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Immigration Trip
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Vu, February 2005
Reflections on the trip to Brownsville, Texas
I had the opportunity
to work with 5 other BC Law students in South Texas over spring
break. Unlike some of the other designated spots, we were located
in Brownsville, close to the US-Mexico border. I think this gave
us an experience that was unique in that we were able to feel how
much the issues of immigration law came to life.
Having been
a part of a family that immigrated to the United States, I found
the experience of working on a case for people who had gone through
similar obstacles extraordinarily moving. I worked with another
student, on a case trying to classify domestic violence as a means
for asylum in the United States under the division of 'social group'
or 'political opinion' under asylum provisions. We learned a lot
about the issues that immigrants face trying to enter the United
States, as well as the issues that the US faces in trying to regulate
the inflow.
I am very thankful
for BC for putting this trip together for us, because the trip brought
to life several of the legal processes that we had only learned
about in our first semester, but had not lived or experienced. The
trials and hearings that we attended in court at the detention center,
seeing clients at a detention center, the experience of reading
and writing memos and declarations for our clients, actually working
to represent somebody --- these were all experiences that no classroom
could have really prepared us for.
Not only did
the trip bring to life several of the legal issues that we thought
about in class, it provided a remarkable bonding experience. I found
myself thinking several times, "this is what law school is
really about, or what it should be about," or "this is
why we came to law school." I couldn't have
asked for better colleagues - or better yet, friends, to have gone
on the trip with. Moreover, Amy Wax, former BC alumna, was a spectacular
supervisor. Thank you to Jill, Scarlett, Matt, and Prof. Kanstroom,
and BC Law for putting this trip together.
Halloran , February 2005
Immigration Service Trip Reflection - Miami, FL
The clichéd
romance of the moment is not lost on me. I am sitting on a lounge
chair on the beach watching the full moon rise over the Atlantic
Ocean. But it is the events of the day and not the idyllic setting
that are occupying my thoughts. This morning I watched as a Miami
Immigration Judge ordered two teenaged Cuban boys to be deported
while their mother sobbed quietly at their side. The lump in my
throat grew as my supervisor from Catholic Charities Legal Services
leaned over to me and whispered about the mistakes the boys' lawyer
had made. Even as he talked, he scribbled his cell phone number
on his card to hand to the mother on her way out. There is always
the appeals process.
I saw a lot
of bad lawyering today. But there were a few bright spots. It refreshed
my will to follow through with this endeavor of law school, because
good lawyers really can do good. It is that kind of idealism that
falls by the wayside when exams are pending, and it seems like there
will be no end to the stress and studying. So once in awhile, when
we get to poke our heads up from the books, and take a look around
at the world, it's a pleasant surprise to find that some of this
knowledge we are busy acquiring is useful.
The moon is
high now, and it is time to go to sleep. First thing
tomorrow morning we are accompanying our supervisor as he argues
for the cancellation of removal of a British man who has lived here
in Florida for ten years and coaches his sons' soccer team. Luckily,
he has a good lawyer.
Holloway , February 2005
Harlingen, Texas
I spent winter
recess in Harlingen, Texas working for ProBAR, a non-profit specializing
in immigration law. Specifically I worked on two cases, one seeking
asylum and the other seeking relief under the Convention Against
Torture. This experience was brief, but intense, and it contributed
immensely to my personal growth. It allowed me to use the skills
I acquired during the client counseling competition at BC and during
ILPR to actually interview a live client and in
Spanish. My interaction with my client was humbling and fulfilling.
I listened to her tell her tragic story and my presence communicated
to her that she was not alone, that despite her inability to speak
English, she would have a voice and a legal advocate.
Palazzo , February 2005
Miami, FL
Day one of the immigration service trip began with an assignment.
My knowledge of immigration law was close to zero and my main motivation
for being on the trip was to work alongside an actual attorney for
the first time. My parents both immigrated to the US in the 1960's
and my father worked with immigrant children for most of my life.
I considered myself knowledgeable about the needs of the poor immigrant
community, but my short visit to Miami abruptly demonstrated my
My first assignment
was to research country conditions in Lithuania for ethnic Russians.
A pair of fifteen year old siblings, who had been living in foster
care for over eight years, had been ordered deported by the Department
of Homeland Security. My employer for the week, the Florida Immigration
Advocacy Center (FIAC), had taken up their case and was fighting
their Order of Removal. The two children had fled the former Soviet
state when their business-owning parents had been terrorized by
organized crime. The only family that the children knew of in Lithuania
was an uncle that they had never met. The attorney from FIAC explained
that she was in the process of applying the children for political
asylum and that their hearing was scheduled for that Friday. My
job was to gather as much information on the treatment of ethnic
Russians and organized crime in Lithuania as possible. Our goal
was to convince the administrative judge that the children would
be persecuted upon their arrival back in Lithuania, most likely
by the same criminals who had violently harassed their family years
Throughout the
week, my attorney had me work on several other cases. I was sent
to the Federal detention facility outside of the city to interview
two prisoners. I was in court to observe hearings and administrative
proceedings. I was able to see how Cuban immigrants who enter the
country illegally are treated differently from their Haitian and
Central American counterparts. In the FIAC offices, I helped draft
motions and affidavits pertaining to at least four different clients.
The staff attorneys that I worked with treated me with respect and
challenged me to contribute to their cases.
But my experience
Friday afternoon at the administrative courthouse in downtown Miami
is what I will carry with me for many years to come. I entered the
courtroom confident in all the research that I had done. The pages
of documents that I had gathered and entered into the record filled
three file folders. My research included United Nations studies,
testimony from the State Department, and affidavits from professors
and experts around the country.
two minutes into the hearing, however, all my research was rendered
irrelevant. The judge interrupted my attorney's opening statement
to inform her that it sounded like the children's family was the
victim of extortion by the local mafia. Extortion, the judge continued,
is not covered by the laws of the US as grounds for asylum. I looked
at the attorney I had been working for all week. Surely, I thought,
this observation by the judge had been expected. Surely our entire
hope for asylum was not pinned to this legal argument.
The last thing
I will ever remember from my experience in Miami are the tears of
the two children as the judge announced his decision to reject their
plea for asylum and to allow their removal from the US. I had assumed
that the attorney I had been working for was an expert in her field.
I had assumed that she was battle-tested and talented simply because
she had good intentions. But my frustrating experience in court
showed me otherwise. It illustrated to me that the needs of the
poor, in this case the immigrant community, go far beyond money
or language. The quality of legal counsel, even
when secured free of charge, is yet another woeful disadvantage
that they must endure. It now even clearer to me how valuable my
legal education is and the power I will someday wield with it.
Jordan, February 2005
Immigration Trip - ProBAR: Harlingen, TX Reflection
Each new lawyer
fears that first client interview. The pressure certainly mounts
when the client enters wearing an orange jump suit emblazoned with
PIPC-short for Port Isabel Processing Center. The barbed wire fences
were easy reminders as we drove in that our clients weren't on vacation.
That is one of the things you realize immediately: these aren't
people with the due process rights we enjoy. They have taken a risk
by coming to the U.S., and these are the consequences.
My client's
name was Oscar. Only a year older than me, I could tell he immediately
looked to me for confidence. As I look back, I can barely imagine
the feeling of powerlessness the detainees must go through. They
are trapped behind the walls 24 hours a day, most are without family,
and an even greater majority speaks only Spanish. I sat through
a morning of Immigration Court proceedings, and I saw that these
people are in fact treated humanely and often quite fairly. If they
are here illegally, the U.S. Government sends them back. The proceedings
assume a more complex stature when the detainees seek asylum or
other protection.
Oscar had pepper
sprayed a drug lord at a Salvadoran nightclub while working as a
security guard. The drug lord was pummeling another man in the head
with an empty glass bottle. Oscar's boss had given him the pepper
spray, and he reacted to the situation just as he was instructed.
Unfortunately, he sprayed the wrong person. A few days after the
fight, men returned to the club looking for the security guard who
had used the spray. Then the body of the other man in the fight
was found with a bullet hole in the back of the head. Oscar left
before his identity could be revealed.
I sat across
from Oscar and felt an immediate sense of responsibility. I slowly
realized that this man depended on me. I began to think: What do
I know? Does he know about my grades last semester? Who am I to
provide legal advice? There was one problem, however: I was sitting
in the room with my client and I needed to come up with something.
Anything. During the car ride to the detention center, our adviser
had told us that in these first interviews we should act like journalists-gather
the Who? What? When? And why? So I began to ask questions about
his story.
