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Catchy business names can create immediate connect and impact in the targeted marketplace. The name is the face of the business and a right one will help you build a brand that has great value and immense popularity with its consumer group.
When searching for the right name it's important to have knowledge of the target market as well as information about competitors in that market.
Once your research is complete, you can use various techniques to craft names that fit well in your targeted market. Here are some proven methods that will help you create attractive and catchy business names.
Word Compounds
This is the most commonly used method for creating business names. Pick a handful of words related to your business and mesh them together to come up with attractive word-combos that can potentially connect to your customers.
For example, you can combine the words Washington and Battery to form WaBatt or DCBatt. These names indicate that your business is based in the state or city of Washington and also suggest that you are selling batteries and related products. TechCrunch, WordPress, PlumCrazy, GladRags, Shoplift and GulfStream are some well knows companies that have used word compounds to create catchy names for their business.
Rhyming Words
Another good method for creating catchy business names is by using rhyming words or phrases.
For example, if you plan to open a baby goods store a good name could be Maybe Baby Store. Such names will attract people's attention and help customers remember what products your business sells. Rhyming names are more memorable than regular names and as so can be very valuable. Another good example is Neat and Sweet Laundromat for a laundry business.
While creating such business names, make sure the rhymes are clear and easy to understand. A good idea is to work with the same number of syllables for each word that rhymes.
In case you have difficulty in finding good rhyming words for your business, consider using alliteration to create similar effect as that of rhyming. Alliteration simply means the occurrence of same letters or sounds at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
For example, if you plan to open a computer accessories shop, you can name it Cyber County Computers. You can see that all the words in this name start with the letter 'C' and the full name creates a rhyming like effect. Peter Piper Pizza, Starlight Standard and Expert Express are some successful business names created using this method.
An easy method to create catchy business names is by using acronyms. While this technique can create mediocre names it does have the potential to give your business an edge over the competitors.
A good acronym should associate a meaningful short term with your business and people should find it memorable and easy to remember. For example, a name for a golf store would be Power Athlete Retail that uses the acronym: PAR, a goal that anyone would want to accomplish in golf. ESPN, KFC and AT&T are some very good examples for business names created using acronyms.
Wrong Spellings
Another excellent method is to use words that are intentionally spelled in a wrong way. This will create a uniquely spelled business name that has one or two letters incorrectly positioned or ignored in the word. This technique is one of the smartest and quickest ways to generate a catchy business names.
For example, if you plan to open a bookstore you can name it Paperbax to suggest that you offer paperback books. Here the second word back is replaced with bax, though bax does not have any meaning the word Paperbax sounds trendy and likable to the consumers. Krispy Kreme, Maid-Rite, and Flickr are some companies that have use unconventional spellings in their business names.
Creating catchy business names can be a long process and it is also very difficult to predict whether a business name is absolutely right. If the name is similar to its competitors, you won't be able to build a distinct and memorable brand. At the same time, if the name is beyond belief or wacky, you won't be able to connect well with your consumers.
So, choose a name that connects well with your consumers, differentiates you in the marketplace and most of all make you feel comfortable and confident that you'll be able to build a successful business from the chosen name.


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"It really doesn't take much to kill lobsters," pathobiologist Sylvain DeGuise told attendees at the Long Island Sound Health Symposium. Researchers at University of Connecticut found a mere 33 parts-per-billion of methoprene killed off half the lobsters in a 20-gallon tank. "That's [equivalent] to one drop in a billion, or one person in China," DeGuise said.
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Bryan Guy Adams, OC, OBC is a Canadian rock singer-songwriter, guitarist, bassist, producer, actor and photographer. For his contributions to music, Adams has many awards and nominations, including 20 Juno Awards among 56 nominations, 15 Grammy Award… Read More
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1959 Birth Born on November 5, 1959.
1973 13 Years Old After his parents divorce, in 1973 Adams and his mother returned to settle in Vancouver, British Columbia. … Read More
1976 16 Years Old Adams elected to sing until they found a singer, but they never found one, and his auditioning landed him a few jobs, with bands like Shock and Sweeney Todd, who in 1976 released If Wishes Were Horses with the 15-year-old Adams as the singer. … Read More
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In 1978, at the age of 18, Adams met Jim Vallance introduced by a mutual friend in a Vancouver music store. … Read More
1979 19 Years Old Also recorded during this time was Adams' first single, "Let Me Take You Dancing," which made the Canadian RPM chart in March 1979 and its B-Side Don't Turn Me Away, which has never appeared outside of the original 7" and 12" singles. … Read More
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The album was released in November 1984 and featured the singles, "Run to You", "Summer of '69", "Heaven", "One Night Love Affair", "Somebody", and "It's Only Love", a duet with Tina Turner. … Read More
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1989 29 Years Old In 1989 Adams did backup singing on Mötley Crüe's album Dr. Feelgood and also on Belinda Carlisle's song "Whatever It Takes" which appeared on her Album Runaway Horses. … Read More
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The album was released in September 1991 and featured "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You", his second 1 hit single in Billboard Hot 100. … Read More
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… For his contributions to music, Adams has many awards and nominations, including 20 Juno Awards among 56 nominations, 15 Grammy Award nominations including a win for Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or Television in 1992. … Read More
1993 33 Years Old In November 1993 Adams released a compilation album entitled So Far So Good, that again topped the Charts in numerous countries such as the UK, Germany and Australia. … Read More
2004 44 Years Old In 2004, ARC Weekly released its chart of top pop artists since the last 25 years and Adams came up at number 13 in the chart with four number-one singles, ten top five hits and 17 top ten hits. … Read More
2005 45 Years Old Also in 2005, Adams re-recorded the theme song for the second season of Pamela's Fox sitcom Stacked.
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In May 2009, Bryan Adams announced on his Twitter account that he has started writing and recording a new album in Paris.
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Swimming | Friday, November 8, 2013
Whitworth Defeats Willamette in Dual Match Opener for Swimming
Guffey Wins Men's 200 Free, Santos Takes First in Women's 50 Free
SALEM, ORE. -- Whitworth University defeated Willamette University in men's and women's swimming on Friday, Nov. 8 at the WU Natatorium, as the Pirates and the Bearcats opened the 2013-14 dual match season.
The Pirates won the men's competition, 137-60, and outscored the Bearcats in the women's races, 144-56.
Both of Whitworth's teams moved to 1-0 in dual matches and 1-0 in the Northwest Conference. The Pirates have won 11 consecutive NWC titles in men's swimming and have claimed three of the last four NWC championships in women's swimming. Willamette's teams fell to 0-1 on the season, 0-1 in the NWC.
