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Why Everyone Has a Claim to the American
Dream
Last year, I spent the Fourth of July watching
fireworks over the Washington Monument from
a roof deck overlooking the Potomac River in
Washington, DC.
This year I'll be in Beijing, watching distant
broadcasts of the United States' Independence Day
celebration on CCTV, or perhaps the Asian
News Network.
I had hoped to set off sparklers from my balcony, but colleagues
told me that do-it-yourself pyrotechnics are now illegal in
Beijing, except during the annual Spring Festival.
To be honest, I hadn't spent much time thinking about what the
holiday means, what America means, until I
left home.
Now, with some distance, these questions seem more interesting.
The Fourth of July commemorates the signing of the "Declaration
of Independence" in 1776, when the United States renounced its
colonial ties with Great Britain. (More)
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Beautiful Touch-Down
In a white T-shirt and black pants, the 24-year old beauty smiled
to local media and said she loved the beauty of the
HCMC Post Office and Vietnamese noodles,
especially Pho 24, a well-known chain of noodle
soup restaurants.
This is Zhang’s second trip to Vietnam.
The first was a year and a half ago, before she won the crown.
Zhang, accompanied by Miss World Organization’s Chairwoman
and President Julia Morley and the first runner-up
to Miss Vietnam Global, Teresa Sam, is expected
to do a series of charity events sponsored by U.S.-based
blood product producer RAAS Group during her
trip. (More)
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Buddhist Lent/Khao Phansa
The Buddhist Lent, which starts on the first day of the
waning moon of the eighth lunar month. The tradition of
Buddhist Lent or the annual three-month
Rains Retreat known in Thai as "Phansa"
dates back to the time of early Buddhism
in ancient India, all holy men, mendicants
and sages spent three months of the annual rainy season
in permanent dwellings. They avoided unnecessary travel
during the period when crops were still new for fear they
might accidentally step on young plants. In deference
to popular opinion, Lord Buddha decreed
that his followers should also abide by this ancient tradition,
and thus began to gather in-groups of simple dwellings.
Join Phansa Ceremony at Wat Pa of Arizona
14911 E. Chandler Heights Rd. Chandler, AZ 85249
Sunday, July 13th, 2008
9:00AM - Special Buddhist Chanting by Monks
9:30AM - Food Offering to Monks
12:00PM - Make Merit and Offer Donation (a suggestion of $100, which
will be used for building a temple hall)
- Abbot Tawan Panyawachiro gives sermon
- Blessing from Monks
So, We Invite Everyone to Join Us on This
Special Occasion
"One Who is Grateful and Appreciative is a Sign of a Good Person"
"Making Merit Brings Much Happiness in the Present and in the Future"
May Everyone be Happy, Healthy, Prosperous and Safe
Wat Pa of Arizona (480)718-9739 WWW.WATAZ.ORG
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Palee's Crown
1245 W. Baseline Road, #101
Mesa, AZ 85202
480-413-9956
Palee’s Crown in Mesa offers an extensive selection of authentic
Thai cuisine that is light, fresh, and traditional. The menu
includes Thai curries, noodle and rice dishes, and house specialties,
often offered with a choice of chicken, pork, seafood, tofu,
or vegetables. While the menu is extensive, every dish is prepared
well, proving that the kitchen is skilled in crafting intricate
and harmonious presentations of taste and flavor.
If you're looking for great Thai food in a relaxed setting,
try them out. www.paleecrown.com.
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 • 10 Acres of Land (Splitable) for
Sale by Owner in Queen Creek, AZ.
• It's next to Johnson Ranch homes and
Wal-Mart Supercenter near Hunt Hwy.
• Queen Creek is a community with high
education levels, spending power and expectations.
High quality standards for construction are
preserving home values and ensuring that Queen
Creek will continue to be a good investment.
Listing Price: $510,000 for 5 Acres, Corner
Lot
Listing Price: $839,000 for all 10 Acres
If interested, please send inquiry to: kp1@kpcentral.com
or call 480-201-6073. (Click for
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|  Multiethnic
Internet Study on Menopausal Symptoms (MOMS)
Eun-Ok Im, MPH, PhD, School of Nursing, University of Texas
at Austin and her colleagues are conducting an Internet study
on menopausal symptom experience among diverse
ethnic groups of middle-aged women. In the study, Internet
survey and online forums using a Web site (home-page) will
be conducted to get information on women's symptom experience
during the menopausal transition.
