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Dear Fellow Rotarians, visitors and guests!
WELCOME TO OUR E-CLUB!
Thank you for stopping by our club meeting! We hope you will enjoy your visit.
Our E-Club banner is shown at left! Please send us a virtual copy of your club banner and we will send you a copy of our new club banner in exchange. We will also display your club banner proudly on our meeting website.
We are now officially a fully-fledged chartered Rotary Club in District 7020. We celebrated our Charter Gala with the meeting posted the week of January 24. 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.
March is Rotary's Literacy month. Our club celebrates our 2014 Butterfly Storybook!
Visiting Rotarians. Click this link to Apply for a Make-up. We will send you and your club secretary a make-up confirmation.
Active Members. Click for Attendance Record.
Happy Hour Hangout. Happy Hour Hangout. Our Happy Hour Hangout on a Saturday morning is early enough so that you can join before your day gets away from you.
We meet for a live chat and sometimes business discussion. If you are interested in dropping by, please click the link below. Morning coffee is on the house! (Your house, that is...) Hope to see you there!
Please note: Now, attending our HHH will earn you a make-up!
The link to the Happy Hour Hangout for Saturday is at the bottom of this meeting.
Interested in joining us? Click the link Membership Application and Information.
Our President, Kitty, would now like to welcome you to this week's meeting. Please listen in...
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ROTARY E-CLUB OF THE CARIBBEAN, 7020
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ABCs OF ROTARY (Cliff Dochterman)
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| Cliff Dochterman RI President, 1992-93 |
Opportunities for Fellowship
Most Rotarians are successful professional and business executives because they hear opportunities knock and take advantage of them. Once a week, the opportunity for Rotary fellowship occurs at each club meeting, but not all members hear it knocking. (This includes our Wednesday HHH!)
The weekly club meeting is a special privilege o Rotary membership. It provides the occasion to visit with fellow members, to meet visitors you have not known before, and to share your personal friendship with other members.
Rotary clubs which have a reputation of being "friendly clubs" usually follow a few simple steps:
First, members are encouraged to sit in a different seat or at a different table each week.
Second, Rotarians are urged to sit with a member they may not know as well as their long-time personal friends.
Third, members invite new members or visitors to join their table just by saying: "Come join us, we have an empty chair at this table."
Fourth, members share the conversation around the table rather than merely eating in silence or talking privately to the person next to them.
Fifth, Rotarians make a special point of trying to get acquainted with all members of the club by seeking out those they may not know.
When Rotarians follow these five easy steps, an entirely new opportunity for fellowship knocks each week. Soon, Rotarians realize that warm and personal friendship is the cornerstone of every great Rotary club.
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A TOUR OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
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ROTARY AWARENESS - Reminder
As Rotarians, we are welcomed at any Rotary Club throughout the world.
In the next few months, let's all try to attend a minimum of 3 meetings at clubs outside of our own E-Club in the next few months.
Please make an effort to see how other clubs operate! Expand your Rotary family!
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POLIO UPDATE
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A WEE SMILE
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ANOTHER WEE SMILE - DINNER BY CANDLELIGHT
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CLUB SINGING
Harry Ruggles was the fifth man to join Paul Harris in the conversations which led to the formation of the first Rotary club in Chicago in 1905.
Harry was a fellow who enjoyed singing and this was a popular activity at the turn of the century. At an early meeting of the fledgling group, Harry jumped on a chair and urged everyone to join him in a song.
Group singing soon became a traditional part of each Rotary meeting. The custom spread to many of the clubs in the United States and is still a popular activity in the Rotary meetings of such diverse countries as Australia, Japan, Nigeria, New Zealand and Canada. some clubs sing a national song as the formal opening of the meeting. Social singing, however, is seldom found in the Rotary clubs in Europe, South America and Asia.
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- Peace and Conflict Resolution
- Disease Prevention and Treatment
- Water and SanitationIf yo
- Maternal and Child Health
- Basic Education and Literacy
- Economic and Community Development
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SPEAKER - Rodney Brooks - Why we rely on robots
Scaremongers play on the idea that robots will simply replace people on the job. In fact, they can become our essential collaborators, freeing us up to spend time on less mundane and mechanical challenges.
He introduces us to Baxter, the robot with eyes that move and arms that react to touch, which could work alongside an aging population -- and learn to help them at home, too.
