SENIORNET
OF PUGET SOUND
COMPUTER LEARNING
CENTER NEWS
April 1,
2003, Vol. 4; Issue #4
Mail
Address: PMB 44, 12819 SE 38th St., Bellevue, WA 98006-1326
Voice Mail:
206-232-5892; Email: senior@seniornetps.org
Classroom at Phantom Lake Elementary School, Bellevue
For detailed Information, Class Schedules: www.seniornetps.org
By Helen Hesketh, Interim
Editor
WEEKLY ASSISTANCE WORKSHOP
LABORATORY TIME CONTINUES
Get your questions answered and problems solved or just come out and
work on your project and get solutions instantly!
Two more LAB series are
scheduled on Wednesday morning, April 2nd and April 9th from 9:30 am
to 12:00 noon.
SeniorNet is offering
members and guests the opportunity to attend our Assistance Workshop LAB
sessions. You can bring your questions and concerns regarding software and
hardware and Instructors are available to help you one-on-one.
Vice President, Adella Granger, and LAB coordinator, stated,
“We continue to have happy and satisfied students who have participated and go
home with their problems solved. If you have not joined us for these sessions,
you are missing an opportunity of great value. Where else can you find six to
eight instructors and assistants available to listen and assist you?”
We encourage you to take
this opportunity to introduce friends to our SeniorNet Organization. You do not
have to be a SeniorNet member to attend a LAB session. If you have a problem,
we are eager to help you.
These sessions are available in our classroom at
Phantom Lake Elementary School in Bellevue, 302 – 151st Place NE.
SUPPORT OUR
SCHOOL
Friday, April 4th, you are encouraged to attend Phantom Lake School’s Bingo Night and Live Auction. Fun for all!
6:00 – 6:30 – Food is available (probably a sub sandwich, etc.)
6:30 Bingo begins -- $1.00 with baskets being auctioned in between bingo games
Also there will be a 50/50 Raffle.
If you are unable to attend, perhaps you would like to make a monetary contribution. Please give or send this to Helen Hesketh – mail checks Helen at 2503 158th Ave SE, Bellevue, WA 98008
KAFFEE KLATCH: This is no April Fool! You are invited
to participate in the SeniorNet Kaffee Klatch on Tuesday, April 1, at 11:30 am, held at the Crossroads Mall Food Circus. It really will be happening! See you all
there.
MEMBERSHIP MEETING: April
15 at 10:00 am you will find us once again joining together for our membership
meeting at the Crossroads Community Room near Bartells. Come out and Dave
Abernathy quipped, “Find out about Windows XP.”
REGISTER
FOR CLASS NOW
While it is only the end of March, some SeniorNet classes are already completed! Our classes run through the month of May. Louise Flora, Registrar, stated that, “Some of our more popular classes are close to filling up. Two classes in Word Processing (Word-4) and Word-XP-1 are still open in late April. Word –4 begins April 22 at 1:15 and Word XP-1 begins April 25. There is so much to learn about the Word program that a repeat class is always useful.
Bill McPherson will be teaching Project Design with Publisher (see Publisher article for further details). This very useful class will be offered beginning Friday, April 25 thru May30 from 10:00 – 12:00.
Marge Langley has
developed a new class called “Fun With Recipes”. This 2 hour
demonstration class will be held May 13 at 10:00 and the cost is $10.00. Learn
how Marge will help you organize your prize creations. In addition, Ross Roberts invites you to participate
in “Using E-Bay on the
Internet”, May 5 and Surfing the Internet, May 8 still has openings.
Call the voice mail 206-232-5892 or email senior@seniornetps.org for further information. Registration materials and membership applications can be downloaded from our web site – www.seniornetps.org.
PUBLISHER
Publisher is a special class which is being offered this
Spring. It still has a few openings. The instructor, Bill McPherson has offered the following description to help you in
your decision to take this class. “We will use a powerful program, Microsoft
Publisher, to create cards, calendars, invitations and newsletters. With the
power of graphics and layout tools, Publisher can enable you to express your
own creativity. You will be able to combine text and graphics in attractive
projects, and add elements such as borders and tables to enhance the appearance
of your projects.
Microsoft Publisher is powerful software because it draws on resources from
other software, such as text from word processors and photos from photo
editors. Its strength is the ability to arrange and "layer" these
elements, keeping them anchored while permitting you to weave them together in
a whole document that is greater than the sum of its parts.
We will learn to use the tools of Publisher while we discuss the elements of
good design, such as the placement of graphics and the appearance of fonts. We
will discuss the uses of published documents such as newsletters and web pages.
