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December 10, 2010
Reporter: Buddy Burke Editor: Ron Brown Photographer: Tom Black
President: Thomas Peeks, 2010 - 2011 |
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Our distinguished guests and visiting Rotarians:
Suzy Schuman (accompanying our speaker, Mr. Marggraff) "Junior Watson" (Parker Watson overseeing his dad, Dave)
 | | Ex Prez Paul and Ex Pres Larry at his favorite morning club |
Larry and Sherry Duson (that's the Larry with one foot in LMSR and the other in the noon club)
Assistant District Gov Debbie Roessler
Old-time and heretofore missed Lamorinda Rotarian Barry Durlester
Davis Rees, Long time friend of Ray Welles
Former LMSR Prez Jack Peers.
And of course, Nancy Baglietto, returning for
 | | Never mind the mischief makers, Nancy |
her third visit to LMSR, despite having seen our usual antics on her previous visits.
Thought of the Day:
wisdom from Mark Twain brought to us by Gary
 | | Who'd have thunk it? |
Fulcher: "Better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt!"
A Big day for birthdays and anniversaries:
Dan Garfin was active this morning, dishing out recognitions left and right! Prez Peeks had to dispense with weekly raffle because it took so long!
Ken Thomas proudly "reorganized his BB Collection" to commemorate his birthday this year. With adequate prompting, Rev. Ray Welles managed to remember that he was voluntarily acquired by LMSR on Dec 8th, 2000.
To mark his December 5th birthday, Mark Roberts celebrated in Santa Barbara with fellow members of his professional business fraternity. These highly-acclaimed partiers kept him out till sunset.
 | | And a lovely dinner it was, too! |
Not to be outdone, Kevin Croak couldn't remember exactly where he spent his anniversary last week, but Venera and hubby Robert celebrated their own 23rd anniversary by seizing an opportunity that any wise couple would pounce upon: dinner cooked by her own sister, in their own home!
Rounding out our robust list of recognitions, Prez-elect Alex Arnold has begun "birthday month" of his wonderful spousal unit Mary Jane, and he promises us regular reports on this blurry series of events!
Vroooommm......The Now-to-be-weekly-report on Motorama:
 | | Empress of Motorama! |
Krysten Laine did too good a job with last summer's Motorama, so she has found herself as repeat Chair of this annual Father's Day event. Planning is off to a roaring start with most of the major task Chair persons in place! We still need a Vendor Set-up Chair to step forward.
In an official statement, Krysten said, "We know how to put on a Motorama."
Dennis Kurimai revealed lofty revenue goals as Motorama Sponsorship Chair: $100k; $47k of that from pre-event sponsor events at the
 | | Dennis thinks REALLY BIG! |
Veterans' Memorial hall. After we all crawled back up on our seats, he convinced us that this is very doable. He had a detailed breakdown he'd put together on his computer (probably with slick software he personally created )
The Motorama Fathers' Day event will be June 18th, so we have seven months to sell hundreds and thousands of raffle tickets!
HOME Team
Hays Englehart reminded us that because of the holidays, our next HOME event will occur with little advance warning, on January 8th. This team's striking success can be directly attributed to Hays and Joe Bettencourt's vision and follow-through. Applause, please!
Ho Ho Ho HO!
 | | "Oh come, all ye faithful" |
Mark remarked, "Mark your calendars for December 14th, Orinda Community Church. "Bring any kids you may have at the moment or who returned after grad school." With little ones, bring wrapped gifts to exchange, and drag along appropriate adult beverages. Mark will hold back no stops as he uses party secrets he learned from the formal business fraternity. (see above)
Most everyone has RSVP'd in some fashion or other. (probably another First for Lamorinda sunrise) Mark is pleased and promises to tell Santa.
Choo-Choo
 | | All aboard, 3 years old and up. |
Anyone who has ever seen John Linneman's mind-boggling train system understands why Baltimore and Ohio is jealous. John is opening his home and elaborate system to immature people of all ages on December 19th, and asks only that you call for a reservation. That leaves the question, "How many 65-yr-old children can gather in one room?"
THE PROGRAM
"Turn Your Paper On!" said Jim Marggraff, CEO of Livescribe. And you thought the iPad was amazing? The creator of the Leap Pad, dazzled us a few years ago and today brought us enough mind-boggling creativity and electronic magic to spin our heads faster. Having sold 30 million units of that first product, we anxiously awaited this latest!
Game-changing. Revolutionary. Beyond comprehension. Today's demonstration defied LMSR descriptions, and even Disney magic could not have matched this foudroyant (look it up!) display!
 | | Oh yes, it is magical! |
Advancing his earlier creation, the Flypen, Jim illustrated his latest evolution with a demonstration. Without an unmystified eye in the room, he drew a simple series of boxes on a sheet of paper and began to tap them, one by one. This pen created the beautiful sounds of a piano keyboard. Not impressed yet? By writing the names of several instruments on the paper and tapping them one by one, his pen recreated the particular sounds of each when he tapped the keyboard. Steel drums. Organ. Vibe. Xylophone. Weird instruments you never heard of before.
Then, it became interesting!
He wrote words. He drew figures. His "Echo Pen" interpreted. It "saw" the figures. He wrote language names. It read in whatever language he "tapped" with the pen. Spanish. Swedish. Swahili. Even English.
When docked to a computer, the pen reproduced its previously written documents and translated them into PDF, ready for email, which he sent to members of the club.
Plans are to soon launch a version that will stream interpreted audio directly from pen to the internet.
A current iPad application keeps notes created by the Echo Pen. It "reads." It simultaneously captures written and spoken words.
 | | Let the pen do the work |
One common use is for note-taking. As students take notes in abbreviated form, they often miss certain details. By tapping onto the words or figures of any given portion of their own notes, the professor's full audio is repeated. An upcoming product will transcribe the professor's audio to text.
Is this a student's dream come true? Turns out they are already forbidden in at least one local classroom.
Soon to come: it will read and transform pages into pdf which can be read by ANY computer "like a movie," without special software.
This revolutionizes the business world by creating the ability to sign electronic signatures and send them on the spot, legally and validly . He has already used it for such in completing a contract in a taxi to partner with a Swedish company.
Jim showed his generosity by offering a gift to Rotary for each pen sold at today's meeting, while offering a discount as well.
This product is so "out there" that the LMSR Newsletter staff has determined that in this extreme case, a video demo is in order. See www.livescribe.com for the chance to see, hear, and enjoy Mr. Marggraff's astonishing product!Rotary 10 December, 2010.
CALENDAR
December 14 - Board Meeting, 7 a.m.
December 14 - Christmas Party 6 p.m.
December 17 - Expose Yourself, Ron Brown
December 24 - DARK, Merry Christmas!
December 31 - DARK, HAPPY New Year!
January 8 - HOME Team strikes again!
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