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Berkeley Law Foundation
Phoenix Fellowship
List of Fellows
Post-Grad Fellowship
Current Fellow 2019-2020
Cory Hernandez, East Bay Community Law Center, Health & Welfare Unit
I will be working this summer to help low-income individuals obtain and maintain the benefits and resources that they need to survive, including but not limited to federal, state, and local-level programs. The Health & Welfare unit provides holistic legal services for free to low-income individuals in Alameda County, and provides additional services to those living with HIV/AIDS.
Shane Young, California's Office of the State Public Defender
California's Office of the State Public Defender (OSPD) represents inmates on death row in their direct appeals and habeas corpus proceedings. As a summer intern I will assist attorneys with legal research and appellate briefing. I am extremely grateful for the generous grant provided by the Berkeley Law Foundation, which has made it possible to continue helping those facing death, while living in the most expensive place in America.
Michelle Cafarelli – Tenants Together
I will be working to improve housing conditions for tenants by assisting the legal department to develop and research impact litigation. Some of the work I will be doing may include, performing legal research, interviewing clients for potential litigation, writing memos on legal issues affecting tenants in California, drafting declarations, letters to landlords, and potential briefs for cases, and counseling tenants by phone about their rights.
Myriam Denis – Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development
This summer, I will be working as a law clerk for Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development, a DC-based NGO working to improve environment protection in the US and abroad. I will be assisting environment law attorneys by doing legal research on various environment topics, both in the US and abroad, and preparing briefs on those issues.
Shanita Farris – East Bay Community Law Center:
Youth Defender Clinic
The Youth Defender Clinic (YDC) represents young people involved in the juvenile justice system in Alameda County. The mission of YDC is to stop the school-to-prison pipeline on an individual, institutional, and community level by addressing both the causes and consequences of court involvement. YDC does this by providing holistic defense representation, which includes representing young people in delinquency proceedings as well as in related civil proceedings that are deeply intertwined with the delinquency case, such as school expulsion, special education, housing, immigration, criminal record sealing and benefits proceedings. By connecting YDC clients with the multiple civil legal services already offered at EBCLC, YDC offers young people access to many services under one roof.
Carolina Garcia – East Bay Community Law Center
Carolina Garcia will be working in the East Bay Community Law Center's HIV and Medical Legal Partnership Project this summer. As a summer intern, she will help provide a variety of legal services to low-income HIV-positive clients and to low income families referred to the Center by medical providers at Children's Hospital Oakland.
DeShon Jones – Alameda County Public Defender's Office
I will be assisting clients through either the Clean Slate, Juvenile, or Civil Commitment departments of the office. I will work with attorneys in providing criminal defense-related services which may include helping to get records expunged, making sure the juveniles cases are up to date and that they are aware of the status of their cases, or assisting clients throughout the civil commitment process, depending on which branch I am assigned to work in.
Judah Lakin – Dolores Street Community Services
Dolores Street Community Services provides pro bono legal defense for San Francisco residents facing imminent deportation from the United States. In 2011, the Deportation Defense program provided direct legal representation for more than 87 individuals in removal proceedings, including those apprehended during egregious immigration raids, or caught up by the notorious program known as "Secure Communities". Many of the cases are highly complex, involve novel legal issues, and provide a vehicle to challenge unfair and unconstitutional practices committed by agents from Immigration & Customs Enforcement. I will be assisting the team of three attorneys in all matters.
Laura MacInnis- East Bay Children's Law Offices
Laura will be working in the representation of children and teens in dependency and delinquency proceedings.
Lindsay Markel – Orleans Public Defenders
This summer I'll be a law clerk with the Orleans Public Defenders, which provides client-centered legal representation in Orleans parish's criminal and juvenile justice systems. OPD represents 80% of people with legal cases in the parish. I'll be assisting OPD attorneys in all aspects of criminal litigation including performing legal research, conducting factual investigation, drafting memoranda and motions, analyzing discovery materials, and preparing briefs.
Matthew Ohlheiser – Youth Law Center
I will be working at the Youth Law Center in San Francisco this summer. The Youth Law Center's work focuses on working to protect children in the juvenile, welfare, and foster care systems. They use a variety of methods to make change – litigation, education, community efforts, and collaboration with other organizations – in order to target the rights of individual children involved in the various systems. The YLC is also working to bring about change by monitoring and acting on juvenile facility conditions and promoting sentencing alternatives in California and nationally. Summer interns work on legal research and writing projects and help with research and implementation of community outreach and advocacy through a variety of means.
Benjamin Sinoff – Los Angeles Public Defender's Office
Benjamin Sinoff will be working with the Los Angeles Office of the Public Defender. The Los Angeles Public Defender's Office is largest provider of criminal defense to indigent clients in America. The Public Defender's office makes certain that all of their client's rights are preserved and that everyone charged with a crime is treated with respect and dignity. Here Ben will assist practicing public defenders in a variety of ways, primarily through legal research and writing.
Laura Smith – Public Interest Law Center or Philadelphia
PILCOP works to improve the well being of Philadelphia's most vulnerable residents through high-impact legal strategies and direct services. As an intern, Laura will assist PILCOP attorneys working to end disability discrimination in employment and education.
Bronwen Tomb – Contra Costa County Public Defender
The Contra Costa County Public Defender provides legal representation to indigent defendants in adult criminal cases charging felony or misdemeanor offenses, juvenile delinquency cases family law contempt matters, and Lanterman Petris Short (LPS) mental health commitment cases. The office also provides Clean Slate services to expunge criminal convictions and assistance with pardons for felony offenses.
Scott Wallace – Office of the Federal Public Defender for the Northern District of California
I will be spending my summer in San Francisco at the Office of the Federal Public Defender, which represents indigent clients charged with federal offenses in the Northern District of California. As a summer law clerk, I will conduct research and writing; assist in case investigation and trial preparation; and provide direct representation to clients with cases on the petty offense docket in federal court.
Caitlin York – Public Defender Service of the District of Columbia
Benjamin Asch
Benjamin Asch worked at Legal Aid of Marin, an organization that provides low-income, elderly, or otherwise underserved residents of Marin County, CA with foreclosure defense, employment discrimination claims, and consumer fraud complaints.
Christina Najarro
Cristina worked as an intern at Equal Justice Initiative, a nonprofit criminal defense and prisoner rights organization in Montgomery, Alabama. She worked on indigent defense and death penalty cases, as well as sentencing and prison reform throughout the country.
Elise O'Dea
At Environmental Defense Center (EDC), I will be conducting legal research and possibly writing memoranda and other briefs to aid EDC staff with their program work. EDC is a nonprofit, public interest environmental law firm dedicated to protecting the central coast environment through education, advocacy and legal action. EDC also provides legal counsel to other nonprofit organizations.
Grant Huebner
Grant Huebner worked at the East Bay Community Law Center in the Health Practice. Through his work, he helped to address a spectrum of health related legal needs of low-income individuals and families through holistic legal services that target the underpinnings of poor health, poverty, and minimal access to health care. In particular, Grant chose EBCLC in order to work on the HIV/AIDS Law Project – in part to pay homage to his deceased uncle, a former Bay Area lawyer who died from AIDS.
Jared Mayberry
I am proud to be working for the East Bay Community Law Center, where I will provide support for low-income individuals in the Bay Area. I am excited to be working with experienced attorneys, who give these individuals a voice in the justice system.
Judah Lakin
Judah Lakin will serve as a law clerk with the Bronx Defenders, a 501(c)(3) that provides public defense to indigent clients in the Bronx. The Bronx Defenders provide their clients with holistic defense, offering services that address all of the client's needs in both civil and criminal matters as non-legal issues. In addition, the Bronx Defenders advocates for individualized and comprehensive alternatives to incarceration for their clients. As a law clerk, I will be assisting attorneys with their caseloads, hopefully with an emphasis on cases that involve both immigration and criminal matters.
