Advisory Board: Governor Kenny Guinn, Chairman; U. S. Senators Harry Reid and John Ensign, Vice Chairmen; U. S. Representatives James Gibbons and Shelley Berkley, and Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman, Executive Directors.
U. S. Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao
Chairperson
Dr. Tony T. Lei
President
District Judges Mark Denton and Valorie Vega
Vice Presidents
Dr. William N. Thompson
Director of Public Administration Institution
Dr. E. Lee Bernick and Dr. G. Keong Leong
Deans of Graduate School of Business and Public Administration
Dr. Sue Fawn Chung
Director of Culture Institution
Justice of the Supreme Court William Maupin, Attorney General Brian Sandoval, and District Judge Stewart Bell, Honorary Chairmen of Clark County District Attorney and Police Civil Commission (CCDAPCC)
District Attorney David Roger and Clark County Sheriff Bill Young
Chairmen of CCDAPCC
(702) 255-9058
*It's our pleasure to pay a tribute to the above officials who dedicate to the civic and community service spects of our organization in an honorary or adjunct capacity.

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Kairos Prayer Letter
By Samuel Lee*1

"Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your request to God." Phillippians 4:6

1. Rev. George Olson, former Chairman of the Kairos Board officially retired during the March Kairos Board meeting. For 20 years, Rev. Olson has faithfully been involved in the planning, development & fundraising of the Kairos ministry. We offer our sincere gratitude and appreciation to Rev. Olson for the love given to and the sacrifices he has made to Kairos. May God continue to watch over Rev. and Mrs. Olson in their retirement years & bless them with good health.*2

2. The new Chairperson of the Kairos Board is Mrs. Susan Chen. We are thankful to Mrs. Chen who has been faithfully supporting Kairos ministry in the past. We appreciate her willingness to take up this important responsibility as Chairperson of the Board. Here, we would also like to thank all of our past and present Board members for their love for the Lord and Kairos.

3. For those of you who listen to our monthly Melody of Life cassettes/cds---you will remember the mini dramas we sometimes have in the programs. The various characters in the mini dramas were voices of many volunteers. We thank them for sacrificing their precious time for this ministry. They are such a blessing and encouragement to us.

4. We are also thankful for all the volunteers who come monthly to help package and mail out our Melody of Life casettees/cds. We especially want to thank Mrs. Carol Chao (wife of General Secretary Emiritus, Rev. David Chao) who leads a group of volunteers each month. We hope that you can help introduce these cassettes/cds to your friends so that more listeners can benefit from them. It takes great effort to produce 8 devotional messages each month to meet the spiritual needs of listeners of varied backgrounds. We thank God for the talent He gave to Ms. Liu in producing these programs. Please continue to uphold her in your prayers.

5. In our Feb newsletter, we mentioned that 88 churches in Singapore will be receiving our Gospel materials. We have received word that many of the churches have already received the materials. Please continue to pray that more Chinese Christians in China and all over the world will benefit from our Gospel materials.

6. Thank you for remembering our Bible Study Video ministry. The special planning committee has completed a proposed plan of action to proceed with the project. May God give us strength, faith and courage as we face difficult challenges ahead.*3

You are welcome to contact me at:
P.O. Box 7569, Alhambra, CA 91802USA ; Ph (626) 282-8470; Fax (626) 282-8498;
E-mail: samuell@kairos-usa.org; web: www.kairos-usa.org

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References

*1. Rev. Samuel Lee of Kairos.
*2. Lee, Samuel. 'Kairos Prayer Letter,' "An e-mail from Kairos to Mrs. Judy Lei," (May 12, 2004), Alhambra, CA.: Kairos.
*3. Ibid.

Advisory Board: Governor Kenny Guinn, Chairman; U. S. Senators Harry Reid and John Ensign, Vice Chairmen; U. S. Representatives James Gibbons and Shelley Berkley, and Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman, Executive Directors.
U. S. Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao
Chairperson
Dr. Tony T. Lei
President
District Judges Mark Denton and Valorie Vega
Vice Presidents
Dr. William N. Thompson
Director of Public Administration Institution
Dr. E. Lee Bernick and Dr. G. Keong Leong
Deans of Graduate School of Business and Public Administration
Dr. Sue Fawn Chung
Director of Culture Institution
Justice of the Supreme Court William Maupin, Attorney General Brian Sandoval, and District Judge Stewart Bell, Honorary Chairmen of Clark County District Attorney and Police Civil Commission (CCDAPCC)
District Attorney David Roger and Clark County Sheriff Bill Young
Chairmen of CCDAPCC
(702) 255-9058
*It's our pleasure to pay a tribute to the above officials who dedicate to the civic and community service spects of our organization in an honorary or adjunct capacity.

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A fortunate tour of events --- Entrepreneur built success helping others find their way
By Chris Jones and LVRJ*1

In order to promote both the business and tourism for Nevada and foreign countries, Graduate School of Business and Technology Institute (GSBPA) of Washington Business and Technology Institute (WBTI) post the following report through the courtesy of Las Vegas Review-Journal on May 12, 2004:

Wednesday, May 12, 2004
Copyright @ Las Vegas Review-Journal

A fortunate tour of events
Entrepreneur built success helping others find their way

By CHRIS JONES
GAMING WIRE

***Elsa Patterson, right, and her daughter, Jennifer Patterson, stand Thursday inside McCarran International Airport. The two work for J&J Tours out of Las Vegas, a company handling everything from ground transportation and hotel reservations to show tickets.
Photo by John Locher.(Plese check the photo with LVRJ.)

***Ximena Ledezma, left, and Paola Vargas of Mexicana Airlines/OnVisa check in travelers from Mexico on Thursday in terminal 2 at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas.
Photo by John Locher.(Plese check the photo with LVRJ.)

Millions of tourists come to Las Vegas each year hoping to find their fortunes in a casino.*2

Elsa Patterson instead found hers ensuring that many of those guests made it aboard the correct bus on their way out of the airport.

For the past 12 years, Patterson has owned and operated J&J Tours, a Las Vegas-based tour company whose seven employees handle everything from ground transportation and hotel reservations to show tickets and expert advice for Spanish-speaking travelers.

Patterson's company initially served a handful of visitors each week, but as Las Vegas has grown in popularity among Latino travelers, so has her business. These days, J&J services approximately 35,000 to 40,000 visitors each year, most from Mexico or Central and South America nations.

"I came to the right place at the right moment," Patterson said of her company's growth. "All of the flights, almost everybody came to us. ... I was really lucky."

Patterson previously owned a travel agency in Mexico City that frequently sent customers to Southern Nevada. A family visit to Las Vegas during the New Year's Eve 1990 holiday inspired her to move from her native country a year later.

"Comparing this city with Mexico City, which is so big, I thought this was a place where I'd like to live," Patterson said of her adopted hometown. "There is the dynamic of the tourism industry here, but once you get off the Strip this is still a very nice, small town. Or at least it was in 1990," she joked.

In collaboration with OnVisa, J&J Tours' sister company in Mexico City, Patterson in 1992 began helping Mexican travelers make their way around Las Vegas. At the time, air service was limited to a handful of charter flights, but Patterson's arrival coincided with a growth period that today brings nearly 20 direct flights from Mexico to McCarran International Airport each week.

It's difficult to accurately track how many Mexicans visit Las Vegas each year because many travel here by automobile after entering the United States in Arizona or California. Based solely upon air passenger statistics, Mexico was this city's third-largest foreign market in 2002, according to the most current data available from the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority and U.S. Department of Commerce.

That year, an estimated 254,000 Mexicans flew to Las Vegas. Only Canada (1.05 million) and the United Kingdom (290,000) supplied more foreign visitors to this market.

To further improve business from south of the border, the convention authority last month opened its first foreign bureau in Mexico City. That office will be directed by Marco Aguilar, who has worked for more than two decades in travel and promotions-related industries including his current role on the Visit USA Committee-Mexico.

In announcing Aguilar's hiring, the convention authority reported that Mexico now sends 9.8 million visitors to U.S. destinations each year and is projected to post a 21 percent increase in U.S. visitation by 2006.

Inside the United States, the convention authority's contracted advertising agency, Las Vegas-based R&R Partners, last year debuted its first-ever marketing campaign aimed specifically at Spanish-speaking travelers. An R&R representative said last week those ads will again air this summer in several heavily Hispanic U.S. markets.

Regardless of how much the local Latino market grows, Patterson said she'll take pride knowing that her daughter, Jennifer, is also involved in the family business. The 24-year-old is today J&J Tours' manager, one of the many responsibilities she's gradually taken on since her first days at the office as a 12-year-old middle-school pupil.

"I've been in this for 30 years; I belong to the stone age," Patterson said. "She brings along knowledge of the younger generation, so it's a great combination."

Patterson's son Jasson -- whose first initial makes up the second half of the J&J name -- could also join the business someday, though mom said her 20-year-old son is now focused on his college studies.*3

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*****FOCUS ON TOURISM
THURSDAY
Profile of the travel academy at Valley High School, a magnet program that trains students for jobs in the tourism and hospitality industry.

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References

*1. Through the courtesy of Las Vegas Review-Journal.
*2. Jones, Chris. 'A fortunate tour of events
--- Entrepreneur built success helping others find their way,' "Las Vegas Review-Journal," (May 12, 2004), Las Vegas, Nevada: reviewjournal.com.
*3. Ibid.

