波士頓市撥款45萬元資助17個少數族裔文化藝術團體

MAYOR WALSH ANNOUNCES $450,000 COVID-19 RELIEF FUNDING INITIATIVE FOR BOSTON-AREA BIPOC ARTS AND CULTURE ORGANIZATIONS  This initiative is a collaboration between the City of Boston, The Boston Foundation, and the Barr Foundation   BOSTON - Monday, January 11, 2021 - Mayor Martin J. Walsh and the Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture, in partnership with The Boston Foundation and the Barr Foundation, today announced that 17 local BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) arts and culture organizations will each receive $25,000 unrestricted grants for COVID-19 relief. The grantees will also participate in a collective learning and discovery process to identify the shared and unique needs of organizations founded, led by, and serving communities of color to thrive in the Greater Boston area. These findings will directly inform future grant-making, technical assistance, and other supports.  "This is an exciting learning opportunity for us, and I'm looking forward to working with our funding partners and the grantee organizations to better serve Boston's arts community, and support the equitable representation of all cultures and artistic practices in the city," said Mayor Walsh.  Grantee OrigiNation Cultural Arts Center The organizations receiving relief funding are directly involved in supporting artists, including youth artists, to create and present new work, and they serve as cultural anchors in Greater Boston's BIPOC communities. Many have also pivoted in the pandemic to meet the basic needs of their communities and to support cultural workers deeply impacted by public health considerations. The grantee organizations are: BAMS Fest Black Market Castle of Our Skins Company One Danza Orgánica Dunamis Front Porch Arts Collective The Guild Hyde Square Task Force Jean Appolon Expressions North American Indian Center of Boston OrigiNation Pao Arts Center The Theater Offensive Transformative Culture Project Urbano Project Veronica Robles Cultural Center "We are proud to join with the City of Boston and the Barr Foundation in supporting these critical cultural organizations that serve as hubs and connectors within their communities," said Eva Rosenberg, Interim Director of Arts & Culture at the Boston Foundation. "The Boston Foundation is committed to investing in leaders and communities of color and we welcome the opportunity to deepen our relationships with these incredible groups as they help lead the way to a just recovery and much-needed social healing through the power of creativity and culture."    "Relief funding for BIPOC organizations is extremely important, especially given the current times we are living in and given the history of where BIPOC organizations have been on the funding ladder," said Shaumba Dibinga, Founding Artistic Director of OrigiNation Cultural Arts Center. "The hope is that this funding will bring awareness to other funders and create a larger pool for BIPOC organizations to receive relief funding and keep our businesses thriving." Funding from the City of Boston was made possible by the CARES Act, and this collaborative effort strives to immediately support small- to mid-sized arts organizations drastically impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. This initiative also aims to begin addressing historical disinvestment in BIPOC communities and the need for structural change that prioritizes investments in culture-bearers, artists, and arts organizations of color that are uniquely positioned to imagine and lead our communities towards a more just future. "This is such a committed, creative group of leaders, and we are grateful to invest in, and learn alongside them, in partnership with the Boston Foundation and the City," said San San Wong, Director of Arts & Creativity at the Barr Foundation. "Investments in the arts are investments in our civic infrastructure. Greater Boston has many BIPOC artists and cultural organizations that are elevating the diversity of voices and perspectives, and aspirations for justice in our communities. We hope this initiative provides both short-term relief and long-term insights into more authentic and sustainable ways to strengthen and sustain them." As part of this initiative, the City of Boston, The Boston Foundation, and the Barr Foundation will convene leaders from these grantee organizations, along with others, through a facilitated process that seeks to identify obstacles to accessing support and resources for BIPOC arts organizations. Together, the community and funding partners will attempt to imagine what a more equitable cultural ecology would look like, including specific recommendations for philanthropic investment and transformative capacity-building.  "I look forward to building off of this partnership and utilizing our learnings to advocate for more investments in Boston's ALAANA and BIPOC organizations," said Kara Elliott-Ortega, Chief of Arts and Culture for the City of Boston.

