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It's time to think about celebrating dad. Offer your thanks with food at one of these meals and events around town.
- At STK dads will receive a complimentary Bell Meade bourbon cocktail with dinner on Sunday. 1075 Peachtree St., Atlanta.
- Score a free 1/3 lb. standard burger for dad at The Counter on Sunday by telling your waiter "My dad is a BFD" (big ****ing deal). 850 Mansell Road, Roswell.
- Bone Lick BBQ will offer dads a complimentary upgrade from the two-meat entree ($14) to a sampler platter of all five meat options including spare ribs, brisket, sausage, pulled pork and chicken (regularly $26). The only catch? Dad must polish off the plate himself. No sharing allowed. 1133 Huff Road, Atlanta.
- Cypress Street Pint and Plate will serve dads a free meal on Father's Day from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. 817 West Peachtree St. N.E., Atlanta.
- P'cheen will serve dads one complimentary Old Fashioned cocktail on Sunday to accompany their meal. 701 Highland Ave., Atlanta.
Where's the beef?
- Davio's will host a steak tasting menu on Sunday to appeal to meat-loving dads. The three-course menu will include steak tartare, grilled ribeye and steak fries. 5-10 p.m. 3500 Peachtree Road N.E., Atlanta. $65.
- Take dads for burgers, beer and Bloody Marys at the Four Seasons on Sunday. The buffet meal featuring items prepared on a Big Green Egg includes bottomless beer and Bloody Marys. Live music, corn hole and ladder ball will make the meal an event. 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. 75 Fourteenth St., Atlanta. $79 ($70 without alcohol), $30 children ages 6-12, children 5 and under free.
- Cucina Asellina will serve dad bottomless Absolut bacon Bloody Marys during its Italian-inspired brunch this Sunday. Bottomless mimosas and bellinis will be available for all guests. 1075 Peachtree St., Atlanta.
- La Tavola Trattoria will also serve an Italian-style brunch on Sunday with items like pached eggs bruschetta and lasagna Bolognese. 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. 992 Virginia Ave., Atlanta.
- Take it to the sea with Lure's brunch this Sunday. Brunch specialties include cold-water oysters and seared smoked scallop grits with a slow-cooked egg. 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. 1106 Crescent Ave., N.E., Atlanta.
- Big Tex Decatur will host a bluegrass brunch on Sunday. The meal will include chicken fried steak, fried chicken and burgers with musical entertainment by Banjolicious. 308 W. Ponce de Leon Ave., Decatur.
- Del Frisco's Grille in Buckhead will serve Father's Day brunch with items like lemon-blueberry pancakes and shareable flatbreads. 3376 Peachtree Road, Atlanta.
- It's dinner all day long at Village Tavern in Alpharetta. On Father's Day, the restaurant will serve steak n'fries, cowboy chicken and frilled meatloaf throughout the day. From 10 a.m – 3 p.m. the menu will also include traditional brunch items. 11555 Rainwater Dr., Alpharetta.
Lobster boil:
- SOHO Restaurant will host a lobster boil for families on Sunday. The meal includes Maine lobster (1.5 lbs.) with all the traditional accompaniments. Reservations required by 5 p.m. on Friday. 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. Sunday. 4300 Paces Ferry Road S.E., Atlanta. $28.
Take a class
- Ray's on the Creek in Alpharetta will host a Big Green Egg cooking class on Saturday in honor of Father's Day. Dad chefs will learn to make pulled pork sliders. 3-5 p.m. Saturday. 1700 Mansell Road, Alpharetta. $15.
For a good cause
- Each year on Father's Day, the group Real Men Cook come together to host a tasting of 150 dishes. The event includes a cooking demonstration by Ed Harris, winner of Food Network's "Chopped" and an R&B performance by KeKe Wyatt. 3-6 p.m. Sunday. Georgia World Congress Center. Proceeds support the group's charity work. Advance tickets: $20 adults, $10 children under 12. ($5 upcharge at door).
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–by Jenny Turknett, Food and More blog
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Evolution of MJD's Offense
Ever wondered how the Jags offense has evolved since drafting MJD?
I saw this done with another NFL team and below is a chart showcasing the top five offensive players for the Jags, pretty much whilst MJD has been a part of the Jaguars franchise (plus one additional season for good measure).
The figures only include Receivers' and Running Back's. Reason being that QB's would have quite obviously dominated the list if I included their passing figures.
Apologies, the chart is not the easiest to read but using the legend on the right I'm sure you'll get the general idea. Basically since 2006 MJD has been an instrumental part of the Jags offense. Granted last season his figures went down due to injury yet despite only starting five games he was the fourth most potent offensive weapon. There's no denying the lad is a great runner.
What can we take away from the chart?
Sadly we've started to see a downard turn in total yards from our five best weapons in the past two seasons. 2010 was in fact one of our best years, Del Rio's final season in charge.
Total yards from the best WR's/RB's inversely affects the Jaguars total wins. Look at the wins from 2012 backwards; 2, 5, 8, 7, 5, 11, 8, 12. Now look at the chart, excusing the anomaly that was 2005 (perhaps 2006 too), when wins went up so did the effectiveness of the players. When the losses mounted up our best five struggled to gain much ground in the yardage stakes.
Looking past MJD other notable players include Marcedes Lewis, Fred Taylor, Mike Thomas and I would say Ernest Wilford too. Perhaps Matt Jones on a good day can be included in the list also. Fred Taylor is especially interesting, you can see the transition from him to MJD taking place in the 2005 to 2008 seasons, with MJD taking the reins in 2009.
Without a doubt though one thing that the bars tell us is that the Jaguars mentality has generally been run first, pass second. Something that needs to change even with a fit and healthy MJD (2009, 2010 & 2005 being the exceptions). A great team is one that can operate both through the air and on the ground.
