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The other evening I was casually sipping champagne at the Charlotte Street Hotel and catching up with other fashion bloggers I haven't seen since last year when, subito, we were kidnapped by hunky men all dressed in black, dragged across London to an abandoned parking garage, packed into an industrial lift, led into a pitch black room and then were subjected to an explosion of ridiculous proportions. No, this was not just another Wednesday night (or the Grindr-fuelled fulfilment of some bizarre personal rape fantasy) but in fact the elaborate UK launch of Viktor & Rolf's new men's perfume, Spicebomb.
If this is the world of Viktor & Rolf then I'm happy to pull up a chair and stay a while. Pink peppercorn martinis and buckets of champagne served up in a grimy warehouse space, molecular gastronomy finger-food (I particularly liked the spherification of olive but nobody else seemed to be a fan...) and a glitter bomb that covered us and our drinks in red sparkles. Yup, I could get used to this. [Stasie's note: we've actually been invited into the V&R world once before!]
Oh, and I almost forgot about the perfume! It has a spice and muskiness that certainly marks it out as the masculine counterpart to Flowerbomb, but the almost artificial sweetness would probably be better described as (I can't believe I'm going to use this word) metrosexual (*cringe*). This is definitely one for the gays, of which we are a fan :-)


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Abdullah, Noraswaliza, Xu, Yue, Geva, Shlomo, & Chen, Jinghong (2010) Infrequent Purchased Product Recommendation Making Based on User Behaviour and Opinions in E-commerce Sites. In 2010 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops, Sydney, NSW, p. 1084.
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Abdullah, Noraswaliza (2012) Integrating collaborative filtering and matching-based search for product recommendation. PhD thesis, Queensland University of Technology.


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Making a change in someone's life
When I finally got up the courage to leave my husband we ended up loosing everything and going to a homeless shelter. It was the darkest time in our lives and one we really want to forget all about. I was feeling very depressed and like nothing mattered, almost. It was like the world around me was just blackness. It was like nothing existed in the world, it is very hard to describe that feeling but if you have felt it then you know what I mean. All that existed was myself and my daughters, the only lights shining in that vast darkness.
I think I am one of the lucky ones since my mother had always taught me that I had a beautiful and strong soul and to never forget it. I tried to teach that same thing to my own daughters. I think it was that wisdom that guided us during that time. We were barely hanging on, struggling to come to grips with the changes happening to us and wondering what would happen to us. Being the mom, I knew it was my duty to be strong for them, to be their support and strength but they were just as much mine as I was theirs. It was our caring about each other that helped us get through that hard time.
What amazed me about it was before we left that place and got an apartment of our own one of the other ladies staying there made a comment to me that I will never forget. She and her own daughter were leaving a bad relationship and had a rough life as we had had. She said it really helped to change her daughter's view of the world by just meeting us. She said that seeing how we cared about each other and did everything we could to help each other and the real love that we shared helped her daughter feel hope and joy again.
I didn't know what to say to her. I was barely maintaining any sense of sanity during that time and it was most definately meeting us at our worst moment but I was very glad to hear that from her. I have always believed that being a good person matters. My mom taught me that value and I taught it to my daughters.
My daughters and I have always wanted to make the world a better place. We all do small things to help but sometimes feel it is not enough. I had never told the girls about what the lady had said to me until late last year. They were worried that our little bit of good was not enough to help make the world a better place so I told them how they had already changed the life of one girl just by being themselves. I said that we might not be able to do great things but we can do good things.
I think we are not always so lucky to have someone come up and tell us that we somehow helped change their life for the better but wanted to share my story so others can know that by just being good people you can make a big difference in the world.
So Beautiful
Maria.... without realizing it, your radiant light has just spread throughout the PulseWire community with incredible warmth and love. My heart aches when I read what you and others in the shelter have gone through, but I am overjoyed that you took a stand for yourself and your daughters, and in so doing, became their role model for great courage. How empowering is that? Often, we are taught to be silent and invisible yet when we are given a voice, amazing things happen. You are such an inspiration and by telling your story, I know that one more voice may feel empowered to speak out and take a stand for herself.
We are honoured to have you as part of our PulseWire community. I am also so happy that you have joined our Voices of Our Future group and look forward to hearing more from you. You might want to browse through all of our community groups as it's a great way to build powerful networks, find members with similar interests to your own, share ideas or actions. With the group journal, you can brainstorm solutions, pose questions, test ideas and create a support network for your visions.
Don't stop writing and sharing your ideas. We all forget to believe in ourselves sometimes and it helps to have that little reminder, every now and then. So welcome, and best wishes to you and your daughters.
