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Date: Sat, 05 Jul 1997 00:19:03 +0800 From: USER To: sgiameechoo Subject: Congratulations!	Hello from Hong Kong! Thank you for producing this wonderful homepage with all the fabulous pictures and links. I am very impressed! Keep going! How are the activities in SGI-A going by the way? I myself had a great time visiting Sydney and the cultural centre in Hornsby in March 1996. I hope to return again. Take care. Elsie Fung
From: "Boss, Maggie" To: "'sgiameechoo'" Subject: SGI-USA Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 18:28:29 -0400	It's is always so encouraging to find new websites pertaining to SGI activities around the world. Thank you. I just wanted to advise of a change that should go under Culture Centers and Publications. SGI-USA The Seikyo Times is now called "Living Buddhism" Also there are many community centers and culture centers throughout the U.S. For example Chicago has had a Culture Center for over 5 years now. I'm not sure how often you get to update this information and you may already know all this information in which case I do apologize. Thanks again for all your efforts. Maggie Boss
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 16:22:03 +0800 From: cKbe To: sgiameechoo Subject: hello!!	hi I have just visited ur homepage :o very nice good effort !! I am a YMD from Singapore member. Nice to meet u here :o) have u think before to run a mailing list for the SGI??? I am thinking about it but I am very new about it.... do u know how to run it?? or may be we can do it together?? :o) b4 we come to this stage, may be we need to know each other better. May be do u do chatting in IRC?? or u have ICQ no.??? if yes please let me know... I am keen to get in touch with u in REAL TIME chatting :o) Please email me! I am looking for ur reply!! thanks!!! yours cKbe
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 15:12:59 -0800 From: John Seal Reply-To: bud.cc.swin.edu.au To: sgiameechoo Subject: Web Page	Thankyou for the first web page I've read about SGIA. What a pleasure!! I think the graphics of our centres can be improved. Maybe we can start up an offical web page which SGIA has yet to get off the ground to date. Sincerely John Seal YMD Coorindator Carlton District
From: BVIRANI Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 01:12:22 EST To: sgiameechoo Subject: Your website for SGI Australia	GREETINGS FROM AN SGI Los Angeles member!!! This is a great website! I'm going to share it with my members now. We tried to access it after our district meeting the other day, but it failed to transmit. I decided to try again today, and it popped up! You've done a beautiful job. Hopefully someone here will start a local website soon. I'm sure you know a lot of addresses. If you'd like to know any websites in US, just let me know. I have a small list, all with links. I am a Women's Division District Leader in Diamond District. Our current campaign is a Global Family Festival performed and created by our Youth Division on March 14 & 15, commemorating March 16, 1958. It also commemorates the 5th anniversary of our receiving of Sensei's poem "The Sun of Jiyu over a New Land" which he gave to us following riots in our city. The performance will be a Multi-Media production with acting, dancing, moving video backdrops, slides, live & taped music. We have five Regions in our greater Los Angeles SGI, and each will do one act, all tied together. We're going "all out" to really support this activity as a great impetus toward the future of SGI-USA, the headquarters of which is in our city. This weekend our Region (Region 1) had a great "retreat" at an old time Hollywood era hotel. We had the whole hotel, and there were about 250 of us (I think), all district leaders and "up" were invited. We discussed current affairs in L.A. SGI, How to encourage youth, How to deal with the Temple issue, Proper Gongyo, and many many other things. It was very refreshing. We saw many old friends from even 20 years ago, and in the evening we had a DJ in the small "ballroom" and everyone rocked out!! Classy latin dancers with small Japanese pioneer members with shy young men's division with their exuberant compadres with crazy hiphoppers and so on. It was very much fun till 1:30 AM. We met again at 9 AM for Q& A and Open Mic. We also discussed the land use hearing for Soka University which will take place on February 5th in San Diego. The California State Coastal Commission must give final approval and we have a lot of oppositional Sansho Shima. We have been battling this for a longtime. Please send Daimoku over to San Diego on that day! Would it be your Feb 4th??? Supporters of Soka will attend the hearing to speak, in order to show the support of the community. I'm sure we will win in the end. This is a discussion of the original site in Los Angeles County, which has been greatly opposed by various factions. It is now being used as a graduate school and is currently affiliated with Harvard University in Boston. It's a most interesting story, however, because of this opposition, another city actually requested Soka University of America full undergraduate school to be built there (an hour and a half away drive-time) because they recognized the great value to their community. Grading is now being done and we're very excited. In the meantime, we need Daimoku for Feb 5. Our YWD MC called the Hotel Manager to the stage when we were finished, and we gave him a standing ovation for a wonderful time. He looked very sincerely appreciative and said that he had never experienced such a pleasant event in his 14 years at the hotel and insisted that it was really true. I believe he was definitely touched by the life of our organization, as he observed all of our activities and had a very seeking mind as to what we were about. We all hope you're enjoying yourself "Down Under"!!! I visited Sydney in 1987 with my family for a few days on holiday and I found it so charming!!! I hope to come back someday! My daughter's college roommate is on the US National Women's Soccer Team and she's hoping to go to the Olympics in Sydney. She's only 19, but she is fantastic in the sport. GREETINGS TO ALL OF YOU!!! Encourage us with your mail message and we'll put it up on our Community Center Bulletin Board FOR EVERYONE TO SEE!! Our community center is the largest in LA. We have 2 buildings, one of which the main room holds about 320 persons and the other about half that. We're very fortunate to have it. It's called the SGI San Fernando Valley Community Center. Come and see it!!! THE BEST TO YOU ALL!! Sincerely, BETH VIRANI Best regards, BETH VIRANI
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 21:12:55 -0500 From: Tito To: sgiameechoo Subject: Hello	What a beautiful web page you have. I really have to comment on it. I was very educated from viewing your page. Take care... Tito
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 17:18:39 +0100 From: "K. A. MEYERS, M.Ed., M.H.R." To: sgiameechoo Subject: Hi to everyone from Germany!	Thank you for your website in English, Mee Choo! Though we have not many English-speaking members here, I for one enjoy learning from all those great websites out there. It really does give everyone WORLDWIDE access to study material for those who may not find groups in foreign countries who speak their language. So, multilingual SGI sites and www access IS very important. Like global, eh? Katie =B:)
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 19:49:24 -0400 From: "CHRISTINE A LOCKE" To: sgiameechoo Subject:	My friend who is from australia thinks your chanting sounds on the webpage are very cute. He has been chanting 1 year and I have been chanting15 years in Manhattan. Thank-you. Your web page is very encouraging andrefreshing.

I was away between December 1998 to January 2000, So I can't up date anything yet. My new