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Walsh vote cut across city’s race, class lines Yawu Miller As political pundits begin analyzing the results of the election that propelled state Rep. Marty Walsh into the mayor’s office, it’s becoming clear that the traditional nexus of white liberals and people of color gave way to a new alliance between people of color and working-class whites.

“Both candidates were seen as progressive,” said blogger Benjamin Day, who posted an analysis of the mayoral and city council votes on the liberal Blue Mass Group website. “The race became about class.”

The divisions between Wa l s h a n d Connolly’s respective voter bases show up starkly on the jigsaw puzzle map of Bost o n ’s w a r d s and precincts, with the railroad tracks of the Southwest Corridor the most prominent line of demarcation. To the east, South Boston, Roxbury, Dorchester, Mattapan, Hyde Park and the more heavily Latino precincts in Jamaica Plain voted solidly with Walsh.

Voting for Connolly were the more affluent neighborhoods of Downtown, the Back Bay, Beacon Hill, the South End, the Pondside and Moss Hill sections of Jamaica Plain and West Roxbury.

The Walsh/Connolly divide continues southwest along Washington St. — all the way to a halfmile shy of the border of Dedham

— with the relative income levels of the neighborhoods largely defining the split.

To the north, Massachusetts Ave. — the traditional boundary between Roxbury and the South End — stands as the border between Walsh and Connolly.

While Walsh won precincts in Jackson Square, Mission Hill and the Fenway, Ward 11, Precinct 1, a section of Fort Hill with high real estate values, stands as the sole outlier on the Roxbury side of the tracks, having delivered Connolly 52 percent of the vote.

The alignment of working-class whites and black voters may be the first instance in Boston’s history that the two, usually distinct voting blocs aligned.

“It’s quite a change,” said Bill Fletcher Jr., chairman of the board of directors at the International Labor Forum and a former Mattapan resident who worked on Mel King’s 1983 run for mayor against Ray Flynn — a race that cleaved neatly along race lines.

Fletcher, who now lives in the Washington D.C. area, likened Walsh’s win to progressive candidate Bill deBlasio’s victory in New York.

“I think we may very well be seeing the beginning of a pro-working people alliance taking shape,” he said.

But aside from a few smaller races — including a socialist candidate

“I think we may very well be seeing the beginning of a pro-working people alliance taking shape.”

— Bill Fletcher

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Michelle Wu was elected to the Boston City Council in last week’s election. She is the First Asian-American women elected to citywide office in Boston. (Photo courtesy of Michelle Wu)

Women top vote-getters in at-large city council election Martin Desmarais When Boston City Councilor Ayanna Pressley and City Councilor-Elect Michelle Wu topped the ballot for two of the four atlarge council seats in the election last week, the prevailing political wind was one of change with two women of color leading the way and drawing the most votes.

Pressley’s reelection was no surprise, nor was her spot as the top vote-getter — she has now won her third term and topped the tickets in her last run as well.

However, political rookie Wu’s strong campaign and victory is one that has many considering the implications about Boston’s

voting public.

The 28-year-old Wu, who is the Chicago-born daughter of Taiwanese parents, is the first Asian-American woman elected to citywide office in Boston history. She moved to Boston less than a decade ago after graduating from Harvard University and made waves on the Boston political scene when she nabbed fourth place in an at-large city council preliminary in September that had 19 candidates — and did so with an impressive 13,000 votes more than the fifth place finisher.

She bested that in the primary election by moving up to the second spot behind the popular Pressley.

More impressive is that Wu has no prior political experience, beyond working in the administration of Mayor Thomas Menino — helping create the city’s food truck program and streamlining the process for permitting the trucks and restaurants by switching from paper to electronic submissions.

Her success shows that voters responded to her highly visible campaign efforts and her message of the greater need for city government to support healthy communities and stable families.

Priti Rao, executive director of the Massachusetts Women’s Political Caucus, said that the results City Council, continued to page 12

Dolphins debacle puts issues of harassment, racism in spotlight Martin Desmarais

From Left: Miami Dolphins player Richie Incognito stands accussed of harassing teammate Jonathan Martin. (Miami Dolphins photos)

The flood of news coverage surrounding the alleged harassment of Miami Dolphins player Jonathan Martin by teammate Richie Incognito has brought issues of racism and harassment into the national conversation.

The 24-year-old Martin is a Pittsburgh native and Stanford University graduate, who has played offensive tackle for the Dolphins for two seasons. On Oct. 28,

he left the Dolphins, citing concerns about not feeling safe with the team, particular in the locker room.

Since his departure, details have emerged that Incognito, a 30-year-old, nine-year NFL veteran from Englewood, N.J., who graduated from the University of Nebraska, was one player that made graphic racial slurs and threats via voice mails and text messages toward Martin.

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Roslindale entrepreneur launches skin care line

Charla Jones is founder and CEO of Eu2Be, a collection of skin care products that are available online.

Bridgit Brown Charla Jones calls herself a “serial entrepreneur” not because she’s earned millions from the businesses that she’s created, but because she’s driven by innovation, can take chances, and has actually experienced the benefits of positive risk-taking.

Case in point: Her first attempt at starting a business was

Annabel’s Ice Cream, which she and a friend established in the 1980s. Today it’s a thriving small business located in cozy Portsmouth, N.H. She’s helped to start up dozens of other businesses since then, including a very successful San Francisco-based marketing communications firm. Her specialty is integrated marketing communications, a service that she continues to pro-

vide even though she’s ventured out on her own to startup Eu2Be, a collection of skin care products promising to serve a unique need in the skin care market.

“One of the things I discovered in the focus groups that I did around Eu2Be,” said the Roslindale resident, “was the amount of time that people spend on themselves, like when they’re getting ready to go to work in the mornings or into their lives. It’s about 10-to-20 minutes, and it’s a very important time. It’s when we give attention to our skin. We wash our face, oil and lotion our skin. I saw a unique opportunity to design a product that could be used during that time.”

But Eu2Be is for the consumer seeking a deeper skin care experience, explained Jones. “It’s really a product for people who are aware of the fact that global warming is upon us and that our skin is under enormous stress. It’s our largest organ and it performs malfunctions, and it needs nutrients.

These products were created with these things in mind.”

Eu2Be includes a liquid wash, an oil and a lotion. It gets its name partly from Jones’ great aunt Eugenia who taught her much of what she knows about inner and outer beauty. “Eu” is also the symbol for the mineral europium, which carries an illuminating effect. The last part of the title, “2Be” is about aspiring to be beautiful.

“Eu2Be includes 15 different moisturizing oils that provide nutrients to the deeper layers of the skin,” said Jones. “It’s not superficial at all. I specifically wanted a product that would help new skin cells thrive and give a nice glow to the skin. People who have used it are already saying that they can see the difference.”

But like any business owner, what Jones wants is to get more people to experience the skin moisturizing effects of Eu2Be, a task that might prove difficult since she’s trying to run a business that deals with the senses through an online retail model.

“You have to really think in in-

don’t have to be a web master to get them up and going,” she said.

And though she has made a few key investments, like hiring a graphic designer to help with the imaging and a writer to carve out the message, she runs a considerably lean operation.

“Online tools are also not the only answer,” Jones explained. “If I had stayed with that first website, I would be in major trouble.

I thought through my decision on how to engage a consumer — a consumer who really likes to have a sensuous experience with the product is the consumer that I want to reach, so I needed a tool that would help me to facilitate

“People can’t smell or sample a product online. So I’m not mistaking technology as an ‘and all’ answer here.”

— Charla Jones novative ways about how to engage technology with humanity,” she explained. “People can’t smell or sample a product online. So I’m not mistaking technology as an ‘and all’ answer here. Technology offers tools that put your passion and vision into action. They activate, and help you realize things.

I’m not sure that they provide direct answers, but they do help to facilitate problem solving.”

Several of the problems that she dealt with had to do with the very thing that she’s relying on to help her flourish, like the website and its functionality.

“Initially, I made a choice for a site that was based on something near and dear to my heart, it’s design,” said Jones. “This site had a great template, and I was ready to go with it. But when it came to facilitating sales, I discovered that while this company had a great design it didn’t have the best integration to the stuff that really mattered, like my bank and the way that sales happen, which is connected to how to track inventory, and how to communicate with customers all around the sale. So I had to completely move everything to another site and compensate for the loss.”

The technology also made it possible for her to cut operational costs. She thought she needed to hire an individual to build her site, but after a few online searches, she found what she needed. “There are great websites tools out there that are so easy to navigate that you

that. I’m not a computer geek or a technology guru. I’m not someone who’s online 24-7, playing around with all these tools. I’m more interested in the people who have this problem that my product can solve. That’s where my focus is.”

Jones said it’s not about the bright shiny object but more about what one is able to do with those tools, and what fits into one’s infrastructure. “You can take the best technology, but if you’re not able to fold it into what you’re doing then it’s not workable. You will spend most of your time trying to work on the technology problem instead of working downstream to the customer.”

Establishing a customer base and then building momentum from there has been key to her efforts since conceiving of Eu2Be two years ago. In those very early stages she held a number of sample sessions that helped her understand the target market and even finalize the scent for Eu2Be. At this stage, Eu2Be is on the market and making its official launch in difference cities, like last Monday’s launch in San Francisco.

“I don’t have a retail store,” said Jones. “So I have to get out there, meet with consumers, show them what I have, and prove its value.”

On Friday Eu2Be launched at Joanne Rossman, a specialty boutique in Roslindale Village. Other city launches are planned to take place in the coming months. Find out more about Eu2Be online at www.eu2be.com.

Eu2Be is a collection of skin care products that made their Boston launch last week.

(Charla Jones photos)

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mayor finishing 10th and out of the running for one of nine council seats. Reeves’ core of support — long-time African-American residents — has been diminishing while other candidates have been more successful in winning votes from younger residents.

Fellow Councilor Denise E. Simmons, who finished a term as mayor in 2009 and currently serves as vice mayor, won a seventh two-year term with a middle-of-the-pack finish. Dennis Benzan, an attorney and a former

city’s 11 wards.

Once the vote is certified and the council seated, their first order of business — an annual spectator sport among political insiders in the college town — is to elect a mayor from among their ranks.

In Cambridge’s unusual system of proportional representation, voters rank candidates in order of preference. Office-seekers focus on coveted number one votes, which allow candidates to survive early rounds of counting. In

“I had to go out there and prove that I was not just a black candidate but also a smart and competent candidate who understands the needs of all the children in this city.”

— Richard Harding

Dennis Benzan and his daughter India, 7. The 41-year-old attorney won election last week to the Cambridge City Council. (Erint Images photo) Brian Wright O’Connor Cambridge City Councilor Kenneth E. Reeves began election day with an early-morning visit to place flowers on his mother’s grave in Mount Auburn

Cemetery and adorn the final resting places of two long-time supporters in the adjacent Cambridge Cemetery.

“Walking into the new section of the graveyard, I realized that I knew most every recent

arrival,” said Reeves a few days after losing his bid for a 13th council term. “The problem was that none of them could vote — at least legally.”

