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Dear Fellow Rotarians, visitors and guests!
WELCOME TO OUR E-CLUB!
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We are now officially a 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!
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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.
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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 |
Rotary Peace Programs
A special program of The Rotary Foundation was originally labelled the "Rotary Peace Forum." The concept of a center or educational program to promote greater understanding and peace in the world was originally discussed in 1982 by the New Horizons Committee and the World Understanding and Peace Committee. In 1984, it was further explored by a New Programs Committee of The Rotary Foundation.
The essence of the Rotary Peace Program is to utilize the non-governmental but worldwide resources of Rotary to develop educational programs around the issues that cause conflict among nations in the world as well as those influences and activities which promote peace, development and goodwill. The progrm includes seminars, publications or conferences as a means to initiate a global dialogue to find new approaches to peace and world understanding.
Specific Rotary Peace Programs are selected annually by the trustees of The Rotary Foundation. Many peace programs are held in conjunction with presidential conferences.
Overview - Rotary Centers for International Studies in peace and conflict resolution
Rotary Peace Fellows are leaders promoting national and international cooperation, peace, and the successful resolution of conflict throughout their lives, in their careers, and through service activities. Fellows can earn either a master’s degree in international relations, public administration, sustainable development, peace studies, conflict resolution, or a related field, or a professional development certificate in peace and conflict resolution.
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DISTRICT 7020 - CLUB-OF-THE-MONTH PROGRAM - WOW!
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TEACH YOUR CHILDREN TO BE SAVERS AND INVESTORS
Ideally, our children should learn good behaviour from us. But when it comes to living within our means, and saving and investing for the future, we're not setting such a good example. Consider that household debt, as measured by the ratio of debt payments to disposable personal income, has reached record highs at 145 per cent.
Reward children for saving
Children, like adults, tend to repeat behaviour that is rewarded in some way. so, if you want your children to become good savers, you might want to match their contributions, either fully or partially, whenever they put money away, whether it is in a big jar or a bank account. Once they've saved a certain amount, you may want to let them withdraw part of it to purchase something they want.
Exhibit restraint in spending
When you want to teach your children an important lesson, what you do is sometimes more important then what you say. So, if you want to stress the importance of delaying immediate gratification and avoiding excessive debts, you might want to talk about something like your car, if it's older, and say you wish you could get a new one. when your child asks why you don't, you can respond that you don't have the money for it now, and you don't want to have to borrow too much money to get one, because that would just mean a big payment later on.
Explain principles of investing
Even fairly young children can typically understand what it means to invest in stocks, if it's carefully explained to them. Use examples of the companies with which they may be familiar - Disney, McDonald's, etc. - and stick to the basics. For example, anyone can own small pieces of these businesses. You might even decide to buy a few shares of one of these stocks and, along with your children, follow its returns.
Give examples of inflation
If you want your children to become financiall literate, they'll need to understand the effects of inflation. Start them out with simple examples, such as the cost of candy or milk when you were a child versus those costs today. Then, explain that as the cost of viruallyh everything goes up over time, you need to put some of your money in investments that will hopefully have the potential to grow faster than the rate of inflation.
By following these basic suggestions, you can help your children develop financial behaviours that can serve them well throughout their lives
Article provided by Glendon MacGregor, FMA, FCSI of Edward Jones Investments.
Edward Jones is a Member of the Canadian Investor Protection Fund.
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OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER
...from upworthy.com
So there's this thing called obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD. If you are me and only have the mild version, you end up rearranging the dishes in the dishwasher or checking to make sure you have your keys four times before leaving the house on the off chance you forgot, or alphabetizing your DVDs one too many times. If you are this guy, things can get a lot worse. And beautiful. And tragic.Neil Hilborn, the amazing guy who wrote this, had this to say after we wrote it up, "I am overwhelmed and humbled by the support and compliments that have been all around me these past few days."
If you want to see more of his amazing work, you could Like him on Facebook. And you think others should see this, you could continue to help overhelm him in a good way and tweet and share this. Totally your call though.
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ROTARY ANTHEM
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DIABETES AND YOUTH - Jamaica
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Management of Diabetes in Youth
The Diabetes Association of Jamaica
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LOW-COST TECHNOLOGY SAVING LIVES OF PREMATURE BABIES
...by Shilpa KannanBBC News, Bangalore
...submitted by PDG Diana White
Every year more than 20 million babies are born prematurely or with low with low birth weight - and an estimated 450 of them die each hour.
Yet most of these deaths could be avoided by simply keeping them warm.
"A new-born baby wailing can generally be heard outside the room - even across the hallway. But not my baby. Mine can only whimper," says Jayalakshmi Devi.
She's standing outside the neo-natal intensive care unit (ICU) staring at the glass box where her baby son is kept.
Born too soon, her baby boy weighs less than 1.2 pounds (0.54kgs). Doctors have given him around a 40% chance of survival.
Having lost two babies already, Jayalakshmi didn't want to take a chance this time. After delivering her child in a rural healthcare centre three hours outside Bangalore, she brought the baby to the state run hospital in the city.
At Vanivilas hospital, the neo-natal ICU sees scores of premature babies. Most are born at home, in far off rural areas and are brought here in critical condition.
Row after row, the transparent boxes create warmth to hold the tiny, bare-bodied babies with only an oversized diaper around them. Some of the babies are small enough to fit into your palm.
