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List of Past & Current Post Graduate Fellows
2017 Recipients
Meghan Best will work with the Children's Defense Fund. As part of her project, Meghan will be working with community organizations within the Mar Vista Gardens, a housing project in West Los Angeles, to document, analyze, and eventually brainstrom strategies to combat the overpolicing of juveniles. Additionally, and along with other organizations throughout Los Angeles, Meghan will study the collateral consequences of involvement in the juvenile delinquency system, particularly those related to housing rights for juveniles and their families living in HACLA communities. Along with gathering information and strategic planning with stake holders, Mehghan will also represent CDF clients in juvenile delinquency court.
Megan Bradley will work with Loyola's Project for the Innocent to represent individuals who were wrongfully convicted. Her project will focus on investigating claims and drafting habeas petitions for LPI's most difficult "cold" cases. During her fellowship, Megan will collect data on innocence claims, identify patterns that give rise to wrongful convictions, and advocate for criminal justice reform based on her research. Finally, Megan will work with LPI to execute advocacy plans and campaign for changes to unjust sentencing guidelines for youth offenders.
Marisa Sacks will work with the Juvenile Innocence and Fair Sentencing (JIFS) Clinic as a Training and Resentencing Fellow to provide services to clients at specialized hearings called Franklin hearings, as well as taining and materials for the attorneys who conduct those hearings. Franklin is a brand new remedy that allows youth offenders serving life sentences, and who are eligible for Youth Offender Parole Hearings, to present mitigating evidence pertaining to the "hallmark qualities of youth", in court proceedings. In addition to providing direct services to clients and representing clients at their Franklin hearings, Marisa will facilitate trainings for attorneys, clients, clinical students, and experts in Franklin hearings, with an eye toward creating a "best practices" manual to be used by practitioners throughout the state of California. Ultimately, Marisa will work with the JIFS Clinic toward its goals of remedying juvenile oversentencing and creating new law, policy, and practices in the area of juvenile sentencing in California.
2016 Recipients
Emmy Aceves will work with Legal Services of Northern California. Her project seeks to break the school-to-prison pipeline by reducing racial disparities in school discipline, particularly those related to "willful defiance" in Sacramento. The project uses a sustainable advocacy model where she will represent students in expulsion hearings, work to remove "defiance discipline" from schools, implement implicit bias training for teachers and administrators, and educate the community about its discipline rights.
Hannah Comstock will work with the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California (ACLU) to minimize the effects of exclusionary school discipline and campus law enforcement practices that needlessly criminalize vulnerable student groups in the Inland Empire. Through her project, Hannah will represent students in school disciplinary proceedings, collaborate with local students' rights coalitions and community partners to pursue broader advocacy efforts, and challenge systemic discrimination through impact litigation.
Hannah Van De Car will work with the Louisiana Center for Children's Rights to implement Montgomery v. Louisiana, the Supreme Court's decision to make Miller v. Alabama retroactive. Collectively, these decisions offer the possibility of resentencing or parole for individuals who were convicted and sentenced as juveniles to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The project will focus on building coalitions with community members to end juvenile life without parole, and assisting defense advocates in parole hearings and resentencing litigation in Louisiana.
2015 Recipients
Alejandro Barajas will work with the Loyola Immigrant Justice Clinic to provide free direct legal services for the new Deferred Action for Parental Accountability (DAPA) and Extended Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) applicants within the indigent immigrant community in East Los Angeles. Through Alejandro's project, he will also engage in education efforts to inform the noncitizen community of the status, eligibility requirements and benefits allotted through the programs. He will also train and mobilize law students and attorneys in the greater LA area to provide greater pro bono assistance in order to advance immigrant rights and related reform.
Cameron Bell will team with Demos working with the Voter Protection Project. The project is a three-pronged nonpartisan advocacy campaign that uses litigation, public education, and strategic communication, and policy advocacy to prevent practices that purge eligible voters from voter registration lists, effectively disenfranchising them.
Jessica Mark will add a new component to Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles' (LAFLA) government benefits advocacy. Through her project, individuals encountering major barriers to public assistance due to their lack of knowledge of the rules or government agency error, misapplication of the law or intransigence will get the legal assistance from an attorney that they need to access subsistence benefits. The project will focus on Skid Row and South Los Angeles targeting populations most in need which will include individuals with criminal histories who are trying to improve their lives, the mentally ill, seniors, and persons with disabilities.
2014 Recipients
Dean Conklin will work with Learning Rights Law Center on providing advocacy to students with mental health needs who are in the foster care system. Dean's project focuses specifically on issues created due to the elimination of AB 3632 funding, as well as issues that exist for children who have trouble accessing county-delivered services because of out-of-county foster care placements. Dean will provide direct services to children who are facing these daunting issues, and will also work with Learning Rights to develop educational materials and provide in-person training to help involved schools, administrative agencies, and affected families streamline communication and understand their legal rights and responsibilities.
Laura Diven will be joining the Los Angeles HIV Law and Policy Project (LA HLPP) in serving the legal needs of over 60,000 people living with HIV in Los Angeles County. LA HLPP is a collaborative program of the UCLA School of Law, the AIDS Legal Services Project of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, Disability Rights Legal Center, and Inner City Law Center. LA HLPP offers a comprehensive legal intake system, education, outreach, and direct legal services for those living with HIV. Laura will be focused on expanding LA HLPP's services to currently underserved populations, primarily women and those living in the perimeter cities of Los Angeles County.
Natalie Klasky will work with Public Counsel's Consumer Law Project to ensure Veterans and low-income individuals in Los Angeles County are protected against the predatory practices of for-profit schools. Her fellowship seeks to address other consumer law violations against Veterans, such as those involving payday lending and harassment by collection agencies. To achieve the goals of this fellowship, Natalie will conduct legal research and intake to determine the viability of an impact litigation case against for-profit schools taking advantage of Veterans living in the Los Angeles area. In addition, Natalie will provide direct consumer law services for Veterans through legal clinics and at those clinics, she will survey other consumer law needs. Natalie will work with the Consumer Law Project to develop "Know Your Rights" workshops. Furthermore, she will work on a national level with the American Bar Association (ABA) to address Veterans' consumer law issues. Lastly, Natalie will conduct legal research and intake with the Consumer Law Project for all low-income individuals to bolster her knowledge of this area of the law and further pursue her passion to work for social justice.
2013 Recipients
Mieko Failey will focus on healing the damage caused by discrimination and advocating for full access and equality for all people regardless of sexual orientation and/or gender identity at the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center. Ms. Failey's project, The Violence within and Violence Against LGBTQ Youth Legal Advocacy (VIVA Project), will provide direct representation to and advocacy on behalf of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer/Questioning youth victims of bullying, dating violence, sexual assault, and hate crimes.
Claudia Menjivar will support the Western Center on Law and Poverty's belief that low-income Californians deserve the finest possible legal representation before every institution that shapes their lives - courts, the legislature, government agencies, and private organizations. Ms. Menjivar will provide assistance to the poor focusing on public benefits, healthcare, affordable housing and access to justice issues through impact litigation; legislative and policy advocacy; negotiations and collaborations with state and local government; and support for local legal aid programs. Ms. Menjivar's project and newly created position seeks to improve access to the state's three largest basic needs programs, CalWORKS, CalFRESH and Medi-Cal, for the 2.5 million low-income persons with limited English proficiency through litigation, policy advocacy, and training of legal services staff.
Kelsey Williams will work with the Association of Pro Bono Counsel (APBCo), a membership organization of attorneys, who on a full-time basis manage the pro bono programs at major law firms across the country to elevate firm participation in pro bono activities and support ongoing pro bono work. In partnership with OneJustice, the nationwide APBCo IMPACT (Involving More Pro bono Attorneys in our Communities Together) program will sponsor Ms. Williams' project to provide free wrap-around legal representation to low-income survivors of domestic violence and abuse and assist them by addressing their long-term legal needs such as housing, eligibility for public benefits and immigration status.
2012 Recipients
Joanna Florentyna Furmanska will work with attorneys at Inland Counties Legal Services to create the first nonprofit immigration unit in the Inland Empire. The project will focus in particular on serving victims of violence and human trafficking. Joanna will collaborate with local victims' rights and anti-trafficking coalitions to reach out to victims, educate the public and coordinate services. She will also work with these groups to strengthen relationships with local law enforcement agencies. Finally, she will create a network of experts and pro bono attorneys who will commit to serving victims in the future. Immigrant victims in the region will thus have a more holistic support system.
Brendan Hamme will work at the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California to secure the rights of all students to an education, freedom of speech, due process, privacy and to learn in an environment free from discrimination, harassment and bullying. Brendan will pursue these goals through an aggressive campaign of impact litigation, policy advocacy and community engagement. Specifically, he will: 1) expand the Juvenile Rights Project model, which brings Loyola Law School students to local high schools to teach the students their civil rights vis-a-vis the police and expand this policy to other law schools in Southern California; 2) develop a similar program teaching such students their First Amendment rights on their campuses; 3) continue the work begun combating invasive cell phone searches and seizures; and 4) work with the Seth Walsh Student Rights Project to address the current epidemic of bullying confronting LGBT youth.
