'We Have a Deep Reverence for Chinese Culture' From Epoch Times January afternoon, 20 people traveled from Wisconsin to Illinois to enjoy the Chinese New Year Spectacular at Chicago's Arie Crown Theater on Saturday night. Lucy Buchholz, a teacher, and her husband Ken, an engineer, decided to make the trip since they visited Chinatown last year for the Chinese New Year. Although she doesn't usually celebrate Chinese New Year, she found herself celebrating it with two different groups. "I told my parents that I wanted to come and see the show again as I...

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East Meets North: Annual Japan Festival in Iceland From IcelandReview The Japanese Studies course was first offered as a one-year university program in fall 2003, the first in Iceland focusing on an Asian country. After two years of study in Iceland, participants can spend their third year in Japan and earn their graduate degree. If nothing is done to increase the number of general practitioners in Reykjav k and neighboring towns, residents may face a severe shortage of doctors in ten or 15 years when nearly 80 GPs retire. President of Iceland Olafur Ragnar...

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Aikido with Target Focus Training:Martial Artists Argue From ymarsakar.wordpress.com There was an interesting forum thread I came across, concerning Target Focus Training and Aikido. Check it out, since it's an interesting comparison between those that have attended TFT seminar live training and those that haven't, but are practicing martial arts. If you are not used to that and do not practice this way then well your training situation is too different from what might actually happen. Techniques are learned through practice, and competition sport techniques are learned...

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Aikido Lessons In Pattaya | Jil in Pattaya From virtualreview.org/thailand Epril and I are taking a series of Aikido martial arts classes with our friend Geordan Reynolds at the martial arts center in Mike Shopping Mall, 4th floor. A People Power party (PPP) MP submitted a letter to House Speaker Yongyuth Tiyapairat, requesting him to ask Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont to lift martial law in Chiang Mai.

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Chris Moses’ class From aikiinseattle.wordpress.com On Friday, a bunch of us went to a special class taught by Chris Moses at Seattle School of Aikido. Chris has a nidan in aikido (he trained at my dojo which is how I know him), but has since transitioned to a practice based on the teachings of Akuzawa Sensei. It is one that aims to teach the body to structure itself in such a way that techniques work not so much because of the energy of the interaction, but from the way the body is positioned and aligned with respect to itself and to uke....

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