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Viridian is a dark blue-green color, whose chemical name is hydrated chromium oxide. The facility belonging to comic action heroes the X-Men is colored viridian.

• Beginning in 1903, Crayola offered one green crayon, simply called “green.” Sea green, spring green and olive green were made available in 1949, and in 1958, the company introduced forest green. Ultra-green came along in 1972, and since then, the company’s more creative green names have included electric lime, jungle green, magic mint, asparagus, Caribbean green, fern green, Granny Smith apple, inch worm, mountain meadow and tropical rainforest.

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• If a company is guilty of green-washing, they are misleading consumers by proclaiming that they implement positive environmental practices that don’t exist or can’t be substantiated. The company might falsely claim that they use recycled content in their product, or advertise one small truth to distract consumers from a larger falsehood.

• We know the Trifolium repens by another name — the white clover, but more commonly, the shamrock. Taken from the Irish word, seamrog, meaning “little clover,” this white-flowered perennial was regarded by early Celts as a charm against evil spirits. Legend has it that St. Patrick used the little three-leafed plant to illustrate the doctrine of the Holy Trinity — Father, Son, and Holy Spirit — to the Irish people, demonstrating how each leaf was separate yet joined together in a single stem. Most Irish brides include shamrocks in their bridal bouquet as well as in the groom’s boutonniere.

• The word green has found its way into many terms in the English language. If you’re a greenhorn, you’re an inexperienced beginner. When the green-eyed monster rears its ugly head, it represents jealousy; similarly, an individual • The color green is considered sacred in the Islam religion can be green with envy. Those as a symbol of vegetation and who have the ability to make new life. Folklore states that anything grow are said to have Muhammad was especially fond a green thumb. If you have a of the color and wore a green roll of greenbacks, your pocket cloak and turban. According is full of U.S. currency. Not to the Koran, inhabitants of feeling well? You might be Paradise will dress in fine described as green around the garments of green silk. Several gills.

Islamic nations incorporate the color into their flags; in fact, • Members of the Green Party the flag of Libya is simply a focus on the environment, green field, with no other colors, equal opportunity, social justice designs or details. and non-violence. It is their platform that, “every human being deserves a say in the decisions that affect their lives.” The party does not accept corporate donations, shunning corporations’ influence and control over government and the media. Probably the most famous Green Party member is Ralph Nader.

• That pigment in plants and algae that makes them green is known as chlorophyll, and it is necessary for the process of photosynthesis. Chlorophyll absorbs sunlight and uses that energy to synthesize carbohydrates from carbon dioxide and water. Leaves change color in the fall because the chlorophyll in the leaves • The blue-green color of teal was named for the Common begins to decay.

Teal, also known as the Eurasian Teal, a common breed of duck, which is the smallest “dabbling” duck. This means • A gentleman in China who wants to express his love for it feeds at the surface of the water rather than by diving. his sweetheart will give her a gift of jade. In this culture, this The Teal’s green eye patch dominates the bird’s otherwise gemstone indicates eternity, and is given to convey deep eternal love, similar to the symbol of gold and diamonds in chestnut-colored head. the Western world.

• Most people won’t recognize the name of Hugh “Lumpy” Brannum, but baby boomers will remember him as the overall-wearing sidekick of children’s television’s Captain Kangaroo. Aptly named Mr. Green Jeans, Brannum appeared as the handyman at the Treasure House from 1955 to 1984.

• At the end of the yellow brick road in the Land of Oz is the Emerald City, home of the famous Wizard. In L. Frank Baum’s legendary novel, all those entering the Emerald City were made to wear green-tinted eyeglasses that made

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• One of America’s founding fathers, Patrick Henry was a two-time governor of Virginia and a strong advocate of the American Revolution. As the House of Burgesses debated whether to take military action against the advancing British army, Henry made his famous “Give me liberty or give me death” speech in 1775.

• The number 33 jersey has been retired by hockey’s Montreal Canadiens and Colorado Avalanche. It belonged to Patrick Roy, who has been voted the greatest goaltender in NHL history by a panel of writers and a fan poll. This Hockey Hall of Famer won two Stanley Cup championships each with the Canadiens and the Avalanche, and is the only player in history to win the Stanley’s MVP award three times. Today, Patrick Roy spends his time managing and coaching the Quebec Ramparts, part of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League.

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immediately began aggressive radiation treatments. After only two months, on the day of his final treatment, he made the trip to Philadelphia to play in the Penguins-Flyers game.

