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Replica Handbag Review: Celine Luggage Phantom Bag in Light BlueCategories:Other Brands
It's no secret to anyone that the Celine Luggage Phantom Bag is one of the most beautiful and popular models these days. Countless fashionistas around the world love this design, they all love to wear it with one of their glamorous outfits. It is the perfect day purse for the office or for important meetings. It is stylish and spacious. It is everything you need to lead a modern and edgy lifestyle.
This luxury designer bag is also very much loved by movie stars and the magazines are full with photos of divas showing off their fabulous and new Celine Luggage Phantom Bag. One of my favorite versions is the one in light blue. I simply adore the look of this elegant purse. If you also like how the Celine Phantom purse looks like, but you just can't afford its high price tag then here there are a few tips for finding a perfect replica.
The most important detail about this very beautiful bag is the leather. It is manufactured from a very resistant, thick and firm leather. This type of leather looks very refined and highlights the original lines of this bag, every curve and every folding. The original Celine Luggage Phantom Bag doesn't need to be full in order to stand firm by its own. Even empty it keeps its special shape without bending. A poor replica bag will not have the same high quality leather and because of this it will look cheap and it will bend if its not stuffed.
Essential is the color of this Celine Phantom version. This unique blue is very difficult to find on the market of fake bags. Because of this, only a few replica manufacturer will manage to offer this exact color for your Celine Luggage Phantom fake Bag. Beware of lighter or darker shades of blue. These will be a clear giveaway.
The handles have a very well constructed shape. These look like tall arches made from the finest leather there is. To ensure the firmes of the handles, these are stitched on the inside part. The stitching offers an extra robustness.
The stitching is very important at a Celine Luggage Phantom replica Bag. These are used to outline the curves, the design embelishments and the elegance of the purse. Most decorative stitches are raised and represent the most fascinating part of the bag. Needless to say, each stitch is perfect. There are no symmetric errors, no loose threads or smudges.
The hardware has a very rough look. It is silver color and isn't too shiny. It has a matte finish that looks very modern and city like. I love it. It is a very nice aesthetic detail that enhances the beauty of the bag. Please note that the base must have four rectangular studs made from the same silver metal as the rest of the harware.
So just pay attention to all the details of the Celine Luggage Phantom bag you want to purchase and compare every small part of the purse with the original model. It must be an exact match. If you manage to find such a Celine Luggage Phantom replica bag then you can go ahead with your order. The result will be a glamorous and beautiful replica purse.
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Ending The Season With A Celine Knockoff Phantom Bag From FangFangCategories:Other Brands
As I was thinking about this year's most popular replica bags I realized that Celine knockoff bags were the top choices once again. I've seen some really good Celine fake bags but I've also seen so terrible ones but overall the thing I'm most excited about is that we've discovered together some new good replica sites for Celine knockoff!
This is the last Celine replica bag review of the year and I can hope that 2015 is going to be an even better year for replica Celine lovers!
A friend got this Celine Knockoff Phantom Bag from Fangfangbag5.6567.idcice.net and here's what she sent me:
"Hi Eva,
This is a Celine bag that I purchased from FangFang bags. I think it's pretty decent quality except for the inside it feels more like ultra suede.
Your thoughts? It cost me close to $400.00.
I love your site! I live by it!
You are so sweet, thanks for all the nice words! Now regarding your replica Celine handbag, I have to admit it looks pretty good but there are some things that could have been done better.
You can already find a how to spot fake Celine Phantom bag guide on the blog that was meant to help you choose the best Celine knockoff, but I will run through the essential elements again in case you haven't read it yet.
There are two types of Celine Phantom replica handbags; those that are made of smooth leather like this one and bags made of suede leather. The interior should always be made of suede leather and have the same color as the exterior. You were right, the interior of your Celine knockoff is actually made of ultrasuede but I'm glad this didn't ruin the bag you.
The logo looks good and so does the imprinted interior zipped pocket. The imprinted date code is correctly placed on the leather tab inside the pocket.
Now here are the minor flaws I noticed: the handle tabs should be a bit wider and flatter and the stitching below the front zipper pocket should not go down to the bottom of the bag. The distance should have been of about an inch. Also, the braided zipper pull is a bit longer on authentic Celine Phantom bags, but that's barely noticeable.
All in all, I think this Celine knockoff Phantom bag from Fangfang is a good ending to our Celine replica reviews of this year. And I'm sure that they'll get even better!
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Celine Luggage Phantom Bag From Fall Winter 2014 CollectionCategories:Other Brands
Color: Yellow
Size: 12′ x 11′ x 9′ in inches
Price: €1900 euro's
Color: Blue
Size: 12′ x 11′ x 9′ in inches
Price: €1900 euro's
Color: Orange
Size: 12′ x 11′ x 9′ in inches
Price: €1900 euro's
In the world of designer handbags, there is always a reason for everything. The name, the shape, the embellishment, all carries a story or is inspired by something. It's like the famous artist and his expensive paintings.
The Celine Luggage Phantom Bag, the name reflects the story of the bag. It's a fact that the Phantom Bag has been hunted for years. Any serious Celine collector will shop the Trapeze, The Luggage and then move on to the final trophy, the Phantom Bag.
READ: Celine Bags From fall Winter 2014 Collection
On this article, we will share some details about this bag as well as the prices and sizes, the availability of the colors and leathers for the Fall Winter 2014 Collection. If you're Christmas gift is being delayed, well, you know what to do next.
The Celine Luggage Phantom Bag is different than the Luggage Bag. The center part of the Phantom Bag is almost identical to the Luggage Tote, but the Phantom offers more space because of its east and west wings. When we zip the bag up, the shape looks closer to the Luggage Tote, but when you zip down, the size starts to expand.
Just like any Celine designs, the Phantom is perfect for casual use and by the way, it's luxurious. The style is simple and yet distinctive to other designer brands. The Celine Phantom Bag brings a large capacity because of its over-sized opening and for the practical use, it has a lot of easy-to-access function.
The most interesting and sign of its authenticity is the leather straps on both sides. And actually, it's not made for decoration purposes, but the leather strap can be buckled together to make the size smaller and chic'er, and also mimic the design of the luggage tote.
The bag comes in two sizes and the prices depends on the leather of course:
Celine Phantom Small Bag
Size: 11' x 12' x 10' (H x W x D) in inches (excluded the wings)
Celine Phantom Medium Bag
Size: 12' x 11 x 9'
Color: Blue and white
Size: 12′ x 11′ x 9′ in inches
Price: €1400 euro's
Color: Black
Size: 12′ x 11′ x 9′ in inches
Price: €2800 euro's
Color: Black
Size: 12′ x 11′ x 9′ in inches
Price: €4000 euro's
Color: Burnt Orange
Size: 12′ x 11′ x 9′ in inches
Price: €2200 euro's
Color: Yellow
Size: 12′ x 11′ x 9′ in inches
Price: €2100 euro's
Color: Multicolour
Size: 12′ x 11′ x 9′ in inches
Price: €1400 euro's
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Celine Phantom Replica Purses: The Best Or What?Categories:Other Brands
It seems that Celine are the most wanted handbags, no matter if we're talking about authentic or replica purses. No wonder the Celine Luggage Tote was chosen the 2012 "IT" bag. Continuing the designer replica handbags reviews, here is another beautiful Celine replica purse.
