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by Sarah BatesGreat American Adventures Week (the fi rst week of August) is for celebrating our coun-try with your own American adventure. The next time you travel, check out some of the places visited and loved by our list of Great American Heroes.

Sojourner Truth was born Isabella Baum-• free in 1797 in New York. Isabella, who only spoke Dutch until the age of nine, es-caped to freedom in 1826. She changed her name to Sojourner Truth in 1843, be-lieving the Holy Spirit told her to travel and preach the truth. Her most famous speech was “Ain’t I a Woman?” given in 1851 at a Women’s Rights convention in Ohio. She is remembered not only for travelling and preaching, but also as a strong advocate of African American and Women’s Rights. Her grave can be found in Battle Creek, Michigan.Abraham Lincoln • was the 16th US President, as we all well know. But did you know that Lincoln was the fi rst President from the Repub-lican Party? Also, Lincoln was the only President to hold a patent - it was for a device to lift boats over shoals. Lincoln personally invited Freder-ick Douglass to his inaugural reception in 1865. Douglass had some trouble entering the event, but it is written that when Doug-lass entered the room with the President, Lincoln said to his friends “Here comes my friend Douglass,” and took his hand.Clara Barton was born on Christmas Day • in 1821 in Oxford, Massachusetts. She was a nurse for the U.S. Army in the Civ-il War. While on a trip to Europe, Barton became involved with the Red Cross and upon returning she pioneered a branch in America, which was founded on May 21, 1881 in New York. Clara Barton was the President of the American Red Cross for twenty-two years and retired at age eighty-three.

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GREAT AMERICAN HEROES (continued)Frederick Douglass was born Frederick Au-• gustus Washington Bailey in 1818 in Talbot County, Maryland, but even Douglass was never sure about the actual date of his birth. He chose February 14th as his own birthday because his mother used to call him her “little Valentine.” He changed his name from Bailey to Douglass after escaping slavery in 1838. The name Douglass is a variant of the Scottish Doug-las and is thought to derive from the Gaelic for “black-green water.” Douglass is most notably remembered for his work with the abolitionist movement and a CNN article named him “one of the abolition move-ment’s most effective anti-slavery speak-ers.”Samuel Longhorne Clemens was born • November 11, 1835 in Florida, Missouri. At age thirteen he left school to become a printer’s apprentice and later became a printer and editorial assistant at his brother Orion’s newspaper. At age seventeen he became a river pilot’s assistant, becom-ing a licensed river pilot himself in 1858. His pen name, Mark Twain, came from his days on the river. “Mark twain” was a mea-surement and meant two fathoms, marking the boat clear to pass through that portion of river. Clemens used other pseudonyms, such as “Sieur Louis de Conte” and “Thom-as Jefferson Snodgrass.” He is remem-bered for creating some of American lit-erature’s most loved rascals, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Did you know that it is rumored that Thomas Edison recorded Twain’s voice on a wax cylinder? The great Native American Sitting Bull • was born around 1831 and given the tem-porary name of Hoka Psice, which means Jumping Badger. Sioux were given tem-porary names as children and would later take a name that better represented them as their personalities developed. He was well known for his way of thinking things through before acting and would later be known as Tataka Iyotaka, Sitting Bull, for the rest of his life. Sitting Bull is probably

best known for his victory over General Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn. He was a holy man among his people and a representative of the strength and wisdom of the Native Americans. He was an avid defender of his land and his people.Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise Mc-• Cauley on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. She dropped out of high school to care for her ailing mother but later fin-ished her education and obtained her di-ploma in 1934. She served as Secretary to the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP. Rosa Parks was the first woman and sec-ond African American to be laid in state at the U.S. capital Rotunda in Washington D.C. and was named one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People of the 20th Cen-tury. Her refusal to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama is often re-membered as the start of the Civil Rights Movement.Walt Disney was born on December 5, • 1901 in Chicago, Illinois. His cartoon “Steamboat Willie” (1928) was the first car-toon with synchronized sound and “Flow-ers and Trees” (1932) was the first cartoon to be produced in color and to win an Os-car. He is credited with winning the most Academy Awards with twenty-two, having received one or more Academy Awards every year from 1932 until 1965 except for two years. Today, Walt is remembered for encouraging the imagination of children of all ages.Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in Atlanta, • Georgia on January 1, 1929. His grandfa-ther was the founder of the Atlanta NAACP. King held a Ph.D. in systematic theology. He was elected president of the Montgom-ery Improvement Association during the bus boycott of Montgomery. He delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1963 and he was TIME’s Man of the Year that same year. He was an advocate of nonviolent protest and a follower of Gandhian strate-gies, even once touring India in 1959. He is remembered for his passion and inspira-tion to all people. “I say to you today, my