Nicknamed “Super Mario” by teammates and commentators, Mario Lemieux has proven himself to be just that. Struck by serious illness at the height of his career, this super athlete battled for his life and came back stronger than ever.

• Four months later, Lemieux was once again in surgery, this time for a herniated muscle in his back. At the end of the season, he was forced to take a leave of absence to recover from the fatigue of cancer treatments.

• It seems appropriate that lemieux translates “the best” in French. Born in Montreal, Quebec, in 1965, Lemieux is widely considered one of the best hockey players of all time.

In his 17 seasons as a forward with the NHL’s Pittsburgh Penguins, he scored 690 goals and had 1,033 assists. That’s quite an accomplishment considering that illness and injuries kept him out of 36 percent of his potential regular season games.

• Lemieux was back in full force for the beginning of the 1995 season, scoring his 500th career goal in October.

During the following season came his 600th.

• A different number 33 jersey has been retired by the New York Knicks, belonging to center Patrick Ewing. Ewing lived the first 11 years of his life in Jamaica, where he played cricket and soccer. At Georgetown University, he was one of the first college players to start on the varsity team as a freshman, which contributed to his being voted as the 16th greatest college player of all time by ESPN. The Hall of Famer is also on the list as one of the 50 Greatest Basketball Players of All Time. Ewing has two Olympic gold medals to his credit as a member of the 1984 and 1992 basketball teams. Today, he is the assistant coach for the Orlando Magic. afterward • Although not a familiar name, the Reverend Patrick Bell was famous in his own right. This Church of Scotland minister invented the reaping machine in 1828. Bell collected no financial gain from his invention, because he never obtained a patent, believing it should benefit all mankind.

• “Dr. McDreamy,” neurosurgeon Derek Shepherd on television’s “Grey’s Anatomy,” is played by heartthrob Patrick Dempsey. Dempsey entered the entertainment world as a teenager when he studied juggling and actually placed third in the National Jugglers Convention. At one time, he wanted to attend Clown College. The Maine-born star was also a state champion downhill skier who trained for an Olympic team slot. Dempsey was diagnosed as dyslexic at a young age, and although he attended the local high school, he dropped out before graduating. His dyslexia forces him to totally memorize all his scripts. In his spare time, he is a sports car racer and has participated in both the Indianapolis and Daytona Beach races.

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• As a fine high school athlete, Patrick Swayze excelled in football, diving, broad-jumping, track and martial arts.

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• The Lemieux f a m i l y basement was the first practice field for young Mario, who, at age 3, started practicing there with his brothers, using wooden kitchen spoons as hockey sticks and bottle caps as pucks. It only made sense for their father to pour a rink on the front lawn shortly

• When Lemieux was drafted by the Penguins in 1984, the team was in deep financial trouble and the relocation rumors were flying. Ten years prior, the team had declared bankruptcy, and by the time of Lemieux’ first season, was drawing less than 7,000 fans per game and seemed unable to fill its arena to even half-capacity.

• During his rookie season, Lemieux not only played in the NHL All-Star game, he was named that game’s MVP, the first rookie to achieve this distinction. With his help, Pittsburgh won the Stanley Cup in 1991 and 1992, and Lemieux was the NHL’s MVP three times, and the league’s leading scorer six times.

• With the 1990 season came back surgery for a herniated disc and agonizing back pain. But it didn’t keep Lemieux from his first Stanley Cup and earning MVP of the playoffs.

In early 1993 came the unbelievable announcement that he had been diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. He

• Lemieux announced his retirement in 1997 at age 32, his number 66 was retired, and he was immediately inducted into the NHL Hall of Fame without the usual three-year waiting period. In 1998, the Penguins declared bankruptcy, with over $90 million in outstanding debt. Because the team had been in trouble for quite some time, Lemieux had deferred his salary and was owed $30 million. He converted the debt into equity and became the majority owner of the team. In 2000, he returned to the ice, becoming one of three players who were Hall of Fame members while still playing.

(The other two were Gordie Howe and Guy Lafleur.) Two years later, Lemieux was a gold medal winner at the 2002 Salt Lake Winter Olympics.

• His second and permanent retirement came in 2006, shortly after being diagnosed with atrial fibrillation, a heart condition that produces irregular heartbeats. He remains the Penguins’ principal owner and chairman of the board. He has the distinction of being the only person to ever win the Stanley Cup as both a player and an owner.

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Make it super easy by growing wheat berry or rye grass seed in a clear jar or vase to brighten your home, grow a good luck charm shamrock centerpiece for St. Patrick’s Day on March 17, or grow a spring village in a saucer.

