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|January 19, 2013 09:00 AM EST
"If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it" – Lord Kelvin
This article is a comprehensive and detailed look at the key metrics that are needed to understand and optimize a SaaS business. It is a completely updated rewrite of an older post. For this version, I have co-opted two real experts in the field: Ron Gill, (CFO, NetSuite), and Brad Coffey (VP of Strategy, HubSpot), to add expertise, color and commentary from the viewpoint of a public and private SaaS company. My sincere thanks to both of them for their time and input.
SaaS/subscription businesses are more complex than traditional businesses. Traditional business metrics totally fail to capture the key factors that drive SaaS performance. In the SaaS world, there are a few key variables that make a big difference to future results. This post is aimed at helping SaaS executives understand which variables really matter, and how to measure them and act on the results.
The goal of the article is to help you answer the following questions:
- Is my business financially viable?
- What is working well, and what needs to be improved?
- What levers should management focus on to drive the business?
- Should the CEO hit the accelerator, or the brakes?
- What is the impact on cash and profit/loss of hitting the accelerator?
(Note: although I focus on SaaS specifically, the article is applicable to any subscription business.)
What's so different about SaaS?
SaaS, and other recurring revenue businesses are different because the revenue for the service comes over an extended period of time (the customer lifetime). If a customer is happy with the service, they will stick around for a long time, and the profit that can be made from that customer will increase considerably. On the other hand if a customer is unhappy, they will churn quickly, and the business will likely lose money on the investment that they made to acquire that customer. This creates a fundamentally different dynamic to a traditional software business: there are now two sales that have to be accomplished:
- Acquiring the customer
- Keeping the customer (to maximize the lifetime value).
Because of the importance of customer retention, we will see a lot of focus on metrics that help us understand retention and churn. But first let's look at metrics that help you understand if your SaaS business is financially viable.
The SaaS P&L / Cash Flow Trough
SaaS businesses face significant losses in the early years (and often an associated cash flow problem). This is because they have to invest heavily upfront to acquire the customer, but recover the profits from that investment over a long period of time. The faster the business decides to grow, the worse the losses become. Many investors/board members have a problem understanding this, and want to hit the brakes at precisely the moment when they should be hitting the accelerator.
In many SaaS businesses, this also translates into a cash flow problem, as they may only be able to get the customer to pay them month by month. To illustrate the problem, we built a simple Excel model which can be found here. In that model, we are spending $6,000 to acquire the customer, and billing them at the rate of $500 per month. Take a look at these two graphs from that model:
If we experience a cash flow trough for one customer, then what will happen if we start to do really well and acquire many customers at the same time? The model shows that the P&L/cash flow trough gets deeper if we increase the growth rate for the bookings.
But there is light at the end of the tunnel, as eventually there is enough profit/cash from the installed base to cover the investment needed for new customers. At that point the business would turn profitable/cash flow positive - assuming you don't decide to increase spending on sales and marketing. And, as expected, the faster the growth in customer acquisition, the better the curve looks when it becomes positive.
Ron Gill, NetSuite:
If plans go well, you may decide it is time to hit the accelerator (increasing spending on lead generation, hiring additional sales reps, adding data center capacity, etc.) in order to pick-up the pace of customer acquisition. The thing that surprises many investors and boards of directors about the SaaS model is that, even with perfect execution, an acceleration of growth will often be accompanied by a squeeze on profitability and cash flow.
As soon as the product starts to see some significant uptake, investors expect that the losses / cash drain should narrow, right? Instead, this is the perfect time to increase investment in the business. which will cause losses to deepen again. The graph below illustrates the problem:
Notice in the example graph that the five customer per month model ultimately yields a much steeper rate of growth, but you have to go through another deep trough to get there. It is the concept of needing to re-enter that type of trough after just having gotten the curve to turn positive that many managers and investors struggle with.
