Monday, December 26, 2016
Cranston's First Lady launches first annual "First Lady's Art Awards"
CRANSTON, RI—A lover of the arts, Cranston’s First Lady Barbara Ann Fenton is inviting local artists to share their creative spirit this holiday season by launching the first annual “First Lady’s Arts Awards” in City Hall.
Soon, City Hall will be filled with paintings, drawings and collages and several winners will get the chance to go out to Newport Creamery for ice cream with the First Lady and her husband, Cranston Mayor Allan W. Fung.
The theme is “Holidays in Cranston” and Cranston artists of all ages are welcome to submit a two-dimensional work of art using any medium, from finger paints and watercolors to chalk and ink (and everything in between).
“I can’t wait to see City Hall filled with color and creativity from the community once submissions start rolling in,” Fenton said. “This is a great activity for Cranston students on their holiday break and is an opportunity for the community to celebrate the arts together in a public space.”
Entries can be dropped off at the Mayor’s Office on the third floor of City Hall during business hours until Jan. 3 and every work will be put on display in the building through mid-February.
Winners will be selected from the following age groups: 5 and under, 6 to 7, 8 to 9, 10 to 11, 12 to 14 and 15 and older. There is no age limit.
Submissions shouldn’t be larger than 11x14 inches. The name, age, address and parent contact information for the artist must be included on the back of the submission.
Entries will be available to be picked up after being displayed at City Hall in mid-February.
Soon, City Hall will be filled with paintings, drawings and collages and several winners will get the chance to go out to Newport Creamery for ice cream with the First Lady and her husband, Cranston Mayor Allan W. Fung.
The theme is “Holidays in Cranston” and Cranston artists of all ages are welcome to submit a two-dimensional work of art using any medium, from finger paints and watercolors to chalk and ink (and everything in between).
“I can’t wait to see City Hall filled with color and creativity from the community once submissions start rolling in,” Fenton said. “This is a great activity for Cranston students on their holiday break and is an opportunity for the community to celebrate the arts together in a public space.”
Entries can be dropped off at the Mayor’s Office on the third floor of City Hall during business hours until Jan. 3 and every work will be put on display in the building through mid-February.
Winners will be selected from the following age groups: 5 and under, 6 to 7, 8 to 9, 10 to 11, 12 to 14 and 15 and older. There is no age limit.
Submissions shouldn’t be larger than 11x14 inches. The name, age, address and parent contact information for the artist must be included on the back of the submission.
Entries will be available to be picked up after being displayed at City Hall in mid-February.
波士顿第一中文台推出《今日中国》栏目
波士顿第一中文台推出《今日中国》栏目
《今日浙江》隆重登场
了解中国，可以从浙江开始，相约波士顿，纵横钱塘江，浙江广播电视集团对外广播节目《今日浙江》时长六十分钟，聚焦浙江时政、经济、文化、社会生活等方面的内容，在电波中展现精彩浙江、活力浙江。节目将于2017年1月1日前登陆波士顿第一中文台《今日中国》专栏，每周一美国东部时间早七点到八点，《今日浙江》让您聆听钱塘江畔的声声音，感受如画浙江，感受美丽中国。
恰如节目宣传语所言“了解中国，可以从浙江开始”“漫步浙江，给您不一样的感受”“诗画江南，人文浙江”等等，主要内容分为四大板块：简讯周报、热点话题、人物故事、旅游美食，固定栏目分别为“一周快报”、“每周关注”、“人物浙江”、“坐游钱塘”。
这档节目的信息量大、涵盖面广、内容丰富、雅俗共赏，具有较强的趣味性和亲和力，较好地满足了美国华侨华人、特别是浙江籍华侨华人的思念家乡的情感需求，对于向海外传递浙江声音、浙江故事起到非常积极的作用。
除了趣味性和亲和力，《今日浙江》还在对外传播领域寻求主流题材、寻找有代表性、有价值的新闻事件、人物深入报道，精品佳作迭出，节目曾获得中国新闻奖（国际传播）以及中国广播电视节目大奖（对外传播）等很多奖项。(波士頓第一中文台新聞稿)
Friday, December 23, 2016
克蘭斯頓市長馮偉傑點燈 聖誕樹放光明
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| 羅德島州克蘭斯頓市市長馮偉傑(Allan Fung)和市長夫人 Ann Fenton一起為聖誕樹點燈。(馮偉傑辦公室提供) |
羅德島州克蘭斯頓市(Cranston)市長馮偉傑(Allan W. Fung)日前偕夫人在東克蘭斯頓高中生奏樂，BASICS合唱團演唱聲中，點亮了市政府大樓前的聖誕樹，為克蘭斯頓市揭開慶祝聖誕新年序幕。Domenic Kaffenberger還獨奏了一段喇叭。
這場慶祝活動還有聖誕老人由消防隊雲霄車載送到場，市內耆英親手製作，捐出來的餅乾，熱巧克力。
