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SPORTS STORIES: VOLCANO SURFING

For those who enjoy extreme sports, volcano surfing is a possible choice. Follow along as Tidbits explores this dangerous but invigorating sport.

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• If ever there was an extreme sport, it’s volcano surfing! Equipment is a board or sled specially designed for navigating through the rough terrain found on the abrasive slopes of a volcanic mountain. The boards are similar to a snowboard but contain an extra layer of lamination to reduce friction. Durable jumpsuits are worn to protect the body from abrasions and burns. Goggles are required to shield the eyes from the wind, ash, and debris, and a face cover prevents dust and ash from going up a surfer’s nose and into the mouth.

• Surfers aren’t descending mountains on a lava flow, but rather on the brittle and frequently hot slopes of the volcano. There aren’t a great number of locations where the sport can be practiced, since the mountain must be an “active” volcano where a recent eruption has generated a suitable hardened lava slope.

• The sport originated in the early 2000s on Cerro Negro, an active volcano in Nicaragua, which has become one of the most popular spots for surfing. It’s Central America’s youngest volcano, having first erupted in 1850, an eruption that lasted six weeks. Cerro Negro has erupted 23 times since then, the most recent in 1999. Another largerscale eruption is predicted in the near future. The surfing is prefaced by an hour-long hike to the 2,388foot (728 m) high summit. The actual slide takes less than five minutes,

with an average speed of around 45 mph, although the record exceeds 60 mph.

• The braver surfers tackle Mount Yasur on the South Pacific Ocean island of Vanuatu. This volcano is much more dangerous, with several eruptions occurring every day – in fact, every day continuously for several hundred years. Yet the mountain can be approached safely as its eruptions are relatively mild explosions of gases, ash, and volcanic bombs. However, the danger of molten lava is very real, and glowing lava is often visible at the crater’s rim.

• The last confirmed eruption of Japan’s 12,389-ft-high (3,776-m) Mount Fuji was in 1708. Located on the island of Honshu, it’s Japan’s highest mountain, offering a spot for volcano surfing. But because the slopes are dangerous, the government has restricted access, and because it’s considered active, surfers must obtain special permission to climb it.

• In addition to the hazard of cuts, abrasions, and burns, there is a danger of breathing poisonous gases from a volcano, which can cause headaches, dizziness, increased heart rate, and difficulty breathing. Another potential danger is histoplasmosis, also known as “caver’s disease,” a fungal infection that causes fever, cough, and shortness of breath.

• Those surfers with a need for an extreme adrenalin rush choose active volcanoes that are constantly erupting while releasing lava and lethal gases, while the more conservative ones choose the relatively safe dormant volcano. A volcano is considered dormant if it has not erupted since the last ice age, which ended approximately 10,000 years ago, but it is not impossible that it might erupt again in the future.

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• During the World War II years, the Oscar statuettes were composed of painted plaster because metals were being used for the war effort. After the war, the plaster Oscars were returned and replaced with metal ones.

• The more-than-10,500 members of the Academy are eligible to nominate films and actors. Members include not only actors, but also writers, directors, producers, costume designers, makeup artists, and other industry professionals. No one can apply to the Academy, but must be sponsored by other members. While all can nominate for Best Picture, they can only nominate within their own work category for the remaining awards. For all but Best Picture, the nominee with the most votes wins, but for the Picture award, voters rank their first, second, third, fourth, and fifth choices, and a shortlist of 15 is created, then narrowed down to five. Preliminary voting for the March event begins in December.

• And the winner is…! The Oscar winners’ names are contained in a sealed envelope, a tradition that only began in 1941. That year the Los Angeles Times broke the rules and published the names of all the winners prior to the ceremony, and the sealed envelope began!

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• Although Katharine Hepburn has the most acting Oscars, she doesn’t hold the record for the most acting nominations. Meryl Streep has that honor, having been nominated 21 times, with three wins.

