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TOP MOUNTAINSby Rick Dandes

Is there any sight greater and more majestic than that of a snow-capped mountain? This week, Tidbits takes you on an exploratory trip around the world. It’s sure to be a peak experience.

• In the Oxford English Dictionary, a mountain is de-fined as “a natural elevation of the earth surface ris-ing more or less abruptly from the surrounding level and attaining an altitude which, relatively to the adja-cent elevation, is impressive or notable.”• There are five basic kinds of mountains: fold moun-tains (folded mountains), fault-block mountains (block mountains), dome mountains, volcanic moun-tains and plateau mountains. Geologists believe mountains make up about one-fifth of the world’s landscape. • The absolute heights of mountains and hills vary greatly according to an area’s terrain. Major moun-tains occur in long linear arcs, indicating tectonic plate boundaries and activity. Two types of moun-tains are formed depending on how the rock reacts to the tectonic forces – block or fold mountains.• The Appalachian Mountains are the oldest moun-tain chain in North America. They extend from New-foundland to Alabama.

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James Marshall “Jimi” Hendrix was born Johnny Allen Hendrix on November 27, 1942 and died on September 18, 1970. This American guitarist, singer and songwriter is often considered to be the greatest electric guitarist in the history of rock mu-sic and one of the most important and influential musicians of his era across a range of genres.

• The first formal band Hendrix played in was The Velvetones, who performed regularly at the Yesler Terrace Neighborhood House in Seattle. He played without pay. His flashy style and left-handed play-ing of a right-handed guitar made him a standout. • Early in his career, Hendrix joined the very pop-ular Isley Brothers band and went on tour, where he was eventually hired as part of Little Richard’s backup band.• The Rolling Stones’ manager Andrew Loog Old-ham and later, producer Seymour Stein, both passed on managing Hendrix. They didn’t like his music. • Hendrix then met Chas Chandler, who was end-ing his tenure as bassist in The Animals rock band and was looking for talent to manage. Chandler was enamored with the song “Hey Joe” and was convinced he could create a hit single with the right artist. He liked how Hendrix played the song.• Producer-manager Chandler helped Hendrix move to London, where he joined with English bass player Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell to form his new group, The Jimi Hendrix Experience. • In London, he gained a reputation as a great player. He jammed with Eric Clapton during an appearance with his new band, Cream. Hendrix’s fans included The Beatles, The Who and The Roll-ing Stones.• Jimi recorded “Hey Joe” as his first single with the Jimi Hendrix Experience, followed by “Stone Free,” “Purple Haze” and “The Wind Cries Mary.” (The last three are all Hendrix compositions.)• In March 1967, Hendrix set his guitar on fire on stage at the end of his act as part of a tour by The Walker Brothers. • In May 1967, the group released their first album, “Are You Experienced,” which reached No. 2 in England behind The Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.”• Although very popular internationally at this time, the Experience had yet to crack America. Their first single there failed to sell. Hendrix’s big chance came when Paul McCartney recommended the group to the organizers of the Monterey Interna-tional Pop Festival. • Hendrix’s Monterey Pop Festival performance was filmed by D. A. Pennebaker and later shown in some movie theaters around the country in early 1969. The movie immortalized Hendrix’s burning and smashing of his guitar at the finale of his per-formance.• The last Experience concert took place on June 29, 1969, at Barry Fey’s Denver Pop Festival, a three-day event held at Denver’s Mile High Sta-dium that was marked by police firing tear gas into the audience as they played “Voodoo Child (Slight Return).” The band escaped from the venue in the back of a rental truck that was partly crushed by fans trying to escape the tear gas. The next day, Noel Redding quit the Experience.• Hendrix died in London under somewhat mysteri-ous circumstances on September 18, 1970.

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“The Other Guys” (Unrated) -- Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg star in this hilarious send-up of buddy-cop movies. Ferrell plays a clueless police accoun-tant with a hot wife (Eva Mendes) whose beauty he is totally oblivious to. Wahlberg is a super-cop wan-nabe who is banished to desk duty after acciden-tally shooting a member of the New York Yankees. After the city’s famous duo of super cops (Samuel L. Jackson & Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson) die in the line of duty, Ferrell and Wahlberg use the op-portunity to take on a case involving a billionaire Wall Street crook (Steve Coogan). The gags in this film come at you so fast and furious, you’ll be out of breath from laughing. “The Other Guys” is definitely worth a watch.