It'll be interesting to see how much of the 2013 chart Shorts takes up as he made up a big part of the 2012 offense. Not an amazing feat granted, but good all the same. Blackmon was another one who shone, alas he misses four games but MJD missed 11 and still finished fourth in total yards from scrimmage.
What Gus needs to realise is that if he wants wins, then he needs his top 5 weapons operating effectively. Get all of them firing on all cylinders' and the results will take care of themselves. At a guess I think the top 5 in 2013 will be MJD, Shorts, Blackmon, Lewis and perhaps even Sanders.


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Richard II (Quarto 1, 1597)
Enter Bull. Yorke, North.
1584Bull. So that by this intelligence we learne
1585The Welch men are disperst, and Salisburie
1586Is gone to meete the King, who lately landed
1587With some few priuate friends vpon this coast.
1588North. The newes is very faire and good my lord,
1589Richard not farre from hence hath hid his head.
1590Yorke It would beseeme the Lord Northumberland
1591To say King Richard; alacke the heauy day,
1592When such a sacred King should hide his head.
1593North. Your Grace mistakes; onely to be briefe
1594Left I his title out.
1595Yorke The time hath bin, would you haue beene so briefe
(with him,
1596He would haue bin so briefe to shorten you,
1598For taking so the head, your whole heads length:
1599Bull. Mistake not (vncle) further then you should.
1600Yorke Take not (good cousin) further then you should,
1601Lest you mistake the heauens are ouer our heads.
1602Bull. I knowit vncle, and oppose not my selfe,
1603Against their will. But, who comes here?
Enter Percie.
1605Welcome Harry; what, will not this castle yeelde?
1606H.Per. The Castle royally is mand my Lord.
1607Against thy entrance.
1608Bull. Royally, why it containes no King.
1609H.Per. Yes (my good Lord,)
1610It doth containe a King, King Richard lies
1611Within the limites of yon lime and stone,
1612And with him are the Lord Aumerle, Lord Salisbury,
1613Sir Stephen Scroope, besides a cleargie man
1614Of_holy reuerence, who I cannot learne.
1615North. Oh belike it is the bishop of Carleil.
1616Bull. Noble Lords,
1617Go to the rude ribbes of that ancient Castle,
1618Through brazen trumpet send the breath of_parlee
1619Into his ruinde eares, and thus deliuer.
1620H._Bull. on both his knees doth kisse king Richards hand,
1621And sends allegeance and true faith of heart
1622To his most royall person: hither come
1623Euen at his feete to lay my armes and power:
1624Prouided, that my banishment repeald,
1625And lands restored againe be freely granted;
1626If not, Ile vse the aduantage of my power,
1627And lay the summers dust with showres of bloud,
1628Rainde from the wounds of slaughtered English men,
1629The which, how farre off from the minde of Bulling.
1630It is, such crimson tempest should bedrench
1631The fresh greene lap of faire King Richards land:
1632My stooping duety tenderly shall shew:
1633Go signifie as much while here we march
1634Vpon the grassie carpet of this plaine;
1635Lets march without the noyse of threatning drumme,
1636That from this Castels tottered battlements
1637Our faire appointments may be well perusde.
1638Me thinkes King Richard and my selfe should meete
1639With no lesse terrour than the elements
1640Of fire and water, when their thundring shocke
1641At meeting teares the cloudie cheekes of heauen.
1642Be he the fire, Ile be the yeelding water;
1643The rage be his, whilst on the earth I raigne.
1644My water's on the earth, and not on him,
1645March on, and marke King Richard how he lookes.
The trumpets sound, Richard appeareth on the walls.
1649Bull. See see King Richard doth himselfe appeare,
1650As doth the blushing discontented Sunne,
1651From out the fierie portall of the East,
1652When he perceiues the enuious cloudes are bent
1653To dimme his glorie, and to staine the tracke
1654Of his bright passage to the Occident.
1655Yorke Yet lookes he like a King, beholde his eye,
1656As bright as is the Eagles, lightens forth
1657Controlling maiestie; alacke alacke for woe,
1658That any harme should staine so faire a shew.
1659King We are amazde, and thus long haue we stoode,
1660To watch the feareful bending of thy knee,
1661Because : me'thought our selfe thy lawful King:
1662And if wee be, howe dare thy ioynts forget
1663To pay their awefull duety to our presence?
1664If we be not, shew vs the hand of God
1665That hath dismist vs from our Stewardship;
1666For well we know no hand of bloud and bone
1667Can gripe the sacred handle of our Scepter,
1668Vnlesse he do prophane, steale, or vsurpe,
1669And though you thinke that all as you haue done
1670Haue torne their soules, by turning them from vs,
1671And we are barren and bereft of_friends:
1672Yet know, my maister God omnipotent,
1673Is mustering in his cloudes on our behalfe,
1674Armies of pestilence, and they shall strike
1675Your children yet vnborne, and vnbegot,
1676That lift your vassaile hands against my head,
1677And threat the glorie of my precious crowne.
1678Tell Bullingbrooke, for yon me thinkes he standes,
1679That euery stride he makes vpon my land,
1680Is dangerous treason: he is come to open
1681The purple testament of_bloeding warre:
1682But ere the crowne he lookes for, liue in peace,
1683Ten thousand bloudy crownes of mothers sonnes,
1684Shall ill become the flower of Englands face,
1685Change the complexion of her maid-pale peace,
1686To scarlet indignation and bedew
1687Her pastors grasse with faithfull English bloud.
