Today's Events:

President-Elect Bill Enright presiding

We welcome all of our Visiting Rotarians and Guests:

Lourdes from the Rotary Club of Key West
&
Daniel Berger  (Ellen)

* * * A N N O U N C E M E N T S  * * *

Ed Fischer:

Foundation month is in November.  Remember how lucky you are to be a Rotarian who can give to those who need us….the beauty of Rotary is that there is always a Rotarian who is hands-on involved in our charities.

Saturday, December 8, 2007
The Holiday Party will be at Ed Fischer’s home.  

Saturday, November 03, 2007
Hands On Miami Day 2007

 
Tis the season to volunteer…

Linda will be overseeing the clean-up of the Spoil Islands, meet at Shake-a-Leg. 

Impact:
Volunteer efforts will focus on improving the learning environment at 18 “mini-extreme makeover” school locations, as well taking care of our endangered local ecosystem at 7 environmental projects throughout Miami-Dade County.

All volunteers receive

• breakfast (courtesy of Starbucks Coffee Company),
• a Hands On Miami Day t-shirt, and
• an invitation to attend the family-friendly post-event celebration at Finnegan's On the River in  Downtown Miami, 401 SW 3 Avenue, Miami, FL   33130.
  

Registration brochure
http://www.handsonmiami.org/AboutUs/index.php/HOMDay2007/HOMD_brochure.pdf

BILL ENRIGHT, SERVICE PROJECTS COORDINATOR:

Saturday, November 17, 2007
The Falls’ Annual Holiday Parade

Miracle on 136th Street Parade!

Volunteer orientation on Saturday,  Nov 10, 2007 10am-11am 

Celebrating its 11th year, the parade is the official kick-off to the holiday season at The Falls and Santa's magical arrival.
The parade will take place on Saturday, November 17th 11:30am to 6:00pm. However, volunteers MUST attend an orientation on Saturday, November 10th at 10:00am if they wish to participate in this great community event.

The DEADLINE to sign-up and participate in the orientation/event is Wednesday, November 7th 2007.

Volunteers are needed to support parade logistics such as:
-Pacers to keep the parade moving
-Greet Miami-Dade dignitaries
-Coordinate parade’s floats
-Manage booths (including HOM’s)
-Distribute booklets

Volunteers are required to wear comfortable shoes, as they will do a lot of walking. We will also provide you with Hands on Miami volunteer t-shirt.

For more information please contact Lucia Goyen at 305-646-7462/ Lucia@handsonmiami.org

Saturday & Sunday, FEBRUARY 23 – 24, 2008
South Miami Rotary Art Festival

www.southmiamiartfest.com
Diana Phillips - Art show applications picking up

Visit the club’s NEW MYSPACE page: 

www.myspace.com/southmiamirotaryclub

Friday, November 7, 2007

Rockettes

Our district is partnering with Special Olympics to raise funds for The Rotary Foundation. Please help out by spreading the word about the special Rockettes event on November 7th, 2007 in Ft. Lauderdale, benefiting Special Olympics and TRF.

Details regarding this event can be found on the district web site: http://rotary6990.org

Yours in Rotary Service,
Lan Nghiem-Phu, DCO
Email: lannp@macsystems. com
Home Phone: 305-665-3729 / Office Phone: 305-670-3009

Cycling to Serve Fellowship

The Rotary Club of Coral Gables’ Cycling to Serve Fellowship kicks off its civic engagement calendar this coming November 4^th, Sunday at 10 am.  As in the past year, we will need the two motorcycle officers (Perez and Cachinero if possible) to escort our group of youngsters and their family.  We are expecting a similar number group (25 to 30 riders) and coverage will be done by the Miami Herald and it runs on PR over the coming two weeks. 

We have scheduled four rides for this year’s civic engagement calendar:

1.    November 4^th (Fall Celebration Ride),
2.    December 1st (Family Holiday Ride)
3.    February 12^th    (Valentine’s Day Ride)
4.    April 6^th (Spring Celebration Ride).

The mission of Rotary’s Cycling to Serve Fellowship is to teach by example safety and positive rules of engagement while on the road for all cyclist, the duties and responsibilities of each rider, respect for law enforcement and the mission they support, and to afford a friendly gathering of families celebrating the Coral Gables community.

