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Former President Bill Clinton, right, looks on as journalist Laura Ling addresses welcoming crowd atBurbank Airport after she and Euna Lee, far right, werereleased by North Korea.

Page 3Olymic medalist Michelle Kwan decides to give up theskates and not compete in 2010

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A UGUST 7,, 2009 A SIA MEDIA INC ., S AN D IEGO ; A SIA MEDIA LOS A NGELES INC .D IGITAL EDITION

Lu-Yan Guo and wife Fei-Fei Soong begin the Sixth Annual AsianHeritage Awards with their rendition of God Bless America. The cere-

mony paid special tribute to retired Major General Antonio Taguba,right. Below, winners pose for closing shot. For story and more photos,

turn to pages 3, 4, 12, 13, 14.Photos by Areeluck Parnsoonthorn


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ASIAThe Journal of Culture

& Commerce

Southern Californiasnewspaper for and about the Asian and Pacific Islander

community.Publishing since June 2002

Editor and PublisherLeonard Novarro

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Chairman, Asia Media L.A.Tuan Pham

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Gloria Tierney, BusinessShatto Light, Health

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Patricia Lamkin ( arts)Ginger Lai, Lillian Lim, Virginia Loh ( lifestyle),

Romeo P. Marquez,Dr. Tess Mauricio, ( beauty)

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State of Mind... Views from Asia America

contents ASIA, The Journal of Culture & Com merce

August 7, 2009

5 Community/ This kid-friendly film festival has a dis-tinctive Asian flair.

7 Education & Health/ The worlds of health andeducation come alive with plenty of ways to improve thebody and mind.

8 Health Talk/ Columnist Shatto Light casts light on anissue long kept in the dark by Asians and Asian PacificIslander Americans mental illness.

10 Opinion/ With the push these days to go green andimprove the environment, what are the costs? Earth Talk replies.

11 Family Matters/ Ray Wong reminisces about hisboyhood dreams of what he would be but a quarterback?

12-14 Pizazz!/ A look at what was the glitz and glamour of the Sixth Annual Asian Heritage Awards.

15/ Business & Technology/ How long is it goingto take before China outstrips the United States?

19 Arts & Entertainment/ Cho-Liang Lin deliversanother rousing season as the director of the La Jolla MusicSociety Festival.

Send editorial contributions [email protected].

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Fit and Flexibleit and Flexible World-class performers from RinglingBros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus delighted students from Monarch School, anon-profit school for homeless and at risk children. These professional and tal-ented performers joined magical Zingmaster, Alex Ramon, and visited morethan 100 children; grades one through twelve. The one-hour visit included aperformance and demonstration of fitness basics, i ncluding warm-ups,stretching, aerobics, and strength building techniques, designed for largergroups. Monarch School students interacted with the clowns and dancers, andwitnessed the extraordinary flexibility the contortionists from Qi Qi HarTroupe.

American veterans create stirover Vietnamese monument

The 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics arearound the corner, but two-time Olympicmedalist Michelle Kwan will not compete and

will end her career without a gold model. In her lifetime, Michelle was a nine-time U.S. champi-on, five-time world champion and silver andbronze Olympic medalist, as reported in the

Los Angeles Times:In a statement released by U.S. Figure

Skating, Kwan said she will attend graduateschool full-time at Tufts Universitys Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and pursue amasters degree in international affairs. Kwan,29, graduated from the University of Denver last November Her plan to skate in a show in South Korea later this month with worldchampion Kim Yu-na had sparked speculationthat she might return to competition, but Kwansaid she would instead continue her educationand a public diplomacy career she began in2006 Representing the United States asan American Public Diplomacy Envoy the pastthree years has been very rewarding, and I wantto do more. Furthering my education will bringme closer to that goal, and I dont want to waitany longer to continue the journey.

Michelle is one of the most accomplished womens figure skaters in the United States andthe world I had the great fortune of beingable to see Michelle Kwan skate in the 2002Salt Lake City Winter Olympics in the short

program in womens figure skating in which shelead the competition before she lost and came inthird after completing the long program. I havealways admired her skill & grace on the ice andshes a terrific athletic role model, having trav-eled to China to dinner with President George

W. Bush and Chinese President Hu Jintao aspart of being a non-paid diplomatic envoy rep-resenting the United States. I wonder if thismeans that Michelle will have a chance at all to

work with K al Penn.

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Michelle Kwan: From Olympic medalistto American diplomatic envoy

There is an interesting New York Times story about commu-nity tensions in Wichita, Kansas, over a proposed new

Vietnamese American monument to be erected at/near the city's Veterans Memorial Park: In Kansas, Proposed Monument toa Wartime Friendship Tests the Bond.

The idea, proposed by the city's small population of Vietnamese Americans, was to have a monument that celebrat-ed the alliance between American forces and the South

Vietnamese army during the Vietnam War a conflict that

irrevocably shaped all of their lives.Unfortunately (though not surprisingly), some American

veterans objected to the plan. They see the park as a place toremember American service members alone.

A monument to Vietnamese Americans would apparentlysit just a little too close to what they would like to memorializeabout the war, whatever that may be.

Last month, after some long, tense talks at city hall, theyreached a compromise. The Vietnamese American monument

will sit just outside the Veterans Memorial Park, set apart fromthe rest of the memorials by a landscaped, six-foot earthenberm, with no sidewalk between.

Ah, even the memorialized get ghetto-ized. What's the point? Why go to all that trouble to separate and

hide the monument?Even still, the compromise location is apparently still t oo

close for some of the American veterans. Is it really that diffi-cult? I guess some people just can't get over what divides us,

rather than what brings people together.

www.angryasianman.com

Michelle Kwan


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Special to ASIA

T he night was grand, poignant and historic as more than 500 leaders of the AsianPacific Islander community and friends gathered to honor achievement in 14categories and bestow Special Recognition on a man who defines the John F.Kennedy phrase profile in courage.

Former Major General Antonio Taguba , the guest of honor at the Sixth Annual AsianHeritage Awards, told the gala gathering aboard the USS Midway in San Diego at the endof July how he was just doing his job and was not looking for any notoriety, yet wasforced to retire by officials of the Bush Administration after his report of conditions atAbu Ghraib prison in Iraq, as outlined in his report, were leaked to the media.

Taguba, who subsequently asked to testify before Congress, told the Awards audience

that he was humbled by the experience that night aboard the Midway and shared his background as a soldier with them. Taguba said any decision on interest in pursuing theissue of prisoner mistreatment should be left up to the Obama Admninistration.

Taguba, who received a standing ovation from the audience, which included represen-tatives from the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and Coast Guard, was also presentedwith a 14-carat gold pin symbolizing Asian achievement. San Diego County Supervisor Ron Roberts , who introduced Taguba, made the presentation.

Earlier, before the ceremony, Taguba told reporters that he investigated conditions atAbu Ghraib out of a sense of duty and not because of political motivation. In a preface toa report by the Physicians for Human Rights in June of last year, the general did write:There is no longer any doubt that the current (Bush) administration committed war crimes. The only question is whether those who ordered torture will be held to account.

Officials of the Obama Administration have not given any indication that they will pur-sue any further investigation.

Many in the audience were also moved by remarks from author Quang X. Pham , acandidate for U.S. Congress in Orange County, who received the top honor in visual artsand literature, and Tuan Pham , founder of Phamatech of San Diego, the events goldsponsor. The two are not related.

Quang Pham, a former Marine Corps pilot, told how being aboard the Midway brought back memories of his rescue as a 10-year-old boy right before the fall of Saigon to the North Vietnamese in 1975. Pham paid special tribute to all the Asian Americans whoserved in the mil itary, especially those who fought in World War II, Korea and theVietnam War. Asian Americans who fought in Vietnam faced difficult challenges becausethey were looked at as being part of the other side.

In his book, A Sense of Duty: My Father, My American Journey, Pham writes aboutthe difficulties of a refugee child emigrating to the United States after leaving behind hisfather, an officer in the South Vietnamese military. He said that standing aboard the deck of the Midway, where the reception was held, refreshed those memories of his childhood.

Tuan Pham also recounted his experience fleeing Vietnam as a 12-year-old and sailingout to sea with an older brother, not knowing where they would end up, before they wererescued by a U.S. Navy ship. If it werent for the Navy, we would have never survived.That is my first debt of gratitude and a debt of gratitude I will always have not only for the United States for taking me in, but for the U.S. Navy for being the first step to gettingme there, said Tuan, founder of Phamatech, the events gold sponsor, who presented theMilitary Award to Navy Capt. Myles Esmele .

BY PAULA LE

Special to ASIA

The release of two Asian American journalistsfrom North Korea brought tears of joy and relief to their families as they stepped down from the

private jet in Burbank this week.Euna Lee and Laura Ling were granted

amnesty this week and allowed to leave NorthKorea after former President Bill Clinton visitedPyongyang and spoke with the reclusive dictator,Kim Jong Il .

