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Season 3 | Episode 13 | "Last Minute" | Aired June 27, 2014
Brad, back in his own timeline, looks out on a wasted world. He's been chosen for an all-or-nothing mission. His supervising officer gives him a Hail Mary for their Hail Mary plan: It's the device he put into the safe deposit box. It's an emotional goodbye. They hug it out. The "big man himself" — old Kellog — is going to send him off.
Back at the cabin, Kiera and Brad enjoy a chat together on the couch. She says this is where the relationship all goes to hell: A couple weeks in, you start comparing notes and find out you're from incompatible timelines. "I worked for a half-mad warlord," he says. "I worked for Big Brother," she says. She confesses that her son feels close, but also feels like a dream she had. He's the only one who will understand. They kiss.
Alec and Emily plot their travels. "What's that saying?" he asks. "'Make plans, Destiny laughs'?" Before she can answer, bullets explode through the walls. "I think God heard you, and he's pissed," she says. Current-timeline Alec is responsible, future Alec knows. You know what we have to do, she says.
Current Alec practices a Steve Jobs–like speech about Halo … aaaannnndddd muffs it. Kellog crawls out of the darkness, offering a slow clap and telling Alec that Piron stock dropped again — he's got to get it together. The people in this audience are here to see him — they're friends! Alec tells Kellog that it'd be nice if he said something that made him feel better. Lawyer Jacqueline arrives and confirms: Message sent. No casualties that she knows of.
Manly Brad chops wood, while Kiera admires his work. Alec and Emily come skulking out of the woods. Kiera's face reads, "Ah, jeez. What now?"
Carlos has taken the corner office! Kellog comes in wanting to talk about "Mr. Sadler." Kellog: He wants more police at his keynote speech. Carlos: This isn't a rent-a-cop vending machine. Kellog: Oh, yes. Yes, it is. Carlos resents Kellog's insinuation. Kellog: "Think of it as a personal favor." (But remember that Carlos is still smarting from current Alec's Dr. Frankenstein antics with dead Kiera's CMR and subsequent efforts to cover up his misdeeds. Bad, Alec! Bad!)
Time for the exposition summit! Future Alec holds court in his old lab. (Hey, Jason! What up? How's the Halo leash treating ya? It just occurred to me that Jason has been juggling three dads, who are all the same person: old Alec from his timeline and the two young Alecs in this timeline. No wonder he's loopy.) Alec says that when he came to this timeline, he created Brad's future, but current Alec could prevent it. Jason reveals that he and current-timeline Alec Frankensteined a time-travel device — hey, the Mary Shelley reference was mine. And so, they're going to need some help. "That's where you come in," she says, turning to Liber8's Travis. Nice.
Travis and Kiera show up at Liber8's restaurant — now serving C-4 by the slice! Garza: This had better be good. She takes them to Lucas: "Whatever this is, I am in!"
They all go back to the lab. Lucas has a nerdgasm when he sees all of the equipment in Alec's lab. "Don't touch anything," warns Alec. "Who says I have to touch it?" scoffs Lucas. Garza: Now what? Kiera speechifies about how she's been on the wrong team and is awake now. That they have to work together to ensure that the legacy they leave is not the future they've come from. "That's worth sacrificing for," she says.
Diana Bolton interviews current-timeline Alec on Firing Point. Who are you and where'd you come from, boy wonder? Then she compares him to Steve Jobs — and I should take up tarot card reading for TV writers for inadvertently guessing future dialogue references with such accuracy. Alec says he's just a guy who dreams for a living, officially making this the most cringe-worthy fictional television interview ever.
Back at the lab, the nerds do nerd stuff and the jocks play with guns. Brad: "Well, what do you think?" Kiera: "I find this deeply, deeply unsettling to watch." How can they know if they'll succeed? Brad says the beacon can tell them. It marks critical nexus points of change. If he activates the thing and nothing happens, they know they'll have succeeded. If so, we commit to this time, place and new history, Brad implores. Kiera notes that tomorrow Alec launches Halo. They all vow to pull their weight.
Carlos shows up at keynote prep with some men in tow. He's down for this arrangement if it serves the public trust and safety. Kellogg assures him it does and promises to keep supporting the police if they have an agreement. It appears they do.
Garza sneaks into the keynote with some meatballs while disguised as a male food-service worker — her painted-on beard surely didn't fool anyone, did it? She contacts Travis and informs him that she's in, then assembles her big-ass gun.
Piron's dog-and-pony show kicks off with a commercial. Emily is in the audience. Alec is introduced and receives a warm welcome. Alec gives his earnest speech while a Halo unit spins on the screen behind him. Lucas hijacks the event's A/V. Travis comes on the screen: "Halo is a lie." It's a shackle that'll control your life, yada, yada, yada. Current Alec's team regains control of the screen and spinning Halo returns. Alec resumes. Garza shoots. She misses — she never misses, so it must've been on purpose. Alec's team rushes him offstage. The crowd erupts into chaos. Alec and his guards escape to an elevator, but as soon as they press the button, gas starts pouring in through the vents.
Emily gets arrested for the attempted murder of Alec, while Garza gets away.
Carlos finds Alec, Jacqueline and the boys unconscious. He wants to get Alec to an EMT to get checked out, but Alec just wants to get out of there. Carlos rushes him to a waiting SUV. Alec away, Carlos peers into the empty elevator. The camera pans up through the roof of the elevator, revealing Kiera kneeling over unconscious current-timeline, Piron-honcho Alec. They've swapped Alecs!
When Alec wakes, he tells Kiera she's making a mistake. "Travis was right" about Halo, she replies. "Do you even hear yourself?" Alec asks. A knock on the elevator ceiling panel reveals Carlos! "You?" Alec says stunned. "Me," Carlos replies.
At Piron, future Alec convinces Jacqueline to take a hike, then checks in with Lucas, who takes charge of the building's systems through a bug Alec plants. Alec connects with Kiera: He can't find the time-travel device. Current Alec looks smug, so Kiera tells future Alec to destroy the lab if he can't find the device.
Current Alec tells Kiera she'll never get back to her timeline. She says she's counting on it and jets. Then current Alec tells Carlos that he'll have his job. Carlos: "Tell you what, kid: You can have it."
Future Alec goes all Clockwork Orange on the lab, busting the place up.
Current Alec: "This is like kidnapping." Carlos: "No, this is exactly kidnapping." But the kidnapping plot is foiled because Alec has a child-finder chip implanted, and Jacqueline must've smelled something fishy, because she sends in the cavalry.
So the score is: Emily captured, current Alec retrieved by his people and future Alec futzing around Piron, looking for the device, and probably about to get his head kicked in by evil Alec's security detail that is now en route.
Instead, only evil Alec shows up — just in time for future Alec to have found the device. Future Alec pushes himself out of the way and runs out past Jacqueline. Then evil Alec runs out and tells her to put the place on lockdown. Not sure why she looks stunned now, since she's the one who suspected something in the first place, but whatevs.
Future Alec calls Lucas: "I need an exit!" Lucas guides Alec to his father's office. The rescue team is on its way! Cut to slo-mo of ass-kicker trio Travis, Garza and Kiera. Evil Alec turns up in the office promising to kill Emily over and over again to keep her and future Alec separated. Future Alec: "This timeline isn't big enough for the both of us." Yes, he did! Current Alec: "I couldn't agree more." The deadly dance of current and future Alecs begins, and they even smash through a glass wall to the balcony.
In front of the building, the trio busts up the Piron patrol to gain entry. The cops won't be coming, BTW.
I don't know which Alec is which. They continue fighting on the roof.
Garza and Kiera fight their way through the building while Travis stays in the lobby to keep anyone at bay.
Current Alec — you can tell by the evil smirk and the homicidal behavior — chokes future Alec, who eventually grabs a piece of the device and drives it into current Alec's neck. Blood spurting and a look of surprise on dying Alec's face. Kiera arrives with gun drawn. Dying Alec: "Your future dies with me." And then he keels over.
Future Alec assures Kiera it's him by telling her that even in the cage, he knew she'd come back for him. She, in tears: "I chose you because I believe in a better future than mine — one that I know you will build." They embrace with the city and open sky as their backdrop.
Travis carries out the body of dead Alec. Kiera takes dead Alec's chip and puts it in future Alec, who's decided to stay behind and take care of Piron. The van takes off with Kiera and the gang; then Jacqueline comes out with guards, and Alec tells her there's work to be done.
Kiera meets with Carlos, who wants the lowdown, but she thinks it best if he doesn't know the full extent of their criminal activity. Carlos will try to get Emily released.
Liber8 is taking over the Freelancers' den.
Kiera finds Brad. Alec is dead, she tells him. "Your future can't happen — order has been restored," she says. He holds up the beacon: "If nobody hears it, nothing happens." If someone does? "Then we've failed, and I think we both want to know that," he says. He plants the beacon, and it sends off a signal. Nothing. They congratulate each other.
"Two Alecs enter, one Alec leaves," Kellog says to future Alec. Alec calls security to remove him, but Kellog has been plotting to have Alec removed and himself installed as head of the company. Security leads Alec out.
Back with Brad and Kiera, the lights go out throughout the city. A ball of space-time disturbance explodes in front of them and figures in spacesuit-like gear — Robots? Aliens? Future people? — stand with weapons ready.
