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Today's Events:

President-Elect Doreen Reitnauer presiding  

We welcome all our visitors…

Neema R. Desai, Bankruptcy Attorney (Linda)

We’re happy because…

Glad to be sitting at a table with beautiful women – Booker

Fabio’s Sgt. at Arm’s line is getting shorter and shorter – Lakitsia

I’m back from vacation – Karen

Jose ran cable and we have WiFi!  - Felipe

It’s the 20^th anniversary of Happy $ - Bob

The family enjoyed a week of great traveling in N Carolina and Georgia – Dr. Mike

Felipe’s enthusiasm is infectious – Diana

Someone can sing well today – Cathy

I’m glad to be back in town – Charles

I’m attending a fraternity meeting in Ohio next weekend – Peter

My Rotary anniversary was remembered – Fabio

For the rendition of the National Anthem – Doreen

We’re headed for Denver – Marty Rosen and I are involved in dealing with the reserves - Mike Mills:

My sister does NOT have cancer – Detective Guzmna

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RCSM Company Store

Mike Mills will have our stock of Rotary white polo shirts with him for the next couple of meetings.

New members that haven’t received one should be sure to see me as they are entitled to one shirt. They are also for sale for other existing members who would like to buy a new one - $20 is the price – I think. I do have some ladies and children sizes.

An inventory our in stock shirts:

XXL - 2

XL - 8

L - 1

S - 3

Kids Large – 3

Mike Mllls: 

Roy Gonas, PDG and RCSM Programming Chair 2007-08 was honored with a token of Past President Mike Mills esteem.

HAPPY

Friday, August 14^th will be Fabio’s EIGHTH year in Rotary!

Football Mania – John Sorgie

Asking all members to sell 10 booklets by September 10^th!

Support Football Mania!  Mike demonstrated to members how to find people who are normally supportive of charities and just ask for a donation to this small fundraiser by September 10^th!  Mike sold 10 and asked for 30!  He sold two to Detective Guzman from  the podium!

Rotary Leadership Institute (RLI)

We are happy to announce that the RLI will once again be held at the American Intercontinental University in Weston, Florida.  It will be conducted on August 29, 2009.  Enhance your general management and leadership skills plus expand your Rotary knowledge at the same time! 

 Registration deadline is August 19, 2009!!!

 http://www.rlitraining.org  

 Registrar Debbie Maymon (contact information is on the website).

DISTRICT DRIVE FOR MEMBERSHIP

We have planned four major Membership Development Events based on the three major reasons folks join a Rotary Club: Business Networking, Fellowship and Community Service.  The first will be a business networking event to be held at one of your regularly scheduled club meetings in October.  On November 15, Rotary Day will be celebrated by the Miami Dolphins at their game against Tampa Bay .  What a great opportunity to invite a friend or associate to enjoy Rotary Fellowship.  April will be the month for Community Service Project events, where perspective members will be invited to work along side Rotarians at various club projects throughout the District.  Finally in May, we will have another Fellowship Event to be held at Marlins baseball game.

In addition to our Membership Development events we are planning a Membership Seminar for all 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 Club Membership Chairs to be held in March. 

Each of these events has been designed to help District 6990 Rotary Clubs recruit new members.  The RI District 6990 Public Relations Committee will invite the public to attend your October business networking event and April community service project through public service announcements and ads.  Details concerning October’s Business Networking Event will be sent out the first of next week. 

We are looking forward to your enthusiastic support of our 2009-2010 Membership Development Plan.  Rotary was meant to be shared!

 Yours in Rotary Service,

Christopher T. Morrison

Email: morrisonclan@att.net
HPhone: 305-667-3410
OPhone: 305-582-7690

MARK YOUR CALENDARS!!

September 8, 2009: 

District Governor Lee Phares’ club visit!

Board members and Officers arrive at 11:00 a.m.

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The Future of Rotary Is in “Your Hands”

This simple truth will be our theme for 2009-10, serving as a constant reminder of the personal responsibility that each Rotarian holds. Winston Churchill once said: “The price of greatness is responsibility.”

Rotary is a great organization, and it has the potential to become even greater — if each one of us rises to the challenge and takes responsibility for its future. In Rotary, each one of us has been assigned a job. Its title is Rotarian. Our duties are to offer relevant service locally and internationally, and to expand our club’s capacity for service by inviting professional and business leaders to become members and promoting a positive image locally. Our job description also calls for each of us to be an example of ethical behavior in our professional and personal lives, to act as leaders in our club and community, and to fully support Rotary’s highest priority of polio eradication.

The job of Rotarian brings immense benefits. We enjoy incomparable fellowship with one another and the great personal satisfaction that comes from serving others. If you believe in Rotary and its power to make a difference in the world, it is time to stand up and commit to doing the best job you can — with all of your mind, your heart, and your soul.