Lee and Ling reunited with their families after four months of detention. They stepped out of the

plane, rushing down the steps into the arms of their respective families. Lee held her four-year-old daughter tightly as she hugged her husband.Ling was greeted by her husband, Ian Clayton,and the rest of her family, including her sister,Lisa Ling who is a correspondent for CNN and aformer co-host of The View.

The women, reporters for former vice presidentAl Gores Current TV, were arrested in Marchwhile reporting about human trafficking from the

border of North Korea and China. In June, theywere sentenced to 12 years of hard labor oncharges of entering the country illegally.

We feared at any moment that we could besent to a hard labor camp, said a tearful and emo-tional Ling to the crowd of reporters, Suddenlywe were told we were going to a meeting.

We were taken to a location, and when wewalked through the doors, we saw standing before

The University Of Southern CaliforniaKorean Studies Institute is looking to fill thefull-time position of Program Specialist. Dutiesinclude assisting in the planning, organizationand delivery of services and activities specific tothe university program. They will also need to provide counseling, testing and evaluation,teaching or events planning. Fluency in the Korean language and experience in East AsianStudies is preferred and desired. If interested, apply at https://jobs.usc.edu.

TAYO Literary Magazine will be celebrating its arrival as the first independent literarymagazine dedicated to the creative expression of Filipino American youth. The LaunchParty will be held on Saturday, Aug. 22, at Salakot Sizzle & Grill and will include openmic performances, an art gallery and Filipino cuisine. TAYO aims to empower and bringtogether Filipino American youth through the many different forms of creative art. ToRSVP,email [email protected] or visit http://tayolaunch.eventbrite .com.

A new pictorial history book, Filipinos in Carson and theSouth Bay, will be the main topic in a town hall meetingSaturday, Aug. 8. Hosted by Mayor Jim Dear andCouncilwoman Julie Ruiz Raber, the presentation will take

place at Carson Community Center from 1-3 p.m. The book authors, Florante Peter and Roselyn Estepa Ibanez, arelong-time residents of Carson and will be present as part of the presentation. For more information, please contact RoseIbanez at [email protected] or call 310-830-0950.

The Mingei International Museum of Escondido took down the prize-winning Kyrgyz yurt that has been the cen-terpiece of the exhibition Nomadic Legacy Tent &Textiles from Central Asia & Iran on Thursday, August 6.The round, domed , trellis-tent dwelling, measuring 22 feetin diameter, won first prize in the national contest. The

public was invited to watch it be taken down.

USC Korean Studies Institute is offering full-time position

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Legacy andLegends

Long ordeal isfinally over fortwo journalists

Asian Heritage Awards celebrateshonor, achievement and community

Ford Motors Bob Tarlton presents the award forCommunity Service to Brian Tom from Blind Startof America.

Tuan Pham from Phamatech presents Capt. MylesEsmele with the Military Achievement Award.

Euna Lee is embraced by husband Michael Saldate anddaughter Hana. Photo by Associated Press

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Airmen and women from March Air Force Basepresent the colors at opening of the Awards.


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us President Bill Clinton. We were shocked, but we knew instantly in our hearts that the nightmare of our lives was finally comingto an end.

Locally, the response from the Korean community was uplifting, however, wary of on the particulars of the negotiation.We are all celebrating the release of Euna Lee and Laura Ling, as if they are our own sisters, said Lee Ann Kim, executive

director of the San Diego Asian Film Festival.Kim and the Asian American Journalist Association of San Diego held a vigil several days after the two journalists verdict.

The vigil drew in the support of at least a hundred people in the community, including some in from Asian and Asian Americanorganizations throughout San Diego.As a fellow journalist, wife, and mother, I can't even imagine what it must have been like to be in captivity for 140 days,

Kim said, though she still has many questions about the ordeal, including did they cross the border intentionally and did they meetthe dictator?

Are North Korean's nuclear issue and Clinton's visiting North Korea an event that makes any difference? said Suji Kim, anorganizer of the Pacific Rim Parks Project. Though she was touched by the women and their families reunion and tears, she stillhas questions about the delicate negotiation. Relationships between nations are matters of interaction. Although U.S.Government emphasizes that this rescue operation was a "personal outreach', the result could have a possibility of changing if

North Korea does not accept it.The women were granted a special pardon by Kim Jong Il after President Clinton met with him for three hours. According to

an article on CNN.com, Lee and Ling spoke to their families in July that the North Koreans were willing to grant them amnesty if a high-level envoy was willing to travel to Pyongyang. At first vice president Gore was considered one of the many envoys.

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Key sponsors included the Ford Motor Company Fund and the U.S. Navy. Supportingand underwriting sponsors included CoxCommunications, Viejas Resort and Casino,Epsilon Systems Solutions, Blind Start America,Julia Chang Pinnacle Financial and InsuranceServices, and Chinese School of San Diego.Gingi Skin Care contributed the gift bags whileChad Benhar did the table decorations.

For photos of the winners, turn to page 12.They are:

Dr. Otto Lee , vice chancellor for the SanDiego Community College District, education

The Asian Business Association of SanDiego, in business enterprise

Kim Nguyen Zastrow , founder of VITESSERecruiting and Staffing Inc., entrepreneurship.

Jerrilyn Malana, president of the San DiegoBar Association, legal affairsArturo Nisperos , founder of Nisperos

Photographic Services, science and technologyCoronado Mayor Casey Tanaka , govern-

mentDr. Tess Mauricio , health and medicineMaria Ge e, Chinese language professor and

documentarian, media and filmHouse of China in San Diego, cultural

preservationCharmaine Clamor , performing artsPacific Rim Parks , humanitarian outreachBrian Tom , founder Blind Start of America,

community serviceScholarships were also awarded to

Katherine Sakai of Poway High School andKathryn Sevilla of Sweetwater High School.

The Midway was chosen as the venue thisyear, according to Leonard Novarro, co-publish-er of the newspaper ASIA, because of its Asianconnection, having served throughout the Pacificand during the Vietnam War, and because thisyear marked the first-time collaboration betweenthe API community and all branches of theArmed Forces. Proceeds from the event benefitthe Asian Heritage Society and its two-fold pro-gram of building leaders and building a legacyfor future generations of Asian Americans.

The ceremony began with a presentation of the colors by a color guard from March Air Force Base in Riverside and the singing of GodBless America by Lu-Yan Guo , accompanied

by his wife, Fei-Fei Soong, and was emceed byMarcella Lee of Channel 8 and Jessica Changof Cox Channel 4. The entertainment lineupincluded Xian Jing Dance Studio, PASACAT,singer/songwriter Lindsey Yung and HealiIsPolynesian Revue.

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The families reunited celebrate.Photo by associated Press


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The 6th Annual San Diego International ChildrensFilm Festival presented 11 full-length childrens filmsfrom China from July 31- August 3. The films represent

the best in cur-rent Chinesefamily cinemaand are intendedfor children reading age and older. Some titled filmsinclude Oriental King Lion, Crane Ballad andInvisible Wings. The festival was held at several loca-tions throughout San Diego, including the San DiegoMuseum of Art, Comic-Con International, the Museumof Photographic Arts and the New Childrens Museum.

The Vietnamese American Youth Alliance will besupporting the newest Vietnamese Alliance to CombatTrafficking (VietACT) intern, Calix Vu-Bui , as sheteaches Art classes to victims of human trafficking.VietACT is a grassroot organization dedicated to eradi-cating human trafficking of Vietnamese victims throughcollaboration, advocacy and education for the purpose of

support ing, protecting and empowering victims. VAYAis asking all art supply donations to be dropped off attheir meetings in August. For more details on the ArtSupply Drive, contact Calix at [email protected] or visit www.vayasd.org/calendar to find meeting time andlocation.

Are you looking to become more involved in theKorean American legal community? What to make newfriends and build your network? Then run for theKorean American Bar Association of San Di ego . A

position in KABA-SD is rewarding with great involve-ment in the legal and Korean community and muchexposure to the bench, local bar and other bar associa-tions. Nominations and candidates statements are due onAugust 15, with self-nominations welcome. For anyquestions on open positions [email protected].

community briefs

Film festival iskid-friendly withan Asian flair


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CongratulationsTo all those being honored at the

2009 Asian Heritage Awards Gala

OPERATION GOODWILL

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Healthy eating once againtarget of Kalusugan campaign

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An outreach program on laboratorytesting and introduction toPharmacogenomics in Asian populationswas conducted at the Wesley UnitedMethodist Church recently with Dr. Binh Tran presenting an overview of laboratorytesting commonly encountered during regular doctors visits, such as glucose, triglyc-erides and cholesterol testing. Pharmacogenomics was presented by Christine Sejersen,PharmD candidate of the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. The

presentation, Were all different, so why should we take the same mediciation, wastranslated in Vietnamese by Dr. Tran, who regularly makes presentation to theVietnamese Elderly Association of San Diego.