For Willamette, Alex Guffey (So., Seattle, WA/Roosevelt HS) and Malia Santos (So., Kailua-Kona, HI/Kealakehe HS) each won an event.
Guffey took first place in the men's 200-yard freestyle, as he completed the race in 1:50.41 to win by nearly two full seconds. Matthew Brody was second for the Pirates in 1:52.37.
Santos prevailed in the women's 50-yard freestyle with a time of 26.65 seconds, 0.60 in front of Taylor Burnight from Whitworth, who placed second at 27.25 seconds. Lindsay Clark (So., Juneau, AK/Juneau-Douglas HS) of Willamette was third at 27.35.
One swimmer from each of Whitworth's teams won two events.
Alisa Stang finished first in the women's 200-yard freestyle in 2:02.44 and also won the 100-yard freestyle in 56.32 seconds. Brandon Smith triumphed in the men's 1,000-yard freestyle as he recorded a time of 10:11.99 and took first place in the 500-yard freestyle in 4:58.59.
In addition, Wesley Tatum of Whitworth held off Dan Aki (Fr., Union City, CA/James Logan HS) of Willamette in the men's 200-yard butterfly. Tatum touched out at 2:04.16, while Aki finished second at 2:06.17. Tatum held just a 0.74 advantage heading into the final 50 yards.
The men's 200-yard backstroke was even closer, with Jackie Beal of the Pirates outlasting Alika Masei (Fr., Salem, OR/West Salem HS) by 1.42 seconds. Beal registered a time of 2:02.35 and Masei was timed at 2:03.77. The race was a virtual tie after the first three laps, but Beal pulled in front during the final lap.
For the Willamette women's team, Erin Parkinson (Sr., Everson, WA/Ferndale HS) took second in the 500-yard freestyle at 5:40.04, while Hope Nelson (Jr., Providence, RI/South Kingstown HS) placed second in the 1,000-yard freestyle at 11:49.72. Nelson was just 10 seconds behind the winner, Heather Spall of Whitworth, in the 40-length race.
Willamette will compete at the WU Natatorium again on Saturday, Nov. 9, against Whitman College. The meet is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. (PST).
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San Antonio manager up for Texas Roadhouse prize
Let's hear it for San Antonio restaurant manager Harry Brackman. Looks like Brackman is finalist for Texas Roadhouse's Managing Partner of the Year award, the restaurant chain's highest honor. Brackman, managing partner of Texas Roadhouse's 2893 Cinema Ridge location, is one of 12 finalists for the prize. They will be judged on seven categoies, including […] [Read More]
Monarch Dental opens wide on a new location
Say "Ahhhh." Monarch Dental has opened its 18th San Antonio location. The new office — located at 5841 NW Loop 410, Suite 110 in the Ingram Heights Shopping Center — is one of three San Antonio-area locations Monarch plans for the year. The other two will be in The Stone Ridge Shopping Center and Schertz, […] [Read More]
Clean Tech Forum to meet on March 17
The San Antonio Clean Technology Forum, a group that wants to change the way the city thinks about energy, will hold its next meeting March 17 at the UTSA Downtown campus. Speakers include Laurence Doxsey, the city's director of environmental policy, who will discuss Mayor Hardberger's Mission Verde plan, and Bob Shemwell, principal at Overland […] [Read More]
Sun Harvest grocery brands to be extended
Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff would be proud. The Sun Harvest brand, which he launched as natural-food stores in San Antonio in 1979, isn't his any longer. He sold the stores. But the brand is going to be extended by the stores' owner, a company called Smart & Final, that's based in California. Smart & […] [Read More]
Employees becoming stockholders
Edvance Research Inc., a San Antonio-based educational services firm, has announced the formation of an Employee Stock Ownership Plan that will give employees the opportunity in the coming years to own a percentage of the firm. Spokeswoman Gail Ribalta said with the company's six founders contemplating retirement, it seemed right that the company be sold […] [Read More]
Harte-Hanks presents
Curious about what Harte-Hanks Inc. has been up to in this challenging environment for direct marketers? You could think about travelling to Boston Thursday to hear Harte-Hanks' Chief Financial Officer Doug Shepard address those topics at the Noble Financial Capital Markets Boston Uncommon Event. Maybe an audio webcast of the event would be easier. […] [Read More]
Rebuilding fences and livelihoods
In a follow-up to its post-Hurricane Ike relief effort, the Texas Department of Agriculture is calling on Texans to help Southeast Texas ranchers take another step forward by rebuilding fences washed away by the hurricane. The initiative is called "Operation New Fences," which aims to rebuild about 1,700 miles of fences that were destroyed by […] [Read More]
Lowdown on the slowdown
San Antonio, like Texas generally, has stayed away from most of the ugliness associated with the national recession. But the new year has brought some unwanted changes. San Antonio's January job totals, released Thursday, show the labor force shrank by 19,000 jobs from December and unemployment jumped by a point to 6.3 percent. January is […] [Read More]
Winter Texans spending less time, money
Seventy-five percent of Winter Texans are eating out less, traveling shorter distances and trying other cost-cutting measures this winter, according to survey results released by the Texas Association of Campground Owners. At least they are still coming. Among other survey results, half of Winter Texans, 49.7 percent, spend four months or longer. Nearly four in […] [Read More]
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San Antonio's Brooke Army Medical Center has implemented DocuSys Inc.'s anesthesia information management system for its 14 anesthetizing locations. BAMC is the first Army medical treatment facility to go live with the DocuSys software. The system produces electronic medical records for each anesthhesia case and provides supporting documentation. — Sanford Nowlin [Read More]
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MAN — The Town of Man and the surrounding community was shocked and sadden to learn of the passing of a councilmember Friday evening.
James Darrell Mangrum passed away Friday evening at Logan Regional Medical Center from a sudden illness. Mangrum, who lived in South Man, was also a pharmacist with Rite-Aid at Man.
"He was half the town… he was a great person and councilman," said Man Mayor Jim Blevins. "I don't know how I'm going to replace him. It is just terrible; it's a big loss to the town and community.
Blevins said Mangrum would bend over backwards to help anybody and would do anything Blevins asked him to do.
"He did all our grant work, in fact I gave him two grant forms to work on Friday afternoon," said Blevins. "He has spent countless hours working on grants for the town. He worked one day from 10 in morning to 11 at night helping get grants for sidewalks and other things. He was a very intelligent man and a great help to the town."
Although only having served four years on the council, Mangrum has left his mark on the Town of Man's history.
"He's going to be missed. I just can't describe what he meant to the Town of Man," said Blevins. "I'm going to be lost with out him. He would go over to the Governor's mansion and the Capital with me. He was just an all-round guy.
Mangrum also served on the Town of Man Park Board and the Buffalo Creek Memorial Library Board.