仍然沉浸在新婚喜悅中的馮偉傑市長表示，他一向都很期待聖誕樹點燈這儀式，因為有那麼多小朋友臉上都因此漾出止不住的微笑。這是個大家都感覺美好的節日。馮偉傑也特地藉機會感謝所有的市府員工，義工每年的奉獻，給市民們帶來一個這麼好的慶祝活動。(圖片由市長辦公室提供)
Thursday, December 22, 2016
The 23rd IAICS " Languages and Cultures in a Globalizing World" Call for Papers
The 23rd International Conference of the International
Association for Intercultural Communication Studies
(IAICS)
Call for Papers
Conference Time: June 6-8, 2017
Conference Venue & Host: Macao Polytechnic Institute, Macao
Conference Theme: “Languages and Cultures in a Globalizing World: Diversity, Interculturality, Hybridity”
In today's world, globalization erases boundaries and leads to increased contact among various languages and cultures. While human contact and migration have always been present throughout history, e.g., on the Silk Road, today's media and transport capacities facilitate contact and communication to an exponentially greater extent than ever before. As a consequence, the phenomena of diversity, interculturality and hybridity are intensified. Juxtaposed to increased contact ensuing from globalization are both the positive and negative aspects of the protectionist efforts of localism. The theme of this conference seeks to examine the context of these problems within the spheres of education, language, culture, and society. Conference Goals: To provide scholars, educators and practitioners from different cultural communities with opportunities to interact, network and benefit from each other’s research and expertise related to intercultural communication issues; To synthesize research perspectives and foster interdisciplinary scholarly dialogues for developing integrated approaches to complex problems of communication across cultures; To advance the methodology for intercultural communication research and disseminate practical findings to facilitate understanding across cultures; To foster global intercultural sensitivity and involve educators, business professionals, students and other stakeholders worldwide in the discourse about diversity and transcultural communication issues. Topic areas are broadly defined as, but not limited to, the following: Cosmopolitanism in culture Intercultural communication and cosmopolitanism Cosmopolitanism in literature Time and space in culture / literature Language and culture Intercultural communication and nationality Language and identity Comparative culture Cultural identity Cultural hybridity Interculturality in literature Intercultural communication and interculturality Diversity studies Language Teaching as Intercultural Communication Media and interculture Internet intercultural communication Multi cultures and interculturality Intercultural communication competence Culture and travel writing Intercultural education Crosscultural encounters Interculture and human resource management Comparative poetics Interculture and public policy Comparative literature Transnational enterprises and intercultural communication Imagology Cultural study theories Literature and religion Culture and diplomacy Literature and film Language planning and policy Translation studies Intercultural pragmatics Guidelines for Submissions Abstract, 100-150 words in English, including positions, affiliations, email addresses and mailing addresses for all authors. Times New Roman 12 pt font size, single spaced. Panel proposals reflecting the conference theme may be submitted. Panel proposals should include a 100-150 word abstract of each panelist's paper (as above) and panelists must each individually complete the registration process (as below). The submissions will be evaluated by peer-review. There is a cap of 300 participants in the joint conference (see "Joint Conference" and registration information below). Deadline: Please submit abstracts and panel proposals by 28th February, 2017. Conference Working Language: English Joint Conference: The 23rd IAICS Conference