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2006-2007 Board of Directors President George Davis 480-396-8456 georgedvs@cableaz.com Vice PresidentFrank Holman 602-695-2565 TreasurerEd Sullivan 480-854-9216 edsullivan9@cox.net SecretaryDiane Rengenberger Membership / Events / Travel Chairman Diane Bennett 480-994-5243 Volunteer ChairmanVacant Past President Al Stimac 480-218-7199 Refreshment ChairmanJoe Richardson 480-895-6366 Editor Stu Mitnik 480-897-1629 Web MasterMike Peterson Photographer Volker Otto 480-816-9184 George Davis, President, welcomed members and guests to the meeting on November 6, 2006. Bob Rencenberger led the Pledge of Allegiance. The Club has a new post office box. See above for this infor-mation. Please use this new ad-dress from now on. The Club is in need of a Volunteer Chairman. Also, we need vol-unteers to sent e-mail notices of the meetings to our members. Please step up. There is no meeting in December due to the Holiday Luncheon on December 11. There will be a new feature at this year’s luncheon. We will have an auction of some lovely items that Diane has acquired over the years. All income from the auction will go toward the holiday gifts for the selected needy families. Checks will be accepted. Our featured speaker was Joe Arpiao, Sheriff, Maricopa Coun-ty. Sheriff Joe provided the attendees with an entertaining and often humorous general talk. Included were such topics as his philosophy, pink underwear, animal abuse, food at the jail, teaching English, organ donors, chain gangs, deadbeat dads, and the news media. Changes implemented to date have resulted in $175M savings, a 5% workforce reduction with a 20% reduction in management positions, and reduced the number of cus-tomer service telephone numbers from 270 to 2. Our next regular meeting will be Wednesday, January 3. During the break prior to Sheriff Joe’s arrival, we held a general discussion of the newsletter. The issue is that Honeywell subsidizes the printing and mailing of the newsletter and some time in the future may choose to eliminate this support. Current printing and mailing costs amount to ~$10 per member per year. Other Honey-well clubs rely on e-mail news-letters exclusively. We do post the newsletter on our website each month prior to the meeting. We would like your input on how you use the newsletter, preferences to e-mail vs. snail mail, attachments, use of the website, etc. to help us provide the best and most effective communication. Reminder - we no longer charge dues for the spouse of couples who are both retirees from AiResearch/Garrett/AlliedSignal /Honeywell. We are looking for volunteers to bring some of our non-driving West Side members to and from the meetings. If you are willing to help, please contact Al. 50/50 winners were Lianne Johnson and Rick Kassel. This month’s charity donations were given to American Cancer Society and St. Mary’s Food Bank. Thank You was received from John C. Lincoln Health Network. Our monthly meetings are held at the Scottsdale Senior Center, 1700 N. Granite Reef, (just north of Mc-Dowell). The meetings are held on the first Wednesday of every month, September - May, except for December – our Holiday Luncheon. We have a social hour beginning at 1:00 pm, the pre-sentation starts at 2:00 pm and adjournment is at 3:00 pm. The officers hold their board meetings prior to the regular meeting and all members are invited to attend. We welcome any input you may have and please send the editor any items that may be of interest to our members.
