Oct. 28th, 2017

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When Asked for Advice on How to Deal with Grief, This Old Man Gave the Most Incredible Reply
http://beautythings.info/2017/09/24/when-asked-for-advice-on-how-to-deal-with-grief-this-old-man-gave-the-most-incredible-reply/

Someone on reddit wrote the following heartfelt plea online:

“My friend just died. I don’t know what to do.”

Many people responded with words of encouragement, but one response in particular, by an older gentlemen, really stood out from the rest…

Alright, here goes. I’m old. What that means is that I’ve survived (so far) and a lot of people I’ve known and loved did not. I’ve lost friends, best friends, acquaintances, co-workers, grandparents, mom, relatives, teachers, mentors, students, neighbors, and a host of other folks. I have no children, and I can’t imagine the pain it must be to lose a child. But here’s my two cents.Read more... )
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15 Life-Changing Psychology Tricks To Try
BY KATHERINE HURST
http://www.thelawofattraction.com/15-life-changing-psychology-tricks-try/

As our understanding of cognitive science and psychology steadily advances, we learn amazing new information that isn’t only fascinating in its own right but also capable of influencing our success and happiness.

Some of this cutting edge data can be used to improve your internal life, while other research can transform your interactions with others.

Here are 15 of the best psychology tricks to try—use them, and see how they can change your life!

1. To Get More Information
If you’ve asked someone a question but only received a partial reply, give them a few seconds. If you stay silent and hold eye contact, the other person will usually start talking again. This technique helps you avoid social awkwardness and helps you get the information you need.

2. To Immediately Feel Confident
You may be surprised by the effectiveness of adopting the “power stance”, i.e. standing with your legs apart and your arms spread out so that you cover as much space as possible. If you do this for just two minutes, you flood your body with testosterone and will instantly feel more self-assured.

3. To Tell If Someone Is Watching Youfree quiz LOA
Wondering if someone attractive is checking you out, or worrying that someone may be being nosy about whatever you’re doing? Simply check your watch, and see what the person does. If they’re actually watching you, they’ll usually automatically look at their own watch as well.

4. To Reduce Aggression
If you suspect that a family member or a colleague is going to give you a hard time at a dinner or a meeting, deliberately choose the seat directly next to them. They’ll feel much less comfortable with the idea of being hostile if you’re so close, and the event will go much more smoothly for you.

5. To Judge Closeness In A Group
When you want to learn about relationships and alliances in a group of colleagues (or even in a family setting), be observant when everyone starts laughing together. Whoever a person first looks at is typically the person they feel the closest to. By noticing who you want to look at when you’re laughing, you can also learn more about who you really like best.

6. To Make People Like You More
Interestingly, asking people to do favors for you makes them more likely to like you more than merely offering to do favors for them. One theory is that asking someone for a favor indicates that you trust and value them, and they warm to you in response (because you’ve made them feel good).

7. To Convince People To Agree With You
If you need to be at your most persuasive, try nodding while you’re asking someone for something or trying to convince them of an important point. This subconscious cue is proven to make others more likely to agree with you.

8. To Be Memorable
Memory tests show that we’re best at recalling the first and last things that occur in a series of events—meanwhile, what happens in the middle quickly becomes vague in our memories. So, if you’d like to be remembered at a job interview or conference, ask to be first or last.

9. Smile To Improve Your Life
As well as prompting your body to release feel-good chemicals that boost your mood, smiling is proven to have a positive impact on just about everything you do. It increases your confidence, makes you more optimistic, induces good feelings and promotes the development of new friendships.

10. To Make Yourself Seem More Important
Most people judge others with good posture to be more successful or powerful. So, straighten your back and keep your head held high if you’re at a job interview, doing a presentation, or networking at an event.

11. Mirror Body Language
Looking at other people’s poses and copying them will build trust and comfort between you. However, if you can’t do this subtly then it can be off-putting, so only mirror certain small aspects of the individual’s posture.

12. To Keep Everyone In The Same Place
If someone (or multiple people) are getting up to leave a meeting or event before you’re ready to finish, just hold your ground and stay seated. You’ll find that most others sit back down in response.

13. To Seem Friendly And Confident
Holding eye contact is good for forging connections, but most people start to feel uncomfortable if they deliberately try and sustain it for this purpose. To make it feel more natural while still reaping the benefits, try to assess the color of the other person’s eyes. This will ensure eye contact is sustained appropriately, but you won’t feel nearly as awkward!

14. To Negotiate Successfully
Silence can be a huge asset when you’re negotiating or bargaining with someone. Most people feel deeply uncomfortable with silence, and they will do anything to try and break it—even if that means giving ground in a major way.

15. Remember Names
It can be tricky to store lots of people’s names in your memory banks, but you can make a great impression if you do your best to memorize names after they’re said only once. Make a point of greeting the person by name the next time you see them, and you’ll come across as appealing polite, socially gracious and charming.
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European History, Prehistory and Archaeology


The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number.

Why was that gauge used?
Well, because that's the way they built them in England, and English engineers designed the first US railroads.
Why did the English build them like that?
Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the wagon tramways, and that's the gauge they used.

So, why did 'they' use that gauge then?
Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they had used for building wagons, which used that same wheel spacing.

Why did the wagons have that particular odd wheel spacing?
Well, if they tried to use any other spacing, the wagon wheels would break more often on some of the old, long distance roads in England . You see, that's the spacing of the wheel ruts.