The old story of shifting demographics left the former

aide to Reeves, became the first Latino elected to the council by finishing ahead of three incumbents. His surprising victory ensures minority control of two seats on the legislative body.

Meanwhile, incumbent Richard Harding, 41, came in third among candidates vying for six slots on the Cambridge School Committee.

The municipal election produced a stronger-than-expected turnout of over 17,000 voters, who chose four newcomers to the council. Unless a rumored recount takes place, the Secretary of State will soon certify the results and the election department will release a breakdown of how many number one votes the candidates received in each of the

successive counts, those failing to make the cut see their number one votes transferred to the number two selections on the ballot.

Reeves received 899 number one votes in the first round, a little more than half of the “quota” needed to make it to the second round.

In 2011, Reeves received 1,013 in the first count and was not elected until the 14th round.

In 2009, he was elected in the first round.

Simmons, who finished fifth last week, received 1,143 number one votes, good enough for election in the 16th count. Like Reeves, she saw her number one votes drop from 2011, but she Cambridge, continued to page 11

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Balancing the interests of unions, Boston’s taxpayers Now the real work begins. Both candidates conducted exhausting campaigns to be elected mayor of Boston. On Election Day, the voters expressed their preference, and Marty Walsh is the victor. The elation of victory will soon pass, as Walsh assumes the challenge of establishing a new vision for the city of Boston. Citizens of Boston will undoubtedly await impatiently for great improvements in the quality of their lives to be produced by the new mayor.

Ideas become prolific with the election of a new mayor. Everyone seems to have a solution to Boston’s problems. Unfortunately, most proposals will require substantial budget commitments to implement. That is what concerns the frugal taxpayer. The financial collapse of numerous cities following the Great Recession suggests a fragility in urban finances.

Whoever thought that a city the size of Detroit would face bankruptcy with a debt of $18.5 billion? A number of smaller cities and towns, including nearby Central Falls, R.I., declared bankruptcy with less notice. Numerous municipal utilities have also become insolvent while attracting even less attention. But everyone thought major cities were immune.

There are several reasons for the financial difficulties. Prominent on the list of major expenses are salaries and benefits of public sector workers as well as pensions and health care costs of those who have retired. In recent years, public sector unions have been able to demand generous contracts for their members.

Union membership has grown in the public sector while it has dwindled in private industry.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, union membership in the public sector became greater than in private industry for the first time in 2009.

A study by the Congressional Budget Office last year found that federal workers earn about 16 per-

cent more for salary, pensions and health benefits than private sector workers in comparable professions. The CBO study concluded that an employee who is a high school graduate or less will earn about $4 more per hour working for the government than in private industry at a similar job.

The growth in private sector unions has resulted because they are effective. While only about 12.3 percent of the non-agricultural private work force is presently unionized, public sector union membership has soared, depending on the state.

Roughly 70 percent of New York’s state workers are unionized. The leading public sector union is AFSCME, the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees.

In the past, politics prevented the growth of public sector unions. With every election the victor would replace the municipal or state employees with his own supporters. Then civil-service reform protected more and more jobs from the vicissitudes of election results. Job security created a class of professional public sector employees who could unionize to protect their status.

Today, the dynamic involvement of unions in politics has strengthened their clout in negotiations for salary and benefits for public sector employees. There is now a question as to who represents the interests of the taxpayers in union negotiations. That is the major question with mayor-elect Marty Walsh. His whole career has been involved with unionism. He stepped down as president of the Boston Metropolitan District Building Trades, a coalition of 35,000 workers in 16 trades, in order to run for mayor.

In the best democratic tradition, Bostonians will rally around Walsh to help develop an even stronger Boston. However, taxpayers are leery about being assessed to finance benefits for public employees that are unavailable to other citizens in private jobs.

Although I don’t live in Boston anymore, Boston is still my home.

It’s great to see Mayor Elect Marty Walsh move forward with a transition team that looks more like the city. Bringing in Felix G. Arroyo, John Barros and Charlotte Golar Richie as advisors and/or part of his administration is a step in the right direction for the city. Let’s hope the mayor and his transition team will seek out, interview and ultimately hire blacks, Latinos, native Americans, Women, LBGT, and other highly qualified minority candidates to fill key positions, including police commissioner, public works, public schools, BRA, etc.

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ing in the vicinity of the new Fairmount Line stops (Fairmount Line stops bring new housing, commercial growth). The question lingering in my mind is, how will this line spur growth if it doesn’t function like a real train line? I’ve taken the train just once.

The trains are spaced a half-hour apart, even during rush hour. The ride costs two dollars, which isn’t bad, but there’s no free transfer to the Red Line once you get to South Station.

It seems to me it wouldn’t require too much investment on the

part of the T to at least give riders a free transfer, given that they’ve spent millions on the new stations.

Install Charlie Card machines in the stations and on the trains. Make the Fairmount Line a real, rapid transit line. If they don’t make the extra investment, ridership will never reach its potential and when it comes time to make budget cuts, that line will be first in line.

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OPINION If we want a new day at City Hall, then the process is just beginning Mariama White Hammond Whether you backed Walsh or Connolly or wrote in a candidate from the primary, I think we all had a collective sigh of relief when the election was finally over. Many of us will be tempted to get back to our “real lives.” The holidays are around the corner and your thoughts may have shifted from E-Day to Black Friday. But I want to offer a tale of caution.

I learned my lesson in 2008. I spent much energy getting Obama elected, I made my sojourn to the inauguration and then while I was feeling proud of myself, the Tea Party was mounting and President Obama was being lobbied by people with a different vision for America than me. Things got so bad that just a month ago we saw the entire government shut down.

So the election is over — we know who the mayor is. However, if we really want to see a change in the city we have to stay in the game. There are a lot of big decisions that will be made during this transition process and the first 100 days. I think we have to be on the lookout for two key things — the right people and the right process.

We need to make sure that the right people move into City Hall.

Resignations are abounding and there will be a major turnover not just on the 5th floor but throughout the departments. While the top jobs like school superintendent need to be watched, we also need to know that there will be attention paid to lesser known departments like Inspectional Services or the Licensing Department. We need to make sure that City Hall will reflect the demographics of Boston and we need to make sure that people are chosen because of what they do and not who they know.

With the right leadership in place, we also need to figure out the right process to open up City Hall so that it is more transparWith the right ent and more accountable to communities. For example, May- leadership in place, or-Elect Walsh has promised to we also need to figure transform the BRA into an eco- out the right process nomic development agency. That to open up City Hall means a lot of shifting, and the details will really matter. There so that it is more will need to be a lot of commu- transparent and nity meetings and we need to more accountable to make sure that people come out communities. not just to complain, but to offer concrete solutions that can transform the development process in this city.

After the primary some leaders of color came together to talk about the issues that each candidate needed to address. At that time people talked about the need for an ongoing forum for folks to come together, build a common agenda and hold both candidates and elected officials accountable. We agreed that we needed to learn from the history of efforts like the Black Political Task Force and to capitalize on the growing strength of groups like Right to the City Vote and Oiste. Over the next couple of weeks, that group will be convening meetings to talk about how to engage with the transition team in the short term and how to build community power in the long term.

Many of us see it as a good sign that the three top candidates of color are on that team. So the people piece is there, but now we have to pay attention to the process. We have been to our fair share of bad community meetings, so we are hoping for a well designed process with clear goals and well-facilitated meetings.

Nonetheless, the fate of communities of color doesn’t just remain with the Walsh administration. Even as we engage in the important work of the next few months, we need to be building for future elections. So my advice to all of Boston, and particularly communities of color — remain engaged in the political process, there is still a lot of work to do.

Mariama White Hammond is executive director of Project Hip Hop (Highways Into the Past — History, Organizing and Power), a Dudley Square-based youth-led organization that works at the intersection of arts and organizing.

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What do you think Marty Walsh’s top priority should be as mayor?

More after school programs for young people. They need activities that keep them off the streets. He should be surveying the community to find out what people need.

Deal with homelessness and the high cost of rent. There are many families who have been living in homeless shelters for more than two years.

What are we going to do to preserve affordable housing during this gentrification crisis in Roxbury? We need better representation on the City Council.

Danniela Cruz

Anthony Shivers

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Jobs. People don’t have jobs. They say unemployment is down, but people have been unemployed so long, they’ve fallen off the rolls.

I’d say jobs. Construction jobs.

Making sure there are people from the community and people of color on these construction jobs.

I think his first priority should be addressing the violence in the streets and a better education system for our children.

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George A. Russell Jr. George A. Russell Jr. will be honored for his achievements at the We Are Boston Gala in celebration of “Boston’s Diversity, Immigrant Heritage and Contributions,” on Dec. 12 at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center. He is being honored tfor his many inspiring contributions in education and workforce talent development, as well as his leadership in a city-wide effort to address youth violence.

Russell is chairman of the board and president of the State Street Foundation, and is responsible for the corporation’s philanthropic and community support programs globally.

He now serves on the board of directors of Tufts Health Plan Foundation, the African Presidential Archives and Research Center at Boston University and is a trustee of the Massachusetts Math & Science Initiative.

He is also a member of the New York Conference Board Center for Citizenship and Sustainability.

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attack ads, paid for by an AFLCIO organization, painting the Harvard-educated Connolly as an elitist.

Another factor in the predominantly black, Latino and Asian communities may have been the endorsements of black elected officials, all of which went to Walsh.

Additionally, Walsh benefitted from the endorsements of formal rivals in the mayoral race, Felix G.

work for the Walsh campaign, phone-banking, door-knocking and offering Walsh supporters rides to the polls.

“Neither one really impressed me much,” Gibson said in an interview outside the Lewis/Higginson School in Roxbury’s Ward 12. “Out of the two, I liked Marty Walsh better. I got better vibes from him.”

Now, as Walsh confronts the

“Out of the two, I liked Marty Walsh better. I got better vibes from him.”

— Linda Gibson Political activist Tony Brewer and City Councilor Tito Jackson appeal to voters in front of the Lewis/Higginson School in Roxbury.

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with nearly 50 percent of the citywide vote in Seattle — there’s not enough evidence to declare an electoral trend, Fletcher cautioned.

“It’s a curiosity point, right now,” he said. “It’s something we should watch to see if it develops.”

The results of the Boston race were particularly unusual, Day points out, given that the votes for most at-large City Council candidates followed the familiar pattern — with voters in black and white liberal wards supporting Ayanna Pressley, a black woman, and voters in white, conservative-voting neighborhoods like South

Boston, Neponset and West Roxbury supporting Michael Flaherty and Stephen Murphy, both of whom are white.

In Dorchester, where enclaves of conservative white voters do not commonly support the same candidates as the neighborhood’s black and Cape Verdean residents, the entire neighborhood voted for Walsh.

“All of Dorchester usually doesn’t vote together,” Day commented. “And usually JP doesn’t split.”

