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Revisiting the report in the cold light of day AIIM President John Mancini summed up the findings of the report on the Digital Landfill blog recently.
Hardly a day goes by that we don't find ourselves covering some of the eight facts about document management that he raises. Three of these in particular, strike a chord with us, as we are sure they do with you.
- Email Exposure
- Legal Discovery
- SharePoint Deployments
Email Exposure
Most companies still regard email with suspicion despite the considerable amount of 'secure' products on the market. Over half (55%) still have no confidence that emails are recorded, complete and recoverable. And attachments seem to bear the brunt of that.
Need more information? Read these articles:
- Survey Finds Email Management a Major Legal Discovery Risk, shows that the principal concern companies have in relation to email management is archiving. This particular survey from AIIM found that most companies don't have an archiving solution in place.
- Confidence in Email Archiving Waning shows that confidence in email is falling every year with 63% of UK respondents demonstrating little confidence that emails related to commitments and obligations made by themselves and their staff are recorded, complete and recoverable.
- ARMA Survey on Records Management Woes in which ARMA International conducted a survey of its members on behalf of CA, Inc., and found many are still using manual processes for records management.
Legal Discovery
With legal discovery the findings are just as pessimistic. The production of documents for legal discovery will take more than four weeks for 28% of organizations, with a one in three chance of companies being exposed to legal challenges.
Companies that declare within four weeks do so because they have to rather than because they are ready to.
Learning Opportunities
Other CMSWire coverage on the subject:
- Learning from Others' Mistakes: A Case for eDiscovery, which provides a good case study of how it can happen and how much companies stand to loose if they do not have adequate ediscovery solutions installed.
- The Cost of Information Misgovernance, and What You Can Do about IT. Betsy Atkins most recently served as the CEO and Chairman of Clear Standards and is also a recognized "expert witness" on Corporate Governance Best Practices testifying in the Adelphia bankruptcy case.
- Top eDiscovery Trends 2009 If you are unclear as to where eDiscovery is going at the moment the folks at Clearwell Systems, whose platform works to streamline the eDiscovery process, offered a few predictions for the 2009. Among them, trends that respond to financial and legal stresses as well as a need for more collaboration.
SharePoint Deployments
Finally, no analysis of the document management industry could be complete without reference to SharePoint. The State of the Industry 2009report showed that there is no consensus on how to deploy SharePoint with 29% of organizations deploying it in parallel to, or even in competition with existing enterprise content management, document management or records management suites.
Only 16% of companies integrated it with existing suites, while only 12% used it as their only ECM. The rest use it to "fill in some functions".
The SharePoint Ecosystem
- Study Finds SharePoint Primarily Used for File Sharing Is it not being used to its fullest potential? Or is SharePoint really just a glorified file system?
- 7 Must Read Articles - SharePoint in the Enterprise As we are limited here in how much can be said about SharePoint, and there is so much information on its implementation have a look at these must-read articles.
- SharePoint 2010, A Business Collaboration Platform: It's not here yet, but will SharePoint 2010 provide a more suitable platform for managing and collaborating on documents?


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When you're next shopping online, take note of where you add products to. I bet it's wrongly named.
It's only recently I've noticed this mistake but I guarantee the majority of websites get it wrong.
"Add to bag".
"View shopping bag".
Think about it.
When you go shopping in the real world, you don't add items to a bag – you place them in a basket (or trolley). It's only after you go through the checkout to pay for those items do they go in a bag. In essence, this is your parcel at the end of the online purchase.
If you were to add items to your bag before you pay for them, you'd be treated as a potential thief. Let's not go down that route for now.
Lesson learned? Think about your language and how it correlates to the user's perception when designing your experience.
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Should you're pining for careers in holistic medicine like that of renowned Doctor Andrew Weil, it is important that you just pursue the fitting educational path to get on the street to fulfilling your professional aspirations. Fresno Holistic Medicine is an skilled at pure fertility and preconception care. It's an approach to care that empowers you to be lively in your healing and lifelong wellness. Traditional Chinese medication (TCM), for example, is a system of health care primarily based on Taoist principles that was developed over four,000 years in the past.
Integrative drugs is an approach to care that focuses on the entire particular person. The use of acupuncture, naturopathy and chiropractic treatments additionally elevated, in accordance with the report. The enchantment of this holistic medicine tradition does should be understood higher by the fashionable medical establishment.
Also noted that the sufferers that agreed to standard therapy for most cancers died after very tough quality of life, whereas those that refused it lives properly, and some even healed themselves through vitamin and meditation. Complementary Medication is a term used when therapies are being used in conjunction with typical or Western medical therapies.
Holistic drugs focuses upon patient schooling and participation within the healing process. Holistic Care or Integrative Medication combines typical medical remedy, complementary therapies, and way of life adjustments. Wholesome behaviors, akin to consuming proper, getting sufficient bodily exercise, and never smoking, can scale back individuals's risks of creating severe diseases.
Breast medical oncologist and acupuncturist Ting Bao discusses the position of integrative therapies within the most cancers setting. If a patient is being handled with allopathic drugs, holistic therapies may at the very least help the physique during remedy, and alleviate the signs that often include drug therapies and surgical procedure.


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This is exactly what you must know getting money for the expense that is unexpected. ( iStock )
An unplanned vehicle fix, medical situation, or death within the household are typical hard circumstances, but in the event that you don't have a crisis investment with sufficient cash to pay for the bills it is possible to experience extra anxiety. https://www.approved-cash.com/payday-loans-nd Several times, a cost can't wait you may need to consider getting an emergency loan until you're able to save up enough cash, and. Some tips about what you should know.
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What exactly is an urgent situation loan, and exactly how do you really get one?
An urgent situation loan is just a loan that is personal makes it possible to protect the expense of a crisis. The amount you submit an application for is going to be on the basis of the price of your cost, but emergencies that are many $2,000 or less. Payday and name loans and bank card improvements can be considered crisis loans, usually supplying capital at that moment. Nevertheless, these kind of loans normally have high interest levels and may be prevented until you do not have other choice.
If you are trying to find a crisis loan, look for the most effective unsecured loans that is available on interest levels and terms. Personal bank loan terms and prices can differ by loan provider. Begin your research on Credible where you could explore your alternatives and effortlessly compare prices and loan providers.
Wondering ways to get an urgent situation loan? There is one from at the very least three places. Each type of loan provider may have various terms and needs for certification. Listed here is a brief overview:
1. Banking institutions: Banking institutions may necessitate borrowers to own greater incomes and credit scores than credit unions or lenders that are online.
2. Credit unions: Credit unions usually have a community-based approach and will continue to work with specific borrowers to obtain them authorized. But, you frequently should be a user.
3. On line loan providers: Online Lenders often offer pre-qualification information about their site, which can only help you recognize your odds of approval before you apply.
Advantages and disadvantages of crisis loans
Emergency loans usually borrowers several benefits.
- Freedom: they can virtually be used for any cost, which gives freedom. According to your credit history, crisis loans that are personal be unsecured, that provides less danger.
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- Repayment choices: loan providers provide a number of payment terms from 12 to 48 months, which will help the payment is fitted by you into the spending plan when you spend less and build an urgent situation investment for future costs.
Nevertheless, crisis loans also provide some disadvantages.
- You can get declined: Since these loans in many cases are unsecured, lenders will scrutinize your credit score, earnings, and present financial obligation load. In case your credit rating is low, you might be declined or struggling to secure the greatest prices.
- You might not have the ability to borrow sufficient money: a lowered credit rating might restrict the quantity you'll be offered, and you will never be in a position to borrow sufficient to cover expensive emergencies, like a fresh roof or automobile transmission.
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Marina Bay Sands
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Marina Bay Sands is a building complex in Singapore which is a bit like a city within the city of Singapore. Marina Bay Sands is a complex of hotel, casino, shopping mall, theatres, museum, restaurants and heaps of entertainment. Marina Bay Sands opened in 2010 and has become famous as the building with the boat on top of it as the 3 tall buildings are connected with what looks like a ship. It is also famous for the infinity swimming pool on the roof with it's amazing view over Singapore.
Marina Bay Sands Shopping Mall
The shopping mall in Marina Bay is huge with every high end designer label store imaginable including Burberry, Chanel, Dior, Fendi, Hermes, Louis Vuitton, Prada, Ralph Lauren, Versace, Victoria's Secret, Yves Saint Laurent, Alfred Dunhill, Emporio Armani, Cartier, Tiffany and many more. There are 22 restaurants to choose from including Bay Sushi, Ku De Ta, Din Tai Fung and Hide Yamamoto.
Running through the Marina Shopping Mall is a Venice like canal with boats you can hire to take a gondola ride through the shopping plaza.
There is a 2 story indoor waterfall located right in the centre of the Marina Bay Sands Shopping Mall.
The shopping mall at Marina Bay Sands even has a ice skating rink.
Laser Show at Marina Bay Sands
The Light and Water Show Spectacular is performed at Marina Bay Sands 8pm and 9.30pm Sunday - Thursday nights and 9.30pm and 11pm Friday and Saturday nights. The show lasts for 13 minutes and is free of charge.
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Marina Bay Sands Hotel
The Marina Bay Sands Hotel is a 5 star hotel with a choice of hotel rooms or suites. The only way you will get to have a swim in the amazing pool on the roof of the Marina Bay Sands is to be staying at the hotel. Room prices at Marina Bay Sands start from S$499 + tax and service charge. The Suites start from S$799 + tax and service charge. Check their website as prices fluctuate depending on the day or the time of year.
SkyPark at Marina Bay Sands
SkyPark is located on the roof of Marina Bay Sands. Although you have to be a hotel guest to swim in the infinity pool at SkyPark, you can visit the roof if you have a reservation at any of the restaurants including Ku De Ta or Sky on 57.
Theatres at Marina Bay Sands
There are 2 theatres at Marina Bay Sands, The Sands Theatre a 1680 seat theatre and the Grand Theatre a 2155 seat theatre. Shows ranging from theatrical productions and musicals are shown here. Check out the current and upcoming shows at the Theatres at Marina Bay Sands.
ArtScience Museum at Marina Bay Sands
The ArtScience Museum is located in the futurist designed building in front of the Marina Bay Sands towers. There are a number of permanent exhibitions as well as some temporary exhibitions from around the world.
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Brace yourself, dear reader. You're about to be assailed with praise and hyperbole for Blake Crouch's Dark Matter, which, at this moment, is on track to be my favourite thriller of the year. Right now, I can't imagine anything toppling Dark Matter from its throne.
Dark Matter is an unabashed science fiction thriller. If the thought of multi-dimension travel – of our protagonist traversing alternate worlds – is too much of a leap from the grounded reality in which you prefer your fiction, okay, fair enough, perhaps this one's not for you. But for everybody else, willing and able to suspend their disbelief, and accept the parameters of Crouch's fiction, Dark Matter is a relentless and thrilling ride. What glues it together – what makes this novel work – is its heart. Dark Matter is a love story – punctuated with action and science fiction elements, certainly – but its romantic core, one man's desire to reunite with his wife and son, is what makes the novel tick along.
Dark Matter is about the roads not taken. It's about the choices we make – those large, momentous decisions we identify as important, and the smaller ones we barely recognise. Jason Dessen chose his family over his career as a physicist; so too his wife Daniela, who gave up her dream of being an artist. It's not a decision they regret – they're a content family unit, blessed with a teenage son – but inevitably there are moments when they wonder what might have been. And thanks to the Jason Dessen from an alternate reality – a world in which he focused on his career in science rather than his family, and created a multidimensional travel device – our Jason is about to discover what might've been.
Crouch sends Dessen to a range of close-but-not quite realities as he attempts to find his journey home, to his wife, to his son. In putting Dessen through such an emotional rollercoaster we bear witness to some truly gut-wrenching and poignant scenes. And just when you think the novel's demonstrated all it's got to offer – that Crouch is leading readers down a thrilling, but somewhat routine path as Dessen attempts to return to his world – he throws a curveball; an unforeseen plot twist that raises the states even higher, and propels the narrative through to its fitting climax.
Plenty of fiction has explored the idea of multidimensional travel, but rather than focus on the science, Dark Matter keeps the reader riveted because of its heart. How far is one man willing to go to reunite with his family? How much can he witness before he loses himself? You'll tear through Dark Matter in one sitting to find out. Truly, it's one of the best thrillers I've read in years.
Format: Paperback (234mm x 153mm x 25mm)
Pages: 352
Imprint: Macmillan
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Publish Date: 28-Jul-2016
Country of Publication: United Kingdom


