It's that time of year for us to take our annual senior citizen test.
Exercise of the brain is as important as exercise of the muscles. As we grow older, it's important to keep mentally alert. If you don't use it, you lose it!
Below is a very private way to gauge how your memory compares to the last test. Some may think it is too easy but the ones with memory problems may have difficulty.
Take the test presented here to determine if you're losing it or not.
The spaces below are so you don't see the answers until you've made your answer.
OK, relax, clear your mind and begin.
1. What do you put in a toaster?
Answer: 'bread.' If you said 'toast' give up now and do something else.. Try not to hurt yourself. If you said, bread, go to Question 2.
2. Say 'silk' five times. Now spell 'silk.' What do cows drink?
Answer: Cows drink water.
If you said 'milk,' don't attempt the next question. Your brain is over-stressed and may even overheat. Content yourself with reading more appropriate literature such as Auto World.
However, if you said 'water', proceed to question 3.
3. If a red house is made from red bricks and a blue house is made from blue bricks and a pink house is made from pink bricks and a black house is made from black bricks, what is a green house made from?
Answer: Greenhouses are made from glass. If you said 'green bricks,' why are you still reading these???
If you said 'glass,' go on to Question 4.
4. Without using a calculator... You are driving a bus from London to Milford Haven in Wales . In London , 17 people get on the bus. In Reading , 6 people get off the bus and 9 people get on. In Swindon , 2 people get off and 4 get on. In Cardiff , 11 people get off and 16 people get on. In Swansea , 3 people get off and 5 people get on. In Carmathen, 6 people get off and 3 get on.
You then arrive at Milford Haven ....
Without scrolling back to review, how old is the bus driver?
Answer: Oh, for crying out loud! Don't you remember your own age? It was YOU driving the bus!!
If you pass this along to your friends, pray they do better than you.
The Caloundra Residents Association (CRA) is pleased to invite all community groups and residents of the Caloundra electorate to our "Meet the Candidate Forum".
When? 3rd of October at 7:00 pm
Where? Caloundra Power Boat Club (Golden Beach)
Our aim is to provide a platform for all community members to get a comprehensive understanding of each candidate and hear about their plans and policies, thereby facilitating informed voting decisions.
We are pleased to inform you that the candidates for ALP, Jason Hunt MP, and LNP, Kendall Morton, have already confirmed their attendance. CRA will invite any and all other nominated candidates for the Caloundra Electorate. A link to the map of the Electorate is here.
This event is about your opportunity to meet the candidates and to hear about what matters to you. We therefore invite everyone to submit their questions upon registration (at the link above) or at any other time via email to CalouResAssocEvents@gmail.combut no later than Wednesday 25 September.
Questions received will be collated and themed by the CRA executive committee to allow for a concise and efficient forum. If time permits, there may be an opportunity for questions from the floor but we cannot guarantee at this stage.
Meeting, newsletter and social media distribution
CRA would appreciate your assistance to spread the word to your members and other networks through your usual channels.
Further details about the event will be shared closer to the date via the CRA Facebook page and at our general meetings (last Tuesday of the month at the Powerboat Club at 7pm).
Well, the Olympics are over for another four years.
Like a lot of people I watched a bit of them but could not bring myself to get out of bed at 3.00AM or whatever it was to watch some of them live.
Firstly can I say how disappointed I am that there was not a gold medal for the most ‘out of their depth’ TV commentator. I think Karl Stefanovic would have won that one easily.
I was also a bit annoyed at the number of times these games were referred to as Australia’s most successful in terms of medals won.
Of course they were.
When the modern games began in1896 there were only 43 events.
In Melbourne in 1956 there were 151 events.
In Sydney there were 300 events
In Paris there were 329 events.
How many competitors we had in these games I have not researched.
The number of advertisements on the TV and the number of times they were played has probably had the opposite effect on me that the advertisers had hoped. That should not surprise them.
I am very grateful though that all the ‘promos’ for the upcoming show ‘The Block’ has guaranteed that I will not be wasting any of my time on that rubbish.
With the discussion that was held at our last meeting regarding supporting raising the driving age to 18, I would like to make the following observations, and to that end, have attached a Queensland government report.
