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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.
We are now officially a fully-fledged chartered Rotary Club in District 7020. Our charter date is August 12, 2013. We hope you will find the content of our meeting enlightening and will give us the benefit of your opinion on the content.
September is Rotary Celebration of Youth 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. Happy Hour Hangout. Our Happy Hour Hangout on a Saturday morning is 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 link to the Happy Hour Hangout for Saturday is at the bottom of this meeting.
Interested in joining us? Click the link Membership Application and Information.
Our 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 |
Paul Harris Fellows
Undoubtedly the most important step to promote voluntary giving to The rotary Foundation occurred in 1957, when the idea of Paul Harris Fellow recognition was first proposed. Although the concept of making $1000 gifts to the Foundation was slow in developing, by the early 1970s it began to gain popularity.
The distinctive Paul Harris Fellow medallion, lapel pin, and attractive certificate have become highly respected symbols of a substantial financial commitment to The Rotary Foundation by Rotarians and friends around the world.
The companion to the Paul Harris Fellow is the Paul Harris Sustaining Member, which is the recognition presented to an individual who has given, or in whose honor a gift is made, a contribution of $100, with the stated intention of making additional contributions until $1000 is reached. At that time, the Paul Harris Sustaining Member becomes a Paul Harris Fellow.
By 1995, more than 470, 000 Paul Harris Fellows and 160,000 Sustaining members had been added to the rolls of The Rotary Foundation.
A special recognition pin is given to Paul Harris Fellows who make additional gifts of US$1000 to the Foundation. The distinctive gold pin includes a blue stone to represent each $1000 contribution up to a total of $5000 in additional gifts.
Paul Harris recognition provides a very important incentive for the continuing support needed to underwrite the many programs of The Rotary Foundation which build goodwill and understanding in the world.
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CHILDHOOD DEPRESSION IS MORE THAN OCCASIONAL SADNESS
Lisa, aged 14, is in good health and has had no notable illnesses in the past year. However, Lisa complains of difficulty sleeping in the past few months and of frequently being tired. Her mother noticed that she has not been "her usual self" and that "her teachers have been complaining that she doesn't seem to attend to her work lately and her grades are slipping." Lisa's mother remembers being an unhappy adolescent herself and wonders if this may be depression.
In examining adolescent depression, at least one of these symptoms must be either depressed or irritable mood or a pervasive loss of pleasure or interest in events that were once enjoyed. Many seriously depressed adolescents experience both. For example, a depressed adolescent may feel sad most of the day, act crabby, stop hanging out with friends, and seem to lose her love of volleyball.
Although all adolescents occasionally become sad, and adolescent angst may be normal and common, symptoms of major depression are more severe in intensity, interfere with social, academic, and recreational activities, and last for months at a time, instead of fluctuating like more typical adolescent ups and downs. Depression occurs as a cluster of signs and symptoms, including emotional, physical, and mental changes that usually signify an alteration from the adolescent's normal personality.
Some adolescents present with depressive symptoms but do not meet the full criteria for having major depression. Dysthymic disorder is characterized by milder but more persistent symptoms than major depression. In Dysthymic disorder, symptoms are present much of the time for at least one year in adolescents (2 years in adults).
How do you assess adolescent depression?
The diagnosis of depression is made clinically. Physicians need to ask about changes in an adolescent's moods, feelings, and thoughts; behaviours; daily functioning; and any impairment in that functioning, as well as physical symptoms. furthermore, a medical explanation (for example, thyroid disease or adrenal dysfunction) or substance misuse needs to be ruled out as possible causes.
the best methods of assessment supplement the adolescent's self-report with reports from parents or guardians and other outside sources. whereas youths tend to be better reporters of their internal experiences, such as their mood and thoughts, parents tend to be better reporters of overt behaviours, suh as disruptive behaviour in the classroom and defiance.
If you are concerned about a child or adolescent, consult your family physician and mental health practitioner. Together a plan to support your child or teen will be developed.
Jody Downie, Parry Sound Family Service
SYMPTOMS OF MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER IN ADOLESCENTS
- Depressed or irritable mood
- Loss of pleasure or interest in activities that were once enjoyed
- Significant weight loss or gain when not dieting, or an increase or decrease in appetite
- Insomnia or hypersomnia
- Observable slowing of movements and speech or increased agitation
- Fatigue
- Feelings of worthlessness or excessive and/or inappropriate guilt
- Difficulty concentrating and/or making decisions
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CHILDHOOD CANCER
This video was shared by President JD Mosley-Matchett from Rotary Club of Grand Cayman Sunrise. This was a presentation made at their meeting recently.
Awareness = more funding
More funding = more research
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RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS CAN BE VERY POWERFUL
We can discuss this topic in the next weeks.
As we move closer to the end of the year and into the "family" season, please let us give some thought to the ideas on this website (contributed by Jacquie).
Let's see how we can "Engage Rotary and Change Lives" through random acts of kindness in our E-Club daily lives!
Click this link for the ideas. Click your browser's BACK button to return to the meeting.
