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Friday, January 28, 2011 Club Web Site

Editor: Russell GurneyIf you have any comments orquestions, email the editor.

Future SpeakersFeb 2 2011Kathryn Goldsmith "Overseas Relief Project"

Feb 9 2011Roger Siddle "Rotary Fellowships and theICUFR"

Feb 16 2011Topsy D'Cruz Feb 23 2011John Christofilos "Exercise and good diet "

Mar 2 2011David Tolstrup "D9810 Adelaide Conference"

Mar 9 2011TBC - Doncaster SecondaryCollege "Citizenship and NYSF"

Mar 16 2011Club Forum

Upcoming EventsRotary Leadership - Series 4Week 2 [of 3]Feb 12 2011 - Feb 12 2011Rotary Leadership - Series 2Week 3 [of 3]Feb 13 2011 - Feb 13 2010Rotary Leadership - Series 5Week 1 [of 3]Feb 19 2011 - Feb 19 2011YMCA TwYlight DiscoFeb 19 2011 - Feb 19 2011Manningham Flood ReliefFundraiserFeb 19 2011 - Feb 19 2011President Elect TrainingSeminar [PETS]Mar 6 2011 - Mar 6 2011Walk The Torque 2011Mar 6 2011 - Mar 6 2011Rotary Leadership - Series 3Week 3 [of 3]Mar 20 2011 - Mar 20 20112011 District 9810ConferenceApr 7 2011 - Apr 9 2011District Assembly

VOLUME 39 ISSUE 26

Next Meeting: WEDNESDAY 6:00 PM for 6:30 PM

Beau Monde International, 934 DOncaster Road, Doncaster

2 FEB 2011

Guest Speaker Kathryn GoldsmithGreeter and Set Up/Down Graeme Trainor Cash Desk Pat Armstrong / Danny DinicoloChair Ian Le Page

FROM THE BRIDGEby Reece, Roger

As it was Australia Day on Wednesday, there was no official Club meeting thisweek at the Beau Monde. Greg and Alma hosted a BBQ at their house whichwas attended by a large number of Rotarians, their partners and children. Itwas a very enjoyable evening of fellowship and good food. Thanks to Greg &Alma for hosting this and to everyone who bought salads & desserts. As Gregpointed out 14 months ago he & Alma didn’t know anyone who was there, so itwas a great way to spend the evening with new friends.

In the News Victorian Flood Relief AppealThe idea of the fundraising concert, in conjunction with Manningham CityCouncil, was discussed at the Cluster Presidents meeting and for variouspractical reasons it will not go ahead.The cluster will put its support behind RC Manningham’s fundraiser which isnow being specifically held for the Victorian floods.

This event is ‘An Italian Experience’ on Saturday 19th February at 7pm at theVeneto Club. The cost is $55 per person (drinks at bar prices).I shall be attending and it would be great if we were able to get a tabletogether to support this Victorian cause. Please let me know if you want to

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May 7 2011 - May 7 2011Rotary Leadership - Series 4Week 3 [of 3]May 14 2011 - May 14 2011Rotary Leadership - Series 5Week 2 [of 3]May 21 2011 - May 21 2011District ChangeoverJul 2 2011 - Jul 2 2011Rotary Leadership - Series 5Week 3 [of 3]Aug 20 2011 - Aug 20 20112011 Rugby Union World CupSep 9 2011 - Oct 23 2011

NewsRI 2011 Conference - May 21 to25 New Orleans USANZ Rotary Clubs Offer to HostAussie During 2011 RugbyWorld Cup

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attend. Walk the Torque A reminder that Walk the Torque is on Sunday 6th March. Kevin O’Donnell hassent everyone a flyer for the event and asks people to promote it widely. Anumber of Rotarians have been delivering leaflets and visiting gyms to publicisethe event. So please encourage your friends and family to sign up to take partand support this important project. Bob Pitts has circulated a roster for the day,Sunday 6th March, so if you cannot volunteer on that day please let him know. Garden Party at Schramms Cottage If you would like to attend the Doncaster-Templestowe Historical Societyannual Garden Party at 7pm on Saturday 12th February at Schramms Cottage.Please let me know ASAP. The cost of the evening is $26 which includes aspit roast, dessert and coffee. Soft drinks and punch will be provided. BYOwine and beer.

