Club Bulletin No8, Vol 21, September 13 2002 The Cam |
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Ted Elliot Testimonial Youth Assisitance Fund Awareness Week accent on ridding world of polio by 2005 Promotional Kits From Rotary Down Under R.I.Convention 2003 Brisbane, Queensland, June 1-4 |
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Edward (Ted) Elliot Donations are being sought to establish the Lawrence Edward (Ted) Elliot Testimonial Youth Assistance Fund for the assistance of disadvantaged and isolated youth achievers throughout Far North Queensland. Awareness Week accent on ridding world of polio by 2005 The six Rotary Districts in New Zealand combined resources effectively last year to promote a special People Like You and Me them, supplemented by colourful posters, brochures and bumper stickers. The generic nature of these promotional items mean that they are suitable for use in Australia as well as New Zealand. Interested club and District chairmen may contact John Evans at 64 9 377 6201 (business hours) or email john.evanspr.co.nz At the time of writing, many strategies were still being put into place for the 2002 Awareness Week. R.I. Director John has promoted the concept of Rotary clubs and Districts using Awareness Week activities to promote and assist final fund raising efforts for polio eradication. At the meeting with District PR/Awareness chairmen, he urged all Districts and clubs to make a special effort to conduct fund raising activities in association with special community promotions, i.e., shopping centre displays, newspaper supplements highlighting Rotary service, and radio and television advertising. He explained that one of the disappointments of past Awareness Weeks has been the lack of commitment by individual Rotary clubs. John Thorn urged District Chairmen at the meeting to return to their Districts and carefully plan Awareness campaigns for the week of September 23 to 29. "It's important that each Chairman convenes a special meeting of club PR/Awareness/RDU chairmen and commit to doing something special during Awareness Week 2002. " In line with R.I. President Bhichai's policy, major programs such as Rotary Awareness must start at club or grass roots level," he said. Chief Executive Officer of ACAP, David Arakie, utilized the meeting to explain details of the McDonalds tray mat promotion to the District chairmen, along with other initiatives planned for Awareness Week. These include: · Further media/community promotion fro the APN Group through billboards, buses and media. · A novel Happy Hats concept involving all Rotary club meetings during Rotary Awareness Week. · The 1900 999 123 phone number will go live on August 1 and will be an ongoing Australian Corporate Alliance Program fundraising number for Polio Eradication campaign. · ACAP partner Roman Printing has agreed to provide 23,000 poster (1,000 for distribution in each district) promoting the polio eradication Call to Action (phone 1900 999 123) fund raising campaign. · RDU has agreed to allow Roman Printing to further sponsor a coversheet flyer with the mailing of the September edition of the magazine, carrying the Australian and New Zealand Polio Eradication Campaign Call to Action phone numbers. · ACAP corporate alliance partners and supporters, including Harvey World Travel, Avis, CGU Insurance, and National Australian Bank have agreed to undertake staff fundraisers to assist the Polio Eradication Campaign during Rotary Awareness Week in September. · ACAP is also currently progressing discussions with Channel 9, Greater Union and Birch, Carroll & Coyle to expand further fund raising opportunities and awareness coverage. Promotional Kits From Rotary Down Under The Rotary Down Under promotional team has thrown its weight behind the regional Rotary Awareness Week campaign and produced a splendid Rotary Awareness Kit - available for sale to Rotary clubs at a price of only $A65. These kits are perfect for shopping centres, shop windows or any community Rotary Awareness promotion. They include: · Nine large Rotary service posters. Other initiatives being developed by RDU for Awareness Week include a repeat of the Rotary book offer . . . . but offering even more value this year. · Seventy-five years of Service. To encourage Rotary clubs to purchase the books for donation to local school and community libraries, a set of eight books (two of each) may be purchased for $A100. Other suggested projects included a Children Walking Against Polio Day and sales. R.I.Convention 2003 Brisbane, Queensland, June 1-4 Make your plans to attend R.I.Brisbane Convention From August 1, the Rotary International 2003 Convention in Brisbane, Australia, is just ten months away! R.I. Past Director John Carrick is the chairman of the International Planning Committee and pointed out that it was 10 years since a R.I. Convention was staged Down Under (Melbourne, Vic., 1993). "Who knows how long it will be before ANZO Rotarians have the opportunity to again attend a local convention, so our clubs and Districts really need to make the most of this opportunity," he said. RIPD John emphasised the need for individual Rotarians to allocate their time and make a Convention commitment now, sayings: "Don't just plan to attend yourself. Ask your fellow club members for a commitment at your next club assembly - and insist that club plans include partners. "If you have not yet attended a Rotary International Convention, you are in for the best international experience of your life. " This was confirmed at the recent Barcelona Convention where advance registrations for Brisbane in early June, 2003, were in excess of 1,400 with 2,000 room bookings! "This is an all-time record for bookings at this early time, and underlines the high level and acceptance of world interest R.I. Conventions in Australia," he said. John Carrick knows of Districts where registrations and housing forms have already been distributed to EVERY club president and of club plans to bring groups of 30 to 40 Rotarians had partners to Brisbane for the best Rotary "party" of the decade. "Convention registration forms should be now available from District and club Convention Chairmen, whilst Ozaccom (the appointed hotel housing agent) is now receiving booking requests from all parts of Australia," he said. Contact details for Ozaccom Pty Ltd are · Phone 07 3854 1611 · Fax 07 3854 1507 · Email ozaccom@oxaccom.com.au Combine your holiday