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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.
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.
August is approaching. Consider 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 links to the Happy Hour Hangout for both Saturday and Wednesday are 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 |
Rotary Village Corps
One of the newer programs in Rotary's panoply of worldwide service activities and projects is the Rotary Village Corps. This new form of grass roots self-help service was initiated by RI President M.A.T. Caparas in 1986 as a means of improving the quality of life in villages, neighborhoods and communities. Frequently, there is an abundance of available labour, but no process to mobilize men and women to conduct useful projects of community improvement.
A Rotary Village Corps - or Rotary Community Corps as they are called in industrialized countries - is a Rotary club-sponsored group of non-Rotarians who desire to help their own community by conducting a specific improvement project. The Rotary members provide the guidance, encouragement,
organizational structure and some of the material assistance for the Rotary Village Corps, which in turn contributes the manpower to help their own community. Thus, the Rotary Village Corps provides a totally new process for Rotarians to serve in communities of great need.
The Rotary Community Corps have been organized mainly in depressed ghetto areas of major cities where groups of individuals need the organizational and managerial skills of Rotarians to undertake valuable self-help community projects.
The Rotary Village Corps program offers a totally new dimension to the concept of service to improve the quality of life.
Rotary Volunteers
You can find them working in refugee camps, remote clinics, makeshift hospitals, and primitive villages. While may are physicians and dentists, they come from all walks of life. They're Rotary Volunteers.
The Rotary Volunteers program is open to Rotarians, Rotaractors, Foundation Alumni - even non-Rotarians can participate. Those wishing to serve abroad musts file a Volunteer Registration Form with the Secretariat office serving their area. They also must receive an invitation to volunteer from the host Rotary club at the site where they wish to serve. There are several sources for finding volunteer opportunities and special needs.
The Rotary Volunteers program operates under the umbrella of Vocational Service at the club and district level. Participants must be willing to serve a minimum of one month. The Rotary Foundation occasionally provides funds to cover air transportation and modest living expenses for Rotarian volunteers. Volunteers do not receive a salary or honorarium for their services. Rotary Volunteers have travelled to nearly 100 countries to gie of their time and expertise.
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ROTARY CONVENTION CELEBRATES THE FUTURE
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All of our club members will be asked to participate!
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HAPPY HOUR HANGOUT HIGHLIGHTS - from July 17
The above video was taken from our Happy Hour Hangout on Wednesday evening, July 17. This is how we will incorporate our own "live" guest speakers to our weekly meeting!
The video opens with a share-screen - and a guest's presentation would be clearly visible - with audio. For the rest of the meeting, each speaker displays as the main screen.
We are on our way to fabulous success!
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READ ABOUT HOW...
Guatemala Rotarians use global grants
to help school children receive a better education
At Próximos Pasos school for girls in Santa María de Jesus, Guatemala, the students look happy, healthy, and energetic.
Unlike their counterparts at some schools in the country, the girls have access to clean water and proper nutrition, and the results are apparent. The girls are able to focus on their studies, and they express an enthusiasm for their education.
Photo - a group of Proximos Pasos students walk from their homes in the indigenous village of Santa Maria de Jesus to school in the morning.
“We saw many changes in the kids, in the teachers, and in the community,” says Jorge Aufranc, past governor of District 4250 and a member of the Rotary Club of Guatemala Sur.
“They appreciate the work that Rotary has done.”
Photo - Rotarians Rodolfo Bianchi (left) and Jorge Aufranc, along with principal Mirna Perez, greet students as they arrive in morning.
A Rotary Foundation global grant implemented by the Guatemala Sur club provided the school with computers and a machine called a mechanical cow, which produces soy milk. The device is made of stainless steel and does not look much like a cow.
Soybeans are put into a funnel at the top, and about 45 minutes later, they have been turned into soy milk and a pulp called okara, which is used in the school’s cooking classes. On one recent day, the girls were using the okara to make cookies.
Aufranc’s district has used the Rotary Foundation’s new grants to help many schools in the area. It took part in the three-year pilot of the new grant system, during which 43 global grants have been undertaken in the district, including five by the Guatemala Sur club. The pilot ends 1 July, and the new grants then become available to all districts.
The Guatemala Sur club began with projects that address needs they deemed critical. For example, one global grant is providing nine rural schools in Sumpango with washing stations, latrines, kitchen equipment, and furniture.
“Everything begins with water,” Aufranc says. “If there is no water, we cannot have peace. Where there is a lack of water, there is conflict.”
