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New York Fashion Week Day 5: Marc Jacobs, Alive + Olivia and more
Metro's style director, Kenya Hunt, and style editor, Tina Chadha, are reporting from the ground at New York Fashion Week. Read their daily dispatches for the latest on what's coming down the runway and lots more.
Monday, Feb. 11
1 p.m It's been a week of textured, technical knits, which is an area of expertise for Ohne Titel. Flora Gill and Alexa Adams have developed a reputation for manipulating knitwear in creative ways over the years. So I'm curious to see what they come up with this go 'round. For the new season, it's a weaving technique that appears on striking looks such as a shirt dress worn over a delicate wisp of a silk and sequin skirt. Graphically, the weaving idea also plays out through a series of grid prints on pajama-like trousers, blouses and dresses. Best of all, these stylish things look impressively easy to wear. These are intelligent clothes for girls' girls like Tank magazine editor and street style celebrity and J.Crew campaign star Caroline Issa, who styled the show. Flora and Alexa's growing fanbased should pleased. Kenya Hunt
2:10 p.m. Donna Karan's collections always remind me of dancers — something about the way her drapey, bias cut dresses elongate the body strike me as being very Martha Grahamesque. If the choreographer was alive today, she'd look at home in any one of Donna's sinuous jet black skirts that dance and swirl about the hips. The impressive thing is that Donna's managed to create skirt suits that look about as comfortable to wear as a pair of yoga pants. That's because her tailored jackets come paired with easy, jersey skirts that are free of any kind of boxy, boardroom stiffness. It's a classic Donna Karan solution to a common urban working woman's problem. I'm not quite sold on her experiments with texture, however. A chocolate brown gown made of collaged shiny and matte silk panels with a leather bodice seems totake things a concept too far. KH
3 p.m. I always like how 3.1 Phillip Lim gives you just the right amount of tomboy with just enough urban grit and isn't afraid to stick a bow on it. Biker babes are on his mind for fall. Not so much Harley Davidson fanatics but rather stylish city dwellers who can't wait to ditch their corporate obligations to hit the open road. Their uniform: chic motorcycle jackets, quilted shorts that hang perfectly so and tough pencil skirts embellished with zippers. These looks are grounded in reality with artful layering (preppy oxfords under shrunkencrewneck sweaters, under buttery leather jackets), clean lines (the boxy double-breasted coats) and a lovely color palette (sweet pink, warm tan andrich teal.) Over the knee open-toe leather boots and cross body bags take the cool quotient into high gear. As I walk out the door, I overhear editors chatting about which pieces are already on their wish lists. This is one of those times when I wish I didn't have to wait a whole six months to buy. Tina Chadha
4:20 p.m. Still buzzing from Phillip Lim, I trek over to view Jil Sander Navy, which is being shown in an intimate presentation, complete with little civilized finger sandwiches, rather than a grand catwalk extravaganza like it's big sister line in Milan. The collection is exactly what you'd expect from the minimalist house: simple, beautiful tailored clothes, and at more affordable price points to boot. It's not hard to spot the winners: a fitted bomber, cropped shearling and shrunken wool pea coat. Gimme! TC
5:10 p.m. Unlike Paris, New York's runway shows aren't known for theatrics, fantasy or drama. So a Thom Browne affair is always a little island of creativity, eccentricity and risk-taking in a sea of slick, white box productions. Bring it. This season, Thom Browne's theatrical set is a winter scene of dead, snow capped trees that stand like prison bars around men in suits who are blindfolded and taped to beds at the wrists and ankles throughout the room.They're lying there as if they've been hunted and dressed for dinner. Naturally, the spectacle is an Instagram magnet. Hardly anyone is sitting in their seats because they're too busy photographing the bondage scene on their iPhones. Not that I can judge. I've already posted three filtered pics of it all on Twitter. No one seems to notice that Sandra Bernhard is in the room,sitting quietly in the front row. KH
5:15 p.m. If Tim Burton directed an episode of Twin Peaks and set it in the 19th century, it might look like this. It's pretty safe to assume that Thom's dazed, slightly sinister looking models are coming in for the kill. How else to explain those long, blood raid nails? Dressed in elaborately constructed dresses and skirt suits that drawheavily on English references (Prince of Wales check and tweed, a mixture of Elizabethan and Victorian shapes), his pale faced corpse brides circle the men, dangling long-stem red roses the way I imagine a serial killer would finger an instrument of some kind of torture. Storyline guessing aside, the clothes are much more of a fantastical statement than anything else. This is not the place to look for wardrobe staples, unless your name is Helena Bonham Carter. But let's not forget that Thom was the man behind Michelle Obama's inaugural coat. Strip away the exaggerated hips on a few of those wool, silk and tweed cinched-waist coat dresses and you've got a few timeless pieces that could work off the runway. KH
5:35 p.m. There's already a line down the block for the Alice + Olivia presentation, or rather, party. Waiters walk around with trays of bubbly, or, for those on assignment like, ahem me, sparkling waterwith adorable stripped paper straws. Glitzy chandeliers and wallpaper transform the dingy warehouse space into an opulent ballroom. I feel like I'm in a nightclub, an appropriate backdrop for Stacey Bendet's glamorous fall line. At least, I think it's glamorous. It's kind of hard to see the collection because the place is packed with editors, bloggers and buyers jockeying for the perfect Instagram or a chocolate cake pop, which are now being passed around. The clothes almost get lost in the mix, which says a lot about how crowded the room is considering that the collection is filled with eye-grabbing sequins, beaded embellishments and shiny jacquard. Standouts include a dramatic ball gown skirt with graphic florals, a sparkly grey sequin sweatshirt and skirt combo, and a sexy bustier jumpsuit styled with trim tuxedo pants. Wear these to any party andyou'll own the crowd. TC
8:09 p.m. Marc Jacobs is perhaps the only designer who not only gets his audience in their seats on time, but a few minutes early. At any other show, editors don't arrive until about ten minutes after the start time. But tonight, the entire place is completely full at just nine minutes past the hour. That's impressive when you think about the fact that a lot of guests accidentally went to the Armory where he normally shows each season. He changed the time (it was originally scheduled for 4pm) and location due to the blizzard. KH
8:15 p.m. Fashion just got dirty, literally. I'm realizing that the first pair of muddy sneakers I spotted on one of the male models was not an accident. They're all wearing them under wide leg trousers that drag along the floor, and from my seat look slightly dusty as if the guys walked all the way back home to Park and 81st after barhopping on the Lower Eastside. Marc's girls, on the other hand, look perfectly neat and put-together in a mix of tailored separates that come in retro, Seventies silhouettes and pretty dresses that would seem outright prim if it weren't for their trippy graphic prints. Standouts such as a demure graphic top and matching full skirt or wide leg pinstripe pants worn under a three quarter length naval coat look like good wardrobe additions for college seniors preparing for their first big publishing internship in the city. And now that I think about it, I wore Marc Jacobs for my first big magazine job interview. KH
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Through interviews with local education leaders, researchers, and the people directly affected by the dropout crisis Chicago Tonight journalists are telling the story of Chicago�s high dropout rate and the work being done to raise graduation rates.
