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星期四, 5月 16, 2019

2020波士頓馬拉松9月9日起接受報名

B.A.A. Announces 2020 Boston Marathon Registration Dates

Registration Opens Monday, September 9 at 10:00 a.m. ET

BOSTON - Registration for the 2020 Boston Marathon will open on Monday, September 9, 2019 at 10:00 a.m. ET. The Boston Athletic Association will use the same process to register qualified open runners as it has used in recent years, allowing the fastest qualifiers in their gender and age group to register first. Qualifiers for the 2020 Boston Marathon will meet challenging standards that are 5 minutes faster, per gender and age group, than the qualifying standards from 2013 through 2019.

The 124th Boston Marathon will be held on Monday, April 20, 2020, Patriots’ Day in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. For the 35thconsecutive year, John Hancock will sponsor the Boston Marathon. Registration for the 2020 Boston Marathon will be held entirely online atwww.baa.org. The qualification window for the 2020 Boston Marathon began on Saturday, September 15, 2018.

“Achieving a Boston Marathon qualifying time and earning a spot on the starting line in Hopkinton is something athletes from across the world strive for each year,” said Tom Grilk, B.A.A. Chief Executive Officer. “The determination displayed by Boston Marathon participants is unrivaled, which helps distinguish the Boston Marathon as the world’s most meaningful road race. We are grateful to the running community for their unwavering support and commitment to the Boston Marathon.”

Achieving one’s qualifying standard does not guarantee acceptance into the Boston Marathon due to field size limitations. Those who are fastest among the pool of applicants in their age and gender group will be accepted.

Working in cooperation with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the eight cities and towns along the Boston Marathon route, the B.A.A. will set and announce the field size for the 2020 Boston Marathon this summer. In recent years, the Boston Marathon has had field sizes of 30,000 official entrants.


2020 BOSTON MARATHON OPEN DIVISION REGISTRATION DETAILS

Registration will occur on a “rolling admission” schedule, beginning with the fastest qualifiers.

  • On Monday, September 9 at 10:00 a.m. ET, eligible runners who have met the qualifying standard for their age and gender by 20 minutes or more may register.
  • On Wednesday, September 11 at 10:00 a.m. ET, registration will open for those who have met their qualifying standard by 10 minutes or more.
  • On Friday, September 13 at 10:00 a.m. ET, registration will open for those who have met their qualifying standard by five minutes or more.
  • Registration will close for week one on Saturday, September 14 at 5:00 p.m. ET.

If space remains after the first week of registration (September 9-14):

  • Registration will re-open for all qualifiers from Monday, September 16 at 10:00 a.m. ET through Wednesday, September 18 at 5:00 p.m. ET.
  • As during the first week of registration, the fastest qualifiers by gender and age group will be granted entry as space allows.

If space remains after the first two weeks of registration:

  • On Monday, September 23 at 10:00 a.m. ET, registration will re-open to anyone who meets the qualifying standards.
  • Registration will remain open for valid qualifiers on a first-come, first-served basis until the maximum field size is reached, or until Sunday, October 27 at 5:00 p.m. ET (whichever comes first).


2020 BOSTON MARATHON OPEN DIVISION QUALIFYING STANDARDS
(Effective Saturday, September 15, 2018)


All standards below are based on official submitted net time.

Age Group
Men
Women
18-34
3hrs 00min 00sec
3hrs 30min 00sec
35-39
3hrs 05min 00sec
3hrs 35min 00sec
40-44
3hrs 10min 00sec
3hrs 40min 00sec
45-49
3hrs 20min 00sec
3hrs 50min 00sec
50-54
3hrs 25min 00sec
3hrs 55min 00sec
55-59
3hrs 35min 00sec
4hrs 05min 00sec
60-64
3hrs 50min 00sec
4hrs 20min 00sec
65-69
4hrs 05min 00sec
4hrs 35min 00sec
70-74
4hrs 20min 00sec
4hrs 50min 00sec
75-79
4hrs 35min 00sec
5hrs 05min 00sec
80 and over
4hrs 50min 00sec
5hrs 20min 00sec


2020 BOSTON MARATHON PARA ATHLETE REGISTRATION

Registration for Para Athletic Divisions and Adaptive Programs of the 2020 Boston Marathon will open on Monday, September 9 at 10:00 a.m. ET and will follow the same registration timeline detailed above.