You can participate in this study if you're middle aged women aged 40 to 60 years who can read and write English and whose self-reported ethnic identity is Hispanic, non-Hispanic (N-H) White, N-H African-American, or N-H Asian.
Reimbursement for participation will be made by providing
a gift certificate of 10 dollars per Internet
survey participant upon the completion of the survey and a
gift certificate of 50 dollars per online
forum participant upon the completion of the forum for 6 months.
To get reimbursed for the online forums, at least two messages
per topic should be posted. (More
Details)
 Volunteer
Match
At VolunteerMatch, we firmly believe that people like to help
each other. In fact, we're so confident in this belief that
we've made it our mission to help everyone find a great place
to volunteer. (More)
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 A
Reason to Breathe
Julie Henderson barely has time to breathe.
She spends 32 hours a week in class and clinical settings as
a student at the Mount Carmel College of Nursing.
She puts in another 24 hours as a nursing aide at Mount Carmel
St. Ann's hospital. Henderson has to study, too.
And the 32-year-old Hilliard woman is the mother
of two boys, ages 2 and 4. So she picked up something that forces
her to breathe. She discovered Buddhism.
"It just gives me a calm and peacefulness," she said. "A confidence
in knowing I'm doing what is right." Nearly three of four American
Buddhists are converts to the religion, according to
the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.
The Buddhism boom started in the 1960s, when people questioned
traditional sources of authority and looked to new places to
make meaning of life ... (More) |
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 The
Benefits of Meditation
• Free from Stress
• Become Emotionally Balanced
• Heal Emotional and Physical Pain
• Improve Mental Clarity
• Improve Concentration
• Become Less Judgmental
• Overcome Your Fear
• Cultivate Kindness & Compassion
• Experience True Joy & Happiness
Imagine living without stress - Life without worry, anxiety or conflict. Every moment is full of awareness, joy and happiness.
No, this is not a commercial for you to join a cult nor are we giving out sample drugs to deal with stress.
This is about examining stress itself. What is the cause of it and how can we stop it from occurring? Some argue that stress is necessary or a norm. In actuality, it isn’t. Once we go to the source of stress and eliminate the cause, it no longer arises.
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 Tamarine Wants Wimbledon Success to Lay Foundations for Asian Tennis
Thailand's Tamarine Tanasugarn hopes her
historic run to the Wimbledon quarter-finals
will help encourage Asian governments to
put more money into developing young tennis players.
Tamarine, 31, became the first Thai to reach
the last eight of a Grand Slam this week
and, although her run ended with a 6-4, 6-3 defeat to Venus
Williams on Tuesday, she is determined to use her
increased profile to make a difference to the sport in Asia.
With Zheng Jie through to the Wimbledon semi-finals
- the first time a Chinese player has gone
that far at a Grand Slam - Asian tennis appears to be on the
up.
But Tamarine, who now lives in Los Angeles,
believes more investment is needed in the region if Asia is
to produce top stars.
"I hope because I'm doing well the regions start to take more interest in tennis," she said.
"Maybe 15 years ago I don't think they really knew about tennis professionals. We're better with kickboxing.
"I hope it's good for Asians to prove we can do well. With
Paradorn Schrichapan and me doing well, the
regions have started to realise we have this kind of sport.
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Risk of Dying Linked to Low Vitamin D
A new study shows that people who have low levels of vitamin D in their blood had a greater risk of dying.
Researchers led by Harald Dobnig, MD, of the
Medical University of Graz, Austria, tracked
3,258 men and women who had been referred for an angiogram of
their heart arteries. More than two-thirds had significant blockages
in their coronary arteries.
The patients were followed for about eight years. During that time, 737 of them died, including 463 from cardiovascular problems.
Researchers found that people with the lowest levels of vitamin
D in their blood had the highest chances of dying.
Although chances of dying due to heart disease rose with decreasing
levels of vitamin D, dying from other causes was more likely,
too. Patients with little coronary artery disease were still
much more likely to die during follow-up if they had low vitamin
D levels.
It's not yet known whether low levels of vitamin D can trigger death from heart disease. Researchers say intervention trials using vitamin D could help establish if there is a casual relationship.
In an article accompanying the research, the researchers report that on average both older and younger people around the world may not be getting enough vitamin D.
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Miss Chinese Environmental Contest
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When: Friday, July 4, 2008 @ 4:00p
Where: Phoenix Preparatory Academy, Phoenix, AZ
Contest begins at 5:30 p.m.
Price: $6 includes dinner
Phone: (602) 321-1898
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Chinese community celebrates the fourth of July and a Miss Chinese Environmental contest with dinner.
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