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Melatonin: An Old Hormone with New Tricks
December 2, 2015 March 5, 2017 knowingneurons	1 Comment	Autoimmune, Circadian, Clock, Disease, EAE, experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis, Inflammation, interleukin, melatonin, MS, multiple sclerosis, Neuroinflammation, Pineal gland, Rhythm, Season, T cell
Melatonin: you've undoubtedly seen it in the supplement aisle at the drugstore…that natural sleep remedy your aunt recommended once, sounding vaguely like a portmanteau of mellow and serotonin. But between the occasional internet medical forum and your would-be pharmacist aunt, how much do you really know about this sandman hormone?
Melatonin is an ancient, multipurpose molecule. It is found in many types of creatures, including plants, unicellular organisms, bacteria, algae, as well as invertebrates and vertebrates. The area of the mammalian brain that produces melatonin is the pineal gland: a small, round structure located just behind the third ventricle. The pineal gland secretes melatonin directly into blood circulation and cerebrospinal fluid, where it is able to act on cells throughout the body via multiple receptor pathways. Melatonin's primary function is to act as both a clock and a calendar to the rest of the cells in the body, regulating daily (circadian) and seasonal rhythms. Somewhat surprisingly, melatonin is produced at night in both diurnal and nocturnal mammals, as light inhibits pineal melatonin secretion in most species. This is the true origin of the molecule's name: melas, meaning dark, and serotonin, the precursor from which the body synthesizes melatonin.
Wild animals use melatonin to tell the season, as the duration of nightly melatonin increases closer to winter (when day lengths decrease). Melatonin controls the vast majority of changes in seasonal behaviors and physiological processes, including reproduction, metabolism, and immune function. Seasonally-breeding animals use the melatonin signal to anticipate the coming winter and reorganize their physiology accordingly. Indeed, artificial treatment with exogenous melatonin can cause seasonally breeding animals to 'switch' to their winter form.
Winter and summer present entirely different environmental challenges. If animals cannot predict and adapt to these challenges, they will likely die. In some species, such as Siberian hamsters (Phodopus sungorus), short days or melatonin implants can cause reproductive systems to all but disappear. These hamsters cannot afford to invest energy into making testes or ovaries at -25°C! Additionally, large changes to the immune system occur in response to seasonal melatonin secretion, allowing for enhanced survival capacity during the harsh days of winter.
Because humans show very few seasonal rhythms in breeding or other behaviors, most research on melatonin's actions in humans has been focused on its circadian or sleep altering effects. Indeed, due to the advent of artificial nighttime lighting in industrial society, a special research emphasis has been placed on discovering the deleterious effects of such lighting on melatonin secretion. Because melatonin is light-dependent, concentrations are naturally higher in the winter than in the summer. This fact bears clinical significance, as some diseases such as multiple sclerosis (MS) show seasonal patterns in severity and prevalence.
Recently, researchers (Farez and colleagues) have discovered a role for melatonin in mediating seasonal relapses in MS patients. MS is a demyelinating disease thought to be autoimmune in origin. Autoimmune diseases are conditions where the patient's own immune system mistakes normal healthy tissue for an invading pathogen and begins attacking it. Patients lose the protective 'wrapping,' called myelin, along nerves that ensures adequate signal transduction, similar to losing insulation along a telephone line. Without myelinated nerves, signals can become distorted or lost completely, causing widespread loss of function. Researchers have known for a substantial amount of time that people living farther away from the equator have a higher incidence of MS. Indeed, much research has been done on the potentially protective effects of vitamin D — synthesis of which is sun-dependent — on MS, as those living closer to the poles experience less intense sunlight and therefore synthesize less vitamin D than those living closer to the equator. The facts, however, do not add up: if MS were dependent on vitamin D, then one would expect relapses to occur at the highest level during the winter and fall, when sun exposure drops. However, the opposite appears to be true! Relapse rates are highest in the summer and spring, when vitamin D synthesis and sun exposure are highest. Some other seasonally variable factor must contribute to MS relapse rates.
Farez and colleagues realized that melatonin concentrations are higher during fall and winter when compared to spring or summer and, furthermore, that melatonin could influence immune function. Accordingly, they predicted that higher melatonin levels in winter alter the immune system so as to inhibit MS relapses. In fact, melatonin blocks the formation of a subset of T-helper cells called Th17 cells. These cells secrete interleukin-17 (IL-17), an inflammatory molecule that can influence disease severity. Researchers tested whether melatonin could improve outcomes in a mouse model of MS called experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE). In this model, a piece of foreign myelin protein is introduced into a mouse, and the mouse's immune system begins attacking it and other (natural) myelin, causing a disease very similar to human MS. EAE is a 'true' autoimmune disease, that is, you can give a healthy mouse the disease simply by transferring T-cells from an afflicted mouse in a process called 'adoptive cell transfer'. The transferred T-cells will cause the healthy mouse to develop EAE, even though it was never exposed to the foreign myelin protein!