Emily Robinson and H. Marissa Montes will work with Homeboy Industries, Inc. alongside Eleanor Miller, Director of Legal Services, to 1) provide immigration relief to constituents of Homeboy Industries, Dolores Mission, and the East L.A. community through direct legal services, and 2) educate law students, community members, and current legal practitioners on the immigration consequences of criminal convictions. Emily and Marissa will provide legal representation to immigrants with minor criminal convictions who are eligible for humanitarian immigration. They will engage Loyola Law School students to host community outreach events, and to assist with identifying clients who are eligible for their services. Additionally, Emily and Marissa will develop materials and hold monthly workshops to train immigration and criminal defense attorneys and community leaders to equip them with the legal tools needed to protect immigrants from wrongful deportation based on minor criminal convictions.
2011 Recipients
Veronica Aragón will work with the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) to narrow the gap between the normative international human rights standards and the current status of women's rights in the Americas by focusing on women's access to justice. Spending the first year in Washington, D.C. and the second in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Veronica will implement a four part strategy: 1) research and publication to create a knowledge management system accessible to human rights defenders throughout America and from which to build a litigation strategy; 2) initiate litigation before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and Inter-American Court of Human Rights to deepen the jurisprudence on women's rights in the Americas and monitor country compliance with past jurisprudence to ensure domestic implementation of international norms; 3) conduct regional and country-specific education and outreach activities to assist local human rights defenders in bringing cases at the domestic and regional levels; and 4) advocate before nation states through regional mechanisms such as the General Assembly of the Organization of American States and through domestic human rights organizations.
David Szeles will work at the Central American Resource Center (CARECEN) to expand their affirmative gender based asylum program as well as provide legal services, screenings and placement for detained immigrant victims of domestic violence and other violent crimes and asylum seekers at a newly opened detention center in Orange County. David's project will begin to address a critical gap in legal services in Orange County where no single service provider has had the capacity to serve this unrepresented detainee population.
Anna Walther will work with the indigenous people of Guatemala to protect their collective rights, especially the right to consultation concerning the exploitation and use of their ancestral lands. Working with the Office of Human Rights of the Archdiocese of Guatemala, Anna will collaborate with a team of lawyers dedicated to making the pluricultural society of Guatemala a less exclusionary society and a society that respects and fosters human rights and the rights of indigenous peoples. Her work will focus on the proliferation of large scale industrial projects, extractive and agricultural, on indigenous peoples' lands and the processes related to consultation of the affected communities. The project also includes an educational element to make the communities aware of their collective rights.
2010 Recipients
Rachel Brewer will create a project for Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County (NLS-LA) that analyzes the existing public policies regulating foster youth care and how those policies are actually implemented in Los Angeles County. The project will provide direct legal representation at foster care benefits administrative hearings, and advocacy and education to foster care children and their caregivers to ensure the receipt of the proper level of benefits.
Daniel James Ediger will seek to enhance access to civil legal services for low income elderly persons, their families, and caregivers in Idaho at Idaho Legal Aid Services (ILAS). Dan's project will focus on justice for the under privileged and poor through increased direct representation, development of topical community seminars and mobile legal clinics and the creation of a comprehensive Guidebook of Idaho Elder Law Rights and Options.
Jenna Gilbert will empower refugees throughout Ecuador to assert their rights through the development of a mobile legal aid clinic and the training of local community legal advisors. Jenna will work with Asylum Access in Africa helping refugees receive asylum and legal sanctuary in the countries to which they flee. Jenna's project will help to protect refugees from unlawful or unjust detention, deportation, torture and death with emphasis on providing the necessary tools for refugees to rebuild their lives in a new home, free from fear.
Megan Hayati will work with the Levitt and Quinn Family Law Center (LQFLC) to provide legal representation in family law matters to low-income working families living and working in the greater Los Angeles area. Megan's Intercountry Family Adoption Initiative is a legal project proposal which will provide community education to families on their rights under the Adoption Hague Convention, educate attorneys about the implications of the Hague and their responsibilities to their clients in their intercountry adoption process.
2009 Recipients
Amanda Anderson will provide legal support at the California Women's Law Center (CWLC), a non-profit organization that works extensively with community organizations to identify persistent and emerging issues of concern to women and girls, to implement strategies to address those concerns and make it possible for individuals to know, understand and change the laws that govern their rights. Amanda's project is a comprehensive public education, training and advocacy program designed to ensure that disabled female veterans' receive the benefits they are entitled to. Through research of the substantive and procedural law regarding veterans' benefits, conducted outreach to women's veterans organization in Los Angeles, and investigation of the barriers that female veterans encounter when trying to access their benefits, Amanda will produce and distribute a legal resource guide for female veterans to help them through the Veterans Administration disability benefits process, create a pro bono program to match disabled female veterans with firms providing pro bono representation, and advocate for public policy solutions to their systemic problems uncovered by the program.
Melissa Keaney works with the National Immigration Law Center (NILC) as a staff attorney to research, document, report on, and challenge -through litigation and other advocacy- state and local law enforcement participation in federal immigration enforcement. Melissa's project will address the pressing needs of low-income immigrants and their families by focusing on state and local involvement in federal immigration enforcement and the inherent constitutional and human rights problems with the current framework.
Srividya Panchalam will undertake work with the Disability Rights Legal Center (DRLC) to establish a Housing and Homelessness Rights Initiative. The project will address the needs of people who are homeless and encompass work to combat systemic discrimination against people with disabilities who are homeless or at risk of homelessness in Downtown and Skid Row in Los Angeles via education, litigation and legislative advocacy.
2008 Recipients
Jaime Cartagena works with the HIV & AIDS Legal Services Alliance, Inc. (HALSA) to provide legal advocacy to the Los Angeles County HIV/AIDS immigrant community. HALSA provides a wide scope of immigration services in order to help people living with HIV disease in the areas of health care, benefits, employment insurance, debtor relief, discrimination and housing. Jaime's project will focus on HIV + undocumented women who face violence in their homes and who most often have contracted HIV from their male partners. With extensive outreach and training efforts to non-legal HIV/AIDS service providers, Jaime will help to provide and negotiate any positive resolution to the women and children who usually have no means of financial support and are totally dependent on their abusers.
Tommy Hung Keng Lim works as a staff attorney in the Community Economic Development (CED) Unit at the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles (LAFLA). Tommy will spearhead a new community economic development effort, the Small Business Legal Aid for Los Angeles, that will focus on small business development by rendering both legal and technical services sought by small business owners who are unable to afford such services from a private attorney.
Naomi Svensson works as a legal fellow for the International Justice Mission (ILM) to provide litigation support for the legal team in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. IJM is a human rights organization that partners with governments in the developing world to help secure the rights of victims subject to violent forms of injustice. IJM's mission is to contribute to the significant reduction of child sexual exploitation and child sex-trafficking in Phnom Penh, Siem Reap, and Silhanoukvile. Naomi's project will encompass research that would focus on the motives and methods employed by the human traffickers, brothel owners or others involved in the commercial sexual exploitation of women and children. The research would seek to obtain trafficking intelligence from the unique perspective of the perpetrator and to learn factors of prevention and rehabilitation from incarcerated women who have been convicted of sex-trafficking related offenses and are typically the operators of the establishments that traffic underage girls for sexual exploitation.
2007 Recipients
Jaime Cartagena works as a staff attorney at the Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice (LACLJ), a non-profit organization that provides free legal assistance to low-income residents of Los Angeles in the areas of family law (domestic violence restraining orders, child custody and visitation, child support, divorce, paternity; housing law (eviction defense, affirmative litigation regarding wrongful eviction, slum conditions, and tenant education; and, public benefits law (Social Security, SSI, Calworks, Medicare and Medi-Cal). Jaime's fellowship project will encompass the Chinese Legal Advocacy and Awareness Project which serves immigrant survivors of domestic violence, expanding the immigration practice to include services to immigrants with HIV/AIDS.
Marie Claire Tran works as a staff attorney at the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law. Her fellowship project aims to reduce employment barriers for people with criminal records. Specifically, she focuses on increasing the accuracy and reliability of those records as well as limiting their dissemination by private companies. The Shriver Center champions economic opportunity through laws and policies that help people move permanently out of poverty. Through policy development, communications, and diverse advocacy strategies, the Shriver Center leads a national network of advocates and attorneys who are taking action to end poverty. The Shriver Center is improving the lives of low-wage workers, advancing families toward economic security, and creating communities of opportunity.
2006 Recipients
Shauna Curphey is currently a staff attorney for the Northwest Constitutional Rights Center. She provides legal assistance involving cases of police misconduct in Portland and works to protect the rights of political activists. The Northwest Constitutional Rights Center is a non-profit legal and advocacy organization that works to safeguard and extend the civil rights and civil liberties of political activists working in the areas of human rights, animal rights, worker's rights, the environment, women, and people of color.
