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I grew up in Cincinnati, but have somewhat reluctantly and long since, left
for professional pursuit. This town has, nevertheless, held a special place
in my heart.
As a young boy growing up in the eastern suburbs, I never, ever, would have
guessed that I would one day, at an age one and a half times older than my
dad, at the time, be running 42 kilometers of the streets that I rode on my
bicycle. Every step of the way triggers memories.
The inaugural Pig was an odyssey of time for me. Every step of the way
pried loose memories that became as vivid as the experience that bore them.
The trip to my dentist on Gilbert Avenue, the Saturday morning shopping
trips to Shillito's with my mom, or, alternately, trips to Swallen's
hardware department on Red Bank Road with my dad, the crosstown trip from
Indian Hill to U.C during my college days, Friday nights at New Dilly's in
Mt. Adams, and other old friends from the past come to greet me with every
turn and glance. The marathon no longer was a race, but a delightfully
nostalgic, if not at times even melancholy, documentary of my past.
At the end of the marathon, I'm left with the revitalized memories that
remind me of how special a place Cincinnati was then and is to me now.
I will do the Pig again this year and probably more as a race than a trek
down memory lane. I'll still enjoy the serpentine route and challenging
hills, thankfully, all in the beginning. I'll still recall glimpses of
experiences of long ago, but nothing will ever equal the exhilarating three
and a half hour photo album of the inaugural Flying Pig Marathon last year.
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Thailand desperately needs the MICE [meetings, incentives, conventions and exhibitions] market to contribute to its bounce back from the traumatisation of the recent political troubles that have severely impacted on this important income generator for the Kingdom.
The Thailand Convention and Exhibition Bureau (TCEB) had USD28 million (9 billion baht) allocated to MICE events in 2010, anticipating at the start of the year growth of 25 percent with around 785,000 visitors generating income of 56 billion baht from 400 events.
That forecast will, clearly, not be met. However, TCEB should not be deterred and continue to pursue its six major strategies to develop and expand the MICE market in Thailand in partnership with private and government networks as well as the ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations) community. TCEB has only to look at the slow growth in 2008 caused by domestic political unrest [the yellow shirts this time] a troubled global economy and, in 2009, the H1N1 flu pandemic to see how vulnerable Thailand tourism is to the vagaries of events beyond its control.
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These are all worthy and achievable goals, but perhaps Thailand needs to do a lot more because the MICE competition in Asia, and the Middle East, for that matter is intense. Places like Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; Shanghai and Guangzhou, China; Jakarta, Indonesia; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Hong Kong are increasingly attracting MICE custom, particularly from places like Australia.
And there is one of Thailand's problems. Not everyone sees the country as an ideal MICE venue. For example, one Australian based incentive agent once gave 10 reasons why Thailand is not yet the "hit" it claims to be for the MICE market. Reasons included few hotels near large convention centres, the lack of many such centres and their poor locations (in Bangkok) lack of communication skills and training in understanding MICE needs by staff and a focus by Thailand tourism authorities on numbers rather than quality.
By the same token Thailand has many attractions for the MICE market. These include geographical location, good direct air routes, attractive pre and post-business travel (to the southern islands like Phuket and Koh Samui, for example) lively and proactive private sector MICE operators, such as big hotels at key tourist destinations; some dedicated individuals and the overall attractiveness of Thailand as a "truly amazing" destination.
But what else could Asia's MICE industry do to attract more custom, particularly in Thailand? Well, the TCEB has already hit one good idea that is the promotion of "Green Meetings," which are environmentally friendly MICE events as a selling point to promote Thailand. Other ideas could include including more CSR (corporate social responsibility) programmes; more sophisticated programmes could be offered; use of social media to generate networks amongst MICE participants and even look at more family friendly activities.
Having said that, American surveys of the MICE trade have shown that when it comes to "green" Americans are all for the environment as long as they don't have to pay for it and the same goes for CSR activities. We are likely to see, therefore, "green" and CSR activities, but on a minor scale as making major changes when the economy is weak and there are negative outside forces impacting on tourism in places like Thailand, makes change harder.
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Fangraphs website. At the top of that page there are tabs for Offensive stats, defensive stats, pitching stats, WAR, etc....
If you're just looking for a quick overview of the statistics presented in the article or in this thread so far I can give you my understanding of them (feel free to skip this post if you feel you already understand these statistics).
ERA is obviously the most basic and well known of the statistics available for pitchers. ERA+ and ERA- are essentially just ERA that has been changed into an easier to read/use format. So an average ERA is always going to be 100 no matter what year you're looking at. ERA+ comes from baseball-reference.com and better pitchers are given values >100. ERA- comes from fangraphs.com and for this statistic better pitchers are given values <100. Otherwise they are very similar statistics with some small nuances.
However ERA is very dependent on factors outside of a pitchers control. The ballpark he pitches in, his defense behind him or just random luck, does a ball fall in for a hit when it shouldn't? Which is called babip or batting average on balls in play. Essentially when contact is made what percentage of the time does it fall for a hit.
To eliminate those factors people started to creat DIPS theory, or defense independent pitching statistics. The most popular of these currently are FIP and xFIP. The theory at the time these statistics were created was that pitchers could only control how many batters they struck out, walked and how many home runs they allowed.
Accordingly the FIP formula only takes those 3 things into account to determine how well a pitcher actually pitched. Then there is some fancy math done to make the result look like a traditional ERA number. So if a players FIP (let's say a 5.18) is bad on an ERA scale (an ERA of 5.18 is obviously awful) then it is also a bad FIP number.
xFIP is the same thing as FIP except that it includes how many home runs a pitchers should have given up based on league average home run rates instead of how many home runs a pitcher actually gave up. This makes strikeouts, walks and flyball rate the only factors that matter. For a several years this was the go to stat. It was the best at determining how well a pitcher actually pitched as well as the best at predicting the next seasons ERA.
Some types of pitchers didn't seem to play nicely with FIP and xFIP, however. Knuckleballers and players like Tim Hudson consistently seemed to have lower ERA's than their FIP or xFIP suggest they should have. It has since been acknowledged that pitchers can control how many groundballs they produce versus how many flyballs and line drives. Fly balls are turned into outs the most frequently but they can also go for home runs and extra base hits. Line drives are clearly bad all around. Ground balls, while going for hits slightly more frequently than fly balls, rarely turn into extra base hits and never into home runs. So after quite a bit of research and debate it was determined that ground ball pitchers allow fewer runs than fly ball pitchers, all else being equal, and that it is a controllable skill.