December 6, 2012 - OneGoal Sets High Bar for Low-Income Students - OneGoal, a nonprofit educational organization, pinpoints and targets low-income, underperforming students in non-selective Chicago Public Schools to reverse the trend that shows nationally, only 8 percent of ninth graders in low-income communities are expected to graduate college by age 25.
December 6, 2012 - Truancy: Chicago's Missing Student Problem - Students who are truant in their K-8 years are much more likely to drop out of high school later down the road. Elizabeth Brackett reports on one elementary school's hands-on approach to combat the truancy crisis.
September 25, 2012 - Elizabeth Brackett speaks with administrators and researchers about the charter school expansion in Chicago. The conversation includes a discussion about how effective charter schools have been in raising graduation rates.
September 24, 2012 - Eddie Arruza interviews Edmond "AJ" Shoat, a recent Chicago high school dropout, to better understand the issues students, families, and educators deal with in the struggle to keep teens in school and on a path towards graduation.
February 27, 2012 - Elizabeth Brackett visits a program at the American Indian Association designed to support the cultural education of Native Americans in Chicago.
December 8, 2011 - Andrew Sum, Professor from the Center for Labor Market Studies, Northeastern University-Boston, talks with Phil Ponce about the labor market, civic, social, and fiscal costs of Chicago�s high dropout rate.
November 7, 2011 - Elizabeth Brackett interviews school leaders from Team Englewood and Youth Connection Charter Schools, as well as researchers from the University of Chicago to examine the dropout crisis in Chicago.
November 7, 2011 - Jean-Claude Brizard, CEO of Chicago Public Schools, talks with Phil Ponce about how the Chicago Public School system is handling high dropout rates.
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I returned to Michigan as a reporter after being away for nearly 20 years. When I was a boy, was taught almost nothing about the history of the African-American experience or the history of Detroit or even the history of my family for that matter.
Confronted by the hard realities of our time and our city, I went looking for my own story which is inextricably linked to the story of Detroit -- white, black and red. I was surprised by what I found.
In the spirit of Black History Month, this is the first of three essays on myFOXdetroit.com that will culminate in video form on FOX 2 in coming weeks. Portions of these essays will appear in my upcoming book, " DETROIT: An American Autopsy," due out this fall. -- Charlie LeDuff
Part 2 of 3 DETROIT -- My grandfather Royal LeDuff divorced his first wife – my grandmother Betty Zink -- five years before her sad and sudden death in 1951.
That year, grandpa went to dance it up at the Vanity Ballroom, a popular nightclub on Detroit's east side, a joint decorated with crystal chandeliers and Mayan kitsch that routinely featured the biggest headliners of the day like Tommy Dorsey. Even though this was Detroit – the North -- the place strictly off-limits to blacks, except for Monday nights which was named charmingly enough "colored night." This was not a Monday night.
Grandpa, a postal worker, was there having a glass of whiskey most likely as that was his flavor, when he set eyes on Betsy Steele, a comely 35-year-old waitress with a round face and dark hair.
They began courting and she would become my other grandmother. Yes, my grandfather was at one time husband to both my grandmothers. Betsy, the waitress, was a divorcee with six children scattered to the wind. But Royal probably did not know her secret then. She had other secrets.
Betsy belonged to a rich and restless lineage stretching back to the founding days of the continent, a mixture of European and native peoples, frontiersmen and indomitable women who settled the new world.
Despite this beautiful lineage or because of it, Betsy called herself white, though some governmental records have her listed as "m" -- mulatto in Spanish or métis in French -- both meaning mixed blood.
Her family's Detroit history begins with Joseph Chevalier, a Frenchman from Normandy who came to Montreal to carve a life out from the wilderness. He took as his wife Francoise-Marthe Barton, one of the filles du roi, or king's daughters, a group of 800 women or so who were sent under the sponsorship Louis XIV to marry settlers and populate New France.
The women mostly were poor, orphaned and recommended to the king by their parish priest. If they went to the New World and suitably married a man, they were given a dowry of 50 silver pieces. For their journey there were also provided by the crown a small hope chest in which to put 1 head dress, 1 taffeta handkerchief, 1 pair of shoe ribbons, 100 sewing needles, 1 comb, 1 spool of white thread, 1 pair of stockings, 1 pair of gloves, 1 pair of scissors, 2 knives, 1,000 pins, 1 bonnet, 4 lace braids and 2 silver coins.
And so Grandmother Barton arrived in Montreal sometime around 1670 with her hope chest, her dreams and her strong back. I imagine a hairy and whiskered Chevalier slathering on the docks of Montreal. She gave Chevalier 13 children and is considered a founding mother of Canada.
Among those children was Jean Chevalier, a coureur du bois, literally a runner of the woods. The coureur was a wild breed of man, a poacher more or less, who lived among the natives, drank and smoked heavily and thumbed his nose at the authority of the crown.
Chevalier arrived at the newly founded Fort Detroit in 1705, not four years before its founding by Antoine Cadillac.
It may have been that Chevalier did much business with Antoine Cadillac, who was founder and commandant of Fort Detroit. At any rate, it was a dangerous frontier town, with three bands of rival Indians living on its outskirts. In 1706, a priest and a soldier were killed in an Indian uprising, making Chevalier a witness to the first recorded murder in Detroit. And like tens of thousands of murders in Detroit since then, it remains unsolved. A cold case.
Jean returned to Montreal where he took a bride in 1709. Marie Francoise Alavoine, of French and Menominee blood.
In 1715, the French, taking an interest again in the upper lakes founded Fort Michillimackinac in the straits of Mackinac. Chevalier, smelling an opportunity, relocated his family there in 1717, siring 17 children. In and through blood and marriage Chevalier's family would go on to a hold a monopoly on the fur trade stretching from Detroit to Fort Michillimackinac.
