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MINUTES OF
THE GENERAL MEETING
December
19, 2011
President Larry DuSavage called the meeting to order at 10:00 AM at the
Silverdale Community Center. There were 55 members and guests
present. Larry welcomed all members and guests to the meeting and read
the names of 4 new members who joined since the last meeting.
Those present joined Lenore Stanfel in the Pledge of Allegiance to the
Flag of the United States.
Larry announced free lab Classes at the Mountain View Middle School
that are held Tuesdays at 2:45 PM, starting again after school begins
in January. There are free classes at the Sylvan Way library;
classes are the second Tuesday of each month, and the lab is Friday
afternoons at 1:30 PM. Mary Ann Confar's classes will start again
in January. Larry urged those who sign up for Mary Ann's classes
to give prompt notice if you must cancel your attendance. Check
the KCS Newsletter for specific time and dates, also the web page http://www.ffogynews.org/classes.htm. Larry is trying
out Microsoft's new operating system, Windows 8, and will teach a class
on it in the near future.
Next March is the 20th anniversary of
the founding of KCS.
Clint Geiger introduced the speaker, Mr. Josh Brown, Kitsap County
Commissioner for the Central Kitsap area. Mr. Brown has been a
Commissioner for five years and this is the third time he has spoken to
our Club. His overall emphasis was to let us know that in these bad
economic times, Kitsap County is trying to get the most they can from
their available funds. He told of the new planned Explosive
Handling Wharf at Bangor that will be a large construction project
adding many new jobs to the area. The County is also trying to
get business firms to set up supply facilities within Kitsap County to
work with Boeing Aircraft Company. The Olympic College is adding
courses to assist the Shipyard apprenticeship program.
The most recent County budget of $78 million is $5 million less than
five years ago. He pointed out that 70% of the County spending is
for law enforcement and Justice costs. In spite of the financial
problems, Kitsap County wants to keep meeting rooms available to
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Josh Brown, Kitsap County Commissioner for the Central Kitsap area , answered many questions from the audience.
the
public; including our KCS meetings. Kitsap Regional Library is
studying how to fund a new library from private philanthropy sources.
The audience had many questions for Mr. Brown at conclusion of his
presentation. Larry DuSavage pointed out that our meeting place
is free of charge, courtesy of Kitsap County. Larry thanked Mr.
Brown for his presentation and the audience joined in with applause.
Mr. Brown encouraged people to get in touch with him if they have any
questions or problems. He can be reached at the Court House phone
number of 360-337-7146, or his e-mail address of jwbrown@co.kitsap.wa.us.
The meeting was adjourned at 11:00 AM for the potluck lunch, raffle
drawing, and the door prize drawing. Warren Beauchene won the big
Christmas door prize of a netbook computer.
Clint
Geiger, Secretary
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MINUTES OF THE BOARD
MEETING
December
19, 2011
President Larry DuSavage called the meeting to order at 12:00 PM.
Trustees present were; Kim Leach, Carol McLaren, Clint
Geiger, Barbara Maines, Nick Tomassi, Pat Reese, Jane Hinrichs, Ward
Hinrichs, Lenore Stanfel, and Larry DuSavage. Guests present
were; Don Brown, Doug Stauner; Dennis Osborn, Jack Roudebush, and Karen
and Warren Beauchene.
Secretary's
Report — There were no corrections to the November minutes as
printed in the December Newsletter.
Treasurer's
Report — The Treasurer's report was presented by Barbara Maines
and will be placed on file for audit. Larry said more expenses
will be developed by New Horizons Committee because of new computer
memories and Windows 7 operating systems that have been purchased.
Correspondence — Larry DuSavage sent out a thank you letter to November's speaker,
Loran Kelley.
Committee
Reports
Operations — Lenore is acquiring a couple more key cards for the Community Center.
Membership — Carol McLaren reported that we now have 229 members.
Hardware — Kim Leach has no new purchases. The Club has an old Windows ME
laptop computer that is not used and should be disposed of. No
decision was made as to getting rid of it.
Education — No classes at Mountain View Middle School until classes begin in
January. Mary Ann Confar's classes will begin in January.
Jack plans to schedule a class on Paint.net, using free downloaded
software.
SIGs — Don Brown's Investor's Group is meeting regularly. Warren Beauchene
is making use of an old projector in his MAC class.
