We NEED YOU!!!! President-Elect Patti asks you to make time to join us Tuesday where we'll be working on rebranding the club, i.e. name, logo, vision, etc. We're also going to discuss officer positions & roles, projects, as well as her sharing of PETS (President Elect Training Seminar) training that she just attended. Members and folks interested in knowing more about the club and the opportunity to impact our future, please join us tomorrow to brainstorm and help our incoming 2016-2017 (July 1) President, Patti Lynch, set our "agenda" for her year as our leader. It will be an interactive meeting where we "borrow" your brain, your thoughts, your feelings, your ideas, and your enthusiasm as we shape our club projects, meetings, community impact, and more. Please join us!!! New or those thinking about joining or learning more, this would be a GREAT meeting for you to attend!
SPECIAL MEETING - different time - March 29th - 6:30 p.m. - Antingua Restaurant - Changing of the Guard Planning Session
President Tre is asking that our normal no meeting on the 5th Tuesday actually be a special “Changing of the Guard” event meeting, especially in terms of sponsorships, silent auction/raffle items and other event logistics. Hoping to see you at Antigua - 5823 W Burnham St, West Allis, WI 53219 - click here for directions
April 1st Monthly Social at La Fuente
La Fuente is known for fun, food, and margaritas! Join us for all three! Once a month, on the 1st Tuesday, get together with your friends, fellow Rotary Amigos at the location listed below in Milwaukee at 5:45 PM.You can grab a few drinks, eat some good food (killer appetizers) . No structure, no topics, no presentations. Just enjoy a night out with your fellow Amigos and friends where you can practice those "soft-skills" all the marketing folks seem to have. Members are asked to contribute a nominal donation of $10 to help defray costs. Guest contributions are covered by the membership committee.
Location: La Fuente - Milwaukee
Address: 625 S 5th Street, Milwaukee, WI 53204
Directions: Click Here to go to website for map and directions
Upcoming Meetings -
Tuesday, April 12th – New Member Induction & Talk
Tuesday, April 19th – Laurel Kashinn: Going Indie Successfully: How to Write a Strategic Business Plan
Tuesday, April 26th – CLUB ASSEMBLY: 2015-16 Rotary Year – The Final “Push”
Rotary Amigos: March 14th - Leonardo Fernandino:Staff Scientist at Medical College of Wisconsin - BRAIN MAPPING
It was a VERY interesting program and had a lot of "ah-hah" moments.
The problem of how word meaning is processed in the brain has been a topic of intense investigation in cognitive neuroscience. While considerable correlational evidence exists for the involvement of sensory- motor systems in conceptual processing, it is still unclear whether they play a causal role. We investi- gated this issue by comparing the performance of patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) with that of age-matched controls when processing action and abstract verbs. To examine the effects of task demands, we used tasks in which semantic demands were either implicit (lexical decision and priming) or explicit (semantic similarity judgment). In both tasks, PD patients’ performance was selectively impaired for action verbs (relative to controls), indicating that the motor system plays a more central role in the processing of action verbs than in the processing of abstract verbs. These results argue for a causal role of sensory-motor systems in semantic processing.