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Source: Tierney Could Return to Inquirer Former Philadelphia Inquirer publisher Brian Tierney could be returning to the Inquirer as an active consultant, according to a source. Mr. Tierney would assist the Inquirer in its advertising efforts while the company faces financial struggles, the source said. Mr. Tierney stepped down from his role at the Inquirer three years ago to facilitate a potential sale and reorganization of the paper.
Former Gov. Leader Dies at 95
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BY KEVIN HORNE The 36th Governor of Pennsylvania George Leader, who rose to power out of a one-room agrarian schoolhouse in York county, died last week. He was 95. Mr. Leader served four years as the top of Pennsylvania’s executive from 1955 to 1959 — abiding by the singlefour-year term limit at the time. Only 37 when he took office over a half-century ago, Mr. Leader is still the second-youngest governor in the state’s history. While in office, Mr. Leader overhauled the state’s mental health system and increased funding to education. Mr. Leader was a fierce civil rights supporter and became the first governor to appoint a black cabinet officer. Mr. Leader grew up in York County. He attended Gettysburg College before transferring to the University of Pennsylvania. After returning from World War II in 1950, Mr. Leader burst onto
the political scene, winning a State Senate seat in the 28th District. Mr. Leader would go on to defeat Lt. Governor Lloyd Wood in a close election for governor, carrying the labor and agricultural interests to become the first Democrat to win the PA governorship in 20 years. — PoliticsPa.com
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The National Constitution Center Board of Trustees announced last week that it has appointed Jeffrey Rosen as president and chief executive officer. Mr. Rosen — who is a law professor, distinguished legal commentator, and former visiting scholar — will succeed David Eisner, who stepped down from the position in October 2012. “We are extremely proud to announce a CEO and president of Jeffrey Rosen’s caliber as a constitutional scholar, journalist, and educator,” National Constitution Center Chairman Jeb Bush said, according to Constitution Daily, the Center’s blog. “I look forward to working in hand with Jeffrey to continue to elevate the Center’s national profile and unparalleled role as a museum, town hall, and civic educational headquarters.”
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PACT Awards Companies, Entrepreneurs The Greater Philadelphia Alliance for Capital and Technologies (PACT), last week recognized the winners of the 20th Annual Enterprise Awards, the region’s distinctive black-tie gala honoring individuals and companies that are pace-setters in innovation, leadership and advances in technology and related fields. More than 900 business leaders and executives filled the Valley Forge Casino to recognize 13 of the region’s best. “Our guests were welcomed to a new and unique venue, at the Valley Forge Casino complete with a red carpet feel. We had a remarkable turnout and secured a number of award and event sponsors,” said Dianne Strunk, Vice President, Business Development for PACT. The following companies and entrepreneurs were winners and honorees at the 2013 Enterprise Awards: — Life Sciences Startup Company: Trice Orthopedics — Technology Startup Company: ThingWorx — Emerging Life Sciences Company: CD Diagnostics — Emerging Technology Company: InstaMed — CleanTech Company of the Year: Holganix — MedTech Leadership Honoree: Secant Medical — Investment Deal of the Year: Liquent — IT Innovator Award of Excellence: Relay Network — Technology CEO of the Year: Tim Wallace, iPipeline — Technology Company of the Year: Quintiq — Legend Award Honoree: David L. Cohen, Comcast Corporation
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he University City Science Center is collaborating with the Canadian Consulate General to pilot a business accelerator for health information and communication technology companies from Canada. Opening May 13, the Canadian Technology Accelerator at the Science Center will provide a three-to-six-month “market immersion” experience for Canadian health IT companies, leveraging the Science Center’s resources and networks through its Port business incubator. Modeled on the Canadian Technology Accelerators run by the Canadian Consulates in California and New York, CTA@Philadelphia (Health IT) will offer qualified Canadian entrepreneurs from high-potential early-stage start-ups in the health information technology sector three months of paid communal co-working space in the Science Center’s Port business incubator. The program will accommodate six start-ups twice a year, for a total of 12 start-ups over a 12-month period. “We believe that there are enormous opportunities for health IT companies in the Greater Philadelphia region,” said Science Center President & CEO Stephen S. Tang. “The sheer concentration of organizations and individuals connected with healthcare delivery makes our region the perfect cradle for companies to grow a strong market presence. “Through its networks and programs, the Science Center is well positioned to help connect these Canadian companies
to the resources needed to bring their products to U.S. customers.” Six Canadian companies make up the inaugural class of CTA@Philadelphia (Health IT): — Caristix transforms data flow and interoperability for hospitals — Hospitalis is working to improve clinical processes throughout the care continuum — Infonaut offers real-time clinical information hospital infection prevention and control — Memotext is developing evidencebased personalization of patient compliance interventions — Pulseinfo Frame offers databasedriven informatics for disease management and clinical workflow improvement — Sensory Tech is developing telemedicine solutions for in-home hospice care services
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“Traveling Tailor” Indochino has set up shop at 1518 Walnut Street until May 27. The custom tailor takes measurements in the store or online and produces a one-of-akind suit for as little as $379. “You get to build your own suit from the bottom up — fabric, lining, style of pants, the works,” co-manager Sean Gallaher told the Philadelphia Real Estate Blog. “We do it for less because we don’t have to pay all that rent and taxes on the real estate. Regular custom shops are aghast.” The shop has previously set up in San Francisco, New York, Boston and Washington, D.C.
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Skinny Water Maker Files For Bankruptcy Bryn Maw r, Pa.-based Skinny Nutritional Corp. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection May 3, according to a statement. The maker of “Skinny Water” and other Skinny branded products, sought protection in order to avoid a forfeiture of the company’s intellectual property rights. FORTUNE 500
Regional Companies Named To Fortune 500 Local companies were recently named to the 2013 Fortune 500, the Philadelphia Business Journal reported. AmerisourceBergen (No. 32), of Valley Forge, Pa.; Comcast (No. 46), of Philadelphia; DuPont (No. 72), of Wilmington, Del.; Aramark (No. 205), of Philadelphia; Crown Holdings (No. 312), of Philadelphia; Universal Health Services (No. 337), of King of Prussia, Pa.; Campbell Soup Co. (No. 338), of Camden, NJ; UGI (No. 388), of King of Prussia, Pa. were included on the list. MANUFACTURING
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Science Center Seeking Public Artist in Residence BY GREG MECKSTROTH
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he dynamic along the Science Center campus in University City is about to dramatically change. Breadboard, a program at the University City Science Center, and the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority’s Percent for Art program are collaborating on a new public art residency program between 34th and 39th Streets on Market Street. The program, titled Art Along the Avenue of Technology (AAAT), promises to bring together and engage diverse community groups to explore contemporary themes of public space, placemaking, and technology in an urban environment. Essentially, in 2014 Breadboard promises to host one bonafide artist or collective with serious artistic and community outreach chops. Creative areas the artist or collective will likely have to excel at include digital and mobile media, rapid prototyping, programmable electronics and interactive technology. The selected artist or artist collective will be given access to rapid prototyping facility NextFab Studio’s high-tech fabrication equipment and expert staff. From there, the artist/collective will take their process of developing art and engaging community groups and teach them artistic processes and how to utilize 21st-century technologies in the art
of placemaking. To benefit from this activity is the Science Center, which is always looking for ways to make its campus more vital, lively, and full of ‘place’ attributes, as well as University City in general, which is currently witnessing a dramatic redevelopment of Market Street from 30th Street Station to 40th Street. Interested artists can go to the Art Along the Avenue of Technology website to view an RFQ. The deadline for submission is June 21, 2013. A final selection will be made on October 4, 2013. The selected artist will be on site in January 2014. This article was originally published at PhiladelphiaRealEstate.com.
