The clock will soon strike twelve in New Year’s Eve. Both of you and some others near you right now, who really didn’t spend days and nights to take care you like me since you were born, will cheer and happily welcome the coming of New Year.
Some days you both will know that I, your grandpa have been struggle whole life to build good life for all of you.
A precious moment of our life, 08
I have a family who I care in every moment of my life until now. I am the father of my children, and the grandfather of my grandsons. I have contributed all my life, knowledge and experience to everywhere I have lived. I have never owed anyone anything but always tried to help others as much as I could. However, the society has forgotten my existence, my peers and pals already far from me in somewhere of the world because I have to be here to take care you.
Do you remember what is this and who presented this little world for you ?
Do you remember this little red car and who bought for you ? Grandpa lost the golden car in the corner of this picture after intensively used by family for the past 8 years! I am one of the poorest citizens who do not own a car after worked whole life for the family.
Do you still remember who took you to school since your pre-school year ?
Do you remember this photo and why we should be there ?
I am lonely even in this New Year’s Eve
Children, who are just formally not wholeheartedly faithful to the God, love their parents’ assets and banking deposit instead their parent’s life and well-being. They are selfish and greedy.
My dear grandsons: your grandpa love you by showing the world how much I care about you in every moment and aspect of your life starting about 9 years ago. I hope you both grow up to be faithful, sincere, unselfish, caring and highly successful contributors to you country as well as the world.
I am a lonely grandpa in this New Year Eve. How many New Year Eves I’ll have in the rest of my life journey?
Debt-Free bay-front condominium before I came to here for caring you
Forget my Poor-Love, Take someone Rich-Vanity
You do not need me anymore because I am now so poor and have to stop my own life in the near future. Go to live with those who are wealthy. I know that someday you will no longer need Poor-Love but desire Rich-Vanity.
Present to Grandpa if not bothering you happy life
If possible please give me a small present: playing the good oldie -Auld Lang Syne for me when I have to rest forever:
My dear grandsons: please forgive my emotion and allow me to wish you both
Happy New Year and having great achievements in 2011
by Emma Lazarus
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips.
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
新的巨人
作者：Emma Lazarus (1883)
译者：David Clinton Huang, 黄达维 Nov 2008 USA
不如希腊闻名的巨人铜像，
以征服者的身躯跨越大地；
在我们那浪声欢唱，霞光普照的海岸，
却将屹立一位雄伟的自由女神，
她是流亡者之慈母，
高举着火炬，
照亮了黑暗的牢笼。
她那灯塔般的巨臂向天下展现希望；
她那温柔的眼神，
俯瞰那高空桥梁连接双城形成的港口。
她那沉静肃穆的双唇庄严地宣告：
“古老的国土，谱写你壮丽的历史新篇章 ！”
“给我你那疲惫而贫困的人民，
你那向往自由的劳苦大众，
你那富饶海岸边不幸的苦难者。
将那些经受暴风雨而无家可归的人们，
送来我的国土，
我将照亮金色大门来迎接他们的到来！”
自由女神(Statue of Liberty), 美利坚合众国
自由女神(Statue of Liberty)
[译者说明](1) 因觉得所见Emma Lazarus为自由女神所写诗篇“The New Colossus”的华文翻译，没能完全显示此诗的豪迈气概，以及慈母般的爱护与指引，所以，在此献上我的译文给我们伟大的美利坚合众国政府与人民，以及千千万万向往自由的世界大众。
NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden and Deputy Administrator Lori Garver extend seasons greetings and New Years wishes to members of the NASA family.
www.nasa.gov
Vital clues about the devastating ends to the lives of massive stars can be found by studying the aftermath of their explosions. In its more than twelve years of science operations, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has studied many of these supernova remnants sprinkled across the galaxy. The latest example of this important investigation is Chandra's new image of the supernova remnant known as G350.1-0.3. This stellar debris field is located some 14,700 light years from the Earth toward the center of the Milky Way. Evidence from Chandra and from ESA's XMM-Newton telescope suggest that a compact object within G350.1+0.3 may be the dense core of the star that exploded. The position of this likely neutron star, seen by the arrow pointing to "neutron star" in the inset image, is well away from the center of the X-ray emission. If the supernova explosion occurred near the center of the X-ray emission then the neutron star must have received a powerful kick in the supernova explosion. Data suggest this supernova remnant, as it appears in the image, is 600 and 1,200 years old. If the estimated location of the explosion is correct, this means the neutron star has been moving at a speed of at least 3 million miles per hour since the explosion. Another intriguing aspect of G350.1-0.3 is its unusual shape. Many supernova remnants are nearly circular, but G350.1-0.3 is strikingly asymmetrical as seen in the Chandra data in this image (gold). Infrared data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope (light blue) also trace the morphology found by Chandra. Astronomers think that this bizarre shape is due to stellar debris field expanding into a nearby cloud of cold molecular gas. The age of 600-1,200 years puts the explosion that created G350.1-0.3 in the same time frame as other famous supernovas that formed the Crab and SN 1006 supernova remnants. However, it is unlikely that anyone on Earth would have seen the explosion because of the obscuring gas and dust that lies along our line of sight to the remnant. These results appeared in the April 10, 2011 issue of The Astrophysical Journal. Image Credits: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/I. Lovchinsky et al; IR: NASA/JPL-Caltech Read More