TV SERIES

“The IT Crowd” Complete Fourth Season“The Honeymooners Christmas Special”“24” The Complete Series“Married ... With Children” The Complete Series “Robert Klein: Unfair and Unbalanced”“Leave It to Beaver” Season Five “Trailer Park Boys Say Goodnight”

TOP TEN MOVIES1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows -- Part 1 (PG-13) Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson2. Megamind (PG) Will Ferrell, Tina Fey3. Unstoppable (PG-13) Denzel Washington, Chris Pine4. Due Date (R) Robert Downey Jr., Zack Gali-fianakis5. The Next Three Days (PG-13) Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks6. Morning Glory (PG-13) Rachel McAdams, Harrison Ford7. Skyline (PG-13) Eric Balfour, Scottie Thomp-son8. Red (PG-13) Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman9. For Colored Girls (R) Janet Jackson, Loretta Devine10. Fair Game (PG-13) Naomi Watts, Sean Penn

TOP TEN VIDEO, DVD of November 6, 2010

Top 10 Video Rentals1. Toy Story 3 (G) animated2. Predators (R) Adrien Brody3. Sex and the City 2 (R) Sarah Jessica Parker4. How to Train Your Dragon (PG) animated5. Jonah Hex (PG-13) Josh Brolin6. The Karate Kid (PG) Jaden Smith7. Get Him to the Greek (R) Jonah Hill8. Iron Man 2 (PG-13) Robert Downey, Jr.9. Robin Hood (PG-13) Russell Crowe10. A Nightmare on Elm Street (R) Jackie Earle Haley

Top 10 DVD Sales1. Toy Story 3 (G) (Buena Vista)2. The Pacific (M) (Warner)3. How to Train Your Dragon (PG) (Dream-Works)4. Sex and the City 2 (R) (Warner)5. Cars Toon: Mater’s Tall Tales (NR) (Buena Vista)6. The Karate Kid (PG) (Sony)7. Iron Man 2 (PG-13) (Paramount)8. Predators (R) (20th Century Fox)9. Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue (G) (Buena Vista)10. The Girl Who Played With Fire (R) (Music Box Films)

PICKS OF THE WEEK

“Inception” (PG-13) -- Director Christopher No-lan (“Memento,” “The Dark Knight”) has crafted one of the most original and talked about films of year -- if not the decade. Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Dom Cobb, an industrial spy who can enter the dreams of his clients’ competitors and steal their ideas. A Japanese magnate named Saito (Ken Watanabe) hires Cobb to do some-thing different: Instead of extracting ideas, he wants Cobb to implant an idea into the subcon-scious of a rival businessman (Cillian Murphy) -- a process called “inception.”With the aid of his partner (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), an architecture student (Ellen Page), a chemist (Dileep Rao) and a forger (Tom Hardy), Cobb enters a series of dreams and dreams-within-dreams to pull off the caper. A series of spectacular special-effects sequences will sim-ply take your breath away. “Inception” is one of those rare science-fiction films like “2001” -- one that is not only visually compelling, but smartly written and intellectually stimulating.

“Despicable Me” (PG) -- The best animated film of the year is, hands-down, “Toy Story 3,” but coming in a very close second is “Despicable Me,” a rollicking slapstick comedy starring the voices of Steve Carell, Jason Segel, Russell Brand and Julie Andrews. Gru (Carell) is the world’s greatest supervillain -- until a young upstart named Vector (Segal) steals the Great Pyramid of Giza, dropping Gru to No. 2 on the list. To regain the top spot, Gru must steal Vector’s shrink ray so that he can shrink the moon. To do that, he must enlist the help of three cookie-selling orphan girls and a squad of blobby, inept minions (who steal every scene they’re in). Despite the hackneyed trope of the Importance of Family, “Despicable Me,” is one of the funniest films of the year and a treat for kids and adults.

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¥ It was 20th-century British author and Anglican priest William Ralph Inge who made the follow-ing sage observation: “Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.”

¥ Consider your age, then consider the following tid-bit: In the 1700s, the average human lifespan was about 30 years. Sobering thought, isn’t it?

¥ According to a survey conducted by the Pew Re-search Center, the home appliances Americans consider to be the most essential are clothes wash-ers and dryers, followed by air conditioners. Ob-viously, the majority of the survey’s respondents weren’t residents of Florida or Texas.