"Hello Eva,
I wrote awhile ago about getting a 40cm beige Birkin – I haven't bought that yet – I'm still looking for the right place to buy – I think 8bags now 2013luxury may be where I get it from. Too bad PV doesn't have the one I want. In the meantime I did buy a Celine Phantom from PV. I also ordered LV Cabas Ailieurs bag, but before shipping they told me it was damaged and they refunded me the money. I was a little disappointed but overall very happy with their honesty, super fast communication and reliability. I've attached pictures of the Phantom in case you want to post to your blog. Let me know what you think.
I love it. The leather is super soft and the color is perfect. There is one area that got crinkled in shipping but I'm sure it will go away with time and use. There's also a black dot in the pressed logo, I barely notice it, but it's there.
What do you think overall – do you think it's a good replica?
I love love love your Celine bag, it's really beautiful, congrats! I zoomed in the first picture you sent me and I see the black dot but like you said, it's barely noticeable. If it's really bothering you, you can "fix" it with a bit of brown shoe polish. But be careful in choosing the right shade.
I'm so happy when I hear you are pleased with your replica purses. For all of you girls who don't know where to buy the best Celine Phantom replica purses or what PV is, here is the link to this amazing site.
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M.A., Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000
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I have just published my first book, African, Native, and Jewish American Literature and the Reshaping of Modernism. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. For more about my book, go to http://www.palgrave-usa.com/catalog/product.aspx?isbn=1403977976
"'You can't run away nowadays': Redefining Modernity in D'Arcy McNickle's The Surrounded." Forthcoming in Studies in American Indian Literatures.
I have also published on Mourning Dove and on Native American feminism.
I am currently working on an article about teaching multicultural literatures online and am exploring my next book project, which will focus on American ethnic writers in an international context.
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Reese Witherspoon's Dream Wedding Date: Walking Down The Aisle Again March 26!
The actress is saying 'I do' in just 10 days at her gorgeous Ojai Valley estate — here's a look at some intimate details!
Mark your calendars! Reese Witherspoon is getting married to agent Jim Toth on March 26! RadarOnline.com reports that the 35-year-old mom-of-two is tying the knot for the second time at her $7 million Ojai Valley estate in LA.
This elegant affair will be nothing like her 1999 nuptials at a farm in South Carolina with Ryan Phillippe. InTouch magazine reports Reese and Jim want a "classy wedding" that reflects where Reese is in her life right now. The beautiful star will be walking down the aisle in a sophisticated Monique Lhuillier gown in front of 100 family and friends.
"Candles and flowers will be everywhere, in white and pastels, for an intimate feeling," a source tells RadarOnline.com.
Reese and Ryan divorced in 2007 after seven years of marriage — together they have two children Ava, 11 and Deacon, 7.


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An apartment complex was once planned on the land on the North Causeway but it was bitterly opposed by neighboring residents.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH — Land on the North Causeway once slated for an apartment complex bitterly opposed by neighboring residents has been sold for about $2.68 million to a Texas developer, according to Volusia County property records.
Winter Park-based Atlantic Housing Partners, doing business as Causeway Landings Limited, sold the land on July 1 to Silvestri Investments, doing business as Blossom Development Inc.
Silvestri, based in Houston, built the Oceanwalk Condominiums complex on Atlantic Avenue in New Smyrna Beach.
City Planning Manager Gail Henrikson said she and City Manager Pam Brangaccio met last month with representatives from Silvestri regarding the 14-acre property at 99 North Causeway. She said that Silvestri had not submitted anything to the city regarding its plans for the property.
"This was before they purchased the property and they were kind of doing their due diligence," Henrikson said of the meeting.
Sally Gillespie, a member of New Smyrna Beach Citizens for Smart Growth which had opposed the apartments, said she was glad that Silvestri bought the property and said her group believes it would be best suited for privately owned residences.
"We feel this is a very valuable property and it should bring a good return," Gillespie said
Scott Culp, one of the principals of Atlantic Housing Partners, did not respond to an email or phone message on Monday. Silvestri Investment officials in Florida and Houston could also not be reached for comment.
Atlantic Housing Partners planned to build a 239-unit apartment complex on the site called Causeway Landings that was to include low-income housing. The project was fought by a large number of surrounding residents. Their concerns ranged from crime to diminished property values.
The City Commission in February denied Atlantic Housing Partners' request to amend a development agreement that runs with the property that in part caps the number of apartments that can be built on the property at 202. The Planning and Zoning Board had earlier denied a requested variance that would have reduced the number of required parking spaces on the property from 626 to 450.
Atlantic Housing Partners then filed a lawsuit against the city in February in U.S. District Court in Orlando claiming the city violated state and federal Fair Housing Acts by blocking the project. A mediation hearing is scheduled for December and a jury trial is slated for August 2014, according to court records.
City Attorney Frank Gummey said he was aware that the North Causeway property had been sold but said he had heard nothing new regarding the lawsuit. The city is being represented in the suit by the Florida Municipal Insurance Trust through the Florida League of Cities.
Some residents have clamored for a project on the North Causeway site resembling the $60 million mixed-use development called Island Town Center once pitched there by Ambling Group of Companies in Valdosta, Ga. The project, which was to include 202 condominium units, more than 100 boat slips, a restaurant, gazebo and walking trails, never materialized.


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Chicago's Class A outfielder comes from family of athletes
By Andrew Pentis / Special to MLB.com | January 23, 2012 5:00 AM
Like his basketball-playing bros, however, Thompson, the White Sox's second-round draftee in 2009, is well-regarded. Bumped from MLB.com's list of top 10 Sox prospects when Chicago acquired pitchers Nestor Molina, Jhan Marinez and Simon Castro in three offseason deals, Thompson was ranked fourth in the organization by Baseball America earlier this month; the publication cited him as the system's best power hitter.
Thompson batted .241 at Class A Kannapolis in 2011, his first full, injury-free pro season, collecting 24 home runs, 36 doubles and 87 RBIs. "He is a young player, but just the way the ball comes off of his bat is different from than some of the other guys at 20 years old," White Sox assistant director of player development and scouting Del Matthews told MiLB.com last October.
Coming up on his second month of offseason workouts in Southern California, Thompson spoke with MiLB.com after visiting a San Juan Capistrano hitting complex run by former White Sox and 12-year MLB veteran Craig Grebeck. "It's 85 degrees out right now," Thompson bragged. "All California guys have a little bit of an advantage over guys around the country; we should come into Spring Training in midseason form."
MiLB.com: What's a typical day like for you right now?