Partnerships are essential
For the grant used at Próximos Pasos, the Guatemala Sur club partnered with clubs from districts 6420 and 6440 (Illinois, USA), as well as Mission Impact and the World Soy Foundation. Aufranc says working with these other organizations is part of what made the grant successful.
“You have to involve as many Rotarians as you can, locally and internationally,” Aufranc says. “With Future Vision, there has been resistance because people think, ‘oh we have to think bigger and bigger.’ But that’s how you make an impact in a community. You have to think big.”
Photo - Second-grade teacher Diego Santos helps a student during a language lesson.
His district’s extensive experience with global grants has made Aufranc an advocate of the new grants.
He believes community involvement is essential to any Rotary project. Several of Guatemala Sur’s global grants were made possible by the volunteer labor of community members and input from local leaders.
“To have a good project, a sustainable project, you have to involve the community. If the community participates from the beginning, they feel they have ownership of the project, and this helps guarantee sustainability,” he explains. “We have to think of it as their project, not ours. It is a project of the community, not a Rotary project.”
Mirna Pérez, the principal of Próximos Pasos, also believes involving her community made the project possible. She says keys to success included the sharing of responsibility by Rotarians and community members, good communication, and flexibility.
“We are thankful to Rotary for helping us and bringing change to the lives of our students and the community,” Pérez says. “Our communities need more opportunities, and Rotary gives us those opportunities. We utilize everything and we work our hardest to put everything to good use.”
...from rotary.org
By Daniela Garcia
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SPEAKER - About Google Glass
Sergey Brin and Larry Page met in grad school at Stanford in the mid-'90s, and in 1996 started working on a search technology based around a new idea: that relevant results come
from context.
Their technology analyzed the number of times a given website was linked to by other sites — assuming that the more links, the more relevant the site — and ranked sites accordingly.
Despite being a late entrant to the search game, it now rules the web.
Brin and Page's innovation-friendly office culture has spun out lucrative new products including AdSense/AdWords, Google News, Google Maps, Google Earth, and Gmail, as well as the Android mobile operating system. Now, led by Brin, Google is pursuing problems beyond the page, like the driverless car and the digital eyewear known as Google Glass .
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SHORT HISTORY OF POLIO IN THE U.S.
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WINNING ISN'T EVERYTHING - inspirational story
As one of Britain's greatest ever 400m Olympic athletes, Derek is able to bring a unique perspective to what it takes to set goals, overcome obstacles and succeed.
A career that brought gold Olympic medals at World, European and Commonwealth levels and also saw more than its fair share of bad luck and heartache, most famously during the Barcelona Olympics when his hamstring snapped during the semi finals. Derek, a medal favorite, struggled to his feet and hobbled the remaining 250 metres in a scene that has become one of the most enduring in modern Olympic history.
Goals
Before you can set yourself on any path to success you must first have a clear vision of exactly what it is you want to achieve. Equally important is an ability to change goals while remaining focused. Life can never be fully predicted and sometimes it becomes necessary to handle the unexpected.
Team Building
How best to organise, operate and succeed as a cohesive team. Also how to function to full personal potential and bring individual talents to a team unit.
Application
What it takes to achieve pre-determined goals. How to work out the most efficient and effective ways and means to achieve those goals.
Overcoming Obstacles
No matter how meticulous the preparation, how dedicated the team and the individual, life has a habit of delivering the unexpected. When that happens it is vital to stay focused, adjust objectives and goals as necessary and maintain the drive for success.
Performance
Objectives can only be reached if individuals and teams perform. However, behind a winning performance lies careful, structured preparation and planning. Only by getting this right can people attain the kind of performance required to compete and succeed.
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Below is another version of the same story - very emotional!
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THE ROTARY FOUNDATION
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PROSTATE HEALTH
from www.prostate.net
It’s not enough to know the best foods you should eat to promote prostate health, you should also know which foods are the worst so you can avoid them. Some of the foods on this list may surprise you, but all of them are best to cross off your menu if you want to support prostate health.
- Red and processed meat
- Non-organic meat
- Calcium and dairy foods
- Canned tomatoes and tomato products
- Microwave popcorn
- Nonorganic potatoes
- French fries and potato chips
- Artificial sweeteners
- Farmed salmon
- Sugar
Red and processed meat
Eating a lot of red and processed meats is unhealthy for several reasons, one of which is it may increase your risk of prostate cancer. Studies show that men who ate the most red meat were 12 percent more likely to develop prostate cancer and 33 percent more likely to have advanced cancer than those who ate the least amount of red meat.
Non-organic meat
Nonorganic meat encompasses the majority of the meat available on the market, including beef, pork, lamb, veal, and poultry raised using conventional methods that involve the use of hormones, antibiotics, and steroids, as well as animals being fed food they were not meant to eat. Cattle, for example, evolved to eat grass, but they are fed corn, soybeans, and other grains because it fattens them up faster for slaughter.
