VANGUARD 25 September 2020 | Issue: 12 Club Bulletin 2020-21

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Rtn. Holger Knaack RI President

Rtn. Sangram Patil Dist. Governor

PP Rtn. Dr. Satish Yalgi Has Successfully Completed 50 Years of Practice in The Medical Profession. See Page 58

Rtn. Dr. K. M. Keluskar Rtn. Ganesh Deshpande Rtn. Amit Sathaye President Secretary Treasurer

All Four Combined Issues of the Month Editor : Rtn. Vishal Kulkarni VANGUARD Trustee chair's message - September 2020

In late 1914, Europe was divided by hundreds of miles of trenches. Brish and French forces on one side were within shoung distance of German troops on the other. The pope made a plea for a Christmas truce, but the shoong connued.

Then, on Christmas Eve, soldiers from behind Brish lines heard an unexpected sound — not gunfire, but singing. Next, they heard a single voice shout out, "English soldier, merry Christmas!" followed by "English soldier, come out to join us!"

Both sides cauously emerged over the parapet into the no man's land between the trenches. Before long, the soldiers realized that it was a real truce. They fraternized, singing Christmas carols, exchanging souvenirs and whiskey, and even taking up a friendly soccer match.

The cease-fire connued only two days before the troops returned to their trenches, resuming bloodshed for nearly four long years. But the story of the Christmas truce reminds us that peace is possible, if we choose to accept it. If peace can last a few days, could it not also last months or years? And how do we prevent conflict in the first place?

In his Nobel Peace Prize lecture in 1964, American civil rights leader Marn Luther King Jr. said, "We must concentrate not merely on the negave expulsion of war, but on the posive affirmaon of peace."

With Posive Peace, our society's structures, policies, and everyday atudes and acons promote jusce at all levels, sustaining a peaceful coexistence. It's an answer to the calls for jusce and peace we have heard on the streets in protests from Minneapolis to Paris this year.

Posive Peace, studied at our Rotary Peace Centers around the world, is not just an

8 8 2 8 8 Club Bulletin academic idea for the Rotary Peace Fellows. Through Rotary's partnership with the Instute for Economics and Peace, the Rotary Posive Peace Academy offers free training to every Rotary member on how to wage Posive Peace in every project we do at the grassroots level, including Foundaon grants.

Posive Peace resonates at all levels of The Rotary Foundaon. Our literacy projects help children gain equal access to literacy, so opposing sides on an issue can understand each other beer. Through our Foundaon grants that provide clean water, communies gain stability, as more children stay in school rather than fetching water for hours on end.

Our role as civil society leaders who wage Posive Peace will connue to expand, not only through partnerships and more grants, but also through our hearts, minds, and hands as we offer our gis to make the world a beer place.

K.R. Ravindran, Trustee Chair 2020-21

Contributed by: Rtn. Niranjan Sant

8 8 3 8 8 VANGUARD Past RI President Luis Vicente Giay (1996 - 97) is no more.

A Rotarian since 1961, he is a member and past president of the Rotary Club of Arrecifes, Buenos Aires Province. He has served Rotary Internaonal as district governor, Informaon Instute counsellor, Internaonal Assembly instructor and moderator, member and chairman of numerous commiees,

Director (1987-89), Treasurer (1988-89), Aide to the RI President (1990-91) and Rotary Foundaon Trustee (1990-93).

He is survived by his wife, PRID Celia Vicente Giay and four sons.

May his soul rest in Peace

8 8 4 8 8 Club Bulletin Rotary members feed thousands in Cape Town By Vanessa Rousseau, Rotary Club of Newlands, South Africa

Hall full of food purchased by the Rotary Club of Newlands for distribuon to 17 Early Childhood Development Centres in Langa, Cape Town, South Africa. As members of the Rotary Club of Newlands in Cape Town, South Africa, we could not stand by watching the devastang effects of COVID-19 on food security in our country and our city.

Soon aer the inial lockdown period was announced, we jumped into acon to do what we could to alleviate the suffering. To ensure that we provide what is needed to those most in need, we have drawn on our longstanding relaonships with community leaders who have worked with us on projects over many years.

One of our members started a fundraising campaign for our club to raise funds for food relief on BackaBuddy, a South African crowdfunding plaorm. With the donaons to this campaign and the assistance of various partners, we raised about 1.4 million South African Rand (more than US$80,000).

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This translated to meals for thousands of children, families, and the elderly.

So far these funds have assisted the following beneficiaries in the greater Cape Town area:

The families of 780 children from Early Childhood Development centres in Langa, including food parcels and food vouchers for a total of 12 weeks, amounng to around 200, 000 meals. More than 250 children, other local community members, and the elderly via two Early Childhood Development centres in Masiphumelele (near Noordhoek) and Mbekweni (near Paarl). Bot centres have well-managed community food kitchens which have provided meals for 12 weeks. This has helped many families survive. More than 3,000 children per day and many elderly people received meals from twelve Philisa Abafazi Bethu(PAB) community kitchens and feeding distribuon points. These are superbly managed by the indefagable Lucinda Evans who is the CEO of PAB and with whom Newlands Rotary has been working for many years. Watch this video to see the work of PAB in the Lavender Hill community. While we are delighted with the support we have received and the relief this has enabled us to provide thus far, our efforts cannot stop here. The South African economy is at an all-me low and the unemployment rate at an all-me high.

The crisis connues in Cape Town and the rest of the country. We will connue to raise funds to feed the hungry. To this end our Rotary Club of Newlands BackaBuddy campaign remains open for further donaons. Find more details how you can help.

Contributed by: Rtn. Pradeep Kulkarni

8 8 6 8 8 Club Bulletin What Rotary has to offer

expand their skills while they serve. young members Rotary does more than help during a crisis like COVID-19; it provides experiences that translate into a beer By Tory Paxson, vice president, future in any career. Boothbay Harbor Rotary Club, District 7780, Maine, USA The Rotary Club of Boothbay Harbor created a new membership level to make joining more accessible for those under What’s life like for people between the the age of 35. In addion, generous club ages of 18 and 35 in the Boothbay members have chosen to pay the first Region of Maine? Through Rotary, young year membership costs for the first five people take on leadership posions that new members in this category.

Tory Paxson and her family

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We call it the Rule of 35 and it reduces speaker and learned to use my voice to dues by more than 50% for those under create change both in Rotary and in my the age of 35. It’s a commitment by our career. I used that voice to convince my club to keep growing and learning, and fellow members to support our new club to keep inving young people to see membership level for other young what skills they can develop and add to professionals like me, the first of its kind their own resumes. It’s an invitaon to in our Rotary district. make a difference. At age 25, joining Rotary changed the Through Rotary, I have discovered what trajectory of my life. Now 30, I am vice is possible when a group of like-minded president of our club and have individuals get together to make a discovered the many ways that I can difference. It maers not at all that we make a difference. come in many shapes and sizes, backgrounds, or age-ranges. Aer a More than that, I joined a family of short few years, it’s apparent to me that people who have rich histories, have a what we have in common is more lot of love to give, and are commied to important than our differences. We their community. Many of them are believe in Service Above Self. business leaders with fascinang careers. I learn and laugh with them at It’s more than a moo, it is what our meengs, taking a break from my compels our club. While we’re known for busy life to connect with people that I our annual benefit aucon (on hiatus, would have never had the chance to get due to the pandemic), our club works to know otherwise. It’s the reset buon I year-round to help our local community need aer a challenging day. Some of my and communies around the world. We best friends are twice my age, and my have given out bikes to seasonal and life is twice as rich for having them in it. internaonal workers, organized the Soup Bowl Supper and Derby Party Contributed by: fundraisers, run mock job interviews for Rtn. Pradeep Kulkarni high school seniors to pracce for future careers, and created care packages for veterans, among many other things.

Rotary has also enabled me to become capable, confident and powerful as I worked alongside change-makers. I have gained project management skills that you can only get through organizing and managing a 200 plus person event with three different organizaonal crews and over 40 donors and vendors. I’ve became a beer, more confident public

8 8 8 8 8 Club Bulletin One for all

Naveen Hegde of Emerson explains that its Micro Motion mass f low meter design ensures that bunker tanker and vessel operators do not have to recalibrate and reverify their onboard fuel measurement systems when switching between high and low viscosity marine fuels

There is no denying the fact that 2020 scrubber systems, it is expected that the has been a year of unpredict- able global demand for disllates will increase and circumstances, and the marine industry new blended fuels with low sul- phur has been no excepon. The year started content are entering the fuel market. with the Internaonal Marime Organizaon (IMO) reducing the sulphur Some of the major oil companies have limit in fuel from 3.50% to 0.50% with introduced blended fuels and low sul- the aim of reducing air polluon. Ship phur fuels which can meet the 0.50% operators fail- ing to comply will be sulphur cap requirement. Also, major subject to heavy fines, detenon of bun- kering ports globally have vessels and, in a worst case scenario, responded to the requirement to supply even imprisonment. compliant fuels.

IMO 2020 has compelled the marine This has led to a significant increase in indus- try look for more compliant fuels. the number of different types of marine Along with the burning of tradional fuel on a scale which has never been heavy fuel oil (HFO) on ships fied with seen before. A fuel type depends and

8 8 9 8 8 VANGUARD varies as per base source, refining voluntarily installing a mass flow process and the blending constuent, all meter. of which impacts the final fuel product specificaons. A bunkering system with a mass flow meter can also be impacted by a change Different fuel types impact the commer- in fuel type. Before the mass flow meter cial and technical strategy for can be used for custody transfer, it is shipowners, ship operators and bunker necessary to carry out a ‘Zero Seng’ of tanker opera- tors. They need to re- the mass flow meter to ensure that it is define their operaons and mode of tuned to the instal- laon to avoid Zero measurement to infuse confi- dence in offset errors. Zero set- ng is carried out the loading and delivery process. with the process fuel at process condions to establish the best accuracy IMPACT ON THE CUSTODY before a final cerficate is given. TRANSFER The properes of different grades of Environmental regulaons put in place marine fuel can vary a lot in terms of by the IMO mean that many bunker density, viscosity, operang temperature tankers and vessels must now be able to along with the sulphur content, and this operate with mulple fuel types. With a can impact the mass flow meter global fleet oper- ang in over-capacity accuracy. With a change in fuel type, a mode and with ever reducing margins, new zero seng of the mass flow meter vessel owners are look- ing to reduce the CAPEX and OPEX costs. needs to be done to suit the new fuel type. Without checking the Zero value, it Vessel and bunker tanker operators may will be dif- ficult to determine whether find it challenging to select a mulple the measurement is sll within the measure- ment system or to rely on cerfied +/-0.5% uncertainty. manual sound- ing to handle these changing fuel types. It is a tedious process to re-cerfy the system for a new fuel type. This process The adopon of new technology has involves breaking seals to re-configure favourably impacted custody transfer the sengs and again re-sealing the within the marine industry. Mass flow system by a cerfied engineer or meters based on Coriolis technology are Nofied Body. widely being adopted for bunkering applicaons as it gives the user a In order to comply and sll achieve oper- cerfied, transpar- ent and traceable fuel aonal flexibility, some operators have measurement. Some port authories gone ahead with mulple mass flow have mandated the use of mass flow meter-based custody transfer systems to meter for bunkering, whereas some ensure flexibil- ity of their operaon. By vessel and bunker tanker opera- tors using separated flow systems, the risk of have already realised the benefit by fuel contamina- on is also prevented.

