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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.
Our club celebrates our 2014 Butterfly Storybook! Volumes One and Two are available online. Email us at rotaryeclub7020@gmail.com.
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 |
RI's General Secretary
The day-to-day operations of Rotary International's Secretariat are under the supervision of the general secretary, the top professional officer of Rotary. Although the general secretary is responsible to the RI Board of Directors and president, he provides the ongoing management for nearly 500 staff members who compose the Secretariat of Rotary International.
The general secretary serves as secretary to the RI board, and is also the chief executive and financial officer of The Rotary Foundation, under the supervision of the trustees of the Foundation. He is the secretary of all Rotary committees as well as the Counil on Legislation, regional conferences and the annual Rotary convention.
The general secretary is appointed by the RI board for a term of more than five years and is usually reelected. Since 1910, seven men have served in that position. Chesley Perry, the original general secretary, served from 1910 to 1942. Others who followed were Phil Lovejoy (1942-52), George Means (1953-72), Harry Stewart (1972-78), Herb Pigman (1979-86), Philip Lindsey (1986-90), and Spencer Robinson, Jr. (1990-93). Herb Pigman was re-elected to the position in 1993. He was succeeded by Geoffrey Large in 1995.
The current general secretary is John Hewko.
From 2004 to 2009, Hewko was vice president for operations and compact development for the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), a U.S. government agency established in 2004 to deliver foreign assistance to the world’s poorest countries. At MCC, he was the principal United States negotiator for foreign assistance agreements to 26 countries in Africa, Asia, South America, the Middle East, and the former Soviet Union. During his tenure, he completed the negotiation of assistance agreements totaling $6.3 billion to 18 countries for infrastructure, agriculture, water and sanitation, health, and education projects.
Prior to joining MCC, Hewko was an international partner with the law firm Baker & McKenzie, specializing in international corporate transactions in emerging markets. He helped establish the firm’s Moscow office and was the managing partner of its offices in Kyiv and Prague.
While working in Ukraine in the early 1990s, Hewko assisted the working group that prepared the initial draft of the new Ukrainian post-Soviet constitution and was a charter member of the first Rotary club in Kyiv.
Hewko has been a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University, and a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He has published papers and articles in leading U.S. and international publications, and he has spoken extensively on political and business issues dealing with the former Soviet Union, Central Europe, Africa, and Latin America. He is also a member of the Council of Foreign Relations.
Hewko holds a law degree from Harvard University, a master’s in modern history from Oxford University (where he studied as a Marshall Scholar), and a bachelor’s in government and Soviet studies from Hamilton College in New York.
As general secretary, Hewko leads a diverse staff of 800 at Rotary International’s World Headquarters in Evanston, Illinois, USA, and seven international offices. Hewko is a Paul Harris Fellow. He and his wife, Margarita, live in Evanston.
https://www.rotary.org/en/general-secretary
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FIRST SPEAKER - Temple Grandin
The World Needs All Kinds of Minds
As PETA wrote when awarding her a 2004 Proggy: “Dr. Grandin's improvements to animal-handling systems found in slaughterhouses have decreased the amount of fear and pain that animals experience in their final hours, and she is widely considered the world's leading expert on the welfare of cattle and pigs.” In 2010, Time Magazine listed her as one of its most Important People of the Year.
Grandin’s books about her interior life as an autistic person have increased the world's understanding of the condition with personal immediacy -- and with import, as rates of autism diagnosis rise. She is revered by animal rights groups and members of autistic community, perhaps because in both regards she is a voice for those who are sometimes challenged to make themselves heard.
"Autism is part of who I am." — Temple Grandin
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OUR HAPPY HOUR HANGOUT SCHEDULE FOR JUNE
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A LITTLE FUN FROM THE DISTRICT CONFERENCE
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SELECTING A PRESIDENT
Each year, a distinguished Rotarian is selected as the worldwide president of Rotary International. The process begins two years in advance when a 15-man nominating committee is elected from separate regions of the world. To qualify for the nominating committee, a Rotarian must hae servce in the RI Board of Directors and have extensive Rotary experience and substantial acquaintanceship with the world leaders of Rotary.
