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TIDBITS® ASKS READERSHOW’S THE WEATHER?

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“Nice weather we’re having” isn’t always a true statement! This week, Tidbits looks at rain, snow, wind and storms, bringing you the best and worst of several weather conditions from around the world.

• “Rain,rain,goaway”mightbesomethingtheresidents of Mawsynram, India, want to say. It’s the wettest place on earth, receiving over 36 feet (11 m) of rainfall every year. Antofagasta, Chile, on the other hand, receives less than a tenth of a millimeter of rain per year, and many years, receives none at all.

• ThecommunityofBagdad,California,hadnorain for 767 days between October of 1912 and November of 1914. That’s two years and 37 days!

•YoumayhaveheardofChicagoreferredtoasthe “Windy City,” but it’s not the windiest city in America.ThatdistinctionbelongstoBlueHillObservatory, Massachusetts, with an average annual wind speed of 15.4 mph. Second place belongs to Dodge City, Kansas, with Amarillo, Texas, at No. 3. Chicago isn’t even in the top ten! About 27 percent of weather-reporting stations average higher annual wind speeds than Chicago.

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HOLLYWOOD--Isanyonebotheredby“ArthurChristmas,” who Sony Pictures claims is the son of Santa Claus? Santa can be traced back to 1823, when Clement Clarke Moore gave the world the poem“AVisitfromSaintNicholas.”Healsowasknown as Father Christmas and Kris Kringle, and inGreekandByzantinefolkloreheisreferredtoasBasilofCaesarea.In l996,aTVmoviewithmusic by Jerry Herman (“Hello Dolly” and“Mame”)andstarringAngelaLansburygaveusadetailed and close-up look at “Mrs. Santa Claus.” In2002,ABCFamilygaveus“SantaClaus,Jr.”with Nick Stabile as Kris Kringle Jr., and now we have “Arthur Christmas,” in 3D no less.Not only did they create Arthur out of thin air, but they’ve also invented a brother named Steve and Santa’s father, Grand-Santa. The questions that beg for answers are ... if Santa and Mrs. Claus are almost 200 years old, can they still have chil-dren? Does anyone with a pen have the right to make up family members for one of the greatest folklorefigurestheworldhaseverknown?Judg-ingfromthedisappointingbox-officereceiptsfor“Arthur Christmas,” people aren’t in a rush to up-date the family tree for Father Xmas!***The cable station Antenna TV recently revived theoldThreeStoogesshorts.TheFarrellyBroth-ers homage to “The Three Stooges” is being re-leased in April by Sony Pictures, which just hap-pens to own Antenna TV. Chris Diamantopoulas isMoe,“Will&Grace”starSeanHayesisLarry,and“MadTV’s”WillSasso isCurly.Thisfilmwon’tbelikethe2000TVfilmwhichhadPaulBen-Victor asMoe, “Sex and theCity’s”EvanHandler as Larry and “The Shield’s” MichaelChiklis as Curly.That filmwas about how theStooges were taken advantage of by Columbia Pictures headHarryCohn,who produced theirblack-and-whiteshortfilms.This new film is about the characters in those

shorts, with all the physical humor and slap-stick. Added star power is provided by “Glee’s” Jane Lynch, “Modern Family’s” SofiaVergara,“Dreamgirls” Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson,“CurbYourEnthusiasm’s”LarryDavidand“Jer-sey Shore” stars Snookie and Mike “The Situa-tion”Sorrentino.In trueFarrellyBrothersfash-ion, they’ve crafted a vehicle that has the Stooges trying to save their childhood orphanage, inad-vertently stumbling onto a murder plot and star-ring in a reality TV show. The trailers online look very funny, but can they sustain it for a full-lengthfilm?EventheStoogeswould?vedoneadouble take at having to work with Snookie and TheSituation!HeySnookie,“pick2fingers!”2

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WEATHER (continued):•Mt. Washington, New Hampshire, experienced

America’s strongest wind ever recorded, 231 mph (372 km/hr). But, based on averages,Commonwealth Bay, Antarctica, is the windiestplace in the world.

•Mt.Washingtonalsohasthesecond-highestaveragesnowfall, about 260 inches a year (660 cm). Only Valdez,Alaska,rankshigherwith324inches(823cm).Backin1911,Tamarack,California,received390 inches — 32.5 feet (9.9 m) — of snow in one month! Over the course of that winter, 767 inches (19.5 m) of the white stuff fell on the community.

