HUD ALLOCATES MORE THAN $660 MILLION TO NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITIES TO SUPPORT AFFORDABLE HOUSING

HUD ALLOCATES MORE THAN $660 MILLION TO NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITIES TO SUPPORT AFFORDABLE HOUSING

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development today announced more than $660 million in grant allocations to 587 Native American tribes in 35 states (see list below).  Indian Housing Block Grant (IHBG) allocations are distributed each year to eligible Indian tribes or their tribally designated housing entities for a range of affordable housing activities.

IHBG funds benefit low-income families living on Indian reservations or in other American Indian and Alaska Native communities. The amount of each grant is based on a formula that considers local needs and housing units under management by the tribe or designated entity.

“Every family, every community in America, deserves the chance to flourish,” said HUD Secretary Julián Castro. “Tribes use this funding to build new homes, or to solve their most pressing housing issues. Our partnerships with tribal communities and leaders are critical today to help ensure better housing, neighborhoods and economic opportunities for tomorrow.”

Eligible activities for the funds include housing development, assistance to housing developed under the Indian Housing Program of the 1937 Housing Act, housing services to eligible families and individuals, housing management services, crime prevention and safety, and model activities that provide creative approaches to solving affordable housing problems. The block grant approach to housing was enabled by the Native American Housing Assistance and Self Determination Act of 1996 (NAHASDA).

“The Indian Housing Block Grant program is the single, largest source of affordable housing assistance in Native American communities,” said HUD Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Lourdes Castro Ramírez. “Over the life of the program, recipients have been able to build or acquire almost 37,000 affordable homes and have rehabilitated more than 77,000 housing units.”

HUD’s proposed Fiscal Year 2017 Budget seeks $700 million for Native American Housing Block Grants, $50 million above the 2016 enacted level, to address severe overcrowding and substandard housing conditions in Indian Country.  An additional $20 million in Indian Community Development Block Grant funding is being requested for projects to improve outcomes for Native youth, such as the construction or renovation of community centers, health clinics, transitional housing, pre-school/Head Start facilities and teacher housing.  And up to $5 million in Jobs-Plus funding will be used to implement a demonstration of the program  in Indian Country to boost employment and earnings. 

Huawei Unveils Five Initiatives for Digital Transformation in Telecom Industry

Openness, collaboration, and shared success for a robust ecosystem

LONDON and BEIJING, Feb. 16, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Huawei today unveiled its five 'Big Initiatives' for the telecom industry to accelerate its digital transformation. Huawei also endorsed open platforms to enable collaboration so that shared success can be achieved in telecom industry. In addition, the company announced innovative solutions for 4.5G, Internet of Things (IoT), 2K/4K video, and Safe City. The Big Initiatives and the innovative solutions represent Huawei's long term commitment to building a Better Connected World through extensive collaboration in the industry.

Huawei foresees a potential $100 billion video industry market and a $1 trillion enterprise cloud market. The number of IoT connections is expected to grow 10-fold. There will be unprecedented opportunities for telecom operators. Huawei's Big Initiatives are designed to create new opportunities. The five Big Initiatives are Big Video – Everywhere, Big IT – Enabling, Big Operation – Agile, Big Architecture – Elastic, Big Pipe – Ubiquitous.

"Digital transformation is a new engine for telecom industry growth, and it will also empower the innovation of other industries," said William Xu, Executive Director of the Board and Chief Strategy Marketing Officer of Huawei, in London, "Huawei will continue to open up platform capabilities to help carriers to build an open, collaborative, and win-win industry ecosystem to accelerate digital transformation."

With its partners, Huawei is setting up open labs for joint innovation, to support rapid commercial use of new services. More than ten open labs across China, Europe and other regions have brought together over 600 partners. For developers, Huawei has built an eSDK platform delivering flexible and easy-to-use development tools and support services. The company has also launched a $1bn Developer Enablement Program to build a facilitating environment for innovation. For the digital transformation of vertical industries, Huawei is collaborating with consultants and software partners to build industry-specific ecosystems so as to provide integrated solutions to industries such as transportation, energy, government, and finance. Huawei is also innovating with upstream and downstream partners to help them adapt to new telecom trends such as 5G, SDN/NFV, and digital operations.

