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Beginner rock guitar lessons for n00bs and rusty rockers
Welcome, Rock Star! You got bitten by the bug, and you got it bad - you gotta play guitar! That 6-string axe feels like you were born with it in your hands. You spend all your spare time playing guitar, and when you're busy doing other stuff (like that 9-5 thing), you're thinking about playing guitar.
Your main squeeze thinks you're having an affair, 'cause you're always holed up with that "damn guitar". Heck, my wife was telling someone just the other day, "All he needs is his computer and his guitar, and he's happy."
OK, maybe you don't have it that bad. Maybe you're just getting started. You want to play guitar, but don't want to spend years taking lessons before you can jam to your favorite songs.
Don't get me wrong - lessons are cool, but face it, playing "Mary Had a Little Lamb" (unless you're talking about Stevie Ray Vaughan) isn't what you signed up for. You want "Proud Mary", "Stairway to Heaven", "Spirit of Radio", "Eruption". Maybe a little "Crazy Train". Oh, sorry, I got a little carried away...
Or maybe you just dusted off your trusty (and hopefully not rusty) axe and want to polish up your skills so you can start or join a rock band. You want to re-learn some songs so you don't look like a total n00b at your first practice session or audition.
That's what I'm talkin' about here - giving you access to good, solid rock guitar instruction so you can play guitar with the best of them.
I'm hunting down the best rock videos, audios, tabs and anything else that makes it easy to play guitar. It's the ongoing mission of the "Midlife Rocker" (that's me!) to find, learn, teach, and guide you to the juiciest guitar licks, riffs and chords out there.
Why? So you don't have to...
This is your "one-stop-rock-shop" for finding what you need to learn to play guitar.
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I'm no pro - just a guy that got sick of living day-to-day without having any fun.
Get up, go to work, come home, go to bed… Come on, there's more to life than that!
Playing guitar is an awesome release, a creative outlet and hey, it's just plain cool! People sit up and take notice when you can pick up your axe and play their favorite tunes. It just takes a little focus and some work. Stick around and you'll soon be able to take some of those rock star dreams and begin making them come true.
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So put down "Guitar Hero", pick up your axe, and let's get busy learning how to play guitar. Are you ready to go? Rock on, let's start to play guitar!


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Herman Russell Branson Biography
Herman Russell Branson
physicistBorn: 1914
Birthplace: Pocahontas, Va.
As chair of the Department of Physics at Howard University, Herman Branson helped the scientific community gain new insight into organic molecules and biological systems. His collaboration with Robert B. Corey and Nobel laureate Linus B. Pauling led to the identification of the alpha and gamma helical structures of proteins. An innovative researcher, Branson formed cross-disciplinary research teams of physicians, engineers, mathematicians, biologists, chemists, and physicists to facilitate study. After more than two decades of trailblazing research, Branson went on to serve as president at two historically Black colleges, Central State University in Ohio (1968-1970) and Lincoln University in Pennsylvania (1970-1985).
Died: 1995

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They're all uncut.
"Martin Luther King Jr. was never circumcised either," says John Iozza, a foreskin-bearing operative with the Boston-based Circumcision Resource Center (CRC) (and its corresponding Web site, circumcision.org). "Elvis had all his parts, too — I'd say he did pretty well for himself."
Iozza and CRC Executive Director Ronald Goldman, PhD, have protested male circumcision for more than 20 years, during which time they've participated in symposiums worldwide, and, in the latter's case, published several journal studies condemning genital mutilation. They claim that they have largely been marginalized by the media due to the fact that their pet cause involves the taboo of penises, and also by the fact that, for fear of angering religious groups, most news outlets wouldn't want to touch this story with a 10-foot . . . er, you know. But now they see a media moment thanks to the current economic meltdown.
"MassHealth currently pays for circumcision," says Iozza, who has a habit of asking pregnant strangers if they plan to snip their male offspring. "And there's never been a better time than now to argue that tax dollars shouldn't pay for needless procedures." (According to a reasonable estimate by Goldman, Massachusetts — which is one of 34 states in which Medicaid pays for circumcision — spends nearly $7 million on the procedure annually. The state disputes that figure, putting it closer to $344,000.) Legislation to ban circumcision in the Commonwealth altogether has been kicked around since 2007 and is currently unscheduled for hearing in the Joint Committee on the Judiciary.
