2016 MIT中國創新創業論壇 (圖片)

700多人報名參加2016年MIT-CHIEF會議。(周菊子攝)

MITCHIEF本屆會長馬方暢介紹該組織概況。(周菊子攝)

MIT史隆商學院副院長黃亞生談經濟，創業，也談川普
當選美國總統後，社會大眾應關注的方向。(周菊子攝)

輔導過500個創業團隊的台灣交通大學校友，也是瑞知
實驗室顧問的程天縱闡述他的產業4.0概念。(周菊子攝)

率領全世界最大實驗室，每年研究經費逾億的哈佛，
MIT教授Robert Samuel Langer, Jr. 在MIT-CHIEF會議
中分享經歷。(周菊子攝)

自動駕駛座談蔣者，左起，W凹Knight，TuSimple 創辦人
侯曉迪，雲啟資本創始合夥人黃榆缤，AutoX創辦人
蕭劍峰。(周菊子攝)

瑞知實驗室創辦人謝開泰在會場回應出席者。

醫療健康座談。(周菊子攝)

MIT機械工程系主任，美國科學院院士陳剛
主持新材料座談。(周菊子攝)

蔣文華(左)和曾任MIT-CHIEF會長的陳航
都是浙江大學校友。(周菊子攝)

紐英崙中華資訊網路謝惠(NECINA)主席容志誠(右)和會長
田田也來參加MIT-CHIEF活動。(周菊子攝)

雲啟資本創始合夥人黃榆缤(左二)等人擔任大賽評審。
(周菊子攝)

同列第三名的六隊領獎。(周菊子攝)

鄭衛鋒(左)，李豐(右)頒獎給大賽第二名團隊。(周菊子攝)

顏福健(左)頒獎給MIT-CHIEF創業大賽第一名 Lux Lab
團隊。創辦人沈亦晨(右)等。(周菊子攝)

YMobil創辦人暨軟銀執行企業主管顏福健(Eric Gan)。
(周菊子攝)

主講人之一，阿爾法公社創辦人許四清。(周菊子攝)

主講人之一，Power Vision 創辦人鄭衛鋒。(周菊子攝)

MIT 史隆管理學院講師Elaine Chen(右一)是講座主持人。
(周菊子攝)

硬體(Hardware)講座講者，左起，Matthew Nordan，金松，
Haowei Zhang，Dr. Bart Biley。(周菊子攝)

創業者講座。左起，主持人Trond Undhelm，MIT-CHIEF
暨Robby創辦人李瑞，TVsion創辦人劉岩峰，Woobo創辦人
譚豐，Kolmostar創辦人Wensheng Hua。(周菊子攝)

張朝陽。(周菊子攝)

MIT校友，搜狐創辦人在MIT中國創新創業論壇分享經歷。
(周菊子攝)

右起，陳剛，張朝陽，劉軍，黃亞生，蔣文華等多年
舊識，藉著MITCHIEF會議，又見面了。(蔣文華提供)

MAYOR WALSH FILES ORDINANCE TO PROTECT WORKER SAFETY IN BOSTON

MAYOR WALSH FILES ORDINANCE TO PROTECT WORKER SAFETY IN BOSTON

Strengthens City's discretion in issuing permits

BOSTON - Monday, November 14, 2016 - Mayor Martin J. Walsh today filed an ordinance aimed at better protecting the safety of workers and the public by allowing the City of Boston the right to deny, revoke or suspend a permit for work in Boston based on an applicant's work safety history. The ordinance will require that those receiving permits to work within the City of Boston to swear and affirm their work safety history, including Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) violations. Currently, the City of Boston does not have this authority and is not notified of resolved or outstanding OSHA violations. "We know how dangerous work sites can be, and in Boston we are committed to doing all we can to protect those working in our city," said Mayor Walsh. "I urge the City Council to move quickly on this proposal so Boston can put these changes into effect immediately." The ordinance will update the City of Boston Municipal Code to allow a city officer in charge of issuing a permit to deny, revoke or suspend a permit to a person, corporation or business entity that has a history of engaging in unsafe, hazardous or dangerous practices. Applicants for permits will be required to inform the permitting department of any and all OSHA violations, both current and resolved. The ordinance would go into effect immediately once approved by the City Council and signed by the Mayor.

AG HEALEY ANNOUNCES NEW HOTLINE TO REPORT INCIDENTS OF BIAS-MOTIVATED THREATS, HARASSMENT AND VIOLENCE

AG HEALEY ANNOUNCES NEW HOTLINE TO REPORT INCIDENTS OF BIAS-MOTIVATED THREATS, HARASSMENT AND VIOLENCE

BOSTON – Following reports of harassment and intimidation of racial, ethnic and religious minorities, women, LGBTQ individuals and immigrants since Election Day, Attorney General Maura Healey today announced that her office has established a new hotline for Massachusetts residents to report such incidents.

