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Brenda SpoffordNPBS
Nurse Practitioner Dillingham, AK Female
Brenda Spofford, NP specializes in Nurse Practitioner in Dillingham area and has over 22 years of experience in the field of medicine. The current location address for Brenda Spofford is 3819 Columbine Circle, Spirit Sent Health Care Services, Dillingham AK. She graduated from her medical school with her medical degree in 1996. She is affiliated with numerous hospitals, including Peacehealth Ketchikan Medical Center (AK) and more. Spofford is accepting new patients at her medical office and center location and available for appointments, preventative care, medical care as well as ongoing patient care.
Active license number of Spofford as Nurse Practitioner is 198446 in Massachusetts. To learn more, or to make an appointment with this doctor, please call (907) 843 1966 for more information.
Primary practice location & Office infomation
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- Office Address 3819 Columbine Circle, Spirit Sent Health Care Services
Dillingham, AK 99576, United States
- Phone number (907) 843 1966
- All practice locations
- Monday - Friday:08 am - 05:00 pm.
Saturday and Sunday: Closed.
Spofford's Profile
- NPI Number: #1073579678
- Entity Type Code: Individual
- Medical License: 198446, MA
- Enumeration Date: Apr 22, 2006
- Years in Practice: +22 years
- Gender: Female
- Credential: NP
- Languages: English
- Is Sole Proprietor: Yes
Primary specialty: Nurse Practitioner
Brenda Spofford has been identified as specializing in nurse practitioner and has been in practice for more than 22 years.
Doctors can have one or more medical licenses for different specialities in Massachusetts or different states. Related medical licenses for Brenda Spofford are as mentioned below:
- Speciality: Family
- Taxonomy: 363LF0000X
- Medical Licence: 198446 - Issued in the state of Massachusetts
The following information about the taxonomy information of the doctor is available:
- Family
Taxonomy code #363LF0000X, with the licence number 1163, issued in the state of AK.
Brenda Spofford was educated at the following institutions:
- Medical school:
Not available - Graduated year 1996.
- She is a participant in Medicare Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) Incentive Program, which is a quality reporting program that encourages individual eligible professionals (EPs) and group practices to report information on the quality of care to Medicare.
- Medicare Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program - N/A
- Medicare Electronic Prescribing (eRx) Incentive Program - N/A
- Participated in the Medicare Maintenance of Certification Program - N/A
- Committed to heart health through the Million Hearts® initiative - N/A.
An affiliated hospital is a hospital where a doctor can practice and admit patients. Affiliation usually means doctors can admit patients to a hospital. Brenda Spofford is professionally affiliated with the following hospitals in Dillingham area and more.
- Address: 3100 Tongass Avenue, Ketchikan, AK 99901
- Phone: (907) 225 5171
- Hospital Type: Critical Access Hospitals
- Hospital Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Church
- Emergency Services: Yes
- Hospital overall rating: 3
Appointments may be made for routine visits or new problems that you may be experiencing. Knowing what questions to ask before, during and after appointments is vital to better understand, and therefore manage, an illness.
- Accepting new patients? - Yes
- Accepts Medicare Assignment? - Yes, she will accept the approved Medicare payment and will not bill for more than the Medicare deductible or coinsurance.
- Please call to Brenda to schedule your appointment today: (907) 843 1966.
This doctor has multiple office locations in Alaska and more. See office information for details.
- 1 1800 Craig-klawock Highway, Craig, AK 99921 office information Phone: (907) 826 3257
Insurance Accepted
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Routine screening study 2009 left breast
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Lobulated, bizzare shaped hypoechoeic lesion, having thick wall.
Case Discussion
This is a biopsy confirmed lobular carcinoma breast.
This case has several teaching points:
1. Not all hypoechoic lesions are cysts.
2. A simple cyst should be simple. Look at the ultrasound carefully; this is not a simple cyst.
3. Beware any developing lesions in the breast of a postmenopausal woman. It's read flag.
The article in the reference is a very good summary of why lobular carcinomas are what they are and why we miss them.
Teaching point: not all hypoechoic structures in the breast are cysts. Compare case 21370.
- Lopez JK, Bassett LW. Invasive lobular carcinoma of the breast: spectrum of mammographic, US, and MR imaging findings. Radiographics. 2009;29 (1): 165-76. Radiographics (full text) - doi:10.1148/rg.291085100 - Pubmed citation


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Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Turning 35!
