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In 2019, Sesame Street will celebrate 50 years of entertaining and educating children around the world, but its influence stretches far beyond television programming — and has reached Memphis through partnerships with Porter-Leath and the ACE Awareness Foundation.
Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind the show, provides to organizations in 150 countries educational media and tools to improve literacy, emotional well-being, health and wellness, and respect and understanding. Sesame Street in Communities is their U.S.-based initiative to support early childhood education and social-emotional development by providing printed and web-based educational curriculums and professional development for educators, caregivers and organizations at the local level. It's funded through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Joan Ganz Cooney Fund for Vulnerable Children.
At a December 4 press conference held at Porter-Leath's Early Childhood Academy, SSIC announced Memphis as its newest partner city. Memphis is one of 35 communities SSIC will work with over the next five years. Porter-Leath and ACE Awareness Foundation will be the lead partners and will weave SSIC tools into their current work. The collaborators will evaluate existing programs, identify which SSIC resources are best suited to address challenges and improve outcomes and identify the best ways to implement tools, trainings and strategies.
(L to R) Dr. Jeanette Betancourt with Sesame Workshop, Sean Lee with Porter-Leath, Dr. Renée Wilson-Simmons with ACE Awareness Foundation, Elmo, Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris, and Karen Harrell at a December 4 press conference announce Memphis' partnership with Sesame Street in Communities. (Ziggy Mack)
"[The SSIC partnership] really will enhance what we're doing because it's not new, it's more — more ways to work with the parents and the children, more resources to provide to the parent and also to point them to things that they can access directly to do additional work," said Dr. Renée Wilson-Simmons, executive director of Memphis-based ACE Awareness Foundation, in an interview with High Ground News.
In addition to improving access and quality of early childhood education, the new partnership helps educators and caregivers prevent and respond to adverse childhood experiences for improved social-emotional growth. ACEs are traumatic events like abuse, homelessness, or the loss of a parent through death or incarceration. They can contribute to poor mental and physical health, increased criminality, substance abuse and low educational attainment in adulthood, and the partners say the key to mitigating their effects is proper support from adults.
"ACEs aren't destiny. You might have six ACEs, but that's not your destiny if, in fact, you have support," said Wilson-Simmons.
ACE Awareness Foundation will use the SSIC curriculum at its four Universal Parenting Centers, which Wilson-Simmons described as judgment-free zones that offer critical supports for caregivers like counseling, education, discussion groups and opportunities for bonding.
The centers are located inside Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women in East Memphis, Knowledge Quest in South Memphis, Perea Preschool in Klondike-Smokey City, and Christ Community Health Services in Raleigh. They also have a partnership with Leland Medical Clinic in Leland, Miss., which will also receive support from SSIC.
Porter-Leath will embed SSIC resources in its professional development trainings for its more than 160 staff members and in its parent and youth programs, including its 14 Head Start and Early Head Start locations and its Early Childhood Academy. They'll also create safe and comfortable spaces inside several existing locations designed to help children process their feelings during stressful experiences.
"We serve nearly 50,000 children and their families each year with a goal to reduce poverty and improve opportunity in Memphis and Shelby County for all young children," said Mary Braddock, a spokesperson for Porter-Leath.
A parent registers for a workshop and gift basket raffle from Sesame Street in Communities at a December 4 press conference held at the Porter-Leath's Early Childhood Academy. (Ziggy Mack)
"Although Porter-Leath has served children and families for over 165 years, we know that there is always something new to learn about caring for children. This partnership contributes to growth by strengthening our development training for parents and early childhood educators and bolstering our Early Head Start's focus on social-emotional development."
At the press conference, Dr. Jeanette Betancourt, senior vice president of U.S. social impact for Sesame Workshop, said Memphis was chosen because of the many partners like Porter-Leath, ACE Awareness Foundation, Shelby County Schools and county government who are already actively working to improve early education and social-emotional learning in the Mid-South.
Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris said his administration is working with the City of Memphis, Shelby County Schools and other partners to ensure every child in the county has access to early childhood education regardless of income and that this partnership with SSIC will help towards that goal. He also said 4,000 kids between 12 and 17 years of age interact with the Memphis and Shelby County juvenile justice system each year, and early intervention is a critical component to reducing that number.
Related: "County-wide pre-K initiative seeks to level the playing field for early childhood education"
"A lot of our kids, unfortunately, are really facing some challenges at home in terms of poverty but also in terms of traumas and adverse childhood experiences," said Harris.
"Sometimes you need a way for those families, those kids, to bridge that gap, and I think one of those real ways that you can easily brighten a day, bring out a smile and establish a trust is through the characters that we all know ...The show always has a very powerful lesson and I think it communicates in a way that's fun, in a way that's easy to understand for kids and adults alike."
To celebrate the new partnership, Sesame Workshop is hosting activities for kids and caregivers, including visits with Elmo and Cookie Monster, at all four Universal Parenting Place locations in Memphis and at 4615 Poplar Avenue on December 7 from 2 to 6 p.m. as part of Porter-Leath's annual Toy Truck donation drive.
Support for this story was provided in part by the Urban Child Institute; it is one article in a series highlighting the impact and importance of early childhood education. The Urban Child Institute focuses its grantmaking, advocacy and community support on kindergarten readiness and third-grade literacy in an effort to improve the education, health and well-being of children and families in Shelby County.


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Literacy's Beginnings: Supporting Young Readers and Writers, 6/e is one of the most talked about resources for prospective and current teachers of children from birth to age eight. It offers an integrated approach to reading and writing instruction keyed to the five typical stages through which most children pass: the IRA/NAEYC phases of literacy. Included are clear, simple explanations of the issues addressed in Reading First and Early Reading First legislation which all teachers of children must know; excellent coverage of assessment, including ready-to-use assessments in the appendices; Tie-In features that send readers to exemplary websites and suggest methods of integrating technology with reading and writing instruction; and new, expanded sections on differentiating instruction for struggling readers and writers, for children who are English Language Learners, and for children who have been identified as needing more intensive instruction as part of the Response to Intervention process.
Table of contents
Chapter 1: Understanding Children's Literacy Development
Key Concepts and Instructional Activities That You Will Read About in This Chapter
Language, Thinking, and Learning
Schemas and Learning
Infants and Schemas
The Relation between Language and Learning
Social Basis for Learning
Zone of Proximal Development
Four Systems of Spoken Language
Four Systems of Written Language
Functions of Written Language
Meanings in Written Language
Unusual Words and Phrases
Written Language Forms
Words and Sentences
Text Formats
Meaning-Form Links
Children's Concepts about Written Language
Ted's Delight: A Case Study of Two Children's Reading and Writing
Ted's and Carrie's Concepts about Written Language
Developmental Changes in Children's Reading and Writing
Awareness and Exploration
Experimenting Reading and Writing
Conventional Reading and Writing
Assessment and Phases of Reading and Writing Development
Chapter Summary
Using the Information
Applying the Information
Going Beyond the Text
Chapter 2: Birth to Three Years: The Foundations of Literacy Development
Key Concepts and Instructional Activities That You Will Read About in This Chapter
The Beginnings of Literacy
Kristen's Early Literacy Experiences
Literacy Experiences from Birth to One
Literacy Experiences from One to Two
Literacy Experiences from Two to Three
Concepts about Literacy Acquired from Early Book and Drawing Experiences
Home Influences on Literacy Learning: Learning in Social and Cultural Contexts
Parent-Child Interactive Bookreading
Elizabeth and Her Mother Share Where's Spot?
Jon-Marc and His Father Share The Story of Ferdinand
Participation in Interactive Bookreading
Concept of Story
Environmental Print
Spoken Language Development and Its relationship to Literacy Development
Spoken Language Development
English Language Learners
Assessing Literacy Beginners
Chapter Summary
Using the Information
Applying the Information
Going Beyond the Text
Chapter 3: Three to Five Years: Novice Readers and Writers in the Phase of Awareness and Exploration
Key Concepts and Instructional Activities That You Will Read About in This Chapter
Who Are Novice Readers and Writers?
Written Language Communicates Messages: Novice Readers' and Writers' New Insights
An Example of Novice Writing and Reading
Constructing the Meaning of Environmental Print
Constructing Meaning While Listening to Story and Information Book Read-Alouds
Children's Meaning-Making Strategies
Teachers' Roles in Helping Children Understand Interactive Read-Alouds
Constructing Meaning in Pretend Reading and Retelling
Writing Meaningful Messages
Written Language Forms
Concepts about Print
From Scribbles to Alphabet Letters
Alphabet Letters
Meaning-Form Links
Contextual Dependency
Matching Print to Spoken Language: More Than Contextual Dependency
Phonological Awareness
Using Symbols: The Connections among Dramatic Play, Writing, and Computer Use
Written Language Functions
English Language Learners as Novice Readers and Writers
Assessing Novice Readers and Writers
Assessing Alphabet Knowledge and Signature Writing
Assessing Concepts about Print
Assessing Phonological and Phonemic Awareness
Assessing Vocabulary and Oral Comprehension
Analyzing Assessment Data
Chapter Summary
Using the Information
Applying the Information
Going Beyond the Text
Chapter 4: From Five to Seven Years: Experimenting Readers and Writers
Key Concepts and Instructional Activities That You Will Read About in This Chapter
Who Are Experimenters?