Of course this a special challenge early-on as you need to explain to investors why you'll require additional cash to fund that next round of acceleration. But it isn't just a startup problem. At NetSuite, even as a public company our revenue growth rate has accelerated in each of the last three years. That means that each annual plan involves a stepping-up of investment in lead generation and sales capacity that will increase spending and cash flow out for some time before it starts yielding incremental revenue and cash flow in. As long as you're accelerating the rate of revenue growth, managing and messaging around this phenomenon is a permanent part of the landscape for any SaaS company.
Why is growth important?
We have suggested that as soon as the business has shown that it can succeed, it should invest aggressively to increase the growth rate. You might ask question: Why?
SaaS is usually a "winner-takes-all" game, and it is therefore important to grab market share as fast as possible to make sure you are the winner in your space. Provided you can tell a story that shows that eventually that growth will lead to profitability, Wall Street, acquiring companies, and venture investors all reward higher growth with higher valuations. There's also a premium for the market leader in a particular space.
However not all investments make sense. In the next section we will look at a tool to help you ensure that your growth initiatives/investments will pay back: Unit Economics.
A Powerful Tool: Unit Economics
Because of the losses in the early days, which get bigger the more successful the company is at acquiring customers, it is much harder for management and investors to figure out whether a SaaS business is financially viable. We need some tools to help us figure this out.
A great way to understand any business model is to answer the following simple question:
Can I make more profit from my customers than it costs me to acquire them?
This is effectively a study of the unit economics of each customer. To answer the question, we need two metrics:
- LTV - the Lifetime Value of a typical customer
- CAC - the Cost to Acquire a typical Customer
(For more on how to calculate LTV and CAC, click here.)
Entrepreneurs are usually overoptimistic about how much it costs to acquire a customer. This probably comes from a belief that customers will be so excited about what they have built, that they will beat a path to their doors to buy the product. The reality is often very different! (I have written more on this topic here: Startup Killer: The Cost of Customer Acquisition, and here: How Sales Complexity impacts CAC.)
Is your SaaS business viable?
In the first version of this article, I introduced two guidelines that could be used to judge quickly whether your SaaS business is viable. The first is a good way to figure out if you will be profitable in the long run, and the second is about measuring the time to profitability (which also greatly impacts capital efficiency).
Over the last two years, I have had the chance to validate these guidelines with many SaaS businesses, and it turns out that these early guesses have held up well. The best SaaS businesses have a LTV to CAC ratio that is higher than 3, sometimes as high as 7 or 8. And many of the best SaaS businesses are able to recover their CAC in 5-7 months. However many healthy SaaS businesses don't meet the guidelines in the early days, but can see how they can improve the business over time to get there.
The second guideline (Months to Recover CAC) is all about time to profitability and cash flow. Larger businesses, such as wireless carriers and credit card companies, can afford to have a longer time to recover CAC, as they have access to tons of cheap capital. Startups, on the other hand, typically find that capital is expensive in the early days. However even if capital is cheap, it turns out that Months to recover CAC is a very good predictor of how well a SaaS business will perform. Take a look at the graph below, which comes from the same model used earlier. It shows how the profitability is anemic if the time to recover CAC extends beyond 12 months.
I should stress that these are only guidelines, there are always situations where it makes sense to break them.
Three uses for the SaaS Guidelines
- One of the key jobs of the CEO is to decide when to hit the accelerator pedal. The value of these two guidelines is that they help you understand when you have a SaaS business that is in good shape, where it makes sense to hit the accelerator pedal. Alternatively if your business doesn't meet the guidelines, it is a good indicator that there is more tweaking needed to fix the business before you should expand.
- Another way to use the two guidelines is for evaluating different lead sources. Different lead sources (e.g. Google AdWords, TV, Radio, etc.) have different costs associated with them. The guidelines help you understand if some of the more expensive lead generation options make financial sense. If they meet these guidelines, it makes sense to hit the accelerator on those sources (assuming you have the cash).Using the second guideline, and working backwards, we can tell that if we are getting paid $500 per month, we can afford to spend up to 12x that amount (i.e. $6,000) on acquiring the customer. If we're spending less than that, you can afford to be more aggressive and spend more in marketing or sales.