Programs — Clint Geiger has speakers scheduled; in January; Don Lawrence will
discuss Income Tax Preparation, in February; Stephanie Dormann will
discuss long term care and financial planning for older people.
There will be no scheduled speaker for our 20th Anniversary celebration
in March.
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New
Horizons — Kim Leach reported there will be a meeting in
February.
Public
Relations and Sunshine Committee — Jane Ward will send a get
well card to Marlene Hogan.
Newsletter
Deadline — 22 of this month
New Business —
- Nick, Carol, and Dennis will coordinate on
asking some
representatives from various news publication groups to attend our 20th
Anniversary celebration in March.
- The election of new Trustees will be in April
instead of the
usually scheduled March elections. Our Club also needs someone to
accept the position of Treasurer.
- Nick asked whether our luncheon could include
baked chicken
instead of all fried chicken. Larry will check with Marlene and
Pat
Hogan, who purchase the chicken each KCS meeting day.
The meeting adjourned at 12:54
Clint
Geiger, Secretary
IMPORTANT!
KCS needs
a TREASURER
Software
and Training will be provided!
This is a very important
position and must be filled for KCS to continue
operating as a functional organization!
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TRUSTEES
In Addition, two new Trustees will be
needed in March. The term of a Trustee is 2 years, and a Trustee may
not serve for more than 3 consecutive terms, or 6 consecutive
years. The requirements are that you are a member in good
standing, and that you attend the meetings of the Board of Directors,
which are held immediately after the monthly General meetings.
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FROM
THE PRESIDENT’S CORNER
Happy New Year 2012!
This upcoming year will set some milestones for Kitsap Computing Seniors.
I
do not know of any other community computer organization that has
existed for 20 years. Due to wonderful volunteers of all types; we have
been able to meet the computer needs of Kitsap County.
I want to
give a very special Thank You to Kitsap County Commissioner Josh Brown,
and all of the other county workers who have provided our teaching,
meeting, storage rooms and internet access at no charge to KCS. This
has allowed us to provide our training at minimal costs.
HELP! Please! We need you!
We
need volunteers to support our organization in many ways. A new
treasurer is needed to continue paying our bills and doing our banking.
We need two other "board of trustee" members to fill our empty
positions and make the best decision on our future. (Computer knowledge
is not a requirement!). Most board members spend less than 4 hours a
month doing KCS business.
Mary Ann Confar has solidified the Sunday class schedule and it is available at http://www.ffogynews.org/classes.htm.
Please
check the schedule and find the classes you need to add to your
individual computer training. Marlene Hogan organizes the classes and
either emails or phones members as their classes are being taught, and
also maintains a list of standby members if a class is filled.
Remember
if you received and new computer from Santa last year, consider
donating your older computer to our New Horizon's Committee. The
computer will be totally cleaned of any personal information and made
available to members of Kitsap County in need of assistance. Note: we
can provide a tax donation form for good working computer systems. Also
if you upgraded your computer to a newer operating system and that
computer dies, please consider donating that operating system disk so
that we will be able to upgrade another computer. These computer system
upgrade disks can be either Windows Vista or Windows 7.
HAPPY
COMPUTING - Larry DuSavage
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Mary Ann Confar
MARY ANN'S SUNDAY CLASSES
Mary Ann Confar has solidified the Sunday class schedule for
2012. It is available at the KCS web site, www.ffogynews.org/classes.htm
This year Mary Ann has revised her class contents to include some very
interesting subjects. Instead of two Sunday classes, there will be 3
each time, each lasting an hour and a half. The January classes
will include Mousing Basics on January 8, at 9:00 AM, then at 11:30 AM
it will be Computer Security, Updates and Plugins. The 2:00 PM
class will be Backing up Your Files.
The second January class will be held on Jan. 29, and will start with
E-mail Basics at 9:00 AM, at 11:30 AM it will be E-mail - Using Windows
Live Mail. The third class will be E-mail - Signing up for free
web-based e-mail, like Yahoo, G-mail, Hotmail, etc.
Later months will have introductions to MP3 Players, Instant Messaging,
Internet Podcast Basics, Excel Spreadsheets, Power Point Presentations,
Skype, and Social Networking - Facebook and Twitter.
There will be waiting lists for these programs, so it is imperative
that if you sign up for one and then find that you are unable to
attend, you let Marlene know in time for her to contact someone else
who wants to attend.