So important was the clan that one member is made mention of in the Treaty of 1763, ending the French and Indian War and placing my ancestors under the British flag. Another, Chief Daniel Bourassa accompanied the Potawatomi on their Trail of Tears to Kansas, where his wife Marqueta Bertrand dies and he vanishes.
The British relocated the fort to the high bluffs of Mackinac Island and lost it to the Americans in the Revolutionary War. The British would not relinquish it for 15 years and would retake it during the War of 1812. Defeated again, the British turned the fort forever to the Americans in 1815.
Two years later, William McGulpin, a pioneer born in Fort Detroit made his way to the straits of Mackinac to find his fortune and purchased the first house ever built on the island. His wife was Madeline Bourassa, the descendant of Chevalier and Chief Daniel. There in the wilderness, they carved out a farm and bakery that would supply bread and hardtack to John Jacob Astor's American Fur Co., which did a booming trade in beaver pelts for the next three decades.
When the beaver trade went bust, so did the island, and so did the family.
This from the journal John Lewis Payton who visited in the summer of 1848:
"Mackinaw (ac) was a miserable fishing village, composed almost exclusively of timber houses, many of which were occupied by Indians, half-breeds, & a low class of whites. In the vicinity of the lakeshore there are also many half-naked Indians living in tents. Some of these tents were constructed of cotton cloth & others of wood covered with reeds. Driven from the neighboring shores by the mosquitoes, black gnats, & other venomous insects, the savages took refuge here, where there are no insects of any kind. At Mackinaw the Indians support themselves by fishing until the cold season made it possible to return to their homes on the northern peninsula."
Shortly after Payton's tour, William McGulpin's daughter Mariah was born. Mariah would marry Louis Beloungea– an Odawa of the same tribe as chief Pontiac who would lay siege to the white man's forts in 1763 and go on to be murdered in St. Louis by an Indian man paid for the deed with liquor.
My great-great grandparents were married Sept. 22, 1879 on Mackinac Island by justice of the peace Beloni Lechance and witnessed by his wife Mary and a Ojibway man Joseph S. Benjamin. Mariah disappeared into the wilds with Louis, eventually settling in the frontier town of Cross Village on the shores of Lake Michigan – or michi gami as the natives called it – its meaning in English simply the great lake.
Louis was enterprising man, a lighthouse keeper at Waugashonce and Skillagalee in the 1880's. He also worked as the assistant keeper at Scott Point, living in a 10x10 shack with Mariah and his children. This proved especially onerous as it was located next to the outhouse. He quit after a year as did his three successors.
Louis owned general store in Cross Village and was chief of the village headmen. By his position, Louis illegally got his wife on the Indian rolls so he could collect an extra share of allotment money paid to the Indians for their land.
He seemed to understand the value of multiple identities. When the white man's census taker came around in 1900, he was no where to be found. Mariah is listed as head of household and her 11 children are listed as white.
Meanwhile on the Durant Indian Census of 1907 was taken of all the native people and their descendants in the Mackinac region to straighten out the treaty payments. On that roll Louis and his children are listed as Indian, even Mariah, which creates a stir in Washington. Durante is sent back out to the village for an explanation. Louis says his wife was adopted into the tribe prior to 1870 and that by tribal custom she was an Indian and deserved the white man's money. Louis convened the village elders and had them sign an affidavit to that effect in his roll as Authority of Headmen in the village.
It was a nice try but Big Father did not buy it. Grandma Maria got nothing in the end. Maria kept a good house and it was a good house for a frontier house: whitewashed timber, two floors, shutters decorated cornices on the main road, From upstairs you could see the bluff and below the bluff could see the Straits of Mackinac. It was immaculate. Near the chamber pots in the bedrooms she kept bleached, pressed and folded cloths. They spoke French and Ojibwe but not English. She was the medicine woman of the village, keeping her remedies locked in an oak cabinet in the summer kitchen, She kept burdock, sweet grass and on the top shelf, well Laudlum, and opium-based pain killer.
Louis lived imperiously and his wife shaved him every morning. In January 1927, he sat in his summer kitchen by the wood stove and the oak cabinet as was his custom. His wife draped a towel around his shoulders and lathered his face. She went to get the razor and when she returned, Louis was sitting up in the chair quite dead. She wrote this story on the back of their marriage certificate.
Louis' most beautiful daughter Jennie returned to Mackinac Island as a young woman and married William, the son of William, a storied lighthouse keeper and the grandson of William, who according to family legend was the commandant of Fort Mackinac and a relation to the Presidents John and John Quincy Adams.
This too is stylized revisionism by a family of half-breeds whose fortunes steadily declined over the generations. William Marshall the Commandant was actually William Marshall the ordnance sergeant of the U.S. Army. An immigrant from England, Marshall enlisted in 1823 and fought in the Florida Mexican and Black Hawk wars. He came to Fort Mackinac on duty around April 8, 1848.
The fort was left empty during the Civil War, except for the Ol' Sarge who was left behind to mind the grounds. You can imagine what the locals must have said when they saw the beloved old man waddling around in his blues and yellow piping: "There goes the commandant."
The Sarge lived a penurious existence in a small cabin with a large family near the fort forcing him to work until his last breath. U.S. Sen. Thomas W. Ferry tried to reward Grandpa Marshall for his long and faithful service, by having him appointed a lieutenant and placed on the retired list. But again the powers in Washington refused my family a little extra butter.
He died at the age of 84, perhaps the oldest serving enlisted man in the history of the U.S. military. His death in 1884 even warranted an obituary in the New York Times.
Five of Marshall's sons went on to man the lighthouses of the Great Lakes, including William. In April 1883, he was scheduled to take command of the newly built Spectacle Reef lighthouse. The ice in the straits was still breaking up. Keeper Marshall, a sinewy and leather-faced man with a flowing white beard, chartered a steamboat to take him to his new assignment but the steamer was having mechanical troubles. Undeterred and possessed by his duties, Grandpa Marshall stuffed a small sail boat to the gunwales with provisions and his three assistants, which included his son James.
The men had not cleared Bois Blanc Island when a gale swept up and overturned the single mast boat. Grandpa Marshall watched as his son succumbed to the icy waters, his finger slipping from the boat's keel, his body claimed by the darkness of Lake Huron – karegnondi, the lake of the Huron. He lived to retell the story when he was saved by a family of fishermen.
When his youngest son William came to seek permission from his mother Matilda to marry Jennie, Matilda loudly objected. After all, Jennie was raised in the wilderness. She spoke English poorly and she was a half-breed. The marriage was below him and take him nowhere, Matilda warned. This was not the stuff befitting the descendants of a commandant.
