A few riddles for you to help me to figure out!!!

First Riddle:

Who makes it, has no need of it.
Who buys it, has no use for it.
Who uses it can neither see nor feel it.
What is it?

 

Second Riddle:

A basket contains 5 apples. Do you know how to divide them among 5 kids so that each one has an apple and one apple stays in the basket?

 

Third Riddle:

There are a few trees in a garden. On one of them, a pear tree, there are pears (quite logical). But after a strong wind blew, there were neither pears on the tree nor on the ground.
How come?

Fourth Riddle:
 

A poor farmer went to the market to sell some peas and lentils. However, as he had only one sack and didn't want to mix peas and lentils, he poured in the peas first, tied the sack in the middle, and then filled the top portion of the sack with the lentils. At the market a rich innkeeper happened by with his own sack. He wanted to buy the peas, but he did not want the lentils.
Pouring the seed anywhere else but the sacks is considered soiling. Trading sacks is not allowed. The farmer can't cut a hole in his sack.
How would you transfer the peas to the innkeeper's sack, which he wants to keep, without soiling the produce?

Insulin, What's that about??

Insulin is used for the treatment of a disease called diabetes. When a person has this disease, some fault in their body chemistry keeps it from using starches and sugars to make energy. A large gland called the pancreas makes a substance called insulin that the body needs to use starches and sugars. The body of a person with diabetes either does not make enough insulin or does not use its insulin. If this disease goes untreated, the person suffers from extreme thirst, loses weight, feels weak, and may eventually become unconscious and die. 

However, these things need not happen to a person with diabetes now that insulin is manufactured. The diabetic patient can take it by daily injection and a regular diet; they can lead a normal life. Doctors had known for some time that a person suffering from diabetes could not make use of the sugars in their body. The problem was how to provide diabetics with insulin. Scientist thought they knew the answer: give a diabetic insulin taken from the pancreas of a healthy animal. But no one had been able to extract insulin. This was the achievement of Frederick Grant Banting, a Canadian doctor and scientist who was born in 1891 near Alliston, Ontario. He was teaching in London, Ontario, and one evening while preparing a lecture on the pancreas, he suddenly realized how he might extract insulin; He went to the University of Toronto and asked Professor John Macleod, director of a large laboratory, for help. 
 Macleod agreed to let him use the laboratory for a few weeks. In May 1921, with the help of Charles Best, a young graduate student, he set to work. They worked day and night, and within several weeks obtained the first insulin from the pancreas of a dog. By January 1922, after many tests, they were able to give insulin to a diabetic, a young boy near death. He showed immediate improvement too. An important step forward in medical history had been made.

Let's take a walk through my mom's garden and see what we find!!!!

I was a bit bored one day and decided to take a walk through my mom's garden, Here are some of the plants and flowers that i saw and thought that i should share with you guys. Now I'm not sure of the names of each as yet but as soon as i find them i will edit the post and add them in. Enjoy!!!

RECIPE OF THE WEEK - CHICKEN HONEY NUT STIR FRY

INGREDIENTS 

o    1 pound(s) chicken breast, cut into strips

o    2 large carrots

o    2 stalk(s) celery

o    3/4 cup(s) Grace Orange Juice

o    1/3 cup(s) honey

o    3 tablespoon(s) soy sauce

o    1 tablespoon(s) cornstarch

o    1/4 ounce(s) ginger, crushed

o    2 tablespoon(s) Grace Vegetable Oil

o    1/2 cup(s) cashew nuts, optional

INSTRUCTIONS

Cut chicken breasts into strips and set aside.

Cut carrot and celery diagonally.

Combine Grace Orange Juice, honey, soy sauce, cornstarch and ginger and mix well.

Heat 1 Tablespoon Grace Vegetable Oil in a large skillet over medium heat.

Add carrots and celery and stir fry for about 1 minute, remove from skillet and set aside.

