Vol 21 Number 03

SELAMAT PAGI

21 July 2012

Rotary Information
Rotary Projects
Rotary clubs participate in a broad range of humanitarian, intercultural, and educational activities designed to improve the human condition. Rotary's humanitatrian grants support club projects that provide health care and medical supplies, clean water, food, job training, youth development and education to millions of people in need - particularly in the deveklopping world. In addition, ?Rotray provides more than 200 grants each year to fund the work of Rotary volunteers, who travel to parts of the world where their technical expertise and knowledge are most needed to alleviate hardship and solve problems. Peace through Service is this year's Rotary theme is very apt for the movement's mission. Rotary builds understanding through international scholarships, exchange programs, and humanitarian grants. In 2002, rotary launched Rotary Centers for International Studies in peace and conflict resolution, an innovative program designed to educate tomorrow's peacemakers.

Interact IU Day
Proud of Our Interactors
One of the yearly events for our Interactors from SMK Sri Hartamas is the International Understanding Day, usually known as IU day. It is concurrently the day that the new Board of Directors is installed. 15TH July 2012 marked the special day in the calendar for our Interactors. They celebrated their 17 th Annual International Understanding at KDU College, with the theme FESTIVAL DE HARTAMAS. Karen and I joined the function and were warmly welcomed by the two Teacher Advisors. The new Board was installed. Outgoing President Rahman handed over the office to Incoming President Charmayne. In the course of the last year, during one of their community service visit to the Positive Shelter Home in Cheras, they saw many children, ages from seven till 19 years, who are diagnosed with HIV and Aids. They spent quality time there having activities such as playing football with them. This IU Day, they continued their tradition of raising funds for charity. They have managed to grow this from RM10,000 to RM15,000 in the previous two years. This year they contributed it to this Shelter Home.

President Ghaurry presenting Interact Board of Directors' pins to President Charmayne.

PHF for PP Dr Kong

Amazingly our Interactors collected RM 17,000. They will be presenting the cheque to the Positive Shelter Home soon. SYABAS to President Rahman and all our Interactors. By Pres Ghaurry

On behalf of the club, IPP Steve presented a PHF pin to PP Dr Kong for his years of service to Rotary and the club. This was to have happened during the last installation but Kong was away. Kong has contributed several PHFs on his own even though it does not diminish the significance of the club's show of appreciation for his active participation.

ATTENDANCE
Guests: Malini guest of Graham Richard guest of Kong Ann Gerrie guest of Steve Sarah Wheeler Tan guest of Steve Interactors: Reena Suppiah Ian Wong Syed Harris Umar Charmayne Lee June Seow Leanne Asha Mark Wong Nur Dini Van Hurren Abd Rahman Attendance: 68% Fines: $35.00

The World Around Us

The Blooming Weather
The only good thing about the recent very hot weather can be seen everywhere. You see them in school compounds, along roads that have been planted with wayside trees [not many, unfortuantely] and in the parks. Nature is out on display. Take some time to appreciate her efforts. Roadside trees like the Tecoma [Tabebuia impetiginosa] shown on the right, are now covered in flowers. The flowers come in white or pink. Though they are beautiful they are also very impermanent lasting less than a week. But that gives us the incentive to look after them so we can enjoy the next years burst of colours. However, their flowers have no sweet scent. It is natures way. Bright colours attract sighted birds and insects without need for odours. Those that are not as colourful make themselves attractive with perfume [not a slight on those who wear perfume!]. So it is with Pulai and Tembusu trees blooming in our parks. By day you have to be observant to notice the small white blooms. But wait for nightfall. These trees depend on nocturnal insects for cross pollination. To draw these agents the trees fill the air with their wonderful fragrance. There is no way to describe the smell. Come to Kiara Park in Taman Tun Dr Ismail to experience it before it is gone for another year.

Announcements
- District Committees President Ghaurry announced that the following members are serving on our District committees. They are: Dr Kong District Literacy & Education Committee Chairman Dr Yee District Literacy & Education Committee Member Graham District Membership Development and Retention Committee Member and Youth Exchange Programme Committee Member - Members' Classification Karen announced that a list was being passed around for members to check their classification to clearly state the industry in which they work and the designation that they held.

