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BPD promotion test ruled biased Judge says 2008 lieutenant test biased against blacks, Latinos

By JULE PATTISON-GORDON

A federal judge ruled last week the exam used by the Boston Police Department in 2008 to determine promotions of sergeants to lieutenant was biased against blacks and Latinos and unable to accurately predict success in the new position.

The case, Smith v. the City of Boston, was brought by ten sergeants in 2012. The ruling comes at a time when the BPD already expects a loss of diversity due to black officers’ retirements.

Meanwhile, a similar case challenges the exam for determining promotions to sergeant used

by Boston, Lawrence and other cities.

The 2008 test

For the last six years, the 2008 test scores have determined who gets promoted to lieutenant.

In order to qualify for promotion, officers must get at least a 70 on a 100-question multiple choice test. Then the officers are given a rating for their education and experience, which, taken with performance on the written test, creates the final score.

When a lieutenant position opens up, the BPD offers it to those who passed the test in order of their scores.

The court found that the written exam — which is weighted as 80 percent of the final score — failed to asses a variety of skills

and abilities important for success as lieutenants.

The test focused on knowledge and reading and interpreting written materials. What it left out were reasoning, judgment, interpersonal skills, ability to make quick decisions, oral communication and ability to counsel subordinates.

High scores did not necessarily reflect top lieutenant performance.

Troubling signs

Based on results of the 2008 exam, blacks and Latinos in the BPD were promoted at less than half the rate of whites, noted U.S. District Judge William Young in his ruling. Ninety-four percent of the whites who took the exam passed, compared to 69 percent of minorities. “[The 2005 and 2008 exams] had fairly severe adverse impact on minority candidates, black and Hispanic,” concluded expert witness Dr. Joel Peter Wiesen, an industrial organizational psychologist.

Based on these results, only five black sergeants were promoted during the last six years, out of thirty-three sergeants promoted in that time period.

The discrimination evident in the results was not intentional, the judge said.

“This is not a case about conscious racial prejudice,” he wrote.

See BPD, page 9

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Supporters of lifting the cap on charters rallied on the Boston Common before marching on the State House.

Two sides, strategies in charter cap fight Anti-cap side acts sooner, shows more funding

By JULE PATTISON-GORDON

Supporters of lifting the cap on charter schools made an impressive show on the Boston Common last Wednesday. Parents, educators and children wearing matching blue T-shirts reading “Great Schools Now,” waved signs, chanted and marched down the paths of the Common, which

were lined with pro-charter banners. They progressed to the State House where a temporary stage, large video screen, and a professional video and audio production crew awaited.

Nikki Barnes, principal of the Kipp Academy Boston charter school, urged the gathered crowd to pressure the Senate to lift the charter cap.

“We’re going to fight,” she said.

“If the state Senate refuses to lift the cap, they’re going to have to answer to us.”

Both sides of the charter cap debate are gearing up for a vote in the House and Senate and a statewide ballot on the issue. Supporters of lifting the cap appear to be outspending their opposition and getting their message out quicker,

See CHARTERS, page 8

Funders seek housing solutions Competition for affordable housing ideas

By SANDRA LARSON

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A competition sponsored by Home Funders aims to spur more housing for Extremely Low Income families. Above, Mayor Martin Walsh joins the Chinatown community to cut the ribbon on One Greenway, a 363-unit development with a relatively high proportion of affordable units: of its 95 affordable apartments, 31 are designated ELI.

A Boston-based private funder collaborative has launched a competition for innovative strategies to increase the supply of permanent affordable housing for the lowest-income Massachusetts families.

In the competition, announced at the Massachusetts State House Nov. 19, Home Funders plans to offer cash awards of $10,000 to $25,000 to organizations or teams that propose “well-crafted, innovative, feasible and sustainable”

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solutions to build or preserve housing for Extremely Low Income families.

Affordable housing often means units designated for households earning 50 to 80 percent of the Area Median Income defined by the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Extremely Low Income, or “ELI,” refers to 0 to 30 percent

of AMI. People in this income range are often homeless or struggling on the brink of homelessness. Statewide, a family of four with income at or below $26,250 falls in the ELI category; for a Greater Boston area family of four, the figure is $29,550.

To put these numbers in context, an individual head of household earning Massachusetts’ minimum hourly wage of $9 earns just $18,720 in 52 week of full time work.

“We have an overall housing shortage, and housing for those at the lower end of the [income] spectrum is particularly scarce,” said Home Funders Executive

See HOME FUNDERS, page 11

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Milken prize goes to Randolph teacher

By YAWU MILLER

Randolph High School teacher Michelle Ryan wasn’t clear on why she and other teachers were called into the school auditorium the morning of Nov. 13. When a representative of the Milken Family Foundation announced that a teacher from the school would be recognized, she had no idea it would be her.

“My colleagues and I were joking about who it would be and how they would have to throw us all a pizza party,” she said. “Next thing you know my name was called. I was completely caught off guard.”

As soon as they heard Ryan’s name, the students and faculty packed into the school’s gymnasium erupted in applause. Visibly stunned, Ryan was led across the floor to stand alongside Massachusetts Education Secretary Mitchell Chester as she was presented with a ceremonial check bearing the $25,000 award amount.

A lifelong Dorchester resident born to Antiguan and Montserratian parents, Ryan didn’t settle on a career in teaching until after she attended UMass Lowell, but she had her share of favorite teachers while attending high school at Boston Latin Academy. She rings off their names: Mr. Howard, who taught History; Ms. Smith,

Ms. Joyner and Ms. Jackson, who taught English.

“They all had a balance of high expectations and a sense of humor that made things enjoyable,” she says of the teachers. “They were tough, but they really cared for you. They would check in on you.”

The first in her family to attend a four-year college, Ryan says her teachers helped her realize her full potential as a student.

“I considered myself a regular student,” she said. “I needed an extra push.”

After receiving her Bachelor’s degree at UMass Lowell, Ryan stayed on to earn a master’s in education, graduating in 2008. In Randolph, she has received recognition from her fellow teachers and from her students, who have voted her the school’s Most Inspiring teacher, Most Entertaining, and Funniest.

Ryan heads the school’s Social Studies Department and has gained a reputation at the school for innovative instruction methods she says she uses to keep students engaged in their coursework.

“I use video clips, and try to make things relevant,” she comments. “We’re analyzing the events in Paris and Missouri using our Social Studies curriculum.

Her lesson plans include innovative, hands-on activities, including an ongoing social studies

project in which students conduct their own surveys.

“Each student has chosen a subject they’re interested in — the school’s dress code, feminism, police relations with people of color, rape culture,” she says.

“They’ve submitted their questions

for review. When they complete their surveys, they’ll present their results to select parties.”

Ryan has also helped implement other innovative educational programs, including a Keys to Literacy Reading Comprehension program that helped boost 10th grade reading scores by 20 percent.

At the Nov. 13 award event, Secretary Chester spoke of her many strong teaching qualities.

“Michelle Ryan exemplifies the hard work and professionalism Massachusetts educators put in every day as teachers, mentors and learners,” he said. “She also

holds herself to a high standard and is constantly improving her practice and helping to ensure her school serves all students well.”

Ryan says she draws on her own school experience and imagines a brighter future for her students.

“I enjoy being a part of students’ building skills,” she says. “I know everything after high school is this big, abstract, overwhelming phase of life for them. They don’t know that everything they’re doing now is preparing them for their next phase. I enjoy seeing their growth and helping them be prepared for great things.”

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Randolph High social studies teacher Michelle Ryan expresses shock as she makes her way to the front of the gym to accept her surprise Milken Educator Award.

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New policies needed to fight growing income inequality

By JULE PATTISON-GORDON

In the past few decades, the income gap between Boston’s very rich and very poor in Boston has widened significantly. In an opportunity forum on inequality in the city held last week, The Boston Foundation examined the causes behind the dramatic divide and asked what, if anything, the city can do to narrow it.

The forum was part of a series of public conversations held in connection with September’s release of “Shape of the City: Making Boston America’s Upwardly Mobile City,” the 2015 Boston Indicators Project report.

“Boston is not just one of the most unequal cities in region and nation, but globally as well,” said Jessica Martin, director of the Boston Indicators Project.

Speakers said equity gaps appeared as early as birth and that factors working for or against individuals’ chances at success include where they are born and their families’ past ability to accrue wealth.

Dramatic gap

Income growth in the city largely has come to those already earning the most, said Martin.

In the last 15 years, the highest-earning families saw their incomes rise by 42.5 percent, while for the lowest 20 percent, incomes rose only 14 percent.

In 2000, the top five percent of households earned approximately 44 times more than the bottom 20 percent. By 2013, that number grew to 54 times more, according to the Indicators Report.

Only two cities in the U.S. — Atlanta and San Francisco — are more unequal than Boston, Paul Grogan, president and CEO of The Boston Foundation said.

Children of families earning in the bottom 20 percent are significantly less likely to rise to higher income brackets if they do not complete college. For children born to such families who do not go on to attain a college degree, 45 percent of them will remain in the bottom 20 percent, Martin said.

“If they do earn a college education, we see much greater mobility — 20 percent will reach the top,” she said.

But the equity gap also is evident in discerning educational achievement.

Only 25 percent of Boston’s black and Latino adults have a bachelor’s degree or higher, according to the Indicators Report. Additionally, children from low- to middle-income families are enrolled in early education at the lower rates than children of wealthier families.

Generations in the making

The choices individuals make affect their success, but are not the whole picture.

“Opportunity at birth impacts success throughout the lifespan,” Martin said.

On average, only 10 percent of children born to households earning in the bottom 10 percentile will rise to the top earning bracket and more than a third will stay in

the bottom tier, she said.