William married her anyway and the bad feelings did not inhibit Jennie from performing her wifely duties, giving William 11 children. But Matilda's warnings of doom proved prescient. William would spend the rest of his life as an impoverished laborer doing odd jobs for others. Near the end of his life, his children remember William weeping when the man came to repossess the horse and wagon.
And Jennie lost one child at birth and three more in life.
Among them was little Stanley who fell ill at four years old. It was Christmas 1923 and Stanley was brought from of the bedroom, bundled in a blanket in his sister's arms to see the candles on the tree. Grandpa William was banging some tune on a toy drum and must have been doing it poorly because Jennie, annoyed, took a butcher knife to his rhythm hand. Little Stanley never got to play with the drum. Jennie prepared Stanley's body for his funeral on the ironing board.
The eldest child was Melvina. She married Dorman Wilson who worked at the ice house along with my grandfather. After exerting himself over a large piece of ice, Wilson reached into the cursed waters of Lake Huron for a dipper full of water. He drank and immediately dropped stone cold dead. William walked up to the house break his daughter the news. Melvina was holding Dorman Jr. and when informed she threw the baby in a fit of hysteria. Grandpa William caught him and the shrieking of Melvina is still recounted at family weddings and baptisms today.
Melvina became so unhinged at the death of her love that she developed a habit for morphine, an oddity for a rural island dweller of the '20s. She remarried a man named George Shine. When the Depression struck Shine moved his family to Saginaw and disappeared a few years later, leaving Melvina with five children and his mother. They lived in a boarding house, which Melvina burned to the ground after falling asleep with a lit cigarette, according to her obituary. She was 38. They buried her next to her first and true love Dorman Wilson back on Mackinac Island.
Death was just as cruel to Grandma Matilda, who had long before cursed her son's marriage. She is said to have died in the depths of blistering winter on Mackinac Island. Since the ground was frozen through, Matilda was taken to the basement of St. Anne's Church, where she would be stored until the spring thaw and a proper grave could be dug. Her casket was placed on a horse-drawn carriage to be lorried up the hill to the church. But when the carriage hit a rut, the casket fell off the buck board, sending the pine casket smashing to the ground. Grandma Matilda's corpse popped out and went rolling down the hill. I can imagine Grandma Jennie at the bottom of the hill to meet the corpse, wiping her hands on her apron with a smile of satisfaction.
The second youngest daughter of William and Jennie was my grandmother, Elizabeth or Betsy for speed.
Elizabeth was born Sept 4, 1916 on Mackinac Island and delivered by midwife Sophia Chapman, Louis Beloungea's sister and Elizabeth's great aunt.
In 1936 at the height of the Great Depression, she married a young white man Victor Steele, from the woodlands of Manistique who himself was orphaned when his father was cut in half while coupling railroad cars at a lumber mill.
Victor was a 16-year-old bartender and the Grand Hotel resort on Mackinac Island, when he met my grandmother, who was four years his elder and working as a waitress. She didn't know he was a teenager. He told her he was 20. They married quietly and moved to Detroit in search of work and an exciting life.
The war broke out shortly thereafter and Victor, a truck driver, went off to war leaving his wife and five children behind. Where he served, exactly, and when is a mystery. His war record was destroyed in the 1973 fire at the National Personnel Records in St. Louis. The only memento that exists from his service is a photograph of him dressed in his Army browns smiling with my grandmother.
Whenever it was that he returned home from duty, one thing is certain, he was surprised to find a new baby. But Grandfather Vic claimed the newborn couldn't have been his since he was overseas and bed-ridden with malaria. Outraged, Grandma Betsy hissed that he never went overseas and never had malaria and the child belonged to him.
The truth will rest with the dead.
But the truth does not matter really. What does matter is they divorced because of it at least in part and grandma was given custody of the brood – though Victor never put up a fight.
But unable to support six children, my grandmother placed the children in the Holy Family orphanage in Marquette. The abandonment wounded the children immeasurably, six little people wondering why no one loved them.
There exists a photograph at the orphanage with the three youngest, my mother and her younger brother and sister sitting on the sandstone steps with an old and plump and bespectacled nun whom the children called Sister Mercy. The orphanage would later be used to house Cuban refugees of Castro.
Three years would pass in the orphanage before Victor, now remarried, scooped them up and brought them to his home in Compton, CA. He took all but the youngest, claiming still that she was not his. This was the early 50's and the first black family had moved in the neighborhood in Compton. The children were instructed not to play with them, my mother recalls.
As it went with my family, my grandfather Victor's second marriage dissolved. Again my mother and her brothers and sisters were on the float, scattered among distant relatives, like so much thistledown in the wind.
And meanwhile, back in Detroit, their mother Betsy was enjoying the first sparks of romance with a handsome stranger named Royal LeDuff at the Vanity Ballroom. I can picture him now holding her softly. Holding his liquor well. And holding his own his own family secrets in his heart.
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Last night I was thinking of a Saslove I had recently picked up in the US, but something steered me towards a bottle of my homemade 2011 Pinot Noir. I should find someone in Ottawa with a more refined palate than mine to give a proper review. It has a nice ruby colour, and is fairly fruity, with a nice amount of acid for a Pinot Noir. I'm down to my last half-dozen bottles. I wish I had made more!
Gabriel Geller wrote:Sam M wrote:Yarden Chenin Blanc with desert. Im not a desert wine guy. This was good but I thought it was a bit too syrupy.
Hi Sam,
Yarden Chenin Blanc? Are you sure? I've never heard of that wine. Perhaps you mean Heightswine (ice wine style Gewürztraminer), Noble Sémillon Botrytis (Sauternes style) or Muscat (alcohol fortified)?
Herzog and 1848 have both a Late Harvest Chenin Blanc. Perhaps it was one of these?
Gabriel Geller wrote:Hi Adam,
WOW! You made yourself a Pinot? Now that's quite a challenge! Even if you have access to quality grapes I assume it's not an easy wine to make but what do I know? I've myself never made even not grape juice... I guess you didn't grow the grapes yourself though. I've never actually heard of canadian PN but given the cold climate I believe there might be quite a few out there. How many bottles did you make in total?
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PA Member John G. Kruth has been at work over the summer months recasting the Rhine Education Center's course structure into a new curriculum that is a combination of 4-week courses, 8-week courses, some academically-oriented, some a little bit more popular, and some eligible for a variety of new certificate programs. Some weeks back I made a video that introduces folks to the changes at the Rhine Education Center.
