BRISBANE WATER (NSW) LEGACYNo 68 APRIL 2013

Passing the torch

Legacy Juniors remember

Ecstacy was not always a drug

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Chatterbox on audio cassetteMany of our Widows receive copies of Chatterbox on audio cassette. We are pleased to acknowledge the generous sponsorship of Vision Australia.

If any other sight-impaired Widows would like a copy of Chatterbox on audio cassette, please don’t hesitate to contact Garry Chambers on 4323 4977.

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Editorial CommitteeEditor – Max Davis, 4368 2317 Members – Russell Swinden, Betty McCleary, Mark Gattenhof

NEXT ISSUE – 69Copy deadline is

June 18, 2013

Legacy Executive

President : Tony Morton Vice President : Michael Hickey

Legacy Complex51 Masons Parade, Point Frederick

Phone (02) 4323 4977Fax (02) 4323 4458

PASSING THE TORCHFront cover shows Legatee President Tony Morton presenting certificate of Reserve Membership to Legatee Eric Flood. This is the highest honor BWL can award and is bestowed on very special senior members in recognition of dedicated and valued service.

Eric will be know to many readers, joining BWL in 1998 and was a founding father of the Legacy Scholarship scheme.

Noted for outstanding commitment to Legacy Eric also served as editor of Chatterbox. Regarded by all who know him as ‘a true gentleman’.

Also shown is new Legatee Kathy Patterson (with her Sponsor Legatee Rick Cranna) receiving certificate of Membership as a Legatee from President Tony Morton. Kathy may be know to readers. For her excellent and touching article in November Chatterbox where she shared memories of her life as a Legacy Junior. Welcome Kathy, you are now one whose Task it is to carry the torch.

Max Davis – Editor

IN FLANDERS’ FIELDSIn Flanders’ fields the poppies blowBetween the crosses, row on rowThat mark our place, and in the skyThe larks still bravely singing, flyScarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days agoWe lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glowLoved, and were loved, and now we lieIn Flanders’ Fields.

Lt Col John McCrae (original version)

THE ANSWERFear not that you have died for naught,The torch you threw to us we caught,And now our hands will hold it highIts glorious light shall never dieWe’ll not break faith with you who lieOn many a field.

R W Lilliard

TO YOU – THE LIVINGAt times I used to lie awake and dwellOn what would happen to my baby sonShould I meet death. I saw the conflict won.And post-war problem years recast their spell.And I not there, I saw the boy aloneWithout a father’s care, and I knew the hurtful yearsThat would be his; the struggle fraught with fears.And so it is...with others I have knownI wander restlessly and cannot findThe sleep that death should bringNor can I break the bonds of death to battle for his sake.But you who live can give me peace of mindI can do nothing more than I have doneTo you – the living – I commit my son.

Gallipoli

Arctic Star & Bomber Command

Clasp see page 4

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CEO Update At Legacy Aged Care we take the safety of our residents very seriously and want to reassure you that fire safety is a high priority.

We are proud to say we have full fire safety certification for our buildings, and further to the certification requirements, the following measures are in place:• Adequate staffing numbers on all shifts to execute

an evacuation in a timely manner should it be required

• Annual mandatory staff training in the use of fire equipment and resident evacuation

• Provision of evacuation aids• Emergency management policy and procedures • Non-smoking policy which prohibits smoking• Fire Sprinklers in place at Norah Head.Compliance with the Accreditation Standards, as determined by independent assessors who visit and check that the Home has established procedures for detecting and acting on fire, security or other emergency risks and incidents, and that the relevant staff know and understand these procedures.

President’s MessageWhat a start to the year! Bush fires one end of the country and floods the other. Locally we were lucky to have fine weather just prior to Christmas and for the various Christmas luncheons. My wife, Pam, and I enjoyed meeting many of you at the luncheons we attended and my impression was that a good time was had by all. The year moves on quickly and now we prepare for ANZAC Day. I would like to remind everyone that once again we will be conducting a service at Legacy Hall, Point Frederick, at 9AM on ANZAC Day, followed by a cuppa. We will provide a bus to take you to the Gosford Cenotaph for their service at 11AM. Please attend if you are able. A reminder to Legatees; the banner would welcome some company during the Gosford March, so please join us if not otherwise committed on the day.

It is appropriate this issue that I specifically acknowledge and thank our Torchbearers for Legacy for their wonderful support and assistance in their specific fund raising activities, support they provide us in Legacy Week and at the Golf Days. The recently conducted

‘thank you’ luncheon was well attended and another means of thanking these wonderful groups for their work throughout the year.

At the time of writing a round of Widows Club AGMs loom and, in anticipation, it is likely that a new group of executives will be appointed while many will continue in office. My congratulations, appreciation and best wishes for a wonderful year, go to you all. The Widows Clubs form an integral and important part of Legacy support providing a social network for Legacy widows; provide the opportunity for friendship, participation in activities and outings. It is also a means by which communication between the club and widow can be streamlined by direct access to our liaison Legatees who assist each of the clubs, and our welfare staff. Brisbane Water Legacy has six Widows Clubs which cover the Central Coast area, details of which are listed elsewhere in this publication.

Two specific functions to watch for this year will be a luncheon celebrating the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, during the first half of the year and then later in the year the 90th anniversary of the formation of Legacy. This latter activity will specifically involve ex-Junior Legatees and your support will be sought in contacting as many of these past members of our Legacy family as possible.

Tony Morton – President

York Street VacancyBrisbane Water (NSW) Legacy is currently seeking a Legacy enrolled widow who would be interested in residing in one of our 9 York Street Villas, situated within the Legacy Village Complex at Point Frederick.The Villa comprises of: 2 bedrooms, upstairs villa; An inclinator for easy access; Secure parking.

What you will need to payAn entry contribution is payable to Legacy upon entry. This amount is returned in full upon leaving or to the Estate of the resident, less any costs required to restore the villa to the condition that existed when the resident moved in. A weekly maintenance fee is also payable by direct debit to cover outgoings. The resident will pay their own electricity and telephone costs.

How to applyPlease contact the Manager Operations if you would like further information. An information pack is available which sets the terms and conditions of entry to the Legacy Village Complex.

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EditorialWelcome to another year of Chatterbox.

What a year we had last year!A look at page 16 of this issue

would give you a fair idea that there were a lot of ladies enjoying themselves at our Melbourne Cup Day. Legacy wives and staff featured in a fashion parade, more money seemed to change hands at the sweeps than at the stock exchange and the high fashion would have had a Woman’s Weekly reporter salivating

The secret is participating! Don’t let reduced mobility hamper you, we will help with transport. We would love to welcome more ladies to these events.

As the President has advised in his column there are a number of special activities planned for the year.

In June we have the commemoration of Her Majesty’s Coronation. This will be a gala event with a Garden Party at Masons Parade and should not be missed. Your invitations will go out soon so get in early, space will limit the numbers, “first in “etc.

Another major event mentioned by Legatee Morton will be the ex juniors reunion. It is planned to invite former Legacy Juniors to renew old acquaintances and memories. Many of these people are your sons, daughters and grandchildren. More to come.

Let me take this opportunity to remind our readers of some other facilities available to them.

At Masons Parade we have a three bedroom residential cottage available for hire at very low rates.

Ideal if you have family visiting from interstate and not enough room at home to put them up.

Fancy a holiday? Do you know about the Legacy Holiday House at Moss Vale? I know a number of ladies who have had wonderful escapes to this outstanding facility.

Call our office and make enquiries. This issue comes to you on the eve of a day special

to all Australians, special even more so to our Legacy family.

Lest we forget.Max Davis – Editor

Legal appointments available at

Legacy House each Wednesday

Phone4323 4977

Monti’s Ashore Seafood (4324 3366) proudly supports

Brisbane Water Legacy.

How well will you score?1. How long did the Hundred Years’ War

last? 2. Which country makes Panama hats? 3. From which animal do we get cat

gut? 4. In which month do Russians

celebrate the October Revolution? 5. What is a camel’s hair brush made

of? 6. The Canary Islands in the Pacific are named

after what animal? 7. What was King George VI’s first name? 8. What colour is a purple finch? 9. Where are Chinese gooseberries from? 10. What is the colour of the black box in a

commercial airplane? Answer on page 8

BRAIN

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CEO UpdateContinued from page 1

The NSW Government has mandated that all Aged Care facilities are required to have fire sprinklers installed, by August 2016.

During the next 12 months installation of fire sprinklers at our Wyoming facility is planned, along with some other renovations.

In other news, plans are well underway for a mid year celebration Garden Party at Point Frederick. By the time most are reading this edition of Chatterbox an invitation will have been received and I encourage as many of our widows to Attend the event as possible. If you have any questions, feel free to contact our office on 4323 4977.

Peter Lawley – Chief Executive Officer

East Gosford Chem Save Pharmacy happily supports the work of Brisbane Water Legacy.

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My New Guinea AdventureNita Mustard

I would like to tell you my experience as a young bride, living in Port Moresby, Papua. During WWII I was a penfriend of my future husband, and when he came on leave to Sydney we met, fell in love, and became engaged. After he was demobbed he went back to Papua (where he had been born and lived for most of his life) and commenced a career with the Government. After a few months I flew to Moresby and we were married there.