The New Understandings and Awareness of Experimenting Readers and Writers
Examples of Experimenters
Experimenting with Meaning
Experimenting with Forms
Concept of Word
Experimenting with Meaning-Form Links
Sounding Literate
Developmental Changes in Pretend Reading
Sounding Literate in Writing
Being Precise
Using Sound-Letter Relationships
A System Based on Phonemic Awareness
Ways of Relating Sounds and Letters
Stages of Spelling Development
Sound-Letter Relationships in Reading
English Language Learners and Invented Spelling
Experimenting with Functions of Written Language
Assessing Experimenting Readers and Writers in Kindergarten and First Grade
Assessing Phonemic Awareness and sound-letter knowledge
Assessing Concepts about print
AssessingAlphabetic Principle
Developing an Assessment Plan
Keeping Records
Chapter Summary
Using the Information
Applying the Information
Going Beyond the Text
Chapter 5: From Six to Eight Years: Conventional Readers and Writers in Early, Transitional, and Self-Generative Phases
Key Concepts and Instructional Activities That You Will Read About in This Chapter
Who Are Conventional Readers and Writers?
Three Phases of Conventional Literacy Development
Examples of Early and Transitional Readers and Writers
Meaning Construction
Meaning Making in Reading: Using Strategies
Meaning Making in Writing
Written Language Forms
Morphological Awareness and Grammar
Composing Stories and Expositions
Narrative Elements
Developmental Trends in Children's Story Writing
Expository Texts
Developmental Trends in Children's Expositions
Meaning-Form Links
Later Letter-Name or Later Alphabetic Spelling
Within-a-Word Spelling
Syllable Juncture Spelling
English Language Learners
Speech Emergence
Intermediate Fluency
Phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, comprehension, and fluency
Assessing Children's Ability to Read Texts of Increasing Difficulty
Using Running Records to Determine Reading Levels
Using Questions to Analyze Comprehension and Vocabulary
Miscue Analysis
Using Running Records to Analyze Fluency and Strategy Use
Analyzing Children's Decoding Strategies
Analyzing Spelling
Chapter Summary
Using the Information
Applying the Information
Going Beyond the Text
Chapter 6: Literacy-Rich Classrooms
Key Concepts and Instructional Activities That You Will Read About in This Chapter
Components of Language- and Literacy-Rich Classrooms
Planning for the Physical Arrangement of Classroom and Daily Schedule
Whole-Class Literacy Routines
Reading Aloud
Shared Reading
Modeled Writing, Shared Writing, and Interactive Writing
Letter-Word-Sound Workshop or Word Work
Small-Group Literacy Instruction
Independent Practice
Daily Schedule dictates room Arrangement
Centers or Workstations
Library Center
Writing Center
Computer Centers
Displays in Language- and Literacy-Rich Classrooms
Children's Literature
Materials for Writing
Technology Materials
Culturally Sensitive and Integrated Curriculum
Culturally Sensitive Curriculum
Integrated Content Units
Measuring Classroom Environment Quality
Meeting the Needs of English Language Learners and Struggling Readers and Writers
Developmentally Appropriate Instruction and Explicit Instruction
Assessment-Based Comprehensive Literacy Instruction
Chapter Summary
Using the Information
Applying the Information
Going Beyond the Text
Chapter 7: Supporting Language and Literacy Learning in Preschools
Key Concepts and Instructional Activities That You Will Read About in This Chapter
The Preschool Context
The Critical Role of Preschool
Learning in the Preschool Classroom
Reading and Writing in Exemplary Preschool Classrooms
Mrs. McKannon's Classroom: Preschool Literacy in an Exemplary Language- and Print-Rich Environment
Children at Play
The Teacher at Work: Mrs. McKannon Teaches Literacy All Day
Ms. Rodgers' Classrooms: Teaching Concepts about Print, Alphabet Recognition, and Phonemic Awareness
Shared Writing with Write On
Guided Drawing
Small-Group Lessons in Alphabet Recognition and Phonemic Awareness
Supporting Vocabulary and Listening Comprehension
Using Interactive Read Alouds in Preschool to Build Vocabulary and Listening Comprehension
Storytelling and Drama
Taking Time to Talk
Supporting Concepts about Print and Alphabet Letter Learning
Shared Reading
Shared Writing
The Sign-in Procedure and Other Name Activities
Activities to Promote Alphabet Letter Learning
Supporting Children's Development of Phonemic Awareness, Letter-Sound Knowledge, and Acquisition of the Alphabetic Principle
Attending to Syllable and Rhyme
Attending to Beginning Phonemes
Modifying Instruction to Meet the Needs of Diverse Learners
Targeted Classroom Interventions
Shared Reading with Planned Language Activities
Talking about Objects Related to a Book or Theme
Meeting the Needs of Preschool ELLs
A Comprehensive Model of Assessment and Instruction in Action
A Day in Ms. Clements' Classroom
Whole-Class Gathering
Center Time: Ms. Clements Teaches a Mini-lesson and Observes Children
Ms.Clements Reflects and Plans
Chapter Summary
Using and Applying the Information
Going Beyond the Text
Chapter 8: Supporting Literacy Learning in Kindergarten
Key Concepts and Instructional Activities That You Will Read About in This Chapter
The Kindergarten Context: What's New Here?
Text Reading and Writing in Exemplary Classrooms
Using Interactive Read Alouds
Using Assessment to Plan Instruction
Teaching Small Groups
Shared Reading
The "What Can You Show Us?" Activity
Reading the Morning Message
Teaching Small Group: Word Work That Starts with Book Reading
Interactive Writing in Small Group
Teaching Children the Conventions
Alphabet Instruction Including Letter-Sound Knowledge
Phonemic Awareness Instruction Including Decoding
Concepts about Print Instruction including Learning Sight Words
Teaching Comprehension and Vocabulary
Independent Literacy Experiences
Real World Literacy Experiences
Work Stations
Differentiated Instruction to Meet the Needs of Diverse Students
Using Environmental Print
Morning Message Plus
Using Similarities between Spanish and English
Using Finger-Point Reading
Writing and Reading in Two Languages
Pulling Assessment Together: Using Portfolios
Analyzing Children's Writing
Analysis of Form
Story Form
Analysis of the Alphabet Principle
Chapter Summary
Applying the Information
Going Beyond the Text
Chapter 9: Supporting Literacy Learning in First Grade
Key Concepts and Instructional Activities That You Will Read About in This Chapter
What's New Here?
Reading and Writing Instruction in Exemplary First-Grade Classrooms
Guided Reading Instruction in Mrs. Tran's First Grade
Literacy Centers
Talk-Through to Introduce Guided Reading Texts
Teaching for Strategies during Guided Reading
Word work and spelling instruction
Interactive Writing
Whole group word study
Writing in Mr. Schultheis's First Grade
Informational Writing in Mrs. Duthie's First Grade
Word Study: Decoding Print and Spelling Words
Early Decoding Strategies and Building Sight Words
Phonics Generalizations
Systematic, Explicit Instruction in Phonics
Whole-Class Word Study
Building Automatic Sight Vocabularies
Teaching for Comprehension
Modifying Instruction to Meet the Needs of Diverse Learners
Modifying Commercial Reading Programs
Modifying Instruction for English Language Learners
Modifying Instruction for Struggling Readers
Assessing Student Progress in First Grade
Chapter Summary
Applying the Information
Going Beyond the Text
Chapter 10: Supporting Literacy Learning in Second through Fourth Grades
Key Concepts and Instructional Activities That You Will Read About in This Chapter
What's New Here?
