Rotary Club of Parramatta City newsletter 12 March 2012

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COMMUNITY NETWORKER
ROTARY CLUB OF PARRAMATTA CITY
AUSTRALIA
PRESIDENT MESSAGE MEDIC ALERT
FOUNDATION
On Tuesday this past week David Ross and the District GSE
Committee welcomed the arrival of the Group Study Exchange team
from Finland at Rotary Down Under House. Then on Wednesday at the
Alumni Dinner, the inbound team from Finland made their first
presentation with an interesting insight into their professions and their
MedicAlert® is one of the largest non-
amazing country. The outbound team led by Liz MacIntosh gave what I profit organisations in the world with
over 4 million members worldwide.
thought a very professional presentation and they ran on time. Andrew Protecting and saving lives
Coss the member of the team sponsored by our Club was very for over 38+ years, it is Australia's
leading 24hr Personal Emergency
impressive, so said our club members who were present on the night. Medical Information and Identification
Service with over 280,000 Australians
I would also like the club to show their appreciation on the supreme registered.
MedicAlert® provides a customised
effort David Ross has put into District, in firstly being the Chairman of the
trademarked engraved bracelet or
GSE committee, but also organizing the evening, the inbound teams necklet with a member’s medical
information, special needs or request,
itinerary and home hosting for their entire visit. It’s time for everyone to a member ID Number and the 24hr
Telephone Hotline Number. The
give David a pat on the back. member’s information is stored on the
If you would like to follow the outbound team to Finland go to their Confidential National Registry and is
attended by trained healthcare
blogsite http://gsefinland2012.wordpress.com/ and mark it as a professionals. For additional
protection, members receive a 24hr
favourite on your browser. It would be great for members to drop a line Emergency Assist Membership Card
that lists medications, doctors
of support to Andrew while he is away.
details and next of kin emergency
There is a Club Board meeting on 21st March and if members would contact details.
Leading medical organisations such
like anything put on the agenda for discussion, please inform Joy. as Australian Medical Association,
Australian Society of Anaesthetists,
On the Calendar of events we have Michael Crosslands speaking Royal Australian College of General
on Monday week, he is a very impressive public speaker and here is an Practitioners, The Pharmaceutical
Society of Australia, and the Royal
opportunity for members to bring some guests along, you will not be Australian College of Physicians,
officially endorse the vital role
disappointed. MedicAlert plays within the
President Elect John Ching has notified the 2012-2013 Board emergency healthcare sector.
The Foundation was launched in
members of the District Assembly and the need to attend, unprepared Australia by District 250 in 1971 and
regularly at Rotary Institutes has been
and untrained will not make your job easy. Also if there are any recommended as a Community
Service Project. As a non-profit
members of committees who would like to attend please advise John organisation the Foundation is
of your interest, as these Assemblies are not just for Board members but classified as a Public Benevolent
Institution with income tax
also for future board members. If you are unable to attend send a deductibility for donations $2.00 and
over. The National Board of
replacement. Management is volunteer based.
MedicAlert® seeks the support of
District Governors, and District
Barry Antees Committee Service Chairman to
encourage clubs to support
MedicAlert®, by participating in the
Annual Rotary Club Supporter
Program by paying $5.00 per member
per year. Dinner plaque stickers
are allocated in recognition of Clubs
who support this vital Community
Serv ice Project. 1800 882222

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
March
12 Ralph Cadman- Parramatta High-Mentorship
19 Michael Crosslands- Ignite the fire within
23-25 District Conference- Penrith
April
2 John Watters
13 ARH- Golf Day at Riverside
29 District Assembly
30 Pride of Workmanship
May
6-9 International Convention-Bangkok
14 Australian Rotary Health- PHD Scholars night
July
6 Club Changeover
GUEST SPEAKER –RALPH CADMAN
Past President Ralph Cadman will be speaking on how we can use our vocations and our passion for
assisting our communities. In many ways, there are a number of our club members who share passions outside
of our Rotary programs and projects but we are still furthering the objects of Rotary at the same time.
DAVID’S PEARLS
Forgiveness
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
- Paul Boese
He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.
- George Herbert
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
- Oscar Wilde
SISTER CLUB-RAMON MAGSAYSAY
Hope everything and everyone is fine. Last week was a busy weekend. The club hosted the Rotary
Leadership Institute (RLI) Training Seminar last Saturday at the Aloha Hotel. It started at 7:00 am till 7:00
pm. Afterwards, a first ever reunion for the RLI graduates was conducted. It lasted till about 11:00 pm. After
about 4 hours of rest and sleep, 4 RCRM members namely; PP Ramil, PP Cris, PE Larry and me started to pack

