Seeing Again Guatemala
Meeting for the week of June 01 - June 07, 2020
This Meeting at a Glance:
Program: Seeing Again Guatemala
Speaker: Dr. Marty Fishman
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Table of Contents
Welcome to the Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley!
Here’s a message from President Tzviatko:
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Guests, we are happy to have you join us this week!
As we see it, our flexibility as an online, asynchronous club allows a special type of service to Rotarians around the world: we make it easier for anyone to strive for and maintain 100% attendance. That keeps you engaged with Rotary's events and ideas, and provides a moment of inspiration for devoting your creativity, talents, and resources to good causes.You are certainly not required to pay anything in order to attend our meetings. However, if you would like to make a small contribution to our service efforts, you are welcome to do so in our secure Happy Dollars section down the page. This could be what you normally pay at your own club's meetings for lunch, for example. Any amount is welcome, but first and foremost, we're happy you've joined us, and hope you will share with others who we are and what we do to help inspire Service Above Self.And don't forget to fill out our attendance form so you get an email you can pass on to your club's secretary!
The Four Way Test
The Four-Way Test is a nonpartisan and nonsectarian ethical guide for Rotarians to use for their personal and professional relationships.
Of the things we think, say or do
Is it the TRUTH?
Is it FAIR to all concerned?
Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
Members of the Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley from around the world
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Happy Birthday!!
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From around the world,
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Members and guests, consider donating in their honor in our Happy Dollars section below.
Weekly Funny with the Lady of Laughter (LOL)
We believe laughter is an important part of life, and we should all make time to laugh a little. This segment of our meeting is meant to tickle you just enough. These funnies are curated by member Yvonne Kwan, our “Lady of Laughter!”
June is National Adopt a Cat Month! If you've been thinking about having a feline furiend, the time is meow!
What do you call a cat who loves to bowl?
An alley cat!
Why are cats great singers?
They're mewsical!
What do you call a pile of kittens?
A meowtain!
Weekly Inspiration
Every week we start our meetings with a short video highlighting innovation, inspiration, entrepreneurship, or social change.
Karlheinz Brandenburg has listened to Suzanne Vega’s “Tom’s Diner” thousands of times and never tires of it. In fact, the song holds a special place in his heart because it was instrumental in the creation of the MP3. The German engineer and mathematician is known as the father of the digital audio format. Brandenburg explains how he found a way to compress Vega’s a cappella track into an MP3 file that sounded as good as a CD, forever altering the way music is distributed.
Member Spotlight
This week's Member Spotlight is Nan Herron! Here is what they have been up to lately:
As is true for all of us, Sheltering-In-Place is the shaping force of my life right now. I spend most days working as Medical Director of Aurora Psychiatric Hospital in Santa Rosa. My career as psychiatrist has been such a blessing and joy for me and I am so grateful to have the privilege of connecting with people on such a meaningful level every day. When not working, I am doing my best to be mindful about how to stay safe and adhere to guidelines and still keep plenty of joy in my life. What I have found effective is 1) staying connected with those I love, 2) staying active and busy, and, 3) staying positive by focusing on gratitude.These photos capture this for me.The first photo is from last week -- I was able to go kayaking in Monterey Bay and watch harbor seals and otters frolic with their new babies. What fun that was! I am really looking forward to getting out into the ocean to look for humpbacks!
The next photo shows a nice spread I put together for my friend's birthday party -- we sat 10 feet away in her back yard in Berkeley and it felt like all was right in the world. I was especially excited by the "rose petal" squash and caramelized onion tart you see there with the candle. It is one of the prettiest dishes I've ever cooked, thanks to bonappetit.com!
The next photo is from my favorite local hiking spot, Helen Putnam Park. The benches are ideal for meditation! And, also, for wine and cheese sunset Happy Hours!
The credit for the fourth photo goes to my son, Sam: Cosmo and Felix, who own my heart! When I need an extra jolt of happy, I just snuggle with these two who own my heart!
