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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 |
Honorary Membership
"Honorary" is one of the types of membership a person may have in a Rotary club. This type of membership is the highest distinction a Rotary club can confer and is exercised only in exceptional cases to recognize an individual for unusual service and contributions to Rotary and society.
An honorary member is elected for one year only, and continuing membership must be renewed annually.
Honorary members cannot propose new members to the club, do not hold office and are exempt from attendance requirements and club dues.
Many distinguished heads of state, explorers, authors, musicians, astronauts and other public personalities have been honorary members of Rotary clubs, including King Gustaf of Sweden, King George VI of England, King Badouin of Belgium, King Hassan III of Morocco, Sir Winston Churchill, humanitarian Albert Schweitzer, Charles Lindbergh, composer Jean Sibelius, explorer Sir Edmund Hillary, Thor heyerdahl, Thomas Edison, Walt Disney, Bob Hope, Dr. Albert Sabin, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and many of the presidents of the United States.
Truly, those selected for honorary membership are those who have done much to further the ideals of Rotary.
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THREE CLICKS TO PEACE
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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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OUR DISTRICT 7020 PROJECT PORTAL
Have a look!
Our E-Club can add our projects to this website!
Browse to www.7020.org and click the Project Portal.
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FOR OUR MEMBERS - NAVIGATING OUR CLUBRUNNER WEBSITE
Please become familiar with all the information that is posted and accessible on our Club Home Page in ClubRunner.
• Browse to www.clubrunner.ca/eclubofthecaribbean
Visitors can view the site without logging in. However, if you log in, you can gain access to the “members only” information.
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To log in –
1. At the top right of the screen, click “member login.”
The next screen will show the following menu at the top right.
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To access the members-only page –
1. Scroll down that home page to view all the options on the right-side menu.
The pages available to you AFTER you log in are different from the selection available to visitors who do not log in. Particularly, notice the Members-only meetings and videos.
On the next scrfeen that opens, you can read and click the links for the following documents:
Other links lower on that page include the following:
• Rotary Bylaws
• Happy Hour Hangouts
• A few Committee Meetings
• Board meetings
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Membership in Rotary International
If you asked a Rotarian if he or she belonged to Rotary International, the individual probably would look puzzled and answer, "Of course I'm a member of Rotary International." But in this instance, the confident Rotarian would be technically wrong. No Rotarian can be a member of Rotary International!
The explanation of this apparent contradiction is simple. The constitutional documents of RI state that membership in Rotary International is limited to Rotary clubs. Over 32,000 Rotary clubs belong to the organization we call Rotary International.
Rotary club is composed of persons with the appropriate qualifications of good character and reputation, a business or professional classification, and who serve in an executive or managerial capacity. The Rotarian belongs to a club - the club belongs to Rotary International.
This technical distinction is not obvious or even known to most Rotarians and seldom does it create any problems or complications. It does explain, however, why the Rotary International Board of Directors places expectations upon and extends privileges to Rotary clubs, rather than to individual Rotarians.
If someone asks if you belong to Rotary International, your most accurate answer would be, "No. I belong to a Rotary club." But I doubt if anyone would understand the difference, ir, in fact, would really care.
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POLIO UPDATE - Bill Gates
March 4, 2014
The fight to eradicate polio symbolizes what global health is all about. To wipe the virus off the face of the earth, we have to reach virtually every single child with the polio vaccine. No matter who they are. No matter where they live.
However, not every child is lucky enough to be born in a country that is able to afford all the lifesaving vaccines.
For example, until three years ago, children living in the poorest countries were not immunized against rotavirus and pneumonia, the two leading killers of children under five. This changed when an organization called the GAVI Alliance helped negotiate lower prices for these vaccines and started working with poor countries to introduce them into their routine immunization systems.
In the battle to eradicate polio, every country in the world is using or has used the oral polio vaccine to get us to the threshold of eradication. But there is another effective polio vaccine – the inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) – that will help us pass through that threshold. As part of the comprehensive plan to achieve a polio-free world by 2018, all countries are to introduce IPV by end of 2015 – prior to a phased removal of OPV.
