Friday 29 November 2013

November 29 - Regular meeting of the Rotary E-Club of the Caribbean, 7020 for the week beginning Friday, November 29



To "attend" the meeting, scroll down the screen, review all the information from top to bottom, view all the videos, read all the information, and enjoy your time here with us at our Rotary meeting.




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.

November is Rotary Foundation month.  December is Family of Rotary 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 MembersClick 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)

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.





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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 SikhĂ© 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






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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.  
We communicate with our members regularly.  Our goal is to support our members in the best way possible.

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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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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.
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Active Members.  Click to indicate your Attendance.  

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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
  • 8:00 a.m. Eastern Time
Rotary E-Club of the Caribbean, 7020 is inviting you to a scheduled Happy Hour Hangout.
 
Join from a PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone or Android device:

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: 666 179 541
  • Participant ID: Shown after joining the meeting
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Friday 22 November 2013

November 22 - The regular meeting of the Rotary E-Club for the week beginning November 22



To "attend" the meeting, scroll down the screen, review all the information from top to bottom, view all the videos, read all the information, and enjoy your time here with us at our Rotary meeting.




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.

November is Rotary Foundation 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 MembersClick 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 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)

Cliff Dochterman
RI President, 1992-93

The Official Rotary Flag

An official flag was formally adopted by Rotary International at the 1929 Convention in Dallas, Texas.  The Rotary flag consists of a white field with the official wheel emblem emblazoned in gold in the center of the field.

The four depressed spaces on the rim of the Rotary wheel are colored royal blue.  The words "Rotary" and "International" printed at the top and bottom depressions on the wheel rim are also gold.  The shaft in the hub and the keyway of the wheel are white.
The first official Rotary flag reportedly was flown in Kansas City, Missouri, in January 1915.  In 1922, a small Rotary flag was carried over the South Pole by Admiral Richard Byrd, a member of the Winchester, Virginia, Rotary Club.  Four years later, the admiral carried a Rotary flag in his expedition to the North Pole.

Some Rotary clubs use the official Rotary flag as a banner at club meetings.  In these instances, it is appropriate to print the words "Rotary Club" above the wheel symbol, and the name of the city, state, or nation below the emblem.

The Rotary flag is always prominently displayed at the World Headquarters as well as all conventions and official events of Rotary International.


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WHY ROTARY?



Why Rotary? from Rotary International on Vimeo.


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REVIEW - THE RI PRESIDENT (2013-14)

RON D. BURTON

PRESIDENT 2013-14
ROTARY CLUB OF NORMAN
OKLAHOMA, USA

Ron D. Burton retired as president of the University of Oklahoma Foundation Inc. in 2007. He is a member of the U.S. Supreme Court Bar, the Oklahoma Bar Association, and the Cleveland County Bar Association. He is also a member of the American Bar Association, the ABA Section of Taxation Exempt Organizations Committee, and the ABA Section of Real Property, Probate, and Trust Committee on Charitable Organizations.

He was vice president of the Last Frontier Council of the Boy Scouts of America and received the Silver Beaver Award. He also received the Norman United Way and Junior League Volunteer of the Year Civic Award.

A Rotarian since 1979, Burton has served RI as director, president’s aide, RI president’s representative, committee and task force member, Rotary information counselor, zone trainer, International Assembly group discussion leader and moderator, Council on Legislation representative, and district governor. He also chaired the 2011 New Orleans Convention Committee. As director, he served as chair of the Executive, Administration, and Audit Committees.

His extensive service to The Rotary Foundation includes vice chair and member of the Foundation Trustees, vice chair of the Future Vision Committee, and member of the International PolioPlus Committee and PolioPlus Speakers Bureau. Other service includes national adviser for the Permanent Fund Initiative, member of Permanent Fund Leadership Team, and consultant to the Development Committee. In addition, he has served as a regional Rotary Foundation coordinator and moderator of the regional Rotary Foundation coordinator training program.


