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.
July 1 is the start of the new Rotary year! The new RI President is Ron Burton from the United States.
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 Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA)
Each summer, thousands of young people are selected to attend Rotary-sponsored leadership camps or seminars in the United States, Australia, Canada, India, France, Argentina, Korea and numerous other countries. In an informal out-of-doors atmosphere, 50 to 75 outstanding young men and/or women spend a week in a challenging program of discussions, inspirational addresses, leadership training and social activities designed to enhance personal development, leadership skills and good citizenship.
The official name of this activity is the Rotary Youth Leadership Awards program (RYLA), although the event is occasionally referred to as Camp royal, Camp Enterprise, Youth Leaders Seminars, Youth Conferences, or other terms.
The RYLA program began in Australia in 1959, when young people throughout the state of Queensland were selected to meet with Princess Alexandra, the young cousin of Queen Elizabeth II. The Rotarians of Brisbane, who hosted the participants, were impressed with the quality of the young leaders. It was decided to bring youth leaders together each year for a week of social, cultural and educational activities. The RYLA program gradually grew throughout all the Rotary districts of Australia and New Zealand. In 1971, the RI Board of Directors adopted RYLA as an official program of Rotary International.
Still more Rotary Firsts
- Rotary first presented "Significant Achievement Awards" in 1969 to clubs with outstanding international or community services projects
- Rotary's first Interact club was organized in Melbourne, Florida, in 1962 to become the pioneer for about 7,200 Interact clubs in 88 countries.
- Rotary's first convention held in the Southern Hemisphere was in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1948.
- Rotary was assigned the copyright on the "4-Way Test" in 1954 when its author, Herbert Taylor, became president of Rotary International.
- Rotary's first Community Service project took place in 1907 when Chicago Rotarians led a campaign to install a public "comfort station" in the city hall.
- 1964-65 was the first year when The Rotary Foundation received total contributions of a million dollars in a single year.
- Rotary's first appeal for aid to disaster victims was in 1913 when $25,000 was given for flood relief in Ohio and Indiana.
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OUR ROTARY INTERNATIONAL DUES - update
The recent Council on Legislation removed the rule that clubs under 10 still have to pay for 10 members. Now these small clubs will pay for the number of members they do actually have.
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Maria Bezaitis examines the social and cultural landscape, charting new directions for technology innovation within it.
Maria joined Intel in June 2006 to direct the People and Practices Research Group. She also played a leadership role at the cutting-edge social research and design organizations, E-Lab and Sapient Corporation.
A long-time literature student, Bezaitis finished her Ph.D at Duke University in French Literature.
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POLIO - Afghanistan and Pakistan (3-minute video)
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SPEAKER - Dan Ariely - What makes us feel good about our work?
Despite our best efforts, bad or inexplicable decisions are as inevitable as death and taxes and the grocery store running out of your favorite flavor of ice cream. They're also just as predictable.
Dan Ariely, behavioral economist, has based his career on figuring out the answers to these questions, and in his bestselling book Predictably Irrational (re-released in expanded form in May 2009), he describes many unorthodox and often downright odd experiments used in the quest to answer this question.
Ariely has long been fascinated with how emotional states, moral codes and peer pressure affect our ability to make rational and often extremely important decisions in our daily lives -- across a spectrum of our interests, from economic choices (how should I invest?) to personal (who should I marry?).
At Duke, he's aligned with three departments (business, economics and cognitive neuroscience); he's also a visiting professor in MIT's Program in Media Arts and Sciences and a founding member of the Center for Advanced Hindsight. His hope that studying and understanding the decision-making process can help people lead better, more sensible daily lives.
He produces a weekly podcast, Arming the Donkeys, featuring chats with researchers in the social and natural sciences.
"If you want to know why you always buy a bigger television than you intended, or why you think it's perfectly fine to spend a few dollars on a cup of coffee at Starbucks, or why people feel better after taking a 50-cent aspirin but continue to complain of a throbbing skull when they're told the pill they took just cost one penny, Ariely has the answer."
--Daniel Gross, Newsweek
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A LOW-FAT IDEA - Yogurt Cheese
2 quarts low-fat plain yogurt, dairy or soy-based
- Place 4 layers of damp cheesecloth in a fine mesh sieve or colander. Place the colander over a bowl.
