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WELCOME TO OUR E-CLUB!
Thank you for stopping by our club meeting! We hope you will enjoy your visit.
Our E-Club banner is shown at left! Please send us a virtual copy of your club banner and we will send you a copy of our new club banner in exchange. We will also display your club banner proudly on our meeting website.
Although our E-club has Provisional status at this time, we hope you will find the content of our meeting enlightening and will give us the benefit of your opinion on the content.
Happy Hour Hangout. We are adjusting the time of our Happy Hour
Hangout to Saturday mornings - early enough so that you can join before
your day gets away from you. A second get-together is scheduled for Wednesday evenings.
We
meet for a live chat and sometimes business discussion. If you are
interested in dropping by, please click the link below. Morning coffee
is on the house! (Your house, that is...) Hope to see you there!
Please note: Now, attending our HHH will earn you a make-up!
The link to the Happy Hour Hangout for Saturday is at the bottom of this meeting.
Our Provisional President, Kitty, would now like to welcome you to this week's meeting. Please listen in...
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ROTARY E-CLUB OF THE CARIBBEAN, 7020
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ABCs OF ROTARY (Cliff Dochterman)
Cliff Dochterman
RI President, 1992-93
Interact
Interact, the Rotary youth program, was launched by the RI Board of Directors in 1962. The first Interact club was established by the Rotary Club of Melbourne, Florida.
Interact clubs provide opportunities for boys and girls of secondary-school age to work together in a world fellowship of service and international understanding.
The term "Interact" is derived from "inter" for international, and "act" for action. Every Interact club must be sponsored and supervised by a Rotary club and must plan annual projects of service to its school, community, and communities in the world.
"Interactors" develop skills in leadership and attain practical experience in conducting service projects, thereby earning the satisfaction that comes from serving others. A major goal of Interact is to provide opportunities for young people to create greater understanding and goodwill with youth throughout the world.
Rotaract
After the success of Interact clubs for high school-age youth in the early 1960s, the RI board created Rotaract in 1968. The new organization was designed to promote responsible citizenship and leadership potential in clubs of young men and women, aged 18 to 30. The first Rotract club was chartered by the Charlotte North Rotary Club in Charlotte, North Carolina. In 1995, there were more than 113,500 members in almost 5,000 Rotaract clubs in 114 countries.
Rotaract clubs emphasize the importance of individual responsibility as the basis of personal success and community involvement.
Each club sponsors an annual project to promote high ethical standards in one's business and professional life. Rotaract also provides opportunities leading to greater international understanding and goodwill. Rotaractors enjoy many social activities as well as programs to improve their community. A Rotaract club can exist only when continuously sponsored, guided, and counselled by a Rotary club. The programs of Rotaract are built around the motto "Fellowship Through Service."
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************ POLIO - JOHN HEWKO, GENERAL SECRETARY
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ROTARY ANTHEM
************ THE ROTARY FOUNDATION
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POLIO UPDATE
The Gates Foundation will match two-to-one, up to US$35 million per year, every dollar Rotary commits to reduce the funding shortfall for polio eradication through 2018,” said Jeff Raikes, the foundation’s chief executive officer, in a prerecorded video address shown during the plenary session on 25 June.
“If fully realized, the value of this new partnership with Rotary is more than $500 million. In this way, your contributions to polio will work twice as hard.”
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JACK ANDRAKA - DETECTING CANCER (age 15 years)
10-minute video
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A LITERARY INTERLUDE
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THREE STRATEGIES for a more resilient you
(Jody Downie, Parry Sound Family Service)
Feeling overwhelmed, tired, not enough time to do or get things done, feeling trapped in your mundane daily life?
Intriguing research suggests that positive thinking can help you weather the routine ups and downs of life and also build resilience for times of greater difficulty.
Here are three ways to capture the benefits of positive thinking.
Express Gratitude
Gratitude is a thankful appreciation for what you have - from a roof over your head to good health to people who care about you. When you acknowledge the goodness in your life, you begin to recognize that the source of that goodness lies at least partially outside yourself. In this way, gratitude helps you connect to something larger than your individual experience - whether to other people, nature, or a higher power.
Set aside a few minutes every day and think about five large or small things you're grateful for.
Write them down if you like. Be specific and remember what each thing means to you. Feel free to share them if you like.
Leverage your strengths
To reap the benefits of your strengths, you first need to know what they are. Unfortunately, according to a British study, only about one-third of people have a useful understanding of their strengths.
If something comes easily, you may take it for granted and not identify it as a strength. If you are not sure of your strengths, you can identify them by asking someone you respect who knows you well, by noticing what people compliment you on, and by thinking about what comes most easily to you.
Certain strengths are most closely linked to happiness.
They include gratitude, hope, vitality, curiosity, and love. These strengths are so important that they're worth cultivating and applying in your daily life, even if they don't come naturally to you.