Burton has received the RI Service Above Self Award and the Foundation’s Citation for Meritorious Service, Distinguished Service Award, and International Service Award for a Polio-Free World. He and his wife, Jetta, are Paul Harris Fellows, Benefactors, Major Donors, and members of the Paul Harris, Bequest, and Arch C. Klumph Societies.

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SPEAKER - Kevin Breel - Depression - Standing Strong Together new


Kevin Breel didn't look like a depressed kid: team captain, at every party, funny and confident. But he tells the story of the night he realized that -- to save his own life -- he needed to say four simple words.

Writer, comic and mental health activist Kevin Breel speaks up about depression.

As a teenager, Kevin Breel almost took his own life. His story, so powerfully told in his viral TEDxYouth Talk, gives voice to an often silent struggle and offers a message of hope.

As Jack Knox writes in the Times Colonist :
His story, abbreviated, is this: He grew up in Cadboro Bay, a popular kid, fun at parties, English and drama awards, always on the honour roll, captain of the Lambrick Park basketball team when it was ranked No. 1 in the province. Under it all was the other him, the kid who plunged into depression at age 13 when his best friend died in a car crash.

Breel now speaks out about his own depression, with a mission of helping kids his age realize they're not alone.





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ROTARY ANTHEM





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DISTRICT 7020 CONFERENCE 2014 IN CAYMAN ISLANDS





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WHAT WOULD YOU DO?





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A LITERARY INTERLUDE

Click this link to try your hand at the most commonly misspelled words.

Click your browser's BACK button to return to the meeting.




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SPEAKER - Joshua Walters


Joshua Walters is a bipolar comedian whose work explores language, creativity, beatboxing and madness.

Joshua Walters is a comedian, poet, educator and performer. He incorporates elements of spoken word and beatbox into his shows in a mash-up of comedy, intimate reflection and unpredictable antics. In the last two years, Walters has performed at theaters and universities throughout North America, Europe and the Middle East.

His eclectic combination of performance disciplines and activity as an educator in mental health has given Walters a national platform and audience. In 2002, Walters co-founded the DBSA (Depression Bipolar Support Alliance) Young Adults Chapter in San Francisco, one of the few support groups specifically for mentally ill young adults in the country.

As a facilitator, Walters developed humor to address the subject of mental illness, reframing it as a positive. Walters speaks as a mental health educator and has engaged in mental health advocacy at conventions and in classrooms nationwide.





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SMILE OF THE WEEK

Devorath goes into a pet shop and tells the owner that she wants to buy a pet that can do everything.
The shop owner suggests a faithful dog.

Devorath replies, "Come on, a dog?"  The owner says, "How about a cat?"

Devorath replies, "No way! A cat certainly can't do everything. I want a pet that can do everything!"

The shop owner thinks for a minute, then says, "I've got it! A centipede!"

Devorath says, "A centipede? I can't imagine a centipede doing everything, but okay... I'll try a centipede." She gets the centipede home and says to the centipede, "Clean the kitchen."

Thirty minutes later, she walks into the kitchen and... it's immaculate! All the dishes and silverware have been washed, dried, and put away the counter-tops cleaned the appliances sparkling the floor waxed. Devorath is absolutely amazed.

She says to the centipede, "Go clean the living room."

Twenty minutes later, she walks into the living room. The carpet has been vacuumed the furniture cleaned and dusted the pillows on the sofa plumped, plants watered.

Devorath thinks to herself, "This is the most amazing thing I've ever seen. This really is a pet that can do everything!"

Next she says to the centipede, "Run down to the corner and get me a newspaper."

The centipede walks out the door. 10 minutes later... no centipede.

20 minutes later... no centipede. 30 minutes later... no centipede.

By this point, Devorath is wondering what's going on. The centipede should have been back in a couple of minutes. 45 minutes later... still no centipede!

She can't imagine what could have happened. Did the centipede run away? Did it get run over by a car? Where is that centipede?

So she goes to the front door, opens it... and there's the centipede sitting right outside.

Devorath says, "Hey!!! I sent you down to the corner store 45 minutes ago to get me a newspaper. What's the matter?!"