“In Massachusetts, we will protect people’s rights, fight discrimination and keep people safe,” said AG Healey. “There are reports from around the country following the election that people have been targeted and subjected to conduct that imperils safety and civil rights. Today, I am establishing a hotline for residents to report bias-motivated threats, harassment, and violence. Such conduct has no place in Massachusetts.” 

“The Police Departments across the Commonwealth are committed to ensuring that the constitutional rights of all individuals including racial, ethnic, religious, and LGBTQ groups are not violated by any form of harassment and/or intimidation contrary to the law and stand ready to investigate any allegations of wrongdoing and take the appropriate enforcement action,” said Chief Brian Kyes, President of the Massachusetts Major City Chiefs.

The hotline will be managed by attorneys and staff in the AG’s Office. While not every incident will be appropriate for legal action, the AG’s Office will be tracking reports and appropriate matters may be referred to local law enforcement or the Attorney General’s Criminal Bureau.

Any Massachusetts resident who has witnessed or experienced bias-motivated threats, harassment or violence may call the Attorney General’s Hotline at 1-800-994-3228 or fill out a civil rights complaint form at this link. Residents may also contact the AG’s Office through its social media platforms, including Facebookand Twitter.

Potential hate crimes – including bias-motivated assault, battery, and property damage – should also be reported to the local police in the first instance. Residents who fear for their immediate safety should call 911.  

Most hate crimes are prosecuted by the local District Attorney’s Office. However, in some cases, the offender may also be prosecuted civilly, either in addition to criminal charges or instead of criminal charges, by the AG’s Office under the Massachusetts Civil Rights Act (MCRA).

The MCRA protects the rights of all residents and visitors to Massachusetts to be free from bias-motivated threats, intimidation, and coercion. The MCRA protects the right to use public parks and transportation, walk on public streets, attend school, live peacefully, and enjoy other basic rights. Under the MCRA, the Attorney General may bring legal action against a perpetrator who threatens, intimidates, or coerces another person on the basis of that person’s membership in a protected group (e.g., race, national origin, religion, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, or disability) or protected activity (e.g., exercising the right to vote or the right to associate).

Whether it’s potential hate crimes, housing discrimination, or wage theft, the AG’s Office encourages immigrant communities to come forward with their concerns without fear of reprisal based on immigration status.

For more information, visit the Attorney General’s Office website.

ADOBE TO PAY $1 MILLION, UPDATE SECURITY POLICIES TO RESOLVE MULTISTATE INVESTIGATION INTO DATA BREACH

ADOBE TO PAY $1 MILLION, UPDATE SECURITY POLICIES TO RESOLVE MULTISTATE INVESTIGATION INTO DATA BREACHMassachusetts to Receive More than $70,000 for Breach that Affected Thousands of Residents

BOSTON – Resolving a multistate investigation into a 2013 data breach that involved the personal information of more than 50,000 Massachusetts residents, software company Adobe Systems, Inc. (Adobe) has agreed to pay $1 million and implement new policies and practices to prevent future breaches, Attorney General Maura Healey announced today. Massachusetts will receive more than $70,000 from the settlement.

An investigation by the states revealed that in September 2013, Adobe received an alert that the hard drive for one of its application servers was nearing capacity. In responding to the alert, Adobe learned that an unauthorized attempt was being made to decrypt customer payment card numbers maintained on the server. 

“Consumers who entrust a company with their personal data should have that trust respected,” said AG Healey. “Adobe put consumers’ personal data at risk of being compromised by a data breach, and that is unacceptable. This settlement will put in place important new practices to ensure that a breach like this does not happen again.”

After an internal investigation, Adobe discovered that one or more unauthorized intruder(s) had compromised a public-facing web server and used it to access other servers on Adobe’s network, including areas where Adobe stored consumer data. The intruder(s) ultimately stole consumer data from Adobe’s servers, including encrypted payment card numbers and expiration dates, names, addresses, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses, usernames (Adobe IDs), and passwords associated with the usernames.

The states allege that the nature of the attack was foreseeable and that contrary to Adobe’s representations to its customers, it did not take reasonable steps to protect consumers’ personal information, or to promptly detect the attack and prevent the theft of consumers’ data.  The states allege that the data breach of certain Adobe servers included those containing the personal information of approximately 534,000 residents of the participating states, including approximately 53,000 Massachusetts residents.

