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March 11 - 17, 2016 Issue 00262

TIDBITS® COLORS WITH

MELLOW YELLOWby Kathy Wolfe

How many ways can you say yellow? Lemon, canary, ochre, sa� ron, amber, golden, mustard – no matter what you call it, this week, Tidbits is all about this color that the eye sees when it looks at light within the wavelengths of 570 and 590 nanometers. • Yellow is the most visible color of the spectrum,

with the human eye processing yellow � rst. � at makes it the logical choice for caution and warning signs, as well as � re engines, school buses, and taxis.

• Studies indicate that yellow has a stimulating e� ect on mental processes and the nervous system, and activates memory, which makes it a good color for a room used for studying. However, it’s also been shown to stimulate appetite, so it’s not recommended for use in kitchens.

• � e term “yellow journalism” is used to describe news that hasn’t been well-researched, relies heavily on unnamed sources, uses misleading headlines, and sensationalizes the news. � e term came about in the mid-1890s during a circulation war between two newspapers, Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World and William Randolph Hearst’s New York Journal. Both were accused of exaggeration of news events, scandal-mongering, and misleading stories in an attempt to drive up sales. turn the page for more!

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MELLOW YELLOW (continued):• A yellow jacket might look like a bee with its

yellow and black stripes, but it’s really a wasp. A bee has a fuzzy coating on its body, while the yellow jacket does not. A honeybee’s stinger comes out when it stings, but the yellow jacket’s doesn’t, enabling it to sting multiple times. Some of their nests might have as many as 100,000 wasps. � ey like everything sweet, including fruits, sweet drinks, and other sugary treats on your picnic table. If you swat at the yellow jacket, you increase your chances of being stung.

• We’ve been looking up telephone numbers in the Yellow Pages since 1883, when a Cheyenne, Wyoming, printer was compiling a regular telephone directory and ran out of white paper and used yellow instead. � e � rst o� cial Yellow Pages directory for business listings came along in 1886. We didn’t start letting our “� ngers do the walking through the Yellow Pages” until 1962 when a Massachusetts commercial designer named Henry Alexander designed the “walking � ngers” logo. A year later it became the national trademark.

• John Hertz was a Chicago automobile salesman in 1907, and, � nding himself with a surplus of seven used cars, decided to transform them into taxicabs. After reading a University of Chicago study that yellow was the color most visible from a distance, he painted the vehicles and the Yellow Cab Company was born. It wasn’t long before he had a � eet of 40 taxis, and by 1925, it was the largest taxi company in the world with 2,700 cabs. In 1929, Hertz sold his shares of Yellow Cab to focus his attention on his new rental car business.

• � e Beatles’ song “Yellow Submarine” was composed in 1966 by Paul McCartney, who wanted to write a simple children’s song about a submarine “where all your friends are with a band.” As with other Beatles songs, many listeners tried to read references to drugs into the song. A month after the song debuted, certain barbiturate capsules started to be known as “yellow submarines.” McCartney has always claimed it was just a nonsensical song for children about an ancient mariner. � e water sounds on the recording were created by John Lennon blowing bubbles through a straw into a pan of water and others twirling chains in a tin tub. An animated � lm of the same title featuring � e Beatles as cartoon characters followed in 1968.

• Tony Orlando and Dawn released “Tie a Yellow Ribbon” in 1973, and after three weeks, three million records had been sold in the U.S. It was #1 on the charts for four weeks that April. � e gist of the song is that someone who has “done

