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The research topic of nano-optics deals with light-matter interactions on nano-scale dimensions. In Sheffield we are interested in two different aspects of the subject: the interaction of light with nano-structures such as quantum wires and dots, and the confinement of light in nano-scale cavities within photonic crystals. The two aspects are united when we investigate quantum dots in resonance with photons in nanocavities. The cavity enhances the interaction between the photon and the dot, and results in cavity QED phenomena such as the Purcell effect and strong coupling.
The research activity on nano-optics is funded by our EPSRC Programme grant on Semiconductor Integrated Quantum Optical Circuits. As part of this programme, we are investigating the generation of single photons by quantum dots and wires, and their integration with miniature photonic circuits on semiconductor chips. We are also investigating the use of resonant lasers to perform coherent quantum control experiments of individual exciton and spin states in quantum dots. By combining these two techniques, our goal is to interface static qubits (exciton or spin states in quantum dots) with flying qubits (photons), in order to demonstrate the key components of quantum networks.
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• Coherent control
• Photonic structures and Integration
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We've titled our sponsors brochure 'Hope & Glory' for good reason. Sponsors of Pacific Row will be delivering 'hope', perhaps especially to those looking for a cure for Parkinson's. They will also benefit from extensive global media coverage before, during and after the event. They will be invited to bask in the 'glory' of the team's accomplishments. The team has the will, spirit and drive to be the first boat across the finish line. Others have crossed the Pacific before, but no pair has ever rowed this particular route; it's one of the few remaining 'firsts' left in this world.
Pacific Row is seeking to work closely with a corporate title sponsor – to realise brand visibility. This will include but is not limited to the following:
• Right to name the team and boat;
• Logo branded clothing to be worn by crew for all media events, during training and during the race;
• Logo brand on side of boat and on boat trailer;
• Logo brand in prominent position inside boat;
• Logo brand in prominent position on team website home page; company mentioned on website plus links to own website;
• Logo brand in a prominent position on all social media sites; championed on team social media sites and blog; and mentioned wherever possible in press and media;
In addition:
• Personal appearances by crew and boat. Alex and Darren both have public speaking experience;
• Company video to appear on Pacific Row 2014 YouTube channel;
• Ownership of oar (post race, obviously);
• Invite to launch party in California and award ceremony in Hawaii.
• Film footage, photos, email/tweet updates and audio files by satellite datalink for own website; • Twice monthly column on own website by crew giving the current status up to the start , including photos and video footage;
• And more, wherever possible.

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Thursday, February 12, 2009
Bk Shivani with Students
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Bibliographies are organized by topic and can be accessed using the links below or the menu on the right.
Wildlife in Sagebrush Ecosystems
A searchable "Great Basin Bibliography" is available on the website of the Great Basin Information Project.
Recently Published Articles and Reports
Al-Hamdan, O.Z., F.B. Pierson Jr, M.A. Nearing, C.J. Williams, J.J. Stone, P.R. Kormos, J. Boll, and M.A. Weltz. 2013. Risk assessment of erosion from concentrated flow on rangelands using overland flow distribution and shear stress partitioning. Transactions of the ASABE. 56(2):539-548. Available here, and here.
Bates, J.D., K.W. Davies and R.N. Sharp. 2011. Shrub-Steppe Early Succession Following Juniper Cutting and Prescribed Fire. Environmental Management 47:468-481. Available here.
Connelly, J.W., S.T. Knick, C.E. Braun, W.L. Baker, E.A. Beever, T. Christiansen, K.E. Doherty, E.O. Garton, S.E. Hanser, D.H. Johnson, M. Leu, R.F. Miller, D.E. Naugle, S.J. Oyler-McCance, D.A. Pyke, K.P. Reese, M.A. Schroeder, S.J. Stiver, B.L. Walker and M.J. Wisdom. 2011. Conservation of Greater Sage-Grouse. Pages 549-646 in S. T. Knick and J. W. Connelly, editors. Greater Sage-Grouse: ecology and conservation of landscape species and its habitats. Studies in Avian Biology No. 38. University of California, Berkley. Available here.
Davies, K.W. 2011. Plant community diversity and native plant abundance decline with increasing abundance of an exotic annual grass. Oecologia 167:481-491. Available here.
Davies, K.W., J.D. Bates and A.M. Nafus. 2011. Are There Benefits to Mowing Wyoming Big Sagebrush Plant Communities? An Evaluation in Southeastern Oregon. Environmental Management 48:539-546. Available here.
Davies. KW., J.D. Bates and A.M. Nafus. 2012. Vegetation Response to Mowing Dense Sagebrush Stands. Rangeland Ecology and Management 65:268-276. Available here.
Davies, K.W., C.S. Boyd, J.L. Beck, J.D. Bates, T.J. Svejcar and M.A. Gregg. 2011. Saving the sagebrush sea: An ecosystem conservation plan for big sagebrush plant communities. Biological Conservation 144:2573-2584. Available here.
Davies, K.W. and D.D. Johnson. 2011. Are We "Missing the Boat" on Preventing the Spread of Invasive Plants in Rangelands? Invasive Plant Science and Management 4:166-171. Available here.
Jacobs, B.F. 2011. Spatial patterns and ecological drivers of historic piñon-juniper woodland expansion in the American southwest. Ecography: online publication. Available here.
Johnson, D.D., K.W. Davies, P.T. Schreder and A.M. Chamberlain. 2011. Perceptions of Ranchers About Medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae (L.) Nevski) Management on Sagebrush Steppe Rangelands. Environmental Management 48:400-417. Available here.
Johnson, B.G., D.W. Johnson, J.C. Chambers and R.R. Blank. 2011. Fire effects on the mobilization and uptake of nitrogen by cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum L.). Plant Soil 341:437-445. Available here.
Knick, S.T. and J. W. Connelly, editors. 2011. Greater Sage-Grouse: ecology and conservation of landscape species and its habitats. Studies in Avian Biology No. 38. University of California, Berkley. More information available here.
Madsen, M.D., K.W. Davies, C.J. Williams and T.J. Svejcar. 2012. Agglomerating seeds to enhance native seedling emergence and growth. Journal of Applied Ecology 49(2):431-438. Available here.
Madsen, M.D., S.L. Petersen, B.A. Roundy, B.G. Hopkins and A.G. Taylor. 2012. Comparison of Postfire Soil Water Repellency Amelioration strategies on bluebunch wheatgrass and cheatgrass survival. Rangeland Ecology and Management 65(2):182-188. Available here.
Madsen, M.D., D.L. Zvirzdin, S.L. Petersen, B.G. Hopkins, B.A. Roundy and D.G. Chandler. 2011. Soil Water Repellency within a Burned Piñon-Juniper Woodland: Spatial Distribution, Severity, and Ecohydrologic Implications. Soil Science Society of America Journal 75:1543-1553. Available here.
Miller, R.F., S.T. Knick, D.A. Pyke, C.W. Meinke, S.E. Hanser, M.J. Wisdom, and A.L. Hild. 2011. Characteristics of sagebrush habitats and limitations to long-term conservation. Pages 146-184 in S. T. Knick and J. W. Connelly, editors. Greater Sage-Grouse: ecology and conservation of landscape species and its habitats. Studies in Avian Biology No. 38. University of California, Berkley. Available here.
Pierson, F.B., C.J. Williams, S.P. Hardegree, P.E. Clark, P.R. Kormos, and O.Z. Al-Hamdan. 2013. Hydrologic and Erosion Responses of Sagebrush Steppe Following Juniper Encroachment, Wildfire, and Tree Cutting. Rangeland Ecology and Management 66:274–289. Available here.
Williams, C. J., F.B. Pierson, O.Z. Al-Hamdan, P.R. Kormos, S.P. Hardegree, and P.E. Clark. 2013, Can wildfire serve as an ecohydrologic threshold-reversal mechanism on juniper-encroached shrublands. Ecohydrology. doi: 10.1002/eco.1364. Available here.


