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Transforming Your Arlington Home: A Comprehensive Guide to Expert Home Remodeling Services

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The Benefits of Professional Home Remodeling Services in Arlington

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Best LPN Programs in Chicago

Consider enrolling in LPN programs in Chicago if you're interested in launching your nursing career. Hospitals, clinics, home health, and nursing homes can benefit from these programs. In addition, you can earn a decent income in these settings. You can get started as a nurse in Chicago's vibrant healthcare scene with this practical and efficient program.

It's easy to find an LPN training program that will meet your particular needs, regardless of whether you want to take online courses or attend campus classes.

List of Top LPN Programs in Chicago

Harper College

Palatine, Illinois

A limited-enrollment, four-semester LPN program at Harper College includes classes like human anatomy, advanced pharmacology, and psychology of human development, along with clinicals in medical-surgical, PN fundamentals, and maternity and pediatrics in the state-of-the-art nursing lab. Harper College also offers stackable certificates, such as Nursing Assistant and Military Medical Corpsman to PN, that can be applied toward a degree.

Accreditation: Higher Learning Commission, and Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing

Total Tuition: $5,073

Credits: 38

Oakton Community College

Des Plaines, Illinois

On our list of LPN programs in Chicago, Oakton Community College offers classroom, lab, simulation hospital, as well as hands-on experience in a health care facility. Students will learn therapeutic communication, assessment techniques, principles of evidence-based practice, and pharmacology, while integrating legal and ethical principles.

Total Tuition: $5,177

Credits: 38

Moraine Valley Community College

Palos Hills, Illinois

A LPN licensure option is included in the Moraine Valley Community College associate's degree in nursing. Students who complete the first year of the ADN program and the nursing transitions course are eligible to take the NCLEX-PN exam. Among the classes offered to first-year students are pharmacology and disease processes, nursing concepts, special topics, nursing arts, and OB/medical-surgical clinics.

Total Tuition: $5,502

Credits: 42

Black Hawk College

Moline, Illinois

Located on the Quad-Cities Campus in Moline, Black Hawk College's practical nursing program operates in a 55,000-square-foot Health Sciences Center with three patient simulator mannequins, 24 hospital beds, and an ambulance. In addition to anatomy, communications, and pre-algebra, the 40-credit curriculum emphasizes geriatrics with classes such as older adult nursing, pharmacology, and intergenerational nursing.

Total Tuition: $5,960

Credits: 40

Malcolm X College

Chicago, Illinois

Only Malcolm X College offers the Advanced Certificate program for practical nursing within the City Colleges of Chicago system. Taking classes like medical careers terminology, human structure and function, nursing practice, nursing process, multicultural society, and communications, co-eds are able to transfer 49 credits toward an associate or bachelor's degree in nursing.

Total Tuition: $6,507

Credits: 49

Joliet Junior College

Morris, Illinois

Joliet Junior College offers one of the most rigorous LPN programs in Chicago with 18 hours of classroom and clinical instruction each week and 20 hours of prep and study. The college's first-time pass rate for the NCLEX in 2019 was 99%. It includes classes such as principles of biology, rhetoric, principles of normal nutrition, and pediatric nursing concepts in the 46-semester hour curriculum.

Total Tuition: $6,808

Credits: 46

John Woods Community College

Quincy, Illinois

For a nursing certificate from John Woods Community College, students must complete 31 general education requirements, including biology, anatomy, microbiology, elementary statistics, and psychology, as well as two semesters of nursing classes (including LPN Scope of Practice). Additionally, JWCC offers associate degrees in nursing, office technology (medical option), and surgical technology, as well as certificates in medical assistant, medical office, and nursing assistant.

Total Tuition: $9,291

Credits: 57

North Shore College

Chicago, Illinois

As the former Northbrook College of Health Care, this private institution in Wheeling only offers an LPN program, along with 244 theory and lab hours. With 1050 hours of coursework in anatomy and physiology, nursing foundation, nursing care for chronically and acutely ill patients, pediatrics, and developing families, as well as leadership and medication administration, North Shore College's fast track program can be completed in 11 months.

Accreditation: Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, and Division of Private Business and Vocational Schools of Illinois Board of Higher Education.