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up for our Mindoro Trip. We were able to leave Manila at around 4:00 am Sunday and was able to reach the
Batangas Port by 6:00 am. There, we met up with PP Romy and his wife Merly. All 6 of us were able to board
the vessel around 7:00 am and reached Mindoro at around 10:00 am. Upon our arrival, we could not find the
van of Sister Valenton who was suppose to pick us up, so we decided to take a tricycle going to the house of
PP Ramil's mother. There we readied the things we needed and decided to go to the market for a last minute
purchase of some things that we will need for the installation of the solar panels and other equipments. In
summary, we brought the following:
1 unit "24 inches Hyundai LED TV
1 unit Pioneer DVD player
1 unit 50 watts Solar Panel
1 unit Inverter/Charge Controller
1 unit Motolite Solar Master Battery
1 unit 7 watts LED bulb
Asstd Solar Cables, connectors and brackets
All of these were to be used for Project no. 1 which is the Solar E-Learning project. This project was prioritized
in view of the fact that there is no electricity in the Mangyan Village. We were picked up from PP Ramil's
house by Sis. Valenton's driver and proceeded to pick Sis Valenton up on our way to the Mangyan Village.
We reached the Mangyan Village at around 1:30 pm. Primarily, the installation of the LED TV and DVD was for
the schooling of the Mangyan Children since we set it up inside the Classroom, but we decided to likewise
allow the elderly (for rest and recreation) to watch at specified time periods which is in total; 3 times a day,
not to exceed 1 hour and 30 minutes per viewing.
We likewise installed an LED light bulb inside the classroom to be able to illuminate it at night. Also we asked 2
people to be the only authorized persons to operate the equipments and taught them the basic knowledge
in operating and trouble shooting the equipment. This was made clear during a meeting we had in front of
Sis. Valenton and the Elderly tribesmen and women. Furthermore, we said that if they will take good care of
the equipments, we, RCRM and RC Paramatta City would strive to give them more.
The people most especially the kids were excited as some of them never had the chance to be able to
watch a movie in their lives. The first movie that we played was BARNEY. Not surprisingly, nobody knew
Barney at all.
Once the movie was played, everyone was mesmerized as everyone keep silent all through out. This gave us
the chance to be able to talk with Elderly people outside the classroom.
For Project no. 2, we gave out 500 pcs. of preschool writing notebooks. We hope that this will be enough for
at least 2 years. The notebook was authored by Diwata. I attached a copy of the cover on the
attachments. This should be a good supplement for the education of the children.
For Project no. 3, I propose a livelihood project with Sis. Valenton. The idea developed after having a
dialogue with Diwata before I left for Mindoro. She made me realize that we had to teach them how to fish
instead of giving them one. And so, I asked Sis. Valenton if this is possible and she answered yes. I took the
chance to talk with the elderly and ask them what their sources of income was. They said that a good

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majority of them knows how to weave and make baskets. They sell this to tourists for about P120 each. I
asked them if they can make other products other than the ones I bought and they said yes. They said that
all they needed was a sample to copy from and that they can easily make one. I asked them if they can
make more baskets so that we can market it in Manila, and their answer was a resounding yes. We (RCRM
members) assured them that we shall exert all effort to market them and make it a sustainable livelihood
project. We vowed that any and all proceeds of the sale shall go to projects that will benefit them in the
end. We said that families who produces more products shall be given priority in terms of future projects as a
means of enticing them to focus and further develop this backyard industry. Thus, we needed a seed money
to be use to pay them upfront for their products upon delivery. We shall then market the products at a higher
price. The profit will go back to them in terms of livelihood development and assistance. Maybe in the future
we can develop a manufacturing station for them. hopefully, all goes well according to plan. As this is still a
part of our JOINT Project, I shall be briefing you from time to time. I shall expect the first batch of finish
products hopefully within a month. I took a photo of their product. I shall send it to you later.
We left Mindoro at around 6:00 pm and reached Manila at around 12 midnight. Although it was a truly tiring
trip, it was all worth it. The pictures that I sent to you have not yet been arranged. I shall again send you a
copy of report proper once I submit it to the district.
In view of your active participation and continued support for the LEARNS project in Mindoro, I and in behalf
of the members of the RCRM would like to express to you our sincerest gratitude. We look forward to the day
when you can again visit the Mangyans with us.
Yours to Serve,
CmP Jouie
IAG RY 11-12
FORMER SCHOLAR HELPS SCORE BREAKTHROUGH DISCOVERY
IN PHYSICS
Rotary International News -- 7 March 2012
As a research scientist at TRIUMF, Canada’s national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics in
Vancouver, former Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholar Makoto Fujiwara has helped lead an
international team of researchers to a groundbreaking discovery in antimatter.
According to the big bang theory, matter and antimatter were created in equal amounts when the
universe was born. However, virtually no antimatter remains, a phenomenon that science has been unable to
explain.
In 2002, Fujiwara and his team successfully produced antimatter atoms artificially in a lab. In 2010, they
trapped antimatter for the first time – a major feat, because as soon as matter and antimatter meet, they

