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Motivational speaker Brian Germaine spoke about transcending fear, as a life goal. Fear is a response to a high-stress situation perceived as beyond what we can comfortably handle. It is physiological and psychological in nature. Evolution has come up with three instinctive individual responses to a dangerous situation. These are fight, flight, and freeze. We need the ability to stay calm and take appropriate action. Scared people recoil from whatever frightens them. Relax, Focus and Flow is the paradigm for handling our fears. Relaxing gives you the space and time to see what’s happening. Relaxing is also essential because the body and mind are linked, the easiest way to calm down is to slow your breathing. Focus on the situation, not on your fears or doubts. Then it’s time to flow. Flow is being at one with what you’re doing. Being in a flow state is using the right path or response, without wasted effort or focusing on the cause of our fear. Bringing your body and mind in balance becomes the solution to overcoming fear. |
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This week’s speaker was Bob Kahn, the inventor of the Internet. Mr. Kahn was the principal designer of the first computer network, ARPANET, for the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in 1972. He later experimented with Packet Radio Net and Packet Satellite Net. Mr. Kahn, along with his co-partner, developed TCP/IP Protocol. TCP/IP is the common language and set of rules that allows computers to “talk” to one another. His idea of open architecture networking set the stage for the internet as we know it today. After a 13 year career with DARPA, Mr. Kahn founded Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI) which is a not-for-profit organization to provide leadership and funding for research and development of the National Information Infrastructure. Mr. Kahn has received numerous awards, including the Presidential Medal Freedom awarded presented to him by President Bush in 2005. |
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Our own President-Elect Greg Wims, and Guy Semmes, President-Elect of Potomac-Bethesda met with Rotary International President D.K. Lee at the Rotary Membership Conference in Greenbelt last month.  Will Naron, was inducted on April 21st. Will’s father and brother attended the ceremony. |
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Last Week John Hanson explained RI’s Paul Harris Fellows Program. Donors of $1,000 or more to the Annual Programs Fund, PolioPlus, or the Humanitarian Grants Program, or those who have that amount contributed in their name, can be recognized as Paul Harris Fellows. Each new Paul Harris Fellow receives a commemorative certificate, a pin, and a medallion. To date, more than one million individuals have been recognized as Paul Harris Fellows. The Club is now forming a new Paul Harris Fellow group of ten individuals, who will contribute $25 each quarter, for 10 years. Each year one individual from the group is selected to receive the Paul Harris Fellow for that year. If you would like to increase the contribution you are making to “advance world understanding” please contact John or Nancy.  Okinyi Ayungo was inducted last week. Classification: Wellness – Fitness Consultant FDT Training Systems, LLC 1006 Kennon Court, Rockville, MD 20851 |
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Dr. Irving Spitzberg talked the American culture. He spoke about Alexis de Tocqueville, a French political thinker and historian of the 19th Century. Tocqueville visited the US for 9 months, and wrote the best analysis of American culture, called Democracy in America. Dr. Spitzberg mentioned that he was the first person who realized that Americans like to form groups, often volunteer groups. Dr. Spitzberg talked about how Rotary recruits members, noting that Rotary is losing members in the US, but gaining many more in other countries. He opened the discussion on how to help Rotary recruit new members, like changing the required time, trying to recruit younger people, and women who are not working.  Marv Burt, John Breckenridge and Mark Kramer represented the B-CC club in presenting a wreath at the Memorial Day Ceremony at Veterans Park in Bethesda. |
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