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No, there is no payout figure at end of the lease. Approximately 90 days before the end of the lease agreement, we will write to you advising you of the options that are available to you at the end of the lease. Traditionally, we have allowed customers who have complied with the lease to make us an offer to purchase the goods at a nominal cost such as $1.
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Henderson Hammock Charter School
Henderson Hammock Charter School is a tuition-free public charter school educating students in grades K-8. Henderson Hammock Charter School is governed by Florida Charter Educational Foundation, Inc. and a member of the Charter Schools USA family of schools.
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Jesus said 'my house will be a house of prayer;' we long for our church to be Jesus' house, a house of prayer. Prayer is to be integral to all that we are and do at VEC. D.L. Moody is often quoted as saying 'every great movement of God can be traced to a kneeling figure.' We long for God to move in and through us, and we commit ourselves to pray for that to happen.
We have regular church prayer times each month, in the morning on the second Saturday of the month, and in the evening every first and third Sunday of the month at 7pm. This is an opportunity for us to come together and communicate with our loving heavenly Father, both speaking and also listening to him as we bring everything to God in prayer. During these times of prayer, we are thankful to God for his goodness and we pray for the ministry of the church, the needs of individuals within the church family, the different events that we are involved with, the needs of our town, and the needs that we are aware of within our nation and in our world. Glenn also meets with other Church leaders every Wednesday morning to pray with a single agenda seeking the manifest presence of God.
We want to have prayer permeate all that we do, so we pray often during our worship services and we encourage people to pray daily through our monthly prayer calendar and our fellowship prayer directory. The prayer calendar has a daily reminder of an important prayer point. These are circulated by print, email and text. Our prayer directory is a list of the church family and its ministry, which people can use to bath the whole church in prayer. Emergent prayer items are sent out through our weekly newsletter, mass email or text requests.
We have the amazing privilege of serving a God who loves it when his children speak to him, listen to him and respond to him. Prayer reflects and deepens the dynamic nature of our relationship with God. Our vision for VEC is that we would be a loving family devoted to God, and we believe one way we express that well is by coming together to reflect our dependence and commitment to the God who loves us and gave himself for us, and bearing one another's burdens as we cast our cares upon our Creator.
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"San Carlo are in the Top Ten Italian Restaurants in the UK"
The Times
Reviews & Awards
Winner of 36 industry and consumer food and drink awards, including:
Les Routiers
Best multi-site restaurant brand & entrepreneur
Runner up - restaurant of the year
This glamorous mini-chain of old-school Italians has satisfied hungry Londoners for years. The San Carlo group is known for delivering casual but effortlessly elegant all-day dining with great panache. The interiors are shiny with lots of gold and marble, the service is effortlessly charming and there's little chance of leaving hungry – this place is Italian to the core. Seasonally changing menus feature a run of sharing plates: start with a creamy helping of buratta, served with parma ham and sprinkled with shavings of earthy truffle, before moving on to larger plates including intensely meaty Paccheri pasta stuffed with Tuscan pork sausage, and veal wrapped in parma ham. Continue the fun with a glass of Prosecco or an Aperol spritz, before choosing from the likes of tiramisu and panna cotta from the dessert menu, or if you can't decide, opt for the dessert tray which serves you a little bit of everything.
AUTHENTIC is a word much abused. Seasonal, too. And Italian restaurants that pay true attention to regionality are few and far between. Glossy San Carlo Cicchetti has never stayed tied for long to its name, a homage to Venetian gondoliers' favourite small plates but in exec development chef Filippo Pagani they have a driving force in the kitchen whose roots spread wide.
So a humble nettle risotto, peasant food, is given a showcase in the new summer menu and beetroot ravioli are given equal billing – a quite ravishing dish, sprinkled with poppy seeds, not a million miles away from Polish pierogi.
Seafood steers a course, naturally, towards Venezia, 'La Serenissima', notably Calamarata con granchia– short pasta tubes with crab, fennel and chilli (£7.95), the pasta too al dente for me but a real chilli bite in there. Trumped, mind, by a rival pasta dish from old foe Florence – Strozapreti with asparagus, fennel, peas, mint, broad beans, mascarpone and pine nuts (£7.90).
Favourite dishes of the tasting, though, was Prosciutto-like cured lamb sliced thin and served with mint, tomatoes and pistachios.
Filippo told us: "For me, the best cooking combines great simplicity with great taste and for an Italian, eating seasonally is a way of life, it means you're eating fresh ingredients at the height of their flavour. In June and July, asparagus, peas, broad beans, peaches and lemons come into their own. Our new dishes celebrate the best of the new season's produce using dishes from Florence, Cortina, Venice and Abruzzo."
From the latter rustic region came divine lamb cutlets roasted in hay with rosemary and thyme (£8.95, above). We look forward to their handling of porchetta – stuffed, boneless slow roasted pork – at the upcoming Festa Italiana in Cathedral Gardens.
Neil Sowerby, Taste of Manchester
Fifty metres of pizza, porchetta and a prosecco bar are all on the menu at Manchester's first dedicated Italian food festival.
Festa Italiana, organised by family-run restaurant group Salvi's, will turn Cathedral Gardens green, white and red from June 23 to 25.
At the heart of the festivities will be a food court where Salvi's will be serving Neapolitan specialities, along with San Carlo Cicchetti, which will be carving up porchetta - the Italians' answer to hog roast.
West Didsbury pizzeria Proove will also be firing up its portable wood oven for the event, and there'll also be fresh pasta dishes from The Pasta Project, stuffed focaccia from Tigellae, Sicilian specialities from Mr Roll, more pizza from I Knead Pizza and Aperol sorbet from the Cabrelli Brothers.
Festival-goers can also look forward to an Aperol spritz bar kitted out with moped seats and hammocks, plus dedicated prosecco, limoncello, Peroni, Moretti and San Pelligrino bars.
Salvi's will also be serving up 50 metres of pizza on the final day of the festival in an attempt to smash the 20-metre record they set at last year's Manchester Food and Drink Festival.
Owner Maurizio Cecco will be demonstrating some of Salvi's favourite dishes in a Live Cookery Theatre, along with Dylan Thomas of Gusto, Filippo Pagani of San Carlo, Michele Magnotta of Proove, Lewis Drewe of Veeno, and Carlo Molon who is flying over from Milan for the occasion.
The event promises to be a real family affair, with a group of Italian nonnas showing festival-goers how to make pasta, and plenty of kids' activities including pizza-making, pasta-decorating, face-painting and balloon-modelling.
Festival-goers can take home some goodies from an Italian food market, where producers will be selling meats, cheeses, oils, wines, gelato, prosecco, focaccia, cakes, pasta and more.
A live Italian band will be playing loud, lively, foot-stamping tunes throughout the festival, with a few Manchester classics thrown in for good measure.
Emily Heward, Manchester Evening News
Should we let the weather dictate what we eat, or should we let food influence our mood?
Surely if you head towards a good Italian restaurant, order a long cool aperitivo along with sharing platters and ripe, grilled seasonal vegetables, you can create the illusion of an Italian summer, no matter whether it's sunny or rainy outside.
While the rain lashed against the windows of San Carlo Cicchetti this week, thanks to the excellent food and wine, we were utterly transported to the sunnier climes of Florence, Cortina, Venice and Abruzzo. The award winning restaurant's new summer dishes reflect Cicchetti's food philosophy of selecting and importing the finest native seasonal ingredients and allowing them to shine.