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Koch says it won't gain from Wis. bill
A lesser-known provision of Wisconsin's budget-repair bill would allow the state to sell off publicly owned power plants in no-bid deals – prompting a flurry of speculation by liberal bloggers who allege that Gov. Scott Walker is attempting a giveaway to energy conglomerate Koch Industries.
The bill includes language saying the Wisconsin Department of Administration "may sell any state-owned heating, cooling, and power plant or may contract with a private entity for the operation of any such plant, with or without solicitation of bids, for any amount that the department determines to be in the best interest of the state."
It would also exempt the deals Public Service Commission scrutiny, and says any profits would go into a budget stabilization fund.
Koch insists it doesn't stand to gain from the legislation, and is furiously denouncing the rumors as they have spread to media outlets including MSNBC, Forbes and Bloomberg.
"The power plant assertion is one more example of many baseless falsehoods and speculation made by a vested interest that gets picked up and repeated over and over in the media," said a statement from Philip Ellender, president of government and public affairs for Koch Cos. Public Sector LLC. "We have no interest in purchasing any of the state owned power plants in Wisconsin and any allegations to the contrary are completely false."
Koch Industries, led by billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, has emerged as a major benefactor of conservative Republican candidates, and the Koch-backed group Americans for Prosperity has helped organize tea party rallies in Wisconsin supporting Walker's proposed budget fix. That debate has focused mainly on the bill's most high-profile provisions, including limits on the collective bargaining rights of public service unions.
Supporters say the bill is needed to plug a budget hole by the end of the fiscal year June 30 — which could perhaps serve as a justification for easing obstacles to selling the power plants as quickly as possible.
But on Monday, the power-plant clause drew the attention of a blog called Gin and Tacos, which criticized the proposal as "a highlight reel of all of the high-flying slam dunks of neo-Gilded Age corporatism: privatization, no-bid contracts, deregulation, and naked cronyism."
Liberal blogs such DailyKos followed suit, speculating that Koch could be in a position to buy the plants for a cut-rate price, and MSNBC guest host Chris Hayes discussed the power plant proposal Tuesday night while filling in for Rachel Maddow. In an article Tuesday, Salon said the power plant clause "appears to be a smoking gun connecting Gov. Scott Walker to the notorious libertarian Tea Party puppet masters, the Koch brothers," while cautioning that "it is not at all clear that the Kochs are in the market for those specific assets."
At Forbes — not usually considered a hotbed of liberalism — policy blogger Rick Ungar called the clause "unusual," at the very least.
"At best, it is highly irregular that a state legislature would grant the executive the power to sell off or lease public utilities without a bidding process," Ungar wrote. "At worse – well, I would hate to think that such a bargain could be struck all for the benefit of one particular company."
The power plant proposal got more muted attention in a Feb. 14 article by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, which said selling the facilities could bring in hundreds of millions of dollars — if the state could find buyers despite concerns about pollution from burning coal.
The plants include heating and cooling plants at state prisons and University of Wisconsin campuses, according to the newspaper, which reported that Democratic former Gov. Jim Doyle vetoed a similar sell-off proposal years ago.
"The state knows darn well that it has got compliance issues with these aging coal plants, and so the violations are going to have to be corrected," the newspaper quoted Madison Sierra Club activist Jennifer Feyerherm as saying. "How the governor thinks he can put lipstick on that pig and sell huge financial and environmental liabilities to someone else, good luck. Bottom line, those plants need to be cleaned up."