2005 Recipients
Heather McGunigle works for the Disability Rights Center, as their Inland Empire Director which serves both the San Bernardino and Riverside Counties. Heather focuses primarily on providing special education outreach, training, and advocacy services as well as strategic litigation. The Disability Rights Center is the oldest cross-disability legal advocacy organization in the country. The Center is located on the campus of Loyola Law School. Their mission is to promote the rights of people with disabilities and the public interest in awareness of those rights by providing legal and related services.
Amy Woo is currently a staff attorney in the domestic violence unit at the Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice. Amy assists undocumented immigrants and refugee women who cannot obtain services from other legal aid organizations and who are the most vulnerable victims of domestic violence. The Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice is a non-profit legal services firm that provides free legal representation to indigent residents of East, Southeast and Northeast Los Angeles. The Center provides legal services to low income, disabled and elderly residents regardless of their immigration status.
2004 Recipients
Blanca Banuelos is currently a staff attorney in the migrant unit with California Rural Legal Assistance (CRLA). Blanca is responsible for providing services to the migrant farm worker community. She provides litigation support on cases filed on behalf of farm workers. CRLA is a statewide non-profit organization providing free legal services to low income clients. CRLA focuses its services in a variety of emphasis areas, including: housing, education, labor, rural health, environmental justice, civil rights, public benefits, community building and economic development.
Phong Sara Wong joined both the Western Center on Law & Poverty, Inc. and Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles (LAFLA) with the Access to Justice Project. The project is designed to assist countless numbers of indigent individuals whose fee waiver applications have been erroneously denied with obtaining basic court access. Phong is currently working to establish a uniform statewide fee waiver application process. The Western Center on Law & Poverty is the state support center for California's many local services. WCLP specializes in high impact class action policy litigation affecting poor persons in California. Cases involve welfare, housing, health, and other areas, including civil rights. LAFLA provides direct legal services to Los Angeles' poorest communities. LAFLA offers a full range of legal services. These services are provided in seven substantive areas of law - Housing, Government Benefits, Family Law, Immigration Rights, Consumer, and Community Economic Development.
2003 Recipients
An Le is currently a staff attorney with the Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates (KIWA). She is working on developing the Korean Workers Rights and Outreach Project. The project serves to assist victims of human trafficking and undocumented immigrant workers with wage and hour claims. KIWA is a non-profit organization that fights for economic and social justice by empowering and organizing Korean Immigrant workers.
Anel Flores serves as a staff attorney for Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles (LAFLA). Her position was designed to combat various policy issues affecting low-wage workers. LAFLA provides direct legal services to Los Angeles' poorest communities. LAFLA offers a full range of legal services. These services are provided in seven substantive areas of law - Housing, Government Benefits, Family Law, Immigration Rights, Consumer, and Community Economic Development.
2002 Recipients
Joanna Fawzy is currently a staff attorney with the Cancer Legal Resource Center. Joanna is working on developing a nationwide resource directory of legal resources and a Patient Guide on the laws facing those with cancer. The Cancer Legal Resource Center is an on-campus community-based resource program, which provides information and education outreach on legal issues to people with cancer, cancer survivors, care givers, health care providers, and employers.
Minah Park is currently a fellow with the Asian Pacific American Legal Center (APALC). She is working as an advocate for worker's rights and analyzing the intersection between immigration laws and worker's rights. The Asian Pacific American Legal Center (APALC) is one of the leading law firms in Southern California dedicated to providing the growing Asian and Pacific Islanders (API) community with multilingual, culturally sensitive, legal services, and civil rights support.
2001 Recipients
Adalila Garcia is the first HEED staff attorney with the National Lawyers Guild, Los Angeles Chapter. Adalila assists HEED's pro bono lawyers in international human and environmental rights. This project gives the Loyola Post-Graduate Fellowship Program an opportunity to expand into international law and global issues. HEED (Human, Economic and Environmental Defense) was founded in 1996 by the National Lawyer's Guild, Los Angeles Chapter, as a separate Chapter project with the mission of using international law to widen and protect the fundamental human, economic and environmental rights of present and future generations of human beings and the biosphere.
Vanessa Lee is currently a fellow with the Asian Pacific American Legal Center. She is working on a project aimed at protecting and improving the rights of Asian and Pacific Islanders with limited-English proficiency through a comprehensive strategy of advocacy, education, research and assessment. The Asian Pacific American Legal Center (APALC) is one of the leading organizations in Southern California dedicated to providing the growing Asian and Pacific Islander (API) community with multilingual, culturally sensitive, legal services, education and civil rights support.
2000 Recipients
Lisa Sergi is currently a Legal Advocate for Catholic Charities in Orange County. She provides educational workshops, training programs, and staff/client consultations in the areas of family law, immigration, domestic violence, and child custody. Catholic Charities is a neighborhood-based social service organization, which partners with the public and private sector to improve the quality of life of people in Orange County. By addressing the issues that contribute to poverty and isolation.
Davilena Bailey O'Connor was a Law Fellow with Break the Cycle. Davilena's duties centered around enhancing the Education and Outreach and Legal Services programs. Davilena left Break the Cycle as a Post-Graduate Fellow due to personal reasons. Break the Cycle is a non-profit organization offering education, intervention and legal services to young people concerning domestic violence related issues.
1999 Recipients
Sister Sharlet Wagner is currently in the second-year of her public interest fellowship. She is currently working for the Central American Resource Center (CARECEN). Her title of "Detention Project Attorney" allows Sister Wagner to provide pro bono legal services to immigrants who are being detained by the INS and are in deportation proceedings. CARECEN is a public interest organization that provides direct immigration services. They assist clients in preparing applications for asylum and suspension of deportation.
Carol Oh' Basile is currently the Executive Director and Founder of the Neighborhood Legal Center. The NLC provides legal services to low-middle income families in areas of family law and criminal law. Carol oversees all operations of the organization she created through her Loyola Law School public interest fellowship.
1998 Recipients
Jedidiah Minoff completed his 2-year fellowship with Public Counsel. Jedidiah oversees the Juvenile Court Intervention and Advocacy program. The program provides legal services for children with mental-health issues and delinquency histories. He also directs the group's legal education outreach and serves as a policy advocate. Public Counsel was so pleased with Jedidiah's work that they created a position for him at Public Counsel. He was also named one of the top 20 lawyers under the age of 40 by California Business Law. Public Counsel offers a wide variety of legal services to the poor.
Denise Baez completed her 2-year fellowship with Catholic Legal Immigration Network. Denise represented minors and women being held in detentions. Catholic Legal Immigration was also pleased with Denise's work that they created a position for her as well. The Catholic Legal Immigration Network is a public interest agency that provides immigration legal services to the poor.


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Chick-fil-A to open metro's first standalone restaurants
Chick-fil-A to open metro's first standalone restaurants
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Chick-fil-A said it's planning an expansion in the Omaha metro with its first two standalone restaurants scheduled to open in late fall.
The restaurant will hold site dedication events on Aug. 29 at locations in Papillion and Bellevue.
The Papillion location will be at 8710 S. 71st Plaza and the Bellevue location will be at 2016 Cornhusker Road.
Late last year, Chick-fil-A opened an express restaurant inside the Mutual of Omaha building near 33rd and Farnam streets, which has had a private version of the restaurant for its employees since 2002.
Chick-fil-A said between the two locations, nearly 150 jobs will be created in the area.
Hiring is expected to begin early in the fall.

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Spartanburg City Council and members of the Commission of Public Works agreed to return to the negotiating table after a 90-minute public forum Thursday night.
Spartanburg City Council and members of the Commission of Public Works agreed to return to the negotiating table after a 90-minute public forum Thursday night.
About 70 residents attended the forum, which was held at the Herald-Journal's offices and sponsored by the newspaper and WSPA. The television station reported that more than 250 people viewed the public discussion through a live stream on its website.
At times, exchanges between residents and commissioners became heated, as did discussions between city and water officials. City Council and Public Works commissioners have been at odds for the past 10 months about a $1.4 million transfer of money from the water system, which is owned by city residents, to the city's general fund.
In May, the commission notified the city that it would no longer make the transfer. City Manager Ed Memmott said without the funds, the city would have to significantly reduce services and raise taxes.
During the forum, city resident Marshall Irby said the water system should "do what is in the best interest of its constituents" and absorb the $1.4 million in its budget.
As part of the forum, Spartanburg Water General Manager Sue Schneider and Commissioner John Montgomery made a presentation about the water system's short-term and long-term financial challenges, saying the utility has been forced to raise water rates for five consecutive years and no longer has available funds to give the city.
Water commissioners said if a city resident pays $100 for water, then a customer living in the county pays $175 for the same amount of water.
Longtime Water Commissioner Linda Bilanchone said the decision to cut the transfer payment didn't come quickly. Bilanchone said in years past, the payment was a percentage of the water system's revenues until the payment reached $1.5 million and commissioners negotiated the flat $1.4 million figure five years ago.
