This is a a letter shared by HCCA with CA board last week. We are seeing more complaints on this issue. Some people enjoy the free music at home and some people don’t want it at all. They want Merriweather Post to lower the volume. Current limit 95dB is way too high.
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This article is published at The Villager, November 2016 Issue.
Dr. Chao Wu
The Columbia Association (CA) has been actively involving community members to participate in Columbia’s operations and visions. CA has twelve resident advisory committees that serve this purpose: information technology, sport and fitness, health and fitness, aquatics, tennis, golf, green, watershed, art center, international and multiculture, senior, teen and middle school. CA staff has recommended phasing out the sport and fitness advisory committee, suspending the health and fitness committee, and combining the golf committee and green committee into one committee. The main reasons for these recommendations are the low participation rate. The goal is to improve the efficiency of the advisory committees by clearly stating staff liaison’s responsibilities, improving committee operations, and using annual reports to inform the CA Board of progress.
These advisory committees are very important for board members to have a better understanding of a wide scope of topics. Personally, I participate in the International and MultiCulture Advisory Committee. Recently we formed a new sister city partnership with Haiti. We are working to form a new partnership with a city in China. Columbia is a very diverse community and we value the multicultural environment. I believe better engagement with the world is very valuable to our future.
So please volunteer to join one of CA’s advisory committees and advocate for matters of interest to you. It is in our community’s common interest to have residents serve in this capacity. It will help you and help others. Your services will be greatly appreciated.
Recently, the student member on the River Hill Community Association’s Board of Directors and River Hill High School senior, Jennifer Zhang was awarded a 2016 Maryland Governor’s Service Award. This is a great honor for her and our community. Ms. Zhang has devoted several hundred hours to the River Hill community during her four years of service on the Association’s Teen Advisory Committee and Student Member Committees. Congratulations Jennifer and thank you!
When this message is delivered to you in November, there is a great task for you to complete. Please vote in the general election. I have experienced four presidential elections and this election is unique in many aspects. It may define different paths for this country. Please make sure you take time and vote on Nov. 8, 2016 or before.
We will see changes are coming in different ways. Your engagement in various issues are defining or shaping those changes. So please get involved, in a big or small way.
Your feedback to my articles is greatly appreciated. Let’s stay involved with each other.
Thanks.
Chao Wu, Ph.D.
River Hill Representative to Columbia Council and Columbia Association Board of Directors
Email: chaowu2016@gmail.com Website: http://chaowu.org
Disclaimer: This letter only represents Dr. Chao Wu’s personal opinion. It does not represent River Hill Board of Directors nor Columbia Association’s Board.
This is what KUOW, Seattle ( a NPR member station in Seattle, Washington) said today: The reason that Chinese Americans support Donald Trump is because they want “bring USA down“. This is a hateful racial charge. They interviewed one international student to support their point, even did not bother to interview any one from”WA Chinese American for Trump” group which initiated their original report.
My point is Chinese Americans are Americans. They want US to be strong. They want world peace. The news station just should not do something like this at all.
What a shame of this station! That is the reason the main media is losing credibility. They should be more careful.
They dare not replace “China” with any other countries in the world(Maybe Russia), but not one African country or European country. For example, it is easy to coin another story titled “xxx American support xxx because they want USA fail and xxx to be strong.” for them if they like.
Please write to them. Their email contacts are: programming@kuow.org, management@kuow.org, cdodge@kuow.org, timie@kuow.org,newsroom@kuow.org
The link is: http://kuow.org/post/trump-has-fans-among-chinese-us-and-abroad
A study released last month suggested that Asian-American voters including Chinese Americans are gravitating toward the Democratic party and hold unfavorable views of Republican candidate Donald Trump. But Trump has his fans among Chinese people at home and abroad. You might not expect him to be popular in China or among Chinese-Americans in the U.S., given the candidate's many comments about China draining away American money and jobs. And yet on Friday, an airplane flew over Seattle with the banner, “Washington Chinese Americans for Trump.” One Trump supporter in Los Angeles founded the group, Chinese Americans for Trump. John Pomfret, the former Washington Post bureau chief in China, said there’s a lot of pro-Trump talk in China and among Chinese-Americans. “There’s a very active debate within the American Chinese community, as witnessed by that banner on the airplane that just buzzed your office," he said, "and also within China, on ‘WeChat’ and ‘Weibo,’ two social media platforms which are very popular among Chinese.” Pomfret said in China, there’s a certain nostalgia for what he terms “the big political man,” a character that Trump inhabits well. And he said, “in China, there’s no love lost for Hillary Clinton. Partially because in a way, Clinton regained her political mojo in China in 1995 during the International Women’s Conference.” That’s where Clinton pointedly criticized China’s treatment of girls and said, "women's rights are human rights." She’s seen as a hawk on China and an experienced negotiator. Meanwhile Trump’s perceived isolationism would create more room for Chinese leadership to expand. “And so there’s kind of this sense – almost this gleeful sense – that if the Americans elect this guy, China will really be the beneficiary," Pomfret said. At the University of Washington campus in Seattle, canopies line Red Square with tables for various Asian student groups. One of them is the Chinese Students and Scholars Association, where senior Haoyu Wang is a member. He's majoring in political science and plans to attend law school in the U.S. as well. Wang feels some of that glee at the prospect of a Trump presidency. “We don’t like Trump as a person, but we like him as a tool to kind of bring American down," Wang said. He said his views aren’t necessarily typical of his peers at UW. Many students he knows, both Asian and non-Asian, are supporting Clinton, who Wang sees as tough and experienced. But Wang wants to make his career in China, and he thinks a Trump victory would be good for his home country, which is already on the rise. “We turned the tables," he said. "So more and more of us, international Chinese students, would like to obtain certain knowledge in the United States and try to go back and serve our country.” But he said, "there's a huge division among Chinese students." Perhaps a third of those students he knows hope to stay on in the U.S. after college. Wang said his support for Trump verges on being sarcastic. But his excitement about what the future holds for him in China is quite sincere.
