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The Human Brain - Stress Chronic over-secretion of stress hormones adversely affects brain function, especially memory. Too much cortisol can prevent the brain from laying down a new memory, or from accessing already existing memories. The renowned brain researcher, Robert M. HOW TO GUIDE: 60+ Great How To Sites and Resources Ever had one of those moments when you really wished you knew how to do something specific? If only there were someone you could ask... Thanks to the social web, particularly niche blogs and expert-driven communities, it's easy to find knowledge, insights and guidance direct from the pros, no matter what the topic area. In fact, online tutorials and how-to sites have been around almost as long as the web itself.

Poor Man's Polygraph Part 2 {*style:<b>Poor Man's Polygraph Part 2 </b>*} The Poor Man's Polygraph consists of a series of techniques that increase the probability of detecting deception using verbal cues. The Poor Man's Polygraph provides deceptive indicators, not proof of deception.

shwup - Home Dear friends, When we set out to create Shwup (later renamed muveeCloud), our key motivation was to enable private, secure sharing of life’s precious moments. After all, many of you (like us) are very protective of our personal photos and videos. So we advocated and started what we call “some-to-some” sharing. Guest Post: Get Rid of Student Loan Collection Agencies By Deanne Loonin There is so much potential for positive change in the student loan programs these days. This is great news for borrowers and we hope Congress and the White House will continue to push for critical changes to benefit borrowers. Top 10 Twitter Apps The internet is all a’twitter about Twitter.com. If you’re still not using this service, then you are missing out on daily opportunities to meet people and make connections; promote your business; and stay on top of news and information as it happens around the world. Twitter itself is a simple website that allows you to register as an individual user and follow other users with similar interests.

General Revenue Corp - CreditBoards I pieced together a letter from the forum. You might want to start reading up on GRC in the student loan forum as well, because student loan collections are a bit different than dealing with other creditors. Here's the DV and limited CD letter that I sent to Wms. & Fudge, as I keep most of my letters at my office. (Feel free to PM me as a reminder, and I'll pull up the GRC letters on Monday.) September 8, 2004

How to download your textbooks for free : Macleans OnCampus Perhaps the worst post-secondary education scam of all time is the price of textbooks. Students spend upwards of $200 for a hardcover textbook — only to find that they can’t sell it used the next year because a new edition has been issued, with extensive changes like a new cover or slightly different page numbers. Professors often pad their paycheques with textbook sales while also requiring their own students to buy the book. Well, it seems that the online world is finally responding. A new U.S. website called Connextions uses the Creative Common license to allow students and professors to add and edit material as long as the original author is credited.

How to Wreck Your Self Esteem: Compare Youself with Others Typical scenarios- do you recognize yourself? A client called me today in despair. She's opened a small dress store and was at a networking meeting talking with a business associate, who is also in the retail industry. Her associate was happy about the upturn in her company's sales and my client began comparing her own fledgling shop's receipts with the sales of her associate's long standing national company. Result: A revived worry for my client that she is not good enough, successful enough, strong enough, capable enough, driven enough- and never will be. She overlooks her courage, self discipline , honesty, organizational skills, love of women, and aesthetic sense.

CCleaner CCleaner is a system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused, temporary, and log files from your system, as well as cleaning traces of your online activities such as Internet history and flash cookies. Contains a separate registry cleaner and can optionally use wipe features for both deleted files and drive free space. See the official documentation for information on generating a list of covered programs search for "Export". An unofficial set of community developed cleaning rules can be found here however it should be noted that many of these rules are alpha and the developers will not provide support for these rules, a thread in the users forum is dedicated to supporting the add-on rules. A 64-bit version is available (within the folder).

What Matters is Whether You Matter to Others Do you think you matter to other people? Two inquiring sociologists wanted to know, because they thought the answer would be important in explaining the answer to another question: Are you depressed? Here are the questions they used to see who thought they mattered: 1.

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