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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 at open functions
Everything you want to know is at the PWP NSW Website
BILLBOARD
-STATE
PLEASE NOTE:
To renew your membership by credit card or to fax your renewal form, ring Kim on 9833 2633 between 10am and 5pm (if not available leave a message and she will call you back)
-BRANCH ANNOUNCEMENTS
BRANCH COMMITTEES:
Please Email ANNOUNCEMENTS or PROGRAM CHANGES
to be published here…
-COMBINED BRANCHES-
-CITY
-HILLS
-MACARTHUR
.NORTHSIDE
-THE COMING WEEK
-(in brief - see ‘Soleparent’ for details)
Thursday 20 September
Final Bookings for:Northside: Greek Restaurant 22nd Sept.
CITY OF SYDNEY
THE SYDNEY BIG SOUND BAND AT ROCKDALE RSL CLUB
MACARTHUR
FAMILY DINNER AT THE TENNIS CLUB
NORTHSIDE
BUSHWALK
Friday 21 September
Final Bookings for:Northside - Seafood BBQ 23 Sept.
COMBINED BRANCHES
ADULT HUNTER VALLEY WINE TRIP
Also
ADULT 'GUEST' HOUSE PARTY' @ Rogers Blacktown
Saturday 22 September
CITY OF SYDNEY
ADULT HOUSE PARTY AT LESLIE'S Matraville
Also
FAMILY BOWLING AT SYLVANIA AMF BOWLING CENTRE
HILLS DISTRICT
NEW MEMBERS "OPEN" FAMILY JOINING DAY Roger & DJ's place, Blacktown
Also
YOUNG SINGLES KARAOKE & DINNER The Terrace Hotel, Penrith
MACARTHUR
ADULT CAMP AT MOUNT KEIRA
NORTHSIDE
DINNER AT GREEK RESTAURANT Claypot Restaurant Gordon
Sunday 23 September
CITY OF SYDNEY
LUNCH AT THE SYDNEY FISH MARKETS - PYRMONT
Also
SUN WILL BE OUT AND BIRDS WILL BE SINGING Gunnamatta Park, Gunnamatta Bay
HILLS DISTRICT
KINDY KIDS MacDonald's at 'Homeworks' Prospect, Prospect.
Also
ASQUITH LEAGUES CLUB DINNER
NORTHSIDE
BUSHWALK AND/OR LUNCH Kuringai Chase National Park.
Also
FAMILY SEAFOOD BBQ AT GORDON'S Mooney Mooney
Monday 24 September
CITY OF SYDNEY
WALK THE BAY
HILLS DISTRICT
GENERAL BRANCH COMMITTEE MEETING
Also
BUDGET MONDAY NIGHT DINNER
NORTHSIDE
INFORMAL MORNING COFFEE AND CHAT Denis' Green Point
Tuesday 25 September
HILLS DISTRICT
BLACKTOWN WORKERS SPORTS CLUB DINNER NIGHT
NORTHSIDE
DINNER AND CHAT
Wednesday 26 September
CITY OF SYDNEY
DINNER & PROSPECTIVE MEMBERS NIGHT
HILLS DISTRICT
NEW MEMBERS INFORMATION & JOINING NIGHT
Also
SOCIAL TENNIS
Also
KINGSWOOD SINGLES DANCE
Also
KINDY KIDS
Thursday 27 September
CITY OF SYDNEY
CEROC DANCE LESSONS AT THE CANADA BAY CLUB
Friday 28 September
CITY OF SYDNEY
HAVE SOME FUN ON THE CHEAP AT HAROLD PARK RACEWAY
HILLS DISTRICT
ADULT 'INTRODUCE A FRIEND' OPEN HOUSE PARTY @ Di's, Kellyville
MACARTHUR
CAMPBELLTOWN RSL
.STATE PRESIDENT'S DESK
PWP NSW HOSTS MORE FUNCTIONS THAN ANY OTHER SINGLES GROUP
We have around 1,500 functions a year in our program of activities. Something every night of the week, with several options on week-ends. Family/Children's activities every week-end. We have regular health and fitness activities and regular dinners. There are great major annual events such as Harbour Cruises, Winery Week-ends, Family Jindabine-Thredbo-Perisher Trip for the June long week-end, Jamberoo Bus Trip, Western Plains Zoo Bus Trip and our Red Eye Special Snow Trip in August. A truly dynamic program. All the Branches in Sydney contribute to a great program open to all members to attend ANY Branch function. Why not help spread the word about the great PWP program. You never have to stay at home alone ever again once a PWP member. Ross F, State President. rossemail@gmail.com
.PWP DOES IT AGAIN
SUBMIT YOUR BRANCH FUNCTION REPORTS
Each week we would like to share with other members what great functions are organized by PWP. We will publish one function report a week – so why not tell us about a dinner, a party, a picnic, a kids function or a health and fitness function. Don't date the entry – it just needs to have happened in the past month or so. Let's make it good news week. Why not submit a brief one paragraph report of one of your branches recent successful functions. Email to Ross at rossemail@gmail.com
-YOU CAN HELP YOUR PWP-
