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What You Should Have Noticed in November
November 30, 2014 · Print This Article
What better time to blow a Friday deadline for an article like this one than the breezy powdery end of November? Half of the art world was stuck on snowy flights or awkwardly explaining their hobbies/careers to nodding family members, while the other half is still cutting out lines in anticipation of Miami art fairs. The good news is that it's been a slow couple weeks, so I'll quickly blow through this month's What You Should Have Noticed in November. [Read more]
Let's Get Physical: One View of Twin Cities
November 25, 2014 · Print This Article
The world grows colder. Nature slows, becomes static. The river connecting these cities ices over slowly, silently at night. Tires spin, stuck in ice ruts that will last until spring. Fewer bicyclists and pedestrians navigate the narrowing streets and sidewalks. We prepare to stay inside through longer nights, as the early arriving winter rudely awakens us from lingering fall. That stasis, that need to stay inside belies our need to connect, to draw close, especially in times of stress, in times of outside forces beating down our door, trying to force their way in. We need to be physically together to remember that beneath these layers are beating hearts and warm breaths.
Ryoji Ikeda's superposition at the Walker Art Center united more than 20 projections and monitors, two live performers, multi-lingual Morse code, live video feeds, microfiche, a healthy dose of randomness. It confronts the body and mind, pushing them to the limits of comprehensibility. The audience was given earplugs to ease the high decibel audio, but the sound waves, the movement of air through the space physicalized every peak and valley of staccato clicks, blips, quantum particulates. My knowledge of quantum physics and mathematics is barely enough to bring the video and audio into focus. Scientific ideas bubble to the surface just enough to reveal there is something larger beneath the surface, but the technical mastery and deep knowledge embodied in the performance reinforce the barriers between audience members, reminding us that we are a part of systems whose logic is beyond what we think we know of Newton.
The performers, Stephane Garin and Amélie Grould truly bring forward the human nature, the warmth amidst the cold numbers and distant scientific concepts. They transform this digital symphony that exists in the rarified air of Ikeda's ongoing scientific and mathematical investigations (including his current CERN residency), mathematics at scales that are impossible to witness and challenging to conceive, and dangerous sonic levels into a moving, human, even more visceral experience. As they key in Morse code, the competing, layering sound waves and words they spell are displayed behind them. The speed with which they relay their messages feels monumental to our distance from Morse code as a means of communication. Their use of a binary language lays bare the many layers of digital mediation, the code and signal behind the projections, the digital reproduction of sound. We see the text and sound waves they create on the massive screen behind them, but we also see their hands move; we see them strike tuning forks together, we see them make quiet decisions among their microfiche and steel balls.
Their presence in front of us, their bodies moving through the space on stage, creating the sounds that we feel in our chests and throats activate those parts of our brain that correspond to our hands, our fingers, our performative bodies. We feel ourselves on stage, mirroring their action, feeling their sensations as we negotiate our way through the sonic and visual density of superposition.
The phenomenon of our brain firing neurons in the parts of our brain that perform action when we see that action being performed is often invoked in the realm of sports spectatorship or action movies. We mentally and physically feel as if we are part of the game, as if we punched through a wall. superposition invoked those same feelings for me. It overwhelmed me physically and mentally, pulling me into its auditory and visual textures while activating idle parts of my brain. Seeing Dawn of Midi recently invoked those same feelings. Watching the repetitive, sound-bending striking, hammering, and twisting of their instruments, I felt the energy build, crest, relax, expand as if I was onstage, as if I muted the piano strings, I hunched over the bass, I held the drumsticks. Walking home through the snow, the music did not leave my mind, the instruments did not leave my hands.
As I navigate frozen landscapes, I contemplate the winter ahead. I consider not just my fragile human body but the end of the human species manifest in these extreme weather swings, the knowledge that this cold too is a sign of our own undoing that cannot be undone. Despair, stasis, and winter blues are eased by knowing I am not alone. I connect with others, physically and remotely present, and I remember that I can still make changes. I can still strive for a better world by refusing to be alone, by refusing to isolate myself against the overwhelming challenges we can only confront together.
Not being too anal about it with Jordan Topiel Paul
November 21, 2014 · Print This Article
I met Jordan Topiel Paul at El Kioskito, a Mexico City chain famous for its carnitas, or fried pork. This particular El Kioskito, the flagship—open since 1948—on the corner of Chapultepec and Sonora at the corner of the trendy Roma Norte neighborhood and a second-class bus depot, features a three-level restaurant with an all-you-can-eat buffet, live entertainment, and an on-demand karaoke setup. I had wanted to talk to Jordan because of his ideas and work on Net Music, a series of pieces exploring the html document as a medium for music that recently have been utilizing—set to?—Network Time Protocol. I began by asking Jordan how a recently-initiated series of workshops at his house had been going.