FAQS

1. What sets apart Registered Nurses (RNs) from Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs)?

The primary role of LPNs is to provide basic nursing care focusing on patient comfort, while the primary role of RNs is to administer medications and treatments as well as offer educational guidance to patients and the general public. ADN and BSN degrees can be earned online by LPNs in significantly less time and at a lower cost than traditional programs.

2. Who are LPNs in the nursing field?

Licensed practical nurses (LPNs) provide basic patient care under the supervision of registered nurses (RNs), physicians, and other healthcare professionals. In addition to providing direct patient care, they facilitate communication between patients, families, and healthcare teams.

Conclusion 

With all the LPN programs in Chicago mentioned above, you can become a nursing professional and earn a good salary. To be admitted, you must meet their eligibility requirements and other criteria.

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Prologue - A Newberg Anthology

I decided to chronicle the story of the people who lived in Newberg: the public lives lived and the private lies hidden. Newberg is just like every other amalgamation of people. It has gossip, scandal, and intrigue. I was a resident of Newberg for twenty years – a native son born to outsiders. I would grow up, have my morals shaped and broken, and learn valuable lessons of the duplicity of human existence. When I left, I swore I would never return. Never is a powerful word that often doesn’t mean what it says on the tin. Now, some five decades from my birth, I look at Newberg and think to myself I want to return there and live out my life.

The younger me screams about the hate, repression, racism, and other horrible things that were there. My mature self sees how people looked out for each other, cared for the sick and infirm, and never let someone get into serious trouble. Both selfs tell the truth but they also tell a lie.

The anthology will be told by many characters with different points of view and different world views. An events may not be recognizable if you simply compared two peoples’ recollections. Being that I was a resident, I will be telling some of the stories that I was involved with, got pulled into, or should have been.

Before we get any further, I present a brief history of Newberg.

Around 1830, the first settlers moved into the township that would become Oakton.  Oakton was a small community that was destined to solely be a footnote in the history of Newberg.

In 1849, a new railroad company was chartered and by 1854 was setting up a new railbed three miles south of Oakton.

In 1856, Newberg was incorporated and the railroad reached the town.

1858: the first newspaper was founded in Newberg.

1860 saw the formation of the community band, still playing concerts in the current year (2023) and a second newspaper.

By 1880, several industries were already establshed including a brick factory, a coal compnay, a foundry, and a monument company.

Telephones arrived in 1883 and the following year saw the vacating of Oakton.

Electric light (and power) arrived in 1889, a five and dime opened in 1890.

I could keep going but I just wanted to show that Newberg was acutally somewhat special. Electricity was still new as were telelphones but yet Newberg had them at almost the same time as a regional city 30 miles to the east.

A few more historical dates are needed here as they will factor into the story.

1895 - Newberg Public School destroyed by fire and 1896 - the new brick school building was opened.

1912 - The Newberg Hotel opened.

1953 - A new high school is opened and in 1976 a fine arts addition is added.

1975 - The current firehouse was built and the railroad station was torn down.

1993 - A new grade school building is dedicated, replacing the 97 year old school.

Now, with all that boring history out of the way… Oh wait, no, it’s not quite done but it will rear up and show itself many times through the stories of the people in the anthology.

As the author of the anthology, I declare I am not an unbiased author and recorder. Far from it. I will be retelling events that happened to me that still infuriate me and get me riled up to this very day. I will retell of events that still make me cry from my time in Newberg. I am human and have all the flaws and faults that go with it. What would a collection of stories written by a robotic journalist be like? Cut, dried, and boring.

The stories I’ll be telling here are all based on true events in Newberg. The names have been changed (including Newberg) to protect both the people in the stories and to protect myself.

Phew…I’m tired of all this history and caveats.

Let’s get down and dirty in the lives of Newberg. Welcome home.

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Alzheimer’s Inc.: Colleagues Question Scientist’s Pricey Recipe Against Memory Loss

This story also ran on Daily Beast. It can be republished for free.

When her husband was diagnosed with early-stage Alzheimer’s disease in 2015, Elizabeth Pan was devastated by the lack of options to slow his inevitable decline. But she was encouraged when she discovered the work of a UCLA neurologist, Dr. Dale Bredesen, who offered a comprehensive lifestyle management program to halt or even reverse cognitive decline in patients like her husband.

