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Jamal Saeed Abdul Rahim, a Jordanian of Palestinian origin who had a bounty of $5 million on his head, was killed in the strike in North Waziristan on Sunday, along with another Jordanian who was identified as Mahmoud Zaydan, the official said.
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Why all the sudden are people acting like Marquez is a bum?
Last time I check Marquez is ranked p4p #5
Last time I check old isnt a criteria of being past prime e.g. Martinez/Bhop
Say what you want, You are just a hating h0m0
At the end of the day Marquez/Pac will be the same weight less 4lbs
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Here is the cold hard truth, if you consider Marquez to be a legit threat which I do and I honestly think he wins saturday.
However if Marquez is not looked at like a bum if he is viewed as a threat to Manny Pacquiao, Then it spells bad news for Floyd fans if Manny destroys him. it would be another common opponent in which Manny out gunned Floyd.
So its best to label the man as a bum so if that happens they have that to fall back on....
Reality is, between the two its always going to be a style thing age has nothing to do with it if you train right, its not like he has taken much abuse I mean Floyd if anybody, should have been able to knock him out he couldnt.
People argue and point out some of the recent fights he has had since the Mayweather fight, again Marquez wasnt stopped and has not lost, and those were against fighters with a different style than Manny.
I think the new training methods that he has adopted, his self belief he doesnt feel he lost to Manny, and knowing he did the best against Pacquiao than any fighter since Morales in fight 1, you mix all that up, with a fighter who believes he beat him twice, you have a dangerous opponent especially when you got Manny stating he isnt going to leave any doubt, that may lead to a Pacquiao mistake ( I Believe it will ) and Manny will get caught and I think stopped in this fight.
Dont sleep on Marquez, *****s you dont need to call Marquez a bum to save face.....
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So here I've created a High Pass mask, at least I've created the beginning of a High Pass mask. I've gone ahead and duplicated the Green channel, applied High Pass, increased the Contrast, and used the Lasso tool along with the Invert command in order to make sure that the black edges are evenly distributed around the outside of the parrot and the white or light edges are on the inside of the parrot. And by parrot, I of course mean this animal is a macaw. I just like to call it a Parrot, because it's not a Canary. I just got that going for it.
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Once I've selected that region, I'll press, in my case, white is the background color. So I'll press the Backspace key or the Delete key to fill that area with white. I could even go in tighter in certain areas and grab more information like so if I want to, just to get rid of more of this garbage here. So it will feel like I'm looking at some kind of medical X-ray or something. Then, I'm going to zoom back out. I'm going to Alt+Click around the outside of the animal, like so, and come in to these areas and then go back down.
Obviously, I'm doing a very rough job, I'm just trying to get the big work taking care of first and I'll press Alt+Backspace or Option+Delete to fill that area with white. All right, now let's zoom in. Now, you're going to need help figuring out who is in and who is out, as you're working inside the mask. So this is why I suggest you do. First of all, go ahead and press the Tilde key in order to show the RBG image. At the same time you're looking at the High Pass mask. Now at this point you might say, well, gosh Deke, this really isn't helping me.
I could tell what was going on before, now it's a complete mess. I can't tell what's going on. That's because you're seeing the High Pass overlay as a rubylith, you don't want to see it that way. Here's what you want to see. You just want to see the black of the mask as black and the white as translucent. And here's how you do that. Double-click on the High Pass thumbnail right there inside the Channels palette. Click on the Color, make it black, click OK so that 0, 0, 0 for HSB. Click OK, then change the Opacity to 100%, click OK and why is it calling it black, we don't want it to be called black. It may rename the channel for us, let's see.
I'll go ahead and click OK and it thinks it's the Black channel now, no, no, no Photoshop, bad Photoshop; High Pass is still High Pass, thank you very much. But, see here's the great thing, that we can see our black outlines from the mask very clearly and we can see the animal at the same time in the background. So now we just press the Tilde key to send that area to white and press Tilde again to see the white area filled with macaw, so that we can decide what needs to painted white and what needs to be painted black. So now go ahead and grab your Paintbrush tool and you want to work with a pretty big, well, a semi-big brush, something like this 40 is probably good.
But you want it to be hard, so press Shift+Right Bracket four times in a row, at least, to make sure that you have the hardest brush possible. That way you're not introducing new edges, you want to subscribe to the edges that the High Pass filter has given you. Then I'm going to press the X key to make sure that my foreground color is white and I'm going to paint in like so to get rid of the garbage that's really part of the macaw that's on the inside of the macaw, like so. Actually, at this point, I would kind of drag like this in order to paint the area into the bird. Then I will press the Tilde key so that I'm seeing just the straight outline once again. When you press Tilde, when you turn the image on and off, you often time switch the foreground and background colors. I don't really like that behavior from Photoshop, but it sometimes does it for you.
So I'll go ahead and undo that modification there. I'll press the X key to switch back to white again. I'll paint like so in order to paint in so that the area inside of the beak is white, which of course is something that I want, fairly desirable, since that's inside of the bird. Now I'm going to go with a smaller brush. Click there in order to paint the tip of the beak and paint up like so in order to paint this area away as well. You can work through pretty quickly, although you are going to have to be careful; you do need to observe your outlines.
If you have the kind of teacher in grade school who got sort of grumpy with you, if you colored outside of the outlines, just when you be in the grade school, what it would be, it would be more like kindergarten or something like that. Then you're all set because you were trained to stay inside the lines. It's very possible, your teacher was prescient and she saw High Pass masking in the future, like she had talked to some kind of fortune teller who told her all about High Pass masking. And she was just trying to do you a favor, in which case she really did, because it is very important.
I don't think it's very important where coloring books are concerned, but where High Pass masking is concerned, you do want to stay inside of those lines as much as you can. Now sometimes, you're going to have to make decisions about which is outside and which is inside, as I say that's just something you're going to have to do. Now notice that I'm just painting with white and black, I could approach this, if I wanted to I could approach this with the Dodge and Burn tools, but our edges are pretty ratty and so dodging and burning is going to bring out noise that you may not want to bring out. So, when you get here to something like this, I recommend that you click and Shift+Click like so, in order to connect each one of your click points with a straight segment there. So it's analogous to Alt+Clicking or Option+Clicking with Lasso tool, but that's Shift+ Clicking once again with the Paintbrush.