• Lightningstrikes theearthabout100timeseverysecond,with eachflashcarryingoveronebillionvolts. That’s enough energy to light a 100-watt light bulb for three months! In one short instant, theairsurroundingthelightningflashisheatedtoatemperaturefivetimeshotterthanthesurfaceofthesun.LightningwillstriketheUnitedStatesabout25 million times this year. Five hundred of those flasheswillstriketheEmpireStateBuilding.

•Scientists maintain that there are about 760thunderstorms occurring on our planet every hour. Tryingtofigureouthowfarawayathunderstormis? Count the number of seconds between a lightningflashand the followingclapof thunder.Dividethatnumberbyfivetocomputethedistanceto the lightning in miles.

•You’remorelikelytobekilledbyalightningstrikein Florida than in any other state. Over a 10-year period, 74 people in that state died after being struck, with Texas a distant second with 28 deaths. You’ll be pretty safe inWashington,Oregon andNorth Dakota, where no deaths occurred during those 10 years.

• Whenstrongcurrentsofaircarrywaterdropletsuptoaheightwherefreezingoccurs,iceparticlesformand grow. They become too heavy to be supported by the air current and fall to the ground as hail. Largehailstonescanfallatspeedsexceeding100mph (160.9 km/hr). Compare that with the speed of a typical raindrop at 17 mph (27.4 km/hr). Cheyenne, Wyoming, averages the most hailstorms in theUnitedStateeachyear,but those inTulsa,Oklahoma, are the most severe.

•In1986,astorminBangladeshproducedthelargesthailstones ever recorded; they weighed well over 2 lbs. (1 kg) each. Ninety-two people were killed by thestones.Bangladeshwasalsohometohistory’sdeadliest cyclone in 1970, with a death toll of 300,000.

•TornadoAlley refers to an area stretching fromcentral Texas to northern Iowa, and across Colorado, Nebraska, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri and Oklahoma.About90percentofU.S.tornadoeshitthisregion.TherearemoretornadoesintheUnitedStates than any other place in the world, with about 1,000 reported per year. Canada is a distant second, with about 100.

• Ifyou’reasunworshipper,thenYuma,Arizona,isthe place for you! This Southwestern community receives more than 4,000 hours of sunshine a year, making it the sunniestplaceonearth.Yumaalso

Page For Advertising Call 778-895-7795 Tidbits of Tri-Cities 3Q: I really miss Christopher Meloni on “Law&Order:SVU.”PleasetellmeIcansee him on another series or in a movie soon. -- RandiE.,viae-mailA: You’ll be able to seeChristopher as soon as this summer on the small screen when he makes his debut on the sixth season of HBO’s “True Blood.” De-tails are hush-hush, as it always is with “True Blood,”but according to executiveproducerAlanBall,Chriswillplay“anancient,power-fulvampirewhoholdsthefateofBillandEricin his hands.”For the big screen, you can see him sometime this year (a release date has not yet been an-nounced) in the comedy “Awful Nice.” And in June2013,heco-starsasColonelHardyinthenew“Superman”film,“ManofSteel,”whichalsostarsHenryCavill,RussellCrowe,AmyAdams,KevinCostner,DianeLane,andslewof other top-notch stars.***Q: With Piers Morgan gone, will they be get-ting another judge for “America’s Got Talent,” or juststickwithHowieMandelandSharonOsbourne?--CallieH.,Portland,Ore.A: In a move that is causing some contro-versy (when hasn’t controversy followed this man?), shock-jock Howard Stern has beentapped to be the third “Talent” judge. Said NBC exec Paul Telegdy: “Howard Stern’slarger-than-life personality will bring a thrill-ing new dynamic to ’America’s Got Talent’ startingthissummer.He’saproveninnovator,and his track record in broadcasting is truly remarkable.Howardisverypassionateaboutthis show and is fully committed to its future success.”***Q: I have been following the career of Sam Neill ever since “Jurassic Park.” I loved him in“TheTudors,”“HappyTown,”“TheHorse

Whisperer,” “Wimble-don,” “Daybreakers,” “Crusoe,” etc. What does he have coming up next? -- Will O., via e-mail

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duction or release-date details as the movie was too recently announced. He co-stars in the big-screen adaption of Arthur Miller’s “A View from theBridge,”tobereleasedlaterthisyear.Butyoucan catch him even sooner. Sam comes back to the small screen on Monday, Jan. 16, on Fox when he starsinthenewseries“Alcatraz.”Thisshowlookscreepy, scary and super exciting, and I plan to tune in to see exactly what all the hubbub is about. ***Q: It seems like it’s that time of year again ... when will the next season of “American Idol” be on? I am kind of disappointed by “The X-Factor,” and I couldreallyusemySteven,JenniferandRandyfixrightaboutnow.--TinaR.,Wheeling,W.Va.