I had a houseboy named Be-Hai and as he spoke very little English and I didn’t speak his native language, we had many hilarious conversations in the form of charades. Just about every day I would attempt to tell him what I would like him to do in the house, but I would invariably end up doing it all myself, as he pretended to not understand. I think he was a wily one and probably told his friends about this silly Sinabada (me) and I guess he was right!

I had led a very sheltered life in a Sydney suburb, so this was considered a rather adventurous thing to do in 1947. The mode of transport was mostly jeeps left over from the war, and I thought it was just great being driven by a native driver three miles into town to do my shopping. Actually it was quite hair raising as he gleefully drove us close to the edge of the road as he could, with a drop of many metres to the water.

Speaking of water, my first adventure was at a picnic a few miles out of Moresby at a river, and armed with picnic basket a few of us set out to enjoy a day of swimming and eating. We’d been cavorting in the water for quite a while when a shout from the bank told us to get out of there quick-smart as someone had been taken by a crocodile a few weeks before. So we all headed for the bank very fast and headed out of there in case it was lurking about on the bank.

Coincidentally, my next adventure also was concerned with water and yet another picnic, this time to a local island, which looked very close to the mainland, but was in fact a few nautical miles away. We hired a lackatoi, which was really just a raft-catamaran sort of craft with a couple of sails, and with two native owners to sail it off we went to our tropical paradise for the day. The island was beautiful and we swam in crystal clear turquoise water with beautiful tropical fish swimming around us. No thought of sharks or course. After a few hours in this exotic place we noticed the weather was clouding over and thought we’d better head for the mainland. All went well for a while and we were about halfway home when

the storm hit, and tropical storms are really something to see. The sea became very rough and we had to hang on like grim death to avoid being tossed overboard from this very flimsy craft. The native boys were wonderful and somehow managed to get us all ashore eventually, but it was a really terrifying experience.

On a much more pleasant event, just after the war American warships used to call into Moresby quite regularly and we residents became very excited whenever we saw one coming into the harbour. “Pictures tonight” we would call to each other and off we’d go in the evening armed with fold up chairs which we placed on the wharf, waiting for the Americans to set up a large screen on deck and show the latest movies. How romantic, sitting under the moon and very bright stars watching our favourite movie stars. After the show we were all invited on board for supper on the deck, and they were just great evenings, and even better, it didn’t cost us a penny, as like most young newly weds, money was pretty scarce.

I have many memories of my New Guinea life, a very sad and humbling visit to the Bomana War Cemetery where so many of our young soldiers are resting, and a trip by jeep to the entrance of the Kokoda Track, which, incidentally, my husband had walked many times during the war.

We eventually came home and settled down to suburban life in Sydney, raised two children and later retired to the Central Coast.

I’m told that Port Moresby is now a rather frightening place to live but back in 1947 it was a very laid-back, pleasant and rather exotic place to be, where paw paw trees grew in every front garden, and if you were lucky you got to eat the paw paws before the bats got to them. I learned alot about life and people during my time there, and wouldn’t have missed my experience of living there for all the tea in China.

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Manager Welfare and OperationsWe have been very busy over the past twelve months ensuring our Welfare Officers make contact with as many enrolled Legacy Widows as we can to ensure our advocacy and support can be provided to as many of you as possible. I am sure those of you that have received a visit are aware of the programs and the type of support that is available from Brisbane Water (NSW) Legacy. And for the ladies who have not received a visit we will be in contact shortly.

Are you Going to HospitalIf you are going to hospital, or if you know of one of our Legacy ladies who is going to hospital, could you please let our Legacy Administration Office know on telephone number 4323-4977. This allows us to plan and provide services if needed upon your return home. Upon your discharge from hospital please ensure you or your nominated person has a chat with the Discharge Planner or Social Worker at the Hospital to ensure the appropriate services are put in place prior to your return home. If you need assistance with regard to the type of service you need then we can advocate on your behalf with the specific medical facility.

Need a HolidayJust a reminder that Legacy has a number of locations where you can enjoy a short break. The locations are at Mossvale, Narrabeen and Tuncurry. These holidays are popular, so if you are interested in a free short break at any of these locations please call the Brisbane Water (NSW) Legacy office on telephone number 4323-4977 and we will arrange an application form be sent to you for completion and book a suitable time for your stay.

Staying ActiveWith an Australian population that is ageing it is very important to remain active and involved in an activity that improves and maintains your mobility. There are a number of Widows Clubs located around the Central Coast that can provide suitable activities.• Woy Woy – Ettalong• The Entrance Long Jetty• Toukley• Gosford• Gosford (Younger widows)• Gosford Laurel ClubAll of the above Widows Clubs have regular monthly or weekly meetings and have regular activities such as bowls, bus trips and Christmas Luncheons. If you are interested in joining a club for social interaction and companionship please contact the Brisbane Water (NSW) Legacy office on 4323-4977.

Garry Chambers – Manager Welfare & Operations

F R O M T H E W E LFA R E T E A M

Arctic Star and Bomber Command ClaspATTENTION LEGACY WIDOWS WHOSE HUSBANDS SERVED IN WWII IN BOMBER COMMAND OR IN THE ARCTIC CONVOYS – AT LAST RECOGNITION FOR THEIR SERVICE.Surviving veterans, their widows and next of kin are

entitled to receive these awards.Application forms are obtainable from the front desk of

Legacy House.It has recently been announced, by the British

Ministry of Defence (MOD), the details for the Arctic Star and the Bomber Command Clasp and the application process has now opened. This follows Sir John Holmes’ independent medal review and the announcement by the British Prime Minister that these Awards should be made in recognition of the great bravery of those who contributed to two very significant campaigns of World WarII.

Her Majesty The Queen has approved designs for the new awards on the basis of recommendations made by the Royal Mint Advisory Committee. The design for the Arctic Star is based on the other World War Two Stars and the Bomber Command Clasp, to be worn on the ribbon of the 1939 to 1945 Star, follows the design of the Battle of Britain Clasp.

Production of the new Arctic Star and Bomber Command clasp will commence soon and could result in up to a quarter of a million veterans, and the families of those who have sadly died, applying to receive the new awards in recognition of their unique contribution protecting Britain during World War II. Priority in issuing the awards will be given to veterans and widows who could receive their awards in a few weeks. Other next of kin may also apply now but will have to wait slightly longer to receive their award.

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Arctic Star

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M E M O R IE S

One of the BestLegacy WA Annual Children’s Camp, Busselton, 5-15 January 2013

Nearly 60 children from Legacy WA, various Eastern States Legacy Clubs and Police Legacy converged on Busselton on 5 January 2013 for their annual Camp.

Once again, the Camp would not have been possible without the support of the Special Air Service Regiment and its outstanding personnel. Legatees and Companions of Legacy also worked hard to ensure that the Camp was a great success.

Continuing a long-standing ‘welcoming’ tradition, members of the Fremantle Yacht Club volunteered their time with seven yachts of varying sizes ready to sail with the kids to the Busselton foreshore for lunch. Unfortunately, the weather intervened and the yachting day was cancelled and replaced by a trip to the Bunbury roller-skating rink.

The kids were kept busy for the rest of the camp swimming and boating on the beach, abseiling and ‘survival’ (seniors), Xscape at the Cape fun park and a Ngilgi Cave visit (juniors), bouncy castles, climbing walls, low ropes obstacle course, Simmos ice cream and shopping in Busselton.

Among the highlights were the Hawaiian theme dress up night and the skit night and ‘muck up/shenanigans with water and shaving cream’ (with over-exuberant participation/support by the Dunsborough Police and Volunteer Fire Brigade).

In keeping with tradition, a formal dinner was held on the last night of Camp, with the supervisors waiting on the kids for the evening. Speeches by those attending for the last time showed just how much the experience and the friendships made over the years really mean.

Thanks go out once again also to Legatees, Companions and their families who kindly provided billeting for eastern states wards before and after their time at Busselton.

I think it’s safe to say, (now that we’ve had a couple of weeks to recover), that children and supervisors alike are already looking forward to the next Camp. We will be looking for volunteers to billet eastern states wards again next year, so please contact me if you would like to volunteer your time or provide other support next year.

Legacy in WA, February 2013 BulletinRay Murphy, Tammy Davy and Peter Emmett

Jesse Dominguez

BWL Recollections of the 50’s & 60’sBy Jon Elbra

For many years in the early 1950’s I was the youngest Junior Legatee of Brisbane Water Legacy. My family (Mum – Molly , sisters Kate and Barbara) started with Legacy at the old BWL Club in Broadview Ave. Before a new two storey complex was built in Donnison Street, where Market Town Shopping Centre/Parking stands today.

I was perhaps 4 years old and part of the Guard of Honour for the Governor of NSW, Sir John Northcott, who was going to open the building. Proceedings were running late, we had been standing there a long time in the sun and the sight of the bandsman in the Bear Skin hat was enough to cause a slightly embarrassing problem for me.

