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GRANITEby Kathy Wolfe

Granite is a rock formed by the slow cooling of molten material called magma found deep beneath the earth’s surface. Typically, granite contains the minerals quartz, feldspar and mica.

• All of us have probably seen granite as a rock in science class, as tombstones in cemeteries, as countertops in kitchens and in many memorials worldwide. It can also be observed in natural land features such as Stone Mountain near Atlanta, Georgia.

• Stone Mountain Park contains the largest mass of exposed granite on earth. A carving on one side of the large granite rock is of three Confederate heroes, President Jefferson Davis, Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson. It is the biggest bas relief sculpture in the world. (Bas-relief sculptures are made by chipping away at slabs of rock.)

• The Confederate fi gures measure 90 x 190 feet (27 x 58 m) and are surrounded by a carved surface that covers three acres (1.2 ha). It is recessed 42 feet (13 m) into the mountain. The idea for the memorial was hatched in 1909, but it was not dedicated until 1970.

• Carver Gutzon Borglum started the project, but his work was later totally blasted from the mountain. He went on to his most famous work of art, Mount Rushmore.

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Walking Speed Predicts Life ExpectancyAs we age, many of us find that our walking speed gets slower. Most of us assume that it’s a function of age and that it’s inevitable. It’s not. Researchers compared natural walking speed and life expectancy and came to some startling conclusions.They combined the results of nine different studies and followed 34,000 participants for up to 21 years. Each participant was age 65 or older with an average age of 73 years. Their natural walking speed, from a stand-ing start, was measured and timed for short distances.The result of the studies: Those who natu-rally have an above-average walking speed will generally also have a longer-than-average life expectancy. Researchers were able to correlate current age with walking speed and predict the likely survival ages. For those participants age 75 and older, the information was especially on target.Additionally, researchers realized that the

information was valuable enough to be used as a standard assessment, such as blood pres-sure, heart rate, weight, and general mobility tests.That’s not to say you should intentionally start walking faster. Your body picks its own natural speed. However, it wouldn’t hurt to have your doctor do a test so see how fast you normally walk. It can be done easily in a hallway of the doctor’s office by a nurse or practitioner.If you walk slower than average, your doctor could look for the reasons why, as walking speed is an indication of the overall state of your health. If a problem is identified and then remedied, your normal walking speed may increase -- which will put you in a cat-egory of those who have a longer life expec-tancy and better body functioning.Wear your sneakers to the doctor’s office!

Matilda Charles regrets that she cannot personally answer reader questions, but will incorporate them into her column whenever possible. Write to her in care of King Features Weekly Service, P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475, or send e-mail to [email protected].

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• Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills of South Dakota was worked on by about 400 men and women from October 1927 to October 1941. Doane Robinson is known as the “Father of Mount Rushmore,” since it was his idea for colossal carvings in his home state. He contacted Gutzon Borglum about the project while Borglum was working on Stone Mountain.

• Dynamite was used for 90 percent of the carving on Mount Rushmore, blasting about 450,000 tons (408 million kg) of rock out of the way for the artistic renderings of four U.S. presidents. The presidents and the years their carvings were finished were: George Washington, 1934; Thomas Jefferson, 1936; Abraham Lincoln, 1937; and Theodore Roosevelt, 1939. The area receives about three million visitors per year.

• One of the earliest railroads in America was constructed specifically to haul granite. Located near present-day Quincy, Massachusetts, the 12-mile Granite Railway was used to transport granite rock from the Granite Railway Quarry to dock facilities on the Neponset River. Loaded onto ships, the granite was transported to other locations, often including Boston to supply the city’s growing construction industry.

• One of the first noteworthy structures constructed of granite was King’s Chapel in Boston. This small church was completed in 1754 and was built of granite quarried from the Granite Railway Quarry. The church still stands but is dwarfed by the surrounding skyscrapers of downtown Boston.

• The Official State Rock of North Carolina is “Mount Airy White,” which is from the quarry of the same name. The white granite has been harvested from the “world’s largest open-faced quarry” since 1743.

