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Objective: This study was designed to evaluate the use of low dose vaginal estriol and low dose vaginal estradiol creams for the treatment of vulvovaginal atrophy. Methods: We designed a 12-week randomized double blinded pilot study. Participants applied the study cream daily (estriol 10mcg, estradiol 10mcg, or placebo) for 2 weeks and then twice weekly for a further 10 weeks. Results: Sixty three women were accrued, of whom 56 completed the study. There was no statistical difference between the three groups in improvement in the symptoms of vulvovaginal atrophy. There was a within group improvement for vaginal dryness and itch in all 3 arms. The within group improvement for vaginal dryness was greatest in the estriol group. Estriol levels remained <25ng/ml at baseline, week 2 and week 12 for all participants except 1 (in the placebo group at week 2 when it rose to 29.8ng/ml). Estradiol levels at week 2 in the estradiol group were significantly higher than week 2 levels in the estriol or placebo group. Conclusions: Low dose vaginal estriol cream is a feasible alternative to low dose vaginal estradiol cream for the treatment of vulvovaginal atrophy. Further research should include a larger volume of base cream and an adequately powered clinical trial.
|Advisor:||Barton, Debra L.|
|Commitee:||Charles, Loprinzi L., Douglas, Creedon J., Grossardt, Brandon R.|
|School:||College of Medicine - Mayo Clinic|
|Department:||Clinical and Translational Science|
|School Location:||United States -- Minnesota|
|Source:||MAI 52/06M(E), Masters Abstracts International|
|Subjects:||Medicine, Health sciences, Pharmacy sciences|
|Keywords:||Esdradiol cream, Estriol cream, Vuvlvovaginal atrophy|
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For many, online marketing is a tool to drive online sales, improve customer engagement and boost brand equity. But what many small business owners may not realize is that online marketing can play a significant role in driving in-store sales too.
French clothing brand Petit Bateau discovered more about just how customer online interaction drive its customers in-store purchases by combining in-store data with information from Google Analytics.
In a recent case study shared on the Google Analytics Solutions blog, the Google Analytics team explains:
“Petit Bateau customers in France can shop in 153 physical stores as well as on Petit-bateau.fr. Users log into the website which makes it possible to later match the traffic of logged-in users with subsequent in-store transactions made with a loyalty card.”
How Online Marketing Drives In-store Sales
By comparing the data, the company found 44 percent of in-store buyers had visited the site within seven days before making their purchases. About 9 percent of in-store buyers had visited the site on the same day as their purchase in the physical shop.
Further data analysis revealed the online-to-offline effect was particularly strong on mobile. To give an example, mobile visitors converted within stores at an 11 percent higher rate than desktop visitors.
Moreover, mobile visitors’ in-store spend was 8 percent greater than desktop visitors.
What Businesses Can Learn from Petit Bateau
Using Google Analytics to measure online-to-offline purchase behavior paid off for Petit Bateau as it could better understand the impact of online marketing on in-store sales and target customers who research products online. The company was able to use the data to reassess AdWords return on ad spend, which proved to be six times greater with in-store sales incorporated.
A deeper understanding of its in-store transactions is enabling the company to optimize its digital marketing programs and make more informed decisions about its media budget allocation.
For small businesses, understanding how to make the right decisions on marketing budget allocation is an important lesson to be learned. It becomes all the more important for them because they don’t have a lot to spend.
What Petit Bateau has also done really well is shifting budgets from offline to online marketing, with a significant focus on driving new customers through generic search terms. The company has increased its investment on Google Search by 60 percent year-over-year.
Small businesses can take a page from Petit Bateau’s book and learn how focusing on online marketing drives in-store sales and lead to desired results.
What’s more mobile bids have gone up by 20 percent, and mobile’s share of search budget has reached 43 percent, above the current share of mobile traffic. Meanwhile internal communications is now helping store teams to understand digital’s role in the customer journey and to appreciate the growing importance of promoting browsing, digital shopping, buying and comparing.
Petit Bateau is a French fashion house famous for creating high quality, stylish clothing and undergarments. Founded in 1893, the company operates an online store and an international network of 400 shops.
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Line of Duty gripped the entirety of the UK and Ireland for a sixth season as the hunt for the “fourth man” has kept millions in thrall. Each episode garnered record viewing figures. Sunday’s finale attracted a whopping 12.8 million, the highest in the UK since records began. Following each episode social media was awash with conspiracy theories, reactions and memes as it seemed we were closing in on the elusive H.
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Episode one set the scene for the season, and in typical Line of Duty fashion, caused mass confusion with the introduction of a new acronym, CHIS (Covert Human Intelligence Source). A slower start than usual, the first episode mostly served the purpose of setting up the main and side plotlines and introducing us to the suspicious DCI Joanne Davidson (Kelly MacDonald) of the Murder Investigation Team. This also happens to be Kate’s (Vicky McClure) new team and an interesting dynamic develops between the two women. Episode two is much more eventful and does a solid job of ironing out some creases from the information overload of the first installment. In this episode we also get our first classic Hastings and Arnott lengthy, tag-team interrogation. Despite an eventful start to episode three, there is a lull in momentum as the side stories of Steve’s (Martin Compston) drug addiction and his (completely inappropriate as usual) relationship with Steph Corbett, takes centre stage. An action-packed episode four brings the pace back up with a few big reveals and a dramatic shoot-out. In addition we are left with an intriguing cliffhanger which had the entire viewing public screaming, “Who is the relative?!” Episode five offered some answers but posed even more questions, as the loose-ends piled-up. We also get the audacious Jimmy Nesbitt red herring which threw the audience completely off the scent for the next week. Another tense cliffhanger leads us into episode six which, despite the initial fast-paced car chase and a few interesting twists, does little to resolve unanswered questions.
At this point, all eyes were on the final episode to offer a resolution to the multitude of open ended plotlines, and what an underwhelming let-down! The finale left the audience aghast as a lackluster H reveal and a dense departing statement from Ted Hastings (Adrian Dunbar) saw out the beloved series. Writer and showrunner Jed Mercurio decided to make a statement on the frustrating and systemic nature of corruption, by completely infuriating audiences with the most dissatisfying TV climax since Game of Thrones. Fools failing upwards and Buckells, the self-serving agent of corruption masquerading as a bumbling idiot, as a thinly veiled comparison to Boris Johnson, was a point well made. However, to sacrifice the exciting tone and momentum of the show in favour of teetering out slowly was unnecessary.
Kate and Steve’s relationship is the one of the pillars of the show, so it felt appropriate that we got a final scene with them. It is so rare to see a male/ female friendship on screen that is completely platonic, based on mutual respect with no sexual tension. It was particularly stressed in this season with the reveal they have access to each other’s homes and cars in case of emergency. Their final goodbye, while slightly cheesy, was a heartfelt love letter to the connection between the characters
Ted Hastings is the undisputed fan favourite of Line of Duty. Busting out some stellar ted-isms like “Jesus, Mary and Joseph and the little donkey,” Dunbar never fails as the gruff but loveable superintendent of AC-12. His heartfelt plea for integrity in the face of corruption, while overshadowed by the weaker aspects of the ending, was extremely poignant and rounded the characters arc after a couple of seasons of suspicion and shady behaviour.
Kelly MacDonald as Joanne Davidson gave a compelling and layered performance as the bent copper with a heart of gold. Despite her involvement in organised crime MacDonald imbued such a vulnerability into Jo that it was impossible not to sympathise with her plight.
The relationship between Kate and Jo is textbook and unabashed queer-baiting, which served it’s purpose as a talking point but contributed little to the overall narrative. Despite the unnecessary allusions to romance, their Thelma and Louise moment in episode six was thoroughly enjoyable.