As a frame of
reference, we arrived in Texas on Saturday, went to the Gulf of
Mexico on Sunday, and it was now Monday afternoon. I had received
a little less than one hour of introduction from ProBAR director
Meredith Linsky and then read for another hour trying to decipher
when relief is granted under the U.N. Convention Against Torture.
Of course, the first question Oscar asked pertained not to the trial
on Monday-the one I was preparing for-but to his future proceedings.
He wanted to know what was next. I was rendered unprepared immediately.
It is a lonely
feeling to be sitting without answers in front of a man in an orange
jumpsuit. Fortunately for me, we were accompanied by experienced
attorneys and answers were footsteps away. The interview continued
pleasantly, and I could sense Oscar becoming more comfortable. He,
like so many others, was a victim of circumstances. How did he know
he was spraying a drug lord? Wasn't he doing his job?
Now, I was not
totally unprepared. I had composed some questions meant to gather
the essential information I would need to begin work on his application
and a brief to support that application. I knew I didn't want to
get too involved on this first of two visits because I felt building
a relationship was most important. However, I knew we would have
to discuss the major obstacle standing in the way of his application:
a prior conviction.
In most immigration
proceedings the normal rules of evidence do not apply: prior convictions
are relevant no matter the circumstances. The judge considers past
convictions to determine whether the applicant poses a threat to
society. If so, the U.S. does not automatically deport the applicant,
but they can detain him indefinitely. Oscar had been deported from
the U.S. in 2000 after spending 45 days in a California jail. If
Oscar is deemed a threat to society but granted protection, he has
to choose between deportation back to El Salvador-where he fears
being killed-or remaining in detention.
Oscar chose
not to discuss his conviction. I refrained from prying too deep,
but I advised him that even if I didn't address the facts of his
prior conviction in the brief, the judge would ask him what happened
at the hearing. He was convicted five years ago during a time he
defined as his reckless youth. He claimed he had matured since then.
Too bad I wasn't making the determination, because I was sold. I
simply told him that if we did not want to tell me, he should get
his story straight because to contradict himself in front of the
judge would be fatal.
Soon I had to
face what actually became the hardest portion of the interview:
the goodbye. Every client interview ends with some sort of forecast.
It could be a future meeting time or small assignments for both
parties. And then there's the, "Everything will work out,"
line. Did I really know? I couldn't say things would be fine. I
didn't know the law or the processes. Even if I knew the law, what
would that mean? Was his a "particularly serious crime"
as defined by the Immigration and Nationality Act? More importantly,
would the judge see it as "particularly serious"? Was
there "government acquiescence"? I know the man was a
drug lord, but can I prove government involvement? Instead, I chose
to tell my client the truth: that I would get to work. And I did.
I worked all
week for this man and only wished I had three more. It's fascinating
how involved I became in Oscar's story. I am plagued
by writer's block (or lack of motivation) when writing for the "14th
Circuit" of Grimes, but I had no trouble finding motivation
for this brief. In fact, I found myself sweating while poring over
cases. It truly was an adrenaline rush.
E.L. Wiecks, February 2005
Los Angeles, CA
The five days
I spent working at the Catholic Legal Immigration Network (CLINIC)
in Los Angeles afforded me an amazing first-hand experience with
immigration law. Not only did I emerge with a better understanding
of the intricacies of immigration law, but I also witnessed they
ways in which laws affect actual people. CLINIC opened my eyes to
the necessity of assisting everyone so that access to the legal
system is available to all people, particularly those convicted
of a crime, and the importance of attempting to provide an understanding
of the legal system to people who might otherwise have no clear
conception of their rights.
The week began
with a visit to a local detention center where I assisted with the
interviewing of a detainee. His story was heart-wrenching and I
felt like this experience set the tone for the entire week - our
work was intense and interviewing an actual detainee and meeting
several others made the work we did very personal. For the remainder
of the week, I worked with a fellow student to write a motion to
reopen and a supporting memorandum regarding the applicability of
§ 212(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act to the case
of a former detainee seeking to apply the waiver under § 212(c)
to his particular situation. We researched the legal intricacies
of the § 212(c) waiver and the evolution of the case law on
the subject, specifically searching for a loophole that would permit
the client to use the date of his crime as the qualifying date under
§ 212(c) as opposed to the usual standard of using the date
the plea was entered. Interestingly, our research also had a personal
element as the client appeared on local public radio with one of
the attorneys from CLINIC while we were in Los Angeles; thus, we
had the opportunity to hear him speak directly about immigrating
to the United States and about how he has turned his life around
since his conviction.
At the end of
the week, my impression of the CLINIC and of my experience was that
working in immigration law is extremely difficult. Representing
and assisting people whose very way-of-life has been completely
altered adds an element of importance to one's daily work. In cases
involving detainees and people who may be deported, the case does
not involve some monetary punishment, but instead a complete upheaval
of one's world. Through conversations with the lawyers employed
by CLINIC, the detainees I met, and the cases I read throughout
the week, I began to appreciate the nuances of immigration
law. Furthermore, for the first time I recognized the critical need
for attorneys who are willing to represent people who may have committed
an act that makes representing them difficult based on your personal
Doynow , February 2005
Re: Immigration Trip to DC
I spent a week
in DC at CAIR, Capital Area Immigrants Rights Coalition. The organization
focuses on detention and asylum issues for illegal immigrants. One
aspect of our trip dealt with detainees and aiding them in their
quest to either be removed from the country or fight for their right
to say within the US's borders. I learned a lot about how immigration
law works in this respect. Most importantly I was able to see the
problem with the current laws that the US has in place. Immigrants
who commit crimes of moral turpitude are sent back to their countries,
but this term is ill-defined and leads to an significant amount
of uncertainty. In addition, smaller offenses such as shoplifting
may lead to deportation. Thankfully there are defenses and reasons
to be able to stay such as family and dependence. But do we really
think it is just to send a person to another country for shoplifting
just because they were not lucky enough to be born in a democratic
society in the first place?
Along with the
discussions we had, we also did a detention center visit. I was
actually the only one able to go to one of the detention centers
and found it very interesting. The one I went to had decent accommodations
and the detainees seemed to have been treated well. Though, after
meeting with them, I found their stories upsetting and depressing.
Some of them could not speak any English and their detention officers
would not answer their phones or could not understand them sufficiently
enough to help them meet their goals. When a male detainee began
to cry, I really started to begin to understand what was going on
these detention centers. I could not imagine traveling to another
country, and at the border being thrown in jail because I said the
wrong thing, and then most importantly, not being able to figure
it out within a day or two. Some of these men and women who legitimately
had no reason to be in jail (just a misunderstanding due to language
barriers) were stuck in US prisons for weeks. They came from very
normal lives and were just here to visit a friend, etc.
The other issue
we looked at, which I spent most of my time researching was asylum.
I was given a case about a man from the Central African Republic
who was seeking asylum to be able to stay in the US. He came here
with a diplomatic visa to be able to work in the embassy, but while
he was here, the Prime Minister (his brother-in-law) was overthrown,
and the visa expired. His family left in the CAR was forced to flee
to save their lives, and therefore, he could not return home. I
found this case very troubling because although it is probable that
if his story is true he should be able to get citizenship eventually,
meanwhile, he has nothing. He currently cannot work unless he does
it illegally and he has no food for his son. He is completely reliant
upon charitable organizations.
Overall, I found
the trip very enlightening and important. Upon my departure I realized
what it means to be an American citizen and how lucky we are in
the US that the Republicans don't "overthrow" the Democrats
causing civil wars and mass uprisings. In addition, beyond the fact
that these people cannot or truly do not want to go back to the
country's that they were born in, is it really just
to make them? Is there a better way that US can do this or think
about immigrants? These are definitely things that I would like
to look into in the future and I hope to continue to do work on
immigration issues.