1. Who was the last player before Florida’s Emilio Bonifacio in 2009 to hit an inside-the-park home run on Opening Day?

2. The Chicago White Sox had four different man-agers during the 1990s. Name two of them.

3. How many Heisman Trophy winners have come from the University of Texas?4. Name the NBA teams Chuck Daly coached between 1981 and 1999.

5. When was the last time the Florida Pan-thers made the NHL playoffs, and who did they face?

6. NASCAR driver Brad Keselowski set a record in 2010 for most top-five finishes in the Nationwide Series. How many did he have?

7. Which tennis player has won the most Grand Slam men’s singles titles in the Open Era at the French Open?

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• Mount Airy is also known for being the home of Andy Griffi th. His television show about life in the fi ctional town of Mayberry is celebrated each September with “Mayberry Days.” Also, the 50th Anniversary of the “Andy Griffi th Show” was held at the Andy Griffi th Museum in October 2010 in Mount Airy.

• Granite is the name of an unincorporated village in Baltimore County, Maryland. The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad was built in the 1830s using the locally quarried granite, mainly for the bridges. The local quarries provided granite for parts of the Washington Monument, Library of Congress and more government buildings in Washington, D. C. The Granite National Historic district includes about 62 properties all from the late 19th century.

• The “Granite Center of the World,” Barre, Vermont, is internationally recognized for its high number of artists adept at stone cutting, etching and sandblasting. “Barre Gray” granite has been quarried and used for products since the late 1700s. According to geological estimates, the quarries in Barre have a supply that should last about 4,500 years. The city is home to the Vermont Granite Museum & Stone Arts School.

• Canadians are known for loving their winter sports, and one of them is played with granite stones. The sport of curling became an offi cial winter Olympic event starting with the 1998 Nagano Games. Players slide stones across a sheet of ice towards a target area. The stones used are discs made of polished granite and defi ned by the World Curling Federation as weighing between 38 and 44 pounds (17-20 kg), with a maximum circumference of 36 inches (910 mm) and a minimum height of 4.5 inches (110 mm). Since becoming an offi cial winter Olympic sport, Canada has emerged as the Olympics’ dominant nation winning eight medals — three gold, three silver and two bronze.

• Franconia Notch State Park in the White Mountains of New Hampshire had one of the most famous granite natural landmarks in the world. The “Old Man of the Mountain,” also known as “the Profi le,” was an illusion formed by fi ve granite ledges 1,200 feet (366 m) above Profi le Lake. The illusion gave the appearance of an old man looking to the east when observed from a very small area. If you were in the wrong spot, he just looked like the side of a rocky mountain! Nature carved the profi le thousands of years ago, and nature took it away on May 3, 2003, when it collapsed.

• The Old Man of the Mountain has been the state emblem for New Hampshire since 1945, is the graphic for the state’s highway route system and their license plates and is on the back of the state quarter minted in 2000. Because of its importance to the state, The Old Man of the Mountain Memorial is being constructed at the park, near where it existed for so many years. Five large standing stones will be aligned so that they will form the same profi le for future generations to enjoy.

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Though derided for being one of the more boring years in recent sports memory, 2010 did offer up more than its fair share of drama.The sports headline in 2010 more than likely dealt with the lingering fallout from the steroid scandals, off-fi eld idiocies, text messages and gun arrests (in many cases, all of the above) that typify what passes for sports reporting these days. We’re in the deadball era of sports reporting ... an era where the press corps is in decline, where coaches clam up and deliver the same pat answers -- presser after presser, game after game -- with unchecked impunity. It’s an era where the most energetic reporters don’t write for a newspaper and have never shared a beer with their major-league sources, yet have a hard time obtaining credentials for some minor-league hockey game being played somewhere out near Barstow.“Tone” and delivery are valued, and stories that require a healthy dose of a reader’s receptiveness die on the vine as what passes for today’s media corps focuses on the low-hanging fruit of sordid, streaming minutiae. It is in this era that the timeless vision of Phil “Lefty” Mickelson’s Masters victory at Augusta -- after he birdied to clinch the Masters and ended up in

the loving, kiss-fi lled embrace of his wife, Amy.Woods, as in years past, still managed to dominate the news, even on that day. His 20-month estrangement from golf and imminent divorce seemed to get more press than the 13 months that Amy suffered from breast cancer. Mickelson’s mother had been battling the same disease for more than a year, too. He may have been one of the richest men in the world, may have been the second most decorated and actively competitive golfer in the world, and it didn’t matter. He just wants to sell cheeseburgers and take time off to have dates with his wife and breakfast with his daughters.