Kara Alba
Kara Alba worked at Centro Legal de la Raza in the Fruitvale District of Oakland. Kara worked in the Immigration Project and provided direct legal services to individuals seeking assistance with family-based immigration, permanent residency, citizenship and naturalization, asylum, deportation and removal defense, DACA, U-Visa, and Violence Against Women Act self petitions. Through this work, she was able to help clients access holistic immigration services on a long-term pathway to citizenship, and assist survivors of violence to obtain immigration relief.
Katharine Fisher
I will be participating in the Clean Slate Practice Group. I will:provide direct legal services to help individuals clean up their criminal records and will participate in litigation against background check companies that have proyided the clients erroneous records. Through this work, the clients will be able to overcome barriers to employment, housing, education, and civic participation.
Katie Warren
I will be working at the Legal Resources Centre, a human rights organization in South Africa that provides legal services for the vulnerable and marginalized, including the poor, homeless, and landless people and communities of South Africa who suffer discrimination by reason of race, class, gender, disability or by reason of social, economic, and historical circumstances. I will be based in the LRC's Cape Town office, and will be working primarily on cases relating to the realization of LRC clients' socio-economic rights.
Laura Iris Mattes
This summer I will be working with the Health and Human Rights Division of Human Rights Watch. I will primarily be assisting with completing the research phase of a project documenting the human rights abuses which impede HIV prevention, treatment ,and care efforts for marginalized people in the United States and the Caribbean. Furthermore, I will be assist in the writing of a formal report regarding these findings. Additionally, I will be helping write advocacy pieces regarding various health and human rights issues including obstacles to care of abused and displaced women, torture, and ill-treatment in health care settings.
Laura MacInnis
This summer I will be working for Bay Area Legal Aid in the Domestic Violence Prevention Unit in Oakland. I will be working with clients, drafting pleadings, attending court hearings, writing memos, etc. I will be working for 10 weeks this summer (40 hours/week) and will continue my work in a Field Placement Program in the fall for about 16 hours/week. The DV prevention unit aims to help low-income clients who have been victims of domestic violence and who need legal assistance.
Lauren Hudson
This summer I will be interning at the Center for Biological Diversity. The Center is a non-profit environmental organization that uses science, law, and media to protect species at risk of extinction. I will be researching and writing about legal issues related to environmental protection.
Lelia Gomez
This summer I look forward to building on my previous immigrant workers' rights experiences by working for the Legal Aid Society-Employment Law Center (LAS-ELC). The LAS-ELC is a non-profit organization dedicated to vindicating the rights of low-wage workers who are subjected to unlawful work-place violations. As a member of the National Origin, Immigration, and Language Rights Program my ten-week, full-time, summer clerkship will focus on representing immigrant workers who have suffered employment discrimination on the basis of their national origin, immigrant status, and or language skills. A large proportion of the clients that I will serve this summer will consist of low-income, low-wage, Latino immigrant workers. With the help Berkeley Law Foundation, I will be able to continue to pursue my passion of assisting and advocating for the needs of marginalized Latino immigrant communities and ensure that they have access to legal justice.
Lindsay Markel
This summer I will be a clerk with the Louisiana Capital Assistance Center (LCAC) in New Orleans, Louisiana. The LCAC is a 501(c)(3) non-profit law office that provides legal representation to people facing the death penalty in Louisiana and other parts of the American South. The organization focuses on trial level representation of death-eligible defendants and on working with indigent defenders to improve quality and resources for poor people facing capital punishment. The LCAC focuses on client-centered representation, seeks to develop new and innovative advocacy strategies, and also pursues systematic litigation. The organization focuses on the following issues: increasing resources and support for capitally-sentenced inmates' motions for new trial; the use of race in prosecutorial peremptory strikes of jurors; advocating for and protecting mentally ill capital defendants; potential violations of Atkins v. Virginia; and providing humanitarian support for capital defendants and their families.
Luisa Tamez
This summer Luisa Tamez will be working with the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF). MALDEF is the nation's leading Latino civil rights organization. MALDEF currently focuses its impact litigation efforts in the areas of education, employment, immigrants' rights, and political access. Luisa will be supporting these projects by providing litigation support to the regional counsel and staff attorneys,attending court hearings, and assessing legislation and public policy initiatives.
Mariel Bird
Mariel Bird worked with the Judges Chambers at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, where she assisted in the trial of individuals accused of crimes against humanity and violations of the laws or customs of war.
Meghan Harrington
Meghan Harrington worked at the East Bay Community Law Center, the largest provider of free legal services in the East Bay. She worked the Health Practice providing legal services to low-income HIV positive clients and 4patients at the Oakland Children's Hospital.
Nabanita Pal
Neeta worked with the Urban Justice Center's Community Development Project (CDP). CDP attorneys partner with community groups serving and organizing low-income tenants and workers in New York City to provide litigation support to their grassroots campaigns. Neeta feels lucky to have seen thoughtful community lawyering in action.
Rebecca Popuch
Rebecca worked during the summer of 2013 with Public Counsel, the nation's largest pro bono law firm, in Los Angeles, CA. She assisted Public Counsel's Immigrants' Rights Project, which provides legal representation for individuals who qualify for forms of immigration relief including asylum, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, U visa, and VAWA, provides services to clients in immigration detention, and advocates for more just and humane immigration policy at the local and national level.
Shira Tevah
I will be working at a trial-level capital defender office in Jackson, MS. My work will depend on the cases that the office has at the time. It is likely to consist of visiting clients in jail, doing mitigation research and interviews in clients' former communities, and doing legal research and writing.
Theresa Chang
Supported by Therapeutics Research, Education, and AIDS Training in Asia (TREAT Asia), I will conduct exploratory assessments of the practice of forced abortions and sterilizations of HIV-positive women in Thailand. A 2004 study found that 55 percent of HIV-positive pregnant women were involuntarily sterilized within six weeks of delivery. Recent accounts from physicians confirm that the practice is still common. Throughout the entire summer, I will examine the current international and domestic legal frameworks protecting women's reproductive health rights. Once in country, I will analyze the local political landscape, identifying platforms for the promotion of this human rights issue. After five months of field research over summer and fall, I will devise concrete, country-specific policy and advocacy recommendations. I hope to develop a framework, based on international and comparative law models, for how TREAT Asia and its allies might sustainably pursue policy intervention to stop the sexual coercion of HIV-positive women.
Katherine Adamides
Katherine Adamides worked as a fellow for Accountability Counsel, a non-profit organization that supports communities harmed by corporate and development bank projects by assisting their citizen complaints to hold these entities accountable for human rights and environmental harm. Katie helped advocate for independent, fair, transparent, accessible and effective accountability mechanisms and creation of new complaint systems so that banks, corporations and institutions are held to the norms and standards to which they have agreed.
Kara Alba worked at the KIPP Foundation, a nonprofit that recruits, trains and supports outstanding leaders to open and sustain a national network of 109 free, locally-run college-preparatory charter schools in high-need communities serving more than 33,000 students in 21 states. Kara interned with the General Counsel and focused on nonprofit governance and incorporation, licensing, trademarks and nonprofit franchise, contracts and triage legal support for local boards and schools.
Rachel Berkness
Rachel worked at the East Bay Community Law Center in the Neighborhood Justice Clinic pursuing work in consumer protection.
