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March 4-5, 09:30-5:00pm
at Many Vale Community Garden
4-8 Innes Rd, Manly Vale (off Pittwater Rd) NSW 2093
This two day permaculture course is a great overview of all aspects of permaculture - so as to enable you to take the next steps to incorporate this into your life. Over the weekend we will cover topics from organic gardening, sustainable housing, soil, site analysis for your garden/site, permaculture design, and zoning. You will receive a Introduction to Permaculture certificate and a copy of Bill Mollison's book " Introduction to Permaculture." The course will be held at Manly Vale Community Garden which allows for practical exercises in the well-established community garden. There will also be a special session for those involved in community gardens.
The teachers are: Lance Lieber who is a permaculture landscaper and has been involved in setting up many community gardens in Sydney, he is coordinator of Transition Bondi, Transition Sydney and responsible runners. He is also a qualified permaculture teacher. Michelle (Elle) Sheather has worked around the world as an ecologist including on food diversity and environmental preservation, she is a qualified permaculture teacher, and Permaculture Northern Beaches (PNB) committee member for over 8 years.
The course will be held on March 4-5th, 2017 at 09:30 - 5:00pm on both days. For bookings and information please contact before Friday: email@example.com
Cost: $290 for permaculture and community garden members, $330 for non-members, concessions available for students, pensioners, unemployed.
Please note: The last two courses booked out - most participants find them a great inspiration for practical change!