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Friday, January 24, 2014
Dear Ol' Sherman
Working a bit looser here…and faster. This time on rough Arches watercolor block. My cousin's boxer has clear, fun shapes to his wise, old face.
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Saturday, January 18, 2014
The dear and gentle soul, Morty. Beloved pet of Mark and Susan Newman. Watercolor, gouache and water-soluble color pencil on hot press Arches paper.
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"Return to Oz" was the fun theme of the Children's Benefit Leagues' annual Fashion Show Fundraiser, held March 8 at the Long Beach Airport Marriott Hotel. With about 300 guests, 12 vendors, children in Oz costumes, and student helpers from Wilson High School, the group celebrated the 75th anniversary of the Wizard of Oz film in style.
A huge mural backdrop of the Emerald City displayed in the banquet room from RWB Party Props of Orange helped to bring to life Dorothy, the Scarecrow, Cowardly Lion and the Tin Man. Following lunch, the fashion show, commentated by Lucinda Mead, showcased models wearing clothes from Drapers & Damons Clothing, DaVid's Collection, Elizabeth Saba's Custom Knits and Formal Fashions. Several professional dancers, models and singers charmed the guests with music from the "Wizard of Oz" movie.
There were more than 140 donations, from local businesses and CBL members, offered for silent auction prizes. Cash and three live auction prizes were also auctioned by CBL President Sue Lance and Recording Secretary Andrea LaVela. The live auction winners were Pat Payne who outbid all for a trip to Boston on Jet Blue Airlines; a trip to a Temecula winery resort with a hot air balloon ride was won by Jane Nadeau; and Sylvia Desmond won the bid for a one-night stay at the Marriott Airport Hotel and dinner with the chef.
The "Return to Oz" fashion show event was co-chaired by Teresa Gill and Shirley Wiewel. Fabulous decorations were created by Pat Payne, posters by Dawn Dimond and Michelle Jones and many others assisted from a large fashion show committee. Everyone enjoyed this fabulous event and left saying, "There's no place like home!"
Benefitting five clinics for medically needy children, $29,500 was raised at the event. Children's Benefit League sponsors: AbilityFirst, The Children's Clinic, Children's Dental Health Clinic, The Guidance Center and John Tracy Clinic. CBL is a nonprofit organization with all volunteer helpers. For more information, check www.childrensben email@example.com, or go to www.childrensbene fitleague.net.
Seen at the Scene: CBL's board members President Sue Lance, Robin Couglin, Judy Nichols, Debbie Welding, Andrea LaVela, Diana Parker, Susan Lopez, Judy Cornwall, Jean Paige, Susan Arcese, Pat Payne, Cherie deGomez, Jean Dayak, Rosalie and Robert Lynch. Carol and Leo Black and Ed Dignan. Also attending were Barbara Schlosser of AbilityFirst, Pat and Roger Leue, Jackie Kell, Michele Hansen. Nancy Alswede, Genevieve Jenkins, Jean McKelvie, June Harriman.
El Dorado Women's Federated
The El Dorado Women's Federated celebrated its 50th anniversary at its Reciprocity Meeting on Feb. 17. Among the 50 or so attending the event at St. Gregory's Episcopal Church were members from other Women's Federated Clubs throughout the Southland.
Club President Lois Iles welcomed the Los Cerritos District President Barbara Briley Beard, who congratulated the club on its 50 years of excellence. She remarked that the club always worked hard to fulfill the needs of the community with its philanthropic work.
Founding member Annie Russon spoke about the club's beginnings. The club was founded when El Dorado Park Estates began having families move into the new housing tract. A small group of energetic women with an interest in their new community decided to become a part of the General Federation of Women's Clubs an international organization of women serving their communities. Today, the El Dorado Women has grown its boundaries to include women from all the surrounding areas. Together they support the VA, schools, McDonald's House and Precious Life, and each year they provide scholarships to the School of Nursing at LBCC and other projects.
The celebration included a huge buffet prepared by the members. Entertainment was provided by the Westminster Senior Celebration Line Dancers who range in age from 55 to 87 years of age. They have performed all over Southern California: Orange County, San Diego and L.A. County Fairs, Angel Stadium, Knott's Berry Farm, and city and church events. All free for the love of dancing!
"This was a fabulous 50th anniversary celebration," said Annie Vargas, a founder. "I am so very proud of our club and what we have done throughout the years. And the best part is that we have had so much fun and developed so many friendships."
For more information call: 562-420-2562.
Seen at the scene: Dr. Vonda Lia, Bev Cook, Ruby Cure, Emily Chronister, program co-chairs Marilyn Landsdale and Lou Duacsek, Carol Masters, Joan Remine, Marlys Pfrimmer.
News of social events with charitable purposes may be sent to Shirley Wild at email@example.com or by fax to 562-594-9668. Please include a contact phone number. Send high-resolution jpeg photos, by attachment, to email@example.com and include group name and identification of individuals from left. Call Shirley at 562-594-9468 for more information. Please check the website for coverage of additional events: wwwpresstele gram.com/social.


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Thanks for guest posting for me. You are so creative and sweet! I love that table!XOXOJen
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I created this podcast, Environmental Justice Radio, as an extra credit project for Environmental Integration I: Environmental Perspectives.
As I study environmental issues, ranging from the disruption of biogeochemical cycles to the economic and social costs of climate change, I find myself continuously returning to the interconnectedness of environmental and societal health. This concept reveals the disproportionate impacts of climate change on groups of people, often coinciding with racism, classism, sexism, and many other forms of oppression.
Since coming to Smith, the themes of my academic work have inspired me to independently research environmental justice in the United States. Attending the People's Climate March in New York and joining the Divest Smith College network have been influential in my thinking about the intersectionality of social and environmental issues.
I have come to realize that all of the issues I previously felt passionate about are strung together by a not-so-thin thread.
This podcast is a small example of how climate change is not a problem affecting only distant "Others." The impacts fall on people in our own country, and we need to raise their voices up. To me, one of the most important steps to sparking change is reworking the ways in which we communicate environmental issues.
– Callie Sieh, '18J transferred to Smith this fall. She studies Environmental Science and Policy, and in her free time hosts a radio show on WOZQ, is an active member of Divest Smith College and explores coffee shops in the Pioneer Valley.