Members

Alison & I visited Liz Olie on Thursday. She is now at home after a short stayin the Donvale Rehab hospital following back surgery. She is up and aboutalbeit taking things very carefully, and trying not to do too much. Liz feels muchsupported by the club with visits, phone calls and the flowers she has received.We wish Liz a speedy recovery.

January Board Meeting

A Board Meeting was held at Roger’s house on Thursday 27th January. Asummary of key points will be prepared by Secretary Brett Stevens andpublished in the Bulletin.

Cluster Presidents Meeting

A breakfast meeting was held at the Beau Monde on Friday 28th January. Thekey points from the meeting are

The GSE welcome home event is now a District event and will be heldon 3rd February, at the Wheelers Hill International Hotel.

The cluster will focus its support on one event for the Victorian FloodRelief Appeal, which is being organised by RC Manningham.

Rotary Leadership Institute (RLI) is being promoted and will be givenfurther exposure by David Tolstrup when he attends the next ClusterPresidents meeting on 1st April to which the PE’s will be invited.

Track of the week ‘Into the Night’ by Santana & Chad Kroeger Enjoy the excellent guitar riffs……………. The answer to last week’s question:‘Who named Alice Springs after his wife?’ – Charles Todd, TelegraphSuperintendent This week’s trivia question is: ‘What is the largest network of lakes inAustralia?’ The quote for this week is from Bernard Baruch, American Financier andadvisor to US Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D Roosevelt:

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“Whatever you do, do it with all your heart and soul.” So as you go about your business over the coming week, remember whatRotary does best

Building Communities Bridging Continents President

Roger Reece

CLUB MEETING 19 JAN 2011 (Part 2)by Potter, Chris

Attendance: 68%; 31 Members; 22 Guests; 0 Makeups

Meeting Chairman's Report:

It was a great pleasure to have the opportunity at our last meeting to introduce PaulineWalker as our guest speaker. Pauline became known to the club through the Victorian Business Icon Competition, acompetition for young people in business which she likened to a cross between theApprentice and Australian Idol and was a competition the club sponsored a candidate forlast year. Pauline set the context of her talk, which focused on Climate Change, by talking abouther own journey and connection with nature having grown up on her parents farm inSouth Western Australia and then through Northern Australia and the Kimberly's andPerth on her way to Melbourne.

The key theme of Pauline's talk was on Climate Change from a perspective of looking atthe awareness of the impact our own personal everyday choices have on the environmentand our own personal carbon footprint. Through the organisation she has recently set up, Feeling to Footprint, Pauline talked ofthe concept of connect - feel - choose - speak. Pauline spoke with great passion and in avery personalised way, punctuated by some very scary statistics, about how simplechoices around what we eat and where we source it from can have a big impact on theenvironment and emphasised the small steps each of us could take to make a differencefor the environment. Climate change is always a topic that generates a lot of debate and the talk from Paulinewas no exception and prompted applause for the passion and commitment shedemonstrated and many questions both at the end and after the meeting. For more information, click www.carbonneutral.com.au

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POLIO ACTION IN PAKISTAN >>>>by Gurney, Russell

Pakistan launches emergencyaction plan against PolioBy Dan Nixon A Responding to a sharp increase in the number of polio casesin Pakistan in 2010, the government has launched the National

Emergency Action Plan for Polio Eradication 2011. Developed by national andinternational health experts at the request of President Asif Ali Zardari, theplan’s two main goals are to stop polio outbreaks by mid-2011 and halttransmission of the disease by yearend. Pakistan was the only one of the world’s four polio-endemic countries to see anincrease in polio cases last year -- 142 compared with 89 in 2009. AndPakistan’s total accounted for more than 60 percent of all cases among thefour, which also include Afghanistan, India, and Nigeria.