Here's the link: http://youtu.be/qYy2CVnPcLU
In this video I go over some of the changes and give folks information on where to find more information about the four courses which are taught totally online: Research Methods in Parapsychology (taught by John G. Kruth starting with an online lecture Wednesday night, September 24th); Developing Your Intuition (taught by PA member Loyd Auerbach, starting with an online lecture Monday night, September 29th), History of the Rhine Research Center (from the beginning to 1940, team-taught by myself and Dr. Carlos S. Alvarado, both of us two-time past-Presidents of the PA, starting also with an online lecture Monday night, September 29th, a few hours before Loyd's course starts); and Premonitions: Peeking into the Future (also team taught by Alvarado and I, starting Monday night October 27th). John's course runs 8 weeks, and Loyd's and the two taught by Carlos and I run 4 weeks each.
One change in the REC program this fall is that "auditing" is the default. If you're interested in being graded for your work in the course, you can arrange that with your instructors, otherwise you won't need to achieve a grade to get through course. However, only graded courses are eligible for the various certificate programs.
For more information about Loyd's Developing Your Intuition course, we've uploaded a video by Loyd to the Rhine Research Center's YouTube channel:
Here's the link: http://youtu.be/LEtfi9khTD8
For more information on John Kruth's course, I uploaded a video done by John that talks about his course in more depth.
Here's the link: http://youtu.be/qPeoIQhA_R4
We'll be putting up some more videos on the courses over the next couple of weeks, so it's best to subscribe to the Rhine Research Center's channel to make sure you get the updates.
On the Rhine Research Center's channel you can also explore Welcome to the Week videos from previous courses to get a sense of how the courses have been taught in the past, and also to see some other videos we've uploaded or linked to that show tours of the Rhine Research Center, or quick looks at some of the Rhine's Friday Night Talks.
Carlos and I are really dedicated to improving educational opportunities for folks in the field, whether your interest is general or more academic. Another couple of great places for more information is Carlos' blog "Parapsychology" which can be found by clicking on the link in the blog title in this line, and by subscribing to our YouTube Channel,ParapsychologyOnline.
Come join us! Should be a great term at the Rhine!
I just finished writing a monster blog for the Parapsychology Foundation's website that reviewed the PA Convention that took place this past August in Curitiba, Brazil. My main goal in that blog was to highlight the amazing legacy of the Parapsychology Foundation and its centrality to the field, even now in these tough economic times. In the first part of that blog I focused mainly on which grant recipients and former Perspectives Lecture and International Conference speakers had also contributed to the most recent PA. In the second part of the blog I did the same thing with the amazing group of speakers who will be presenting at Atlantic University's"Parapsychology and Consciousness" conference in a couple of weeks. If you're interested in reading through that blog, go to www.parapsycholgy.org and click on "News" for the Breaking News page, or click the "blog" button at the bottom of the home page. If you're impatient just click this link and you'll wend your way to the blog itself.
Three Good Reasons to Come to Virginia Beach for "Parapsychology and Consciousness" on October 14th ...
Atlantic University is not going to be doing parapsychology conferences every year. Our Annual Conference series which starts with "Parapsychology and Consciousness" is conceived of as a way to feature aspects of our existing program in a unique setting. Our Masters of Arts in Transpersonal Studies has a number of tracks: Consciousness Studies in which parapsychology lives is only one of them. So if you think you can give our conference a miss this year because there will be another one next year, think again. Next year, our conference will focus on Leadership; the next few years after that it will focus on creative writing, dream studies and dream work, and/or transpersonal arts, among other possible topics. We don't anticipate being able to return to scientific parapsychology for many years.
So this is a once in a lifetime event, er .. uh ... well, at least at AU it is a once-in-a-decade kind of opportunity!
Another good reason: because of the economy we have broken out our $395 ($375 for seniors/students) price into day prices and evening prices, so you can choose to attend the evening lectures ($30 each), or just Friday afternoon ($80), or just all Saturday ($160) or all day Sunday ($160) depending on which presentations interest you the most. And because it is off season here in Virginia Beach, rooms in our conference hotels — the Wyndham and the Holiday Inn Express — are less than $100 a night. The Holiday Inn Express also includes a hot breakfast in the room price in case the Continental breakfast we are serving at the conference is not enough, not to mention an ocean view. Try booking that during the season for less than $200! (Lots of other hotels are arrayed along both sides of Atlantic and Pacific Avenues and some of them are even less expensive this time of year.)
But the best reason to come to Virginia Beach for "Parapsychology and Consciousness" from October 14th through 16th is the line up!
The conference starts Friday, October 14th at noon with a reception and continues through Sunday evening at 6:15pm. Himself, Carlos S. Alvarado (two-time past President of the Parapsychological Association and Scholar in Residence at Atlantic University, and well, my husband ...) organized the speakers. They are: Dean Radin, Roger Nelson, Ed May, Julie Beischel, Jim Carpenter, John Palmer, Loyd Auerbach, Bob Van de Castle, Christine Simmonds-Moore, Doug Richards, Frank Pasciuti, Ginette Nachman, Henry Reed, David McMillin and of course, Carlos and I. We had hoped to include Steve Braude too but he had to cancel.
So the conference kicks off at noon on Friday October 14th with a reception, registration and opportunities for book-signing in the lobby of the Visitor's Center at Edgar Cayce's Association for Research and Enlightenment (A.R.E.) at 6700 Atlantic Avenue in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Kevin Todeschi, an Atlantic University (AU) graduate, and the CEO of both Edgar Cayce's A.R.E. and AU, will convene the conference proper in the Main Auditorium around 2pm with welcoming remarks, followed by comments from Carlos and I. The first speaker on Friday afternoon is Christine Simmonds-Moore, who in addition to being a faculty member at Atlantic University and a researcher attached to the Rhine Research Center, has recently taken up a tenure-track position in the Department of Psychology at the University of West Georgia. Her presentation "How do Synesthesias relate to Anomalous Experiences" will cover an online survey of synesthesia experiences and a laboratory experiment in which strong synesthetes were compared with matched controls on an ESP task. For abstracts of both this talk and one Christine will give on Saturday click here.
Following the coffee break, Ed May is the next speaker up. He is well-known in our community as a physicist, the founder of Laboratories for Fundamental Research, and for his decades spent managing the Stargate Program. Ed will give an invited address called "Application of Fuzzy Sets to Natural Anomalous Cognition (a.k.a Remote Viewing) Targets." For abstracts of both this talk and his contribution to a panel discussion later in the program click here.