PulseWire Community Director
Stand tall and continue spreading your light
There are so many things in your story that inspire me. Please continue to share your journey with us. Here, you can never speak too loudly or say too much. We embrace all your words as they ring out and bring ideas to life. You empower others who may also be hesitant to speak and show them that indeed, together we can create a future where anything could be possible. Our love goes out to you. Big hug...


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Q: Will the same RSS feed work, and if not, can you post that in large bold comic sans until my dumb ass gets the message and switches feeds?I can't figure out how to make things Comic Sans, but…NO, THE OLD RSS FEED WILL NOT WORK. YOU MUST UPDATE YOUR RSS FEED TO THIS.
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- breadboxSeptember 20, 2011 at 5:44 PM
I don't see the comments on any of the older posts. Have you given up on moving those?ReplyDelete
My RSS folder in Google Reader has been getting smaller since FTB started up.ReplyDelete
I get to have all of you in one feed...
That came out wrong, didn't it?
I'm going to go hide in my box now.
- Ben LashSeptember 20, 2011 at 7:56 PM
Aw, your recommended reading is now sorted by category instead of recently updated...i might actually have to bookmark a site besides yours now. Sad.ReplyDelete
I'm trying to figure out if I can find a widget to sort by recently updated.ReplyDelete
One of things I'm going to miss is Twitter Log In, its great not having to have a tonne of different accounts for every single site I visit; I log in with Twitter and I get to post a reply to a thread.ReplyDelete
From what I can see on the new site its not going to let me.Any chance you can fix that? Or will I be stuck having to create yet *another* account?
Do I have to learn what an RSS feed is now, or can I just go to the page all old fashioned like?ReplyDelete
You can go to the page all old fashioned like :)ReplyDelete
I'll mention it to the Powers That BeReplyDelete
- Svlad CjelliSeptember 21, 2011 at 10:11 AM
Boo, inconvenience!ReplyDelete
- Ben LashSeptember 21, 2011 at 9:25 PM
Thanks Jen! Don't try too hard - I could always join the ranks of technologically up to date and just use rss/google reader for all of them.ReplyDelete
- Phillip2September 22, 2011 at 8:32 AM
Someone help a luddite. With all my other RSS feeds, I just clicked on them and they show up in Firefox. With the new feed here, I get some options about how I want to subscribe to it, Feedburner and stuff of that ilk.ReplyDelete
What do I have to do to put it in the "bookmarks toolbar" of Firefox?
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Magnuson Grand Conference Hotel in Winter Haven
Magnuson Grand Conference Hotel
Hotel Guest Rating: 5.2/10
5651 Cypress Gardens Boulevard
Winter Haven, FL 33884
Welcome to the Magnuson Grand Conference Hotel
Complimentary high-speed internet access, free parking, a large outdoor pool and Legoland one mile away are part of the round-up of perks provided to Priceline guests at the Magnuson Grand Conference Hotel.
Hotel Features
This five-floor property has 156 rooms, all with free high-speed internet access, coffee/tea makers and satellite cable TVs. Select accommodations include microwaves and mini-fridges by request. Non-smoking options are available. Florida means a swim in the sunshine, and water enthusiasts dive right into the junior Olympic-size, outdoor pool. The hotel also has a hot tub, game room, exercise room, laundry facility, business center, meeting space, sports lounge and American country-style restaurant with breakfast buffet. Parking is on the house. Up to two pets (dogs only, other pets accepted at Best Western's discretion) are permitted for an additional fee.
Hotel Location
The hotel is on Cypress Gardens Blvd/Hwy 540, less than one mile north of Legoland. Chain of Lakes Stadium is two miles away, while Bok Tower Gardens is 11 miles. If you're driving from Orlando International Airport, the hotel is 53 miles southwest.
Guest Favorites
The "great staff," "awesome" pool and "ideal" location make the Magnuson Grand Conference Hotel a property that Priceline guests "definitely plan on staying at every time."
Magnuson Grand Conference Hotel Amenities
- 24-hour front desk
- 24-hour security
- Accessible facilities
- Alarm clock
- AM/FM radio
- Business center
- Cable television
- Complimentary continental breakfast
- Elevators
- Exercise gym
- Free local calls
- Free parking
- Handicap rooms
- Jacuzzi
- Medical Facilities Service
- Onsite laundry
- Outdoor pool
- Pets allowed
- Ramp access
- Wheel chair access
Hotel Guest Reviews of the Magnuson Grand Conference HotelOur hotel ratings and reviews are from real hotel guests. Priceline.com ensures that its reviews are guests-only by proactively sending hotel surveys to customers after they've completed their hotel stays. In the post-stay surveys, priceline.com hotel customers are asked a number of questions about their stay and the hotel. On a scale of 1-10 with 10 being the best, the survey asks guests to rate their overall experience and specifically rate the hotel's cleanliness, staff and location. Priceline.com does not allow site visitors to post unsolicited hotel reviews.