The centipede says, "I'm goin'! I'm goin'! I'm just puttin' on my shoes!"


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NEW TRENDS IN MEDIA   - Case Study

How a blog aided a Nation

The Rotary Club of Colombo Regency in Sri Lanka invited a speaker to their club's meeting to teach members how to create a blog, not realizing how valuable this new technology would prove to be.

Just one day after the world's deadliest tsunami destroyed parts of their country, the club members set up their first blog.

It allowed people from all over the world to provide immediate assistance by donating money and providing food and medicine, and daily updates kept contributors informed about the club's relief efforts.

Club members emailed friends and family members to alert them to the blog and the account they had set up for donations.  The club also made an arrangement with Lankafood.com - which did not benefit from the agreement - to take orders for food and medicine and send them directly to the Rotary Club of Colombo.  Club members then purchased items from the local wholesale market and distributed them.

Within a week, the club had raised nearly US$50,000 and an additional $35,000 had been pledged.

"Our club has been successful because we have been able to reach out the international community through this site," said club secretary Chamila Wickramasinghe.

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 EATING MORE VEGETABLES FOR HEALTH






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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.  
We communicate with our members regularly.  Our goal is to support our members in the best way possible.

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INTERESTING NOTES FROM THE MANUAL OF PROCEDURE, 2013


Regular attendance.  Your commitment to the club.  Regular attendance of club meetings and engagement in club service projects, events, or activities demonstrates a member’s commitment to the club and to the organization.


CLUB CONSTITUTION
Article 12 Duration of Membership
Section 4 — Termination — Non-attendance.


(a) Attendance Percentages
. A member must

(1) attend or make up at least 50 percent of club regular meetings or satellite club meetings, or engage in club projects, other events and activities for at least 12 hours in each half of the year, or a proportionate combination of both;

(2) attend at least 30 percent of this club’s regular meetings or satellite club meetings, or engage in club projects, other events and activities in each half of the year (assistant governors, as defined by the board of directors of RI, shall be excused from this requirement).

If a member fails to attend as required, the member’s membership may be subject to termination unless the board consents to such non-attendance for good cause.

(b) Consecutive Absences.
Unless otherwise excused by the board for good and sufficient reason or pursuant to article 9, sections 3 or 4, each member who fails to attend or make up four consecutive regular meetings shall be informed by the board that the member’s non-attendance may be considered a request to terminate membership in this club. Thereafter, the board, by a majority vote, may terminate the member’s membership.

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PART 8 OF AN 8-PART DOCUMENTARY

This has been an excellent documentary.





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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.  


Bryn Styles, Rotary International Director from Zone 24, leads us.  Director Bryn sends his very warmest regards to District 7020!





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.
Please consider a donation to our Club.  Just as any Rotarian visiting a Rotary Club would be expected to make a donation, we hope you will consider a donation to our Rotary E-Club of the Caribbean, 7020.   Please click the button below:


 

Active Members.  Click to indicate your Attendance.  

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HAPPY HOUR HANGOUT - Saturday morning, November 23

Rotary E-Club of the Caribbean, 7020 is inviting you to a scheduled Happy Hour Hangout.


Please join and hear our District EREY Chair, Marston Winkles, tell us about The Rotary Foundation.
 
Join from a PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone or Android device:

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: 605 615 613
  • Participant ID: Shown after joining the meeting
 



Friday 15 November 2013

November 15 - Regular meeting of the Rotary E-Club of the Caribbean, 7020 for the week beginning Friday, November 15



To "attend" the meeting, scroll down the screen, review all the information from top to bottom, view all the videos, read all the information, and enjoy your time here with us at our Rotary meeting.




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.

November is Rotary Foundation 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 MembersClick 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)

Cliff Dochterman
RI President, 1992-93


Definition of Rotary

How do you describe the organization called "Rotary"?

There are so many characteristics of a Rotary club as well as the activities of a million Rotarians.  There are the features of service, internationality, fellowship, classifications of each vocation, development of goodwill and world understanding, the emphasis of high ethical standards, concern for other people and many more descriptive qualities.