The Korean American Bar Association of San Diego (KABA-SD) will award$1,000 to eligible individuals to take the California State Bar Examination in February2010 or July 2010. Applicants must meet requirements for taking the exam, are current-ly attending or have graduated from any accredited law school in San Diego County and

be a paid member of KABA-SD. They must also be available to attend KABA-SDsEnd of the Year Dinner on Sept. 17, 2009 at Bali Hai. Application deadline is September 1, 2009.

Twenty-nine graduates of the San Diego Mesa College Radiologic Technology pro-gram will be receiving pins as part of a special pinning ceremony at the ApolliadTheater at Mesa College. The program prepare students for a high-demand career. Atleast 75 percent of the graduates will be given employment in their clinical practice set-tings following the program completion. Held every August following final clinical

practice commitments, the pinning ceremony marks the completion of the intensive 24-month program and allows graduates to be recognized by faculty, administrators andclinical instructors who represent 14 major health care centers in San Diego.

Southwestern Community College District welcomes three top-level administratorsto its management team: Vice President for Business & Financial Affairs, NicholasAlioto , who has more than 15 years of experience in the field of businessservices; Mink Stravenga , Dean of Instructional Support Services, and Torres Campos, Dean of Research, Evaluation and Planning. In addition, the district announced new administra-tive appointments for several positions.

Health & educationbriefs

Kalusugan recently announced the end of a successful three-year Healthy EatingCampaign program by inviting all of San Diego to join a star-studded grand celebrationon Saturday, aug. 15, from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Jacobs Center, 404 Euclid Ave. inSan Diego.

On the first year of its existence the HEC Faire was successfully held at the Holiday

Inn in National City. The second year, another successful fair was also held at the samevenue. Now, on its third year, the organizers are closing out the biggest affair ever, on amuch bigger venue. Thats why its dubbed Taste of Regional Filipino CuisineExtravaganza III.

The Big Third will be attended by guests, including elected officials from NationalCity, Roque Barros, director of community building for the Jacobs Center; . CherylModer, director of the San Diego County Childrens Obesity Initiative, as well as offi-cials from neighboring cities in San Diego County.

The program has been endorsed and sponsored by more than top 20 Asian andFilipino restaurants, supermarkets, groceries and bakeries.

During the event, local performers and entertainers are expected to please and delightthe crowd with cultural and ethnic regional representations. Copies of Global FilipinoCuisine: Healthy Recipes will be available and certificates will be awarded to owners of various restaurants, supermarkets, groceries and bakeries.

HEC advocate Priscilla Garrovillas prepared several Filipino dishes during Extravaganza II in 2008.


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When the discussion leads to mentalhealth disorder, western society

openly talks about the problem in the samevein as heart disease, diabetes or even cancer for that matter.

Minority Americans, particularly AsianAmericans, are not apt to share stories aboutthe problems of the mind. In my communityand in most Asian American communities,mental health disorder is interpreted as a nor-mal occurrence of aging or sometimes fate,thus a personal thing.

Lets consider this familiar scenario in anAsian household: As far as grandma is con-cerned at the age of 83, she is physicallyable, not taking any medication for any ail-ment and drinks her ginger tea every singleday; demented episodes can be tolerated.

You can argue that, but is it proper to drugan 83-year-old person to slow downAlzheimers and later to drug her again for side effects from the previous medication?

Asians would rather let grandma enjoy thelast moments of her healthy life in her ownway (just making sure she is safe and wellfed) without being diagnosed.

If we look at the study done by the National Institute of Mental Health in 2003,the rate of Asian Americans with mental ill-ness is far lower than the white community.

The study also shows that AsianAmericans are less likely to seek help whendepression or bipolar disorder erupts, or dur-ing schizophrenia attacks and even with eat-ing disorders such as anorexia or bulimia.

The national data also tells us that mentalhealth disorder may not be a problem in theAAPI community, but consider the suicide

rate for the elderly from data by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

For women aged 75 and older, the suiciderate for Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders

was 7.95 per 100,000,compared to the whiterate of 4.18 and the

black rate of 1.18. It ismore prevalent withChinese than Japanese and FilipinoAmericans.

We still dwell on the strong stigma of mental illness as a sign of being weak, a signof hopelessness and believed to be a destinyand a scar to social status, but the big pictureis that health insurance is still a national

problem in our adopted country and languagecontinues to be a barrier that contributes tothe unfavorable statistics.

We cannot deny our culture of aloe verahealing, guava leaves and other remedies thatnature provides, which is probably whygrandma has survived the long journey.

But when the unbearable moments of dementia seem to overwhelm the family,when daily activities and personal hygienecan no longer be performed and when thehouse is no longer safe, it is time to look intoa western way of letting go: Find a safe and

better place for grandma.Asian Pacific Health Care Venture in Los

Angeles is teaming up with other healthgroups and associations in serving the com-munities in this aspect, providing resourcesfor mental health, good eating habits andgeneral health information in various Asianlanguages.

There are also options in alternative medi-cine, such as acupuncture and holisticapproaches. We are blessed wi th a nature-lov-ing culture, and we have to be aware thatmental health made up a wholesome wellness

of our being and should be in the same threadas sound heart and physically fit bodies.

By Shatto LightHealthTALK


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To the Editors,

Again, thank you very much for hosting Debbie and I during our shortstay in San Diego on 24-26 July. TheAsian Heritage Society dinner and

awards event was truly spectacular! Iam deeply grateful to you both for honoring me with a special recogni-tion. We are very impressed with your civic involvement in the San Diegocommunity. Your leadership in AsiaMedia and Asian Heritage Society isindicative of your active concerns inhaving Asian Americans and PacificIslanders being more assimilated andrecognized in the greater San Diegocommunity and beyond. Well done!

Debbie and I truly enjoyed our newassociation. We wish you and your family the very best. Lets stay intouch please.

Very Sincerely,Antonio M. and Debbie Taguba

Thank you, thank you, and thank you. Michael and I had a marveloustime. You did it again! Next year, Iwant you both on stage, as awardrecipients.

Gwen Coronado

Thanks to you, Len and Roz, andthe entire behind-the-scenes team for all of your hard work. I know youworked tirelessly to pull the eventtogether and it was a lovely evening.It is always a pleasure and honor to beinvolved in the Asian Heritage AwardsCeremony!

Marcella Lee

CONGRATULATIONS on your fantastic Asian Heritage banquet.Mary and I really enjoyed the event

and we are so proud of you for whatyou have accomplished, and hope thatyou are having a well deserved timeoff. I must thank you again for theAsian Heritage Award you bestowedon me in 2007. As the only Asian con-

sular representative in San Diegoamong 25+ consulates and honoraryconsulates represented here (thoughKorea, China and Japan have their honorary consuls in Tijuana), I hope tocontinue to promote your AsianHeritage and ASIA publication efforts.What you are doing with the AsianHeritage is tremendous. I believe thatin trying to educate future GlobalCitizens, it is important to give para-digms, heroes and heroines they canlook up to and emulate.

Regards,Mike Inoue

Len: You and Rosalynn must bevery proud! What a wonderful eventyou put on Saturday night. Lisa and Ireally enjoyed being there. Im sorryyou didnt have a chance to meet mywife of nearly 50 years!

Bob Tarlton

Thank you for inviting me to par-ticipate this year! It was a beautifuland successful event. Great job to allof you!

Jessica Chang

Once again you guys have pulledoff another wonderful event. I lovethe venue and the theme recognizingour men and women in the military.

I'd like to suggest that next year you should add one more category tothe awards program: Sports. We havea number of world-class Asian athletesin professional as well as amateur competitions from ice skating, golf,

skiing, badminton, tennis. This would be a great addition to the awards pro-gram and these winners would serveas role models for younger Asianyouths.

Julian Do

New America Media

Dear Asia Media Friends,It was a superb gala event last

Saturday. I heard many elogious com-ments, especially from Dr. Johnsonwho sat near our table. Thank you toLen and Rosalyn for the well-planned

program from start to end. As Iwalked up the stairs on the ship, thestatement of "Legacy & Legends"caught my eyes right away. Later, Isaw the words on the front cover of the program also. I was glad to seeeveryone, especially the members withwhom we planned to have a monthlyfriendly get-together after the firstmeeting in Spring. Now that I havethe personal statements from all thenominees, I can find many commoninterests among our group.

Dr. Binh Tran

Hi Len and Roz,From my entire family, Thanks for

everything! It was a magical eveningand I am so honored!! My family wasvery impressed with the venue and theevent! You guys did an amazing job -it was huge!! And as your dermatolo-gist, you guys made me proud!! You

both looked super young and amazing,even on the giant screen :-)

Thanks again for all your supportand friendship. James and I feel veryfortunate to have you both in our lives.

