… Soon we will have a restored swimming pool in the building as well and will be on our way to further creating the first comprehensive, community-based chronic condition “mall”. A-POD recently initiated a Somali Women's Diabetes Management Workshop where participants speak little or no English. We recruited native Somali speakers with healthcare experience to translate and help us proceed with demonstrations and listening sessions. Everybody was completely amazed how easily A-POD’s diabetes manag …

Mission: Ideally, we’d like 6-8 regular attendees to monthly contribute 8-15 pages of commercial fiction*. Format: workshopping. Intention: Everybody ‘gets time’. Motto: Always honest, but never mean. Let’s break this down. 6-8 regular attendees: from a maximum pool of 10-12. Regular implies some level of commitment and allows for remembering each other’s plot lines, characters, revisions, etc. We’re trying to create a writing lab, a safe haven from the writing jungle: a ‘place’ to nurture ex …

… .), advertising, promotional items, equipment (i.e. fencing, pool, agility), and so on.  We also participate in occasional fund-raisers to raise monies for Boxer rescue, dog food & heartworm meds for those TCBC member families experiencing a financial crisis, and other emergency situations.  All donations are GREATLY appreciated.  Thank-you!

You know who you are. You see the dry cleaner sorting though a stack of paper slips and you think "I could write an app for that". You want to measure the steps in a process and improve it with an open source platform. We come up with ideas. We come up with ways to realize those ideas. We build web apps. We want to highlight trusted tools of the trade, cool projects that you are contributing to, and review cutting edge technology.  When we have a solid group it would be great to pool together ou …