Boston City Councilor Matt O’Malley and Consul-General
Fionnuala Quinlan will host the Irish Flag Raising at Boston City Hall. The
reception will be in the Curley Room followed by the raising of the Irish flag
on City Hall Plaza. The event will include performances by Boston Latin
School’s Treble Choir and Mary Heavey Quinn’s Irish Step Dancers.
星期四, 3月 16, 2017
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard Statement on Federal Stay on Travel Ban
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard Statement on Federal Stay on Travel Ban
Washington, DC—Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (HI-02) released the statement below after U.S. District Court Judge Derrick Watson in Honolulu issued a nationwide stay temporarily preventing the Trump Administration’s travel ban from going into effect:
“Hawaiʻi is a place where people with different ideas, backgrounds, religions, and ethnicities feel welcomed and respected. It's only right that our Attorney General Doug Chin represent those values in working to stop this blanket travel ban from going into effect. This travel ban is bad policy, plain and simple.”
星期三, 3月 15, 2017
Governor Baker Makes Two Judicial Nominations
Governor Baker Makes Two Judicial Nominations
BOSTON – Today, Governor Charlie Baker nominated Joseph M. Ditkoff as an Associate Justice of the Appeals Court, and Kelli Ryan DiLisio as an Associate Justice of the Juvenile Court. Ditkoff brings extensive knowledge of the law and appellate procedure as well as years of experience in the District Court. DiLisio has spent two decades working with the Juvenile Court as well as trial work in both the Hampden County District and Superior Courts.
“The decades of experience in public service that Joseph Ditkoff and Kelli DiLisio will bring to the respective courts and the people of the Commonwealth make them exceptional candidates,” said Governor Charlie Baker. “Both are smart and thoughtful individuals and I look forward to the Governor’s Council’s consideration of their nominations for these important appointments.”
Ditkoff is nominated for the seat vacated by The Honorable Cynthia J. Cohen on the Appeals Court, and DiLisio for the seat vacated by The Honorable Daniel J. Swords on the Juvenile Court.
“I am pleased with the nomination of these two distinguished attorneys who have a deep respect for the rule of law and the role of the judiciary along with the temperament and character to serve the courts exceptionally well should they be confirmed,” said Lt. Governor Karyn Polito. “I am confident that their skills and knowledge will allow them to serve all those who will appear before them with fairness and justice.”
The Appeals Court is the intermediate appellate court to which most appeals from the Massachusetts Trial Courts and a number of administrative bodies are made. The Court has one Chief and 24 Associate Justices. Last year, Governor Baker nominated the Honorable Scott L. Kafker to serve as Chief Justice of the Appeals Court.
For more information about the Massachusetts Appeals Court, visit http://www.mass.gov/courts/court-info/appealscourt/.
The Juvenile Court Department is a statewide court with jurisdiction over civil and criminal matters including delinquencies, youthful offender cases, care and protections and children requiring assistance cases. The Juvenile Court has 41 judges, including the Chief Justice, in over 40 locations.
For more information about the Juvenile Court, please visit: http://www.mass.gov/courts/court-info/trial-court/juv/
Judicial nominations are subject to the advice and consent of the Governor’s Council. Applicants for judicial openings are reviewed by the Judicial Nominating Commission (JNC) and recommended to the governor. Governor Baker established the JNC in February, 2015 pursuant to Executive Order 558, a non-partisan, non-political Commission composed of volunteers from a cross-section of the Commonwealth's diverse population to screen judicial applications. Twenty-one members were later appointed to the JNC in April, 2015.
About Joseph M. Ditkoff
For the last three years, Joseph Ditkoff has served as General Counsel of the District Court advising the Chief Justice, Justices, and Clerks on complex legal and ethical issues, legal developments, legislation, and opioid and other substance use disorder issues. Prior to that, Ditkoff worked in the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office as Deputy Legal Counsel to the District Attorney and as an Assistant District Attorney. He began his career as a Judicial Law Clerk for the Honorable Jerry E. Smith of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Houston, Texas and then from 1998 to 1999 as Litigation Chairman in the Office of Independent Counsel in Washington, DC. Ditkoff is an Editor and Case Summary Contributor for the Massachusetts Law Review and an elected town meeting member in Brookline. He graduated from Yale College cum laude in 1993 and magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1996.
About Kelli Ryan DiLisio
Kelli DiLisio currently serves as First Assistant Clerk-Magistrate for the Franklin/Hampshire Juvenile Court assisting in the management of the court that serves two counties and four sites. From 1997 to 2013 she served as Assistant Clerk-Magistrate it that court. DiLisio began her career serving as an Assistant District Attorney in the Hampden County District Attorney’s Office in Springfield, MA then as Supervising Trial Attorney in the District Court, and Supervisor of the Grand Jury and Intake and Screening Unit from 1986 to 1997. She is a member of the Juvenile Court Mass Courts Committee and the Child Welfare Rules Committee. She graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1983 and Western New England College School of Law in 1986.