Although this is not a course on designing web pages, one of the uses of
Publisher is to create pages for use on a web site. A companion course on web
design has been offered in the past and may be offered in the future.”
Call the voice mail 206-232-5892 if you are interested in
enrolling in this exciting class that begins on April 25. Class fee for this
course is $30.00.
Wanted by Microsoft: You!
Ever wanted to see and have an impact on the latest products from
Microsoft? Here's your chance! Enroll in the Microsoft Usability program and
you will be eligible to participate in product evaluations, usability studies
and focus groups. After enrolling, if you are called and scheduled to
participate in a study, you will be offered a gift selection from their
Gratuity List as their way of saying "Thanks!". If interested, click
on the link below and sign up today!
http://www.microsoft.com/usability/enrollment.htm
IT IS SIMPLE MAGIC!
Print Screen
Ken Crandall
gives the following instructions: “To print the entire screen, just press the
"Print Scrn." button on the upper right side of the keyboard. This
will place the screen Image on the clipboard. You can then paste into a
word processor, the Paint program, or several other programs that can recognize
the ***.bmp file format.
To only print the
"Active" window instead of the entire screen, press and hold the
"Alt" key while pressing the "Print Scrn." button.”
ATTENTION
BELLEVUE RESIDENTS 55 AND OLDER
Senior Services in Bellevue want to know seniors’ social and recreational needs. You are invited to participate in Wednesday evening focus groups with refreshments and door prizes on the following dates:
April 2, 6-7:30 pm, Crossroads Shopping Center Community Room, 15600 NE 8th St
April 23, 1-2:30 pm, Lake Hills Community Clubhouse, 15230 Lake Hills Blvd (parking is limited)
For further information and to RSVP, phone 425-452-7681
DOWNLOAD OF THIS NEWSLETTER NOW AVAILABLE
A new feature has been added with this issue. If you prefer to download this newsletter rather than trying to read or print from the email, then you can download it and read it later.
The best vitamin for developing friends is B1.
FAVORITE SOFTWARE CORRUPTED?
NEED OLD VERSION OF A PROGRAM?
Do you
need the old version of a program? Did some part of your favorite software get
corrupted? You will find the old version you seek at
http://www.oldversion.com
where those programs are preserved.
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Copyright 2003 by Richard Schenkar, Attorney, Columnist
2 Maple Lane, Mercer Island WA 98040
Phone/Fax: 206-232-2282 E-mail: <Richard_Schenkar@juno.com>
Connecting you with information you need to be effective.
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HARRY SULLY IN
PRINT
The latest issue of the SeniorNet Newsline, Spring 2003,
profiled our own Harry Sully on the
second page – picture and all. Thanks Harry for all your contributions
throughout the years. Your services are very much appreciated.
EVACUATED
FROM ACAPULCO!
Barbara and
Roger Dalton had a rather unusual experience when the cruise ship
(Celebrity-Infinity) developed a propulsion unit problem which terminated the
cruise in Acapulco and after three days of frustration trying to locate their
friends from England who had been flown out to San Diego, Barbara and Roger
finally flew home from L.A a day early and pretty worn out by the whole
happening. This cruising is sure hard work! Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh! Most of us wouldn’t know
about it! If you want to send us, a lot of us would take the frustration.
JILL McLEOD, Principal of Phantom Lake Elementary School, spoke at the March Annual
Meeting on the progress of the school construction. She was elated to report,
“that the school was a month ahead of schedule and under budget.” We looked at
the configuration of the school and where our classroom will be with water and
all. Everything will be all new and shiny bright for the opening in September.
Target time is to pack everything up in June and it will be stored at the new
school until the rooms are completed for move in. The Brown Bag will be
scheduled in August at the new (old site) school. More information to follow as
it evolves.
ALL FAIRS A HUGE SUCCESS
SeniorNet was visible once
again at the Overlake Hospital Active Senior Fair under the leadership of Joe Pontecorvo, and at the Genealogy
Fair with John Wise coordinating.
Both events were highly successful with many people interested in what we had
to offer and also with some people volunteering to help as instructors. Delores Davis reported, “that the Black
Roots Seminar was highly interested in her Life History Course and she
presented two seminars to over 100 people.”
WATER OR COKE?
WATER
- 75% of
Americans are chronically dehydrated. (Likely applies to half of world
population.)
- In 37% of Americans,
the thirst mechanism is so weak that it is often mistaken for hunger.
- Even MILD
dehydration will slow down one's metabolism as much as 3%.
