November 9 - Regular meeting of our Rotary E-club for the week beginning November 9

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.

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.

• November is Rotary`s Celebration of The Rotary Foundation.
• This past week has been a celebration of Interact - World Interact Week.
• November 14 is World Diabetes Day.

Visiting Rotarians.  If you are a visiting Rotarian, please follow the link Apply for a Make-up to receive a make-up confirmation.

Members.  If you are a member of the club, please follow the link to Club Member Attendance Record to give you details of what you need to include in your email.

Happy Hour Hangout.  Each Wednesday evening at 6:00 (USA-ET) we meet for a live chat and sometimes business discussion.  If you are interested in dropping by, please send us an email request for an invitation to our HHH.  Drinks are on the house!  (Your house, that is...)  Hope to see you there!

Interested in becoming a member?  If you would like to become a member of our E-club, please follow 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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THE ABCs OF ROTARY  (by Cliff Dochterman)

The 4-Way Test

Cliff Dochterman
RI President, 1992-93

One of the most widely printed and quoted statements of business ethics in the world is the Rotary "4-Way Test."  It was created by Rotarian Herbert J. Taylor in 1932 when he was asked to take charge of the Chicago-based Club Aluminum Company, which was facing bankruptcy.

Taylor looked for a way to save the struggling company mired in depression-caused financial difficulties.  He drew up a 24-word code of ethics for all employees to follow in their business and professional lives.  The 4-Way Test became the guide for sales, production, advertising and all relations with dealers and customers, and the survival of the company was credited to this simple philosophy.

Herb Taylor became president of Rotary International during 1954-55.  The 4-Way Test was adopted by Rotary in 1943 and has been translated into more than 100 languages and published in thousands of ways.  The message should be known and followed by all Rotarians.

"Of the things we think, say or do:

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?

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THE ROTARY FOUNDATION

Foundation Alumna

Travel with former Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholar D'Lisa Simmons through India, Nepal, and Singapore, and learn how a trip to Nicaragua changed her life.

Click this link to view the video.

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WORLD DIABETES DAY - November 14

This year, 2012, marks the 91st anniversary of the discovery of insulin!!


The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) is an umbrella organization of over 200 national diabetes associations in over 160 countries.  It represents the interests of the growing number of people with diabetes and those at risk.

The IDF has been leading the global diabetes communities since 1950.  (Source:  www.idf.org)

There are many risk factors for Type 2 Diabetes: (from http://www.idf.org/worlddiabetesday)

• Obesity and overweight
• Lack of exercise
• Previously identified glucose intolerance
• Unhealthy diet
• Increased age
• High blood pressure and high cholesterol
• A family history of Diabetes
• A history of gestational Diabetes
• Ethnicity - higher reported rates of Diabetes have been reported in Asians, Hispanics, Indigenous peoples (USA, Canada, Australia) and African Americans

At present, Type 1 Diabetes cannot be prevented.  The environmental triggers that are thought to generate the process that results in destruction of the body's insulin-producing cells are still under investigation.

Type 2 Diabetes, however, can be prevented in many cases by maintaining a healthy weight and being physically active.  Studies in China, Finland, and the United States have confirmed this.

More information at www.idf.org.

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POLIO

Click this link to read about the latest successes (and an update) on polio worldwide.   

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POLIO AWARENESS

Our District 7020 has some very creative and innovative clubs!

The Rotary Club of Nassau Sunrise prepared this advertisement for their local newspaper during October for World Polio Day, October 24.

Well done!

Outstanding!


















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OUR MAIN SPEAKER - A Must-see!!

Teach every child about food

In view of the emphasis this month on Diabetes, Jamie Oliver's talk this week is very appropriate.  You CAN prevent Diabetes and live a happy and healthy life with a healthy diet.

Jamie Oliver has been drawn to the kitchen since he was a child working in his father's pub/restaurant.  He showed now only a precocious culinary talent but also a passion for creating (and talking about) fresh, honest, delicious food.

In the past decade, the shaggy-haired "Naked Chef" of late-90s BBC2 has built a world-wide media conglomerate of TV shows, books, cookware, and magazines, all based on a formula of simple, unpretentious food that invites everyone to get busy in the kitchen.