That bred the most recent statistics like tERA (the "t" stands for true) and the latest, and currently best (at least that I am aware of), statistic called SIERA. These use a pitcher's strike out, walk and home run rates, just like FIP and xFIP, but it also adds in how a pitcher pitches. Is he a ground ball pitcher or fly ball? What's his line drive percentage? It also takes into account what stadium a player pitches in. A home run at Yankee Stadium might not be a home run at Target Field.
FIP, xFIP, tERA and SIERA are all known as ERA estimators as they are attempting to determine what a pitchers true skill level was. As such these can be used, cautiously, to determine what a pitchers following season will look like as well.
There is another line of thought however. Some people don't care about ERA because it is too vague of a statistic. A home run is a home run; the previous statistics don't differentiate between a home run allowed when your team is winning 7-0 or when your team is tied in the bottom of the 9th inning. Clearly the home run when you're up 7-0 means much less than a home run in the bottom of the ninth of a tie ball game.
There are two basic premises of Win Probability Added (WPA) and similar stats. First, a pitcher (or batter or fielder as these stats work equally well for offensive players) is more valuable, in either a positive or negative way, in close or late game situations than he is early on during the game or in blow outs. This is referred to as the Leverage Index. The later in the game and the closer the score the higher the Leverage Index.
Second, because we have an extensive history of the play by play of baseball we can determine the average outcome for any given situation. We can then compare how much better or worse Mike Pelfrey did than the average pitcher. Another way to say that is we can determine how much Mike Pelfreys actions affect the Twins probability of winning a game, for better or worse, when compared to an average pitcher. Imagine Pelfrey faces a bases loaded situation. We can look back and determine what an average pitcher actually did in that situation, let's say the generic pitcher gave up a hit and 2 runs. If Pelfrey strikes a batter out we know that he actually increased the Twins odds of winning the ball game when compared to the generic pitcher that allowed 2 runs. If Pelfrey's next pitch is hit for a home run he has now decreased the probability of the Twins winning compared to the generic pitcher. When you add up all of the changes in probability throughout a game, or season, and then factor in the Leverage Index you get the stat Win Probability Added. For WPA a 0 is average and for every whole number above zero one win has been added to the team's win total. Similarly every number below zero is a game lost that an average pitcher wouldn't have.
Well I didn't mean to write a novel, but for the second time today it seems I have. I didn't touch on all the statistics but those are several. If you have questions about any others or feel I misrepresented a statistic above feel free to ask or correct me. Again, sorry for the novel.
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I feel something has to be wrong if on Fangraphs Pelfrey is a 2.1 WAR and on Baseball Reference he was a -0.3 WAR.
We can argue all we want about Pelfrey, and I bet he'll throw better next year, but the key is we have to get better pitching. If we re-sign Pelfrey we are doing nothing but accepting a mediocre pitcher who will give us little chance to be elite. We have to get someone better or we have the same pitching rotation as last year (plus one unimpressive FA pitcher). And that was a 90 loss rotation.
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I could probably tolerate a Correia type contract since he's roughly that level of pitcher and the Twins are short on actual MLB capable pitchers. But regardless of his quick return from TJ and the hope that he will do better next season he literally has no upside as a starter. He's 30 (in January) and literally has no upside beyond innings eating #4/5. A significant multi-year contract would work out as well as the Blackburn contract.
tbh I want nothing to do with a guaranteed 2nd yr (like Corriea) but I'm already resigned to the Twins bringing him back and that's what it will take. If the guaranteed money is >15M then this board will be unreadable for a week and i will likely contribute to that nonsense.
I go either way on Pelfrey and his 2.1 WAR.
Perkins had 36 saves in 40 save opportunities in 2013
Perkins also had a 1.7 WAR (wins above replacement).
therefore, any other bullpen guy or chump off the street coulda come in and saved 34 out of 40 games last year, am I understanding that correctly?
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It's too early in the offseason to want to bring back Pelfrey. At this stage, my hopes are way higher. I don't mind Pelfrey. I have a hard time watching when he pitches, but if he can be as good in 2014 as Correia was in 2013, that would be solid. Like Nick said, if he's your 4th or 5th starter, that's fine. But I certainly wouldn't go multi-year, or much (if any) more than he got last year. Just not enough upside. But, one thing it is clear that Terry Ryan likes is a pitcher who can throw 180+ innings. And that's understandable. Meyer, May and Gibson should be up in 2014. It'd sure be nice for them to not be the top three pitchers in the rotation.
Pelfrey for multiple years is completely ridiculous. And Pelfrey for one year . . . is actually more ridiculous. If the Twins sign FAs to one year deals, then the same damn thing is going to be asked next year going into 2015. This is the time to invest in 3 or 4 years of pitching. This is THE DAMN TIME TO DO SO. Even the owner is willing to do that!
Pelfrey is worth 0.0 WAR next year. And that might be nice. The Twins can easily get that from a guy making 500k.
So save that 5 or so million bucks, take the 5.5 million bucks from the end of Nick Blackburn, splurge another 5 million or so and you get Ervin Santana or Ubaldo Jimenez per year. Or you get Hughes and Feldman or something. Why is this such a difficult concept to grasp?
The Twins, hopefully, will learn from the Gibson nonsense of 2013 and not do the same to Meyer. Gibson should have been given 100 innings of MLB time in 2013, but they failed to figure out a way to do so. Same for Meyer this year.
May can be up midseason and would be an instant improvement over everyone in 2013 other than Correia and Deduno.
If I were in charge--and had balls--I would declare Kyle Gibson the opening day starter and let it fly.
Thanks Oxtung. Good stuff.
I had actually stayed with Berardino until he hit SIERA, then it got too much for me.
There's a reason I took stats for social science majors rather than the harder version.
Of the other 29 teams how many of them have fans talking about how good it would be to bring in Pelfry as a free agent this winter? My guess zero.
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I'm not sure why there can be some much variation on some pitchers. Radke has 45 WAR on both, for example. Santana is only a 3WAR difference.
I've read (but not sure it's true) suggestions that fWAR gives too much credit to bad pitchers although both rated Blackburns 08-09 seasons basically the same. fWAR isn't as harsh on Blackburn's disastrous 2012. And I've also read that stat heads like fWAR more than bWAR. So who knows.