San Carlo Group's Executive Development Chef Filippo Pagani, a native of the mountains of Cortina, has developed these new dishes to reflect very local, regional Italian flavours and this was most apparent in a seemingly simple starter of burrata with Datterini tomatoes (£7.95). This classic mozzarella cheese and tomato salad combo is well tried and tested but, thanks to the high quality of ingredients, Cicchetti's summer version has much more intensity.
Their Puglian burrata is so soft and creamy it almost defies gravity by not breaking free from its delicate outer shell and oozing all over the plate. Datterini tomatoes in season are utterly special; small and slightly elongated, these ripe, sweet tomatoes are grown in sunshine and picked when they reach their optimum flavour, before being shipped directly to San Carlo restaurants.
"For me, the best cooking combines great simplicity with great taste and for an Italian, eating seasonally is a way of life, it means you're eating fresh ingredients at the height of their flavour," said Filippo "in June and July, asparagus, peas, broad beans, peaches and lemons come into their own."
But let's not forget how masterfully the Italians do comfort food; risotto and rich pasta dishes are the edible equivalent of climbing back into a fresh warm bed. We tried two silky and comforting risottos which, although not officially on Cicchetti's new menu, are likely to be offered as specials throughout the summer months; risottos ortica and mandorle are both quite different but equally satisfying. The former is based around the more unusual nettles; fresh, tender, soft green sprigs of late spring, which had been enhanced by onions and the addition of lots of cheese. Sicilian mandorle was dotted with prawns in the half shell and enriched with almonds, good seafood stock, ripe tomatoes and fresh basil. If you see them, order them.
The Italians do vegetables very well – although to be fair, not much needs doing to them at the height of the summer season to bring out their best qualities. Many committed carnivores have happily tucked into satisfying spring and summer pasta dishes without a second thought as to whether they contain meat or not. Take the hearty strozapreti (a pasta shape which strangely translates as 'priest-strangler') from Florence, which utlilises the best of the season's market offerings; asparagus, fennel, fresh peas, broad beans and mint and binds them in creamy, diet-busting mascarpone cheese (£7.90).
Equally rich was a luxurious bowl of calamarata con granchia (£7.95), a Venetian dish of short pasta tubes bound with intensely flavoured crab meat, fennel and a hint of chilli.
From Abruzzo, gorgeously tender lamb cutlets with rosemary and thyme, baked in hay to seal in their meaty juices (£8.95). There's only so much ground you can make by eating these politely with a knife and fork, so we recommend you sit in a corner and pick them up with your hands. You might want to do the same with their new Tuscan pork ribs (£8.50).
Save room for dessert - it's a little known fact that the chefs at San Carlo make all their own gelato, desserts and pastries.
Cicchetti is part of the award winning family owned San Carlo Group of Italian restaurants and is open 7 days a week including bank holidays.
For more information about Cicchetti Manchester go to www.sancarlocicchetti.co.uk
Deanna Thomas, Manchester Confidential
Situated in the vibrant business area off Colmore Row by the Cathedral in central Birmingham is Fumo (meaning Steam or Smoke in English) which is an exclusive-feeling Italian restaurant and cocktail bar and is part of the San Carlo group, which in our opinion are some of the best Italian restaurants we've visited in the UK, with the Bristol one on Corn Street being a long standing favorite of ours.
Genuine Italian cuisine and knowledgeable friendly staff remain a constant thread of the group, which extends to this Fumo branded restaurant we are reviewing today. There is another Fumo in Manchester. With an excellent and extensive menu, it offers an usual but interesting choice as all the dishes are smaller tapas style which the restaurant recommend each person orders two or three separate dishes. It's a great way to enjoy food especially if you're in a large group and are tempted by more than one thing on the menu!
We ordered six dishes in total for two of us which was plenty as the dishes are slightly bigger than a normal tapas size dish.
Polpette Beef Meatballs in tomato sauce - very tasty!
We can highly recommend the lamb cutlets which were absolutely delicious! The ambiance and friendliness of the staff really make this an excellent restaurant and the extensive wine list compliments the whole experience.
With easy to use WiFi and plenty of parking close by, as well as public transport with it being so central, we are pleased to give Fumo Birmingham Five Forks based on today's review and will definitely be visiting again soon.
What we ate and drank:
1 x Spaghetti Bolognese
1 x Lamb Cutlets
1 x Meatballs
1 x Basilicata Pizza
1 x Venetian Salt Cod Croquettes
1 x Spinach and Ricotta Ravioli
1 x Bottle of Dry White Italian Wine
1 x Bottle of Still Mineral Water
Total Including optional service £71.00
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Website: www.sancarlofumo.co.uk
Fear on Food Rating: 5 Forks
Leon Fear, Fear Group
It was one of the first Italian restaurants to open in the city and was a regular haunt for footballers, television stars and politicians.
It was 'the' place to be seen and guests even asked to be seated in the window so they were sure to be spotted.
And 40 years on, the legendary Flying Pizza restaurant in Roundhay is still flying the flag for Italy. It marked its 40th anniversary with a party and lunch cooked by celebrity chef Aldo Zilli, and the unveiling of a revamp worth more than £200,000. A new terrace with a retractable roof, allowing for instant al-fresco dining, was the spot for the party attended by former customers and staff members, including previous owner, Adriano Piazzaroli who came over from Italy especially for the event. He said: "I came to Leeds in 1959 and I came to Flying Pizza as general manager in 1975. I got a share in 1984 then bought it by myself." Adriano sold the restaurant in 2002 to Carlo Distefano who now runs the family business with his son Martello. Adriano added: "I have been back a few times over the years as my son Ricardo still lives in Leeds. "Carlo is doing a fantastic job but it is something special for me to come back here for the 40th anniversary and see old clients and friends."
Martello said the family business now comprises 18 restaurants but Flying Pizza is the one that is closest to his heart. He said: "I have been coming to Flying Pizza since I was 10 – we would come as customers every Sunday. "Because we have grown up here it is quite personal to us."
Yorkshire Evening Post
Iconic Roundhay restaurant Flying Pizza celebrated its 40th birthday with a very special reunion.
Thursday 2nd February saw founding owner Adriano Piazzaroli jet in from Italy to join long-time friend and current owner Carlo Distefano and celebrity chef Aldo Zilli, to toast the 40th year and celebrate the launch of a new, stylish dining terrace, complete with retractable roof.
With Adriano at the helm, Flying Pizza became one of the most famous restaurants in Leeds. After seventeen years at the top Adriano returned to his native Italy to concentrate on his food and wine export business.
Carlo Distefano, Chairman of the multi-award winning San Carlo Group, which also owns San Carlo on South Parade, along with seventeen further contemporary Italian restaurants, bought Flying Pizza six years ago in February 2011.
During the intervening years after Adriano left the business, Flying Pizza had lost its sparkle, eventually falling into administration.
Former Roundhay resident Carlo Distefano and his family, who were friends of Adriano's and often ate at Flying Pizza in its hey-day, stepped in to acquire the business, with the aim of restoring it to its former glory.
Now, six years on, following a lavish refurbishment and continued investment, Flying Pizza has seen a return to success.