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After the 2-0 defeat to Qatar on Matchday 1, The Cedars were under a little bit of pressure to get a result against big favourites Saudi Arabia in order to get themselves in a favourable position to qualify for the second round for the first time in their history. However, unfortunately, despite putting in a decent performance and giving a good account of themselves, the Cedars ultimately fell short as Saudi Arabia ran out 2-0 winners on Saturday at the beautiful, newly-renovated, Al Maktoum Stadium in Dubai. The all-Arab affair saw a decent crowd attend the game and the atmosphere was great, even if the official attendance of 13000 seems like a stretch with regards to what we saw inside the stadium. But, in the end, Lebanon were unable to get a result against the three-times Asian champions and will now need a win in their last game and other results to go their way if they are to make it to the last 16.
On Saturday morning, there were a lot of rumours emanating from Lebanese football networks saying that Radulovic was going to switch to a 4-3-3 and make numerous changes to personnel, with the idea of playing a more attacking game in order to exploit Saudi Arabia's defensive deficiencies. However, this was not the case as Radulovic decided to stick with his 5-2-3 formation and make only the two changes: Walid Ismail was replaced by Kassem El Zein at left wing-back, while Mohamad Haidar came in for Bassel Jradi on the right of the front three. The latter change was a big surprise for all Lebanese sports media and fans, with the official reason before the game being that Jradi had suffered an injury, although the circumstances were unclear.
The game plan was very similar to the one used against Qatar, as Lebanon sat deep in their own half and looked to close the spaces and keep Saudi Arabia in front of them. However, Saudi Arabia have players in Salem El Dawsari and Hatan Bahebri who have great ball control and are great dribblers but are also very fast and so it was proving a difficult task for Lebanon from the very beginning. And it only took the Green Falcons 12 minutes to open the scoring, although they did so benefitting from a very lucky ricochet, as Oumari's panicky attempted clearance deflected off Alex Melki's leg and looped over the defence into the path of Fahad Al Muwallad, who hit a smashing volley past Mehdi Khalil and into the roof of the net, skimming the crossbar on its way in. Conceding such an early goal was a big blow to Lebanon's chances of causing an upset, especially as it meant they had to change their gameplan slightly and push forward in search of an equalizer. But to be fair to Lebanon, their reaction to going a goal down was very good and they created a very good chance to equalize only three minutes after conceding. Mohamad Haidar delivered a fantastic corner towards the far post and the unmarked Joan Oumari headed it just over the bar. It is very unfortunate as Oumari was on the stretch and had he left it he had Ali Hamam right behind him in a better position who would probably have finished it in a similar vein to the disallowed goal against Qatar. Lebanon really began to push for the equalizer as Saudi Arabia seemed to slow down after the goal and ten minutes later they had another great chance to equalize. This time it was Hassan Maatouk with the free-kick, taken from a wide position, as he put an equally excellent ball in towards the far post where the unmarked Felix Melki was running. All he needed was to get a decent touch on it and it would have been 1-1, but despite stretching as much as he could he was unable to get sufficient contact on the ball. We actually saw Felix Melki take up quite an advanced role towards the end of the first-half and make a few late runs into the box. Although Saudi Arabia had most of the possession, they were quite lethargic as complacency seemed to be creeping in, and it was Lebanon who were looking the most dangerous as the Cedars gave everything to avoid going in at half-time trailing, but to no avail.
Lebanon tried to keep the momentum going in the second half but Saudi Arabia grabbed control of the game, moving the ball swiftly and making it difficult for the Lebanese to keep their shape, with some of the players starting to tire. But Lebanon still had a few counter-attacks and were playing with determination and ambition. Until the 67th minute, when Hussain Al Moqahwi killed all hopes Lebanon had of getting back into the game, sneaking in at the far post in behind Alex Melki to slot home Hatan Bahebri's beautiful low cross. With all hopes gone, Lebanon looked deflated and demoralized and Mehdi Khalil made a couple of really good saves, one from Bahebri's long range shot and one where he did well to parry a dangerous Al Muwallad cross out of danger with Saudi players running into the box looking to score a third, to keep the score down. Khalil actually played well during the whole game, building on from the Qatar match, and has probably been one of Lebanon's best players during the tournament, despite conceding four goals. Radulovic made a couple of substitutions to try and find a way back into the game or at least get a goal to improve the goal difference, knowing it will be decisive when it comes to which third-placed teams qualify. But he did so without abandoning the defensive shape or going gung-ho, learning his lesson from the Qatar match. Rabih Ataya came on for Haitham Faour in an attacking change which saw Mohamad Haidar drop into the midfield pair, and then Nader Matar came on for captain Hassan Maatouk, who had faded out of the game. But the belief in the team had gone and these substitutions were unable to give the necessary boost to the team. Even the Lebanese crowd, who until then had supported their team admirably throughout the game and arguably been even better than against Qatar, had become subdued. Radulovic therefore decided to shut up shop and make sure to limit the score to 2-0 with eyes on the North Korea match and the race to be one of the four best third-placed teams.
In the first half, Lebanon played well. They set up defensively but because they conceded an early goal, they had to change the gameplan and look for an equalizer and they did that without opening up at the other end. Although they didn't create too much from open play, they created two great opportunities from set-pieces that could, and probably should have seen them draw level. Saudi Arabia passed the ball really well in the middle of the park with quick short pass combinations including loads of one-twos which made it difficult for our players to keep up but they did well as they generally kept their shape and Saudi Arabia, for all their possession didn't threaten too much apart from the goal. And when it came to going forward ourselves, Mohamad Haidar was the player taking the initiative, showing great confidence and using his great dribbling skills and shielding the ball really well, making it really hard for the Saudis to get the ball from him. He also kept trying to create chances, using his vision and wonderful left foot, but most of the time the other attacking players were not making the runs he wanted them to and he gave the ball away a few times because of that. He also used his left foot to put in a great corner from which we should have scored. It was therefore very strange that after that we didn't give all the other set-pieces to him and had Maatouk take them instead. We played with energy and determination but lacked end product and any sort of attacking organization. Radulovic was relying on the individual quality of our attacking players as well as our strength from set-pieces, but while our players were good enough for this strategy when we played against weaker teams in the qualifers, at this level we needed to have sequences prepared for the players to create more chances from open play. We looked more dangerous when the wing-backs threatened to go forward but that happened very rarely. Felix Melki tried to push forward towards the end of the first half to try and give more of an aerial threat in the box but no crosses were put in to test that. The second half was similar for the first 20 minutes until the second goal went in, when Alex Melki and Ali Hamam switched off and didn't track Al Moqahwi's run from midfield. To be fair to the players, their defensive organization is almost perfect as is proven by the small number of chances we concede but both games have shown what the effects of not having a professional league are on the National Team. One of the main effects is that our players are not used to such an intense fast-paced game so we can clearly see that when Saudi Arabia moved the ball quickly our players struggled to keep up with their rhythm. But another effect that has been obvious is the fitness of our players, who were not only slower than the Saudis but also got tired towards the 65-70 minute mark and the game fizzled out after that. This is what also happened against Qatar, and just like in the first game, an inevitable lapse of concentration from our players was ruthlessly punished by our opponents. This is the harsh lessons that our team is learning at this high level and in the end, our team for all their efforts and determination, it was simply a lack of quality that cost them against a very strong Saudi Arabian side. But luckily for all of us Lebanese, we still have one last chance to qualify for the last 16: we need to beat North Korea on Thursday and hope other results go our way.
Lebanon team player ratings: Mehdi Khalil 8, Ali Hamam 5, Alex Melki 6, Mootaz Jouanidi 7, Joan Oumari 6, Kassem El Zein 7, Haitham Faour 6, Felix Melki 7, Mohamad Haidar 8, Hassan Maatouk 6, Hilal El Helwe 5; Subs: Rabih Ataya 5, Nader Matar 6, Mohamad Zein Tahan 6.
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Merck recently presented results from analyses supporting the use of Zepatier (elbasvir and grazoprevir) 50 mg/100 mg tablets for the treatment of multiple clinical indications, including patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD).The analyses were presented at The Liver Meeting 2016 Nov. 11-15 in Boston.
"Work remains to be done in the community's efforts to reduce the global burden of chronic hepatitis C, and Merck is committed to pursuing this goal," Dr. Eliav Barr, senior vice president of global clinical development, infectious diseases and vaccines for Merck Research Laboratories, said in a recent press release. "Our clinical development program continues to yield meaningful evidence for Zepatier in specific patient populations."
Merck presented results from an integrated pooled analysis from the Phase 2 and Phase 3 development program of Zepatier assessing the clinical benefits of the drug on renal function in patients with advanced CKD (stage 3, with elevated estimated glomerular filtration rate, or eGFR).
Overall, 32 patients with stage 3 CKD and 1,657 patients with elevated eGFR were included in the analysis.
All patients received Zepatier with or without ribavirin therapy, an anti-viral drug, for 8, 12, 16 or 18 weeks. The results showed that at the end of treatment, among the 32 patients with stage 3 CKD, kidney function improved in 38 percent of the patients or remained stable in 63 percent of the patients.
The effectiveness and safety profile of Zepatier was evaluated in C-SURFER, a Phase 2/3 placebo-controlled clinical trial (NCT02092350) in cirrhotic and non-cirrhotic patients with chronic genotype 1 hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and CKD.
The results from this study, presented at the International Liver Congress in April 2015 and published in The Lancet, showed that following 12 weeks of treatment with Zepatier, 99 percent (115/116) of patients with chronic hepatitis C virus infection and advanced CKD achieved a sustained response with no major treatment-related adverse events reported.
Other analyses presented at the meeting provided additional evidence of the clinical benefit of Zepatier in chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotype (GT) 1- or GT4-infected patients, including those who receive opioid agonist therapy (OAT), are infected with chronic HCV GT1b, or use proton pump inhibitors (PPIs).
Zepatier is a fixed-dose combination product containing elbasvir, a hepatitis C virus NS5A inhibitor, and grazoprevir, an HCV NS3/4A protease inhibitor, and is indicated with or without ribavirin for treatment of chronic HCV genotypes 1 or 4 infection in adults.