is held in conjunction with the 6th International Conference on English, Discourse, and Intercultural Communication (EDIC), Part I (Macao), June 6th-8th, 2017, followed by 6th EDIC Part II (Xinjiang), June 9th-11th, 2017. For information on EDIC Part II (Xinjiang), please contact the Xinjiang conference organizers. Submission to: For correct registration, please follow this two-step procedure: 1) register and submit abstract online at http://edic.ipm.edu.mo, then 2) forward the computer-generated email you receive from the online registration with your registration number to ics@stu.edu.cn Registration Fee: Waived. However, participants should arrange their own accommodation. Online Information: http://www.uri.edu/iaics/, http://edic.ipm.edu.mo/ Sample Abstract The Development and Validation of the Intercultural Sensitivity Scale Guo-Ming CHEN, Ph.D. Department of Communication Studies University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881, USA Email:gmchen@uri.edu The present study developed and assessed reliability and validity of a new instrument, the Intercultural Sensitivity Scale (ISS). Based on a review of the literature, 44 items thought to be important for intercultural sensitivity were generated for the purpose of analyses in this study. A sample of 414 college students rated these items and generated a 24-item final version of the instrument which contains five factors. An assessment of concurrent validity from 162 participants indicated that the ISS was significantly correlated with other related scales, including interaction attentiveness, impression rewarding, self-esteem, self-monitoring, and perspective taking. In addition, the predicted validity test from 174 participants showed that individuals with high ISS scores also scored high in intercultural effectiveness and intercultural communication attitude scales.
Conference Time: June 6-8, 2017
Conference Venue & Host: Macao Polytechnic Institute, Macao
Conference Theme: “Languages and Cultures in a Globalizing World: Diversity, Interculturality, Hybridity”
In today's world, globalization erases boundaries and leads to increased contact among various languages and cultures. While human contact and migration have always been present throughout history, e.g., on the Silk Road, today's media and transport capacities facilitate contact and communication to an exponentially greater extent than ever before. As a consequence, the phenomena of diversity, interculturality and hybridity are intensified. Juxtaposed to increased contact ensuing from globalization are both the positive and negative aspects of the protectionist efforts of localism. The theme of this conference seeks to examine the context of these problems within the spheres of education, language, culture, and society. Conference Goals: To provide scholars, educators and practitioners from different cultural communities with opportunities to interact, network and benefit from each other’s research and expertise related to intercultural communication issues; To synthesize research perspectives and foster interdisciplinary scholarly dialogues for developing integrated approaches to complex problems of communication across cultures; To advance the methodology for intercultural communication research and disseminate practical findings to facilitate understanding across cultures; To foster global intercultural sensitivity and involve educators, business professionals, students and other stakeholders worldwide in the discourse about diversity and transcultural communication issues. Topic areas are broadly defined as, but not limited to, the following: Cosmopolitanism in culture Intercultural communication and cosmopolitanism Cosmopolitanism in literature Time and space in culture / literature Language and culture Intercultural communication and nationality Language and identity Comparative culture