That increase “was a cause of alarm for the nations of the world, who werepreparing to usher in, [in] the near future, a world without the scourge of thisdisease,” says health minister Makhdoom Shahabuddin. “Failure is no option.We have come this far after years of efforts with the support of ourinternational partners, and we must now finish the job with a more focusedapproach toward the last remaining bottlenecks that threaten to reverse thegains we have made.” A national task force will oversee implementation of the plan, which is aimed atreaching children in high-risk districts, mobile populations, and insecure areas. “There will be strict oversight of the plan at the national and provincial levelsthrough monitoring cells,” Zardari said at a 24 January ceremony in Islamabadto launch the plan. “We shall be working on a fast-track emergency plan withthe support of our security forces to access children and households in thesecurity-sensitive areas.” Mobilizing clubsRotarian coordinators assigned by the Pakistan PolioPlus Committee aremobilizing Rotary clubs to provide support in the country’s four provinces. Clubmembers will assist with the effort “to cover every nook and corner of thecountry,” says Aziz Memon, chair of the committee. “We are committed to apolio-free Pakistan.” The plan’s progress will be evaluated by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative’sindependent monitoring board, established in 2010 to assess the GPEI’seffectiveness in fulfilling its 2010-12 strategic plan. Rotary is a spearheadingpartner of the initiative, along with the World Health Organization, UNICEF, andthe U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. At the launch ceremony, Zardari thanked Rotary International and the otherglobal partners for their support of the emergency action plan. In recognition ofRotary’s role in the drive toward polio eradication in Pakistan, he awarded thePresident’s Award for Pride of Performance to Memon and the Star of GoodConduct to International PolioPlus Committee Chair Robert S. Scott. “We need this spirit of partnership in the country at this critical time,” Zardarisaid. “No challenge is too big to stop us from saving our children from polio and

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ridding the world of this disease.” Source: Rotary International News – 28 January 2011

RC MANNINGHAM FLOOD RELIEF FUNDRAISERby Gurney, Russell

WALK THE TORQUE 2011by Kevin O'Donnell

Now only 5 weeks away........

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This is a major Club initiative and fund raiser to provide driver education tostudents at secondary colleges based in the City of Manningham. The event is aFun Run to be held on Sunday, 6 March 2011. Walk the Torque is entering its final stages and we need everyone's help. Thekey priority is now to promote the event and obtain registrations. We need dothis now. We will need most members of the club to assist with marshaling, parking,administration, etc. as indicated in Bob Pitt's recent email. Please respond to Bobasap so we can finalise our planning. Why not download the brochure and show your friends; link here and on ourClub's home page.

Kevin O'DonnellWTT Coordinator

www.walkthetorque.org.au

DID YOU KNOW ......by Gurney, Russell

..... that you can send our Club's Bulletin to friends,business associates and potential Rotary members?

Simply email the Web Master (me) with the name andemail address, and they will receive a personalised Bulletinto them referencing your name. How neat is that?

Maybe start with your wife, husband or partner (like some members alreadyhave), just in case they don't get to see your email copy of our Bulletin!

We already have some 50 "friends" on the mailing list. We have a greatstory to tell ........ let's tell the world ...................

Remember that to access everything to do with our Club, simply typehttp://www.rotaryclubofdoncaster.org.au/

Forgotten your password or need any help? Send an email to PE Russell. orsee me after a Club meeting ........ it's easy.

USEFUL LINKS .......

District Newsletters:

Looking Forward # 22

Past Club Bulletins:

RY2011

Our web site : http://www.rotaryclubofdoncaster.org.au

Club Calendar of events and speakers

Missed a meeting? Why not try an online make-up ?