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Charlotte's embrace of a Revolutionary War nickname
With Tuesday night's announcement that will change the NBA's Charlotte Bobcats to Hornets, here's a look at the history of the nickname that dates to the Revolutionary War.
Charlotte was incorporated in 1768 and named for Princess Charlotte Sophia of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, who would become George III's queen. Since the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, one of the many anti-British resolutions written in Colonial America, was composed here, the town was targeted by the British government during the Revolutionary War. In 1780, British military officer Lord Cornwallis received such hostile treatment when he occupied the city that he dubbed Charlotte "a hornet's nest of rebellion." The city later proudly adopted the nickname for sports teams in baseball, football and, finally, basketball.
The baseball Hornets, who played from 1940-72 in the 3,200-seat Griffith Park in Charlotte's Dilworth neighborhood off Magnolia Ave., won titles in 1902, 1916, 1923, 1931, 1938, 1946, 1947, 1952 and 1971.
Among the eventual major league stars who played for the Hornets were Van Lingle Mungo (1929), Early Wynn (1936), Harmon Killebrew (1956), Tony Oliva (1962) and Graig Nettles (1967).
League membership (with years):
1892 – South Atlantic League
1901 – Virginia-North Carolina League
1902 – North Carolina League
1905 – Virginia-North Carolina League
1908-13 – Carolina Association
1914-17 – North Carolina State League
1919-30 – South Atlantic League
1931-35 – Piedmont League
1936 – Carolina League
1937-42 – Piedmont League
1946-53 – Tri-State League
1954-62 – South Atlantic League
1963-72 – Southern League
The football Hornets, who played at Memorial Stadium for parts of the 1974 and 1975 seasons, were born out of the renovation of old Yankee Stadium. The New York Stars moved in October 1974 but the team – and upstart World Football League – would fold in October 1975 after 2 1-2 seasons.
The Hornets were coached by Babe Parilli and among the players for the short-lived team were former Shelby High and South Carolina standout Robby Reynolds, former East Rutherford High and North Carolina standout Lewis Jolley, former Charlotte Olympic High and Georgia Tech standout Randy Rhino and former New York Jets Super Bowl winner Gerry Philbin.
League membership (with years):
1974-75 – World Football League
The basketball Hornets, who played at the since-demolished Charlotte Coliseum off Tyvola Road, led the NBA in attendance nine of its first 10 seasons and had a record 364-game sellout streak that lasted from December 1988 to November 1997.
The Hornets featured popular standouts like Muggsy Bogues, Dell Curry, Larry Johnson, Alonzo Mourning, Glen Rice, Anthony Mason, Jamal Mashburn and Baron Davis and advanced to the playoffs seven times in 14 seasons.
League membership (with years):
1988-2002 – National Basketball Association


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Mr. Isaack
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Actor, illustrator, children's books author - storyteller.
I started my acting career in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, at the age of 16.
At the time I knew very little about theatre, I only knew that it felt good.
The first play I ever did was called Atheneum. We were 43 young actors rehearsing for over six months in an old abandoned theater. We knew that there were only going to be 7 performances, but we didn't care. We simply loved every minute of it.
Once Atheneum was closed, I was left with an appetite for more. But how could I get it?
I didn't have to wait long for more, and an exciting and diverse theatre career began. I was a young man, a gnome, a frog, a prince, an angel, a gigolo, and so many other different things. However, I was never a doctor, as my mother mistakenly took me for, when I was born.
I used to believe in the "sink or swim" method of acting until roles became more complex, and I realized my young spunk was no longer enough. I needed a craft.
In 1998 I was awarded the Nordan Young Artist Award and a full ride to study theatre at TCU, in Fort Worth, Texas, in the United States of America. In 2000 I transferred to Harvard University's Institute for Advanced Theatre Training, where I got my MFA. From Rio to Fort Worth, to Massachussets, and then Moscow, I got quite the taste of what theatre could be, and training as rich and diverse as acting can be.
After I graduated in 2002 I moved to NYC. Signed with a strong agency and manager and was ready to hit it big. It didn't take long for me to get my butt kicked and realize I'd be playing the role of the waiter, bartender, flower guy, doorman, and a few others for a while.
My career after school started slow, but my hunger for acting was only growing - quite frustrating actually. Eventually things started picking up, and I booked a few regional and Off-Broadway gigs.
Everything came to a halt in January 2008, when, one night, while talking to a friend I suddenly went mute. Something that seemed like a cold or a flu, turned into a 13 month ordeal. The big loud strong voice I was always so proud of was suddenly gone. And I don't mean hoarse or quiet, I mean gone. Mute. Silent.
Lucky for me technology was advancing quickly, and text messages were becoming cheaper. I looked for ways to make money without having to talk; I sold my comics book collection - which thankfully was worth much more than I thought; and I waited for the doctors to figure out what it was. I also started drawing and writing children's stories. I couldn't talk, but still wanted to tell stories.
They never figured out what happened, but on the first week of February 2009, my voice started working again. I worked with a voice therapist for 6 months, re-trained my breathing and… voilà, my voice was back.
By then I had written and illustrated my first published book,
, and a few other stories.
I'm back to acting now and still drawing and writing for kids. Yup, I'm a storyteller.
No matter what happens, we gotta keep moving forward.
Sandro Isaack
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Raising Awareness, so many people have it, yet hardly anybody has ever heard of it/about it. The event took place in beautiful gorgeous building, historic and simple was perfect. So blessed that we had wonderful weather considering lately all it's done has rained. Best believe we enjoyed the sun immensely.
|Kingswood House, London.
Had variety of different activities, things for the kids bouncy castle, face painting, arts&crafts, football and more.. Food wise you had fruit, cakes- cupcakes, cookies, popcorn, candy, and Caribbean food on offer. Handmade jewellery that was sold, which I bought couple, that will be in separate post, as I will be doing a giveaway, coming very soon, oh yes bought extra for my readers, toys, books, and other accessories. Dance act performances which were all good. Raffle. Advice for sufferers.
There was a support group which I found the most beneficial, actually meeting others face to face who has fibromyalgia, we all could relate to one another, so refreshing and touching hearing about each others experiences. Learning about techniques on how to soothe the body. Then there was relaxation class, which was just what the doctor ordered. Having chit chat with others. Sense of community, which I loved. Even helped give insight (a snippet) to our friends/families on what we go through on daily basis. I know it educated Jo who was my partner for the day hehe (my friend that came along with me). We both enjoyed the day, so glad attended, met some lovely people. Everybody who was involved working for this cause and shall continue too should feel proud, thank you, insert smiley face, as even those myself included who wasn't involved, still deserves a well done as we all know it's not easy, just going out is a mission. Gentle soft pat on the back to all.
Please if you know anybody with fibromyalgia, please do tell them about this website, even if you don't have it and want to know more, worth checking out either way.


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The University of Maine at Presque Isle will be holding a Graduate School Fair on Thursday, Oct. 18 from Noon to 2 p.m. in the Owl's Nest of the Campus Center. Hosted by the Student Activities Office and the Office of Career Readiness, the fair will include representatives from five graduate schools and provide students with the opportunity to begin networking with them. All are welcome to attend this free event.
The University of New England School of Social Work, Thomas College, UMaine Online, the University of Maine in Orono, and Husson University will be attending the event. According to organizers, the purpose of the fair is for students to explore graduate school options. Students will get the chance to learn about local graduate school programs and discuss different career options. There will also be information about how to apply for graduate school.
"Our hope is that people will take away an excitement for the possibility of furthering their education, maybe even with a contact or two," Violet Washburn, UMPI's Coordinator of Campus Engagement and International Student Services, said.
For questions regarding the event, please contact firstname.lastname@example.com or Violet Washburn at firstname.lastname@example.com or 207-768-9582.


