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Only 10 minutes until Sony announces the Playstation 4. I'm watching the livestream of the Playstation Meeting and will be updating this live blog throughout with all the big news about the PS4, with a special focus on its potential HFR and 4K capabilities.
Will it indeed be called the PS4? Maybe the PS4k? Will The Last Guardian make a triumphant return? What have Naughty Dog, Sony Santa Monica, Guerilla Games, Sucker Punch, Insomniac, Media Molecule and others been preparing for Sony's nextgen console?
4 Minutes to go!
Conference has started! (most recent updates on top) (edit: conference is over)
Coming Holiday 2013! Very cool hype video with clips from all the footage we've seen. And the presentation is over! No talk about HFR or, more of a surprise, no talk of 4K (which Sony has been pushing harder than anyone). But there'll be much more to be announced between now and E3, and I still think PS4 will have some form of 4K support.
Activision Publishing CEO takes stage. Launch window games promised. More games will be announced in the coming months. Bungie's Destiny is officially coming to PS4! Persistent online world. Co-op play. "First shared world shooter." PS3 and PS4 version simultaneous launch. Exclusive PlayStation content.
Blizzard Entertainment rep takes stage. Sony / Blizzard partnership announced. Diablo 3 announced for PS4 as well as PS3.
Ubisoft's Yves Guillermot takes stage. Watch Dogs trailer being shown. Looks great. Very noir. Nice character lighting and clothing physics. Particle effects, puddle reflections, drifting debris. Some screen tearing, but it might just be the live feed.
Square Enix / Final Fantasy brand manager takes stage. Announces new Final Fantasy title for PS4 this year!
Square Enix' CTO Yoshihisa Hashimoto takes stage. Agni's Philosophy demo being shown. Characters especially look amazing.
Talking about 3rd parties now. Yoshinori Ono from Capcom takes stage. Codename : Phantom Rhei engine for PS4. shows trailer/footage from new IP, Deep Down; takes place underground. Character models, lighting, cave geometry is stunning. New Street Fighter tease at the end featuring Blanka.
Media Molecule developer takes stage. Talking about using the Move controller to sculpt 3D models, avoiding the "Tyranny of the Polygon". Collaborative game where players and their friends create worlds and objects. Showing a video of two people controlling dancing sculpted characters with he Move.
Now, a glimpse of the future: David Cage of Quantic Dream takes the stage. Emotion is his goal. Talking about polygon count increases over time: Heavy Rain to Kara to to Beyond, which uses 30,000. Now showing very advanced "old man" human head model using tons polygons and advanced graphical techniques. Extremely impressive; Hollywood quality. "Now we are only limited by our imagination"
Braid creator Jonathan Blow taking stage. Introducing The Witness, a "game about epiphany" Exploration and puzzle solving. Open world. 25 hours of gameplay; compact gameplay; timed exclusive. Trailer shows beautiful world with detailed, pastel foliage, incredible lighting and details. Tesselation I believe.
Sucker Punch's next game being introduced. Now being shown! Infamous: Second Son! Character models look completely real; a huge leap.
Talking about a game called DriveClub. Some footage shown, not clear if gameplay. Painstakingly detailed cars, every microscopic detail modeled. Gameplay footage now being shown.
Games! Guerrilla Games showing Killzone: Shadow Fall gameplay. Absolutely amazing and beautiful graphics and animation; particle effects, textures, fabrics look nextgen and the scope and scale of the city is incredible. Better than anything i've seen, highend PC games included.
Michael Denny (Worldwide Studios) on stage.
Developers speaking (via pre-made video) about collaboration with Sony for PS4. Taking about Sony's emphasis on Immediacy: No boot times, no download times. "window" into your PS4 games will be available from your smartphone, tablet, etc.
Sony's Cloud Services will be released in phases; can't announce everything today.
Sony's goal: to put PS1, PS2, PS3, PS4, etc games on any device. "Everything, everywhere." That's the vision behind the Playstation Cloud Network.
Remote Play: built into architecture of PS4; PS Vita can play PS4 games! Logn term goal is to make every PS4 title instantly playable on PS Vita. PS4 uses Gaikai to stream games to Vita "client".
Can schedule set time to broadcast your game via uStream.
Spectating experience: "Share" button on PS4 controller can realtime broadcast your game to your friends. Friends can post comments to your game screen. Your friends can take over control of your game midgame.
Partnered with Facebook and Ustream.
"Fastest Gaming Network in World"; gets to know your preferences; immediately jump into any game on Playstation Store for free.
Dave Perry, co-founder and CEO of Gakai (cloud gaming) takes the stage.
Personalization: system can get to know you. System learns your likes and dislikes, places content they predict you'll like right in front of you. Their goal is to predict the net game you purchase and have that game downloaded and ready to go before you even press the play button.
Real names and profile pictures will be emphasized for online multiplayer, sourced from social networks.
Dedicated, "always-on" video compression and decompression. Sharing video is possible while playing a game simultaneously. Can observe other players' games.
Digital titles playable even as they are being downloaded.
Power saving "Sleep Mode" – gameplay saved in RAM.
Trailer for new game being shown, designed by Cerny, called Knack.
Havok physics demo shown..lots of falling debris cascading over structures.
8 CPU cores, almost 2 teraflops, GDDR5 memory[!] 176 Gb/sec bandwidth which further boosts GPU performance. Modified GPU to be useable as general purpose computation device.
UE4 demo shown
Dualshock 4 being shown. Touchpad screen on top. Share button. Headphone jack. "Light bar" to identify players. Designed in tandem with stereo camera that tracks controller and identifies player depth.
Live demos coming up
Cerny: PS4 is a powerfull, accessible system. Architecture is like a PC in many ways, but supercharged. X86 CPU. Highly enhanced PC GPU. Memory: 8 GB of high speed memory[!] . "Massive" local harddrive storage.
Cerny: Spoke to dozens of best developers in world.
Cerny: "for PS4, we wanted nothing to come between platform and joy and play."
Mark Cerny: "The need to radically customize technology can interfere with game creation."
Lead PS4 system architect Mark Cerny: "[My] role on [PS4] started about 5 years ago."
"Experiences [of PS4] will surpass gamers' wildest expectations."
It's officially called Playstation 4
"A glimpse into the future of Play, "the most personalized experience" following their pedigree, "most powerful platform ever."
"Connectivity between devices has been essential"
(paraphrase) "The living room in no longer the center. The gamer is the focal point for our efforts"
Retrospective highlight reel running: "fighting the war against reality"


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Middlesboro ARH Hospital invites ladies in the community to its women's health series called Lunch & Learn.
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ARH celebrated National Volunteer Week at Pine Mountain State Park and Resort.
The National Sleep Foundation states a recommended number of hours of sleep each night to maintain good health. Therefore, it's important to ask yourself: what's my sleep number most nights?
Middlesboro ARH Hospital partnered with Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College (SKCTC) to host a celebration of Easter miracles recently at their Middlesboro campus.
Have you had a health assessment for stroke or diabetes recently? You are invited to the Middlesboro Mall at Center Court on March 11, between 9 a.m. and 12 noon, to receive these free assessments.
LUNCHEON POSTPONED to March 19 due to inclement weather! Middlesboro ARH Hospital invites ladies in the community to its women's health series called Lunch &Learn. Lunch & Learn offers insight and tips on a variety of women's health issues. On Thursday, February 26, Dr. Vicente Kaw, Jr., cardiology and internal medicine at Middlesboro ARH Hospital, will speak on heart health.