Children born into families with more money and assets have greater resources provided to them. Because whites traditionally have had greater economic opportunities, they often are better able to pass on more wealth than blacks, said Ana Patricia Muñoz, director of community development research in the regional and community outreach department for the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

Location matters

Additionally, the neighborhood where someone is born and grows up helps determine what resources are available to them.

Easy access to public transportation means easy access to jobs and other opportunities. Within a community, high concentrations of poverty and high rates of violence create chronic stressors.

Better public schools and access to high-quality early education help prepare children for success.

As much as 20 percent of the gap in earnings between black and white adults can be attributed to place-based characteristics, Jessica Martin said. And Suffolk County is an especially hard place to live.

Across all household income

levels, children growing up in Suffolk County can expect to earn less than children growing up in Middlesex County, she said.

Likewise, adults who grew up in Suffolk County also earn about $1,200 less per year than adults who grew up in middle-income households across the nation, according to the Indicators Report.

New approach

Programs that try to solve the equity gap by focusing on changing behaviors and raising awareness falsely assume that opportunities are equally available to all and that paths to success are largely a matter of personal choice, Muñoz said.

“I think we assume everybody has the same choice and if they only knew how to make good choices, only knew to save and go to college,” Muñoz said.

Several speakers pointed out that any successful strategy must go further than education and create structural changes.

Policy and culture shift

There are clear steps that can be taken to narrow the equity gap and promote social mobility.

Major areas, said Noah Berger, president of the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center, include improving education and access to it and implementing policies that would require all jobs provide the wages and benefits needed to support a family.

Berger presented it as a matter of political and cultural will.

“We could recognize that some people will work hard forty hours a week cleaning buildings. And we could make the decision as a city and a state to pay them enough to raise a family,” Berger said.

“We need policies that are not just about surviving, but really about thriving,” said Atyia Martin, the city’s Chief Resiliency Officer.

Many solutions are common sense, said Atyia Martin. She pointed to Xavier University in New Orleans, which became the top school nationally for graduating black pre-med students who go on to graduate from medical school The administration took a student’s-eye-view to the situation, she said, and produced effective strategies like putting struggling students into study groups and making an effort to identify early on which students need help.

“It’s not rocket science,” Atyia Martin said.

The next step is directing resources to invest in these fixes and creating policy to enforce them.

“The challenge of course,” Berger said, “is [policies] all cost money.”

Disparate economic growth was not always the case. From 1947-1973, wages grew at a similar rate across income levels, said Berger. He credited the greater equity in part to strong unions that advocated for workers’ share in the profits and an economic policy committed to improving life for all income classes.

“It’s part laws, and it’s partially culture,” he said.

Education intervention

Early, higher and job-relevant education are among the most important drivers of upward social mobility, forum speakers said.

Many of the opportunities created by Boston’s economic growth affect those with high levels of education, said Grogan.

“It is an economy that places an ever higher premium on educational attainment. If you have that attainment, this is an economy that can richly reward you. If you don’t, it can be very costly,” Grogan said.

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Too outstanding to be marginalized When analyzing black poverty, researchers often assume the cause is an inferior education, which prevents many blacks from qualifying for better paying jobs. The anticipated result is lower-level incomes. But in a recent Boston Globe article, “The outcast effect,” Farah Stockman suggests that researchers might have come to the wrong conclusion. She cites evidence to indicate that the poor might not do well in school because they know that only dead-end jobs await them.

Stockman relied upon research on the outcast class in Japan, the Untouchables in India, the Maori on New Zealand and the Jews in Israel from Africa and the Middle East. She indicated that affirmative action plans intended to improve the status of these groups have essentially failed because of the prevailing psychological sense of being outcasts. There clearly is a need for victimized groups to develop self-affirming practices to overcome the impediment of being characterized as inferior.

The so-called H-Block neighborhood of Roxbury of 80 or so years ago developed a sense of community pride that imbued youngsters with the confidence that they could succeed.

Last week the most outstanding example of success from that Roxbury community visited Boston on a book tour. Dr. Clifton R. Wharton Jr. has published the memoir of his achievements in “Privilege and Prejudice: The Life of a Black Pioneer.” Boston Latin School, Boston’s stellar public college preparatory institute, hosted his visit.

Wharton, a Harvard alumnus and the first black Ph.D. in agricultural economics from the University of Chicago, also was the first African American to head a national foundation, a major public university (Michigan State) and a Fortune 500 company (TIAA-CREF). On his recent trip to Latin School he was given the special honor of having his name inscribed on the lower frieze of the auditorium. Among other fellow alumni so honored are Joseph P. Kennedy, the patriarch of the former president’s family and Roy E. Larsen,

the legendary first editor of Time Magazine.

As the title of his book suggests, Wharton encountered prejudice on his way forward to three successful careers, but the “privilege” of having an aspiring family as well as a supportive community provided the inducement to succeed. Boston’s bigotry limited professional opportunities but was never able to suppress the long-held reverence of African Americans for the value of education.

While Wharton’s achievements are outstanding, several other former residents of the H-Block Roxbury neighborhood also have had extraordinary careers. The late Wade McCree became the first black judge appointed to the 6th Circuit federal appeals court, and also was the second black U.S. Solicitor General. Additionally, the first black Massachusetts federal district court judge and the first black judge of the state Superior Court were both H-Block residents.

At a time when it was more unusual to attain a bachelor’s degree, the number of college graduates from H-Block was substantial. In H-Block, going to college in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s was simply a rite of passage. Higher education remained attractive even though many college graduates had to work as hospital orderlies, janitors and red caps until opportunities developed.

One aspect of Stockman’s “outcast effect” is that those in the lowly caste are limited to unskilled jobs. Back in 1940 the black population of Boston was only 3 percent of the total.

It was then impossible to develop the political clout necessary to end racial discrimination in employment. However, the assertive dignity and academic achievements of African Americans prevented whites from reasonably characterizing Boston’s blacks as outcasts.

As we celebrate Thanksgiving, Roxbury’s younger generation should be thankful for the discipline and academic achievements of their elders that vitiated the efforts of bigots to impose a psychological impediment to impair black progress.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Should housing be a right?

A few weeks ago, my attention was drawn to a page one story concerning how scarce housing was becoming in Boston as working families and the middle class was being squeezed out of the housing picture due to the rise of endless luxury housing projects either in construction or on the drawing board.

The issue is citywide in nature. Look everywhere around the city. Every lot now seems buildable and there is construction taking place on both the small scale and large scale. Roxbury has now become a hot real estate market. People

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after decades of ignoring Roxbury now see it as prime real estate to be scooped.

It would be one thing if the new housing construction starts were geared to average homeowners of renters seeking to enter the market but what we are seeing are luxury condos and high-rent apartments.

Back in 1948, the year I was born, a young Minnesota Mayor named Hubert H. Humphrey spoke at that year’s Democratic National Convention and called housing an American right.

Here we are 67 years later and good housing has become a luxury for the few.

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“The younger generation should be thankful for what we did to clear the way for them.”

We need a national commitment to building all kinds of good housing and to offer it to hardworking families who are priced out of most housing going up today.

The revitalization of urban centers would be incomplete without the necessary housing components creating sustainable housing making the revitalization meaningful.

Humphrey called housing a right in 1948, but it still isn’t for many still looking for it.

— Sal Giarratani East Boston via Lower Roxbury

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‘Safe space’ is for white people

What are you thankful for?

By LEE A. DANIELS

Dear Black College Students: There’s much I admire about the purpose of the protests you and your allies among other students and faculty have waged to awaken some colleges and universities to the significant racial problems undermining the sense of community on your campuses.

But I have to say there’s one general demand I’d advise you to put aside — the demand for “safe space.”

Not because it isn’t a legitimate sentiment. Of course, the search for a place of psychological comfort and physical safety is a fundamental human impulse. I say drop it because the intractable reality in America is that “safe space” is for white people.

I’m sure you know that by now.

You couldn’t have gotten to college without being aware of this awful American tradition.

You know that the British colonial settlement and then the new “United States” were created as a safe space for whites only. Over time whites decimated First Nations’ peoples in order to grab increasing chunks of land for white governmental and private ownership.

You know the purpose of the trans-Atlantic slave trade was to establish an enormously lucrative and psychologically satisfying safe space — Negro Slavery — for the white majority to indulge its fantasies of individual and racial superiority. It’s no coincidence that the blackface minstrelsy which some whites resort to today originated in the era when whites were scratching for all sorts of reasons to justify their inhumanity.

Ever inventive, after the Civil War, the white majority created laws and customs to establish new versions of racist safe space fit for the industrial age. This produced an American society full of segregated urban neighborhoods and schools; segregated suburbs; de jure segregated white colleges and universities in the South, de facto ones in the North; segregated trade unions and professional associations, and all sorts of jobs reserved for whites, from those in police and fire departments to those in civil service and corporate bureaucracies. Even those two mythic pillars of American society — the military and major league baseball — were ferociously guarded safe spaces for whites until after World War II. As I say, I know you understand this — and that many whites who denigrate your demands do so from the safe spaces of their near- or lilywhite neighborhoods, workplaces and social networks. They tell you to “look away” from racist insults, or, worse, to try to, in effect, prove your humanity to people who want to hurt you. That’s something they never have to do because the society remains firmly structured to protect their safe spaces.

Yours? Not so much. Not when police racial profiling remains widespread and police routinely brutalize blacks and Hispanics for supposedly violating the most trivial traffic infractions. Not when the Supreme Court has — once again — sanctioned the racist movement to deprive black Americans (and others who tend to vote for the Democratic Party) of their right to vote. Not when so-called respectable whites denigrate the impeccably-ivied educational credentials of both the first black president and first lady of the United States and the first Latina Supreme Court Justice.