Somewhere … Curtis looks at the 1,000-year rasta-traveler, who says, "It has begun."
Kiera: "What do we do now?" Brad: "Run!"
Continuum on Syfy.


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Mr. Austrian served as a law clerk in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York from 1970-1971.
Representative Experience
Served as trial counsel in a three week patent case trial in the Federal Court in Connecticut representing a company alleged to infringe a mechanical patent. In December, 2012 the Court issued a 74 page opinion finding that the patent was invalid and not-infringed.
Served as lead trial counsel representing a major pharmaceutical company in a series of six-week and nine-week jury trials involving claims that a pharmaceutical product, Bendectin, caused serious limb and heart defects. Cases were tried in the District of Columbia, Philadelphia and Baltimore, and affirmed on appeal.
Represented international foods company in arbitration and federal court proceedings involving contractual disputes.
Argued international trade case on behalf of a subsidiary of a diversified manufacturer of advanced industrial technology and obtained a significant victory.
Negotiated a $10 million settlement between world leading producers of specialty materials and a Japanese manufacturer in a patent infringement action.
Representing a subsidiary of a major industrial corporation in a patent infringement action pending in the District of Connecticut.
Defeated a retaliatory patent infringement action and motion for preliminary injunction on behalf of a subsidiary of a major industrial corporation.
Representing a global marketer of consumer and commercial products in an environmental dispute over financial responsibility for cleanup at various sites in New Jersey.
Represented a major producer of forest industry products in a bench trial concerning an environmental dispute over soil contamination responsibility at a lumber factory.
Represented manufacturers of ceramic tableware and small engines in Proposition 65 litigation brought in California.
Represented a worldwide leader in engine retarding and valve actuation technology in a franchise case and defeated a motion for a preliminary injunction following a two-week evidentiary hearing.
Represented an international communications company in a series of state administrative proceedings under the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
Representing a leading professional organization for journalists in a commercial dispute pending in the Superior Court in the District of Columbia.
Represented multiple equipment companies in product liability litigation.Handled a variety of matters before the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Represented a global media company in a Securities Act case and argued the matter before the Third Circuit Court of Appeals.
Memberships & AssociationsAmerican Bar Association, Litigation Section
American Law Institute
Council for Court Excellence, Board of Directors
Georgetown Law School, E-Discovery Advisory Board
The William B. Bryant Inn of Court, Board of Directors
Professional ActivitiesAmerican University, Washington College of Law, Adjunct Professor of Law teaching a course in trial advocacy in the high-tech courtroom and a course on e-discovery.
National Institute for Trial Advocacy, Faculty, Advanced Trial Program: NYC, Deposition Program: DC, 1985-present.

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Freedom Newsapers
DORA — The Dora Lady Coyotes made an effort to stop Melrose six-footers Allison Cochran and Audrey Hemminger, but a combined 40 points and 34 rebounds would suggest they failed.
However, the rest of the Lady Buffs scored just seven points, and host Dora cruised to a 61-47 victory Tuesday night.
Kassandra Clark led Dora (6-9, 2-1 District 4-3A) with 19 points and hit five of the team's six 3-pointers against Melrose (8-10, 2-1).
Hemminger led all scores with 21 points, while Cochran added 19. Despite what the scorebook showed, Dora coach Bill Stockton said it wasn't the intent to make Melrose's other players beat them.
"Actually, we were trying our best to limit them," said Stockton, who sat out Tuesday's game with the flu. Assistant Myra Skinner coached the Lady Coyotes.
Jena Bilberry added 15, D'Shawn Pettigrew 12 and Jaci Sant nine for Dora, which hosts Floyd Friday night.
Melrose boys 62, Dora 60
Carlos Ruiz scored 21 to lead a top-heavy Buffalo effort, and Melrose escaped when a last-second putback attempt was off the mark.
Ruiz was one of only four to score for Melrose (11-5, 3-0), which nearly blew a 23-11 first quarter lead.
Chris Russell scored 16, Caleb Dodd added 13 and Brock Graham 12 for the Buffaloes. Clayton Stokes led the Coyotes with 18 points.
Stokes was fouled on a late 3-point attempt, and needed all three to tie the game. After missing the second, Stokes intentionally missed the third. He grabbed the rebound, but his putback attempt rimmed out.
Brent Hayes added 14, with Travis Belcher and Tyler Wilhoit added 10 each for Dora (3-13, 1-2).


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Luke Evans Now In Talks For Fast Six
He's turning nasty...
Last week, the team over at Twitch heard that Luke Evans was considering a role in Fast Six, but hadn't started making a deal. Well, things move pretty fast in the universe of Dominic Toretto and company and now Variety reports that he's in negotiations to play the big bad.
While the details are still lacking, the current information points to Dom (Vin Diesel) Brian O'Connor (Paul Walker) Mia (Jordana Brewster) and the rest of the high-octane team heading out once more to pull off a daring heist. So far, so standard for the Fast franchise. But this time, it appears they'll have some competition from another team of thieves, with Evans in command.
Plus, they'll all have to deal with attention from Dwayne Johnson's dogged lawman Luke Hobbs, who is still in pursuit, bringing along Gina Carano.
Jason Statham was originally offered the villain role, but now Evans is the man in the frame for director Justin Lin. He'll head to the Fast set almost immediately after finishing up his duties as Bard the Bowman on The Hobbit.
Speaking of, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is out on December 14. Fast Six will be shooting this summer, partly in the UK, and we should see it on May 24, 2013.


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Friday, December 23, 2011
Llama Llama Wisdom
We stopped by the bookstore yesterday, and Babygirl went straight to the Llama Llama series. We snuggled up with a hot chocolate and Llama Llama Holiday Drama, and the ending made us all pause and smile.
I made a little printable of it for our fridge as a sweet reminder to us all during the final countdown. You're welcome to it, as well. We're heeding the Llama Llama wisdom and spending our days watching Elf, coloring and baking. Thanks to Martha Stewart's packaging and the 2-Ingredient Pumpkin bread recipe, we easily whipped up mini-loaves for our neighbors, mail carrier and sanitation workers. (Each bread recipe produces three mini-loaves.)
I also used this time to make Cinnamon Biscuit Buns, a recipe from Pinterest I've been drooling over for months. It did not disappoint!
How are you spending these last moments before Santa's arrival?
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Fun fun fun! We've spent lots of time in our pj's lately ;) Gotta go to the grocery store today - guess it's time to throw on a pair of jeans - if they still fit after all the junk I've eaten! ;) Merry Christmas friend!ReplyDelete
That Cinnamon Biscuit Buns recipe looks AH-mazeballs. And I love the llama llama books. We're getting ready for our annual party tonight... Hope your family has a very Merry Christmas!ReplyDelete
What a sweet sentiment! We are finished up the shopping and gift wrapping too. Our new college grad is coming home to visit tomorrow and to make gingerbread houses with her sister. Something they look forward to and I hope they continue now that each are older and have other obligations.ReplyDelete
Yummy! Those baked goods look lovely! And I love the Llama quotes too. Merry Christmas to you!ReplyDelete
We picked up that book a few weeks back and I just love the message. Merry Christmas!ReplyDelete
Your comments are like popcorn with milk duds, I just can't quit them. Thanks for taking the time to share your positive thoughts! xoxo, cass


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Nonpoint finally recorded their fan-favorite cover of Billie Jean. They cite Michael Jackson, Chris Cornell, and David Cook for inspiration regarding the song. Nonpoint's version had been previously available on YouTube only, and the band had received numerous requests for a full track listing. The band wanted to do something special for their fans after reaching 100,000 likes to their fan page, and is offering it for free! You can download it below.
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Path at the Shadow's Edge ©Morri
8″ x 10″ acrylic on canvas / Little Paintings Series
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Hello dear hearts, I find myself wanting to chat with you this evening. :) I have been dwelling within my own shadows for a spell, and those of you that read my last couple of posts (7-15-09, and 7- 21-09), know why. I found myself once again, searching for light, and once again, I found it waiting for me just beyond the shadow's edge.
Yesterday, I returned to meditation just to see if I could escape the endless noisiness of my mind. It was in that place of sacred silence that I finally listened to my heart, and I found peace. Why had I avoided meditation for months??? I found light within the silence..like a trillion little stars in a colorless night sky, and…
my energy instantly changed!
Later that day…as if by design, I received some very sage words from one of my very first blogging friends, 94Stranger at Rainring. Here are some of his words:
"All I can say is that the only way I know to gain something out of even the most devastating experiences is to try and understand what they have to teach us."
"..each human being has to live their own experiences and face their own destiny…"
Thank you 94S!! Somehow, I had forgotten that!!! Last night and today, I have received more positive messages and confirmations. I also realized that I have been running along side others on their paths..trying to save them, make them leave it, and follow me. Not only, was that wrong..it kept me from moving forward. I had become weighted down with a very heavy heart, my own. I had stopped my own journey. I was also living in fear of alienated them, of losing them. Thus, I found myself wearing all kinds of smothering masks, just like before, **see Masked Mime**, well
the masks are off, once and for all..
discarded into the darkness!
How very LIBERATING.. I instantly felt the weight lift from my heart!!