Photoshop chooses to use a different shortcut analogy at that point. All right, let's go ahead and click and Shift+Click and Shift+Click around the horn here, around the cape of good hope, where the beak is concerned, I suppose. Then, I'll paint this away and so on and so on. Now you can tell that this is a tedious experience. I think this is becoming very evident to you. But it can also be Zen, right, turn on some music that you like, you can turn on the news, if you want to, whatever your favorite variety of news is or if you like some AM thing, then you can listen to that as well.
You can just sort of get into it, because really, you can just send your mind elsewhere, while you're working on this. This is brain dead stuff. I mean, you can just go into sort of Auto mode or you can just sit there and nash your teeth and hate every minute of it. I sometimes call this technique, padded cell masking, because by time you get down with it, you're going to be ready for a padded cell. But it is so accurate, that's just the thing. I mean, it really does do the work for you, really does show you where those edges are. Now, of course it's up to you to interpret those edges as I'm doing here fairly willy-nilly. But it does show them to you and it does make them obvious for you. You can see how quickly I can work through this.
Again, I would say masking this fellow here's about 20 minutes sort of technique, which would mean it takes me about half-an-hour to 45 minutes narrate for you, so I'm not going to do it. But I'm just going to show you, we've gotten this far, with me jabbering away, you can imagine that you can move through it. If you want to, you can get the whole darn thing done. I definitely encourage you to do so, if this is a kind of technique that you think are going to have to take advantage of if you get some really nasty images that you're asked to mask. This guy is your ticket; High Pass is your ticket baby! And especially if you've got the time to do, if you're being paid hourly, it's a great tool; it's the tool of choice.
So anyway, go ahead and give the macaw a try, call it a parrot if you want to, I don't care. In the next exercise, we're going to see something that mentally is much more challenging, but it's also much more automated so we'll work through it, more quickly. That is, we're going to take advantage of some calculation variations, coming next.
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Wrapping up virtual Week Four
Scoring Summary
1st quarter
TD ND: Shaquelle Evans 25-yd pass from Nate Montana, 2:30 left. ND 7, Stanford 0.
2nd quarter
TD ND: S. Evans returned R. Sherman fumble 14 yds, 10:33 left. ND 14, Stanford 0.
TD ND: E.J. Banks returned J. Nunes interception 50 yds, 4:57 left. ND 21, Stanford 0.
TD Stan: Stepfan Taylor 2-yard run, 0:00 left. Notre Dame 21, Stanford 7.
3rd quarter
TD Stan: Jeremy Stewart 3-yard run (2-pt failed), 11:39 left. ND 21, Stanford 13.
TD Stan: Levine Toilolo 5-yard pass from Andrew Luck (Wilkerson run for two), 1:54 left. Notre Dame 21, Stanford 21.
4th quarter
FG ND: 40, 19-yard field goal, 7:23 left. Notre Dame 24, Stanford 21.
FG Stanford: Nate Whitaker, 26-yard field goal, 0:00 left. Notre Dame 24, Stanford 24.
FG ND: 40, 38-yard field goal. Notre Dame 27, Stanford 24.
TD Stan: Chris Owusu 25-yard pass from Andrew Luck. Stanford 30, Notre Dame 27.
Box score
|Notre Dame
|First downs
|Total offense
|Passing (Comp-Att-Yards-TD)
|Rushing (Att-Yards-TD)
|Third down conversions
|Fumbles lost
Key Stanford player stats
QB Andrew Luck: 21-of-37, 374 yards, 2 TD, 1 INT
RB Anthony Wilkerson: eight carries, 69 yards
WR Ryan Whalen: three receptions, 112 yards
WR Chris Owusu: three receptions, 78 yards, 1 TD
DT Matt Masafilo: four tackles for loss
DE Thomas Keiser: one interception, 69 return yards
Key out-of-town scores
No. 11 Oklahoma 41, @No. 20 Cincinnati 24
@No. 10 Boise State 45, No. 25 Oregon State 20
No. 1 Alabama 48, @No. 14 Arkansas 38
No. 24 West Virginia, @No. 12 LSU 6
@Arizona State 17, No. 3 Oregon 16
Stanford schedule
@Stanford 35, Sacramento State 6
Stanford 22, @UCLA 16
Stanford 52, @Wake Forest 14
Stanford 30, @Notre Dame 27
Stanford at Oregon
Stanford at USC
Stanford vs. Washington State
Stanford at Washington
Stanford vs. Arizona
Stanford at Arizona State
Stanford at Cal
Stanford vs. Oregon State
EA Sports Player Ratings
Okay, for those of us old enough to be a Senator, here's a little background. The game via which we're simulating Stanford's season, EA Sports' NCAA Football 2011, is the only college football video game to my knowledge, and even if there is some minor competing product out there somewhere, the EA Sports franchise is the definitive college football video game, and has been for a good decade now.
In every year's game, every player in Division I-A is assigned ratings from 0 to 100 in about two dozen categories, e.g. speed, agility, strength, catching, awareness, passing accuracy, passing strength, kicking accuracy and kicking strength. This is how the computer knows how good each player is at any given task, and explains, for example, why your quarterback is way better at passing than your halfback (the quarterback has better passing ratings) or a far worse tailback than your running backs (the quarterback probably has worse speed, agility and catching ratings). For each player, all these individual attribute ratings are averaged into a single rating, with the low-80's the approximate average overall rating of a BCS school starter.
Given this low-80's benchmark, here is how this year's game rates some notable Stanford players:
QB Andrew Luck 94
[Four halfbacks between 75 and 85.]
FB Owen Marecic 88
WR Ryan Whalen 89
WR Chris Owusu 87
OT Jonathan Martin 89
OG Andrew Phillips 83
C Chase Beeler 89
OG David DeCastro 84
DE Thomas Keiser 87
DE Chase Thomas 85
DT Sione Fua 88
LB Shayne Skov 92
LB Chike Amajoyi 88
CB Johnson Bademosi 85
SS Delano Howell 86
KOR: Chris Owusu 99
[Note, while the average for your 22 starters is in the low-80's, returners' averages are set well north of 90 in this game for whatever reason. Still, it's an obviously impressive score for Owusu.]
