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Join YPAL
YPAL Foundation
Young Professional Development Fund
YPAL Board of Directors Applications
by Ann Marie Kelly | Mar 1, 2021
YPAL is a volunteer organization for young professionals, run by a board of young professionals, and we're looking for our next leadership team!
Over the course of this 1-year commitment, you will get an inside look into how a board of directors operates and have the opportunity to meet many different leaders shaping the future of Louisville. Don't miss this opportunity to sit at the table and make a difference in our community!
Board applications will be open from March 1 to March 26. We are hosting an optional info-session, called YPAL Board 101 on March 11. You can find more information on that event here.
Board of Directors Job Descriptions, click here.
If you have any questions about the board, duties, commitment and application – please email our incoming Board President, Cassidy Hyde at cassidy.hyde12@gmail.com.
All other important dates are listed on the first page of the board application and below.
• Monday, March 1: Call for applications.
• (Optional) March 11th (8:30 a.m.): Board 101: Those applying for the board are welcome to join us for a Zoom event to answer questions about the app, the board term, etc.
• Friday, March 26 (5:00 p.m.): Application and letter of recommendation are due! Applications should be submitted via Google Forms and letters of recommendation should be emailed to Ann Marie Maldini at AnnMarie.Maldini@ypal.org.
• Wednesday, April 7 and Thursday, April 8 (5:00-10:00 p.m.): Candidates interview with the Nomination Committee via virtual interviews. Please keep both dates open. Appointments will not be set until April 2. If you are asked to interview, your appointment could be anytime between 5-10 p.m. during these two evenings. If you have a conflict one of those nights, please let Ann Marie know by March 26.
• Wednesday, April 21: The Nominating Committee makes a final recommendation to the Board of Directors to vote on candidates.
• Friday, April 23: Newly elected Board of Directors is publicly announced.
Board Transition Mandatory Dates (if you are selected, please be sure that you are available on these days at these times):
• May 4: New Board Member Orientation (5:30 p.m.)
• May 19: Joint Board of Directors meeting (5:30 p.m.)
• May 27: New Board Member Orientation (5:30 p.m.)
• June 10: Joint Executive Committee Meeting (12:00 – 1:00 p.m.)
• June 12th: Board Retreat (9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.)
YPAL's 2020-2021 Board term officially begins July 1, 2021.
YPAL's 2020-2021 Board term officially ends June 30, 2022.
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Mon Jan 30 2023, 08:30am EST - 10:00am EST
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Fake News Literacy: What Is the Role of Libraries and Other Cultural Heritage Institutions?
Sham sites, misleading news, highly partisan manipulations, clickbait, satire and just plain disfavored facts. What role do librarians, archivists, and curators play in helping users discern the probability of truth? Is information literacy the same as "fake news" literacy? What responsive activities are cultural heritage institutions undertaking today, and what might or should they do going forward? What is the responsibility of digital repositories in harvesting and making accessible information that is accurate and dependable? How can political neutrality be maintained given the landscape of 2017 and beyond?
This talk will provide a review of the features and collections added to the Digital Commonwealth system over the past year, such as the new administrative interface and ability to download source files. Plans for additional features and future system updates will be discussed, including a report on efforts to make the source code behind the site more extensible and shareable, as well as ongoing efforts around migrating metadata to Linked Data RDF. In addition, this session will also revisit usage statistics and user behavior patterns for the Digital Commonwealth site in an attempt to further explore user behavior, site traffic sources, popular content, and the impact of metadata quality on discoverability.
Speakers: Eben English is a Web Services Developer at the Boston Public Library. Prior to this position, he worked in a number of academic libraries in Chicago, focusing on digital collection development and library website design. He holds an MLIS from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Session Description: Sharing photographs and other items from your collection on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, HistoryPin and other social media sites is a great way to find new audiences and build engagement with the public. It can also be a way to get more information about your collection ("Hey, that's my Grandma!") and even to attract new contributions. But there's an art to making the most of social media -- learn more about timing and tagging, and see inspiring examples from libraries, museums and cultural heritage organizations that are super-successful at sharing!
Speaker: Elizabeth Thomsen is the Member Services Manager of NOBLE, the North of Boston Library Exchange, and currently manages the Digital Commonwealth's Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts. Outside of work she's also involved with local history photography projects on HistoryPin and Wikimedia Commons, and participates in the National Archives' crowdsourced Citizen Archivist projects.
Session Description: Are you curious about Creative Commons? Have you been considering how Creative Commons licenses might help your institution to achieve its goals? In this session, you will learn about the different types of Creative Commons licenses and how your institution can share (or make use of) materials under a Creative Commons license. By the end of the session, you will have the tools necessary to decide whether Creative Commons licenses are right for your project or institution and, if so, which license you should use.
Speaker: Carli Spina is the Head Librarian for Assessment and Outreach at the Boston College Libraries. She has experience providing copyright and Creative Commons training and support for librarians and educators.
Session Description: Working in collaboration with a committee of educators from around the country over the past year, the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) created and published one hundred Primary Source Sets on topics in history, literature, and culture, designed to be be ready-to-use for both teachers and students from middle school to college. In this session, DPLA curator Franky Abbott and committee member and history professor Ella Howard will discuss some of the key questions raised during the research and development of this project: What were the challenges and opportunities of bringing together disparate digital collections from repositories across the country? What does it mean to us to design the project for an audience of both teachers and students? What have we learned about how instructors are the primary source sets in the classroom?
Speakers: Franky Abbott works as the Curation and Education Strategist for the Digital Public Library of America. In this capacity, she leads DPLA education initiatives with teachers, and students in K-12 and higher education, manages digital exhibitions, and previously ran the Gates-funded Public Library Partnerships Project. Prior to working at DPLA, Franky worked on digital library and digital humanities projects at the University of Alabama and Emory University. She has a PhD in American Studies.
Ella Howard is an Associate Professor of History at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston, Massachusetts, where she teaches digital history, design history, and the history of technology. Her research focuses on urban history, poverty, and segregation. Her book Homeless: Poverty and Place was published by University of Pennsylvania Press in 2013.
Session Description: Technology has continually outpaced copyright law, yet communities are eager to use the latest technology to make digital works available for distribution to the public. Often, these communities may hesitate because of concern over the legal implications of their actions. This interactive session will examine the state of copyright law, especially with respect to digitization, risk, and the "super powers" of libraries, archives, and other cultural institutions. Looking at ways to reconcile our reliance on past law with attempts to reframe our thinking in light of more recent laws, this session will provide the context for participants to take a fresh look at policy and technology.