Literature study through Interactive Read-Alouds
Selecting a Text Set and a Literary Focus for Discussion
Selecting and Teaching Literary Reading Strategies
After Reading Response Activities
Guided Reading and Spelling
Determining Instructional Level and Selecting Children
Explicit Teaching of Orthographic Decoding and Vocabulary Using Shared Reading in Guided Reading Instruction
Explicit Teaching of Comprehension Strategies and Vocabulary Meanings in Guided Reading Instruction
Reading Information Books in Guided Reading
Using Guided Reading and Readers' Theatre to Foster Fluency
Explicit Teaching of Spelling
Advanced Word Study
Learning about Sound Chunks in Making Big Words
Learning about Morphemes, Base Words, and Affixes
Independent Reading Practice
Selecting and Arranging Books for Independent Reading
Fostering Motivation and Accountability
Monitoring Individual Student's Reading
Using Book Club as an Alternative to Independent Reading
Using Literature Circles or Strategy Groups instead of Guided Reading
Components of Writing Workshop: Explicitly Teaching the Writing Processes
Poetic Elements
Writing Informational Texts
Inquiry Units during Content Study
Integrating Reading and writing Nonfiction with Content exploration
Inquiry Units
Internet Workshop
Culminating Activities
Differentiating Instruction for Diverse Learners
Supporting Struggling Readers with Attention to Fluency
Explicit Attention to Vocabulary for Strugglers and English Language Learners
Explicit Attention to Narrative and Expository Text Forms For Strugglers and English Language Learners
Assessing Student Performance for Differentiated Instruction
Individualized Reading Inventory
Assessing Writing Using Rubrics
Chapter Summary
Applying the Information
Going Beyond the Text
Chapter 11: Meeting the Needs of English Language Learners
Key Concepts and Instructional Activities That You Will Read About in This Chapter
English Language Learners as a Special Case of At-Risk Learners
Second Language Acquisition
Second language acquisition
Stages of Language Development
Early Production
Speech Emergence and Intermediate Fluency
Exemplary Teachers of English Language Learners
Considerations for Teachers
Learning about the community and family
Considering differences in print and language
Selecting Books for English Language Learners and Adjusting Reading-Aloud Techniques
ELL Interactive Read-Aloud Procedure
Using Oral Language to Support Reading and Writing
Teaching Reading and Writing Using a Multiliteracy Approach
Teaching Decoding and Spelling to English Language Learners
Teaching Vocabulary to English Language Learners
Teaching Fluency and Comprehension to English Language Learners
Explicit Attention to the Sentence Structures of Written Text For English Language Learners
Teaching Grammar to English Language Learners
Assessment for English Language Learners
Chapter Summary
Applying the Information
Going Beyond the Text
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The fatal Ebola Virus killed 27 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo in just 24 hours, which is now reported as the highest death toll till date.
Congo's health ministry informed the new 27 confirmed cases is a record-breaking number registered number which increased the number to 126 since last week.
#Ebola: @MinSanteRDC reports +27 cases today & +26 deaths. The affected communities in North Kivu must be reeling. These are catastrophic numbers. They put the outbreak totals to 1466 cases & 957 deaths.— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) April 29, 2019
On April 10, the epidemic killed 18 people making Sunday's the highest number till date.
The current Ebola virus outbreak is the second worst in the country's history, killing almost 957 to date.
The epidemic is rapidly spreading across the east of Congo, while repeated military attacks and mistrust of doctors has served as a catalyst for the disease.
According to Congo's Ministry of Health, about 1,466 confirmed cases of Ebola has struck the nation starting from August.
CAPTION: A medical officer in Congo
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The disease has been worsened by the military, as they believe Ebola is a conspiracy against the third world nations.
Owing to that they have repeatedly attacked medical volunteers who are trying to fight the fatal virus.
The recent Ebola outbreak is the 10th Congo has witnessed since its discovery in 1976.
It has been marked as the second devastating epidemic since the one that broke out in West Africa in 2014.


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Slow Cooker Brunswick Stew (adapted from Betty Crocker's Slow Cooker Cookbook) serves 10
1 1/2 lbs boneless skinless chicken, cut into 1" pieces
3 med sweet potatoes, cut into 1/2" pieces
1 med onion, chopped
28 oz can crushed tomatoes, undrained
15 oz can lima beans, rinsed and drained
1 can whole kernel corn or equivalent frozen or fresh kernels
1 Tbs Worcestershire sauce
3/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp dried marjoram
8 slices bacon, cooked and crumbled
1/4 tsp red pepper sauce
Mix all ingredients except bacon and pepper sauce in 4 qt or larger slow cooker. Cover and cook on low for 8-10 hours or until potatoes are tender. Stir in bacon and pepper sauce.
Blue Cheese Burgers w/Homemade Sourdough Buns and homemade sweet potato fries
1 lb ground beef (preferably from a grass-fed cow)
1 oz blue cheese crumbles
1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
salt and pepper
Toppings of choice, possibly sliced red onion, bacon, fresh bib lettuce, tomato slices, pickles, etc
Mix beef with cheese, Worcestershire, salt and pepper. Shape into 3 or 4 patties and chill in fridge for a few hours. Grill to desired doneness, place on fresh baked sourdough buns, and top with your favorite fixings.
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8 oz fresh mushrooms, sliced
1/2 onion, chopped finely
2-3 cloves garlic, minced
2 tsp dried basil
2 tsp dried oregano
1 Tbs dried parsley
1 tsp salt
1 tsp pepper
28 oz can stewed tomatoes, undrained
6 oz can tomato paste
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Editorial & Opinion
The Uprising! November 23, 2018
"We are asking the Congressman to express his support and we are wondering when we can have an answer."
–Lauren Manus, Sunrise RI
Welcome to The Uprising!
A lot of us celebrate Thanksgiving, but many indigenous Americans refer to it as the National Day of Mourning.
Let's get into this:
1. Sheriff Thomas Hodgson
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Around 15 people stood across the street from Sheriff Thomas Hodgson's New Bedford home Thursday morning to remind him, on a day many Americans spend with their families and loved ones, that he is responsible for separating families and banishing loved ones to faraway countries. As the elected head of the Bristol County Sheriff's Office (BCSO), Hodgson, a Republican, once offered to send prisoners from the prison he manages to the border to help build President Donald Trump's proposed boarder wall. He told Congress that elected officials who preside over so-called "Sanctuary Cities" should face arrest.
Organized by The FANG Collective, the protesters targeted Hodgson's 287(g) agreement with United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which deputizes BCSO personnel with the authority to exercise immigration-related functions usually reserved for ICE officers. Barnstable County and Plymouth County, along with the Massachusetts Department of Corrections have 287(g) agreements with ICE.
As protesters chanted, Hodgson came outside to photograph the protesters. When officers from the New Bedford Police Department showed up, they quickly determined that the protest was both peaceful and lawful.
2a. Sunrise RI
After leading the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to unanimously pass a resolution banning campaign contributions from fossil fuel companies in June of this year, DNC Chair Tom Perez reversed course in August and lead the DNC to essentially repeal the ban, under pressure from unions aligned with the interests of fossil fuel companies.
Perez found himself a target of the Sunrise Movement on Monday, while visiting Brown University. Fifty people, mostly students with Sunrise RI, gathered outside the the Watson Institute to take Perez to task for his reversal, and to insist that the DNC adopt a Green New Deal into the party platform, as laid out in a resolution by Representative-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Democrat, New York) who had, earlier in the week, rallied with the Sunrise Movement in United States House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's office. Pelosi is expected to soon be elected majority leader when Democrats take back control of the House in January.
Inside the Watson Institute, 20 students rose together and began singing as Perez started to speak. Then Brown student Nina Wolff Landau addressed Perez directly, saying in part, "We need you to stand up for our generation. We are asking that the DNC reject all contributions from fossil fuel lobbyists and executives and we are asking for the Green New Deal be incorporated into the Democratic Party platform as outlined in Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's resolution for a Green New Deal."
Here's the vieo from inside the Watson Institute:
Beth Comery at the Providence Daily Dose explains why Perez was at the Watson Institute in the first place.
2b. David Cicilline
It will be interesting to see how United States Representative David Cicilline (Democrat, Rhode Island) reacts to a visit from Sunrise RI to his Pawtucket office on Tuesday morning. As part of a national day of action that saw around 400 separate actions across the country, Sunrise RI visited Cicilline to ask him to "stand with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Justice Democrats, and Sunrise Movement and support the creation of a select committee on a Green New Deal."
Cicilline has the support of the local building trades, the same unions that helped force the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to reverse course on banning the acceptance of money from executives representing fossil fuel companies. Cicilline has also been working very hard for one of the three number two positions on Nancy Pelosi's to be formed House leadership team. It is unknown what effect supporting Representative Ocasio-Cortez's Green new Deal would have on Cicilline's standing with Pelosi, since Ocasio-Cortez occupied Pelosi's office in solidarity with the Sunrise Movement.
Cicilline's District Director Chistopher Bizzacco, who met with Sunrise RI in Cicilline's stead, said that the Representative was "passionate" about doing something about the climate crisis.
