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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.
April is Magazine 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.
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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 |
World Community Service
World Community Service is the Rotary program by which a club or district in one country provides humanitarian assistance to a club in another country.
Typically, the aid goes to a developing community where the Rotary project will help raise the standard of living and the quality of life. the ultimate object of World Community Service is to build goodwill and understanding among peoples of the world.
One important way to find a club in some other part of the world which needs help on a worthy project is to use the WCS Projects Exchange, a list of dozens of worthy activities in developing areas. The exchange list is maintained in the RI Secretariat in Eanston and is readily available upon reequest. It outlines projects, provides estimated costs and gives names of the appropriate contacts. Today, a change to Rotary Central is taking place.
Clubs that need assistance, or are seeking another clu to help with a humanitarian project, such as building a clinic, school, hospital, community water well, library or other beneficial activity, may registere their needs. Clubs seeking a desirable World Community Service project may easily review the list of needs registered in the Projects Exchange. Thus, the exchange provides a pracatical way to link needs with resources.
Every Rotary club is urged to undertake a new World Community Service project each year. The WCS Projects Exchange lists is an excellent tool to find a real need, a project description and cooperating club in a developing area. The jo then is to "go to work" to complete the project and at the same time build bridges of friendship and world understanding.
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SPEAKER - A woman who is changing the world
Shiza Shahid began volunteering in women's prisons at 14 years old. At 16, she began a year-long experience as the only female volunteer in an earthquake relief camp.
It probably goes without saying that by the end of her teenage years, she'd figured out a lot about life.
Now she runs the Malala Fund, which advocates for girls' education all over the world. Shahid's views on life and what we can do to if we really want to make a difference are pretty inspiring.
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MAKING KIDS MOBILE - IMPROVING SOCIALIZATION
This is just a fantastic idea! You'll love it too!
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LET'S TRY TO REMEMBER THESE!!
- 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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ENERGY CHOKE POINT
ENERGY CONSERVATION FOR KIDS
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SPEAKER - CHRIS HADFIELD
Tweeting (and covering Bowie) from the International Space Station last year, Colonel Chris Hadfield reminded the world how much we love space.
“Good morning, Earth.” That is how Colonel Chris Hadfield, writing on Twitter, woke up the world every day while living aboard the International Space Station. In his five months on the ISS (including three as commander) Hadfield became a worldwide sensation, using social media to make outer space accessible and infusing a sense of wonder into the collective consciousness. Check out his cover version of David Bowie's "Space Oddity," sung while floating in his tin can, far above the world ...
Now back on our home planet, he continues to share the excitement of science and space travel. He's the author of the new book An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth. As he says, "There are no wishy-washy astronauts. You don't get up there by being uncaring and blasé. And whatever gave you the sense of tenacity and purpose to get that far in life is absolutely reaffirmed and deepened by the experience itself."
Hadfield is also a font of Canadian firsts: He was Canada’s first shuttle mission specialist, and the first Canadian to board a Russian spacecraft (he helped build the Mir), do a spacewalk (he's done two), and of course, to command the International Space Station.
"He is a fighter pilot, a test pilot and an aeronautical engineer capable of docking a rocket ship. But that's not why the world loves him. Of the hundreds of astronauts who have gone into space, none has humanised it quite the way Hadfield has. "
--Guardian
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A WEE SMILE
Husband telephones his wife:
Honey, I got hit by a car outside of the office.
Paula brought me to the Hospital.
They've been doing tests and taking X-rays.
The blow to my head, though very strong, will not have any serious or lasting injury.
But, I have three broken ribs, a broken arm, a compound fracture in the left leg, and they may have to amputate my right foot.
Wife’s Response:
Who is Paula?
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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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SPEAKER - Hendrik Poinar: Bring back the woolly mammoth!
Hendrik Poinar is a geneticist and biological anthropologist who focuses on extracting ancient DNA. He currently has his sights set on sequencing the genome of the woolly mammoth -- and cloning it.