"Dr. Goldman is a sincere, dedicated person with deeply held views on the matter of circumcision," says MassHealth Commissioner Dr. Roger Snow. "[But] at this time, the professional opinion about non-therapeutic circumcision is so diverse and inconclusive that the course most in the interest of MassHealth members is one that maximizes their autonomy."
"The problem is that this is disguised as a medical issue," says Goldman, a cut Jew who has been secular "since his Bar Mitzvah." Though different research both supports and rejects claims that circumcision is medically prudent, one prevailing effort by University of Illinois-Chicago Professor Robert Bailey dramatically shifted the international dialogue. Since Bailey's 2006 study showed that circumcision lowered HIV-infection rates in Southern Africa by nearly 60 percent, the United States government and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have thrown more than $50 million at the cause.
"That's not a credible argument here in Massachusetts," notes Goldman. "You know what really helps protect against HIV/AIDS? Condoms. . . . [Y]ears ago, circumcision was promoted as a preventative cure for masturbation . . . and we know that didn't work."
Studies aside, the greatest impediments to anti-circumcision crusaders are religious and family traditions. "One argument we always hear is that fathers who are circumcised want their sons to look like them," says Iozza. Adds Goldman: "But that logic falls on its face when you apply it to anything else; if the father was missing a finger or an ear or a toe, would he want his son missing one, too?"
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Digital Media Production | News
Photoshop CS6 adds 65 new user-requested features and includes new video tools, enhancements to the paint engine, and improved performance.
Adobe has released a public beta of Photoshop CS6, along with details about the forthcoming major update to the company's flagship image editing tool.
The latest release includes, according to Adobe, 62 percent more new features than the previous major release, including 65 enhancements requested by users. The enhancements in CS6 span creative tools, workflow, and UI.
New Creative ToolsAmong the new features is the much-publicized Content-Aware Patch tool, which allows users to extract portions of an image, move them to another location within the image, and have the background automatically filled in.
Photoshop CS6 also gains several enhancements to paint and 3D. The paint engine now includes "erodable" brush tips, or tips that degrade with use. (Those tips can also be re-sharpened to return them to their pristine state.)
On the 3D side, Photoshop CS6 Extended offers both simplified and enhanced capabilities, including the ability to manipulate shadows, lights, and effects on the fly with "on-canvas" and "in-context" editing.
The new Adobe Mercury Graphics Engine also provides for better performance when rendering.
Photoshop's video editing capabilities have also been drastically enhanced in CS6, with a new, simplified timeline that will be familiar to users of popular NLEs and motion graphics tools, along with drag-and-drop visual transitions and audio support.
Other new creative features include:
Workflow, UI EnhancementsThe most immediately obvious new feature in Photoshop CS6 is its overhauled UI, seen in the screen shots above. The new version incorporates a darker (though still customizable) background color and theme and adds new icons and reorganized palette layouts.
In addition to the new UI, Photoshop CS6 gains several workflow enhancements, including:
Photoshop CS6 ExtendedIn addition to the new features in Photoshop CS6, Photoshop CS6 Extended will include:
These Extended features are available in the current public beta.
The public beta is available now via the Adobe Labs site as a free download, with support for English and Japanese. On the Mac, Photoshop CS6 requires a 64-bit multicore Intel chip and Mac OS X 10.6.8 or higher. On WIndows, it requires WIndows XP SP3 or Windows 7 and a 32- or 64-bit Intel Pentium 4 or Athlon 64 processor. Pricing and availability of the final release have not been publicly revealed.
About the Author
David Nagel is the former editorial director of 1105 Media's Education Group and editor-in-chief of THE Journal, STEAM Universe, and Spaces4Learning. A 30-year publishing veteran, Nagel has led or contributed to dozens of technology, art, marketing, media, and business publications.
He can be reached at [email protected]. You can also connect with him on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidrnagel/ .


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Effective Date: September 27, 2019
Hodges Manor Apartments respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy describes the types of information we collect from you or that you may provide to us when you use our website, products, and services (collectively, the "Sites"), our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information and the choices you can make about the way in which your information is collected and used when you use our Sites.