Melatonin was effective in reducing disease severity by inhibiting the development of Th17 cells and boosting the development of anti-inflammatory T-regulatory (Tr1) cells, shifting the balance of the immune response toward immune suppression. Blocking the melatonin receptor on T-cells also blocked melatonin's efficacy, showing that melatonin acts directly on these cells to alter their function. This research provides evidence that melatonin mediates seasonal relapse in MS, and that using melatonin or a similar compound could be effective in the treatment of MS or other autoimmune diseases. The authors urge caution, though, as the pathways involved are complex and likely cross-regulated. Further research is necessary to translate this finding to the clinic. In the meantime, perhaps you will revere your aunt's favorite health supplement as a multifaceted molecule, which transcends its common label as a mere sleep remedy.
Written by Jeremy Borniger.
Images by Jooyeun Lee.
Farez, M. F., Mascanfroni, I. D., Méndez-Huergo, S. P., Yeste, A., Murugaiyan, G., Garo, L. P., … & Correale, J. (2015). Melatonin Contributes to the Seasonality of Multiple Sclerosis Relapses. Cell 162: 1338-1352.
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Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision. By Barbara Ransby. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. 544 pp. Cloth, $34.95, ISBN 0-807-82778-9).
In her fascinating new book, Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision, Barbara Ransby notes that writing a biography of Ella Baker -- one of the largely unsung female heroes of the Civil Rights Movement -- was not easy. Baker left little in the way of statements, manifestos, diaries, and the like; her radical vision of grass-roots democracy militated against even her own efforts to document her tireless work on behalf of social change. What Ransby has done, therefore, in this book is to situate Baker at the center of milieus within which she worked, chiefly the Black Freedom movement, and within the broader American left.
Baker's career as an activist spanned more than four decades. In the 1930s, she was active in the Young Negroes Cooperative League, a group that attempted to alleviate the poverty of African Americans in both rural and urban communities through the formation of consumer cooperatives and buying clubs. In the 1940s, she traveled the country working for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. In the 1950s, she was a central, although mostly invisible figure, in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. In the 1960s, she helped found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). In the 1970s, slowed down by age and illness, she was still active in movements for Puerto Rican independence and self-determination in the Third World. Ransby charts how Baker's life reads like a road map of the key social justice struggles of America's twentieth century- - civil rights, poverty, self-determination, labor, and even feminism.
Ransby argues, as do other scholars of Black women's activism, that Baker's activism exemplified the crucial role that Black women's often unacknowledged leadership played in the Civil Rights struggle (see Crawford et al. 1993; McNair Barnett 1993; Mueller 1990; Payne 1989, 1990; Robnett 1997). She is able to add to this scholarship, showing that developing leadership in others was central to Baker's radical democratic vision of organizing. Baker's role, then, was largely invisible, and in fact she so successfully achieved her goals that she organized herself out of a series of jobs. Ransby does a masterful job of describing just how indispensable Baker was in mobilizing many different organizations - and the difficulty of her task is evident in the book's "Appendix," where Ransby lists dozens of Baker's organizational affiliations.
Ransby shows how Baker's work was shaped by the models of female independence, integrity, and spiritual commitment that she learned from as the daughter of small landholders in rural North Carolina. Yet Baker's private life remained private. Despite her marriage (and subsequent divorce), people in the movement always called her by her maiden name, "Miss Baker." This separation of private and public woman was somewhat revolutionary for the time. Baker viewed herself as equal to the men who surrounded her, and considered herself responsible only to the people on whose behalf she worked. And she did it all with the good manners of a well-raised Southern African-American woman who also happened to be fond of wearing elegant hats.
Readers will come away from Ransby's book with more than a greater understanding of Ella Baker; they will also have an appreciation for the scope of movements for social change in the twentieth century. As an historical sociologist who studies postwar movements, including the links between feminism and the Civil Rights Movement, I was fascinated by Baker's relationships with various political activists in the American Left. At the same time, my two small but substantive criticisms of the book arise from my interest in social movement theory and history. First, I thought that Ransby could have been clearer about what she meant when she described a protest as "spontaneous." At times, "spontaneous" seems to serve as a substitute for "mobilized" when referring to periods of large-scale protest activity. As Ransby herself shows in her narrative, protest events almost never emerge in a truly spontaneous fashion -- that is, from thin air. All of Baker's organizing work is testimony to the planning involved in mobilizing protests for social change.
Secondly, Ransby notes Baker's sympathy for the Black feminist project, despite her lack of strong ties to any Black feminist group. The exception to this pattern was, apparently, Baker's involvement in the Third World Women's Alliance (TWWA), about which I and others have written (Anderson-Bricker 1999; Roth 2004; Springer 2001). The TWWA grew out of the Black Women's Liberation Committee, which was formed by women working within the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) who were troubled by the reactionary patriarchal politics of insurgent Black nationalism. Ransby does not explore Baker's work with the TWWA; instead, she spends a good deal of time in her chapter on SNCC portraying it as an organization with very benign gender politics. This seeming contradiction may simply be a product of timing -- Ransby's narrative focuses on an earlier period in SNCC's history -- but had Ransby made the links between organized Black feminism, SNCC, and Ella Baker's activism more explicit, it would have been a stronger book.
These two criticisms, however, should not discourage readers from Ransby's book. I would strongly recommend the book to anyone seeking to add to an understanding of the American left, of the Black Freedom movement, of women's activism, and of Baker herself. Given her radical grass-roots vision, Ella Baker may have protested occupying center stage -- but Ransby has made an important contribution to folks who want to carry on in Miss Baker's name.