- Add yogurt and let it drain overnight in the refrigerator
- Discard the water from the bowl.
The result of the draining process will be a soft, creamy cheese-like product in the sieve. In fact, it is lower in calories than cream cheese, but can be used in its place. It is also lower in lactose, higher in protein, and lower in sodium than cream cheese. The best part is that it is all natural.
A wonderful base into which you can mix just about anything, since yogurt cheese readily takes on the flavors of whatever you choose to mix it with. It is sinfully rich and makes you think you are eating something very naughty – but you are not!
...from The East-Clean DIET Cookbook (Tosca Reno)
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RI GENERAL SECRETARY ADDRESSES THE LISBON CONVENTION
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A Rotary Profile - reasons to be a Rotarian!
Gary Kadow works hard, sleeps little, and talks fast.
He had started with the Red Cross after a career in government; he’d worked as an administrator for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in New York State and as a special assistant to the secretary of housing in Washington, D.C. In 2005, Kadow and his wife of 44 years, Barbara, decided to head south, settling in the Villages retirement community. “I didn’t know a thing about Rotary,” he says. “I was always going 80 directions with my hair on fire.”
He joined his club in 2007, and by 2010, he was leading a project to send unused medical supplies from Florida hospitals to the U.S. military in Iraq, where his son-in-law was serving, and to Afghanistan. With the support of his club and the Rotary Club of Leesburg, Fla., Kadow turned the effort into a nonprofit called Project SOS – Support Our Soldiers, which has evolved into a local initiative to help homeless veterans and those with disabilities access medical care. The group is also working with the nonprofit Haiti Help Med Plus to equip a hospital in a remote part of that country, and to provide villages with necessities including clean water.
Though formally retired, the 66-year-old Kadow is a full-time volunteer. “When I heard Rotary’s motto was Service Above Self, I was sold, because I always lived my life that way.”
...from rotary.org
by Vanessa N. Glavinskas
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YOUNG PRODIGY PLAYS FOR 101-YEAR-OLD
Ryan Wang is not your average five-year-old kid. When he was three years old, he was glued to his toy keyboard, so his mother decided to send him to a piano teacher.
Fast-forward a year and a half, and Wang is showcasing his talents on the piano at New York’s prestigious Carnegie Hall. His outstanding talent on the piano was also noticed by Ellen DeGeneres, who invited him to perform on her show. Now one of Canada's most famous piano prodigies, Wang is touring Italy and China this summer.
CBC Music invited Ryan Wang to perform in our Vancouver Studio. He brought along his teddy bear, his mom and his number one fan, Dorothy, a 101-year-old friend of the family.
Check out the video of Wang giving Dorothy a private performance of Variations on an Inner Mongolian Folk Song.
Click this link to view the page. Scroll down to see one or both of the videos displayed there. Video 1 is about 4 minutes. (Preceded by a 30-second commercial.)
He also played his favourite piece, Variations on a Russian Theme, for his teddy bear, "The Bear Who Has No Name."
Video 2 is about 3 1/2 minutes. (Preceded by a 30-second commercial.)
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THE ROTARY FOUNDATION
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HUMOROUS INTERLUDE - Classic comedy
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LANGUAGE STOP
Click this link to try your skill with these words with a positive connotation.
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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, and do.
Past District Governor, Lara, and District Governor, Herve, from District 7030 (Trinidad) 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?
...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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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 to indicate your Attendance.
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HAPPY HOUR HANGOUT - WEDNESDAY - July 17 - our regular get-together
Wednesday evening, July 17 - at 7:00 p.m. Atlantic/Eastern Daylight Time.
A new platform this week - Come and try this out!
Rotary E-Club of the Caribbean, 7020 is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting for our Happy Hour Hangout (HHH)
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Join from a PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone or Android device:
Please click this URL to start or join. https://zoom.us/j/233616011
Or, go to https://zoom.us/join and enter meeting ID: 233 616 011
Join from dial-in phone line:
Call +1(424)203-8450 (US/Canada only).
For Global dial-in numbers: https://zoom.us/teleconference
Meeting ID: 233 616 011
Participant ID: Shown after joining the meeting
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