World of Rotary
https://blog.rotary.org/2020/03/19/how-to-engage-members-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic/
Through a Rotarian's Lens
Sometimes a photo can capture an amazing moment. In this section Member Keith Marsh shares his incredible photography!If you'd like to submit a photo for this section please contact Keith.
White flowers are difficult to photograph because light meters are designed to over expose them. Underexposure or bracketing are solutions to get more details in the highlights. This is a Fortnight Lily or African Iris (Dietes iridiodes) that is currently in bloom in my yard.
Learn Something New
This section is curated by members Shags Shagrin and Rushton Hurley and aims to teach our members and guests something new, fun and useful! If you have any ideas on a fun trick or skill you'd like to share please contact Rushton or Shags.
There's Still Time for Summer Gardens!!
Especially when you learn that you can REGROW things from what you might be throwing away. Check out these ideas! Remember, with the Settings icon on YouTube you are able to speed up the playback and add subtitles to get through it more quickly. Another "Learn Something New" tip!!
Coffee With a Rotarian
A natural part of Rotary is the networking and the fellowship you get out of meeting other Rotarians. Coffee With a Rotarian is a monthly program of our club where we match participating club members for one-on-one virtual (or in some cases in person) coffee meetings, so they can learn more about each other. This program is organized by member Tzviatko Chiderov.
This week we have Rory from Houston, TX, USA reporting on a chat with Raquel from Costa Rica / MexicoRaquel and I spent over an hour this morning discussing dogs and cats and less fur covered topics.She holds an MD degree and is a general practitioner.
Currently her major project is developing a company in Costa Rica which will conduct programs for teenagers in which they would work on the environment in Costa Rica, while learning Spanish. Unfortunately the Novel Coronavirus has slowed the program down for this year.Raquel is part of the TRF Technical Advisers.
Her ultimate goal is to become an epidemiologist.More than anything else, we discussed her plans for our club in the next Rotary year in which she will serve as our president. We will be lucky to have her at the helm.
We encourage all club members to participate in Coffee With a Rotarian. You can sign up here!
New Member Introduction
Please welcome our new member, Manouchehr Shamsrizi!
Here is a little bit about him:
My name is Manouchehr Shamsrizi, which is Persian for "Face of Paradise." I am writing you these words from Hamburg, Germany, which is my hometown, and one of two cities I spend most of my time, Berlin being the second one. Ferheen, my mentor in regards of my new membership in our Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley, asked me to write a bit about myself and my motivation. Well, being in preventative self-quarantining right now, I have some time, so I shall make use of it.Throughout the past decade, I had the honour to be able to work at the interface between social entrepreneurship (both as founder and impact investor), political activism (I co-lodged a constitutional complaint asking Germany's Federal Constitutional Court to lower the voting age), academia (e.g. as co-founder of Humboldt-Universität's gamelab.berlin and of Leuphana Universität Lüneburg's Yunus Centre for Social Business and Values, formerly as a Global Justice Fellow of Yale University and an Ariane de Rothschild Fellow of Innovative Social Entrepreneurship of the University of Cambridge), and in consulting of agencies, political parties, foundations, and think tanks all over Europe. A lot of my social engagement has been influenced by my years as a Rotaractor - a decade I enjoyed very much, both as a member and as a President of my Club in Hamburg, Germany. This is why I believe my membership of Rotary, notably my membership in the Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley, will allow me to enhance my social engagement with the experiences and perspectives of peers and fellow Rotarians, and thus to shape my personal and professional life in the next decade at least.There is another reason I am looking forward to my membership in the Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley: I believe that technology and science can make the world a better place - if we succeed in organising access in a just way. In fact the data shows us that so far, every new generation of technology made our societies more inclusive, healthy, democratic, and our institutions had greater transparency and accountability. The digital transformation, though, has not achieved this kind of impact on governments yet, not for everyone. The Rotarian family, being a network of leading practitioners from different backgrounds and disciplines build around ethical principles like the "Four-Way Test" and the idea of "One Profits Most Who Serves Best", can change this. This is also true, because Rotary has re-invented itself while sticking true to its values; besides eClubs like our very own, the Rotarian Metalhead Fellowship could serve as an example, of which I am a co-founder, and I hope that I can join a Rotarian Gaming and eSports Fellowship one day.