JTP: Good. My fantasy is to have something that comes out of the workshop that sustains itself. Like a school.
JW: Like a school as in a school where you learn or a school as in a school as in a movement in art?
JTP: Both. The idea is to have an inclusive structure that allows new people to come through. It's easy for the any kind of cultural scene to not be inclusive, so to have some intention behind what the scene is doing is important. I have all sorts of fantasies about schools, self-sufficient communities, things like that.
JW: What kind of self-sufficient community? Like a commune sort of situation?
JTP: Yeah, but less formal. Less regulated. An intentional community without strict rules. Some kind of model for creating independent living structures outside of the larger economy and larger culture. Did you figure out what this is?
[JTP points to triangular rice/egg object]
JW: No. But I'm intrigued by it. It looks like a really good way to use up leftover rice. Have you ever stayed in an intentional community?
JTP: No. Not a formally intentional community. This residency I did this summer was in some ways really well-integrated into this small town in Utah; in other ways it was like 10 people doing their own thing who are really different in many ways. But they would hang out together, eat dinner every night together.
JW: What was that called again?
JTP: Epicenter. Frontier Fellowship. They're all there for a common purpose.
JW: Which is what?
JTP: It's an experiment in rural architecture and design, community development. Culture. Those kinds of things.
JW: Do you think they're actually helping the town at all?
JTP: I do. They have this manifesto that's very correct, about the way you deal with a small town. You don't segregate yourself, you listen to what they need, you have this training, you're coming in with training and ears, basically. It's a good experience to be immersed in that situation and see how it works. I don't know how long it will last.
JW: I haven't been to the rural west at all, only the rural center-east. I spent a lot of time on a tree farm in southeast Ohio, which is a super fucked-up, dreadfully poor part of the country. Most infrastructure has already fallen apart there, so people just kind of figure it out. When it works, it's really exciting, but when it doesn't work, it's depressing. Lots of meth, lots of youth depression and hopelessness.
JTP: I have this cigarette job, through which I get to see all sorts of places I would never see otherwise. It's super depressing, but I guess because it's my life and my job I can't get too depressed about it.
JW: I've never really understood what your job is. Are you like a distributor or salesman or neither?
JTP: My title is "Field Interviewer," but I don't interview anybody. The company I work for is a research company, and they get these state and university research contracts. They've become recognized as the people who are the best at gathering information about the retail tobacco market. Every few years, New York State, Florida, or North Dakota will want to evaluate their tobacco control program. To some extent they want to track compliance, but it has nothing to do with enforcement. They give me an iPad with the same set of questions for each store, and they send me a list of stores, and they say "you're going here." It's pretty great. It's really been a blessing in my life. The more I see America, the more I love it. Even though it's very clear what's going on.
JW: How do you reconcile that with living in Mexico?
JTP: Mexico feels like America sometimes. I don't know. I kind of feel like I live in both places, now, because I still go back for the work. I've never left New York my whole life—I was born in New York, grew up around the city—so it was time for something else. This was a good opportunity to just get out and see something else.
JW: I mean, I feel like Mexico is very much like America, just much more stark. The same systems are operating in both places, just here the divides are a little bit more rigid and the consequences are a little bit more brutal.
JTP: Yeah, I feel the same way. It's the same amount of violence, but the way it's displayed here is more direct. Violence means murder here, whereas in the US violence just means poverty and self-destruction. It's a global thing; it's the same thing happening. Endless repetition. That's kind of the essence of my motel experience, too. I stay at the same motel all over the US. Even though it's a different motel. I have a bunch of recordings and photos of motels that I've stayed in and I don't know what to do with them. The experience of traveling a lot and always ending up in the same place is super eerie, but also has this pleasant repetitive quality to it, where the details that stand out are extremely heightened. I've been trying to work on this thing that would relate to that experience, but I still haven't figured out what to do.
JW: Are there any other ways that your work has translated into your artwork?
JTP: That job is really good, it gives me a lot of time alone, on the road. There's a lot of time to think about things, work on things. I do a lot of field recordings that sometimes end up in other projects.
JW: I had no idea that there were field recordings in your pieces. I thought it was all generated impulses.
JTP: Some are generated, some are a mix. But the whole Net Music project started with field recordings. It's an exploration of the displacement of sounds that are very local to me that then go out on the Internet. It's a weird negotiation of local and universal. It's the same recording, but it's played through a server, to the network, to the client computer, to the hardware, to the browser, which makes a big difference. There's a lot of variation. That's kind of how the whole thing started. Where was I?
JW: How the whole thing started.
JTP: Yeah. It started with field recordings, but then I realized that there are certain ideas—about space and the timescale of the Internet—that I realized there is a use for sounds that are generated inside the computer to help illustrate these relationships more clearly. The recent thing that I've started to get into as a kind of Internet-specific possibility is absolute time. I think it's probably a pretty recent occurrence that time in music can sync to the clock.
