The Rotary Club of San Jose

The Bulletin

Friday, March 18, 2011 Club Web Site

Editor: Teresa McCarthyIf you have any comments orquestions, email the editor.

Future SpeakersMar 23 2011Hank Greely"Revolution in Neuroscience:Reading Your Mind"

Mar 30 2011Christa Gannon"Fresh Lifeline for Youth"

Apr 6 2011Jim Wunderman"Bay Area Council"

Apr 13 2011Personals"Two Club Members ProvideInsight Into Their Lives"

Apr 20 2011Doug McConnell"Exploring the San Francisco Bayand its Watershed"

Apr 27 2011Noah Alper (Founder ofNoah's Bagels)"Ethic's Program"

May 4 2011Mayor Chuck Reed"State of the City"

May 11 2011Dave Sandretto and LegacyCommittee"100th Anniversary Kick-OffPresentation"

May 18 2011Kathy Levinson"ETrade"

Jun 1 2011Hon. Betty Yee"Board of Equalization"

Jun 8 2011Spring BBQ"Friendship"

Upcoming Events7:30AM -- Red Badge Mtg.Mar 18 2011

7:30 AM -- Orientation Mtg.Mar 22 2011

11:30AM -- Corp. MembershipMtg.Mar 23 2011

12:00Noon -- Rotary MeetingMar 23 2011

5:30PM -- Rotaplast MtgMar 24 2011

7:30AM -- MembershipInvolvementMar 24 2011

8:00AM -- International House(SJSU)Mar 25 2011

12:00Noon -- Rotary MeetingMar 30 2011

Rotary Job Shadow DayApr 20 2011

The Speaker for March 23

Hank Greely

Revolution in Neuroscience: Reading Your Mind

Director, Center for Law and the Biosciences; Professor (by courtesy) of Genetics, StanfordSchool of Medicine; Chair, Steering Committee of the Center for Biomedical Ethics; and Director,Stanford Interdisciplinary Group on Neuroscience and Society, and Director of its Program in Neuroethics.

A leading expert on the legal, ethical, and social issues surrounding health law and the biosciences, HankGreely (BA '74) specializes in the implications of new biomedical technologies, especially those related toneuroscience, genetics, and stem cell research. He frequently serves as an advisor on California, national, andinternational policy issues. He is chair of California's Human Stem Cell Research Advisory Committee andserved from 2007-2010 as co-director of the Law and Neuroscience Project, funded by the MacArthurFoundation. Active in university leadership, Professor Greely chairs the steering committee for the StanfordCenter for Biomedical Ethics and directs both the law school's Center for Law and the Biosciences and theStanford Interdisciplinary Group on Neuroscience and Society. Professor Greely serves on the ScientificLeadership Council for the university's interdisciplinary Bio-X Program.

Before joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 1985, Greely was a partner at Tuttle & Taylor, served as astaff assistant to the secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy, and as special assistant to the generalcounsel of the U.S. Department of Defense. He served as a law clerk to Justice Potter Stewart of the U.S.Supreme Court and to Judge John Minor Wisdom of the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

Greely is also a professor (by courtesy) of genetics at Stanford School of Medicine.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!! Rotary Fishing Day April 30

Rotary's Annual Fishing Event for Third Graders is Saturday, April 30th at Sandy Wool Lake at EdLevin Park in Milpitas. We need volunteers to help the kids set up tackle, bait hooks (no worms!) andnet fish. Volunteers need not be Rotarians.

For more information and to view the flier please click here.

Salute To Rotary

At this week's San Jose City Council Meeting Mayor Chuck Reed issued a Proclamation tocommemorate Rotary Founding on February 23, 1905. Receiving the Proclamation were RotaryDistrict Governor Roger Hassler and Presidents from San Jose's seven Rotary Clubs. LarryStone of San Jose, Eric Peterson of San Jose East/Evergreen, Arthur Taylor of San Jose North,Patricia Fox of San Jose Sunrise, Jerry Ross of San Jose Willow Glen and El Lucina of AlmadenValley.

Rotary's motto "Service Above Self" inspires members to provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethicalstandards and promote good will and peace in the world.

San Jose Rotarians are members of Rotary International, the world's first and one of the largest non-profitservice organization. Its more than 1.2 million Rotary club members are comprised of professional andbusiness leaders in over 33,000 clubs in 200 countries and geographic areas.