Anna Christensen served as an Ella Baker Intern with the Center for Constitutional Rights, working with some of CCR's partner organizations in New Orleans. There, she contributed to litigation and advocacy on issues including racial and economic justice, the right to adequate housing, and other areas in which the rights of New Orleans' communities are often implicated. She also worked closely with CCR's New York headquarters, addressing issues which include international human rights and national security policies.
Sean Darling-Hammond
Sean Darling-Hammond was proud to have worked with Public Advocates, where he strove to protect the education rights of vulnerable families throughout California.
Rebekah DeHaven
Rebekah worked at the Youth Law Center in San Francisco. She worked on issues of abuse in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems nationwide. She assisted in the development of best practices materials and in research for impact litigation to promote greater accountability within child welfare and juvenile justice institutions.
Lelia M. Gomez
Lelia Gomez worked at the Centro de los Derechos del Migrante in Mexico City. As a legal intern Lelia worked with a team of attorneys to represent migrant workers in Mexico-US labor violation cases. She also conducted know-your-rights labor workshops, as well as researched US guestworker policies.
Shana Heller
Shana Heller worked at the East Bay Community Law Center, the largest provider of free legal services in the East Bay and a nationally-recognized poverty law clinic. Shana worked in the Clean Slate Practice group and provided direct legal services to help individuals clean up their criminal records. Through this work, she was able to help clients overcome barriers to employment, housing, education, and civic participation.
Saira Hussain
Saira Hussain worked as a law clerk at Disability Rights Advocates in Berkeley, helping to secure the civil rights of people with disabilities. She spent her summer advocating for the rights of disabled people through high-impact litigation in several areas of life, including access to technology, education, and employment.
Michelle Iorio
Michelle Iorio served as a law clerk with the Bronx Defenders in their Criminal Defense Practice. The Bronx Defenders advocate for individualized and comprehensive alternatives to incarceration for their clients. The Bronx Defenders provide their clients with a holistic defense, offering services that address all of the client's needs, not just their legal ones. As a law clerk, Michelle assisted two attorneys with their criminal defense caseload.
Cory Isaacson
Cory spent the summer as a law clerk at the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta. Her work there focused on defending people facing the death penalty and on litigation challenging prison and jail conditions and inadequate public defense in Georgia.
Rachel Jamison
Rachel worked with AdvocAid, an organization in Freetown, Sierra Leone which provides legal representation and legal education to incarcerated women. She assisted AdvocAid's lawyers in appellate advocacy for domestic violence survivors incarcerated for injuring or killing their abuser. She also trained AdvocAid's paralegals on legal principles and human rights norms, including staff working in remote areas of the country. Rachel also assisted in establishing legal education programs for women in prisons to better learn their rights and assist them in successfully advocating for themselves.
Deep Jodhka
Deep worked for the National Employment Law Project in Oakland. As a law clerk, she worked to reduce unfair employment barriers for workers with criminal records and help these workers preserve their employment opportunities.
Aliya Ali Khan
Aliya worked as a graduate student researcher at the Warren Institute of Race, Ethnicity and Diversity, a think tank that specializes in public policy and is affiliated with the law school. She was assigned to two criminal justice projects, one on the juvenile justice system and another on victim witness advocacy.
Michelle Kim worked as a law clerk at Communities For A Better Environment. During her time at CBE she worked to achieve environmental health and justice by building grassroots power in and with communities of color and working-class communities. She particularly spent time researching, and drafting legal memoranda on topics related to environmental justice as well as representing and advocating on behalf of CBE at local agency hearings and meetings.
Shevon Lewis
Shevon Lewis worked with the Southern Center for Human Rights, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit law firm dedicated to protecting the civil and human rights of those in the criminal justice system in the South. Shevon assisted in providing legal representation to indigent defendants and death row inmates, documented human rights abuses in prisons, and advocated for criminal justice reform in Georgia and Alabama.
Peggy Li
Peggy Li worked at The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, which seeks to advance, protect and promote the rights of communities of color, immigrants and refugees, with a special focus on low income communities and the African American community. Peggy worked specifically on the racial justice docket and on education.
Maria Garrett de Lievano
Maria de Lievano worked as a law clerk in the family law division of Bay Area Legal Aid, Oakland. Her work focused on domestic violence and sexual assault, divorce, child custody disputes, spousal support and restraining orders. She also worked extensively on U-Visas.Her responsibilities consisted of a variety of legal research and writing, client care, and litigation assistance. Maria conducted client interviews and initial case assessments, obtained discovery and other evidence, prepared clients for trial, assisted her supervising attorney during trial, wrote briefs and other legal memoranda, drafted client declarations, and assisted self represented litigants as they prepared to take their case to trial.
Paul Meyer
Paul Meyer worked for CADHAC, a Monterrey, Mexico based NGO, documenting human rights abuses in the country's drug war and advocating for judicial reforms.
Emily Puhl
Emily Puhl interned at Tenants Together, a statewide tenants' rights organization based in San Francisco. She used her experience with Centro Legal de la Raza's Tenants' Rights Clinic to expand housing legal services to Spanish-speaking communities throughout the state. She also worked with attorneys to prepare for litigation about habitability issues in urban and rural communities. Finally, she assisted organizers and policy promoters with establishing local Just Cause ordinances in California. Emily worked with immigrant communities, low-income families, and communities of color in urban and rural areas of the state, primarily by providing legal advice and other legal support to renting families that called the organization's foreclosure hotline for assistance with landlord foreclosures.
Rebecca Popuch worked this summer with Kids In Need of Defense-Los Angeles, serving a population of unaccompanied children who have removal (deportation) cases pending. Because immigration law is administrative, although the removal proceedings resemble criminal proceedings in a number of ways, there is no right to counsel for indigent defendants. Thus, children are expected to represent themselves in these proceedings—a task that is challenging even for an experienced attorney. The goal of Kids In Need of Defense is to screen children to find those who have a legal means of remaining in the U.S., and to represent or find pro bono counsel for as many of those children as possible. The majority of children for whom immigration remedies are available are those who have been the victims of family violence, as well as some who have been victims of violent crimes that took place in the U.S. or who fear persecution by their governments. With KIND-LA, Rebecca worked to screen children for relief and aid in their placement with a pro bono attorney to represent them in immigration.
Marissa Ram
Marissa Ram worked with the Brennan Center for Justice, a non-partisan public policy and law institute at New York University School of Law, that focuses on the fundamental issues of democracy and justice. The Brennan Center's Liberty and National Security Program fights for the preservation of constitutional values in the post-9/11 world. Marissa assisted with impact litigation, public policy recommendations, and public advocacy in order to ensure that the commitment to national security comported with the rule of law and fundamental freedoms. Relevant issues included government transparency and accountability; domestic counterterrorism policies and their effects on privacy and First Amendment freedoms; detainee policy, including the detention, interrogation, and trial of terrorist suspects; and the need to safeguard the US system of checks and balances.
Habiba Simjee
Habiba worked at Casa Cornelia Law Center with the Children's Program. Casa Cornelia is committed to serving the indigent immigrant community in San Diego. Habiba provided legal aid for unaccompanied children apprehended by Border Patrol.
Ioana Tchoukleva
Ioana spent her summer working on a number of social justice projects with National Lawyers Guild attorneys in the Bay Area. She drafted briefs, conducted research, helped formulate creative legal strategies for cases dealing with gang injunctions in Oakland, discriminatory police tactics and intimidation, criminal charges and "stay away" orders against Occupy activists. She also helped run a community-based legal support network for activists. Most of her time she spent working on a joint effort with the Center for Constitutional Rights to pursue litigation against the California Department of Corrections based on cruel and unusual treatment of inmates in the Secure Housing Unit at Pelican Bay State Prison.
Eve Weissman