Huawei has developed open platform solutions for 2K/4K video, which aggregate content and enable innovation in video services. In cloud computing, Huawei's priority is working with telecom operators to provide cloud services. Huawei's cloud strategy is to co-build an open cloud ecosystem with its partners: Huawei will focus on building IaaS, enabling PaaS and aggregating SaaS, to empower our partners in application oriented and data driven high value creation.

"Huawei focuses on its core businesses and is committed to empowering carriers' digital transformation with continuous strategic investment. We believe long-term focused efforts and perseverance will lead to breakthrough," said Ryan Ding, Executive Director of the Board and President of Products & Solutions of Huawei, in Beijing.

During the upcoming Mobile World Congress (MWC), Huawei will showcase its innovative 4.5G, IoT, and Safe City solutions, etc., which can help global telecom carriers and enterprises achieve agile innovation, accelerated transformation, and business success in the digital era.

4.5G will deliver mobile broadband data rates of up to 1,000 Mbit/s, enabling HD voice, 2K/4K HD video, and virtual reality experiences to be available anywhere. 4.5G will also make possible the IoT, which will make our lives smarter, and help telecom operators expand into industry markets. GigaRadio, one of Huawei's key products launched at this year's MWC, is a crucial technology for 4.5G. GigaRadio will be deployed commercially on a large scale in 2016, and will help to accelerate the global adoption of 4.5G.

Huawei's IoT solutions will drive the digital transformation of carriers' home broadband services by making the smart home a reality. Huawei's LTE-based Narrow Broadband IoT (NB-IoT) technology will enable telecom operators to deliver ubiquitous, cellular IoT. This technology will spark new business opportunities in smart metering, smart parking, logistics tracking, and smart cities.

Huawei's Safe City solutions are powered by the latest IoT and mobile broadband (MBB) technologies to deliver smart, video-based security systems for cities. These systems enable governments and municipal authorities to prevent crises and improve their response to emergencies. To date, Huawei's Safe City solutions have been deployed in over 100 cities across more than 30 countries.

According to forecasts, by 2025 there will be four billion new broadband users, more than 100 billion things will be digitally connected, and every person's consumption of data will increase more than 500-fold. The digital and physical worlds are rapidly converging; and consumers are demanding the ROADS experience (Real-time, On-demand, All-online, DIY, and Social) as the new norm.

For the telecom industry to deliver the ROADS experience and meet its customers' diversified needs, requires expanding its own vision, opening up pipes, data, and services to partners, embracing the Big Initiatives for digital transformation, and sharing resources in complementary partnerships.

At MWC 2016, Huawei, together with its telecom operator and enterprise customers, will share valuable insights into digital transformation within the telecom industry.

MWC 2016 will be held in Barcelona, Spain, between February 22 and 25. Huawei's exhibition booths are in Fira Gran Via Hall 1 & Hall 3. For more information, visithttp://www.huawei.com/en/mwc2016.

About Huawei

Huawei is a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider. Our innovative ICT solutions, products and services are used in more than 170 countries and regions, serving over one-third of the world's population. For details, visit Huawei at www.huawei.com.

海外華人企業家協會今晚（2/16）將改選會長、理事

Dear OCEAN members and friends,

If you are a permanent OCEAN member or would like to re-join the OCEAN, please come to our Annual Meeting. We will  elect  OCEAN new board at this meeting.

Time: Feb. 16th  7:00 to 10 pm

Location: Harvard University Science Center, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138. Room is Hall B on the first floor.  (Please call 7815521244 in case you can not find it. Please leave enough time for traffic and parking)

Light Snack and water will be served  

There will be two parts in this meeting:

Part 1: Vote for board directors to establish new board of OCEAN. All of you are encouraged to run for the board members.

Part 2:  Panel discussion with 5 entrepreneur  OCEAN members 

The 5 entrepreneurs are long-term OCEAN members. They all had established successful business. they will share with us their real life experience on how to run a successful business and how OCEAN experience has helped them.