"What happened was the payment got higher and higher and higher, and when it hit $1.5 million, we said this has to start stepping down," Bilanchone said. In its proposal to City Council, the CPW offered $100,000 in free water, $400,000 to the general fund (which would step down by $100,000 annually), and $500,000 in economic development grants, which the commission would approve. No council member would agree to that offer, a proposal that Mayor Junie White called ridiculous.
Instead, city management proposed the commission return to transferring a percentage of its revenues to the city, beginning at 4 percent for the fiscal years 2014-2016, and then stepping that percentage down to 3 percent from fiscal year 2026 onward — or at least until the CPW has no outstanding debt authorized by the city. A maximum annual payment would have been set for each phase of the agreement, reaching $1.65 million in fiscal years 2023-2025. From 2026 on, there would have been no cap on the annual payment.
Montgomery said repeatedly Thursday that City Council had not been willing to negotiate, which prompted a rebuff from White and Councilman Jerome Rice. "You know that is not true, John, we have negotiated at meetings three different times and individuals have talked several other times," White said. "Tell the truth, it's simply not true."
Most of those who asked questions during the forum inquired about the water system's financial situation, and said commissioners should look at other places in the budget to cut.
"I implore you to sit down at the table and talk," said city resident Melissa Walker.
City resident George Louden said the commission should have presented its owners — city residents — with other options before cutting the payment.
Montgomery responded, "This is the process. This is what we call democracy, and we've called to talk to them about options. Our meetings are open, and we invite people to them."
Councilman Sterling Anderson said the issue is even more pressing in light of imminent budget sessions. The city must pass a budget to take effect on July 1.
Councilwoman Cate Ryba said the forum gave people insight into the water commission, which like City Council, is also comprised of elected officials.
"This is a substantial policy change that needs public input," Ryba said. "Anytime the city has a policy change, we have public hearings and have public comment sessions where people can come and say what they like and what they don't. I hope that we'll be able to sit down and resolve this."


text: Welll i have been using win 2000 with a voodoo 3 3000. I ued the default win drivers, but when I ttried to play half life it said hl.exe has generated an error, restart the program, which ends in the same result. Could it be my drivers that make it so I cant play the game??? because my friends hl works under win2000. If so which voodoo 3 3000 drivers work best for win 2000 besides the 3dfxgamers one, cos they didnt work either.


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LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - Sundays at Joe Bologna's are typically the only day Kathryn Link serves, and she says her tables were great, but this Sunday she found herself wishing to be anywhere else.
"I woke up ten minutes before I had to leave for work," adding, "I was just like 'I just want to get done with it.' I get to go back to my dad's house when I get off work, so just got to get it done."
With Christmas just days away, all that stood between her and the break at her father's house was one final table.
"It just happened to be my turn," described Link.
Her turn to take the table was about to be a turn that would change her day because the group she was serving were family members of Aaron Collins.
"I just served them, got them their food and everything, and at the end they just surprised me!"
The group started "Aaron's Last Wish," after their loved one passed away this past summer. Since then, they've gone around the nation leaving $500 tips for servers, in Aaron's memory.
When Link saw the amount left for her she couldn't believe her eyes.
"I was shaking, I cried, I didn't know what to expect," she went on to say, "I was worrying this morning I didn't know how I'm going to make rent and you know money was a little bit tighter and then I just got this big surprise."
Link says her biggest tip until this Sunday was just ten or $15, she says she even tried to split the tip with another server but that waitress said no.
"With everything that's been going on you're like 'the world is so awful' and then you have people like Aaron Collins' family that just come in and want to give back. It was amazing that I was that lucky to be that person. They made it a really wonderful Christmas for me."
On a day that Link hoped would pass quickly, instead became the most memorable day this server would have.
Since the family started this, they have received donations from all over to continue passing out this blessing. According to their website below, they have raised more than $62,000 to pass out.


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LIFE Magazine Releases Never-Before-Published Photos Of Lucille Ball
Happy one hundredth birthday, Lucille Ball! Won't you have some cake? Oh wait, you're a hilarious ginger-haired angel now, and you only eat the laughter of little girls. Sorry, forgot.
Anyway, tomorrow would have been Lucille Ball's one hundredth birthday, if she were still alive. To commemorate this fact, LIFE Magazine has released a bunch of never-before-published photos of her for our enjoyment. We typically remember her as the rubber-faced funny lady who made generations of us pee our pants with her shenanigans on I Love Lucy, but she could also be really, really sexy when she wanted to. Here's a selection of my favorite photos.
(You can view the rest and learn some fun facts about her over at LIFE.com.)[ITPGallery]


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"We feel we kept the original vision and the content and we didn't neuter the game as people say we have," Barrera told MTV.
The original version of Manhunt 2 received an Adults Only rating from the ESRB and denied a rating by the British Board of Film Classification, causing Nintendo and Sony to deny the game a release on their platforms. Rockstar later submitted a "modified" edition of the game to the ESRB, securing a Mature rating and scheduling the game for an October 31 release in North America.
At the time, Rockstar refused to specify what those modifications entailed. It has since been reported that the so-called censored edition adds blur to some of the game's more violent non-interactive scenes, making it more difficult to discern the on-screen actions. Barrera was adamant that no portion of the game's story and cutscenes were removed, though a system that awarded players for repeatedly performing the most violent acts in the game was taken out.
"The scoring was a hold-over from the first game, and when we had the opportunity to make edits because of the rating, we decided to remove it," noted Barrera. "We felt it flowed better without a score screen between levels.
"You know, a lot of people just believe this is a murder simulator and all you do is kill people," he stated. "But the reality is that there's a really strong narrative. And I think we've built something that's really unique in the sense that it puts the player in a position that you absolutely would never get into in the real world."
As for an uncensored PC version of the game, Barrera emphasized that the pays attention to feedback, but did not have any announcements to make at this time. He also hinted that a multiplayer-oriented Manhunt title may be in the works.
"I think we all here want to make the best games we can possibly make," Barrera concluded. "We make creative decisions along the way. There are guidelines we adhere to and think we are well within. I don't understand why a game like this got an AO while we were well within the M-rated territories."


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Also, Amtrak will issue schedules effective May 21 for the Pontiac-Detroit-Chicago Wolverines (Trains 350-355) and the Port Huron-East Lansing-Chicago Blue Water (Trains 364 & 365) accounting for the speed increase this year to 110 mph on the Amtrak-owned Michigan District in Michigan and Indiana. Permanent schedule changes are pending approval of NS for the Chicago to Porter, Ind., segment of the route and from CN, which owns the Blue Water route from Battle Creek to Port Huron and the Wolverine route between Pontiac and Detroit.
"Amtrak looks forward to working with the FRA, Michigan, Illinois and Indiana to improve this corridor and better connect these vital cities in the Midwest with travel times far better than driving, more comfortable and productive than flying and with a smaller carbon footprint than either of those modes," said Joe Boardman, Amtrak president and CEO.


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Refinement complements verification and validation (Elsevier http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/ijhc.1996.0012, 1996-02)CRAW, S., 1996. Refinement complements verification and validation. International Journal of Human Computer Studies, 44 (2), pp. 245-256Knowledge based systems are being applied in ever increasing numbers. The development of knowledge acquisition tools has eased the "Knowledge Acquisition Bottleneck". More recently there has been a demand for mechanisms ...


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The use of politically sensitive minority terms in something as base and objectifying as pornography is transparent self-censorship. The marketing gurus at CF must be ecstatic--our customers are projecting liberal/progressive ideology on Lucas!
The use of politically sensitive minority terms in something as base and objectifying as pornography is transparent self-censorship. The marketing gurus at CF must be ecstatic--our customers are projecting liberal/progressive ideology on Lucas!
who cares if Dixon's balck, white, whatever?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? I'm more interested in what Trey and him had to say about the SEX SCENE. Anyone ? Did Trey said another comment like last time during an interview ; quote, Trey "If I were straigth, I'd love to watch this!"
Anyway, can we talk about the sex scene he just had with Chandler ? It looks soooo hot; hopes he stays for a while.
As for the fag word, Once, Trey was getting fucked by Connor in front of a girl and said "fuck me like a little school girl" so funny.
Their'e not to be taken seriously.... as long as it's not off camera, but we'll never know.
imo, the term "marketing gurus at CF" is an oxymoron (but maybe that's part of their genius).
Oh, my bad. I thought you were a regular to this thread. The issue about CF's lack of color has come up time and time again since I've joined J.U.B.Also, when did I or anyone else call CF racist in this discussion? I have no idea where you are attempting to take this discussion, but realize you are the one taking it there.