Savour the "good"
Most people are primed to experience the pleasure in special moments, like a wedding or a vacation. Everyday pleasures, on the other hand, can slip by without much notice.
Savouring means placing your attention on pleasure as it occurs, consciously enjoying the experience as it unfolds. Appreciating the treasures in life, big and small, helps build happiness.
Multitasking is the enemy of savouring. Try as you might, you can't fully pay attention to multiple things.
If you're scanning the newspaper and listening to the radio during breakfast, you're not getting the pleasure you could from that meal - or the newspaper or radio program.
If you're walking the dog on a beautiful path but mentally staring at your day's to-do list, you're missing the moment. Practising being mindful - being in the present is an integral part o "savouring the good."
We cannot change the past. Worrying about the future is not helpful. We can only control what is occurring in this moment, including our thoughts and actions.
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Here is a photo from a recent Happy Hour Hangout - Locations represented in this group include Canada, St. Thomas (USVI), New York, Barbados, Wales.
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Although our E-club has Provisional status at this time, we hope you will find the content of our meeting enlightening and will give us the benefit of your opinion on the content.
August is approaching. Consider Rotary Membership Month!
Happy Hour Hangout. We are adjusting the time of our Happy Hour
Hangout to Saturday mornings - early enough so that you can join before
your day gets away from you.
We
meet for a live chat and sometimes business discussion. If you are
interested in dropping by, please click the link below. Morning coffee
is on the house! (Your house, that is...) Hope to see you there!
Please note: Now, attending our HHH will earn you a make-up!
The links to the Happy Hour Hangout for both Saturday and Wednesday are at the bottom of this meeting.
Our Provisional President, Kitty, would now like to welcome you to this week's meeting. Please listen in...
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ROTARY E-CLUB OF THE CARIBBEAN, 7020
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ABCs OF ROTARY (Cliff Dochterman)
Cliff Dochterman
RI President, 1992-93
Rotary Village Corps
One of the newer programs in Rotary's panoply of worldwide service activities and projects is the Rotary Village Corps. This new form of grass roots self-help service was initiated by RI President M.A.T. Caparas in 1986 as a means of improving the quality of life in villages, neighborhoods and communities. Frequently, there is an abundance of available labour, but no process to mobilize men and women to conduct useful projects of community improvement.
A Rotary Village Corps - or Rotary Community Corps as they are called in industrialized countries - is a Rotary club-sponsored group of non-Rotarians who desire to help their own community by conducting a specific improvement project. The Rotary members provide the guidance, encouragement,
organizational structure and some of the material assistance for the Rotary Village Corps, which in turn contributes the manpower to help their own community. Thus, the Rotary Village Corps provides a totally new process for Rotarians to serve in communities of great need.
The Rotary Community Corps have been organized mainly in depressed ghetto areas of major cities where groups of individuals need the organizational and managerial skills of Rotarians to undertake valuable self-help community projects.
The Rotary Village Corps program offers a totally new dimension to the concept of service to improve the quality of life.
Rotary Volunteers
You can find them working in refugee camps, remote clinics, makeshift hospitals, and primitive villages. While may are physicians and dentists, they come from all walks of life. They're Rotary Volunteers.
The Rotary Volunteers program is open to Rotarians, Rotaractors, Foundation Alumni - even non-Rotarians can participate. Those wishing to serve abroad musts file a Volunteer Registration Form with the Secretariat office serving their area. They also must receive an invitation to volunteer from the host Rotary club at the site where they wish to serve. There are several sources for finding volunteer opportunities and special needs.
The Rotary Volunteers program operates under the umbrella of Vocational Service at the club and district level. Participants must be willing to serve a minimum of one month. The Rotary Foundation occasionally provides funds to cover air transportation and modest living expenses for Rotarian volunteers. Volunteers do not receive a salary or honorarium for their services. Rotary Volunteers have travelled to nearly 100 countries to gie of their time and expertise.
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All of our club members will be asked to participate!
************ HAPPY HOUR HANGOUT HIGHLIGHTS - from July 17
The above video was taken from our Happy Hour Hangout on Wednesday evening, July 17. This is how we will incorporate our own "live" guest speakers to our weekly meeting! The video opens with a share-screen - and a guest's presentation would be clearly visible - with audio. For the rest of the meeting, each speaker displays as the main screen. We are on our way to fabulous success! ************
READ ABOUT HOW...
Guatemala Rotarians use global grants
to help school children receive a better education
At Próximos Pasos school for girls in Santa María de Jesus, Guatemala, the students look happy, healthy, and energetic.
Unlike their counterparts at some schools in the country, the girls have access to clean water and proper nutrition, and the results are apparent. The girls are able to focus on their studies, and they express an enthusiasm for their education.
Photo - a group of Proximos Pasos students walk from their homes in the indigenous village of Santa Maria de Jesus to school in the morning.