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Now my basic statistics was quite a few years ago, so please feel free to correct me. In any of these ERA predictors you have to consider their correlations SIERA is said to be 0.72. Good, but hardly precise. There is a regression factor. RMS data shows that factor to be greater than 1 for all the calculators for IP less than 200. Standard deviation of 0.5. Essentially their measurement could be up to a 0.5 worth of ERA wrong. One way or the other. 4.64 by SIERA is the predictive value, by deviation then the predictor says anywhere in the 4 range. Now SIERA does not ignore balls in play. To be an accurate predictor things have to be static. The one thing Twins fan hope for is for is for things not to be static. The predictors say he will be a better pitcher than last year. None say he will be a great pitcher. That is about all you can take away from this.
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WPA doesn't explicitly use the Leverage Index. It instead is automatically built into the way WPA is calculated. For instance, if the Twins hit a home run in the first inning their chances of winning go up but not dramatically because there are still 8 innings to play. So the WPA added for that home run is small. On the other hand if the Twins hit a home run in the 9th inning of a tied game their probability of winning that game increases significantly. So the WPA add for the 9th inning home run would be significant.
So you can see that Leverage Index, which is in itself a statistic, is not actually used in the Win Probability Added statistic. I was simply trying to show that late game and close game situations are more valuable than early or blow out situations.
There is a statistic, WPA/LI, that uses both Win Probability Added and Leverage Index. It attempts to strip the late and close game bonus that is automatically a part of WPA out so that 2 players contributions can be compared even if they don't fill the same roll on a team. For instance, Ryan Pressly pitched almost exclusively in low leverage situations. That isn't his fault, the manager made those decisions. So what if you want to compare him to Glen Perkins? Well if you use WPA Perkins (2.8 WPA) is clearly going to be better than Pressly (0.2 WPA) because Perkins was frequently in high leverage situations. So WPA/LI is a way to remove the advantage that Perkins gets and puts them on a level playing field. So what does WPA/LI say about Pressly (0.5 WPA/LI) versus Perkins (1.2 WPA/LI)? Well as you can see Perkins was still a better pitcher than Pressly even if they were used in the same roles.


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TTR has been excellent which is why I was really disappointed in the Mother's Day brunch. It started with being out of the bottle of champagne we wanted after only an hour of being open to waiting for plates, long lines for the omelet and French toast bar, limited choices of food, and a buffet menu that didn't seem to work together is why I consider it a miss. Frankly, I was more satisfied last year when we could order off the menu. "
Dined on 5/11/2014
We made reservations for Mother's
Day breakfast, but were not made aware that the only option for food that morning was a $29 per person brunch. We had never known them to offer brunch, so were surprised, thinking we would be ordering breakfast from the menu. We had plans for a large meal later in the day and had not intended to eat big. We ordered a glass of champagne and left without eating. The restaurant should have noted on its site that there was only one option for Mother's Day. We were pretty disappointed."
Dined on 5/11/2014
Before I say anything let me first
say how much I LOVE brunch at The Tasting Room. With that being said, I was a bit disappointed in having to eat from the buffet on Mothers Day. My mother is from out of town and I was excited about introducing her to some of the "usual" menu items I enjoy. I was surprised upon arrival to find out the buffet was the only option thus taking away from the typical fabulous experience. Selection was limited. I greatly missed the chicken and biscuits, potatoes, and Egg BLT in particular. In summary, I feel as though the buffet should not have been required for those who made reservations ahead of time. In my opinion, the price was also steep at $30 considering the options."
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Lovely restaurant. Great staff &
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evening and wound up leaving & going somewhere else. First, we were shown to an outside area where there was no one else seated. We were told that someone would be out shortly to light the heaters. That person never came, nor did any server come out to offer to bring us water, a menu, or a wine list. After waiting 15 minutes for anyone to come out to serve us my husband went in to see if we could be re-seated somewhere else and to mention the poor service. He had a very unsatisfactory conversation with the woman who seemed to be charge that evening. We waited at our outside table for 10 more minutes to see if anything would happen, and after that we left and went down the street to another restaurant."
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I'm VERY surprised that my
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Hard to believe that poor service
can travel so precisely from one Tasting Room to another. Seems that you need to be a former employee to get attention from a server. Same lame menu too....overpriced dishes appear appealing, but don't deliver."
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The mobile revolution gets personal
I'm writing this from CES 2007 the latest and greatest Consumer Electronics Show, where 140,000 attendees crowd 2,700 exhibits packed into 1,660,000 square feet of space in more halls and hotels than I'll bother to count. There's a lot of noise here, and a certain amount of signal; though the ratio of the former to the latter is no less lopsided than it always is. Everybody's not only showing their good sides, but paying millions to crow about it through mass quantities of advertising and PR.
Yet the whole damn thing got upstaged Tuesday by Steve Jobs and his on-stage announcement of the long-awaited iPhone.
Normally CES and Macworld overlap barely or not at all. But this year the two shows are spread across the same week, forcing many (including yours truly) to choose one or the other though I know a number of folks who flew to San Francisco for Jobs' speech and then back again. Of course, I chose to spend as much time as possible here at CES, because it's a show packed with Linux stories. (My first report on the show is here. This is second. A third will follow.) Yet, like every reporter here, it was clear to me that the biggest news of the week or perhaps of the year was delivered by Apple in San Francisco.
Jobs called the iPhone "a revolutionary product... that changes everything". He said the iPhone would be no less world-changing than the Macintosh in 1984 and the iPod in 2001. He said the iPhone was "three revolutionary products: ... a wide-screen iPod with touch controls, a revolutionary mobile phone and a breakthrough internet communications device" that together "reinvent the phone". He dumped on "smartphones" like the Trio, the Blackberry, the Nokia E62 and the Moto Q, with their "keyboards are there whether you want them or not".
The iPhone "gets rid of all these buttons", he said, and gives users "a giant screen" that uses fingers as a pointing device. The smartness behind the screen "works like magic", Jobs says. Specifically, it is highly accurate, ignores unintended touches and obeys multi-finger gestures. (Playing music, anyone?) "And you can bet it's patented." It's called MultiTouch. The screen is 3.5 inches diagonally, and 160 pixels per inch. It has three controls: "home", volume and mute/ring. The other orifices are for a 2 megapixel camera lens, speaker, microphone and 30-pin iPod connector. It senses ambient light and turns off the screen when your face gets close. An accelerometer rotates the display to adjust to your orientation. As you would expect, it looks cool.