So who built those old rutted roads?
Imperial Rome built the first long distance roads in Europe (including England ) for their legions. Those roads have been used ever since.

And what about the ruts in the roads?
Roman war chariots formed the initial ruts, which everyone else had to match or run the risk of destroying their wagon wheels. Since the chariots were made for Imperial Rome , they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing. Therefore the United States standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches is derived from the original specifications for an Imperial Roman war chariot. Bureaucracies live forever.

So the next time you are handed a specification/procedure/process and wonder 'What horse's ass came up with this?', you may be exactly right. Imperial Roman army chariots were made just wide enough to accommodate the rear ends of two war horses. (Two horses' asses.)

Now, the twist to the story:

When you see a Space Shuttle sitting on its launch pad, there are two big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are solid rocket boosters, or SRBs. The SRBs are made by Thiokol at their factory in Utah . The engineers who designed the SRBs would have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the SRBs had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site. The railroad line from the factory happens to run through a tunnel in the mountains, and the SRBs had to fit through that tunnel. The tunnel is slightly wider than the railroad track, and the railroad track, as you now know, is about as wide as two horses' behinds.

So, a major Space Shuttle design feature, of what is arguably the world's most advanced transportation system, was determined over two thousand years ago by the width of a horse's ass. And you thought being a horse's ass wasn't important? Ancient horse's asses control almost everything and....

CURRENT Horses Asses are controlling everything else.
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3 Bean Salad
http://tasteerecipe.com/2016/08/18/3-reasons-make-3-bean-salad/2/

Ingredients

2-15 ounce cans Chick Peas

2-15 ounce cans Red Kidney Beans (dark or light)

2-15 ounce cans cut Green Beans

4 ounce jar diced pimentos, with juice

2 onions, diced


Dressing

1 cup cider vinegar

1 cup white sugar

⅔ cup olive oil (or oil of your choice, vegetable is fine)

1 teaspoon minced garlic

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon black pepper

Instructions

Place all beans in a colander and rinse well.
In mason jar (or bowl), place sugar, vinegar, oil, minced garlic, salt, and pepper. Place lid on and shake well to mix.

Place beans in a large bowl. Add chopped onion and pimentos with juice. Pour dressing over all and stir well to coat. Cover and refrigerate several hours (preferably overnight).

Important: A few hours before serving, stir again really well and return to fridge to continue marinating.
Will keep for at least a week in the fridge.
3 Bean salad
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mustard slaw

Mustard Slaw
http://tasteerecipe.com/2016/08/18/mix-batch-magical-mustard-slaw-dinner-tonight/2/

Ingredients

2 Tablespoons Whole Grain Mustard

2 Tablespoons distilled white vinegar

2 teaspoons sugar

¼ cup Vegetable Oil

10-ounce package angel hair coleslaw mix * very thinly sliced cabbage and carrot

⅓ cup sliced green onion

⅓ cup thinly sliced radishes

Instructions

In a large bowl, whisk together mustard, vinegar, and sugar. Whisk in oil.

Add slaw, green onion, and radishes. Toss gently to coat. Serve immediately or cover and refrigerate up to 4 hours.


Angel Hair Coleslaw
https://selfproclaimedfoodie.com/angel-hair-cole-slaw/?print=160

Prep Time 5 mins Total Time 5 mins
Serves 8
This Angel Hair Coleslaw has a creamy light dressing and is the perfect side for your summer barbecue. The secret, though, is how the cabbage is cut.

Ingredients
1 small head of green cabbage
3 tablespoons milk
1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
2/3 cup mayonnaise
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt, to taste
fresh ground pepper, to taste


Instructions

Thinly slice cabbage. To make cabbage thin and angel hair like, use spiral cutter. Set aside.

In bowl, whisk together milk and vinegar. Allow to sit for 2-3 minutes.

Whisk in mayonnaise, sugar, salt and pepper.

Toss cabbage in dressing. Serve immediately or cover and chill a couple hours to allow dressing to absorb.

If not serving same day, do not combine cabbage with dressing to keep cabbage crisp. Serve with fresh ground pepper, if desired.


coleslaw
** The only thing I did differently this time compared to the past was that instead of buying dried out prepackaged shredded cabbage, or “thinly” cutting it myself, I threw it on my brand new spiral cutting tool. I have recently started replacing some of my pasta on spaghetti night with zoodles which is just spiral cut zucchini.

Tuna Pies

Oct. 28th, 2017 06:28 pm
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Tuna Pies
http://cooknshare.com/recipe/tuna-pie/

Saute until just fragrant
2 T unsalted butter
1 small chopped onion
3 cloves chopped garlic


Add and stir to make a roux
2T flour

Add 1/2 cup at a time and stir into roux then add rest and stir until creamy.
1 C milk

Take off heat and Add:

2 cans tuna (240g) drained
1/2 C corn
1/2 C frozen peas
1/2 C grated cheese
1 pinch salt
ground black pepper


Gently mix

Puff Pastry ( substitute? refrigerated biscuits)
roll out 1/4 - 1/8 " thick
cut into 3" wide strips
put about 2 T tuna filling on one half of pastry and fold over other half, seal edges (= 3" x 5")
place 'pies' onto parchment lined baking sheet

1 egg + 1T milk - lightly beat and brush over tuna pies

Bake 400 degrees F (200 C) 15 - 20 min. just until they brown.
They can be deep fried.






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