Dalfior , February 2005
Reflection from 2005 Immigration Service Trip
The most influential
part of my experience was a series of intake interviews that we
conducted under the supervision of Boston College Law School graduate
Patricia Mejia. Going into the detention center I had a fairly good
idea of who we would encounter; immigration detention centers are
filled mostly with men with limited financial resources who have
been convicted of at least one crime and have subsequently been
picked up by immigration authorities after completing their criminal
sentences. After serving time in prison, many of these men have
no resources to hire a lawyer, have few chances to escape deportation,
and want to be deported just to end their time locked up in immigration
detention. Others are quite established in the United States, with
families, jobs, and houses. While I believe that these men deserve
more than summary deportation, deserve to be represented by attorneys
whether or not they can afford one, and deserve the same procedural
rights as American citizens, I have to admit they are not the most
sympathetic immigrants. They have made mistakes, and sometimes very
big ones. We saw men with drug problems, men who had committed multiple
robberies and thefts, and men who had physically harmed their loved
ones while they were abusing drugs. These are not men that would
normally pull at the heart strings. These same men, though, when
they told their stories made me realize how close their life stories
were with ours. One young man was in an overly stressful job and
started to take stimulants to help him get through the day. Soon,
he was hooked on drugs, committing crimes, and landed in jail. His
elderly father fainted and spent three days in the hospital when
his son called him from jail. He had come to the US at such a young
age that he knew nothing of his home country and had no one there
to help him if he was to be deported.
Another man
got hooked on drugs after being prescribed strong painkillers after
surgery. He became abusive with his wife of 25 years and found himself
in jail. While serving his time he had gone to substance abuse support
meetings, gotten clean, and was committed to proving to his wife
that he was the man she had married. When he described how much
he loved his wife and how much he regretted all the things he had
done to hurt her, I could see how sincere he was and how much he
wanted just one chance to make his life right.
After meeting
with these two men and four others, we left the detention center
for the day. I felt very strongly that spending a week helping our
supervising attorney was just not enough. I had a strong desire
to stay and help the clients we had met with. It wasn't only that
their stories were sympathetic. What motivated me even more was
that it was clear that both of these men would not win their cases
without legal assistance, and that with about 10 or 20 hours of
legal coaching and assistance they would have a much stronger case
that would have a decent chance of success. It tormented me to think
that 20 hours of work could be the difference between each of these
men being returned to their home countries and having their lives
and families torn apart, and having them get a second chance. They
would not get this 20 hours of help, and most likely would be returned
to their native countries. While I realized that each of the men
we saw at the detention center had made a mistake, the price that
they were paying for their mistakes seemed grossly disproportionate.
After having paid their debt to society with time in jail as Americans
would, they were then held in immigration detention for months or
a year or more before being permanently returned to their native
countries. After being deported they would likely never be able
to return to the United States. Had these men had legal representation,
they could have presented their best case and had the judge decide
whether or not they deserved this second chance. Without this representation,
though, they would not get their proper chance to present their
best case, and, as a result, would likely lose.
My experience
at the detention center was enhanced by our supervising attorney,
Boston College Law School graduate Patricia Mejia. Ms. Mejia was
an inspiring example of how an attorney can do rewarding work, make
a decent living and still do a substantial amount of pro bono work.
Ms. Mejia is a solo practitioner who takes on many pro bono cases
at the detention center in addition to her other immigration cases.
She took an entire week out of her schedule to provide us with a
rich experience working on different types of immigration cases.
Her willingness to take such a large amount of time out of her normal
schedule and the substantial commitment that she has made to pro
bono work were inspiring to me. Ms. Mejia's example
showed me how I could shape my own career in immigration law to
make a career for myself that could provide for me and my family
financially, sustain my intellectual curiosity for many years, and
be emotionally fulfilling to me.
Parcan , February 2005
Reflections on Working for FIAC in Miami
To begin with,
I have to say that the trip we took absolutely surpassed my expectations
in every sense of the word. Of course, spending a week in Miami
with the weather being at a constant 80 degrees was a very pleasant
respite from the early March weather one usually experiences in
the Boston area, but I can honestly also say that the work I did
was both personally fulfilling and immensely interesting.
I spent our
brief time working for FIAC, an organization that provides legal
services to immigrants in the Miami area. While in the office, I
spent my time doing legal research for one of the attorneys there.
This involved doing research on the current country conditions in
Venezuela with the goal of helping our attorney make an innovative
legal argument that would allow her client to remain in the country
because of undue hardship she would experience upon returning to
her home country. It was extremely interesting work and I really
saw how far I had come in just my one short semester of studying
law at BC. I had done some immigration work before coming to law
school, but I was extremely surprised to find out how much my brief
legal training allowed my to really get my head around the issues
in question and ultimately formulate an objective memo which I presented
to my attorney at the end of the week.
Perhaps the
most moving part of the entire experience was getting the opportunity
to visit inmates in the local detention center. I was given the
opportunity to tag along with another FIAC attorney while he went
to counsel a number of inmates in a sort of informal question and
answer setting. It was truly a touching experience to see the looks
in the eyes of these people, most of whom could not afford any other
legal representation. It was also quite touching in that many of
the people thought of me as another lawyer and were asking me questions
themselves. At the end of the question and answer period, one of
the people there, a man from Chile I believe, even said to me, "Thank
you, for all the work that you do. We all need your help and appreciate
it from the bottom of our hearts." It was genuinely moving.
while at the detention center, I was given the opportunity to watch
as a FIAC attorney did one-on-one client counseling sessions with
inmates. I learned so much just by sitting there as the lawyer went
through the basics of the cases that he was formulating with the
inmates. It was also tremendous to be able to sort of put individual
faces to many of these people whose rights are virtually nonexistent.
It's one thing to read cases, like so many of us have so far this
year, but what one frequently forgets, I think, is that these cases
often involve real people with often pressing legal problems. In
that sense, I believe I got the chance to really experience what
the legal profession is all about instead of just reading about
it in a case book. That, to me, was a very significant and moving
Finally, we
also got the chance to attend a number of hearings throughout the
week. Most of the time, these involved large numbers of people going
to court to sort of set up their cases in front of a judge. The
lawyers at FIAC called these "cattle-calls", presumably
because they were fairly impersonal and involved large numbers of
hearings at the same time. This was also an extremely enlightening
experience. We got the chance to really see the legal system in
motion and were exposed to the actual procedures that one goes through
in immigration court.
Overall, I would
genuinely recommend such a trip to any first year law student. For
me, personally, as someone who has a very keen interest in immigration
law, it was absolutely tremendous to get the opportunity to experience
the work of an immigration lawyer first hand and really get to experience
the legal process through the eyes of people who really need our
help. However, even just as a learning experience, I would recommend
the trip to absolutely anyone. I feel almost as
though I learned more about the legal process in one week than I
learned in a semester of law school. In and of itself, that makes
the trip worthwhile to anyone.
Cantu, February 2005
Harlingen, TX
First and foremost
I am thankful for having
had the opportunity to participate in this year's Immigration Law
Trip - it is truly one of the most powerful experiences I have ever
had. My group and I traveled to Harlingen, Texas and volunteer with
ProBAR, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing legal informaion,
aid, and representation to detainees being held at the local detention
center (Port Isabel), as well as immigrants in the Rio Grande Valley.
ProBAR was a
wonderful place to volunteer, and I would definitely recommend that
future trips work with this organization. Not only are the attorneys
and paralegals that work at ProBAR very committed their work and
willing to provide advice and guidance, but there is such a pressing
need for manpower that my group was broken down, assigned cases,
and given hands on work on the first day. During the course of the
week my partner and I worked exclusively on the case of my client,
a Guatemalan woman with a ten-year-old son seeking withholding of
removal. My client feared returning to Guatemala because of the
long history of brutal domestic abuse she suffered at the hands
of her husband - who will likely kill her if she is retuned to Guatemala.
Our primary duty was to interview our client (at the detention center
itself) and translating her testimony from Spanish to English in
order to write an affadavit on her behalf. In addition to the affadivit
we prepared a packet of supporting documents (e.g. country conditions,
cases, U.N. conventions on abuse and torture, etc.) for submidssion
to the court.
Going into this
experience, I had some theoretical understanding or pre-conception
of the immigration process and the conditions that detainees experience.
That said, volunteering at ProBAR gave me a very real, concrete
awareness of the realities of detention. In my opinion, the conditions
are cruel and dehuminizing, and frankly, I am appalled that they
are treated like criminals and housed in quasi-jails. I am also
appalled at the intransparency of the immigraiton system; it seems
unjust to throw someone into proceedings without guaranteeing that
they have representation and ensuring that they understand their
options and the future effects of their proceedings.
Despite that
the precarious nature of my client's position and her heartbreaking
story made the trip emotionally draining, it was an extremely valuable
experience. First, I am satisfied that I was able to give of my
time and training to help someone, give them some hope, and have
an effect on someone's life. This immigration law trip was the first
time I have been able to actually apply what I am learning in the
classroom in a real-world situation; it's incredibly motivating.
