно, что мои ограничения на контейнер устанавливаются (1, 4). Но потом ниже видно, что в рендер объекте откуда-то появляется высота 56 (2 и 3), которой в коде нигде нет. Ни в стилях кнопки, но в контейнерах над ней

Мой код (пытался навесить все, что можно):

Может кто подсказать как это можно починить?

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9 Responses to The KT Fellowship present ….
I can hardly contain myself. So much so, that I first tried to type this comment in the Name field.
Is that photo of her at the piano inside of the programme? Or did someone sneak a photo?
Is her piano on the right side of the stage?
Any idea how much the programme costs? I am planning how many pounds to get upon my arrival.


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Editorializing on Iraq
Today's editorials reflect on Salvador's involvement in Iraq, and range from ridiculous (EDH), to bland (LPG), to acutely critical (El Faro).
First, the ridiculous. After blaming Jimmy Carter for the rise of Islamic fundamentalism (remember Iran?), El Diario de Hoy compares the death of young Méndez Ramos to that of thousands of others who have fallen in their own country due to terrorism and insanity. "It's not the first, and it won't be the last: many experts on this kind of conflagrations anticipate that the war against terror might last fifty years." Then, in comparing Al-Sadr to Hitler, they say that "the internal situation in Iraq, which due to the circumstances does not have its own government, opens the door to these kind of demented minds. In other countries of the muslim world, dictatorships reign, impeding calls to war although not necessarily hate."
Dictatorship is the answer? And here I thought it was only us anti-war types who supposedly preferred dictatorships (like that of Saddam) to the tragic democracy-by-force experiment in Iraq!
La Prensa Gráfica avoids saying much of anything: the situation gets more complicated every day, and eventually some decisions will need to be made....
But it is the alternative online newspaper El Faro, which is run voluntarily by editors (one of whom, Carlos Dada, spent time in Iraq last year for La Prensa Gráfica) and young journalists, that provides the best analysis and commentary:
First, they ask why it was that only Salvadorans, and no Spanish, were killed or wounded in this attack. Part of the answer lies in the fact that Salvadorans have only ever functioned in a security role in Iraq. After noting the cynicism of President Flores for continuing to call Salvadoran involvement "humanitarian," they say that Salvadoran soldiers are "canon fodder in a foreign country."
"And they have been put there by a decision-- still not explained-- by their own president, and which has hardly been justified by the foreign minister, who insists in pretending, based on a sui generis interpretation of UN resolutions, that the troop presence follows a mandate of the United Nations. But the UN is no longer institutionally in Iraq, and no soldier has ever used the insignia of that body...
But the Salvadoran president happily accepted the U.S. request [to send troops], and with the pretext of aiding in reconstruction, and with the support of three political parties (ARENA, PCN and PDC), soldiers were sent to Iraq who only know how to fight, not rebuild anything. According to studies of IUDOP, some 61% of the Salvadoran population opposed this deployment of troops. It didn't matter....
The death of soldier Natividad Ramos Méndez isn't the reason for which we shouldn't be in Iraq, but rather a tragic invitation to reflect on what sense it makes to risk our fellow countrymen's lives in a war which more than 77% of Salvadorans opposed. A war that isn't our war, nor that of humanity; and which never was."
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This morning we woke to this glorious sunrise at Korora Beach, Coffs Harbour, New South Wales.
For further information on Korora Beach see Tracey Benson's post 365 Places: Korora Beach.
and 365 Places: Sunrise over the Pacific.
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Hi Rob. Thanks, right place at the right time. You have some great photos too, and so lucky to have all those great mountains to photograph.
Gorgeous pictures! Reminds me that we live in such a beautiful world!
Thanks Julie, it is a beautiful world.


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Stark Group selects Planon to comply with IFRS 16 standards
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Founded in 1896 with headquarters in Denmark, Stark Group has been continuously developing and strengthening its position in the market and is well regarded in the construction industry. In addition to supplying products, the organisation also provides valuable advice and services to builders across the entire Nordic region. With over 10,000 employees and 412 stores in six countries, Stark Group handles 4,200 lease contracts across all countries in which it operates. 'We have chosen Planon software for Lease Management and IFRS 16 compliance because of the maturity of the solution and the structured implementation process,' said Michael Peter Jakobsen, Group Finance Manager at Stark Group.
After an in-depth selection of vendors with a focus on business and technical requirements, demonstration, implementation, Nordic references and financial proposal, Planon was selected as the preferred supplier. Karsten Wingsted, Finance Specialist at Stark Group, explains, 'The opportunity to speak with several Planon customers before making our decision gave us the confidence that Planon would be the best partner to choose. This eased our search for an integrated lease management and IFRS 16 lease accounting solution'.
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Saxo Bank commits to Riis for another year
By Cycling News 16 July 2013
Danish investment firm wants "good cooperation" with Tinkov
The new Saxo Bank Tinkoff team kit (Image credit: Saxo Bank Sungard)
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Oleg Tinkov had his own champagne to celebrate with. (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
With their agreement due to expire at the end of the current season, Danish investment firm Saxo Bank has extended its sponsorship of Bjarne Riis' team for one more year.
Tinkoff Bank to take over as sole sponsor for Saxo-Tinkoff?
Danish Anti-Doping looking at Riis and Saxo team
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Saxo Bank founder Lars Seier Christensen told Ritzau that they had come to an arrangement with co-sponsor Oleg Tinkov.
"We have committed to the team again. And we've also come to a definitive agreement with our Russian friend," Christensen said.
Tinkov said earlier this month that he was likely to up his stake in the team which would result in the squad being named Tinkoff Bank-Saxo Bank. Christensen indicated that the slight name change may well be on the cards.
"I am not particularly swayed to one or the other. So it can be anything. I guess basically it's a question of who would want it most. That is a question of money," he explained.
"We would like to have a good cooperation with Oleg. I have 'commited' to next year. It's now about what Oleg will do."


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Quavo has the magic touch when it comes to guest appearances. In 2017, the rapper held the record for most top 10 singles on the Billboard charts and along with Migos, he's been carrying that same momentum throughout 2018.
Last week, the rapper made his anticipated cameo on Fox's "Star" after posting a photo of him on set a few weeks back.
Quavo and Ryan Destiny link up for their collaboration, "Lifetime." The single doesn't fit the mold of Quavo's turnt up trap sound as he does with most rap features. Instead, he goes into a pop-centric direction in the vein of DJ Khaled's "I'm The One." Destiny's vocals smoothly float over the production while Quavo interjects with his famous ad-libs in the background.
Hopefully his latest appearance on "Star" sparks more possibilities in acting for the Migos emcee. The rapper had a guest appearance in the first season of "Atlanta" alongside Takeoff and Offset as fictionalized versions of themselves. He's also previously revealed that he's working on a movie script.


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