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By Somali K Chakrabarti
The earth cracks
with blistering heat,
rivers dry, crops wilt;
if water is consumed
without a thought,
we all shall bear the brunt of drought –
Life is water, water is life
Conserve water before shortage is rife.
© Somali K Chakrabarti
As the mercury rises, taps and wells around the world are running dry. Due to the lack of rains coupled with ElNino effect and mismanagement of water, five continents are facing acute water crisis and drought conditions. The severe drought that has gripped several states in India including Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Odisha , Telangana , Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh , Jharkhand and Rajasthan has resulted in several cases where farmers, laden with debt have committed suicide and children are bearing the brunt.
According to TERI Energy Data Directory & Yearbook, India, with 4% of the world's total utilizable freshwater resources. houses around 16.8% of the world's population. In the book 'Water, Peace, and War: Confronting the Global Water Crisis', Brahma Chellany , strategist and author on geopolitical trends points out that Water will be the key to war and peace in the coming years as the scarcity of water, taken to the extreme may lead to conflict among nations.
Proper management of water and water conservation is a key issue that can no longer be ignored.
While the Government of India is talking about interlinking rivers to transfer water to drought-prone areas , its feasibility and repercussions in the long term are being questioned by the environmentalists.
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Whilst in lock down I have used some of my time productively and finished some scrapbooks! I love looking through old photos and memorabilia and hope one day I can sit down with my children and show them all our adventures. Not only does my scrapbooks show me all my adventures it also shows me how far I have come from when I was first diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis, and some very embarrassing moments.
I LOVE travelling, exploring different cities, lying on a beach and trying different things and I have never let my Colitis ruin this for me. Though times it has been hard and interfered a lot, but I am so grateful now with my stoma I can actually enjoy going on holiday again.
Travelling with Colitis is the most stressful thing ever, from the journey to the airport with 10 toilet stops, to the flight, foreign food, excursion days, museums. I could never really relax. Sometimes trips went well and my Colitis backed off a bit luckily, but others have been a nightmare. My first holiday with Connor was to Rome, and I must admit my Colitis was on its best behavior all weekend, the only thing that bothered me was fatigue that weekend, but we pushed through and it was worth it!
The next holiday we went on was a little bit different. The day before we were due to fly out to Krakow for the Christmas markets, I had an appointment with my Gastroenterologist, who wanted to admit me, but I really wanted to go on holiday.. so off I went with my extra case full of new medication. I spent the whole weekend searching for toilets, tired, and all in all really not very well. We tried to say we wouldn't let it spoil the weekend, so we still managed to go to explore the salt mines, and even managed to make it to Auschwitz, after a very rough bus journey. We were the first people on the bus, and we had a couple more pick-ups along the way. Our driver wasn't the most accommodating and wouldn't let me get off to use the toilet, but after some sort of miracle I actually held it in till we got there. We enjoyed some excellent food, but often headed right back to the hotel after so didn't explore the nightlife. Krakow, was then on our list to head back to when I was feeling well.
Early on in my Colitis life my family and I spent Christmas in New York, followed by a weeks cruise around the Bahamas. Paradise. I can remember New York being absolutely amazing, especially through Christmas as it was so magical, but it was a nightmare for public toilets! I spent the majority of the holiday running in to restaurants and hotels and half of the Christmas Rockette show in the toilet. One of the most frustrating things I can remember was breakfast time, I never ate breakfast in hope that I wouldn't need the toilet through the day, so my family always used to have some amazing looking bagels from a little cafe by our hotel and I never got to experience one. I promised myself I would go back one day to experience the whole city again, and try to find that bagel shop.
So, in 2019 I took Connor as a surprise Christmas present (spoiler: I never found the bagel shop).
When Connor and I went to New York, we didn't know it at the time but when we got home it was only two weeks before I had to be admitted for my ileostomy surgery. This highlights the fact I was in a massive flare up. So my second time in the city that never sleeps and I was suffering with massive fatigue, going to the toilet around 15 times a day, blood loss and just generally unwell. Great.
New York with a major Colitis flare up was an experience. I am a massive foodie, and New York has so much to offer, I knew once I ate I would need the toilet, so this made it hard and I did miss out. For breakfasts (just like the first trip) I wouldn't eat that much so it didn't ruin the day, I hardly ate at dinner whilst we were out and about, and after tea we would have to sit and wait until the initial 'rush' passed. By initial rush I actually mean about 5 shits. I had to sit out of half the Broadway show, whilst Connor sat and watched Pretty Woman on his own, and there was definitely one point where I wasn't sure if I would make it across Brooklyn Bridge without having to squat and probably get arrested by one of the little bridge police cars. (If you've been you will know what i'm going on about, if not, google it).
The worst thing about travelling with Colitis is airports and flights. After being to some absolutely awful airport toilets (Egypt), to long airport security lines its then time for the hour (at least) long boarding and taxiing which without fail every time had me in a lather of sweat crying to Connor telling him I can't hold it in any longer and i'm going to shit myself just before take-off. Just to clarify, I never actually did, but it is the worst feeling in the world. Thankfully now i'm just crying and sweating because I hate flying and it's got nothing to do with me needing the toilet. I thankfully never had an accident whilst on a plane, only came close.
Handy tip for anyone travelling with an invisible illness is to go to the information desk and ask for an invisible illness lanyard! They are brilliant, a simple lanyard you wear round your neck (it's got sunflowers on it too so it doesn't look hideous) which highlights to airport staff you may need to go through the priority security or have a bit of extra help. I found out about this lanyard after once getting to the front of the security queue, about to get searched and the sudden urgency hit me like a brick. I had to run to a member of staff and explain quickly, I needed the toilet urgently, and I mean urgently or else.. and he kindly escorted me to a quick access toilet. After this debacle I never travel without my lanyard, it even helped us get through a three hour immigration queue at JFK airport and is really handy now with my stoma as it highlights I will be carrying medication and medical supplies.
New York was my last holiday with active colitis and no ileostomy, and looking back I honestly don't know how I dealt with it and how I did everything I did. People always say to me how much of a fighter I am and can't believe how much I have had to deal with, I never actually realise how much I went through and how much it affected my life until I look back on everything. I just look forward to my future plans, and i'm extremely grateful that our next trip, which is travelling India, is occurring now I have a stoma and not active Colitis. I couldn't even bear to imagine Delhi Belly mixed with Colitis, at least now I won't have to worry about what hand I'm eating with and using some dodgy toilets, or should I just say a hole in the ground, and with that image i'll leave you.


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Drayton Hall Buford GA Estate Living
Drayton Hall Buford GA Living
The neighborhood of Drayton Hall is located in the City of Buford, Gwinnett County GA, 30519. Located off Camp Branch Road N.E. just North of 85 and South of Hamilton Mill Road across from Biltmore Plantation. This is a gated community of 46+/- homes that are built between 2003 to 2008+. At time of post, the average list price for a home as listed in the Georgia MLS, is between $450,000 to 1.7 Million.
Homes For Sale In Drayton Hall Buford GA Community
Builders In Drayton Hall Include:
- Greenway Masonry Inc.
- Monac Dev. Group Llc.
- Homes By Ken Butera
At time of post, the yearly H.O.A fees are $1,100.00 a year and the community amenities include a gated entrance and a community lake.
At time of post School Districts are:
Elem: Patrick
Middle: Glenn C. Jones
High: Mill Creek
More Homes For Sale In Buford Georgia Priced $450,000 +
Location: Located to the West of Chateau Elan and Little Mulberry Park. Convenient to 985 and 85 and just North of the Mall Of GA.
Directions: The only street in the neighborhood of Drayton Hall is Drayton Hall Drive. From I85N to EX #115, toward Buford/ Mall of Georgia. Go 0.6 miles to Right at Mall of Georgia Blvd. Go 0.4 miles to Right at Gravel Springs Rd. Go 1.1 miles turn Left at Ivy Creek Rd. Go 0.9 miles turn Left at Camp Branch Rd. 1st Right into Drayton Hall.
Thank you for reading this Blog about Drayton Hall in Buford. For more information on real estate around North Atlanta GA, be sure to visit our RE/MAX real estate website at www.NorthAtlantaHomeTeam.com. Enjoy!


text: Love when Loordes of London are in a hunt – always a fantastic and generous gift that's simple to find! I trotted over to find the gift for the Change Of Colours Hunt – and wasn't disappointed with this parka coat. Mesh size XS – XL – I found the small fitted my Maitreya body just fine. Worked well over a Neve top and a pair of leggings.


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The NHL Closer is written by five hockeyfarians from Melt Your Face Off. When not crafting paraphernalia out of a hockey stick, athletic tape and a puck (yeah, man, a puck!), they can be found hanging out, keeping it mellow and doing their thing. So kick back and relax, because Weed Against Speed has lit the incense, turned on the black light and put some Floyd on. Far out.
It's nearly impossible not to sound like a broken record here, but the Eastern Conference Finals seem to be going the way of Western Conference, with a convincing 4-1 victory by the smoking hot Pittsburgh Penguins over the dazed and confused Philadelphia Flyers. Both series are now one game away from sweeps. I reckon that could cost the NHL hundreds of dollars in lost ad revenue from all of those missing Versus broadcasts.
Goals by Ryan Whitney and Marian Hossa opened up a quick 2-0 lead for the Pens, quieting the enthusiastic crowd in the Wachovia Center. Both goals were assisted on by Sidney Crosby, giving him 19 points in 12 playoff games thus far in the playoffs. Nevertheless, the real story should be Sidney Christ's facial hair — easily the most impressive playoff beard of this postseason other than whoever Sean Avery was dating.
R.J. Umberger attempted to keep the Flyers in the game, but his goal was all Philadelphia could muster; the Penguins packed it in defensively, utilizing a hybrid of the neutral zone trap (Jacques Lemaire, watching the game from his home in Florida, clasped his hands in a sinister manner and kept repeating the phrase "good...good"). Marc-Andre Fleury was never really tested, turning away a yawn-inducing 17 shots, although Scott Hartnell did clank one off the post when the game was still in reach with the score at 2-1.
Marian Hossa put the game away when he notched his second goal of the game on an empty netter as the seconds ticked off the clock. 4-1 Penguins — game over. The fans then filed out of the arena, got in their cars, drove home and threw on some classic Philadelphia Soul to unwind. Given the opportunity, I would have recommended Rock 'n Soul, Part I by Hall & Oates. The live version of Wait for Me on that album will always soothe the troubled heart.
The Penguins are now one game away from reaching the Stanley Cup Finals for the first time since 1992. They are 11-1 in the postseason, and much like Detroit, are not giving an inch to their overmatched opponents. Philadelphia is obviously undermanned, missing their best two offensive-minded defensemen (according to the Versus studio talent), and there doesn't appear to be much hope left for them in this series.
* Brilliant hockey mind James Mirtle breaks down the NHL's current coaching carousel conundrum. [James Mirtle]
* Wayne Gretzky will not be heading off to Toronto to become president of the Maple Leafs. I imagine Wayne called Janet about the possibility and it played out just like that Roger and Debbie Clemens cell phone commercial — only without the bacne and roid rage. [Puck Daddy]
* MYFO's dear friend wraparoundcurl shares her love of Kevin Smith via a post on Puck Daddy featuring a photo of Seth Rogen and Jeff Anderson (Randall from Clerks) in hockey gear for the movie Zack and Miri Make A Porno. Cool. [wraparoundcurl]
Finally, if you have seven minutes to spare, check out this compilation of some great NHL-related commercials. There is even an awesome "This Is SportsCenter" commercial from the '90's when tWWL actually acted like they gave a rip about hockey.
/wipes tear from eye.