After decades of research, Bredesen had concluded that more than 36 drivers of Alzheimer’s cumulatively contribute to the loss of mental acuity. They range from chronic conditions like heart disease and diabetes to vitamin and hormonal deficiencies, undiagnosed infections and even long-term exposures to toxic substances. Bredesen’s impressive academic credentials lent legitimacy to his approach.

Pan paid $4,000 to a doctor trained in Bredesen’s program for a consultation and a series of extensive laboratory tests, then was referred to another doctor, who devised a stringent regimen of dietary changes that entailed cutting out all sugars, eating a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet and adhering to a complex regimen of meditation, vigorous daily exercise and about a dozen nutritional supplements each day (at about $200 a month). Pan said she had extensive mold remediation done in her home after the Bredesen doctors told her the substance could be hurting her husband’s brain.

But two years passed, she said, and her husband, Wayne, was steadily declining. To make matters worse, he had lost more than 60 pounds because he didn’t like the food on the diet. In April, he died.

“I imagine it works in some people and doesn’t work in others,” said Pan, who lives in Oakton, Virginia. “But there’s no way to tell ahead of time if it will work for you.”

Bredesen wrote the best-selling 2017 book “The End of Alzheimer’s” and has promoted his ideas in talks to community groups around the country and in radio and TV appearances like “The Dr. Oz Show.” He has also started his own company, Apollo Health, to market his program and train and provide referrals for practitioners.

Unlike other self-help regimens, Bredesen said, his program is an intensely personalized and scientific approach to counteract each individual’s specific deficits by “optimizing the physical body and understanding the molecular drivers of the disease,” he told KHN in a November phone interview. “The vast majority of people improve” as long as they adhere to the regimen.

Bredesen’s peers acknowledge him as an expert on aging. A former postdoctoral fellow under Nobel laureate Stanley Prusiner at the University of California-San Francisco, Bredesen presided over a well-funded lab at UCLA for more than five years. He has been on the UCLA faculty since 1989 and also founded the Buck Institute for Research on Aging in Marin County. He has written or co-authored more than 200 papers.

But colleagues are critical of what they see as his commercial promotion of a largely unproven and costly regimen. They say he strays from long-established scientific norms by relying on anecdotal reports from patients, rather than providing evidence with rigorous research.

“He’s an exceptional scientist,” said George Perry, a neuroscientist at the University of Texas-San Antonio. “But monetizing this is a turnoff.”

“I have seen desperate patients and family members clean out their bank accounts and believe this will help them with every ounce of their being,” said Dr. Joanna Hellmuth, a neurologist in the Memory and Aging Center at UCSF. “They are clinging to hope.”

Many of the lifestyle changes Bredesen promotes are known to be helpful. “The protocol itself is based on very low-quality data, and I worry that vulnerable patients and family members may not understand that,” said Hellmuth. “He trained here” — at UCSF — “so he knows better.”

The Bredesen package doesn’t come cheap. He has built a network of practitioner-followers by training them in his protocol — at $1,800 a pop — in seminars sponsored by the Institute for Functional Medicine, which emphasizes alternative approaches to managing disease. Apollo Health also offers two-week training sessions for a $1,500 fee.

Once trained in his ReCODE Protocol, medical professionals charge patients upward of $300 for a consultation and as much as $10,500 for eight- to 15-month treatment packages. For the ReCODE protocol, aimed at people already suffering from early-stage Alzheimer’s disease or mild cognitive decline, Apollo Health charges an initial $1,399 fee for a referral to a local practitioner that includes an assessment and extensive laboratory tests. Apollo then offers $75-per-month subscriptions that provide cognitive games and online support, and links to another company that offers dietary supplements for an additional $150 to $450 a month. Insurance generally covers little of these costs.

Apollo Health, founded in 1998 and headquartered in Burlingame, California, also offers a protocol geared toward those who have a family history of dementia or want to prevent cognitive decline.

Bredesen estimates that about 5,000 people have done the ReCODE program. The fees are a bargain, Bredesen said, if they slow decline enough to prevent someone from being placed in a nursing home, where yearly costs can climb past $100,000 annually.

