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Client: Stevenson University
Location: Owings Mills, MD, United States
Completion date: 2014
Artwork budget: $205,000
Description: In a small grassy overlook between the gymnasium and stadium at Stevenson University, the commission was to create a dynamic sculpture of a mustang that integrated with the site while capturing the attention of all who pass by. Dimensions of sculpture 114″ x 48″ x 132″
A focal point was required at this barren site, because the overlook was built years ago with a future commissioned artwork in mind. Stevenson University's mascot is the Mustang, so the choice of subject was easy. The sculpture was designed to rear-up into the air, creating visual movement, and a strong diagonal: echoing the top line of the nearby stadium. Walter's work was chosen because of his dynamic and unique approach to surface - which gives a contemporary edge to classical forms.
The sculpture itself is designed as a symbol; an icon to embody the strength, speed, intelligence and adaptability of the wild Mustang. Bronze was chosen as the material of choice, in order to express a sense of everlasting permanence.
The collaboration between Bart Walter Studio, Baird Bailey of Alpha Landscaping, Gary Siegal of New Arts Foundry, and the staff of Stevenson University, was absolutely critical to this project. Each member lent their experience and expertise as appropriate. Egos were put on hold. The overriding goal was to create the best integrated artwork possible, and everyone seemed to realize the best way to accomplish that was to work together as a team.
Whenever possibilities or problems arose, consensus was sought before moving forward.
Whether it was at meetings on site, via email, or by phone, the lines of communication and cooperation remained open between team members: from inception through to installation and dedication of the space. By staging an elaborate dedication event to conclude the project, Stevenson University involved students, faculty, local dignitaries and the media, to formally give the sculpture and it's revamped overlook to the community at large.
In order to understand and communicate the core essence of wild Mustangs, Bart Walter traveled to, and was assisted by, over a dozen equine experts in MD, VA, WY, and MT. These men and women freely shared their knowledge, their time, and their expertise. It can not be overstated: teamwork and collaboration defined this project from beginning to end.


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Filed under: Beckett Media, NFL | Tags: football, NFL Card Show, NFL Experience, Super Bowl, Super Bowl XLIV
The NFL has decided to cancel the NFL Experience and Card Show for Super Bowl XLIV in South Florida, according to an official with the league.
The league plans for the events to return in some fashion in 2011 when the Super Bowl is played in the Dallas Cowboys’ new stadium.
Last year’s NFL Experience in Tampa was the 18th year that the event had been held. The event included several interactive activities, corporate booths, autograph guests and entertainment acts for the weekend surrounding the big game.
For a look at some of what could have been seen at this year’s NFL Card Show, click here.
Chris Olds has collected sports cards and memorabilia since 1987. Before coming to Beckett Media, he wrote about the hobby for the Orlando Sentinel on his blog, SportsStuff, and for the San Antonio Express-News and The Tuscaloosa (Ala.) News. Do you have a comment, question or idea? Send e-mail to him at email@example.com.
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Health care topic of Chamber banquet
Katie Hays, the executive director of Public Affairs for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, was the featured speaker at the Pike County Chamber of Commerce Annual Membership Luncheon Wednesday.
The Montgomery native addressed a group at the Troy Country Club, saying the U.S. Chamber of Commerce was not in full support of the recently passed health care overhaul.
“Unfortunately, because Congress took a non-bipartisan route (in passing the bill) it left businesses in a position that we had to oppose the bill,” Hays said.
She did her best to highlight the 2,400 plus-page bill and specifically what it means for businesses.
Hays said the nearly $1 trillion price tag on the new plan will require $569 billion in new taxes and tax increases over the next ten years.
“It’s very difficult for all businesses and especially small businesses,” she said.
“It’s unbelievable what this will do.”
Among several other issues, Hays attacked the idea of a government-run health care system and pointed at employer mandates on health coverage as additional problems.
But Hays encouraged the audience to fight back by doing what they can to help change the bill, explaining the implementation of the new system is a ten-year process.
“The bulk (of the changes) don’t go in effect until 2014,” she said.
Hays said that would give similar-interest parties significant election cycles with which to change the makeup of the country’s political face and help implement changes to the bill before they take effect.
Hays also said that technical flaws in the drafting of the bill existed, and a number of legal questions were still in the air which could further lead to “opportunities to improve” it.

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The Idaho Transportation Department will begin a $1.8 million project next Monday on a 10-mile stretch of U.S. Highway 95 in Idaho County that involves recycling asphalt shoulders, constructing right-turn lanes, and micro-surfacing the reclaimed shoulders and turn lanes.
The work takes place between mileposts 251 and 261, from south of Cottonwood to south of Ferdinand. Guardrail and illumination work will also occur at Greencreek Road. Motorists should expect minor delays of up to 15 minutes during construction. Flaggers will be used to direct traffic through the work area.
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House of Wisdom: Sharjah’s new cultural landmark is now open
House of Wisdom will be home to more than 305,000 books…
Back in April 2019, Sharjah was selected by the UNESCO to be the host city for World Book Capital (WBC). In order to commemorate the prestigious title, the city made plans to open a state-of-the-art public library, aptly named House of Wisdom.
On December 9, this cultural landmark opened to the public and was inaugurated by His Highness Sheikh Dr Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Member of the Supreme Council and Ruler of Sharjah.
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Here’s what you’ll find inside.
The House of Wisdom covers an area of more than 12,000 square feet and according to Emirates News Agency (WAM), the library will be ‘home to 305,000 books, of which 200,000 are in the digital format and 11,000 comprise books in varied languages’.
It will also feature a children’s library ‘The Little Reader’ which houses more than 2,000 books, while the library for youth will feature 3,000 titles.
Reimagined as a library of the 21st century, its design is inspired by modern architecture and comprises of 15 lobbies and halls spread across two storeys. The immersive space has been designed for learning, sharing, creating, and accessing knowledge.
Some of the key spaces include an expansive lobby, the Al Rasheed Hall, the Espresso Books, Knowledge Terrace, the Wisdom Vault and the Al Ma’moun Exhibition; the Little Reader, the Wisdom Square, the Ibn Duraid Reading Area, the Al Jazri Lab, the Ladies Diwan, the Al Jarhmi Library, and the Al Khawarizmi Exhibition.
The library will be ‘high-tech’, including interactive facilities and will be home to vast digital resources, a fabrication lab with 3D printers to build prototypes of experimental projects and cutting-edge technology to print and bind books within minutes.
If you want quiet time, the library’s futuristic suspended private pods offer up a haven for quiet reading. For learning, a host of collaborative community spaces are available and designed in a way that promotes academic and non-academic pursuits, social learning and cultural interaction.
The House of Wisdom also includes lecture halls, reading lounges, exhibition spaces, a dedicated children’s educational area, a central courtyard, a café and restaurant.
The outdoor landscaped garden features 331 trees including fig, ghaf and palm trees of different species and overlooks ‘The Scroll’ monument.
The Scroll is a striking monument designed to look like an ancient Arabic scroll looping 36 metres towards the sky.
It was designed by British sculptor Gerry Judah who was inspired by an ancient scroll design that represented the lasting power of books and how reading shares a strong purpose of uniting people together.
Sound exciting? Want to visit? The House of Wisdom is located on the Sharjah International Airport Road in Al Juraina 1 in Sharjah.
House of Wisdom, Al Juraina 1, Sharjah, open daily 10am to 8pm. Tel:(0)6 594 0000. @sharjahhow
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Rilo Kiley Biography
Rilo Kiley’s audiences have a strong tendency to fall in love on the spot. Perhaps it’s their beaming faces or laid-back, admirable West Coast attitudes. Or maybe it’s just their uncanny knack for designing nuanced pop songs and performing them with flair. Maybe it’s lead singers Jenny Lewis and Blake Sennet‘s adorable onstage banter and scissors-sharp wit. Whatever that little something extra is, Los Angeles, CA’s Rilo Kiley has it times ten.
Eclectic electric twang meets masterful songwriting on The Execution of All Things, Rilo Kiley’s second full-length album. Take Offs and Landings, their 2001 debut on Seattle’s infamous Barsuk label, was met with adoration from critics and audiences alike. With Liz Phair narrative sensibility, Bettie Serveert compositional beauty, and Beachwood Sparks sunshine, Rilo Kiley’s latest is a lyrically dense treasure that will have you searching for the story behind the evocative songs. In a word…sweeet.
It didn’t take much for us to catch on to Rilo Kiley. As one of only a few bands from outside of Omaha to be signed to the label, they’ve been warmly welcomed. Produced by mainstay Saddle Creek producer Mike Mogis, The Execution of All Things features many of Rilo Kiley’s loving labelmates on the album.
We know you’ll fall in love with them, too.
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Weeds | Reviewer: Tom Bowler | 9/19/12
I just discovered you on the last show of one of my favorite series. It brought tearsto my eyes and memories of my son who passed away in 2004 at age 37. Sad yes but cathartic and beautiful. A young singer lyricist who writes poeticand profound lyrics which I can actually hear and understand. I'm 76 years old so that's important to the music I usually like. Exeptions are occasionally made for Tom Waits and Van Morrison.
i <3 saddle creek!!!!!!!! | Reviewer: surrr | 9/20/07
yes, rilo kiley is amaaazing and i love them, but i would have to say that saddle creek as a label is just INCREDIBLE. the best bands of our generation are, for the most part, on saddle creek, and rilo kiley definitely deserves to be on that label with such giants as curisve, bright eyes, etc etc
Spectacular Re-veiws | Reviewer: Meg Thompson | 1/27/07
The only thing to say about this band is brilliant. Brilliant lyrics, brilliant music, brilliant band members alone, just plain brilliant. Through all the glitz and glamour after being discovered and heard, they're still wonderfully humble and undeniably talented. Jenny Lewis on her own has done great for herself. Rabbit Fur Coat is amazing, and I suggest you give it a listen, but I do hope she puts out another record with the band, because I have yet to hear a song by them that I was not impressed with. Overall, Rilo Kiley is one of the truly unique bands of our generation, so don't pass their music up.
Wickedly | Reviewer: Anonymous | 6/1/06
I love this band! It has its own special twist.... Its wickedly awsome!
best american band formed since the clinton years. | Reviewer: Anonymous | 5/20/06
i never much liked modern american pop music, but their video for it's a hit was the trippiest i have seen since 1985. i figure i might as well listen to ssome more of their songs, cause who knows, i might like it. they're definitely some of the best in the new generation of music.
rilo kiley... definitely falling on love | Reviewer: nikki | 4/18/06
i heard their song on an episode of grey's anatomy (yes im on that bandwagon) and i had to find out who this amazing band was with the hot female vocalist. low and behold it was rilo kiley!! from the moment i heard the song on the show, ive been researching them more and more, (ie looking for more of their songs), and everything i hear just gets better and better. they are an amazing band with a lot of spunk and i hope to hear more from them!
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Distance Healing Reiki Box
I had the honor to work on a project for a local Reiki Healer. She was looking for a box that could contain Reiki symbols on the inside floor. This Distance Healing Reiki Box has the Flower of Life sacred geometry designs on the front. And the top lid has a Lotus Blossom with Reiki Symbols inside the box.
Together we came up with the following design that is now available in my shop! If you are interested in adding this Reiki Box to your healing practices we can arrange the symbols inside to your liking.
This box also makes a great option for storing some crystal grids and healing crystals.
Reiki Box for your Healing Practices
Laser cut reiki box engraved with lotus blossom and flower of life sacred geometry and Reiki symbols inside.