The Para Athletic Divisions include a competitive wheelchair division for athletes who use racing wheelchairs in track and road racing events and hold a national or World Para Athletics classification. Para Athletics Divisions also include competitive opportunities for ambulatory classified Para athletes with vision impairments and athletes who run with prostheses or have an upper limb impairment.


2020 BOSTON MARATHON PARA ATHLETICS DIVISION QUALIFYING STANDARDS
(Effective Saturday, September 15, 2018)


All standards below are based on official submitted net time. For wheelchair athletes:

Class
Age
Men
Women
T53 / T54 / T34
18 - 39
2hrs 00min 00sec
2hrs 25min 00sec
40 - 49
2hrs 15min 00sec
2hrs 40min 00sec
50 and over
2hrs 30min 00sec
2hrs 55min 00sec

T51 / T52 / T33
18- 39
2hrs 45min 00sec
3hrs 10min 00sec
40 - 49
3hrs 00min 00sec
3hrs 25min 00sec
50 and over
3hrs 15min 00sec
3hrs 40min 00sec

For athletes with vision impairment seeking entry into the Para Athletics Division:

Class
Age
Men
Women
T13
18 - 39
3hrs 40min 00sec
4hrs 10min 00sec
40 - 49
3hrs 55min 00sec
4hrs 25min 00sec
50 and over
4hrs 15min 00sec
4hrs 45min 00sec

T11 / T12
18- 39
3hrs 50min 00sec
4hrs 20min 00sec
40 - 49
4hrs 05min 00sec
4hrs 35min 00sec
50 and over
4hrs 25min 00sec
4hrs 55min 00sec

For athletes with upper or lower limb impairments seeking entry into the Para Athletics Division:

Class
Qualifying Standard (Both Men and Women, Age 18 and over)
T61 – T64
5hrs 40min 00sec
T45 / T46
4hrs 55min 00sec

Visit Para Athletics Divisions and Adaptive Programs of the 2020 Boston Marathon for all of the Para Athletics Divisions and Adaptive Programs qualifying times and entry procedures.


IMPORTANT NOTES

  • Though the B.A.A. will notify registrants upon the completion of their registration form, athletes are not officially entered into the race until their qualifying time is verified. The amount of time it takes for qualifying times to be verified varies for each individual athlete and may take up to several days (depending on the qualifying event).
  • The qualification window for the 2020 Boston Marathon will remain open until the conclusion of registration for the 2020 Boston Marathon.
  • The qualification window for the 125th Boston Marathon on April 19, 2021 will be announced following registration for the 2020 Boston Marathon.
  • Registration dates and qualifying standards for the 2021 Boston Marathon have not yet been announced.

CAPAC Chair Judy Chu Statement on Trump Immigration Proposal

CAPAC Chair Judy Chu Statement on Trump Immigration Proposal




WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, President Trump announced a new immigration proposal that reduces family-based immigration, creates a burdensome merit-based system for new immigrants, and fails to address Dreamers, TPS, or detained immigrant children. Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC) Chairwoman Judy Chu (CA-27) issued the following statement:

“We need a smart immigration policy that meets the needs of our communities and economy. Donald Trump’s plan is not that. It is, as with all of Trump’s policies, about excluding people.

“Our economy requires workers at all skill levels, as Donald Trump himself has demonstrated with his own hiring practices for his golf clubs and resorts. Nor do I trust that a President who complained of immigrants from ‘sh—hole countries’ is serious about judging immigrants on their merit. He’s proven far more consistent in judging immigrants by ethnicity or religion. Further, by attacking family-based immigration, this plan won’t even accomplish what Trump claims. Why would a skilled engineer or scientist want to come to America if it meant having to leave a spouse or children at home?