Bredesen and his company are tapping into the desperation that has grown out of the failure of a decades-long scientific quest for effective Alzheimer’s treatments. Much of the research money in the field has narrowly focused on amyloid — the barnacle-like gunk that collects outside nerve cells and interferes with the brain’s signaling system — as the main culprits behind cognitive decline. Drugmakers have tried repeatedly, and thus far without much success, to invent a trillion-dollar anti-amyloid drug. There’s been less emphasis in the field on the lifestyle choices that Bredesen stresses.

“Amyloids sucked up all the air in the room,” said Dr. Lon Schneider, an Alzheimer’s researcher and a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Keck School of Medicine at USC.

Growing evidence shows lifestyle changes help delay the progress of the mind-robbing disease. An exhaustive Lancet report in August identified a long list of risk factors for dementia, including excessive drinking, exposure to air pollution, obesity, loss of hearing, smoking, depression, lack of exercise and social isolation. Controlling these factors — which can be done on the cheap — could delay or even prevent up to 40% of dementia cases, according to the report.

Bredesen’s program involves all these practices, with personalized bells and whistles like intermittent fasting, meditation and supplements. Bredesen’s scientific peers question whether data supports his micromanaged approach over plain-vanilla healthy living.

Bredesen has published three papers showing positive results in many patients following his approach, but critics say he has fallen short of proving his method’s effectiveness.

The papers lack details on which protocol elements were followed, or the treatment duration, UCSF’s Hellmuth said. Nor do they explain how cognitive tests were conducted or evaluated, so it’s difficult to gauge whether improvements were due to the intervention, to chance variations in performance or an assortment of other variables, she said.

Bredesen shrugs off the criticism: “We want things to be in an open-access journal so everybody can read it. These are still peer-reviewed journals. So what’s the problem?”

Another problem raised about Bredesen’s enterprise is the lack of quality control, which he acknowledges. Apollo-trained “certified practitioners” can include everyone from nurses and dietitians to chiropractors and health coaches. Practitioners with varying degrees of training and competence can take his classes and hang out a shingle. That’s a painful fact for some who buy the package.

“I had the impression these practitioners were certified, but I realize they all had just taken a two-week course,” said a Virginia man who requested anonymity to protect his wife’s privacy. He said that he had spent more than $15,000 on tests and treatments for his ailing spouse and that six months into the program, earlier this year, she had failed to improve.

Bredesen said he and his staff were reviewing “who’s getting the best results and who’s getting the worst results,” and intended to cut poor performers out of the network. “We’ll make it so that you can only see the people getting the best results,” he said.

Colleagues say that to test whether Bredesen’s method works it needs to be subjected to a placebo-controlled study, the gold standard of medical research, in which half the participants get the treatment while the other half don’t.

In the absence of rigorous studies, said USC’s Schneider, a co-author of the Lancet report, “saying you can ‘end Alzheimer’s now and this is how you do it’ is overpromising and oversimplifying. And a lot of it is just common sense.”

Bredesen no longer says his method can end Alzheimer’s, despite the title of his book. Apollo Health’s website still makes that claim, however.

This story was produced by KHN, which publishes California Healthline, an editorially independent service of the California Health Care Foundation.

Kaiser Health News (KHN) is a national health policy news service. It is an editorially independent program of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation which is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.

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Alzheimer’s Inc.: Colleagues Question Scientist’s Pricey Recipe Against Memory Loss

This story also ran on Daily Beast. It can be republished for free.

When her husband was diagnosed with early-stage Alzheimer’s disease in 2015, Elizabeth Pan was devastated by the lack of options to slow his inevitable decline. But she was encouraged when she discovered the work of a UCLA neurologist, Dr. Dale Bredesen, who offered a comprehensive lifestyle management program to halt or even reverse cognitive decline in patients like her husband.

After decades of research, Bredesen had concluded that more than 36 drivers of Alzheimer’s cumulatively contribute to the loss of mental acuity. They range from chronic conditions like heart disease and diabetes to vitamin and hormonal deficiencies, undiagnosed infections and even long-term exposures to toxic substances. Bredesen’s impressive academic credentials lent legitimacy to his approach.

