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BILLBOARD

BRANCH ANNOUNCEMENTS

BRANCH COMMITTEES:

Please Email ANNOUNCEMENTS or PROGRAM CHANGES to be published here

-STATE

-CITY

-HILLS

NEW MEMBERS NIGHTS

There will be NO New Members joining night on :

· 18th April at Penrith as Joan will be away

· 25th April being Anzac Day

-MACARTHUR

CORDEAUX DAM FAMILY PICNIC DAY

Sunday 22 April

Advertised number has change please ring on branch number 4647 4477 for details.

NORTHSIDE

-THE COMING WEEK

-(in brief - see ‘Soleparent’ for details)

Thursday 12 April

Final Bookings for:City - Country Music, Thur 12 April.City - Thai restaurant, Fri 13 April.Northside - Thai restaurant, Sat 14 April.

CITY OF SYDNEY

COUNTRY MUSIC AT CANTERBURY/HURLSTONE PARK RSL CLUB

NORTHSIDE

BUSHWALK

Friday 13 April

Final Bookings for:City - Genesian Theatre, Sun 15 AprilMacarthur - Pine Gardens Rest, Fri 20 April.

CITY OF SYDNEY

ADULTS ONLY GPK MIRANDA PIZZA SHOP

Also

DINE AT THE STAR OF THAILAND RESTAURANT Gladesville

HILLS DISTRICT

ADULT HOUSE PARTY 'GRAND PRIX THEME' @ Angelo's Rouse Hill

Saturday 14 April

Final Bookings for:Macarthur - Gambells Rest., June long weekend.

CITY OF SYDNEY

ADULT HOUSE PARTY AT KATHY'S West Ryde

MACARTHUR

ADULT HOUSE PARTY @ Pat's, Wattle Grove

HILLS DISTRICT

ADULT CARD NIGHT (TEXAS HOLD EM) @ Mike's, St Mary's

NORTHSIDE

DAY OUT ON SYDNEY HARBOUR

Also

DINNER AT THAI RESTAURANT Forestville

Sunday 15 April

CITY OF SYDNEY

THE GENESIAN THEATRE 420 Kent St Sydney

HILLS DISTRICT

COMBINED FAMILY BRANCH FUNCTION GLIDING PICNIC DAY AT CAMDEN

Also

FAMILY ACTIVITY LASER SKIRMISH Rouse Hill

Also

ASQUITH LEAGUES CLUB DINNER

NORTHSIDE

BUSHWALK - Lane Cove National Park

Monday 16 April

Final Bookings for:Macarthur - Cox's River Camp, 5 May.

CITY OF SYDNEY

WALK THE BAY

HILLS DISTRICT

BUDGET MONDAY NIGHT DINNER

NORTHSIDE

BISTRO CLUB LUNCH

Tuesday 17 April

CITY OF SYDNEY

CEROC DANCING LESSONS

HILLS DISTRICT

CLUB DINNER

Also

PLANET ARK COFFEE/TEA & CHAT NIGHT FINDING YOUR PERFECT PARTNER Quakers Hill

NORTHSIDE

DINNER AND CHAT

Wednesday 18 April

Final Bookings for:Hills - Dinner, Sat 21 April.

HILLS DISTRICT

NEW MEMBERS INFORMATION & JOINING NIGHT cancelled (see above)

Also

SOCIAL TENNIS

Also

KINGSWOOD SINGLES DANCE

Also

PWP KINDY KIDS

NORTHSIDE

NEW MEMBERS NIGHT The Great Northern Hotel,Chatswood

Thursday 19 April

Final Bookings for:City - Austrian Schnitzelhaus, Fri 20 April.

NORTHSIDE

BUSHWALK

Friday 20 April

CITY OF SYDNEY

DINE AT THE AUSTRIAN SCHNITZELHAUS Gladesville

HILLS DISTRICT

ADULT HOUSE PARTY @ Ben's Merrylands West

NORTHSIDE

CLASSICAL MUSIC EVENING @ St Patrick's College, Manly

-Health Discussion Topics-

CERVICAL CANCER VACCINATION PROGRAM BEGINS

Link to details

THE PULSE: RECREATIONAL DRUGS: A HARM SCALE

Researchers rated illegal and legal recreational drugs in terms of the harm they do. What's worse – heroin or amphetamine? And are they worse than alcohol and tobacco, which affects the health of far greater numbers of people. Read more

CANNABIS AND SCHIZOPHRENIA

Repeated studies of populations of young people have shown that early and heavy use of cannabis is ssociated with up to six times the risk of schizophrenia. Read more

-April 12-

Birthdays:

1923 Maria Callas opera singer (Carmen)

1932 Tiny Tim [Herbert Butros Khaury] New York NY, singer (Tip Toe Thru' the Tulips With Me)

1940 Herbie Hancock Chicago IL, pianist (I Thought it was You)

1947 David Letterman Indianapolis IN, comedian (Late Night)

1950 David Cassidy New York NY, singer/actor (Keith-Partridge Family)

On This Day:

1954 Bill Haley & the Comets record "Rock Around the Clock"

1961 Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin becomes 1st person to orbit Earth (Vostok 1)

1963 Beatles "From Me to You" is released in UK

1973 France recognizes North Vietnam

1975 Linda Ronstadt releases "When Will I Be Loved"

1981 Maiden voyage Space Transit System-space shuttle Columbia launched

1988 Sonny Bono elected mayor of Palm Springs CA

:-) Car Troubles...

A blond was driving home on the freeway after work when she was hit by a hailstorm that left her car completely dented all over. She decided to go to a body shop and asked the owner how much he would charge to remove the dents. Seeing that she was a blond, he winked at his partner, and told her it wouldn't cost anything if she followed his instructions carefully.

She drove home and when her blond roommate came out of the house she found her friend sitting on the ground at the back of the car blowing really hard in the tail pipe.

"What on earth are you doing" she asked.

Her friend looking up with big smile and a black ring around her mouth said "The man at the body shop told me that I could save a lot of money on repair work if I blew really hard into the tail pipe. he said that all the dents would pop out"

"Duhhh" said her friend, "but first you have to roll up all the windows!!!"

Afterthought:

I am a friend, comrades, a friend! – Yuri Gagarin (First words upon returning to earth, to a woman and a girl near where his capsule landed. (12 April 1961) The woman asked: "Can it be that you have come from outer space?" to which Gagarin replied: "As a matter of fact, I have!")

-Computing Tip

Google Teaches Us Five Things About Hard Drive Death

Robin at StorageMojo waded thought Google's "Failure Trends in a Large Disk Population," a document that details the search engine's first hand experience with hard drive failure rates by way of polling 100,000 of their own drives.

•First of all, Mean Time Between Failure rates means nothing.

•Secondly, SMART hardware monitoring missed 36% of all uh-ohs.

•Third, Overworked drives fail similarly to standard drives after the first year.

•Fourth, Hard drive age means less than you think.

•Fifth, Failure does not go up when temperatures are higher than usual (unless super high.)

That's the main gist of it. Some of this you probably knew, some of this may be myth-busting, but regardless, this is definitely important information that needed to get out to the general public. It's nice to see an impartial group that has the resources to perform a large-scale study like this shed light on this topic.–Alexander Yoon

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