“We saw many changes in the kids, in the teachers, and in the community,” says Jorge Aufranc, past governor of District 4250 and a member of the Rotary Club of Guatemala Sur.
“They appreciate the work that Rotary has done.”
Photo - Rotarians Rodolfo Bianchi (left) and Jorge Aufranc, along with principal Mirna Perez, greet students as they arrive in morning.
A Rotary Foundation global grant implemented by the Guatemala Sur club provided the school with computers and a machine called a mechanical cow, which produces soy milk. The device is made of stainless steel and does not look much like a cow.
Soybeans are put into a funnel at the top, and about 45 minutes later, they have been turned into soy milk and a pulp called okara, which is used in the school’s cooking classes. On one recent day, the girls were using the okara to make cookies.
Aufranc’s district has used the Rotary Foundation’s new grants to help many schools in the area. It took part in the three-year pilot of the new grant system, during which 43 global grants have been undertaken in the district, including five by the Guatemala Sur club. The pilot ends 1 July, and the new grants then become available to all districts.
The Guatemala Sur club began with projects that address needs they deemed critical. For example, one global grant is providing nine rural schools in Sumpango with washing stations, latrines, kitchen equipment, and furniture.
“Everything begins with water,” Aufranc says. “If there is no water, we cannot have peace. Where there is a lack of water, there is conflict.”
Partnerships are essential
For the grant used at Próximos Pasos, the Guatemala Sur club partnered with clubs from districts 6420 and 6440 (Illinois, USA), as well as Mission Impact and the World Soy Foundation. Aufranc says working with these other organizations is part of what made the grant successful.
“You have to involve as many Rotarians as you can, locally and internationally,” Aufranc says. “With Future Vision, there has been resistance because people think, ‘oh we have to think bigger and bigger.’ But that’s how you make an impact in a community. You have to think big.”
Photo - Second-grade teacher Diego Santos helps a student during a language lesson.
His district’s extensive experience with global grants has made Aufranc an advocate of the new grants.
He believes community involvement is essential to any Rotary project. Several of Guatemala Sur’s global grants were made possible by the volunteer labor of community members and input from local leaders.
“To have a good project, a sustainable project, you have to involve the community. If the community participates from the beginning, they feel they have ownership of the project, and this helps guarantee sustainability,” he explains. “We have to think of it as their project, not ours. It is a project of the community, not a Rotary project.”
Mirna Pérez, the principal of Próximos Pasos, also believes involving her community made the project possible. She says keys to success included the sharing of responsibility by Rotarians and community members, good communication, and flexibility.
“We are thankful to Rotary for helping us and bringing change to the lives of our students and the community,” Pérez says. “Our communities need more opportunities, and Rotary gives us those opportunities. We utilize everything and we work our hardest to put everything to good use.”
...from rotary.org
By Daniela Garcia
************ SPEAKER - About Google Glass
Sergey Brin and Larry Page met in grad school at Stanford in the mid-'90s, and in 1996 started working on a search technology based around a new idea: that relevant results come
from context.
Their technology analyzed the number of times a given website was linked to by other sites — assuming that the more links, the more relevant the site — and ranked sites accordingly.
Despite being a late entrant to the search game, it now rules the web.
Brin and Page's innovation-friendly office culture has spun out lucrative new products including AdSense/AdWords, Google News, Google Maps, Google Earth, and Gmail, as well as the Android mobile operating system. Now, led by Brin, Google is pursuing problems beyond the page, like the driverless car and the digital eyewear known as Google Glass . Click this link to view the video. (7 minutes) Click your browser's BACK button to return to the meeting.
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SHORT HISTORY OF POLIO IN THE U.S.
*********** WINNING ISN'T EVERYTHING - inspirational story
As one of Britain's greatest ever 400m Olympic athletes, Derek is able to bring a unique perspective to what it takes to set goals, overcome obstacles and succeed.
A career that brought gold Olympic medals at World, European and Commonwealth levels and also saw more than its fair share of bad luck and heartache, most famously during the Barcelona Olympics when his hamstring snapped during the semi finals. Derek, a medal favorite, struggled to his feet and hobbled the remaining 250 metres in a scene that has become one of the most enduring in modern Olympic history.
Goals
Before you can set yourself on any path to success you must first have a clear vision of exactly what it is you want to achieve. Equally important is an ability to change goals while remaining focused. Life can never be fully predicted and sometimes it becomes necessary to handle the unexpected.
Team Building
How best to organise, operate and succeed as a cohesive team. Also how to function to full personal potential and bring individual talents to a team unit.
Application
What it takes to achieve pre-determined goals. How to work out the most efficient and effective ways and means to achieve those goals.
Overcoming Obstacles
No matter how meticulous the preparation, how dedicated the team and the individual, life has a habit of delivering the unexpected. When that happens it is vital to stay focused, adjust objectives and goals as necessary and maintain the drive for success.