The end result of the classbased alliance was that Walsh was able to move the geographically confined base of support he relied on for his first-place finish in the preliminary west, captur-

ing the city’s predominantly black and Latino wards. While turnout in those wards was low for a mayoral race — ranging from 30 percent to 35 percent, both Walsh and Connolly mounted aggressive get-out-the-vote efforts to bring supporter to the polls.

Citywide, turnout averaged 38 percent.

With both candidates taking identical stands on issues including charter schools, diversity in city government and leveraging city resources to build more affordable housing, the choice for many voters may have come down to whether or not voters were comfortable with Walsh’s 20-year background as a union leader, or whether they were swayed by

Arroyo, John Barros and Charlotte Golar Richie.

But voter Linda Gibson, who works in a Boston hospital, said she made up her mind after watching a televised debate.

Observers said the three candidates actively campaigned for Walsh. Golar Richie and Arroyo worked out of campaign offices and marshaled volunteers to

challenge of governing Boston, observers will be able to discern whether the new alliance of white and black voters has substance, according to Fletcher.

“The question that will emerge is to what extent will [Walsh] address race issues directly,” he said.

“The question is whether we’ll see a progressive bloc that addresses equality.”

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Walsh says administration will reflect diversity of city Yawu Miller On the campaign trail, state Rep. Marty Walsh and City Councilor John Connolly both pledged that their administrations would reflect the diversity of Boston.

Having won election to mayor, Walsh, now tasked with putting together the first new mayoral administration in 20

“He should go beyond tokenism and symbolism in to real positions with budgets and hiring authority,” said City Councilor Charles Yancey.

The Menino and Flynn administrations each had a few major departments headed by people of color — the School Department, the Department of Neighborhood Development and the Boston Housing Au-

Arroyo, Barros and Richie each pressured Walsh to assemble a diverse cabinet. In their roles as transition team chairpersons, each is in a position to hold Walsh accountable to his pledge.

Boston has never had a black, Latino or Asian police or fire commissioner. Other major city departments that have never been headed by people of color include the Department of Public Works,

the Transportation Department, the Inspectional Services Division, the Public Health Commission and Basic City Services.

“Marty Walsh has a tremendous opportunity to have leadership in his administration that represents the diversity of the city of Boston,” Yancey said.

In addition to his pledge to diversify City Hall, Walsh has also pledged to increase the number of people of color in command positions in the Boston Police Department. None of the 11 captains in the department are people of color. While those positions are determined by scores on a Civil Service exam, the police commissioner has the power to appoint superintendents and

deputy superintendents.

There are 22 positions in the police department’s command staff.

Six are held by people of color.

Yancey says the paucity of blacks, Latinos and Asians in leadership roles in city government poses a challenge for Walsh, but the payoff would be a better-functioning city government.

“These departments have a tremendous impact on the quality of life in our city,” Yancey said. “Having people of color in those positions would improve the city’s ability to deliver services. We’re in a stronger position to listen if the leadership and employees of city agencies can relate to and empathize with the public.”

“Marty Walsh has a tremendous opportunity to have leadership in his administration that represents the diversity of the city of Boston.”

— Charles Yancey years, says he will honor his pledge to have at least 50 percent of the top positions in his administration filled by blacks, Latinos and Asians.

Friday, Walsh took a first step in that direction, announcing his six transition team co-chairs, three of whom are people of color — Felix G. Arroyo, John Barros and Charlotte Golar Richie.

Now the rubber hits the road.

The appointments Walsh makes in the next two months will put his stamp on the mayor’s office for at least the next four years.

thority — and many minor departments like the Fair Housing Commission, the Civil Rights Commission and Health and Human Services, the number of department heads has never reflected the diversity of the city.

In the Menino administration, blacks, Latinos and Asians are concentrated at the lower end of the pay scale.

“In the highest salaried jobs — the top 10 percent — 85 percent are held by white males,” Yancey said. “It’s grossly disparate and unfair, in my opinion.”

Mayor-elect Marty Walsh has appointed Felix G. Arroyo, Charlotte Golar Richie and John Barros to his transition team. (Yawu Miller photo)

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Incongito has publicly admitted that he made the racial slurs and threats, but he also claimed that Martin did the same and it was part of their friendship. At the same time, Incognito also claimed that the racial slurs were part of the normal culture of the locker room environment in Miami.

N. Jeremi Duru, a professor of law at American University’s Washington College of Law, who specializes in sports law, said the story shines a light on how race and education and socioeconomic status are playing out in the national discourse. He cites Miami Dolphin players who have publicly described Incognito as an “honorary black guy” based on his background and upbringing and toughness.

“The more concerning piece is there seems to be this sense among the Dolphins, and former teammates of Jonathan Martin, that Jonathan Martin is not really a black guy. That Richie Incognito is more of a black guy than Jonathan Martin,” Duru said.

“This strikes me as really problematic and absurd.”

Duru emphasized that to view Martin as less black because of his education at Stanford and family background plays exactly into the black male stereotypes that so many having been fighting to change. He also said it is tragic that somehow the racist attacks on Martin are somehow viewed as less problematic because of this view.

“This all seems to be wrapped up in how people view Jonathan Martin and that is unfortunate,” he added.

Duru dealt with race issues in the NFL in his book, “Advanc-

ing the Ball: Race, Reformation, and the Quest for Equal Coaching Opportunity in the NFL.” The book examined the struggle for equal opportunity in coaching, but it also examined the legal ramifications of some of the practices that used to be predominant in the NFL and the changes that were made to eradicate them.

Though there is potential for a legal harassment suit in the Martin case, Duru believes it will likely be settled outside of court.

very prevalent in the Dolphins locker room culture and so few people involved, both white and black, show any concern about it.

Since his departure from the team, Martin has hired well known lawyer David Cornwell to pursue legal actions against his harassment by Incognito and other Dolphins players.

Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross addressed the issue publicly on Monday, saying that the Miami Dolphins organization

“At the end of the day it is employment and it is harassment in the workplace, based on the facts as they are now.”

— Prof. N. Jeremi Duru But the case will nevertheless have legal ramifications for the NFL. The NFL locker room is a workplace and if players are saying violent things and there is bullying going on that is workplace harassment, Duru pointed out.

“If it is condoned by the employer than they are implicated.

And even if is not condoned but still there is an unsafe environment than they are still implicated,” he said.

“The idea of keeping this sort of stuff behind closed doors is a bunch of baloney just as if you had crimes going on in the locker room,” he added. “At the end of the day it is employment and it is harassment in the workplace, based on the facts as they are now.”

Duru said he is also concerned that the use of the n-word seems

has reached out to the NFL, acknowledging that an investigation has to take place and admitting the investigation should be led by the league and not just the Dolphins.

“We want to get to the bottom of it,” Ross said. “We want to get to hear what the real facts are.”

Gregory Parks, an assistant professor of law at Wake Forest University’s School of Law, who focuses on issues surrounding race bias and law and is also a recognized expert on hazing in black fraternities, says, regardless of the fact that Incognito seems to believe his use of the n-word is acceptable as a product of the Dolphins locker room culture and environment, it is not.

“The problem with the argument, and we do a quantitative study and some qualitative analy-

sis of the issue, is that whites immersed in black culture don’t use the n-word around black people who actually give them a pass in using it,” Parks said. “Take, for example, white rappers — our study of white and black rappers revealed that while black rappers frequently use the word, it is almost never used by white rappers.

He seriously doubts that Incognito or any white player in the Dolphins locker room using the n-word truly felt there was no problem with it.

“I suspect they know there is a penalty to be paid for using that kind of language. The question, I suspect, would be whether — if the Dolphins won the Super Bowl and got to go to the White House — Incognito would ask the President of the United States, ‘What’s up, my nigger?’ I doubt it.

“If there are black Dolphin players who tolerate this language, it is one thing for him to use it in oneon-one discourse with them, but he cannot reasonably think he can use the word with other blacks,” Parks added. “As for racism, research on subconscious race bias suggests that those who automatically associate negative things with blacks and positive things with whites more easily use racial epithets. Maybe Incognito didn’t intend to be racist. That doesn’t mean that he did not use a widely known racist word, directed toward a racial minority, with a certain degree of hostility behind it.”

While a lot of the media coverage around the controversy, especially from sports media, has centered on how NFL players side on the issue of Martin bringing locker room and “team issues” to the public eye and who is right or wrong, some have addressed the looming legal ramifications.

ESPN’s Ashley Fox wrote on Nov. 9 that it is a workplace issue because an NFL locker room is a workplace and should not be exempt from the same laws that apply to all companies. She pointed out that the NFL addresses workplace harassment issues in its player policy manual with the clause: “Our Excellence in Workplace Conduct program is built upon our belief that all NFL players and prospective players have the right to work in a positive environment that is free from any and all forms of harassment, intimidation and discrimination.”

Fox’s angle seems to back up Duru’s belief that the Martin-Incognito saga is a legal issue that will have long-standing ramifications for the Dolphins and the NFL. Duru emphasized that the NFL is going to have to work to “root out” the type of problematic locker room culture that has emerged out of Miami.

“There is certainly going to be a change with respect to the NFL’s articulation by what they will allow and not allow … I think the NFL will ultimately come down on this,” he said. “I think the NFL is going to at least publicly express its distain for it and create stronger policies to prohibit it.”

For his part, Ross has said he was “appalled” to hear some of the things that Martin claims Incognito said or texted to him.

Ross also promised to make changes to the Miami organization in light of the allegations that Martin has made and he said he is setting up a task force to examine and improve the environment inside the Dolphins’ locker room. This group includes some popular former players and coaches, including Don Shula, Dan Marino and Jason Taylor.

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managed to crack the crucial 1,000-vote barrier to stay in the running through later rounds.

Reeves, the first black openly gay mayor in the country, and Simmons, the first black openly lesbian mayor, both campaigned aggressively throughout the city for number one votes but both saw their counts drop with 25 candidates vying for nine seats.

Benzan, a black Latino who grew up in Central Square, previously ran two campaigns for state representative and one for state senator. He unsuccessfully challenged incumbent state Rep. Alvin Thompson in the 1996 Democratic primary. In 1998, both Benzan and Thompson lost to challenger Jarrett Barrios, who served several terms before winning election to the state Senate.

After Barrios, a Florida native born into a Cuban exile family, resigned from office, Benzan ran in the special election to replace him but came up short.

In this year’s municipal election, Benzan’s fourth try at public office, the 41-year-old Howard University graduate received an impressive 1,258 number one votes and was elected in the 16th round.

“I hadn’t wanted to run for council before and challenge Ken,” said Benzan. “But this year, there were two open seats.”

In finishing first among non-incumbents, Benzan raised over $50,000 — the most of any candidate — and had over 100 volunteers working the phones and canvassing.

During an interview at a Central Square eatery around the corner from his home in Area 4, Benzan said two encounters captured the spirit of why he ran for office. Just a few days before the election, he was stopped by a blue-collar worker, “an older gentleman, an Irish fellow, who just looked like he could use some rest,” said Benzan. “He told me he had been out all day delivering oil and knew me and my dad from the days when we used to deliver fuel for Tropical Oil all over Cambridge and Boston.