Wednesday nights at Legacy were wonderful times. The bigger kids were taught gymnastics by a former Junior Legatee, Joe Dunnage, who went on to be a P.E. Lecturer at Newcastle Teachers College and a highly ranked squash player in NSW. Dick Gee, who was well known in Surf Lifesaving locally took over when Joe left the coast. The younger children were supposed to be upstairs with Miss Pitt while the mums had their meeting in the room next door. Miss Pitt’s room had a glass window at floor level so you could watch the big kids doing fantastic

things. Regularly it would become too great a temptation and I would sneak downstairs to join in. Strangely enough I had Joe as a lecturer in the 1970’s at Newcastle and he would often get me to demonstrate how to do certain gym moves until one day I reminded him that it was a long time ago that I’d been that flexible. Joe is still a well known Novocastrian today.

Dinner was an important part of the evening and was made every week by Mrs Knight and her team, including my mum, for many years. After dinner we would assemble for the Legacy Motto and Torch Service before going home.

Legatees I remember from this time include, Dr. Craig Duncan, George Trask, Ted Humphries, Ron Skye, Roy Dibben, Stan Gell, Lee McCarthy, Bob Vaughan, Eric Goldswain, Peter Wylie and the amazing Legatee Hutchinson.

At Easter the Brisbane Water would see an invasion by a flotilla of motor cruisers from Pittwater, as the owners came up to transport us to Hardy’s Bay for a much loved Picnic Day. I remember running aground one year on the way back and having to be put onto another boat. Christmas Picnic Day was held at the old Waikiki Picnic Grounds at Killarney Vale (now under housing). There would be Richter Bros Buses from Woy Woy and Red and Blue buses from the other locations. The complex had lots of grass, a 25m swimming pool, across to the lake for canoes etc. and was a much loved venue.

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Toukley Widows Club

Welcome back to this year 2013. When you receive this Chatterbox our annual meeting which was held in March was our final meeting. Our executive committee have all resigned sorry to say and have had no nominees come forward to fill those positions, however there are plans in place for the Legacy meetings or gatherings to carry on with exciting events to happen this year.

Marion our Social Secretary is still organising bus trips for us, so far we did a coach tour down to Sydney to visit the Jewish Museum which was very interesting, but sad, we had a guided tour of the museum.

In April we tour down to Sydney again to visit the A.B.C radio studios and plans are being made to visit Madame Tussauds Gallery, so we have plenty to look forward to. On ANZAC day our club donated a book to a local school to be placed on the cenotaph at the ceremony held at Toukley RSL Club out in their grounds.

I will finish up my saying goodbye as this is my last letter I will be writing for the Chatterbox, I hope you always enjoyed my newsletter.

Wishing you all a Happy New Year with good health.Mrs June Langer – Honorary Secretary

LE G ACY W ID OWS C LU B S

Gosford Legacy Widows Club

As we have just returned from our holidays, there isn’t much to report.

We are in the process of planning some trips and luncheons for this year. However, the monthly Friday trips in the small bus are organised – destination unknown until the day of departure.

Since our last edition, we have had a few members taken sick or hospitalised. They are now better and we are pleased to see you with us again. Sadly during the past few weeks, we have lost a few members who have passed away. Our condolences were passed over to the families, with members of our committee attending the funerals.

At the present the weather is not very favourable with rains, fires and high humidity all over the country. However, we shall try and arrange our trips with the weather forecast on fine days. In the meantime, on behalf of our President and Committee, we wish you good health and happiness.

Mrs Mary Ewen – Honorary Secretary

Younger Widows

At the time of writing this we are already 2 months gone in 2013. It is good to be back with the girls and looking forward to more happy days together.

The trip in November to the D.F.O Homebush was a very busy day, so much to see and not enough time, it is not possible to see everything in one day, perhaps we may go back another time.

The February outing took us on a tour to Davistown and Kincumber Mountain picnic area, what a wonderful place, it is so well looked after, plenty of walking trails, lookouts and BBQ facilities. Then we went on to what was called Avoca Teahouse, now theatre to see “Lincoln”, quite a good day, thanks to our new driver, Chris.

At the moment I have not anymore information about any other outings for the year. I trust everyone had a great Easter.

Bye for now.Mrs Judy Howard – Co-ordinator

Brisbane Water (NSW) Legacy Laurel Club

Happy New Year to all, a year ahead to once more enjoy each others company. Once again our thanks go to Legacy & Legatees for our Christmas lunch in the Hall. We resumed meetings on 23rd January, we were all happy to see each other after the holidays, and talk about Christmas with our families.

The A.G.M was held on 27th February, chaired by Mr Peter Lawley C.E.O of Legacy. The new Committee of the Laurel Club was voted in:President Betty CoganVice President Joyce HodgesHonorary Secretary Pat YoungAssistant Secretary Pat WallisTreasurer Iris CoughlanAssistant Treasurer Dulcie McAtamnyWelfare Officer Joyce HoareMrs Beryl Prentice who has been our Honorary Secretary for 10 years did not stand for re-election due to ill health. The Laurel Club sincerely thank Beryl for her support and dedication to the Club over the 10 years she presided. We all wish her well and hope it won’t be too long before she is able to be with us again. Mrs Pat Young accepted position of Honorary Secretary and we welcome Pat to the Committee. New ladies joined us during 2012, we hope they are enjoying being with us.

Our ever popular bingo days have started again. Our first outing with the mini bus was to Morpeth. Enjoyed by all.

Mrs Betty Cogan – President

Are you having trouble attending Widows Clubs because of mobility

or transport reasons? Call Garry Chambers on 4323 4977 for assistance!

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The Entrance Long Jetty Widows Club

Happy new year everyone and congratulations to Tony Morton the incoming president. A big thank you to Rick Cranna the outgoing president.

We started off the year 2013 with over 45 members attending our first meeting and our second meeting was the same.

Wyn Sawyers and Fran Brock our Social Co-ordinators have been very busy taking names and collecting monies for our planned day coach trips for the year ahead.

The first trip we explored the refurbished Sydney Aquarium. So many things for us to see such as Sea Dragons, platypus, Dugongs and most of us walked the Shark walk. Please note I said walked not swam! We did not need to get that close and personal. After lunch we visited Madame Tussauds Wax Works and some had their photo taken with the stars or Royalty. The Darling Harbour area has sure changed since I lived in the Sydney area.

We also resumed our Legacy bus mystery lunch tours, first stop was Morisset Hospital Grounds where we watched the Kangaroos put on a show for us, showing off their Joeys that they carried in their pouches. Then we travelled on to Swansea where we enjoyed a lovely lunch at the R.S.L Club. Our new driver Chris gave us some background information about the history of the

Woy Woy-Ettalong Widows Club meets at Ettalong War Memorial Club Ettalong Beach on the 1st

and 3rd Friday of the month at 10.00 am.

The Entrance-Long Jetty Widows Club meets at Diggers @ The Entrance on the 1st and 3rd

Monday of the month at 10:00am. Contact Marie Nichol 4332 3114.

Brisbane Water Legacy Laurel Club meets at Legacy

House, Point Frederick on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month at

10:00am. Contact Pat Young (02) 4322 8923.

Legacy Younger Widows Group meets North and South of the

Central Coast. For details contact Judy Howard

(02) 4332 6106.

Gosford Legacy Widows Club meets at Legacy House, Point Frederick every Thursday at

10:30am. Contact Mary Ewen (02) 4324 0743.

Toukley Legacy Widows Club meets at Legacy Aged Care,

Norah Head on the 1st Monday of the month at 10:00am.

Contact June Langer (02) 4399 1770.

Woy Woy Ettalong Widows Club

Happy New Year to all Legacy ladies, best of good health in 2013. Unfortunately Betty Fraser our President for the past 5 years is resigning which we were sad to hear, we will miss her as Betty has done an excellent job.

On Wednesday 13 February we met our new bus driver, Chris O’Malley. After a delayed depature from Ettalong War Memorial Club, 18 of our ladies were on their way. First stop Ourimbah rest area for morning tea, where Chris was able to meet and talk to us all. Then onto Swansea Workers Club for a very enjoyable lunch, some of our ladies tested the pokies. We left at 1.30pm on our journey home. We all agreed Chris is an excellent driver and anxious to help our ladies if needed.Thank you Chris.

Mrs Joyce Carmichael and Beryl South

Aged Care Wyoming

In the words of our Manager Aged Care , Deborah Maher , it has been a long and hard year for Aged Care Wyoming. However hard work and dedication by all staff members has produced some very positive results in many areas such as Documentation, which in turn has led to a good Accreditation outcome.

However it is vital for the future of the Facility that these high standards are maintained. As part of the plan to achieve this aim a programme is being formulated to refurbish and upgrade some of the rooms and living areas. This will also be an opportunity to commence installing a sprinkler system, which will be a mandatory requirement by 2016.

Most importantly staffing levels are now satisfactory with a full complement of Registered Nurses on board. Also Traineeships have commenced through the Indigenous Training Organisation, with two recipients working 40 hours per fortnight. Again in line with the policy of on-going improvement all Staff have now been issued with new uniforms.

