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 Members. Click for Attendance Record.
Happy Hour Hangout. Happy Hour Hangout. Our Happy Hour Hangout on a Saturday morning is early enough so that you can join before your day gets away from you.
We meet for a live chat and sometimes business discussion. If you are interested in dropping by, please click the link below. Morning coffee is on the house! (Your house, that is...) Hope to see you there!
Please note: Now, attending our HHH will earn you a make-up!
The link to the Happy Hour Hangout for Saturday is at the bottom of this meeting.
Interested in joining us? Click the link Membership Application and Information.
Our President, Kitty, would now like to welcome you to this week's meeting. Please listen in...
************
ROTARY E-CLUB OF THE CARIBBEAN, 7020
************
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?"
************
Links to information about the Philippine disaster
- To see amazing photos of before/after, click here then hover over photo and move cursor.
- You can see an aerial view of the devastation here:
- Here is a link to CTV news coverage:
************
SPEAKER - A TALK IN LESS THAN 6 MINUTES
************
ROTARY ANTHEM
************
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.
DISTRICT 7020 CONFERENCE 2014 IN CAYMAN ISLANDS
************
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."
************
A VALEDICTORY ADDRESS THAT WILL INSPIRE YOU
This student surmounted his fear of public speaking and has an excellent message for young people.
************
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.
************
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.
************
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
************
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...
************
YOU CAN TOUCH THE SKY - A truly inspiring story in pictures!
************
CLUB OF THE MONTH VIDEO ACTIVITIES - October
************
PART 7 OF AN 8-PART DOCUMENTARY - Gangs in Paradise
************
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
************
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.
************
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:
- Please click this URL to start or join. https://zoom.us/j/184884918
- Or, go to https://zoom.us/join and enter meeting ID: 184 884 918
- 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
No comments:
Post a Comment