All posts by Admin

By Rajesh Karavadia

Its not a sin to be practical nowadays, in fact, it is downright scandalous to be wasting money. Prices are all going up while the salaries of consumers remain the same. In todays hard times, it is always imperative to monitor all expenses and try to save in a lot of ways.

Maintaining a house is not as easy as you think. In fact, if you try to check the different areas of your home, you can find a lot of things that need to be replaced or remodeled. The kitchen is a busy place and this is where you prepare food for your family everyday. Kitchen cabinets are used frequently and so it is not surprising that they become old and dull as the years go by. Thinking about the possible expenses of disposing all the kitchen cabinets and purchasing new ones can be very frustrating.

This is where painting options come in. Purchasing brand new kitchen cabinets costs a lot especially if you go for custom designs. It will take some time before the cabinets are delivered and not only that, there are times when the cabinets are not the way you imagined them to be. During this tough time, what can you do?

Well, dont lose hope yet because you can still save your kitchen cabinets. Check if the cabinets are still in good condition. Perhaps they only look old because the surfaces have faded already. What you need is good quality paint to change the look of your dull kitchen cabinets. In fact, you can paint every cabinet in the house that needs a new look.

Why is it that the beauty of kitchen cabinets fade easily? In the kitchen, there are usually accidents taking place like messy spills, cooking grease, and grimy hands. So as you can see, the cabinets are constantly beaten. If youre short of money or simply want to save money in remodeling the kitchen, the easiest and cheapest solution is to paint the cabinets.

But wait you dont have to hire another person to paint the cabinets because you can also do it by yourself. Old cabinets usually made from high quality materials as compared to the new cabinets sold in the market at present, so it would be best to paint them a new look. You only have to spend on the paint, primer, and the brushes and after purchasing the materials, you can already start your painting project. Hiring a professional painter will only be an added cost so instead, do the job yourself and use the money to buy even more good quality paints.

If you cabinet has structural problems like cuts, nicks, worn surfaces, etc. you can replace the defective part. After replacing the defective part of the cabinet, it is only the time that you can start painting. Painting can really make miracles and by choosing the right shades for your kitchen cabinets, the whole kitchen will look fresh once more. Now, you can again cook to your hearts content and enjoy the new look and atmosphere in your kitchen.

You can find several manufacturers and distributors of paints in DFW (Dallas Fort Worth) so just look around and you will find them. If you live in this area, you will not find it hard to locate stores that offer good quality paints that you can use in painting your old kitchen cabinets.

About the Author: Rajesh Karavadia is the author and webmaster of http://www.cabinetssite.com, an informative website about

curio cabinets

and

storage cabinet

Source:

isnare.com

Permanent Link:

isnare.com/?aid=175769&ca=Home+Management

In this era of genuinely marvelous, high-tech, medical devices, it is sometimes surprising that certain diseases are still diagnosed “clinically,” meaning that the clinician makes the call based on just the story of symptoms and the physical exam. Parkinson’s disease is one such disease. There is no “Parkinson scan” or “Parkinson blood-test” to rely upon. MRI scans, CT scans and blood tests are usually normal in people with this disease.

Of course, once upon a timebefore scans and blood-tests even existedthis is how all diagnoses were made. So, in a sense, diagnosing Parkinson’s disease gets back to the very roots of what doctors are supposed to do. But when there are no corroborative tests available to prove or disprove a diagnosis, even the doctor sometimes gets it wrong.

Before delving into the challenges of diagnosing Parkinson’s disease, let’s first consider what is known about this condition.In 1817 James Parkinson, an English surgeon and apothecary, published a classic, short book entitled “An Essay on the Shaking Palsy.” In it, Parkinson identified a consistent pattern of physical abnormalities in six patients he had examined. Although people with identical abnormalities had doubtlessly been around for thousands of years, Parkinson was the first to recognize this pattern of abnormalities as a distinct condition. For this important achievement, the disease was eventually named for him.

In the book’s opening sentence Parkinson wasted no time in laying out prominent features of this disease: “Involuntary tremulous motion, with lessened muscular power, in parts [of the body] not in action and even when supported; with a propensity to bend the trunk forwards, and to pass from a walking to a running pace: the senses and intellects being uninjured.”

