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Effectiveness of Peer Navigation to Link Released HIV+ Jail Inmates to HIV Care (LINK LA)
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01406626
Recruitment Status : Unknown
Verified January 2016 by William Cunningham, University of California, Los Angeles.
Recruitment status was: Active, not recruiting
First Posted : August 1, 2011
Last Update Posted : January 20, 2016
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|Condition or disease
|Behavioral: Health Navigator
|Not Applicable
The proposed study has two Primary Specific Aims:
- To examine individual-level and structural-level barriers to HIV care after release from jail, using formative semi-structured interviews with ex-inmates, case managers, and HIV care providers; and to use the information we obtain to inform the adaptation and tailoring of an intervention designed to improve linkage with and retention to HIV care for HIV+ ex-inmates (Complete);
- Using a two-group experimental RCT design, to test the adapted health navigation intervention condition for HIV+ inmates upon release from jail compared to a usual care condition, and to evaluate the intervention's effectiveness at improving linkage with and retention in HIV care, self-reported ART adherence, and HIV RNA viral load suppression;
We hypothesize that the intervention will result in more rapid linkage to care, a greater proportion completing at least three HIV care visits per year, increased self-reported ART adherence, and decreased levels of HIV RNA viral load compared to the usual care control group.
Secondary Aims of the study include assessing the potential moderating effects of substance abuse, the potential mediating effects of substance abuse treatment, and the program's effects on recidivism, and costs.
We hypothesize that active substance abuse will moderate the effect of the intervention, so the intervention will be less effective among participants who report substance use.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Estimated Enrollment :
|360 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|Quadruple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Effectiveness of Peer Navigation to Link Released HIV+ Jail Inmates to HIV Care
|Study Start Date :
|December 2012
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|January 2016
|Estimated Study Completion Date :
|June 2016
Experimental: Health Navigation Intervention Arm
Subjects will receive the following health navigation services:
1) 10 Navigator meetings: Navigators will meet with participants in person to teach linkage/retention skills and knowledge
2a) 2 Navigator accompaniment sessions: the health navigator will accompany participants to HIV care appointment. Before and after the appointment, participants and navigators will review linkage and retention skills/knowledge things that make it hard or easy for him to get regular HIV care
2b) Optional health navigator accompaniment sessions: If the participant requests, the health navigator will provide accompaniment to supportive HIV care appointments (one per month max)
3) 14 Health navigator care calls: During these calls, navigators and participants will talk about any problems that could make it difficult to get regular HIV care.
Behavioral: Health Navigator
Health navigation intervention to improve linkage to and retention in HIV care and suppress viral load for underserved HIV+ persons in Los Angeles
No Intervention: Usual Care
Participants assigned to the control arm will receive the transitional case management (TCM) services that are currently offered at the jail
- Linkage to HIV Care [ Time Frame: 12 months (baseline, 2, 6, and 12 month follow ups) ]Linking HIV+ ex jail inmates to HIV care
- Retention in Treatment [ Time Frame: 12 months total (baseline, 2, 6, and 12 month follow ups) ]This assesses whether or not the HIV+ ex jail inmates were retained in their HIV care after first accessing care.
- Adherence to Treatment [ Time Frame: 12 months (baseline, 2, 6, and 12 month follow ups) ]This measures how adherent the HIV+ ex jail inmates are to their treatment regiment.
- Viral Load [ Time Frame: 12 months total (Baseline, 2 and 12 month follow ups) ]This measures the HIV+ ex jail inmates' viral load to see how effective their treatment adherence has been.
- Costs [ Time Frame: Assessed at one point only toward the end of the study period ]To examine whether the costs of the intervention and HIV care are offset by reductions in healthcare and recidivism costs from the perspective of LA County.
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Age: 18 years or older
- Male or male-to-female transgender
- Fluency in English
- Residing in LA County upon release
Exclusion Criteria:
- Inability to give informed consent
- stays in jail <5 days
- Lack of English fluency
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01406626
|United States, California
|LA County Jail
|Los Angeles, California, United States, 90012
|Principal Investigator:
|William E Cunningham, MD, MPH
|University of California, Los Angeles
|Responsible Party:
|William Cunningham, Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|Other Study ID Numbers:
R01DA030781 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|First Posted:
|August 1, 2011 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|January 20, 2016
|Last Verified:
|January 2016
Health navigation
Viral load
HIV Infections
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Immune System Diseases
Slow Virus Diseases


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Samuel Danforth and the Philosopher's Stone
In June I wrote about Dr. Samuel Danforth, a Loyalist suspected of supplying hay for the British military from his farm in Chelsea. Dr. Danforth's father was also named Samuel and was also interested in medicine, of a sort.