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Every child in Washington, D.C., in
every ward of the District, deserves access to a high-quality public education and the chance at a brighter tomorrow. As a city we’ve been working hard towards that goal and steadily moving forward on reform, but as this
new poll of D.C. voters shows, there’s still plenty of work to do—especially when it comes to ensuring that educational quality, growth and opportunity makes its way to every corner of D.C. Truth be told, I don’t need a poll to tell me that. As a former single father raising a daughter in Anacostia, I experienced firsthand how difficult it was to find a school that was nearby, on this side of the river, and also delivered the quality education that I felt my daughter deserved. It was such a struggle to balance my (and most parents’) top priority of getting my daughter the best education possible with the practical reality of being on my own trying to make ends meet. But luckily for my family, D.C. opened Thurgood Marshall Academy, a top-performing public charter school, in a previously vacant building down the road from our house. Finally, I didn’t have to choose between quality and proximity—and my daughter received a top-notch public education that laid the foundation for her future. If you’ll forgive my not-so-humble bragging, I’m proud to say that she went on to graduate from Spelman College and is now working here in D.C. at the U.S. Justice Department. Sadly, I know my daughter’s story is an anomaly for most kids in our neighborhood—but it shouldn’t have to be.
High-Quality Seats for Our Kids
New data revealed that there is 1.4 million (yes, million!) square feet of empty space in neighborhoods like mine all across the District that could be transformed into local high-quality seats for thousands of D.C. students. Twelve buildings are lying vacant. Meanwhile, too many kids in Ward 8 and elsewhere are fighting to get into the few quality schools that we have, are waiting on long lists for better schools that are miles away, or are struggling to learn in mediocre, overcrowded classrooms. That’s simply not acceptable. These are 12 missed opportunities—or 1.4 million missed opportunities—each and every day to give D.C. children the education that they are entitled to. The need is there, and it’s only going to grow, as conservative estimates project the number of D.C. schoolchildren will grow to 125,000 by 2025. That’s an additional 40,000 students over the next 10 years. Not only does the demand exist, the local support is out there as well. An incredible 92 percent of voters say it’s important for the city government to take action on these vacant school buildings, with the highest urgency coming from the Southeast section, where 3 in 4 voters want the mayor to act within the next year or sooner.
So the question is, what’s the hold up? Every school year we wait, the city is wasting taxpayer dollars to maintain empty, rundown buildings, when Mayor Bowser and her administration could empower new schools to take these buildings over and give our students a better future. It’s that simple. Now I know there’s going to be plenty of debate as to which schools or what types of schools will ultimately be allowed to fill these buildings, so let me be perfectly clear:
What ultimately matters most is quality, not labels. My eldest daughter went to a public charter school, my two younger children began their education in a charter school but now are enrolled in District of Columbia Public Schools, and those distinctions mean nothing to me. Like most parents, I chose my kids’ schools because they were the best fit and the best education for their individual situations. At the end of the day, I’m an advocate for what works, and what’s been working in D.C. is a dual system with both sectors thriving and progressing on behalf of our kids. So let’s band together as a ward, as a city, and seize the chance to take this tangible step forward and turn these 1.4 million square feet of empty space into 1.4 million square feet of opportunity for D.C. public school students. It’s the least we can do for our kids.
Jacque Patterson is a public school parent and the regional director of Rocketship Education in DC. He moved to Washington in 1995 while serving his country in the United States Air Force. He immediately became involved in the communities of Ward 8 where he decided to reside. In 2000, he was elected as an Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner (ANC) representing ...

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When I saw this story on the Washington Free Beacon, I couldn’t believe it but it looks like Obama is upset that the military isn’t paying enough fees for their healthcare.
TRICARE Fees and Co-Payments. The Administration is disappointed that the Congress did not incorporate the requested TRICARE fee initiatives into either the appropriation or authorization legislation. The Administration asks the House to reconsider the TRICARE fee proposals, which are essential for DOD to successfully address rising personnel costs. The $1.8 billion in savings are part of a carefully balanced FY 2013 Budget request.
There are no group of people more patriotic than our servicemembers who fight and die for this country. Maybe they do need to pay a little bit more to balance the budget but not until AFTER we cut welfare, food stamps, bailouts, stimulus, inflated teacher salary, public unions, etc etc…
For Obama to be so disappointed in our US troops is disgusting to say the least.

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This plugin simply enables your visitors to customize shoes, watches, clothing, phone cases, stickers, and everything in between. You are in control of how much you would like to charge for each customization. The plugin is available as a free download but the service costs a low amount each month.