Eve worked as a Legal Intern at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, a non-partisan public policy and law institute that focuses on the fundamental issues of democracy and justice. Eve worked in the Brennan Center's Democracy Program, which seeks to change the ways in which citizens participate in their government by fixing the systems that discourage voting, hinder competition, and promote the interests of the few over the rights of the many. Eve advanced the Center's litigation efforts through legal research and policy analysis on issues related to voting rights and redistricting. Eve also engaged in media outreach, public education, and assisted with legislative advocacy regarding state laws infringing the right to vote. Eve enjoyed working with the Brennan Center which combines scholarship, legislative and legal advocacy, and communications to help win meaningful, measurable change in the public sector.
Micah West
Micah West worked for The Bronx Defenders as an intern in the criminal defense practice. The Bronx Defenders provides holistic criminal defense to residents in the Bronx by addressing the causes and consequences of involvement in the criminal justice system.
Briana Abrams
Briana Abrams worked as a law clerk at Legal Advocates for Children and Youth, an office at the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley. Briana advocated for the rights of children in guardianship, dependency, and teen parenting proceedings. Briana drafted briefs to the court, researched novel legal issues, participated in court hearings, interviewed clients, made home visits, and collaborated with other individuals and offices working to help children in Silicon Valley.
Michelle Baik
At the Asian Pacific American Legal Center, Michelle Baik worked as the sole intern for the immigration unit. She did a variety of work that included both legal research and writing, as well as policy work. She wrote numerous letters of opposition or support for Federal and State programs and bills on behalf of APALC, did outreach to other organizations in California and nationwide to gain support for APALC's work, worked on individual client's cases by doing legal research and writing up memorandums to her supervising attorney, went to immigration clinics to help people fill out their naturalization forms, and in the last few weeks of her internship, she worked on a series of policy briefs on current issues in immigration, such as the DREAM Act.
Audrey Barron
Audrey Barron worked for Advocates for Children of New York. She spent her summer advocating for low-income children with disabilities in the New York City public school system. She helped several child clients win desperately needed services and proper school placements.
Colleen Bazdarich
Colleen Bazdarich worked for the California Appellate Project, a non-profit established by the State Bar to assist counsel of indigent persons facing the death penalty. Working within CAP's UCIP (Unrepresented Condemned Inmate Project) team, she collected records and researched the cases of two condemned inmates who have yet to receive Habeas counsel. Her assignment also included a number of visits to San Quentin Prison and the Central California Women's Facility at Chowchilla to interview the clients.
Hilda Chan
Hilda Chan worked at the Supportive Parents Information Network (SPIN), an all-volunteer grassroots organization of very low-income families on public assistance. SPIN fights for pathways to self-sufficiency by combining direct legal services, policy advocacy, and organizing to bring community voices to the public dialogue. Hilda focused on cases in which domestic violence impeded families' efforts to escape poverty.
Margaret Chen
Margaret Chen worked with the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project in New York. As a summer fellow, she worked on litigation challenging the detention and deportation of a Hispanic U.S. citizen with mental disabilities. She also analyzed potential Fourth Amendment violations in an immigration home raid.
Rachel DiNardo
Rachel DiNardo worked at the National Center for Youth Law.
Erin Everett
Erin Everett served as a Legal Intern for the Housing Unit of Bay Area Legal Aid in Richmond, California. As a 2011 summer intern, she spent time researching and drafting legal memorandum on various housing law issues. In addition, she worked directly with clients to help fight unlawful evictions.
Michael Fairhurst
Michael Fairhurst was a legal intern at the ACLU of Northern California this summer, and wrote memos on subjects ranging from the Establishment Clause to the rights of immigrants in immigration court to California drug policy. In addition, he participated in a limited amount of individual complaint resolution and fact investigation.
Jolene Forman
Jolene Forman interned as a policy intern in the Police Practices group at the ACLU of Northern California. She advocated for counties across California to implement alternatives to incarceration in response to the prison overcrowding Supreme Court decision and state prisoner realignment legislation. She also conducted legal and policy research on front-end sentencing reform, drug policy, and pre-booking diversion programs.
Jonathan Guss
As a Summer Law Clerk at DNA-People's Legal Services, Inc., Jon Guss did client intakes, drafted complaints, motions, and briefs, and even represented clients when he was allowed to do so. DNA is the only organization providing free legal services to low-income clients on the Navajo Nation. DNA is dedicated to helping families break the cycle of poverty, preventing domestic abuse, protecting the rights of particularly vulnerable populations, and promoting tribal sovereignty.
Coreen Kopper
Coreen Kopper worked as a law clerk at the Legal Aid Society – Employment Law Center in San Francisco helping low-wage workers with employment claims. She worked with the Community Legal Services program, representing workers in a wide variety of contexts, including at unemployment insurance hearings and at hearings before the Labor Commissioner.
Peggy Li worked at Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach, where she provided direct legal representation and culturally competent legal services to marginalized members of the San Francisco Bay Area community, specifically, the API community. She worked primarily in Elder Law, and Wills and Estates. She also worked in Trafficking Law and Immigration Law.
Christopher Lau
Christopher Lau interned at the Texas Defender Service (TDS). TDS works to improve the quality of representation afforded to those facing a death sentence and to expose and eradicate the systemic flaws plaguing the Texas death penalty. As an intern, he helped draft motions on intellectual disability, investigated ineffectiveness claims, and conducted mitigation interviews.
Molly Leiwant
Molly Leiwant worked at the ACLU ReproductiveFreedom Project in New York. As a legalintern, she worked on impact litigation related to constitutional challenges tostate laws restricting reproductive rights. RFP's work includes advocacy and legal challenges on issues of limits onabortion, shackling of pregnant women in prison, parental notification andconsent, and crisis pregnancy centers.
Shevon Lewis worked at Texas RioGrande Legal Aid- El Paso Office giving direct client services in the areas of housing, employment and labor, immigration, human trafficking, family, and property law. The most memorable event was when she successfully represented a client in an eviction hearing.
Anne Mooney
Anne Mooney worked last summer at Disability Rights Advocates, a nonprofit legal center dedicated to securing the civil rights of people with disabilities. Anne assisted attorneys in advocating for disability rights through high impact litigation.
Francis Nugent
Francis Nugent worked on class action impact litigation and policy research with the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, a nonprofit organization devoted to improving the lives of people with mental illnesses. He worked primarily on a class action suit brought against a school district for a failure to provide a free and appropriate education to students with emotional disturbances.
Casey Schutte
Casey Schutte interned at Legal Services for Children (LSC) in San Francisco, California. LSC provides free legal representation and social work services to children and youth in the Bay Area. As a legal intern, Casey worked on legal guardianship, immigration, and foster care cases.
Gina Szeto
As a law clerk at the Asian Law Caucus I counseled low-wage workers on a broad range of employment problems, including employment discrimination, harassment, retaliation, workplace safety, unemployment and wage and hour issues. I also represented individual workers though the administrative wage claim process before the California Labor Commissioner, wrote demand letters, negotiated settlements with employers, represented workers at unemployment benefit appeal hearings, and participated in community hearings and meetings.
Eve Weissman worked at the Berkeley Center for Health, Economic and Family Security (CHEFS) towards the development of a national policy proposal for Paid Family Leave Insurance. Similar to paid family leave programs in California and New Jersey, this federal program would provide partial wage replacement to individuals across the country who take time off from work to bond with a newborn or newly adopted child or to provide needed care to an ill family member. Eve interviewed policymakers and advocates in New Jersey, California, and Washington, DC and helped identify and address key issues in forthcoming legislation through legal research and policy analysis.
Ary Amerikaner
