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 new club banner is at the 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.
March is World Literacy month. March 22 is World Water Day.
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.
E-Club 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 |
In many Rotary clubs, particularly in Judeo-Christian nations, it is customary to open weekly meetings with an appropriate invocation or blessing. Usually such invocations are offered without reference to specific religious denominations or faiths.
Rotary policy recognizes that throughout the world Rotarians represent many religious beliefs, ideas, and creeds. The religious beliefs of each members are fully respected, and nothing in Rotary is intended to prevent each individual from being faithful to such convictions.
At international assemblies and conventions, it is traditional for a silent invocation to be given. In respect for all religious beliefs and in the spirit of tolerance for a wide variety of personal faiths, all persons are invited to seek divine guidance and peace "each in his own way." It is an inspiring experience to join with thousands of Rotarians in an international "silent prayer" or act of personal devotion. Usually all Rotary International board and committee meetings begin with a few moments of silent meditation. In this period of silence, Rotary demonstrates respect for the belies of all members, who represent the religions of the world.
Since each Rotary club is autonomous, the practice of presenting a prayer or invocation at club meetings is left entirely to the traditions and customs of the individual club, with the understanding that these meeting rituals always be conducted in a manner which will respect the religious convictions and faiths of all members.
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WORLD WATER DAY - March 22
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| Wilfrid J. Wilkinson |
The citizens of Patari, a village in Uttar Pradesh, are among 25 million people in India alone who suffer the consequences of fluorosis, an irreversible condition caused by elevated levels of fluoride in drinking water. The painful effects of fluorosis can include bone deformities, calcification of ligaments and tendons, and abnormal bone density.
“The fluoride, because of its strength, rots teeth and destroys bones,” says Maurice Halliday, past governor of District 1020 (Scotland). Rotary clubs in Scotland partnered with District 3110 (India) to provide fluoride filters to 60 families in Patari and sanitation, safe drinking water and hygiene training to surrounding schools.
The Rotary Foundation leverages local experience and professional know-how to help communities, like Patari, help themselves.
In honor of World Water Day, I invite you to consider a special gift to The Rotary Foundation to help address the unique water and sanitation needs of communities across the globe.
You can direct your Annual Fund gift to SHARE, to help support the local and international activities identified by Rotary clubs in your community.
Or, you can direct your gift to Rotary’s Water and Sanitation fund, to be spent on quality water and sanitation projects identified and implemented by Rotarians around the world.
Either way, your contribution will be used to fund high impact, sustainable solutions to our world’s most pressing needs
...from Wilfrid J. Wilkinson – CM, FCA, CFE
Chairman, The Rotary Foundation Trustees
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ROTARY PEACE FORUM - PEACE BUILDERS
Listen to recent Peace Scholars...
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A LOVELY LITTLE INTERLUDE
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WE'VE SEEN THIS BEFORE - BUT IT'S WORTH VIEWING AGAIN
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UNBELIEVABLE AND INSPIRING
You thought you knew autism. April is World Autism month.
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FRIENDS CAN BE QUITE DIFFERENT
To be a friend does not mean that you have to look the same
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I THINK I CAN
Click the video below. You may have to click again "View on You Tube." Then, remember to click your browser's BACK button to return to the meeting.
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SPEAKER - Dragonflies that cross the ocean
While living and working as a marine biologist in
Maldives, Charles Anderson noticed sudden explosions of dragonflies at
certain times of year. He explains how he carefully tracked the path of a
plain, little dragonfly called the globe skimmer, only to discover that
it had the longest migratory journey of any insect in the world.
Since 1983, Charles Anderson has lived and worked in the Maldives, a group of more than 1,000 coral islands that is the world's lowest-lying country. Marine life here is rich and fascinating, and Anderson has been instrumental in identifying it and promoting its preservation. This year, the Maldives became the first nation to ban shark fishing, after recognizing that the decline in live sharks was impacting the lucrative tourist trade.
Anderson has discovered several new species of fish, and was awarded the President of Maldives Award for Service to Fisheries in 1995, the only non-Maldivian ever to receive this honor.
He and his wife, Susan, run several whale-watching trips each year where tourists take part in a national survey of cetaceans (whales and dolphins). Recently, Anderson has identified the world's longest insect migration: the 18,000 km flight of tiny Pantala flavescens dragonflies back and forth across the Indian Ocean. He has found that the migration begins in India and proceeds via the Maldives (a mystifying stopover, because freshwater is scarce on these low-lying atolls) and the Seychelles -- and then all the way to East Africa.
"It may seem remarkable that such a massive [dragonfly] migration has gone unnoticed until now. But this just illustrates how little we still know about the natural world."
Charles Anderson, BBC News
Click this link to view the video.
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RON BURTON - from International Assembly "Engage Rotary" (new)
Ron Burton is the RI President-elect - 2013-14. He will become RI President on July 1, 2013.
Click this link to read Ron Burton's address to the International Assembly.
Click your browser's BACK button to return to the meeting.
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MORE INSPIRATION
Never give up!
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RUBE GOLDBERG MACHINE - What is it?
First, who was Rube Goldberg?
And what is a Goldberg machine?
Click this link to view the result. Click your browser's BACK button to return to the meeting.
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WORK-LIFE BALANCE - Nigel Marsh
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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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HAPPY HOUR HANGOUT - Please join us!
Please join our meeting on Saturday, March 30, at 9:00 a.m. Click the link below just before the meeting time.
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/join/367100960
Dial +1 (773) 897-3016
Access Code: 367-100-960
Audio PIN: Shown after joining the meeting
Meeting ID: 367-100-960
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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.
Audley Knight from Montego Bay East 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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