It's also a platform for software. Specifically, OS X. (Which, for what it's worth, is built on open-source BSD.) This will allow "desktop class" applications to be built on the thing. They're starting with software that's "five years ahead" of the rest of the mobile phone class.
That's the phone side of the thing. It also syncs with your Mac or PC. Most notably through iTunes. (No, we're nowhere near Linux yet, but we'll get to that.)
As a phone maker like Nokia, Motorola and all other competitors, Apple had to cut a deal with a carrier. Cingular got the nod, at least for the U.S. That means the iPhone does GSM and will work overseas as well as on Cingular's domestic cell phone system. The iPhone also bridges computers to the Net over wi-fi or Cingular's EDGE.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt came on stage talked about combining Apple virtues with "the new architecture of the Internet" that allow you "merge without merging" through "open protocols and data services". He spoke of "enormous brain trusts", "powerful cloud computers" and "many many data services" that give you "full integration" that "comes together seamlessly".
Among standards he mentioned XML and HTML. He didn't mention RSS, but should have. He could have mentioned a hundred other standards, protocols and wide-open building materials, practices and methods without which we wouldn't have the iPhone, Apple, Google, the Internet or the countless industries that won't happen until the old corporate forts and walled gardens finally break down.
Many have spoken or written about what the iPhone won't do. Tom Evslin laments the locked-in exclusivity of Apple's Cingular partnership, and also provides a nice run-down of comments from his own readers and other sources. Dan Miller says "The lack of attention to the need for hands-free operation alone is shocking", and adds a pile of other criticisms as well. Both Tom and Dan are veteran industry figures.
My own first question was "Where's the GPS?" Absence of that would be a deal-killer for me. But then at CES I talked with Garmin folks about the universal connected utility of bluetooth GPS receivers. The iPhone does bluetooth. Nothing to stop anybody from making the iPhone display and otherwise add value to information from a bluetooth GPS receiver.
And will Apple prevent customers from using Skype to talk over wi-fi or EDGE? Not if Apple wants to make good on Steve's description of the iPhone as " a breakthrough Internet communications device".
Knock what's closed about the iPhone all you want; it's still a computer with a mike, a screen, a speaker and a pile of other input and output openings that invite developments of many kinds. That's why I think iPhone is going make the cell phone market a lot bigger. It will encourage participation by developers and customers that have until now been forced to cope with far less than they've wanted from the cell phone industry. And that includes all the legacy cell phone players with which Apple now partners or competes. [See here. - DS]
Think of the Big Brother Apple add from 1984. I think this is just as big a hammer as the one that woman in the red pants threw at a screen 23 years ago. The phone business ain't gonna be the same any more.
So yes, the news is about hot gear and safe sex between consenting corporations. Yes, it's also about a company and a platform playing closed as well as open games. But its also about breaking down silos and opening up markets. And that's what matters most here.
Markets are mashups. By vendors. By manufacturers. By developers. By customers large and small. And, most importantly, but the "long tail" Apple correctly called "the rest of us" long before 1984. That is, by customers and users. We haven't been part of this market before, except as a source of noise and cash. Now we can start participating. The doors are opening. Some were already open. Tuesday's news just brings that fact to light.
Pull your mind for a moment out of all the hot news and vendor sports jive -- and think instead about the construction industry. This is the oldest and most mature industry in the world. It is also the model toward which the software industry has been moving since the beginning.
The basic building materials and methods of the construction industry are all open source. There are no secrets to rock, straw, grass, metal, wood and other base materials we cut, shape, mill and otherwise put to use in countless ways that no corporation controls. Where companies do control the manufacture and distribution of building materials, there are few if any cases where one company controls the way everybody builds their house. No maker of lumber or cement can tell a contractor that everything in a new house has to rest on that maker's "platform". When a crew figures a better way to hang a door or put up wallboard, they share that expertise with other crews and the whole market changes and matures. Opportunities open up. Work gets better.
Today the LAMP stack has grown to over 140,000 building materials. The rosters of standards and practices that nobody controls only get bigger as well. Apple may have patented MultiTouch, but there are sure to be plenty of other goods in the iPhone that are as open as the sky. Or Apple wouldn't have been able to build the thing.
Best of all, Apple has raised the ceiling for conversation as well as development in the broad new category of personal telephony. Long before the iPhone comes out (it's still months away), we can start talking about countless other devices we are now more encouraged than ever to invent or improve. We can talk about applications and services that no big company would ever invent, but will open the market to all kinds of opportunities.
My own first choice is making the phone a useful instrument for asserting ourselves as autonomous and independent "players" in every social setting -- including the one we call marketplaces. That is, free of every vendor and every organization that gives us the plastic cards that carry our names in our wallets -- as well as every company that has been trying to trap us in silos for generations.
We need to be able to roam freely, as identifiably or anonymously as possible. We need to be able to engage and disengage, to establish, manage and end relationships -- on our terms, and not just those of companies that list us in their Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems.
How do we do that?
Well, some of us have been working on the independence part of this thing for the last several years through "user-centric" identity development. We're starting to work on the engagement part through VRM, or Vendor Relationship Management an idea that has just begun to come together in the last several months. Now we need make user-based identity mobile. We need to base it on phones and other personal devices. After all, phones are far more personal than any computer.
And that's what we're going to talk about at the Mobile Identity Workshop at CNet headquarters in San Francisco on Friday, January 26. And sign up soon. Attendance is free, but space is limited.
I'd also like to see folks from Apple, Google (some have already signed up), Yahoo, Cingular and various other outfits who have been involved in the iPhone project and are now free to come out, meet with engaged users and other developers, and help empower people to operate in free ways in freed-up markets.
And I'd especially like to see folks from the growing Linux and open source corners of the mobile space come forward and weigh in as well, including Trolltech,
We can, and must, come from our own independence. Because that's what mobility, one of our most human of attributes, is really about.
Doc Searls is Senior Editor of Linux Journal
Perfect work!
mobile linux
like apple google, got iphone, waiting for googlephone.for google and apple there will always something new.
Revolution? Personal? Apple?
,,Apple may have patented MultiTouch, but there are sure to be plenty of other goods in the iPhone that are as open as the sky. Or Apple wouldn't have been able to build the thing.''