In 1976, the Rotary International Board of Directors was interested in creating a concise definition of the fundamental aspects of Rotary.  They turned to the three men who were then serving on Rotary's Public Relations Committee and requested that a one-sentence definition of Rotary be prepared.  After numerous drafts, the committee presented this definition, which has been used ever since in various Rotary publications:
"Rotary is an organization of business and professional persons united worldwide who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations and help build goodwill and peace in the world."
Those 31 words are worth remembering when someone asks, "What is a Rotary club?"


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Links to information about the Philippine disaster


  • To see amazing photos of before/after, click here then hover over photo and move cursor.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/specials/typhoon-haiyan-photos-before-after/

  • You can see an aerial view of the devastation here:  
http://www.sunstar.com.ph/media/2013/11/12/vastness-devastation-tacloban-city-313387

  • Here is a link to CTV news coverage:
http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/government-to-match-canadians-donations-to-typhoon-haiyan-relief-1.1536343




 
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SPEAKER - A TALK IN LESS THAN 6 MINUTES





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ROTARY ANTHEM





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SPEAKER - HOW IS YOUR ATTENTION?

Hailed as the greatest pickpocket in the world, Apollo Robbins studies the quirks of human behavior as he steals your watch. In a hilarious demonstration, Robbins samples the buffet of the TEDGlobal 2013 audience, showing how the flaws in our perception make it possible to swipe a wallet and leave it on its owner’s shoulder while they remain clueless.

Apollo Robbins will take the phone from your pocket and the ring off your finger, then hand them back to you and (maybe) show you how he did it.

Pickpocketing is a triumph of craft: a distracting touch with one hand, while the other hand gets to work, and the next thing you know ... where's my wallet? Apollo Robbins is a modern master of picking pockets, possessor of a subtle understanding of human attention, a taste for classic crime, and something he calls "grift sense" -- which, as he told the New Yorker, is “stepping outside yourself and seeing through the other person’s eyes, thinking through the other person’s mind, but it’s happening on a subconscious level.”

Robbins makes a living as an entertainer, speaker and television personality, and he also is the founder of Whizmob Inc., a collective of misdirection experts -- including reformed criminals -- that schools military and law enforcement leaders in fraud and scam tactics. Robbins has also collaborated with academics in his quest to understand how awareness and attention can be manipulated. He's co-author of a 2011 paper that explores something he noticed in his countless hours of practice: people's eyes are more easily misdirected to follow a curve than a straight line.

Click this link to view the video.  Remember to click your browser's BACK button to return to the meeting.



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DISTRICT 7020 CONFERENCE 2014 IN CAYMAN ISLANDS





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SMILE OF THE WEEK

A man was given the job of painting the white lines down the middle of a highway.

On his first day he painted six miles; the next day three miles; the following day less than a mile.

When the foreman asked the man why he kept painting less each day, he replied "I just can't do any better. Each day I keep getting farther away from the paint can." 


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A VALEDICTORY ADDRESS THAT WILL INSPIRE YOU




This student surmounted his fear of public speaking and has an excellent message for young people.


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DO YOU KNOW ABOUT FIBONACCI NUMBERS?

Math is logical, functional and just ... awesome. Mathemagician Arthur Benjamin explores hidden properties of that weird and wonderful set of numbers, the Fibonacci series. (And reminds you that mathematics can be inspiring, too!)

Using daring displays of algorithmic trickery, lightning calculator and number wizard Arthur Benjamin mesmerizes audiences with mathematical mystery and beauty. 

Arthur Benjamin makes numbers dance. In his day job, he's a professor of math at Harvey Mudd College; in his other day job, he's a "Mathemagician," taking the stage in his tuxedo to perform high-speed mental calculations, memorizations and other astounding math stunts. It's part of his drive to teach math and mental agility in interesting ways, following in the footsteps of such heroes as Martin Gardner.