Pan paid $4,000 to a doctor trained in Bredesen’s program for a consultation and a series of extensive laboratory tests, then was referred to another doctor, who devised a stringent regimen of dietary changes that entailed cutting out all sugars, eating a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet and adhering to a complex regimen of meditation, vigorous daily exercise and about a dozen nutritional supplements each day (at about $200 a month). Pan said she had extensive mold remediation done in her home after the Bredesen doctors told her the substance could be hurting her husband’s brain.

But two years passed, she said, and her husband, Wayne, was steadily declining. To make matters worse, he had lost more than 60 pounds because he didn’t like the food on the diet. In April, he died.

“I imagine it works in some people and doesn’t work in others,” said Pan, who lives in Oakton, Virginia. “But there’s no way to tell ahead of time if it will work for you.”

Bredesen wrote the best-selling 2017 book “The End of Alzheimer’s” and has promoted his ideas in talks to community groups around the country and in radio and TV appearances like “The Dr. Oz Show.” He has also started his own company, Apollo Health, to market his program and train and provide referrals for practitioners.

Unlike other self-help regimens, Bredesen said, his program is an intensely personalized and scientific approach to counteract each individual’s specific deficits by “optimizing the physical body and understanding the molecular drivers of the disease,” he told KHN in a November phone interview. “The vast majority of people improve” as long as they adhere to the regimen.

Bredesen’s peers acknowledge him as an expert on aging. A former postdoctoral fellow under Nobel laureate Stanley Prusiner at the University of California-San Francisco, Bredesen presided over a well-funded lab at UCLA for more than five years. He has been on the UCLA faculty since 1989 and also founded the Buck Institute for Research on Aging in Marin County. He has written or co-authored more than 200 papers.

But colleagues are critical of what they see as his commercial promotion of a largely unproven and costly regimen. They say he strays from long-established scientific norms by relying on anecdotal reports from patients, rather than providing evidence with rigorous research.

“He’s an exceptional scientist,” said George Perry, a neuroscientist at the University of Texas-San Antonio. “But monetizing this is a turnoff.”

“I have seen desperate patients and family members clean out their bank accounts and believe this will help them with every ounce of their being,” said Dr. Joanna Hellmuth, a neurologist in the Memory and Aging Center at UCSF. “They are clinging to hope.”

Many of the lifestyle changes Bredesen promotes are known to be helpful. “The protocol itself is based on very low-quality data, and I worry that vulnerable patients and family members may not understand that,” said Hellmuth. “He trained here” — at UCSF — “so he knows better.”

The Bredesen package doesn’t come cheap. He has built a network of practitioner-followers by training them in his protocol — at $1,800 a pop — in seminars sponsored by the Institute for Functional Medicine, which emphasizes alternative approaches to managing disease. Apollo Health also offers two-week training sessions for a $1,500 fee.

Once trained in his ReCODE Protocol, medical professionals charge patients upward of $300 for a consultation and as much as $10,500 for eight- to 15-month treatment packages. For the ReCODE protocol, aimed at people already suffering from early-stage Alzheimer’s disease or mild cognitive decline, Apollo Health charges an initial $1,399 fee for a referral to a local practitioner that includes an assessment and extensive laboratory tests. Apollo then offers $75-per-month subscriptions that provide cognitive games and online support, and links to another company that offers dietary supplements for an additional $150 to $450 a month. Insurance generally covers little of these costs.

Apollo Health, founded in 1998 and headquartered in Burlingame, California, also offers a protocol geared toward those who have a family history of dementia or want to prevent cognitive decline.

Bredesen estimates that about 5,000 people have done the ReCODE program. The fees are a bargain, Bredesen said, if they slow decline enough to prevent someone from being placed in a nursing home, where yearly costs can climb past $100,000 annually.

Bredesen and his company are tapping into the desperation that has grown out of the failure of a decades-long scientific quest for effective Alzheimer’s treatments. Much of the research money in the field has narrowly focused on amyloid — the barnacle-like gunk that collects outside nerve cells and interferes with the brain’s signaling system — as the main culprits behind cognitive decline. Drugmakers have tried repeatedly, and thus far without much success, to invent a trillion-dollar anti-amyloid drug. There’s been less emphasis in the field on the lifestyle choices that Bredesen stresses.

“Amyloids sucked up all the air in the room,” said Dr. Lon Schneider, an Alzheimer’s researcher and a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Keck School of Medicine at USC.