Atlantic City Gaming Revenue Down 12 Pct. Atlantic City’s April gambling revenue from its 12 casinos was down 12 percent — from $259.9 million to $228.5 million — when compared to April 2012, according to the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement. Revenue generated from slot machines had an even steeper decline, of 14 percent, to $161.7 million. Table games, which brought in less than half of
the amount of revenue as whose revenue dropped 40 slot machines, saw a rev- percent to about $8 million enue decrease of 6 percent. as it continues to restrucThe low point for Atlantic ture through bankruptcy. City continues to be its newest casino, Revel,
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WeiserMazars Names Local Office Leader Prominent accounting, tax and advisory firm WeiserMazars LLP announced it had named Vincent R. Burke to head its Pennsylvania practice as Partner-in-Charge of the Philadelphia office beginning April 30 Mr. Burke takes over the role from Partner Kathryn A. Byrne who oversaw the successful integration of both Fishbein & Co. and LECG/Smart into WeiserMazars as well as the move to the firm’s new, expanded offices in Ft. Washington, PA. HIGHER EDUCATION
Former PSU President Nation’s Highest Paid Ousted Penn State President Graham Spanier was the highest-paid public university president in 2011, despite losing his job. Mr. Spanier’s total compensation that year was $2,906,721, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Executive Compensation Survey of Public Colleges and Universities. TRANSPORTATION
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A record 38.8 million domestic visitors came to Philadelphia in 2012, according to The Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation’s (GPTMC) 2013 annual report. Titled “The Evolution of a Destination and Its Marketing,” the report also emphasizes the major changes in Philadelphia and in marketing since GPTMC began. “Philadelphia is a better, more complex destination appealing to more types of travelers and more trip types,” said Meryl Levitz, president and CEO of GPTMC. “Gone are the days of one-size-fits-all marketing. Today, we use customized campaigns and many platforms to communicate with travelers where they are and in the ways they want to be reached.” GPTMC released the 28-page report at its annual Hospitality Leaders Luncheon.
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Once again, Philadelphia is celebrating the nation’s birthday in style by putting on “The Largest Free Concert in America,” as part of the Wawa Welcome America! festival. The festival will include performances by The Roots, John Mayer, Demi Lovato and Ne-Yo. “The City of Philadelphia is proud to welcome an incredibly talented group of musicians to our city this Fourth of July,” said Mayor Michael Nutter. “We believe that this year’s festival will go down in history as the best yet. We know that Philadelphia is the foremost place to celebrate our nation’s birthday. With this superb lineup of talent, we have an opportunity to prove it to the world.”
Visit Bucks County is asking visitors to “Capture Your Bucks County Moment” as part of a new tourism campaign, PhillyBurbs. com reported. The county’s tourism industry supports more than 11,000 jobs and contributes $865 million to the local economy, according to the report. This year, Visit Bucks County’s campaign will include an ad on a Manhattan double-decker bus that advertises Parx Casino. The organization will also advertise the Michener Museum’s Grace Kelly exhibit, which opens in October, according to the Philly Burbs report.
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AmerisourceBergen Corporation announced it has completed the previously announced divestiture of its contract packaging business, AndersonBrecon, to an entity formed by affiliates of an investor group led by Frazier Healthcare VI for $308 million in cash. HEALTH CARE
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Developer Bart Blatstein is purchasing the Marketplace Design Center at 2400 Market Street, Philadelphia Magazine and Hidden City reported. Details of the sale have not yet been announced, but the cost of the 470,000-squarefoot building is estimated
Trinity Health and Catholic Health East recently announced the official closing of the consolidation of the two health care systems to create one of the nation’s largest Catholic health systems. The new organization — which has not yet been named — will be based in Livonia, Mich., while maintaining a divisional office presence in Newtown Square, Pa., as the organization continues its integration.
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Despite Openness, Redistricting Changes Needed
Eric Boehm is bureau chief for PA Independent, a project of the Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity
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Redistricting in Pennsylvania — and anywhere else for that matter — is messy business. But there is a chance that things will be a little better when the state’s power brokers get together to redraw the state’s legislative district maps in 2021 (following the next U.S. census), thanks to the state Supreme Court, a young woman from Allentown and, yes, even the leaders behind the messy political process. A little background: The new state House and state Senate district maps finally were approved by the state Supreme Court last week, bringing to an end an 18-month legal battle. The court had rejected a previous set of maps in January 2012, ordered the legislative elections in 2012 to take place using the district lines drawn in 2001 and told the legislative leaders responsible for drafting the map that they needed to do a better job. By all accounts, they did just that. The new maps split fewer municipalities and counties and have fewer districts that look like animals out of a fantasy tale. The Supreme Court ruling is something of a game-changer for future iterations of the redistricting process. Chief Justice Ron
Castille did not lay down precise limits for how far lawmakers can stretch constitutional requirements that all districts are equal in size and respect current political borders, but the precedent will keep future maps in check. More importantly, it gives the court a precedent to strike down future maps if the process strays too far from the constitutional rules. The woman from Allentown is Amanda Holt, a piano teacher by day and a redistricting activist by night who created her own versions of the House and Senate district maps and challenged those drawn by state lawmakers. Ms. Holt’s maps were the prime reason why the Supreme Court struck down the legislative maps in 2012. Her versions required fewer county and municipal splits and generally looked much better than the gerrymandered monstrosities produced by the lawmakers. And hard as it might be to believe, the lawmakers themselves are another reason to hope for a better redistricting process in 2021. The 2012 process was the most transparent redistricting process in state history. That’s not saying much, but it’s still something. Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi
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and his staff deserve credit for spearheading the effort to put all parts of the process — from preliminary maps to legal challenges and rulings — online for everyone to see. On one hand, this should be considered a bare minimum level of disclosure for state government in the 21st century. But on the other hand, it’s nice not to be disappointed about government transparency for once. Of course, there is always room for more improvement. As Ms. Holt told me this week, the commission charged with drawing the maps should conduct more of their meetings and negotiations in public. Hearing comments from the public (as they are required to do) is one thing, she said, but the public should get to hear what the commission is thinking as they construct the maps, too. She’s right. We should get to see and hear more about the internal discussions that shape the legislative districts we all have to live with for the rest of the decade. After the Legislature moved in a positive direction on redistricting transparency in 2012-13, I hope it’s not too much to hope for even more reforms when it all starts over again in eight years.
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Bill Looks To Remove Wells Fargo From Depository List
Timothy Holwick is a freelance writer covering Philadelphia government. Find more coverage at citycouncilmatters.com. CONTRIBUTE Send comments, letters and essays to feedback@ regionsbusiness.com. Opinions expressed by guest writers do not necessarily reflect those of Region’s Business.
On Thursday, May 9, 2013, Councilman Jim Kenney introduced legislation that would remove Wells Fargo National Association from the list of City Depositories found in the Philadelphia Code. Wells Fargo was added to that list via legislation in June 2012. The Philadelphia Code provides for a list of designated City Depositories which are banking and financial institutions that meet certain statutory criteria. Some other banks on the list include PNC Bank, TD Bank, Citizens Bank, Bank of America and Citibank, to name a few. In order to qualify, the bank must be FDIC insured, provide their quarterly statements of condition and earnings to the City of Philadelphia, and provide independently audited annual statements concerning their business with the City. In addition, the bank must provide an affidavit certifying that it does not participate in predatory lending, as well as statements regarding the progress of their community reinvestment goals.
The benefit of being a City Depository is, put simply, the privilege of handling the City’s funds. The Philadelphia Code authorizes the Director of Finance, City Treasurer, and City Controller to take funds not required for immediate use and invest them in various low risk savings and investment options with these banks. Perhaps more importantly, the banks often have the privilege of handling the City’s payroll processing, which brings customers and funds to these banks. Wells Fargo was heavily involved in the handling of Philadelphia’s payroll and investing. The legislation would push approximately $250 million out of Wells Fargo. Councilman Kenney cited Wells Fargo’s debt-service payments and swap payments as his motivation for introducing the legislation. In short, the councilman argues that banks like Wells Fargo have accepted taxpayer dollars to keep them from failing, but do not back off these payments that continue to plague the Philadelphia School
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District’s budgetary efforts. Councilman Kenney opposed adding Wells Fargo to the list of City Depositories in June 2012, along with Councilmembers Johnson, Blackwell and Goode. Councilman Goode had sought to remove Wachovia in 2006 for poor lending performance; the same poor performance which helped lead to Wells Fargo purchasing Wachovia. Councilman Goode continued to question why Wells Fargo did not undergo an approval process but essentially slid into Wachovia’s spot as a City Depository. The bill was just introduced, so a hearing will follow. This hearing was essentially Councilman Kenney’s intent. He wants banks to have to explain why they should have Philadelphia’s money. In order to fight this removal from the City Depository list, Wells Fargo will have to show up in City Council and answer Councilman Kenney’s questions. The hearing has not yet been scheduled.