1688North. The King of heauen forbid: our Lo: the king
1689Should so with ciuill and vnciuill armes,
1690Be rusht vpon. Thy thrise noble Cosen,
1691Harry Bullingbrooke doth humbly kisse thy hand,
1692And by the honorable tombe he sweares,
1693That stands vpon your roiall grandsires bones,
1694And by the roialties of both your blouds,
1695Currents that spring from one most gratious head,
1696And by the buried hand of warlike Gaunt,
1697And by the worth and honor of himselfe,
1698Comprising all that may be sworne or said,
1699His_comming hither hath no further scope,
1700Then for his lineall roialties, and to beg
1701Infranchisement immediate on his knees,
1702Which on thy roiall partie granted once,
1703His glittering armes he will commend to rust,
1704His barbed steeds to stables, and his hart
1705To faithfull seruice of_your Maiesty.
1706This sweares he, as he is princesse iust,
1707And as I am a gentleman I credit him.
1708King Northumberland, say thus, the King returnes,
1709His noble Cosen is right welcome hither,
1710And all the number of his faire demaunds,
1711Shall be accomplisht without contradiction,
1712With all the gratious vtterance thou hast,
1713Speake to his gentle hearing kind commends.
1714King We do debase our selues, Cosen do we not,
1715To looke so poorely, and to speake so faire?
1716Shall we call backe Northumberland and send
1717Defiance to the traitor and so die?
1718Aum. No good my Lo:_lets fight with gentle words,
1719Till time lend friends, and friends their helpfull swords.
1720King Oh God oh God that ere this tong of mine
1721That laid the sentence of dread banishment
1722On yon prowde man should take it off againe
1723With words of sooth! Oh that I were as great
1724As is my griefe, or lesser than my name!
1725Or that I could forget what I haue beene!
1726Or not remember what I must be now!
1727Swellst thou (prowd heart) Ile giue thee scope to beate,
1728Since foes haue scope to beate both thee and me.
1729Aum. Northumberland comes backe from Bullingbrooke
1731King What must the King do now? must he submit?
1732The King shall do it: must he be deposde?
1733The king shall be contented: must he loose
1734The name of King? a Gods name let it go:
1735Ile giue my iewels for a set of Beades:
1736My gorgeous pallace for a hermitage:
1737My gay apparel for an almesmans gowne:
1738My figurde goblets for a dish of wood:
1739My scepter for a Palmers walking staffe:
1740My subiects for a paire of carued Saintes,
1741And my large kingdome for a little graue,
1742A little little graue, an obscure graue,
1743Or Ile be buried in the Kings hie way,
1744Some way of common trade, where subiects feete
1745May hourely trample on their soueraignes head;
1746For on my heart they treade now whilst I liue:
1747And buried once, why not vpon my head?
1748Aumerle thou weepst (my tender-hearted coosin)
1749Weele make fowle weather with despised teares;
1750Our sighs and they shall lodge the summer corne,
1751And make a dearth in this reuolting land:
1752Or shall we play the wantons with our woes,
1753And make some prety match with sheading teares,
1754As thus to drop them still vpon one place,
1755Till they haue fretted vs a paire of graues
1756Within the earth, and therein laide; there lies
1757Two kinsmen digd their graues with weeping eies:
1758Would not this ill do well? well well I see,
1759I talke but idlely, and you laugh at me.
1760Most mightie Prince my Lord Northumberland,
1761What saies king Bullingbroke, will his maiestie
1762Giue Richard leaue to liue till Richard dye,
1763You make a leg and Bullingbroke saies I.
1764North. My Lord, in the base court he doth attend,
1765To speake with you, may it please you to come downe.
1766King. Downe, downe I come, like glistring Phaeton:
1767Wanting the manage of vnrulie Iades.
1768In the base court, base court where Kinges growe base,
1769To come at traitors calls, and do them grace,
1770In the base court come downe: downe court, downe King,
1771For night_owles shreeke where mounting larkes should sing.
1772Bull. What saies his maiestie?
1773North. Sorrowe and greife of hart,
1774Makes him speake fondly like a frantike man,
1775Yet he is come.
1776Bull. Stand all apart,
1777And shew faire dutie to his Maiestie:
( he kneeles downe.
1778My gratious Lord.
1779King. faire coosen, you debase your princely knee,
1781To make the base earth proud with kissing it:
1782Me rather had my hart might feele your loue,
1783Then my vnpleased eie see your curtesie:
1784Vp coosen vp, your hart is vp I knowe,
1785Thus high at least, although your knee be lowe.
1786Bull. My gratious Lord, I come but for mine owne.
1788King. Your owne is yours, and I am yours and all.
1790Bull. So farre be mine my most redoubted Lord,
1791As my true seruice shall deserue your loue.
1792King. Well you deserue: they well deserue to haue,
1794That know the strong'st and surest way to get,
1795Vncle giue me your handes, nay drie your eies,
1796Teares shew their loue, but want their remedies.
1797Coosen I am to yong to be your Father,
1798Though you are old enough to be my heire,
1799What you will haue, Ile giue, and willing to,
1800For doe we must, what force will haue vs doe:
1801Set on towards London, Cosen is it so?
1803Bul. Yea my good Lord:
1804King. Then I must not say no.


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So popular are these little guys, that we've done what you've asked for – we've made them available to buy on MOO products. So if you fancy using them to make Stickers for an egg hunt of your own, feel free!
Now, without further ado, the final two clues. We'll announce all of Friday's winners on Monday, with a couple of other special surprises (the fun isn't quite over!)…
Clue for Egg Thirty-Nine
The lights they dim and they ______.
Making it hard to see stickers.
The nutcracker's a a classic ______,
Often performed near a holiday.
Some clues are easy, while others are ____.
The fate of this one is still in the cards.
Hint #1: The second two blanks are decoys.
Hint #2: There's a command verb hidden in the poem too!
Clue for Egg Forty
Our final egg, tear in his eye, sneaks off site to weep.
He'll find a book to distract himself so he can try to sleep.