Thompson: I'll wake up, eat breakfast, work out, then go hit. The place where I hit, there are a lot of big leaguers, especially Cardinals guys. Skip Schumaker is in there with us every day. Mark McGwire, the Cardinals' hitting coach, is in there almost every day; Allen Craig too. It's interesting because I see these guys that are just coming off a World Series and are still motivated and still hungry and want to get better -- that's refreshing.
MiLB.com: Simply as a fan, how much do you ask those guys about the Series?
Thompson: It's just interesting to pick their brains. I remember my first offseason in 2010, which was Jim Edmonds' last season. He was working out with us. There were a lot of days where guys would take days off and he would still be in there; it'd just be me and him. Being a center fielder -- I have wanted to be one since I was I kid growing up in the Northwest and idolizing Ken Griffey, Jr. -- if Griffey was the best center fielder of my childhood, then Jim Edmonds has to be the second best. Talking to him, picking his brain about his approach to defense -- you can't really ask for much more.
MiLB.com: After playing in a South Atlantic League-leading 136 games in 2011, are you also taking time early in 2012 to just relax?
Thompson: I just try to stay on the couch as much as possible. I watch a lot of TV. It's funny because I come from a basketball family, but when I have the remote in my hands, it's on MLB Network for sure.
MiLB: Lots of NBA action too?
Thompson: I went out for Christmas Day when the Warriors played the Los Angeles Clippers. It was real cool to see Klay make his debut and go against Chauncey Billups, Chris Paul, Mo Williams, Blake Griffin and all these guys. I could tell he was a little nervous in the first half, but personally I thought he'd [calm down] when he made his first shot. He came out and his third shot in the second half, he made it and looked comfortable after that. He'll always be my brother -- he'll always be Klay to me -- but to see him going against these guys we watched growing up, it's pretty special.
MiLB.com: With three hoops guys in the family, is there ever much talk of your chosen sport?
Thompson: My brothers and my dad always hate on baseball. I'm not going to throw any [ballplayers] under the bus, but they talk about how guys can be out of shape and still play the game. It is what it is. Look at Babe Ruth. He's one of the greatest players in the game, and look how he was built.
MiLB.com: Their argument is that NBA players are better athletes...
Thompson: Yeah, and I'm not going to argue that. I know there are guys in the NBA that can jump 50 inches [high]. But hitting a baseball is the hardest thing in all of sports. I tell my friends that all the time. My brothers, they played baseball growing up, so they know how hard it is; they respect the game. The reason they talk smack is baseball bores them; that's why they didn't keep playing throughout high school.
MiLB.com: Is it surreal at all to have three brothers all playing a game for a living?
Thompson: It's not a shock to us. We have been around sports our whole lives. My dad always believed in us, and I always believed in myself.
MiLB.com: Then it's a matter of being exposed to -- and therefore accustomed to -- the big stage?
Thompson: Yeah, like I remember my first big league at-bat in a Spring Training game; I was still nervous up there, but once I got in the batter's box, it was just like I was playing whiffle ball with my brothers back in the day. I guess we're all comfortable because we all grew up around locker rooms and all of it.
MiLB.com: So how good can you be?
Thompson: This year, I'm not going to call it a failure because I got a lot of experience, but I expect a lot more out of myself. I try to be as much of a complete hitter as I can be. Growing up in the Northwest, watching A-Rod and Griffey come up -- I mean, Griffey was my guy; I always wanted to be Griffey -- I realized every hitter has his own identity. As far as a guy I try to emulate, Matt Kemp is a guy who does it all: hit for average, hit for power, hit for extra bases, he steals bases. That's what I feel like I can bring to the table.
MiLB.com: The logical next step for you is Class A Advanced Winston-Salem. How much more development do you need?
Thompson: I didn't play a ton of baseball growing up in Portland, Oregon. It was always football season, basketball season, baseball season and I never really worked on it. I just went out there and played. Moving down to California as a teenager, it was different seeing how much time guys put into [practice]. My best friend and hitting partner, [Colorado Rockies' No. 4 prospect] Nolan Arenado -- in my opinion, he's the best hitter in the Minor Leagues. Watching him and seeing how far developed he is, it's just crazy to think all the time he put in during high school is really helping him out now.
MiLB.com: Without that same level of experience, you consider yourself very much a work-in-progress...
Thompson: As far as scratching the surface, I don't think I have put up the numbers I am capable of yet. I'm going to have to go out there this year and prove to people that I can be the player I know I can be. Nothing will surprise me; I think I can surprise some people.
MiLB.com: You mentioned Arenado. He's one month younger than you, and he's knocking on the door of the bigs.
Thompson: It's definitely a motivation for me to get there and catch up to him.
Andrew Pentis is a contributor to MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter at @AndrewMiLB. This story was not subject to the approval of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues or its clubs.View More


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Mail Arrives for More Women More Power
Back in May, I blogged about One World Action's 'Standing Up, Not Standing Still' letter, which the organisation created as part of their More Women More Power campaign. Addressing the letter to the UK's main political parties, One World Action called for women's representation to be put back on the political agenda.
Well, it's been a bit of a wait, but earlier this month One World Action received a response from the Government Equalities Office. Prime Minister David Cameron had transferred the letter on to the office for its specialist attention, and the response had great elements of positivity. It was encouraging to see admissions that equality is far from achieved and that more must be done to work towards it;
I also note your particular concerns regarding the under-representation of women across the UK Parliament (143 women MPs out of a total of 650 (22%)). Since the election the UK position internationally has moved from 61st to 50th out of 186 countries and placed us 10th in the EU, but we are aware that we still have a long way to go in order to make the very best use of diverse talent in political life. We also agree that increasing numbers of women in politics has a real and constructive effect on the quality of decision making. The reality is that politics needs a reasonable balance of men and women so that the decisions that are made truly represent the electorate.
Not all concerns felt answered, however. Whilst it's great to hear that our government "are committed to making Britain a fairer society for all", I'm sure those who had signed the original 'Standing Up, Not Standing Still' letter would have been welcomed some more concrete plans towards achieving equality.
What do you make of the response? Read the full reply from the Equalities Office on the More Women More Power Facebook page.By: Sarah Barnes, 31.07.2010 | Comments (0)
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Maurice-Quentin de La Tour carried the difficult and capricious pastel medium to a point of sheer technical brilliance not reached before or since. His mastery of pastels led not only to imitation but to fears that he would provoke a distaste for oil paint. La Tour was at his best when concentrating on the face alone. There is a suggestion of mobility in the features of his subjects, and the artist himself referred to "un peu d'exagération" that art allowed beyond nature. His self-portrait is marked by characteristics that aptly describe his style: the tremendous handling and technique, the humorous look to the eyes and the slight upturn of the lips, all of which lend a vivid actuality and personality to the sitter.
