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Dear Fellow Rotarians, visitors and guests!
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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.
November is Rotary Foundation month. December is Family of Rotary Month.
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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 |
First Names or Nicknames
From the earliest days of Rotary, members have referred to each other on a first-name basis. Since personal acquaintanceship and friendship are cornerstones of Rotary, it was natural that many clubs adopted the practice of setting aside formal titles in conversations among members.
Individuals who normally would be addressed as Doctor, Professor, Mister, the Honorable or Sir are regularly called Joe, Bill, Charlie, or Jerry by other Rotarians. The characteristic Rotary club name badge fosters the first name custom.
In a few areas, such as Europe, club members use a more formal style in addressing fellow members. In other parts of the world, mainly in Asian countries, the practice is to assign each new Rotarian a humorous nickname which relates to some personal characteristic or which is descriptive of the member's business or profession.
A member nicknamed "Oxygen" is the manufacturer of chemical gas products. "Trees" is the nickname for the Rotarian in the lumber business. "Building" is the contractor. "Paper" is the stationery or office supply retailer.
Other members might carry nicknames like "Muscles," "Foghorn" or "Smiles" as commentaries on their physical features.
The nicknames are frequently a source of good-natured fun and fellowship. But whether a Rotarian is addressed by a given first name or a nickname, the spirit of personal friendship is the initial step which opens doors to all other opportunities for service.
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THE POWER OF ROTARY
Marion Bunch on The Power of Rotary from Rotary International on Vimeo.
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- Peace and Conflict Resolution
- Disease Prevention and Treatment
- Water and Sanitation
- Maternal and Child Health
- Basic Education and Literacy
- Economic and Community Development
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SPEAKER - The Bee problem - Why Bees are Disappearing
Honeybees have thrived for 50 million years, each colony 40 to 50,000 individuals coordinated in amazing harmony. So why, seven years ago, did colonies start dying en masse? Marla Spivak reveals four reasons which are interacting with tragic consequences. This is not simply a problem because bees pollinate a third of the world’s crops. Could this incredible species be holding up a mirror for us?
Marla Spivak researches bees’ behavior and biology in an effort to preserve this threatened, but ecologically essential, insect.
Bees pollinate a third of our food supply -- they don’t just make honey! -- but colonies have been disappearing at alarming rates in many parts of the world due to the accumulated effects of parasitic mites, viral and bacterial diseases, and exposure to pesticides and herbicides.
Marla Spivak, University of Minnesota professor of entomology and 2010 MacArthur Fellow, tries as much as possible to think like bees in her work to protect them. They’re “highly social and complex” creatures, she says, which fuels her interest and her research.
Spivak has developed a strain of bees, the Minnesota Hygienic line, that can detect when pupae are infected and kick them out of the nest, saving the rest of the hive. Now, Spivak is studying how bees collect propolis, or tree resins, in their hives to keep out dirt and microbes.
She is also analyzing how flowers’ decline due to herbicides, pesticides and crop monoculture affect bees’ numbers and diversity. Spivak has been stung by thousands of bees in the course of her work.
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ROTARY ANTHEM
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SPEAKER - Leather and Meat without killing the animals
By 2050, it will take 100 billion land animals to provide the world's population with meat, dairy, eggs and leather goods. Maintaining this herd will take a huge, potentially unsustainable toll on the planet. What if there were a different way? In this eye-opening talk, tissue engineering advocate Andras Forgacs argues that biofabricating meat and leather is a civilized way to move past killing animals for hamburgers and handbags.
Andras Forgacs produces animal products -- meat and leather -- without the animal.
An entrepreneur in tissue engineering, Andras Forgacs is the co-founder and CEO of Modern Meadow, a company developing novel biomaterials. These include cultured meat and leather which, as they put it, "will require no animal slaughter and much lower inputs of land, water, energy and chemicals". This approach involves sourcing cells from living animals, multiplying these cells into billions, and then assembling them into the tissue precursors of meat or leather. The products, for now, are at a prototype stage.
Previously, Andras co-founded Organovo, which uses 3D bioprinting to create human tissues for pharmaceutical research and medical applications, such as drug development and replacement tissues. Organovo’s bioprinting technology was recognized by MIT Technology Review on its TR50 list of most innovative companies for 2012.
DISTRICT 7020 CONFERENCE 2014 IN CAYMAN ISLANDS
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SMILE OF THE WEEK
Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday?
