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President Jack Zaleski 604-261-7492
Past President David Scott 604-408-9021
Vice President Doug Jones
604-228-0504
Secretary
Richard Carson
604-261-0974
Treasurer Doug Cucheron
604-687-2006
Speakers Committee
Norm Leach
604-733-3866
Membership Committee
Brian Maunder
604-222-2391
Activities Committee
Ian Paterson
604-263-7049
Web Site Committee
Hugh Lindsay
604-732-0366
House Committee
Doug Lambert 604-266-2422
Newsletter Editor and Publisher Peter Scott 604-263-1746
Membership Services
Raymond Greenwood
604-733-6453
Historian/Archivist Roy Williams
604-926-4727
Counsel Brian Wasson
Ken Yule
Ted Horsey
Next Meeting: Tuesday, April 12th at 9:30 am
Location: H.R. MacMillan Planetarium and Space Centre, Lower Level Speaker: Dr. William Unruh—Professor of Physics at UBC
Topic: "Gravitational Radiation-- listening to
black holes collide"
NEWSLETTER
PROBUS CLUB OF VANCOUVER PO Box 74539, KITSILANO, Vancouver, BC, V6K 4P4
Enriching members with topical, entertaining speakers and social activities
October, 2014
OUR MAY SPEAKER
May 10:Sharon Janzen who is a volunteer with Doctors Without Borders.
www.probusvancouver.com April, 2016
DR. WILLIAM UNRUH
William Unruh is a Professor of Physics at the University of British Columbia who has made seminal contributions to our understanding of gravity, black holes, cosmology, quantum
fields in curved spaces, and the foundations of quantum mechanics, including the dis-covery of the Unruh effect. His investiga-tions into the effects of quantum mechanics of the earliest stages of the universe have yielded many insights, including the effects of quantum mechanics on computation. Dr. Unruh was the first Director of the Cosmology and Gravity Program at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (1985-1996). His many awards include the Rutherford Medal of the Royal Society of Canada (1982), the Herzberg Medal of the Canadian Association of Physicists (1983), the Steacie Prize from the National Re-search Council (1984), the Canadian Asso-ciation of Physicists Medal of Achievement (1995), and the Canada Council Killam Prize. He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a Fellow of the Ameri-can Physical Society, a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, and a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Science.
Rotarians' Investment Club
Next meeting is on Thursday March 31st at the RVYC with no-host bar at 5.30 pm and the meeting starting at 6.00 pm. We have enjoyed having several new members recently and membership now stands at 25 with another 2 or 3 people al-so expressing interest in joining.
We are making a study of Pat Dorsey's "The Five Rules for Successful Stock In-vesting" over the next few meetings and following up with inviting guest speakers on the several topics at a later date. This month two members are reviewing Asset Management/Insurance and Healthcare; plus our usual portfolio review and Round Table of new ideas for the portfolio which provides ideas for one's personal portfolio.
Come and enjoy a delightful 3 course din-ner with wine & coffee for $60.00 (includes taxes/gratuities etc.) and an evening of in-telligent conversation and camaraderie.
If you wish to attend, please call/email our President, Phil Webber, at 604-263-9247 or [email protected] by March 29th as we must give exact numbers to RVYC by that date. Membership enquiries to John Sullivan - 604-263-4486 or [email protected].