Jack Nicklaus bristles if he gets the “Tiger Woods question” too many times at one sitting. Will Nicklaus be upset when Woods -- inevitably -- shatters all of his records? Steamed, Nicklaus always shakes his head. Just once, he says, just once he’d like to see someone on the PGA “really go after [Tiger].” He’s too old to do it himself and he’s too old to understand that on an Internet bulletin board somewhere, somebody is complaining about how Mickelson could have taken the No. 1 seed by playing in a few more tournaments in 2010. Those folks need to stop with the comparisons, put down the mouse and look at the actions of a real man named Phil Mickelson.

Mark Vasto is a veteran sportswriter and publisher of The Kansas City Luminary.



February is Responsible Pet Owners’ Month. It’s an interesting designation, really, as I’m not entirely clear as to whether we’re supposed to be celebrating Responsible Pet Owners, or making pet owners feel guilty about not being as responsible as they should be.On one hand, I’m getting plenty of notices to remind my readers to take their pets in for check-ups (if they haven’t done so already), get their vaccinations up to date and basically work harder at keeping pets healthy and happy. On the other hand, I’m getting plenty of press releases about scads (that’s right, scads) of products that apparently are absolute must-haves in order to be a truly responsible pet owner.To me, it’s all a bit weird. Isn’t responsible pet ownership a year-round activity? Has it suddenly become OK to just condense our responsibility to our pets into the shortest month of the year? Is responsible pet ownership really being promoted, or is this just another way for marketers to convince pet owners that they have to have the latest,

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• One of the most famous staircases in the world is at the Château de Chambord in the Loire Valley of France. It is a double spiral staircase that surprisingly allows two people to climb without ever crossing paths, even though they can see each other. This Château was built as a hunting lodge for Francois I starting in 1518, using 1,800 workers and taking 15 years to fi nish. There are 440 rooms and 365 fi replaces!

• If you have ever been to Rome, you probably went to “The Spanish Steps,” built from 1723-1725. These 138 stone steps lead from the Piazza di Spagna to the hill of the Pincio and the church of Trinita dei Monti at the top. The funds for the Spanish steps came from the French, and keep in mind that Rome is in Italy! This staircase is the longest and widest in Europe and a great gathering place for tourists and locals.

• Probably the most photographed staircase in the world is also in Italy. The spiral staircase that leads from street level up to the Vatican Museums in Vatican City was designed by Giuseppe Momo in 1932. This staircase consists of two intertwined spirals; one leading up and the other down.

• Some stairs that were an exit point for many slaves from Africa are on Goree Island off the coast of Senegal. An estimated 26,000 of the 12 million slaves taken from Africa are believed to have passed through the island between 1670 and the late 1700s.

• Did you know that there is a festival for winding stairs? Traer, Iowa, is home to the Famous Winding Stairs on Second Street and holds an annual festival the third weekend in August (August 12-13, 2011). The iron staircase was built in 1894 when E.E. Taylor built a new building for the town’s newspaper. Since the building and lot were narrow, he chose to have an outside staircase built to the newspaper offi ces on the second fl oor. In 1916, when the town voted to widen the sidewalks, the stairs were moved to the curb and a catwalk was added to connect them to the upstairs entrance. The staircase, catwalk and attached building are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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In the African nation of Somalia, a man is permitted to have as many as four wives -- but only if he can support them all.

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You’ve probably heard of solar-powered cars (even if they’re not in common use), but you may not realize that there have also been examples of solar-powered airplanes, motor scooters and boats.

Those who study such things say that of the 785 million adults in the world who are unable to read, two-thirds are women.***


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It was legendary American crime novelist Rex Stout who made the following sage observation: “Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.”

