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Seminole County Public Schools ESOL/World Languages Department held a Chinese summer camp from June 13 through June 16, 2011 at Idyllwilde Elementary School in Sanford, FL. Ms Paula Chen and Mei-En Marler taught twenty-two students who attended the summer camp. The students learned about important Chi-nese holidays such as Chinese New Year, Drag-on Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival. The students through many hand-on activities and traditional stories learned about Chinese culture. Students wrote Chinese characters on red paper

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The Ullambana Festival (Le Vu Lan) at Chua Phap Vu Buddhist Temple By Ricky Ly

On a sunny, warm summer day in Florida, hundreds of Vietnamese-American buddhists crowd the temple grounds of Chua Phap Vu Temple off of Dean Road near the SR 408. The occasion is for the Ullambana Festival (Le Vu Lan in Vietnamese), a Buddhist holiday celebrated on the fifteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar. This festival, also known as the “Ghost Festival”, in Vietnam is viewed as the time for the pardoning of condemned souls who are then released from hell. The “homeless” should be “fed” and appeased with offerings of food.

In modern times, Vu Lan is also seen as Mother’s Day. People with liv-ing mothers would give thanks while those without would attend services to pray for the deceased. According to Cindy Nga Pham, a coordinator of the festival at Chua Phap Vu, it is a time to remember the love and kindness of mothers, pay respect to parents in any way, and pray for those who passed away in accidents war or without relatives.

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The festival was held this year at Chua Phap Vu to help raise funds for a new building that the members hope to build at their location on Dean Road. At the festival, children played at the bounce houses and slides, while adults bought vegetarian food ranging from vegetarian pho noodle soup, bun hue, to banh xeo, banh beo, banh uoc, cha gio, bun cha gio, mi xao, and much more.

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From 7pm-11:30pm the festival became a lively place with food and Vietnamese music with famous singers flown in from California such as Khanh Ly, Tam Doan, comedians, and MC’s from Paris By Night Vietnam-ese variety show.

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As I waited patiently in the lobby for our turn to try Taiko drumming, I was astounded by the strong beats of the drumming class before us. Every beat was played at a specific time, and all the drummers sounded like one large drum. This past month, REACH had the awesome opportu-nity to learn the basics of Taiko drumming from the Orlando Taiko Dojo. Can you believe it? We learned how to play a whole song in just an hour! From this experience, I learned that it really takes teamwork and dedication to play a song together. When one of us played on the wrong beat, we had to start all over again from the beginning of the song. I also got to learn a little bit more about the Japanese culture and strong drumming style. I’m truly glad I got the chance to try Taiko drum-ming. If it wasn’t for this generous invitation to try out Taiko drumming by Orlando Taiko Dojo, I probably would have never been able to play Taiko drums. What an incredible feeling it was to play Taiko drums! Thank you, Orlando Taiko Dojo, for this amazing opportunity! I will never forget it.

By: Priscilla Leung, President of REACH

I watched Taiko drumming at the Japan Fes-tival before and it was such a cool performance. REACH was invited by the Orlando Taiko Dojo to have a free try out of Taiko drumming. I was excited, and I think that through this try out, I learned more about Japanese culture. I also learned that Taiko drumming is fairly difficult in which you have to follow the rhythm and listen intensely, since you have to drum at the exact same time as your teammates. I was amazed at the teenagers coaching us because I thought that they possessed immense skill and that they knew their culture very well. Thanks to Take San and his team for inviting REACH for this free try out. We definitely had a lot of fun.

By: Frank Lau, VP External of REACH

REACH Tries Out Taiko 太鼓

Taiko means “drum” in Japanese. Taiko Drumming is one of the most popular and most widely recognized Japanese cultural performances. The performances can last between 5 and 25 minutes and typically follow a jo-ha-kyū (beginning, middle, end/rapid, sudden, urgent, and emergency) structure, which means the performance will speed up significantly towards the grand finale.