The celebration saw owners past and present reunite to toast the anniversary and the launch of a new chic dining terrace which seats close to 100, with a stunning feature olive tree and a retractable roof for instant alfresco dining, should the weather allow.
The perfect place for a celebration with friends or family or an intimate romantic occasion, the terrace offers atmospheric dining in a beautiful setting.
Commenting on the occasion, Carlo Distefano, Chairman of San Carlo Group Restaurants said:
"I'm thrilled to welcome my old friend Adriano back to Flying Pizza, the place he created all those years ago. We've been friends right back from those early days here, when we lived in Roundhay. In fact, it was Adriano I went to for advice when I wanted to open my first restaurant, he was so helpful and we've remained firm friends. It only seemed right that he was here to celebrate 40 years of Flying Pizza with us today."
San Carlo Group's Celebrity Chef Consigliere, Aldo Zilli also joined the reunion, cooking up a special anniversary meal to mark the occasion.
Open seven days a week from noon until late, Flying Pizza believes attention to detail is critical to its success. All dishes are made on the premises from scratch using only the finest seasonal ingredients, many of which are sourced locally in Yorkshire or flown in from produce markets in Sicily and Milan.
Yorkshire Food Guide
Italian born Zilli, Executive Consultant Chef for San Carlo group of eighteen award winning UK restaurants, jetted in to Birmingham from his birth place in Abruzzo, Italy, with a rare white winter truffle on Friday 28th October.
Aldo returned to Abruzzo to personally select the rare white truffle, so highly prized it's known as the king of the culinary world. The edible buried treasure was discovered by professional truffle hunters in the national park of the Abruzzo region using specially trained dogs.
Fetching up to £4,000 a kilo, the white fungi are prized for their aromatic qualities and unique taste, growing deep in the soil under trees; they can only be harvested around two months a year.
Aldo handed over the delicacy, as a welcome gesture, to old friend Carmine Sacco of San Carlo in Birmingham and diners at the popular Temple Street restaurant will be able to try the world's most expensive food for themselves.
The following white truffle menu is available for two weeks or until it's all been eaten!
San Carlo's Truffle Menu
• Steak tartare with poached egg and shavings of fresh white truffle
• Lobster and truffle risotto
• Tagliolini with truffle butter and shavings of fresh truffle
• Carpaccio and burrata with shavings of truffle
• Turbot with a truffle, Prosecco and cream sauce
Commenting on the prized truffle, Aldo Zilli said: "Many have tried to describe the aroma and taste of the white truffle – the Romans believed it was an aphrodisiac, maybe it is, it's intense and earthy and the smell of it can fill a room, but you have to experience it yourself as there's nothing like it."
Open seven days a week, 365 days a year from noon until late, San Carlo offers diners the true taste of Italy. The menu features only original and signature Italian dishes; everything is made on the premises using only the best ingredients, many of which are flown in from produce markets across Italy.
The San Carlo Group is proud of its many accolades which include the industry leading Les Routiers in Britain Hospitality and Service award. Booking is highly recommended. For reservations contact San Carlo 0121 633 0251 or email email@example.com For more about San Carlo, visit www.sancarlo.co.uk
Birmingham Press
Before I tell you how I spent my Friday lunchtime, I feel the need to tell you that once I rolled back from lunch I found out the keynote for my event next week had pulled out. I tell you this, because the special guest star at the preview lunch I went to was a £2,000 white truffle and we were going to be some of the first to eat it. But as with most things, there needs to be a balance in life. Just, you know, not at lunchtime.
Thanks to celebrity chef and executive consultant chef for the San Carlo group Aldo Zilli, who personally selected one of the world's most expensive ingredients from his home town in Italy, this Temple St restaurant now has a rare white winter truffle and it's on the menu or the next two weeks, or until it runs out. Yep, that kind of rare.
A group of us were invited down to check out some tasters from the exclusive menu at San Carlo. It's been a while since I've been to San Carlo, although not too long since I was at its sister venue, Fumo, round the corner. In fact, last time I remember going my friend Fran had great fun translating some of the overheard Italian, which made for a great lunch. And whilst that was a while ago, it was nice to see that San Carlo's reputation for original and signature Italian dishes remains strong, as it was pleasantly busy whilst we were there.
Anyway, back to the truffle, which is a rare treat to have in the city, particularly of such size. This white winter truffle was found in the national park of the Abruzzo region, by specially trained dogs – and not pigs, as I thought. Prized for their aromatic qualities and taste, they grow in the soil under trees and can only be harvested for around two months of the year. So, you know, when they find one, and one that costs around £2000, you can see why it's a cause for celebration.
And to celebrate the arrival, San Carlo have created a special menu of five dishes; Steak tartare with egg and truffle shavings, lobster and truffle risotto, Tagliolini pasta with truffle butter and shavings of fresh truffle, Carpaccio and burrata with shavings of truffle and turbot with a truffle and Prosecco cream sauce.
I enjoyed getting to taste each of the dishes; despite all having the same start ingredient all felt like they brought something different to the palette. Personally, my favourite was the tagliolini pasta with truffle butter and shavings of fresh truffle because it was so simple, but executed so well; the buttery oil slick over perfectly cooked, al dente pasta with a hint of the garlicky musk from the truffle. I also enjoyed the lobster and truffle risotto, and I know it's pretty much heresy to admit, but I'm not usually that fussed by lobster (too fiddly).
Five courses of white truffle might well be a bit overkill for most, but it's definitely worth checking out a dish (or two, if you can convince a dining partner to order from the menu too). But you'll have to be quick, as the menu will only be around for as long as the truffle is. It's expected to be around for two weeks, but booking is highly recommended by the restaurant – call San Carlo on 0121 633 0251 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.


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The Job Description of a Yoga Instructor
Yoga may be 5,000 years old, but its relevance seems more vibrant than ever. According to Yoga Alliance, 37.4 million Americans currently practice yoga, up from more than 20 million in 2012. Although the job field is becoming ever more competitive, if you love yoga and are thinking of becoming an instructor, there's definitely opportunity.
What's the job description of a yoga instructor? There may be almost as many answers to that as there are yoga instructors — almost 73,000 in the U.S., according to the Yoga Alliance. Be that as it may, here's a sketch of what a career in yoga might look like.
However many yoga classes you've taken, formal teacher training is a must if you want to teach. There are many different styles of yoga, each offering its own credential, but the gold standard is recognition by the aforementioned Yoga Alliance, a voluntary, internationally recognized credentialing system. While the minimum amount of training you need to be YA-credentialed is 200 hours, there are also 300- and 500-hour designations.
Many yoga instructors train in more than one discipline or specialize in teaching yoga to specific groups, such as kids, pregnant women, post-natal women or the elderly.
Yoga training involves a lot of classroom work, studying yoga philosophy, muscular anatomy, meditation; however, there's also a lot of mat work as you learn to observe, analyze and correct postures.
Finding a Job
Yoga instructors, who typically work as independent contractors, may work for private or corporate studios, commercial gyms, schools or private clients — or, most likely, some combination of these. Kate Purnell, a yoga instructor for a large commercial gym, works for a large commercial gym with numerous locations in the Los Angeles area, teaches 4 classes weekly at four different locations. Twice a month, she co-teaches a yoga class for a charter school. For Purnell, like many instructors, teaching yoga is a part-time job, but one that complements her other job as the education coordinator at a Buddhist center, where she lives.