November 19, 2014
Family Traveling with Young Children
Spend a little more money and stay at the Hampton Inn or Holiday Inn express only 2 miles down the road.
November 18, 2014
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October 27, 2014
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October 26, 2014
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September 29, 2014
Front desk didn't seem to care! Also breakfast was nice . 1 thing that definitely needs changing is the soap and shampoo, very poor !
September 24, 2014
Family Traveling with Young Children
It was just lovely, clean and great breakfast options. Couldn't have been happier!
September 23, 2014
Family Traveling with Young Children
The hotel is old but the rooms are nice and clean and the common areas are well cared for. The pool is huge and old school Florida and my family were the only occupants so that was nice. Breakfast was good as it had waffles, fruits, cereal etc. The shower's faucet stem was stripped and would not allow the cold water to come on but the staff quickly moved our room so we had no complaints. All and all we would stay again. ...
September 7, 2014
Solo Traveler
the staff was very courteous. for instance i needed a room change and within minutes the staff coordinated with housekeeping and i was in a new room and very comfortable. housekeeping was always making sure that whatever i needed i got no waiting at all.
August 27, 2014
Family Traveling with Young Children
The housekeeper who cleaned after the previous guest checked ojt missed garbage under the bed. The plumbing was corroded and there was mold all over it. I could hear my neighbors TV and bathroom visits. When I was showering the next morning I heard his toilet flush and my shower immediately turned extremely hot. The fridge had an inch of water in the tray. The sheets felt damp. The A/C didn't work well. The staff didn't ask why I needed new towels when I got to my room. This room should NOT have been rented like this. Breakfast the next day...no eggs, the bread was hard, the only fruit was a basket of apples...not worth the money. ...
August 12, 2014
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I know I want this so much, but I cannot quite figure out what I mean by it, or how I can hope to achieve this.
I think when I chose this goal, I meant that no matter what I do in life I always want to continue to have adventures and explore. As far as adventures and exploring go, I am pretty on top of that in my everyday life…both intellectually and literally. I would just love a career in which I can be an adventurer and explorer! I want to not only have my everyday adventures which I create for myself, but go on big daring adventures around the world! When I lived in Thailand, I always felt as though I was fulfilling this goal, and at home I even find myself exploring every nook and cranny of life there is to explore, but what it boils down to is, perhaps, a fear of a complacency, a fear of having a job which will keep me rooted to routine… I also fear not making a difference in the world… My search for the perfect job is really my search for the perfect life… and no life is perfect. I believe that we only live once, as far as we know, and I want my life to be all that it can be. I am also afriad of becoming distant from my family. I think once I can find a career which quenches my thirst for adventure, allows me to help make a difference in the world, and allows me to still feel close to my family (or be able to see my family fairly regurally) then I will know that I can accomplish this goal and will be able to mark it done, because as the title says: I already am an adventurer and explorer. :)


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|Ste. Genevieve, Missouri
Maison Bequette-Ribault
c1789 privately owned
|Nickname(s): "The Mother City of the West"[1]
Location of Ste. Genevieve, Missouri
U.S. Census Map
|Coordinates: 37°58′37″N 90°2′55″W / 37.97694°N 90.04861°WCoordinates: 37°58′37″N 90°2′55″W / 37.97694°N 90.04861°W
|United States
|Ste. Genevieve
|Ste. Genevieve
|• Total
|4.11 sq mi (10.64 km2)
|• Land
|4.10 sq mi (10.62 km2)
|• Water
|0.01 sq mi (0.03 km2)
|560 ft (170.7 m)
|Population (2010)[3]
|• Total
|• Estimate (2012[4])
|• Density
|1,075.6/sq mi (415.3/km2)
|Time zone
|Central (CST) (UTC-6)
|• Summer (DST)
|Zip code
|Area code(s)
|FIPS code
|GNIS feature ID
|Ste. Genevieve, Missouri
Maison Bequette-Ribault
c1789 privately owned
|Nickname(s): "The Mother City of the West"[1]
Location of Ste. Genevieve, Missouri
U.S. Census Map
|Coordinates: 37°58′37″N 90°2′55″W / 37.97694°N 90.04861°WCoordinates: 37°58′37″N 90°2′55″W / 37.97694°N 90.04861°W
|United States
|Ste. Genevieve
|Ste. Genevieve
|• Total
|4.11 sq mi (10.64 km2)
|• Land
|4.10 sq mi (10.62 km2)
|• Water
|0.01 sq mi (0.03 km2)
|560 ft (170.7 m)
|Population (2010)[3]
|• Total
|• Estimate (2012[4])
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|1,075.6/sq mi (415.3/km2)
|Time zone
|Central (CST) (UTC-6)
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Ste. Genevieve (Ste-Geneviève with French spelling) is a city in Ste. Genevieve Township and is the county seat of Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, United States.[7] The population was 4,410 at the 2010 census. Founded by French Canadian colonists, it was the first organized European settlement west of the Mississippi River in present-day Missouri.
