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Why YOU should join Parents Without Partners (PWP)

· Over 1,500 affordable activities a year

· Something on every night of the week

· Subsidised children's activities every weekend

· A great new single lifestyle

· Meet people and make friends at PWP

· Membership is a passport to any PWP activities in Australia & overseas

Members always have discounts to open functions &/or get group discounts at events

ENQUIRE ABOUT MEMBERSHIP TODAY

Contact our PWP Branch Membership Inquiries volunteers

CITY BRANCH Sydney City, Eastern Suburbs, Southern Sydney, Southern Suburbs, Inner West, Canterbury-Bankstown Region 1300 364 658

HILLS BRANCH Greater Western Sydney Region, Baulkham Hills, Colo, Holroyd, Fairfield Shires, Parramatta, Blacktown & Penrith Cities, Hawkesbury & Blue Mountains areas 9634 7502

HUNTER BRANCH Greater Hunter Region and north 4953 0265

MACARTHUR BRANCH South West Region, Campbelltown, Liverpool & Bankstown Cities, Picton, Camden, Wollondilly Shire & Southern Highlands 4620 4526

NORTHSIDE BRANCH North Sydney, Northshore, Northern Beaches, Northern Suburbs, Hornsby, Brooklyn & Central Coast Region 9411 1858

BILLBOARD

BRANCH ANNOUNCEMENTS

Committees – Email Program Changes or Announcements for Publication Here

HILLS

We have finalized the Xmas party gifts for Children & sent confirmation letters to Parents with Raffle tickets.

They are of members who sent back signed function cards with enrolment slip. This list is closed with presents & gift vouchers ordered.

We are now asking members if they are attending the Xmas Party and are not on the above list (new members & those who didn’t enrol their children. If you would like your child to receive an Xmas bag only (drink, chips, lollies) on the day please let Ian know by the Monday 28th November.

Member Name

Membership number

Number of children attending

This can be given to Ian at Committee Meeting 28/11/05 or beforehand.

Parents of this group are most welcome to bring a gift for their children for Santa to give out.

Please remind members bags will not be given out early and no bag will be held or given to other members.

THE COMING WEEK (in brief - see ‘Soleparent’ for details)

Thursday 24 November

Final Bookings for:Northside - Pizza & Cards night Saturday 26 Nov.

HILLS DISTRICT

OPEN FAMILY SQUASH NIGHT

NORTHSIDE

BUSHWALK

Friday 25 November

Final Bookings for:Northside - Seafood BBQ, Sunday 27 Nov.

CITY OF SYDNEY

TENNIS AT VILLAWOOD

HILLS DISTRICT

ADULT HOUSE PARTY @ Bill's, Wentworthville.

MACARTHUR

PENRITH PANTHERS

Saturday 26 November

CITY OF SYDNEY

HOUSE PARTY AT LESLIE'S, Matravillle.

HILLS DISTRICT

WIGGLEY PLAY CENTRE, Seven Hills.

Also

NEW MEMBERS WINE & CHEESE NIGHT - Maureen's, Carlingford.

MACARTHUR

MONTHLY DANCE - Ingleburn Bowling Club.

NORTHSIDE

DAY OUT ON SYDNEY HARBOUR

Also

GAMES NIGHT Glenhaven.

Sunday 27 November

CITY OF SYDNEY

SEAFOOD SMORGASBORD Drummoyne RSL Club

HILLS DISTRICT

CASTLE HILL CINEMA COMPLEX

Also

ASQUITH LEAGUES CLUB FAMILY DINNER

NORTHSIDE

BUSHWALK AND/OR LUNCH

Also

SEAFOOD BBQ AT GORDON'S Mooney Mooney.

Monday 28 November

CITY OF SYDNEY

WALK THE BAY

HILLS DISTRICT

BRANCH COMMITTEE MEETING

Also

BUDGET MONDAY NIGHT DINNER

NORTHSIDE

BISTRO CLUB LUNCH

Tuesday 29 November

CITY OF SYDNEY

CEROC DANCE LESSONS

Also

THELMA'S DANCE LESSONS

HILLS DISTRICT

VALUE T-BONE STEAK DINNER

NORTHSIDE

DINNER AND CHAT

Wednesday 30 November

HILLS DISTRICT

KINGSWOOD SINGLES DANCE

Also

SOCIAL TENNIS

Friday 2 December

CITY OF SYDNEY

TENNIS AT VILLAWOOD - Same as 7 Oct.

HILLS DISTRICT

HOUSE PARTY (Introduce a friend) @ Lou's, Baulkham Hills.

MACARTHUR

CHRISTMAS PARTY CATARACT SCOUT CAMP - 2 to 4 December

IN THE NEWS

Online Dating Huge

Match dot com (US) has about 15 million members worldwide and 250 employees. US consumers spent a total of $US245.2 million ($334.7 million) on online personal advertisements and dating services in the first half of this year, up 7.6 per cent from a year earlier.