This Privacy Policy applies to information we collect when you use our Sites; information you provide when you use our Sites; information you provide to us if we contact you by other means, such as telephone, text message and/or email; and information we collect when you interact with our advertising and applications on third party websites, if those applications and advertising include links to the Policy.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Sites. By accessing or using our Sites, you agree to this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy may change from time to time (see Changes to This Privacy Policy below).
Information We Collect About You And How We Collect It
We collect several types of information from and about users of our Sites.
Information you choose to provide to us.
Information you provide to us by completing a leasing form on our Sites. This includes information by which you may be personally identified, such as your first and last name, phone number, email address (personally identifiable information), move-in date, number of occupants and pets.
Information that you choose to provide to us over the phone if you contact us at one of the phone numbers listed on our Sites.
Information that you provide to us if you apply to lease one of our apartments, which includes in addition to the personally identifiable information listed above, your SSN or ITIN, income, credit information, employment information, vehicle information, and bank information. In addition, you will be asked to provide the name, date of birth and relationship of additional occupants.
Information we collect through automatic data collection technologies.
As you navigate through and interact with our Sites, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns, including:
· your IP address, the type of browser and operating system used;
· date and time you access our Sites and pages you visit, and if you linked from or to another website, the address of that website; and
· your ISP or mobile carrier, and the type of handheld or mobile device that you used.
The information we collect automatically helps us to improve our Sites and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to: estimate our audience size and usage patterns; store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Sites according to your individual interests; speed up your searches; and recognize you when you return to our Sites.
Data Technologies. The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
Google Analytics. In addition to using cookies and related technologies as described above, we use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use our Sites. You can opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Google Adwords. We also use third party vendor re-marketing tracking cookies, including the Google Adwords tracking cookie. This means we will continue to show ads to you across the internet. As always we respect your privacy and are not collecting any identifiable information through the use of Google's or any other third party remarketing system. If you don't want to see our ads, you can opt-out of interest-based advertising here http://optout.networkadvertising.org/.
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Some browsers incorporate a "Do Not Track" ("DNT") feature that, when turned on, signals to websites with which they communicate that you do not want to be tracked. Because there is not yet an accepted standard for how to respond to a DNT signal, we do not currently respond to DNT signals on this Sites.
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We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personally identifiable information:
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We may disclose information that we collect about you or that you provide us, including any personally identifiable information, as described in this Privacy Policy:
To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them. These third parties may include companies that process credit card information, manage our email or texting campaign, provide credit and criminal screening, analyze data, and provide search results and links.
We may disclose without restriction aggregated information about our users and information that does not identify an individual.
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We have in place what we believe to be reasonable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access of, maintain data security for and correctly use the personal information you have provided. However, while such efforts are intended to ensure the confidentiality of your personal information available to us as a result of your use of our services, we cannot and do not warrant or guarantee the absolute safety and security of your personal information.
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Our Sites are intended for a general audience and were not designed for children.
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If you have any questions, please contact us at (757) 627-8611.


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Major mood disorders have been associated with increased suicidal behavior. This is especially true in patients with a mixed, manic-depressive, or dysphoric-agitated state.
Suicide-completed and attempted-represents a major clinical and public health challenge. The CDC has ranked suicide as the 11th leading cause of death among persons over age 10 (33,289 suicide deaths were reported in the United States in 2009, and this rate has been stable for many years).1
Suicide rates have been consistently 3 to 7 times higher in men, especially in men older than 65 years. There are marked differences in rates of completed suicide among ethnic groups: Native Americans and Inuits are at very high risk, followed by white, African American, and Latino persons. Rates also vary among geographic areas and are greater in sparsely populated regions in North America.