According to this article in Alchemy Journal by Mark Stavish, Samuel Danforth (1696-1777) probably became intrigued by alchemy as a student at Harvard College in his teens. In its library was
the curious manuscript Compendium Physicae by Charles Morton. Morton, a Puritan, received his M.A. from Oxford in 1652, and emigrated to Massachusetts in 1686. His Compendium was a strange blend of the science of the period with Aristotle. A lengthy section was devoted to the "Artifice of Gold by Alchymy" or "the finding of the Phylosophers stone", even stating, "Some have done it, such are cal'd the Adepti". He listed among them, Lully, Paracelsus, and his disciple, van Helmont.Danforth settled in Cambridge, just a few blocks from the college. At that time, learned gentlemen often dabbled in many fields. Danforth not only became a probate judge but read enough about medicine to try offering the smallpox inoculation in 1730, only eight years after the Rev. Dr. Cotton Mather and his enslaved man Onesimus introduced the practice into Massachusetts. Cambridge voted its disapproval and asked Danforth to remove his patients to where they couldn't infect anyone else. However, he kept enough respect in the community to be elected to the Council, the upper house of the Massachusetts colonial legislature, in 1739; he remained a member of that body for over thirty years.
Meanwhile, Samuel Danforth was collecting alchemical books and making extensive notes inside them. In 1773 he wrote to an old acquaintance, Benjamin Franklin, with news of discovering the philosopher's stone; as Harry Potter fans know, that substance was supposed to confer immortality. Franklin wrote back on 25 July 1773:
I rejoice, therefore, in your kind intentions of including me in the benefits of that inestimable stone, which curing all diseases (even old age itself), will enable us to see the future glorious state of our America, enjoying in full security her own liberties, and offering in her bosom a participation of them to all the oppressed of other nations.It's disappointing to report that Danforth died four years later, in 1777. The Rev. Dr. Ezra Stiles of Newport, who was interested in many fields and many secrets (however outlandish), had this to say in his diary.
I anticipate the jolly conversation we and twenty more of our friends may have a hundred years hence on this subject, over that well replenished bowl at Cambridge commencement.
(I'm reproducing the image since I can't reproduce the Hebrew.)
Dr. Samuel Danforth inherited his father's library, and in 1812 he donated twenty-one volumes on alchemy to the Boston Athenaeum.

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Phil McConkey wasn't surprised to hear that Navy's mascot had been goatnapped last week, for the umpteenth time, prior to Saturday's Army-Navy football game. That the animal was left tethered to a post, outside of the Pentagon, didn't surprise him either.
"The goat is a smelly old thing that defecates all the time, and Army probably couldn't deal with it (after the heist)," said McConkey, a star receiver for Navy in the 1970s. "They also stole our goat when I played there, 34 years ago, and I said the same thing then:
"Good riddance, let Army have it."
After 112 years of hijinks and hoopla, Army and Navy can still find ways to torment each other in advance of their storied rivalry. In 1971, Midshipmen infiltrated West Point and dumped Army's reveille gun into the Hudson River. Cadets have scaled the walls of Bancroft Hall, secured the roof of Navy's dorm and poured bags of flour on their rivals below.
Mids have flown helicopters and Cessnas over The Point and bombarded the campus with everything from Nerf battleships to ping-pong balls that said, "BEAT ARMY."
"The creativity of these guys, on both sides of the ball, has never ceased to amaze me," McConkey said. "They are the best and the brightest."
But do their classmates' shenanigans drive the players themselves, come game time?
"A lot of the hoopla is more for the fan base than for the players," said Ed Malinowski, co-captain of the 2001 Navy team. "We didn't have time to get caught up in the pageantry; we couldn't appreciate a lot of what makes it a Super Bowl atmosphere.
"I remember when (Mids) moved a retired fighter jet (an A-4 Skyhawk) from one spot on campus to another. If someone had approached me, I'd have been tempted to take part. But our focus was on the game itself, and the coaches made sure that was the case."
Not that players aren't touched by the revelry.
"As sophomoric as it seems, the notion of pep rallies, bonfires and the involvement of the Corps are powerful things," said Pete Dawkins, Army's star halfback and the 1958 Heisman Trophy winner. "There's a genuine enthusiasm when the Cadets carry every player out of the mess hall, on their shoulders, as they did before our games with Navy.
