Screen all options before buying security door ? Las Vegas Review ...

Security screen doors are popular in this breezy fall weather. A well-made metal door along with its key-style lock allows you to securely leave your front door open to allow the fresh air to circulate. An added benefit is the way the perforated metal screen works. From inside the home, you can see out and scrutinize the person coming up to visit while they cannot see you.

Like many of you, I like to support our local businesses whenever I can. I also love to write raving reviews when they?ve done a good job. However, there are times when it seems that the large home-improvement chains have a handle on good customer service and provide an excellent product that can?t be rivaled.

After a recent disappointing experience with a local wrought-iron company, I found a wonderful solution to the security door situation. My newest preference in doors is made by Titan, a national company known for its quality and style. The company sells its security screen doors under the name Titan at one large home-improvement store and under the name of Unique Home Designs at the other large home-improvement chain.

There are both advantages and disadvantages to using a local wrought-iron company vs. a large home-improvement store for your security screen door. Following are some comparisons for your consideration. If some of these points are important to you, be sure they are brought up in your initial meeting and written on your contract/invoice.

The Titan door has many designs to choose from, and it?s likely that you will find one that fits your home design. However, a local wrought-iron business has unlimited designs, and you can even create your own design to have something different than anyone else, a big plus for the local business. Colors are limited by the Titan Co., but they are painted with a durable powder coat finish. A local shop can give you any color you want, but also are limited in color if you want a powder coat finish.

Titan doors are finished beautifully on the inside. Where the screen is on the back side of the door, the company has finished and protected the edges with an ?L? shaped metal cover. The cover is secured with small, hard-to-see rivets that won?t catch your clothing. A local company I recently purchased from left the raw edges of screen secured with painted hex head screws. It looked unfinished to me.

What finally tips the scales toward the Titan door (for me) is what?s included in its basic package. They come with a threshold, a bug sweep and weather stripping around the door. The bug sweep and weather stripping is vital if you want to keep out little pesky creatures. If you order a door other than Titan, be sure to tell your custom company that you want these features. In my experience, they were not mentioned and not installed.

It?s great that we have options, and it?s good to be educated on a topic. Whether you are purchasing your security screen door from a local business or a large home-improvement store, do your due diligence, make a list of questions to ask the sales person and be sure everything is in writing before you buy.

Once ordered, you will soon be experiencing the breezes of fall refreshing your home, while you lounge securely inside.

Cindy Payne is a certified interior designer with more than 25 years of experience, a member of the American Society of Interior Designers, as well as a licensed contractor. Email questions to her at deardesigner@
projectdesigninteriors.com or send them to her at Project Design Interiors, 2620 S. Maryland Parkway, Suite 189, Las Vegas, NV 89109. She can be reached online at www.projectdesigninteriors.com.

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UPworld :: Confidence Barometer

Ernst & Young, a global leader in assurance, tax, transactions and advisory services recently reported key findings of their seventh Global Capital Confidence Barometer that leading companies see little immediate prospect of a recovery for the global economy. The regular survey of senior executives from large companies around the world included a panel of more than 1,500 executives surveyed in August and September 2012 (with representatives from companies from 41 countries?- 754 CEO, CFO and other C-level respondents and 400+ companies that would qualify for the Fortune 500 based on revenues participated).

With a recovery taking longer than expected to arrive, companies are focusing on bottom-line improvements. The situation has stabilized in some markets, but most executives expect this downturn to endure for at least a year, while many economists think it could persist for three years or more. Despite strong fundamentals for deals, including rising cash stock piles and adequate credit, there is a lesser appetite for acquisitions and divestments compared with any previous edition of this barometer. Contributing to the lack of confidence around M&A activity is the sentiment by many executives that acquisition targets are over-priced.

Companies are refocusing on the basics.? Cost reduction, performance improvement, capital allocation, and targeted organic and inorganic growth initiatives dominate the boardroom agenda. Those who execute in a disciplined way will be best positioned when economic confidence returns.

(Some Key Findings - 78% think the global economy shows no signs of improvement; 66% expect the downturn to persist for more than one year; 44% view credit availability as stable.)

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Patients tell how magnetic therapy lifted their depression

ScienceDaily (Oct. 15, 2012) ? Three patients who have suffered periodic major depression throughout their adult lives told an audience attending a Loyola Grand Rounds presentation how their lives have been transformed by a new magnetic therapy.

The treatment, called transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), sends short pulses of magnetic fields to the brain.

"I feel better now than I have in a very long time," said patient Jannel Jump. "I'm living a life now, rather than hiding from it."

Another patient said TMS brought him out of a depression so severe he couldn't get out of bed.

And a third patient said TMS "has helped me to have a glass-is-half-full outlook. I'm in a much better spot today."

The Food and Drug Administration approved TMS in 2009 for patients who have major depression and have tried and failed at least one antidepressant. The FDA has approved one TMS system, NeuroStar?, made by Neuronetics, said Dr. Murali Rao, MD, DFAPA, FAPM, Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine.

The patient reclines in a comfortable padded chair. A magnetic coil, placed next to the left side of the head, sends short pulses of magnetic fields to the surface of the brain. This produces currents that stimulate brain cells. The currents, in turn, affect mood-regulatory circuits deeper in the brain. The resulting changes in the brain appear to be beneficial to patients who suffer depression.