A major gripe with season six was the treatment of Chloe (Shalom Brune-Franklin). Despite carrying the entirety of AC-12 and consistently moving the plot by providing answers, we barely get to know her. She has little depth outside of her stellar police work and the only time we glimpse a layer of her character is in her reaction to the corrupt handling of the historic hate crime case. This writing seemed slightly cynical given that little attention is given to developing her personality outside of this moment.
Season six did provide us with some brilliant antagonists. Ryan Pilkington, played by Gregory Piper, is wonderfully menacing despite his tiny amount of dialogue and screen time.The continuation of his character from season one with the same actor was a stroke of genius and gave a full circle feel. Then we have the return of Patricia Carmichael (Anna Maxwell Martin), the personification of a slapped arse, who is so deliciously hateful. She embodies the frustrating bureaucracy that pervades as an easy aid to corruption within public offices. We also get a heart-wrenching turn from Tommy Jessop as the wrongly accused and horribly mistreated Terry Boyle.
Line of Duty has firmly solidified its place in the UK’s cultural zeitgeist after consistently producing riveting storylines and thrilling twists for almost a decade. Season six is no exception, delivering some of the strongest plotlines, antagonists and action scenes of the entire series. However, Mercurio failed to provide us with a satisfying goodbye. Choosing to go out in an antagonistic whisper rather than the fiery bang we expected left a captive audience disappointed and desperate for more. Could this really be the end of Ted, Kate, Steve and the AC-12? And Mother of God will we ever get the resolution we deserve?!

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Funny thing is that I clicked on this just as I was listening to Dvorak's cello concerto, played at the Proms by Slava Rostropovich on August 21 1968 in London, with a Russian orchestra and Russian conductor, on the very day that Russian tanks had rolled into Prague. Dvorák was Czech, of course. There were protests inside and outside the hall and calls for the concert to be scrapped, but it went ahead and Slava played the concerto, and a Bach sarabande as encore, with tears streaming down his face. At the end, he waved Dvorak's score aloft, making it clear that he was on the side of the Czechs. It's a wonderful and passionate performance of one of my very favourite works, and it's all beautifully free on YouTube. So the thing is that not everyone had a spiffin' time in the sixties. The Czech people plus a good few in Vietnam could very likely testify to that.


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D.E.F. Showcase 2019
On Saturday, May 18, the DePaul School of Cinematic Arts will host the DePaul Experimental Film Showcase at DePaul Art Museum. The event is free and open to the public.
Held in partnership with DePaul Art Museum, the showcase will feature a collaborative single-channel video installation on loop during the first half of the event, followed by a juried 80-minute screening of DePaul experimental film students' work.
This year’s jury includes Kristen Nutile (edited the Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning film, Heroin(e)), David Colagiovanni (Director, Athens International Film + Video Festival), and Raul Benitez (Film Programmer for Comfort Station Logan Square and at The Nightingale Cinema, and Chicagoland Shorts for Full Spectrum Features).
DePaul Experimental Film Showcase
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Saturday, May 18, 2019 at 1:00pm to 4:30pm
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What Sold offers is a dedicated and serious passion for macroeconomic analysis and further, for the creation of striking, some say even artistic, visualizations of macroeconomic data. Though not a “perma-bear” Sold is very bearish about the current state and future of the American economy subscribing whole heartedly to notion that the recent financial crisis is but the second act of an immense systemic unwind that commenced, more or less, in the year 2000.
Sold is NOT A PESSIMIST by nature but a true skeptic and a realist that prefers solid and sustained evidence of fundamental economic recovery to “Goldilocks”, “Green Shoots”, “Mustard Seeds” and wholesale speculation. Further, Sold believes that the evidence for rational and efficient markets as well as collective wisdom is scant.
In his spare time Sold works as an independent software consultant spewing out cutting edge code like he’s spraying silly string.
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In Oakland, Alameda County Medical Center charged an average of $19,855 for a patient with seizures in 2011, while Alta Bates Summit Medical Center – less than 4 miles away in the same city – billed $48,923 to treat the same condition.
Marin General Hospital in Greenbrae charged $110,394 for patients with drug poisoning, while at Peninsula Medical Center in Burlingame, the average bill for those patients came to $34,759.
The Medicare data, released for the first time Wednesday by the federal government, shows the startling variations between what hospitals – even in relatively small geographic areas – charge the government program for the elderly and disabled for the 100 most common inpatient procedures.
"Hospitals are allowed to charge what they want, so this is the consequence of the lack of regulation or any real system," said Dr. Renee Hsia, an assistant professor of emergency medicine at UCSF who studies variation in hospital prices. "Just being able to see there is quite a bit of dysfunction in the hospital pricing market means this is an area where we have a lot of room to improve."
The figures also demonstrate that in the Byzantine world of hospital pricing, what hospitals charge has almost no relation to what the procedure costs and nothing to do with what they are eventually paid by government programs like Medicare, private insurers or individuals.
Few pay sticker price
Few people other than the uninsured actually get charged the sticker price because most people have coverage. Private insurers and the government negotiate with hospitals for how much the hospitals will get back for the care they provide. There are vast discrepancies between the charges and what hospitals are actually paid.
Advocates who favor transparency in health care say the release of the federal information is important because it draws attention to health prices, of which consumers are increasingly shouldering a bigger portion.
"If you get a hospital bill, depending on who you are, you could literally see a thousand percent difference," said Jamie Court, president of Consumer Watchdog, ,a consumer group in Santa Monica. "If that happened in a hotel, they'd be out of business."
The database, released by the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, covers claims made in 2011 at more than 3,300 hospitals around the U.S., including the nearly 400 acute-care hospitals in California.
Overall, the data showed California's hospitals charged some of the highest prices in the nation. But health experts argued that the state's overall health costs are generally lower than the national average. That's mainly because many people are covered by health maintenance organizations, such as Kaiser Permanente, that tightly control their costs, and because Californians tend to use fewer hospital services.
Hospital charges within the state also varied widely. For respiratory problems that required ventilator support for more than four days, the low charge was $96,768 at Citrus Valley Medical Center's campus in Covina Los Angeles County. The high was at Stanford Hospital, which charged $929,119.
Billings, payments vary
But when it came to what hospitals billed and how much they actually got paid, those numbers were often very far apart.
For major small and large bowel procedures, Washington Hospital in Fremont charged an average of $462,920, but received an average of $65,619 in payments from Medicare. At St. Rose Hospital in Hayward, the average bill for treating complicated respiratory infections and inflammations was $193,382, while the average reimbursement was $25,985.
Hospital officials described the Medicare figures as irrelevant. They noted the data do not include information on the hospital's quality or medical outcomes ,and argued it will only confuse consumers.
"We acknowledge the whole system of hospital charges makes no sense," said Jan Emerson-Shea, spokeswoman for the California Hospital Association, the state's hospital trade group. She said hospitals list their charges only because they are required to by the federal government.
She also argued the Medicare data are less important to Californians because state law already requires hospitals to allow consumers to see their charges and publish their prices for 25 common procedures. Another state law mandates hospitals give low-income patients free or discounted care.
But patient advocates argued that higher-income uninsured people don't qualify for discounted care and that the 25 procedures can be selected by each hospital so they are not easily comparable with other hospitals.
Maribeth Shannon, of the California HealthCare Foundation, said the release of the Medicare data is just a start.
Shannon, who directs the Oakland health philanthropy's market and policy monitor program, said consumers should also know what hospitals are paid by private insurers in order to make decisions that could potentially lower their health care costs.
"Transparency is good and it's important for people to think about health care prices and how they vary," she said. "But to make real choices, they need more specific information."
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· The federal data on hospital charges can be viewed at the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' website: http://go.cms.gov/16WaMfH


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Why We Need to Invest in Family Care – Madeleine Kunin on AARP Radio
Posted By jmccharen On May 29, 2012 @ 9:08 am In Politics & Public Policy | Comments Disabled
Last week, Madeleine M. Kunin was featured on AARP radio.