Title: "Surfing through the entrepreneurship"

Panelists : 

Dr. Gang Li, Founder and former President of OCEAN; Founder and President of Beita Pharmatech Inc.

Dr. Hua Jiang, Former associate chair of OCEAN Board, Founder and Board Chair of Boston Applied Technologies Inc.

Dr. Wan Wu, Board Chair of OCEAN, Founder and General Manager of Kim Man Food

Dr. Zhuang Su, Founder and President of OCEAN, Founder and President of S&T Global Inc.

Mr. Jacky Li, Former Associate Chair of OCEAN Board, Partner at Milbank Systems and CEO at north Shore Auto Mall.

We will take advantage of this opportunity to welcome our founder, Dr. Gang Li. 

We are looking forward to meeting you all.

Best

Hongfang Yang, Ph.D 

On behalf of Dr. Zhuang Su, President of OCEAN

CAPAC Chair Statement on Supreme Court Vacancy

CAPAC Chair Statement on Supreme Court Vacancy

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC) Chairwoman Judy Chu (CA-27)) released the following statement in response to threats of Senate Republican obstructionism to confirm a new Supreme Court Justice:

“The Senate has a constitutional duty to consider judicial vacancies expeditiously, and I am dismayed that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has chosen to embrace partisanship ideology rather than enable the President and the Senate to fulfill its duty to the American people.  There are important decisions pending before the United States Supreme Court ranging from the President's immigration actions to the environment, and it is vital that we have nine members of the Court to decide these constitutional issues that will shape the future of our country. 

"The Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus stands with President Obama and urges the President to nominate a replacement for Justice Scalia who has the qualifications, integrity, and temperament to serve on our nation's highest court.  Over the past several years, CAPAC Members have worked closely with the President to ensure that he nominates highly qualified and diverse judges to the federal bench, and we urge him to make history by nominating the first Asian American and Pacific Islander jurist to the Supreme Court."

華美福利會為航空食品業辦職業展 2/25

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MAYOR WALSH APPOINTS WILLIAM MORALES COMMISSIONER OF BOSTON CENTERS FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES

MAYOR WALSH APPOINTS WILLIAM MORALES COMMISSIONER OF BOSTON CENTERS FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES

BOSTON - Tuesday, February 16, 2016 - Mayor Martin J. Walsh today announced that William Morales has been appointed Commissioner of theBoston Centers for Youth & Families (BCYF), which provides vital resources to Boston's youth and senior populations. "William has worked tirelessly for over 20 years to make sure Boston's children and teenagers are getting the care, attention and services they need every day," said Mayor Walsh. "His commitment to his community is astounding, and his strong leadership and compassion for all residents, from our youth to our elders, will continue to benefit the people of the City of Boston. I welcome him to our team and look forward to working together for the future of our City." In his role as Commissioner, Morales will serve within Mayor Walsh's Health and Human Services Cabinet and will oversee many of the key functions and programs of BCYF, including an array of out-of-school-time programs, elderly and family-centered programs, recreational activities, youth violence prevention and intervention efforts that connect at-risk youth to services and youth employment opportunities. BCYF is in every neighborhood in the city, and Morales will be responsible for coordinating cross-site programming between the centers that serve residents of all ages and circumstances. "As a native of Boston who personally saw and felt remarkable change in my community thanks to youth-driven programs and institutions, I am honored to have been named as Commissioner of BCYF," said Morales. "The youth and families of Boston are incredibly important, and I will do my best to serve their needs and interests in any way I can." Morales is currently the Executive Director of the historic Boston YMCA Achievers Branch of the YMCA of Greater Boston, and has oversight of the Egleston Square Youth Teen Center. He oversees the continued growth of both programs, which addresses the comprehensive needs of teens within Roxbury and surrounding communities by offering a wide variety of programming, including discussion groups, sports, recreation, arts, and educational enrichment opportunities, to prepare teens to transition into college and successful careers pathways. During his tenure at the YMCA, Will was instrumental in advocating for older active adults (seniors) and he helped secure resources for the Roxbury YMCA Seniors on the Move program. "The YMCA applauds Mayor Walsh's appointment of YMCA leader Will Morales," said James Morton, President and CEO of the YMCA of Greater Boston.  "Will's deep understanding and concern for Boston's people and neighborhoods will ensure that he puts people first as the leader of BCYF." A native of Roxbury, William has a longstanding passion for serving the Boston youth community; he is also a local youth trauma responder working at times with the Boston Police Department, and the BCYF Streetworkers to address area violence.  William previously worked as the Senior Director at Wheelock College where he founded the Office of Community Partnerships & Programs, he also served as the Chief Operations Officer of Youth Enrichment Services. Additionally, Chris Byner will serve as Deputy Commissioner of Programming of BCYF and Michael Sulpizio will serve as Deputy Commissioner of Operations and Finance. "I have worked with Will on many different projects over the years and I am so excited to have him join our team at BCYF," said Chris Byner, Interim Executive Director of Boston Centers for Youth & Families (BCYF).  "He will be an invaluable asset in guiding BCYF in our critical efforts to support Boston's children and families." Morales graduated from Springfield College with a B.S. in criminal justice and currently working towards attaining his M.B.A in management from Cambridge College. Morales is expected to begin on Monday, March 7th, 2016. ### ABOUT BOSTON CENTERS FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES BCYF is committed to providing high-quality, outcome driven programs that are responsive to neighborhood needs and interests. BCYF designs programming in alignment with the ACES Framework (Arts, Community & Civic Engagement, Education and Sports, Recreation & Fitness) to ensure consistency and quality across their network, to benefit children and families across the City of Boston.