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A Truly Green Saint Patrick’s Day On Saint Patrick’s Day we all become a little bit Irish, whether it is green beer, cabbage, or placing 4 leaf clovers around the house, we all take pride in the fun and joy of the celebration. This holiday make sure you think green. Please make sure that you follow these rules about living green.

• If you imbibe in alcohol make sure you recycle your bottles • If you throw a party, don’t use paper plates or plastic cups. If an item is disposable, it fills up landfills • If you cook your favorite traditional Irish meal, please offer leftovers to friends and coworkers. Not only will they appreciate it, but shared meals is always better than waste • Many traditional Irish dishes require a lot of vegetables. If you don’t already have a garden, perhaps now is the perfect time to start one. A garden offers hours of relaxation and fun, while helping you to remain green.

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A: With some cabinets, that is a possibility. In order to place those hooks securely, it’s better to screw them into solid wood rather than particleboard. So, how can you accomplish this? By adding a solid-wood strip.

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GROWIN’ OF THE GREEN FOR ST. PATRICK’S DAY

With scissors, cut a new kitchen sponge into the shape of a shamrock. Soak the sponge in water and set it on a plastic tray or pie tin. Generously sprinkle the sponge with seeds all over the shape. Add water to the pan, loosely cover with plastic wrap until the seeds begin to sprout, and then remove the plastic.

Once the seeds begin to grow, place the “shamrock” in a sunny area. Within a few days, the growing seeds will transform a plain sponge into a beautiful giant green “shamrock.” Keep the sponge moist -- a perfect watering activity for young gardeners.

A LIVING MINIATURE VILLAGE IN A SAUCER

Kids can design their own mini village while nature takes care of the plant life. Fill a 10-inch flowerpot drainage saucer with potting soil. Sprinkle the seeds on the soil, lightly spray with water until soil is damp, not soggy. Loosely cover with plastic wrap until seeds sprout. Remove plastic wrap, and place tray near a sunny window.

Your children can create a village setting by placing cute objects in the grass: miniature toys, trees made from twigs, tiny flowers from tissue paper, and figures molded from clay. Pathways can be added to the village by clipping the grass however you wish. Add miniature bunnies and wrapped candy eggs as Easter approaches. *** Donna Erickson’s award-winning series “Donna’s Day” is airing on public television nationwide. To find more of her creative family recipes and activities, visit www.donnasday.com and link to the NEW Donna’s Day Facebook fan page. Her latest book is “Donna Erickson’s Fabulous Funstuff for Families.” (c) 2011 Donna Erickson Distributed by King Features Synd.

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Q. I am a 36-year-old female with 2 kids. All I want is to lose the extra fat around my waist and my hip/butt area. I go to the gym two times a week and I do my two aerobic classes and one abdominal class but it does not seem to be helping, please help me.

A. I am so glad you asked. This is a question I get so many times from women just like you that need to understand what they want to happen with their bodies and the actions they take are not going to help them achieve what they want.

However, the ladies keep trudging away at those aerobic classes and abdominal classes hoping they will lose the specific areas on their bodies they want to target. OK, let me handle this so I make myself clear: I want all ladies from here to Mars to listen to what I am about to say; You cannot spot reduce or change one area by doing exercises just for that area, you cannot lose the fat around the stomach by doing only crunches or sit ups and you cannot lose the fat in the butt/hip by doing only exercises for those areas!

There. I’ve stated the truth and women around the Universe are now looking like a deer caught in the headlights because that is the look I get whenever I inform women of this physiological fact.

When you work a specific area, let’s use the abdominal area for example, you work and work those muscles with hundreds of crunches. But that area is a small muscle group, just one of six major muscle groups in fact. So you have worked your abs hard but the other major muscle groups have done nothing and thus your fat burning mechanism, the metabolism, is just a little higher because you have only worked one small muscle group.

You have to work your entire body by engaging the major muscle groups (chest, shoulders, triceps & biceps, back, hamstring, quadriceps) with the same intensity you worked your abdominal muscle group and the fat burning engine now turns on. Now do this on a consistent basis and you will start to see drops in size in the areas you are looking for, but only because of the full bodywork you have done.

If you want to get to the specific area start at your head and finish with your toes and then the areas in between will start to respond, work on just those areas and you will be working in vain.

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Disbelief at the Blarney Stone There are 11 million people right outside the door, but at the Blarney Stone -- a bar hidden in plain sight in the shadows of Madison Square Garden -- you’d never really know it. It’s a crowded happy hour, commuters mixing with the longtime regulars at the bar before fighting the subway crowds. Some are literally stuck there, unable to get a taxi during the city’s infamous 4 p.m. shift change, and some will tell you they have been stuck there for years.