Nonetheless, I say, take note of the hypocrisy, but drop the demand for safe space. “Get over it,” as your detractors say; but not for the reasons they say.

Instead, accept that there never has been safe space for any Americans of color in this land. Accept that your responsibility is to follow the strategy most dramatically illustrated by the black freedom struggle: Embrace the reality that what your American heritage involves is wedding the normal activities of human existence to a continual awareness of the need to resist the second-class status which, in all its guises, some whites still want to consign Americans of color to.

Let that awareness make you more perceptive about your surroundings and more determined to succeed personally and to move the movement for social justice forward in whatever ways you can. If you do that, I guarantee you’ll have forged in yourself and in the society at large “space” that is impervious to the attacks of people whose words and actions prove they’re afraid of you.

With best wishes!

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Instead, accept that there never has been safe space for any Americans of color in this land.”

Lee A. Daniels’ new collection of columns, “Race Forward: Facing America’s Racial Divide in 2014,” is available at www.amazon.com.

I’m thankful that I wasn’t among the indigenous tribes that got slaughtered when the Pilgrims got here.

I’m thankful for being alive today. I still have my parents. And I’m thankful that the chaos going on in other countries isn’t happening here.

I’m thankful to have my mother still alive and fully in my life, and to have another day on earth.

Bro. Taqua

Rafael Putiel

Anthony Barboza

Preacher Boston

Disabled Roxbury

Driver Roxbury

I am thankful for my family. I am thankful for my job. I am thankful for my children, and most of all to have the Lord in my life.

I am thankful that I still have breath in my body. I still have one of my parents, I have my daughter and two beautiful grandkids.

Maxine James

Dana C.

Mary Brown

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Retired Dedham

individuals in four cities across the Commonwealth.

“I could not be more excited to work with such a dynamic team of professionals and continue to build on this agency’s legacy of excellence.” said McCroom.

McCroom spent the past seven years of her career in state service.

In 2010, Governor Deval Patrick tapped her to serve as Undersecretary for Criminal Justice in the Executive Office of Public Safety and Security. Her portfolio included the Department of Correction, the Sex Offender Registry Board and the Parole Board, with a combined 6000 employees and $550 million annual budget. She also served as the administration’s Executive Director for the Office of Grants and Research administering state and federal grant funds of more than $150 million for public safety.

McCroom has deep familiarity with the non-profit sector. For 8 years, she led Roxbury Youthworks Inc. as its Executive Director serving system-involved youth and their

families. In the mid 1990s, she was the Senior Development Coordinator of the Safe Neighborhood Initiative under Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harshbarger. Her career in Boston began as a youth worker following three years as a United States Peace Corps Volunteer in Thailand.

McCroom is a graduate of Spelman College in Atlanta, GA where she graduated with a bachelors degree in pyschology. She was raised in Ohio.

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SANDRA MCCROOM The Board of Directors for Children’s Services of Roxbury has appointed Sandra McCroom as President and Chief Executive Officer for the non-profit human services agency.

“Over the past ten years the Agency has been fortunate to have outstanding leadership in the person of Pamela Ogletree. With the hiring of our new dynamic CEO, Sandra McCroom, we believe that we have the person who can successfully take this Agency into the future,” said Board Chair, Phil Hillman.

McCroom has an extensive history of cross-sector executive management experience and involvement in the Boston community that has prepared her to oversee Children’s Services of Roxbury. CSR is one of the largest, minority operated human services providers in Massachusetts, serving more than 6,000 people annually. CSR’s employs 400 people providing high quality service to economically disadvantaged children, youth, families, and

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Anti-Muslim backlash troubles many

By YAWU MILLER

Leaving a country torn apart by warring factions and bombed

by U.S., Russian and European forces as well as their own government, more than four million Syrians are seeking resettlement in what has become the largest refugee crisis since World War II. While European and Middle Eastern countries are struggling to accommodate the millions of Syrians, the United States has taken in just 2,174 since 2012.

But despite this relatively scant number of refugees in the U.S., their presence, along with news of the recent ISIS-backed bombing in Paris, has sparked a surge in anti-Muslim rhetoric in the U.S. that many find worrisome.

In the Boston area, the flare-up of anti-Muslim and anti-refugee sentiment has prompted action from local human rights activists. On Friday, hundreds rallied outside the Massachusetts State House, protesting Governor Charlie Baker’s statement that Massachusetts would not accept Syrian refugees.

“We’re really concerned that the calls for restricting refugee flows are feeding bigotry against Muslims,” said Shannon Erwin, Executive Director of the Muslim Justice League, one of the conveners of Friday’s rally. “When policy makers use events to put people in fear of Muslims, that gives a false credibility to people’s prejudices and fears. That’s what we’re seeing with Syrian refugees.”

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Demonstrators gathered in front of the State House to protest what many see as anti-Muslim bigotry in the wake of the Paris bombing.

Erwin said many Muslims in Massachusetts are reporting incidents of hate speech and harassment.

State Rep. Byron Rushing said Baker may be the first Massachusetts elected official in recent history to refuse refugees, although he noted Baker does not have the authority to block the federal government.

“He can’t stop the federal government from resettling refugees here,” he said.

Perhaps most prominent among the critics of refugees at the national level is presidential candidate Donald Trump, who called for extensive surveillance of Muslims in the United States and went so far as to support the idea that Muslims

should be required to carry special identification cards.

The backlash against Syrian refugees, and Muslims more broadly, has become even more public and political as 31 governors, all but one of them Republican, have said they will not accept Syrian refugees. Also last week, the U.S. House passed

a Republican-backed bill that would suspend the Obama administration’s plans to admit 10,000 Syrian refugees next year.

The growing wave of anti-Muslim rhetoric obscures the fact that none who participated in the Paris bombing was Syrian. The violent ISIS movement that planned the attack is one of several entities terrorizing the civilian population in Syria and prompting the massive exodus of refugees. The backlash against the trickle of Syrian refugees being admitted to the U.S. has raised concerns that the country is heading down a dangerous path.

“Treating Trump as a joke gives his noxious ideology room to grow,” writes M. Dove Kent, executive director of the New Yorkbased Jews for Racial Justice in a piece that ran in the British newspaper The Guardian. “The climate he is creating has very real implications for the safety and lives of people of color, Muslims and immigrants.”

Kent’s group and other Jewish organizations including the United States Holocaust Museum say the nativist reaction to Syrian refugees has chilling parallels to the World War II era, when the United States turned their backs on Jews fleeing persecution and extermination in Nazi concentration camps.

Rushing called the anti-refugee stance of the GOP members of Congress posturing.

“It’s part of the Republican move to the right,” he said. “Someone has to stand up and fan the flames. That’s what the Republicans in Congress are doing.”

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More and better-paying employment is in store for residents of Roxbury, Dorchester and Mattapan through a new partnership of public, private and philanthropic organizations. Last week at city hall, JPMorgan Chase & Co., The Boston Foundation and the City of Boston announced an alliance — and a joint commitment of $1.2 million — to bring workforce development to the neighborhoods needing it most.

Unlike prior job training programs, this initiative will work with employers to tie training directly to placement in well-paying jobs.

Programs supported by this initiative will provide entry-level training and target those who are unemployed, underemployed or making up to about $10 an hour, said Marybeth Campbell, executive director of SkillWorks.

Founded in 2003, SkillWorks is a nonprofit partnership among The Boston Foundation, private and public investors and city and state government. It provides workforce development for lowand moderate-income earners and improved connection between businesses and potential employees.

While the programs are open to individuals across the city, the focus is on underserved communities.

“[The goal is to] get opportunities into neighborhoods and areas that have not gotten the kind of growth they need. Places like Roxbury, Dorchester and Mattapan,” Peter Scher, head of corporate responsibility for JPMorgan Chase, said.

Pipeline to career

Although the city has a high demand for jobs, all too often there is a disconnect between training and results.

“Each year, thousands of jobs remain vacant due to a mismatch between the skills required by employers and those available in the labor force talent pool,” according to a statement appearing on The Boston Foundation’s website.

At times the difficulty comes from lack of networking between trainers and employers.

“We have to do a better job of connecting the programs that train people with the employers that are going to hire people. That’s where … all over the world, we’ve fallen down,” Chase’s Sher said.

The alliance seeks to avoid the pitfalls of failing to match skills to demand and failing to ensure organizations have a plan for connecting with employers. The majority of the $1.2 million is contributed to SkillWorks, which in turn provides grants to organizations with a strong record of training programs that lead to employment.

SkillWorks also supports programs to advance currently employed individuals into better

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Paul Grogan, CEO and President of The Boston Foundation (left), Mayor Martin Walsh and Peter Scher, head of corporate responsibility for JPMorgan Chase, were joined by grant-recipients as they announced an alliance to bring workforce development to neighborhoods in need. positions. One example is Boston Children’s Hospital, where lower-level employees are trained for promotion while, simultaneously, jobseekers are trained to take over those vacancies, Campbell said The city of Boston donated $350,000 to SkillWorks and JPMorgan Chase divided $500,000 among SkillWorks, Just-A-Start in Cambridge and YouthBuild Boston. SkillWorks, in turn, is investing $830,000 in grants in one year to elven Boston-area organizations, which it expects will serve 800 people.

Opportunity sectors

The grants will focus on strong and growing sectors and jobs that can support a middle-class lifestyle and while featuring opportunity for advancement.

“These are not dead-end, poverty jobs,” said Paul Grogan, president and CEO of The Boston Foundation.

Past programs have targeted positions in hospitality and healthcare, industries on which this initiative will continue to focus.