From AARP.org :
More American women are attending medical and law schools now than ever before. The two-income family is the standard for the modern American family. And the role of women in society has changed drastically for the better. With all of these changes, however, the social support system for working women and their families has improved very little.
Madeleine Kunin, the former governor of Vermont, examines how America has — and has not — progressed in gender equality at home and in the workplace. She also advocates major changes for how we invest in family care, as well as women increasing their role in politics, in her book, The New Feminist Agenda .
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In the biotechnology business, where executives or even entire companies can come and go in an instant, Henri A. Termeer has been a constant.
His 25 years atop the Genzyme Corporation is one of the longest tenures for a chief executive in industry. During that time, he built Genzyme from a tiny start-up into one of the nation’s top five biotechnology companies, with $4.5 billion in sales last year, led by ultraexpensive drugs for extremely rare diseases.
But at a time when the 63-year-old Mr. Termeer might be collecting accolades and preparing for a gentle ride into the sunset, he is instead fighting to preserve his legacy — and his job.
A series of stumbles, particularly manufacturing problems, has sent Genzyme’s stock to its lowest level in five years, angering investors and leaving patients without medicines they desperately need.
The pressure on Mr. Termeer intensified Monday with the news that Carl C. Icahn, the billionaire activist investor, is seeking a seat for himself and three associates on Genzyme’s nine-member board at the company’s annual meeting in May.Continue reading the main story
Mr. Icahn has not yet indicated what his ideas for the company are, nor which four of Genzyme’s current directors he would want his own candidates to replace, something he will have to specify eventually.
Mr. Icahn’s move could put pressure on the company to sell itself or divest itself of some of its varied businesses. And, in cases when Mr. Icahn does win seats on a board, the chief executive’s exit sometimes follows.
No one expects Mr. Termeer to go easily, should it come to that.
“He’s a fighter,” said Sheridan Snyder, who co-founded Genzyme in 1981 and hired Mr. Termeer two years later. “Anybody expecting him to fold and walk out the door, that’s not going to happen.”
Mr. Termeer declined to comment Monday except for a statement issued by the company in which he said the company would “welcome a constructive dialogue with Mr. Icahn,” and that Genzyme was “regaining its momentum.”
But in an interview last month, when rumors of Mr. Icahn’s move were already circulating, Mr. Termeer said that a proxy fight would only distract the company at a time when it was trying to fix its manufacturing problems.
He acknowledged that some people were calling for his head, but said that would not be the solution, either.
“You can’t expect people to applaud when you have a moment like this,” he said. “You don’t solve that by kicking out the C.E.O. or selling the company at a low value.”
Mr. Termeer, a native of the Netherlands who studied economics and business, was hired as president in 1983 from the medical products company Baxter, where he was an executive. At the time, Genzyme was a two-year-old start-up with an office in Boston’s red-light district. He became chief two years later. The company is now based in Cambridge, Mass.
Genzyme’s first product was Ceredase, an enzyme to treat Gaucher disease, a rare inherited enzyme deficiency. In what became Genzyme’s hallmark, Mr. Termeer decided to charge about $200,000 a year for the product, an unheard-of amount.
The company argued it needed to charge such high prices because there were only about 10,000 patients in the world with the disease. Critics, however, were outraged, pointing out that federal scientists made most of the discoveries and did the early development of the drug.
Despite the criticism, Genzyme held its ground with that and other drugs for rare diseases. And other companies adopted the same business model.
So there are now more drugs for diseases the pharmaceutical industry once ignored. But many patients struggle to pay for the drugs, sometimes exhausting their health insurance.
Cerezyme, the successor to Ceredase, has surpassed $1 billion in annual sales, despite the drug’s being used to treat only about 5,700 patients.
The company’s recent crisis started in June when it had to close its factory in Boston because of viral contamination. The company did not have enough backup inventory, leading to severe shortages of Cerezyme and Fabrazyme, a drug for another rare condition called Fabry disease.
The manufacturing snag seemed to let loose long-simmering complaints from some shareholders, including criticism that the company’s accounting had not conformed to standards and that its board was too passive.
Perhaps the biggest complaint was that the company had underinvested in its highly profitable rare-disease business, while branching into acquisitions of other businesses that had not been as profitable. Looked at that way, critics say, the factory shutdown and lack of backup inventory was more than merely an unfortunate accident.
“It’s no surprise that that original business is starved for capital and you have all sorts of problems,” said Geoffrey Porges, biotechnology analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Company.
Mr. Porges, who called one of his reports about Genzyme, “Where’s the Towel?” said new management was necessary to reverse course and break apart what had become a conglomerate. “Investor frustration is very high,” he said.
Mr. Termeer, in the interview last month, defended the company’s diversification, saying sales by parts of the company outside the rare-disease business grew 24 percent in the fourth quarter of 2009.
Constantine E. Anagnostopoulos, a Genzyme director for 20 years until 2005, said Genzyme needed to diversify because competition was destined to come into the rare-disease business and because the potential size of that business was limited.
Mr. Termeer and Genzyme have been scrambling to assuage shareholder concerns, appointing a new board member, strengthening the role of the lead director and revamping executive compensation.
In January, the company reached an agreement with Ralph V. Whitworth of Relational Investors, who had been criticizing Genzyme for months.
Mr. Whitworth will get a seat on the board in November if he still wants it. In return, Relational, which owns about 4 percent of Genzyme shares, will support the company’s board nominees. That is an obstacle for Mr. Icahn, who controlled a little less than 2 percent of the shares as of Dec. 31.
Some investors said they would not vote for Mr. Icahn.
“I have a suspicion that Icahn is simply seeing something cheap,” said Samuel D. Isaly, the managing partner of OrbiMed Advisors, which owns 2.2 million Genzyme shares, or a little less than 1 percent. He said Genzyme’s management had “demonstrated clever work over time.”
Dr. Anagnostopoulos, the former Genzyme director, said he expected Mr. Termeer to fight for his job, with limits.
“I’m sure Henri will fight,” he said. “But he will not fight if his fighting is detrimental to Genzyme. Genzyme is Henri’s baby.”
Some shareholders predicted that Mr. Termeer would not just be thrown out after all these years.
“He’s the lion in winter,” said one portfolio manager who controls about half a million Genzyme shares and was granted anonymity because his firm would not allow him to be quoted by name. “I think the board wants to see him go out on his feet,” the investment manager said. “He’s trying to pull this off.”Continue reading the main story


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Denim and suede are the perfect fabrics for creating these rocking patterned pillows.
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two pieces of fabric cut 1" longer and wider than the pillow form
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1. Layer scrap fabric, one fabric piece and image together in the area where you want the design. Begin with the accent fabric (right side up) underneath the front of pillow fabric piece. Next, place the paper image on top of the T-shirt. Use sewing pins to pin the layers together.
2. Stitch around the image, through all layers, using a short stitch length and a ballpoint needle. Use contrasting thread for extra pop and stitch slowly around the details.
3. Remove the pins and tear away the image. Use small, sharp scissors to remove the pillow fabric layer, trimming as close to the stitching line as possible.
4. On the back side, pink the edges of the accent fabric to prevent fraying.
5. Sew the panels, wrong sides together, leaving an opening to turn the pillow right side out. Insert the pillow form and hand-stitch the opening closed.
6. If you are working with woven fabrics, use Aleene’s Stop Fraying to prevent the cut-away portion of the pillow fabric from fraying. Apply Stop Fraying to the raw edges with a paintbrush.
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In an email marketing world, your brand domain is like your identity in the real life.
It's the thing that allows the recipients of your marketing and transactional messages to recognize your messages. It's the thing that helps you build trust and relationship with your recipients and customers. And you must keep that trust because your business often depends on it.
Businesses and companies don’t always give priority to their email marketing programs focusing on developing new products, setting up goals and planning the strategies. They often start optimizing the email programs when their open rates drop in times. But the success of the business is closely connected with the success of the email program. The more messages go to the user’s Inbox, the more revenue the company gets.