Would love to hear what Stanford fans think about some of these numbers, but here are my snap judgments:
• Given that the overall rating is derived by averaging ratings of mostly tangible qualities (speed, agility, strength), it's hard to see how Whalen rates more highly than Owusu.
• Most underrated? Our offensive guards. DeCastro in particular will be playing on Sundays. I also think our defensive ends deserve better (and, if they play like they're capable, will see a big boost in their scores for next year's edition.) Finally, I realize this is hard to project, but of all the stud halfbacks we have, and the fact that halfback is probably the single position on the field least dependent on coaching, I'd be surprised if someone doesn't play at a upper-80's level -- or above.
• Most overrated? Shayne Skov isn't yet Stanford's second-best player on the team, though I understand that these ratings are projections for the 2010 season, when it's quite possible that a sophomore Skov will lead on defense. (Though why not give Delano Howell the same benefit of the doubt, if we're making projections?) By contrast, it would be quite the pleasant surprise for Stanford fans if Chike Amajoyi, who could well find himself out of a starting job once the incoming freshman make their mark, ends up a significantly above-average player, and second only to Skov on the Stanford defense.
• Generally, I think the offense is given too little respect and the defense is given too much. Among BCS schools last year, the offense was a top-10 unit, and the defense quite possibly a bottom-10 unit, but players' rankings look relatively similar.
Admittedly, it's easy for all of us to gripe about these ratings, so how about a challenge for fans out there? Say 83 is average. How do you rank our starting 22?
Okay, one month until the real season starts, and we've got nine more games in Stanford's virtual season – including Oregon and USC up next. Stay tuned for all the best in coverage of Stanford football, both real and virtual!
Inspired by reading stories like this as a kid in the Michigan student newspaper on game days, the author hopes you enjoy reading this series every bit as much as he enjoys writing it. The 2010 season is being simulated on EA Sports NCAA 2011, with the author playing all Stanford games and simulating the rest in a dynasty mode.
All statistics, game summary, rankings, player news and out-of-town scores are reported unchanged from game simulation. (I.e. Don't call the author pessimistic if Stanford struggles. Call him bad at video games.)
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In this final exercise of the chapter, I'm going to show you how to trim away these white edges at the top and bottom of the composition, without harming a single thing we've done so far. That's a little bit tricky. The reasons are, there are two things inside of our composition that will get clipped if we don't take special precautions. One of them is the Background layer. The Background layer can never be any bigger than the canvas size. So if you trim the canvas, then the Background layer is going to get trimmed as well. The other thing that's going to get clipped is the channel right here. Any Alpha channels inside the Channels palette are going to get clipped away as well, whereas, if they're expressed as layer masks, we can avoid clipping them.
All right, so what do we do? I'm going to switch over to Layers palette. I've saved my changes as Big white borders.psd, as I've mentioned in previous exercise. It's found inside the 01_how_they_work folder. Now there is a few different ways we could work. You could go up to the Image menu and you could choose the Trim command. This Trim command is exceedingly useful for these purposes. The only problem is it's destructive, which is just so frustrating. But I'll go ahead and choose the command. How it works is it looks for a color. That color is either going to be in the top-left corner or the bottom-right corner of your larger composition.
Either of these settings is going to work for us, because that top-left pixel, and that bottom-right pixel are both colored absolute white, and that's what we want to trim away. We only need to trim it at the top and the bottom, so we could turn these two guys off, but it's not going to make any difference, because there are no white strips, along the left- hand and right-hand sides. So I'll go ahead and click OK, in order to apply that change, and we'll lose the top edge. That's fine. We don't lose all of the bottom edge. We've lost a little bit of it, but not quite all of it, because the woman shoulder drops into this area. The Trim command is not going to trim any other colors than white, in our case, because that's what it found in the top-left corner.
However, it is going to apply permanent modifications, not only to the Background layer, which I told you was going to get clipped, not only to the Alpha channel, which I told you also is going to get clipped, but also to the layer mask right there, and to this white layer, even though it's turned off. The only things that won't get clipped are the Smart Objects. Smart Objects can defy any cropping. They will survive anything, which is actually really great. However, the other stuff got damaged, so we can't use the Trim command.
You rarely want to, by the way, use the Trim command. It's like for screenshots and stuff. All right, so I'll go ahead and press Ctrl+Z, Command+Z on the Mac to undo that modification. The other thing we could do is go in with the Crop tool. If you grab the Crop tool and you drag to create a boundary, then you can turn on this Hide option up here in the Options bar and that ensures that nothing that doesn't need to be clipped away, will be clipped away. So again, the Background layer will be clipped, but the other stuff won't. The Alpha channel, it will get clipped too, because there is no way around that, but none of the layers will get clipped.
Problem is, for our purposes, this doesn't work very well because we know exactly how many pixels we added to this image. So what are we're using the Crop tool, which is an approximate tool, in the first place. We can enter in specific values in advance of using the Crop tool, but it's a waste of time, for our purposes, once again. I'm going to press the Escape key in order to get out of that Crop mode. Switch back to my Rectangular Marquee tool. You may recall, several exercises ago, we increased the size of the canvas using, under the Image menu, the Canvas Size command.
We increased the Height of the image by 200 pixels. Well, now it's time to decrease the Height by 200 pixels. So go ahead and choose Canvas Size or press Ctrl+Alt+C, Command+Option+C on the Mac, and make sure Relative is turned on, as it is. So I'll go ahead and click in the Height value and enter -200, like so. We're going to see the arrows pointing toward the central chicklet. That's great. We do want to keep that chicklet in the center. Go ahead and click OK. We get this warning that's saying, "Hey, the new canvas size is smaller than the "current one. Some clipping will occur," thereby, potentially making you wonder, if you're clipping everything that can't get clipped.
In other words, the Background layer, the Alpha channel, the white layer and the layer mask, you can't clip the Smart Objects. But that's not actually what's going to happen here. I'll go ahead and click Proceed. What you've just got done clipping was the Background layer, because there is no way to avoid that, once again. You clipped the base mask Alpha channel, right there, because an Alpha channel cannot be bigger than the canvas. However, you did not clip white, because a layer, even a pixel-based layer, can be much larger than the canvas.