Tug Valley ARH Regional Medical Center invites the community to its Love Your Heart luncheon and health fair on Wednesday, February 25 at the First Baptist Church in Belfry, Ky.
Harlan ARH Hospital has been recognized as a 2013 Top Performer on Key Quality Measures® by The Joint Commission, the leading accreditor of health care organizations in the United States. Harlan ARH was recognized as part of The Joint Commission's 2014 annual report "America's Hospitals: Improving Quality and Safety," for attaining and sustaining excellence in accountability measure performance for pneumonia and surgical care. Harlan ARH is one of only 1,224 hospitals in the United States to achieve the 2013 Top Performer distinction.
According to the American Heart Association, heart disease strikes someone in the United States about once every 43 seconds.
Middlesboro ARH Hospital Newborn Nursery recently received 40 fleece blankets and newborn caps from first- and second-year medical students at the DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine at Lincoln Memorial University.
Hazard ARH Regional Medical Center is holding a Job Fair Wednesday, January 28 from 10 to 3 at the Medical Center Auditorium. Positions include Personal Care Assistant, Environmental Service Aide and Certified Nurse Aide. We ask that all applicants apply online before the job fair. Please bring your resume and dress ready to be interviewed, and possibly hired on the spot! Call Sheila Cornett at 439-6842 for more details.
Middlesboro ARH Hospital welcomed its first baby of the new year born on January 5, 2015. At 12:51 p.m., Meredith Eades, certified nurse midwife, delivered Isaiah Lee Phillip Taylor. He weighed 6 pounds and 15.4 ounces, and was 21 inches long. Parents are Gabriella LaBounty and Brandon Taylor and they reside in Harrogate, Tn.
Tug Valley ARH Regional Medical Center welcomed its first baby of the New Year born on January 6, 2015.
Whitesburg ARH Hospital welcomed its first baby of the new year born on January 4, 2015. At 12:46 p.m., Isabella Nyan, MD, delivered Paul Edward Helton III. He weighed 6 pounds 10 ounces, and was 18.3 inches long. Parents are Barbara Ann Hurd and Paul Edward Helton, Jr. and they reside in Sandlick, Ky. along with brother Bentley who is three years old and excited about being a big brother.
McDowell ARH is a small hospital with only 166 employees, but when it comes to giving they have hearts the size of thousands.
Mary Breckinridge ARH Hospital held its annual Christmas party for children on December 18. Every year Mary Breckinridge ARH Community CEO Mallie Noble invites children from Leslie County and surrounding communities to this much anticipated Christmas party.
Middlesboro ARH Hospital partnered with Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College (SKCTC) to host a celebration of Christmas miracles on December 11 at their Middlesboro campus.
ARH is joining the National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health (NOSORH) and other state/national rural stakeholders in celebrating National Rural Health Day today.
Appalachian Regional Healthcare has announced Susan Stewart has been named System Director of Home Services for the health system's home health and home durable medical store operations in Eastern Kentucky and Southern West Virginia.
Appalachian Regional Healthcare (ARH) has named Donnie Fields the new Community CEO at Harlan ARH Hospital.
Appalachian Regional Healthcare honored employees from across its Kentucky and West Virginia system who have been named their respective hospital's 2014 Annual ARH CARES Award Winners Thursday evening in Lexington.
The ARH Foundation for Healthier Communities announced today it has received a $1 million gift from Hazard native and energy industry leader Joe Craft towards the $47 million expansion project at the Hazard ARH Regional Medical Center.
Community leaders and health care providers gathered today to celebrate a new partnership among Mountain Comprehensive Healthcare Corporation (MCHC), Appalachian Regional Healthcare (ARH), and UK HealthCare's Gill Heart Institute.
Passport Health Plan announced today that they have contracted with Appalachian Regional Healthcare to provide services to members of Passport Health Plan. Appalachian Regional Healthcare, including 8 hospitals in Kentucky, 2 hospitals in West Virginia, 600 physicians, home health agencies, HomeCare Stores and retail pharmacies, provide care for approximately 350,000 residents and is the largest private employer in southeastern Kentucky.
October 14, 2013 — Appalachian Regional Healthcare (ARH) has named Dan Stone the new Community CEO for the Hazard ARH Regional Medical Center.
During October, ARH hospitals are offering digital mammogram screenings for only $50, which includes the radiologist report. You will need to bring a physician's order for the test and pay by cash, check or credit card at registration.
September 27, 2013, Middlesboro, Ky. – With October being National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Middlesboro ARH Hospital and Discover Downtown Middlesboro are partnering to paint downtown pink to raise awareness and money to find a cure.
Life is a journey filled with unique experiences—many bring joy and satisfaction while others challenge our mind, body and spirit. The journey for Glenn Miller had been one of immeasurable joy and satisfaction. He had made wise choices both personally and professionally. And like most men in their 50s, Miller enjoyed his role at work yet dreamed of retirement. He cherished his role as husband and father, yet when God blessed him with a grandchild, his joy increased tenfold. Miller had a wonderful life but it was about to take a turn that would lead him to his greatest challenge--surviving prostate cancer.
Fall is here and it's time once again for the annual Mary Breckinridge Festival and the Mary Breckinridge ARH Community Picnic.
Appalachian Regional Healthcare, Inc. (ARH) is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2013 ARH Cutest Baby Contest is 14-month-old Connor Robert Allen Smith.
Community leaders and local health care providers joined representataives of Appalachian Regional Healthcare (ARH), Appalachian Heart Center (AHC), and UK HealthCare's Gill Heart Institute Monday to celebrate a new partnership that will deliver the highest quality and state-of-the art cardiovascular care to residents of Eastern Kentucky.
Appalachian Regional Healthcare (ARH), Appalachian Heart Center (AHC), and UK HealthCare's Gill Heart Institute have announced they will join forces to deliver the highest quality and state-of-the-art cardiovascular care to residents of Eastern Kentucky.
When organizers of the recent Day of Hope event in Beckley needed volunteers, Beckley and Summers County ARH staff were some of the first to answer the call and offer their time and service to help those in need.
Middlesboro ARH Hospital was awarded a three-year term of accreditation in mammography as the result of a recent review by the American College of Radiology (ACR).
Police officers are local super heroes. Whether it is responding to a frightened motorist trapped in an overturned vehicle, saving a terrified child from an abductor or taking out a shooter before innocent lives are lost, police officers risk their lives daily to save others. When one of our local heroes was injured in an accident last year, he was determined to get well and go back to protecting the people of Bell County.
The University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center announced today that it is only the 68th medical center in the country and the first in Kentucky to earn a prestigious National Cancer Institute Designation, a distinction that signifies national excellence in clinical care and cancer research. As part of the Markey Cancer Center Affiliate Network, ARH Cancer Center's patients get the benefit of Markey's guidance and support in their care while staying closer to home for treatment.
Appalachian Regional Healthcare (ARH) employees represented by the United Steelworkers (USW) voted today to ratify a new three-year collective bargaining agreement.
After several weeks of continued negotiations, Appalachian Regional Healthcare (ARH) and the United Steelworkers (USW) reached a tentative collective bargaining agreement late Tuesday afternoon.
December 7, 2012 — The Board of Trustees for the Appalachian Regional Healthcare system announced today the forthcoming retirement of ARH President and Chief Executive Officer Jerry W. Haynes, and named Haynes' successor.