Hotmail was one of the first web based email services launched in 1996. It was rebranded as Outlook.com in 2013 to align with Microsoft’s desktop email application Outlook. At present, Outlook.com is one of the leading global mailbox providers with 400+ million active users.
Deliverability to Outlook.com and Hotmail.com domains concerns a lot of email marketers as Microsoft has the strongest filtering system which often times sends quite legitimate emails to the spam or junk folder.
Email filters used by mailbox providers do a good job – they keep spam out of our Inboxes. But from the other side, “thanks” to spam filters, every fifth legitimate email never reaches the intended recipient.
What’s more is that every mailbox provider uses its own filtering algorithm to distinguish good emails and spam. It makes it even harder for email marketers to deliver their emails to the Inbox.
Here we’ll take the mystery off to make senders understand the filtering rules of the top three mailbox providers – Gmail, Outlook, and Yahoo!Mail – and help them send their legitimate emails to the Inbox.
The Part I of our Email Marketer’s Guide is dedicated to Gmail.
How to avoid spam filters? Many, if not only every single email marketer has ever asked this question. Spam filters seem to be the main obstacle on the way to the recipient’s Inbox.
Probably you’ll be disappointed if we say that it is not possible to avoid spam filters, but you have to accept that fact. Spam filters are a part of the email delivery process. When you send an email, it is filtered: to the Inbox, to a special tab, to a spam folder, or it is blocked completely.
Filters play a massive role in the email deliverability. That’s why our goal at GlockApps is to help our users understand how spam filters work, how mailbox providers use them, and how to get the emails filtered to the Inbox.
Let's be honest: email marketing is nothing without deliverability. Don't believe anyone telling you otherwise. If your email is delivered, it can be seen, read, and clicked on. And if you can increase your email deliverability by even just 2-3%, it can significantly increase your ROI.
But considering smart filtering systems employed by mailbox and Internet service providers, achieving high deliverability rates is not easy.
In this post, I give a little bit of theory about email delivery so that you can get a general idea about email concepts, good and bad sending habits, and email spam checker tools you can use to monitor your reputation and deliverability and determine possible causes of deliverability issues if they happen.
If you’re operating your own mail server or email account with a delivery vendor like Amazon SES, SendGrid or other you can use this option. It is simple as 1, 2, 3.
1. Enter your SMTP settings in GlockApps. 2. Select mailbox providers for testing. 3. Send your email to the proxy email address.
GlockApps will automatically re-send the message to the seed email addresses at mailbox providers you chose.
This option eliminates the need for you to copy-paste the entire seed list and test id to your email software. You only need to send your message to the single proxy email address. And our system will do the rest.
You can create multiple email accounts in the GlockApps email spam checker tool using different SMTP settings and send tests via each account.
Email marketing is the most convenient means of reaching new and existing customers and subscribers throughout the year. Companies and online marketers can send email marketing campaigns to introduce their products and services, showcase new features, promote their blogs, and give exclusive offers to re-engage customers who haven't been active in a while.


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Police were called to a meeting of the Rhode Island Department of Education council Tuesday evening.
Officers arrived after some teachers, parents, and students were told they could not speak during the public comment period.
Those who wished to speak represented 360 High School, which is being merged with Juanita Sanchez High School at the end of the year.
Parents and officials alike complained they were told they could not register to speak about the closure of 360.
RIDE officials said the signup deadline for public comment expired the previous evening, and the issues surrounding 360 were not on the agenda.
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This trip is life-changing. Totally immerse yourself in the spectacular spoils of the far north of the Kruger, exploring on foot the vast, epic landscapes of the exclusive 24,000-hectare Pafuri concession.
© Caroline Culbert, Wilderness Safaris
Experience spectacularly diverse landscapes, flora, and fauna. The mighty baobab groves and fever tree forests contain some of the Kruger's largest elephant and buffalo herds. Approach the larger mammals under the instruction of your Guide and get a real taste of the wild.
You will be spending three wild nights under canvas in remote, exclusive camps.
DEPARTS MON & FRI, APR-OCT; MIN TWO PEOPLE, MAX 8
The opportunity to walk the Pafuri region is, in our opinion, unsurpassed in the Kruger. The scenery is unique: fever tree forests and baobab groves combine with beautiful gorges, spectacular floodplains, peaceful bosky glades and mountain foothills. Game is drawn by the perennial Luvuvhu to a natural choke-point where it meets the great greasy grey green Limpopo. Here, at Crooks' Corner, three countries - Zimbabwe, South Africa and Mozambique — meet, along with large pods of hippo and floats of crocodiles.
The camp is pitched in a beautiful, scenic area where it remains for the duration of the three day walking trail. Tents are twin domes pitched under the comfort of shady trees: stretcher beds with bedrolls, sheets, duvet, pillows and towels are provided. A game drive vehicle remains in camp and depending on where guests walk that day, the trail may start from camp or depart camp by vehicle to visit another area of the concession.
Pafuri is one of Kruger's biodiversity hotspots, with some of the largest seasonal herds of elephant and buffalo, quality viewings of leopard and lion, and incredibly prolific birdlife. The region is filled with the folklore of early explorers and ancient civilizations, and you may come across some archaeological treasures. Throughout the Makuleke concession, there is an abundance of evidence of previous human inhabitants in the form of rock paintings and artefacts. Under many a baobab you can find Stone Age hand tools.
You spend four days and three nights enjoying it, all on foot and under canvas and a blanket of African stars.
Days One to Four
Mornings begin as the sun rises (or even earlier) to experience dawn and for the best chance of seeing the nocturnal and crepuscular species. Hot bush coffee around a warming fire starts the day before you set out on foot.
This is not a boot camp, but you will require a reasonable level of fitness and it can get quite hot and sweaty. The morning walk is the focus of the day, and typically lasts seven to eight hours. During this time you will cover 15km or so. You will find yourself quickly engaged by the beauty and activity around you, and the pace is set to allow you plenty of time to make the most of both scenic and wildlife encounters. There are good shared bush bucket showers at camp for your return, where a late lunch awaits.
Species such as eland, Sharpe's grysbok, four-toed elephants shrew and yellow-spotted rock dassie, difficult to find further south in the Park, are regularly seen here. There is sometimes a small herd of Sable antelope around. A walk along the floodplain and riverine fringe of either of the two large rivers produces good general game in the form of nyala, impala, greater kudu, chacma baboon, waterbuck, warthog and perhaps grey duiker or bushbuck, while careful searching may yield the more elusive residents of the area such as lion.
Leopards hunt the strong populations of nyala and impala living alongside the Luvuvhu system. Other areas hold steenbok, the agile klipspringer and herds of Burchell's zebra.
The area has long been regarded as something of a Mecca for southern African birdwatchers. Some species are exclusive to this region of South Africa and the serious birder will revel in being able to find Böhm's and Mottled Spinetails, Racket-Tailed Roller, Three-Banded Courser, and Southern Hyliota. Other specials are Black-Throated Wattle-Eye, Pel's Fishing Owl, Dickinson's Kestrel, Yellow White-Eye, Meve's Starling, and Tropical Boubou.
A hearty dinner is prepared for you on return to camp to be enjoyed around a roaring fire. There is no electricity at any of the campsites; light is provided by paraffin lamps. Water is raised from a borehole at Pafuri Camp, purified and brought to your campsite. Toilets are en-suite eco-loos.
The final opportunity to immerse yourself in the northern wilderness comes in the form of an early start, seizing the moment and heading out for your last walk among giants. After brunch, you return to Pafuri Camp for onward travel, or to spend a few days slowly re-engaging with the real world.
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Trailists present themselves at Pafuri Camp in order to depart no later than 14h00 on the first day of the Safari. Return is at around 10h00 on the final day. We strongly counsel booking a night here either side of the trail to take the stress out of arrival and departure travel arrangements (additional cost).