The nominating committee may consider all former RI directors for the presidential candidate. Members of the nominating committee and current directors are not eligible. Any Rotary club may suggest the name of a former RI director to the committee for consideration.
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The RI President for 2014-15 is Gary C.K. Huang.
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The nominating committee convenes in September to select the Rotarian to be the presidential nominee. His name is announced to all clubs. Any Rotary club may make an additional nomination before December 1, which must then be endorsed by one percent of all Rotary clubs of the world. If such an event occurs, an election is held by mail ballot. If no additional nomination is presented by the clubs, theman selected by the nominating committee is declared to be the president-nominee. From that piont on, that special Rotarian and his wife will spend more than a year in preparation and then a year serving the Rotarians of the world as the international president.
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SPEAKER - FAITH JEGEDE
What I learned from my autistic brothers...
She blogs words and moments she finds inspiring, oftentimes in pursuit of causes she believes in, like autism awareness.
Most recently Jegede worked as the creator, presenter and producer of “What’s In Yours?", a twice-weekly hour-long talk radio show, in which she gets to know guests -- by diving deep into their bags.
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A THOUGHT PROVOKING ARTICLE ABOUT SHARING AND CHILDREN
The policy is that a child can keep a toy as long as they want to. If another child wants the toy, they have to wait until the first child is done with it. We'll even "save" toys for the child if they have to go to the bathroom, go to the snack table, etc. so that it won't get taken before they're done.
This applies to anything in the yard or school that can be played with, including swings and monkey bars.
At first, it didn't really occur to me to wonder why this was the policy. I just went with it, because that's the rule, and it didn't seem like a big deal to me. The kids all know the rule, so outside of maybe their first two weeks at the school, they don't throw a giant fit when you tell them, "You can have it when Sally Jo is done." But lately I've been noticing a totally different attitude toward sharing in other places we go, and I'm starting to really know exactly why this is the school's policy.
Two Questionable Sharing Practices
Here are a couple of examples of questionable sharing practices that I've seen recently.
The first comes from a good friend of mine. (And I hope she doesn't mind that I use her story as an example.) She and her almost-2-year-old were at the park one day. He had brought a small car from home to play with. Another child, a little bit older, wanted to play with the car and was demanding that my friend's son give him the car. A typical toddler scuffle ensued, and the other mother told her son, "I guess his mom didn't teach him how to share." Never mind the fact that the car belongs to him and that when someone asks you to share, "No" is a perfectly legitimate response.
My second story happened one morning at the local rec center. Friday mornings they fill the gym with tons of Little Tykes climbing structures and those plastic cars they can drive around, tricycles, big balls, even a bouncy castle. Basically a toddler's dream play room. There's this one red car in particular my son really likes playing with, and the last time we went, he drove it around the entire hour and a half we were there. While most of the moms with smaller kids will shadow their kids as they play, my son is old enough now that I can sit on the sidelines and watch.
From there I watched a mom whose son wanted to drive the car approach my son repeatedly, saying, "OK, now it's time for you to give him a turn!" Of course he ignored her, and eventually she gave up. There were a million other little cars for her son to drive, including one that was almost identical. Or maybe I would have stepped in at some point.
Real-World Lessons
I don't agree with the approach of the mothers in either of these situations. I think it does a child a great disservice to teach him that he can have something that someone else has, simply because he wants it. And I can understand the desire to give your children everything they want; we all have it. But it's a good lesson for you both to learn that this isn't always possible, and you shouldn't step all over other people to get these things.
Furthermore, this is not how things work in the real world. In your child's adult life, he's going to think he's owed everything he sees. This is already happening in the next generation. I read a fascinating article about how today's teens and 20-somethings are expecting raises and promotions at their jobs for reasons like, "I show up every day."
If you doubt my reasoning, think about your own day-to-day adult life. You wouldn't cut in front of someone in the grocery checkout line just because you didn't feel like waiting. And most grown adults wouldn't take something from someone, like a phone or a pair of sunglasses, just because they wanted to use it. (Well, maybe some of you would. In which case, this post may not be for you.)