Conference attendees will break for dinner after Ed's talk — we have provided a great list of all the terrific restaurants up and down Atlantic Avenue and elsewhere in Virginia Beach and the seafood in this area is truly exceptional! After dinner we will hold our fourth quarterly Visiting Scholar Lecture, this time presented by invited speaker, Roger Nelson, formerly of the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Laboratory and the founder of the Global Consciousness Project. For an abstract of his update on the GCP, click here.
On Saturday morning, October 15th, the second day of the conference will start with an invited address by long-time AU faculty member, Doug Richards. He will review the way in which scientific parapsychology has been intertwined with the history of Atlantic University and the A.R.E. since the rebirth of AU as a graduate school in 1985. For an abstract of both of his talks click here. Following Doug's presentation, James Van Auken, a faculty member at both Atlantic University and the Cayce/Reilly School of Massotherapy, will moderate a panel called "What a Masters in Parapsychology Should Look Like." I will give a talk called "Designing a Curriculum for a Masters in Parapsychology." Following my presentation, three of our faculty members, Carlos, Doug and Christine will give talks on courses they designed for the existing Masters of Transpersonal Studies degree: "Atlantic University's Principles of Parapsychology Course" (Doug),"History of Parapsychology" (Carlos) and "Psychology of Psychic Experiences" (Christine). (As you click off to these abstracts you may have to scroll down, if the presentation listed here is not the first presentation the speaker is giving in the conference.) Because of the recent ruling from our accrediting agency (see my previous blog), both of the last two courses mentioned are back on the drawing board as we search for a wider focus on this difficult topic.
On Saturday afternoon in a paper session entitled "Parapsychology and Psychology," Atlantic University's own Henry Reed will talk about "Intimacy and ESP." Henry is well-known in the International Association for the Study of Dreams and has been serving as a faculty member since before the University was reborn as a graduate school in 1985. (If you're interested, you can view a powerpoint on the history of the school I put together in 2010 with the help of CEO Kevin Todeschi, in honor of the 80th anniversary of the founding of the school.) The second speaker in the paper session, John Palmer, is well-known to the PA community having served as both past-President and Board member. His paper will tackle a persistence problem for scientific parapsychology, the "Source-of-Psi" problem. Jim Carpenter, also well-known to PA will present his"First Sight" theory. The last paper in the session will be given by Frank Pasciuti, a clinical psychologist from Charlottesville, Virginia, who will examine the relationship of his discipline to parapsychology. (For Frank's biography and abstract click here.)
Saturday evening, Atlantic University will present Dean Radin, the Senior Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences and author of The Conscious Universe andEntangled Minds, among other important publications. Dean's lecture is called "Before the Tipping Point: Reconsidering the Nature of Consciousness." (For the abstract of Dean's presentation click here.)
Sunday, October 16th is the last day of the conference and will begin with a paper detailing research that I conducted with Carlos and our colleague from the University of Virginia, Natasha Agee. The research, funded by the Bial Foundation in Portugal, looked into the relationship of psychic experiences, the psychology state/trait of absorption and adult memories of childhood imaginary companions. My talk will be followed by a talk by Loyd Auerbach, PA member, well-known field investigator, faculty member at both Atlantic University and John F. Kennedy University, and chocolatier! Loyd's talk, "The Haunting of USS Hornet," will provide an update on an on-going investigation. (For an abstract of this and Loyd's other talk click here.) A panel discussion on the future of the field will follow with presentations by: Bob Van de Castle, like Henry Reed, a decades-long active member of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, a decades-long active member of the PA as well, and with appointments both on the faculties of the University of Virginia and here at Atlantic University; Carlos; Ginette Nachman, an MD/Ph.D. who has been on the Board of the RRC; and Ed May. The talks will be: "The Mutlifaceted Nature of Psi Dreams: Some Suggestions for the Future" (Van de Castle), "Researching Out-of-Body Experiences" (Alvarado), "Biomedical Aspects of Psi" (Nachman), and "The Future of Psi Research: A Physics Perspective" (May). (Again you may have to scroll down the linked PDFs if the paper listed here is not the first presentation of the conference for that speaker.)
After lunch on Sunday, the final session of the conference will include two papers and an invited address. In the papers, David McMillin of the Meridian Institute will present a talk called "Edgar Cayce's Psychic Process." This will be followed by Loyd Auerbach's "The Field Investigators' Best Tech: Psychics and Mediums as Paranormal Sensing 'Technology'." Finally, Julie Beischel, one of the founders of The Windbridge Institute for Applied Research in Human Potential, will present her invited address, "Modern Mediumship Research: Experiments, Experiences, and Explanations."
The conference registration page contains prices for the entire conference ($395 full price, $375 for students and seniors), and for segments of the conference (Dr. Nelson's Visiting Scholars Lecture and Dr. Radin's Saturday evening lecture are $30 each, Friday afternoon attendance is prices at $80, and all day Saturday and all day Sunday at $160 each). The conference information page also has click throughs to the hotels, both of which are in the $80-$95 range in October. More information is available on the Atlantic University website. If you download the Media Press Kit you'll find not only the conference brochure and schedule but also the abstracts booklet.
Come and join us! It's going to be a unique and exciting conference in a wonderful venue!
The Atlantic University Blog and the upcoming Parapsychology and Consciousness Conference ...
So today the first thing I'm doing is letting everybody know that Atlantic University has set up a blog. My first really substantial blog entry is, of course, on our upcoming Parapsychology and Consciousness conference, to be held from October 14th through October 16th this coming fall here in Virginia Beach.
So just take the plunge and register for the conference! Oops, ah, sorry, got carried away!. So just click here for the link to our new blog site. :-)
The fate of AU's hoped for MA in Parapsychology ...
As for the proposed Masters of Arts in Parapsychology program Carlos and I and the rest of our faculty and staff at Atlantic University (not to mention the CEO and Board of Trustees) had hoped to be able to launch in 2012: We have not been given the green light by our accrediting agency to offer the program. In fact, quite the opposite.
Our accrediting agency is staffed by a group of really good people who are very serious about their jobs. Our agency is a "national" accreditor as opposed to the "regional accreditors" who handle bricks and mortar universities. The staff are very professional and do a very good job of overseeing a variety of schools, all online, some professional, some academic, in a variety of disciplines, and from the undergraduate to the graduate level. The agency is, in turn, approved by the Council of Higher Education Accreditation here in the States, another very serious group of folk, and by the US Department of Education.