Second, the
trip made me wish that more of my colleagues (and that the legal
profession) in general were less business oriented and more civic-minded.
My time at ProBAR highlighted the fact that the law is the most
powerful tool we have at our disposal to protect democracy (and
democratic principles like liberty, equality, and justice).
Third, this
trip definitely reaffirmed in my mind the need for legal access,
and the need for attorneys to give their time to fight for the powerless
and provide them the legal means to defend themselves.
Fourth, this
trip reminded me that I must be thankful for the right and privileges
that I enjoy as a U.S. citizen, and that it is essentially an accident
of birth. U.S. law affords citizens and nationals many liberties
and guarantees, but does not extend them to people in general. I
see an troubling hypocricy in Americans promoting democratic ideals
and decrying other countries for human rights violations, but not
fully enforcing them within own borders.
Fifth, it was
encouraging to see attorneys giving their time in a pro bono/public
interest capacity. This trip reaffirmed my commitment to public
interest law, and has given me renewed energy to resist
the general pressures to "go corporate." Indeed, this
summer I be working at the Political Asylum/Immigration Representation
Project in order to give more of my time and to explore whether
this is an area that I want to work in after I graduate.
Sadler, February 2005
Reflections on Immigration Trip
I had three
take aways from this trip:


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Talk about a rough start for a new team. The San Francisco Bulls opened up their inaugural franchise season as a part of the ECHL at home at the Cow Palace back on Oct. 12. After hosting one more game the next day, the Bulls were then sent out on a nine-game, near month long road trip.
Needless to say, the epic roadie wasn't very kind to the Bulls, as San Francisco went just a 1-6-2. Fortunately, the very last game of the trip marked the beginning of the Theo Peckham era.
Peckham, a veteran NHL defenseman with the Edmonton Oilers signed with the Bulls as the NHL lockout has dragged on. While San Francisco dropped the road trip finale 3-1, the defense has improved remarkably with Peckham's presence these last two games. And back at home on Friday night, Peckham helped the Bulls deliver their strongest performance to date.
Despite taking on the best team in the ECHL's Western conference (in winning percentage) in the Stockton Thunder, the Bulls earned their third win of the season in convincing fashion Friday. Strong defense and netminding was the name of the game until the Bulls broke out in the third with three goals, one each by Dean Quellet, Kevin Baker, and Jordan Morrison.
The Bulls were certainly in need of the offensive outburst, but as the saying goes, defense wins championships, and the San Francisco blue-liners looked as strong as they have at any point this season. Combine that strong defense with a solid performance from Sharks goaltending prospect Thomas Heemskerk who stopped 31 of the 32 shots thrown his way) and you have the back-bone of an all-around sturdy performance from the Bulls.
Speaking of Sharks prospects, the one player to keep an eye on for you NHL fans (those who have yet to throw in the towel) is Bulls defenseman Sacha Guimond.
The 6'2″ 185 pound, 21-year-old French-Canadien defenseman is the youngest player on the Bulls roster and leads the defense in scoring with six points in 12 games. His 5-on-3 bomb of a slap shot from the right point tied the score at 1-1 on Friday. While Guimond isn't currently affiliated with an NHL club, that certainly didn't to stop head coach Pat Curcio from dishing out NHL-caliber praise for his young defender.
"He's a player I'm sure is on the radar of NHL teams" commented the head coach. "Incredible skill and vision, as he gets stronger and learns more about the game, I don't know how much longer he'll be in this league. He's a special player."
Guimond and the rest of the Bulls defense are certainly picking up lots of helpful tips from the aforementioned Peckham. The Oilers defenseman picked the Bulls due to a childhood connection with Curcio and the head coach definitely isn't taking the NHL presence for granted. The coach noted just how invaluable the presence of Theo and Sharks forward Ryane Clowe is for the group of young players.
"He [Theo] is unbelievable on the ice and off the ice. What he brings in the dressing room and what he brings to the team, it's invaluable. I think having both NHL guys here, everything rubs off."
Clowe didn't play but was behind the bench for the Bulls and talked with the media afterward noting an interest in getting into the management side of the game whenever he decides to hang up the skates.
The Bulls will now try to keep the momentum going from their big win over the Thunder as they host former Shark Devin Setoguchi and the Ontario Reign Saturday.
It sounds as if Clowe will yet again stay off the ice but playing against his old pal Setoguchi might be too much to pass up.
Game Notes
Back from injury, Bulls forward Chris Lawrence chipped in three assists and now has five points in four games with San Francisco.
San Francisco Giants closer Sergio Romo dropped the ceremonial first puck donning a bright orange Bulls Jersey.

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Beyonce told ET in an interview that her pregnancy makes her feel empowered.
"Beyoncé doesn't just have that pregnancy glow. It's more like a megawatt luminescence."
" 'It's been great. I feel free. I feel very empowered," the singer, 30, tells ET Canada of her pregnancy in an interview airing Thursday night."
My pregnancy made me feel free too – free to eat sausage biscuits and not worry about it. I was free for the first time in 10 years to not worry about the fact that my stomach poked out on a regular basis. (That's just how it is – not particularly fat just never flat.)
As far as empowered, I actually remember feeling more vulnerable. I used to take MARTA home every Friday night because I would work until 10 or so on deadline with two sections. Michael would pick me up at the Marta station late at night. When I rode late at night after work, I felt like I had a big target on my back and couldn't run or defend myself if something happened. I hated that feeling.
I think you feel special when you are pregnant, but I don't think I felt empowered particularly.
How did you feel when you were pregnant?
September 23rd, 2011
1:40 pm
…just what we need, more celebrity worship for comparing our lives – and to to think, you could have been preparing for your class instruction instead of putting this out for "comment"…
And, you next to last paragraph sums up your whole existence – at least we know it is not just about your kids that provokes your paranoia…
September 23rd, 2011
1:52 pm
No, but then, again…you must be a man. Only a woman would understand the vulnerable feeling that comes with pregnancy (and hormones are to blame for some of it). I'm 8 1/2 months pregnant right now, and I sure couldn't run if I needed to. Heck, I can barely pick up my keys if I drop them (which unfortunately, due to those pesky hormones, happens a lot).
I don't feel empowered, I just feel pregnant!! Beyonce must still be in that early phase where the newness of it all is still wonderful. It's fun when you are the only one who can feel the baby move, because it can't be felt from the outside yet. But, all that newness wears off toward the end, and she'll feel just as run down and tired as the rest of us pregnant ladies!
September 23rd, 2011
2:02 pm
Here's a prediction. I doubt that this blog will be around in its current form after the new year. If I were TWG, with her life in a new state, and a new job that she apparently loves, I would tell the AJC to stick its blog and the nasty trolls it attracts to stick it where the sun don't shine.
Have I rolled my eyes a few times at the topics? Sure. Have I disagreed with the author's level of worry over seemingly remote dangers? Certainly. But the level of vitriol that this woman endures in this comment section every day is frankly embarrassing. I know many would disagree, but if you wouldn't say something to someone's face, you ought not say it in a blog response.
Politeness and courtesy are becoming increasingly scarce commodities in our society. Their absence might eventually be our downfall.
September 23rd, 2011
2:10 pm
…thanks for your comments – now, stick this where the sun don't shine…carry on…
September 23rd, 2011
2:14 pm
@Nostradamus – Very nicely said. I hope your prediction is incorrect, though.
I don't think I would have used the word 'empowered' while I was pregnant. Lots of other great things going on, but that's not something I remember.
September 23rd, 2011
2:15 pm
Douche Ipsa Loquitur.
September 23rd, 2011
2:39 pm
Nostradamus: I know that if I were Theresa I would be using the ban function a whole lot more frequently.
On topic: I did not feel empowered or special or womanly. I felt like CRAP. I hated almost every moment of being pregnant. I was of course, overjoyed with the result. But being pregnant sucked.
September 23rd, 2011
2:55 pm
…freedom of speech? That is what Theresa is allowing, unless the person gets nasty or vulgar – just because someone has a difference of opinion about the value of her topics, and chooses to comment on them, that is no reason to ban them… by mom2alex's way of thinking, Nostradamus should be banned for his most recent use of the term "douche", even though she was agreeing with his/her original premise…
Thanks, Theresa, for having "thick skin", and for understanding that journalistic license does come with a fair amount of critics…
September 23rd, 2011
3:20 pm
But what about….It's not that disagreement, it's the attacking un-civil tone. I am not saying they don't have the right to say what they do, but rather, if I were TWG, I don't think I would subject myself to it everyday.