Growing evidence shows lifestyle changes help delay the progress of the mind-robbing disease. An exhaustive Lancet report in August identified a long list of risk factors for dementia, including excessive drinking, exposure to air pollution, obesity, loss of hearing, smoking, depression, lack of exercise and social isolation. Controlling these factors — which can be done on the cheap — could delay or even prevent up to 40% of dementia cases, according to the report.

Bredesen’s program involves all these practices, with personalized bells and whistles like intermittent fasting, meditation and supplements. Bredesen’s scientific peers question whether data supports his micromanaged approach over plain-vanilla healthy living.

Bredesen has published three papers showing positive results in many patients following his approach, but critics say he has fallen short of proving his method’s effectiveness.

The papers lack details on which protocol elements were followed, or the treatment duration, UCSF’s Hellmuth said. Nor do they explain how cognitive tests were conducted or evaluated, so it’s difficult to gauge whether improvements were due to the intervention, to chance variations in performance or an assortment of other variables, she said.

Bredesen shrugs off the criticism: “We want things to be in an open-access journal so everybody can read it. These are still peer-reviewed journals. So what’s the problem?”

Another problem raised about Bredesen’s enterprise is the lack of quality control, which he acknowledges. Apollo-trained “certified practitioners” can include everyone from nurses and dietitians to chiropractors and health coaches. Practitioners with varying degrees of training and competence can take his classes and hang out a shingle. That’s a painful fact for some who buy the package.

“I had the impression these practitioners were certified, but I realize they all had just taken a two-week course,” said a Virginia man who requested anonymity to protect his wife’s privacy. He said that he had spent more than $15,000 on tests and treatments for his ailing spouse and that six months into the program, earlier this year, she had failed to improve.

Bredesen said he and his staff were reviewing “who’s getting the best results and who’s getting the worst results,” and intended to cut poor performers out of the network. “We’ll make it so that you can only see the people getting the best results,” he said.

Colleagues say that to test whether Bredesen’s method works it needs to be subjected to a placebo-controlled study, the gold standard of medical research, in which half the participants get the treatment while the other half don’t.

In the absence of rigorous studies, said USC’s Schneider, a co-author of the Lancet report, “saying you can ‘end Alzheimer’s now and this is how you do it’ is overpromising and oversimplifying. And a lot of it is just common sense.”

Bredesen no longer says his method can end Alzheimer’s, despite the title of his book. Apollo Health’s website still makes that claim, however.

This story was produced by KHN, which publishes California Healthline, an editorially independent service of the California Health Care Foundation.

Kaiser Health News (KHN) is a national health policy news service. It is an editorially independent program of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation which is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.

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From Stafford Drive Park: Head west toward Stafford Dr. Turn right onto Stafford Dr. Turn left onto US-50 E/Fairfax Blvd. Continue to follow US-50 E. Turn left onto Cedar Ln. Turn right onto US-29 N. Turn left at Fairhill Rd. Destination will be on the left.

From Thaiss Park: Head west toward Pickett Road. Turn right onto Picket Road. Turn right onto US-50 E/Arlington Blvd. Turn left onto Cedar Ln. Turn right onto US-29 N. Turn left at Fairhil Rd. Destination will be on the left.

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Some individuals take home improvement very seriously. When they decide to improve upon their residences, they actually go all out and also knock down walls, add areas, and transform the design of their residential property. If you're thinking of making any type of kind of improvement in any way however don't have the know exactly how required, read this post.

Small residence enhancement work can be dealt with by the house owner without the need to include a specialist. By making minor fixings and improvements a property owner can boost the worth of his or her home by a shocking quantity. Relying upon the homeowners possess skills will certainly make home enhancements less costly, due to the fact that there is no revenue cut out for peripheral professionals and specialists.

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If you are purchasing a brand-new bathtub, be sure to sit in the tub and also exist back in it to be certain it's the ideal size and shape for you prior to buying it. Additionally, take good dimensions of your shower room space to ensure the bathtub will suit the area you have.

Completing a basement is possibly among the best financial investments one can make. By making a basement completed, you are creating additional room for you and your household. You buy the required products from discount rates' stores. It is said that ending up a basement can boost resale worth by more than 30%.