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Report of the March 8th Meeting
Attendance: 170 Members and Guests
President Jack Zaleski opened the meeting with a de-lightful story of a courteous golf caddy. John Gunn acted as Secretary of the meeting. Three new members were inducted into Probus by Brian Maunder (see "New Members" for details). Activities chairman Ian Patterson spoke briefly on up-coming events. Tuesday April 19 will be a visit to the Vancouver Police Museum. Tuesday May 17 will be a tour of Chinatown with John Atkins, $20.00. Eric Watts introduced our guest speaker, Rudy Buttignol, CEO of the Knowledge Network who came to BC from TV Ontario to oversee the transformation of the Knowledge Network from an arm of the BC Open Univer-sity to a commercial-free Public Channel as a Crown Corporation. His talk was titled "How the Public saved Public Broad-casting" - in other words, how Knowledge Network was saved from privatization. A show of hands indicated that almost everyone in the room tunes into this channel to some degree and many are supporting donors. Knowledge Network has become the most widely sup-ported network of its type in Canada. In the 1990's there were four English language public supported channels - one in each of BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario. In the early 2000's all four were under review - should they be privatized? That is what happened in Alberta and Saskatchewan and these two were eventually sold to Bell and Rogers and are now no different than other channels. Fortunately, Knowledge remained a crown cor-poration and is currently 50% supported by the BC Gov-ernment and 50% by public donations. At the time that the BC Government created the new entity, it had 22 thousand paying supporters and this was critical to their decision. Typically people spend 47 hours a month watching a screen. Public broadcasting is a significant portion of that, and if we didn’t support it with our dona-tions and government grants, a large portion of that mon-ey would go to support PBS stations in the USA. Mr. Buttignol was involved with PBS at one time and was impressed with the number of Americans who leave en-dowments to their PBS outlets. We should try to promote this form of donation here, more than at present. Knowledge Network is "Audience Centred" and provides programming which would not likely appear on commer-cial networks. They choose programs that they believe are in the public interest. For example they put together "Mad Mad Money" to show BC people what went wrong in 2008. Though it required viewer attention, it was huge-
ly popular. This was followed by "The Party’s Over" showing what followed and again, was widely viewed. Then a huge 27 week anthology followed, regarding
China, with material that would not likely appear on any other network. They do not shy away from informative programs which may offend some audiences. Children’s programs are aired for 12 hours a day. They all promote literacy as well as entertainment. Disney
programs are never carried. Incidentally, once you reach age 50 the TV advertisers have little interest in you as a market so they support programs accordingly. Knowledge Network serves the "over 50’s" extensively. They are now launching another "Emergency Room" se-ries - the previous series outdrew all other networks at the time. Another local program of importance is on the Haida nation and their territory - again of interest to the “over 50's”. The network no longer does "in house" pro-ductions - all their local programs are produced by inde-pendent entities. One of the most important times for Knowledge Network was when they got a grant from the BC Government to convert to digital format. This allowed them the stay on-
air 24 hours a day at no extra cost, and to archive all their material on the web. It also allowed them to provide programming for all devices. Today the government grant remains fixed so more donor input is what will pro-vide more and more quality programming. Knowledge Network has six editions a year of its own programme guide, printed on quality paper and in full colour. As a result of this alone, viewers have increased in numbers. They are the 4th most watched channel in prime time yet have a budget of about 5% of the major channels. Over 1 million people in BC tune into Knowledge Network at least once during the week. They have gone from $1.7m to $4m in annual donations from just under 40k donors. When the network became an entity in its present form it was receiving 80% of it funds from government; that is now down to 50% due to increase from donors and they expect this trend to continue so that soon the govern-
Thanks to our February Member Services Team
Greeters—Andy Blokmanis & Lloyd Craig Cashiers— Harold Copping & David Collyer
For an unabridged version of the above, which includes questions and answers, please go to our PROBUS website at
www.probusvancouver.com and click on “Speakers” then on “Rudy Buttignol”
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THE PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
A hearty welcome to our new-est members, Elliott Phillips, Tim Sehmer and Patrick Os-wald. You will recognize them with the red sticker on their badges. Please make them feel welcome.
Our speaker on March 8th, Rudy Buttignol, gave us an interesting talk on public broadcasting and how the public saved the Knowledge Network from privatization. Other public broadcasters have not been as fortunate and we as a viewing public in Canada have lost out.
The Knowledge Network is “Audience Centred” and provides programming, which would not likely ap-pear on commercial networks. They choose pro-grams that they believe are in the public interest and they do not shy away from informative programs, which may offend some audiences. Children’s pro-grams run for 12 hours a day and all promote litera-cy as well as entertainment. For us over 50’s, TV advertisers have little interest in us as a market so they support programs accordingly. Knowledge Net-work however serves the “over 50’s” extensively.
Next month we look forward to Dr William Unruh from UBC speaking on “Gravitational Radiation – listening to black holes collide”. For all you scien-tists out there, this should prove to be most enlight-ening.
THE PHOTO PAGE
Welcome New Members
Patrick Oswald – Fundraiser Tim Sehmer – Lawyer Elliott Phillips – Surgeon
COME FOR LUNCH! After the meeting enjoy the
conversation and fellowship at a “No Host Lunch”
at the “Local Public Eatery” 2210 Cornwall Avenue
Billy Ellis is honoured with the presentation of a photograph of his memorable appearance at our
February meeting celebrating the Chinese New Year, the Year of the Monkey.
Seen here are Raymond Greenwood, our Member Services committee Chairman, making the
presentation with our President.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Registra�on Form
1. Make cheques for $20.00 payable to the PROBUS CLUB OF VANCOUVER.
2. DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION AND CANCELLATION IS TUESDAY, MAY 10th
3. Remember - you will not be registered un�l payment is received.
Name___________________________________ E-Mail_____________________________
Phone___________________________________
Cheque enclosed for___________________________
To check that you are registered, go to the Ac�vi�es sec�on of the website.