Speaker: Kyle K. Courtney, both lawyer and librarian, is the Copyright Advisor and Program Manager at Harvard University's Office for Scholarly Communication. Kyle works to establish a culture of shared understanding of copyright law within the Harvard community and beyond. His work at Harvard also includes a role as the copyright and information policy advisor for HarvardX/edX, and he continues to teach first year legal research sessions through Harvard Law School's Legal Research & Writing Program. The State Copyright Resource Center, part of Kyle's "Copyright First Responders" initiative, was profiled in Library Journal in 2013, and he was named a National Library Mover & Shaker in 2015. Kyle co-founded Fair Use Week in 2014, which is now an international celebration sponsored annually by over 140 universities, libraries, and other institutions. In 2016 he won a Knight Foundation Grant to develop technology for crowdsourcing copyright and fair use assessments. He also currently maintains a dual appointment at Northeastern University and is in his 10th year of teaching "Cyberlaw: Privacy, Ethics, and Digital Rights" for the interdisciplinary Information Assurance program at the College of Computer and Information Science. He holds a J.D. with distinction in Intellectual Property/High Technology Law and an MSLIS. He is a published author and nationally recognized speaker on the topics of copyright, technology, libraries, and the law. His writing has appeared in Politico, Slate, Library Journal, and other publications. His most recent book is MOOCs and Libraries in the 21st Century is published by Rowman & Littlefield Ltd. You can find him on Twitter @KyleKCourtney.
Session Description: This session will highlight recent and upcoming developments at the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), focusing in particular on how they impact Hubs like the Digital Commonwealth and its members. The speakers will provide updates and discuss new directions for content, curation, sustainability, the Hubs Network, and more.
Speakers: Kelcy Shepherd is a DPLA Network Manager at the Digital Public Library of America, where she works to support and continue to expand DPLA's growing Hubs network by coordinating the Hubs application process; providing oversight for Hubs communications; and building community among the Hubs network. Kelcy has worked on digital archives and digital library projects for over fifteen years. She holds a master's degree in Library and Information Science from Simmons College, and a BA in Art & Design with a second major in Anthropology from Iowa State University.
Franky Abbott works as the Curation and Education Strategist for the Digital Public Library of America. In this capacity, she leads DPLA education initiatives with teachers, and students in K-12 and higher education, manages digital exhibitions, and previously ran the Gates-funded Public Library Partnerships Project. Prior to working at DPLA, Franky worked on digital library and digital humanities projects at the University of Alabama and Emory University. She has a PhD in American Studies.
Session Description: Digital Humanities programs have been predominantly housed at elite private institutions and flagship public universities and have focused on the needs of faculty researchers and graduate students. While funding is one of the main obstacles at non-elite institutions, it is possible to begin a digital humanities program on a shoestring budget. Roopika Risam, Assistant Professor of English, and Susan Edwards, University Archivist and Special Collections Librarian, will provide an overview of digital humanities initiatives at Salem State University. The session will focus on collaborative work building the digital humanities project Digital Salem as a place-based locus for digital scholarship and launching an undergraduate internship program to explore ethical ways of creating innovative research experiences for undergraduate students.
Speakers: Roopika Risam is an assistant professor of English at Salem State University. Her research examines the intersections of postcolonial, African diaspora, and U.S. ethnic studies and the role of digital humanities in mediating between them. Her book Postcolonial Digital Humanities is forthcoming with Northwestern University Press, and her co-edited volume Intersectionality in Digital Humanities is under contract with Arc Humanities Press. Her scholarship has recently appeared in Debates in the Digital Humanities, International Journal of e-Politics, First Monday, Ada, South Asian Review, Digital Humanities Quarterly, Left History, and Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. Speaker bio: Susan Edwards is the University Archivist and Special Collections Librarian at Salem State University. She started the Archives program in 1996 as the first full-time professional archivist. Susan is a "lone arranger" and is responsible for all aspects of the program, including collection development, instruction, and digital projects. Prior to Salem State, she worked at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY.
Session description: In this open format, Q&A session with the BPL digitization team and "Metadata Mob" leaders, participants will have the opportunity to understand some of the general principles, and more specific data creation and transformation procedures that have comprised their work over the past few years. After some brief introductory remarks, attendees will be encouraged to discuss their projects and how to best execute metadata creation along with the BPL staff.
Speakers:Tom Blake has been working at the Boston Public Library as their Digital Imaging Production Manager and Digital Projects Manager since 2005. He is currently responsible for the creation of beautiful, versatile, and sustainable digital objects for all BPL digital initiatives. Since 2010, he has managed an ambitious project to help digitize collections from across Massachusetts in conjunction with Digital Commonwealth, a statewide repository service, and as a pilot Service Hub of the Digital Public Library of America. Tom came to the BPL from the Massachusetts Historical Society, where he was involved in several digital projects including the online version of the diaries of John Quincy Adams. He also served as a photographer and imaging specialist for nine years at Boston Photo Imaging and as an archives assistant at the MIT Special Collections and Archives. Tom holds a BFA in Professional Photographic Illustration from the Rochester Institute of Technology, and an MS in Library and Information Science with a concentration in Archives Management from Simmons College.
Danny Pucci is the Lead Digital Projects Librarian at the Boston Public Library. In this capacity, she directs the metadata strategy for the library's digitization program, maintaining institutional metadata standards and best practice guidelines. Danny works closely with Digital Commonwealth's repository developers to conceptualize, model, and implement standardized profiles for the digital objects deployed by the system. She also advises Boston Public Library departments, as well as Statewide Digitization partners, about how to develop their own metadata strategies and sustainable workflows for digital projects.
Jake Sadow is the Statewide Digitization Project Archivist for the Boston Public Library. He project manages the Statewide Digitization program, serving as a liaison between Massachusetts-based cultural heritage institutions and digitization staff at the Boston Public Library. He has worked with over 300 institutions to get their cultural heritage collections online, including libraries, museums, historical societies and universities. He also acts as an educator, raising awareness among library and information professionals of issues in digitization and promoting conversations between institutions to address those issues.
Nichole Shea is the Statewide Metadata Coordinator at the Boston Public Library. She works with institutions in the Statewide Digitization program to gather and prepare data for the Digital Commonwealth repository. She is also the lead member of the program's Metadata Mob, which provides metadata assistance for partner institutions as needed.
Session Description: Let's digitize this collection! It's easy, right? Wrong! What is involved in making a decision as to what collections to digitize and what are the steps and issues that one needs to address to prepare a collection of documents, photographs, broadsides, ephemera, etc. to be digitized? This session will provide the participants with an overview of many of the issues that need to be considered, if not implemented, to prepare your collections for digitization.
Speaker: Gregor Trinkaus-Randall is the Preservation Specialist at the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners (MBLC) where he is responsible for implementing the statewide preservation program. He is a member of the Academy of Certified Archivists, the Society of American Archivists, the Midwest Archives Conference, and the New England Archivists. He is a former President of the New England Archivists (1995-1996) and of the Society of American Archivists (2011-2012). He is a member of the NEDCC's Advisory Committee, the Digital Commonwealth's Executive Board, LYRASIS's Board of Trustees, and the USS Constitution Museum Curatorial Committee. Gregor is Co-Chair of COSTEP Massachusetts (Coordinated Statewide Emergency Preparedness), Project Director for Mitigation for Memory, a FEMA Hazard Mitigation grant, and Co-Project Director for Archival Education for Municipal Clerks, an NHPRC grant with Simmons College. He is currently the Project Director of a two-year NEH funded grant, Finding Common Ground: Collaborative Training for the Cultural Heritage and Emergency Response Communities. He has spoken widely on preservation, disaster preparedness, archival, and security topics. He has run numerous disaster preparedness, repair, security, and other preservation as well as archival workshops for librarians and archivists.
A number of institutions--from universities to historical societies--will be quickly highlighting digitization projects that were completed in the last couple of years.