ON NATIONAL HUMAN TRAFFICKING AWARENESS DAY, AG HEALEY LAUNCHES TRAINING VIDEO TO DETECT LABOR TRAFFICKING AND HELP VICTIMS

 ON NATIONAL HUMAN TRAFFICKING AWARENESS DAY, AG HEALEY LAUNCHES TRAINING VIDEO TO DETECT LABOR TRAFFICKING AND HELP VICTIMS

AG’s Office Partners with Local Officials and Community Advocates to Distribute Training Materials

 

BOSTON—On National Human Trafficking Awareness Day, Attorney General Maura Healey is launching a new training video to help identify signs of labor trafficking and generate referrals to her office for potential investigation and prosecution. The AG’s Office is partnering with local officials, including the City of Boston, and community organizations to distribute the video and other training materials and has also created a digital toolkit for widespread distribution and use.

 

“Labor trafficking is significantly underreported because it can be difficult to detect—it’s a crime that often leaves victims hidden in plain sight,” said Attorney General Maura Healey. “My office created this training video to help assist victims and hold perpetrators accountable. I want to thank our partners across the state who’ve agreed to distribute this important information through their networks. My hope is that by working together, we can eradicate labor trafficking in Massachusetts.”

 

The AG’s Office has created a five-minute animated training video—available in English and Spanish—that is designed to aid local officials, inspectors, first responders, and law enforcement in formal training, and also aims to raise general public awareness about labor trafficking. The video helps people to understand and uncover signs of labor trafficking and allows them to refer suspicious information to the AG’s Office for potential investigation and prosecution. Since forced labor scenarios are often imbedded within legitimate commercial enterprises and within private homes, labor trafficking and the victims impacted can be difficult to identify and these crimes often go undetected and unreported.

The AG’s Office has partnered with the City of Boston to implement trainings for Mayor Martin J. Walsh’s Office of Workforce Development and for Boston’s Inspectional Services Department field staff, reaching key municipal workers. The City of Boston will also be sending the video to tens of thousands of city permit holders, including active construction permit holders, food service permit holders, and permit holders within the long-term rental housing and short-term rental registration database.

“Boston is a proud partner of the Attorney General’s efforts to reach out to and inform staff and workers of ways to prevent labor trafficking,” said Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh. “Our workers will be equipped with knowledge and tools to identify and report labor trafficking so it does not occur in any of our communities."

The AG’s Office has also distributed the training video and digital toolkit to the following partners, who will disseminate it to their staff, members, networks and on their platforms and will facilitate additional language translations:

 

Alliance for Inclusion and Prevention

Brazilian Worker Center

Brazilian Women’s Group

Centro de Apoyo Familiar 

Centro Comunitario de Trabajadores (Community Workers’ Center)/CCT
Chinese Progressive Association
Greater Boston Legal Services
Lynn Rapid Response Network and Pathways, Inc.

Massachusetts Alliance of Portuguese Speakers
Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety & Health
Massachusetts Health Officers Association 

Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition

Metrowest Worker Center/Casa Do Trabalhador - Casa Del Trabajador

 

The AG’s digital toolkit is designed to assist in pushing out the video on various digital platforms. The AG’s Office has also recorded a webinar geared toward municipal employee audiences. The webinar provides an overview of labor trafficking and ways that building and health inspectors, code enforcement officers, assessors, licensing staff, human services staff, school department personnel, police, fire, and emergency management departments can help to identify and combat it.  

 

This training video is a part of the AG’s efforts to combat human trafficking, and to raise awareness about this crime throughout January, which is Human Trafficking Prevention Month.

AG Healey has made combatting human trafficking a priority of her office and her office’s Human Trafficking and Fair Labor Divisions have been working together to address labor trafficking in Massachusetts. In Oct. 2019, AG Healey, faculty from Boston University School of Law, and representatives from the BU Spark! Initiative at BU’s Hariri Institute for Computing announced a new tool, the RESULT (Recognize & Evaluate Signs to Uncover Labor Trafficking) web-based app, which they jointly developed to help identify potential labor trafficking cases and connect victims to resources. The Office has also conducted trainings about labor trafficking for municipal employees, including a webinar designed for health and building inspectors, first responders, social services providers, and others. In Jan. 2020, AG Healey hosted the office’s first Human Trafficking Summit, a two-day conference to provide attendees with tools and information to help address human trafficking in Massachusetts.

