SIGNPOST

Along with more Internet links that can prove useful for Group Leaders and others can be found in the U3A Signpost. Below is extracted one recent item.
All Groups: The web is absolutely stuffed with fascinating educational videos on every subject imaginable. No Internet connection where you meet? No matter - these videos are easily downloaded to a laptop to be played back and projected later onto a screen or a convenient wall.

The software to do this is 'Replay Media Catcher' and in the opinion of this writer every local group should have it as well as the digital projector that turns every home or hall into a private cinema. Both software and hardware are well worth the purchase price.

Spire Christmas Party

There is now a picture report of this party. Click HERE to see it.
At the bottom of the screen are 3 controls. The middle one will start the slideshow.

Angels in the Height

In the U3A News issue 96 Autumn 2011 on page 66 I noticed that one of our members has had a book published.
Audrey has been a member of Spire U3A for a few years now. But we did not know we had such talent. Congratulations Audrey.
Her book costs only £1.40.
It is a six minute Christmas sketch suitable for boys and girls aged 7 upwards. Eleven speaking parts, nine of which range from 5 to 7 lines. The entire cast are angels and the two main characters have 18 lines of dialogue each. The setting is an angel choir practice immediately before the first Christmas.

U3A Videos can now be seen on YouTube.
There are 5 short videos that show how Subjects are dealt with across the UK.
They are well worth watching.

1. Video 1
2. Video 2
3. Video 3
4. Video 4
5. Video 5

Making Your Own Web Site for FREE.

I still have spaces on this course and it is not too late to start.
The next session is on the 21st October at 10am until noon.
The next after this is 18th Nov and then every 4 weeks [not month].
Give me a call on 01722 501 218
Peter Read

Sci -Tech programme

Our programme is now complete. The next talk is on Experimental Aircraft by Alan Goodes.
This is on 31stOct at 10am in the Harnham Memorial Hall.
No need to sign on. Just come.

Cafe Scientifique Talk Tuesday 11th Oct

Just an early reminder that our next meeting is on Tuesday 11th October. This is because the Stonehenge Enquiry is being held in the Rugby Club.

This will be Prof Chris Rhodes second visit to Salisbury Café Scientifique and he will be asking
"What Happens When we Run Out of Oil?".

Professor Chris Rhodes is Director of Fresh-lands Environmental Actions and is based in Reading.

He has written numerous scientific articles and recently published his first novel (http://universityshambles.com), a black comedy on the disintegration of the British university system. The subject of the talk is of course highly topical and will remain so as cheap oil reserves become relentlessly depleted, changing the face of
the modern world.