About 90% of suicides occur in persons with a clinically diagnosable psychiatric disorder.2-4 The standardized mortality risk ratio is higher for patients with major mood disorders than for the general population. For patients with unipolar major depressive disorder (UP-MDD), standardized mortality ratios show a 20-fold increase over the general population of patients with bipolar disorder (BPD) or depression who have ever been hospitalized.2,5 Suicide risk in patients with UP-MDD is strongly related to illness severity. Patients who have been hospitalized with UP-MDD are at greater risk than those treated as outpatients: higher depression-rating scores further boost the risk and support the view that current depressed mood is the most frequent condition associated with suicide.1,2,6
Our analysis of 28 studies involving 823 suicides among 21,500 patients with BPD found a weighted mean annual incidence of suicide of 390 per 100,000. That rate is 26 times higher than in the international general population, which is approximately 15 per 100,000.7 We also found that the risk of suicide among nearly 3000 outpatients with BPD type I or II was several-fold higher than in patients with UP-MDD.8
Reducing suicide risk
Even though many patients at risk for suicide receive various treatments, their effects on suicide risk appear to vary. Fewer than one-third of persons who commit suicide are receiving psychiatric treatment at the time of their deaths.1,9 Evidence pertaining to potential anti-suicidal effects of various psychotropic drugs on suicide risk has been strikingly limited as well as inconsistent and inconclusive. Particularly surprising, there is only inconsistent evidence that antidepressants may help prevent suicides.10-13
One somewhat indirect and inconclusive aspect of evidence concerning antidepressants is a strong association between their rapidly expanding use and the moderately declining suicide rates in the United States and a few other countries during the 1990s (Figure).11 These changes have leveled off since the early 2000s and were not apparent in many countries even in the 1990s.11 Such inconsistent associations of increased use of effective treatments for depression and reduced suicide risk suggest that additional social and clinical factors are involved. These may include particular symptoms, notably agitation, restlessness, irritability, anger, or insomnia, along with dysphoria that can lead to impulsivity and aggression.12,13 Such features are particularly prevalent among patients with BPD I or BPD II and are sometimes worsened with antidepressant treatment.14-16 In addition, basic access to clinical care appears to be a critical variable.17
The case for lithium
Many studies consistently support the impression that risks of suicide and of life-threatening attempts are far lower during treatment with lithium (and even with a placebo) than without treatment. The apparent effectiveness of lithium treatment in suicide prevention may be associated with reduction of risk or sever-ity of recurrences of depression or dysphoric-agitated, mixed manic-depressive states, and with reduced impulsivity and aggressiveness in those with mood disorders.18 The antiaggressive effects of lithium have been observed in various populations and settings, including elderly residents in nursing homes; mentally disabled persons; children and adolescents who have hyperactive, hostile, and aggressive behavior; and hyperaggressive prisoners.19
Some researchers have suggested that lithium may have specific effects against suicide that are independent of mood-stabilizing actions. This hypothesis is supported by observed reductions of suicide risk even among patients whose primary mood symptoms have responded inadequately to lithium.20,21 Neurobiological mechanisms that might be involved in apparent anti-suicidal effects of lithium include decreased impulsivity and hostile or aggressive behavior that may be mediated by enhanced functioning of the central serotonin system.22,23
An association between reduced suicide risk and long-term treatment with lithium in patients with BPD is consistently supported by most studies. These studies include meta-analyses, reviews, and randomized placebo-controlled efficacy trials-virtually none of which was specifically designed to test for effects on suicide risk.18,24
In our meta-analyses of more than 30 studies, we considered suicidal behavior in patients treated long-term with lithium, usually for BPD or other recurrent mood disorders; these studies involved more than 110,000 person-years of risk (Table 1). Our findings indicate several-fold lower risks of suicides and attempts during treatment with lithium.18,24 We also estimated a needed-to-treat number of 22.6 (95% confidence interval, 21.0 - 24.6; P < .0001), which suggests that about 23 patients would need to be treated with lithium to avoid 1 life-threatening or fatal suicidal act.