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Bunker soluon on barge

Most of the exisng bunker tankers are custody transfer cerficaons without not designed to handle mulple grades downme and unnecessary OPEX cost. of fuel at one me. The oper- ators of At Emerson we strive to help overcome such bunker tankers are expected to these fuel switching challenges. change bunker fuel type from heavy fuel Therefore, we have designed a oil to blended fuel or marine gasoil or bunkering system that provides the best vice versa depending on the demand accuracy and confidence in the fuel ‘and this will require; re-cerficaon of loading and delivery. The system the system lead- ing to downme and unnecessary OPEX cost for the vessel is designed to handle the challenges of and bunker tanker operator. aer- ated bunker fuels, varying batch/parcel sizes, and now also, However, what if you could change mulple marine fuels. between all marine fuel types without having to make any change to the With the recent enhancements in the bunker- ing system?Well the answer is approval of the bunkering system, this simple – you can do it. solu- on can measure any type of marine fuel without any need for Your vessel and bunker tanker adjustments, meaning that bunker operaons will be much more flexible, tankers or vessels outfied to handle and you will be able to comply with different types of fuels can now oper-

8 8 11 8 8 VANGUARD ate using one bunker measurement different from tradional marine fuels system. are not considered when discussing this soluon, as they have a separate type approval for custody transfer. ‘It is a tedious process to re- It is possible for ship or bunker tanker cerfy the system for a new oper- ators to change between different fuel type. This process bunker fuels without the need for an involves breaking seals to external cer- fied engineer to break the seals, change the configuraon or re-configure the sengs perform a meter zero seng. and again re-sealing the system by a cerfied When an MID (Measuring Instruments engineer or Nofied Body’ Direcve) cerfied bunkering system with a Micro Moon meter is already in place, the only change needed is to change the system nameplate. The new The unique and patented Micro Moon nameplate will menon ‘marine fuel’ meter design with lower natural instead of the specific fuel for which the resonance frequency helps to ensure system had been approved during the that Zero set during inial inial start-up. Marine fuel includes all commissioning stage does not need to the different exisng fuels currently on be re-verified when changing fuel type. the market. The update of the nameplate With the recent renewal of the bunker can also be done during a re-verificaon type cerfi- cate T10265, Emerson was of the system, which needs to take place able to prove to the NMi (Netherlands every 24 to 30 months. Measurement Instute) that the same aeraon configuraon set- ngs can be Operators with vessels or bunker tank- used on the low viscous fuels, which is ers fied with an Emerson Bunkering currently used for the high viscous fuels. System can ulise the system to load This basically means that low viscous and deliver mulple fuel types without fuel bunkering can handle more the need for re-cerficaon and without entrained air without geng a failed having to worry about compliance or bunker cket. accuracy.

The bunkering system can already oper- With more than 13 years of fuel ate with viscosies from 0.5 to 2400 cSt measure- ment experse Emerson and with these new aeraon sengs it connues to develop soluons to ensure makes the system fuel independent. 0.5 efficient operaons and support vessel to 2400 cSt covers the complete range and bunker tanker operators with of marine fuels – tradional heavy fuel challenges in their daily fuel operaons. oil, low sulphur blended fuels and disllates. LNG or cryogenic fuels with Contributed by: properes that are considerably Rtn. Col. Bhushan Hegde 8 8 12 8 8 Club Bulletin

IMPORTANCE OF ECO-FRIENDLY GANESH IDOLS

Ganesh Chaturthi is a fesval which is celebrated all over India to worship Lord Ganesh, is becoming more eco-friendly nowadays. Generally, Ganesh murs are made of Plaster of Paris, are immersed in water aer Ganesh Chaturthi, which harms the water bodies. Many of the people are praccing the eco-friendly Idol during Ganesh Chaturthi.

Eco-friendly Ganesh Murs are made of organic soil/mud, natural colors. Why should you use eco-friendly Ganesh idols? Being responsible cizens we can accomplish something for our environment Plaster of Paris is non-biodegradable made of poisons and unsafe colors and it severely pollutes the sea-going life and water bodies. To spare and secure our nature, we should hold hands and do our Made at home by Dr. Manisha Bhandankar bit, and go for eco-friendly items. from start to finish.

Numerous campaigns are performed to make awareness on conserving the environment through different mediums.

The following are the significance of ulizing eco-accommodang Ganesh Murs

It Saves Our Water Resources: As stated before, Ganesh Chaturthi is celebrated by immersing Ganesh murs in water. Idols made of Plaster of Paris are non- biodegradable and it will contaminate

8 8 13 8 8 water by killing the sea-going lives and expanding the corrosive substance of the water. While eco-friendly idols are degradable and they won't hurt any living creatures in the water.

It Protects Human Health: One of the you may need to rely upon the sculptor. main aspects of why you should use eco- in the case of eco-friendly idols, you can friendly Ganesh Idols is that with make one yourself with the help of your unclean and dirty water, people will get family members. It spreads more infected with dangerous elements. sasfacon and congruity in the family Plaster of Paris and other harmful colors and among the individuals from the can cause health problems. By family. The family bond is one of the worshiping Eco-friendly Idols which are significant factors of bringing home an made of organic soil can solve this eco-friendly idol problem It Helps Avoid Food Poisoning, A Major Concern: If you are a non-vegan, It is Easily Available: Why you should be wary of having fish aer this use eco-friendly Ganesh Idols? Indeed, celebraon. The components used to the answer is simple. Eco-friendly mur design Lord Ganesh contain various can be made with things that are metals that pollute the water. Be that as effecvely accessible at home. With the it may, in eco-accommodang Ganesh increase in the number of people who Idols, while in eco-friendly Idols there support or love the environment, eco- are no such poisonous elements are friendly Ganesh idols are easily available used. in the market as well. Along these lines, have a favored eco-friendly Ganesh Fake diamonds and gliers: There are Chaturthi by bringing eco-friendly numerous sparkles and metals used to Ganesh idols and conserving nature with make Ganesh Murs that are harmful to going green every Ganesh Chaturthi the body when it interacts with it. This can cause allergy and other health How to recognize Eco-friendly Idols: problems due to the presence of Plaster of Paris Idols are almost very chemicals. While Eco-friendly Ganesh lighter in weight and painted with toxic Idols are not made with any such and shiny colors. while eco-friendly sparkles. mur is heavier in weight and natural color are been used to paint them which Eco-friendly is easy to make: If you want will help to keep our water bodies clean a Ganesh Idol made of Plaster of Paris, even aer Ganesh Chaturthi

8 8 14 8 8 Community Service Project School Material Donation on 29th August Rotary Club of Belgaum, under its Community Service project donated School Bags, Water Boles & Rain Coats worth Rs. 2,56,000 for the underprivileged school going children in Khanapur Taluk.

“Ekal Abhiyan” an NGO selected the needy children from different schools. The material was handed over to the school Teachers, as children are not permied to aend schools due to the COVID pandemic. The Teachers will hand over the essenals to the children which includes of 350 school bags, 125 raincoats and 50 water boles.

All these were donated by Universal Traders owner Mr Vinayak Shreyakar. In the name of Late Shri Jayadev T Shreyakar & Smt. Gangubai J Shreyakar. Rotary Club of Belgaum will place on record and appreciate this kind gesture from Shreyakar family.

The handing over funcon was aended by Shri Girish Pai & Dr Vaishali Kiur who had taken iniave to select the children along with members of Rotary Club of Belgaum President Dr K M Keluskar, Secretary Rtn. Ganesh Deshpande, Treasurer Rtn. Amit Sathay, Service Project Director Rtn Manoj Michael & Rtn Niranjan Sant.

With your kind donaons, we were Foot Operated Sanitizer able to deliver 250 Foot operated Dispenser Donation sanizer dispensers to District Health officer today.

These dispensers will be installed at 153 Primary Health Centers 16 Secondary Health Centers 9 Hospitals

In turn we will be helping the Corona warriors in their fight against COVID. Thank you for your generous donaons and support for this noble cause.

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Dear Members,

Happy to inform you that we have received Monthly report of ROTARY-KLE Dialysis center for the month of August.

Total 88 patients have undergone dialysis in the month of August.

We thank Rtn PP Dr Udachankar for timely reporting. RCB also congratulates Dr Udachankar for constantly supervising and timely reporting of the activities.

We would appreciate reporting of other projects by respective chairmen which are being operated under RCB Banner

8 8 16 8 8 Humourous Signs

• TOILET OUT OF ORDER... PLEASE USE FLOOR BELOW

• In a Laundromat: AUTOMATIC WASHING MACHINES: PLEASE REMOVE ALL YOUR CLOTHES WHEN THE LIGHT GOES OUT

• In a London department store: BARGAIN BASEMENT UPSTAIRS

• In an office: WOULD THE PERSON WHO TOOK THE STEP LADDER YESTERDAY PLEASE BRING IT BACK OR FURTHER STEPS WILL BE TAKEN

• In an office: AFTER TEA BREAK STAFF SHOULD EMPTY THE TEAPOT AND STAND UPSIDE DOWN ON THE DRAINING BOARD

• Outside a secondhand shop: WE EXCHANGE ANYTHING - BICYCLES, WASHING MACHINES, ETC. WHY NOT BRING YOUR WIFE ALONG AND GET A WONDERFUL BARGAIN?

• Noce in health food shop window: CLOSED DUE TO ILLNESS

• Spoed in a safari park: ELEPHANTS PLEASE STAY IN YOUR CAR

• Seen during a conference: FOR ANYONE WHO HAS CHILDREN AND DOESN'T KNOW IT, THERE IS A DAY CARE ON THE 1ST FLOOR

• Noce in a farmer's field: THE FARMER ALLOWS WALKERS TO CROSS THE FIELD FOR FREE, BUT THE BULL CHARGES.