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package net.spy.memcached.emptycollection;

import junit.framework.Assert;
import net.spy.memcached.collection.BaseIntegrationTest;
import net.spy.memcached.collection.CollectionAttributes;
import net.spy.memcached.collection.ElementValueType;
import net.spy.memcached.collection.CollectionOverflowAction;

public class CreateEmptyListTest extends BaseIntegrationTest {

  private final String KEY = this.getClass().getSimpleName();

  @Override
  protected void setUp() throws Exception {
    super.setUp();
    mc.delete(KEY).get();
    Assert.assertNull(mc.asyncGetAttr(KEY).get());
  }

  @Override
  protected void tearDown() throws Exception {
    mc.delete(KEY).get();
    super.tearDown();
  }

  public void testCreateEmptyWithDefaultAttribute() {
    try {
      // create empty
      CollectionAttributes attribute = new CollectionAttributes();
      Boolean insertResult = mc.asyncLopCreate(KEY,
              ElementValueType.OTHERS, attribute).get();

      Assert.assertTrue(insertResult);

      // check attribute
      CollectionAttributes attr = mc.asyncGetAttr(KEY).get();

      Assert.assertEquals(new Long(0), attr.getCount());
      Assert.assertEquals(new Long(4000), attr.getMaxCount());
      Assert.assertEquals(new Integer(0), attr.getExpireTime());
    } catch (Exception e) {
      e.printStackTrace();
      Assert.fail(e.getMessage());
    }
  }

  public void testCreateEmptyWithSpecifiedAttribute() {
    try {
      // create empty
      CollectionAttributes attribute = new CollectionAttributes();
      attribute.setMaxCount(10000);
      attribute.setExpireTime(9999);
      attribute.setOverflowAction(CollectionOverflowAction.error);
      Boolean insertResult = mc.asyncLopCreate(KEY,
              ElementValueType.OTHERS, attribute).get();

      Assert.assertTrue(insertResult);

      // check attribute
      CollectionAttributes attr = mc.asyncGetAttr(KEY).get();