As a child Hendrik Poinar never imagined that the insects his father kept around the house, extinct and preserved in amber, could someday be brought to life. Well that's exactly what Poinar has devoted his career to doing. Today he is a molecular evolutionary geneticist and biological anthropologist at McMaster University in Ontario, where he is the principal investigator at the Ancient DNA Centre. Poinar's focus is on extracting and preserving DNA from paleontological remains -- precisely what he thought impossible as a kid.
And Poinar's newest project is much, much bigger than those insects from his childhood: He wants to bring back the woolly mammoth. In 2006 he and his team started working on sequencing the mammoth genome, based on DNA extracted from well-preserved remains found in Yukon and Siberia. With the mapping nearly complete, Poinar will next turn to engineering an animal very closely resembling the woolly mammoth.
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POLIO UPDATE
Still, a long way to go, however, with Pakistan, Nigeria, and Afghanistan.
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ROTARIANS FOR FAMILY HEALTH AND AIDS PREVENTION
...from AG Manoj
The Rotarians for Family Health and Aids Prevention are
doing some great work around the world, and are launching some programs in a
couple weeks in Africa.
Take a look at some of their work on their website video and follow them on Social Media. Help spread the word of their work. They need our help in getting the word out:
Take a look at some of their work on their website video and follow them on Social Media. Help spread the word of their work. They need our help in getting the word out:
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OUR ROTARY DISTRICT 7020 NEWSLETTER FOR APRIL
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FROM THE ROTARIAN MAGAZINE - April, 2014
It’s tough to identify abnormal when your loved one’s knee resembles a close encounter with Dr. Frankenstein and a staple gun. The incision became a Rorschach test for our anxiety level.
The normal-or-not debate ended on Thanksgiving, when severe swelling and excruciating pain brought my dad to the ER late at night. Diagnosis: raging infection.
To tame it, my dad had to show up at the hospital every day for a month so antibiotics could drip through a thin tube inserted in his upper arm and extending to a large vein in his chest. If the infection spread to his brand-new knee joint, the doctors would have to remove it. That would be followed by another surgery, with all the accompanying misery and risk, and decreasing chances of success with each joint-replacement attempt.
My dad’s story ended well. The infection cleared, and he kept his new knee. For that, I’m grateful. But I’d prefer a low-drama narrative in which the bacteria are found before they turn into an antibiotic-resistant mess. Researchers are working on that – and other health problems – with the help of sensors. These tiny, behind-the-scenes workhorses can detect light, heat, motion – just about any physical property worth measuring. As a result, sensors can catch some medical issues early, or in some cases, prevent them entirely.
In the coming years, smart bandages will serve as vigilant watchdogs, sniffing out infections when only a few bacterial cells are present. I heard this promising news from Ed Goluch, assistant professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Northeastern University in Boston. He’s designed a smart bandage with thin wires attached to an electrochemical sensor, just a few micrometers wide (slightly larger than a single bacterial cell). Here’s how it works: Bacteria produce molecules, and when a molecule touches the wire, it produces a current. By measuring current flow, the smart bandage reveals the concentration of molecules – and bacteria. If my dad had been wearing such a sensor, doctors might have started treating him long before he landed in the ER.
Goluch’s work already has attracted interest from doctors with diabetic patients – especially those with feet prone to infection. “You want to monitor that closely and treat right away, so you don’t reach the point where infection is so extensive you have to amputate,” he says.
Other researchers are developing different types of smart bandages, using pH sensors, for example, and temperature sensors. Goluch’s prediction: “In a few years, you’ll see an entire suite of sensors for early infection detection.”
While my dad was recovering from his knee replacement, he had to take a fistful of pills each day at different times. Tracking those medications added to the post-surgery stress. When I saw my mom’s hand-drawn, check-marked matrix for my dad’s meds, I thought, “There must be a better way.” Months later, I learned about one: an ingestible sensor that detects when patients have taken their medicine.
The sensor, manufactured by Proteus Digital Health, is encapsulated on the surface of the medication. It follows the basic principle of a potato battery: The sensor has copper and magnesium on either side, and when it gets wet, it sends an electrical signal. Each pill has a unique signal, detected by a sensor patch that adheres to the patient’s skin. “You could take 30 tablets all at once, and the system would separate out and identify all 30 of them,” says Don Cowling, the company’s senior vice president of commercial programs. The patch transmits the pill’s identifying signal (along with the exact time of detection) to a smartphone or other Bluetooth-enabled device, allowing for online tracking.