Finally on a more lighter note the Christmas Festivities held at Wyoming were much appreciated by all the residents, so a big “thankyou” to all those concerned for making them happen

Legatee Chris Wilson.

hospital and the area around.Our ladies wish Jack, our previous

driver, all the best and many thanks for the trips we shared with him. Thank you Jack.

I cannot close without thanking Legacy for the wonderful Christmas lunch that was arranged for our members. Over 140 attended and a great day was had by all.

Marie NicholTreasurer / Secretary

All Widows Clubs members can also contact Letitia for any information on 4323 4977 or 0403 683 060.

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Toukley TorchbearersThis will be my last report as president. I was just

keeping the seat warm this year so Sue could finish up her business, I know she will make a good president if the result of our sausage sizzle at Bunnings is anything to go by, she organized it, and she had a good result with the help of her family and Torchies.

As I have said before, being president of Toukley Torchbearers is a privilege. The ladies work so hard and are supportive of one another.

A special mention of the dedication and hard work of Ruth, our very able treasurer and facilitator of our stalls. Our garage sales, our kiosk and the resident’s little jumble sales on their happy hour days and every thing else this lady does.

I must also mention Margaret and her craft ladies; their craft tables are renowned for quality.

I must thank all the members for their support this last year, your commitment to the work of Legacy is second to none. The past year has been harder to raise money, we were hindered by inclement weather on two of our fund raising big events; nevertheless we are still proud of our contribution to Legacy.

It is not all hard work we have a lot of fun, the companionship and friendship we all share is just great ,

We are living in sad times floods ,fires, guns and violence some feel why should we go on and at the end of their tether.

Take a deep breath, if you can hold on one moment longer, then one moment more, until you have held on long enough to catch your second wind.

Then with careful confidence, climb upwards until you reach the top.

This advice has always helped me in times of stress, I also remember a piece of advice my father gave me, “Remember if you ever need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of your arm” then he went on to say “You will discover, as you go through life just why you have two hands, one for helping yourself the other for helping others”.

On looking back over the year I am reminded of the members of Torchies who have stretched out the hand of friendship and my life has been enriched thank you.

Be kind to one another.

Legatee Kathy Marvel OAM

Legacy Aged Care Norah HeadMuch has happened since my last report. As expected, Accreditation has been granted for the next 3 years. If you happen to visit Norah Head, or any of our facilities, you are bound to notice the smart new uniforms which have been provided to the staff.

The new Dementia Specific Unit is soon to be up and running. New furniture has arrived and by the time you read this some minor renovations should be completed, as well as the employment of specialist staff. It is envisaged that there will be 10 participants being treated in the Unit. There has already been a 1 day workshop focussing on Dementia Awareness. This was attended by 20 Legacy Staff members who were commended by the organiser. There is a plan underway to create a lifestyle activity programme within the unit.

The catering, recreation and activity staff are to be congratulated on the successful Christmas and Australia Day Festivities. Bus outings continue to be the most popular activity, especially on Fridays when a visit to a local club for lunch usually takes place. A monthly Newsletter is produced for the residents, many thanks to the staff involved.

Norah Head has also been the venue for participation in Replay, a training programme for Indigenous people.

Once again the thanks of the Legacy Family goes to the staff for their continued service to the residents.

Legatee Russ Swinden

Would you consider becoming a Legatee?Brisbane Water (NSW) Legacy is constantly trying to recruit Legatees from our Widows, the veteran community or indeed the general public.

As a volunteer you can give as much time or as little time as you are able – it is obviously rewarding and often a lot of fun.

If being a Legatee seems too intimidating, you might consider joining the Torchbearers group in Toukley.

If you are interested or know someone (relative or friend) who is interested, call, or have them call the office on 4323 4977.

Brain Tickle Answer1. 116 years ; 2. Ecuador; 3. Sheep and Horses; 4. November; 5. Squirrel fur; 6. Dogs; 7. Albert; 8. Crimson; 9. New Zealand; 10. Orange (of course!)

TOUKLEY TORCHBEARERS MEETING DETAILS

2nd Monday of each month9.30am @ Legacy Aged Care – Norah Head

For more information call Sue Richards – 43592202

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Cuisine à la JulietTournedos are small uniform slices of fillet steak, about 1 to 1 ½ inches thick. There are nearly 500 different versions; each is named according to the individual garnishing which accompany it, for example:

Tournedos Chasseur • Mushroom• Tomato puree• Slosh good white wine• Onion & garlic• Parsley• Cornflour if needed to thicken & sprinkle with

parsley

Tournedos Viscose• Tomatoes• Onion• Garlic• Butter• Grated ginger• Salt & pepper

Simple rules for cooking Tournedos:1. If necessary trim or shape tournedos in a round

shape, tie with kitchen string or secure with a small cocktail stick.

2. If they are to be grilled – brush generously with melted butter or oil.

3. If they are to be sautéed – add enough butter to cover the base of a heavy pan when melted, then add a teaspoon of oil.

4. Start cooking over a high heat for a short period on both sides, to desired degree of doneness. Remember to remove cocktail stick or string and serve on hot plate, accompanied with chosen garnish. Tournedos are often served on a piece of fried bread or a serving of pilaf rice, to absorb the rich steak juices.

Yes fillet steak is expensive but tastes super!

Arctic Star and Bomber Command Clasp

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Minister of State for Defence Personnel, Welfare and Veterans Mark Francois said:

“All those who served our country in Bomber Command and on the Arctic Convoys deserve nothing but the utmost respect and admiration from us. That’s why I am delighted that these special individuals will in the next few weeks begin to receive the Bomber Command clasp and Arctic Star that they have so long deserved.

“I am also pleased to announce that the families of those no longer alive will also be able to apply for these awards in recognition of their loved one’s bravery.”

The qualifying period for the Arctic Star is “service of any length” recognising the particular severity of the conditions experienced by those who served in the Arctic. Whilst the primary intent is to recognise those who served on the Arctic Convoys, eligibility is extended to include all who served north of the Arctic Circle in World War Two. Those eligible will include members of all three Services as well of course as the Merchant Navy who crewed the ships taking the vital supplies to Russia.

The criteria for the Bomber Command Clasp requires prior qualification for the 1939 to 1945 Star, to which it will be affixed, with the additional requirement to have flown at least one operational sortie with a Bomber Command operational unit. A clasp was deemed more appropriate, by Sir John, in the case of Bomber Command as aircrew had already received either the Aircrew Europe Star or the France and Germany Star and another medal would have constituted “double-medalling” for the same service.

Eligible veterans and next of kin are now encouraged to apply using the relevant application forms. An application must be made as it is simply not possible for the MOD to contact veterans or families of all of those who may be eligible going back almost 70 years.

Bomber Clasp

BWL Recollections of the 50’s & 60’sContinued from page 5

Running races were held with coins as “prizes” at the finishing line – always appreciated by the kids at that time of the year. Santa would arrive and everything felt warm and fuzzy in the world.

It was that feeling that perhaps best typified what we as children got from our being a part of the Legacy family week in and week out. In a world where single parent families weren’t as common as they are today, you had a sense of being normal, the comradeship and support of all concerned was very special.

As an adult I can now appreciate the incredible

strength, courage and resolve our mothers displayed, to ensure we did feel supported, loved and nurtured.

As for the Legatees and sadly I couldn’t remember all of their names, they took the Legacy Oath they had made to the memory of their fallen comrades very seriously and provided what would today be called a great network of support, advice and encouragement for all the Legacy Widows and Junior Legatees.

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G A R D E N S N A K E S CA N BE DA N G E R O U S

Green Tree Snakes (Dendrolaphis punctulata) can be dangerous. Yes, tree snakes or grass snakes, not brown snakes or taipans. Here’s why:

A couple in Townsville had a lot of potted plants. During a recent cold winter (for Townsville that is!) the wife was bringing some of the valued tender ones indoors to protect them from the cold night. It turned out that a little green tree snake was hidden in one of the plants. When it had warmed up, it slithered out and the wife saw it go under the lounge. She let out a very loud scream.

The husband (who was taking a shower) ran out into the living room naked to see what the problem was. She told him there was a snake under the lounge. He got down on the floor on his hands and knees to look for it. About that time the family dog came and cold nosed him on the behind. He thought the snake had bitten him, so he screamed and fell over on the floor.

His wife thought he had had a heart attack, so she covered him up, told him to lie still and called an ambulance. The paramedics rushed in, would not listen to his protests, loaded him on the stretcher, and started carrying him out.

About that time the snake came out from under the lounge and the paramedic saw it and dropped his end of the stretcher. That’s when the man broke his leg and why he is still in the hospital.

The wife still had the problem of the snake in the house, so she called on a neighbour who volunteered to capture the snake. He armed himself with a rolled up newspaper and began poking under the lounge... soon he decided it was gone and told the woman, who sat down on the lounge, in relief.

But while relaxing, her hand dangled in between the cushions, where she felt the snake wriggling around. She screamed and fainted, the snake rushed back under the lounge. The neighbour, seeing her lying there passed out, tried to use CPR to revive her.