The agreement resolves consumer protection and data security and privacy claims against the company and requires Adobe to implement new policies and practices to prevent future similar breaches.

For information on how consumers can guard themselves from potential identity theft and steps to protect themselves if they are a victim of identity theft, consumers may contact the AG’s consumer specialists at 617-727-8400, review identity theft protection tips on the AG’s website or view the Federal Trade Commission's identity theft resource, available at www.consumer.gov/idtheft/.

The states that participated in the investigation and joined the agreement are Arkansas, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, Minnesota, Mississippi, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Vermont.

Director of Data Security & Privacy and Assistant Attorney General Sara Cable of AG Healey’s Consumer Protection Division handled this matter for Massachusetts. 

梅麗梨，梅掌珠、梅翠瑜當選為世界梅氏理事、監事

(Boston Orange)世界梅氏宗親會11月10日至12日在中國順德龍江域琴酒店舉行第13屆懇親大會，共有450名來自美國，中國大陸，香港及馬來西亞等地宗親參加，順利推選出理事長梅犖生等新一屆幹部。

紐英崙梅氏公所共有11名正式代表出席，其中梅掌珠和梅翠瑜當選為新屆監事，梅麗梨當選為新屆理事。其他的出席代表包括包括梅錫鋭，梅偉文，梅宇國，梅小梅，梅凱生，梅秀娟，梅潔雲，梅麗明等人。其中的梅錫銳為元老，梅偉文為第12屆理事。

為期三日的世界梅氏懇親大會以淵源共生、和諧共融的梅氏精神為主軸，議程包括第12屆領導小組匯報完成的任務，推選第13屆世界梅氏宗親第十三屆懇親大會領導班子。列席代表及家屬，參觀了甘竹電站，梅氏大宗祠，逢簡水鄉等名勝景點。
大會共選出13名監事，28名理事。

接待晚宴的文娛活動由深圳影視製作的梅氏宗親梅鈴主持，江西影視歌星梅南林，國家一級粵劇曲演唱家陳玲玉等表演。

大會選舉結果為，理事長：梅犖生 （美國），副理事長：梅煒（廣州)、梅楹活（美國）、梅國威（香港）。監事長：梅卓明 （美國），副監事長：梅榮能 （中國大陸)。

紐英崙梅氏公所出席代表。

               出席世界梅氏懇親大會的嘉賓包括，廣東省僑辦外聯處陳雪婷處長、佛山僑辦劉子亮科長、江門市委統戰部：陳耀華（職務：副部長）、阮關立（職務：工作人員）；梅新益(台山人大常委會付主任)，李練成(台山市僑聯主席)；順德區外事僑務局，黃建雄局長、陸國偉副局長、蘇曉君科長、盧穎琪副科長、原廣州市市長黎子流辦公室代表。
           根據大會資料，出席這屆懇親大會的各地代表，包括芝加哥30人，紐約30人，紐英崙(波士頓)11人，美南5人，香港23人，由廣州，重慶，湖北，河南助馬店等地合成的中國組30人。
(所有圖片由紐英崙梅氏公所提供)

梅麗梨(右)。

梅麗梨(左六)等新一屆世界梅氏理事。

梅掌珠(左二)。

Baker-Polito Administration Honors Veterans at State House Ceremony

Baker-Polito Administration Honors Veterans at State House Ceremony

BOSTON – In honor of Veterans Day, the Baker-Polito Administration released the following video from Governor Charlie Baker’s remarks at the Commonwealth’s Veterans Day ceremony at the State House. Along with Lieutenant Governor Karyn Polito, and Secretary of the Department of Veterans’ Services Francisco Ureña, the Governor celebrated the service of Massachusetts veterans, servicemembers and Gold Star families.

Memorial Hall, Massachusetts State House, Boston, MA

November 11, 2016

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Transcription:

GOVERNOR BAKER: The thing I want to focus on today, is a letter that a mother wrote to the people of Pelham, New York which is where she and her family were from. There was a letter that she wrote after the service and all that came with it for her son, John Gogan, who died in that battle. “As we look down at your dear face we felt that the world had fallen in on us. He had fought in an action that was not termed a war. He had died thousands of miles from his beloved country. His blood and the blood of his men, who he had loved so much, had now become part of the soil in Vietnam. There were no bands, no parades, just three desolate people standing beside his coffin. Behind us the door quietly opened, someone came into the room. There was a man, he knelt, he prayed. But that was the beginning of what one friend said later was a spontaneous outpouring of love. They stood straight and tall at each intersection with arms raised in a last salute. St. Catherine's church was filled to overflowing. His flag-draped coffin rested at the feet of his God. This boy had loved people so much. He didn't care if they were black or white. If they needed him, he always came.” Think about that. Somebody sends their most precious, their most precious son or daughter, mom or dad, brother or sister off to serve, never knowing what will happen, proud as they can be, of the decision that they made, but worried every day about what the consequences of that decision might be. 