 

In 2011, the Massachusetts legislature passed An Act Relative to the Commercial Exploitation of People, which created the crimes of trafficking in persons for forced services and for sexual servitude. “Forced services” are services performed or provided by a person that are obtained or maintained by another person who engages in conduct that essentially compels a person to services, either through threats, harm, restraint, confiscation or destruction of one’s passport or other immigration document, extortion, or causing financial harm. Penalties for violations of this law include imprisonment of not less than five years and a fine of not more than $25,000. Businesses found guilty of Trafficking for Forced Services can be fined up to $1 million. 

中華表演藝術基金會紀念傅聰

 

中華表演藝術基金會  Foundation For Chinese Performing Arts               3 Partridge Lane, Lincoln, MA 01773 www.ChinesePerformingArts.net Foundation@ChinesePerformingArts.net  In memory of Fou Ts'ong's 傅聰 visits to Boston and NYC during 1993-2007  A Photo Tribute (photos could be viewed better at: http://www.chineseperformingarts.net/contents/season/19930129/index.html ) During 1993 to 2007, the Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts had the great honor presenting Mr. Fou Ts'ong 傅聰 in 9 concerts and master classes at New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall and Carnegie Hall Issac Stern Auditorium. These concerts were enthusiastically received by packed audience and to critical acclaims.  Mr. Fou normally arrive one week early before his recital and stayed with Mr. and Mrs. Lena and Yu-Sing Jung to adjust jet lag. During those days, Boston area scholars and musicians gathered around him for dinner or tea to talk about literature, arts, music, history, philosophy, and much more in a relaxed and casual setting. Studio students of Mr. Russell Sherman and Ms. Wha Kyung Byun, many of them are great musicians now, were also invited to experience the most inspiring conversation that one could ever imaging. We wished that we could record some of the conversation, but doubtfully that would be allowed. Photos were not easy most of the time. Mr. Fou does not like anything rigid or formal. Everything has to be spontaneous and natural. We found a few photos and shared here in his memory. Mr. Fou's father Fou Lei 傅雷 once said, and he followed it faithfully all his life, that "It is most important to be a decent human being, then an artist, then a musician, and the last is a good pianist." A great human being Mr. Fou was. His legacy shall live on forever. Concert Dates 1, 01-29-1993 at NEC's Jordan Hall 2, 03-29-1997 at NEC's Jordan Hall 3, 02-20-1999 at NEC's Jordan Hall 4, 02-26-1999 at Carnegie Hall Isaac Stern Auditorium 5, 10-07-2000 at NEC's Jordan Hall 6, 04-13-2002 at NEC's Jordan Hall,  in memory of pianist Pei-Ping Hsu 7, 10-02-2004 at NEC's Jordan Hall,  for Fou Ts'ong's 70th  birthday 8, 10-09-2004 at Carnegie Hall Isaac Stern Auditorium, for Fou Ts'ong's 70th birthday 9, 09-29-2007 at NEC's Jordan Hall 1, 01-29-1993 at NEC's Jordan Hall (with Cathy Chan) 2, 03-29-1997 at NEC's Jordan Hall (with Rulan Chiao Pian 趙如蘭, Ted.Pian 卞學璜,Ivan Tcherepnin, Sue Ellen Hershman Tcherepnin, Hung-Kuan Chen  陳宏寬   3, 02-20-1999 at NEC's Jordan Hall (with Hung-Kuan Chen, Russell Sherman, A. Ramon Rivera) 4, 02-26-1999 at Carnegie Hall Isaac Stern Auditorium (at green room after concert with Nai-Yuan Hu 胡乃元 and others) 5, 10-7-2000 at NEC's Jordan Hall (at dinner with Russell Sherman, Wha Kyung Byun, Hung-Kuan Chen, Lena and Yu-Sing Jung, Gloria Chien 簡佩盈, Cathy Chan, and others. And at NEC with Yo Yo Ma and Lynn Chang) 6, 04-13-2002 at NEC's Jordan  Hall,  in memory of pianist Fei-Ping Hsu 許裴平 (1952-2001) (Master class with Ning An 安寧, and Yangwei Situ. A gathering at the Jung's with Marilyn Roth, A. Ramon Rivera,  Roberto Poli, Ning An, Gloria Chien, Winnie Ip, and Cathy Chan) 7,  10-02-2004 at NEC's Jordan Hall, for Fou Ts'ong's 70th birthday (A gathering with Yu-Sing Jung 鍾耀星, Ning An, Yuan Po Chiao 焦元溥, A. Ramon Rivera, Winnie Ip, Roberto Poli, Waifong Loh 陸惠風, Doris Chu 朱蓉, Rulan Chao Pian, Ted Pian, Gloria Chien, Lena Jung, and Cathy Chan.  