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September 2005 -- Inheritance; List of museums etc.;
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- September 2005
Spending the kids' inheritance - new research in Britain has
found that two out of three adults with the means to make a
bequest say they do not plan to leave a legacy. See
http://www.aboutseniors.com.au/Finance3.html#kidsinheritance
Cornucopia is an online database of information about more than 6,000
collections in the UK's museums, galleries, archives and libraries.
Click on http://www.cornucopia.org.uk/ Try entering your postcode
to learn of collections of interest near you.
An interesting indexed guide, similar to (but more comprehensive
than) your local Yellow Pages. See http://www.near.co.uk (Thank you
Mike Williams - U3A Hastings and Rother).
Hoax warnings and messages requesting circulation to all names in
ones email address book or to family/friends should always be
carefully checked first by going to http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/
or http://www.hoax-slayer.com/ (Thank you Peter Sinclair, U3A-UK).
Local U3A History groups looking for new research projects might
look to the BBC's TIMEWATCH for inspiration. Go-to or click-on
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/programmes/timewatch/
Good news! According to New York researchers, seniors who use a
computer appear to have fewer depressive symptoms than older
adults who aren't so technologically connected. See
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=29466
Your Rights 2005-2006 is a guide to money benefits for older people
The book is divided into five parts, giving details about:
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- August 2005
U3A-UKs International Group announce their new email project
for U3A's worldwide. Please click-on or go-to their website at
http://worldu3a.org/cooperation and then on the button marked
'Breakthrough'.
English Heritage are staging their annual 'Festival of History' at
Kelmarsh Hall this month, and there are many other activities of a
similar nature to be found at http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/
Age Concern is 65 this year. Are you 65 too? if so please click-on
http://www.ace.org.uk/AgeConcern/News_4797.htm and download
an information pack. The deadline for entries is 6th August so they
will need to go via email to ace65@ace.org.uk
The jumping mouse made from a handkerchief is a bit of origami
which every Grandparent will wish to perfect. You can find it at
http://www.britishorigami.org.uk/academic/thok/hankymouse.html
(Thank you - Alan Brown, U3A Horsham UK)
BBC have greatly improved their Languages website, with many
more free courses and learning aids. Highly recommended - go-to
www.bbc.co.uk/languages (Thank you Alfred Spill - U3A-UK's
new Languages Subject Network Coordinator).
Were you an ARP Warden during World War 2? If so, Channel 4
TV would like to hear from you. Please look at our Third Age
Trust Notice-board at http://www.u3a.org.uk/natoffice/notice.htm
TECHNICAL SUPPORT
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- July 2005
The U3A International Group are pleased to announce another
email project for U3As worldwide. The 'Advice' project, in
partnership with Exeter University, is a short exercise in creative
writing which helps with some interesting research work. Please
clickon or goto http://worldu3a.org/cooperation and then the
'Advice' button'.
http://www.moyenageenlumiere.com/ Illuminated Middle Ages -
a database of several hundred recently digitized high-resolution
illuminated images and texts from French national library
collections. Some commentaries are in English and German.
The A2A database contains catalogues describing archives held
throughout England and dating from the 900s to the present day.
Currently they can be found at http://www.a2a.org.uk/ but that
will soon change to http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a
(Thank you Anne Shaw, U3A Reading UK)
A list of U3A Travel Network tours with an educational or
cultural interest is at http://db.u3a.org.uk/travel/tour_list.htm
All U3A Travel Network tours are for U3A members and
companions. (Thank you Tom Warren - U3A UK Travel).
The Web Gallery of Art at http://www.wga.hu/index.html is
a virtual museum and searchable database of European
painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque
periods 1100-1850. (Thank you Isaac Khabaza U3A Ealing).
Don't forget to check our website at http://www.u3a.org.uk/
regularly. There is always something new, and some excellent
advice on how to deal with 'computer nasties'......
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- June 2005
Help for funding voluntary groups, updated daily, can be found
at http://www.j4bgrants.co.uk - includes 'Grant Alerts' and a
regular newsletter. (Thank you John Kennet - U3A UK).
U3A's International Subject Network announce the results of
our joint project "World without Fear" with U3A Zelenogorsk,
Siberia at http://worldu3a.org/cooperation/worldwithoutfear.htm
-- press the blue button. Please also welcome U3E Malta by
going to http://worldu3a.org/malta and sending them an email.
Slightly Foxed is "the real readers quarterly review". It's
Commercial, but sufficiently off-centre to be worth drawing
the attention of Readers Groups and Creative Writing Groups
to http://www.foxedquarterly.com/?page=extracts - where
the lucid style of the examples given are a delight.