Benjamin is the co-author, with Michael Shermer, of Secrets of Mental Math (which shares his secrets for rapid mental calculation), as well as the co-author of the MAA award-winning Proofs That Really Count: The Art of Combinatorial Proof.

 







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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.  
We communicate with our members regularly.  Our goal is to support our members in the best way possible.


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INTERESTING NOTES FROM THE MANUAL OF PROCEDURE, 2013

4.100. ATTENDANCE AT OTHER CLUBS
Every member shall have the privilege of attending the regular meeting or satellite club meeting of any other club except for a club that previously terminated the membership of said person for good cause.

Rotary club constitution
Article 9 Attendance


Section 1 — General Provisions. Each member should attend this club’s regular meetings, or satellite club’s regular meetings if provided in the bylaws, and engage in this club’s service projects, other events and activities.

A member shall be counted as attending a regular meeting if the member is present for at least 60 percent of the meeting, or is present and is called away unexpectedly and subsequently produces evidence to the satisfaction of the board that such action was reasonable, or makes up for an absence in any of the following ways:

for E-Clubs

Section 1 (for e-Clubs) — General Provisions. Each member should attend this club’s regular meetings.

A member shall be counted as attending a regular meeting if the member participates in the regular meeting posted on the club’s website within one week following its posting, or makes up a missed meeting in any of the following ways:

(a) 14 Days Before or After the Meeting. If, within fourteen (14) days before or after the regular time for that meeting, the member

(1) attends at least 60 percent of the regular meeting of another club, of a satellite club meeting of another club, or of a provisional club; or

(2) attends a regular meeting of a Rotaract or Interact club, Rotary Community Corps, or Rotary Fellowship or of a provisional Rotaract or Interact club, Rotary Community Corps, or Rotary Fellowship; or

(3) attends a convention of RI, a council on legislation, an international assembly, a Rotary institute for past and present officers of RI, a Rotary institute for past, present, and incoming officers of RI, or any other meeting convened with the approval of the board of directors of RI or the president of RI acting on behalf of the board of directors of RI, a Rotary multi-zone conference, a meeting of a committee of RI, a Rotary district conference, a Rotary district training assembly, any district meeting held by direction of the board of directors of RI, any district committee meeting held by direction of the district governor, or a regularly announced intercity meeting of Rotary clubs; or

(4) is present at the usual time and place of a regular meeting or satellite club meeting of another club for the purpose of attending such meeting, but that club is not meeting at that time or place; or

(5) attends and participates in a club service project or a club-sponsored community event or meeting authorized by the board; or

(6) attends a board meeting or, if authorized by the board, a meeting of a service committee to which the member is assigned; or

(7) participates through a club website in an interactive activity requiring an average of 30 minutes of participation



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GIFT OF LIFE INTERNATIONAL

In District 7020,  Haiti and Jamaica have benefited very much from Gift of Life International.  This is a short introduction.






In partnership with Open Hearts Haiti...


 

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YOU CAN TOUCH THE SKY - A truly inspiring story in pictures!


















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CLUB OF THE MONTH VIDEO ACTIVITIES - October





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PART 7 OF AN 8-PART DOCUMENTARY - Gangs in Paradise


 

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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.  

  Ketura deWeever - our member from St. Maarten - 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!

************

Visiting Rotarians.  Click this link to Apply for a Make-up.  We will send you and your club secretary a make-up confirmation.
Please consider a donation to our Club.  Just as any Rotarian visiting a Rotary Club would be expected to make a donation, we hope you will consider a donation to our Rotary E-Club of the Caribbean, 7020.   Please click the button below:


 

Active Members.  Click to indicate your Attendance.  

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HAPPY HOUR HANGOUT - Saturday, November 16

  • 9:00 a.m. Atlantic Time
  • 8:00 a.m. Eastern Time (Miami Time)





Rotary E-Club of the Caribbean, 7020 is inviting you to a scheduled Happy Hour Hangout.


Join from a PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone or Android device:

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: 184 884 918
  • Participant ID: Shown after joining the meeting