Our Christmas Party will be held on December 10. If you and your partner plan to attend, please call the QCC Office so that we have a count for planning purposes. Unlike our regular monthly luncheons, you will need to be escorted to the Cafeteria for this event. Someone will be on hand in the lobby with the tickets that you will need to get your lunch. If you are already on-site, please make sure that you get your ticket before going to the Cafeteria. Our buffet lunch of turkey and trimmings will be set up in a reserved area of the seating space. Everything included in our lunch will be there. If you wish to purchase anything in the Cafeteria, that is fine, but it is not included in our event. Your only cost will be your contribution to the dessert potluck. Hope to see you there.
IBM Boulder is managing some of IBM's most valued assets
for contributing to the good of the world community. One of them could really
use our help:
http://www.WorldCommunityGrid.org, the world's largest public computing grid
benefiting humanity. Sixteen of Boulder's servers handle all traffic into and
out of WCG, and the site has owned that critical role since it was announced in
November 2004 by IBM and some of the world's leading health and environmental
organizations.
WCG is an incredibly important research tool that uses grid
technology for unsurpassed supercomputer research on some of humankind's most
vexing problems, and its location here in Colorado is an important reminder to
our friends and families of IBM's good corporate citizenship. Generations to
come will benefit from the basic research being done or planned on the causes
and cures of cancer, AIDS, muscular dystrophy, infectious diseases and global
warming.
If you're familiar with our grid computing, you know how this
works: WCG allows you to donate the computing power of your individual desktop
or laptop PCs whenever your computer is turned on but idle, protected by the
same processes used for IBM and customer networks. IBM does not
require its employees to donate
idle PC time - but strongly encourages them and retirees to participate. More
than 100,000 IBMers and retirees worldwide have chosen to do so, along with
hundreds of thousands of other people worldwide.
QCC members have two options for joining a World Community
Grid team, which allows you to see how many hours of computer time we're
contributing. It takes just a few moments to download the necessary software,
and the security is guaranteed by IBM Boulder.
Take a moment right now, go to
www.WorldCommunityGrid.org and click on the blue icon, BECOME A MEMBER.
After you've done then, go to one of the following WCG teams and then click
on "Join this team":
If you have
questions, please contact me, an IBM
retiree working with community service programs in Colorado Corporate
Citizenship and Corporate Affairs: jprater@us.ibm.com, 303-682-0890. I've had
WCG working on my laptop for about three years, on cancer research; and my home
PC is grinding away on a piece of the research being done on developing a more
nutritious rice to help cure world hunger. I set my WCG software to only kick in
when my PC is otherwise idle, and I've never had a visible problem with
performance. And there's never been a security breach attributed to WCG in its
four-year history. It's just a very good thing we can do.
Thanks again.
Bill Prater
IBM Colorado Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Affairs
Boulder Central Optimist Club: The Boulder Central Optimist Club is made up of men and women from age 50 to
almost 100. They are dedicated to helping the youth of Boulder County.
Members volunteer for youth events and fund raisers. Because of the age of the
members there is not a lot of pressure to get involved in these efforts
but all help is appreciated. On average about 40 members and guests attend
meetings each Thursday morning at the Boulder West Senior Center. The
coffee is always ready by 9 and donuts show up slightly later. Reminiscing and
discussing the events of the day takes place in small informal groups
until the official meeting time at 10am. Each week about 40 minutes of the one
hour meeting is reserved for a guest speaker.
Retired IBMers in the group include Jim Buck, Doug Enders, Jim Hahn, Charlie
Jenkins, Don Johnson, Betsy Noyes and Al Zack. Come be our guest any
Thursday or call one of the above to learn more.
Note from fellow QCC Member: I just discovered that some states (including Colorado and New Jersey) have the legal requirement that any prescription filled in their state MUST state the expiration of the drug as ONE YEAR from the FULFILLMENT DATE. I discovered this when one of my mail in prescriptions (through Medcohealth) was filled in New Jersey. I was puzzled why the previous shipment of the same prescription expired AFTER the new shipment. So I called Medcohealth and was told of this requirement AND was also told that they keep of record of the true expiration date so that all one has to do is to call in and get the true prescription date.
As for Colorado: when I had a prescription filled locally, same thing - a one year expiry. Now I will ask the pharmacist to give me the expiry date from the container from which the prescription was filled. -- Marda Buchholz
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