2018胡桃山音樂營排定7/19-8/12

中華表演藝術基金會  Foundation For Chinese Performing Arts               3 Partridge Lane, Lincoln, MA 01773 ChinesePerformingArts.net Foundation@ChinesePerformingArts.net  The 27th Annual Music Festival at Walnut Hill 胡桃山音樂營 July 19 - August 12, 2018 Boston, Massachusetts, USA Application Deadline: April 5   Foundation@ChinesePerformingArts.net www.ChinesePerformingArts.net LOCATION: Walnut Hill School for the Arts,  12 Highland St., Natick, MA 01760.  About 15 miles west of Boston, Massachusetts. APPLICATION DEADLINE April 5, 2018 Late application will be considered depending upon space availability. Application fee: US $70 AGE AND ENROLLMENT: Age 14 or above. Total enrollment 45 students. No upper age limit. Special arrangement is required for applicant younger than 13. Faculty 2018 (alphabetically) Piano Jonathan Bass,  Tema Blackstone Bruce Brubaker Wha Kyung Byun, Piano Master Class Hung-Kuan Chen  陳宏寬,  Pi-Hsien Chen  陳必先 Ya-Fei Chuang 莊雅斐 Alexander Korsantia  Meng-Chieh Liu  劉孟捷 Victor Rosenbaum Russell Sherman, Piano Master Class Minsoo Sohn , Mana Tokuno Violin James Buswell ,  Lynn Chang張萬鈞 Nicholas Kitchen,  Magdalena Richter Kristopher Tong Viola Jessica Bodner,  Hsin-Yun Huang  黃心芸 Scott Lee 李捷琦,  Mai Motobuchi Cello Yeesun Kim Laurence Lesser, Cello Master Class Carol Ou  歐逸青,  Sam Ou 歐维聖 Bion Tsang  章雨亭  Composition: Yang Yong 楊勇  Chamber Music Master Class Yehudi Wyner Benjamin Zander  Clarinet:  Thomas Hill  Flute : Sue-Ellen Hershman-Tcherepnin  Saxophone : Kenneth Radnofsky  PROGRAM: Two to Three private lessons per week for piano, violin, viola, cello, double bass, flute, clarinet, oboe, saxophone, composition, and others (upon request). Chamber Ensembles Orchestral Performances Master Classes Stage presentation workshop Concerts with faculty members and students Attending concert at Tanglewood Music Center, visiting Norman Rockwell Museum, and others Visits to New England Conservatory, Harvard University, Museum of Fine Arts, and other historical sites in the metropolitan Boston area (subject to schedule availability)                                     AUDITION Live audition and/or DVD/YouTube audition is required for all applicants except students recommended by faculty members. Returning students should contact Director Dr. Catherine Tan Chan 譚嘉陵 f or waving the audition. Application forms and fees are required for all applicants including returning students. Each applicant should prepare at least two contrasting pieces or two contrasting movements of the same piece of his/her own choice that will represent his/her musical level and achievement. Live audition is required for Taiwan and/or China. DVD/YouTube audition is required for Hong Kong, US, Canada, China, and other countries.  CONTACT; Taiwan: Applicants from Taiwan will be auditioned in Taipei by Professors 黃維明, 林明慧, 鍾曉青.  The exact date and location will be arranged by Mrs. Meir Chen陳美娥 Phone:+886 2 22302162,  Fax: +886 2 22306222, Mobile: 886-910-381-528, Email: meir.chen88@gmail.com. China: Ms.  Jonie Qiuning Huang, Shanghai Conservatory of Music.  黄秋宁, 上海音乐学院教师 Phone: + 86-136-519-07568 (for text only). Email: huangqiuning@shcmusic.edu.cn, Wechat: Jonieplaythepiano Dr. Haobing Zhu , Assistant Professor, Shanghai Normal University. 朱昊冰博士, 上海师范大学教师 Phone : ＋86-177-210-22602 (for text only). Email: bingpiano@foxmail.com. wechat: 17721022602    Hong Kong, US, Canada and other countries: Applicants should submit a recently prepared DVD or YouTube to the Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts, 3 Partridge Lane, Lincoln, MA 01773.  Foundation@ChinesePerformingArts.net. It will be presented to faculty members for evaluation. Piano Concerto Competition 2018: This year 2018, the concerto piece is Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54  The concerto concert with Mercury Orchestra is on Saturday, 8/11/2018, 8 pm, at Harvard Sanders Theatre.  The competition will be held on Friday, July 27, 2018, 2:30 pm (To Be Comfirmed) before faculty members, invited jury, and Channing Yu, conductor of Mercury Orchestra. Here is a list of concerti performed since 1996. Lang Lang, Yeol-Eum Son, Max Tan, Eric Lu, among others have played. http://www.chineseperformingarts.net/contents/festival/index-Orchestra.htm TUITION: There is a non-refundable application fee of US $70 for each application. The tuition is US $3,000. Financial Aid ranging from US $500 to $1,000 will be awarded to qualified applicants on financially needed basis.    UPCOMING EVENTS -----------------     Saturday, 1/27/2018, 8 pm, Jordan Hall,  Pi-Hsien Chen  陳必先, pianist    Saturday, 3/31/2018, 8 pm, Jordan Hall,                                                    Angelo Xiang Yu 于翔 violin    Andrew Hsu             徐鴻,piano    The 27th Annual  All-American Chinese  Brush Painting and Calligraphy Competition   (April 15, 2018)  全美青少年國畫書法比賽    Roger Wong 黃汝琛, age 13, Liu Xiaoyong Studi, MA麻州劉曉勇畫室 Kaden Chen 陳萬盛, age 11, Ichen Art Academy, CA 加州宜真美術學院 Saturday, 5/12/2018, 8 pm, Jordan Hall,  Dang Thai-Son 鄧泰山, pianist   The 27th Annual Music Festival at Walnut Hill  胡桃山音樂營 July 19-August 12, 2018 Concerto 2018: Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54   We Need Your Support Support us make a   Donation www. 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AG HEALEY SUES MENTAL HEALTH CENTER FOR ILLEGALLY BILLING MASSHEALTH FOR UNLICENSED AND UNSUPERVISED PATIENT CARE

