Issue number seventythree (November 2006) in a series of Signposts sent by the U3A International Group UK and U3AOnline Australia, once a month, to any and all U3A members anywhere in the world.

  • Please send snippets of possible interest to Tom Holloway or Rick Swindell.
  • Feel free to copy this information in your newsletters.

Environment/SciTech Groups: The US Government's 'Carbon Dioxide Analysis Center' at http://cdiac.ornl.gov/pns/faq.html gives answers to 'Frequently Asked Questions'.
The infamous 'Parcel Delivery Service' telephone swindle has now been shut down by the regulator, but new swindles arise all the time.
- See http://www.hoax-slayer.com/pds-phone-scam.html for the background and http://www.icstis.org.uk/ for the official regulator.
History Groups: The History Cooperative is a pioneering nonprofit humanities resource offering top-level online history scholarship at http://www.historycooperative.org/
Prospect Magazine maintains a diary of forthcoming lectures at http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/events.php This includes a lecture (in London) by Prof T Kirkwood on 9th November, entitled 'Aging Inside Out'. (Thank you Colin Mitchell of U3A-UK)
Art and Art History Groups: The Hungarian Web Gallery of Art (previously featured in Signpost) have added Education Online Tours to demonstrate the possibilities provided by collections of this type - clickon or goto http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/art/
TECHNICAL SUPPORT
Web Design: A rich and rewarding source of free tutorials for Flash, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, CSS and Fireworks can be found at http://www.entheosweb.com/tutorials.asp
- Buying a new PC? http://www.pcpro.co.uk/dealoftheweek/ is worth a look. This website also has news and reviews.
- Latest report on U3A UK group websites is available from http://worldu3a.org/worldu3as/u3a-uk.htm (Thank you Peter Sinclair of Harrow U3A).


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