HAZARD, Ky. (Nov. 14, 2012) – UK HealthCare and Appalachian Regional Healthcare (ARH) are working to form collaborative agreements in which the two hospital systems would work with community physicians to strengthen cardiovascular care in southeastern Kentucky.
West Liberty, KY– Appalachian Regional Healthcare (ARH) staff members received on Wednesday, November 7, the Toyota Highlander won by the Morgan County ARH Home Health Agency as one of 100 nonprofit winners in Toyota's 100 Cars for Good program. 100 Cars for Good is a major philanthropic initiative in which the automaker gave away 100 cars to 100 nonprofits over the course of 100 days. Morgan County ARH was selected as a winner based on votes from the public on July 11, 2012 on the 100 Cars for Good Facebook page at www.100carsforgood.com.
On October 24, Middlesboro ARH Hospital celebrated the recent Joint Commission recognition as a top performer on key quality measures and held a ribbon cutting for its newly renovated Emergency Department.
Middlesboro and Harlan ARH hospitals are among the hospitals named as the nation's Top Performers on Key Quality Measures by The Joint Commission, the leading accreditor of health care organizations in America.
ARH was joined by state and local officials Monday as they celebrated the restoration of the tornado-damaged Morgan County ARH Hospital. Monday's ribbon cutting and grand re-opening ceremony comes after five months of work to repair nearly $4 million in damages the Morgan County ARH Hospital suffered during the devastating tornado that ravaged the West Liberty area March 2.
A federal judge on Monday held Kentucky's Cabinet for Health and Family Services in contempt. U.S. Senior Judge Karl Forester said in an order that the decision was for the Cabinet's refusal to process requests by patients to transfer away from Coventry Cares, a managed care organization, in light of Coventry's impending termination of its provider contract with Appalachian Regional Healthcare.
Appalachian Regional Healthcare (ARH) has been selected as one of 500 nonprofit finalists in Toyota's 100 Cars for Good program, a major philanthropic initiative in which the automaker is giving 100 cars to 100 non-profits over the course of 100 days. ARH was selected as a finalist from more than 4,000 applications nationwide and is seeking a new vehicle for the Morgan County ARH Home Health Agency which lost numerous vehicles during the March 2 tornado.
United States Senior Judge Karl S. Forester ruled Wednesday to grant in part Appalachian Regional Healthcare's request for a preliminary injunction against Medicaid Managed Care contractor CoventryCares.
A federal judge ruled Wednesday that Coventry Cares must continue its contract with Appalachian Regional Healthcare through Nov. 1 to meet the medical needs of 25,000 Eastern Kentucky Medicaid patients.
Negotiations between Appalachian Regional Healthcare and managed care company Coventry Cares resumed late Thursday after grinding to a halt earlier in the day.
Negotiations between Appalachian Regional Healthcare and Medicaid managed-care company Coventry appear at an impasse as the two sides head to U.S. District Court on Thursday
As four-year-old Caroline enters the Physical Rehabilitation Center at Middlesboro ARH Hospital, she swiftly moves through the automatic, sliding glass door and runs into the waiting arms of Miss Jenny, her occupational therapist.
Appalachian Regional Healthcare patients will remain in the Coventry Care insurance network through June 30 while the two parties continue to negotiate.
Medicaid Managed Care contractor Coventry Cares must continue to pay for members to be treated at ARH's Eastern Kentucky healthcare facilities for 30 days, the acting commissioner of the state Department for Medicaid Services said Wednesday.
US District Judge Karl S. Forester has issued an order setting a hearing between Appalachian Regional Healthcare and Coventry Cares for Friday, May 4, at 9:30 a.m. In addition, the parties have been order to begin settlement negotiations immediately.
Appalachian Regional Healthcare is seeking an emergency injunction against Medicaid contractor Coventry Cares to protect the more than 25,000 Eastern Kentucky residents covered by the Medicaid plan who are in jeopardy of losing access to needed healthcare.
Some pregnant women in Bell County might have to change doctors and drive nearly an hour for care just weeks before their babies are due. Officials say Coventry Cares is terminating its contract with ARH next month, which means patients have to find new doctors. Watch WYMT-TV's news clip for the complete story.
The largest healthcare system in Eastern Kentucky that cares for some of Kentucky's most vulnerable citizens is taking two of the state's managed care companies and the State to court over inadequate patient network and access issues that would require patients to travel out of the area for care, and the MCOs failure to timely pay claims for Medicaid services.
While Private First Class Craig Lewis of the 82nd Aviation Combat Brigade, Charlie Company 2-82 AVN 1-17th Task Force Saber of the United States Army was serving his country on a mission in Afghanistan, wife and mom-to-be Megan Lewis was on a mission to get her husband to Bell County, Ky. before she delivered their twin sons.
The ARH Foundation for Healthier Communities, the fundraising arm of the Appalachian Regional Healthcare system, has established a fund and donation drive to benefit Morgan County ARH employees affected by the ravaging tornado that hit West Liberty Friday.
The Morgan County ARH Hospital, clinic, home care store, home health agency and other ARH services sustained significant damage during the tornado that devastated the West Liberty community around 6 p.m. Friday evening.
Dialysis services returned to Harlan ARH Hospital this week. Following the recent recruitment of Dr. Mohammad Samih to the medical staff as a specialist in nephrology, or kidney function, dialysis is now available to serve the needs of hospitalized patients who previously were being transferred.
In the course of its ongoing surveillance efforts, Fitch upgrades to 'BB' from 'BB-' the following bond issued on behalf of Appalachian Regional Healthcare (ARH): --$61,545,000 Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority refunding and improvement revenue bonds (Appalachian Regional Healthcare, Inc.) series 1997 The Rating Outlook is Stable.
The Charlsie's Angels Program at Middlesboro ARH which provides angel blankets for inpatients who need comfort and the Pink Bibles for inpatients diagnosed with breast cancer, was recently featured on Knoxville's WBIR-TV.
Appalachian Regional Healthcare honored employees from across its Kentucky and West Virginia system Feb. 9 in Lexington. Employee representatives from each ARH community who had been named as their respective hospital's Annual CARES Winner were recognized during the system's Board of Trustees meeting.
Some people think of heart disease as a condition that only strikes in old age, so they don't concern themselves with their cardiovascular health. Unfortunately, this couldn't be further from the truth.
The full-range of services offered by the Appalachian Regional Healthcare (ARH) system have once again been recognized as among the best in the nation. ARH was one of two Kentucky health systems to be named to the IMS Top 100 Integrated Healthcare Networks 2012 listing of the most highly integrated healthcare networks in the nation, and the only integrated health system in West Virginia to be named.
Medical professionals and emergency responders are encouraged to attend the KY Trauma Advisory Committee's free Kentucky Trauma Center Development Workshop in Hazard Friday, January 6.
The ARH Heart Institute at the Hazard ARH Regional Medical Center and UK HealthCare are continuing their fight against heart disease by offering a minimally invasive surgical treatment option to repair abdominal aortic aneurysm, a condition that weakens the wall of the aorta and could lead to a life-threatening hemorrhaging if not treated.
The Hazard ARH Regional Medical Center will soon undergo a $47 million expansion project that will add an additional 100,000 square feet to the medical center and will create approximately 150 new healthcare jobs, injecting millions of dollars into the local economies of the region.