Cultural identity Cultural hybridity Interculturality in literature Intercultural communication and interculturality Diversity studies Language Teaching as Intercultural Communication Media and interculture Internet intercultural communication Multi cultures and interculturality Intercultural communication competence Culture and travel writing Intercultural education Crosscultural encounters Interculture and human resource management Comparative poetics Interculture and public policy Comparative literature Transnational enterprises and intercultural communication Imagology Cultural study theories Literature and religion Culture and diplomacy Literature and film Language planning and policy Translation studies Intercultural pragmatics Guidelines for Submissions Abstract, 100-150 words in English, including positions, affiliations, email addresses and mailing addresses for all authors. Times New Roman 12 pt font size, single spaced. Panel proposals reflecting the conference theme may be submitted. Panel proposals should include a 100-150 word abstract of each panelist's paper (as above) and panelists must each individually complete the registration process (as below). The submissions will be evaluated by peer-review. There is a cap of 300 participants in the joint conference (see "Joint Conference" and registration information below). Deadline: Please submit abstracts and panel proposals by 28th February, 2017. Conference Working Language: English Joint Conference: The 23rd IAICS Conference is held in conjunction with the 6th International Conference on English, Discourse, and Intercultural Communication (EDIC), Part I (Macao), June 6th-8th, 2017, followed by 6th EDIC Part II (Xinjiang), June 9th-11th, 2017. For information on EDIC Part II (Xinjiang), please contact the Xinjiang conference organizers. Submission to: For correct registration, please follow this two-step procedure: 1) register and submit abstract online at http://edic.ipm.edu.mo, then 2) forward the computer-generated email you receive from the online registration with your registration number to ics@stu.edu.cn Registration Fee: Waived. However, participants should arrange their own accommodation. Online Information: http://www.uri.edu/iaics/, http://edic.ipm.edu.mo/ Sample Abstract The Development and Validation of the Intercultural Sensitivity Scale Guo-Ming CHEN, Ph.D. Department of Communication Studies University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881, USA Email:gmchen@uri.edu The present study developed and assessed reliability and validity of a new instrument, the Intercultural Sensitivity Scale (ISS). Based on a review of the literature, 44 items thought to be important for intercultural sensitivity were generated for the purpose of analyses in this study. A sample of 414 college students rated these items and generated a 24-item final version of the instrument which contains five factors. An assessment of concurrent validity from 162 participants indicated that the ISS was significantly correlated with other related scales, including interaction attentiveness, impression rewarding, self-esteem, self-monitoring, and perspective taking. In addition, the predicted validity test from 174 participants showed that individuals with high ISS scores also scored high in intercultural effectiveness and intercultural communication attitude scales.
10th Annual Rhode Island Small Business Economic Summit 1/6 2017
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Monday, December 12, 2016
Saturday, December 3, 2016
國際領袖基金會恭賀趙小蘭獲提名為美國交通部部長
國際領袖基金會恭賀趙小蘭獲提名為美國交通部部長
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| 趙小蘭(前左五)與國際領袖基金會執行長董繼玲(前右三)，新英格蘭分會會長葉超(後右一)及各地分會會長合影。 |
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| ILF新英格蘭分會共同會長吳子平(右)與趙小蘭(左)合影。 |
國際領領袖基金會（ILF）發表通告，恭賀該會名譽理事長趙小蘭獲美國總統當選人川普(Donald Trump)提名為交通部部長(Secretary of Transportation)。一旦美國國會通過這一提名，趙小蘭將再締造歷史，成為美國史上首名二度出任內閣部長的亞裔女性。