Performance
Objectives can only be reached if individuals and teams perform. However, behind a winning performance lies careful, structured preparation and planning. Only by getting this right can people attain the kind of performance required to compete and succeed.
Below is another version of the same story - very emotional!
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THE ROTARY FOUNDATION
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PROSTATE HEALTH
from www.prostate.net
It’s not enough to know the best foods you should eat to promote prostate health, you should also know which foods are the worst so you can avoid them. Some of the foods on this list may surprise you, but all of them are best to cross off your menu if you want to support prostate health.
Red and processed meat
Non-organic meat
Calcium and dairy foods
Canned tomatoes and tomato products
Microwave popcorn
Nonorganic potatoes
French fries and potato chips
Artificial sweeteners
Farmed salmon
Sugar
Red and processed meat
Eating a lot of red and processed meats is unhealthy for several reasons, one of which is it may increase your risk of prostate cancer. Studies show that men who ate the most red meat were 12 percent more likely to develop prostate cancer and 33 percent more likely to have advanced cancer than those who ate the least amount of red meat.
Non-organic meat
Nonorganic meat encompasses the majority of the meat available on the market, including beef, pork, lamb, veal, and poultry raised using conventional methods that involve the use of hormones, antibiotics, and steroids, as well as animals being fed food they were not meant to eat. Cattle, for example, evolved to eat grass, but they are fed corn, soybeans, and other grains because it fattens them up faster for slaughter.
When you do include meat in your diet, make it organic so you can avoid the additives that can have a negative impact on both prostate and overall health.
Calcium and dairy foods
Dairy foods are the most common source of calcium in the United States, and this is a source of concern for two reasons.
One, the American Cancer Society notes there is evidence that high intake of calcium, mostly through supplements and dairy foods, has been linked with a greater risk of prostate cancer, especially aggressive cancer.
Two, many dairy foods are high in fat and cholesterol, and may also contain hormones, all of which can have a negative impact on prostate health.
Canned tomatoes and tomato products
Although it is true tomatoes and tomato products support and promote prostate health, especially because of their high lycopene content, you should avoid tomato foods packaged in cans. The resin linings of tin cans contain bisphenol-A (BPA), a synthetic estrogen that can leach into the tomatoes because they are acidic.
BPA is associated with an increased risk of cancer and other health problems.
Microwave Popcorn
Popcorn is a good source of fiber, but avoid microwave popcorn. The lining of the bags in which microwave popcorn is popped contains chemicals, including perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) that may be associated with infertility in humans. The chemicals have also been linked to cancer in lab animals. Because PFOA accumulates in the body, scientists worry that the chemical may reach a cancer-causing level in people who are exposed to it for too long. The makers of PFOA have promised to stop producing the chemical by 2015.
Non-organic potatoes
Potatoes can be a very good nonfat, high-fiber food choice, but beware: they are exposed to several doses of poisons.
Potatoes absorb herbicides, pesticides, and fungicides from the soil, they are treated with fungicides while they are growing, the vines are sprayed with herbicides before harvest, and then once the potatoes are dug up, they are treated again to prevent them from sprouting.
You cannot wash away the chemicals that have been absorbed into the flesh of the potato. The only safe solution is to buy organic potatoes.
French fries and potato chips
French fries and potato chips are two popular foods in the United States, and also among the most unhealthy.
One reason is that deep fried potatoes and potato chips are laden with saturated fat and salt.
Two, potatoes contain an amino acid called asparagine, which when heated to more than 248 degrees Fahrenheit (as in frying and baking) can form acrylamide, a substance determined to be a “probable human carcinogen” by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, based on studies in lab animals. (Fuhr 2006)
French fries and potato chips are not the only foods that contain acrylamide, but they are the most common and have high levels. Baked goods, especially doughnuts, also have relatively high levels of acrylamide.
Artificial Sweeteners
Artificial sweeteners—aspartame, cyclamate, neotame, saccharin, or sucralose—can be found in a wide variety of processed foods, many of which are promoted as diet and/or diabetic foods. These artificial sweeteners have been associated with cancer in animals and can cause allergic reactions in some people.
Farmed salmon
Farmed salmon are crammed into pens, fed soy and fishmeal (which is high in contaminants), dosed with antibiotics, and colored with artificial dyes to make them pink. The result is fish that are lower in vitamin D and omega-3 fatty acids, and higher in contaminants (e.g., PCBs, brominated flame retardants, dioxin, DDT) than wild salmon.
Farmed salmon is not the only farmed fish that should be avoided, because the way they are raised is similar for other types of fish as well.
Sugar
Sugar may taste good, but that’s where the “good” part ends. Along with the empty calories sugar contributes to the diet, it is also believed by many experts to fuel cancer cell growth, among them Patrick Quillin, PhD, RD, former vice president of Nutrition for Cancer Treatment Centers of America.