Listen to the two salutes on KBAY with District Governor Roger and our own President Larry: MarchSalute12011.mp3 MarchSalute22011.mp3

End Polio Walk

WE ARE THIS CLOSE! Don't Miss This Weekend's Big "End Polio NOW!" Walk, right here in SanJose! Sunday March 20, 2011. Registration begins at 9 AM at the HP Pavillion. The Walkstarts at 10AM. Don't be late or you will miss out on all the fun. The walk is only 1.2 miles downSanta Clara Street to City Hall. Bring your umbrella. It may sprinkle a little. The Entry Fee is$25. This includes a World Polio Day commemorative packet: T-shirt, lapel pin, wrist band and RIPres. Ray Klinginsmith signed Certificate of Achievement. Get Sponsors because for a $50

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The District Newsletter For March Is Available

You can get the up to date information about all the happenings in our Rotary District by downloadingthe Newsletter. You can find out about how to order "Honor Mother and End Polio Now" cards, ClubsMaking Headlines, Raising <money for> Supplies For the Children's Hospital, the Area 5 SpeechContest, The Children At Risk Program, The Guatemala Literacy Project, Highlights of the RIConvention Entertainers, other Clubs Events, and District-wide Club's attendance records.

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Job Shadow Day, Wednesday, April 20th!

Please Sign up for Rotary Job Shadow Day ~ April 20th!

I want to thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedule to talk to us. I found it veryeducational. It's a dream for me to work with kids who have cancer. I want to make the time

that they have left comfortable. I want to really thank you for opening my mind to a different career! ThankYou! ~ Andrea (student)

For more information regarding Job Shadow Day and how to register click here.

Washington School Goes to China

Under the leadership of Dennis Fong, the International Service Committee, the Los AmigosCommittee and Rotary, a trip to China for three Washington School 4th and 5th graders isplanned. They plan to leave on April 9th for China. A group from China will come to WashingtonSchool on April 30.

For the past two years the two schools have been conducting monthly Skype conferences between the US andChina. They have exchanged educational and cultural experiences between the students and they are veryexcited to meet representatives from each group. The students have made plans together about the tours of theirindividual schools and cities.

Follow this link and you can view the ABC TV video about the trip.

If you would like to see the itinerary for the trip click on this link.

If you would like to look at the individual costs for the trip, either to go yourself or to sponsor one of theWashington School kids, click on this link.

The Summary of the March 16th Meeting

The Rotary Club of San Jose held its weekly meeting at the San Jose's Rotary Summit Center.

The greeting line was staffed by the Youth Exchange Committee chaired by Carl Salas ably assisted by BeachPace. The Youth Exchange Committee coordinates international exchange experiences for high school students aspart of the Rotary International Youth Exchange; arriving students are hosted and others are selected toparticipate.

President Larry presided over the Club's 4830th meeting. We joined with Phil Strong and the piano of PaulTumason in singing God Bless America.

Our "Wisdom for the Day" came from Carl Honaker. His thoughts related to the Foundation for a Better Life anon-sectarian privately founded foundation that dispenses wisdom on TV in the form of commercial; and the net,the latter at

http://www.values.com/

Carl's quotes were wonderful, but in the spirit of his comments visiting the website and review the aphorisms will

be your best reward.

John McLeod reported on news and shared some humor. The News: DOW down; the tragedy of the Japaneseearthquake and its aftermath. The tidal activity produced 25 M damage to the Santa Cruz harbor. Such difficulttimes need humor and John was at his best even in the Irish and lawyers were its source. Two men are at a pub.One says "I'm Scotch-Irish." "Me too," says other. "Dublin," says the first. "Same for me,' says his companion."St. Mary's High School, class of '72," says the second. "Remarkable, me as well," says the first. A third patronenters and asks the bartender who else is at the pub, "Just the McLeod twins," he answers. Now to the lawyer'sjoke: real reason for St. Patrick's sainthood: he drove all the lawyers out of Erie.

Red Badgers Kathy Gallagher and Meghan Hoorigan introduced themselves and served as holders of thetraveling mics for Rotarians with guests and visiting Rotarians.