¥ Historians report that Napoleon Bonaparte, when he wasn’t busy conquering, enjoyed ice skating. ¥ If you’re frightened of bugs, you might not want to know the following tidbit: There are 10 quintillion insects alive on the planet. ¥ A study published in 2008 showed that the price of a pain medication had an effect on its efficacy. In the study people were given placebo pills, some at the regular price and some at a discounted price. Those who paid full price for the medication report-ed more relief than those who paid less. ¥ Half of all cookies baked in the United States are of the chocolate-chip variety. ¥ If you’re planning to be in the San Francisco area in June, you might want to plan a stop in the nearby town of Petaluma for the Sonoma-Marin Fair. This is where the competition to determine the world’s ugliest dog is held every year. In addition to earning bragging rights, the owner of the winning pooch is awarded a prize of $1,000.

***Thought for the Day: “The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehen-sible.” -- Albert Einstein

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TOP MOUNTAINS (continued):• The Appalachian Mountains are made up of mountains, ridges and valleys. The Great Smoky Mountains are in this region, and they run from Tennessee to North Carolina. • The Blue Ridge Mountains are the backbone of the Appalachian Mountain system. They extend from Georgia to Pennsylvania. • Mt. Mitchell, in the Appalachians, is the highest mountain on the eastern coast. It is about 6,684 feet high (2,037 meters).• The Andes Mountain range is an uninterrupted chain of highland that is situated along the western coast of South America. It is the longest exposed mountain range in the world and comprises two great ranges: Cordillera Oriental and Cordillera Occidental, which stand divided by a deep interme-diate depression. • The Himalayas stretch across six countries: Af-ghanistan, Bhutan, the People’s Republic of China, India, Nepal and Pakistan. Some of the world’s ma-jor rivers, the Indus, the Ganges, the Brahmaputra and the Yangtze, rise in the Himalayas, and their combined drainage basin is home to some 1.3 bil-lion people, including the people of Bangladesh. • The world’s highest peak on land is Mt. Everest in the Himalayas. It is 29,036 feet (8,848 meters) tall. When measured from sea-level, Mount Ever-est is without a doubt the biggest mountain peak on this planet. However, if one were to consider the height of a mountain from its base to its peak, there are few other mountains such as Mt. McKinley and Mauna Kea that are taller than Everest in totality.• Prior to being named Mount Everest, the moun-tain was commonly referred to as Peak XV. It was formally named Mount Everest after Col. George Everest who was the Surveyor General of India in the early 1860s. • Mount Everest also has some local names such as Sagarmatha (Nepali) and Chomolungma (Ti-betan). • The first people to scale Mount Everest were Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay. They did it on May 29, 1953.• Alaska has the 16 highest peaks in the United States.• The Malaspina Glacier, at the foot of Mt. Saint Elias, is larger than Rhode Island.• The beautiful Rocky Mountains extend some 3,000 miles (4,800 kilometers) from the Mexican frontier to the Arctic Ocean, through the western United States and sections of Canada.

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• It’s a celebration of restored freedom. Hanukkah celebrates the victory of the Maccabees or Israel-ites over the Greek-Syrian ruler Antiochus about 2,200 years ago.• The holiday starts on the 25th of the month of Kislev. But because the Hebrew calendar is lunar rather than solar, it can fall anywhere from Novem-ber to December on the standard calendar.• The date for Hanukkah this year is December 1 (sundown) to December 9.• Though Jews around the world commemorate Hanukkah, in Israel, Hanukkah is particularly fes-tive. After all, to celebrate Hanukkah in Israel is to celebrate it where the story of the Maccabees took place. It’s a national holiday; schools are closed, menorahs are publicly displayed, and parties abound. • One of the most recognized symbols of Hanuk-kah, the chanukkiah is a special nine-branched candelabrum. It is different from the standard me-norah, which holds seven candles and is the em-blem of the State of Israel. • The chanukkiah or hanukkiyah symbolizes the time when the Maccabees wanted to rededicate their temple by lighting the “eternal flame,” but they only had enough consecrated oil to burn for one day. Miraculously, that little bit of oil lasted for eight days until more purified oil could be found. • Today, Jewish families light candles or burn oil in the chanukkiah for the eight days of Hanukkah, adding one candle each day. The ninth candle, the center one, is used to light the others. • Each night of Hanukkah, an additional candle is placed in the chanukkiah from right to left, and then lit from left to right. On the last night, all the candles are lit.• A dreidel, or sivion, is a four-sided top that has a Hebrew letter on each side. Spinning the dreidel is a popular Hanukkah custom.• During Hanukkah, families eat latkes (potato pan-cakes) and sufganiot (jelly donuts) or other foods that are fried in oil to celebrate and commemorate the miracle of purified oil.• Gifts are also exchanged during the festival of Ha-nukkah. This tradition is adapted from the Christ-mas tradition of gift giving. • Hanukkah gelt, or money, is often distributed to children to enhance their enjoyment of the holi-day. The amount is usually in small coins, although grandparents or other relatives may give larger sums as an official Hanukkah gift. • Unlike most spelling words you remember from school, Hanukkah can be correctly spelled many different ways, including Chanukah, Chanukkah and Hanukkah.