In 2009, scientists at Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah discovered part of the process by which cancer cells utilize more sugar (glucose) than normal cells. (Kaadige 2009)
If you want something sweet, choose fruit, nature’s natural sugar.
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LANGUAGE STOP
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HAPPY HOUR HANGOUT - Wednesday, July 24 at 7:00 p.m.
Rotary E-Club of the Caribbean, 7020 is inviting you to a scheduled HHH on Wednesday evening, July 24 at 7:00 p.m. Atlantic/Eastern Daylight Time
This week, we will begin with a Presentation on Rotary basics – as an introduction and as a review. Please plan to attend, particularly if you are a NEW ROTARIAN. The presentation will begin promptly at 7:10 p.m.
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Thank you for stopping by our club meeting! We hope you will enjoy your visit.
Our E-Club banner is shown at left! Please send us a virtual copy of your club banner and we will send you a copy of our new club banner in exchange. We will also display your club banner proudly on our meeting website.
Although our E-club has Provisional status at this time, we hope you will find the content of our meeting enlightening and will give us the benefit of your opinion on the content.
July 1 is the start of the new Rotary year! The new RI President is Ron Burton from the United States.
Happy Hour Hangout. We are adjusting the time of our Happy Hour
Hangout to Saturday mornings - early enough so that you can join before
your day gets away from you.
We
meet for a live chat and sometimes business discussion. If you are
interested in dropping by, please click the link below. Morning coffee
is on the house! (Your house, that is...) Hope to see you there!
Please note: Now, attending our HHH will earn you a make-up!
The links to the Happy Hour Hangout for both Saturday and Wednesday are at the bottom of this meeting.
Our Provisional President, Kitty, would now like to welcome you to this week's meeting. Please listen in...
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ROTARY E-CLUB OF THE CARIBBEAN, 7020
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ABCs OF ROTARY (Cliff Dochterman)
Cliff Dochterman
RI President, 1992-93
Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA)
Each summer, thousands of young people are selected to attend Rotary-sponsored leadership camps or seminars in the United States, Australia, Canada, India, France, Argentina, Korea and numerous other countries. In an informal out-of-doors atmosphere, 50 to 75 outstanding young men and/or women spend a week in a challenging program of discussions, inspirational addresses, leadership training and social activities designed to enhance personal development, leadership skills and good citizenship.
The official name of this activity is the Rotary Youth Leadership Awards program (RYLA), although the event is occasionally referred to as Camp royal, Camp Enterprise, Youth Leaders Seminars, Youth Conferences, or other terms.
The RYLA program began in Australia in 1959, when young people throughout the state of Queensland were selected to meet with Princess Alexandra, the young cousin of Queen Elizabeth II. The Rotarians of Brisbane, who hosted the participants, were impressed with the quality of the young leaders. It was decided to bring youth leaders together each year for a week of social, cultural and educational activities. The RYLA program gradually grew throughout all the Rotary districts of Australia and New Zealand. In 1971, the RI Board of Directors adopted RYLA as an official program of Rotary International.
Still more Rotary Firsts
Rotary first presented "Significant Achievement Awards" in 1969 to clubs with outstanding international or community services projects
Rotary's first Interact club was organized in Melbourne, Florida, in 1962 to become the pioneer for about 7,200 Interact clubs in 88 countries.
Rotary's first convention held in the Southern Hemisphere was in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1948.
Rotary was assigned the copyright on the "4-Way Test" in 1954 when its author, Herbert Taylor, became president of Rotary International.
Rotary's first Community Service project took place in 1907 when Chicago Rotarians led a campaign to install a public "comfort station" in the city hall.
1964-65 was the first year when The Rotary Foundation received total contributions of a million dollars in a single year.
Rotary's first appeal for aid to disaster victims was in 1913 when $25,000 was given for flood relief in Ohio and Indiana.
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************ OUR ROTARY INTERNATIONAL DUES - update
Each Club pays annual per capita dues to RI for each of its members, other than honorary members; this amount is now US$53 per member per annum. The RI dues will increase over the next few years at US$1 per annum to cover anticipated cost increases.
The recent Council on Legislation removed the rule that clubs under 10 still have to pay for 10 members. Now these small clubs will pay for the number of members they do actually have.
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SPEAKER - Maria Bezaitis: Don't talk to strangers!
Maria Bezaitis examines the social and cultural landscape, charting new directions for technology innovation within it.
At Intel, her work focuses on personal data and how it develops relationally – and what this will mean in terms of new business models, the development of new devices and interfaces, and the creation of better security technologies.
Maria joined Intel in June 2006 to direct the People and Practices Research Group. She also played a leadership role at the cutting-edge social research and design organizations, E-Lab and Sapient Corporation.
A long-time literature student, Bezaitis finished her Ph.D at Duke University in French Literature.