If you have an aversion to bugs, you might not want to take a vacation in Borneo anytime soon. The world’s third largest island is home to a particular stick insect that, measuring in at 14 inches, is the longest insect in the world.

You might be surprised to learn that the earliest recorded reference to a vending machine dates back to the fi rst century. It seems that a mathematician and engineer named Hero of Alexandria invented a mechanism that dispensed a fi xed amount of holy water when a patron deposited a coin.

• On Feb. 16, 1878, the Bland-Allison Act -- which provided for a return to the minting of silver coins -- becomes the law of the land. During the 19th century, money was backed by actual deposits of silver and gold, unlike today when the value of American money is essentially secured by faith in the stability of the government.

• On Feb. 15, 1903, candy-store owner Morris Michtom places two stuffed bears in his shop window in Brooklyn, N.Y., advertising them as Teddy bears, after President Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt. Other toy manufacturers soon began turning out copies of Michtom’s stuffed bears, which would become a national childhood institution.

• On Feb. 14, 1929, in Chicago, gunmen in the suspected employment of organized crime boss Al Capone murder seven members of George “Bugs” Moran’s North Siders gang. The so-called St. Valentine’s Day Massacre motivated federal authorities to redouble their efforts to fi nd evidence incriminating enough to take Capone off the streets.

• On Feb. 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066, authorizing the removal of all people from military areas. The military in turn defi ned the entire West Coast as a military area, and more than 110,000 Japanese Americans were relocated to remote internment camps around the country.

• On Feb. 18, 1959, Ray Charles records “What’d I Say,” which went on to become one of the greatest rhythm-and-blues records ever made. The call-and-response song was created to fi ll time at the end of a concert, and the crowd loved it.

• On Feb. 20, 1974, Reg Murphy, an editor of The Atlanta Constitution, is kidnapped after being lured from his home by William Williams. Murphy was released after a $700,000 ransom was paid. Within hours, Williams and his wife, Betty, were captured.

• On Feb. 17, 1986, Anne Tyler wins the National Book Critics Circle Award for her novel “The Accidental Tourist” (1985). The book, about the life of a travel-book writer after the death of his son and his subsequent divorce, became a bestseller and was later made into a movie starring William Hurt.


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• In October 2010, Bellevue, Washington, was

the site of an inaugural fundraising event, “The Fight for Air Climb,” for the American Lung Association. Hailed as the longest multi-building stair-climb event in the United States, it took place at Bellevue Towers, the city’s newest high-rise condominiums, which has two towers, each 45 stories tall. For the climb, the options were for climbing 45, 91 or 182 stories, which translated into 800, 1,621 or 3,242 stairs. Participants climbed up and were rushed down in express elevators.

• San Francisco has many stairs built into its hills to aid walkers. In August 2005, a special mosaic staircase was unveiled at 16th Avenue and Moraga. The 16th Avenue Tiled Steps project was a huge undertaking conceived and fabricated by ceramicist Aileen Barr and mosaic artist Colette Crutcher. Considered the world’s longest mosaic staircase, there are 163 steps made from over 2,000 handmade tiles plus many fragments of tile, mirror and stained glass. Look for these stairs to add to your photo album!

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We all know that hearts are synonymous with Valentine’s Day. This week, Tidbits studies up on the human heart, the muscle that “takes a lickin’ and keeps on tickin’!”

• Just a little larger than the size of your fi st, your heart weighs between 7 and 15 ounces (200 to 425 g). The average heart beats about 72 times per minute, which is about 100,000 times a day. You do the math —That’s 3.6 million times every year. If you live 70 years, that’s 2.5 billion beats over the course of your lifetime.

• Every day your heart pumps 2,000 gallons (7,570 l) of blood through your body’s 60,000 miles (96,560 km) of blood vessels. Turn on your kitchen faucet full blast for the next 45 years and that will equal the amount of blood pumped by your heart during your lifetime. That’s about 1.5 million gallons (5,678,118 l), which would fi ll about 200 tanker cars on a train.

• About four weeks after conception, a fetus’ heart starts beating. Its heart rate is about 150 beats per minute, twice as fast as an adult’s. At 12 weeks, its heart is pumping 60 pints (28 l) of blood every day.