My wings began unfolding again…
stronger than ever before,
So as to carry me
further and higher
straight into my dreams.
Dreams waiting there
just beyond..
the shadow's edge!
I now find myself dwelling in new energies.
Changes are coming..including here.
I want to paint, to garden, to dance, and to laugh, to live life to the fullest, and most of all
I want to LOVE and BE LOVED, AS I AM.
I can do all these things now
and I will
I am free
to continue, on my own path.
I wish the same for all of you!
in Love, in light, and in laughter,
Ps I will leave the cult info on here, and of course, I will talk to any one that wants or needs to talk about it. It will no longer be my energy focus.
I want to thank all of you for your comments and emails..you'll never know how much it meant. If I neglected to respond to any one of you, I apologize. Please don't hesitate telling me so I can do so. You are all sparkles of light along my path.
To Shanni Lea, my beloved daughter, I will be waiting until our paths cross again
..and they will, because
our love is more powerful, than ANY cult!!


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Some eye care practices display the frame price on the frame and some don't. I've seen offices that use color coded dots to indicate the price and some where opticians just look the frame up on a price list. I find there are some good reasons to show the price on every frame and in this tip I'll also describe a neat method for doing so.
Overcoming sticker-shock
Letting the patient see the price of the frame as they browse and try them on actually helps sales because it gently lets the patient know what price range they are in. Many patients lose touch with frame and lens prices because they simply don't shop for them very often. Rather than letting the patient proceed with some misinformed concept of cost, I'd rather they be aware. We will still have to add the price of lenses to the eyeglass order, and obviously that is an unknown until the lens design is completed, but the frame price gets the equation started.
Seeing the price also lets the patient have some control over the total cost of eyewear without embarrassment. We may start with a more expensive frame but the patient can see other price lines on display and steer towards a lower price tier if desired. We certainly see that showing a $600 frame first makes it much easier to sell a $400 frame. For many people, the price is an indicator of fashion, quality, and exclusivity and seeing a high price may confirm that a frame is highly desirable and they gravitate toward those.
Where to put the price tag
There are many options for price labels out there from string tags on the temple to reusable plastic slip-through tags to self-sticking butterfly barcodes. But the coolest looking option in my opinion is to use a clear self-stick label that is placed on the demo lens of the frame.
An inexpensive label maker from an office supply store (like a Brother P-Touch) is used to print the price on a small label with a dollar sign in front of it. We place the label low on the lens so it does not interfere with the line of sight when trying it on. It's important to use clear labels so the tag is non-obtrusive. It looks like the price is printed on the demo lens. This price tag never gets in the way; never blocks a hinge and it stays on even if the frame is a drill mount with a very thin wire temple.
After you type in the price and hit print on the label maker, the labels are cut from a role of half inch tape that is supplied as a cassette.
Additional benefits
In addition to the price, we find it helpful to add some other information to the label for staff use only. We use a special code of sorts to indicate the wholesale price of the frame and the date it was acquired by my office. This code number is placed on the label next to the retail price. These two bits of information are very handy to have right on the frame! The wholesale price allows staff to quickly calculate frame overage costs for patients who are using a vision plan. The date acquired is helpful as our frame buyer reviews the physical inventory with or without the frame sales rep.
The code we use is simple, but I don't think patients pay any attention to it because it looks more like a model number. The code number is the two-digit year of the frame acquisition, followed by the two digit month, followed by the Frames book cost in dollars only, all with no spaces. So a frame costing $80 purchased in November 2008, which we might sell for $240 would have a clear label with black print that looks like this:
Inventory systems
If you use a frame inventory system as part of your office management software program, you may want to consider putting this information on your barcode labels for efficiency. But many practices that I analyze don't even use a computerized inventory and they do just fine. After many years of managing a very large optical dispensary within my practice, we are just now moving to a bar code inventory system. I'll keep you posted.
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Look! It's the Echo Park Time Travel Mart! Where products can be purchased from all periods in time. Including:
Robot Milk
...and mammoth Chunks
and ism-wines:
The artsy (but not overly fartsy) storefront was designed by clever designer Stephan Bucher, and serves as the entrance to impossibly hipster-riffic non-profit literacy project 826LA, where students can get tutoring, make 'zines and learn about publishing.
We don't know if it's possible in 2008 to make reading and/or writing cool, but it's fun (and encouraging) to watch people try, eh?


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"The librarians' brief was for a contemporary people environment. That means moving away from the traditional model of a library as a quiet and meditative study environment to one that celebrates community interactions and exchange," says Andrea Wilson, Principal at ARM Architecture.
Zenith expands into Singapore with new showroom
Australasian furniture supplier and manufacturer Zenith has added a Singapore showroom to its portfolio. The newly-opened eleventh space adds to the brand's Asia Pacific offering, and follows the opening of the Hong Kong showroom last year.
White Grotto: the sustainable and streamlined washroom
Featuring a monolithic washbasin counter, greenery, and irrigation sourced from grey water, the White Grotto washroom, designed by Ida & Billy, sets a benchmark in the commercial and retail sectors for sustainable design.
An office fitout that facilitates staff wellness
BVN's new 3700-square metre office fitout in Sydney's suburbs is designed with the health and well-being of staff in mind.
A library for community interaction: Geelong Library one year on
Layered Light
Beyond the vitreous layers that shield our homes, contemporary glass is taking on a dynamic new dimension. Stephen Todd writes for MEZZANINE.
Matt Gibson A+D announced as winner of Miele 'Forever Better' competition
The team at Matt Gibson A+D has been announced as the winner for the Miele Immer Besser design competition, with their proposal for an ultra-flexible apartment space.
Creative workings: the offices of designers
The offices of designers and architects are home to the ideas that help us work in new ways. Mezzanine discovers the secret to creativity when it comes to their own studios.
Bilbao's Miró Hotel
The Miró Hotel was the first boutique hotel in Bilbao and offers only 50 rooms for guests. Albeit small, the attitude of the hotel is grand, with every convenience for guests at hand and an interior that is stylish and contemporary.
Designers Republic
As the lines between private and public domains increasingly blur, architecture is expanding notions of community with houses designed to be multifunctional and/or multigenerational, or play a wider role. Peter Salhani explores this blurring for MEZZANINE.
2016 IDEA winners revealed
inside Interior Design Review has revealed the winners of its prestigious 2016 Interior Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) at an event in Sydney on Friday 18 November. Now in its 14th year, IDEA showcases the best of Australian interior and product design, as well as the designers behind the work.


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text: RSS Events Feeds Hacking EAST APIs for Art 2/15/2014 8:00 AM - 2/16/2014 12:00 PM The goal of this hackathon is to create a mobile app that helps local artists list their works, and people more effectively share the works with their network of art-appreciating friends and family.Calling Austin software developers!If you have enjoyed attending the EAST Studio Tour (or other studio tours around the country) here is your chance to give back. For two days over the weekend of February 15th, 2014, we'll be hosting a hackathon at the GoLab co-work space in downtown Austin to build an app to help artists list their works, and help people more effectively share the works with their network of art-appreciating friends and family around the globe.A mobile app would solve a few problems. Austin's community of artists make our city a much more inspiring and fun place to live. But unfortunately, Austin's population of artists probably exceeds the size of the art-buying market. A mobile app that enabled people to tweet photos of art out to their network could help artists reach a larger market of potential buyers.Another benefit of a mobile app is to enable artists in out-of-the-way locations to get their work seen by more people–leveraging the people who make the effort to see individual studios that are not in an art-studio mecca.The goal of the hackathon is to create a mobile app. Extra points for a cross browser solution (Cordova… hint, hint…) or perhaps an HTML5 application. The APIs and sample data will be provided to the app developers (more detail to be posted here soon). The registration / authentication system will also be given.TWEET THISAre you interested in becoming a sponsor? Great! Email email@example.com full rulesPrizesSXSW Interactive Badge (4)$1,195Winning team members will each receive a SXSW Interactive Badge (up to four total.)Art from local Austin artists (2)$250Runner-ups will receive their choice of paintings donated by local Austin artists.1mo. Dedicated Desk at the GoLab$250One month of dedicated work space in the GoLab Gallery located in downtown Austin, TX.EligibilityAll are welcome and eligible to participate in this challenge.RequirementsAll app submissions should follow these requirements:Interface for artist to take a photo of the artwork, enter summary info, and uploadAn EAST attendee can find an artist by searching or by entering the site numberAfter finding a specific art work, the attendee can push the artwork to her social networksThe app should be able to generate a QR code, which the artist can print and affix next to their art to facilitate people posting the artwork.JudgesMike SchwartzMike SchwartzCEO at GluuJohn GoffJohn GoffSenior Interaction Designer at EbayJeff KramerJeff KramerSenior Software Engineer at HP Cloud ServicesTina SchweigerTina SchweigerPresident at YellowFin Strategy + Design, E.A.S.T. ArtistJudging CriteriaEase of UseShould be extremely easy to use for non-tech savvy artists and fans.InteroperabilityExtra points and consideration for all submissions that make use of a cross-device platform such as Apache Cordova (http://cordova.apache.org/)Use of provided materialsSubmissions should all follow the app guidelines and make use of sample data and provided API's.How to enterPre-register online (blue button on top right) with a description of your skill-sets. Indicate whether you are seeking a team to join or list your intended team members and project description.Use the Discussions tab to find collaborators, suggest projects, recommend topics for exploration, etc. Learn More: Hacking EAST APIs for Art


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Robert S. Berg, Professor of Physics, Wellesley College
Professor Robbie Berg is the Chair of the Wellesley College Department of Physics. He received his A.B. from Princeton University and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.