Effective November 1, 2011, the new Kentucky Medicaid Managed Care Organizations (MCOs) will begin overseeing your healthcare plan. ARH hospitals, clinics, home health and medical equipment stores will only be accepting the CoventryCares of Kentucky and WellCare of Kentucky plans.
A $2.23 million renovation project will begin this week on the Emergency Department (ED) at Middlesboro ARH Hospital.
Harlan ARH Hospital today was named one of the nation's top performers on key quality measures by The Joint Commission, the leading accreditor of health care organizations in America.
Harlan ARH Hospital has opened a new Wound Care Center where patients can receive treatment of non-healing wounds. With advanced equipment, including two hyperbaric chambers, Harlan ARH now has one of the most convenient, comprehensive, and sophisticated wound facilities in the region.
Appalachian Regional Healthcare, Inc. (ARH) and FNS, Inc. finalized Tuesday the purchase of the Mary Breckinridge Hospital, its clinics and home health agency. ARH assumed ownership and operations at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday, September 7. The hospital located in Hyden, Kentucky will operate as Mary Breckinridge ARH Hospital.
Appalachian Regional Healthcare, Inc. (ARH) and Frontier Nursing Service, Inc. (FNS) announced today that a definitive agreement has been signed for purchase of the Mary Breckinridge Hospital, its clinics and home health agency. The purchase is expected to close at the end of the month and ARH will take over operations on September 1.
Summers County ARH might be a small critical access hospital, but when it comes to excellence, the facility has drawn some big time national attention.
A Whitesburg woman's special delivery marked a milestone for Whitesburg ARH Hospital today as she became the first mother to give birth in the hospital's newly completed patient care wing that offers state-of-the-art birthing facilities and advanced care for women and babies.
The Hazard ARH Regional Medical Center and UK HealthCare announced today they are partnering to provide cardiothoracic (CT) surgery in Hazard and that the Hazard ARH Regional Medical Center will become the newest member of the UK Stroke Affiliate Network, a community-based stroke initiative providing the highest quality clinical and educational programs to hospital staff and the community.
Harlan ARH Hospital held a community event today to celebrate the hospital's recent designation as one of the nation's 100 Top Hospitals.
Whitesburg ARH Hospital unveiled today its newly completed patient care wing which is part of an $11 million hospital expansion and renovation project that will offer patients the comfort of additional private rooms and women state-of-the-art birthing facilities.
October's National Breast Cancer Awareness Month observance might be months away, but today hospitals throughout the Appalachian Regional Healthcare (ARH) system stressed the year-round importance of early detection of breast cancer through regular screening mammograms by holding simultaneous "pink ribbon" cutting ceremonies for new digital mammography equipment that has been installed at all locations.
Appalachian Regional Healthcare, Inc. (ARH) and Frontier Nursing Service, Inc. (FNS) announced today they have entered into a letter of intent for ARH to acquire Mary Breckinridge Hospital and all related healthcare services.
Appalachian Regional Healthcare (ARH) registered nurses in Kentucky and West Virginia voted today to ratify a new three-year contract.
We will Build a state-of-the-art facility for our community that includes private rooms for patients, and will improve our capability to handle surgical and obstetric patient care demands.
Harlan ARH Hospital has been named one of the nation's 100 Top Hospitals® by Thomson Reuters, a leading provider of information and solutions to improve the cost and quality of healthcare.
For the sixth time in the past seven years, the full-range of services offered by the ARH system have been recognized as among the best in the nation.
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MIX nuts, butter and 2 Tbsp. sugar; press onto bottom of 9-inch springform pan. Bake 10 min. Meanwhile, dissolve instant coffee with cinnamon in boiling water.
REMOVE crust from oven. Increase oven temperature to 450°F. Beat cream cheese, 1 cup sugar and flour with mixer until well blended. Add eggs, 1 at a time, mixing on low speed after each just until blended. Blend in sour cream. Gradually beat in coffee; pour over crust.
BAKE 10 min. Reduce oven temperature to 250°F. Bake 1 hour or until center is almost set. Run knife around rim of pan to loosen cake; cool before removing rim. Refrigerate 4 hours. Top with dollops of COOL WHIP. Garnish with a sprinkle of additional cinnamon, if desired.


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This puts a clock in the top right of the terminal. This version doesn't use tput, but uses escape codes
Using the output of 'ps' to determine CPU usage is misleading, as the CPU column in 'ps' shows CPU usage per process over the entire lifetime of the process. In order to get *current* CPU usage (without scraping a top screen) you need to pull some numbers from /proc/stat. Here, we take two readings, once second apart, determine how much IDLE time was spent across all CPUs, divide by the number of CPUs, and then subtract from 100 to get non-idle time.
apt-get install cmatrix cmatrix-xfont wmctrl transset-df
Need to restart computer for mtx font to work
Commands while cmatrix is running:
1 - 9 = Change speed
SHIFT + 1 - 7 = change colors
Q = Quit
Tested in Ubuntu 10.04
For use when you can't use "watch" (user-defined functions, aliases). This isn't mine - its an alternate posted in the comments by flatcap, and is the shortest and easiest to remember.
usage: alarmclock TIME
TIME is a sleep(1) parameter which tells function how long to wait until raise the alarm.
repeat a command every X seconds , output show the creation of partition image using fsarchiver, each line show the size of the image.
compare to alternative :
- directly tests the -STOP of the process to continue or stop loop,
- background operator should be set (or not) at the call of the function
For extension i suggest a slowPID() based on kill like above and a slowCMD based on killall.
Some IO intensive process make the system unresponsive. This function periodically starts/stops a process, which hopefully releases some resources for other activities.
This function is useful when ionice is not available
This takes a webcam picture every everytime the mouse is moved (waits 10 seconds between checking for movement) and stores the picture wherever you want it.
Use in conjunction with a dropbox type application to see who is using your computer
Use /dev/input/mice if /dev/input/mouse* doesn't work
Use the bones of this to make a simple screensaver
Replace "firstname.lastname@example.com" with your carrier's SMS gateway identifier. The one in the sample is for AT&T. More here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_SMS_gateways. Helpful for getting notifications about long running commands. ";" executes regardless of exit status of last command. && will only notify you if the command succeeds.
A tweak using Patola's code as a base, this full-width green matrix display has all the frills (and all the printable characters).
You don't need the surrounding parens if you don't care about losing globbing capabilities. Z-shell (/bin/zsh) needs neither the parens nor the `set -o noglob`
Screen shot (animated): http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg32/scaled.php?server=32&filename=matrixh.gif&res=landing
If it's too slow, try lowering the `sleep 0.05` or even replacing it with `true` (which is faster than `sleep 0`).
I squashed it as narrow as I could to conserve space, though somebody could probably squeeze a char or two out.
watch ls -l
Basic but usable replacement for the "watch" command for those systems which don't have it (e.g. the Solaris I'm trapped on).
Type Ctrl+V to escape the following Ctrl+L which clears the screen. It will be displayed as "^L".
Says time every 5 seconds in hours, minutes and seconds using festival.
Will finish automagically when mplayer quits. Can be run from any directory.
It seems to finish by it self rarely, probably because of some timing issue? There's probably a way around that which I can't think of right now
The previously-posted one-liner didn't work for me for whatever reason, so I ended up doing this instead.
Useful contexts :
You are doing yoga or some other physical training in which you are holding a position.