      Assert.assertEquals(new Long(0), attr.getCount());
      Assert.assertEquals(new Long(10000), attr.getMaxCount());
      Assert.assertEquals(CollectionOverflowAction.error,
              attr.getOverflowAction());
    } catch (Exception e) {
      e.printStackTrace();
      Assert.fail(e.getMessage());
    }
  }

}

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Our mission is to support the business community, foster new business growth and promote tourism—making Lake Mills a better place to do business, to work and to live.
Promotes tourism in the Lake Mills area.
Works to increase economic development and business opportunities/growth.
Enhances and celebrates the community's quality of life.
Serves a unified voice for businesses.
The Lake Mills Area Chamber of Commerce believes in the vitality and potential of the Lake Mills area to attract new businesses, support existing businesses and increase everyone's prosperity for years to come!
Lake Mills traces its roots back to 1836 when Captain Joseph Keyes became the town's founder by laying claim to the lands that now encompasses the city. Like many Wisconsin settlements, the town's early industries were related to agriculture, some of which gained national importance. In 1841, Ann Pickett started the first dairy cooperative in the United States. And, the Phillips family started the first commercial creamery in Wisconsin around 1849. Joseph Keyes Grist Mill was built in 1842 and operated until 1934.
From there, Lake Mills' business enterprises only grew. The Lake Mills Chamber of Commerce was created in February of 1928 with electrical contractor, Ralph Engsberg, as president. The cornerstone was a slogan 'faith in the future promoted by pride in the past'. The first 35 years focused on industrial expansion and supporting the farming community. By the 70s, retail was a booming new enterprise in Lake Mills. The Lake Mills Area Chamber of Commerce has been an integral part of the prosperity of Lake Mills. We are proud to have served as a valuable resource for the Lake Mills community for 90 years. Here's to 90 more!


We're starting off the new year right with a great portrait!
I first met RYU RYU at a fashion showcase and loved the clothing line's simplicity and elegance. Rebekah Ryu designs while her husband handles the business end. Production is based in the NYC's Garment District.
RYU RYU is also focused on giving; they donate a portion of their profits to helping provide basic necessities to North Korean children in rural areas.
Portraits. Food. Wine. Travel. You know, the good life.


Trelawn Riverside cottages, romantic self-contained cottages provide a perfect country hideaway for a honeymoon or a skiing holiday.
Trelawn Place is a luxury Guest house with luxury self contained cottages.
It is situated dramatically above the Shotover River with gardens and lawns sweeping to the rivers edge. An easy 4km (5 minutes) drive from Queenstown city centre. 12 minutes from Coronet peak ski field.
Trelawn offers two superbly comfortable self contained cottages and an apartment.
Other features include a guest laundry an outdoor hot spa pool.
Trelawn Riverside Cottages, 35 Watties Track, Arthurs Point, Queenstown, New Zealand.
4km, 5 minute taxi ride.


we are wonderfully located, only 2 minutes walk from dlf golf course next to anya hotel, horizon center & american express building in a building called mpd towers. look out for the big sidewok signage right on the top of the building.
also located at the level 1 of south point mall on the golf course road next to ibis hotel. its part of going bananas kids play area.
the third location is opening soon at pioneer urban square in sector 62, golf course extension, gurugram below pepsico office.
jobs occasionally become available either in the kitchen, on the floor or as one of our baristas. if you would like to join us either now or in the future, please start by emailing your cv & a brief cover letter explaining why & we will get back to you.


"All parts of the brain may well be involved in normal conscious processes but the indispensable substratum of consciousness lies outside the cerebral cortex, probably in the diencephalon" Penfield 1937.
"The brain stem-thalamocortical axis supports the state, but not the detailed contents of consciousness, which are produced by cortex" Baars et al 1998.
It is recommended that readers review The Philosophical Problem before reading the sections on the neuroscience of consciousness.
One of the most exciting discoveries of neuroscience is that nearly all of the brain performs functions that are not part of conscious experience. In everyday life we are usually unaware of breathing or heartbeats yet there are parts of the brain dedicated to these functions. When we pick up a pencil we have no experience of the fine control of individual muscles yet large areas of cortex and cerebellum implement this. Things do not appear as greyscale and then have the colour poured into them although this strange colour addition is done in the visual cortex. Most of the brain is non-conscious but how is the "ghost in the machine", the mind, created by and linked into the mostly non-conscious brain?
Although most of the processes in the brain are non-conscious there can be little doubt that the output of sensory processes contribute to experience. For example, although we do not experience the process of adding colour to visual data in cortical area V4 we do experience coloured forms and although we have little inkling of the hugely complex creation of words in the temporal/frontal lobes we do experience verbal thoughts. Our experience is an integrated output of most of the brain processes that deal with sensation as well as dreams, thoughts and emotions. But how and where does this experience occur?
Phenomenal consciousness could exist in the dendritic field of ten neurons receiving 100,000 synapses or as an oscillation of fields over the whole brain. The substrate of phenomenal consciousness could be staring us in the face as a state of the whole brain or be like a needle in a haystack, lurking in a tiny region of brain, unsuspected and undiscovered.
Given that there is no widely accepted theory of phenomenal consciousness Crick (1994) and Crick and Koch (1998) approached the problem of the location of the substrate of consciousness by proposing that scientists search for the Neural Correlates of Consciousness. These neural correlates consist of events in the brain that accompany events in conscious experience.
Crick, F. (1994). The Astonishing Hypothesis. New York: Scribners.
The CNS consists of two major groups of active cells, the neurons and the glia. The neurons conduct short impulses of electricity along their membranes called 'action potentials and encode data as frequency modulated signals (i.e.: different intensities of stimulation are converted into different rates of firing). The glia modify the connections between neurons and can respond to neuron activity by a change of voltage across their membranes. Glia also have many other roles such as sustaining neurons and providing electrical insulation.
Neurons have three principal parts: the cell body, the dendrites and the axon. Impulses flow from the cell body to the axon. The axon can be over a metre long and bundles of axons form nerve fibres. Where an axon makes contact with the dendrites or cell body of another neuron there is a special sort of junction called a synapse. Transmission of data across synapses is usually mediated by chemical signals.
Areas of the brain where there are many cell bodies have a beige/grey tinge and are called grey matter. Areas that contain mainly nerve fibres are called white matter. Masses of grey matter outside of the surface of the cerebral cortex or the cerebellum are called nuclei.
The brain is of central interest in consciousness studies because consciousness persists even when the spinal cord is sectioned at the neck.
The brain can be divided into five distinct divisions or 'vesicles on the basis of embryological development. These are the myelencephalon, metencephalon, mesencephalon, diencephalon and telencephalon (See the illustration below).
Mesencephalon: midbrain (tectum containing the superior colliculus and inferior colliculus, red nucleus, substantia nigra, cerebellar peduncles.
Diencephalon: thalamus, epithalamus, hypothalamus, subthalamus.
Telencephalon: corpus striatum, cerebral hemispheres.
These divisions tend to obscure the physical anatomy of the brain which looks like a rod of spinal cord with a swelling at the top due to the thalamus and corpus striatum. Around the top of the rod is a globe of deeply indented cerebral cortex and at the back there is the puckered mass of cerebellum. The physical anatomy is shown in greater detail in the illustration below where the thalamus and corpus striatum have been splayed out to show more detail.
The pathways in the brain tend to preserve the topography of the sense organs so that particular groups of cells on the retina, cochlear or body have corresponding groups of cells in the thalamus or cortex. The retina is said to have a topological mapping onto the thalamus so that the projection of the optic nerve is said to be retinotopic.
Nerve fibres that go to a part of the brain are called afferents and fibres that come from a part of the brain are called efferents.
The cortex and thalamus/striatum are intimately linked by millions of connecting fibres and there is also a direct connection from the motor cortex to the spinal cord.
Information from the sense organs travels along the appropriate sensory nerve (optic, auditory, spinal etc.) and once in the brain is divided into three principal paths that connect either with the thalamus, the cerebellum or the reticular formation.
There are thalamic nuclei for each broad type of sensation and these have reciprocal connections with specific areas of cortex that deal with the appropriate mode of sensation. The large mass of nerve fibres that mediate the connection between the thalamus and cortex are known as the thalamo-cortical and cortico-thalamic tracts. There tend to be more sensory nerve fibres returning from the cortex to the thalamus than connect from the thalamus to the cortex so it is difficult to determine whether the cortex is the destination of sensory data or a region that supplies extra processing power to thalamic nuclei.
The cerebellum mediates reflex control of complex movements and receives input from most of the sense organs.
The reticular formation is a group of loosely distributed neurons in the medulla, pons and mesencephalon. It receives a large amount of autonomic input and also input from all the sense organs. The intralaminar nuclei of the thalamus are the principal destination of reticular output to higher centres. In the most primitive vertebrates the reticular formation performs most of the higher control functions of the animal. The reticular formation is implicated in the maintenance of sleep-wake cycles and activates the higher centres. This activity has attracted the label ascending reticular activating system (ARAS) to describe how the activity of higher centres is controlled by reticular input. This title is unfortunate from the point of view of consciousness studies because it implies that conscious experience is a result of activating the cortex when it could be due to turning on or off particular systems all the way from the reticular formation to the cortex. Destruction of the reticular formation leads to coma.
Motor control of the body below the skull is accomplished by three principle routes.
The motor cortex of the frontal lobes and related cortex in the parietal lobes can control movement directly via nerves known as the cortico-spinal tract (also called the pyramidal tract). The activity of the motor cortex is modified and controlled by a loop that passes through the corpus striatum, the substantia nigra and the subthalamic nucleus and returns to the cortex. These controlling nuclei are, along with the amygdala, known as the basal ganglia.
The cerebellum and the corpus striatum provide complex reflex control of the body through nerves that travel through the red nucleus and form the rubro-spinal tract.
The vestibular nucleus, which processes signals related to balance and posture, has direct connections with the periphery via the vestibulo-spinal tract.
Apart from the routes for controlling motor activity there are also other outputs from the brain, for instance the autonomic nervous system is intimately linked with the reticular formation which has areas that control blood pressure, respiratory rhythm etc.
The cerebral cortex has a highly convoluted surface that provides a large area of tissue. The parts of the cortex that are used for motor and sensory functions are organised so that different areas correspond to different zones of the body. This topological organisation is shown classically by a drawing of the sensorimotor homunculus such as that shown on the right.
Within a given area of the cortex there are further subdivisions. For example, the occipital cortex corresponds to the eyes of the sensorimotor homunculus and it is further organised so that areas of the retina have corresponding areas on the cortex. This mapping of the layout of the retina onto the cortex is known as topological mapping. It results in a corresponding mapping of the receptive field of the eye onto the cortex. The mapping is like an image on the surface of the brain tissue and the visual scene that is presented to a subject can be recovered by using fMRI along with computer analysis (Miyawaki et al. 2008).
The human cortex is fairly deep, containing 100-200 neurons from the surface to the white matter. It is divided into six histological and functional layers. These layers can be further subdivided. In 1957 Mountcastle used microelectrode measurements to show that activity of small zones of cortex about 0.1 to 1 mm in diameter corresponded to particular points in the receptive field. These functional columns of cortical tissue are called cortical columns.
The diagram above shows the organisation of ocular dominance columns. Each column represents a particular part of the receptive field of a single eye. The columns for left and right eyes are linked together in lines. The lines of ocular dominance form a pattern like a fingerprint on the surface of the cortex.
The same part of cortex can have overlapping columns for different functions. For instance there are columns that react to particular orientations of edges at particular places in the visual field. These columns tend to be located together on the cortex forming a pinwheel of columns that cover all orientations at a particular receptive field position.
There are also topologically arranged columns for colour, spatial frequency etc.
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Question: Rebif chills, What can I do about it. Is it possible to stop it or reduce it?
I have been on Rebif for approximately 4 years since I was diagnosed with MS. It has been working . My MRI does not show any new lesions, but I feel that I do get some minor tingles on my limbs once in a while. FYI A second opinion did not think I had MS and wanted me to wait on Rebif, but I took the conservative choice.
Can alcohol have adverse effect on condition like mine?
It is great that on the MRI there are no new lesions. Such minor sensitive symptoms such as occasional tingling is to be expected due to the already installed plaques, hopefully they do not affect your wellbeing that much, otherwise I would call not having new lesions for 4 years a great success.
Flu like symptoms such as chills are a common side effect of interferon group of drugs like Rebif. There is not a measure which can make them go away for good, but they can reduced through taking an over the counter drug like acetaminophen or ibuprofen just before the injection, that can help.
As for the question regarding alcohol use. In itself alcohol doesn't affect disease activity, it won't change the course of the disease or cause new lesions. However because it is a substance which temporally depresses the central nervous system it can temporally worsen your symptoms, enhance the perception of an already present lesion, a lesion which was compensated for by the unaffected parts of your brain, but under the suppression of alcohol that compensation is reduced. After all even in in a person without MS when alcohol is taken in excess there is neurological dysfunction (balance and coordination difficulty, difficulty articulating words, confusion, tingling in extremities etc). A MS patient is more prone to that in minor doses, it varies from patient to patient some worsen with a single glass some tolerate more, but the risk is there.