• On a repair shop door: WE CAN REPAIR ANYTHING. (PLEASE KNOCK HARD ON THE DOOR - THE BELL DOESN'T WORK)

Contributed by: Rtn. Dr. V. N. Desai VANGUARD

Ganapa Idol Installed at RRFC PDG Rtn. Avinash Potdar’s Residence

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Pho L VANGUARD Young inventor of eco-friendly bricks comes full circle

Binish and Dhri Desai in front of a home built with the recycled material.

show’s refrain: Captain Planet, he’s our Binish Desai began working on hero / Gonna take polluon down to an eco-friendly brick made out of zero! “That tagline stuck in my mind,” he recycling and waste, when he was says. “I wanted to do something to help 11. The former Rotary Youth Captain Planet.” Exchange student, inventor, and Growing up in Valsad, a city on the entrepreneur credits Rotary with Arabian Sea in west-central India, Desai giving him the support to pursue was also a fan of Dexter’s Laboratory, another animated TV show, this one his dreams. Now he’s giving back about a boy scienst. “So I created my through a new Rotary club. own lab in the corner of our living room in a TV cabinet. And I would always carry something called a ‘bag of ideas,’ where I Every hero has an origin story. “I was 10 would jot down different innovaons of years old when the enre journey mine.” started,” explains Binish Desai. It began with a cartoon called Captain Planet, an For instance, having learned about animated TV series from the 1990s evaporaon and condensaon in school, about an environmentalist with he noced the steam that escaped from superpowers. Desai can sll recite the the pressure cooker when his mother

8 8 20 8 8 Club Bulletin prepared dinner. He created a device to capture that steam, which would then return to its liquid state — water that could be used for gardening. “That was my first invenon ever,” he says.

“There is nothing that is useless in this world,” Desai insists. “The concept of waste does not exist in nature. It’s human consumpon that creates it, so it’s our responsibility to get rid of it. And in the process of converng trash into treasure, we can also generate a lot of employment.”

In the nearly two decades since his Captain Planet days — Desai turns 27 this month — he has come up with more invenons; built and lost a company; founded, with his wife, several women’s empowerment centers; and generally concocted ways to improve the lives of everyone in his very broadly defined community. Central to his success has been his involvement with Rotary, a relaonship that was sparked by a family connecon and nurtured by a year in the United States as a Rotary Youth Exchange student. Now, as a charter member of the Rotary Club of Vibrant Valsad, his life in Rotary has taken flight.

Somebody hand that young man a cape.

Desai spent his junior year at Waukegan High School in Illinois, about 40 miles north of downtown Chicago, on a Rotary Youth Exchange. He said his exchange year transformed him into a different person.

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A lifeme of invenng

As Binish connued his scienfic exploraons, he kept invenng. “The one that led me to the person that I am today,” he says, “was the brick. That happened when I was 11 years old.”

One day in school, his best friend stuck a wad of chewed gum beneath a desk — and as fate would have it, the gum ended up geng stuck to Binish’s pants. He peeled it off as best he could and wrapped it in a piece of paper, intending to throw it away when class was over. Then he forgot about it. At the end of the day, when he finally retrieved it from his pocket, it was rock hard. “I thought, this is really different,” Desai’s first use of his eco-friendly-brick was to build toilets. He notes he recalls. “I said, OK, I can make with irony that Paul Harris’ first service project was also a community stone out of this. I was just a toilet. curious kid trying to figure out, why did this happen?”

At this same me, in school, Binish was learning about how huge numbers of people were living in crowded and unhealthy slums. He formed a new ambion: One day he would build the world’s least expensive house for those people — and he would build it with bricks made of chewing gum and waste paper. A pair of eco-earrings made by one of the women entrepreneurs. Over the days and weeks and years that followed, Desai He formed a new ambion: One experimented with different day he would build the world’s ingredients and proporons, always trying to build a beer least expensive house — and he brick. With each iteraon he would build it with bricks made sought to understand what was lacking and what could be of chewing gum and waste paper.

8 8 224 8 88 8 Club Bulletin improved. He made small molds out of to apply for a longer exchange, and he cardboard and began designing and spent his junior year at Waukegan High processing small, durable bricks, with School in Illinois, about 40 miles north of plans to build a dollhouse. “I had no idea downtown Chicago. how,” he says. “I went to cybercafés and looked up stuff on the internet. That’s One night, over a dinner of fried chicken, how I learned the basics about how to the floodgates opened. In an instant, the construct a house.” introvert had vanished, and he began telling his host parents, Patrick Jimerson When he was 15, Desai completed the and Theodora “Teddy” Anderson, about dollhouse using his bricks. He had his bricks and his plans for the world’s demonstrated to his own sasfacon least expensive house. Aer listening that his plan to build the world’s least aenvely, Jimerson asked if Desai had expensive house was sound. “I started a patent for his bricks. (He did not.) He talking about my plan to my family and also suggested that Desai might want to my friends,” he recalls. “People started pursue this as a career. laughing about it. ‘You have gone crazy. How can you make something out of By the end of his exchange year, Desai paper and chewing gum? It’s not going says, he had transformed into a different to work.’ ” person. “I was friends with everyone, and everywhere I went, I would talk to Finding confidence in Rotary Youth people. I made new friends because I Exchange started sharing my inner thoughts about how I viewed the world.” With At 15, Desai was a self-described Jimerson’s help, Desai secured a patent introvert, and his self-esteem was low. for the formula behind his bricks. And With people laughing at his ideas, he when he returned home to India, he had begun to doubt himself. But fate knew the exact direcon he wanted his had another twist in store for the young life to take. inventor. Jimerson died in 2016, but Desai returns “In 2009 I got selected as a Rotary Youth to Waukegan each December to visit Exchange student,” he says. “That’s why I with Anderson, just as he promised owe a lot of who I am today to Rotary.” Jimerson he would. “Rotary Youth Exchange changes you forever,” he says. Desai had applied for a short-term “Once an exchange student, always an exchange, but things headed in a exchange student. Now I have a family different direcon when he went in for all around the world.” his interview. He told the Rotarians about his plans to build the world’s least Founding an eco-friendly company expensive house, and he finally found the recepve audience he had been Back home, Desai announced his plans seeking. The Rotarians encouraged him to start a company, called B-Dream, to

8 8 2 8 8 8 8 23 8 8 VANGUARD manufacture his eco-friendly bricks from chewing gum and paper waste. The response was mostly negave. A profile of him in the local newspaper concluded (as Desai recalls) that he was “either an immense genius or the craziest person I’ve ever met. Only me will tell.”

Even his parents expressed their doubts, convinced that their son was going to throw away his life on an “imaginary” endeavor. Part of their concern stemmed from their fears about how the rest of Valsad would view his plans. “My family had quite a name in the community,” says Desai. “Someone working with waste and coming from a family that was socially prominent was kind of taboo. ‘Hey, he’s bringing down the family’s name.’ All that pressure made my parents think they could not support this craziness of mine.”

Desai was undeterred. Aer graduang from high school, he enrolled at Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, where he would earn a degree in biotechnology. (He would go on to earn an advanced degree in environmental engineering.) While working toward his undergraduate degree, he persuaded a local paper mill to let him take over a small abandoned parking lot on its property. The mill was already paying a large sum to another company to haul off its paper waste; in exchange for the lot and a significantly smaller sum of money, Desai agreed to haul away some of that waste himself. He also persuaded a chewing gum manufacturer to give him its offcut waste. (In the process of making chewing gum, Desai explains, some of the gum base is cut and thrown away before the sweetener is added.) With those materials and his patented blend to hold them together, Desai now had everything he needed.

Working in the open parking lot, Desai began making bricks. “I was the labor,” he says. “I would only get in two to three hours a day, because it would be evening by the me I reached the place. Working there was difficult, and then I had to go back home because I had an early morning train to catch to school.” Despite the difficules, aer eight months, he had 4,000 bricks. The paper mill needed a watchman’s cabin, which Desai built, successfully demonstrang the feasibility of his vision. (Eventually the cabin was dismantled and the durable bricks were used to build the office from which Desai works today.) “I had made my first house,” says Desai. “Now it was me for me to start mass producon.”

Houses and toilets from recycled bricks

Desai used his bricks to build about 70 houses, but he found they were in even greater demand for the construcon of public toilets. In 2014, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had launched a naonwide campaign called Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, or the Clean India Mission. Its goal was to reduce lier, encourage recycling, and end the pracce of open defecaon. Because Desai could manufacture public toilets at 40 percent of what it cost his competors, his product was in great demand.

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The toilets were also Desai’s cket back into Rotary. “Rotary has been running in my veins ever since I was born,” he says. His grandfather was an honorary Rotarian, and since 1994 his father has been a member of the Rotary Club of Valsad, the same club Desai joined in 2015. As ever, he had grand ambions. “It’s easy to become a Rotary member, but it’s very difficult to become a Rotarian,” he says. “I wanted to be a Rotarian.”

Desai began by proposing a sanitaon project to the club’s president: installing two public toilets made with his bricks in a rural village near Valsad. His role model was none other than Rotary’s founder. As Desai recounts with some delight, “Paul Harris’ first service project was also a community toilet,” part of a “comfort staon” movement in

Chicago in 1907. The toilets in Dhri Desai (third from right) and Sonal Soni Patel (right), members of the village were the first of the Vibrant Valsad club, parcipate in a workshop at the center. several that Desai would install with his club, but his experience there had a greater impact on his thinking than he expected.

As the Rotarians installed the toilet, a woman approached Desai. “Why are you building a toilet here?” she asked angrily. “I cannot feed my own daughters. How would I be able to maintain this thing?” Desai had no answer. He wanted to help her, but he didn’t know how. The answer At a women’s empowerment center supported by the Rotary Club of Vibrant Valsad, women use Desai’s special binder to create eco-friendly would come in me. products from recycled paper waste.

Desai’s business thrived, but needing investors to provide the funds to fulfill his contracts to build toilets across India, he slowly lost control of his company. Ulmately he was forced out and le with nothing — except for his patent on the binder that was essenal to the manufacture of his low-cost, environmentally friendly bricks. Desai started a new company, EcoEclecc Technologies, which works with industrial companies to recycle paper, plasc, and metal waste into products such as paving blocks and arficial wood panels. “That’s what I like to call a disrupve innovaon,” he

8 8 25 8 8 VANGUARD says. “It’s something that changes the perspecve of people in a posive way. They start seeing things in a way that helps change the community. It’s not just about creang a parcular product, but actually being helpful and breaking through the barriers that society has created.”

Starng a new Rotary club Desai analyzes his products by scrunizing the “triple boom line,” looking at things from financial, social, and environmental perspecves. “All three things together, kept under one balance,” he says. “That’s the basis of all our products.” That kind of thinking earned Desai a spot on Forbes’ 2018 list of Asia’s top social entrepreneurs under 30. It also earned him a new sobriquet: the Waste Warrior.