Firstly however, having only recently attended my first RYDA events, I want to say that I was extremely impressed by everything I saw there and support the program in full.
There was mention made of an assertion made by the police officer at RYDA that changing the age up to 18 would immediately stop all deaths of 17 year olds, and whilst it sounds plausible, it does not in fact hold water. It's as dubious as Donald Trumps statement that testing less people for Covid would stop them having so many cases!
In actual fact, there are other matters to consider that are made evident in the Qld report, plus, if it actually worked, Victorian figures on a like for like comparison would prove it, but don't.
Inexperience is shown to be a major factor in road deaths, (in 30% of cases) and simply postponing experience for 12 months is unlikely to change that.
Remote and long distance driving are shown to be a major contributor to the 6.3 deaths figure, whilst city driving only shows 1.1 deaths. Why penalise city youth whose average is well under the average?
Illegal use of vehicles by underage and unlicensed drivers is a part of the problem, but it won't be prevented by raising the driving age, in fact, it may increase.
18 is also the age when young people can legally access alcohol anywhere, so if you raise the age, then you will have a greater potential of the mix of inexperience with alcohol abuse, a potentially potent mix. (Already in 28% of cases)
The primary factors in road deaths are not factors that will be resolved simply by pushing the age up to 18.
excessive speed 54%,
no or inappropriate restraint 39%
failure to follow road rules 33%
reckless/dangerous driving 30%
In fact, as the report shows, only 16% of the deaths occurred as a result of a young person driving, the vast majority of the death rate quoted were for passengers, with the drivers' ages undisclosed.
As disclosure, I state that I obtained a full driving licence at age 16 and did not have my first collision until many years later. I have now supervise my 16 year old son Andrew for 80 hours of supervised driving and have no doubts that he will be a fine driver who will avoid the traps that some drivers fall into.
It is my opinion that our club should not advocate to increase the age for obtaining a driver's licence, but am happy to have more discussion on this topic to find a consensus.
Instead, I would like to see the club advocate to the State Government (possibly with the support of our local member) for
RYDA to be guaranteed to every secondary student in QLD and
possibly with a follow-up event for students once they get their learner's licence to reinforce what they've heard previously.
Given the disproportional deaths in remote areas, it might require a fully funded road show to visit country towns where there is no Rotary presence to run RYDA.
I look forward to hearing your ideas and further discussion.
Doing a bit of tidying up and found some old weekly bulletins including the Annual Report for the year 1992-93.
You may find something of interest but it does seem to me that while things do change, lots of things remain the same no matter how hard we all try. We did have a lot of fun though as I recall.
This was the inaugural year the ‘Presidential Citation’ for having a well balanced program in all avenues of service and we were able to achieve this goal.
In September we celebrated our 15th birthday with eleven of our past Presidents in attendance. What a great night that was.
We presented a ‘Pride of Workmanship’ award to Keith Greenhalgh from ‘Greenhalgh Refrigeration’. What an incredible man and this was a night I still talk about.
We put on an Art Show and sale in aid of Meals on Wheels and the Caloundra Community Bus. Much of the work to organize this was done by Mike Blumenthal and Rex and Joy Bowman.
We put a path and landing pad for helicopters at the hospital. The leaders of this project were Max Ray and Barry Lloyd.
Two of our members, Alan Billett and Ian Pashen organised a “Thanks for Giving ‘ luncheon at the Rolling Surf to thank people who help others without expecting any thanks.
We gave up on our attempt to get an Interact Club going at the Caloundra State Hight School.
The Board members this year were Peter Degotardi, Barry Admans, David Johnston, Barry Lloyd, Les Pontin, Max Ray, Gary Roberston and David Whitfield.
We raised just under $18,000 from all our ‘fund raising’ projects and distributed $15, 500.
Fun fact. We sold 28 cartons of Christmas puddings and made nearly $300.
Not so Fun fact. This year we hosted an exchange student from Buffalo, New York named Patrick McLaughlin. It is probably fair to say that Patrick was by far the least impressive Exchange Student this club has ever had.
Like Rotary as an organization this club has had, and still has, an incredible list of people who have made it such a joy and honour to be part of.
