Ruby Miller - Deaflympics Soccer

In the Chair:   President Jennifer

Guests:            Ruby Miller (guest speaker); Ondria Miller (her mother); Paula Nihill from Rosebud, Vic. – friend of the President.

 

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Ruby Miller

 


Ruby is an 18 y.o. Yanco/Leeton athlete who has gained selection for the Deaflympics in November this year. The Deaflympics are being held in Fukushima, Japan. Ruby has gained selection on the women's football (soccer) team – the Deaf Koalas.

 Ruby is a 17-year-old passionate sportswoman who lives in Yanco and attends Leeton High School. She is honoured to have been selected to represent Australia for the third time in 2 years (the other occasions were games against the USA and Japan). It has not been a cheap endeavour, as all her sport is self-funded. Ruby is also the only rural athlete on the team and as a result has additional costs to attend training sessions and camps.

She must raise all her costs (totalling about $10,000) to attend the Japanese event, and is allowed to have sleeve endorsements for her Olympic shirt.

Ruby has progressive deafness that is now quite profound.  To qualify for the team, she must have hearing loss greater than 65 dB – Ruby has 96 dB in the right ear and 103 dB in the left. (0-10 is normal and maximum is 120).

Ruby has needs sponsorship and this can be achieved through the following links:


Raisely Account - tax deductible donations

 

https://deaf-koalas-deaflympics.raiselysite.com/ruby-miller

 

 

Deaf Football Australia Charity- Tax Deductable donations - ref Ruby Miller (sleeve sponsorship money to go to this as well.)

 

Foundation Shed

BSB - 062 416

Account Number- 10352211

Ref- Ruby Miller

 

Ruby is an impressive athlete, a very organised and driven individual who is combining her sport with preparation for the HSC and we were all impressed by her presentation.

 

 

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Brain Teaser

 

Two girls have the same parents and were born at the same hour on the same day of the same month, but they are not twins. How can this be possible?

 

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Director’s Reports

  •  President Jennifer
    • The Groove playing at Circa on Sat 6th (too late now).
  • Matt
    • Narrandera Rotary Charity Golf Day is on Thursday 25th September. Narrandera Club is asking for our members to support them. They aren’t seeking help for the day, rather Narrandera is looking to raise awareness of Rotary and try and gain new members. If any members are happy to wander over for the day in Rotary shirts and spruik the virtues of Rotary that would be appreciated. The Narrandera club also asked that we seek to include them in any social activities we plan where possible.

 

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  •  Matt and Greg
    • End polio day on 24th October.  There is potential for a movie at the Roxy to raise funds on October 30th. The movie is ‘The Travellers’ – starring Bryan Brown and directed by Bruce Beresford.  It looks like a great opportunity.
  • Greg
    • Next week – Aaron.  11th. – Alanna Rolfe. 18th. Andrew Whitehead – metal sculptor.

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Sergeant Barry

 

(editors note: Barry’s session was impressive but I am not sure he deserved the halo)

 

This was a traditional Sergeant session that was particularly hard on the football fanatics of the Australian ilk.

 

Winner of the raffle was Nicholas (or was it Carmel?)

 

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Market Day

Another market day on 6th September.  Thank you to all members who turned out on the day.  We almost outnumbered the patrons.

 

 

 

 

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The Corollary

 

Eighteen months ago, I upgraded to GirlFriend 1.0 from DrinkingMates 4.2, which I had used for years without any trouble. However, there are apparently conflicts between these two products and the only solution was to try and run GirlFriend 1.0 with the sound turned off. To make matters worse, GirlFriend 1.0 is incompatible with several other applications, such as LadsNightOut 3.1, Football 4.5, and Playboy 6.9.

"Successive versions of GirlFriend proved no better. I tried a shareware program, Slapper 2.1, but it had many bugs and left a virus in my system, forcing me to shut down completely for several weeks. Eventually, I tried to run GirlFriend 1.2 and Girlfriend 1.0 at the same time, only to discover that when these two systems detected each other, they caused severe damage to my hardware. I eventually upgraded to Fiancée 1.0, only to discover that this product soon had to be upgraded further to Wife 1.0. While Wife 1.0 tends to use up all my available resources, it does come bundled with FreeSexPlus and Cleanhouse2003.

"Shortly after this upgrade, however, I found that Wife 1.0 could be very unstable and costly to run. Any mistakes I made were automatically stored in Wife 1.0's memory and could not be deleted. They then resurfaced months later when I had forgotten about them. Wife 1.0 also has an automatic Diary, Explorer and E-mail Filter, and can, without warning, launch TurboStrop and Whinge. These latter products have no Help files, and I have to try to guess what the problem is.

"Additional problems are that Wife 1.0 needs updating regularly, requiring ShoeShop Browser for new attachments and Hairstyle Express which needs to be reinstalled every other week. Wife 1.0 also spawns unwelcome child processes that drain my resources. These conflict with some of the new games I wanted to try out, warning me that they are an illegal operation.

"Also, when Wife 1.0 attaches itself to my Audi TT hard drive, it often crashes. Wife 1.0 also comes with an irritating pop-up called Mother-In-Law, which can't be turned off. Recently I've been tempted to install Mistress 2003, but there could be problems. A friend of mine has alerted me to the fact that if Wife 1.0 detects Mistress 2003, it tends to delete all of your Money before uninstalling itself."

 

A: They were not born in the same year.

 

 

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