With all our love,Tess and James Mauricio

The newspaperfor Southern Californias

Asian Pacific Islandercommunity

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Dear EarthTalk: What aresome simple low cost improve-ments I can do to my home tomake it greener?

According to consumer advocateRemar Sutton, there are many waysto save energy and other resources around the home withoutspending a lot of money. And taking action sooner rather

than later will lead to ongoing savings on utility bills, so alittle cash outlay now will more than pay for itself in thelong run.

On the energy front, turning your thermostat up in sum-mer and down in winter is one often overlooked way toreduce usage and cost.

Other ways to save energy include: lowering the hotwater heaters thermostat; getting heating and cooling equip-ment tuned once a year; insulating hot water pipes and hotwater storage tanks; caulking cracks and gaps on walls,including around door and window frames; weather-strip-

ping air leaks around windows and doors; and replacingincandescent light bulbs with more efficient compact fluo-rescent (CFL) bulbs.

Sutton recommends doing an energy audit to identify allthe areas around the house where simple, low-cost improve-ments can make a difference. Your local utility may offer afree or low-cost audit, or you can do-it-yourself via the

online calculator at the U.S. Department of Energys HomeEnergy Saver website.Beyond energy savings alone, Sutton offers a wealth of

tips on how to reduce water usage around the house as well:

Wash and dry only full loads of laundryand only wash full loads of dishes; fixleaky faucets and toilets; install aeratinglow-flow showerheads and faucets; turn off the faucet while brushing teeth and shav-ing; and take short(er) showers and avoid

baths altogether. By taking some or all of these measures, you can run a much greener home withoutspending much at all.

Once youve exhausted ways to save energy and water around the house as it is, you might consider taking larger steps to boost efficiency more. According to Harvey Sachsof the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy,installing or upgrading insulation is a sure-fire way to savemoney over time, as your heating and cooling equipmentwont have to work so hard maintaining the desired tempera-ture of your homes interior.

Planting shade trees around your homes exterior willhelp reduce the need for air conditioning in summer and, if theyre deciduous, theyll let sunlight through in the winter.

Also, says Sachs, upgrading to more energy efficientappliances preferably those brandishing the federal govern-ments EnergySTAR seal of approvalshould more thanmake up for any cost premiums with the energy savingstheyll bring going forward.

Replacing older single pane windows with new more effi-cient double or even triple pane varieties can significantly

reduce home energy usage and heating/cooling bills as well.Be sure to get professional help when installing insulation or new windows, as improper installation can negate the bene-fits youre trying to obtain.

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Going Green doesnt mean going broke

If you cut off a piece of fingernail and burnitthat's what burning human flesh smells like, saidSeiko Fujimoto, who was just three years old when theUnited States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

Even so, her memories of that day are vivid: If youask me to draw a picture of what I saw, I could do it per-fectly. There were people holding their hands out in frontof them, skin melting off their bodieswatering holesoverflowingwith corpses.

She pausesand adds, Tothis day, I canhear peoplemoaningmizu mizu(water, water).

On Aug. 6, 1945, the atomic bomb, Little Boy, wasdropped on the city of Hiroshima, followed by the Aug. 9detonation of the Fat Man over Nagasaki. Japan surren-dered on Aug. 15, 1945.

The bombs instantly killed as many as 140,000 peoplein Hiroshima and 70,000 in Nagasaki, most of them civil-ians. Said to be over many million degrees centigrade intemperature, the bombs instantly vaporized those near their epicenter.

Many more victims died from the combined effects of flash and radiation burns, trauma, infection, malnutritionand radiation sickness. People have since continued to suf-fer from radiation-induced leukemia and other cancers.The surviving victims are called hibakusha , a Japaneseword that literally translates to explosion-affected peo-

ple.Seikos father was an Imperial Navy officer stationed

in Tokyo. She and her one-year-old brother had been sentto Hiroshima to live with relatives, as Tokyo was consid-ered unsafe. Her uncle and aunt perished in their burninghouse, while she and her brother were pulled out from therubble by passers-by. She does not know w hat happenedto her cousin probably killed near the railway, on theway to school, she speculates.

Fujimoto has scars on her back from shrapnel andglass, and has suffered from unexplained dizzy spells. Her hair fell out immediately after the bombing from radiationexposure and initially grew back blonde. She had to dye it

before going back to school to avoid bullying from theother kids. Four years after the bombing, Seikos brother died of leukemia, at the age of five.

President Obamas determination to eradicate nuclear weapons, as outlined in his speech in Prague this pastApril, has ignited renewed hope in survivors likeFujimoto. The United States will take concrete stepstoward a world without nuclear weapons, Obama said.

Today, Japan and the world are marking the 64thanniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,the only nuclear weapon attacks in history to date.Although the anniversary is observed annually, this year isespecially important in light of the recent attention to pos-sible nuclear threats.

As Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba said, Themomentum toward abolishing nuclear weapons is rising asnever before.

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V I E WBY TARA SHIINA MORIMOTO WAKELY

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Pursuit of adream willnever die

A s veterans start the new academ-ic year, the leader of TheAmerican Legion said he is happy to seethat they will be able to enjoy the bene-fits of the new GI Bill.

"August 1st will be a proud day for us," said David K. Rehbein, national com-mander of the nation's largest veteransservice organization. "That's when theeducational benefits in the Post-9/11Veterans Education Assistance Act takeeffect benefits that The American Legionworked hard to bring about."

In fact, The American Legion was soinstrumental in the passage of the mostsweeping veterans benefit in generationsthat U.S. Rep. Chet Edwards said at thetime, "Passing this historic new GI Billinto law could not have happened without the dedicated effortsof The American Legion."

The Legion's role in the formulation of the new GI Bill hasdeep historical roots. Members of The American Legion draft-ed the original Servicemen's Readjustment Act, popularlyknown as the GI Bill, in 1944. It was written in longhand onhotel stationery by American Legion Past National Commander Harry Colmery. The GI Bill is widely considered the greatestdomestic legislation ever passed by Congress.

The largest scholarship program in U.S. history, the GI Billalso made home ownership a possibility for a new generationof Americans, transforming the American economy and creat-ing the middle class. The American Legion continued itsstaunch advocacy for veterans, playing a key role in everyreadjustment legislation since 1944. While some of the succes-sors to the GI Bill fell short of what The American Legionhoped for, the organization worked closely with then-U.S. Rep.G.V. "Sonny"

Montgomery on the improved "Montgomery GI Bill," which benefited peacetime veterans.

While The American Legion has never stopped pushing for a comprehensive benefit to cover all education costs for veter-ans, the organization went clearly on the record at its 1992

National Convention in Chicago. Delegatesthere unanimously passed Resolution 3,which called for the establishment of "a ben-efit package commensurate with those pro-vided veterans of World War II, Korea andVietnam."

As the Global War on Terrorism progressed,it became clear that National Guard andReserve veterans, who were serving in largenumbers during the conflicts in Iraq andAfghanistan, were not being compensated asgenerously as their active-duty counterparts.

It was time for a new GI Bill. The AmericanLegion and Congress, among others, set aboutcreating one. A longtime Legionnaire, Sen.Jim Webb, D-Va., built a bipartisan coalition inthe Senate.

The final bill included a provision thatallowed for the transferability of benefits to family members,an additional benefit supported by The American Legion. The

bill was signed by President George W. Bush on June 30, 2008.The new GI Bill does not replace existing education pro-

grams for veterans, but augments them.Depending upon individual needs and eligibilities, benefits

of the older Montgomery GI Bill, the Montgomery GIBill/Selected Reserve, and the Reserve Educational AssistanceProgram (REAP) are still available as well.

The American Legion explains veterans educational benefitsin great detail at www.mygibill.org."The new GI Bill is a billworthy of its name," Rehbein said.

"While we believe this is a great benefit to America's veter-ans and their families, The American Legion will monitor theadministration of it and ensure that the benefits that these veter-ans so richly deserve are not diminished.

If any veteran has difficulty we at The American Legionwant to know about it.

With a current membership of 2.5 million wartime veter-ans, The American Legion was founded in 1919 on the four pil-lars of a strong national security, veterans affairs, Americanism,and mentoring. Legionnaires work for the betterment of their communities through more than 14,000 posts across the nation.

New GI bill is worthy of its name

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B R I E F SHEADQUARTERS, AMERICAN LEGION

Chinas new media policy is failingTwo seemingly unrelated butnotable events took place on July

24th in China. In the morning, the officialnews agency Xinhua published an articletitled "Ten Suggestions for LocalGovernments on How to Respond toInternet Opinion." In a commanding tone,the article argued that local governmentsshould release information early, "report-ing facts fast, reporting causes with cau-tion." Crisis management is actually "cri-sis communication management," itasserted. It cites that the "open govern-ment information regulations" require

"being open as the principle, not beingopen as an exception."The call to "tell the truth and tell it

fast" coming from a government mouth- piece surprised some Chinese dissidentswho have long been protesting the gov-ernments strict media control. An activedissident on Twitter dismissed the articleas "just some journalist's opinion," eventhough the official tone of the article sug-gests a high-level policy command dis-guised as an opinion piece, which is notunusual in China.