Subsequently, scientists discovered that degeneration of a limited group of brain cells containing the chemical transmitter dopamine was responsible for these clinical changes. (The group of brain cells involved is too slight to show up on brain scans in all but the most advanced of cases.) In 1967, levodopa (one of two ingredients in brand-name Sinemet) a drug the body can convert into dopamine, was found helpful in alleviating many of the symptoms. Later, other drugs (dopamine agonists) were created that improved symptoms by mimicking the action of the missing dopamine. These include bromocriptine (brand name Parlodel), pergolide (Permax), pramipexole (Mirapex) and ropinirole (Requip). To date, there are no treatments that reliably stop or reverse the underlying disease-process.

As a condition that affects about one percent of people over the age of 60, Parkinson’s disease is usually on the radar screen of patients and doctors alike when new symptoms are present that suggest the disease. That other conditions can resemble it was not news to James Parkinson who devoted a chapter of his 1817 book to “Shaking palsy distinguished from other diseases with which it may be confounded.”In my consultation practice of neurology, I see both over-diagnosis and under-diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease. The problem usually centers on one of the most visible of symptoms, the tremor. When tremor of the hands is present, doctors often diagnose Parkinson’s disease, even when another condition is to blame. When tremor is absent, doctors often fail to consider Parkinson’s disease, even when it is present. One key to accurate diagnosis is to focus on the characteristics of the tremor itself. The Parkinsonian tremor usually affects one hand first, and at all stages of the disease the initially affected hand remains more tremulous than the other hand. And, as Parkinson himself emphasized, the tremor is most evident when the hand is at rest or supported, and decreases when the hand is in the air or put to use. In other conditions that cause hand-tremors, the hands are more equally affected, and the tremor is more evident when the hands are in the air or put to use.

What about cases in which no tremor is present? Because symptoms of Parkinson’s disease worsen slowlyyear by year instead of month by monthpatients and their families often mistake these changes as due to normal, healthy aging. Non-tremor symptoms of Parkinson’s disease can include relative immobility of body-parts (hypokinesia), especially of the face which can show a mask-like lack of expression. Movements, once initiated, are slow (bradykinesia). Walking, as James Parkinson noted, involves a bent-forward posture with shuffling, short steps and reduced swinging of the arms. Sometimes the body’s center of gravity gets ahead of the feet’s ability to catch up, resulting in the passing “from a walking to a running pace” that Parkinson described and is known as festination.

The physical exam also shows clumsiness in hands and feet. Increased muscle tone, called “rigidity,” is encountered in the patient’s neck and arm muscles, even while they are supposed to be relaxed.

Patients who have Parkinson’s disease without tremor are often the most gratifying cases to treat. Having developed their problems slowly and having believed all along that their symptoms were due to aging, they are happily astonished by the rapid improvement in function produced by appropriate medication.

(C) 2005 by Gary Cordingley

byAlma Abell

When many people think of renting storage units, their first thoughts go to larger units that allow them to pack away all sorts of belongings for longer periods of time. Not everyone needs a storage unit that is large enough to pack away a whole house worth of belongings. The fact is that there are situations in which mini storage units in Estero, FL are an ideal fit. Here are a couple of scenarios in which a smaller unit can be just right.

Packing Away the Seasonal Decorations

For people who live in apartments, closet space is often at a premium. Even a creative individual who knows how to use the space under the bed can still find that there just isn’t room for all those holiday decorations. By checking out the options for mini storage units in Estero, FL, it is possible to find one that makes it easy to organize those decorations by holiday, season, or any other method that works for the customer. Leasing the unit will make it easier to keep everything in order at home, and getting to the right decorations will always be a breeze.

Storing Things For Future Use

Another away to make use of these mini storage units is as a place for things that do not fit in the present apartment, but will be needed when the tenant moves to a larger place. By having the unit rented, it is easier to take advantage of a great deal on a dining room set that will work great in that larger apartment someday. It is also a great way to collect wall art and other things that are not needed now, but will come in handy in a year or two.

There are all sorts of ways to put these mini storage units to good use. For anyone that could use a little extra storage space, contact the experts at Romar Rentals. They can help customers identify the right unit for their needs, and ensure that there is enough space for anything that they choose to store. Best of all, the pricing and the terms will be competitive with anything else that the customer can find in the local area.