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1. GEOGRAPHY: Where is the Alamo located?2. TELEVISION: What was the name of the fa-ther on “The Brady Bunch”?3. U.S. STATES: Which state was the first, by law, to give women the right to vote?4. ENTERTAINERS: Where did Elvis Presley die?5. ANATOMY: Where are the triceps muscles located?6. ART: Which impressionist painter creat-ed a series of famous works of his garden at Giverny?7. U.S. PRESIDENTS: In which branch of the military did Gerald Ford serve during World War II?8. HISTORY: How many people died as a re-sult of the Boston Massacre in 1770?9. CARTOONS: In the animated series, where did Yogi Bear live?10. LANGUAGE: What is a sobriquet?

ANSWERS1. San Antonio, Texas2. Mike Brady3. Wyoming, in 18694. At his estate, Graceland, in Memphis, Tenn.5. Upper arm6. Monet7. Navy8. Five9. Jellystone Park10. A nickname

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ANSWERS1. Boston’s Pedro Martinez, with a 1.74 ERA.2. Ted Williams (1941-42), Joe Morgan (1975-76) and Albert Pujols (2008-09).3. Drew Bledsoe, who had 29,657 yards.4. It was 1990, when the Panthers beat Mis-souri.5. St. Louis’ Geoff Courtnall, in 1998.6. Kurt Busch, in 2006.7. Yannick Noah, in 1983.

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• The highest peak in the U.S. Rockies is Mt. El-bert in Colorado, at 14,433 feet (4,399 meters); in the Canadian Rockies it is Mt. Robson in British Columbia, at 12,972 feet (3,954 meters). • The Continental Divide, located in the Rocky Mountains, separates waters flowing into the At-lantic Ocean or Gulf of Mexico from those flowing into the Pacific Ocean. • The Rocky Mountains include at least 100 sep-arate ranges, which are generally divided into four broad groupings: the Canadian Rockies and Northern Rockies of Montana and northeastern Idaho; the Middle Rockies of Wyoming, Utah and southeastern Idaho; the Southern Rockies, mainly in Colorado and New Mexico; and the Colorado Plateau in the four corners region.• The Canadian Rockies are quite different in ap-pearance and geology from the American Rockies to the south of them. The Canadian Rockies are composed of layered sedimentary rock such as limestone and shale. The American Rockies are made of metamorphic and igneous rock, such as granite. • Alberta, Canada, is named after Princess Louisa Caroline Alberta, the fourth child of Queen Victo-ria. The Princess was born in 1848, and married the Governor General of Canada. The princess is also the namesake of Lake Louise in the Rocky Mountains.• Five national parks are located within the Cana-dian Rockies, four of which interlock and make up the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks World Heri-tage site. These four parks are Banff, Jasper, Koo-tenay and Yoho. • The world’s highest mountain, from its base on the ocean floor, is Mauna Kea, on Hawaii. It is 33,474 feet (10,203 meters) high, but only 13,796 feet (4,205 meters) are above sea level. The sum-mit of Mauna Kea has been a celestial observa-tory since ancient times and is considered to be one of the best astronomical sites in the world. The summit of Mauna Kea is above approximately 40 percent of Earth’s atmosphere, which not sur-prisingly, allows for exceptionally clear and amaz-ing images of the night sky. Additionally, the peak is well above the inversion layer, which leads to approximately 300 clear nights per year. • Standing at 4,406 feet (1,343 meters), Ben Nevis is the highest mountain in the British Isles, and as such is the major challenge for any United King-dom climber or walker. In Gaelic, the mountain’s name Beinn Nibheis has been linked with Irish and Gaelic words meaning poisonous or terrible.

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