A native of Mississippi, Mangrum's services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday, January 24, at the Doty Springs Baptist Church in Attala County, Miss., with Rev. Gary D. Wilson officiating. Burial will follow at Doty Springs Baptist Church Cemetery in Attala County.
Local residents can pay their respects to the family from 6-9 p.m. Monday at Krantz-McNeely Funeral Home in Man.


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Oct. 13, 2011 -- The CDC says that the overall rate of coronary heart disease in the U.S. is on the decline, dropping from 6.7% in 2006 to 6% in 2010.
But the rates of coronary heart disease vary widely by state of residence, sex, race, and educational levels, the CDC says in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
Coronary heart disease is more common among men, people who have less than a high school education, or who live in the South.
The highest declines were found among young people, women, Asians, Native Hawaiians and other Pacific islanders, and college graduates.
Among other key findings:
Results of the study were based on data from Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System surveys for 2006-2010.
The CDC says the deaths due to coronary heart disease have declined continuously in the past half century, due in part to improvements in treatment and a reduction in risk factors, such as the number of people who use tobacco.
Here are the states with the highest rates of coronary heart disease, based on 2010 data:
Here are the states (plus Washington, D.C.) with the lowest rates of coronary heart disease:
SOURCE:Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Oct. 14, 2011.
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CINCINNATI - Last month Xavier student athletes from several different teams traveled downtown to the City Gospel Mission to serve dinner to the local community. City Gospel Mission, located on Elm Street in downtown Cincinnati, serves more than 139,000 nutritious meals and provides more than 29,000 nights of safe shelter each year.
City Gospel Mission strives to aid and empower those in need so that they may achieve long-term self-sufficiency and overcome difficult life conditions. During the holidays, the mission provides more than 3,000 families with a Thanksgiving food basket, and provides a party and gifts for more than 120 senior women at their Christmas Boutique.
Senior soccer player and SAAC (Student-Athlete Advisory Committee) vice-president Andy Kaplan organized the group that traveled down to City Gospel Mission.
"Everyone had a really great time," Kaplan said. "We didn't just serve food, a lot of us got to talk and interact with people that came into the mission, which really opened our eyes to some serious life challenges that many people in our community are going through. I think experiences like this help to remind us how fortunate we are, and we were pleased to help those in need."
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When a girl gives a man head and then the man gives her a bloody nose and shoots his load on her face, mixing the semen and blood together, thus creating, strawberry shortcake.
Gary made "Strawberry Shortcake" on Debbies face.
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When the girl is on her period and the man fucks her and then jizzes all over her face so that she is left looking like she just ate a strawberry shortcake.
I turned that ho around and gave her a strawberry shortcake.
dodane przez Doing the Dirty D czerwiec 16, 2011
When two people (usually lesbian) are engaging in sexual activity, one will shove a twinky up the other's vagina while she is on her period. Then they both eat it, thus creating a Strawberry Shortcake.
Kelly: Last night me and Joanne had a Strawberry Shortcake...
John: Oh God thats nasty!
John: Oh God thats nasty!
dodane przez spudoo123546 marzec 22, 2011
It's when you tit fuck a girl, then cum on her face, and last punch her in the nose until she bleeds. so she then looks like the cartoon character, Strawberry Shortcake: pale face, red nose.
hey, your sister is so fucked up, she wanted a strawberry shortcake for dessert.
dodane przez NiNjaKaDuB czerwiec 02, 2011
people (females mainly) who focus on negativity so much they don't focus on getting there money.(can be used as not focusing period)
April should stop being a strawberry shortcake and focusing on drama and pay her rent
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when having anal sex, then telling your partner to turn around and punching her in the face while cumming in her mouth.
i fucking strawberry short caked that bitch last night!
dodane przez David maj 17, 2004
Is when you ejaculate in a womans face, then puch her in nose. The mixture of blood and sperm resembles the characteristics of a straw berry short cake
I gave Jill a strawberry short cake last night and she loved it. Crazy bitch!
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- Welcoming HP's first web-connected business printers to ePrintCenter
Just a couple months ago at Internet Week New York, HP announced the intent to expand the range of web-connected printing to include business inkjet models. And today, that vision is being realized. We welcome new HP Officejet Pro 8500A e-All-in-One series and HP Officejet 7500A Wide Format e-All-in-One to the family of web-enabled printers. The models represent the first of HP's business class printers that are web-connected and ePrint-enabled.
Just like the Photosmart e-All-in-One, the new business models have an email address that allows direct printing from a mobile device while on the go, or, as often happens, convenient printing for clients or colleagues visiting the office – without the need to install drivers or software. Another big plus – the web functionality allows for customers to print web content such as templates and stored documents without a PC by using HP print apps.
The first print app available on the business models is the Portfolio.com print app – with it, you can navigate through a variety of industry categories and print news that is relevant to your business. There are many more print apps in the works, all designed with the small- and medium-business customer in mind. You'll hear about the innovative print app mash-ups right here on the blog.
You can find out more about the HP Officejet Pro 8500A e-All-in-One series and HP Officejet 7500A Wide Format e-All-in-One on our web site; highlights include the 8500A's cost savings (50 percent lower cost per page compared with laser printers) and the 7500A's introduction to the world as the first wide-format all-in-one device with web connectivity.
So, welcome Officejet and Officejet Pro models and more importantly… welcome to our business customers visiting us on ePrintCenter! We're happy to have you join us.
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very poor support to indian customers , in manual no proper idea given to use the eprint successfully , they are cheating the customers no phone numbers for the newly introduced feature . i am using the hp 7500 a wideformat printer , it wasting the ink frequently in cleaning the head , more than that head for replacement in some emergency situation not available . HP is great cheating company . i am giving the details please call my phone no in india 09751578870 yesubabu
my web site www.datatocloud.com , more than that i am specialist in printer service , very poor printer , i advice not to buy the waste bucket.
When will Marketsplash "My Designs" be added? I was under the impression that it was preinstalled on the OJP 8500 series units. I use Marketsplash and a quick printing app would be awesome
this is a great printer for home and business i am enjoying learning all this new cutting edge printer has to offer me for myself, i can't believe how stuck i was in the dark ages. thank you hp.:)
Do the web-connected business class of printers support all general print apps or just specific business print apps?
Does hp intend to add airline ticketing apps and other biz apps for their HPPHOTOSMART110D EPRINT WIRELESS PRINTER?
Hi Ancient Greek, good question. At this time there are no plans to support older printers to enable specific ePrint capabilities. However, you can use the mobile app HP iPrint Photo for printing photos from your mobile phone to HP wireless-enabled printers within your own WiFi network. The app is available for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Android, Symbian, and WinMo devices. The iPhone/iPad/iPod touch version actually prints documents, too.