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Abandoned Motor Vehicles
An abandoned motor vehicle §(46.2-1200) can be defined as a motor vehicle, trailer or semitrailer that:
- is left unattended on public property for more than 48 hours, in violation of a state law or local ordinance, or
- has remained more than 48 hours on private property without the consent of the property owner, regardless of whether it was brought onto the private property with the consent of the owner or person in control of the private property, or
- is left unattended on the shoulder of a primary highway
Eligible individuals, businesses and government agencies (or their authorized agent) in possession of an abandoned vehicle can initiate a search for the vehicle's owner and/or lienholder of record by using DMV's online Abandoned Vehicle Process which complies with the statutory requirements for handling a vehicle abandoned in Virginia (§ 46.2-1202).
Description of Process
A record request search is initiated by entering the vehicle identification number (VIN) and paying a $25.00 Abandoned Vehicle Process (AVP) fee. If the results of the record search indicate the vehicle is titled in Virginia, DMV sends a certified letter to the owners/lienholders requesting removal of the vehicle within 15 days (120 days for a manufactured home). If the vehicle is titled in another state, you must contact the other state to request the owner/lienholder names in order to send a certified letter to them (return receipt requested) requesting removal of the vehicle within 15 days (120 days for a manufactured home).
If the owners/lienholders of the abandoned vehicle do not respond to the request to remove the vehicle in the time allowed, you return to DMV's website to post your intent to auction the vehicle. The intent to auction posting remains active for 21 days. After the posting period ends, you are eligible to title the vehicle, sell it, or transfer it to a demolisher or scrap metal processor. If no record was found for the vehicle during the record request search, you may choose to transfer the vehicle to a demolisher or scrap metal processor without posting intent to auction, but if you choose to title the vehicle, you must post your intent to auction and wait 21 days.
If the person in possession of the abandoned vehicle is applying for title, the following must be submitted to DMV:
- Application for Certificate of Title (VSA 17A), or Application for Certificate of Title-Manufactured Home (VSA 17B)
- Vehicle Removal Certificate (VSA 40),
- Abandoned Vehicle Record Request Receipt (from online record request search)
- If the record request receipt indicates that the vehicle is not titled in Virginia, signed certified mail receipt(s) proving delivery of the letter notifying owners/lienholders of the intent to dispose of the abandoned vehicle. If the certified mail is returned as "undeliverable", attach the UNOPENED certified mail to the record request receipt.
- Appropriate fees and vehicle registration requirements (i.e. insurance) if the vehicle is to be registered.
If the person in possession of the abandoned vehicle sells or transfers the vehicle to a demolisher or scrap metal processor, he must provide the following to the purchaser, demolisher or scrap metal processor:
- Vehicle Removal Certificate (VSA 40)
- Abandoned Vehicle Record Request Receipt (and documentation referenced in # 3 above, if applicable)
Locality Process
The county, city or town, where a vehicle is abandoned may take custody of the vehicle, and sell it at public auction or transfer it to a licensed demolisher or scrap metal processor to dispose of it, based on local ordinances (§ 46.2-1201).
In the absence of a local ordinance, localities are required to use DMV's online abandoned vehicle process described above. However, if the locality transfers an inoperable vehicle directly to a demolisher (§ 46.2-1205), or intends to apply to DMV for locality reimbursement for an inoperable vehicle (§ 46.2-1207), the locality is not eligible to use DMV's online abandoned vehicle process, and must submit a Local Government Reimbursement for Inoperable Vehicle Disposition (VSA 122) to DMV to record the disposition of the inoperable vehicle.
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FLORHAM PARK, N.J. - The New York Jets have signed former Green Bay Packers backup quarterback Graham Harrell, giving them some added depth at the position.
Harrell passed his physical Wednesday, in time to join the Jets for the preseason finale against Philadelphia on Thursday night. The former Texas Tech star spent the last three seasons as a backup to Aaron Rodgers, and was 2 of 4 for 20 yards in four regular-season appearances.
With Mark Sanchez sidelined with an injured shoulder, Greg McElroy out with a knee injury and rookie Geno Smith unlikely to play, Matt Simms was the only quarterback available on the roster. Simms, competing with McElroy for the No. 3 job, is expected to start against the Eagles.
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Funeral Home Employee Arrested For Allegedly Molesting A Corpse
A family has been protesting outside a funeral home in Toledo, Ohio, after they were told a parttime employee sexually assaulted their loved one's corpse. They want the place shut down.
"I'm having nightmares about it," her mother, Ann Lemprecht, told WTVG. "I can't imagine someone touching my daughter."
Brenda Shular-Cameron (pictured), a 51-year-old Chrysler employee, who loved horseback riding, camping and anything outdoors, died of multiple organ failure at a hospice in Northwest Ohio earlier this month, reports The Toledo Blade. She was taken to the H.H. Birkenkamp Funeral Home, which has been caring for the deceased for over 150 years.
Soon after, the funeral home manager, Susan Birkencamp, met with Shular-Cameron's two children, Marc Nail and Amber Thebeau-Tunison. She told them their mother's body had been "mistreated," Nail told The Blade, and that another employee had witnessed his coworker Lawrence Clement "fondling" the corpse. If they didn't go to the police, and thus make the incident public record, Birkencamp allegedly said, she would dismiss the $11,000 cost of the funeral services.
Lisa Marshall, a spokeswoman for the funeral home, disagreed with that description of events and said that if the business was interested in covering up the story, it wouldn't have even told the family about the alleged abuse. Marshall wouldn't tell The Blade whether 57-year-old Clement, who is employed part-time and is not a licensed funeral director or embalmer, had regular contact with corpses at the facility.
The funeral home fired Clement, and contacted the Ohio Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors, which oversees the state's funeral homes. A police investigation followed.
Clement, who does not appear to have a criminal past, soon gave himself up to authorities, and was arraigned on the federal charge of abusing a corpse. He paid his $50,000 bond, and is now waiting for a grand jury. He should be indicted early this week.
"We can't even bury her now," her mother, Anne Lamprecht, told The Blade. "We can't make funeral arrangements. We don't know if the police will hold her body. She didn't deserve this. None of the family deserved this."
But Shular-Cameron was buried, a week later than planned, at a different Toledo funeral home.
This isn't the first time these charges have besmirched the name of the H.H. Birkenkamp Funeral Home. Twenty-four years ago, two former employees were found guilty of gross abuse of a corpse. One was sentenced to a year in prison, and the other was given limited immunity as part of a plea bargain.
"I want Birkencamp out of business," Ann told WTVG. "This has happened before, and it continues to happen, unless people do something about it. We have to inform the public so that the public knows what's going on."
If the Ohio Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors find the charges to be valid, they could revoke the license of the home or its director. They can't discipline Clement himself, because he's unlicensed. But the courts can.
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Funny how the world just falls right into line sometimes. Months ago, when Porsche started buying up chunks of VW stock, the first thing Farago wrote was, "Now that the Sultans of Stuttgart have bought a piece of VW, the installation of Audi's superb DSG system into the Porsche family of sports cars can't come soon enough." Well, damned if it all ain't coming true, sort of. According to AutoWeek Porsche's filed patent documents in Germany indicating said Sultans are working up a seven-speed double-clutch gearbox of their own, which Porsche plans to use throughout its line, all the way up to its mid-engined GT1 race car. Will it use part of the Borg-Warner DSG invention, or is Porsche starting from the ground up. Only the Sultans know for sure.
