By David Li, bostonees.com
Washington, DC, April 14, 2013, — With the opening match of the 2014 FIFA World Cup only less than two months away, the FIFA World Cup Trophy Tour makes a stop in the National’s Capital today. Vice President Biden and Secretory Kerry unveiled the trophy along with members of US National Soccer Team and distinguished guests.
Biden(left) and Kerry applaud the arrival of World Cup Trophy at the ceremony (from state.gov).
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Boston, April 12, 2014, — As the City of Boston prepares for millions of visitors over the next week culminating in the 118th Boston Marathon, city officials today released detailed public safety plans for Boston’s approximately 2 miles of marathon route. Teams of leaders in government and the private sector have worked for months to develop these plans to ensure a safe and successful series of events.
Mayor Walsh threw out the ceremonial first pitch for the Boston Red Sox home opener at Fenway Park, on the field with former Mayor Menino (from City of Boston Facebook page).
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LOS ANGELES (April 4, 2014) -– A new wave of engineers from Polytechnic High School is welcome at the elite campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Los Angeles Unified School District proudly announced today that five students from Polytechnic High School’s Math/Science Magnet have been admitted to the prestigious program. In the past three years, 11 Poly students have been accepted at what may be the nation’s premier institution of higher learning for science and technology.
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April 11, 2013, — Mayor Martin J. Walsh announced today that this spring, five million dollars will be made available to build housing in the City of Boston. The funds will come from the City’s Inclusionary Development Fund, and are being made available after a comprehensive review of that fund’s finances and fiscal controls.
One Greenway in Boston Chinatown broke ground in late 2013 (file photo).
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Beijing, April 8, 2014, — Professor Shi Yigong, Dean of School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, was awarded the Gregori Aminoff Prize in Crystallography 2014 at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences’ Annual Meeting on March 31. He is the first scientist from China who has won the Prize since it was established in 1979.
Prof. Shi Yigong (left) receives the Aminoff Prize.
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By David Li, bostonese.com
Boston, April 8, 2014, — Eighty-two years old Frank Chin, also known as Uncle Frank in Boston Chinatown, was recently awarded the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award by Tufts Medical Center(TMC). The city of Boston also declared March 26, 2014 as Frank Chin Day.
Mayor Menino and TMC CEO Michael Wagner present Lifetime Achievement Award to Frank Chin (provided to bostonese.com by TMC).
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Boston, April 10, 2014, — Mayor Martin J. Walsh announced today the formation of an Ethics Committee, which will be tasked with reviewing any relevant changes to the City’s Ethics Policy, implementing a new Statement of Financial Interest for all City employees, creating continuing education programs around ethics issues, and analyzing existing practices and procedures.
Boston has no majority racial group as of 2013 (chart by bostonese.com).
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By Yaming Chi, Boston Chinese Photographers’ Association (BCPA)
“Have you ever seen people in museums looking at a picture like this?” Mary Sherman started her lecture to a group of amateur photographers in BCPA with a question. To make sure everyone followed what her ‘this’ meant, she went up to the blackboard, drew a rectangle, then placed her face less than 3 inches from it and slowly moved her head along the sides. For half a minute or so I heard absolute silence from the audience with, perhaps, few occasional giggles. Yes indeed I have as I recalled, but I had thought the person did so must have had a really bad eyesight – that was many years ago in the Art Institute of Chicago. But no, as she moved away from the board and explained. People were looking for (and look at) what connected different elements in a picture. It more or less could be thought of as the flow, or chi (氣) in Chinese Taoism philosophy, that’d be linked by colors, lines, shapes, textures and values in a pictorial artwork.
Group picture after the lecture (provided by BCPA).
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San Jose, Calif. and Helsinki, April 9, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — IBM today announced that researcher and IBM Fellow, Dr. Stuart Parkin, is the winner of the prestigious Millennium Technology Prize, awarded every two years by the Technology Academy Finland (TAF), an independent foundation aimed at supporting scientific research and new technologies that will benefit humanity. Dr. Parkin is selected for his discovery and invention of the “spin valve,” which enabled a more than 1,000-fold increase in the ability of computer hard-disk drives to store data. This groundbreaking technology gave us the ability to organize, archive, analyze and share vast amounts of human history, culture and knowledge in digital form. The prize is worth 1 million Euros, or about 1.4 US dollars.
(This picture of Dr. Parkin is from ibm.com.)
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By David Li, bostonese.com
Boston, April 7, 2013, — Democratic Governor candidate Don Berwick met with voters in a community room in Boston Chinatown recently as part of the “Corner Office” Forum Series sponsored by Governor’s Asian American Commission. Dr. Berwick listened to the concerns from about two dozens Chinatown residents and answered their questions.
Mr. Berwick (middle) answers question from Henry Yee (left) with help from Patrick Tai (right), photo by Tong Chen.
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