Notably, in one study, rates of suicidal acts increased 20-fold within several months after discontinuing lithium maintenance treatment.25 The risk doubled with abrupt or rapid versus gradual (2 weeks or longer) discontinuation, and later returned to levels found before the start of lithium treatment.25 This observation is consistent with other findings of high, early recurrence rates of affective illness in patients with mood disorders soon after they discontinue maintenance treatments (lithium or antidepressants), especially rapidly or abruptly.26,27
In addition, a meta-analysis of 8 studies yielded evidence of a more moderate reduction of risk of suicide and attempts among patients with recurrent UP-MDD who were treated with lithium rather than alternatives that included anticonvulsants (Table 1).28
There is little research that directly compares suicide risks during treatment with proved or putative mood stabilizers other than lithium.29 However, 2 studies found close to a 3-fold lower average of suicide risk with lithium than with carbamazepine or valproate among patients with BPD or schizoaffective disorder.30,31 Nevertheless, anticonvulsants may have some beneficial effects on suicidal behavior, and only weak and inconsistent evidence of worsening such risk.29,32
In a recent meta-analysis, we compared lithium's protective effect against suicidal behavior with the protective effect of several mood-stabilizing anticonvulsants (mainly valproate, carbamazepine, and lamotrigine) in 6 direct comparisons.29 These comparisons included more than 30,000 patients exposed to aggregate treatment for approximately 31 months with lithium and 19 months with an anticonvulsant. Half of the trials involved randomized treatment assignment. The results indicate consistent superiority of lithium treatment; the effects of anticonvulsants require further study.29
Despite the large number of patients in these studies and the remarkably consistent results, a direct role of lithium treatment in decreasing suicide risk has not been definitively demonstrated. A major limitation is that the available evidence derives from largely incidental and passively reported adverse events in studies designed for therapeutic purposes other than to assess suicidal behavior as an explicit outcome measure.
We found only one randomized controlled study specifically designed to test the effects of lithium on suicidal behavior.33 The findings tended to favor lithium over adding a placebo to routine treatment; there were no suicides with lithium and only 3 with placebo.33 In addition, the one pivotal trial that helped establish anti-suicidal effects of clozapine in schizophrenia was designed explicitly to test for effects on suicide and related events (mainly attempts and clinical interventions to prevent suicide) after patients were randomized to clozapine or olanzapine; it showed lower rates of the surrogate outcome measures, but not of suicide itself.34
A potential limitation of studies of lithium-and, indeed, of all studies of therapeutic effects-is that patients who accept, tolerate, and sustain long-term treatment with particular treatments may well be self-selected and not entirely representative of the full spectrum of patients. Moreover, factors such as sex, marital status, educational level, employment status, personality traits, lack of obvious losses or other stressors, and being less severely ill for a shorter duration, as well as relative improvement of depressive symptoms with treatment and limited adverse effects, all appear to decrease suicide risk.2 Such factors can confound interpretation of the observed effects of lithium without randomization to treatment and use of a control condition (placebo is rarely an ethical option). On the other hand, in testing for long-term effects of any treatment, only patients who accept and tolerate the treatment can be considered for analysis.
Many studies consistently support the impression that risks of suicide and of life-threatening attempts are far lower during treatment with lithium (and even with a placebo) than without treatment.
Other psychotropics
It is important to identify alternative treatments that may reduce suicide risk and that can reasonably be used as comparison treatments in controlled trials without recourse to a placebo. Ideally, such studies would involve randomized assignment to specific treatment conditions for prolonged periods as well as outcome measures specific to suicidal behavior. Treatments should be similarly plausible, even if unproved, following the precedent of the InterSePT trial of clozapine versus olanzapine for suicidal behavior in schizophrenia, which was a major source of support for the FDA approval of clozapine to reduce suicide risk in 2003-the first treatment of any kind to receive such approval.34,35 So far, however, trials that compare lithium with an anticonvulsant or antipsychotic agent are rare and almost never are continued for more than several months, nor do they involve explicit suicide-related outcome measures.29 Moreover, head-to-head comparisons of different drugs are unlikely to be favored by manufacturers of at least 1 of the treatment options.