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We all know Google takes a big chunk of traffic of the internet, every day.
Some of it is ours. Mine as well. Looking around, for information, products, inspiration, … you name it.
We sure can say, if we're looking for something specific, no matter what intent, Google is a service we use _a lot_ during our customer journey.
And that's ok.
It's normal.
It's even a good thing.
When more information comes available, people will follow that information. Its format, the platform it's hosted on or even where it's located, doesn't matter, as long as it's findable and usable.
Something Google and its other services have been very good at & grown into that direction.
It will even more in the future. It's called contextual modeling & gathering of information.
Webrooming is all about context.
Let me show you why.
Online as part of the customer journey
Forrester estimates that more than 50% of offline retail sales in the USA will be influenced by the web by 2017.
That's $1.8tn in store sales influenced by online. More numbers can be found here.
Excuse me for my language, but that's a shit load of cash!
And … showrooming is even declining! According to an IBM study, only about 30% of online purchases resulted from showrooming in 2013. A drop from nearly 50% in 2012! Retailers are using mobile to boost in-store advantages. So actually, the focus is shifting from offline to online. With Google Now, it could mean a further decrease of showrooming. On the other hand, there will always be showrooming, but your focus will be mainly online in the future.
This has a big impact on several things:
- Business models
- Organizational structures & silos (offline & online)
- Data capturing (offline & online)
Lots of opportunities there for retailers.
On the other hand, there's still a lot of work to be done.
Another interesting study by Forrester learned us that
- 71% of customers expect to view in-store inventory online
- 50% of customers expect to buy online and pick up in-store
This is even more interesting:
However, only a third of retailers have operationalized even the basics such as store pickup, cross-channel inventory visibility, and store based fulfillment. Retailers who struggle to implement omni-channel initiatives online also experience challenges meeting customer expectations in offline channels. Thirty- nine percent of consumers are unlikely or very unlikely to visit a retailer's store if the online store does not provide physical store inventory information.
Think about that.
So, if my site doesn't show matching inventory, I'm screwed?
Yes. Sort of.
Either way, you'll have to do it.
It comes with the job as a retailer.
As you should deal with webrooming too.
Webrooming is all about context
Actually, this type of behaviour just got a name. That's it really.
Showrooming are people who are coming into your store, look around, maybe try that jacket to see if it fits, but don't buy anything. The same goes for online.
An example:
Oliver lands on your store full of gloves.
He's looking for leather gloves, medium size, maybe in brown or even black.
He's not sure yet, but got a very good idea what he wants.
He looks at the product pages, checks some prices, even bookmarks that particular product page.
He's off again. Doing something else. Visiting another shop? Maybe he won't come back till next monday?
While he's traveling to Sweden for his work, he visits his Evernote list to find the bookmark again & check out all the different gloves one more time before deciding which ones to buy. He'll ask his wife for a second opinion when he gets home too.
Just in case ;)
Another example:
Vicky heard from her friend, she should visit your website because they have amazing hobby stuff.
Vicky types in your website. Looks at a few pages. Goes away again.
She talks to her friend the next day that she might consider looking into your website in to detail if she's starting her hobby class next tuesday. She'll get more info from her teacher about what she exactly needs for the class.
The day after, she's sitting in the class, while surfing her iPad to shop for the products the teacher is summing up on the board in front of the class.
Two very different scenario's.
Both webrooming. Both multi-device.
Webrooming is looking around, clicking & exploring an online shop …
and here comes the most vital part of the sentence …
where her intent is the contextual data we can capture & define into personas.
Except it exists.
Not all visitors will be customers!
How To Analyze Webrooming
Webrooming is just a fancy word for contextual on-site behaviour.
Lets focus on on-site behaviour. Webrooming has a pre-journey cycle too. Call them Influential channels.
Channels or messages picked up by the customer before he even visits your website.
First of all, you have to expect not every visitor will turn into a customer.
If you think that's the case or even 50% of them will convert into a customer (never seen that before), you might quit business.
You're not realistic. There is more to it than just driving traffic to your site & sit back and relax.
Gathering Data
Start with your Analytics data & ask yourself these three following questions:
- Do I track myself in these stats?
- Is my funnel giving me correct data?
- Is my e-commerce data correct?
If not. Fix them first.
If yes, proceed to the next step.
Define Your Potential Customers & Customers
Are you familiar with personas?
Its a way of defining the type of customer you're servicing.
A brilliant way to segment the market, but nothing useful for analyzing webrooming data.
If your a big ass retailer & you have all that big data (which you'll probably never get), you can work at this level of personas, if you're willing to invest a lot of time. A waste of time. For now. That's nothing that will move the needle.
You have to define a list of potentials, to act on their data.
For instance, this could be a few personas you like to focus on:
- People who bought something (your benchmark for webrooming)
- People visiting the product pages
- People visiting the category pages
- People visiting just the homepage or any other page except a category page or product page
This is a good list to start with.
People who bought something are your benchmark. That's your goal, right?
Draw A Line In The Sand
This is the trickiest part.
You have to draw a line in the sand to define the metrics.
Think about number of pages visited during a new visit, number of pages visited during a returning visit, …
Try to find an average for your benchmark.
You probably see a lot of returning visits & fewer pages visited, because people already passed that stage of webrooming.
Visiting & searching your site to find the product & already made up their mind.
Take the same metrics for the other groups,
and you'll see correlations.
The next step is to try to influence those metrics & follow-up what happens.
You'll see a big impact.
How To Test & See Improvement Rapidly
- Analyze your data first to get a clear view on which paths are converting the best
- Start Heatmapping & Mouse tracking to get insights in behaviour to support User Experience Design
- Come up with an Hypothesis to improve this path keeping in mind each persona.
- User Experience Design & A/B testing to let people find the product they need faster
- Analyze & Repeat if necessary
How Deep Should You Go Into This Persona Thing
If you're comfortable with this, you can narrow it down & segment them in a more deeper way.
Think about mobile only, Tablet only, from a specific country, returning customers, …
It has to match your business.
The only thing that is holding you back:
- Time (& thus money)
- Enough data
- Data analyzing skills
Start of small to test with this persona idea.
Build upon it later if it works for you.


text: Customers Can Send Cellphone Pics Directly to Wireless FrameFOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif., Feb. 10 -- Ever wonder what to do with all those tiny photos stored on your cell phone? Thanks to D-Link, the end-to-end computer network solutions provider for consumers and businesses, wireless phone customers in Wisconsin and Upper Michigan can send those pictures home where they can be admired on a 10" wireless digital photo frame.Cellcom, a Wisconsin-based cell phone carrier, offers technology that allows its customers to send photos from their mobile phones to the D-Link Wireless Digital Photo Frame (DSM-210), which is available for purchase on the Cellcom Web site (http://www.cellcom.com). Now, when Cellcom customers take photos with their cell phones, they can send the images directly to their D-Link photo frame to be viewed in the home.The DSM-210 comes pre-loaded with FrameChannel software, which lets users remotely manage their frames over the Internet and offers a wealth of photo-sharing opportunities. FrameChannel works in conjunction with many of the most popular photo-sharing Web sites, including Google Picasa, Facebook, Flikr and Photobucket.FrameChannel also provides the capability to send digital photos taken with a mobile phone back to the photo library, which in turn are posted directly to the D-Link photo frame."The D-Link wireless digital photo frame is designed to enhance the home entertainment experience by allowing users to view their favorite photos easily and conveniently virtually anywhere in the home," said John Meaney, director of field sales for D-Link Systems, Inc. "By offering our frames with FrameChannel photo sharing technology, Cellcom is taking that experience to the next level, adding another dimension of fun and value to its customers.""Cell phones have become the Swiss Army knives of communication," said Rob Riordan, executive vice president and director of corporate development at Cellcom. "The ability to take photos with your cell phone makes it quick and easy to capture unexpected special moments. And now, the collaboration between Cellcom, D-Link and Frame Channel has made it simple for Grandma in Florida to see photos of the family taken in Green Bay within minutes."The DSM-210 is equipped with a high-resolution 10" LCD with interchangeable faces (black or white) and connects over a WiFi home network with a built-in wireless adapter.The frame will also display weather, RSS feeds and images from a USB drive or flash card and supports popular calendar programs.Cellcom is a sister company of Nsight Telservices and a subsidiary of Nsight, a provider of communications services throughout Wisconsin and Michigan, with more than 80 retail and agent locations.