Advisory Board: Governor Kenny Guinn, Chairman; U. S. Senators Harry Reid and John Ensign, Vice Chairmen; U. S. Representatives James Gibbons and Shelley Berkley, and Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman, Executive Directors.
U. S. Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao
Chairperson
Dr. Tony T. Lei
President
District Judges Mark Denton and Valorie Vega
Vice Presidents
Dr. William N. Thompson
Director of Public Administration Institution
Dr. E. Lee Bernick and Dr. G. Keong Leong
Deans of Graduate School of Business and Public Administration
Dr. Sue Fawn Chung
Director of Culture Institution
Justice of the Supreme Court William Maupin, Attorney General Brian Sandoval, and District Judge Stewart Bell, Honorary Chairmen of Clark County District Attorney and Police Civil Commission (CCDAPCC)
District Attorney David Roger and Clark County Sheriff Bill Young
Chairmen of CCDAPCC
(702) 255-9058
*It's our pleasure to pay a tribute to the above officials who dedicate to the civic and community service spects of our organization in an honorary or adjunct capacity.

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FIRST CLASS OF MILLENNIUM SCHOLARS TO GRADUATE in Nevada, U. S. A.
By Kenny C. Guinn*1

On Saturday, May 15, I will serve as commencement speaker at graduation ceremonies for both the University of Nevada, Reno, and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. It will be an historic day for Nevada, as it will mark the first full, four-year graduating class of Millennium Scholars at both universities.*2

In 1999, during my first State of the State Address, I introduced the Millennium Scholarship initiative. My vision was to increase Nevada's educated workforce, so that the fastest growing state in the nation could compete on a national level in areas such as education, medicine, law, technology, and business. The Millennium Scholarship was established as a four-year, $10,000 scholarship to be funded from tobacco settlement monies and available to most Nevada high school students with a "B" average or better. It was designed to keep our best students in Nevada and to make Nevada's universities and colleges more accessible to a broader mix of students. The scholarship was approved by the Nevada Legislature in 1999 and since has been ably administered by the Office of the State Treasurer.

Let me share with you what the Millennium Scholarship has meant for higher learning in our state. In its fourth full year of operation, more than 32,000 students throughout our state have qualified for the scholarship. Almost 13,500 students took advantage of this scholarship in spring 2004. In a survey published in March 2003, more than one-half of students responding who were planning to use the scholarship said they would not have attended college without the scholarship; and one-third of their parents indicated their children would have attended college out of state if not for the Millennium Scholarship.

This Saturday, in ceremonies in the morning at Reno and then in the afternoon at Las Vegas, I will describe to those assembled how the Millennium Scholarship has changed our state in a lasting and powerful way. We are not only creating a larger, more talented and educated workforce for tomorrow, but we also are ensuring that the dream of higher education can become a reality for all the deserving high school students of our state. The Millennium Scholarship is one of the greatest investments the State of Nevada has ever made. It has helped thousands of young people realize that a great education is within their means, while positioning our state for a prosperous future.*3

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References

*1. Dr. Kenny C. Guinn is the Governor of Nevada, U. S. A..
*2. Ofiice of the Governor. 'A Message from Governor Kenny C. Guinn -- FIRST CLASS OF MILLENNIUM SCHOLARS TO GRADUATE,' " An e-mail from the Office of Governor Kenny Guinn to Dr. Tony Lei," (May 12, 2004), Carson City, Nevada: Office of Governor Kenny C. Guinn.
*3. Ibid.

***About the Author:

Kenny Guinn, 67, earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in Physical Education from Fresno State University and later obtained a doctorate in Education from Utah State University in Logan. He was named Superintendent of Schools in Clark County and served with distinction in that position until 1978.

In his work for the Clark County School District, Guinn was recognized as an effective administrator committed to educational excellence at a time when the county was experiencing exponential student growth. His service to Clark County students was honored when Kenny C. Guinn Junior High School was named for him.

In 1978, Guinn began applying his management skills in business as Administrative Vice President for Nevada Savings and Loan in Las Vegas, which later became PriMerit Bank. At PriMerit, he was appointed as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Las Vegas-based bank. Soon thereafter, Guinn was recruited to the energy business as the President of Southwest Gas Corporation and eventually became Chairman of the Board of Directors of that utility in 1993.

In 1994, Guinn was recruited by the University of Nevada Board of Regents to serve as interim president of the University of Nevada-Las Vegas.

In addition to his one-year term at UNLV, Guinn served the state in leadership roles on a variety of committees and commissions, including the Clark County Community College Advisory Committee, the UNLV Foundation Board of Trustees, the White House Conference on Children and Youth, among others.

Guinn has also worked in his community in a variety of volunteer roles, ranging from involvement in the Boy Scouts and Pop Warner Football to the United Way of Southern Nevada and the Southern Nevada Independent Youth Athletic Association.

Dr. Kenny Guinn is now the Governor of Nevada, U. S. A. at his second term.

Advisory Board: Governor Kenny Guinn, Chairman; U. S. Senators Harry Reid and John Ensign, Vice Chairmen; U. S. Representatives James Gibbons and Shelley Berkley, and Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman, Executive Directors.
U. S. Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao
Chairperson
Dr. Tony T. Lei
President
District Judges Mark Denton and Valorie Vega
Vice Presidents
Dr. William N. Thompson
Director of Public Administration Institution
Dr. E. Lee Bernick and Dr. G. Keong Leong
Deans of Graduate School of Business and Public Administration
Dr. Sue Fawn Chung
Director of Culture Institution
Justice of the Supreme Court William Maupin, Attorney General Brian Sandoval, and District Judge Stewart Bell, Honorary Chairmen of Clark County District Attorney and Police Civil Commission (CCDAPCC)
District Attorney David Roger and Clark County Sheriff Bill Young
Chairmen of CCDAPCC
(702) 255-9058
*It's our pleasure to pay a tribute to the above officials who dedicate to the civic and community service spects of our organization in an honorary or adjunct capacity.

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The integrity of community service and academic research of Washington Business and Technology Institute
By GSBPA of WBTI

"It's significant. The integrity of community service and academic research of Washington Business and Technology Institute (WBTI) will certainly help Nevada go advance for the cooperation and development in education, business, and culture among international countries. As an Adjunct Associate Professor of its Graduate School of Business and Public Administration (GSBPA), I'm sure with its excellent faculty members and Advirory Board, WBTI will also have fund supports from individuals, businesses, and governments for its valuable educational and academic programs," said Nancy Saitta, District Judge of Nevada, at the event and dinner party held by WBTI at Lillies Langtrys Restaurant in Golden Nugget Hotel and Casino on May 11, 2004 in Las Vegas.*1

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Reference
*1. Saitta, Nancy. "A writing document with my signature on the literature by Washington Business and Technology Institute," (May 1, 2004), Las Vegas, Nevada: WBTI.

Advisory Board: Governor Kenny Guinn, Chairman; U. S. Senators Harry Reid and John Ensign, Vice Chairmen; U. S. Representatives James Gibbons and Shelley Berkley, and Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman, Executive Directors.
U. S. Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao
Chairperson
Dr. Tony T. Lei
President
District Judges Mark Denton and Valorie Vega
Vice Presidents
Dr. William N. Thompson
Director of Public Administration Institution
Dr. E. Lee Bernick and Dr. G. Keong Leong
Deans of Graduate School of Business and Public Administration
Dr. Sue Fawn Chung
Director of Culture Institution
Justice of the Supreme Court William Maupin, Attorney General Brian Sandoval, and District Judge Stewart Bell, Honorary Chairmen of Clark County District Attorney and Police Civil Commission (CCDAPCC)
District Attorney David Roger and Clark County Sheriff Bill Young
Chairmen of CCDAPCC
(702) 255-9058
*It's our pleasure to pay a tribute to the above officials who dedicate to the civic and community service spects of our organization in an honorary or adjunct capacity.

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A tour of Nevada's Mammovan
By Office of the Governor*1

The Graduate School of Business and Public Administration (GSBPA) of Washington Business and Technology Institute (WBTI) is pleased to post the following Press Release soon after we received its e-mail from the Office of Governor Kenny C. Guinn on May 11, 2004:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 11, 2004 Contact Greg Bortolin and John Trent
775-684-5670

Media ADVISORY

CARSON CITY - A tour of Nevada's Mammovan, operated by Nevada Health Centers, will be given during a Governor's First Ladies meeting in Las Vegas on Wednesday, May 12 at Caesars Palace. First Ladies from nine states are meeting in Las Vegas this week, participating in a National Governor's Association seminar.*2

， What: National Governor's Association First Ladies Tour of Nevada's Mammovan.

， Where: Caesars Palace, bus access off Frank Sinatra Drive on west side of hotel.

， When: 10 a.m., Wednesday, May 12.

， Contact: Judy Brusa*3, 775-721-1067 or Las Vegas Governor's office, 702-486-2500.

， Mammovan website: http://www.nvrhc.org/mamabout.htm
Office of the Governor Grant Sawyer State Office Building
101 North Carson Street 555 East Washington, Suite 5100
Carson City, NV 89701 Las Vegas, NV 89101
Fax: 775-684-7198 Fax: 702-486-2505
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Early detection of breast cancer saves lives!

MAMMOGRAMS
EVERY WOMAN OVER AGE 40
NEEDS A MAMMOGRAM....
EVERY YEAR!

Mammograms are available in your neighborhood with the Mammovan for Nevada!*4
Please Call Toll Free
(877) 581-6266
For Information And Appointments

Overview:
Nevada Health Centers, Inc. (NVHC) was founded in 1977 as Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) and currently has 15 clinical sites throughout Nevada. Wendover Community Health Center, located in Elko County, opened its doors to serve the community with quality health care in 1999.

In addition NVHC also operates the Mammovan for Nevada. The Mammovan is a mobile mammography van that travels to underserved areas of our state to provide clinical breast exams, mammograms and Pap smears to women who are uninsured and probably would not seek out these services on their own. The Mammovan, which began operating in 2000, was made possible through a grant secured by Senator (then Congressman) John Ensign. The First Lady of Nevada, Dema Guinn is a spokeswoman for our project and from time to time travels with the Mammovan to encourage women in the neighborhoods we visit to get their mammograms.