Or you practice the pomodoro productivity technique.
Or your girlfriend said "We're leaving in 40 minutes".
Design details:
sleep executes before espeak to give you a 5 seconds head start.
espeak is run in the background so it doesn't mess up the timing.


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text: Aug 11, 2013 23:44 Southern's Roman Banks goes from 'Dad' to 'Coach' Southern's Roman Banks goes from 'Dad' to 'Coach' Advocate staff photo by CATHERINE THRELKELD Roman Bank, entering his third year as Southern University's men's basketball coac, will get to coach his son, Tre'Lun Banks, who will be a freshman on the team. Scott HOTARD | Advocate sportswriter Aug. 11, 2013 Comments Back in September, when Tre'Lun Banks made his official recruiting visit to Southern, the college basketball prospect from Scotlandville High School enjoyed dinner with the SU coaching staff. He toured the campus. He met with officials from the athletic department. He tailgated. He went to a football game — all the things any prospective Southern player would do. Coach Roman Banks recruited the young point guard as thoroughly as any other recruit — never influenced by the fact that, when the recruiting visit ended, Tre'Lun would return home with his father and resume his existence as the coach's son. "I felt like it was something we couldn't take for granted," Roman said. "Even though he was in my house, he had to know that Southern was after him just like everybody else." Months after the official visit, on the first day of college basketball's spring signing period, Tre'Lun donned a Southern hat as he announced that he would continue his playing career in his father's program. Roman vows that he will coach his son the same way he recruited him. Off the court, the incoming freshman will remain the apple of his father's eye. On the court, he will be treated like any other youngster in Columbia blue. "When we're on the court, it's not necessarily father-son," Roman said. "It's player-coach. My mindset is that he's like anybody else. If he does well, I'm able to give him a high-five. If he does bad, I'm able to get up in his face." Tre'Lun said he would want it no other way. "I know it's going to be a challenge," he said. "It's just me going through it and doing the things it takes to succeed. It might be a little harder than if I had gone anywhere else. I knew that coming in." Tre'Lun, who's 6-foot-1, showed enough promise in helping Scotlandville to back-to-back Class 5A state titles that the idea of him following his father to Southern wasn't a foregone conclusion. South Alabama, Texas-El Paso and Murray State recruited him, as well as several mid-major programs in Louisiana. Coaches routinely phoned the Southern basketball office to tell Roman they were interested in his son and ask for his blessing in recruiting him. One or two even visited the Banks home and sat down with the prospect and his father to sell them on their program. "I think he knows his dad can be a booger bear," said Tiffaney Banks, Tre'Lun's mother. "He could have easily said, 'I don't want any part of that.' I think out of all the places he could have gone, the fact that he chose to stay and play for his dad is a beautiful thing." Tiffaney said the family allowed Tre'Lun the freedom to make his own decision, but she wasn't surprised her son chose the head of their household as his future coach. She watched her husband stay up late with her son, night after night, breaking down film of Scotlandville games. She listened to their conversations. Rather than shopping with his mom, Tre'Lun always preferred a trip to Buffalo Wild Wings with his father. When he described their relationship, Tre'Lun said Roman has often felt more like a brother than his dad. "Sometimes I get jealous of their relationship," Tiffaney said. Tre'Lun isn't a carbon copy of his father. Consider the son's collection of exotic pets — snakes, iguanas, lizards. It's little wonder he hopes to work as a veterinarian. But when it comes to basketball, the coach and the kid are seemingly one and the same. For anyone who missed Roman Banks' career as a point guard for Northwestern State from 1987-92, the coach has a simple answer when asked what kind of player he was: He says to watch his son play. But the legacy Tre'Lun will continue this fall stretches all the way to his grandfather — Cleophus Banks starred as a point guard for Southern in the 1960s. And Scotlandville coach Carlos Sample, another former Southern point guard, is Tre'Lun's uncle. So it's no surprise Tre'Lun, his game molded by a family of basketball men with point guard bloodlines, is often described by those who have coached him as a coach on the floor. "You're always going to have an advantage — not skill-wise, but just knowing the game," Tre'Lun said. "Just growing up around the game, that's a major plus." Sample expects his nephew to make an immediate impact on the college level. "He was probably the overall MVP of our team," he said. "Had it not been for him, we wouldn't have gone that far." It would seem Tre'Lun is beginning his Southern career at just the right time. Roman received a contract extension this spring after leading the Jaguars to the Southwestern Athletic Conference tournament championship and a scare of No. 1 seed Gonzaga in the second round of the NCAA tournament. He has cleared the program of the academic-related hurdles he inherited in 2011 and, for the first time in his Southern tenure, he will have a full complement of scholarships this season. Tre'Lun has a chance to help Southern basketball take the next step. "I feel that we should win the SWAC every year I'm here — every year," he said. "And not just get to the (NCAA) tournament, but win games in the tournament." Roman said Southern's success this past season made it easier to woo his son. "He's a player we overachieved and got," Banks said. "He's one of the players we wouldn't have gotten in the past. They'd look beyond Southern. We look at it as if we were able to get a steal." 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Published 7:01 PM CDT Mar 15, 2013You've heard of the classic film Citizen Kane, but what about Citizen Hearst? It's a new documentary hitting theatres this month that chronicles the life of William Randolph Hearst and the growth of the Hearst media empire. Nikole Killion reports from Washington.