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HOLLYWOOD Matthew McConaughey won an Oscar for the 2013 � lm “Dallas Buyer’s Club,” then followed it with “Interstellar” (which cost $165 million and made $675 million) and

several annoying commercials for Lincoln Motors.His next � lm project was the $25 million “Sea of Trees,” with Naomi Watts and Ken Watanabe. After it was panned by critics and booed at � e Cannes Film Festival in May, it was pulled from distribution. � e reviewer for Variety magazine (the show-business bible) wrote, “How this dramatically stillborn, commercially unpromising Lionsgate/Roadside Attractions pick-up managed to score a competition berth at Cannes is a vastly more impenetrable mystery than the one laid out in Chris Sparlings screenplay.” It was directed by the avant-garde Gus Van Sant and will escape into theaters April 14.McConaughey now has two diverse � lms completed: “Free State of Jones,” in which he plays a Mississippi farmer who leads a group of small farmers and local slaves in a rebellion against

the Confederacy (with Keri Russell and Brendan Gleason), due May 13, and the thriller “Gold,” where he searches for gold in the Indonesian jungle, with Bryce Dallas Howard, Bruce Greenwood and Stacy Keach (no release date yet). He’s also done three new Lincoln commercials directed by Gus Van Sant, and if you thought the others were annoying, these have no dialogue at all.

Producers are trying to � gure out what set the “Deadpool” box o� ce on � re. In its � rst weekend it raked in $284 million. Was it comic book-crazed fans waiting 11 years for this � lm, or was it star Ryan Reynolds full-frontal nude scene that has people returning in disbelief? � is could start a new trend. Reynolds’ next is “Criminal,” with Kevin Costner and Tommy Lee Jones, out April 15, but don’t expect a nude scene from him or his two Oscar-winning co-stars in this one.Reynolds’ wife, Blake Lively, last seen in “� e Age of Adaline,” plays a blind girl who regains her sight in “All I See Is You” (no date yet), and a young woman stranded on a buoy with a great white shark between her and the shore in “� e Shallows” (due June 24). She’s also just completed working in Woody Allen’s 47th � lm, an as-yet-untitled comedy/romance, with Jessie Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Steve Carell and Parker Posey.Not to be overlooked, Reynolds’ ex-wife, Scarlett Johansson, is recovering from the struggling “Hail Caesar” by awaiting “� e Jungle Book” (due April 15), “Captain America: Civil War” (May 6) and � lming “Ghost in the Shell,” based on a Japanese comic book, with Michael Pitt and Pilou Asback. By the time we’ve seen all these � lms, we’re sure to have Scarlett fever!(c) 2016 King Features Synd., Inc.

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1. What U.S. university’s mascot is a yellow jacketnamed Buzz?2. What famous painter called yellow “a colorcapable of charming God”?3. What comic book hero was afraid of the coloryellow?4. Which of the Beatles sang the lead on “YellowSubmarine”?5. What’s the term for a yellowish pigmentation of the skin?

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UNUSUAL ANIMALS:SLOTHS

How much do you know about the sloth? You’ll be wiser about these mammals after examining the facts.

• � ese medium-sized tropical mammals are related to anteaters and armadillos and live in the jungles of Central and South America. Species of sloths di� er by the number of claws on their front feet and are simply called the two-toed sloth and the three-toed sloth. Other than that, they look pretty much the same, although the two-toed sloth is slightly bigger, about 27 inches (68 cm) long, weighing about 18.75 lbs. (8 kg.)

• � e sloth’s claws are 3 to 4 inches (8 to 10 cm) long and make walking on the ground very di� cult. As a result, sloths spend most of their time in the tall trees. � ey eat and sleep in the trees and mate and give birth in the trees. � ey do occasionally drop themselves into the water for a swim.

• A sloth is a herbivore (plant eater) and more speci� cally a folivore, a herbivore that eats primarily leaves. � eir 12-inch (30.5 cm) long tongues enable them to collect leaves from distant branches. Because leaves provide very little energy or nutrients and do not digest easily, the sloth’s stomach is very slow-acting with several compartments. About 65% of a sloth’s body weight is made up just of the contents of its stomach. It can take a month or more for the digestive process to be completed.

• � e sloth’s metabolic rate is very low as is its body temperature. It has only about a quarter as much muscle tissue as other animals its size, about 25% of total body weight.

