What defines a true hero?

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The dictionary defines

A person's heroes can change over time. When we're young, I believe we are more inclined to relate heroism to wealth, power and fame than to the attributes the dictionary outlines.

In my youth, I probably would have said Michael Jordan was my hero. I

enjoyed watching his athletic talent and admired the tremendous success he achieved. But like any human being, he wasn't perfect . Skeletons in his closet were gradually revealed, and as I matured, I began to realize there were people more worth looking up to. Jordan was a great basketball player but didn't merit worshipping. Incidentally, Tiger Woods' fans are experiencing the same thing today. His indiscretions are yet another reminder that we should all rethink the meaning of

Who among us is truly worthy of being called a hero? As the holidays approach , we hear about the need to help those less fortunate by sacrificing our time, money and possessions. Many of us will attend church services, where we will sing songs of praise and say prayers of thanks to God for saving his fallen, imperfect people. The purpose of this column isn't to preach or convert, but to me, there can be no greater act of heroism than laying down one's life to save others. Jesus is a true hero to me and Christians everywhere.

Whether they are religious or not, it's a safe assumption nearly everyone will gather with loved ones this holiday season.

Many families, including mine, will have folks missing from the celebration for an especially noble reason:

They will be serving our country overseas, protecting our freedom and helping to ensure that future celebrations will be possible. They are also true embodiments of heroism.

I have one cousin and one friend currently serving in Iraq. Both of my grandfathers served in the military

I am fortunate not to have lost anyone close to me to war. My heart goes out to the many who have. But all who have served are worthy of the lofty designation of

because they loved their country enough to defend its honor and principles and were willing to risk their lives fighting for it.

Both active duty personnel I know were overseas while their wives were pregnant and now are temporarily separated from their young children. Their wives maintain order at home and count the days to their return. We pray for their safety and send them care packages of food and gifts. But no matter what happens, my cousin and friend can tell their kids that their daddies are heroes.

I hope the children will grow to understand that the title of

priceless that no athlete could afford it.

Matthew Zellmer lives in Hales Corners. E-mail mz80@yahoo.com

Someone to look up to

Whom do our children choose?

By Rose McIlveen

To answer the question above, you need to look no further than professional basketball team listings in the television schedules, according to David Gallahue, professor of kinesiology and associate dean of academic affairs and research at the Indiana University School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation in Bloomington.

In a survey conducted by HPER's David Gallahue, more than 50 percent of children named a sport figure as their primary hero. Based on gender, 43 percent of girls placed a

Gallahue has been conducting a survey of boys and girls in grades 3-6 in the metropolitan Indianapolis area since 1993 and finds the results troubling . The study was designed to examine the types of heroes children select, with

The latter particularly bothered the professor.

More than 50% of the children named a sport figures as their primary

hero

Based on gender, 43 percent of girls placed a

but I'd like to see girls have more positive females models in sport

Gallahue pointed out that there are plenty of role models in the entertainment industry.

David Gallahue Photo by Heather Hill

What surprised Gallahue was that it was not only important but almost

imperative that boys name another male as a hero.

He suggested that one reason for the scarcity of female sport figures turning up in the survey is because they are not the ones getting lucrative contracts to promote sneakers and sports drinks. That points up how the children know about sports figures in the first place and why they outweigh

That brings up another concern.

him portrayed as the family man he is, with wife and children and seen coaching, mentoring or doing anti-drug commercials,

He believes that the survey results bring a challenge to teachers, as well as parents

Of the 4,000 children surveyed over a three-year period, Gallahue is most concerned about the ones who have no heroes.

The surveys are given at the National Institute for Fitness and Sport in Indianapolis and cover 42 different school districts. In the questionnaire,

heroes were grouped in three categories: (a)

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and B for False, or A for Y, B for N and C for NG.)

小题

1. B (Hidden)

2. D (Hidden)

3. C (Hidden)

4. D (Hidden)

5. B (Hidden)

6. B (Hidden) c

7. C (Hidden)

8. C (Hidden)

9. A (Hidden)

Subtotal: 16

Part 2 Long conversations (每小题: 3 分; 满

and B for False, or A for Y, B for N and C for NG.)

小题

1. B (Hidden)

2. D (Hidden)

3. C (Hidden)

4. C (Hidden)

5. D (Hidden)

6. B (Hidden) a

7. A (Hidden)

8. B (Hidden)

9. C (Hidden)

10. D (Hidden)

Subtotal: 21

Part 3 Understanding Passages (

(In the case of True/False type of questions, A stands for True

and B for False, or A for Y, B for N and C for NG.)