• The heart cavity is made up of four parts, two upper chambers and two lower chambers. The upper compartments are called the right and left atria, and the lower chambers are the right and left ventricles. The body’s largest artery, the aorta, originates from the left ventricle, the largest and strongest chamber that pumps to all body parts. Its walls are about _ inch (1.27 cm) thick. Your body contains about 75 trillion cells that receive blood from the heart. Only one body part, the cornea, receives no blood.

• The word “cardiac” means “related to the heart,” and has its origins in the Greek word for heart, kardia.

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DEAR DR. DONOHUE: Your article on arthritis was very interesting, but you did not explain about the arthritis that comes with psoriasis. I have it, and I know of two other people who have it. We don’t understand it at all. Please explain. -- B.E.

ANSWER: Autoimmunity is the explanation for many illnesses, including both skin and joint psoriasis. “Autoimmunity” indicates that the immune system -- our protection against germ invasion and other harmful attacks -- for reasons not yet understood, turns against our own bodies; in this case, it’s the skin and joints. The immune system targets joints in as many as 7 percent of those who suffer from skin psoriasis. That’s a considerable number of people when you consider that as many as 3 percent of the entire population suffers from skin psoriasis.Skin psoriasis precedes joint psoriasis most of the time, but there are instances when both occur simultaneously or when joint involvement appears before any skin manifestations.The fact that skin and joint psoriasis run in some families also points to a gene infl uence on these conditions.Any joint can be affected. The topmost fi nger joint, the one below the fi ngernail, is frequently targeted. Back, neck, knees, you name it -- psoriasis can strike it. Like all arthritic joints, psoriatic arthritic joints are swollen, red, tender and stiff. The severity of joint involvement doesn’t always mirror skin involvement, but it does correspond to nail changes. Nails have small pits, become loosened from their attachment to underlying skin, often turn yellow and crumble.Treatment of psoriatic arthritis depends on how bad the arthritis is. For mild to moderate cases, NSAIDS do a good job. They include the familiar Aleve, Advil, Motrin and many others. For more severe involvement, doctors prescribe drugs like methotrexate. And for severe arthritis, a breakthrough has come with the introduction of

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DEAR DR. DONOHUE: Public speaking panics me. My job requires that I do lots of public speaking. In spite of the fact that I am called on to perform often, it doesn’t get any easier for me. In fact, I think it’s gotten worse.My sister has a similar problem. Her doctor gave her a medicine that makes her actually relish getting up and addressing a crowd. Do you know the name of the drug? -- S.S.

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• There’s a difference between the hearts of men and women. The man’s is typically about 2 ounces (62 grams) heavier, but beats about eight fewer times per minute.

• When you have a good belly laugh, up to 20 percent more blood is pumped throughout your entire body. This can contribute to stress reduction, so laugh it up!

• The world’s fi rst successful human heart transplant was completed in 1967 by South African physician Dr. Christiaan Barnard. The recipient Louis Washansky lived 18 days. Today, heart recipients live an average of 15 years. About 3,500 transplants are performed every year. After two years, about 80 percent of recipients are alive, and after fi ve years, 73 percent of males and 67 percent of females still survive. Medical research has shown that same-gender transplants have better results.

• The world’s longest-surviving heart transplant recipient lived 31 years after his surgery. Tony Huesman was 20 years old when viral pneumonia damaged his heart and he received a new one in 1978. He lived until 2009, when ironically, it was cancer that claimed his life. Kelly Perkins received her new heart in 1995 and has since climbed Mt. Fuji, Mt. Kilimanjaro, the Matterhorn, Mt. Whitney and Argentina’s Cajon de Arenales.

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1. Boston’s Carl Yastrzemski did it in 1968.

2. Jeff Torborg (1990-’91), Gene Lamont (‘92-’95), Terry Bevington (‘95-’97) and Jerry Manuel (‘98-’99).

3. Running backs Earl Campbell (1977) and Ricky Williams (1998).

4. Cleveland (1981-’82), Detroit (‘83-’92), New Jersey (‘92-’94) and Orlando (‘97-’99).

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6. He had 26 top-fi ve fi nishes in 35 races.

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