A:You don’t have towaitmuch longer:Ameri-ca’s most popular talent competition will be back Wednesday, Jan. 18, on Fox, with the show airing Wednesdays and Thursdays at 8/7c.

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¥ItwasAmericanessayistLoganPearsallSmithwhomade the following sage observation: It is the wretched-ness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

¥ The word “avocado” is derived from a South Ameri-can Indian word that means “testicle.”

¥ When the miniskirt was introduced to the world in the 1960s, the reaction was swift and often harsh. Women who wore them in theMalagasy Republic were sen-tenced to 10 days in jail. Congolese police arrested 300 women for wearing the new style, and Egyptian lawbrandedthegarmentasindecent.InCaracas,Venezuela,the clergy got involved; churches admonished women to give up their minis or “be condemned to hell.” Perhaps the seeming overreaction wasn’t entirely unjustified,considering the effect the miniskirt had in some places. It was reported that two women wearing minis caused a two-hourtrafficjamindowntownCairo,anda63-year-oldmaninRioDeJaneirowassentencedtothreedaysin jail after biting the legs of the miniskirt-clad woman seated next to him on a bus.

¥ThefirstanimatedcolorTVcommercialwasbroad-cast in 1949, and it was created by none other than ven-erable children’s book author Dr. Seuss. The ad was for the Ford Motor Company.

¥HistorianssaythatAbrahamLincolnhadashrill,high-pitched voice rather than the deep and sonorous tones we usually hear when the 16th president is portrayed in filmandtelevision.

¥ Those who study such things say that Americans’ fa-vorite T-shirt color is white, followed by blue and black.***Thought for the Day: “If you have an important point, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time -- a tremendous whack.” -- Winston Churchill

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hasthelowestprecipitationaverageintheUnitedStates, receiving just under 3 inches (7.6 cm) a year,anditsrecordhightemperatureis124˚F(51˚C).

•Thehottesttemperatureeverrecordedonearthwasback in September of 1922 in ElAzizia, Libya,whenthemercurysoaredto136˚F(58˚C).TheNorth American record belongs to Death Valley, California,at134˚F(57˚C)inJulyof1913.

•Baby, it’s cold outside! How about 129˚ belowzero (-89.6˚ C) reached in Vostok, Antarctica,in 1983? Russia gets plenty cold, too, with lowtempsrecordedat-90˚F(-68˚C)onmorethanoneoccasion.

•AlaskaisthecoldestU.S.stateoverall—atleastfive cities have had low temps dip under -60˚ F(-51˚C),withBarrowrankingasthecoldestcity.Down on the mainland, the honor of coldest city goes to International Falls, Minnesota. Neighboring Duluth, Baudette and Hibbing aren’t far behind.Two North Dakota communities, Grand Forks and Fargo, offer some stiff competition with average temps from December through March in the single digits.

•Theworld’sleastsunnyplaceis,notsurprisingly,the South Pole, where the sun shines just 182 days a year.

•The combination of heat and humidity can bestifling on a summer day. Phoenix, Arizona, isrankedasNo.1onthelistof“MostUncomfortableCities.” One of the nation’s hottest summertime cities, itsaverageJulytemperatureis104˚F(40˚C). Several Texas cities are close behind —

WEATHER (continued):Corpus Christi, San Antonio, Dallas, Waco and HoustonareallwithintheTopTen.

• If you don’tmind consistency and predictability,then San Francisco and San Diego are the places for you. They are ranked No. 1 and No. 2, respectively, in the category of “least weather variety” based on temperatures, precipitation and wind. In fact, California holds eight out of the Top Ten spots in this group.

• Overa24-hourperiodbackin1916,thetemperatureinBrowning,Montana,droppedfrom44˚Fto-54˚F(7˚Cto-48˚C).