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A physician has a four-year-old daughter. On the way to preschool, the doctor had left his stethoscope on the car seat, and his little girl picked it up and began playing with it.
"Be still my heart," thought the doctor. "My daghter wants to follow in my footsteps!"
Then, the child spoke into the instrument, "Welcome to McDonald's. May I take your order?"
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THE POWER OF ROTARY
Rotary's Vision for a Better World from Rotary International on Vimeo.
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FOODS THAT HELP YOU LOSE WEIGHT
...from everydayhealth.com
The best foods for weight loss are those that fill you up and keep you feeling full longer. You won't even feel like you're on a diet when you put these filling foods on your menu.
Binge on Beans
There are lots of reasons to put beans on your shopping list of foods for weight loss. First, beans are high in fiber, and any food high in fiber will be filling, says Christine Gerbstadt, MD, RD, of Maryland, author of Doctor's Detox Diet. Beans also stimulate the production of the gut hormone cholecystokinin (CCK), which is a natural appetite suppressant. In an animal study, researchers at the University of California Davis' School of Veterinary Medicine found that rats consumed less food when given CCK. A veggie chili or a bean-based stew will fill you up without weighing you down.
Savor Salmon
Why put salmon on your list of foods for weight loss? Among its many health benefits, salmon is a great source of protein. Researchers at Purdue University found that men who were trying to lose weight felt fuller longer when they ate higher amounts of protein at each meal. The participants, who were put on a low-calorie, high-protein diet, also reported fewer food cravings throughout the day and didn't crave unhealthy snacks late at night.
Protein-rich foods are filling foods because "protein is metabolized more slowly than fats or carbohydrates," explains Dr. Gerbstadt. Not only is salmon a good food for weight loss, but this cold-water fish is also an excellent source of heart-healthy fats known as omega-3's. Try baking or grilling salmon — you can have a 3-ounce portion for dinner and flake the leftovers over salad greens for lunch the next day.
Enjoy Eggs
Recent research puts protein-rich eggs on the list of foods that help people to lose weight. In an eight-week study at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and at Saint Louis University in Missouri, overweight men and women who ate two eggs for breakfast lost more weight than those who ate bagels. What makes eggs a good food choice for weight loss?
Possibly because it requires more energy to break down a protein than it does a starch, which many breakfast foods, including bagels, cereals, and muffins are made up of, Dr. Kantor suggests. If you're worried about high cholesterol, eat more egg whites than yolks. Add hard-boiled egg whites to your salads for a low-calorie protein — the average white has only about 15 calories — or try a whites-only snack, such as egg whites and cucumber with salt and pepper, when you need a bite between meals.
Nosh on Nuts
Nuts can be super foods for weight loss if you control the amount you eat. Among the positives, nuts pack in protein and fiber, which makes them filling foods. But they're also high in fat, which translates to added calories. The fats in nuts, however, are healthy fats, "and we do need some fat in our diets, so healthy fats are the best choice," Gerbstadt says. Limit yourself to a handful of nuts — they're about 150 calories per ounce — if you're trying to lose weight.
Researchers at the University of Barcelona reported that people on a 12-week diet that included a handful of mixed nuts daily had higher levels of serotonin, which is a hormone that can decrease appetite, than those who didn't eat nuts. Incorporate this weight loss-boosting food into your diet throughout the day. Thinly spread a tablespoon of peanut butter or almond butter on a piece of whole-wheat toast for breakfast and add a sprinkle of slivered almonds on steamed green beans at dinner.
Pick Popcorn
Your stomach lags behind your brain — it takes about 15 minutes for digestive hormones to send the signal to your brain that you're filling up. That's one reason popcorn is high on Gerbstadt's list of foods that can help you lose weight: It takes a long time to eat popcorn, and the slower you eat, the more likely you are to start feeling full before you overdo it. Popcorn is also a good source of fiber, making it a filling food, too.
Use a hot-air popper and you'll save on fat and calories as well, Gerbstadt says. Microwaveable reduced-fat popcorn is also a good choice when you're looking for foods that help to lose weight. Some brands sell their popcorn as 100-calorie packs, a good snack idea when you're trying to pick foods for weight loss.
Get Greek Yogurt
Greek yogurt is another chart topper on the list of smart foods for weight loss, says Kantor. It's a great choice because it has twice the protein and less sugar than most other yogurts. Greek yogurt is also a good source of calcium. A study by researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Tel Aviv, Israel found that people who consumed more calcium lost almost twice as much weight as those who consumed little calcium — 12 pounds versus 7 — over two years.