Here's the link to the mobile app page for HP iPrint Photo: http://h41112.www4.hp.com/mobileapps/index.html?jumpid=ex_r11400_go/mps_mobileapps
Hope this helps!
Does HP plan to support any older printers via firmware upgrades or an ePrint server "front-end" we might purchase to add to our older printers?


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Broad-based, systematic, individualized, interactive customer software support is provided through a two-way, voluntary automated exchange of information between a software agent installed on a customer's machine and a server machine via a wide area computer network, e.g., the Internet. Communication between the agent and the server is optimized to be unobtrusive or transparent, e.g. using spare bandwidth of intermittent Internet connections. The agent is software non-specific and may be instructed to operate with respect to any arbitrary software program, and may further be instructed at various different times to operate with respect to various different software programs, including multiple different software programs on a single machine. The agent, with the user's informed consent, gathers activity information about the operations of the software program(s) and uploads this information to a particular server machine within a distributed server machine architecture, where it is stored in a database on a per-software-copy basis. A rules engine may cause instructions carrying a message targeted specifically toward the customer to be downloaded to the agent. Based on these instructions, the agent may take any of various actions, such as present a survey, present an advertisement, send an upgrade notice, present a limited-time offer, deliver individualized marketing messages, offer goods for sale and fulfill the commercial transaction, install an upgrade or bug fix for either an application or the agent itself, etc. Message presentation to the customer may be timed (e.g., delayed from the time of download) to achieve maximum impact.
1. A method of providing individualized, interactive customer support wherein a user machine is at least intermittently connected to a wide area computer network and receives content over the wide area computer network, the method comprising the steps of:
assigning a software agent to monitor a selected computer program, wherein the software agent is separate and independent from the selected computer program;
the agent identifying a computer program running on the user machine as the selected computer program;
the agent monitoring operation of the computer program, including user inputs to the computer program;
transparent to the user, the agent communicating monitored information through the wide area computer network to a remote server; and
at runtime, the agent receiving from the server content affecting operation of the computer program.
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the server accumulating usage data for each of multiple computer programs; and
the server determining content to be received for a particular computer program based on accumulated usage data for that computer program.
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receiving an identifier identifying a copy of a computer program; and
receiving and storing in a database information concerning usage of that copy of the computer program.
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receiving an identifier identifying a copy of a computer program;
evaluating each of multiple rules stored in a database to determine which rules are applicable to that copy of the computer program; and
sending to an agent for that copy of the computer program a corresponding command for each rule determined to be applicable to that copy of the computer program.
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24. A system for providing individualized, interactive customer support wherein a user machine is at least intermittently connected to a wide area computer network and receives content over the wide area computer network, comprising:
a server connected to the wide area computer network; and
an agent running on the user machine, comprising:
means for assigning the agent to monitor a selected computer program;
means for identifying a computer program running on the user machine as
the selected computer program;
means for monitoring operation of a computer program running on the user
machine, including user inputs to the computer program;
means for, transparent to the user, communicating monitored information
through the wide area computer network to a remote server; and
means, ar runtime, receiving from the server content affecting operation
of the computer program;
wherein the agent is separate and independent from the selected computer program.
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to customer support for computer programs.
2. State of the Art
Customer support is service that computer and software manufacturers (as well as third-party service companies) offer to customers. In the case of an Independent Software Vendor (ISV), customer support may include a phone number for customer to call for advice and trouble-shooting, a bulletin-board system staffed by service engineers, or a forum within an on-line service. Software updates may be downloaded that correct known bugs. Internet-based customer support, problem resolution and call tracking has been recently introduced.
Customer support may be mutually beneficial to both the customer and an ISV. Customer support enables the customer to get the most out of a software product. At the same time, customer support fosters a relationship between an ISV and a customer and provides "up-sale" opportunities for the ISV.
In the past, however, customer support has been initiated by the customer on a hit-or-miss basis. Ironically, when things go most smoothly for the customer, indicating a job well-done on the part of the ISV, the customer is least likely to initiate a customer support relationship, and up-sale opportunities are most likely to be missed. Furthermore, customer support has traditionally been human-intensive. Getting through to a service engineer may be difficult enough in itself, but then the customer must spend a significant amount of time acquainting the service engineer with the customer's individual needs and circumstances. A small "dose" of support is then given. The next occasion for interaction is likely to be much the same. No opportunity exists for broad-based, systematic, individualized customer support.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,406,269 describes a customer intelligence system in which surreptitious telephone reporting calls are made by modem from remote equipment to one or more monitoring sites. Various uses for information gathered in this manner are proposed, including determining those customers who are ready for upgrades, showing potential customers usage statistics pertaining to the installed base, etc. Communications is one-way, in the uplink direction only. Furthermore, surreptitiousness greatly restricts the manner in which the system may be used and raises many issues of privacy and intrusiveness.
The present invention, generally speaking, provides for broad-based, systematic, individualized, interactive customer software support through a two-way, voluntary automated exchange of information between a software agent installed on a customer's machine and a server machine via a wide area computer network, e.g., the Internet. Communication between the agent and the server is optimized to be unobtrusive or transparent, using spare bandwidth of intermittent Internet connections, for example. The agent is software non-specific and may be instructed to operate with respect to any arbitrary software program, and may further be instructed at various different times to operate with respect to various different software programs, including multiple different software programs on a single machine. The agent, with the user's informed consent, gathers activity information about the operations of the software program(s) and uploads this information to a particular server machine within a distributed server machine architecture, where it is stored in a database on a per-software-copy basis. A rules engine may cause instructions carrying a message targeted specifically toward the customer (based on the activity information) to be downloaded to the agent. Based on these instructions, the agent may take any of various actions, such as present a survey, present an advertisement, send an upgrade notice, present a limited-time offer, deliver individualized marketing messages, offer goods for sale and fulfill the commercial transaction, install an upgrade or bug fix for either an application or the agent itself, etc. Message presentation to the customer may be timed (e.g., delayed from the time of download) to achieve maximum impact. Timing may be relative to individual program menu selections. For example, a message relating to a particular product feature may be presented just after that feature has been used. The agent may be instructed to operate with additional applications, including applications shipped prior to the existence of the agent. Exemplary uses include marketing, sales, customer registration, technical support, market research, customer surveys, usage monitoring, software testing, in-product advertising, etc.