I look forward to my birthdays. Not for reasons you might think. It isn't what gift I can buy myself with the gift cards I'll get. I look forward to my birthdays every year so I can reflect on what I've learned, my experiences, my relationships with others and my walk with God. I like to take some good quality quiet time in the morning on my birthday and really think about the things I could have done differently and the goals I would like to set for myself, personally.
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I found a church that is satisfying my spiritual needs in so many ways. It has been a struggle for me for two reasons. I have always felt totally disconnected from my home church, which I was a member of until my early twenties. I couldn't give you any specific reason. I just never felt a fulfilling relationship with anyone there, not even God. It is a great church, but it just didn't satisfy me. Secondly, since my Grandma Edna passed, it was just too hard to attend any church. If there was one thing I could put my finger on that made her so special to me, its this: she spent my entire life worrying and fussing over my salvation. It was special to me that she loved me so much. Most of my memories of her are in the backyard at her home, or in the church. Any time I would listen to a choir sing, go to Sunday school, or here any sermon, my heart would just hurt so badly, because I missed her so much. Oh, I still tear up at church, especially at Easter, because it was her favorite. But it is getting easier. And the congregation at my new church would just come over and hug me if they saw me crying. Which is AWESOME! Most importantly, I feel closer to God than any other time in my life. I actually want to glorify him. I want to spread His amazing love to everyone. I want to serve Him in any capacity. I want to lead my life with Christ in it, and I want my son to have me as an example of faith, like I did with my Grandmother.
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March 2018
We received 35 live colonies of Leptastrea spp. from Australia - a big thanks to Ultra Coral Australia and De Jong Marinelife for donating the corals to our research! The corals will help us to study larval release in brooding corals and larval settlement.
January 2018
new publication:
Versluis D., Nijsse B., Naim M.A., Koehorst J.J., Wiese J., Imhoff J.F., Schaap P.J., van Passel M.W.J., Smidt H., Sipkema D.. 2018. Comparative genomics highlights symbiotic capacities and high metabolic flexibility of the marine genus Pseudovibrio. Genome Biol Evol 10: 125-142.
New instrument for our MALDI - ToF - MS facility!
The NX50 (Thermo Scientific) cryostat will aid us to accurately thin-section marine macro-organisms for future Imaging Mass Spectrometry experiments.
New equipment for our aquarium facilities - most of the metal halides were exchanged with the new EcoTech Marine Radion XR15w G4 PRO. Thanks to EcoTech Marine and Coralsands for supporting our coral research with a great discount!
December 2017
new publications:
Mattig F.R. (2017) Contaminants in bird eggs. In: Wadden Sea Quality Status Report 2017. Eds.: Kloepper S. et al., Common Wadden Sea Secretariat, Wilhelmshaven, Germany. Last updated 21.12.2017. Downloaded 21.12.2017.
Steinert, Georg, Johanna Gutleben, Akhirta Atikana, Rene H. Wijffels, Hauke Smidt, and Detmer Sipkema. "Coexistence of poribacterial phylotypes among geographically widespread and phylogenetically divergent sponge hosts." Environmental microbiology reports (2017).
November 2017
Our working group received a donation of 800 kg Reef Mix® salt from Tropic Marin for our coral research.
We would like to thank Tropic Marin for the support!
16. November 2017: Public talk by Samuel Nietzer at the Hans-Beutz-Haus Wilhelmshaven: 'Korallenforschung in Wilhelmshaven und Guam'
October 2017
new publication:
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Mattig F.R. (2017) Monitoring von Schadstoffen bei Seeschwalben und Austernfischern im Rahmen des TMAP, Vortrag beim Workshop "Möglichkeiten zur Interpretation von Langzeitdatenreihen zur Schadstoffbelastung mit Hilfe telemetrischer Methoden bei Seevögeln", Berlin, 19.-20. Oktober 2017, Ausgerichtet durch Umweltbundesamt & Forschungs- und Technologiezentrum (FTZ) Büsum, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
September 2017
Dr. Georg Steinert is back in our working group. He will be analyzing bacterial communities of the deepsea samples that were collected during the Sonne Expedition SO254 around New Zealand in February 2017.