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Creating Rich Literacy Experiences for Junior Infants to 1st class pupils - A Literacy Association of Ireland Webinar
Literacy Association of Ireland in Partnership with Clare Education Centre, The Education Centre Tralee, Navan Education Centre and Monaghan Education Centre. Clara Maria Fiorentini Creating rich literacy experiences for Junior Infants to First class.
Distance Learning with Picturebooks
This webinar series is designed to support primary school teachers in exploiting picturebooks in the distance learning environment. What does research tell us about what is important for children’s literacy development? How can picturebooks help us to provide rich, engaging and enjoyable learning experiences for the children in our classrooms in this new context? Whether you are using email, Aladdin, SeeSaw or Zoom this one-hour session will help you to explore what is possible for your context through picturebooks.
Clara Maria Fiorentini
Clara Maria Fiorentini is an executive committee member of the Literacy Association of Ireland. Clara is a lecturer in education at Marino Institute of Education specialising in English Methods and Early Childhood Education . Prior to joining MIE, Clara taught for ten years in Dominican Primary School, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin throughout which time she developed a keen interest in holistic oral language development and playful pedagogy. Clara completed a Masters in Children’s Literature (DCU) and is currently a PhD candidate at Trinity College Dublin researching oral language development and transitions to formal literacy learning. Clara runs the popular Irish teaching blog www.littlemissteacher.com and is an active member on her social media platforms. Clara is a co-author of Ireland’s first multisensory phonics programme, Sounds Like Phonics (CJ Fallon, 2019).
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Objectives The mental health profession exposes healthcare workers to unique stressors such as associative stigma (stigmatisation that is extended from the stigmatised patients to psychiatric professionals and is based on affiliation with an individual with mental illness). Enhancing resilience, or the ability to ‘bounce back’ from adversity, is found to be useful in reducing occupational stress and its negative effects. In view of the high burnout rates reported among mental health professionals, this study aimed to examine resilience in this group of professionals and to explore the association between resilience and associative stigma.
Design Observational study—cross-sectional design.
Setting Tertiary psychiatry hospital in Singapore.
Participants The study was conducted among 470 mental health professionals (doctors, nurses and allied health professionals) working in the hospital.
Measures Resilience was assessed using the Brief Resilience Scale (BRS) and participants completed questionnaires that examined associative stigma. Participants provided their sociodemographic information, length of service, and information on whether they knew of a close friend or family member who had a mental illness.
Results Mean resilience score for the overall sample was 3.59 (SD=0.64). Older age (β=0.012, 95% CI 0.004 to 0.019, p=0.003) and having known a family member or close friend with a mental illness (β=0.155, 95% CI 0.019 to 0.290, p=0.025) predicted higher BRS score. Associative stigma remained significantly associated with resilience score after controlling for sociodemographic factors whereby higher associative stigma predicted lower resilience scores.
Conclusion The present finding suggests that resilience building programmes among mental health workers should target those of the younger age group, and that addressing the issue of associative stigma is essential.
- associative stigma
- mental health
- Brief Resilience Scale
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Strengths and limitations of this study
One of the few studies that have examined resilience among mental health professionals and the association between resilience and associative stigma.
Relatively large sample size with data collected from professionals across various occupational roles strengthens the generalisability of findings.
Cross-sectional nature of the study, however, limits the ability to draw conclusions on causal effects.
Work in mental healthcare setting is fraught with stressors that are unique to this field.1 The nature of providing mental health services necessitates regular emotional and empathetic engagement with patients and their family members, and also occasional dealing with difficult and challenging behaviours of patients.2 Prolonged exposure to such workplace stressors has an impact on the well-being of mental health professionals3 4 and also compromises on their ability to provide quality care for patients.5
Stigma is a unique stressor for the field of mental healthcare.1 Negative stereotypes of and prejudice against mental health professionals might develop as a result of their close relationship with mental health patients. This is often termed ‘associative stigma’ wherein stigmatisation is extended from the stigmatised patients to psychiatric professionals6 and is based on affiliation with an individual with mental illness.7 Such stigmatisation is common among mental health professionals6 8 9 and is associated with more depersonalisation, higher emotional exhaustion and poorer job satisfaction,8 and these associations were found to be significant even in longitudinal analyses.10 Studies have found that stigmatisation affects self-esteem11 and professional identities of psychiatric nurses12 and has bearing on career decisions and workplace retention.13 14
There is an increased interest toward the construct of resilience as a positive trait that can buffer against the negative effects of such occupational stress.15 Resilience or the ‘ability to bounce back or recover from stress’16 is an important trait for professionals working in the mental health setting given the unique work stressors they face. Studies have found that having higher levels of resilience predicted lower psychological distress among mental health professionals.17 18 Additionally, individual and contextual factors contribute to resilience building in individuals.19 20 In a literature review of resilience among health professionals, several factors that promoted resilience were identified, including maintaining a work–life balance, having a professional identity and having social support from family and friends.19
Several studies have looked at the association between stigma and resilience. In a qualitative study by Crowe et al, the relationship between stigma and resilience was described as bidirectional: having resilience decreases the stigma experienced, while being stigmatised decreases one’s resilience.21 Resilience serves to counter the stigma experienced, and at the same time stigma impinges on the ability to develop resilience. Additionally, stigmatised individuals felt obliged to build on their resilience through social support and enhance their personal attribute, such as positive emotions and strengths, to counteract the stigma.22 Resilience was found to be a coping technique endorsed by mental health professionals to manage associative stigma experiences.9
In view of the high level of stress and burnout that has been reported among mental health professionals in Singapore,23 it is important to better understand resilience among this group of professionals. There has only been one study which explored resilience among healthcare professionals in public hospitals in Singapore.24 This study found that more than 70% of the staff surveyed had encounters of workplace violence, and less than half of them performed positively on a resilience assessment. Staff who had mental health training were twice as likely to be resilient than those who did not attend such trainings. Though the study did not indicate the type of mental health trainings that staff had attended, the authors noted that these can range from mental health-related talks to certified therapy programmes that are aimed at enhancing ‘resistance, resiliency and recovery of healthcare workers affected by personal or workplace stress or critical incidents’. In view of their findings, the authors recommended the provision of mental health and crisis intervention training for hospital staff to enhance their emotional resilience. Furthermore, mental health work is not viewed favourably by the public in Singapore; a study found that 67% of psychiatrists and 58% of psychiatric nurses surveyed had reported being laughed at for working with psychiatric patients.25 Approximately 30% of them were discouraged by their family from engaging in this line of work. Interestingly, a U-shaped relationship has been proposed to describe the association between public stigma and familiarity; service providers may have higher public stigma toward mental illness owing to burden and associative stigma that comes alongside greater familiarity.26 However, while psychiatric professionals may be familiar with mental illness on the basis of their job, it is also possible that their familiarity stems from having personal contact with a friend or family member with mental health problems. Contact in a personal capacity may be different from that in a professional capacity in terms of evoking empathy or resilience when interacting with a family or friend with mental illness. It is hence important to account for any potential impact of having personal contact with an individual with mental illness when exploring the relationship of associative stigma with other concepts. Given the considerable stigma surrounding mental illness and mental health work in Singapore25 27 which may extend to mental healthcare providers and act as a workplace stressor, it is thus important to also examine the association between associative stigma and resilience among mental health professionals. The present study therefore aimed to examine correlates of resilience and its association with associative stigma among mental health professionals working at the Institute of Mental Health (IMH), which is the only tertiary psychiatric hospital in Singapore.
In this cross-sectional study, participants were recruited using convenience sampling. Emails inviting participation in the research study were sent out to mental health professionals including doctors, nurses and allied health staff (psychologists, pharmacists, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, case managers and medical social workers) working at IMH. A web link was provided in the email for staff to access the online survey which was administered using Questionpro, an online survey software. To be eligible, participants had to be aged 21 years and above and able to complete the online survey in English. Informed consent was obtained from the participants through the online portal and they were reimbursed on completion of the survey. A total of 470 mental health professionals were recruited for the study between February and April 2016. The study was approved by the National Healthcare Group Domain Specific Review Board in Singapore.
Resilience was measured using the Brief Resilience Scale (BRS), a 6-item instrument that assesses the ability of individuals to bounce back or recover from stress.16 Participants indicated the extent to which they agree with each statement on a 5-point scale (1= ‘strongly disagree’ to 5= ‘strongly agree’). Examples of the items include ‘I tend to bounce back quickly after hard times’ and ‘I usually come through difficult times with little trouble’. Negatively worded statements were first reversed coded and a BRS score was derived from the mean of the six items. The scale was found to have a one-factor structure and had obtained good internal consistency (α=0.80–0.91) and test–retest reliability (r=0.62–0.69) in its validation study.16 It demonstrated an acceptable level of internal consistency in the current study sample, with a Cronbach’s alpha of 0.76.
To examine associative stigma, measures of the construct were adapted from other studies7 8 and additional items were included based on our literature review as at the time the study was conducted, there was no standardised and well-validated associative stigma instrument available (see online supplementary appendix for the full list of items). For five of the items, participants responded to statements, such as ‘People react negatively when they know I work in a mental care setting’ and ‘I feel ashamed to be working in a mental healthcare setting’ using a 5-point scale ranging from ‘never’ to ‘all the time’.8 For six additional items including ‘Most people think less of a person who works in a mental healthcare setting’ and ‘Once they know a person works in a mental healthcare setting, most people will take their opinions less seriously’,7 participants rated their level of agreement with these statements on a 5-point scale from ‘strongly agree’ to ‘strongly disagree’. Among the same study sample, latent class analysis was conducted to classify underlying responses of associative stigma into mutually exclusive latent classes.28 Results revealed a three-class model showed the best fit and comprised no/low, moderate and high associative stigma. These latent classes were used in the subsequent analysis. Detailed description of the findings for the latent class analysis has been reported elsewhere.28
Sociodemographic information including age, gender, ethnicity, marital status, educational attainment and residential status was collected. Participants provided information on whether they knew a close friend or family member who had a mental illness. Their occupation and length of service at IMH were also recorded.
Statistical analyses were carried out using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) V.23. Descriptive statistics were used to describe the sample characteristics where mean and SD were calculated for continuous variables, and frequencies and percentages were calculated for categorical variables. One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) test with post-hoc Bonferroni correction was conducted to examine group differences in BRS mean scores by occupational group. Multiple linear regression was used to explore sociodemographic correlates of resilience. BRS mean scores were entered as the outcome variable in the regression model and predictors were sociodemographic variables including age, gender, ethnicity, marital status, educational attainment, residential status, occupation, length of service and whether they knew a family member or close friend who had a mental illness. Next, the association between resilience and associative stigma was examined at both univariate and multivariate levels using linear regression model, where resilience scores were treated as the outcome variable and associative stigma as the predictor with and without controlling for sociodemographic variables. All statistically significant results were set at p-value ≤0.05.
Eight cases were removed from the analysis due to pattern responses being detected or participants not fulfilling the inclusion criteria. Analysis was conducted on the remaining 462 cases, and table 1 presents the characteristics of the study sample. The majority of the participants were female (63.0%), Chinese (60.2%), Singapore citizens (69.3%) and had been working at IMH for 1–5 years (42.2%). Participants of this study were generally well educated, with the majority having a bachelor degree (52.2%). There were 58 doctors, 201 nurses and 203 allied health staff in this sample. Among the allied health professionals recruited, there were 57 case managers, 47 medical social workers, 43 psychologists, 28 pharmacists, 25 occupational therapists and 3 physiotherapists.
Table 2 presents the mean resilience score for the overall sample and by occupation. The mean score for the overall sample was 3.59 (SD=0.64), and statistically significant group differences were observed from the one-way ANOVA results (F(2, 452)=8.681, p<0.001). Post-hoc test using Bonferroni correction found that the mean score of nurses was significantly lower than that of doctors (p=0.001) and allied health staff (p=0.009). Results from the multiple linear regression showed that age was significantly associated with resilience, where older age predicted higher resilience scores (table 3; β=0.012, p=0.003). Additionally, those who had a family member or close friend with a mental illness had significantly higher resilience scores (β=0.155, p=0.025) compared with those who did not.
Mean resilience scores for no/low, moderate and high associative stigma groups were 3.76, 3.49 and 3.17, respectively. Resilience was significantly associated with associative stigma at both the univariate and multivariate levels (table 4). After adjusting for potential confounding variables, resilience remained significantly associated with associative stigma. Participants who experienced moderate (β=−0.271, p<0.001) and high associative stigma (β=−0.577, p<0.001) had lower resilience scores than those with no/low associative stigma.
The present study aimed to examine resilience and its association with associative stigma among mental health professionals. A positive correlation was found between age and resilience with resilience increasing with age. Mental health professionals who personally knew of someone, a family member or close friend, diagnosed with mental illness also had a higher resilience score. Another main finding in this study was that individuals who experienced moderate and high levels of associative stigma had lower resilience scores.
Mental health professionals in this sample reported a moderate level of resilience with a sample mean of 3.59. To the best of our knowledge, no other study has assessed resilience among psychiatric staff using the BRS. This limits the ability to draw any definite conclusion with regards to the level of resilience in our study sample. A study on first-year paediatric and medicine-paediatric residents reported a sample mean of 3.80,29 while another study on young health professionals and trainees reported a mean of 3.60 using the BRS.30 These figures are higher than the mean obtained from this study, suggesting that mental health professionals have lower resilience. However, the aforementioned studies were conducted in the western context and the lower resilience score may instead reflect cultural differences in the notion of resilience.31 It is important to bear in mind the cultural dimensions when interpreting this difference. There are components of resilience that were found to be unique to eastern culture—religious faith and psychosocial gratitude32—which may not be adequately reflected in the current study as the questionnaire does not include these domains. It is plausible that individuals with an eastern sociocultural background may score ‘higher’ when resilience is defined in these aspects. More research is, therefore, required among mental health professionals to obtain comparable data and to investigate possible cultural differences of resilience.
The positive association found between age and resilience is not a surprising finding. In a study that looked at psychological resilience, older adults reported greater resilience than younger adults in the domains of emotional regulation and problem solving, though younger adults had greater resilience that was related to social support.33 With age comes a greater range of life experiences, through which individuals are more likely to have gained effective coping strategies and acquired useful resources that benefit their appraisal of stress, and hence building on their resilience. Given that the association between age and resilience found in the present study took into account the years of service at the hospital, it is likely that these resources extend beyond those which mental health professionals acquired within the organisation to those available from their immediate surrounding, for example, friends and family members.
Furthermore, having known someone who was diagnosed with mental illness was associated with higher resilience scores. It is plausible that having been on the recovery journey together with a friend or family with mental illness provided resources and skill set for this group of mental health professionals, in a way psychologically preparing them for whatever difficult times that may come. In times of adversity, they would be prepared to deal with the situation and able to ‘bounce back’ from the hardships.
Doctors were found to have the highest mean resilience scores as compared with nursing staff and allied health professionals in this study (table 2). However, these differences were not significant when accounted for other sociodemographic variables (table 3). This suggests that there may be a common pathway through which mental health professionals develop resilience,19 possibly through institutional support or that the similarities in the nature of work require comparable levels of resilience.
In this study, mental health professionals who experienced moderate and high associative stigma were found to have lower resilience. Having higher associative stigma meant that these individuals were more likely to endorse items, such as ‘The mental health profession lacks a scientific basis’ and ‘People react negatively when they know I work in a mental healthcare setting’. In view of these negative perceptions pertaining to their own occupation, it suggests that mental health professions with moderate and high associative stigma may not identify with their job and not find pride in the work they do. Several studies have pointed out the importance of professional identity in relation to building resilience among healthcare workers including nurses, psychologists and social workers.19 34 35 It is plausible that the lack of professional identity among those with moderate and high associative stigma accounts for the lower level of resilience in them. What this implies is that when they are stigmatised by others for the work they do, given that they do not identify with their job and feel ashamed about it, it may be more difficult for them to overcome work stressors they encounter, and thus less able to recover from stress (ie, lower resilience).
Another way to interpret the association between higher associative stigma and lower resilience is through the idea of social support.36 Mental health professionals experiencing moderate and high associative stigma are unlikely to receive emotional support from those who stigmatised them, given the perpetuators of associative stigma are those who trivialise the work that mental health professionals do. Thus in times of stress, these mental health workers would have lesser resources to tap on to bounce back from adversity, as compared with those experiencing no/low associative stigma. Additionally, there is some evidence to suggest that social support may play a mediating role in the association between resilience and associative stigma. A study found that mental health patients with higher levels of social support had lower levels of internalised stigma, and this mediated the negative association between societal stigma and recovery.37 It can thus be hypothesised that having social support reduces the impact of stigma on resilience through the pathway of internalised stigma. It would be interesting to test this hypothesised relationship among mental health professionals in future studies. It must be acknowledged that the relationship between stigma and resilience may be bidirectional.21 Given that resilience has been used as a strategy to cope with associative stigma,9 it is also possible that mental health professionals with lower resilience were more likely to experience higher associative stigma. Having lower resilience could lead these professionals to be more sensitive and perceive being stigmatised more than those who had higher levels of resilience. These professionals might also, as a result of having lower resilience, have lesser ability to counter the stigma they experienced, and therefore perceived experiencing a higher level of associative stigma. Future longitudinal studies would be needed to parse out the bidirectional nature of resilience and associative stigma.
It has been recommended that resilience building should be incorporated into training programmes for healthcare professionals.38 Given the unique stressors that psychiatric professionals encounter, it would be of practical use to implement resilience programmes in this group as well, particularly in the workplace setting.39 Findings from this study would suggest that such programmes can be targeted at younger professionals as they have lower levels of resilience. Resilience programmes for mental health professionals may need to address the issue of associative stigma, given that those who experienced higher associative stigma had lower resilience. These programmes can seek to promote professional identity among staff, placing emphasis on the importance of their work and increasing public recognition of it, as efforts to counteract stigma and enhancing resilience. Such workplace programmes may also serve to mitigate the negative effects of associative stigma among mental health professionals on service users’ satisfaction and self-stigma that has been identified in previous research.8 Knowing that stigmatised individuals take steps to draw support from others,21 22 resilience programmes may also need to be augmented with a supportive network from within the organisation that acts a resource for psychiatric staff.
Findings from this study should be interpreted in view of its limitations. The present study was cross-sectional in nature, thus causal relationship between resilience and associative stigma cannot be established. The study sample was based on convenient sampling from a single tertiary psychiatric hospital, and thus the findings may be specific to mental health professionals in this context. Differences among staff within the allied health group itself were not investigated and there could be variation in resilience and associative stigma that is related to their work tasks.
Resilience, or the ability to ‘bounce back’ or recover from stress, is an important trait for mental health professionals in view of challenges in this field of work such as associative stigma. To the best of our knowledge, the present study is one of the first studies that has conducted a quantitative assessment of resilience among mental health professionals and examined its association with associative stigma. The mental health profession should look at ways to enhance resilience among mental health professionals, and addressing the issue of associative stigma might be one such approach.
Contributors SC interpreted the findings, wrote the draft manuscript and critically revised the article. LP conceived the study, wrote the protocol and provided inputs for the manuscript. EA performed the statistical analysis and assisted in the interpretation of the findings. QY and SAC critically reviewed the article and provided their inputs. MS reviewed the study protocol and critically reviewed the article. All authors have read and approved the final manuscript.
Funding This research is supported by the Singapore Ministry of Health’s National Medical Research Council under the Centre Grant Programme (Grant No: NMRC/CG/004/2013).
Competing interests None declared.
Patient and public involvement statement There was no patient or public involvement in the study design; however, staff at IMH will be informed of the study findings.
Patient consent for publication Not required.
Ethics approval Ethical approval was obtained from the Domain Specific Review Board of the National Healthcare Group, Singapore (DSRB No: 2016/00043).
Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.
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Top scholars will meet with 100 of the world’s best students at the annual Asia Pacific Week in Canberra next week to discuss and debate trends and developments in the Asia Pacific region. Held from June 23-26 at The Australian National University, the conference will focus on globalisation and the impact Asia and its emerging economies have on the rest of the world.
Asia Pacific Week director Harold Kuang says bringing people from all backgrounds and parts of the world together makes for enriching debates and meetings around Asia-Pacific affairs.
“As delegates come from the many countries of the Asia Pacific they are able to bring a more ‘real’ and tangible perspective to the conference,” Kuang says. “While delegates are able to read about countries and issues in the Asia Pacific, through meeting people from those countries delegates are able to fully comprehend the enormity and vastness of the region.”
Now in its fourth year, the conference builds on expertise from The Australian National University to engage and intellectually stimulate students through networking events and debates. Some of the world’s leading Asia Pacific specialists will take part in interactive and challenging sessions on issues such as gender roles, how to tackle climate change in the region, Asian values and governance, and religion.
“Delegates become empowered as they see that they are able to make a contribution to society,” says Kuang. “As future leaders this then has positive flow on effects to the wider community and intergovernmental relationships.”
In the past, Asia Pacific Week has received many prominent figures, including former Australian Prime Ministers Malcolm Fraser and Bob Hawke, Professor Hugh White, and many diplomats from the region and America.
One of the conference’s most talked about sessions, Wargames, will be back this year and give delegates the chance to experience the challenges and discussions faced when conflict is at hand – in a session directed by the retired Chief of the Defence Force, Admiral Chris Barrie AC.
Delegates will discuss dilemmas of the current global environment in ‘Is Blood Thicker than Paper?’. Other notable events include the Ambassadors’ Panel, which gathers representatives and High Commissioners from various Asia Pacific nations who discuss the best contributions their countries have made to world history.
A couple of the sessions should bring timely discussions, including ‘Decoding Asia’ which looks at an Orwellian Asia and will no doubt look at Thailand’s military junta tactics, themselves described as 1984-esque. ‘Is Asia and the Pacific big enough?’ will look at emerging countries across the region and their historical territorial claims, and how their increased influence is impacting relationships and tensions with their neighbours.