The new company also provided answers to the quesons posed “We call them women by the woman upset by the installaon of a public toilet in her entrepreneurs, not women rural village. With his wife, Dhri — the couple married in January workers. To honor them, all of 2019 — Desai founded a micro- these products bear their social enterprise called Eco Lights Studio. The company employs fingerprints. It gives uniqueness women in rural India to make lamps, clocks, jewelry, and other to the products we make.” products from industrial waste. The women work from their homes on their own schedule and earn significantly more than they would at the menial jobs otherwise available to them. “We call them women entrepreneurs, not women workers,” says Desai. “To honor them, all of these products bear their fingerprints. We highlight this. It gives uniqueness to the products we make.”

Desai had one more grand plan up his sleeve: “I got together 30 young professionals and I said, ‘Let’s start a new Rotary club and create a difference in the community.’” Chartered in October 2018 with a membership that included many second-generaon Rotarians, the Rotary Club of Vibrant Valsad took on, as one of its first projects, the creaon of a women’s empowerment center, a facility where local women can acquire the skills to make a beer life for themselves and their families. Eco Lights Studio is a partner in the venture, and Desai intends it to serve as a model for women’s centers in other towns. Today, his once-trepidaous parents express pride in their son’s accomplishments.

“The main idea is not just to create employment, but also to upli these women,” says the Waste Warrior. “It’s always been my goal to help someone in need. I hope to give back to Rotary and to the community what Rotary has given to me” — exactly as Captain Planet and Paul Harris would have it.

8 8 26 8 8 Club Bulletin JOURNEY OF HOPE!!!

donors preserved in a Skin Bank was the only Hope for Misbah.

The Skin needed for Misbah was available only at KLE-Rotary Skin Bank Rtn. Dr. Sash Dhamankar at Belgaum. Due to the travel restricons it was difficult to cross borders of three states of Gujarat, Misbah Kharawala, a young lady from Maharashtra and Karnataka because of Jamalpur,Gujrat suffered burns in her the Pandemic.Misbah’s husband decided kitchen when she was brewing tea for to undertake this “JOURNEY OF HOPE her family on that fateful day, May the 9 “for his beloved a distance of 2740 kms th during the holy month of Ramazan. in his car to bring back the skin and She suffered extensive burns, 71% and Misbah from the Jaws of Death. was in a crical condion, to make maers worse she happened to be from Friends, instances like these repose our Jamalpur a hotbed of Covid-19 and a faith in Humanity and Almighty!! containment zone. It was extremely difficult for her to find a bed in a Such Miracles do happen when someone Hospital, ulmately with the help from, dreams of establishing a Skin Bank and their local MLA she could find one. many hands from all over the World join Within two days of admission another together to realise that dream. In 2018 tragedy struck her unfortunately she was Rotary Club of Belgaum, Rotary Club of tested Posive for Covid-19 and had to Locust Valley,New-York,The Rotary be shied to SVP Hospital, a Covid Foundaon of Rotary Internaonal Hospital. ,Rotary District 3170 and 7255,USA,Dr.Prabhakar Kore-KLE The treatment for Corona Infecon and Hospital, Naonal Burns Centre of Burns had to be simultaneously Mumbai and everyone from the commenced. To her good fortune she community extended their hands of co- recovered from Corona within 6 days operaon and support to establish a but the chances of recovery from burns well-equipped Skin Bank,8th one in India were bleak as even in the best of and 2nd in Karnataka. hospitals of the world only 20% cases survive. Burns is an emergency and a major health hazard affecng almost 70 lakhs The Plasc Surgeon and Physician individuals every year of which majority treang her Dr.Vijay Bhaa and Dr.Ami are women, children and young men.1.5 Parekh were confident that skin from lakh burn vicms die every year i.e. 27%

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The common causes of death in these paents is loss of Skin, a protecve cover which leads to infecon, sepcaemia, loss of valuable proteins and Electrolytes from the body. This can be prevented by use of Skin received from donors aer their demise, this donated Skin improves the healing of wounds, pain relief and prevenon of deformies.

How does Skin Bank actually work?

A person can pledge his skin to be donated aer his death or even close relaves of deceased person can take a decision of donang Skin. Any person above the age of 18 years can pledge to donate but the death should not be due to Sepcaemia or infecous diseases like Misbah Kharawala bleeding as aer the procedure a proper “let Me Do All The dressing is given. This procedure takes Good I Can, To All around 30-40 minutes. This Skin is processed and stored in chemical agents The People I Can, As for 4-5 years. This harvested Skin can be Oen As I Can, For used for a burns paent regardless of sex, blood group, colour of skin, age or I Shall Not Pass This HLA type. The donated and processed skin is called allogra and used as a Way Again” protecve dressing which fulfils its role of protecon.

HIV, Skin cancer or other Skin diseases. During this me new skin cells start Aer receiving the informaon of death regenerang below the dressing. The the Skin has to be collected and Skin harvested from a single donor can harvested within 4-6 hours by a team of be of use to save many lives.. trained personnel form Skin Bank. Skin is Saving someone’s life is the greatest gi harvested from thighs, and chest, only we can give to humanity for it is an the superficial i.e.1/8th poron of Skin is opportunity to live on even aer ones harvested. There is no disfigurement or death.

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Venkatesh Pal of Belgaum Oxygen Private Limited is a man who has Rtn. V K Patil - gone well beyond. The occupant of Belagavi has turned into a saviour for The Unsung basic COVID paents with respiratory issues by giving free COVID Warrior oxygen cylinders as they can’t manage the cost of one. Because of absence of chambers, a few lives reilled 1882 have been supposedly lost with Oxygen regards to COVID paents. Since the pandemic commenced cylinders for each day one new unsung hero is coming up and helping with his FREE contribuon. Each one is aware of the recent shortage of oxygen and then several groups came forward to supply

8 8 29 8 8 VANGUARD oxygen cylinders and Venkatesh Pal of Belgaum Oxygen Private limited has refilled 1882 oxygen cylinders up to Friday for free.

All those cylinders are been supplied by various NGOs like COVID Care Group, Jan seva COVID Centre, Facebook friends circle.

VK as he is known to many came forward on the occasion and helped the needy, by refilling the O2 cylinders for free.

To add to this he has refilled the cylinders as and when required day or night, as soon the empty cylinders reach the factory they are refilled.

8 8 30 8 8 Club Bulletin No use crying over spilled milk

By Marn Cohn, past president of the Rotary Club of Braleboro, Vermont, USA

In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Vermont dairy farmers were in trouble. With the close of colleges and restaurants, there was too much supply of milk. This excess was headed to be spilled into mudholes. At the same me, the need to help food- insecure families was increasing. How could food that was being wasted reach people who needed food? Marn Cohn holds up containers of Green Mountain Yogurt made from surplus milk. That’s when I heard about a project where the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets was coordinang an effort to recover raw milk from being disposed of while creang a new, temporary food supply for Vermont Foodbank. In collaboraon with the Vermont Community Foundaon, $60,000 was made available to purchase this milk for the benefit of Vermonters. These efforts were parcularly important as Vermont’s dairy industry, like all sectors, had been challenged by COVID- 19 but remain essenal to the state’s food supply. However, more money was needed.

When I heard about the need, I sprang into acon. I sent out emails to fellow Rotarians and within days an addional $10,500 was raised. These monies came from eight Rotary clubs, a donaon from the District 7870’s Youth Exchange, and the District 7850 Foundaon. This helped cover the cost of 32,000 gallons of milk, ingredients, and processing to create 48,000 cups of Green Mountain Yogurt, 11,500 gallons of Hood Dairy 2% Milk, and 440 pounds of Ploughgate Creamery buer.

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Secretary Anson Tebbes of the Vermont Agency of Agriculture said, “This is what Vermont is all about. Neighbors helping neighbors. Thank you Rotarians, farmers, and businesses. You and so many are helping those in need.” Media reports idenfied Rotary as being a good collaborator in finding a soluon.

But there is more to the story. The state of New Hampshire had similar issues. The difference this me was that the cost of milk had gone up; making the filling of tankers too expensive. The soluon was to have the New Hampshire Foodbank buy dairy products directly from dairy farmers. Calls were made to the NH Agency of Agriculture, the Granite State Dairy Promoon Board, the NH Foodbank, and the NH Charitable Trust. Again, emails and presentaons to Rotary clubs resulted in nearly $18,000, coupled with monies from NH Charitable Foundaon, enough money to set the project in moon.

This is another example of Rotary in Acon. I am proud to be part of an organizaon of commied community problem solvers. This project was a success and one that could be replicated anywhere that you can ask, “Got Milk?”

As I have been presenng this project to Rotary clubs in Vermont and New Hampshire, I was reminded of the me my mother would give me a quarter every Friday to give to my teacher to buy containers of milk for the following week in school. If every Rotarian donated one dollar each week and then gave all the money to their local food bank or pantry, more milk could be purchased for food-insecure folks while helping local dairies. Perhaps this is a project for another day.

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JOKE OF THE WEEK Two boys were arguing when the teacher entered the room. The teacher says, "Why are you arguing?"

One boy answers, "We found a ten dollor bill and decided to give it to whoever tells the biggest lie."

"You should be ashamed of yourselves," said the teacher, "When I was your age I didn't even know what a lie was."

The boys gave the ten dollars to the teacher.

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Sunrise after Dark increases Rotary’s diversity in Louisiana By Tracey Antee, past president of the Rotary Club of Opelousas Sunrise, Louisiana, USA

During my tenure as club president in Satellite clubs require fewer inial mem- 2019-20, I made a goal of starng a bers to charter, and remain connected to satellite club that would meet aer their sponsoring clubs while they remain regular business hours, hence the name in this transional phase toward becom- Sunrise aer Dark. A young professional ing their own regular club. We were also group in the community just ended, and it excited to add their diversity to our mem- seemed like the perfect opportunity to bership. Sunrise aer Dark ranges in age reach out to these individuals and invite from 23 to 55 years old. Their inclusion them to join Rotary, within the ease pro- made our collecve membership more vided by the satellite format. even in just about every demographic.

New members of the Sunrise aer Dark satellite club during an inducon ceremony earlier this year.

