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FOUR SEASONS BREEZE | MAY 2020 47 Classical Music Club We are classical music lovers with an interest in sharing our love, knowledge, and interest in classical music. We meet on the second Thursday of each month at 7 pm in The Lodge Theater. We listen to and watch musical selections on the big screen. Each month we focus on a particular work or several selections of one composer. We also discuss current musical performances in the area. We welcome new members. Contact Steve Benoff at steve.benoff@verizon.net or (310) 413-4896. ~ Steve Benoff The Four Seasons Singers are not rehearsing right now, but we have the music we have been working on and I just know (wink, wink) that choir members are working on it themselves. They also know how to do deep breathing by placing one hand on their diaphragm and one on their ribs and taking in a deep breath. If you do this correctly you can feel your chest and ribs expand. This can be a great stress reliever and you can also test how your lungs are doing by doing this exercise. I've sent notes to my choir because I miss them. One contained a joke that I will expand on here. Think back to the 80s and Bon Jovi's big hair. One of their songs was Livin' On A Prayer. Well, think of our situation now and toilet paper. Now sing: "We've got to hold on to what we got; we've got each other and that's a lot; it makes a difference if we make it or not; for Love we'll give it a shot. Oh, we're half way there; oh, oh, livin' on a square. Wash your hands and we'll make it I swear. Oh, oh, livin' on a square." If you would like to join the Singers, would like to be included in my email list, or if you have questions about the Four Seasons Singers, call (951) 797-3466 or email me at bawasco@dc.rr.com. We always welcome new recruits who want to sing! ~ Barbara Wasco Four Seasons Singers Veterans Club Veterans Group Finding Solutions to Current Problems On your morning walk during these "shelter in place" days have you seen Veterans smiling? If so, know that they are not up to mischief. More than most people our Veterans have already experienced plenty of time being "locked down" and "restricted to quarters." Veterans know this will pass and our life of pool time, club events, and meals at our Bistro will resume. So, settle in for a cozy spring at home. Do some gardening, catch up on those shows you missed, read a book or two! Stay safe we look forward to spending time with you soon. For those who need more social interaction, our Veteran's group innovator Glenn King has found a path forward. Glenn has introduced a video conferencing application to fill the void. Recently, Glenn and a couple of our Veterans Group Communications Team members conducted a test to evaluate the use of Zoom meetings conferencing software with real-time messaging and content sharing. "We hope to use this video-conferencing application as a valuable new communication capability to reach more of our Four Seasons Veterans and their spouses, especially those unable to attend our meetings due to their medical/physical disability. This application will let us also record our meetings as a video file. Soon members will be able to view our meetings when convenient," said Air Force retired veteran Glenn King. Glenn King is also the designer and administrator for our Four Seasons Veterans Group Website. As expected, our first attempt was a bit hit or miss, but the application showed great promise. Zoom has been in the news lately having been the target of hackers. On March 20, Eric S. Yuan, the Founder and CEO of Zoom, published a blog post. In his post, Yuan announced that Zoom is committing their engineer department resources for the next 90 days to identify and fix recent issues of harassment (or so-called "Zoom bombing") in their application. He further reminded users of available protective settings which prevent uninvited guests from entering their conferences. Those with security concerns are encouraged to seek more information from the company's website. Veterans interested in being part of our next Zoom meeting "test trial" have two options. Primary means to join the next conference is to visit our online website fourseasonsveteransgroup.com. At the homepage, click the "MORE" tab at the top of the page, and select "Group NEWS&PROJECTS" from the drop down menu. Then scroll down to the "New Zoom Video Conferencing" article. The alternative is to send an email to the fourseasonsveteransgroup@group.com to obtain further instructions on how to download this application onto your computer. There are free tutorial videos available to guide new users as well. We encourage other interested clubs to check out zoom.us on the Internet. No reason to let a little thing like a quarantine to stop all the fun in Four Seasons. Stay home, stay safe! ~ Lawrence Moreland, ldmoreland76@ gmail.com Just in case: Check with your club contact to confirm meeting place, date, and time.