小题 得分 对错 学生答案 Correct 1. D (Hidden)

2. C (Hidden)

3. A (Hidden)

4. C (Hidden)

5. B (Hidden)

6. C (Hidden)

7. A (Hidden) d

8. B (Hidden)

9. C (Hidden)

10. A (Hidden)

11. D (Hidden)

12. C (Hidden)

13. D (Hidden) b 14. D (Hidden) b 15. C (Hidden)

Subtotal: 24

Part 4 Compound Dictation (每题: 1 分; 满分:22 分) 小题 得分 对错 学生答案 Correct 1. moment (Hidden) 2. freedom (Hidden) 3. choose (Hidden) 4. calendar (Hidden) 5. lasts (Hidden) 6. customs (Hidden) 7. clubs (Hidden) 8. fantasies (Hidden) 9. (

10. (未答) (Hidden)

11. (未答) (Hidden)

12. survived (Hidden)

13. danger (Hidden)

14. woods (Hidden)

15. bunches (Hidden)

16. protect (Hidden)

17. evil (Hidden)

18. abroad (Hidden)

19. pillows (Hidden)

20. In west Ireland the direction of the wind blowing at New Year would indicate the trend of politics in the coming year (Hidden)

21. Also on New Year's Eve if they ate a very large supper they would have plenty of food for the coming year (Hidden) 22. this was done so as to drive out any misfortune and let happiness in (Hidden)

Subtotal: 15

Total: 76

正确率: 76%

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The History of Uncle Sam

September 7 marks the 195th birthday of Uncle Sam. The nickname for

the United States was given in 1813 and linked to Samuel Wilson, a meat

packer from Troy, New York. The nickname eventually lead to a

personification of the United States and was used in a great deal of

campaigning and recruiting plans.

During the War of 1812, Samuel Wilson supplied barrels of beef to the

United States Army and stamped "U.S." on the outsides. The soldiers soon jokingly referring to the food as "Uncle Sam's" and eventually a

local newspaper picked up the story. The coverage led to the people of

the United States to adopt "Uncle Sam" as the nickname for the U.S.

federal government.

Over time, several cartoonists and artists began developing the image of the Uncle Sam we picture today

.

The first image came from political cartoonist Thomas Nast in the late 1860s and 1870s. Nast took the idea of Uncle Sam and tied it to an elderly man with a white beard and a stars-and-stripes suit.

Nast was responsible for a great deal of our country's most popular imagery.

He created the donkey as the symbol for the Democratic Party and the elephant as the symbol for the Republican Party

as well as a modern drawing of "Merry Old Santa Claus," which was featured in Harper's Weekly on January 1, 1881

Artist James Montgomery Flagg took the image of Uncle Sam a step further and created possibly Uncle Sam's most famous picture. His version of Uncle Sam showed him wearing a tall top hat with a wide blue band and white stars, a red bow tie and a blue jacket Uncle Sam is staring sternly ahead and pointing at the viewer. It was its placement on World War I recruiting posters (with the phrase "I Want

You For the U.S. Army" beneath it) that truly solidified Uncle Sam as the personification of the United States.

Afterwards, the image was used on the cover of Leslie's Weekly in July 1916 with the title "What Are You Doing For Preparedness?" underneath the image. The image has been used in recruiting and is consistently used in modern culture. Besides appearing as a comic book hero for Quality and DC comics, Uncle Sam is also used in imagery for the New York Yankees. The Major League Baseball team uses Uncle Sam's hat in their team logo, where it sits on top of a bat that forms the vertical line of the "K" in "Yankees." Fans often wear Uncle Sam hats to games or events promoting the team.

The rock group Grateful Dead featured a skeletal Uncle Sam as one of their symbols, referring back to their song U.S. Blues, "Red and white, blue suede shoes, I'm Uncle Sam, how do you do?" Most recently, the image of Uncle Sam was featured prominently in the 2007 film Across the Universe. A film based around the songs of the Beatles, a larger than life Uncle Sam reaches out from a Vietnam recruiting poster to grab a young man responding to his draft notice during the song, "I Want You."

Other personifications of the United States previously were Brother

Jonathan and Columbia. Brother Jonathan was regarded as the personification of the United States as early as 1776. "Brother Jonathan" was a term used by British Loyalists to describe Revolutionary Patriots. Believed to be based on the Governor of Connecticut, Jonathan Turnbull, the image of Brother Jonathan soon appeared in political cartoons and posters. Very similar to Uncle Sam, he is pictured with a top hat, a coat with tails and striped pants. Gradually during the Civil War, Brother Jonathan was replaced by Uncle Sam and Columbia. By the end of the war, Uncle Sam had been firmly adopted.

Columbia was a name for America taken from African American poet Phillis Wheatley. The first to describe the new nation as the goddess Columbia in 1775, the image stuck, however it wasn't the first time America had viewed herself as a woman. In the sixteenth century, images of America as a woman showed her to be a half-clothed Native American, sometimes as a "savage cannibal woman" or "a regal Indian queen." She was the rebellious princess next to her staunch mother, Britain. As America began to develop, its inhabitants became tired of the Native American image personifying their country. Wheatley's Columbia, a Caucasian goddess, became the new favorite.