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POLIO
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ROTARY ANTHEM
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JOIN US FOR ROTARY TRAINING ON SATURDAY AT THE HHH
Saturday, September 28
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HAPPY HOUR HANGOUT - October
Please mark your calendars and plan to join us and give a warm welcome to the speakers planned for the month of October.
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A VERY BRIGHT IDEA
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ASSAULT ON CANCER ...FROM BARBADOS
Non-Governmental Organisations across the region will begin a move next month to get regional governments to look seriously at the issue of cervical cancer, the second leading cause of death in the Caribbean.
Manager of HCC, Maisha Hutton told Barbados TODAY this morning in an interview that one of the decisions coming out of a workshop of NGOs from the organisation’s 16 participating member states, particularly dealing with advocacy, was developing a Caribbean cancer network.
“Another big item coming out of the e-health section was the development of a cervical cancer e-petition, an electronic petition for the reason and again everything is participatory, so we are developing buy-in, ensuring there is ownership right from the outset. So we asked them based on their own country situation, what are the priority areas with regard to cervical cancer that would apply to all of the 16 countries, and possibly other countries that didn’t attend [the workshop].
“What they came up with was making cervical cancer screening accessible for all women, whether we are talking about affordable, whether we are talking about equity issues, distance issues, whatever the issue in the country is, ensuring that women in each of these countries have access to cervical cancer screening, whether it pap smears or for example in Haiti they are actually screening for HPV. So the umbrella e-petition aimed at heads of state across the Caribbean, including the dutch and french overseas territories was to increase access for women,” she noted.
Hutton added that when they dug deeper into the issues of individual countries, however, there were specific demands.
“So the language of the petition has been developed. We are now seeking funding to support the actual launch and the promotion around it so once we launch it we have funds to promote it in country and regionally to increase the number of signatures we get electronically. Our aim is 250,000 signatures over the course of two to three months and we are fine-tuning that time right now; we are hoping to launch early June,” she said.
The original plan, she noted, was to launch the petition this month but they had encountered a slight challenge in getting more NGOs on board and were in the process of adding additional bodies to the core of those supporting the campaign.
It was hoped the campaign would be driven by the 20 NGOs that attended the workshop and agreed to the establishment of a cancer network, she said.
“But we are thinking as we move forward to get as much buy-in as possible…,” Hutton added. “We wanted to get, in-country, as many NGOs as possible, women’s NGOs, health, any NGOs that have an interest in cervical cancer to sign on so when we launch this we can say it is supported by PAHO, Population Services International and a vast array of national NGOs.”
“This is ground-breaking for us because it is not only going to be promoting advocacy at the level of these NGOs, but also creating public interest and individual advocacy from Caribbean People. Hopefully they will see this as important and jump on the Internet and say we will demand our governments to make changes in this area.” (LB)
...from http://www.barbadostoday.bb/2013/05/14/assault-on-cancer/
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THE TYPEWRITER
For those who are old enough to remember the typewriter - and that`s not a lot of us any more - enjoy this musical interlude. Very entertaining!
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HELP FOR DIABETES in Jamaica
JAMAICANS living with diabetes are to benefit from a health study being carried out by the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO), the University of the West Indies (UWI) and the University of Technology (Utech).
The project, dubbed BRIDGES, an acronym for Bringing Research in Diabetes to Global Environment and Systems, is aimed at helping persons to better care for themselves while living with the disease.
The programme's strategy is to provide community-based diabetes education through specially trained peer educators or Community Health Aides (CHA). It is based on a culture specific peer education curriculum.
BRIDGES will examine the effects of Type 2 diabetes on persons in Jamaica, and will be launched in six regional territories.
According to Shelly McFarlane, project manager for the North American and Caribbean Region at the International Diabetes Federation, the process started in May this year when six country coordinators were trained in Barbados. The country coordinator for Jamaica, Mrs Zoe Wellington, subsequently organised the training of the CHAs from health centres in Kingston & St Andrew.
The Community Health Aides participated in an intensive three-day workshop, which covered various aspects of diabetes self-management. They will then communicate the information to persons living in select communities.
In addition to Jamaica, Antigua, Barbados, Belize, Grenada, and St. Lucia are also participating in the initiative.
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ENVIRONMENT - TURNING PLASTIC BACK INTO OIL
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DISCUSSION WITH DISTRICT 7020 DISASTER CHAIR - ERIC (BUSHA) CLARKE
Happy Hour Hangout speaker on Wednesday, September 18 - Discussion about disaster-preparedness in District 7020
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A NEW LOOK FOR THE ROTARY.ORG WEBSITE
The New www.rotary.org from Rotary International on Vimeo.
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IF YOU LIKE PUZZLES -
Click this link for a fascinating online jigsaw puzzle.
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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.
The District Interact Chair, Audley Knight, 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!
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Rotary cheers!
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HAPPY HOUR HANGOUT - Wednesday evening, October 2
Rotary E-Club of the Caribbean, 7020 is inviting you to a scheduled Happy Hour Hangout. A time to chat and catch up.
- 8:00 p.m. Atlantic Time
- 9:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time
- Please click this URL to start or join. https://zoom.us/j/566122287
- Or, go to https://zoom.us/join and enter meeting ID: 566 122 287
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