The Future of Rotary Is in Your Hands.

John Kenny

President, Rotary International, 2009-10

Mr. Kenny’s message has been edited, the full version can be found online at www.rotary.org

WHAT IS ‘EVERY ROTARIAN, EVERY YEAR’ ALL ABOUT?

This initiative by the Board of Trustees of The Rotary Foundation:

• encourages EVERY ROTARIAN to participate in a Foundation humanitarian or educational project that truly makes a difference in the world EVERY YEAR, and
• encourages EVERY ROTARIAN to contribute to the Foundation’s Annual Program Fund toward the worldwide $100.00 per capita annual giving goal EVERY YEAR.

Our District 6990 Clubs for Rotary year 2009-2010 have pledged a goal of $292,875.00 total giving to the Annual Programs Fund of The Rotary Foundation. For 2008-2009 Rotary year the District 6990 the goal was $297,625.00.  YOU ARE PART OF THE ‘EVERY ROTARIAN, EVERY YEAR’ INITIATIVE? 

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT OF THE ROTARY FOUNDATION AND ITS WORK.

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Next show:

Saturday & Sunday, February 27 – 28, 2010

www.southmiamiartfest.com  (official site)

DID YOU MISS A MEETING ‘CAUSE YOU WERE AWAY?

Our club goal is 100% Attendance!

If you miss a meeting, it can be made-up within 2 weeks, before or after, of the missed meeting date.

For online make-ups:

http://www.rotary.org/newsroom/downloadcenter/pdfs/eclub_list.pdf

Visit www.ri6990.org to find a club to make up an absence.  Attendance credit for a 30-minute interactive club Web site activity offers an alternative to making up a meeting at another club. To earn this credit, Rotarians log on to the site, read up on a range of subjects, post comments, & submit a form to the club secretary.

How to do a Make-Up On-Line via Rotary eClub One?

Perfect attendance is now possible for every Rotarian with computer access. Rotary’s eClub One is a full-service online charted Rotary Club. Meetings operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week. What an easy way to make up for a meeting that you have missed! During the last Rotary year, Rotary eClub One welcomed more than 120,000 visitors from 161 countries. Of these, about 800 per week participated in one of eClub One’s meeting programs and applied for make-up credit.

Here’s what you have to do to earn make up credit. Go to http://www.rotary.org/RIdocuments/en_pdf/eclub_list.pdf

It is mandatory that you spend at least 30 minutes on the website for qualify for a make-up credit. (Remember Rotarians are guided by the principles of the 4 Way Test).

1.  Read a variety of current articles in the programs section and/or choose articles from the Archived Programs list and/or information from the Avenues of Service pages. You will be required to answer questions. There is space on the makeup request form for up to three articles to be reviewed, however you will need to read more than three to meet your 30 minute visit obligation.

2.  At the end of your 30 minute visit, click on Make-up Request Form from the drop-down menu at the top of the page OR the bottom of each make-up program.

3.  Read the Makeup Request Form carefully, and follow instructions. The form will appear once you press the SUBMIT button (one time only) and an email copy will be sent to the email address you proved. This can be forwarded to your club secretary so your attendance records are properly updated.

Rotarians can also designate eClub One as their home club.

Members in eClub One are usually experienced Rotarians who are unable to belong to a traditional club because they reside in a remote location or they are engaged in a demanding travel schedule. Those applying for membership in eClub One must provide an endorsement from their current District Governor, current Rotary club President, along with letters of reference from two Rotarian colleagues of their current club..

eClub One has standard requirements for memberships, including charges for dues and administrative fees. Participants also must be willing to take part regularly in the Rotary eClub One community by taking on tasks and responsibilities. Members are required to also have regular access to the Internet and be willing to acquire the necessary skills to participate in the activities of Rotary eClub One.

Rotary and eClub One are on the cutting edge of the technology age. How this evolves will only be determined by periodic evaluation and the involvement of its members. For today, however, it is an outstanding tool for Rotarians to makeup missed meetings and keep in touch with Rotary happenings throughout the world.