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How Do You Eat An Elephant?One bite at a time. I have an elephant that has been around for several years and I have fi nally decided to pick up my fork and knife and set into it. I, Miriam Zoole, co-owner/publisher of Tidbits – Denver Metro Area am inviting you, all 40,000+ weekly readers, to watch me eat an elephant - my extra weight and lack of fi tness.I recently met Kim Sopoci, Personal Fitness Trainer, and immediately knew that this was someone that could help me with my elephant. Our fi rst meeting was to get a base line on my current weight and health – but before I share some of this intimate knowledge with each of you, I’d like to give you a little background about me fi rst.I’m 42 and am fairly active; I scuba dive, ski, and teach Combat Hapkido. At my heaviest, 6+ yrs ago, was wearing a man’s 3XLT t-shirt over my size 26/28 pants – and they were tight. From Memorial Day 2003 to Memorial Day 2004 I lost 74 pounds but by the fall of 2006 I had allowed my weight to creep up 40 pounds. Again, I was able to “diet” and I lost those 40 pounds plus another 20 for a total loss of 90 pounds. However, during this past year I’ve seen 20 of those pounds creep back on. I have a weight in mind that I want to achieve.

Kim says I should limit my goal to 5 pounds at a time. But it’s more than just weight. Kim is going to help me get in shape. My posture is off – I’m getting the slouching hump and my body is rotated to the right which causes problems in my joints. I need to build my muscle mass - keep me straight and looking good.Here are some of my base line measurements – blood pressure: 105/67 with a pulse of 62. My percent body fat is 36.75 – for a woman, anything over 36% is obese. Kim states that the ideal body fat percentage for a woman should be between 18 and 25%. Kim explained that we measure fat at the surface so there is a 3% plus or minus variable - there could be more that lies under the skin, the kind that can’t be measured with calipers – the really bad fat that lives in muscles and organs. To reach my body fat percentage goal, I should lose roughly 50 pounds – at least right now. Kim also explained that as I lose fat and develop muscle, this number will change. Muscle weighs more than fat so although I might lose 70 pounds in fat, I might gain 20 pounds in muscle.Kim also took out the tape measure and we documented my circumference in several areas; hips, waist, chest, thigh, calf, ankle, upper arm and wrist. There’s some great news that came out of these measurements

– my waist to hip ratio is .66 – for a woman, anything lower than .8 is low risk for cardiovascular disease, diabetes, gall bladder problems, hypertension and certain types of cancer.During our next meeting, Kim will take a base line measurement of my fi tness and strength as well as fi nd out my metabolic type. We will also go over the activity I’ve done this past week and my food intake – which reminds me… Should I tell Kim about the not-so-good-for-you-when-you’re-dieting food I’ve eaten this weekend? Hmmm – I guess I’ll have to. Each month I will write about my previous month’s progression. It is our, Kim and my, goal to help many readers by documenting this progression. Whether you are overweight, underweight or just muscle defi cient, a personal trainer, such as Kim Sopoci, can help you realize your body’s full physical potential. I know she will be a big help to me and if we can just help one person with achieving their personal fi tness goal, then we will have accomplished a good thing.If you would like to join me in eating an elephant, Kim can be reached at 303.690.3507. Visit her web site at www.KimSopoci.com for information about her program. If you have any comments about our “How Do You Eat an Elephant” adventure, please write to me directly at [email protected]

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The salesman was demonstrating un-breakable combs in the department store. He was impressing the people who stopped by to look by putting the comb through all sorts of torture and stress. Finally to im-press even the skeptics in the crowd, he bent the comb completely in half, and it snapped with a loud crack. Without miss-ing a beat, he bravely held up both halves of the ‘unbreakable’ comb for everyone to see and said, “And this, ladies and gentle-men, is what an unbreakable comb looks like on the inside...”

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An American scientist once visited the offi ces of the great Nobel Prize-winning physicist, Neils Bohr, in Copenhagen, and was amazed to fi nd a horseshoe was nailed to the wall over his desk. The Amer-ican said with a nervous laugh, “Surely you don’t believe that horseshoe will bring you good luck, do you, Professor Bohr?” Bohr chuckled. “I believe no such thing, my good friend. Not at all. I am scarcely likely to be-lieve in such foolish nonsense. However, I am told that a horseshoe will bring you good luck whether you believe in it or not! How can one argue with such logic?”

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After years of scrimping and saving, a husband told his wife the good news: “Honey, we’ve fi nally saved enough money to buy what we started saving for in 1979.” “You mean a brand-new Cadillac?” she asked eagerly. “No,” said the husband, “a 1979 Cadillac.”

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