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Plant Healthcare
At Aronica Plant Healthcare before we begin custom tailoring a program to suit your landscape's needs, we can analyze your soil and determine its nutritional and biological needs. Soil determines the way the living systems above and below ground perform, making it imperative that your soil has all the resources it needs to help these systems flourish.
We constantly monitor your plantings to ensure new and existing problems are managed and resolved.
Management (IPM) & Disease Control
We offer both conventional and organic spray programs for insect and disease problems that are tailored to your property's individual needs. We utilize IPM (Integrated Pest Management) which is based on three principles; monitoring, assessment and action. This widely used program is based on the most current information and methods to economically manage pests with the least impact to you and the environment.
Also while on your property we continually monitor for any cultural issues that may arise. This can include such problems as plants and turf that may be receiving too much or too little water and plants that need to be removed or pruned. With Aronica Plant Healthcare we provide a complete management of your landscape.
Our fertilization programs are designed to ensure the overall health of your trees and shrubs. We utilize both conventional and organic liquid fertilizers which are fortified with nutrients essential for plant growth and development as well as beneficial fungi which can also help increase the uptake of the root system. For plants that prefer an acidic soil, such as rhododendrons and hollies we apply a granular fertilizer specifically formulated for their needs.
For many evergreen plants winter is a harsh time of year. Plants such as rhododendrons and hollies have thick waxy coverings on their leaves to try to prevent water loss. Unfortunately, during the winter months the ground and any available water is frozen making it impossible for the plant to uptake. During these times if plants are exposed to harsh winds or profuse sunlight, the plant responds by releasing water from its leaves. This biological response combined with the unavailability of water results in winter burn. Anti-desiccant sprays coat the plant and help them to retain their water in winter's harsh conditions and decrease the occurrence of winter burn.
Our soil restoration program involves two methods. First, we top dress using the finest compost in the country; the addition of organic matter to your soil will increase its ability to hold water as well as its cation exchange capacity. Second, we will apply our custom compost tea brews that are enhanced by beneficial fungi, bacteria, macro and micro-nutrients, humates, kelp and mycorrhizae. These different ingredients help to restore your soils nutritional and biological balance, which will in turn assist your trees and shrubs with their overall health.
This program is designed to aid trees and shrubs that are showing signs of stress or that are clearly not thriving in their environment. We begin by testing your soil to verify pH and the nutritive value. We then apply compost around the drip line of your tree or shrub and fertilize with our custom compost tea brew that is enriched with beneficial fungi, bacteria, mycorrhizae, humates, kelp and other macro and micro-nutrients. Your ailing tree or shrub will be helped by the addition of nutrients and the return of soil microbes.
New and growing roots are primarily responsible for water and nutrient uptake that supports your tree's every biological function. This treatment is designed to increase the number of these "feeder" roots.
Our professional ISA (International Society of Arboriculture) certified arborists will diagnose your plant's ailment, be it a cultural, disease or an insect related problem. We are also available for pre-project and post-project consulting to help ensure the health of your existing trees and shrubs by minimizing the impact to them during construction.
We offer conventional and organic alternatives to controlling these common outdoor pests:
- Flying Insect
- Tick & Flea
- Deer / Geese
- Rodents
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A displaced child sits with an elderly woman in a tent during the 2008 conflict in Georgia. Natural disasters, the global economic downturn and ongoing political instability in many countries in the region continue to affect children and women.
Critical Issues for Children and Women
The Central and Eastern Europe, Commonwealth of Independent States (CEE/CIS) region is prone to natural hazards, especially earthquakes, floods, avalanches, mudslides, drought and forest fires, all of which are impacting livelihoods and social infrastructure, especially in crowded urban areas. Particularly vulnerable are Central Asia, South Caucasus and Turkey, which lie in well-known seismic zones and are thus susceptible to major earthquakes. In countries such as Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, an earth tremor or quake could cause dislocation and displacement of uranium wastes stored underground, thereby posing a serious health risk to the people living in those areas. Also, the recent global economic crisis is increasing poverty and reducing access to social services, especially among vulnerable women and children in the many transitional states in the region.
Planned Humanitarian Action for 2010
UNICEF's CEE/CIS Regional Office will focus on strengthening emergency preparedness and response capacity in UNICEF Offices and governments in the region through strategic partnerships and provision of technical support during emergencies. The Regional Office will also work to improve coordination of the UNICEF-led Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, Nutrition, Education and Child Protection Clusters and will continue to participate in the World Health Organization-led Health Cluster and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees-led Protection Cluster. As a recent member of the South Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Caucasus Group, UNICEF will further coordinate disaster risk reduction, especially in the context of climate change, with the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, United Nations Development Programme/Bureau Crisis Prevention and Recovery and the World Meteorological Organization as partners. Following are the expected results of UNICEF emergency interventions:
Regional Surge Capacity: Based on previous experience, the CEE/CIS region will need to maintain and enhance a core group of staff with relevant language skills and expertise so as to be able to support country offices in the region effectively. Within 72 hours of an emergency, UNICEF emergency-trained staff from neighbouring country offices will be deployed to the emergency site of the affected country, in order to support implementation of the Core Commitments for Children.
Emergency Preparedness and Response Planning: Together with United Nations agencies, NGOs, Red Cross and Red Crescent societies and government partners, UNICEF's regional emergency team will focus on building preparedness capacity through training and emergency simulation exercises at the national level. UNICEF Offices and partners will also benefit from a new Early Warning–Early Action system that monitors potential emergencies as well as technical guidance in sectoral response, cluster approach modalities and business continuity planning.
Disaster Risk Reduction: The disaster risk reduction programme in Central Asia will be expanded to other parts of the region, especially to the South Caucasus and possibly Moldova and Turkey, to improve disaster preparedness and risk reduction in these vulnerable areas. Capacities at the country level will be upgraded through the training of UNICEF and partner staff and the sharing of information and lessons learnt among the different countries.
|Summary of UNICEF Emergency Needs to fulfil
Core Commitments for Children for 2010
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AUBURN – Auburn University's Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities has launched Pebble Hill Books, an imprint series published in collaboration with the University of Alabama Press and whose titles will grow out of or contribute to the center's outreach mission for AU's College of Liberal Arts.
The first book in the series, just released, is "In the Path of the Storms: Bayou La Batre, Coden, and the Alabama Coast." It is co-authored by award-winning writer Frye Gaillard and artists-in-residence Sheila Hagler and Peggy Denniston.
"The Gulf Coast villages of Bayou La Batre and Coden are two of Alabama's most distinctive communities, with roots going back to the French settlements of the 18th century," said center director Jay Lamar.
"In the Path of the Storms" captures in words and photographs the uniqueness of these seafood-producing towns, including the significant southeast Asian refugee population, the cheap imported seafood, the extraordinary challenges of higher gas prices and the rash of hurricanes, including Hurricane Katrina.
"It is a story of tradition as well as the forces of change and of the brave struggle of these Gulf Coast communities to survive and thrive," said Lamar.
The book's publication is a result of a community history project funded by the Kettering Foundation of Ohio and undertaken in collaboration with the Truman Pierce Institute in the College of Education at Auburn University.
The Draughon Center is located in Auburn at the historic 1847 Scott-Yarbrough House known as Pebble Hill.
For more information about Pebble Hill Books call (334) 844-4946 or email firstname.lastname@example.com. For information about the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities, go to http://media.cla.auburn.edu/cah/index.htm.
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Foster Care Solutions is an established and progressive organisation committed to delivering a high quality service to children, young people, foster carers and local authorities across the North East of England.
We work in partnership with all the local authorities in the North East to offer a wide range of fostering placements for children and young people to meet their individual needs. As a Tier 1 provider for all authorities in the Tees Valley we get first opportunity to match a child with you.
The Futures Group is committed to supporting local authorities to meet their sufficiency targets as required under Section 22G of the Children Act 1989 ('the 1989 Act'). The organisation's recruitment strategy is to recruit foster carers from different backgrounds, cultures and religions to ensure that more choice is available to local authorities when seeking placements.
Foster Care Solutions works in partnership on a contractual basis to provide foster placements for children and young people from the following local authorities.
Tees Valley - Cleveland, Darlington, Hartlepool, Stockton, Redcar, Middlesbrough
Tyne, Wear and Durham - Durham, Gateshead, Sunderland, South Tyneside, Northumberland, Newcastle, North Tyneside
Other offices in the Futures Group work with the following authorities:
Additionally we make placements for children and young people under spot purchase arrangements with many individual local authorities. If you are a local authority wishing to discuss our spot purchase pricing structure, please contact us.
If you are a Local Authority and would like to place a child or young person with us please contact our Placements team on 0191 425 0095 or email firstname.lastname@example.com
The Statement of Purpose has been developed in accordance with appropriate fostering regulations and national minimum standards:
It aims to provide children, young people, parents, carers, staff and other professionals information about the objectives of our agency and the services and facilities we provide.
You can download our Statement of Purpose for our registered offices here:
Foster Care Solutions provides, through a flexible, caring and imaginative foster care service, an opportunity for all our children and young people to become valued members of tomorrow's society.
Looked after children represent the most disadvantaged and vulnerable members of our community. At Foster Care Solutions it is our objective to provide support and conditions in which these most vulnerable young people can thrive and achieve a positive outcome from their time spent in foster care. There is much work to be done to redress the disadvantages these children have experienced and little time to do this before they become independent young adults. For many children a positive outcome may be a return to their parents or extended family. Maintaining contact and working with genuine respect for the child's family is crucial for keeping these options available. Other children may succeed best in long term alternative families including permanent foster care placements.
Foster Care Solutions can provide a wide range of foster care placements and professional support services providing specific packages of care to meet the needs of individual children and young people. These services are delivered by qualified and experienced social work staff and foster carers who are valued as full members of our professional team.
As an existing foster carer it is important that you work with a company that is able to fully support both the children and foster carers. A lot of carers from Local Authorities and other Agencies come to us and feel that there could be more done for themselves and the looked after children.