JW: What clock? The atomic clock?
JTP: That's the interesting thing. The Internet clock has a strange relation to time where, from what I understand, time on the Internet is measured by the number of milliseconds that have elapsed since January 1st, 1970, at midnight. It's called the Unix Epoch. It's extra-complicated because there are all these seconds that have been added to the standard global calendar to account for variations in the Earth's rotation, so a series of algorithms exist to keep the Internet clock synced with the atomic clock. The extent of organization of resources and technology that go into keeping time, which you can really just do by waking up, looking outside, and saying, "oh, I think it's midday, I don't know." Another interesting thing that I've learned recently is the way atomic clocks work, which is kind of messy. The main atomic clock timekeeping administrations have a number of atomic clocks. There's tier zero—it's not tier, but it's something like that—where it's like three atomic clocks that compute time based on the resonances caused by the atomic decay of cesium. They define what a second is by measuring these vibrations that the decaying cesium creates. They have three of those that are linked up. The next tier is a bunch of quartz super-precise clocks, and then the next tier is a bunch of computers that have a bunch of algorithms that can tell whether one or another thing is off. So atomic time is an average of all of those, or maybe a median. It's really weird.
JW: Maybe the only way for time to be accurate is if it's a bit off all the time.
JTP: It's just interesting that there's no way to actually have precise time. Oh, there's also a bunch of GPS units involved. I don't know why. I mean, if there's anything we should standardize, it's what a second is. And we can't even do that.
JW: So fuck us.
JTP: I'm not just only interested in that for research minutiae reasons—although I do get a lot of pleasure out of the research—I also find it's a really interesting perceptual experience to have these pulses that vary depending on certain parameters.
JW: Do the pulses vary depending on changes in network time?
JTP: Yeah. Right now there are two pulse pieces. One is random within a certain range and then every third and eighth of every ten minutes, it's metronized. The other piece is always random, but there's peaks of activity during certain hours.
JW: Is that the one you posted today?
JTP: Yeah, that's a stereo version of it. I thought it would be interesting to do a performance of it with multiple computers, an infinite number of channels. Which doesn't always interest me, but in this case might be informative.
JW: Why use network time instead of human time or any kind of abstract time?
JTP: That returns to the reason I like to use the Internet in general. These things are a part of my life, at least, and probably a part of a lot of other people's lives, and I feel they are relatively unexplored perceptual spaces. I'm interested in what can be done in these spaces, and how these things change my perception of physical space. It's also about populating this certain area of my life with aesthetics, rather than leave it as a neutral space—or what's worse, and probably more realistic, is that the surrounding culture fills in the vacuum.
JW: And anyway Internet space is never neutral anyway, it's a very rigid hierarchy.
JTP: Another reason why I'm interested in network time is because it creates a funny relationship to the idea of continuity. The code is there when you're not listening to it. When it's not playing. It might be playing somewhere, but it's not playing for you. When you return to it, it continues according to clock time, rather than when you paused it or last left off. It's different than leaving on a record or a CD, because it's connected to this universal standardized time.
JW: That's then itself tied, through a series of ciphers, to the spinning of the earth itself. I like that kind of thing because most aesthetic activity tends to operate on the premise of, say, artist takes you from embodied position A to abstract position B, maybe through a time-based thing or maybe through a painting or photograph. But I feel like things like what you're doing bring you more into time, rather than further away.
JTP: Sure, temporally, but also culturally and technologically. You could be sitting at your desk, on your laptop, doing whatever you normally do, and this thing can be there. It's a pretty smooth transition into normal life. I prefer having things that are close to the limit of daily existence, that are seamless with outside streams of experience that aren't the work.
JW: I was reading in your synopsis of your residency at Epicenter that you prefer thinking of your pieces as listening aids, rather than anything else.
JTP: The Utah project was a way to perform these Net Music pieces and extend this strange relationship of listening to the Internet to listening to the Internet in a place. It was necessary to not just say, "end your non-aesthetic life now, the music's starting!" I wanted to present something that was in dialogue with a specific place and time, rather than a discreet narrative. There are always certain elements that are connected to ambient characteristics. The listening aid acts as a perceptual bridge between listening to the work and listening to the environment. Together they kind of make the performance. There's enough sound everywhere—it's almost too much to ask to add more to it. There's almost so much richness, cyclical or random activity, that to just listen to it is really enough. That's where the idea of listening aids comes from.
JW: How do you perform a listening aid?
JTP: Well, that's where it might be the most half-baked if it's not believable. I just do what I feel is appropriate. I open the laptop in the space where it should be, and I listen to it with everybody else. It's a strange relationship, though, because I've kind of lost my innocence as the listener…
JW: When you performed with Rolando I was definitely watching you listen. And I was thinking, "maybe I should not be watching Jordan."