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text: Materia Medica by KentNATRUM SULPHURICUM AND SYCOSIS(xx)As its name indicates, it is the chemical combination of Natrum and Sulphur, Glauber's salts, Sulphate of soda. It partakes of the wonderful properties of both Sodium and Sulphur, and some day will become a very frequently indicated remedy. It is a remedy which typically corresponds to many of the complaints of a bilious climate. Natrum sulphuricum combines, in a measure, the wonderful effects of Natrum muriaticum and of Sulphur in the Western climate, as an active malarial agent. Malarial climates are all more or less bilious. Of course, I do not mean every man or every woman that comes to you and says: "Doctor, I am bilious." We never know What that means. It means more or less liver; it means more or less stomach; a general derangement of the system. Any kind of sickness may be called biliousness, but where the liver and stomach combine to effect disorders, we have true biliousness. It is a most wonderful combination in its symptoms, because it not only pertains to muscular debility and disturbances of the general structures of the body, but also combines that which gives it consideration mentally. Its complaints are those that are brought on from living in damp houses, living in basements, and in cellars. They are generally worse in rainy, wet weather; hence it was called, primarily, by Grauvogl, one of his hydrogenoid remedies. It produces a profound impression upon the system in a general way like sycosis and a deep-seated or suppressed sycotic disease. Therefore, it is one of the grandest remedies underlying asthma, asthmatic and inherited complaints. In fact, Natrum Sulphuricum is one of the best, one of the clear-cut indicated remedies for those constitutional conditions in children that result in chest catarrhs and asthmatic complaints. This shows you only one of its hereditary features. Now, if we take into consideration the sycotic nature, the hydrogenoid condition of the constitution—always worse in wet weather— and this heredity, we have one of the grand features of this medicine. Its next grand sphere is its action upon the liver and stomach, producing a bilious disturbance. We have, corresponding with this liver excitement a long list of mental symptoms marked with irritability, anxiety, desire to die, aversion to life and to things in life that would generally make people pleasant and comfortable. Now, if I begin on this mental state and go down through it, we will see more of it. A good wife goes to her husband and says: "If you only knew what restraint I have to use to keep from shooting myself you would appreciate my condition!" It is attended with wildness and irritability. No remedy has that symptom like Natrum sulphuricum. You may examine the various remedies in our drug pathogenesy and you will find almost every kind of mental symptom, but here is one that stands by itself—this wonderful restraint to prevent doing herself bodily harm, is characteristic of Natrum sulphuricum. The satiety of life, aversion to life; the great sadness, the great despondency, coupled with the irritability and dread of music—music makes her weep, makes her sad, makes her melancholy—this symptom runs through the Natrums which it receives from the Natrum side of its family; Natrum carbonate, Natrum muriaticum, Natrum sulphuricum, all have it. Anything like melancholic strains aggravate her complaints; mild music, gentle light, mellow light that pours through church windows, these little glimmers of light that come through the colored glass, all these make her sad. Now, such are the mental characteristics of Natrum sulphuricum. With the constitutional troubles there are important head symptoms—mental symptoms from injuries of the head. A young man in St. Louis was hurled from a truck in the fire department. He struck on his head. Following this for five or six months he had fits; I do not know what kind of fits he had; some said epilepsy. Some said one thing and some another, and some said he would have to be trephined. He was an Allopathist, of course, as these firemen all are, for it is hardly ever that you can get one to go outside of Allopathy and try something else. He was a good, well-bred Irishman; so he had to have some good stout physic. Some of his friends prevailed upon him to stay in the country for a while. He did so, but he did not get better; he was irritable; he wanted to die. His wife said she could hardly stand it with him; always wanted to die; did not want to live. His fits drove him to distraction. He did not know when he was going to have one, they were epileptiform in character. Well, in the country he ran across a homeopathic doctor, because he had one of these attacks and the handiest doctor at the time was a Homoeopath. That Homoeopath told him that he had better come back to St. Louis and place himself under my care. He did so. At that time it had been about six months that he had been having these fits. When he walked into my office he staggered; his eyes were nearly bloodshot; he could hardly see, and he wore a shade over his eyes—so much was he distressed about the light —such a photophobia. He had constant pain in his head. He had injured himself by falling upon the back of his head, and he had with this all the irritability that I have described. There was nothing in his fits that was distinctive of a remedy, and the first thing that came into my head was Arnica; that is what everybody would have thought. Arnica, however, would not have been the best remedy for him. Had I known no other or better remedy, Arnica would have perhaps been the best. As soon as he had finished his description, and I had given the case more thought, I found that Natrum sulphuricum was the best indicated remedy for injuries about the head, and I have been in the habit of giving it. So I gave it in this case. The first dose of Natrum sulphuricum cured this young man. He has never had any pain about the head since. He has never had any mental trouble since, never another fit. That one prescription cleared up the entire case. If you will just remember the chronic effects from injuries upon the skull—not fractures, but simple concussions that have resulted from a considerable shock and injuries without organic affections—then Natrum sulphuricum should be your first remedy. Now, that may not be worth remembering, but when you have relieved as many heads as I have with Natrum sulphuricum you will be glad to have been informed of this circumstance. Ordinarily, Arnica for injuries and the results of injuries, especially the neuralgic pains and the troubles from old scars; but in mental troubles coming on from a jar or a knock on the head or a fall or injury about the head, do not forget this medicine, because if you do many patients may suffer where they might have been cured had you made use of this remedy. It has violent head pains, and especially so in the base of the brain; violent pains in the back of the neck; violent crushing pains as if the base of the brain were crushed in a vice, or as if a dog were gnawing at the base of the brain. These symptoms have led me to prescribe this medicine. In the spinal meningitis of today, if all the remedies in the Materia Medica were taken away from me and I were to have but one with which to treat that disease, I would take Natrum sulphuricum, because it will modify and save life in the majority of cases. It cuts short the disease surprisingly when it is the truly indicated remedy. In relation to the symptoms that you are likely to find in spinal meningitis, there is a drawing back of the neck and spasms of the back, together with air the mental irritability and delirium already described. The violent determination of blood to the head we find in this disease, clinically, is readly relieved. The next most important feature is in relation to the eyes. That is characteristic, and is equaled only by one other remedy in chronic diseases where there is an aversion to life with photophobia, and that is Graphites. You take these cases of chronic conjunctivitis, with granular lids, green pus, terrible photophobia, so much so that he can hardly open his eyes; the light of the room brings on headache, distress and many pains. Here Natrum sulphuricum should be compared with Graphites, because Graphites has also an extreme aggravation from light in eye effections. Of course, this classes it entirely away from Belladonna and the other remedies that have acute photophobia, of acute determination of blood to the brain, because it gives you a chronic state and condition that you must study. Natrum sulphuricum produces a stuffing up of the nose, red tongue, irritable mucous membrane of the eyes, nose, and ears, with great dryness and burning in the nose. Pus becomes green upon exposure to the light. The mouth always tastes bad. The patient says: "Doctor, my mouth is always full of slime." That is a common expression of the patient when he comes to you. And the provers, all of them, said that they were troubled with a slimy mouth. Thick, tenacious, white mucus in the mouth. Always hawking up mucus; it wells up from the stomach; mucus from the oesophagus; mucus by belching; mucus coughed up from the trachea, and it is always foul and slimy. There is a distended feeling in the stomach; a sense of a weight in the stomach; almost constant nausea; vomiting of slime, bitter and sour. These are the characteristics: bitter and sour. A sensation of weight in the right hypochondrium, in the region of the liver; aching pains; sometimes cutting pains, and a great amount of distress in the region of the liver. Engorgement in the region of the liver. He can only lie on his right side, his complaints are aggravated from lying on his left side. When lying on the left side, the congested liver seems to pull and draw; the great weight increases the pain and uneasiness and he is compelled to turn back on the right side. Now, it is from these symptoms, whenever a patient comes into my office and says, "Doctor, my mouth is so slimy and tastes so bad, and I think I am bilious," that he always gets Natrum sulphuricum. Natrum sulphuricum produces great flatulence, distention of the abdomen, cutting pains in the abdomen, associated with congestion of the liver. In this tympanitic condition of the liver that sometimes comes on in the inflammatory conditions in bilious fever, you will find Natrum sulphuricum your remedy. I began the use of this remedy with Schussler's remedies some years ago, and find the indications well carried out by the higher and highest potencies. Bell says that if the thirtieth potency of Arsenic is equal to a complete knowledge of the drug, crude Arsenic would be equal to complete ignorance. There is a condition of the chest that is characteristic, and that is in relation to the cough. It has a cough with a sensation of "all-goneness" in the chest. In this it competes