As for my douche comment, you're probably right, but had I heard the comment that spurred it personally, I would have had not problem responding as I did to the person's face.
September 23rd, 2011
3:32 pm
Yes. What about freedom of speech? Is the ajc blog suddenly a government entity?
You should read the 1st Amendment before trying to envoke it.
As I said two days ago, you are stupid.
September 23rd, 2011
4:01 pm
Empowered??? No. Cranky, pissy, and blunt to the point of inflicting verbal pain??? YES!!! And more than happy to blame hormones to get away with it… My tact and diplomacy completely fell out of my personality with both pregnancies. God have pity on the people unfortunate enough to cross my path, because I sure didn't.
September 23rd, 2011
4:04 pm
It was the birth of my daughter that made me feel vulnerable. I realized that I was a sitting duck if anything happened to her. It took awhile to calm down.
September 23rd, 2011
4:12 pm
Out of all the words I'd use to describe how I felt when I was pregnant – Bloated, Tired, Miserable, Immobile, Disgusting, Old – "Empowered" was not one of them
September 23rd, 2011
4:30 pm
act of war: my recurring nightmare during those years was that something would happen to me while alone in the house with babies/toddlers/little kids that would render me unconscious. It used to terrify me! Remember in the movie Steel Magnolias when she passed out and the husband came home to find her on the floor and the baby wailing his head off? Ugh..I still can't watch that scene!
to what about: two things. One, I am not a blog admin, so my opinion of who should get banned or how or when is meaningless. Two, freedom of speech doesn't apply here for the same reason it doesn't apply to say you going into the grocery store and start talking about offensive things. You can try, but for sure the manager will kick you out.
September 23rd, 2011
5:13 pm
I'm with mom2 – I was sick every moment of being pregnant both times. Childbirth was the easy part. The easiest way to deal with people who like to spend their time making sure you know how stupid they think you are is to act like they don't exist. It's like the "Ignore" function in a Chat Room. You don't actually have to ban them – just don't respond.
September 23rd, 2011
8:19 pm
While I was sick the first 4 months each time (3) I enjoyed being pregnant. I thought I was the most stunning pregnant woman there ever was! I could (had to ) do anything. Part of that was due to circumstances–I was pretty much our sole support. I had a husband who "wasn't into" working much, helping with the kids, the house, etc. I did not go into labor at school, but I worked up until time and went back to work in MUCH less than 6 weeks (or 4 weeks) so we could eat. The thing I liked the most was I could eat anything I felt like eating, lost weight the whole pregnancies, and had large, healthy babies.
What I didn't like: I went over by one week, two weeks, 3 weeks, and I had very difficult labors. I also would have liked being home longer (hard to establish milk supply in 16 days), and not having to work so hard when pregnant.
I look back at pictures and I can remember how terrific (and thin) I thought I looked.
September 23rd, 2011
8:22 pm
I got caught between the washer and dryer when I tried to retrieve something I had dropped with the first pregnancy at 9 months, and I feared I would be out on the hot porch all day till my husband came home. Finally the baby shifted and I got out.
With number 3 I fell in the garden and feared that I would have to lie there until frost killed the cuke vines and someone found me!
September 23rd, 2011
8:33 pm
BTW, tomorrow is my eldest daughter's 35th birthday! Happy birthday to her!
September 24th, 2011
8:10 am
I don't believe for a second that beyond really feels that way. Not that she necessarily feels horrible, but it's the whole over-drama thing just turns me off. She'll probably go on some talk show in about a year or two and talk about how horrible she actually felt. Kind of like when a celeb is overweight and says she loves her curves and feels comfortable with herself, then 6 months later, she's doing a weight watchers commercial.
September 24th, 2011
10:42 am
Jeff, LOL!
September 24th, 2011
1:45 pm
I loved being pregnant (the first time). I was on cloud 9 and never sick. I can relate the the "empowered" comment from a standpoint of "wow, I have created a life", but admit it made me feel physically vulnerable. Of course, I worked up until I had both of my kids and that included going into some pretty rough areas. I never felt like I couldn't run if I needed to but I would have looked pretty stupid and I didn't like that. On my second pregnancy, I was never sick, but more tired and just wanted it to be over. We'll see how Beyonce feels when she's pregnant and taking care of a two year old.
September 25th, 2011
2:00 pm
During my pregnancies I felt beautiful and empowered. "I am doing important work here, I am creating a life!". It puts things in perspective, for me.
September 25th, 2011
2:31 pm
Empowered to do what? I guess the celebrity has enough security where she doesn't feel vulnerable, but for most women, pregnancy means a certain amount of dependence on others now and later. Now because a pregnant woman's brain is shrinking and her physical abilities are lowered. Later because she'll be the primary care-giver to the kid and can't do it all herself, but she is the most responsible.
Empowered? I guess if you're a millionaire.
September 25th, 2011
3:21 pm
I am currently 9 months pregnant & I look and feel GREAT! Sure it is not easy to get around but pregnancy is a blessing! If you eat for two, you will be big as a house lol!
September 25th, 2011
3:21 pm
Empowered? No, I can't really say that I felt empowered. Mostly, I felt tired! :-)
September 25th, 2011
3:37 pm
What in the world does she mean by "empowered"? I don't get the use of that term. I've been pregnant four times, and I never really felt empowered. Grateful? Yes. Frightened? Yes. In awe of the miracle happening? Absolutely. But not empowered.
But she's a celebrity, so I guess she has to use some of those psycho-babble buzz words.
September 25th, 2011
4:10 pm
I suppose if I had the financial security she does and didn't have to worry about taking a measly 2 WEEKS off work after I had the baby, I probably would have felt more empowered. Mostly I felt afraid I would lose my job entirely and not be able to feed/clothe/shelter my baby.
September 25th, 2011
5:11 pm
lalalala munch munch munch. Tear Pat's rug up you buck toothed wonder.
September 25th, 2011
5:12 pm
Don't forget to motorboat her it makes her crazy.
September 25th, 2011
5:38 pm
I'm glad the imposter "me" feels great while pregnant. As for "the original Me", being male, I've never experienced pregnancy, at least from the female viewpoint. The emotions I witnessed, however, basically ran the scale from sad, terrified, to happy and beyond. You might even say, at times, she was glowing, to use an old phrase.
On the other note, I don't always agree with @TWG and some of the topics she chooses – nor do I have to – but I don't see the point in anyone wasting their time, energy, and effort to respond simply to state such displeasure.
September 25th, 2011
6:17 pm
I think a more appropriate word should be humbled, if in fact it is used in relation to creating and carrying life. You were chosen and blessed with a gift. This is how I feel about myself, currently at 5 months pregnant, especially after trying to conceive for a year and finally being successful only one cycle before fertility treatments were to start. I also have felt sick to my stomach daily b/c my digestive tract cannot be balanced. I too feel vulnerable; so much about the life inside of you and how your life will ultimately change is out of your control. With the money, trainers, nutritionists, cooks and assistants Beyonce' must have she is probably very likely feeling empowered with more delegating privileges. But this is not the norm, and I don't think normally pregnancy makes a woman feel empowered.
September 25th, 2011
8:17 pm
I felt empowered AFTER my pregnancies. I really did feel like I had leapt a big hurdle or something, and I did feel a sense of empowerment after becoming a mother. It actually kind of surprised me. I did not enjoy being pregnant. I felt awful the entire time with both. I tried to enjoy some of the special feeling of having a giant belly that was supposed to be there, but I was delighted to be done with the pregnancy portion of child rearing! I think my feeling of empowerment after came from the fact that, even though women have had babies forever, I had done that and now I was responsible for these precious little lives and teaching them to be the kind of people I would want them to be. Scary,yes, but also very empowering!
September 25th, 2011
8:53 pm
Pfft at "empowered". I felt like a fat cow! Oh wait, I WAS! Vulnerable? That is what concealed carry permits are for; go ahead and come at my hormonal arse while I am packing heat! I hated being pregnant, and morning, noon, and night sickness for 9 months straight was no joy. I am so glad that part of my life is over. Of course, she is rich and has people to do everything she doesn't want to do, so I guess I would feel "empowered" too. I am rather surprised they didn't have a surrogate so her figure wouldn't be marred. Then again….she will just have some lipo & a tummy tuck as soon as she delivers.
