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Vol. 15 No. 16 for Private Circulation Only 30th October 2008

OCTOBER IS VOCATIONAL SERVICE MONTH

Today’s Program: • Regular Weekly Meeting R.I. News RI To Be Inducted Into Polio

Hall of Fame By Dan Nixon Rotary International News

The Polio Hall of Fame monument honors pioneers in the battle to eradicate polio. Photo courtesy of Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation. In 1958, the United States was well on its way to winning the battle against polio. Mass immunization using the Salk vaccine had succeeded in decreasing the number of cases by more than 90 percent from the peak of 58,000 cases in 1952. Field trials of the Sabin oral vaccine had just begun. The same year, the Polio Hall of Fame was established by the Georgia Department of Labor’s Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation. Seventeen pioneering heroes in the early battle against polio were inducted into the hall, including former U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and vaccine inventors Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin. To commemorate its 50th anniversary, the Polio Hall of Fame will induct as members the four spearheading partners of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative: Rotary International, the World Health Organization, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and UNICEF. The induction ceremony will take place on 14 November at 3:30 p.m. in the institute’s quadrangle, featuring

special guest speakers Dr. Peter Salk, eldest son of Dr. Jonas Salk, and Missouri Congressman Ike Skelton, a former Warm Springs polio patient. Representatives of the new inductee organizations and family members of the original inductees will attend the ceremony, and the public is also invited. Rotary Foundation Trustee John Germ, who chairs Rotary’s US$100 Million Challenge Committee, will represent Rotary International. The inductee organizations will be honored on a large bronze plaque detailing their contributions to ongoing polio eradication efforts, and the contributions of the original inductees will be highlighted with a matching plaque. Both plaques will be permanently displayed in front of the Polio Hall of Fame’s monument outside Founders Hall, which was unveiled by Eleanor Roosevelt in 1958. Following the ceremony, attendees are invited to a reception at 18:30 and a Franklin D. Roosevelt's Founders Day Dinner at 19:00 in the institute's Georgia Hall. Cost of the reception and dinner is $175 per person, with proceeds benefiting the Roosevelt Warm Springs Development Fund. "It promises to be a great day and a great way to recognize what the four global partners are doing," says Greg Schmieg, executive director of the institute. "The fact that polio was pretty much eradicated in this country 50 years ago doesn't change the fact that it is still an ongoing problem in many parts of the world, and what Rotary and the others have done and continue to do remains a tremendous example that deserves to be honored."

Give RI Your Best Shot Rotary International News

Do you have a great shot from a fundraiser, international project, the RI Convention, or local club event? The deadline for The Rotarian's annual photo contest is 28 February, and we're looking for anything that illustrates Service Above Self.

In addition, Rotarians will be able to vote for their favorite photo in the People's Choice Award category. Online voting will open 15 April and run through 15 May. So submit your photos now, and tell your friends and fellow club members to visit the Web site starting in April to cast their votes!

Richard S. Lawrence won the 2007-08 contest by taking a picture of a boy inspecting a cup of water at a project in Guatemala in which 11 clubs in District 7890 raised more than US$24,000 to provide water filters, vented pit latrines, and raised vented stoves for 52 families. Criteria Non-digital photos may be submitted by printing the form (use the print icon at the top of this page), attaching it to an 8 x 10 photo, and mailing it to: The Rotarian Photo Contest, 1560 Sherman Ave., Evanston, IL 60201 USA. No more than three submissions per person, please.

Restoring A Lake Decimated By Flooding

By Diana Newton Rotary International News

Hobbins (left) and Small at the launch of the Lake Delton Fisheries Restoration Project. Photo courtesy of J.B. Hobbins Rotarian J.B. "Ben" Hobbins imagines the day when a fisherman trolling Lake Delton, in southern

