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Tentative ICUFR Conference Schedule Here is the planned activity schedule for the 4 days of the upcoming ICUFR Conference, along with the costs involved.
Total package price $170.00. We are considering a $10.00 discount for registrations prior to a certain cut-off date, which hasn't been decided yet (Ideas??) The Saturday program has not been firmed up, at this point, but I am tentatively planning three one-hour sessions in the morning, with a break in between each one; an hour and fifteen minutes for lunch; two one-hour sessions in the afternoon, with a break between. It is my intent that each session will be repeated (with the exception of the planned teleconference with the Bosnia club), so that everyone can attend all sessions. This is all subject to change, as I actually develop the program and presenters, however. Anyone who wants to come early and/or stay late is, of course, welcome. Be sure to make your hotel reservations on line at www.holiday-inn.com/ithacany and be sure to use the booking code IFR. Also you can check out www.visitithaca.com to see what else is going on in the area. Unfortunately, the only one of our three Rotary clubs that will be meeting during the official days of the Conference is the Ithaca Sunrise Club, which meets Thursday morning at the Royal Court Restaurant at 7:30. This location is a pretty good trek from our hotel, and I suggest anyone wishing to attend arrange a ride (taxis are available). Pre-Registration for the Conference can now be made at Irwin’s secure site: https://www.taranto.com/conference/register.html Dave Flynn DaveFlynn |
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Send more Photo Bios We would like to expand our “Meet our Members” Photo folder, so I’m asking that you send me a photo of yourself, and some Biography information about You, and your Rotary and Personal life. Navigate here and open “Gord Hankin” to see what makes a good Bio. Then email to me, your Bio along with two or three pictures that show you, and maybe a project(s) you are working on, and possibly your family. Newsletter changes are coming. During our Annual meeting in Chicago last year, there was a vote to send the monthly newsletter only to members whose dues are current. The members who voted felt it wasn’t fair to the members who pay their dues, to send the newsletter to those who don’t pay. The above actions were effective on August 15th, 2005, which gave the members time to become current. Our Dues year begins on July 1 concurrent with the RI year. The dues are only US$10, or UK£7, which is less than most of the other fellowships, and are due on July 1 each year. We use the dues to finance our web site, message Forum, data base, and to pay the expenses of our booth participation at RI conventions which is expensive, and if necessary some expenses for our own Conferences, although they are always planned to pay for itself. All Officers and Directors serve the members as volunteers, and NO money is ever spent for any personal member use. There will be a little leeway for late paying, but From Aug. 15th on, Current members only, will be able to access the complete newsletter, and only on the website. The email copy of the newsletter has always had to be in text-only format, which has little or no visual appeal. The format Robin has developed for the website version is beautiful. So beginning in July, if not sooner, we will be sending to you by email each month, only the Table of Contents along with some website URL links. We are developing in the website, a “Members Only” section for the newsletter, that current members will have to use an ID and PW to gain access. After Aug 15, ONLY current paid-up members will have access to the Current newsletters. More information and details regarding ID and PW will be given later. I hope you are enjoying the new beautiful web newsletter that Robin builds each month from my simple text articles. Future ICUFR Conferences Finding a place for a Conference is never easy and takes time. We do like to move them around to give more of our members a chance to attend. The biggest problem is getting Members to volunteer to look for a suitable hotel, and arrange for prices and accommodation, and for a suitable local tour. Many speakers can come from the local area, but we can also help from this end if needed. So, how about a volunteer or two for the next couple years: Sept/Oct 2007 and 2008? Send me an email. Carl P Cardey |
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After the frenetic level of message traffic in March, peace and normality broke out in April. There was a quick discussion about what the MOP says about partners and married couples belonging to the same Club; in short - nothing! This is just as well as some Clubs would have faced a spate of divorces and separations as spouses split apart in order to maintain their Club membership. A long and convoluted thread opened with a query about how an individual Rotarian could obtain his/her unique RI ID number. "Easy," said the US members, "It's on the address panel of your Rotary Magazine." "Not so easy," said the Brit's, "Our magazines are distributed by hand through District & Zone meetings." The value of PETS (President Elect Training Sessions) continued to rumble on and turned into a discussion on District Conferences. "We