September 25th, 2011
8:55 pm
Empowerment doesn't come to mind; however, I did feel invincible after having contractions/delivery. After enduring that pain, I felt that I could take on anything! I specifically remember thinking that I could catch a bullet in my teeth ~ LOL! Call me woman…hear me roar! ;)
September 25th, 2011
10:11 pm
motorboat the coochie. BLABLABLABLA VROOOM
September 25th, 2011
10:30 pm
Goldenlady: "Chosen and blessed with a gift?" Puh-lease. Try – had sex/in-vitro and got pregnant after paying a lot of money to some very smart scientific minds who enabled me to do so.
September 25th, 2011
10:56 pm
My first pregnancy I felt empowered. I felt I could do anything if I could create a human being. It was a wonderful, humbling, exciting time.
I believe that was the entire context of her statement too. Carry life within is an awesome feeling (for those whom don't have to ride Marta) I am not well off as Beyonce but I too felt blessed and highly favored.
September 25th, 2011
10:59 pm
When I was pregnant with my first, seven years ago, I walked two miles each way to work in the city (Atlanta) – including past a park filled with drug dealers, prostitutes, and mentally ill (picture a man swinging a stick and ranting wildly). As soon as my belly started showing, I was no longer accosted and asked for money. Rather, the homeless were asking how they could help *me*. Being pregnant in the city showed me a new and very lovely side of human nature and of the people I used to fear. I was an honored member of society, all of a sudden. Yes, I felt very special indeed. And now I'm finally pregnant with my second and that feeling has stuck with me. I do think I feel empowered.
September 26th, 2011
6:18 am
Beyonce will change her mind in about 3 months. Ask her then if she feels empowered when she has heartburn, swollen feet, insomnia, hemmoroids( I do not know how to spell that word) and the urge to pee 700 times a day.
September 26th, 2011
9:03 am
Empowered….give me a break. Only someone with a whole entourage of people to be at her beck and call all hours of the day would say that. And believe me, whoever said wait unitl you are pregnant and have to take care of a two year old, do you really think she won't have someone helping her? Please….
I'm pregnant right now, and I feel ok. Of course, the bigger you get, the slower you get. It is a miracle and the pain, aggravation, body changes and hormone changes are tough but so worth it in the end….all I have to do is look at my son to appreciate that. But yes, it's still early for her….let's see what she is saying around month 9 (or 10)…I bet her little "empowered" will turn into "just get this thing out of me!!!"
September 27th, 2011
8:25 am
@Kat-If you read clearly, you'll see that I had sex and got pregnant naturally, w/o the in vitro or any other interventions that were soon to start, which is why yes, I felt chosen and blessed with a gift, that I did not have to endure such.
September 27th, 2011
12:14 pm
It's Beyonce….remember she's not very articulate. I'm still trying to understand what she meant by "empowered". Whatever that work means to her, I guess there are millions of empowered women on this earth!


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Welcome our newest addition to CFA…KILL CLIFF
We are proud to be a new vendor of Kill Cliff Recovery Drink, and are excited to share with you why we added it to our arsenal.
Why are we carrying Kill Cliff Recovery Drink?
- To provide a "Tasty" (kudos to their marketing for this "flavor") way to help your body recover from the intense workouts you perform here at CFA.
What is Kill Cliff ?
- A delicious… i mean, Tasty… lightly carbonated drink designed to speed recovery by reducing swelling and inflammation.
- Almost all-natural (only the low-calorie sweetener, Sucralose, which is derived from sugar is not all-natural)
- Designed by a former Navy SEAL and people who know exactly how it feels to be crushed by an intense WOD
What's in the can?
If you look at the ingredient list on a can of Kill Cliff, you'll notice there aren't a lot of useless sugars and stimulants in it. But you might not know what all the ingredients are for. Each ingredient serves a specific purpose for a faster and more effective recovery.
The ingredients can be broken down into four main groups:
- Anti-Inflammatory
- Stress Relief
- Circulatory health
- Digestive Help
Anti-Inflammatory Agents
The anti-inflammatory ingredients in Kill Cliff are Ginger Extract, Milk Thistle, and Bromelain. Everybody who trains is familiar with the stiffness and soreness caused by inflammation. Kill Cliff thought, "How great would it be if you didn't have to deal with those symptoms the next day?" So they set to find out, and came up with Kill Cliff, and.. it works great!
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Digestive Help
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- Glucuronolactone , a precursor for ascorbic acid synthesis
- Lipase, which breaks down fats in the digestive system
- Amylase, which breaks down starches
- Protease 4.5, which helps digest protein
- Invertase, which helps break down sugar
- Beta-Glucanase to help break down fiber
- Serrazimes, which are digestive enzymes
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The Wood Reclaims Black Youth Culture
Turn Back The Hands of Hiphop
Vinyl records are used as souvenirs of childhood in The Wood, linking memories of growing up in the 1980s to contemporary trials of friendship faced by three responsible young men. Reading the record label logos as they spin on a turntable is enough to make those artifacts numinous, to recall the time of Eric B and Rakim's "Paid in Full" and Mtume's "Juicy Fruit." Debut director Richard Famuyiwa refers to 80s hiphop the way baby boomer media incessantly refers to 50s and 60s rock 'n' roll. It's a refreshing emphasis on the innocence of black youth culture—good enough to reclaim its virtues from the mainstream's typical, coarse exploitation.
While trafficking in commercial totems, Famuyiwa conveys untrivialized affection for The Wood's characters—something that never happens in American Pie, a movie that reduces hiphop's influence to booty-smacking pantomime and aggressive sex-talk. Famuyiwa concentrates on the behavioral dilemmas faced by three teenage boys in the hood, coexisting with gang-member peers, pretty girls an —most troubling of all—the fantasies of manhood that exaggerate their daily rituals. North Carolina boy Young Mike (Sean Nelson), newly arrived in California, gets befriended by skirt-chasing Young Roland (Trent Cameron) and cagey Young Slim (Duane Finley). He's duped into pranks, shown local dating customs and supported in familiar adolescent folly (learning to dance, choosing the right breath mint, getting girls' phone numbers). The characters' eagerness to grow up seems to be bursting out of their bodies, which they haven't yet grown into.
This is the crucial period of transition that gets elided by so much of youth pop. It's catered to more than it's understood or scrutinized. The Wood only barely resolves this problem—the vinyl records hook recalls tv's old Happy Days series, which used a similar pop gimmick as a transitional device—but its aim is grand. Famuyiwa tries to reinvestigate the totems of youth for their evidence of natural desire and naive despair (just edging into political limitations and social frustration). Interestingly, his strategy approaches the vaunted experiential reflection found in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway refracting time through hiphop's grooves and breakbeats.
Famuyiwa's flashback/DJ narrative structure starts with the trio grown-up. On his wedding day, Roland (Taye Diggs) hides out until Mike (Omar Epps) and Slim (Richard T. Jones) find him and pull him through his particular bachelor panic. The situation isn't any more profound than the banal middle-class drama of Soul Food, but to perceive only the similarities in the set-up is as much a mistake as confusing one rap record with another. Famuyiwa takes mundane material to heart (almost the way Public Enemy penetrates the social inequities of Black American living that Wu-Tang Clan exploits). Common anxieties of young adult dating, impending marriage and improvised family and friend relations are examined through their initial occurrence via 80s hiphop accompaniment. Juxtaposing the present with the past, Famuyiwa seeks to feel again that special moment when pop culture seemed to speak expressly to one's personal experience. (And much of hiphop's wonder—up to the early 90s—was that it seemed to be right there in your head as you first went through perceiving the way the world worked. That's why it felt revolutionary.)
Going back in time, recasting his three fellas in a new set of younger actors, Famuyiwa wants the era as well as the situations to palpate—through repetition and variation. But primarily he tries for something no one else in the brief, torturous, sell-out, frustrated, ever-hopeful history of hiphop movies has dared: He goes for a psychological connection between adulthood's urgency and precocious, impatient youth. You know: the privilege that pop media sells to youth as their birthright whether or not they fully appreciate life's value and consequences. Only maturity can make a difference in how one rectifies desire with compromise; most times it's a simple matter of reckoning with reality. And through his back and forth between Young Mike having Isaiah Thomas and De La Soul posters on his bedroom wall to the adult Roland's reunion with a former girlfriend, Famuyiwa seeks a boys-to-men frisson, and nearly gets it.
