Thursday October 5, 2017
Breast cancer charity appeals for funds The New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation is asking Wellingtonians to support this month’s Pink Ribbon Appeal. Collectors will be shaking their pink buckets at sites across the city, including its southern and eastern suburbs, on October 13 and 14. The aim is to raise funds for research into new targeted treatments, medical equipment for our hospitals, life-saving awareness and education programmes, and support for women going through breast cancer. Around 270 women in the Capital & Coast and Hutt Valley DHB catchments are diagnosed with breast cancer each year. More than 50 die in the region each year. “We have hundreds of volunteers across the Wellington region – 9000 around the country – who have generously committed their time to our appeal,” BCFNZ chief executive Evangelia Henderson says. “Now we need Kiwis everywhere to drop a coin in the bucket – your gift helps us work towards our long term vision of zero deaths from breast cancer.” With breast cancer the most common cancer for New Zealand women – eight women a day are diagnosed, and one in nine women will be diagnosed in their lifetime – almost everyone knows someone affected by the disease. “Know the normal look and feel of your breasts, and report any changes to your doctor,” Evangelia says.
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Paradise Lost10 - Losing Your Email Address Windows deadline looms
again or collect the old email and your Two weeks ago, Vodafone anlist of contacts and manually move nounced its plans to end its customer across. email services the released end of Windows 10from was withthem much fanfare in midNovember 2017. So what does this Our nerds have beento looking into this 2015 and one year on, the offer to upgrade Windows mean? Since the beginning of email and there are ways to do it but the 10 formid free is just to expire. in the 1990’s, telco’sabout like Telecom methods are different depending on (now Spark) and TelstraClearthat (nowa total Microsoft estimates ofyou 300 devices what usemillion now and what you want Vodafone) decided to provide to use inabout the future. If you don’t want to are now running Windows 10, with a third of those customers with their own email lose your old email then I suggest you being But - about 60% - of servicesnew to adddevices. to the internet andthe majority give us a call and we can help you out. phone services their customers Windows based PCs arewere still running Windows 7 so If you have a small business onif buying. In 2007, Spark (then Telecom) one ofupgrade, the servicesyou’ve below, then this that’s you and you want that free got decided to ask Yahoo to take care of would be a great time to get your own its email which, as of us until 29service July 2016 tomany do it. domain name; eg. jane@xyzlimited. now know, created a lot of difficulties To date, most Windows 10 upgrades have gone reasonco.nz .Here are the email domain for their customers. In April of this year namesvolume that will bebeing affected.done, Call us if ably butcustomers with the sheer Sparksmoothly, moved their email you want some help. back to New Zealand and into the
Pink Ribbon Appeal Kilbirnie and Newtown co-ordinator Jacqui Perry will be joining collectors next weekend. PHOTO: Jamie Adams
“Consider annual mammograms from age 40, then have mammograms every two years from age 50.” Kilbirnie Newtown co-ordinator Jacqui Perry will be one of the 9000 collecting on the weekend. Jacqui says she was motivated to get involved with fundraising after her mother was diagnosed with
breast cancer at the age of 55. She has since recovered. “If your family has a history of cancer you should be checking your breasts from the age of 20,” she advises women. Her collection area raised $5400 last year and Jacqui hopes for a repeat of that sort of generosity this month.
there’s no shortage of horror stories. Many of these have @vodafone.co.nz hands of a company called SMX who happened in thecalled lastXtra two months when Microsoft made run the email service Mail @vodafone.net.nz Windows 10 an automatic update without really letting on their behalf. @paradise.net.nz When Vodafone TelstraClear anyone knowacquired and around the world people woke up @clear.net.nz in 2012, they inherited a range of surprised with a new operating @ihug.co.nz system running on their email services. Vodafone has now computer. Unfortunately, woke up to a non-funcmade a business decision to walk many@es.co.nz away fromcomputer email as a service tioning andand a sinking feeling in their stomach. @pcconnect.co.nz asks its customers to find a new email Microsoft is going to continue its extended support com@quik.co.nz service – they’ve suggested Gmail. mitment for Windows 7 through to January @wave.co.nz 2020, so if There’s a problem though. Services like paradise.net clear.net don’t you’re happyand with Windows 7 and believe you’ll be Happydon’t Computing have a your means current to allow youcomputer to send using in four years’ then Book a Nerdtime, online at the or forward your existing email to a upgrade may not be for you. www.needanerd.co.nz new service and so you either have to abandon email and But if youyour areoldgoing to start upgrade your current Winorfrom phone 0800 63 33 26 dows 7, 8 or 8.1, best you get a hurry on. The process isn’t difficult – check it out at https://www.microsoft. com/en-NZ/windows/windows-10-upgrade. Just make sure that before you carry out the upgrade, you’ve got a current backup of your computer that you know works just in case you need to go back. Computers are like most other things in life – a byte of prevention is worth a terabyte of cure. Book a Nerd online at www.needanerd.co.nz or by phone on 0800 63 33 26
Silver popular for cars, green safest National insurer Youi today released research which showed New Zealand motorists had a clear preference when it comes the colour of their car. The study found silver was the number one choice of hue among New Zealand’s motorists insured with Youi, with close to one-quarter (21.89 percent) behind the wheel of a silver car. Youi CEO Frank Costigan says the company’s accident frequency research showed green was the safest car colour, recording the lowest number of accident claims across the nation. “Our claims research showed black cars were the most likely to be involved in a crash. Surprisingly white came in next on the top five along with charcoal, grey and red cars” says Mr. Costigan. On Youi’s list of the most common car colours on New Zealand’s roads, are also white (19.11 percent), blue (13.65 percent) and black (13.32 percent). Popular choices also included grey
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(nine percent), red (8.68 percent) and green (4.88 percent). “It’s interesting the motorist’s number one choice of colour is silver and there are a number of potential factors driving the decision,” says, Mr Costigan. “The fact it’s one of the national colours might be a major consideration along with lighter colours often being perceived as safer on the road when it comes to visibility.” The Youi study also found that preference in terms of car colour varied according to gender and age. Most notably, black vehicles are most popular for drivers born between 1980-1990 and then become increasingly less popular outside of this age bracket, enjoying the least amount of popularity amongst those born prior to 1950. To see where your car colour fits in to the mix, read the full study available at www.youi.co.nz/blog/ study-most-popular-carcolours-and-which-are-thesafest
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