Prof. Dr. Peter Schupp takes part in the workshop IPCRBC-DAAD Workshops in Manado "Build up International Master Program at UNSRAT". The workshop is a part of the DAAD-funded program "Subject-Related Partnerships with Institutions of higher education in Developing Countries". The aim of this workshop is to develop a Master's program for Indonesian and German students that will be based at Sam Ratulangi University (UNSRAT) in Manado, Indonesia. Most classes will include fieldwork and projects that will give Indonesian and German students the opportunity to work in the center of the coral triangle: the region of highest marine biodiversity in the word.
August 2017
Prof. Dr. Peter Schupp, Dr. Masteria Putra, Elham Kamyab and Reza Faisal are on a research trip in Bitung, Sulawesi, and the Seribu Islands north of Jakarta, together with the Research Center of Oceanography, RCO-LIPI.
The aim is to collect interesting marine invertebrates that will be screened for bioactive compounds as part of the BMBF-funded GINAICO project.
Upon collection, organisms are taxonomically identified and chemically extracted. The extracts are then tested for antimicrobial and antiviral activity.
Elham Kamyab is joining this research trip for 3 months under the DAAD-funded fellowship program "Biodiversity and Health".
new publications:
Dirk Erpenbeck, Ratih Aryasari, Sarah Benning, Cécile Debitus, Emilie Kaltenbacher, Ali M. Al-Aidaroos, Peter Schupp, Kathryn Hall, John N. A. Hoope, Oliver Voigt, Nicole J. de Voogd, Gert Wörheide(2017). Diversity of two widespread Indo-Pacific demosponge species revisited. Marine Biodiversity, 1-9.
Lucas Moitinho-Silva, Shaun Nielsen, Amnon Amir, Antonio Gonzalez, Gail L. Ackermann, Carlo Cerrano, Carmen Astudillo-Garcia, Cole Easson, Detmer Sipkema, Fang Liu, Georg Steinert, Giorgos Kotoulas, Grace P. McCormack, Guofang Feng, James J. Bell, Jan Vicente, Johannes R Björk, Jose M. Montoya, Julie B. Olson, Julie Reveillaud, Laura Steindler, Mari-Carmen Pineda, Maria V. Marra, Micha Ilan, Michael W. Taylor, Paraskevi Polymenakou, Patrick M. Erwin, Peter J. Schupp, Rachel L. Simister, Rob Knight, Robert W. Thacker, Rodrigo Costa, Russell T. Hill, Susanna Lopez-Legentil, Thanos Dailianis, Timothy Ravasi, Ute Hentschel, Zhiyong Li, Nicole S. Webster, Torsten Thomas (2017). The sponge microbiome project. GigaScience, gix077.
July 2017
New publication:
Sven Rohde, Peter Schupp, Alexandra Markert, Achim Wehrmann. 2017. Only half of the truth: Managing invasive alien species by rapid assessment. Ocean & Coastal Management 146 (2017) 26-35
Peter Schupp and Sven Rohde travel to Galway Ireland for the 10th World Sponge Conference and present on "Competitive sponge coral interactions".
June 2017
German TV Channel "NDR" reports on Samuel Nietzers and Mareen Moellers work on coral reproduction. The video is on the NDR website.
"On seaweeds and flies" - Swantje Enge participates in a weeklong workshop on the evolution of seaweed flies and their ecosystem function in decomposing seaweeds in the wrack zone. The workshop is organized by the Centre for Marine Chemical Ecology and takes place at the Sven Lovén Centre for Marine Sciences - Tjärnö, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
May 2017
For our aquarium facilities we use Tropic Marin Reef Mix Salt® now. Many thanks to Tropic Marin for supporting our research.
30 Students travel to Giglio, Italy for the"Terrestrial and marine ecology of the Mediterranean" excursion, with Sven Rohde
new publications:
Georg Steinert, Sven Rohde, Dorte Janussen, Claudia Blaurock, Peter Schupp(2017). Host-specific assembly of sponge-associated prokaryotes at high taxonomic ranks. Scientific Reports, 7.