Boston Public Schools to unveil culturally proficient maps in several classrooms
Boston Public Schools to unveil culturally proficient maps in several classrooms
Launch event showcases Peters Projection maps
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BOSTON - Tomorrow, Thursday, March 16, Boston Public Schools (BPS) will showcase Peters Projection maps that are intended to counter a biased view of the world found in traditional maps through an interactive event featuring a 20-foot EarthView Globe - created by Bridgewater State University - that visitors can walk through.
The event represents the launch of Peters Projections maps in all second, seventh, and eleventh grade BPS classrooms that teach social studies. These maps offer a more culturally proficient view of the world than the traditional Mercator Projection maps, which distorts North America and Europe by representing a greater land area relative to their South American and African counterparts. The Mercator Projection maps were originally intended for navigation purposes.
The Peters Projection Map will be distributed as part of a resource set to enrich global learning. In addition to the physical map, BPS is providing teachers with digital resources, including articles, images, and lesson plans, which can be utilized to spark student dialogue and reflection.
At the launch event, participants will be able to debate the merits of moving away from traditional Mercator Projection maps to Peters Projection maps. In addition, those who walk through the EarthView Globe will see the world from the inside out and view tectonic plates and landform structures. And, a five-foot of Boston's historic neighborhoods, provided by the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, will offer a glimpse of Boston's geography from 250 years ago.
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新南向跨大步 僑委會助東南亞僑台商攬才
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立法院副院長蔡其昌（左）、僑委會委員長吳新興（右）致贈紅包
予逢甲大學擎鼓社演出團員。
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立法院副院長蔡其昌表示，透過這次博覽會，讓台灣第一次有了東南亞僑生與台商媒合的場域，亦能藉此使在地產業、台商與僑務等相關組織獲得良好的交流機會，「新南向政策不是說說而已」，他期待這樣有意義的活動能夠持續辦理。
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立法院副院長蔡其昌（左）和僑委會委員長吳新興（右），參展公司
交流意見。
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吳新興指出，博覽會目的有二，一是強化台灣與東南亞的人才鏈結、交流與合作，二是協助東南亞的僑台商找到合適人才。我國至今已有超過12萬名僑生，其中馬來西亞的僑生高達6萬人，不論是政治、經濟、文化等各方面人才，若能為台商所用，將成為台灣與東南亞重要的關係網絡。
逢甲大學董事長高承恕表示，希望能給年輕人更多機會、更寬闊的世界，也希望東南亞的台商能招攬到好人才，這是一個好事。會中，逢甲大學擎鼓社打擊表演，以馬來西亞24節令鼓為基礎的表演藝術鑼鼓喧天、響徹雲霄，象徵博覽會人聲鼎沸、生生不息，演出結束後蔡其昌、吳新興、高承恕等人致贈紅包予演出團員。
「到東南亞的台商公司工作也不錯」成功大學心理系四年級的韓國僑生譚安杰說，博覽會釋出許多不同種類的職缺，讓他也想試試看。而成功大學會計系四年級的新加坡僑生黃柏勳表示，他希望能藉此找到台商在母國提供的就業機會，畢業後返鄉工作。中山醫學大學三年級的馬來西亞僑生鄭詩溫也說，他喜歡人力資源相關的工作，現場企業有許多類似的職缺，他都很有興趣多了解。
參加攬才的協大公司副總經理張保欽表示，公司在大陸、越南、印尼都有設廠，在台讀書的東南亞僑生通常有印、越、中及英語能力，對公司內部管理及客戶開發都有幫助，希望從鞋廠開發到生產線人員都能找到適當人才。另外，時代瓷磚公司代表呂紹安說，公司希望找到中、英語能力並重的人才，來台就讀的東南亞僑生教育水準相當不錯。
2017年僑委會東南亞僑台商攬才博覽會除了14日中區場次在台中逢甲大學登場外，北區場次將在4月15日於台北火車站舉行，2場次共有近2百家廠商參與，提供超過1800餘個職缺。
Boston Public Schools to unveil culturally proficient maps in several classrooms
Boston Public Schools to unveil culturally proficient maps in several classrooms
Launch event showcases Peters Projection maps
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BOSTON - Wednesday, March 16, 2017 - Tomorrow, Thursday, March 16, Boston Public Schools (BPS) will showcase Peters Projection maps that are intended to counter a biased view of the world found in traditional maps through an interactive event featuring a 20-foot EarthView Globe - created by Bridgewater State University - that visitors can walk through.
The event represents the launch of Peters Projections maps in all second, seventh, and eleventh grade BPS classrooms that teach social studies. These maps offer a more culturally proficient view of the world than the traditional Mercator Projection maps, which distorts North America and Europe by representing a greater land area relative to their South American and African counterparts. The Mercator Projection maps were originally intended for navigation purposes.
The Peters Projection Map will be distributed as part of a resource set to enrich global learning. In addition to the physical map, BPS is providing teachers with digital resources, including articles, images, and lesson plans, which can be utilized to spark student dialogue and reflection.
At the launch event, participants will be able to debate the merits of moving away from traditional Mercator Projection maps to Peters Projection maps. In addition, those who walk through the EarthView Globe will see the world from the inside out and view tectonic plates and landform structures. And, a five-foot of Boston's historic neighborhoods, provided by the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, will offer a glimpse of Boston's geography from 250 years ago.
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星期一, 3月 13, 2017
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