As you might guess, nobody gets into teaching yoga to get rich. Pay varies considerably according to area. Large urban areas are likely to pay more than small towns, but then there's a lot more competition in bigger cities. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, which includes yoga teachers in the category of fitness trainers and instructors, median pay is $17.39 an hour. Some studios offer a base rate of pay and may gives bonuses if the teacher develops a following and packs in the students. p
Some yoga disciplines have a very specific format or sequence of poses that the instructor is expected to follow to the letter. Bikram Yoga, for example, is a series of 26 poses and doesn't allow for improvisation. However, in most situations, it's up to the instructor to design the class or adapt it to the needs of those who attend on a given day. That means planning poses in proper yogic sequences to maximize benefit and prevent injuries.
In some situations, it's the instructor's responsibility to advertise and promote the class. In others, the studio or gym will advertise or market the class, according to Purnell. Yoga instructors are not necessarily required to carry liability insurance but it is recommended. Fortunately, the cost is low, running from $150 to $200 a year, according to Yoga Journal.
While it's important to have a plan, once in the studio a yoga instructor must be prepared to go off script, taking into account the limitations, possible health problems and various levels of ability among the students who come to the class. The instructor must monitor the students and adjust them in their poses, helping them maximize their potential as well as to avoid injury. You'll probably also be expected to leave the studio in order, with mats, blocks and other items tucked back where they belong.
But in the end, it's all about helping people, says Purnell. "My most important responsibility as a yoga instructor is to make sure that people feel better when they leave than when they came in," she says. "When that happens, it's really makes it all worth it.


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If I seem busier than normal this week, it's because I took a few days off last week. Those days were part of my first-ever journey to Washington D.C. to attend the Ecumenical Advocacy Days conference, an annual gathering of several Christian denominations who attend in efforts to learn, network, and lobby for social justice in our nation. If I seem sleepier than normal this week, I hope that previous sentence will illustrate why! What I may not seem like just yet is fired up, but I can promise you that I am, and I am here to tell you why.
This year's EAD theme was 'Confronting Chaos, Forging Community' which featured plenary of many kinds, workshops, exhibits and events focused on combating what Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called the "giant triplets" of inequality: racism, militarism, and materialism. On the final day of the conference, attendees go to Capitol Hill to lobby. Based on the core values of the Christian faith and the theme of this year's EAD, we ask Congress to reject increases in Pentagon spending and instead fund several human needs, especially to vulnerable persons, in the United States and abroad. If you'd like more in depth information about the ask we made, you can find that here - https://advocacydays.org/2017-confronting-chaos/lobby-day-ask/
The techniques and strategies I learned while at EAD, who I learned them from, and the unique experience of lobbying are the most significant of about five hundred things that happened to me during the four days I spent in our nation's capital. When I offered to write a reflection about my experience, I suddenly panicked because there really is so much I could tell you about it. Let's see if I can keep my thoughts within the three categories of learning, networking, and lobbying. But you know me, there's bound to be a tangent or two…
The geek in me really loves a good puzzle, and conferences like this are just that when it comes to learning. I took lessons from powerful sermons, practiced strategies in workshops, absorbed stories and statistics and facts, and somehow the fast-paced conference-served puzzle of wisdom comes together, and the image that remains in this case, with this conference, with me, is one of a more confident, capable, and convicted woman. Whoa!
The 1,000 folks attending EAD were certainly preparing for the day about 500 of us spent lobbying to Congress on Monday. As I collected my puzzle pieces preparing to do this for the first time, I have more strategies not only to take on conversations with my Reps and Senators, but with anyone. Many leaders throughout the weekend explained the importance of sharing your personal story and the power that can have, especially since political offices are used to policy makers spewing stats at them. When we were to arrive to make our non-partisan case for the importance of human needs, we were going to have our stories to back us up. We would lead with our values, we'd be concise, compelling, and clear. We'd tell them what we wanted to see much more than why we were angry, we'd build consensus in one area and go from there. Trust me, I could go from there.
The collection of preachers, speakers, and workshop presenters was not only long but sparkling with creativity, credentials, and missions. I'd like to highlight two of those folks.
My favorite sermon of the weekend came from Rev. J. Herbert Nelson II, Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, and he said the thing that launched me from being nervous about lobbying to being ready. Rev. said, "Take the step without thinking, 'What will happen to me?' I invite you to consider, what will happen to you if you don't? What will happen if we remain silent and don't get in trouble?" His message was powerful and loud, and my hands furiously clapped when in his closing remarks he included, "If your church is not doing social justice, you need to find another church."
The keynote speech came from the UCC's very own General Minister & President, Rev. Dr. John Dorhauer. Yes, I am a UCC nerd and got there early to grab a good seat! Rev. Dorhauer spoke about white privilege and our nation's cultural, political, and institutional investment in white skin. Highlighting the UCC's Curriculum on White Privilege, Rev. provided us with another example of how to use your personal story to make a strong point, as he told stories of his experience realizing race in himself and examining that educationally and spiritually. During the Q&A portion of his time with us came the most striking thing he said. He was asked, and I am paraphrasing, what advice he would give to young white men in high school and college about what they could do to fight against systemic racism. He said, "Every time they go in for a job interview, they should ask the interviewer, 'How many people of color have you interviewed for this job?', and if the answer is zero, they should refuse to take that job." That was one of the many times throughout the weekend that a speaker had left the room completely energized.
Of course not all of what I learned at EAD was told, taught, or showed to me. The nature of any ecumenical gathering comes with a free side of noticing our similarities and differences with other faith traditions. One frustration I had with the conference was the lack of workshop options for LGBTQ+ specific issues regarding human needs. It certainly would have fit with the theme, but from what I understand, EAD organizers cannot offer workshop options on topics that may alienate denominations that forbid those topics. Interesting stuff, especially since many (if not all) of the speakers at the event included LGBTQ+ people in their messages as full humans created in the image of God who are in need of and deserve care, funds, and rights. It left me wondering, if they can talk about it from the pulpit, why can't we talk about it in a workshop setting? The UCC HIV & AIDS Network did host a 'LGBT Briefing Breakfast' that included an hour of dynamic speakers with powerful stories, but I and other LGBTQ+ folks simply wanted more time, discussion, and consideration as far as conference programming. Rev. Cedric Harmon, who spoke at the breakfast, said it best, "Faith, spirituality, and religion are porous. There's room for stuff to get in, and there's room for stuff to get out." That preached to me and I believe it preached to an elderly Catholic woman who introduced herself to me soon after he spoke those words. Not only did she attend the breakfast out of curiosity, she told me she felt "challenged" by what the speakers at the breakfast had to say because "it's just not allowed" in her church. She didn't say anything hateful, she didn't say she did not agree, she came up to a younger tattooed stranger to admit she was feeling challenged. I believe with more ecumenical gatherings we can begin to have conversations that start like this one did, and perhaps more programming will follow. This interaction also reminded me of something I forget sometimes – I am a bit spoiled to have found a home in the most progressive Christian denomination that affirms my identities. Thanks, UCC!