As if it were a test of the government'snew media policy, that same day, vio-lence erupted in Tonghua, Jilin.Thousands of workers of the TonghuaSteel Corp protested a private takeover of their company, which had a 50-year his-tory of state ownership. The steel factoryhad already suffered a failed privatizationattempt from the same company. It was

recovering from that and last year's finan-cial crisis, when the renewed and expand-ed ownership was announced. Angryworkers beat to death the new generalmanager appointed by the private compa-ny, Jianlong of Beijing, on his first day atwork. The workers gradually dispersedonly after the Jilin provincial governmentannounced its on-the-site decision to havethe private company withdraw fromTonghua Steel's business. Some Chinesenetizens called the event "the first work-ers movement since 1949" the year Communist rule in China began.

As a test of the new media policy, itseems to have failed. For three days,China's media kept totally silent on theshocking incident. Not even independentnewspapers such as Caijing said a word.On every commercial Web portal, postsand discussions on the Tonghua riot werequickly deleted. The Western media firstlearned the news from a Hong Konghuman rights group and reported the inci-dent briefly on July 25.

Meanwhile, Chinese bloggers actedfaster than the government's media con-trollers, and one detailed eye-witness

accountendedup onoverseasChineseWebsites andwas cir-culatedaroundtheworld. Itcould nolonger be deleted. (An English translation

of this account can be found on the HongKong-based ESWN, one of the most pop-ular China blogs.) So far no Westernmedia outlet has cited this far moreinformative account, whose contentseems to be verified by various sources,including the government's own belatedreporting.

China's media waited until July 27 toreact. Curiously, this time English report-ing led the way. The first article thisreporter found was published on ChinaDaily's English Web site, titled "Manager Killed in Plant Riot." This was followed

by Chinese-language reports in severalmajor newspapers. (Small publicationsmay have been waiting to see whichdirection the wind was blowing.) Whilethe Chinese media did not follow theaforementioned policy advice to "tell thetruth fast," they nonetheless acted accord-ing to the second part of it, i.e., "report

S i n g u l a r

V I E WBY XUJUN EBERLEIN

A s a child, I wanted to become an automechanic when I grew up.Little did I know then that Ihad the mechanical ability of an ostrich and would have

been much better served bysticking my head in the sandthan trying to do anything likefixing a car. This became ago-nizingly clear on the day Istarted my auto shop class inhigh school. One of our firstassignments was to take apartand rebuild a lawn mower engine. Taking it apart wentokay. Rebuilding it was another matter. I teamed witha partner that really could put it back together. After watching my sad attempts to reconstruct the engine, headvised me to let him do it. I passed the class with aD and only because I partnered with a guy thatknew the difference between a piston and a gasket.

Another childhood fantasy was to become Roger Staubach, quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys.Whenever I played football with the neighborhoodkids, I pictured myself as Roger the Dodger, juking anon-charging defensive lineman, to either take off run-ning down the sideline to score the winning touch-down or lobbing a perfect spiral to Drew Pearson inthe corner of the end zone.

Now at the age of 46, I have come to the harshrealization that I will never play quarterback for theDallas Cowboys or any other NFL team. Dreams diehard, but no one ever said life was easy. Now as amiddle-aged counselor at a community college, Iencourage my students to pursue their dreams and Istill cling to mine like a life preserver in a turbulent

river rapid. Im aware that I am extremely fortunate tohave a job that provides health insurance for my fami-ly in this economy. At the same time, Im not willingto put aside the goals that rev me up and make mewant to turn cartwheels in the middle of the livingroom.

One of these goals is writing. I now contributefree-lance articles regularly to a number of differentmagazines and newspapers, and I specialize in writingabout people making a difference in their communi-ties. There is more than enough coverage of bad newsin the media, and Id much rather tell the stories thatseek out the best in people, those that inspire us tohelp others. I am blessed to be able to write a familycolumn because my family is the single most impor-tant thing in my life. I learn so much from my familyon a daily basis, and to be able to share these experi-ences with readers is a dream come true.

In the fall, Im going to be on sabbatical from thecollege for a semester in order to be a full-time stu-dent. Im going to take classes, and this will afford mean opportunity to write more. I have a couple of ideasfor books and will pursue avenues to make thesevisions a reality.

Also, I plan to talk to as many writers as I can inorder to get their advice on how to make my dream areality. In the past, Ive felt as if I had to do everything

by myself. Maybe Ive matured a little in my 46 yearson this planet. The gray in my sideburns suggests thatI better start developing some wisdom because Imcertainly no spring chicken any more!

Despite the gray hair and the bit of sag in mytummy, I refuse to grow up if it means sacrificing mydreams. I mightve put away the mechanics tool kit,

but if you want to bring a football, Ill find a number 12 Cowboys jersey and float you a spiral.

(Family tip: If you are aware of people in the com-munity doing something worthwhile, contact me about

possibly doing an article to highlight them.)

By Ray Wong

Family Matters


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For the first time, the AsianPacific Islander community of

Southern California held a major

community event aboard theUSS Midway. Heres a pictorialsample of what took place at

the Sixth Annual Asian HeritageAwards.

(1) San Diego County Supervisor Ron Roberts presents General Antonio Taguba thisyears Special Recognition Award. (2) Buu-Van Rasih, left, presents Quang Pham withthe Visual Arts & Literature award. (3) Maria Gee accepts the award for Media and Film.(4) Dr. Tess Mauricio, left, received the Health and Medicine award from Dr. Binh Tran. (5)On the left, Bob Tarlton from Ford Motors presents the Education Award to Dr. Otto Lee.(6) Lyle Zastrow accepts the Entrepreneurship award on behalf of his wife, Kim NguyenZastrow. (7) Charmaine Clamor, right, was awarded the Performing Arts award presentedby Tomoko Kuta, one of the Education category nominees. (8) Bruce Glasser fromPhamatech, left, presented Arturo Nisperos with the Science and Technology award. (9)Commander Dana Gordon, left, presents the Humanitarian Outreach award to Pacific RimParks represented by Judge Robert Coates. (10) Mayor Casey Tanaka, right, of Coronadoaccepts the award for Government by AssemblymanTed Lieu. (11) Representing the AsianBusiness Association of San Diego, Joni Low accepts the award for Business Enterprisefrom Joel Kurtz from Gingi Skincare. (12) Jerrilyn Malana won in the category of Legal.(13) Representing the House of China in Balboa Park, David Seif accepts the award forHumanitarian Outreach.

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(1) Xian Jing Dance Studio, formerly known as the San DiegoChinese Folk Dance Ensemble, performs at the awards. (2) At thereception, Healiis Polynesian Revue performed on the deck. (3)PASACAT, a Filipino dance troupe, also performed during thenight. (4)Marcella Lee and Jessica Chang (5) co-emceed the event.This is Lees fifth time hosting the event and Changs first time. (6)Healiis Polynesian Revue was one of the nominees in the categoryof Performing Arts. (7) Rosalyn Carmen and Leonard Novarro, atthe mike, president and secretary-treasurer, respectively, of theAsian Heritage Society, begin the evenings festivities. (8) LindseyYung with her band performed. (9) Dr. Bruce Johnson, center, isflanked by the Coronados, Mike and Gwen, left, and the Trans,Binh, left, and Ton. (10) From left to right, Dang Vu, Robin Tarrand Antony Nguyen. (11)Clockwise, Judge Lillian Lim, BethAtuatasi and Legal nominees Erika Hiramatsu, Jerrilyn Malana andHolly Fujie. (12) Volunteers set up at the registration table. (13)Representatives of the military stand up to be recognized for theirservice to the country.

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(1) Richard Kong, holding white and yellow leis, was one of the nominees in the category of Military.(2) Julia Cheng, left, with Lt. Col. Christopher Watrud.(3) Dee Dee Castro of Viejas presented the Entrepreneurship Award.(4) Xian Jing Dance Studio was one of the nominees for Cultural Preservation.(5) Rosalynn Carmen, at the podium, addresses the gatherers.(6) County Supervisor Ron Roberts places the Special Honoree pin on General Antonio Taguba.(7) Volunteer Antony Nguyen interviews Navy officers, left-right, Lt. Cmdr. Sam Delgado and Cmdrs. Dana Gordon, LauraScotty and Capt. Myles Esmele, military nominee, on the upper deck of the USS Midway.(8) Guests, left-right, Dr. Michael Nichols, his wife Peggy, Gen. Taguba and Rosalynn Carmen.(9) PASACAT performed on stage.