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In Sarasota, 'health freedom' activists exert influence over a major hospital
By Zach Hirsch
Courtesy of Sarasota Memorial Hospital
Sarasota Memorial Hospital's campus in Sarasota. Three newly elected members of the public hospital board are so-called "health freedom" activists who are opposed to COVID vaccines and treatment protocols for the illness.
Earlier this year, three activists who are opposed to COVID vaccines and standard treatment protocols for the illness were elected to the board of Sarasota Memorial Hospital.
A Sarasota hospital has become the latest front for political activists eager to challenge protocols for treating COVID.
While most of the 6,000 hospitals in the United States are privately run, about 200 are controlled by publicly elected board members, according to Larry Gage, former president of the National Association of Public Hospitals. Typically, those elections usually have nothing to do with national politics or culture war issues.
But with seats opening on the Sarasota Memorial Hospital's board earlier this year, a group of political activists opposed to COVID protocols saw an opportunity. Now, the hospital has three new board members who question the effectiveness of vaccines and spread medical misinformation. While they're a minority on the nine-person board, their victory has thrown the hospital board's typically quiet meetings into chaos.
"Health freedom" activists
More than 200 people showed up to the new members' first meeting in late November, the largest turnout that chairman Tramm Hudson had ever seen in his eight years on the board.
Micheila Matthew and more than a dozen self-described "health freedom activists" demanded an investigation into the hospital's management during the worst of the pandemic. Some had lost loved ones during the peak of the pandemic and blamed the hospital. Others blasted the hospital's leadership for ignoring non-mainstream COVID treatments such as ivermectin, which studies have established do not effectively treat COVID.
"We want answers," Matthew said. "There will be no amnesty. You failed."
While similar public clashes have happened elsewhere, the "health freedom" movement is especially strong in Florida. Gov. Ron DeSantis was one of first state leaders to roll back mask and social distancing guidelines in 2020. Lately, he's used rhetoric that's increasingly hostile to vaccines.
"These people need to be heard. And we have a spotlight on us in Sarasota. We can be the change that everyone else needs in other health care systems," said Bridgette Fiorucci, one of the new board members, at the November meeting.
Fiorucci, a registered nurse who has worked on the front lines during the pandemic, told NPR in an interview that she's never gotten the COVID vaccine.
"There are many people that I know that have been injured or have had adverse reactions," Fiorucci said.
While there have been extremely rare cases of serious side effects, the scientific research has overwhelmingly shown that COVID vaccines are safe and effective. People stand a far higher risk of dying by going unvaccinated.
In an interview with a weekly newspaper in Sarasota, another new board member – also a registered nurse – dismissed the scientific consensus around the vaccines as "unquestioned uniformity" that "violates all previous medical standards."
Many of the hospital's doctors and nurses spoke up at the board meeting to push back against accusations that the hospital failed the community.
"Doctors want to help people. That is the reason we all do this," said Dr. Sarah Temple, an emergency medicine physician.
"Despite our most heroic efforts – weekly meetings where we scoured the newest evidence and looked for things that would actually work; the incredible teamwork, dedication, and hard work that I saw from my colleagues throughout the hospital – we just couldn't save so many of our patients," she said with a deep sigh.
The "medical freedom" movement has claimed numerous victories in local elections around the country, with groups like Stand For Health Freedom pushing the cause in sheriff, school board, and county clerk races. Anti-vaccine candidates ran for public hospital boards in Washington State last year, but lost. The victory at Sarasota Memorial appears to be the first of its kind.
A retired doctor and outspoken conservative named Stephen Guffanti helped lead the campaign. In viral videos and public appearances, he tells a dramatic story of being falsely imprisoned at Sarasota Memorial Hospital while he was sick.
"They wouldn't let me leave," Guffanti told a crowd at an event with Sarasota County Moms For America.
"It turns out that it's more lucrative to have you die in the hospital than go home," he added, a reference to an unfounded and widely debunked conspiracy theory that hospitals inflate COVID deaths for profit.
Review of the hospital's practices
At their inaugural meeting, the new board members successfully pushed to open a review of the hospital's COVID practices.
In an email, hospital spokesperson Kim Savage said the review will look into "specific, individual patient care concerns expressed at the recent hospital board meeting, including those shared by Dr. Guffanti." She said the leadership is also "taking a broader look at care throughout the pandemic, to review the lessons learned and plan for the future."
"We are an elected body," said Hudson, the board chair. "If the citizens elect folks that might have some alternative views, [...] I think that we should listen to the citizens," he said.
While he doesn't buy into the conspiracy theories about the hospital, Hudson says the review will put people at ease. But many others interviewed for this story were deeply disturbed.
"This kind of health freedom propaganda rhetoric, it's not just an academic discussion. It's endangering the lives of Americans, and in this case Floridians," said Dr. Peter Hotez, a vaccine expert at Texas Children's Hospital who has followed medical freedom movements for years.
Hotez estimates that 200,000 Americans needlessly died in the last half of 2021 and early 2022 because they weren't vaccinated . "As a societal force, that's an enormous killer," he said.
The hospital's internal review is underway now. Findings will be made public by March of next year.
A previous version of this story misidentified Larry Gage's title. He is the former president of the National Association of Public Hospitals.
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 4: Dworzec Łódź Dąbrowa – Helenówek
 5: Dworzec Łódź Żabieniec – Kurczaki
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 7: Koziny - Cm. Zarzew
 8: Cm. Zarzew – Kochanówka
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 9B: Olechów – Zdrowie
 10A: Retkinia – Augustów
 10B: Retkinia – Olechów
 11A: Plac Niepodległości – Helenówek
 11B: Chocianowice-IKEA – Helenówek
 12: Retkinia – Stoki
 13: Dąbrowa Niższa – Teofilów
 14: Karolew – Dworzec Łódź Dąbrowa
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 18: Telefoniczna Zajezdnia – Retkinia