No doubt Famuyiwa's Woolfian ambition derives from a sincere commitment to hiphop, an instinct—and willingness—to get more out of it than fashion. His pop instincts are better than his filmmaking skill at this point, which may explain why The Wood gets away with being more fine-grained than the era's other youth-oriented movies. (It was produced by Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa, the team also responsible for Election, who have so far been able to slip intelligence and feeling into these initial MTV Films ventures.) It seems as if Famuyiwa shrewdly follows a significant pop-movie model, then backs its story up with a superior (slightly veiled) influence.
The Wood responds to John Singleton's 1991 Boyz N the Hood, showing the experiences of three hoodrats in the period after Singleton's battlezone drama. The lead musical track, Ahmad's "Back in the Day," works as a piece of sequential nostalgia, recalling adolescence but also pinpointing the less-sensational life after wartime. (Experiences Hollywood ignored as noncommercial.) Famuyiwa reminisces about the plain-faced details of ghetto experience that still hold up in Boyz N the Hood—not the martinet father figure and gangbanger swagger, but the quiet, yearning glances passed between characters. Sean Nelson, who was badly used as the title character in Fresh, does awkward-age callowness with perfect pitch here—the way he holds his head as if careful and shy of the many thoughts inside it. His grade-school buddies are also charmingly boyish (though they're saddled with the worst period wigs since Samuel Jackson in Menace II Society). Their schooldays skits also suggest Famuyiwa's awareness of Cooley High and tv's What's Happenin' series—less resonant cultural archetypes than Boyz N the Hood, but among the few examples in which African-American adolescence was viewed with a kind, non-condescending, eye. (David Raynr's breezy, likable Trippin' was almost this good.)
When a gang member cottons to Young Mike and takes him under his wing, the boys' frightened ride in the back of his car—including a police stop-and-frisk—combines danger and surprise. This sequence, sketching gangbanger Stacey's (De'Aundre Bonds) unexpected brotherly encouragement to Young Mike, feels almost as true as the backseat account of nighttime adventure in Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris' Smashing Pumpkins music video for "1979." But Famuyiwa doesn't risk emphasizing youthful transgression; he's wary of the distortions media has made of certain aspects of black youth—a caution nicely satirized in Stacey's prescience about creating the ideal hiphop record: "Imagine making a whole album about smoking weed! Call that The Weed Album!" Clearly parodying Dr. Dre's epochal 1992 The Chronic, Famuyiwa cites the moment hiphop culture went bad for good.
Preferring humane black experience to blunted ghetto ambition, The Wood suggests Charles Burnett's 1983 feature My Brother's Wedding given conventional treatment (there's even a sequence in a dry cleaner's, the family profession in the Burnett film). Famuyiwa is far from Burnett's subtlety and naturalistic observation, but the proof that he's on a similar track lies in the adult framing device. Mike, Slim and Roland's friendship rises and falls on a roller coaster of tension and mutual respect. After Roland's friends pull him out of his fear, the friends drive around the Wood in their black tuxes and gold brocade vests—symbolizing esprit de corps and turning each handsome actor into a striking, formal figure of black masculinity. Burnett wouldn't need such obvious symbolism—he kept observing richer, even conflicting, neighborhood detail. But Burnett's a visionary humanist, while Famuyiwa's still a self-conscious media brat committed to celebrating and repairing the black male's defamed image.
The Wood's bachelor party is weakened by Famuyiwa's evasive bonhomie. He doesn't pierce brotherly cohesiveness as Burnett dared. Despite the flashbacks, there's little evidence of how tall, silly Slim became a quick-tempered adult (or, equally likely, of how Richard T. Jones, a virile icon, simply falls back on cliches of being a G). Famuyiwa clearly delights in all aspects of the trio's brotherly beauty—as children, adults, different physical types and through the years. The film's emotional high point comes just before the wedding vows—Mike's vow of friendship, which Famuyiwa subtly scores to R. Kelly's offhand, sensitive-male anthem "If I Could Turn Back the Hands of Time."
Macho bluffs are plentiful in hiphop culture, yet masculinity remains a large question for most American males. The Wood—with its interesting title making a double entendre of habitat (Inglewood, CA) and a state of masculine strength—concentrates on the way boys become men by peeking behind their bluster. (One inspired moment features a gang tough humbled by his angry girlfriend; Famuyiwa vouchsafes a view of his gun stuck in a bedspring.) Famuyiwa risks commercial success by downplaying the thing that makes young black men such magnetic figures for mainstream culture (that includes the black audience, but especially duplicitous white males who complement their unacknowledged racism with the delusional admiration of black macho stereotypes). The film distinguishes itself by not endorsing male crudeness about violence or sex. Mike's romance with Alicia (Malinda Williams in a memorable sweet performance) shows that adolescent sex-on-the-brain is connected to emotional need, recovering a fact lost in today's pervasive American Pie burlesque. As Mike and Alicia look horizontally face-to-face (while listening to Cheryl Lynn and Luther Vandross sing "If This World Were Mine"), The Wood achieves the first intimate love scene in a teen movie—ever.
Famuyiwa's story is too fragmented for that remembered moment to fully resonate in the adult present. The Wood's ambitious structure is sometimes clumsily executed (and it's very poorly photographed, keeping the actors too dark and shiny). Famuyiwa's view of character is more gentle than it is serious, which probably keeps him from achieving Burnett's and Woolf's hard insights, their brave confrontation with grown-up despair. But gentleness in hiphop is the most gratifying of faults.
Sound and Furious Art. There are also audacious time shifts in Andre Techine's 1996 masterpiece Les Voleurs, or Thieves. Faulkner is obviously Techine's model (the credit sequence evokes The Sound and the Fury) and, like Famuyiwa, he concentrates on a young boy—the scion of a family of crooks that includes one black-sheep cop (Daniel Auteuil). Expanding the story of time-affected and love-starved lives, Techine tells the story through several points of view, including that of a philosophy professor (Catherine Deneuve) who is Auteuil's rival for a young rogue (Laurence Cote). One of the great films of the 1990s, Les Voleurs takes The Wood's theme of romantic consciousness to the highest level. Les Voleurs airs Saturday, July 31 on the Sundance Channel at 12:35 a.m.


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Leeks and Peppers with Linguine
Photo: Tina Cornett; Styling: Mary Lyn Hill
Yield: Makes 4 servings
- 1 (9-ounce) package refrigerated linguine, uncooked
- 2 medium leeks
- 1 small green bell pepper, chopped
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 (14.5-ounce) can crushed tomatoes
- 1 (14.5-ounce) can diced tomatoes with basil, garlic, and oregano
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh Italian parsley
- 1/2 cup crumbled feta cheese
- Garnish: fresh Italian parsley sprigs
- Cook linguine according to package directions; drain and set aside.
- Remove and discard green tops from leeks. Cut white portions in half lengthwise, and cut into 1/4-inch slices.
- Sauté leek and bell pepper in hot oil in a large skillet 5 to 6 minutes or until tender. Stir in tomatoes, salt, and pepper; cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally, 2 minutes. Stir in linguine and parsley; cook over medium-high heat, stirring occasionally, until thoroughly heated. Sprinkle with cheese. Garnish, if desired. Serve immediately.
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ProjectsThe Cooperative Media Laboratory (CML) does research on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp). Based on a Human-Centred Computing paradigm it does basic and applied research following a participative and iterative approach.
The research paradigm at the CML is Human-Centred Computing–that is, to develop technological concepts, prototypes, and systems based on an understanding of how people interact with and communicate through computing technology. It departs from an understanding of human, social, and cultural issues in order to make technology useful and usable. The faculty and students of the CML work on a conceptual and technological foundation as well as methods for the design, implementation, and evaluation of interactive systems. Platforms and toolkits as well as prototypes and systems are designed, developed, and evaluated.
The contributions of the CML are primarily in:
- Foundation: methodological, conceptual, and technological foundation for the design of interactive, cooperative, and ubiquitous systems
- Context support: modelling of information and contexts, sensors for capturing data, and actuators for adapting the environment
- Novel user interfaces: exploration, conception, implementation, and evaluation of innovative mobile, Web-based, and ubiquitous user interfaces
The research approach is experimental and characterised by theoretically grounded conceptualisation, practical implementation, and realistic evaluation of basics, methods, and technology.