Each treatment lasts 35 to 40 minutes. Patients typically undergo three to five treatments per week for four to six weeks.

The treatments do not require anesthesia or sedation. Afterward, a patient can immediately resume normal activities, including driving. Studies have found that patients do not experience memory loss or seizures. Side effects may include mild headache or tingling in the scalp, mostly during stimulation.

Together, psychotherapy and antidepressants result in complete remission in about one-third of patients who suffer major depression. TMS is a noninvasive treatment option for the other two-thirds of patients, who experience only partial relief from depression or no relief at all, Rao said. He noted that TMS is recommended by the American Psychiatric Association's 2010 Treatment Guidelines.

Rao said treatment reports from 41 TMS treatment centers show that about 33 percent of TMS patients who previously had been treatment-resistant reported their depression had significantly lessened or gone away completely. This success rate is about twice as high as the success rate of patients who have tried three or more antidepressants. Loyola recently began recruiting for a study on whether TMS can benefit patients who suffer from both depression and debilitating tinnitus (ringing in the ears).

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Microsoft Rolls Out First Windows 8 Commercial

With Windows 8's launch date just ten days away, the countdown is officially underway with Microsoft rolling out its first 30 second commercial for the new OS.

Featuring the musical stylings of the Eagles of Death Metal ("Only Want You"), the commercial starts with a space shuttle-style countdown, strategically stopping and repeating 'eight' for the rest of the ad. Between the various repeating 'eights', the commercial shows off the versatility of the new OS, by featuring elements of Windows 8's Modern UI as well as a multitude of touchscreen apps on various devices, including laptops, desktops, and tablets, as well as the happy and enthusiastic people using them.

The ad also puts up the tagline "Windows Reimagined" which we've seen used in the past to promote the radical new OS and ends with a 10.26.2012 date line, the day of the Windows 8 launch.

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Anne McGraw Reeves: Joking about disabilities isn't funny ...

One of my daughter?s favorite college courses this year examines depictions of disabilities in popular culture.

Her classmates, including some on the autism spectrum, watch and discuss portrayals of physical and intellectual disabilities in advertising, TV and movies.

During one recent class, a group of visitors with autism and Down syndrome discussed their revulsion of such negative labels as ?retarded? and ?retard.? They criticized stereotypes that portray them as being only helpless, worthless and stupid.

They showed a YouTube video of a teenager pretending to have Down syndrome as an example. As he walked through a Walmart, the actor approached other shoppers saying he was lost and looking for his mother. His friend filmed the ?retard?s? hijinks.

The video?s callous depiction of a person with Down syndrome shocked and horrified the class. But no one more than my daughter, who realized she recognized its young stars. They had attended her high school, 240 miles away from that Syracuse classroom.

?There are a lot of negative connotations associated with ?retard? and ?retarded.? People use the words to describe when someone acts stupid, crazy or out of control,? she said.

?It?s horrible because they?re making fun of someone?s disability. They?re using it as a joke.?

At the turn of the 20th century, people with mental illness were often institutionalized. As societal perceptions changed, their disabilities became more accepted and they were mainstreamed into regular classrooms and workplaces.

The terms changed, too. ?Feeble minded? became ?mentally retarded,? and eventually ?intellectually disabled.?

The American Association on Mental Retardation voted to change its name to the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in 2006. Two years later, The Associated Press removed ?mentally retarded? from its stylebook.

In 2010, President Barack Obama signed a law mandating the removal of ?mental retardation? in favor of ?intellectual disability? in all federal statutes.

But ?retarded? and ?retard? have become part of our vernacular. And so has their misrepresentation.

The Urban Dictionary defines retard as ?an offensive term used to refer to someone acting in an irritating or generally stupid way,? as in ?What a crazy thing to do. You?re such a retard!? or ?That was so retarded!??

People with intellectual disabilities and their families and friends do not find those references humorous. In fact, they would like to see them disappear forever.

But it?s not just words that foster false perceptions of people with intellectual disabilities.

Just recently, a local mental-health advocate wrote to officials at the Mechanicsburg Area School District objecting to a class field trip to the Frightmare Asylum, part of the Lancaster-area attraction Field of Screams.

The fake former mental hospital allegedly housed ?unwanted, neglected and criminally insane patients? who now seek revenge against visitors.

Taylor Andrews, president of a local chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, said the attraction promotes harmful stereotypes and stigmatizes people with mental illness.

?It associates mental illness and treatment for mental illness with danger and violence, and with the most inaccurate stereotypical thinking you can imagine,? Andrews said.

School officials disagreed with Andrews, saying students understand what?s pretend and what?s real.

We?ve come a long way from the days when people with mental illness were pulled from their homes and warehoused into prisonlike facilities.

But have we come far enough?

Some might say that the hullabaloo over a few words and a Halloween attraction personifies political correctness gone amuck. We just can?t take a joke. But mocking the disabled is not funny. Portraying all intellectually disabled people as useless, dangerous or hopeless is unfair. And hurtful.

Watching what we say and how we say it is more than being just politically correct. It?s being kind. Considerate. Humane.

Retire ?retarded.?

Anne Reeves can be reached at amcreeves@yahoo.com.

Source: http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/10/joking_about_disabilities_isnt.html

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