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Join us for the best tech of the week in two quick minutes! This weekend we feature a new space suit from NASA, Amazon's new smartphone, Star Wars headphones, HD smartphone sound quality and more.
If you'd like to hear John Biggs and Charlie White talking about this week's countdown, listen to this Top 5 Coolness Countdown podcast:
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In many of the IPC Halogen-Free meetings, people would ask why go through such an undertaking. Other people have asked to wait for scientific methodologies for determining which halogens are actually bad. Those questions ultimately don't matter. The process is about developing a system that companies can refer to in order to make their claims of being better for the environment (and ultimately make more money).
Eliminating halogens may actually be better for the environment, but it is still too soon to tell. We have no idea how good/bad the alternatives are. Unfortunately, if switching to an unknown material allows the company to put a green sticker on it, then they don't have the incentive to carry out further testing on those alternatives.


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The trio was among the stars who headed to Miami, Florida for the annual Art Basel fair, and they wasted no time in picking up pricey works to display at home.
Empire State of Mind hitmaker Jay-Z and his wife Beyonce paid £12,500 for a painting by U.S. artist Hebru Brantley, and Combs handed over £40,600 for a mirrored sculpture by Ivan Navarro, according to New York Post gossip column Page Six.
Ross reportedly snapped up a photograph by Jack Shainman for £12,500. Other celebrity guests at the event included Hollywood stars Owen Wilson and Jane Seymour.


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Style of my movements in the art closest to the Russian Impressionism, among which are the closest to me Levitan, Zhukovsky, Grabar. In general, like all that feeling, subtly and impasto. In his works he wants to translate "unique existence" - in the depiction of various states of nature, time of day, solar effects of change from one season to another. I relate to painting not as a science, where discoveries can not be repeated twice, the new images and motifs gives me a permanent job in the open air.
Of course, for a hundred years after his supposed death realism has other, more diverse. At the beginning of the XXI century, among the many traditionalist direction, claiming his legacy, I am the closest Russian landscape school, which not only continues to exist, but retains the ability to self-development.
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The painting is a moment of materialized movements of the soul, implemented in conjunction of stresses of mind, emancipation of fantasy and free implementation of vital energy.
I - thorough realist, my vision is endowed with a different kind of quality, because it follows the direct instructions of the soul, which is simultaneously older than the body and younger than the mind. One of the favorite genres - portrait. It does not matter if I paint "portrait to order" or "for oneself" –my attitude is always creative. The traditional system of painting, allusions to the classic technique, a series of echoes of the Renaissance and the Middle Ages art, the Barbizon and Impressionism don`t exclude the experimentation with materials and form.
My style may be regarded as a kind of "neo-mannerism," if by "Renaissance" to understand the entire previous history of painting.
I think today has become abundantly clear is extremely demanding challenge for the visual arts - a forming of the holistic art world, in which there will be no place eventuality and a feverish search for more and more new methods and means of expressing yourself; in this world will be established organic patterns and the emergence of a better examples of art preservation of the traditional school and progress achieved...