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Wisconsin, USA, will turn to a buddy and say, "Let’s try Rotary Reef." The right to name a reef is one part of the fundraising efforts underway as Hobbins and Dan Small, host of Outdoor Wisconsin and a writer and radio show host, seek support for an ambitious project to restore fisheries to Lake Delton. On 9 June, massive downpours caused the lake to burst open, its water draining into the Wisconsin River. Several homes, as well as the fish population, were wiped out. Noting that Lake Delton is critical to Wisconsin’s multibillion-dollar tourism industry, Hobbins says, "I knew I had to do something." Hobbins, who is a member of the Rotary Club of Madison, launched the Lake Delton Fisheries Restoration Project in late August. "His work on the Lake Delton restoration project is an outstanding example of what one Rotarian’s service can mean for the larger community," says Bob Dinndorf, president of the Madison club. "J.B. recognized how he could fill a gap in the project that could not be done by the Department of Natural Resources or other agencies." The Wisconsin DNR has said it can restock northern pike and walleye, but that it needs help to restock other species. Hobbins and Small established www.restorelakedeltonfisheries.com to rally support and raise funds. As CEO of Lake Resources Group/IronClad Lures, a fishing tackle and outdoor products manufacturer, Hobbins has connections with outdoor enthusiasts and is optimistic that the broader Rotary community also will appreciate the project’s value. Stewardship "This project is an opportunity for Rotary to show leadership," Hobbins says. "We can hold Rotary up to the world as a steward." Hobbins and Small hope to raise $300,000. Virginia-based FishAmerica Foundation, the conservation and research foundation of the American Sporfishing Association, has already pledged up to $10,000 a year for three years. "If all of our [Rotary clubs] did just one small fundraiser--a fish fry, for example--that could really add up," Hobbins says. "Everyone can be a part of the success." Hobbins learned about service from his grandfather, Delbert Forsberg, the 1963-64 president of the Madison club and a Paul Harris Fellow. Forsberg often brought home foreign cash and

coins for Hobbins from travels he made as a Rotarian. "I still have those coins in a cigar box," Hobbins says. "His travels and that pocket change sparked my own interest in living abroad and in the wonder of this planet’s cultures and religions." Hobbins lived for 18 years in Europe, where he was active with the American Chamber of Commerce in France. He only recently moved back to the United States, immediately joining Rotary. "Rotary goes hand in hand with everything else I do," Hobbins says. "It’s internal to me to help, and our Rotary network is so strong."

District News Rotary Sharod Swikriti Awards

At a glittering ceremony, the Rotary Sharod Swikriti Awards were handed over to the best 3 Durga Puja Committees from 5 different zones of Kolkata and also neighbouring Districts in Howrah and North 24 Parganas. On a rain drenched Sunday, the historic Shova Bazaar Rajbari witnessed the event which is annually sponsored by Shalimar Paints. RC Calcutta West in association with other Clubs organized this mega event.

The Puja Committees were present in large numbers along with the Rotary leadership including DG Nayantara Palchoudhury, District Trainer PDG Swapan Mukherjee, DGE Utpal Majumdar and Rajendra Khandelwal. Our Club was represented by President Jharna Mitra, Rtns Subhojit Roy, Sunando Sen and Shyamashree Sen.

DISTRICT BIJOYA DIWALI MEET SAT 1st NOVEMBER` At Nalban Boating Complex from 6.30 pm onwards. Host - RC Calcutta Bhowanipore along with other clubs of the district. Registration charges are Rs. 250/- each. Prizes for best dressed couple. Prizes for best dancers..lots of fireworks...dance the evening away with friends and family.

VOCATIONAL AWARD TO PC SORCAR (JUNIOR) FOLLOWED BY MAGIC SHOW November 09 Sunday Mahajati Sadan 6:00 PM Organised by RC Salt Lake City Calcutta. PC Sorcar's Magic Show on 9th November 2008 at Mahajati Sadan from 6 PM onwards, where PC Sorcar (Junior) is proposed to be felicitated by our gracious DG, Rtn. Nayantara Palchoudhuri, with Vocational Award. The Registration charges for invitation cards are @ Rs. 100/- , Rs. 150/- , Rs. 200/- per card depending upon the 'seating position'.

2-Day RLI Graduate Programme on Sat-Sun, 29-30 Nov, '08 at Rotary Sadan, Kolkata - 700 020 Leadership is the key element for assuring success of our Rotary club. Club leadership requires both Rotary knowledge and leadership skills. RLI 2-Day Graduate Programme provides an unique opportunity to acquire updated knowledge about Rotary. Our past RLI graduates have proven to be more enthusiastic and committed Rotarians. The next RLI 2-day graduate programme will be held at Rotary Sadan, 94/2, Chowringhee Road, Kolkata 700 020 on Saturday 29th & Sunday 30th November, 2008 (Courtesy R. C. Calcutta). The fees for the course is Rs. 400/- only (inclusive of tea, snacks, lunch & study materials).