It can be any old size, and the Canvas Size command will not harm it. It will respect the original size of that layer. The same goes for the layer mask. That will survive the crop as well. Just to confirm that all that is true, I'm going to go up to the Image menu and I'm going to choose Reveal All, which is going to reveal all the original stuff inside the image. Again, that reinstates the 100 pixels up top and the 100 pixels down below, which add up to 200 pixels of height altogether. If I were to Alt+Click or Option+Click inside of this layer Mask icon, you can see that we have plenty of layer mask down here.
It goes as low as it ever did. Let's check out the white layer. If I turn it on, it goes all the way to the top and the bottom here. So it's still as big as it ever was. You can't see any checkers which would indicate transparency here inside of the thumbnail. Finally though, if I go to the Channels palette and I click on my base mask, it did get cropped. It got clipped right there. Remember, it went down farther and we should have a little bit of a right edge. That's what we had before. So we damaged it, and we don't want to.
Now we also clipped and unclipped the Background layer, but see, the thing is with this Background layer, I'll go ahead and Alt+Click or Option+Click on its eyeball so we can see it independently. We didn't care about this stuff we clipped away, which is white at bottom and white at top. So who gives a darn? But we do care about that Alpha channel. I'm going to switch back over to the Channels palette. Click on it to make it active, and now let's go ahead and revert the image. Go to the File menu and choose the Revert command. I think this is going to switch us over to the layer, so we're not going to see the Alpha channel anymore, but just remember what it looked like. Now I'm going to click on that base mask Alpha channel.
See this information down here? We did have more stuff down here that got clipped away. How do we retain it? Here's how. Go ahead and convert this Alpha channel to a layer mask. How do you do that? You press the Ctrl key, Command key on the Mac, here inside the Channels palette, and click on that base mask item, in order to load it as the selection outline. Now I'm going to switch over to the layers palette. I'm going to click on the white layer. Now why white? Because, it's just a holder. It will be a great place to put the layer mask, because it's turned off, and we're not using it.
Even though it's off, notice it's hidden right now. I'll drop down to my Add layer Mask icon and I'll click on it. There it is. There is my layer mask, just sitting there, ready and waiting if I ever need it. Now then, let's go back up to the Image menu, choose the Canvas Size command, Ctrl+Alt+C, Command+Option+C on the Mac, and I'll enter a Height value of -200, like so. Everything else is just fine as is. Click OK. Yes, some stuff is going to get clipped, but you know what, it's nothing I care about it. It's just this guy now.
Click Proceed, and in order to see whether the things got clipped or not, we'll go ahead and go to the Image menu and choose Reveal All, once again. Reveal All just goes ahead and increases the Canvas Size, so that it can contain everything it needs to contain. I'll choose Reveal All and I'll Alt+ Click on this Alpha channel, and you could see it comes down all the way to the bottom. I'll go over to the Channels palette and I'll click on base mask and you can see it got clipped. So, the deal is there, we don't need it anymore.
I'm going to go ahead and press Ctrl+Z, Command+Z on the Mac, in order to undo Reveal All, just because we didn't need to choose it. I was just showing you what was going on there. It's the easiest way, just to make sure we get our original dimensions back. Let's go ahead and throw away that base mask. We just do not need it. I'm just going to drag it to the Trashcan there, because what's more important is that we have all that information intact here inside the layer mask for white, which is that same Alpha channel that we had just a moment ago. It's exact same information, the only difference is that it's all there.
Notice if I Ctrl+Drag upward or Command+ Drag upward on the Mac there, I can see all of this information is still intact. I'll go ahead and press Ctrl+Z, Command+ Z on the Mac to undo that modification and I will switch back to my RGB image just by clicking on the Background layer, in this case. I'm going to go ahead and zoom in and I'm going to press Shift+F to switch to the Full Screen mode. There is the final version of this particular composition here, a very real world composition, I have to say, achieved with the help of Smart Objects and layer Mask working together, entirely 100% nondestructively.
In the next chapter, we'll stick inside of this project and we'll explore some more real world modifications that incorporate Camera Raw and Illustrator. Stay tuned!
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- Preparing a composition for masking
- Manually adjusting problematic edges in a composition
- Combining layer effects and adjustment layers
- Roughing in a polygonal mask
- Cloning a super-massive Smart Object
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Stuff to do this weekend: Lake Country Wine & Food, Taste of Brookfield
Weekend noshing alert: opportunities in Brookfield and Delafield.
Lake Country Wine & Food Festival: This eighth annual charity event sponsored by the Hartland Lake Country Rotary Club takes place Sunday at Weissgerber's Golden Mast Inn, W349-N5293 Lacy's Lane, Okauchee. »Read Full Blog Post
Madison-formed Garbage to play first Milwaukee show since 2005
Garbage, the Madison-born band behind such '90s alt-rock hits "Push It," "Stupid Girl" and "Only Happy When It Rains," is playing the Rave April 6, its first Milwaukee show since 2005.
Beyonce lives up to hype with fierce Super Bowl halftime set
Has there ever been a 12-minute set as hyped as Beyoncé's Super Bowl halftime show Sunday? The widely publicized press conference, the Destiny's Child reunion rumors, the bold promise of live singing after that lip-synching scandal at Barack Obama's inauguration. Was there any possibility whatsoever it could live up to expectations—especially since the vast majority of Super Bowl halftime shows are bloated, ultimately forgettable diversions?
Danceworks program explores delights of 'Serendipity'
"Serendipity" is high on the list of great words we don't seem to use often enough.
Exploring the word's dictionary definition of "happy accident" or "pleasant surprise" with modern dance, the Danceworks Performance Company and a handful of guest artists built a delightful evening of dance around the word. "Serendipity" opened this weekend in the company's studio theater. »Read Full Article
Next Act's 'Clockmaker' has strong acting, too many gears
We can't turn back the clock. But can we mend what's broken, reconstructing the past's shattered pieces so that we might keep on ticking into the future?