He told me he couldn’t afford to retire and didn’t have any health insurance. That’s the kind of person I want to help.”

On election day, Benzan, the father of twin 7-year-olds, said he was greeting voters outside the Graham-Parks School at the base of the tony Avon Hill neighborhood. While saying hello to voters like U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren and former state Attorney General Scott Harshbarger, he met a homeless man whose voting address was a shelter in nearby Porter Square.

“It was just before 8 p.m.,” said Benzan. “He was my last vote of the day. I spent 10 minutes listening to him talk about the need to connect Cambridge kids with the opportunities in Kendall Square by improving their math and science performances. He wanted to see them succeed in ways he had not. What that showed me is that everyone has something to offer.”

Jim Spencer, a political consultant who has served as a Simmons adviser for over a decade, said Benzan’s election signals the arrival of Latino voting power in Cambridge. “The number of Spanish-speaking voters is rising in Cambridge, just as it is all over the state,” said Spencer. “Dennis

tapped into that and of course he identifies with the African-American community as well.”

Harding, a classmate of B e n z a n ’s f r o m C a m b r i d g e Rindge and Latin Schools, first won election to the school board in 2001 by seven votes. He lost the seat in the 2007 election and regained it in 2009.

“After 2007, it became clear to me that every time I went to a funeral, if it was a black Cantabrigian, that I was losing a voter, so I had to figure out where to go to broaden my base,” said Harding.

“I had to go out there and prove that I was not just a black candidate but also a smart and competent candidate who understands the needs of all the children in this city.”

The city has a population of 105,000 but only 6,400 students

in the public school, with half of them coming from public housing, he said.

“I understand what the kids are going through because I lived it myself, growing up in the Washington-Newtown Court projects. How do you prepare kids for the jobs that are available today from Google and Microsoft and all the other companies moving to Cambridge? That’s the challenge for the whole city.”

Harding added that he will miss the leadership of Reeves in city politics. Reeves, a Detroit native who moved to Cambridge to attend Harvard in 1968, said he would take a break before making plans for the next chapter of his career. “As one door closes, another one opens,” he said.

“Maybe this time more broadly than Cambridge.”

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in the city council at-large election, with women leading the way, are a great thing for the advancement of women in politics.

“This is a huge day for us. We have been wanting this for years,” Rao said. “The fact that in Boston you have two women of color topping the ticket is a huge thing.”

The women’s caucus has been working for over four decades

to increase the participation of women in the political progress and to increase the number of women appointed to elected public office, so Rao said the organization feels Pressley’s and Wu’s success as their own.

In fact, both Pressley and Wu have been previously involved in the women’s caucus. Pressley served on the board and Wu as a member of the young professionals committee.

According to Rao, the success of the women in the city council

election shows that the wants of the voters are changing. She says that more and more voters want to see women in government – they want to see representatives that look like them, and focus on the issues that impact their daily lives.

Rao also points out that this is reflected at the highest level of politics with some women politicians playing big roles on the national scene with the federal government. She also says that as more and more women’s issues rise to the forefront, more voters

will want women in office because they feel that they will address these issues more effectively than their male counterparts.

Looking at the votes tallied by Pressley and Wu, Rao cautions thinking that they received more votes just because more women came out to vote for women candidates. While she admits there may be some element of that in the recent city council election, she believes it is more likely that the diversity of the candidates attracted more ethnic voters and voters from communities of color.

“They are inspiring a whole new demographic of voters to come out,” Rao said.

In addition, Rao points to how close former Boston Public Schools principal Suzanne Lee came to unseating incumbent Bill Linehan, who has represented District 2 on the council since 2007, in the city council elections as another sign of the changing voter tide. Lee lost by fewer than 1,000 votes and her campaign

diverse elements of Boston together in support of her bid for office.

“I am very proud of the coalition that we put together over the course of the campaign across the entire city. The immigrant communities, the community of color, flavor, the LGBT community, parks advocates, tech startups, parents, teachers, small business owners, students — it has been an incredible outpouring of support in every single neighborhood across the city and I have so much hope for the future of Boston, just based on this incredible coalition we pulled together and the work that we are going to do together,” she said.

Wu also stressed that she intends to continue to consider all of Boston’s different communities with her work in City Hall and spoke of her vision of the future of the city that is based on “opportunity and access for every single person, every single family.”

Wu told the Banner about the notion that the runaway success of two women of color in the at-

“We need to encourage more women to run. The success Michelle had with her campaign is a sign to other women it can be done.”

— Priti Rao

President Barack Obama greets Richard Overton, with Earlene Love-Karo, in the Blue Room of the White House on Nov. 11.

Overton,107 years old and the oldest living World War II veteran, attended the Veteran’s Day Breakfast at the White House.

(Photo courtesy of the White House)

charged forward against Linehan for the second election in a row riding a surge of support for better representation of an increasingly diverse Boston.

And Rao said it is not just about Pressley, Wu and Lee being women and candidates of color — their success is also about their message resonating with the voters.

For an organization that is dedicated to increasing the participation of women in the political process, the women’s caucus is thrilled to now have Wu as a shining example of the possibility of public office.

“The greater message of her success is that it shows it is possible for a young woman, like Michelle, to get in early and be successful,” Rao said. “We need to encourage more women to run.

The success Michelle had with her campaign is a sign to other women it can be done.”

Speaking to gathered supporters on her election night, Wu acknowledged how thrilled she was to be soon working alongside Pressley and the other veteran and newly elected city councilors.

She also acknowledged the efforts of her campaign to gather the

large city council race was a reflection of the changing face of the city’s voters.

“Voters are looking for new energy and ideas that include all of Boston. I’m excited to represent the entire city and all Boston residents — that includes the Asian American community but also wider communities of color, seniors, the disability community, immigrant communities, LGBT — all of Boston’s diversity,” Wu said. “I look forward to working hard in every neighborhood in the city to ensure that the voices of all residents are heard.”

Pressley also warming welcomed Wu to the city council.

“I am thrilled Michelle Wu will be joining the council,” Pressley said. “This is an exciting time for our city. I am humbled and grateful that residents have entrusted me with the awesome honor of representing them for a third term. Michelle will most certainly bring about a new perspective, one that will benefit the council and our city. I am really looking forward to having her as a partner in my continued work to stabilize all our families, to break cycles of poverty and to end violence in all forms.”

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MassQed Man Hub artist uses the face as a canvas in new work

Top: Roxbury artist Dan Callahan created the MassQ above to symbolize “Year of The MassQ.” He created the first letter of each word and placed them on top of each other. Bottom Left: Callahan painted this MassQ after nursing a dying plant he found in his room back to life. The photo hangs in his room above the plant. Bottom Right: Callahan MassQed Lizzie in South Africa last April. Lizzie lives in Johannesburg, South Africa, and is on the board of an organization named Emthonieni, meaning fountain of life, and works with foster mothers to find homes for children whose parents have died from AIDS. (Dan Callahan photos) Kassmin Williams For a month straight, Roxbury resident Dan Callahan spent a few hours each day sitting in a chair in his room, painting a pattern known as a “MassQ” on his face.

He documented the experience in short video vignettes and titled it “Month of the MassQ.” Callahan, 29, began the project a few months after leaving California and returning to his Dudley Street home in November 2011.

Callahan described the transition as a quarter-life crisis of sorts and said he found himself questioning his identity during that time.

“I really couldn’t express myself artistically, which was a nightmare, so I just started MassQing out of desperation,” said Callahan, who studied animation at University of Pennsylvania.

Since then, Callahan has began an expanded version of the project titled “Year of the MassQ” where he interviews out-

side subjects, sometimes recording their conversations, and then paints their faces as a way of telling the subject’s story.

After the MassQ is complete, there’s a brief photo shoot and then the subject washes the MassQ off.

“It’s using the MassQ as a platform to really create art and art specifically that revolves around identity, communion and permanence or change,” Callahan said.

“Those really ended up

being the three core concepts of MassQing. ‘Month of the MassQ’ was about me finding my new identity and ‘Year of the MassQ’ is about my community and how my art engages my community.”

Callahan said he doesn’t have specific guidelines when it comes to deciding who to feature, but usually they’re people who are active in the community.

During a session with Bethel AME co-pastor Gloria White

Hammond, Callahan listened to the international women’s right activist talk about her experience with sexual abuse as a child.

The two used the recording to create a video for the 1 Billion Rising Campaign where one billion men and women dance on a day in February to end violence against women.

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TV show dance winner to star in ‘Urban Nutcracker’ Kassmin Williams “So You Think You Can Dance” season six winner Russell Ferguson may be known across the nation for his krumping skills as the first krump dancer to win the competition show, but the Boston native will prove he’s more than a hip-hop dancer when he takes the stage as a star in this year’s “Urban Nutcracker.”

The show, which meshes different dance styles in a modern twist on the classic two-part ballet, returns to John Hancock Hall, Dec. 6 to Dec. 22. Some of those styles include classical ballet, urban tap, hip hop, swing, flamenco, step and jazz.

Ferguson first appeared in the “Urban Nutcracker,” as a selftaught tap dancer, while in high school.

The “Urban Nutcracker” founder Tony Williams called Ferguson “versatile” and compared his level of talent to Russian dancer, choreographer and actor Mikhail Baryshnikov.

“He’s someone that if he wasn’t the great krumper, hip-hop pop and locker winner of 2009’s [‘So You Think You Can Dance’], he could’ve been a Baryshnikov in ballet. He’s got that kind of talent,” Williams said.

Ferguson credits his involvement in dance to his mom who put him in his first dancing school at about 5 years old after realizing her son’s talent.

“I was just a natural — music would come on and I could do what I saw,” Ferguson said.

Ferguson will appear in the popular prologue that features a face-off between two different genres of dance.

Ferguson will compete against professional dancer Khalid Hill, who directed the “Urban Nutcracker” for nine seasons and taught tap at the Tony Williams Dance Center.

Hill starred in the original prologue where he went up against former “Urban Nutcracker” instructor Ricardo Foster, who taught hip hop at the dancing school.

Ferguson will also appear in dance scenes Soldier Doll and Caviar Caper.

Although Ferguson’s talent as a krump dancer landed him on a nationally known show, Ferguson, who was exposed to many dance styles, views each genre equally.

“Ballet is very much a part of my life and is a part of my technique,” Ferguson said. “All dance is dance to me. I have the same preference about every dance I do.”

This year’s show will also feature Tony Award winner, Yo-el Cassell as Minimeyer, fifth year performer Gino DiMarco as Drossellmeyer, Russian ballerina Ksusha Melyukhina, singers from Pro Arte Ochestra and the Boston Pops and members of the 1950s doo wop group, the G-Clefs.

Williams has added a new scene to this year’s show inspired by children’s picture book “Make Way for Ducklings,” illustrated

by Robert McCloskey.