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 43A: Północna – Konstantynów Łódzki
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The Fabulous Determinations--Don't you make me blue.
Three Ounces of Love--Disco man.
The Words of Wisdom--You're a friend of mine.
Crystal Image--Gonna have a good time.
Trieste--I can see him loving you.
The Grand Jury--Music was fun to me.
Larry Rice--Love looks go good.
Pride Passion and Pain--Some kind of man.
The We Three Trio--Graduation time.
Jackie and Gayle--That's how it goes.
Jimmy Ricks--Girl of my dreams.
The We Three Trio--Till next summer.
Clarence Hill--A lot of lovin' going around.
Jackie and Gayle--I wanna make you happy.
Brandywine Singers--Stop the world I've lost my yoyo.
The New Dawn--If I can't have your love.


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Ted Cruz, Jeff Sessions Fail To Force Vote On Blocking Executive Action On Immigration
By Elise Foley
WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 09: U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) (2nd L) speaks as Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) (L), and Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) (R) listen during a news conference September 9, 2014 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The legislators discussed on immigration reform during the news conference. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON -- Republican Sens. Jeff Sessions of Alabama and Ted Cruz of Texas made a failed attempt on Thursday get vulnerable Democrats on the record supporting so-called "amnesty" for undocumented immigrants.
The senators engaged in a procedural maneuver that would have allowed a subsequent vote on a bill from Cruz to block protections for undocumented immigrants. Cruz and Sessions challenged red-state Democrats in particular to join them in opposing President Barack Obama's executive action on immigration, which he recently delayed after pleas from some members of his party, who said it could hurt their chances in the midterm elections.
Republicans have no intention of letting up pressure on those vulnerable Democrats on immigration, and Thursday's motion offered a final opportunity to attack them for voting with the party on the issue.
"If we leave town without having passed a bill to block this executive amnesty, then it will be a permanent stain on the Senate, on the constitutional order, and this entire Democratic caucus," Sessions said on the Senate floor before the vote, which took place during debate over government funding. "So I urge my Democratic colleagues, I know the pressure is to stay hitched, to stay in line, but you do have the power to vote differently."
The effort narrowly failed in a 50 to 50 vote, but the senators succeeded in getting the attention of red-state Democrats: five of them voted with Republicans to open up amendments and allow for a vote against executive action on immigration. Those Democrats were Sens. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), Kay Hagan (D-N.C.), Mark Pryor (D-Ark.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.). All but Manchin are up for re-election this year.
Cruz's measure would have blocked new applications for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, and prohibited Obama from further executive action on immigration that allowed undocumented immigrants to stay and work legally. DACA allows young undocumented immigrants who have been in the U.S. for years to apply to stay and work legally for two or more years, and so far has helped more than half a million people. If Obama makes broader moves to change immigration policy, as he has promised to do by the end of the year, millions more undocumented immigrants could receive reprieve.
Though Cruz's measure will not receive a vote, the issue is likely to come up again as Republicans try to paint vulnerable Democrats as pro-"amnesty."
"How many Senate Democrats, particularly in red states, go home to their states and say amnesty is a terrible thing, and then come back here and facilitate the president illegally granting amnesty?" Cruz said on the Senate floor. "How about we have some honesty? ... The truth is the 55 Senate Democrats want amnesty but they don't want the voters to know."
Although Republicans have opposed DACA since it was first announced in 2012, the rallying cries against it have grown louder this year after an influx of tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors crossing the border illegally. The new entrants would not be eligible for DACA, but Republicans argue that by creating the policy, the Obama administration sent the message that undocumented young people could stay if they made it here.
There has been a sharp decrease in unaccompanied minors crossing the border illegally since early in the summer. During that time, Obama has repeatedly vowed to take executive action on immigration, but recently delayed those plans until after the election.
Cruz has said his measure would not strip protections from current recipients, and a staff member from his office clarified that those already granted DACA protections could renew them but would not be granted work authorization.
The House voted 216 to 192 in August to end DACA and block Obama from actions to limit deportations in the future. Eleven Republicans broke with their party to oppose the measure, while four House Democrats voted in support.
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Yale Arrests 48 Students Demanding Climate Justice for Puerto Rico
by Nora Heaphy, Fossil Free Yale
On the last day of Yale's 2018 Fall semester [Dec. 7], 48 students, professors, and New Haven community members were arrested after a 5-hour occupation of the Yale Investments Office.
We were sitting in to demand that Yale direct its fund managers to cancel their holdings in Puerto Rico's debt and divest from the fossil fuel industry. After 6 years of trying to engage with the Yale administration, the few channels available had failed us, and our only alternative was direct action.
As Puerto Rico struggles to recover from a climate change-fueled hurricane and a massive debt crisis, Yale's fifth largest fund manager Baupost is suing to have its debt repaid before the island can rebuild, and renowned Yale Chief Investment Officer David Swensen sits on the board of Baupost. Our university's investments in injustice don't surprise us. We also know that Yale invests at least $678 million in fossil fuel companies, including ExxonMobil and Antero. These corporations intend to extract and burn as much coal, oil, and natural gas as possible, regardless of the consequences to islands like Puerto Rico. And they've spent billions funding climate denial and paying off politicians to lobby against climate policies like a Green New Deal.
In the Investments Office lobby, members of our coalition presented on Puerto Rico's debt and the roots of Yale's endowment in slavery, held trainings, sang songs, and read statements of support from around the world. Meanwhile, 450 students marched to the Investments Office and rallied in support, as those inside were arrested. The Yale administration—who had recently published a statement blaming climate change on everyday consumers rather than fossil fuel corporations—chose to arrest its students rather than have a conversation with us. A few days later, at the Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility's public meeting, we again confronted the administration's failure to act in the face of climate injustice. Our calls for moral leadership from Yale have been met with stalling, inaction, and a willful naiveté that amounts to gross negligence. But students, New Haven, and Puerto Rico are powerful, and we will hold this university accountable.
Email fossilfreeyale@gmail.com to get involved.
Bridgeport Power Plants Are an International Problem
by Stanley Heller, Promoting Enduring Peace
People are not getting the message. The U.N. climate scientists say we must cut carbon emissions in half within a dozen years or we're going to really screw up the climate. People read the words and go off to something else. The authorities will take care of it. But they're not.
In Bridgeport, we have the Bridgeport Harbor Station — the last coal-burning plant in New England. It gives out all kinds of dangerous chemicals. After years of protest, it is slated to be replaced. That's good news, BUT it will be replaced by a methane-burning power plant. The methane burning plant will actually throw off 6 times the carbon dioxide as does the current coal plant!
It will spew an estimated 1.6 million tons a year compared to a quarter of a million the coal plant emitted in 2017. It also will have to be fed with methane which currently comes from a U.S. production and piping system that leaks methane like crazy. And methane in the short run (and all we have is the short run) is 100 times worse as a global warming gas than carbon dioxide.
The coal-burning plant should be shut down immediately. The building of the methane plant should be stopped. Yes, yes, think of the expense. But think of the climate hell we're creating. The U.S. has mothballed nuclear power plants at even more expense. It's an emergency. Treat it like that and come up with a solution.
U.S Census Job Fairs Hiring in New Haven County
Learn about job openings with the U.S. Census Bureau. Register for an information session at any library branch. Flexible hours, office jobs or work from home, earn $17-23 per hour. Experience with technology, computers, smart phones needed. Bilingual candidates in all languages needed. Paid training, no previous experience required.
Monday, Feb. 4 & 11 from 2-4 p.m. Mitchell Library, 37 Harrison St. (203) 946-8117
Monday, Feb. 11 & 25 from 10 a.m.-12 noon. Ives Main Library, 133 Elm St. (203) 946-7431
Tuesday, Feb. 5 & 26 from 10 a.m.-12 noon. Stetson Library, 200 Dixwell Ave. (203) 946-8119
Wednesday, Feb. 6 & 13 from 10 a.m.-12 noon. Wilson Library 303 Washington Ave. (203) 946-2228
Thursday, Feb. 7 & 14 from 6-8 p.m. Fair Haven Library, 182 Grand Ave. (203) 946-8115
Info: New Haven Free Public Library, 133 Elm St. (203) 946-8130.
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Help Bring Solar Power to Columbus House
by Matthew Moroney, New Haven Community Solar
New Haven Community Solar is a new kind of company. Our mission is to give community members an opportunity to invest directly in locally created environmental and social works projects. We present an alternative economic model using crowdfunding to form energy cooperatives that benefit nonprofits and build wealth in communities. Lack of corporate and political accountability led us to create a new form of active corporate ownership from the community. This empowers local leaders with alternative pathways to reduce inequality. We expand economic opportunities for vulnerable groups and accelerate a just clean energy transition by not waiting for corporations to act.
Our first project supplies clean, affordable energy to the formerly homeless with our community non-profit partner, Columbus House. Connecticut has the third-highest energy costs in the country (average of 17.3 cents per kilowatt hour). Installing solar panels for Columbus House steadies their electricity costs and frees up money to support their mission of providing services for homeless and at-risk individuals and families.
(The average residential electricity rate of 17.34¢/kWh in CT is 45.96% greater than the national average residential rate of 11.88¢/kWh. The approximate range of residential electricity rates in the U.S. is 8.37¢/kWh to 37.34¢/kWh. https://www.electricitylocal.com/states/connecticut.)
By investing instead of donating to renewable energy projects, funders have the potential to make a return from the sale of energy back to the grid. This return can be kept, donated to Columbus House, or invested back into building more community solar in New Haven. The investment period is almost over, so we invite the greater New Haven community to review our investment materials today to consider supporting the project at www.startengine.com/new-haven-community-solar.
Our initiative is ultimately a test to determine if crowd-sourced cooperatives can thrive as an alternative to current systems. We envision a future where community finance enables us to own our own futures. If the project succeeds, we will also be providing copies of our project and program documents to help guide other local leaders in creating their own crowdfunded community-owned projects.
For questions, contact Matthew Moroney at greenisagoodcolor@gmail.com.
Climate Change and the Urgency to Act
by Chris Schweitzer, New Haven Climate Movement
New Haven Climate Movement has launched a campaign to have the City of New Haven pass The Emergency Resolution to Restore a Safe Climate. The Resolution states, "New Haven declares that we face an existential climate emergency that threatens our city, region, state, nation, civilization, the natural world, and humanity." The Resolution also states that: "New Haven officially commits to leading an emergency mobilization effort that, with appropriate financial and regulatory assistance from state and federal authorities, ends community-wide greenhouse gas emissions by or before Dec. 31, 2030, and immediately initiates an effort to safely draw down carbon from the atmosphere." Please sign the petition at newhavenclimatemovement.org.