Please bring at least one example to make this long blog post carry at least a bit of substance. Somehow I have the feeling the author suggests a new era of something has just started, but he fails to illustrate it. I just don't get the point on what this article wants to tell. I even think there is no point. Whatever. Having your column called "Blog" seems to be a good excuse for writing anything nowadays. For me, the iPhone still means "vendor lock-in", and certainly not "open" by any means.
hm, I already am sorry for
hm, I already am sorry for those harsh words written in a caffeine flush. I still don't agree on the Apple part but concur with part II of the article where the possibilities of mobile, open computing platforms are outlined.
No need to be sorry; you were right
I don't think I've ever written a post I've regretted more than this one, even though few have criticized it. I jumped the gun, and made assumptions that were just plain wrong. And I should have known better.
Maybe it was Steve Jobs' famous Reality Distortion Field. Maybe his bragging about OS X and a "breakthrough Internet communications device" led me to think the iPhone would be open to development. But alas, Jobs appears committed to making the iPhone *more* closed than competing phones.
This is a mistake for Apple and a huge opening for competitors who heed the backlash against Apple for closing the iPhone.
More here.
Doc Searls is Senior Editor of Linux Journal
Broken link
The link to the struck out text is 404. I'm thinking it's probably a type-o.
Here's the broken link - http://doc.weblogs.com/2007/01/11#whyphone
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Broken link
I originally posted the piece Thursday then moved it to Friday. Thursday was the 11th, Friday the 12th. Didn't change the date for that day. Fixed now. The correct link is now http://doc.weblogs.com/2007/01/12#whyphone.
BTW, for some reason, the full correction wouldn't work either in the text or in the comments section here. I got some kind of Drupal error message. That's why I put it over in my blog. (My first choice there would have been to point here.) But then I screwed that one up.
So this whole thing has been a small train wreck.
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Operating Systems, Second Edition
Authors: Andrew S. Tanenbaum and Albert S. Woodhull
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Operating Systems: Design and Implementation is an introductory book designed for people who have already dealt with the basics of programming. When reading this book, a knowledge of both C and assembly language is helpful but not required. In particular, not knowing assembly will not prevent you from understanding the book, but it may slow you down.
The first chapter of the book is an overall introduction to the topic of operating systems. It starts with an explanation of what an OS is and a short historical summary on the evolution of operating systems. Then, the basic concepts of operating systems are explained and the different possible structures for an OS are introduced. The introduction ends with an overview of the remaining chapters of the book.
The style of the authors is very straightforward, making the information easy to follow and understand. The text doesn't get side-tracked into irrelevant topics, a problem found in many text books.
Another strong point of this book is that it is not only a theoretical introduction to operating systems programming but a practical one as well. The included CD-ROM contains MINIX 2.0 complete with source code and several simulators for non-Intel machines. The code is meant to be backward compatible with processors as old as the 8088, so if there's an old machine gathering dust in the basement, it can still be put to use for experimenting with the concepts covered in the book. The theoretical and practical parts of the book are well-balanced and easy to separate, so that one may use the book only for the theoretical parts or only for the practical parts.
Installing MINIX from the CD-ROM is not too hard, but if you have done installations before, the experience will help. The installation instructions have some minor inaccuracies, but a log file from an installation done by Andrew Tanenbaum is also provided, which clarifies the situation.
The chapters following the introduction each deal with a specific concept of OS programming. Chapter 2 is dedicated to processes, Chapter 3 to I/O, Chapter 4 to memory management and Chapter 5 to file systems. Each of these chapters starts with a description of the concept and the theory behind it. The chapter then continues to detail how the concept is realized in MINIX. This part of the chapter follows the source code line-by-line explaining what is being done by the corresponding piece of code.
Another practical side of the book is that all the code explained is contained in Appendix A, which means that there is no need for piles of printouts or a screen when one is trying to follow the description in the book.
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By Tom Precious
ALBANY – Gov. Andrew Cuomo is backing down on a provision in the new gun control law that in three weeks would have banned gun shops from selling weapon clips that hold up to 10 bullets.
With opposition still active by gun rights groups and owners, Cuomo said the law passed in January has "inconsistent'' provisions that permit people to have 10 bullet magazines at a competition or gun range but makes it illegal to have more than seven rounds in the magazine. Gun makers say they do not make seven-round magazines, and gun rights groups say Cuomo's gun bill was crafted as a way to limit their gun purchase rights by going after the clip sizes.
Under the plan being negotiated at the Capitol, Cuomo said it will still be illegal for people to have more than seven bullets in a clip, even if that clip has a 10-round capacity. The only exception is at gun ranges and at shooting competitions.
The law grandfathered in existing 10-round clips purchased before April 15. Now, those larger clip sizes will still be allowed to be sold after April 15 in New York if the deal is finalized. The plan was first floated by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on Tuesday.
Cuomo, whose poll numbers have been dropping, especially upstate, said the change has nothing to do with anything other than what he characterized numerous times as inconsistent language. Cuomo said any push to permit people to still put up to 10 bullets in the 10-bullet capacity clips is a "non-starter.''
UPDATE: After meeting with Cuomo this afternoon, Silver sought to downplay the change. "It's a change to accommodate commerce, basically. They're not being made in sevens,'' he said of seven bullet clips.
Asked if he was worried about more, larger clips being in circulation, which was the stated intent of the lower magazine sizes when Cuomo and lawmakers cut the deal, Silver said: "The issue is not the magazines. The issue is the people and what they do with them ... We're banning assault weapons. We're not going back on banning assault weapons. That's a tremendous accomplishment in this state.''
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---- — KINGSTON - Jayden D. Otwell, a 10 yr old student from DJ Bakie Elementary in Kingston, will be holding her fist official art gallery showing at the Wild Salamander Creative Arts Center in Hollis. The opening reception "A Hundred Feet of Art" will be held on Fri., November 30, from 5:00-8:00 p.m. The show will run from November 30th until January 31st, 2013. Everyone is invited to attend the opening and meet Jayden in person as well as view her artwork and enjoy the many other artists who will be displaying their work as well.
Jayden will be displaying four pieces of her original artwork which will all be available for purchase. Jayden is an avid artist in the fantasy realm of dragons. She has been drawing dragons since the age of 6. When not drawing, she can be found out and about with her family sailing, motorcycle riding, camping, snorkeling, fishing and more.


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Health Buzz: U.S. News Ranks Best Diets 2013
A primer on plant-based diets; Plus, what's the "best diet" for you?