As he sleeps, he dreams of waking, early to the dawn
And finding Huck there in his kitchen, greeting him with a yawn.
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Fresh orange juice and scrambled eggs and… oops.
Hint #1: Need to check the prize list? You've been to this site before!
Hint #2: You know which keywords to search for, right?
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Egg Thirty-Seven: Jennifer Newman, at 13.54 on 14/3/08
Hint #1: You'll need to be on a site hinted at by the first two lines.
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Still stuck? We'd hidden this little egg on Illustration Friday!
Egg Thirty-Six: Darlene Levy, at 17.27
Hint #1: The main site you need is hinted at by the words, optics, exposure and aperture.
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Still stuck? We'd hidden this little egg in an old Flickr blog post!
Yay – hints now added for Egg Thirty-Eight
got 39!
I got the first one in under a minute and the second one by ten after. Not sure if that will be good enough…
Got 40~!
Found both!
Now I can finally go to sleep
Got 40! It took me 16 minutes, though…
Oh, and can we please have the eggs on stickers or as the options for the back of cards? They are so cute!
And thank you, thank you, thank you for the egg hunt, even if it did kill my sleep patterns for a while.
I think you might have beat me Kymberlie ^^; I think I got it in under 2 mins.
I know what 40 is talking about, and I can't find it!!! I'm looking at everything I can find related to that book. Where is it?! Please help fellow hunters! Why isn't it where I'm looking?
Katie, I had the same problem. Try searching on the blog…
Thank You alicia! I asked someone else in an email and they said not right now check back…haha
I'm glad I'll be able to make them now ^__^
Kudos to the Moo team for coming up with this eggstraordinary eggciting hunt. It's been a wonderful 10 days, though like Kymberlie, my sleep pattern has gone somewhat haywire (the afternoon clues come out at 1am here!).
I've had a great time, and congrats to all the winners! =)
I've lost it on #39. The search results I'm looking at seem to involve rather a lot of fetish wear, and not much in the way of eggs…
@Alicia: Awesome! I'm totally getting some stickers! Thanks for making them available!
@Alicia: Stickers ordered!
I also didn't realize that some of my favorite Busted Tees stuff had stickers ("That's what she said!" which I say constantly, the Guitar Hero guitar, and "I'd hit that"), so now I have the best sticker book ever with eggs, Busted Tees images, and skulls! Yay! (And I'm crossing my fingers that I find a real Moo egg in there too!)
Thank goodness! I was driving myself crazy, like Katie. Your hint helped redirect me.
wow this is fun! I am so addicted! Please don't stop now. I need something to distract me from work. found #40
D: clueless on 40. I've been trying alll day. hints, please!
@ Sophia I'm glad to help!
Speaking of help…does anyone have a hint for 39? I don't even know where to begin on that one lol! Oh, and a giant thank you to Moo for putting the egg designs out there! They rock!
I'm lost on both clues. So when do we know who wins the random drawings for the people who weren't first in finding the eggs?
Thanks Zack!
Yay again — a nice way to finish off after a few stumpers. The hint for 38 also helped, hope I wasn't too late for that one.
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Think about what rhyme finishes the first couplet. And then, well you've got all the rest, you should know what to do.
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We reviewed FITS Socks' Performance Trail socks in August, and they've held a special place in the sock drawer ever since.
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Nine Ways to Enhance the Customer Experience
Today, the gap between customers' expectations and the service they receive is huge. Customers expect personalized, competent service, and they want to be able to connect with a company at any time, in person or virtually, over any communication channel they want to use.
However, companies struggle to offer an experience that meets customers' expectations at a cost that makes business sense. When they fail, enterprises face escalating service costs, rock-bottom customer satisfaction numbers, and anecdotes of poor service experiences that are amplified over social channels and deeply erode their brand.
There's no denying that mastering the service experience is hard. But finding innovative ways to enhance the end-to-end customer experience can help you move the needle in a positive direction. Here are nine approaches you should consider.
1. Understand your customers. Customers know what good service is, and they demand it from each interaction, over any communication channel they want to use. Data from Forrester shows that, in general, customers still prefer to use the phone, closely followed by e-mail and Web self-service. That being said, we also see differences in channel preference by customer demographic. For instance, the younger generation is more comfortable using peer-to-peer communication, social networking and instant service channels such as chat, so you need to make those technologies available. You must understand the demographics and communication preferences of your customers and ensure that you can engage with them in the way they want to engage with you.
A case in point is American Airlines, which, after a technographics assessment, realized that 41 percent of its passengers were comfortable leveraging their cell phones' Short Message Service (SMS) and wireless Internet capabilities, while the 29 percent who were "super-connected" were comfortable using most of their mobile device features.
In response, American Airlines crafted its mobile strategy to target its typical customers with e-mail and SMS alerts, and offered a mobile Web site for more advanced transactions for its super-connected customers. These pioneering offerings have helped deepen customers' engagement and loyalty.
2. Align your service offering with your brand. It's important to stay true to your brand and design a service experience that supports your value proposition. Customers need to know what your company represents—which is especially important in today's message-cluttered social media world. Here are two companies that have aligned their service offerings to reinforce their brand:
• Apple's products are high-style and priced at a premium. Its customer service is very much in line with its brand and is delivered on the customer's terms. For example, you can arrange a phone call with an Apple Expert who specializes in your query, and you can talk at your convenience. Apple will even call you. As an alternative, you can e-mail the company or browse its extensive knowledge base.
• IKEA offers high-style but do-it-yourself products. Its shoppers are comfortable with serving themselves—from pulling products off shelves to self-checkout to assembling products on their own. IKEA's service mirrors its brand: The company provides exhaustive Web self-service in a multitude of languages, a chat bot, some e-mail support and limited phone support. Customers aren't disappointed with IKEA's lack of white-glove service because they don't expect it; they know it's not the company's business model.