Professor Berg's research centers on developing new computational tools for use in science education. He collaborates closely with the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab, working on the creation of a new generation of "programmable bricks" called Crickets. The LEGO Mindstorms product, which was released in the Fall of 1998 by the LEGO company, was inspired by their group's work. Since 2003 he has worked to develop a commercial version of the Crickets that is now being distributed through The Playful Invention Company. (See www.picocricket.com) With Mitchel Resnick (MIT) and Mike Eisenberg (Colorado), Professor Berg helped develop an NSF-funded project called Beyond Black Boxes, in which children use Crickets to design their own instruments for scientific investigations.
He serves as an advisor for the Playful Invention and Exploration (PIE) Network, in which the Media Lab and museums around the world are finding ways to encourage more creative uses of digital media by blending art, science and technology. With Franklyn Turbak of the Wellesley's computer science department, Professor Berg created a course called Robotic Design Studio, where students use programmable bricks to design, build, and exhibit their robotic creations. In collaboration with faculty from Olin College, he has also developed a new course, Introduction to Engineering, that provides Wellesley students with an opportunity to explore first-hand the way engineers approach problems in the world and serves as bridge to more advanced engineering opportunities at Olin and MIT.
Professor Berg also has a long-standing interest in the optical properties of semiconductors. More recently, he has been working with other Wellesley faculty and students on a project that uses narrow band-width diode lasers to trap and cool rubidium atoms. He has worked with Martina Koniger, and Gary Harris of Wellesley's Department of Biological Sciences, and a number of Wellesley students to develop an optical technique for monitoring light-induced chloroplast movements in leaves.
Hélène Bilis, Associate Professor of French, Wellesley College
Hélène Bilis received her Ph.D. in French literature from the University of California, Berkeley in 2008, the same year she joined the French department at Wellesley College.
Professor Bilis specializes in the literature and culture of early modern France, in particular how theater became a space in which to dramatize, promote, and reflect upon the theories of sovereignty advanced by the French monarchy. The same period which saw the rise of absolutism, the coup d'état, and divine-right monarchy witnessed the development of neoclassical tragedy, a heavily theorized genre whose poetics often coincided with, but also challenged, ancien régime political aims.
Recent publications have focused on feeble kings and the crises of dynastic succession they provoke on the tragic stage. Her current book-project looks at the ways playwrights from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries portrayed the judicial process and royal judges on stage, in a time when a notion of legality separate from the king was beginning to emerge. The study addresses scenes of royal judgment in the works of Jean Rotrou, Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine, and Voltaire.
Professor Bilis coordinated an Albright Institute summer seminar devoted to the study of the coup d'état from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century. Along with Sarah Wall-Randall, a colleague from the English department, she organizes a faculty interdisciplinary working group on Medieval-Renaissance studies sponsored by the Newhouse Center for the Humanities. Bilis teaches courses ranging from French conversation and composition, to seminars on early modern theater, on representations of queens and princesses in literature, and on literary portrayals of France as a nation.
Dan Brabander, Associate Professor and Chair of the Geosciences Department, Wellesley College
Dan Brabander holds B.S. and M.A. degrees from Binghamton University and a Ph.D. from Brown University. He was a postdoctoral research associate at the Parsons Lab at MIT where he applied geochemistry tools to large-scale environmental engineering challenges around arsenic poisoning in Bangladesh and metal biogeochemical cycling in urban watersheds.
He currently holds an appointment as a visiting scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health where research questions focus on the intersection of environmental health and medical geosciences. At Wellesley, his courses help students develop a toolbox of skills to frame and analyze complex environmental systems. He teaches a core course in Environmental Science and upper level courses in Isotope Geology and Environmental Geochemistry. A key component of these courses is the creation of a research-rich setting where the students become apprentices for ongoing projects in Brabander's research lab. In 2010, he was awarded the College's Pinanski Prize for Excellence in Teaching.
Professor Brabander has published more than 20 peer-reviewed scholarly articles with recent work featured in numerous media outlets including ABC news, the Boston Globe, and Time magazine. His research emphasizes multidisciplinary projects that foster collaboration among biologists, chemists, public health scientists, and environmental engineers and that involve research experiences for undergraduates. His current research focus is environmental geochemistry, health, and the quantification of toxic metal exposure pathways in the built environment. Applications include fate and transport studies of contaminants in watersheds and urban settings, isotopic dating and mapping of contaminants within sediments and soils, and sustainable urban agriculture.
Rebecca Braeu, Macroeconomic Analyst and Portfolio Manager, Standish Mellon Asset Management
Rebecca Braeu is a macroeconomic analyst and portfolio manager on the Global Fixed Income Team at Standish Mellon Asset Management. She leads the developed market country and currency research effort with regional focus in Europe, the United States, and Japan. Braeu also works with the global team to formulate portfolio strategy and manage global bond portfolios.
Before joining Standish in 2010, she was an economist and emerging market strategist at Manulife Asset Management in Boston. Previous to her work in the private sector, Braeu was a tenure-track professor at California State University and Holy Cross College, where she published two academic papers in the area of global macroeconomics and international finance. Rebecca holds a Ph.D. and master's in economics from the University of Colorado, a B.A. in mathematics from the University of Colorado, and has four years of industry experience.
Nicholas Burns, Professor, Harvard Kennedy School
Nicholas Burns is professor of the practice of diplomacy and international politics at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He is faculty chair of the school's Middle East Initiative, India & South Asia Program, and is director of the Future of Diplomacy Project.
He writes a biweekly foreign affairs column for the Boston Globe and is a senior foreign affairs columnist for GlobalPost. Burns has received 12 honorary degrees, the Secretary of State's Distinguished Service Award, the Woodrow Wilson Award for Public Service, and the Boston College Alumni Achievement Award. He has a B.A. in history from Boston College and an M.A. in international relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
He is also director of the Aspen Strategy Group and a senior counselor at the Cohen Group. He served in the U.S. Foreign Service for 27 years, during which time he was appointed undersecretary of state for political affairs, ambassador to NATO, ambassador to Greece, and State Department spokesman. He worked on the National Security Council staff as senior director for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia Affairs and special assistant to President Clinton and director for Soviet Affairs for President George H.W. Bush.
Ophelia Dahl DS '94, Executive Director, Partners In HealthFor more than 20 years, Ophelia Dahl has worked as an advocate for the health and rights of the poor. Dahl first traveled to impoverished central Haiti in 1983 at age 18 to volunteer her services at Eye Care Haiti, a small clinic. It was in Haiti where she met Paul Farmer, and since then they have worked to bring health care to the destitute sick, beginning with a few small villages in Haiti's Central Plateau. The principle that motivated Dahl and her colleagues was simple: everyone, whether poor or affluent, deserves to benefit from the same high standard of medical care.
Partners In Health (PIH), a nonprofit organization based in Boston, Mass., and dedicated to addressing health inequities and social injustice, was formally founded in 1987. Dahl, a co-founder and trustee of PIH, currently serves as its executive director. She has also served as chair of PIH's board since 1993. Expanding on the work started in Haiti's Central Plateau, Dahl has traveled to and supported the establishment of major PIH projects in Peru, Mexico, Guatemala, Russia, the urban United States, Rwanda, Lesotho, and Malawi. Today, PIH operates over 60 hospitals and health centers in these countries with a staff of 128 in Boston and more than 12,000 colleagues worldwide.
Under Dahl's leadership, PIH has forged groundbreaking successes in treating the diseases of the poor and promoting health and human rights in areas of the world that have been ravaged by political conflict, poverty, and international neglect. Providing antiretroviral medications to AIDS-afflicted patients in places like Haiti used to be viewed as utopian and unrealistic by international health experts; today, the effectiveness of PIH's community-based model has been lauded around the world, prompting an explosion in requests to the organization to share its expertise and to play a greater role in global health advocacy.
A graduate of Wellesley College and a writer herself, Ophelia Dahl also serves on the board of her family's foundation to honor the work of her father, the late writer Roald Dahl, and is engaged in philanthropic works in the United States and her native England.
Rangita de Silva de Alwis, Director of International Human Rights Policy, Wellesley Centers for Women
Rangita de Silva de Alwis is the director of International Human Rights Policy and the Inaugural Susan McGee Bailey Scholar at the Wellesley Centers for Women. She is also the faculty director of the Department of State and Seven Sisters Colleges–led Women in Public Policy Project's Summer Institute (2012) at Wellesley College.
Dr. de Alwis has worked with a vast network of academic institutions, civil society, and government organizations to develop innovative women's rights and human rights initiatives around the world, including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, China, Cambodia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Mexico, Georgia, Turkey, Russia, Argentina, Kenya, Morocco, Bulgaria, Lebanon, Romania and Egypt. Her work and teaching have focused on using international human rights norms to guide law reform initiatives. She helped convene national and regional alliances including the Women's Watch in China; the Asia Cause Lawyers Network in India; the Gender and Law Network in China; and the Women's Leadership Network in the Muslim World. She also advised UNICEF's and UNFPA's law reform initiatives in compliance with the relevant human rights treaties and is on the Advisory Group brought together by UNIFEM and UNDP to develop United Nations Evaluation Guidelines.