Until today, the world’s poorest countries hadn’t been able to introduce IPV into their routine immunization schedules because the cost of a single dose of the IPV vaccine was approximately 15-20 times more than a single dose of OPV.
Thanks to a new arrangement announced last week, which was made in partnership among GAVI, our foundation and the pharmaceutical industry, a major barrier to global vaccination with IPV is erased now with the availability of IPV at a significantly-reduced price for the world’s poorest countries.
GAVI is working together with the Global Polio Eradication Initiative to help these 73 poorest countries purchase and deliver these vaccines to all their children. This new collaboration between organizations created to work on routine immunization and polio eradication is symbolic of the fact that polio eradication will help us get better at global health in general.
Success will mean more than just a world in which no child ever has to suffer from this debilitating disease. The lessons and resources from an effort that reaches almost every child will be applied to other major global health challenges, especially to making sure that all children are protected by all the lifesaving vaccines.
This is a big step toward polio eradication—and a big step toward global health equity.
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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 - Mr. Justice Dennis Morrison - from the HHH February 15
Professional Ethics
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CONGRATULATIONS, JACQUIE!
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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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ALWAYS TIME FOR MUSIC
Sacla' the Pesto Pioneers and Italian foodies favourite brand, served up a great surprise at John Lewis Foodhall from Waitrose and staged an impromptu Opera in the food aisles.
They planted five secret opera singers who were disguised as casual shoppers and store staff amongst the groceries who broke into song bringing the foodhall to a standstill with a rousing rendition of the Italian classic Funiculì, Funiculà.
http://www.sacla.co.uk
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HOW WOLVES CHANGE RIVERS
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SPEAKER - BERNIE KRAUSE - SOUNDS OF NATURE
In that time, he has seen many environments radically altered by humans, sometimes even by practices thought to be environmentally safe. A surprising look at what we can learn through nature's symphonies, from the grunting of a sea anemone to the sad calls of a beaver in mourning.
Bernie Krause's legendary soundscapes uncover nature’s rich sonic tapestry -- along with some unexpected results.
With a stellar electronic music resumé including work with The Byrds, Stevie Wonder, and many others, Bernie Krause is assured a place in the pop culture canon. But Krause continues to make history by capturing the fading voices of nature: studying sonic interplay between species as they attract mates, hunt prey, and sound out their roles in the ecosystem.
Krause’s recordings are not merely travelogues or relaxation tools -- they are critical barometers of global environmental health. His documents of vanishing aural habitats are a chilling reminder of shrinking biodiversity. As he tells the Guardian: "The fragile weave of natural sound is being torn apart by our seemingly boundless need to conquer the environment rather than to find a way to abide in consonance with it."
This presentation will help you develop a greater understanding of the world around us.
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ROTARY WISDOM - Why I am a Rotarian
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"THIS CLOSE" - We are ...
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IS THIS CALLED MUSIC LITERACY?
Dancing to "Shake your Tail Feather"
This is just plain FUN!!
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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.
Paul Amoury, our Vice-President, 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 15.
The regular Board meeting of the Club is scheduled for Saturday, March 8, and pre-empts the regular HHH.
Please join us at our Happy Hour Hangout on Saturday morning, March 15.
• 9:00 a.m. Atlantic Time
• 8:00 a.m. Eastern Time (Miami Time)
Join from a PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone or Android device:
- Go to https://zoom.us/join and enter meeting ID: 602 689 205
- Click this URL to start or join. https://zoom.us/j/602689205
This is a recurring meeting – so the link will be the same for every Saturday morning.
Join from dial-in phone line:
Dial:
+1 (424) 203-8450 or +1 (209) 255-1200Meeting ID: 602 689 205
Participant ID: Shown after joining the meeting
International numbers available: https://zoom.us/teleconference+1 (424) 203-8450+1 (209) 255-1200
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