DASH, TLC, and Weight Watchers Snag Top Spots Among Best Diets
Many Americans stepped into the new year vowing to eat better and perhaps drop 10 or 20 or 100 pounds in 2013. While these healthy resolutions are often accompanied by good intentions, they're also elusive without a specific plan. In an effort to take some of the guesswork out of healthy eating, U.S. News has published the third annual Best Diets 2013 rankings. With help from a panel of diet and nutrition experts, U.S. News scrutinized 29 diets and paid special attention to their safety, nutritional completeness, the likelihood that dieters would lose weight or be protected against conditions like diabetes and heart disease, and more. The DASH and TLC diets claimed spots No. 1 and No. 2 respectively in terms of best diets overall, while Weight Watchers topped the lists of weight-loss diets, commercial diets, and easiest diets to follow. The 2013 rankings also include a brand-new category for plant-based diets, in which the Mediterranean Diet claimed the top spot. U.S. News also ranked diets in terms of diabetes prevention and maintenance, heart healthiness, and healthy eating.
Plant-Based Diets: A Primer
There was a time when vegetarianism was one thin euphemism away from just plain weird. Subsisting on plants seemed like some kind of kooky California fad or college experimentation and was discussed with an eye roll and hushed tone. Then again, there was a time when Whole Foods was the province of hippies, Bill Clinton ate burgers with bravado (the former commander in chief has since gone vegan to stave off heart disease), and vegetarianism marked the rare dietary restriction at a dinner party. Of course, we weren't quite so hungry then for solutions.
We all know Americans have become fatter but less nourished, and that we face a public health crisis, the likes of which we've never seen before. Our children, one-third of whom are overweight or obese, may, for the first time in our nation's history, be dealt a shorter life span than their parents. Blame it on a sedentary lifestyle coupled with the consumption of cheap, processed food. In any case, the prognosis has us scrambling to literally save our lives by learning how and what to eat.
Meanwhile, food sensitivities, allergies, and intolerances, and about a million other complicated factors, from health concerns to culture and ideology, have created a nation of idiosyncratic diets, often as individual as the dieters themselves.
However, as data increasingly points to the protective and restorative power of so-called plant-based diets, many of us are turning to the whole fruits and vegetables our mothers and their mothers insisted upon. That's not to say Americans are adopting vegetarianism (vegetarians represent just 5 percent of the adult population, and a mere 2 percent identify as vegans, according to a July 2012 Gallup poll). Today, we talk about "plant-based diets." [Read more: Plant-Based Diets: A Primer]
What Is the 'Best Diet' for You?
What makes a diet best? In Best Diets 2013, the latest set of exclusive rankings from U.S. News, the DASH diet beat out 28 others, including Atkins, Jenny Craig, and Slim-Fast, to win the "Best Diets Overall" crown. Among the 12 commercial diet programs marketed to the public, Weight Watchers came out on top. (Our methodology explains how.) We also ranked the diets on likelihood of weight loss, ability to prevent and control diabetes and heart disease, healthiness, and how easy they are to follow. And this year, we added one new rankings category: Best Plant-Based Diets, a nod to the healthfulness and burgeoning popularity of these plans. The Mediterranean diet snagged the top spot on the plant-based list, followed by the Flexitarian diet.
Our analysis puts hard numbers on the common-sense belief that no diet is ideal for everybody.
Take DASH, the Best Diets Overall winner. It wasn't created as a way to drop pounds, but as a means of combating high blood pressure (it stands for Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension). The federal government, which funded the research behind DASH, doesn't even call it a diet—it's an "eating plan." If losing weight is your No. 1 goal, a diet in our Best Weight-Loss Diets rankings would be a more likely choice. Or if you have diabetes, you might want to look especially hard at Best Diabetes Diets.


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|Clearwing Moths
Divison: Microlepidoptera
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Suborder: Ditrysia
Superfamily: Sesioidea
Family: Sesiidae
See a list and photos of the specimens in the SDNHM collection.
Sesiidae is a family of moths that encompasses several genera and over 1000 species. The family is distributed worldwide, except in the coldest zones. Although some members of the family are significant pests of crops, others are relatively harmless.
Unlike most moths, members of the Sesiidae family are diurnal and do not appear very mothlike, since there are no scales on the wings. In fact, many appear more like wasps or hornets. Sesiidae are Batesian mimics, a type of mimic named after Henry Walter Bates. The moths look enough like wasps, hornets, or other more dangerous insects that their appearance discourages predation, although they share none of the characteristics that make predators wary of wasps or hornets.
Adult Sesiidae live for only a few days, enough to deposit eggs on or near a host plant. Most species have very narrow preferences as to host plants, with some species using only one species of plant. Others have broader requirements. Host plants range from shrubs to trees. Once the eggs hatch, the larvae then have to find their own way into the plant. If they are unable to find a suitable entry point, they die.
Once inside the plant, the larvae are borers - they eat out the middle of the stem or branch of a plant, which kills the part of the plant eaten. For some crops, this makes the larvae vicious pests. Feeding is tolerated in some trees and does not cause serious harm, though larvae usually attack weakened or damaged parts of trees and therefore can aid decline.
a month before the larva is ready to pupate, it bores a tunnel to the
surface of the plant, leaving enough material to hide the hole's existence.
the pupa is ready to become an adult, it breaks through the remaining
plant layer and emerges as an adult. The adult will live only for a few
days, enough to mate and lay more eggs so that the cycle can continue.
Links to Sesiidae sites:
Text by Emily Finley in consultation with Michael Wall.
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|Women's Basketball » Schedule » Roster » News » Coaches » 2013-14 Season Statistics
Valpo Hits the Road Again, Travels to Akron Wednesday Night
Monday, November 20, 2006Game #4: Wednesday, November 22, 6 p.m. CST
Valpo (1-2, 0-0 Mid-Con) at Akron (1-2, 0-0 MAC)
James A. Rhodes Arena (5,500) - Akron, Ohio
Coming Up in Crusader Hoops: Valparaiso plays its final game before the Thanksgiving holiday on Wednesday evening as the Crusaders head to Akron, Ohio to battle the Zips of Akron. The Brown and Gold is looking for its second straight victory, and first of the year away from the Athletics-Recreation Center.