De Alwis serves as an advisor to the Secretariat for the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. She has published widely on gender, human rights, and law reform in United Nations publications and law review journals. Her most recent work includes "Examining Gender Stereotypes in New Work/ Family Reconciliation Policies: The Creation of a New Paradigm for Egalitarian Legislation" in the Duke Journal of Gender and the Law and "China's New Gender and Law Developments: Opportunities and Challenges," which was admitted to the record of the Congressional Executive Commission on China before which Commission she has testified twice. Her recent work on A Review of Women's Human Rights Lawmaking in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA) published by the UNFPA was presented before government and non-government representatives and academic communities of 20 countries in the EECA region. De Alwis also serves as the gender advisor to UNDP/Ministry of Justice Sector reform in Vietnam.
De Alwis has a doctorate in law (S.J.D.) from Harvard Law School, was a teaching fellow with the European Law Research Institute at Harvard Law School, and was a research fellow with the Women and Public Policy program at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
Elaine J. Eisenman, PhD, Dean, Babson Executive Education
Elaine Eisenman is dean of executive education at Babson College. In this role, she is responsible for the strategy and growth of the executive education division, as well as for all non-degree programs in entrepreneurship. She is also responsible for the management of the top-rated Babson Executive Conference Center.
Dr. Eisenman's career includes experience as a business leader and general manager, HR executive, private and public board member, and organizational consultant. Her key areas of expertise include executive selection, transition, and succession, and the alignment of strategy, selection, compensation, and performance during periods of growth and transformation. Additionally, she has managed the human side of acquisition and integration through multiple acquisitions for three companies.
As both a board member and board consultant, she has extensive experience in corporate governance and is a frequent speaker on corporate governance issues, focusing on boardroom dynamics, CEO succession, and the role of the compensation committee. She has both consulted to and served on a number of private and not-for-profit boards and advisory boards for both start-ups and family businesses.
Currently, Eisenman is a member of the boards of firectors of DSW, Inc. and Active International. She is a faculty member for NACD's Board Advisory Services. For nine years, she served on the board of UST Inc. She is also a founding member and member of the boards of Women Corporate Directors and The Belizean Grove.
Eisenman is co-author of I Didn't See It Coming: The Only Book You'll Ever Need to Avoid Being Blindsided in Business, published by John Wiley and Sons. Her article, "Power in the Post‐Sarbanes Oxley Boardroom" was published in Directorship magazine. Her article, "Public Policy: Enabler or Inhibitor of Entrepreneurial Companies," is included in the Praeger series on Entrepreneurship. Her article, "Why CEOs Become Blindsided," was published on Chiefexecutive.com, and her article on CEO succession was published in Boards and Directors Magazine. She has been highlighted in interviews by WSJ, Agenda, Directorship, and Board Member. In 2007, Eisenman was interviewed on ABC's 20/20 on the topic of failure as a foundation of entrepreneurial success.
Recently, Eisenman was selected by Agenda magazine as a top 100 Diversity Board Member.
Eisenman earned a Ph.D. in industrial/organizational psychology from New York University, and an M.S. from Columbia University.
Andrew Ellner, M.D., Director of the Program in Global Primary Care and Social Change, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Ellner is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School. He received an M.Sc. with distinction from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the London School of Economics and completed his internship and residency in the Division of General Medicine and Primary Care program at Brigham and Women's Hospital.
Ellner's work focuses on health systems improvements for vulnerable populations. He previously served as the Clinical Policy Director of the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative's Rural Initiative and managed the Academic Consortium of the World Health Organization's Maximizing Positive Synergies initiative, a 15-institution collaborative research project that studied the interactions between the major, disease-specific global health initiatives (Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Malaria and TB; President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief) and the health systems of low- and middle-income countries. Ellner also serves on the faculty of the Global Health Delivery project (GHD), a collaborative between Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Business School, and the Harvard School of Public Health, that focuses on understanding and improving healthcare delivery in resource poor settings.
Carolee Friedlander, CEO and Founder, AccessCircles; former CEO and Founder, Carolee Designs
AccessCircles was founded in June of 2008 by Carolee Friedlander, the former CEO and founder of Carolee Designs, one of the world's leading accessories brands. Carolee's vision is to create a by-invitation network to enrich the health and wellness, financial expertise, and life balance of women through informative gatherings, transformative knowledge, unique experiences, and access to leading authorities and alliance partners in the fields of health and wellness, financial expertise, and life balance.
As founder and CEO of Carolee Designs, Friedlander led her organization through all business life cycles, from early stages to a highly respected, recognized brand. During that time, Friedlander was considered the trendsetter in both design and marketing of fashion accessories worldwide, creating collections with distribution in over 700 premier retail stores internationally. This quintessential entrepreneur had grown businesses through global expansion, product diversification, and a keen understanding of the changing needs of women today.
In 2001, Friedlander negotiated the sale of Carolee Designs to Retail Brand Alliance, a privately held retail company with sales of $1.5 billion. She remained with the company until 2005.
Throughout her career, Friedlander has embraced mentoring and leadership roles in many diverse business organizations and is active in numerous civic, philanthropic, and educational organizations. Some of those include: The Women's Leadership Board at The John F. Kennedy School of Government, Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA).
She is a past president of the Committee of 200, the organization of preeminent businesswomen and also served as the chair of its Foundation Board. Carolee serves as a director on the board of DSW, Inc.; the Museum of Arts and Design in New York; and The Breast Cancer Research Foundation, where she also serves as chair of the Finance Committee. She also serves on the board of The Society for Women's Health Research.
Friedlander has been recognized with numerous awards for her professional and philanthropic achievements.
Charlene Galarneau, Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, Wellesley College
Charlene Galarneau is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies at Wellesley College. On the faculty since 2005, she teaches feminist bioethics, U.S. public health, women and health, and the seminars "Gender Justice and Health Policy" and "Global Health."
Professor Galarneau's research focuses on understandings of justice (philosophical and theological) in public health and health care, their expressions (attempted and actual) in U.S. health policy, and their global reach. She is particularly interested in participatory notions of justice that emerge from social groups and community-based movements - this being the subject of a book-length manuscript in progress entitled The Communities of Health Justice. Other recent research interests include reproductive justice, systemic discrimination in blood donation policy, recent U.S. health care reform and its consequences for immigrants, and religiously-based medical sharing plans.
Her articles have appeared in the American Journal of Bioethics, Public Health Ethics, the Hastings Center Report, and the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved.
Trained in ethics and health policy, Professor Galarneau's scholarly interests are inspired by her early public health work with the communities served by rural community/migrant health centers. She served on the National Advisory Council on Migrant Health (Secretary DHHS appointed, 1988-1992), was a Fellow in Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School (1999-2000), and is currently a member of the Board of Overseers of the Wellesley Centers for Women.
She received a Ph.D. and A. M. from Harvard University, an M.A.R. from the Iliff School of Theology, and a B.S. from the University of Massachusetts.
Alden Griffith, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, Wellesley College
Alden Griffith is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Wellesley. His research interests in plant ecology include invasive species, plant-plant facilitation, and the effects of climate change. How are nonnative plants interacting with natives, and what does this mean for population growth/decline? To what degree does climate regulate plant populations and determine invasion success? Much of his research combines field-based experimentation and observation with quantitative population modeling in order compile a thorough systems-level understanding at scales relevant to management.
Beyond his ecological research, Alden has examined matters of communication and misconceptions in climate change science. More broadly, he is interested in the difficult question of how to promote critical thinking and scientific literacy in an age with unparalleled access to both information and misinformation. We live in a fascinating time, where scientists find themselves in an awkward place: highly respected by the public according to polls, yet often marginalized in the decision-making process in today's polarizing political atmosphere.
Alden received his B.A. in Biology from Wesleyan University and his Ph.D. in Environmental Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Prior to his current position, he was a postdoctoral fellow with the Wellesley College Botanic Gardens, teaching courses in Environmental Studies and Biological Sciences.
J. Bryan Hehir, Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life, Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, Harvard Kennedy School
J. Bryan Hehir is the Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life. He is also the Secretary for Health Care and Social Services in the Archdiocese of Boston. His research and writing focus on ethics and foreign policy and the role of religion in world politics and in American society.He served on the faculty of Georgetown University (1984 to 1992) and the Harvard Divinity School (1993 to 2001). His writings include The Moral Measurement of War: A Tradition of Continuity and Change; Military Intervention and National Sovereignty; Catholicism and Democracy; and Social Values and Public Policy: A Contribution from a Religious Tradition.
Rear Admiral Howard graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1982 and from the Army's Command and General Staff College in 1998, with a Masters in Military Arts and Sciences.