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When your house enhancement or renovation project is big enough, you will likely be dealing with a basic professional, that will certainly have sub-contractors benefiting him consequently. If troubles develop on the job, your basic professional may criticize his belows. As the house owner, you are the one in charge. Be sympathetic yet firm in reminding the basic contractor that he is inevitably in charge of his belows' job.

If your living room is dark although you have a great deal of home windows, there are means to make sure that light will certainly get through. Mounting skylights is a fantastic means to save on power bills due to the fact that it reduces using lights, and it will guarantee that all-natural illumination comes through. Picking to repaint your living room cozy and welcoming colors such as orange, yellow, or light brown can develop a feeling of heat as well as light. Make sure to decorate with light wood colored furniture rather than dark and also hefty oaks.

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If you are intending a house improvement project, plan the project prior to you worry about the budget plan. Go ahead as well as cost various alternatives, yet do not allow on your own consider what you can really afford until you have actually selected a design. In this manner, you can focus on what works for you as well as your residence, as opposed to focusing on the money. The majority of plans can be adapted to a much lower budget plan.

Possibly you're not wanting to knock down walls in your home. Maybe you just wish to put in brand-new rug or alter the lights. Regardless of what you're intending to do, however, you need to be experienced at it to ensure that points go smoothly. Utilize the suggestions you've reviewed right here to help you in the house improvement process.

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Small residence renovation work can be taken care of by the homeowner without the need to entail a specialist. By making minor repair work as well as improvements a house owner can boost the value of his or her home by a surprising amount. Counting on the house owners have skills will certainly make residence enhancements less expensive, due to the fact that there is no revenue reduced out for additional professionals and also specialists.

When your residence enhancement or restoration project is big enough, you will likely be working with a general contractor, that will certainly have sub-contractors working for him in turn. If you are planning a house renovation project, prepare the project before you fret regarding the budget.

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Purchasing a House actually sees a Great Deal of investment, in terms of cash as Well as attempts -- in finding the house, negotiating its price and preparing in addition to completing the essential paperwork. The process may take several months to be finished. A house inspector can make certain that the selected property is really fit for you to buy. All these are a couple of things that you will need to learn before you rent a Home Inspection Service Oakton VA .

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You need to first Be Sure That the Radon Testing Service Arlington VA inspector is licensed and licensed. Not every nation has the permit for home inspection professionals. Therefore, you need to be sure that the contractor is certified through the International Association of Certified Home Inspectors (InterNachi) or accredited with your condition.

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Next, you have to ask whether he is fully insured. Home Inspection service Arlington VA professionals will need to have Errors and Omissions (E&O) insurancecoverage, that can be useful if the inspector misses anything large such as a significant foundation problem, or General Liability Insurance. A General Liability Insurance is meant for those events when something is damaged by the inspector by accident -- for example touching a ladder which falls upon a car and causes harm to it.

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You need to also learn about the kind of Inspection Service report the inspector will offer to you. This is A checklist kind of a record or a PC that is used for composing a narrative kind of report. Find out whether his report would comprise just issues in a composed Form or even include of photos of these findings of home inspections. Reports That are created on computer and comprising photographs are usually simpler to Understand and more detailed in form.

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Now, plumbing technicians use whatever from a drill machine to other advanced technologies to be sure that they deliver precise and total pipes solution. Before you employ a plumbing professional, speak to their previous consumers if you're all set to. If you watch for a plumbing professional in New Jersey surrounding area, you have actually discovered the ideal business.

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With Whole Foods, Amazon on collision course with Wal-Mart

By Nandita Bose and Jeffrey Dastin | CHICAGO/SAN FRANCISCO

CHICAGO/SAN FRANCISCO When Wal-Mart Stores Inc bought online retailer Jet.com for $3 billion last year, it marked a crucial moment – the world’s largest brick-and-mortar retailer, after years of ceding e-commerce leadership to arch rival Amazon, intended to compete.

On Friday, Amazon.com Inc countered. With its $14 billion purchase of grocery chain Whole Foods Market Inc, the largest e-commerce company announced its intention to take on Wal-Mart in the brick-and-mortar world.

The two deals make it clear that the lines that divided traditional retail from e-commerce are disappearing and sector dominance will no longer be bound by e-commerce or brick-and-mortar, but by who is better at both.