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Obama’s Second Term ‘A Political Nightmare’
Charlie Gerow is CEO of Quantum Communications, a Harrisburg-based public relations and issue advocacy firm.
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In the past half century, second-term presidencies have not enjoyed an easy ride. They’ve been marked by scandal or mired in turmoil. Richard Nixon resigned in disgrace (following a similar fate for his vice president, Spiro Agnew), Ronald Reagan was sidetracked by Iran Contra, Bill Clinton was impeached, and George Bush, although not burdened with any scandals of the magnitude of his predecessors, had more than his share of problems. Scandals usually involve financial impropriety or sexual misconduct. But the most damaging are those rooted in political abuse or corruption. More and more, that’s what we’re seeing with the fledgling second Obama administration. The first 100 days of Obama’s second term have been a political nightmare. His second inaugural address was incredibly political in tone and substance. Gone were the lofty visions of “hope and change.” In place was a coldly political agenda. It shouldn’t be a surprise. Just four years earlier the soaring rhetoric of the 2008 campaign quickly crashed, as a Chicagostyle political machine rammed ObamaCare through the Congress without a single Republican vote. Now the president can’t muster enough votes to get his gun-control legislation passed, despite exerting all the political muscle he had. Into an equation already politically troubling for Obama is a wave of scandals that are now rocking his administration. First is the Benghazi fiasco. Congressional hearings are beginning to peel away the layers
place much earlier than she admitted — cerover what was already clear: an American ambassador and three others in our service tainly in 2011 and likely even back to 2010. were left defenseless, despite warnings, and The use of the IRS to intimidate politimurdered by a terrorist attack. The facts cal opposition is reminiscent of the Nixon were then covered up. Administration offiand LBJ years. It’s an abuse of government power that has outraged even the most cials “scrubbed” talking points about what liberal in Washington. And an inspector really happened, and Susan Rice and others general’s report, expected to be out in the misled the American people. coming days, threatens to blow the lid off More questions than answers remain. this one. Why don’t we know who wanted the But the Obama political machine has an Benghazi “talking points” altered? Why did interesting take on this pernicious attack on the White House persist in making misleadindividual rights and freedom of expression. ing statements about the “talking points?” One of his chief operatives, David Plouffe, When Susan Rice re-wrote the script, who called it “dumb and wrong,” but couldn’t was helping her? Most troubling of all, how resist the urge to circle back to saying that could Jay Carney attempt to sweep questions aside by blithely saying, “(the Benghazi Republicans would now use the scandal to further their own fundraising. Forget about massacre) was a long time ago?” the outrageous abuse of government power The administration may have turned a and the chilling effect on free speech; it’s all blind eye to this, but there certainly was a about politics. sharp focus on the tax status of their politiThe latest scandal may be the most intercal opponents. There’s no question that the IRS targeted Obama’s political opponents esting to watch unfold. It seems that the for special scrutiny. While President Obama Justice Department is after the Associated once joked at a college commencement that Press, too, secretly grabbing phone records he could use the IRS to punish political of its reporters and editors. The AP has opponents, nobody is laughing now. already termed it “a massive and unprecDespite her boss, Doug Schulman, edented intrusion.” As this scandal unfolds testifying under oath before a congressional the worm may turn, and the media’s darling hearing that no such targeting ever occurred, may be called more and more to account. IRS Director of Exempt Organizations Lois The Watergate phrases of 40 years ago — Lerner now admits that they targeted orga“Who knew what, and when did they know it?” — are reverberating through the halls of nizations with “patriot” ( a dirty word?!?!) or “tea party” in their descriptions, as well as the Capitol. They will echo across the land. those who focused on government debt, over And the American people will increasingly spending and taxation. Really?!?! And there call for what is rightfully theirs: the truth, is mounting evidence that the targeting took the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
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It’s the job every beer enthusiast dreams about at night. Chris McGrath began working with Lambertville, N.J.-based River Horse Brewing Company as one of two primary brewers in late 2009, joining a team of about a dozen craft-beer connoisseurs. At the time having produced 4,000 barrels of beer per year, the brewery now produces about 10,000 — and will soon more than double when it relocates to a brewery in Ewing, N.J., where the team will push out 25,000 barrels of beer per year. “Right off the bat, if we just get a couple bigger tanks, we’ll be able to grow our business 100 to 150 percent,” Mr. McGrath said. “It’s a big expenditure, but [it’s a big] payoff when we can finally take advantage of it and hit those numbers.” Chris Walsh and Glenn Berveo first took over the company as it was entering bankruptcy in 2007, turning it around to the point where it now distributes beer in the entire state of New Jersey, the five boroughs of New York, Long Island and the Greater Philadelphia region. The team completely changed just about everything except the name when it took the reins, opting to rebrand, repackage and go back to the drawing board with recipes. And it’s paid off. “We consider ourselves fortunate that we’re able to make something that people really love and are so passionate about. We share that passion too, and that comes through the moment you walk in this door,” Mr. McGrath said. “In two years, I’d love to go into most bars in Philly and New York and see a River Works handle. “We want to be a local staple.”
After a decade’s worth of work in finance, and too many roles with AT&T to count, Jack Wilson has more than enough corporate experience to land the same sort of cushy, financialsector job most would apply to as a joke. But in July 2012, inspired by his son’s graduation from Drexel, Mr. Wilson decided to leave corporate life in the dust and reboot. Today, he owns and manages Liquid Capital, a factoringfocused international commercial finance company based out of Doylestown, Pa., with offices spread across North America through a network of 70 — count ‘em, 70 — of his closest colleagues in finance and law. This network is largely underwritten by $2 billion company Accord Financial, with Mr. Wilson otherwise supporting Liquid Capital himself through a back office he pays for that handles package presentations of potential clients. “What I do, in a nutshell, is try to help businesses accelerate their cash flow for services and products they’ve already sold or rendered,” Mr. Wilson said. “I purchase their invoices from business customers, and get them the money they need right now so that as soon as their clients get those invoices, I’ll be able to pay them, and I’ll give them 75 to 80 percent of those invoices right up front, once their customer agrees.” From there, Liquid collects the invoices and provides 20 percent back — minus his fee, which ranges between 1.5 and 4 percent. Mr. Wilson said he learned the ins and outs of cash flow while running a collections team at AT&T, having to deal “sensitively” with clients who
MY GOAL IS TO BUILD THEM A BRIDGE TO BANKABILITY.’ —JACK WILSON, LIQUID CAPITAL
owed the then-$40 billion company money. “We had to collect from our most substantive clients — clients that [spent] $50 million to $1 billion a year with [AT&T],” Mr. Wilson said. “But these weren’t the classic comedy-show collection calls where someone’s screaming at the other person — you had to be sensitive to customers who maybe owed $100,000, yet they were a $900 million client.” Mr. Wilson said the entrepreneurial spirit of starting a small business is what motivated him to leave behind the corporate world, eventually realizing it was more in line with how he wanted to give back. Though factoring continues to be a higher-volume industry in Europe than in the United States, Mr. Wilson insists it is hardly a new concept, and stands as a viable option for small business owners in a financial crunch. “My goal is to build them a bridge to bankability.”
Correction: Last week’s Capital Seekers: Green Monkey Dev should have said the company launched in February of 2013.