“In addition to the insult of having to live up to Donald Trump’s definition of ‘merit’, this proposal fails to address some of the country’s most pressing immigration concerns, like a path for citizenship for the 800,000 Dreamers, which is supported by over 80% of the country. Nor does this plan do anything to reunite children who were taken away from their families by this administration and are still held in unconscionable camps. The Trump Administration’s immigration policies have been a bigotry-fueled disaster that is in no way resolved by Trump’s new proposal.”

星期三, 5月 15, 2019

Duckworth Celebrates Asian Pacific American Heritage Month by Keynoting APAICS Gala

Duckworth Celebrates Asian Pacific American Heritage Month by Keynoting APAICS Gala

[WASHINGTON, D.C.] – U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) keynoted the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies (APAICS) Gala Awards Dinner this evening, where she discussed the AAPI community’s accomplishments, her experiences with poverty and hunger during her childhood in Southeast Asia, and the importance of diversity and representation to our nation. Duckworth attended the 25thanniversary Gala as a member of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC). Photos from tonight’s event are availablehere.

Key points:

·         “In a very literal sense, Asian Americans helped unite this country, helping build the railroad that stretched from sea to shining sea. We laid the tracks… tilled the fields... started the businesses... and picked up the rifles necessary to develop and defend the nation we loved… day after day, helping prove that America’s greatest asset is the diversity of its people.
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·         “That is the America I fell in love with before I had ever even stepped foot on its soil… I spent my childhood bouncing around Southeast Asia, moving from country to country as my father brought humanitarian aid to refugee camps throughout the region… I learned the power of even the smallest acts of kindness, and I learned what America meant to these poorer-than-poor families half a world away.
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·         “To me, America became defined by its empathy, by its generosity to those in need. I saw it as a country that led the world not with its might, but with its compassion and its values. As a nation that was great because it was good.
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·         “Nowhere else in the world would my story have been possible. My family moved to Hawaii after my dad lost his job... We struggled... I still remember my dad walking from payphone to payphone, hoping to find just 50 cents so me and my brother could buy lunch at school the next day. And I still remember going to the grocery store and counting out our last five one-dollar food stamps to buy as much bread and bologna as possible—then praying we’d have enough to last the week.
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·         “But most of all, I remember the neighbors and the teachers and the strangers who made it possible for us to survive… who helped us scrape by. People like my public school English teacher, who’d regularly find excuses to keep a few of us hungry kids after the final bell, then apologize for keeping us late by digging into his own pocket and handing us a dollar or two to get some food on our way home… The same uniquely American generosity that my dad showed those refugees in Cambodia and Laos was given right back to us when we landed on U.S. soil.
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·         “To me, that is America… a 3.5-million-square-mile community where someone who isn’t wealthy would still reach into their own pocket to help a stranger… no matter the color of their skin, the country where they were born or the fluency of their English… That remains true today, despite the rhetoric we’ve heard from some over the past few years.
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·         “So now, we must both honor how far we’ve come and recognize the work still left to be done to ensure that every Asian American—and every other person, regardless of race—can achieve the American Dream.

APAICS is a non-partisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting Asian Pacific American participation and representation at all levels of the political process. APAICS programs focus on developing leadership, building public policy knowledge, and promoting Asian Pacific Americans in public office at the local, state, and federal levels.

THREE COUPLES CITED NEARLY $450,000 FOR FAILING TO PAY THEIR LIVE-IN DOMESTIC WORKERS

THREE COUPLES CITED NEARLY $450,000 FOR FAILING TO PAY THEIR LIVE-IN DOMESTIC WORKERS

BOSTON – In three separate cases, Attorney General Maura Healey has issued nine citations totaling $449,010 to three families living in Massachusetts who employed live-in domestic workers and violated the state’s domestic worker protections as well as wage and hour laws.

All three families were cited for failing to comply with theMassachusetts Domestic Workers Bill of Rights and failing to pay minimum wage and overtime to four former live-in domestic workers that provided childcare, housekeeping and food preparation services. Khalifa Mohamed Aldhaheri and Mona Alqubaisi were cited $168,783 in restitution and penalties, Saif Almazrouei and Moza Alsuwaidi were cited $119,856 in restitution and penalties, and Hessa and Mohmmed Khamis Al Khaili were cited $160,371 in restitution and penalties.