Droughts threaten Bornean Rainforests

ScienceDaily (July 16, 2012) At 130 million years old, the rainforests of Southeast Asia are the oldest in the world and home to thousands of plant and animal species, some endemic to these forests. The rainforests also play important roles in modulating regional rainfall as well in the global carbon cycle. However, since the 1960s, increased warming in the Indian Ocean and frequent El Nio events have reduced rainfall in the region by approximately 1 percent per decade. Further, the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change predicts that over the 21st century, Southeast Asia will experience higher land temperatures, more droughts, and increased seasonality wet seasons during the fall will get wetter, and dry seasons during the spring will get drier. However, few studies in the past have investigated how trees in the southeastern Asian rainforests respond to droughts and climate change. In a new study, Kumagai and Porporato combine extensive field observations, historical records, and global climate models to investigate the potential impact of rainfall shifts and droughts on tree mortality in the Bornean rainforests of Southeast Asia. They find that as El Nio events become more frequent in the future in response to warming in the tropical oceans, even the species of trees that can adapt to drought conditions will be at increased risk of dying off. The small number of species that cannot adapt well to drought conditions will be at even greater risk of dying off. Their study has implications for predictions of ecological changes, regional rainfall patterns, and global climate as well as direct applications for policies aimed at reducing additional human impacts on these ecosystems, which are not only vulnerable to climate change but also have the highest rates of deforestation in the whole world.

Words to Grow By
Rotary has such cachet around the world. The pedigree of the Rotary Peace Fellows is strong. When you have a big goal, you need access, and Rotary has access. - Al Jubitz, Rotary benefactor

Today's Speaker
PP Robin Tay Robin is an old friend of the club being president of RC Pudu which was in the same group as RCBKS during Francess presidency. He is a man of many talents and interests ranging from NLP to interior design to Fitness and Health excelling at all of these. He made a mark in the District when he spearheaded Walk To End Polio campaign two year ago. We are privileged to share his secrets on Health and Wellness.

NEXT CHANGE
28 July(Sat) 7.30am Business meeting 4 August(Sat) 7.30am Speaker: Rtn Cecelia Matuya Topic: Trip to the Holy Land 11 August(Sat) 7.30am Speaker: Mr Edmund Bon Topic: Citizen's Rights vis a vis The Constitution 18 August(Sat) 7,30am Speaker: Dr Yap Tuan Ngan Topic: Nutrition - Myths & Beliefs

Last Week's Speaker

Sarah Wheeler - Tan on ' Perspective in Painting'
We can always count on Steve to bring in interesting friends as guest speakers. Last week he brought us Sarah who has changed the way several of us see ourselves. This she did in just a 30-minute session. She herself wasnt trained as a painter. Beginning as a teacher in Alice Smith International School, she picked up art along the way and is now in charge of art in the school. Focusing on just one aspect the sense of depth of space she introduced in 10 minutes the simple ideas and technique of creating that sense with stronger lines and colour for the foreground overlying a washed out backdrop. Achieved with a single colour in different hues. Setting us the task of rendering photographed landscapes in water-colour, she went about cajoling the shy and the reluctant. Before long she unleashed the water-colourists lurking in Steven and Willa and Kong and Teng Yoong Peter had that distant look. Aravind resisted his muse for as long as he could. But it was a fight he would lose in the end producing a brilliant work of art. Karen is considering hanging up her piano for the brush! Gerrie and Steve are giving up their dancing shoes and their plunging necklines for the artist's smock. Ghaurry gave her work a gold star. Yoke Leong was the only one without a smudge, a smirk or tear on the face.

CALENDAR of EVENTS
Tree Planting @ Raja Muda Forest Reserve Date: 25 August 2012 78th District Conference Date: 7 - 9 December 2012 Venue: Sunway Resort Hotel Host club: RC Shah Alam

RI Theme RY 2012-13

Duty Roster
21 July (Community Service) Sargeant-at-arms Desk Duty Introducer Thank Speaker Fines Mike Ee Lay Sanjay Frances Willa

Sarah demonstrating the deft strokes that were to sweep us all up into a painting frenzy!