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Nelson Mandela was not only a great leader; he was a student of great leadership. As a boy, he was dazzled by stories of African leaders from the 17th and 18th centuries, and he saw himself as part of that grand tradition. He was raised by the Regent of the Tembu tribe, who allowed him to sit in on tribal councils. Mandela once told me that the Regent would never speak until the end, and then he would summarize what had been said and try to form a consensus. When I was working with Mandela on his autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom, I sat in on many meetings with his own senior team. He would almost always wait until the end to speak and then see if he could forge a consensus. To him that was the African way.
Mandela was not only a student of great leadership; he was intent on creating great African leaders. He believed that there was a dearth of great leaders in Africa, and he was keen on motivating a new generation of leadership for the continent. Today would have been Nelson Mandela's 96th birthday, and I believe he would have greatly admired President Obama's Young African Leaders Initiative, known as YALI. That is something President Obama and Nelson Mandela share: a desire to inspire a new generation of great African leaders.
Next week, 500 YALI Fellows will arrive in Washington. They have been selected from almost 50,000 applicants representing all 49 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. YALI's mission is to support young African leaders, enhance their leadership skills, spark entrepreneurship, and create a continental network of ambitious young men and women. The Washington Fellows are now participating in academic programs at twenty colleges and universities across the country, where they are studying business and entrepreneurship, public management, and civic leadership. Many of the YALI Fellows will be on hand to help President Obama and Secretary Kerry welcome more than 50 heads of state on August 4-6 for the largest summit of African leaders ever held. Then one hundred Fellows will go on to eight-week internships in the public, private and non-profit sectors with organizations throughout the United States.
I was with Mandela during many meetings with South African and international leaders. Afterwards, he would comment on a leader's particular style or tactics, or even on what he wore. He would note if a leader was polite or deferential. He did not like leaders who were overly emotional or histrionic. If he described you as "measured," that was a great compliment. He prized directness. He had no tolerance for leaders who were not honest. And he would sometimes smile ruefully if someone was in over his head.
Mandela believed that African leaders needed to be different than Western leaders. As the head of the African National Congress, and as the president of South Africa, he always sought consensus. He once told me that as a boy he had spent many days herding cattle, and that the way you lead cattle is from behind. By that he meant, you must marshal your forces and make sure that your people are ready to go in the direction where you want to lead them. Mandela led from the front and behind, and it is his spirit that is behind the Young African Leadership Initiative. And on Mandela's 96th birthday, we get ready to welcome to Washington the 500 YALI Fellows who are the brightest of a new generation of great African leaders.
Mandela understood that leaders are made as well as born, and that circumstances bring forth great leaders. He liked the old English expression about leadership: "Cometh the moment, cometh the man – or the woman." This is the moment for these young African leaders.
About the Author: Rick Stengel serves as Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs. Follow @Stengel on Twitter for the latest updates from the Under Secretary.


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Jesus must be either who He said He was–the Son of God–or He must have been a liar or a lunatic. So goes the "trilemma" as developed in the apologetics of C. S. Lewis. But now lots of people are claiming another option, that He was simply a legend. But was he? And how can we persuade someone who thinks he was?
Tom Gilson, in Touchstone, offers a quite brilliant line of thought refuting that notion, in what is, in effect, a literary apologetic. Read it all, but I give a sample after the break.
From Tom Gilson, Touchstone Archives: The Gospel Truth of Jesus:
Three or four questions concerning human nature have so caught my attention lately that I've taken to asking them of my friends and conference attendees. The first is this: Who are the most powerful characters you can think of in all of human history and imagination, apart from those in the Bible?
The scope of the question is intentionally broad. I exclude biblical personages for reasons that will become clear later, but include everyone else: both historical and quasi-historical figures, as well as characters that are purely the products of human imagination, whether from literature, mythology, film, TV, or even comic books. And I define power in this context as the ability to do and/or obtain whatever one wants without constraint.
The answers I've received range from Andrew Carnegie to Zeus, and include both genuine and doubtful luminaries, such as Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great, Napoleon, Stalin, Mao, and, occasionally, United States presidents. Superman is often mentioned.
My second question is of similar scope, but has a completely different set of characters in mind: Who in all of human history and imagination, outside of the Bible, are the most self-sacrificial, other-oriented, giving, and caring persons you can think of?
The most common answers are Mother Teresa and "my mom." Sir Galahad and Prince Myshkin from Dostoevsky's The Idiot have also been suggested, but the set of answers I receive to this question is smaller than to the previous one.
My next question is this: Can you think of any single person—again, outside of the Bible—who genuinely belongs on both lists at the same time? Is there any person in all of human history and imagination who is at the same time supremely powerful and supremely good?
If the second set of answers was small, this one is minuscule. Some of the best suggestions have been Abraham Lincoln, Superman, and Gandalf. Yet none of these characters really measures up as both supremely powerful and supremely other-oriented. Lincoln commanded an army, yes, but his army very nearly lost the Civil War. Gandalf, my own preferred candidate, was entirely dependent on a pair of hobbits, far beyond the reach of his power, for his mission's success. And so far no one has included him among the most self-sacrificial; his small, weak friends Frodo and Samwise Gamgee claim that honor above him. Superman remains an interesting case, for reasons I'll specify in a moment.So, thus far in all my searching, I have not found anyone who's been able to come up with a really satisfying answer to question three. As to why this is, perhaps Abraham Lincoln explained it as succinctly as anyone has: "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
Of course, anyone can just invent a character who is both supremely powerful and supremely self-sacrificial; I can do it in two sentences: Marvin was able to do anything he wanted by his own powers. Marvin did everything for the good of others. But—need I say it?—there's nothing there beyond bald assertion. The challenge is not simply to invent a character and impute to him massive power and towering goodness, but to flesh that character out, to make him interesting and compelling—in short, to make him believable.
Shakespeare never created such a character. Homer didn't either. Dostoevsky never dreamed of such a person. In fact, none of the great poets and writers of any age created a figure who would satisfy question three. I don't know whether that's because they were unable to do so, or because they simply chose not to. But it seems safe to say that, if anyone ever did create such a character and make him believable, that author would have to be counted among the greats, if not as the greatest moral and literary genius of all time.
And if that is true, and if the character of Christ were created and not rather recorded in the Gospels, then those who created it were those very geniuses. For when we open up the scope of my third question to include biblical characters, the answer comes instantly. Jesus Christ is the one character we can name who is both supremely powerful and supremely self-sacrificial.


