Spring Forward And Join us For Brunch Happy St. Patrick`s Day

March 2013
Inside this issue
How to develop confidence
Greener spring cleaning
Movie previews and more!
Fair Oaks West • 655 South Fair Oaks Ave. • Sunnyvale, CA 94086
Spring Forward And Join us For Brunch
Don’t forget to set your clocks FORWARD 1 hour on Saturday night, March 9th, so you
won’t be late for BRUNCH on Sunday, March 10th at 9am! Brunch will also be served on
Sunday, March 24th this month. This is a nice social gathering with your neighbors.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
To help celebrate St. Patrick’s Day we will be serving festive green treats on Saturday the
16th during cake hour and on the 17th at 5pm before the foreign film. Come to the
Clubhouse and enjoy the festive decor’ and yummy treats! Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Annual EGG HUNT With The EASTER BUNNY!
Easter is already here and we are ready to go with a FUN day with the Easter Bunny! Last
year was so much fun so KIDS bring your basket and have fun hunting eggs with us. The
Easter Bunny will arrive on SATURDAY, March 30th at 12 noon at the Main Clubhouse. He
will walk us all to the secret EGG HUNT area! Parents, don’t forget your camera!
KIDS CRAFT HOUR-Monday’s At 4pm
This month is filled with fun crafts celebrating St. Patrick’s day and Easter. Kids ages 5-10
are welcome to join. Go to the Oaks Club and get signed up! The Craft Hour will be on
Monday, March 11th & 25th at 4pm. Have some fun with Amy!
Join the Fair Oaks West Resident Portal!
We have a beautiful website with advanced features and colorful photos where residents
can get updated information on activities and important announcements. Go
towww.fairoakswest.comand click on “resident portal” to register. This is a great way to stay
“in the loop” on everything here at Fair Oaks West.
“Live Oak” Cabana
Party Rental
Rent our beautiful cabana for ANY
special occasion! See “Oaks Club” for
rates and availability.
“Discount Services”
We have a list of professionals who
offer FOW residents discounts.
Please see “Oaks Club” for more
information.
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Special “PLAY DAY” For Toddlers
We will be having a monthly special toy “PLAY DAY” for our youngest residents under the
age of 3 in our Children’s Activity Center. This will be a fun day for all the mom’s with toddler’s
to come out and play. Amy will bring out extra toys and balls for your little one to enjoy. This
will be on Monday, March 18th from 12-2pm in the CAC. This is a great way to make new
friends!
Coming in April...
We will be having another Table Tennis Tournament in April..date to be announced. Also,
Amy will be doing two cooking classes, one for the kids and one for adults!... We will also be
having a potluck style “Fair Oaks Day”. This is a way to get to know your neighbors!.. stay
tuned for more details to come.
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News You Can Use
Concentrate on
identifying and
improving your own
unique strengths and
skills.
• Track your success.
Keep a log of your
accomplishments, large
and small. Recording
victories on a daily basis
will make you feel more
successful, and looking
over your progress will
boost your self-esteem. In
addition, reviewing your
achievements should
give you some good ideas for what to
work on next.
• Practice being assertive. Take an
active role in pursuing success, no
matter how anxious you feel. Start by
visualizing situations where you feel
nervous, and picture yourself being
assertive. Make these scenarios as
vivid as you can so you’ll be ready
for them in real life. Check your body
language in a mirror, and practice
good posture and a self-assured
expression. Then go out and take a
few chances, starting with low-risk
situations. Once you’ve survived
those, you can move on to bigger
personal challenges. You may be
surprised by how well practice makes
perfect.
How to
develop your
confidence
C
onfidence doesn’t come
naturally to everyone. Even the
most successful people have
struggled with it in their careers. The
good news is that you develop it, just
like any muscle or character trait, if
you’re willing to work hard. The better
news: These tips can help you
strengthen your confidence. Here’s
what to try:
• Don’t compare yourself against
others. Focus on your own
achievements and ambitions, not
anyone else’s. Other people will
always be more successful than you
at different stages of your life and
career, and obsessing about them will
only send your confidence plunging.
Want to Clean Up Your Spring Cleaning?
f you really want to green up your cleanser collection, it’s a pretty easy thing to do. You
just need five ingredients, all of which are affordable and readily available. With this stash
you can clean anything in your home: distilled vinegar and antiseptic essential oil, liquid
soap and detergent, washing soda and baking soda.
Vinegar and essential oils. These ingredients are neutralizers of stains
and odors, they also dissolve scale and help remove the dirt trapped in
wood.Make sure you use white distilled vinegar because apple cider
vinegar can stain some upholsteries. If you need to kill bacteria and
mold then antiseptic essential oils will be a big help. You can
choose from the following list: birch, lavender, cinnamon,
eucalyptus, clove, rose, lemongrass, sweet orange or tea tree.
Liquid soap or detergent. Soap is better for you and the
environment. However, if you use soap to wash your clothes it
can leave a graying film on them.When selecting a detergent,
go for the most biodegradable one available.