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HELP EACH OTHER Handyman/carpenter - replace pump house doors that a storm blew off; replace bedroom closet doors, plus some minor little tasks. Diane Bennett 480-994-5243 If you need some assistance, e-mail s.mitnik@worldnet.att.net with your need and contact information. AiResearch/Garrett Historical In-formation - Ed Gammill, Historian, indicates that anyone who has historical information about the company or any of our myriad of programs is encouraged to donate the material to him. His contact info is above. NEWS YOU CAN USE Honeywell Scholarship Pro-gram requires that applications must be made prior to the closing dates established by each of the 3 Arizona universities. If your rel-ative is interested in applying, please contact the Scholarship Office of the university that your relative attends to find out the application closing date and then be sure that the applications are sub-mitted well prior to that date. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Honeywell Health and Well-ness Center memberships are available for retirees and their spouses at just $10 per month per person. Get together with some of your bud-dies! Call them! Phoenix 602-231-7920, Tempe 480-592-1389. Well-ness Center info is also posted on our website. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The Honeywell Volunteer Work-sheet is available on our website. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - HOTEL KEY CARDS Southern California law enforce-ment professionals assigned to de-tect new threats to personal secur-ity issues, recently discovered what type of information is embedded in the credit card type hotel room key used throughout the industry. Although room keys differ from hotel to hotel, a key obtained from a well known hotel chain that was being used for a regional Identity Theft Presentation was found to contain the following the in-formation: A. Customers (your) name B. Customers partial home ad-dress C. Hotel room number D. Check in date and check out date
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Customer's (your) credit card number and expiration date! An employee can take a hand full of cards home and using a scan-ning device, access the information onto a laptop computer and go shopping at your expense. Simply put, hotels do not erase the information on these cards until an employee re-issues the card to the next hotel guest. At that time, the new guest's information is electronically "over-written" on the card and the previous guest's information is erased in the over-writing process. But until the card is rewritten for the next guest, it usually is kept in a drawer at the front desk with YOUR INFORMATION ON IT!!! The bottom line is: Keep the cards, take them home with you, or de-stroy them. NEVER leave them behind in the room or room wastebasket, and NEVER turn them in to the front desk when you check out of a room. They will not charge you for the card (it's illegal) and you'll be sure you are not leaving a lot of valuable personal information on it that could be easily lifted off with any simple scanning device card reader. For the same reason, if you arrive at the airport and discover you still have the card key in your pocket, do not toss it in an airport trash basket. Take it home and destroy it by cutting it up, especially through the electronic information strip! Information courtesy of: Pasadena Police Department - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CAR JACKINGS FOR YOUR SAFETY PLEASE READ You walk across the parking lot, unlock your car and get in-side. You start the engine and shift into Reverse, and when you look into the rear view mirror to back out of your parking space, you notice a piece of paper stuck to the middle of the rear window. So, you shift into Park, unlock your doors and jump out of your car to remove that paper (or whatever it is) that is ob-structing your view.
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Just as you reach the back of your car, the carjackers appear out of nowhere, jump into your car and take off. They practically mow you down as they speed off in your car. And guess what, ladies? I bet your purse is still in the car, and if they see your home address and have your keys, your home is now compromised! BEWARE OF THIS NEW SCHEME THAT IS NOW BEING USED. If you see a piece of paper stuck to your back window, just drive away, remove the paper later and be thankful that you read this e-mail. I hope you will forward this to friends and family, especially to women. A purse contains all kinds of personal information and ident-ification documents, and you cer-tainly do NOT want this to fall into the wrong hands. Lieutenant Tony Bartolome Bureau of Investigations Florida Highway Patrol Other Stuff More Observations of Steven Wright If you're not familiar with the work of Steven Wright, he's the famous erudite scientist who once said: "I woke up one morning and all of my stuff had been stolen...and replaced by exact duplicates. His mind sees things differently than we do, to our amazement and amusement. Here are some more of his gems: Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines. What happens if you get scared half to death twice? My mechanic told me, "I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder." Why do psychics have to ask you for your name? If at first you don't succeed, de-stroy all evidence that you tried. A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking. Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it. The hardness of the butter is pro-portional to the softness of the bread. To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is re-search. The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard. The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up. The colder the x-ray table, the more of your body is required to be on it. Everyone has a photographic mem-ory; some just don't have film. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Gotta Love These Bumper Stickers!! If You Can Read This, I've Lost My Trailer So Many Pedestrians ~ So Little Time Cleverly Disguised As a Respon-sible Adult If We Quit Voting, Will They All Go Away? Eat Right, Exercise, Die Anyway Illiterate? Write For Help Honk If Anything Falls Off Cover Me ~ I'm Changing Lanes He Who Hesitates Not Only Is Lost, But is Miles From The Next Exit I Refuse To Have a Battle Of Wits With An Unarmed Person I Do Whatever My Rice Krispies Tell Me To
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Stop Lights Timed For 35 mph Body by Nautilus ~ Brain by Mattel Boldly Going Nowhere Caution ~ Driver Legally Blonde How Many Roads Must a Man Travel Down Before He Admits He is Lost? All Men Are Animals. Some Just Make Better Pets. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - A 6 year old was asked where his grandma lived. ''Oh,'' he said, ''she lives at the airport, and when we want her we just go get her. Then when we're done having her visit, we just take her back.''
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