"We left for Philadelphia by bus, with two tanks rumbling up ahead to escort us to the (West Point) gate. One year, a mob of hundreds of Cadets ran alongside the buses, cheering us on, for three quarters of a mile. Those things have symbolic power and portray a real sense of commitment and enthusiasm that's important to the team."
Army's Leamon Hall agreed.
"You see the rallies, the bonfires and the shenanigans – our Cadets stole Navy's goat one year and brought it into the mess hall – and it's hard to be totally sequestered from all of that," said Hall, quarterback and captain of the 1977 team. "In some ways, it makes your resolve that much stronger."
During Army-Navy Week, Hall said, "Cadet companies would march out, during football practice, and surround the field to support us. It's like, 'We all win or lose together.'
"Doing that closes ranks."
In his day, during the run-up to the big game, Navy quarterback John Cartwright said, classmates made huge model airplanes, 20 feet long and hung them between the wings of Bancroft Hall, complete with sound effects of fighter jets strafing an army tank.
Mids also dragged players from their rooms during study hour and carried them into the Rotunda, demanding a speech.
"To a point, it was OK." Cartwright said. "But after awhile, with guys knocking on your door every night, you had to go hide in the library to study for a chemistry test."
Returning to his room one night before the big game, Navy halfback Joe Bellino found the doorway decorated to look like the entrance to an underground lair. "Bellino Cave," a sign said.
"You see it, and enjoy it, but you don't get involved in the pranks when you're preparing for war," said Bellino, who won the Heisman in 1960. Nonetheless, one of his cherished keepsakes is the grey West Point bathrobe Bellino won in a bet with an Army player about the outcome of the game.
Navy players haven't always taken a hands-off approach to these antics. In the 1950s, following their final practice for Army, the Mids would grab their coach, hustle him down to the Severn River and toss him into the drink.
"When they were swinging me back and forth, I got a good look at the cakes of ice in the water," Navy's Eddie Erdelatz told The Sun in 1956. "They must have thrown me 15 yards out. I thought I'd never hit and when I did, I wished I hadn't."
Not all of the escapades are aimed at the enemy. A Navy pep rally in 1963 spilled over into downtown Annapolis as hundreds of whooping, singing Mids surrounded the Governor's mansion at 10 p.m., shouting for Gov. J. Millard Tawes.
"They banged on the door and frightened us out of our wits," a hostess at Government House told reporters.
Stuff like that resonates with players, said McConkey, the Navy end.
"When you're 21 and consumed with the job at hand, and the eyes of the miltary world are on you, hijinks provide stress relief," said McConkey, who went on to play in the NFL, and in a Super Bowl. "In a way, (the pre-game activities) provided a role reversal. Here we are, preparing to put on a show for all to see – but, beforehand, we're the spectators watching all of the pranks."
Some years, the capers continue right up to kickoff. In 1970, as the Corps of Cadets took the field at Philadelphia's John F. Kennedy Stadium, Mids peppered them with red and yellow smoke bombs. A year later, Army fans found that, overnight, their seats had been painted Navy blue and gold. Another time, Cadets were driven from their seats by the rank smell of limburger cheese, bricks of which had been stashed beneath the stands.
Too often, Army has answered by filching Navy's goat from the academy's dairy farm in Gambrills. The genesis of the theft may date to 1912, when the Mids made off with the Army mule's blanket. They draped it on the back of a local mule, hitched him to a cart and had the animal drive "Billy," their cloven-hooved mascot, through the streets of Annapolis.
In 1953, Cadets abducted Bill XV, only to have him chew up the back seat of their car on the way back to West Point. They also snatched him in 1965, after employing several teenage girls to distract the goat's guards.
Seven years later, Army struck again, and this time they photographed the long-haired angora with its captors and published the picture in the New York Times in an ad that read, "Hey Navy, do you know where your kid is today? The Corps does."
Navy got even. In 1990, sensing a pre-game theft, midshipmen hid their mascot and replaced him with a particularly ornery and odorous goat. Sure enough, Army spirited the creature away.
The following year, 17 mids dressed in army fatigues entered West Point, whisked Army's four mules into a van and lit out for Annapolis, chased most of the way by Army helicopters.
All for the sake of tradition.