Going to the Taiko drum try-outs was inter-esting because we learned about how the drum-mers read their music. Instead of having notes on a sheet of music to read, like most other in-struments (i.e. trumpets, clarinets, etc.), they read words on a normal piece of paper, i.e. don don dodon. We also got to feel what it was like to have a practice like the drummers would nor-mally have. We had the opportunity to learn a whole song.

By: Celeste Hoeh, VP Internal of REACH

I thought the Taiko drumming was fun and in-teresting. It was different than what I thought it would be, and we actually learned a full song in one practice. It takes a lot of rhythm, which I don’t seem to have, and is actually quite challenging. Overall it was a pretty intriguing experience.

By: Tiffany Tang, President Elect of REACH

About REACHREACH (Recognizing Ex-periencing Asian Cultural Heritage) provides many wonderful programs to foster young leaders in the Central

Florida community through cultural performances, classroom pre-sentations and carnival activities. REACH invites students from High Schools and Middle Schools within the Central Florida re-gion as members. Visit http://www.reachocf.org/ for more details.

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Mills 50 Main Street District achieves national accreditation

Mills 50 - the intersection of creativity + culture - is a non-profit entity made possible through the support and interests of the National Trust Main Street Center, the City of Orlando and the dis-trict’s members and volunteers. Last month, Mills 50 Main Street received National Main Street accreditation. The accreditation process evalu-ates local Main Street programs according to 10 performance standards and provides national recognition to those that meet these standards. The national accreditation program strives to provide local and national visibility to local Main Street programs that understand and fully utilize the Main Street approach and principles and that continue to evolve to meet new challenges. Re-ceiving National Main Street Program status is a prestigious designation. While every designated

local Main Street program can work toward ac-creditation, not every Main Street program re-ceives it.

This designation was achieved through the dedication of the Mills 50 Board of Directors, members of the business and residential com-munities and volunteers and through the support and guidance of City of Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer and District 4 Commissioner Patty Shee-han.

The goal of Mills 50 and area business own-ers is to increase the area’s visibility as a destina-tion as well as to improve its overall appeal and financial & environmental sustainability. Other goals include making the district safer to com-muter traffic and pedestrians as well as encour-

aging responsible and environmentally friendly growth and redevelopment while ensuring and preserving the district’s unique character, charm and appeal.

Mills 50’s financial support depends on memberships, both business and residen-tial. Residential memberships are $25, while business memberships range from $100 to $5000. Membership information is available at www.mills50.org. The organization is governed by a volunteer Board of Directors, with the day to day operations managed by a salaried Executive Director. Volunteers are needed to serve on the four committees: Design, Promotion, Organiza-tion and Economic Restructuring. Mills 50 seeks representation from the Asian community, which is the cultural cornerstone of the District. If you are interested in joining Mills 50 as a member or a volunteer, please contact the Director at [email protected].

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(AACC) in 1986, the organization has continued to grow and mature into the vibrant organization it is today. Its main mission is to provide leadership, support and encouragement to its members so they may prosper and grow. It also serves as a resource and a gateway for oth-ers to connect with and to bridge the gap between new and existing Asian American businesses.

To kick-off its 25th Anniversary celebration last August 5, the AACC started the day with a V.I.P. breakfast and held it at the Doubletree Hotel, the event’s hotel sponsor. The breakfast was attended by cor-

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porate sponsors, government leaders, AACC past presidents and spe-cial guests. Marcia Hope-Goodwin, Community Affairs Chief Service Officer read and presented the AACC with a Mayoral Proclamation. This was followed by a talk from Brooke Bonnett, Director of Economic Development for the City of Orlando.

Immediately after the kick-off breakfast was the ribbon-cutting cer-emony to open the AACC Global Business Expo. On hand for the rib-bon cutting were County Commissioners Jennifer Thompson, and Lui Damiani as well as Matt Thursam of Walt Disney World who was the event’s title sponsor.

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The expo itself drew 45 exhibitors from a cross-section of the com-munity ranging from large corporations, small businesses, education, international chambers, media, civic organizations and government. There were also breakout sessions held throughout the day. Presentors were Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, Visit Orlando, Orlando Health, SunTrust, the Orange County Property Appraiser’s Office, Bhavsar Law Group and the AACC.

