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This issue of Keeping in Touch deals with several matters of interest to Prime Time Surfers:

1.) Christmas Carol Quiz

2.) IRS Lawsuit Scam

3.) How To Change Your Browser's Start Page

4.) Smoke Detector Maintenance

5.) "Another Time and Place" for those of us over 40!

6.) Your Subscription Details

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1.) Christmas Carol Quiz

First, we here at www.SeniorSSuperStoreS.com want to wish all of you a very Merry Christmas and the Happiest of New Years! While on the holiday theme, we thought you might find the following light-hearted piece of interest.

As we celebrate this Christmas season, it seems we hear carols everywhere we go. But can we identify those familiar songs by some of their unfamiliar titles? Take this quiz and see how you do; some of the answers are scattered throughout the body of this newsletter. Try to figure out the names of the songs.

(The complete set of answers is on our web site in the Health Resources section of our Community Room at Christmas Carol Quiz).

(1.) Castaneous-colored seed vesicated in a conflagration

(2.) May Jehovah grant unto you hilarious males retirement

(3.) The apartment of 2 psychiatrists

(4.) ABCDEFGHIJKMNOPQR5TUVWXYZ

(5.) Do you perceive the same longitudinal pressure that stimulates my auditory sense organs?

(6.) I apprehended my maternal parent osculating with a corpulent, unshaven male in crimson disguise

(7.) Move hitherword the entire assembly of those who are loyal in their belief

(8.) Singular yearning for the twin anterior incisors

(9.) The smog-less bewitching hour arrived

(10.) Expectation of arrival to populated area by mythical masculine perennial gift-giver

(11.) Sir Lancelot with laryngitis

(12.) Exuberation to this orb

(13.) Leave and do an elevated broadcast

(14.) That exiguous hamlet south of the holy city

(15.) Behold I envisioned a trio of nautical vessels

(16.) Listen, the winged heavenly messengers are proclaiming tunefully

(17.) A joyful song relative to hollow metallic vessels which vibrate and bring forth a ringing sound when struck

(18.) Frozen precipitation commence

(19.) Stepping an the pad cover

(20.) Decorate the entry-ways

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2.) IRS Lawsuit Scam

It seems that an enterprising group of individuals claims to be planning to bring a class action suit against the U.S. Internal Revenue Service for fraud, claiming that the IRS's tax collection since 1971 has been illegal, and that participants in the class action can expect to receive all their taxes back, plus 3% compounded interest.

All you have to do is sign up on the Web site and pay for access to legal documents, pay to become part of the class action lawsuit, and...

Okay, folks, we think we know the drill here. This is a scam that plays on peoples' anger at the IRS. But don't be fooled.

Here are some warning signs that this scam will be more taxing than rewarding to your bank account:

- If such a monumental class action lawsuit were in progress, you'd hear about it on CNN, or USA Today, or the New York Times. Not through a rambling email that takes you to a poorly-designed Web site.

- You should NEVER pay money to join a class-action lawsuit.

- The email tells you to sign up at the Web site and enter specific referral IDs. This is a hallmark of multi-level marketing (MLM). Class action lawsuits are never MLM programs.

If you think you may have been physically or otherwise harmed by a product or service, visit ClassActionAmerica.com instead. It describes current class-action suits, lets you know if you qualify, and how to participate.

Visit ClassActionAmerica.com to learn more about how to protect yourself.

(Answer to # 1: "Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire")

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3.) How To Change Your Browser's Start Page

When you launch your browser, does it always go straight to MSNBC? Or to Yahoo!? Or to some other site? Would you like to make it open on a blank page instead? Or just change the default entirely, to a new page, like your own page that you built?

Here's the how-to...

Open Internet Explorer. On the Menu line, click Tools, Internet Options. You'll see the Internet Options dialog box displayed. The General tab is pre-selected.

The first item is the Home Page section, and it says "You can change which page to use for your Home Page." The address bar will have a URL (address) listed. Three buttons help you make a choice: Current, Default, and Blank.

The buttons in order now....

* The 'Current' button makes whatever page is in your browser at the moment the new home page. It's the current page. Click to "make it so."

* The 'Default' button will most likely make Microsoft's MSN network the default page.

* The 'Blank' button will make just a blank page all you'll see when you open your browser.

So, if you have a particular page you want to appear when you start IE, just open the menu, set the page to Current, and you've done it.

What about Netscape users? Edit your preferences. Click 'Edit' on the menu line, then click 'Preferences'. You'll see the options right there. The format is similar to what is described above regarding Internet Explorer.

(Answer to # 6: "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus")

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4.) Smoke Detector Maintenance

Now that cold weather has arrived, don't let your smoke detector suffer from benign neglect and thus malfunction - perhaps resulting in disaster for your home and perhaps yourself.

Routine maintenance of your smoke detector(s) and battery replacement may be the most important jobs you do during the year.

Dusting or vacuuming removes dust and insures proper air movement; thus routine cleaning when you replace your batteries is important.

Here are some other ideas related to smoke detectors:

-Choose new long-life batteries (always check the expiration date).

-Change the batteries once a year on the same day every year; for example, change the batteries at the same time you set back your clocks in the spring or forward in the fall.

-Test your units at least once a month. Mark the testing day on your calendar and check it off after you have tested the detectors.

-The batteries in kitchen detectors are sometimes removed due to the "burnt toast syndrome." Remember to replace the batteries or better yet, install a new detector with a "hush button" that will silence the alarm but not render the unit ineffective like removing the batteries.

-If you have a "nuisance alarm," that is, one that goes off frequently for no apparent reason, install a new unit.

-If remodeling is in your future, then it's a good time to add AC-DC units that are interconnected -- most building codes require them in new construction.

-Make sure that you have an adequate number of smoke detectors installed. A smoke detector should be installed on every level of your home, including the basement, and outside all bedrooms.

-Smoke detectors don't last forever. Replace yours every few years.

(Answer to # 10: "Santa Claus is Coming To Town")

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5.) "Another Time and Place"

This "poem" was sent by one of our email friends, and we thought you might like it.

For folks over 40...

A Computer was something on TV
From a science fiction show of note
A Window was something you hated to clean
And Ram was the father of a goat.

Meg was the name of my girlfriend
And Gig was a job for the nights
Now they all mean different things
And that really Mega Bytes.

An Application was for employment
A Program was a TV show
A Cursor used profanity
A Keyboard was a piano.

A Memory was something that you lost with age
A CD was a bank account
And if you had a 3-inch floppy
You hoped nobody found out.

Compress was something you did to the garbage
Not something you did to a file
And if you Unzipped anything in public
You'd be in jail for a while.

Log on was adding wood to the fire
Hard drive was a long trip on the road
A Mouse pad was where a mouse lived
And a Backup happened to your commode.

Cut you did with a pocket knife
Paste you did with glue
A Web was a spider's home
And a Virus was the flu.

I guess I'll stick to my pad and paper
And the Memory in my head.
I hear nobody's been killed in a Computer crash
But when it happens they wish they were dead.

(Answer to # 15: "I Saw Three Ships")

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Expecting another quiz answer? We'll give you an easy one for number 20: "Deck the Halls." You'll need to go to Christmas Carol Quiz for the rest of the answers.

Again, Merry Christmas to All, and to All a Good Night!

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