MURAnews Fall 2024
MURAnews Fall 2024 issue in PDF format / in accessible PDF format
In this issue:
President's Corner
Hello MURA Retirees! I hope everyone was able to share an enjoyable Thanksgiving with family and friends. It is possible that I was slightly excessive in my pumpkin pie intake. MURA recently held their annual New Retirees Reception in Alumni Hall for recent McMaster retirees. This was a larger cohort than normal as it was the first in-person event for new retirees since before the pandemic. As mentioned in my last missive, MURA has a vision … it’s a working version at the moment, and could change, but it is a starting off point. VisionThat Seniors coalesce, and using their time, experience and collective weight, work with young people and other interested parties, to leave a safer, cleaner, kinder, more ethical and just world for future generations. Thus far, we have held two brainstorming sessions, one at council and one at the above-mentioned reception. Participants have been genuinely engaged in helping us to determine how much and where interest within the retiree community lies. We broke into three groups and a council member facilitated each group. The plan was to come up with as many ideas as possible for things people would like to see changed. There was to be absolutely no judgement on choices as someone may say something that causes someone else to think of something brilliant. It was about playing off each other and quickly generating as many ideas as we could. The second part of the exercise was to narrow down the options listed. Everyone received 5 sticky dots which they placed beside the 5 items that they thought were the most important, or that they would like to work on, or that represented what they thought were easiest to achieve, or whatever one they decided was were their criteria. This exercise has produced observable results. We are developing a substantial list of areas of interest. The following is the list of the six most important topics to those people polled at the function. The list is sorted by the number of dots each item received in the narrowing down process.
We are actively looking for ways to identify areas of interest and determine what projects might be achievable. We plan to run a quick session just prior to the MURA Holiday Luncheon. It is both fun and stimulating to brainstorm topics in a respectful group and then come away with a tangible result. Please RSVP to me at nichojr@mcmaster.ca if you would like to attend the pre-lunch brainstorming session at 11:00am. In any case, we will keep you posted on our progress and please reach out if you have ideas, or want to work on a committee, or want to be involved in any way. We are trying to find ways to make a difference, and we welcome you, your ideas and your passion. Jan Nicholson
News and Events2024 MURA Holiday LuncheonMonday, December 2, 2024 RSVP by Wednesday, November 20, 2024
We’re excited to announce that MURA’s annual Holiday Lunch will take place on campus at the CIBC Banquet Hall in the Student Centre. Thanks to the generous support of the University President’s Office, some event expenses have been subsidized, allowing us to offer tickets at a reduced cost for retirees. |
The MURA Holiday Lunch is Back!
Our October walk took place in Chippawa, along the upper Niagara River. We walked from Kingsbridge Park to the Chippawa Battlefield 
Science Grad Lends her Voice to Grandparents’ Group of Seven Adventure Story
Ronald Barr is a professor emeritus in the Department of Pediatrics and an international leader in child and adolescent health research. For over fifty years, Barr has advanced research on nutrition in childhood cancer. His pioneering work has helped improve treatment outcomes for patients in low- and middle-income countries. Barr received the O. Harold Warwick Prize for Cancer Control Research in 2009 and became a member of the Order of Canada in 2020.
McMaster Names Next President| Mail Gilmour Hall 304, McMaster University 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L8 Phone 905-525-9140, extension 22247 Email hr.mcmaster@mcmaster.ca Website https://hr.mcmaster.ca/retirees/ |
Computer Tips & Tricks
McMaster Email Quarantine
By Nora Gaskin
A roundup of fast facts about McMaster email quarantine summarized from resources provided by McMaster and Microsoft.
If you use McMaster email you will have noticed that in December 2023, McMaster mail, which has been powered by Microsoft 365 since 2020, introduced email quarantine notifications.
Email quarantine intercepts suspicious email messages with a high probability of being spam, phishing, or malware, and automatically redirects them to your email quarantine page instead of delivering them directly to your inbox, where accidental clicks or responses could expose you to phishing or malware attacks.
Instead of getting the suspicious messages directly, you’ll get a single email each day from McMaster-Quarantine@mcmaster.ca, summarizing the day’s quarantined messages. This email includes a link to your quarantine page. There you can review and manage your quarantined messages.
Emails are held in quarantine for 30 days, then automatically deleted, so it’s a good idea to review your daily emails at least occasionally, if not daily, to make sure a legitimate message hasn’t mistakenly gone to quarantine. If it has, you can release it to your inbox and whitelist the sender, i.e., tell Microsoft to allow future emails from that sender to go directly to your inbox.
How do I manage my quarantined emails?
- To get to your quarantine page, click the link marked “Quarantine page” in a quarantine email, or go directly to https://security.microsoft.com/quarantine. Log in with your MacID if necessary.
- For email detail, e.g., why it’s quarantined, when it was received, its expiry time, and other details, click on the email.
- To release an email click “Release email”; you will also need to click to report that the message has no threats.
Use the one-click feature to preview a message, delete it from quarantine, allow a trusted sender, and block an unwanted one. Depending on your display, you may need to click the three dots indicated by the arrow to reveal the menu of options.
- Please Note: Instructions might look different on your device, browser, and the version of Outlook or other email client you are using.
Why are some emails quarantined and not others? Quarantine isolates suspicious or potentially harmful emails and file types (e.g., apk, app, appx, arj and others). On the quarantine page, users can see why the message was held.
I have a legitimate email; why is it in my quarantine folder? Every email that comes in is evaluated to know whether it is email or spam, on the basis of improper server configuration, links to websites, content, attachments, etc. Some legitimate emails, for example, ones with multiple links or attachments, can be trapped by these filters.
Sources and further reading
- Microsoft 365/McMaster:
- McMaster VP (Operations and Finance): Fast facts on email quarantine
- UTS: McMaster mail information for retirees
News from the College and University Retiree Associations of Canada (CURAC)
CURAC Later Life Learning (LLL) Events Online
A variety of online opportunities offered by affiliated Retiree Associations are available to MURA members through the Later Life Learning Committee’s Event Calendar. Click on the activity to learn more about the topic and how to register. The Calendar can also be accessed from the CURAC homepage by scrolling down to the bottom.
Members' Corner
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Free Daily Puzzles and Games from The New York Times
By Kathy Overholt
Do you like to enjoy a good puzzle, like Sudoku or Wordle, with your morning coffee? The New York Times offers a variety of free daily games and puzzles for all skill levels. Their collection of games on the Times Games webpage includes crosswords, logic puzzles, and even quick brain teasers – perfect for a mental warm up or a little break anytime.
Here’s a list of their free games:
- The Mini Crossword – a much smaller version of the NYT puzzle
- Spelling Bee – how many words can you make with 7 letters?
- Wordle – get 6 chances to guess a 5-letter word
- Strands – find hidden words and uncover the day’s theme
- Connections – group words that share a common thread
- Tiles -- match elements and keep your chain going
- Letter Boxed – create words using letters around the square
- Sudoku – try this numbers game, minus the math
Play one of your favourites or try something new today!
courtesy of Humour is Contagious
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MURAnews is produced by MURA members Denise Anderson, Helen Barton, Regina Bendig, Dawn Elston, Nora Gaskin, John Horsman, Marcia MacAulay, and Judy Shedden. We welcome submissions from MURA members. |