Amazon’s purchase of Whole Foods also brings disruption to the $700 billion U.S. grocery sector, a traditional area of retailing that stands on the precipice of a ferocious price war. German discounters Aldi and Lidl are battling Wal-Mart, which controls 22 percent of the U.S. grocery market, with each vowing to undercut whatever price the others offer.

The stakes are highest for Wal-Mart. Amazon’s move aims at the heart of the Bentonville, Arkansas-based retail giant’s business – groceries, which account for 56 percent of Wal-Mart’s $486 billion in revenue for the year ending Jan. 31. With the deal, Whole Foods’ more than 460 stores become a test bed with which Amazon can learn how to compete with Wal-Mart’s 4,700 stores with a large grocery offering that are also within 10 miles (16 km) of 90 percent of the U.S. population.

Amazon is expected to lower Whole Foods’ notoriously high prices, enabling it to pursue Wal-Mart’s customers. The push comes as Wal-Mart is headed in the opposite direction – going after Amazon’s higher-income shoppers with a recent string of acquisitions of online brands such as Moosejaw and Modcloth and on Friday, menswear e-tailer Bonobos.

Wal-Mart may be ready. In preparation for the grocery price war, Wal-Mart in recent months has cut grocery prices, improved fresh food and meat offerings, modernized shelving and lighting in its grocery aisles, and expanded its online grocery pickup service.

Marc Lore, the Jet.com founder who now runs Wal-Mart’s e-commerce business after selling a startup to Amazon, told Reuters in an interview that Amazon’s move does not change Wal-Mart’s game plan. “We’re playing offense,” he said.

Wal-Mart is offering curbside pickup of online grocery purchases at 700 locations, with 300 more planned by year end. It also is testing same-day fresh and frozen home delivery from 10 of its stores. “We see an opportunity to do a lot more of that,” Lore said.

Roger Davidson, who oversaw Wal-Mart’s global food procurement and now is president of Oakton Advisory Group, said the deal will reduce Wal-Mart’s brick-and-mortar advantage.

“I think this acquisition is a concern,” he said.

Some industry observers say Amazon will find it difficult to use Whole Foods to pull away Wal-Mart shoppers because the two stores appeal to different customers.

But Michelle Grant, head of retailing at market research firm Euromonitor, said Amazon could use an obscure part of the Whole Foods portfolio – Whole Foods 365 – to lure Wal-Mart shoppers.

Whole Foods 365 offers private-label goods and lower prices than typical Whole Foods stores, and is targeted at younger, value-conscious shoppers. Amazon could provide the financial capital and tactical ability to build that into something big.

“That (Whole Foods 365) may become a big problem for Wal-Mart,” Grant said.

Amazon, which reported $12.5 billion in cash and equivalents and a free cash flow of $10.2 billion in the year ended March 31, has plenty to spend. Wal-Mart reported $6.9 billion in cash and equivalents and $20.9 billion in free cash flow at its year ended Jan. 31.

Brittain Ladd, a former senior manager at Amazon who worked on its brick-and-mortar strategy, said Amazon will use Whole Foods to test concepts for the grocery store of the future.

Ladd, who left Amazon in March, said Amazon will seek to eliminate checkout lines by using technology that automatically scans goods as customers add them to their shopping carts. It will select merchandise based on Amazon’s vaunted customer data, and potentially expects the use of technology to change prices during the course of a day.

Amazon declined comment on competition with Walmart but spokesman Drew Herdener said in a statement the company has no plans to cut jobs or use technology in development at its Seattle Amazon Go store to automate jobs of cashiers.

Ladd, who helped with AmazonFresh’s global expansion and now is a supply chain consultant, said an Amazon-owned Whole Foods also likely will offer in-car pickup of online purchases, and home delivery from Whole Foods stores, add pharmacies and showcase Amazon devices inside the stores.

“Amazon will reduce prices and change the assortment of products carried in Whole Foods stores to attract a larger customer base,” said Ladd. “Kroger and Wal-Mart will be impacted as their customers will defect to Amazon.”

(Additional reporting by Richa Naidu in Chicago; Editing by David Greising, Peter Henderson and Bill Trott)