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Our first satellite club informaonal quickly stepped up and started their own meeng had almost 30 parcipants and service projects, partnering with we were quickly able to sign up 21 mem- nonprofits in the community to support bers to receive a charter in November. diaper drives that created a new diaper Establishing the satellite club was a simple bank for children in foster care. They also process, and we received a lot of support launched an-bullying campaigns. from our District 6200 leaders. At the beginning of COVID-19, we basi- We were able to recruit easily by inially cally had to push the pause buon like idenfying a few people in the community many other Rotary clubs. The uncertainty that had a large network and asking them surrounding COVID-19 and what would to invite people to the informaonal happen next le us in limbo. But aer meeng. People are more likely to say yes about four weeks we started meeng to someone they know and engage with again via Zoom. than a stranger. This method of recruing new members has been very successful. This was a game changer! We were able to engage with members that were strug- The satellite club meets bi-monthly, once gling to make the 7 a.m. meengs and we for a general meeng to listen to a speaker had great parcipaon because we and a second me at a local bar or restau- missed seeing each other. It was much rant for networking. Prior to COVID-19, easier to send a friend or colleague the these networking meengs were well Zoom link and ask them to join us while aended and created the opportunity to they enjoyed their morning coffee. We introduce the club to potenal new ended up recruing five new members members. Sunrise aer Dark has conn- and inducng them in July. ued to meet virtually twice a month. We connue to grow by reaching out to The members of Sunrise aer Dark were professionals in the community that surprised when we shared our club’s work normally couldn’t make a physical over the decades. This helped movate meeng and giving them mulple mes to them to join in serving our community in a meet, either at 7 a.m. with the Sunrise club meaningful way. Using the People of or 6 p.m. with the Aer Dark club. We are Acon materials available through the adding another five new members in Brand Center, we showed prospecve September. members how they could take acon by joining the club, which made the differ- We found the flexibility of both the ence for many of them. We recognized satellite club format and virtual meengs that people were looking for ways to a great way to increase the diversity of volunteer and be People of Acon in their Rotary in our community and add new community but didn’t know how. Sunrise members. Aer Dark gave them that opportunity.

Within the first three months, this group

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STRESS Management Techniques By PP Rtn. Dr. Mukund Udachankar

A lile bit of History: the concept was first evolved by Hans Syele in 1936.the word stress is derived from a Lan word Striengere. in 17th century the word was used to mean hardship, strain, adversity or afflicon. In 18th & 19thcentury it was used to mean force, strain, pressure or strong effort with reference to an object or a person.

The use: In Engineering & Physics : it is an external force or pressure exerted on something with an intenon to distort and being resisted by the person or object on which it is exerted. In psycho – physiology: It refers to some smulus resulng in a detectable strain and that cannot be accommodated by the organism(the person) and which ulmately results in impaired health and behaviour

The approaches : Behavioural sciensts have evolved the following approaches to STRESS.

There are three ways of approaches such as

1. Smulus oriented: In this approach stress is regarded as external force, perceived as threat. According to Selye (1956) any external event or any internal drive which upsets the person’s equilibrium is stress.

2. Response oriented: In this approach the nature of stress can be understood best in terms of the way people perceive and ascribe meaning to the stressful situaons.

Psychiatrists idenfied 4 phases of reacons as follows. I. Ancipatory Threat, ii) Impact of stress, iii) The recoil phase, iv) Post traumac phase.

3. Psychodynamic approach: This approach considers events (both internal and external) which pose a threat to the integrity of the person leading to disorganizaon of the personality as STRESS. There are wide variaons in reacons to stress and the capability to tolerate it person to parson, and in the same individual on different occasions. Hans Sylye evolved a concept of various stages in which the person responds and adapts himself to the Stressful situaon.

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Hans Sylye’s General Adaptaon Syndrome (GAS)

Three stage model.

1. Alarm Reacon : inial shock phase: in this phase the Defensive mechanism becomes acve, autonomous excitability occurs, adrenalin discharge increases, heart rate increases; there is increase in the muscle tone, and blood content; Gastro Intesnal ulceraons occur. The effect varies with the intensity of the threat.

2. Stage of Resistance : Maximum adaptaon occurs in this phase, the bodily signs remain same as Alarm Reacon, the resistance to the STRESS increases above normal level.

3. Stage of Exhauson: The capability of adaptaon is exhausted , signs of Alarm reacon reappear and the resistance level begins to decline irreversibly. The person is no more able to resist and ulmately collapses.

WHO SUFFERS ? : NO ONE IS IMMUNE” It is not just high powered execuves who suffer from stress induced diseases, rather each one of us are prone in one or the other way. Now the queson arises, Why are we so suscepble to stress these days? When we have everything at our disposal and yet stress is the 21st century equivalent of PLAGUE 90—95% of ILLNESSES are psychosomac. “OUR MINDS ARE KILLING US & AS A SIDE EFFECT RUINING THE ECONOMY.”

The reason!

We have not been able to understand the real meaning of the word PROGRESS and SUCCESS and in the bargain we have changed our world far faster than our bodies have been able to adapt. We have moved far too quickly for our own good : BUT! AT WHAT COST ? .

Under These circumstances can we do something?, It seems there is nothing we can do about stress. In any case the bills won’t stop coming there will be never more hours in a day. Your career and family responsibilies will always be demanding on you.

The soluon!

A simple realizaon that you are in control of your life is the key. And this Is the foundaon of stress management

Managing stress: is all about Taking charge : of your thoughts, emoons, schedule and the way you deal with your problems

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The steps ! 1.Idenfy the sources of stress in your life 2.Look at how you currently cope up with stress 3. Formulate strategy or management

Idenfy sources : This is not as easy as it sounds, true sources are not always obvious, it is all too easy to overlook your own stress inducing your thoughts, feelings and behaviours.

Idenfy your true sources of stress : and Look at your Habits, Atudes and Excuses Unl you accept your responsibility for the role that you play in creang or maintaining it, Your stress level will remain outside your control.

How does stress damage? Stress has an effect on industrial efficiency and corporate profits in a number of quite specific ways all closely interrelated. And The damage ! is loss of TIME, MONEY and RESOURCES.

Stress on the job creates high costs for businesses and instuons, reducing morale, producvity, and earnings. Clearly, it is in every employer’s best Interest fiscal and otherwise to reduce workplace stress as much as possible “For a beer progress”.

What happens? There are no diseases known to man or woman that are not directly caused by or indirectly acerbated by stress.

Workplace stress Has a negave impact on the business as well as on the individual employee. The increase in job stress creates emoonal, financial, and safety concerns for employers and managers

The World Health Organizaon labelled stress a “worldwide epidemic.” Today, workplace stress is esmated to cost companies more than $300 billion a year in poor performance, absenteeism and health costs. The Consequences

Individual 1. Unwanted Feelings and Behaviours 2. Physiological Diseases (Poor Physical Health) 3. Psychological Diseases (Poor Emoonal (Mental) Health

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Organizaonal. Organisaonal factors Organizaonal Costs.

The Result 5 to 10% of your annual wages bill is paid to People who are not working but who are at home, in hospital or convalescing.

Loss is — Time, Resources & Economy

BRGOM Table (Brish Registrars General’s Occupaonal Mortality Table) s has shown the incidences as follows.

Company Directors are prone for 7 mes more heart aacks. 5 mes Duodenal Ulcers, 7 mes likely to commit suicide, 20 mes likely to have stroke – as compared to clerical workers

Research findings from WHO (World Health Organizaon) are fascinang to know.

• 40% of workers reported their job as extremely stressful. • 25% view their jobs as the number one stressor in their lives. Job stress is more strongly associated with health complaints than financial or family problems. • 25% have felt like screaming or shoung because of job stress, • 10% are concerned about an individual at work they fear could become violent. • 9% are aware of an assault or violent act in their workplace and • 18% had experienced some sort of threat or verbal inmidaon • 19% had quit a previous posion because of job stress • 26% have been driven to tears because of workplace stress. • 62% rounely find that they end the day with work-related neck pain. • 44% reported stressed-out eyes. • 38% complained of hurng hands • 34% reported difficulty in sleeping because they were too stressed-out. • 12% had called in sick because of job stress • 19% had quit a previous posion because of job stress • 26% have been driven to tears because of workplace stress. • 62% rounely find that they end the day with work-related neck pain. • 44% reported stressed-out eyes. • 38% complained of hurng hands • 34% reported difficulty in sleeping because they were too stressed-out. • 12% had called in sick because of job stress

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Myths of Stress • All stress is bad is a myth, some stress is good. • Stress will not hurt you is myth it a hurts. • What stresses you out also stresses me out • No symptoms, no stress is a myth stress can be without symptoms. • Only major symptoms of stress are harmful, no , minor can also be equally dangerous.

Stress can be of two types: EUSTRESS and DISTRESS

Eustress

• Eustress or posive stress, has following characteriscs • Movates, focuses energy, it is short term, is perceived as within our coping ability, Feels excing ,Improves performance, Posive stress results, Enables concentraon, Increases Performance, Energizes you into moon

Distress

• In contrast distress or negave stress has following features. Causes anxiety or concern, can be short or long term, Is perceived as outside our coping ability Feels unpleasant, Decreases performance, Can lead to mental or physical problems

How does stress present ?

Probable symptoms are as follows. • Insomnia or sleeplessness, Loss of mental concentraon, Absenteeism, Depression, Extreme anger, Frustraon, Family conflicts, Migraine, headaches and back aches.

Circumstances leading to stress • Takeovers and mergers • Shis in work • Time involved in traveling • Inability to cope up overseas • Shiing the HOUSE • Poor working relaonships • Too much responsibility • Frustrang experiences • Too lile money • Fear of future • A threatening change • New technology

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Now the point is How do we manage STRESS ? First of all look at how you currently cope with stress: are they • healthy ? • unhealthy? • helpful? • unproducve?

Unhealthy ways of coping • Smoking • Alcohol • Over / under eang • Long Hrs of TV • Withdrawal from friends, family and acvies • Using pills • Sleeping too much • Procrasnaon • Avoid facing problems • Taking out stress on others

Smoking : The most lethal instrument devised by man for peaceful use. More than 10,000 deaths every year in UK, 340,000 deaths every year in US. A very commonly used stress reliever, When burns it not only reduces it’s size but also reduces the span of life.

Learn healthier ways to cope: • Either change the situaon or change your reacon . • No “ one size fits all” soluon • Focus on what makes you feel calm & in control

Use Four A’s concept Avoid Alter Adapt Accept

As the quote goes, If it does not challenge you; it will not change you, don’t wish for it; work for it.

Strategy no 1: Avoid unnecessary stress • Learn to say “no” • Avoid people who stress you • Take control of your environment • Avoid “hot-buon” topics • Pair down to-do list

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Strategy no 2 : Alter the situaon • Express your feelings instead of boling. • Be willing to compromise • Be more asserve • Manage your me beer

Strategy no 3 : Adapt to the stressor If you cant change the stressor, Change yourself. Change your expectaons and atude. • Re frame the problem • Look at the big picture • Adjust your standards • Focus on the posive

Be always posive as — One negave thought leads to another……….. then another……….. then another ….. Prey soon you would have ruined your enre life.