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Central Food Hall is one of the perfect places to shop for all of your spicy sauce and seasoning needs in Bangkok! They have various brands and flavors to choose from, so you can find the perfect sauce or seasoning for your dish. Plus, their prices are reasonable! You won’t regret it!
Central Food Hall has you covered whether you’re looking for something spicy and bold or something more subtle and nuanced.
Let’s see what’s interesting about spicy stuff in this place.
Central Food Hall
Central Food Hall is a supermarket with many branches in Bangkok. Also known as Tops Supermarket, it is located in Central Department Store in the basement. Here, shopping is easy. It can purchase by credit card, and all kinds of products are listed with an English label.
Most staff will speak or speak English to a certain extent. The price compared to the local market is pretty expensive. Still, the product is selected with a more beautiful quality and is easier to buy for foreigners than to go to the local market.
Spicy sauces are available here from both Thai and international brands. Most of Thailand’s Sriracha chili sauces are produced in Sriracha, Chonburi, and many brands to choose from.
There are chili sauces famous in Thailand and other brands that are not Sriracha-style chili sauces, many of which are sweet and spicy, available on various levels, and cheaper than imported chili sauces from abroad.
If you’re looking for a famous international chili sauce at Central Food Hall, there are also brands of chili sauces such as Frank Redhot, Encona, and Tabasco. Each brand has several flavors to select from; it is imported from that country, not reproduced in Thailand, and the price compared to Amazon.com is the same. It’s not more expensive in any way.
Read my experience with product from central food hall
Fresh Pepper, Dried Pepper, Onions
Fresh and dried chili peppers It’s not very versatile in choosing. It has only Thai chili and bell pepper. If you’re interested in peppers like Habanero and Carolina Reaper, they can be seen in online stores or many restaurants that bring them in on their own.
Other spices and onions are available in various types; garlic will also be small Thai garlic popular in everyday Thai dishes.
Thai people also prefer to use spices for cooking, no less than other Asian countries. Therefore, the herbs are sold quite a lot, and they can be purchased in ready-made form. Black pepper, turmeric, curry, cinnamon, etc. Available in a heartfelt selection.
Thai people love to eat noodles a lot, and instant noodles are famous. In addition to Thai brands, There are also spicy noodles from Korea and Japan for sale in bulk; Samyang, Buldak, Neoguri, and other brands have many flavors.
If you come to Bangkok and look for a place to buy spices, Central Food Hall (Tops Supermarket) is the best place. It has a wide variety of products with both Thai and international brands at reasonable prices. The products here are also of good quality, making them perfect for those who want to cook while traveling.
So what are you waiting for? Come and check out the spices at Central Food Hall today!