MIT professor Rodney Brooks studies and engineers robot intelligence, looking for the holy grail of robotics: the AGI, or artificial general intelligence. For decades, we've been building robots to do highly specific tasks -- welding, riveting, delivering interoffice mail -- but what we all want, really, is a robot that can figure things out on its own, the way we humans do.
Brooks realized that a top-down approach -- just building the biggest brain possible and teaching it everything we could think of -- would never work. What would work is a robot who learns like we do, by trial and error, and with many separate parts that learn separate jobs. The thesis of his work which was captured in Fast, Cheap and Out of Control,went on to become the title of the great Errol Morris documentary.
A founder of iRobot, makers of the Roomba vacuum, Brooks now heads Rethink Robotics, whose mission is to apply advanced robotic intelligence to manufacturing and physical labor. Its first robot: the versatile Baxter. Brooks is affiliated with CSAIL, MIT's Computers Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
"When I look out in the future, I can’t imagine a world, 500 years from now, where we don’t have robots everywhere."
--Rodney Brooks
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ROTARY ANTHEM
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DISTRICT 7020 CONFERENCE 2014 IN CAYMAN ISLANDS
The website for registering for the conference is now available:
www.DC2014CAYMAN.ky
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From Rotary Today Magazine, a publication of RIBI
...by David Houghton, Membership Development and Retention Chairman
This was a question that caught my eye as I read a weekly update of The Rotarian a few days ago.
A group of Rotaract members and young Rotarians were asked to give comments on what it would take to turn today's young leaders into tomorrow's Rotarians. The group's answers were interesting, informative, and challenging. What follows is an abbreviated summary:
What do Rotarians need to understand about young people?
- A major difference exists in the way we connect
- Social media allows us not only to share meeting and project details, but also to communicate with clubs around the world
- Our spirit of community service is no different from that of the older generation; we just have different methods
- We're results-driven; we move quickly - some might think too quickly. We want to feel that our work has purpose and we get frustrated when our ideas are not considered.
- The workplace has changed a lot
- We're protective of our spare time and less willing to tolerate wasted time, like spending time in costly meetings, discussing information that could be shared through email.
What have you found helpful in your communications with Rotary members?
Some of the best Rotarians I've encountered has been genuine believers in the capabilities of young people. They are willing to throw their support behind me as a young club president, invest their time in explaining Rotary's nuances to me, and offer advice on everything from projects to finding the right people for leadership roles
There were other messages, and here are some of them:
- If you want to recruit younger members, you need to remember that Rotary has the power to make great leaders
- It never, ever helps to talk down to us
- We have a lot of energy and passion, and a burning desire to make a difference
- Rotarians shouldn't be too critical of a young person trying a new approach. Be constructive.
- Rotary provides an incredible vehicle for us to learn and grow and we're hungry for the wisdom and experience of older Rotarians
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ROTARY WISDOM - Why I am a Rotarian
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"THIS CLOSE" - We are ...
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A MUSICAL INTERLUDE
The Silence
About six miles from Maastricht in the Netherlands lie buried 8,301 American soldiers who died in "Operation Market Garden" in the battles to liberate Holland in the fall and winter of 1944-45. Every one of the men buried in the cemetery as well as those in the Canadian and British military cemeteries has been adopted by a Dutch family who mind the grave, decorate, and keep alive the memory of the soldier they have adopted. It is even the custom to keep a portrait of "their" American soldier in a place of honor in their home.
Annually on "Liberation Day" Memorial Services are held for "the men who died to liberate Holland." The day concludes with a concert. The final piece is always "Il Silenzio", a memorial piece commissioned by the Dutch and first played in 1965 on the 20th anniversary of Holland's liberation. It has been the concluding piece of the memorial concert ever since,
This year the soloist was a 13 year old Dutch girl, Melissa Venema, backed by Andre Rieu and his orchestra (the Royal Orchestra of the Netherlands). This beautiful concert piece is based upon the original version of taps and was composed by Italian composer Nino Rossi.
Beautiful and moving.
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A SHORT STORY OF SELFLESSNESS
Click this link to read the story.
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HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY
Such a thoughtful gesture!
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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.
Our Rotary E-Club member, Keturah deWeever, 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.
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, March 1
Please join us at our Happy Hour Hangout on Saturday morning, March 1.
• 9:00 a.m. Atlantic Time
• 8:00 a.m. Eastern Time (Miami Time)
Join us. Renew our fellowship! Discuss Rotary!
Learn the history of Rotary in the Caribbean this morning!
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- Go to https://zoom.us/join and enter meeting ID: 602 689 205
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- Dial:
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