IMHO, Dixon is much less likely to encounter racial profiling than, say, Dante and Carter. I see what you're saying but I've known minorities (I've lived on both coasts of the US) who felt more white than non-white. Just because someone has a partial racial lineage doesn't mean they're going to necessarily embrace that fraction of their bloodline.According to you even if Dixon was 3/4 AF-AM and you would consider him white because of how he looks. Victoria Rowell an AF-AM actress. had a daughter who was born with blond hair and blue eyes and according to your logic she looks white so she to you, is white.
That wasn't me. That was a note on the IMDb page for the movie "The Human Stain". Wentworth Miller had difficulty convincing the film's casting director that Wentworth was AF-AM.I have no idea what your babbling about here, I'm not sure you do either.
I wasn't trying to satisfy anything or anyone. I was simply pointing out a reality that in the USA, more than not, Dixon would be accepted as a white person. White women wouldn't cross the street or clutch their purse if Dixon was approaching them at night in a desolate area.Unless you know what other genetic make-up he carries you cannot wipe away his ethnic heritage, I'm sure he would be offended if anyone did attempting to "White-Wash" him to satisfy yourself.
You're making it sound like quadroon (or octaroon, for that matter) was on par with the n-word when it most certainly is NOT. The former terms were utilized to show relevance. It isn't minimizing anyone; it's giving a factual account of a person's heritage. Sure, the racists can twist the terms, adding sarcastic and hateful inflections but the words weren't created for that reason.I pointed out a story about how a person who is white can be born and looks black, but isn't black simply to show that everything not everyone cannot just be thrown in to a category just by their appearance. You then posted about a movie about an AF-AM man "Passing" to justify your use of terms that any reasonably intelligent person born and raised in America wouldn't use because of it's negative(rightfully so) connotations. People couldn't believe that Vin Diesel was part AF-AM, also the same goes for Dewayne "The Rock" Johnson is part AF-AM. Labeling people to make yourself and others like you a specific type just doesn't work in this day and age. People like Vin Diesel,Wentworth,Jennifer Beals,etc will be quick to let people know they are indeed AF-AM or Mixed race and not deny their African heritage because it is indeed very much a valued and valid part of their being.
Too bad #%[email protected]$ replied to you with typically pretentious twaddle.
Sunday, March 13, 2011
EXCLUSIVE: "AMERICAN, Cute boy next door. NOT no GodDamned Nigger!" (On Racism in Porn at CorbinFisher.com)
Too bad #%[email protected]$ replied to you with typically pretentious twaddle.
Dont get me wrong I love Lucas with all my heart, just thought the comment wasnt needed. But as you said, no harm, no foul.
What does "Fuck me like a little school girl have to do with using the word fag in a porn scene????
Bottom line is that when Dixon arrived at CF in the first sentence he is described as being Half-Black and Half-White. You considering him "White" is a big deal. This is not Europe and the musicians you mention would be from the 60's-70's, an entirely different time and different circumstances. Being a person of color does not hold the same stigma and AF-AM people in the entertainment industry are much more celebrated and copied a hell of a lot more then in those by gone days. You simply cannot compare today's AF-AM influence in the arts with those of the past.
Legally the one drop rule is not upheld, however socially it still carries a lot of weight. Dixon seems to be very proud and upfront about it and as I pointed out above, likes to have a deeper skin tone, judging by the visits to tanning salons. Just by that you considering him "White" with mixed ancestry is not how he see's himself, so maybe you should reconsider how you see him and others like him. As for Quadroon, octagoon, mulatto those terms as have been mentioned by myself and others are offensive. Is it as offensive as the N-Word? Depends on who you ask, bottom line is that those terms were created to demean and was a tool for segregation and not for celebrating one's heritage. So just because you do not think it is offensive and those people of African descent who were born and raised in America, couldn't possibly grasp the full meaning and weight those terms come with and hat they were created to do. If they did maybe it would make a difference. Those terms were created to classify people as being less then white and though mixed they were was of limiting a person rights and their freedoms so they could not "Pass" for being white. My thoughts are that if a person makes sure you know they are 1/2 or 1/4 AF-AM then they want people know they are not simply white, people persisting to classify those people as simply white without acknowledging their ethnic heritage is an insult.
The link is also, interesting in another way. The racist doesn't seem to understand how in the wrong he is and insists he is right, because for some god foreseen reason thinks his opinion is the valid one and those that see him as ignorant, foolish and just a waste of space are completely wrong. Dixon has made it well known who and what he is concerning his heritage and it's not simply white.
As far as the racist goes, growing up my family and I moved next door to a white trash family and their son was one of Jerry's Kids. That fucker was the most racist piece of garbage i have ever run into. He used the N-Word as easily and casually as someone saying "Hello". We wanted to beat his ass but he was wheelchair bound. The wheelchair was one of those that was motorized, because his movements were so limited. almost like the one Christopher Reeves had, he could move his hand only so much. His parents were always apologizing, but they were just so nasty and trashy. Hard to feel sorry for someone like that.
Its funny you defend the One-drop rule, and attack words like mulatto, when in fact, the one-drop rule was used to demean African Americans as well.
Beyond that, Dixon's race doesn't matter in the scheme of things. Most americans wouldn't look into his history, and they would assume that he's mostly white (When he's not really tanned) just based on his skin color/hair/and facial features. I'm not saying that's good or bad, I'm saying that most americans don't have a nuanced view of racial mixing.
Just want to say the current discussion on African-Americans is fascinating and I have enjoyed reading all the contributions. I would like to reiterate that the quadroon, octaroon paradigm was as others have noted a legal system designed to give some people of color more rights than those with darker skin tones. This time of segregation and Jim Crow even up to the 1964 Civil Rights Act is a stain on America and I have to agree that using terms like these and mulatto are not really much better than the n-word. Thinking about Tyson's use of fag is really not much better even if it was during sex considering what seems to be his aversion to most things gay.
This is funny inasmuch over the past decade I've observed how Blacks, Whites, English-speaking Latinos and East Asians, have come to recognize each other as 'Real Americans' in the face of increased immigration from parts of the globe requiring inoculation. Mixed race marriages are no longer a big deal provided "at least (s)he speaks English!" Cultural identity means so much more than skin color.
Stats the Republican identification of "American" still has much more to do with portfolio value than with ethnicity. Jenna Jameson said it best: "when you're rich, you want a Republican in office."
Thank you, Phunk, for the observation that a has-been porn actress thinks the Repubs serve her needs better than the Dems. I would think that you would not find what she says to be in any way authoritative.
I also, never defended the one drop rule as much as point it out and how it figures into peoples mindset in America, don't even get me started with the Brown Paper Bag test. As far as heritage goes, mine is very important to me, I'm sure it matter's to Dixon since he told CF about it and then went as far as to discuss it in the PA episode and it seems to matter to Trey since he more then inquired about it. If it doesn't matter to you then I'm happy for you. Is this the point when I tell you my Great Grand was a Lilly white sheriff in the south??? I disagree with your assumption of how people see Dixon. Those with limited encounters with AF-AM's would probably not be able to see his ethnicity, however, there are many who be able to make the distinction as there were back in the days after the Civil War that could tell if a person was attempting to pass as white.
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tanner and tom *fucking tanner
please help me cause location payment can not process
I don't care what Dixon is (I'm mixed, however irrelevant that may be) he's hot, and a good performer. I won't say we shouldn't discuss it, because that's what this forum is for, but I think y'all are beating a dead horse here. You can only discuss it so far, and it's becoming a tad tedious to read.
Well said. Thank you Greg. Whew!!!
For many people, the one drop rule applies only if the person in question has significant black traits. If a person displays a lower amount of stereotypically african american features, they wouldn't be immediately put into the african american category.
As for dixon, I'm sure most people would be able to tell that he has some sort of racial mixing, but most people would pause before putting him in a specific racial category.
Hm. I just tried to download Tom/Alan and got an expected download time of 9 hours, 44 minutes. Washington bandwidth sucks.
CF also doesnt have a lot of latinos and asians. my friend said (ignorantly) is that majority of gays do not really find latinos, blacks and asians appealing. perhaps CF is just reflecting this. while i dont agree with my friend, idk with cf
At times, I could get mad about CF not embracing more hairy guys or forcing them to shave everywhere, but then again we've all been drawn to CF for a reason and a type of guy, so why should we bother complaining now when there are other places we can find blacks, Latinos, Asians or scruffy/hairy guys in abundance (and a bit more passionate about gay sex).
"You can't fix stupid." --Ron White
There are so many external variables affecting download speed that I can't fault CF. Sometimes it takes a couple of minutes, others a couple of hours. And I've noticed this with other stuff I download. Verizon, Comcast, RCN have all been similarly inconsistent in this regard.
Still eagerly awaiting a Lucas action scene, hopefully with Zeb. Maybe a bi one?
Tom fucks Alan: a very good scene. They could almost be cousins if you look at their faces. Alan has a fine body. Nice opening dialog between Tom, Alan, and Connor. I wish all cf videos were produced (filmed) by Connor - more long shots, good use of the mirror, and some closeups, a good style. The guys were relaxed and seemed natural. And as Alan said in the shower, he came harder than he has in months. I also liked what he said, that you can fantasize all you want about what it's going to be like, but you don't know until you get to the point where there's a dick in your butt. Tom was also good. He kept the scene cool, yet before they got done he fed Alan all of his cock.