JTP: Maybe it has some other levels of commentary on listening and performance. But for me, I shouldn't just sit there pretending to play. I want to listen. I acknowledge that I have this power, as a performer, that no matter what I do, it sets a sort of tone. In pieces where movement or different types of listening can be enriching, I'll walk around, or I'll move my head. I guess there's a fine line between being manipulative as a performer and just being honest, but I do want to hear all these different perspectives, and if I can use my power as a performer to demonstrate that there are different perspectives to enrich the listening experience, then I feel like I should. I think it goes hand-in-hand with not being too anal about people talking over the music or people doing what would otherwise be considered an interruption in standard music performance terms.
JW: How do you tune the pieces to the places? By using field recordings?
JTP: In part by using field recordings, but ideally it's listening. I listen and test some tones, record some things. I tweak things to see how they interact together. But it's really just listening—a lot of listening.
JW: And these pieces are coded, right? How? Do you consider the code your instrument, so to speak?
JTP: HTML and Javascript. The timing stuff is all in Javascript. It's super primitive. I'm not good at coding. It's very crude. It's like, this thing at this delay, this thing at this delay, this interval here, and this thing happens if hours and minutes equal this. That's how I'm producing that set of temporal objects. I don't treat code as an instrument. It's a structure. Depending on the space, the material and the structure will be somewhat different. It's changed a lot the last year and a half, since I've started doing pieces that are structured in time. At first I was only able to do overlapping samples, then I was able to time the time or set algorithms to determine interaction rate of the samples or the intervals of silence between them. After that I was able to say this is what happens in section 1, this is what happens in section 2, and so on. It's surprisingly hard. It's funny, though, because you can go down in my code and see this section is first, this section is second, this section is third.
JW: Do you intentionally use HTML and Javascript because they are able to be looked-at?
JTP: No, I think it's just because HTML is what I knew. I still don't know that much, honestly. If there are things that I want to do, I'll do some research and try to learn new methods. For instance, I'm working on this collaboration with my friend Brian Eubanks. He's made these pieces that expand and contract and move around, and the idea is that they will only be listenable when it's raining. It connects a lot with the work I've been doing, because it's a different kind of listening. What I want to do is get a kind of weather data service that says, is it raining in your location based on your IP address? If yes, these things are playable, if no, the screen is blank. The idea is that these pieces are suitable for rain, and to make it possible to listen to them only in a time and place when it's raining. We both like the idea of being like, "oh, it's raining, gotta go home and listen to the piece."
Jordan Topiel Paul (b. 1985, NYC USA) lives in Mexico City. His work explores the dynamics of listening, spaces, and everyday digital culture.
Top 5 Weekend Picks! (11/21-11/23)
November 20, 2014 · Print This Article
1. FLATspace Presents at MANA Contemporary
Work by Nicholas Rigger and Steve Ruiz.
FLATspace is located at 2233 S. Throop St. 4th Fl. Reception Friday, 6-10pm.
2. Territories at Roots & Culture
Work by Todd Mattei.
Roots & Culture is located at 1034 N. Milwaukee Ave. Reception Sunday, 6-9pm.
3. It's New & Now at Outhouse Gallery
Work by Matthew Hilvers and Lyndsey Marko.
Outhouse Gallery is located at 212 N. Sangamon St. Reception Saturday, 6-9pm.
4. My Brother, The Punk Singer LIVE! at South of the Tracks
Work by Caitlin Ryan.
South of the Tracks is located at 319 N. Albany Ave. Reception Friday, 7:30-9:30pm.
5. Wanna B Sedated at Born Nude
Work by Nick Pannozzo.
Born Nude is located at 1711 S. Halsted St. #2. Reception Saturday, 6-9pm.
Lise McKean, PhD
A Pierre Dream: A Portrait of Pierre Boulez, Chicago Symphony Orchestra Beyond the Score Series. Gerard McBurney, creative director; Pablo Heras-Casado, conductor; Frank Gehry, scenic design; and Mike Tutaj, projection and sound designer. November 14 and 16, 2014.
Adrian Leverkuhn, Painting? Thomas Masters Gallery, Chicago. October 10 to November 2, 2014.
Whenever I see CTA bus #146 and read the name of its route, I smile. Route 146 is Inner Drive. All life has inner drive. For artists it takes a distinctive form. They're exceptionally curious and they're driven to make and create. Whatever their métier, artists breathe life into their works. Every generation of artists contends with outmoded aesthetic forms and reactionary authorities and audiences. In response it devises its own approaches to innovation and creation. Instances of this age-old process crowd the annals of art history.
Recently I came across two examples in Chicago: A Pierre Dream: A Portrait of Pierre Boulez staged by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for its Beyond the Score series under the creative direction of Gerard McBurney; and Adrian Leverkuhn's exhibition, Painting? at Thomas Masters Gallery. What does a CSO tribute to a ninety year-old musical titan have to do with the exhibition of a young painter interrogating his vocation? Writing about them together is more than a fluke of the season's cultural calendar.
