issue 01 the dialogue box august 2018
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The next General meeting of the Carrington Computer Club for Seniors
will be held on Monday 27th AUGUST 2018
Please remember to wear your name badge
The Official Newsletter of
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Volume 18
Issue 01 TheTheTheThe Dialogue Box
Editor: Bill Reilly
AUGUST 2018
DISCLAIMER:
This newsletter is provided “As
Is” without warranty of any kind. Each reader of the Carring-
ton Computer Club for Seniors,
Dialogue Box newsletter, as-
sumes complete risk as to the
accuracy and subsequent use of
its contents.
Membership Report from
July meeting 2018:
Total membership 114
Village residents 42
Attendance today 43
New members
Visitors 1
Volunteer hours
Total training hours
2018 Annual General
Meeting: Your new Committee as elected
President: Jane Eggins,
Vice-President: Rex Dowle,
Secretary: Liz Kennedy,
Treasurer: Anne Zamudio,
Course Coordinator:
Neville Clissold,
Record’s Officer: Geraldine Smith
Technical Officer: John Koster,
Supply Officer: Jan Freestone,
Liaison Officer to Carrington:
Jim Cook,
Publicity Officer and Dialogue
Box editor: Bill Reilly
Calendar:
Looking ahead to
2019
A ustralia Day public
holiday 28th January
2019 is our normal club
meeting day.
We will change that meet-
ing to the week before, be-
ing Monday 21st January,
2019.
Our 26th November meet-
ing will be a combined
meeting and Christmas
morning tea after the meet-
ing.
Don’t wash you hair
in the shower
August guest speaker: Will be Mrs. Valerie Hussain
from Red Cross Australia.
Emergency Preparedness Facilitator
Emergency Services Team Leader
Wollongong North
Psychological First Aid Trainer
AUGUST 2018 The Dialogue Box 2
We all have received a scam
email. You know the obvious
one, the email that claims you
were named as a beneficiary in a
will from a Nigerian prince.
The prince wasn’t real of course,
but the person receiving the
money from those he scammed
was real. He was a 67-year old
man living in New Orleans,
Louisiana (US) and he is now
facing 269 counts of wire
fraud and one account of money
laundering.
The first thought of many
is “how can one fall for such a
scam”?
While the Nigerian prince may
seem blatantly obvious, scams
targeting the over fifties usually
involve something you are fa-
miliar with, like your bank, and
claim you have “unauthorised
or suspicious activity on your
account” and not royalty from
other countries.
This type of email scam is
called PHISHING. Phishing
means that the emails are de-
signed to look like genuine
emails from an establishment
you trust.
For example, if you use a bank
w e b s i t e i t w o u l d b e
www.yourbankname.com.au,
t he s cammer ma y use
www.yourbankname.com. The
AU not being at the end of a
website address may go unno-
ticed.
And that is what scammers are
hoping for. Hoping you do not
notice that tiny difference. That
is when they may ask you to
confirm your details and that’s
how they end up wiping your
accounts clean.
PHARMING is another scam
where the scammer redirects
you to a fake version of a legiti-
mate website you are trying to
visit. This is done by infecting
y o u r c o m p u t e r
with malware which causes you
to be redirected regardless if you
type the real address or click on
a bookmark you have saved on
your computer.
WATCH FOR THESE RED
FLAGS
► Emails plus text and phone
calls claiming to be from a bank,
telecommunications provider or
other business you deal with
asking you to update or verify
your details
► Emails plus text that do not
address you by your proper
name or contain typing errors
and grammatical mistakes
► The website address does not
look like the address you usually
use and is requesting details the
legitimate website does not nor-
mally ask for
► The email address the email
is from doesn’t match the web-
site address.
► You suddenly have new
icons on your computer screen
that you did not install
HOW TO PROTECT YOUR-
SELF
♦ Do NOT click on any links or open attachments from emails
claiming to be from a trusted
organisation asking you to up-
date your details. JUST PRESS
DELETE.
♦ Do a search on the internet using the name and exact word-
ing from the email or message to
check for any scam references.
♦ Look for the “lock” in the web
address bar. It is now standard
for most business, especially
those whose websites have ac-
cess to private details, to be se-
cure. If you noticed that the
HTTPS is HTTP it is not secure.
Also if the lock is broken, it is
not secure. If you don’t see a
“lock”, look for a “key” icon at
the bottom right hand corner of
your browser window.
♦ Never provide your personal, bank details, credit card, or
online account details if you re-
ceive a call claiming to be from
a trusted organisation. Instead
ask for their name and contact
number and check independ-
ently with the organisation in
question.
If you have fallen victim to a
scam, don’t be embarrassed.
Stand up for yourself and report
a scam to the organisation and
to Scam Watch.
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23 July, 2018
Important
Management Contacts
for 2017-2018
President:
Jane Eggins, 0408 025 798 [email protected]
Vice-President:
Rex Dowle, 4659 6197 [email protected]
Secretary: Liz Kennedy,
0407 220 775 [email protected]
Treasurer:
Anne Zamudio, 0414 864 314 [email protected]
Course Coordinator:
Neville Clissold 4655 2692 [email protected]
Dialogue Box editor
and Publicity Officer:
Bill Reilly, 0408159936 [email protected]
3 The Dialogue Box AUGUST 2018
August guest speaker: Will be Mrs. Valerie Hussain
from Red Cross Australia.
