AURANGA
ENIOR ET
EWSLETTER
From the Chair.
Greetings, 2016 has arrived, for some quietly and for others not so. My family continue as their usual
noisy selves. I trust you all enjoyed Christmas, ate too much and received those lovely pressies, if not
there’s always Trade Me.
Our first term is under way with Registration Day on the 26th of this month and classes starting a
week later. Look on our website for the course timetable for classes you might like to attend. You
fortnight
can ring or email to register as well.
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banking will continue again this year, probably monthly, so watch for email notification. Club
days will continue monthly resuming in February. Are there other courses you would like us to run,
please let us know?
You may know or not, the Tauranga Energy Consumer Trust (TECT) is looking to purchase some land at
the Historic Village for a sizeable building for shared community use, plus parking. The area proposed
is along-side our building with the parking area between us. Envirohub would move up the hill, on the
grassed area opposite to us. I have put a small copy of the plan on the notice board. The plan has
approval of the Council and is out for public submission until March. It is intended the building be
finished in 2016 and the added parking should help our parking problems according to Blair Graham.
Blair is the new Team Leader for the Village.
Finally have you considered coaching, it’s not hard, just different, another form of learning and
entertaining, I write from personal experience here. To those who have renewed your membership for
2016 already thank you, we cannot run without you, indeed we cannot run without all of you.
I look forward to seeing you throughout the year.
Diane
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A Date to Remember
Registration Day
Tuesday 26 January 2016
10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Check out the timetable on
Our Website and if there is
A class that you might find
Enjoyable, come and enroll
On Registration Day
NEW ZEALAND POST APP FOR ANDROID, APPLE AND WINDOWS 10 DEVICES:
This is a really useful reference and calculator for all things postal.
It’s free from your App store.
How to use the Tracking tool
1. Once you’ve checked the parcel’s status, your tracking number is stored so you can check back
regularly
2. Start the app and select Tracker.
3. Key in your tracking number (found on your parcel receipt) and select ‘Go’. Your tracking
number should look something like this AA123456789NZ.
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4. The status of your parcel will appear. There are generally three types of status – ‘In Progress’,
‘Alert’, or ‘Delivered’.
5. Each new parcel you are tracking is automatically stored into the app so you can check back
regularly to see the status of your delivery.
6. Let others know your parcel status by forwarding it to an email address, and name it for easier
identification.
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opening hours, and contact details for a PostShop, Kiwibank,Kiwibank
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ATM, or Box Lobby closest to your location.
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2. Start the app and select Locator.
10. Your current location will automatically be found and a list of the nearest postal services will
be displayed.
3.
11. Select one of the postal services for more details including opening hours.
4.
12. Click on the Directions tab to get the route from your current location to the selected service.
John Whalley
NEW PICTURE EDITING WORKSHOPS:
Picture Editing Workshops will commence on Thursday 4th February. They will run between 1pm and
3pm. These workshops will be run on an interactive basis. The first hour will be discussing a project and
the second hour will be a practical session, we expect great input from the attendees so please bring
your laptops (fully charged) and your ideas. The club computers will be available if you do not have a
laptop. We will primarily be working with Paint.Net which is a full picture editing programme that
supports the use of ‘layers’. We will also look at all related programmes like Photo Shop, Power Point,
Publisher and Inkscape, in fact whatever is requested.
Although all members are welcome these workshops will not be suitable for users of iPad or Android
Tablets as there is not a suitable app available. It must also be stressed that members who have
completed the Picture Editing Level 2 course will get the most benefit. Don’t worry if you have not taken
this course, we hope that you will enjoy what we do and it will encourage you to take the course. The
date to remember is February 4 at 1pm---see you there. You will get a reminder on Monday 1st
February.
These workshops will be suspended when this time slot is required to run a Picture Editing Course.
Bob Callcut
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NEW MEMBERS:
The following are new members who joined SeniorNet in Term 4 2015.
These members’ subscriptions will be continuing through to December
2016.
October:
Marilyn Allen, Lorna Box, Jo Cameron, Lorna Lindsey, Verdun Odey,
Ross Robertson, Bill McKinnon, Frank Bertera, Jen Clark, Bernice
Collins, Judy Turner, Laureen Heyblom, George Sangster, Beth Salter,
Marie Brown, Lyndsay Osborne, Beth Salter, Oda Lagerberg, Barton
Mitchel, Bing Crosbie, Phil Collins, Ann Cooper.
November:
Terence Coburn; John Crossman; Whitmore Mansell; Michael Dow; Roger Mark; Barbara Pearson; Ian Taylor.
SUBSCRIPTION REMINDER:
Just a reminder that Member subscriptions for the year 1st January to 31st December 2016 are now due - $25 per
person. Payment may be made either by cheque to Tauranga SeniorNet, P O Box 15382, Tauranga, or by direct
credit. If you use on-line banking you may direct credit to:
Westpac Bank Account 03-1548-0002612-00
but ONLY if you use on-line banking.
State your first name and surname in the comments to ensure correct crediting
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ARE COMPUTERS MEN OR WOMEN?
A language teacher was explaining to her class that in French, nouns unlike their English counterparts,
are grammatically designated as masculine or feminine.
"House" in French, is feminine -"la maison," "Pencil" in French, is masculine "le crayon."
One puzzled student asked, "What gender is computer?" The teacher did not know, and the word was
not in her French dictionary.
So for fun she split the class into two groups appropriately enough, by gender and asked them to decide
whether "computer" should be a masculine or a feminine noun.
Both groups were required to give four reasons for their recommendation.
The men's group decided that computer should definitely be of the feminine gender ("la computer"),
because
•
No one but their creator understands their internal logic
•
The native language they use to communicate with other computers is incomprehensible to
everyone else
•
Even the smallest mistakes are stored in long term memory for possible later review
•
As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself spending half your pay cheque on
accessories for it.
The women's group, however, concluded that computers should be masculine "le computer") because:
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In order to do anything with them, you have to turn them on.
•
They have a lot of data but still can't think for themselves
•
They are supposed to help you solve problems, but half the time they ARE the problem
•
As soon as you commit to one, you realise that if you had waited a little longer you could have
got a better model.
Office & Clubrooms; 17th Avenue
Email: [email protected]
Web-site: www.taurangaseniornet.co.nz
Committee: Chairperson Diane Jones
Secretary
Stuart Naysmith
Treasurer
Margaret McLean
Compiled by Pamela Davison-Howie
Email: [email protected]
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