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Last night was an eeire and weird sort of night. Rolling clouds, bright full moon, breezes too warm causing the midlife farmwife to swoon. Sorry. The last time I "swooned" was 1975 and I'm pretty sure it was not romance related.
So, the sky was very Fall like, but last I looked it was still February in Central Illinois. Something is up, I thought.
This morning when Keith did chores he found this wonderful sight
Our crossbred sow Dot with her FOURTEEN piglets ! She looks very comfy and satisfied doesn't she ? I always had my babies just ONE at a time and I know I never looked this good after delivery. She farrowed in one of the custom made hutches Keith custom made this past summer. Its a great design with plenty of room for mom and babes and an area in the back that babies can snuggle into but remain safe from mom accidentally lying on them.
See the boards (two 2x4's nailed together) behind Dot ? And the way the hutch roof angles towards to bottom of the hutch.? Both these measures help decrease losses due to crushing. Those and the fact that mom can come in and out of the hutch as she pleases with lots of room to roam outside. Ideally we would have them farrowing in the woods, if we had any woods, but we do not so we do the best we can with the pasture and the hutches we have. With each version of this farrowing hutch Keith tweaks a part of the design and our survival rates improve. Another decade or so and we'll have this hog raising thing licked...chewed ? Smoked ?
Ooops. I forgot to thank Mad Maxx our Red Wattle Boar and daddy to these piglets. What a great job he did of passing down his Red Wattle coloring. Tomorrow we'll count wattles.


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Anna up front. So proud! :)
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Anna is Student of the Month! Bethany is Student of the Month!
Yes, both girls were picked to be Student of the Month, out of their classes. Go girlies! They were SO proud to tell us this. There was an assembly yesterday recognizing them (and others from other classes/grades) for their accomplishment. Way to go Anna and Bethany! :)
Anna up front. So proud! :)
The kids, grades K through 3rd. Anna and Bethany are in the front, at the far right
Anna going up for her certificate
Proud of herself :)
Bethany going up front for her certificate
Anna Pie! :)
Our Bethany! :)
So proud of our girlies!...and actually all 5 kids! They are all doing wonderful at school!
Anna up front. So proud! :)
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With Michael Rooker playing the Centuarian hunter Yondu on screen for Marvel's "Guardians of the Galaxy," you'd better bet you're going to end up wondering if you love or hate the blue-skinned bounty hunter.
Rooker's Yondu is a very different take on a character fans might remember from the comic book Guardians' original futuristic incarnation. Adjusted for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, this Yondu remains an incomparable tracker with a sonically powered arrow as his preferred weapon, but his heroic altruism is definitely in question -- which is fine, because nobody likes playing shades of gray better than Rooker.
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The much-admired Alabama-born character actor's career spans three decades, beginning with his blistering 1986 debut in "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer" through films including "Mississippi Burning," "Days of Thunder," "JFK" and "Tombstone," and stints in "Guardians" director James Gunn's "Slither" and "Super." And while he worked constantly and built a cult of fans, it wasn't until his stint as the volatile, bullying Merle Dixon on AMC's "The Walking Dead" that Rooker got his truest star turn, thank in large part to what he sees as a talent for playing a-holes audiences love to hate.
CBR News: You work with a guy like James Gunn for a couple projects, then he gives you the role of a lifetime in Yondu. You had to have a blast doing this!
Michael Rooker: I totally had a blast. I had a blast just thinking that I was going to be in the movie! [Laughs] [I was] jumping up and down! And the blast just kept coming. Because after I saw it, I was like, "Wow -- they actually kept me in the movie! He edited me in the movie!" And look at all the other stuff he had to do. This is a big movie with a lot of characters, let me tell you, and I came out smelling like a rose, man. As far as time on screen, it ended up only just a minute, a few little moments were edited down -- not even cut out completely, edited out a little bit. It's great!
I think the audience is going to really respond to your character. We see just enough of you that you're really intriguing, and there's going to be desire for more. How did you find your way into Yondu, because the Marvel Cinematic Universe version is not exactly the comic book character.
No. I don't know why, I don't know how, but it seems like I can be a real -- dick! And people still like me. It seems like I have this little knack, so he sort of wrote that with Yondu in mind and myself in mind, this ability to sort of be abusive verbally, or whatever. [Laughs] Even physically, and still have the audience forgive and enjoy what's going on on-screen, and like it enough that they don't really care if you're really not a nice person. Yondu's not a nice guy, but he's got this paternal instinct, and it came like the first moment he saw Star-Lord. Got him up in his ship, and all of a sudden, the kid is, in my mind, this kind of little guy who's not all sheepish -- he's just lost his mom, and he's still being tough, he's standing up for himself. That and maybe something else was involved that convinced Yondu to basically keep the kid. I kept him. Raised him as my own, as opposed to sending him off to where we're supposed to take him. And so there's that heart in there. I think people, they see through all the makeup and all the wardrobe, and they see the real person somewhere.
The beauty of your performance is you never know which way he's going to go in a given scene.
That's what I like to do. I like keeping people on the edge and keeping them surprised. It's always walking that tightrope, and just not knowing if the guy -- is he good? Is he bad? Is he going to smack me? Is he going to kiss me? What's going on here? And that's great. I say all the time, if the audience leaves the theater not knowing, I've done my job. I don't want them to know everything. I don't want to make it so clear-cut that they know exactly where I'm coming from, they know exactly my motivations. Keep it obscure and kind of hidden, and they look. That gives you, the audience, an opportunity to be a part of the movie, not just sitting back and watching. You're a part of the movie trying to figure out where the hell is this guy coming from, right? "I don't get him, but I get him. There's something about him I like." And that's kind of Yondu. That's where he's at.
Is this the largest amount of makeup and costume you've had to work through to get a performance?
No, no -- I don't even bother with that. I forget I even have it on. "Slither," Gunn's other movie, I had a seven-hour makeup. It was a big makeup. My call time was like 3 a.m. at times, and I'm still in the makeup chair when people are coming in at 8. It's crazy! So yeah, yeah -- I've been involved with a couple projects, and you know what? They've all been his. He's a sicko!
Does it help your performance, or do you just go forward like it's not even on you?
It doesn't matter to me. I think what's going on in the character's going to shine through no matter what you have on. No matter what wardrobe you have on, no matter how much latex you have on, if you're really doing it right, it's going to work.
Tell me about the special actor/director alchemy that the two of you have that's kept you working together -- and having fun working together.
I think we still have fun when we're hanging together, just in normal life, and that just spills right over into work, so we still have fun. It's not that he doesn't yell at me and say, "Rooker! God! I'm busy today, man!" Sometimes I'm just maybe a little too much for the poor guy, but I do have these questions sometimes. But we really work well together. It's turned out to be a real joy and a kick in the butt to work with this man. I like him. And I don't know what it is. We can analyze it, but I don't know. You meet these people where it's like you've been friends forever, in another life, you know. You're a like spirit. You just -- boom! -- connected in some way.
Better not to question it.
Yeah, sometimes you don't question. [If] you got a connection, you've got a connection. It's awesome. Use it. Work with it, and especially in this business, use it. Because God knows, in this business, it's an every-man-for-himself kind of crazy, crazy profession. So when you hook up with someone who is loyal and true and honest and a friend, yeah, and you're both semi-talented, you might as well combine the two and actually become talented. [Laughs]
You've had such a great career over the years -- it seems like you were always working. People in Hollywood knew your reputation, and now you have actual fans out in the world who know you on sight. What's it been to go from that journeyman/working actor to being an actor that people recognize and are excited to hear you're attached to a project?
Overnight! Can you believe it? Thirty-year overnight success. That's what it's been, and I think it's been sort of gradual, except for when I started doing "The Walking Dead." I mean, "The Walking Dead" is TV. You're in their face, in their living room, every week, and they love you, they hate you. For me, it's the same thing. If there's anything that's similar to Yondu and Merle Dixon, it's that character that people say, "I don't know if I like this guy. But whoa, what did he just do? That's weird -- I like that." So they like you and they don't like you at the same time. It's just a strange thing.
I love all the fans. It's amazing. It's like, I've been waiting 30 years to be able to have someone say, "Hey, Rooker, what's up, man?" And I don't know him from Adam, right? And I'm like, "Yeah, everything's cool, bro. What's up with you? How's the wife?" [Laughs] I have no idea who they are, of course.
Marvel's "Guardians of the Galaxy" arrives in theaters August 1.