Benita Roth is an associate professor of sociology and women's studies at the State University of New York, Binghamton. She is currently the William S. Vaughn Visiting Fellow at the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities at Vanderbilt University. Her book, Separate Roads to Feminism: Black, Chicana, and White Feminist Movements in America's Second Wave was published by Cambridge University Press in 2004.
Anderson-Bricker, Kristin. 1999. "'Triple Jeopardy': Black Women and the Growth of Feminist Consciousness in SNCC, 1964-1975." In Still Lifting, Still Climbing: Contemporary African American Women's Activism, edited by Kimberly Springer. New York: New York University Press.
Crawford, Vicki L. et al. 1993. Women in the Civil Rights Movement: Trailblazers & Torchbearers 1941-1965. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
McNair Barnett, Bernice. 1993. "Invisible Southern Black Women Leaders in the Civil Rights Movement: The Triple Constraints of Gender, Race and Class." Gender & Society, 7:2:162-182.
Mueller, Carol. 1990. "Ella Baker and the Origins of `Participatory Democracy.'" In Women in the Civil Rights Movement: Trailblazers & Torchbearers, 1941-1965, edited by Vicki L. Crawford, Jacqueline Anne Rouse, and Barbara Woods. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Payne, Charles. 1989. "Ella Baker and Models of Social Change." Signs (Summer): 885-899.
________. 1990. "Men Led: but Women Organized: Movement Participation of Women in the Mississippi Delta." In Women in the Civil Rights Movement: Trailblazers & Torchbearers, 1941-1965, edited by Vicki L. Crawford, Jacqueline Anne Rouse, and Barbara Woods. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Roth, Benita. 2004. Separate Roads to Feminism: Black, Chicana, and White Feminist Movements in America's Second Wave. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Sacks, Karen. 1988. "Gender and Grassroots Leadership." In Women and the Politics of Empowerment, edited by Ann Bookman and Sandra Morgen. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Springer, Kimberly. 2001. "The Interstitial Politics of Black Feminist Organizations." Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism. 1:2: 155-91.


55-192. Abandoned oil and gas well fund. (a) There is hereby established in the state treasury the abandoned oil and gas well fund.
(b) Moneys in the abandoned oil and gas well fund shall be used only for the purpose of paying the costs of: (1) Investigation and remediation of contamination sites; (2) investigation of abandoned wells, and their well sites, drilling of which began before July 1, 1996; and (3) plugging, replugging or repairing abandoned wells, and remediation of the well sites, drilling of which began before July 1, 1996, in accordance with a prioritization schedule adopted by the commission and based on the degree of threat to public health or the environment. No moneys credited to the fund shall be used to pay administrative expenses of the commission or to pay compensation or other expenses of employing personnel to carry out the duties of the commission.
(c) On or before the 10th day of each month, the director of accounts and reports shall transfer from the state general fund to the abandoned oil and gas well fund interest earnings based on: (1) The average daily balance of moneys in the abandoned oil and gas well fund for the preceding month; and (2) the net earnings rate for the pooled money investment portfolio for the preceding month.
(d) All expenditures from the abandoned oil and gas well fund shall be made in accordance with appropriations acts upon warrants of the director of accounts and reports issued pursuant to vouchers approved by the chairperson of the state corporation commission or a person designated by the chairperson.
History: L. 1996, ch. 263, § 2; L. 1998, ch. 123, § 1; July 1.


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Big in Japan, Part 2: Osaka & the Eri Yamamoto Connection
I try to write tunes that capture a moment, whether an experience of nature or a busy city street or based on an experience on my travels. —Eri Yamamoto
Part 1 | Part 2
In Part 1 of Big in Japan we looked at the early history of jazz music in that country—a history that dates back to the same time frame as the Jazz Age in the United States. The influence of American dance music was indisputable but it came to Japan through second-hand means. Sheet music and early recordings were enhanced by live performances—not from American musicians—but from Filipinos who learned from the occupying forces of the U.S. Life in Japan, between the two World Wars, was in a state of flux as the country's attempt to assimilate its economy with the West coincided with weakening economies in Western Europe and the U.S. The result was not only trade barriers on Japanese products but also wide-spread anti-Asian immigration laws in the 1920s.
The internal clash of ideals was palpable: a government with growing resentment toward the West, and a populace of whom a significant segment saw the U.S. as the ideal of modern thinking. The dance music of the 1920s was emblematic of a largely mythological society that embraced individual freedom; even one that had thrown caution to the wind; it was a concept that simultaneously frightened and tempted. When it came to jazz, curiosity was winning out as dancehalls dotted some cities and thrived in others. Importantly, jazz in Japan followed the same identity strictures as in the U.S. in that the early era of music referred to as "jazz," would not technically qualify as the same jazz that later developed. From the time that jazz came to Japan, through the bebop era, the fundamental elements of the genre have run parallel to the U.S.
