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Those who don’t keep themselves hydrated with plenty of fluids can easily suffer from life-threatening dehydration and heat stroke. People from humid climates who only associate by Ka dangerously hot weather with perspiring skin and sweat-drenched clothes, can be fooled 1. Wh into seriously underestimating how much lifescie sustaining water their body is losing.

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the valley. In the 1880s, borax was discovered and extracted by mule-drawn wagons. • Badwater Basin in Death Valley is the point of the lowest elevation in North America at 282 feet below sea level. Ironically, this lowest point is only 84 miles southeast of Mount Whitney, the highest point in the contiguous United States with an elevation of 14,505 feet. • Death Valley holds the record for the highest officially reported temperature in the world, 134°F (56.7°C) at Furnace Creek on July 10, 1913. The previously-claimed world record air temperature, 136°F (57.8°C) was in El Aziziya, Libya, on September 13, 1922. However, that report has been officially declared invalid by the World Meteorological Organization. • Why is Death Valley so hot and dry? Its high temperatures are caused in part by its low elevation and its shape, both of which are contributing factors that produce a perpetual heat-generating cycle.

• As the hot air rises, moving up past the steep, high mountains, it begins to cool slightly and sinks back down toward the valley. As it gets close to ground level again it is re-heated and starts to rise again creating a cycle that causes a circular motion of air currents, much like that of a convection oven. • The recycled hot air makes the ground even hotter, causing the hot wind currents that are typical of Death Valley’s weather. The hot wind currents also cause the perpetual drought-like conditions and prevent cloud formations from passing overhead. • Dryness itself is also a contributor to the heat. Death Valley has no clouds for shade, no rain for cooling, and little vegetation to stop rocks and soil from absorbing heat all day. In turn, the dry heat almost always absorbs any precipitation before it can reach the ground.

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Development of a bigscreen version of the popular video game is moving forward, with Michael Fassbender set to star as Desmond Miles, a man who comes from a long line of assassins but tries to lie low and maintain a more common lifestyle as a bartender. Since it’s Michael Fassbender still early in the development process, there’s no word on co-stars or a release date. However, I can tell you that it will be shot in 3-D. ***

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during the y it’s a safe be But his ma unorthodox A: J. Chein & Co. was located in Burlington, reminded m N.J., from 1900 to 1970. They were one of the leading nament winn manufacturers of tin windups, pull toys, banks and ANTIQUE Sanders. friction toys. The roller coaster was also available in a Known as -- OR -ski ride version. Fairways,” Your tin lithograph toy is extremely collectible and JUNQUE nowhere to would probably sell in the range of $350 to $450. by Anne McCollam The Smasher and the as an amate the Masters Q: I have enclosed a copy of the mark Simply Smashing tie, and he that is on a set of porcelain dinnerware that I had a bout of insomnia the other night, so but Sa Before he hit the 40-feet hook shot Tour, was purchased in 1970. The set is a ser vice for I went down to my office (office ... not a “man cave” out of the straw to take him to within for his man 12 and includes all the ser ving dishes, as well somebody retireJacket, that stupid phrase putts ofplease the Green a little was famous as a coffee pot, cream pitcher and sugar bowl. ... will two already?) and picked, what I assumed, would bit of banter in the room turned to beesque devo What is my set worth today? the most boring book in reach my chair. what Bubba Watson wasofwearing. He was kno Q: This is a photo of one of a set of four It was theof1964 Annual the Americana A: The Morimura Brothers, importers located As most us know byofnow, Bub- that looked chairs that I purchased at an antique auction (For those you wondering, in New York City, have imported Noritake China to Encyclopedia. ba Watson won theofMasters, largely en-pleated gol in the 1980s. The auction house received conwere well-sourced books the United States since 1910. The china was made in cyclopedias due to his monstrous 300-plus containing yard cardigans an tainers of furniture each week from Europe and about a variety of things in alphabetical Noritake, Japan. “Irene” is the name of your pattern. information drives and unorthodox swinging fit had comp auctioned off the contents. As I am wont to do, I flipped to the sports Similar sets of Noritake dinnerware are selling in order.)style. But I, too, became curious same shade, I would like to know something about the page. the range of $800 to $1500. about Watson’s game and, yes, his his golf bags chairs and their approximate value. It was a fine year, 1964. Arnold Palmer won style, too. While bot the Masters, staving off a challenge from that angry, A: Based on your photo, your chairs are from For the techies out there, Watson are philanth poor dressed, up-and-comer Jack Nicklaus. A.J. the Victorian Era and are examples of the sub-style, uses a PING G20 driver with a custhey have s Foyt won at Indy, and some guy named Cassius Rococo Revival. You didn’t mention the overall conditom pink True Temper Grafalloy Bimon — th Noritake China MON. NOV. 5th Clay beat Sonny Liston in a remarkable “though tion or if the upholstery is the original. Both factors Matrix shaft. The same exact driver golfers. Nei has been heavyweight title fight in boxing. Oh, the article Please review carefully. Double check:imported  Phone Number(s)  Spelling dull” Prices beHours contribute greatly to the value. will made available to pro shops added, Clay changed his name after the fight orin his life. S since 1910. Assuming they are in mint condition and the this year, thethat. company announced cotton farme something silly like representative immediately with changes or corrections. upholstery is the original, your setContact of chairsyour from Tidbits the after thethey tournament. Clay, also took time to note, admit-was a Green 1870s would probably be worth $1,200 to $2,000. Office: 760-320-0997 Fax: 760-320-1630 Pink is a color that most sports who gave hi Address your questions to Anne McCollam, P. O. Box 247, ted that his pre-fight antics were designed to drum fans are becoming accustomed to. It they said Clay him to “beat Notre Dame, IN 46556. Items of a general interest will be an- up gate receipts. In that regard, appears in splashes on various uniswered in this column. Due to the volume of inquiries, she can- was similar to the year’s other phenomenon, TheWell, Wats not answer individual letters. 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PHOBIAS (continued): • Some phobias relate to what’s up above, such as the sun (heliophobia), the clouds (nephophobia), the moon (selenophobia), and the stars (siderophobia). Some folks are just afraid of looking up – they are called anablephobes. • Not all phobias seem that abnormal or uncommon. Lots of people might have a fear of death, known as necrophobia. But those with an extreme form might be terrified of being buried alive. A nosocomephobe has a fear of hospitals, a verminophobe is afraid of germs, and a hydrophobe has an irrational fear of water. • Individuals suffering from extreme agoraphobia rarely leave their homes, due to their fear of public or open spaces and the inescapable situations that may occur there. Only home is safe. • Some phobias can be a learned behavior that comes from listening to others describe a traumatic event. An individual in one’s life can trigger a phobia, such as peladophobia, the fear of bald people. Those with nosto-phobia, a fear of returning home, may be able to contribute their panic to a specific incident. • People who are afraid of looking into mirrors have cataptrophobia, while those with cyberphobia have a fear of working with computers. A person with an anxiety about memories is a mnemophobe. • Don’t confuse levophobia, the fear of objects to a person’s left, with dextrophobia, the fear of objects to the right. • Although some of us fear the possibility of cancer, an extreme carcinophobe will convince himself he has cancer because he touched someone who has it.

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