Strategy no 4: Accept the things you can’t change • Don’t try to control the uncontrollable. • Look for the upside • Share your feelings • Learn to forgive

Strategy no 5: • Make me for fun and relaxaon • Set aside relaxaon me • Connect with others • Do some thing you enjoy every day • Keep your sense of humor

Strategy no 6: Adopt healthy life style • Exercise regularly • Eat a healthy diet • Reduce caffeine and sugar • Avoid alcohol, cigarees and drugs • Get enough sleep

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Chil out and recharge • Go for a walk • Spend me in nature • Call a good friend • Sweat out tension • Write down • Take a long bath • Light a scented candle, A cup of tea or coffee • Play with a pet • Work in garden • Get a message • Curl up with a book • Listen to music • Watch a comedy

Words to remember • Manage stress or suffer. • Don’t react but respond.

Any simple way out ? Manage the word STRESS • S – savings :manage your finances properly • T - Time: manage the me before it manages you. • R – Relaons: maintain good relaon at work place and at family level • E - Ego : learn to puncture your EGO to be HAPPY. • S – Strength: Maintain physical health well. • S – Spirituality: make spirituality a WAY OF LIFE>

KEEP IN MIND • Every journey begins with a single step but you will never finish if you don’t start • Winners find a way, losers find an excuse.

Lastly my dear friends Please Take care of these FIVE 1. Aachar 2. Vichar 3. Aahar 4. Vihar 5. Vyavahar

These clearly spell out The Four Way TEST. Please look onto these and follow in true leer and spirit.

WISH YOU ALL GOOD- LUCK.

8 8 44 8 8 Club Bulletin The magic of Rotary: Touching lives in Indonesia

Eva Kurniaty harvests a paddy field that was turned into producve land through a global grant. During a visit, I found out this club was project-oriented, and their members said they were interested in serving their local community. Yet, they were not engaged in any service projects which would help keep members or aract new Eva Kurniaty ones.

When I was a district governor in 2013, Cilacap is a rural area with over 2,000 there was a Rotary club in my district, in households in 12 villages, whose Cilacap, Central Java, that only had a few residents are dependent on fishing in the members. My senior leaders advised me Segara Anakan lagoon. The monthly to terminate the club since they were household income is only around $80. inacve, held no meengs, conducted no projects, and never contributed to Over the years, the water started to dry The Rotary Foundaon. But I was up, turning the area into swampland that determined not to end it; I knew it was also became breeding grounds for possible to revive it. mosquitoes that spread diseases such as 8 8 45 8 8 VANGUARD

Malaria and Dengue Fever. With the income, families in the village are now water dried up, the fishermen became prospering and able to afford basic farmers with an assurance of a more needs such as educaon for their regular income. However, this children. The value of land has now also “appeared” land was not producve, so increased to 20-mes its original price. we needed to transform it. This project also enhances Rotary’s I decided to help the club set a long- public image in remotes areas. I love term strategic plan for conducng a vising Cilacap hearing, the villagers tell service project that would use exisng me “Long-live Rotary!” Everywhere you members’ skills and experse in go, you can see paddy fields that stretch agriculture and engineering. The plan far and wide. The Cilacap Rotary club is was to build canals from Cimeneng River now a cause-based club focused on to reclaim the ferle mud (sediments) expanding this livelihood project to the brought down by runoff water from the remaining villages, and they regularly mountains to the river. This mud would contribute to the Foundaon. act as a ferlizer for the unproducve land. We decided to start with our first So, what happened next? global grant in one of the 12 villages. I made a promise to the local community I managed to secure enough District that I would connue to help all Designated Fund from Internaonal remaining villages in Cilacap. We have Partners and with their support, the since replicated this global grant project Rotary Club of Cilacap’s first global grant in two more villages, with the fourth was approved. We worked together with village’s global grant applicaon pending the villagers, local government, and a approval. Catholic foundaon. As the club members got involved with building the I am so happy and feel fulfilled that I was canals and monitoring the project, they able to transform a dying club into a became engaged, acve, and vibrant. healthy and vibrant club. It brings me Eventually, they began to aract new tears of joy to see all the changes and members as well. posive impact we’ve brought through this project. We should always try and The project was a huge success; the land help clubs that are struggling rather than became producve, and the villagers giving up on them. soon turned them into paddy fields. During its first year of harvest, these This is the Magic of Rotary. I hope this new-formed paddy fields yielded an story can inspire and movate you all to income of over $1 million. As more do more good in the world. sediment was reclaimed and the total area of producve land grew, the income also slowly increased and it now yields Contributed By: Rtn. Pradeep Kulkarni over $3 million per year. With this new

8 8 46 8 8 Club Bulletin No more ‘White Elephants’ please in the Belagavi Vaccine Institute !! By Dr. Nin Khot to all is that the greatest need in the world today is for an effecve vaccine against an extremely dangerous virus that is consuming lakhs of innocent lives across the globe. Covid-19 has now aacked three crore people across the globe and has jumped from two crores to three crores in just 40 days, indicang that the speed of infecon is increasing rapidly.

Aer studying the extravagant projects Every few days, our Prime Minister planned for the Vaccine Depot, a assures all that a vaccine for Covid-19 number of us were le wondering if will be developed by India and that our there is a ‘disconnect’ between the country will share it with all,… equally, planning team and what is emerging as for as low a manufacturing cost as the new norm in India and the world. possible.

Let me explain. All of us must do our utmost to support our Prime Ministers effort – and – There are two basic facts that have instead of depending on vaccines from emerged over the past 6 months that we Russia or China, – or even expecng the need to understand properly at this Serum Instute of India to bear the stage. enre burden, we must clearly understand this need of the hour. It has now become crystal clear to all that sources of Government revenue are This is not the last pandemic to strike depleng very fast and what is le in the the world. It is expected to last at least Government’s kiy has to be very ll the end of 2021 if no effecve carefully and responsibly spent by those vaccine is developed. The WHO Chief who are entrusted with the task of has expressed his hope that the world spending the poor common man’s hard will be beer prepared for future earned rupee. pandemics.

The second fact that is extremely clear Here in Belagavi, we have a splendid

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infrastructure for vaccine development and several very senior representaves and producon in the Belagavi Vaccine of the people implored everyone to Instute, (also known as the Vaccine prevent this Instute being pushed into Depot). irrelevance by short sighted schemes. Full-fledged research, development and The Belagavi Smart City Plan was manufacturing of vaccine took place developed according to a unique idea here in these 156 acres from 1904 to propounded by the newly elected Prime 2004 – and Belagavi or Belgaum was on Minister Shri Narendra Modi, in 2014. everyone’s lips, whenever the dreaded smallpox pandemic raised its ugly head. What was unique about this idea was that planning for a Smart City should be Not only that, … the Belgaum Vaccine from the boom upwards, not the other Instute produced a record 47 million way around as it was earlier, and hence, doses of smallpox vaccine annually in in Belagavi the largest ‘stakeholder the 1970’s to help eradicate smallpox consultaon’ exercise, involving forever – and this contribuon should 1,02,000 stakeholders was undertaken. never be forgoen. This is, possibly, our This consultaon threw up the idea of country’s most famous victory. preserving the Vaccine Instute as a park for botanical and heritage uses. To this ‘karmabhoomi’ of the health workers, the Karnataka State Two heritage precincts were to be Government – which has always shown “conserved” – the Fort area and the great vision and wisdom – issued a Vaccine Instute. ‘Conserved’ is Government Order (AKUKA 84 CGM) understood by ‘Conservaon Architects’ prohibing any construcon at this spot – as were sent to Belagavi by the School

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of Planning and Architecture (SPA) in any link with the locaon chosen – and Delhi as basically keeping an area free of this ‘link’ is the very first principle of modern construcon. ‘conservaon architecture’. Some of the ideas – like the Tamil Nadu enclosure This Smart City Plan for Belagavi, with with perhaps a miniature Meenakshi its emphasis on, not one, but two Temple or a Himachal Pradesh enclosure heritage precincts was widely with a few statues of people in appreciated by the judges of the Smart Himachali garments, are completely out City compeon and we were of place with the character of the posioned sixteenth on the very first list Belagavi Vaccine Instute. of prospecve Smart Cies in a resurgent India. The judges even went to Belagavi is a midsized town with a core the extent of menoning how this populaon of over 5 lakhs, which is not double heritage emphasis reflected the the size of a city that generates great mature thinking of the people of ‘fooall’ to galleries and museums. And Belagavi. tourists from elsewhere would hardly come to Belagavi to see Tamil Nadu’s Someme aer the funds came to be heritage ! Also, open-air amphitheatres released, the Smart City Special Vehicle, do not work well where the rains last for seems to have ‘lost the plot’. over 5 months and are becoming increasingly unpredictable. Treang the 156 acres of space of the Belagavi Vaccine Instute as “open Which brings us to the queson of country”, the BSC planners began to maintenance. Any structure that fails to think of parking in this space a cluster of raise revenues from private sources to buildings that had no organic connect cover the cost of its maintenance with the Belagavi Vaccine Instute becomes a permanent burden to the whatsoever. Government’s exchequer.

“Aviaon Galleries”, “amphitheatres” or There are several such “white elephants” what passes as a “heritage museum” are which the Government is trying to wash structures which do not seem to have its hands off. any organic connect with what is the proud heritage of this area or of our One of these “white elephants” is the ill Belagavi city. thought out “Glass House” constructed with precious Government funds in this The layout of this complex of buildings very Vaccine Depot and lying unused for as sketched by any willing architect may the past few years. look pleasing on paper, but then, as the Mahatma once said, “Paper will put up Public funds are very precious and with anything that is wrien on it !”. sacred and should not be spent on without a very careful assessment of its Not one of these chosen structures has present value and future cost. These

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precious funds could well be ulized at when an effecve vaccine for Covid-19 this point of me to serve more essenal is ready, we Belgaumites will greatly needs of the people of Belagavi and regret not having the space where leng the Vaccine Depot be what it is … thousands of our young sciensts, with its immense potenal for technicians and workers could work researching and producing a vital vaccine three shis to save millions of lives and against Covid-19. fulfil over Prime Minister’s wonderful dream. Hardly any thought seems to have been given to the long term maintenance of It is me for all of us to reflect very these Government funded structures. deeply on the new realies that have Will they go over the sad path of the emerged over the past six months and to “Glass House” in Vaccine Instute ? come forward and gently persuade our Smart City Planner that a truly smart How many more “white elephants” will soluon lies in a different direcon. our cash strapped Government be burdened with ?