WALKING TOUR OF CHINATOWN WITH JOHN ATKIN “ Explore Vancouver’s Chinatown History and Architecture”
Meeting point: - TheMessageCafé,75EastPenderStreet(OppositetheChineseCulturalCentre/Dr.SunYat-SenGarden)
Date: Tuesday, May 17th MEMBERS ONLY $20 PER MEMBER
JohnAtkinisawellknownandextremelyknowledgeableVancouverhistorian,researcherandtourguide.Vancouver’sChi-
natowndistrictwithitsrichhistoryandarchitectureisoneoftheoldestandmostfascinatingareasofourcity.Thisisawalkingtour
nottobemissed!
JohnhasgivenmanywalkingtoursforProbusinrecentyears.Histoursarealwayspopular.Asthistourwillbelimitedto25mem-
bers,wesuggestyousignupassoonaspossible.
ITINERARY 9:30 AM – ARRIVE FOR COFFEE AT THE MESSAGE CAFÉ, 75 EAST PENDER STREET 10:00 AM – WALKING TOUR STARTS APROX 12:00 NOON - GUIDED TOUR ENDS 12:30 – NO HOST LUNCH – THERE ARE MANY GOOD RESTAURANTS IN CHINA TOWN.
Arriving by transit: Sky train or bus to Waterfront Station, then 135 bus (SFU) along West Hastings Street to Carrall Street or #7 or #22 bus to Carrall Street. Arriving by car: car pool if possible - see map below for parking.
YOU MAY REGISTER: At the Activity Desk at the PROBUS meetings on April 12th and May 10th, with cash or cheque. Mail Registration form and payment – only $20 per person To Dave Phillips, 1291 West 38th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V6M1R2 E-Mail [email protected]
The Easy Park Lot is at 140 Keefer Street and The Diamond Parking Garage is at 102 East Cordova Street
Columbia Street
Carrall Street
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VANCOUVER POLICE MUSEUM AND SINS OF THE CITY WALKING TOUR Meeting point: The Ovaltine Café, 251 East Hastings Street
Date: Tuesday, April 19th MEMBERS ONLY $25 PER MEMBER
NOTE: LIMITED TO 20 PARTICIPANTS
ThePoliceMuseum,aheritagebuildingintheheartofthedowntowneastside,housestheformerCoroner’sCourt,Morgue,AutopsyRoom
andCrimeLab.Muchoftheexhibitisextremelyauthentic!Thefeatureexhibitis“VancouverYouthandtheLaw”.Themuseumworkswith
schoolsandconductseveningadultprojectssuchas“MoviesintheMorgue”.
ThemuseumisoneoftheoldestpolicemuseumsinNorthAmericaandisoneofthebestmuseumsinVancouver.The“SinsoftheCity”tour
isrankedasoneofthetenbestcitywalks.
ITINERARY: 9:30 AM – ARRIVE FOR COFFEE AT THE OVALTINE CAFÉ, 251 EAST HASTINGS STREET 10:00-11:00 AM – TOUR MUSEUM 11:00- Short break 11:05 - 1:00 PM –SINS OF THE CITY - 12 Block Walking Tour 1:30 – NO HOST LUNCH – There are many eating places in the area including Gastown and Chinatown. The historic atmosphere of this area is undeniable.
LOCATION DETAILS The Ovaltine Café is behind the Museum at 251 E. Hastings east of Hastings and Main. The Museum is at 240 E.Cordova (one way East) next to Fire Hall Arts Centre. Arriving by bus: Several buses access the area as well as Expo and Canada Lines (See Transit) Arriving by car: Public Parking is available off Main on Keefer (nr Chinese Cultural Centre), Cordova and Powell (one-way West). Meters are along the streets (2hr limit)
YOU MAY REGISTER: At the Activity Desk at the next PROBUS meeting on April 12th, with cash or cheque. Mail Registration form and payment – only $25 per person To: Chris Finch, 5760 Hampton Place, Vancouver, V6T 2G1 E-Mail [email protected]
Registra�on Form
1. Make cheques for $25.00 payable to the PROBUS CLUB OF VANCOUVER.
2. DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION IS TUESDAY, APRIL 12th AND FOR CANCELLATION IS TUESDAY, APRIL 5th
3. Remember - you will not be registered un�l payment is received.
Name___________________________________ E-Mail_____________________________
Phone___________________________________
Cheque enclosed for___________________________
To check that you are registered, go to the Ac�vi�es sec�on of the website.
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