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Clarification of Policy Ideas Listed in Survey
Question 1:How can we enhance infant/early-childhood outcomes?
1. Integrating parental health education into pregnancy classes
As the Forsyth County Infant Mortality Task Force has previously stated, "working to help women be healthy over their entire lifespan is the best way to save babies' lives and improve the health of our community." To that end, we recommend a continued focus on the mother in order to best enhance infant and early childhood outcomes. However, current measures in place are insufficient. It is recommended that parental health education initiatives be integrated into pregnancy classes. In this way Forsyth County can better look to the future and help to improve the health of the child by implementing pregnancy workshops that educate on topics like breastfeeding, staying in school, postpartum depression, and healthy food preparation techniques. The best way to improve the health of the child is by first improving the health of the mother.
2. Tax incentives for fully paid parental leave
Currently, the lack of fully paid parental leave is the norm rather than the exception. Infants and those in early childhood cannot experience the most ideal outcomes if their mothers (or fathers) are not there to take care of them. With an increasing trend of rising income inequality both nationally and here in Winston-Salem, businesses should be granted a modest tax incentive for offering parental leave beyond the required time periods. The City of San Francisco recently implemented such measures and initial signs are positive. Tax incentives not only bring mothers home to their children, but they also increase the likelihood that those same mothers will return to work and earn higher wages; such an outcome is advantageous for businesses and families alike.
3. "Starter Kit" box for mothers leaving hospital after birth
Prenatal education for mothers and fathers must be revamped, and it is proposed that every mother receive a box with basic and necessary supplies after she leaves the hospital. This "starter kit" has been in place for over 75 years in Finland, and many consider it to be the reason why the country has one of the world's lowest infant mortality rates. Contents of the box would include bodysuits, a sleeping bag, outdoor gear, bathing products for the baby, as well as diapers, bedding and a small mattress. The box, while primarily fostering an enhanced relationship between doctors and mothers, also has the effect of uniting all new mothers, including those from different generations. Mothers can feel like they have a tighter nucleus and a better support system with the box. A cash grant could be offered to those who do not wish to have the box for whatever reason.
4. Early intervention programs for non-English speakers and those with special needs
Early intervention programs to aid those who are non-English speakers are lacking. There should be ample access to pregnancy classes for those who do not speak English, as it is frequently the case that these are the people who need the classes the most. These programs should be separate so as to unite those from similar backgrounds and allow them to feel comfortable with the process with those around them to whom they are similar. These classes could also serve other mothers with additional special needs.
5. Offer free Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Program to all mothers leaving hospital
The Women, Infants and Children Program (WIC), a special supplemental nutrition program, should be offered to all mothers who leave the hospital. Since the program is more targeted at those from lower income backgrounds, mothers are sometimes reluctant to ask about it or inquire about help. If all women are informed, awareness will be increased, and all who feel they are good candidates for the program can find out if they are. Mothers should be given information about how to apply to the program, where to seek clarification on eligibility requirements, and be told that the program is free.
6. Program to clarify misconceptions about vaccines
A campaign should be initiated to clarify misconceptions about vaccines. New research has shown that mothers do not realize the importance of vaccines and some even view them as harmful. The first step is to initiate the campaign, which could be independent or incorporated into existing pregnancy classes. The ultimate aim would be to make vaccines mandatory.
Question 2: How might we expand access to reliable and affordable health care, including mental health care?
1. Community Garden to increase access to healthy food
A community garden can serve as a place where people can go to trade (gardening) skills for food. This could be a relatively low cost program but could provide a substantial upside by giving access to free healthy food. Community gardens already exist in Winston-Salem, some funded by nonprofit organizations. A potential barrier to this could be that some low-income people might lack the knowledge or resources to prepare this food to eat. If the land could be donated and a limited number of tools bought to be shared across all of the gardens, costs could be significantly restricted and the only recurring costs would be the soil and the plants which would range in price depending on the size of the garden. Additionally community cooking classes could be offered. This could provide a relatively cheap solution to facilitating access to healthy food, an essential component of good health.
2. Halfway House Rehabilitation Option post-surgery
Provide qualified people with the option of staying in a halfway house after coming out of surgery. Oftentimes people get a surgery that helps them out only to return to their inadequate living situations during the recovery phase. This can sometimes lead to infection, longer recovery, and generally negative impacts on their health. Basic halfway houses can run between $100 and $300 per person per month which is cheap compared with the cost incurred in a person being readmitted to the hospital due to inadequate care post-release after surgery.
3. Re-route public transit in Forsyth County
Riding the bus in Forsyth County can be inefficient in terms of reaching places necessary to maintain good health. From some locations (often food deserts) it may take 1-2 hours to get to a supermarket or health clinic. Sometimes people have to walk or get a ride for miles to the bus nearest their house, store, or clinic. Focusing on re-routing bus lines so that more buses travel between low-income areas, supermarkets, and health clinics would reduce the inefficiency. If buses were easier to ride, people would be more likely to take them to buy healthy food and see a doctor.
4. Affordable Busing.
The current bus system is already very cheap. However, for some people it is still unaffordable. Making busing free for qualified individuals or for everybody would entice people to use the buses to bring them to places they need to go to be in good health. This would not cut into profits significantly if at all because the people who can't afford it don't use the buses as of now anyway. Higher costs incurred due to increased numbers using the buses could be covered by government subsidies. Re-routed bus lines would reduce inefficiency and increase the effectiveness of affordable busing.
5. Pay health care providers for quality not quantity of services
This would be a significant undertaking but would generally focus on rewarding primary care providers for the quality rather than quantity of their services. This could either be done by re-structuring salaries or by giving bonuses to doctors/clinics that do a good job of keeping their patients in good health. Doctors are usually paid according to the number of patients they see and this system would have to be re-imagined to implement this policy idea.
6. Subsidize food stamps to be twice as valuable for payment for healthy food
This suggestion, relatively simple to implement, could have major benefits. Healthy food is generally more expensive than junk food so this idea bring the relative costs into alignment and encourage people to use their food stamps to purchase healthy food. Costs would be incurred by the food stores as they would essentially be selling their more expensive products at a discounted price so there would need to be some form of government subsidy for this plan to be feasible.
7. Monetize preventative care.
This is similar to rewarding quality of care over quantity of care by rewarding health care providers for successfully preventing chronic diseases and similar ailments. This can be done by giving outright bonuses for successful preventative care or by cutting payments to doctors/clinics and offering the opportunity to make the income cuts back and then some by way of bonuses. It is difficult to project estimated costs of this broad plan, which needs a great deal of refinement for it to materialize.
8. Focus on early school and childcare center health education
Devoting a small amount of time towards developing healthy habits in young children can pay off exponentially in the future. Allocating 15-30 minutes per day, say before lunch or recess could hold young children's interest and attention. Costs would be low as it would not require more schooling or paying teachers more money for this to be implemented.
Question 3: How best to shift providers and patients alike to a focus on preventive care, e.g., treating chronic diseases before they become life-threatening?
1. Medicaid expansion in North Carolina, including extending continuous eligibility for children.
Increasing health insurance is the most fundamental way to increase access to healthcare. Medicaid eligibility expansion to 138% of the federal poverty line would extend coverage to between 375,000 and 500,000 North Carolinians, and many thousands of Winston-Salem residents, to be sure. The Affordable Care Act guarantees federal coverage of 100% of the costs of expanding Medicaid until 2020, and then will cover 90% of the costs after 2020. The city council should pass resolutions calling on the state legislature to draft and pass Medicaid expansion legislation.
2. City Emergency Medical Fund for grants to pay for medical bills.
Create a city emergency medical fund to which people can apply for grants to pay for their medical bills. This policy recommendation stems from stakeholders' stories of Winston-Salem residents being unwilling to pursue care in acute health crises for fear of being asked for insurance information. The city can evaluate what are the most common health crises that go unattended, and create a fund whose eligibility is restricted to target those health outcomes among low income residents below a certain income threshold. This safety net program could mirror Columbia University's Special Health Fund, a "discretionary fund to defray costs for time-sensitive and important health-related services." This fund allocates $750 per health condition for two requests a year.
3. Educate about and expand telemedicine opportunities
Teach about and expand telemedicine opportunities for those with smartphones, especially with an eye towards behavioral health. Telemedicine is the "use of medical information exchanged from one site to another via electronic communications to improve a patient's clinical health status" (American Telemedicine Association). Telemedicine expands access by allowing low cost, no transportation consultations with healthcare professionals through phone or video call, or text message. Wake Forest Baptist Health utilizes a Patient Portal called myWakeHealth that allows patients to view their medical information, link their family's records, manage appointments, email your care team directly, request medication refills, and receive text message reminders for appointments. Expanding this type of platform across healthcare providers (from clinics to hospitals) would serve to expand telemedicine access while also increasing care coordination. Other examples of telemedicine include nurses calling patients twice a month to improve adherence to medical plans, and some studies have found this to be a cost-neutral but effective form of care (Peikes et al. 2009)
4. Provide childcare for medical appointments
Provide childcare for doctor appointments, since children aren't allowed in some waiting rooms. Many healthcare facilities do not provide childcare for their patients, making parents disinclined to seek healthcare for themselves and their dependents. Wake Forest Baptist Health has a Children's Choice Learning Center, but this program serves as a formal preschool program, not as a situational program for individual appointments. There are a plethora of examples of these kinds of programs, including North Pointe's "Fit N Fun" childcare program. The city could mandate childcare facilities for providers of a certain size or provide tax incentives for practices that do provide childcare.
5. Increase quality of care/range of services at clinics
Increase level of care at clinics, not just their number. People need more than just a checkup. The city should work to develop and broaden the range of services provided by community clinics, rather than simply increasing the number of clinics. This policy recommendation stems from the proliferation of healthcare providers that service our community, making it difficult for patients to get a full range of care without significant time and transportation commitments. This recommendation dovetails the policy recommendation below.
6. Behaviorists in clinics to see patients alongside medical providers.
The city's clinics should place behaviorists in consultations alongside medical providers, and employ incentives to encourage private providers to do the same. Some private, non-profit clinics in Winston-Salem already have this program in place. Rather than simply encouraging patients to seek mental healthcare, this policy intervention ensures that patients receive holistic care and that their mental health needs are addressed every time they go to the clinic. This policy would remove stigma by creating integrated care, from which patients can be referred to other mental health care providers.
7. Increase care coordination/information sharing between healthcare providers
Increase care coordination by giving permission to healthcare providers to share information with each other, pop up shops, and school systems about patients. Care coordination refers to the communication and collaboration between various healthcare providers. The primary technology used for increasing care coordination is Certified Electronic Health Record (EHR) technology, but many clinics lack to funding or infrastructure to be able to maintain EHRs. City funds to develop Certified EHR systems across all the city's healthcare providers would increase care coordination among providers. This policy recommendation also entails a strengthening of transitional care programs, an initiative which would allow in-patient and out-patient services to share relevant health information without as many bureaucratic barriers.
8. Community Care Center in Magnet Schools
One option discussed is the placement of a community care center in one, or a few, of the magnet schools in the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County area. Magnet schools are public schools with specialized courses and are able to draw students from across the normal school boundaries defined by authorities. The Winston-Salem area offers 20 different magnet schools for grades K-12. One that might be of particular interest to us, is Brunson Elementary which focuses specifically on science, technology, engineering, and math courses. This school already educates their students in the sciences, and by placing a community care center here, we would be creating a community hub for healthcare. Community care centers often offer toddler and after-school care at low prices. They also would be able to provide healthy and nutritious meals and snacks for the children. In addition to the beneficial services provided at community care centers, placing one in or near an elementary school will reduce transportation costs and time.
9. Mobile Care Clinics.
Introduce mobile care clinics offering mental health care, therapy, and reproductive health care. Winston-Salem State University has a program similar to what we are proposing. They call their mobile clinic RAMS Know H.O.W Mobile Unit and they offer preventive health services to East Winston residents. The mobile clinic is run by faculty, staff, and student volunteers from the School of Health and Sciences. These services are invaluable to members of the East Winston community and should be expanded. Many mobile clinics in other communities are run by doctors and nurses and can offer many more services such as immunizations and sick visits. As of now, the RAMS Know H.O.W Mobile Unit offers blood pressure measurements, BMI measurements, glucose and cholesterol screenings, health education, and medical referrals.
10. Expanding Pro-bono medical care
As of now, Wake Forest Baptist Medical offers pro-bono care through their Delivering Equal Access to Care (DEAC) Clinic. This is a student-run and a physician staffed free clinic that provides services such as blood work, free medications on-site, social services, mental health and STI screening, and community wellness and prevention education. It runs on Wednesday evenings from 6pm-9pm at the community care center. This type of work needs to be increased by, for example, expanding the time and days that the clinic is open. Referring to the above suggestion, they might consider making their clinic mobile in order to increase residents' access to the services. However, these medical students should not limit their work only to this clinic, and may want to consider outside services they can provide to members of the Winston community whom are in need of cheaper and more accessible healthcare.
11. Educating Advisors on health/wellness care
Research needs to focus on where different sectors of the Forsyth County community go to receive healthcare information. Healthcare advisors might include doctors, guidance counselors and trusted volunteers. Once data is obtained, these advisors should be educated on distributing appropriate information relating to health/wellness care and how to expand their care teams to include informal providers of such information.
12. Overcome stigma related to mental health issues
It is important to converse with young men about masculinity and as it relates to a mental health care barrier. Many men can be too proud to admit that they struggle with mental disorders. However, 1 in every 4 adults in the United States will experience a mental health problem in a given year, and on average, 87 men each day take their life by suicide in the United States. One idea for combatting this problem is creating videos from mental healthcare providers themselves, which would allow people to 'meet' that professional virtually before even going to the clinic and make them feel more comfortable in the professional's presence. Another option for making clients feel more comfortable is to connect them with ethno-racially similar providers. Finally, these meetings could be set up through a broader 'chronic disease study' so that men would be more inclined to participate.
13. Improve access and frequency of bus transportation
Many of the people with poor access to healthcare often work late shifts at their various jobs. They rely on the public bus system, which can be extremely inefficient. As of now, most of the bus routes end at 11:55pm, but some end even earlier, such as at 11:30pm. The buses generally start running again at 6:15am. They do not run on Sundays. While expanding these times may seem unrelated to expanding healthcare (since most clinics would not be opened past midnight), it would allow people to go to the clinics during the day/evening, while still working the night shift. In addition, it can be unsafe to walk around Winston-Salem past midnight, and having access to late-night transportation would reduce the incidence of crimes and accidents.
14. Facilitate parents' transportation to attend students' psychiatric care at school
Some schools offer trauma-based care and/or psychiatric care for their students, important and necessary services. It can be of added benefit for parents also to attend these sessions. It is suggested that a program be introduced that coordinates transportation for parents to attend school for their children's psychiatric care. This could be done in a variety of ways including the use of school buses for parents' transportation. Alternatively, the program could involve volunteer drivers transporting parents to and from their children's appointment.