And as much as his cooking is generous, so is his business model - his Fifteen Foundation, for instance, trains young chefs from challenged backgrounds, to run four of his restaurants.

Now, Oliver is using his fame and charm to bring attention to the changes that Brits and Americans need to make in their lifestyles and diet.  Campaigns such as Jamie's School Dinner, Ministry of Food, and Food Revolution USA combine Oliver's culinary tools, cookbooks and television, with serious activism and community organizing - to create change on both the individual and government level.

Here is an excellent video of Jamie Oliver (about 20 minutes):

"Your child will live a life 10 years younger than you because of the landscape of food we've built around them."  (Jamie Oliver)

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"Teach every child about food."

"I wish for everyone to help create a strong, sustainable movement to educate every child about food, inspire families to cook again, and empower people everywhere to fight obesity."  (Jamie Oliver)

Please comment thoughtfully about this speaker in your review of our meeting.  

• How does this relate to your home country?  to the Caribbean?  to our Rotary E-club?
• Could our E-club put together a cook book of "life skills" for children?  10 recipes that could change their lives?
• Could we relate this topic to a health issue, like Diabetes?

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JOIN OUR "HAPPY HOUR HANGOUT" ON WEDNESDAY!

Join our Happy Hour Hangout on Wednesday at 6:00 p.m. Caribbean time (5:00 p.m. Miami time) to discuss these videos and the meeting.  Please email us for more information.

Click this link below just before 6:00 p.m. Caribbean time on Wednesday, November 14.

https://www1.gotomeeting.com/join/799277056

 


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INTERACTIVE PARTICIPATION

Try your hand at the online crossword puzzle below.  The link will open.  Complete the puzzle.  

Click this link for the crossword.

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Paul Harris said - 

Those who have Rotary's interests at heart trust that we may always continue to view it and its children, the other so-called service clubs, as contributions merely to social progress within our chosen sphere; that we may view ourselves and our work in proper perspective; that we may never become complacent; that we may stand ready to face adversity or prosperity, war or peace; that our thoughts may never become crystallized; that we may ever continue to grow.  

This is a changing world; we must be prepared to change with it.  The story of Rotary will have to be rewritten again and again. 

-- This Rotarian Age


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ROTARY BASICS - 

The Secretariat.  Rotary International is headquartered in the Chicago suburb of Evanston, Illinois, USA, with seven international offices in Argentina, Brazil, India, Japan, Korea, and Switzerland.  The office for RI in Great Britain and Ireland (RIBI), located in England, serves clubs and districts in that region.

The Secretariat's chief operating officer is the RI General Secretary, who heads a 650 member staff working to serve Rotarians worldwide.

Who is the 2012 RI General Secretary?

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DID YOU KNOW?

1916-17 - President Arch Klumph proposed establishing an endowment fund, precursor of The Rotary Foundation (TRF).

1942-43 - The Rotary conference in London on education and cultural exchange set the stage for UNESCO.

1945-46 - Forty-nine Rotarians helped draft the UN Charter.

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JOKE OF THE WEEK


The teenager lost a contact lens while playing basketball in his driveway. After a fruitless search, he told his mother the lens was no where to be found.

Undaunted, she went outside and in a few minutes returned with the lens in her hand.

"How did you manage to find it, Mom?" the teenager asked.

"We weren't looking for the same thing," she replied. "You were looking for a small piece of plastic. I was looking for $150."

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PART 8 OF AN 8-PART DOCUMENTARY - Gangs in Paradise

This has been an educational and thought-provoking documentary.



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MEETING MAKE-UP

If you would like to use your stop here as a meeting make-up, please

1.  Click this link to  Apply for a Make-up.
2.  Include all the information requested.
3.  Click SUBMIT to send the email.

Our club will send both you and your club secretary a make-up certificate.

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To end our meeting, please recite aloud (on your honour!) the Rotary Four-Way Test of the things we think, say, and do.  Our PDG, Diana White, will 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?









Thank you for stopping by our E-club meeting!   I 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!