Brian Lang is president of Local 26, an affiliate of UNITE HERE that represents hospitality workers in more than 32 hotels across the state. He said thousands of jobs are expected to open within the next five years. More than 30 hotels are in the pipeline, he said, and a high percentage of current employees will retire.

“It presents a huge challenge to the industry, a huge challenge to the city and a huge opportunity to many in the workforce,” Lang said.

Previously, Local 26 recruited,

trained and placed 24 black workers into hotel jobs after finding few blacks in the field. In another effort, they trained 42 workers with funding from the Neighborhood Jobs Trust, and last week, they had a career fair. With more funding, he said, such programs can be expanded.

The workforce development initiative now also will target information technology jobs. IT is expected to constitute 25-33 percent of the program, Grogan said.

Bridge the gap

Mayor Martin Walsh said preparing people to fill the careers being created in the city is a vital step in narrowing the equity gap.

“Inequity is one of our city’s greatest challenges,” he said. “Workforce development is essential.”

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(Above left and below) Charter school students march from the Parkman Bandstand to the State House to lobby legislators to lift the cap on new charter schools. (Above right) The gathering stopped at a temporary stage in front of the State House to hear speeches from Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito and others in support of lifting the charter cap.

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Well-produced rallies

Charter proponents have jumped into the public eye with several rallies notable in part for their organization and preparation.

Jim Hirsch, production manager for High Output, told State House News Service that the Wednesday rally marked the fourth charter event for which his company was hired to handle production. They set up the stage, 15x9-foot video screen and sound system.

Several public relations firms, including Keyser Public Strategies, O’Neill and Associates, Archipelago Strategies Group and Slowey/ McManus Communications helped get the word out about last Wednesday’s rally.

Deep resources

A major driver behind the campaign to lift the cap is Families for Excellent Schools, a New Yorkbased nonprofit founded mainly

by Wall Street investors. A chapter opened in Massachusetts last year.

By all accounts, the organization draws from a deep pool of funding. In the past it has received large donations, including $200,000 from the Broad Foundation for fiscal year 2012 and $200,000 from the Peter and Carmen Lucia Buck Foundation for FY 2012-2013, according to WNYC. In April 2015, the organization received donations of

Committee.

Marlena Rose, coordinator for Boston Education Justice Alliance, said coalition supporters are going door to door to have conversations and spread the word about what lifting the cap could mean for district schools.

Other efforts include community forums with testimony from parents whose children found a better match in district schools than in charter schools. These parents, Rose said, came from the listserv sent to member organizations or from the organizations themselves.

Gosnell said support was strong for keeping the charter school cap.

“We have a lot of grassroots support, certainly in excess of 150,00 supporters,” he said. “I would say in excess of 200,000 people.”

$1 million each from billionaire hedge fund and former-hedge fund managers Dan Loeb and Julian Robertson, according to New York Daily News.

Great Schools Massachusetts, the coalition that organized last Wednesday’s lift-the-cap rally and includes Families for Excellent Schools, did not respond to requests for comment for this story.

Charter opposition organizes

Opposing lifting the caps is a coalition that includes American Federation of Teachers-Massachusetts, Massachusetts Teachers Association, Citizens for Public Schools, the New England NAACP and other groups, said Tom Gosnell, president of AFT-MA. Yet an official pro-cap campaign is yet to be formed, said Russ Davis, executive director of Massachusetts Jobs with Justice.

JWJ is a member organization of the Massachusetts Education Justice Alliance, a group that seeks to keep the cap.

While staff members from some organizations who oppose the cap lift are handling current efforts around the issue, there is no official pro-cap campaign staff or budget. During December, the group will meet to plan its campaign structure and activities.

“We don’t have anyone working for the campaign at this point,” Davis said.

Davis could not predict what level of funds the pro-cap campaign will be able to raise, but said he expects support to come from national unions and teachers unions. No one predicts the funding will match the level attained by

Grassroots?

the pro-charter school campaign.

“Right now, activities we’re engaging in don’t require significant funding,” said Gosnell.

Focus on conversation

The opponents to lifting the cap are focused on two things: building grassroots support and speaking to the Legislature.

The Legislature is on break from formal sessions until the new year, making this a critical time to speak

with lawmakers about the need to keep the cap, said the AFT-MA’s Gosnell. How the Legislature chooses to act will be significant in shaping the pro-cap coalition’s plans.

“Talking with members of the Legislature is first and foremost our most important activity,” he said. The House and Senate could move on the issue before it goes to ballot next year.

Members of the group have testified before the Joint Education

Opponents of lifting the cap have questioned the genuineness of the support seen at pro-charter rallies.

At Wednesday’s rally, parents spoke of the differences charter schools had made in their children’s lives, and called for an end to the cap. Rose said parents she met at the event seemed to be expressing pre-prepared messages.

At the event, a parent was speaking at a podium while Rose spoke with another parent about her experiences.

“She said, ‘The Boston Public Schools are failing our students’ and at the same time I’m hearing the speaker up there saying ‘Boston Public Schools are failing our students,’ like there’s a script ingrained in the parents,” Rose said.

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Sergeant Paul Joseph, a plaintiff in the suit, said city officials and the black officers want to see a more diverse command staff, but that the test was a flawed tool.

“We’re not in disagreement with the city on the vision. We’re in disagreement about how we get there. We believe the 80/20 test is discriminatory and we need to go in a different direction,” Joseph said.

New test, same problem

In 2014, the BPD issued a new promotions exam, with a different structure. More than $1.6 million was spent developing the new test, according to the judge’s report, but diversity scores have not improved.

“2014 was a completely different test. The results were no different in the sense of diversity numbers and who scored well enough to be promoted,” Lieutenant Detective Mike McCarthy, director of media relations for the BPD, said.

“We didn’t get any different results, so we’re kind of at a loss as to what our next steps may be.”

The new exam weights the written portion at 33 percent and includes assessments of technical knowledge, essay-responses about job situations, oral responses to hypothetical issues that might be encountered and assessment of education and experience.

On both tests, McCarthy said doing well was simply a matter of studying.

“You put in the time and you’ll score well,” he said. “There were minority candidates who did well.

You ask them, and they’ll say they studied.”

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Roxbury-based nonprofit The BASE, welcomed 400+ guests, including Pedro Martinez and Mayor Marty Walsh, to the Reggie Lewis Track & Athletic Center to celebrate its 2nd annual BASE Ball to support the nonprofit, which serves more than 800 youth players each year with athletic and academic programming.

Given the scores on the new test, at least 20 sergeants will be promoted to lieutenant before a person of color is, said Larry Ellison, President of the Massachusetts Association of Minority Law Enforcement Officers, Inc.

Wider implications

The 2008 test was created by the state, incorporating information on rules and regulations specific to Boston.

“It’s not a Boston police test, it’s

a state test,” said McCarthy.

Cities have the choice either to use the state’s civil service exam or create their own, an option Boston took for the 2014 test. If Boston’s 2008 exam was discriminatory and insufficiently relevant, it may have implications for other cities’ exams.

Likewise, the recent ruling may also raise questions about another BPD test. The exam Boston used for promotion to lieutenant in 2008 is similar to the exam it used for promotion to sergeant.

“It’s the same test for each rank,” said McCarthy.

“The bulk of the test that sergeant [applicants] are taking is same one they’re taking for lieutenant. You have to beg the question, if it’s invalid for them…” said Ellison, implying that the sergeant test may have similar issues to the lieutenant test.

Resolution deadlines

The city and the plaintiffs, who lost in both earnings and career

advancement, have 30 days to reach an agreement on compensation. If they cannot agree within that time, the plaintiffs may propose a settlement and the city will have 30 days to respond.

Plaintiff Sergeant Paul Joseph said he is happy with the verdict.

“This is an opportunity for the city to address the issue of equal opportunity,” he said. “This is about the future of Boston and what kind of police department we want.”

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Director Soni Gupta. “For every one family in shelter, there are four on the verge of homelessness. They have to survive by doubling up, or moving constantly or living in substandard housing.”

Some state programs exist now to increase deeply affordable housing, such as the Supportive Housing Initiative and the Housing Stabilization Trust Fund for special needs households, Gupta said. In addition, housing developers using state tax credits for low income housing must set aside 10 percent of units for ELI households. But the required ELI units do not specifically have to be built for families, and the family need is urgent.

“All other interventions of are of no use if a family is not stably housed. In order for them to break out of the cycle of poverty and instability, housing is a critical component,” Gupta stressed.

“It’s important to realize these are children, going through a lot of upheaval. As a society, we need to do better. We have a role to play and we need to do more.”

Affordability gap

A 2015 report by the D.C.-based Urban Institute, “The Housing Affordability Gap for Extremely Low-Income Renters in 2013,” paints a bleak picture of the widening gap between an increasing number of ELI renter households and the low number of adequate, affordable rental units available to them. While the number of HUD-assisted housing units increased slightly between 2000 and 2013, the number of non-assisted affordably-priced units fell, from 16

for every 100 ELI renters nationally in 2000 to only 5 per 100 in 2013.

On the other hand, the Urban Institute report puts Suffolk County (which includes Boston) at the top among large U.S. counties for its number of ELI-affordable units. Even so, Suffolk County in 2013 had only 51 appropriate units available for every 100 ELI renters in need. The report notes that Boston and other cities that have made progress in closing the “affordability gap” face an increase in needy households that can outpace increased housing.

One example of affordable housing advancing in Boston is One Greenway, the Chinatown mixed-income development for which the ribbon was cut last week. One Greenway includes 95 affordable units, of which 31 one-, two-, and three-bedroom apartments are designated for households at or below 30 percent of AMI. A Department of Neighborhood Development spokesperson said an additional 202 ELI units are currently in the development pipeline for Boston.

