Incorporating Hills HawkEye
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
Everything you want to know is at the PWP NSW Website
BILLBOARD
BRANCH ANNOUNCEMENTS
BRANCH COMMITTEES:
Please Email ANNOUNCEMENTS or PROGRAM CHANGES to be published here
-STATE
COMBINED BRANCHES FUNCTION
-A DAY AT LUNA PARK.
……..SUNDAY 22 OCTOBER
See Soleparent under YOUR branch for arrangements
-CITY
-HILLS
OPEN SINGLES DANCE
8pm Saturday 14 October, Parramatta Golf Club
Nibbles on the tables, lucky door prizes, drinks at club prices
Only $5 entry
-MACARTHUR
LIVE ROCK ‘N’ ROLL BAND
7.30pm Friday 13 October, Campbelltown RSL
Meet up with your friends and have dinner before the music
-NORTHSIDE
-THE COMING WEEK
(in brief - see ‘Soleparent’ for details)
Thursday 12 October
Final Bookings for:Northside - Seafood Buffet, 13 Oct.Northside - Casabella Restaurant, 14 Oct.
CITY OF SYDNEY
NEW MEMBERS & COUNTRY MUSIC NIGHT - Canterbury/Hurlstone Park RSL Club
HILLS DISTRICT
OPEN FAMILY SQUASH NIGHT
NORTHSIDE
BUSHWALK
Friday 13 October
Final Bookings for:Northside - BBQ, 15 Oct.
HILLS DISTRICT
ADULT HOUSE PARTY @ Charlie's, Toongabbie
MACARTHUR
CAMPBELLTOWN RSL Live Rock 'n' Roll band
NORTHSIDE
SEAFOOD BUFFET Civic Club, Manly
Saturday 14 October
Final Bookings for:COMBINED BRANCHES - Luna Park, 22 Oct.
CITY OF SYDNEY
ADULT LIBRA PARTY @ Muriel's, Rockdale
HILLS DISTRICT
OPEN SINGLES DANCE Parramatta Golf Club
MACARTHUR
ADULT'S HOUSE PARTY @ Les's, Airds
NORTHSIDE
DINNER AT CASABELLA Chatswood.
Sunday 15 October
CITY OF SYDNEY
FAMILY BBQ PICNIC & CYCLE SAFARI Nurrangingy Reserve, Doonside
HILLS DISTRICT
BBQ NURRANGINGY RESERVE Hills branch are joining the City branch
Also
ADULT BIG BAND DANCE
Also
ASQUITH LEAGUES CLUB DINNER
NORTHSIDE
BUSHWALK - Brisbane Waters National Park
Also
BBQ AT WENDY's Glenhaven
Monday 16 October
CITY OF SYDNEY
WALK THE BAY
HILLS DISTRICT
BUDGET MONDAY NIGHT DINNER
NORTHSIDE
BISTRO CLUB LUNCH
Tuesday 17 October
CITY OF SYDNEY
CEROC DANCING LESSONS
HILLS DISTRICT
PLANET ARK COFFEE/TEA & CHAT NIGHT
Also
VALUE STEAK DINNER
Also
SINGLES DANCE NORTHMEAD
NORTHSIDE
DINNER AND CHAT
Wednesday 18 October
Final Bookings for:City - Thai Restaurant, 20 Oct.
HILLS DISTRICT
NEW MEMBERS INFORMATION & JOINING NIGHT Joan's, Glenmore Park
Also
SOCIAL TENNIS
Also
KINGSWOOD SINGLES DANCE
NORTHSIDE
NEW MEMBERS NIGHT The Ranch Hotel, Marsfield
Thursday 19 October
STATE
MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE MEETING 7.30pm Rydalmere Bowling Club
CITY OF SYDNEY
HELEN FENTON & THE SYDNEY SOUND BIG BAND Rockdale RSL Club
HILLS DISTRICT
OPEN FAMILY SQUASH NIGHT
MACARTHUR
FAMILY DINNER AT THE TENNIS CLUB Leumeah
NORTHSIDE
BUSHWALK
Friday 20 October
Final Bookings for:Northside - Cliff walk and lunch, 22 Oct.
CITY OF SYDNEY
DINE AT "IT'S THAI" RESTAURANT Carlingford
HILLS DISTRICT
ADULT HOUSE PARTY @ Angelo's, Rouse Hill
NORTHSIDE
CLASSICAL MUSIC EVENING St Patrick's College, Manly
-This Week’s Favourites/Bookmarks
Why not bookmark these ?
Disability Services Directory
http://www.pwp-hills.org/welfaredirectory_disability.htm
If you know of someone with has a child with disabilities then this directory may help them local additional support services. If you work in the human resource management employee support area, counselling, welfare, health, education or community information fields then this online directory could be valuable to have bookmarked as a Favourite in your work and home browsers.
Family Law
Problems with the Australian Family Court...lacking in fairness for fathers and children. www.mensrights.com.au/page11a.htm
-October 12
Birthdays:
1537 Edward VI king of England (1547-53)
1935 Luciano Pavarotti Modena Italy, operatic tenor (Yes, Giorgio)
1948 Rick Parfitt rocker (Status Quo-The Wanderer)
1950 Susan Anton Oak Glen Calif, actress (Golden Girl, Spring Fever)
On This Day:
1918 1st use of iron lung (Boston's Children Hospital)
1933 Alcatraz becomes a federal prison (unofficially)
1933 John Dillinger escapes from the Allen County, OH, jail
1960 Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe at UN General Assembly session
1963 Edith Piaf, French singer and actress dies (b. 1915)
1971 Gene Vincent rocker, dies at 36
1973 Nixon nominates Gerald Ford to replace Spiro Agnew as VP
1987 George Harrison releases "Got My Mind Set On You"
:-) Actual Projections
· "Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." ~ Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949
· "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." ~ Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
· "I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year." ~ The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957
· "But what ... is it good for?" ~ Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.
· "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." ~ Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
· "This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." ~ Western Union internal memo, 1876.
· "The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?" ~ David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.
· "The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible." ~ A Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.)
· "Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" ~ H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.
· "I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper." ~ Gary Cooper on his decision not to take the leading role in "Gone With The Wind."
· "We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." ~ Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.
· "Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." ~ Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.
· "If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this." ~ Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M "Post-It" Notepads.
· "So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we' ll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'" ~ Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and HP interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer.
· "Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react. He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools." ~ 1921 New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard's revolutionary rocket work.
· "Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy." ~ Drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill for oil in 1859.
· "Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau." ~ Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929.
· "Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value." ~ Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre.
· "Everything that can be invented has been invented." ~ Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.
· "Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction". ~ Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872
· "The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon". ~ Sir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon, appointed Surgeon-Extraordinary to Queen Victoria 1873.
Afterthought: This [politics] would be a helluva good business if it wasn't for the goddamned people. – Richard Nixon
-Computing
Copying Your Screen
If you need to include a copy of your computer screen in a document, do the following:
1) Press the PrintScreen button on your keyboard. This copies everything you see on the screen to your computer’s clipboard.
2) In your word processing program, put your cursor where you want the copy of your computer screen to appear.
3) Paste the contents of the clipboard (or press Ctrl+V).
If you only want paste a single dialog box *such as an error you are receiving) or only the window of a single program, hold the Alt key as you press PrintScreen.
Computer Problems ?……….Hardware failure?
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· Help to buy, set up and use your computer
· New or refurbished systems to suit your budget
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