The present invention may be further understood from the following description in conjunction with the appended drawing. In the drawing:
FIG. 1 is a generalized block diagram of the present system;
FIG. 2 is an illustration of a preferred customer enrollment screen display;
FIG. 3 is a more detailed block diagram of the agent of FIG. 1;
FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a distributed server architecture that may be used in the system;
FIG. 5 is an illustration of a screen display in which the time and place of message delivery is controlled;
FIG. 6 is an illustration of a screen display resulting from the user clicking through during display of the screen display of FIG. 5;
FIG. 7 is an illustration of a screen display in which the message is a survey;
FIG. 8 is an illustration of a screen display in which the message relates to a software update; and
FIG. 9 is an illustration of a screen display in which the message is a banner advertisement.
Referring now to FIG. 1, the general architecture of the present system will be described. A user machine is assumed to include a run-time environment, provided by an operating system, a Web browser or the like, and to be running one or more computer programs. The computer programs may be software applications, system software or embedded computer programs. Systematic, individualized, interactive customer software support is made possible by equipping the user machine with a persistent client, or agent, that engages in two-way communication with a server. The agent may be installed concurrently with an application, may be pre-loaded on the user's machine, may be separately installed from a disk or download, etc. The connection between the agent and the server is a virtual connection, i.e., a connection that time-shares a physical communications channel with other communications. In an exemplary embodiment, the virtual connection uses spare bandwidth of intermittent Internet connections to communicate with the server. The agent can and typically does interact with the application without a concurrent Internet connection.
Communications between the agent and the server are voluntary. In an exemplary embodiment, when the agent is first activated on behalf of a particular application, it displays to the user a preferred customer enrollment screen display such as that of FIG. 2. By clicking on the appropriate button, the user may accept or decline to participate in the preferred customer program. If the customer accepts, then the customer enters into an invited relationship with the software vendor and agrees to the software vendor maintaining personalized information about the configuration and use of the application in order to provide individualized service.
Communications between the agent and the server are also two-way. In the uplink direction, the agent communicates control, configuration and usage information, registration information, survey information, etc. In the downlink direction, the server communicates non-executable content, executable content, or both, including control information, agent updates, etc. Separate servers may be responsible for delivering non-executable content and executable content, as described more fully hereinafter. Non-executable content may include tips, offers, advertisements, surveys, etc. Note that non-executable content may nevertheless be active, i.e., contain HTTP links enabling the user to "click through" to related Web sites. Executable content may relate to the application or to the agent or both. Executable content related to the application may include updates, bug fixes, additional code modules, etc. Executable content related to the agent allows the agent to be transparently upgraded with new capabilities in the field, avoiding the potential problem of agent obsolescence.
Referring to FIG. 3, a detailed block diagram of the agent is shown.
In an exemplary embodiment, the agent follows a plug-in architecture. The agent process therefore includes a resident agent and various plug-ins that interface to the resident agent through a plug-in API. In an exemplary embodiment, the plug-ins include a command processor plug-in, a message plug-in, a survey plug-in, an Inet plug-in that handles virtual connections to the Internet, and a hook plug-in. The message plug-in, survey plug-in, and possibly other plug-ins are capable of taking actions within the process and User Interface (UI) space of the client applications. Other plug-ins may be included with the agent or added to the agent by download. If a plug-in needs the assistance of another plug-in, the agent will pass parameters transparently to the target plug-in. Persistent storage is provided for the plug-ins as well as for the resident agent, e.g., within the registry file system.
The modularity resulting from plug-in architecture of the agent is important from the standpoint of allowing for user-transparent operation. The core agent and the plug-ins are all small modules that are easily downloadable. The time needed to download a module is typically only a few seconds.
Core tasks of the agent include the following:
1. Manage plug-ins and inter-plug-in communication.
2. Download content (command files) and determine an appropriate command interpreter for handling the command files. Retrieve the command interpreter plug-in from the server and invoke it with the downloaded command file.
3. Maintain state (e.g., the current command file) to survive system crashes and restarts. The operating system registry may be used for persistent storage of state information including the configurations of the plug-ins, the status of events and the registered client applications.
4. Monitor the system Internet connection and schedule uploads and downloads.
5. Track target applications and determine their usage. From this information and the command file data, schedule actions to be taken in the target applications user interface (UI) space through the plug-in interface.
6. Change its level and type of activity, including becoming inactive in response to a server.
The agent is capable of interacting with software applications in all respects without modification of the application itself. In particular, a small system hook (e.g., a DLL) is inserted into the windows message processing loop. Using data provided by the agent, the system hook determines if any relevant actions are happening within a monitored application and if so, passes this information off asynchronously to the hook plug-in. The system hook is designed to not degrade the user's system performance or application performance. More particularly, in an exemplary embodiment, the agent when it first launches loads the hook plug-in, which starts execution of a separate thread. This thread interacts with the system hook and is responsible for selecting messages of interest. The separate thread ensures that processing of the messages of the client application are not noticeably slowed down. Note that, to prevent recursion in the message processing, the system hook ignores any messages related to the agent itself.
The Inet plug-in is responsible for handling all Internet traffic. In an exemplary embodiment, it supports various types of Internet transactions, including registering an agent with the server and obtaining a user ID, retrieving a command file using the user ID, uploading data to the server, and downloading resources from the server. Data may be exchanged using POST and GET commands, for example, as in the HTTP1.1 protocol. The Inet plug-in is designed to gracefully fail if any transaction is not completed across the Internet.
The command processor plug-in is responsible for converting the command file into tangible actions. For example, it scans the command file and schedules all resource downloads required by the command file, expands any macros, and generates a clean version of the command file. It then processes the command file, merges it with existing command files, removes all completed events from the command file, and schedules all events and actions to be taken by the agent. Finally, it marks the command file as active in persistent storage and uploads a command line status update that allows the server to track the execution of events in the client application.
An agent control panel applet enables user interaction with the agent to control prospective operation of the agent, although typically the user will not have occasion to use the control panel. As described previously, the user may accept or decline the invitation to become a preferred customer. The user may be provided with additional control beyond this initial decision. For example, the user may choose at a later time to modify the degree of interaction, the type or amount of information transmitted, or withdraw entirely from the preferred customer program and discontinue all communications between the agent and the server. The user may wish instead to continue uplink operations (e.g., monitoring by the agent to facilitate conventional kinds of customer service) but to discontinue downlink operations. Alternatively, the user may wish to continue uplink operations and a limited subset of downlink operations, e.g., upgrade notification. Various other options may be provided.
In an exemplary embodiment, the resident agent includes a scheduler/manager, a remote dialup monitor, and a command file pre-processor. The resident agent also includes a client map, an event map and a plug-in map. The resident agent is responsible for dynamically maintaining the configuration and status of active plug-ins, the registered client applications and the events working on the client applications. A command queue contains actual event information and is processed upon each agent start. In an exemplary embodiment, the agent is started by a machine start table within the registry of the operating system.