That's the question - or one of them - in Stephen Massicotte's "The Clockmaker," the 100-minute play that Next Act Theatre unveiled over the weekend, under Mary MacDonald Kerr's direction. »Read Full Article


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Wheat Ridge, Colorado, 4700 Kipling Street, Wheat Ridge, CO 80033, United States of America
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Wheat Ridge This property is located in Wheat Ridge. Swimming pool Recreational amenities at Ramada Inn include a fitness facility and a seasonal outdoor pool. Other amenities include complimentary breakfast, a business center, and wireless Internet access. Free Wi-Fi Guestrooms offer complimentary wireless Internet access, cable television, and free local calls; rooms also include refrigerators, microwaves, and coffee/tea makers.
Property amenities24-hour front deskNumber of rooms: 121Number of floors: 3Complimentary breakfastBusiness centerComplimentary newspapers in lobbyConcierge servicesCoffee in lobbyFitness equipmentDry cleaning/laundry serviceInternet access in public areas - complimentaryInternet access - wirelessLaundry facilitiesParking (free)Self parkingSwimming pool - outdoor seasonalTelevision in lobbyUse of nearby fitness center (discount)
Room amenitiesPremium TV channel(s)Cable/satellite TVAir conditioningFree local callsRefrigeratorCoffee/tea makerMicrowaveHair dryerShower/tub combinationTelevision - Cable serviceIron/ironing boardClock radioWireless (high-speed) Internet access - complimentary
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IT SERVED ITS PURPOSEWE STAYED AT THE HOTEL FOR A SPORTS CAMP. IT SEEMED IT WAS IN THE PROCESS OF BEING UPDATED SO THE WALPAPER WAS NOT ON ALL WALLS AND THE MOLDING ALONG THE CARPET WAS MISSING IN THE HALLS. I HAD TO ASK FOR A NEW REMOTE FOR THE TV AND EVEN THEN IT STILL DIDNT WORK RIGHT. OTHER THAN THAT THE ROOM WAS CLEAN, SAFE,AND A GOOD PLACE TO LAY OUR HEADSRating:2
shabby interior, very nice staffThere were many repairs needed, no trim or baseboard just torn sheetrock, the cross bar in the closet was broken so we had to hang our clothes in the bathroom on a towel rack, it is not cleaned well but the front desk staff was very nice.Rating:2
bad experienceIm not very picky when it comes to hotels. All I need is a room and a bed. But when my door was jammed and I went to the front desk, the woman at the front desk told me to keep playing with it. Then, the door handle broke by the day I left. Not a great experience.Rating:1
stay somewhere else!!!!!This is the place to stay if you want cheap. If you want to feel like your really staying in a hotel i wouldnt recommend it. I read these reviews before i went on this trip and just figured people were over exaggerating, THEY ARE NOT!! box springs are ripped, no towel racks, or closet racks, blow dryer is non existent. The only plus to this hotel is that it gives your excellent freeway access to I-70.Rating:1
DisappointedThis hotel needs immediate intensive care. The carpet was frayed in several places, very old and dusty. Rooms needed painting. Hairdryer did not work. No coffee in the room. The air conditioner did not work properly. The mattress was not comfortable, could hear springs creak.Rating:2
Boringrun down, noisy airRating:1
Totally DiscustedWe were very disappointed with this hotel. The room was extremely noisy, everything that could have been removed was (no blow dryer, no remote, no alarm clock). There were holes all over the walls including the shower enclosure. The shower was terrible with so little water pressure you couldnt use the massage portion of the shower head. Shower enclosure had extremely large cracks. They had tried to caulk them but they were so large that the caulk couldnt span the broken area. Bed was so squeaky you dare not turn over.Rating:1
Bad!The hotel room was old and looked dirty. The carpet was torn and the bed was very uncomfortable. Spend some extra money and stay somewhere else!Rating:4
Eh....it worked!The toilet had problems and would not flush right...other then that it was okay. The people were very nice and the room was clean other than the carpet had ovbious water damage.Rating:2
Not a place I would stay againno alarm clock, no coffee maker in the room, no fitness room, the free breakfast is limited to what time you get there, all three days I stayed the cofee urns in the lobby were empty, wound up walking across the street to get a coffee. Toilet in the room broke first day and didnt get fixed until 3rd day.
Travelers tip on saving a few bucksthis is the place to stay if your trying to save a buck, but its not worth it!Rating:1
AvoidI refuse to stay at another Ramada because of our stay at this hotel. The carpet throughout the property is dirty and worn. Our first room was a joke. The carpet was filthy, the sheets were paper thin, the power strip on the work desk had 3 of the 5 outlets pulled away (wires exposed), lamps didnt work (one didnt even have a shade), the floor was uneven and had soft spots, the toilet seat was worn and had paint bubbling off of the underside and even though the hotel website claims each room has a fridge/microwave, ours didnt. I asked the person at the front desk for a new room and was told he couldnt do anything that night. The back entrance to the hotel had "lock broken -dont close door" written on the door frame. Not only was there no lock on the door, that point was advertised for everyone to see. The sad thing is that with a little money and TLC, this could be a better property. Until they can get their act together, try the hotels across the street.Rating:1
A disappointing stayI should have known from the first day when the desk clerk asked my wife and I did we have to sleep in a king side bed together and wouldnt two twin bed do. The room with the view was an outside wall of the hotel. The pundgent odor permediating throughout the hotel. The masking agent to combat odors was peculiar. The housekeepers did not clean our room on one of the days. when this was pointed out to the desk clerk, he said they left for the day and the room could not be cleaned. Our stay was a disaster.
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Howard Johnson Denver/West Wheat Ridge property with a restaurant12100 W 44th Ave, Wheat Ridge, CO 80033Price:$47


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WeSC NYC Headphone Release Party
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If you are in NYC tonight, drop what you are doing and head directly to the WeSC store on Lafayette Street in Manhattan. Ricky Powell, Dante Ross, and Tony Arcabascio will be in the house launching their signature headphones as part of the WeSC NYC series. PBR, we're told, will be flowing endlessly and you can get the info on the secret afterparty going down in an East Village wine cellar. Flyer after the jump.