Decades before Boulez became a world-renown maestro, he sharpened his claws on institutions and self-appointed guardians of European musical traditions. He was ferocious and relentless, gifted and inspired. For him, all his work is "provisionally definitive." The CSO tribute is in tune with today's multitasking audiences. Images, words, son et lumière, choreography of agile "puppeteers," and above all Pierre Dream's music and espirit bring to life a tale of Boulez and his artistic milieu. The photos show the performance's pitch-perfect visual design, and I trust them. Except for a couple peeks during the 75 minutes, my eyes stayed shut so the incantations of Mallarmé's poetry and Boulez's words—and the virtuoso performance his compositions—could conjure their own forms in my imagination and steep into experience.
The murmurings of memory resonate long after the Symphony Center's bravos and applause for this fond tribute die out. They're reminders that Boulez, now elderly and no longer in the limelight, was once a young artist ablaze with energy and indomitable will—"I shall tell you about the rows I have been having with Schaeffer: that would be enough to fill a huge folio! I shall tell you that the experimental studio is more and more crap, and that Schaeffer is a pain in the arse; and that I hope I shall soon be working with Stockhausen at the electronic music studio of Radio Cologne….Apart from that, in concerts here: Nothing. It's desperate. Everything, from that point of view, is going on in Germany" (1953 letter of Boulez to John Cage in The Boulez-Cage Correspondence).
Boulez finds ideas and cues in the world around him. His fellow travelers include painters such as Philip Guston, Bernard Saby, and Dado. At one point in Pierre Dreams we hear Boulez speak about how music can learn from a dialogue with visual arts. This conversation is taken up by other artists. For example, Desy Safán-Gerard paints with both hands while a nude model moves to the music of Boulez.
In the recent exhibition, Painting? Leverkuhn intersperses among his paintings handwritten lists of "Questions for Painters." The tone of his 94 questions hovers between wry and rhetorical. Leverkuhn was surprised when he sent the list to art academics and they took the questions literally, responding didactically as if presiding over a course quiz.
The works in Painting? assert that Leverkuhn has chops and range. After taking in the canvases from a distance, a curious viewer is likely to move closer. Changing perspective allows the textures, colors, and shapes to take on a different appearance. On some works the palette and forms are austere; on others color and detail pop. The paint on the seeming ground is thick and sculptural. It's a figurative force of its own.
Leverkuhn's works address themselves to the figure. In some the figures suggest the freewheeling spirit of the skateboarder. Yet menace stalks them—one swings on a broken trapeze, another crouches on an unraveling net—crash and burn lurk on every canvas. This juxtaposition of insouciance and hazard echoes in his act of renaming himself with the surname of Thomas Mann's ill-fated composer in the novel Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkühn, Told by a Friend.
In a set of 18 works Leverkuhn evokes specters of human transformation. Is the figure in 42E poised for flight? Are others undergoing Kafkaesque metamorphoses? Another work in the show, 58, was painted by Leverkuhn and Thomas Masters. Like a tag-team, they paint one after the other on the same canvas. Their duet in 58 continues explorations that led to works they exhibited a couple of years ago.
It's a safe bet to say we'll see more of Leverkuhn. And for Boulez admirers who did not attend A Pierre Dream at Symphony Center, there will future performances. It will travel to California for performances at the Ojai Festival and the University of California-Berkeley. Later it will travel on to the Netherlands Festival and the New York Philharmonic. A Pierre Dream video is slated to stream on the CSO website.
Decades and an ocean may separate Boulez and Leverkuhn. Chance may have thrown them together in Chicago at this moment in time. But it's not by chance that they're both aboard #146. Pay the fare and you too can hop on for the ride.
Lise McKean is a social anthropologist and art writer, and recently is turning her hand to custom couture as an associate of Haj Gueye at La Maison de Haj in Chicago.


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HERE ARE two widely held beliefs in sports: You need to have one quarterback and you need to have one goalie.
The reasons cited include player confidence, team unity, and playing style. But here in Philly, a town full of teams in turnaround mode, your new hockey coach has made it clear he's not in any rush to name one goalie, and your new football coach has discounted the importance of all three factors - including that one about a unified locker room.


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This is my Fourth installment in focusing on the ACC's Best at every position.
This slide show will focus on the ACC's Tight Ends of All-Time.
The ACC was founded in 1953, with 8 teams but since then it has expended to 13 teams.
The original teams were Clemson, Duke, Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, Wake Forest, North Carolina State, South Carolina.
In 1971 South Carolina left for the SEC.
Since 1978 five teams have joined, Georgia Tech, Florida State, Virginia Tech, Miami, Boston College.
The ACC has a very rich tradition in many sports, epically football.
I found it very tough to pick out the top tight ends, with a huge amount of talented present and past players to choose from.


