Rotary Club of Patong Beach

Phuket Thailand

Bulletin 605 Volume 14 - No.17 - 3rd December 2019

International President District Governor 3330 Rotary Club of Patong Beach Mark Daniel Maloney Sakon Uengsroithong President Jonathan Russell

Meeting Information

Meetings Weekly

ALL YEAR Dinner Out 1st Tuesday of each month 7 pm at a restaurant

Meetings Tuesday 19.00 - 21.00 @ Millennium Hotel in Jungceylon
Rat-U-Thit Road Patong Beach

Dress code

Members shall be dressed appropriately in a manner

that shows their respect for the club and its members

Visitors Welcome

registration mandatory

Click for map

Upcoming Events

All meetings (Except Dinner Outs) @ - Millennium Hotel

December & Organiser

Tuesday 3rd - Dinner Out - PP Andy Becker

Tuesday 10th Annual General Meeting - P Jonathan Russell

Saturday 21st - Christmas Party - PP Karen Eidvik Moody

No meetings for Tuesday 24th & 31st

No one this week

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Tuesday 3rd December

organised by PP Andy Becker

We're meeting at the L'Opera Restaurant in Cherngtalay.

It's a family-style dinner, no need to make a choice for your menu selection. Cost 600.00 Baht per person.

Tuesday 26th November

Starting the meeting with a gong at 19.15

Present: Rtn. Dr. Larry Demco, (SAA, Speaker, Organizer of Meeting)
Taking Pictures and Minutes PP. Sam Fauma

PP. Sam Fauma
Vincent Henon
Guest
Rtn.Stewart Petersen
P. Jonathan Russel
Rtn. Dr. Johan Storck
Guest
PP. O.B. Wetzel
PP. Walter Wyler

Dr. Larry Demco begins his talk on pain. (ouch!)

The objective is to locate the location of the pain.

Show how difficult Pain is and how the change of medicine was done

Pain Referral Patterns in the Pelvis
Awake Laparoscopy
Control group No Pain for tubal
Test group with chronic pelvic pain having pain mapping
Pain comes from muscles

See presentation (regret presentation is copyright & can not be included)as advised by Larry- ed)

Pain orientation is not where many of the patients tell. The opposite side is most of the cases
The way we did it changes everything that was done. Patients stayed awake to tell the doctor where the pain is. Changes are necessary “You can not stay put"

The past is like an Anchor, it holds you back and you can’t go forward, you have to lift it and change’.

Referring to Rotary and the way we did things in the past, we lost lots of members, we have to start thinking like Rotarians 2020 and not like 40 years ago.

Open your mind ‘How can we change’. As for ideas and try new ways.

Lots of things changed when Dr. Larry working with Medical Robots.

It took years from 2004 to 2014 until Robots got into the operating room.

Dr. Larry also was working with Nasa on the Mars Project, which can be done if someone has to have surgery.

Finished presentation at 19,40

Dinner at 19.40 and a great gathering and lots of discussions

(all-male, so you imagine)

Night report: PP Sam Fauma

Photos: PP Sam Fauma

E&OE

Thank you - ed Denis

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Coming to the rescue of bees

Dieter Erhard sculpted a huge bee to draw attention to the plight of bees and the BeeAlive project.

By Gundula Miethke

Every year Rotaract clubs throughout Germany look for a common initiative to participate in on a country-wide basis to demonstrate their commitment to social action. This effort includes hands-on activities, lectures, and public awareness around a single issue. This year, that issue centered on an environmental theme, protecting wild bees.

A Swiss documentary “More than Honey” left a lasting impression on one Rotaractor, who convinced other Rotaract and Rotary members about the menacing problem that these little superheroes find themselves in, one that impacts us as humans as well. The hard-working wild bees are responsible for pollinating more than 75 percent of our crops and wild plants. If they die out, we cannot survive either.

Against bee mortality

Most of the dangers for bees are caused by humans. Climate change, monocultures and pesticides are just some of the major threats. So how can these problems be addressed? German Rotaractors launched the BeeAlive project to support wild bees in three ways.

Rotaractors partnered with Rotary members to build bee hotels to aid the insects.

Inform the public about bee mortality and its consequences for our environment. Clubs cooperated with beekeeping and conservation groups.
Raise funds to cover the cost of projects that support conservation organizations and beekeeper associations. Some clubs held quizzes and sold homemade products related to bees or honey.
Construct “bee hotels” where bees can rest on their way from one meadow to the next, and plant meadows with as many different plant species as possible to create a better environment for the insects.

The project has been a great success because each club can be involved in their location in a manner that best suits them. Rotaractors, Rotarians, family and friends have worked together. More than 100,000 square meters of meadow were planted by clubs in District 1841. Other clubs build bee hotels by the hundreds.

Erlangen’s “Super-Bee”

Dieter Erhard and his bee sculpture.

At the Rotary Club Erlangen-Schloss, the plight of bees caught the fancy of a Rotarian artist, who decided to create a Super Bee sculpture. Dieter Erhard and his club used the huge mobile bee sculpture of stainless steel and fluorescent plexiglass to advertise activities surrounding BeeAlive. A social project supported by the club, the Barmherzigen Brüder Gremsdorf, helps those with disabilities.

People with disabilities help build insect hotels that can be purchased by Rotary clubs and Rotaract clubs as well as institutions and property owners. So far, 192 hotels have been ordered. The Erlangen Rotarians offer to help install the hotels at kindergartens and schools.

How are you saving the bees?

The German Rotaractors took on a global issue at a local level. They are hoping to inspire others to join the movement. Share your actions with the hashtag #beealive or contact the BeeAlive team at soziales@rotaract.de.

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Most seniors never get enough exercise.

In His wisdom, God decreed that seniors become forgetful so they would have to search

for their glasses, keys and other things thus doing more walking.

And God looked down and saw that it was good.

Then God saw there was another need. In His wisdom He made seniors lose

coordination so they would drop things requiring them to bend, reach &

stretch. And God looked down and saw that it was good.

Then God considered the function of bladders and decided seniors would have

additional calls of nature requiring more trips to the bathroom, thus

providing more exercise. God looked down and saw that it was good.

So if you find as you age, you are getting up and down more, remember its

God's will. It is all in your best interest even though you mutter under your breath.

Nine Important Facts To Remember As We Grow Older

#9 Death is the number 1 killer in the world.

#8 Life is sexually transmitted.

#7 Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.

#6 Men have 2 motivations: hunger and hanky panky, and they can't tell

them apart. If you see a gleam in his eyes, make him a sandwich.

#5 Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day. Teach a person to use

the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks, months, maybe years

unless you give them your email address.

#4 Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in the hospital,

dying of nothing.

#3 All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to

criticism.

#2 In the '60s, people took LSD to make the world weird. Now the world is

weird, and people take Prozac to make it normal.

#1 Life is like a jar of jalapeno peppers. What you do here, today may be

a burning issue somewhere else, tomorrow.

Thank you PP Andy Becker - ed Denis

Old Mother Hubbard went to the ..........

you know the rest

Come on, help me provide some humour for you

The Joke bank is 0

Please Note:

As Bulletin editor, I reserve the right to not publish anything considered inappropriate in the Joke section or elsewhere in the Bulletin - Ed Denis