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Entrepreneur handles events from flowers to marketing

By MARTIN DESMARAIS

Nearly 20 years ago, Gwendolyn McCoy started Make Scents Floral Design to harness some of her creative energy, but the side business has continued to grow into something more. Now, the lifelong Dorchester resident not only continues with her floral design, stationery and events management business, but has folded it into a larger MS Creative Group, which provides small business marketing, consulting and web design services.

McCoy still works fulltime in the health-care industry — on diversity and inclusion programs for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts — but her side work is keeping her busy enough to consider leaving her three-decadelong career in health care behind.

On the other hand, it’s easy to imagine her continuing to do it all because she has a passion for everything she does. This especially is true of floral design, which she views as a creative outlet. That was what got her going with Make Scents Floral Design 1997 and MS Creative Group a handful of years after that.

“When you are passionate about something, or it is something that is a part of you, it is easy to do,” McCoy said. “My creativity manifests itself in floral design and being able to do graphic design.”

When she started out, however, she wasn’t really thinking about a business, she said. She was just enjoying doing some flower arrangements for friends. The first real project she did was for a friend’s baby shower. She was planning the shower and ended up taking on the florist’s job as well. This led to more work with similar events.

Even at that early stage she could see that the flower business was closely connected to the event management business, and it was a smart move to do it all.

Today, her flower work and event work ranges from simple bouquets to events such as birthdays and funerals to large functions, such as the recent NAACP Freedom Fund Dinner with 70 tables of attendees.

The MS Creative Group draws on the writing and marketing skills she developed in her professional work in health care, but also from her event-planning efforts.

“That was something that loomed in the background along with floral design,” McCoy said.

She wanted a way to handle whatever a client’s needs might be, from event planning to marketing to content for promotional material.

She recently helped plan and organize a conference at UMass Boston called “Raising Our Voices.” This is the kind of work she envisions as the future of MS Creative Group and she expects to spend more time on planning

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Consider the following strategies that help professionals excel in independent employment: Take off the blinders: Being your own boss comes with its own set of challenges. Respondents said that in addition to having solid expertise in their field, successful contract workers must be self-starters who have the ability to cope with uncertainty, including an unpredictable income stream.

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Do not press any keypad buttons. If you received a voice mail message, do not call the scammer back. And never give out any financial information on calls you did not initiate or have not thoroughly researched.

— Better Business Bureau PHOTO COURTESY OF MS CREATIVE GROUP

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Gwendolyn McCoy of Make Scents Floral Design and MS Creative Group.

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THE LIST According to a new study conducted by the University of Hong Kong and Indiana University, the 10 most politically corrupt states in America are: 1. Mississippi 2. Louisiana 3. Tennessee 4. Illinois 5. Pennsylvania

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conferences and events than on floral design.

“There will always be some love of flowers, so I will never give that up, but I think because of the different elements of MS Creative Group I can really focus my energies as the event demands,” said McCoy. McCoy is a businesswoman who comes across as an inveterate multitasker. She even has represented musicians and actors, helping them with promotions, marketing and finding work. One such actor is

Boston local Naheem Garcia, who has been in several movies, including “Black Mass” (2015), “Escapement” (2014) and “R.I.P.D” (2013).

While she calls the flower business consistent, she said she can’t live on that alone, but with larger MS Creative Group services she envisions a future that has enough work to focus exclusively on it.

“I definitely see a next iteration would be me doing this fulltime,” she added.

For now she continues to work out of her Dorchester home while continuing her career in health care.

Having grown up in Grove

Hall, McCoy said she loves Dorchester and always wants to stay in her home area. She values the friendships and connections from the neighborhood.

Originally, McCoy thought she would become a doctor and started college at Boston University in 1983 with that in mind.

However, she soon figured out the science required just wasn’t her thing and turned more toward work in communications.

She entered the health care industry with Blue Cross working in a number of capacities, including operations, claims and training. She then worked at Harvard

Pilgrim Health Care and several other companies before returning to Blue Cross. She says she really enjoys her work on diversity and inclusion, which she views as a very important component of human resources in the corporate world today.

McCoy has also furthered her business aspirations by returning to college — she graduated with a business degree from Northeastern University in 2008 and also received a MBA from Bentley College in 2010.

She calls doing it all a juggling act, but one she is more than happy to keep up.

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ART 100 BOSTON makes art accessible to all

Wynton Marsalis and his Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra PHOTO: FRANK STEWART

By COLETTE GREENSTEIN

A love supreme WYNTON MARSALIS AND JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA PLAY JOHN COLTRANE

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By SUSAN SACCOCCIA

he power, variety and virtuosity of bigband jazz were on show Sunday evening at Symphony Hall. In a presentation of the Celebrity Series of Boston, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis performed a two-hour concert of music composed or reinvented by saxophonist John Coltrane.

Led by trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, managing and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, the 15-member orchestra brings rich sonic resources to its repertoire. Its brass section consists of four trumpeters and three trombonists. A seven-man woodwind section plays instruments that vary from alto, soprano, tenor and baritone saxophones to flute and bass clarinets. Complementing these players is the percussion unit: pianist Dan Nimmer, bassist Carlos Henriquez and drummer Ali Jackson.

Introducing “Africa,” the first selection, Marsalis said that it was “about soul and a long vamp.” Alternating layers of highly textured big band sound with solos, it was a feast of quick-changing turns in pace and texture within a repeating framework — that vamp.

Solos included a Latin-inflected turn by Nimmer, a joy ride of

swinging, easy melodic runs, and a pulsing give-and-take between Henriquez and Boston Arts Academy senior Daniel Winshall, a guest bassist on the piece.

Next, the orchestra played Coltrane’s version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic, “My Favorite Things.” The performance was rich with rippling clarinet solos, including a sinuous, yearning passage by Victor Goines.

“Ole,” a Coltrane composition re-arranged by six members of the orchestra, rendered an impressionistic picture in music conjuring a land of toreadors and Moorish palaces. Richly textured and complex, the performance included a searching solo by soprano saxophonist Walter Blanding and a soulful trombone passage by Vincent Gardner.

The orchestra devoted the second half of the program to a John Coltrane masterpiece of sacred music, “A Love Supreme.”

Coltrane’s 1965 recording of “A

Love Supreme” is one of the most revered jazz albums of all time. A four-part suite, the composition’s movements are “Acknowledgement,” which includes the signature mantra that gives the suite its name; “Resolution;” “Pursuance;” and “Psalm.”

Coltrane recorded the suite with his great quartet. With Coltrane on tenor saxophone and vocals, Jimmy Garrison played double bass, McCoy Tyner was the pianist and Elvin Jones played drums, gong, and timpani.

Marsalis has said that “A Love Supreme” is a work that “begins in the universal church and ends in the church of Negro spirituals.”

In 2002, Marsalis arranged the suite for his orchestra and three years later, he and his Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra recorded the big-band arrangement, which incorporates elements of the blues, 4/4 swing, Afro-Latin rhythms, and ballads.

This year, the orchestra is performing “A Love Supreme” in concerts to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Coltrane’s album.

Introducing the suite, Marsalis said, “It’s an important piece, and it’s important to return to it and think about it.”

Both the community and the individual are summoned and spoken for in the Coltrane

composition, which makes room for all moods and voices in prayer. The orchestra brought its assets to Coltrane’s masterpiece: big-band scale and the diversity of its soloists’ voices. They delivered a stylish and powerful work of praise.

Early on in the first movement, an exciting dialogue emerged between two trombonists, Vincent Gardner and his bandstand neighbor Elliot Mason, whose wah-wah mute deepened the blue undertone. As fellow trumpeters exclaimed, Marcus Printup released a gospel-inflected solo.

Bassist Henriquez reflectively fingered the movement’s refrain, which was then picked up by pianist Nimmer in a swinging, lighthearted solo.

The four-part suite proceeded without a pause, with Henriquez’s solos providing transitions from one movement to another. Jackson’s rippling drums backed a high-velocity solo by Sherman Irby on alto saxophone. Leaving his place on the bandstand and stepping up to the microphone, trombonist Elliot Mason rendered the mantra-like chant, “a love supreme,” with almost atonal distortion in a high-energy improvisation

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“I want them to be able to feel comfortable with art; comfortable about buying art; living with art.

Not only viewing it but being able to live with it and obtain it, and also just understanding the different types of art, the diversity of art,” says Pares Mallis of what she hopes patrons will leave with after attending ART 100 BOSTON in December.

An artist and arts administrator for more than 30 years both in the United States and in Greece, Mallis is the founder, organizer and curator of ART 100 BOSTON — a platform featuring original and contemporary artwork from local artists. After a successful debut in December 2014 with 50 artists and 300 works of art, the exhibition returns to the Piano Craft Gallery in the South End, December 4-19, featuring more than 400 original pieces of art by 68 artists primarily from the Greater Boston area.

The mission of ART 100 BOSTON is to make art accessible, affordable and available to all — from the creator to the art lover to the collector. Each artist accepted in ART 100 Boston pays a $75.00 participation fee, with 14 percent of the fee benefitting the Susan G. Komen Massachusetts Foundation for Breast Cancer Research. Each work of art will be sold for $100.00, with

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IF YOU GO ART 100 BOSTON is open to the public daily, except Mondays, 3:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Piano Craft Gallery. There is no admission fee. For more information about the exhibition and the Piano Craft Gallery, visit www.

ART100Boston.com or www.pianofactorygallery.org, on Facebook/ART100Boston, or call (617) 595-5638.