Welcome to the club, Manouchehr !!
Relay for Life
This is it - the last week of our spring effort to involve everyone in our club's fight against cancer!
Remember you can do so by sending a message or a picture with a note, or even through a donation here (http://main.acsevents.org/goto/rushton). Money raised goes to funds for research, education, and programs for patients and caregivers.Here's the team so far and a note in honor of one still fighting:
If you have any questions, reach out to Rushton. And thanks again to all who have taken part!
Service Report
Tell us about service you’ve done recently in your community.
Click here to fill out The Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley Service Survey
Herron, Nan:
Gave a talk to Mission San Jose Rotary Club! :)
Hurley, Rushton:
Tatiana LaGarde and I prepared and presented two half-hour webinars for parents dealing with online learning.S
ham, Brett:
Prepare presentation and present to RC Ausable Valley
Gildart, Nate:
I gave a 90-minute presentation/Q&A for international school parents in Japan on strategies to work with their children and their family's wellbeing during remote learning.I gave a webinar for Grade 11-12 educators through the Kerman Unified School District's Equity in Distance Learning project in Fresno California. We went over how to use Google Meet and best practices for synchronous and asynchronous learning with an interactive session. Lots of fun! (but being online at 5am in Japan was a shock to my system!)
On the first meeting of every month, we feature service reports from club members for the previous month. Thanks for your service everyone!
Help the vulnerable in your community during COVID-19
Helping Hands is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping the most at-risk people in our community stay safe at home, while getting the supplies they need. It works by connecting local volunteers who can run critical errands, such as grocery shopping, with the most vulnerable members of our community. If you or someone you know needs help, fill out a request. If you are healthy and able to volunteer, please sign up to help. Together, we can help flatten the curve of COVID-19 by protecting our community’s most vulnerable.Additional resources:
Club Announcements
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Our Events & Projects
We hold our meetings online, but we do regular service projects and social events in the Silicon Valley! This section is updated every week with our upcoming events. We welcome guests to all of the events and service projects listed here.
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Upcoming Events:
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More events coming soon! All events are open to guests, unless otherwise mentioned. Feel free to join us! If you ever have questions, please email inquiries@siliconvalleyrotary.com
Happy Dollars: Do Good by Sharing Something Good
Each week we ask our members to share stories with the club and toss in a few dollars to support our efforts. The primary goal of this section is to provide a fun way of getting to know each fellow members and guests, while giving back to a good cause.
Happy dollars is an opportunity to share something positive that has happened in your life whether it is personal or business. Think of it as your opportunity to brag a little, but also put a little bit into a karma jar. The money donated through happy dollars is put to charitable use, and the message that you leave for happy dollars will be posted in our online meeting the following week for the entire week for folks to see! (Pending that it’s appropriate!)
Here are the happy dollars contributions from last week!
This section is usually updated on the early hours of Saturday, so contributions made over the weekend may not be listed here.
Rory Olsen made a $20 donation.
We are alternating between hot, sunny days and dark coolish days. It is driving my cats crazy. Please apply my gift to Polio Plus.
Monique Ziesenhenne made a $25 donation.
Glad to have some HOT weather! Donate to TRF-Annual Fund, please.
Catherine A made a $Other Amount donation.
I am celebrating my third year in RESV this month! Please use these funds for a club project or club expense. Many thanks to Mitty Chang, who welcomed me into the club back in 2017!
Carl Mianecke made a $25 donation.
I am happy to be at my place on the Bay in Wisconsin and all set up for summer fun and visitors. It was quite refreshing to set up my pier and boat lift in 52 degree water.