don't confer," one PDG was reported as saying, "It's more of a glorious jollification." Again, the Atlantic pond was the apparent dividing line between the cultures. Jeff Goodley of the UK and Marco Kappenburger of West Samoa drew attention to the 18 e-Rotary Clubs that have been established around the world. These Internet-based clubs exist only on the 'net and are primarily for people who would like to support the activities and principles of Rotary but for divers reasons are unable to attend a Bricks & Mortar (B&M) Club. They are also very handy for collecting 'make-up' cards by conventional Rotarians. Almost inevitably, the old war-horse topic - Paul Harris Fellowships - reared its head yet again. Apparently New Zealand Rotarians take a similar view to RIBI in regarding a PHF as recognition for exemplary or outstanding service. The usual difference of opinion ended with Carl and Jeff comparing which calibre of gun they would use to resolve the difference! The following questions came up asking if any clubs are doing "Fireside Chats" at Rotarian homes for Rotary subjects including Induction/Membership training? If you do it, how does it work? "Please explain. I would like to learn whether it is common or not!!!" Peter Sotheran Peter Sotheran |
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The Rotary Club of Guisborough and Great Ayton has sent US$2200 to help a school on a small Caribbean island. In autumn 2004, the island of Grenada, population 94,000 was devastated by Hurricane Ivan and 90% of the island's 24,000 buildings were damaged or destroyed. "Our local resources are totally exhausted, " said Nevlyn Johns, President of the 14 member Rotary Club of Grenada-East. "We cannot raise any more funds on the island because every cent that folks have is being spent on repairing their own homes." When the Rotary Club of Guisborough and Great Ayton heard of the valiant efforts of the Grenada Club, they promptly pledged their support. "We had some unallocated funds in our charity account and this seemed an ideal way of putting them to immediate and effective use," said Mark Hards, President of the East Cleveland Club. The Club's donation was doubled with a District Simplified Grant. The cash will provide a new library at St. Andrew's School in Grenville on the east coast of the holiday and spice island. The Grenadian Rotarians plan to obtain a shipping container, secure it to foundations alongside the school building and fit it out as a library. The East Cleveland donation will cover the cost of the project, releasing other funds to buy a stock of new library books. "This intervention by the Rotary Clubs is the answer to our prayers," said Sister Lucy, head-teacher of the 500 pupil school for 5 to 15 year olds. The ICUFR became involved as members across the world tried to assist in locating a spare shipping container. One US Club has provisionally offered up to 100 computers to be installed in the schools, another, in the South Pacific, has offered a container full of school books. "This is typical of the enthusiasm of ICUFR members to pitch in with offers of help as soon as they see a need," said Peter Sotheran of the the RC of Guisborough & Great Ayton, in the UK. "Right now (late April) we still need a 40ft container, delivered to Grenada, free of charge," he added. Meanwhile, Peter has teamed up with Sally Platt to prepare a Matching Grant Project to complete the library, help re-equip a school that stood roofless for 14 months and to distribute several container loads of books, that are already on the island, to schools and libraries. The Rotary effort to assist the spice island is being organised in collaberation with the RC's of Grenada and Grenada-East and has the approval of the island's government. "On behalf of the Government of Grenada I would like to thank you most sincerely for all that you and the [Rotary] clubs have done for our schools after the hurricane," said the Honourable Claris T Charles, Minister of Education and Labour. |
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Display the key board on your screen. Do you ever have a situation that you would like to see and use the keyboard on your screen. It's easy: Click on "Start", then in "Run", then Type in "Osk", without the quotes. You can open up word document programs and start typing with the mouse. You can also make the sound of typing when clicking the keystrokes, by opening "Settings". Rebooting Every clicked on a program that wouldn't start? Ever try to install a program that wouldn't install? Ever have programs start "freezing" or "hanging". Ever notice your computer running strangely? Of course you have. We all have at one time or the other. There can be many causes of the problems described above and many of them can be serious. But, first, if you start having problems with your computer, before you panic and call your favorite high-price tech person, a simple reboot may solve many minor problems. Try it the next time you start having problems. You might find rebooting your computer can fix many annoying errors. Thanks to: Eightball & Thundercloud newsletter, Cloudeight InfoAve Premium Edition, published by: Cloudeight Internet LLC Alphabetize Your Favorites How can my favorites be put in order alphabetically so one doesn't have to hunt through the list to find what one is after? I have been taking each favorite