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PepsiCo's (NYSE:PEP) carbonated soft drink (CSD) business operates some popular brands and has a global presence. According to our estimates, the business makes up more than 20% of the company's total value. However, the business unit that markets brands like Pepsi, 7UP and Mirinda for PepsiCo has been under pressure over the last few years due to declining consumption of CSDs in developed markets. Because of this growing trend, PepsiCo's CSD business relies heavily on the emerging markets for future growth. Here we provide an overview of some of the key trends driving this business.
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Emerging Markets Growth
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We believe that the emerging markets will be the growth frontiers for PepsiCo's soft drink business going forward as the company faces tough times in the developed world. Amid continually declining CSD consumption in developed markets, beverage companies are increasingly relying on consumption growth from emerging markets. Economic growth in the emerging markets is lifting consumer income levels and driving urban lifestyles, which is in turn is increasing demand for convenient foods and beverages. Due to higher growth from these markets, the share of emerging and developing markets in PepsiCo's revenues has increased from 24% in 2006 to 35% in 2012. We expect it to further increase in the long run. [1]
Within the emerging market universe, China is the most important bet for almost all multinational food and beverage companies. This is because of its high economic growth rate and a huge population base. The country's beverage market is expected to become the world's largest by 2015. [1] As a result, we expect China to play a crucial role in PepsiCo's soft drinks business going forward. The company is aware of it and has picked up its game recently.
PepsiCo has been outperforming the beverage industry in China since its strategic partnership with Tingyi in 2011 that has helped it scale up its operations in the country. Although the deal closed just last year, we have already seen some positive signs. PepsiCo posted a strong 22% organic revenue growth from its beverages business in China during the second quarter. The company's CSD volumes grew ~10% during the first six months of this year, compared to Coca-Cola's flat performance over the same period. [2] This indicates PepsiCo's 2011 strategic alliance with Tingyi that operates China's most extensive bottling and distributing network is paying off well and has put the company's operations in the large beverage market of China in the fast lane. The company is also performing well in other important emerging markets such as India, Brazil, Egypt and Philippines.
Well Established Brands
PepsiCo has been marketing its products for more than a century now. As a result, most of its flagship beverage brands are well entrenched in the consumer psyche and reaching for a Pepsi product in a shopping mall is a natural habit for more many customers. Some of its popular CSD brands include Pepsi, Diet Pepsi, Mirinda, 7UP and Mountain Dew. Each of these brands generates more than $1 billion in revenues annually. The almost universal household recognition of these brands globally is a huge intangible asset for the company. This not only helps PepsiCo sustain and grow its volume share in the global markets but also provides it with stronger pricing power that results in better margins. The company has been reinforcing this advantage with higher investments in R&D, packaging and design of its key brands along with increasing consumer engagement through marketing and advertisement. PepsiCo invests almost 6% of its revenues in marketing and advertisement activities annually. [2]
The Soda Slump In Developed Markets
The consumption of CSDs has been declining in developed markets over the past few years. The situation in the U.S. is a key example of this trend – per capita consumption of CSDs peaked around 1998 at about 54 gallons a year. Today, the figure stands at around 44 gallons a year. [3] A major reason behind this has been growing consumer awareness about negative health impacts of CSDs. A research paper recently published in the American Journal of Public Health concluded: "Soft drink consumption is significantly linked to overweight, obesity, and diabetes prevalent worldwide." This certainly is bad news for major cola companies Coca-Cola (NYSE:KO) and PepsiCo, both of whom have been hit hard by this trend. PepsiCo posted a 1% decline in organic net revenue in its Americas beverage operations for the second quarter as lower volumes more than offset higher net pricing.
Since the developed markets still account for a majority of PepsiCo's CSD sales, consumption growth from the emerging markets is currently not enough to offset the impact of the soda slump in these markets. Moreover, the growing proportion of sales from emerging markets also has a negative impact on the company's average revenue per case. The higher dependence on emerging markets also increases the volatility of a company's revenues due to exchange rate fluctuations. Therefore, despite the significant growth potential in the emerging markets, PepsiCo's CSD business is expected to see more pain in the short to medium term unless the consumption decline in developed markets starts reversing.
We currently have $89 price estimate for PepsiCo, which is ~10% above its current market price.
Understand How a Company's Products Impact its Stock Price at TrefisNotes:
- PepsiCo 2012 Annual Report, pepsico.com [↩] [↩]
- Q2 2013 Earnings Call, pepsico.com [↩] [↩]
- Water becomes America's favorite drink again, usatoday.com [↩]


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The Order Picker Forklift Licence takes two (2) days to complete and is intended for persons who wish to obtain an Order Picker Forklift Licence (Class LO). We conduct Order Picker Forklift training at our Newcastle premises (MAP) - or if required our trainers can travel to site for on-site training.
Order Picker Forklift Licence costs $570 + $75 for the licence application fee with Australia Post.
A high risk work (HRW) licence of Class LO is a legal requirement for anyone wishing to operate an order picker forklift truck (also known as a stock picker). So this course is for anyone who wants to operate an order picker forklift, or is required to operate one for work.
An order picker forklift is also sometimes referred to as a stock picker forklift, and they are defined as follows: "Order picking forklift truck means a forklift truck where the operator controls are incorporated with the lifting media and elevate with the lifting media."
Typically this means that for an order picker you stand on a platform wearing a harness, and to get stock that is stored high on pallet racking you go up with the platform and pick the stock by hand off the pallet racking and onto the platform before returning to the ground. This differs from a regular forklift, in that, a regular forklift you always remain at ground level when the mast and forklift tynes are moved up and down to retrieve pallets of goods from high on the pallet racking.
The TLILIC2002 - Licence to operate an order picking forklift truck course is intended for people who want to gain the skills and knowledge required to operate an order picker without supervision.
Participants must be over 18 years of age, be able to speak and understand English; understand technical concepts and provide adequate 100 points of identification as per SafeWork NSW requirements.
The national standard requires all high risk work licence training and assessment to be conducted under the supervision of an RTO, with the licence assessment component conducted by a SafeWork NSW accredited assessor.
A successful formative assessment must take place before the SafeWork NSW summative assessment can be done.
Upon booking into an Order Picker Forklift course we ensure that participants are sent a link to the learning materials so that they can read through before attending. We find that students who have pre-read the material have a much easier time getting through the course.
Successful participants will receive a statement of attainment (TLILIC2002 - Licence to operate an order picking forklift truck) and are granted with a temporary licence. Participants will then have 60 days to apply for a full licence.
Two (2) days comprising a day and a half of theory and practical training, with assessment conducted in the afternoon of the second day.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least 20 people were killed when two bombs exploded at a cemetery in the Iraqi city of Baquba, where mourners were burying a university professor shot dead the previous day, police and medics said.
Baquba is about 50 km (30 miles) northeast of Baghdad.
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Curveball: The Year I Lost My Grip by Jordan Sonnenblick
Release Date:Â March 1, 2012
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Pages: 304
Target Audience: Young Adult
Format I read it in:Â Paperback copy from ALA (Thank you!)
Why I was interested in it:Â Boy narrator, baseball!
Summary: Peter's dreams of being a big-time pitcher on the high school baseball team are cut short when an elbow injury stops him from playing baseball ever again. Even though he has photography to fall back on, he is still unable to come to grips with his new reality (and be honest with his best friend and teammate about it). Not to mention Gramps, his favorite relative (and the person who taught him to love photography), seems not to be himself lately and there's that girl in class he can't seem to stop thinking about…
Before I even say anything, I'm going to tell you to buy Curveball. Remember I said that.
Confession: I have a huge crush on Peter. He's an athlete, he's creative, he cares about his family, he says silly things, and he's hilarious. It might be because I've been reading some dark books recently but Peter is like a breath of fresh air in a stale, stale environment. And I thought that would be hard to maintain as the author because of the serious themes that weave themselves in and out of the chapters, but no. Curveball manages to be funny, smart, adorable, heartbreaking, and real all at the same time. Remember what I said in the first sentence? (Reminder: Buy this book.)
This book is about the struggle to be honest with yourself about what's happening in your life. This is the truth of many of these characters. Peter, of course, with his unusable pitching arm. But then there is best friend, A.J. (who is a real trip) and even Gramps (who I keep picturing as Carl in Up). The book may sound male heavy but it's not drowning in testosterone either. It was easily relatable and I liked I was able to see into a male's psyche as he went through such a rough identity crisis. I think Peter took the whole thing in stride though. His arm, that is. When Gramps starts to show signs of his age and declining memory, their bond is so apparent; it reminded me a lot of my grandmother and I.
Then there's Angelika. She is not like any girl I've read about lately. She's sarcastic and sassy but sweet and flirty. Their first encounter in the earlier chapters had me laughing out loud in the bookstore. (Yes I was the loudest one around.) I also liked how the book didn't make their romance centerstage. It was gradual and given room to breathe. Much more realistic when Peter is going through so many other things at the same time.
Honestly, the whole time I read this… I was thinking how much I wanted Magan to read it too. There's a lot of photography jargon thrown around and it made me feel really excited about pictures and I'm curious what a professional like Magan would think. (Gramps was also a wedding photographer.) Photography is such an important outlet for Peter. It gives him something to fall back on when baseball doesn't exactly work out, it serves as a connection between him and his grandfather, and also helps him find his way to Angelika and a few other realizations along the way.
The writing is clean and concise but is still able to garner a ton of emotion. Curveball is the perfect blend of seriousness and humor, as well as able to balance the family, friendship, and romance storylines very well. For such a fast paced novel, readers are able to get a great gauge on these relationships and really connect with the characters. This is the first book I've read by Sonnenblick and I am anxious to give him another try.