3. Don't offer silos of communication choices. Your service experience should allow customers to start an interaction over one communication channel and complete it over a different one. For example, they should be able to start an interaction over the phone and follow up with an e-mail containing more detailed information.
To provide this kind of experience, channels can't be implemented in silos. Instead, they must be integrated so that agents have a full view of all customer interactions over both traditional and social channels. In addition, if a service request has been escalated from a Web self-service session, agents should have access to the full session history so they don't repeat questions or searches—thereby degrading the customer experience.
Companies like T-Mobile take cross-channel communication a step further. If a customer can't find the right information via Web self-service, he or she can escalate a question to a chat or an e-mail agent. As the customer is supplying additional information, the company runs an under-the-covers search through its knowledge base to locate possible answers. T-Mobile then presents these answers to the customer, who can decide whether the answer meets his or her needs. If not, the customer can continue to request help from an agent.
4. Couple your customer service system with others.Customer service agents must navigate through an average of 20 disparate applications to find the information they need, thereby increasing the time needed to handle queries and decreasing customer satisfaction. Customer service systems should be more than just a database front-end for customer information and cases. They should be integrated with back-office applications so agents can provide customers with fast, accurate answers to their queries.
High 5 Sportswear, an athletic apparel distributor, exemplifies the benefits of integrating customer service systems with a larger IT ecosystem. In the past, the company's customer service agents had struggled—sometimes for up to 48 hours—to track down customer interaction history, piece together customer claims and validate discounts.
To fix this problem, High 5 deployed an integrated sales and customer service solution that allows agents to quickly access customer sales data and discount levels, and properly complete and efficiently route service tickets and track orders. The result was higher-quality customer interactions, better productivity and faster turnarounds on orders.
5. Define an efficient service experience. Agents typically don't follow the same discovery path through customer service applications, which negatively affects agent consistency and leads to higher turnover. One solution is to apply business process management to a customer service offering. Agents are led through a set of screens, which display the information needed to resolve customer issues and ensure compliance with company policies.
An international bank used this strategy when it realized its poor customer sat scores were the result of service agents in the bank's 23 contact centers following different processes. Agents now use a process-driven desktop that provides all the information needed to resolve multiple queries during a single transaction. As a result, first-contact resolution has improved by 30 percent, and call transfers have been reduced by 20 percent.
6. Keep your customers' experience top of mind. Not all service requests can be processed in real time. Some need offline research time, while others, such as e-mail requests, may have built-in delays. It's important to communicate service expectations to customers and then meet them in order to instill a level of trust.
You should also offer proactive service to customers, such as service alerts and proactive fixes for common issues. Let customers flag conditions for which they want to be notified. These communications will help keep customers loyal.
7. Pay attention to your knowledge strategy. A good knowledge program is a key element of a good service experience. A Web self-service presence is a must, and agent knowledge that is the same across communication channels guarantees consistent, accurate answers.
Maintaining relevant knowledge is an ongoing task. One approach is to allow your agents to flag inaccurate or incomplete content. Another is to use automated tools that push the most frequently accessed content to the top of FAQ lists. TurboTax software maker Intuit took this approach to contextualize the massive amounts of tax code information for its customers.
8. Harness your customer community with Web 2.0 tools. Another common strategy is to make forums available for peer-to-peer communication, letting customers help themselves and deflecting inquiries from the contact center. Unresolved issues can be escalated to customer service agents, and discussion threads can be recommended for addition to the knowledge base.
Computer maker Lenovo exemplifies best practices in tying forums to customer service. As a result of the information contained in its forums, Lenovo saw a 20 percent reduction in laptop support call rates and shortened problem-resolution cycles.
9. Listen to your customers. Gather customer feedback after every interaction and ask open-ended questions to solicit honest opinions. Append feedback forms to all user-viewable knowledge base content. Let users rate solutions and use this collected feedback to optimize the service experience.
In addition, monitor customers' sentiments over social channels such as Twitter and Facebook. Then use their opinions to see if you can improve your products, services and processes. Comcast, with its ComcastCares Twitter presence, has shown that this approach leads to real differentiation in the market.
These innovative strategies can help you engage in a winning customer service relationship. But it's essential to monitor your success and have an ongoing dialogue with your customers. And be sure to recraft your offering to stay true to your brand and your customers' changing needs.
Kate Leggett is a senior analyst at Forrester Research, which is headquartered in Cambridge, Mass.


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The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and "mangled mind" leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.Elizabeth Drew
Labor Day differs in every essential from other holidays of the year in any country. All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflict and battles of man's prowess over man, of strife and discord for greed and power, of glories achieved by one nation over another. Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.Samual Gempers
How very heavy is the burden of human suffering, the suffering that comes of war; of so-called ethnic cleansing, of conflict in the name of religion; of foolish ideas of racial superiority; of intolerance, bigotry, and egotism.Gordon B. Hinckley
Loyalty cannot be too liberally insisted upon. Altruism in nature remains an exception. It poses a puzzle, being in prima facie conflict with the survival of the fittest and most selfish.Peter Birks
The hero is valorous because he stands up to every threat directed against his values. Heroism requires value conflict.Andrew Bernstein
The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?Max De Pree
A city has values as well as slums, excitement as well as conflict a personality that has not yet been obliterated by its highways and gasCharles Abrams
The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.Goethe
Feminism was recognized by the average man as a conflict in which it was impossible for a man, as a chivalrous gentleman ... as a highly evolved citizen of a highly civilized community, to refuse the claim of this better half to self-determination.Wyndham Lewis
I have always preferred conflict of individuals over the battle of extreme ideologies.Robert Ludlum
Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.John Dewey
The main question I shall probe is the extent to which, and the manner in which, Buddhism, as a religion espoused by Sri Lankans of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, has contributed to the current ethnic conflict and collective violence in Sri Lanka.Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah
Commitment in the face of conflict produces character.Unknown
Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.William James
Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversitySeneca
Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.William James
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For pleasure is a state of soul, and to each man that which he is said to be a lover of is pleasant.... Now for most men their pleasures are in conflict with one another because these are not by nature pleasant, but the lovers of what is noble find pleasant the things that are by nature pleasant; and virtuous actions are such... Happiness then is the best, noblest, and most pleasant thing in the world, and these attributes are not severed as in the inscription at Delos: Most noble is that which is justest, and best is health; but pleasantest is it to win what we love.Aristotle
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Times Talks with Daniel
I just got back from New York where I attended the Times Talks with Daniel and will be posting my write-up as soon as I can get all my notes in order (and decipher my handwriting to boot! I scribbled in haste and in the dark, thinking of all of you who would have loved to be there but couldn't).