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Latest 6/45 lotto result June 1, 2018 (Come back at Friday 9:00PM)
The last Megalotto Draw Jackpot reached: ___ Million Pesos.
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Our good friends David and Ade of Milk & Eggs Co. were kind enough to send over some photos from Day 1 of the Independent Design and Gift Show: Unique LA. I am sure that they were super tired after a full days worth of T-Shirt hustling, so a big thank you to the both of them. Here are the photos that they sent, please enjoy and remember to check out Milk & Eggs Co.
Milk & Eggs Co. | Milk & Eggs Co. is a t-shirt company started by Ade and Dave in February 2009. We design, print and package all of our products in the always sunny Burbank, California, with all materials being manufactured in the United States. We've created a special animation about Milk & Eggs that we want to share.
Hey look, new goodies from Milk & Eggs Co. (photo courtesy of Flickr user supah cute). This stuff isn't even available on their website yet!
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Charlie Noble | Charlie Noble Clothing is a collaborative effort of designer Mike B., artist Jimmynude, and outdoorsman Jay H. With designs from independent artists, our intention is to provide comfortable clothing with a creative edge. The future of Charlie Noble lies in the expansion of an artistically driven brand, focused not only on the continual creation of original graphic t-shirts, but also on garments intended to be subtle, refined versions of common workwear and the clothing of our military brethren.
Hips and Hair | Hips and Hair is my artistic aesthetic applied to apparel and various forms of fine art. With Hips and Hair I am creating the type of art I want to see and experience, as well as creating the type of apparel I want to wear and see others wearing. Hips and Hair is where glossy magazine ads meet spray paint and knife fights. Hips and Hair is the outlet that allows me to create the type of art that I need to create.
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In addition to cultural conventions having a strong influence, the perception of "good writing" is deeply embedded in disciplinary fields because each discipline has its own set of value systems, ideologies, and epistemologies. A good research paper in Microbiology is very different from a good research paper in Sociology or in Fine Arts. Although summary writing is regarded as one of the essential academic writing skills (Swales & Feak, 2012), at least five different types of summaries are produced in university classrooms (Ratteray, 1985). Summary writing in History is very different from summary writing in Philosophy (Johns, 1999). Thus, faculty should explain guidelines for the specific genre of the assignment as clearly as possible and provide students with successful samples of the specific assignment, especially when they work with undergraduate students.
Many international students tend to associate good writing primarily with grammatical aspects of writing and often look at writing as an activity to formulate ideas into certain frames or patterns since they have been trained to write for the standardized English tests such as TOEFL, GRE, GMAT, etc. One practical solution that can be used to help students understand that good writing is not just concerned with the grammatical aspects of writing is to introduce the essential concepts of academic writing—the rhetorical, grammatical, and stylistics aspects of writing—adapted from the Writing Self-Assessment and Writing Center Conference Form available on the Writing & Communication Center website. Students can see the importance of rhetorical aspects of writing concerned with ways of developing their argument, organizing their ideas, synthesizing sources, constructing a thesis statement, and representing their identity.
Johns, A. (1999). Opening our doors: Applying socioliterate approaches (SA) to language minority classrooms. In L, Harklau, K, Losey, & M. Siegal, Generation 1.5 meet college composition: Issues in the teaching of writing to US-educated learners of ESL. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
Ratteray, O. (1985). Expanding roles for summarized information. Written Communication, 2, 457-472.
Swales, J. & Feak, C. (2012). Academic writing for graduate students: Essential tasks and skills. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
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LOS ANGELES – A furious comeback showed the promise of improvement, while the predicament the Clippers put themselves in reminded everyone of their biggest flaw.
Before the Clippers' game with the Indiana Pacers on Monday at Staples Center, Coach Vinny Del Negro spoke about his team needing to play consistently at a high level for 48 minutes.
The Clippers fell behind by 24 points and never led, but a bench-led surge came up just short in a 109-106 defeat.
In the first half Monday, the starters gave him about five productive seconds.
A quick stretch where Blake Griffin scored on a 3-point play, Indiana threw a pass out of bounds and Caron Butler tipped a Griffin airball in with his back to the basket was about all that went right for the first unit.
Luckily for the Clippers, their bench played with tremendous energy Monday, cutting a 24-point lead down to two in the fourth quarter.
Led by Jamal Crawford's 17 fourth-quarter points and Lamar Odom's near double-double (9 points, 10 rebounds).
With the bench playing well, Del Negro elected to leave Griffin and Paul on the bench until late in the game. But when Paul and Griffin returned, each committed turnovers on their first touches.
Still, the Clippers cut it to two four times in the final 90 seconds, but David West's contested jumper over Griffin, and perfect trips to the line on three possessions kept the gap from getting any smaller.
Still, the team had two last shots at a tie.
Thanks to a foul before the ball was inbounded, the Clippers got a free throw and kept possession. Crawford sank the free throw, but Paul's tying shot rimmed in and out. Barnes tipped the miss in, Indiana made two more free throws and the Clippers had one last chance. But Odom's open 3 from the top of the key was long, giving Indiana the win.
The Clippers have now lost three straight games and four of their last five. The loss moves the Clippers to 11/2 games behind Denver and Memphis for the No. 3 seed in the West.


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This delightful elephant shaped puzzle features a scene of African animals. The shaped edges make this jigsaw a little bit tricky, so it's the perfect puzzle for a jigsaw expert, or an avid puzzler who wants something a little bit different. Note: This puzzle (size WMP) has smaller pieces than our usual 250 piece puzzles. Depending on the child's ability, our W100 size is ideal for older children (7+ years) to complete on their own, or for younger children to complete with an adult's help. Please note that our puzzles are not suitable for children under 3 years old. Why you'll love this puzzle It's great for fans of animal puzzles Makes a great gift or souvenir of a safari holiday This high quality, traditional, wooden jigsaw puzzle can be done time and again and it's especially themed whimsy pieces make it a treat to complete.


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Miami-Dade County
Witness tells jury about dumping murdered South Florida woman's body off boat in 1994
Twenty years ago, Alan Gold and Cliff Friend were pals, co-owners of a speedy 30-foot Chaparral boat, model-name "Villain."
Gold even gave Friend a key to his Miami Beach condo marina.
"Wouldn't have done that with too many guys," Gold said Wednesday as he sat on the witness stand in a Miami courtroom, staring at Friend at the defendant's table.
And there was something else Gold swore he was willing to do — cover up the murder of his old buddy's ex-wife.
In blunt and haughty testimony, Gold told jurors how he helped Friend load the corpse of Lynne Friend, strangled and stuffed into a duffel bag, onto their boat and dump it into the dark Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Miami on an August night in 1994.
At the time, Gold said, Friend admitted he had suddenly "choked out" his ex as they argued over her plan to move their 5-year-old son out of town.