Need ideas to get this filling food into your diet? Make a parfait of Greek yogurt and fresh fruit for breakfast or as a dessert. Greek yogurt is also great as a base for thick and creamy smoothies.
Choose Chili Peppers
The higher your metabolism, the more calories you burn, even when you're at rest. Capsaicin, the active ingredient in chili and other peppers that makes them spicy, is filling and may help boost metabolism. A study in the European Journal of Nutrition found people who added capsaicin to their breakfast food felt more satisfied and ate less over the course of the day.
But if you can't quite warm up to the idea of chili for breakfast, even though it is a great food for weight loss, try spicing up your morning eggs, fixing a breakfast burrito or tacos, or make yourself a bowl of piping hot chili with red beans for an early lunch. You'll not only start your day with a boost to your metabolism — you'll also stay fuller longer, decreasing your appetite and keeping you from overeating for the rest of the day.
Got Water?
Add weight-loss aid to the many benefits of drinking water. In fact, water should be a staple on your list of foods for weight loss. "I recommend you drink a glass of water before you eat and between servings," Kantor says. And if you're drinking alcohol, he suggests having a glass of plain water between drinks.
"Your intestines can only hold so much volume," Kantor says. "Water will fill you up quickly and prevent you from overdoing it on foods and drinks that don't help with weight loss." Also, some people overeat because they mistake thirst for hunger, but if you fill up on plenty of water and stay well-hydrated, you'll know that any hunger pangs you feel are for real.
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FIGHTING DISEASE IN GUINEA
...from rotary.org
A team of health professionals is touring Donka hospital in Conakry, Guinea, in March when they spot more than a dozen large, greenish masses covering the ground. To the U.S. team members, they look like an art installation; in fact, they are hospital gowns and surgical drapes, laundered and spread out to dry. They are a vivid example of the group’s objective: to lower deadly infection rates caused by unsterile procedures.
This Rotary Foundation vocational training team is the first to serve under Rotary’s partnership with the nonprofit Mercy Ships. Rotary District 7690 in North Carolina, USA, sponsored the team with a packaged grant, part of the new Rotary grant model that launched worldwide 1 July. The team’s five members will train Guinean health professionals at the two national hospitals.
The Africa Mercy, a 500-foot oceangoing hospital ship, is docked in Conakry for a 10-month medical mission. The Mercy Ships staff and visiting experts, such as this team, will tackle a range of tasks, including setting up medical and dental clinics, conducting health screenings, performing surgeries on board, and conducting health care outreach throughout the country. The ship also will serve as a steel-hulled security blanket.
“Mercy Ships looks for ways to continue helping local medical professionals after the ship leaves port, ” says Michelle Bullington, who helped advise the team. “Improving sterilization techniques would have a sustainable impact.”
Rick Snider, former governor of District 7690, worked on a Mercy Ships vessel for five years with his wife, Linda, and coordinated the Guinea project. He recruited assistant governor Jenny Braswell as team leader. A recently retired public health official, Braswell has volunteered on numerous Rotary projects in rural Nicaragua and Jamaica. Her husband, Sherrill, a physician, became Braswell’s first recruit for the Guinea team. She handpicked the rest from among former public health colleagues in North Carolina.
In Guinea, the team’s work begins with a tour of the century-old Ignace Deen Hospital. Laundered gauze bandages droop over railings to dry in the sun for reuse. The well-worn examination tables have no sterile paper, and the medical units are nearly devoid of supplies and equipment such as autoclaves and medical waste boxes. Doctors and nurses provide their own rubber gloves and sterile masks and gowns. Germ-killing bleach is rare.
In the generally clean wards, the patients’ family members sleep under the beds; they are the main caretakers. Food is stored on the floor where it is accessible to vermin, and flies and mosquitoes glide freely through doorways kept open to contend with the heat.
The team also visits Donka hospital, where toilets are flushed with water from a pail, and power outages are common. “The staff members touch patients without gloves, going patient to patient without washing hands. There are unbandaged wounds, flies and roaches, open sewage right outside a patient facility and no sterile barriers, ” says Sherrill Braswell, adding an observation that he later repeats so often it sounds like a campaign slogan: “They are doing the best they can with what they have. ”
For a week, the team provides training in reducing infections, covering topics such as using surgical gloves, masks, and gowns; controlling rats and mosquitoes; disinfecting with bleach; tracking infectious diseases; and hand-washing.