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china risingchina rising Get up to date whendealing with employees15August 7, 2009

Employee productivity can often be hampered by outdated prac-tices that interferewith creating new andimproved procedures. Morefrustrating still, after devel-oping improved ways, man-agers often face challenges when conveying the changes to the employ-ees, as resistance to change often occurs. Even CEOs and companyowners have this resistance problem, and as a HR professional, youoften have to get top executives on your side to spearhead the changeeffort.

A technique that will help you both in coming up with new proce-dures and selling them to employees and top executives is using cre-ative visualization or mental imaging. This process will help you firstimagine what new improved methods might look like, and second, howyou can best position and promote these changes.

The visualization process works by finding a time and place whereyou can engage in some quiet reflection (though as you develop thisability you can do it anywhere and anytime - even in a high-powered

business meeting). Then, see the situation you want to think about inyour mind's eye. Some good ways to do this are imagining that youhave a movie screen or computer monitor and your scenes are unfold-

ing on the screen or monitor.If you are already familiar with how that department, division, or

individual is working on a day-to-day basis, you can start this processright away. If not, take some time before visualizing to familiarizeyourself with current operations. Ideally, observe what a particular per-son is or group of people are doing for an hour or two or even a day, asif you are an anthropologist visiting a new culture. Before you begin,explain what you are doing to those whom you'll be observing in a sup-

portive way to indicate that the goal is to help improve performance,not to criticize current practices. Advise employees you will be askingfor their input, as well. Then, stay in the background as you observeand take notes. Or if you can't observe, conduct a short open-endedinterview with the employees or particular individual to discuss whatthey do.

Once you have this information about current operations, you areready to visualize making changes. To do so, get relaxed and watchwhat these employees are doing on the movie screen or computer mon-itor in your mind's eye. As you continue to observe, ask yourself a

series of questions, and make notes as you observe, speak into a tape-recorder, or write down your observations soon after you finish observ-ing. As necessary add probes, such as: "How can employees do itfaster?" "How can they improve accuracy?" "How can they improvecommunication to better understand what to do?" Again, you will oftenfind the answers come to you as you pose the question.

s m a l lB USINESS A DVICE

Looking for some cash to get through these tough andlean days? Here are some items you may want toconsider.

1.) Treasury Bonds - If you have EE, E, I or savingsnote bonds issued by the Treasury Department, plug in your

bonds serial number, or enter the bond series and the monthand year the bond was issued at www.TreasuryDirect.gov.The resulting chart will show the original price and howmuch its currently worth with the Treasury Department. If the bond is still earning interest, the chart will tell you theinterest rate. It you think you might have lost a savings

bond, you can search on this website for your bond usingyour social security number. However, note thatwww.TreasuryDirect.gov only has records back to 1974, if you have bonds before that time, your will have to have theTreasury Department search its paper files by completingForm PD F 1048.

Some of the bonds are engraved certificates that can beframed. Some of the bonds may be gathering dust in the atticand may be worth much more than its face value [maybe asmuch as 10 times more]. At a time such as today, whenmoney is tight, make sure that you are not holding bonds thatare no longer earning interest.

2.) Educators Out of Pocket Expense Deduction Theeducator expense deduction allows teachers and educators todeduct the cost of books, supplies, equipment, and softwarethat is utilized inside the classroom. The eligible expendi-tures include those who work at least 900 hours during aschool year as a teacher, instructor, counselor, principal or aide in a private or public elementary or secondary school.The educator expense deduction is allowed whether or notthe educator itemizes deductions on Schedule A and is avail-able up to $250.

3.) First Time Homebuyers TaxCredit - First time homebuyersshould begin planning now to takeadvantage of the new tax credit avail-able only for a limited time. The cred-it applies to a primary home purchasethat is made between April 9, 2008 and June 30, 2009. Ingeneral, this tax credit must be paid back in equal install-ments over 15 years., or earlier if the home is sold. The cred-it is 10% of the purchase price of the home, with a maximumavailable credit of $7,500 for either a single taxpayer or amarried couple filing jointly. First time homebuyers are con-sidered to be those who have not owned a home in the 3years prior to a purchase.

4.) 2009 Required Minimum Distributions [RMDs] Congress approved legislation that includes a one year sus-

pension of the required minimum distributions for the 2009income tax year. The RMDs affect taxpayers with retire-ment accounts who are age 70 and older [IRA,s 401(k)s,403(b), plans]. Note, the requirements for the 2008 incometax year did not change. The RMD is approximately 3.8% at

age 71 and increases to 8.8% by age 90. In order to permitindividuals during the 2009 income tax year to build up their retirement plans, Congress determined [In the Worker,

Retiree and Employer Recovery Act of 2008 (H.R. 7327)]that it would grant a one year waiver for the required mini-mum withdrawal requirement. Ways and Means CommitteeChairman, Charles Rangel (D-NY), stated, This relief willhelp workers and seniors safeguard their retirement savingsduring the economic crisis. While the requirement to takethe retirement withdrawal will be waived for 2009, it isexpected that the normal withdrawal rules will take place inthe year 2010.

5.) IRA Owners and Charity The federal governmentsrescue plan for banks, approved in October 2008, renewed a

provision allowing people over age 70 to donate as muchas $100,000 from their IRAs to qualified charities free of tax.The provision allows IRA owners to make such distributionsto charity in 2008 and 2009. The donation can count towardyour required minimum distribution.

6.) Cash Donations All gifts of cash now require a bank record or a receipt from the charity. Gifts over $250 requirea receipt.

7.) Payroll Deductions For these gifts, retain a payrollstub or a W-2 record to substantiate the gift made.

8.) Auto or Boats The deduction normally is the gross proceeds from the sale as reported on the IRS Form 1098-C.If the car or other vehicle is used by the charity for itsexempt purpose, then a fair market value deduction may betaken on the donation.

(If you found this information useful or have questions,contact Dwight N akata, CFP (R), CPA at 714-329-5022,

[email protected], or www.smartwealthad-vice.com.)

By Dwight Nakata

FinancialWellness

GINI GRAHAM SCOTT

JIM TRIPPON

Special to ASIA

FACT: China has overtaken Japan to become the worlds second biggest stock market by capitalization asinvestors pile into the fast-growing economy.FACT: Chinas listed companies had a market capitalization of $3,210bn as of July 15 compared with Japans

$3,200bn, according to recent Bloomberg data. This is the first time China has overtaken Japan since January 2008.What are the possible reasons for the sudden boost in China's market value past Japan?Investors are recognizing, both globally and in Japan that China is the first country coming out of global reces-

sion. It is not surprising that investors would re-deploy assets to China, which had first half 2009 GDP growthabove 7 percent, while Japan's GDP is running at almost 0 growth, year to date.

Is the run up in China's Shanghai Composite Index, mostly from hot money flowing in from foreign institu-tions?

There is old adage, when youre No. 2, you try harder. There is no doubt that Chinas economic engine is run-ning hard, on all cylinders, unlike the US's economy. The Chinese automakers are not in bankruptcy like in theUnited States. The next power rising is clearly China, and what Americans should be doing is learning that this is a

positive thing that they can profit from.Heres the latest alarmist headline from TIME Magazine: Replacing the Dollar: China's Big Plans for Its

Currency Should investors pay heed?A lot of China watchers have been mystified by Beijings complaints about the stability of the U.S. dollar. As

loud as those complaints may be, they are usually News Image followed by even more Chinese purchasing of the-greenback through bonds, T-Bills and other instruments. China is now the largest holder of U.S. dollar reserves,with its hoard of various dollar-denominated assets believed to be somewhere between $700 million and a trilliondollars. China is followed by Japan with $677 billion in bonds. Chinas ongoing buying of U.S. Treasury holdingsis good news for the US administration. But why is it still good policy for China?

The usual answer is that China would trigger a collapse of the U.S. dollar by dumping its holdings. Such amove would effectively destroy the debt-ridden economy of Chinas best customer, the United States. True enough.But now theres more at issue for the Chinese and for the U.S.

China is becoming increasingly nervous about the stability of the dollar.Zhou Xiaochuan, governor of the People's Bank of China, warned in March about Beijing's dissatisfaction with

the primacy of the US currency, which Zhou says has caused increasingly frequent global financial crises since thecollapse in 1971 of the Bretton Woods system of fixed but adjustable exchange rates.

The price is becoming increasingly high, not only for the users, but also for the issuers of the reserve curren-cies. Zhou said. In short, Zhou blamed the U.S. for the current global financial crisis.

Since then, Beijing has tinkered with various alternatives to the dollar as a reserve currency. It has called on theIMF to expand the use of so-called Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) as a new international reserve. It has alsoexpanded the convertibility of the yuan for use as a trading currency in limited areas of Asia and greater China.

