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Crowne Plaza Hotel Detroit-Novi
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Crowne Plaza Hotel Detroit-Novi
About the Hotel
Property Location
Located in Novi (Novi - Livonia), Crowne Plaza Hotel Detroit-Novi is convenient to Twelve Oaks Mall and Paradise Park. This hotel is within the vicinity of Suburban Collection Showplace and Northville Downs.
Make yourself at home in one of the 217 air-conditioned rooms featuring microwaves. Satellite programming and video-game consoles are provided for your entertainment, while complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected. Bathrooms have bathtubs and hair dryers. Conveniences include safes and desks, and housekeeping is provided daily.
Be sure to enjoy recreational amenities, including an outdoor pool, an indoor pool, and a spa tub. This hotel also features complimentary wireless Internet access, concierge services, and gift shops/newsstands. Getting to nearby attractions is a breeze with the complimentary area shuttle that operates within 3 mi.
Grab a bite at one of the hotel's 2 restaurants, or stay in and take advantage of room service (during limited hours). Quench your thirst with your favorite drink at a bar/lounge.
Business, Other Amenities
Featured amenities include a business center, express check-out, and complimentary newspapers in the lobby. Planning an event in Novi? This hotel has facilities measuring 8000 square feet (743 square meters), including a meeting room. Free self parking is available onsite.
Hotel Facilities
- Concierge services
- Free RV, bus, truck parking
- Outdoor pool
- Free self parking
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Number of floors - 3
- Luggage storage
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Smoke-free property
- Conference space size (feet) - 8000
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Number of restaurants - 2
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Laundry facilities
- Elevator/lift
- Total number of rooms - 217
- Bar/lounge
- Spa tub
- ATM/banking
- Free WiFi
- Free shopping center shuttle
- Express check-out
- Computer station
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Conference space size (meters) - 743
- One meeting room
- Shopping on site
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Indoor pool
- Fitness facilities
- Business center
- Free area shuttle
Room Facilities
- Bathtub only
- Free WiFi
- Satellite TV service
- Video-game console
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Daily housekeeping
- Iron/ironing board
- Air conditioning
- Room service (limited hours)
- Desk
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Hair dryer
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- In-room safe
- Coffee/tea maker
- Free newspaper
- Premium TV channels
- Rollaway/extra beds available
- Microwave
- Pay movies
Hotel Policy
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- A resort fee is included in the total price displayed.
- 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.
The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
- Breakfast fee: between USD 4 and USD 10 per person (approximately)
- Rollaway bed fee: USD 10 per night
The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.
Mandatory Fees and Taxes
The charges below are included in your overall room price:
- Resort fee
- Pool access
- Health club access
- Fitness center access
- Shuttle service
- Business center/computer access
- Internet access
- In-room coffee
- Self parking
- Parking
- Housekeeping
We have included all charges provided to us by the property. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.Show all hotel policy Show less hotel policy


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Research Handbook on the Economics of Property Law
Research Handbooks in Law and Economics series
Edited by Kenneth Ayotte and Henry E. Smith
Henry E Smith
Henry E. Smith Property rights and property systems vary along a large number of dimensions, and economics has proven very fruitful in analyzing these patterns and even the nature of the institution of property itself. In its early days, the efficiency of various features of property law dominated the economic analysis of property, like law and economics more generally. This first generation of economic analysis of property dovetailed with one of the prime legacies of the policy-oriented anti-formalist legal realism school that started in the 1920s: the bundle of rights or 'bundle of sticks' picture of property. On the 'bundle' view, property is simply a collection of rights, duties, privileges, liabilities, and so on, and attaching the label 'property' is more or less a matter of taste. Economically a 'property right' could be any of these individual sticks – any socially sanctioned expectation to be able to take valued actions with respect to a resource, availing against one or more others. So the expectation of sowing crops or building a house was property, as was the larger collection of property rights we might more conventionally call ownership. The task of economic analysis appeared to be to evaluate these sticks for their cost-effectiveness. As a grab bag of rules and other institutional features, property was no different from torts or contracts. More recent economic analysis of property law has begun to address what is special about property. The chapters in this volume exemplify this new direction in the economic analysis of property...

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Director: Robert Altman
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Stars: Ann Prentiss, Elliott Gould, George Segal, Gwen Welles
Runtime: 108 min
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Year: 1974
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(There may be licensed games which try this, like some movie tie-ins, but I haven't seen anything like Steel Horizon trying the same 2D and 3D on both systems. I'm going to dismiss the licensed games out of hand. Leave corrections in the comments, as usual...)