Founded around 1735 by Canadien habitants and migrants from settlements in the Illinois Country just east of the Mississippi River, Ste. Geneviève is the oldest permanent European settlement in Missouri. It was named for Saint Genevieve (who lived in the fifth century AD), the patron saint of Paris. While most residents were of French-Canadian descent, many of the founding families had been in the Illinois Country for two or three generations. It is one of the oldest colonial settlements west of the Mississippi River.[8] It was located in an area encompassed by the pre-Louisiana Purchase territory known as New France, Illinois Country, or the Upper Louisiana territory. Traditional accounts suggested a founding of 1735 or so, but the historian Carl Ekberg has documented a more likely founding about 1750. The population to the east of the river needed more land, the soils in the older villages had become exhausted, and lessening of pressure from hostile Native Americans made settlement possible.[9]
Prior to the French Canadian settlers, indigenous peoples known as the Mississippian culture and earlier cultures had been living in the region for more than a thousand years. At the time of settlement, however, no Indian tribe lived nearby on the west bank. Jacques-Nicolas Bellin's map of 1755, the first to show Ste. Genevieve in the Illinois Country, showed the Kaskaskia natives on the east side of the river, but no Indian village on the west side within 100 miles of Ste. Genevieve.[10] Hunting and war parties did enter the area from the north and west. The region had been relatively abandoned by 1500, llkely due to environmental exhaustion, after the peak of Mississippian-culture civilization at Cahokia.
At the time of its founding, Ste. Genevieve was the last of a triad of French Canadian settlements in this area of the mid-Mississippi Valley region. About five miles northeast of Ste. Genevieve on the east side of the river was Fort de Chartres (in the Illinois Country); it stood as the official capital of the area. Kaskaskia, which became Illinois' first capital upon statehood, was located about five miles southeast. Prairie du Rocher and Cahokia, Illinois were also early local French colonial settlements on the east side of the river.
In 1762 with the Treaty of Fontainebleau, France secretly ceded the area of the west bank to Spain, which formed Louisiana (New Spain). The Spanish moved the capital of Upper Louisiana from Fort de Chartres fifty miles upriver to St. Louis, Missouri. Although under Spanish control for more than 40 years, Ste. Genevieve retained its French language, customs and character.
In 1763, the French ceded the land east of the Mississippi to Great Britain in the Treaty of Paris that ended Europe's Seven Years' War, known in the United States as the French and Indian War. French-speaking people from Canada and settlers east of the Mississippi flocked to Ste. Genevieve after George III issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763. This transformed all of the captured French land between the Mississippi and the Appalachian Mountains, except Quebec, into an Indian Reserve. The king required settlers to leave or get British permission to stay.