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The Tony Papadopoullos Bursary
Tony Papadopoullos founded Apak in 1979 with a single computer at his kitchen table. Over three decades later, the company has grown to become a leading provider of specialist financial systems.
Sadly, in 2001 Tony passed away. Shortly after the Apak business became part of Sword Group in 2007, the former Board of Directors established the Tony Papadopoullos Memorial Trust in Tony's memory.
The Trust works closely with the University of the West of England (UWE) in Bristol to create the Tony Papadopoullos Bursary. The bursary was created to offer financial help to high performing undergraduate students in the field of computing. The bursary also celebrates the memory of Tony Papadopoullos and helps to give bright young people the opportunity to get a formal education.
Former Apak CEO, and current Trustee of the Tony Papadopoullos Charitable Trust, Tony Bracey comments, "Apak, the company founded by Tony Papadopoullos, had many connections with UWE, having employed many high quality graduates and hosted student placements. We are therefore delighted to be able to award these bursaries to talented UWE students to celebrate his memory and [we] look forward to seeing the recipients' progress during their time at University."
The bursary has so far proven to be a huge success. Two UWE students, Richard Broker (Computer Science) and Peter Bond (Computing), each received £6,000 towards their final two years of studies. They were selected by UWE staff in the Department of Computer Science and Creative Technology based on their promising first-year marks and for an essay they each wrote illustrating their use of technical innovation and practicality in their first year of study.
The Dean of the Faculty of the Environment and Technology, Paul Olomolaiye, said, "For the charity to have invested in these students is a wonderful way to remember someone who was both academic and enterprising and who so well exemplified knowledge and practice. I am grateful to the trustees for supporting the next generation, and I hope that our own students will learn from this and consider supporting others in the same way in the future."
Apak Group is immensely proud to be part of the Tony Papadopoullos Charitable Trust; it is a fantastic cause that supports the future generation of the industry. It is a wonderful way to remember such a modestly talented man, Tony Papadopoullos.
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Visas for Saudi Arabia
- Purchase the complete Expat Arrivals Saudi Arabia Guide (PDF)
Saudi Arabia offers a wealth of opportunity for expat job seekers and companies, but it's crucial that expats understand the entry requirements attached to visas for Saudi Arabia. The Kingdom has stringent rules in place and they are unlikely to change in the near future.
Everyone entering Saudi Arabia requires a visa, except for nationals of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states and holders of a re-entry permit issued by the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
All visitors need to have a passport valid for at least six months and an appropriate visa.
Visas must be obtained prior to arrival, and it is important to remember that all visas require an individual or company to act as a sponsor who will vouch for the individual's conduct while in the country.
Visas for Saudi Arabia
Below are the different types of entry visas issued by either the Saudi Arabian embassy or consulate in the expat's home country, or directly from the Department of Foreign Affairs in Saudi Arabia:
Visitor's visas for Saudi Arabia
A visitor's visa, which is also the category that a business visa falls under, requires a formal invitation from an individual or company sponsor. Proof of the invitation for a business visa should be provided in the form of a letter certified by the Saudi Chamber of Commerce and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The invitation will contain a visa number and serves to show the embassy that the applicant has obtained a visa via the sponsor. The applicant can then take this visa number along with their passport, the fee and other required documentation to their local Saudi embassy or consulate to collect the visa. A business visa is usually valid for a single entry and for a stay of up to three months.
At present there is no substantial tourist industry in the country and Saudi Arabia, unlike other countries in the GCC, does not issue tourist visas except for approved tour groups following organised itineraries. It does appear slightly more straightforward for Muslims to enter Saudi Arabia and the process for obtaining the Hajj and Umra visas for religious purposes is well administered.
Family visit visas for Saudi Arabia
These are issued to visitors wishing to live in Saudi Arabia, such as the wives and children of those who are currently working in the Kingdom (note that exit and re-entry visas to leave the Kingdom are required for holders of a residence visa). The approval of this visa can only be obtained from the Department of Foreign Affairs in Saudi Arabia.
Other considerations for Saudi visas
Certain individuals could be restricted entry into Saudi Arabia. These include passengers with links to Israel and those who do not comply with Saudi regulations, including conventions of behaviour and dress.
It is essential to note that all business in Saudi Arabia is conducted according to the Islamic calendar, which is days shorter than the Gregorian calendar that most Westerners are familiar with. This is also the case for the overall length of the visa. It is important that visitors understand when they are required to leave Saudi Arabia because overstaying the visa for as little as 24 hours could lead to serious consequences.
Female expats
Women planning on travelling to Saudi Arabia must observe certain additional requirements, which may seem rather extreme. Women arriving in the Kingdom must be met by their sponsor at the airport, or they will face problems upon entry. This is non-negotiable.
Leaving Saudi Arabia
There are restrictions and regulations that relate to leaving Saudi Arabia. Women who plan on permanently residing in Saudi Arabia should be aware that if living as a member of a Saudi household, for example marrying a Saudi man or having a Saudi father, she will need the permission of the Saudi male head of the household to leave the country.
This is also true for non-Saudi employees in relation to their employer. One cannot leave the country without an exit visa requiring the signature of the employer; and the employer may hold the worker's passport. If one wishes to change employers then they will again need the permission of their previous employer.
The sponsorship (kafeel) system
The kafeel or sponsorship system is known, from time to time, to result in various injustices for foreign workers and travellers. Such a severe lack of the personal freedom of movement would undoubtedly seem ludicrous in other countries. Although Saudi Arabia has not ruled out the possibility of cancelling the system, officials have stated that they will do whatever is necessary to protect the rights of both employers and employees.
In conclusion, upon entering and leaving Saudi Arabia, expats cannot take any shortcuts with regards to the immigration authorities and the various visa rules and practices. However, if the expat is eligible and submits the required documentation and is prepared to follow the stated rules and customs, whether considered outdated or not, the visa approval process can be fairly smooth.
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It's Okay to be Selfish
This blog post has been brewing in my head for a long time.
After years of always having a big goal I was working towards - graduation, finding a job, planning a wedding, learning to be a wife, buying a house, building a home - I've had no other big project these past few months to direct my focus towards other than me.
I allowed myself to push my own progress farther and farther down the priority list and now I'm suddenly 27 and just now giving myself the attention I deserve. It's been so easy to convince myself that there wasn't enough time in the day when week days and weekends are filled with other priorities, but how do we learn when it's too much and we need to dial it back?
When you realize that none of the things you're filling your time with are really bringing you any joy.
For months last year Andy and I were in this routine of stacking our schedules. We'd have something going on pretty much every night, plus the many work events I have on week nights, and by the time Friday came I just wanted to sit on the couch and veg. Two ends of the extreme.
This year I took a different approach. With a goal to focus on myself and my own needs, I got better at saying no. No to committing to a new responsibility; no to hosting small group during crazy work weeks; no to a complicated dinner if I wanted to go to the gym after work. No.
And you know what? The world did not catch on fire and start falling to the ground. My friends appreciated that I could say no and that I was respecting my time. And Andy happily ate eggs for dinner for the umpteenth time so that I didn't feel pressured to skip my workout to make a full dinner. I finally stopped racing to achieve the perfection I had set in my head.
With more no also comes a change in the yes. No to food prepping one Sunday because I said yes to hanging by the pool with friends. No to cooking dinner but yes to a surprise date night with the hubs.
Focusing on ourselves has such a bad connotation. We shouldn't be selfish and should always put others ahead of ourselves, blah, blah, blah. Taking the time to focus on and build a healthy life for myself has opened up more room for me to care for and love others more. I'm not walking around stressed and anxious and have more to offer to those around me. Finding this peace with my day-to-day has allowed me to grow into a place where my days are filled with the things I love doing alongside the people that I love, and who love me, the most.
So if you're waiting for someone to yell at you to stop doing what you're doing and to be as selfish as you need to be at this point in your life, this is me yelling at you. If what you're doing isn't working, take a step back, look at the things filling your day, remove the things that don't bring you the joy you deserve, and focus on doing the things you love.


