WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY MEETING
FRIDAY, June 3, 2016
In
this meeting:
- Rotary Minute
- ABCs of Rotary
- An Update on Polio
- Rotary Dues information
- Special Quiz
- Wednesday's program
- Last Saturday's program
- Foundation Corner
- Rotary Anthem
- Four-Way Test to close
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OUR GREETER THIS WEEK IS ROTARIAN DENIS
President's Message
Dear fellow Rotarians and Guests,
This month we celebrate Fellowship and it is certainly a most
fitting way to end the Rotary year.
Fellowship amongst the Rotarians is what keeps the family together - I am
sure you will all agree.
However, this Saturday, June 4, we will host District Chair Rema
Martin who has responsibilities for Youth Services. Let us hear from her what the district has
been doing and their upcoming plans.
Fellow Rotarians, please pay special attention to the upcoming
meetings listed below as we look forward to your full cooperation and
fellowship with us.
June 4 – Weekly Meeting – Guest Speaker – DC Rema Martin
June
11 – CLUB ASSEMBLY – Hope to see you all there!!!!!
June 18 – Weekly Meeting
June 25 – Weekly Meeting
July 2 - a special event
– INSTALLATION OF 2016/17 PRESIDENT AND BOARD
ROTARY MINUTE
QUOTATIONS REGARDING ROTARY
by
Rotary International Presidents
“The old saying about charity beginning at home is still a valid one. It is good and necessary to look at distant lands, but it is also essential to be concerned with problems in your own hometowns... We have a literal smorgasbord of opportunity for service right in our own communities.”
“Rotary must be renewed constantly at the club level to avoid stagnation and at the international level to avoid retrogression. But Rotary at all levels depends on the individual Rotarian.”
1968-69
Kiyoshi Togasaki (newspaper
publishing), Rotary Club of Tokyo, Japan. Rotary vision: That individual
Rotarians Participate! at every level of service.
“The old saying about charity beginning at home is still a valid one. It is good and necessary to look at distant lands, but it is also essential to be concerned with problems in your own hometowns... We have a literal smorgasbord of opportunity for service right in our own communities.”
—
Address to 1968 Rotary Convention, Mexico City, Mexico
1969-70
James F. Conway (law),
Rotary Club of Rockville Centre, New York, USA. Rotary vision: Review and
Renew its procedures and programs, keeping the good, excising the
ineffective.
—
The Challenge: Review and Renew, THE ROTARIAN, July
1969
ABCs OF ROTARY
 |
| RI President (1992-93) Cliff Dochterman |
Recreational and
Vocational Fellowships
From stamp collecting to ballroom
dancing, the hobbies of Rotarians are as diverse as the membership itself.
Yet, among the more than one
million Rotarians worldwide, an amateur-radio enthusiast or a chess player is bound
to find others who share the same passions. But Recreational Fellowship members
share more than just their common interest in sport diving or Esperanto; they
share an interest in fellowship and service and in promoting world
understanding. As such, it's no wonder that the International Skiing Fellowship
of Rotarians donates the profits from ski events to The Rotary Foundation or
that the Flying Rotarians help ferry medical personnel and supplies.
One has only to look at the types
of Vocational Fellowships to recognize how they differ from their recreational counterparts. With
Rotarians united by their shared professional interest in such fields as Arts
and Communication and Finance/Banking, it's obvious that Vocational Service is
as important a concern as international fellowship to the members of these
groups.
Members exchange technical information and seek opportunities to employ their expertise in service not just to their own communities and countries, but to their professions as well. For example, the Ophthalmology International Vocational Fellowship organized a professional seminar on the subject of eye surgery in developing countries.
Members exchange technical information and seek opportunities to employ their expertise in service not just to their own communities and countries, but to their professions as well. For example, the Ophthalmology International Vocational Fellowship organized a professional seminar on the subject of eye surgery in developing countries.
Rotary Friendship
Exchange
An interesting Rotary program of
fellowship is the Rotary Friendship Exchange. This activity, originally recommended
by the New Horizons Committee in 1981, is intended to encourage Rotarians and
spouses to visit with Rotarian families in other parts of the world. It may be
conducted on a club-to-club or district-to district basis.