AG HEALEY SUES MENTAL HEALTH CENTER FOR ILLEGALLY BILLING MASSHEALTH FOR UNLICENSED AND UNSUPERVISED PATIENT CARE

Allegations Concern 17 Mental Health Facilities Across Massachusetts

BOSTON – Attorney General Maura Healey has sued South Bay Mental Health Center, Inc. (SBMHC) for fraudulently billing the state’s Medicaid Program, known as MassHealth, for mental health care services provided to patients by unlicensed, unqualified, and unsupervised staff members at clinics across the state.

“This company provided substandard care to many vulnerable patients and fraudulently billed the state for its inadequate services,” said AG Healey. “MassHealth members deserve competent treatment from qualified individuals, and our office will continue to take action in order to remove these significant barriers to accessing critical mental health care in our state.”

            SBMHC operates mental health facilities across the state including in Attleboro, Brockton, Cape Cod, Chelsea, Dorchester, Fall River, Lawrence, Leominster, Lowell, Lynn, Malden, Pittsfield, Plymouth, Salem, Springfield, Weymouth, and Worcester. 

            The AG’s investigation into these allegations began after a whistleblower lawsuit was filed by a former SBMHC employee in August 2015 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

            The AG’s investigation revealed that SBMHC had a widespread pattern of employing unlicensed, unqualified, and unsupervised staff at its mental health facilities in violation of MassHealth regulations. The complaint alleges that by submitting claims to MassHealth for mental health services provided by unlicensed and unsupervised personnel, the company submitted fraudulent claims in violation of the Massachusetts False Claims Act. 

The AG’s Office alleges that all of the 17 clinics named in the complaint featured significant gaps in licensing and supervision of therapists during the relevant time period. Many of the employees at SBMHC clinics who were performing mental health services did not have degrees in social work (and therefore were not even license-eligible) and instead had degrees in such areas as expressive therapy, art therapy, creative arts therapy, school counseling, somatic counseling, and agency counseling. For example, the Attleboro Clinic, which had 125 employees, had only two licensed supervisors who could not have possibly provided the necessary supervision to all of the other unlicensed clinicians.

            From August 2009 to the present, MassHealth and its contracted managed care entities paid SBMHC more than $123 million for outpatient services including mental health counseling, such as psychiatric diagnostic evaluations and psychotherapy. The AG’s Office estimates that a significant portion of that $123 million was based on fraudulent claims for services rendered by unlicensed, unqualified, and unsupervised staff to more than 30,000 MassHealth members. 

            The complaint was filed in U.S. District Court against SBMHC and Peter J. Scanlon, who founded and owned the company until April 2012. The complaint also names H.I.G. Growth Partners, LLC and H.I.G. Capital, LLC (collectively, HIG), which created Community Intervention Services (CIS) to acquire SBMHC from Scanlon, as well as co-founder and CEO of CIS, Kevin P. Sheehan.

            The AG’s Office alleges that HIG, CIS, Scanlon, and Sheehan knew that SBMHC was providing services in violation of regulatory requirements and did not bring SMBHC operations into compliance or make any attempts to repay the money owed to MassHealth, as required by law. HIG allegedly cited the large profit margins as a reason to acquire the company.

MassHealth pays for mental health services provided to MassHealth members by qualified clinicians and counselors who are subject to certain licensure and supervision requirements. Mental health centers that employ those rendering mental health services must comply with certain core staffing and supervision requirements set out in applicable regulations.