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FILM REVIEW

‘Creed’ delivers a knockout punch

By COLETTE GREENSTEIN

In typical Rocky fashion, “Creed” is much more than a boxing movie. Yes, there are the boxing matches and the grueling workouts, but more importantly the film explores a new chapter in the “Rocky” saga with Michael B. Jordan in the starring role of Adonis Johnson, a young boxer who never knew his father, world heavy-weight champion Apollo Creed — and is struggling to define himself while living up to his father’s legacy.

“Creed” reunites director Ryan Coogler with his “Fruitvale Station” star; together they take all the great elements of the Rocky movies and weave them into a heartfelt story of a young man who goes in search of his past and identity, and along the way learns how to create his own destiny.

Adonis, who’s been fighting and boxing since he was a kid, heads to Philadelphia and tracks down Rocky (Sylvester Stallone) to ask him to be his trainer. Despite Rocky’s insistence that he’s done with fighting, the former champ sees the same strength and determination that Apollo had and agrees to train Adonis, even

as he’s battling an opponent more deadly than the ones he’s faced in the past.

With Rocky in his corner, Adonis gets his own shot at the title against boxing champ “Pretty” Ricky Conlan, played by English pro boxer and former three-time ABA Heavyweight Champion Anthony Bellew, but can Adonis overcome his past and move out of Apollo’s shadow to become the fighter that he’s destined to become?

Jordan and Stallone’s chemistry is undeniable and both triumph in their respective roles.

Stallone delivers the heart and humor that we’ve come to know from him over the years as Rocky.

Tessa Thompson (“Selma,” “Dear White People”), plays Bianca, the yin to Adonis’ yang, and the singer-songwriter matches his strength and independence, but we also see the sweetness and the kindness of Talia Shire’s character, Adrian Balboa from the early Rocky films. Rounding out the cast is Phylicia Rashad starring as Apollo’s widow Mary Anne Creed.

Together, Coogler and Jordan combine the heart, humor and soul of the Rocky films to create a whole new chapter in the legends of Apollo Creed and Rocky Balboa. “Creed” is a knockout!

PHOTO: BARRY WETCHER

Michael B. Jordon (left) and Sylvester Stallone star in “Creed.”

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Wynton Marsalis and his Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra playing at Symphony Hall.

Coltrane

continued from page 16 that brought bop into the eracrossing performance — yet another assertion of freedom and individuality within both jazz and prayer.

An unhurried drum solo by Ali Jackson began as a playful, brawny exploration of strong and gentle beats and then picked up

speed until he and his kit were vibrating like a pneumatic drill.

In his one solo, Marsalis delivered a soaring, staccato trumpet passage. At the microphone with his soprano saxophone, Ted Nash was a snake charmer, playing a sinuous, liquid solo while Henriquez and Jackson provided driving percussion.

Receding like an ebb tide, the shimmering textures, tumult and grandeur gradually came to rest.

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SATURDAY CULTURAL DANCE, RHYTHM AND PERFORMANCE The public is invited to attend a free Cultural Dance, Rhythm and Performance featuring students and teachers from the Art of Black Dance & Music on Saturday, November 28 from 12:30-1:30pm, at the Dudley Branch of the Boston Public Library. This family-friendly event encourages audience participation. The program is funded by the Fellowes Athenaeum Trust Fund of the Boston Public Library. 65 Warren St., Roxbury. For more information, call 617-4426186 or email fellowestrust@yahoo.com.

THURSDAY CREATING ART AT HOME December 3, 10 from 9:30-11:30 at Jamaica Plain Head Start, 315 Centre St., JP. Enter through Stop & Shop parking lot, bear left. Two blocks from Orange Line Jackson Square T-Stop. FREE workshops where parents and grandparents learn ways to use recycled and simple art materials in imaginative ways. Presented in English, Spanish and American Sign Language (upon request). Create magical environments, sculptures and puppets (perfect for holiday gifts) with clay and recycled materials. Take home a bag of recycled materials and art supplies after each workshop. Led by creative teaching artist team. Register for one or both workshops.

Wheelchair accessible. Child care provided.

FCT is a program of Community Service Care/Tree of Life Coalition. To register and for more information call 617-522-4832 or email mfcabrera53@gmail.com. Additional information at www.familiescreatingto gether.org.

can hear readings of holiday-themed books and work on holiday crafts in our kinder vinkl (children’s corner). Throughout the day, young detektivn (detectives) can take part in scavenger hunts throughout the Yiddish Book Center. Guided public tours of the Center will be offered at 11am and 1pm.

More information can be found at yiddishbookcenter.org/events.

HOLIDAY TRADITIONS December 7, 14 from 5:30-7:30 with light supper at 5:30 at Jamaica Plain Community Center (Curtis Hall), 20 South Street, Jamaica Plain. FREE family workshops engaging children, parents, grandparents and friends in creating original print and collage greeting cards, wrapping paper, clay beads and baked cookies and bread. Register for one or both workshops.

Wheelchair accessible. FCT is a program of Community Service Care/Tree of Life Coalition. To register and for more information call 617-522-4832 or email mfcabrera53@ gmail.com. Additional information at www. familiescreatingtogether.org.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30

COPLEY SQUARE TREE LIGHTING Mayor Martin J. Walsh, the Boston Parks and Recreation Department, and The Friends of Copley Square welcome the holidays with the annual Copley Square Tree Lighting on Monday, November 30, 5-6pm. The free event will feature appearances by Mayor Walsh, “Dining Playbook” host Jenny Johnson, Santa Claus, and Rudolph along with live entertainment including members of the Boston Pops Brass Ensemble, Berklee College of Music’s co-ed contemporary a cappella group Pitch Slapped, “The Voice” contestant Brittany Butler, and a holiday sing-along. The Old South Church bell will toll when the tree is illuminated. The Fairmont Copley Plaza will host a family reception immeSUDOKU Easy diately following for all in attendance. The reception will include cookie decorating, photos with Santa and treats from 5 4Copley 9 2Square 6 will 1 become 3 8 a7 Georgetown Cupcakes and the Fairmont Copley Plaza. In addition, beginning at 4:30pm spot for family revelry with jugglers, stilt walkers, and festive music provided by Magic 7 2106.7, 6 Boston’s 3 8 9holiday 1 music 5 4 station. Even more festivities will take place in and around Copley Square on November 30. The Boston Public Library 8 1 3 4 7 5 6 9 2 and The Catered Affair will host a Storytime and Candy Cane Tea at The Fairmont Copley Plaza from 3:30-5pm. The 9 5 4 please 1 3call6the 2Boston 7 8 tea is free but reservations are required by calling 617-859-2282. For additional information Parks and Recreation Department at 617-635-4505. To learn more about The Friends 1 of3 Copley 7 5Square, 2 8please 9 visit 4 6 www.friendsofcopleysquare.org.

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Nov 26 - Closed for Thanksgiving Dec 3 - Fulani Haynes Jazz Collaborative + VCR the Community Poet + Open Mic Dec 10 - Actress Obehi Janice + Singer Songwriter Shea Rose + Garrick Thames, Author + Open Mic

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all proceeds from the sale going directly to the artist.

The exhibition provides the opportunity for the artists to present a show of their own within a group context, and to connect with art lovers in an intimate space.

“It’s a mini solo show because it’s a series of work. Each one has to be interrelated. They’re making a big statement in a small space,” says Mallis.

The response to ART 100 BOSTON has been overwhelming according to the artist/curator. She began planning this year’s showcase during the event last year because “everybody wanted it so badly.”

Mallis relayed an anecdote over the phone how the wife of one of the exhibitors said to her last year that ‘ART 100 is an institution’. The statement surprised Mallis, considering it was only the first year of the exhibition, but the woman went on to explain to Mallis that everyone was looking forward to it “because it had never been done before.” That sentiment sealed the deal for her to plan for year two.

This year’s showcase has expanded both in size and in staff with the exhibition taking up the entire space at the South End gallery. Mallis also tapped

PHOTOS COURTESY ART 100 BOSTON

Works of art by April Clay (left) and Gerardo Garduño for ART 100 BOSTON.

PHOTO COURTESY ART 100 BOSTON

Cary Rapaport, ceramic sculptor, creates artwork for ART 100 BOSTON 2015. photographer Hakim Raquib, whose works have been exhibited at the De Cordova Museum, The Institute of Contemporary Art, the Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists and internationally, to help choose the photographers. She

also added cinematic production artist Karen Ann Levy as co-curator and co-organizer to handle outreach. “We have more social networking this time,” mentions Mallis.

With the theme of “diversity” this year, the type of works featured

include paintings, mixed media, photography, digital illustration, sculptures, glass work, ceramic art, 3D construction, porcelain clay, and the exhibition’s first app artist Jose Conchello.

“He makes everything on an iPhone. That’s really pretty impressive,” she says of the graphic artist. “This is the new wave. This is the cutting edge thing. People are going beyond their studio, and the chisel and the paint, and they’re doing things in a virtual reality. It’s kind of neat.”

Other artists featured in the showcase include urban planner Todd Erickson who creates 3D mixed media; Andrew Rogovin, who makes faces and heads out of clay without using a live model; freelance photographer Anusuiya Bharadwaj; Cary Rapaport,

a graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, who will exhibit 3-D clay sculptures depicting planets; painter and B.U. professor of neuroscience Kamal Sen; and works by illustrator and painter Gerardo Garduño.

Mallis, who was recently elected the director of the Piano Craft Gallery, has also commissioned ART 100 BOSTON handmade ceramic mugs from Kari Wojtanik, a Ph.D. oncologist who works for Susan G. Komen. All proceeds from the mugs will go to ART 100 BOSTON. As a final thought on what the public takes away from the exhibition, Mallis says she hopes “that they can come in here and feel like that they can own a piece of original art. That art is accessible to everybody now. I want them to feel more user-friendly about art.