Tokyo was the dominant city of the two major cultural centers in Japan at the beginning of the Jazz Age. There would have been dance band performances scheduled in many of the city's music halls and theaters on the night of Saturday, September 1, 1923. Just before noon an 8.3-magnitude earthquake—the Great Kwanto Earthquake—and the subsequent Great Tokyo Fire destroyed almost fifty-percent of the city. Hundreds of aftershocks, tornados of fire, landslides, and multiple tsunamis would claim more than one-hundred-forty-thousand lives and typhoid fever and diseases from unsanitary conditions added to a toll that was unprecedented in the records of natural disasters in Japan. International relief quickly poured in, spearheaded by the U.S. and the Red Cross, bolstering relations between the often-antagonistic world powers. Demagoguery and accusations on both sides quickly put the affiliation back in hostile territory. The process of physically rebuilding Tokyo would be years in the making. Despite the acrimony between East and West, Americanization-by-jazz not only survived but flourished, and Japan's second great cultural center—Osaka—was destined to become the country's jazz capital.
Three-hundred miles to the southwest of Tokyo lies what was once called the "City of Smoke." In the late nineteenth century, Osaka lagged behind Tokyo as a commercial force in Japan and to compete with the capital, it shifted its dwindling trade-based economy for one of manufacturing. The factory smokestacks that dominated the skyline were emblematic of the city's growing workforce. As the population grew so to did slums and crime. The Yakuza, one of the largest, most persuasive and prosperous organized crime families in the world, originated in Osaka (and in Tokyo) and in the Jazz Age controlled the sale of stolen goods and the gambling business. Like their mafia counterparts in the U.S., they had strong ties to local governments and were often the money behind Osaka's jazz venues. By 1924 the city had almost two-dozen dance halls and native musicians were beginning to replace the Filipinos who had introduced live jazz performance to the country. The Dōtonbori district, the one-time dance hall center of the city was referred to as the "Japanese jazz mecca." The first stage of the Osaka jazz phenomena was short-lived. In 1927 the city's conservative ruling class—in a backlash to Americanism—delivered a decree forcing the dance halls to close. This too was a relatively brief imposition and in 1933, Chigusa, Japan's first jazz café opened.
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D.C. Laws Codified in the D.C. Code
Council Period 22 (2017-2018)
Permanent Laws
D.C. Law 22-303. Students in the Care of D.C. Coordinating Committee Act of 2018.
To establish the Students in the Care of D.C. Coordinating Committee within the District government to identify challenges and resolve issues that students in detainment, commitment, incarceration, and foster care face in order to improve educational outcomes.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this act may be cited as the "Students in the Care of D.C. Coordinating Committee Act of 2018".
New subchapter VIII of Chapter 15 of Title 2
New § 2-1599.01
Sec. 2. Definitions.
For the purposes of this act, the term:
(1) "Coordinating Committee" means Students in the Care of D.C. Coordinating Committee.
(2) "Local education agency" means the District of Columbia Public Schools system or any individual or group of public charter schools operating under a single charter.
(3) "OSSE" means Office of the State Superintendent of Education.
(4) "Resident" means an individual who presently resides in the District or who was residing in the District at the time the individual became a student in the care of D.C.
(5) "Students in the Care of D.C." means District residents under 25 years of age who are incarcerated or detained by, committed to and under the custody of, or otherwise under the supervision of, the:
(A) Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services;
(B) Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency;
(C) Pretrial Services Agency for the District of Columbia;
(D) Family Court Social Services Division;
(E) Child and Family Services Agency;
(F) Department of Corrections; or
(G) Federal Bureau of Prisons.
Sec. 3. Establishment of the Coordinating Committee.
(a) The Students in the Care of D.C. Coordinating Committee is established within the District government.
(b) The Coordinating Committee shall be headed by a Director appointed by the Mayor with the advice and consent of the Council in accordance with section 2(a) of the Confirmation Act of 1978, effective March 3, 1979 (D.C. Law 2-142; D.C. Official Code § 1-523.01(a)).
(c) The Coordinating Committee shall facilitate interagency, department-level leadership in planning, policymaking, program development, and budgeting for successful educational experiences and outcomes for students in the care of D.C.
(d) The Mayor shall designate an agency in the education sector to provide staff assistance and administrative support to the Coordinating Committee.
Sec. 4. Membership of the Coordinating Committee.
(a) The Coordinating Committee shall consist of 25 voting members and 4 nonvoting members, as follows:
(1) The following governmental voting members or their designees:
(A) State Superintendent, OSSE;
(B) Director, ReEngagement Center;
(C) Director, Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services;
(D) Director, Child and Family Services Agency;
(E) Director, Department of Corrections;
(F) Chancellor, District of Columbia Public Schools;
(G) Executive Director, Public Charter School Board;
(H) President, University of the District of Columbia Community College;
(I) Director, Family Court Social Services Division;
(J) Chief Judge, Superior Court of the District of Columbia;
(K) Executive Director, Corrections Information Council;
(L) Director, Department of Behavioral Health;
(M) Attorney General for the District of Columbia;
(N) Director, Department of Disability Services;
(O) Director, District of Columbia Public Defender Service; and
(P) Deputy Mayor for Education;
(2) The following nongovernmental voting members:
(A) A parent, guardian, or foster parent of a student in the care of D.C.;
(B) A current or former student involved in the juvenile or criminal justice system;
(C) A current or former student involved in the foster care system;
(D) A representative from an organization that provide services to students involved in the juvenile or criminal justice system;
(E) A representative from an organization that provides services to students involved in the foster care system;
(F) An education attorney representing students in the care of D.C. involved in the juvenile and criminal system;
(G) An attorney representing students in the care of D.C. involved in the foster care system; and
(H) One representative each from 2 charter school local education agencies.