Children from the age of 16 are welcomed on all scheduled departures. For guests over the age of 65 years, a certified medical certificate of full health must be supplied.

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SUPPLIER NEWS…. (October 01, 1999)
Graham Machinery Group, the York, PA-headquartered manufacturer of extrusion blow molding machinery, has acquired the Hesta Blow Molding Machinery Company from the R Stahl Group of Germany. Hesta is a...
Graham Machinery Group, the York, PA-headquartered manufacturer of extrusion blow molding machinery, has acquired the Hesta Blow Molding Machinery Company from the R Stahl Group of Germany. Hesta is a major European supplier of shuttle and small accumulator head machinery. According to Graham’s CEO Steve Wood, the acquisition of Hesta will enhance new product development and provide Graham with a European and global presence. With the addition of Hesta’s products, Graham now offers single and dual station shuttle machines, multi-cavity rotary shuttles, high-speed wheel machines and a complete line of accumulator head machinery. Graham Machinery Group is represented in Canada by Plastics Machinery Inc., (Newmarket, Ont.).
Polytech Machinery Ltd. (Brampton, Ont.) has reached agreements to become the Canadian distributor of the product lines of three U.S. based companies. The companies are Novatec Inc. (Baltimore, MD), Cumberland Engineering LLC (South, Attleboro, MA) and Sterling Systems (Forest VA). Novatec is a manufacturer of a full line of raw materials handling equipment, including dryers, hoppers and central or machine-side loading and blending systems. Cumberland makes a variety of size-reduction equipment. Sterling Systems is a manufacturer of blower systems, cooling tanks, conveying systems and other products for the extrusion, injection and blow molding markets. Coinciding with these business developments, Polytech has announced it is ending its nine-year relationship with the AEC Inc. group of companies.
Dier International Plastics Inc. located in Unionville, Ont. has announced it will represent the AEC Inc. product group in Ontario, Quebec and the Maritimes. AEC’s line includes Whitlock raw materials drying, conveying and blending systems, Nelmor granulators and shredders, Applications Engineering sprue pickers and parts removal robots and Hydreclaim film scrap reclaim systems. At the same time Dier has announced it is no longer representing raw materials equipment supplier Motan.
Control Solutions Inc., (Brampton, Ont.) had announced it will be representing Systronics, Inc. (Norcross, GA) in Canada. Systronics manufacturers on-line inspection systems for plastic, film and other materials. The inspection systems locate, detect, classify and map defects while monitoring for width, edge wander, and edge integrity.
Ontario Heater & Supply Co. (Richmond Hill, Ont.) is now representing Burger Engineering, Inc. (Olathe, KS) and its line of Smartflow products in Ontario. OH&S will provide sales and service support for Smartflow manifolds, flowmeters, limit switches, mold temperature regulators and ejector tie-in systems.
Uddeholm Heat Treatment Ltd. has become Bohler Uddeholm Thermo-Tech, Inc. The company has also moved into a new facility at: 2645 Meadowvale Blvd., Mississauga, Ont., L5N 7Y4. Phone: 800/665-8335; Fax: 905/812-9231.


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1. Pain is not the enemy.
Years ago after two injury car accidents, I labeled my spinal pain as the “silent tormentor.” I begged for the pain to stop, for the emotional crushing to end. But you know what? The pain was not the enemy. I was.
While I was enduring the angst of bending until I felt like I would SNAP, I was struggling not to let anyone know how close I was to the edge. In my little cocoon, I had spun myself into numbness and isolation. At one desperate point, I scrawled in my journal: “I fall asleep crying into my pillow. I awake pre-dawn with the pain screaming across my body. What kind of life is this? I can’t take this much more. I can see why so many people just want out.”
No matter how tough it gets, we are designed to bend and remain resilient in our brawls with pain. But sometimes we get in our own way of working through a problem, finding our pathway to healing, or staying the course to freedom. Pain of any sort can strong-arm us to collapse and give up or motivate us to adjust our perspective and get up. Give up or get up? Pain barges in and we get to choose how we’ll respond.
On the surface, pain hisses as our sinister adversary. Yet once we assess our discomfort, we find we have options including medical attention and spiritual sustenance. Is pain our real enemy? It may feel like it. Pain is real and can be wretchedly difficult to endure, but sometimes we add to the opposition ourselves. Instead, it is often more conquering if we opt for getting up and garnering the help me need. Wobbling or standing on our feet again, we can charge the battle line. And with the steadfast support of those who will war on with us. En garde!
“We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to.
God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts
in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
—C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain


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Madame Fujiwara Tamie, by Geiko Kouyo, portrait
Jidai Matsuri is certainly the most photogenic festival in Kyoto : 2000 participants wearing historical costumes in the perfect location, the Imperial Park. I took hundreds of great portraits thanks to the wonderful participants, including Maiko and Geiko. This is Geiko Kouyo dressed in Madame Fujiwara Tamie (wearing a headdress called Uchi Katsugi). This is one of my favorite portrait because it has something dramatic with the Uchikatsugi hiding part of her face and her looking at the camera but at the same time she seems to be absent.On the below picture, you can see how the headdress looks like.


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Kill Shakespeare: Live Stage Reading makes American Convention Debut at NYCC 2012!
Wednesday, Oct 10th, 2012
San Diego, CA (October 10, 2012) – Fresh off playing to packed and enthusiastic audiences in Tucson and Montreal last month, an abridged version of Kill Shakespeare: The Live Stage Reading – based on the successful IDW Publishing comic book series – makes its American comic convention debut this Saturday at the New York Comic Con.
The show will run on Saturday, October 13th at 11am on the Variant Stage and will be free for any New York Comic Con attendee.
Adapted by comic creators Anthony Del Col and Conor McCreery, The Live Stage Reading provides viewers with a unique mixture of comic art, radio-play-style drama, music, and audience interaction.
“I think fans of the Bard, fans of comics, and especially fans of fantasy adventure or literary mash-up tales like Kill Shakespeare are going to have a great time,” says McCreery. “The show is unlike anything else you’ll find at comic-cons and the ability for audience members to play a part is something that has gone over really well.”
The stage show will be produced in association with New York’s acclaimed Gideon Productions. Artistic Director Jordana Williams will direct a special one-hour version of the show and feature some of New York’s top up-and-coming theatrical talent.
“Most of the actors and I started out doing classical theater, then moved into wilder, pulpier, more experimental stuff,” says Williams. “Kill Shakespeare is all that and a bag of chips, and we're having the time of our lives. I think New York is going to love it!”
New York will mark the fourth stop on Kill Shakespeare’s North American tour having played to full houses in Toronto, Tucson, and Montreal before finishing 2012 in Rochester and capped by an eight show performance in Halifax. In 2013, shows are already booked for Chicago, Toronto and Dubai, with stops at other conventions in the works.
About the show
Kill Shakespeare: The Live Stage Reading is a 90-minute interactive stage show that highlights projected images of comic art from the Kill Shakespeare graphic novels and involves actors reading the dialogue as if in a radio drama. This format allows audience members to watch performers improvise music and foley live on-stage. The show also encourages audience participation. The play was originally commissioned by Toronto’s Young Centre for the Performing Arts and performed by the acclaimed Soulpepper Theatre Company in fall, 2011. Soulpepper’s Toby Malone has served as dramaturge for the piece.
About the series
Kill Shakespeare is an adventure story that pits all of Shakespeare’s greatest heroes (including Hamlet, Juliet, Falstaff, Othello, Puck) against the Bard’s most menacing villains (including Richard III, Lady Macbeth, Iago) in a quest to track down and kill – or save – a reclusive wizard by the name of William Shakespeare. The third installment of the tale will start hitting comic shops in February 2013. The series was nominated for a 2011 Harvey Award for Best New Comic Series and 2011 and 2012 Joe Shuster Awards for Comic Writing. The series has been covered by NPR, BBC, The Washington Post, CBC and The New York Times. In October 2011, Kill Shakespeare was chosen by the Sundance Institute as one of six projects for the inaugural New Frontiers Story Lab.