Capping the day’s events was an appreciation reception and busi-ness after-hours to end the day’s festivities and to thank all the spon-sors, exhibitors and attendees. Raffle prizes added fun and excitement to the day-long event that drew over 400 attendees.

The coming AACC events include a business after-hours on Mon-day, Sept. 12 at Cuba Libre at Pointe Orlando on International Drive. On October 8, the AACC will be holding its 2nd Annual Golden Dragon banquet at the Rosen Centre. The AACC annual meeting and elections will be held on Nov.8 at Rangetsu Restaurant.

For more information on the Asian American Chamber of Com-merce or any of its events, please visit the AACC Web site at www.AsianAmericanChamberCFL.org

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Kathy Llamas, CEO & Founder of KL Commu-nications is also a REALTOR® & Director of Busi-ness Development for ConnectRealty.com . She is also Board Director of the Orlando Regional REALTOR® Association and the Metro Orlando Economic Development Commission. She is cur-rently AACC’s 2011 President and can be reached at [email protected].

Many of the articles about the “Tiger mom” have been rather pointed in questioning Western culture’s parenting techniques versus Asian cul-ture, quoting Amy Chua’s comments about how much better Chinese culture is with respect to parenting than Western culture. These articles raise doubt in Westerners’ minds, but also create questions in Chinese and other Asian parents’ minds about their parenting. Chua learned that her Asian parenting rules did not work on both her children, and no matter how hard she tried to match the “success” that she experienced with her older, more compliant daughter, the second daughter Lulu would not follow suit to achieve the same results using those same parenting techniques. This forced them to a showdown at Red Square where Amy had to admit defeat and learned to change her parenting techniques. As one blogger shared, this is a “coming of age” story where the mother becomes an “adult.”

Parenting styles go all the way back to the first couple on earth, Adam and Eve. The fact

By Evelyn EngThe Tiger Mother’s Revelation – and Oursthat Cain killed his brother Abel may lead to questions about what happened to cre-ate such jealousy whether for one of his parent’s love or for our Heavenly Father’s approv-al (when God accepted Abel’s animal offerings but not the produce that Cain offered). In any case, showing favoritism doesn’t work well, as exhibited in the life of Joseph, who was given a coat of many colors as the favorite son of Jacob. However, Joseph paid the price when his brothers plotted to kill him, and he was saved by one brother’s mercy to be sold into slavery instead of murdered. The story goes on to show Joseph reunited with his family at the end, forgiv-ing his brothers, and admitting “You meant it for evil, but God meant it for good.”(Genesis 37

– 45) By being sold into slavery, Joseph used his circumstances as overseer to Pharaoh to save up food for the coming famine years, thus saving the lives of his family members and many other people. God is completely sovereign in all the af-fairs of the world, including parenting.

It’s no wonder that I choose to seek God’s wisdom from the Good Book, The Holy Bible, to influence my parenting. Of course, Chinese cul-ture does affect some of my parenting, but the Bible influences my heart to be the best parent I can be – meaning I want my children to be able to listen to God and hear His voice, follow His leading. This may result in high academics and a great career (or it may not).

Amy learned in her failure, to re-evaluate her parenting techniques. Recently, she allowed a “mom-sanctioned” sleepover for her daughter and friends in her freshman year of high school. Lulu was allowed to give up the violin and play tennis, something she enjoyed doing. Even

though this was something not planned out for her at age five (as violin) so she could reach stellar performance, sometimes enjoyment and God-given gifts are to be given a higher priority than just what the parents want for their children.

One area where many Asian parents and I fall short not allowing our children to experience failure, and overprotecting them from life’s hard-ships. Perhaps we Asians don’t want to “lose face” and admit failure, so we try to shelter our children from mistakes as well as difficult cir-cumstances. In the Bible and in life, learning to admit mistakes and lessons from our mistakes produce further growth and maturity. We need to be able to share our mistakes and laugh at our-selves in hopes of helping others. I believe this is one of the motivations behind Amy’s parenting memoirs – she had her self-described “come-up-pance” when she realized she needed to change how she parented her younger daughter Lulu. She discovered the cultural battle she (and many immigrant and second generation) parents expe-rience as she learned from her mistakes. Sadly, many parents fail to make the same realizations. They end up with rebellious children (or worse, compliant children) who hate us in their hearts whether they follow our leading or not. What a horrific outcome of parenting and legacy.