(3) The following nonvoting governmental members or their designees, who the Mayor shall invite to participate:
(A) Director, Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency for the District of Columbia;
(B) Director, Pretrial Services Agency for the District of Columbia; and
(C) Director, Bureau of Prisons; and
(4) The Director of the Coordinating Committee, who shall serve as a nonvoting member.
(b)(1) Within 60 days of the applicability date of this act, the Mayor shall nominate individuals to serve as the nongovernmental voting members identified in subsection (a)(2) of this section in accordance with section 2(f) of the Confirmation Act of 1978, effective March 3, 1979 (D.C. Law 2-142; D.C. Official Code § 1-523.01(f)).
(2)(A) Each nongovernmental voting member of the Coordinating Committee shall serve a term of 4 years; provided, that of the initial appointments, the Mayor shall designate:
(i) 4 members to serve terms of 4 years;
(ii) 3 members to serve terms of 3 years; and
(iii) 2 members to serve terms of 2 years.
(B) Terms for the initial nongovernmental voting members shall begin on the date that a majority of the members are sworn in, which shall become the anniversary date for all subsequent appointments.
(C) When a vacancy occurs, the Mayor shall appoint a new member in accordance with paragraph (1) of this subsection.
(D) Any individual appointed to fill a vacancy of a nongovernmental voting member occurring before the expiration of the predecessor's term shall be appointed only for the remainder of the predecessor's term.
(E) Nongovernmental voting members may serve no more than 2 consecutive terms; provided, that a member appointed pursuant to subparagraph (C) of this paragraph, who served less than one year in the member's initial term, may serve 2 consecutive terms beyond the member's initial term.
(F) No individual who has served the maximum number of terms permitted pursuant to subparagraph (E) of this paragraph may be eligible for reappointment.
Sec. 5. The Director of the Coordinating Committee.
(a)(1) The Director of the Coordinating Committee shall be appointed to the Excepted Service as a statutory officeholder pursuant to section 908 of the District of Columbia Government Comprehensive Merit Personnel Act of 1978, effective March 3, 1979 (D.C. Law 2-139; D.C. Official Code § 1-609.08).
(2) The Director shall report to the Mayor.
(b) At minimum, the Director shall meet the following qualifications:
(1) Be familiar with the District public education system and member agencies;
(2) Have project management experience; and
(3) Possess expertise providing guidance and best practices for educating youth involved in the foster care and criminal justice systems.
(c) The Mayor is encouraged to consult with the Coordinating Committee on the specific qualifications and job description for this position.
(d) The Director shall have the following duties:
(1) Be responsible for and oversee the daily operations of the Coordinating Committee;
(2) Supervise Coordinating Committee staff;
(3) Recommend and institute internal policies, procedures, and processes for the Coordinating Committee to ensure efficient operations;
(4) Lead and coordinate the Coordinating Committee;
(5) Provide ongoing technical assistance to members of the Coordinating Committee in carrying out the recommendations in accordance with best practices, local laws, and federal laws;
(6) Be responsible for drafting the annual report mandated pursuant to section 7(c);
(7) Share best practices from around the country and facilitate knowledge sharing with other states and jurisdictions to increase knowledge of best practices and intervention strategies; and
(8) Work with executive agencies, community stakeholders, and the Coordinating Committee to create, coordinate, and implement the strategic plan created pursuant to section 7(d) to improve educational outcomes for students in the care of D.C.
Sec. 6. Operations of the Coordinating Committee.
(a) The Coordinating Committee shall vote on internal policies, procedures, and processes for its operation pursuant to section 5(d)(3).
(b)(1) The Coordinating Committee shall meet at least quarterly.
(2) All meetings of the Coordinating Committee shall have a quorum of 2/3 of the voting members in order to conduct business.
(c)(1) The Coordinating Committee may establish subcommittees as needed.
(2) Subcommittees may include persons who are not members of the Coordinating Committee; provided, that each subcommittee shall be chaired by a Coordinating Committee member.
(3) No meeting of a subcommittee of the Coordinating Committee shall qualify as a meeting of the Coordinating Committee for purposes of fulfilling the requirements in subsection (b) of this section.
Sec. 7. Duties and responsibilities of the Coordinating Committee.
(a) The Coordinating Committee shall provide leadership in the development of strategies and policies that guide the implementation of the District's policies and programs to improve educational outcomes for students in the care of D.C.
(b) To accomplish the goals of subsection (a) of this section, the Coordinating Committee shall:
(1) Assess current efforts in place to educate students in the care of D.C.;
(2) Cooperate with and support members in fully implementing all relevant agreements and memorandum of understanding;
(3) Review existing data collection and sharing efforts within and across agencies and make recommendations regarding the exchange and sharing of data for students in the care of D.C.; provided, that all such recommendations comply with local and federal law;
(4) Establish an effective system for monitoring the progress of general education and special education for students in the care of D.C.;
(5) Determine educational outcomes for students in the care of D.C., build capacity to track and measure outcomes, and implement strategies in accordance with the strategic plan created pursuant to subsection (d) of this section;
(6) Foster collaborative relationships with agency counterparts in Maryland and Virginia for students in the care of D.C. who are placed outside of the District; and
(7) Make recommendations concerning the coordination of the activities, implementation of practices, strategies, or programs, and the mobilization of the resources of member agencies to improve educational outcomes for students in the care of D.C.