And download time (about noon est) 10 minutes for 979MB (the 720p version). While as Phunk points out there are a lot of variables that affect download speed I am of the opinion that cf has a capacity/bandwidth problem during certain hours. I don't know if it is their server capacity or the bandwidth of their internet connections, but for easily the last six months during the evening hours (6pm to 11pm) cf downloads are noticeably slower than at other times. If you wait until 1am everything is fine. In general, cf downloads are average or slightly less than average speed in comparison to other gay porn sites that I frequent. The fastest is sc, who regularly has download speeds 2-3 times that of cf, but then sc hd (1080p) are often 2-3 times the size of cf videos. When sc jumped to 1080p they also up'd their capacity/bandwidth. cf probably did the same when they migrated acm to 720p, but not to the same degree. I am glad that cf bumped up the 24 hour limit for downloads. cf is about the only gay porn site left that still caps downloads.
Did anyone buy Harper Nails Marc on CFS? I really like them both so I probably will. I was just wondering if someone had and what his/her thoughts were.
I actually meant to say Quinn Rides Marc because I already have Harper Nails Marc.
Tanner Unloads on Jon was ok, not a sizzler but a decent effort. Until this scene I hadn't been aware of how small Tanner is. His size was much better disguised in his scene with Harper. I'd also say he showed less enthusiasm in this scene than in the scene with Harper.
But the title of the scene should have been "Tanner passes on his cold to Jon" because he really looked under the weather. So germ phobes beware!
But the rimming part was well photographed and really featured Tanner's ass dimples. Gah! Almost as good as Booth Jonathan's from last Sunday's Girls.
Enthusiasm wise, Tanner has really been exceeding my expectations, coming from Fratpad and all, so I can't complain.
Yesterday's update was so hot. There's something strangely hot about Alan.
(a minor point) One thing didn't help this video was using a lens that made the walls, pictures, etc. curved. It looks like you're watching the video through fun house mirrors. I guess that there's more than one way to give Jon a barrel chest.
The boys may be straight, but the walls aren't.
I have been reading the prior year post to this thread, and have a question. There appeared to be a corbin sight called "GuysGoneBi" that featured the same models as ACM/ACS. Were they the same videos as appeared on ACS? If not, are those videos available anywhere? Thanks in advance for your help.
^^ ggb contained the bi videos from acs, plus a few more (17). Whereas acs only used to release a bi video every other week, ggb had one weekly. All of the ggb videos were released in hi def (720p). ggb disappeared (2011-09) shortly after cfs was created (2011-08). (Almost) all of the ggb/acs videos are now for sale of cfs. And acs stopped releasing bi videos in the fall of 2012.
corbinfisher.com/trailers.aspx (?)
Did I leave any out? Would be nice if they had links from the main site to promote them. Perhaps in the next release of the main...
Also is there a way to distinguish the ggb videos from the acs videos?
Is CF trying to say something with the amount of their ACM updates this week?
P.S~ I love Quinn.
Just saw the video, and I must say, Gentry (?) reminds me of James.
Quinn and Gentry are definitely two cute gay boys.
Ha Gentry will bottom very soon. Cant wait. He is so handsome and great personality. Hottttttttttttt guy for sure.
@Jupiter Street: That's what I've been thinking since he appeared for his solo. Which is totally welcome, as I've totally missed James. It seemed that just as he got really good at bottoming (e.g. James & Aaron's scene) he was gone. I really hope that Gentry stays around and stays around longer.
IMHO this is CF's best scene in months. And Gentry is really handsome, probably my favorite one in the recent newbies.


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( SPOILER WARNING: Read Simon Wiesenthal's "The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness" before reading this post )
It is believed that there is no truly perfect person without some sort of blemish requiring forgiveness in one way or another. Most religions teach us that forgiveness of other people is key to either providing a healthier life or a rewarding afterlife. In Buddhism, forgiveness is a practice for removing unhealthy emotions that would otherwise cause harm to one's mental well being. According to the Bible, people should bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances they may have against one another while forgiving "as the Lord forgave them" (Col 3:13). However, not everyone believes that forgiveness is necessary. Some think that forgiveness should be earned through remorse or through punishment. Others believe that forgiveness should be left up to God because it is too much of a burden for one person to bear. Regardless of what one's opinion may be, while opening The Sunflower for the first time, one can't help to ponder on the possibility of forgiveness. However, it is only after reading the book in its entirety and allowing Simon Wiesenthal to provide a vivid landscape of the circumstance in which he faces and shows what it's like to be a prisoner, what it's like to be a soldier, how much human nature and remorse exist in the dying soldier, and how other people react to the story, one might to start doubt or question their view of forgiveness and wonder if it really would be possible or not.
During the first few pages of the book, Simon paints the picture of what each prisoner must endure. In describing how the SS tortured the prisoners, he said the following: "They usually hid behind the huts and whenever they felt like it they swooped like birds of prey on the helpless prisoners. Every day some were injured; it was part of the 'program'" (3). The "program" was what all prisoners faced from day to day. At night, they were so exhausted that some didn't even bother taking off their boots and they often slept in their sweaty clothes. As they slept, they barely had enough air to provide oxygen for the hundred and fifty men who lay penned together on the tiers of bunks (5). With the debate of Author and Josek over whether God could've created both the Nazi and the Jewish race from the same "clod of earth" (6) and the story of the old woman who said that she "thought that God was on leave" (8), Simon shows that the conditions for the prisoners were so bad that even their deepest religious faiths had been shaken. But, in presenting the uncertainty that each day would bring by talking about "registrations", one can really start to understand what terrors the prisoners faced.
These registrations involved new dangers that were quite unimaginable in normal life. The oftener they registered us, the fewer we became. In SS language, registering was not a mere stocktaking. It meant much more: the redistribution of labor, culling the men who were no longer essential workers and throwing them out—usually into the death chamber. From bitter personal experience we mistrusted words whose natural meaning seemed harmless. (9)
To be a prisoner during the Holocaust meant to be underfed, tortured, and kept barely alive. Prisoners were robbed of any self-worth and the sicker they became, the more likely that they would be removed from their group and gassed or even shot in the head without a moment's notice.
Soldiers, on the other hand, were treated quite well. It was evident when Simon was walking past the cemetery and noticed a sunflower planted at each grave. In comparing the prisoners to the soldiers, he writes the following:
Suddenly, I envied the dead soldiers. Each had a sunflower to connect him with the living world, and butterflies to visit his grave. For me there would be no sunflower. I would be buried in a mass grave, where corpses would be piled on top of me. No sunflower would ever bring light into my darkness, and no butterflies would dance above my dreadful tomb. (14)
Even in death, soldiers were treated with more respect. Each soldier's grave was adorned with a sunflower to serve as an eternal connection to the outside world and an excuse for butterflies to visit the tomb regularly. The Jewish prisoners, however, only had the possibility of being buried in a mass grave to eagerly anticipate. Simon is jealous because his life is so awful, even in comparison to the dead Nazis.
But when Simon is taken to the bedside of the dying soldier, Karl, one can start to see the human nature and remorse of the soldier. He talks about his Catholic upbringing and how he was actually a server in the church and a special favorite of their priest. (30) The priest had hoped that Karl would study theology one day. (30) Seeing how Karl once had a mother and father that cared for him very much and didn't want to see him join the SS also made the German soldier appear more human. (32) Karl said of his mother, "In my mother's memory I am still a happy boy without a care in the world… full of high spirits. Oh, the jokes we used to play…" (34). After Karl said this, Simon thought of his own youth and the jokes that he used to play. As Karl explains his first contact with the enemy, one might start to develop and understanding of what pressures the soldier was facing and how helping the enemy or turning back might not be an option:
"The fighting was inhuman. Many of us could hardly stand it. When our major saw this he shouted at us: 'Believe you me, do you think the Russians act differently toward our men? You need only see how they treat their own people. The prisons we come across are full of murdered men. They simply mow down their prisoners when they cannot take them away. He who has been selected to make history cannot be bothered with such trifles.'" (38)
The remorse of the dying soldier became evident when Karl started telling the story about the Jews being killed in the house:
"When we were told that everything was ready, we went back a few yards, and then received the command to remove safety pins from hand grenades and throw them through the windows of the house. Detonations followed one after another… My God!" (43)
But the particular family that the dying man saw was the most disturbing and was the object of the most remorse, "'I can see the child and his father and his mother'" (47). It was apparent that the family made a lasting impression on Karl. And Karl was not the only soldier that the memory had haunted. It is the one thing that his comrade, Peter, mentions as he takes his last breath after having been wounded on the battlefield. His friend had suffered greatly by taking the memory of the house full of Jews to his grave. Karl, on the other hand, wanted to rid himself of the memories and was willing to confess to Simon in hopes that it would help.