When you do include meat in your diet, make it organic so you can avoid the additives that can have a negative impact on both prostate and overall health.
Calcium and dairy foods
Dairy foods are the most common source of calcium in the United States, and this is a source of concern for two reasons.
- One, the American Cancer Society notes there is evidence that high intake of calcium, mostly through supplements and dairy foods, has been linked with a greater risk of prostate cancer, especially aggressive cancer.
- Two, many dairy foods are high in fat and cholesterol, and may also contain hormones, all of which can have a negative impact on prostate health.
Canned tomatoes and tomato products
Although it is true tomatoes and tomato products support and promote prostate health, especially because of their high lycopene content, you should avoid tomato foods packaged in cans. The resin linings of tin cans contain bisphenol-A (BPA), a synthetic estrogen that can leach into the tomatoes because they are acidic.
BPA is associated with an increased risk of cancer and other health problems.
Microwave Popcorn
Popcorn is a good source of fiber, but avoid microwave popcorn. The lining of the bags in which microwave popcorn is popped contains chemicals, including perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) that may be associated with infertility in humans. The chemicals have also been linked to cancer in lab animals. Because PFOA accumulates in the body, scientists worry that the chemical may reach a cancer-causing level in people who are exposed to it for too long. The makers of PFOA have promised to stop producing the chemical by 2015.
Non-organic potatoes
Potatoes can be a very good nonfat, high-fiber food choice, but beware: they are exposed to several doses of poisons.
Potatoes absorb herbicides, pesticides, and fungicides from the soil, they are treated with fungicides while they are growing, the vines are sprayed with herbicides before harvest, and then once the potatoes are dug up, they are treated again to prevent them from sprouting.
You cannot wash away the chemicals that have been absorbed into the flesh of the potato. The only safe solution is to buy organic potatoes.
French fries and potato chips
French fries and potato chips are two popular foods in the United States, and also among the most unhealthy.
- One reason is that deep fried potatoes and potato chips are laden with saturated fat and salt.
- Two, potatoes contain an amino acid called asparagine, which when heated to more than 248 degrees Fahrenheit (as in frying and baking) can form acrylamide, a substance determined to be a “probable human carcinogen” by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, based on studies in lab animals. (Fuhr 2006)
French fries and potato chips are not the only foods that contain acrylamide, but they are the most common and have high levels. Baked goods, especially doughnuts, also have relatively high levels of acrylamide.
Artificial Sweeteners
Artificial sweeteners—aspartame, cyclamate, neotame, saccharin, or sucralose—can be found in a wide variety of processed foods, many of which are promoted as diet and/or diabetic foods. These artificial sweeteners have been associated with cancer in animals and can cause allergic reactions in some people.
Farmed salmon
Farmed salmon are crammed into pens, fed soy and fishmeal (which is high in contaminants), dosed with antibiotics, and colored with artificial dyes to make them pink. The result is fish that are lower in vitamin D and omega-3 fatty acids, and higher in contaminants (e.g., PCBs, brominated flame retardants, dioxin, DDT) than wild salmon.
Farmed salmon is not the only farmed fish that should be avoided, because the way they are raised is similar for other types of fish as well.
Sugar
Sugar may taste good, but that’s where the “good” part ends. Along with the empty calories sugar contributes to the diet, it is also believed by many experts to fuel cancer cell growth, among them Patrick Quillin, PhD, RD, former vice president of Nutrition for Cancer Treatment Centers of America.
In 2009, scientists at Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah discovered part of the process by which cancer cells utilize more sugar (glucose) than normal cells. (Kaadige 2009)
If you want something sweet, choose fruit, nature’s natural sugar.
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LANGUAGE STOP
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HOW THE WORD "STUPID" CAN IMPACT CHILDREN
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ANIMAL VIDEO -- What a talent!
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ROTARY ANTHEM
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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
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Felix Stubbs, who will be our District Governor in 2015-16, 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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HAPPY HOUR HANGOUT - Wednesday, July 24 at 7:00 p.m.
Rotary E-Club of the Caribbean, 7020 is inviting you to a scheduled HHH on Wednesday evening, July 24 at 7:00 p.m. Atlantic/Eastern Daylight Time
This week, we will begin with a Presentation on Rotary basics – as an introduction and as a review. Please plan to attend, particularly if you are a NEW ROTARIAN. The presentation will begin promptly at 7:10 p.m.
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- Call +1(424)203-8450 (US/Canada only).
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