We submitted a Petition to Propose a Masters of Arts in Parapsychology last May 1st and the Accrediting Commission of our agency reviewed our petition in early June. They declined to give us permission to propose the program. We were caught on the edge of two crossed blades: "controversy" and "parapsychology." They just weren't willing to associate themselves in such a visible way with such a controversial field.
I wrote a 16-page proposal that gave a brief history of the field, acknowledged our controversial status, compared education in the field in the US in 1983 (using an old American Society for Psychical Research Course Listing compiled by the incomparable Marian Nester, then Director of Education for the ASPR) to education in the field in the US today (non-existent except for a few courses here and there, and opportunities to complete a degree under the tutelage of some top folk in the field, i.e., Stan Krippner at Saybrook, Charley Tart, Arthur Hastings, among others, at ITP and so on). I talked about the growth of opportunities primarily in the UK but also in other countries. I included 30 letters of support from senior scientists in the field and others, including members of our Board of Trustees and two of our current students. I also included the CVs of all the faculty I had hired and hoped to hire, and of course, the complete program curriculum with course descriptions and objectives. Carlos provided me with tables of recent scholarly articles in high impact journals, recent scholarly books and, of course, recent dissertations. I also included a table of all the existing programs I knew of and their accrediting agencies.
The text of the petition was 16 pages. The supporting documents including the letters of support topped out at 234 additional pages. A big job putting it together but I had the help not only of our faculty, staff and our prospective faculty, but also of one of my predecessors in my job, and various other folk interested in the future of education in the field.
It wasn't the quality of the petition or the program it described that sunk us but those two dirty words "parapsychology" and "controversy," the former monumentally distorted in our present climate, and the latter, evoking a sincere and often well-founded fear of consequences.
Our accrediting agency are themselves up for re-authorization soon and it is possible they had in their minds an example of a former accreditation agency that lost its authorization as an agency after accrediting another even more controversial field. I don't blame the folk at our agency or on their Accrediting Commission for shying away from approving our plans one bit. They have a responsibility to the other schools they accredit just like I have a responsibility to our students here at Atlantic University. We're all bound by our responsibilities to maintain our compliance with the best practices of higher education administration. And, having had the career I've had in the field, I understand full well the risks of sticking your neck out.
I had just hoped that the time was finally right to put together a graduate level program that focused entirely and specifically on parapsychology, on the wide and deep body of knowledge we have amassed, on the methodology, on the interconnections with other sciences, and so on. I have long resisted the notion of embedding a little bit of parapsychology in a program about something related, or something one step up theoretically like consciousness studies because in those programs, no matter how well they are constructed, the full range of content of our field are necessarily, pragmatically bracketed, stuck in a tiny pot on the hob at the back, not enough to feed everybody but at least not big enough to draw unwanted attention.
I am a firm believer that the title of the program has to have a significant and well-thought-through relationship to the curriculum that is on offer under that title. Our agency, bless their hearts, spent some time with me last week trying to give me options to put together something more palatable, less controversial, that would do at least some of what we wanted to do with the MA in Para program, albeit not all. I'm grateful for those ideas. Our Para Curriculum Subcommittee (AU Faculty Carlos and I, Loyd Auerbach, Christine Simmonds-Moore, and Jim Matlock) will be chewing on them in the near future. In the meantime we have a Masters of Arts in Transpersonal Studies with a single course that includes the word "parapsychology" in the title and a slew of great faculty to mentor folks who want to do their Culminating Project on the field with us. That's good, of course.
In any case what I've said here doesn't really express how disappointed I am that we can't do what's really needed for the field.
Here's hoping that sometime, somewhere we all find ourselves in a climate that's finally devoid of skeptical rant, in which academic freedom doesn't come with a cost that is just too high to pay.
Atlantic University is a small online graduate school in Virginia Beach, Virigina offering a Masters of Arts in Transpersonal Studies. Last year (a year and 13 days ago), Carlos S. Alvarado and I were hired by AU and started an entirely new phase of our lives.
We've been working on a number of things this year, but one of the most important is the inauguration of a new series of annual conferences to highlight various aspects of the work and interests of Atlantic University. Since 1985, when Atlantic University was a residential school, Doug Richards (known to a lot of PA members) has been teaching a course called 'Principles of Parapsychology." This year, between October 14th and October 16th, 2011, Doug, Carlos and I, and other Atlantic University faculty members Henry Reed, Bob Van de Castle, Loyd Auerbach and Christine Simmonds-Moore are taking part in our conference, "Parapsychology and Consciousness." David McMillan of the Meridian Institute and Kevin Todeschi, the CEO of both Edgar Cayce's A.R.E. and Atlantic University will also be taking part.
We're really excited about all of the folks who will be joining us to give papers: Julie Beischel of The Windbridge Institute, Dean Radin of IONs, Ed May from Laboratories for Fundamental Research, Roger Nelson of the Global Consciousness Project, Steve Braude of the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, John Palmer of the Rhine Research Center, Jim Carpenter in private practice in Chapel Hill, Frank Pasciuti in private practice in Charlottesville, Virginia, and Ginette Nachman of Durham, NC. The topics range from "Biomedical Aspects of Psi" (Nachman) to "How Do the Synesthesias Relate to Anomalous Experiences" (Simmonds-Moore) and "Before the Tipping Point: Reconsidering the Nature of Consciousness" (Radin), among many others.
The conference starts at noon on Friday October 14th and continues through 6pm on Sunday October 16th. Of course we think "Parapsychology and Consciousness" brings together a unique and unprecedented mixture of some of the best speakers in the field, as well as some of the most interesting aspects of the varied research in scientific parapsychology.
The Visitor's Center at Edgar Cayce's A.R.E., where the conference will be held, has a great large auditorium and a number of function rooms we'll be using as well, plus a bookstore, a top floor meditation room with a view of the ocean and tons of parking. The campus of the A.R.E. is very unique. It's a block from the Atlantic Ocean (the reason for the great view from the meditation room). The campus also includes a meditation garden, a meditation labyrinth modeled on the one at Chartres, and the A.R.E. Heath Center and Spa. The spa is on the ground floor of the "Headquarters" Building which also houses the Cayce/Reilly School of Massotherapy, Atlantic University, and a variety of units of the A.R.E. Two other buildings complete the campus, and by the time of the conference, construction will have started on the new Educational Building. The campus backs up to First Landing State Park. (Virginia Beach is a very interesting place and we have fallen completely in love with it. More on that in another blog.)