- There is another important way to use this type of guideline: segmentation. Early-stage companies are often testing their offering with several different uses/types of customers / pricing models / industry verticals. It is very useful to examine which segments show the quickest return or highest LTV to CAC in order to understand which will be the most profitable to pursue.
Unit Economics in Action: HubSpot Example
HubSpot's unit economics were recently published in an article in Forbes:
You can see from the second row in this table how they have dramatically improved their unit economics (LTV:CAC ratio) over the five quarters shown. The big driver for this was lowering the MRR Churn rate from 3.5% to 1.5%. This drove up the lifetime value of the customer considerably. They were also able to drive up their AVG MRR per customer.
Brad Coffey, HubSpot:
In 2011 and early 2012 we used this chart to guide many of our business decisions at HubSpot. By breaking LTV:CAC down into its components we could examine each metric and understand what levers we could pull to drive overall improvement.
It turned out that the levers we could pull varied by segment. In the SMB market for instance we had the right sales process in place - but had an opportunity to improve LTV by improving the product to lower churn and increasing our average price in the segment. In the VSB (Very Small Business) segment, by contrast, there wasn't as much upside left on the LTV (VSB customers have less money and naturally higher churn) so we focused on lowering CAC by removing friction from our sales process and moving more of our sales to the channel.
Two kinds of SaaS business:
There are two kinds of SaaS business:
- Those with primarily monthly contracts, with some longer term contracts. In this business, the primary focus will be on MRR (Monthly Recurring Revenue)
- Those with primarily annual contracts, with some contracts for multiple years. Here the primary focus is on ARR (Annual Recurring Revenue), and ACV (Annual Contract Value).
Most of the time in this article, I will refer to MRR/ACV. This means use MRR if you are the first kind of business, or ACV if you are the second kind of business. The dashboard shown below assumes monthly contracts (MRR). However in the downloadable spreadsheet, there is a tab that shows the same dashboard for the second kind, focusing on ACV instead of MRR.
SaaS Bookings: Three Contributing Elements
Every month in a SaaS business, there are three elements that contribute to how much MRR will change relative to the previous month:
What happened with new customers added in the month:
- New MRR (or ACV)
What happened in the installed base of customers:
- Churned MRR (or ACV) (from existing customers that cancelled their subscription. This will be a negative number.)
- Expansion MRR (or ACV) (from existing customers who expanded their subscription)
The sum all three of these makes up your Net MRR or ACV Bookings:
I recommend that you track these using a chart similar to the one below:
This chart shows the three components of MRR (or ACV) Bookings, and the Net New MRR (or ACV) Bookings. By breaking out each component, you can track the key elements that are driving your business. The one variation we would recommend making to this chart is to show a dotted line for the plan, so you can track how you are doing against plan for each of the four lines. This is one of the most important charts to help you understand and run your business.
Ron Gill, NetSuite:
This chart is really good. I also like to look at this data in tabular form because I want to know y-o-y growth rates. E.g. "Net new MRR is up 25% over June of last year". The Y-o-Y % is a metric easily compared with increased spending, sales capacity, etc.
The Importance of Customer Retention (Churn)
In the early days of a SaaS business, churn really doesn't matter that much. Let's say that you lose 3% of your customers every month. When you only have a hundred customers, losing 3 of them is not that terrible. You can easily go and find another 3 to replace them. However as your business grows in size, the problem becomes different. Imagine that you have become really big, and now have a million customers. 3% churn means that you are losing 30,000 customers every month! That turns out to be a much harder number to replace. Companies like Constant Contact have run into this problem, and it has made it very hard for them to keep up their growth rate.