Howard's initial sea tours were aboard USS Hunley (AS 31) and USS Lexington (AVT 16). While serving on board Lexington, she received the secretary of the Navy/Navy League Captain Winifred Collins award in May 1987. This award is given to one woman officer a year for outstanding leadership. She reported to USS Mount Hood (AE 29) as chief engineer in 1990 and served in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. She assumed duties as first lieutenant on board the USS Flint (AE 32) in July 1992. In January 1996, she became the executive officer of USS Tortuga (LSD 46) and deployed to the Adriatic in support of Operation Joint Endeavor, a peacekeeping effort in the former Republic of Yugoslavia. Sixty days after returning from the Mediterranean deployment, Tortuga departed on a West African training cruise, where the ship's Sailors, with embarked Marines and U.S. Coast Guard detachment, operated with the naval services of seven African nations.
She took command of USS Rushmore (LSD 47) on March 12, 1999, becoming the first African American woman to command a ship in the U.S. Navy. Howard was the commander of Amphibious Squadron Seven from May 2004 to September 2005. Deploying with Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG) 5, operations included tsunami relief efforts in Indonesia and maritime security operations in the North Arabian Gulf. She commanded Expeditionary Strike Group Two from April 2009 to July 2010. In 2009, she deployed to CENTCOM theater, where she commanded Task Force 151, Multi-national Counter-piracy effort, and Task Force 51, Expeditionary Forces. In 2010, she was the Maritime Task Force commander for BALTOPS, under 6th Fleet.
Her shore assignments include: J-3, Global Operations, Readiness, Joint Staff from 2001-2003; executive assistant to the Joint Staff director of Operations from February 2003 to February 2004; deputy director N3 on the OPNAV staff from December 2005 to July 2006, deputy director, Expeditionary Warfare Division, OPNAV staff from July 2006 to December 2006, and senior military assistant to the secretary of the Navy January 2007-January 2009.
Joseph P. Joyce, Professor of Economics, Wellesley College
Joseph P. Joyce is a Professor of Economics at Wellesley College, and the Faculty Director of the Madeleine Korbel Albright Institute for Global Affairs. He joined the faculty in 1981, and served as Chair of the Economics Department from 1994-1998. From 1999-2006, he was the Director of Wellesley College's Social Sciences Summer Research Program, which received funding from the National Science Foundation. Professor Joyce's research deals with issues in financial globalization.
Professor Joyce's book, The IMF and Global Financial Crises: Phoenix Rising?, has been published by Cambridge University Press. His articles have appeared in many journals, including the Journal of International Money and Finance, Review of International Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Economics & Politics, Journal of Macroeconomics, Review of World Economics, and World Development. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Review of International Organizations and the Journal of International Commerce, Economics and Policy. At Wellesley he teaches courses in international macroeconomics, the economics of globalization and macroeconomic theory.
Professor Joyce received a B.S.F.S. degree cum laude in international affairs from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in economics from Boston University. He held internships at the International Monetary Fund and the Federal Reserve Board, and visiting positions at Harvard's Center for International Affairs, the Brookings Institution, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, and the International Monetary Fund.
Katrin Katz, Former Director of Japan, Korea and Oceanic Affairs, National Security Council
Katrin Katz served as the Director for Japan, Korea, and Oceanic Affairs on the staff of the White House National Security Council from 2007 until 2008. Prior to her NSC appointment she served as the special assistant to the assistant secretary for international organization affairs at the U.S. Department of State and as an analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency. Katz lived in Korea for two years as a Fulbright grantee and spent a year in Japan studying at Stanford University's Kyoto Center for Japanese Studies. Her passion for East Asian affairs stems from the six years she spent as a teenager living in Australia, where her high school in Melbourne offered opportunities to study Japanese and travel to the region.
Katz received a master's degree in East Asian and international security studies from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, where she was awarded the John C. Perry Scholarship for East Asian Studies, and a bachelor's degree, magna cum laude, in international relations and Japanese from the University of Pennsylvania. She currently resides in the Chicago area with her husband and two daughters and is a Ph.D. candidate in the Political Science Department at Northwestern University.
Eileen Kohl Kaufman '66, Executive Director, Social Accountability International
Eileen Kaufman serves as executive director of Social Accountability International. She has held this position since SAI was incorporated in 1997. Prior to joining SAI, she was director of strategic planning at the NYC Department of Environmental Protection, a strategic planner at the NYC Department of Design and Construction, and a financial planner at the NYC Water Board. She worked at the Council on Economic Priorities at CEP's inception, co-authoring Paper Profits, an analysis of paper mill pollution and its control.
Deane Marchbein, M.D., Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
Dr. Deane Marchbein joined MSF in 2006 to work as an anesthesiologist in MSF's surgical program in Ivory Coast. She has worked with MSF in Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, Libya, Nigeria, and South Sudan.
She was formerly the business manager and chairperson of the anesthesia department as well as the director of the intensive care unit at Lawrence General Hospital in Arlington, Mass. Marchbein now works for Massachusetts General Hospital at one of its community hospital satellites and serves on the board of directors of the Fanconi Anemia Research Fund.
Katherine Marshall '67, Visiting Professor, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, and Senior Fellow, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs
Katherine Marshall is a Visiting Professor at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and Senior Fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. She is Executive Director of the World Faiths Development Dialogue (WFDD). She has worked for four decades on international development, primarily with the World Bank, where she held leadership positions, including country director for west and southern African countries. Her current teaching and research focus on the intersections of development and faith. She publishes and speaks widely, including as a blogger for the Huffington Post and the Washington Post. Global Institutions of Religion: Ancient Movers, Modern Shakers, will be published in February 2013. She sits on several non-profit boards, including the Opus Prize Foundation, the International Selection Committee for the Niwano Peace Prize, the Washington National Cathedral Foundation board, the World Bank Community Connections Fund, and AVINA Americas. She is a member of the Advisory Board for the International Anti Corruption Conference. Her advanced degrees are from Wellesley College and Princeton University.
Robert Martello, Professor of the History of Science and Technology, Olin College
Robert Martello began researching America's transition from crafts to industry while a Ph.D. student in MIT's Program in the History and Social Study of Science and Technology. He received his Ph.D. in 2001 and in the same year started working at Olin College in Needham, Mass., where he is now a professor of the history of science and technology. Martello serves as the chair of Olin's Arts, Humanities, and Social Science committee and helped to shape Olin's curriculum, taking particular pride in its interdisciplinary and self-study components. He has written several papers and offered numerous presentations and workshops on his educational research, which explores connections between interdisciplinary education, student motivation, and self-directed project-based learning.
Martello has also written several articles on the subject of industrialization, and his book, Midnight Ride, Industrial Dawn: Paul Revere and the Growth of American Enterprise, was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2010. This book combines a biographical narrative of Paul Revere's long manufacturing career with a comparison of America's managerial, labor, technological, and environmental practices before and after the revolution. Martello has more recently begun a new research project that will investigate Benjamin Franklin's printing career, emphasizing Franklin's many impacts upon early American printing as well as the way that his artisan experiences set him apart from America's other founding fathers.
Nancy McEldowney, Senior Vice President, National Defense University
Nancy McEldowney assumed her current position as senior vice president of the National Defense University on August 1, 2011. Previously, she served as principal deputy assistant secretary in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs and as U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Bulgaria. She also served as deputy chief of mission in Ankara, Turkey, and Baku, Azerbaijan. In her last Washington assignment, Ambassador McEldowney served at the White House as director of European affairs on the National Security Council.
McEldowney has also served overseas at the U.S. Embassies in Cairo, Egypt, and Bonn, Germany. In addition, she was a member of the U.S. delegation to the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks with the Soviet Union in Geneva, Switzerland.
Within the Department of State, McEldowney has worked in the Office of Soviet Affairs, the Office of European Security Affairs, the Front Office of the European Bureau, and the Office of the Deputy Secretary. She has also served in the Office of the Secretary of Defense at the Pentagon. McEldowney has been granted the State Department's Superior Honor Award on five occasions. She is also a recipient of the Sinclair Linguistic Award and the National War College's Distinguished Writing Award.
McEldowney is a member of the Senior Foreign Service. She completed her undergraduate studies at New College and holds graduate degrees from Columbia University and the National Defense University. A native of Florida, McEldowney is married and has two daughters.
Major General Patricia E. McQuistion, Commanding General, US Army Sustainment Command
Major General Patricia E. McQuistion assumed command of the U.S. Army Sustainment Command on 28 October 2011. Her previous assignment was Commanding General of the 21st Theater Sustainment Command for U.S. Army-Europe and Seventh Army in Kaiserslautern, Germany.
She has served in numerous assignments, starting as a maintenance platoon leader and S-1 for the 25th Infantry Division (Light) at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii and then as protocol officer for the U.S. Army Western Command at Fort Shafter. She then moved to Germany, where she served as a company commander in the 56th Field Artillery Command (Pershing) and as maintenance officer for V Corps, Seventh Army. She was next assigned to the U.S. Army Personnel Command in Alexandria, Virginia, as Ordnance systems manager. She then moved to the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., as a speechwriter for the U.S. Army Chief of Staff. Later assignments took her to Fort Riley, Kansas, where she served as chief of the Division Materiel Management Center and as assistant chief of staff (G-4) for the 1st Infantry Division; to Fort Hood, Texas, where she commanded the Special Troops Battalion in the 13th Corps Support Command. She then returned to the Pentagon as a special assistant for personnel and logistics to the U.S. Army Chief of Staff. From June 2000 to June 2001, Major General McQuistion served as chief of support and deputy commander for the Multinational Force and Observers in Sinai, Egypt. She returned to the United States to command Tobyhanna Army Depot in Pennsylvania, a position she held through June 2003. Major General McQuistion was then assigned to the Headquarters of the U.S. Army Materiel Command at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, as executive officer to the deputy commanding general, followed by a third Pentagon assignment as director for strategy and integration within the Officer of the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Army (G-4).