Ary Amerikaner worked on a brand new suit against the State of California for its failures to transform the inequitable, ineffective, and insufficient public education system – particularly its school financing scheme. She interviewed plaintiffs, drafted declarations, and helped with other education related policy advocacy.
Erin Armstrong worked with the SW Women's Law Center (SWLC) in Albuquerque, New Mexico. As a summer fellow, Erin divided her time between research relating to reproductive health benefits under the state Medicaid program and the effects of federal health reform and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on access to reproductive health care for women in New Mexico.
Jonathan Baum
Jonathan Baum worked on impact litigation, advocacy, and public outreach to protect the constitutional rights of immigrants at the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project in San Francisco. He focused on cases ensuring judicial review of administrative decisions, challenging prolonged detention of immigrants during removal proceedings, and combating local enforcement of immigration laws.
Carmen Comsti
As a legal intern at the Legal Aid Association of California ("LAAC"), Carmen Comsti advocated for legal services to the California legislature and courts, where she was building her legal research and advocacy skills when working on state legal service budgeting issues and amicus curiae briefs. LAAC was founded by California legal services programs as a statewide legal services organization to help programs collaborate on issues of mutual concern. LAAC provides training for legal services advocates for over 75 member organizations.
Michael Fairhurst was an Intern at the First Amendment Foundation in Tallahassee, Florida. The First Amendment Foundation seeks to protect and advance the public's constitutional right to open government by providing education and training, legal aid and information services. As an aspiring constitutional lawyer, Michael benefited from the wide-ranging research and outreach opportunities his internship provided.
Jolene Forman was working at Drug Policy Alliance Network's Office of Legal Affairs, located in Berkeley, CA. Her internship focused on legislative and initiative drafting at the state level on a range of drug policy reform issues; litigation and legal consulting to protect rights threatened by the drug war; and legal training at the local, state, national, and international levels.
Lily Harvey
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Upper Lymndale
The head waters of the River Lymn come together to form a sizeable stream about two kilometres west of Tetford. These original trickles run down from the surrounding hills that reach a height of 140 metres asl and meet at a height of just 60 metres asl. The dale quickly becomes broad as it opens out to the east but suddenly narrows again as it reaches the South Ormsby estate at 45 metres asl. The young river however chooses to flow southeast and enter a long tree filled ravine running generally north south just halfway along the upper dale.
Brogdale near the head waters of the River Lymn.
So why does it not continue to flow in the expected general easterly direction like most other streams in the Lincolnshire Wolds? The first clue to this is the height of the dale as it enters the South Ormsby estate because after the same distance the river is 8 metres lower as it enters Lower Lymndale just south of the village of Somersby.
What is also unusual about the upper dale is that there is only one settlement in the whole valley despite being 5 kilometres long and up to 2 kilometres wide and in an area where parishes are usually small and numerous. This is the large village of Tetford at the west end of the dale and includes the hamlet of Little London just north of Tetford church. Even the roads and farms in the dale avoid the valley floor, which is simply called the Moor but this bleak name hides an intriguing set of events which took place here thousands of years ago when the Wolds were a very different place.
When 20,000 years ago a large glacier from Scotland pushed right up against the Lincolnshire Wolds to a present day height of 100 metres asl it blocked all streams following east which were then forced to find new routes off the high ground. From a distance of seven kilometres north all waters were funnelled south through narrow valleys along the edge of the glacier cutting through a series of chalk ridges until the water spilled out into the wide valley of Upper Lymndale. These little valleys cut by the melt water are often called spillways.
Deepdale looking south towards Dog Hill.
During the summer when the volume was at its maximum most of this water would be from melting ice and full of sediment which the glacier had bulldozed ahead of it on its way south. During the last glacial maximum the volume of water would be more than the total amount of water flowing today from all the rivers of the Lincolnshire Wolds. Forced along the many spillways this mix of water and sediment had a scouring effect sufficient to erode down to a depth of twenty metres in just a number of years at Deepdale, just four kilometres north of Tetford. Further to the north remain many more similar dry narrow valleys aligned perpendicular to the normal west east drainage pattern of the Wolds all the way up to a few kilometres east of Caistor.
From Deepdale the melt water was funnelled along the valley of Ketsby beck until it found a point along Worlaby Rigg which was low enough to allow it to spill into Upper Lymndale. This point was at the western edge of the South Ormsby estate parkland but later as the ice slowly retreated it found several lower points along the ridge where it could escape making the ridge just north of South Ormsby quite fretted as can be seen from the Bluestone Heath Road.
The view over Oester Dale across the South Ormsby Estate.
When the melt water entered Upper Lymndale blocked by ice and a broad terminal moraine stretching right across the estate it slowed and spread across the broad dale. The view in the image taken from the top of Oester Dale looks across the whole estate and where the wooded park now stands during the last glacial maximum the head of the glacier would have been in roughly the same position but standing a lot higher. In fact it would have been pushing up against the chalk ridge in the background. The ridge is 100 metres asl and the glacier would have been almost as high. It would have completely filled the dale and forced meltwater to flow west and upstream causing it to spread across the broad valley as a shallow lake. This image was taken in early June and 20,000 years ago at this time of year the glacier would be melting rapidly along its edge so standing at this spot then not only would you have had a dramatic view of the glacier but you would have probably been able to hear the torrents of water rushing through Deepdale just to the north. The cattle in the middle distance would have more likely have been musk oxen or even mammoths!
On entering the broad dale the melt water slowed with the sediment suspended in the water settling out on to the floor of the dale. There was so much water and sediment that both spread right across the dale as a wide shallow lake. The water finally found a way to continue its journey through a gap in a sandstone ridge at Meridian gill close to modern day Tetford. The sediment on the other hand was mostly left behind and eventually built up to form a large area of sand and gravel up to a depth of ten metres. This has made the geology of the upper dale quite different from the lower dale. With the valley floor covered in layers of drift it is only really the chalk strata, which is left exposed with the many other types of strata that can be seen in the lower dale covered over.
This area is now known as the Moor and even today roads, houses and streams avoid it with one exception. The Romans built a road from Lincoln to the coast near Skegness that once crossed it. Even with the Roman's dedication to straight lines this was an odd route to choose when there was an easier route to the coast from Lincoln along the present day A158. Soon after the Roman legions left their road was abandoned. Only short sections continued in use by locals either side of Tetford. (See Bluestone Heath Road Blog.)
Upper Lymndale around the time of the last glacial maximum.
With a barrier of glacial clay further east at the end of the dale any rainfall on the Moor can only seep down through the sand and gravel and find its way underneath the glacial deposits until it is able to re-emerge some six kilometres further east at the tiny hamlet of Belleau. As its name implies this is the location of a copious spring of crystal clear water that rushes down into the nearby Great Eau finally allowing this modest beck to live up to its grand name. In medieval times this river soon became a significant enough to have a large motte and bailey built beside it at Toot Hill. At the time the Norman castle was built the river was probably navigable up to this point and where it reached the sea was the port of Saltfleet, which in its medieval heyday rivalled Grimsby and Wainfleet.
Yet despite this the Great Eau might have been greater if the upper reaches of the River Lymn had continued to flow east as they had done before the last ice age but then it would have also been a shorter river. This is because during the last interglacial the coastline encroached right up to the edge of the Wolds with all land that is now east of the high ground to the present coastline being made up of glacial or post glacial deposits.
Lower Lymndale.
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I probably have that many too!
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I totally agree. So cheap but great nourishment!
I was just inquiring about red lentils. I'm in the mood for my lentil soup recipe.


