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Did anyone guess who was coming to dinner??  I didn’t.  Yvonne and I had a great night as hosts with Anne and Daryl Cox and Bruce and Carol Nankervis as guests.  I love the concept.  The dinner enables a lot of discussion that would otherwise not be possible during a weekly meeting.  We enjoyed having the opportunity to share experiences.  I trust that all our hosts and visitors had a great night.
This week we have a BBQ at The Karingal Backlinks’ Big Day Out on Thursday, thanks to Brenton Rudd and the BBQ team.
I look forward to attending Starsearch next Friday evening at Sacred Heart College.  Stephen Bath and his team have put together a wonderful program to enable performers to appear in front of a live audience.
Please ensure you and your wives, partners and friends book your tickets.  Click here to book on line, or get your tickets at the venue on Friday night.  The performance begins at 7:30pm at McCauley Hall.

Regards,
Ian C
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Polio this week as of 20 May 2015
Ministers of Health from around the world are meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, this week for the annual World Health Assembly.  The Ministers will discuss a number of topics related to public health, including polio eradication.  The Global Polio Eradication Initiative has prepared a status report for delegates.  The report and an accompanying resolution are expected to inform the discussions. 

  • The 11th report of the Independent Monitoring Board has been published this week, reporting on progress towards polio eradication and making recommendations. Polio staff continue to offer support to the humanitarian response to the devastating earth quakes in Nepal. 
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  • Liberia and Sierra Leone have both conducted polio and measles vaccination campaigns during April and May.  These are the first campaigns conducted in these countries since 2013 (due to the Ebola outbreak).  Polio staff in these countries continue to assist in the Ebola outbreak response efforts

  

Total cases

Year-to-date 2015

Year-to-date 2014

Total in 2014 

WPV

 cVDPV

 WPV

 cVDPV

 WPV

 cVDPV

Globally

24

0

82

14

359

55

- in endemic countries

24

 0

73

14

340

 52

- in non-endemic countries

0

 0

9

 0

19

 3

  

- See more at: http://www.polioeradication.org/Dataandmonitoring/Poliothisweek.aspx#sthash.fX0x0jLY.dpuf

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It's that time of the year again when I start thinking about how to put together the Annual Report - so I'm asking directors and anyone else who usually submits stuff to go in the Anhnual Report to start work on the report now. If there are any photo's you particularly want to append to your report, please put them in also. It akes the best part of 3 weeks to a month to collate everything, format it, and print it so the "drop dead" date for getting your report to me (in electronic format saves me a great deal of time) is the end of May - but before if possible.

Thanks

Paul

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28th May                   No Lyndon Grove Meeting - Star Search on 29th
 
4th June                    Directors' Reports
                                  Chair                                      Ian Campbell
                                  Welcome and Property          Darcy Seller & Mark Seller
 
11th June                   Chef for a month - session 2 - Davidson Restaurant
 
18th June                    Club Night - new Committees, Marie Louise presentation
                                    Chair                                     David Farnsworth
                                    Welcome and Property         David Sinclair & Paiuline Stewart
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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

The best way to have what you want, is to want what you have.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always got.

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Presently, I am trying to make friends outside of Facebook while applying the same principles.
Therefore every day, I go down on the street and tell the passer by what I have eaten, how I feel,what I have done the night before, and what I will do after, I give them pictures of my wife, my daughter, my dog and me gardening and spending time in my pool.
I also listen to their conversations and I tell them I love them.
And it works :
I already have 3 persons following me; 2 police officers  and a psychiatrist
 
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"It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth after they inherit it." --Kin Hubbard
 
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"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." --Thomas Edison
 
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An elderly man in the Atherton Tablelands in Queensland had owned a large farm for several years.
He had a large pond in the back. It was properly shaped for swimming, so he fixed it up nice with picnic tables, a barbecue and some apple and peach trees.
One evening the old farmer decided to go down to the pond, as he hadn't been there for a while, and look it over.
He grabbed a twenty litre bucket to bring back some fruit.
As he neared the pond, he heard voices shouting and laughing with glee.
As he came closer, he saw it was a bunch of young women skinny-dipping in his pond.
He made the women aware of his presence and they all went to the deep end.
One of the women shouted to him, 'we're not coming out until you leave!'
The old man frowned, 'I didn't come down here to watch you ladies swim naked or make you get out of the pond naked.'
Holding the bucket up he said,  'I'm here to feed the crocodile...'
Some old men can still think fast.
 
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Top ten things you'll never hear a dad say...
10. Well, how 'bout that? I'm lost! Looks like we'll have to stop and ask for directions.
9. You know Sweetie, now that you're thirteen, you'll be ready for car dates. Won't that be fun?
8. I noticed that all your friends have a certain hostile attitude. I like that.
7. Here's a credit card and the keys to my car. GO AND HAVE FUN!
6. What do you mean you wanna play football? Figure skating's not good enough for you, son?
5. Your Mother and I are going away for the weekend. You might want to consider throwing a party.
4. Well, I don't know what's wrong with your car. Probably one of those thingies--ya know--that makes it run or something. Just have it towed to a mechanic and pay  whatever he asks.
3. No son of mine is going to live under this roof without an earring. Now quit your whinging, and let's go to the mall.
2. Whaddya wanna go and get a job for? I make plenty of money for you to spend. Here's $100.
1. What do I want for Father's day? Aahh -- don't worry about that. It's no big deal. (Okay, he might say it, but he doesn't mean it!)
 
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Taxiing down the tarmac, the DC10 abruptly stopped, turned around and returned to the gate. After a two-hour long wait, it finally took off.
A concerned passenger asked the flight attendant, "What, exactly, was the problem?"
"The pilot was bothered by a noise he heard in the engine," explained the flight attendant. "It just took us a while to find a new pilot."
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Russell Hampton
National Awards Services Inc.
Sage