All of this talk and activity hasnt changed much of anything. The yuan is still not readily convertible aroundthe world and there is little likelihood that predictions of a new global reserve currency in the shape of Chinasyuan will materialize in the foreseeable future as some have predicted. Also, the IMF has responded weakly to the

call for wider use of the SDR.So whats at the heart of this? China needs one thing above all others. The yuan must be kept relatively cheap in

order to make the nations exports affordable and attractive. Despite Chinas efforts to steer the world away fromthe dollar as a reserve currency, that hasnt worked. Beijing even attempted to cut back its dollar purchases for atime with little effect. Unable to dislodge the dollar as the world standard, China has only one other choice. It mustcontinue to support the value of the dollar in order to keep the yuan relatively cheap.

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Asian multicultural marketing 'ex- ploded' on the corporate scene in themid 1980's when Asians garnered theattention of the major telecommunica-tions companies due to their highvalue as consumers of internationalcalling services.

As telecom innovation and offersexpanded, Asian consumers remainedimportant to corporate, divisional, andregional 'bottom-lines' as tech-savvyearly adopters of technology.

In the late 1980's and early 1990's,financial services marketers begantheir first concerted steps to recognizethe potential of Asian-Americans, inorder to tap Asian market affluence,and the corresponding predispositiontowards savings and investment.

Today, the competitive media l and-scape within the financial services cat-egory in the Asian-American marketincludes most retail banks, virtually

every major insurance company, andmany brokerage firms.

By the mid-late 1990's, the automo-tive industry also 'woke up' to researchwhich highlighted that AsianAmericans are the most likely to buynew (versus used) cars, the most likelyto spend more on a car, and the mostlikely to buy luxury makes.

This propelled a wide range of Japanese, US-domestic, and Europeancar brands to develop Asian-targetedmarketing and media programs to

compete for Asian share-of-garage. In2009, financial, telecom, and automo-tive marketers remain the three mostactive categories in the AsianAmerican market that, in aggregate,account for tens of millions in annualAsian media expenditures.

Yet new, even 'first-mover,' oppor-tunities still exist for many other cate-gories.

FIRST MOVERSInterestingly, several CPG compa-

nies were first-movers and early 'top-spenders' in Hispanic marketing in thelate 1970's and early 1980's. Althoughover the years, a few brands have dab-

bled in Asian marketing with one-off 'pilot' programs or corporate brandingefforts, no major CPG company or

brand has attempted to seriously, andconsistently, stake its claim in theAsian market.

However, syndicated research con-sistently demonstrates that Asiansindex high against all other consumersfor consumption of a wide range of CPG brands within diverse categoriesincluding soap, baby products, oralcare, analgesics, bottled water, and softdrinks, to name a few.

Over the years, many studies have benchmarked Asian American comput-er use and online behavior, and theyall point to the same summary conclu-sions: Asians are more likely than allother groups (including Caucasians) tohave computers at home, more likelyto own laptops, and they are among

the most mature users of the Web with 'maturity' being defined as thenumber of years online, t he monthly,weekly, daily amount of time spentonline, and the propensity to research

products online, purchase productsonline, and conduct financial transac-tions online.

UNTAPPED OPPORTUNITYSuch research demonstrates a

strong, 'untapped' opportunity for computer hardware, software, and e-com-merce brands none of which haveyet launched any consistent Asian-tar-geted marketing and communications

programs.As largely affluent and educated

consumers, Asians are prime targetsfor the T&E category. Yet today, onlythe gaming industry and select airlineshave targeted Asians with any consis-tent presence. New opportunitiesremain for airlines, hotel chains, car rental brands, theme parks, cruiselines, vacation resorts, among others.

Luxury goods, watches, jewelry,apparel, fragrance and luggage brandmarketers in these categories alreadywell know how important Asian con-sumers in Asia are to their brandhealth and future sales growth.

Yet, many luxury brands still most-ly side-step the marketing and mediachannels in the United States, whichdirectly reach the affluent AsianAmerican segments.

Corporations savvy to Asian market

As part of their monthly events, The Indus Entrepreneurs present Data Center Energy Challenges and CloudComputing on Tuesday, Aug. 25, at t he La Jolla WomansClub. With the rising cost of energy and the ability of utilitycompanies to generate power are changing the dynamics of

data center. This requires new solutions. What decisions andalternatives are available for large enterprises? Do companiesneed to virtualize all their services? These questions and morewill be answered by panels with perspectives from VerariSystems, Sempra/SDG&E and more. To register for this panel,visit http://www.sandiego.tie.org or call 858-603-2656.

The Asian Business Association of San Diego will holdtwo events during the month of August. One is its August RiceClub Luncheon with guest speaker Koni Kim from KoniCorporation. Kim is a supplier of soft goods to the hospitalindustry and her clients include Starwood, Marriott, Hyatt,Hilton and independent resorts and hotels worldwide. Learnhow Kim built and started her company with annual revenuesexceeding $24 million. The other event is for young profes-sionals as they mix and mingle at the Pearl Hotel. For moreinformation about the ABA events, visit the website athttp://www.abasd.org.

The Cross Cultural Business Communication Workshop willhold another workshop at National University in RanchoBernardo from 7:30-10 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 17. The focus ison Japan to educate and inform business people on effective

business communication and good etiquette when interactingwith business people of other cultures. Workshop content willinclude in-person meetings, phone and written communica-tions, negotiation styles and business entertainment. Patrick Graupp, whose previous employment was Sanyo Electric Co.,is this year s speaker.

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San Diego News Network

If you ever e-mail violinist Cho-LiangLin , hell probably respond promptly.Its for self-preservation, says themusic director of La Jolla Music SocietySummerFest, which opened July 31 and con-tinues through Aug. 23. I feel that its only

polite to respond. And if I dont reply quick-ly, Ill be overwhelmed.

Lin, 49, has an international concertschedule with as many as 80 performances

per year. He teaches at New Yorks JuilliardSchool, Colorados Aspen Music Festival andSchool, and Rice Universitys ShepherdSchool of Music in Houston. The Taiwanese-

born, Houston-based virtuoso is also the cre-ative force behind SummerFest, one of thenations leading chamber music-based festi-vals.

This is Lins ninth summer as festival boss. Hes a proven maestro of multi-tasking,smoothly juggling his responsibilities asadministrator, performer, mentor and evenconcert co-host.

Despite his lofty position, hes not aloof.

To friends, colleagues, and fans, hes affec-tionately known by his nickname, Jimmy.Jimmy is a gentleman and thats all too

rare, says La Jolla Music Society presidentand artistic director Christopher Beach, whoworks closely with Lin. He is honorable anduplifting, and then you combine that with tal-ent and experience. Jimmy has played practi-cally every piece with a violin in it. Even if he hasnt played it, he still knows it. Think how easy that makes my job.

Financial challenges remain, however.Like arts events across the country,SummerFest is feeling the impact of therecession.

To save money, the 2009 festival wontinclude the Birch North Park Theatre, a jazz

program, or dance concert. National radio broadcasts are on hold. Though the perform-

ances will be recorded,funding for distribution has not yet beensecured.

The organization is strong and it isweathering the economic downtown with alot of bravery and good planning, says Lin,who greatly appreciates the Music Societysdedicated staff, board, volunteers and sup-

porters.Despite the belt-tightening, there will be

much to savor during the festivals 15 con-certs, most of which will be held at La JollasSherwood Auditorium in the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. In addition totributes to composer Felix Mendelssohn (whowas born 200 years ago) and free openrehearsals and coaching workshops, the line-up includes baroque-to-contemporary workswith participants ranging from veteran pianistMenahem Pressler and actor Michael York tocomposer/rock musician Stewart Copeland.

A FAMILY AFFAIR Many of SummerFests visiting musi-

cians, including Lin, bring their families.Thats not surprising, given the lovely LaJolla setting and San Diegos varied attrac-

tions.But dont get the wrong idea.This is not a frivolous summer vacation,

cautions Lin, who will perform in seven of the programs. I throw some very challeng-ing works at the musicians. They tackle themwith great enthusiasm. And they show upwell prepared at the first rehearsal.

Lin, his pediatrician wife Deborah, andtheir eight-year-old daughter Lara are stayingat a La Jolla estate owned by Music Societyand SummerFest supporters.

Debbie is really smart and capable, saysLin. She takes care of a lot of the homefront things, like taking Lara to SeaWorld.

Visiting SeaWorld San Diego wasnt evenan option when Lin was growing up in far-away Taiwan. He was born in Hsinchu, a col-lege town south of Taipei. His father was a

physicist, who died of cancer when Lin was11 years old. His mother was an Englishteacher.

Both loved classical music and often played recordings or the radio.

I grew up in a music-filled environmenteven though my parents were not musicians,Lin once told me.

At age five, he began lessons on a quarter-size violin. His progress was so rapid that hewon his first competition at age 11 andmoved to Australia a year later for moreadvanced training at Sydneys highly respect-ed music conservatory.