At NEC with Rulan Chao Pian, Ted Pian, and Ai-Li Chen. And Bruce Brubaker, Russell Sherman, Wha Kyung Byun, Vivian Weilerstein, Lynn Chang, and Lisa Wong.) 8, 10-09-2004 at Carnegie Hall Isaac Stern Auditorium, for Fou Ts'ong's 70th birthday (At Carnegie Hall Green Room with Nai-Yuan Hu, Meng-Chieh Liu 劉孟捷, and composer Soong Fu Yuan宋撫元)        9, 09-29-2007 at NEC's Jordan Hall (with Hae Sun Paik, Russell Sherman, Gabriel Chodos, Bruce Brubaker, Mark Churchill, Ya-Fei Chuang 莊雅斐 , Robert Levin, Vivian and Donald Weilerstein, Benjamin Zander, Sylvia Chambless, and Richard Dyer   UPCOMING EVENTS Video of the Live concert at Gardner Museum 11-29-2020  by pianist Evren Ozel  Celebrating Mr. Russell Sherman's 90th birthday https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUDuiQiOzZI_M7iDN XWXEDA/videos    Saturday 01-30-2021, 7:30 pm Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum George Li, pianist Celebrating Mr. Russell Sherman's 90th Birthday Saturday 02-27-2021, 7:30 pm Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Angelo Xiang Yu, violinist Feng Niu, pianist   Saturday 03-20-2021, 7:30 pm Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Kate Liu, pianist   Saturday 04-17-2021, 7:30 pm Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Brannon Cho, cellist Eric Lu, pianist    Friday 05-14-2021, 8 pm Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Xiaopei Xu, pianist Saturday 06-12-2021, 8 pm Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Marc Ponthus, pianist Celebrating Mr. Russell Sherman's 91st birthday ***************************************** The following concerts have been postponed  due to Covid 19 1, 02-29-2020, 8 pm at NEC's Jordan Hall Yuan Sheng 盛原, piano 2,  03-21-2020, 8 pm at NEC's Jordan Hall Autumn Water 青雲綠水集 Principal Artists:  Jianbing Hu 胡建兵，Jian Bao 包键,  Tao Chen 陳濤，Yazhi Guo 郭雅志，Yi Zhou 周懿，Hui Weng 翁惠，Tao He 何濤，Frank Cassara, and Mike Block 3, 05-15-2020 , 8 pm at NEC's Jordan Hall Haochen Zhang 張昊辰, piano 4, The Second Annual International Concerto Competition 2020 Open to pianist worldwide  of age 30 and under 5, Summer FREE Concerts @ NEC 2020 夏日系列音樂會 August 5 - 22, 2020 6, 09-26-2020, 8 pm at NEC's Jordan Hall, Minsoo Sohn, piano,  Celebrating Mr. Russell Sherman's 90th birthday 7, 10-31-2020, 8 pm at NEC's Jordan Hall, Ya-Fei Chuang 莊雅斐, piano  8, 01-16-2021, 8 pm at NEC's Jordan Hall, Angelo Xiang Yu 于翔, violin 9, 03-20-2021, 8 pm at NEC's Jordan Hall, "Strings of Soul 弦之靈" with Wu Man 吳蠻, pipa, Hsin Yun Huang 黃心芸, viola  10, 05-15-2021, 8 pm at NEC's Jordan Hall, Yin Chengzong 殷承宗 piano,  celebrating Mr. Yin's 80th birthday Support Us, Make a Donation http://chineseperformingarts.net/donation/index.htm    Your tax-deductible donation enables us  to continue presenting the best artists,  maintaining low admission fee and  free student tickets.   Please support us especially at this time 現今社會動盪，人們生活中充滿不安。 文化藝術安定人心的重要性，在此時更為明顯。 但經費來源卻更艱難。您的免稅捐款， 可使我們繼續舉行高水準音樂會， 提供最低票價，及免費學生票。 並鼓勵青年才俊在古典音樂、傳統中國書畫、 及民族國樂樂器各方面學習傳承。 希望您慷慨解囊，大力支持。 Order Ticket Online: www.ChinesePerformingArts.net Email: Foundation@ChinesePerformingArts.net Foundation For Chinese Performing Arts Cathy Chan 譚嘉陵, Founder and President