Ron Gill, NetSuite:
One oft-overlooked aspect of churn is that the churn rate, combined with the rate of new ARR adds, not only defines how fast you can grow the business, it also defines the maximum size the business can reach (see graph below).
It is an enlightening exercise to build a simple model like this for your business and plot where your current revenue run rate sits on the blue line defined by your present rate of ARR adds and churn. Are you near the left-hand side, where the growth is still steep and the ceiling is still far above? Or, are you further to the right where revenue growth will level off and there is limited room left to grow? How much benefit will you get from small improvements in churn or the pace of new business sign-up?
At NetSuite, we've had great success shifting the line in the last few years by both dramatically decreasing churn and by increasing average deal size and volume, thus increasing ARR adds. The result was both to steadily move the limit upward and to steepen the growth curve at the current ARR run rate, creating room for increasingly rapid expansion.
The Power of Negative Churn
The ultimate solution to the churn problem is to get to Negative Churn.
There are two ways to get this expansion revenue:
- Use a pricing scheme that has a variable axis, such as the number of seats used, the number of leads tracked, etc. That way, as your customers expand their usage of your product, they pay you more.
- Upsell/Cross-sell them to more powerful versions of your product, or additional modules.
To help illustrate the power of negative churn, take a look at the following two graphs that show how cohorts behave with 3% churn, and then with 3% negative churn. (Since this is the first time I have used the word Cohort, let me explain what it means. A cohort is simply a fancy word for a group of customers. In the SaaS world, it is used typically to describe the group that joined in a particular month. So there would be the January cohort, February cohort, etc. In our graphs below, a different color is used for each month's cohort, so we can see how they decline or grow, based on the churn rate.)
In the top graph, we are losing 3% of our revenue every month, and you can see that with a constant bookings rate of $6k per month, the revenue reaches $140k after 40 months, and growth is flattening out. In the bottom graph, we may be losing some customers, but the remaining customers are more than making up for that with increased revenue. With a negative churn rate of 3%, we reach $450k in revenue (more then 3x greater), and the growth in revenues is increasing, not flattening.
For more on this topic, you may wish to refer to these two blog posts of mine:
- Why Churn is SO critical to success in SaaS
- Multi-axis Pricing: a key tool for increasing SaaS revenue
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Hi, any news about the reprint of Shattered Empire? September? thanks you.
Started by auronleboss , Aug 26 2014 12:47 PM
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Posted 26 August 2014 - 07:50 PM
The upcoming page says it is expected third quarter this year, so it shouldn't be too much longer.
Thanks, Troy
Once Upon a Midnight Dreary....
Posted 29 August 2014 - 12:24 PM
I'm expecting the Core game to arrive today. can't wait to play it. I was looking on amazon and saw Shattered Empire for around 150 dollars, so I eagerly await the reprint.
Posted 29 August 2014 - 04:37 PM
me too I can't wait anymore
Posted 15 September 2014 - 10:22 AM
I've been waiting for several months and no news about reprint... 2 weeks till 4th Q.
Posted 15 September 2014 - 07:43 PM
Upcoming page says SE is at the printers. So, I don't know about arriving in the next two weeks, but it's coming.

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Firepower Has No Staying Power
A production version of Chrysler GroupŌĆÖs Firepower will have to be renamed because Chrysler found out that the Exide folks own that name for their batteries.
"Firepower is a sport tourer that's more refined and more comfortable than a Viper without Viper's aggressiveness," says Trevor Creed, senior vice president Chrysler Group design.
He says Firepower isn't meant as a Viper replacement nor is it meant to displace the Crossfire coupe from the lineup. Rather Crossfire, which offers a V-6 and no V-8, is a "baby brother" to Firepower.
While refusing to call it "Chrysler's Corvette" Creed says, "If we do this car it certainly would attract some `Vette enthusiasts."