with Bryonia; both hold the chest when coughing. Bryonia holds the chest because he feels as if it would fly to pieces; there is such a soreness that he feels the necssity of steadying his chest. The complaints of Bryonia are relieved by pressure. Natrum sulphuricum has this same desire to hold the chest; but in Natrum sulphuricum the muco-pus that is expectorated is thick, ropy and yellowish green, looking like pus—purulent—and there is an "all-gone," empty feeling in the chest. He feels a sense of weakness there; that his lungs are all gone, that he must die in a few days with consumption or some other failing like that, and that it is coming on in a short time. Bryonia corresponds more to the irritable states with the cough, where there is great rawness, great constriction, great sense of tearing in the chest; burning in the chest; while Natrum sulphuricum corresponds to a case that has been going on for perhaps a week; every cough brings up a mouthful of purulent sputa with a desire to press upon the chest to relieve the weakness; Natrum sulphuricum is then your remedy. Another condition is that of humid asthma. If a child has asthma, give Natrum sulphuricum as the first remedy. Asthma, when hereditary, is one of the sycotic complaints of Hahnemann. You will not find that in your text-books, so do not look for it, but it may be an observation worth knowing. I have cured a very large number of such cases of asthma, although the text-books would discourage you if you should read them under asthma, because they will tell you that cases of asthma are incurable. For years I was puzzled with the management of asthma. When a person came to me and asked: "Doctor, can you cure asthma?" I would say, "No." But now I am beginning to get quite liberal on asthma, since I have learned that asthma is a sycotic disease, and since I have made judicious application of anti-sycotics I have been able to relieve or cure a great number of such cases. You will find in the history of medicine that wherever asthma was cured, it has been by anti-sycotic remedies. That is one of the first things I observed, that outside of sycotics you will seldom find a cure for asthma. There is that peculiarity that runs through sycosis which gives you a hereditary disease, and asthma corresponds to that disease. Hence it is that Silicea is one of the greatest cures for asthma; it does not cure every case, but when Silicea corresponds to the symptoms, you will be surprised to note how quickly it will eradicate it. While Ipecac, Spongia, and Arsenicum will correspond just as clearly to the supervening symptoms and to everything that you can find about the case, yet what do they do? They palliate; they repress the symptoms; but your asthma is no better off, your patient is not cured. Arsenic is one of the most frequently indicated remedies for the relief of asthma; so also are Bryonia, Ipecac, Spongia and Carbo veg., but they do not cure; though they relieve surprisingly at times. Where a patient is sitting up, covered with a cold sweat, wants to be fanned by somebody on either side of the bed, dyspnoea is so distressing that it seems almost impossible for the patient to live longer, to get another breath, then Carbo veg. comes in and gives immediate relief and the patient will lie down and get a very good night's rest. But what is the result? On comes the asthma again the very next cold. Natrum sulphuricum goes down to the bottom of this kind of a case. If it is hereditary, that is, not long-lived, if it is in a growing subject, Natrum sulphuricum goes down to the bottom of such a case and will cure when its symptoms are present; and the symptoms will so often be present. It is because of this deep seated anti-sycotic nature, we find in the combination of Natrum and Sulphur, that we have a new state and combination running into the life. When the chest is filling up with mucus, rattling of mucus, expectoration of large quantities of white mucus, with asthmatic breathing in young subjects, this remedy must be thought of. In relation to the genito-urinary organs, we have some very valuable symptoms. In chronic gonorrhcea, with greenish or yellowish-green discharges. Instead of gonorrhoea running off into white, gleety discharge, it keeps up a yellowish, thick, greenish discharge. It competes here with Thuja and Mercurius, both of which are anti-sycotics. When Natrum sulphuricum is indicated there is generally very little pain, it is almost painless. There is chronic loss of sensibility in the part. The urine is loaded with bile, is of a pinkish or yellowish color, with a "corn-meal" sediment, or it looks like stale beer and is extremely offensive. Offensive urine is (not in the text. Like sulphur, it has burning of the soles of the feet at night, and the burning extends to the knees; burning from the knees down. It has also, like sulphur, great burning in the top of the head; it has tearing, rending, cutting pains from the hips down to the knees; worse at night. The stomach symptoms are worse in the morning, and so also with the mental symptoms, they are generally worse in the morning. Now, upon the skin we have some eruptions; we have those cases of so called itch, scabies or vesicular eruptions, vesicular eczema, with a thin, watery discharge exuding from the fingers, and the fingers are swollen stiff and stand out stiffened by the swelling; they are swollen so stiff they can hardly be gotten together. (Baker's itch and barber's itch come under this head). Natrum sulphuricum cures where the palms of the hands are raw and sore and exude a watery fluid. Also vesicular eruptions around the mouth and chin and various parts of the body; little, fine water blisters, very much like Natrum muriaticum and very much also like Natrum carb. So you see it runs into the Natrums. The other disease that I incidentally mentioned a moment ago—the barber's itch—is a sycotic disease, a sycosis menti, a disease of the hair follicles. It is sometimes even contagious. It is one of the highest types of sycosis; the next highest type of sycosis is the venereal wart known as the gonorrhoeal warts. This medicine corresponds to this state and condition of the body. Now, we have said considerable about sycosis. We know in sycosis, which is a constitutional miasm, that we have venereal warts or gonorrhoeal warts; that we have another sycotic state that comes upon the female in cauli-flower excresences. We have also hereditary asthma, a constitutional disease that depends upon sycosis, and this peculiar barber's itch is one of the highest types of sycosis; they are all due to one cause, and some day this cause will be demonstrated to be latent sycosis. Gonorrhoea will will some day be known to be the true offspring of this sycosis. It is the contagious part of the sycosis. It is the means by which the disease is handed from generation to generation. This thing you will not find in the books, and it is, perhaps, only a private opinion and, therefore, worthless. But some day you will remember that I told you this. I have seen things in my observation that astonished me. I believe I have solved what Hahnemann called sycosis, though he has never described it. To me it is very clear from the cases I have cured, with this theory in view or this doctrine in view. The cases I have cured lead me to believe that I am on the right track. Now, I say that gonorrhoea and all of these latent conditions of the body are one and the same thing; that primarily they date back to one and the same source. Of course, the books will tell you that gonorrhoea is not a constitutional disease; but when gonorrhoea will produce warts, and gonorrhoeal rheumatism, and will last throughout life, and children be brought into the world with the same disease, how are you going to get around it? There was & young man in the St. Louis City Hospital who had been there many months, and who was so sore in the bottoms of his feet that he could not get around; he had to leave his business, he was a baker. Finally his old employer came to me and wanted to know if I could do anything for that young man. I did not know anything about the nature of his disease. I told him to bring the young man to me. He was brought, and I learned from his history that years before he had had gonorrhoea; that it had been suppressed with injections. I put him under such constitutional treatment as these theories that I have just mentioned guided me to, and I cured him. In our city I have cured twenty-five or thirty cases of this peculiar kind of sycosis that dated back to a latent gonorrhoea. Symptoms of a latent gonorrhoea are unknown to the books. You will find nothing of it. It is known only to such observers as have been able to make two out of two times one—by putting things together. By and by I shall have a complete chain of evidence to show that gonorrhoea is a constitutional disease and can be handed down from father to son, as can syphilis. It is one of the chronic miasms, and one about which very little is known. If this be true, it is as dangerous to suppress a gonorrhoeal discharge before its time, as it is to suppress a syphilitic chancre before its time. You will never know if you go on treating these constitutional miasms by suppressing the primary manifestations—you will never know the harm you are doing. The most of these are calculated by the process of evolution to wear themselves out, to roll out, or to evolve themselves into symptoms that are so depleting to the disease that they leave of themselves, or leave the patient very nearly free from the disease. Such is the calculation of Nature in a gonorrhoeal discharge, and such has been the intention of Nature in the chancres that appear upon the genitalia. But poor ignorant man, believing he must do something, has made it his first business to cauterize these chancres—to dry up these discharges—and he does not know how much harm he is doing. But this is only a private opinion. I have observed this, that there are two kinds of gonorrhoea—one is a simple urethral discharge, which when stopped by injection, will not produce a constitutional taint, because that is not sycosis; and the other form is the sycotic gonorrheoea, which, if suppressed with injections, will appear in constitutional symptoms. Now, it is for you to live and think for yourselves. If you can make anything out of what I have told you, and it ever helps anybody, I shall be amply repaid. You will most naturally see that all these thoughts are in furtherance of Hahnemann's teaching, based upon the facts observed by him and his faithful followers. Unless guided by the light of the dynamic doctrine of disease and cure, these things would scarcely be observed. For the study of this sycosis I might have taken up Thuja, but knowing how well the master has performed his work, I have taken a remedy that is scarcely second in importance to bring out as well the use of a remedy as a miasm in relation to it.