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Saturday, Jan. 19, 2008 | 1:13 p.m.
Congressman David Bonior, the national campaign manager for John Edwards, made a quiet exit from the doors of Cashman Center at about 12:45 p.m. With 35 percent of precincts reporting presidential candidate Edwards had not yet hit 5 percent of the votes -- forecasting a crushing defeat for the former North Carolina Senator.
The Edwards camp never talked like Edwards could win Nevada, but they harbored hopes of finishing well -- maybe even in second place. Bonier would not officially concede defeat -- that'll come later today -- but he stated the obvious: "I think with 35 percent in and us at less than five percent it's clear we're not going to win here."
Bonior would not say how the thumping in Nevada would effect the longevity of Edwards' run for the presidency. He said Edwards had 1,000 people at events in Oklahoma City and St. Louis Friday, and is hoping to do well in South Carolina, where he was born.
Edwards had still not hit 5 percent of the vote with 63 percent of precincts reporting.


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the last 12 months Australian under-18 100m sprinting has exploded. It started
last summer when Jordan Shelley
broke the national under-16 100m record, clocking 10.67 in Townsville. In
August Queensland's Trae William's
ran 10.51 in his heat at the Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China, going on to
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later Hale lowered the national record to 10.42. In late October in Brisbane,
Williams opened his domestic season with 10.54, then two days later Browning
clocked a stunning 10.37 (+2.4m/s). It is still over one month until they are
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Australian All Schools.
caught up with the newest member of the group, Rohan Browning, just after his
10.37 run on Saturday.
Sunday's Fernleigh15 was the final event of the Athletics NSW winter season and
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Saturday's 3000m races were sharp contrasts between the
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Shield at SOPAC.
Newcastle-raised Aaron
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Gennady Gennadyevich Golovkin—the Kazakh hero, nice man, and middleweight champion—has a tiny head. This is good. Tiny heads make for tiny targets. Golovkin's head is shaped like Dracula's coffin, with high cheek bones, a flat crown and a narrow chin. This is bad. Sharp cheek bones, it's believed, are more likely to split the skin upon impact. All this is hypothetical, of course, but especially so for Golovkin, who, in twenty-nine professional fights, has yet to get hit with the sort of shot that might test boxing's theories of tiny heads.
Much has been written about the unassuming smile that never leaves that tiny head. Boxing writer Michael Woods has suggested that Golovkin, who usually goes by the nickname G.G.G., add "The Grinning Assassin" to his list of aliases. After spending an afternoon with Golovkin last September, Deadspin's Hamilton Nolan observed, "Golovkin always smiles. It's a sort of knowing smile, though, a smile turned inward, stemming no doubt from the knowledge that he has plenty to say, but not necessarily the words to say it." And Grantland's Rafe Bartholomew, who once drove six hours to see a then-unknown Golovkin fight at a casino north of Utica, had this to say about the sight of a violent, smiling man: "Golovkin radiates a happy-go-lucky aura that contrasts with the mayhem he causes in the ring. He smiles and nods when he gets hit, lets out an occasional amused shrug after battering an opponent, and performs a dainty, ballet-inspired bow to the crowd after he wins."
It's true. Golovkin is a weird smiler. Unlike Sugar Ray Leonard, Golovkin does not put on a hard, smiling mask to cover up boundless ambition; unlike, well, name any boxer who has honestly assessed his life's work, Golovkin does not smile with scorn or deep, existential irony. Instead, his smile reads goofy—whether he's conducting a post-fight interview, struggling through his English platitudes, or stalking a terrified opponent around the ring, Golovkin betrays nothing but the bemusement of a wealthy exchange student on his first day of school.
None of this sounds like great TV, but since his first HBO date in September of 2012—a battering of Grzegorz Proksa, a well-regarded Polish fighter—Golovkin's reputation for brutal knockouts and the enthusiasm of a small, but rabid Kazakh fan base in New York City, have turned him into one of boxing's biggest draws. His knockout percentage, which stands at a staggering ninety per cent, has brought up the inevitable comparisons to Mike Tyson. As far as comparisons go, it's a bad one. Despite a decorated amateur career that saw him win a silver medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics, Golovkin is far from Tyson's technical equal. He does not move his head at all. His footwork is perfectly adequate, but not much more. His punching style, which, at times, looks like an aggrieved child poking at his mother's side, should never bring up comparisons to Tyson's compressed, violent hand speed. But Golovkin's awkward, reaching punches, when they connect, can sometimes have a Tyson-like effect. The sturdy fighter Matthew Macklin got hit with a probing Golovkin liver shot in the third round of their fight last May and crumpled to the canvas and did not get up for several minutes. Three months prior to that, Golovkin knocked the Japanese middleweight Nobuhiro Ishida through the ropes with a right cross thrown from his tip-toes. There have been many others.
On the Wednesday before Golovkin's fight with Australian middleweight Daniel Geale, the promotional cabals behind the fight held a sparsely attended press conference at the theatre in Madison Square Garden. A gathering of boxing writers huddled around Golovkin, who was seated at a small folding table. The questions were easy, as they always are in these situations. One reporter asked, "When do you know when you've really hurt a guy? Do you know in the first round?" Golovkin said the first round was too soon, but he usually knew by the second. "Who was your toughest opponent?" a writer asked. Golovkin smiled, almost apologetically. "No one," he said and shrugged. When Golovkin's English failed him, his trainer, Abel Sanchez, took over and delivered the sort of garrulous, quasi-technical doublespeak that has become the fight trainer's second language, especially when addressing the media before a fight.
I first met Sanchez last year in the tunnels of the Barclays Center while reporting a profile on Don King. Sanchez's other fighter of note, Tavoris Cloud—promoted by King— had just lost a decision to the forty-eight-year-old Bernard Hopkins. All cornermen and media had been kicked out of Cloud's locker room while King negotiated the purse with his fighter. Sanchez and I began chatting about Big Bear, California, where he runs his training camps. Sanchez didn't want to talk about Cloud, who had allowed Hopkins to mesmerize and frustrate him. He talked instead of Golovkin, and, when we finally parted ways, he handed me a Gennady Golovkin trading card that looked like it had been printed off a bubble jet printer. "That's the real guy," Sanchez told me. "I don't think he can lose."
He has not, but it's worth asking how long the boxing public can watch an indestructible fighter tear through unremarkable opponents. Going into Saturday night's fight against Daniel Geale, a tough former middleweight champion from Australia, the oddsmakers put Golovkin as a nine-to-one favorite. Let's give the challenger his due and say that he has fought admirably in the past against more human competition, but there was only one real question among the reporters ringside at Madison Square Garden: When would Geale get knocked out?
The Golovkin crowd didn't seem to care much about the competitive imbalance. If you want to see the entirety of an immigrant population in New York City in one place, give one of their countrymen a championship belt and have him fight in Madison Square Garden. According to the most recent census, there are twenty two thousand Kazakh immigrants in the United States. On Saturday night, it seemed like a third of the entire diaspora had a ticket for the fight. They cheered Golovkin during his ringwalk; they cheered when he dropped his robe, revealing a pair of lacquered white trunks that looked like they had been dipped in melted Storm Trooper helmet; they cheered whenever a Kazakh flag showed up on the Jumbotron. And while their enthusiasm matched the crowds who show up for Miguel Cotto, Manny Pacquiao, and Canelo Alvarez, numbers are numbers and no one seems to know whether there are enough Kazakh fans to sustain Golovkin's growing popularity. Without the support of network television or a broad fan base, fight cards now rely heavily on demographic research. Meaning, it helps to have a whole lot of countrymen willing to shell out sixty-five dollars to watch you on pay-per-view.
Still, the fight went mostly according to script, except for one odd moment in the first round when a ringside cameraman tripped Geale, who went sprawling back on his ass. In retrospect, he should have stayed down. For reasons unknown, a minute was added onto the clock, a fact lost on many at ringside, who collectively held their breath as Golovkin stalked Geale around the ring. When Geale went down in the second round, Woods turned to me and another writer and asked, "Are you guys cringing, too? Whenever Geale goes to the ropes, it's cringe time."
We all cringed for about nine minutes of ring time. Faced with a skittish but skilled boxer, Golovkin's extensive amateur background showed up in his feints. There's a move he goes to quite a bit, where, hands-down, he ducks his head and shoulders to the side and half-commits to a jab. Then, when the scared opponent reflexively crunches over to protect his head from the second half of a one-two, Golovkin will instead bang the flank with a heavy body shot. Geale must have watched this move countless times during his preparation (a collection of these shots shifted around Macklin's bowels), but a frightened fighter can't control his reflexes and time and time again, Geale fell for Golovkin's feints and paid a heavy price.
It finally ended with about thirty seconds left in the third. Geale landed his best right cross of the fight while Golovkin was loading up a big right. Rather than letting the punch to the face deter him, Golovkin's right arm kept on moving up. Once his face, just smashed, had rearranged itself into something resembling its normal shape, the brain told the still-swinging fist to clobber Geale's head and so it did. There was a moment in the slow motion replay shown on the Jumbotron where one can see Golovkin's brain and arm reconnecting their circuitry—the face sets, the chin tightens, the arm straightens out and accelerates and Geale goes down.
After the fight, I walked out onto Eighth Avenue into a throng of Golovkin fans. A white BMW convertible shot up Thirty-first street, honking its horn. A woman in the backseat hoisted the Kazakh flag over her head. I followed the car to the corner of Seventh Avenue, where a kid who looked like he had just gotten off a long shift at a nearby sandwich shop, asked, "What flag is that?"