During the 1770s, Little Osage and Missouri tribes repeatedly raided Ste. Genevieve to steal settlers' horses. The fur trade, marriage of French Canadian men with Native American women, and other commercial dealings created many ties between Native Americans and the Canadiens. During the 1780s, Shawnee and Delaware migrated to the west side of the Mississippi following American victory in its Revolutionary War. The tribes established villages south of Ste. Genevieve. The Peoria also moved near Ste. Genevieve in the 1780s but had a peaceful relationship with the village. It was not until the 1790s that the Big Osage pressed the settlement harder; they conducted repeated raids and killed some settlers. In addition, they attacked the Peoria and Shawnee.[11]
While at one point Spanish administrators wanted to attack the Big Osage, there were not sufficient French Canadian settlers to recruit for a militia to do so. The Big Osage had 1250 men in their village, and lived in the prairie. In 1794 Carondelet, the Spanish governor at New Orleans, appointed the Chouteau brothers of St. Louis to have exclusive trading privileges with the Big Osage. They built a fort and trading post on the Osage River in Big Osage territory. While the natives did not entirely cease their raids on Ste. Genevieve, commercial diplomacy eased some relations.[11]
Following the great flood of 1785, the town moved from its initial location on the floodplain of the Mississippi River, to its present location two miles north and about a half mile inland. It continued to prosper as a village devoted to agriculture, especially wheat, maize and tobacco production. Most of the families were yeomen farmers, although there was a wealthier level among the residents. The village raised sufficient grain to send many tons of flour annually for sale to Lower Louisiana and New Orleans, which helped colonists in that region to survive, as they could not grow grains there. In 1807, the secretary of the Louisiana Territory, Frederick Bates, noted Ste. Genevieve was "the most wealthy village in Louisiana."[12]
The oldest buildings of Ste. Genevieve, described as "French Creole colonial", were all built during Spanish rule. The most distinctive buildings of this period were the "vertical wooden post" constructions where walls of buildings were built based on wood "posts" either dug into the ground (poteaux en terre) or set on a raised stone or brick foundation (poteaux sur solle). This was different from the log cabin associated with frontier settlements of the United States northeast, mid-Atlantic and Upper South, for which logs are stacked horizontally.
Of the vertical slab houses, the most distinctive are poteaux en terre ("posts-in-the-ground") where the walls made of upright wooden slabs do not support the floor. The floor is supported by separate stone pillars. Partially set into dirt, the walls of such buildings were extremely vulnerable to flood damage, termites and rot. Three of the five surviving poteaux en terre houses in the nation are in Ste. Genevieve. The other two are located in Pascagoula, Mississippi and near Natchitoches, Louisiana.
Most of the oldest buildings in the city are poteaux sur solle ("posts-on-a-sill"). Some of the oldest structures are the Louis Bolduc House or the Bauvis/Amoureux House built in 1792, a National Historic Landmark. The Louis Bolduc House was built as a small structure in 1770 at Ste. Genevieve's original riverfront location, parts were relocated in 1785 when the house was expanded at the new site. It was built in 1792-1793, and has three large rooms, marking Bolduc's wealth. (Most of the building was too damaged by flood to reuse.) Other structures of note are the 1806 La Maison de Guibourd Historic House, the 1818 Felix Vallé House State Historic Site, the 1792 Beauvais-Amoureux House, the 1790s Bequette-Ribault House, and the 1808 Old Louisiana Academy.
For decades, Ste. Genevieve was chiefly an agricultural community. The habitants raised chiefly wheat and corn (maize), as well as tobacco. They produced more wheat than residents of St. Louis, and their grain products were critical to survival of the French community at New Orleans.
The village followed traditional practices: most of the townspeople lived on lots in town. They farmed land held in a common large field. This land was assigned and cultivated in long, narrow strips that extended back from the river to the hills (at the first location). Only the exterior of the Grand Champ (Big Field) was fenced, but each owner of land was responsible for fencing his portion, to keep out livestock.[13] The habitants used the same types of implements and plows as did those in 18th-century France. They used teams of oxen to pull the wheeled plows.
After the Louisiana Purchase in 1804, Anglo-Americans as well as German immigrants migrated to the village. It became more oriented to trade and merchants, but villagers retained many of their French cultural ways. The Sisters of St. Joseph, a French teaching order, established a convent in the town, whose sisters taught in school. The Ste. Genevieve Catholic Church was built in 1876 and modeled after the Gothic style of those in France, was the third built in the village.
Ste. Genevieve marks its French cultural heritage with numerous annual events. Among them are: La Guiannée, French Fest, Jour de Fête, King's Ball and many others.
The Ste. Genevieve-Modoc Ferry across the Mississippi River is nicknamed the "French Connection" because of its link to other French colonial sites in the area. It runs daily unless the river is flooding.
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Ste. Genevieve is located at 37°58′37″N 90°2′55″W / 37.97694°N 90.04861°W (37.976960, -90.048672).[15] According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 4.11 square miles (10.64 km2), of which, 4.10 square miles (10.62 km2) is land and 0.01 square miles (0.03 km2) is water.[2]
The Ste. Genevieve Herald is a weekly newspaper that has served Ste. Genevieve County since May 1882.
As of the census[3] of 2010, there were 4,410 people, 1,824 households, and 1,087 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,075.6 inhabitants per square mile (415.3 /km2). There were 2,018 housing units at an average density of 492.2 per square mile (190.0 /km2). The racial makeup of the city was 95.78% White, 1.59% Black or African American, 0.39% Native American, 0.63% Asian, 0.02% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 0.18% from other races, and 1.41% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.18% of the population.