Baking soda and washing soda. These are mineral
neutralizers. They can cut grease and dissolve wax. Baking
soda is also mildly abrasive.Washing soda is for heavy duty
jobs, but it can be caustic, so make sure you wear gloves.
—adapted from Mother Earth News
I
Eat the right stuff
for a long life
T
he foods you eat can make a big
difference to your heart’s health and
your overall longevity. Fortunately, that
doesn’t mean you can’t eat anything
tasty or fun. Keep your heart in good
shape by choosing these foods the next
time you’re hungry:
• Salmon. Fish like salmon, shrimp,
tuna, and sardines are rich in protein
and omega-3 fatty acids,
which help blood flow.
(Be careful of mercury
levels of tuna, though,
especially for pregnant
or breast-feeding women and
small children).
• Oatmeal. Full of fiber and
potassium (as well as omega-3), coarse
or steel-cut oats (not instant)
can reduce levels of LDL
cholesterol and help
keep arteries clear. Add
a banana for some extra
fiber.
• Nuts and berries. You may feel
like you’re foraging in the wilderness,
but nuts (walnuts, almonds, and
macadamias) along
with blueberries,
blackberries, and
strawberries, can help keep
blood pressure down and reduce your
risk of heart disease and cancer.
• Avocado. Add a little bit to your
sandwich or salad, and you’ll help
lower levels of “bad” cholesterol
and increase the “good”
cholesterol in your
body.
• Beans. Lentils,
chickpeas, kidney beans, black beans—
all are packed with
soluble fiber,
calcium, and
omega-3.
• Dark chocolate.
Don’t go on a binge, but cocoa beans
contain flavanols, which can help lower
blood pressure and decrease
inflammation. Dark chocolate
tends to have more
coca solids, which
increase the
flavanol level.
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Movie Previews March 2013
OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN When
the President (Aaron Eckhart)
is kidnapped by a terrorist who
seizes control of the White
House, disgraced former
Presidential guard Mike Banning
(Gerard Butler) finds himself
trapped within the building. As
the national security team
rushes to respond, they must
rely on Banning’s insider
knowledge to save the President
and prevent an even greater
catastrophe. Morgan Freeman
and Ashley Judd co-star.
Colin Farrell and Noomi Rapace in a scene from Dead Man Down.
DEAD MAN DOWN Colin Farrell and Noomi Rapace star as two strangers,
irresistibly drawn to each other, whose mutual desire for revenge unravels
in an escalating trail of violence. The film co-stars Terrence Howard and
Dominic Cooper.
OZ THE GREAT AND
POWERFUL When small-time
magician Oscar Diggs (James
Franco) pulls one flimflam too
many, he finds himself hurled
into the fantastical Land of Oz
where he must somehow
transform himself into the great
and powerful wizard—and just
maybe into a better man as
well.
ADMISSION Straight-laced
University admissions officer
Portia Nathan (Tina Fey) is
caught off-guard when she
makes a recruiting visit to an
alternative high school overseen
by her former college
classmate, the free-wheeling
John Pressman (Paul Rudd).
Pressman has surmised that
Jeremiah (Nat Wolff), his gifted
yet very unconventional
student, might well be the son
that Portia secretly gave up for
adoption many years ago. Soon,
Portia finds herself bending the
rules for Jeremiah, putting at
risk the life she thought she
always wanted--but in the
process finding her way to a
surprising and exhilarating life
and romance she never
dreamed of having.
THE SWEENEY Armed and
dangerous, the Sweeney Flying
Squad are old school crime
fighters enforcing the law. Led
by legendary detective Jack
Regan (Ray Winstone) and his
loyal partner, they have their
own unique way of operating
and always get results. With a
bank heist in progress and his
old enemy making a
reappearance on the London
crime scene, Regan will do
whatever it takes to get the job
done, even defying orders from
his no-nonsense boss.
DAY OF THE FALCON In the
1930s, just as oil is being
discovered in Arabia, the rise of
a young, dynamic leader unites
various tribes of the desert
kingdoms, forever shaping the
relationship and conflicts
between oil and Islam,
modernity and tradition, which
have shaped the region for
decades. Mark Strong, Antonio
Banderas and Freida Pinto star.
EMPEROR As General Douglas
MacArthur (Tommy Lee Jones)
suddenly finds himself the de
facto ruler of a foreign nation,
he assigns an expert in
Japanese culture, General
Bonner Fellers (Matthew Fox),
to covertly investigate the
looming question hanging over
the country: should the
Japanese Emperor, worshiped
by his people but accused of
war crimes, be punished or
saved?
THE CALL When veteran 911
operator, Jordan (Halle Berry),
takes a life-altering call from a
teenage girl who has just been
abducted, she realizes that she
must confront a killer from her
past in order to save the girl’s
life.
PHANTOM Ed Harris plays the
captain of a Cold War Soviet
missile submarine who has
recently been suffering from
seizures that alter his
perception of reality. Forced to
leave his wife and daughter, he
is rushed into a classified
mission, where he is haunted by
his past and challenged by a
rogue KGB group (led by David
Duchovny) bent on seizing
control of the ship’s nuclear
missile. With the fate of
humanity in his hands, Harris
discovers he has been chosen
for this mission in the belief he
would fail.