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It had been almost two months since the catastrophic chicken carnage. The egg supply had finally been depleted and we were still weighing up the choice between rehoming some battery hens or supporting heritage breeders. The decision was made last weekend when I was lucky enough to have an abundant supply of burly lads around to move the chook cage to a better location closer to the house. As it happened, that same weekend there was a notice up on the KFC Project's page for some ex-battery hens. We set up a pen on Sunday morning then made the long car trip out to Ipswich to pick up the four easiest to catch hens from the latest rescue batch.
Well I say it was a long car trip out there but in all honesty we had a lunch break and then a lovely tea break at a friend's place on the way. Actually it was the car trip home that could have gone a little faster. The air was frequently punctuated by pungent odours wafting from the back seat as one of the four chickens would remind us that she most certainly did not enjoy being shunted around the countryside for the second time that day. Nevertheless we did not sink into stupor with the overpowering smells and made it home without careering off the road in a flurry of chicken feathers and cardboard boxes.
Finally reaching their final destination we opened the cat cage that I had thankfully had the foresight to line with cardboard and took the lid off the cardboard box releasing all four girls into their new life in Elysian Fields of lush green grass complete with seed-heads ready for nibbling and thin patches begging to be racked into luxurious dust baths. Admittedly it didn't quite happen like that. The girls remained in their boxes and had to be lifted out, flapping their wings in protest. They didn't quite seem to know what to do with their new surroundings. The juicy blades of grass meant nothing to them. The watermelon skins were left lying lonely in the open like tumble weeds in a Western film; only the sound that rang through the air was not the quick-draw shot of a gun-slinging cowboy but the clink, clink, clink of the nearby chain-gang working in the mine.
|The chain gang working hard
The poor girls obviously didn't know any better than to be obsessed with pecking at the bolts on the cage or the holes in the star pickets. Either that, or they were determined not to be caged ever again and were working fast at dismantling any potential new prison. The only other feature of their new home that sparked interest was this new-fangled water dispenser thingy in the corner of the cage. It took one girl at least five minutes of pecking at the overflow spout on the water dish (a repurposed and of course cleaned oil drip tray) before she figured out she could drink straight from the surface.
|Did you honestly think you'd catch me looking at that watermelon?
Despite the culture shock of the new place, the four girls are adjusting to their new surrounds. They've laid 6 eggs in a week and one has even figured out what that straw-lined four-sided, odd-looking contraption is meant to be for. They did eventually, at least I presume it was them, realise the joy of watermelon after I left the remaining rind in with them overnight so they could try it out while I wasn't looking and not have it snavelled by a crow with a hungry mouth to feed besides its own.
Next on the list for expanding their culinary repertoire is capsicum. They ran off today after I dropped the seeded part of the fruit in their midst today as if I had dropped a grenade. While they were a little less terrified when I put it in their cage tonight their looks were still dubious. No doubt the rolling thunder and lightning tonight didn't alay their fears of having entered a war zone. I wonder what they'll think of tomatoes.
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Petaluma has become a safe haven for victims of the fires, with our local nonprofits providing crucial services not just during the crisis but in the weeks and months to come.
Help them continue their efforts by donating to PCF's Fire Response Fund today.
Mentor Me served as an emergency shelter for upward of 178 evacuees, including many Spanish-speaking families, and managed an enormous influx of donated supplies and volunteers. They're now providing financial and household support to the many evacuees staying with their mentee families and working with local school districts to serve displaced students who will be attending school in Petaluma.
Petaluma Peoples Services Center (PPSC) has partnered with SHARE Sonoma County to solicit, match, and manage home shares for individuals and families displaced by the fires. They are seeking homeowners and renters with an extra bedroom, garage space, couch or second dwelling unit who are willing to offer short-term housing for our fire victims. Placements are not limited to Sonoma or Napa counties. If you are in need of housing or want to provide housing, please contact firstname.lastname@example.com or call 707.765.8488 and ask for SHAREFire, ext. 126.
PPSC is also providing transportation to fire victims through their iRide volunteer driver program, coordinating mental health services, and distributing fresh food through their Petaluma Bounty farm. They are seeking volunteers to help provide these safety net services.
PEP Housing is collecting and distributing clothing, personal care items, diapers, and food to dozens of families in need.
Rebuilding Together is collecting and distributing donations of building materials from vendors and will mobilize skilled volunteers to help people repair and rebuild their homes.
Free Bookmobile of Sonoma County visited all of the Petaluma-based shelters just after the crisis to distribute books to evacuees, especially children. They will customize their outreach in the months ahead to serve those schools and programs most impacted by the fires.
A special thank you to PCF's Community Partner, P.O.S.T. - Wellness by Design, which is offering free Yoga and Tai Chi classes for evacuees and others displaced by the fires.
Help Petaluma Community Foundation support the fire relief and recovery efforts of our local Petaluma nonprofits by donating to PCF's Fire Response Fund.
Community Foundation of Sonoma County has launched the Sonoma County Resilience Fund to support the medium- to long-term needs of nonprofit organizations providing direct services to fire victims in our greater Sonoma County community.


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Make a quilted potholder
- Floral or patterned fabric
- Wadding (ideally heat resistant)
- Bias binding
- Ruler and pencil
- Basic sewing kit including scissors and pins
- Sewing machine
- Cut two pieces of floral fabric and one piece of wadding to approx 20x25cm (7.8inx9.8in).
- Take one piece of your floral fabric, and on the right side, use your ruler and pencil to draw a diagonal grid with 3cm (1.2in) gaps between the lines. Place the other piece of floral fabric right side down on the table, lay your wadding on top of this and finally your fabric with the grid on top, right side facing up. Pin these 3 layers together- tack if you wish. Then on your sewing machine, stitch along the gird lines you've drawn.
- Once complete, trim nice and straight and round off the edges- a round pin tin can help you draw guides for the curves.
- Sew a zig zag stitch the whole way round the perimeter of the three layers. Unfold your bias binding, and pin one edge around the perimeter on the fabric. Again tack if you wish. Stitch right around, as close to edge as possible, taking care on the curved corners. You might find it helps to press the binding with an iron before you start sewing.
- Once the binding is attached on that side, you can fold it around to the other side. Where your binding ends meet you can make a few stitches to join them together. Again, it will help to press the binding to get it to sit smoothly around the corners. Top stitch the whole way around the inside edge of the binding to secure and finish.
- Finally, take a leftover piece of binding approx. 8cm long, fold it in half lengthways and stitch along the edge to close up the fold. Then make it into a loop and hand stitch to one corner of your potholder.
Project from Caroline Rowland for AO.com.
There's more craft in every issue of Yours magazine, out every fortnight on a Tuesday.