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POLIO - Afghanistan and Pakistan (3-minute video)
************ SPEAKER - Dan Ariely - What makes us feel good about our work?
Despite our best efforts, bad or inexplicable decisions are as inevitable as death and taxes and the grocery store running out of your favorite flavor of ice cream. They're also just as predictable.
Why, for instance, are we convinced that "sizing up" at our favorite burger joint is a good idea, even when we're not that hungry? Why are our phone lists cluttered with numbers we never call?
Dan Ariely, behavioral economist, has based his career on figuring out the answers to these questions, and in his bestselling book Predictably Irrational (re-released in expanded form in May 2009), he describes many unorthodox and often downright odd experiments used in the quest to answer this question.
Ariely has long been fascinated with how emotional states, moral codes and peer pressure affect our ability to make rational and often extremely important decisions in our daily lives -- across a spectrum of our interests, from economic choices (how should I invest?) to personal (who should I marry?).
At Duke, he's aligned with three departments (business, economics and cognitive neuroscience); he's also a visiting professor in MIT's Program in Media Arts and Sciences and a founding member of the Center for Advanced Hindsight. His hope that studying and understanding the decision-making process can help people lead better, more sensible daily lives.
He produces a weekly podcast, Arming the Donkeys, featuring chats with researchers in the social and natural sciences.
"If you want to know why you always buy a bigger television than you intended, or why you think it's perfectly fine to spend a few dollars on a cup of coffee at Starbucks, or why people feel better after taking a 50-cent aspirin but continue to complain of a throbbing skull when they're told the pill they took just cost one penny, Ariely has the answer."
--Daniel Gross, Newsweek
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A LOW-FAT IDEA - Yogurt Cheese
Yogurt Cheese - a substitute for cream cheese
2 quarts low-fat plain yogurt, dairy or soy-based
Place 4 layers of damp cheesecloth in a fine mesh sieve or colander. Place the colander over a bowl.
Add yogurt and let it drain overnight in the refrigerator
Discard the water from the bowl.
The result of the draining process will be a soft, creamy cheese-like product in the sieve. In fact, it is lower in calories than cream cheese, but can be used in its place. It is also lower in lactose, higher in protein, and lower in sodium than cream cheese. The best part is that it is all natural.
A wonderful base into which you can mix just about anything, since yogurt cheese readily takes on the flavors of whatever you choose to mix it with. It is sinfully rich and makes you think you are eating something very naughty – but you are not!
...from The East-Clean DIET Cookbook (Tosca Reno)
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RI GENERAL SECRETARY ADDRESSES THE LISBON CONVENTION
************ A Rotary Profile - reasons to be a Rotarian!
Gary Kadow works hard, sleeps little, and talks fast.
That sense of urgency served him well as a volunteer government liaison officer for a Red Cross disaster response team: “I was at the World Trade Center on 9/11 right after the planes hit,” he recalls. Kadow published a book about the experience titled 10 Days of Hell and Heroes.
He had started with the Red Cross after a career in government; he’d worked as an administrator for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in New York State and as a special assistant to the secretary of housing in Washington, D.C. In 2005, Kadow and his wife of 44 years, Barbara, decided to head south, settling in the Villages retirement community. “I didn’t know a thing about Rotary,” he says. “I was always going 80 directions with my hair on fire.”
He joined his club in 2007, and by 2010, he was leading a project to send unused medical supplies from Florida hospitals to the U.S. military in Iraq, where his son-in-law was serving, and to Afghanistan. With the support of his club and the Rotary Club of Leesburg, Fla., Kadow turned the effort into a nonprofit called Project SOS – Support Our Soldiers, which has evolved into a local initiative to help homeless veterans and those with disabilities access medical care. The group is also working with the nonprofit Haiti Help Med Plus to equip a hospital in a remote part of that country, and to provide villages with necessities including clean water.
Though formally retired, the 66-year-old Kadow is a full-time volunteer. “When I heard Rotary’s motto was Service Above Self, I was sold, because I always lived my life that way.”
...from rotary.org
by Vanessa N. Glavinskas
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YOUNG PRODIGY PLAYS FOR 101-YEAR-OLD
Ryan Wang is not your average five-year-old kid. When he was three years old, he was glued to his toy keyboard, so his mother decided to send him to a piano teacher.
Fast-forward a year and a half, and Wang is showcasing his talents on the piano at New York’s prestigious Carnegie Hall. His outstanding talent on the piano was also noticed by Ellen DeGeneres, who invited him to perform on her show. Now one of Canada's most famous piano prodigies, Wang is touring Italy and China this summer.
CBC Music invited Ryan Wang to perform in our Vancouver Studio. He brought along his teddy bear, his mom and his number one fan, Dorothy, a 101-year-old friend of the family.
Check out the video of Wang giving Dorothy a private performance of Variations on an Inner Mongolian Folk Song.
