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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. They 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. The first official Yellow Pages directory for business listings came along in 1886. We didn’t start letting our “fingers do the walking through the Yellow Pages” until 1962 when a Massachusetts commercial designer named Henry Alexander designed the “walking fingers” logo. A year later it became the national trademark. • John Hertz was a Chicago automobile salesman in 1907, and, finding 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 fleet 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.

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One day, during the Reagan administration, my father put on a college football game. The quarterback was a hotshot by the name of Boomer. Boomer was tossing touchdowns, cheerleaders were flinging all about and the stadium was going accordingly wild. “That’s why you want to go to a big college,” my great, successful father, told me. Not one ever to quarrel with any edict passed down by my parental guidance, I made them proud by attending just such a school, attaining mediocre heights. And I remember my very first football game as a member of the student section. I remember the first key play of the game. Why? Because there was this one dude standing on a riser in plastic shades shaking his car keys, admonishing us through megaphone technology to go ahead and shake our own keys! That cheer, I am guessing, would have been made more effective if we had, indeed, more than one solitary key and a flaccid, laminated dining card on our keychains. Then, as we made annoying little fwappy flapping sounds with our key and card combo, we were offered this cheer: “Four and four is half of sixteen ... all for [the team], do the lean, lean!” And then we all leaned to the right and then we leaned to the left. We did this for little apparent reason or effect, because whatever we were doing wasn’t helping the team we leaned for, unless our game plan was to get destroyed by Florida State. But that was then, and it was nothing a little Winona Ryder flick on the VHS couldn’t cure. Fast-forward to today, and it’s a whole new world. Student sections are all the rage, and while that’s kind of cool in theory, in practice it often is not. We get it. You’re young and enthusiastic. You need things to occupy your time 45 minutes before tipoff and 4.5 years before you occupy Wall Street. Nobody begrudged you that one week you all went viral and poured milk on your heads or did the Harlem Shake. But come on, lighten up a bit. When ESPN does a remote from your prestigious college home court four hours before tipoff and you’re screaming like a banshee in face paint, you do not have to keep claiming that you’re No. 1. First of all, you’re not No. 1. Put your finger down. Secondly, you’re freaking out as if you took the brown acid every time the camera cuts to you. It’s high time (no pun) to reassess. Can’t you let up on the throttle a bit and just enjoy the game? Cheer like crazy, sure, but if you are cheering full force for six hours on a Sunday at a Catholic university, you’ve got to be either off-your-meds crazy or on crazy meds. You’re at least suspect. I’m tired just watching you whip, but watching you nae-nae, too? I’d rather watch the game. (c) 2016 King Features Synd., Inc. Mark Vasto is a veteran sportswriter who lives in New Jersey. VETERANS POST by Freddy Groves

The Department of Veterans Affairs’ proposed budget for 2017 is $182 billion. That’s roughly broken down as follows: $78 billion for discretionary spending, of which $68 billion is for health care, and $103 billion for benefits such as compensation and pensions. Somewhere in the $182 billion budget is $12 billion for care in the community, $1 billion for telehealth, $515 million for women’s health care, $836 million for new health-care facilities and $900 million for new cemeteries. The budget includes $54 million for 300 employees for claims processing. (That comes to $180,000 per employee.) And because it can take upward of five years for an appeal to reach completion, VA officials are requesting $156 million for 922 full-time employees. (That’s $169,000 per employee.) Also buried in there is $180 million for the electronic claims processing system and $143 million for VCIP, the program that converts medical records to digital images. It also requires $4.3 billion for cybersecurity and info technology. Although the numbers of homeless have come down, officials are asking for $1.6 billion for programs. The Choice Act, giving veterans fast access to care in the civilian community, needs $5 billion for in-house staff and $10 billion for a temporary Choice program. (Which is confusing because Choice is a done deal, not temporary.) In another place, the budget explains that they’ll need $1.4 billion and $853 million to hire 9,700 medical staff for Choice. In yet another place it mentions taking $969 million from the 2014 Choice Act. Confused yet? If you’ve run these numbers as you’ve read down the column, you’ll see that they don’t really add up. And if you want to take a sharp look at the details, go online to www.va.gov/budget and look for the FY2017 budget request. Then look at the official press release at www.va.gov (search for news release 2746) and compare the numbers. (c) 2016 King Features Synd., Inc.

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MELLOW YELLOW (continued): • The 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. The 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 film of the same title featuring The 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. The gist of the song is that someone who has “done 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. The end result is 100 yellow ribbons around the tree. This 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 staff was held hostage, yellow ribbons were seen on trees across the nation as a symbol of support. They are also displayed for soldiers returning from the Persian Gulf.

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* On March 20, 1823, Ned Buntline, the “dime millionaire” and discoverer of Buffalo Bill, is born in New York. More than any single writer, Buntline was responsible for creating a romanticized and misleading image of the American West. He once said, “I found that to make a living I must write ‘trash’ for the masses.” * On March 18, 1834, in England, six English agricultural laborers are sentenced to seven years of banishment to Australia’s penal colony for their union activities. Their crime: They agreed that they would not accept work for less than 10 shillings a week.

founder of one of North America’s largest heavyduty truck makers, is killed when his car collides with a trolley in Pennsylvania. The expression “it hit me like a Mack truck” (meaning something that creates a powerful impact) is part of the American lexicon. * On March 19, 1957, Elvis Presley puts a $1,000 down payment on a new home for his parents, a southern Colonial mansion on a 13.8-acre wooded estate. Presley agreed to purchase the Tennessee home called Graceland for $102,500. * On March 15, 1968, construction begins on the Eisenhower/Johnson Memorial Tunnel in Colorado. Cutting through the Continental Divide at an average elevation of 11,112 feet, it is America’s highest vehicle tunnel.

* On March 17, 1901, paintings by Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh are shown in Paris, causing a sensation across the art world. Van Gogh had committed suicide 11 years earlier after selling only one painting.

* On March 16, 1978, the oil tanker Amoco Cadiz wrecks off the coast of France. Although the French navy dropped bombs to open the hull immediately, releasing the oil where it was, much of the 68 million gallons of oil drifted to the coast.

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MELLOW YELLOW (continued): • Yellow means different 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. The 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. The rider with the lowest overall time at the end of each stage receives the ceremonial yellow jersey and starts the next stage. Whoever has the yellow jersey after the last stage is the overall winner of the Tour.

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