RIP Cesare Vidulich, Blankets making a difference and an inspiring Guest Speaker

Last Week

Before our speaker for the week took to the floor President Ann asked all attending Zoom participants to honour Cesare with a minute's silence. His funeral will be held on Friday the 7th of August at the Maryvale Catholic Church.

CONDOLENCES

The Anns send our sincere condolences to Donny Vidulich and her family on the sad passing of her beloved husband Cesare.   We are with you in spirit, dear Donny and may your happy memories of your times together bring you comfort in the days ahead.

District Survey

Hands up everyone who has completed DG Annemarie's survey. I for one have completed it (it really only took a few minutes) and those that shook their heads, you still have time until the 7th of August to submit. I think our President Ann would be very impressed if our club could boast 100% submission. 

Here is the link.

Membership Survey

Quiz Nights

11 weeks ago when we had our first Quiz Challenge against Kyalami we were all pretty much novices, but boy have we stepped up the ante. Our Quiz master Garreth (Sonja Hood's son) outdoes himself every single week with the most eclectic 40 +1 bonus questions, and Wednesday evenings have pretty much become the social highlight of our week. On average we have had 12 participants per team, but David Bradshaw who has been instrumental in organizing would be thrilled to put you on the list.

 Last week we took on the Newlands Rotary Club in the Cape, and they walked away with the laurels, but when we have a re-match in September we hopefully will be able to settle the score. James Croswell is our secret weapon.

David is in talks with Swaziland and Nairobi, so watch this space.

This Wednesday at 7 pm we are taking on Northcliff Rotary. How about testing your general knowledge?

Have I been pwned?

Richard Tonkin shared some very useful information with us during our business meeting and followed it up with an e-mail for our members and friends interest:

Allan Gray in a webinar on Cyber Security gave the following website to check.. Click on the link and enter your email address, then click on the box  pwned?

 

https://haveibeenpwned.com/  

If it gives a green response Good News - no pwnage found! - then you fine. If it gives a maroon Oh No - pwned! with the number of times it has been breached, and the number of times info has been pasted off your email address, then you need to follow the recommendations to secure your email. I received the following recommendations, but consulting an expert may be the best idea - (there is also a FAQ  section on the pwned website to read)

 

Hi Yash, so the first thing would be to try and understand where the actual breach happened as an example is it connecting to an Mweb service/ Office365 account or connecting to a hosted email service in their office. Obviously the email accounts password must be changed immediately but there may also be software that is installed by someone malicious on their device that is accessing the email account which defeats the purpose of the password change.

 

I would recommend that they get their machine fully up to date (patching and anti-virus) and then also scan the machine with a tool such as Malwarebytes (there is a free version for a once off scan). Once they are sure the machine is good then they should change the password. Again though context is key as they could be using a couple of machines to access the mailbox etc.

 

 

I think in the end, there is no definitive answer because often it is very difficult to ascertain how the breach happened. You can elect to use paid for services but ultimately that will be at your discretion.

 

No full-proof answer I’m afraid but I hope you picked up some helpful hints and tips on how to tighten your security – and hopefully that means you are less vulnerable to a breach or hack.

 

 

I hope this will be a help to us all.

 

Regards

 

RICHARD TONKIN CFP®

Thank you for looking out for us Richard.

Grateful Blanket Recipients

 Dear Rotary Rosebank

 Thank you for the donation of blankets that you gave to us to distribute, they were sent to rural Limpopo for handout. This area is so incredibly poor, this gift was so appreciated.

 I was sent these photos this morning, the doctors who transported the blankets were not allowed on the handout because of the COVID situation here, so I cannot tell you about the recipients. The only story I know, it’s the woman in the far right picture. She cares for her 3 children and 4 orphans from the area as well. She has 2 blankets for all of them, now she at least has another 2. The situation in the rural areas is so dire, whereas here in Gauteng there is hunger, at least there have been some food parcels. Out deep rural, there has been no food whatsoever and grandmothers literally watch while their grandchildren and dogs get thinner and thinner. The animals are the first to die.

Grateful thanks once again. This wasn’t just a donation, it was a life-saver.

 Warm Regards

 Marilyn Bassin

Linda Galvad  - Sought after Seedlings

No doubt every Zoom participant last Friday will agree that our guest speaker Linda Galvad delivered a powerful and inspiring talk from which we could all take some valuable advice.

Linda studied psychology, and took an interest in mental illness and her research led her to believe that what we eat makes us feel and act the way we do. 

This snapshot does not do justice to Linda's radiance and flawless complexion

A few key messages that Linda discussed and conveyed:

• Through proper nutrition and eating 50 - 70% of various, raw, organic vegetables per day one can prevent or even cure any disease.
• Prebiotics feed probiotics, with probiotics being vital to a person's physical, mental and emotional wellbeing. Examples of prebiotics include garlic, onion and leeks
• All diseases begin in the gut where good and bad bacteria are formed; this is true for 90% of one's immune system.
• A healthy gut with plenty of good bacteria staves off premature aging, as well as mood and personality disorders.                                                                                                                                 
• This conviction  started her passion for organic gardening and her research into heirloom seeds which come from open-pollinated plants that have been handed down from generation to generation  - some varieties being more than a 100 years old. They have not been tampered with and have a natural resilience to environmental influences. There are about 70 heirloom varieties and very single one is imported.

All in all I took about 3 pages of copious notes and at the end of the presentation Linda was bombarded with questions and asked whether she planned on writing a book. It is not on her agenda right now, but I for one would definitely buy it, if it ever came to fruition.

This Week

We are privileged to welcome another exciting guest speaker Lee Roebeck, who is an international mindset coach and speaker, who believes that every single human being has deep reservoirs of latent potential within them, and he has made it his life's mission to awaken this potential in as many people as possible.

Don't miss it.