What about the space itself ? If we squander this irreplaceable space – which is a gi of history to Belagavi – then, in just a few months from now,

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Dr. Asawari Sant

According to a news report in the Times of India a globally acclaimed scienst from Dharwad has created a Nanolife Disinfectant Tunnel (NDT) which uses green Nanotechnology to fight infecous diseases . The doctor in queson is a son of North Karnataka Dr Kaesh Ka. Originally from Dharwad, he is presently Professor of radiology and physics at the University of Missouri and is also the director of Instute of Green Nanotechnology.

The tunnel is a walkthrough structure Dr Ka's Microchem Laboratory has that can be placed at the entrance of shown promising results and he claims high risk public spaces like train staons to have received orders from the or bus stands, entrances of malls and government of India to install these auditoriums, cinema halls and stadiums. tunnels in India too. Dr Ka has always It ulises silver nano parcles to get an tried to merge ancient Ayurvedic anmicrobial effect. techniques with green nanotechnology processes to achieve great results. Preliminary experiments conducted by Dr. Ka's research is focused on

8 8 52 8 8 Club Bulletin unraveling the fundamentals of science nano constructs, and a spectrum of as he applies those principles and new molecular medicine-conjugates, for use concepts in developing new chemical in a plethora of medical, agricultural, species at the macro and nano scales. In hygienic (anbacterial/anmicrobial) and the ‘nano-domain’, he is interested in technological applicaons. exploring biophysical, chemical, magnec, nuclear and photophysical It is indeed a maer of pride that such properes, that are unique to specific an eminent scienst originally hailing nanoparculates, toward the design and from our part of the world is involved in development of sophiscated diagnosc this global effort to neutralize the and therapeuc agents. Targeted dreaded virus. May his efforts yield good nanoparcles, which are created through results for humanity at large. the intervenon of ‘Ka Pepdes’ are being ulized in the detecon of diseases at the cellular/sub cellular levels while radiochemical and X ray absorpon properes of gold nanoparcles, embedded selecvely within tumor cells/sites, are being applied for effecve therapy of breast, liver, lung, oral, prostate and pancreac cancers and various debilitang diseases which include Osteoarthris and Parkinson’s diseases. Drug discovery approaches are built around a clinical translaon mof as Dr. Ka strongly believes that discoveries should translate into value added products to ulmately serve humanity across the globe.

Green nanotechnology is at the focal point of Dr. Ka's approach to pursuing research in nanotechnology (and molecular medicine) as he strongly believes in the total eliminaon of toxic chemicals in the producon of engineered nanoparcles. Toward this end, phytochemicals occluded within plants, herbs or from various sources from Mother Nature are being used as electron reservoirs in developing 100% green processes for the development of

8 8 53 8 8 VANGUARD Did Nostradamus really predict the rise of supreme leader Modi in India? by Samavedula Venkata Rama Sastry

When I was working in a coal mine in Mandamarri there used to be an Undermanager who is boasng himself to be fortune teller.Whenever our department opens a gallery he used to say that it will not connect to the opposite gallery correctly. We have ignored his comments. But aer 30 or so remarks, one gallery has wrongly connected. Then he said “Did i say that or not. my predicon is always correct” Did Nostradamus predict anybody by But he forgot that his earlier 30 odd name? All his predicons are in general predicons gone wrong. terms and we are interpreng them. Some say he predicted his own death. That is called shoong so many arrows. That is natural. So many, about 20 to 25 If you shoot a bunch of arrows at a bird I know, including my father predicted at one me, one of them bound to hit their death. That comes to humans the bird. That can not be considered as naturally. accurate shoong. {Of the alleged 946 predicons Likewise Nostradamus shot so many aributed to Nostradamus, only about arrows. Some of them may be hing. 70 are considered to have had some Like so many astrologers who says that kind of fulfillment. That works out to less “an unfortunate incident happened in than a 7-percent success rate. However, your life”. This will happen in everybody’s regarding the ‘successes,’ M’Clintock and life. So astrologers and prophets are Strong’s Cyclopædia comments that bound to tell something which will many are considered to be the “bold happen in everybody’s life.They have to forgeries” of his interpreters, including earn the buck.That is their livelihood. the predicon of his own death. Others were “composed aer the events to There is a Telugu prophet as well called which they seem designed to refer.” Sri. Potuloori Veera Brahmendra Some are “strained” in their applicaon Swamy.May be there is one for each and some are shown to have language. ‘fulfillment's’ in a number of different events.

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When astrologers predict future events, riddling of the fate of men; a man at it is not always possible to determine once bold and mid; simple, yet who can their accuracy since it may require plumb his depth? A superficial Chrisan, waing centuries for the fulfillment, if a Pagan perhaps at heart.” there ever is a fulfillment. Nostradamus did touch on some Bible Nostradamus, like other prognoscators, maers. Concerning the future, he was adept at using ambiguity or double predicted “that before the universal meaning as his stock-in-trade. In conflagraon shall happen so many great Astrology and the Popular Press, inundaons, that there shall scarce be Bernard Capp says: “Nostradamus was a any land that shall not be covered with master of dramac ambiguity, which has water, and this shall last so long, that kept his prophecies alive down to the except for Ethnographies and present age.” Topographies all shall perish.” However, Genesis 9:11says: “Never again shall all This aspect of his quatrains is also living creatures be destroyed by the described by James Laver, who states in waters of the flood, never again shall Nostradamus or the Future Foretold: there be a flood to lay waste the earth.” “These four-line stanzas of crabbed [ill- (The New English Bible) Nostradamus formed] French verse, obeying neither said: “I fully confess that all proceeds prosody nor syntax, arranged in no from God.” He sounds impressive, but if intelligible order and bristling not only his predicons were “from God,” why with words in half a dozen foreign would they so conflict with God’s Word? languages but with inials, anagrams and made-up names—ho w can there be a It is similar with his chronological hope of finding any meaning in such a calculaons. While claiming they were publicaon at all? And if there were, obtained by “taking simply the Sacred would it be worth the trouble?”} Scriptures for the guide,” Nostradamus also admits his dang was “adjusted by So do not be fooled by these astronomical calculaon.” Sounds Nostradamus predicons and do our convincing, but do the two harmonize? duty towards naon.

It becomes obvious that Nostradamus cared lile for the Bible, but he used it to suit his own purposes. Although Nostradamus gave token allegiance to the Catholic Church, the following descripon of him, given by Charles Ward, sums up not only the man himself but the source of influence behind his predicons:

“What is Nostradamus? . . . a riddler,

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JOKE OF THE WEEK Teacher: "Kids, what does the chicken give you?” Student: “Meat!”

Teacher: "Very good! Now what does the pig give you?" Student: “Bacon!”

Teacher: "Great! And what does the fat cow give you?" Student: “Homework!"

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Know Your Rotarian PP Rtn. Dr. Satish Yalgi Has Successfully Completed 50 Years of Practice in The Medical Profession.

Coming from a family of freedom fighters and inspired by selfless service in the medical profession by his father Late Dr. Anantrao Yalgi fondly called as Bhausaheb he decided to become a Doctor at an early age. Bhausaheb and his mother Late Vimalabai Yalgi always supported him in all his endeavours. Dr. Sash Yalgi is happily married to Mrs. Lata Yalgi and blessed with 2 sons, Indraneel and Dr. Viraj Yalgi. He did his primary schooling from Rajput Bandhu school; studied for another four years in Divine Providence & completed Matriculaon from St. Pauls High School.

He then le to Pune to study at the Ferguson college to do his Inter Science and later did Junior B.Sc. at RPD college in Belagavi. He pursued his MBBS at Manipal college from 1960-65 and later on completed his M.S. in E.N.T. from the reputed K.E.M. Hospital Mumbai. With the vast experience he had obtained during his post graduaon, he was offered a job opportunity in Mumbai which was quite lucrave, but he always wanted to come You were known to be an excellent mimicry to Belgaum and serve the people of his arst in College and you imitated the Principal. hometown. He is one of the senior most E.N.T. Tell us about those experiences? Surgeons of Belgaum. I played cricket ll 1965 and missed by a whisker in becoming a professional sportsman Share your experiences at Manipal Medical because of the Chinese aggression then in the College? year 1962. I played with Surendra Kamat, I’ve some lovely memories and interesng Dayanand Kamat and the likes of Brijesh Patel. stories to share from there. Manipal was a Manipal had excellent sports infrastructure and melng pot of cultures and even then it was a playing different games was promoted and had mini India as students from different corners of excellent atmosphere to play different games. the country came to pursue their further studies and who would qualify to become Even our teaching faculty had good relaons Doctors in the future. There were Tamilians, with the students and there was banter Malayalis, North Indians, Gujaras, exchanged amongst us and this went in keeping Maharashtrians, and students from Karnataka good relaons with them. And playing sports and there was even a Dharwad group. We all was encouraged and I remember one of our studied together and shared excellent rapport Professors warned that, if I didn’t produce good with fellow students and maintained cordial results in the game of cricket...he’d take me to relaons with all. task.

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Ganesh Utsav was started during our inial years and we have tons of memories to share and keep us going for the rest of our lives.

In the final year, I decided to mimic the Principal and the Professors who taught us different subjects on stage. I was given the go ahead by the enre teaching faculty and I mimicked our Principal and said “I declare a holiday tomorrow”. This was taken by our Principal in a very sporve manner and he actually declared a holiday. So these were the stalwarts who have influenced my life and always kept this in mind and carried forward their baton, when I was serving as a faculty in Sheikh Homeopathic College for quite a few years.

Your student days and the me when you studied medicine, the days then were different; what’ are the changes you’ve beer in comparison to the other places. noced then and now? Today, there are different streams of Medicine When I first started my pracce way back, other than Allopathy, like Ayurveda, there were only a limited number of Doctors, Homoeopathy and other alternave forms of and I always had the goodwill of my father’s medicine which are evolving. Even I have general pracce which was a strong support. I incorporated different streams of medical had learnt the stock of the trade during the pracces during the course of treang the early years when I used to assist my father and paents. One cannot thump his chest and gained valuable experience. I built my trust with claim, that a certain medical treatment is the paents vising and later on I made a mark superior and cannot overlook and side line the in the profession as people started coming to others. me.