The Town of Cutler Bay also has a similar ride on Saturday, November 3^rd, and the City of Miami Beach has theirs the following Saturday November 10^th.

The Coral Gables riding group assembles by Ponce Middle School in the service road paralleling Dixie Hwy.  Our route follows the existing mapped out executed by the officers listed last season; they are familiar and experienced in this event.  

Hampton Booker:
Spare change fundraiser:

Toss your coins into the jug at the Sgt. Of Arms table.  Make a wish!!!

$$$ PRINTER CARTRIDGES FUNDRAISER $$$
   
We are accepting empty inkjet cartridges for recycling.    Bring them to the meetings or take a postage-paid plastic envelop home –  ask Mike Mills

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.rotary6990.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.

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

NOTIFY DOREEN REITNAUER, SECRETARY, OF ALL MAKE-UPS:   dhiker217@aol.com

Programming Chair 2007-08:  Roy Gonas
Members responsible for programming by month:
October – Bob
November – Suzanne
December – Bill
January – open
February – Wendy
March – Otto         
April – Ann   
May – Ed

2007-08 RCSM OFFICERS:

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.rotary6990.org

World Organization:
www.rotary.org

Mission Statement

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

• 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 effort

Renewing or Joining
To Renew ($250) or to become a New Member ($300) contact
Asaad Massoud, at www.racharters.com

Fundraisers
Interested in putting together a fundraiser? Contact Club Service Chair Linda Kaplan at lindakaplan@lk.com

Roy Gonas, Programming Chair, thanked Bob Straile for his planning October’s speaker’s schedules.  He then introduced…

Julia Yarbough, Anchor

NBC 6 News

http://www.nbc6.net/index.html

Julia’s blog

http://www.nbc6.net/juliastake/index.html

Julia is a native of Fairfield, CA and a graduate of the University of CA in Santa Barbara.  She started in television in Richmond, VA.  She is currently the co-anchor on the 6pm news on NBC-6 with Tony Seggretto.

In her work, she is committed to be fair and honest and models the Rotary 4-way test. 

Her career will have spanned 20 years in April of 2008.  It is a quickly changing career in which she has moved to many locations and stations and encountered varieties of news and stories styles.

The last five to ten years, the medias’ technology has changed the fastest. Julia’s forte is that she is a storyteller for all those she crosses paths with.  However, the business of news gathering is in a struggle due to the rapid progress in the digital age.

In the past, the industry shoot footage on video tape (after film) but now it’s digital for small lighter cameras. Then the information is transferred via wireless feedback to the station.

In the past, there was three-to four hours to work on one story. Now there is less time to work on each story as news starts to break.  The demanding job requiring accuracy, coverage of all sides of the issue, and the ability to condense the information to 1 minute and 15 seconds while being valid and compelling.

Much more is expected of everyone in the industry while keeping the same high ethical and competitive standards – to be first on the story, getting all parts of it, accuracy, meaningfulness

Anchors, reporters, editors all genuinely care about the stories and the people they are gathering info. but all are under severe time pressures.

We are at a critical point as to how technology is changing all fields.  Obsolescence is rapid that news producers are being hired young, in their early 20’s and right out of college.

ADVICE:  Force yourself to learn, embrace this inter-connective universe to be more productive and efficient. 

One future additional task she’ll be facing is digital editing.  In a few years she’ll be independently shooting writing, editing the whole story. 

When her industry realized they were losing market shore – they changed.  What they put on the television is now on the computer.  Any story you see on the news, was in a print version on the website, and is now a streaming video version.

The news needs to be available in a format to find it when you find the time. 

For accuracy, and a full understanding of an issue, it’s up to the person to dig deeper into the internet to get any in depth information.   Go online to read magazine and newspaper articles for more content.  Television news tends to be the filler between the advertising. 

The demographics of news have changed, and the news changes to meet the current demographic.  Unlike the news – Youtube.com is flooded with partial truths

There is a huge amount of information on the internet but it is not knowledge.  To compete in a technology industry, find people who are younger and more compartmentalized and specialized.  Linking with these types of specialists allows the freelance economy to function and keeps one person able to advance without keeping up with every change flooding the marketplace.

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