Target Population-- Not having insurance is a barrier for many women to get a mammogram but it is clear it is not the only barrier. Our community out-reach efforts help break down some of the barriers that have more to do with lack of education, cultural belief systems and language difficulties than cost. Four employees who work with the Mammovan program speak fluent Spanish. Our health education efforts extend to agencies that help support the Mammovan by encouraging their clientele to make appointments for our services and by providing the Mammovan with a place to park. These agencies include but are not limited to Family Resource Centers, Hispanic Services, State and County Health Departments, Tribal Health Centers, Corporations, Senior Centers, Churches, and Community Centers. The advantage of the Mammovan is we can go to where the women are. We try to do most of our advertising in the neighborhoods where we will be providing services and take a sister-to-sister approach in encouraging women to make appointments for their mammograms, breast exams and Pap smears.

Services Provided-- The Mammovan provides clinical breast exams, Pap smears, mammograms and breast health education to women in need.

Staffing-- The Mammovan Project employs a Mammography Technologist, Physician Assistant, Medical Assistant, Receptionist, Scheduler, Community Out-Reach Coordinator, Driver and an Operations Manager. Our entire team is passionate about women's health care and we are proud of the fact that the Mammovan is the only place in Nevada where women can go to receive all their women's health screening services in one visit. Our lead radiology group is West Valley Imaging that has offices in both Las Vegas and Reno. Every patient who has a mammogram is informed of her results and tracked until breast cancer can be ruled out or diagnosed. Our Physician Assistant ensures that women who need follow-up services such as ultrasound, magnification views and/or biopsies receive them.

Federal Designation-- Serves HPSA areas.

Special Populations/Health Issues:
In keeping with the mission of NVHC, the Mammovan seeks to serve the underserved population, targeting women age 40 and over. The Mammovan also provides services for women under 40, who are physician referred or who present with a problem. Our intention is similar to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation (who is one of our supporters) "to capture and increase the number of asymptomatic individuals undergoing screening mammography for the early detection of breast cancer."*5

Funding:
State of Nevada
Dema Guinn - First Lady of Nevada
Susan Komen
Shahen Foundation
United Way
Women's Health Connection
Nevada Bell

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References

*1. *1. Office of Nevada Governor Kenny C. Guinn. Dr. Kenny Guinn is the Governor of Nevada, U. S. A..
*2. Office of the Governor. 'A tour of Nevada's Mammovan; A Message From Governor Kenny C. Guinn - May 11, 2004,' "An e-mail to Dr. Tony Lei from the Office of Governor Kenny C. Guinn," (May 11, 2004), Carson City, Nevada: Office of Governor Kenny Guin.
*3. Ibid.
*4. Nevada Health Centers. 'Mammograms are available in your neighborhood with the Mammovan for Nevada!' "reviewjournal.com," (May 11, 2004), Las Vegas, Nevada: LVRJ.
*5. Ibid.

Advisory Board: Governor Kenny Guinn, Chairman; U. S. Senators Harry Reid and John Ensign, Vice Chairmen; U. S. Representatives James Gibbons and Shelley Berkley, and Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman, Executive Directors.
U. S. Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao
Chairperson
Dr. Tony T. Lei
President
District Judges Mark Denton and Valorie Vega
Vice Presidents
Dr. William N. Thompson
Director of Public Administration Institution
Dr. E. Lee Bernick and Dr. G. Keong Leong
Deans of Graduate School of Business and Public Administration
Dr. Sue Fawn Chung
Director of Culture Institution
Justice of the Supreme Court William Maupin, Attorney General Brian Sandoval, and District Judge Stewart Bell, Honorary Chairmen of Clark County District Attorney and Police Civil Commission (CCDAPCC)
District Attorney David Roger and Clark County Sheriff Bill Young
Chairmen of CCDAPCC
(702) 255-9058
*It's our pleasure to pay a tribute to the above officials who dedicate to the civic and community service spects of our organization in an honorary or adjunct capacity.

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The Nevada DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION PROJECT UPDATE
By Kenny Guinn*1

> The Nevada Department of Transportation is in the
> midst of a massive
> undertaking - the largest highway construction
> program ever for the
> State of Nevada. Close to $2 billion has been
> committed for current and
> future state transportation projects to address one
> of the most pressing
> needs here in the country's fastest growing state. I
> would like to give
> you a quick update on a few of these projects,*2 as
> they represent a
> reduction of traffic congestion in our metropolitan
> areas while also
> providing thousands of new jobs and stimulating our
> state's economy.
>
> In the Las Vegas area, projects completed in 2004 or
> currently under
> construction include: U.S. 95 widening at Rainbow
> Curve and Summerlin
> Interchange; Nevada's approach to Hoover Dam;
> Interstate 215/I-515
> Henderson Interchange and extension of I-215
> Beltway; upgrade of full
> interchange of I-15 at Lamb Boulevard; I-15 widening
> at Union Pacific
> Railroad overcrossing; and Rancho Road, from U.S. 95
> to Washington
> Avenue resurface and restripe.
>
> In Reno/Carson City, projects completed in 2004 or
> currently under
> construction include: I-580 freeway extension, from
> Reno to Washoe
> Valley - Phase 1 of four bridges; Carson City
> Freeway, from Arrowhead to
> U.S. 50 East; U.S. 395/I-80 Reno Spaghetti Bowl,
> reconstruct
> interchange; and U.S. 395 Clear Acre Lane and North
> McCarran Bridge,
> which is being administered by the Washoe County
> Regional Transportation
> Commission.
>
> In addition, four new projects are in the early
> stages of construction
> or will begin construction in 2004: U.S. 95 widening
> from Martin Luther
> King Boulevard to Jones Boulevard in Las Vegas; I-80
> from Keystone
> Avenue to Robb Drive in Reno, westbound truck
> climbing lane; U.S.
> 50/U.S. 95A Fernley to Fallon, reconstruct
> intersection; U.S. 50 Lake
> Tahoe, binwall replacement. Construction will also
> begin for the central
> Mesquite interchange on I-15.
>
> As your Governor and chairman of the State
> Transportation Board,*3 I am
> determined to support the improvement of our
> transportation
> infrastructure to keep Nevada's traffic flowing
> smoothly, safely, and
> efficiently for many years to come.
>
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References

*1. Dr. Kenny C. Guinn is the Governor of Nevada, U. S. A..
*2. Ofiice of the Governor. 'A Message from Governor Kenny C. Guinn -- DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION PROJECT UPDATE,' " An e-mail from the Office of Governor Kenny Guinn to Dr. Tony Lei," (May 6, 2004), Carson City, Nevada: Office of Governor Kenny C. Guinn.
*3. Ibid.

***About the Author:

Kenny Guinn, 67, earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in Physical Education from Fresno State University and later obtained a doctorate in Education from Utah State University in Logan. He was named Superintendent of Schools in Clark County and served with distinction in that position until 1978.

In his work for the Clark County School District, Guinn was recognized as an effective administrator committed to educational excellence at a time when the county was experiencing exponential student growth. His service to Clark County students was honored when Kenny C. Guinn Junior High School was named for him.

In 1978, Guinn began applying his management skills in business as Administrative Vice President for Nevada Savings and Loan in Las Vegas, which later became PriMerit Bank. At PriMerit, he was appointed as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Las Vegas-based bank. Soon thereafter, Guinn was recruited to the energy business as the President of Southwest Gas Corporation and eventually became Chairman of the Board of Directors of that utility in 1993.

In 1994, Guinn was recruited by the University of Nevada Board of Regents to serve as interim president of the University of Nevada-Las Vegas.

In addition to his one-year term at UNLV, Guinn served the state in leadership roles on a variety of committees and commissions, including the Clark County Community College Advisory Committee, the UNLV Foundation Board of Trustees, the White House Conference on Children and Youth, among others.

Guinn has also worked in his community in a variety of volunteer roles, ranging from involvement in the Boy Scouts and Pop Warner Football to the United Way of Southern Nevada and the Southern Nevada Independent Youth Athletic Association.

Dr. Kenny Guinn is now the Governor of Nevada, U. S. A. at his second term.

Advisory Board: Governor Kenny Guinn, Chairman; U. S. Senators Harry Reid and John Ensign, Vice Chairmen; U. S. Representatives James Gibbons and Shelley Berkley, and Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman, Executive Directors.
U. S. Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao
Chairperson
Dr. Tony T. Lei
President
District Judges Mark Denton and Valorie Vega
Vice Presidents
Dr. William N. Thompson
Director of Public Administration Institution
Dr. E. Lee Bernick and Dr. G. Keong Leong
Deans of Graduate School of Business and Public Administration
Dr. Sue Fawn Chung
Director of Culture Institution
Justice of the Supreme Court William Maupin, Attorney General Brian Sandoval, and District Judge Stewart Bell, Honorary Chairmen of Clark County District Attorney and Police Civil Commission (CCDAPCC)
District Attorney David Roger and Clark County Sheriff Bill Young
Chairmen of CCDAPCC
(702) 255-9058
*It's our pleasure to pay a tribute to the above officials who dedicate to the civic and community service spects of our organization in an honorary or adjunct capacity.

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Capitalism and the masses
By LVRJ's EDITORIAL

Through the courtesy of Las Vegas Review-Journal, Graduate School of Business and Public Administration (GSBPA) of Washington Business and Techonology Institute (WBTI) is pleased to post the following editorial of this Largest Newspaper in Nevada:

Monday, May 10, 2004
Copyright @ Las Vegas Review-Journal*1

EDITORIAL: Capitalism and the masses

Americans used to understand that the first was the best solution for the second

In San Francisco this week, Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto, who in 1980 founded the Lima-based Institute for Liberty and Democracy, accepted the second Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty.*2

The $500,000 award, named after Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman, is awarded by the Cato Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, to an individual judged to have made a significant contribution to advancing human freedom.