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Just a day after the completion of the World Series, two teams made a fairly interesting player swap this morning. The Kansas City Royals, looking to improve one of the majors' worst offensive units, acquired power-hitting infielder Mike Jacobs in exchange for a serviceable reliever, Leo Nunez.
At first glance, one might think this is a steal for the Royals.
Mike Jacobs hit a career-high 32 home runs in 477 at-bats while driving in 93 runs. One of four Marlin infielders to join the 25-home run club, he posted the third-best homer-per-at-bat ratio in baseball, 14.8. Kansas City, meanwhile, ranked near the bottom of the pack with 120 home runs as a team. Even more telling, the club has not had a player hit 30-plus home runs since Jermaine Dye did so back in 2000.
It makes sense, right?
Well, no. The problem is that, while Jacobs hit for some power, he had a poor offensive season overall. The 28-year-old first baseman, due for a big salary boost in arbitration, posted a weak slash stats line of .247/.299/.514 and drew only 36 bases on balls while striking out 119 times. His on-base skills, or lack thereof, have been a serious weakness his entire career (.318 OBP), and the last thing that the Royals need is another consistent outmaking machine added to the lineup.
Did Dayton Moore not learn from his mistakes during the Jose Guillen fiasco? Moore stressed the importance of on-base percentage in several interviews earlier this fall, perhaps having finally realized the correlation between OBP and how many runs a team will score over a full season.
The Royals are coming off a season in which they ranked 26th in the majors with a .320 team OBP, on the way to finishing 25th in the majors with only 691 runs scored.
That is no coincidence, kids.
Moore, tired of losing and watching such an anemic offense struggle to plate runs on a consistent basis, seemed ready to address this.
Guess again.
Adding Jacobs will only makes matters worse, preventing them from putting a capable enough offense on the field to realistically compete for anything meaningful. Sure, he is only 28 years old, hits for some power and could easily connect for 30 homers and knock in 100 in 2009, at a relatively low cost.
The problem is, for a first baseman, Jacobs is not a league average offensive player. With a career OPS+ of 110—league average is 100—his offensive output leaves a lot to be desired. His OPS suffers mostly because of his inability to get on base via the walk, and is slugging percentage heavy. Like several other left-handed hitters, he struggles mightily against lefties as well, making him an ideal platoon player. In 119 at-bats against southpaws in 2008, he posted a poor line of .218/.248/.429, with only seven homers and a .677 OPS.
Jacobs is also a butcher at first base, ranking as one of the worst defensive players at the position in the majors.
No, the Royals are not giving up a whole lot in Nunez, who posted a 2.98 ERA in 48.1 innings pitched. Still, he is a cost-effective, team-controlled asset who perhaps could have brought in more in return. A power arm who at 25 appears to be entering his prime, he should fit in nicely in the backend of the Marlins' bullpen.
Jacobs' salary is expected to jump to a little under $4-million at arbitration. Therefore, it was wise for Florida, which had the smallest payroll in baseball, to deal him now.
From the Royals' side, this deal is puzzling. Jacobs is simply a below-average offensive first baseman, and is the last player the Royals needed to add to the roster at this point. In addition to his poor on-base skills, Kansas City already has a logjam at the position, with Billy Butler, Ross Gload, Ryan Shealy and others already in the organization.
Moore has been infatuated with his new player for a long time, and wanted to pull the trigger on this deal at the July 31 trade deadline, which may have clouded his judgment here. Perhaps he feels that Jacobs will suddenly improve upon his inability to get on base.
At least Jacobs seems to think so, telling MLB.com, "I still truly believe that I'm not a .240 hitter in the big leagues. I think the power numbers are going to stay there. I think the RBI numbers will stay there, if not be higher," he said. "The biggest thing I need to work on this [upcoming] year is being more of a complete hitter, being able to go the other way more, being able to not stay in a slump quite as long. If I get 10 more hits this year, I'm hitting .270 and my on-base percentage is .320."
Well, his track record tells us otherwise.
So, with Guillen and Jacobs getting so many at-bats in the middle of the Royals' lineup, things could get ugly next year in Missouri.
By making continuous similar decisions like this, the Royals seem to be headed nowhere under Moore. Many people point to the Tampa Bay Rays' worst-to-first turnaround as proof that any team can turn it around and compete for the playoffs in less than a year.
Well, every team cannot do so.
The reason? Not every team has a brilliant GM like Andrew Friedman, who is tremendous at buying low and selling high, and such an excellent farm system and player development department. Clearly, this applies to the Royals, who still overpay for counting stats that do not have a direct effect on scoring runs and thus winning.To reach Tyler Hissey, send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Author of the best-selling Frugal Innovator and We-Think. Globally Renowned Innovation and Education Guru
Charles Leadbeater is a renowned author, thinker and strategic adviser on innovation whose advice is sought by governments, cities and corporations across the world. Charlie's expertise is about how these organisations respond to and make the most of the current upheaval, the tensions and the opportunities it creates. We are living in a time of stagnovation - stagnation combined with relentless innovation and rising inequality.
The New York Times anointed Charlie's idea, The…
Charles Leadbeater is a renowned author, thinker and strategic adviser on innovation whose advice is sought by governments, cities and corporations across the world. Charlie's expertise is about how these organisations respond to and make the most of the current upheaval, the tensions and the opportunities it creates. We are living in a time of stagnovation - stagnation combined with relentless innovation and rising inequality.
The New York Times anointed Charlie's idea, The Pro-Am Revolution, referenced extensively by Chris Anderson in his landmark book The Long Tail, as one of the biggest global ideas of the last decade. Charlie's TED talks on innovation have been watched by well over a million people.
The Spectator Magazine described him as "the wizard of the web" after the publication of his bestseller "We Think: mass innovation not mass production" which forecast the rise of more collaborative, open forms of innovation made possible by the web. The YouTube animation based on the book has been watched by more than 300,000 people.
The Financial Times described Charlie as the outstanding innovation expert in the UK. A past winner of the prestigious David Watt Prize for journalism, Charlie was assistant editor at the Independent newspaper after a distinguished career at the Financial Times, where he was Labour Editor, Industrial Editor and Tokyo Bureau Chief.