I read The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, excited that Amy had the revelation she did. It also made me question how I parent. Yes, I can be passionate, a positive tiger parent. But, you and I shouldn’t hover, and be so overprotec-tive over our children, especially teenagers and young adults. If we believe in our own parenting and in God’s protection and watch care, we can rest in the fact that we have parented the best we know how, and God’s grace and love will help provide the rest that we lacked. Our godly leg-acy will continue beyond us as our children be-come parents and we provide godly influences for generations to come.

Evelyn blogs and welcomes your opinions about cultural and biblical parenting at christianasianmom.wordpress.com.

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Lady Gaga, Miley Cyrus, the Washington Wizards NBA Team, and… His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso - the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet?

What’s the commonality?

All drew sold-out crowds at the Verizon Center, an arena that holds over 20,000 people in the heart of Chinatown in Washington DC.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama, a title given to the religious leader of Ti-betan Buddhists and traditionally the head of state of Tibet, recently spent nearly two weeks in Washington DC hosting an ancient and profound Ti-betan ritual of Kalachakra (loosely translated as “Wheel of time”), a com-mitment of generating harmony of inner and outer peace as an infinitely valuable antidote to the forces of ill will. The Kalachakra for World Peace 2011 was an especially historic event as it was the first held in DC, a city where daily decisions affect the lives of billions throughout the world, where rejuvenating a positive environment for universal understanding is of utmost importance. While the Kalachakra is a Buddhist tradition, it encompasses the universal concept of harmonious co-existence, a goal that transcends among all people in the world and all faiths.

The opening for the Kalachakra programs coincided with the 76th birthday of His Holiness, and some fun festivities kicked off on July 6th, with well-wishers singing Happy Birthday to the Dalai Lama in a pa-rade around downtown Washing-ton DC. The next few days included mainly rituals and prayers by the ordained monks and nuns. During this time, a separate group began the intricate construction of a large sand mandala , which is an ornate

work of art painstakingly created by delicately brushing particle by particle of different colored sand into place to form the beautiful pictures. While quite a marvel to look at (and the desire of museums worldwide), the mandala is always dissolved into water (in this case, the Potomac River) at the conclu-

Blessing for World Peace: A Universal Value of Compassion, Responsibility and Education By Conchita Hsu 俞孟貞

sion of the ritual, as it symbolizes one of the core concepts of Buddhism, that of impermanence.

Then, on the first Saturday, the Dalai Lama held a special event open to the public, a World Peace Talk on the lawn of the US Capitol, with Whoopi Goldberg as the emcee. There, thousands of people gathered under the sweltering sun to listen to His Holiness’s message on compassion for all hu-mankind – his secular ethics. In a message that spans all religions, he noted that every person seeks the same basic goals of peace and happiness, and that to do so one must begin by looking within to his or her own heart.

While Dalai Lama praised free democracies, particularly the United States and India, he noted that governments and organizations, even reli-gions, cannot mandate peace and happiness – only with one’s self mindful-ness can this be achieved. Even enemies must be loved, for while you may rightly disagree with their actions, harboring actual malice toward a person only introduces hurt to your own heart. Hopefully, this message of seeking universal compassion can help bring change not only at an individual level, but one of peace across the world.

Echoing the message of harmony later in the week, the Archibishop of Washington DC, Cardinal Wuerl, appeared in the Verizon Center with the Dalai Lama, urging people of all backgrounds to heed this message. (Of note, the Dalai Lama received the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize for consistently opposing the use of violence in advocating mutual tolerance in the struggle to preserve the cultural heritage of Tibet and for “his philosophy of peace from a great reverence for all things living and upon the concept of universal responsibility embracing all mankind as well as nature”.)