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RCC CONFERENCE - SWAPNA PURAN Sat-Sun 20-21 DECEMBER RCC conference "Swapna Puran" will be held on Saturday and Sunday, 20th and 21st December at Yuba Bharati Stadium premises Accommodation for RCC members will be provided at Yuva Niwas for which prior registration is required. Registration charges: Rotarians - Rs. 250/- RCC members - Rs. 150/- (including all meals and accommodation). Travelling expenses will be refunded.

Club News Health Camp

RC Calcutta Metro City organized a multi disciplinary health camp at the Mysore Hall on 27th October’08 from 10 am onwards. Over 100 people were treated at the camp with ECG, Eye and general health check up facilities. The camp was organized in association with Desh Gourab Sangha.

The District Governor Nayantara Palchoudhury attended the camp alongwith the Club President Jharna Mitra, Rtns Shyamashree & Sunando Sen, Subhojit Roy , Bandana Das and Shyamal Sen.

Ed Notes Dear Friends, Season's greetings and Happy Diwali to all of you! May this bulletin find all of you in the best of everything - mood, health and happiness! It has been quite sometime since I sat at the computer to key in a few words as your editor. At the outset, I'd like to put on record my sincere appreciation of the hard work on Rtn Subhojit Roy's part to piece this bulletin

together and then to send them not only to you, but all over the world to so many worthy recipients! I thank our President Jharna di for her constant support and cooperation in all matters. I request each and every one of you to attend club projects. It is quite embarrassing when only 5-6 members turn up for a large project. We now have a Matching Grant project going on. Do participate in it. Do visit all the club projects and District programs. Only then will our club be a truly effective one! My best wishes....

Shyamashree Sen Editor, Metro Mail

MINUTES OF THE 654th RWM OF RC CALCUTTA METRO CITY HELD AT COMMUNE ON 23rd OCTOBER 2008 AT 7pm President Jharna Mitra called the meeting to order. The minutes of the previous RWM were confirmed. In Club Business Birthday Greetings were extended to Rtn Seema Mitra for 26th October, Rtn Amrita Basu for 28th October and wedding anniversary greetings to Rtn Helen Thakur & Eric Thakur for 28th October. Forthcoming District & Club programs were announced. With no other business at hand the meeting was terminated ��������������������������������������������

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BREAKING NEWS

Professor and Columnist Wins Economics Nobel

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Jessica Kourkounis for The New York Times The Nobel prize committee cited Mr. Paul Krugman for his “analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity.”

Mr. Krugman, 55, is probably more widely known for his Op-Ed columns in which he has been a perpetual thorn in President Bush’s (and now John McCain’s) side. His columns have won him both strong supporters and ardent critics. The prize, however, was awarded for the academic — and less political — research that he conducted primarily before he began writing regularly for The Times. “To be absolutely, totally honest, I thought this day might come some day, but I was absolutely convinced it wasn’t going to be this day,” Mr. Krugman said in an interview on Monday. “I know people who live their lives waiting for this call, and it’s not good for the soul. So I put it out of my mind and stopped thinking about it.” Mr. Krugman won the prize for his research, beginning in 1979, that explained patterns of trade among countries, as well as what goods are produced where and why. Traditional trade theory assumes that countries are different and will exchange only the kinds of goods that they are comparatively better at producing — wine from France, for example, and rice from China. In his model, many companies sell similar goods with slight variations. These companies become more efficient at producing their goods as they sell more, and so they grow. Consumers like variety, and pick and choose goods from among these producers in different countries, enabling countries to continue exchanging similar products. So some Americans buy Volkswagens and some Germans buy Fords. He developed this work further to explain the effect of transportation costs on why people live where they live. His model explained under what conditions trade would lead people or companies to move to a particular region or to move away. Mr. Krugman’s work has been praised for its simplicity and practicality — features economists are often criticized for ignoring. Mr. Krugman applied his skill at translating complex ideas into clear, entertaining prose to his Times columns, which he began writing in 2000. In recent years, in his column and a related blog on nytimes.com, nearly everything about the Bush administration — from health care policy to Iraq to “general incompetence” — has been the object of his scorn.