The CML was relaunched at the University of Bamberg in March 2011. The current major projects are:
- DFG-Project Reco: Recommender Systems for Group Consumption of Hedonic Media Products: research project, partly funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) (Feb. 2009 -)
- DFG-Project WAP-System: WAP-System for Human-Computer Interaction Applications (Aug. 2011 -)
- TMBWK-Project Robust Design: Robust Design of Structures funded by the Thuringian Programme on Excellency (2009 -)
- StMWFK-Project FamilyVision: FamilyVision - smarter aging funded by the Bavarian State Ministry of Education, Science & Art (2014 -)
Past major projects are:
- BMVBS-Project TransKoop: TransKoop: transfer project, partly funded by the Federal Ministry of the Interior (Oct. 2008 - June 2011)
The CML at Bauhaus-University Weimar archive gives an overview of the research from December 2003 to February 2011.


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The girl's mother said she believed the baggie contained drugs.
A child found what appeared to be a bag of drugs at a Chuck E. Cheese's restaurant in Illinois on Sunday.
Fox 2 in St. Louis reported that a 4-year-old girl was at a birthday party at a Fairview Heights, Ill., Chuck E. Cheese's on Sunday night. She got on a carousel ride and returned from it with a "baggie full of a white substance," the girl's mother told Fox 2.
The mother requested not to be identified. She told Fox 2 that she believed the baggie was full of dope and took it to management.
"I asked, 'What do you want me to do with it?' They said throw it away, so I threw it away," the girl's mother said.
She said the management of the restaurant did not want to call the police because there were several birthday parties going on that night.
Chuck E. Cheese's released a statement quoted by Fox 2 regarding the incident.
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June 8, 2007Albany -- A family selling close to 20 properties throughout Albany says new buyers may bring a fresh approach to downtown.
The Beauchamp family is selling 19 properties through an auction on June 20th at the Hilton Garden Inn.
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"The family is from this area and is going to stay in this area, and we want success for the whole of downtown in general."
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Do the kits ever get sold after they are done?
Actually, we haven't done that yet, but I'm thinking that might be an idea. I had thought about it. I'll keep you posted.
I think it would be a great idea. I love these challenges just hadn't had a chance to get to this one this month yet. Will make sure I do better next month.
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Herbert supports EPA car emissions control program
Tuesday , June 25, 2013 - 9:12 AM
Utah Governor Gary Herbert...
SALT LAKE CITY - Gov. Gary Herbert is throwing his support behind a federal program that sets more stringent standards for vehicle emissions.
Herbert sent an official letter to the Environmental Protection Program last week, saying the so-called Tier 3 Program could help Utah achieve better air quality and make the state a healthier place to live.
The letter says the costs of the program appear to be relatively modest in light of the long-term benefits of improving the air.
Herbert's letter asks that the EPA work to minimize disruption to refineries to avoid passing extra costs along to consumers.
The program would reduce the amount of pollution vehicles are allowed to emit, and would lower the sulfur content of gasoline starting in 2017.STORY:201306250035Herbert supports EPA car emissions control program/Local/2013/06/25/Herbert-supports-EPA-car-emissions-control-program.html-1


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Maryland Angler's Log - Share Your Catch!
To post a report please email your name, hometown, photos, location information, and the content for your report to firstname.lastname@example.com. All information is optional, but encouraged.
Important Note: If anyone in your picture is under 18 years of age, we must have a photo release signed by a parent/guardian before we can post your picture. By sending any photos or art to the Maryland Department of Natural Resources you are giving DNR permission to use the image(s) online and in print. You are also giving DNR permission to distribute the photo for non-commercial purposes to other media, print, digital and television for their use. You are not giving up your copyright, but are allowing the photo(s) to be used for educational and news purposes. All Photos will be made available on Fisheries Service Flickr Page.
There will be a 2014 end-of-year random drawing from angler's participating in any of the Volunteer Angler Surveys. We encourage anglers to continue to report snakehead catches through the Inland Freshwater survey in addition to their Angler's Log submission. The information helps our biologists better understand the various species and water systems they utilize.
A new component of the Maryland Fishing Challenge includes invasive species reports submitted to the Angler's Log. Beginning during the 2013/2014 tournament, Angler's Log entries which include Blue Catfish, Northern Snakehead or Flathead Catfish, at any length in size, will be eligible for up to two prizes via a random drawing at the annual Maryland Fishing Challenge Finale. Fish must be kept and a photo showing the kept fish is mandatory. Multiple entries are allowed, but each fish can only be entered once. Remember, all invasive species must be dead to be entered and there is no catch and release category. Visit the Maryland fishing Challenge web site to read the complete set of rules.
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Does MD Stock Brook Trout?
Type: Freshwater
Region: Western
Location: Antietam
I caught this Brook Trout in the Antietam. It was estimated to be in the 15-17 inch range (released without measuring). Are Brook Trout stocked in the creek? I have caught dozens of trout out of the creek over the years, but never a Brook Trout, only rainbows and browns.
DNR Response: Hi Bill, Maryland does not stock Brook Trout anywhere within our state, and our native Brook Trout have been extirpated in the Antietam Creek mainstem in Maryland. However within the Antietam watershed upstream in Pennsylvania, the PA Fish Commission does stock many hatchery reared Brook Trout of this size and this is likely where this fish came from, and from its appearance it is indicative of a hatchery trout. Regardless it is a great catch!
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Weekend Trout Fishing
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Region: Central
Location: Morgan Run and Little Falls
Finally, after our long cold winter, we had some perfect fishing days this week. I got out to Morgan Run on Saturday, April 5th, where I caught and released a Rainbow Trout and a Brown Trout with spinners. Then at Little Falls on Sunday, April 6th, I managed this small but chunky Rainbow Trout on a piece of nightcrawler. Thanks DNR for all the stockings you did during all the rough weather!
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Best Part of Trout Fishing is Teaching Others
Type: Freshwater
Region: Central
Location: Jones Falls
Each season, I invite new fishermen to try trout fishing. David Diggs landed this 15 inch rainbow at Jones Falls and on opening day, Jesse Lowers caught his first trout of the year. His 16 inch Golden Rainbow Trout was a great beginning to a new season.The best part of fishing is showing others how to enjoy something that is so much fun!
I also use the name "Montana Grant", which is my freelance writing name. My blog is montanagrantfishing.com, check it out for current stories, tips, and ideas on how to enjoy the outdoors .
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Fun Fishing with Friends
Type: Freshwater
Region: Western
Location: Little Antietam Creek Youth and Blind
Matthew Bishop, age 11 in the white shirt and younger brother Ryan, age 4, blue and white shirt went fishing on 4/2/2014 at Kids Stream with friends Andrew Dudley, age 12, black shirt and Sayge Dudley, age 9, grey shirt. They caught a bunch of Rainbow Trout. This was also the first fish caught for Andrew and Sayge.
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If you are Costume designer that doesn't make costumes for "the heaving bosoms" and "swinging petticoats" variety, it may be hard to get recognized.
Period and Fantasy costumes get nominated every year for every major Award. Fashionista.com have their fingers crossed for some of these contemporary shows. You can head there for their full wishlist.
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Ramli Burger Special is a famous Malaysian street food. Ramli is the brand name of the burger patty and its a household name in Malaysia and now probably Singapore. Burger special in Malaysian term means wrapping the meat patty with egg. It requires skillful technique to wrap the patty wholely with an egg. Burger special also sometimes added with Worchester sauce, black pepper sauce and pepper. Burger special is usually available at burger stalls in front of 7 Eleven stores in Malaysia.
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A Hero Retires
March 08 2008 11:56AM
(Hit play, turn it up then read.)
Brett Favre has decided to hang 'em up after a 16-year career that will be judged among the greatest in NFL history.
Numbers game
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March 07 2008 07:52PM
"Sorry, kid, No. 99 isn't available. And don't even ask about 11, 17, 7, 3 or 31. You'll take this one and you'll like it..."
Straight from Columbus: Peckham draws in
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March 07 2008 11:13AM
Fans will get a look at the future tonight when defenceman Theo Peckham draws into the line-up against the Columbus Blue Jackets at Nationwide Arena.


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LEMIT is developing online training courses in environmental enforcement for state, local and tribal agencies across the country.
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In April, 2013, Sam Houston State University received a substantial grant from the Environmental Protection Agency to develop on-line training courses for members of the environmental enforcement community working at state, local and tribal agencies. The three year project will deliver web-based training from their page on the LEMIT website. For more information please click here.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – Nelida Montoya is tormented by the image of a faraway tomb on a lonely hillside in the South Atlantic, where instead of the name of her son, a gravestone reads "Argentine soldier known only to God."
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