Charlie went on to become a key adviser to Prime Minister Blair's policy team (he was Tony Blair's favourite global thinker) and the Department of Trade and Industry, specialising in the impact of the Internet and the knowledge driven economy. He drafted the UK Government's White Paper – Our Competitive Future: Building the Knowledge Driven Economy which was one of the first policy papers in the world to argue that advanced economies would become increasingly dependent upon innovation for growth.
Governments in Europe, North America, Australia and Latin America have turned to him for advice on policy issues ranging from health and education to culture and cities. Charlie speaks regularly at high profile conferences on every continent, from the Gates Foundation in Seattle to the Qatar Foundation in Doha, for the Economist magazine in London to the Government of Mexico, from Microsoft to the Tate Art Museum.
Charlie is a long standing senior research associate with Demos, the influential London think tank; a co-founder of Participle, the leading public services innovation agency, which is working with public sector agencies to create next generation public services and a visiting fellow at the National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts, where he has championed ideas of open and user driven innovation. Charlie is co-chairman of the social enterprise Apps 4 Good, one of the first charities to be granted a license to make Facebook apps which has recently caught the attention of the White House.
He has a track record for spotting ideas ahead of time. The Rise of the Social Entrepreneur, published in 1997, for example, was one of the first books to predict social enterprise solutions to public problems would become more compelling. Social entrepreneurship has since become a global movement. Charlie gave a keynote address at the inaugural Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship in Oxford.
His work ranges widely over innovation in the private, public and social sectors. In Learning from the Extremes, a widely read report he published in 2009, Charlie looked at the way social entrepreneurs are using technology to create new low cost approaches to learning in the slums and favelas of the developing world. From a new position working on health innovation with Imperial College London he is looking at the way new, low cost and distributed models of health care are emerging in the developing world.
Charlie's latest book, The Frugal Innovator, analyses the spread of super low cost, simple, robust and shared solutions to pressing social challenges. The Frugal Innovator looks at how the global dynamics of innovation are shifting during the downturn with more new products being devised for and with relatively poor consumers of the developing world.
Most of the organisations Charlie works with are going through a kind of civil war. On one side are people who want to stick with what they have, tried, trusted and probably exhausted business models. On the other side are people who see new possibilities for business models that are networked, fluid, collaborative, but they are also highly risky and a big leap. Most organisations are caught up in this kind of debate. Charlie's message to chief executives is if there is not a civil war of that kind going on then they are not having the right kind of debate inside their company. They need to get used to provoking, leading and managing the civil war if their organisations are going to make progress. Painful but necessary.
It is widely believed that the world needs a different approach to innovation – Frugal Innovation – to achieve better outcomes for more people while using fewer resources. This workshop from Charles Leadbeater is designed to help organisations adopt Frugal Innovation as a mindset and a core value. In a highly interactive, problem-solving style, Charles will take groups through the stages of Frugal Innovation to prepare them to apply its principles within their own organisations.
Charles Leadbeater is internationally renowned and sought after for his unrivalled expertise on innovation. He first began to write about innovation in the 1980s as the youngest-ever Industrial Editor of The Financial Times and its Tokyo Bureau chief. Over the past decade he has published a string of bestselling books on innovation, from Living on Thin Air in 1999 to We-Think: Mass innovation, not mass production in 2008. The latter work examines the ways in which the Internet is transforming the nature of collaboration and the creation of ideas. In 1998 he wrote the British government's path-breaking White Paper, Building the Knowledge Driven Economy. Charles is a visiting fellow at the UK-based charity the National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts (Nesta), which published his Ten Habits of Mass Innovation. His report The Pro Am Revolution was nominated by The New York Times as one of the best ideas of the decade. A successful entrepreneur in his own right and an advisor to companies large and small, as well as to governments all over the world, Charles also helped to create Bridget Jones's Diary. His latest book, The Frugal Innovator: Creating Change on a Shoestring Budget, was published in 2014.
THE MASTER CLASS – what it covers
The workshop is organised into three main areas: rationale, principles and methods.
Innovation is the lifeblood of the global economy, and has led to a proliferation of products and services. Now innovation needs to be refocused on better outcomes rather than more stuff. Three factors create this new context: the squeeze (slow growth in middle-class consumer incomes); the rush (the influx of aspirational immigrants to the developed world); and the crunch (the mounting pressure on resources generated by urban growth).
> Lean innovations minimise waste in all forms
> Frugal innovators simplify products
> Frugal innovators practise 're' activity: reuse, recycle, remake
> When communities share resources intelligently they get lower-cost solutions
The final aspect introduces in distilled form the main methods of frugal innovators.
Charles's innovation workshops inspire new thinking and provide practical help for companies seeking to generate a more innovative culture.
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Crews quickly extinguished a small fire in the Bosque Wednesday night.
The fire happened around 10 p.m. Wednesday. About an acre was burned.
Crews had to hike into the area near Central and Riverview. They stayed in the area late into the night to make sure there were no flare ups.
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ARTS DISTRICT ACTIVITIES The first Saturday of the month is always an activity-packed day for kids in the Dallas Arts District. In addition to the Chinese New Year festival at the Crow Collection of Asian Art (see Page 37), here are two more events we're excited about on Feb. 1.
Target First Saturdays at the Nasher Sculpture Center: The theme is "Exploration." Kids can decorate activity boxes, see artist demos, go on an art scavenger hunt, try Yoga in the Garden presented by YogaSport outdoors (weather permitting), do creative writing with the Writer's Garret, listen to stories read by Dallas Public Library librarians and be entertained by DJ Sober and Friends. It's all part of NasherKids Live from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., with family activities until 2 and yoga at 11:30. 2001 Flora St., Dallas. 214-242-5100. nashersculpturecenter.org.
Perot Museum Family Activities at Klyde Warren Park: The theme is "Innovation Nation," and kids will learn about technological and engineering feats, in addition to testing their engineering skills. 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. 2012 Woodall Rodgers Freeway, Dallas. 214-716-4500. Cancellations due to weather are possible; check klydewarrenpark.org for updates.
BLACK HISTORY MONTH Local libraries are a great place to celebrate Black History Month. Here are a few events we're looking forward to.