“Gripping, violent, dark, fun…” – The New York Times
“Bravo! Kill Shakespeare is a tale woven with the wit, magic and myth, worthy of Will himself.” – Des McAnuff (Stratford Festival, Jersey Boys)
“Fresh and conceptually inventive… Easily one of the more exciting new projects bouncing around.” – Publisher’s Weekly
“It’s a rare thing, indeed, to see such brilliant new talent deliver a series that immediately feels so fully formed and realized.” – The Washington Post
Visit IDWPublishing.com to learn more about the company and its top-selling books. IDW can also be found at http://www.facebook.com/#!/idwpublishing and http://tumblr.idwpublishing.com/ and on Twitter at @idwpublishing.
About IDW Publishing
IDW is an award-winning publisher of comic books, graphic novels and trade paperbacks, based in San Diego, California. Renowned for its diverse catalog of licensed and independent titles, IDW publishes some of the most successful and popular titles in the industry, including: Hasbro’s The TRANSFORMERS and G.I. JOE, Paramount’s Star Trek; HBO’s True Blood; the BBC’s DOCTOR WHO; Nickelodeon’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; Toho’s Godzilla; Wizards of the Coasts Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons; and the Eisner-Award winning Locke & Key series, created by best-selling author Joe Hill and artist Gabriel Rodriguez. IDW is also home to the Library of American Comics imprint, which publishes classic comic reprints, and Yoe! Books, a partnership with Yoe! Studio.
IDW’s critically- and fan-acclaimed series are continually moving into new mediums. Currently, Jerry Bruckheimer Films and Disney are creating a feature film based on World War Robot, while Michael Bay‘s Platinum Dunes and Sony are bringing Zombies vs. Robots to film.


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With businessman Bruce Rauner running for Illinois governor, his experience in the world of private equity is likely to sound familiar to voters. Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney had a similar background, which became fodder for debate during...
The Hartford CourantUnited Technologies Corp. closed on the sale of its Rocketdyne rocket engine unit to GenCorp Inc., an aerospace and defense manufacturer based in Sacramento, the Hartford-based company said Friday. The initial $550 million deal, first announced about a...
SGN, the social gaming company led by Myspace co-founder Chris DeWolfe, has acquired Carlsbad-based game developer Mob Science, the shop behind “Legends: Rise of a Hero,” the company said Thursday. The deal will add Mob Science’s 11...
South Bend TribuneThe purchase Monday of a Fort Wayne company by Nyloncraft could result in more jobs coming to its Mishawaka facility. That's what Jim Krzyzewski, president and CEO of Nyloncraft, said Tuesday. Nyloncraft, a major supplier of under-the-hood and...
TidewaterBizOver the past 60 years, Newport News-headquartered Ferguson adapted to change and withstood tough economic times while keeping the same business philosophy. "As long as we create change, anticipate competitive threats and invest in people, we'll still...
Office Depot announced Tuesday that it has chosen global executive search firm Korn/Ferry International to search for the combined companies' chief executive, should the merger be approved. Both Office Depot's CEO Neil Austrian and OfficeMax's top...
Tribune staff reporterEngaged-to-be-merged office supply retailers OfficeMax Inc. and Office Depot Inc. on Monday set July 10 for their respective shareholders to vote on the betrothal. Naperville-based OfficeMax and Boca Raton, Fla.-based Office Depot have yet to announce a...
Business research and analytics giant IHS Inc. said Monday it has signed an agreement to acquire automotive information and marketing firm R.L. Polk & Co. for $1.4 billion. Polk is the 15th acquisition that rapidly expanding IHS, based in Colorado,...
Office Depot shareholders will meet July 10 to vote on the merger between the Boca Raton-based office supply retailer and its No. 2 rival, OfficeMax, the company said Monday. The outcome of that vote will have an impact on Office Depot's 1,700 employees...
Assignment ManagerStellarOne is being purchased by Union First Market Bankshares. The deal was announced Monday morning. If approved, the merger will create the largest community banking insitution in Virginia, according to a news release. The new company will keep the...
Decades-old laws barring foreign ownership of farmland in Iowa, Missouri and at least three other Midwest states may complicate Shuanghui International's $4.7 billion planned purchase of U.S. pork powerhouse Smithfield Foods. The deal, which would be...
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It’s been seven years and I wanted to send along an update on our special boy, Otto. He is much loved by my two boys who are 10 and 7. He is the most well behaved and loveable fellow. He is a great barker and stands on guard when we are away. He is very sociable with other dogs and loves to go running with me. He refuses to fetch or swim but he will if he thinks I’m drowning! What a great dog he is..thank you. Kim
Our 3-year-old standard, Kurt, has taken to going into our computer room and barking at the monitor looking for his puppy buddies. You can hear him start to whine toward the end of the clip – this is a mild reaction for him. He will also come into the room and put his front paws up, looking behind the monitor for his buddies. He is going to be so ready for his new friend! Peggy
Finn is quite the trail companion. He seems to enjoy the job of scouting. He likes to run ahead along the trails but always staying within sight. He’s a treasure to us.
This is a photo of Finn on a recent hike from Bay Bulls to the abandoned community site of Freshwater that lies along the east coast trail. Keith & Carla
He’s my walking and riding buddy for exploring the back-roads and abandoned trails around the Avalon Peninsula. He loves going in the jeep and crawling along many of the old roads and paths in the area.
Finn is enjoying the change in season and is constantly exploring every pile of leaves we come across. He is such a great addition to our lives.
Keith & Karla

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Oprah's Ultimate Favorite Things 2010
We saved the best for the farewell season—the most fantastical favorite things ever!
This isn't the first time Oprah has raved about these "cornucopias of delicious, buttery, flaky goodness." She loves Williams-Sonoma croissants, which now come in a miniature size. Just let the frozen croissants sit out overnight to rise, and then pop them in the oven. "I'm telling you, I've never had a croissant that tasted better other than in Paris itself," Oprah says.
- Approximate value: $39.95 for a box of 24


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Osteopaths have rigorous training in anatomy, physiology, pathology, clinical practice, clinical competence, pharmacology, psychology and sociology. Osteopaths develop a highly refined sense of touch 'palpation' which they use for diagnosis and treatment, and they are skilled in the manipulation of the body, making precise physical adjustments to the musculoskeletal system.
Osteopathy is a manual therapy with a comprehensive system of diagnosis and treatment using touch, massage and physical manipulation to work with the structure and function of the body. When the structure of the body is correctly aligned it can achieve an optimum state of wellness. In this sense, the role of the osteopath is to facilitate the body's own healing mechanisms.
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Panelling is enjoying a real moment on the interiors scene right now. Stylish and versatile, it’s a great way to transform a room without undertaking a major project.
From bathrooms to living rooms, a half-wall of panelling can bring character, colour, and depth to any space in your home.
Whether you pair it with playful printed wallpaper or embrace an elegant neutral scheme, it’s sure to make an impact and create a welcoming environment.
Thinking about getting in on the trend? Scroll through 21 of the best half-wall panelling ideas to help you revamp your home.
1. Bathroom Colour Pop
Panelling is a fantastic choice for helping to protect walls in busy bathrooms – not to mention, it makes a stunning feature, too. Add personality to your bathroom by installing a half-wall of bold vertical panelling. It’s an easy way to create a colour pop, and it can easily be painted whenever you fancy a change.
2. Pastel Paradise
This beautiful bathroom is a dream for pastel lovers everywhere. Mint green vertical panelling balances the sweet pink shower tiles perfectly, while patterned wallpaper and floor tiles connect the two.
Mix the materials in your bathroom for an eclectic style you’ll never tire of. Install vertical panels on one wall by your bath or sink to create a focal point with depth. Complement your panels by choosing tiles in a contrasting colour.