WANTED – COMMUNITY RADIO PRODUCTION
If you are involved in community radio or are studying media production and have access to suitable studio equipment – we need help in producing a short community information advertisement for distribution to community radio stations. If you can help in this area email our State President Ross at rossemail@gmail.com
-EDUCATION & PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
THE PARRAMATTA COLLEGE
A long standing provider of adult education offering business and computer courses as well as a variety of creative and life style programs. Ph: (02) 9687 2072 Email: admin@parramattacollege.com.au Web: www.parramattacollege.com.au
-ABC HEALTH NEWS
National Stroke Week (National Stroke Foundation) September 17-23
Brain Injury Awareness Week (Headway) September 18
HOW MUCH EXERCISE?
The US has updated its guidelines on physical activity with recommendations on how much exercise to do. Details
PEANUT ALLERGY TEST
There's a simple test which people with peanut allergy can do to make life more flexible. Details
PARENTS DON'T PROPERLY TREAT FEVERS: STUDY
COMPULSIVE BUYING DISORDER
Someone with compulsive buying disorder has urges to shop and spend which are hard to control. There's no proven treatment. Details
WORKPLACE STRESS - STOPPING THE JUGGERNAUT
If you think work is getting more stressful, you're not imagining it. Since 1964, the average working week for white collar workers has gone up by 10 hours. In scenes reminiscent of Dickensian England, we're working harder, longer and with more job insecurity than ever before – and the cost is increasingly clear. Decades of research across hundreds of thousands of workers point to a full scale stress epidemic. Details
-ON THE WEB-
BBC History Magazine Covering both ancient and modern history – a great resource for students, teachers and those interested in history. www.bbchistorymagazine.com
PWP SOCIAL SERVICES & POLICY NEWS
CHILD SUPPORT
MORE FACE-TO-FACE SERVICES FOR RURAL AND REGIONAL CUSTOMERS CSA is expanding its Regional Service Centres (RSCs) to provide improved service delivery to customers living outside metro areas. An RSC opened in Mildura in July and will be joined by new RSCs in Kalgoorlie, Warrnambool, Orange and Tamworth later in the year.
Drop in or make an appointment to talk to a CSA staff member at one of our 27 Regional Service Centres.
Staff also visit regional and rural areas to hold Community Information Sessions and confidential one-on-one interviews for customers.
Check our website for details and locations of our centres and information sessions, or call 131 272 to make an appointment.
MEDICARE – NEW DENTAL COVERAGE
New arrangements will provide eligible patients with up to $4,250 worth of Medicare-funded dental treatment over two consecutive calendar years. The new provisions announced today will give more flexibility for patients to receive dental treatment when they require services. It means that many patients who require complex treatment such as restorative dental work or dentures will now receive Medicare services as part of a single course of treatment rather than having to split or defer treatment across different calendar years.
These Medicare items target people with chronic and complex conditions (such as diabetes, heart disease or cancer) where the person's oral health is having, or is likely to have, an impact on his or her general health. To be eligible, a person needs to be under a GP Management Plan and Team Care Arrangements. Read more
-NOT-FOR-PROFIT (NFP) FACTS-
Parents Without Partners NSW Inc only income is from membership fees, small raffles and modest entry fees at functions.
Sources of Income for NFP sector in Australia
In 1999/2000 the nonprofit sector's main sources of income were as follows:
* 58% - sale of goods and services
* 30% - government grants and contracts
* 9% - household transfers
-SCIENCE ONLINE
NATIONAL FEAR SURVEY - The Results are in!