and Convention plans John Carrick urged all Rotarians to consider making the Brisbane Convention and Queensland the No.1 priority for annual holidays in 2003. "Tourism Queensland has lent magnificent support to our Convention planning and is offering excellent holiday deals to all popular tourist destinations. "Rotarians should combine their Convention and holiday planning and contact Tourism Queensland direct at 07 3535 3535 (phone), 07 3535 5479 (fax) or via their web site at www.tq.com.au," he said. Finalizing his comments, the Chairman thanked Rotary Down Under in making space available for a special feature each month on the R.I. Convention in Brisbane. "This special editorial feature will carry up-to-date Convention information and details of any unique Convention stunt by Rotary clubs and/or Districts," he said. Special tribute was also paid to the Queensland Events Corporation, a subsidiary of the Queensland State Government which has given substantial financial and advisory support. " Their chairman and chief executive officer travelled to Barcelona to assist further with planning and we could never have achieved what has been accomplished to date without their very positive support," RIPD John said. Feeling Barcelona energy gives 2003 Host buzz for Brisbane By John Puttick Past President Rotary Club of Brisbane, Qld. Chairman, Brisbane Host Committee R.I. Convention 2003 The Brisbane Host Committee's promotion in Barcelona, Spain, of the 2003 R.I. Convention was a great success and support for the Brisbane event is already surging. The R.I. Convention in Barcelona attracted 19,000 delegates, including a good contingent of Americans, which following September 11 was beyond everyone's expectations. We sold 2,000 rooms for Brisbane 2003 while we were in Barcelona and another 1,200 rooms have been pre-booked by R.I. That is a fantastic indication that Rotarians are planning to support the Brisbane event in droves. The challenge now for the host committee is not just to organise the best Rotary Convention ever, it is to get Brisbane residents to understand the huge scale of the R.I. Convention. Each year the R.I Convention has a significant impact on the host city. If you have 25,000 people from around the world eating, drinking, sleeping and seeing the sights for an average stay of a week, then you can imagine the benefits to the local economy. Most of the delegates we spoke to were looking forward to seeing Australia and New Zealand, intending to lengthen their stay so they could tour before or after the convention. We took away from Barcelona a better understanding of what a convention means to a delegate and the host community. Our Rotarians are exited about coming to a safe, sunny, cost-effective destination where they can enjoy fellowship. The energy generated by thousands of people from all over the world being together is immense. In June 2003 it will be Brisbane's turn and it will be huge! Smell, as one of the five senses, has long been associated with evoking emotions - consider the blissful bouquets generated from a dozen red roses, a splash of expensive perfume and homemade chocolate anything. Strong scents hang in the air like spoon-sized globs of golden syrup. Sweet, potent and powerful. Yes, powerful because smell can do much to change the state of the mind. Well, women's minds it seems. A recent Canadian medical study asked 20 men and 20 women to immerse one hand in a 48o C bucket of hot water while breathing in dental antiseptic. (It's a pretty sick mind that disguises that sort of torture as a legitimate scientific study!) The supposed idea behind the test was to compare male and female reactions to pain in the presence of certain odours. They also used massage oil, after-shave, baby oil, vanilla extract and hair perm mixture. And what they discovered was that women's sense of smell influences their reaction to pain. The more pleasant the aroma the less painful the pain. On the other hand, men's perception of pain in relation to smell is apparently unaffected, regardless of whether they're downwind from the sewerage pump at North Cairns or queuing in a bakery. In order to verify the subjects' verbal responses, the authors of the study did brain scans to see if the male-brain activity was different to female-brain activity. The 20 scanned female brains showed significantly higher brain activity than the men's (did they really need to do the scanning?) - but was it before or after the 20 females snotted the lab technician with their still functioning hand and said, "Wait till the Ethics Committee hears about this." It appears, however, that women's noses have taken the most sensible, practical option. Correlating pleasant odours with pleasurable occasions permits the brain to override its perception of pain and creates nasally-induced, sweet smelling pain-relief. What a winner! But it also raises the question - why don't men react the same way? Does it have something to do with their ability to mistake two-week-old cat food for last night's left over lasagna? Or with their inability to notice horrendous halitosis on their long lost school pal? Do they notice smells at all? Maybe at the time of the testing they'd been given the Sports Page and rather than associating the smell of dental antiseptic with excruciating wisdom-teeth extractions, they'd slotted into morning-ablutions mode and the nasty smell went un-noticed. Perhaps for some men malodorous stenches are associated with their perceptions of pleasurable bodily functions. The disparity between male and female olfactory systems is interesting in that it exposes the long held view that men and women are innately and incredibly different. Of the same species yes, but with completely different brains that work in very different ways. So is it reasonable to extrapolate from the study that smelling (the doing word) appears to be very much a female thing and smelly (the being word) appears to be more associated with men's undies. Or does that run the risk of raising the ire of all the non-smelly men out there who either don't wear undies, or pride themselves on the pristine state of their Y-fronts. (Well some men probably still wear Y-fronts). But rather than getting your knickers in a knot about the whole thing, why not reach for a vanilla essence next time you slam your fingers in the car door and test yourself to find out whose nose comes out in front. - Molly L'Estrange Barfly Septmeber 5 |