His mother gave him an unusual partinggift: The nickname Jimmy. Inspired by t en-nis player Jimmy Connors, she felt it wouldhelp her son fit in.

NOT THE LAST MOVEBut that wasnt his last big move. He went

to New York to enroll in the Juilliard School.At 15, he became a student of DorothyDeLay, one of the worlds top violin teachers,whose former pupils include Itzhak Perlman,Sarah Chang and Gil Shaham.

How did Lin learn how to attain such anexceptionally attractive violin tone?She showed me how to achieve the

sound I wanted, explains Lin, who studiedwith DeLay from the ages of 15 to 22 andlaunched his career by winning the firstQueen Sofia Violin Competition in Madrid.

She never dictated what kind of playing Ishould adapt and I give her great credit for that. Shed say Would you like to try this?See how you like it. That helped me discover my own style.

PRACTICE AND PRACTICEBy the time Lin was at Juilliard, he knew

his career would be in music.My love for the violin is very natural,

he says. I love hearing it. I love the sound of it being well played. Theres nothing like it.

As a student, Lin also discovered thevalue of hard work.

I was very focused when I practiced - butI wasnt one of those maniacal students who

practice seven or eight hours a day, recallsthe violinist who says he probably wouldhave become a historian or a commercial

pilot if he hadnt pursued music. There were

plenty of things to distract me. Thats true tothis day. Ill ask myself: Should I go playtennis or should I practice?

As a teacher, and mentor to the next gen-eration of musicians, he hopes his studentswill buckle down and practice.

Im pretty tough. I want my students todo well, he admits. Im not rough for thesake of dominating them. I dont believe inthat. But I expect all of them to come pre-

pared to every lesson.Youd be surprised sometimes they

think they can get away with not having prac-ticed. Believe me, I tried that occasionally. Ifelt so embarrassed because I played likehell. I couldnt stand it.

Now, however, Lin is a model of reliabili-ty, expertise and gracious behavior. He even

coaches students in the finer points of e-mailetiquette because he believes its not only amatter of what you say but how you say it.

Its so important how you ask people for things, he says, adding that his tactfulapproach was crucial in coaxing someimpossible-to-get musicians to come toSummerFest.

He knows so much about the playing of legendary violinists that, within five seconds,he can identify a performance by Milstein or Perlman, Heifetz or Kreisler. And his vastexperience adds depth to his teaching.

After all, he has performed with major orchestras, made more than 20 recordings,founded the Taipei International MusicFestival in 1997 (Taiwans first major musicfest), and now serves as SummerFests guid-ing star.

Jimmy Lin:Jimmy Lin:GentlemanGentlemanInnovator Innovator

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Its a privilege. Onany given night, Ican stand before athousand people andplay the Beethoven

Violin Concerto,says Cho-Liang Lin.

Photo by Paul Body

Join the Moolelo Performing Arts Company for a sneak preview of their upcomingshow 9 Parts of Desire on Wednesday, August 19 at 5:30 p.m. at the 10th Avenue Theatrein Downtown San Diego. The event will include reading of excerpts from the play and anopportunity to meet the cast. Its free, but RSVP early, its on a first-come-first-served. Therewill be drinks and vittles. Space is limited so call [email protected] or call 619-342-7395.

This year, the East West Players has much to offer for their 44th Anniversary Season.They will kick off its season with One Night Only: Thats Sooo Vegas as part of a benefitfundraiser. Directed by Marilyn Tokuda with musical direction by Nathan Wang, this benefit

performance presents a Las Vegas variety show without the hassle of driving out to the desert.The event will take place on Saturday, August 15 at the David Henry Hwang Theater at theUnion Center for Arts. For more information on tickets, contact Lisa at ltang@eastwestplay-

ers.org or call 213-625-7000 x17.Art is is the theme as they present Art by Yasmina Reza and translated by

Christopher Hampton, Po Boy Tango by Kenneth Lin, Les Thomas Cave Quest and,

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Road to Saigon developed and directed by JonLawrence Rivera. "Our season theme Art Is...,allows our audience to explore the various mediumsthat art exists in our lives and to appreciate the artas a means of expression. There is an artisticexpression in the clothes we choose to wear, the car we drive, the destination we vacation in,the food we prepare and the music we like to listen. EWPs Anniversary Season emphasizesthe major presence and value of art. For more on the shows and tickets, visit their site atwww.EastWestPlayers.org.

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ACTIVITY LINKED TO MASS EXTINCTION

A mass extinction 260 million years ago may have been caused by volcanic eruptions in what

is now China, new research suggests. What is known as the Guadalupian mass extinction,which devastated marine life around the world, was preceded by huge eruptions in SouthwestChina, researchers have reported in the journal Science. The infusion of hot lava into the seawould have produced immense clouds that could have cooled the planet and produced acidrain, said the scientists, a group led by Paul Wignall of the University of Leeds in Britain.

China's environment ministryhas suspended construction of

two dams on a tributary of the Yangtze River. The projects on the Jinsha River had been begun without environmental assessments or approval from the ministry, officials told ChinaDaily. The dams are part of a series of eight power stations planned for the Jinsha. The $30

billion project has been criticized by conservationists, who say it will damage the region'senvironment and biodiversity. The power stations are expected to generate as much electric-ity as the controversial Three Gorges Dam - about 20 gigawatts. The series of hydro-electricstations is planned for a 350 mile stretch of the Jinsha River in south-west China's Yunnan

province.

An ambitious plan to createa modern Silk Route of

roads and railways linking East Asia with Europe has made its first substantial progress. Aseemingly obscure agreement on traffic rights between Vietnam, Laos and Thailand nowallows trucks to travel the three countries without having to unload cargo at border crossingsfor trans-shipment. Thanh Nien News reports that this measure will cut costs and time for regional trade and is expected to have far-reaching consequences for the region's trade. Theformal opening of the East-West Corridor is part of a regional plan to break down barriers at

borders across mainland South-East Asia, and later, beyond. Ceremonies were held recentlyat the two major border gates along the East-West Economic Corridor: between Lao Bao inVietnam and Dansavanh in Laos, and between Savannakhet in Laos and Mukdahan inThailand. The corridor - an upgraded highway with the transit agreements in place - runsfrom Danang, Vietnam, through Savannakhet, or Laos, and into Thailand. Shipments previ-ously needed to be unloaded and re-loaded in Lao territory.

Fossils recently discovered inMyanmar could prove that the

common ancestors of humans, monkeys and apes evolved from primates in Asia, rather thanAfrica. According to the Associated Press, the pieces of a 38-millon-year-old jawbones andteeth found near Bagan in central Myanmar in 2005 show typical characteristics of primates,said Dr. Chris Beard, a paleontologist at the Carnegie Museum and a member of the team thatfound the fossils. Dr. Beard and his team concluded that the fossils which they dubbedGanlea megacanina came from 10 to 15 individuals of a new species that belonged to anextinct family of Asian anthropoid primates known as Amphipithecidae.Indias Parliament recently elected its first female speaker, the daughter of a former deputy

prime minister and a Dalit, a member of Indias lowest caste. The New York Times reportsthat Meira Kumar, 64, was elected unopposed and immediately assumed her post. Shereplaced Somnath Chaterjee, a member of the Brahmin caste, Indias highest. Ms. Kumar has

been elected to Parliament five times and has also served as social justice minister. Her elec-tion is seen as a political move that is likely to bolster the Congress Party.

India has launched its firstnuclear-powered submarine,

becoming only the sixth country in the world to do so. The 6,000 ton Arihant was launched by India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at a ceremony on the southeast coast. It was builtentirely in India with Russian assistance and a second one is due to be constructed shortly. Itwill undergo trials over the next few years before being deployed and will be able to launchmissiles at targets 437 miles away. Until now, only the United States, Russia, France, Britainand China had the capability to build nuclear submarines. Launching the Arihant, Singhsaid India had no aggressive designs on anyone. But the sea was becoming increasingly rel-evant to India's security concerns, he added. The BBC reports that until now India has beenable to launch ballistic missiles only from the air and from land. Nuclear submarines will adda third dimension to its defense capability, adding that the launching of the Arihant is aclear sign that India is looking to blunt the threat from China which has a major naval pres-ence in the region.

A team of international expertswill translate the essential books

of Confucianism studies, Five Classics or Wujing, into nine foreign languages. The five books are: Yijing (Classic of Changes), Shijing (Classic of Poetry), Liji (Classic of Rites),Shujing (Classic of History) and Chunqiu (Spring and Autumn Annals). The last one is saidto be written by Confucius himself. Until now, there have been no comprehensive foreignlanguage translations of these books. Experts said only parts of the work had been translatedinto French, English and German, but these versions were dated and scarce outside profes-sional libraries of Chinese culture. The translation committee consists of more than 30exp

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