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Our recommendations on the local area.
Apart form the sister businesses (The Black Rat, The Black Boy and The Black Bottle), there are plenty of other good restaurants and businesses in Winchester.
Listed below are some of the places that we think make Winchester great. The list is in no particular order, and each is good for different reasons.
- The Chesil Rectory. A beautiful building serving good food.
- Tanoshii. A fantastic Asian fusion restaurant.
- Pizza Express. Always good, and not too expensive.
- Kyoto Kitchen. Great Japanese restaurant.
- Froggies Bar at La Place. Busy wine bar opposite the Cathedral.
- Wykeham Arms. Great pub; one of Britain's first Gastro pubs.
- Café Monde. Great little coffee shop come snack bar.
- Cadogans. Wonderful clothes shop for Ladies and Gents
- The cheese stall. In the market, just great cheeses sold with passion and knowledge.
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In 1991, a Michigan man confessed to the murder of his pregnant wife. Sixteen years and a second-degree murder charge later, the man was released on parole.
On Wednesday, nine years since his release, Gregory Green pleaded guilty to the murder of his four children in 2016.
Back in 2007, with the help of a pastor, Green was released on his fifth request for parole. Two years later, he married the pastor's daughter, Faith Harris. Together, the couple raised four children, two of their own and two teenagers from Faith's previous marriage. However as years passed, the relationship took a turn for the worst.
In 2013, Faith filed for a personal order of protection, which was unfortunately rejected by a judge. Three years later, Faith filed for divorce, citing a "breakdown in the marriage relationship."
A few months after Faith filed, Green snapped, reverting back to his old ways. In September of 2016, Green fatally shot his two teenage stepchildren, Chadney Allen, 19, and Kara Allen, 17, in front of their mother. Faith was stabbed, shot and tied up in the basement with the bodies of her teenage children, lying beside her.
Before calling the police, Green funneled toxic fumes into his running vehicle and put his two young children in there to die. He then carried the little girls, Koi,5, and Kaleigh, 4, back inside and placed them in the bed.
After the vicious crime, Green called the police and confessed to the murders. Officials found him on the front porch, waiting to be taken away.
Green is set to be sentenced on March 1. According to PEOPLE, he will serve two mandatory sentrances, followed by 45 to 100 years in prison.


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What grade point average (GPA) do I need to be in good academic standing?
To be in good academic standing, a student must maintain the following minimum cumulative grade point average (GPA):
|Number of Completed Courses
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U of L GPA
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|11 - 20
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Students in Post-Diploma programs are considered to be students with more than 20 completed courses.
Why would I be required to withdraw?
The two reasons a student may be required to withdraw are:
1. Academic Indices
Students whose cumulative grade point average, at the end of the Spring semester, falls below the following indices are required to withdraw from the University:
Number of Completed Courses
U of L GPA
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2. Semesters on Probation
Students who, at the end of the Spring semester, have remained on academic probation for two or more consecutive semesters are required to withdraw from the University.
What is academic probation?
Students are considered to be on academic probation with their cumulative grade point average falls below the academic indices required for good standing. A student on academic probation may not register in more than four courses (12.0 credit hours) in a semester.
How do I get off of academic probation?
Academic standing is determined after each Fall and Spring semester. To get off of academic probation, your grade point average must exceed the academic indices required for good academic standing.
What do I need to do to be readmitted to the University of Lethbridge after being required to withdraw?
Students who have been required to withdraw from the University will not be granted readmission until at least one year has lapsed and they can provide evidence that the causes of previous unsatisfactory work have been identified and removed.
Students who have completed at least eight courses with a GPA of at least 2.00 at another institution for transfer credit or at the U of L as an Open Studies student are generally readmissible to the Faculty of Arts and Science after one year.
Students who have been required to withdraw twice are usually not eligible for readmission.
What is tabula rasa?
Tabula rasa is latin for "blank slate". It may be granted to all first-degree University of Lethbridge students upon readmission to the Faculty of Arts and Science after being required to withdraw for unsatisfactory academic performance. Students are not eligible to receive tabula rasa more than once.
When tabula rasa is granted, the GPA is reset and students retain ungraded credit for all U of L courses completed with a grade of 'C-' or higher, subject to limits defined in the University of Lethbridge Academic Calendar. It essentially allows students to retain credit for the satisfactory work that students completed prior to being required to withdraw, while losing the baggage of the unsatisfactory work completed. This gives students a fresh start upon readmission after being dismissed for unsatisfactory academic performance.
Each student's situation is unique, so it is important to discuss your plans to return to the U of L after being required to withdraw with a Student Program Advisor.


