Jim Dunny
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Program for Tuesday, April 14, 2015
The program on Tuesday, April 14, 2015 will be a presentation by Doris Stein entitled "Ordinary Women Doing Extraordinary Things
Ordinary Women Doing Extraordinary Things
Ordinary Women Doing Extraordinary Things
Ordinary Women Doing Extraordinary Things
Meeting Assignments
This is the list for April 2015 through May 5 because
the SunRiser will not be published because the
editor will be on vacation from Apr 15 until Apr 30.
Date
Who Am I
Cheer for Rotary
Apr 14, 2015
Andy Patapow
Jim Stewart
Apr 21, 2015
Michael Rennie
Paul Sullivan
Apr 28, 2015
Jay Riordan
Lloyd Trilling
May 5, 2015
Jim Roth
Rob Weinberg
The member assigned to Who Am I is also responsible for providing the positive thought at the beginning of the meeting and introducing visiting Rotarians and guests.
The member assigned to Cheer for Rotary is the assigned Greeter for that day and also is tasked with selling opportunity drawing tickets.
l to r: Pat Armstrong, Karen Mortimer and TechTrek Student Carly
RB Sunrise Rotary donated $1800 to AAUW Tech Trek. This is enough to fund 2 girls for the weeklong Science Camp this summer at UCSD. The presentation was made at our meeting on April 7, 2015. Pat Armstrong, the Tech Tech coordinator for the Rancho Bernardo Branch of the American Association of Women was present at the meeting as was the current president of the branch Irene Dunny.
A highlight of the presentation was a talk by a Tach Trek student, Carly, from last year. She started by thanking us for supporting Tech Trek and making her week at Tech Trek possible. She told us about what she experienced as she stayed in the dorm and went to classes each morning. Two field trips that were highlights of the week were a visit to VIacom and a boat ride at Sea Camp. Her short talk was truly impressive and showed us what a great program Tech Trek is.
The San Diego Humane Society
Dr. Gary Weitzman, the CEO of the San Diego was our speaker for our April 7 meeting. He told us that the Humane Society in Escondido merged with the one in San Diego within the last year and followed the merger of the Oceanside Humane Society. He told us of the various programs at the Humane Society including the opening of a place for large animals at the Escondido location. Because there are horses that are in danger during fire season, the Humane Society coordinate a large group of volunteers to rescue large animals and get them to safety.
Dr. Weitzman also told us that the are well on their way to elimination the need for euthanizing healthy animals at the Humane Society shelters. Only very sick animals that can't be saved are destroyed. The now have the resources to rehabilitate 'problem' animals and get them to the point where they can be adopted safety.
The presentation was well received and we will be sure to have Jeanne Loo-Russo, who works at the Escondido Humane Society location keep us up to date an what is happening with the shelter in the future.
Nuisance Software on your Computer
We are all familiar with computer terms such as virus, malware, trojan horses. phishing and spyware. I recently encounters 2 additional types of nuisance infectious software that got onto my computer when I was reinstalling software. One is a scam that locks up your computer and asks you to go to a website and pay to have the code to unlock it. This you should not do. This nasty software can arrive as an attachment to an email. The way to get rid of it is to shut down your computer and then start up in Safe mode. You can go on the internet to find out the specific steps to remove this CryptoLocker Ransom ware. Don't Pay Anything to This Kind of Scam ! You aren't guaranteed that you will get the problem fixed.
The second infection also arrives uninvited. Again, it can arrive as an additional choice when you are installing or updating software. If you don't know what an application you are being asked to install at the same time as the one you want, don't authorize it. What happens is that if you click through the screens and automatically approve everything you may be authorizing ad injection software or adware. This is the code that allows the nuisance popup windows to appear that obscure the text that you are trying to view. When you click on the window to close it, the popup window will quickly reappear. The one that I had to remove was called CinemaPro1.2. This is just one of many adware programs that can be added to your browser. What makes this kind of software additions to your computer insidious is that there are innocent ones from sites such as Amazon that are useful and make using Amazon easier. To get rid of adware, you again have to turn to the internet. Antivirus programs don't filter out this kind of nuisance software. However there are shareware software tools available that are specifically designed to identify and remove adware from your computer system. By doing a search on "adware removal" you can find these useful utility applications. The instructions for these useful applications are fairly complete and easy to follow, After using the software to locate and delete the adware, you will probably have to restart your computer.
How a simple school project in India became a global grant
This story from Rotary International tells how a simple request for desks for a school in India near the border with Pakistan became something much larger. Because the rules have changed for grants from the Rotary Foundation, a club in Maine had to get a larger vision about how to help the schools not only get desks, but also get students and train teachers.
Read about this story of how the new rules provided for a better end result for this project.
Polio Vaccine celebrates 60th anniversary
Sunday, 12 April, marked 60 years since the Salk polio vaccine was declared safe, effective, and potent. In that time, the number of polio cases has dropped by 99 percent worldwide. With just three countries remaining polio-endemic, we are closer than ever to eradicating this crippling disease.
Jonas Salk’s inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) has been crucial in helping us reach our goal of a polio-free world. Before the vaccine was widely available, in the United States alone, polio crippled more than 35,000 people each year. By 1957 -- two years after the introduction of Salk’s vaccine -- cases in the U.S. had fallen by almost 90 percent, and by 1979, polio had been eradicated there.
To read the rest of this article from Rotary International, click here.