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3. Tradition With a Twist
This rich, navy panelling is the perfect partner to a warm pink tub in this traditional bathroom. Make a statement in your bathroom by combining a half-wall of panelling with patterned wallpaper.
Form a connection with nature and create a sense of calm by choosing botanical prints. Ground your scheme by painting your panelling a deep hue of blue, green, or black.
4. Luxury Bathing
Use a half-wall of traditional, white panelling for an elegant and harmonious feel in your bathroom. Paint your panelling and walls a warm shade of white to reflect light and add to the sense of space.
Pair your white panelling with marble floor tiles to create a classic and inviting space that wouldn’t be out of place in a luxury hotel.
5. Boutique Chic
We love how this gorgeous green panelling enhances these bathroom tiles. The tall rectangular panels subtly complement the shape of the tiles, while the shades of green work together to give a chic boutique hotel feel.
Coordinate the colours of your own bathroom panelling with your wall tiles to add depth and texture to your space. Choose rectangular panels and tiles to help add height to smaller spaces.
6. Rustic Charm
This quirky cottage bedroom has charm in abundance. It boasts a high vaulted ceiling, but it doesn’t feel intimidating thanks to the half-wall of panelling which helps break up the wall.
The natural wood panels complement the exposed beams on the ceiling and add warmth against the exposed stonework.
Create a characterful look in your home with natural wood panels – you could use floorboards or even upcycle some scaffolding boards for a relaxed and rustic look.
7. Green and Serene
If you’re looking for an alternative to traditional panelling, consider vertical wood slats. This type of panelling is a stylish and versatile addition to any space, and a great way to add depth.
Paint your walls and panelling the same colour for a soft finish that enhances the feeling of space in your home. Pale greens and pinks are an excellent choice for creating a calm and serene environment, perfect for relaxing at the end of a long day.
8. Shades of Blue
Traditional-style panelling helps to accentuate the period features in this gorgeous bedroom. The half-wall panels leave a space for a third colour below the picture rail, softening the transition between the panelling and the white walls and ceiling above.
Small hooks have been incorporated into the panelling design, providing a handy place for hanging accessories and jewellery.
9. Boho Bedroom
Nod to nature and craft your dream boho bedroom with natural wood panelling. Simplistic and stylish, it’s a great way to break up neutral walls.
Install a half-wall of natural vertical panelling on your headboard wall for a modern yet relaxed look. Pair your panels with crisp white walls and white bed linen to create contrast.
10. Pattern and Panels
With traditional decorative panels and palm wallpaper, this beautiful blue lounge brings a high-end look every day of the week. Even the fireplace has had a makeover, painted to match the panelling to create a seamless aesthetic.
Craft your own show-stopping living room by pairing panelling with patterned wallpaper above. Match your panelling to an accent colour in your paper for a cohesive design.
11. Textured Feature Wall
Make a stunning, contemporary feature wall in your lounge by mixing panelling with brick. Here, the verdant hues add depth and warmth to the space, while the bricks bring an industrial edge.
If you don’t have solid brick walls, recreate the look using brick slip tiles above traditional rectangular panelling. It’s a fantastic way to create texture and visual interest.
12. Neutral Tones
Are you looking to add depth to your neutral living room? A half-wall of panelling is an excellent way to create interest and break up plain, neutral walls.
Choose traditional decorative panelling and top it with a picture rail or shelf to provide a place for framed prints. Paint your panelling and walls the same shade of white for an elegant and timeless style.
13. Create Contrast
Use a half-wall of panelling to create contrast in your lounge – it’s incredibly effective even in smaller spaces. Choose navy or deep grey panelling against beige walls for a neutral pallet that still packs a punch.
Together, they will create the perfect backdrop for a soothing space. And because they’re neutral colours, they can be paired with a range of bold accents, too, meaning your design will stand the test of time.
14. Elegant Stairs
Make an elegant feature in your hallway by continuing the panelling up your stairs. It will create an endearing aesthetic, helping to draw the eye up and increase the sense of space in your hallway.
It’s a practical addition, too – panelling is fantastic for protecting walls in high-traffic areas like stairs. Paint your stairs the same colour as your panelling for a high-impact look.
15. Maximalist Hallway
Your hallway is the one space all of your guests are guaranteed to see, so why not use panelling to create a big impression? Make a memorable entrance by painting your panelling and stairs a statement colour.
Choose bold pink or yellow for a playful vibe with lots of energy. Team your half-wall of panelling with a gallery wall above to showcase your personality.
16. Monochrome Hallway
This beautiful hallway boasts a light and airy feel, but we love the black dado rail and stair treads add contrast. Top your half-wall of panelling with a contrasting dado rail to make an eye-catching feature in your hallway.
It will help add depth and create extra visual interest, especially in an otherwise neutral space.
17. White Panelling
Love bold colours but worry whether it might be a bit much in your hallway? Use a half-wall of white panelling to break your walls up and balance bright colours. White is a super-versatile choice as it complements any colour scheme.
You can relax, safe in the knowledge your white panels will go with any future changes to your décor.
18. Welcoming Entrance
Create a serene hallway you long to come home to by installing half-wall panelling. Panel the entire length of your hallway to add character and warmth to your space.
Paint your upper walls white and paint the panels a soothing blue or green to make a calm and welcoming entrance.
19. Bespoke Bench
This cosy dining area embraces the panelling trend with a bespoke built-in bench and half-wall of traditional panels.
The olive-green tones create a beautiful contrast alongside the warm white walls and black windows, resulting in a calm and serene environment.
Make the most of compact dining areas with a stylish panelled bench – it’s a great way to maximise your seating while making a striking feature at the same time.
20. Cosy Neutrals
Warm grey panelling makes for a cosy and welcoming atmosphere in this living-dining area. Paired with white walls, wood and natural accessories, it creates a beautifully modern boho space.
Add character and warmth to your dining area with a half-wall of simple Jacobean-style panelling on one wall. Paint your panelling a shade or two darker than the rest of your walls to create visual interest and add depth to your room.
21. Light and Bright
Transform a small dining area with a half-wall of rectangular panelling. This type of panelling is great for adding height, resulting in a light and airy space.
Paint your walls and panelling the same shade of white to reflect light and further enhance the feeling of space. Create a stylish monochrome theme with black pieces of furniture and choose natural wood flooring to add warmth.
22. Wraparound Panelling
Instead of a feature wall, this simple yet chic dining room boasts a half-wall of panelling around the entire room. This is an ideal choice if you like to regularly change things up and move your furniture around.
Whatever layout you choose in the future, with wraparound panels, you’ll be able to enjoy a beautiful feature from every angle. Choose a neutral beige and white scheme for ultimate versatility.
What Is Half-Wall Panelling?
Half-wall panelling simply means that you panel a portion of your wall, rather than the full wall. You can panel the lower half of your wall in a variety of styles – from contemporary slats to traditional mouldings.
Is Half-Wall Panelling Outdated?
Half-wall panelling is enjoying a huge resurgence on the interiors scene, in properties old and new. Thanks to its incredible versatility, I believe the trend is here to stay.
What Are the Benefits of Half-Wall Panelling?
Half-wall panelling is a great way to add style, character, and warmth to any space. It suits every home style – and with a wide range of designs available, you’re sure to find something you love.
You can combine it with simple painted walls or extravagant wallpapers, so it will stand the test of time even when your other décor changes. Half-wall panelling is extremely practical too, helping to protect your walls from everyday wear and tear.
Is Half-Wall Panelling Expensive?
Cost varies significantly based on the design, materials, size of your walls, and whether you need to hire a professional tradesperson. You can save money by installing panelling yourself with MDF panels or simple decorative mouldings.
As a guide, expect to pay between £25 and £50 per square metre for MDF panelling. Solid oak panelling can cost between £300 to £400 per square metre.