Australia's got a reputation for being full of deadly snakes, spiders and sharks - but do these things really send us into a spin? What's our biggest fear? And are boys really more jittery than girls? The national fear survey results are in, so you can check out what gives us the wobbles and what we can do about it. Read more
DR KARL'S GREAT MOMENTS IN SCIENCE - The Black Death
Europe in the 1300s was a tough place to be - one third of the entire population was wiped out by the Plague. But the deathly pandemic didn't start in Europe ...Read more
PHYSICISTS IN A TANGLE AT THE HAIRDRESSERS
Which type of hair gets the most tangles? Straight or curly? A collaboration between hairdressers and physicists is teasing out the answer. Read more
== IN THE SKY THIS WEEK ==
The First Quarter Moon is Thursday September 20. Mercury can be seen above the western horizon after sunset. On Thursday the 13th the thin crescent Moon and Mercury are close together, and during the week Mercury climbs steadily higher becoming more visible. Jupiter is the brightest object in the western evening sky, not far from the red star Antares. On Thursday September 18 the waxing Moon is just above Antares and close to Jupiter. In the morning sky, brightening Mars is now an obvious reddish object to the north near the tip of the horns of Taurus the Bull. Venus is readily visible low in the eastern morning sky. Read more
-September 20-
Birthdays:
1934 Sophia Loren Rome, actress (Desire Under the Elms, Black Orchid)
On This Day:
1519 Magellan starts 1st successful circumnavigation of the world
1945 German rocket engineers begin work in US
1954 1st FORTRAN computer program run
1958 Martin Luther King Jr stabbed in chest by a deranged black woman in NYC
1972 Police find cannabis growing on Paul & Linda McCartney's farm
1973 Billy Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in battle-of-sexes tennis match
1980 Spectacular Bid runs in Belmont alone as 3 horses drop out
1990 Both Germanys ratify reunification
:-) Dang Me
An attorney arrived home late, after a very tough day trying to get a stay of execution for a client who was due to be hanged for murder at midnight.
His last minute plea for clemency to the governor had failed; he was feeling worn out and depressed.
As soon as he walked through the door at home, his wife started on him about, "What time of night to be getting home is this? Where have you been? Dinner is cold and I'm not reheating it". And on and on and on.
Too shattered to play his usual role in this familiar ritual, he went and poured himself a shot of whiskey and headed off for a long hot soak in the bathtub, pursued by the predictable sarcastic remarks as he dragged himself up the stairs.
While he was in the bath, the phone rang. The wife answered and was told that her husband's client, James Wright, had been granted a stay of execution after all. Wright would not be hanged tonight.
Finally realizing what a terrible day he must have had, she decided to go upstairs and give him the good news.
As she opened the bathroom door, she was greeted by the sight of her husband, bent over naked, drying his legs and feet.
"They're not hanging Wright tonight," she said.
To which he whirled around and screamed, "FOR THE LOVE OF GOD WOMAN, DON'T YOU EVER STOP?!"
-Afterthought: “
A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view. – Sophia Loren
-COMPUTING TIP-
Read this…
25 Common E-mail Mistakes - Part 1
12 this week and another 13 next week…
1.) Only Using One E-mail Account
It'simportant to familiarise yourself with more than one e-mail program. You can't think of your e-mail address like your home address. You need to have more than one! In all actuality, it's best to have even up to three open e-mail accounts. That way, you can have one for your home e-mails, one for your office e-mails and an extra one for all the other things you do online. For example, always use your third account to sign up for newsletters, contests, etc. It's also best to have maybe one paid e-mail account and the other two can be one of the free ones that are available today, such as HOTPOP, Yahoo!, Hotmail or Gmail. With more than one account, you are saving yourself in the long run.
2.) Keeping the Spam Around
Have you ever had an e-mail account that just got spammed out? You know, pretty much all you ever received from that account was spam. So, after a while, you probably got tired of it, but instead of switching to another e-mail client, you just started to accept it. Well, I'm here to tell you not to do that anymore! When one of your accounts gets spammed out, just get rid of it and start fresh. I know it's easy to get attached to an e-mail program, because you're familiar with it, etc., but it's not healthy to keep all that spam around. It's only going to get worse, so my advice is to get rid of it while you're still somewhat ahead. I use Mailwasher to control spam.
3.) Forgetting to Close the Browser
Do you ever check your e-mail from another location apart from your home computer? Well, when you do that, you have to make sure you log out of your e-mail account when you're finished. Along with that, be sure that you always close down the browser window as well. If you don't do this, your username may remain on the screen and it will really put you on target for some security risks.
