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What are you looking for July 4th sales?

With the financial pain of soaring gasoline prices and groceries, retail stores will be cutting prices on food and beverages to cushion the crisis faced by the people since past few months. Since it's the time for Americans to celebrate Independence day in a couple of days, it is for sure that gas prices will impace how they do it. Rather than going for a traditional Fourth of July trip to beaches and amusement parks, people plan to either barbecue or attend a cookout, go to fireworks display, or view a parade during the holiday. How are you planning to celebrate July 4?

(courtesy: National Retail Federation)

The Power of Determination

Glenn Cunningham's Story

The little country schoolhouse was heated by an old-fashioned,
pot-bellied coal stove. A little boy had the job of coming to school
early each day to start the fire and warm the room before his teacher
and his classmates arrived.

One morning they arrived to find the schoolhouse engulfed in flames.
They dragged the unconscious little boy out of the flaming building
more dead than alive. He had major burns over the lower half of his
body and was taken to a nearby county hospital.
From his bed the dreadfully burned, semi-conscious little boy faintly
heard the doctor talking to his mother. The doctor told his mother
that her son would surely die - which was for the best, really - for
the terrible fire had devastated the lower half of his body.

But the brave boy didn't want to die. He made up his mind that he
would survive. Somehow, to the amazement of the physician, he did
survive. When the mortal danger was past, he again heard the doctor
and his mother speaking quietly. The mother was told that since the
fire had destroyed so much flesh in the lower part of his body, it
would almost be better if he had died, since he was doomed to be a
lifetime cripple with no use at all of his lower limbs.

Once more the brave boy made up his mind. He would not be a cripple.
He would walk. But unfortunately from the waist down, he had no motor
ability. His thin legs just dangled there, all but lifeless. Ultimately
he was released from the hospital. Every day his mother would massage
his little legs, but there was no feeling, no control, nothing. Yet his determination that he would walk was as strong as ever.

When he wasn't in bed, he was confined to a wheelchair. One sunny day
his mother wheeled him out into the yard to get some fresh air. This
day, instead of sitting there, he threw himself from the chair. He
pulled himself across the grass, dragging his legs behind him.

He worked his way to the white picket fence bordering their lot. With
great effort, he raised himself up on the fence. Then, stake by stake,
he began dragging himself along the fence, resolved that he would
walk. He started to do this every day until he wore a smooth path all
around the yard beside the fence. There was nothing he wanted more
than to develop life in those legs.

Ultimately through his daily massages, his iron persistence and his
resolute determination, he did develop the ability to stand up, then
to walk haltingly, then to walk by himself - and then - to run.
He began to walk to school, then to run to school, to run for the
sheer joy of running. Later in college he made the track team.
Still later in Madison Square Garden this young man who was not
expected to survive, who would surely never walk, who could never hope
to run - this determined young man, Dr. Glenn Cunningham, ran the
world's fastest mile!
(courtsey: Burt Dubin)

Unforgettable Tour 2008

When I first heard about the Unforgettable Tour of 2008 by the superstars of India, I was so excited to see them in a concert. What is making people more excited is the fact that former Miss World and new member of Bachan family, Mrs. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan will also join her husband ,Abhishek Bachchan and father-in-law, Amitabh Bachchan for the first time on a world tour starting in Toronto on 18th July 2008. The Tour will also feature Bollywood heart throb Preity Zinta, funny man Riteish Deshmukh, the superhit music director duo Vishal and Shekar, specialized Indian dancer in jazz and choreographer Shiamak Davar, and one of the most popular starts of Bollywood Akshay Kumar.

Dates of the show:
18th July - Toronto - FRIDAY
26th July - Los Angeles
27th July - San Fransisco
02nd Aug - Houston
09th Aug - Atlantic City
15th Aug - New York - FRIDAY
17th Aug - Vancouver - SUNDAY
23rd Aug - London (UK)
24th Aug - London (UK)


Buy tickets at--

https://www.desiclub.com/shop/cart/ticket_purchase.cfm?eventID=4660&CFID=20867210&CFTOKEN=44103312