Video 1 is about 4 minutes. (Preceded by a 30-second commercial.) He also played his favourite piece, Variations on a Russian Theme, for his teddy bear, "The Bear Who Has No Name."
Video 2 is about 3 1/2 minutes. (Preceded by a 30-second commercial.)
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THE ROTARY FOUNDATION
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HUMOROUS INTERLUDE - Classic comedy
************ LANGUAGE STOP
Click this linkto try your skill with these words with a positive connotation. Click your browser's BACK button to return to the meeting. ************ ROTARY ANTHEM
************ TO END OUR MEETING To end our meeting, please recite aloud (on your honour!) the Rotary Four-Way Test of the things we think, say, and do.
Past District Governor, Lara, and District Governor, Herve, from District 7030 (Trinidad) lead us.
1. Is it the TRUTH?
2. Is it FAIR to all concerned?
3. Will it BUILD GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
...and official close of meeting
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Thank you for stopping by our E-club meeting! We wish you well in the next week in all that you do for Rotary!
The meeting has now come to an end. Please do have a safe and happy week! If you have enjoyed our E-club meeting, please leave a comment below.
Wednesday evening, July 17 - at 7:00 p.m. Atlantic/Eastern Daylight Time.
A new platform this week - Come and try this out!
Rotary E-Club of the Caribbean, 7020 is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting for our Happy Hour Hangout (HHH)
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Join from a PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone or Android device:
Please click this URL to start or join. https://zoom.us/j/233616011
Or, go to https://zoom.us/join and enter meeting ID: 233 616 011
Join from dial-in phone line:
Call +1(424)203-8450 (US/Canada only).
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Meeting ID: 233 616 011
Thank you for stopping by our E-club meeting! We hope you will enjoy your visit.
Our E-Club banner is shown at left! Please send us a virtual copy of your club banner and we will send you a copy of our new club banner in exchange. We will also display your club banner proudly on our meeting website.
Although our E-club has Provisional status at this time, we hope you will find the content of our meeting enlightening and will give us the benefit of your opinion on the content.
A new Rotary year is upon us! Engage Rotary - Change Lives!
Happy Hour Hangout. We are adjusting the time of our Happy Hour
Hangout to Saturday mornings - early enough so that you can join before
your day gets away from you.
We
meet for a live chat and sometimes business discussion. If you are
interested in dropping by, please click the link below. Morning coffee
is on the house! (Your house, that is...) Hope to see you there!
Please note: Now, attending our HHH will earn you a make-up!
The link to the Happy Hour Hangout for Saturday is at the bottom of this meeting.
Our Provisional President, Kitty, would now like to welcome you to this week's meeting. Please listen in...
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ROTARY E-CLUB OF THE CARIBBEAN, 7020
************ RON BURTON - RI PRESIDENT (2013-14) What a fantastic pancake-serving line - Past RI President, Sakuji Tanaka and current RI President, Ron Burton
"Leave the woodpile a little higher."
Also notice - regardless of your title, it's a "first-name" basis in Rotary.
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ABCs OF ROTARY (Cliff Dochterman)
Cliff Dochterman
RI President, 1992-93
Recreational and Vocational Fellowships
The past month of June was Rotary Fellowships month.
From stamp collecting to wine appreciation, the hobbies of Rotarians are as diverse as the membership itself. Yet, among the more than one million Rotarians worldwide, an amateur-radio enthusiast or a chess player is bound to find others who share the same passions.
But Recreational Fellowship members share more than just their common interest in sport diving or Esperanto; they share an interest in fellowship and service and in promoting world understanding.
As such, it is no wonder that the International Skiing Fellowship of Rotarians donates the profits from ski events to The Rotary Foundation or that the Flying Rotarians help ferry medical personnel and supplies.
One has only to look at the types of Vocational Fellowships to recognize how they differ from their recreational counterparts. With Rotarians united by their shared professional interest in such fields as Hospital Administration and Finance/Banking, it is obvious that Vocational Service is as important a concern as international fellowship to the members of these groups. Members exchange technical information and seek opportunities to employ their expertise in service not just to their own communities and countries, but to their professions as well. For example, the Ophthalmology International Vocational Fellowship organized a professional seminar on the subject of eye surgery in developing countries.
Rotary Friendship Exchange
An interesting Rotary program of fellowship is the Rotary Friendship Exchange. This activity, originally recommended by the New Horizons Committee in 1981, is intended to encourage Rotarians and spouses to visit with Rotarian families in other parts of the world. It may be conducted on a club-to-club or district-to-district basis.
The idea is for several Rotarian couples to travel to another country on the Rotary Friendship Exchange. Later, the hospitality is reversed when the visit is exchanged. After a successful pilot experiment, the Rotary Friendship Exchange has become a permanent program of Rotary.
The Rotary Friendship Exchange is frequently compared to the Group Study Exchange program of The Rotary Foundation, except that it involves Rotarian couples who personally pay for all expenses of their inter-country experience. Doors of friendship are opened in a way which could not be duplicated except in Rotary.