Patients receiving long-term treatment with lithium (and clozapine) require closer clinical monitoring than those receiving most other psychotropic drugs. The added level of care may facilitate identification of emerging symptoms associated with suicidal behavior, including suicidal ideation, and early dysphoria, agitation, and anger, or it may otherwise provide supportive and protective influences. Nevertheless, additional clinical contact and close supervision may not be critical, given results of the InterSePT trial for patients with schizophrenia, which matched for clinician contact time between treatment options.33
In addition to possible specific anti-suicidal actions of some treatments, a more general component of suicide reduction is suggested by correlations of state suicide rates in the United States with various measures that may reflect better access to clinical care. These include greater population and clinician density, higher economic status, and availability of medical insurance.16
Major mood disorders have been associated with increased suicidal behavior. This is especially true in patients with a mixed, manic-depressive, or dysphoric-agitated state, and perhaps also in those with anger, aggression, or impulsivity-all of which are particularly prevalent in BPD and may contribute to the unusually high suicide risk in persons with this disorder. In patients with such conditions (especially young patients), antidepressants may lack a beneficial effect or even increase suicide risk, at least early in treatment. Long-term treatment with mood stabilizers, particularly lithium, may be a more effective component of comprehensive clinical management aimed at suicide prevention.
Altered suicide risk may be obtained with some modern antipsychotic and anticonvulsant drugs commonly used to treat patients whose illnesses include suicidal ideation. However, such applications, and even use of lithium, require further systematic study for both positive and possible adverse effects on suicidal behaviors (Table 2).
? Research on effects of psychotropic medications on suicide was virtually unknown a decade ago.
? On the basis of limited data, clozapine was the first treatment to receive FDA approval (2003) for reducing risk of suicide-related behaviors in patients with schizophrenia.
? Long-term treatment with lithium has strong and consistent evidence for several-fold reductions in risks of suicide and life-threatening attempts in bipolar and mixed manic-depressive disorders, as well as suggestive evidence of moderate reduction of such risk in recurrent major depression.
? Long-term treatment with the putative mood-stabilizing anticonvulsants carbamazepine and divalproex appears to be less effective than long-term treatment with lithium in reducing suicide risk. In patients with epilepsy, there is still controversy regarding potential adverse effects (ie, suicidal behavior) associated with some anticonvulsants.
? Ecological studies have found highly variable correlations between minor decreases in suicide rates, varying by region or time, and rapidly rising rates for prescriptions for modern antidepressants in the 1990s. Such correlations are found in only about half of countries studied and are influenced by many factors that probably include access to clinical care.
? Results of several large clinical studies suggest decreased suicide risk with antidepressant treatment. In other studies, an increased suicide risk was found mainly in depressed juveniles, but a decreased risk was found in depressed geriatric patients. Such studies risk confounding by associating antidepressant treatment with more severe depression and therefore with greater suicide risk.
? Data pooled from relatively brief, randomized, placebo-controlled trials in acute major depression suggest increases of suicidal thoughts and possibly also suicide attempts in adolescents and young adults but decreases in adults, particularly the elderly.
? Overall, antidepressants have not been proved to have beneficial effects on suicidal behaviors, especially in persons aged 25 years and younger, but they may reduce suicidal ideation along with other symptoms of depression, especially in adults.
? Some modern antipsychotics may limit both short- and long-term suicide risk, but they require systematic study.
? Among classes of psychotropic agents, there may be inconsistent effects on suicide risk. Antipsychotic or mood-stabilizing agents may have effects that are different from those of antidepressants; irritability, anger, aggression, and impulsivity can worsen in some patients soon after they start antidepressant treatment, which potentially increases suicide risk.
? Early depression requires particularly close clinical monitoring to identify emerging suicide risks and potentially dangerous but treatable adverse behavioral reactions. Also, monitoring for bipolar disorder is required.
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Orthopaedics in Motion – Volume 2, Number 2 – Summer 2012 is now available online.
Orthopaedics in Motion is a quarterly newsletter containing sections on disaster preparedness and trauma care. The newsletter also includes overviews of the latest aspects of clinic care, continuing education, research and innovation pertinent to the practicing orthopaedic surgeon.


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T. Buckler Ghequiere (later in life he dropped the final 'e') was born June 14, 1854, the grandson of Robert Carey Long, Sr. (1760-1833), generally considered Baltimore's first native professional architect.
Long's son, Robert Carey Long, Jr. (1810-1849) was well known in his time, and in ours, as one of the most important architects in the development of the profession. Sarah, the daughter of Robert Carey Long Sr. by his second marriage, married Louis J. Ghequier at St. Paul's Church on July 28, 1853 and had a son, Thomas Buckler, nearly a year later.