The scheduler/manager is responsible for establishing periodic Internet connections with the server, through the Inet plug-in. If a connection becomes available, each client object is allowed bandwidth to service the client's needs. Subsequently, all pending POST operations are processed. The scheduler/manager can be invoked either via an event driven method, in the case of dialup Internet access, or at periodic intervals in the case of direct (or proxied) LAN-based Internet access. In the case of dialup access, different dialup access methods may be used depending on the software configuration of the user machine. The remote dialup monitor determines which dialup access method is used and establishment of an Internet connection is detected accordingly.
The client map, event map and plug-in map together operate to establish "client channels" though which interaction between the clients and the server occurs. The client map consists of one or more client objects. At a minimum, a privileged client object is present that is allowed to add clients to and remove agents from the client map and to add agents to and remove agents from the plug-in map. All other client channels can only be used to schedule events and direct the agent to download content from a server. A client object within the client map has a corresponding event object within the event map and a corresponding plug-in object within the plug-in map. The event map in combination with the client map causes user interactions in the client applications UI space.
Note that preferred support for copies of applications already in the field can be added simply by causing the agent to download client objects for those applications. A client object (or "affinity module") contains information that allows the system hook to recognize events from a particular application.
The agent checks in with the server when a check-in interval for the application has elapsed. The agent may receive back a command file from the server, which the agent then interprets. The interpretation of the command file may cause the agent to fetch resources from the server and/or place information back onto it. The agent may also be instructed to check-in for another command file. The privileged client is also considered an application for the agent. Therefore the agent checks in with the appropriate server on a check-in interval separate from the check-in intervals of other applications. Also, an application's command file may cause the privileged client to check in, or vice versa.
When the agent has acquired the resources and commands from the server to actually do some work, it can be instructed to immediately display appropriate messages to the user, or (more commonly) to wait until the target application is running, and work in the context of the application. The agent converts system event data into tangible actions events for the attached plug-ins, with messages appearing to the user as coming from the vendor, within the application's screen window and only while the application is running. There results a sense of connectedness and trust between the customer and the vendor. A typical sequence of events is as follows:
1. The system hook determines that a new application has launched or gotten the user's focus.
2. The agent queries its client objects to see if the application is a client. If it is not a client, the agent remains dormant.
3. A valid client with user input will cause the agent to instruct the system hook to start detailed monitoring of the application and route selected application messages through the hook plug-in.
4. The hook plug-in will reflect the message asynchronously to the agent, which will catalog the events under the current user's name.
5. The agent queries its client event map to look for a match.
6. If a match exists, the event is executed, which could include invoking a plug-in to undertake action in the application's UI space. If visible content is shown in the application's UI space, the client application is temporarily disabled and cannot receive user focus.
7. If any uploadable content is generated during this event, it is passed to the Inet plug-in, which will either send it or schedule it to be sent the next time bandwidth is available.
8. After completion of the event, the user focus is set back to the client application.
9. The agent returns to Step 4 above until the client application loses focus. When the client application loses focus, the agent transfers any client application-related data to persistent storage, at which point the agent reverts to Step 1 above.
Having described the structure and function of the agent, the server will now be described.
The essential job of the server is the delivery of an appropriate command file to particular agent. The command files in the agent determine the action that the agent is going to take—which of the various kinds of activities it will carry out, at what time, with respect to what user operation, etc. The server maintains a record for every single user of an application. When the agent working for one of its user's connects to the server, it consults a table of rules that determines which, if any, of the potential command files that the server has for that application are appropriate for that agent. Those rules are predicates that are based on all the data in the database relative to that user.
An example of a rule might be "If installation of this application took place 60 or more days ago, send Command File A," which causes the agent to perform some action, "and if installation took place less than 60 days ago, send Command File B," which takes some other action. The two actions would differ with respect to the degree of experience that particular user has with the program. For example, in the case where an upgrade has become available, a publisher may choose to send one upgrade message to experienced users, more appropriate to their experience level, and another upgrade message to less experienced users, more appropriate to their experience level. The determination of experience level may be based, for example, on the time elapsed since installation.
The server applies rules that have been created in a table sequentially to determine which if any of those rules are true for a particular agent that is querying the server at a particular point in time. Upon discovering that one or more of those rules "fires," i.e. is true, then the corresponding one or more command files are downloaded to the agent. The publisher therefore enjoys very "fine-grain" control of the activities of an agent based on the attributes of that agent. Very sharp targeting results in which particular information is sent to particular agent based its characteristics and its history.
As may be appreciated from the foregoing description, the server has two different types of responsibilities. One function of the server is to maintain the agent. Operations to maintain the agent occur through the control channel described previously. Another function of the server is to provide customer support for specific client applications. These two distinct functions can be combined on one physical server machine or on multiple physical server machines. More preferably, these two functions are separated, with agent maintenance being handled by a technology provider server and customer support being handled by a collection of software vendor servers. In general, executable content is provided from the technology provider server across the control channel and non-executable content is exchanged with software vendor servers across other channels as shown in FIG. 4. In this manner, executable content may be assured to be virus-free. Also, private vendor-customer information may be passed directly to the vendor without being passed through a third party. For tracing and billing purposes, the privileged client periodically connects to the technology provider server and informs it of activities of the agent on behalf of various client applications.
Identifiers are allocated to support the foregoing separation of functions. In particular, the agent when it is first activated seeks a connection opportunity and, when a connection is established, obtains an agent ID from the technology provider server through the control channel. At the same time or at a later time, the agent receives from the server a command file instructing the agent to look for a particular application. If that application is found installed on the user's system, a client ID is obtained for that copy of the application. Only the technology provider server need be aware of the correspondence between agent IDs and client IDs. Transactions between the agent and the vendor server use only the client ID.
At a vendor server, a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) maintains a per-client-copy database of information uploaded from various instances of an application. In an exemplary embodiment, the agent collects numerical counts for each menu bar item in a client application. The vendor may determine from the database how often the file:print command has been used, for example. The RDBMS includes a rules engine. Business rules are established governing the actions to be taken in relation to a particular copy of the application depending upon the data stored for that application. When action is to be taken, a command file is prepared and transferred to the agent.
Note that the system has the ability to precisely target the moment a message dialog appears in a client application. The vendor can pick an operation from among a menu hierarchy of the application, a time delay, and a number of times to repeat the operation until it is completed with a click-through or other affirmative response. The system also has the ability to determine who among the vendors installed base will see a particular message. Criteria can be based on demographics, responses to past offers, responses to past surveys, usage information, time since the application was installed, even random selection. Any information in the database can be used to determine who gets a particular message.