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"Forced labour", "Hitler & the Germans": controversial exhibitions in Berlin
Berlin , an ever-evolving history exhibition in itself, is hosting two historically significant history exhibitions: "Zwangsarbeit" (Forced labour) in the Jewish Musuem, and "Hitler und die Deutschen – Volksgemeinschaft und Verbrechen" (vaguely translatable as Hitler & the Germans – national community and crime – but the English never had a Volksgemeinschaft, thanksfully) in the German Historical Musuem. Significant, if not for other reasons, because they are the first exhibitions on forced labour and on Hitler in Germany ever – however strange this may sound at first.
The Jewish Musuem is a difficult place to host an exhibition in. Built in 1998 in Kreuzberg by Daniel Libeskind, it is such an astonishing building – with its broken geometry and its "voids" - that it attracted more visitors in the first three years, when it was empty, than since 2001, when the Museum was inaugurated – and still many say the museum was better when there was no museum. Temporary exhibitions, however, are in the old building so at least they don't have the empty corridors as hard (impossible) act to follow. "Forced labour" in Nazi Germany has been, until now, overshadowed by the bigger and unique crime of the Shoah. In the after-war processes, it was not treated as a crime against humanity in itself – only individual (and hard to proof) cases of inhumane treatment were persecuted. It had, however, a huge importance: it involved millions of victims and was an inherent part of the Nazi economic and military machine. It is therefore significant that this exhibition comes from the Jewish Museum, certainly the last institution wanting to downplay the Shoah. Not only: this exhibition is not Jewish specific, and it pays equal space, from the beginning, to non-Jewish victims, from German opponents, to Gypsies, to Poles, and eventually the inhabitants of all occupied countries and 600,000 Italian soldiers after Italy's surrender (by the way, my grandfather escaped forced labour by pretending to be German – this family story explains why I started to learn languages very early).
The exhibition contains telling documents and images of conditions in labour camps. For instance, official inspection reports checking prisoners' conditions and concluding "the food is insufficient to survive – no action required". I found most telling the letters from forced labourers in agriculture, mostly Poles. Forced labourers constituted half the wartime agricultural workforce of the Third Reich (in other words, half of Germans' food came from slaves' work), but within Germany they were mostly kept separated: one per farm. They therefore suffered from extreme isolation and although some were treated humanly, the letters show how inhumane the farmer could be. And if each German farmer had a forced labourer, how does the story that the German population didn't know hold?
What however lacks in the exhibition – and again I speak from a professionally distorted point of view – is the context and nature of forced labour. Unpaid labour was essential for the German economy (already since 1933) – but how essential? Occasional employers are named or portrayed, but which large companies used forced labour most? And, crucially, how? Which forms of constraint could guarantee a decent productivity? What were the relations, if any, between forced and "normal" labourers? And which survival (literally) strategies could workers use? Sorry if these questions sound cynical, but I don't think we can grasp the phenomenon without answering them. In the exhibition there is a striking lack of data, figures, company names, and work schedules. It is still worth seeing, but is not enough. All the more that – something which is never mentioned – slavery has not disappeared and there are millions of forced labourers around the world.
The German History Museum is in amazing building too. The Zeughaus is the best baroque building in Berlin, on Unter den Linden, besides the Dom. And it has not been elegantly enlarged by I. M. Pei, in Louvre's style (Kohl 's timid answer to Mitterrand). But in this case, the crowd comes for the exhibition: for Hitler? No Nazi in the long, at least half-foreign queue, of course, but it is still quite shocking. In post-war Germany – where a Nazi salute still lands you in jail, unlike in Italy – nobody had dared devoting an exhibition to Hitler before. This first attempt has very clearly avoided any celebratory style. There are no "relics" (which are anyway kept safe in Moscow) apart from a couple of autographic sketches and notes, and no monumental portrayal. Moreover, all propaganda material is directly counterbalanced by critical comment and images on the criminal dimension behind it – footage from the 1937 Hitler–Mussolini summit being followed by Chaplin's caricature of the same meeting, for instance). And the exhibition is not on Hitler. It is on Hitler and the Germans. Germans, the curators say, have tended in both East and West to unload all guilt on Hitler and not thought enough about what relations they had had with him. Movies such as "The Downfall" have gone in the same direction of isolating the individual from the context.
This is the proclaimed reason for this exhibition: Hitler's problem is still open, and each generation has to find its own answers. This is an understatement: of course the Hitler problem is not closed. A book is coming out ("Das Amt und die Vergangenheit", by E. Conze, N. Frei, P. Hayes, M. Zimmermann), as a result of a historians' commission called by then Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer, on the role of the German Foreign Office in the Thirld Reich. And it found that, against the received myth of their non-co-operation and even conspiracy, German diplomats actively participated in Nazi crimes. Believed innocent, they mostly remained in their posts after the war, but it now emerges that, when in the Fifties they all looked good Europeans, they were also secretly assisting Nazi criminals in foreign hiding. So sure, the story is not over and there are new questions to be asked all the time.
But does this exhibition ask the questions? The understandable concern with "the context" made the curators fall into the opposite mistake than those of the one on forced labour. The context is overwhelming, and the visit turns into an intensive crush course on the history of the Third Reich. Some details do indeed shed some light on the relation between Hitler and its Volk. Some Nazi posters and the huge variety of little souvenirs are impressive (and one poster was a reminder that the issue is not closed: a racist graph showing what will happen to Germany if "low-quality" people make have more children than "high-quality" people; it looks, apart from the racist pictures, as taken directly from the bestselling book by Sarrazin that is dividing Germany right now, and on which I will comment in another blog). Some information is interesting, for instance employers' reports, on one side grateful to the regime for keeping wages so low, but on the other side moaning about all symbolic practices they had to introduce to pretend they were comrades with the workers. I found most interesting the number of letters and cards sent to Hitler on his 43rd birthday, by adoring men, women and children, with poems, prayers and drawings. I would have made an exhibition just out of that material – although obviously counterbalanced by epistolary materials from Hitler's victims. Instead, the curators overburdened the ten rooms with all sort of historical material about all that happened in Hitler's political life. People's perception of Hitler, and Hitler's manipulation of it, which should have been the focus, is therefore lost under a mountain of contextual and unoriginal information, which might have been better visually separated. If you want to know about resistance, for instance, you need to wait for a multimedia computer at the end. Tourists seemed to enjoy the exhibit, but I doubt the new German generations will find their answers, or even their questions, in it.
More answers are provided by the film retrospective associated to the exhibition. Besides a few fiction movies, the highlights were Leni Riesenthal's films (Der Sieg des Glaubens; Tag der Freiheit: Unsere Wehrmacht; Triumph des Willens). This again is significant because these films, which were seen (willingly or not) by one third of the Reich's population, can only be shown in today's Germany within a cultural event and with an expert's introduction and guidance, so they are hardly known directly, a strange fate for what are considered by some as the most important works in cinema's history. When queuing with H for the screening of Der Sieg des Glaubens we even felt a moment of uneasiness, as if doing something not so licit. The historian Jeanpaul Goergen did his best to make sure the spirit of the German constitution was respected with his very erudite but also quite boring 45min introduction, that would have screened away any non culturally-motivated spectator – but there was no need for it (an interesting bit of information, though, was that it is the Riesenthal's fake re-enactment propaganda images, not the historic ones, which are still unawarily used in history books, and even on the website of the German parliament, to illustrate the 30th of January 1933). It's especially the second of the Nüremberg movies that portrays a symbolic "marriage" between a marching Volk and a Führer arriving from the sky, who find each other in a symphony of images and unite at night. The effect of such images in the 1930s is hard to underestimate, although it can't have been the only factor.
The significance of these two controversial exhibition is apparent in the contrast with a third, uncontroversial one. One floor above the crowded Hitler's exhibition there is another one, included in the same ticket. It is devoted to Reunification. It was near-empty, and so was the cinema during its own film retrospective (at one screening we were three in total: they kept the museum open for us). As I had written in my previous blog, that topic has become so boring in just 20 years. Other topics have not, after 70 years.


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The purpose of this page is to advocate in support of Gabriel Leonard, Sr.
A single father and businessman who has been
illegally detained and incarcerated since 2013.
Gabriel has consistently maintained his innocence despite the waves of attacks on his character and reputation stemming from the falsehoods he endured from a romantic relationship he tried to get out of. After dumping his former romantic partner, a white female, a dispute over reimbursement for his damaged property escalated into vengeful false accusations that resulted in a (four) Felony count wrongful conviction and 24 year sentence. It's been revealed that these lies were told with the specific intent to:
1. Exact revenge against him for quitting the relationship and demanding money owed for damaged property; and
2. To weaponize the racial disparity that exist when a black man is opposite a white female accuser. His initial pre-trial defense was severally damaged by a public defender who deliberately stalled the investigation and withheld favorable material evidence from him.
After notifying two different judges of these illegal antics; each judge refused to uphold their duty to investigate and report the problematic attorney; and instead, forced Gabriel to represent himself.
The issue was exacerbated when he was denied the additional time he needed to financially secure a private lawyer. Due to his lack of legal counsel and the forms of evidence needed to prove innocence, he was convicted by an all-white jury.
Demonizing local officers of the court is of no interest to this cause. The mission is to bring awareness to the numerous constitutional rights violations and systemic racism Gabriel has suffered and demand the following (including but not limited to):
Immediate release with vacation of sentence/expungement (and/or) re-trial with all evidence, witnesses and effective attorney for his defense.
Disbarment of Alice K. Wasson with Investigation/Audit of the caseloads of this former public defender focusing on : deliberate evidence suppression, Professional Misconduct, legal malpractice, Confirmation Bias and U.S. Constitutional violations.
Disbarment and investigation of Ashleigh Atchison-Ragner/Megan Litecky for Prosecutorial Misconduct and malicious prosecution.
Prosecution of accuser for perjury in swore statements and testimony at trial under oath.
Prosecution of KCPD officers: Trent Finnell/Andrew Uptegrove for perjury at trial under oath.
Disbarment of Judges: Patrick W. Campbell/James D. Youngs for Judicial Impropriety and
Unethical Protocol.
Public defender (Wasson Mo Bar#56314) has a previous judgement and admonishment for professional misconduct and jointly suppressing favorable evidence from a defendant in collaboration with a prosecutor.
This gives reason to believe there's a pattern to be uncovered with her caseload. The prosecutors (Ashleigh A. Atchison-Ragner Mo Bar#63694 Megan Litecky) willfully litigated in opposition of mitigating evidence and used false testimonies to secure conviction.
Attached is a detailed non-fiction account of all that transpired over the last 8 years. Hopefully, by publicly exposing and rectifying this grave error Gabriel will be exonerated.
Please Read Entire Attachment and Signed Petitions for his immediate release.