Author of books "The Other Path" and "The Mystery of Capital," de Soto encourages peasants working in marginal jobs to consider themselves part of the "formal" economy. He argues that poor people should use their property -- farms, jitneys, pushcart taco stands, scooters, chickens, huts -- to apply for loans and expand their businesses.

But his philosophy -- which encourages taxi drivers and street corner gum vendors to consider themselves capitalists -- has resulted in political attacks from Latin America's landed aristocracy, authoritarian regimes, labor unions and Peru's Maoist terrorist group, the Shining Path. He's survived at least three attempts on his life, and his office has been sprayed with bullets.

During his 45-minute speech, de Soto -- who named his German shepherds Marx and Engels because "they have no respect for property" -- admonished North Korea, Zimbabwe, Cuba and other authoritarian countries that he said maintained "feudalistic" social contracts which exclude most citizens from property rights.

The Associated Press commented that de Soto "is a rarity among economists: a champion of both capitalism and the rights of the impoverished masses."

Strictly speaking, most economists would probably deny they "champion" any political system. The task of economists is to observe, analyze and report on the system of transactions that allows human beings to divide their labors.

But over the centuries -- despite the failed attempts of Keynesians and other collectivists to hold otherwise -- economists from Adam Smith to Ludwig von Mises to Murray Rothbard to Hernando de Soto have observed that prosperity is most widespread when men and women are left at liberty to accrue wealth and trade their goods and labor freely.

The AP writer is a victim of a common misunderstanding -- that those who champion capitalism favor only the interests of "the greedy rich," while anyone who feels compassion and sympathy for the poor must surely understand the necessity of sending men with guns to the homes of the rich, there to seize some quantity of their stuff and redistribute it to the poor.

The Communists tried it in Russia for three generations. It failed utterly. The only ones who didn't end up broke were the millions who ended up dead.

If it seems unusual to today's Americans to find a learned economist who understands this, then perhaps we need to ask why so many of America's economists (both in our political capitals and on our college campuses) still embrace a mid-20th century redistributive economic model that had already proved a dismal and deadly failure by the time of the deaths of its greatest champions: Lenin, Hitler, Stalin and Mao.*3

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References

*1. LVRJ's EDITORIAL. 'Capitalism and the masses,' "Las Vegas Review-Journal," (May 10, 2004), Las Vegas, Nevada: reviewjournal.com.
*2. Ibid.
*3. LVRJ. Ibid.

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Chairperson
Dr. Tony T. Lei
President
District Judges Mark Denton and Valorie Vega
Vice Presidents
Dr. William N. Thompson
Director of Public Administration Institution
Dr. E. Lee Bernick and Dr. G. Keong Leong
Deans of Graduate School of Business and Public Administration
Dr. Sue Fawn Chung
Director of Culture Institution
Justice of the Supreme Court William Maupin, Attorney General Brian Sandoval, and District Judge Stewart Bell, Honorary Chairmen of Clark County District Attorney and Police Civil Commission (CCDAPCC)
District Attorney David Roger and Clark County Sheriff Bill Young
Chairmen of CCDAPCC
(702) 255-9058
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Capitalism and the masses
By LVRJ's EDITORIAL

Through the courtesy of Las Vegas Review-Journal, Graduate School of Business and Public Administration (GSBPA) of Washington Business and Techonology Institute (WBTI) is pleased to post the following editorial of this Largest Newspaper in Nevada:

Monday, May 10, 2004
Copyright @ Las Vegas Review-Journal*1

EDITORIAL: Capitalism and the masses

Americans used to understand that the first was the best solution for the second

In San Francisco this week, Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto, who in 1980 founded the Lima-based Institute for Liberty and Democracy, accepted the second Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty.*2

The $500,000 award, named after Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman, is awarded by the Cato Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, to an individual judged to have made a significant contribution to advancing human freedom.

Author of books "The Other Path" and "The Mystery of Capital," de Soto encourages peasants working in marginal jobs to consider themselves part of the "formal" economy. He argues that poor people should use their property -- farms, jitneys, pushcart taco stands, scooters, chickens, huts -- to apply for loans and expand their businesses.

But his philosophy -- which encourages taxi drivers and street corner gum vendors to consider themselves capitalists -- has resulted in political attacks from Latin America's landed aristocracy, authoritarian regimes, labor unions and Peru's Maoist terrorist group, the Shining Path. He's survived at least three attempts on his life, and his office has been sprayed with bullets.

During his 45-minute speech, de Soto -- who named his German shepherds Marx and Engels because "they have no respect for property" -- admonished North Korea, Zimbabwe, Cuba and other authoritarian countries that he said maintained "feudalistic" social contracts which exclude most citizens from property rights.

The Associated Press commented that de Soto "is a rarity among economists: a champion of both capitalism and the rights of the impoverished masses."

Strictly speaking, most economists would probably deny they "champion" any political system. The task of economists is to observe, analyze and report on the system of transactions that allows human beings to divide their labors.

But over the centuries -- despite the failed attempts of Keynesians and other collectivists to hold otherwise -- economists from Adam Smith to Ludwig von Mises to Murray Rothbard to Hernando de Soto have observed that prosperity is most widespread when men and women are left at liberty to accrue wealth and trade their goods and labor freely.

The AP writer is a victim of a common misunderstanding -- that those who champion capitalism favor only the interests of "the greedy rich," while anyone who feels compassion and sympathy for the poor must surely understand the necessity of sending men with guns to the homes of the rich, there to seize some quantity of their stuff and redistribute it to the poor.

The Communists tried it in Russia for three generations. It failed utterly. The only ones who didn't end up broke were the millions who ended up dead.

If it seems unusual to today's Americans to find a learned economist who understands this, then perhaps we need to ask why so many of America's economists (both in our political capitals and on our college campuses) still embrace a mid-20th century redistributive economic model that had already proved a dismal and deadly failure by the time of the deaths of its greatest champions: Lenin, Hitler, Stalin and Mao.*3

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References

*1. LVRJ's EDITORIAL. 'Capitalism and the masses,' "Las Vegas Review-Journal," (May 10, 2004), Las Vegas, Nevada: reviewjournal.com.
*2. Ibid.
*3. LVRJ. Ibid.

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U. S. Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao
Chairperson
Dr. Tony T. Lei
President
District Judges Mark Denton and Valorie Vega
Vice Presidents
Dr. William N. Thompson
Director of Public Administration Institution
Dr. E. Lee Bernick and Dr. G. Keong Leong
Deans of Graduate School of Business and Public Administration
Dr. Sue Fawn Chung
Director of Culture Institution
Justice of the Supreme Court William Maupin, Attorney General Brian Sandoval, and District Judge Stewart Bell, Honorary Chairmen of Clark County District Attorney and Police Civil Commission (CCDAPCC)
District Attorney David Roger and Clark County Sheriff Bill Young
Chairmen of CCDAPCC
(702) 255-9058
*It's our pleasure to pay a tribute to the above officials who dedicate to the civic and community service spects of our organization in an honorary or adjunct capacity.

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My happy and successful experience to take the responsibility for implementation of the project of a seminar
By Robert Song*1

Dear Friends,
>
> We are very delight that we got 60+ audiences last
> night in our seminar. President Agnas Chan & Broker
> Chelsea Yuan did very well in presentation. We got
> good food from Chow's Cuisine also. Thanks for the
> outcome was so well.*2
>
> We had two times of obstacles for fund raising during
> the planning period. The project of this seminar was
> reborn soon after Dr. Tony Lei's participation
> and inspiration with community service. Enthusiastic friends
> join us one by one as our sponsors like Ms. Jennilee Phan and Mr. Denny Chen.
>
> Thanks for Newspapers' support, we got 5 papers'
> announce(s) before seminar, they were:

> Las Vegas Review-Journal through its Communitylink website of WBTI at: http://communitylink.reviewjournal.com/lvrj/wbti
> Chinese Daily News (World Journal)
> Las Vegas Chinese Daily News
> Las Vegas Chinese News
> Southern Nevada Chinese weekly
>
> Thanks for
>
> Ms. Helen Hsueh, President of Chinese Daily news, &
>
> Mr. William Song, Chief Editor of Southern Navada
> Chinese Weekly
>
> to join our seminar.
>
>
> Thanks for 14 sponsors' supports, they are:
>
> A. Mr. Denny Chen, Owner of Motel 8 & Mr. Deli Mart.
>
> B. Ms. Jennilee Phan, RE marketing specialist of
> C-21
> Advantage Gold.
>
> C. Dr. Tony Lei, gifts (6 T-Shirts), President of
> Washington Business & Technology Institute.
>
> D. Dr. Jason Nguyen & Dr. John Cao, 40 Chinese Tuina
> Massage Gift Certificates ($45 value each), Spring
> Moutain Pain Center.
>
> E. Mr. Bing Wang, Owner of ABC Auto Repairs.
>
> F. Dr. Raymond Yin, Authour of 3 books. He will
> publish his 3rd book 'Entering the Realms of Gold' @
> 3pm on 05/20/04 (Thur) @ Chow's Cuisine. You may buy
> the ticket from me @ $12 each for the Dinner. I will
> not make any penny from that. It is just for the
> friendship with writers.
>
> G. Mr. Randy Yuan, Owner of Service+ Insurance, LLC.
> (Auto, Home, & commercial).
>
> H. Mr. Edgar Balagtas, Broker / Owner of Realty
> Broker.
>
> I. Ms. Jasmine S.M. Guo, President of Vegas Milky
> way
> Inc.
>
> J. Mr. Michael Chang, President of Law Offices of
> F.
> Hoffman.
>
> K. Ms. Angie Mabley (Zheng Mou), President of Yong
> Sheng Treading Co.
>
> L. Ms. Chiu Lucero, General Manager of ETea
> International.
>
> M. Ms. Sophie Idecker, Realtor of Venture RE Co.
>
> N. Dr. Jacquie Balodis, Owner of New Rhema
> Counseling
> Ministries.
>
> It's really my happy and successful experience through
> the encouragement and inspiration from Dr. Tony Lei
> for the implementation of this seminar to our community.
>
> The attachments are:
>
> 1. Dr. Tony Lei & Robert Song (On the top right side of the next flier.)
> 2. President Helen Hsueh (On the top left side of the next flier.)
> 3. Agnas Chan & Robert Song (On the bottom of the next flier.)
> To access the above photos, please have your Assitant
> or yourself click on the section of "Business,
> Community, and Social World" (on May 10, 2004) at: http://communitylink.reviewjournal.com/lvrj/wbti
>
> Thanks to all of your support.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Robert (Song)