Heat remaining Grace Vegetable Oil and stir fry pieces of chicken for 5 minutes.

Return vegetables to skillet add sauce mixture and chopped nuts and stir until sauce thickens.

Allow to simmer for about two minutes. 

TO SERVE: Serve with plain rice and a vegetable salad

How and Why Do We Wake Up?

Everybody has strange experiences with sleep. Sometimes we want to sleep very much and we just cant seem to. We stay awake or wake up early, and sometimes we feel we could sleep for hours and hours more when the alarm clock goes off. What wakes us up is something that scientists still can’t explain fully. 

There are two theories about it, and lets take a look at both of them. One theory says that sleep and fatigue are pretty much the same. The nerve cells become tired because their reserve of energy is used up faster than it can be replenished. Nerve cells can also become tired because waste materials accumulate faster than they can be eliminated. When we go about thinking and seeing and feeling and carrying on mental activities of all sorts, we use up energy. So the brain and other nerve center need a rest. Sleep clears away our tiredness, and when we wake up we are rested and able to function again.

Some scientists believe that what really happens when we fall asleep is that one particular nervous center called the vasoconstrictor center becomes tired. This causes the blood vessels to cut off a certain supply of blood, and we go to sleep. When the center has its blood supply restored to normal we wake up. The other theory about sleep and waking up is quite different. According to this theory, we have a “wakefulness center” in the lower portion of the brain. Our mental activities and emotions during daily living stimulate the center. Now, if we cant shut off messages from the brain to this center we remain awake. When we finally do it, by sending no more messages we go to sleep.

Then suppose we get hungry while we’re asleep or feel cold or damp or experience some emotion such as fear. The wakefulness center is stimulated again and we wake up. But don’t forget that every adult person needs a significant amount of sleep. It depends on your age, your body, your work, and even your sleep habits. An adult really needs only enough sleep so that when they wake up they feel rested and well and can carry on their work during the day.

Something Doesn't Quite Add Up Here!!!!

Here's Another Brain Teaser!!!

This one is hard so I'm going to give you a hint this time!!

My Dad has a miniature Pyramid of Egypt. It is 5 inches in height. Dad was invited to display it at an exhibition. Dad felt it was too small and decided to build a scaled-up model of the Pyramid out of material whose density is (1 / 9) times the density of the material used for the miniature. He did a "back-of-the-envelope" calculation to check whether the model would be big enough.

If the mass (or weight) of the miniature and the scaled-up model are to be the same, how many inches in height will be the scaled-up Pyramid? Give your answer to two places of decimal.

Hint: If mass is to be the same, then density is inversely proportional to volume. 
Also, the volumes are directly proportional to the cubes of the heights for objects that are geometrically similar.

Time for a brain teaser!!!!!

A 31" x 31" square metal plate needs to be fixed by a carpenter on to a wooden board. The carpenter uses nails all along the edges of the square such that there are 32 nails on each side of the square. Each nail is at the same distance from the neighboring nails. How many nails does the carpenter use?

Hint: Consider a nail at the corner of each square.

Why Can't We See Colors in the Dark?

Light from the sun or from any very hot source is called white light. But, as Newton was the first to show, white light is really a mixture of light of all colors. When a beam of light is made to pass through a glass prism, we see all the colors of the rainbow   red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. Each shade blends gradually into the next without a break. This spread of colors is called a spectrum. 

These colors are present in sunlight to begin with, but show up only after being spread out by refraction in the prism. Each color is refracted a slightly different amount, red least and violet most. This spreading out is called dispersion. Without dispersion, the mixture gives the appearance of white to the eyes. Color is determined by the wavelength of the light(like the distance between one crest and the next in a wave travelling on water). The shortest visible light waves are violet: the longest are red.

