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
April 12th - Karen Puhl & Pam Schwalbach: Simple Hope - Clean Water Efforts in Tanzania
There are many ways we can all get involved in clean water, regardless of where in the world it is needed. This is one program whose focus is in Tanzania. Working together with all people and faiths to build community and provide hope to those who are compromised in rural Tanzania Africa is the mission of Simple Hope. The direct mission of Simple Hope is to empower lives through faith, nutritious food, clean water and education of sustainable processes. Simple Hope is a registered tax deductible organization in the State of Wisconsin USA
Upcoming Meetings -
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”
Tuesday, May 3rd - Social - Kasana
Rotary Amigos:
March 21st - Club Assembly
This planning session resulted in a number of actionable items/projects. Duties assigned and planning begun for a community service project with Pan-African Community Association (PACA).
Discussed adding "After-work" to the name of our club since we ARE an "After-Work" club. Everyone was reminded that our club was deliberately chose a time that allowed members to have time to leave work and get to the meeting. It is also convenient for people who are commuters to meet before heading home or passing by downtown Milwaukee on their commute and still have time after the meeting to have dinner with family or friends, or attend an evening class, or head out to the theater or restaurants after the meeting. By not including a meal, the time is shortened and the cost of joining Rotary is not an impediment to joining. It also allows those without flexible work day schedules to participate in Rotary.
It was decided that we will organize a wine tasting event.
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.
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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.
This planning session resulted in a number of actionable items/projects. Duties assigned and planning begun for a community service project with Pan-African Community Association (PACA).