As well as the MSN routefinder map site in signpost 54, there
are two other quite interesting ones at www.viamichelin.com
(covers Europe and US) and http://maps.google.com which
covers UK & USA. (Thanks Mike Day - U3A Farnborough)
Mature Times at http://maturetimes.co.uk is "The Voice of the
50+ Generation". It's FREE, but drops for U3A Groups can only
be made in bundles of 100. Call Caroline Watts on 08700-
170666 and press option 4. See the website for a trial copy.
Walkers/Local History/Archaeology Groups may like to check
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/ English Heritage now have
a Community Projects and Outreach Department wanting to
help groups just like yours.
TECHNICAL SUPPORT
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- May 2005
Congratulations to U3A Cliff Villages (Lincoln). Ray Kennett,
Membership Secretary, was our 1,000 Signpost subscriber and
so wins our prize of a free website, plus one month training and
support. Please clickon http://cliffvillageslincolnu3a.org.uk and
send them a 'welcome' email.
The Open University invites you to take part in their Research
On Age Discrimination - http://road.open.ac.uk (Thank you -
Ken Bates - U3A Nottingham).
Free language lessons? Lots at http://www.word2word.com/
http://www.studyspanish.com/freesite.htm
http://www.deutsch-lernen.com/
http://www.bonjour.com/
http://assyrianlanguage.com/
http://www.gaelg.iofm.net/LESSONS/LESSONS.html
Grants Online enables you to access the very latest information on
grant funding opportunities from the European Union, UK Government,
Lottery, Regional Grant Making Bodies and Grant Making Trusts.
Clickon or goto http://www.grantsonline.org.uk/
The Solicitors Pro Bono Group (SPBG) is a small, national
charity whose aim is to enable and encourage lawyers to provide
free legal help to individuals and community groups in need.
Click-on http://www.probonogroup.org.uk
http://www.mcny.org/Exhibitions/Prev%20small/70up.htm
New York Women in Their Prime - at the Museum of the
City of New York (Thanks Harry Moody of AARP News).
A new look for our Archive at http://worldu3a.org/signpost
thanks to Isaac Khabaza of U3A Ealing, who has volunteered
to keep this valuable resource up-to--date.
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- April 2005 U3A Online Australia
are pleased to announce their new website. Please click on http://www.u3aonline.org.au
(Thank you George Williams - Vice-president U3A Online). (http://www.answers.com)
saves you wading through pages of stuff on Google: it immediately displays
the most useful articles on the topic. It covers about a million topics.
If you type in something on which they have not got a page, the relevant
Google pages are displayed. (Thank you - Ralph Blumenau, U3A in London)
Science Groups (or
maybe anyone wanting to astonish their grand- children) will enjoy building
the toys at http://www.scitoys.com/
The Balance Charitable
Foundation has announced its Grant Making Policy. The first programme
will fund work which is focused on the needs of older people across the
UK, particularly those over 75 at risk of social exclusion. The programme
will encourage innovation. http://balancefoundation.org.uk/foundation/policy/
Learn more about
Osteoporosis and what you can do to alleviate it at http://www.caredirections.co.uk/frame_comment_35.htm
Astronomy groups
- Register (free) and enter the name of your town. Your location is then
set and you can find out interesting objects in your night sky - for example
when and where to look for satellites tonight http://www.heavens-above.com/
The Department for
International Development operates a number of different funding schemes
to promote sustainable development and eliminate poverty, including the
Civil Society Challenge Fund and Development Awareness Fund, both open
to UK-based not-for-profit organisations. Learn more at http://www.dfid.gov.uk/funding
Multimap is useful
but try this new map site (with a route finder too) http://mappoint.msn.com/(kjdq0z55p2q1hv455mmob155)/Home.aspx
- you can look up a map of almost any address in the world... The Scarman Trust
is a national charity committed to helping citizens bring about change
in their community, in the way that they want. They fund and give practical
assistance to hundreds of people with a 'can do' attitude. http://www.thescarmantrust.org
We have already recommended
the Web site with daily jottings by diarist Samuel Pepys. Here is a same-formula
BBC showcase of significant and quirky news stories broadcast on today's
date, beginning in 1950. The Beeb would like to hear from you if you spot
yourself in the crowd in one of the old videos, or attended an event.
http://www.pepysdiary.com http://www.bbc.co.uk/onthisday
(Thanks - Zen Internet Newsletter). TECHNICAL SUPPORT Researchers will
find the amazing FREE Net Snippets program at http://www.netsnippets.com/basic/intro.htm
very useful.
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- March 2005 The "My U3A" world
project has attracted many new and exciting submissions, from U3A Bendigo
(Australia) to U3A Zelenogorsk (Siberia). Click on http://worldu3a.org/cooperation/
and then the button. For gardeners and
compulsive fruit and veg bottlers the website at http://www.gardenguides.com/
is commercial but not pushy, and it has a useful and thriving user forum.
