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Scrollover Links

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—What is a Scrollover?—

Scrollovers are a way to quickly and easily add flair to your web pages, giving your users an experience they weren’t expecting.

Integration of Scrollovers into your web site couldn’t be easier, even if you’ve already built the site that you want to include Scrollovers on. In just minutes you will be able to have them appearing on your own pages.

A major advantage of Scrollovers being created using standard HTML and Javascript is the option of applying CSS styling, just like you would on any other Hyperlink.

TEST HOVERING HERE
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10 Concentration Tips

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Writing to-do lists and keeping a schedule may keep you organized, but does it really help you get more done? I believe that organization is important, but what you really need is focus. Being able to sit down and concentrate intensely on your work for a few hours. Even a half hour of focused effort can get more done than an entire day of distraction and multitasking.

Here’s some tips to get into a state of deep concentration where work flows easily:
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Make A Smart Decision In Less Than A Minute

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Sometimes we face tough decisions that involve one or more unknowns. We can’t know in advance what the consequences of each alternative will be. This is especially true of big decisions like quitting a job, entering or exiting a relationship, or moving to a new city.

When faced with such a decision, what do you do? If you can’t figure out the consequences, can you do any better than guessing?

Usually what people do in such situations is freeze. Even when you don’t like what you have, you may worry that the alternatives are worse. In a way every decision involves a choice between maintaining the status quo vs. making a change. When we can’t be certain a change will work out for the better, by default we stay put.

Let me give you a very simple method of making these kinds of decisions. In most cases it takes no more than 60 seconds to evaluate any particular path.
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Give More Effective Criticism

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Here is a method to give more effective criticism. After some Googling I’ve discovered that in English it’s called the Sandwich-technique. It’s divided into three steps.

But before you use it to criticise it might be useful to stop and think for a few minutes. Ask yourself:

  • Is this something worth bringing up?
  • Is there really a problem?
  • If there is, then is it really that big of a problem or just something I have magnified in my mind?
  • Maybe I’m just feeling angry/down/sour and want to get express those feelings by lashing out?

Think about those questions. Often when you slow down and think about if for a few minutes you discover that there may not really be a need to criticize.
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ps3udo™ | i am a neenja warrior has been changed to Echo.Sierra.Charlie and there will be a new site theme following shortly. I promise this is the last time I will change the URL… unless there has to be a change for technical reasons. =D

5 Common Conversational Mistakes

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“The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.”
Dorothy Nevill

Social skills and relationships are probably two of the most important things in life.

So it always strikes me as a bit odd that while we learn so much when we grow up there is often somewhat of a lack of advice on how to improve our communication skills.

If there is something that we should learn more about in school, then this is one of those things since it can improve lives and society in a big way.

Of course, if you do some digging and browsing and looking you can find solid and time-tested information from throughout the ages on this topic. And since communication and relationships is a pretty intuitive and free flowing process, advice that applies in all situations is pretty hard to find. Much of these things you have to learn from experience.

But there are some good pointers. Here are five of them. And I think that if you avoid these five mistakes at least most of the time then you can really improve your relationships, your communication skills and your life.
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How To Use Commas

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Use a comma after phrases of more than three words that begin a sentence.

  • Correct Example: To get a gold medal, you must dedicate yourself to a training routine.

Use a comma after the date and year if they are used together. If its only the month and year, no comma is needed.

  • Correct Example: I was born on January 1, 1973, the same day the new year begins.

No comma is needed to separate nouns or noun clauses in a compound subject.

  • Incorrect Example (no comma needed): The music teacher from your high school, and the football coach from mine are married.

The Pause: Just because you are pausing in your thoughts while typing doesn’t mean that the reader is pausing in their reading!

Combining Sentences: Do not use a comma to simply join 2 complete sentences. Use a conjunction (remember Conjunction Junction?)

  • Incorrect Example: The Chicago Cubs are going to lose tomorrow, they really have bad pitching.
  • Correct Example: The Chicago Cubs are going to lose tomorrow because they really have bad pitching.
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