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TIPS
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Tricks for Formatting
List Numbers and Bullets in Word
Adapted from a TechRepublic article by Susan
Harkins
February 23, 2009
A quick click is
all it takes to create a numbered or bulleted list in a Word document.
Select the text and click a button - it couldn't be simpler. What isn't
so simple is applying a format to just the numbers or bullets in the
resulting list, unless you know how to select the numbers or bullets.
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Selecting just the
numbers or bullets isn't difficult, it just isn't intuitive. Normally,
you drag to highlight text. You can't drag across the numbers of
bullets in a list. Instead, simply click any number or bullet in the
list to highlight all of the numbers or bullets in the list.
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Once you do, you
can apply a font format as you normally would. (Word will extend the
format to new items.) As you can see in figure at the right, I've
changed the color and font for just the numbers.
The previous
technique formats all of the numbers or bullets in a list. However, you
might want to format one or even several, but not all of them.
Selecting individual numbers or bullets is next to impossible. The
trick to this formatting task is to format each item's end-of-paragraph
marker. Word will apply any formatting that you apply to the end-of-
paragraph marker to that item's number or bullet, but not to the text.
First, you should
display the markers by clicking the Show/Hide button on the Standard
toolbar. (The icon looks like a backward P.) Once you can see the
markers, they're easy to select. Just select the marker at the end of
the item you want to format. Or select multiple markers by holding down
the [Ctrl] key as you select each marker. After selecting the
marker(s), apply font formats as you normally would.
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It's worth noting
that formats applied to the entire list take precedence over formats
applied via the end-of-paragraph marker.
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A New Year! A good time to verify your computer maintenance habits!
Computer Maintenance Recommendations: Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, and XP
Daily Computer Do's: (or every few days):
- (Updates
Protect You!!!) It is safe to allow "MICROSOFT, ADOBE, JAVA, QUICKTIME"
& Your Computer Manufacture to install updates on your computer!
- Watch
/ Pre-Screen Email for Phishing, Spam, ID Theft. Never Ever reply to an
email asking for social security numbers, credit card
numbers, passwords, or other personal information.
- Be careful when visiting websites and downloading programs from the internet.
- Important! Turn off your computer correctly! Do Not use the power on button!
Weekly Computer Do's:
- Update and Run Anti-Virus Program/s: (if not automatic!) McAfee, Norton, Security Essentials, etc..
- Run
"Disk Cleanup": (Start > All Programs > Accessories > System
Tools) Or even better run the "free" cleanup program "CCleaner"
(much faster and more efficient)
- Update and Run any free Anti-Spyware Program/s: i.e. Spybot Search & Destroy.
Monthly Computer Do's:
- Windows
Update (2nd Tuesday of every Month (Minimum) (XP - Yellow shield /
Vista & Windows 7 - Blue Square with Orange Ring) in lower
right tray by clock
- Disk Error Check - double-click
(My)Computer, right-click "C" drive, left-click Properties, select
Tools tab, error-check check now; check both check boxes, start!
(Computer will run this five step process after you restart)
Important Computer Should Do's:
- Store all Data in My Documents! All Pictures in My Pictures! All Music in My Music!
- Backup data often enough to feel comfortable (Documents, Pictures, E-Mail, Favorites)
- Keep 20% to 25% of the main "C" Drive free for the best operation of your computer.
- If using a home wireless connection ("WiFi"); SECURE the Router from others.
- Be aware of the computer slowing down or slow starting up! (could indicate a Tune-Up / Virus / Trojan)
- Remove old programs that you no longer use. Control panel; Programs & Features or Add/ Remove
- Windows Help and Support (start menu> right side) (excellent basic computer information)
- Check for Dust Bunnies (dust inside, on fans, cooling fins) which cause overheating and problems.
Special Laptop Computer Should / Could Do's:
- Use a "Cool Pad" under the laptop to help remove heat and allow normal air flow.
- Monthly use the battery only and allow the computer battery to deplete to 20% charge.
- Laptops can have the screen display sent to a larger monitor for easier viewing.
- An external mouse can be easier to use then the included laptop touchpad.
Windows "XP" Users:
- Weekly run "Disk Defragmenter": (Start > All Programs> Accessories> System Tools)
- Nothing speeds up Windows XP like installing more memory (RAM). Try Crucial.com
You
can run as many Anti-Spyware programs as you desire. They are updated
daily/weekly to keep up with hackers! Remember to run and update them
manually if they are NOT set to update automatically!
Submitted
by Larry
DuSavage
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