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EDITOR: Paul
Volume 13 No 5 paul.obrien8@bigpond.com
Official Newsletter of Computer Pals for Seniors
Holroyd Inc
Address: Po Box 155 Wentworthville NSW 2145
Phone: 02 9631 1747
Email: comppals@tpg.com.au
Website: www.holroydcomputerpals.org.au
Management
President
Tom Robson
tmrobson@bigpond.com
Vice President Treasurer
Noel Vidler Leila Mcgregor
nvidler@bigpond.net.au leilamcgregor@optusnet.com.au
Secretary Roster clerk
Nancye Carlisle Nancye Carslise
echidna40@optusnet.com.au echidna40@optusnet.com.au
Records Officer Publicity Officer
Bill Micallef Kevin Horne
billpop@tpg.com.au 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
- Puzzles and Things
Short Story, Humour, FOR CLUB MEMBERSONLY
President’s Ramblings
TomRobson
The President has been very busy,
Preparing a submission in the hope we may be granted much needed additional finance.
We will forgive him for no report this month.
A word from the Treasurer
Leila McGregor
We are already half way through Term 2 (how quickly time goes when having fun) so you should be deciding now what course you would like to do next term. Basic Students should complete Word 1 before attempting another course.
Course fees for Term 3, commencing 12 July 2010 are now being accepted by your Office Assistants. All courses of 10 weeks are $25.00, Internet and E-mail courses are 5 weeks each and the fee for each is $15.00.
Your Annual Fee of $50.00 is due by 1st July 2010 and all students must be Financial to participate in any course from July. There ane no pro rata rates if you will be absent for a term or two. Pro Rata rates only apply when new students are commencing membership. The Annual Fee is also now being accepted by your Office Assistants.
Members who do not wish to undertake any further courses may retain full membership of $50.00 or may take advantage of the Associate Membership for $20.00 p.a., however Associate Members do not have the rights to vote on any matter
Guest Speakers Column
WOW!
What an experience. Thank you, Wanda for arranging it.
I turned up because Tom Robson wanted a ‘Guest Speaker Column’ in Chatterbox. I thought who really wants to listen to some guy prattle on over his slides of Africa. If I hadn’t come I would have missed the experience of a lifetime.
Greg Meyers was invited to Africa by a man who travels the world collecting and playing musical instruments. A group of ten people from around the world went including one of Spain’s leading artists. I can still see the face of the leopard looking up from the stream he was drinking from, the 1500 year old plant in the middle of the desert, the sunsets and the most wonderful smiles of the people’
To learn of the white man who speaks ten languages and lives in an open natural rock dwelling that reminds you of the most exclusive golf club in the Philippines –and he is married to the most beautiful native woman.
Mind enlightening.
To learn how the natives believe their God came from a bolt of lightening that struck a tree and how the women all lived topless but were aghast that the women on the tour showed their ankles—to them the ankle was sexual and should be covered. To hear Namibia natives singing Lutheran hymns in their own tongue—to see the effect in some areas of dress influenced by Germans who had been there before.
There was just so much more.
To fully appreciate and relish the passion each speaker has in his topic you really have to be there.
EVERYONE IS WELCOME
Support the club and encourage the speakers
NEWS IN BRIEF
Special moments in time
This picture captures the appreciation and warmth of club feeling as President Tom Robson accepts life membership from Vice-President Noel Vidler. Below Don Stevens farewells the club and his friends.
This month
Sunday the 9th of May
is
This issue is a Mother’s Day special
Terms for 2010
Term 1 : 25th January to 1st April
Term 2: 19th April to 25th June
Term 3: 12th July to 17th September
Term 4: 4th October to 10th December
Meetings
· Trainers meeting Next meeting will be Tues 29th June at 10.00am in the training room
· Monthly talk (for every-one) and Meeting wed 19TH MAY at 10.00
This will be held in the Grevillea Room (next to the club room)
Our guest speaker will be: GEORGE RICHARDS
GEORGE IS SYDNEY MORNING HERALD COLUMNIST,
AND EDITOR OF THE HERALD’S COLUMN 8
GEORGE HAS ALSO WRITTEN A BOOK ON CRICKET UMPIRING
Please come and enjoy.
Morning tea provided
The room is air-conditioned and plenty of seats for all.
Even better it’s all free
For those that want to stay after the talk the monthly club meeting will be held
EVERYONE IS WELCOME
THE MONTHLY CLUB MEETING IS WHERE IT IS ALL AT.