(c)(1) The Coordinating Committee shall report, within 24 months following the applicability date of this act, and on an annual basis thereafter, on the status and progress of each member agency on fulfilling the goal in subsection (a) of this section and the strategic plan referenced in subsection (d) of this section.
(2) The Coordinating Committee shall transmit a publicly-available report to the Mayor and the Council.
(d) Within 12 months after the applicability of this act, and every 4 years thereafter, the Coordinating Committee shall draft and approve a strategic plan that encourages interagency and community coordination and improves educational outcomes for students in the care of D.C. At minimum, the plan required by this subsection shall:
(1) Clearly articulate a vision statement for students in the care of D.C.;
(2) State the goals and operational priorities of member agencies for improving educational outcomes for students in the care of D.C.;
(3) Include a District-wide needs assessment that takes into account existing data;
(4) Establish a timeline for implementing the strategic plan;
(5) Include an analysis of strategies that have been successful in improving educational outcomes for students in custody of the government;
(6) Be developed pursuant to a process that will identify, prioritize, and target needs for services for students in the care of D.C.;
(7) Provide estimates of the costs of carrying out various components of the plan; and
(8) Recommend policy and legislative changes, if needed, to improve educational outcomes for students in the care of D.C.
Sec. 8. Conforming Amendments.
(a) Section 2(f) of the Confirmation Act of 1978, effective March 3, 1979 (D.C. Law 2-142; D.C. Official Code § 1-523.01(f)), is amended as follows:
(1) Paragraph (65) is amended by striking phrase "; and" and inserting a semicolon in its place.
(2) Paragraph (66) is amended by striking the period at the end and inserting the phrase "; and" in its place.
(3) A new paragraph (67) is added to read as follows:
"(67) The Students in the Care of D.C. Coordinating Committee established pursuant to the Students in the Care of D.C. Coordinating Committee Act of 2018, passed on 2nd reading on December 18, 2018 (Enrolled version of Bill 22-950).".
(b) Section 908 of the District of Columbia Government Comprehensive Merit Personnel Act of 1978, effective March 3, 1979 (D.C. Law 2-139; D.C. Official Code § 1-609.08), is amended as follows:
Amend § 1-609.08
(1) Paragraph (16) is amended by striking the phrase "; and" and inserting a semicolon in its place.
(2) Paragraph (17) is amended by striking the period and inserting the phrase "; and" in its place.
"(18) Director of the Students in the Care of D.C. Coordinating Committee.".
Sec. 9. Applicability.
(a) This act shall apply upon the date of inclusion of its fiscal effect in an approved budget and financial plan.
(b) The Chief Financial Officer shall certify the date of the inclusion of the fiscal effect in an approved budget and financial plan and provide notice to the Budget Director of the Council of the certification.
(c)(1) The Budget Director shall cause the notice of the certification to be published in the District of Columbia Register.
(2) The date of publication of the notice of the certification shall not affect the applicability of this act.
Sec. 10. Fiscal impact statement.
The Council adopts the fiscal impact statement in the committee report as the fiscal impact statement required by section 4a of the General Legislative Procedures Act of 1975, approved October 16, 2006 (120 Stat. 2038; D.C. Official Code § 1-301.47a).
Sec. 11. Effective date.
This act shall take effect following approval by the Mayor (or in the event of veto by the Mayor, action by the Council to override the veto), a 30-day period of congressional review as provided in section 602(c)(1) of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, approved December 24, 1973 (87 Stat. 813; D.C. Official Code § 1-206.02(c)(1)), and publication in the District of Columbia Register.
Law Information
D.C. Law 22-303 (PDF)
66 DCR 2037
Legislative History (LIMS)
Law 22-303, the "Students in the Care of D.C. Coordinating Committee Act of 2018," was introduced in the Council and assigned Bill No. 22-950 which was referred to the Committee on Education. The bill was adopted on first and second readings on Dec. 4, 2018, and Dec. 18, 2018, respectively. After mayoral review, it was assigned Act No. 22-640 on Feb. 6, 2019, and transmitted to Congress for its review. D.C. Law 22-303 became effective Apr. 11, 2019.


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Žlabor is a small settlement on the right bank of the Dreta River south of Nazarje in Slovenia. Traditionally the area belonged to the Styria region and is now included in the Savinja statistical region.
