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Aardvark. Do It Yourself: Danish Heart Ornaments | Apartment Therapy Chicago. Abscessed Tooth Complications and Dangers – Dental Health Magazine. An abscessed tooth is an infected tooth. When you have tooth decay or gum disease, you can get infection deep within the tooth or gum. This infection is an abscessed tooth and can be very painful. Alternative names of tooth abscess are periapical abscess, dental abscess, tooth infection, abscess – tooth. Tooth Abscess Causes The dental pulp, the only part of the tooth that’s sensitive to pain, is often well protected. The outer layers of the tooth – enamel, and dentin, the main part of the tooth – surround the fleshy, nerve-filled center. Before long, bacteria will invade the center of the tooth and the pulp will start to die. Sometimes a tooth abscess is excruciatingly painful and/or swollen, and at other times a patient will not even know it exists until he or she has a routine exam and/or x-ray.

Tooth Abscess Symptoms Tooth Abscess Misdiagnosis With a tooth abscess diagnosis, it is important to consider whether there is an underlying condition causing tooth abscess. MPSC Be Winterwise Program. This page provides information on ways to manage your winter energy bills. You can find tips for saving energy, links to a wide range of consumer resources and much more. We all need to "Be WinterWise" as natural gas, propane, and heating oil prices have increased across the country. Shut-Off Protection - Senior citizens, low-income customers and military personnel may qualify for shut-off protection through various programs. Contact Your utility company. Plan Ahead - Many utility companies have Budget Billing Plans that can spread out your peak winter heating bills. Use Energy Wisely - Reduce your energy use; see the Energy saving tips for more information. Get Assistance - Qualifying seniors and low-income customers may be eligible for help in paying heating bills.

Be Helpful - Share this information with family and friends. The Michigan Energy Efficiency Network | The Michigan Energy Efficiency Network: Saving Money, Saving Time, Saving Energy. Star Trek LED DIY Boldly Goes Where No Menorah Has Gone Before. Articles on Travel. Top 10 Tools for a Free Online Education. The Dealmap – The best local deals, coupons and discounts from the largest number of sources. 3 Fun Programs For Free Fortune And Tarot Readings. Let me make a disclaimer here – I don’t really believe in fortune telling. Even more so, I don’t believe in fortune telling via a computer program. If the universe could somehow be tapped into by playing cards or marked stones, I fail to see how a program under 5MB could emulate that kind of connection to the cosmos. However, I do find fortune telling fascinating.

Call it scientific curiosity. The atmosphere, the intensity, the drama of it all is quite entertaining. While researching this avenue, I came across a website with some very interesting software for fortune telling. MysticBoard.com has a lot of software related to the esoteric. The software featured is mostly postware. MB Tarot Pro for Free Fortune and Tarot Readings Let’s look at the method most people have heard of – good old tarot cards. This screen is pretty straight forward. On this page there are plenty of options, most of which I don’t have a clue about. I read through the reading as best I could. MB Free Chinese Zodiac. Is Your Mattress Making You Sick? November 11, 2008 | 87,793 views Share Dr. Doris J. Rapp, MD, board-certified as both an environmental medical specialist and pediatric allergist, discusses the dangerous chemicals that may be lurking inside your mattress.

Dr. Rapp is a homeopath and the author of the bestselling books Is This Your Child? Dr. To hear the entire expert interview, please join the Mercola Inner Circle. Cell Phone Radiation Review for Palm Centro. Use Cotton Strips for No-Fuss Houseplant Watering. Consumer Reports Money & Shopping Blog: Final stage of the Credit CARD Act takes effect. Plantly Creates an Investment Plan Based on Your Goals (and We've Got Beta Invites) @AgentSmithAndWeston: I think this is a great opportunity to invest. During college almost everything is taken care of (assuming you have a meal plan). If you already have a secured method of paying for your college (parents, college fund), all your entertainment for the next four years can be pretty much free. With one exception being the need to cough up some dough for cheap cheap beer.

This way, your small sum of money may turn into a great graduation gift for yourself or a down payment on your first home. Well, whatever you do with your money, enjoy college! @Whoopsi: Thanks - I'm what my friends call the smart guy of the group so I'm trying to ride on Scholarships/Grants so as to not put myself/family in debt, and I'm really shooting for having a down payment for a house / family start by the end of college. With all the good tips, Lifehacker might just help me make it. @AgentSmithAndWeston: Get a part-time job! Seriously. @SkaHimself: 4 Steps to Reduce Electrosmog in Your Bedroom.

Periodically during the past few decades a story about the adverse health effects of electromagnetic fields (EMF) or electricity has made a small splash in the public media. These stores are quickly discounted as being untrue or hypochondriac in nature. And yet, these stories and case studies continue to emerge As reported in one publication, "In one pooled study that combined nine well-conducted studies from several countries, including a study from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), a twofold excess risk of childhood leukemia was associated with exposure to magnetic fields above 0.4 µT. In another pooled study that combined 15 studies, a similar increased risk was seen above 0.3 µT. "i In addition, there is now a plethora of products that are making claims of "protection," "shielding," or "reduction" of exposure to EMF.

"Nodular, discoid morphoea-like, and widespread cutaneous fibroses in chronic Borrelia infection may be provoked by trauma, surgery or electromagnetic radiation. " Electromagnetic Field Shielding Fabric. We pay your bill now. You pay us back later - BillFloat.com. Stranger in the Nest: Do Parents Really Shape Their Child's Personality, Intelligence, or Character? For decades, millions of parents have been told that they are primarily responsible for things gone wrong with their children. Mothers and fathers have internalized this message, producing an unrealistic and damaging sense of guilt, and even betrayal. Parents do affect their children, but how much? Our children are not born as blank slates.