After Saturday, the remaining week of the Kalachakra was dedicated to teachings of the Buddhist dharma and the empowerment ritual. The Bud-dhist empowerment involves an earnest wish for inspiration of compassion until all forms of suffering have ended. Foundational to this is cultivating in thought and action the most cherished form of human nature, that of loving kindness. Through mindfulness and awareness, meditation on the causes and conditions of phenomenon serves as a means of realizing negative attachments and liberation from suffering. As this article aims mainly to de-scribe the festivities of the Kalachakra event, it will not delve into the actual

An example of a sand mandala, an artistic symbol of impermanence.

A World Peace Talk on the lawn of the US Capitol with thousands of people gathered to listen to His Holiness’s message on compassion for humankind.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama hosts the 2011 Kalachakra for World Peace in front of sold out crowds at the Verizon Center in Washington D.C.


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President Barack Obama meets with His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama in the White House, July 16, 2011.(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

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Buddhist teachings and range of topics such as the relation between sci-ence, secularism, and modern Buddhism. However, those interested may find a wide selection of books and other online media by some of the experts in the field who spoke. The leading Buddhism speakers at this event includ-ed Dr. Alexander Berzin (a Harvard-educated scholar who has an exten-sive website of translations into Western languages including podcasts), Dr. Thupten Jinpa (a Cambridge University-educated scholar now part of the Dalai Lama’s initiatives at Stanford University to explore the interconnectiv-ity between neuroscience and Buddhist practices, and who serves currently as the Dalai Lama’s personal translator), Venerable Thubten Chodron, Dr. Robert Thurman (a Harvard-educated Professor at Columbia University), Venerable Jhado Rinpoche, and HE Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche.

Of course, Washington D.C. is the city where much of the world’s future is shaped, and it would be re-miss not to meet with the important American politi-cians who are re-sponsible for much of this power. Con-tinuing the strong

and historic relationship between the Dalai Lama and the United States dating back as far as when President Franklin Roosevelt gave His Holi-ness a prized watch, the Dalai Lama met with congressional Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi and the Republican leader Speaker of the House of Representatives John Boehner to remind them of the human spirit of com-passion and peace. “The bond between the Dalai Lama and the American people has been strong for so long that it’s no surprise that his visits are highly anticipated, and I think rightly so. Wherever he goes, the Dalai Lama makes his tireless dedications to the values that we all cherish. He makes them apparent and contagious. His example humbles nations such as ours that work to spread freedom, tolerance and respect for human dignity, and it sustains those who struggle to secure these universal values for themselves and for their families,” Boehner said. In a rare moment of bipartisanship, Pelosi’s welcome was similarly warm, noting “President George Walker Bush in 2007 was present to present to His Holiness the Congressional Gold Medal. At that time he did so honoring the commitment of His Holiness to peace, to non-violence, to human rights and to religious understanding.”

On the concluding day of the Kalachakra, the Dalai Lama hurried the closing remarks as he left to go meet with President Obama at the White House . After the friendly meeting, the White House released, “The president reiterated his strong support for the preservation of the unique religious, cultural and linguistic traditions of Tibet and the Tibetan people throughout the world.” The Dalai Lama, answering a reporter about the meeting, in return said that Obama is “President of the greatest democratic country, so naturally he is showing concern about basic human values, human rights,

Conchita Hsu, a resident of Florida originally from the Philippines, is a Buddhist who practices the Bodhisattva path of putting others first aiming for the deliver-ance of sentient beings. Conchita propagates taking on the burden of bringing about the welfare of others over self interest and advocates the utmost importance of universal education of understanding all kinds of cultures and beliefs for posi-tive conditions to a harmonious co-existence among people of all faith, creed and ethnicity. She is multilingual and has been serving in numerous causes to support goodness in society.

US Congressional leaders Nancy Pelosi and John Boehner welcome the Dalai Lama at the US Capitol, July 7, 2011.

religious freedom…so naturally he shows genuine concern about the suffer-ing in Tibet and also some other places.”

