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REMINDERS
General Meetings
Please call only at the times requested and within the deadline
to notify if you are unable to attend. Remember you will be charged
if you can't turn up and haven't called in time.
Bus
Please abide by the booking deadline, otherwise you will be charged
for this also.
Special Wednesdays
Please remember that you must pay in advance or you will forfeit
your place. It will not be possible for you to be reimbursed, or
for your place to be given to a friend as there are always many
other members already on the waiting list.
Mobile Telephones
Please remember to turn off your telephones at the start of meetings
as il can obviously be very unsettling for anyone who is speaking
or giving a lecture or recital.
Name Tags
Please remember to return your nametags at the end of the meeting.
If one is misplaced, extra time and money has to be spent to make
a new one.
Guests
To avoid embarrassment, please make sure that you pay for your guests,
or that they understand they will have to pay. If they don't come
you will be asked to pay.
Thank
you for all your help and cooperation so that the Club can run more
smoothly.
NEWSLETTER
DEADLINE
Please get all information to be included in fee newsletter to the
editor by the last working day of each month: by e-mail to Jeaneth
Zelou
SAFETY
TIPS FOR WOMEN
We live in a relatively safe city and country but, unfortunately,
incidents of violence do happen and are on the rise so, without
being alarmist I share this advice with our members:
1. The elbow is the strongest point on your body. If you are close
enough to use it, do.
2. If a robber asks for your wallet and/or purse, DO NOT HAND IT
TO HIM, toss it away from you - chances are that he is more interested
in your money than you and be will go for the wallet. RUN LIKE MAD
IN THE OTHER DIRECTION,
3. If you are ever thrown into the trunk of a car, kick out the
back tail lights and stick your arm out of the hole and start waving
like crazy. The driver wont see you, but everyone else will. This
saves lives.
4. Women have a tendency to get into their cars after shopping,
eating, working etc, and just sit (sorting their handbag, or making
a list, etc.) DON'T DO THIS. The predator will be watching you and
this is the perfect opportunity for him to get in on the passenger
side, put a gun/knife to your head and tell you where to do. As
soon as you get into your car LOCK THE DOORS AND LEAVE.
5. A few notes about getting into your car in a parking lot or garage:
a. Be aware, look around you, look into your car, at the passenger
side floor and in the back seat.
b. If you are parked next to a big van, enter your car from the
passenger door. Most serial killers attack their victims by pulling
them into their vans while the women are attempting to get into
their cars.
c. Look at the car parked on the driver's side of your vehicle and
the passenger side. If a man is sitting alone in the seat nearest
to your car you may want to walk back into the shop/mall or work
and get someone to walk you back out. It is always better to be
safe than sorry and better paranoid than dead!
6. ALWAYS take the elevator instead of the stairs - stairwells are
horrible places to be alone and the perfect crime spot, especially
at night.
7. If the predator has a gun and you are not under his control,
ALWAYS RUN. The predator will only hit you (a running . target)
4 in 100 times and even then it will most likely NOT be a vital
organ. Run, preferable in a zigzag pattern.
8. As women, we are always trying to be sympathetic. STOP. It may
get you robbed, raped or killed. There are many cases of a good
looking, well educated man, playing on the sympathies of unsuspecting
women, maybe walking with a cane or with a Ump, asking "for
help" in his vehicle or with his vehicle - and that's when
he abducts or attacks his next victim. Little old ladies that ask
for a lift may scream "thief as they get out of the car and
accuse you of robbing them\ Don't laugh, I know this happens!
9. NEVER open your door without knowing exactly who is there - criminals
have been known to use a recording of a baby crying to get people
to open their doors.
10. . If you are entering your building alone at night, look around
first to see if anyone is lurking in the shadows. Always ask the
taxi driver or friend dropping you off to wait until you are inside
- and you could always ask the friends you've left to call . you
after a few minutes to check that you are safely inside your home.
Before you think that I've completely lost it or am being melodramatic,
one of our members was held at knife point recently and whereas
the loss of possessions is cross-making, the shock and trauma of
such an attack is very hard to reconcile. SO TAKE CARE AND PASS
ON THIS INFORMATION.
Bridget Coscoros
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SAND
AND STONE
Two friends were walking through the desert. During some point of
the journey they had an argument and one friend slapped the other
one in the face. The one who got slapped was hurt, but without saying
anything, wrote in the sand: ‘Today my best friend slapped
me in the face’
They kept on walking until they found an oasis, where they decided
to take a bath. The one who had been slapped got stuck in the mire
and started drowning, but the friend saved him. After he had recovered
from the near-drowning, he wrote on a stone: ‘Today my best
friend saved my life’.
The friend who had both slapped him and saved his life asked: “After
I hurt you, you wrote in the sand but now you write on a stone,
why?” The friend replied: “When someone hurts us we
should write it down in sand, where the winds of forgiveness can
erase it. But, when someone does something good for us, we must
engrave it in stone where no wind can ever erase it.
Learn
to write your hurts in the sand and to carve your benefits in stone.
They say it takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to
appreciate them, a day to love them, but then an entire life to
forget them.
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