"I didn't want to see the kid fatherless. Then, I figured it was the lesser of two evils," Gold told jurors. "I figured it was a tragic accident. Why make it worse?"
Gold insisted he was only testifying at Friend's trial for first-degree murder because prosecutors — unable to charge him with accessory after the fact — threatened to arrest him for obstruction of justice or perjury.
"I made a commitment to the guy 20 years ago, I didn't see any reason to break it," Gold told prosecutor Michael Von Zamft. "I broke it only because you put me in a box and I don't have a choice."
Gold is the star witness in the prosecution against Friend, 58, a Lighthouse Point pawn shop owner accused in a case that first riveted South Florida two decades ago. Despite a massive search aided by the U.S. Navy, Friend's body has never been found.
In exchange for his testimony, Gold received immunity on an accessory-after-the-fact charge, though the statute of limitations long ago ran out.
Friend was not indicted for murder until March 2012, and Gold agreed to cooperate against his former pal a year later.
Gold's testimony Wednesday was his first time publicly speaking about the night Lynne Friend disappeared. The former tanning salon owner was every bit as colorful as he was two decades ago.
Tall and dressed in a charcoal suit, Gold sported a Crocodile Dundee-style wide-brimmed hat, an American flag lapel pin and bracelets of heavy gold chain. He answered brusquely, at times turning sarcastic.
When shown a photo of himself back in 1994, Gold marveled at his ponytail. "Long hair — and a lot more of it," Gold quipped.
When asked if prosecutors promised him anything else besides immunity for his testimony, Gold replied: "Water, coffee, candy, mango muffins — and a bullet proof vest."
The description of the night Lynne Friend disappeared was anything but funny.
Prosecutors say Lynne Friend had just won approval from a judge to take their son to Tennessee, where she planned to re-marry. The decision enraged Friend, and just before his ex-was to move, he called her over to his house to pick up a child-support check.
That night, Gold had been at home nursing the flu when Friend called, sounding "distraught." Knowing Friend had been reeling from his divorce with his wife, Gold drove to his pal's North Miami Beach home.
When he arrived, Friend admitted that during an argument with Lynne Friend, "he basically said the next thing he knew, it was over. He had lost it. He knocked her down and choked her out."
In the dining room area, Gold saw the large bag containing Lynne Friend's body. He admitted he never opened the bag to see the remains.
"She was in the bag. She wasn't coming back. That was the end of Lynne," Gold said.
The two dumped Lynne's sedan in an empty lot in North Miami-Dade, then loaded the body into Friend's sports utility vehicle. They drove to Gold's Miami Beach condo, where the boat was kept.
Gold reluctantly agreed to help him on the boat trip. They cruised — not too fast to not attract attention — down the Intracoastal Waterway and then seven miles east of Government Cut.
In the dark, when Gold noticed a wake behind them, he hollered that someone was following. The men dumped the body right before patrolling U.S. Customs agents stopped him.
"I saw a white light and a bunch of guys pointing M16s at me," Gold testified.
They demanded to know what the men had dumped.
"I told them a towel went overboard," Gold said, adding: "I don't really want to tell anybody I just dumped a body overboard into the Atlantic."
Ultimately, custom agents let both of them go without any charges — though they confiscated the boat.
During cross examination, Gold sparred with defense attorney Peter Heller, at one point bellowing in laughter at the lawyer's quibbling over how much they paid for the boat, which had been used for drug smuggling by its previous owner.
Gold admitted he had "facilitated" some drug deals over the years — but never with Friend. In a heated exchange, Heller insisted Gold paged Friend that night to arrange a drug run, not to dump a body.
"Bullsh**t," Gold said sternly, to the mild gasp of the courtroom crowd. "I don't really remember 20 years ago why I beeped him. OK, Peter?"


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Aston Villa remain in the Barclays Premier League bottom three after Liverpool came from behind to claim the three points and keep alive their faint hopes of securing a Champions League spot.
Villa looked on course for a third successive win after leading at the interval through Christian Benteke's 18th goal of the campaign.
But the Reds equalised through Jordan Henderson early in the second period and then skipper Steven Gerrard's penalty sealed victory for the visitors.
The home side, who yesterday slipped into the relegation zone for the fifth time this season, are level on points with Wigan but have an inferior goal difference.
Villa posed plenty of threat to Liverpool in the first half with Benteke and Gabriel Agbonlahor linking well and Ashley Westwood pulling the strings in midfield.
But Liverpool upped their game a gear in the second period as they closed the gap on sixth-placed Everton to three points.
Luis Suarez was a handful throughout the 90 minutes, despite his World Cup qualifier exertions in Uruguay in midweek, and came close on several occasions to notching his 30th goal of the season.
Villa were the first to threaten and a probing pass from Westwood found overlapping left-back Joe Bennett in plenty of space.
He delivered a teasing cross to the near post which Benteke just failed to make contact with as it flew across the six yard box.
Andreas Weimann had a volley blocked but Agbonlahor should have put Villa ahead after 17 minutes.
Matt Lowton delivered a superb curling cross into the danger area which picked out the run of Agbonlahor.
But the England striker turned his shot straight at Jose Reina when it looked easier to score.
Brad Guzan was called into meaningful action for the first time when finger-tipping a shot from Suarez over the bar after good play by Glen Johnson.
Then Nathan Baker had to be alert to nick the ball off the feet of Suarez inside the Villa area.
Benteke had scored twice in the 3-1 win at Anfield earlier in the season and after 31 minutes he put Villa ahead.
Westwood's cross was turned back by Agbonlahor to Benteke who drilled a fierce shot past Reina who got a hand on the ball but could not keep it out of the net.
It was the 18th goal of the season from the Belgian international.
Liverpool tried to retaliate and a misdirected pass from Barry Bannan allowed Suarez a free run at goal but Brad Guzan managed to keep out his low drive.
The Villa keeper then fingertipped aside a long-range drive from Liverpool skipper Gerrard.
Liverpool needed only three minutes of the second half to get back on level terms.
Philippe Coutinho's defence-splitting pass was seized on by Henderson who flicked the ball past Guzan into the corner of the net for his fourth goal of the season.
Gerrard became the first player to be booked for a foul on Agbonlahor.
Coutinho should have put Liverpool ahead in the 56th minute after beating the offside trap to run onto a pass from Suarez but he dinked his shot wide of the post.
But Liverpool were not to be denied and went ahead three minutes later.
Suarez was brought down in the box by Baker and the resulting spot-kick was converted by Gerrard.
Weimann could have made it 2-2 but scooped his shot over the bar from 10 yards.
Then Gerrard headed Benteke's header off the line at full stretch from a Westwood corner.
But Liverpool had succeeded in taking much of the string out of Villa's attacking threat and quietening the Holte End.
Suarez had a shot on the turn saved by Guzan after some trickery inside the Villa box.
Benteke had the ball in the net in injury time but was clearly a yard offside.