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In the heart of the French countryside, the Dubost family has been creating fine cutlery for four generations. The design of these steak knives was inspired by a shepherd's tool first manufactured in the village of Laguiole in the 19th century. Made of thicker, heavier-gauge stainless steel than other Laguiole flatware on the market, each is hand polished and finished for a difference in quality you can really see and feel.
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Miscarriage is the spontaneous loss of a pregnancy before the 20th week. About 10 to 20 percent of known pregnancies end in miscarriage. But the actual number is probably much higher because many miscarriages occur so early in pregnancy that a woman doesn't even know she's pregnant.
Miscarriage is a somewhat loaded term — possibly suggesting that something was amiss in the carrying of the pregnancy. This is rarely true. Most miscarriages occur because the fetus isn't developing normally. However, because these abnormalities are rarely understood, it's often difficult to determine what causes them.
Miscarriage is a relatively common experience — but that doesn't make it any easier. Take a step toward emotional healing by understanding what can cause a miscarriage, what increases the risk and what medical care might be needed.
Most miscarriages occur before the 12th week of pregnancy.
Signs and symptoms of a miscarriage might include:
If you have passed fetal tissue from your vagina, place it in a clean container and bring it to your health care provider's office or the hospital for analysis.
Keep in mind that most women who experience vaginal spotting or bleeding in the first trimester go on to have successful pregnancies.
Most miscarriages occur because the fetus isn't developing normally. Problems with the baby's genes or chromosomes are typically the result of errors that occur by chance as the embryo divides and grows — not problems inherited from the parents.
Examples of abnormalities include:
In a few cases, a mother's health condition might lead to miscarriage. Examples include:
Routine activities such as these don't provoke a miscarriage:
Various factors increase the risk of miscarriage, including:
Some women who miscarry develop a uterine infection, also called a septic miscarriage. Signs and symptoms of this infection include:
If you have signs or symptoms of miscarriage, contact your health care provider right away. Depending on the circumstances, you might need immediate medical care.
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Before your appointment, you might want to:
Below are some basic questions to ask your health care provider about miscarriage:
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Your doctor may do a variety of tests:
Possible diagnoses include:
If you're having a threatened miscarriage, your health care provider might recommend resting until the bleeding or pain subsides. You might be asked to avoid exercise and sex as well. Although these steps haven't been proved to reduce the risk of miscarriage, they might improve your comfort. It's also a good idea to avoid traveling — especially to areas where it would be difficult to receive prompt medical care.
With ultrasound, it's now much easier to determine whether the embryo has died or was never formed. Either finding means that a miscarriage will definitely occur. In this situation you might have several choices:
Physical recovery from miscarriage in most cases will take only a few hours to a couple of days. In the meantime, call your health care provider if you experience heavy bleeding, fever or abdominal pain.
Expect your period to return within four to six weeks. You can start using any type of contraception immediately after a miscarriage. However, avoid having sex or putting anything in your vagina — such as a tampon — for two weeks after a miscarriage.
It's possible to become pregnant during the menstrual cycle immediately after a miscarriage. But if you and your partner decide to attempt another pregnancy, make sure you're physically and emotionally ready. Ask your health care provider for guidance about when you might try to conceive.
Keep in mind that miscarriage is usually a one-time occurrence. Most women who miscarry go on to have a healthy pregnancy after miscarriage. Less than 5 percent of women have two consecutive miscarriages, and only 1 percent have three or more consecutive miscarriages.
If you experience multiple miscarriages, generally more than three in a row, consider testing to identify any underlying causes — such as uterine abnormalities, coagulation problems or chromosomal abnormalities. In some cases your health care provider might suggest testing after two consecutive losses. If the cause of your miscarriages can't be identified, don't lose hope. About 60 to 70 percent of women with unexplained repeated miscarriages go on to have healthy pregnancies.
Emotional healing can take much longer than physical healing. Miscarriage can be a heart-wrenching loss that others around you might not fully understand. Your emotions might range from anger and guilt to despair. Give yourself time to grieve the loss of your pregnancy, and seek help from loved ones.
You'll likely never forget your hopes and dreams surrounding this pregnancy, but in time acceptance might ease your pain. Talk to your health care provider if you're feeling profound sadness or depression.
Often, there's nothing you can do to prevent a miscarriage. Simply focus on taking good care of yourself and your baby. Seek regular prenatal care, and avoid known risk factors — such as smoking and drinking alcohol. If you have a chronic condition, work with your health care team to keep it under control.
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Broken_Cartridge wrote:I really don't understand all the hate that comes from both fan bases. Sony fanboys crap on Nintendo for every little thing, and Nintendo fanboys do the same to Sony. I guess it's too much to ask for someone to be objective about things and just enjoy video games as a whole.
Yes, the system is expensive and it could be cheaper. Yes the memory card situation is absolutely appalling. I just want to make it clear that I couldn't agree more with those points. I also want to note that my statements are not defending Sony as a company, but rather defending the Vita as a console in general. This is also coming from someone who only paid $140 to get the Vita and an 8gb memory card, so my defending statements have nothing to do with price...because I can't relate to that. Personally, I find the Vita's software to be better then what most people give it credit for, and I'll leave my defending statements at that. I realize that no matter what I say, I can't win. This is a Nintendo focused site, not a general gaming or Sony focused one.
Jerome wrote:Man, I didn't know things were this bad for the Vita. It's a good piece of hardware (except for a few annoying* things including inexplicably slow load times). The price is a bit high including memory cards, but Sony doesn't need to slash the system's price, they just need to bundle things with the system. The big issue seems to be software, but how can they fix that? What kind of games does Vita need that it's not getting? Is it that there are so many ports or near-ports? Could it be that development of triple-A games for the system is so costly that it's hard to justify making unique titles, and smaller downloadable games aren't a big draw on a hardcore-focused system?
bobafruit wrote:Turns out the back touch was a bad idea too... I guess a "kitchen sink" approach wasn't the best. I thought it was a kinda awesome idea.
bobafruit wrote:I think it's repeating similar patterns to the PSP. Sony seems to be focusing on hardcore western console franchises, they did that with GTA, Fight Night, Twisted Metal and others on the PSP. That strategy is of course failing the Vita in Japan.
bobafruit wrote:I think they should cut the price and bundle a memory card.
bobafruit wrote:I bought a PSP last year, but was so disappointed at not having a memory card that I took it back.
Jerome wrote:That makes sense, though it's having a harder time than PSP did, so there must be more factors at work, or at least the same factors functioning to a greater extent.
Jerome wrote:bobafruit wrote:I bought a PSP last year, but was so disappointed at not having a memory card that I took it back.
Wow. Sure you weren't overacting there a bit? I bought one last year as well, and got a 1GB memory card for a few bucks online.
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