In September 2006, Major General McQuistion went to Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, as ASC deputy commanding general with duty as commanding general of Army Materiel Command-Forward (Southwest Asia), director of operational sustainment, and G-4 for US Army Central Command. She then commanded the Defense Supply Center Columbus, Ohio (now Defense Logistics Agency-Land and Maritime). She held that position through August 2009, when she was named as commanding general of the 21st Theater Sustainment Command.
She earned a bachelor of science degree in biology from the University of Akron, where she earned a commission in the U.S. Army through the ROTC program. She earned a master's degree in acquisition management from Babson College in Wellesley, Mass., and national resource strategy from the National Defense University in Washington, D.C. Her military schooling includes the Ordnance Officer Basic and Advanced courses, the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, and the Industrial College of the Armed Forces. Major General McQuistion's awards and decorations include the Distinguished Service Medal, the Defense Superior Service Medal, the Legion of Merit with three oak leaf clusters; the Bronze Star; the Meritorious Service Medal with five oak leaf clusters; the Army Commendation Medal with oak leaf cluster; the Air Force Commendation Medal; the Army Achievement Medal; the Army Staff Identification Badge; and the Ehrenkreuz der Bundeswehr in Gold.
Craig Murphy, M. Margaret Ball Professor of International Relations, Department of Political Science, Wellesley College
Craig's work focuses on international institutions and economic development. He has studied the field operations of the United Nations and other international organizations in more than a dozen countries. His most recent book is The International Organization for Standardization: Global Governance through Voluntary Consensus, (Routledge, 2009) written with his wife, JoAnne Yates, deputy dean and distinguished professor of management at MIT's Sloan School. Craig and JoAnne are completing a larger historical study of the rise of private institutions of international governance.
In addition to his work at Wellesley, Craig has served as a visiting faculty member at Brown, Johns Hopkins, Harvard, and the University of Massachusetts Boston, as well as on the UN staff.
He is a recent (2007-08) Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study and has been recognized as president of the International Studies Association and chair of the Academic Council on the UN System (ACUNS). He also founded ACUNS's journal, Global Governance, which received the recognition from the American Association of Publishers for the best new scholarly journal in 1996.
Craig received his B.A. from Grinnell College, his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, and he also studied at the Commonwealth Institute in London and the University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana, under the auspices of the international research program, InterFuture.
Patricia Sulser '79, Chief Counsel, International Finance Corporation
Patricia Sulser is a Chief Counsel at International Finance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank, where she has worked since 1992. She is based in Washington. She is the Global Lead Lawyer for IFC InfraVentures, a $100 million internally managed fund established by IFC in 2008 to fund and proactively develop private and public-private partnership (PPP) infrastructure projects in IDA countries. IFC InfraVentures addresses one of the most significant constraints to private investment in infrastructure projects in these countries, including the limited availability of funds and experienced professionals dedicated to private infrastructure project development. Infrastructure projects on IFC InfraVentures' agenda include hard infrastructure such as power (especially renewable power), wastewater treatment and water supply, ports, airports, roads, and airports, as well as so-called "soft" infrastructure such as healthcare facilities and hospitals and schools—all critical to countries' economic development and the World Bank Group's agenda of bringing people out of poverty.
Ms. Sulser has been involved in the financing of complex infrastructure projects for her entire career at IFC and before in private practice in the New York, London and Hong Kong offices of Shearman & Sterling. She leads the IFC Legal Department Public Private Partnership practice group and coordinates with colleagues from around the World Bank Group and other development financial institutions on the G20 and World Bank Group PPP agenda.
Ms. Sulser is also a certified mediator and has provided legal support for IFC's establishment of mediation centers around the world. In addition, she actively promotes the use of Alternative Dispute Resolution in PPP and infrastructure projects around the world.
Franklyn Turbak, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Wellesley College
Franklyn (Lyn) Turbak is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at Wellesley College, where he has been since 1995. He received his bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in Computer Science from MIT.
Turbak's passion is the study of programs and programming languages, which is at the heart of both his teaching and research. His interests include the design, analysis, and implementation of expressive programming languages, graphical representations of programs, and the visualization of computational processes. He is co-author of the textbook Design Concepts in Programming Languages.
Turbak currently leads two research projects: TinkerBlocks, whose goal is to create more expressive block programming languages; and Rapid Prototyping For Everyone, whose goal is to increase accessibility to the laser cutter, vinyl cutter, and 3D printer in Wellesley's Engineering Studio.
Sarah E. Wall-Randell '97, Assistant Professor of English, Wellesley College
Sarah Wall-Randell is an assistant professor in the English Department. Her forthcoming book, The Immaterial Book: Reading and Romance in Early Modern England (University of Michigan Press, 2012) examines the "imaginary history" of books and reading in English Renaissance romances, and investigates the question of why books continued to be represented in Renaissance literature as magical, mysterious objects, even as the technological advance of the printing press made real books ever more available, accessible, and ordinary. She has also published articles on Christopher Marlowe's encyclopedism and 16th century women's autobiography.
Wall-Randell teaches courses on Shakespeare, Milton, and 16th- and 17th-century literature as well as courses in the Medieval/Renaissance Studies Program. Before coming to Wellesley, she completed an M.Phil. in Renaissance literature at Oxford University and a Ph.D. in English at Harvard.
Akila Weerapana, Associate Professor of Economics, Wellesley College
Akila Weerapana is an associate professor of economics at Wellesley College. He was born and raised in Sri Lanka and came to the United States to do his undergraduate work at Oberlin College, where he earned a B.A. with highest honors in economics and computer science in 1994. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Stanford in 1999.
Professor Weerapana's teaching interests span all levels of the department's curriculum, including introductory and intermediate macroeconomics, international finance, monetary economics, and mathematical economics. He was awarded Wellesley's Pinanski Prize for Excellence in Teaching in 2002. He has advised many thesis students at Wellesley on projects ranging from a study of the economic benefits of eradication of river blindness in Ghana to the impact of joining the European Union on the Spanish economy to a project analyzing the determinants of enterprise performance in Russia.
His research interests are in macroeconomics, specifically in the areas of monetary economics, international finance and political economy. In the area of monetary economics, his work has focused on the international dimension of monetary policy, including the potential for gains from coordination and the importance of asymmetric relationships between countries. On the political economy side, his work examines the macroeconomic implications of political institutions and policy stances: examples include how the South African government's attitude towards the AIDS pandemic may affect exchange rates, how domestic economic growth responds to political institutions such as redistricting mechanisms and voter initiatives, and how political and economic variables can increase or decrease violent conflict.


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— b: The profile of the Unforgiving, of the double,
who when slapped turns his or her other cheek only because
it is the cheek of the other, the aggressor's cheek
(so that the same way when I "plunge my sword, with
brute ferocity, repeatedly through and through his bosom,"
or shoot him, I will discover with consternation and horror,
for example in a mirror or by the pain I feel and my tottering
gait, that I have stabbed myself not my double [Poe's
William Wilson: "in my death, see by this image,
which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself"],
the moment I, who had been keeping a low profile
ever since my encounter with the double, slap the double on
the cheek he or she has turned, I feel the pain of having
slapped myself, until readying myself to slap him or her I
have the expression less of anger as of dread).
2: a concise biographical sketch
Jalal Toufic is a thinker, writer, and artist. He was born in 1962 in Beirut or Baghdad and died before dying in 1989 in Evanston, Illinois. Many if not all of his books, most of which were published by Forthcoming Books, continue to be forthcoming even after their publication. He was most recently a participant in the Sharjah Biennial 11, the 9th Shanghai Biennale, Documenta 13, "Six Lines of Flight" (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art), and "A History: Art, Architecture, and Design, from the 1980s Until Today" (Centre Pompidou). In 2011, he was a guest of the Artists-in-Berlin Program of the DAAD; and in 2013-2014, he and Anton Vidokle, led Ashkal Alwan's third edition of Home Workspace Program, based in Beirut.
Should I have two profiles then, as a writer and as a video artist? Nota bene by the thinker regarding the writer and the video artist:
My texts and videos do not try to accomplish the same thing,
but complement each other. In my books I am interested in
discontinuity both in form (my book Distracted is
clearly aphoristic) and content (for instance I have written
on the affinity between the atomists of Islam, for example
al-Ashâ'ira, and cinema, where the appearance
of motion results from the projection of film stills at a
rate of 24 frames per second [in the silent era the rate of
projection was often 18 frames per second]). But in my videos,
I mainly work with (Bergsonian) duration (for instance the
twenty-minute-long shot of the car drive in 'Âshûrâ':
This Blood Spilled in My Veins, the ten-minute-long shot
of the slaughter of two sheep and of the second cow in The
Sleep of Reason: This Blood Spilled in My Veins, and
the twelve-minute-long shot of my brother's son sleeping
in A Special Effect Termed "Time"; or, Filming
Death at Work) and would like to achieve the basic continuity
of a Taoist calligrapher or painter, i.e. have the chi (vital breath/original energy) not interrupted even when there
are, exceptionally, cuts, for example between different scenes.
