Vice President

Noel Vidler

nvidler@bigpond.net.au

Secretary

Nancy Carlisle

echidna40@optusnet.com.au

Records Officer

Bill Micallef

billpop@tpg.com.au

For club members only

Treasurer

Leila McGregor leilamcgregor@optusnet.com.au

Roster clerk

Nancy Carlisle

echidna40@optusnet.com.au

Publicity Officer

KevinHorne

kevinhorne@optusnet.com.au

Inside this issue

Contacts
President’s Report
Guest Speakers Column
News in Brief
Thought for the month
From the Editor’s desk

And More

Humour, Puzzles and Things

and Short Story

President’s Ramblings

Tom Robson

IF TOM WASN’T TIED UP

WOULD SAY TO US ALL :

CHRISTMAS

THIS YEAR IT WILL BE ON

WED 1^ST DECEMBER 2010.

BRING A FRIEND.

IT WILL BE AT SEVEN HILLS - TOONGABBIE RSL.

TRANSPORT WILL BE AVAILABLE FROM YOUR COMPUTER PALS CLUB.

TIME 11.00 to 2.00pm

COST T.B.A

OR ASK AT DESK.

Book Now

HELP! HELP!

WE NEED HELP!

ASK IF YOU CAN HELP IN ANYWAY

MEETINGS

BRING A FRIEND

TO MONTHLY

MEETINGS

Guest Speakers column

WANDA DOES A MARVELLOUS JOB IN ARRANGING SPEAKERS FOR US.

AT SHORT NOTICE WANDA WAS ABLE TO ARRANGE FOR KEN BOCK FROM Radio 2RPH TO SPEAK.

IT WAS A BLOW THAT GEORGE RICHARD’S SUDDEN ILLNESS, (REQUIRING A STAY IN HOSPITAL), MEANT HE

WAS UNABLE TO GIVE HIS MUCH AWAITED PRESENTATION, WE ALL WISH HIM WELL.

IT WAS INTERESTING TO HEAR KEN TALK OF HIS PASSION FOR RADIO AS A YOUTH BUT THEN TO SPEND 40

YEARS IN COMMERCE BEFORE –ON RETIREMENT –TAKING UP ANNOUNCING WITH 2RPH –SOMETHING HE LOVES

AND HAS FOR 15 YEARS.

RADIO 2RPH IS FOR THE PRINT HANDICAPPED-WHICH INCLUDES PEOPLE WITH SEVER ARTHRITIS AND OTHER

PHYSICAL DISABILITIES AND THOSE PUSHED FOR TIME.

KEN EXPLAINED THE BEHIND THE SCENES OPERATION OF THE STATION.

I WAS AMAZED TO HEAR THAT THE RETIRED DEAN OF LAW FROM SYDNEY UNIVERSITY WAS BLIND AND WAS AN

ACTIVE PART OF THE STATION AND THAT THE PATRON OF THE STATION WAS HER EXCELLENCY PROFESSOR

MARIR BASHIR, AG GOVERNOR OF NSW

THE INTENTION OF THIS COLUMN IS NOT TO GIVE A DETAIL BLOW BY BLOW ACCOUNT OF THE TALK --ONLY

TO RECOGNISE THE RICHNESS OF THE PRESENTATIONS GIVEN

KEN’S COMMENT ON THE GIVING BACK TO THE COMMUNITY OBVIOUSLY TOUCHED TOM ROBSON AND HE

MENTIONED THIS IN THANKING KEN. TOM FELT WE ALL AT COMPUTER PALS WERE GIVING TO THE

COMMUNITY

NEXT MONTH’S SPEAKER IS PETER CHRISTEN

IS HE RELATED TO CHRISTEN? COME AND FIND OUT!

COULD YOU BE TALKING TO A DESCENDENT OF CHRISTEN?

NEWS IN BRIEF

Just a little Word from the Treasurer.

Have you paid your course fee for next term? (Have you? )

Fees should be paid before the end of term. Term 2 finishes on 25th June.

-not long to go now

Annual fees should also be paid before the end of term. They are due on 1st July 2010.

The office will be closed for the break and will not open until 12 July2010.

Members who have not paid their Annual Fee……. are not eligible to do courses or place their names on the Course Interest List.