The neighbour’s wife, who had just returned from

shopping at Woolies, saw her husband’s mouth on the woman’s mouth and slammed her husband in the back of the head with a bag of canned goods, knocking him out and cutting his scalp to a point where it needed stitches.

The noise woke the woman from her dead faint and she saw her neighbour lying on the floor with his wife bending over him, so she assumed that the snake had bitten him. She went to the kitchen and got a small bottle of whiskey, and began pouring it down the man’s throat.

By now, the police had arrived. They saw the unconscious man, smelled the whiskey, and assumed that a drunken fight had occurred. They were about to arrest them all, when the woman tried to explain how it all happened over a little garden snake! The police called an ambulance, which took away the neighbour and his sobbing wife.

Now, the little snake again crawled out from under the lounge and one of the policemen drew his gun and fired at it. He missed the snake and hit the leg of the end table. The table fell over, the lamp on it shattered and, as the bulb broke, it started a fire in the curtains. The other policeman tried to beat out the flames, and fell through the window into the yard on top of the family dog, who, startled, jumped out and raced into the street, where an oncoming car swerved to avoid it and smashed into the parked police car.

Meanwhile, neighbours saw the burning curtains and called in the fire brigade. The firemen had started raising the fire ladder when they were halfway down the street. The rising ladder tore out the overhead wires, put out the power, and disconnected the telephones in a ten square city block area (but they did get the house fire out).

Time passed! The snake was caught and both men were discharged from hospital, the house was repaired, the dog came home, the police acquired a new car, and all was right with the world.

A while later they were watching TV and the weatherman announced a cold snap for that night. The wife asked her husband if he thought they should bring in their plants for the night.

And that’s when he shot her.

Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself, ‘Lillian, you should have

remained a virgin.’Lillian Carter (mother of Jimmy Carter)

I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the

description in the catalogue: - ‘No good in a bed, but fine against a wall.’

Eleanor Roosevelt

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In 1933, a beautiful, young Austrian woman took off her clothes for a movie director. She ran through the woods ... naked. She swam in a lake ... naked. Pushing well beyond the social norms of the period, the movie also featured a simulated orgasm.

The most popular movie in 1933 was King Kong. But everyone in Hollywood was talking about that scandalous movie with the gorgeous, young Austrian woman.

Louis B. Mayer, of the giant studio MGM, said she was the most beautiful woman in the world. The film was banned practically everywhere, which of course made it even more popular and valuable. Mussolini reportedly refused to sell his copy at any price.

The star of the film, called Ecstasy, was Hedwig Kiesler. She said the secret of her beauty was “to stand there and look stupid”. In reality, Kiesler was anything but stupid. She was a genius. She’d grown up as the only child of a prominent Jewish banker. She was a math prodigy. She excelled at science.

As she grew older, she became ruthless, using all the power her body and mind gave her.

Between the sexual roles she played, her tremendous beauty, and the power of her intellect, Kiesler would confound the men in her life, including her six husbands, two of the most ruthless dictators of the 20th century, and one of the greatest movie producers in history.

Her beauty made her rich for a time. She is said to have made – and spent – $30 million in her life. But her

Hedy Lamarrgreatest accomplishment resulted from her intellect ... And her invention continues to shape the world we live in today.

You see, this young Austrian starlet would take one of the most valuable technologies ever developed right from under Hitler’s nose. After fleeing to America, she not only became a major Hollywood star, her name sits on one of the most important patents ever granted by the U.S. Patent Office.

Today, when you use a mobile phone or, over the next few years, as you experience super-fast wireless Internet access (via something called “long-term evolution” or LTE technology), you’ll be using an extension of the technology a 20- year-old actress first conceived while sitting at dinner with Hitler.

At the time she made Ecstasy, Kiesler was married to one of the richest men in Austria. Friedrich Mandl was Austria ‘s leading arms maker. His firm would become a key supplier to the Nazis.

Mandl used his beautiful young wife as a showpiece at important business dinners with representatives of the Austrian, Italian, and German fascist forces. One of Mandl’s favorite topics at these gatherings – which included meals with Hitler and Mussolini – was the technology surrounding radio-controlled missiles and torpedoes.

Wireless weapons offered far greater ranges than the wire-controlled alternatives that prevailed at the time. Kiesler sat through these dinners “looking stupid”, while absorbing everything she heard.

As a Jew, Kiesler hated the Nazis. She abhorred her husband’s business ambitions. Mandl responded to his wilful wife by imprisoning her in his castle, Schloss Schwarzenau. In 1937, she managed to escape. She drugged her maid, snuck out of the castle wearing the maid’s clothes, and sold her jewelry to finance a trip to

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Hedy LamarrLondon. (She got out just in time. In 1938, Germany annexed Austria. The Nazis seized Mandl’s factory – he was half Jewish. Mandl fled to Brazil. Later, he became an advisor to Argentina’s iconic populist president, Juan Peron.)

In London, Kiesler arranged a meeting with Louis B. Mayer. She signed a long-term contract with him, becoming one of MGM’s biggest stars. She appeared in more than 20 films. She was a co-star to Clark Gable, Judy Garland, and even Bob Hope. Each of her first seven MGM movies was a blockbuster.

But Kiesler cared far more about fighting the Nazis than about making movies. At the height of her fame, in 1942, she developed a new kind of communications system, optimized for sending coded messages that couldn’t be ‘jammed’.

She was building a system that would allow torpedoes and guided bombs to always reach their targets. She was building a system to kill Nazis.

By the 1940s, both Nazis and Allied forces were using the kind of single-frequency radio-controlled technology Kiesler’s ex-husband had been peddling. The drawback of this technology was that the enemy could find the appropriate frequency and ‘jam’ or intercept the signal, thereby interfering with the missile’s intended path.

Kiesler’s key innovation was to ‘change the channel’. It was a way of encoding a message across a broad area of the wireless spectrum. If one part of the spectrum was jammed, the message would still get through on one of the other frequencies being used. The problem was, she could not figure out how to synchronize the frequency changes on both the receiver and the transmitter. To solve the problem, she turned to perhaps the world’s first techno-musician, George Anthiel.

Anthiel was an acquaintance of Kiesler who achieved some notoriety for creating intricate musical compositions. He synchronized his melodies across twelve player pianos, producing stereophonic sounds no one had ever heard

before. Kiesler incorporated Anthiel’s technology for synchronizing his player pianos. Then, she was able to synchronize the frequency changes between a weapon’s receiver and its transmitter.

On August 11, 1942, U.S. Patent No. 2,292,387 was granted to Antheil and Hedy Kiesler Markey, which was Kiesler’s married name at the time.

Most of you won’t recognize the name Kiesler. And no one would remember the name Hedy Markey. But it is a fair bet that anyone reading this newsletter of a certain age will remember one of the great beauties of Hollywood’s golden age – Hedy Lamarr.

That’s the name Louis B. Mayer gave to his prize actress. That’s the name his movie company made famous.

Meanwhile, almost no one knows Hedwig Kiesler – aka Hedy Lamarr – was one of the great pioneers of wireless communications. Her technology

was developed by the U.S. Navy, which has used it ever since.

You’re probably using Lamarr’s technology, too. Her patent sits at the foundation of “spread spectrum technology”, which you use every day when you log on to a wifi network or make calls with your Bluetooth-enabled phone. It lies at the heart of the massive investments being made right now in so-called fourth-generation LTE wireless technology. This next generation of mobile phones and cell towers will provide tremendous increases to wireless network speed and quality, by spreading wireless signals across the entire available spectrum. This kind of encoding is only possible using the kind of frequency switching that Hedwig Kiesler invented.

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J E S S I CA A N D M A R K

No, this is not the Women's Weekly! This probably is a Chatterbox first, reporting on a

wedding, but I could not let this special event pass unnoticed.

Jessica Saunders is know to many of our readers as the warm, helpful and efficient voice over the phone. Always ready to assist, or as the ever smiling Jessica at reception who never finds any request too difficult.

On 12/12/12 she became Mrs. Jessica Peterson, marrying Mark Peterson on Caves Beach, Newcastle.

A 7-night honeymoon in Hawaii followed.We thought you may like to see some photos and of

course join us in wishing this delightful couple every happiness.

Editor

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REFLECTIONS“Morale is when your hands and feet keep on working when your head says it can’t be done” J. Marriott Jr.

Today, Wednesday 13th March 2013, I enter Legacy’s Masons Parade

Complex for the first time since Christmas 2012; how good it is to greet the cordiality of the office staff; I cannot but reiterate that Brisbane Water (NSW) Legacy is fortunate in the quality of caring staff.

It is unfortunate that I have been incapacitated (I think that’s the right word) for about eighty days, that’s not easy for a person of my temperament, but I think I have learnt some valuable lessons. One of which is to do with patience (not at all easy), another has to do with trust - trust in hospital staff and more positively trust in

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Audrey NeelyMavis BarlowNorma MaherJoyce SavageMarjorie CarterMaureen WinterbottomBetty MillerEdna HutchinsEleanor HickeyGwen AitkenBeryl HolmesJoyce RathboneRita DoyleMargaret SharahEllen CookEdna Budd Marjorie HancockDaphne GemellLilian StanfordLilian RyanChristina SherbonEdna Anderson

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one’s GP and ENT specialist referred by him, not least the operating surgeon.