This Resolution is part of a growing national movement declaring that we are in a climate emergency and commit-ting cities to addressing it in time to avoid the worst outcomes. Local governments have become leaders of the climate emergency movement and are inspiring others to do the same. Los Angeles, Berkeley, Richmond, CA, and Hoboken, NJ, have passed emergency resolutions organized by the national organization The Climate Mobilization. New Haven passed a Climate Framework in 2018 so it has a guide to follow. Beyond this, there are significant jobs and public health benefits of taking action now.
From The Climate Mobilization A Call for Safe Climate: To protect humanity, we need a massive transformation of our economy and society in a matter of years, not decades. We must rapidly direct our resources toward a singular national purpose: restoring a safe climate for our world.
From the Connecticut Governor's Council on Climate Change: "With over 600 miles of coastline and 2.2 million people living in shoreline communities in Connecticut, the state's residents and communities are extremely vulnerable to the impacts of weather and climate events. Connecticut residents are already beginning to experience such effects as climate change ramps up. For instance, in Connecticut alone, Hurricane Irene (2011) caused power outages affecting 754,000 customers and over $1 billion in damage, and Hurricane Sandy (2012) caused power outages affecting more than 600,000 customers and inflicted almost $2 billion in statewide damages. The latter forced thousands of Connecticut residents to evacuate, saw thousands apply for FEMA assistance, damaged roads and infrastructure, and took nine days for utilities to restore power. Many of Connecticut's coastal communities and assets face an escalating risk of storm events exacerbated by climate change."
For more information on the Resolution, or to get involved, contact Chris at nh@newhavenleon.org or call (203) 562-1607.
Khashoggi Family Still Not Getting Justice
by Stanley Heller, Exec. Director, Middle East Crisis Committee
On the one hand it's staggering. The U.S. Senate unani-mously voted to declare the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia the person responsible for the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Just this spring the Crown Prince was on a victory tour of the U.S. being wined and dined from every-body from Bloomberg to Oprah to "The Rock." On the other hand, we don't know if anyone involved in the murder has been punished. The Saudi Arabian prosecutor claims to have arrested 20 people, but he has not released the names, nor has the prosecutor said a word about what happened to Khashoggi's remains. You would think with 20 people in custody, with some supposedly pleading guilty, the Saudi police would know where the remains are located. But the prosecutor has said nothing. It may be part of Khashoggi's punishment! Over 30 Saudi families who have lost a son to an execution or police killing have been told the body is being withheld. MECC has a petition on our site thestruggle.org calling for the bodies of all the executed to be returned to their families.
The Middle East Crisis Committee and Promoting Enduring Peace are also trying to get the West Haven City Council to speak out and call for the University of New Haven (housed in West Haven) to break its ties to the Saudi police/military college. As far as we can tell it's the only college that directly helps the Saudi "security." We've sent a model resolution to the Council and are working to get them to pass it. To help out with this contact mail@thestruggle.org or call (203) 934-2761.
We're also working on the crisis in Al Rukban. It's a remote part of Syria near Jordan and Iraq where tens of thousands of refugees are living in a desert. They've run from Assad and ISIS. Neither Jordan nor Iraq will let them in. So Al Rukban is under siege and the people are really in a bad way. The pathetic thing is they're just a couple of miles away from a U.S. base in Syria and the U.S. won't help them. #US-Help2Rukban, contact office@pepeace.org to spread the word.
Plowshare Activist, Amistad Catholic Worker, Mark Colville Returns to Jail
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On the night of April 4, 2018, New Haven resident and Amistad Catholic Worker, Mark Colville was arrested with 6 others at a non-violent Plowshares action at Kings Bay Naval Base, the largest nuclear submarine base in the world. The naval base has six ballistic missile submarines and two guided missile submarines.
"Nuclear weapons kill every day through our mining, production, testing, storage and dumping, primarily on Indigenous Native land. This weapons system is a cocked gun being held to the head of the planet" (from the statement of the seven arrested Plowshares activists).
Mark Colville was granted bail for skin cancer treatment that was successfully treated.
The following excerpts are from Mark before he and his wife Luz returned to Georgia, where, on Dec. 11, he self-surrendered to Georgia authorities.
Greetings in the peace that the world cannot give…
From the beginning, my participation in the Kings Bay Plowshares action was first of all an act of contrition for complicity in the sins of nuclearism and empire, and I've regarded any incarceration as penance for those sins. But the jail has also been for me a place of ministry, personal faith-development and formation of conscience. …
With this in mind, there are no misgivings or mixed feelings about going back to Glynn County Detention Center, but rather a sense of rejoicing that, as Dan Berrigan liked to say, one has the freedom to go to jail.
A week ago, judge Cheesbro accepted a motion to return the bail money that was posted on my behalf and put me back in the jail on December 11.
This Tuesday, Luz and I will show up at the Glynn County Detention Center and part ways again, for another undetermined length of time. We will do this mindfully, reaching hands of solidarity toward our extended global family members who are now at this country's border facing atrocities and uncertainties far beyond whatever hardships we might be obliged to bear.
…I'll look forward to your postcards, and delight in all news of your ongoing efforts to bring about the nonviolent collapse of the U.S. empire, in defense of all creation…
Love and Prayers, Mark
[For the regulations on how to send letters to Mark, please see www.kingsbayplowshares7.org/jail-addresses]
Film Screenings with Stand Up for Racial Justice (SURJ)
Freedom Summer (2014), Saturday, Jan. 19, 2 p.m. at
the Wilson Library, 303 Washington Ave., chronicling the 1964 voter registration efforts in Mississippi. World Cinema Film Screening Tsotsi (Rated R) South Africa, 2005. English subtitles. Sat., January 26, 1 p.m. at the Fair Haven Library, 182 Grand Ave.
A young Johannesburg hoodlum lives by a code of violence after he steals a dead woman's car, although he finds an infant in the back seat. Find out what happens next. Awarded the best Foreign Language Film 2006. Free popcorn!
Life on Parole — Film and Talk-Back at Milford Public Library, 57 New Haven Ave., Jan. 23
Milford Library and Milford Speaks Out are pleased to co-host a screening and discussion Wednesday, Jan. 23 at 6:30 p.m., of Life on Parole, a documentary produced by FRONTLINE and The New York Times. Life on Parole goes inside the parole system in Connecticut to examine ongoing efforts to rethink parole: A condition that offers freedom, but comes with strict prohibitions like with whom one can live with, where one can go, what time one has to be home, and more.
"Most people who are in prison in America will one day be released on parole," says Matthew O'Neill, the Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning director of Life on Parole. "And as Connecticut brings its prison population down and attempts to give parolees more chances to succeed, we wanted to see if the experience of the parolees reflected these changes."
With unique access inside Connecticut's corrections system, as well as camera-phone footage filmed by the parolees themselves, the film follows four former prisoners as they navigate the challenges of more than a year on parole — from finding work, to staying sober, to parenting — and doing it all while under intense supervision from the state. A discussion will follow the screening. Admission is free.
Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) Forms Community Leadership Teams
The mission of New Haven LEAD is to implement a LEAD model that reduces incarceration and criminal justice involvement for persons living with substance use disorders. The overall goal is harm reduction for the participant, their families, and the community.
The next meeting of the Community Leadership Team is on Thursday, Jan. 3, 6 p.m., at Christian Community Action at 168 Davenport Ave. More people can be involved with this to help establish policy. Residents of Hill North, Hill South and Downtown are especially welcome, as these are the neighborhoods where LEAD is presently focused. Site Contact: Shaunette Marquis, Family Coach, Christian Community Action. RSVP to Cynthia at CWatson@newhavenct.gov.
LEAD only works if there is meaningful community input. Establishing mechanisms to ensure such input can serve to keep the program actors accountable and keep the processes connected to community needs and interests. A Community Leadership Team needs to have interested community members, neighborhood leaders, people with relevant lived experience, etc. who are not already represented by groups linked to the LEAD Policy and Operational Workgroups. Such a team can prove incredibly useful both operationally and for program sustainability. (Taken from: LEAD National Support Bureau, www.leadbureau.org)
New Haven LEAD's website is veoci.com/veoci/p/dashboard/h2567kvepg. For more information, contact Cynthia Watson, Project Manager for LEAD. Office: (203) 946-4905, cell: (203) 668-0154, cwatson@newhavenct.gov.
Creative Reuse: Learn to Crochet with Plastic Bags
Come to the Mitchell Library for a hands-on workshop on Monday, Jan. 14 at 6 p.m.
Join artist Marsha Borden and learn how to transform ordinary plastic shopping bags into mini-works of art. Through a process of creating yarn from plastic, participants will craft simple objects using chain stitch. Participants are encouraged to gather and bring their own plastic bags to the workshop, as well as a size N crochet hook if they have one. Beginning crochet skills are helpful but not necessary.
Marsha Borden is a textile artist who uses plastic bags in her work. Recent projects have included crocheting a coral reef representing marine animals threatened by plastic pollution. She is currently exploring how manmade and natural materials intersect in a series of new works titled. More about her work is at www.marshaborden.com. Mitchell Library, 37 Harrison St. (203) 946-8117.
Coalition for People Needs You on Its Board
This year the Coalition for People has taken on the issues of New Haven's lack of affordable housing, the "hospital-dumping" of homeless who are discharged to the street, instances of injustice and other concerns.
We will hold our annual meeting on Wednesday, April 17, 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the main New Haven Free Public Library, 133 Elm St. We need people on our board to help prioritize the many issues in our area so we can mobilize and act effectively. Please mark our meeting on your calendar. We hope PAR members will consider joining the board, which meets once a month.
All are invited to attend the annual meeting. Membership dues are $5 annually (due at the annual meeting). Pizza will be served. In March send us your RSVP if you will attend and if you want to be elected to the board.
Our next board meeting is Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2-4 p.m. at the Fair Haven Library, 182 Grand Ave. in the community room, lower level. All are welcome to attend. For more information, email coalitionforpeople@hotmail.com.
23rd Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Legacy of Environmental and Social Justice: Yale Peabody Museum, Jan. 20-21
23rd Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Legacy of Environmental and Social Justice at the Yale Peabody Museum, Sunday, Jan. 20, 12 to 4 p.m. & Monday, Jan. 21, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The Yale Peabody Museum will open its doors once again in honor of Dr. King and his efforts to ensure environmental and social justice among all people. Free, the weekend's activities will include world-class performances, community open mics, and educational activities for visitors of all ages.
Special Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. programming also includes the 10th Annual Youth Gathering, Professional Poetry Slam, Art Contest and Storytelling at the New Haven Museum.
Sunday, Jan. 20: Don't miss out on the World Stage Performances, Peabody Museum, 170 Whitney Ave., located on the 1st Floor in the Great Hall of Dinosaurs!
10th Annual Teen Summit, Kroon Hall, 95 Prospect St. All teens are invited to the Teen Summit on the 3rd floor, from noon to 3 p.m.
Monday, Jan. 21: World Stage Performances, Peabody Museum, 170 Whitney Ave. in the Great Hall of Dinosaurs!
Zannette Lewis Environmental and Social Justice Professional Poetry Slam and Community Open Mic. The Community Open Mic will take place in the David Friend Hall on the third floor, from 11 a.m. to noon.
Come and check out the Professional Poetry Slam located in David Friend Hall, starting at 1 p.m. Watch and listen to the wonderful stories that these poets will perform.
Join local storytellers at the New Haven Museum, 114 Whitney Ave., for family-friendly stories.
If you have any questions, please contact the Public Programs Office at (203) 432-3776 or peabody.programs@yale.edu.