My thanks to the UCC extends even further, specifically to the National office who awarded me the scholarship that allowed me to attend EAD and see all the folks I did while I was there. Upon arrival I joined other UCC young adults, young adult scholars and some teen interns, along with members of Washington D.C. UCC staff and National UCC staff, including Rev. Dorhauer himself. (Of course we talked baseball!) In this reception-style gathering I was introduced to my roommate for the weekend, a 26-year-old young woman from San Diego, CA, Azar Khojasteh. Azar and I share passionate and emotional personalities and became fast friends through the weekend, never even stopping to take a photo together because we were too busy chatting about systemic change, dating, and breakfast sandwiches. She is certainly one of the most inspired young women I have met in a long time, and I am grateful that we happened upon each other and a new friendship in this way.
While neither of them could stay to lobby on Monday, I was also able to spend time with two folks at EAD you may recognize from CTUCC, our Legislative Advocate Michele Mudrick and student at Union Theological Seminary Kaeley McEvoy. Kaeley and I enjoyed listening to the keynote speech and were lucky enough to have a dinner together with other UCC folks, and Michele and I kept randomly selecting the same workshops, must be something in the CT water! The three of us also saw each other in our state breakout sessions and in a UCC gathering. Familiar faces from home in a new city were certainly a bonus!
Other bonuses are the new friends I made while I was there. (Hi Luciano, Zillah, Nathan, Marcus, and April!) I now have several other UCC and church folks in my age bracket to connect with and that is somewhat rare for me. One evening while we were at EAD, a group of us went dancing and explored a few monuments lit up in the night sky. If you've never seen the MLK Jr. Memorial Monument, it's worth going to D.C. just to see that lit up at night. Even though the busy weekend did not leave much time to be a tourist, we still managed to incorporate an evening out.
The most unexpected networking opportunity came when I was having an introvert moment during the conference. I figured I'd look around the exhibit tables while most others were off doing something else. Who did I run into but the Rev. who delivered the sermon which spoke to me so much earlier that day, the Rev. J. Herbert Nelson II. I was happy to meet him and surprised to discover that the loud preacher I remembered from the morning was soft-spoken and carried himself with sweetness within in-person interactions. I admire that type of duality in a person, and I asked for a selfie.
My favorite networking moment, though? After one of the many speeches, I re-introduced myself to Rev. Traci Blackmon who I met briefly at another event last year, and who happens to be a personal hero of mine. She gave me a hug! The only thing I can call that is a Hero Hug. Gold!
Without the multiple perspectives from and interactions with all the people I came across at EAD, I would not have been as organized or influential when it was time to head to Capitol Hill. I am so grateful for the friends and leaders who prepared me for the Lobby Day, as I am for the other CT constituents who lobbied with me.
While EAD is a national conference who had 500 people lobby on Monday, there were a group of 10 of us from Connecticut who began the morning with a meeting at Senator Blumenthal's office. (See if you can spot the CT UCC pastor in the photo with me!) Before we met with David Carpman, the Senator's Legislative Assistant and Counsel, it was hard to miss the CT themed décor that surrounds this Senate office. UConn Huskies on the walls, an intricate embroidered CT pillow on one of the chairs, and a Capitol building made of Legos! The 10 of us had already spent time during the conference preparing who would introduce our group, who would share stories, who would ask for the Senator's commitment, who would pray, etc. (Prayer was an important component to incorporate into our Congress meetings, as it distinguishes us as people of faith and makes our meetings stand out from the ordinary.) It was my job to share my passionate opinion about the importance of keeping free school lunch programs, and I shared my personal story of eating these lunches myself when I was in school. My story and plea had some kind of impact, because David only seemed to take notes during that time. The advocates I lobbied with were also clear and strong in their convictions as they shared their stories, and David shared what most of us who follow CT politics already know, Senator Blumenthal agrees that we need to keep funds in human services and not take funds from human service programs to use for military spending. It was an equally powerful and positive meeting which left me feeling less intimidated by this Washington D.C. place I had only ever thought of going to.
In between Congress meetings, I attended a public prayer protest at the Methodist Church site near the Capitol building. Several faith leaders spoke and publically prayed in the rainy weather while attendees held signs referencing a moral budget for our nation. Rev. Traci Blackmon gave a powerful message in which she frequently asked, "How are the children?" Rev. Blackmon suggests we ask this question of ourselves in as many capacities as we can. This public prayer gathering held power as individuals and groups passed by us, many wearing those red hats with that white font, wondering why we weren't running away from the raindrops. We had bigger things to worry about.
My next meeting was with Rep. John Larson's office; I was one of three to lobby in that meeting. Judith Roberts and Julian Barlow of Windsor, CT and I met with Serj Banjac, Larsons's Legislative Assistant. He welcomed us into Rep. Larson's office which is certainly smaller than the Senate office we were in earlier, but still adorned with beautiful antique furniture and fabrics. We held a similar conversation with Serj that we did with David, except this time we were able to get more in-depth since there were three of us instead of ten. I lifted my personal story again, and the concerns the East Windsor and surrounding community have with a possible third casino being built in CT, while Julian discussed the importance of assisting veterans, communities of color and their families. Serj was responsive to us and had many thoughts of his own to share which made for a dynamic conversation. I will be following up with him to be sure he plans to hold Rep. Larson accountable to what we discussed.
While it may seem like we were preaching to the choir since our CT Congress people tend to lean toward supporting human service programs, it remains just as important for these offices to hear from us. The way I look at it, for every request they receive to take funds out of human services, we should be there five times as often if not more, even if the office agrees with us. While the two meetings I took part in did not require much debate, others who participated in EAD did not have the same experience. Nathan Watts, a friend who lobbied for Arizona, was met with a cold, "We consider those things," when talking with his Congress person. Part of me would prefer to have these conversations with states that may not agree with our moral perspective, but for my first lobby visit, I'm glad it went the way it did. We certainly prayed with our feet and worshipped with our actions, and as Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, "Nothing would be more tragic than to stop at this point," and I don't intend to stop until a moral federal budget is realized, no matter how long it takes.
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Rockies bullpen hit hard in 15-3 loss to White Sox
DENVER (AP) — Chad Bettis hung tough for 11 pitches. His 12th delivery to Jose Abreu opened the floodgates, and the Colorado Rockies never recovered.
Abreu and Avisail Garcia each hit two of Chicago's six homers, powering the White Sox to a 15-3 win over Colorado on Tuesday night.
It was a much closer game with one out in the seventh, when Bettis came in from the bullpen with two runners on base. His battle with Abreu was at a standstill until he grooved a curveball that the Cuban slugger hit over the left field wall to make it 7-2.
"It was a bad pitch. If I could have it back I would like it to go about 4 inches further down than what it was," Bettis said. "It was right above the knees. But you can't get that one back.
"That's a big swinging point of the game."
Jose Quintana (1-0) pitched seven sharp innings, and Tyler Flowers and Alexei Ramirez also went deep for the first time this season.
Two of the home runs were hit in the second inning against Rockies starter Franklin Morales (0-1). He gave up a solo shot to Garcia, who had four hits, and a two-run homer to Flowers that gave Chicago an early 3-0 lead.
"I missed on a splitter in the middle and (Garcia) got a home run," Morales said. "After that I tried to fight and stay in the game."
The left-hander managed to stick around into the seventh, but after getting the first out, he hit Adam Eaton with a pitch and gave up a single to Marcus Semien, who also had four of Chicago's 19 hits.
Bettis came in to face the right-handed-hitting Abreu. The count was 2-2 when Abreu fouled off six straight pitches. After Bettis missed with a changeup, Abreu jumped all over a 77 mph curve for his first major league home run.