浮雲相聲社新春公演 2/21

［爆竹声中一岁除，春风送暖入屠苏。 波屯学子急出门，赶来浮云看演出］

浮云相声社“丙申年新春相声大会”将于2016年2月21日开始，本次新老社员齐上阵，相信能给大家带来持续两个半小时前仰后合的腹肌训练。下面将为大家介绍此次公演的出阵演员。

演出会在二月二十一号下午6:30分开始

地址是：48 Mass Ave, MA, 02139 （也就是MIT贝壳剧场）

VietAID 2/20 慶猴年新春

Vietnamese American Initiative for Development Dear Friend of VietAID,     Welcome to 2016, the year of the Monkey! We hope that you will join us in celebrating the Lunar New Year (Tet) at VietAID. Tet is considered the biggest and most important festival for the Vietnamese people. This is a holiday bearing historical and cultural significance and is celebrated by time-honored traditions. VietAID annually hosts a Lunar New Year celebration, which always draws crowds of 250-300 people. This year will include traditional ceremonies, entertainment, children's games and, of course, food and drink. Saturday, February 20th, 2016 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Vietnamese American Community Center 42 Charles Street, Dorchester, MA 02122   We hope to see you!   Happy New Year!!     Kính gửi Quý Thân hữu VietAID,  Chúc mừng Năm mới 2016, năm Bính Thân!  Chúng tôi kính mời Quý vị đến dự buổi liên hoan tết Nguyên Đán được tổ chứctại Trung tâm Cộng đồng VietAID. Tết nguyên đán là lễ hội lớn nhất và quan trọng nhất của người dân Việt. Đây là lễ hội mang đầy ý nghĩa văn hóa nhớ nguồn theo truyền thống lâu đời. Hàng năm Cơ quan VietAID đều tổc hức mừng tết Nguyên Đán, vàthường có trên 300 người tham dự. Năm nay chúng ta cung se có những nghi lễ truyền thống, giải trí, trò chơi cho trẻ em và liên hoan ẩm thực đầy hương vị.  Thứ Bảy, ngày 20 tháng 2 năm 2016 Từ 11 giờ sáng tới 2:30 giờ chiều Tại Trung Tâm Cộng đồng VietAID 42 Charles Street, Dorchester, MA 02122  Chúng tôi rất mong được đón tiếp Quý vị. Kính mời.   Chúc mừng Năm mới!!               Event admission is by volunteer contribution.  Stay Connected Visit Viet-AID Website