Larry requested Cindy Faulkner come to the podium to report on the success of our Annual Event, the Club'sprimary fund raiser. She was as gracious in her thanks as the numerous Rotarians who contributed to thatsuccess by generous contribution and participation she had stand. Grand total raised $180,000! Great job! Rich Robinson introduced our newest member, prominent lawyer, Revolutionary war buff, and University ofChicago law grad, Richard Alexander. Welcome, Dick.

Suzanne St, John-Crane showed a video of the Club's After Hours outing at CreaTV with various membersbeing interviewed. It ended with Jerry Silva's answering that he became a member after addressing the Club infear and being made very welcome. Scott Seaman, one of San Jose's finest, encouraged participation in the Job Shadow program extolling themutual benefits accruing to Rotarian and students. The annual Rotary Fishing day is set for April 30th. Larry's announcements:

If you would like to donate to the immediate on-the-ground aid in Japan please contact your local Red Cross orSalvation Army, but if you would like to donate to Rotary International for the recovery and reconstruction youcan donate to the "Rotary Japan and Pacific Islands Disaster Recovery Fund" at www.rotary.org More details tofollow in your Bulletin.

Next week's speaker is Hank Greely who is a leading expert on the legal, ethical, and social issues surroundinghealth law and the biosciences. He will talk about the Revolution in Neuroscience: Reading Your Mind.

Speaker for March 30th is Christa Gannon who founded Fresh Lifelines for Youth (FLY) which provides teenagecriminals with positive role models and enables them to turn their lives around.

Larry brought out the rather infamous Rotary wheel and members began to hold or hide their wallets. Andwhose number should come-up but that of John Danner. It turns out our esteemed member's brainchild andorganization, Rocketship Education, was the recent recipient of the John P. McNulty Prize of $100,000. TheMission of the McNulty Prize is to celebrate extraordinary young leaders who are making creative, effective andlasting contributions to their communities. John Danner's pioneering efforts at a unique hybrid education model,transforming elementary education by building high-performing, scalable, sustainable schools in high-needneighborhoods convinced the Prize judges to select Rocketship Education as the winning program from an array ofglobal challengers. So poorer John was winner of the Prize but "loser" under the Bert George instrument ofunintended consequences and duly "fined "$1,000.

John came to the podium to introduce today's speaker. The Honorable Michael K. Powell served as Chairmanof the Federal Communications Commission at a time of revolutionary change in technology and communications. He was appointed by President Clinton in 1997 and was designated Chairman by President Bush in 2001. Chairman Powell previously served as the Chief of Staff of the Antitrust Division in the Department of Justice. Prior to joining the Justice Department, he was an associate in the law firm of O'Melveny & Myers. ChairmanPowell clerked for the Honorable Harry T. Edwards, Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He graduated in 1985 from the College of William and Mary with a degree in Government and earned his J.D.from the Georgetown University Law Center. Powell is currently a Senior Advisor of Providence Equity Partnersand was recently selected CEO of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA). He sits on theboards of Cisco and AOL as well as the Aspen Institute and America's Promise. The subject of today's talk was billed as "the need for making FCC regulations effective in the 21st Century." It was much, much more. Broadly we are in a new and transforming age. Our child might be referred to as "homodigitalis" and our era that of the "informational". Both are revolutionary; raise arcane, complicated andfundamental issues about who we are collectively and individually and what each of us and our society maybecome. It is a period of tension and one where good and bad may have a common source or sources. When a power outage occurred in Maryland, Powell's youngest son so used to electrical energy to powerX-box, Television were flummoxed by the event; but creative enough to use the 12 volt electric system in the vanto power up! The age of the digital has transformed the way we live; and therefore us. It effects a new socialMetronome with information transmitted instantly at its base and as its meter. Broadband affects every aspect ofour activities and portends of a vastly changed world. Our communications have become less based on locationand more on the personal. A telephone call need no longer need the announced inquiry: "Powell residence,

Michael here, to whom do you wish to speak." The recipient of the call on "his/her" cell phone is person, "It's Me,leave a message" is the new announcement. Of major significance is that the revolution takes place in an environment where the legal system eventuallymust resolve conflicts. Ordinarily that system works within discrete "baskets" of law, related but self-contained.But those baskets do not fit the significant reach and effects of broadband where legal principles may conflict(privacy vs. security; free speech vs. order; person vs. community; etc.). It is much like the proverbial largerround peg being forced into a smaller square hole. So a new paradigm may be required to adjust rights, powersand duties. True to his word, the speaker left plenty of room for questions; and the questions were insightful.