Selected Comments
Every week at the bottom of our meetings, there is a comments section for members and guests to tell us what they enjoyed about the meeting or to ask questions to the speaker. We select a few comments every week from last week’s meeting to be featured during this week’s meeting.
Here are the comments selected from last week’s meeting.
Cecelia Babkirk said:
Budd, it was great to hear your story again! The "after" conversation was enlightening, as well. Reminds me of that famous quote by Margaret Mead - "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." She must have known that it's not that we set out to create change in the world. We just do what we do everyday and it somehow happens.
Nan, great to get to know you a little better - you share a love of cooking with many of us in the club.
Nate and Mark, always good to see you - if only virtually!
Monique le Conge Ziesenhenne said:
Nan, your food made my mouth water! Looks like it was delicious and am happy you maintained your social distance and were able to celebrate! So many interesting things in this week's meeting - fantastic! Thanks to all for the engaging presentations.
Mahmood Khan said:
Budd, fantastic program in Afghanistan - it makes a meaningful difference. The state of US education and the general life is need of a real change. Our education system, the living environment and support. Denmark is a great example of a caring society for ALL not just the chosen ones. The Scandinavian in general have a balanced society that supports family and education.
Welcome Alaa Hasanen to our club.
María Sol Casas said:
Great program! Bud, it's admirable all the work you have done in Afghanistan. I also really like the idea of rasing compassion in kids, especially the idea that they act as mediators. Congratulations!
Be sure to leave a comment at the end of this week’s meeting after you watch the program below, and perhaps you’ll see your comment featured next week!
Program: Seeing Again Guatemala
Speaker: Dr. Marty Fishman
Every week we bring to you a new program on innovation, entrepreneurship, and education, and how those contribute to service to others. Special thanks to member Roger Plested for leading our club's Programs Committee in finding us amazing speakers each week.The Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley seeks to explore perspectives on service from across the world. The views of the speakers in our programs are their own, and unless stated otherwise, are not necessarily reflective of the views of our eClub nor Rotary International.
If you have an idea for a cool speaker, please feel free to reach out to them directly or submit THIS FORM so our Program Committee can contact them!
Seeing Again Guatemala is a medical/surgical project to provide eye care, including cataract surgery, to an indigenous population in the highlands of Guatemala. It began in 1996, and now sends approximately a dozen ophthalmic surgeons, nurses and operating room staff to Santo Tomas la Union, where they provide medical and surgical eye care for one week every six months. The indigenous population is without access to such care, and is impoverished and burdened with a high incidence of ocular disease including glaucoma, diabetes and cataracts. The program has served over 10,000 patients and restored vision to nearly 1,800 patients who were blind from cataracts. Dr. Fishman has been the Co-Director of the program since 2007, and in 2016 joined the Rotary Club of Los Gatos, which helps support the program.Dr. Martin Fishman has been a practicing ophthalmologist in Los Gatos since 1976. A graduate of UC Berkeley Pre-Med and the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, Dr. Fishman is a Clinical Professor at Stanford University Medical Center, where he has taught ophthalmic pathology for over 40 years. He has served as Chief of the Medical Staff at Los Gatos Community Hospital, President of the Santa Clara County Medical Association and the California Academy of Ophthalmology, and he has been a Trustee for the California Medical Association and the Santa Clara County Health Trust.Currently the president of the Rotary Club of Los Gatos, Dr. Fishman appreciates the leadership and resources Rotary can develop to serve people in need in our community and those in need in other countries. He and his wife Barbara have two children, two grandchildren, and enjoy travel, theater and film, exercise, and reading.
To learn more: https://seeingagainguatemala.weebly.com of this meeting page!
Upcoming Program Recording Schedule
All of our guest speakers and programs are recorded live online over Zoom video conference. We welcome members and guests to join us in one of these upcoming recordings. Recordings are approximately 30 minutes long and are subject to change without notice.
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