The idea is for several Rotarian
couples to travel to another country on the Rotary Friendship Exchange. Later the
hospitality is reversed when the visit is reciprocated. After a successful
pilot experiment, the Rotary Friendship Exchange has become a permanent program
of Rotary.
The Rotary Friendship Exchange is
frequently compared to the Group Study Exchange program of The Rotary
Foundation, except that it involves Rotarian couples who personally pay for all
expenses of their inter-country experience. Doors of friendship are opened in a
way that could not be duplicated except in Rotary.
Rotarians seeking an unusual
vacation and fellowship experience should learn more about the Rotary
Friendship Exchange. Some unusual
Rotary adventures are awaiting you!
POLIO UPDATE
Tribune news Service Bathinda, May 30 - INDIA
[Bathinda is a city and Municipal Corporation in Southern part of Punjab.The city, named after the Bhati kings, is one of the oldest cities in Punjab, India and the current administrative headquarters of Bathinda District.]
To curb polio in slums, a three-day special polio drive has been launched by the district administration. More than 20, 130 children, living in slums, will be administered polio drops during the drive.
A similar drive was launched by the Health Department last month in the city, covering more than 20,557 children under its door-to-door polio drops campaign.
Earlier in January, a second polio drive administrated polio drops while setting up 697 booths during a polio drive. The drive was held under the guidance of Civil Surgeon Dr RS Randhawa.
Special teams have been constituted to administer polio drops to mobile population, especially in slum areas, at railway stations and other areas.
Dr Randhawa said, “Oral polio vaccine (polio drops) was administered under the immunisation programme for mobile population that usually remains out of the reach of the Health Department. For this, a number of teams had been constituted and those teams visited each house in slums, railway stations, brick kilns, factories and other remote areas to administer polio drops to children.
On the first day, we had covered more than 8,587 children of slum area. More than 15,000 children have been covered in two days.”
PAKISTAN
ISLAMABAD (AP) — For the first time in Pakistan's history all the previous month's environmental samples for polio have tested negative — a sign of progress in the campaign to eradicate the virus, an official said Monday.
A total of 40 samples were collected from 14 cities in mid-April under the supervision of the World Health Organization and analyzed at the National Health Institute, said Dr. Rana Safdar, the head of the National Emergency Operation Center. WHO officials could not immediately be reached for comment.
Last year 22 percent of environmental samples tested positive, and 9 percent tested positive in the first quarter of 2016.
Safdar said the negative samples represent a "significant achievement" but that complete eradication would require more "consistent efforts."
He said new immunization campaigns have been planned in vulnerable areas starting in July, after the end of the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan.
Past immunization campaigns have been met with resistance by Islamic extremists, who have spread conspiracy theories that the vaccines are part of a plot to sterilize children or gather intelligence for Western nations. Islamic militants have attacked vaccination centers and health workers taking part in the campaigns.
But Safdar said outreach programs supported by religious scholars have helped to combat the propaganda, bringing the refusal rate down from 1.5 percent to 0.05 percent over the last two years.
Pakistan and Afghanistan are among the only countries in the world where polio is endemic.
Eleven polio cases have been reported so far this year in Pakistan, compared to 54 last year. The highly infectious virus mainly affects small children, and can cause paralysis.
ROTARY per-capita DUES
- RI dues are currently $55 per year. RI dues will increase
- $1 per year in 2016-17
- $4 per year in 2017-18
- $4 per year in 2018-2019
- $4 per year in 2019-20, reaching $68 per year in 2019-2020.
A QUIZ FOR MY VERY BRIGHT FRIENDS
...submitted by Rotarian Lou
There are only 9 questions.
This is a quiz for people who know everything!
It’s easy to find out that you possibly do not know
everything.
These are not trick questions. They are straight questions with straight
answers.
- Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends?
- What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward?
- Of all vegetables, only two can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons. All other vegetables must be replanted every year. What are the only two perennial vegetables?
- What fruit has its seeds on the outside?
- In many liquor stores, you can buy pear brandy, with a real pear inside the bottle. The pear is whole and ripe, and the bottle is genuine; it has not been cut in any way. How did the pear get inside the bottle?