"When we're 'passionate' about something we act on it," said Nicole Lena. "We know the science. It's time to take action. So if [Cicilline] wants to say he's passionate, he should demonstrate that through his actions."
"This is a really critical moment," said Brown University student Lauren Manus. "To have as much support from Congress as possible. To have a lot of traction and support… We are asking the Congressman to express his support and we are wondering when we can have an answer."
I think we all are.
3a. Transgender Day of Remembrance
Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza signed a proclamation on Tuesday declaring November 20, 2018 as the Transgender Day of Remembrance.
Transgender Day of Remembrance is an international movement commemorating and honoring the lives of transgender and gender expansive individuals lost to violence and the injustices faced by transgender and gender expansive communities.
Observed every year on November 20, the Transgender Day of Remembrance was sparked by the murder of Rita Hester in Allston, Massachusetts which happened 20 years ago this month. The Transgender Day of Remembrance was then established in 1999 by Gwendolyn Ann Smith, a transgender activist, in memory of Rita Hester.
At a short ceremony held inside Providence City Hall, the mayor was joined by members of the Providence Human Relations Commission (PHRC), TGI Network President Ethan Huckel, TGI Network Board Member Kayla Powell, MX Trans Rhode Island 2018 Payton James, local comedian and activist Nika Lomazzo and Support Group Leader with Youth Pride RI Lukas Hawthrone.
Various reports show that anti-transgender violence in the United States has been rising in recent years. According to the Human Rights Campaign, in 2017 advocates tracked at least 29 deaths of transgender people in the country due to fatal violence. This made it the deadliest year on record for transgender and gender expansive individuals, with the majority of deadly attacks being against women of color. Numbers for transgender people fatally shot or killed by other violent means in 2018 are trending to match that of 2017.
What can we do to help end this terrible violence?
"What can you do? If you're sitting in this room and you're not transgender, if you're a cisgender person, what can you do?" said TGI Network Board Member Kayla Powell. "First of all, welcome transgender people into your community. It's our community after all, we're already a part of it. If you're hiring, hire transgender people. We can do all of the same things. we have all of the same skills. If you're a parent, if you're a teacher, push for policies that keep transgender youth in school because, this is something that isn't talked about, [but] bullying and harassment and kids being forced into home schooling and kids not getting the education that they need to succeed is a huge problem. Especially for transgender youth of color. So push for that. If you work in law enforcement, fight for training. Fight for sound policies and fight to give meaning to the oath you swore to protect and serve. I know that's what you want to do."
3b. Transgender Day of Remembrance Service
Right after Mayor Jorge Elorza's announcement at City Hall, Beneficent Church hosted a service in memory of the transgender people, mostly women of color, who were murdered over the last year.
"This is not the first time we have gathered for a service like this, said Reverend Gwendolyn Howard, addressing the nearly 100 people gathered. "And I'm sure, and I fear, it will not be the last. As long as violence continues, we will gather. We will say the names of those we have lost. We will light candles. We will make sure that the stories of people in our community get told. That's why we gather, that is why we are here."
Near the end of the service, Reverend Howard said,
"We grieve the loss of any of us who faced discrimination, any of us whose family or friends have turned away. We especially grieve, for those who lost their lives…
"Yet we have reasons to give thanks also. We are thankful for the examples of those who have been lost to violence. Their insistence on living the truth of their lives even in the face of the gravest danger, teaches us what heroism really is…"
4. Invenergy
Bad news for fans of fracked gas and diesel oil: ISO New England successfully cancelled Invenergy's contract to provide electricity for our region three years hence, because ISO believes the company can't be ready by the due date, and because the power that this proposed power plant might provide if built just isn't needed to keep the lights on, despite the spin from supporters like the Providence Journal's Ed Achorn.
Meanwhile, Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) Senior Attorney Jerry Elmer keeps on punching, hitting the Energy Facility Siting Board (EFSB) with three motions on Monday. Elmer tells me:
"None of these motions will alone decide the case. But each of these motions contributes to the broader case that CLF is making: Invenergy's plant is not needed; the ISO's decision to terminate Invenergy's CSO has huge, far-ranging implications including on matters like ratepayer impacts and air emissions; amazingly, Invenergy keeps lying to regulators, even after being caught at it repeatedly; and Invenergy's "expert" witness is not so expert at all.
"Lawyers like to say, 'A brick is not a wall.' By this, we mean that each component part may be small, but together they add up to a larger whole. CLF is putting together a coherent case that the plant is not needed and, if built, would cause unacceptable environmental harm. Each of these motions are bricks that we are using to build the larger wall."
5a. Nicholas Mattiello
The 21 Democratic Representatives opposing Nicholas Mattiello (Democrat, District 15, Cranston) for Speaker of the Rhode Island House of Representatives, have a name, the Reform Caucus. But they also seem to have changed up their objectives a bit. In a press release they say:
The Reform Caucus is committed to changing the way business is conducted at the State House. That can only happen with changes to the House Rules so there's a more democratic process which respects all 74 elected Representatives and ensures the diverse needs of all constituents served. The Reform Caucus seeks greater transparency in government such as not suspending rules and posting bills for 48 hours for the public (and Representatives) to view before votes are taken.
The Rhode Island Democratic Party Women's Caucus has come out in strong support of the Reform Caucus, writing:
"…this is about reforming the rules of the House so that legislative proposals move through the process from proposal to the floor in a manner that is fair, comprehensible, and public. And a chamber in which the schedule offers time for deliberation and debate, with no last-minute changes, no backroom deals and no rush to the finish line. Members must know what they're voting on, have time to touch base with their constituents, and have time to consider their vote.
"This is about fostering an environment in which all members are guided by their convictions and their constituents' interests without fear of retribution should take a position contrary to the Speaker's. This is about creating a workplace environment in which claims of sexual harassment are handled quickly and by a human resources professional, and a legislative chamber in which the leadership structure has a place for the diverse voices of the Democratic Party."
5b. Christopher Blazejewski
One "progressive" Democrat absent from the list of members making up the Reform Caucus is Christopher Blazejewski (Democrat, District 2, Providence), who serves as Deputy Minority Whip as part of Mattiello's leadership team. As part of that team, Blazejewski is intimately involved in the decisions made by the Speaker, who is, by his own admission, very collaborative and constantly seeking the input of his leadership team and his fellow Representatives before making decisions.
Last Saturday Saturday over a dozen people canvassed the neighborhoods Blazejewski represents to ask his supporters to reach out and encourage him to not vote for Representative Nicholas Mattiello as Speaker of the House, a position Mattiello has held for over two full terms with Blazejewski's support.
"He's a good guy and he's done a lot of good stuff and he's voted on a lot of issues that have been important to me and he's listened to me," said Blazejewski constituent Patricia Brennan. "I want him to know that people who support him, want him to support this."
Brennan was inspired to call Blazejewski from her door:
I never intended to become part of the news this week, but Rhode Island Public Transportation Authority (RIPTA) Chair Wayne Kezirian had other plans. As I set up my camera I was told by James Pereira, Chief Security Officer at RIPTA, "I'm going to need you to gather up your stuff and come out into the hallway."
Pereira, I later learned, was acting under the instruction of Kezirian.
When I refused to stop running my camera, Pereira turned my camera to the wall.
Here's the thing: Under Rhode Island State Law your right to record open, public meetings is protected. The Open Meetings Act (AMA) is a vital piece of legislation that protects all of us from government over reach, especially the overreach of state boards and councils filled with gubernatorial appointees, not elected officials. There is really no other way to hold these board- and council-members accountable for their actions.
I am really grateful to the Rhode Island ACLU for immediately coming to my defense on this.
You can read my account of the RIPTA meeting here.
You can read the ACLU's response to what happened here.
Kevin Andrade at the Providence Journal covered what happened here.
Here's a handy guide to the Open Meetings Act, courtesy of the Rhode Island ACLU.
7. Hunger in Rhode Island
The Rhode Island Community Food Bank has released their 2018 Status Report on Hunger in Rhode Island. Among the reports findings:
- Hunger is more prevalent in Rhode Island than it was 10 years ago.
- Food insecurity affects one in eight Rhode Island households.
- Inflation outpaces wage growth for many workers.
- Demand for food assistance remains high throughout the Food Bank's statewide network of member agencies, serving 53,000 people each month.
8. Marijuana in Rhode Island
"New England's first regulated marijuana market for adults is now up and running in Massachusetts," said Matthew Schweich, deputy director for the Marijuana Policy Project, a member of the Regulate Rhode Island coalition. "It's only a matter of time before more states in the region follow its lead. Rhode Islanders are ready to move forward with a similar system, and it's time for Rhode Island's legislative leaders to allow a vote on the issue. If lawmakers continue to delay, the state will essentially forfeit significant economic opportunities to neighboring states like Massachusetts, including substantial tax revenue and good jobs."