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BRETT'S BITSby Brett Stevens

JANUARY IS ROTARY AWARENESSMONTH

DATES TO REMEMBER MEETING APOLOGIES REMINDER - ACTION REQUIREDA number of members are forgetting to notify our Catering Officer, Alma Reynolds,if they are not able to attend a meeting. This can result in the club having to pay formeals that are not required, and we may be forced to pass the cost onto memberswho do not provide an apology to Alma. Apologies should be sent by email: alma@spwsolutions.com.au or by telephone 0434642 570 well before the meeting. Also don't forget to email your Make-ups to me within 7 days of a missed meeting: brett.stevens@ericsson.com and please include the date of your makeup and /or attendance at official Club Committee and Board Meetings. CLUB CONSITUTION REVIEWAnyone is interested in helping out with reviewing our Club's Constitution andBy Laws, please contact Bob Pitts.

ROTARY ABC'sby Russell Gurney

'A' is for Attendance. In Rotary you are encouraged to attendanother Club when travelling or are unable to make it to yourown Club's regular meeting. This is known as making up. To beapplied for your attendance record, make ups must be madewithin 14 days either side of the meeting you were unable toattend. Rotarians that make the habit of making up contribute

much to their own Club by introducing ideas gleaned elsewhere andencourage members from the visited Club to return the favour and visit ourClub. Remember that "attendance without engagement" diminishes theRotary experience.

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'A' also stands for Ask. Those that ask a question risks feeling foolish,exposing their ignorance. "Those that remain silent risks remainingignorant forever" (applies equally to Ask for help, the sooner you ask thefaster you progress).

'A' is for acronym, and Rotary has many! If you are not sure, then ask orrefer to the myriad of Rotary publications and web resources:www.rotary.org

AG: Assistant Governor - One of a number of senior Rotariansappointed by District Governor to assist with administration of agroup of clubs in that year.

Alumni: The Rotary Foundation maintains contact with their programparticipants with an Alumni Association.

Ambassadorial Scholars: An international program of RotaryFoundation - Enables men and women to spend time abroad inuniversity level or vocational studies.

AMSE: Australian Matched Student Exchange.

ANZO: Australian & New Zealand and places not included in otherregions.

APF: Annual Programs Fund of The Rotary Foundation.

ARFT: The Australian Rotary Foundation Trust - A trust funds thatoffers Australian Rotarians and corporations tax deductible donationsto the Rotary Foundation.

ARH: Australian Rotary Health - A multi-District project approved byRI to seek public donations in support of health research withinAustralia (Formerly Australian Rotary Health Research Fund)

AS : Ambassadorial Scholar.

SERGEANT'S SIZE TEN'Sby Chris Potter

FROM OUT OF THE ASHES Q. What's the difference between Ricky Ponting and a funeraldirector?A. A funeral director doesn't keep losing the ashes.

Q. What do you call an Australian Cricketer with a champagne bottle in hishand?A. A waiter.

Q. What's the height of optimism?A. An Aussie batsman putting on sunscreen.

Q. What do Aussie batsmen and drug addicts have in common?A. Both spend most of their time wondering where their next score will comefrom

Q. What do you call an Aussie who can hold a catch?A. A fisherman

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Q. What did the spectator miss when he went to the toilet?A. The entire Australian innings.

Q. What do you get if you cross the Australian cricket team with an OXOcube?A. A laughing stock.

Q. The Australian bobsleigh team have asked the Aussie cricket team for ameeting. A. They want to ask their advice about going downhill so fast!

Q. Of everyone in the Aussie team, who spends the most time at the crease?A. The person who irons their cricket whites. On his way out into the middle to bat, Ricky Ponting gets a call from his wife. Teammate Michael Hussey tells her he's heading out to the middle to bat.

His wife replies: "I'll hold on then."

BASIL'S BADINAGEby Basil Ornellas

An Odd World .....

Computers!!

CONFERENCE COUNTDOWNby Paul Kounnas

The D9810 Conference commences

in Adelaide in:

68Day(s)

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CLUB PROGRAMby Ian LePage

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