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Each week, we offer a livestream of our Sunday 9:15 Praise and 10:45 Modern services. If you're unable to join us in Platte Woods, we hope you'll tune in wherever you are to experience worship through song and message.
Worship Services
Saturday Night Chapel
Saturdays, 5:00 p.m. in the sanctuary
A come-as-you-are, casual atmosphere worship experience. A pianist provides the accompaniment for traditional hymns and gospel music, along with occasional contemporary songs. This small, informal service is perfect for those looking for a small group of people who enjoy traditional church music.
Traditional Chapel
Sundays, 8:15 a.m. in the sanctuary
A small, meditative service including gospel and traditional hymns and anthems. Worship is led by our Jubilante Singers and the service is accompanied by organ and piano. If you're looking for a traditional service, complete with liturgy and creeds, this is the service for you!
Sundays, 9:15 a.m. in the worship center
An upbeat worship experience with a variety of music styles, including contemporary Christian. Worship is led by our Praise Team with instrumental quartet. Our largest service, this hour is attended by people of all ages and interests.
Sundays, 10:45 a.m. in the worship center
Each week many different talented volunteers join Mat Thornton, Worship leader. Worship styles range from folksy acoustic to big electric contemporary styles.
Sundays, 10:45 a.m. in the sanctuary
The Wesleyan Choir, with piano and organ, will lead music during the service. The hour will also include creeds, responsive readings and other elements of traditional worship. Closed Captioning available at this service.
With the many talented musicians and groups who serve in worship, we have the ability to offer a wide range of worship experiences. It is our hope that anyone, regardless of age or style preference, can find a service that is truly meaningful for them.
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- Sermons: Each week's sermons are available, from both of the weekend's preaching pastors.
- Digging Deeper: A short exploration on a variety of topics.
Music Ministries
The diverse Music Ministry of Platte Woods UMC serves the congregation by leading us in worship and praise with instrumental and vocal music. This ministry is a wonderful way for anyone who sings or plays an instrument to become more involved at PWUMC.
For more information about our vocal groups (Wesleyan, Jubilante and Praise Team), please contact Walter Bryant, director of music.
Wesleyan Choir
The Wesleyan Choir is a traditional full choir, and sings for the 10:45 a.m. worship service on Sundays in the sanctuary as well as special seasonal services. Rehearsals are Wednesday evenings at 7 p.m.
Jubilante Singers
This smaller choir provides music for our Sunday 8:15 a.m. service. This group rehearses once a week, on Monday or Tuesday evenings, at 7 p.m.
Praise Team
The PWUMC Praise Team is a select group of adult singers who lead in worship at our 9:15 a.m. Sunday service. This is an audition ensemble.
Worship Band
Each week many different talented volunteers join Mat Thornton, worship leader, at the 10:45 service. Worship styles range from folksy acoustic to big electric contemporary styles. Do you play an instrument or sing? Contact Mat Thornton to get involved with this growing ministry.
Children's Choirs
We offer children's choirs for children age preschool through 5th grade on Wednesday evenings as part of our WOW programming. We also offer another group, The Good News Singers, that rehearses on Sunday mornings. For more information, please see our Children's Ministries page.
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|Attorney Willie Gary along with his son Sekou Gary and Attorney Manuel Socias hold up a copy of the winning lottery ticket owned by Abraham Shakespeare after the 'not guilty" verdict was announced at the Polk County Courthouse.
Willie Gary and team win fight on behalf of their client, Abraham Shakespeare
Prominent attorney Willie E. Gary of the Florida-based law firm of Gary, Williams, Finney, Lewis, Watson and Sperando P.L. along with his son Sekou Gary of the Gary Legal Group in Miami, Florida, received a jury verdict of "not guilty" in a week-long trial over a lottery ticket dispute. The jury decided that Gary's client, Abraham Shakespeare, is innocent of the charges filed against him by his co-worker, Michael Ford. Shakespeare was called a "liar and thief" by the co-worker, who publicly accused him of stealing a $30 million winning lottery ticket. The jury deliberated for just over an hour before they returned a not-guilty verdict for Gary's client.
The five-day trial took place this past week in the Polk County Courthouse after Michael Ford filed a lawsuit contending that Shakespeare stole a winning lottery ticket from his wallet while the two made a delivery in their work truck. However, Shakes-peare contended that Ford had previously admitted to purchasing two quick pick lotto tickets for him during a stop the two made at a convenience store.
"I am pleased that justice prevailed and that Mr. Shakespeare was found innocent," commented Gary. "This lawsuit was about greed. The plaintiff manufactured a story and a plan to try to take advantage of my client," said Gary.
Gary is no stranger to seeking justice. He is noted for winning a $240 million jury verdict in Orange County against the Walt Disney Corporation for his clients who alleged Disney stole their idea for a sports theme park. Also, Gary was awarded $18.28 million against the media conglomerate Gannett Company for the false portrayal of their client in a series of newspaper articles. In 2001, a jury awarded Gary a $139.6 million verdict for the Maris Distributing Company against Anheuser Busch. In addition, Gary was given a half-billion dollar verdict in Jackson, Mississippi against the Loewen Group, a large Canadian funeral home chain.


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The roof is the most important part of your home because it protects everything that is housed beneath. Whether it is a Tiled Roof, Metal Roof, Iron Roof, Terracotta Roof, Asbestos Roof or Super 6 Roof it is exposed to the elements of weathering and over time will age. JMZ specialise in roof painting and roof restoration across Queensland.
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101st ASA President Evelyn Nakano Glenn
by Myra Marx Ferree, University of Wisconsin
Evelyn (Evi) Nakano Glenn is a wise Asian American woman and the 2010 President of the ASA, and it is my great privilege to make the sociological community more familiar with her as a person and as a scholar. Having known Evi Glenn since we were both fledgling sociologists, I believe that her life and work form a single story best told through her displacements and her connections. Her story can serve as an illustration of the vital balance between structure and agency that she argues belongs in every sociological explanation.
When she was an infant, Evelyn Nakano was sent with her American-born parents—and all other Americans of Japanese descent then living on the West Coast—to a concentration camp (the U.S. government's own term) at the outbreak of World War II. Her family was first held in Gila, AZ, where she reports that "summer temperatures exceeded 115 degrees." After the first year of incarceration, Evelyn's father was allowed to leave the camp to work in Chicago, while Evelyn and her mother remained incarcerated. When Evi's mother contracted tuberculosis, they moved to the camp at Heart Mountain, WY, "with winter temperatures of -30," to live with Evelyn's grandparents. After two and a half years in the camps, the family was reunited in Chicago, where they lived for the next decade. After Evi had finished the 10th grade her family returned to her father's original home in the Bay Area, and she finished high school in Oakland. She entered the University of California-Berkeley as a commuter student because it was an excellent university " and cheap and close to home."