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Sudoku Solver
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Sudoku Strategy
There are only a few strategies that you need to know in order to solve Sudoku puzzles. Please take a look at our Sudoku introduction page for background on terminology and also our theory page. Sudoku Dragon comes with a range of guides that take you through these strategies step by step. You can share your tips and experiences on our strategy message forum. There follows a summary of the techniques you may find useful up to 'advanced' level.
Only choice rule
There may be only one possible choice for a particular Sudoku square. In the simplest case you have a group (row, column or region) that has eight squares allocated leaving only one remaining choice available; so the remaining number must go in that empty square.
Looking at the second row (B) all the squares except the first one Ba have been allocated so the missing number 4 has no choice but to go in the square Ba. You can use this technique by scanning for 8 allocated squares in all rows, columns or regions.
Single possibility rule
When you look at individual squares you will often find that there is only one possibility left for the square. Note: If there are eight squares solved in the group then this is just the same as the only choice rule. Because of the way that groups intersect you may have a group with more than one unallocated square and yet only one possibility exists for one of the squares. So there is only one possibility for that square, and the number must go there.
In this partially solved Sudoku there are quite a few readily solvable squares. Looking at the purple square Da and running through possibilities: 1;2;3;4;5 and 8 that are allocated in column a leaves only 6; 7 and 9 as possibilities. But in row D there is already a 6 and 9 so that leaves 7 as the single possibility for square Da. The single possibility rule can be used to solve all the puzzle squares highlighted in green, so that makes it a very useful technique to have up your sleeve. To use this technique you choose a promising square and mentally run through each number in turn that might go in it, if there is only one number left then that number must go in the square.
Only square rule
Often you will find within a group of Sudoku squares that there is only one place that can take a particular number. For example if a group has seven squares allocated with only two numbers left to allocate it is often the case that an intersecting (or shared) group forces a number to go in one of the squares and not the other one. You are left with an only square within a group for a number to go in. This is different to the 'single possibility' rule where we looked at squares on their own rather than as a group.
In this case the highlighted column c has seven numbers allocated. The missing numbers are 1 and 3. But you can see that there is already a 3 in row I (square If) so a 3 cannot go in square Ic, the 3 must go in the other square Ac it is the only square in column c where a 3 can be allocated.
You will often find that the same square can be solved by the 'single possibility' rule as well as the 'only square' rule. It doesn't matter which rule you use, as long as the square is solved. Note: Whenever there are eight allocated in a group with only one remaining empty you can assign a symbol by applying either the 'only choice', 'single possibility' or 'only square' rules as all of them come down to the same thing. It is a feature of Sudoku that squares can be solved in several ways using different strategies.
Two out of three rule
The next useful solution strategy builds on the Only Square rule. Some Sudoku authors refer to it as 'slicing and slotting'. It is a quick way of solving squares as it can be done in your head by scanning the puzzle grid. It almost always finds a square or two that can be solved. At the heart of the technique is to take groups of three rows and columns in turn, working methodically through the whole grid. First look for all the 1s then all the 2s, 3s etc. all the way through to the 9s. Here's an example of how it works, for more details look at our 2 out of 3 strategy page or download our puzzle solver and take the free guides for this topic.
Look at the top three rows where the 1s are located - they are in row A column e (Ae) and Row C column a (Ca) There is no 1 in row B, it must go in one of the blank squares. Because of the 1 in Ae it can not go in any other of the squares in region Ad that is Bd; Be or Bf. By elimination there is only one place 1 can go in row B and that is in the highlighted square Bi. Using the same logic for the following three rows D; E; F there is again two of them with a 1 in them: squares Eh and Ff. There is a 1 missing from row D and because of the 1 in Eh it can't be in Di, 1 must be assigned to Dc. For the last three rows there are already three 1s Gd; Hb and Ig so there is no 1 left to be allocated.
You can then look at the 2s in these three sets of three rows. In rows A; B; C there are 2s in Ai and Cb so there is a 2 missing in row B, however in this case there are three unallocated squares Bd; Be and Bf so it can't be quickly decided in which one of these the 2 should go. The same happens in rows D; E; F there are two 2s but both Ed and Ef are possible. Finally in G; H; I there are two 2's Gg and Hc and so there is a 2 missing in row I. The existing 2's mean there is only one place it can go - square Id. You can then continue this scan through all rows then all columns in groups of three and then through all the numbers 1 through 9. Whenever you allocate a square this may, in turn, unlock other squares so it is worth restarting the same procedure over for the whole grid.
The procedure is to scan rows and columns in groups of three and look to see where if anywhere the number being scanned has been allocated. If you find two out of the three then you know that the missing number can only go in only one of three squares in this row (or column), and more often than not only one of these is possible and must be allocated there. It will find squares that you could also have found using the only choice, only square and single possibility strategies.