Usually portrayed as a woman from the Roman Republic, she wore a

white toga, often wore a helmet and was accompanied by the flag, the eagle and documents such as the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution.

However, of all these images the United States has associated itself with, Uncle Sam is the one that has remained constant. Though these other two persons have been abandoned, they remain fascinating images to study. In a sense, they document the journey of America -- the changing persons representing a changing country.

ORIGIN OF THE NAME 'GOOGLE'

Origin of the name "Google"

From time to time I read or hear stories of the origin of the search engine and company name "Google" that are incorrect, which prompts me to write this brief account, based on my understanding of the genesis of the name. The source of my information is my friends and colleages

from Wing 3B of the Gates Computer Science Building at Stanford University, where Google was born.

In 1996, Larry Page and Sergey Brin called their initial search engine

"BackRub," named for its analysis of the of the web's "back links." Larry's

office was in room 360 of the Gates CS Building, which he shared with several other graduate students, including Sean Anderson and Tamara

Munzner. In 1997, Larry and his officemates discussed a number of

possible new names for the rapidly improving search technology. Sean

recalls the final brainstorming session as occurring one day during

September of that year.

Sean and Larry were in their office, using thewhiteboard, trying to think up a good name

something that related to the indexing of an immense amount of data. Sean verbally suggested the word "googolplex," and Larry responded verbally with the shortened form,

"googol." Sean was seated at his computer terminal, so he executed a search of the domain name registry database to see if the newly

suggested name was still available for registration and use. Sean is not an infallible speller, and he made the mistake of searching for the name spelled as "google.com," which he found to be available.

Larry liked the name, and within hours he took the step of registering the name "google.com" for himself and Sergey (the domain name registration record dates from September 15, 1997).

David Koller (Email Removed), January, 2004

http://graphics.stanford.edu/~dk/google name origin.html

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Om Shanti

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The truth about Islam and Muslims

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The terrorist mission of Jesus stated in the Christian bible:

"Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not so send peace, but a sword.

"For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

"And a man's foes shall be they of his own household. - Matthew 10:34-36.

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Brazil's Famous Carnival Holiday

RenataPauperio from Brazil

Carnival is the most famous holiday in Brazil. It is not about a big moment in history or about a famous person, but it is important for the people because it's a time of camaraderie, freedom, and almost a whole week without work.

People can choose between parties or rest, and most people choose parties, day after day, night after night.

It starts forty days before Easter. It's based on the Christian calendar, but it isn't approved by the Church very well.

It lasts four days and four nights. It starts on Saturday and finishes on a Thursday. People put on their costumes and go out into the streets or to clubs.

There are also the Samba schools which make a parade showing their music, fantasies, and allegorical cars. They are followed by the people. Every year the parade tell a different story. Each city has one or more schools like this.

Carnival is celebrated in the south where by Wednesday everything comes back to normal

The problem is that it is not approved by the church in the Northwest where carnival is more traditional.

There people don't respect its end and keep going to party until the next Sunday

I like Carnival, but I don't agree that the party should keep going on. And, like at every other popular party, people drive, dance and have fun. Unfortunately, some people aren't conscientious and give it a bad name, leaving a bad impression of this holiday,

but it is the only national holiday that moves all the country and its different kinds of people and cultures together

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New Year Traditions

Irish (Celtic) New Year

The Irish New Year festival is known as Samhain which meant summer ends and was celebrated on 31 October. The festival has survived as Halloween.

It was at this time they hold their General Assembly. This was held in the out in the air parliament where the laws were renewed and accounts of events, details of births, deaths and marriages, were recorded.

This day was considered of great danger for it was when the spirits of the dead returned to earth. It was believed the spirits could do harm unless precautions were taken. The Celtic priests go into the woods on New Year's Eve to gather bunches of mistletoe which they handed out to

people to protect them from any harm. Also bonfires were lit to drive away evil forces. They also believed that it was safer to stay indoors as fairies were abroad on New Year's Eve.

In Ireland the girls would go to bed with sprigs of mistletoe, or holly and ivy leaves under their pillows so they would go to bed dreaming of their future husbands. They might also chant:

Tell me, tell me whom I shall wed!

In western Ireland the direction of the wind blowing at New Year would indicate the trend of politics in the coming year

If it blew from the west it would flourish, if from the east the English would have upper hand.

Also if they ate a very large New Year's Eve dinner they would have plenty of food for the coming year

One custom that was practiced on New Year's Eve was to take a large loaf of Christmas bread or cake outside the house and hammer it against the closed doors and windows,

this was done so as to drive out any misfortune and let happiness in

The Druids gave a gift of twigs from the mistletoe, as this was a plant that was sacred to them as a magic source of fertility. It would bestow on the recipient a fruitful year in the number of children, as well as the amount of cattle and the amount of crop.

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