• � e sloth’s scienti� c name is Bradypus, which translates from the Greek for “slow feet.” It’s an apt name, since the sloth is the world’s slowest animal. � ey have very little energy and move only when necessary and even then, only at a maximum speed of about 6.5 feet (2 m) per minute. It moves so slowly that algae grows on its fur. � is does work to an advantage, however, since the algae’s green color camou� ages the animal in the trees, protecting it from predators. Moths, beetles, cockroaches, and fungi also make their home in the sloth’s fur.

• A sloth is much more comfortable in the water and can move three times faster in water than on land, while easily performing the breaststroke.

• Sloths are not particularly friendly animals and prefer to live alone. � eir idea of a social activity is sleeping in a tree with another sloth.

his time,” presumably a convict, is on his way home, but is uncertain whether he will be welcome. He asks his love, if she wants him back, to tie a yellow ribbon around the old oak tree in front of the house where the bus will pass by. � e end result is 100 yellow ribbons around the tree. � is was not a new tradition, and may even date back to the Civil War when women wore a yellow ribbon in their hair to signify their devotion for their U.S. Cavalry soldiers. In 1979, when the U.S.Embassy in Iran was seized and the sta� was held hostage, yellow ribbons were seen on trees across the nation as a symbol of support. � ey are also displayed for soldiers returning from the Persian Gulf.

• Yellow means di� erent things in the cultures around the world. Many see yellow as the color of happiness, enlightenment, sunshine, and Spring. In fact, over 80% of people around the world agree that it’s the color of happiness. Yet it’s the color of mourning in Egypt, the color of sadness in Greece, and represents jealousy in France. In India, yellow represents a merchant or a farmer. In North America, we refer to a coward as yellow or yellow-bellied, yet in Japan the color yellow represents courage. Some religions associate yellow with deity, and the garb of religious leaders is yellow. In China, it is the color of glory, virtue, and wisdom. At one time, Russians referred to an insane asylum as the “yellow house.”

• Why do bananas change from green to yellow? Before the fruit is picked, it is green because of chlorophyll in the skin. After it is picked, hormones convert amino acids into ethylene gas, which produces several enzymes. � e enzymes stop the chlorophyll supply and the yellow carotenoids present in the bananas replace the green color.

• Cycling fans will be familiar with the term maillot jaune, which is the yellow jersey worn by the leader of the Tour de France race, a practice that was put into place in 1919. During each stage of the race, the time each rider takes is totaled. � e rider with the lowest overall time at the end of each stage receives the ceremonial


Apprentice.” An especially di� cult challenge was her participation in ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars.”

• After a bout with scarlet fever and a severe blow to the head, at age 14, � omas Edison was left with 20% hearing in one ear and none in the other, although he considered himself deaf. He maintained that his loss of hearing helped him to be a better scientist. Dealing with dyslexia in addition to his deafness, Edison spent just three months in public school, before his mother chose to deal with his disabilities by homeschooling him. Credited with close to 1,100 patents (still a record number for one person), this brilliant inventor � led for a new patent on the average of every � ve days. Although we mainly remember his “big” inventions, such as the stock ticker, voting machine, motion picture camera and projector, phonograph, and incandescent light bulbs, Edison was also the inventor of waxed paper. He was often quoted as saying, “Genius is one percent inspiration and 99% perspiration.”

opinions on what caused composer Ludwig van Beethoven’s deafness, including typhus, lead poisoning, or his habit of immersing his head in cold water to stay awake. An analysis done on a piece of his hair revealed an exceptionally high level of lead in his system. It’s also possible that his inner ear developed lesions that led to his deafness.

• An illness thought to be scarlet fever or meningitis robbed 19-month-old Helen Keller of her hearing and sight. At age seven, 20-year-old Anne Sullivan entered her life and began spelling words into Helen’s hand. It was the beginning of a friendship that would endure for 49 years. At Radcli� e

College, Helen became the � rst deaf and blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. She published her autobiography, � e Story of My Life at age 22, followed up by another book � ve years later, and another 10 during the course of her life. She met every U.S. President from Grover Cleveland up to Lyndon B. Johnson, who awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom. When asked if she could choose between deafness and blindness, she said she would choose to be blind because “blindness separates us from things, but deafness separates us from people.”