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Rise of Philly’s Maker Community BY CARY CARR
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Philly’s Maker Community The following “maker community” developments took place in the last year: — NextFab Studio below Graduate Hospital (21,000 square feet): Stalwart prototyping facility NextFab Studio, which opened in 2010 at the University City Science Center and now has more than 200 members, relocated to an expanded 2025 Washington Avenue campus last fall, increasing its size and bringing in new technology, like updated 3D printers, water jet cutters and a spray booth for painting. — Dept. of Making and Doing in University City (4,500 square feet): Last weekend, the Department of Making and Doing officially opened its new headquarters in the former NextFab space. — 3rd Ward in Kensington (27,000 square feet): During Philly Tech Week, Brooklyn’s 3rd Ward hosted the first open house for its new Kensington space as it begins accepting members for its offerings of light manufacturing, varied making and coworking. — Sculpture Gym in Fishtown: The art-focused effort that launched with help from the Knight Arts Challenge has entered its second year of membership and is expanding metalworking and other classes. — The Loom in Kensington (250,000 square feet): The former textile mill now hosts a variety of industrial firms.
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ike you’ve seen with coworking, the wave of ‘maker’ communities is growing in Philadelphia. In the past year, big industrial membership-spaces that offer access to expensive manufacturing and fabrication tools and classes has blossomed in the neighborhoods outside of Center City. Itsuki Ogihara, NextFab’s community development specialist, said the interest in physically making things could be a “backlash of the digital world.” “People are recognizing the importance of working with physical material and physical objects,” she said. “I think it becomes more sort of emphasized or important in a digital age like this where we do everything on the computer.” NextFab’s former University City space has officially become the home of the Department of Making and Doing, a hightech workshop formed by NextFab with partners Breadboard, the Hacktory and the Public Workshop. That growth is perfectly representative of the trend here. The collaboration aims to provide tangible benefits with creations meant to stimulate change throughout the city. Also seeing a lack of hands-on work in the city’s typical educational settings, the Hacktory, which hosts workshops, classes and a project night, provides formal instruction on technical topics and a central meeting place for community members to build things and utilize skills they may have otherwise not realized. Georgia Guthrie, director of the Hacktory, said this hands-on learning helps engage individual curiosity. “You use a different part of your brain,” she said. “You want to use all of the tools in your toolbox. Understanding things through touch and how pieces feel together, I think, is an underutilized skill, and it’s also something that’s really valuable.” The Hacktory is a recipient of a 2013 Philly Tech Week micro-grant for its Balloon Mapping Workshop with Hacks/Hackers Philly and the Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science. The project will culminate in a balloon that can capture images. Hive76, another supporter of the DIY movement, will also receive a micro-grant for an Ultimate Open House and Expo in which they will provide demonstrations and
classes. Like the Hacktory, Hive76 provides an area for hacking projects and tools for members to utilize. And by hosting a weekly open house, the member-run co-op encourages non-members to work on their own projects while having the opportunity to network with current members. What’s to cause for the large number of organizations supporting this hands-on movement in the city? Philadelphia may be the ideal location to foster a maker movement, according to Chris Dardaris, founder of the Loom, a sprawling industrial building that offers private workspaces and tools for tenants to have creative freedom. With its access to goods and services, inexpensive rent and a rich history in manufacturing, Mr. Dardaris said the city’s opportunities, paired with peoples’ desire to build things, can lead to a larger sense of creative freedom. “I think in a lot of ways, in our society, things are very disconnected,” Mr. Dardaris said. “The Internet disconnects us, and our busy lives essentially disconnect us from the tactile environment we live in. I think some of us desire to have greater interaction with that level of tacticity and want to kind of do something that feels real.” Mr. Dardaris said he hopes to continue to evolve the Loom’s services to include an education program and more services for tenants like a health insurance network, a directory with resources on grant funds and an accounting service. Alex Gilliam, founder of the Public Workshop, a program for youth and their communities to improve their neighbor-
hoods by solving problems and tackling specific needs, said he has seen “incredible power” through people using their hands and minds to make stuff. He said youth in the city have been able to find better solutions as well as empowerment through a more inspired form learning. The Public Workshop’s new home base will be at the Department of Making and Doing while its Tiny WPA program, which allows young adults in Philadelphia to have a positive impact in their neighborhoods, will continue with projects across the city like the Building Hero Project. Launched earlier this month, the Building Hero Project, which acts as a “miniature boot camp,” helps young adults to come out of Tiny WPA projects and become better leaders, marketers, designers and ultimately change agents for their communities. By collaborating with community partners, Tiny WPA continues to support adults by helping them do work on other projects or leveraging them into other agencies or community processes. This year participants in the Building Hero Project are creating benches that will go sale for the public. In June the team will use their skills to design and build secretly playable park benches with community members for a pocket park in Kensington. “Everyone loves to make stuff, even if it’s crappy,” Mr. Gilliam said. “It really goes back to the fact that that’s how we learn. You go back to when you were a kid, you learned by testing, you learned by doing.” Christopher Wink contributed to this report. This article was originally published by Technical.ly Philly at TPhilly.com.
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Tina Paparone finds comfort in having a business partner who not only feels like family, but is. Here, she details working with her sister Angela on Happenings Media, as well as what events her readership has to look forward to in the month ahead.
In her words: our years ago, when Angela Giovine and I launched our first digital magazine, I was lucky to have a business partner that I could rely on 100 percent; she also happens to be my sister. We celebrated the victories, pulled each other up through the challenges, and pushed each other to set ambitious goals. That relationship has, no doubt, been a key driver to our success. When we founded Happenings Media a couple years later, creating that same reliability, positive energy, and overall camaraderie among the network became a top priority — highlighting outstanding content, celebrating each other’s sales, spitballing ideas, answering questions, and simply listening when needed. After all, on the wild ride of entrepreneurship, having a firm grip on something is invaluable.
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With Happenings Media licensees regularly interact on a daily basis through a variety of communication platforms set up by the network; we’re thrilled at the level of collaboration established. More so, this spring, we’re getting to see that positive energy spread, pushing both established and new licensees to reach new heights. Having just completed the second annual Bucks Happening Red Carpet Bash on May 2, two more exciting events are on the way: Montco Happening’s Red Carpet Bash on May 17 at the Blair Mill Inn in Horsham, and SoJo Happening’s celebration of Camden County’s most happening at the Collingswood Ballroom on June 27. Whether it’s internally within our licensing network or externally through any of the 20 hyperlocal markets reading our magazines, we can empower a community through The second annual Bucks Happening Red Carpet Bash was held May 2. support, information and inspiration. HERB GRANA/GRANA STUDIOS
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Studies show that nonverbal communication carries 65-93 percent more impact than the words spoken, especially when the message involves emotional meaning and attitudes. These nonverbal cues include facial expressions, eye contact, gestures, posture, body movement, tones of voice, dress, grooming and even your environment — wordless signals that speak volumes. Here are my top five non-verbal communications tactics for achieving maximum performance in the workplace: Look ‘em dead in the eye. When speaking to others, ideally look directly into their eyes at least two to three seconds before looking away or moving to the next person. Glancing at someone for one second or less is known as ‘eye-dart’ and conveys insecurity, anxiety or evasion. Smile with your eyes. Keep your cool even in the face of monumental stupidity. Because your facial expressions are closely tied to emotion, they are often involuntary
and unconscious. For example, in a meeting with your boss, he or she may say something to make you angry. However, a pensive scowl, rolling eyes, and pursed lips may not help matters. If instead you want to convey a positive collaborative attitude, choose to hold a slight smile, nod occasionally, raise your eyebrows to show interest, and maintain good eye contact. Pay attention not just to what people are saying, but how they are saying it. Separate the emotion from the actual words being used. Focus and seek to understand the nonverbal elements of your voice and how others are talking include the tone, pacing, pausing, volume, inflection, pitch and articulation. Try recording your side of conversations throughout the day. Listen to them and identify what emotions and attitudes your voice tone communicates. Dress appropriately for the occasion. Make sure your clothing fits the situation. Make sure ‘business casual’ is not ‘business careless.’ Choose high quality, well-tailored
garments that convey professionalism. Depending on your corporate culture, wear a business suit or at least a jacket for important meetings and presentations, especially with senior leaders and customers. Avoid showy accessories, busy patterns, and tight or revealing garments. If advancement is your goal, convey a polished professional presence in the workplace. Dress for the job you want, not the job you have. Turn all of your electronics off. Don’t be the one who causes a distraction. Don’t check email, look at your phone, send a text, check the scores, or disengage in any way. Stay focused and attentive using open body language. Square your shoulders and point your toes directly toward the people you are meeting with. Lean into the conversation, focusing your eyes, ears and all your energy on them. To ensure your colleagues and key stakeholders receive the maximum value you bring to the table, be sure to send the nonverbal cues that convey confidence, credibility and professionalism.