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Spotify Vs. Apple Music: Spotify Promos Launch To Compete With Streaming Rivals
Spotify is trying to attract new subscribers for 2018 by launching a special year-long promo and trial offer for its Premium subscription.
The moves come as the platform competes with Apple Music and other streaming services like Pandora and Amazon Prime Music.
With Spotify's new promo, customers can put down a one-time payment of $99.00 and get 12 months of the Spotify Premium plan for the price of 10. After the 12 months are up, users will go back to regular prices. With the promo, customers can save about $20 off what the streaming service would normally cost for a year. The Premium plan usually costs $9.99 a month.
Those interested in the promo can visit Spotify's site and take advantage of the deal before it expires on Dec. 31. The offer is available to users who currently have a Spotify account or people who are signing up for the first time, the promo's terms and conditions page says. Users who are on Spotify's current Family plan users are not eligible for the year-long deal.
Spotify is also offering an introductory trial promo. Customers can use Spotify's Premium version by paying only $0.99 for the first three month and $9.99 for the following months. The introductory trial offer also ends on Dec. 31. The promo is not available to people who have already tried Premium. The trial promo would bring down the annual cost for the Premium plan to about $93.
What Is Spotify Premium?
With Spotify's Premium plan, users can listen to non-stop music with no ad interruptions, have access to higher-quality streams. Users can pick any song in Spotify's extensive library and instantly listen to it. The service comes with unlimited skips. Premium customers can also download music and listen to it on the go.
Spotify Vs. Apple Music
An Apple Music subscription costs the same as Spotify's regular monthly fee, $9.99. While Spotify has a $0.99 three-month trial, Apple has a better deal: $0 for three months. Apple Music has a 40-million-song library and plays no ads. The subscription works easier for those who have an iPhone, since users don't have to leave the Music app and can access their iTunes library in the same location. The Apple Music service also allows users to download songs and listen to them while offline. Apple Music is connected to Siri, which means users can request songs and listen to it by asking the voice assistant. The streaming service is also connected with the Apple Watch for easy access during workouts.
Besides the individual $9.99 monthly plan, Apple Music currently offers two other options, a $4.99 a month plan for students and a $14.99 a month family plan.
Apple has been doing well with Apple Music. The streaming service saw a 75 percent year-over-year increase in subscriptions, Apple said in its Q4 2017 earnings call last month.


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WeatherM proudly present his biggest library ever, 'Total Atmosphers'.
Total Atmospheres is collection of WeatherM's pads / atmospheres sounds comes from his all soundbank.
It was designed on various software synthesizers such as Harmor, Zebra, Diversion, Serum, and so on...
WeatherM has been making a lot of sounds for ambient music.
And in celebration for big update of FL12.5, he deceided share his sounds designed for lot of concept - such as Space like sound, Dreamy, Gloomy and more...
In the Total Atmospheres, included only the best of them, and it contains some of unreleased sounds too.
Total Atmospheres completely free for all Direct Wave & FL Studio users.
Take Total Atmospheres, take best atmospheres!
-Total 100 presets(2.3GB), they are pad / atmospheres / drones / textures / soundscapes.
-Supported key range C3 ~ C7.
-All sounds are contains original sound source only without any edit or modulation such as filter and fx, so you can edit it whatever you like.
-Requires Image-Line Direct Wave.
Total Atmospheres is completely free, download in here (2.2GB) : https://goo.gl/GfT7W5
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Remember, your donations are helpful to buying more fried chickens.
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text: I attended a wonderful lecture last night by Burk Uzzle at the Nasher Museum in Durham. It reminded me of a debate I have been having of late about established masters vs. contemporary photography and the work that falls in the middle ground. Uzzle's amazing career arc seems to encompass both sides of the spectrum. I can't help but wonder however if his history has given him the access, freedom and trust that many of the rest of us aren't allowed. This extremely creative and energetic artist has continued to evolve, trying different themes, techniques, and subjects. Some of these forays, in my personal opinion, are wildly successful, while others less so. But as artists, aren't we supposed to risk such failure in order to explore new ground? Most of his lecture was very inspirational, but if there was a single alarm bell that was raised for me, it had to do with his project with mimes in his new hometown of Wilson, NC. He admitted that his tech-guy in Seattle, did some post production on his scans of this work, most of it just fine, but when he admitted swapping a head off one photo to put on the body from another… I almost fell out of my chair. For an artist of such integrity to do this without batting an eye rather shocked me. I don't want to belabor that point however, since it was a rare anomaly. Otherwise his work showed evidence of great mentorship from the likes of Henri Cartier-Bresson and his other fellow Magnum photographers, and the wealth of his iconic vintage images and his incredibly vital current work gave proof that one of North Carolina's own is a verifiable master of his genre. I have included that entertaining ladder of success in the arts to compare ourselves with someone who is already standing on the top rung. ladder of success Added on March 1, 2013 by bryce lankard.


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Your Love Guard Me Through The Night…..
TONIGHT I Pray that you experience true intimacy with God. I pray that that you "know" Him as never before and are consumed by His Spirit!!...I pray that all of the spirits of confusion will loose their hold upon your life and you to be released from them!! I pray that every tree planted by fear in your life dry up to the roots and every seed of bitterness, anger and resentment be released from your mind, heart and soul! I pray that His peace consumes you, your family and purpose! I pray that you are preserved and protected by His Power! Cast all your cares over to HIM – for He cares for you. In Jesus name, Amen and Amen. I Love You All!! God bless you!!!!♥♥♥


text: My biggest problem with Jin Sushi is that it took me three months of living here to find out about their amazing happy hour special. Jin is in the Lower East Side and from 3:30-7 PM on weekdays and 12:30-7 PM on weekends there is an entire happy hour menu with everything for $3.50. That's right, $3,50 tuna avocado rolls, age dashi tofu, beer, wine, you name it! Pitchers are also $10. I know $3.50 sushi sounds potentially sketch - trust me, cheap, bad sushi is my worst nightmare - but it's actually heaven in roll form. I'm honestly shocked that more people don't know about this place. Jin is so good that the night before Hurricane Sandy, my roommate and I headed there for a "last" sushi fix instead of, you know, making preparations for the massive approaching storm. Favorite options: spicy tuna crunch roll, spicy crab crunch roll, and the avocado salad (it's huge). But really, everything is good. And where else can you get massive pitchers of Stella or Hoegaarden for $10? www.jinrestaurantnyc.com/


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When Tales From the Borderlands, an "all-new story-driven episodic game series" by Telltale Games, was announced at VGX, they failed to mention what platforms this would be on. Thanks to a press release, it has been confirmed that the game will be out in 2014 on "home consoles, PC/Mac, and mobile devices." We'll have to wait for details on exactly which consoles, but PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One are good bets.
Dan Connors, Co-Founder and CEO of Telltale Games talked about Tales From the Borderlands:
Gearbox shares the independent spirit that Telltale was founded on, and like Telltale, they've broken the boundaries of what to expect within a gaming genre. Our partnership is something that we are very excited about, because it will unite the incredibly rich world of Borderlands with Telltale's focus on story-telling driven by player choice, and characters that people truly care about.
Randy Pitchford, President of Gearbox, then discussed the partnership:
At the 2012 Spike TV VGAs, our studios and games – Borderlands 2 and The Walking Dead – were fortunate to do incredibly well that night winning more awards than any other games! So we met up later for a great first date, one thing lead to another and, well, we're having a baby. Borderlands is incredibly important to us, so it is meaningful to share that with this partnership. I have great confidence and excitement for what Telltale has in store for its all-new adventures in our universe.
You can expect Tales From the Borderlands to "explore and expand on the stories of existing and all-new characters from the world of Pandora," as seen in Borderlands 2.
What do you expect from the gameplay in Tales From the Borderlands? Let us know in the comments below.


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Handling Forms Authentication Events
You can handle forms authentication events to customize the following aspects of the forms authentication process:
How the forms authentication ticket is created.
How the User property is set.
To perform these tasks, you can handle the FormsAuthentication_OnAuthenticate event in an application's Global.asax file. Typically forms authentication manages these tasks for you. However, in your applications, you might have specific authentication requirements, such as setting the User property to a custom class that implements the IPrincipal interface. For more information, see FormsAuthenticationEventHandler.
When you access forms authentication through the authentication service, you can handle the Authenticating event to customize how the user credentials are verified. You can handle the CreatingCookie event to customize the content of the authentication cookie returned by the service. For more information, see How to: Customize User Login When Using the WCF Authentication Service and How to: Customize the Authentication Cookie from the WCF Authentication Service.
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Zoot Publishing is an indie publishing house.
We're exploring new formats of printed books and games, from paper electronics to children's picture books that combining gaming and reading to boardgames with hidden technology like NFC.
Why Print?
The electronic world has already consumed the print world. Ebooks sales now outpace printed books sales. People read more and more on electronic devices.
And for good reason - a kindle or tablet makes ebooks more convenient, lighter, cheaper and maybe even more sustainable. For reading latest news, articles, blogs, textbooks, magazines, maps, some fiction, some non fiction, it's the perfect platform.
But when you read an ebook the platform you're reading on is standard for all the stories you read on it - whether it's a textbook or a psychological thriller.
When you hold a printed book in your hands, the physical book becomes another character in the story world, influencing the story and our reading experience.
Is it a hardback, or can you bend the pages back over the spine, curling the book like gymnast? As you run your fingers over its cover, is it embossed or glittered? Is the paper rough and textured, glossy or matte? Does the book fit snugly in your hands or demand a table where it can lie flat and open it words and pictures to the world? Is it heavy enough that it carries the weight of a world and the worries and hopes of characters inside?
Even in reprints, the experience of reading the same story is different because of book's physical properties are different.
So what if it was the other way around? What if print incorporated more electronics instead?
What kind of books with character could we create and how would it influence the stories, worlds and our reading experience?
That's what we're exploring.