1. Why do the courts play such an important role? The FCC is a unique entity with substantialauthority, where the statute governing it permits appeal directly to a federal appeals court. The rulesand regulations of the FCC and their developments raise ambiguities in law and to resolve them is ajudicial function. Decisions and regulations of the FCC impact the economy creating winners andlosers and therefore naturally engender litigation.

2. What issues arise from government seeking to have an "off-switch" over the internet. Newinventions create opportunities for good and evil. Accordingly significant policy issues arise: securityvs. order; freedom vs. order; choice: good vs. bad. Even if the government had the authority andexercised it recent events suggest human inventiveness create prompt "workarounds" by those whoobject.

3. NPR. Taking government money politicizes the matter and creates tensions, even if its localstations that primarily benefit. The NPR structure may be at fault. But diversity in the editorial andnewsrooms is never a bad idea and its absence is likely to create conflict. Thus the Juan Williamsfiring revealed possible systemic problems within NPR.

4. Area codes. Changing them raises hackles because people identify themselves through them; the"personal" element in the new world of communications. Hence his mother and mother complained tothe speaker about area code changes!

5. Net neutrality. The speaker asked for a definition and of course that is part of the problem. Thematter revolves around two powerful forces: who is to control and money: who is to be paid and bywhom. The participants in the dispute are the service-provider/carrier (e.g. ATT, Verizon), theproviders of information (from search engines to web sites), and the end-user (in most cases, us). Asto money, none likes to pay while all like to be paid. As to control it relates to both content andpayment. Assume two content providers: the XYZ website and the ZYA website and one networkprovider. Who pays the network provider and what is paid for? Is network provider required to beneutral or may it make preferences as to the content providers? Such conflicts make net neutrality acentral but difficult collection of issues.

Larry in concluding the meeting described the speaker as notable, impressive, provocative, interesting,informed and knowledgeable. Indeed he was.

Respectfully submitted,

Joe Moless

[see http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~raylin/whatisnetneutrality.htm ]

Photos by Bob Beaulieu

Rotary Smiles

Curtis & Leroy saw an ad in the News Newspaper and bought a mule for $100.The farmer agreed to deliver the mule the next day...The next morning the farmer drove up and said, "Sorry, fellows, I have some bad news, the muledied last night."Curtis & Leroy replied, "Well, then just give us our money back."The farmer said, "Can't do that. I went and spent it already.."They said, "OK then, just bring us the dead mule."The farmer asked, "What in the world ya'll gonna do with a dead mule?"Curtis said, "We gonna raffle him off."The farmer said, "You can't raffle off a dead mule!"Leroy said, "We shore can! Heck, we don't hafta tell nobody he's dead!"A couple of weeks later, the farmer ran into Curtis &Leroy at the Piggly Wiggly grocery store and asked, "What'dyou fellers ever do with that dead mule?"They said,"We raffled him off like we said we wuz gonna do."Leroy said,"Shucks, we sold 500 tickets fer two dollars apiece and made a profit of $998."The farmer said,"My goodness, didn't anyone complain?"Curtis said, "Well, the feller who won got upset. So we gave him his two dollars back."Curtis and Leroy now work for the government.They're overseeing the Bailout Program.

Meeting Speakers On The Radio !

Our meeting speakers are on KLIV Wednesday evening at 7 PM the week after the meeting. Tunein to 1590 AM on your radio dial and enjoy the program speaker once again or for the first time if

you missed the meeting. No, it does not count as a meeting make up. Nice try.

Mike Danberger records the meeting and clips the speaker's talk and our questions for everyone in the valley toenjoy every Wednesday evening. Tune in!

Meeting Speakers On TV !

CreaTV San Jose's SJSU interns will be recording some of the lunch speakers for playback onComcast Channel 15 and 30. Rotary Presents will air every Monday night at 7pm on the SiliconValley Channel 30. Search CreaTV San Jose's online programming schedule for specific dates andtimes of airings. If you are not a Comcast customer but have broadband internet access, youmaybe able to view the video on demand here at CreaTV San Jose's website. This is thanks to member SuzanneSt. John-Crane, Executive Director, CreaTV San Jose.

The Four Way Test

Over 1.2 million Rotarians can't be wrong!In all the things we say and do . . .

Is it the TRUTH?Is it FAIR to all?Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?