Ghequier was proud of these family connections in the architectural profession. At the age of about 22 he wrote an informative article for the American Architect and Building News (June 24, 1876, p. 207) fondly praising his grandfather and uncle, obviously admiring their works, naming a number of them and reciting family history in these two earlier generations. If he had had an offspring who became an architect, this surely would be recognized as a dynasty.
T. Buckler Ghequier worked for J. Crawford Neilson for five years. He opened his own office about 1876, and he advertised "making a specialty of church work [as well as] plans for all kinds of buildings and superintends the erection of the same." In 1882 his residence and office address was at No. 49 St. Paul Street, later re-numbered as 227 St. Paul Street, his address in the Baltimore City Directory until his death. From about 1897 to 1902 he was in partnership with Howard May (1879-1941), who later formed a partnership with Wilson Levering Smith (1873-1931) as Smith & May. George A. Frederick, in his 1912 Recollections, mentioned that Ghequier was among the deceased.
Ghequier's earliest work, discovered to date, was when he was but 20 years old and it was in Warrenton, VA, some distance from Baltimore: an enlargement with a recessed chancel for St. James' Episcopal Church which was designed in 1853 by James Renwick Jr. of New York, a remarkable commission in distance and importance for an architect so young.
Ghequier admired the architectural works of the past and regretted their loss and alteration; today we would call him a preservationist. By 1877, his age about 23, one of his earliest commissions was the remodeling of the Richmond County (Virginia) Court House in Warsaw. Writing about this project in the American Architect and Building News (June 23, 1877) he noted that the Court House was built in 1748 and
it may . . . be [of] . . . interest to you and to the profession at large, for me to put together in readable shape some items about its history and structure, especially as the plan is somewhat peculiar; besides which it does not appear to me to be exactly right to alter such buildings without preserving in some suitable way . . . a description of them as they now stand and have stood for a great number of years. Especially does it not seem right regardlessly to destroy them or heedlessly to add to them, when we recollect that many important events have occurred within them in our country's history, and that men of note, whose deeds have left enduring marks behind them, have spent the majority of their working hours in them. Therefore, before their ancient shape and appearance are so changed by the progressive wants of those who now use them as to leave but a vestige remaining, it becomes our duty to those who have preceded us, to give the world some record of them, that they may not be clean forgotten.
He continued with a brief history of the northern neck of Virginia, noting its landmarks, still prized to this day, and the history of this Court House. He recited its materials and dimensions in detail and its conditions, and described its unique plan, illustrated with a plan drawing. He presented a drawing of its principal elevation with a verbal explanation of the same. He concluded the article with a stated intent to describe other historic buildings of the region.
With earlier and later commissions in Virginia he must have had strong connections there. The BAF has found several Virginia Episcopal churches by him in the last three decades of the 19th century, and he claimed even more. Most of his work was in Baltimore and within Baltimore's area of influence. Several Episcopal church works in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, indicate a valuable patron or friend there, probably the Bishop who had come from Baltimore.
Ghequier's residence for Charles J. Baker, Athol, on Wickham Road just off Frederick Road in West Baltimore, is a major residence (1880) in an imaginative medieval revival style. Two church masterpieces by Ghequier are the Dent Memorial Chapel for the Charlotte Hall Academy in St. Mary's County and St. Mark's Episcopal Church near the Library of Congress in Washington DC, 1883 and 1888, respectively. These careful Gothic and Romanesque designs with brick interiors place them in the "high Victorian" styles, inspired by William Butterfield and other English church architects. A new deep recessed chancel in 1885 for his uncle's Mount Calvary Episcopal Church in Baltimore is in the same style, ingeniously penetrating the adjacent row house.
His Romanesque Parish House (1885) on the first block of Cathedral Street for old St. Paul's Church is one of his best known buildings. Throughout his professional life he made true his words, when he opened his practice, "making a specialty of church work."
Two secular works include a new Charlotte Hall Academy main building (1896) in St. Mary's County in a Colonial revival style (now demolished). Its predecessor was designed in the Greek revival style by Edmund G. Lind in 1857 which replaced its predecessor of 1788. All were built on the same unique foundation. Another Colonial revival secular building is his Montgomery Mutual Fire Insurance building in Sandy Spring, Montgomery County, MD, 1904.