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Samsung was said to be testing Android 4.3 on the Galaxy S3 GT-I9300 and as their testing results we have a Android 4.3 rom ready for the S3. The Andorid 4.3 Firmware I9300XXUGMJ9 got leaked on the internet by SAMMobile. The guys at SAMMobile along with the leak reported that the firmware is quite stable so you will find next to zero bugs in it. Further details below.
Country: Germany (Vodafone)
Version: Android 4.3
Build date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013
Product Code: VFG
– Backup Contacts and SMS also Apps and other data otherwise you will loose them. Charge your device atlest 80%. This firmware will not void warranty
– This test firmware will NOT
increase your binary counter NOR
void your warranty.
– This test firmware is a pre release firmware and not official from Samsung.
– SAMMobile have fully tested this firmware and this firmware works perfectly as any other official firmware.
Instructions For Flashing Firmware:
– Extract (unzip) the firmware ile
– Download Odin3 v3.09 (From here or here)
– Extract Odin .ZIP file
– Open Odin3 v3.09
– Restart phone in download mode (Press and hold Home + Power + Volume down buttons)
– Connect phone and wait until you get a blue sign in Odin
– Add AP_I9300XXUGMJ9_1902166_REV00_user_low_ship.tar.md5 to AP
– Add BL_I9300XXUGMJ9_1902166_ EV00_user_low_ship.tar.md5 to BL
– Add MODEM_I9300BUUGMJ3_REV02_REV04_CL1413323.tar.md5 to CP
– Add CSC_VFG_I9300VFGGMJ5_1986192_REV00_user_low_ship.tar md5 to CSC
– Make sure re-partition is NOT ticked
– Click start button, sit back and wait a few minutes.
– If you encounter any issues with the firmware (Any FC, Bootloop etc)
– Boot into recovery mode (Home +power+vol up)
– Choose to wipe/factory reset. (THIS WILL ERASE ALL OF YOUR DATA INCLUDING YOUR INTERNAL SD CARD!)
– Then choose reboot and you should be good to go!
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The trailer for this week’s throwback Thursday is for the heart-wrenching movie that first brought to screen the results of Tim Burton and Johnny Depp’s collaborative magic – “Edward Scissorhands”, released in December of 1990, starring Johnny and the beautiful Winona Ryder, among others. In its own words, Edward Scissorhands tells “the story of an uncommonly gentle man” who is left to fend with razor sharp scissors for hands after the mad scientist creating him meets an early death. Edward Scissorhands is a modern fairy tale film encapsulating this weirdly wonderful story which reaches out to the misfit in each one of us. Yes, it is sad, but touching. Watch and learn to see things from a different perspective.
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Airports continually strive to enhance efficiency and minimise expenses, constantly seeking innovative approaches to attain these objectives. Emerging New Technology, Making Airports More Efficient and have emerged as a crucial catalyst in aiding their endeavours to accomplish these aims.
By embracing new technologies, airports have been able to automate airport operations, enhance security, improve passenger experience and implement sustainable solutions. This article explores the various airport advancements in technology and their impact on the industry.
One of the key areas where technology is revolutionising airport operations is automation. Automation reduces human error, enhances operational efficiency, and improves time management.
Airports are adopting automated systems to streamline various processes, including check-in, baggage handling, security screenings, and boarding. Passengers can now check-in online, print boarding passes, and even drop off their luggage independently, minimising queues. Additionally, automated passport control gates and facial recognition technology have enhanced border control efficiency, reducing queues and processing times.
The safety and security of passengers are top priorities at airports. However, going through terminals and security checks has historically been less enjoyable.
Airports are leveraging new technologies to revolutionise security measures, emphasising safety and efficiency. These advancements streamline the security check-up process, ultimately resulting in a smoother journey for passengers as they traverse the terminals.
Advanced screening technologies, such as computed tomography (CT) scanners and explosive detection systems, have greatly enhanced security measures while maintaining passenger privacy. These technologies use sophisticated imaging techniques and artificial intelligence algorithms to detect potential threats more accurately and quickly.
Airports are also progressively integrating cutting-edge surveillance systems with high-resolution cameras, advanced facial recognition software, and biometric identification systems. These technologies facilitate efficient passenger screening by minimising the reliance on physical document verification. AI-powered video analytics further empowers these surveillance systems to detect and identify suspicious activities, monitor crowd movements, and enhance overall situational awareness across airport premises.
Air travel often comes with its share of stress. However, airport advancements in technology are now simplifying and enhancing passengers’ experience. By incorporating cutting-edge advancements such as online check-in and biometric security measures, airports are embracing methods that make the experience smoother, more efficient, and seamlessly streamlined.
Biometric security is another cutting-edge innovation that is revolutionising the airport experience. Biometric security deviates from the customary approaches of ID cards and boarding passes, instead of leveraging unique physical characteristics, like fingerprints or iris patterns, for identity verification. This results in a more streamlined and effective security process.
Airline customer service is also evolving as a result of new technologies. Airlines formerly relied on the in-flight PA system for all in-flight announcements. However, there are more efficient methods of reaching passengers in today’s world. Airlines are progressively embracing mobile applications and social media platforms to establish stronger connections with their customers. These digital tools enable airlines to promptly and accurately communicate important updates regarding schedule modifications and cancellations, enhancing the overall customer experience.
As environmental concerns take centre stage, airports are adopting greener technologies. At the forefront of technologies being adopted by airports worldwide are photovoltaic (PV) solar systems. By harnessing the sun’s abundant energy, airports can rely less on non-renewable energy sources and reduce their carbon footprint.
Furthermore, airports are proactively investing in energy-efficient lighting and HVAC systems that use sensors and automation to adjust lighting levels based on natural light and occupancy. Similarly, intelligent HVAC systems optimise energy usage by adjusting temperature and airflow based on real-time needs.
Moreover, innovative initiatives like electric ground support equipment and hybrid or electric airport vehicles are being adopted, reducing emissions from ground operations. But airports are not stopping there. They are now using new-generation air traffic management systems that optimise flight routes, reduce congestion, and minimise aircraft idling time, resulting in fuel savings and reduced carbon emissions. These systems use advanced algorithms, real-time data, and automation to achieve more efficient and eco-friendly air travel.
Predictive analytics and data management have become vital tools that reshape airport operations, optimising performance and streamlining resource allocation. By harnessing the capabilities of machine learning algorithms, predictive analytics can analyse historical and real-time data to anticipate various aspects of airport activities. This includes projecting passenger flows, estimating baggage handling needs, and predicting aircraft turnaround times. Armed with these valuable insights, airports can proactively assign resources, such as personnel and equipment, to ensure smooth operations and minimise delays. Making data-informed decisions empowers airports to identify bottlenecks, enhance maintenance schedules, and improve overall efficiency, resulting in an enhanced passenger experience.
Moreover, automation and artificial intelligence advancements have brought about significant transformations in air traffic control systems. By integrating advanced algorithms and AI, airport managers and air traffic control officials can optimise airspace utilisation, effectively reducing congestion and enhancing flight management. By leveraging real-time data and predictive analytics, air traffic control can proactively anticipate potential bottlenecks or challenges in airspace management and take pre-emptive actions to address them. This facilitates more efficient flight routing, seamless coordination between aircraft, and improved safety measures.New Technology Making Airports More Efficient
New Technology Making Airports More Efficient: Conclusion
Technology has made significant contributions to airport operations’ progress, including enhancing efficiency, safety, the quality of the passenger experience, sustainability, and the distribution of resources. And as it advances, airports will likely keep adopting new ideas to enhance operations further and optimise efficiency and passenger satisfaction.
If you need expert airport operations and technology assistance, Airport Gurus is here to help. As a trusted airport consultant, we provide specialist technical support and airport operations expertise consulting. Contact Airport Gurus today to learn more about how we can assist you in leveraging the latest airport advancements and technologies.