Unfortunately, our state's leaders, Governor Gina Raimondo, Speaker Nicholas Mattiello and Senate President Dominick Ruggerio (Democrat, District 4, Providence) have reservations about the policy, meaning millions of dollars in state revenue will be crossing the border each year until they commit.
9. Marcia Ranglin-Vassell
Representative Marcia Ranglin-Vassell (Democrat, District 5, Providence), who will be starting her second term in January, is profiled in Jamaica Global.
"I am glad I ran and won," said Ranglin-Vassell. "I am a fighter and will continue fighting to save my students and to help improve the lives of all Rhode Islanders."
10. Elaine Morgan
State Senator Elaine Morgan (Republican, District 34, Exeter Hopkinton, Richmond, West Greenwich) has it in for a Westerly area restaurant called Amigos Taqueria Y Tequila says Jennifer Douglas, who ran and lost as a Democrat against Morgan in the last election. On Facebook Douglas relates:
"Senator Morgan took offense to this restaurant offering T Shirts for sale that said '86/45′ which is a reference to removing our current President from office. Elaine recently posted on her personal Facebook page claiming that the store owner, by using the term '86,' wanted to murder the president and she called for a boycott of this restaurant. As a result the owner has been a victim of targeted harassment since the posting."
11. The Bartholomewtown Podcast
Two new interviews this week:
- Joseph Molina Flynn President, Rhode Island Latino Political Action Committee (RILPAC)
- Matt Allen WPRO Radio Talk Show Host
12. Pascoag Fire District
From Sandy Seone at Burrillville Now:
"The Rhode Island Ethics Commission is looking at two complaints against Pascoag Fire Commissioner Linda Carter submitted by two different residents over the course of the year.
"The latest, submitted Oct. 22 by Stephanie Sloman, notes that Carter recently voted to appoint her personal attorney Albin Moser of Providence, to represent the district itself at the board's Sept. 17 meeting.
"Concern over the hiring of the attorney, who is currently representing Carter in an Ethics Complaint submitted back in May by Gregory McCutcheon, was expressed by several residents at the fire board's meeting this week.
"'I'm concerned that he still represents an individual board member and represents the board and the district as a whole,' said Jennifer Spaziano Richards, a firefighter/EMT with Hose Company 2. 'You can't be both. You need to have an attorney whose sole purpose is for the district.'"
13. Harm Reduction
Over at ConvergenceRI, Ian Knowles looks at the new draft strategic plan of the Governor's Task Force on Overdose Prevention and Intervention which "cites harm reduction development as a continuing strategy."
14. Georgia Hollister Isman
Ian Donnis, Scott McKay and Maureen Moakley interview the state director for the Rhode Island Working Families Party, Georgia Hollister Isman.
Here's the interview
Here's the Bonus Q & A
"We're going to be working on the Fair Pay Bill that we worked on last session, equal pay for women, raising the minimum wage substantially, and I also think that this is a year where we have a real chance of passing legislation around a woman's right to choose," said Hollister Isman.
15. Picture of the week:
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This beautiful mother-to-be had a VERY detailed vision of what she wanted her maternity photos to look like. She contacted me monthsss in advance to schedule her session. Luckily we were able to coordinate it successfully for when I was back in Texas shooting a wedding! We began the first portion at a nearby boutique hotel to capture some classy, beautiful, boudoir belly photos. You are just going to have to trust me when I say that those are absolutely gorgeous, because we're going to keep those photos for her and her husband's eyes only. ;-) For the second portion, we ventured to (what seems to be) one of the most popular photo spots in all of Austin… the cliffs overlooking the 360 Bridge. This location NEVER disappoints though. It amazes me that my moms don't mind making the hike all the way up to the top pregnant, but then again, that just goes to show that they are game to do ALMOST anything for beautiful photos! I absolutely LOVE that. Just my kind of client. Momma King was very passionate about having beautiful sunset silhouette maternity photos. I have to say that we had MAJOR success there! In fact, I actually ordered a HUGE canvas of the very last photo to display in my studio. I CANNOT wait to get that in!! This is their first baby, and I know that they will cherish these photos & moments together for years to come. After all, her glow is just stunning!!
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Episode I: The Phantom Menace
Episode II: Attack Of The Clones
Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith
Episode IV: A New Hope
Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
Episode VI: Return Of The Jedi
Episode VII: The Force Awakens
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Episode VIII: The Last Jedi
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Hahaha, isn't it funny! Snowpit sucks at English!
Stick to the goddamn subject instead.
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it's a fucking lightsaber! even people who have never seen a star war know that.
im not saying luke's role isn't important, im saying that he wasn't a primary reason why this particular film was as good as it was. yea I know his plot line was build up for the future, but he didn't do anything character wise in this film.
also ryanburns get fucking banned pls
tbh best returning character was C3P0, we all know it
he had the funniest introduction scene bar none
I really need to watch this damn movie already.
yes you do
my supervisor was unimpressed with it because luke doesn't appear until the end and doesn't speak.
that boggles my mind. of course we all want to see him be an awesome Jedi master training Rey but is anybody's favorite SW character really Luke Skywalker?
also get your laserswords ready for the Blu-Ray which is surprisingly being released quite early on April 5th
wow really? that's shockingly soon.
well i guess disney knows the dvd/blu ray will make buku bucks anyways and by april even the super nerds will be tired of driving all the way to the theaters to see it...
actually honestly wish more movies worked like that, it's total b.s. in this day and age that we still have to wait six months or more for movies to hit home video, never mind how much it contributes to piracy.
some good crow to be had in this thread:
also http://www.nohomers.net/showthread.p...=1#post3014653
I need to see it a 3rd time .. especially to catch more of the dialog I keep missing,.. So Finn's a (ex)Storm trooper, but Not a Clone stormtrooper?.. but a brainwashed from birth storm trooper? ..if I caught that correctly?
that was great. Rey and Finn were great new characters. Kylo Ren was very interesting. And the entire movie was just a blast that had a great story that connected to the originals. I'm really interesting in Rey's character and her backstory and what happened with Luke and Ben and why Ben became Kylo Ren. Hyped for Episode 8.
Overall I'd give it a 9.5/10 and say its as great as the original trilogy.
I loved Force Awakens. Planning on doing a rewatch of all the Star Wars films and maybe catching it again.
For the subsequent releases I am calling:
-Rey loses a hand
-Luke dies
-Luke is Rey's father
The Ohn Williams soundtrack was good, just nothing stood out. My favorite track is the Jedi steps/ ending credits, it speaks to me for some reason. Also, I call Kylo ren and Rey are brother and sister.
I think my sister may be onto something where Rey is actually related to Obi Wan Kenobi in some way. I definitely do not think she is Kylo Ren's sister considering eveyrthing that happens in TFA.
But losing a hand I definitely think will happen to either Finn or Rey. The ring theory is too strong to at least make that not occur. As for Luke... he's probably destined for Force Ghost duties by the end of the trilogy. I don't think he will die in ep 8 tho.
btw are we lifting the spoilers yet because apparently it's being generally agreed upon that it's time to have these non-secretive open discussions about such-and-such character dying
because c'mon why haven't you seen this movie yet if you're viewing this thread as a fan
hank solo dies
rip in peace
the problem i have with the theories where rey's dad is luke is that there is basically no satisfying choice of mother. what is the timeline on luke skywalker having a daughter? who with? just some randomer? do they ignore the mother? (i guess they do in the originals for luke but that's a different situation)
i guess they could try and introduce her in ep 8 but might be zzzzz.
also, which way are y'all expecting kylo ren to go? full evil after the events of TFA? or will he turn back or whatevs? or just self doubt then dead?
would hate the Poetry angle of him being super evil and then getting redeemed. honastly he should just stay evil when/if he dies, or maybe getting redeemed early and not dying would work
as for luke/rey, yea I always assumed if such, then rey's mother would be an ep 9 thing (like leia being luke's sister being the jedi "twist")... he is defintely in some way or other involved with her childhood because why else would she be so drawn to his lightsaber. plus that second teaser line... I dunno. they're not just related "thru the force" I know that for sure.
as for kylo, I have no idea but I know nothing will truly satisfy everyone so I'll say that I hope whatever happens, it's not exactly like vader/luke where ren turns on snoke and such. there has to be a twist on it if they're going to go the redemption angle in any way. (which it seems they are as he's struggling to force the light side out)
I like the idea of Rey being somehow related to Obi-Wan IF she has to be related to absolutely anyone, especially with that 'Coruscanti' accent. This whole Star Wars saga is really the Skywalker saga though so I wouldn't be miffed if it ends up being Luke (if not father, then former master explaining Force proficiency) and he just broke old dead code and ended up having feelings for someone like even Obi Wan did in Clone Wars. There is no way she is Ren's sister without Han and Leia reacting more to her unless she's Han's kid with someone. If that ends up being true then they fucked that up like Leia remembering Amidala. She's definitely SOMEONE to them with the way Han and Maz act at all, and so far she has pretty much all the qualities of a desert street trash Skywalker. I would not want this to be like an Anakin situation either where Snoke/Palpatine are implied to have created him through Midichlorians which is why there is no "father."