波士頓警察局局長William Gross傳將參選波士頓市長

波士頓是警察局局長葛羅斯(William Gross)很可能參選市長。
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             (Boston Orange編譯)波士頓市長馬丁華殊(Martin J. Walsh)甫正式接受勞工部部長提名，他的繼位選戰立刻增溫。波士頓前鋒報(Boston Herald)傳出，波士頓市警察局局長葛羅斯(William Gross)有90%可能會跳入選戰了。

            已經宣佈參選波士頓市長的兩名波士頓市議員，依序分別為吳弭(Michelle Wu)和Andrea Campbell。

                                            維基百科上關於2021年波士頓市的市長選舉，除了前述2人，也已經列出10名可能人選。另有9人已經表態不會參選。

                                                        WBZ”夜面(NightSide)”主持人Dan Rea透露，波士頓市警察局局長葛羅斯告訴他，90%可能參選波士頓市市長，只是還要再和一些家人說，以確保每個人都支持這想法。

                                                    葛羅斯在波士頓警察局工作30多年，2018年才升任局長。Dan Rea說，他猜人們認為葛羅斯是一名很真誠的公僕，很多政客說要為民服務，只是為了贏得選舉，找個向上爬的墊腳石。

                                                在維基百科上列出來的其他可能參選者，包括當年和馬丁華殊競爭市長一職的現任波士頓是經濟發展長John Barros，麻州參議員柯林斯(Nick Collins，波士頓市不分區市議員Annissa Essaibi George，米高法拉提(Michael F. Flaherty，波士頓市議會議長Kim Janey，波士頓市健康及人民服務長Marty Martinez，麻州眾議員Aaron Michlewitz，波士頓市第六區市議員Matt O’Malley，麻州眾議員Jon Santiago，薩福克郡治安官Steven Tompkins。

下任波士頓市長該做什麼 英文報訪各界意見

               (Boston Orange 編譯)跨過長達20年的萬寧路(Tom Menino)時代後，馬丁華殊(Martin J. Walsh)時代才6年，波士頓就又要改朝換代了。在社會中「黑命貴(BLM)」，「白人至上主義者(White supermacist)」對抗，貧富差距懸殊之際，接下來該由誰當市長?該做什麼?恐怕是所有市民都需要謹慎思考，自己手中那一票該怎麼用的時候。

             馬丁華殊現在幾已確定會遠赴華府就任勞工部部長。波士頓市議會議長Kim Janey將代理市長一職。今年11月，無論是吳弭(Michelle Wu)，Andrea Campbell，或還未宣佈參選的Kim Janey這3名波士頓市議員中的那一人當選，波士頓市都將締造歷史紀錄，出現首位女性，有色人種市長。

             2013年萬寧路宣佈不再競選連任時，跳進市長選戰的人數高達23人，儘管後來只有12人認真角逐，選戰是真的熱鬧。

             那一年，馬丁華殊還是麻州眾議員，初選過後他立即收編John Barros，Felix G. Arroyo，以及Charlotte Golar Richie這3名實力最強競爭對手，接收他們的支持者。他和時為波士頓市議員約翰康納利(John Connolly之間的最後爭戰，結果就在大眾眼前。

             今年要在波士頓市競爭市長職位的人，面對的議題似乎更多些，一來波士頓市將近70萬的人口已更加多元化，白人佔58.6%，黑人29.4%，西班牙裔19.7%，亞裔11.1%，其中華裔5.3%，其次為市區豪華化，新移民紛紛被環境逼遷，居民間的貧富差距更加懸殊，再來是新型冠狀病毒大流行對不同行業造成的衝擊，差異極大。

