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's World Understanding 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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ABCs OF ROTARY (Cliff Dochterman)
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| Cliff Dochterman RI President, 1992-93 |
The Rotary Club Constitution specifies three conditions under which a Rotarian's membership will automatically be terminated for non-attendance. These circumstances are (a) failure to attend or make up four consecutive club meetings, (b) failure to attend or make up 50 per cent of club meetings each six months, and (c) failure to attend at least 30 per cent of the meetings of one's own club in each six-month period.
Under any of these three cases, a member will lose Rotary membership unless the club board of directors has previously consented to excuse such failure for good and sufficient reason.
To some individuals, these rules may seem unusually rigid. However, being present at club meetings is one of the basic obligations a member accepts upon joining a Rotary club.
The constitutional rules merely emphasize that Rotary is a participatory organization which highly values regular attendance. When a member is absent, the entire club loses the personal association with that member. Being present at a club meeting is considered a vital part of the operation and success of every Rotary club.
For any Rotarian to miss four consecutive meetings, or disregard the other attendance requirements, should be considered tantamount to the submission of one's resignation from the club.
When a club terminates a member for non-attendance, it is simply an acceptance of a resignation and not a punitive action by the club officers. All Rotarians know the consequences of non-attendance, so it clearly becomes a conscious decision by a Rotarian to withdraw from the club when he fails to fulfill the attendance requirements.
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ROTARY MOMENTS - A "must-see" video.
A special Rotary Moment - "That's the feeling you get when you are a Rotarian."
Another message - we must engage Rotarians and prospective Rotarians by way of Social Media! Very interesting and informative talk!
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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SPEAKER - Dean Kamen - a new prosthetic arm (5 minute video)
Inventor Dean Kamen previews the prosthetic arm he’s
developing at the request of the US Department of Defense. His quiet
commitment to using technology to solve problems -- while honoring the
human spirit -- has never been more clear.
Dean Kamen is an innovator, but not just of things.
He hopes to revolutionize attitudes, quality of life, awareness.
While an undergraduate, he developed the first portable infusion device, which delivers drug treatments that once required round-the-clock hospital care. And, through his DEKA Research and Development, which he cofounded in 1982, he developed a portable dialysis machine, a vascular stent, and the iBOT -- a motorized wheelchair that climbs stairs (Stephen Colbert took one for a spin).
Yes, he's a college dropout, but he's a huge believer in education, and in 1989 established the nonprofit FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) to inspire teenagers to pursue careers in science.
FIRST sponsors lively annual competitions, where students form teams to create the best robot.
His focus now is on off-grid electricity and water purification for developing countries; another recent project, previewed at TED2007, is a prosthetic arm for maimed soldiers (read an update here).
He's also working on a power source for the wonderful Think car. And, with more funding in the works, we haven't seen the last of the Segway.
"Lots of people talk and dream about changing the world. But inventor Dean Kamen is actually doing it."
-- CBS News
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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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HOW GREAT LEADERS INSPIRE ACTION
In 2009, Simon Sinek released the book "Start With Why" -- a synopsis of the theory he has begun using to teach others how to become effective leaders and inspire change
Beginning as a student in anthropology, Simon Sinek turned his fascination with people into a career of convincing people to do what inspires them. His earliest work was in advertising, moving on to start Sinek Partners in 2002, but he suddenly lost his passion despite earning solid income. Through his struggle to rediscover his excitement about life and work, he made some profound realizations and began his helping his friends and their friends to find their “why” -- at first charging just $100, person by person. Never planning to write a book, he penned Start With Why simply as a way to distribute his message.
Sinek also contributes to several efforts in the non-profit sphere: He works with Count Me In, an organization created to help one million women-run businesses reach a million dollars in revenue by 2012, and serves on the Board of Directors for Danspace Project, which advances art and dance. He writes and comments regularly for several major publications and teaches a graduate-level class in strategic communications at Columbia University.
"I try to find, celebrate and teach leaders how to build platforms
that will inspire others."
--Simon Sinek
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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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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ROTARY BASICS
1994-95 - Western Hemisphere declared polio-free.
2000-01 - Western Pacific region declared polio-free.
2001-02 - Europe declared polio-free.
2002-03 - Rotary launches a second polio eradication fundraising campaign to help fill a critical funding need. Rotarians raise over US$129 million.
2004-05 - Clubs celebrate Rotary's centennial by launching hundreds of community projects and contributing thousands of volunteer hours.
2006-07 - The Rotary Foundation recognizes the millionth Paul Harris Fellow.
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HOW TO TIE YOUR SHOES (a 3-minute talk)
Terry Moore found out he'd been tying his shoes the wrong way his whole life.
In the spirit of TED, he takes the stage to share a better way.
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WHAT IS ROTARY?
If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following:
There would be:
- 57 Asians
- 21 Europeans
- 14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south
- 8 Africans
52 would be female. 48 would be male.
70 would be non-white. 30 would be white
70 would be non-Christian. 30 would be Christian
89 would be heterosexual. 11 would be homosexual
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all 6 would be from the United States.
80 would live in substandard housing.
70 would be unable to read.
50 would suffer from malnutrition.
1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education.
1 would own a computer.
When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, the need for acceptance, understanding and education becomes glaringly apparent. All the more reason to be an active Rotarian who's helping to make a positive difference.
Source - http://www.rotarydistrict7150.org/funstuff.html#Future
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ROTARY WISDOM - Reflections on Service
Why are you a Rotarian?
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ANOTHER FEEL-GOOD STORY
Here is Rachel's website: http://prettyspecialworld.com/
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You are the Best! - from Rachel's website (a note from her mother)
Rachel had been really sick so I took her to the doctor today. She has pneumonia.
We went to the ER and Rachel was seen by a new, young doctor. Even though Rachel was feeling very sick and weak as we left the examining room, she looked at the doctor and said,
“You are a good doctor. The best! Believe it!”
This doctor grasped at her heart and said to Rachel, “Wow! After the day I had today, you just made me feel so wonderful. Thank you. I needed that. You’ll never know.”
Rachel never hesitates to "give" the gift of love by saying something nice. She's a practicing teacher of love.
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BE A VIBRANT CLUB!
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ART WORK
A series of pencil drawings by a north London artist has been amazing the art critics!
Click this link to view the short video. A 15-second ad precedes it.
Click your browser's BACK button to return to 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. Past Assistant Govern from Sint Maarten, Louis Wever, 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 16 at 8:00 a.m. Eastern Time (9:00 a.m. Atlantic Time)
Click the link above just before the meeting time. We hope you'll join us!
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