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Located 1.3 mi (2.1 km) from Dunkathel House, Vienna Woods Hotel is within a 15-minute drive of Cork City Hall. This 48-room, 4-star hotel has a restaurant, free in-room WiFi, and free self parking. Also nearby are Blackrock Castle and Pairc Ui Chaoimh.
Sit down for a leisurely bite to eat at the onsite bistro, or enjoy a drink at the bar/lounge. Start your day off with buffet breakfast, available for a fee.
All 48 rooms provide coffee makers, phones, and ironing boards. Guests can expect to find free WiFi. Beds sport premium bedding and bathrooms offer hair dryers. Desks are also available.
Property features
Vienna Woods Hotel offers free WiFi in public areas and conference space. Free parking is available if you drive. Dry cleaning/laundry services make packing light an option.
- Free WiFi in rooms and public areas
- Free parking
- Onsite dining
Vienna Woods HotelGlanmire, Co Cork. Cork Cork 00000
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
The hotel offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. High-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary. This Victorian hotel also offers dry cleaning/laundry services and an elevator (lift). Onsite self parking is complimentary.
- Total number of rooms - 48
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Conference space
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Elevator/lift
- Free WiFi
- Bar/lounge
- Restaurant
- Free self parking
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Free Wi-Fi
- Rollaway/extra beds available
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Free self parking
Room Amenities
- Premium bedding
- Phone
- Coffee/tea maker
- Private bathroom
- Hair dryer
- Shower/tub combination
- Iron/ironing board
- Desk
- Rollaway/extra beds available
- Cribs/infant beds available
- Free WiFi
Where to Eat
Buffet breakfasts are available for a surcharge.
Mabel Crawford - This bistro serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Nearby Things to Do
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
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- Bicycle rentals nearby
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To make special requests for accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
Hotel Policies
Minimum check-in age is 18
Check-in time starts at 4 PM
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
- Pets not allowed
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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.
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Pediatric registered nurses (RNs) are nurses who focus on the medical needs and treatment of infants, children and adolescents. Their specialized training allows them to provide young patients and their families with emotional support and medical care. Pediatric nurses are required to complete undergraduate nursing programs and pass national RN licensing exams before practicing.
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Job opportunities for all registered nurses, including pediatric nurses, are expected to increase by 19% between the years 2012 and 2022, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (www.bls.gov). This source also indicated that RNs earned a median annual wage of $66,220 as of May 2013.
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How Valve is Botching the Team Fortress 2 Updates
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A few months ago Valve released a content patch for Team Fortress 2 which offered weapon updates for the Medic class. Players could unlock up to three new weapons by completing certain in-game objectives (achievements) using the Medic. There were 36 objectives in all, ranging from assisting teammates in getting X-number of kills to accumulation 1 million total heal points.
The result of this added content was that suddenly teams were stacked with Medics. Of the nine choosable classes, the majority of players on any given team were medics because everyone wanted these new weapons. The problem with this is that Valve created TF2 with the idea that each class would be unique and serve a specific purpose. With so many people choosing Medic, there were multiple roles going unfulfilled on a given team. The point of the patch was to provide incentives for players to use the least played class. In practice, TF2 became a mono-classed betrayal of the game Valve had originally developed. Today it was announced Valve plans to refresh this debacle, this time with the Pyro class.
There is a smarter way to go about offering these class updates. Now obviously Valve would provide an update to every class today if it was feasible, but resource and time constraints prohibit it. However, there must be some middle ground between providing all and only one. Here is what I propose:
Provide two class updates at once.
Give players a choice as to what class they get to play to unlock new content. Provide a better balance for teams composed of nothing but achievement whores. There are nine classes, one has already been done, leaving eight classes or four updates. Mathematically it works out perfectly.
Valve has said that the following class updates will come faster than the previous medic patch simply because they have already laid the foundation for new achievement/weapon implementation. Perfect! Use this extra time to update an additional class.
Here is the ideal class pairing for updates:
Pyro and Demoman
Sniper and Scout
Soldier and Heavy
Spy and Engineer
Each pair represents two classes that are balanced relative to each other. In addition, each pair provides a class that is good for defense and a class that is good for offense (or both). Under this system you won't have a team that is offensively or defensively crippled simply because all of its team members are after achievements.
Everyone on your team is a spy so there is no one guarding the flag? Perfect, be engineer. Every Pyro on your team is being dominated by sentry guns? Time to switch to Demoman.
Two classes at once helps maintain the spirit of TF2; each class has its own purpose and must be used in tandem with the other classes. To create a game based on this concept of diversity only to give players incentive to play a single class is counterproductive and completely detrimental to the flow of the game.