As for Ren, patricide is the point of no return.. but lame as it is I wouldn't hate some kind of redemption sacrifice towards the end on Ren's part if he continues to struggle with Light. It'd just be too much of the same old thing that happened, though, so I'm cool with him trying (maybe succeeding?) to be like Vader. Oh and as someone mentioned before, the crystal in his saber is probably gonna explode and take an arm or hand with it. Does sound a bit violent but it's certainly something that would fit in this universe having happened in other materials.
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In its third year, IURTC's Spin Up program hitting its stride
IU School of Medicine Dec 08, 2014
INDIANAPOLIS — Scrawled in capital letters atop a whiteboard in Joe Trebley's office is a phrase that describes the Indiana University Research and Technology Corp.'s Spin Up program three years after it began launching entrepreneurial dreams in July 2011: "LESS BUT BETTER."
The story behind it is a two-parter. The first involves a mid-2012 strategy shift after a first-year learning curve. The second transpired this summer — around the time of Spin Up's third anniversary — when five of its companies landed Phase I Small Business Technology Transfer grants from the National Institutes of Health in rapid succession.
That vaulted Spin Up past a milestone of $2 million raised for its budding businesses. The surge accounted for more than 75 percent of the funds Spin Up had raised to that point.
But that is just the start of what Spin Up aims for next.
"Initially we took all comers," said Trebley, who directs the Spin Up program.
"Now we're reaping the fruits of our labor. The cool thing is that now, after landing these smaller Phase I grants, each company gets to go after $750,000 to $1.5 million Phase II grants. If we get just one or two of those Phase II awards, that's more than double what Spin Up has raised to date. So each of these ventures are snowballing into more and more opportunity."
Run by the IURTC, Spin Up is a nonprofit business accelerator focused on tech-driven industries — specifically biotechnology, engineering, health care information technology, life sciences and medical devices. Spin Up has many objectives, but its main mission is to bring promising technologies to market by helping IU researchers start their own companies.
So far, 24 Spin Up companies have been founded. Of those, seven have generated nearly $2.34 million in federal grants, matching grants, national awards and venture competition prize money, with more than 25 percent of those funds going back to IU directly. Such awards allow these companies to explore potential solutions to some of medicine's most difficult challenges:
- Anagin (2013), founded by Dr. Anantha Shekhar and Yvonne Lai to develop a treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder that avoids harmful side effects, $767,706.
- Emphymab Biotech (2011), directed by Brian Johnstone, Dr. Irina Petrache and Matthias Clauss to treat emphysema and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, $436,473.
- YC Bioelectric (2012), founded by Hiroki Yokota and Stanley Yung-Ping Chien to develop a faster, more accurate and less costly way to perform the Western blot lab technique, which is used to detect and analyze protein samples, $357,787.
- Arrhythmotech (2012), co-founded by Dr. Peng-Sheng Chen and Shein-Fong Lin to develop a non-invasive technology to monitor both sympathetic nerve activity and electrocardiogram signals, $262,634.
- Refer2Input (2013), founded by Ken Yoshida to monitor bioelectric signals from various areas of the body in a single, universal unit, $260,581.
- EmotEd LLC (2012), founded by Dawn Neumann to develop a therapeutic video game to treat emotional deficits stemming from traumatic brain injury, $244,575.
- Sophia Therapeutics (2011), co-founded by Rajesh Khanna to treat neuropathic pain, $10,000.
Additionally, Spin Up has created 30 new entrepreneurs among university faculty — a total that includes seven women.
"I'm particularly proud of that fact, as our real objective is giving people who were not doing this before the opportunity to do it now," Trebley said. "That's how you really create cultural traction.
"We want as many hungry people as possible and we look for two things. One is talented people. The second is whether the researcher is trying to solve a real problem. And we have some of the world's most talented people on the planet here at IU who are trying to solve some of the world's most complex problems."
How Spin Up spun up
Like the aspiring entrepreneurs they work with, Trebley and Spin Up associate Polina Feldman both hold doctoral degrees.
Trebley earned his from Purdue University in 2006, specializing in bioorganic and medicinal chemistry. Before joining IURTC to launch Spin Up in 2011, he worked as a technology manager and senior project manager for the Purdue Research Foundation. He also served as a principle for In-Vivo Ventures, a venture capital firm, and as vice president of research and development at Kylin Therapeutics, a biotech company focused on RNA nanoparticle technology.
"I was more interested in the intersection of business and science than the research side of medicinal chemistry or molecular pharmacology," Trebley said. "So I looked to partner with people who could teach me the business side of things, how venture capital works and things of that nature."
Feldman, who earned her doctorate in neuroscience from IU in 2013, was introduced to the Spin Up program through a two-month technology transfer course at IURTC. Through a variety of expanding tasks, her role at IURTC evolved from intern to part-time to full-time work.
Her duties include managing programs, raising funds, submitting grant proposals, writing commercialization plans, managing companies that are funded and putting together executive summaries for investors. An aspiring entrepreneur herself, Feldman is pursuing an MBA in finance and entrepreneurship at IU.
"Coming from research, I wanted to know how technologies get transferred from an idea or a research project to something that's commercially viable," she said. "The whole aspect of commercializing a therapy is just as important as the discovery. That side of it, working with both researchers and service providers, is something I enjoy and having a Ph.D allows you to have conversations with both sides."
Trebley views his role as more of a coordinator who pairs Spin Up entrepreneurs with the proper services and contacts to help mature and expand their business so it eventually becomes self-sustaining.
"I'm an adviser and cheerleader," he said. "And I try to walk a fine line between setting expectations and providing needed encouragement. There will be some who fail, but that's OK. We see plenty of success as well."
Spin Up is modeled after a similar program called UPstart at the University of Pennsylvania's Penn Center for Innovation. Both make it as easy as possible for researchers to launch a company by having the program provide support for the early administrative functions, Trebley said.
While faculty members focus on the research that drives their business, Spin Up works with mostly local service firms that provide everything a news business might need, including insurance, payroll and grant consulting, Trebley said.
"We call it the 'easier' button. Not the 'easy' button like you used to see in those TV commercials, but 'easier,'" Trebley said. "What we do as a group is produce a ready-made business. Think of it as a shovel-ready plan."
To fuel the plan, seed funding is raised through avenues that include federal grants, the IURTC-administered Innovate Indiana Fund, angel investors, crowdfunding, business competitions and support from such organizations as Elevate Ventures and BioCrossroads.
Two of Spin Up's first companies, Emphymab Biotech and Sophia Therapeutics, exemplified such activity.
Along with its Phase I NIH grant — and with help from Spin Up's staff — Emphymab founder Dr. Irina Petrache won a $200,000 Harrington Innovator-Scholar Award for 2014 from Cleveland's Harrington Discovery Institute, a $10,000 pre-venture award from BioCrossroads in 2013 and a $60,000 grand prize at the 2013 Innovation Showcase. In 2012, Sophia Therapeutics won the BioCrossroads' pre-venture competition as well.
BioCrossroads is a public-private collaboration that supports new life-science businesses in Indiana, while the Innovation Showcase is the state's largest annual expo for fundable startups. Elevate Ventures is a nonprofit organization that provides state dollars to promising, early stage entrepreneurs who have received funding through small business grants.
"So far, most of our funding has come from NIH, competitions like these and Elevate Ventures," Trebley said. "Now we're looking to expand to sources such as the National Science Foundation, Department of Defense and Department of Agriculture. These agencies validate the work, not just for us but for follow-on talent. They see this being deemed worthy by their peers."
Throughout the process, Spin Up founders are introduced to entrepreneurs, as well as IU alumni and other parties who support IU technology. The program also trains Spin Up Fellows — newly minted Ph.Ds and postdoctoral researchers who are paired with a Spin Up company.
Within these companies, Spin Up Fellows are paired with more experienced managers, who serve as mentors.
"We're looking for a 'last founder,''' Trebley said. "A last founder is someone with executive experience with a track record for raising capital and managing early-stage companies. We want someone who can take what a Spin Up company has done so far and push it to the next level."
Once Spin Up companies achieve sufficient funding, they can take up residence at incubator space that includes office and dedicated wet lab space. At present, Spin Up has five companies using incubator space that adjoins IURTC's downtown Indianapolis location.