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#pragma once
#ifndef THRILL_COMMON_TIMED_COUNTER_HEADER
#define THRILL_COMMON_TIMED_COUNTER_HEADER

#include <algorithm>
#include <chrono>
#include <vector>

namespace thrill {
namespace common {

//! TimedCounter counts the number of \ref Trigger() invokes.
//! The time points of these invocations are stored.
class TimedCounter
{
public:
    using TimePoint = std::chrono::high_resolution_clock::time_point;

    // no copy ctor
    TimedCounter(const TimedCounter& that) = delete;
    // move is okay
    TimedCounter(TimedCounter&& rhs) {
        occurences_ = std::move(rhs.occurences_);
    }

    TimedCounter() { }

    //! Adds the occurences of another TimedCounter to this instance.
    //! Occurences will be sorted to be ascending
    TimedCounter& operator += (const TimedCounter& rhs) {
        for (auto& o : rhs.Occurences())
            occurences_.push_back(o);
        std::sort(occurences_.begin(), occurences_.end());
        return *this;
    }

    //! Adds occurences of two instances and sorts them ascending
    TimedCounter operator + (const TimedCounter& rhs) {
        TimedCounter t;
        t += rhs;
        t += *this;
        return t;
    }

    //! Registers a new Occurence on this TimedCounter
    void Trigger() {
        occurences_.push_back(timestamp());
    }

    //! Drops all Occurences of this timer.
    void Reset() {
        occurences_.clear();
    }

    //! Returns the number of Occurences on this timer
    size_t Count() const {
        return occurences_.size();
    }

    //! Returns the Occurences of this timer.
    std::vector<TimePoint> Occurences() const {
        return occurences_;
    }

private:
    inline TimePoint timestamp() {
        return std::chrono::high_resolution_clock::now();
    }

    std::vector<TimePoint> occurences_;
};