That’s what it’s all about.”

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BANNER CLASSIFIEDS LEGAL The Greater Plymouth Performing Arts Center, Inc., Owner, request bids for: Structural repairs to attic truss framing, strengthening of corbelled brackets with turn buckles and steel brackets, shoring and stabilizing outward bowing window walls and protecting art glass windows through construction process and corrective jacking as allowed by the conditions to move shifted elements back toward original location. Also, installation of Limited Use Limited Access Elevator with full shaft enclosure, machine room and machine room cooling.

Also, enlarging a ceiling hatch attic access.

The building is listed in the State Register of Historic Places. The project is being partially funded with a grant from the Massachusetts Preservation Projects Fund through the Massachusetts Historical Commission. All work must be performed in accordance with the documents prepared by Spencer & Vogt Group, Inc. and meet the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties.

State law prohibits discrimination. Awarding of this contract is subject to Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity guidelines. A copy of the bidding documents may be obtained by emailing the architect at pguthrie@spen

LEGAL cervogt.com. A pre·bid meeting will be held at the site, 25 ½ Court Street, on Tuesday November 24, 2015, at 10:00 AM. Bids shall be evaluated on the basis of price, previous experience with similar types of construction projects, ability to perform the work in a timely manner, and references. All bids must be delivered to the architect’s office at the above address prior to 3 pm, Monday December 14, 2015, to be eligible for consideration. All grant funded work must be completed by June 30, 2016.

The First Parish of Groton, Owner, request bids for: The Work of Project is defined by the Contract Documents and consists of the following: Repairs to the attic, bell tower and steeple framing. Repairs to deteriorated or missing wood trim elements and siding at the façade (west elevation), bell tower and steeple. Preparation and repainting of the façade which includes complete stripping of paint from existing woodwork.

Replacement of asphalt shingles at the bell-cast roof at the base of the spire with bent wood shingles. Salvage of portico paving bricks, replace unsuitable fill with new more stable fill and drainage materials.

LEGAL The building is listed in the State Register of Historic Places. The project is being partially funded with a grant from the Massachusetts Preservation Projects Fund through the Massachusetts Historical Commission. All work must be performed in accordance with the documents prepared by Spencer & Vogt Group, Inc. and meet the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties.

State law prohibits discrimination. Awarding of this contract is subject to Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity guidelines. A copy of the bidding documents may be obtained by emailing the architect at pguthrie@spencer vogt.com after November 20, 2015. A pre·bid meeting will be held at the site, 1 Powderhouse Road, Groton, MA, on Monday, November 30, 2015, at 10:00 AM. Bids shall be evaluated on the basis of price, previous experience with similar types of construction projects, ability to perform the work in a timely manner, and references. All bids must be delivered to the architect’s office at the above address prior to 12 pm, Monday December 14, 2015, to be eligible for consideration. All grant funded work must be completed by June 30, 2016.

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and expenses of administration.

NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Sealed General Bids for MPA Contract No. AP1532-C1 ENGINE MAINTENANCE AND REPAIRS FOR GENERATORS, ALL MASSPORT PROPERTIES, BOSTON, BEDFORD, FRAMINGHAM, AND WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, will be received by the Massachusetts Port Authority at the Capital Programs Department Office, Suite 209S, Logan Office Center, One Harborside Drive, East Boston, Massachusetts 02128-2909, until 11:00 A.M. local time on WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2015, immediately after which, in a designated room, the bids will be opened and read publicly.

NOTE: PRE BID CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD AT THE CAPITAL PROGRAMS DEPARTMENT (ABOVE ADDRESS) AT 10:00 A.M. LOCAL TIME ON THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2015.

The work includes THE PROVISION OF LABOR, TOOLS, EQUIPMENT, AND INCIDENTAL MATERIALS FOR THE PREVENTATIVE MANTENANCE AND REPAIR OF ENGINE DRIVEN GENERATORS INCLUDING WEEKLY, MONTHLY, AND ANNUAL SERVICE AND TESTING REQUIREMENTS AT THE AUTHORITY’S PROPERTIES FOR A PERIOD OF THREE (3) YEARS. Bid documents will be made available beginning WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2015.

Bid Documents in electronic format may be obtained free of charge at the Authority’s Capital Programs Department Office, together with any addenda or amendments, which the Authority may issue and a printed copy of the Proposal form.

The estimated contract cost is EIGHT HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS ($850,000).

A proposal guaranty shall be submitted with each General Bid consisting of a bid deposit for five (5) percent of the value of the bid; when sub bids are required, each must be accompanied by a deposit equal to five (5) percent of the sub bid amount, in the form of a bid bond, or cash, or a certified check, or a treasurer’s or a cashier’s check issued by a responsible bank or trust company, payable to the Massachusetts Port Authority in the name of which the Contract for the work is to be executed. The bid deposit shall be (a) in a form satisfactory to the Authority, (b) with a surety company qualified to do business in the Commonwealth and satisfactory to the Authority, and (c) conditioned upon the faithful performance by the principal of the agreements contained in the bid.

WITNESS, HON. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court.

Date: November 17, 2015 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division

Docket No. SU15D2199DR

Divorce Summons by Publication and Mailing Martha Collado

The Complaint is on file at the Court.

Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department

The Complaint is on file at the Court.

Complete information and authorization to view the site may be obtained from the Capital Programs Department Office at the Massachusetts Port Authority. The right is reserved to waive any informality in or reject any or all proposals.

MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY THOMAS P. GLYNN CEO & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Docket No. SU15D0793DR

vs.

BID NO.

DESCRIPTION

Purchase of Replacement 12/09/15 Corner Rails and KD Sheets for Krings Shoring System (or Equal)

DATE

TIME 10:00 a.m.

*To access and bid on Event(s) please go to the MWRA Supplier Portal at www.mwra.com.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department Docket No. SU15P2816EA

Citation on Petition for Formal Adjudication

The Plaintiff has filed a Complaint for Divorce requesting that the Court grant a divorce for irretrievable breakdown of the marriage pursuant to G.L. c.

208, Section 1 B.

An Automatic Restraining Order has been entered in this matter preventing you from taking any action which would negatively impact the current financial status of either party. SEE Supplemental Probate Court Rule 411.

You are hereby summoned and required to serve upon: Sheralee George, 24 Fessenden St., #2, Mattapan, MA 02126 your answer, if any, on or before 01/14/2016. If you fail to do so, the court will proceed to the hearing and adjudication of this action. You are also required to file a copy of your answer, if any, in the office of the Register of this Court.

Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division

Docket No. SU15D2112DR

vs.

Beatriz Arroyo

The Plaintiff has filed a Complaint for Divorce requesting that the Court grant a divorce for irretrievable breakdown of the marriage pursuant to G.L. c.

208, Section 1 B. The Complaint is on file at the Court.

An Automatic Restraining Order has been entered in this matter preventing you from taking any action which would negatively impact the current financial status of either party. SEE Supplemental Probate Court Rule 411.

You are hereby summoned and required to serve upon: Ignacio G. Paniagua, 42 Harrison Archway #4255, Boston, MA 02118 your answer, if any, on or before 01/07/2016. If you fail to do so, the court will proceed to the hearing and adjudication of this action. You are also required to file a copy of your answer, if any, in the office of the Register of this Court.

Witness, Hon. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court.

Date: October 22, 2015

Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department

To all interested persons:

IMPORTANT NOTICE You have the right to obtain a copy of the Petition from the Petitioner or at the Court. You have a right to object to this proceeding. To do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance and objection at this Court before 10:00 a.m. on the return day of 12/17/2015. This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline by which you must file a written appearance and objection if you object to this proceeding. If you fail to file a timely written appearance and objection followed by an Affidavit of Objections within thirty (30) days of the return day, action may be taken without further notice to you.

UNSUPERVISED ADMINISTRATION UNDER THE MASSACHUSETTS UNIFORM PROBATE CODE (MUPC) A Personal Representative appointed under the MUPC in an unsupervised administration is not required to file an inventory or annual accounts with the Court. Persons interested in the estate are entitled to notice regarding the administration directly from the Personal Representative and may petition the Court in any matter relating to the estate, including distribution of assets

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All interested purchasers must submit an application no later than 4:00 PM on December 10, 2015 to: Needham Planning and Community Development Department 500 Dedham Avenue Needham, MA 02492 Applications are available at Needham’s Planning and Community Development Dept. at 500 Dedham Avenue, the Town Clerk’s Office at 1471 Highland Avenue, and through the realtor, Kate Tedoldi, at 1089 Great Plain Avenue in Needham. The realtor should be contacted at 781-927-8656 with questions and to view the unit. Questions can also be directed to Needham’s Community Housing Specialist at 781-455-7550 ext. 220.

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Witness, Hon. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court.

Date: November 2, 2015

Estate of Anthony D. James Date of Death: 10/25/2015

A Petition for Formal Appointment of Personal Representative has been filed

by Anthony Deangelo James, Jr. of Boston, MA requesting that the Court enter a formal Decree and Order and for such other relief as requested in the Petition. The Petitioner requests that Anthony Deangelo James, Jr. of Boston, MA be appointed as Personal Representative(s) of said estate to serve Without Surety on the bond in an unsupervised administration.

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To the Defendant:

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The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority is seeking bids for the following:

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Divorce Summons by Publication and Mailing Sheralee George

Divorce Summons by Publication and Mailing

INVITATION TO BID

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You are hereby summoned and required to serve upon: Jenny H. GuiradoGonzalez, Esq., Law Offices of Jenny H. Guirado, 112 South Street, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130, your answer, if any, on or before 01/14/2016. If you fail to do so, the court will proceed to the hearing and adjudication of this action.