Graduating as a psychology major, Evi married Gary Glenn, a Berkeley law student, and moved on to graduate work in Social Relations, the then-thriving interdisciplinary graduate program at Harvard. The cross-country move expressed some of what she called "the emotional ambivalence in my life: Japanese American culture/community simultaneously draws me in (comfort, belonging, connectedness) and drives me away (stifling, limited, parochial)." Asian Americans were not only rare at Harvard in those days, but scarce in New England in general. Facing a less directly racially charged space, gender discrimination became more apparent: As one of the only women in her cohort, Evi found her husband being treated more as "one of the gang" than she was. She even had to send Gary to retrieve course materials from the library, since the main reserve room on campus was not open to women. When I joined the program some years later, the formal barriers had fallen, the percentage of women students had improved, and the first woman faculty member had been hired, but the climate of male dominance barely thawed. It remains hard to imagine how Evi had her first two children (Sara in 1968 and Antonia in 1969), finished her dissertation, and landed a tenure-track position in sociology at Boston University (BU) under those conditions.
The BU position provided her a lively network of feminist and labor studies academics and activists whose scholarly and political commitments proved Evi a durable base for intellectual exploration. In particular, she developed a fruitful collaboration with Rosalyn Feldberg, and she and Roz published a number of brilliant forays into the re-conceptualization of labor relations based on their joint study of clerical work. Evi and I also became intellectual colleagues and fast friends, when we both joined an interdisciplinary group on "women and work" composed of scholars throughout the Northeast. Begun with seed money from ASA, for over 25 years this extra-university network was crucial to our intellectual development. But the BU administration, led by John Silber, proved implacably hostile to any social science that did not fit their politics. Evi's participation in organizing a faculty strike magnified this hostility and she was denied tenure by Silber himself, despite the strong support of the sociology department and the dean's faculty review committee.
In 1983, Evi took a visiting professorship at the University of Hawai'i, and her family moved from Cambridge to Honolulu, where her third child, Patrick, was born. This displacement offered another new standpoint on American race relations, as did her next job, at Florida State University (FSU), where the white-black dynamic was very different than in Cambridge. Gary, Sara, and Annie stayed in Cambridge while Evi commuted between Massachusetts and Florida, typically with Patrick in tow. Although happy at FSU, in 1986 Evi moved to SUNY-Binghamton to make her commute more manageable. In 1990, the family gradually moved to California when Evi took a faculty position at UC-Berkeley. Again she was displaced, this time from sociology into a joint interdisciplinary position in Ethnic Studies and Women's Studies. Since 2001, Evi has directed the interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Race and Gender at Berkeley. Her now 93-year-old mother is happy to have them back in California.
Evi has always valued and nurtured her connections, both collective and individual, and drawn on family, friends and colleagues as productive sources of intellectual inspiration and social support. But it would be a mistake to draw singular lines from particular experiences to intellectual achievements, since each case reveals multiple and intersecting paths of influence.
Her first, groundbreaking book, Issei, Nisei, War Bride: Three Generations of Japanese American Women in Domestic Work, drew empirically from interviews with "the old ladies" to whom her mother introduced her as she began to explore issues of how women's labor was organized by migration, nationality, "race," and gender in specific historical circumstances. Legal constraints on Japanese-Americans, some of which she had experienced first-hand, provided a historically shifting framework for understanding how domestic work became such a significant occupation for these women. But theorizing the class and gender basis of the social organization of reproductive labor was a separate path that led to this project, one that arose out of and against the Marxist feminist analyses of labor relations. These themes were developed in "women and work" group discussions of gender and class over many years. Shades of Difference: Why Skin Color Matters, her recent work on skin color and how it affects life chances—interpreted as personally meaningful and marketed globally—follows the same strategy of connecting structural relations of class, race, and gender with the subjectivity and choices of individuals.
The theoretical connections among structure and agency, race and gender, past and present are most evident in some of Evi's articles that have become classics in sociology, gender studies, and ethnic studies. "From Servitude to Service Work" highlighted the transformations and continuities in the organization of reproductive labor as a racialized form of gendered work, and has been profoundly influential in thinking about changes in carework in the face of growing class inequalities and immigration. As Evi has noted, it is important to recognize not differences but relationality: How white women can only live the lives they do because of the lives that women of color live, and men's lives are premised on the organization of women's (clerical and domestic) work. These insights were nurtured in an inter-university group studying the intersection of race and gender in the early 1980s, a group Evi credits for helping her simultaneously bring gender-based analytic insights to scholarship on race and race-based insights into the scholarship on gender.
Her 2002 book, Unequal Freedom: How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and Labor, won multiple prizes from ASA, yet this understates the book's broad appeal and influence. A deeply interdisciplinary project, her comparative analysis unpacks the historical foundations of race relations in three parts of the United States: Between whites and blacks in the Southeast; between Anglos and Latinos in the Southwest; and between Asians and Haoles in Hawai'i. In each case, she shows how gender and labor relations formed and reflected the nature of inclusion into the polity of those who were defined as "other." By connecting the present to the different paths of the past, her analysis links formal legal rights to the informal practices of segregation and exclusion that limit citizenship, that is, full membership in a political community. Evi's new book, Forced to Care (2010) connects citizenship with her earlier examination of reproduction as stratified labor by examining caring work as a form of obligatory labor enforced by law, custom, and state policy.
While the continuities of intellectual colleagueship have enabled Evi to make productive use of the gendered and raced disruptions in her own life, the continuity of her family provides the "powdermilk biscuits" that give Evi—a self-described shy person—the strength to do what has to be done. Glenn family holiday newsletters are funny, theatrical, inclusive, and engaging. Her 47 years of marriage bear witness to the significance of spousal support for women's achievement. True appreciation for the whole ensemble's contribution to an individual achievement—honed not only in home and work, but in years of passionately playing tournament tennis, cooking for friends, and participating in Japanese American political and cultural causes—explains both Evi's generous crediting of group process for past accomplishments and her whole-greater-than-the-sum-of-the-parts approach to the upcoming meeting. Expect some great connections in Atlanta in 2010!


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One of Kirriemuir's most famous sons is set to be commemorated by a bronze statue, now that a crowd-funding appeal has succeeded.
Bon Scott, who was born in 1946 and whose full name was Ronald Belford Scott, was lead singer with the Australian rock band AC/DC from 1974 until he died in 1980, aged just 33.
The statue will be sited in the car park in Bellie's Brae in the town.
Originally the plan was to locate it in the town centre, but this was not well received.
The statue is to be the work of John McKenna, who has made a clay mould of Bon Scott, carrying bagpipes.
McKenna's other work includes the Jock Stein Memorial at Celtic Park, and a miner in Moodiesburn.
Each April Kirriemuir hosts a Bonfest in Bon Scott's honour, and it is planned that the statue will be completed and in place in time for next year's event, the tenth, when it will be officially unveiled.
The momentum to collect money for the statue came from DD8 Music, which promotes Kirriemuir's musical talent.
Graham Galloway, one of the organisers, said that any money which comes in over and above the £45,000 target will be used for a memorial garden in the vicinity of the statue.
He added: "People come from all over the world to celebrate Bonfest, but the statue will attract fans to Kirriemuir all year round."
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