             許多原本長期住在波士頓市的居民，由於住宅豪華，被迫遷離，新型冠狀病毒大流行逼使許多小企業關上大門，一些鄰里依然面對著街頭暴力的衝擊，人口的增加也使得街道交通更為擁擠，氣候改變導致的地下水位上升，也威脅著波士頓市的環境。

             波士頓環球報訪問了一些波士頓市內的活躍份子，領袖，行業專家，他們希望未來的市長如何因應這些挑戰。

             南端(South End)的MIDA餐廳東主兼廚師Douglas Williams希望下一任市長在幫助企業從新型冠狀病毒大流行中復原時，能設立一個娛樂餐飲業代表聯盟，處理諸如牌照，最低時薪，勞工政策等問題。

             亞裔資源工作室(AARW)行政主任，也是不賣(Do Not For Sale)這住宅團體的組織者Carolyn Chou表示，整個政府結構，在有個權勢在握的市長時，就更難處理城市所面對的複雜議題。任何首長，不論意圖多好都有盲點。因此應該改革章程，重新設計市政府，把更多權力的交給人民這部分必須在議程上。

             徒步波士頓(Walk Boston)行政主任Stacey Beuttell說，新型冠狀病毒大流行教給人的其中一課是人行道其實可以有很多用途，用餐，展示藝術品或聚會等等。

             麻州環境聯盟(Environmental League of Massachusetts)會長Elizabeth Henry表示，下一任市長應讓波士頓在氣候變化上做全國領袖。

             曾任Berkshire銀行高管的社區組織者Malia Lazu認為新波士頓市長應使得波士頓能吸引有才幹的年輕人，尤其是千禧年世代。

             指南針營運資金(Compass Working Capital)的總法律顧問Betty Francisco表示，市長選戰在於公平。他希望某個人能夠彌平族裔，教育，經濟及健康差距，這些扯麥特潘(Mattapan)，洛士百利(Roxbury)鄰里後腿的因素。要做到這點，新市長必須不為利益團體所把持。

             Graffito SP地產集團的鄰里策略及發展主任Gustavo Quiroga認為現在是個時機，讓一個對族裔不公平有親身體會，從警察，住宅到經營小企業，對城市的每一方面都紮根深入的人出來服務。

             洛士百利家長Tayla Andre想要下一任市長改變章程，讓學校委員會至少有一些委員席位是由選舉產生。目前是7名委員全由波士頓市長指派。

             波士頓不分區市議員Julia Mejia力促下一任市長設立選舉產生的學校委員會，廢除警察的幫派數據庫，投資公共教育，廢除考試學校障礙，防止人民失去住屋等。

             社區活躍份子Monica Cannon-Grant呼籲下一任市長在處理市內最迫切需要的獲取食物，反暴力資源時，能夠更加負責，透明。

             麻州眾議員Russell E. Holmes表示，下一任市長應該刻意的處理不公平現象，包括市府分發的數以百萬元計合約，目前只有約7%是發包給少數族裔及婦女所經營企業。還有市府內高薪警察及消防員不夠多元化的問題。

             華埠土地信托會主任駱理德力促下一任市長繼續在華埠內建造可負擔住宅，以穩定社區，反於豪華化。她說，在華殊政府執政期間，華埠增加了400多戶可負擔住宅，還開始計畫為華埠建永久圖書館，更改區域規劃規定以保護並穩定華埠的未來。

             公民權律師協會主任Ivan Espinoza-Madrigal表示，下一任市長應致力改革警察制度，增加人員多元化程度，真正的和族裔公平團體合作，而不是把來自納稅人的寶貴經費用於為歧視個案辯護。

             麻州環境的州主任Ben Hellerstein力促下一任市長落實現有大型樓宇的能源表現標準，並為新樓與訂定零能源規定，在可能情況下規定所有樓宇用太陽能屋頂。

             在波士頓經營傳播公司，最近才從市府獲得一份推廣旅遊合約的Colette Phillips表示，一大挑戰將是改善市府在聘用有色人種合約商上不那麼亮麗的記錄。

             地產經紀公司Colliers 國際的波士頓辦公室共同主席Kevin Phelan表示，下一任市長應重新調整奧斯頓(Allston)段落的麻州公路(Turnpike)。州政府正在找錢做這項目，並已轉向波士頓市府及哈佛大學求助。