The following examples illustrate possible actions of the server triggered based on data stored within the database:
1. Send all users a message before or after use of a particular feature after that feature has been used a specified number of times (FIG. 5). The message may include an HTTP link, allowing for click-through (FIG. 6).
2. Present a survey to all users after a specified time has passed or a specified level of usage has been achieved (FIG. 7).
3. Present an update message to all users at next use of the application or a particular feature of the application (FIG. 8).
4. Present a banner ad to each user upon application start up, with the banner ad being chosen based on an ad presentation history for that user (FIG. 9).
Preferably, a Web-based administration tool is provided to allow business rules to be set up and changed through a familiar Web-form interface. Using the Web-form interface, the vendor can, for example, define a survey, to whom the survey should be presented, and how it is to be timed within the vendor's application. After a survey is initiated, the vendor can go to a Web site and view the progress of the survey, including the responses in real time as they come in.
The following Appendix shows a sample command file. It runs a plug-in (pi1) during the vendor's application and returns the result tot he server. Once this is done, it does a check-in so that the server can send follow-up commands. It also retrieves some usage information from the registry immediately.
It will be appreciated by those of ordinary skill in the art that the invention can be embodied in other specific forms without departing from the spirit or essential character thereof. The presently disclosed embodiments are therefore considered in all respects to be illustrative and not restrictive. The scope of the invention is indicated by the appended claims rather than the foregoing description, and all changes which come within the meaning and range of equivalents thereof are intended to be embraced therein.
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"Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards," Holder declared.
Holder urged Americans of all races to use Black History Month as a time to have a forthright national conversation between blacks and whites to discuss aspects of race which are ignored because they are uncomfortable.
The attorney general said employees across the country "have done a pretty good job in melding the races in the workplace," but he noted that "certain subjects are off limits and that to explore them risks at best embarrassment and at worst the questioning of one's character."
"On Saturdays and Sundays, America in the year 2009 does not, in some ways, differ significantly from the country that existed some 50 years ago. This is truly sad," Holder said.
… "It's a question of being honest with ourselves and racial issues that divide us," Holder told reporters in a hastily arranged news conference. "It's not easy to talk about it. We have to have the guts to be honest with each other, accept criticism, accept new proposals."
This is surreal. Here we have the first black attorney general, serving under the first black president, arguing that this country, in important respects, doesn't differ significantly from the country that existed a half-century ago, when segregation was the law of the land in many states. In fact, the United States has traveled an enormous and admirable distance on the subject of race, which had been America's besetting sin.
In addition, the notion that we are reluctant to talk about race is ludicrous. It is talked about almost all the time, virtually everywhere, even when it has almost nothing to do with the issue at hand. There are still, alas, pockets of racism in America. But those pockets are much smaller and rarer than ever before. And it should be said that there are also people (like the noxious figures Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton) who play the race card to advance their own political agenda, in a way that ends up causing division rather than reconciliation.
Given his history in the pardon of the fugitive financier Marc Rich, Holder should be careful about lecturing anyone (let alone a nation) on courage. In any event, his comments about race and America are outrageous and acidic. If this is the kind of "new" and "post-racial" politics Barack Obama promised, it makes one long for the days before he made his entrance on the national stage.


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HERE'S a "tail" with a very happy ending!
Max the German shepherd is enjoying some TLC from animal-lovers after he was found wandering in the yard at Bring Logistics, in Stallingborough, more than a week ago – and there were fears for his future at one point if his owners were not tracked down.
Luckily, he was taken in by the Blue Cross Animal Hospital in Grimsby, where staff booked him into a rehoming centre in case his owners were not traced.
Volunteers at German Shepherd Dog Rescue heard of his plight and, fearing he would be put to sleep, took him to a rescue kennel in North Lincolnshire before finding him emergency foster care.
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Volunteer Robert Hammond and others are now finding him a loving home, but in the meantime, making sure he is happy, safe and cared for.
He said: "Max is in a nice and cosy environment, being well fed and watered and taking plenty of exercise. He is underweight, but he is putting it back on.
"He is very friendly and he is already getting used to being around other dogs and people. We think in about two months he will be ready for a permanent home."
The organisation who campaign for a "no kill" policy are hopeful Max's story will show others the rewards of rehoming a dog with a chequered past.
Robert added: "Max is so affectionate and loving. He will need an experienced fosterer as he has issues, but who wouldn't after what he has been through this past week. All he wants is to be part of a family, which is what all dogs want. He just wants to belong.
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amber on Jan 17, 2013
My husband and I did this. We didnt find it that scary. Mostly a bunch of rude teenagers when we went. Maybe it got better though. That was a while back. I want to do a hospital in Ohio. If you get to the top they give you 100 dollars. I forget what its called but my husband attempted it before.
amber on Jan 17, 2013
Maybe he just mentioned it. I tryed to find it and they are saying its a urban legend :(
ZombieGirl on Jan 18, 2013
I was afraid something like that might happen.I don't remember ever being as rude as most teenagers are these days. I love Halloween so I want to try as many major Halloween attractions as I can. =D I'm not sure where but they turned a Mental Hospital into a haunted house for Halloween,or so that is what I have heard. I think it is in Pennsylvania.
amber on Jan 18, 2013
I would love it if they did a 21 and over night at these kind of things. The teenagers ruin everything today by mocking the characters and making it less fum for adults. I guess when they arent paying to get in they dont mind. We on the other hand want to have the experience. The best experience we have had was Bush Gardens for halloween. They did some great costumes and I was scared more then once. I saw people runnning into the vending shops lmao
ZombieGirl on Jan 18, 2013
I really wish they would to. Have 1 or 2 days a week for people 21 and over during Halloween time. Last Halloween we were waiting in line and a huge group of teenagers behind us were being really loud and obnoxious. One of them bumped into me so hard it almost knocked me on my ass and they didn't even say sorry. My boyfriend turned around and laid it on them. They just looked at us shock/terrified that we said something to them ,but said some rude cocky remark back and kept giving us dirty looks the rest of the night like we were the rude ones. What they needed as kids was a good firm smack on the ass! Thanks for the suggestion on Busch Gardens! Which one did you go to?
amber on Jan 18, 2013
found something by accident...ruby falls haunted cavern.
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Retail therapy in house shoes. Yep. I had the nerve, the unmitigated gall to take my black butt to Stein Mart in house shoes. I had to do it. My feet are a straight up mess, but sometimes a girl just needs to shop.
I've developed peripheral neuropathy. It causes numbness, and sometimes pain in your extremities. As I've told you in previous posts, my feet are truly ugly. My bad boys bark like a bulldog all on their own. It really adds insult to injury that now they hurt as well, so much so, that most shoes are really uncomfortable.