There were 1,824 households of which 27.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 43.6% were married couples living together, 11.5% had a female householder with no husband present, 4.4% had a male householder with no wife present, and 40.4% were non-families. 34.8% of all households were made up of individuals and 16.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.28 and the average family size was 2.94.
The median age in the city was 43 years. 21.8% of residents were under the age of 18; 8.2% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 22.2% were from 25 to 44; 27.3% were from 45 to 64; and 20.5% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 48.4% male and 51.6% female.
As of the census[5] of 2000, there were 4,476 people, 1,818 households, and 1,154 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,076.7 people per square mile (415.4/km²). There were 1,965 housing units at an average density of 472.7 per square mile (182.4/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 96.07% White, 2.14% African American, 0.58% Native American, 0.31% Asian, 0.25% from other races, and 0.65% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.12% of the population.
There were 1,818 households out of which 27.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 49.7% were married couples living together, 10.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 36.5% were non-families. 32.8% of all households were made up of individuals and 19.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.29 and the average family size was 2.90.
In the city the population was spread out with 21.9% under the age of 18, 7.7% from 18 to 24, 25.0% from 25 to 44, 21.8% from 45 to 64, and 23.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 42 years. For every 100 females there were 92.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 89.8 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $33,929, and the median income for a family was $43,125. Males had a median income of $31,546 versus $19,804 for females. The per capita income for the city was $17,361. About 7.8% of families and 9.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 18.8% of those under age 18 and 10.2% of those age 65 or over.
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Instead of being honest down the homestretch, conservative pundits on Fox News and at places like the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post fed Republicans a steady diet of falsehoods and Pollyannaish analysis that ran counter to the clear polling data about the state of the race.
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Currently it's a foreign notion among many commentators who boast dubious track records of being chronically incorrect. Early indications are that most conservative pundits won't face recriminations from within the GOP Noise Machine for getting everything wrong about the campaign. But will consumers finally revolt?
Note that last week CNBC's Larry Kudlow welcomed Romney loyalist Jennifer Rubin from the Washington Post onto his program two nights after Romney lost decisively. On the show there was no discussion about how all of Rubin's horse race insights had been monumentally wrong.
Kudlow politely declined to ask Rubin about her suggestion that Romney might win nearly all the battleground states. (He won just one, North Carolina.) And he also didn't discuss the revelation that Rubin had misled readers in real time about the status of the campaign. The conservative CNBC host, among those who erroneously predicted a Romney blowout, politely demurred and accountability was ignored.
For weeks, if not months, Rubin's readers were led to believe the Obama campaign was crumbling and the incumbent was making one foolish move after another. After Obama won an electoral landslide, Rubin wasn't asked about her dreadfully erroneous spin. Neither was Kudlow's other guest, James Pethokoukis, a blogger from the American Enterprise Institute who forecast Romney would win 301 electoral votes. (Romney won 206.)
Between the three of them, Kudlow, Rubin and Pethokoukis could not have been more wrong about the election; an election they allegedly studied intently all year long. And none of the three bothered to acknowledge their failings on CNBC that night.
The Weekly Standard's Jay Cost was another full-time campaign watcher who obsessively assured readers that Obama's chances were dim. Casting a critical eye towards polling, Cost presented his " interpretation" of what was happening in the campaign: There was no way voter turnout among Democrats and Republicans would look the same as it did in 2008.
Cost's explanation last week then, for why he got everything wrong about Obama vs. Romney? Answer: The Obama campaign "played to its base with a level of intensity rarely seen in the modern era." (Whatever that means.) And Cost was surprised that it worked.
Here's the real punch line, though, and here's why the conservative media have dug themselves such a deep, insular hole: Two days after Cost got everything wrong about the campaign, James Taranto at the Wall Street Journal linked to Cost's post-election column and urged people to read Cost's deep insights about the campaign. (Surprise! Taranto loved Cost's piece about how the Romney defeat did not represent a serious set back for the GOP.)
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This modern 3-star hotel is ideally located in the center of Dresden, right between Dresden's Main Train Station and the historic Old Town district.
Score from 480 reviews Good
This hotel with non-smoking rooms is in an exclusive residential area, 5.5 miles north of Dresden's historic quarter and 2 miles from Dresden Airport. It offers an underground parking lot.
Score from 232 reviews Good
This hotel is just over a quarter mile from Dresden Main Station and a 10-minute walk from Dresden's world-famous Old Town district. It has air-conditioned rooms and a 24-hour bar.