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annihilate each other. Last year, the team contained antimatter long enough to begin studying its properties
“to see if there is any difference between matter and antimatter that might explain why antimatter
disappeared,” says Fujiwara, who studied physics as a 1992-93 Rotary Scholar at the University of British
Columbia in Vancouver, sponsored by the Rotary Club of Kofu South, Yamanashi, Japan.
“Now that we have trapped antimatter, there are so many things we can do with it,” says Fujiwara. Long
before Makoto Fujiwara began trapping antimatter, he was a timid Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial
Scholar whose primary concern was passing his classes. The Rotary Club of Kofu South, Japan, had sponsored
him to study physics at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver. Fujiwara, who had found out
about the Ambassadorial Scholarships program as a Rotaractor, landed on Canadian soil in the summer of
1992.
In spite of his fears, he ended the year with the highest marks in his class. And he abandoned his plan
to return to Tokyo to work as an engineer, instead finishing a two-year master’s program and going on
to earn a doctorate in physics at UBC. Though he accepted a postdoctoral position through the
University of Tokyo, at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Geneva, he
returned to Canada in 2004. As a research scientist at TRIUMF, Canada’s national laboratory for
particle and nuclear physics in Vancouver, he has since helped lead an international team of researchers
to a groundbreaking discovery in antimatter – a breakthrough that has propelled him to the forefront of
particle physics research.
“Sometimes I wonder what kind of life I would have had if I had gone into industry,” says Fujiwara,
who is also an adjunct professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Calgary. “So far I can’t
complain.”
When he came to Vancouver as an Ambassadorial Scholar, one of the first Rotarians Fujiwara met
was Jane LePorte, of the Rotary Club of Burnaby-Deer Lake, B.C. She gave him some household items,
including a quilt for his bed, and connected him with other scholars and Rotarians. Affectionately
characterizing him as an “absent-minded professor,” she notes that the shy young man she met now
speaks confidently at conferences around the world. “Rotary deserves a lot of credit for helping him
come to a new country and blossom,” she says.
Fujiwara describes himself as an inquisitive kid who was fascinated by science fiction and who
occasionally watched Star Trek. He liked making radios in elementary school, an interest triggered by
uncles who were amateur radio enthusiasts.
Now, his attention is focused on antimatter, a mystery of modern physics. According to the big bang
theory, matter and antimatter were created in equal amounts when the universe was born. However,
virtually no antimatter remains, a phenomenon that science has been unable to explain. “Our approach is
to produce antimatter atoms artificially in a lab and then study their properties, to see if there is any
difference between matter and antimatter that might explain why antimatter disappeared,” Fujiwara says.

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“Makoto is an exceptionally smart scientist,” says Nigel Lockyer,
director of TRIUMF. “All scientists are smart at some level, but he combines it with a great deal of
energy and drive.”
This combination enabled Fujiwara to secure funding for his research and to recruit about 15
Canadian scientists to study the issue. He and his team spend six months of the year at CERN, using its
particle accelerator to run experiments.
Their first breakthrough in antimatter occurred at CERN in 2002, when they created large quantities
of antimatter atoms. Then, in November 2010 at TRIUMF, Fujiwara and his team trapped antimatter for
the first time – a major feat, because as soon as matter and antimatter meet, they annihilate each other.
This past June, the team built on its achievement by containing antimatter for more than 16 minutes,
long enough to begin studying its properties.
“Now that we have trapped antimatter, there are so many things we can do with it,” Fujiwara says.
“It’s impossible to stop now. It’s this whole new field of science opening up in front of me.”
Looking back, Fujiwara credits Rotary with opening the doors that led to his success. “I wouldn’t
have studied physics if I hadn’t come to Canada as a scholar,” he says. “It was the start of everything for
me.”
PRESIDENT’S WANT LIST
WANT No 1.
We are a vocational based service organization. Our members all have a business background and one
of the major survival technics in businesses is succession planning. If we want our business to survive we need
to know that if anything happens to me, who understands my business and can step up to the plate.
Therefore my No 1 “want” is all members put into practice what they already do in business, but this time it is
a session plan for their membership of our club. That is, who will replace me when I leave the Rotary Club of
Parramatta City. We need to have in place a club survival practice of succession membership I want every
member to identify a successor for themselves by October 2012 being our vocational month. By this date you
will advise the membership Director who your successor is.

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WANT No 2.
Knowledge is a wonderful gift and my second want is I would like all members to adopt a program or project
as their Rotary knowledge base as to be able to speak on the subject when-ever called upon to do so. This
may be at a meeting, at one of our projects or just when doing business. If you need resources read your
Rotary Down Under magazine or use the online version of the programs of Rotary at
http://www.rotarydownunder.com.au/rotary-programs.asp or go to the Rotary International website
http://www.rotary.org
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