UK Inheritance tax
- You needn't pay it, yet millions do. A few simple dodges can save a
married couple possibly £100,000s. http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/cgi-bin/viewnews.cgi?newsid1090960720,2158
Pathways to Philosophy
- an excellent website, and not just for your philosophy group - http://www.philosophypathways.com
(Thank you Geoffrey Klempner). The Government has
launched an "ITsafe" Awareness For Everyone on http://www.itsafe.gov.uk/index.html
- and e-Citizen at http://www.ecitizen.co.uk/about.htm
says "The web is an exciting and valuable tool, but it's important that
everyone can use it safely and securely". (Thank you Peter Sinclair -
U3A Harrow) http://www.caredirections.co.uk/frame_comment_24.htm
spells out the detail of the NHS contribution to Nursing Care for UK Nursing
Home residents. Do memories of favourite
landscapes change with age? Please spend five minutes helping a student
with his thesis by going to the following website - http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=3667752327
and completing a very brief survey. www.enruchuk.net
contains 30,000 objects and pictures taken from the collections of the
Science Museum, the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television
and the National Railway Museum, plus the stories behind them. http://www.tudogs.com/
has a great free newsletter with all sorts of resources; the free electronic
diary is a ripper (ozzie for "very good indeed"). In particular have a
look at the census of marine life. (Thank you George Williams - U3A Australia).
TECHNICAL SUPPORT
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- February 2005 COOPERATION is the
voice of U3A UK's 'International U3A' subject network. See their project
on 'My U3A' by clicking on http://worldu3a.org/cooperation/
and then the button. Read contributions from many exciting international
U3A groups. Another interesting
project for U3A members abroad, this time in association with 'Timewitnesses'
and a forthcoming BBC programme (in September) entitled 'End of War'.
It is found at http://timewitnesses.org/english/stories.html
Ancient History groups
and Travel groups will find a very good guide to Egypt at http://www.touregypt.net
The page http://www.touregypt.net/magazine/masterindex.htm
is especially useful for tourists. For an excellent
article on global warming and climate change, with many links to other
material, all suitable for a U3A course: www.websterpublishing.com/temp/backgrounderonglobalwa104244.html
(Thank you Ted Webber, U3A Sunshine Coast, Australia). An introduction to
U3A-UKs 'Shared Learning Projects' can be found at http://www.u3a.org.uk/sharedlearning.htm
(Thank you Jenny Clark of UK's Learning Support Network). A health-related
set of links for UK readers can be found at http://www.ukselfhelp.info/
and the 'Useful Links (new)' entry at the top brings further general information.
Commercial, but well
worth a look: Daedalus Books & Music, is an online discount book and music
store selling thousands of quality bargain books and overstock CDs. Click
on http://www.daedalusbooks.com/
TECHNICAL SUPPORT Conversion utilities,
views and additional information for Windows can be found at http://beqiraj.com/office/viewer/index.asp
The following link
gives pros & cons for changing from Internet Explorer to Firefox as well
as installation instructions on Windows O/S: http://www.techsupportalert.com/firefox.htm
For Open Office.org tutorials http://www.tutorialsforopenoffice.org
(Thank you Donald Waugh - U3A UK).
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- January 2005 U3A UK's International
Subject Network are pleased to announce their second project - END OF
WAR. Please go-to or click-on http://worldu3a.org/cooperation
We hope you will join us. Yet another astonishing
compendium of fascinating materials for local groups - the Martindale
Center, http://martindalecenter.com
(Thank you Derek Stevens, U3A Pembrokeshire) Looking for a long-lost
much-loved book? Someone somewhere has a copy they will sell to you. Go-to
http://abebooks.com Strongly recommended
- another gem for serious book-lovers. http://theparisreview.org/
(Thank you Henry Gort - U3A Reigate) The Educators Reference
Desk contains more than 2,000 lesson plans submitted by teachers. Mostly
American material, but with lots of good ideas for U3A groups. http://eduref.org/Virtual/Lessons/
TECHNICAL SUPPORT Acrobat Reader 6
loads much faster if you follow the tip given on Sanjay's Coding Tips.
See http://sastools.com/b2/post/79394202
(Thank you Peter Anderson - U3A New South Wales) For a review of the
pre-release version of OpenOffice Version 2 see http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=20293
It has improved compatibility with Microsoft Office and for the database
fans it has a java based SQL database. (Thanks, Peter Anderson).
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The
UK Internetwork Group aims to publicise and promote the role of the
Internet for Lifelong Learning for third-age learners throughout the
world
The following
are signposts to educational resources of a (mostly) non-computer
nature to be found on the world-wide-web. History, Philosophy, Art
and Poetry links are there in profusion. 