- Only three words in standard English begin with the letters “dw” and they are all common words. Name two of them.
- There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name at least half of them?
- Name the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form except fresh.
- Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter “S.”
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WHAT HAPPENED ON WEDNESDAY!
June 1
Are Children good liars?
Can you really tell if a kid is lying?
Are
children poor liars?
Do you think you can easily detect their lies?
Developmental researcher Kang Lee studies what happens physiologically to children when they lie. They do it a lot, starting as young as two years old, and they're actually really good at it. Lee explains why we should celebrate when kids start to lie and presents new lie-detection technology that could someday reveal our hidden emotions.
Do you think you can easily detect their lies?
Developmental researcher Kang Lee studies what happens physiologically to children when they lie. They do it a lot, starting as young as two years old, and they're actually really good at it. Lee explains why we should celebrate when kids start to lie and presents new lie-detection technology that could someday reveal our hidden emotions.
Kang Lee has devoted his career to understanding
the development of social cognition and behavior.
Why you should listen
With an international team based at the University of Toronto, Kang Lee
investigates the neurological and social basis of emerging social behaviors in young
children. His two-pronged research focuses first on how and when children
develop the capacity to lie, to detect liesand to feel guilty about it
afterwards.
The second focus of Lee's research is facial recognition, which has led
to revelations of when children develop the ability to distinguish races and
has helped explain why some people occasionally see Jesus' face on a piece of
toast.
What others say
“Lee ... is masterful at tempting children to make morally dubious
decisions. It’s an art he practises at his cheerful third floor lab. He
conducts experiments on how people lie in order to study the cognitive, social
and cultural factors that help us learn how and when to be
deceptive.” — The Globe and Mail, October 16, 2014
Plan
to join us on a Wednesday to continue to learn and to have fun!
WHAT HAPPENED LAST SATURDAY
The speaker last Saturday was Dana Fletcher, speaking on Mental Health.
Here is a reprise, for those who missed it...
For a very informative read about her struggles, please click the links below.
Danaembracestheunknown.tumblr.com
FOUNDATION CORNER
WHAT
IS THE ANNUAL FUND
ANNUAL
FUND is the
primary source of funding for all Foundation activities. Our annual
contributions help Rotary Clubs take action to create positive change in
communities at home and around the world. Our gift helps strengthen peace
efforts, provide clean water and sanitation, support education, grow local
economies, save mothers and children and fight disease.
The
EVERY ROTARIAN every year (EREY) initiative asks every Rotarian to support The
Rotary Foundation every year.
Through
our annual Sustaining Member contributions of $100 or more, the Rotary E-Club
of the Caribbean, 7020 has been a 100% EREY contributor since we
were chartered in 2013. Let us continue to support The Rotary Foundation
(TRF) through our annual donations. We have been and continue to “Be a
gift to the World."
THE ROTARY ANTHEM
Rotary Anthem from Rotary International on Vimeo.
ANSWERS TO LOU'S QUIZ
JUNE 3
- The one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends – boxing.
- North American landmark constantly moving backward – Niagara Falls. The rim is worn down about 2 ½ feet each yeara because of the millions of gallons of water that rush over it every minute.
- Only two vegetables that can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons - asparagus and rhubarb.
- The fruit with its seeds on the outside – strawberry
- How did the pear get inside the brandy bottle? It grew inside the bottle. The bottles are placed over pear buds when they are small, and are wired in place on the tree. The bottle is left in place for the entire growing season. When the pears are ripe, they are snipped off at the stems.
- Three English words beginning with “dw” – dwarf, dwell, dwindle
- Fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar: period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation mark, quotation mark, brackets, parentheses, braces, and ellipses
- The only vegetable or fruit never sold frozen, canned, processed cooked, or in any other form but fresh – lettuce
- Six or more things you can wear on your feet beginning with “S” – shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes, stockings, stilts
THE ROTARY FOUR-WAY TEST
To
close the meeting...
ROTARY
FOUR-WAY TEST
of
the things we think, say, or do...
Rotarian Kitty leads us.
Rotarian Kitty leads us.
And
the final bell with our own John Fuller...
Thanks for stopping by!
Enjoy your week, and all that you do for Rotary!
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