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Brick Fireplace Decor Published by Administrator on January 8, 2018 at 10:43 pm.There are 26 images in the gallery of Brick Fireplace Decor. Find Best Fireplace & Living room design Ideas on Fireplace Category.
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Whenever Liverpool face Manchester City, we think Leroy Sane is the player who we actually fear most.
The Germany winger has been out of action for the season after picking up an injury in the Community Shield win v Liverpool – and Pep Guardiola’s side have missed him plenty.
But it looks like Sane will never be an option for City again, with BILD honcho Christian Falk confirming on Twitter that City and Bayern Munich have reached a financial agreement and that all that is left to be sorted is the contract.
— Christian Falk (@cfbayern) May 6, 2020
In all likelihood, City will replace Sane with another world-class player – although there’s a possibility their recent Champions League ban due to their cheating of FFP will convince them to calm their spending.
From a Liverpool perspective, the thought of City, the only side remotely close to us on a football level right now in the top flight, losing a number of top players is one that could theoretically increase the gap.
In reality though, we should just focus on ourselves and continue doing the work we’re doing. After all, it earned us a 25 point lead in the Premier League before the season was curtailed.


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New and fast-growing neighborhood on the SF Bayfront.
SF's new and fast-growing neighborhood.
Mission Bay is a new and fast growing neighborhood on the sunny side of San Francisco. Mission Bay has a peaceful and family oriented atmosphere with over 40 acres of green parks including Mission Bay Playground and Dog Park. The neighborhood is also the home to Championship sports teams like the NBA’s Golden State Warriors at Chase Center and MLB’s San Francisco Giants’ Oracle Park.
Mission Bay has transformed a former Bayfront railyard into a dynamic modern neighborhood with sleek high-rise towers and many biotech firms. Mission Bay real estate mostly consists of stylish contemporary apartments, industrial lofts, and luxury condos with great views over the city and the Bay. Contact Vi Pavlicevich to find homes, lofts and condos for sale in Mission Bay.
Along with SF’s premier sports teams, Mission Bay is also home to the headquarters of Uber and the state-of-the-art UCSF Mission Bay Medical Center. The neighborhood’s residents include many scientists and tech workers. Mission Bay offers a dynamic work/live/play lifestyle with a great mix of restaurants, coffee shops, nightlife spots, recreational space, and employment opportunities.
Fourth Street runs through the heart of Mission Bay and many great restaurants can be found along the Fourth Street Corridor. District is a rustic bar and lounge offering one of the most extensive and diverse wine and whiskey programs in San Francisco. District also offers draft craft beers and handcrafted cocktails alongside a food menu of gourmet small plates and hand-tossed pizza. Neighborhood favorites include the industrial-chic wine bar Mission Bay Wine & Cheese, and the colorful Ethiopian kitchen House of Tadu. SPARKS Social Food Trucks is a unique Mission Bay destination next to UCSF Medical Center at the south end of Fourth Street. SPARKS features a beer and sangria garden lined with more than 150 street food vendors. The food trucks at the SPARKS social field sell a huge variety of international specialties every single day of the year. A block away from the water of the Mission Creek Channel, coffeehouse Café Reveille offers a mix of classic American breakfast and lunch eats and nutrition-conscious superfood bowls and salads. San Francisco's popular coffee shop chain Philz Coffee’s Fourth Street location is another great choice for getting your caffeine fix. Philz serves delicious custom coffee blends alongside a wide selection of teas, specialty drinks, and pastries.
Mission Bay is without doubt the home of sports in San Francisco. The state-of-the-art Chase Center opened in 2019 with a concert from Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. More than 200 events take place at the Chase Center every year as well as every home basketball game from the NBA’s Golden State Warriors. Oracle Park arrived in the neighborhood as the new home of Major League Baseball’s San Francisco Giants in 2000. Many major concerts have taken place at Oracle Park since it opened including performances from The Rolling Stones, AC/DC, Eagles, Ed Sheeran, Guns N’ Roses, Lady Gaga, and Beyoncé and Jay-Z. Mission Bay Kids’ Park features innovative interactive play zones and a natural play zone with boulders, earth mounds, logs, and sand. Four-legged family members will love running free on the turf at the adjacent Channel Street Dog Park.
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Accountability is crucial
Published 8:18 pm Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Editor, Smithfield Times
The editor’s column in the Sept. 9 issue of the Times discussed a topic near and dear to my heart. It wasn’t Georgie D. Tyler Middle School; it was something much more important to this county: accountability. That article, and a another published in the Smithfield Times on June 17 state that Peter Andreu submitted a grant application that resulted in the county obtaining $7.5 million from the federal government for construction of Georgie D. Tyler Middle School.
Furthermore, The Smithfield Times reported in the June article that, “emails dating back to 2009 show that the architectural and construction management firms that guided construction of the new Georgie D. Tyler Middle School spent many hours consulting on the merits of building the facility before they were hired”. The article later points out that Mr. Andreu has since resigned his county position and taken a job in California with the management company that was provided pre-bid process information.
Should there have been charges filed against Mr. Andreu? What about an investigation of the entire contract award process? Where is the Commonwealth’s Attorney office on this matter?
I’ve been in the Navy for 15 years and read countless stories in the Navy Times about commanding officers and their senior subordinates being relieved for lack of confidence over similar demonstrations of inaction. I am 100 percent confident that if the county’s leadership were held to the same standards, there would be an uproar asking for senior leadership resignations over this matter.
We need a Commonwealth’s Attorney that will, through local, state and/or federal investigation, hold anyone found to be involved in this fraud accountable for what they have done. That is why I support Jennifer Stanton for Commonwealth’s Attorney.