} // namespace common
} // namespace thrill

#endif // !THRILL_COMMON_TIMED_COUNTER_HEADER

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Ravens 14, Browns 6: Five observations
Here are five things that stood out in Baltimore's 14-6 win over Cleveland.
By Jason Butt Sep 15, 2013, 9:25pm EDT
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1) This pass rush will be good. Really good.
OK, we know the Browns don't have a good quarterback. The Browns, at least on Sunday, had an even worse offensive line. But that doesn't mean the Browns should have allowed Brandon Weeden to get knocked around like a punching bag. The Ravens sacked Weeden five times, hitting the second-year quarterback a bunch more too.
Terrell Suggs (1 sacks) and Elvis Dumervil (1 sack) were getting great jumps off the snap, applying the kind of needed outside pressure the Ravens were hoping for. Arthur Jones (1 sack), Daryl Smith (1.5 sacks) and Arthur Brown (0.5 sack) were also getting in the mix too.
2) Run defense is sharp
Again, the disclaimer: Cleveland's offensive line was horrible, especially on the right side where Oneil Cousins was working. But still, for the second consecutive week, Baltimore's run defense was on point. Even though the Ravens gave up 49 points a week ago, they wouldn't allow the Broncos to run the ball on them (and a week later Knowshon Moreno runs all over the Giants.) The run defense wouldn't cede any ground to Clevleland on Sunday.
Browns running back Trent Richardson was held to just 58 yards on 18 carries. Cleveland's a team that wants to establish the run behind a premier left tackle in Joe Thomas. The Ravens would not allow the Browns to become the aggressor in that facet of the game.
Daryl Smith had 11 tackles and Josh Bynes totaled eight.
3) Offense rewarded with patience
The Ravens looked lethargic and out of sync in the first half, getting just 122 yards of total offense. Ray Rice only had 13 yards on five carries and the receivers had some troubles catching the ball.
That changed some in the second half, with the Ravens wanting to establish the run a little bit more. Before Rice's hip injury, he had five carries for 23 yards. Backup Bernard Pierce ended the game with 57 yards on 19 carries. Keep in my mind the Browns have a fairly good front seven with the same mindset to stop the run.
Both of Baltimore's touchdowns came in the second half — the first on its first offensive possession. The second came on an eight-play drive that resulted in a five-yard score from Marlon Brown.
It was an ugly outing, mind you, and one that causes some concern. But the positive to be pointed out is that the Ravens never panicked. They didn't play well but they kept with the gameplan, given the defense was doing more than its part to secure the win.
4) Marlon Brown continues to impress
Flacco's beginning to look for Brown as you can tell the two already have developed a rapport with one another. Brown caught four passes for 45 yards and a touchdown. Brown had three touchdowns during the 2012 season as a senior at Georgia. He already has two touchdowns as an NFL rookie.
The Ravens need another option to step up. In the first half, Flacco could only rely on Smith in the passing game. At halftime, Smith had six catches for 62 yards. Brown was the only wide receiver to record a catch.
With options limited on offense, the Ravens will hope Brown's first two games will springboard him for the remainder of the season.
5) The Ravens won't be able to win like this
It's not 2000 anymore. Winning defensive slugfests 14-6 don't happen often. If the Ravens play like this on offense against teams such as Green Bay and Houston, they'll find themselves behind real quick.
The offensive line, which played a big part in Baltimore's ability to win a Super Bowl, has had two consecutive tough outings in a row. There aren't any viable backup options to tinker with either. The Ravens don't have the weapons on the outside to not need a running game. They desperately need to get Rice and Pierce going more so that the play-action passing game will open up.
The only games Baltimore could win like this on its schedule are against the Browns, Jets and Vikings. The offense needs to pick the pace up.
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Detailing the development and operational history of the Blohm and Voss Bv P.192 Dive Bomber Aircraft. Entry last updated on 6/28/2016. Authored by Staff Writer. Content ©www.MilitaryFactory.com.
The German concern of Blohm & Voss (also Blohm und Voss) is largely remembered for their commitment to shipbuilding and its large transports and flying boats servicing the German military during World War 2. However, the firm provided hundreds of experimental designs during the war of which many never proceeded beyond the paper stage. One such design initiative became the P.192, an intended ground attack / dive bomber to replace the aging and outmoded Junkers Ju 87 "Stuka" dive bomber series so critical to the war's early years.
The P.192 was a radical concept aircraft operated by a crew of one and powered by a single inline piston engine. The aircraft's overall design was rather futuristic considering the period of aviation history in question. Wings were long-spanning appendages fitted low on the fuselage at amidships in the usual way. However, they were given straight leading edges and a swept-forward trailing edge. Two small booms emanated from the leading wing edges and joined at either side of the forward-mounted cockpit. The pilot managed good views from under this bubble-style canopy and sat well-ahead of the wing assemblies. The tail unit incorporated a standard single vertical tail fin with high-mounted stabilizers. The undercarriage was to be of a tricycle arrangement utilizing a pair of single-wheeled main legs and a single-wheeled nose leg. The design sported a proposed wingspan of 42 feet, 8 inches and a running length of 38 feet, 5 inches.
The greatest departure from aviation norm was in the engine arrangement of the P.192. The engine compartment was fitted directly aft of the cockpit, ahead of amidships and powering a four-bladed propeller assembly. The engine was not configured in a "pusher" or "puller" arrangement in the true sense of those words but instead buried within the fuselage, the propeller blades protruding from the fuselage skin to enact against air flow. This is why the small booms were required at the wing leading edges, essentially to contain the cockpit ahead of the main wing appendages. On all other accounts, the P.192 was a largely conventional piston-powered aircraft.
The powerplant of choice was to have been the Daimler Benz DB 603G series inline piston engine. The DB 603 emerged from evaluations for production in May of 1942 and was used to power the likes of the Messerschmitt Me 410 fighter-bomber, Dornier Do 217 medium bomber / night fighter and the Heinkel He 219 night fighter - all of which utilized two of the engine type in their respective designs. Listed specifications for the 603G included a maximum output force of 1,874 horsepower.
Proposed armament was to be 2 x 20mm MG 151/20 cannons fitted to the small booms and a further 2 x 20mm MG 151/20 cannons in the nose assembly. For the dive bombing role, a single 1,100lb bomb would have been seated under the fuselage.


In 1981, Norbert Esch, Horst Kremer and Udo Lieser had an idea: it resulted in the foundation of ELK - a company where professionalism and know-how are just as important as having flat hierarchies and active employee participation.
Now, 35 years later, co-founder Udo Lieser is withdrawing from his role in the active business. Udo Lieser had already announced this move at an early stage, so, during the past few years, we had the opportunity to calmly focus upon a succession plan. In the past year, Axel Stamm, one of our long-standing employees, was appointed as an additional managing director. With the departure of Udo Lieser, Axel Stamm also takes on his new role as an ELK partner.
He will be supported in this position by our former Managing Director, Roland Habenicht, who hasn't been so active since last year. With his experience, however, he will continue to support ELK and oversee the transition within the ranks of management and he will make sure the transfer of knowledge to the next generation of engineers runs smoothly.
We are sure that with Axel Stamm "at the helm", he will lead the ELK in the spirit of the founders. We look forward to shaping the future together, which will be accompanied by many exciting challenges and even more good ideas.