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Recent results suggest that MET amplification identifies a small but clinically important subgroup of cancer patients who are likely to benefit from MET targeting. Although MET amplification occurs in a relatively small percentage of patients, it is present in various solid tumors such as lung, colorectal, RCC and
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A dear friend of King William has died. Mary Trevino passed away February 13 at age 102. As a tribute to this remarkable lady, we are repeating excerpts from an interview with her ten years ago when she was only 92:
Mary Trevino's bright smile has greeted guests at El Mirador for more than 35 years. At 92 years of age, she still works the register, cooks the soup and sauces and fills in wherever she is needed around the restaurant.
Mary's son Julian and his wife Diana moved to King William in the late 1960's, and that's when Mary and her husband Julian, Sr. began visiting the neighborhood. "When our first granddaughter, Jessica, was born," Mary said, "we couldn't stay away."
There was a small restaurant in the building next door to the present El Mirador, a pleasant place where the Trevinos ate occasionally. It had three booths, one table and a few stools at the counter. Julian happened to notice one day that the little restaurant was for rent. Mary got on the telephone right away to her sister-in-law and a friend and said, "You want to go into the restaurant business with us?"
The first thing they both said was, "Who's going to do the cooking? You can't cook! I can't cook! None of us knows how to cook!"
"We don't need to know," Mary told them. "The restaurant already has a cook." So they pooled their resources and were soon in business, but the cook proved to be temperamental. "About a month after we opened, the cook suddenly took off," Mary said. "I had no choice. I had to learn to cook in a hurry, taste and make changes until I got it right." She evidently 'got it right' because the business soon began to prosper.
Mary, her sister-in-law and the friend cooked, waited tables and cleaned while Julian, Sr. did the purchasing as well as cooking his specialty dishes. Things went along fine for several months until the building owner decided he wanted the space back. The Trevinos and their partners were forced to find a new location. They wanted to stay in the neighborhood and were lucky to find a place on the corner of Presa and Martinez streets. The rent was higher, "but HemisFair was in full swing and business was good," Mary said. After a while, seeing how they were prospering, the owner of that building decided to raise the rent -- more than double. The Trevino's offered to buy the building but the owner named an exorbitant price, so again, they had to search for another location.
The place on St. Mary's, the current El Mirador building, was being offered for sale and after much debate, they decided to buy it. The owners proved to be difficult to negotiate with, raising the price, then wanting only cash, then reneging and eventually backing out altogether. The Trevino's persisted and finally came to an agreement, but by this time, Mary wasn't sure she wanted it after all. It had been a nightclub – painted black on the inside with red spotlights and ugly carpet. "It was an awful mess." Mary remembers. "We had a lot of work to do to get it ready for business."
After all of the aggravation of buying the new place and getting it ready for business, the Trevino's needed some time away so they made a trip to Mexico. "One evening, we were having dinner in a nice restaurant," Mary said. "Julian and I both ordered the soup which we liked very much. When we got home, I was still thinking about that soup. It was very good but it lacked something – it needed vegetables to make it a meal."
"You should make the soup the way you like it," Julian told her. "Make your own version."
"I tried this and I tried that until I finally had it just the way I wanted it but then nobody was ordering it," Mary said. "Finally, Julian said, 'Stop with the soup! Nobody's buying it and it's just going to waste.'" But Mary, who admits to having a stubborn streak, was not ready to give up so she started giving away samples with all the lunches. It wasn't long before people were asking for "a bowl of that wonderful soup." Mary's Sopa Azteca soon became famous as the "Saturday Soup." Even on a hot summer Saturday, locals and tourist alike lined up to get a bowl of "the soup that wouldn't sell."
Many well-known San Antonians have been regulars over the years at El Mirador. "O'Neil Ford ate here every day for years," Mary said. "One morning he came in to speak to Julian. 'I'm going to be bringing some important people for lunch today. These folks are from Europe so I want everything to be really special.'"
A big table was set up and ready for Ford and his guests. The food was good and the service attentive. When presented with the bill, Ford pulled out his checkbook with a flourish and wrote out a check for the meal adding a generous gratuity. Julian took the check, leaned close to Ford's ear and whispered loud enough for everyone at the table to hear, "Mr. Ford, do you want me to hold this for two weeks like last time?"
Mary had a good laugh remembering. "My husband was always joking," she said. "People would come in just to share a laugh with him. They loved him. When he was in the hospital, Robert Shivers cancelled all his appointments and went every day to sit with him. Then he and Dan Naranjo would come back here and bus tables and cashier while we were at the hospital."
"After Julian died, I never wanted to go back to our old house," Mary said. "Then one day, my daughter-in-law, Diana, was doing her usual walk down King William Street when she noticed a "For Sale" sign on the little house just across the street from hers. She came to get me to look at the house. The next thing I knew, it was mine. Pat Frost from Frost Bank personally helped us get the house. Dr. Ralph Wells was very pleased because he knows how stubborn I can be. He said he could keep a closer eye on me living right here in the neighborhood. It just worked out perfectly. But you know, I really do believe in miracles."
"It's a wonderful house," she says. "Diana took charge of the restoration. She made it so it would have plenty of light and lots of open space for a small house. The kitchen is tiny, but who needs a kitchen? I'm just three blocks from the restaurant so if I want to cook, I go there."
"My life in King William is a little piece of heaven." Mary says. "I'm surrounded by loving family and friends – any one of whom I could call day or night if I needed them. What more could I possibly want?"
- Bill Cogburn


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Game of Lust.It's a fun exciting game for couples and could probably be used in a group setting if you tweaked it.
-Easy instructions
-Variety of cards could get repetitive over time
Purpose / Audience
This game is for any couple looking to add a little fun to their bedroom experience. I would say this game is good for any experience level because you can decide what cards to use. The ultimate goal is to have sex, but the footprints leading to the bed allow for some excellent foreplay!
Rules / Content
You need to make sure that you have room to play the game. We made a spot on the bed, but I have a King. The game is very simple to follow and if there are cards that you do not want to use during the game, you can simply remove them from the deck before play begins. It is truly a simple game: place your markers on the board and you move along the board. You are instructed to pick up various cards and perform the acts that the cards tell you. As far as winner goes...well if you play the game, you are a winner!! There aren't any points in this game, just acting out sexual activities with your partner and discussing intimate details throughout the game until the ultimate prize - a unique guide to sex with your partner...which will be different every time you play. You could always make your own rules and variations for the game as well!!
The board is designed very well. I like the bright colors and the footprints leading to the bed are a neat touch. The game Lust! includes a 10" by 14" game board, 20 romance cards, 20 sensuality cards, 20 body language cards, 40 love-making cards, two game markers, easy to read rules, and a die. The colored footprints along the way correspond to colored cards: The footprints are 3 different colors (red, yellow, and orange) which correspond with the color of the cards. The card categories are Yellow=Body Language, Red=Sensuality, and Orange=Romance. The love-making cards not only give you the names of the position you will perform but also show pictures so you have a visual of what the position is.
Personal comments
My fiance bought this game as a present for me. I will admit that I was a little unsure about using this product because I wasn't sure what all the content of the cards were and so I was little nervous. My fiance and I pre-read the love-making cards and took out the ones that we were uncomfortable with before the game starting, which definitely helped. Reading the romance and sensuality cards was a nice way to learn answers to questions that either we didn't know how to ask or hadn't even thought of asking. It makes discussing our sexual feelings easy and fun and ultimately leads to a wonderful love-making experience, but if you truly listen to your partner...you gain a lot more than just that.
We both enjoyed Lust! He bought it for me and I think it is a great gift idea. We spent a lot of time playing the game which built up our desired for the prize at the end. Although we sometimes find that we don't make it all the way through the game.
Follow-up commentary 5 months after original review
Every once in awhile we get this out on a rainy day and play a round or two just to see what happens, and when we do it's still a fun thing to do. I've thought about springing it on friends before and letting them borrow it. It is still a great foreplay item if you've got some time to finish a game.
This content is the opinion of the submitting contributor and is not endorsed by EdenFantasys.com
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Good review. I might consider this, even though sexual board games are not normally my kind of thing.
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