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References

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U. S. Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao
Chairperson
Dr. Tony T. Lei
President
District Judges Mark Denton and Valorie Vega
Vice Presidents
Dr. William N. Thompson
Director of Public Administration Institution
Dr. E. Lee Bernick and Dr. G. Keong Leong
Deans of Graduate School of Business and Public Administration
Dr. Sue Fawn Chung
Director of Culture Institution
Justice of the Supreme Court William Maupin, Attorney General Brian Sandoval, and District Judge Stewart Bell, Honorary Chairmen of Clark County District Attorney and Police Civil Commission (CCDAPCC)
District Attorney David Roger and Clark County Sheriff Bill Young
Chairmen of CCDAPCC
(702) 255-9058
*It's our pleasure to pay a tribute to the above officials who dedicate to the civic and community service spects of our organization in an honorary or adjunct capacity.

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America: often bad, but usually great;
and why petitioners arrested
By JOHN BRUMMETT, LVRJ's Editorial, and PAI*1

This article and the editorial have been seclected from Las Vegas Review Journal by Public Administration Institution (PAI) to post on the website of Washington Business and Technology Institute (WBTI). As usually stated at the bottom of the Editorials of LVRJ, please remind that "The views expressed above are those of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. All other opions expressed on the Opinion and Commentary pages are those of the individual artist or author indicated."*2 Through the courtesy of Las Vegas Review Journal, we did the post early in the morning of the same day on May 9, 2004:

Sunday, May 09, 2004
Copyright @ Las Vegas Review-Journal

JOHN BRUMMETT: America: often bad, but usually great*3

By JOHN BRUMMETT and LVRJ's Editorial
SPECIAL TO THE REVIEW-JOURNAL

"Ain't that America, for you and me. Ain't that America, we're something to see, baby."

-- John Mellencamp, rocker from Indiana, in his hit song "Pink Houses."

America is not always good, but almost always is great. It's been that way from the start. And so it was last week.*4

We were bad enough to found a country that permitted slavery, but great enough to tear ourselves apart and sacrifice nearly an entire male generation to end it.

We were bad enough in some states to allow only male taxpayers to vote, but great enough to amend our supreme law to let everyone have a say, except, perhaps, a recent few in Florida.

We were bad enough to impose our own apartheid, but great enough to change our laws and begin, if only begin, to change our ways.

We were bad enough to choose to fight and prolong a tragically mistaken war in Southeast Asia, but great enough to defeat Soviet communism otherwise by a better humanity.

Then there were the events of just last week.

We were bad enough to inflict Iraqis with prisons in which our military personnel debased and abused them to a repulsively inhumane extent, and with a military culture that didn't forbid such atrocities and might actually have implicitly condoned them. But we were good enough to apply the freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution and tell on ourselves for these outrages through a brave and vigilant media.

It was American television, that seldom uplifting medium, that dared on the program "60 Minutes II" to show the horrible pictures. It was a fabled American investigative journalist, Seymour Hersh in The New Yorker, who advanced the story with a disturbing piece last week.

Now it's the American Congress that recoils and demands hearings and explanations, mostly because the American people simply will not stand for an association with this kind of thing. The American identity is with the general greatness, not with the specific badness. That's why so many Americans can't understand why they're hated.

We were bad enough -- in this case, arrogant enough -- to go across the world and invade a country to liberate it from its own heritage and culture and lay what we assumed would be the foundation for that country's self-resurrection in the image of our own form of freedom and democracy. It's as if we thought freedom and democracy were the 11th and 12th holy commandments.

Now we find ourselves pretty much conceding any notion of a free and democratic state in Iraq, emphasizing instead simply a workable and less deadly one. For a couple of days we appeared ready to install in Fallujah a henchman who formerly worked for the very corrupt despot we removed.

We seem to have settled on something from the Afghanistan model. That is to say we seek a country that is sectionalized, ruled in territories by war lords, but at least with order if not law. The central national government would be largely nominal, but at least friendly to us and not a front for religious lunatics who plot to destroy us.

But through all that we were great enough not to do what a lot of people would do after invading a foreign land, ousting and capturing its corrupt despot and assuming day-to-day management. By that I mean raise your flag and declare your territory, if not your 51st state.

Yes, we're bad at times, even evil, and arrogant and smug most of the others. But we go out of our way only to make a mess, not to conquer, and to avoid what we could always do in a few hours, which is incinerate everybody.*5
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Sunday, May 09, 2004
Copyright @ Las Vegas Review-Journal

EDITORIAL: Petitioners arrested*6

Janine Hansen, an activist with the anti-tax group Nevadans for Sound Government, was arrested and jailed Thursday night while gathering signatures on two petitions at the Regional Transportation Center in Reno.*7

The petitions seek to repeal the $833 million in tax increases approved by the 2003 Legislature and to require enforcement of the long-flouted constitutional provision which bars government employees from serving in the state Legislature.

Ms. Hansen's arrest comes on the heels of a complaint filed Monday with Las Vegas police and Secretary of State Dean Heller by Ms. Hansen's brother, Christopher Hansen, contending two Nevada Highway Patrol officers, several Department of Motor Vehicles employees, officials with UNLV, and others have prevented the petitioners from collecting signatures.

Secretary of State Heller, the state's chief election officer, issued an order last fall confirming the right of citizens to gather signatures without giving advance notice at government offices. Greg Bortolin, Gov. Kenny Guinn's spokesman, contended April 30 that state officials "in no way will impede" petition gathering efforts.

Indeed, citizens have every right to seek petition signatures on public property at any time, place and manner that doesn't create a hazard or substantially block the flow of traffic. So why are these people being harassed, and even jailed?

In America, the right of the citizens to petition for a redress of grievances is constitutionally protected. That means it's the highest law of the land.

You remember the Constitution, don't you, officers? It's that faded old document that charges you with protecting our liberties -- the reason citizens fund your paychecks.*8

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References

*1. John Brummett is an award-winning columnist and reporter for the Arkansas News Bureau in Little Rock and author of "High Wire," a book about Bill Clinton's first year as president. His e-mail address is jbrummett@arkansasnews.com. PAI is the initial of Public Administration Institution of Wasington Business and Technology Institute (WBTI).
*2. LVRJ. 'America: often bad, but usually great,' "Las Vegas Review-Journal," (May 9, 2004), Las Vegas, Nevada: reviewjournal.com.
*3. Ibid. JOHN BRUMMETT Commentary.
*4. LVRJ. Ibid.
*5. Ibid.
*6. Vogel, Ed. 'Activist jailed for circulating tax petitions
--- Police arrest pair seeking signatures for vote to challenge legislative action,' "Las Vegas Review-Journal," (May 8, 2004), Las Vegas, Nevada: reviewjournal.com.
*7. Ibid.
*8. Ibid.

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Blessings to You On Your Birthday --- Such a special day...
By Mike Lei*1

Dear Mom,

This is a little card to say Happy Birthday and I Love you.*2 You have always been the model of the woman I will look for. I hope to find someone who will truly be the helper, supporter,and encourager to the husband. Someone who puts down her own dreams and wishes to make it a family dream and invest in her busband and children. One friend is going to marry a girl. She told him,"You serve God, and I will serve you". This is very biblical. It reminds me of how Dad's career really became successful when he married you. I also hope to marry someone who will be a partner in serving God the same way you were a partner to help Dad be successful. God will and rewarded you. See Proverbs 31:30-31 "Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. Give her the reward she has earned, and let her works bring her praise at the city gate." God remembers and we remember too.*3

Love Son Mike Lei

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References

*1. Mike currently works as design engineer at Fujitsu Microelectronics America, Inc. and volunteers as church deacon and youth worker at Carrollton Chinese Church in Carrollton, Texas.
*2. Lei, Mike. "A birthday card to Mom," (April 26, 2004), Mike Lei from Dallas, Texas.
*3. An editing was confirmed with Mike Lei through a phone call from his Mom in Las Vegas to him in Carrollton, Texas in the evening on May 8,2004.

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U. S. Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao
Chairperson
Dr. Tony T. Lei
President
District Judges Mark Denton and Valorie Vega
Vice Presidents
Dr. William N. Thompson
Director of Public Administration Institution
Dr. E. Lee Bernick and Dr. G. Keong Leong
Deans of Graduate School of Business and Public Administration
Dr. Sue Fawn Chung
Director of Culture Institution
Justice of the Supreme Court William Maupin, Attorney General Brian Sandoval, and District Judge Stewart Bell, Honorary Chairmen of Clark County District Attorney and Police Civil Commission (CCDAPCC)
District Attorney David Roger and Clark County Sheriff Bill Young
Chairmen of CCDAPCC
(702) 255-9058
*It's our pleasure to pay a tribute to the above officials who dedicate to the civic and community service spects of our organization in an honorary or adjunct capacity.