Love Sites 'Used Date Bait'

TWO top online matchmaking services are being sued after allegedly sending desperate lonely-hearts out on dates with employees. Interested?

DRM: Sony Offers Disc Swap

MUSIC publisher Sony BMG will swap its contentious copy-protected CDs for new unprotected disks as well as unprotected MP3 files. Details

FAMILY FACTS

4. FAMILY SOCIAL STATISTICS 2003 Lone Parent Families ( ABS 2003 )

PARENTAL INCOME

The median weekly parental income for intact and step families was $1,186 and $1,169 respectively, compared with $985 for blended families (where the children were more likely to be younger).

One parent families with children aged 0-17 years

The median weekly income of lone parents with children aged 0-17 years was $412, less than half the income of parents in couple families with children ($1,167 per week). In 2003, 58% of lone parents received a government pension, benefit or allowance as their main source of income compared to 8% of couples with children aged 0-17 years.

As with the income of parents in couple families, the income of lone parents generally increased with the age of the youngest child. For lone parents the median weekly income of the parent increased from $390 for those whose youngest child was aged 0-2 years, up to $575 for those whose youngest child was aged 15-17 years. Lone fathers tended to have higher incomes than lone mothers, with median weekly incomes of $550 and $400 respectively.

WORD FOR THE WEEK

exemplar \ig-ZEM-plar; -pluhr\, noun:
1. A model or pattern to be copied or imitated.
2. A typical or standard specimen.
3. An ideal model or type.
4. A copy of a book or text.

November 24

Birthdays:

1864 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec France, painter (At the Moulin Rouge)

1868 Scott Joplin US, entertainer/composer (The Entertainer)

1941 Pete Best, British rock drummer

1942 Billy Connolly Scotland, comedian/actor (Blue Money)

1949 Shane Bourne, Australian comedian-actor

1955 Ian Botham, English cricketer

1962 Tracey Wickham, Australian swimmer On this day...

On this day…

1859 Charles Darwin publishes "On the Origin of Species"

1949 Britain nationalizes its steel & iron industry

1952 Agatha Christie's "The Mousetrap" opens in London

1963 1st live murder on TV-Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald

:-) How to Please Your I.T. Department...

· When you call us to have your computer moved, be sure to leave it buried under half a ton of postcards, baby pictures, stuffed animals, dried flowers, bowling trophies and children's art. We don't have a life, and we find it deeply moving to catch a fleeting glimpse of yours.

· Don't write anything down. Ever. We can play back the error messages from here.

· When an I.T. person says he's coming right over, go for coffee. That way you won't be there when we need your password. It's nothing for us to remember 700 screen saver passwords.

· When you call the help desk, state what you want, not what's keeping you from getting it. We don't need to know that you can't get into your mail because your computer won't power on at all.

· When I.T. support sends you an E-Mail with high importance, delete it at once. We're just testing.

· When an I.T. person is eating lunch at his desk, walk right in and spill your guts right out. We exist only to serve.

· Send urgent email all in uppercase. The mail server picks it up and flags it as a rush delivery.

· When the photocopier doesn't work, call computer support. There's electronics in it.

· When something's wrong with your home PC, dump it on an I.T. person's chair with no name, no phone number and no description of the problem. We love a puzzle.

· When an I.T. person tells you that computer screens don't have cartridges in them, argue. We love a good argument.

· When an I.T. person tells you that he'll be there shortly, reply in a scathing tone of voice: "And just how many weeks do you mean by shortly?" That motivates us.

· When the printer won't print, re-send the job at least 20 times. Print jobs frequently get sucked into black holes.

· When the printer still won't print after 20 tries, send the job to all 68 printers in the company. One of them is bound to work.

· Don't learn the proper term for anything technical. We know exactly what you mean by "My thingy blew up".

· Don't use on-line help. On-line help is for wimps.

Life Before Technology

· An application - was for employment.

· A program - was a TV show.

· A cursor - used profanity.

· A keyboard - was a piano!

· Memory - was something that you lost with age.

· And if you had a broken disk, It would hurt when you found out!

· Compress was something you did to garbage, Not something you did to a file!

· If you unzipped anything in public you'd be in jail for a while!

· Log on - was adding wood to a fire.

· Hard drive - was a long trip on the road.

· A mouse pad - was where a mouse lived.

· Cut - you did with a pocket knife.

· Paste - you did with glue.

· A web was a spider's home.

· And a virus was the flu!

EVER WONDERED . . . ?

Hyperlink - Text, images, graphics that, when clicked with a mouse (or activated by keystrokes) will connect the user to a new Web site. The link is usually obvious, such as underlined text or a "button" of some type.

Afterthought: "If you can't convince them, confuse them." - Harry Truman

Computer Problems ? Hardware failure?

Computer running slowly? Don’t understand your software?

Internet problems? Don’t know what to do next?

· New or refurbished systems to suit your budget

· Help to buy, set up and use your computer

Ring John: 9626 9093 or 0408 416 466 Email: getugoing@hotpop.com

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