Origami - What I Learned on the Internet Today

I have a habit of being easily distracted.  Especially when I'm procrastinating!

Today's adventure began when I needed to look up a grammar question which took me to Quora [as easily a time-sink as YouTube] which took me to this:

Can Origami be used for something else?

which led to The Modern Science of Origami.

Too cool!

Red Bear's Teacher-Daughter might be inspired by this, I'm feeling tickles on the edges of my comprehension, in the olden days of complete brain function I could have had some fun with this.

Fall of the Berlin Wall - Google Search

Today, 9-Nov-2014 is the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.  My daughter was born in Dec. 1989 and has never known a world with the wall in it.

Her grandfather was a paratrooper at Normandy.

 I wish she had grown up in a world without war at all.

You would think that after all these thousands of years we would know better.

Being born in the sixty's I guess I'm just naive in wishing for "live and let live."


Fall of the Berlin Wall - Google Search: "Fall of the Berlin Wall"

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'The beginning of the long dash' indicates 75 years of official time on CBC - Newfoundland & Labrador - CBC News

I didn't know that the CBC was involved in the telephone talking clock or the Network Time Protocol!

I used the telephone talking clock at least once a week before the advent of the internet.  Working in a round-the-clock shift worker household and with aviation's precision time-keeping, it was important to me that our household clocks reflected the "real time".

Then the internet replaced the phone calls to the NRC clock.  I always was mildly curious about who ran the internet clock.

It's taken me years of retirement to let go of my obsession keeping all the clocks in this rural home "on time".  I always expected our electricity to be somewhat less than perfect when we were living up north.  I was surprised, though I don't know why, to discover rural electricity "down south" can be just as variable.

Last weekend when the fall time change happened I realized how lax I've become.  The clocks from one end of the house were out by as much as 10 minutes from the other end!  I can imagine what it will be like when Himself retires as well.

With no one at work and no one in school, with the "farm time" beating in weeks and months, I imagine our non-computer clocks will suffer even more from lack of attention.

At least there's always the CBC radio on in the background of the craft room.  The hourly long dash keeping me at least peripherally aware of the passage of time.

'The beginning of the long dash' indicates 75 years of official time on CBC - Newfoundland & Labrador - CBC News: "The control room contains the systems used to disseminate official time to the public, including the telephone talking clock, the CBC daily time broadcasts, computer time clocks, and the internet servers for Network Time Protocol (NTP). (NRC)"

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Google Love ... with a side of Pasta

gawd ... I love Google!

Google knows what I need, better than I do!

and, ... if you're interested, ... the links:

Guide to Noodles

Cook's Thesaurus: Pasta Rods

Different Types of Pasta Explained

I'm catching up on the current season of "Hell's Kitchen", I've always wondered what exactly "capellini" is.  OK, so it's a pasta, rod shaped.  How does it differ from other rods?  Now, thanks to Google, I know.

Thanks again Sir Tim Berners-Lee.

Taming the Critic, An Invitation

Taming the Critic, An Invitation:

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Late to the party but ... hmmm. Naming, assigning a gender, getting to know my Inner Critique. What a concept.

Off the top of my head, she is definitely She-Who-Always-Has-An-Opinion. Upper case O - Opinion. 

She is french [the sophisticated part of my Anglo-Canadian psyche], snooty and her Opinion drips like acid on my soul. 

I don't know her name. Yet. I've always been too afraid to get to know her. I don't like her much.

Standard Requirements of an Apology - who knew?

A control freak?

At the same time, Jill Scott, a Queen's University professor in the department of language, literature and culture, said she believes that Armstrong seemed to be hitting all the right buttons — at least at first.

"He started off pretty good. He answered all the questions and he said all the right things at the right times, early on. And that was fantastic," she said.

Scott, who researches conflict resolution, including apologies, said Armstrong did a good job of ticking off the list of standard requirements of an apology — confession , contrition, acknowledgement of pain inflicted on others, remorse, repentance, and acknowledgement that more needs to be done.

"But the further you got on in the interview, the murkier the waters became," Scott said.

Armstrong began micro-managing his message when it came to talking about other people, Scott said. That slowly reduced his portion of responsibility by entering into the territory "of excuse, justification and blame of others."

"As he got deeper into the interview, and clips are coming, we saw the old Lance coming back. Why? The guy is simply a control freak. He was a control freak on the bike, and now he's a control freak on the apology."

Did Lance Armstrong redeem or incriminate himself? - Canada - CBC News:

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Children are dying in Manitoba

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This is absolutely infuriating!

http://www.ombudsman.mb.ca/pdf/2011-12-9_cwr_report.pdf

We are talking about children dying while in care of social services and the bureaucratic blather is stunning.

Bullet Points - Renal Diet

limit dairy
no chocolate, nuts & seeds, beans, or bananas.

Eating a low-protein diet (this may be recommended)
People on dialysis should eat 8 - 10 ounces of high-protein foods each day.

Restricting salt, potassium, phosphorous, and other electrolytes


PHOSPHOROUS
You will need to limit the amount of dairy foods that you eat. This includes milk, yogurt, and cheese. Some dairy foods are lower in phosphorous, including tub margarine, butter, cream cheese, heavy cream, dry cottage cheese, brie cheese, sherbet, and nondairy whipped toppings.

No colas.

White rice and bread instead of brown.

Egg whites and limited yolks. The yolk has the majority of phosphorous.

Fruits and vegetables contain only small amounts of phosphorous.

FLUIDS
Do not eat too much of foods that contain a lot of water, such as soups, Jell-O, popsicles, ice cream, grapes, melons, lettuce, tomatoes, and celery.

SODIUM
Check all labels to see how much salt or sodium foods contain per serving.

Also, avoid foods that list salt near the beginning of the ingredients. Look for products with less than 100 mg of salt per serving.

Buttermilk is high in sodium.

When foods are processed, the sodium content increases. Here are some examples:


Cucumber 7 slices= 2 mg
Cucumber/salad dressing 234 mg
Dill pickle 928 mg

Chicken ½ breast= 69 mg
Chicken pie 1 frozen= 907 mg
KFC dinner 2,243 mg

Lemon 1 mg
Soy Sauce 1 tbsp= 1,029 mg
Salt 1 tsp= 1,938 mg

Pork 3 oz= 59 mg
Bacon 4 slices= 548 mg
Ham 3 oz= 1,114 mg

PHOSPHORUS
No colas
Canadian Root Beer is phosphorus-free


POTASSIUM
DO NOT use salt substitutes because they contain potassium. People with chronic kidney disease also need to limit their potassium.

Potassium is found in many food groups, including fruits and vegetables. Choosing the right item from each food

group can help control your potassium levels.

When eating fruits:

Choose peaches, grapes, pears, cherries, apples, berries, pineapple, plums, tangerines, and watermelon

Limit or avoid oranges and orange juice, nectarines, Kiwis, raisins or other dried fruit, bananas, cantaloupe, honeydew, prunes, and nectarines

When eating vegetables:

Choose broccoli, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, celery, cucumber, eggplant, green and wax beans, lettuce, onion, peppers, watercress, zucchini, and yellow squash.

Limit or avoid asparagus, avocado, potatoes, tomatoes or tomato sauce, winter squash, pumpkin, avocado, and cooked spinach.