Most of the colors we see in our surroundings are not of a single wavelength, but are mixtures of many wavelengths. When white light falls on a object, some wavelengths are refracted, and the rest are absorbed by the material. A piece of red cloth, for example, absorbs almost all wavelengths except a certain range of red ones. These are the only ones that are reflected to your eyes, so you see the cloth as red. So color is a quality of light, it does not exist apart from light. All our color sensations are caused by light rays entering our eyes. All objects are seen by reflected light, and the colors that they show exist in the light and not in the object.

Should Left - Handedness Be Corrected?

If you're left - handed or know anyone who is, then you've noticed that a left - handed person has to make certain adjustments to get along in this world. For we live in a right - handed world.

With 96% of the people right-handed, its natural that everything from door knobs, locks, screwdrivers, motor cars, musical instruments, and machines to do such things as the button on our clothing are designed for right handed people. But somehow most left- handed people seem to get along quite well. And of course according to history there are cases of left-handed people who got along very well indeed! For example Leonardo da vinci and Michelangelo, two of the world's greatest geniuses, were left handed.

While some parents worry if their child is left-handed, most medical authorities believe it is wiser not to do anything about it. Being left - handed is not a defect in a person, so a child should not be scolded or punished, and no effort should be made to try to change him/her to a right handed person.
Now, what is it that makes most people right handed? For a long time it was believed that we are right - handed because of such things as training, custom, and the fact that most people are right handed. So a left handed person had something wrong with him/her because they could not do things the other way people did.

Today it is believed that most people are right - handed because the brains of most people function in a certain way. 1/2 of the brain dominates over the other half. The left half of the brain controls the function of the right side of the body and in most people the left half of the brain is dominant so the right half of their body is more skilled and better able to develop. Our right hand works better than our left hand. In left handed people, the brain develops in a reverse way. The right half of the brain is dominant, so the left half of the body works better. It works just as well, just as skilfully it just so happens to make them left handed. And that's just about it. Ain't nothing more about it!!!!!

RECIPE OF THE WEEK - SHRIMP FETTUCCINE ALFREDO

This is a relatively simple recipe to make.

INGREDIENTS

1 pk fettuccine pasta

1 tablespoon butter

1 lb cooked shrimp - peeled and deveined

4 cloves garlic, minced

1 cup half-and-half

6 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese

1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley

salt to taste

DIRECTIONS

1. Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil.

2. Add the pasta to the boiling water and cook according to the instructions on package. Drain

3. In a large skillet, cook and stir shrimp and garlic in the butter for about a minute .

4. Pour in half-and-half; stir. Sprinkle Parmesan cheese in one tablespoon at a time, stirring constantly. After all Parmesan is added, mix in parsley and salt. Stir frequently making sure the sauce does not boil. Please allow the sauce to thicken.

5. When sauce has thickened, combine with cooked pasta noodles; serve hot.

BON APPETIT!!!!!!!!

RECIPE OF THE WEEK!!!

Hey readers I'm starting a new page where I post my favorite recipe/s each week that I enjoyed preparing for my family, and I hope you enjoy preparing them as well.

Solve this brain teaser!!!

What's up readers this brain teaser puzzle  has me puzzled. No pun intended lol who will be the first to solve it.

Five patients, all potential blood donors, are waiting in the doctor's surgery and are sitting on the bench from left to right. Can you determine the position of each patient along with their blood group, age, height and weight? Their ages are 5, 9, 30, 46 and 60. Their heights are 40, 48, 60, 65 and 74. Their weights are 40, 75, 96, 125 and 165.

• The person on the far right is 37 years older than Jason, and is 60 inches tall.
• Jason weighs 56 pounds more than his height.
• Alan weighs 75 pounds and is 74 inches tall.
• John is type AB and weighs 56 pounds less than Jason.
• The person in the centre is 9 years old, is blood type AO and weighs 96 pounds.
• Adam, who is the first, is 65 inches tall, and weighs 100 pounds more than his height.
• The person who is blood type O, is 25 years older than the person to the left of them.
• Kevin is 60 years old.
• The person who is blood type A, is 55 years younger than Kevin and is not next to the person who is type AO.
• The person who is next to the 9 year old but not next to the person who is 65 inches tall, is blood type B, and weighs 125 pounds.

