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BOOKS: Fusion Entrepreneurs: Cross-Cultural Execs & Companies Revolutionizing the Global Economy by Edward Iwata

 

Updated Sept. 2012:  Fusion Entrepreneurs: Cross-Cultural Execs & Companies Revolutionizing the Global Economy, a new e-book by award-winning American journalist Edward Iwata, can be found at Amazon's Kindle Store, Apple's iTunes and iBookstore, Barnes & Noble, Diesel eBookStore, Kobo, Mark Coker's Smashwords, the Sony Reader Store, and other e-book retail and library channels.*  Fusion Entrepreneurs is distributed by Smashwords, an independent e-book distributor in Silicon Valley.  Thank you for reading and supporting all digital and traditional authors, bookstores, and publishers.  Readers keep our craft alive.  

 

(Cover art by Edel Rodriguez, an acclaimed Cuban American artist/illustrator whose work can be found in the Smithsonian Institution, private galleries, the New Yorker, Time magazine and the New York Times.)

 

* Note:  If you're new to e-books, ideally you'll need an e-reader device or tablet (an Amazon Kindle, a Barnes & Noble Nook, an Apple iPad, etc.) from your favorite e-book retailer. Or you can download free reading "apps" (small software applications) from the stores right into most laptops, desktop computers, and mobile devices.  This will let you read e-books bought from those stores.  Like anything else, this is only confusing the first time for non-techies.  After you get hooked, it's smooth as butter.

 

Lot of Chi Energy in the House: Kung Fu Magazine Celebrates 20th Anniversary

 

Kung Fu Magazine's 20th anniversary celebration last weekend in San Jose, California, U.S.A. Promotional video courtesy of Kung Fu Magazine and publisher Gigi Oh, on YouTube.

 

INSPIRING GATHERING OF martial-arts grandmasters and masters at Kung Fu Magazine's 20th anniversary tournament and banquet last weekend in San Jose, California, U.S.A. Amazing demonstrations by elderly grandmasters from Asia, by San Francisco-based Shaolin monks, by film stars from Chinese kung fu movies, by U.S.-based champions, and by the Tu Family and young Jack Tu, a disciple of global box-office superstar Jackie Chan. Don't try the "iron crotch" trick at home, kiddies. For MMA fans in America, San Jose-based fighting legend Cung Le also attended the dinner. Powerful chi energy in the banquet hall, that's for sure. Congrats to Kung Fu Magazine publisher Gigi Oh. Attended as a guest of longtime friend Effie Chow, a qi gong master and holistic health pioneer at the East West Academy of Healing Arts, who helped to get acupuncture licensed in California in the 1970s.

 

 

Perfomance by the Tu Family at Kung Fu Magazine's 20th anniversary dinner. Video courtesy of the Tu Family.

 

Disclosure: This blogger has no financial or business ties to Kung Fu Magazine, the East West Academy of Healing Arts, or their related enterprises.

 

Classic World Music: Earth Wind and Fire's "Devotion" Crosses Time, Space, Borders

 

 

Here's a live version of "Devotion" by world music masters Earth, Wind & Fire, performed in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, years ago.  "Devotion," by EWF and Sony Music Entertainment Group, can be purchased on Google Play, AmazonMP3 and iTunes.  (For hardcore fans, the classic U.S. concert version of "Devotion" is here on YouTube.) 

 

ONE OF THE all-time great global cross-over bands, Earth Wind and Fire has fused funk, soul, jazz, and rock from the 1970s to the present.  Founded by Maurice White half-a-century ago, EWF's world music crosses time, space, distance to uplift listeners, to "open all life's treasures."  Countless performing artists, from jazz legend Miles Davis to pop star Justin Timberlake, have been influenced by the band.  Even the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.  The Obamas and Romneys should jam to EWF on the campaign trail.  C'mon, you know you wanna see that.  Happy Weekend.