• Marlee Matlin is the only deaf person to win an Academy Award, something she accomplished at age 21 in 1986 as Best Actress for Children of a Lesser God. Being deaf since the age of 18 months from a genetic malformation didn’t stop Matlin from pursuing acting at an early age. At seven, she started as Dorothy in a stage production of � e Wizard of Oz. In recent years, she’s had a recurring role in “� e West Wing” and has appeared in several other television series. She’s published four books and was a � nalist on NBC’s “� e Celebrity

• � ree-toed sloths have extra neck vertebrae that enable them to turn their neck 270 degrees.

• � e pygmy three-toed sloth can only be found on the Isla Escude de Veraguas o� the coast of Panama. Only 79 of this endangered species remain.

• Sloths were brought to the public’s eye when animated versions became movie stars. In 2002, Ice Age was released by 20th Century Fox, a � lm which featured Sid, a prehistoric sloth who teams up with Manny the Mammoth to survive the Paleolithic ice age. � e � fth Ice Age � lm is set to be released in 2016. Another computer-animated movie � e Croods features a prehistoric family in the Pliocene Era who have a pet sloth named Belt.

FAMOUS DEAF PEOPLEMarch is Deaf History Month, an appropriate time to pay tribute to these who have overcome the odds.

• At about age 30, composer Ludwig van Beethoven began experiencing severe tinnitus, a “roar” in his ears that made conversation and playing at concerts extremely di� cult. Yet it didn’t stop him from composing hundreds of musical works, including nine symphonies, seven concerti, 32 piano sonatas, 16 string quartets, and scores of chamber music pieces. � ere are di� ering

� is guy goes to see his dentist and asks him,

“What’s the best thing for yellow teeth?”

� e dentist replies, “How about a brown tie?”

1. What’s the term used for fear of the color yellow?

2. How is yellow feverprimarily transmitted?

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* It was British art critic and social reformer John Ruskin who made the following sage observation: “Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only di� erent kinds of good weather.”

* After the events of this past winter, you may not be surprised to learn that sales of cakes, cookies and candy spike when a blizzard is in the weather forecast.

* You’ve almost certainly heard of “M*A*S*H,” one of the most popular TV series of all time. One of the main characters on the show, which ran from 1972 to 1983, was Corporal Klinger, played by Jamie Farr. It’s interesting to note that in the 1950s, Farr actually served as an enlisted man in the U.S. Army in Korea -- and the dog tags he wore on the show were the same ones he wore during his service.

* For reasons that are not quite clear, inventors have created a robot that can solve a Rubik’s cube in slightly more than one second.

* In 18th-century France, there was a Parisian printer who employed several apprentices, all of whom lived in the home of the printer’s family. � e printer’s wife was, evidently, a lover of cats -- and her cats begged for scraps and screeched at all hours of the night. Finally fed up with the felines, the apprentices took matters into their own hands: While the family was out of town, they held a formal trial, complete with guards, a confessor and a public executioner. After they were pronounced guilty, the accused felines were strung up on cat-sized gallows.

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Winter Strawberry-Rhubarb Supreme

Don’t let the name fool you -- thiswill get you thinking spring!

2 cups chopped frozen rhubarb, thawed1 cup hot water3/4 cup Splenda Granular2 (4-serving) packages Jell-O sugar-free straw-berry gelatin1 (8-ounce) can crushed pineapple, packed in fruit juice, undrained2 cups frozen unsweetened strawberries, thawed, coarsely chopped and undrained1 (8-ounce) package Philadelphia fat-free cream cheese1/2 teaspoon coconut extract1 cup Cool Whip Lite2 tablespoons � aked coconut