"The changeup before the curveball, it could have been a little bit better pitch," Bettis said. "That curveball, 4 inches further down, it's a completely different result."
The White Sox broke it open with six runs in the eighth off righty Wilton Lopez. Garcia and Ramirez greeted him with consecutive home runs, and Abreu had a two-run shot that made it 12-3.
Rockies manager Walt Weiss wanted Lopez to get through the inning, but after he allowed an RBI single to Garcia, Lopez was lifted for Tommy Kahnle.
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"You're trying at that point to think about tomorrow and not blow through the bullpen, but I don't like to leave a guy out there as long as I did, or take him out in the middle of the inning and have him walk off the field," Weiss said.
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Cord Blood Collection
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Cord Blood, on Friday, July 27. 2007 at
By the way, for anyone pregnant, reading this, please consider donating your baby's cord blood if you don't want to bank it for your own child/family. Talk to your OB about it. Get a kit from CBR before you go into labor and bring it with you. I wish I had known how easy this was to do when I was pregnant the first three times. I believe it is completely free to donate. CBR was great to work with; George, thank you for making this so easy! Thank you CBR for having the Designated Transplant Program! And, a special thank you to my OB for waiving her fee for this collection.
Andrew's Cord Blood
Posted by Steph in
Cord Blood, on Monday, June 11. 2007 at
Update 6/13 13:06
The kit just arrived via FedEx. That was fast!
Clinic Visit
Posted by Steph in
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wbc 6.3 (4-12)
rbc 3.97 (4-5.3)
hemoglobin 13.0 (11.5-14.5)
platelets 352 (140-450)
neutrophils 48 (25-50)
monocytes 11 (3-15)
Asher's clinic appointment yesterday went just fine.
Asher is going down to 500 fluids a night now, starting Saturday night. They will deliver all 14 bags Friday night. I think this is our LAST home health delivery, but not totally sure about that.
He will still be taking Acyclovir, 2x a day, and Bactrim, 2 days a week, twice on those days.
Asher's appetite is still down from when he initially came home, but he seems to be eating OK. Sometimes he will have a little snack of fruit or something and then say, "No thank you" to dinner (like he did last night!).
Asher's hair isn't growing as fast as I thought it would. In fact, I'm not sure it grew much at all in the last two weeks. It is okay; I like it to be the length it is anyway, especially for the summer.
Asher still needs a 2 hour nap each day. We just can't let him go without it. However, if Daddy is home, forget it, he won't nap. He naps just fine for me though. All 4 of us go to sleep, the 3 kids and me, around 2:30-3pm. Yesterday, on the way to the clinic visit, around 1:30pm, while I was stuck in 2mph traffic due to a bad accident, Asher fell asleep. He had to be woken up when I go to clinic and he wasn't too happy about that. They won't let us come in the morning though because those appointments are for children who are having problems. At least we are almost done going to bi-weekly clinic visits.
Not sure when we'll take Asher to clinic again. Right now we don't have a scheduled date. Two more weeks till his MRI. He will have a large blood draw that day too for lots of blood tests for Day +100, as well as a chest xray to check his organs, also, just a required thing for Day +100. 2 1/2 weeks until his Broviac comes out. Time is flying and we just enjoy each day.
Asher's oncologist just filled out the Cbr paperwork for the DTP program on 6/5 and the transplant coordinator faxed it the morning of 6/6. A guy from Cbr, in charge of new accounts, called me this morning to ask how it was coming and I told him it was just faxed yesterday; he said he will be calling me as soon as he gets it on his desk. I am feeling good about it and think Andrew's cord blood will be an accepted for Asher in the DTP program. Until I have the kit in my hands though, Andrew must stay inside. The "kit" to collect the cord blood is actually sent to me and I have to bring it to labor & delivery when I go into labor. I'm 32 weeks tomorrow. The earliest any of my kids were born was 36 weeks. So, not much time left.
Just some of my reading/research:
1) http://www.kidshealth.org
"Collection of the cord blood takes place shortly after birth in both vaginal and cesarean (c-section) deliveries. It's done using a specific kit that parents must order ahead of time from their chosen cord-blood bank.
After a vaginal delivery, the umbilical cord is clamped on both sides and cut. In most cases, an experienced obstetrician or nurse collects the cord blood before the placenta is delivered. One side of the umbilical cord is unclamped, and a small tube is passed into the umbilical vein to collect the blood. After blood has been collected from the cord, needles are placed on the side of the surface of the placenta that was connected to the fetus to collect more blood and cells from the large blood vessels that fed the fetus."
"Clamping the umbilical cord too soon after birth may increase the amount of collected blood, but it could cause the baby to have a lower blood volume and possible anemia soon after birth."
2) http://en.wikipedia.org
3) http://www.americanpregnancy.org
"Cord blood may only be collected during the first 15 minutes following the birth, and should be processed by the laboratory within 48 hours."
4) http://www.nature.com
5) http://www.cordbloodbankingguide.com/
6) http://www.leukemia-lymphoma.org
Day +80
Posted by Steph in
Cord Blood, Home after Treatment, on Friday, June 1. 2007 at
He is doing well. He is a bit moody and irritable and we're not exactly sure why. He is fighting with Alexa a bit more than normal. Personally, I think he isn't eating quite right and not getting that afternoon nap this week is really burning him out (his Daddy is home this week and he does 'get away' with more then). So, hopefully this can all improve starting again this next week. If it doesn't, I am going to start to worry (more).
I came down with a sore throat and cold through last weekend and have been tired, congested, and feeling pretty crappy all week. I am sure I picked it up at the girls WELL-checkup. Seriously, I HATE taking WELL kids to the doctor!! The sick kids and well kids check-in at the same counter; doesn't that just seem wrong? But, I had skipped Aubree's 9 month checkup and Alexa was already 2 months past her 3 year checkup, so in we went. Anyway....sure enough....I got sick! BUT, fortunately, the children don't seem sick....I've been waiting for it to hit them and it hasn't. I am so hoping they, especially Asher, will be spared. We have tried so much not to expose Asher (and me, mainly because I pick things up pretty easily, especially when pregnant) to possible illness.