I feel now that I have improved relationships with many for whom we care, as they face some of the traumas which beset us.

Again “Life is mostly froth and bubble, two things stand like stone; patience in another’s trouble, courage in your own”. It would be interesting to know the origin of that verse: I find it supportive and not just for me.

So, now back to being available, if and as requested. I hope to attend all meetings within the next couple of months.

“Peoples minds are like parachutes. To function properly they must be open.” William George Plunkett.

“The reward of a thing well done is to have it done” Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Father Max Sainsbury – Legacy Chaplain

Ruth LloydDoreen BrierleyDorothy SchniederMary PerrinEmily McallisterPeggy ClarkeDorothy RuckerNancy DonaldsonMarjorie CharltonIrene WheelerValerie ChiplinHelen MihellMyrtle FernanceGrace BerganOlive RitchieDorothy SandersonThora WilliamsCarmel ArnfieldMarie MartinEleanor PughJoan HuntGwen MoranGerritje ByenDorothy Collinson

Joyce RobsonNuala BoneCarmel CraigDorothy CullenJoyce MyersDonna GrantMarion WheelaghanJoyce Weekes

“Those who aim at great things must also suffer greatly.”Marcus Lucillius Crassus

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1. President Tony Morton with Jack Barnes.

2. Keith Thompson-Burke with Mary Ewen.

3: "The Models" from left: Sandy Fullagar, Sharyn Davis, Jenny Cranna, Pam Morton, and Carolyn Nunn.

6. Winning hats and best outfit at Melbourne Cup Day.

7. Cup Day festivities, just enjoying themselves.

4. Hats for rent – Cup Day.

5. Letitia with Jill Wilson – Cup Day.

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British Golf Rules in 1940German aircraft from Norway would fly on missions to northern England; because of the icy weather conditions, the barrels of their guns had a small dab of wax to protect them. As they crossed the coast, they would clear their guns by firing a few rounds at the golf courses. Golfers were urged to take cover.

British ‘phlegm’ was never better illustrated than during 1940 as witnessed by this calm notice.

RICHMOND GOLF CLUB TEMPORARY RULES 1940• Players are asked to collect Bomb and Shrapnel

splinters to save these causing damage to the Mowing Machines.

• In Competitions, during gunfire or while bombs are falling, players may take cover without penalty for ceasing play.

• The positions of known delayed action bombs are marked by red flags at a reasonably, but not guaranteed, safe distance therefrom.

• Shrapnel and/or bomb splinters on the Fairways, or in Bunkers within a club’s length of a ball, may be moved without penalty, and no penalty shall be incurred if a ball is thereby caused to move accidentally.

• A ball moved by enemy action may be replaced, or if lost or destroyed, a ball may be dropped not nearer the hole without penalty.

• A ball lying in a crater may be lifted and dropped not nearer the hole, preserving the line to the hole without penalty.

• A player whose stroke is affected by the simultaneous explosion of a bomb may play another ball from the same place. Penalty one stroke.

This is purely wonderful – and says more than anything else I have ever seen about why Hitler lost the Battle of Britain.

Grand Kids 1. She was in the bathroom putting on her makeup,

under the watchful eyes of her young granddaughter, as she’d done many times before. After she applied her lipstick and started to leave, the little one said “But Gramma, you forgot to kiss the toilet paper good-bye!”. I will probably never put lipstick on again without thinking about kissing the toilet paper goodbye.

2. My young grandson called the other day to wish me Happy Birthday. He asked me how old I was and I told him, 62. My grandson was quiet for a moment, and then he asked “Did you start at 1?”.

3. After putting her grandchildren to bed, a grandmother changed into old slacks and a droopy blouse and proceeded to wash her hair. As she heard the children getting more and more rambunctious, her patience grew thin. Finally, she threw a towel around her head and stormed into their room, putting them back to bed with stern warnings. As she left the room, she heard the three year old say with a trembling voice “Who was that?”.

4. A grandmother was telling her little granddaughter what her own childhood was like: “We used to skate outside on a pond. I had a swing made from a tire, it hung from a tree in our front yard. We rode our pony. We picked wild raspberries in the woods”. The little girl was wide- eyed taking this all in. At last she said “I sure wish I’d gotten to know you sooner!”.

5. My grandson was visiting one day when he asked “Grandma, do you know how you and God are alike?” I mentally polished my halo and I said “No, how are we alike?”. “You’re both old”, he replied.

6. A little girl was diligently pounding away on her grandfather’s word processor. She told him she was writing a story. “What’s it about?” he asked. “I don’t know”, she replied “I can’t read”.

7. I didn’t know if my granddaughter had learned her colours yet, so I decided to test her. I would point out something and ask what colour it was. She would tell me and was always correct. It was fun for me, so I continued. At last, she headed for the door, saying “Grandma, I think you should try to figure out some of these yourself!”.

8. When my grandson Billy and I entered our vacation cabin, we kept the lights off until we were inside to keep from attracting pesky insects. Still, a few fireflies followed us in. Noticing them before I did, Billy whispered “Its no use Grandpa. Now the mosquitoes are coming after us with their flashlights”.

9. When my grandson asked me how old I was, I teasingly replied “I’m not sure...” “Look in your underwear, Grandpa” he advised. “Mine says I’m 4 to 6”.

10. A second grader came home from school and said to her grandmother, “Grandma, guess what? We learned how to make babies today”. The grandmother, more

than a little surprised, tried to keep her cool. “That’s interesting” she said, “How do you make babies?” “Its simple” replied the girl “You just change ‘y’ to ‘i’ and add ‘es’.

11. Children’s Logic: “Give me a sentence about a public servant” said a teacher. The small boy wrote: “The fireman came down the ladder pregnant”. The teacher took the lad aside to correct him. “Don’t you know what pregnant means?” she asked. “Sure”, said the young boy confidently. “It means carrying a child”.

12. A grandfather was delivering his grandchildren to their home one day when a fire truck zoomed past. Sitting in the front seat of the fire truck was a Dalmatian dog. The children started discussing the dog’s duties. “They use him to keep crowds back” said one child. “No” said another.

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From 18,000 Feet It was in the days of Qantas’ Super Constellations that cruised at 18,000 feet when we were invited to go up front and view the Gallipoli Peninsula. There were 8/8 blue skies, so all features were quite clear – Gaba Tepe and Anzac Cove, the salt lake at Suvla Bay, Cape Helles, the islands of Imbros and Samothrace, the town of Chanak and just north of it the Narrows with Abydos on the Asian shore and where Sestos was on the European side.

The distance between Abydos and Sestos is only a shade more than a nautical mile, about 1.9km, and is notable in Greek legends. It was from Abydos the mythical youth Leander swam each night across the Dardanelles, then called the Hellespont, against its strong surface current, to see Hero, the priestess at Sestos. He was guided by the lamp on her tower. One night a storm extinguished the lamp, Leander lost his way and drowned. The grieving Hero then threw herself from the tower into the Narrows and also drowned.

This legend lives on in paintings by Rubens (1577-1640) and Turner (1775-1851) in a play written by Christopher Marlow (1564-1593) and is mentioned in plays – Two Gentlemen of Verona and As You Like It – by a contemporary, William Shakespeare (1564-1616).

Xerxes (about 519-465 BC), king of Persia, with an army of about 200,000 crossed the Hellespont at Abydos to the Sestos area by two pontoon bridges in 480BC.

This surprising feat still engages comment – amongst other things, how did they get the material eg the

Australian Gully, Anzac, 1915 Photograph from an album compiled by Sergeant John Lord, who was at Gallipoli late in 1915.

Gallipoli This battleground is small and confined compared to those in Europe. It is possible to see most of the sights in a day or less. The whole area is a national park so it is relatively well preserved.

There are primitive walking tracks over most of the area. Once one leaves the area next to the bitumen pavement the area is in much the same condition as the Anzacs left it. It is possible to see the remains of the old trench lines, filled with scrubby growth. We found shrapnel balls as we were walking around. One has to keep an eye out for snakes when walking through the scrub. Some of them are apparently quite aggressive.

This area is very popular for Turkish tourists remembering their victory in the Battle of Canakkale

huge quantities of flax and papyrus there and build against the current. It is recorded Xerxes beheaded his construction overseers and had the Hellespont flogged 300 times when the pontoons of the first bridge were wrecked in a storm. The second construction was successful, so presumably the waters and weather learnt their lessons and behaved.

Centuries later, on 3 May 1810, poet Lord George Gordon Byron (1788-1824) and a Royal Navy Officer swam the Hellespont but from east of the Sestos area to downstream of Abydos. Byron, despite deformed Achilles tendons and a twisted right foot that made walking very painful, had no trouble in the water. In addition to poetry about the swim, he wrote it took them one hour and ten minutes shore to shore and the Royal Navy estimated the distance covered was four miles. No doubt the strong current assisted them greatly. Byron’s crossing is still commemorated every year in May by similar swims there.