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Michael Gotz is a photographer and photojournalist based in Los Angeles. He is a partner at Contact Photo Lab located in the Brewery in L.A. He has shown his fine art photography in galleries and has published articles in various journals and newspapers. He is always looking for interesting and inspiring projects, such as Bible Bikers. Michael can be contacted at: email@example.com, and his website can be found at his Website.
Bible Bikers: Live Ridin’ on the Road to Redemption
The Live Ride Ministry and Motorcycle Club
This is the story of how bad boys became good men, a true tale of reformation and redemption. Through the vision of one such man, the Live Ride Ministry and Motorcycle Club was born, helping outlaw bikers, drug addicts, and criminals find faith in Jesus Christ. Their stories, in their own words, reveal gritty tales of hard men with rough beginnings who managed to turn their lives around to become productive and moral Christian citizens. Can we, as people, really ever change? This book certainly shows that we can and gives us a whole lot to think about.
Irene S. Roth | 01/05/2015
This is a unique book that is inspiring, courageous and down to earth. Its theme is that it is possible for any of us to overcome great difficulties and character defects, if we are only willing to do so and have the courage and bravery to try. What a GREAT message for all of us.
Many people believe that if they have done a lot of wrong things in their lives and have gotten to places that they should not have been that life is pretty well over. Through the stories of transformation in this book, Michael Gotz shows us that this is not the case. There is always hope and room for transformation through the Live Ride Ministry and Motorcycle Club.
Who would think that you could take God on the road and show others how to become a good and honorable people. This book documents how Christian faith worked hand-in-hand with great personal effort to turn people with very unproductive and criminal lives into fine citizens.
The men interviewed in this book, came to their faith by different means. But they are bound together by inspiration and the glue of Pastor Rick Fish. He is the leader, mentor and founder of the Live Ride Ministry and Motorcycle Club. He is their guide to a new life. But things were not always easy for him in the beginning either. This is why he knows first-hand what these men are going through and how hard it is to transform into a worthy person.
The members of both the Live Ride Motorcycle Club and the Live Ride Ministry tell their stories in their own words. And Gotz records these words faithfully, word for word. Some of these stories are raw and disturbing. But the honesty with which they are told will be felt by all readers. These stories will also inspire readers to strive to be their best, regardless of their backgrounds.
I really enjoyed the book. I love to see human lives saved and transformed for the better. And Gotz shows us over and over again that it is possible to do this, one courageous action at a time through the Live Ride Motorcycle Club and the Live Ride Ministry.
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The Orange Opera
The Orange Opera from Fort Wayne, Indiana came into the studio to record this show and then we joined them up at the Red Line Tap for a live show in the evening.The Wizard and Theresa Carter joined me and we all fell out of our chairs laughing with these guys. It is, perhaps the funniest show we have ever done.If you are fortunate enough to live near this band, you owe it to yourself to go see them live. When we know they are coming to Chicago we will let you know. They, unlike the three other bands playing that night, got a standing "O" after every song and at the end of the set the audience demanded an encore.Here's some pics from the show.


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Health matters: Eye Donation
Over 970 people have registered to donate their eyes to various eye banks in Pune including Nayampalli eye bank at Sassoon hospital, AFMC eye bank, Jankalyan at Ruby Hall, H V Desai eye hospital and more from July 1, 2011 till June 30 this year. At a function held in the memory of the eye donors and organized by Rotary Club of Poona Downtown and District Blindness Control Society, Dr Huzaifa Khorakiwala, CEO Wockhardt foundation said that eye donation is the best way to honour a loved one who is no more. Nearly 200 relatives of the deceased eye donors were felicitated on the occasion. Dr Sangita Wagh, Dr Pranav More, Brigadier T S Ahluwalia were present at the event.
A continuing medical education programme on injection and sharps safety was held at Rao Nursing home. Health care workers from various hospitals attended this program. The CME hosted this event to spread awareness about the increasing incidence of unsafe injections and needle stick injuries. Dr S T Pardeshi, acting chief medical officer of the Pune Municipal Corporation, Dr N P Rao, chairman of Rao nursing home and others were present at the event.
Workshop on acute heart arrest
Hridayam Heart Care initiated Swasthya Hridayam, a workshop on acute management of sudden cardiac arrest. The workshop aims at training people for CPR (Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation) in case of an emergency with live demonstrations and talks by Dr Kiran Borude and Dr Rahul Patil. The workshop was inaugurated by Gulabrao Pol, Commissioner of Police and Dr Ajay Chandanwale, Dean, Sassoon General hospital.
Award to be given
International adjudicators of St Laurent Institute and George Washington University will present a Merit of Excellence Award in recognition of Dr Bhushan Patwardhan, Vice Chancellor of Symbiosis International University for his contribution at the International Level in the field of Ayurveda. This award will be presented to him at a function scheduled on September 6 at Johns Hopkins university , USA


text: The novel and details the life of a girl named Sandra. She grows up in a home with an absent father and an alcoholic mother, but finds a father figure in a local Jewish shop owner. After detailing some troubling scenes from her childhood, the novel moves to the present where Sandra picks up a package discarded by a passing car that is pursued by police. Eventually bringing this package to a classmate who deals drugs, Sandra falls in love with the pusher (neither uses drugs themselves) and things start to pick up for both of them. Neither has to steal any longer to provide themselves with clothes or food, and the two find solace in each other and move in together. The boyfriend is arrested for possession and sent to a correctional institution from which he is to be released when he turns 18. While incarcerated Sandra finds herself held hostage in the shared apartment by some characters who not only rob her, but gang rape her as well as beating her. When she visits her boyfriend in prison and tells him what happens, he decides to escape from the correctional facility. A bloody climax is the result and Sandra’s boy friend, who refuses to go back to jail, insists on holding court in the street, once he has taken out the thugs who violated Sandra.