1. In a large saucepan, combine rhubarb, hot water and 1/2 cup Splenda. Cover and cook on medium heat for 6 to 8 minutes or until rhubarb softens. Remove from heat.2. Add dry gelatin. Mix well to dissolve gelatin. Stir in undrained pineapple. Add undrained strawberries. Mix well to combine. Pour mixture into an 8-by-8-inch dish. Refrigerate until � rm, about 3 hours.3. In a small bowl, stir cream cheese with a sturdy spoon until soft. Add remaining 1/4 cup Splenda and coconut extract. Mix well to com-bine. Fold in Cool Whip Lite. Spread topping mixture evenly over set � lling. Evenly sprinkle coconut over top.4. Refrigerate for at least 30 minutes. Cut into 8 servings.

* Each serving equals: 97 calories, 1g fat, 6g protein, 16g carb., 229mg sodium, 160mg calcium, 2g � ber; Diabetic Exchanges: 1/2 Meat, 1/2 Fruit, 1/2 Carb; Carb Choices: 1.(c) 2016 King Features Synd., Inc.


* Here’s your springtime reminder: As you in-stall your window screens to air out the house (or even if you keep them up year-round), dou-ble-check to make sure they are pet-secure. Cats love a windowsill, and they can fall through and out the window if screens are not secure. If you have a pup, you may want to give it the push test -- it should be able to withstand Fido’s nose jammed against it!

* To preserve your manicure in the garden, wear gardening gloves. If you love the feel of dirt in your hands but don’t love dirty nails, simply rake your nails over a bar of soap before you dig in. � e soap gets under there, keeping dirt out. Bonus, it’s easier to wash your hands afterward!

* “If you use ground chicken or turkey to make lower-fat meatballs, give them some time to � rm up by making the meatballs and putting them in the fridge for an hour or so. � ey hold together much better that way.” -- F.K. in Missouri

* Some tips for working with garlic: To peel cloves, microwave for 10-15 seconds or cover in plastic (in a sandwich baggie or plastic wrap) and crush lightly with a glass bowl or plate. To chop or mince, spray your knife with cooking spray or put a few drops of oil on the clove itself, as this will keep the garlic from sticking to the knife. Finally, go ahead and crush that garlic by turning your knife on its side and pressing down hard.

* Add an eraser to your whiteboard marker by gluing a small pompom on the end with a drop of hot glue. Use giftwrap tape to tape a small magnet to the side of the marker, and it’s ready to go up on the fridge with your dry-erase board.

Caring for a Handicapped Pet

DEAR PAW’S CORNER: We have two dogs that we adopted from shelters: “Kylie,” a beautiful grey-hound who is missing one front leg, and “Zu-zu,” a toy poodle, who is about age 16 and is almost com-pletely blind. I’m writing to let readers know that caring for pets with physical challenges can be ex-pensive and challenging. � ey need to know what they’re in for before adopting a challenged dog. We wouldn’t trade our two “kids” for the world. Kylie is quiet and very determined even though walking can be tough for her. Zu-zu is yappy and can get anxious when she’s home alone, but is loy-al and loving. Both have additional physical issues that require more trips to the vet, extra medicines, even special equipment. � eir care can run over a thousand dollars a year, easily. We have pet in-surance that covers their basic care and some of their medication, which helps quite a bit. Please let your readers know to be aware of the challenge they take on when they adopt dogs with illnesses or handicaps. -- Karen H., New Hampshire

DEAR KAREN: You told them, and I thank you! Car-ing for challenged dogs can be incredibly reward-ing, but also di� cult. � ey can have both physical and emotional issues, particularly if they’ve expe-rienced past trauma, neglect or abuse. Before adopting a pet, ask plenty of questions of both shelter supervisors about a pet’s known past, its behaviors and what its treatment may cost. Talk to a vet ahead of time about the care and commit-ment that may be required. When you’re prepared to care for a challenged pet, you’ll be able to create a supportive home for them.

“With yellow, the eye rejoices, the heart expands, the spirit is cheered and we immediately feel warmed.”--Johann von Goethe


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