• Legendary costume designer Edith Head has eight statuettes from 35 nominations. Her designs spanned the full gamut of film genres –

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from Audrey Hepburn as a beautiful socialite in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” to the Western “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” to the Biblical costumes of “The Ten Commandments.” She dressed Elizabeth Taylor, Grace Kelly, Paul Newman, and John Wayne, among scores of others. When applying for her first position at Paramount Pictures, she “borrowed” some sketches that she passed off as her own. Even though the studio knew she had faked her portfolio, they hired the 26-year-old designer, and Head remained at Paramount for 44 years. While many of her designs were wild, bright, and colorful, Head herself wore only black, white, beige, and brown.

• Anthony Hopkins was the winner of the Best Actor Oscar in 1992 for his role as serial killer Hannibal Lector in “The Silence of the Lambs.” Yet Hopkins only appeared on screen for 15 minutes of the movie’s 118 minutes runtime. In addition to Hopkins’ win, the film earned four other Oscars – Best Picture, Best Director, Best Writer, and a win for Jodie Foster as Best Actress.

• Three actors are tied for the honor of the most acting wins by a male actor – Jack Nicholson, Daniel DayLewis, and Walter Brennan, each with three Oscars. Nicholson has the record for the most nominations, with 12.

• When Kathryn Bigelow won the Oscar for Best Director for the 2008 war action thriller “The Hurt Locker,” she became the first woman to capture that honor. Bigelow not only edged out four other directors – she beat her exhusband James Cameron who was competing in the same category for his film “Avatar.”

• The category of Best Picture wasn’t always known by that name. It started out as Outstanding Picture,

changing to Outstanding Production in 1931, Outstanding Motion Picture in 1942, Best Motion Picture in 1945, and finally Best Picture in 1963.

• It’s a family affair! Actress Liza Minnelli is the only Oscar winner to have parents who were both Oscar winners. Her mother Judy Garland was the first winner with an honorary juvenile Oscar in 1939 for “The Wizard of Oz,” followed by Liza’s father Vincente Minnelli who won Best Director for 1958’s “Gigi.” Liza herself was Best Actress for her work in 1972’s “Cabaret.”

• It’s possible for a tie to occur between nominees, with just six ties in the history of the Awards. It has occurred once for Best Actor and once for Best Actress. The most recent was for Best Sound Editing in 2013. In the event of a tie, both are given awards.

• In 1950, the Academy introduced a new provision regarding the actual statuettes. Because some winners had been selling their awards, all nominees are required to sign a contract that they will first offer it back to the Academy for a dollar. Despite this stipulation, several Oscars have been sold on the open market.

Michael Jackson purchased the 1939 Best Picture Oscar for “Gone with the Wind” in 1999 for $1.54 million. Steven Spielberg purchased two Oscars, Clark Gable’s 1943 Best Actor award for $917,000 and a Bette Davis’ Best Actress

Oscar for $773,000. He donated both back to the Academy for safekeeping.

• Only one person named Oscar has been awarded an Oscar. Song writer Oscar Hammerstein II won Best Original Song in 1941 for “The Last Time I Saw Paris” and again in 1945 for “It Might as Well Be Spring.”

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TIDBITS® HEADS TO THE OSCARS

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This year’s Academy Awards will be held on March 2 at Los Angeles’ Dolby Theater. This week, Tidbits investigates the history of this prestigious award.

• The first Oscars presentation was held in 1929, honoring films from 1927 and 1928. The site was the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel at a private dinner function hosted by actor Douglas Fairbanks, president of the Academy and co-founder of United Artists. The dinner occurred three months after the winners had already been announced.

• The official name of the event is the Academy Awards of Merit that are recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

• Margaret Herrick was the Academy’s first librarian and was later named their executive director. She is credited with nicknaming the statuette “Oscar,” remarking that it resembled her Uncle Oscar.

• The Oscar statuette is 13.5 inches (33.6 cm) tall, weigh 8.5 lbs. (3.85 kg), and is composed of solid bronze coated in 24k gold. Production cost of each is around $400. (CONTINUED