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Activist jailed for circulating tax petitions
--- Police arrest pair seeking signatures for vote to challenge legislative action
By REVIEW-JOURNAL CAPITAL BUREAU*1

Through the courtesy of Las Vegas Review-Journal (LVRJ), Public Administration Institution (PAI) of Washington Business and Technology Institute (WBTI) post the following report of the LVRJ's publication on the same day:

Saturday, May 08, 2004
Copyright @ Las Vegas Review-Journal

Activist jailed for circulating tax petitions
Police arrest pair seeking signatures for vote to challenge legislative action

By ED VOGEL
REVIEW-JOURNAL CAPITAL BUREAU

CARSON CITY -- Longtime political activist Janine Hansen said Friday her arrest while circulating petitions at a Reno bus terminal is the latest example of government officials trying to stop legitimate political activity.*2

"They are trying to kill the petitions," Hansen said after spending six hours in a holding room at the Washoe County Jail. "It's like my brother Dan said: 'He has rights who is willing to assert them.' We were asserting them. If you don't take a stand, bureaucrats will run over you, no matter what the law is."

Reno police arrested Hansen and her 25-year-old son, Zack Triggs, about 6:30 p.m. Thursday after they refused to leave the Regional Transportation Commission's Citifare bus terminal, where they were gathering signatures on petitions. They were released on their own recognizance and ordered to appear in court May 27 on trespassing charges.

They are members of Nevadans for Sound Government, which is circulating petitions to force a public vote in November to repeal the $833 million tax increase approved last year by the Legislature and to block government employees from being in the Legislature.

"They told us to stop gathering signatures," Janine Hansen said. "I told them their policy was a violation of state law. We said we could and we weren't going to stop, so they arrested us. We aren't going to follow some illegal edict by a petty bureaucrat."

George Harris, the leader of Nevadans for Sound Government, said last week the petition gathering may fall short because of continued obstacles and harassment of petition circulars.

"This puts the icing on the cake," Harris said. "It shows conclusively we have been harassed. We are sick of it."

But Stanyan Peck, the Regional Transportation Commission lawyer, said Hansen could not collect signatures because she refused to fill out an application form that lists restrictions on gathering signatures at the bus station.

Although it could take as long as two days for him to approve the application, Peck said, it generally takes less than a day, and sometimes only 10 minutes.

"Her position is she doesn't have to do anything," Peck said. "She never told me what the petitions were. We have had six or seven other organizations fill out the paperwork, and they have had the ability to circulate petitions with no problems whatsoever."

Hansen's brother, Joel, a Las Vegas lawyer, plans to ask the state Supreme Court for a 60-day extension for gathering signatures, alleging harassment of circulators. Signatures are due May 18.

Less than two weeks ago, people were prevented from collecting signatures at a Department of Motor Vehicles office in Reno. The governor's office admitted that was a mistake and informed DMV managers that people have a right to circulate petitions.

The Hansens also are leaders of the Independent America Party of Nevada, founded by the late Dan Hansen. Christopher Hansen of Henderson, the party's current chairman, filed a complaint with the secretary of state over the DMV incident. The attorney general's office is investigating.

Janine Hansen said she told Peck in advance that she planned to petition at the bus station and informed him of Secretary of State Dean Heller's order last Sept. 17, which states petition gatherers do not have to give advance notice of activities. Janine Hansen said following the RTC guidelines could have prevented her from gathering signatures for five days.

Peck said he thought the secretary of state was "exceeding his jurisdiction" in denying the RTC's right to require advance notice on petition gathering efforts.

Heller was away Friday on family business. Deputy Secretary of State Renee Parker said she told Peck about the order Friday that no advance notice was required.

"Only a court can designate whether a waiting time is reasonable. Whether they can impose other instructions is more for the court to decide."*3

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References

*1. REVIEW-JOURNAL CAPITAL BUREAU with the Author Ed Vogel.
*2. Vogel, Ed. 'Activist jailed for circulating tax petitions
--- Police arrest pair seeking signatures for vote to challenge legislative action,' "Las Vegas Review-Journal," (May 8, 2004), Las Vegas, Nevada: reviewjournal.com.
*3. Ibid.

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U. S. Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao
Chairperson
Dr. Tony T. Lei
President
District Judges Mark Denton and Valorie Vega
Vice Presidents
Dr. William N. Thompson
Director of Public Administration Institution
Dr. E. Lee Bernick and Dr. G. Keong Leong
Deans of Graduate School of Business and Public Administration
Dr. Sue Fawn Chung
Director of Culture Institution
Justice of the Supreme Court William Maupin, Attorney General Brian Sandoval, and District Judge Stewart Bell, Honorary Chairmen of Clark County District Attorney and Police Civil Commission (CCDAPCC)
District Attorney David Roger and Clark County Sheriff Bill Young
Chairmen of CCDAPCC
(702) 255-9058
*It's our pleasure to pay a tribute to the above officials who dedicate to the civic and community service spects of our organization in an honorary or adjunct capacity.

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APPOINTMENT OF ROBINSON AS ADVISOR ON WILDLIFE, CONSERVATION AND RURAL ISSUES announced by Governor Kenny Guinn of Nevada, U. S. A.
By Office of the Governor*1

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 7, 2004 Contact Greg Bortolin or John Trent
775-684-5670

GOV. GUINN ANNOUNCES APPOINTMENT OF ROBINSON AS ADVISOR ON WILDLIFE, CONSERVATION AND RURAL ISSUES

CARSON CITY - Gov. Kenny Guinn announced today the appointment of Steve Robinson as the Governor's Advisor on Wildlife, Conservation and Rural Nevada Issues. Robinson's appointment will run through June using existing salary savings in the Governor's office.*2

Beginning July 1, contingent on legislative approval of a federal grant the state has received, Robinson will receive an annual salary of $95,100 as the Governor・s advisor.

"Steve Robinson has an extensive background in wildlife, conservation and rural Nevada issues, having served with distinction as State Forester," Gov. Guinn said. "He knows our state extremely well, and will be an invaluable resource as we continue to formulate policy in a number of critical areas. He has a well-earned reputation for his expertise in wildland fire, but is extremely well rounded in his knowledge in all areas of natural resources. He is a welcome addition to my administration."

Robinson, 55, has served as State Forester since December 2000.

Prior to his time as State Forester, Robinson served as director of the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation in Washington, D.C. He has held a variety of positions in the U.S. Department of the Interior including Deputy Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Director of the National Interagency Fire Center. He served as company commander in the Nevada National Guard, following active duty service.

As State Forester, Robinson has played a key role in implementing state programs that have ensured forest health while also combating the ever-present danger of summer wildfire.

：It is a distinct honor to serve in this Governor・s office,； Robinson said. ：The chance to deal with a wide variety of environmental issues and work with the Governor's rural constituency is an opportunity I greatly look forward to.；

Pete Anderson, Deputy State Forester, will be named State Forester on July 1. Anderson has been with the Division of Forestry since 1995.*3
Office of the Governor Media contact:
101 North Carson Street Steve Robinson
Carson City, NV 89701 Phone: (775) 684-5643
Fax: 775-684-7198

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References

*1. Office of Nevada Governor Kenny C. Guinn. Dr. Kenny Guinn is the Governor of Nevada, U. S. A..
*2. Office of the Governor. 'GOV. GUINN ANNOUNCES APPOINTMENT OF ROBINSON AS ADVISOR ON WILDLIFE, CONSERVATION AND RURAL ISSUES; A Message From Governor Kenny C. Guinn - May 7, 2004,' "An e-mail to Dr. Tony Lei from the Office of Governor Kenny C. Guinn," (May 7, 2004), Carson City, Nevada: Office of Governor Kenny Guinn.
*3. Ibid.

Advisory Board: Governor Kenny Guinn, Chairman; U. S. Senators Harry Reid and John Ensign, Vice Chairmen; U. S. Representatives James Gibbons and Shelley Berkley, and Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman, Executive Directors.
U. S. Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao
Chairperson
Dr. Tony T. Lei
President
District Judges Mark Denton and Valorie Vega
Vice Presidents
Dr. William N. Thompson
Director of Public Administration Institution
Dr. E. Lee Bernick and Dr. G. Keong Leong
Deans of Graduate School of Business and Public Administration
Dr. Sue Fawn Chung
Director of Culture Institution
Justice of the Supreme Court William Maupin, Attorney General Brian Sandoval, and District Judge Stewart Bell, Honorary Chairmen of Clark County District Attorney and Police Civil Commission (CCDAPCC)
District Attorney David Roger and Clark County Sheriff Bill Young
Chairmen of CCDAPCC
(702) 255-9058
*It's our pleasure to pay a tribute to the above officials who dedicate to the civic and community service spects of our organization in an honorary or adjunct capacity.

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U. S. Senator Harry Reid fights for our people and country
By GSBPA of WBTI*1

Assistant Democratic Leader of the U. S. Senate and Senator Harry Reid has made a difference for Nevada. From humble beginnings in the tiny town of Searchlight, Nevada to the second highest ranking Democrat in the United States Senate, he has distinguished himself as a fighter for Nevadans and all American families in the corridors of power in Washington, D. C..

"Recognizing his trajectory in public service, the Las Vegas Sun said Reid 'has gone from underdog to Senate's top dog.' Parade Magazine, the nation's largest weekly identified Senator Reid as one of a handful of leaders in Washington who possess 'integrity and guts.' *2

"Since Nevadans elected him to the Senate in 1986, Harry Reid has developed a reputation as a consensus builder and an accomplished legislator. Even his Republican colleagues praise his reasoned, balanced approach. After Nevadans sent Harry Reid to the Senate for a third term in 1998, he was elected by his colleagues to serve as the Assistant Democratic Leader, also known as the Democratic 'Whip.' Reid provides valuable leadership to the U.S. Senate by guiding legislation through the Senate and securing the votes to pass key measures. The respected Washington publication National Journal observed that 'Senator Reid has quietly elevated a long dormant post.'