So that leads us to the trip to Stein Mart. They were having one of those wonderful sales – 50 percent off all red dot items. Yeah baby! And I've been feeling truly unattractive. Every cancer patient goes through it. Cancer treatment usually changes the way you look. That's a fact. The trick is not to look at yourself naked. The glimpse in the mirror Sunday morning sent me into a tailspin. Good grief – who is that skinny, bald black chick? Oh my. I needed to shop – shoes or not.
I wore real shoes to church. It was about all my feet could take. So after church, off I went to Stein Mart in my house shoes. They're really funny looking, multi-colored, pink and purple super soft fur-lined boots. They have a hard sole, so I walked in with attitude, pretending I was wearing shoes. I found three super comfy outfits to wear after surgery, and I met a woman in the check out line who made me smile. She was buying business clothes. "I start my new job tomorrow," she told me smiling. "I was out of work for a year."
"Oh wow, congratulations," I told her. "I have surgery in a few weeks, and I'm buying clothes to wear during my recovery." She and I continued to chat while we waited. She told me how hard the year had been without a job, and she so looked forward to returning to the work world.
We both stood holding our clothes, anticipating the changes ahead represented by the outfits draped over our arms. And it's then that I really grasped the inevitability of change. For all of us, change is the only constant, and life is about adjusting to that change with the knowledge that God's love is unchanging.
And so it is. I'm okay today. I still ain't got no hair. I don't recognize my body. My boobs will soon be gone. But God's love is ever-present and unchanging – bringing me peace in my ever-changing world.


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Big Daddies are the lumbering genetically modified behemoths in the underwater city of Rapture. Clad in garish diving suits, these monstrosities were created to protect Rapture's population of walking ADAM factories, the Little Sisters.
A proprietary video codec (.bik extension) developed by RAD Game Tools and used in a very large number of video games.
Boost takes a game to a new level giving players a greater level of speed. This speed opens up new doors to sports games, driving games, and any game that can benefit from the reward of speed.
Some games let players customize their character (or characters). Degree of customization may vary, with some games simply allowing to choose between different types of clothes, while others provide more detailed tinkering of features such as the distance between a character's eyes or hair color.
Customization in games that allow users to change various parts of their equipment or moves to fit their gaming style.
Drifting is a technique used in motorsports that involves intentionally over-steering the car to create a slide. This is done both as a competitive and exhibitive technique.
The 2012 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) took place at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California on June 5-7.
Electricity is commonly used as a damage-introducing element causing inanimate objects to become harmful (electrified water, floors, cables, etc). It can also refer to a power wielded by characters that generates sparks, is conductive to metal surfaces, forks or branches, and is often blue in color.
It's arguably the one move that symbolizes the medium to those outside it. The ability to jump, be it onto building, onto platforms, or onto skulls, is one of the all time most important abilities ever put in a video game.
Kart racers are cartoon-like racing games that often feature fantastical power-ups.
Little Sisters are genetic tools utilized to carry and gather ADAM in Rapture.
Two or more characters are featured on the game's box art.
Games which allow players to interact with others over the internet.
The ninth annual PAX Prime took place between August 31-September 2, 2012 at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle, Washington.
A place to fall, often bottomless, usually resulting in death.
Third-party developers and publishers occasionally engage in the practice of releasing a title or piece of DLC on only one platform for any number of reasons. Sometimes these are permanent while others are only platform exclusive for a certain window of time.
A term coined by Sony for titles that focus heavily on user-created content that is shareable over the PlayStation Network. Despite initial teething issues it has been successfully implemented in Little Big Planet and other games.
PlayStation Move is a motion control system for the PlayStation 3 console, allowing for fluid control of objects in a simulated 3D space.
PlayStation Plus is a premium PlayStation Network subscription service.
Trophies are an incentive-based system for the completion of various objective in PlayStation 3 titles.
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Games that have art on the inside of the game case, to double the decoration.
A game that takes gameplay mechanics, characters, or story elements from an existing series in a separate and different direction, sometimes changing genres along the way.
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This book appears in the Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series (SUMS) and provides an introduction to the geometry of hyperbolic plane, which has been for the past two centuries — and still is — an active field of mathematical research.
The book is self-contained and intended as a textbook or for a self-study/reading course. The author states that he wrote for a "third or fourth year" undergraduate student. This is very true, provided that the student has taken a sequence of Calculus courses, some Real Analysis, some Abstract Algebra, and has some knowledge of Complex Analysis (maybe a full course in Complex Analysis is not necessary, but it would be helpful…)
A course taught by the author at the University of Southampton in late 90s, as well as suggestions from other mathematicians and from students (both from the University of Southampton and from Rice University), have helped to produce a very good book: very readable, very well organized, with full proofs, with many examples, and with many exercises (the solutions to all the exercises are also included.) The author indicates that he has not made many changes in this second edition of the book, except in one chapter… and he has completely rewritten another chapter.
In short, I would recommend this book for consideration for anybody teaching a course in hyperbolic geometry. I would venture to say that even the beginning graduate students interested in the subject could benefit from reading this book.
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Pretty Little Liars Clues: 5 Things We Learned About "A" From the Halloween Episode
The Pretty Little Liars Season 3 Halloween episode (Season 3, Episode 13: "This Is a Dark Ride") was filled with clues about the "A" team, including a new scheme to murder Aria (Lucy Hale), and a new member. Here, we've gathered five of the most important things we learned about "A."
1. That joker is the scariest member. In a way, Toby (Keegan Allen) and Mona (Janel Parrish) are less intimidating because we know them so well. Yes, they're evil, but Mona is tiny, and Toby still has to save face around the Liars. But whoever was wearing that joker costume is big, knows how to fight dirty, and can put together a very convincing disguise.
2. They've targeted Aria. Speaking of the joker, we still don't know why the "A" team chose to drug Aria on Halloween, attempting to kill her by locking her in a crate and tossing her off the back of a moving train.
3. They're targeting the NAT club. As Aria and Spencer (Troian Bellisario) realized after Garrett (Yani Gellman) was found murdered, two members of the NAT club are now dead, and so are two of the people who were in Alison's (Sasha Pieterse) bedroom the night she was killed.
4. They probably didn't steal Alison's body. We hope we weren't the only ones who noticed that Toby looked genuinely shocked to see Alison's body in a bag on the Halloween ghost train. Does that mean that the "A" team really had nothing to do with robbing her grave? We think it's possible that Noel (Brant Daugherty) and Jenna (Tammin Sursok) have a different mission altogether.
5. "A" works with pills and guns. We saw Mona hand "A" a bunch of pills and bullets in the opening scene. We didn't hear any gunshots, but it seems obvious that one or more of those pills was used to drug Aria. Since this attempt on her life didn't work, will "A" move on to guns next?
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