What's up with the Zika Virus!

If you are keeping abreast with the world news you might have heard about a mosquito - borne virus known as the Zika virus shortened to zik-v that is wreaking havoc in some countries around the world more concentrated primarily in the Western Hemisphere as of late. You may know about the virus but here are a few tips about the virus and how to decrease the chances of it infecting the entire population.
First I'm going to tell a little about the Zika virus:

• Zika virus is a mosquito - borne flavivirus
• It is primarily transmitted by the aedes mosquito 
• People infected with the Zika virus may have symptoms including mild fever, skin rash, conjunctivitis, muscle and joint pain, malaise or headache. These symptoms normally last from 2 - 7 days.
• Aedes mosquito usually bites during the day peaking during the early morning and late afternoon/evening.

Secondly I'll tell you a few tips on how to avoid being infected.

Protection against mosquito bites is a key measure to prevent Zika virus infection. This can be achieved by doing a number of things such as wearing clothes (preferably light-coloured) that cover as much of the body as possible; using physical barriers such as window screens or closing doors and windows; sleeping under mosquito nets; and using insect repellent containing DEET, IR3535 or icaridin according to the product label instructions. 

Special care, attention and help should be given to those who may not be able to protect themselves adequately, such as young children, the sick or elderly. Travellers and those living in affected areas should take the basic precautions described above to protect themselves from mosquito bites.

It is important to cover, empty or clean potential mosquito breeding sites in and around houses such as buckets, drums, pots, gutters, and used tyres. Communities should support local government efforts to reduce mosquitoes in their locality. Health authorities may also advise that spraying of insecticides be carried out.

So that's all I have to say for now about the Zika virus thanks for reading. Expect more about the Zika virus in posts later on.

You applied! You got the job! Now what do you do?

Hey readers! Welcome to my first post i found it very important to write this blog because let's face it sometimes we don't exactly know how to function when starting a new job so here it goes....

For starters unless the job you applied for is the president of the United States or the queen of England you will have to report to someone. So what you need to do is make that person's life as easy as possible and it will only be uphill from there.

Secondly you need to win over your coworkers. So what you need to understand is that you are basically back in high school. Every office has it cliques and so being the new person and wanting to be liked and accepted by everyone can be difficult as your not sure who hates whom, who has the most influence over whom, who is closest to the boss and so your not sure who it would be in your bets interest to be friends with and so you may or may not be eating lunch alone for a couple of days.

So you been at this job for a while they are some key things that you need to do to survive but in this post I'll only address two of the most important ones. First you need to protect your reputation. It's easier said than done trust me but there are a few things you can do to help ease your days along.
Ok to start remember that body language and actual speaking language speaks volume. What do I mean by that you need to project competence you need to pay attention to what you speak how you speak and where you speak and to whom you speak it to. It can translate into you being an immature person and therefore not being taken seriously. Get in  early, stay late I don't need to explain that it speaks for itself. Take a break on your social media during the work day what you share a post or video it has a time stamp. At every job there is that one person that get away with everything as in he comes to work late, he does not complete his assignment and he still gets promoted. Here's what you need to do look listen watch and learn there just might be something there that you can learn.

And lastly always and I stress always look like you know what you are doing. You can take comfort in the fact that you were chosen for the job based on your qualifications and so take care in learning the culture of the organization. Keep abreast of everything that current in your field as not to be ignorant to changes occurring and how they affect your daily tasks.

I know it's not much and it only address a few things but I hope this helps when starting your new job!!!!

Welcome Readers!!

Hey guys welcome to my page. It's basically a page about interesting things that may happen in this dad to day journey that we call life and tips and info on how to get through it as best as we can. I hope you have fun reading this blog as much as I will have writing it.