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Contract labour or Employment, a relationship between an employer and an employee
Wage labour, delivery of services by person for payment
Bonded labour, a system of unfree labour where a person must work to pay off a debt
Labour Day, a national holiday in many countries
Labour economics, the functioning and dynamics of the markets for labour
Labor force, the people of a country or other geographic entity actively employed or seeking employment
Labour/Le Travail, an academic journal focusing on the Canadian labour movement
Labour movement, the development of a collective organisation of working people
Labor pool or Workforce, the people working in a company, industry, nation or other group
Labor relations, the study of the relationship between management and workers
Labour union or Trade union, an association of wage-earners meant to maintain or improve conditions of employment
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Childbirth, also known as labour, delivery, birth, partus, or parturition, is the culmination of a period of pregnancy with the expulsion of one or more newborn infants from a woman's uterus. The process of normal childbirth is categorized in three stages of labour: the shortening and dilation of the cervix, descent and birth of the infant, and the expulsion of the placenta.
Each year about 500,000 women die due to pregnancy and childbirth, 7 million have serious long term complications, and 50 million have negative outcomes following delivery. Most of these issues occur in the developing world.
The most prominent sign of labour are the strong contractile waves that move the infant down the birth canal. The distress levels reported by laboring women vary widely. They appear to be influenced by fear and anxiety levels, experience with prior childbirth, cultural ideas of childbirth and pain, mobility during labour, and the support received during labour. Personal expectations, the amount of support from caregivers, quality of the caregiver-patient relationship, and involvement in decision-making are more important in women's overall satisfaction with the experience of childbirth than are other factors such as age, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, preparation, physical environment, pain, immobility, or medical interventions.
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Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (Italian: [dʒuˈzɛppe ˈverdi]; 10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an Italian composer of operas.
Verdi was born near Busseto to a provincial family of moderate means, and developed a musical education with the help of a local patron. Verdi came to dominate the Italian opera scene after the era of Bellini, Donizetti and Rossini, whose works significantly influenced him, becoming one of the pre-eminent opera composers in history.
In his early operas Verdi demonstrated a sympathy with the Risorgimento movement which sought the unification of Italy. He also participated briefly as an elected politician. The chorus "Va, pensiero" from his early opera Nabucco (1842), and similar choruses in later operas, were much in the spirit of the unification movement, and the composer himself became esteemed as a representative of these ideals. An intensely private person, Verdi however did not seek to ingratiate himself with popular movements and as he became professionally successful was able to reduce his operatic workload and sought to establish himself as a landowner in his native region. He surprised the musical world by returning, after his success with the opera Aida (1871), with three late masterpieces: his Requiem (1874), and the operas Otello (1887) and Falstaff (1893).
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Verdi is Andrea Bocelli's seventh studio album and fourth classical album, of Verdi's most famous arias, released in 2000. The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Zubin Mehta, accompanied Bocelli for the album. The album was certified Gold in the US by the Recording Industry Association of America and in Switzerland by IFPI of Switzerland, Platinum in Canada by the Canadian Recording Industry Association, and Double Platinum in the Netherlands by the Nederlandse Vereniging van Producenten en Importeurs van beeld- en geluidsdragers.
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Verdi refers to Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901), Italian opera composer.
Verdi may also refer to:
Verdi, Iran, a village in Markazi Province, Iran
Verdi, California, a census-designated place in Sierra County
Verdi, Kansas
Verdi, Nevada, United States
Verdi Township, Minnesota, United States
Frank Verdi (born 1926), American baseball player
Luigi Verdi (born 1958), Italian composer
Robert Verdi (born 1968), American television personality
Simone Verdi (born 1992), Italian footballer
Federation of the Greens, a Green party in Italy, known colloquially as Verdi, or Greens
USS Verdi (SP-979), a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1918
The Life of Verdi, a 1982 TV docudrama about Giuseppe Verdi
The acronym VERDI may refer to:
V.E.R.D.I., acronym of Vittorio Emanuele, Re D'Italia, Victor Emmanuel II of Italy (1820–1878), the Italian unification movement, named after the composer Giuseppe Verdi (ardent supporter of the movement).
ver.di, Vereinte Dienstleistungsgewerkschaft (United Service Sector Union), German trade union
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INTERNATIONAL MUSICOLOGICAL CONFERENCE
Modus-Modi-Modality
Nicosia, 6-10 September, 2017
The Music Program of the Department of Arts, European University Cyprus, in collaboration with the IMS Regional Association for the Study of Music of the Balkans and with the support of the Cyprus Centre for the Research and Study of Music (C.C.R.S.M.) announce an International Musicological Conference on the subject Modus-Modi-Modality. The conference will take place at European University Cyprus, on 6-10 September, 2017.
The purpose of the International Musicological Conference is to promote interaction, research, discussion and intercultural dialogue among musicologists from Cyprus, Greece, the Balkans, the broader Mediterranean region and other countries with an interest in the diverse thematic axes of the conference, emphasising concepts and parameters such as tradition, identity, diversity, new trends, musical cultures as perceived through a geographical and chronological spectrum ranging from ancient Greek music, to Byzantine music and the musical avant-garde in the Mediterranean, Balkans and wider region.