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holding that a declaratory judgment would not serve to clarify the legal relations in issue when the state court had already ruled on the insurer's indemnity claimSummary of this case from Brit UW Ltd. ex rel. Lloyd's Syndicate 2987 v. Smith
Argued June 4, 1984.
Decided September 28, 1984.
Kevin M. Stanko, argued, Detroit, Mich., for plaintiff-appellant.
T. Patrick Durkin, argued, Frasco, Hackett Durkin, Bloomfield Hills, Mich., for defendant-appellee.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.
Before MERRITT and WELLFORD, Circuit Judges, and WEICK, Senior Circuit Judge.
The sole issue on this appeal is whether we should exercise our discretion to review by declaratory judgment an order entered in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, adjudicating the merits of a claim for indemnification. Because we conclude the instant action is not an appropriate one for declaratory judgment, we vacate the District Court's order and dismiss the case.
Mr. Ronald S. Wozniak, an employee of Conrail, alleges that on October 30, 1977, while he was working as part of a Consolidated Rail Corporation crew engaged in the delivery of three rail cars to the Grand Trunk Western Railroad Company facility in Hamtramck, Michigan, he was struck by an object protruding from a Grand Trunk locomotive traveling on an adjacent set of tracks. On June 28, 1978, Mr. Wozniak filed a complaint in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, against Conrail and Grand Trunk. Mr. Wozniak's action against Conrail was based upon its alleged violation of the Federal Employer's Liability Act, 45 U.S.C. § 51, et seq.; his action against Grand Trunk was based upon its alleged common law negligence.
On February 9, 1979, Grand Trunk filed a counterclaim against Conrail for indemnification under a March 21, 1969, interchange agreement. On April 30, 1980, the Honorable Arthur Sullivan, Judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, dismissed Grand Trunk's counterclaim because, "applying Michigan law to the Agreement in question, the Court finds that the Agreement contains highly malleable, ambiguous language which does not clearly set forth the intent of the parties to indemnify for the other's negligence." Grand Trunk has not appealed Judge Sullivan's decision regarding Grand Trunk's claim for indemnification in the Wozniak case which is still pending.
On August 19, 1981, Grand Trunk filed an action against Conrail in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan seeking a declaratory judgment that the agreement in question requires that Conrail defend and indemnify Grand Trunk in the Wozniak case. The District Court granted Conrail's Motion for Summary Judgment on December 1, 1982, on the ground that Grand Trunk's indemnity claim was barred by res judicata or in the alternative by collateral estoppel as a result of Judge Sullivan's order which, the District Court found, had fully adjudicated the merits of the indemnity claim.
Grand Trunk then moved for rehearing on the ground that Judge Sullivan's order was not a final judgment under Illinois Supreme Court Rule 304(a), which provides that "an appeal may be taken from a final judgment as to one or more but fewer than all of the parties or claims only if the trial court has made an express written finding that there is no just reason for delaying enforcement or appeal. . . ." The District Court denied Grand Trunk's Motion for Rehearing because "[a]n order adjudicating fewer than all the claims of the parties may be final for purposes of res judicata and collateral estoppel."
Title 28 of the United States Code, § 2201 provides that in "a case of actual controversy within its jurisdiction" a federal court "may" give a declaratory judgment, a power permissive, not mandatory. Although it is well settled that the granting of a declaratory judgment rests in the "sound discretion" of the court, see C. Wright, A. Miller M. Kane, Federal Practice and Procedure § 2759 at 645 (1983), the standard of review of the trial court's exercise of discretion to grant or refuse declaratory relief is not so clear. See American States Ins. Co. v. D'Atri, 375 F.2d 761, 763 (6th Cir. 1967) (reversing dismissal of declaratory judgment simply as "judicially indiscreet"). Compare Broadview Chemical Corp. v. Loctite Corp., 417 F.2d 998 (2d Cir. 1969); National Health Federation v. Weinberger, 518 F.2d 711 (7th Cir. 1975); Alsager v. District Court of Polk County, Iowa, 518 F.2d 1160 (8th Cir. 1975); PPG Industries, Inc. v. Continental Oil Co., 478 F.2d 674 (5th Cir. 1973); and President v. Vance, 627 F.2d 353, 364 n. 76 (D.C. Cir. 1980), all of which take the position of the Vance case that in reviewing declaratory judgments the "usual practice . . . is for the appellate court to substitute its own judgment for that of trial court," with Globe Indemnity Co. v. St. Paul Fire Marine Ins. Co., 369 F.2d 102 (3rd Cir. 1966) and Delno v. Market St. Ry. Co., 124 F.2d 965, 967 (9th Cir. 1942) (appellate court must find "no reasonable man would take the view adopted by the trial court"). Professor Moore and Judge Friendly agree with the majority view that the discretion in the trial court should not be "review limiting," see 6A Moore's Federal Practice ¶ 57.08 at 57-37 (1983); Friendly, Indiscretion About Discretion, 31 Emory L.J. 747, 778-779 (1982) ("the statements about the special discretion of the trial court on this subject are bosh").
We believe that the standard of review applicable to the District Court's discretion exercised under the Declaratory Judgment Act should not be as narrow as the Globe and Delno cases suggest. We must be able to ensure that the District Court exercises its discretion to grant declaratory relief when the need for uniformity or an other overriding policy consideration suggests the need for settlement or clarification of the legal issues presented. But we should not be required to decide legal issues and give advisory relief unnecessarily. See Sears, Roebuck and Co. v. American Mut. Liab. Ins. Co., 372 F.2d 435, 438 (7th Cir. 1967). Thus if we disagree with the District Court's reasons for rendering a declaratory judgment, as we do in this case, we should decline to advise the parties as to the law and refuse to decide the issues presented.
We apply the following general principles in determining whether a declaratory ruling is appropriate:
The two principal criteria guiding the policy in favor of rendering declaratory judgments are (1) when the judgment will serve a useful purpose in clarifying and settling the legal relations in issue, and (2) when it will terminate and afford relief from the uncertainty, insecurity, and controversy giving rise to the proceeding. It follows that when neither of these results can be accomplished, the court should decline to render the declaration prayed.
E. BORCHARD. DECLARATORY JUDGMENTS 299 (2d ed. 1941), cited with approval in Broadview Chemical Corp. v. Loctite Corp., supra, Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co. v. Michigan Consol. Gas Co., 177 F.2d 942, 944 (6th Cir. 1949); Maryland Cas. Co. v. Boyle Constr. Co., 123 F.2d 558, 565 (4th Cir. 1941). See also Wright, Miller Kane, supra, at 647 n. 5. We thus consider the following factors: (1) whether the declaratory action would settle the controversy; (2) whether the declaratory action would serve a useful purpose in clarifying the legal relations in issue; (3) whether the declaratory remedy is being used merely for the purpose of "procedural fencing" or "to provide an arena for a race for res judicata;" (4) whether the use of a declaratory action would increase friction between our federal and state courts and improperly encroach upon state jurisdiction; and (5) whether there is an alternative remedy which is better or more effective. See generally Moore, supra, ¶ 57.08-. See also Wright, Miller Kane, supra, § 2759. Applying each of these factors to the instant case, we conclude the District Court erred in granting declaratory relief.
The instant action does not involve an independent dispute because it arises from and affects a pending Illinois lawsuit. It would not clear up the legal issues in that case. Plaintiff Grand Trunk simply seeks to obtain in this lawsuit a judgment that overturns Judge Sullivan's earlier order regarding Grand Trunk's indemnity claim. The case would continue in the Illinois court, and the effect of our ruling on that proceeding is unclear.
Courts have discouraged "the use of the declaratory action as a method of procedural fencing, or as a means to provide another arena for a race for res judicata." Moore, supra, ¶ 57.08 at 57-50. That is precisely what plaintiff seeks in this action. In Brillhart v. Excess Ins. Co., 316 U.S. 491, 495, 62 S.Ct. 1173, 1175, 86 L.Ed. 1620 (1942), the Supreme Court directed that we prevent the "gratuitous interference with the orderly and comprehensive disposition of a state court litigation." Grand Trunk's request for declaratory relief is an attempt to have the federal courts do what the state court has already refused to do. As such, Grand Trunk's request for declaratory relief is not only an impermissible attempt to race with Conrail to obtain a favorable final judgment, but also will create unnecessary friction between federal and state courts.
Courts deny declaratory relief if an alternative remedy is better or more effective. See, e.g., City of Highland Park v. Train, 519 F.2d 681 (7th Cir.), cert. denied, 424 U.S. 927, 96 S.Ct. 1141, 47 L.Ed.2d 337 (1975); Norvell v. Sangre de Cristo Dev. Co., 519 F.2d 370 (10th Cir. 1975); Cartier v. Secretary of State, 506 F.2d 191 (D.C. Cir.), cert. denied, 421 U.S. 947, 95 S.Ct. 1677, 44 L.Ed.2d 101 (1974). If Judge Sullivan erred in his indemnity ruling, Grand Trunk can appeal his ruling. Grand Trunk has never attempted to have Judge Sullivan certify the question of indemnification to an Illinois appellate court under Supreme Court Rule 304, the normal avenue of interlocutory review.
For the reasons discussed in this opinion, we conclude that the District Court erred in giving a declaratory judgment in the instant case. Accordingly, we vacate the District Court's order and remand the case to the District Court with instructions to dismiss the complaint.

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P.S.G. College of Nursing
PSG college of Nursing was established in the year 1994 under the PSG Sons and Charities trust with an aim to provide quality Nursing Education and prepare Nurses with the highest level of education and practice.
The College is afflicted to the Tamil Nadu Dr.MGR Medical University, Chennai and is permanently recognized by the Indian Nursing council ( INC ) New Delhi, and the Tamil Nadu Nurses and Midwives Council, Chennai.
The College of Nursing is located in the heart of the city at Peelamedu, in a area of 100 acres in which the 810 bedded PSG Hospitals and PSG Medical College are also accommodated. The eminent faculty members of College of Nursing and Medical College are committed to develop nursing personnel through quality education.
PSG Hospitals, which has wide and varied specialty areas with modern technological advances provide opportunities for optimal development of clinical skills for the students.
The 100% results in the University examination and securing state first rank and Gold medals from the University by our students speaks of the institutions repute.
- B.Sc Nursing
- M.Sc Nursing
- candidates belonging to all categories for admission to the B.sc., Degree course in Nursing ( basic ) should have passed the qualifying examination ( Academic Stream ) after period of 12 years of study with the following subject of physics, chemistry and Biology or Botany and Zoology
- Every candidate before admission requirements shall submit to the Principal of the institution a certificate of medical fitness from an authorized medical officer that the candidate is physically fit to undergo the academic course
- The minimum educational requirements shall be passing of Higher Secondary School Certificate Examination ( 12 years course )
( or )
- Senior School certificate Examination ( 10+2 ), pre – degree Examination ( 10+2 )
- An equivalent with 12 years schooling from a recognized Board or University with Science ( Physics,Chemistry, Biology ) and English with minimum 40% aggregate marks ( PCBE ); for Sc / ST candidates – the minimum percentage of marks is 35%.
Admission Requirements ( B.Sc Nursing Degree Course ( 4 years course ) ) :
Candidates seeking admission to B.Sc Nursing in P.S.G. College of nursing should satisfy the following eligibility criteria as per the The Tamil Nadu DR. M.G.R. Medical University:
- Candidates for admission to the B.Sc. degree course in Nursing( Basic ) should have passed at the qualifying examinations(Academic Stream) after a study upto 12th standard with the subjects Physics, chemistry and Biology ( Botony and Zoology )
- Every candidate before admission to the course shall submit to the principal of the institution a certificate of medical fitness from an authorized Medical Officer that the candidate is physically fit to undergo the academic course.
- The candidate seeking admission should be only female candidates who are unmarried and have completed the age of 17years at the time of admission.
- Candidates who have passed any qualifying examination other than the Higher Secondary course examination conducted by the Government of Tamil Nadu, shall obtain an Eligibility Certificate from the Tamil Nadu DR M.G.R, Medical University, Anna Salai, Guindy, Chennai – 600 032 before seeking admission to any one of the affiliated Nursing institutions.
- Candidates should have completed the admissions on or before 30th September of the academic year.
Admission into PSG College of nursing takes place under two categories namely the Government Quota and Management Quota.
Government Quota : The candidates seeking admission under the Government Quota should write the Tamil Nadu Professional Course Entrance Examination and follow the criteria laid down by the selection committee.
Management Quota : The students seeking admission into PSG College of Nursing through Management Quota should write a separate entrance examination conducted by the Tamil Nadu Private Professional Colleges Association-Health Sciences ( TNPPCA – HS ).
Applications and information will be provided by the Principal PSG college of Nursing / Academic section, PSG College of Nursing.
Submission of Application for The Course :
The application forms can be secured from the Principal, PSG College of Nursing/Academic Section, PSG College of Nursing.
The applicant should furnish the Xerox copies of the following along with the application form.
- 12th Standard pass certificate with Mark Sheet
- Transfer certificate
- Conduct certificate from the head of the institution last attended
- Statement of grades issued by the Higher Secondary Board (or) University
- 3 copies of passport size photographs and 2 copies of stamp size photograph
Admission requirements( M.Sc Nursing Degree Course ( 2 years course ) ) :
The candidate should have
- Passed the qualification of B.Sc.,Nursing Degree of The Tamil Nadu DR M.G.R. Medical University or any other university accepted as equivalent there to.
- Should have registered with the state registration council of Nursing and Midwifery.
- B.Sc., Nursing graduates should have one years of experience in Teaching hospital or in a College or in a School of nursing or in Community Health Program after graduation.
- The B.Sc., Trained Nurses need not have two years of experience after graduation for admission to the M.Sc., Nursing Program. They can be admitted to M.Sc., Nursing soon after the graduation in any branch of study.
- In Case of male candidates they should have passed any other course recommended by the Indian Nursing Council in place of Midwifery. These male candidates are not eligible for admission tp Branch III and VI irrespective of their experience in these areas.
- In case of candidates applying for Branch VI (Maternal and Child Health Nursing) should have experience either in Maternity Nursing or in Child Health Nursing.
- Every candidate before admission to this program shall submit to the principal of the Institution a certificate of Medical fitness from an authorized Medical Officer that the candidates is physically fir to undergo the Academic program.
- Candidate before seeking admission to the course should obtain an eligibility certificate from The Tamil Nadu DR. M.G.R. Medical University, No.69, Anna Salai, Guindy, Chennai – 600032.
- Candidates should have completed the admissions on or before the specific date given by the University.
PSG College of Nursing, Peelamedu,
Tamil Nadu, India,
Pin – 641 004,
Phone : 91-422-2570170,
Telex : 0855-261,
Fax : 91-422-2594400,
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Application Form Submission 16 Dec 2020 to 16 Jan 2021.