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How Joseph Goebbels planned to sink the British with big-budget propaganda movie
With the smoke from Julian Fellowes' upcoming Titanic mini-series for ITV becoming visible over the horizon, Channel 5 nipped in with this startling new spin on the tale of the doomed liner. It's not widely known that when the Nazis were riding high in the early part of World War Two, they hit upon a plan to turn the Titanic story into a blockbuster propaganda film, designed to throw contempt and ridicule over Britain's ruling elite.
Using a variety of film historians and critics from Germany, Britain and the USA, as well as the recently rediscovered production diaries kept by the film's art director, The Nazi Titanic offered intriguing glimpses into the value the Nazis placed on propagandist film-making, as well as on the way Hitler's regime viewed the British. Joseph Goebbels, the Third Reich's Minister of Propaganda, considered Britain to be "a sham democracy ruled by plutocrats" (not much change there then). The Nazi film would use the Titanic, with its upper decks versus lower decks class structure, as the perfect metaphor for a Britain being driven to destruction by its entrenched ruling elite.
From his experiences with making anti-Semitic films like Jew Süss, Goebbels had learned that dramatised stories were more effective at seizing the popular imagination than documentaries, so bags of creative licence would be taken with Titanic. The narrative was cast as a stark fable of rampant capitalism versus the proletariat. It opened with a scene in which J Bruce Ismay (pictured above in movie), chairman of the White Star Line which operated the Titanic, addressed a room full of shareholders, telling them that their holdings would rocket in value as the ship broke the transatlantic speed record. Caution would be thrown to the winds to achieve that objective, with the ship's captain to be incentivised by bonus payments for every hour by which he broke the record.
To bring this fiendishly cunning concept to fruition, Goebbels had recruited his favourite film-maker, 38-year-old Herbert Selpin, who had already pleased the great propagandist with a couple of successful action movies. Goebbels was determined to out-do Hollywood, and no expense would be spared for the Titanic project. The boat would, as it were, be pushed out, to the tune of 4 million Reichsmarks (about £100m). Selpin hurled himself into the spirit of the operation by ordering enormous studio sets to be built in Berlin as well as a 20-foot replica of the Titanic for the sinking scenes, while also demanding the use of a full-sized ship for exterior sequences.
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Texas is one of the few states that allow gestational carriers (surrogates) to be compensated. At the Law Office of Jennifer R. Cochran, we represent surrogates as well as donors and intended parents. We draft or review the donor agreement, gestational agreement, pre-birth orders, and more. It's Jennifer Cochran-Greenhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-13692901.post-56884821491554517872015-02-20T12:17:00.004-06:002015-02-20T12:45:09.473-06:00Like it or Not Texas will continue to fight gay marriageLocal and national headlines this week have captured the continuing battle between the Judges and our state government officials on the gay marriage issue. Our own Judge Herman found that the Texas constitutional amendment stating that marriage is between one man and one woman is unconstitutional. 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Cochran is proud to announce that Ms. Cochran is now a member of the Board of Directors for AKA, Adoption Knowledge Affiliates, an organization devoted to supporting all members of the adoption triad as well as adoption professionals. The adoption triad is made up of all three members in an adoption to include the birth parent(s), the adoptive parent(s) and the Jennifer Cochran-Greenhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-13692901.post-25008002617002993102015-01-02T19:21:00.000-06:002015-01-02T19:21:20.867-06:00Happy New Year!2014 was a year of growth for myself and my practice. This past year, I expanded my practice to include mediation and parenting facilitation services and completed nearly 100 of continuing education credits which allowed my induction into the prestigious College of the State Bar. All of those hours of training were in family law and alternative dispute resolution which provides invaluable Jennifer Cochran-Greenhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-13692901.post-72361121885088453142014-12-03T13:03:00.000-06:002014-12-03T13:38:53.416-06:00Divorce and TaxesThe end of the year is fast approaching which means it's time to start thinking about how a divorce this year will affect your tax return. Most clients prefer to be divorced by the end of the year if at all possible so that they can ring in the New Year with a fresh start and also less tax liability. If you are not married on the last day of the year, then you can file single as if you were Jennifer Cochran-Greenhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-13692901.post-50073276466072247012014-11-12T09:32:00.001-06:002014-12-03T13:38:02.099-06:00November is National Adoption MonthThis is my favorite time of year because November is the month that my daughter was born and also it's National Adoption Month. In the State of Texas, CPS hosts huge adoption days statewide during the adoption month. Now, adoptions happen year round, but November is when the State and Counties do big celebration days. I had the pleasure to do five adoptions this month to include private Jennifer Cochran-Greenhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-13692901.post-78596994714517838232014-11-06T16:49:00.001-06:002014-11-12T09:32:44.949-06:00Today is Adoption Day in Travis CountyToday, 44 children were adopted by the forever families! Jennifer Cochran volunteered