Rotarians seeking an unusual vacation and fellowship experience should learn more about the Rotary Friendship Exchange. Some unusual Rotary adventures are awaiting you!
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POLIO - EILEEN'S STORY (video of 3 minutes)
************ POLIO TAKES CENTER STAGE IN LISBON - RI CONVENTION This is a large file. Let it download.
************ SPEAKER - Angela Lee Duckworth - The key to success! Grit!
In her late 20s, Angela Lee Duckworth left a demanding job as a management consultant at McKinsey to teach math in public schools in San Francisco, Philadelphia and New York.
After five years of teaching seventh graders, she went back to grad school to complete her Ph.D. in psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is now an assistant professor in the psychology department.
Her research subjects include students, West Point cadets, and corporate salespeople, all of whom she studies to determine how "grit" is a better indicator of success than factors such as IQ or family income.
"Angela Lee Duckworth's research validated and furthered my beliefs in the keys to success for individuals, teams and a business. While intelligence is required, Angela demonstrated that the determining factors for success were perseverance, hard work and a drive to improve."
HUMOROUS INTERLUDE - for those who tell me they want some humour!
A British ventriloquist
************ ROTARY CLUB OF ST. ANDREW NORTH - donation
Our District 7020 clubs perform extraordinary projects of "Service Above Self." Here's a very short video story of a recent donation from the Rotary Club of St. Andrew North in Jamaica!
Well done!
************ PHOTOS FROM DISTRICT 7020 - a little geography lesson
The photo below is a very common one of Sandy Ground Village - Road Bay - in Anguilla, British West Indies. It's likely taken on a Sailboat Racing Day because you can see the sailboats (made in Anguilla and a great sailing/Anguillian tradition). Otherwise, the beach is always empty. This may be a photo taken during Carnival in August.
Road Bay is on the left. The Salt Pond is on the right. You are looking at North Hill - and the photo is taken from South Hill.
Anguilla is one of the islands included in Rotary District 7020.
Below is a map of Anguilla showing the location of Sandy Ground and Road Bay. The ferry to St. Martin leaves Anguilla from Blowing Point (on the south shore.)
You can see the arrow pointing to St. Martin.
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SPEAKER - Children are all different. Why do we treat them the same?
How does this relate to our own individual communities?
Why you should listen to him:
Why don't we get the best out of people?
Sir Ken Robinson argues that it's because we've been educated to become good workers, rather than creative thinkers.
Students with restless minds and bodies -- far from being cultivated for their energy and curiosity -- are ignored or even stigmatized, with terrible consequences. "We are educating people out of their creativity," Robinson says. It's a message with deep resonance.
Robinson's TEDTalk has been distributed widely around the Web since its release in June 2006. The most popular words framing blog posts on his talk? "Everyone should watch this."
A visionary cultural leader, Sir Ken led the British government's 1998 advisory committee on creative and cultural education, a massive inquiry into the significance of creativity in the educational system and the economy, and was knighted in 2003 for his achievements.
His 2009 book, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything, is a New York Times bestseller and has been translated into 21 languages.
A 10th anniversary edition of his classic work on creativity and innovation, Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative, was published in 2011.
His latest book, Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life, will be published by Viking in May 2013.
FROM THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION - an experiment
What happens if you wring out a wet towel while floating in space?
The water shouldn't fall toward the floor because while orbiting the Earth, free falling objects will appear to float. But will the water fly out from the towel, or what? The answer may surprise you.
To find out and to further exhibit how strange being in orbit can be, Expedition 35 Commander Chris Hadfield did just this experiment recently in the microgravity of the Earth orbiting International Space Station. As demonstrated in the video, although a few drops do go flying off, most of the water sticks together and forms a unusual-looking cylindrical sheath in and around the towel.
The self-sticking surface tension of water is well known on Earth, for example being used to create artistic water cascades and, more generally, raindrops.
A little trivia - as a point of interest. Chris Hadfield is a Canadian. He is from the same home town as your provisional president, Kitty.
Click this link to view the video. (3 minutes) Click your browser's BACK button to return to the meeting.
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LANGUAGE STOP
Click this link to try your skill with antonyms. Click your browser's BACK button to return to the meeting.
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TO END OUR MEETING To end our meeting, please recite aloud (on your honour!) the Rotary Four-Way Test of the things we think, say, and do.
Ken Guiste, Monica Ramgeet, and David Archer (District Conference Chair) from the BVI lead us.
1. Is it the TRUTH?
2. Is it FAIR to all concerned?
3. Will it BUILD GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
...and official close of meeting
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Thank you for stopping by our E-club meeting! We wish you well in the next week in all that you do for Rotary!
The meeting has now come to an end. Please do have a safe and happy week! If you have enjoyed our E-club meeting, please leave a comment below.