由於川普在當選前就曾宣佈，未來十年將斥資一兆元做交通及基礎建設，當選後，又在勝利演說中再次強調，將整修美國內陸城市，重建高速公路，橋梁，隧道，機場。趙小蘭一旦就任交通部長，將是這大規模建設總督導的事實，備受世界矚目。
川普在宣佈提名的聲明中指出，趙小蘭有很豐富的強勢領導力記錄，她的專長將是川普政府以財務上負責任態度來重建美國基礎建設的無價資產。川普也說趙小蘭有著驚人的生命故事，在擔任公職期間幫助過無數美國人，他很高興能夠提名趙小蘭出任美國交通部部長。
在川普發佈的提名新聞稿中，包括了國際領袖基金會執行長董繼玲的回應。她指出，趙小蘭在許多方面有卓越成就，又曾任交通部副部長，經驗豐富，一旦上任新政府的交通部部長，必能大幅度改善美國基礎建設，創造大量就業機會。
國際領袖基金會新英格蘭分會共同主席葉超，吳子平也都表示，趙小蘭是移民在美國奮鬥成功的最佳範例之一，相信亞裔社區都為她獲提名出任交通部部長，感到與有榮焉。這些年來，趙小蘭持續不懈的協助國際領袖基金會推動下一代亞太裔美國人參予公共政策，公共服務和經濟發展，為提升亞太裔在美國主流社會地位做貢獻，更是鼓勵了許多人。
趙小蘭是美國歷史中第一位亞太裔女性內閣部長，在2001年至2009年間，由小布希總統任命，成為美國第24任勞工部部長。在老布希總統任期中，她擔任美國交通部副部長及聯邦海事委員會主席。一旦川普的新任命落實，趙小蘭將成為美國歷史上首名二度出任內閣部長的亞裔暨華裔女性。
趙小蘭本人是八歲來到美國的移民，當時一句英文也不會，十九歲才成為美國公民，這經歷促使她在工作上奉獻很多精神、力氣，來確保每個人都有機會建造更好的生活。
川普的提名新聞稿指出，趙小蘭無論是在公家機關，私營企業或非牟利組織中工作，都表現傑出。擔任勞工部長時，她從全球經濟角度出發，致力增加美國人力的競爭力，並在就業場所安全及健康上，贏得破紀錄結果。
在勞工部長這職位之前，趙小蘭還擔任過美國聯合路董事長及執行長，和平部隊主任，美國銀行資本市場集團及花旗銀行的副總裁。
在學歷上，趙小蘭從曼荷蓮學院( Mount Holyoke College )經濟系畢業後，又從哈佛大學商學院取得企管碩士學位。由於公私領域的各方面成就，她不但曾獲選為赫德遜學院(Hudson Institute)傑出學者，傳統基金會(Heritage Foundation)學者，還迄今獲有35個名譽博士學位。
國際領袖基金會執行長董繼玲表示，該會名譽理事長趙小蘭自己和她爸爸趙錫成博士，以及她全家，都是從無到有，努力有成的美國典範。趙氏家族為紀念趙小蘭母親而捐建的哈佛大學商學院趙朱木蘭中心，今年六月啟用，已為亞裔在美國主流社會中形象加了分，趙小蘭的獲提名出任交通部部長，更是讓亞裔有門楣光耀之感。
Cranston's tree lighting ceremony Dec. 7
CRANSTON, RI—Cranston Mayor Allan W. Fung invites Cranston residents to the city’s annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony and holiday celebration on Wednesday, Dec. 7.
The festivities begin at around 6 p.m. with holiday music performed by members of the Cranston High School East and BASICS Choirs, including a trumpet solo by Domenic Kaffenberger.
Mayor Fung will flip the switch and the tree in front of City Hall will be lit up to mark the beginning of the holiday season before a special visit from Santa Claus himself at around 6:45 p.m. Ole’ Saint Nick will arrive by special escort aboard a Cranston Fire Department fire truck.
The annual city tradition brings together the entire Cranston community for an evening of merriment and cheer, complete with cookies and hot chocolate doled out by Senior elves.
“I always look forward to our annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony because it brings smiles to childrens’ faces,” Mayor Fung said. “It’s great celebration of the holiday season, and a chance to feel good about the holidays, our city and our neighbors.”
Parking for the event is available behind City Hall, located at 869 Park Ave. Motorists should be advised that Park Avenue is closed for most of the event and to seek alternate routes.
Mayor Fung thanked all the city employees and volunteers who make the event possible every year.
The festivities begin at around 6 p.m. with holiday music performed by members of the Cranston High School East and BASICS Choirs, including a trumpet solo by Domenic Kaffenberger.
Mayor Fung will flip the switch and the tree in front of City Hall will be lit up to mark the beginning of the holiday season before a special visit from Santa Claus himself at around 6:45 p.m. Ole’ Saint Nick will arrive by special escort aboard a Cranston Fire Department fire truck.
The annual city tradition brings together the entire Cranston community for an evening of merriment and cheer, complete with cookies and hot chocolate doled out by Senior elves.
“I always look forward to our annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony because it brings smiles to childrens’ faces,” Mayor Fung said. “It’s great celebration of the holiday season, and a chance to feel good about the holidays, our city and our neighbors.”
Parking for the event is available behind City Hall, located at 869 Park Ave. Motorists should be advised that Park Avenue is closed for most of the event and to seek alternate routes.
Mayor Fung thanked all the city employees and volunteers who make the event possible every year.
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