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.
We have a new banner! 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.
February is Rotary World Understanding and Peace month.
Visiting Rotarians. If you are a visiting Rotarian, please click this link to Apply for a Make-up. We will send you and your club secretary a make-up confirmation.
Members. If you are a member of the club, please click this to Club Member Attendance Record to give you details of what you need to include in your email.
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!
Interested in joining us? If you would like to become a member of our E-club, please 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 |
One of the colourful traditions of many Rotary clubs is the exchange of small banners, flags or pennants. Rotarians travelling to distant locations often take banners to exchange at "make-up" meetings as a token of friendship. Many clubs use the decorative banners they have received for attractive displays at club meetings and district events.
The Rotary International board recognized the growing popularity of the banner exchange back in 1959 and suggested that those clubs which participate in such exchanges give careful thought to the design of their banners in order that they be distinctive and expressive of the community and country of which the club is a part. It is recommended that banners include pictures, slogans or designs which portray the territorial area of the club.
The board was also mindful of the financial burden such exchanges may impose upon some clubs, especially in popular areas where many visitors make up and request to exchange. In all instances, clubs are cautioned to exercise discretion and moderation in the exchange of banners in order that the financial obligations do not interfere with the basic service activities of the club.
Exchanging club banners is a very pleasant custom, especially when a creative and artistic banner tells an interesting story of community pride. The exchange of banners is a significant tradition of Rotary and serves as a tangible symbol of our international fellowship.
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ROTARY MOMENTS - Gift of Life
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SPEAKER - Older people are happier - Laura Carstensen
In the 20th century we added an unprecedented number of
years to our lifespans, but is the quality of life as good?
Surprisingly, yes! At TEDxWomen psychologist Laura Carstensen shows
research that demonstrates that as people get older they become happier,
more content, and have a more positive outlook on the world.
Dr. Carstensen is Professor of Psychology and Public Policy at Stanford University, where she is the founding director of the Stanford Center on Longevity, which explores innovative ways to solve the problems of people over 50 and improve the well-being of people of all ages. She is best known in academia for socioemotional selectivity theory, a life-span theory of motivation. She is also the author of A Long Bright Future: An Action Plan for a Lifetime of Happiness, Health, and Financial Security—an updated edition will be released in 2011.
Click this link to view the video. Don't forget to click your browser's BACK button to return to the meeting.
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ROTARY ANTHEM -
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OUR E-CLUB PROJECT - Literacy
You can get involved!
- The Butterfly Storybook Project
- A competition for young emerging writers in the Caribbean.
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We’re looking for young writers - ages 7 to 11 years – to write:
• A Caribbean Tale
• A tale of good deeds
• A tale of doing the right thing
• 300 to 750 words
Each Rotary Club in the District is urged to
• Promote this excellent literacy project in your own communities.
• Submit the top 3 stories by email to us by February 15
Our intent is to announce the winners by March 20:
• We will publish the winners in our first annual Caribbean Butterfly Storybook!
• All entries will be acknowledged.
• Writers published will receive recognition and prizes.
Sponsored by the Rotary E-club of the Caribbean, 7020 (provisional)
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THE AMAZING INTELLIGENCE OF CROWS
Writer Joshua Klein is fascinated by crows. After a long amateur study of corvid behavior, he's come up with an elegant machine that may form a new bond between animal and human.
"Klein envisions a new symbiotic relationship between these intelligent birds and the humans that encroach on their habitat. ... Why not turn a longstanding rivalry between man and crow into something that profits both species?"
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ROTARY WISDOM - Reflections on Service
WHAT IS ROTARY?
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CONNECTIONS THROUGH THE E-CLUB
This past week, three of our members attended a Rotary meeting of the E-Club of District 9220 and met with a very international group - from South Africa, California, Mauritius, France, New Zealand, and of course, ourselves from the Caribbean. One attendee, Jean Louis from France, has connected with us and has sent a link to his Cool Jazz Band.
Click this link to hear three pieces, beginning with - Sing Sing Sing. Don't forget - Click your browser's BACK button to return to the meeting.
Jean Louis writes: The Jazz Cool Band (JCB) not only plays in regular Concerts almost every week in Marseille, Lyon and Paris; it has also a very important Humanitarian activity, having played in Charity Concerts all over the World.
The JCB Jazz Cool Band has been travelling in several places around the world in order to help Humanitarian activities:
- 4 trips to Bangkok already in 2003, 2005, 2006 and February 2007 to help Fund- Raising for the Thai Red Cross, Rotary Patumwan in Bangkok, UNICEF, a Children Cardiac Surgery Foundation, the World Wild Fund Association and the Association Française de Bangkok.
- 3 Charity Concerts in 2007 have helped Thai Charity Organisations to raise 100 000 Euros and one ambulance in Bangkok (for Rotary Patumwan and Rajavithy Cardiac Children Surgery Hospital)
- A trip to Faro (Portugal) to help Immigrants of African origins.
- A trip to Thailand was organized in February 2009 all over Thailand for a Rotary Club in Chiang Mai, the Naresuan University in Phitsanulok, the Queen Sirikit Heart Center in Khon Kaen and Hat (an NGO helping Children working in the slums) on March 1rst at the Imperial Queens Park Hotel in Bangkok!
Apart of that, the JCB Band has already done 3 CDs, each time in association with a Charity Foundation:
- “Live at Igor’s” in 2002 with an Association against Cancer,
- “Swinging with the Kids” in 2004 with UNICEF and
- “Jazz, je t’aime” in 2005 with an association for Children Cardiac Surgery in France.
- The JCB latest CD: “Back to Crooner” is going to be released in October 2009 in France!
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SPEAKER - SOLVING SOCIAL PROBLEMS WITH A NUDGE
To study big questions such as "What are the measurable effects of corruption?"" Sendhil Mullainathan and his collaborators look at the day-to-day decisions made by real people, running deep-data studies on groups around the world to tease out patterns. Awarded a MacArthur ""genius"" grant in 2002, he has produced and collaborated on a string of research papers that make for a must-read CV -- including a fascinating, if dispiriting, study of the corruption involved in getting a driver's license in India.
Click this link to view the video. Click your browser`s BACK button to return to the meeting.
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WORLD UNDERSTANDING AND PEACE MONTH
Created and shared by Rachid Karroo, president of our partner club - Rotary E-Club of District 9220 -
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INTERACTIVE ACTIVITY
Click this link to try the little quiz. Click your browser's BACK button to return the meeting.
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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. Please include all the information requested
3. Click SUBMIT.
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. Roger White, from the island of St. Thomas in the USVI, 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?
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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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HAPPY HOUR HANGOUT
Saturday morning, February 23 at 8:00 a.m. (Eastern Time) and 9:00 a.m. (Atlantic Time)
1. Please join our meeting.
2. Use your microphone and
speakers (VoIP) - a headset is recommended.
Or, call in using your telephone.
Dial +1 (786) 358-5420
Access Code: 870-277-825
Audio PIN: Shown after joining the meeting
Meeting ID: 870-277-825
Click the link above just before the meeting time. We hope you'll join us!
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