True, the Kalachakra for World Peace had some minor hitches – the free logo tote bags and program books ran out rapidly, the nightly lecture events had to be moved as thousands of people showed up when the capacity was for an only expected 800 person audience, and the lines to enter the Verizon Center through its security snaked around the block, but all in all, the Capital Area Tibetan Association did a fantastic job hosting the tens of thousands of people in this successful event. Considering the fact that the local Tibetan community has a small population of a few hundred and is a tiny ethnic group, the effort of the volunteers who helped the program run so smoothly with so many attendees from around the world was quite impressive.

Indeed, with the consent of the Office of Tibet, extra proceeds from this event were donated to various charity causes, including the local Booker T Washington public school which primarily serves a resource-challenged African-American neighborhood of DC. Seemingly unrelated to Tibetan Buddhism, this group was chosen as His Holiness stresses the importance of education for all, recognizing its essential importance as the foundation of well-functioning democratic societies.

Thus, while describing himself merely as “a simple Buddhist monk”, the Dalai Lama provided an inspiration to peace and compassion to people of all religions and cultures. Despite his numerous international accolades, honorary degrees, and meetings with presidents and leaders in 62 countries across the world, the Dalai Lama remains a humble beacon of steadfast kindness even in the face of unmitigated animosity. His three commitments – that of secular ethics and human values (compassion, forgiveness, toler-ance, contentment and self-discipline), that of religious harmony and under-standing among the world’s major religious traditions, and that of safeguard-ing the welfare, on all levels, of the Tibetan people and culture – remain as noble causes that emanate beyond the capital of the free world and surely beyond the two weeks of the Kalachakra for World Peace 2011.

You can view the upcoming schedule, or stream videos or download podcasts of the Dalai Lama’s teachings at www.dalailama.com to learn more.


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34th Annual Bon Festival at the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens“Bon Odori - Dancing Spirit of Bon festival “

The Morikami Museum and Japanese Gar-dens in Delray Beach has celebrated its 34th annual Bon Festival on August 13th. Despite of stormy humid weather, 9,000 attended to enjoy the festivity. This year’s bon festival was dedi-cated for 3/11/11 Japan Earthquake and Tsunami victims as well. Donations for Japan Relief was

collected via ticket sales. Ms. Kizzy Sanchez-Sherven, Director of Marketing & Events of Morikami commented, “We are thrilled that this year’s Bon Festival saw more visitors than ever before, especially since this year was particularly meaningful as we honored the victims of the re-cent Japan earthquake and tsunami with a dedi-

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cated Shoryobune during the Shoryou Nagashi ceremony”.

お盆 - Obon is Japanese mid summer ritual to commemorate ancestors and departed love ones. According to the Buddhism, it is believed that every year during Obon, the ancestors’ spir-

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Bondana decoration

Chitosekai dancers

Shoryou nagashi-Floating lanterns

Mrs. Mihori and Ms. Harumi of Chitosekai

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by Akihiko Sakurada, Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens


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its return to visit living relatives. Obon is celebrat-ed from the 13th to the 15th day of the 7th month of the year according to ancient lunar calendar, which falls into the mid August in solar calen-dar. It is celebrated mostly in mid August, but in some regions in July. During the three-days event, people hang lanterns in front of houses to guide the spirit. Inside houses, Bon-dana, the altar decorated with flowers, lanterns, memora-bilia, food and sake, is prepared to welcome the spirits. Visiting graves is another ritual. Every communities in Japan has Bon Festival regard-less in the scale.

The customs for festivity vary from region to region, but no Obon is completed without Bon odori- bon dances. Bon Odori has over 500 years history in Japan. The origin goes back to Kamakura era when Buddhism has widely spread among ordinary citizens. New Buddhism movement called, “Kamakura Bukkyou” was es-tablished. To make the sutra easier to under-stand for anyone, chanting and dancing were incorporated. Just like a folklore story telling, Bon Odori is a “folk art” handed down from many generations and eventually established origi-nal art form. Unlike other traditional Japanese dance, Bon Dance has repetitive simple chore-ography so that even young children can learn quickly by mimicking movement. There are over 500 different styles of Bon Odori reflecting the regional characteristic in Japan. In modern time after WW II, many new dances have been con-tinuously created adapting even poplar musics.