So, let's do the apples-to-apples comparison with screenshots. These are all taken from GameSpot, with useless space edited out of DS images: DS here, PSP here.
Here's the first comparison:The DS has what appears to be a more informative radar interface, but get a load of those graphics. The comparison with the PSP reminds me of comparing 3D games on the Saturn with 3D games on the PSOne. While the PSP version looks more modern (ooooh, textures!), the interface uses smaller fonts and icons to cram more on the screen. That second screen comes in handy on the DS, no?
This next comparison is more of the same:That's just embarassing. In the PSP screenshot you can even see the little airplanes on the deck of that aircraft carrier! Sure, that's probably not a carrier in the DS screenshot, but do you think the DS version has tiny planes given the detail spent on that explosion? Awful.
Finally, it appears that both versions are using a sort of radial menu:
At least when it comes to 2D the systems look pretty comparable.
My experience with radial menus is limited to Castlevania: Lament of Innocence. They were clumsy and I hated them, so I hope Konami makes a better show of it this time.
I'm interested to see how the two versions are reviewed when Steel Horizon is released later this year. Should be interested to see what reviewers pick to complain about in each version.
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Yeah I'll totally have to change my pre-order for steel horizontal or whatever....
By Zachary, at 25 August, 2006 00:34
I would be interested to know the difference in how they play. I think it has long been established that the DS is not nearly as powerful as the PSP. Further beating on that point seems quite odd to me.
I don't plan on getting the game, and nothing written will change that, but I would still read about the differences in game play. Strikes me as an interesting article opportunity.
I'm really excited about this game. Silent Service for the NES was one of my favorites, there's just something about blowing up ships with a submarine. In regards to the PSP vs DS comparison, of course the graphics are going to look better on the PSP, but the unique gameplay and interactivity that the DS provides more than makes up for it. Sure, you can compare graphics apples to apples for this game, but you can't compare playability or how much fun it is to play. That's what I'm interested in.
By Bigelow, at 25 August, 2006 15:11
As Russ said, gfx comparison is pointless. What we want to know is whether the radial menu is radically easier to use on the DS vs. the PSP.
By Michael, at 25 August, 2006 16:02
The touch screen can buy the DS quite a lot in the playability department, even if it can't compare graphically to what the PSP can do. I can see it being terribly useful in a more strategic game like this. Whether or not any given developer ~properly~ utilizes the touchscreen, however, is not necessarily a given thing.
By BruceC, at 25 August, 2006 16:57
As long as the interface doesn't try to force you to use buttons, screen and d-pad simultaneously, like so many other DS games do, it might play okay. I'd still rather play the PSP version, as I find the whole "Keep track of two screens to know WTF you are doing " thing to be a real pain.
And there's Star Trek: Tactical Assault, also for both the DS and PSP. -shrug-
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Tools to avoid the pitfalls of ETFs
A wealth manager earlier this year bought some exchange-traded funds on behalf of a client, and got chatting to the sponsor at a conference.
To his horror, he learnt he had unwittingly bought a synthetic ETF underpinned by a swap, breaking a legal agreement with his clients not to deal in derivatives. He rushed out of the event to cancel the trade.
If such a mix-up is possible among investment professionals, investors are unlikely to be aware of the myriad risks and rewards in the ETF industry.
Confusion even results from the brand, with ETF being loosely used as an umbrella term for a variety of products, including structured notes.
As a preparation for guarding against possible surprises, here follows a short guide to factors that investors should consider before incorporating ETFs in their portfolio.
Creation and redemption
Opening the bonnet of a traditional ETF reveals a simple engine. It sets out to track an index by owning the underlying securities. Variants can also track the price of bonds – or commodities such as gold – through matching assets.
The chassis of the ETF is created by a sponsor, such as iShares, State Street Global Advisors or Vanguard. They are responsible for its creation, maintenance and management.
The sponsors hire authorised participants – banks or brokers – to put together baskets of securities that can be swapped for ETF units, or vice versa. ETF units are split into, say, 50,000 ETF shares listed on an exchange, or traded over the counter.
US regulators require at least 80% of any ETF to be based on physical assets. In Europe there is no such requirement, and regulators have not yet taken a stance on the development of swap-based ETFs – also known as synthetic ETFs – which do not hold the underlying securities.
For a synthetic ETF, a provider buys derivative contracts, generally from an investment bank, which promises to deliver the performance of an index or commodity in return for a fee. The bank hedges its position and posts securities with the ETF sponsor as collateral.
