Ever since Facebook unveiled its new terms of service, users have been concerned over content ownership issues. For those still concerned, the Creative Commons License Facebook application can help.
via Lifehacker – Creative Commons Facebook App Licenses Your Facebook Content – Creative Commons.
If your quest for the perfectly-shaped, drip-free pancake has lead you down the dark halls of infomercial madness, take note: all it takes is the re-purposing of a condiment squeeze bottle.
via Lifehacker – Repurpose a Squeeze Bottle for Perfect Pancakes – Kitchen.
These are some excellent tips for anyone facing these kind of health concerns.
Several months ago, I visited my doctor during the process of figuring out an illness that was sapping a lot of my energy. One of the first things he did was to order a general blood panel, just to see if one of several common things popped up.
While we never did figure out the illness (my energy recovered a few months later and it was decided that my illness was caused by a mix of a virus and seasonal affective disorder), the blood tests did reveal an unusual number related to my liver, which, frankly, scared me quite a bit. My family has a history of liver problems, and my grandfather and my uncle both died of cirrhotic livers.
After several additional tests, I went to the doctor for a final appointment, where he informed me that I had a fat streak in my liver that would make me more susceptible to cirrhosis in the future, as well as much more susceptible to developing type 2 diabetes (again, a worry, because there are multiple cases of this in my family tree).
Instead of asking for a cure or for a prescription to “make it better,” my first question was quite simple. “What can I do on my own to help improve this?”
via The Simple Dollar » Health and Money: The Power of Independent Steps.
[Update]
I have now been sent to a collection company over this under par apartment. The total balance on the collection account is $370.82. When I moved out of my two bedroom and into my studio, the place was even worse than the pictures in this gallery. This place had NOT been “renovated” at all. There were huge stains in the carpet and it looked as though this building structurally was about to collapse. The ceiling looked as though it could cave in at any moment and the vent shafts rattled any time someone upstairs moved. There were two to three inch gaps where the carpet and the molding met. So, I of course disputed this collection. I then received the following itemized list of what I was being charged for:
In my defense this was not the first time I had moved out of an apartment. When I moved out of my two BR at Copper Pointe they did not charge me a dime. The resident rent charge is for unpaid rent. Even though I went over all of my final charges and payments that I need to make with the Property Manager (Meryweather) She gave me a total that I needed to pay including my last months rent and I wrote her a check right then and there. All of the cleaning charges are completely bogus and everything that they listed had already been cleaned. The already ruined carpet had been professionally steamed and shampooed. I am not the first person that they have done this to and they continue to try and suck every one of their residents dry when they attempt to move out and better themselves by finding a more affordable place to live. They also listed my move out reason on this letter as “Money Problems” when in fact the reason I told them I moved was that I found a two bedroom apartment for $12.00 more a month then what they were charging for a studio!
A week after we moved in we had made so many complaints about our apt that CP had to send their crew in for a SECOND time to renovate this apt. During which they got paint all over our belongings and completely covered almost all the windows with paint over spray. The over spray was so bad that you couldn’t even see out the window!
What you see is NOT what you get. They show you a beautiful model when you are looking at the apartments, you can look at the pictures in the gallery to see what you get when you move in.
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