"In fact, Harry Reid has earned the trust of both Democrats and Republicans, and his reputation for integrity and fairness has given the small state of Nevada a strong voice in Congress." *3

Since entering the Senate in 1986, Senator Reid has assembled an impressive legislative and leadership record for the people of Nevada. Senator Reid has consistently fought for the rights and interests of children, families, and workers. In education, he has worked to reverse Nevada's school dropout rate by sponsoring legislation to establish a national program for dropout prevention. He has fought to bring much-needed funding for construction of schools and for hiring more qualified teachers in Nevada. In health care, Harry Reid has fought for the Patient's Bill of Rights as well as increased funding for cancer research, suicide prevention, and mental health initiatives. Harry has also fought for issues concerning senior citizens, including prescription drug coverage, long term care, and Social Security.

"Working hard to protect Nevada's environment, Senator Reid has established programs to preserve clean air and water, especially in Nevada's treasured Lake Tahoe. In addition, Senator Reid has fought vigorously and successfully to keep nuclear waste out of Nevada. Citizens of Nevada benefit each day from the transportation funds Senator Reid fought to provide. Taken together, the work and achievements of Senator Reid have changed the face of Nevada for the better." *4

On October 22, 2000, U. S. Senator Harry Reid received the "Outstanding Democrat of the Decade" 1990's Award from the Paradise Democratic Club of Las Vegas (PDCLV) at the Skyview Room of the Bally's Casino and Hotel, Las Vegas. In the Program, the National Anthem was sung by Rose McKinny James. The Event was chaired by the President of PDCLV, John Ponticello. He introduced participants of all the elected officers, leaders of unions, persons campaigned for public service, among others. The Keynote Speaker was Senator Harry Reid. Special Speakers were U. S. Senator Richard Bryan, U. S. Congresswoman Shelley Berkley, and U. S. Senate Candidate Ed Bernstein. Comments were offered by Rory Reid, Nevada State Democratic Party Chairman, and Danny Thompson, Secretary/Treasurer of Nevada State AFL-CIO.

The heightlight of the Event and Party was the presentation of the Outstanding Democrat of the Decade Award to U.S. Senator Harry Reid by the President of Paradise Democratic Club of Las Vegas, John Ponticello. U. S. Senator Reid graduated from Utah State University in 1961. He received Juris Doctor degree from George Washington University. On April 10, 1998, he was honored as Advisor and Vice Chairman of the Advisory Board of Washington Business and Technology Institute.*5

"Asian Pacific American have made profound contributions to American life, including the arts, economy, education, science, technology, politics, and sport. This community was here to help build trascontinental railroad, to serve in the Civil War, and to develop the latest Internet technology. I'm pleased to assure all you leaders of the community here today that I'll continue working to preserve and advance the heritage and value of Asian Americans. I'll put my effort to reach out and address issues of importance to the Asian American community, including the economy, education, safety, racial profiling, and hate crime, and immigration, among others. I'd like also to show my appreciation of all your accomplishments and contributions to the American way of life and your oustanding participation in the political, business , and educational processes. It's my pleasure to accept the honor as Professor of Administrative Strategies of the Graduate School of Business and Public Administration of Washington Business and Technology Institute," said Harry Reid, U. S. Senator and Assistant Democratic Leader of the Senate at Asian American Leaders Tea with United States Senator Harry Reid on May 31, 2003 at Korean Garden B. B. Q. House in Las Vegas.*6

The following is our post for Harry soon after we received the "WHIP ROUND UP" on Friday at 2:37 p. m., May 7, 2004 from the Office of the Assistant Democratic Leader of the U. S. Senate and Senator Harry Reid:

Reid for Nevada*7

VA Will Expand Veterans Health Services in Nevada

Secretary of Veterans Affairs Anthony Principi announced Friday that the Veterans Administration will develop a Medical Center Campus in Las Vegas that will include a new hospital, nursing home and outpatient clinic. Fallon also will receive a new facility and services in Reno will be expanded. Nevada has the fastest-growing veterans population of any state, and Senator Harry Reid and the entire Congressional delegation have been urging the VA to provide more health services for veterans in the state.
Reid, Ensign Working Together to Boost Homeland Security

Senators Reid and John Ensign are working closely with Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge to meet the needs of Nevada's police, firefighters and other emergency personnel. Reid and Ensign sent a letter to Ridge this week urging him to increase Homeland Security funding for Las Vegas, citing the need for a new $40 million communications system. Reid and Ensign worked with Ridge to secure an additional $10.5 million for Homeland Security last year.
Reid Offers Plan To Reroute Helicopter Flights

Senator Reid this week sponsored a bill that would give relief to Las Vegas residents who have complained about noise from helicopter tours to the Grand Canyon. Reid's proposal, which is supported by the entire Nevada delegation, would convey 230 acres of federal land to Clark County for use as a public heliport. The land is located just south of the Henderson city limits and east of Interstate 15. Helicopter tours currently originate at McCarran International Airport, and their flight path takes them over many residential neighborhoods.

Members of the National Breast Cancer Coalition of Nevada present Senator Reid with an award for his work to prevent and cure breast cancer. State President Gail Allen is at Senator Reid's left in the black NBCC shirt.

Week in Review

Senate Makes Progress on FSC/ETI Bill - The Senate this week worked on a measure to repeal the foreign sales corporation/extraterritorial income tax break, approving several amendments. On a 52-47 vote, an amendment was approved that protects the rights of American workers to receive overtime pay when they work more than 40 hours a week. Another amendment will provide up to $2 billion in federal bonds to redevelop environmental "brownfield" areas. Senate leaders are still trying to reach an agreement that would allow the bill to move forward after a vote on an amendment to extend unemployment benefits for up to 1.5 million workers.

Senate Approves New Ambassador to Iraq- The President's nominee as U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, John Negroponte, was overwhelming approved by the Senate on Thursday (95 to 3). Ambassador Negroponte, who is the current U.S. Representative to the United Nations, is scheduled to report to Iraq at the end of June. He will oversee the United States' single largest embassy of 3000 persons.

Defense Secretary Rumsfeld Faces Senate Panel- Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Friday, responding to questions about the abuse of Iraqi prisoners. Rumsfeld announced the formation of a special investigative commission to examine the allegations and warned the panel that there are more graphic pictures of prisoner abuse yet to be disclosed.*8

INSIDER'S CALENDAR
The Senate will convene Monday, May 10, at 2:00 p.m., with a period of morning business.
The Senate is expected to resume consideration of the FSC-ETI legislation. Cloture was filed on the bill, and if no further agreement is reached, this vote will occur on Tuesday.
In addition, the Senate is expected to vote on an Iraq prisoner resolution at approximately 5:30 p.m. on Monday.
During the remainder of the week, the Senate is expected to consider the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) Reauthorization bill.

Reid's Words
I am delighted the Veterans Administration will develop a Medical Center Campus in Las Vegas that will include a new hospital, nursing home and outpatient clinic. Our veterans in southern Nevada are finally going to get the kind of care they deserve.*9

http://reid.senate.gov Fax: (202) 228-7362 Phone: (202) 224 - 2158

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References

*1. GSBPA is the initial of Graduate School of Business and Public Administration (GSBPA) of Washington Business and Technology Institute (WBTI).
*2. Office of the Assistant Democratic Leader. 'Meet U. S. Senator Harry Reid,' "A search from yahoo.com at Yahoo!" Washington, D. C.: Office of the Assistant Democratic Leader Harry Reid.
*3. Ibid.
*4. Ibid.
*5. PAI of WBTI. 'Outstanding Democrat of the year 2003 -- Assembly Majority Leader Barbara Burckley,' "Newsbrief of WBTI," (March 2, 2004), Las Vegas, Nevada: WBTI.
*6. GSBPA of WBTI. 'U. S. Senator Harry Reid fights for oue people,' "PPAA18 of WBTI," (March 26, 2004), Las Vegas, Nevada: WBTI.
*7. Office of the Assistant Democratic Leader. 'WHIP ROUND UP,' "An e-mail to Dr. Tony Lei from the Office of U. S. Senator Harry Reid," (May 7, 2004), Washington, D. C.: Office of the Assistant Democratic Leader Harry Reid.
*8. Ibid.
*9. Ibid.

Advisory Board: Governor Kenny Guinn, Chairman; U. S. Senators Harry Reid and John Ensign, Vice Chairmen; U. S. Representatives James Gibbons and Shelley Berkley, and Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman, Executive Directors.
U. S. Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao
Chairperson
Dr. Tony T. Lei
President
District Judges Mark Denton and Valorie Vega
Vice Presidents
Dr. William N. Thompson
Director of Public Administration Institution
Dr. E. Lee Bernick and Dr. G. Keong Leong
Deans of Graduate School of Business and Public Administration
Dr. Sue Fawn Chung
Director of Culture Institution
Justice of the Supreme Court William Maupin, Attorney General Brian Sandoval, and District Judge Stewart Bell, Honorary Chairmen of Clark County District Attorney and Police Civil Commission (CCDAPCC)
District Attorney David Roger and Clark County Sheriff Bill Young
Chairmen of CCDAPCC
(702) 255-9058
*It's our pleasure to pay a tribute to the above officials who dedicate to the civic and community service spects of our organization in an honorary or adjunct capacity.