African American Read-In at the Carrollton Public Library: The 25th
annual event lets attendees learn about African-American authors, stories, poems and songs. The featured guest is Chuck Siler, author, political cartoonist and retired programs curator for the Louisiana State Museum. Light refreshments will be provided. The program is presented by the Professional Achievers for Community Excellence with the Josey Ranch Lake Branch of the library. Feb. 2 from 3 to 5 p.m. at 1700 Keller Springs Road, Carrollton. 972-466-4800. pacedfw.org.
Library Live! Black History Month Family Fun Fests: Big Thought offers multiple programs in Dallas Public Libraries.
"The Difference We Make": This program with Alfreda Rollins teaches kids facts about African-American inventors, including the ones who helped make groundbreaking treatments for arthritis and glaucoma, and encourages participants to create poems, artwork and music. Feb. 1 from noon to 1:30 p.m. at Skyline Branch Library, 6006 Everglade Road (214-670-0938); Feb. 15 from noon to 1:30 p.m. at Dallas West Branch Library, 2332 Singleton Blvd. (214-670-6445); and Feb. 22 from noon to 1:30 p.m. at Highland Hills Branch Library, 3624 Simpson Stuart Road (214-670-0987).
Other programs: Visit dallaslibrary.org (go to "Kids" and then "Events," and check Library Live! Black History Month Fun Fest entries for info on "The History of Jazz," "Little Bennie Reads — The True Story of Dr. Ben Carson" and "Dancing in the Wings," the story of Debbie Allen).
DRAWING FROM THE COLLECTION Artists lead children in informal drawing exercises related to the collection in this monthly program at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Kids 5-8 will work with Diane Durant and ages 9-12 will work with Margaret Meehan. Kids under 6 must be accompanied by an adult. Take a sketchbook and pencils or purchase supplies in the gift shop. Early arrival and sign-up at the front desk are encouraged; attendance is limited. Feb. 2 from 2 to 3:30 p.m. 3200 Darnell St., Fort Worth. 817-738-9215. themodern.org.
JUMPSTART The theme is "Let's Dance" as the Irving Public Library joins the Irving Arts Center for this monthly program that combines art with children's literature. Kids 2 and older will celebrate the legacy of the Dance Theatre of Harlem in conjunction with the center's presentation of "Dance Theatre of Harlem: 40 Years of Firsts," an exhibit that highlights 40 years of the company's history. After the story, kids can make an art project to take home. All supplies provided; reservations needed only for groups of 10 or more. Feb. 6 at 10 a.m. 3333 N. MacArthur Blvd., Irving. 972-252-2787. irvingartscenter.com.
FIRST TUESDAY The theme is "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes" as kids explore a variety of activities at the Dallas Museum of Art. They can turn thumbprints into funny faces and crazy creatures, meet family mascot Arturo, try the pop-up art spot in the galleries, enjoy stories and songs based on works in the museum's collection with Ann Marie Newman, take a family tour that focuses on how artists help us see the human figure and hear stories read by Dallas Public Library librarians. No registration needed. Feb. 4 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. General admission is always free. 1717 N. Harwood St., Dallas. 214-922-1200. dma.org.


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Picasso Museum is a short stroll from Hotel de Nemours, and other popular attractions like Place des Vosges are within a mile (2 km). The 27 rooms at this hotel include balconies and LCD TVs. Notre Dame Cathedral and Opera Bastille are also nearby.
Continental breakfast is offered for a fee each morning from 8 AM to 10 AM.
The 27 rooms are soundproofed and have balconies and phones. Guests can expect to find WiFi and LCD TVs with satellite channels. Hair dryers are also included.
Property features
Guests staying at Hotel de Nemours enjoy WiFi in public areas, free newspapers, and a TV in a common area. The front desk is staffed 24/7 to help with tours or tickets, luggage storage, and securing valuables.
- Walking distance to Picasso Museum
- WiFi in rooms and public areas (fees apply)
- 24-hour front desk
Hotel de Nemours8 rue de Nemours Paris Paris 75011
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
Hotel de Nemours features tour/ticket assistance, complimentary newspapers in the lobby, and a safe deposit box at the front desk. Public areas are equipped with high-speed wireless Internet access (surcharge). This Paris hotel also offers a television in a common area and an elevator (lift).
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- 24-hour front desk
- Total number of rooms - 27
- Number of floors - 6
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Elevator/lift
- Tours/ticket assistance
- WiFi (surcharge)
- Luggage storage
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Television in common areas
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Soundproofed rooms
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
Available in all rooms: Wireless internet access ( EUR 5 per stay )
Available in some public areas: Wireless internet access ( EUR 5 per stay )
Room Amenities
- WiFi (surcharge)
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Balcony
- Phone
- Private bathroom
- Hair dryer
- Shower/tub combination
- Satellite TV service
- Soundproofed rooms
Where to Eat
Continental breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 8 AM and 10 AM.
Nearby Things to Do
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Bicycle rentals nearby
To make special requests for accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 2 PM
Check-out time is 11:30 AM
Payment types
- Pets not allowed
You need to know
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.
- No onsite parking is available.
No rollaway/extra beds available
- A tax is imposed by the city: EUR 0.99 per person, per night
Optional extras
- Fee for continental breakfast: EUR 7 per person (approximately)
- Fee for in-room wireless Internet: EUR 5 per stay (rates may vary)
- Fee for wireless Internet in public areas: EUR 5 per stay (rates may vary)
Hotel Name
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- Hotel Nemours
- Nemours Hotel
We should mention
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
This hotel has received its official star rating from the French Tourism Development Agency, ATOUT France.


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In Disney Pixar Brave: The Video Game, challenge destiny and change your fate!
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Release Date: 03-Aug-2012
Play as adventurous Merida, a Will 'o the Wisp and other popular characters from the new Disney Pixar film. Run, jump and battle your way through puzzles and challenges across the rugged landscape of mythical Scotland.
With your wits and bravery, face off against fierce enemies to end a magical curse and save the kingdom!
With your wits and bravery, face off against fierce enemies to end a magical curse and save the kingdom!
- Play as Merida Single-Player or in Two-Player as a Will 'O The Wisp
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Pegi Rating:Suitable for people aged 12 and over.
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