Vitalii V. Mutsenko, Oleksandr Gryshkov, Lothar Lauterboeck ,Olena Rogulska, Dmitriy N. Tarusin, Vasilii V. Bazhenov, Kathleen Schütz, Sophie Brüggemeier, Elke Gossla, Ashwini R. Akkineni, Heike Meißner, Anja Lode, Stephan Meschke, Jane Fromont, Allison L. Stelling, Konstantin R. Tabachnik, Michael Gelinsky, Sergey Nikulingj, Sergey Rodin, Alexander G.Tonevitsky, Alexander Y.Petrenko, Birgit Glasmacher, Peter J.Schupp, Hermann Ehrlich (2017) Novel chitin scaffolds derived from marine sponge Ianthella basta for tissue engineering approaches based on human mesenchymal stromal cells: Biocompatibility and cryopreservation. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules.
April 2017
Sven Rohde and Swantje Enge travel to Koh Panghan Thailand for field experiments
March 2017
Alexander Bogdanov, Cora Hertzer, Stefan Kehraus, Samuel Nietzer, Sven Rohde, Peter J Schupp, Heike Wägele, Gabriele M König (2017). Secondary metabolome and its defensive role in the aeolidoidean Phyllodesmium longicirrum,(Gastropoda, Heterobranchia, Nudibranchia). Beilstein journal of organic chemistry, 13, 502.
February 2017
5 people from our working group are on a reseach cruise around New Zealand with the reseach vessle "Sonne".
More Information is on the regualrly updated blog.
new publication:
Susanne Ueberlein, Susanne Machill, Peter J. Schupp, Eike Brunner (2017). Determination of the Halogenated Skeleton Constituents of the Marine Demosponge Ianthella basta. Marine drugs, 15(2), 34.
January 2017
Two new members in the working group:
Dr. Matthias Kellermann (Post Doc) will work on the new MALDI-TOF MS.
Lars-Eric Petersen (PhD) joined the EcoMol Project and will investigate chemical settlement cues for coral larvae.
new publications:
Nicole Schwartz, Sergey Dobretsov, Sven Rohde, Peter J. Schupp (2017). Comparison of antifouling properties of native and invasive Sargassum (Fucales, Phaeophyceae) species. European Journal of Phycology, 52(1), 116-131.
Iaroslav Petrenko, Vasilii V. Bazhenov, Roberta Galli, Marcin Wysokowski, Jane Fromont, Peter J. Schupp, Allison L. Stelling, Elke Niederschlag, Hartmut Stöker, Valentina Z. Kutsova, Teofil Jesionowski, Hermann Ehrlich (2017) Chitin of poriferan origin and the bioelectrometallurgy of copper/copper oxide. International journal of biological macromolecules.
December 2016
3rd: Samuel Nietzer presents his research on coral reproduction at the Aqua-Terra Symposium, Sindelfingen
November 2016
25th: Samuel Nietzer gives a public talk on coral reproduction at the Gorch-Fock Haus in Wilhelmshaven
New Publications:
Möller, M., Nietzer, S., Schils,T. Schupp, P. (2016) Low sediment loads affect survival of coral recruits: the first weeks are crucial, Coral reefs
Helber, S. B., de Voogd, N. J., Muhando, C. A., Rohde, S., & Schupp, P. J. Anti-predatory effects of organic extracts of 10 common reef sponges from Zanzibar. Hydrobiologia, 1-12.
Meyer, K. M., Deines, P., Schupp, P. J., & Taylor, M. W. (2016). Impact of explantation techniques on the microbiota of the marine sponge Ecionemia alata. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 484, 11-15.
New member in the working group:
Dennis Versluis joined as a Post Doc working on the microbial community of sponges within the Ginaico Project.
Peter Schupp and Samuel Nietzer are on a research trip at the University of Guam Marine Laboratory, Guam, USA.
October 2016
Three new members in the working group:
Masteria Yunovilsa Putra (Post Doc), Muhammad Reza Faisal (PhD student) and Joko Tri Wibowo (PhD student) are working in the Ginaico Project.
12 Students successfully finished the Scientific Diver class.
August – September 2016
Swantje Enge is on a research trip to the CORE searesearch center Thailand
July - September 2016
Samuel Nietzer and Mareen Möller are on a research trip at the University of Guam Marine Laboratory, Guam USA
August 2016
New publications:
Samuel Nietzer published two articles on coral reproduction in the german aquarist magazine "Koralle"
Schwartz, N., Rohde, S., Hiromori, S., & Schupp, P. J. (2016). Understanding the invasion success of Sargassum muticum: herbivore preferences for native and invasive Sargassum spp. Marine Biology, 163(9), 181.