At the Morikami’s Bon festival, a local tradi-tional Japanese dance group, Chitose-kai and the Japan-America Society of Southern Florida have been presenting authentic Bon Dance from various regions last 34 years. While a taiko drum-mer keeps rhythm on Yagura - the bandstand tower, dancers in Yukata, summer time kimono gracefully dance around the foot of Yagura. Mrs. Chieko Mihori is the leader of Chitose kai as well as a prominent member of Japanese community

ences were encouraged to join to dance along.

Every year, Fushudaiko, a local Japanese drumming group ignited the festival with thun-dering sound of taiko and also played Bon daiko. Ben Miller of Fushudaiko commented on his per-sonal challenge of playing Bon daiko. “Playing Bon daiko for Sensei Mihori and her dancers is always a great honor and challenge for me. Fushu Daiko holds Sensei Mihori in the utmost regard and respect.The Bon daiko rhythms are not at all like common western rhythms. The feel of the Bon odori music, and nihon daiko for that matter, breathes and stretches like the wind. It was a great lesson when my first taiko Sensei Hideki Matsuda told me to stop listening for a groove and rather to watch the dancers’ feet touch and weight drop. Then the dancers’ bod-ies began to lead my drum beats. This year we arranged a series of Bon “style” rhythms for our taiko team. I felt that as a taiko dojo it was impor-tant and joyful to teach, as Bon daiko could be considered the epitome of taiko as a Japanese folk art. We were all looking forward playing it that day. I am determined to continue my learn-ing and exploration of Bon daiko. It is so much fun and challenging to play. “

Thunder storm approached at the end of the festival, but the organizer managed releasing 850 floating lanterns with personal messages into the Morikami Lake. Shoryounagashi is clos-ing ritual of Bon festival in Miyagi region to guide spirits back into their world. Collaboration of fire work and thunder gave a grand finale to the Bon festival 2011. As people believe in Japan, all vis-iting sprits were sent back peacefully as well as satisfied visitors.

in Florida. The name of group, Chitose kai was named after her title of Fujima style Master, Chi-tose Fujima. She is the expert of Japanese tradi-tional culture. She holds certifications of instruc-tor from the Omote Senke tea ceremony school, the Sogetsu flower arrangement school and the Fujima Classical Japanese dance school. She also serves as the Vice President Cultural Affairs of the Morikami Museum and Japanese Garden. Her husband and she founded the Japan-Ameri-ca Society of South Florida and have been dedi-cating their lives to promote Japanese heritage in Florida since they move from Japan in 1957.

Delray Beach and Miyazu city in Kyoto, Japan became the sister-city in 1977 honoring George Sukeji Morikami who was born in MIyazu who donated 200 acres of his land to Palm County in the mid 1970s. The Morikami Museum and Japanese Garden was built on the land where his house and farm located. On June 25th, 1977, the first Bon festival at the Morikami was held to celebrate inauguration of sister-city by JASSF’s funding. Mrs. Mihori recalled the first bon festival and commented in her quiet tone, “We honored him and Miyazu city by dancing bon dance - Mi-yazu bushi at the first bon festival. It started much simpler festival than what we have now, but I feel very content to see that the event has been growing each year. Being a professional classical dancer, I had never participated in bon dance in Japan, yet I was given opportunity to

present this folk art here in America. All mem-bers practice very hard to showcase beauty of bon dance. I would like to continue to build the bridge over American and Japan through pre-sentation of richness of our cultural heritage.” Dozen of dedicated members from South and Central Florida practice once a week from May to prepare for Bon festival. This year, they pre-sented eleven different bon dances from vari-ous regions including “Nippon Daiko (Japanese drum)” choreographed by herself in three shows. At the end of the second and third shows, audi-

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By Edward K. Kim, Esq.Why You Need To Think About Estate Planning … Now.