According to Karl, it appeared that the whole reason for his being in the hospital was that he could not stop thinking about the family of Jews. In recalling the injury, he says, "In that moment I saw the burning family, the father with the child and behind them the mother – and they came to meet me. 'No, I cannot shoot them a second time.' The thought flashed through my mind… And then a shell exploded by my side. I lost consciousness" (51). He was obviously showing remorse in that instance. Simon specifically addresses it when he sums up the confession:
Here is a dying man – a murderer who did not want to be a murderer but who had been made into a murderer by a murderous ideology. He was confessing his crime to a man who perhaps tomorrow must die at the hands of these same murderers. In his confession there was true repentance, even though he did not admit it in so many words. Nor was it necessary, for the way he spoke and the fact that he spoke to me was a proof of his repentance. (53)
So, when the act is considered by itself, it may seem clear that the SS should not receive any forgiveness at all. However, when one mixes into the act a son of a loving mother who never really wanted to be a murderer of innocent Jews, someone who really never would've considered committing the murder if not for the command he was under, and someone who could not bear to live another moment with the thoughts of the dead Jews, one has to take a step back. What was not so forgivable before now seems to be a little more complicated.
The possibility of forgiveness, however, gets more difficult when one examines Arthur Hertzberg's reaction to The Sunflower. Arthur was a rabbi who practiced conserving the Jewish traditions. In his reaction, he says that Simon must not have remembered "the teachings of the Talmud in that no one has the right to commit murder even if he is sure that he himself will be killed for not complying with such an order" (166). If he had remembered, he would not have even struggled with the question. To Arthur, forgiveness was not a possibility. He makes this point clear when he says, "Wiesenthal said nothing, and he was right. The crimes in which this SS man had taken part are beyond forgiveness by man, and even by God, for God Himself is among the accused." How could Arthur's reaction be so absolute? One has to wonder if he would have made the same choice if he were put in the same situation as Simon; or better yet, what choices he would've made had he been born a German soldier. Would he have chosen to disobey the commanding officer if given the chance? Can the dying soldier be condemned for the misfortune of not knowing the teachings of the Talmud?
There is also the reaction of Mathew Fox to consider. His reaction is like that of many others. "There are sins that God and no humans must forgive" (146). Mathew's reaction is unique in the sense that, to him, Simon's silence was more of a penance. Mathew writes the following:
He gave Karl the only penance available to him to bestow: Silence. The penance of Karl's having to be alone with his conscience before he died. Simon did not offer him forgiveness as a Jew – how could he forgive in the name of even one in the home of hundreds who were torched or the millions in camps of death? But Simon, summoned as a priest-confessor, let the man speak his heart. Some sins are too big for forgiveness, even for priests. (144)
Mathew thinks that Simon gave to the dying soldier all that he had to give: compassion (145). By listening to the dying man and by holding his hand even though the thought repulsed him as more of the story was revealed, Simon showed he was being present and human (145). Mathew also attributes his life's vocation after the Holocaust to the deathbed confession when he says, "Simon does not condemn the criminals he uncovers; he leaves that up to the judge of the courts. He only provides the witnesses, the testimony, the evidence. They convict themselves. As did Karl" (146). But then, Mathew relates the story to present time. He says that the story may disturb us so deeply is because it is a true morality story and that it applies today as much as to yesterday (147). The fact that so many people allowed the sins to be committed makes them equally guilty. Mathew points out the fact that Simon held Karl's mother in the same category of guilt as Karl, "Simon treated mother and son the same – he listened to both and left both in silence" (147). But Mathew goes on to take the position that forgiveness should occur for the good of oneself. According to Mathew, one should forgive, but never forget (148).
It is only after the careful consideration of the circumstances that one can begin to comprehend the dilemma Simon had faced in being asked for forgiveness. When we read about what a Holocaust prisoner endured from day to day through the eyes of Simon Wiesenthal, we start to understand the silence that Simon gave the dying SS soldier. When we learn that prisoners are underfed, tortured, and tormented with the thought of death at a moment's notice, we realize that forgiveness is not quite as easy as we thought despite the fact that some religions say we must forgive if we are to be forgiven. One cannot help but to feel even more animosity toward the German soldiers as we learn that each soldier's grave has a sunflower growing out of it which, even in death, allows an eternal connection to the living world. For Arthur Hertzberg, it would be an absolute choice of no forgiveness – not even from God himself. This decision was made from someone who was not involved in the Holocaust at all and was, instead, moved to the United States before it occurred. Most others are not so quick to discount forgiveness all together. Mathew Fox feels that forgiveness should be given – if only for the healing of the forgiver. To Mathew, it's fine to forgive, but we must never forget. Forgiveness may also become more possible when we farther consider the soldier's human nature and remorse he shows in telling his story. Simon and Karl are brought together as victims of other leader's rules. Both are suffering in different ways. Whether someone should forgive or not can forever be debated and is still a matter of personal opinion. The fact that Simon has helped us to look deep into our hearts to consider forgiveness is not debatable. When people truly try to consider the circumstances given in the book, they sometimes find themselves conflicted with what they initially thought would do. In The Sunflower, Simon gets us as close to considering both sides of the story as possible and helps us to realize that things are not simply black and white.


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The first woman elected to Louisiana's Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal is now the first woman to become its chief judge.
Judge Susan Chehardy is the ninth chief judge of the court, which was established in Gretna in 1982.
Chehardy was elected in 1998. As chief judge, she succeeds Marion F. Edwards, who retired after more than 14 years on the court.
Judge Fredericka Homberg Wicker succeeds Chehardy as the court's deputy chief judge.
Cheryl Quirk Landrieu, the court's long-time research attorney, was sworn in Wednesday as the court's third clerk of court, and the first woman to hold the position. She succeeds Peter J. Fitzgerald, Jr., who retired Dec. 31 after more than 30 years.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Shana Welch, a
three-time All-American at Michigan, has been named the assistant
coach of Harvard men's and women's water polo, head
coach Erik Farrar announced Thursday.
"I am extremely pleased to welcome Shana Welch as the new assistant coach of Harvard men's and women's water polo," Farrar said. "I look forward to Shana making a significant impact in all areas of our program."
Welch comes to Harvard after serving as the assistant coach of men's and women's swimming at Bucknell for one season. With the Bison programs, Welch was responsible for recruiting, fundraising, academic monitoring, facilitating community service projects and creating dry land and strength programs. During her stint with Bucknell, Welch helped the program break 27 team records.
She began her coaching career as a strength and conditioning intern at Michigan in 2008. In that position, she was responsible for training student-athletes to reach a higher level of strength and athletic prowess and created strength-training routines for student-athletes.
Welch, one of the most honored players in Michigan water polo history, was named to the American Water Polo Coaches Association (AWPCA) All-America team on three occasions and was a three-time Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA) Western Division MVP. She served as captain of the Wolverines in her junior and senior seasons and was the recipient of the Michigan Athletic Academic Achievement Award in 2006 and 2007, as well as the Bob Ufer Senior Athlete Award in 2007. Welch was tabbed the CWPA Rookie of the Year in 2005 and was a USA Speedo Top 40 in 2005 and 2006.
After earning a Bachelor of Arts in sociology from Michigan in 2007, Welch played professional water polo for the UWA Perth Comets in Australia for one year.
Photo courtesy of Bucknell Athletics.
Welch Joins Crimson Water Polo Coaching Staff
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Shana Welch, a
three-time All-American at Michigan, has been named the assistant
coach of Harvard men's and women's water polo, head
coach Erik Farrar announced Thursday.


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The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum will open its fall season of Sunday afternoon concerts with a recital by the acclaimed pianist Jeremy Denk. Denk was the first musician to perform publicly in the museum's brand-new Calderwood Hall in early 2012 when he played Bach's Fifth Partita at a gala concert. His most recent Boston appearance was a Celebrity Series recital in March. He will play Bach's Goldberg Variations at Calderwood Hall on Sept. 15.
Elsewhere in the Gardner's season, its resident chamber orchestra, A Far Cry, plays two Sunday concerts, each with a beguiling program. The first, "Tapas," includes works by Corelli, Rossini, Grieg, Hindemith, and Jean Francaix (Sept. 22); the second, "Melting Pot," features music by Dvorak, Ives, Gershwin, and Lev Zhur-bin, plus a new commissioned work by Vermont-based composer Erik Nielsen. (Dec. 8)
The season will also see the continuation of some multi-concert series currently in progress. The 24-year-old pianist Charlie Albright completes a cycle of Schubert recitals he began in the spring; he'll play the Moments Musicaux (D. 780) and A minor Sonata (D. 845) on Sept. 29, then return with the Impromptus (D. 935) and C minor Sonata (D. 958) on Nov. 17. Violinist Corey Cerovsek and pianist Paavali Jumppanen finish their exploration of the Beethoven violin sonatas on Oct. 13. Jumppanen joins the Borromeo String Quartet for the next installment in that ensemble's series of Dvorak concerts with a program that includes the Second Piano Quintet and the C major String Quartet (Op. 61), a masterful but infrequently performed work (Oct. 6).