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1.NamethefourN.L.pitch-ers to win the Cy YoungAward in consecutive years.

2. It took just 1,303 innings for pitcher Kerry Wood to re-cord 1,500 career strikeouts. Who held the mark for fewest

innings to reach that mark before Wood?

3.WhoholdstheNFLrecordformostTDpassescaught in a season?

4. Three No. 11 seeds have advanced to the NCAA Final Four in men’s basketball. Name two of them.

5. True or false: Until the 2010-11 NHL cam-paign, theAnaheimMightyDucks andLosAn-geles Kings had never gone to the playoffs in the same season.

6.HowmanytotalmedalsdidU.S.boxerstallyinthe Olympics between 2000 and 2008?

7. Who was the last senior golfer before John Cook (2010-11) to win the last tournament of one ChampionsTourseasonandthefirsttournamentof the next season?

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(NC)—Planning a winter vacation is almost as much fun as the vacation itself, especially for us heat-starved Canadians. If taking a winter vacation is on your to-do list this winter, here are some tips from the Canadian Consumer Handbook,producedbyprovincial, territorialand federal governments to help consumers make informed decisions:

Research your destination. Check out www.voyage.gc.ca from the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade to get critical information for Canadian travellers such as travel warnings and contact information for Canadiangovernmentofficesabroad.

Choose a travel agent wisely. Travel agents can take a lot of the stress out of vacation planning. They often have access to information that many consumers don't, but be aware that not every province or territory requires that travel agents be licensed or registered. Ask if your agent has completed a training program, how much he or she has travelled, how many years the company has been in business and if the company belongs to a professional association.

Five ways to plan your winter vacation safely

and economicallyProtect the payment you have made. When you are paying in advance for a trip, think about how your money is protected in case the travel agent or one of the travel suppliers that are part of your package (e.g., airline, hotel or resort) goes out of business. Some, but not all, provinces have pro-grams that protect your prepaid money in such cases. Also, if you pay by credit card, your credit card provider may be able to offer some protec-tions against services that are not supplied.

Be carefulwhen buying travel online.Many ofthe issues described above about travel agents alsoapplytobuyingonline.Beforeyoubuy,thinkabout how reputable the company is, and what the protections are in case some or all of the services cannot be provided. Also note that an online com-pany based outside of your province or Canada is not necessarily subject to the same regulations or requirements as a company in this country. As a result,itmaybemoredifficulttoobtainredress.Alwaysreadthefineprintbeforeyoubuy.Someoffers might include significant restrictions onmodificationsor cancellations.Checkwithyourprovincialorterritorialconsumeraffairsofficeortravel industry association about rules that apply where you live.

Identify your insurance needs. When you travel outside Canada your health care costs are not cov-ered by provincial health insurance so make sure you obtain the right kind and amount of insurance for you and your family. Insurance may also cov-er things like trip cancellation and lost luggage so research the various policies.

Understand your role in safety and security.Transport Canada and the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority have tips on passenger and baggagescreeningwhichyoucanfindintheCa-nadianConsumerHandbookunder“travel”.

Youcanfindtheseandothertipsatwww.consum-erhandbook.ca. The online resource covers every-thingfromtravelandpersonalfinancestohousingand the environment.

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Sports Quiz Answers

1. Pete Schourek (18) and John Smiley(12)in1995;BronsonArroyo(17) and Johnny Cueto (12) in 2010.

2. Kansas City’s David Cone was 16-5whenhewontheA.L.Cy

YoungAwardintheshortened1994season.

3.TheColts’MarvinHarrisonac-complished it in 102 games.

4. It was 1998 (George Washington, Massachusetts,RhodeIsland,Temple

and Xavier).5.BudPoile.6. Argentina.

7.Thomas“Hitman”HearnsandSugarRayLeonard.

On Jan. 9, 1493, Christopher Columbus, sailing near theDominicanRepublic, sees three“mer-maids” and describes them as “not half as beau-tiful as they are painted.” They were in reality manatees. Mythical mermaids have existed in seafaring cultures since the time of the ancient Greeks.

On Jan. 14, 1639, inHartford, Conn., the firstconstitution in the American colonies, the “Fun-damental Orders,” is adopted. The Fundamental Orders declared that “the foundation of authority is in the free consent of the people.”