4.) Forgetting to Clear It
Here's another important tip if you're using another computer outside of your home. Always make sure you clear the browser cache, the history and your passwords. Most Web browsers will hold onto that information and even though it's trying to save you time, it's a hazard if you're using a public computer. You never know who could get on that computer after you. Here are some quick instructions on how to do all of that, so you won't ever have to worry about it. In Internet Explorer, go to Tools, Internet Options and click on all three buttons that say, "Clear History," "Delete Cookies" and "Delete Files." In Firefox, you can simply use the keyboard combination of Ctrl + Shift + Del in the open browser window. Doing that will keep you much safer!
5.) Using Insecure Accounts
This one has a little more to do with larger corporations, but you never know when it could affect you. Often times, corporation employees are careless and they use their personal e-mail accounts for business purposes. If this happens, they are at risk of sending out sensitive information that could really hurt the company. Doing this could put their job at risk as well. Always use your personal account for personal items and leave everything else out.
6.) Forgetting to Use the Telephone
We all know how convenient e-mail is, but in some cases, it's not always the best option. If you're going to be e-mailing something very sensitive or private, you might want to consider just picking up the telephone and doing it that way. In these types of cases, using the telephone is a much safer option to use than e-mail. It may take a few more minutes to do, but if it's possible, just call.
7.) Forgetting to Use the BCC
We've told you about the BCC (Blind Carbon Copy) feature before in the newsletter, but I'm willing to guess that some of you still don't use it. This works the best when you're e-mailing multiple people. If you insert the e-mail addresses onto the BCC line, the recipients won't be able to see any of the other e-mail addresses you're sending the e-mail to. Now, don't get this confused with the CC option either. BCC is really the way to go to keep everyone's addresses safe and secure.
8.) Using the Reply All Button
Do you ever get confused as to whether you should hit the Reply or Reply All buttons when you're replying to an e-mail message? If you click on Reply All, your reply will go to each and every e-mail address that the original message was sent to. Yes, it will go to the person you intended as well, but if you're sending them a personal message, you don't want everyone else to be able to see it. Always use Reply first. It's a safer shot.
9.) Forwarding Spam
Did you know that forwarding e-mails can bring on a new batch of spam mail? Well, if you didn't know before, you know now. If you aren't careful, forwarding e-mails can pose a big security threat for you and the earlier recipients of the e-mail. When you forward an e-mail, make sure you delete all of the previous addresses first. This way, the person you forward the message to won't be able to see the addresses of who all already got it. If you keep all the e-mail addresses on there, spammers can quickly grab up that entire list and just go to town. Everyone will get spammed, including you. And I know you don't want that to happen!
10.) Forgetting to Back It Up
Again, we are always telling you to back up the data on your computer. Well, e-mails are no exception. If you've got important e-mails on your computer that you're going to want to hang on to for awhile, don't forget to back them up frequently. These types of e-mails could be anything from legal contracts to financial information or even personal information you want to keep. Either way, run a backup on them and you won't ever have to worry about losing them for good. Read here for some tips on getting the backup process (for MS Outlook) done easily. Use Mozbackup (free download) for Thunderbird (and Firefox) backups.
11.) Mobile Access
Do you ever access your e-mail through a mobile device, such as your cell phone or a Blackberry? With today's technology, you can check your e-mail from just about anywhere, but is it really safe? They are safe, but you have to remember a couple of things if you're using this method. Sometimes, the software on your mobile device will not keep the e-mails you check on the server for very long. Therefore, certain e-mails will not be on your home or office computer later on when you need them. So, if you delete them from the device, they will be deleted from your Inbox as well. Check the default settings on your mobile device to make sure they are set to keep the e-mails around for as long as you need them. This is very important, especially for urgent e-mails.
12.) It's Gone For Good
Yes, we've all done it. We've sent embarrassing e-mails to our friends or we received very inappropriate e-mails from other senders. When those come in, what do you do? Probably delete them right away, right? Well, when you delete them, are they gone for good? The answer is no. Just because you delete an e-mail from your Inbox or even your Deleted folder, the e-mails are not gone forever. They usually remain on your server until something else takes its place. Even then, they sometimes stay in backup folders and other remote servers for years. If this happens, spammers can get hold of them and you know what happens after that. So, when you're sending e-mails, think about what you're writing in them. It may come back to haunt you later on.
Common E-mail Mistakes - Part 2 next week (13 more)
Computer Problems?………..Hardware failure?
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Internet problems?…………..Don’t know what to do next?
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