Like his parents and grandparents, he was a life-long active member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Baltimore, originally designed by his grandfather (its 1814 walls were incorporated into the present building by Richard Upjohn in 1856 after it burned in 1854). For many years he served as librarian for the parish's famed choir of men and boys.


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Beautiful Equality Comes To Marriages In America
Love will find a way, and it finally has. There are many, many friends I am thinking of right now, and they all know exactly who they are. Congratulations, and it was far too long coming. Here is the opinion.
There is so much to say, that it is hard to know what to actually say. There are many quotes like this one, but it is indicative of the decision:
"laws excluding same-sex couples from the marriage right impose stigma and injury of the kind prohibited by our basic charter."
What I don't find in the majority decision, as wonderful as it is, is discussion of heightened scrutiny, strict scrutiny, or other clear cut, across the board protection for the status of sexual identity. And that is disappointing. Also why I cried bit when SCOTUS, two years ago to this very day, callously refused to take the incredibly wonderful tee shot that Vaughn Walker gave them in the Proposition 8 case previously.
I guess the handwriting was on the wall when even the old liberal lion Steve Reinhardt, a man I have met, and a judge I truly love and revere, pulled up short and did not have the balls to take the root concept of sexual identity "equality" where it naturally flowed when he had the pen in his wise hand. But he didn't then, and his old friend Tony Kennedy has not today.
So, while there is so much to cheer right this moment, we, and this country, are still far from where we need to be with regard to inclusion of all our citizens in the concept of equality. It is more than black and white, it is straight, gay and trans too. We are all on this patch of earth together, and we all are equal, and that needs to be admitted legally by the highest court in the land and understood by all the people it serves.
So, there are still miles to be traveled. Let the four, count them four, spittle laced, bigoted, backwards, and disgusting dissents in the Obergefell decision speak for themselves. Honestly, they make me want to puke. For all that were celebrating the enlightened liberal thought of Chief Justice John G. Roberts yesterday, today is a rough reminder of who and what he really is. And you really have to read Scalia and Alito to understand the fucked up pathology of the dissenters. Wow.


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Blancpain Saint Valentin 2012 – Valentines Day Gifts
Faithful to its annual rendezvous, Blancpain once again presents an exclusive creation for Valentine's Day. This limited series of 14 watches, each set with 2.95 carats of precious stones, offers a fresh take on the refined aesthetics of the Blancpain Women collection, while associating it with the technical subtlety of the flyback chronograph.
With its diamond-set bezel and lugs, caseband set with four diamonds and a heart-shaped ruby, crown adorned with a diamond and pushpieces covered with cabochon-cut rubies, the white gold case of this Saint-Valentin Chronograph 2012 sparkles with dazzling splendour. Its engraved mother-of-pearl dial, featuring a marquetry-work motif composed of three white mother-of-pearl hearts and set with 8 diamonds, highlights the exquisite craftsmanship of the master-dialmakers of the Manufacture. In an additional nod to Cupid, the heart-shaped counterweight of the central sweep seconds hand is delicately hand-painted with a feather, thus endowing it with a distinctive convex shape. The sapphire crystal back of the 36 mm case reveals the complexity of the movement with its 308 parts and 37 jewels, along with the oscillating weight clothed in pink mother-of-pearl.
The Saint-Valentin Chronograph 2012 houses the self-winding Calibre F185 that drove the very first ladies' flyback chronograph model. It features central hour and minute hands, seconds shown on a subdial at 6 o'clock and the date appearing through an oval aperture at 12 o'clock. The chronograph function is displayed by a central sweep seconds hand, while the elapsed minutes and hours are counted off on totalizers at 3 and 9 o'clock. Two pushpieces serve to control the measurements: the first at 2 o'clock starts and stops the chronograph, while the other at 4 o'clock handles the flyback function. A single press on the latter pushpiece stops measurement of the first time interval and resets the hands to zero, and the timing begins again as soon as the pushpiece is released.
This delightful model, fitted with a white alligator leather strap and presented in a precious wooden box delicately lined with white nappa leather, is available exclusively from Blancpain boutiques. – blancpain