On Jan. 10, 1901, a drilling derrick at Spindletop Hill near Beaumont, Texas, produces an enor-mous gusher of crude oil, signaling the advent of theAmericanoilindustry.Thegeyserflowedatan initial rate of approximately 100,000 barrels a day and took nine days to cap.

OnJan.15,1919,twomilliongallonsoffieryhotmolassesfloodsthestreetsofBoston,killing21peopleandadozenhorses.Themolassesburstfrom a 58-foot-high tank in the heart of the city. An 8-foot-high wave of molasses swept away freightcars,knockedoverthelocalfirehouseandpushed over the support beams for the elevated train line.

OnJan.13,1939,Arthur“Doc”Barker is shotandkilledwhiletryingtoescapefromAlcatrazPrisoninSanFranciscoBay.Barker,oftheno-torious“BloodyBarkers”gang,wasspottedonthe rock-strewn shore of the island after climbing over the walls and tying pieces of wood together into a makeshift raft.

On Jan. 11, 1973, the owners of America’s 24 major-league baseball teams vote to allow teams in the American League to use a “designatedpinch-hitter” that could bat for the pitcher, while still allowing the pitcher to stay in the game.

On Jan. 12, 1984, a panel overseeing the resto-rationoftheGreatPyramidsinEgyptabandonsmodern construction techniques in favor of the methodemployedbytheancientEgyptians.Re-storers stopped using mortar and adopted the system of interlocking blocks practiced by the original pyramid builders.

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OLD WIVES’ TALESLots of “wisdom” has been passed down fromgeneration to generation that isn’t necessarily the truth. Check to see how many of these old wives’ tales you take as gospel!•Everyone’smothersaidthatgoingoutsidewith

wet hair will bring on a cold. Actually, viruses cause colds, and viruses tend to spread more easily indoors where people tend to congregate a bit more during cold weather. And will your eyes really stay that way if you cross them? Not at all! The eye disorder Strabismus, something that occurs in 4 percent of U.S. children, isresponsible for that.

•Didyourmomalsotellyouthatswallowedgumtakes seven years to digest? While there are ingredients in gum that the body can’t digest, the wad moves through your digestive system and is eliminated within hours, or at the most, days.Largeamountsofswallowedgumcan,onrare occasions, cause an intestinal blockage.

•In the old dayswhen you burned your hand,most likely your mother smeared butter on it. Greasy substances actually hold in the heat, makingthesituationworse.Runningyourhandunder cold water or using a cool cloth reduces the heat and can reduce the damage to the skin. Applying juice from an aloe vera plant is also a wise choice.

•Can coffee stunt a child’s growth? No, notreally, but that doesn’t make it a healthy choice. Too much caffeine in a child’s diet can hinder the absorption of calcium and other nutrients.

• Ifyou’reworriedthatallowingyourchildrentoplay with toads will give them warts, remember that warts are caused by a virus that toads neither carry nor pass on.

• Manyoldwives’talesarerelatedtowomenandtheir babies. For example, if a pregnant woman has frequent heartburn throughout the nine months, her baby will be born with a full head of hair. If that baby has light brown birthmarks, the mother drank too much coffee during

her pregnancy. And who needs expensive ultrasounds to determine a baby’s gender? Folklorehasotherwaysoffiguringitout,suchas suspending a wedding band from a thread. If the ring moves in a circular motion, the baby is a girl, whereas if it moves in a straight line or side to side, a boy is forthcoming. If the mother-to-be craves salty foods, it’s a boy, while cravings for sweets and fruit indicate a girl. Moving gracefully throughout pregnancy is a sign of a girl, while becoming clumsy means a boy is on the way.

•Gotanitch?Oldwives’wisdomsaysitchyfeetindicate you’ll soon be traveling, while an itchy nose means you’re about to kiss a fool. If the palm of your right hand itches, you’ll receive money soon, while an itchy left hand means you’ll lose some.

•Don’t worry about spicy foods giving youan ulcer. While they may irritate an existing one, they don’t bring them on. Sixty percent of peptic ulcers are the result of a bacterial infection. Still others are caused by overuse of pain medications.

•Here’swisdomthatreallyistrue!Chickensoupcan make you feel better. That’s because the amino acid cysteine present in the soup seems to help the congestion of the common cold.

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