The old saying goes, “There is nothing certain, except for death and taxes.” Combining these two life’s certainties is the estate, or inheritance, tax. The estate tax is imposed on the amount inherited by your heirs, but only to the extent such amount exceeds a certain threshold. On the federal level, this threshold (the “Unified Credit”) is currently set at $5,000,000.

Therefore, if a parent leaves an inheritance to a child of $5,000,000 or less in 2011 (assuming no previous gifts have been made), there should be no federal estate tax.

The current Unified Credit is historically at a very high threshold. In 2001, the Unified Credit was $675,000. In 2006, it was $2,000,000. As you are aware, the US government has a massive deficit problem and will need to raise revenue through higher taxes. An easy target is the estate tax; especially through lowering the Unified Credit, which would dramatically increase the number of people who pay the estate tax.

What’s the impact for you? Lowering the Unified Credit will make it more likely that you or your heirs will have to pay estate taxes, and at a higher amount.

Let’s assume that the Unified Credit is reduced to the realistic 2006 ($2,000,000 threshold) or 2001 ($675,000 threshold) levels. For a parent leaving $5,000,000 in estate value to his/her child, the projected estate tax liability is as follows:

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In Orlando Fl. , the Gaylord Palms Hotel is the place where the 13th Annual International Chinese Martial Arts Championship is being held, July 8 Thru 10th and now as an official, have begun escorting spectators into the huge ballroom in preparation for opening ceremonies. Who would have thought that I would still be with this tournament 11 years later! The promoter, Master Nick Scrima is here to convey one important thing : “Friendship Through Martial Arts”. The event, brought on saturday and sunday, over 800 competitors from around the world to compete in over 400 divisions, from beginner to advanced in all types of chinese martial arts forms and weapons, from external, such as Traditional Northern and Southern styles of Kung Fu and Wushu. Internal Styles: Taijiquan, Xingy-iquan, Baguazhang, On sunday, There was also reaction-skill events like Push Hands “tui shou “ Sticky Hands “ chi sao” and full contact sparring “sanda” all being evaluated by highly-skilled and objective judges determin-ing their level of performance. There is also seminars being offered by

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AACC Golden Dragon AwardsOct 8 (Sat) at the Rosen Centre Hotel - 9840 International Drive Orlando 32819. The Asian American Chamber of Commerce of Central Florida presents the Second Annual Golden Dragon Awards to individuals and corporations who have made a positive impact in our Central Florida community. Visit www.AsianAmericanChambercfl.org for a complete detail.

Experience Asia 2011 Oct 8 (Sat), from 10am – 5pm at Bloxham-Lewis Park, Park Avenue, Downtown Tal-lahassee. Highlights of the event include non-stop cultural performances, exhibits, demonstrations, exhibitions, and the best of Asian Cuisines. This one-day event draws thousands of people as well as international and out-of town performers. For those who would like to be a sponsor, vendor, exhibitor, or performer, you can now register online at our ACT website at www.asiantlh.org. Deadline for registration is September 16, 2011. For further information, please call Aurora Hansen at 850 321-1114 or [email protected] or Soma at 850-339-2699 or [email protected].

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Tomoko Kawahara: Koto RecitalSept 18 (Sun), 2 pm at Library Community Room, Winter Park Public Library - 460 E. New England Avenue. Enjoy a musical performance by Tomoko Kawahara & Friends. Tomoko began playing koto (Japanese Harp) at age 4. In 1995 she won the Japanese national koto competition and has since travelled the world sharing her art. Free admis-sion. You do not have to be a Library cardholder or Winter Park resident to attend. Call 407-623-3279 for more information.

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Dragon Boat & Moon FestivalSept 24. 10am – 5pm. The land festival celebration will be continued as usual with mul-ticultural performances, Egg Rolls Eating Contest, Arts & Crafts, KidsZone, International Food Court at Haulover Park – 10800 Collins Avenue, Miami. Free Admission. Parking - $6. Proceeds to establish a Community Center to serve seniors. For information, please call 305-345-8489. Visit www.MiamiDragonBoat.com.

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