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Right before Xur arrives for 9/25/15 with a new inventory, we have some important intel to deliver to guardians with the arrival of a surprise new Destiny update 184.108.40.206 as part of Bungie's 09/24/2015 Weekly update.
We say surprise as there was no prior warning that a new Destiny patch late on Thursday was on the way and even Bungie mentioned in their weekly update that it arrived without preview or fanfare.
Without further ado, feast your eyes on the official Destiny 22.214.171.124 hotfix patch notes below and see what Bungie has fixed one week after the launch of The Taken King.
There are some notable fixes to various Taken King quests, but one of the key changes for us lies with that man Xur again. Bungie has issued a Three of Coins nerf so that it gives a decreased exotic engram drop rate compared to before.
That means you only had a week to enjoy this new consumable from Xur in its original form, so give us your thoughts on that below.
The rest of the changes are highlighted above as they appear in Bungie's Destiny September 24 update patch notes.
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I kind of felt like I was failing at life in November. I was super excited to do NaNoWriMo, but I ended up writing on November 1st (didn't reach the daily word goal) and then never wrote again. I turned 33 and my white hairs seemed to triple (don't worry, I had a coloring appointment since). Work was frustrating, but I did get a few extra days off, so that's nice. The highlight of the month was probably going to a Heartless tour stop with Amanda and meeting Marissa Meyer!
Books Read: 13
Adult: 8
Favorite Book I Read This Month:
The Kept Woman by Karin Slaughter. I have been waiting so, so long for another Will Trent book and I was not disappointed.
Books Read in 2016 Overall: 126
Books Reviewed: 5
Dead Girls Society by Michelle Krys – 3/5 Stars
The Kept Woman (Will Trent #8) by Karin Slaughter – 4/5 Stars
Size Matters (A Perfect Fit #1) by Alison Bliss – 1/5 Stars
Wrong Brother, Right Match (Anyone But You #3) by Jennifer Shirk – 4/5 Stars
Backstage Pass: The Complete Series by various authors – 3.5/5 Stars
Funny Fridays:
This month's Funny Fridays were all dedicated to NaNoWriMo
Other Posts:
Top 5 Wednesday: Most Misleading Synopses
Heartless Tour Stop with Marissa Meyer
Top 5 Wednesday: Books I Want to Re-Read
Reviewing the Unreviewed: November 2016
Looking Forward to December:
I am feeling the Christmas spirit this year. I seem to go every other year where I am either Bah-Humbug or really into it. This year (at least so far) I'm feeling into it. I even put up my (meager) decorations already. I've been enjoying the HallMark Christmas movies and am looking forward to more of them. There aren't really any books coming out that I've been waiting on, but I have some library holds that should be coming in shortly.


text: I am interested to understand how long is the R1* period may have been. Can a period be estimated for when R1 diverged from other R but had not yet divided into lines leading to R1a and b? In SNP terms if there an identifiable period when there is a shared ancestry for future R1a and b that is not shared by any other R. I am basically wondering how long the period was where there was an R1 line with no divergence into further lines? Is that somehow estimable using SNPs STR variance or a combination of both. Help for this mathematically challenged person is much appreciated in advance.


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Big Bear, CA – When night falls at the Big Bear Alpine Zoo, scents linger longer in the still air and the zoo becomes alive with the sights and sounds of the nocturnal cycle of the creatures of the night. Having highly developed senses of hearing, sight and smell, nocturnal animals are specially adapted to make the most of night-illumination. Some daytime animals share the best of both worlds and remain active, even after dusk.
Each Friday and Saturday during the month of October (weather permitting), Big Bear Alpine Zoo will be hosting its Flashlight Safari, a unique tour which explores the more active side of our animals during twilight and dusk.
Gates open at 6:30 pm and the tour starts at 7 pm; no one will be admitted after 7 pm. Exploring the zoo after dark is an experience of its own.
Bring your own flashlights and dress warmly. Admission is $12 for adults, $9 for seniors (60+) and children from 3 to 10 years of age, and children under 3 years are free.
For more information on the Flashlight Safari's call (909) 584-1299.
The Big Bear Alpine Zoo is San Bernardino County's only zoo and also serves as a wildlife animal sanctuary, rehabilitation and education center. Founded in 1959, it is operated and owned by the Big Bear Valley Recreation and Park District.


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GC Rieber forms new seismic player with Rasmussengruppen
Norwegian shipping company GC Rieber Shipping has signed an agreement with Rasmussengruppen to establish a new, jointly owned, marine geophysical company called Shearwater GeoServices.
Shearwater GeoServices will become an integrated provider of marine geophysical services to oil and gas and multi-client companies worldwide.
The company will take over four GC Rieber's seismic vessels: Polar Empress, Polar Duke, Polar Duchess, and Polar Marquis from GC Rieber Shipping, and the corresponding vessel loans will be transferred from GC Rieber Shipping to Shearwater.
The total value of the four seismic vessels is set to $228.5 million. The current outstanding balance of these vessel loans is $198.5 million. GC Rieber Shipping will inject $5 million and Rasmussengruppen $45 million in liquidity through new equity into Shearwater. The total of $60 million in liquidity will be injected to fund operations at Shearwater.
As a part of the loan agreement to be entered into between Shearwater and the Lenders, GC Rieber Shipping will be issuing a parent company guarantee of 50% of the outstanding loans. Terms have been renegotiated with the lending banks for the four vessels. The new terms include a 75% reduction in installments compared to the original repayment profile until June 2019 and an extension of the term of the loans until year end 2022.
Shearwater has also agreed on the main terms to purchase the seismic equipment, including streamers, and the processing business from the former lending banks of Dolphin Geophysical.
The sale of the vessels to Shearwater implies an impairment charge of approximately NOK 130 million, which will be booked in third quarter 2016.
After the sale the long-term debt of GC Rieber Shipping will be approximately NOK 1 200 million and the book equity ratio of the company will be around 50%.
Following the establishment, the board of Shearwater will constitute of Irene Waage Basili and Einar Ytredal from GC Rieber Shipping and Stein Vidar Håland and Trygve Lauvdal from Rasmussengruppen. Also, the parties will elect an independent chair of the board.
Irene Waage Basili will act as interim CEO for Shearwater for a period until a permanent CEO is in place and Andreas Hveding Aubert will act as interim CFO until a permanent CFO is in place. Peter Hooper will be Chief Operating Officer of Shearwater while Bjarne Stavenes will take the position as Vice President Marine Acquisition. In total approximately 140 people are employed by Shearwater and its subsidiaries as of October 13, 2016.
Irene Waage Basili, CEO of GC Rieber Shipping, said: "Over a period of time, we have examined opportunities to establish a new geophysical company, based on the four high-end vessels we currently own."
Shearwater will receive technical and crewing support from GC Rieber Shipping with regards to marine operations. Shearwater's organization is being established, in part on former Dolphin Geophysical staff and in part on new hires, and will be capable of offering customers with fully integrated geophysical services and operations from the start.
GC Rieber Shipping and Rasmussengruppen will own the company 50/50. The closing of the transaction is expected to be in place during the fourth quarter of 2016. The new company will be headquartered in Bergen, Norway.


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Finally! The controversy and conspiracy theories can be laid to rest now. Yahoo has investigated the allegations of voting discrepancies, and have discounted any votes from any suspicious IP address, which did not just appear in the votes for any one star but throughout the nominees pool. As a result, Yahoo released the definite and confirmed winners for its 2010 Buzz Awards. Congratulations to Jang Geun Seok (Korea Male Star and Asia Star), and Moon Geun Young (Korea Female Star)!
Jang Geun Seok is coming off a stellar year with You're Beautiful and now Mary Stayed Out All Night, and Moon Geun Young got a lot of exposure earlier this year for Cinderalla Unni. Seriously, this news makes me giddy as a school girl again. The thought of Geun-squared showing up to accept their awards together is giving me the fangirl shakes. I would pay money for them to show up dressed and in the character of Mu Gyul and Mae Ri. How adorable would that be? Out of this world adorable.
But I worry that neither may be able to attend the awards show on December 17, 2010 in Hong Kong. M3 is pretty much on a live-shoot schedule now, and I don't know if the drama can afford to lose its two main actors for 2 days, minimum, right when that week would require them to likely film the final few episodes of the drama.
Drama gods, please make it happen that the most adorable and chemistry-laden K-drama couple this year can give me some awards show fanservice. Unless we're talking Baeksangs, I normally don't pay attention to these popularity contests. Right now I care only because Jang Geun Seok and Moon Geun Young have stolen my heart. Oh my darlings Mae Ri and Mu Gyul!