台灣交大校友程天縱 哈佛CSSA 分享產業4.0分析 (圖片)

程天縱在哈佛分享工業4.0分析。(周菊子攝)

哈佛大學CSSA主席高馳(右)主持問答。(周菊子攝)

3名前哈佛CSSA主席，孫雷之(左一)和涂可誠(右起)，孫陸，以及現任主席高馳(右四)和張靖(右三起)，陳奮，雲啟資本創始合夥人黃榆镔等人翰主講者程天縱(左四)會後合影。(周菊子攝)

波士頓經文處長賴銘琪率隊參加退伍軍人大遊行

為感謝軍人犧牲奉獻保國衛民，並紀念十一月十一日美國退伍軍人節，波士頓舉辦大型遊行活動，包括經歷二戰、韓戰、越戰、阿富汗、伊拉克等戰役之退伍軍人和現役戰士及受過軍訓之高中學生等組成之壯大陣容，從全美第一座公園波士頓公園雄赳赳氣昂昂地遊行至波士頓市府廣場，我國是唯一應邀參加的外國團體，格外引人注目，由中華民國榮光聯誼會員眷，加上留學生及波士頓辦事處同仁組成的隊伍，由賴銘琪處長率領，身穿黃背心、頭戴船型帽，手舞小國旗，在巨幅中華民國及美國國旗引領下，浩浩蕩蕩前進，隨行之軍樂隊在行進中演奏梅花、中華民國頌等愛國歌曲，氣氛隆重莊嚴。民眾扶老攜幼夾道致意，波士頓辦事處沿途分贈我國小國旗，不斷有美國民眾揮舞我國國旗向我遊行隊伍高喊”Thank you”!，充分展現了中華民國臺灣與美國之堅定情誼，美國社會對為國捐軀者和保國衛民之軍人的崇高敬意，令人印象深刻。

退伍軍人節是美國為感謝保家衛國士兵所定的國定假日，1918年11月11日第一次世界大戰結束，為紀念此一歷史性時刻，美國總統威爾遜於1919年宣布11月11日為停戰紀念日，而後退伍軍人節的法定假日於1938年5月13日獲國會通過，得以完全確立。(經文處新聞組提供)

MAYOR WALSH CELEBRATES VETERANS DAY AT THE GRAND OPENING FOR PATRIOT HOMES IN SOUTH BOSTON

MAYOR WALSH CELEBRATES VETERANS DAY AT THE GRAND OPENING FOR PATRIOT HOMES IN SOUTH BOSTON

$12M public private partnership to create 24 units of affordable rental housing for veterans

BOSTON - Friday, November 11, 2016 - Mayor Martin J. Walsh today joined Congressman Stephen Lynch, the South Boston Neighborhood Development Corporation and Caritas Communities, Inc. to celebrate the dedication and ribbon cutting for Patriot Homes in South Boston. The more than $12 million redevelopment of the former City of Boston D6 police station will create 24 new affordable apartments for veterans.   "Our veterans who have fought to uphold the values of American freedom deserve access to safe, affordable housing," said Mayor Walsh. "By working with South Boston Neighborhood Development Corporation and our partners, we were able to transform an underutilized City-owned property into housing for veterans. Through this project, we are one step closer to housing all our Boston veterans." The 16,979 square-foot development included the rehabilitation of the former South Boston D6 Police station into 12 units, and including the new construction of 12 units on Athens Street which created a total of 24 affordable housing units. The new housing has 12 studios, 2- 1 BR and 10 - 2BR apartments geared to the Veteran community.  Six units will serve veterans at or below 30% AMI, while eight units will serve veterans at 50% AMI and ten units  will be for veterans earning 60% AMI. Residents will also benefit from a multipurpose community room, and the South Boston Neighborhood Development Corporation will also occupy one of the building's two ground-floor commercial spaces. In accordance with the City of Boston's Green Affordable Housing Program, the redevelopment of former station utilized several green building design techniques, earning it the development the distinction of being LEED-Homes "Silver" certified by the U.S. Green Building Council. The project also meets the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star standards. "South Boston has a long history of military service and a higher percentage of Veterans than many other neighborhoods in the city," said Donna Brown Executive Director of Sought Boston NDC. "With rents rapidly increasing, Patriot Homes will help deserving Veterans to continue to live here, in our community, with the resources they need. We are grateful to have had strong support from the City of Boston, as well as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, to complete this project."