Thank you, Sarah. How you have changed our lives.

Healthy Virgin Red Palm Oil

Virgin palm oil is rich in the natural nutrients of carotenes (precursors to Vitamin A) and the powerfully antioxidant tocotrienols (Vitamin E). It is red in color due to a high concentration of carotenes and tocols. Stable at a high temperatures it is ideal for frying and does not go rancid as easily. With no need for hydrogenation, it contains no trans fatty acids. Vitamin A occurs naturally only in animal tissues. It is not found in vegetables. However, our body is able to produce the vitamin utilising the carotenes in our diet. An advantage of this is tha while an excess of vitamin A can be toxic, carotene is safe in quantities. This suggest a rich source like palm oil overcoming vitamin A deficiency.

28 July (International Service) Sargeant-at-arms Desk Duty Introducer Thank Speaker Fines Alvin Karen Angie

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Board of Directors 2011/12

President Ghaurry 017-3854905 President Elect James Cheong 012-2214543 Immediate Past President Steve Robinson Vice President Cecelia Matuya Honorary Secretary Michael Carr 012-2822999 Honorary Treasurer Angie Ng Club Administration Steven Lim Service Projects PP Karen Chong The Rotary Foundation PP Frances Po Publis Relations Tan Siew Hwa Membership Development PP Aravind Viswanathan REF Chairman PP Graham Bennett Sargeant-at-arms PP Tan Poay Lim Vocational Service Chair - Poay Lim Community Service Chair -Dr Sanjay International Service Chair - Alvin New Generation Chair - Susan

Rotary International NEWS

The Edge of Joy
The Edge of Joy is a documentary that follows an ensemble cast of Nigerian doctors, midwives and families to the frontlines of maternal care. Inside a maternity ward in Kano, Northern Nigeria, the film chronicles distressed labors, deaths, and miraculous survival. Outside, lack of blood supply transportation and family planning are examined as causes of the cycle that kills more than 36,000 Nigerian women each year. About the filmmaker: Dawn Sinclair Shapiro began her journalism career working for the award-winning news magazine program CBS News Sunday Morning. Dawn has worked as a Producer, Writer, and Online Editor for Tribune Broadcasting, CNBC, MSNBC, Dateline NBC, and Chicago Public Radio. Her new film, The Edge of Joy, about maternal mortality in Nigeria was called eye-opening by Global Health magazine. Link to Rotary Maternal Health Project: While filming this documentary, Dawn discovered that there was a Rotary project in the same area tackling exactly the problems and causes she was capturing in pictures. Thus, the film and Rotary become directly linked, helping to raise the needed awareness for these defects and providing an effective solution for them. Dawn provided Rotary with a 15-minute version of her 45 minutes documentary and included a reference to the Maternal Health Project that was initiated by the Rotarian Action Group for Population & Development (RFPD) and supported by many Rotary clubs from Nigeria, Germany and Austria. This film is intended for screenings at Rotary club meetings and district events to raise awareness for Rotarys important Area of Focus Maternal and Child Health.

District 3300
District Governor Mansoor Saat 019-323 7630 mansoor.saat@gmail.com Assistant Governor Michael Foong 012-201 2288 foong.michael@gmail.com Rotary Clubs in Group 7 Bernam Valley Bukit Kiara Sunrise Pantai Valley Petaling Jaya Tropicana Damansara

Sister Clubs
RC Bugis Junction [D 3310] Saturday, 08:00 am Hotel Inter-Continental 80 Middle Road, Singapore RC ChiangmaiThinthaingam[D 3360] Thursday, 12.00 noon International Center Chiangmai University, Thailand RC Chungli Chung Shing [D 3500] Thursday, 12.00 noon No 4, Ln 10, Gwo-Ti Street Chungli, Taiwan

Bulletrin Committee
Sunny(Editor) Poay Lim/Mike(Prod) Siew Hwa (Speakers Programme)