However, there are fears that such products have insufficient liquidity and a lack of transparency relating to the collateral, and market observers believe synthetic ETFs will soon be subject to regulation.
The opportunity to diversify assets, at minimal cost, is crucial to the allure of ETFs. Christopher Aldous, chief executive officer of adviser Evercore Pan-Asset, said: "We use ETFs very widely, and if it is a choice between an index fund or an ETF, we go for the ETF every time."
ETFs permit easier transfers from one manager to another, and lower risk of damage to returns. They also allow tactical portfolio rebalancing to quickly capture an investment opportunity and efficient asset allocation.
Goldman Sachs recently estimated that 18% of aggregate hedge fund short positions were through ETFs. But ETFs, which allow retail investors to go short, are less efficient.
For example, if the FTSE 100 falls 1%, then the short FTSE 100 ETF will rise 1%. But short ETFs only do this one day at a time. This is useful for a day trade, but compounding the day-by-day performance of a falling index can hurt investors.
If index X starts at 100, falls by 1% on Monday, rises 2% on Tuesday, and falls 1% on Wednesday, it will close on 99.972. In this environment, a short ETF would appear to make sense. But after three days of trading, short investors would end up with 99.969, less than if they went long on the index.
ETFs' low cost has been the instrument's perennial appeal.
According to BlackRock, the average total expense ratio for ETFs in the UK at the end of last year was 52 basis points. Competition for business in S&P 500 ETFs has forced fees down to six basis points. For a UK-domiciled retail fund, the average cost is 166bps, according to research from Lipper.
ETFs' daily liquidity is a boon in a volatile environment when investors like to know they can redeem their investments quickly.
However, the number of ETF shares available to buy and sell is not a true measure of the fund's liquidity. The true measure relates to the availability of the underlying securities needed to create and redeem ETF units.
Tracking error – where the price of the ETF and its underlying securities start to diverge – has become a more consistent feature as a result of the way ETFs are structured, and include trading costs and currency conversions.
For example, one ETF provider might track the MSCI Emerging Market index by buying 75% of the underlying securities. Another ETF provider might buy all of the securities.
While the 75% ETF might not match the performance of the MSCI index as accurately as its rival, it will be cheaper, and have a lower tracking error. But an investor may take the view it is better to put up with tracking error than be deprived of a trading opportunity.
When markets are unstressed, tracking errors in liquid market ETFs are small. In emerging markets, however, sizeable tracking errors can develop.
Problems can be magnified in times of market stress. In Malaysia, for example, ETF trading came to a standstill in 1998 when the government imposed capital controls and liquidity came to a standstill.
Borrowing risk
The underlying stocks held by the ETF sponsor are often borrowed shares, owned by large institutional investors such as pension funds.
If the pension fund demands the return of the borrowed shares, Eric Pollackov, managing director, ETF capital markets at Charles Schwab, said it is the responsibility of authorised participants to return the securities. Assets cannot be removed from the ETF sponsor without redeeming the ETF.
Most exchange-traded products have some counterparty risks embedded in the management process, including securities lending, swap counterparty and collateral management, and consultants say it is not clear that the ETF holder is adequately compensated for these risks.
There is also little legal clarity on how the losses might be shared in the event of a market disaster.
How arbitraging works
Arbitraging has been around for a long time, with Sumerian cuneiform tablets from around 1700 BC offering hints of ancient commodity arbitraging tricks, writes Giles Turner. So it is hardly surprising that ETFs offer a number of arbitraging opportunities.
When the price of the ETF and the net asset value of the underlying stocks are out of sync, authorised participants, often large banks and brokers, can step in to create or redeem ETF shares.
Let us say Index Inc ETFs are currently selling at £10 a share. Market Maker Ltd quickly realises that the net asset value of the underlying securities is £11 a share, and starts buying as many ETF shares as possible.
Market Maker Ltd then redeems its ETF shares with the ETF provider in return for the underlying securities, making a profit of £1 an ETF share. Other market makers soon realise this opportunity, and the two prices converge.
The buying and selling of ETF blocks helps keep the net asset value of the underlying securities in line with the ETF price, and as the NAVs of most ETFs are updated every 15 seconds, arbitrageurs have many opportunities through the trading day to spot pricing discrepancies.
According to a 2010 paper written by economists at the University of Auckland and Massey University: "The compensation these arbitrageurs receive is economically significant.
Profits, net of spreads, average 6.7% per year over the 2001 to 2010 period for transactions involving the two US-listed S&P 500 ETFs and are considerably larger for opportunities including the dollar-denominated Swiss-listed S&P 500 ETF."


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