It's hard, as with so many things about parenthood, but let's teach our kids how to cope with disappointment, because it happens. And we won't always be there to fix it for them. Let's teach them how they can get things they want through diligence, patience, and hard work.
How do you feel about the concept of sharing where young children are concerned? I know you likely don't have a "policy," as I sure didn't before the preschool told me they had one. Now I notice a variety of different takes on the subject from the parents I see around. Makes me wonder if we need to be talking about this issue a little bit more.
...from http://moms.popsugar.com/Should-You-Teach-Kids-Share-27333250
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INGENUITY - two very short videos
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Click this link. The quick way to come down stairs.
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OUR HAPPY HOUR HANGOUT AT THE DISTRICT CONFERENCE
SPEAKER - Martin Brocklebank in U.K.
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FROM THE ROTARIAN MAGAZINE -
RECOMMENDED READING
Every few years, Haiti returns to the headlines, usually for unhappy reasons: natural disaster, political turmoil, general misery. Such news can seem doubly strange and awful when you consider that the country is only a short flight from sunny Miami. Often, Haiti feels more like a mystery and a puzzle than an actual place.
Danticat’s newest work, Claire of the Sea Light, begins in a seaside village called Ville Rose. The novel tells the story of Claire Limyè Lanmè Faustin (“Claire of the Sea Light”), whose mother died in childbirth. Her father, a poor fisherman, must choose whether to give Claire up to a local woman who could offer her a better life. But Ville Rose is a small place, and villagers’ lives are intertwined in many ways. We learn the stories of several people around Claire, and as the perspective shifts to each character, these stories look much different.
The result is a kaleidoscope of beauty and loss in a narrative that comes fully into focus only after all the pieces have been placed. It’s a testament to Danticat’s skill that she can make tales with so much darkness feel so light. In Claire of the Sea Light, as she continues to mine the trove of stories from her homeland, she again reminds us that while Haiti may seem foreign, life there is not so different from our own. – Frank Bures
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WHAT IS SOCIAL MEDIA?
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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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ROTARY ANTHEM
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FOOD PAIRINGS FOR A HEALTHY DIET (2 minute video)
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"THIS CLOSE" - We are ...
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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.
Sheila Bethel, Lindsey Cancino, and Karen Pinder lead us. An excellent trio!
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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The Board Meeting supersedes the HHH on June 14.
NEXT HAPPY HOUR HANGOUTS -
- Wednesday, June 18
- Saturday morning, June 21
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HAPPY HOUR HANGOUT – Wednesday evening, June 18
Please note the time. We are moving back to 7:00 p.m. this week again to see if that may be more convenient for everyone.
• 7:00 p.m. Atlantic Time
• 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time (Miami Time)
• 6:00 p.m. in Cayman and Jamaica
Rotary E-Club of the Caribbean, 7020 is inviting you to a scheduled Happy Hour Hangout on Wednesday evening, June 4.
We look forward to seeing you there! Join to catch up on our club fellowship!
Join from a PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone or Android device:
• Go to https://zoom.us/join and enter meeting ID: 124 429 521
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• Please click this URL to start or join. https://zoom.us/j/124429521
Join from dial-in phone line:
Dial: +1 (424) 203-8450 or +1 (209) 255-1200
Meeting ID: 124 429 521
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HAPPY HOUR HANGOUT – Saturday morning, June 21
• 9:00 a.m. Atlantic Time
• 9:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time (Miami Time)
• 8:00 a.m. Cayman Time (Jamaica Time)
Rotary E-Club of the Caribbean, 7020 is inviting you to a scheduled Happy Hour Hangout on Saturday morning, June 21.
This is a recurring meeting so the link is the same each Saturday morning. We look forward to seeing you there!
Join from a PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone or Android device:
• Go to https://zoom.us/join and enter meeting ID: 602 689 205
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• Click this URL to start or join. https://zoom.us/j/602689205
Join from dial-in phone line:
Dial: +1 (415) 762-9988 or +1 (646) 568-7788
Meeting ID: 602 689 205
Participant ID: Shown after joining the meeting
International numbers available: https://zoom.us/zoomconference
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