Your take on the current state of the medical profession? The medical profession is considered as a noble profession and it is even today. We used to get referred paents from the surrounding villages, and I also used to visit nearby villages where there was a crying need for Doctors to treat the people of their ailments. I went to Sankeshwar, Gadhinglaj, Halkarni, Bailhongal and also to Khanapur and Londa During those visits, I met new people and maintained good relaons and treated them well and people remember me Is the concept of the good old family doctor even today. losing its scope? And why is there so much anger against the Doctors these days, and In the present phase, there has been there have been cases of some of the Doctor’s commercialisaon of the noble profession of geng roughed up by the irate family medicine; but I’d also like to add, that the members of the paent? treatment of the paents in Belagavi is far 8 8 59 8 8 VANGUARD

Today, the trust and confidence on the Doctors As the President who started the SCAW is reducing because of commercialisaon of the journey, 30 years ago in 1988 at our Club, how profession. During our mes, the concept of did it all begin? family doctors had their place in society and In general conversaons with friends and had good relaons with a certain family and Rotarians I had heard about this interesng were considered family. Today, the trend is idea being implemented at Hubli, Sirsi and a gradually reducing, but there are people who few other locaons. Serendipitously, since the sll believe in the good old concept of the airport was at Sambre, Belgaum, I learnt from family doctor and I have this parcular trend in former Rtn. Sudhakar Shanbhag that a team my pracce where I have paents in the 3rd or from Canada was at Hotel Sanman, waing to 4th generaon as my paents. head to Sambre. Secretary at that me, Rtn. Ravindra Sant and I headed to Sanman and discussed with volunteers from Canada about how this could be done in Belgaum. They gave me the address of SCAW founder Dryden and asked me to write to him. Within three weeks, amazingly and happily, I was in receipt of a posive response and that was the beginning of this beauful journey.

Sounds interesng, but a new concept like this, how did the Club execute this? We were alloed, via the SCAW designated What would you suggest the new breed of person in New Delhi, Rs. 1 Lakh then for Doctors entering the medical profession, as distribuon of 300 bedkits. Our Club the number of Physicians is reducing amidst responded superbly and I am happy to say that the Corona pandemic? this tradion connues to this day. We visited It is not possible for all young Doctors, to go in Hubli and discussed with Rotarians there about for super specializaon and they should also how they had procured material for the bedkits. concentrate on General Pracce and give equal We were generously provided lists of suppliers emphasis on treang paents. As there is a and hints on cosng. I must say that some spurt in the number of medical colleges and the names and faces come to my mind such as number of Doctors passing out each year is also Secretary Ravindra Sant, Rotarians then increasing. So, too much of Specializaon will Chandrakant Dorkadi, R. D. Shanbhag and so not help maers as there is large number of many others. people from the underprivileged secons of society. So, the Doctors, need to cater to this large secon of people who do not have access to quality healthcare and hence there is a growing demand for general praconers.

How do you feel aer having pracced for so long? I pracced without any fear or favour and did not make any demands and the Hippocrac Oath was honoured in leer and spirit. That is the most important thing to me and I’ve lived to the family reputaon of giving quality medical treatment.

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our members. I sll remember the Canadian volunteers telling me then that before Christmas me they would visit friends’ homes and convince them to put down monies for bedkits and that the pictures in Belgaum taken of children receiving bed kits were a heart- warming receipt for their generosity. What a beauful concept we became part of.

We spoke to schools in these areas (Tilakwadi, Vadagaon, Angol, etc.) and finally came up with a list of three hundred deserving recipients. In parallel, we procured materials, and it was not only members who helped to put the bedkits together, but so did members of Inner Wheel, spouses and children of Rotarians. It is a measure of sincerity of members of our club that not a single other name was proposed to be added to the list of three hundred as a personal favour to someone they were close to. Makes me proud to tell you that.

For the distribuon, Chandrakant Dorkadi suggested using “Aashirwad Mangal Karyalay” as the venue, gras. The distribuon went off smoothly, and a great journey had begun.

Any other messages from your experiences then that could be useful to newer members? Once you become a Rotarian in this Club you are treated as a friend, and this is what allows our Club to maintain its unique DNA of camaraderie and support. Thanks to this atude we were able to give a fillip to the Polio Drops drive where members and I literally used to visit homes to locate children eligible for drops, and also start work on arficial limb donaon.

When I look at the SCAW program today, let me honestly tell you that I could not have imagined that it would be so large today. Over thirty years we have gone from hundreds to thousands of bedkits distributed each year. The spirit of SCAW, where every rupee alloed is spent only on bedkits, has been maintained by

8 8 61 8 8 This Statue is called "Empness"! It is a great aempt at describing how parents feel when Children are not with them in OLD AGE, in any part of the world! Empness' original arst is Albert György! It's a bronze statue located at Lake Geneva, Switzerland! Contributed By: Rtn. Dr. V. N. Desai

8 8 62 8 8 Club Bulletin The World Health Organization Declares Africa Polio-Free By Jeffrey Kluger

Nobody will ever know the identy of the thousands of African children who were not killed or paralyzed by polio this year. They would have been hard to keep track of no maer what because in ordinary mes, they would have followed thousands last year and thousands the year before and on back in a generaons-long trail of UNICEF health consultant Hadiza Waya immunizes a child during a suffering and death. polio vaccinaon campaign on April 22, 2017, in Kano, Nigeria.

Instead, no African children were “Today’s victory over the wild poliovirus claimed by polio this year or last year or in the African region is a testament to the year before. It was in 2016 that the what can happen when partners from a last case of wild, circulang polio was variety of sectors join forces to reported in Nigeria—the final country on accomplish a major global health goal,” the 54-naon African connent where says John Hewko, general secretary and the disease was endemic. And with a CEO of Rotary Internaonal. “[It is] required mul-year waing period now something the world can and should having passed with no more cases, the aspire to during these turbulent mes.” World Health Organizaon today officially declared the enrety of Africa It was Rotary, an internaonal nonprofit polio-free. A disease that as recently as service organizaon, that kicked off the the late 1980s was endemic in 125 polio endgame in 1988 with the launch countries, claiming 350,000 children per of the Global Polio Eradicaon Iniave year, has now been run to ground in just (GPEI). That program aimed to leverage two remaining places, Pakistan and the power of Rotary’s 35,000 clubs and Afghanistan, where there have been a 1.22 million members in 200 countries collecve 102 cases so far in 2020. and territories worldwide to make polio That’s 102 too many, but there is no only the second human disease—aer denying the scope of the WHO smallpox—to be pushed over the brink of announcement. 8 8 63 8 8 VANGUARD exncon. The job was made easier by Out of Africa” Campaign, and the group the partners Rotary immediately scrambled fast—or as fast as was aracted: the WHO, the U.S. Centers for possible with so many children to Disease Control and Prevenon (CDC) vaccinate on so vast a land mass. In and UNICEF. The Bill and Melinda Gates 2000, the first synchronized campaigns Foundaon joined in 2007, followed by began in 17 countries, with 76 million Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, just last year. children being vaccinated by tens of The 32-year iniave has depended on thousands of volunteers. The work volunteer workers and charitable fanned out across the connent from donaons, which together have there, including an especially heavy push produced an army of 20 million field from 2008 to 2010, when an outbreak in workers administering vaccines to over 24 countries in western and central 2.5 billion children at a cost of $17 Africa was met by a large-scale, mul- billion. naonal vaccinaon of 85 million children. Some countries were a lighter li than others. In the U.S. the disease was Finally, Nigeria stood alone as the only eradicated in 1979, well before the GPEI African naon where the disease was even began its work. Other naons sll endemic, in part because of followed: In 1994 the Americas were resistance by religious leaders in the declared polio-free. Europe as a whole northern part of the country who got a clean bill of health in 2002, when objected western interference in local all 53 countries in the WHO’s affairs and claimed that the vaccine was designated European region were unsafe. That opposion broke down, declared free of the virus. Massive partly thanks to Muhammad Sanusi II, vaccinaon efforts began in India in the Emir of the city of Kano—a 1997, which eradicated the virus in hereditary leader descended from a 2014. ruling family—who appeared at a public ceremony before the kick off of a How Polio Was Eradicated from the seasonal vaccinaon campaign in 2016, African Connent called for a vial of polio vaccine to be But Africa, with its vast sprawl of village brought to the stage, and with the populaons, long distances to urban audience watching, broke its seal and hospitals, spoy infrastructure like drank down its enre contents. That adequate roads and reliable “cold year, the country recorded its last case chains”—refrigerated transport networks of polio, and this year, Nigeria’s WHO to keep vaccines viable—was always cerficaon is the reward for its efforts. going to present special challenges. In 1996, when the case count on the “The polio eradicaon program in connent regularly reached 75,000 Nigeria has gone through some difficult vicms every year, South African mes, but I never once doubted that this President Nelson Mandela partnered day would come,” says Dr. Tunji Funsho, with Rotary to launch the “Kick Polio a former cardiologist who is the chair of

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Rotary Internaonal’s Polio-Plus cause the disease. The downside of the Commiee in Nigeria. “Any me that killed vaccine: it requires trained health we’ve experienced a setback, Rotary and care workers to administer the shots, as our partners have been able to find opposed to volunteers who can easily soluons and develop new strategies for learn to place drops in a child’s mouth. reaching vulnerable children.” That final round of vaccinaons will be thus more expensive and labor-intensive The Next Steps Towards Global than earlier rounds, but only aer the Eradicaon handful of vaccine-derived cases are Other challenges remain. For one thing eliminated too, will the scourge of polio there are sll the stubborn polio at last pass into history. Funsho and redoubts of Afghanistan and Pakistan, others are convinced that will happen. but Funsho is cauously opmisc. “Afghanistan and Pakistan have their “One thing I know for certain,” he says, own set of challenges in the fight against “is if Nigeria could eliminate the wild the wild poliovirus, but so did the poliovirus, any country can eliminate it.” African region and Nigeria,” he says. “I cannot put a me stamp on when wild polio will be eradicated in the two Contributed By: Rtn. Niranjan Sant remaining countries. The lessons we’ve learned in Nigeria and the African region show that eradicaon can only be achieved through global commitment.”

What’s more, wild polio is not the only kind that causes disease. The oral vaccine contains a live but weakened virus, which in rare cases can mutate and lead to the very disease it’s designed to prevent. There have been 302 cases of vaccine-derived polio in both endemic and non-endemic countries so far this year—all localized and not widespread like wild polio can be. Again, that case count is small by earlier standards, but again too many by the standards of the children and the families who are its vicms.

Stopping those infecons means eventually supplemenng the oral, live- virus vaccine with the injectable variety that uses a killed virus that can never

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In response to the invitaon for a rather unusual REUNION of all me greats:

Newton said he'd drop in.

Socrates said he'd think about it.

Ohm resisted the idea.

Boyle said he was under too much pressure.

Darwin said he'd wait to see what evolved.

Pierre and Marie Curie radiated enthusiasm.

Volta was electrified at the prospect.

Pavlov posively drooled at the thought.

Ampere was worried he wasn't current enough though alternately none were.

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Einstein said it would be relavely easy to aend.

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Hertz said he planned to aend with greater frequency in the future.

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Aryabhaa said there were zero chances of him showing up.

Marconi said, he would listen to the report on wireless.

Pythagoras refused because he thought that the organisers were not looking at the reunion through the right angle

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