In past years, the back drop of the snow scene in the show depicted the Public Garden with the State House’s gold dome in the background and swan boats, statues, and ducks.

This year, the statues will be live on stage, Williams said.

The “Urban Nutcracker,” often called the “Boston Nutcracker,” began in 2001 after Williams opened his Tony Williams Dance Center studio in 2000 and had a good amount of boys enroll.

The school, which now has about 300 students, opened with 15 boys and 50 girls, Williams said.

“I was amazed to have so many young boys,” Williams said.

“That year I was thinking how I can do performance with these boys and thought I should do ‘The Nutcracker.’”

Ksusha Melyukhina and Russell Ferguson in the “Urban Nutcracker.” (Photo courtesy of Peter Paradise RavenWolfe Photography) The first shows, held at the Strand Theatre, sold out, Williams said.

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Paul Taylor Dance Co. leaves theater spellbound

“Perpetual Dawn” was the first segment of the Paul Taylor Dance Company’s three-part program held at the Shubert Theatre last month. The opening dance was its Boston premiere. (Paul B Goode photo) Susan Saccoccia Late last month, Boston was treated to a world-class performance when the Paul Taylor Dance Company held its audience spellbound at the first of its three performances in the Shubert Theatre, a presentation of the Celebrity Series of Boston.

Since 1954, Taylor, 84, the New York company’s choreographer and founding artistic director has been known for high-spirited, muscular dances that are true to human nature. With masterly staging as well as fluid, expressive movement that breathes with the music, Taylor is among the handful of pioneers who reinvented dance, freeing an art form shackled in centuries of tradition with revolutionary American energy.

The three-part program began with the Boston premiere of Taylor’s 2013 work, “Perpetual Dawn,” set to German baroque music of the 17th century. Evoking the same period, Santo Loquasto designed the back-

drop, a dreamy countryside scene that resembles a painting by Antoine Watteau, and the rustic costumes in pale earth tones worn by the dancers, six men and five women.

Warmly lit by James F. Ingalls, the dance unfolds like a painting come to life.

Its subject is the titillating and vulnerable experience of first love.

From the first moment, a duet between two men who hold hands and mirror each other’s leg lifts, the dance playfully echoes traditions of classical ballet. Men, as well as women, pirouette and leap with earthy gusto and freeze mid-motion like stick figures. Injecting a bit of social satire, the females gather to titter with gossip and the men huddle to rally one another.

Sweet but never saccharine, the work builds in the robust geometry of country dancing and its flowing interplay of pairs, trios, circles and lines. Moments of quirky intimacy also find their way, such as Michelle Fleet’s irked female, who seeks a

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by Emily Dickinson conjuring a moment in which time stands still in an endless dawn. As the curtain falls, the dancers’ legs and feet continue to move, as if in an endless dance.

In Taylor’s riveting and austere “Private Domain” (1969), a score by Iannis Xenakis for strings, horns and percussion creates music without melody, while an ensemble of three men and five women performs stop-and-start

movements suggestive of sex without love.

Known for sleek, semi-abstract portraits, painter Alex Katz designed the spare set and body-baring costumes — navy swim trunks for the men and shimmering aquamarine two-piece bathing suits for the women. Three vertical panels divide the stage like pillars and create a hide-and-see effect. At times obscuring dancers’ limbs, the panels guarantee that no two people see the same performance as the dancers pose, tumble and enfold one another with cool intensity.

All 13 dancers take feature roles in “Black Tuesday” (2001), a Taylor masterpiece that resurrects eight songs from the Great Depression.

They portray a gallery of people whose makeshift ballroom is the base of a Manhattan bridge. Santo Loquasto’s soaring backdrops and Jennifer Tipton’s lighting reflect the mood of each song. The costumes, also by Loquasto, cloak the dancers in tattered elegance — from the men’s worn vests and sagging jackets to brooch-laden hats and flouncy dresses that let the women shimmy with jitterbug joy. These people may be penniless but they have style.

Like two happy hoboes, Michael Apuzzo and Michael Novak dance a high-kicking music hallstyle number to “Underneath the Arches.” George Smallwood, in sailor’s garb, smoothly partners with glamorous Laura Halzack for a euphoric duet to “There’s No Depression in Love.” Then, the ensemble returns and rotating like a human merry-go-round, the dancers end the song in a giddy high.

Backed by a silhouette of sky-

scrapers, Michelle Fleet and James Samson project defiant glamour as they glide to the swinging “Slummin’ on Park Avenue.” The mood darkens a bit despite the high energy and fantastic footwork of Kristi Tornga’s solo to “Sittin’ on a Rubbish Can.” Dancing to this song of desperate loneliness, she plays the part of a pregnant girl.

Taylor’s pull-no-punches choreography conveys pain and brutality, as well as beauty and joy. The suite takes an even grittier turn with the song “Are You Making Any Money?” Large-boned Robert Kleinendorst, outfitted like a dandy and brandishing a foot-long cigar, leads his trio of prostitutes, Eran Bugge, Aileen Roehl, and Heather McGinley, who convey reluctant submission with their bodies. At one point, he climbs on their backs.

Left behind by the group, McGinley performs a solo to “The Boulevard of Broken Dreams,” venting anguish through her long arms and legs.

Playing the part of a newsboy who dreams of vanquishing the Depression, Jamie RaeWalker bursts with bravado in her propulsive solo to the jaunty tune, “I Went Hunting and the Big Bad Wolf Was Dead.”

Handsome and athletic, Michael Trusnovec dances the role of a World War I veteran who proudly worked on building projects but now cannot earn a living.

His solo elevates the Depression anthem “Brother Can You Spare a Dime?” into a timeless poem of striving and yet hitting bottom.

Leaping against a backdrop of stars, he endows his destitute character with a hero’s dignity.

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Artist Dan Callahan refers to his Fear and Fancy band mate, Milan, as a “Jill-of-all-trades.” She currently lives in New York and is an educator, artist and artist manager. (Dan Callahan photo)

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with three white lines that shape the inner part of White Hammond’s forehead and her cheeks and ends with her face outlined in yellow, pink, green, blue and white.

While Callahan works with a limited palette of colors, mostly primary, he never creates the same MassQ twice.

One of the most important parts of the three to four hour sessions is washing the MassQ off, Callahan said.

“It’s a part of the change and permanence concept that I never make the same MassQ twice.

I never try to copy myself. The MassQ can’t be worn forever, you have to wash them off,” Callahan said. “The MassQ is really supposed to not only reveal who you are, but [show] who you are in that moment, like the state where you are now. Once that moment passes the MassQ is gone and you can’t really recreate it.”

The thought of having his work washed away isn’t a sad one for Callahan.

“The beauty is when one moment passes, a new one can begin. When things go, something new can come and that’s hopeful,” he said.

Callahan chose an alternative spelling of the word “mask” because unlike Callahan’s project, the word “mask” is often associated with disguise, distortion or hiding, according to yearofthemassq.com.

The idea of MassQing came out of an event Callahan’s musical group, Fear and Fancy, held while in California.

The group held a masquerade ball where people had to paint masks on themselves that revealed something about their background.

“It was really a way to bring a lot of people together in a different way and the mask became your ticket in. It was sort of your right of passage,” Callahan said.

“California is pretty diverse in terms of there’s a lot of different cultures there, but they don’t usually comingle. At the masquerade ball we were able to bring all of these people together.”

Callahan hasn’t placed a deadline on the project and says that the word “year” in the title of the project is more representative of it being an expanded version of ‘Month of the MassQ’ than it being a yearlong project.

Since starting the project at the beginning of the year, Callahan has MassQed about 20 people including “host mothers” who act as foster parents in a community in South Africa during a trip there in April.

When the project comes to a close, Callahan hopes to create a mobile multimedia installation that would include the recorded interviews done during the sessions, he said.

To learn more about Year of the MassQ, visit yearofthemassq.com.

To watch videos from the Month of the MassQ project, visit monthofthemassq.tumblr. com.

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Comestibles Simmons College presents Comestibles, an exhibit of video

by Rebecca Colón, Joseph Douilliette, mixed media by Judith Klausner, and photography by Tara Sellios at the Trustman Art Gallery, located on the fourth floor, Main College Building, 300 The Fenway in Boston. A reception from 5-7pm will be held on Thursday, November 14. The exhibit and reception are free and open to the public (closed November 27-29). Our relationship with food is commodified, sensual, disconnected and celebratory. The artists in Comestibles challenge us about our consumption decisions. The issues they raise may shock or amuse us, reference art historical perspectives, and at the same time ask questions about social aspects of food. What the Comestibles show is not, is your everyday magazine presentation of good things on your plate. www.simmons.edu/trustman.

Business Skills for Artists This 5-part series is presented by arts marketing specialist Jesa Damora of FunnelCake Marketing and Karen Christians of Cleverwerx. Workshop #3: “Is it Yours or Isn’t It, and Who Says So: Intellectual Property Rights in a Digital Age” The internet has turned the rules of intellectual property into a Wild West Show. Learn what you should and shouldn’t do with your intellectual property online — art, music, software, literature. Discover how to join the learning curve to judge whether the risks of “sharing” will be worth the rewards. This lecture will provide a broad overview of IP rights as they affect creatives, and is cognizant of recent court cases. The lecture will be presented by Don Schaefer, internationally known advocate and lobbyist for ethical copyright standards for creatives. Event is a FREE lecture and Q&A, from 7-9pm, at Artisan’s Asylum, at 10 Tyler St., Somerville.

The App Generation at Cambridge Forum Cambridge Forum hosts Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner and Katie Davis of the University of Washington’s Information School discussing their new book The App Generation.

The program takes place at First Parish in Cambridge, 3 Church St., Harvard Square, beginning at 7pm. Davis and Gardner have conducted a series of innovative studies of young people over the last decade — ranging from interviews with youth, to focus groups of long-time educators, to analyses of student fiction and artwork — and The App Generation is a synthesis of their research. Focusing on adolescents, the speakers explore the ways in which digital media are changing the manner in which youth “navigate identity, intimacy, and imagination.”

Gardner and Davis use the terms “app-enabled” and “app-dependent” to describe young people’s involvement with digital media;

what do these terms mean? How does life for this generation differ from life before the digital age?

What is the relationship between “image” and “authenticity” for the app generation? What downsides do they see to young people’s deep involvement with “apps”?

What benefits? The program is free and open to the public.

Upcoming NEC’s African American Roots Ensemble The African American experience, as presented by the a cappella music of the New England Conservatory of Music’s Roots Ensemble, traces the history of black music from its origins in Africa to jazz, Doo-Wop, rhythm and blues, and gospel. Join us for a delightful music performance and learn how these genres derive from traditional African rhythms and Western music. Friday, November 22, 7pm, MAAH Boston Campus, 46 Joy St., Beacon Hill.

Free and open to the public. Space is limited. rsvp@maah.org, 617725-0022 x222. Accessible for all.