- One glass of
water will shut down midnight hunger pangs for almost 100% of the dieters
studied in a University of Washington study.
- Lack of water
is the #1 trigger of daytime fatigue.
- Preliminary
research indicates that 8-10 glasses of water a day could significantly
ease back and joint pain for up to 80% of sufferers.
- A mere 2%
drop in body water can trigger fuzzy short-term memory, trouble with basic
math, and difficulty focusing on the computer screen or on a printed page.
- Drinking 5
glasses of water daily decreases the risk of colon cancer by 45%, plus it
can slash the risk of breast cancer by 79%, and one is 50% less likely to
develop bladder cancer. Are you drinking the amount of water you should
every day?
COKE
- In many
states (in the USA) the highway patrol carries two gallons of Coke in the
trunk to remove blood from the highway after a car accident.
- You can put a
T-bone steak in a bowl of coke and it will be gone in two days.
- To clean a
toilet: Pour a can of Coca-Cola into the toilet bowl and forget it; let
the "real thing" sit for one hour, then flush it clean. The
citric acid in Coke removes stains from vitreous china.
- To remove
rust spots from chrome car bumpers: Rub the bumper with a rumpled-up piece
of aluminum foil dipped in Coca-Cola.
- To clean
corrosion from car battery terminals: Pour a can of Coca-Cola over the
terminals to bubble away the corrosion.
- To loosen a
rusted bolt: Applying a cloth soaked in Coca-Cola to the rusted bolt for
several minutes.
- To bake a
moist ham: Empty a can of Coca-Cola into the baking pan, wrap the ham in
aluminum foil, and bake. Thirty minutes before the ham is finished, remove
the foil, allowing the drippings to mix with the Coke for sumptuous brown
gravy.
- To remove
grease from clothes: Empty a can of coke into a load of greasy clothes,
add detergent, and run through a regular cycle. The Coca-Cola will help
loosen grease stains. It will also clean road haze from your windshield.
FOR
YOUR INFORMATION:
- The active
ingredient in Coke is phosphoric acid. Its pH is 2.8. It will dissolve a
nail in about four days. Phosphoric acid also leaches calcium from bones
and is a major contributor to the rising increase in osteoporosis.
- To carry
Coca-Cola syrup (the concentrate) the commercial truck must use the
Hazardous Material place cards reserved for highly corrosive materials.
- The
distributors of coke have been using it to clean the engines of their
trucks for about 20 years! Now the question is; would YOU like a glass of
water or coke?
Contributed by Dave Abernathy
The three little words are: "Hold
On, Please ..."
Saying this, while putting down your phone and walking off (instead of
hanging-up immediately) would make each Tele-marketing call so much more
time-consuming that sales boiler rooms would grind to a halt.
When
you eventually hear the phone company's "beep-beep-beep" tone, you
know it's time to go back and hang up your handset, which has efficiently
completed its task. Three little words that eliminate telephone soliciting.
Do
you ever get those annoying phone calls with no one on the other end?
This
is a telemarketing technique where a machine makes phone calls and records the
time of day when a person answers the phone. This technique is used to
determine the best time of day for a "real" sales person to call back
and get someone at home.
What
you can do after answering, if you notice there is no one there, immediately
start hitting your # button on the phone, 6 or 7 times, as quickly as possible.
This
confuses the machine that dialed the call and it kicks your number out of their
system.
Since
doing this, our phone calls have decreased dramatically.
Another
Good Idea:
When
you get "ads" enclosed with your phone or utility bill, return these
"ads" with your payment; let the sending companies throw their own
junk mail away. When you get those "pre-approved" letters in the mail
for everything from credit cards to 2nd mortgages and similar type junk, Do not
throw away the return envelope.
Most
of these come with postage-paid return envelopes, right?
Well, why not get rid of some of your other junk mail and put it in these cool
little, postage-paid return envelopes.
Send
an ad for your local chimney cleaner to American Express.
Send
a pizza coupon to Citibank.
If you didn't get anything else that day then just send them their blank
application back!
If
you want to remain anonymous, just make sure your name isn't on
anything you send them.
You
can even send the envelope back empty if you want to just to keep them
guessing!
Eventually,
the banks and credit card companies will begin getting their own junk back in
the mail.
Let's
let them know what it's like to get lots of junk mail, and the best of all
they're paying for it...Twice!
Let's
help keep our postal service busy since they are saying that
e-mail is cutting into their business profits, and that's why they need to
increase postage costs again.
Contributed by Dave Abernathy