And while mum on production plans, he allows that: "I certainly can see this car in my garage someday. There are a lot of champions for this car at Chrysler."
Creed says Firepower could be produced within 24 months after the executives give approval, which they haven't done as yet.
Syn and the City
Phil Martens, Ford Motor Co. vice president of product creation, says FordŌĆÖs Syn concept ŌĆ£is a vehicle with an attitude and an edge to it for future urban growth.
ŌĆ£We're going to watch the response we get to it on the auto show circuit. It would be a low-volume vehicle, and we haven't determined yet if it would be front drive or all-wheel drive.
Martens says Syn might look weird, but so does the Scion xB wagon. "Weird hasn't been bad in Japan for some time. The Scion xB legitimized weird."
No Fusion of Opinion
One the major unveilings during the first press preview day was Ford Motor Co.s Fusion high-production sedan, which consistently drew onlookers.
Opinion was mixed: ŌĆ£ItŌĆÖs a great looking car. They kept a lot from the 427 (concept), which I liked. And itŌĆÖs a little bigger than the Mazda6.ŌĆØ
ŌĆ£It looks good, but itŌĆÖs kind of non-descript. I get the feeling I could pass it right by and not even notice. The key is, do I want it? No, I donŌĆÖt want it.ŌĆØ
ŌĆ£The proportions are nice. I think this is the first car in a while from Ford that will be legitimately competitive.ŌĆØ
ŌĆ£The thing about this car is you put it in a bag, mix it up and it would come out a Honda Accord. ThatŌĆÖs still the best car out there. Nobody can beat. Everybody tries to, but no body can.ŌĆØ
ŌĆ£ItŌĆÖs a nice change. I mean, these were Taurus buyers, right? It will be interesting to watch in that segment. I think it will do well. They made some interesting feature choices: a 4-cyl. (engine), a 6-speed (transmission) and all-wheel-drive.ŌĆØ
Lutz Warms to Chrysler 300
General Motors Corp.ŌĆÖs Bob Lutz says he is starting to like the Chrysler 300, the hot rear-drive sedan thatŌĆÖs been a solid hit with customers, media and urban America ŌĆō and the car Lutz openly derided at the time of its launch.
But the always-opinionated head of product development for GM now says he is just glad to see a mid-market sedan from a domestic manufacturer become a hit. ŌĆ£I wish it was our hit, but IŌĆÖm just happy to see a domestic sedan successful,ŌĆØ he says. ŌĆ£It is a ray of hope to all domestic manufacturers. It says, do the right thing and you will get the customer back. ItŌĆÖs an encouraging sign.ŌĆØ
But Lutz also throws a little cold water on the 300 and Chrysler, saying the auto maker ŌĆ£lucked outŌĆØ with the 300. And he says people shouldnŌĆÖt consider Chrysler the styling leader based on the success of ŌĆ£just one car.ŌĆØ
ŌĆ£The rest of the stuff is not (designed) to the same level,ŌĆØ he says.
To Be or Not to Be
Phil Martens, Ford Motor Co. vice president of product creation, says auto shows will help Ford answer questions about the boxy concept Fairlane's appeal and potential features.
"It has suicide doors, yet we could do slide-open side doors like on a minivan," Martens says. "But if we do, people will see it as a minivan and not a crossover. We're very interested in consumer feedback and will watch consumer reaction to learn what vehicle they perceive it to be ŌĆō crossover or van.
Adds Steve Lyons, president of the Ford division: "We've shown dealers the concept, and they want more consumer feedback on who buyers would be and what type of vehicle they'd trade."


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Although some travelers may find some aminities lacking the Hellsten provides the comfort of home away from home. The room was clean and adequatly stocked with what is needed. The beds were comfortable. Cleaning services comes about once every three days. The staff are what made this place great. Everyone was kind and pleasant and ready to help a first time world travelor get his bearings. The sauna is a must try. Try and hit the sauna your first night as it will help with jet lag immensely.