             大波士頓地產委員會主任Greg Vasil表示，首要優先事務為召集一群企業及社區領袖，處理如何最好的幫助波士頓從新冠病毒大流行復原。

             Harpoon母公司麻州灣釀造公司的執行長Dan Kenary表示，培養像他們公司那樣，由員工擁有的公司，非常重要。

             城中波士頓企業改善區(Downtown Boston Business Improvement District)會長Rosemarie Sansone表示，下一任市長應該關注流浪漢和毒癮這兩個互為因果的流行病。(標題更新)

新冠病毒疫情依然嚴重 麻州新增7110人確診90人死亡 全世界累計確診人數即將打破9000萬

(Boston Orange)1月9日的新冠病毒(COVID-19)疫情，麻州有7,110宗新增確診個案，累計407,933宗，新增死亡人數90，累計12,798。

治療中的新冠病毒患者增加至88,845人，其中有2291人住院，445人在重症病房，280人插管。住院者的平均年齡為73歲。

這已是連續第三天，新冠病毒確診人數超過7000人了。不過住院人數降低了一點點，整體情況也比春季時好些。

全美各州的疫情，若以新增確診人數來看，最嚴重的是有25,720人確診的加州，其次為都有逾萬人確診的德州，佛羅里達州，紐約州，喬治亞州，北卡羅萊納州，亞利桑納州。若以新增死亡人數來看，最嚴重的是德州，有334人，其次為247人的賓州，232人的密西根州，149人的紐約州。

世界各國的疫情，最嚴重的仍是美國，新增確診人數為216,370 (約翰霍普金斯大學的數據則為新增283,204)，新增死亡人數為2,843。以新增確診人數來排序，其次為巴西的60,078人，英國的59,937人，南非的21,606人，法國的20,177人，義大利的19,978人，德國的19,189人。以新增死亡人數排序，超過1000人的有巴西的1115人，墨西哥的1038人，英國的1035人。

 

波士頓學院副教授宗家洸辭世 享年44歲

宗家洸。(波士頓學院官網照片)

                      (Boston Orange)國立中山大學101學年度傑出學校友，波士頓學院化學系副教授宗家洸，因新冠病毒引起併發症，1月5日不幸辭世，享年44歲。

                 宗教授是位優秀學者，他的納米科技研究，為解決世界能源危機，醫治癌症找出了潛在通道。至少曾發表過91篇論文，被引用過7994次。

                  波士頓學院(BC)於1月6日在學校官網上發佈宗家洸不幸辭世的消息。

             宗教授於2010年加入波士頓學院，從事化學，納米科技，以及材料科學之間的跨領域研究，專注方向為轉換能源的光催化材料，能量合成反應的非均相催化劑，可能導致高性能納米催化劑發展，並解決全球性能源短缺問題的研究。

             從細胞的生物機能得到靈感，使用多元成分的化學反應來得到更大效率，有效轉化二氧化碳為甲醇的串聯催化系統就是其中一項研究成果。

             使用納米規模的化學鍵籠來智慧化藥物遞送機制，用於醫治癌症及其他疾病，是另一項研究成果。

              宗家洸自己對科學的興趣源起於小學時參加全國小學科學比賽第三名，因此他也格外注重啟發青少年對科學的興趣。

他的同事們不僅稱許他的研究，還讚揚他做為老師、輔導者，對化學部以及大學的貢獻。

宗家洸來自台灣，畢業於國立中山大學，在加州大學聖塔芭芭拉分校取得博士學位，曾在加州大學柏克萊分校做博士後，2010年來到波士頓學院後，曾2度應邀，在新英格蘭台灣同學會會長聯席會議中分享他的人生經驗。

他在美國還有一個姐姐Frances Tsung。

https://www.bc.edu/content/bc-web/bcnews/campus-community/faculty/in-memoriam-frank-tsung.html