Changing a culture
One recent example of Spin Up's handiwork is the role it played in pairing EmotEd with Broad Ripple-based DeveloperTown to develop a working model of a therapeutic video game to treat disorders that stem from alexithymia, or difficulties in recognizing emotion.
The partnership was made possible when EmotEd, with Spin Up's help, won a $194,575 Phase I Small Business Technology Transfer award from the NIH in June. That helped fund a "wireframe" version of EmotEd's Emotion Builder platform to show potential investors.
As a rehabilitation research scientist, EmotEd founder Dawn Neumann describes her software development skills as "pretty limited." When it came to starting a business, the words "intimidating" and "overwhelming" came to mind — until Neumann met with IURTC technology managers about her idea three years ago.
"I never fathomed that I would own a company," she said. "But as my business partners, the Spin Up program takes care of all the formalities of being a business, from its inception as an LLC to developing a business model and commercialization plan.
"They handle accounting, seek investors, make the right networking connections and gain exposure to the right people. Without the help of Joe and Polina — and the IURTC — I wouldn't be a business owner and none of this would be possible."
Neumann represents one of the two faculty groups who have predominantly participated in Spin Up so far, Trebley said. She is among young faculty members — many of them assistant professors — who are eager to try new ideas. Then there are senior faculty, such as Anagin co-founder Dr. Anantha Shekhar, who have reached nearly every milestone their field can offer and want to walk a different path.
Capitalism offers its own allure as well. Yet for both groups, economic motivations are a "distant second" for professors merely hoping to get their work in the hands of people who can benefit from it directly, Trebley said.
"The faculty entrepreneurs we work with are not satisfied with publishing their work. They want to see it take the step out of the lab," he said. "Given the importance of the problems they are working on, we feel that we have a serious duty to help them fully realize their work."
A greater message that Spin Up sends is that potential investors need not trek to Ivy League institutions or traditional intellectual hot spots such as Boston or San Francisco to find "the next big thing."
It can be found just a short drive away — within Indiana's borders — as Spin Up continues to seek IU researchers' most marketable ideas and give them the necessary tools to succeed.
"We're digging in and finding entrepreneurs where no one has found them before," Trebley said. "Treatments for lung cancer and pancreatic cancer, growing inner ear organs in a petri dish, clean energy from new agriculture products — these are the types of things we have in the hopper. All of this is happening right here in Indiana, right in our own backyard."


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In the attachment there's basically a patch containing the logical structure that i want to make, but ofcourse it isn't working (look at it and you'll know what i'm looking after)
so basically i need something that will output a bang if a certain condition of three integers is met. this condition can be 0,0,1 or 0,1,0, or 0,1,1... made by the three number boxes on top.
is there any way i can do this? I'm not that good in thinking logically with pd yet... maybe there's some functionality of the "select" object that i don't know about?


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Two men pinned a terrified 12-year-old boy against a wall in his Bronx building, threatening to shoot him if he didn't hand over his phone, police said.
The youngster was on his way home from school at about 4:45 p.m. March 19, when the two men followed him to his building on University Ave. near Featherbed Lane in Morris Heights, his sister told the Daily News.
The boy held the door open for the two men — who then viciously turned on him.
"One went up the stairs and one stayed downstairs," the boy's sister said. "When my brother went upstairs, the other rushed up behind and pushed him against the wall. He said, 'Give me the phone or we'll shoot you.'" His family heard his terrified cries for help from inside their apartment.
The robbers, meanwhile, tore the phone from the boy's hands, hit him in the stomach, and issued a dire threat: "You'd better not say anything or we'll kill you."
The duo took off north toward W. 175th St. and Montgomery Ave, cops said.
The boy was uninjured, but the experience left him traumatized. His sister spoke on condition of anonymity, afraid the robbers might hurt her and her family.
"He doesn't want to go out anymore. He doesn't want to go to school," she said. "We're afraid they'll come back for us. We're doing the best we can."
Now, either the boy's mother or father picks him up from school every day and takes him home, his sibling said.
Cops released photos and video of the suspects, who were described as 20 to 30-years-old. One wore a red hooded sweatshirt, army pants and black sneakers, the other a black jacket, blue jeans and gray sneakers. Police ask anyone with information to call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS.


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Despite all the gloomy headlines about falling house prices, slowing credit growth—and a Royal Commission—the Australian share market staged an impressive rally over the 2017-18 financial year.
Including dividends, the ASX200 (which includes the 200 largest companies) returned 13.01%—just below the US market, but above many of the markets in Europe and Asia.
Returns are for periods to 30 June 2018. Past performance is not an indication of future performance.
*Returns relate to our Accumulation (not Pension) investment options and are published after fund taxes and investment expenses, other than account-based fees.
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The majority of our Accumulation members will be pleased to know that the strong performance of global share markets underpinned a double digit (10.5%) return for our Balanced investment option—a highly improbable outcome just a few months ago.
While the Australian share market's overall performance was strong, there was significant variation in performance across sectors and individual companies. Here's a summary of the best and worst performers over the last financial year.*
* Past performance is not an indication of future performance.
With a 41.6% return, the energy sector was the year's star performer, underpinned by a rally in the prices of all forms of energy including oil, gas and coal.
In second place was the IT sector at 32.3%. The good news is that Australia actually has an IT sector—the unfortunate news is that it's only 1.9% of the market.
In third place was the materials sector (which includes iron ore miners) with a return of 29.9%. As with our energy exporters, the companies involved (e.g. Rio and Fortescue) benefitted from strong commodity prices and a lower Australian dollar, at a time when their marginal costs of production are at all-time lows. The resources sector (energy and materials combined) constitutes 22.6% of the market, so it has a significant impact on overall returns.
Some members may be surprised to learn that our banks were not the worst performing sector (although the four major banks returned -1.3% for the year, so they were a large drag on overall returns).
It was actually the telecommunications sector that had this dubious distinction, being dominated by the woes of Telstra (more on this later).
Our utilities sector—which includes the likes of AGL and Spark—was also relatively flat for the year, given the market's concerns about the impact of rising interest rates and the potential for increased regulation. Fortunately, the telco and utilities sectors combined only constitute 5.1% of the total market.
As you'd expect from one of Australia's largest investors, UniSuper's investment focus is skewed towards large companies, so we tend to miss out on the highest and lowest returning companies in any given year. Within the ASX200, the two best performers were Beach Energy and A2 Milk, both returning around 200%. At the other end of the spectrum were Retail Food Group and iSentia, which lost over half their value. The negligible holdings that UniSuper held in the above mentioned companies were mainly via our index portfolio.
For the purposes of this article, we'll narrow the list of best performers to the companies in which our investment exceeds $1 billion, so their performance will definitely have an impact.
Our star performer for the year was BHP (+52.2%), followed by Woodside (+25.3%) and ASX (+24.7%).
We've already covered the positive factors that underpinned BHP and Woodside's performance. For most of the time since the GFC, our 'growth' investment options were "underweight" (i.e. less than index weight) to the resources sector. This is because we biased the portfolios in favour of companies paying sustainable dividends in a falling rate environment. Since mid-2016—in light of our growing confidence in the sustainability of higher commodity prices and global growth—we balanced the exposure by investing heavily in resource companies. Changing our positioning has been fortuitous and is a key factor behind the top quartile rankings of our growth investment options relative to peers.
Our investment in Woodside is particularly noteworthy, as we used our competitive advantages of scale and execution capability to buy a $700 million parcel of shares in a single transaction when Shell sold down their stake in the company at $31.10. We subsequently participated in a discounted rights issue at $27. At the time of writing, Woodside is trading around $36, so it's been a good trade. But don't get too excited because investments rarely work out so well, so quickly.
The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) is itself a listed company, and with a 12% holding, UniSuper is its largest investor. The ASX doesn't have any net debt and holds dominant market positions, so it fits our definition of a 'fortress asset' that we look to buy at reasonable prices. We started accumulating a large stake in ASX a few years ago at around $35 and at the time of writing it's trading around $64, so it's been a stellar performer. However, don't expect a repeat performance any time soon as the shares now look a touch expensive.
Over a one-year period, it's near impossible for a large fund to avoid the losers. To market participants any company that underperforms the broader index is considered an 'underperformer'. To UniSuper members, what really matters is outright losses and it's pleasing to report that every company in which we hold a $1 billion-plus investment recorded a positive return. In fact, there was only one company in which we currently hold more that $500 million that lost ground during the year—Aurizon (-15.3%)—and a large portion of the position has only recently been accumulated at current prices.