July 2016
Nicole Schwartz successfully defended her PhD thesis
Why are aliens so successful? Explaining the invasion success of Sargassum muticum
June 2016
Peter Schupp, Mareen Möller, Samuel Nietzer and Sven Rohde are attending the International Coral Reef Conference (ICRS) in Honolulu, Hawaii
New publications:
Thomas, T., Moitinho-Silva, L., Lurgi, M., Björk, J. R., Easson, C., Astudillo-García, C., ... & Chaves-Fonnegra, A. (2016). Diversity, structure and convergent evolution of the global sponge microbiome. Nature Communications, 7.
May 2016
New Publications:
Thomas, T., Moitinho-Silva, L., Lurgi, M., Björk, J. R., Easson, C., Astudillo-García, C., Olson, JB.,Erwin, PM., Lopez-Legentil, S., Luter, H., Fonnegra, A., Costa, R., Schupp, P.J., Steindler, L., Erpenbeck, D., Gilbert, J., Knight, R., Ackermann, G., Lopez, J.V., Taylor, M.W., Thacker, R.W., Montoya, J.M., Ute Hentschel, U., Webster, N.S., (2016). Diversity, structure and convergent evolution of the global sponge microbiome. Nature Communications, 7.
Online article: Blaue Apotheke – Arzneistoffe aus marinen Organismen (German)
Tusso, S., Morcinek, K., Vogler, C., Schupp, P.J., Caballes, C.F., Vargas, S., Woerheide, G. 2016. Putative long distance gene flow of the Crown-of-Thorns Starfish in the Pacific Ocean. PeerJ 3:e1167v2
Steinert, G., Taylor, M. W., Deines, P., Simister, R. L., de Voogd, N. J., Hoggard, M., & Schupp, P. J. (2016). In four shallow and mesophotic tropical reef sponges from Guam the microbial community largely depends on host identity. PeerJ, 4, e1936.
New Publications:
Seebens, H., Schwartz, N., Schupp, P. J., & Blasius, B. (2016). Predicting the spread of marine species introduced by global shipping. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 201524427
Steinert, G., Taylor, M. W., Deines, P., Simister, R. L., de Voogd, N. J., Hoggard, M., & Schupp, P. J. (2016). In four shallow and mesophotic tropical reef sponges from Guam the microbial community largely depends on host identity. PeerJ, 4, e1936.
Samuel Nietzer presents at the International Aquarium Symposium in Lünen with two talks on coral reproduction
March 2016
Two new members in the working group:
Swantje Enge (Post Doc) is working on interactions between corals and sponges in the MarBAS Project.
Petra Schwarz is a technical assistant and will mainly work on chemical extractions. She will also support the maintanace of the aquarium facilities.
February 2016
4.02.-28.02.2016 - Thailand Exkursion 2016
New member in the working group:
Elham Kamyab (PhD student) working on chemical compounds in sea cucumbers within the Ginaico project.


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>After WOC my blog nearly die. I was running quite many orienteering competitions, but without any bigger success. Main problem was that I have to finish my school. I made it successfully and now I am runner again!
I choose to end my season in the remote destination on PWT in China instead of running Smalandskavlen, because of that I was not able to upload my blog during last two weeks. Chinese internet does not screen blogspot.com or FB. PWT China was a perfect trip for the end of the orienteering season and tonight I am going to watch performance of my friends on Smalanskavlen just on the computer screen.
First stage was in the Olympic park. This was quite easy sprint competition for the beginning. As you can see from the map, there were not so many problems to solve, but it was the most important one with really nice opening and closing ceremony and about thousand participants.
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Second stage was much more interesting. We travel behind the Beijing and run middle WRE competition. In the beginning I had huge problems to read the map and when it starts to be bit […]


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Here's a post made to IFO on her personal Facebook page. In "6 Things We've Learned About Democrats From The Government Shutdown" we see the same idea she wrote about in one of her earlier posts. So we're not the only ones who see it this way:
"Democrats thought shutting down the government was going to be the smartest decision they ever made, but it's looking more like Napoleon's march into Russia every day. For the first time in years, the Republicans sound like reasonable, principled adults who are willing to compromise to help the country. Meanwhile, Democrats are coming across like arrogant Lords telling the rest of the rabble in flyover country what rights they're willing to allow them to have."