Proposals may address (but do not need to be limited to) the following categories that fall under the thematic triptych Modus-Modi-Modality:
1. Art Music in the Balkans
Historiography of Music in the Balkans
Perception and research on art music in the Balkans
Opera and cultural interchanges in the Balkans
Traditions, Influences, Identities and New Trends
Music Iconography
Musical avant-garde in the Balkans
2. Art Music in Greece and Cyprus
Historiography of Neohellenic and Cypriot art Music
Perception and research on art music in Greece and Cyprus
Tradition and Identity
Greek musical avant-garde
3. Byzantine and post-Byzantine music
Palaeography, performance practice and didactics
Byzantine Hymnography
Byzantine Musicology in the Balkans
Secular music and Byzantine musical instruments
Interactions of Byzantine music with other music cultures
Current research programmes and instrumenta studiorum
4. Ethnomusicology - Anthropology
Musics of the world. Music of the Balkan countries and of the broader Mediterranean region
Modus-Modi-Modality: Musics and cultural traditions of the Balkan countries
Greek and Cypriot folk and popular music
Methodologies and documentation/preservation of traditional music
5. Cultural and sociological studies in the Balkans and the Mediterranean
Music and politics
Cultural interchanges and exchanges
Revolutionary movements and music influences
6. Ancient Greek Music
Ancient Greek mythology and its influence over the years
Stage music for ancient Greek drama in Western culture
Concepts of music theory from Greek antiquity to the present.
Modus-Modi-Modality: Ancient Greek imprint in Western culture
7. Current Musicological Issues in Cyprus, Greece and the Balkans
Music technology and cultural traditions
8. Current Music Theory issues: Modus-Modi-Modality
Concepts of music theory in the Balkans
Concepts of music theory in Neohellenic and Cypriot Music
9. Current Issues and Approaches in Music Education in the Balkans and the Mediterranean
Byzantine and Cypriot Music in music education
Western Music and Ancient Greek Music in music education
Contribution of ethnomusicology and anthropology in the music education field in Cyprus, Greece and the Balkans
Official conference language is English. However, participants can present in Greek, having submitted prior to the conference and at a set deadline a translation of the final paper in English.
Proposals are invited for:
20-minute Papers
Panels of up to four presentations (90 minutes)
45-minute Workshops
Abstracts of 20-minute papers should not exceed 300 words and Panels' proposals should contain the description of the panel's subject (no more than 100 words) and an abstract (no more than 300 words) for each paper included in the panel.
All proposals should be sent electronically as an attachment to Dr Georgia Petroudi (G.Petroudi@euc.ac.cy), Dr Evi Nika-Sampson (euinikas@otenet.gr) or Dr Georgios Christofi (G.Christofi@euc.ac.cy) with the subject line: Modus-Modi-Modality. The attachment should include the following information as well:
Name(s) of the author(s) and institution affiliation (if applicable)
Type of proposal
Title of the paper/panel proposal
Short biographical note of the author(s) (100 words)
Full audiovisual equipment and adequate technical support is available for all presentations. A grand piano is also available in the conference room.
Abstracts of proposals-panels: no later than 31 December 2016
Notification of approval: no later than 30 January 2017
Submission of finalised papers (only in cases of translated papers from Greek to English): no later than 20 August 2017
Registration fees:
Participants: 50 Euros
Students and other audience: 20 Euros


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Medicine Hat… A two-month investigation by ALERT's Medicine Hat organized crime team has resulted in what is believed to be the largest methamphetamine seizure in the city's history. Five people were arrested, and more than $120,000 worth of drugs and cash were seized.
On July 13, 2019, with the assistance of Medicine Hat Police Service, ALERT investigators executed search warrants at two residences in Medicine Hat, arresting four people. That same day, they also stopped a vehicle along the Trans-Canada Highway near Brooks and arrested one person with the help of Brooks RCMP.
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Lynda Hardman head of EIT ICT Labs' research action line 'ICT-mediated Human Activity' https://www.cwi.nl/news/2011/lynda-hardman-head-of-eit-ict-labs-research-action-line-ict-mediated-human-activity https://www.cwi.nl/news/2011/lynda-hardman-head-of-eit-ict-labs-research-action-line-ict-mediated-human-activity
Lynda Hardman of the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam has been appointed as head of the research action line ICT-mediated human activity of EIT ICT Labs. EIT ICT Labs is the European consortium of top research institutes and leading industry partners that aims to accelerate innovation in Europe. At CWI, Lynda Hardman is head of the Information Systems research cluster and member of the Interactive Information Access research group. CWI is affiliate partner of EIT ICT Labs.
The mission of EIT ICT Labs is to turn Europe into a global leader in ICT Innovation. It aims to fulfill this mission by establishing partnerships between leading companies, research centres, and universities in Europe. To develop innovation catalysts, EIT ICT Labs has identified three strategic research action lines: Computing in the cloud, Internet Technologies and Architectures and ICT-mediated human activity.
The research action line ICT-mediated human activity, headed by Hardman, will explore how ICT can be used to transform human activity in profound ways. A deeper understanding of this transformation is indispensable when exploring and establishing new practices within an information society. ICT enables novel extensions of human senses and interaction capabilities while at the same time supporting existing fundamental human communication and information needs. Underlying human communication needs include, for example, directed user communication, information access, broadcasting and publishing, and social bonding.
On March 29th Hardman coordinated an initial working meeting with other ICT Labs partners to establish four themes that will form initial focal points within the research action line. The areas identified were human behaviour, mediated presence, multimodal interaction and the role of design and the arts.
EIT ICT Labs: http://eit.ictlabs.eu/
Lynda Hardman: http://www.cwi.nl/~lynda/