I have an application going off to the Cbr (Cord Blood Registry) for their DTP (Designated Transplant Patient) program. They do have "Brain Tumors" on their "current stem cell applications" list, while Viacord does not. This does not mean for sure they will approve Asher's application. Asher's oncologist has to fill it out and fax it in, and it is in his hands right now. If this is approved, then we can bank Andrew's cord blood specifically for Asher to use in the future if he needs it. It isn't completely free, but the cost is small. It would cost us $150 and any cost my OB would have to collect with the kit (but she told me she is writing in the file so she or her partners will not charge me for this service). If this is not approved, which it may not be due to Asher's future treatment options, we would then have to sign-up for the Family Banking program if we want to privately bank the cord blood for potential use in the future for any of our children. This is costly initially, but bearable, and then there is a annual fee to bank. But, that isn't the only thing to think about. There are a lot of reasons banking the cord blood just isn't necessary as one of Asher's transplant doctors told me and from the reading I found. I have thought a lot about this, from the start of Asher's diagnosis, too, especially since I had Aubree only 6 days prior to Asher being diagnosed. I was told to NOT feel guilty about not banking Aubree's cord blood because (1) it may not match Asher (very small % chance it does, however, cord blood is more 'forgiving' than bone marrow itself, meaning it doesn't have to match 'as well' (whatever that means)), (2) the number of cells from the newborn cord blood might not be enough for what Asher needed (we even had to do two collections of Asher's peripheral blood to get enough cells for his autologous stem cell transplant (if I am saying that correct)), and (3) we still have the actual children in case Asher or one of our other children need a 'bone marrow transplant.' The fact is, if Asher's cancer comes back, the Medulloblastoma tumor in his brain, then we have to radiate to save his life. I was even told by Dr. Finlay that they wouldn't recommend another transplant for Asher, but I keep telling myself that just might not be the absolute truth. Science/medicine changes. So, I am wondering what Asher's oncologist will put on the DPT application form. Also, it is important for me to be able to have, in writing, that if one of my other children get cancer or need those cells for an illness, that we be able to apply/petition to use those cells for another child in our family, not just Asher. The nice CBR man on the phone said it is possible to do that, but I need that in writing and so far I haven't read that anywhere. I feel especially 'weird' (not sure how to describe how I feel) about banking Andrew's cord blood NOT for Andrew, but someone else, brother or not. So, the Family Banking might make more sense, even just for a personal thing for me....however, 'almost free' is great, and Scott is hoping more for that! Also, I have considered donating Andrew's cord blood instead of banking it.... So, there are a lot of things going through my mind about all of this. Scott hasn't given me his/any thoughts, other than "if it is less than $500, do it" (and it could very well be more than 4-8 times that, depending on how long it is banked)....so this one lays on my shoulders alone.
So, that's all that is going on here, besides daily life stuff.
Please continue to pray for my friend Susie's daughter, Amber, who had major surgery to her face and would appreciate prayers!!
Clinic Appointment
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Asher went to clinic yesterday. He weighed 17.3kg, up from 17.0kg which was pretty consistent through April.
We are going to go with 750mL of fluids at night now, over 10-12 hours, down from 1000 bags (although we were stopping them early, he was probably still getting around 850mL). Then in about 2 weeks we'll go down to 500.
We are dropping the Prevacid since it is for tummy issues and I don't think Asher has any. Acyclovir goes for 6 months though, so got some time on that one yet. Still doing Bactrim Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and I think that is till Day +100 but I forgot to ask on that one.
I am going to call and schedule surgery for Asher to have his Broviac out for the week following his next MRI (6/21), so week of June 25th. They won't let me do it the same day as his MRI because they (not me) fear the MRI could show recurrence.... Just want to get that done before July hits as we're thinking Andrew could be born anytime in July. Also, sooner the better, to let Asher get back to his life, swimming included. He deserves to enjoy our pool this summer. He has always loved to swim since he was a baby. Today the pool is done (the reconstruction) and is being filled with water as I type this. He was so excited this morning and before the girls were awake he and I walked around the pool. He keeps talking about getting his catheter out so he can go in the pool. I told him it will be around the time Andrew is born that he will get to jump in the water! I think I will have tears then....it is like he has his '4-year-old life' back but then he has these tubes hanging out of him....I can't wait till they are out and not a constant reminder of this past year.
He is doing well. His fingernails are all healing and growing more normal now. His jumping is improving, as is his running. He may even need a haircut in a few weeks!
Counts 11:30am 5/23/07 Day +71:
wbc 4.3 (4-12)
rbc 3.69 (4-5.3)
hemoglobin 12.5 (11.5-14.5)
platelets 309 (140-450)
neutrophils 46 (25-50)
monocytes 13 (3-15)
ANC 1978 (doc says this fluctuates a lot at this point, so it dropped, but not to worry)
Next clinic appointment is June 6th.
Before clinic I had the kids at the pediatrician for the girls' well-checkups (3 years for Alexa and 1 year for Aubree). It was one year ago this week that we had Asher looked at by this pediatrician and I think she knew what the MRI would show before she even told us she was going to order an MRI. I think back, about how she handled that, and didn't freak us out....and how she called and checked on us a lot after we did know the results....
She was observing Asher quite a lot yesterday. I noticed her doing that and I said I was so amazed how Asher had come out of this past year with very little to no deficits. She said she is amazed at how well his mind is working (she used a different term, like brain-something), how balanced and coordinated he was, how much he had grown, and how good he looked. She said she couldn't believe it had been a year already but that she was sure it had just been an awful year and couldn't imagine really what it all had been like for us....there was hesitation in her speaking, and I could feel her thinking back to that week last year....she even said she remembered how he was last year and he is so different now.
I was really happy with how careful the kids' pediatrician is too. No one warned me or told me that the girls' vaccines need to be post-poned or anything like that. For instance, Alexa couldn't get her chicken pox vaccine because it is a live virus vaccine (if I said that right) and Asher could get quite sick, so she will get it at 4 years or 5 years old since it is a 3-5 years vaccine.
Every day this week it has been nothing but THERE....the memories, the pain....if I'm not playing with Asher or near him I feel the pain. When I'm with him I can celebrate his victory. I'm always rubbing his head...it is WEIRD to MISS his baldness. I kinda do. The bald head...there was something about it. It wasn't a sign of his illness or anything like what missing eyelashes meant to me....
So anyway....a flood of memories this week, of feelings, and of prayer. I found myself praying to God last night after thinking about what the transplant doctor said...."if Asher has a recurrence we will do radiation"...I know...I know...that has always hung over me. I'm so afraid of radiation and I ask God to what? NEVER let Asher's cancer come back? SURE! But really, I'm the realistic person here, and I just ask that IF it comes back, to keep it away till we can do radiation at an older age. I'm just so afraid of it.
There, got that outta me. We can just go on with life and act like there is NO CANCER in our life! So there, Cancer, go away! Let us have some peace and enjoy the upcoming new life in our family! I want to give birth to a baby and not feel like my world is going to fall apart.
I saw a little boy at clinic today with his mom. I almost didn't recognize him. He had leukemia, at 2, and he looks so big now. Last we saw him was at the end of September when he was DONE with treatment but got a line infection (in his catheter). She remembered how sick Asher was back then. Anyway, it is good to see the kids post-treatment. There's something about it. Hope. Faith. Something. He's the same adorable boy I remember, just taller, and with hair! The mom said to me, "OH! You're expecting!" Yeah, you can't miss it now. I have a good size 7 month belly. She said, "What, you thought you didn't get to enjoy the last one so you'll have another one?" I said, "I guess that is what God was thinking!"
And....before I forget....I talked to the transplant doctor about Andrew's cord blood....it was a GOOD conversation, one where I didn't feel horrible after having it. I had done a bunch of reading and anyway, it was just GOOD to have the doctor be honest with me and not just say, "Of course you should bank it!" She actually didn't even say that, and I told her it surprised me! Both my OB and the kids' pediatrician said that, "Yes, you should bank it!" I'm still trying to decide what is 'right' and hoping God gives me a sign, and soon. Some programs require registration by 35 weeks and I'm 30 weeks tomorrow.
Coming to terms with the treatment plan....
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We have not done radiation to date. I hope to never do radiation. But, since we have not done it, it is still an option.