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Since 1997, the Passageway program has provided confidential support, safety and resources to patients and employees who are unsafe, controlled, threatened or hurt by current or former intimate partners. Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital is pleased to welcome Gina Sartori, MAT, MSW, LCSW, as our new Passageway Advocate.
Sartori has extensive experience in teaching, activism and domestic violence work and is thrilled to be joining the BWFH community. “The empowerment-based, racial and social justice-driven and trauma-informed approach Passageway centers its practice in is the way I always envisioned practicing social work,” she says.
According to Sartori, the COVID-19 pandemic has had significant effects on all of us, and those effects are inequitable based on our identities and lived experiences. “We know that survivors of intimate partner abuse have been profoundly impacted during this time—needing to stay in places that may not be safe for them, emotionally and/or physically, and that access to resources such as mental health services, housing, shelter and food insecurity programs, immigration assistance to name a few are even more difficult to access than ever. Because of racism, oppression and marginalization, Black and Latinx people, LGBTQIA+ folks and people with different abilities are disproportionally impacted. In so many ways, this pandemic has amplified the marginalization that has always systemically existed.”
She says now, more than ever, survivors of interpersonal violence need and deserve support. And the Passageway program is here to help. It provides free, confidential services, including but not limited to supportive counseling, risk assessment and safety planning, legal and medical advocacy, intensive case management and connections to resources. Passageway Advocates like Sartori will never tell someone what to do, but rather are available to expand options and access to information, and work in partnership with survivors to increase safety, whatever that might look like for someone.
“Survivors do not need to be ready to take any degree of action or leave a relationship to work with Passageway,” says Sartori “We need to be ever mindful of our propensity to replicate power and control in the medical system and all of our systems as we work with survivors. We are here to walk with someone in their journey, however they find most supportive.”
The Passageway program also offers extensive training, consultation, protocol development and technical assistance to providers at BWFH in any way that could be helpful. “If a provider would like to consult on a specific matter, request training for your department and/or discuss further institutional responses to survivors, I would love to hear from you,” encourages Sartori.
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. During this month, and always, Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital can look to the Passageway program for advocacy for patients and employees, training and consultation for providers and anything else that can prove helpful.
Contact the Passageway program:
Pager: 617-732-6660, Beeper #39342
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text: APCA members and friends gathered together at a luncheon to celebrate Asian American Heritage Month. In celebrating heritage month, APCA focused the occasion on fundraising for the local scholarship fund. Brandon Duong shared the results of the 2014 scholarship program highlighting the students from Washington State who were recipients of the scholarships. He also shared excerpts of student essays highlighting how students' understanding of their cultural heritage contributed to their present accomplishments and future goals. Carol Tagayun with the help of Michael Jackson hosted the Asian version of the Price is Right Game where the audience guess the price of Asian foods and products. Thanks to all who had attended the luncheon event! Proceeds from the luncheon are going to a very worthy cause!


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Wrap Poncho in Herringbone Wool
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I needed an instant gratification project, so I thought I’d make a wrap poncho.
I haven’t made one in a long while since I put the pattern on sale. Although its getting warmer, this wrap poncho makes a sweet substitute for a blanket at the movies, or in a cold office or for cool nights outdoors.
I made it with a scrap of rich herringbone wool I had in my stash. I was saving it for something special.
I decided to round the hem at the back for a different look and I love how it looks.
For those who’d like to know, I cut and sewed this in about an hour while watching Jimmy Kimmel. :-)


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The Supreme Court has nullified the election of Bayelsa State governor-elect, David Lyon and his Deputy, Biobarakuma Degi-Eremienyo.
The apex court led by Justice Mary Peter-Odili on Thursday directed the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC to withdraw the Certificate of Return issued to the All Progressives Congress’ candidates who were earlier declared winners of the November 16, 2019 governorship election in the state.
The five-man panel ordered INEC to immediately issue fresh certificates to the candidates of the party with the next highest votes.
Justice Ejembi Ekwo gave the ruling after disqualifying the APC deputy governorship candidate, Degi-Eremienyo, as a candidate in the election.
Going by the new judgement, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP having scored 143,172 votes has, therefore, emerged winner.


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Corporate design Mieters lifestyle for kids
BatArtworks created a the corporate (online) design & branding graffiti mural for Mieters life style for kids. Mieters is a new kids store with amazing stuff in the centre of Abcoude (Abcoude Proof).
Custom paint bags with name in graffiti style for the kids.
Branding mural at the shop


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Deputies arrested an Arcadia man following a disturbance and trespassing investigation.
According to the Wayne County Sheriff’s Office, James Prebola, 32, was arrested after a caller stated that he was on their property – trying to enter through a window.
It was also reported that Prebola was on the caller’s roof at one point during the incident.
He was arrested for trespassing and an order of protection was issued.
He will appear in local court at a later date to answer the charge.
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SEMINAR: The Acquisition and Sale of Healthcare Business Assets Both In and Outside of a Bankruptcy Proceeding
On Saturday, April 5, 2008, Elizabeth J. Austin, chair of Pullman & Comley's Bankruptcy Section, participated in a panel presentation to the Healthcare Insolvency Committee at the American Bankruptcy Institute's Annual Spring Meeting in Washington, DC. on the acquisition and sale of healthcare business assets both in and outside of a bankruptcy proceeding.
April 5, 2008
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The record of the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah, the son of David, the son of Abraham (Matthew 1.1)
The Genealogy of Jesus the Messiah
The genealogy of Jesus is a testimony to God’s faithfulness. When He promises something, He delivers. The passage begins with two key figures in the Old Testament: David and Abraham. They were both promised generations that would ultimately lead to blessing the whole earth. They looked forward to the coming of Jesus the Messiah and King. Now the promise continues to march through the generations both physically and spiritually. I’m so proud of my two sons and look forward to having grandchildren who will inherit the promises of God through Christ. And I have already become a great, great, grandfather spiritually by intentionally investing the life of Jesus in a few men and women. The genealogy of Jesus gets pretty exciting when you become part of it!

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Dori: Is it time to cut-and-run for Seattle barber?
Matthew Humphrey never thought of himself as the cut-and-run type.
But now, the owner of Steele Barber on North Seattle’s Ballard Avenue, with a second location in the city’s Roosevelt/Ravenna neighborhood, says repeat vandals and burglars with no relief from city officials “is pushing me closer to my limit.”
Just two weeks ago, Humphrey was on The Dori Monson Show speaking out on behalf of Ballard business owners who have been targeted by “drug-addicted, mentally ill campers.” His own Ballard business has been hit at least four times in the past few months; 17 other businesses within a couple block radius of him have been broken into as well.
Humphrey’s second salon on Roosevelt Way was broken into on Monday.
“There’s nowhere for me to turn,” said Humphrey, who is looking at a broken window and a stolen computer in the most recent case.
Business insurance could cover this, he says, but a claim could cost him insurance cancellation.
“This is pushing me closer to my limit,” Humphrey said. “A climate of fear hangs over everyone when this happens. Getting mad about it doesn’t seem to do any good.”
After Humphrey’s interview with Dori two weeks ago, listeners reached out to Dori to ask why the business owner doesn’t recruit a couple of buddies, sleep on cots in the shops, and catch the perps themselves.
As the owner of two pet German Shepherds, Humphrey told Dori: “My back is up against the wall.”
When things get this bad, he says, “it forces you to have to defend yourself.”
Listen to Dori’s interview with Matthew Humphrey to hear what is next for beleaguered barber:
Listen to the Dori Monson Show weekday afternoons from noon – 3 p.m. on KIRO Radio, 97.3 FM. Subscribe to the podcast here.
- Tune in to KIRO Newsradio weekdays at 12 noon for The Dori Monson Show.