Terms for 2010

Term 1: 25^th January to 1^st April

Term 2: 19th April to 25^th June

Term 3: 12^th July to 17^th September

Term 4: 4^th October to 10^th December

Meetings

· Trainers meeting Next meeting will be Tues 29^th June at 10.00am in the training room.

· Monthly talk and Meeting (for every-one) wed 16^th June at 10AM

This will be held in the Grevillea Room (next to the club room)

Our guest speaker will be: Peter Christen –Fellowship of First Fleeter

Peter is the past President of the First Fleeter

And

Also a member of Epping Computer Pals for seniors

Please come and enjoy. We are in for a treat

Morning tea provided

The room is air-conditioned and plenty of seats for all.

It’s great fun, educational and all free

For those that want to stay after the talk the monthly club meeting will be held

THOUGHT FOR THE MONTH

Grandmothers left their pies out to cool.

Their grandchildren leave them out to thaw.

From The Editor's desk

(Or the word according to Google)

Laptops need air to circulate around them or they can cause fire and damage. One of our member’s husbands left his laptop on and unattended on a glass dining room table. It shattered the table.

Tom Robson has a friend whose grandchild left a laptop going on his bed

left the room and closed the door. The grandmother smelt smoke; opened the door and was facially burnt. Laptops can suck up fibres

and cause fires.

In the past our children and grandchildren outgrew their computers now they are passing on their laptops. We all need to be laptop aware.

humour It was the night before computer class,

Not a sound in the house

Nothing was stirring

Not even a mouse

Then in the morn a voice rang out:

“Into the valley of death ride the 600 and me.”

And another replied “For goodness sake Henry

-don’t leave me”

But Alice, dear thing, Wally has said:

“The time has come to speak of many things

Of publisher and power-point

Of graphics and things”

“Then you had better find Wally –Dear Henry, Dear Henry.

Nantucket. We can’t have you with a hole in your bucket”

“Then, dear Alice, like Macarthur I shall return “

”You won’t need the GPS, Dear Henry, And Dear Henry.

“Your journey of a thousand miles is only down to Wenty.”

And as the door closed and the engine roared

A melodious voice was heard from the hall

“Oh, What a glorious morning. Oh, what a wonderful day-

Its computer classes today-

Bless all the trainers, the short and the tall.

Bless all the management! The wise and the bald

Bless them all! Bless them all!”

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Last year I gave a class member a giant pumpkin seed from the pumpkin lady in Victoria. This is what happened. True.

Answers from last month

Puzzles from last issue

· When I confuse myself and the computer and wish I could only get back to before I messed everything up—how do I do it?

Answer: if no-one can help –click on the start button

- click on help and support

find pick a task

- click on system restore , follow the prompts

· When I saved something and now can’t remember the file name or even if I have a particular programmed on the system ==how do I resolve this?

–click on the start button

-click on ‘search’

=click on all files and folders

From the drop down box fill in a word you know is in what you are looking for and the computer will show you where it is - you can then just click on the file and it will open

· What’s life all about? (At seniors we are too tired to climb every mountain, again, but we know the meaning of life. We also know it will come daily through our emails )

Experience

experience

Cloud Callout: I’LL GIVE IT TO THE GRANDKIDS

??? THE ANSWER IS ‘R’. CAN YOU FIGURE OUT WHY?

Last month—if you take the middle nº from the last nº you get the 1^st number. Except for 410

Short Story

A young boy was walking past a pet shop when he spied a little puppy wagging its tail at him and getting all excited. The young boy was instantly attracted to the little puppy and asked the store owner how much for the little puppy the owner replied $2.50 (not today’s prices). The lad replied “Gee Whiz I only have 50c but I can pay you a little each week” the owner replied” that’s okay you can have him for 50c

you see he was the last of the litter and was born with a limp, he’s not as good as the others and would require a lot of time and attention, most people when they see the limp reject him” the boy got indignant and replied “he is too as good as the others he just needs someone who understands him and who will love and care for him. He needs me, and I will pay you every cent of the $2.50!”

As the lad was speaking he pulled up his trouser leg to show the puppy the caliper he was wearing. As remembered from Chicken soup for the Soul

Just for the girls

With permission from the university of the sunshine coast