For the well organized- these talks are held on the 3rd Wednesday of each month at 10am—good one for the social diary
When is the xmas party?
Ist of December 2010 at Toongabbie –Seven Hills RSL
Stay tuned for time etc
THOUGHT FOR THE MONTH
Life
Is what happens when you are making other plans
John Lennon
(or the word according to Google)
A mother’s day special
“ A HUNDRED YEARS FROM NOW IT WILL NOT MATTER WHAT MY BANK ACCOUNT WAS ,THE SORT OF HOUSE I LIVED IN ,OR THE KIND OF CAR I DROVE …BUT THE WORLD MAY BE DIFFERENT BECAUSE I WAS IMPORTANT IN THE LIFE OF A CHILD.”
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Answer to last months puzzles
1. How do you clear all the icons off your desktop?
Answer: Right click anywhere on the desk top-- on the menu box you will see’ arrange icons by ‘–with an arrow –follow down’ to show icons’ if ticked click on it and your desktop icons will disappear, do the reverse if you want your desk top icons back
2. How do you pin icons to the start menu so they are always there?
Answer: first you have to have the icon on the desktop. Right click on the icon and
Click on ‘pin to the start menu ‘if you have already pinned it the icon will ask if you want to unpin it
3. How can I put a photo of my grandchildren as the desk top?
Answer first it is easier if you already have the photo in’ my pictures’
Right click anywhere on the desk top. When the drop down menu appears click on properties – a display called’ desktop properties ‘will appear. Click on desktop then click on ‘browse’ your photos will appear, click on the one you want .click on okay or apply and hey presto -there you are (you will see your selection on a small screen in desktop properties first)
4. Who was the first man to fly over the north pole”
Answer That clever little “Dickie Bryd “
New puzzles
· 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?
· When I saved something and now can’t remember the file name or even if I have a particular programme on the system --how do I resolve this?
· What’s life all about?
Answers next month
And
FOR THE AVID 92 YEAR OLD WHO LOVES DOING
CHATTERBOX PUZZLES the answer to last month was 23
A star =9, x=5, z=6, Smiley =7 hence 10+6+7 =23
Short Story
The day Grandma and I went to the circus
It was a beautiful spring day and we were standing in line to get tickets to go into the big tent. In front of us was a young father with his two small children, he was so excited and had told his children of all the wonderful things they’d see -the monkeys ,the elephants the trapeze artists .when it was his turn to get tickets he didn’t have enough and his whole face dropped. Just then my Grandmother bent down and on getting up tapped the young man on the shoulder and said “this $20 note fell onto the grass beside you.” The man stared wide-eyed into my grandmother’s eyes –he understood and she knew he understood. He thanked her from the bottom of his heart and took his children into the big tent. We never did go to the circus that day but every mother’s day I remember the gift my Grandmother gave.
At my Grandmother’s funeral I was a lot older and over the years had enjoyed
Listening to my grandmother reading her favorite poet William Wordsworth
At her funeral I quoted one of her favorites (the one she had marked in the book)
” that best portion of a good man’s life, his little, nameless, unmentioned acts of kindness and love”
And I remembered.
For Grandma Wordsworth was special she loved the fact that he was the first poet to endow nature with human qualities –often she would be walking here or there and quote “I wondered lonely as a cloud-when all at once I saw a crowd –a crowd of golden daffodils” Grandma loved the alliteration ,the assonance ,the meter. the rhyming, the thoughts and the values of Wordsworth I think when Grandma was a little girl they taught all that at school—long, long ago, before radio, TV, ü-tube i-pods and ipads
I know my mother felt affection for Grandma’s love of poetry and told me one of her own favorites was a poem Wordsworth wrote in a child’s album, while on a school visit in 1834-.the little girl had asked for an autograph and he HAD WRITTEN:
Small service is true service while it lasts.
Of humblest friends, bright creature! Scorn not one:
The daisy, by the shadow that it casts,
Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun
My mother also loved “WE ARE SEVEN” –so do I.
(As remembered from chicken soup for the soul)
HUMOUR
The little boy and Grandma
Said the little boy,” sometimes I drop my spoon”
Said the little old lady,” I do that too”
The little boy whispered” I wet my pants”
I do that too laughed the little old lady
Said the little boy,” I often cry”
The little old lady nodded,” so do I”
“but worst of all Grandma,” said the little boy” it seems
Grown ups don’t pay attention to me.”
And he felt the warmth of a wrinkled old hand
“I know what you mean,” said Grandma