at the event as an attorney for two of the families. "It truly was a magical day and such a privilege being a part of the celebration." Jennifer Cochran-Greenhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-13692901.post-61984320835117098632014-08-27T16:26:00.002-05:002014-10-06T16:03:36.880-05:00Jennifer Cochran now a member of the College of the State Bar of TexasThe College is an honorary society of lawyers who are among the best trained attorneys in Texas. Members are qualified attorneys who are interested in both high ethical standards and improved training for all Texas attorneys. The College recognizes Texas lawyers who attend at least double the Continuing Legal Education (CLE) required by the State Bar of Texas.Jennifer Cochran-Greenhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-13692901.post-26740752283945652882014-08-11T16:53:00.000-05:002014-08-11T16:54:45.852-05:00Open for MediationAttorney Jennifer Cochran is now accepting appointments for mediations in family law matters to include pre-petition disputes such as possession schedules, parenting issues, school issues, increases/reductions in child support and also mediations in which there is pending litigation. If you'd like to find out more about our mediation services and/or schedule a mediation, please contact our Jennifer Cochran-Greenhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-13692901.post-88890687007581038002014-06-19T09:34:00.001-05:002014-11-12T09:33:34.989-06:00Summer CampsThis post is a follow up to my previous post "Making Summer Plans?" as summer camps are often a hot button issue for co-parents who are struggling to get along or who are very territorial about "their" time with the kids in the summer. As most parents know, premium camps require registration earlier in the year - January, February, March which is earlier than the standard language in most Jennifer Cochran-Greenhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-13692901.post-14435176365007607362014-05-07T12:40:00.000-05:002014-05-12T09:37:38.229-05:00Woman gives sister the gift of lifeBelow is a local story (by KVUE) in which a couple experiencing infertility were given the beautiful gift of a child from a family member (the wife's sister) who volunteered to be the couple's surrogate. Although these types of situations can be rife with emotion, tension, and legal issues, this story is about a wonderful journey of love and selflessness. If you or a loved one are interested Jennifer Cochran-Greenhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com


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Past Grant Recipients
Detroit Red Wings School Assembly Program:
In 2010, the Detroit Red Wings Foundation launched its signature program, the Detroit Red Wings School Youth Hockey Program, a street and floor hockey initiative in which the Wings provide equipment and hands-on instruction to local elementary schools. In partnership with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and the Kroger Company of Michigan, the Wings visited one hundred fifteen elementary schools throughout Michigan during the 2014-15 season. Each school received two full sets of floor hockey equipment complete with hockey sticks and nets to encourage students to stay active and healthy through the sport of hockey.
The Detroit Red Wings and the Detroit Red Wings Foundation will fund 115 school visits during the 2015-16 season!
Try Hockey for Free:
The Detroit Red Wings Foundation partnered with the Michigan Amateur Hockey Association (MAHA) to fund twenty on-ice, hockey clinics. The one day clinics introduced 898 children to the sport of hockey. For most, it was their first on-ice experience. The clinics introduce kids to basic hockey skills such as skating, puck handling and shooting. The Detroit Red Wings Foundation will fund thirty clinics during the 2012-13 season.
Knobby's Kids:
The Detroit Red Wings Foundation sponsored four teams from Knobby's Kids in The Windsor Classic presented by Investors Group. Knobby's Kids is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping young athletes in Southwestern Ontario overcome financial obstacles associated with participating in team sports. The inaugural two-day street hockey challenge took place on Riverside Drive in Windsor, Ont., and proceeds benefited The Downtown Mission of Windsor.
The Wheelchair Hockey League (WCHL):
The Detroit Red Wings Foundation awarded $8,640 to the wheelchair hockey league to fund facility rental with The Salvation Army in Warren. Prior to the grant, the league didn't have a concrete place to play. The WCHL is a Michigan based competitive floor hockey league for persons with physical disabilities.
Detroit Red Wings Battle Breast Cancer:
The Detroit Red Wings Foundation awarded grants totaling $66,732 to 20 families affected by breast cancer. Families that had a household member receiving treatment for breast cancer could apply for financial assistance to help pay for everyday living expenses such as rent, utility bills and groceries. The Detroit Red Wings Foundation announced the one-time grant program back in October of 2010 as part of the National Hockey League's Hockey Fights Cancer initiative.
The Salvation Army STRIVE Hockey Program:
STRIVE (Student Training for Integrity, Vitality and Education) is a 12-week hockey program that begins with basic floor hockey instruction and includes three on-ice experiences. The Detroit Red Wings Foundation gave a grant to fund this program at 11 Salvation Army locations throughout Southeast Michigan.
YMCA Ice-less Floor Hockey Program:
The Detroit Red Wings Foundation teamed up with The YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit to fund a floor hockey league at five YMCA branches: Farmington Hills, Milford, St. Clair Shores, Mt. Clemens and Auburn Hills. Children between the ages of 6 and 8 participated in the program and learned the benefits of good sportsmanship and teamwork.


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