For make-ups anywhere around the world when traveling internationally: http://rotary.org/support/clubs/index.html

NOTIFY Brett Trembly, RCSM Secretary

of ALL make-ups:   b.trembly@gmail.com

2009-10 RCSM OFFICERS:

President:  Reverend Pansy Graham
pansygraham@bellsouth.net

President Elect:  Doreen Reitnauer
dhiker217@aol.com

Vice President:  Bill Enright
yukonbill@bellsouth.net

Secretary:  Brett Trembly

b.trembly@suttonlawgroup.com

Treasurer: David Jacobs
david@jnccpas.com

Sergeant at Arms:  Fabio Fernandez 

fernandezfabio@bellsouth.net

Club Board of Directors:

Ellen Book, Ed Fischer, Roy Gonas, Linda Kaplan, Mike Mills, Diana Phillips, Don Streaker, Donna Gaines, Felipe Vidal

Club Foundation Board of Directors:

Pansy Graham, Bill Enright, Doreen Reitnauer, Brett Trembly, Don Streaker, Fabio Fernandez, Treasurer Artfest, Linda Kaplan, Diana Phillips, Ellen Book

To send an E-mail to the Rotary Club of South Miami’s Board of Directors, board@southmiamirotary.org

South Miami Rotary Club:
www.southmiamirotary.org

Rotary District 6990:

www.ri6990.org / 305-860-8060

District Governor Lee Phares & Eliju Phares District Foundation Chair

World Organization:
www.rotary.org

Mission Statement

The mission of Rotary International, a worldwide association of Rotary clubs, is to provide service to others, to promote high ethical standards, and to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through its fellowship of business, professional, and community leaders.

THE 4-WAY TEST OF THE THINGS WE THINK, SAY OR DO:   

Benefits of Being A Rotarian (Membership)
Rotary membership provides the opportunity to:

¨       Become connected to your community.

¨       Work with others in addressing community needs.

¨       Interact with other professionals in your community;
assist with RI's international humanitarian service efforts.

¨       Establish contacts with an international network of professionals.

¨       Develop leadership skills.  Involve family in promoting service efforts.

Renewing or Joining
To Renew ($275) or to become a New Member ($325) contact

Asaad Massoud, at www.racharters.com

Fundraisers
Interested in putting together a fundraiser?

Contact Club Fundraising Chair Wendy Lapidus at wendylapidus@bellsouth.net

Service Projects

Interested in helping others?

Contact Club Service Chair Linda Kaplan at lk@lindakaplan.com

Asst. Police Chief Michael Mills introduced today’s speaker:

Henry Guzman, Detective

South Miami Police Department

Detective Guzman started a boot camp for juveniles 1988.  He revitalized the SMPD Explorers post from a defunct organization to a hands-on program touching the lives of hundreds of teens.

He’s a founder of Informed Families  a non-profit organization.  Accolades include being named Officer of the Year by Miami-Dade County on multiple occasions as Officer of the Month for the city of South Miami.  He has been recognized by Distinguished Police Chiefs from the city and from the state of FL.

As a Senior Detective he deals with large investigations such as economic crime scenes to small theft such as bicycles being stolen and everything in between.  His job requires a myriad of experience and knowledge.

Detective Guzman warned to be wary of open Wi-Fi networks like Panera Bread.  Be aware to check that you are connecting to your real bank where the encryption is safe.  However, a common attack is jacking the access point. Your  browser thinks you are at a “real” site and you’re at the hacker’s site. Protect yourself with firewalls and virus protection. A virus allows content monitoring which can compromise your data when the machine is infected.  The viral program allows the capturing of data from your keystrokes. Pornography and bully sites force you to visit.  75% of identity theft is information taken from the internet.

Do you receive lots of junk email messages from people you don't know? It's no surprise if you do. As more people use email, marketers are increasingly using email messages to pitch their products and services. Some consumers find unsolicited commercial email - also known as "spam" - annoying and time consuming; others have lost money to bogus offers that arrived in their email in-box.

www.ftc.gov/spam/ to report spam. 

This website has information about the Federal Trade Commission's recent law enforcement actions against deceptive commercial email and spammers' responsibilities under the CAN-SPAM law. In the "For Consumers" section, you'll find tips on how to reduce the amount of spam email in your in-box.

If you get spam email that you think is deceptive, forward it to spam@uce.gov. The FTC uses the spam stored in this database to pursue law enforcement actions against people who send deceptive email.

Detective Guzman described the using of criminals’ computers to solve crimes – taking the IP addresses off of the criminal’s machines. 

One case:  Dell’s Lojack for laptops – programmed established and a computer was stolen from a college by a burglar.  Sold the property.  One of the laptop’s tracking device pin pointed it to W. Palm Beach.  The police could remote access visit all of the sites stored on this machine.  Came in with attorney and brought the computer into the police station.  He tracked this person back to person who committed the grand theft breaking and entering.

Second case: Walgreens  had $1.3 million worth of break-ins into their ATMs.  A family was recently arrested at a hotel by the MIA. They would target ATMs from Tampa to Miami Dade for the last 2-3 years. They were very violent and they’ve been caught with all of their tools. 

Check to see if you’re the victim of identity theft by checking your credit reports.  For free annual reports:   Annualcreditreport.com

DO NOT use freecreditreport.com!!!

Detective Guzman with President Elect Doreen Reitnauer