Postscript. Byron supported the Greeks in their War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire. He gave £4000, a tremendous sum in the early 19th century – towards refitting the Greek Navy. He went out to Greece and died there, most likely from malaria, at Missolonghi, 19 April 1824, aged 36, on the northern shore of the Gulf of Corinth, about 130 miles west of Athens. There is a statue of him in the town and a cenotaph contains his heart.

Produced by Alf ArgentEditor, The Bulletin, Melbourne Legacy

(Gallipoli) and their national hero Kemal Ataturk. However, they seem to keep next to the road and their monuments along the third ridge. Wherever there is a Turkish monument, there are souvenir vendors and rubbish on the ground.

The scrub is much thicker now than it was in 1915. At that time goats grazed the area and there were no pine trees. The pine forests have been planted fairly recently. When we were there, it was springtime and many of the plants were lush and in full bloom.

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H E A LT H A N D S A F E T Y

Nurses Heart Attack Experience I am an ER nurse and this is the best description of this event that I have ever heard. Please read, pay attention and send it on!

Female Heart Attacks I was aware that female heart attacks are different, but this is the best description I’ve ever read.

Women rarely have the same dramatic symptoms that men have....you know, the sudden stabbing pain in the chest, the cold sweat, grabbing the chest and dropping to the floor that we see in movies. Here is the story of one woman’s experience with a heart attack.

I had a heart attack at about 10:30pm with no prior exertion, no prior emotional trauma that one would suspect might have brought it on. I was sitting all snugly and warm on a cold evening, with my purring cat in my lap, reading an interesting story my friend had sent me, and actually thinking, ‘Aah, this is the life, all cozy and warm in my soft, cushy Lazy Boy with my feet propped up’.

A moment later, I felt that awful sensation of indigestion, when you’ve been in a hurry and grabbed a bite of sandwich and washed it down with a dash of water, and that hurried bite seems to feel like you’ve swallowed a golf ball going down the oesophagus in slow motion and it is most uncomfortable. You realise you shouldn’t have gulped it down so fast and needed to chew it more thoroughly and this time drink a glass of water to hasten its progress down to the stomach. This was my initial sensation – the only trouble was that I hadn’t taken a bite of anything since about 5:00pm.

After it seemed to subside, the next sensation was like little squeezing motions that seemed to be racing up my SPINE (hind sight, it was probably my aorta spasms), gaining speed as they continued racing up and under my sternum (breast bone, where one presses rhythmically when administering CPR).

This fascinating process continued on into my throat and branched out into both jaws “AHA, Now I stopped puzzling about what was happening – we all have read and/or heard about pain in the jaws being one of the signals of an MI happening, haven’t we? I said aloud to myself and the cat, Dear God, I think I’m having a heart attack!

I lowered the foot rest dumping the cat from my lap, started to take a step and fell on the floor instead. I thought to myself, if this is a heart attack, I shouldn’t be walking into the next room where the phone is or anywhere else...but on the other hand, if I don’t, nobody will know that I need help, and if I wait any longer I may not be able to get up in a moment.

I pulled myself up with the arms of the chair, walked slowly into the next room and dialled the paramedics... I told her I thought I was having a heart attack due to

the pressure building under the sternum and radiating into my jaws I didn’t feel hysterical or afraid, just stating the facts. She said she was sending the paramedics over immediately, asked if the front door was near to me, and if so, to unbolt the door and then lie down on the floor where they could see me when they came in.

I unlocked the door and then laid down on the floor as instructed and lost consciousness, as I don’t remember the medics coming in, their examination, lifting me onto a gurney or getting me into their ambulance, or hearing the call they made to St Jude ER on the way, but I did briefly awake when we arrived and saw that the radiologist was already there in his surgical blues and cap, helping the medics pull my stretcher out of the ambulance. He was bending over me asking questions (probably something like ‘have you taken any medications’) but I couldn’t make my mind interpret what he was saying, or form an answer, and nodded off again, not waking up until the cardiologist and partner had already threaded the teeny angiogram balloon up my femoral artery into the aorta and into my heart where they installed 2 side by side stents to hold open my right coronary artery.

I know it sounds like all my thinking and actions at home must have taken at least 20-30 minutes before calling the paramedics, but actually it took perhaps 4-5 minutes before the call, and both the fire station and St Jude are only minutes away from my home, and my cardiologist was all ready to go to the OR in his scrubs and get going on restarting my heart (which had stopped somewhere between my arrival and the procedure) and installing the stents.

Why have I written all of this to you with so much detail? Because I want all of you who are so important in my life to know what I learned first hand. 1. Be aware that something very different is happening

in your body, not the usual men’s symptoms, but inexplicable things happening (until my sternum and jaws got into the act). It is said that many more women than men die of their first (and last) MI because they didn’t know they were having one and commonly mistake it as indigestion, take some Maalox or other anti-heartburn preparation and go to bed, hoping they’ll feel better in the morning when they wake up... which doesn’t happen. My female friends, your symptoms might not be exactly like mine, so I advise you to call the paramedics if anything is unpleasantly happening that you’ve not felt before. It is better to have a false alarm visitation than to risk your life guessing what is might be!!

2. Note that I said ‘Call the paramedics’. And if you can, take an aspirin. Ladies, time is of the essence! Do not try to drive yourself to the ER – you are a hazard to others on the road. Do not have your panicked husband drive you who will be speeding and looking anxiously at what’s happening with you instead of the road.

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Book ReviewIn Falling Snow by Mary-Rose MacColl

Iris is growing old. Her days are spent living quietly and worrying about her granddaughter, Grace, a headstrong young doctor. One day an invitation arrives in the post for Iris to attend a reunion in France where she worked in a hospital set up in the old abbey of Raumont, north of Paris, during WWI. Determined to go, Iris is overcome by the memories of the past, when as a shy, naïve young woman she followed her fifteen year old brother, Tom, to France in 1914 intending to bring him home.

On her way to find Tom unimaginable events occur that will change her life forever. Iris has to pay the price of living through a brutal war, a price that will echo down the generations.

A moving and uplifting novel about the small, unsung acts of heroism of which love makes us capable.

Mary-Rose MacColl is an Australian writer whose first novel, No Safe Place, was runner-up in the 1995 Australian Vogel literary award. Her first non –fiction book, The Birth Wars, was a finalist in the 2009 Walkley Awards. MacColl holds degrees in journalism and creative writing and lives between Brisbane, Australia and Banff, Canada with her husband and son.

Nurses Heart Attack Experience

Continued from page 20Do not call your doctor – he doesn’t know where you live and if it’s at night you won’t reach him anyway, and if its daytime, his assistants (or answering service) will tell you to call the paramedics. He doesn’t carry the equipment in his car that you need to be saved! The paramedics do, principally oxygen that you need ASAP. Your doctor will be notified later.

3. Don’t assume it couldn’t be a heart attack because you have a normal cholesterol count. Research has discovered that a cholesterol elevated reading is rarely the cause of an MI (unless it unbelievably high and/or accompanied by high blood pressure). MIs are usually caused by long term stress and inflammation in the body, which dumps all sorts of deadly hormones into your system to sludge things up in there. Pain in the jaw can wake you up from a sound sleep. Let’s be careful and be aware. The more we know the better chance we could survive.

From LetitiaHello Ladies,

Wow, how time flies when you’re having fun! I have been with Brisbane Water Legacy for just over a year already. In that time I have had the pleasure of meeting and enjoying the company of many of you through our Widows Club meetings mainly.

This year I look forward to meeting many more of you either at the Widows Clubs or on a trip or at a function that I am planning. In early May I am planning a Mother’s Day High Tea at Lake Haven and Gosford. In June we will be holding a Garden Party to celebrate the Queens 60th anniversary of her coronation.

So far this year trips have included going to Bouddi National Park, Avoca Theatre (fish ‘n’ chip lunch included), Morpeth, Riding for the Disable & Springs Golf Club (for lunch), Maritime Centre, Westmead Hospital and the Famous Newcastle Tram have been enjoyed. Two groups will be travelling to Sydney to see the theatre productions of ‘Driving Miss Daisy’ and ‘War Horse’ at a

subsidised rate.At the Widows Club meetings

we have been entertained and informed by the likes of ‘Sing Australia Choir’, RDA, Feet Fitter, Amcal Chemist, Health Promotions, ‘Sing it Sister’, DVA, the KB Singers, Tish’s Antique Road Show, jokes and stories.

For any ladies reading this that are home alone and want to get out and about, please do not hesitate to give me a call. My aim is to see that as many ladies, who wish to be socially active, are.

We all grow and thrive through fellowship and better still if that includes fun and laughter.

Cheers for now.

Letitia (Tish) 4323 4977

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Thank you for arranging my transport during my illness and I appreciate it very much

JH

Thank you for the taxi vouchers for next year (2013). I would not be able to attend weekly meetings without them.

AW

Many thanks for your birthday card which I received on my return from Brisbane. I would also like to convey my thanks to Michael for his visit and arranging to get my windows cleaned. It was much appreciated. Wishing you all the best for this New Year. KCB

Many thanks for my 88th birthday card from Legatees Jean & Denis Foster. It is lovely to be thought of as we get old. I had a lovely day and one of my daughters, Glenda was there from Parkes and she took me to a lovely lunch at Shelly Beach Golf Club. Thank you for my card I received and your thoughtfulness

GR

With sincere thanks for my very kind Birthday Card. My cheque for $200 donation enclosed.