On the Air: Wednesday's game at Akron will be carried live by WVUR (95.1-FM, Valparaiso) and online at www.valpo.edu/athletics. The student-run radio station plans on carrying all Crusader women's basketball games this season live both over the air and online. Ron Castor and Matt Engelbrecht will call all the action live from James A. Rhodes Arena.
Series Notes: Valparaiso and Akron are renewing a rivalry that dates back to the days of the North Star Conference when the two schools were league foes. The Crusaders hold an 8-4 advantage all-time between the two schools in a series that began during the 1988-1989 season. The Zips won the last meeting, 71-68, at Akron on December 1, 1994. Valpo holds a 3-2 lead in the series in Akron.
Wrapping Up Northern Arizona: Valparaiso got 21 points from Betsy Rietema and 15 more from Tamra Braun as the Crusaders picked up their first victory of the 2006-2007 season on Friday night, defeating Northern Arizona 62-56 at the ARC. Rietema also had a team-high eight rebounds. The Crusaders shot 55% from the field in the second half to overcome 20 turnovers in the contest. Northern Arizona held a lead most of the first half before Valpo's defense held the Lumberjacks without a field goal for the final 7:13 of the stanza while going on a 12-0 run to take a 26-18 lead into the break.
Scouting Akron: The Zips are coming off of their first victory of the season on Saturday evening, defeating Binghamton 55-44 at the Florida Atlantic Tip-off Classic. The contest with the Crusaders will be the home opener for Akron after spending the first two weeks of the season away from James A. Rhodes Arena. Sarah Tokodi paces three Zips in double figures with her 16.3 points per outing. She is shooting 55.2% from the floor and scored 24 points against Florida Atlantic. Niki McCoy adds 15.3 points per night while Jessie Crooks has tallied 11.3 per game.
Rietema Scores Big Against Northern Arizona: Betsy Rietema scored when Valpo needed it against Northern Arizona. The senior had 17 of her game-high 21 points in the second half. Rietema had tallied 22 points in the first two games combined.
Braun Starts Scoring Too: Tamra Braun had just six points in the first two games of the season, but registered her 42nd double figure scoring game with 15 points against Northern Arizona.
Kulaga Dishes the Rock: Agnieszka Kulaga came off of the bench to register a career-high four assists for the Brown and Gold in the win against the Lumberjacks on Friday. As a freshman last season, Kulaga had nine assists on the year. This year she has six through three games.
Getting to the Free Throw Line: Valpo has done a solid job of getting to the free throw line in the early stages of the 2006-2007 campaign. The Crusaders have been to the charity stripe 73 times in three games (24.3 times per game). Last season Valpo averaged 16.3 trips to the line per game.
Valpo Vs. The MAC: Valparaiso has faced 10 of the current 12 members of the Mid-American Conference all-time. Among all the MAC schools, Valpo's 8-4 mark against Akron is the Crusaders' best. The only two MAC schools Valpo has never faced are Ohio and Toledo. Valpo also has MAC foes Ball State and Central Michigan on the schedule this season.
Home Sweet Home: Valparaiso's victory to open the home campaign against Northern Arizona improved the Brown and Gold's record to 176-98 (.642) all-time at the Athletics-Recreation Center. Since the 2001-2002 season, Valpo has posted a 54-13 (.806) mark at the ARC.
Twins Return Home: The Hochstetler twins have a homecoming of sorts when Valpo faces Akron. Launa and Leah are from nearby Berlin, Ohio, just an hour from Akron.
Balanced Minutes: Coach Keith Freeman has spread the minutes out for the Crusaders during the first three games. Every player has already seen action, and six players are averaging between 12 and 23 minutes a game. Ten players are seeing eight or more minutes of playing time per night. Betsy Rietema (31.0 mpg) and Tamra Braun (29.7 mpg) are the only Crusaders averaging more than 23 minutes per night.
Valpo Picked Second in Mid-Con Race: Valparaiso had been tabbed to finish in second place in the Mid-Continent Conference this season according to the preseason poll conducted of the league's head coaches, sports information directors, and selected media outlets. The Crusaders trailed only Oral Roberts in the balloting. Ironically, Valpo and the Golden Eagles will open Mid-Con play against each other on January 6.
Three Crusaders Tabbed to League's Preseason Teams: Valparaiso had three Crusaders selected to the Mid-Continent Conference's Preseason All-Conference Teams. Tamra Braun and Betsy Rietema were named to the First Team while Carrie Myers was selected to the Second Team. Braun averaged 12.0 points and a team-high 8.3 boards per game last season on her way to First Team All Mid-Con honors. Rietema, a Second Team All Mid-Con selection last year, led Valpo with 13.0 points per game while grabbing 6.0 rebounds per night. Myers earned Honorable Mention accolades last season posting 10.6 points per game while shooting 40.2% from three-point range.
Rietema Moves Into 14th in School History in Scoring: Betsy Rietema has moved into 14th all-time in school history in scoring. The senior forward has tallied 898 moving past Heidi Diefenthaler (1992-1996). Rietema now needs just 22 points to match Sarah Schmoyer (1992-1996) for 13th all-time in scoring.
Braun Among Top-20 in Scoring Also: Senior Tamra Braun moved into the top-20 on Valpo's career scoring list with 15 points against Northern Arizona. The Valpo center currently has scored 824 points over her career passing current Crusader graduate assistant Jamie Gutowski (2002-2006) for 20th place all-time. She now needs just six more points to move into 19th place (Jill Otto, 1985-1989) and 16 points for 18th place (Mo Drabicki, 1994-1998).
Freeman Winningest Coach in Mid-Con History: Head coach Keith Freeman's 210 victories are not only most in Valpo history, but also rank top in Mid-Continent Conference history for career wins.
Braun Continues to Move Up Rebounding Charts: Tamra Braun is currently ninth all-time in school history with 622 career rebounds. The senior center is 20 shy of Carie Wickham's (1996-2001) eighth place total of 642 boards.
Rietema On the Verge of Rebounding Charts: Betsy Rietema needs just seven more boards to move into a tie for 20th place on Valparaiso's career rebounding list. The senior forward has brought down 395 rebounds to date. Darcie Miller (1992-1996) currently holds the 20th spot all-time in a Crusader uniform.
Braun Also Swats Shots: Tamra Braun also ranks second all-time with 146 career blocked shots. She trails Michelle Mader's (1988-1992) school record by 20 rejections.