— John Hawkins, October 5, 2013
Headlines on the Drudge Report show the ridiculous extremes that the Administration is going to to make life difficult for as many people, preferably Republicans, as possible. Our favorite was the order to close the ocean down in Florida.
We especially love the stories about federal attempts to close STATE parks! Wisconsin, YAY!, isn't having any of it. They are keeping their state parks open. The longer this goes on, the more resistance the feds will encounter.
This puts us in mind of the days of the collapse of the Roman Republic and the establishment of the Roman Empire. The Roman Senate became more and more irrelevant. Cato the Younger (see picture above) was a Roman philosopher and patriot, and a member of one of the first families of Rome. He was present when the Republic was in the 100-year process of becoming an Empire.
He did his best to stop the trend, but failed. Wikipedia says "Cato used the device of filibuster, speaking continuously until nightfall, to prevent the Senate from voting on the issue of whether or not Caesar would be allowed to stand for consul in absentia."
We highly recommend that our readers review this important period. Why? Because we see some troubling signs and similarities. But don't think the country will be taken over and turned into an Empire by the Democrats. Look at their leaders: too ignorant and incompetent to pull it off. Sadly, Republican leaders aren't.
Republicans and their friends are doers, job-makers, organizers, managers. Democrats and their friends are takers, job-holders, receivers, subordinates. So, unless Pres. Obama and his Congressional allies pull back, here's a possible scenario for the future:
2014 : Senate gains Republican majority.
2016: Presidential election – Republican president and majorities in Congress. This time the Republican president will be able to do what the Bushes and Reagan couldn't do: Establish a One-Party State, backed by the Military. Pres. Obama has already set the example:
1. If you don't like a law, ignore it.
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>I painted another piece to go into my youngest son's room. Of course I found this chest of drawers at the thrift store. I was attracted to it because of those over-sized drawer knobs. But, looks aren't everything! I thought I'd give you a quick 101 on how to buy used furniture.
When I find a piece that looks good I make sure it passes a few other tests.
First, I place one hand on each side of the piece of furniture. I add a little pressure by leaning into it and then I give it a good WIGGLE. This little test tells me how sturdy the piece is. If it wiggles, it's an indication that the areas where the wood is joined together are loose and it will need gluing and possibly nailing---usually more work than I care to do.
Next, I try all of the parts that move. I open and close doors checking to see if they line up straight and if the hinges are in good shape. I slide out drawers, checking to see if they slide easily. I also check the construction of the drawer. A well built drawer has dove tail construction. The edges are cut in a tail shape and fit together like a puzzle. Vertical dove tail construction is the next best. That's where the drawer side is cut vertically into the tail shape and it is slid into the drawer front.
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I also check the weight of the piece. I like furniture that is heavy, not wimpy and light weight. If the furniture passes these tests, I know that it's worth investing my money. I LOVE buying used furniture because I can afford quality pieces and with a little work and paint they can be customized to fit my home and family.


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Children's voices: Centre-stage or side-lined in out-of-court dispute resolution in England and Wales?
Ewing, Jan
Hunter, Rosemary
Smithson, Janet
Barlow, Anne
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Child and Family Law Quarterly
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Temporary embargo required due to publisher policy.
The UK Government recently announced that children aged 10 and over should have the opportunity to be consulted on their views in both family court proceedings and family mediation. Drawing on data from the ESRC-funded 'Mapping Paths to Family Justice' project, this article examines the extent to which children's voices are currently heard within out-of-court family dispute resolution (FDR) processes in England and Wales. The paper documents practitioners' and parties' views and experiences of child consultation, as well as evidence of the ways in which adult disputes may become the dominant concern and children's welfare marginalised in FDR processes. It argues that the government's proposals would represent a significant change in current practices. To achieve such a cultural shift would require better training and accreditation for FDR professionals, adequate funding of child-inclusive mediation, reframing of children's participation in terms of rights to have their views heard and correspondingly, modification of the central principle of party autonomy in FDR processes.
This is the final author version of the article accepted for publication by Jordans. The definitive version of record is available from the publisher and was published in Child and Family Law Quarterly 2015, Volume 27, No.1, pp. 43-61. http://www.jordanpublishing.co.uk/practice-areas/family/publications/child-and-family-law-quarterly
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