Moreover, while I am an aphoristic writer, I am not a short
film/video maker, i.e., one who, like Artavazd Peleshian (The
Seasons, 29 minutes), Brothers Quay (Rehearsals for
Extinct Anatomies, 14 minutes), Kubelka, Jan Svankmajer
(Dimensions of Dialogue, 12 minutes) can, to paraphrase
Nietzsche, show in ten minutes what everyone shows in a feature-length
film or video—what everyone does not show in
a feature-length film or video; generally, the longer my video,
the more substantial it is. With the exception of my book (Vampires): An Uneasy Essay on the Undead in Film,
where it was a matter of dispersing the universe since it
was turning into a paranoid one, in my other books I am trying
to build a universe, and thus feel affined to Paul Klee's
"Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes
visible" ("Creative Credo," in The Thinking
Eye). The moment one succeeds in building a universe,
it detaches from this world, somewhat like the baby universes
of cosmology. But in my video works, I do not have the impulse
and aim to produce autonomous works, to try to create a universe,
but want my videos to be, as Deleuze wrote, "reasons
to believe in this world." While I have tended
to be concerned with the creation of aesthetic facts in my
books, I have not tried to do the same in my essayistic documentary
videos—notwithstanding that the creation of aesthetic
facts can happen in both fiction films and documentary films—but
tried rather to document certain worldly facts while making
sure to subtract all that is customarily added to make the
viewer see only certain parts of the referential image, i.e.
all that is added in order to subtract from the image, for
example the voice-over (I also try to avoid non-diegetic special
effects [speeded motion, etc.] and music partly because they
imply that reality is not intense enough on its own). With
the rapid advances in digital simulation and virtual reality,
when we encounter reality—in the sense of the actual
as opposed to simulations—at all, it will increasingly
strike us as the Lacanian Real.
"Toufic is at
the core of a small but staunch group of Beiruti artists who
have—collectively and separately—made a strong
case for there being an intellectually rigorous, critically
engaged, and ultra-contemporary platform for cultural practice
developing in Lebanon and in the region. Toufic has been instrumental
not only as an artist in his own right but also as an instigator
or catalyst, someone known to push his colleagues and students
to create better, more complex, and more probing work.…
Toufic is one of the most active and ambitious figures in
the Arab world who—book by book—has endeavored
to sculpt a critical, theoretical language of the Arab world."
The Daily Star, Lebanon, 21 August 2004
"Focus Jalal Toufic:
Irruptions of the Real: With a modest retrospective,
IDFA pays homage to the many-sided writer, film theoretician
and video artist Jalal Toufic. Although much of his work has
political overtones—rather inevitable, being a Lebanese
artist and son of an Iraqi father and a Palestinian mother—the philosophical reflections, the humour and the
curiosity about all facets of life are the most distinctive
characteristics of his short video films. Toufic's subjects
range from sleeplessness (Phantom Beirut: A Tribute to
Ghassan Salhab, 2002) and torn election posters (the
humorous Saving Face, 2003) to the dead and undead
(The Sleep of Reason: This Blood Spilled in My Veins,
16th International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam
"Jalal Toufic is a thinker whose influence in the Beirut artistic community over the past two decades has been immense—notwithstanding that, as he put it, many, if not all of his books, most of which were published by Forthcoming Books, 'continue to be forthcoming even after their publication.'"
Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle, editors of the e-flux journal book series at Sternberg Press
"I once wrote, 'I am not able to find my thoughts without passing through his [Jalal Toufic's] words, books, and concepts.' Now, eight years later, things seem to have gotten worse (or better). Jalal wrote in Distracted: '— Are you saying this to me? — Also to myself. One should speak solely when also speaking to oneself. Only then is there a dialogue.' I can also think of the following situation: '— Are you saying this to me? — Yes. And not to myself. And only to you.' Or an instance in which the following is heard: '— Are you saying this to me? — Also to myself. One should speak solely when also speaking to oneself. Only then is there a duologue.'"
Walid Raad
© 2005–2015 by Jalal Toufic. All rights reserved.


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Philly's Finest: The 25th District's Officer Tyshaan Williams
Philadelphia Police Officer Tyshaan Williams' crusade to save a business district began with a face full of trash.
Not his face – an infant's.
It was four years ago. Williams, 30, on the force in North Philadelphia's always challenging 25th District, had just been assigned to help stop a stubborn streak of store break-ins along a stretch of Germantown Avenue behind Temple University Hospital.
The wind was strong as he patrolled the commercial corridor. He watched with disgust and anger as a mother and her baby struggled to get through the street as trash and dirt swirled around them.
"The trash flew up and slapped her baby in the face," Williams recalled in an interview last week. Debris also caught in the carriage's wheels.
"The lady said, 'Why is this place so dirty? I can't stand this avenue,' " he said.
From that moment, the nine-year police veteran resolved to do more than fight crime on Germantown Avenue – way more, from organizing trash cleanups using residents of halfway houses, to going door-to-door recruiting members for the Germantown-Erie Merchants Association, or GEM.
Williams' virtual adoption of the business district is unlike anything city commerce officials have seen, and, they said, it's a model of cooperative business development they hope will inspire similar efforts in more of Philadelphia's 200 business districts.
"Nobody knows the corridors as well as the people who spend the kind of time in them they do," said Bob Collazo, senior manager in the city Commerce Department's Office of Business Services. "These guys are an extraordinary resource."
He was referring not only to Williams, but to the two officers assigned to help him on Germantown Avenue from Allegheny to Erie Avenues – Booker Messer and Tremayne Young.
Young said their goal was to make this end of Germantown Avenue akin to its tonier stretches up through Chestnut Hill.
Williams' superiors are unfalteringly supportive, if for reasons more police-oriented than business-related.
"Whatever he does is going to cut down on [crime] incidents in this area," said Capt. Frank Vanore. "We're trying to get more officers involved in their service area."
To Williams, where to begin was as obvious as the paper, bottles, and other refuse that junked up sidewalks and streets in the business district and adjacent residential areas. For help, he went to the heavyweight in the neighborhood, Temple Hospital.
Collazo said hospital representatives appeared grateful to finally have a go-to person in the local business community – even if Williams wasn't one of the business owners.
The officer requested "rudimentary supplies – carts, brooms, and bags," Sandra L. Gomberg, the hospital's president and chief executive officer, said in an interview Friday. She eagerly met the need.
"This is really a story about how it doesn't have to take millions of dollars and complex projects to make a difference," Gomberg said, lauding Williams' focus on cleaning up Germantown Avenue. "Clean feels safe, and safe is good for business."
Williams now has a binder several inches thick that he affectionately refers to as "my book of tricks." It contains hundreds of phone numbers of state and city agencies, community and business leaders, and even operators of trash trucks and street washers that, he boasts, will arrive anywhere he needs them upon getting a call.
But everyone involved acknowledged that cleaning can only carry a business district so far.
"Obviously, we can't do anything without money," said Howard Foreman, whom Williams talked into serving as president of GEM, whose members number about 20. "Funding is an integral part of this."
Foreman and his wife, Natalie, operate Caribbean Feast, a Jamaican restaurant on a triangle of land just south of Temple Hospital, where Broad and Westmoreland Streets and Rising Sun Avenue converge.
Their six years in business have not been easy, including two fires and a filing for Chapter 13 bankruptcy protection in 2008.
"I'm still not getting a salary," said Foreman, 48, a father of four who came to the United States from Jamaica nearly 20 years ago.
He said the business community was initially skeptical when Williams started showing up, talking about improvements and issuing a rally cry for a business association.
"All these years, you hear, 'This is going to happen; that is going to happen,' " Foreman said. "Promises and promises that never materialized."
There was also one other concern, he said: "Why is this police officer getting so deep in this kind of thing?"
Foreman said Williams told him the story about the trash and the baby, and he was sold on him. "He's definitely a godsend."
Against a backdrop of men's shirts and jeans, Zihiar Gamble, owner of Z-Image boutique in the 3600 block of Germantown Avenue, praised Williams for going "above and beyond what he needs to do."
Zihiar, 24, said he now hopes government will step up.
"If we get a little bit of government funding out here, it will make it a little better area," he said.
If the money doesn't come? Zihiar said he worries "people will be scared to come up here. Everyone will just go downtown, where it's cleaner and where they get funding to make their businesses look better."
Collazo said he has made it a point to be a familiar presence on Germantown Avenue, to seek input from the business owners, tell them about the funding the city has available for business improvements, and encourage membership in the business association to give business owners there a more powerful voice.
Williams sees nothing unusual about a police officer leading such an effort.
"I'm there eight hours a day," he said. "Why not put all effort into making their lives better?"
By the way, he did catch the criminal who started it all.
Contact staff writer Diane Mastrull at 215-854-2466 or [email protected].
Read more: http://www.philly.com/philly/business/20110307_CRIME_AND_GRIME.html?viewAll=y#ixzz1Fw7IfhTM
Lt. Raymond J. Evers
Office of Media Relations
[email protected]


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