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Prognosing the severity of the myasthenia gravis
Kalbus O.I.
Summary. The aim — to develop a prognostic model of the severe course (SC) of myasthenia gravis (MG) taking into account the clinical manifestations and the immunological type of the disease. Materials and methods. 182 patients with MG were examined (147 (80.8%) with a generalized, 35 (19.2%) with ocular form of the disease). To assess the clinical form, class, and subclass of MG, the MGFA classification was used. The severity of MG was quantified on a QMG scale. The level of antibodies to acetylcholine receptors (AchR-AB) and to muscle-specific tyrosine kinase (MuSK-AB) and the presence of antibodies to titin and SOX1 were assessed. The quality of life was assessed on the MGQОL-15, daily activity — on the MG-ADL, the level of fatigue — on the FSS scale. Results. AchR-AB were found in 124 (68.1%) patients (73.5% with generalized and 45.7% with the ocular form), to MuSK — in 16 (8.8%), to titin — in 53 (29.1%), to SOX1 — in 10 (5.5%) patients. The average MG-ADL score in the total sample was 5.0 (3.0–8.0), the FSS score — 43.0 (30.0–54.0), the MGQOL-15 score — 21.5 (9.0–33.0) points. According to ROC-analysis, it was found that out of all assessed indicators, the titer of AchR-AB has the best operational characteristics (the highest sensitivity and specificity, AUC), its ability to predict the SC of MG is very good (sensitivity 70.59; specificity 90.30; AUC 0.835; p<0.001) and it can be used to predict the SC of MG (>17 points on the QMG scale). If the titer level of AchR-AB is >6.9 nmol/L, the odds ratio of the SC of MG in patients with MG compared to those who have a titer level of AchR-AB below this level is 22.35 (95% confidence interval 6.98–71.56; p<0.001. The SC of MG (>17 points on the QMG scale), according to the rank correlation analysis, is associated with the titer of AchR-AB (ρ=0.34; p<0.001), with the MGQOL-15 score (ρ=0.41; p<0.001), MG-ADL score (ρ=0.41; p<0.001), FSS score (ρ=0.36; p<0.001). Conclusion. An AchR-AB >6.9 nmol/L is a predictor of SC of MG. The prognostic value of the titer of MuSK-AB, of the presence of antibodies to titin, to SOX1 for severe MG has not been established.
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The Institute of Management and Technology, controlled by the state government ,functioning at CAPE campus,Punnappra Akhsranagari in Alappuzha has invited application for admission to MBA course (2015-2017,Kerala University).It is a full time two year course.
Group discussion and interview will be held at college campus on 25 April at 10 am.
Students who have passed degree course with 50% marks (SC-40%,OBC-48%) can apply. Students who are waiting their final year degree results also can apply for the course.
Admission will be on the basis of marks secured in the MAT/SIMAT SCORE/interview,group discussion.
The course fee is 2,21,000. Application will be available at college office.
The Director,Institute of Management and Technology, Punnapra, Aksharanagari, Vadakkal P.O, Alappuzha-688003.
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Clara de Asis 13 Questions
Clara de Asís is a Spanish composer and guitarist based in France. She develops an approach to sound that highlights simplicity, non-intervention and active listening as means of music making. Her works display an extreme precision and intuitive openness; both distinctive of Clara de Asís manner, that involves a dedicated attention to sound on its details and its most pure forms.
De Asís's intuitive, unconventional style of compositions utilizes a minimal, spatial framework in which performers can create individual sounds with personal instrumentation incorporating active listening, to attain a paradoxical but coherent result that "setting a frame could bring out a lot of unexpected possibilities and revelations that come from the sound itself."
Her music has been showcased in many international scenes including Berlin, Paris, Prague, New York, Huddersfield and Helsinki.
Her music has been released by labels such as PiedNu (Uno todo tres, 2016, France), INSUB (Appalachian Anatolia / d'Incise, Switzerland, 2016), Marginal Frequency (L'Inertie, with Bruno Duplant, USA, 2017), Another Timbre (Do nothing, UK, 2018), elsewhere (Without, with Greg Stuart & Erik Carlson, USA, 2018), Pilgrim Talk (Sans nom ni forme, USA, 2019).
Improvisation through the use of prepared guitar implements for her a process of listening and sound generation that allows her to develop a direct experience of gesture and material variations, accidents, errors. She provoke special care to listen and staging sounds of her tools, allowing them to maintain a diagram in the form and cohesion in the use of materials. Concretely, it brings out the various timbres that the instrument offers him using different objects and materials, just as instruments available in the performative act. She's also working in communication and documentation areas at Centre international de poésie Marseille. Some of her collaborations include Bruno Duplant, Noël Akchoté, d'incise, Rebecca Lane, Lauri Hyvärinen, Farida Amadou, Patrick Farmer, Félicie Bazelaire, Greg Stuart, Erik Carlson.
Which was the first musical sound do you remember?
It is my own heart-beating as I was a child and trying to sleep at night. I could listen to it very clearly, like if it was inside my ear, and I just couldn't help to follow that rythm and complete it with more beats. That sound was distinct in the silence. It made me figure out lots of images and pictures that I still can remember.
La troisième heure by Clara de Asis
Technique is very important. But there's no "a" technique, there's no "the" technique. To me, playing is developing a technique. And that technique doesn't exists until you figure it out, until you find it; and when you find it, if it's the good one for you, you need to keep it. I would say that's the definition of technique I'm interested in. It's what allows you to explore the paths where you want to go. But it's not something you take from the outside, it's something you invent.
Listening to their music and having the certitude that that music couldn't have been done, absolutely not, by anybody else but them. Regardless of the technique deployed, the "genius" character, or whatever.
Memoryscapes by Clara de Asís
How would you define silence? and noise?
Silence to me is associated to the darkness, but a warm and bright darkness, not scary. I don't like playing with much light. I think that when it's dark, I listen better. And silence, it's the condition of sound, it's where the sound come from. It's also the condition of listening. It's something I appreciate a lot. Sound appears in the silence.
And noise, it's a little bit like a silence, in a way, but to me it's more like an sculpture. Something you sculpt. And the further you are from it, the less you appreciate it, and the closer you are, the more you love it. Noise it's very lively.
I don't know. I just do it. I think me playing, the act of playing for me, it's very motivated by the act of listening. I want to listen to something, I don't know what exactly, so I play and I look for it.
What is your relationship with other disciplines such as painting, literature, dance, theater ...?
I'm very curious to other disciplines, not necessarily for me to practice them, but about the way of other disciplines do, how things can be built in many different ways. I often think about sound in terms of figures, like pictures. And I draw a lot the sounds I seek for. Not much when I play improvised music, but when I compose, especially acousmatic pieces, I draw the sounds I want to make. I also work a lot with people from other disciplines, specifically from contemporary poetry. It's been many years that I work with Laura Vazquez, who is a French poet who makes a poetry that, in a way, is very close to music but has the specifies of words. That has allowed me (and still does) to take directions that I definitely wouldn't have taken on my own.
Clara de Asís & Noël Akchoté by Clara de Asís & Noël Akchoté
Why do you need from special techniques in the guitar?
Because otherwise I couldn't feel free. I don't mean everybody needs special or prepared guitar techniques to be free, of course not. But me, I do.
I'm not sure about the first record. I think it was Nirvana's In Utero. The last one is Smitten by Chemiefaserwerk from SQRT records.
When I started playing guitar I was like 12 years old, and I wanted to learn how to play guitar. I expected that, and I wanted that. Now I still haven't learned "how to play guitar". What I've learned, it's just to keep it that way. Rather than learning how to play, to me it's more an acknowledgment of your instrument. And all the time I'm looking for ways to make the sounds show up. It's something that never ends.
The fact that I don't need to put things into words.
objet petit by Clara de Asís & Lauri Hyvärinen
Dream about a perfect instrument.
I can't imagine a better instrument than just everything. The world. It may sounds naive, but the world it's a perfect instrument. Here you have all the sounds. This makes me think about a phrase I read once from a book by Pierre Henry, a kind of diary where he wrote many of his thoughts, and he said that the most wonderful sounds, you can get them from just a piece of wood.
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