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Fair and food festival starts Asian Pacific American Heritage Month in Las Vegas, Clark County, and Nevada
By CI of WBTI*1

It's our pleasure to serve for the publicity of the events and activities on Asian Pacific American Heritage Month by the Asian Community in Las Vegas and Clark County on the month of May in 2004.*2

The Las Vegas-Clark County Library District will feature free public events that highlight Asian and Pacific cultures in celebration of Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month throughout the month of May. We invite you to participate with us in this month-long celebration as a member of the Las Vegas community.*3

Our Asian Pacific American Culture Fair and Food Festival will be held on Saturday, May 8th from 11am-4pm at the Sahara West Library. Over 2000 people are expected to attend this event.*4

Through the courtesy of Las Vegas Review-Journal, we are pleased to post a concerned report on the Events from this largest newspaper in Nevada as in the following;

Friday, May 07, 2004
Copyright @ Las Vegas Review-Journal

Embracing Culture*5

Fair and food festival starts Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
REVIEW-JOURNAL

*****"Taiwan: Touch Your Heart," a touring photo exhibit, reveals the culture and beauty of Taiwan during Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.(For the photo, please check it with LVRJ.)
*****Paintings by Jupiter Nagatsuka are on display at the Sahara West Library Grotto.(For the photo, please check it with LVRJ.)
*****A fashion and dance show is part of the festivities.(For the photo, please check it with LVRJ.)

A Culture Fair and Food Festival this weekend at the Sahara West Library, 9600 W. Sahara Ave., helps celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, a series of events sponsored by the Las Vegas-Clark County Library.

Set for Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., the event will feature crafts, food and entertainment.

Admission to all events is free.

Other activities include:

***Megumi, bilingual storyteller, narrates Japanese folk tales she remembered as a child, and real-life stories from the Japanese internment camps in World War II: 10 a.m. Tuesday, Whitney Library, 5175 E. Tropicana Ave.; 1 p.m. Tuesday, West Las Vegas Library, 951 W. Lake Mead Blvd.; 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sunrise Library, 5400 Harris Ave.; 10 a.m. Wednesday, Clark County Library, 1401 E. Flamingo Road; 3 p.m. Wednesday, Summerlin Library, 1771 Inner Circle Drive; and 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, West Charleston Library, 6301 W. Charleston Blvd.

***Martial Arts Festival, with students from local martial arts schools demonstrating various styles of martial arts, 7 p.m. May 14, Rainbow Library, 3150 N. Buffalo Drive.

***Achieve balance and harmony through feng shui with local resident and feng shui master Lin Huang, plus tips on good health, fulfilling relationships and lasting prosperity, 6:30 p.m. May 18, West Charleston Library.

Plus, feng shui expert and local resident Peter Lung will lecture on "How to Feng Shui Your House," 7 p.m. May 26, Sahara West Library, 9600 W. Sahara Ave.

***Fashion and dance show presented by local groups, 2 p.m. May 22, Clark County Library.

***Asian Cinefest with feature-length, shorts, animation and documentary films, 2 p.m. May 15, Clark County Library, including "I Am Driving in My Car/I Am Walking Up the Hill," "Lost," "Butterfly," "Chocolate," "Saigon USA," "Mahjong to the Grave," and "A Place Where There Are Moths."

Other films, showing at 2 p.m. May 16, West Charleston Library, include "American Aloha: Hula Beyond Hawaii," "Cooleyville," "Killavator," "Double Exposure," "Friday" and "Carnal Noise."

***"Something Strong Within," a video about the Japanese internment camps in the United States during World War II, starts with a reception at 6 p.m. May 17, with the video at 7 p.m., in the Whitney Library.

***Children's programs include "Kawi Pawi Po (rock, paper, scissors)," a Korean folk tale for 6 and older, 4 p.m. Thursday, Green Valley Library, 2797 N. Green Valley Parkway; 4 p.m. Thursday, Las Vegas Library, 833 Las Vegas Blvd. North; 4 p.m. May 19, Rainbow Library; 4 p.m. May 20, West Las Vegas Library; and 7 p.m. May 20, Enterprise Library, 25 E. Shelbourne Ave.

Origami: 4 p.m. Tuesday and May 18 and May 25, Spring Valley Library, 4280 S. Jones Blvd.

Puppet show: Asian tales presented by the Library District's Web On Wheels (WOW) Team, 3 p.m. Monday, Mount Charleston Library, 1252 Aspen Ave.; 11 a.m. May 15, Moapa Valley Library, 350 N. Moapa Valley Blvd.; and 3 p.m. May 25, Indian Springs Library, 715 Gretta Lane.

***Gallery exhibits include "Taiwan -- Touch Your Heart," a touring exhibit featuring an award-winning collection of photographs showcasing the culture and scenic beauty of Taiwan, through May 23 at the Sunrise Library and West Charleston Library; and through May 25 at the Las Vegas Library.

Also "The Happiness," artist Jupiter Nagatsuka's paintings reminiscent of the Asian landscape, through May 31, Sahara West Library (during library hours.)
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***This Week's NEON
*****PREVIEW
what: Asian Pacific American Heritage Month*6
when: Throughout May
where: Various library locations
tickets: Free (734-7323)

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References

*1. CI of WBTI is the initials of Culture Institution of Washington Business and Technology Institute (WBTI).
*2. Segura, Kristine J.; and CI of WBTI. 'Please help us publicize Asian Pacific American Heritage Month,' "PPAA18 of WBTI," (April 6, 2004), Las Vegas, Nevada: WBTI.
*3. Segura, Kristine J.; and CI of WBTI. 'Response from Kristine for our article to help publicize the events of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month,' "PPAA18 of WBTI," (April 12, 2004), Las Vegas, Nevada: WBTI.
*4. Ibid.
*5. LVRJ. 'Fair and food festival starts Asian Pacific American Heritage Month,' "Las Vega Review-Journal," (May 7, 2004), Las Vegas, Nevada: reviewjournal.com.
*6. Ibid.

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GAMING OUTSIDE LAS VEGAS: Gambling on Macau
--- Coming Sands opening to end longtime island monopoly
By Rod Smith

Thursday, May 06, 2004
Copyright @ Las Vegas Review-Journal*1

GAMING OUTSIDE LAS VEGAS: Gambling on Macau
Coming Sands opening to end longtime island monopoly*2

By ROD SMITH
GAMING WIRE

Sheldon Adelson(For his photo, please check LVRJ)
Steve Wynn(For his photo, please check LVRJ)

Gaming magnate Sheldon Adelson's 1-million-square-foot Sands Macau casino and entertainment complex, which is leading a wave of new casino developments off the coast of China, is expected to open May 18.

The $240 million Sands Macau will be owned by Adelson's holding company, Las Vegas Sands, and will have 319 table games, 600 slot machines, 18 restaurants, bars and entertainment venues located near the ferry terminal in Macau.

Las Vegas Sands President Bill Weidner said the Sands Macau will give a face lift to Macau, which he compared to downtown Las Vegas or Reno.

He said the growth of China, whose economy has been growing at more than 14 percent a year over the past decade, is driving the development of Macau as a visitor destination.

"China is the fastest-growing major economy in the world, and the fourth-largest export economy in the world," he said.

It boasts the fastest-growing and second-largest middle class, which is rapidly becoming the largest middle class of any country in the world, Weidner said.

He said with about 1.4 billion people within a couple hundred miles of Macau, the island is also destined to become one of the biggest and fastest-growing visitor destinations anywhere.

Las Vegas Sands plans to use the market to compete with other Asian destinations and to lure more visitors to its properties in Las Vegas, Weidner said.

The opening of the Sands Macau casino will break up a monopoly on casino operations in Macau that Stanley Ho, 82, and his gambling cronies have enjoyed for almost 50 years.

Two years ago, authorities approved breaking the monopoly on casino operations by awarding gambling concessions to three groups -- Adelson, Las Vegas-based Wynn Resorts and Ho's group of companies.

The Sands Macau is next to the $60 million Galaxy Waldo Hotel-Casino, a smaller property with 38 tables and 100 slot machines being developed by Galaxy, a company started by Hong Kong property tycoon Lui Che-woo, who shares a casino license with Adelson. It is run by Francis Lui and is set to open in June.

A $122 million waterfront entertainment and retail complex called Fisherman's Wharf is being built on the other side of Adelson's casino by Ho and David Chow, his partner, and is set to open before year's end.

Las Vegas developer Steve Wynn is also planning to build a $500 million hotel-casino, which is expected to open in 2006, although he is hoping for reforms to the enclave's gambling laws before he commits further.

In addition to opening the Sands Macau next to the ferry terminal, Las Vegas Sands is obligated to open the Macau Venetian Casino Resort, a second and permanent casino, by June 2006, and invest $550 million in its Macau developments by June 2009.

Adelson's long-term plans to develop the $10 billion, so-called Cotai Strip, a strip of reclaimed land between the Macau islands of Taipa and Coloane, includes a 1,500-room resort and casino. He is inviting others to join in building the 20 casinos and 60,000 hotel rooms that will constitute the new Las Vegas Strip East.

The Galaxy operation, a group of Hong Kong investors that has teamed up with Adelson, also plans to build a 3,000-room resort casino on separate land in 2006.

In all, these projects will require 22,000 additional workers and increase the number of jobs in Macau by about 10 percent.

All the development is transforming Macau. The latest boom helped push Macau's economy ahead by a 15.6 percent last year, with growth hitting a 21.1 percent in the fourth quarter.

Wynn, who declined to discuss his development, remains the wild card amid this sudden bustle of development.

He threatened in August to pull out of a planned venture if Macau failed to enact gambling reforms by the end of last year. It didn't happen, but Wynn didn't make good on his threat to bail out.

He is hoping for legislative changes in Macau that would let gaming companies extend credit to gamblers, as well as tax reforms.

Macau lawmakers are working on allowing casinos to lend money to gamblers, but one of them, Ng Kuok-cheong, said the bill stops short on tax concessions.*3

***The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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References

*1. Through the courtesy of Las Vegas Review-Journal.
*2. Smith, Rod. 'GAMING OUTSIDE LAS VEGAS: Gambling on Macau --- Coming Sands opening to end longtime island monopoly,' "Las Vegas Review-Journal," (May 6, 2004), Las Vegas, Nevada: reviewjournal.com.
*3. Ibid.