Through this lawsuit, the AG’s Office is seeking treble damages, civil penalties, and prejudgment interest.

This case is being handled by Assistant Attorneys General Robyn Dollar, Gregory Matthews, and Kevin Lownds, along with Investigations Supervisors Denise Long and Lisa Bailey and Auditor Kaleigh Ross, all of the AG’s Medicaid Fraud Division, with substantial assistance from Special Agent Joseph Losavio of the Office of the Inspector General.

紐英崙中華公所主席陳家驊連任就職典禮(謝開明圖片輯)

謝開明圖片專輯

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陳家驊連任紐英崙中華公所主席，就職致詞。

紐英崙中華公所新屆職員，左起，雷國輝，珠蘇珊，陳家驊，

陳文浩，周樹昂。

駐波士頓經濟文化辦事處處長賴銘琪(左)頒賀狀

給紐英崙中華公所主席陳家驊。

駐波士頓經濟文化辦事處處長賴銘琪致詞。

駐波士頓經濟文化辦事處副處長陳銘俊致詞。

左起，張桂英，謝如鍵，陳裕逢等客家鄉親和波士頓僑務委員

蔣宗壬(右二)。

麻州眾議員麥家威(Aaron Michlewitz)致詞。

右起，陳裕禮，麥家威，陳毓璇，蔣宗壬，陳銘俊與僑界大眾觀禮。

陳家驊剛動過手術，拄著拐杖出席就職典禮。左為雷國輝。

波克來台灣商會蘇鴻昌卸任 楊羅東接會長

駐波士頓台北經濟文化辦處處長賴銘琪(中)主李會長交接。蘇鴻昌

(右)卸任，楊羅東(左)接任。

左起，顧問游勝雄，經文處副處長陳銘俊，新聞組副組長趙昌倫，

卸任會長蘇鴻昌，經文處處長賴銘琪，財務長郭競儒，新任會長

楊羅東，僑教中心主任歐宏偉夫婦合影。

(Boston Orange)麻州波克萊台灣商會1月6日在玉園餐廳舉辦2018新春年會，邀得駐波士頓經文處處長賴銘琪為會長交接主禮，共72名長官，嘉賓到會，見證蘇鴻昌卸任，歡迎楊羅東上任。

在年會中，蘇鴻昌感恩該會同仁過去兩年來的支持，讓他得以帶領該會完成許多任務，包括接待了從台灣來參加波士頓馬拉松賽的59名選手，募款6000美金賑濟德州Harvey颶風災民。他還特地感謝了2018年度接待馬拉松選手活動的贊助者，今年已募得5650元。

駐波士頓經文處處長賴銘琪，副處長陳銘俊，波士頓僑教中心主任歐宏偉，新聞組副組長趙昌倫等嘉賓都應邀致詞。歐宏偉報告了僑民證的申請辦法與優惠內容，肇昌倫預報今年4月14日將有159名馬拉松選手會到波士頓參賽，陣容強大，將大幅提升台灣知名度。

            北美洲台灣商會聯合總會婦女工作主任委員郭競儒，也在會上報告，北美洲台灣商會聯合總會將在今年2月1-3日，於檀香山皇家夏威夷酒店(Honolulu Royal Hawaiian Hotel )舉行第30屆第2次理監事聯席會議，並有可愛島，茂宜島，火山島等六種行程搭配的會後旅遊。

世界台灣商會聯合總會資深顧問游勝雄報告，該會於2017年9月24至26日在高雄市展覽館舉行了第23屆第3次及第24屆第1次理監事聯席會議，選出北美洲林貴香為第24屆總會長及大洋洲許明芳為監事長。今年3月8至12日，將在舊金山舉行第24屆第2次理監事聯席會議，會後有美國西岸南巨環世界奇觀七日遊，墨西哥郵輪游等旅遊活動。北美洲總會由會長吳光宜報告了第二次理監事聯席會議訂今年2月1至3日在於檀香山皇家夏威夷酒店(Honolulu Royal Hawaiian Hotel)舉行。

            波克萊台灣商會當天還在會上介紹了該會幹各有專長，組成了商務商機交流平台，包括會長楊羅東(電腦專家)，副會長鄭建盛，秘書長陳玉瑛，副祕書長劉秀春，財務長郭競儒，釣魚隊長游家霖，醫護組長張文欽，邱漢烈，舞蹈班長羅靜春，高爾夫球隊長蘇鴻昌，稅務服務組劉秀春，產業營運組的協和鋁門窗曾有良，ACON公司總裁林清文，投資理財組羅靜春，蘇鴻昌，Aufhauser紐約股票證券總裁吳碧倉，聖地牙哥金融財務保險事務所鄭莉容，工商地產組游勝雄，林元孝，住宅地產組李淑玲，關懷慰訪組林約瑟，青商會員組賴文照，攝影照相組石明軒，胡文驥，藥劑專業組林上填，蕭淑姜，牙醫專業組陳源清，李孟潔。餐館專業組洪榮倫，徐曉玲，旅館專業組周閔，教育專業組李豐盛，楊羅東，法律專業組有波克萊台商會創會會員，現為舊金山台商會會長的律師林政原等。