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I apologize again to anyone who is still waiting for me to make something. I can't seem to get better. It just keeps going on and I'm losing the will to even fight anymore. I swallow my meds every morning and every night and still no better. My Dr. keeps changing things around and I get a modicum of hope that this time it will work. It still hasn't. We only have two weeks until our trip to Amsterdam and I don't think I can make it. I can't even email the gallery about when my work will arrive for them. I am writing this because I felt like you all needed to know that I'm still not well. Hard for me to say that I'm sick. No wounds, no stitches, no bits of metal holding bones together. But I feel like I should. I still have days that I'm a walking zombie, unable to speak. Other days I get unjustifiably angry at everyone and everything. Other days I'm just numb enough to not care one way or another. Ed has been taking care of everything including me. He's been wonderful but there are days that I push him away. I'm sure he can't stand it much longer either. I have an appointment with one of the top ten phsychiatrists in the country in Philadelphia on June 9th. My Dr. knows him and says he may come up with something he hasn't thought of yet to help me. It's a seven hour evaluation. I can't imagine what that will be like. I can barely endure a trip to the supermarket.
So no need for anyone to feel sorry for me because, honestly it won't get through this thick black wall that's suffocating me. I just hope that I still have some fans left when this is over to be able to work for. Sorry for being such a downer.


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Our Mission
We are the trailblazers for activewear. Champions of fitness. We're for simple, elegant and vibrant designs. Our employees are star-reachers, bridge-builders, leaders and teammates. We are family-owned and operated. We are FAM Brands. We are growing and focused on strategic initiatives. Our factories are safe and our employees are valued. We are worldwide, world-class, forward-thinking and forward-looking. We work hard and believe in the work we do. We're for executional excellence and achieving our dreams. We are FAM Brands.
Three Decades of Leadership In The Fashion Industry
Founded in 1985 by Frank Zarabi, FAM Brands provides innovative fashion, design, brand development, and distribution solutions to a wide range of retail and wholesale clients and partners. Our unique performance materials and versatile apparel designs-along with our competitive pricing strategies-have enabled us to become leaders in apparel industry. Our ability to thrive, centers around impeccable design and excellent branding. Our designers and production teams collaborate closely with our factories to create exception fashion strategies and details. Our world-class brands include Marika, Balance Collection, Bally Total Fitness, Tehama, Peace and Pearls, Eddie Bauer and more.
Brand Overview
With over 3 decades of leadership and experience in the fashion industry, FAM Brands designs, manufactures and markets to a growing portfolio of men's, women's and children's brands across a versatile range of consumer lifestyles. Our brand collection includes Marika, Balance Collection, Zobha, Bally Total Fitness, Aerodynamics, Peace & Pearls, Tehama and are proud licensees of Eddie Bauer and The Limited. From innovative niche products to category leaders, our brands reflect the best in design, quality and manufacturing.
Efficient Manufacturing & Distribution
In addition to innovative designs and materials, FAM Brands demonstrated its industry leadership through an advanced and highly effective international manufacturing and distribution system.
Distribution Centers
Bell, CA | Mississauga, Ontario (Canada) | Netherlands | Hong Kong
Hong Kong | China | Bangladesh | Jordan | India | Pakistan
Sourcing & Quality Control Offices
Hong Kong, Bangladesh
"The best leaders blaze trails, push boundaries and create their own path
to build with their family, not above it."
Frank Zarabi
As the Founder and CEO of Fam Brands, Frank Zarabi oversees all facets of the business. Frank has a proven executive management track record and over 30 years of experience driving sales growth in the apparel industry. Over the years Frank has applied his manufacturing expertise in building relationships with over 30 factories in 8 countries. Frank strongly believes in a diversified supply chain because gives Fam Brands a range of capabilities and competencies. With its diversified supply chain Fam Brands is able meet the unique needs of each buyer. Fam Brands currently manufactures over 30 million units a year. In the past 15 years Frank has acquired over 6 companies ranging from $10-80 million in sales, and has seamlessly integrated them into the organization. Frank has received awards from numerous retail partners for his outstanding service, quality, and reliability. Frank completed a two year Executive Program at the UCLA Anderson School of Business.
Nazy Salamat
Nazy Salamat is the Co-Founder and EVP of Design of Fam Brands. Nazy leads our team of creative, technical, and graphic designers. This team has an output of over 2000 apparel designs a year. Nazy manages design relationships with our licensors, licensees, and private label customers. These relationships demand a clear understanding of the unique needs of every stakeholder. She also oversees private label design relationships with Lane Bryant, Reebok, BCG, and Ideology to name a few. The prestigious Refinery29 recently recognized Nazy's Lane Bryant and Marika sports bras as best in class. Previous to Fam Brands, Nazy was the Director of Design and Merchandising at LCA Intimates, an intimate apparel company. Nazy holds a BA from Cal State Long Beach in Graphic Design.
Carrie Henley
EVP/Sales & Marketing
Carrie Henley is the Fam Brands Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing. She has over 25 years of experience working with FAM. Since joining the Fam Brands team, she has made major contributions to re-launch and expand the Fam Brands portfolio and has been instrumental in growing the revenue to over $250 million in retail sales. Carrie has a proven ability to lead her team of professionals in global sales, marketing and ecommerce. With flexibility and a dedication to customer service, Carrie's team has attained large and stable footholds in several top global retail spaces. Carrie holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Rich Campanelli
Rich Campanelli is an industry professional with 40 years of wholesale and retail experience. Rich has been with Fambrands for over 15 years as COO, where he is responsible for establishing, leading and managing all facets of company operations, including Supply Chain and Logistics and IT. Additionally, Rich is responsible leading all aspects of Global Sourcing - from Product Development and Costing, to Production Management, Hong Kong Office Operations, and factory selection and matrix maintenance. Rich and his team have constructed an extensive and versatile factory and fabric mill matrix in 8 countries to fulfill Fambrands' diverse apparel product classification requirements which include Men's, Women's, and Children's knit and woven Tops and Bottoms, Activewear, Sweaters, and Outerwear. At the same time the sourcing organization must ensure that this complex factory network exceeds not only Fambrands' strict Responsible Sourcing Compliance standards, but also that of its demanding major retail and licensing partners.
Prior to joining Fambrands, Rich had an extensive and well-rounded 25-year retail career with JCPenney including positions in Store and District Staff Management, Buying and Sourcing. In addition, in senior management Rich led the Product Development department for the Men's Division, and completed his tenure at Penney driving sales and profit growth in various VP / DMM positions in Children's Apparel, as well as Men's, Women's, and Kid's Footwear.


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The USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter lets you connect your MacBook with USB-C port to an HDMI display, while also connecting a standard USB device and a USB-C charging cable. This adapter allows you to mirror your MacBook display to your HDMI-enabled TV or display in up to 1080p at 60Hz or UHD (3840x2160) at 30Hz. It also outputs video content like movies and captured video. Simply connect the adapter to the USB-C port on your MacBook and then to your TV or projector via an HDMI cable (sold separately).
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Maker Magpie HQ is situated in a rainy corner of the Northwest of Ireland in the very north end of County Roscommon.
Caroline Walshe is chief maker and chief magpie here at Maker Magpie - artist, designer, puppeteer, performer, curator, taxidermist, sheep keeper and general mastermind behind the whole operation. Taking inspiration from the amazing countryside around her and the woods her studio looks right out into she designs environmentally friendly craft kits and knitting and sewing patterns.
Caroline started at a very early age using sticky tape - that well known gateway crafting material - before going on to discover the joys of masking tape and even glue guns while studying sculpture in art college. She finally progressed to more sustainable materials later, and now has a firm wool habit.
Twenty years ago in Donegal she learned to make felt and never looked back. Now with shelves in her studio overflowing with wool, fabric, collected random weirdness and the odd bit of dodgy home taxidermy, she attempts to use natural and biodegradable materials in her business, locally sourced where possible.