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THE NEW SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT Philadelphia’s major universities have been embracing innovation and entrepreneurship for many years, but new programs and competitions are bringing the brightest minds to town.
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s Philadelphia continues to strive to be a hub of innovation, city officials and businesses coordinate their efforts to make the region more appealing to businesses and innovators. But if further progress is to be made, politicians and business leaders will have to work closely with the region’s top colleges and universities — who are already bringing the brightest young minds to Philadelphia — to create better entrepreneurs and then to convince them to stay. Temple, Penn, Villanova, La Salle and Drexel all have programs built to support their undergraduates pursuing careers in entrepreneurship. But what’s more important is that these schools, and others, are also creating programs to help their alumni and members of the regional community as they start businesses, improve current businesses or apply innovation to the public sector.
Geoff Pierret is a freelance writer living in Boston Megan Waldron is a freelance writer living in Ardmore Illustration by Don Lee
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ing towards certification, they are also communicating and illanova’s Center for interacting with successful Innovation, Creativity, entrepreneurs and practicing and Entrepreneur- skills of innovation and creship (ICE) is a cross-college ativity in a timely and approprogram offered to all students priate form. to develop their ability to think Because of programs such and create as entrepreneurs. as ICE CaPS within the cenTheirs is one of the newer ter, Villanova’s students have and recently progressing become leaders and innovainnovation programs among tors even as far as the growth the area’s universities. and direction the organization “Five years ago, it was an has taken. idea,” said the Center’s Faculty The conversation is active Director, James Klingler. “And and exciting among involved we couldn’t even convince the students who share their president that it was a good experiences and ideas on the idea.” official blog of the ICE Center, Mr. Klingler says and the interaction Villanova’s president, between LinkedIn the Rev. Peter M. for networking and Donohue, didn’t even Twitter for news and like the name. Of the updates keeps a thorname ICE, “He said, ‘It ough progression of sounds cold,’ and we interest and ideas. said, ‘No, it’s cool!’” Mr. Klingler speaks Klingler A few short years latwith inspired energy er, Mr. Klingler said, the ICE about the ICE Center, and his Center is one of the president’s enthusiasm carries throughfavorite investments. out the faculty, staff, and the A concept and office that students who are geared into began with the intent to pro- the entrepreneurial spirit by mote entrepreneurial skills as the community. He is proud a basis for leadership skills has of the “absolutely fantastic entrepreneurial programs” grown quickly. Now, the center hosts events, now part of the university’s competitions, and guest livelihood. All of the programs within speakers. The center also supports two undergraduate the center are focused toward minor programs, one in the teaching rounded concepts of College of Engineering, the leadership through entrepreother in the Villanova School neurship. of Business. “Rarely is an entrepreneurOne of the most positive ship very narrow anymore,” products of the ICE Center is said Mr. Klingler, who added the ICE Certificate Program that the ICE Center promotes for Sophomores (ICE CaPS). study and experience across Undergraduates studying in disciplines to make certain any discipline are invited to Villanova’s interested underengage in the year-long series graduates are prepared to be of workshops, meetings with masterful in multiple areas. mentors, projects, and active The challenge in developing participation in various forms the program was “to find what of social media. was our niche,” Mr. Klingler Not only are students work- said.
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ince the mid-’90s, students at Drexel University have had the opportunity to compete in the Business Plan contest, which promotes both a healthy level of competition and a monetary motivation for would-be entrepreneurs. In 1999 Drexel put a new emphasis on entrepreneurship by opening the Baiada Center — a place where students could focus on their ventures and turn written ideas into real world models. The Center has since transformed into the Laurence A. Baiada Institute for Entrepreneurship. Today, Drexel now holds three annual contests to promote its student entrepreneurs: the Business Concept Paper Competition, the Ian J. Berg Business Plan Competition and, perhaps the most exciting of the three, the Baiada Business Incubator Competition. Winners of the Incubator Competition receive not only seed money to help get their business off the ground, but also an opportunity to spend time in the Institute’s incubator developing their concepts under the helping hand of mentors from both the University and the Philadelphia entrepreneurial community. The competition is not limited to Entrepreneurship majors or LeBow College of Business students, but is open to all Drexel students and alumni as well as students from other universities. Apart from its inclusive attitude, what separates the Baiada Institute’s incubator from other programs is the active role it expects of its inhabitants. As the Institute’s executive director, Mark Loschiavo, puts it, “In addition to being able to learn about entrepreneurship from an academic perspective, at Drexel you’re going to get the experiential learning that goes with it. You’re really going to learn how to do it by doing it.” The students really are doing it, and the results are everywhere. If you’ve ever paid for your parking meter in Philadelphia with a Smart Card, then you’ve seen the results of the Baiada Institute’s incubation process. A group of students who were tired of digging for change every time they hit the meter discovered that the meters in town had the capacity for Smart Card operation.
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Drexel students developed a Smart Card to pay for parking throughout Philadelphia. PHILADELPHIA PARKING AUTHORITY
After presenting their idea to the state, they were able to convince parking authorities to change the hoods. Together they developed a Smart Card solution to pay for any parking meter with a card. Mr. Loschiavo truly believes that the results of the Institute’s entrepreneurial spirit are running throughout Drexel University. A few years ago, one of his freshman students approached Mr. Loschiavo about the lack of a homecoming dance at Drexel. Hoping to bring the event back to the university, the student went to the school’s officials and was in turn offered a budget of $50,000 to build an event for students and alumni. “It’s not every university that would give a freshman $50,000,” says Mr. Loschiavo, but that is just part of Drexel’s entrepreneurial outlook. Drexel will continue to foster this entrepreneurial spirit amongst its students. Mr. Loschiavo and his faculty at the Laurence A. Baiada Institute hope to maintain that active role he finds so important to the student entrepreneur’s success. “We will train them, bring in mentors, bring in guest speakers and take the students through a very structured approach to have them validate their assumptions and crystallize their business models.”