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Along the way, Mr. Krugman has come in for criticism himself from both economists and lay readers. But he has equally fervent fans of his popular work. Mr. Krugman said he did not expect his award to have much effect on how colleagues and his popular readership — whether they be friends or foes — regard him. “For economists, this is a validation but not news,” he said. “We know what each other has been up to.” “For readers of the column,” he added, “maybe they will read a little more carefully when I’m being economistic, or maybe have a little more tolerance when I’m being boring.” He said he did not expect the prize to silence his critics, given the treatment of another outspoken laureate, the 2001 winner Joseph E. Stiglitz. Mr. Stiglitz has been both praised and criticized for his writings on whether globalization in its current form has been beneficial. While Mr. Krugman’s popular writing is now more focused on politics and his research more concentrated on international finance, he has occasionally returned to his interest in trade. In the last year he has written several times about the negative results of free trade, both in his column and in a paper he wrote for the Brookings Institution about whether trade with poor countries increases inequality in developed nations like the United States. In 1991 Mr. Krugman received the John Bates Clark medal, a prize given every two years to an economist under 40 who has made a significant contribution to economic knowledge. He follows a long list of Clark medal recipients who have gone on to win Nobels in economic science, including Mr. Stiglitz and Mr. Samuelson. Mr. Krugman joins another Princeton economist, albeit one of different ideological leanings, who has been in the news recently: Ben S. Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve who, coincidentally, offered Mr. Krugman his Princeton post. Mr. Bernanke and Mr. Krugman were fellow graduate students at M.I.T. in the 1970s. Mr. Krugman was the sole winner of the award this year, which includes a prize of about $1.4 million. Still, his collaborators and mentors in his international trade research — some of whom were considered competing candidates for the prize — extended their praise. “Lots of people are saying to me, ‘Why didn’t you get it?’” said Jagdish

Bhagwati, an economics professor at Columbia who helped Mr. Krugman publish one of his seminal papers when other academics thought it was too simple to be true. “Given the fact that I didn’t get it, this is the next best thing.”

(Courtesy:-New York Times) HEALTH WATCH

What foods can you count on to go the extra mile, and which foods fall short? See what recent studies reveal before your next workout. 1. A Spoonful of Honey Recent research suggests that carb blends (foods containing fructose and glucose) may be superior to straight glucose for boosting energy during endurance activities. But before you reach for a sports drink, consider honey: like sugar, it naturally has equal parts fructose and glucose, but it also contains a handful of antioxidants and vitamins. Upshot: While not exactly a “super food,” honey has plenty going for it besides being sweet. The darker the honey, the more disease-fighting compounds it contains. 2. A Cup of Joe Studies that demonstrate performance-enhancing benefits of caffeine often imply that drinking coffee will give you a boost. Not so, according to the latest research. Scientists put nine endurance runners through five trials after ingesting either a capsule (caffeine or placebo) or coffee (decaffeinated, decaffeinated with caffeine added or regular coffee). Only the caffeine capsule increased endurance. Researchers think that other compounds in coffee may counteract some of the benefits of caffeine. Upshot: Have your cup of coffee if you need it to get moving, and your stomach can tolerate it, but don’t expect it to keep you going through a long workout. 3. A Glass of Chocolate Milk A small 2006 study (partially funded by the dairy industry) found that chocolate milk might help tired athletes refuel as well or better than popular sports drinks. In the study, nine cyclists rode until exhaustion, rested for four hours, then biked again.

During the rest period, they drank either low-fat chocolate milk, Gatorade (a fluid/electrolyte-replacement drink) or Endurox (a carbohydrate-replacement drink). The cyclists who refueled with chocolate milk were able to bike about 50 percent longer during the second bout of exercise than those who drank Endurox and about as long as those who drank Gatorade. Upshot: You don’t need a “sports drink” to refuel after a workout. Regular or chocolate milk—both of which contain a mix of carbohydrate and protein—may work just as well. Before or during a workout, however, stick with Gatorade or a similar carb/electrolyte drink. 4. A Bowl of Yogurt Constant training takes a toll on your immune system, leaving athletes susceptible to upper respiratory tract infections, but new research suggests that probiotics—the live active cultures in yogurt—may help keep you healthy. A 2008 study of 20 endurance athletes (published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine) found that taking daily probiotic capsules enhanced the activity of the athletes’ immune-boosting T-cells and cut the length of time they experienced upper respiratory tract infection symptoms by more than half. Probiotics can also help calm a queasy stomach, which is great for nervous athletes. Upshot: You’d have to eat vats of yogurt to reach the levels of probiotics the athletes in these studies consumed. Still, yogurt has a balanced mix of carbs and protein, so it’s a great post-workout recovery fuel. Quotes

“After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. But I can rest only for a moment, for with freedom comes responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not yet ended”

Nelson Mandela from ‘A Long Walk to Freedom’

…………..Let’s make dreams real!