They come to us encrypted with their own predilections, biases, strengths, and weaknesses, many of which are as beyond the control of parents as determining their child's gender or eye color. Here, for the first time, is a scientifically grounded examination of the controversial idea that nature—in the form of genetic blueprints—may have far more influence on how children develop than a particular style of parenting. Dr. Cohen weaves together a rich tapestry of research in behavioral genetics to illustrate the degree to which biology, rather than parenting, can impact a child's personality, values, and aptitudes. The Practical Nomad blog: How to request your travel records. How to request your travel records [Excerpt from a simple Passenger Name Record (PNR) from the file about me kept by the CBP division of DHS. Click image for larger version. Most PNRs have more information than this. More examples and discussion of what information these records contain and how they are used.]

By popular demand, I'm posting updated forms to request your PNR's and other records of your international travel that are being kept by the U.S. If you made a similar request previously, the answer you got (if any) was almost certainly incomplete. If you want to know all of what's really in your file, you should probably make a request again, using this updated form, and appeal any response (or non-response).

The DHS has recently admitted that in most cases when people asked for "all information held by CBP", their Freedom Of Information Act/Privacy Act office didn't even try to search for PNR data. We don't yet know what all is included in CBP travel records. CheckingFinder - Find & Compare Accounts. Open & Fund in minutes! Why Change Is So Hard: Self-Control Is Exhaustible. You hear something a lot about change: People won’t change because they’re too lazy. Well, I’m here to stick up for the lazy people. In fact, I want to argue that what looks like laziness is actually exhaustion.

The proof comes from a psychology study that is absolutely fascinating. So picture this: Students come into a lab. It smells amazing—someone has just baked chocolate-chip cookies. On a table in front of them, there are two bowls. Then, the two groups are asked to do a second, seemingly unrelated task—basically a kind of logic puzzle where they have to trace out a complicated geometric pattern without raising their pencil. The answer may surprise you: They ran out of self-control. And here’s why this matters for change: In almost all change situations, you’re substituting new, unfamiliar behaviors for old, comfortable ones, and that burns self-control. This brings us back to the point I promised I’d make: That what looks like laziness is often exhaustion.

Why You Hold On to Clutter. What's Innate and What's Not? And Should We Care? Philosophers and psychologists often debate about whether our beliefs, emotions, desires, values, etc., are innate or whether they are learned. But does this type of debate make sense? Paul Griffiths , Stefan Linquist and I have argued that it does not! It is very common to hear psychologists and philosophers say that some idea or belief is innate. Psychologist Paul Bloom , for instance, has argued that we have an innate disposition to be dualist, while, following John Mikhail , psychologist Marc Hauser has proposed in his noted book Moral Minds that we have an innate moral faculty (for a good illustration, see also Joshua Knobe and Paul Bloom’s debate on Bloggingshead.tv ).

The contrast between innate and learned psychological traits has naturally a very very long history. The contrast is already present in Plato’s Republic. And indeed, biology and the philosophy of biology suggest that the contrast between innateness and learned is very confused. Social and Economic Consequences of Overweight in Adolescence and Young Adulthood. Tia M. Palermo, Jennifer B. Dowd. (2012) Childhood obesity and human capital accumulation.

. :11, 1989-1998 CrossRef Bridget Armstrong, David M. Charles Swencionis, Sarah Litman Rendell. (2012) The psychology of obesity Regina Ferreira Bento, Lourdes Ferreira White, Susan Rawson Zacur. (2012) The stigma of obesity and discrimination in performance appraisal: a theoretical model Heidi M. Angela G. Merethe Kousgaard Andersen, Bo Christensen, Carsten Obel, Jens Søndergaard. (2012) Evaluation of general practitioners’ assessment of overweight among children attending the five-year preventive child health examination: A cross-sectional survey Sara Gable, Jennifer L. Nina Petricevic, Zrinka Puharic, Marija Posavec, Ivana Pavic Simetin, Iva Pejnovic Franelic. (2012) Family history and parental recognition of overweight in Croatian children (2012) The Unequal Weight of Discrimination Sophie D. Stylianos Roupakias, Paraskevi Mitsakou. (2012) Surgical morbidity in obese children Matthew J.

Karen E. E. Dress Code: How To Not Look Like Crap When It's Hot. Dress Code: More Ideas On What To Wear To Work. The Printable CEO. The latest version of this form is at I love the freedom of being a freelancer, but sometimes I wish someone with vision and drive whispered encouragement in my ear: “Good work, Dave! This Flash project you’re working on is a key part of our interactive marketing strategy! All the pieces are falling into place!” But since I work alone, it’s my job to keep myself motivated and away from the dozens of daily distractions that suck productivity out of the day: You should backup and defrag the server, Dave, it’s making funny noises…The time to investigate AJAX is now, Dave, before your skills completely rust into obsolesence…It’s time to recatalog your MP3 collection, Dave, for maximum listening efficiency… All of which are fine things to do, but do they move me forward in my career? Hiring my own personal CEO would be great, but who has the time and money to do an executive search?

As stupid as this system may sound, it’s actually working. » Download PDF. Xoki Creates Moving Color Playlists for Relaxation Breaks. Handmade goods, limited editions, and crafts made by Sarah Neuburger. WattzOn Gets Geeky About Saving Energy (and Money)