The conference hotel, the Wyndham Oceanfront, is 10 blocks away from the "Parapsychology and Consciousness" conference venue, south of the A.R.E. on Atlantic Avenue. We have rooms blocked off for the conference there. The hotel has a great restaurant, the Surf Grille, with beautiful views of the oceanfront. The Wyndham runs a shuttle to the A.R.E. We also have rooms blocked off for the conference at the Holiday Inn Express, another oceanfront hotel down in the "strip", an area full of hotels and restaurants. The Holiday Inn Express doesn't have a shuttle but the HRT bus is close by, and if you're coming in by car, it's a quick trip up Atlantic Avenue to the A.R.E. The closest airport is Norfolk International Airport. Carlos and I love this airport (having been in a ton of airports over the years); small, easy to get around, with a shuttle.
Anyhow as time goes on, I'll write some more about the details. We're putting together the best experience possible and really looking forward to having all these great speakers in town. If you go to Atlantic University's home page -- http://www.atlanticuniv.edu -- you can find a link to the conference description, and to biographies and abstracts, plus a page for registration (there's an early bird price at the moment) as well as reservation pages for the two conference hotels.
Carlos and I have been involved in a lot of great conferences over the years, but we're really looking forward to this one and hope you'll all be able to join us this October 14th to 16th in Virginia Beach!
The Parapsychological Association is an international professional organization of scientists and scholars engaged in the study of psi (or 'psychic') experiences, such as telepathy, clairvoyance, psychokinesis, psychic healing, and precognition. The primary objective of the PA is to achieve a scientific understanding of these experiences.
First established in 1957, the PA has been an affiliated organization of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 1969. The PA is a non-profit, non-adjudicating organization that endorses no ideologies or beliefs other than the value of rigorous scientific and scholarly inquiry.


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Rotary Circle Cutter- this affordable little tool is worth it's weight in gold! Pick one up here, or you can just use an 18 or 28mm traditional rotary cutter to get the job done instead (the smaller, the better).
1. Fold your layer cake square in fourths, and press the folded corner.
1 dreamy Cathedral Window Baby Playmat- 24" X 29"
Thanks so much for taking a peak at my Bake Shop recipe! I'm so glad to be here! If you have any questions about this project, feel free to hop on over to my blog and give me a holler. If you make this project, email me a pic- I'd looooove to see it!
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With Cézanne's apples and other tasty treats to spur the imagination, it's time to picnic on the parkway! Follow your muse to create a picnic placemat, draw a foodie-delight still life, and embellish a picnic bag. The new Solving Still Life gallery kit adds to the excitement.August 16, 2014
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Just wanted to make sure everyone is aware of the new rule:
Starting October 4th 2012 - with the Fall Challenge quarter – ANYONE can enter the FaithWriters Writing challenge for the first topic of each quarter. That's right – the first topic in OCTOBER, JANUARY, APRIL and JULY will be open to silver members as well! That's four times a year. See for yourself how it sharpens your writing skills and why it is so loved and appreciated.
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GRIFFIN, Ga. - A local couple says they were denied a chance to adopt a child because their dog is a pit bull mix.
Jimmy and Amanda Hollowood have a crib, clothes and a lot of love to give to a child of any age.
"Everything from a baby to a teenager," said Hollowood. "They said everything looked good, ready to go for us."
The Griffin couple, who have been married eight years decided to start a family . He is a chef, she's a daycare worker.
"I've got two bedrooms ready to go for any kids to move in," Jimmy said.
Unable to have children, they opted to adopt through Georgia's Division of Family and Children Services.
The process involved 27 hours of classes, physicals and a portfolio of paperwork.
The Hollowoods said DFACS case workers visited their home twice and met the multiple pets who call it home, including Meatball, their pit bull mix rescue.
"He's terrified of thunder. My cat beats him up," said Jimmy Hollowood.
On Thursday, after months of preparation and of hoping, the Hollowoods said they learned that adoption was no longer an option.
"I feel like someone ripped my heart out, stomped all over the ground with it," said Jimmy Hollowood.
They say they were denied because of the breed of their four-legged family member .
"The dog's a pit. That's a no-go. You can't adopt if you have him," Jimmy said he was told. "[Amanda Hollowood] sat in the baby room of her daycare and cried louder than the babies."
They couple is reeling after so much preparation.
"That's what really made me upset is that they've been out to the house. We even did a thing, a pictorial about the animals at our house," said Hollowood. "Everybody has seen the photos of him, you know, they asked for the paperwork, and of course his breed's on the paperwork. I'm not going to choose my child of four years just to work on getting…another one."
FOX 5 Atlanta was unable to get any answers from Spalding County's Division of Family and Children Services about adoption protocol and whether dog breed is a factor considered during home visits.
The Hollowoods say they haven't decided what's next for them and their dreams of having children.
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text: A key witness testified Tuesday that former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick intervened in water deals to get his pal a bigger cut of the action. That witness was the deputy director of the city's water and sewage department.Superior Engineering submitted the lowest bid on two water department projects worth tens of millions of dollars, but they still didn't get the deals and that may have left you and me on the hook for an extra $3.7 million.In his 24 years at Detroit's water department, Darryl Latimer said he had never seen a deal go down like the water main contracts awarded in 2006.Of the seven companies competing for the work, Superior Engineering had the top score, but Latimer said that didn't suit water boss Victor Mercado, who wanted the bids re-evaluated.So Latimer tried again and this time a team including Kilpatrick pal Bobby Ferguson finished in second place.What followed next was an unprecedented trip to the mayor's office, where Latimer, Mercado and Kilpatrick discussed whether Superior's partner, DLZ, qualified as a Detroit-based business.Within days, DLZ's certification was in limbo, putting the Superior team behind two competitors -- a team including Ferguson and another team that later hired Ferguson.The certification shenanigans may have cost taxpayers millions.On Contract 2015, the Detroit Project Management Team, including Ferguson, bid $16.5 million or $2.1 million more than the Superior team with DLZ.On Contract 2014, Lakeshore Engineering, which would later hire Ferguson, bid $13.6 million or $1.6 million more than the Superior-DLZ team.Kilpatrick attorney Jim Thomas said it may cost more to hire Detroit-based companies, but in the end it's worth it."You want people to work in the City of Detroit. You want them headquartered here. You want minority people, who (are) basically what 70 percent, 65 percent of the City of Detroit, you want them to be employed, pay taxes, buy homes, spend their money here in the city."Thomas also argued that the local firms may have saved the city money because they know the landscape, but that argument overlooks the fact that in the end DLZ's certification as a Detroit business was confirmed.


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