New York is, of course, a town brimming with media -- five major daily newspapers, two 24-hour news radio stations and various local television affiliates - but the news here is delivered by the bartender, who glances at the television behind the bar and makes the announcement.

“Knicks got Anthony.”

The news is greeted with little emotion.

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The Knicks haven’t made the playoffs since 2004, one year after Anthony took the Syracuse Orangemen to the NCAA championship. That would be the last time this state has had a championship team on a basketball court, in fact, but nobody at the Blarney Stone cares.

Syracuse might as well be Canada. The Garden hasn’t raised a championship banner since Mark Messier led the Rangers to the Stanley Cup in 1994. The Knicks?

Aside from some old-timers at the end of the bar, few remember their early ‘70s NBA championships -some in the bar weren’t even born yet.

Oh, the power of a hit television series. Last year no one had ever heard of Chord Overstreet, who plays Sam Evans on the Fox show “Glee.” The Nashville native is the son of country-music singer-songwriter Paul Overstreet and the brother of Nash Overstreet of the Hot Chelle Rae band.

A small role on “iCarly” and in the film “The Hole” (‘09) brought him to “Glee’s” door. For his 22nd birthday, Chord received an offer he couldn’t refuse: a reported $10,000 for a personal appearance at the Las Vegas nightclub Tao in The Venetian Hotel, plus $2,500 in gambling money (they love people seeing celebs gambling at their tables), as well as airline tickets and hotel rooms for his 15 closest friends. Talk about celebrating your birthday Hollywood style! Another birthday present was being signed to star with Ashley Greene and Kellan Lutz in the upcoming film “Warrior,” due out later this year.

20th Century Fox Studios wants to add another notch to the “Alien” franchise. The original, “Alien” (1979), was followed by “Aliens” (‘86), “Alien 3” (‘92), and “Alien Resurrection (‘97). Then came the prequels, “Alien vs.

Predator” (‘04), “Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (‘07) and now there will be “Prometheus,” with Oscar winner Charlize Theron and Michael Fastbinder. Original director Ridley Scott will be back for this one, set to be released in June 2012. I didn’t sleep for weeks after I saw the original “Alien,” but since then we’ve been more scared by aliens invading the U.S. borders than those from outer space!

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To be sure, Carmelo Anthony is a star, but the Knicks have had plenty of those over the years. With the exception of Patrick Ewing, few have ever really made good on their promise. There was Bernard King in the ‘80s, and, of course, there was the Stephon Marbury debacle earlier this decade.

Like Anthony, who clawed his way out of the Red Hook projects in Brooklyn, Marbury was touted as the local boy who would fulfill his childhood dream on the hardcourts of the Garden. It didn’t take long for “Starbury” to fade. Anthony, who was part of the now infamous Knicks-Nuggets brawl and has been arrested multiple times for marijuana and sobriety offenses, wouldn’t surprise many if he fizzled out, too.

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Work-from-home schemes: If you flip to the back of magazines as far back as the 1970s, you’ll find ads for working at home. Nothing has changed. The scammers still promise to teach you the secrets to finding work you can do at home, or will send you craft kits to put together, and then tell you the work isn’t up to their standards.

Identity theft: While you’re not at fault if a company leaves its computers wide open to security breaches, millions of people make the mistake of being sloppy in their own security -- in email, giving information over the phone, opening attached files and not shredding mail with your name on it.

Scambusters [www.scambusters.org] has made its annual prediction of which scams will be the Top 10 for 2011. Many are the same as last year ... and the year before: Nigerian scams, economy (work at home, loan modification, foreclosure), identity theft (computer hacking, malicious software, hijacking social media information), skimming (credit-card information at ATMs) and people at the door (collecting for charity, contractors who take advance money but don’t do the work.)

The only reason certain scams make the Top 10 lists year after year is that they work. Scammers aren’t going to stay with something that doesn’t net them a lot of money.

Be more vigilant and suspicious this year. Scammers are out to relieve you of your dollars any way they can. Dissect emails, be suspicious of downloads, don’t buy anything over the phone unless you initiate the call, beef up your computer security and get help with it if you don’t know how, pick your own charities to donate to, and say no to contractors who come to your door.

David Uffington regrets that he cannot personally answer reader questions, but will incorporate them into his column whenever possible.

Write to him in care of King Features Weekly Service, P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475, or send e-mail to columnreply@gmail.com. (c) 2011 King Features Synd., Inc.

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