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Dear Fellow Rotarians, visitors and guests!
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.
Late-breaking news! We are now a fully-fledged chartered Rotary Club. Our Charter Date is August 12, 2013! Even more now, 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 Rotary Membership Month!
Visiting Rotarians. Click this link to Apply for a Make-up. We will send you and your club secretary a make-up confirmation.
Active Members. Click for Attendance Record.
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 is at the bottom of this meeting.
Interested in joining us? Click the link Membership Application and Information.
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)
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| Cliff Dochterman RI President, 1992-93 |
Selecting a President
Each year, a distinguished Rotarian is selected as the worldwide president of Rotary International. The process begins two years in advance when a 15-person nominating committee is elected from separate regions of the world. To qualify for the nominating committee, a Rotarian must have served on the RI Board of Directors and have extensive Rotary experience and substantial acquaintanceship with the world leaders of Rotary.
The nominating committee may consider all former RI directors for the presidential candidate. Members of the nominating committee and current directors are not eligible. Any Rotary club may suggest the name of a former RI director to the committee for consideration.
The committee convenes in September to select the Rotarian to be the presidential nominee. His or her name is announced to all clubs. Any Rotary club may make an additional nomination before December 1, which must then be endorsed by one percent of all the Rotary clubs of the world (about 250). If such an event occurs, an election is held by mail ballot. If no additional nomination is presented by the clubs, the individual selected by the nominating committee is declared to be the president-nominee. From that point on, that special Rotarian and spouse will spend more than a year in preparation and then a year serving the Rotarians of the world as international president.
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LET'S BEGIN WITH ROTARY INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE FOR AUGUST
Share your passion for Rotary. Ask others to join - join a meeting, join a project.
Keep our members connected and engaged.
Engage Rotary, Change Lives.
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| RI President, Ron Burton (2013-14) |
Click this link to view the video. Consider how this message can affect our club!
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WHAT CAN SOCIAL MEDIA DO FOR YOU?
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CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF INTERACT
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SPEAKER - CLAY SHIRKY
“We are in a world where most American citizens over the age of 12 share things with each other online.” -- Clay Shirky
Clay Shirky's work focuses on the rising usefulness of networks -- using decentralized technologies such as peer-to-peer sharing, wireless, software for social creation, and open-source development. New technologies are enabling new kinds of cooperative structures to flourish as a way of getting things done in business, science, the arts and elsewhere, as an alternative to centralized and institutional structures, which he sees as self-limiting. In his writings and speeches he has argued that "a group is its own worst enemy."
Shirky is an adjunct professor in New York Universityʼs graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program, where he teaches a course named “Social Weather.” Heʼs the author of several books. This spring at the TED headquarters in New York, he gave an impassioned talk against SOPA/PIPA that saw 1 million views in 48 hours.
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WISDOM - ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Many people will walk in and out of your life,
But only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
To handle yourself, use your head;
To handle others, use your heart.
Anger is only one letter short of danger.
If someone betrays you once, it is his fault;
If he betrays you twice, it is your fault.
Great minds discuss ideas;
Average minds discuss events;
Small minds discuss people.
He who loses money, loses much;
He who loses a friend, loses much more;
He who loses faith, loses all.
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature,
But beautiful old people are works of art.
Learn from the mistakes of others.
You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
Yesterday is history.
Tomorrow is mystery.
Today is a gift.
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WHAT DOES FRIENDSHIP MEAN?
A truly inspiring video!
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ROTARY ANTHEM
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ROTARY WISDOM - Reflections on Service
THE ROTARY FOUNDATION
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THE POSITIVES AND NEGATIVES OF NAPPING
Feel an afternoon yawn coming on? Put down the coffee and make room for a little shut-eye.
By Jennifer Anderson
Medically reviewed by Pat F. Bass III, MD, MPH
Ever get that sleepy feeling in the late afternoon, where you just start yawning? Your body may be clamoring for a nap.
For many people, a late-afternoon snooze can be beneficial, said Steven M. Scharf, MD, a professor of medicine at the University of Maryland Medical School in Baltimore, explaining that the body operates on a 24-hour clock regulating sleepiness and wakefulness.
The second dip for most healthy adults comes in the late afternoon, from approximately 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Between those hours, a short nap is perfectly healthy, he said.
How Long Can I Nap?
Scharf recommended that naps last no more than 30 to 45 minutes. Any longer, and the nap can have a negative effect, interfering with sleep that night. And anyone who needs to nap outside those afternoon hours, like at 11 a.m., probably has other health issues, he added.
Even just 10 minutes of shut-eye in the mid-afternoon can be beneficial, according to a 2006 study in the journal Sleep. The study authors found that a 10-minute nap increased alertness and performance immediately after the nap and lasting up to three hours.
A 10-minute nap may work even better for some people than a 30-minute one, the researchers found, because after a 30-minute nap, there can be a period of grogginess or disorientation — known as sleep inertia — that can last a half-hour or so.
As Scharf explained it, there's a tremendous biological variability in people’s need for sleep. One person may not need a nap at all, while another might do great after 15 minutes, and someone else may find it hard to get through the evening without a 45-minute nap.
What If You Can’t Nap?
Not everyone who needs a nap can get one, and lifestyle plays a big role in that, Scharf said. In some cultures, napping is a regular (and healthy) part of everyone’s day. There’s the afternoon siesta in Mexico, and people in Mediterranean countries traditionally close shops and offices in the afternoon hours for a large meal and nap, reopening at 4:00 or 5:00 p.m.
But in the United States, people are becoming more and more sleep deprived, possibly because of the demands of increasingly busy days, according to the National Sleep Foundation.
Indeed, Scharf said he has prescribed 15-minute naps periodically during the workday in extreme cases, such as for some patients with narcolepsy or other sleep disorders, and has found employers by and large to be accommodating.
Nothing Wrong With Nodding Off
For people who would benefit from a nap but can't get one, Scharf said that staying active can counteract sleepiness. Caffeine can help as well, he says, but not after 2 p.m., because it can stay in the body for 12 hours — which can lead to trouble sleeping at night, followed by more daytime sleepiness, and on and on.
Another option is for people to strive for an extra half-hour or so of sleep at night. Or, if you get home from work early enough, he said, “There’s nothing wrong with dropping off.”
Source - http://www.everydayhealth.com/
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A LITERARY INTERLUDE
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A MUSICAL INTERLUDE
This performance shows clearly why our E-Club will be a huge success! It is clearly possible for great friends to be together - to produce beautiful music together - even when they are not in the same physical place together.
Enjoy this "video conference" of sorts.
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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, or do.
Rotarian Ken Guiste, from BVI, leads 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.
Rotary cheers!
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Visiting Rotarians. Click this link to Apply for a Make-up. We will send you and your club secretary a make-up confirmation.
Active Members. Click to indicate your Attendance.
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HAPPY HOUR HANGOUT - Saturday, August 10
Rotary E-Club of the Caribbean, 7020 is inviting you to a scheduled Happy Hour Hangout.
Saturday, August 10, at 8:00 a.m. Atlantic time (Eastern Daylight Time).
Time: Aug 10, 2013 8:00 AM [GMT-4:00]
Join from a PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone or Android device:
Please click this URL to start or join. https://www.zoom.us/j/719905223
Or, go to https://www.zoom.us/join and enter meeting ID: 719 905 223
Join from dial-in phone line:
Call +1(424)203-8450 (US/Canada only).
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Meeting ID: 719 905 223
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