The patch also contains an accelerometer that can precisely determine a person’s body angle. “We do that to see how patients are sleeping at night,” Cowling tells me. “If you have congestive heart failure, you need to sleep at an angle or your lungs fill up with fluid. We also can see if patients are turning at night and when they get up.” Cowling knows of one man in California whose father has Alzheimer’s and lives in a UK nursing facility. From thousands of miles away, he can see whether his father is taking his medication and how he is sleeping.
The ingestible sensor also helps doctors confirm what they already suspect: Many people don’t take their pills as directed. In one study, patients diagnosed with resistant hypertension received medication with the ingestible sensor. The result: About 80 percent of them didn’t have resistant hypertension after all – just a resistance to taking their pills. “Once they started taking their medication, their blood pressure was fine,” Cowling says.
The ingestible-sensor system became available to the public in 2013, but only in limited areas (mainly the United Kingdom and California). That availability likely will increase in the next few years. Cowling says some of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies have plans to produce pills with the sensors embedded inside (instead of encapsulated on their surface), and he expects to see those pills on the market in early 2015.
The sensors also could solve a life-threatening pharmaceutical problem: counterfeit pills. According to estimates from the World Health Organization, as much as 30 percent of prescription drugs sold in developing countries are counterfeit. Such drugs thwart efforts to control deadly diseases such as AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. In 2011, a World Health Organization survey found that 64 percent of antimalarial drugs in Nigeria were fake.
The ingestible sensor may help prevent this. Because it gives each pill a coded signal, it could easily identify pills from specific pharmaceutical companies. Says Cowling: “I think we will look back in 20 years, and our grandkids will be amazed that we swallowed drugs without any indication of what they were or where they came from.”
In 20 years, those kids also will marvel at how we guessed at so many things – when to apply sunscreen or check an athlete for head trauma. MC10, a health technology company based in Cambridge, Mass., aims to remove the guesswork with thin electronic devices that conform to the body. MC10’s stretchable electronics were developed by one of its cofounders, John Rogers, director of the materials research lab at the University of Illinois. (The stretchable-electronics work helped him earn a MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant in 2009.)
In 2013, Reebok began selling a product called Checklight that uses MC10’s electronics. Designed to be worn under a helmet, Checklight is a skullcap with a small light at the base of the neck. The light indicates impact levels – yellow for moderate, red for severe. That’s made possible by the skullcap’s microprocessor, which uses an algorithm to make sense of gyroscope and accelerometer measurements. Checklight is not a concussion diagnostic tool, notes Elyse Winer, MC10’s manager of marketing and communications. But it does measure force and can signal whether an athlete should be assessed for head trauma. Players sometimes underestimate an impact’s severity or feel pressured to keep playing even if something feels wrong. With Checklight, athletes don’t need to ask for help – the visual cue does it for them.
Checklight went through three years of testing, which included youth and professional athletes who wore the caps while playing football and other sports. Winer tells me that something unexpected happened when those athletes wore Checklight: It became a persuasive teaching tool, reinforcing the safety talk that players had heard from coaches. “Athletes don’t want to be taken out of the game,” she says. “To avoid triggering the light, they started tackling in a safer, smarter way.” – S.A. Swanson
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The Booster Bag Scam
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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.
Lou deLagran 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!
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Rotary cheers!
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HAPPY HOUR HANGOUT - next HHH will be Wednesday, April 16
• 8:00 p.m. Atlantic Time
• 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time (Miami Time)
Rotary E-Club of the Caribbean, 7020 is inviting you to a scheduled Happy Hour Hangout on Wednesday evening, April 16.
We look forward to seeing you there! This is a recurring meeting so the link is the same each Wednesday.
Join from a PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone or Android device:
• Go to https://zoom.us/join and enter meeting ID: 124 429 521
OR
• Please click this URL to start or join. https://zoom.us/j/124429521
Reminder - Board meeting scheduled on Saturday morning, April 12
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