“Fifty percent of hospital-associated infections could be prevented with hand-washing, ” Lyon says. Knowledge gaps soon become apparent. A serious misunderstanding exists about hand sanitizer: that it causes germs to stick to the hands. “It is important to clarify that hand sanitizer kills bacteria ” – particularly in a place where running water is unreliable, Jenny Braswell says. An exchange on wound care illuminates the need to treat wounds immediately to avoid infection instead of waiting until symptoms appear.
Donka’s director, Hadja Fatou Sikhé Camara, says her hospital wants to reduce infection, “but we lack the equipment and supplies. We are willing to do what you do, but as an undeveloped country, we lack the means. ”
When Sherrill Braswell presses for what is needed to reduce infections, the answer is lengthy: more autoclaves, antibiotics, vaccines, bed nets, and rubber gloves, in addition to computers for blood analysis and a water tower to maintain running water. Of six operating rooms, only the new maternity units have UVGI (ultraviolet germicidal irradiation), a standard sterilization method.
After decoding the health system and enduring the non-gridded power, the team accomplishes its objectives, at least according to pre- and post-tests that show significant learning. Positive results also are evident in the participants, who voice a new commitment to educating family caregivers.
Even small changes could have a big impact, the team says. “If they could get patients and caregivers to wash their hands, and if they would hang up the surgical drapes instead of drying them on the ground, significant improvement would result, ” Jenny Braswell observes.
But the lack of supplies and equipment cannot be ignored, she notes. Providing bars of soap would help, as would arranging for inexpensive solar-powered autoclaves for sterilizing surgical instruments.
Back home in North Carolina, the team is continuing its work by trying to acquire and deliver materials the hospitals need. “The hospital workers are able to do the job,” Braswell says. “But they need the supplies. ”
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A CHRISTMAS CAROL************
Our E-Club commitment is to inspire our members
- to become involved in club fellowship and club activities
- to actively participate in our programs and truly feel a part of a warm, friendly, and helpful Rotary Club.
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INTERESTING NOTES FROM THE MANUAL OF PROCEDURE, 2013
Rotary club constitution
Article 9 Attendance
When a member is outside the member’s country of residence for more than fourteen (14) days, the time restriction shall not be imposed so that the member may attend regular meetings or satellite club meetings in another country at any time during the travel period, and each such attendance shall count as a valid make-up for any regular meeting missed during the member’s time abroad.
(b) At the Time of the Meeting. If, at the time of the meeting, the member is
(1) traveling with reasonable directness to or from one of the meetings specified in sub-subsection (a)(3) of this section; or
(2) serving as an officer or member of a committee of RI, or a trustee of The Rotary Foundation; or
(3) serving as the special representative of the district governor in the formation of a new club; or
(4) on Rotary business in the employ of RI; or
(5) directly and actively engaged in a district-sponsored or RI- or Rotary Foundation-sponsored service project in a remote area where making up attendance is impossible; or
(6) engaged in Rotary business duly authorized by the board which precludes attendance at the meeting.
Section 2 — Extended Absence on Out-posted Assignment. If a member will be working on an out-posted assignment for an extended period of time, attendance at the meetings of a designated club at the site of the assignment will replace attendance at the regular meetings of the member’s club, provided there is a mutual agreement between the two clubs.
Section 3 — Excused Absences. A member’s absence shall be excused if
(a) the absence complies with the conditions and under circumstances approved by the board. The board may excuse a member’s absence for reasons which it considers to be good and sufficient. Such excused absences shall not extend for longer than twelve months. However, if the leave is for a medical reason that extends for more than twelve months such leave may be renewed by the board for a period of time beyond the original twelve months.
(b) the aggregate of the member’s years of age and years of membership in one or more clubs is 85 years or more and the member has notified the club secretary in writing of the member’s desire to be excused from attendance and the board has approved.
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PRESENTATION - THE ROTARY FOUNDATION
This presentation is the Happy Hour Hangout from last week - November 23. The guest speaker is Marston Winkles, the EREY Chair (Every Rotarian Every Year) for District 7020.
If you were not able to attend, please view the presentation below.
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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.
Dr. Bob Scott - Chair of the International PolioPlus Committee - 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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Rotary cheers!
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HAPPY HOUR HANGOUT - Saturday, November 30
Please join our Happy Hour Hangout, November 30, 2013.
- 9:00 a.m. Atlantic Time
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