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PANO – U.S. Embassy Hanoi’s second annual Health Fair on August 30th drew a large crowd of Embassy staff and family members, Vietnamese nursing and medical students, health practitioners, and youth interested in learning more about healthy lifestyles and donating blood.
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U.S. Embassy Hanoi Chargé d’Affaires Claire Pierangelo opened the event with remarks on the importance of a healthy lifestyle and encouraged everyone in attendance to donate blood. She noted that the lifestyle changes people make can prevent health problems later in life and lead to healthier populations, stronger health systems, and better lives for Americans and Vietnamese.
“This year’s U.S. Embassy Health Fair theme is ‘Think Healthy and Save a Life Today.’ We have assembled local healthcare specialists, dentists and doctors, local NGOs, as well as our own Embassy experts from the Centers for Disease Control, the U.S. Agency for International Development and PEPFAR,” said Chargé d’Affaires Claire Pierangelo. “Our goal is to provide information and increase awareness about healthy lifestyles to our employees, their families and other guests. Just as important, we are happy to assist the National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion in promoting our annual blood drive during the Health Fair to increase the number of blood donations and save even more lives.”
Organized by U.S. Embassy Hanoi’s Health Unit, the event provides visitors the opportunity to familiarize themselves with healthcare options available in Hanoi and the region and receive information about the benefits of healthy lifestyles. The 20 local and international participating organizations provided free blood pressure and diabetes screenings, vision checks, dental advice, and calculation of body mass index (BMI).
While touring the Health Fair booths, Chargé Pierangelo took advantage of these services and had her blood pressure checked. After visiting the booth of local NGO TRAFFIC, the Chargé urged everyone to avoid buying or consuming wildlife products derived from endangered or threatened species, or that involved cruelty to animals.
The Embassy’s 2013 Health Fair marked the third blood drive conducted in cooperation with the National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion (NIHBT). The “Tet Gift” Blood Drive on January 11, 2013 and the Embassy’s Inaugural Blood Drive on September 27, 2012 resulted in over 100 Embassy staff and American Center patrons donating blood.
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How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton celebrates both familiar and lesser-known works by one of America’s most beloved poets, including 10 newly discovered poems that have never been published.
These poems celebrating black womanhood and resilience shimmer with intellect, insight, humor, and joy, all in Clifton’s characteristic style—a voice that the late Toni Morrison described as “seductive with the simplicity of an atom, which is to say highly complex, explosive underneath an apparent quietude.” Selected and introduced by award-winning poet Aracelis Girmay, this volume of Clifton’s poetry is simultaneously timeless and fitting for today’s tumultuous moment.
Excerpt from "water sign woman"
is such a long and ominous word.
if you can wait for it.
she feels what the desert feels.
During the COVID-19 pandemic last year, Tommy Greengard had the chance to buy a horse he knew could help him reach his eventing goals. Joshuay MBF, a 7-year-old Dutch Warmblood (Foreign Affair—Fernacchy MBF, Quasimodo VD Molendreef), had been imported by Andrew McConnon and was ready to go preliminary when Greengard brought him home to California in May.
The pair was able to complete a modified/training event, and it looked like their partnership was off to a great start, but “Josh” began developing eye problems just five weeks after arriving at his new home. They started with mild eye gunk and allergy symptoms, and quickly progressed to both eyes swelling shut.
Greengard, 21, rushed him to the University of California, Davis, equine hospital, where the gelding spent six weeks. He was diagnosed with a rare condition called eosinophilic keratoconjunctivitis, or “EK,” which is an inflammatory disease of the conjunctiva and the cornea. While it is well-documented in cats, dogs and rabbits, EK has not been studied as closely in horses.
Veterinarians believe it can be caused by parasites, allergies or could be an immune response.
Josh was treated with catheters in both eyes and received antibiotics and anti-fungals.
The condition can flare up in the summer months, so Greengard is on high alert now. The vets told him the majority of cases come from the Piedmont region in North Carolina, which is where McConnon is based.
Average cases can take up to eight months to heal, and horses often don’t fully heal because of scarring in areas of the eye that affect their primary field of vision. Luckily, Josh had minimal scarring, and was able to go back to work after his hospital stay.
The pair was able to compete lightly in the fall, and they “came out swinging” this spring, moving up to preliminary and winning twice at Twin Rivers Horse Trials (California) before topping the Woodside Preliminary Rider Challenge at The Spring Event At Woodside, held May 28-30 in Woodside, California.
The preliminary challenge has a rider and horse division and is a way to showcase lower-level pairs.
Greengard grew up in Malibu, California. His mother, Liddy Morrin, rode horses and inspired his love of them. He spent nine years training with eventer Robyn Fisher in Los Angeles, and she encouraged him to go to college.
Greengard is entering his senior year at the University of California, Berkeley, where he’s studying environmental science. But he’s hoping to become a professional rider.
Fisher encouraged him to go to Chocolate Horse Farm in Petaluma, California, to train with Andrea Pfeiffer and Amber Levine when he started school in 2018.
In the summer of 2019, Greengard connected with Glynn at his Sonoma Valley Stables and began riding his hunters and jumpers at home.
Greengard said he learned a lot about smoothness and relaxation in his riding that he’s been able to take back to his sport.
Along with riding for Glynn, riding his own horse and going to school, Greengard also worked at Dover Saddlery, but he’s since gotten busier working full-time for Pfeiffer.
He did virtual school last year due to COVID, but this year he plans to make the 1 ½-hour trek to school on Mondays and will graduate early.
Greengard hopes to get to the top of the sport, whether it’s on Josh or another horse in the future.
For now though, his goal is the Rebecca Farm CCI2*-L (Montana) with Josh. He also co-owns with Pfeiffer a 5-year-old, Leonardo Diterma, who just moved up to training level.
A bankruptcy trustee asserted that a bankruptcy debtor's secured debt exceeded the debt limitation of 11 U.S.C. § 109(e) for eligibility for chapter 13 relief, and that the debtor filed the case in bad faith. The trustee moved to dismiss the debtor's case.
Debtor's acquisition of property, without consideration, but subject to secured claims, caused debtor to exceed chapter 13 eligibility limit.
A chapter 7 debtor objected to the trustee's final report and proposed distribution to creditors, asserting that the payments to the secured creditors should not be considered in the calculations of the trustee's compensation under 11 U.S.C. § 326(a).
Cash payments to secured creditors properly considered in calculation of trustee's compensation.
Counsel for a chapter 13 debtor filed an application for payment of counsel fees as an administrative expense pursuant to 11 U.S.C. § 1326(b).
Attorneys'fees to be paid prior to distribution to creditors to the extent fees had been earned and were not for future performance.
Plaintiff creditor and defendant chapter 7 debtor filed motions for summary judgment in the creditor's action, which sought to except debt owed it from discharge under 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(6).
Arbitrator's award for breach of fiduciary duty and conversion was nondischargeable.
At the behest of the court, a chapter 7 trustee filed a supplemental memorandum in support of his application for allowance of compensation and reimbursement of expenses for work performed in the brief period before the conversion of the debtors'case to chapter 13.
Chapter 7 trustee's request for compensation for period prior to conversion to chapter 13 granted.
Plaintiff creditor filed a motion for reconsideration of an order denying its complaint against defendant debtor for nondischargeability