“These families took advantage of their live-in employees by subjecting them to long work days without proper pay,” said AG Healey. “Our office will always advocate on behalf of domestic workers to make sure they don’t fall victim to exploitative practices.”    

The AG’s Office began investigating these three employers after receiving referrals from Boston University Law School’s Human Trafficking Clinic and Greater Boston Legal Services. All three employers are originally from the United Arab Emirates and traveled to Massachusetts after hiring their domestic workers, who are all from the Philippines, abroad. In the three cases, the AG’s Fair Labor Division discovered that once in Massachusetts, the domestic workers were subject to long hours of work for which their employers failed to appropriately pay them, often sending small sums of money to the workers’ families via wire transfers in place of actual wages.

The AG’s Office has been active in its enforcement of the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights. In June 2017, a Malaysian couple living in Cambridge paid $35,000 and in May 2016, a couple from Qatar paid $3,000 to resolve allegations that the couples failed to properly pay live-in employees for childcare services in violation of the state’s wage, hour, and domestic worker laws.

The AG’s Office enforces laws regulating the payment of wages, including prevailing wage, minimum wage, overtime laws, and the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights. This law regulates working and rest time, charges for food and lodging, and circumstances around termination for domestic workers in Massachusetts. The protections established by the law apply regardless of immigration status. The law requires employers to make and keep records of the hours worked by any domestic worker and provides guidelines for work evaluations and written employment agreements. Visit the AG’s website for more information on labor trafficking and the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights.
Workers who believe that their rights have been violated are encouraged to file a complaint at www.mass.gov/ago/wagetheft. For information about the state’s wage and hour laws, workers may call the Office’s Fair Labor Hotline at (617) 727-3465 or go to the Attorney General’s Workplace Rights website www.mass.gov/ago/fairlabor for materials in multiple languages.

            These matters were handled by Assistant Attorney General Meryum Khan, Supervising Investigator Jennifer Pak, and Investigator Kevin Shanahan, all of AG Healey’s Fair Labor Division.

波市府5/18講座為屋主提供資訊


          (Boston Orange)波士頓市政府定5月18日(週六)早上10點至中午12點,假伯克夏合夥人藍丘男女童軍俱樂部(Berkshire Partners Blue Hill Boys & Girls Club)舉辦春季屋主展。
          這是波士頓市政府以首次購屋者為主要對象,提供購屋相關知識,講座,或是耆英住宅維修計畫,鉛漆常識,市內的可負擔住宅名單等資訊。
          活動地點地址為:15 Talbot Avenue, Dorchester。




15 Talbot Avenue, Dorchester


City of Boston Spring Homeownership Expo to be held this Saturday
Informational event to help first time home buyers and home owners

BOSTON  - On Saturday, May 18, Mayor Martin J. Walsh invites residents and potential homebuyers to attend the annual City of Boston Spring Homeownership Expo at the Berkshire Partners Blue Hill Boys & Girls Club in Dorchester.


The Spring Homeownership Expo is an opportunity for first time home  buyers and homeowners to attend workshops and informational sessions on topics ranging from purchasing a new home and improving one’s credit to reducing one’s mortgage and tackling small home repairs. Attendees will be able to speak with City approved mortgage lenders, realtors, nonprofits, city agencies, and City of Boston Home Center staff to help answer any questions they might have.


Attendees will also have the opportunity to learn about other valuable programs such as the Seniors Save Program which helps seniors with affordable options for necessary home repairs; the Lead Safe program which educates about safety related to lead in the home; Metrolist  which profiles affordable properties throughout the City and homeownership opportunities through the Neighborhood Homes Initiative.

Due to the popularity of some of these sessions, we recommend that attendees register ahead of time on the
Boston Home Center’s webpage to ensure a spot in the workshops.


WHEN:
10:00 AM - 12 PM  Saturday, May 18, 2019

WHERE:
Berkshire Partners Blue Hill Boys & Girls Club
15 Talbot Avenue, Dorchester

WHO:
Boston Home Center Staff