Through Barbed Wire Presents 4th Friday Reading of Prisoners’ Writings, Novemb e r 2 2 , 7-8:30pm, monthly prose & poetry participatory event focused on prisoners’ writings.

Audience participation encouraged, light refreshments, near Bowdoin and Adams Sts and #15 MBTA bus (between Fields Corner and Ruggles Station subways). Created and directed by Arnie King. First Parish Church in Dorchester, 10 Parish St. (in the Parish House), Meeting House Hill in Dorchester. www.arnold king.org or throughbarbedwire@ yahoo.com; tel: 857-492-4858.

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Social Security denied to millions of ethnic elders Paul Kleyman Even in this period of intense national debate over the National Debt, Americans fiercely want to protect Social Security from benefit cuts. But while 40 million seniors received retirement support from the program in 2012, about one in 10 seniors in the United States don’t qualify for Social Security, leaving many without a safety net.

Of the approximately 4 million U.S. seniors not receiving Social Security support, a disproportionate one-third are ethnic elders. In fact, according to the U.S. Census, onein-six African American, one fifth of Latino and nearly one-in-three Asian American and Pacific Islander seniors cannot draw on the national retirement pension program to make financial ends meet.

African Americans “under the radar” Many older African Americans

who don’t qualify for Social Security “have lived under the radar because they have worked in domestic roles and have been paid cash for their labors” with no contributions going to the program, said Karyne Jones, president and CEO of the National Caucus and Center on Black Aging based in Washington, D.C. Jones continued, “With most women, it’s the child rearing and caregiving years that don’t rake up any credit towards Social Security.” She added, “Let us not forget chronic unemployment.”

Also affecting access to Social Security support, she and other experts said, may be the high incarceration level among black men. As they get released at older ages, many will end up with little or no Social Security benefits.

Because the Social Security Administration calculates retirement benefits based on credits people receive for at least 40 quarters of covered work — 10 years’ worth during one’s working life,

she said, many African Americans paid cash or under the table don’t realize they benefit from the program “until it’s too late.”

Ineligibility for Social Security is particularly high for immigrants. Many who arrive at age 50 or older end up with very low coverage or none at all.

About half of Hispanic seniors in the U.S. and 80 percent of older Asian Americans receive no Social Security support.

While undocumented immigrants are flatly ineligible for U.S. benefits, many legally present immigrants do not have enough documented years of work to quality for eligibility.

Financial security for the growing number of black and other ethnic elders is a looming issue. A poll released in September by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies found, “Nearly half of black Americans (46 percent) — and about a third of white Americans (36 percent) — say they would ‘like to save

for retirement, but don’t seem to have enough money to do so.’”

Wilhelmina Leigh, who coauthored the survey report, stated in an earlier study, “Modifying the Social Security system must include voices of African Americans and other racial/ethnic subpopulations whose dependence on the system is great, but whose patterns of usage may differ from the norm.”

Barriers facing immigrants Making ends meet is especially difficult for Asian retirees.

Those who do get Social Security checks average $2,000 a year ($13,066 less than the total for all U.S. retirees, says a 2011 report from the Insight Center). Pacific Islanders receive even smaller benefits — if any at all — says the study. For instance, Native Hawaiian seniors, because so many had low-wage jobs, average Social Security benefits of less than half that of other Hawaiian elders, including other Asians.

The Insight Center report’s author Meizhu Lui noted cultural and other barriers to assistance for Asian and other immigrants.

“Language barriers lead to a lack of knowledge about the Social Security program,” she wrote.

Among other barriers to Social Security that Asian elders

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A University of Southern California analysis of Latino retirement cites another reason for many low-income immigrants. It calls agricultural labor “a telling example of sub-minimum wage employment where salaries and Social Security contributions for workers often go unreported.”

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OBITUARY Eugene Callender, 87, respected religious, community leader Rev. Eugene Callender has died in New York City. He was 87. For decades he has been a community activist in Harlem with such a high profile that he was thought to be a Harlem native. However, Callender was born and raised in Cambridge, Mass.

A graduate of Cambridge Rindge and Latin School he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Boston University. He then enrolled in the Westminster Theological Seminary in Glenside, Pa. near Philadelphia to prepare for the ministry.

A Presbyterian minister, Callender’s base of operations became the post of senior minister at the Church of the Master on Morningside Avenue in Harlem. From that office Callender became prominent in a number of community projects, including: president of the New York Urban Coalition, executive director of the New York Urban League, chairman of Haryou-Act

Community Corporation (an antipoverty agency), founder of the Addicts Rehabilitation Center, and organizer of street academies in depressed areas to inspire black and Latino drop-outs to continue their education.

Callender also had several government positions. With Mayor John W. Lindsay, he was deputy administrator of the New York City Housing and Development Administration. With Gov. Mario M. Cuomo, he was the director of the New York State Office of the Aging.

In his later years Callender became interested in Eastern religious thought. He was formerly president of the Board of Trustees of the SYDA Foundation organized to study the Siddha Yoga path.

Callender is survived by his sister Thelma Burns, who is active in public service in Boston, a brother Leland and a daughter, Renée.

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division

Docket No. SU13P2580EA

Citation on Petition for Formal Adjudication Estate of Ramona H Gaddy Date of Death: 02/21/2013

to be present at any hearing, unless the Court finds that it is not in the minor’s best interests.

THIS IS A LEGAL NOTICE: An important court proceeding that may affect your rights has been scheduled. If you do not understand this notice or other court papers, please contact an attorney for legal advice.

Date: October 1, 2013

To all interested persons: A petition has been filed by Kim L. Gaddy of Jamaica Plain MA requesting that the Court enter a formal Decree and Order of testacy and for such other relief as requested in the Petition. And also requesting that Kim L. Gaddy of Jamaica Plain MA be appointed as Personal Representative(s) of said estate to serve Without Surety on the bond.

You have the right to obtain a copy of the Petition from the Petitioner or at the Court. You have a right to object to this proceeding. To do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance and objection at this Court before 10:00 a.m. on 11/29/2013. This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline by which you must file a written appearance and objection if you object to this proceeding. If you fail to file a timely written appearance and objection followed by an Affidavit of Objections within thirty (30) days of the return date, action may be taken without further notice to you.

The estate is being administered under formal procedure by the Personal Representative under the Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code without supervision by the Court. Inventory and accounts are not required to be filed with the Court, but recipients are entitled to notice regarding the administration from the Personal Representative and can petition the Court in any matter relating to the estate, including distribution of assets and expenses of administration.

WITNESS, HON. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court.

Date: October 29, 2013 Patricia M. Campatelli Register of Probate

Docket No. SU13P2355GD

In the interests of Zahra GT Sanders-Smiley of Dorchester, MA Minor NOTICE AND ORDER: Petition for Appointment of Guardian of a Minor 1.

2.

NOTICE TO ALL INTERESTED PARTIES Hearing Date/Time: A hearing on a Petition for Appointment of Guardian of a Minor filed on 10/01/2013 by Helen I. Sanders-Dotson of Dorchester, MA will be held 11/22/2013 09:00 AM Motion Located at 24 New Chardon Street, 3rd floor, Boston, MA 02114 – Family Service Office.

Response to Petition: You may respond by filing a written response to the Petition or by appearing in person at the hearing. If you choose to file a written response, you need to: File the original with the Court; and Mail a copy to all interested parties at least five (5) business days before the hearing.

3.

Counsel for the Minor: The minor (or an adult on behalf of the minor) has the right to request that counsel be appointed for the minor.

4.

Presence of the Minor at Hearing: A minor over age 14 has the right

SUFFOLK Division

SUFFOLK Division

Docket No. SU13P2439EA

NOTICE AND ORDER: Petition for Appointment of Guardian of a Minor 1.

Estate of Gladys Vaughn Date of Death August 29, 2013 INFORMAL PROBATE PUBLICATION NOTICE To all persons interested in the above captioned estate, by Petition of Petitioner Willie L. Graham of Dorchester, MA.

2.

Willie L. Graham of Dorchester, MA has been informally appointed as the Personal Representative of the estate to serve without surety on the bond.

The estate is being administered under informal procedure by the Personal Representative under the Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code without supervision by the Court. Inventory and accounts are not required to be filed with the Court, but interested parties are entitled to notice regarding the administration from the Personal Representative and can petition the Court in any matter relating to the estate, including distribution of assets and expenses of administration. Interested parties are entitled to petition the Court to institute formal proceedings and to obtain orders terminating or restricting the powers of Personal Representatives appointed under informal procedure. A copy of the Petition and Will, if any, can be obtained from the Petitioner.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division

NOTICE TO ALL INTERESTED PARTIES Hearing Date/Time: A hearing on a Petition for Appointment of Guardian of a Minor filed on 10/15/2013 by Casseniette R. Poulos of Fairlee, VT, Brenda L. Egbert of Fairlee, VT will be held 11/25/2013 09:00 AM Motion Located at 24 New Chardon Street, 3rd floor, Boston, MA 02114 – Family Service Office.

Response to Petition: You may respond by filing a written response to the Petition or by appearing in person at the hearing. If you choose to file a written response, you need to: File the original with the Court; and Mail a copy to all interested parties at least five (5) business days before the hearing.

3.

Counsel for the Minor: The minor (or an adult on behalf of the minor) has the right to request that counsel be appointed for the minor.

4.

Presence of the Minor at Hearing: A minor over age 14 has the right to be present at any hearing, unless the Court finds that it is not in the minor’s best interests.

THIS IS A LEGAL NOTICE: An important court proceeding that may affect your rights has been scheduled. If you do not understand this notice or other court papers, please contact an attorney for legal advice.

Date: October 16, 2013

Citation on Petition for Order of Complete Settlement of Estate

To all interested persons: A petition has been filed by Matthew H. Beaulieu of Boston, MA requesting that an Order of Complete Settlement of the estate issue including to approve an accounting and other such relief as may be requested in the Petition. For the 3rd and Final Account.

You have the right to obtain a copy of the Petition from the Petitioner or at the Court. You have a right to object to this proceeding. To do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance and objection at this Court before 10:00 a.m. on 11/29/2013. This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline by which you must file a written appearance and objection if you object to this proceeding. If you fail to file a timely written appearance and objection followed by an Affidavit of Objections within thirty (30) days of the return date, action may be taken without further notice to you.

WITNESS, HON. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court.

Date: October 23, 2013 Patricia M. Campatelli Register of Probate

Patricia M. Campatelli Register of Probate

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department

Docket No. SU01P0307AD1

Estate of Anna M Porter Date of Death: 11/04/1998

Docket No. SU13P2492GD

In the interests of Damari Travon Pritchett of Dorchester, MA Minor

Patricia M. Campatelli Register of Probate

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department

SUFFOLK Division

Docket No. SU13C0416CA

In the matter of Miechelle Lynette Audate of Dorchester, MA NOTICE OF PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME To all persons interested in a petition described: A petition has been presented by Miechelle L Audate requesting that Miechelle Lynette Audate be allowed to change her name as follows: Miechelle Lynette Thompson IF YOU DESIRE TO OBJECT THERETO, YOU OR YOUR ATTORNEY MUST FILE A WRITTEN APPEARANCE IN SAID COURT AT BOSTON ON OR BEFORE TEN O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING (10:00 AM) ON 11/29/2013.

