Today’s Events:

President Linda Kaplan presiding

NO WEEKLY MEETING FOR TWO WEEKS – RESUMES JANUARY 9TH, 2007
Have a wonderful holiday season!!

ROTARY THEME 2006-07

We welcome our Guests:
Hank Langston & Gloria Burns (RCCG)
And
Thor Bruce & Sunita (Linda)

ANNOUNCEMENTS

you are welcome to attend:

Monday, January 8, 2006 @ 6:30 pm

BOARD MEETING

@ 1st National Bank of South Miami

(½ hour earlier to allow you to watch the Super Bowl)

ELECTIONS

ED FISCHER: Our Supervisor of Elections, held our annual paper trail style elections.  Next week we’ll learn if you will be Board (and not bored) in 2006-07.
DIANA PHILLIPS: Our Rotary logo is on the inside cover of “In and Around the Shops South Miami Town Center” because John Edward Smith, the publisher, recognizes our good works.
MAXENE GRAHAM:  is geared up to be our Programming Chair January – June 2007. 
Please let her know if you have any interesting speakers!  maxig@bellsouth.net

To Chris Marsh

for fixing our “Rotary Meets Here” sign.
&
To Ryan:

Our lunch-time waiter and a FIU Chemical Engineering junior who was born in Miami 22 years ago and has worked at Bernies for 2 ½ years.

We love his warm smile and consistent consideration of our needs.  He knows all of our names and sings our greeting song to our guest.  What a future Rotarian!!!

VOLUNTEER HOME STILL NEEDED

We’ll work within your schedule. Please step up and help replenish our dwindling budget reserves.

All proceeds benefit our charities. Contact Linda.

Make Your Plans to be There

Foundation-Themed Presidential Gala
In February

How often do we get a sitting Rotary International President to visit us? Considering there are 529 Districts worldwide and he only has one year in office, not as frequently as we would like. So when we have the opportunity to share the evening with Rotary’s top gun, take full advantage of it.

Sunday February 18, 2006
The Signature Grand, Davie, Florida.

PRID Bob Menconi and PDG Fred Anderson are coordinating this event, so it is sure to be a memorable and festive occasion. Mark your calendars and make your plans to be there now, as seating will be on a first come first served basis. Tickets $60. For additional details go to the District 6990 website.

Coral Gables Cycling Celebration

OPEN TO THE COMMUNITY
the first Sunday of the month: Feb 4, March 4, April 1, & May 6
11:00 am – 2:00 pm

For ROTARIANS:  Meet to cycle at 7:30am every Saturday
@ Patricia’s (5911 Maynada, Coral Gables)

Mark your calendars for the following Patricia-sponsored events:

1. Sunday, January 14th – First Cycling to Serve Fellowship Ride and meeting of the year. 

2. Saturday January 27th – Tertulia (meaning a social gathering with literary or artistic overtones, especially in Iberia or Latin America) Party at Patricia’s home for Hank Kaplan’s History of Boxing in B & W.

Formed over 20 years ago, the IFHFR is a 501© (3) charitable organization whose mission is to promote to underprivileged or handicapped children the full beneficial experience of nature and the greater outdoors.

Over 1000 children from Police Athletic Leagues, orphanages, foster agencies,  SOS Children’s Homes, cancer wards and youthful offenders from the Miami-Dade Juvenile Justice System have been sponsored for summer camps and been taken  fishing in South Florida.
 
During 2006 we held 3 fishing outings with approximately 90 children from Broward and Miami-Dade counties. In addition the IFHFR has already approved the funding for the attendance of 15 disadvantaged children to the Florida Elk’s Youth Camp in Umatilla, Florida during 2007.  

Currently, the group meets on the second Tuesday evening of each month. We enjoy our friendships and often plan our own hunting and fishing excursions, which are paid strictly by the individuals, not the Fellowship. There are no attendance requirements – but you might miss an invitation to go fishing on a member’s airboat. We have rented houseboats in the Flamingo/Everglades National Park for weekends; hired fishing guides in the Everglades City area; hunted on private leases that our members have, from Pennsylvania, Georgia and Alabama; hunted wild boar in the Seminole Indian Reservation; and fished in Dry Tortugas. We have sponsored Fishing tournaments in the Florida Keys and the Bahamas.  

Monthly meetings, alternate between Miami-Dade and Broward counties. They are usually held in a member’s home. We discuss fund raising activities and usually eat fantastic meals from successful fishing and hunting trips. During 2006, these included roast venison, pulled wild boar barbeque, grilled fish, duck, dove, elk, and alligator.

An example of a major fund raising event has been the bartending at the Fort Lauderdale Billfish Tournament:—A four day affair. Local businesses donate beer, wine, liquor, ice and the coolers needed for the operation. The turnout by our membership is amazing. Ten to twelve volunteers work in shifts as bartenders to quench the thirst of hundreds of tournament fishermen and onlookers for four days. We hear eager customers say, “You are the best”.

Fabio Fernandez, Secretary -cell (305) 205-2117
Email: fernandezfabio@bellsouth.net

$$$ PRINTER CARTRIDGES FUNDRAISER $$$
Accepting ONLY empty inkjet cartridge – NO longer accepting laser print cartridges

DID YOU MISS A MEETING?
Visit www.rotary6990.org
So you need to make-up an absence, do you know what a great opportunity this can be?
Take the opportunity to visit another club, meeting new and interesting members who are business owners and community leaders.  They might be interested in the services that you provide.

For online make-ups:
http://www.rotary.org/newsroom/downloadcenter/pdfs/eclub_list.pdf
Attendance credit for a 30-minute interactive club Web site activity. This offers an alternative to making up a meeting at another club. To earn an attendance credit, Rotarians usually log on to the Web site, read online material on a range of subjects, post comments, and 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 OF YOUR MAKE-UPS:
Doreen_reitnauer@colonialbank.com

Lydia White introduced our own

Darryl Downs, Ph.D.,

Psychologist and President of  Assessment and Educational Consultants, Inc.
5825 Sunset Drive, Suite 205, South Miami, Fl  33143                   (305) 663-7191 / (786) 303-6685

What is stress? 

Response of the body to a perceived demand.  The inability to deal with real or imagined threat(s).

Body’s reaction to stress?

Increased heart rate, increased breathing, adrenaline rush, muscle tightening

Too little stress? 

Boredom, no motivation

To much stress?

Sense of being overwhelmed, trouble with deadlines, making decisions, fatigue even after sleep, argumentative, forgetful, nagging feelings of helplessness, excessive worry

Moderate stress?

Feel energized, efficient and challenged

Chronic stress?

Repetitive demands on the body – can eventually sicken or kill; burn out

How to fail?

Blame others, ignore it, try harder, promise to be different and don’t follow through, engage in abusive behavior

Cure for stressing out?

Stop several times a day to assess whether you’re where you want to be

1. Learn what you can change and what you cannot
2. Understand it is human nature
3. Simplify things – break down projects into small steps
4. Take on no new responsibilities when under stress, no major decisions
5. Leave work on time and take days off
6. Examine your expectations
7. Live in the present
8. Do unpleasant tasks early in the morning
9. Have fun and hang with positive people
10. Never worry alone
11. Keep a success diary

The Holmes-Rahe Scale

Read each of the events listed below, and check the box next to any event which has occurred in your life in the last two years. There are no right or wrong answers. The aim is just to identify which of these events you have experienced lately.