Aurizon suffered from a very unfavourable ruling by the Queensland competition regulator and is currently appealing the decision. Even if the appeal isn't successful, Aurizon has 'fortress asset' characteristics and we're of the view that the shares are undervalued and a potential buying opportunity.
While we're obviously disappointed with Aurizon's performance, our worst performer of any significance was—by a significant margin—Telstra (-34.4%). The woes of Telstra have been well documented; the NBN has left a huge hole in its revenue base that will be hard to fill and the entrance of a fourth player (TPG) has adversely impacted the profitability of the whole industry. Telstra has to run just to stand still, and it hasn't been running fast enough. Dividends have been slashed from 31 cents to 22 cents per share and most investors believe a sustainable level is somewhere closer to 15 cents. Somewhat mitigating our disappointment is the fact that the holding in Telstra is considerably less than $500 million. Furthermore, before the share price started to free-fall, we were able to trade out of a very large position at a good profit.
Our remaining stake in Telstra is largely held in our Defined Benefit Division (DBD) portfolio where we expect that the dividend yield will be sufficient to meet the hurdle return. Fortunately for the DBD, our holding in Telstra has not had a material impact on its overall health, with the funding levels actually improving over the year—one of the key measures of its financial position, the 'vested benefits index' (VBI) has increased from around 114% to 118%. "Excuses, excuses," you might say and you're probably right. We should have sold the lot.
Two years ago, our biggest disappointment was the performance of Woolworths, which bounced back with a 23.8% return last year, placing a very honourable fourth on our list of significant winners. Woolworths is an iconic brand with 'fortress asset' qualities that was in dire need of good management. CEO Brad Banducci and his team have proven to be just that and we applaud them. Let's hope that we will be applauding Telstra's management in two years' time.
Amidst all the negativity about Australia's banks and the dearth of high-flying technology companies, it may come as a big surprise to many that first prize went to the Australian Shares investment option, which recorded a very healthy 18.1% return. Well done to any member who saw that coming, because this writer certainly didn't. Given the relatively small size of the option ($522 million), we have more flexibility to actively manage the portfolio and it was pleasing to see that the return was about 5% above the overall market return (or 5% 'alpha', as the technicians call it). The two main drivers of the outperformance vs. the index were overweight positions in a) the high performing resources sector, and b) fast growing medium size (or 'mid-cap') companies.
In any year where global share markets perform strongly, we can expect to see defensive investment options (which mainly hold cash and bonds) at the bottom of the performance tables, and that has been the case for the 2017-18 financial year. The options with the year's lowest returns were Diversified Credit Income (+1.6%) and Cash (+1.7%).
The Cash option's portfolio is strictly confined to callable cash and cash-like investments, such as bank bills and term deposits. Our Cash option doesn't invest in instruments such as mortgage-backed securities, hybrids, credit instruments and the like, which—according to a recent APRA report—some other cash funds are comfortable with. Accordingly, our Cash option's return (after fees) is likely to track reasonably closely to the Reserve Bank's official cash rate.
The Diversified Credit option is targeted (but not guaranteed) to return a margin over the Cash option over time, but this may not be the case in any given year due to the exposure to credit risk. In the last financial year, credit spreads widened (so the prices of securities with credit risk fell) and hence the small under performance of the Diversified Credit option.
It's now been six years since a defensive investment option was the best performing option on the UniSuper menu (the last was Australian Bond in November 2012). The vast majority of our members who have exposure to growth assets would like to see this continue forever, but it won't. We can't predict when the good run will stop, but the performance of the past six years is highly unlikely to be an indication of how the next six will pan out.
This is not intended to be an endorsement of any of the listed securities named above for inclusion in personal portfolios. The above material reflects UniSuper's view at a particular point in time having regard to factors specific to UniSuper and its overall investment objectives and strategies.
Past performance is not an indicator of future performance. This information is of a general nature only and may include general advice. It has been prepared without taking into account your individual objectives, financial situation or needs. UniSuper's investment strategies will not necessarily be appropriate for other investors. Before making any decision in relation to your UniSuper membership, you should consider your personal circumstances, the relevant product disclosure statement for your membership category and whether to consult a licensed financial adviser. This information is current as at 9 July 2018.
Return objectives are not promises or predictions of any particular rate of return. Returns specified relate to our Accumulation (not Pension) investment options and are published after fund taxes and investment expenses, other than account-based fees.


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Drive right through for our trendy precinct at Yamanto
SERVICE in food and beverage is becoming all about quick turnaround and convenience for today's busy lifestyles and it is no surprise the first tenancies snapped up in the Yamanto Village development were the two drive-through stores fronting busy Warwick Rd.
Yamanto Village Convenience Centre which opened next to the Glades Tavern early this month now boasts Ipswich's first Zarraffa's Cafe and one of the south-east's first drive-through Zambrero restaurants.
Ipswich couple Ryan and Tamara Russell opened their third Zambrero franchise in the city in the growth area last week.
They opened Zambrero at Riverlink in 2014 and Bundamba in 2015 as part of one of the country's fastest growing franchises with the Yamanto store the 112th store in the country and outlets in New Zealand, Thailand and Ireland. They also run a fruit and veg wholesale business Freshway Produce at Rocklea Brisbane Fruit Markets.
At 250sq m, the Yamanto restaurant is the biggest Zambrero outlet for the Australian franchise.
"We wanted to make it somewhere where people could come and enjoy their meal and if they have kids in the car or they are going somewhere they have the drive-through or if they come in there is a kids' play room, playstation, TV, drawing gear and games," Mrs Russell said.
She said the restaurant was the fourth drive-through Zambrero in south-east Queensland and eighth in the country.
"People come through our drive-through, do a U-turn and go through Zarraffa's drive-through. Everyone loves the convenience," she said.
Zarraffa's franchisee Jason Meares agreed drive-throughs were the way of the future. He and his wife Leah Davis also have a Zarraffa's at Loganlea which opened almost four years ago with a drive-through.
"That is where Zarraffa's is headed.
"All of their new stores are drive-through and they are relocating a lot of the smaller kiosk stores into drive-throughs as well," Mr Meares said.
Subway is being fitted out at Yamanto Village Convenience Centre and the franchisee plans to relocate within the centre to a drive-through outlet.
"That was the main drawcard for the site, that there was a few drive-throughs," Mr Meares said.
"We don't get a lot of dine-in traffic at Loganlea but we do get a lot of dine-in here as well as drive-through at Yamanto."
The Yamanto Village development is based around a Caltex service station and will also feature Noodle Box which is being fitted out now and a proposed gym.


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Ally Drive Increases Campus Support for Spectra
On Friday November 3, Spectra had their first Ally Drive in Dining Rooms C & D. They talked about the importance of having allies in the community. Guest speakers Chip Murdock, Sue Lucas, and Emily Hale talked about about their experiences growing up being an ally and Sue and Emily talked about how much allies have helped them throughout their lives.
Sue began with opening up about her struggle with being gay in such a closed-minded place. Opening up to her family and friends was like breaking through a brick wall. She and her wife had a hard time bringing their relationship to their loved ones with fear of being disowned. Even though they faced many difficulties, they managed to finally love publicly without shame. She told the group how her mother and friends stood by her side. "No matter how far we get, our fight is never over" were her final words before ending her speech.
"No matter how far we get, our fight is never over" – Sue Lucas
Emily Hale, Spectra's Secretary, also talked about her life growing up. She was nervous in the beginning of her speech, but soon she became comfortable and started talking about her mother and how she was able to overcome the fear of keeping her sexuality to herself. She gained much support through her school and friends when she first came out. When she was in high school she became more involved in her school's GSA club, being an active voice for it. "Through the help of my grandfather and mom being my allies, our club went from being a small group of parents with gay kids to actually being a school organization that was student led," Emily said.
Chip Murdock, Director of Diversity and Inclusion, talked about being a ally for his own son. He didn't understand it at first but learned how to be an ally for him throughout the years. He now participates with LGBTQ+ students on the campus. He also spoke about how much of an impact students can make on campus through support and moving the organization forward. "The more support Spectra gets from allies, the better it is for them to grow," said Chip.


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Multiple Fire Crews Halt Spread of Wildfire in Central Texas
Firefighters from multiple departments worked together to stop the spread of a fire at about 130 acres in Coleman County, Texas, on June 29, local media reported.
Six ground units worked in conjunction with an aerial support team, which dropped flame retardant, to extinguish the blaze.
This video, shot by Coleman Fire Department near Highway 67, shows smoke rising and the fire burns through vegetation. The department said the blaze broke out along railroad tracks in the area.
"Difficult terrain meant that anchor points and firing operations were used in conjunction with direct attack when possible to control the fire and protect homes and livestock in the area," Coleman Fire Department said.
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