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Welcome to ClinicalConnection.com. Marvel Mystery Oil. Confessions from a Car Dealer's Backroom. Fuel Additive Scam Myth! Man turns 500 sq ft into a mansion - room idea video. Bring Back That Shine. Waxing your vehicle has many benefits, like protecting and extending the life of the paint and giving a brilliant shine.

Bring Back That Shine

With so many wax choices on the market, how do you know which one is right for the job? Here are a few simple answers to help explain the difference between wax varieties. Shop all waxes and polishes> Carnauba wax vs. Cleaner wax Carnauba wax is very popular with car enthusiasts because of the dazzling shine it provides. Cleaner wax is a smart choice for the everyday driver and busy detailer, whose car is exposed to all kinds of elements. Car polish vs. Car polish has microscopic abrasives that lightly buff the paint to a smooth and shiny surface.

Cleaner wax vs car polish. Magic of Seafoam Motor Treatment. Home> Magic of Seafoam Motor Treatment Sea Foam® Motor Treatment was developed in the 1930’s and is guaranteed to work as good now as it did back then.

Magic of Seafoam Motor Treatment

Sea Foam® Motor Treatment safely and effectively cleans internal fuel and oil system components, helping your gasoline or diesel engine run cleaner and more efficiently. Could Braille Touch app revolutionize texting? Would anyone describe typing on an iPhone as a pleasant experience?

Could Braille Touch app revolutionize texting?

I think the answer lies in all those "sent from iPhone, excuse any iTypos" signatures out there. Here to texters' rescue is Braille Touch, a new app that enables people to type messages on an Android or iOS touch screen without having to look down. Recyclebank. School Safety News. An untested and untrained plan is little more than theory.

School Safety News

After developing school/college emergency plans a training program should be designed to educate students, parents, teachers, staff, crisis team members and administrators in threat assessment procedures, emergency response, management policies and procedures. Once training is implemented, exercises should be conducted to test the plans and training. Currently, most educational facilities have adopted a training philosophy that embraces performing extremely well under reasonable conditions, rather than performing reasonably well under extreme conditions. Google's new privacy policy starts March 1; 4 ways to prepare. This post has been corrected.

Google's new privacy policy starts March 1; 4 ways to prepare

Please see note at bottom for details. Google Inc. is changing its privacy policy Thursday, a move that is causing a lot of anxiety among Internet activists and some users. The changes in effect allow the world’s largest Internet company to collect information about its users across all its products, services and websites and store it in one place. The idea, Google says, is to create a comprehensive portrait of its users so it can offer more personalized services.

“In short, we’ll treat you as a single user across all our products, which will mean a simpler, more intuitive Google experience,” the company wrote in a Jan. 24 blog post that announced the changes. Facebook Message "seen" feature could create awkward situations. Facebook is trying to make mobile messaging more conversational with some changes it's been rolling out this past month, but one of those could lead to some awkward moments between you and your friends.

Facebook Message "seen" feature could create awkward situations

Among the new Facebook messaging features that are on its iOS and Android apps are a new, more visible real-time typing indicator and a feature that shows you where your friends are messaging you from, a spokeswoman for the company said. The features, she added, are especially meant to improve group messages. But the social network is also giving your friends one more new feature, and that's the ability to see whether you've seen their message. Artist pays homage to L.A.'s unseen workers. Minding the gaps - Page 2. During tasks requiring focused attention, regions specialized to the tasks at hand became active in the subjects whose brains were being scanned.

Minding the gaps - Page 2

But as those men and women mentally relaxed between tasks inside the scanners, Raichle saw that the specialized regions went quiet -- and a large and different cluster of brain structures consistently lighted up. Raichle was particularly interested in a portion of the brain called the medial parietal cortex as a sort of central hub of this activity. He knew the area tended to become active when a person recalled his past. And his work uncovered another key node in this curious circuit: the medial prefrontal cortex, a uniquely human structure that comes alive when we try to imagine what others are thinking. Each region, Raichle realized, had a feature in common -- it was focused on the self, and on the personal history and relationships by which we define ourselves as individuals.

As studies continued, scientists noticed some interesting facts. This is your mind on meditation: less wandering, more doing. The brains of experienced meditators appear to be fitter, more disciplined and more "on task" than do the brains of those trying out meditation for the first time.

This is your mind on meditation: less wandering, more doing

That guilt you feel? There's a place (in your brain) for that. The father of psychiatry, Sigmund Freud, had a special affinity for discerning the guilt and self-blame in his patients' thinking: This, he said, is one of the things that distinguished depression from mere sadness.

That guilt you feel? There's a place (in your brain) for that

School lockdown plan.