Score from 1952 reviews Good
We came to Dresden, without planning and decided to make a stop for the night therefore we didn't look for hotel in the city center. We arrived around 20:00 pm and decided to see a bit of the city, the receptionist was very helpful and nice, she recommended us places in the city center and explained exactly how to get there. The hotel is located a 20-minute tram ride from the city center and close to the airport. The hotel close to the tram and Aldi supermarket. The hotel is very pleasant, the room was spacious, clean and the bed was comfortable.
Low wi-fi reception in the room.
free mini bar bar was open till night time nice and fair service
only next morning recognize that there is a free mini bar. water heating facilities would be greate
Very helpful and friendly staff - thank you ! Free minibar was a unusual experience.
The room was good, very nice size and the beds were comfortable especially after we asked for more pillows. But room service walked in without knocking...
We ordered food, waited for 1.5hrs. We didn't get what we ordered. The pizza was awful and the salad just sad.
Perfect for 1 night sleep while you are one a road - close to the freeway. Staff was nice.
Possibility to have a diner even late
staff were very friendly room was big free parking lidl nearby
it was a bit loud outside because of a Chinese party, which is weird as it is at Dresden, but only mentioning this because cant think of anything else
the hotel is not cheap but it is actually nice, the rooms are confortable and clean.
The pizza restaurant is terrible, do not go there, it is expensive, slow and nothing special at all.
It was a pleasure to stay at this hotel,even though I only spoke English the staff had no trouble understanding me,if in Dresden again I will surely use this hotel again.
Near to airport, wifi,
Room size and shape and outers without design. Cant say 4 star.. max. 3 star.
Very clean and comfortable, minibar was a nice addition.
A bit far from city center, but easily accessible with tram (20min)
Although it is 4 star, there is no air conditioning, and the room was extremely hot. The terrace of the bar was just under the window, so with open window the smoke of cigarettes were coming in, or there was no way to get fresh air...
Quiet location, free parking, free wi-fi, free minibar(water, juice,beer), nice restaurant. Good connections to the downtown (tram&bus), about 20 minutes, 10 mins by own car. Not bad at all.
Maybe biggest problem on summertime, no air condition, fan helps a little. Street side rooms a little bit noisy at night time with windows open. In spite of that, rather good hotel.
excellent location near airport. i am always staying there the night before i depart from dresden. i liked the price for the suite. i liked also two passwords for two computers on wifi and it being free of charge.
i missed the fact that i could not make my own coffee and that no coffee maker was provided in the room. this is especially bothersome if you need to leave early before breakfast is served.
Most comfortable bed I've slept in all of Europe!!!! Also, the drinks in the fridge were free (confirmed it in the guest booklet). It was also close to the highway which made it convenient for me to continue to travel home.
Very friendly staff Close to airport Large clean room Free WiFi Minibar was free (not sure if this was a kind gesture from staff, or a regular thing)
No airport shuttle service Far from city center
Large rooms, practicality, clean hotel.
The hotel is away from the city center. Although is reachable by public transport.
Nice clean and good value
Near the airport.
Restaurant on hotel was closed when I arrived 9 pm. Only option was to buy a pizza across the street. This is not what you expect for a 4 star hotel
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SaaS vs Software for Vendors – Lesson #3: The Real Potential Lies in Business Model Innovation
Posted by Paul Chen, President, Managed Services
I ended my last post by discussing how at Fortiva, understanding our cost to serve helped us to improve our product and even introduce a new product offering. This leads me to my third and final lesson on the difference between SaaS and traditional software – business model flexibility.
The business model for traditional software is typically fairly straightforward – you create and develop it, produce it (on some type of media), and sell it to the customer either directly, or through a channel. From there, you typically have very little communication with the customer, with the possible exception of customer service.
SaaS businesses, on the other hand, have far more flexibility to adopt different business models, even taking advantage of more than one business model at the same time. This flexibility provides significantly more opportunities than traditional software to continually innovate and find new ways to leverage a product in different ways to improve revenues.
Let me give you an example. Google's founders started out with a business model based on licensing their search technology to key portal vendors, such as Yahoo. Little did they know that just a few years later, they would introduce a keyword advertising program that would ultimately form the basis of Google AdWords, which today makes up the majority of their revenue. If they had stopped with the licensing business model, Google as we know it would not exist today.