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Quite nice... TV remocon was maybe not working (out of battery???) except when go to close to the TV. I heard some noises from kitchen about my order after made the order for dinner.
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Pros: proximity to the town and Helsinki.
Cons: having a training center/gym.
I had to get 5-6 different in order to find a room with a non-smelly bathroom. Eventually one was found in the 3rd floor with an amazing view to tall pine trees!
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It's a bit tatty and in an average location. No public transport nearby, I'd pick somewhere else next time.
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Boston Red Sox ace Clay Buchholz was officially placed on the 15-day disabled list Tuesday with a neck strain. According to Boston.com, the Red Sox made the decision after beating the Rays in the opener of a day-night double header.
Buchholz has been one of the hottest pitchers in baseball, going 9-0 with a MLB-best 1.71 ERA. The Red Sox will need other starters such as Jon Lester to step up their game during his absence.
During his last start on June 8 against the Angels, Buchholz made an early exit, the Red Sox were reluctant at first to place him on the DL, stating he was day to day. According to Boston Globe, the move will be retroactive to June 9. The Red Sox will fill the vacated spot on their 25-man roster with Triple- A catcher Ryan Lavarnway from Pawtucket.
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Two-wire controls send both power and signal to multiple irrigation valves over a single pair of wires.
SAN MARCOS, Ca. – Hunter Industries has released the Dual, a two-wire control system for its I-Core controller platform. The release is the latest entry in the fast growing "decoder" or "two-wire" segment of the irrigation control market.
Two-wire controls send both power and signal to multiple irrigation valves over a single pair of wires, with the ability to activate any individual valve. Due to their simplicity, ease of expansion, and long distance performance two-wire decoder systems have been making major inroads in the commercial control market. Until now, they had primarily been associated with higher-end, large-scale irrigation control systems.
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The Dual product family is a new generation of Hunter designed control products, which target smaller systems and first-time installers of decoder technology. A Dual output module can be inserted in the output slots of any I-Core controller. The module then provides up to three two-wire paths to the field for two-wire valve control via individual decoders in the valve boxes.
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DAN Fox believes a blend of youth and experience in England's World Cup squad will be the key to success in The Hague.
At 31, the Oxford University graduate is the oldest member of the group which begins their campaign against Spain on Saturday.
He is one of six survivors from the last World Cup, while 11 will be making their debuts as England target their first medal in the event since 1986.
He said: "I'm the oldest bloke in the team now which is very strange and a lot different from when I first started.
"I think what is really valuable is that a lot of us have played in big games.
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Love Is Hell, Part 1 [EP] - Ryan Adams
- Band Name: Ryan Adams
- Record Label: Lost Highway
- Release Date: Nov 4, 2003
- Summary: Love Is Hell, Part 1 is one-half of the planned 'Love Is Hell' full-length that Adams had intended as his official follow-up to 2001's 'Gold' until Lost Highway refused to release it intact (instead encouraging the singer to record a more upbeat LP, 'Rock n Roll'). John Porter (The Smiths) produces.
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- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Some of the most focused, artful, and affecting work of his career. [Review applicable to both Part 1 and Part 2]
More commercial - and much better - than 'Rock'n'Roll', occasionally resembling the grandstand melancholia of Coldplay, and more frequently their antecedents The Smiths and Jeff Buckley. [Review applicable to both Part 1 and Part 2]
If Love Is Hell, Pt. 1 has the edge over Rock n Roll, it's because it's more carefully considered in its production and writing, and he manages to hide his allusions better than he does on Rock, where every title and chord progression plays like an homage.
A collection of preposterously cheerless (and charmless) songs that try much too hard to achieve a poignancy-- or anything, really-- that might hide their complete insignificance.