and dragging it to where it belongs. I go into organize favorites and all it says is Create folder, Move to folder, Rename folder and Delete folder. I have windows XP and service pack 2. There are many ways to do this, but we're going to show you a really simple and different way to do this. First, let's put your Favorites folder on your start menu. It's simple. Right-click your start button and choose "Properties". Now, click "Customize" and click the "Advanced" tab. Tick the circle next to "Favorites Menu". Then click "OK" then click "Apply" "OK". Now click on your start button. You'll find "Favorites" and a big yellow star on your start menu. Click on it. When the menu expands, right-click anywhere in the expanded menu and choose "Sort by name" from the menu which appears. Now when you open Internet Explorer you'll notice your Favorites are now sorted alphabetically. Thanks to: Eightball & Thundercloud newsletter, Cloudeight InfoAve Premium Edition, published by: Cloudeight Internet LLC Delete: The Easy Way Windows 98,ME,NT,2000 and Windows XP Home and Professional You can delete a word by highlighting the entire word with your mouse and pressing Delete, but is there a faster way? Yes! If the word is to the left of the cursor, press Ctrl and hit the Backspace key. If the word is to the right of the cursor, press Ctrl and hit the Delete key. Voila! No more backspacing character by character or highlighting to delete a word. Thanks to: Eightball & Thundercloud newsletter, Cloudeight InfoAve Premium Edition, published by: Cloudeight Internet LLC Windows Office Update Annoyance: Windows All Versions I recently installed Microsoft Office Standard Edition 2003. I always use Outlook Express for email. Now occasionally, Microsoft Office "Outlook" will decide that it wants to be my email program! What have I done wrong and how can I correct this? Thank you. If you have Microsoft Office installed and you use "Outlook Express" for your default email program, you might have noticed lately that many times when there's an automatic update for Windows or Microsoft Office, it may change your default email program to Outlook. This can be annoying, especially to those of us who do not want to use Outlook for our email program. If you have your computer set to automatically update and you find Outlook has replaced Outlook Express as your default email program, here's how to fix it: Open Internet Explorer You might have to do this every time Windows Updates are released for Microsoft Office. I guess they're trying to "sell" you on Outlook since it's not free! Thanks to: Eightball & Thundercloud newsletter, Cloudeight InfoAve Premium Edition, published by: Cloudeight Internet LLC Clean & Repair Anything Here is a huge database of cleaning tips. You can find your way around quickly and easily with the main page categories.. Go to: www.howtocleananything.com Specifically for cameras both standard and digital, which have a common enemy: dust. Once inside it can destroy your pictures. If you have a high-end such as a digital SLR you may need to clean the filter that covers the camera's sensor from time to time. Go to: www.cleaningdigitalcameras.com Thanks to: Smart Computing, May 2006: www.smartcomputing.com |
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Open “Navigate Here”, and the “Main Index”. You will find most of the major subjects covered here that we have in the website, but if you don’t see what you want, we also have on this page a “Search” window. Just print your word(s) into the window and click the “Search” button. Open “Navigate Here”, and then “ABC’s of Rotary”. Did you know that this is considered around the Rotary world, as one of the finest short descriptions of what Rotary is all about? There are 10 parts in the book, and each part has a Table of Contents to show what is covered. But assume that you have a question about “Campaigning”, both pro and con. You can simply put that word in the Search window, and you would find that there are 5 different references to it, and each assessable by clicking a link. And someone who is smart enough to write this book, also turns out to be one of Rotary’s primary speaker at District Conferences. We even have his photo at the beginning of his booklet –Cliff Dochterman, PRIP 1992-93. |
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We are always in need of articles of interest that can be included in the email newsletter which is sent to our members monthly. (The newsletter is also posted and archived on the ICUFR website, along with any photos, that can’t be sent in the text-only email version) A Few Format Requests: Please Do NOT send articles in PDF format. Send the original document in *.Doc or plain 8.txt format, and images/photos as attachments. I have broadband and can accept at least 10MB at a time. Photographs always make an article more interesting and are encouraged. Our Graphics editor asks that you follow these basic rules. He requests that a statement from you that images are Original, NOT cropped, NOT optimized and NOT adjusted in any way. Sending a reduced size leaves no room for any action by us to make changes to suit the web page. Image management is a skill. Also images ‘embedded’ in a document bloat the document. Text only, even a Word document, and separate images are the target. |
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