When using the Sudoku Dragon software you can use the automatic allocation feature to automatically find and solve squares that can be solved with the 'only choice', 'single possibility' and 'only square' rules, leaving you free to concentrate on solving the harder squares.
Sub-group exclusion rule
More rarely needed in Sudoku, but exceptionally useful is the sub-group exclusion rule. This takes a lot more explanation as instead of 'forcing' a number in a square, it is an application of logic that knocks out possibilities that at first sight looked possible. By excluding one possibility for a square may mean there is only one remaining possibility left, so the square can be safely set to the remaining alternative. Here's an example of the sub-group rule.
A sub-group is a term used to describe three squares in a row or column that intersect a Sudoku region. Every row and column has three sub-groups in the three regions it crosses. In this example the region Aa has been color coded to show the three subgroups it forms with columns a; b and c. The three purple squares are the sub-group intersecting region Aa and column a; the orange squares the sub-group with column b and the green ones the sub-group with column c. The region also has three sub-groups with the rows A; B and C. Every square in the grid belongs to two sub-groups - one for the column it is in and one for the row it is in.
The sub-group exclusion strategy is when you can prove that a number occurs in one of the sub-group squares even though it can't be deduced which of the three sub-group squares it does go in. If you then look beyond that sub-group to the row or column it is in, you can exclude that number from the other intersecting squares. This may not solve a square, but it narrows down the possibilities. A couple of examples follow to explain it.
Our Sudoku Dragon has a free tutorial that explains what is going on step by step.
Here is a brief example using the simpler 4x4 puzzle size, so there are only four possibilities to think about instead of nine. Sudoku Dragon has been used with possibilities enabled and exclusions switched on so that the grid directly shows the squares where the exclusion rule comes into play.
First look at column d, you'll see that the 1 must go in Cd and that's the only place it can go in the region Cc. Applying the subgroup rule for the subgroup shared between column d and region Cc (highlighted in blue) means that 1 can only occur in this blue subgroup and can not go in any other square in the region, so a 1 can not go in squares Cc or Dc, so that is why 1 is shown as with a 'not possible' darker background by the puzzle solver. Moreover because Dc could only take a 1 or 4 it's now certain that 4 must go here.
The other subgroup we could have used in this Sudoku puzzle example is the one shared between column a and region Cb (highlighted in red). Here we can tell that 4 must be allocated in Ca as that is the only place in column a that can take it. So using the subgroup rule 4 can not go in either Cb or Db, and so we can safely assign 1 to Db. Note: 4x4 Sudoku examples do not really show the full power of the rule as simpler rules could have been used to solve these squares.
Scaling up to a regular 9x9 Sudoku example, the subgroup exclusion happens in the central region Dd. It is the sub-group of the central region with the highlighted row F that is of interest. Look at the squares in row F that a '5' can go, it can't go in Fa (because of Aa) nor in Fh (because of Dh) nor in Fi (because of Bi). That only leaves Fd and Ff both of which occur as a shared sub-group with the central region Dd. The subgroup exclusion rule requires that a '5' can not go in the remaining shared squares in that region highlighted in red: Ed or Ef.
Hidden Twin exclusion rule
You may find you need to use the twin (or triplet) exclusion rules in order to solve more challenging Sudoku puzzles. It is the strategy to use when simpler strategies have been applied and you are still stuck. In essence it is all about spotting matching patterns of possibilities in a group (row, column or region). Spotting these groups takes time and it is difficult to keep track of these in your head, so this is where you need pencil and paper (or the Sudoku Dragon puzzle solver).
If you have two or more unallocated squares in a region and there are two numbers that can only go in the same two squares and no others in that group you have a twin. This does not directly help to allocate squares as the number could go in either of them. However, if the two squares have another possible number then this number can be safely eliminated as an option. It is excluded because of the presence of the hidden twin in the group. Studying an example is the best way to get your mind around this rule.
Look at this 4x4 grid. There are a lot of easier squares that could be filled in, but we've ignored them as we are illustrating the hidden twin rule. Look at the green region Aa, none of the squares have yet been allocated. Both 2 and 3 must go somewhere in the region but it turns out that there are only two possible squares. So we have detected a twin {2,3} in squares Aa and Ba. Because of this twin the possibility of a 1 in square Aa can be knocked out. Also square Ba looked like it might be a 4 but this too can be excluded due to the same {2, 3} twin. How does this work? There are only two ways that the twin of {2, 3} can be allocated, either the 2 in Aa and 3 in Ba or alternatively 3 in Aa and 2 in Ba. These are the only two ways that {2, 3} can be set in this region. So in both of the two possible ways the squares Aa and Ba are allocated. This does not allow the possibility of the 1 being allocated in Aa or the 4 being allocated in Ba - they must be allocated somewhere elsewhere in the group. Whenever there are the same number of possibilities restricted to the same number of squares this logic can be applied. [See the theory page for further explanation.] Note: The rule for twins extends to triplets too. If you find that three symbols have only three shared possible squares in a group (row, column or region) then all other possibilities in these three squares can be discounted. And on it goes, the same sort of rule applies to quadruplets, quintuplets etc. but these are very rarely found in real Sudoku puzzles.
Our Sudoku Dragon software has a free tutorial that explains twins in more detail with an animated guide.
This rule is named the hidden twin rule as the twins are only found by considering other squares in the group. Discovering the twins is the challenge.
Naked Twin exclusion rule
Another way to exclude possibilities in a group is with the naked twins. In this case the twin squares are evident on their own (and so they are termed 'naked' to distinguish them from the previous 'hidden' case) and these are used to exclude possibilities in other squares in the same group. Here's how it works.