            波克萊台商會在年會中還安排了一場由蘇鴻昌主講的「你不理財，財不理你」，如何做好完善退休規劃的講座。(所有圖片及內容，游勝雄提供)

TREASURER GOLDBERG WARNS OF LOTTERY SCAM EMAIL

TREASURER GOLDBERG WARNS OF LOTTERY SCAM EMAIL

Massachusetts State Treasurer Warns Citizens of Fraudulent Emails Claiming a Donation From Powerball Winner

BOSTON – Illegitimate emails are being sent using the Treasurer’s name. They claim, “You have a donation from the former Massachusetts hospital worker, winner of the $758.7 million Powerball jackpot”. According to Treasurer Goldberg, these emails are a scam and have not been sent by her or the Massachusetts Office of the State Treasurer.

“It has come to our attention that emails using my name and likeness have been sent to residents across the state,” said Treasurer Deb Goldberg. “Our goal is to ensure that no Massachusetts citizen is taken advantage of as part of this scam.”

If you have any questions, please contact the Treasurer’s office at (617) 367-6900. You can view an example of a fraudulent email HERE.

2018第一場大雪竟讓波士頓市區淹水了

(Boston Orange)2018年的這第一場大風雪，出乎人意料之外的竟然讓波士頓淹水了，沿岸地區居民，還得撤離住家。不少人因為淹水，被困在車裡等人救，不少地方遭遇停電之苦。

包括波士頓，Scituate，Marshfield，昆士市 (Quincy)，以及其他沿海地區都淹水了。

在波士頓，新英格蘭水族館那兒的藍線地鐵站淹水了，車站得暫時關閉一段時間。消防員還用膠筏從州街和大西洋道那兒救出被水淹困在車裏的人。

一名住在附近的目擊者表示，大西洋道都會淹水，簡直讓人不敢置信。

多徹斯特那兒，水也淹到腳踝那麼高。東波士頓的McClellan 高速公路和多徹斯特的莫里塞大道(Morrissey Boulevard)也都因為淹水，暫時封街了。

波士頓市長馬丁華殊(Martin Walsh)宣佈，繼週四之後，波士頓公校週五也停課。波士頓市府要求民眾晚上不要出門，好保持道路暢通。

這場大風雪，估計降雪量會達到18吋。週四下午時，包括波士頓，昆士市等已有許多地方降雪一尺有餘。

麻州交通局(MBTA)關閉了渡輪服務，通勤火車班次減少，紅綠橘藍等地鐵仍照正常班次行使。巴士則按照下雪天的時刻開行。

麻州緊急管理局表示，截至晚上10點半，波士頓南部及鱈魚角一帶，約有6000戶人家停電。

波士頓羅根機場雖然沒關，但許多航空公司取消了航班。單只是藍捷一家航空公司就取消了400個航班。

在 Scituate，消防局長John Murphy透露，有人試著要把船移到安全地方時，掉進水裏，被人救起來。

               大約有20個人必須從他們的住家中撤離。海畔道的海牆也破損了。

               不只一個人把這場大風雪拿來和1978年的暴風雪相比。許多人說他們從來沒見過潮水漲得這麼快，這麼高。

               馬許菲爾德(Marshfield)消防人員也說，有20多人必須從家裏撤離，暫時被安置到鄰近中學去。他們還把八，九名車陷大水中的人，從車裡救出來。

               消防局副局長Louis Cipullo說，水都淹得高過車門了。

               在昆士市，也有許多車在靠近Neponset河一帶，陷入水中。

               昆士市消防人員表示，他們救出大約20名被水圍困的人。昆士市長辦公室表示，東Squantum街，Pawsey街，Rockland街，已及Sachem街，還有幾條小街，都已無法通行。

               昆士警察表示，另有大約10名駕車者在車輛陷於風雪中後，打電話求救。雪實在太多了。市府在昆士高中設立了緊急庇護所，以安置那些因為家裡淹水撤離的人。

               Chatham警察局發推特指出，莫里斯島路因為潮水過高，可能也無法通行，來往民眾應避開那條路。橋街封閉了，Barn Hill鎮淹水了。

國家氣象局表示，有好幾個沿海社區在下午時都報告淹水了，包括Dennis，Oak Bluffs, Vineyard Haven, Gloucester, and Nantucket等。