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Clockwise from top left: Sommayeh Kargar, Shohreh Hosseini, Bahareh Soleimani, Afsaneh Azimzadeh, and Nazinin Mohammad Nejad
Continued detention of civil activists in Ward 209 of Evin Prison
Civil activists Nazanin Mohammad Nejad, Bahareh Soleimani, and Somayyeh Kargar continue to be detained in Ward 209 of Evin Prison. They have been arbitrarily arrested and are presently detained in limbo.
Nazanin Mohammad Nejad is a student of Russian language in Tehran's Allameh Tabatabaii University and one of the former student activists of Tehran University. 21 days after her arrest, she is still being detained in limbo. Forces of the IRGC Intelligence raided her home on December 8 and arrested this student activist. Her family have no information on her health condition.
More than 2.5 months after her arrest, Bahareh Soleimani is still detained in the Intelligence Ministry Ward 209 of Evin Prison without standing trial. Ms. Soleimani is a nurse. Her lungs are ill and she needs urgent medical treatment and medicines. She has declared that if she is not allowed access to a lawyer, she would go on hunger strike. Her parents have not been able to obtain any information on the reason for her arrest.
Ms. Soleimani's family hoped that she would be released on bail now that her interrogations have been completed. But her detention verdict has been extended for another month.
His brother, Touraj Soleimani declared that "she strongly protests her continued detention because there is no reason for it."
Somayyeh Kargar, a graduate student of philosophy from the University of Tabriz, has been detained in Ward 209 of Evin Prison for more than two months. The Kurdish detainee suffers from a rare eye disease and her eyesight has seriously weakened. She is deprived of access to medical treatment and access to her medication. Her family have been told that she is charged with internet crimes.
In the meantime, Evin Prison authorities continue to oppose the release on bail of Shohreh Hosseini, an interpreter and civil activist, who has been detained in Evin Prison since November 28.
Children's rights activist Afsaneh Azimzadeh has also been detained in solitary confinement since December 14, in one of the intelligence wards of Evin. She does not have access to a lawyer and is denied contact with her family.
An artist was arrested after being summoned to Evin Courthouse
Mehrnoush Songhori, an artist, was summoned to the Evin Prison Courthouse on December 23, but was readily arrested there. Ms. Songhori was born in 1980 and lives in Tehran. She has been setting up various exhibitions of her artwork in Tehran galleries over the past years.
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Before the competitive blood churns and the deep focus defines the U. S. Club Nationals baseball event, about 60 of the teams in the tournament took some time Tuesday to enjoy the sights and have some laughs at the Kickoff Celebration.
Held at The Battery entertainment complex just outside SunTrust Park, home of the Atlanta Braves, the Kickoff welcomed teams from 13 clubs across the country. Vendors and exhibits were perfect for teams and families to explore and challenge each other in good-natured competitions; teams were photographed on the first-base dugout inside SunTrust Park and were privy to free tours of the stadium.
YouTube sensation Domingo Ayala performed a 30-minute show that had his many fans laughing, and when the afternoon was done, hundreds of people descended onto the multiple restaurants in easy walking distance.
But soon enough, talk about the tournament was easy to hear. Teams compete for their age group titles, as is typical, but the event ultimately crowns the best club finish, using points earned from each age group to determine who was the deepest, strongest organization in the mix. Games begin Wednesday, with championship day set for Saturday.
"I think it's a great event; you've got 13 of the top organizations from around the country playing in this kind of a competitive setting," said Jay Andrews, CFO and office administrator for Georgia's own 6-4-3 DP Baseball. "A lot of people know this part of the country is known for youth baseball, and we get a lot of national events, but we feel great about the good games and good baseball coming this week.
"It is a great situation - we actually encourage it where, you have a 12-year-old team playing, but if the 9's at the other end aren't playing, they come into to dugout to cheer the 12s. We are big on that kind of camaraderie."
"It's a good tournament - we obviously wanted to come back and compete, as we came up a little short last year. The competition is always good," said Slammers (CO) general manager Bryant Asnicar. "This wraps our summer up; we spend about eight weeks on the road, and this is a good ending place for us to bring it together, close out the summer and move into the fall."
A few of these young athletes are veterans of the event, including 12-year-old Sean Benjamin of the Five Star Tigers (FL).
"It's a good atmosphere -- with all the other teams in the organization here, it's fun to watch them play and win," Benjamin said. "You play against some good teams and have a good time with the organization. You don't have a lot of tournaments like this, so it's a fun time to play together. There are a few good teams here who can play a little bit, so I'm ready to see how it goes."


robe, kimono. There you go!
Gus Portokalos: Kimono, kimono, kimono. Ha! Of course! Kimono is come from the Greek word himona, is mean winter. So, what do you wear in the wintertime to stay warm? A robe. You see: robe, kimono. There you go!


A: Aug 11-13. Welcome dinner the eve of the 11th, the conference is the 12th, leaving on the 13th.
A: You will receive the discount code after you complete your event registration in your confirmation email.
Q: Is there a discount if I go to Midwest Dreamin too?
A: No discount, but there will be extra swag for those that also attend #MWD17.
A: The Eaglewood Resort, outside of central Chicago, Illinois, USA.
A: The O'Hare International Airport is nearby and we hope to provide shuttles for the event during certain set times on Friday. Busses or shuttles will be provided from the hotel at Midwest Dreamin Friday afternoon for those that plan to join us, whether for all weekend or just for the dinner.
Q: When does early-bird registration end?
A: April 26th, or as soon as we've met our price-level capacity.
A: Early July, or as soon as we've met our event capacity.
A: No, that is made up of SFDC employees, this is community-led Women In Tech User Group leaders.
A: Yes, dinner on 8/11/17, as well as continental breakfast, boxed lunch, afternoon snack and happy hour on 8/12/17.
A: Yes, we will collect this information from registered attendees closer to the event.
A: We surveyed our 4k members & this is what the majority of respondents indicated: over the weekend either before or after another major community event.
A: Anything from Business Casual to your favorite Salesforce branded T-shirts & Hoodies. Do be sure to dress in layers, as we will have portions of time outdoors in summertime mixed with breakout sessions in full air-conditioning.
A: This is a global audience & planning team, for one, and the content focus is different. WITness Success will be focused solely on women's careers on the Salesforce ecosystem instead of "how to" Salesforce.
A: Not at this time for 2017. A call for speakers was live during the month of April as well as invitations sent out to our keynote speakers. Breakout sessions will be led by our WIT community members as well as Salesforce dignitaries.
A: The whole SFDC ecosystem that plans to be in Chicago that evening is invited, as well as #WITconf17 attendees. In fact, the Friday dinner is included in the cost of full registration for the event.
A: Use #WITConf17 on Twitter and in the Success Community!