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Penn Inspires Creative Thinking Through Business Competitions
Penn Student Awarded For Female-Friendly Program BY SAMANTHA SHARON
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ntrepreneurship has long been an academic focus at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Since 1973 students have had the opportunity to study entrepreneurship and harness the knowledge and skills necessary to bringing their ventures to life. Whether they are business students or not, Penn undergrads are encouraged to take part in co-curricular programs that will allow them to get involved in entrepreneurship. And, while these co-curricular programs don’t offer academic credit, they certainly give the students real world experience that will help them in their future ventures. “We want to make sure everything we do gives our students an opportunity to learn,” said Wharton’s Entrepreneurship Managing Director, Emily Cieri, who believes that interfacing with a variety of resources sincerely aids future entrepreneurs. By opening its doors to non-business undergrads, Wharton shows students that they will have to interact not only with other business men and women, Zenkars cofounders Venkat Jonnala (left) and Jean-Mathieu Chabas but also with engineers, lawyers and won the Wharton Business Plan Competition. SUBMITTED contractors to name a few. And the students, it seems, have embraced this philosophy. the middleman and gets vehicles directly from Students at Wharton initiate many of the the seller to the consumer. entrepreneurial events on campus. Each week These students hope to be counted among the the eClub hosts Entrepreneurship Mondays, a ranks of other successful businesses founded by student-run program where those who share Wharton graduates such as Warby Parker, a the entrepreneurial spirit can discuss ideas or prescription eyeglasses company that not only learn from the experience of others about the produces affordable eyewear, but gives back to post-graduate business world. the global community with its “Buy a pair, give It’s not that Wharton doesn’t provide opportu- a pair” program. Giving back is an obvious priority among nities for its students (there are many); the fact is simply that Wharton students take a proactive Wharton alumni as many of them contribute to approach to their education, and, as Ms. Cieri the school not only fiscally but also actively as said, “We let students drive events because in judges of the Business Plan Competition or as the entrepreneurial world if you’re going to get speakers in the classroom. Ultimately, Wharton has built a strong entreanything done that’s the way you have to do it.” Like other schools, Wharton offers a variety preneurial community where faculty, students of friendly competitions where student groups and alumni interact in the hopes of improving develop concepts that they hope will be chosen the region by strengthening its economy. as the one funded and turned into a real world The University of Pennsylvania is known as a business. beacon of academia, but it is the students that This year, judges of the Wharton Busi- have created this culture and harvested the fruits ness Plan Competition’s Venture Finals chose of their studies by becoming active participants ZenKars, an online auto retailer that cuts out in both their education and their community.
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enn engineering freshman Kate Miller is trying to help engineering become more of a female-friendly field. On April 3, Ms. Miller was awarded the AspireIT award by the National Center for Women and Information Technology, an organization committed to getting more women interested in computer science and information technology. The award specifically honors female students who create and run computing-related outreach programs for middle school girls. “I’ve always been passionate about engineering, and I wanted to share that with other girls,” Ms. Miller said. Ms. Miller won the award for the creation of a new program that she will teach this summer at the camp Penn GEMS: Girls in Engineering, Math and Science, a week-long camp for sixth through eighth grade girls that takes place on campus. She will be using the $5,000 grant she received as part of the award to purchase Microsoft tablets for the campers so she can teach them how to use Kodu, a visual programming language used to create computer games. “I’ll try to provide a tutorial experience [for Kodu] and then let [the girls] pursue different projects,” she said. Ms. Miller explained that Kodu will teach the girls how to think logically and like programmers in an easy, non-intimidating way. “[The program] adds another level of computing to the camp so we’re really excited about that,” Michele Grab, director of the Advancing Women in Engineering Program at Penn, who helped Ms. Miller with her project for Penn GEMS, said. When Ms. Miller was in high school, she won her first AspireIT award for her program FIONA — Future Innovators of New Albany — which worked to mentor middle school girls in New Albany, Ohio who were interested in science, technology, engineering and math. “In middle school, girls don’t consider [engineering], it’s not on their radar,” Ms. Miller said. “That’s why I founded FIONA. I think it’s important that girls consider [the engineering field] even if they don’t ultimately pursue it.” Part of Ms. Miller’s reasoning for creating FIONA and the new Kodu track for Penn GEMS is her concern about how underrepresented women are in engineering, with women making up just 20 percent of the field. This article was originally published by The Daily Pennsylvanian at thedp.com.
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Entrepreneurship Center At La Salle Looks to Help Both Students, Alumni
Temple Teaching Innovation Across All College Programs BY MEGAN WALDRON
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urrent students at La Salle University have access to entrepreneurship-based programs within the School of Business to help guide them into a future with jobs that do not yet exist. But La Salle prides itself not only on its opportunities available to its student body, but also on the resources it makes available to its alumni and members of the community. “The La Salle Center for Entrepreneurship exists to assist students, alumni and our community explore and pursue their entrepreneurial interests,” explains the website at lasalle.edu. Services offered by the center include the following:
“For more comprehensive support, our Center can help tackle key projects and tasks for your venture.” Workshops And Informational Programming “Live, online and pre-recorded information sessions and presentations are available to further your education in entrepreneurial topics.”
The center is run by Executive Director Steve Melick, who was the founder and president of MODA Technology Partners from 2005 to 2010, when the company was sold to Lonza Group, according to lasalle.edu. “Prior to its acquisition, Steven helped MODA raise $8.5M in venture capital, establish its financial and Venture Mentoring “Direct correspondence with operations infrastructure, our Center to plan, organize implement a product delivery and execute your business organization and manage all goals including venture for- of its legal and IP concerns. mation, business plan support, MODA was founded from financing, market strategy, within Steven’s prior company, The Sycamore Group, where and other activities.” he was founder, President and Project-Based Support CEO,” according to the center’s website. Services
emple was founded by an entrepreneur.” Even at its birth, Temple University was invested in the entrepreneurial spirit. Robert McNamee, Academic Director of Temple’s Innovation & Entrepreneurship Institute, recognizes the university’s history as an intriguing factor in its now massively successful organization. The Princeton Review ranked Temple’s entrepreneurial programs for undergraduates No. 8 in the country, a statistic telling of the success of the Institute, which McNamee says assembles a “balance of entrepreneurship and innovation.” The Institute facilitates itself through all of Temple’s 17 schools via outreach programs, special events, Mohamed Ali Niang TEMPLE.EDU and undergraduate courses. There are three different entrepreneurship certifi- country of Mali, which he accomplished by cates offered for non-business majors, and, re-distributing the income of rice farmers perhaps most significantly, Temple offers an while creating a way to sell fortified rice at an affordable price. undergraduate Entrepreneurship major. Mr. McNamee recognizes Mr. Niang as “We’ve developed a lot of working pieces, and there are so many different components,” one of many successful Temple graduates who benefited not only from his education, said Mr. McNamee. The first programs began about 15 years but also by the funding the program provides ago, but the entrepreneurial spirit has via awards and competitions throughout the cemented itself as part of the university’s university. “What we’re trying to do is introduce stucharacter by its overwhelming impact and growth. dents to other versions of entrepreneurship,” Mr. McNamee said the Dean of Temple’s Mr. McNamee said. Fox Business School now acknowledges Not every student is going to start his or three core areas of undergraduate educa- her own business, he said, but the ultimate tion: international business, technology and purpose of the program is to make every entrepreneurship. The increasing trend in student employable. Entrepreneurial skills developing undergraduate students to gain make a student more appealing in any career. The Institute’s Executive Association is entrepreneurial skills is asserted by the unidesigned “like the Apple genius bar for entreversity. The university didn’t stop at making inno- preneurs.” Students can access information or vative skills as accessible as they are a priority. one of the 400 mentors in the program with The intricate means of designing programs their specific interests, and the sources will based on a student’s specific interests are narrow down classes or programs based on ongoing and most importantly, successful their individual disciplines. Entrepreneur Russell H. Conwell founded for several Temple graduates. Last year, 24-year-old Mohamed Ali Niang Temple on the basis of change and progresset up Malo Traders LLC after graduating sion. No matter the many successes and accofrom Temple in 2011 with a dual major in lades for the Innovation and EntrepreneurInternational Business and Entrepreneur- ship Institute, perhaps the most promising ship. His business was designed to fight thought is that they are still working to make poverty and malnutrition in his home it greater.
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When Hiring A Professional Home Stager Makes Sense BY SANDY SMITH Let’s face it — not all of us are design geniuses. We may keep our homes spic and span, with everything in its place, but that place still might not show off its qualities to greatest advantage when it comes time for you to sell it. We may know all the little things we need to do to make the inside of our homes more appealing to buyers, like getting rid of clutter and removing peculiarly personal mementoes or odd knicknacks, but we may still not have our home in ready-for-itscloseup condition. In such cases, it makes sense to engage the services of a professional home stager. Home stagers are interior design specialists who focus on turning sellers’ homes into show pieces. They know the little tricks that turn a room from ho-hum to daz-
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zling, where and how to place furniture to maximize the appearance of spaciousness, and the steps to take to downplay a home’s defects. And in just about all cases, they can do it with the objects you already own. What’s more, hiring a home stager can be an excellent investment. A survey conducted by the HomeGain website found that professional staging produced a $1,780 average boost in a home’s selling price, or a 586 percent return on investment. Which means that if you can afford it, hiring a professional stager can result not only in a faster sale of your home, but also a more profitable one. The Philadelphia area has many talented, knowledgeable home stagers to choose from. This article was originally published by the Philadelphia Real Estate Blog at PhillyLiving.com.