Emergency Preparedness Facilitator
Emergency Services Team Leader
Wollongong North
Psychological First Aid Trainer
Computer Room
Duty Officer August 2018
Wednesday Afternoon:
(1 pm to 4 pm)
BY APPOINTMENT ONLY
Open practice sessions:
The last Monday afternoon
of the month
after the General meeting.
The computer Room
will close at 2:pm
Jim Cook 0419 441 822
More useful keys:
L earning how to use your
computer mouse can some-
times be rather difficult. One
valuable tool which was probably
mentioned to you in your intro-
duction and basics computer les-
sons is the use of games which
are on most computers.
The game of Solitaire gives you
lots of easy and simple opportu-
nity to practice using your mouse
by selecting a playing card with a
left click and dragging it to the
position that you want to place it
in sequence on one of the stacks
of cards.
Another method which can give
you lots of practice is the use of
small jigsaw programs these are
available on the Internet and you
can use the photographs which
are supplied or you can apply the
jigsaw pattern and program to
your own photos or images. Fol-
lowing the instructions you can
turn your photograph into a jig-
saw, click it and shatter it into
jigsaw pieces and then one by
one click and drag them back into
place to recreate your photo-
graph. This can be a very creative
pastime and is an invaluable tool
to learn how to get comfortable
with the feel of your mouse and
how to use it. You can pause the
program and save it at any time
and come back to restart it where
you left off at a later date.
To quickly copy and paste any
thing in a document.
Position the cursor at start of the
text which you wish to copy, hold
down your left mouse key and
drag across to the end of the item.
Hold down the Control key at the bottom left and right of your key-
board, hold that key down and
press the "C" key, this will copy what you have selected,
Position your cursor where you
wish to place the item, then press
and hold the Control key down
and press the "V" key, this will paste what you have copied.
Remember to go surfing:
Surfing the internet and sending
emails can prevent memory loss
in the elderly and may already be
helping in the fight against de-
mentia, say scientists. An eight-
year study of almost 6500 Britons
aged 50-90 found the brains of
those who regularly go online are
declining more slowly than those
who do not. The study, was con-
ducted by Brazilian researchers
using the English Longitudinal
Study of Ageing and published in
the Journals of Gerontology. Over
eight years, the mental abilities of
the 6442 people were measured,
alongside other factors that could
affect their cognitive decline,
such as Illness, wealth and edu-
cation. The researchers said those
who used email and the internet
were 3 per cent better at recall
tests than non internet users.
Memory loss typically begins in
adults aged between 45 and 60.
Aside from ageing, it can be af-
fected by illnesses like diabetes or
poor nutrition, said the scientist.
AUSTRALIA FUN FACT:
K angaroos and emus cannot
walk backward easily and it
is one of the reasons that they're
on the Australian coat of arms to
symbolise a nation moving for-
ward.
A recent study found that the aver-
age golfer walks about 900 miles a
year. Another study found that
golfers drink on average 22 gallons
of alcohol a year. This means that
on average golfers get about 41
miles to the gallon!
AUGUST 2018 The Dialogue Box 4
IMPORTANT: Current contact details for Carrington Computer Club for Seniors:
Street Address Carrington Village
90 Werombi Road Camden
NSW 2570
Postal Address C/- Carrington Village
90 Werombi Road Grasmere
2570
Email Address
Telephone 4655 6283
leave message
if unattended
NEW Website
Address
ccc4s.org
NEXT MEETING
10 am Monday 27th
AUGUST 2018
in the Acacia Room,
Recreation & Leisure Centre
Carrington Retirement Village
Morning tea from 9 am.
Please remember to wear your
name badge.
Carrington Computer Club for SeniorsCarrington Computer Club for SeniorsCarrington Computer Club for SeniorsCarrington Computer Club for Seniors Annual Membership Renewal 2018 / 2019 was due 1st July 2018
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Period of Renewal One Year $20.00
Please place exact cash or cheque in an envelope and hand to the Treasurer at
monthly meeting. Or mail your cheque to The club Postal Address.
Carrington Computer Club for Seniors
C/- Carrington Village. 90 Werombi Road Grasmere 2570
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Golf Poem: In my hand I hold a ball,
White and dimpled, and rather small.
Oh, how bland it does appear,
This harmless looking little severe.
By its size I could not guess
The awesome strength it does possess.
But since I fell beneath its spell,
I've wandered through the fires of hell.
My life has not been quite the same
Since I chose to play this stupid game.
It rules my mind for hours on End;
A fortune it has made me spend.
It has made me curse and made me cry,
And hate myself and want to die.
It promises me a thing called par,
If I hit it straight and far.
To master such a tiny ball,
Should not be very hard at all.
But my desires the ball refuses,
And does exactly as it chooses.
It hooks and slices, dribbles and dies,
And disappears before my eyes.
Often it will have a whim,
To hit a tree or take a swim.
With miles of grass on which to land,
It finds a tiny patch of sand.
Then has me offering up my soul,
If only it would find the whole.
It's made me whimper like a pup,
And swear that I will give it up.
And take to drink to ease my sorrow,
But the ball knows,
I'll be back tomorrow.