Some of the Gardner's frequent guests will return, including Musicians from Marlboro (Nov. 24), the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (Oct. 27), and the New York Festival of Song (Nov. 3). Early music isn't a traditional Gardner strength, but the Baroque ensemble Rebel puts in an appearance on Nov. 10. There are also three entries in Avant Gardner, the Thursday evening contemporary music series, most notably, a concert by the Callithumpian Consort spotlighting works by the Harvard-based composer Chaya Czernowin (Oct. 31).
Tickets for the fall season go on sale to museum members on July 17, and to the general public on July 31.
Emmanuel season
Fresh off the Boston premiere of John Harbison's opera "The Great Gatsby," Emmanuel Music has some quite different music theater in store for its 2013-14 season: Stephen Sondheim's "A Little Night Music," which Emmanuel will bring to the Boston Conservatory Theater on Jan. 18. Mezzo-soprano Lynn Torgove, who sang the role of the Tango Singer in "Gatsby," will be the stage director. Ryan Turner, Emmanuel's artistic director, will conduct the Sondheim and the season's other two evening concerts: an all-Beethoven program that includes the Triple Concerto and Egmont Overture (Sept. 28), and Handel's oratorio "Susanna" (Apr. 5).
Emmanuel will also wind up its four-year series exploring the piano, chamber, and vocal music of Beethoven. Among the four concerts this year, two stand out. One features an as-yet unnamed pianist playing two late works: the mammoth Diabelli Variations and the more austere Bagatelles (Op. 126) on Nov. 3. The other features pianist Russell Sherman, violinist Gabriela Diaz, and cellist Rafael Popper-Keizer in the "Archduke" trio, among other works (Mar. 30).
Concert tickets go on sale June 3. Of course, no Emmanuel season would be complete without its ongoing performances of Bach cantatas at Sunday services at Emmanuel Church. Those begin Sept. 22.
An orchestra's sendoff
New England Conservatory's Youth Philharmonic Orchestra will tour Argentina, playing four concerts June 17-25. In anticipation of the tour, the orchestra will play a free sendoff concert at Jordan Hall on May 25. The program includes Golijov's tango-infused "Last Round," the Act 3 Suite from Wagner's "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg," and Berlioz's "Symphonie Fantastique." Hugh Wolff email@example.com.


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Saturday's Santa Anita Derby (Grade) figures to confirm which 3-year-old is California's leading hope for the $2 million-guaranteed Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (GI) at Churchill Downs on Saturday, May 1.
The 1 1/8-mile race over Santa Anita's synthetic Pro-Ride surface attracted a field of 10 3-year-olds, but three of those horses figure to contend for the unofficial title of "Best of the West." That group includes Sham Stakes (GIII) winner The Pamplemousse, the 9-5 morning line favorite for veteran trainer Julio Canani; CashCall Futurity (GI) winner Pioneer of the Nile, victorious in three consecutive stakes races for three-time Kentucky Derby-winning trainer Bob Baffert; and Chocolate Candy, the top 3-year-old in Northern California who bids to build his credentials for the famed "Run for the Roses."
Pioneerof the Nile – and entered as an apparent "rabbit" to insure an honest pace for his late running stablemate.
But Canani was unruffled by the presence of the "rabbit."
"If our horse runs his race, I think the rabbit becomes irrelevant," Canani said. "To me it looks like a desperate measure on the par of the competition."
Eclipse Award-winning jockey Garrett Gomez will ride the stretch-running Pioneerof the Nile, who won the San Rafael (GII) in his last outing and breaks from post four. The son of Empire Maker is Baffert's top hope for a fourth victory in the Kentucky Derby. He won the race with Silver Charm (1997), Real Quiet (1998) and War Emblem (2002). Baffert trails D. Wayne Lukas, a four-time winner,, in Kentucky Derby victories by active trainers. Calumet Farm legend Ben A. Jones is the all-time leader with six Kentucky Derby victories.
Chocolate Candy, owned by diet food legend Jenny Craig and bred by Craig and her late husband Sid, won the El Camino Real Derby (GIII) last time out at Golden Gate Fields and was a closing third to Pioneerof the Nile in December's CashCall Futurity at Hollywood Park.
Other contenders in the Santa Anita Derby include Mr. Hot Stuff, third in the San Rafael (GII); Sham runner-up Take the Points, Washington State-based Gallant Son; San Rafael (GII) runner-up Feisty Suances; Cape Truth and Unbridled Roman.
The Santa Anita Derby will be televised live by NBC Sports. Post time is set for 5:45 p.m. (all times EDT).
I Want Revenge became an instant star of the 3-year-old crop and joined the short list of possible favorites for the Kentucky Derby when he traveled from California to romp by 8 1/2 lengths in his debut on traditional dirt in the Gotham Stakes (GIII) at New York's Aqueduct. The son of Stephen Got Even could emerge as the favorite for the "Run for the Roses" with a similar effort in Saturday's $750,000 Wood Memorial (GI) at Aqueduct.
I Want Revenge had run well against top competition over synthetic racetracks in his previous starts in California, but trainer Jeff Mullins sent him to the Gotham on a hunch that he would fare well on the traditional dirt at Aqueduct. He is looking for more of the same in the 1 1/8-mile Wood.
"Pedigree was the main reason we tried the Gotham," Mullins said. "There is a feeling that synthetic surfaces are like turf, and I Want Revenge's dam loved the turf, but couldn't stand up on dirt. His sire loved dirt and that convinced us to try the Gotham."
Regular rider Joe Talamo will ride I Want Revenge, who will break from the rail post in a field of eight horses. The colt will race under the colors of new co-owner IEAH Stables, the co-owner of 2008 Kentucky Derby and Preakness (GI) winner Big Brown. IEAH purchased half-interest in the colt this week from owner-breeder David Lanzman.
His chief competition could come from Imperial Council, the distant runner-up in the Gotham. That race marked the stakes debut for the son of Empire Maker and veteran trainer Shug McGaughey is looking for an improved performance in Saturday's race.
"He ran a big race in the Gotham," McGaughey said. "It was his first time around two turns, and it was definitely a step up from allowance company."
Others in the eight-horse Wood Memorial field include West Side Bernie, Lord Justice, Just a Coincidence, Atomic Rain, Cellar Dweller and Lime Rickey.
The Wood Memorial undercard includes a competitive renewal of the $200,000 Bay Shore (GIII), a seven-furlong race that attracted Hutcheson (GII) winner Capt. Candyman Can; Taqarub, who suffered his first loss in a fifth-place finish in the Fountain of Youth (GII), and unbeaten Counter Move.
Tampa Bay Derby (GIII) winner Musket Man and hard-luck Giant Oak, the runner-up in last fall's Kentucky Jockey Club (GII) at Churchill Downs, top a balanced field of 11 in Saturday's $500,000 Illinois Derby (GII) at Hawthorne Race Course.
Musket Man bounced back from his first career loss to score a narrow victory in the Tampa Bay Derby, and the colt is the 7-2 favorite in the 1 1/8-mile Illinos Derby. Eibar Coa will ride the colt for
trainer Derek Ryan in Saturday's race.
Giant Oak, a son of Giant's Causeway trained by Chicago-based Chris Block, will attempt to re-enter the Kentucky Derby picture following a star-crossed winter at New Orleans' Fair Grounds. He finished a troubled fifth in the Risen Star (GIII), and then failed to fire over a sloppy track in a fourth-place finish in the Louisiana Derby (GII). Both races were won by Freisan Fire. Giant Oak will have a new rider in Shaun Bridgmohan.
Trainer Todd Letcher entered three horses in the Illinois Derby and the most prominent of those could be Al Khali, who won his U.S. debut in a Gulfstream Park allowance race after launching his racing career in Peru. A long shot threat in the race is the speedy Perfect Song, who invades from Maryland for trainer Mike Trumpets and could be dangerous if he manages to grab an easy early lead.
Old Fashioned Works – Fox Hill Farm's Old Fashioned, the early favorite for the Kentucky Derby until his upset loss to Win Willy in the Rebel (GIII), tuned up for next week's Arkansas Derby (GII) with a five-furlong workout at Oaklawn Park on Tuesday.
The Larry Jones-trained son of Unbridled Song covered the distance in 1:00.40 over a "muddy" track on Tuesday. Jockey Terry Thompson was aboard for the work and will ride Old Fashioned in the Arkansas Derby.
Florida Derby (GI) winner Quality Road was the 5-1 favorite after the opening day of betting in the third and final pool of Churchill Downs' 2009 Kentucky Oaks Future Wager. Betting in the pool will continue through Sunday, April 5 at 6 p.m. (EDT). The pool also features exacta wagering and real time odds are available at http://www.kentuckyderby.com.


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Kerio 2.1.5 user
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