THE INCREDIBLE BURT
WONDERSTONE Magicians
Burt Wonderstone (Steve
Carell) and Anton Marvelton
(Steve Buscemi) have ruled the
Vegas strip for years, raking in
millions. But lately the duo’s
greatest deception is their
public friendship, while secretly
they’ve grown to loathe each
other. Facing cutthroat
competition from guerilla street
magician Steve Gray (Jim
Carrey), whose cult following
surges with each outrageous
stunt, even their show looks
stale. But there’s still a chance
Burt and Anton can save the
act—both onstage and off—if
Burt can get back in touch with
what made him love magic in
the first place.
New on DVD
MARCH 5
• The Intouchables
• Playing for Keeps
• Red Dawn
• Wreck-it Ralph
MARCH 12
• Hitchcock
• Life of Pi
• Rise of the
Guardians
MARCH 19
• Zero Dark Thirty
• The Hobbit: An
Unexpected
Journey
MARCH 22
• Les Miserables
• This is 40
MARCH 26
• Parental Guidance
Release dates subject to change without notice.
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Cabana Rental “Spring Special”!
Rent the beautiful Live Oak Cabana in the month of March and receive $10 off ANY
Cocoa
Crunch Bars
RENTAL! The Live Oak Cabana is the perfect spot for your next big gathering. Your rental
comes complete with tables and chairs and all the privacy you need for the perfect PARTY!
See the Oaks Club for rates and availability.
ART CLASS With ANNE!
Learn how to “draw” out the artist in you! Anne is a professional artist who’s work has been
displayed in galleries all over California including distinguished galleries in Carmel, CA. So
many residents are talking about this class! We will be extending the February special into
March. Only $5 a class! Reserve your spot today. Space is limited!
• 5 cups Cocoa Pebbles
• 2/3 cup snowflake
coconut
• 1/2 cup nonfat milk
powder
• 1 cup mini marshmallows
• 2 sticks butter, melted
• 3/4 cup dulce de leche or
other caramel sauce
Preheat oven to 325°F.
“The FLAT Tummy”- With Aya
This is a NEW Class to Fair Oaks West and its already the talk of the town! Finally, a weight
loss class that you can bring your infant too! Mom’s we know its hard to find someone to
watch your little ones so we designed a class just for you. This class meets on the 1st & 3rd
Friday of each month at 10am. Bring your baby and get your body back in shape!
Baking Is BACK
Come out and bake something YUMMY with Amy! This class will be for adults and will be
held on Sunday, March 17th at 2pm. This is a fun class and you won’t go home hungry!
Mix cereal, coconut,
marshmallows and
butter. Press firmly into
a greased 6-inch
square baking pan.
Bake 25 minutes. Hot
out of the oven, drizzle
caramel sauce over
bars. Cool completely.
Cut into 24 bars to
serve.
10:30am The
Flat Belly
5pm KIDS Movie
8pm Movie
4pm Tennis
(Advanced)
7pm Cake & Coffee
8pm Movie
5pm KIDS Movie
8pm Movie
11am ART CLASS
4pm Tennis
(Advanced)
7pm Cake & Coffee
8pm Movie
10:30am The
Flat Belly
5pm KIDS Movie
8pm Movie
4pm Tennis
(Advanced)
7pm Cake & Coffee
8pm Movie
11:30am
Toastmasters
6pm Foreign Film
12 Toddler Time
4pm KIDS Hour
(Creative HourAges 5-10)
6-8pm Tennis
(Advanced)
7pm UJAM
5pm KIDS Movie
7pm YOGA
10:15am YOGA
7pm Movie RC
7pm Cardio
9am BRUNCH
11:30am
Toastmasters
6pm Foreign Film
12 Toddler Time
4pm KIDS Hour
(St. Patrick’s Day
Craft Ages 5-10
)
6-8pm Tennis
(Advanced)
7pm UJAM
5pm KIDS Movie
7pm YOGA
10:15am YOGA
7pm Movie RC
11:30
Toastmasters
2pm BAKING
CLASS
6pm Foreign Film
12-2pm Toddler
PLAY DAY @ CAC
(Special Toy Day)
*Ages 3 And Under
6-8pm Tennis
(Advanced)
7pm UJAM
5pm KIDS Movie
7pm YOGA
10:15am YOGA
7pm Movie RC
7pm Cardio
5pm KIDS Movie
8pm Movie
11am ART CLASS
4pm Tennis
(Advanced)
7pm Cake &
Coffee
8pm Movie
12 Toddler Time
4pm KIDS Hour
(Easter CraftAges 5-10)
6-8pm Tennis
(Advanced)
7pm UJAM
5pm KIDS Movie
7pm YOGA
10:15am YOGA
7pm Movie RC
10:30am The
Flat Belly
5pm KIDS Movie
8pm Movie
12 EASTER BUNNY/
EGG HUNT
7pm Cake & Coffee
8pm Movie
9am BRUNCH
6pm Foreign Film
EASTER
6pm Foreign Film