Braun Among Mid-Con Best in Blocks: Tamra Braun's 146 career blocks also are seventh best in Mid-Continent Conference history. Her three rejections against Northern Arizona moved her past Lauren Powers (UMKC, 1997-2001) in the league's record book. Next up for the senior is Nicole Blakeslee (Buffalo, 1994-1998) who is sixth with 159 swats.
Myers Deadly from Long Range: Carrie Myers enters play in seventh place on the career three-point list with 135 triples. The senior is five triples behind Heidi Diefenthaler (1992-1996) for the sixth spot all-time and trails Megan Newcomer (1996-2000) by 10 for fifth place in Valpo laurels.
Rietema Likes Freebies: Betsy Rietema's 250 career free throws are fifth most in school history. She trails Paige Freeman (1985-1989) by 23 for fourth place in the all-time record book.
Freeman Adds Five Hoosiers for 2007-2008: Keith Freeman has signed five Indiana prep players to National Letters of Intent for the 2007-2008 season. Joining the Crusader roster next year are forward LaTice Jones (Gary, Ind./Roosevelt H.S.), guard Rashida Ray (Fort Wayne, Ind./Harding H.S.), guard Stephanie Thomas (Avon, Ind./Avon H.S.), Jasmine Ussery (Newburg, Ind./Castle H.S.), and Ashley Varner (South Bend, Ind./Washington H.S.).
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Availability: Mercure Hotel Düsseldorf Airport
Standard Twin Room, 2 Single BedsMax Occupancy: 2 guests
Standard Double RoomMax Occupancy: 3 guests (up to 1 child)
Standard Room, 1 Queen BedMax Occupancy: 2 guests
Superior Room, 1 Queen BedMax Occupancy: 2 guests
4-star hotel in Ratingen with a restaurant
Situated near the airport, in Ratingen, this hotel is in the same area as Sechs-Seen-Platte, LVR-Industriemuseum Ratingen, and Six Lakes Park. Area attractions also include Hosel Golfclub and Dusseldorfer Golfclub.
Hotel Features
In addition to a restaurant, Mercure Hotel Düsseldorf Airport features a sauna. Other amenities include complimentary wireless Internet access and dry cleaning/laundry services.
Room Amenities
Flat-screen televisions come with satellite channels. Guestrooms also feature complimentary wireless Internet access, complimentary high-speed (wired) Internet access, and sofa beds.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
Mercure Hotel Düsseldorf Airport Amenities
- General
In addition to a seasonal outdoor pool, Mercure Hotel Düsseldorf Airport provides a sauna and a fitness center. The hotel offers a restaurant. This 4-star property offers access to a business center and small meeting rooms.
High-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary. 7 meeting rooms are available. This business-friendly hotel also offers a terrace, multilingual staff, and complimentary newspapers in the lobby. For a surcharge, a roundtrip airport shuttle (available on request) is offered to guests. Onsite parking is available (surcharge).
Mercure Hotel Düsseldorf Airport is a smoke-free property.
- Business center
- Meeting rooms
- Number of meeting rooms - 7
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- 24-hour front desk
- Elevator/lift
- Number of floors - 4
- Room service (limited hours)
- Restaurant
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Complimentary newspapers in lobby
- Conference space
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Fitness facilities
- Free Wi-Fi
- Total number of rooms - 120
- Laundry facilities
- Multilingual staff
- Terrace
- Luggage storage
- Year Built 1976
- Self parking (surcharge)
- Sauna
- Smoke-free property
- Outdoor seasonal pool
- Use of nearby fitness center (complimentary)
- Internet
Available in all rooms: Free Wi-Fi , Free wired high-speed Internet
Available in some public areas: Free Wi-Fi
- Parking
Self parking (surcharge)
- Room Amenities
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Rollaway/extra beds available
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Daily housekeeping
- Hair dryer
- Shower/tub combination
- Satellite TV service
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Desk
- In-room safe
- Sofa bed
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Flat-panel TV
- Free Wi-Fi
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- Dining
Buffet breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 6 AM and 10:30 AM.
Quecke - Overlooking the pool and garden, this restaurant specializes in international cuisine and serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Guests can enjoy alfresco dining (weather permitting). A children's menu is available.
Kornkammer - Overlooking the pool and garden, this bar specializes in international cuisine and serves lunch and dinner. Guests can enjoy alfresco dining (weather permitting). A children's menu is available.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
- Recreation
Recreational amenities at the hotel include a sauna, a fitness center, and a seasonal outdoor pool.
- Accessibility
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- Accessible path of travel
- Accessible bathroom
- Roll-in shower
- Accessible parking
- In-room accessibility
Mercure Hotel Düsseldorf Airport Policies & Fees
- Check-in
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
- Check-out
Check-out time is noon
- Payment types
Accepted at this hotel: American Express, Diners Club, JCB International, MasterCard, Visa
- Pets
Pets allowed
- General
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- Fees
- The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.
- Breakfast fee: EUR 16 per person (approximately)
- Airport shuttle fee: EUR 9 per person (one way)
- Self parking fee: EUR 4 per day (in/out privileges)
- Pet fee: EUR 10 per pet, per night
- Late check-out fee: EUR 25
- Rollaway bed fee: EUR 15 per night
- Additional Details
The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.
National Rating
- Details
Hotelstars Union assigns an official star rating for properties in Germany. This property is rated 4 stars.


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We invited Richgirl, Rich Harrison's handpicked quartet of Audra, Brave, Lyndriette and Seven, to the FADER offices fully aware of the handful of promo pics floating around the internet and even having seen the video for "He Ain't Wit Me Now (Tho)." Seeing them in person, however, is a completely different story. Sure they're pleasant and can sing and dance and get along well enough, but parading into our conference room the four look like finalists for the female lead in the next Jay-Z video. All of them. And though hailing from four different corners of the states, all with equally diverse ethnic backgrounds, they've come together under Harrison's Midas Ear to form one of pop's brightest hopes for the coming months. When we spoke though, the one thing they did want to make clear was that Richgirl wasn't just about being fine or rich, or even one of "Richie's Angels." It's about being who you are. And if that just so happens to be fine and/or rich, then yeah, run with that too. "He Ain't Wit Me Now (Tho)" is available for download after the jump.
Download: Richgirl, "He Ain't Wit Me Now (Tho)"


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Figure-fit biker jacket in woven cotton with lapels and sleeves in imitation leather, press-studs on the shoulder tabs and lapels, a zip at the front, and zipped side pockets. Lined.
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