Transplant is not a once-in-a-lifetime thing. If Asher's tumor / cancer would come back, and another transplant was recommended, if he did not have enough of his own stem cells we could go to other sources. I've already decided we will be keeping / banking our newest baby's cord blood; baby is due in late July 2007. I'll never forget the four times my OB asked if I wanted to bank Aubree's cord blood and how I said no each time and how I wondered why she was asking so much and why she never asked with Asher or Alexa....I'm not sure how much it costs, but add it to the costs we have to save our son's life. Priceless, as far as I am concerned. The money will come from somewhere.
I think I have come to terms with everything....1 1/2 more days before we begin....till then, only one night left of 2006. A year that has brought a lot of pain, a lot of joy, a lot of miracles, and a lot of love. I am filled with tears as I let go of the 2006 pain and begin 2007 with hope.
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The Thames at Crossness yesterday - I walked up from Woolwich to within sight of the QEII bridge - and in fact to within 2 miles of the end of the Thames Path, but I'd been out in the sun for three hours, which was enough. There's little shade on the river.
The arch on the right in this picture is the Barking Creek Flood Barrier. The cross bar drops down and blocks the mouth of the creek at high tides. There's seaweed on this stretch of the Thames, although (as you can see) it's not really that wide yet.
I'll be returning to Erith for the last bit of the Thames Path and then winding down the rivers Darent and Cray as part of the London Loop, which my aunt and I picked up again starting today.
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Dem Dunce: Self-beclown triple down? Rose McGowan is ON it!
Geez, don't be so "basic," guys! As Twitchy readers know, actress Rose McGowan WAS told the "basic" truth about Democrat diversity when she posted an idiotic tweet about the GOP. But, she wasn't done.
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That's rich. Media lapdogs spin for Dems incessantly, Ms. McGowan. So if you are talking about THAT, then we'd agree! Alas, based on your past tweets about Republicans, we doubt you see that hard truth.
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Big data is something that I am continually asked about by clients, as the subject continues to gain significant press. While discussing this topic, I often address it from the angle that bigger data volumes will result in bigger data problems. Although this seems like a logical premise, the reality of what it really means to an organization and how to plan accordingly is what is often overlooked. Rather than solve the problem in this blog post, I want to focus on two key considerations from a data governance standpoint, as well as discuss why SSG sees the Informatica 9.5 Platform as a core component of a sound data governance strategy that can ensure an organizations' business decision-making success.
Regardless of the amount of data within an organization, the same type of problems around the integrity of the data and the need to put policies, procedures and an organizational structure in place to address data governance is important. The difference is that the size and scope of data issues (and how to resolve them) will become magnified as the volumes of data increase. In addition, the type of data often varies in a big data scenario, with a significant amount of unstructured data being available for consumption into an organization.
When discussing the importance of data governance with clients, as well as the impact big data can have on this strategy, I often start with two core tenets:
- What is your starting point? – Before you can determine where you would like to go with a data governance initiative, you need to understand the starting point. The first key question to understand is what is business objective/goal for considering a governance initiative? If you don't have a clear purpose, the initiative is likely to steam over time.Once you understand the objective, other questions to ask include: Do you have an understanding of the quality of data within your organization? Are tools in place to resolve data quality issues and report on them? Also, what level of support do you have from senior management to embark on a data governance initiative? The intention of these types of questions is to determine if data governance is just a buzzword, or is it something that could gain traction if a plan is put into place within the organization.
- Don't Boil the Ocean – This phrase refers to having a realistic game plan for the governance initiative. Although data governance should be adopted throughout the entire organization, starting at a project level will allow you to pilot the processes, organizational changes and/or technologies that have been selected as a part of the data governance initiative. This also goes back to point #1, as we need to understand our starting point in order to set realistic expectations when building a data governance organization based on the current maturity around the topic within the company.
How does the Informatica 9.5 Platform help?
Informatica 9.5 is focused on maximizing return on data within an organization. If we consider some of the capabilities provided in Informatica 9.5 along with the need to develop a data governance strategy within an organization, we can make sure your company is ready to address the big data challenge. Just remember my earlier point – the concepts around data governance are the same, it's just the data volumes and type of data that are going to be different.
With Informatica 9.5, companies can increase the value of data to their organization while also lowering the cost of data. If we consider these points from a data governance standpoint and the big data challenge, some of the benefits that Informatica 9.5 provides to an organization include:
Increasing the Value of Data:
- Relevant data: The larger the volumes of data, the more important it is to determine which information is relevant to your business. Just having the ability to access Facebook and Twitter data doesn't make it relevant, as you need to have a purpose for this information. Having data governance policies and standards in place are critical, as you need to determine how you plan to use the additional data feeds and who will be responsible for making decisions based on the new information is critical. Informatica 9.5 provides new capabilities such as Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Social MDM, which helps organizations further analyze and integrate social data. Having data governance policies in place can provide the framework to decide how this information can be leveraged in your organization's business activities.
- Timely data: Having policies in place that determine how you will bring real-time data feeds into the organization and who will be responsible for using the data (and the timeframe for leveraging it) will be the responsibility of the data governance organization. From a software perspective, data streaming capabilities in Informatica 9.5 will help your organization capture data in a timely fashion. The data governance organization needs to ensure you have the processes/policies in place to do something with it before the data is no longer relevant.
Lower Cost of Data:
- Business costs considerations: I have seen a number of organizations make bad decisions as they do not have the right software technology and policies in place within the organization to know that their data is "bad". Through the use of Informatica 9.5, your organization will have increased visibility into data issues through data discovery, and the ability to resolve the issues in a more governed process through data stewardship workflows.
- Labor costs considerations: A typical scenario within organizations involves teams of people performing manual intervention to resolve data issues. By leveraging Informatica 9.5, you can automate the discovery of data issues across hundreds of tables or sources at once. As you migrate from a manual process of data review, the team members within the organization previously responsible for these activities can be leveraged in other areas more critical to the success of the business. In addition, from a governance perspective, the ability to catalog issues and build business glossaries will provide reusable templates and rules that can further reduce costs within the organization.
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Lincoln Electric System (LES), a utility company that serves more than 114,000 residential customers and 15,000 commercial and industrial customers in Nebraska, has selected Microsoft partner Schneider Electric to implement the task-based, map assisted mobile solution, Orbit, to accurately capture, manage and unify all field data from transmission poles, while improving the efficiency of infrastructure upgrades and repairs. Since it is powered by the Microsoft Azure platform, Orbit provides real-time capabilities to the solution, allowing updates and data to be distributed throughout the entire workforce immediately.
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Eremoryzomys, also known as the gray rice rat, is a genus of rodent consisting of a single species, E. polius. Discovered in 1912 and first described in 1913 by Wilfred Osgood, it was originally named Oryzomys polius. In 2006, a cladistic analysis found that it was not closely related to Oryzomys or to any other known member of its tribe, Oryzomyini. The Brazilian genus Drymoreomys, named in 2011, is probably its closest relative. Eremoryzomys has a limited distribution in the dry upper valley of the Marañón River in central Peru. A large, long-tailed rice rat, with a head and body length of 138 to 164 mm (5.4 to 6.5 in), it has gray fur, short ears, and well-developed ungual tufts of hair on the hindfeet. Females have eight mammae. The rostrum (front part of the skull) is long and robust and the braincase is rounded. The bony palate is relatively short. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has found insufficient data to assess the conservation status; the species may be threatened by destruction of its habitat for cattle farming.
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