You are also required to file a copy of your answer, if any, in the office of the Register of this Court.

Witness, Hon. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court.

Date: October 30, 2015

REAL ESTATE

Parker Hill Apartments

An Automatic Restraining Order has been entered in this matter preventing you from taking any action which would negatively impact the current financial status of either party. SEE Supplemental Probate Court Rule 411.

The successful Bidder will be required to purchase and maintain Bodily Injury Liability Insurance and Property Damage Liability Insurance for a combined single limit of $10,000,000. Said policy shall be on an occurrence basis and the Authority shall be included as an Additional Insured. See the insurance sections of Division I, General Requirements and Division II, Special Provisions for complete details.

The General Contractor is required to submit a Certification of Non Segregated Facilities prior to award of the Contract, and to notify prospective subcontractors of the requirement for such certification where the subcontract exceeds $10,000.

Raul Batista

The Plaintiff has filed a Complaint for Divorce requesting that the Court grant a divorce for irretrievable breakdown of the marriage.

SUFFOLK Division

This Contract is also subject to Affirmative Action requirements of the Massachusetts Port Authority contained in the Non Discrimination and Affirmative Action article of Division I, General Requirements and Covenants, and to the Secretary of Labor’s Requirement for Affirmative Action to Ensure Equal Opportunity and the Standard Federal Equal Opportunity Construction Contract Specifications (Executive Order 11246).

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To the Defendant:

The successful Bidder will be required to furnish a performance bond and a labor and materials payment bond, each in an amount equal to 100% of the Contract price. The surety shall be a surety company or securities satisfactory to the Authority. Attention is called to the minimum rate of wages to be paid on the work as determined under the provisions of Chapter 149, Massachusetts General Laws, Section 26 to 27G, inclusive, as amended. The Contractor will be required to pay minimum wages in accordance with the schedules listed in Division II, Special Provisions of the Specifications, which wage rates have been predetermined by the U. S. Secretary of Labor and / or the Commissioner of Labor and Industries of Massachusetts, whichever is greater.

SUFFOLK Division

SUFFOLK Division

Docket No. SU15C0387CA

In the matter of Sean Michael McCarthy of Roxbury Crossing, MA NOTICE OF PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME To all persons interested in a petition described: A petition has been presented by Sean M. McCarthy requesting that Sean Michael McCarthy be allowed to change his name as follows: Sean Michael Bitar IF YOU DESIRE TO OBJECT THERETO, YOU OR YOUR ATTORNEY MUST FILE A WRITTEN APPEARANCE IN SAID COURT AT BOSTON ON OR BEFORE TEN O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING (10:00 AM) ON 12/17/2015.

WITNESS, HON. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court.

Date: September 1, 2015 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate

Civic Technology Fellow The Metropolitan Area Planning Council’s Data Services Department seeks a Civic Technology Fellow. As the Civic Technology Fellow you will take a leading role in the development of public sector web applications, primarily a new suite of tools to support the City of Boston’s summer youth jobs program application process, job matching, and applicant communications. While writing code will comprise the majority of your responsibilities, you will be involved in all aspects of the product delivery cycle, including product scoping and design. MAPC is a public agency and the regional planning agency for 101 cities and towns of Metro Boston. Duties include: Lead the development of production-ready, data-driven, server-side web applications and APIs; Deploy applications to Paas or IaaS and establish monitors to ensure consistent uptime; Integrate web services with each other and with in-house applications.

Qualifications: BA degree in computer science, technology, design, engineering, or related field strongly preferred. Demonstrated experience in writing clear, maintainable, sustainable, and production-ready code.

A minimum, two (2) years’ experience in web or software development.

Proficiency in at least one mature, modern, open source computing language and associated web framework(s), in a Unix-based environment (Linux, Mac OS). Ruby, Python, and JavaScript-based stacks are strongly preferred. Time Commitment: Expect to work 7.5 hours a day, in addition to a weekly evening meeting (2-3 hours) at Code for Boston to help build a community around our open-source products.

Compensation: Salary range is from $65,000 to $75,000 annually commensurate with experience.

To Apply: PLEASE SEE COMPLETE JOB AD AT: www.mapc.org/Jobs at MAPC AND APPLY AT LINK SHOWN THERE. This position is open until filled. Candidates must have legal authorization to work in the USA and a valid driver’s license and /or the ability to arrange transportation to meetings in different parts of the region. Interested candidates should submit a cover letter, resume, and three references. In your resume, please include links to active (deployed) online projects, noting your role in producing them.

Supplemental Information: If available, please provide a link to your GitHub (or similar) account, or attach samples of your code. Code Climate links to your open-source repositories (if any) are also accepted.

We do not equate an abundance of open-source software contributions with development proficiency. We are much more interested in the quality of your code than in the quantity or frequency of your participation in open-source projects.

MAPC is an EOE/AA employer. MAPC takes pride in the diversity of its workforce and encourages all qualified persons to apply. Barbara Wooten, Manager of Human Resources. Posted 11/20/15.

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Field Interviewers The University of Michigan Survey Research Center (SRC) is part of the nation’s largest academically-based social science and research organization. SRC is seeking part-time field interviewers in the Boston, MA area to work on the prestigious Health and Retirement Study (HRS).

Greater Media Boston is searching for a dynamic Director of Sales to lead our five station cluster.

Field interviewers will make face-to-face visits to screen selected households for eligible respondents and will conduct lengthy in-home interviews with selected adults, taking physical measures and biomarkers including grip strength, saliva, and blood samples.

Candidates must demonstrate an ability to recruit, coach, and retain great talent. A manager who can inspire a team, you must be able to collaborate across departments, form lasting relationships with clients, and truly make a difference in the work lives of our team members.

Highly qualified interviewers will have good computer skills, have reliable transportation with insurance (mileage is reimbursable), be comfortable working in a variety of neighborhoods, and be available to work up to 30 hrs/ week primarily during evenings and weekends.

If you believe that high performance comes through leadership and a strengths-based approach, and have a proven track-record of success, we want to meet you. Candidates must articulate a specific vision for how they will increase revenue, motivate a team and create client solutions.

Qualified candidates please submit a cover letter and resume to: hr@greatermediaboston.com

The pay rate for the Boston, MA is $17.00/hr. with the potential to receive an additional $3 per hour if meeting all performance and production standards.

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PROPERTY MANAGER Tenants’ Development Corp. (TDC) seeks Property Manager for 185 unit development located in Boston South End. Property Manager has responsibility for the overall planning, supervision and execution of all day-to-day site management of a Section 8/ LIHTC property. Candidates must have at least 5 years’ experience managing affordable housing and knowledge of and experience with Section 8, Section 236, LIHTC regulations. COS and LIHTC certification or equivalent is required. Must have Windows based computer skills, ability to create documents and spreadsheets and experience and ability to supervise staff. Experience with Real Page/One Site software or equivalent required. TDC offers competitive salary and benefit package. Submit resume and salary requirements to Donald Ward, dward@tenantsdevelopment.com.

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n Changing Tracks seeks to significantly improve the life chances of youth of color in Boston affected by the juvenile justice system. Changing Tracks helps juvenile justice involved youth gain access to an array of supportive services empowering them to overcome obstacles including but not limited to substance use, school suspensions and expulsion, an incarceration. The provision of intensive case management services is aimed at helping the participants achieve their goals in the areas of education and employment enabling them to get back on track for long term self-sufficiency and success. n Responsible for providing group workshops, individual education, and supported referrals for youth with potential substance use/abuse/dependence issues. Provide case management support for the Changing Tracks Initiative including but not limited to community outreach, intake, direct service, follow up, and data entry.

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Please note: this position is temporary through June 30, 2016. Continued employment is contingent upon receipt of additional funding.

All applications and inquiries should be directed to the Human Resources Department, 178 Tremont St. Boston, MA 02111, Fax: (617) 423-7693, or email banner@bostonabcd.org Please visit our website at www.bostonabcd.org for additional employment listings.

ABCD Inc. is an equal opportunity employer actively seeking applications under its affirmative action program.

PROPERTY MANAGER 5+ year’s property management experience Working knowledge of affordable housing, federal, state and local housing regulations Proven ability to Lead Excellent customer service skills ASSISTANT PROPERTY MANAGER Working knowledge of affordable housing, federal, state and local housing regulations Solid Administrative, organizational, computer, marketing and resident relations skills OCCUPANCY SPECIALIST 2+ years’ experience in property management Knowledge of: Affordable Housing, LIHTC, Federal, State and Local Housing regulations Demonstrated ability to complete recertification accurately and within an established timeframe SERVICE MANAGER 5+ years’ hands on experience with basic carpentry, electrical and plumbing Must have a valid driver’s license Available for on-call Previous supervisory experience MAINTENANCE TECHNICIAN 2+ years’ hands on experience with basic carpentry, electrical and plumbing Must have a valid driver’s license Available for on-call GROUNDSKEEPER Ensures grounds are free of debris and walkways are safe and unobstructed, Provides overall grounds maintenance, snow removal and completes basic work orders.

BENEFITS We view our staff as our most valuable asset. Therefore, we offer our employees a competitive salary and benefits package. *Peabody Properties, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Peabody Properties, Inc. is committed to workforce diversity.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, disability, or national origin. Applicants encouraged to confidential self-identity when applying. Smoke-free workplace. Drug-free work environment.

CONTACT INFO To apply: Send resumes to mfrederick@peabodyproperties.com OR Fax to (617) 663-6383 OR Mail Corporate Recruiter, 536 Granite Street, Braintree, MA 02184

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