BB

I would like to thank you all so much for the wonderful Christmas Luncheon yesterday. So much work for you all, and a great Christmas spirit throughout. Congratulations to everyone involved it was very much appreciated.

BR

Thank you Legacy for my birthday card. I had a lovely day. Thank you also for all the help Legacy has given me throughout the year. MC

Thank you all so much for helping with my dental expenses. I appreciate it very much, you are all so kind. I’m now over 86 and have Parkinsons & Macular Degeneration but I’m able to take care of myself, I cook, sew and knit & I enjoy my life very much and am a very happy person. Look forward to each day & night. Take care all of you.

BD

I have recently returned from the Legacy Holiday House at Moss Vale, where I had a wonderful holiday. We were looked after with great care and attention, the staff couldn’t do enough for us. I would like to take this opportunity to say thank you to Legacy for this lovely holiday. I also want to thank you and your Board of Directors and all the Staff at Brisbane Water Legacy for all you do for the Legacy widows. It is so reassuring to us to know that you are there should we need your help.

JT

Thank you for all you do to help and assist us widows on the Central Coast. Thank you so much for the lovely Christmas dinner celebrations you put on for us at the Toukley RSL. I really appreciate all your kindness. God bless you all at this Christmas celebrations and throughout the New Year. KA

I wish to thank the Legatees and Staff of Brisbane Water (NSW) Legacy for my birthday card, I really appreciated it. My family is in Perth and Sydney. So it is special for me.

MR

Thank you so much for the lovely birthday card you sent me, it was much appreciated.

PMI would like to thank Brisbane Water Legacy for your birthday card and the beautiful arrangement of flowers that were sent to me on the occasion of my 90th birthday, the flowers were lovely and all still a great joy to me. many thanks for your thoughtfulness they were much appreciated. My thanks also to Legacy for their help to me over the last 18 months and I know where I can get help if I need any. My kind regards to all.

IM

Please convey to all Legatees my thanks for my birthday, 81st birthday card. Thank you for approving podiatry treatments for me. It is much appreciated. Wishing you all the joys of the festive season and good health and happiness for 2013 and peace too. DS

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WHY DO WE SAY…?It could be said that since last writing I’ve been ‘swinging the lead’. This is another saying that had its origins aboard ship.

Sailors measured the depth of water by dropping in lines weighted with lead. These were tapered cylinders of lead, attached to the lead-line which was marked at certain distances to ascertain the fathoms.

The leads were sometimes hollow and filled with tallow wax, so as to bring up particles of whatever was on the sea floor. Heaving the lead, that is to throw it into the sea as far ahead as possible, was important and physically demanding - they were called on to throw weights of up to 56 lbs into the sea and then haul them up at frequent intervals.

The importance of swinging the lead to 'sound' the waters is shown in the melodramatic poem The Leadman's Song, which was published in Harper's New Monthly Magazine in 1864:

When the stout ship reeled with the tempest's blows, And the voice of prayer 'mid the storm arose

As the jagged line of the dread lee-shore Came dim to herald the breakers' roar! -

Twas then that the seaman swung the lead With a circling sweep round his rain-beat head,

And launching it down in the troubled sea, Sang loudly and clear this song to me:

Quarter less four! - Quarter less four! Hark! how the breakers roar a-lee, Chanting aloud, In devilish glee. Chorusing ever, "One ship more!" Wrecks ashore I can plainly see;

Corpses are lying there - corpses four: There, alack! we shall shortly be -

Three fathoms only! - Quarter less three!

There is the suggestion that some sailors made the task easier by just swinging the lead around their head and calling out a fictitious depth. This is a bit hard to believe as such a practice could prove dangerous to all aboard.

There doesn’t appear to be any reference to 'swinging the lead' as we understand it today until the early 20th century. The phrase is first recorded during WWI. In 1917, the magazine To-Day published this:

"It is evident that he had 'swung the lead' (using Army phrase) until he got his discharge."

“It’s possible that the phrase was coined by soldiers in allusion to a supposed form of malingering by sailors. It may also be that 'swing the lead' was a corruption of 'swing a leg', which was a previously used term used in the British Army, with the same meaning. What is certain is that 'swinging the lead' wasn't used by sailors themselves in the days of sail.”

There are some who believe there is a connection to the author Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens). As a riverboat pilot, Samuel Clemens would have heard the term "Mark Twain," which means "two fathoms," on a regular basis. According to Justin Kaplan, the term may also have come from Clemens’ time in Nevada, where saloonkeepers used "Mark Twain" to represent two drinks on credit.

Talking about drinks, do you know of anyone who is ‘On the Wagon’? There are a number of suggestions as to the origin of this saying.

Perhaps the most usual reference is to the condemned person who has taken their last drink and is being transported, by wagon, to the gallows.

Another suggestion is that well meaning people travelled around the Bowery in New York collecting drunks and helping them towards sobriety.

In the late 19th Century many people signed the Pledge: "I promise to abstain from all intoxicating drinks except used medicinally and by order of a medical man, and to discountenance the cause and practice of intemperance.”

So where was a man able to quench his thirst? How about the water wagons which carried water to damp down the dusty streets? It is suggested that takers of the Pledge who were tempted to lapse said that they would drink from the water-cart rather than take strong drink.

Do you know the history of ‘Cheap as Chips’ and ‘As Dear as Poison’? Let the editor know so that we can share them in future editions of Chatterbox.

Sources used include: About.com and The Phrase Finder.

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Brisbane Water Legacy.

Grand KidsContinued from page 17

“He’s just for good luck”. A third child brought the argument to a close “They use the dogs,” she said firmly, “to find the fire hydrants.”

13. A 6 year old was asked where his grandma lived “Oh,” she said, “she lives at the airport, and when we want her, we just go get her. Then, when we’re done having her visit, we take her back to the airport.”

14. Grandpa is the smartest man on earth! He teaches me good good things, but I don’t get to see him enough to get as smart as him!

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A little girl, dressed in her Sunday best, was running as fast as she could, trying not to be late for Bible class. As she ran she prayed, ‘Dear Lord, please don’t let me be late! Dear Lord, please don’t let me be late!’

While she was running and praying, she tripped on a curb and fell, getting her clothes dirty and tearing her dress. She got up, brushed herself off, and started running again! As she ran she once again began to pray, ‘Dear Lord, please don’t let me be late...But please don’t shove me either!’

* * * *Three boys are in the school yard bragging about their fathers.

The first boy says, ‘My Dad scribbles a few words on a piece of paper, he calls it a poem, they give him $50.’

The second boy says, ‘That’s nothing. My Dad scribbles a few words on piece of paper, he calls it a song, they give him $100.’

The third boy says, ‘I got you both beat. My Dad scribbles a few words on a piece of paper, he calls it a sermon, and it takes eight people to collect all the money!’

* * * *When everybody on earth was dead and waiting to enter Paradise, God appeared and said, “I want the men to make two lines, one line for the men who were true heads of their household, and the other line for the men who were dominated by their women. I want all the women to report to St. Peter.”

Soon, the women were gone and there were two lines of men. The line of the men who were dominated by their wives was 100 miles long, and in the line of men who truly were heads of their household, there was only one man.

God said, “You men should be ashamed of yourselves. I created you to be the head of your household! You have been disobedient and have not fulfilled your purpose! Of all of you, only one obeyed. Learn from him.”

God turned to the one man: “How did you manage to be the only one in this line?” The man replied, “My wife told me to stand here.”

* * * *A blonde, brunette and redhead woman decided to compete in the Breast Stroke division of the English Channel swim competition. The brunette came in

first, the redhead second, then the blonde finally reached the shore completely exhausted.

After being revived with blankets and a drink she remarked, “I don’t want to complain, but I’m pretty sure those other two girls used their arms.

* * * *Venison for dinner again? Oh deer

A cartoonist was found dead in his home. Details are sketchy.

England has no kidney bank, but it does have a Liverpool .

I tried to catch some fog, but I mist.

They told me I had type-A blood, but it was a Type-O.

This girl said she recognized me from the vegetarian club, but I’d never met herbivore.

I did a theatrical performance about puns. It was a play on words.

Why were the Indians here first? They had reservations.

Did you hear about the cross-eyed teacher who lost her job because she couldn’t control her pupils?

What do you call a dinosaur with an extensive vocabulary? A thesaurus.

7 wheelchair athletes have been banned from the Paralympics after they tested positive for WD40

* * * *An elderly woman died last month. Having never married, she requested no male pallbearers. In her handwritten instructions for her memorial service, she wrote, ‘They wouldn’t take me out while I was alive, I don’t want them to take me out when I’m dead.’

* * * *Attending a wedding for the first time, a little girl whispered to her mother, ‘Why is the bride dressed in white?’’

The mother replied, ‘Because white is the colour of happiness, and today is the happiest day of her life.’

The child thought about this for a moment then said, ‘So why is the groom wearing black?’

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