Here's another example – this time, a hypothetical one. At Fortiva, we charge a per-user licensing fee as well as a fee for blocks of storage to access our email archiving solution – essentially a pay-for-use model. But what if we decided to offer email archiving for free? It may sound crazy, but it could be a valid business model. Consider this – a large portion of businesses archive their email to meet requirements in the case of future litigation, and those businesses often have little need to access archived data before that time. Hypothetically, we could simply charge those customers to search and access their archives when litigation arises. This would give us the chance to target companies that don't feel they can justify the cost of a pro-active approach to legal risk (by implementing an archive), while still benefiting in the long run from the inevitable.
I'm not suggesting that this is something we're going to do, but it gives you an idea of the type of innovative thinking that can open up new business opportunities in the SaaS world.
At the end of the day, business model innovation can be a key competitive advantage for any company. SaaS opens the door to far greater flexibility in this area, and businesses embarking on this delivery model should not lose sight of that.
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I applied online – interviewed at Eze Software.
First I got a telephone interview about certain OOP questions, such as inherit, metamorphism and interface. Then I went to have a face to face interview, about several programming questions about data structure and array sorting. I think my answer to those questions is good, however I did not get the intern position
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I applied online. The process took 4+ weeks – interviewed at Eze Software.Interview Details
I submitted the application online, and they arranged me an phone interview. But they relocate my applying position from Boston to ATL.Interview Questions
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I applied through an employee referral – interviewed at Eze Software in May 2012.Interview Details
1 interview . 1st interview is a very phone interview then you get invited back for a s cI be round of you pass it . Mostly technical and behavioral questions. Young company similar to start up feelInterview Questions
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I applied online. The process took a week – interviewed at Eze Software in November 2008.Interview Details
the technical and personality interview was very typical.
but when they asked me to come back for a second interview, the whole process just screwed up.
the secretary asked me to wait in a room, but i waited there for almost 20 mins and nobody showed up.
so i had to looked for the secretary and asked what was going on. then she found out there was a 'logistic' problem (she could say she screwed it up). turns out the interviewer was waiting in his room for me. WTF!
so he was upsetted, then ran out of time, and i got frustrated, what a screwup.Interview Questions
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Just some behavioral questions, why interested in Eze castle, what have you done before. The interviewer seems to be busy with some other things, and let me wait for some time during the interview. Less than 15 min asking me questions, he has no questions to ask and let me ask him some questions. He seems not interested in my background, and doesn't ask me any technical questions. The phone interview took less than 25 minutes. I had two interviews with Eze castle, and the first time they mistook me for full time position but I was just applying for the intern. It seems they are not really looking for intern, but just do something ask them to do.Interview Questions
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I applied online. The process took 2 weeks – interviewed at Eze Software in March 2011.Interview Details
I applied to Eze Castle online, through a job portal.
They asked me for a few slots for a round of phone interview. They called for the first round of technical interview at the time they had stated. The guy who called me was a technical guy. He just asked the basics of OOP concepts.
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I applied online. The process took a day – interviewed at Eze Software in March 2011.Interview Details
Was asked to fly to Boston on my own cost. Interview started from 10am, ended at 3pm. No break. Was told there would be 7 interviewers, but ended up at interview #5 since 'the rest 2 interviewers are busy'. Was asked to write scripts on board. Got rejected the next week.Interview Questions
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yeah you could do it in 6 seconds in the original, they fixed it though I guess
although the top dudes time is 5 seconds
just topped my old time on 1.2 by about a tenth of a second, not sure how you could get faster than that but the top time is 13 seconds faster
strafing shouldnt be able to get you to the little robot that much faster though!
I probably have 1 or 2 free live cards
if I do one is goin to repox, ill give the other to you fuzz
The six second glitch was fixed.I probably have 1 or 2 free live cards
if I do one is goin to repox, ill give the other to you fuzz
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How do you do this six second thing? And it doesn't work but it does work? I want to be among the top
Edit: how do you see the leaderboards when not on your xbox?
I think the highest I got was 111 for one mission on Perfect Agent. I left the screen on for a minute while I relaxed, looked back and I was bumped to 115. Don't know what it is now though..
Is there a way to look at the leaderboards online?
My goal is to beat you.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZUuj5FCZT8
i highly doubt you'll get #1, but you can try and beat me and repox
my goal right now is to get top 100 or 200 in everything except most stuff after crash site
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That.. I can't even.. how.. 15 seconds?
beat yaso uh
I just discovered that you dont actually need to take cassandra devries necklace on agent
so my time is down to about 44 seconds now, and I think I can cut it down further
EDIT: YESSS, ahead of repox by a tenth of a second, 41.41
down to 40.08 now
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