WITNESS, HON. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court.

Date: October 29, 2013 Patricia M. Campatelli Register of Probate

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NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS CLASSIFIED LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS EXECUTIVE OFFICE FOR ADMINISTRATION AND FINANCE DIVISION OF CAPITAL ASSET MANAGEMENT & MAINTENANCE (DCAMM) Sealed proposals submitted on a form furnished by the Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance (DCAMM) and clearly identified as a proposal, endorsed with the name and address of the proposer, the project and contract number, will be received at the Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance, One Ashburton Place, 1st Floor, Room 107, Boston, MA 02108, no later than the date and time specified and will forthwith be publicly opened and read aloud.

RFPs at 2:00 PM:

December 11, 2013

Every proposer must be certified by the Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance for the category of work and for no less than the bid price plus all add alternates of this project.

The Category of Work is: HISTORICAL BUILDING RESTORATION OR

GENERAL BUILDING CONSRUCTION Mass. State Project No.

BSB1302 Contract no. HC1

Massachusetts State House Executive Office/West Wing Improvements Boston, Massachusetts E.C.C: $5,923,575 This project is scheduled for completion by June 1, 2014 and in general includes: Approximately 19,000 GSF of renovation stacked vertically on four floors of the historic Bullfinch section of the Massachusetts Statehouse. The work includes selective cutting and patching and installation of new Electrical, HVAC, Plumbing, Security, and Fire Suppression systems. Interior renovations will include the restoration of historic finishes, new plaster walls and ceilings, new windows, flooring and carpet. The construction duration will require two shifts, a day and a night shift to meet the project completion date. Deliveries and work will need to be carefully scheduled to allow continuous operation of the government functions in the neighboring rooms and corridors. This project falls under MGL Chapter 149, Section 44E1/2. The pre-bid informational meeting will be held on Wednesday, November 20, 2013 on 2nd, 3rd, 4th floors and the Press Room #157 @ 7:00 AM-9:00 AM, Ashburton Park Entrance on Bowdoin Street. Go through Security and meet in lobby, contact Cheryl Morrissey at 617-727-4030 x514.

Minimum rates of wages to be paid on the project have been determined by the Commissioner of the Division of Occupational Safety under the provisions of Sections 26 and 27, Chapter 149 of the General Laws. Wage rates are listed in the contract form portion of specification book.

Each proposal must be secured by an accompanying deposit of 5% of the total bid amount, including all alternates, in the form of a bid bond, in cash, a certified, treasurer’s, or cashier’s check issued by a responsible bank or trust company made payable to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

The RFP documents may be examined at the Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance Bid Room, One Ashburton Place, 1st Floor, Room 107, Boston, MA 02108 Tel (617) 727-4003. Copies may be obtained by depositing a company check, treasurer’s check, cashier’s check, bank check or money order in the sum of $150.00 payable to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. No personal checks or cash will be accepted as deposits. Refunds will be made to those returning the documents in satisfactory condition on or before JANUARY 1, 2014 otherwise the deposit shall be the property of the Commonwealth.

WE DO NOT MAIL PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS. Messenger and other type of pick-up and delivery services are the agents of the bidder and the Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance assumes no responsibility for delivery or receipt of the documents. Bidders are encouraged to take advantage of a rotating credit plans and specifications deposit program initiated by the Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance to encourage the easy accessibility of documents to contractors.

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EVALUATION CRITERIA

LEGAL NOTICE REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT AT RISK SERVICES The MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY (Massport) is soliciting Construction Management at Risk Services for MPA PROJECT NO. L1319, FRAMINGHAM PARKING GARAGE, FRAMINGHAM, MA (The Project). In accordance with Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 149A, Sections 1 thru 13, Massport is seeking a highly qualified and competent Construction Manager (CM) to provide preconstruction services and implement the construction of the Project in accordance with an agreement where basis for payment is the cost of the work plus a fee with a negotiated guaranteed maximum price. This Request for Qualifications (RFQ) is being utilized to prequalify and shortlist CM firms who will be invited to submit proposals in response to a Request for Proposals (RFP) to be issued by Massport.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION AND SCOPE OF SERVICES The proposed project includes construction of a new multistory, 1,100 parking space, pile supported, precast concrete parking garage. A ground level passenger terminal building will be located within the garage footprint. The project site is the existing Logan Express Parking lot in Framingham, MA. The project will incorporate sustainable design elements.

The work includes general site preparation, wetlands mitigation, foundations, utility relocations, construction phasing and sequencing, architecture, pedestrian circulation/wayfinding, means of egress, revenue control, signage/graphics, stairs, elevators, ADA and code compliance, HVAC, plumbing, fire protection, electrical, lighting, power, security, and other systems and facilities required by existing codes and regulations and necessary to achieve a complete functional facility.

Massport recognizes the numerous benefits Building Information Modeling (BIM), Models and Model Applications can potentially provide to each phase of the facility life cycle. In an effort to realize the added value of these benefits, Massport is implementing a Building Information Modeling (BIM) Program for this project. In addition, to further improve efficiency and value on this project, Massport will also be implementing Lean Construction principles, including Pull Planning and other Lean process tools.

In addition to the construction services, the CM shall also provide Preconstruction Services which shall include, but are not limited to, cost estimating, scheduling, phasing and logistics, value engineering, document review to support the preparation of trade packages and constructability reviews. The CM shall be expected to work closely with Massport’s team including its Project Manager and design team in order to effectively implement the project.

The construction budget is estimated at approximately Twenty Five Million Dollars ($25,000,000) with an estimated date of beneficial occupancy within the first quarter of 2015.

SELECTION PROCESS Massport intends to implement a two-step selection process including a Qualification phase and a Proposal phase. At the Qualifications phase, the Prequalification Committee will conduct a qualifications- based evaluation of interested CM firms in order to create a shortlist of competent CM firms. Shortlisted firms shall be invited to respond to the written RFP which will require both a technical proposal and a price proposal. A Selection Committee will review Proposals in order to rank the shortlisted firms and make the final selection. Massport intends to shortlist qualified firms by January, 2014 and make a final selection by the end of January, 2014.

Interviews may be held at the Authority’s discretion. The Designer shall participate in the selection of the Construction Manager.

KEY FACTORS A Supplemental Information Package which will provide more details on the scope of the Project as well as the selection process shall be available as of Wednesday, November 20, 2013 by contacting Susan Brace at 617-5685961 or by email at sbrace@massport.com. In addition, a Project Briefing shall be held in the Bid Room located in the Capital Programs Department, Logan Office Center, One Harborside Drive, Logan International Airport, East Boston, MA on Monday, November 25, 2013 at 11:00 AM. Although the briefing is not mandatory, attendance is highly recommended so that interested parties can become more familiar with the requirements of the project.

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Qualification Statements from interested firms will be evaluated in accordance with the following Evaluation Criteria in order to shortlist qualified CM firms: (1) proposed CMR team, with special emphasis on the experience of the Project Manager; (2) project approach; (3) experience with similar garage projects and recent relevant project experience; (4) Building Information Model (BIM) experience; (5) CM-at-Risk and MGL 149A project management and alternative delivery experience; (6) safety record; (7) capacity and financial stability;(8) litigation and termination history; and (9) M/WBE compliance history and approach.

These Evaluation Criteria will be more fully explained in the Supplemental Information Package.

AFFIDAVIT The CM shall be DCAMM-certified and provide an Update Statement as well as an affidavit that the Statement of Qualifications being submitted in response to the RFQ is signed under the pains and penalties of perjury. The CM shall also provide a letter from a surety company confirming the CM firm’s ability to provide performance and payment bonds in the full amount of the construction estimate. Please note that having the document notarized does not fulfill the requirement for signing under the pains and penalties of perjury.

CONFIDENTIALITY OF DOCUMENTS Any information provided to the Authority in any Proposal or other written or oral communication between the Proposer and the Authority will not be, or deemed to have been, proprietary or confidential, although the Authority will use reasonable efforts not to disclose such information to persons who are not employees or consultants retained by the Authority except as may be required by M.G.L. c66.

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS Each Qualification Statement shall be limited to 15 sheets (30 pages) of written material, which shall be printed on both sides of the sheet (8 ½ x 11). The 30 pages exclude cover letter, response cover, dividers, resumes, DCAMM documents. The firm’s financial information shall be submitted in a separate envelope. Ten (10) copies of the bound document and one envelope clearly marked “Financial Information” shall be addressed to Houssam Sleiman, P.E., CCM, Director of Capital Programs and Environmental Affairs and received in the Capital Programs Department no later than 12:00 NOON on Wednesday, December 18, 2013 at the Massachusetts Port Authority, Capital Programs Department, Logan Office Center, One Harborside Drive, Suite 209S, Logan International Airport, East Boston, MA 02128-2909.

Any submission that exceeds the page limit set here or that is not received in the Capital Programs Department in a timely manner shall be rejected

by Massport as non-responsive. All questions relative to your submission shall be directed to CPBidQuestions@massport.com. It is strictly prohibited for any proponent to contact anyone else from Massport about this project from the time of this solicitation until award of the project to the successful proponent.

The procurement process for this project will proceed according to the following schedule: Event Date/Time Solicitation: Release Date:

November 13, 2013

Supplemental Information Package Available:

November 20, 2013

Deadline for submission of written questions:

December 4, 2013, 11:00 AM

Official answers published by MPA:

December 11, 2013

RFQ Submission Deadline:

December 18, 2013, 12:00 Noon

MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY Thomas P. Glynn CEO and Executive Director

Public Notice: Please be advised that the Cooperatives of CharlesNewtown Housing, Inc, a Project Based Section 8 Housing Development in Charlestown Massachusetts is reopening its waitlist and will accept applications for Future Availability of One, Two, Three and Four Bedroom Apartments.

See Below Income Guidelines FY 2013 Income Limit Area

Boston city

Median Income

$94,400

FY 2013 Income Limit Category

1 Person

2 Person

3 Person

4 Person

5 Person

6 Person

7 Person

8 Person

Very Low (50%) Income Limits

$33,500

$37,800

$42,500

$47,200

$51,000

$54,800

$58,550

$62,350

Extremely Low (30%) Income Limits

$19,850

$22,650

$25,500

$28,300

$30,600

$32,850

$35,100

$37,400

Low (80%) Income Limits

$47,150

$53,900

$60,650

$67,350

$72,750

$78,150

$83,550

$88,950

If you are interested in applying for an apartment, applications will be available November 19, 2013 through December 10, 2013 Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday’s Between the hours of 9:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Please visit our Management Office located at 89 Medford Street Charlestown, Mass 02129 to apply.