A baby's body temperature drops as soon as it is outside the controlled environment of the mother's womb. So just after labour, it's important to regulate the temperature.
But premature babies have very little body fat, so they are unable to do that.
The babies need incubators to help keep them alive - equipment which state-run hospitals like this one often cannot afford.
So, GE Healthcare created the Lullaby baby-warmer, to help to save lives in a country that has the highest rate of pre-term baby deaths in the world.
At left - Small packages: Premature babies kept in the low-cost incubators in the neo-natal ICU in Vanivilas hospital in Bangalore
Low-cost innovation
It was developed in Bangalore and launched in 2009. The baby warmer costs $3,000 (£1,900) in India, 70% cheaper than traditional models.
Premature infants
- Babies born before the 37th week of pregnancy are called pre-term and they have a lower survival rate.
- Some 20 million babies are born prematurely or with a low birth weight every year.
- More than one million of these babies die on their first day of life, and nearly three million die within the first month of life according to Save the Children.
- Those babies who survive often suffer from serious ailments including diabetes and heart disease.
The Lullaby warmer also consumes less power than most incubators, which means cost savings for the healthcare centre.
"Where better to make a baby warmer than here - India produces a baby nearly every second," says GE Healthcare's Ravi Kaushik.
He believes India is an ideal innovation centre when it comes to products like this, because 70% of the population is rural and 30% is urban, and within this you all different stratas of society.
"So you can have very great world class hospitals that want and require world class medical equipment that America or Europe would require. But at the same time there is a population in rural space that would require same kind of medical attention," says Mr Kaushik.
"Where better to make a baby warmer than here? India produces a baby nearly every second” -- Ravi Kaushik (GE Healthcare)
"So when you design a product, you have to cater to the entire plethora of needs. That allows you to almost hit the entire world because India is a small representation of that."
Engineers at GE's technology centre are stripping down lifesaving, high tech medical devices of all their frills to understand how to create products that are affordable.
This project is now widely quoted as an example of "reverse innovation".
This is where large global companies design products in developing markets like India and then take the successful creation back to international markets to sell.
After success in the domestic market, GE now sells the warmer in more than 80 countries.
While this works for healthcare centres on a budget, it still needs continuous electricity to run.
But go further down the population pyramid, and the problems get more complex.
Women in villages give birth at home and have little access to basic healthcare or electricity.
For them, keeping babies warm means wrapping them in layers of fabric and hot water bottles, or putting them under bare light bulbs.
Many of them don't survive.
But now a low cost baby bag is saving thousands of young lives. Called the Embrace, it emerged out of a class assignment at Stanford's Institute of Design in 2007.
Four graduate students - Jane Chen, Linus Liang, Naganand Murty, and Rahul Panicker - were challenged to come up with a low-cost incubator design that could help save premature babies born into poverty.
The team created a sleeping bag with a removable heating element.
Using high school physics, they used phase-change material (PCM), a waxy substance that, as it cools from melted liquid to solid, maintains the desired temperature of 37 degrees celsius (98.6 F) for up to six hours.
The end product looks like a quilted sleeping bag that is durable and portable. It requires only 30 minutes of electricity to warm up using a portable heater that comes with the product.
More importantly for mothers, it allows for increased contact with their child, unlike traditional incubators.
So it also encourages Kangaroo care, a technique practiced on newborn, especially pre-term infants, which promotes skin-to-skin contact to keep the baby warm and facilitate breastfeeding and bonding.
The infant warmer costs about $200 to make, is inexpensive to distribute, and is reusable.
Embrace is a non-profit venture. The product is not sold, but is donated to impoverished communities in need.
The invention is thought to have helped save the lives of more than 22,000 low birth-weight and premature infants.
Taking the programme forward, the organisation has developed a new version designed for at-home use by mothers. The model has been successfully prototyped and is currently undergoing clinical testing in India.
The organisation has also set up educational programmes to address the root causes of hypothermia.
"We provide intensive, side-by-side training to mothers, caretakers, and healthcare workers," says Alejandra Villalobos, director of development at Embrace.
"We develop long-term partnerships with local governments and non-profits in every community where we work.
"We believe that increased access to both technology and education is necessary to achieve our ultimate vision: that every woman and child has an equal chance for a healthy life."
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TRIVIA - The Dodo Bird
Because we are partnered with the Rotary E-Club of District 9220 in Mauritius,
it may be interesting to note the following:
it may be interesting to note the following:
...from http://dodobird.net/
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A HUMOROUS INTERLUDE
How innovative and how easy! Enjoy this short video!
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HOW E-CLUBS CAN STAY TOGETHER
It is an "ad" of sorts for Skype, but we all use Skype - and it is certainly one very good way that we can close the distance between us all.
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ROTARACT IN THE UKRAINE - A 3-minute video
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SWEET LORRAINE - A feel-good story
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OUR GOAL
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UPCOMING SCHEDULE
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PRESENTATION ON ROTARY YOUTH EXCHANGE
For those interested, the following is a one-hour presentation and discussion on Youth Exchange that took place at our Happy Hour Hangout on Saturday, September 14. District Governor-Elect Paul Brown was the guest speaker.
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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.
Ken Guiste, the DG's Special Representative for our Rotary E-Club, 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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HAPPY HOUR HANGOUT - Saturday, September 28 - Rotary Training
Join us for Rotary Training with PDG Diana White!
See the promo video below. The link will be distributed at the end of the next meeting scheduled for Friday, September 27.
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