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ZachJMay 16, 2006Wow, the Pitchfork review Of Love is Hell (parts I&2) is by far, their most misguided effort yet. This is not only Adams' best album, as a whole, but is also one of the few albums in general that I consider "perfect... Not "perfect" as in flawless, but perfect in its current state where I wouldn't change the perceived flaws. Adams eschews the alt-country and rock labels on his previous albums and conquers the 80's brit-popish, delightfully depressing vibe. Yes, it does take a few spins to fully appreciate, but man oh man, is the payoff great... Tough to even list favorite songs as the album plays best from start to finish.… Expand
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JoeyPFeb 1, 2004I can understand why his company didn't want to release it, it does not contain a song which would be a hit. But Adams is right: this is a masterpiece - beautifully crafted and emotionally played. Vunerable and tender. Brilliant! … Expand
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MaikenSNov 7, 2005Simply love it.
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BenJDec 17, 2003A considerable improvement on the uneven "Rock and Roll", this record offers the nearest Adams' has come to matching "Heartbreaker". Love Is Hell Part 2 is equally enjoyable, and gives a glimpse as to what might have happened if Adams had been able to release this as a single album...the question is though, which songs would he had left off?!… Expand
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- Publisher: Capcom
- Genre: Action Platformer 2D
- Release Date: Aug 13, 2008
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Did you know that Bronson Arroyo leads the Major Leagues in games started by a pitcher since 2004 (with 299)? He's third in innings pitched (1,906.1) and fourth in quality starts (180). Those numbers are pretty shocking for a guy who I have always considered to be a slightly better than average Big League pitcher. But, nothing is average when it comes to his hair and his women. And I'll prove it to you that the ladies love cool Bronson. Chicks don't know what an average Big League career looks like. They're more concerned about his blond flow and his cash flow…and being the lead guitarist and vocalist in a band (the Bronson Arroyo Band) probably doesn't hurt things either. So naturally, I have composed a small of sampling of Bronson's broads… Some guys would call this heaven. Bronson calls this Saturday (when he isn't starting that night). And last but not least…well, least on this list…Bronson's ex-wife. Poor girl never had a chance.
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While I still have barn cats now up here at Almost Heaven Ranch, as a veterinarian of more than 30 years — and an advocate for feline-friendly veterinary practices — I've long come to adore cats as much dogs. (Which means, among other things, that it makes me very sad that unlike dogs, cats frequently don't get the veterinary care they need and deserve.)
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Rubbing on you. Cats have glands that allow them to secrete oils to make anything they rub against smell familiar. These are concentrated in the head area, which is why cats rub their heads on the corners of furniture, for example. But when your cat rubs on or head butts you, it's more than just putting her smell on you; it's her way of claiming you as her own. Just be thankful she does it with rubbing, not spraying!
Choosing to sit on you (or beside you). Cats love warm sleeping places, like your lap, but comfort isn't the only motive that drives your cat to choose a spot to sit or lie in. The back of the couch next to your head or your computer keyboard while you cruise the Internet or your newspaper when you're trying to read may not be the most comfortable spot in the house … and yet your cat is right there, all the time. See my point? When your cat chooses being next to you over being someplace more comfy, well, there you go: It's love.
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Ever since I updated my phone, it doesnt want to take any screenshots with the power and home button.. Did this update effect it or something ?
Was this feature through an app? If not, try a master reset on your device as sometimes software can be corrupt after an update until a reset is performed.
no it wasnt through an app. i tried a master reset, it didnt work
Once you upgrade your software to Android 2.3.6 , you cant do screenshot anymore
I tried my wife has the new version and i still have the old one ( im still refusing the software upgrade )
Awh that sucks :[ now i can never take screenshots again. I wish I didnt do the update.
I know this is an old thread, but you actually can do a screenshot. Just press the home and power buttons at the same time.
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the importance of political stability
the political system in the U.S.
political leaders/opponents
This was an event organized by ordinary citizens, not political activists.
I'm not really a political animal.
Everything in our company is so political that you never know who you can trust.
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