"My background was much more valuable than the background of working your way up through the halls of Sacramento".
"And I have a lot of background of working with the Vacco administration," he added, referring to Mr. Spitzer's predecessor, Dennis C. Vacco, a Republican.
I come from a background of working with homeless people, but British homeless people have rights – to education, shelter and support – that asylum seekers do not have.
"I do try very hard when I'm talking in the media to be myself, which comes from years in the voluntary sector and having a background of working directly with people where I'm doing lots of listening as well as talking because any kind of communication is a dialogue," she says.
I've come from the background of working on a helpline advising women to call the police, saying "these are the only people who can help you in an emergency," so then realising that the negative attitudes [within the police] are so pervasive was quite upsetting.
It was a beautiful magazine but, you know, I didn't have the insight or background of working in the media," she told BBC Africa's Tulanana Bohela.
Elsewhere, greengrocer Kevin Brackenbury, 50, of Chester told the BBC: "I saw the advert, and coming from a background of working in supermarkets for more than 30 years, I find things like this most amusing.
This background of working in the media coupled with psychological research and practice, provides the ideal background to understand the complex causes of media-related distress and the impacts on individuals, families and society.
In the days before the crowds filter into the pristine grounds, with only the background sounds of work crews hammering in the 11th-hour details, Pete Sampras often steals a moment alone inside an empty Center Court.