5 beds | 6 full, 3 partial baths Timeless & Elegant describe this true estate in prestigious Gwynedd Valley. Built by the builder, for the builder, the residence is sited on over 1.5 acres and offers over 11,000 sf of living space. This home was designed for those with the most discriminating taste and an appreciation for fine living.
5 beds | 5 full, 1 partial baths Meticulously maintained, solid built, Philomeno & Salamone estate home offers nearly 6,000 sq.ft. of living space on 3/4 acres w/3 bay garage. Conveniently located on a private cul de sac in desirable Blue Bell,this home was designed to entertain with its’ custom finishes t/o including newly renovated gourmet kitchen.
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5 beds | 3 full, 1 partial baths Tastefully decorated colonial in desirable Polo Club Estates in the heart of Gwynedd Valley. Sited on over an acre, this well positioned, brightly lit home has improvements throughout. Hardwood flooring, custom paint, newly renovated powder & mud rooms along with numerous other finishes that highlight this beautifully maintained home. 4 beds | 3 full, 2 partial baths Sited on a nearly 1 acre wooded lot in popular Penn Oak, this pretty stone colonial boasts nearly 7,000 sq. ft. of living space w/ its full, finished, walk-out basement. This home offers a bright, open floor plan with access to the outdoors from nearly every room. Kitchen w/ Breakfast Room is welcoming and provides access to large, rear deck for easy entertaining.
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Townhomes To Replace Old Pennsport Church BY SANDY SMITH
highly modernist designs tend to favor gray, black and white color palettes, Last week, demolition work began on makes a nod to South Philly brick trathe former St. John the Evangelist Epis- dition with the street facades of these copal Church at 3rd and Reed streets in homes, which present a restrained modPennsport. ern face to Third Street. Here’s what’s going to replace it: 12 Turn the corner, however, and the strip new single-family townhomes. tease begins: the high-contrast colors The homes will be arrayed along a peek out from behind the brick on the driveway entered from Reed Street. Reed Street side and assert themselves Entrances to six of the homes will face along the interior driveway. 3rd Street, and the other six will face the We will have more information on this driveway. project as work progresses. The 12 townhomes will each have The homes are being marketed by three bedrooms, 3.5 baths, partly fin- Noah Ostroff & Associates, the sponsor ished basements, rear decks and roof of the Philadelphia Real Estate Blog. This article was originally pubdecks accessed via pilot houses set back from the street. lished by the Philadelphia Real Estate Harman Deutsch Architecture, whose Blog at PhiladelphiaRealEstate.com.
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Buildings Then & Now:
Medieval-Inspired Home To Student Center BY MATT STRINGER
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ax Riebenack, a poor immigrant from Bavaria who made good in Philadelphia’s post-Civil War boom years, lived all over Powelton Village in the late 1800s: first at 3718 Baring Street, then at 3701 Powelton Avenue. A fixture on the social scene in the streetcar suburb that the area was at the time, he wasn’t satisfied with those homes and more than likely decided to build something to showcase his style. He accomplished that and more, building one of the more exotic dwellings in the area at 227 North 34th Street. Built in 1888, this three-story rusticated stone eclectic style house is marked by the medievalinspired crenelles facing Powelton Avenue with a wraparound porch and the two-story metal-sheathed turret with conical red slate-shingled roof that addresses the street corner. The bay windows finish off the house’s musical style. As the historical photos show, it stood back at the turn of the 20th century much as it does today. The house stayed in the Riebenack family until 1928, when the Drexel Institute of Technology acquired the building and three separate plots of land owned by the Riebenack estate for $125,000. The home then became the location for the Home Management House for female majors of the Domestic Science and Arts Department in 1929. Drexel placed a nursery school on the first floor and the Home Management offices and classrooms on the
Above: An early view of the Riebenack mansion. The gas lamp suggests it too predates Drexel’s 1928 acquisition of the house. DREXEL UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES
Below: Max Riebenack’s third Powelton Village mansion, now Ross Commons at Drexel University. MATT STRINGER
top floors. Sometime in the 1950s, Drexel named the building the Grace Godfrey Home Management House, after Grace Godfrey, the second director of home economics and advisor to women. She focused the education of women in the home on “Mopping, marketing, mending, and managing.” Though these courses seem almost out of the 1800s and incredibly anachronistic, that’s how it was then. If nothing else, the domestic science students sure must have enjoyed living in this Gothic masterpiece of a house. It’s unknown if the curriculum stayed the same for all those years between the 1950s and 1990, but in 1991 an electrical fire in the daycare shuttered the building for 10 years and completely closed off students from experiencing one of Drexel’s crown jewels in Powelton Village. That changed when alumnus and former chairman of the Board of Trustees George Ross and his wife Lyn made a generous donation to the university to renovate the building in 2001. In 2003, after an extensive $5.2 million renovation project, the 17,500-square-foot building was dedicated and renamed the Ross Commons in honor of the Ross family and reopened as a student center complete with tiled fireplaces, opulent furnishings, a grand staircase and two eateries, Sabrina’s Café and Spencer’s Burgers. This article was originally published at PhiladelphiaRealEstate.com.
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Lessons From Sheryl Sandberg Natalie W. Nixon, PhD, is Director of The Strategic Design MBA at Philadelphia University.
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It felt more like I was at a Diane Von Furstenberg dress sample sale — not a talk by one of the most distinctive women in business today — as I made my way through the throngs of women at the Bellevue Hotel. Such was the frenzy that Sheryl Sandberg cultivated at 7:30 a.m. April 4 as women from the Philadelphia region vied for a copy of her bestselling book, Lean In, and to catch a glimpse of her as she was escorted from the VIP reception to the ballroom to share her words of wisdom with us. Women today are happy to look to Sheryl Sandberg as a model of executive leadership for several reasons. First, she’s humble. Sheryl is willing to share the scars, mishaps and fears that have been part of her journey to get to such lofty heights in business today. Second, she’s part of the executive leadership team of, if no longer the coolest company, then still a very relevant company: Facebook. Third, whether we have already “made it” and are part of an elite fleet of executive women, or yearn to be members one day, Sheryl serves as a good example of how to play with the boys and still maintain your sense of humor and your stilettos. Sponsored by the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce’s Arts & Business Council, and adeptly interviewed by Tamala Edwards of the WPVI/6abc news team, I walked away with the following five lessons from Sheryl Sandberg — not in any particular order: Lesson No. 1: It’s not a ladder, it’s a jungle gym. What a brilliant metaphor! This visual depicts the circuitous and loopy path that most dynamic careers have. Ladders are sturdy and are great to get us from point A to point B, but they’re pretty lousy if once you arrive at the top, you look down only to realize that everyone has scurried to another building! Plus, in that situation, a ladder would mean that there’s only one way to move on: down. Jungle gyms, on the other hand, allow for both vertical and lateral pathways, they exercise a range of muscles in our bodies, and they assume that sometimes we will have to travel down and across multiple times. The jungle gym metaphor also doesn’t assume that “up” from your current vantage point is the final destination.; most of the time, we cannot actually see the pinnacle. As Sheryl pointed out, she would have
never been able to say in 1987 that she wanted a career related to the internet and social media… for obvious reasons.
LADDERS ARE STURDY AND GREAT TO GET US FROM POINT A TO POINT B, BUT THEY’RE PRETTY LOUSY IF ONCE YOU ARRIVE AT THE TOP, YOU LOOK DOWN ONLY TO REALIZE THAT EVERYONE HAS SCURRIED TO ANOTHER BUILDING.