This 4x4 Sudoku has the region Ca highlighted in green. The 'naked twins' are located in Ca and Cb with possibilities {2, 3}. Because these two squares have no other possibilities we can deduce that a 2 must go in Ca and 3 in Cb or else 3 in Ca and 2 in Cb, there are no other alternatives for these two squares. So looking at square Da the naked twin rule excludes 2 from occurring here (because we have just shown that region Ca must have a 2 in either Ca or Cb). As Da is now left with one possibility a 1 can be safely allocated there. For the same reason the naked twin also eliminates 2 from square Cc and a 4 must go there.
General permutation rule
The two 'twin' rules are particular examples of the general Sudoku logic. It is all down to permutations. Each Sudoku group is a permutation of the numbers 1 to 9 (for a 9x9 grid). If you can identify a group within this permutation that is restricted to the same number of squares then you have a Sudoku permutation rule. Note: In fact the 'only square'; 'single possibility' and 'only choice' are just special cases of this general rule - only one square is involved in this case. This general rule has more exotic applications.
The twin, triplet, quadruplet rules just reflect different number of possibilities (2,3,4...). However there are also chains. A chain can take in any number of squares, for example if three squares in a group allow just the possibilities {1,7}; {4,7} and {1,4} there is a closed chain of three symbols {1,4,7} which is neither a twin nor a triplet. Detecting this chain lets you safely exclude a possible 1, 4 and 7 elsewhere in the same group. So the logic applies equally for chains as it does for twins, there are 'naked chains' and 'hidden chains'.
X-Wing and Swordfish
One of the more complex Sudoku strategies is the 'X-Wing' and its cousin the 'Swordfish'. These rules are useful for solving the really difficult Sudoku puzzles when all else has been tried and failed.
In looking for twins and permutations we restricted ourselves to looking at possibilities within a single group. The shared sub-group rule is the simplest example of a rule where two groups are looked at to eliminate possibilities. The X-Wing requires looking at multiple groups as well. A better name for this strategy might be 'Box' as you are looking for four squares forming the corners of a box. These squares must be the only permitted squares for that number in that row (or column) for one particular symbol. This box arrangement forms a two dimensional link. If the symbol spotted occurs in the top left corner of the box it must then also occur in the bottom right corner of the box. The only other alternative is that it occurs in the top right corner in which case it must then occur in the bottom left corner. No other option is possible for these four squares and this number. Just as with the sub-group rule, this can knock out possibilities somewhere else in the Sudoku grid.
Here's an example (and good X-Wings are hard to find). Sudoku Dragon has highlighted all the squares where a 4 is allocated or looks like it can be allocated. The rows C and G are crucial. They both have only two squares that can take a 4: Ca, Cf, Ga and Gf - highlighted in blue - this is the vital starting point. Moreover these 4s form the corners of a rectangular box (highlighted in orange). How is this useful? Well, because there must the 4 in column a must either go in Ca or Ga and nowhere else in that column. Similarly in column f (the 4 must be in either Cf or Gf and so we can exclude all the other 4s from these two columns. So all the yellow highlighted squares Aa, Ba, Bf and Ha can have the possibility of 4 safely discounted. If you are lucky then eliminating the 4s will mean you can allocate one of these excluded squares or at least a square in the same group as them. Note: The term X-Wing is probably derived from the name of Star Wars fighter which had an X shaped cross-section.
Believe it or not the complexity does not end at the X-Wing, the Swordfish is a further refinement of the X-Wing. Instead of four squares forming a box of possible allocations the Swordfish rule uses six squares. In the example puzzle there are not just two pairs of squares for 9 but three pairs: in columns b; e and h. These squares are highlighted in blue/purple color. They are linked by rows to form a box with an extension 'sword' jutting out on one side : hence the term Swordfish. The other squares forming the swordfish are highlighted in orange and yellow. Because all these three columns have coinciding end squares the rule applies again. Any 9s that we find in rows that link the columns can be safely excluded because we know that a 9 must occur in one of the two highlighted squares in that row; they can't be allocated elsewhere. These excluded squares are highlighted in yellow (Fc; Gf and Fg).
Of course, the Swordfish is not the end of the matter we can extend the logic to four interlinking pairs of possibilities and then five etc.. You'll feel a real sense of achievement if you locate a Swordfish and use it to solve a Sudoku puzzle.
More advanced strategies
Further complex strategies are available for fiendishly difficult puzzles. They require a lot more thought and analysis to learn about and use correctly. The techniques include the X-Y Wing or Hook and powerful Alternate Pair , they are explained in full on our separate Advanced Strategy page.
Backtracking or Trial and Error
When all else fails, there is one technique that is guaranteed to always work, indeed you can solve any Sudoku puzzle just using just this one strategy alone. You just work logically through all the possible alternatives in every square until you find allocations that work out. Because there are so many alternatives (billions) you won't want to use it too often. You start with a square and one number from the available possibilities. This is a completely different type of strategy as it uses 'brute force' rather than 'logic'. It is the most contentious Sudoku solving technique and so we have a full description of it with examples on our separate Guessing page.
Have you mastered all the strategies for solving Sudoku? Our strategy page gives an introduction to all the main tactics for solving a Sudoku puzzle. We have separate pages on Trial and error as well as Advanced Strategies.. Read more...
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Gallagher Academy might claim to be a school for geniuses – but it's really a school for spies. Cammie Morgan is fluent in fourteen languages and capable of killing a man in seven different ways (three of which involve a piece of uncooked spaghetti). But the one thing the Gallagher Academy hasn't prepared her for is what to do when she falls for an ordinary boy who thinks she's an ordinary girl.
Sure, she can tap his phone, hack into his computer, and track him through a mall without his ever being the wiser, but can Cammie have a normal relationship with a boy who can never know the truth about her?
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A spy-in-training, Cammie Morgan has a cover for every occasion. But what happens when she is forced to lose her cover to save her best friend, Macey? Cammie and her friends are determined to hunt down the group that threatens to tear their secret sisterhood apart. This time it's personal.
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