Telephone # 617-242-0808 Waiting list wi1l close and we will no longer distribute applications after December 10, 2013 All applications must be received at 89 Medford Street Charlestown Mass 02129 by December 31, 2013 to be included in this Lottery.

• Initial Occupancy and Waiting List placement will be based on Lottery number and preference categories not the time and date of application.

• Lottery will be held on January 3, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. at 93 Medford Street Charlestown Mass 02129.

• Applicants need not be present.

• We do business in accordance with the Federal Fair Housing Law. Professionally Managed by WinnResidential

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The community is NOW OPEN and accepting applications.

Applications may be submitted via mail or in person to:

Application forms may be obtained by mail or in person at: Lynnfield Public & Library, 18 Summer Street Lynnfield, MA 01940

Arborpoint at MarketStreet, 150 King Rail Drive, Lynnfield, MA 01940 Phone: (781) 334-2869 TTY: 711 Email: Arborpointms@natdev.com

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SPACE

DORCHESTER/ MILTON 1st Class Office Space ample parking.

$375/mo. $695/mo. $1000/mo. $1395/mo. heated

OWNER

617-835-6373

Office Hours: Monday-Friday 9am-6pm; Saturday 10am-5pm; Sunday 12pm-5pm

Monthly Rents (80% Program)* Type

Maximum Rent

One Bedrooms

$1,211

Two Bedrooms

$1,353

Brokers Welcome

32 Benjamin’s Landing Condominium Available Franklin, MA

$114,240

Maximum Income Limits / Income Eligibility Persons in Household

80% Max

Persons in Household

80% Max

1 Person

$47,150

3 Person

$60,650

2 Person

$53,900

4 Person

$67,350

2 Bedroom, 1 ½ Bath, Electric Heat, Finished Basement Maximum Income Guidelines: 2 Person Household: $53,900 3 Person Household: $60,650 4 Person Household: $67,350 Maximum Household Asset Limit is $75,000.

Arborpoint at MarketStreet Residents are responsible for gas, electric, water/sewer, phone, and cable utilities.

Preference/priority for accessible units for households with at least one member with a disability requiring such accessible units.

For more information, applications or reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities, please call (781) 334-2869 TTY: 711

You Must Be a 1st Time Home Buyer. www.franklin.ma.us/ Administration/Affordable Housing or Contact Maxine at 508-520-4949 or mkinhart@franklin.ma.us

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Affordable Rental Housing

DUDLEY GREENVILLE APARTMENTS 205-213 DUDLEY STREET, ROXBURY, MA 02119

Dudley Greenville Apartments will accept applications for: 2 BR

3 BR

Section 8-PBV from BHA

TYPE

1 BR

4

4

Contract Rent

30% of income

30% of income

30% AMI

1

Rent

$637

Tax Credit 60%AMI

5

17

12

Rent

$1,062

$1,275

$1,473

UNIT TOTALS

5

22

16

*Handicap accessible units available 1- (2br unit) 2- (3br Unit) Applications may be obtained in person at 122 Dewitt Drive, Roxbury, MA 02120 During the following dates & times ONLY: Mon. – Fri., 11/18/13 – 11/29/13 Hours: 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. (Office Closed 11/28/13 Holiday) Wednesday 11/20/13 Hours: 6 p.m. – 8 p.m.

Saturday 11/23/13 Hours: 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.

AN INFORMATION SESSION WILL BE HELD AT 464 TREMONT STREET BOSTON MA (Castle Square Apartments Community Room) ON: WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 20, 2013 6PM-8PM Applications will be available by mail November 18, 2013-November 29, 2013 (during the above hours) Application Deadline: To be included in lottery all completed applications must be received In person by Friday, December 6, 2013 at 4PM OR Postmarked by Friday, December 6, 2013.

SELECTION BY LOTTERY Three units have a preference for disabled households requiring wheelchair accessibility.

One unit has a preference for Homeless/Previously Homeless applicant.

Preference for households of at least one person per bedroom. Use & Occupancy restrictions apply Household income limit restrictions apply: HH Size

60% Max Income

30% Max Income (1- 2br Unit)

1 Person

$39,660

$19,830

2 Persons

$45,360

$22,680

3 Persons

$51,000

$25,500

4 Persons

$56,640

$28,320

5 Persons

$61,200

6 Persons

$65,760

**Voucher Holders welcome and not subject to minimum income requirements or rent at payment standard** Contact (617) 445-8338 or TDD: 1-800-439-2370 for Reasonable accommodations regarding the application process or to request an application by mail Translation assistance is available. Dudley Greenville Apartments is an equal housing opportunity Managed by WinnResidential

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Please send resume in Word format or a detailed description of at least your last 5 years work history to jrlmech@gmail.com

The Italian Home for Children in Jamaica Plain seeks a dynamic new Executive Director.

The Home provides a comprehensive network of services to children, families and adults with emotional, behavioral and educational special needs.

The Executive Director will lead professional staff and volunteers who are dedicated to the primary goal of helping children and families improve their well-being and quality of life. Requires significant management and supervisory experience, understanding of nonprofit organizations, and capacity to facilitate fundraising.

Experience with state/federal agencies is beneficial.

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Cooper Community Center

(25 School Street, Inc.) SPENCER HOUSE 2053R Columbus Ave. Roxbury, MA 02119, Tel. (617) 427-5500, Fax (617) 427-5558

PUBLIC NOTICE

has several openings for an experienced MA EEC-certified Toddler and Pre-School teacher, and for an After-School lead teacher. Interested and qualified applicants should send their resume, along with a cover letter that describes their work history and educational qualifications to: Hattie B. Cooper Community Center Attention: Human Resources Department 1891 Washington Street Boston, MA 02118 Resume and cover letter may also be submitted via email to: HR@cooperctr.org.

25 School Street, Inc. Spencer House will be closing its Section 8 waiting list effective November 1, 2013. Spencer House will no longer be accepting applications for its One Bedroom units. Spencer House currently has a waiting list in excess of five years. Once the waiting list is down to approximately one year long a public notice ad will be run for the reopening of the waiting list.

(25 School Street, Inc.) Spencer House estará cerrando la lista de espera de Sección 8 efectivo el 1, de Noviembre de 2013. Spencer House ya no estará aceptando solicitudes para sus unidades de un dormitorio. Actualmente Spencer House tiene una lista de espera de más de cinco años. Una vez que la lista de espera se ha reducido a aproximadamente un año una notificación pública se llevará a cabo a la reapertura de la lista de espera.

Development Assistant (Part-Time 15 hours/wk)

Equal Housing Opportunity

St. Mary’s Center for Women and Children of Dorchester is a community-based non-profit human service agency that provides residential, educational, job skills training and other support services to women, teens, infants, and children.

THE CENTER SEEKS QUALIFIED HUMAN SERVICES PROFESSIONALS FOR THE FOLLOWING POSITIONS: ST. MARY’S HOME, a residential program for pregnant and parenting teens.

We seek a qualified F/T Case Manager that will provide individual case management, assessment, counseling referral services, advocacy, and assist in day-to-day activities. Master’s in Social Work preferred or Bachelor’s Degree in related human services field, 2 years case management experience; 2 years experience working with at-risk pregnant and parenting teens in a residential setting required.

Send resume to: adavis@smwcc.org

ST. MARY’S HOME, also is seeking to hire F/T and Relief Parent Educators.

The qualified Parent Educator will provide parent education, and co-lead therapeutic and skill-based groups for teens and their children during their shift. Requires 2-3 years experience working with pregnant and parenting teens. BA in Human Services or equivalent years experience. Send resume to adavis@smwcc.org.

BRIDGE HOME, a short-term residential program providing stabilization and assessment for abused and neglected children.

Residential Counselors – Relief Positions All Shifts

Provide a safe secure environment for residents and serve as a positive role model following program guidelines for professional behavior. Requires 2-3 years of residential experience. BA in Human Services or equivalent years experience.

Send resume to mpetrillo@smwcc.org.

MARGARET’S HOUSE, an adult shelter for 32 homeless women with their children.

Family Advocate - Relief Positions All Shifts

Maintain safety; assist with creating and implementing therapeutic groups that include: parenting, healthy relationships, and independent living and violence prevention. This position requires 1-2 years experience working with adult female-head of household families in shelter. Send resume to mpetrillo@smwcc.org.

Salaries for all positions are commensurate with experience.

Excellent benefits: Medical, Dental, Pension, Credit Union, 403B, FSA, Tuition Reimbursement and much more! EEO Posting November 14, 2013

Send cover, resume and salary history to Susan Egmont, Egmont Associates, segmont@egmontassociates.com.

MADISON PARK DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION seeks experienced, dynamic community activists to fill two open positions.

Director of Community Action The Director develops, implements and evaluates a variety of community programs, including a youth collaborative, a voter education and mobilization coalition, a community learning center, and advocacy efforts to bring more resources to our neighborhood. Duties include supervising staff and volunteers, program design, implementation, evaluation, record keeping and reporting, budget development and oversight, and collaboration with a range of community agencies and stakeholders.

Qualifications: •Minimum of 5 years of organizing experience, combined with supervisory/management experience; •Experience with youth-serving agencies and/or voter mobilization campaigns preferred; •Experience in program development, implementation and evaluation preferred; •Budget management ability; •Facility with managing group dynamics; •Familiarity with database software and Microsoft Office programs; •Grantwriting and fundraising experience preferred; •Fluency in Spanish and English preferred.

Director of Resident Leadership and Services The Director develops, implements and manages tenant engagement programs and MPDC properties. Duties include relationship development with residents, agencies and property management companies, tenant advocacy, program facilitation and coordination, needs assessment, record keeping and reporting, and resource development.

Qualifications: •5+ years of resident engagement or organizing experience; •Well developed verbal and written communication skills; •Team building skill; •Prior experience working with low income property management and/or resident services; •Knowledge of public benefits; •Proficiency in a second language (Spanish, Creole, Portuguese) preferred; •BA or MA in Social work or related field; or a combination of education/experience in providing case management services and coordinating community resources and social services for individuals and families.

Candidates should send cover letters and resumes to: jgrogan@madison-park.org

On The Rise, Inc. is a Cambridge, MAbased non-profit that supports the initiative and strength of women living in crisis or homelessness. In a physically and psychologically safe environment, we build the relationships and provide the tools that each woman needs to rise to her potential.

On The Rise seeks a part-time (15 hours/ week) Development Assistant reporting to the Director of Development & Communications. Great opportunity to learn all functions of a small, successful development team; to gain event planning experience; and to take on a leadership role as database manager.

We seek a highly organized, detail-oriented individual skilled at handling multiple projects at the same time, who displays a commitment to the mission of On The Rise.

One year or more experience with database and office administration is highly desired.

Prior experience with donor management software strongly preferred.

How to Apply: www.ontherise.org contains a more complete job description and instructions for applying. Please refer to our site and submit a resume and cover letter as described.

Send your application materials to: Please apply on-line by submitting your résumé and cover letter as attachments to: shiriece. rahman@ontherise.org with “Development Assistant” in the subject line.

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