Lesson No. 2: Who you marry is the single most important career choice you can make. Quietly as it’s kept, this is very true! And as Sheryl pointed out, this matters for same-sex couples as well. Just as men have always factored in what type of woman they would marry in terms of how supportive she would be, how well she can navigate social mores, and how flexible she would be with all the transitions that come with more responsibility in leadership — so too should women. The difference is that women can’t have wives. Women are still responsible for the majority of housework and childcare even when working full time outside of the home. So choosing a mate who not only says he supports you but shows through his actions is critical. Choosing the right partner should be the icing on the cake; for some of us, we may be better off staying single until we can choose best for us on multiple levels. The natural extension of Sheryl’s comment is that there need to be more organizational cultures where the realities of women wanting to start families is brought up in conversation by male leadership, making it safe to engage women in conversations that are complex. Lesson No. 3 Don’t leave before you leave. This one was a bit tricky for me to grasp initially, but as Sheryl explained what she meant, I realized it too was another golden nugget.
This lesson cautions us to not put up barriers and excuses for why we don’t try and go for a particular opportunity in an organization because we assume that “One day I will be married,” or “One day, I will have children…” and that, therefore, today’s opportunity won’t be very practical. For example, a single woman with no children who says “no” to an opportunity to move abroad to Sri Lanka to work for a multi-national company because of the assumption that such a move will reduce her chances of meeting the right guy, getting married and starting a family is saying “no” before, in reality, the circumstances necessitate her saying no. Lesson No. 4: The law never said we can’t talk about discrimination. Sheryl made the excellent point that we have progressive laws in place to ensure that individuals are protected against discriminatory acts based on our ethnicity, our gender, our ability to bear children, etc. Except that what has predominated is a code of silence to actually engage in conversation about how those laws impact our lives. How has being discriminated against make us feel? How much more complex is it to operationalize those laws in the midst of the stickiness of interpersonal relationships, tradition and circumstance? Lesson No. 5: Strangers can’t mentor you because they don’t know you. This was a terrific cautionary tale. Sheryl shared her feelings of being adverse to the idea of mentoring someone you don’t know because it ends up being a bit stilted and inauthentic. Instead, she proffered the advice to those who seek mentorship to help someone. Think about it: When you are being helped and assisted by someone to do even the most mundane tasks, you get to know them on a level that truly demonstrates to you the ways in which they show up and are engaged. The opportunities to mentor, advise, help and refer them become much more organic and heartfelt. So, offer to help on a project, and that person may very well end up mentoring you. I’ve historically been adverse to the word “executive” because it has come across as a bit stiff to me. However, Sheryl Sandberg is a wonderful example of an executive female leader because she fluidly executes on her principles and prods us all on. Check out her inspiring Lean In campaign at leanin.org.
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Let’s Fund-Raise For Philadelphia Schools
Mandated Pension Cuts Will Hurt Public Education
It’s ironic that a university can raise $4.3 billion during its five-year campaign, yet an entire city can’t raise $300 million for its schoolchildren. That’s not a criticism of Penn, which does give back to the community.... ...Given the fiscal crisis facing Philadelphia public schools, however, Penn and other local colleges and universities ought to consider doing more. After all, investing in pre-college education would also serve the universities’ long-term interests by feeding them a higher caliber of incoming local freshmen and helping with the retention of talented faculty with school-age children.
Because the state Legislature postponed needed increases in employer contributions for a decade, school districts and the commonwealth have not paid what they should. As a result, the impact of future increases to the state and school districts’ budgets for their share over the next four years — eventually topping out at close to 30 percent — will require tax increases and/or severe budgetary cuts for both the state and school districts to meet future obligations. Unless future investments make up losses, employees and/or taxpayers will have to fund the difference. Since school district revenues have been negatively affected by the economic downturn, mandated PSERS increases could result in severe cuts to districts’ budgets that could negatively impact delivery of quality public education.
JUN-YOUB LEE ON INQUIRER.COM, 14 MAY, 2013
Former PA Gov. Leader Leaves Legacy of Reform For a one-term governor during the late 1950s, George Leader had lasting influence across the state and through the decades, right up until his death Thursday at age 95. Former Gov. George Leader received the Rosemary Award for his and his family’s fight against Alzheimer’s disease. Just last year, he helped spur Pennsylvania to pass sorely needed prison reforms. The changes reflected his long-held belief that the state was wasting money and lives by being too quick to throw non-violent people in prisons and doing too little to help them with they come out. More than 50 years earlier, as governor, he modernized Pennsylvania’s shameful mental health care system, reforming what had been warehouses of neglect and indifference. PATRIOT-NEWS EDITORIAL, 10 MAY 2013
Legislators, Not Teachers At Fault for Pension Crisis Not only did the legislators vote themselves a 50 percent increase in their pensions, but also they severely contributed to the crisis by allowing school districts to contribute less than what was needed. In the meantime, the teachers have always continued to make their contributions. Yet these same legislators have responded to the crisis with talk about cutting back on teachers’ pensions.
NANCY SAUERS ON PHILLYBURBS.COM, 14 MAY, 2013
State Redistricting Breaks Constitutional Rule Section 16 of Article 2 of the Pennsylvania Constitution reads: “Unless absolutely necessary no county, city, incorporated town, borough, township or ward shall be divided in forming either a senatorial or representative district.” But although the number of municipalities split by the previous plan was cited by the court for the rejection last year, the plan approved Wednesday leaves the division of many municipalities unchanged. Among those who will see confusing splits are Pottstown and Phoenixville. In Pottstown, the First, Second and part of the Seventh wards of Pottstown will fall into the 26th House District, currently represented by longtime Chester County Republican Tim Hennessey. The Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and other half of the Seventh wards will continue to be represented by the 146th House District, a seat currently held by freshman Democrat Mark Painter. Phoenixville will be split between the 157th House District, currently represented by Republican Warren Kampf, and 155th House District, now represented by Republican Becky Corbin.
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@DePasqualaPA Spanier’s salary highlights another reason why state-related universities should come under PA open records law.
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@CunninghamProf Kudos to Gw colleauge Jeffrey Rosen, named new CEO of National Constitution Center 7 MAY 2013
@EconomyLeague Much needed link to growing economies! Qatar Airways to add nonstop route to PHL 7 MAY 2013
@Edufacey Rewarding Teachers Innovations: South Philly High teacher wins $20K award for ed-tech startup 10 MAY 2013
@MattBuchanan Flight attendant aggressively dressed down lady for putting phone in airplane mode. “I have an iPhone. That’s not off. Want me to show you?” 14 MAY 2013
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99%
Adult airline passengers who travel with a portable electronic device (a smartphone or tablet) and carried at least one onboard while traveling in the past 12 months
69%
Adult airline passengers who travel with a portable electronic device and have used at least one of the devices during a flight
30%
Adult airline passengers who have accidentally left a portable electronic device turned on during a flight
59%
Adult airline passengers who reported always turning their portable electronic devices completely off CONSUMER ELECTRONICS ASSOCIATION
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Americans who perceive adults with crooked teeth to be unsuccessful
48% Americans ages 18-24 who have untagged a photo on themselves on Facebook because they didn’t like their smile
36%
Americans who are unhappy with the appearance of their teeth and believe better teeth would lead to a better social life
14%
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Babies per million born in 2013 named Liam, the most popular’s boy’s name for the second consecutive year
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Babies per million born in 2013 named Emma, the most popular girl’s name every year since 2011 BABYCENTER.COM
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Americans who are unhappy with their teeth and feel that they might be missing out on a better job
People who said “medium layers” is the best hair style for women
46%
28%
American men who said their first name is easy to spell
Men who said their first name has “a family significance”
36%
18%
American women who said their first name is easy to spell
Women who said their first name has “a family significance”
72%
People who said “bed head” is the best hair style for men
63%
People who said the “bowl cut” is the worst hair style for men
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Babies per million born in 2013 named James, the most popular boy’s name in 1950
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