Special Events and Information
Links that might be of interest to you
- Medicare reimbursement: If you retired from IBM before 1997 and are Medicare eligible OR you are Medicare disabled regardless of retirement date, go to Acclaris and create an account to apply for reimbursement. If you have trouble or questions, call them at 813-876-4330.
- IBM Logo merchandise
- Discounts for IBMers and possibly retirees
- IBM Club discounts (you need to create a userid to use site)
The Butterfly Pavilion has put in place a butterfly gardening program. If you are interested, contact Amy Yarger, 720-974-1874, ayarger@butterflies.org.
Travel to Italy: (This is a note from Bob Martinez, bob.martinez47@yahoo.com)
Bob has a trip planned to several sites in Italy - Rome, Pompeii, Amalfi coast, Capri, Florence, Pisa, Tuscany, Venice, and much more. Check out this brochure explaining the trip. He will be holding a meeting in San Jose to discuss the trip, if you happen to be in the area. Click here for information about this meeting.
World Community Grid: 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: 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 Center 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