"There is so much going on that week, and so many retaliatory acts, that you try your best to stay out of the mix," said Malinowski, the Navy quarterback. "We (players) would usually hear about stuff that happened about two or three days afterward.
"I'm just glad that, in my senior year (2001), ESPN came to Annapolis and followed me and a couple of other players around all week. They shot footage of the pranks, so I can go back and watch that."
Phil McConkey wasn't surprised to hear that Navy's mascot had been goatnapped last week, for the umpteenth time, prior to Saturday's Army-Navy football game. That the animal was left tethered to a post, outside of the Pentagon, didn't surprise him either.


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Earlier this year, HP released the Enyo framework source code as open source software under the Apache 2.0 license. This was done as part of HP's bigger plan of open sourcing the entire WebOS platform. The WebOS open sourcing effort will reach a closure in August. WebOS was an excellent mobile platform and its UX has been appreciated widely. Popular mobile platforms like Android and Blackberry borrow heavily from it and this open sourcing would have helped HP create a competitive mobile platform. However, HPs plans have been disrupted with some latest development.
The Verge writes in an exclusive report saying that the entire WebOS Enyo team will leave HP to start working at Google shortly. This strikes a serious blow to the future of WebOS. It is not known what the awesome people in the Enyo team will do at Google. One of the best comments on the post was perhaps:
Google buys Palm for zero billion dollars.
Android took a major UX leap with design ideas from Matias Duarte and it showed in Honeycomb. Now, with the entire Enyo team and Matias Duarte under its belt, Android might just rock the mobile segment.
Google can either borrow their mobile expertise for improving the Android user experience, or leverage their HTML5 expertise to create a better ecosystem for Google Chrome and Chrome OS. Looking at the technology stack that the Enyo team worked on, the latter seems more probable. Either way, Google has gotten hold of a golden goose, which will lay golden eggs. What remains to be seen, is which way the eggs roll.


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How to access Sharp LCD TV service menu
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Various online resources say to hold down INPUT and VOL- on the remote while plugging in the TV. This doesn't work, at least on mine. Hold them down on the TV while plugging in the TV, that works. Then you press VOL- and CHAN- on the TV, to get into the menu. Channel buttons select, volume buttons alter.


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The Federal Reserve is leaving low interest rates in place as it sees weak job growth and moderate economic improvement throughout America.
The decision by the Federal Open Market Committee comes a month after a previous decision to keep interest rates at historic lows despite broad expectations of a September interest rate hike. Expectations for a rate hike in October remained minimal, but the Fed's comments on Wednesday afternoon encouraged a number of analysts and economists to predict a jump in rates in December.
The Federal funds rate futures market, which attempts to predict the timing of interest rate decisions, indicates increased expectations for a rate hike in December, with a 43% probability of rates increasing by the end of the year.
The FOMC has remained tight lipped about its plans, noting that it will continue to focus on employment and inflation rates and gauge whether those continue to see improvements. "Committee today reaffirmed its view that the current 0 to 1/4 percent target range for the federal funds rate remains appropriate. In determining whether it will be appropriate to raise the target range at its next meeting, the Committee will assess progress--both realized and expected--toward its objectives of maximum employment and 2 percent inflation," said the Federal Reserve in a statement.
At debate remains the FOMC's definition of "maximum employment," particularly as headline unemployment rates have fallen steeply over the last two years. At 5.1% in September, the current unemployment rate has nearly halved from the 10% spike in October 2009, and is nearly at pre-recessionary rates seen in 2005 and 2006.
Several critics believe this unemployment definition is faulty, however, and Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen has repeatedly insisted that the Fed will take a broader data-based view in assessing whether the U.S. has reached full employment. While unemployment rates have continued to fall, so too has the labor force participation rate. This is a measurement of how many Americans are active in the workforce, and this has trended steeply downwards from 66% in 2008 to 62.4% in 2015.
Economists debate whether discouraged workers or an aging population are the primary contributors to this trend, but both sides tend to agree that a lower participation rate is deflationary to both wages and price growth, and may in part explain why prices have begun falling on a year-over-year basis.
Although some argue cheap oil is a primary cause of this trend, others argue that this fall in prices could produce a liquidity trap that in turn stunts U.S. economic activity and growth, thereby requiring stimulative action from the Federal Reserve.
U.S. equities turned sharply higher on the news that the Federal Reserve would not raise rates, and the 10-year Treasury yield rose three basis points, but remains near its lowest point at 2.1%.


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Welcome back from the holiday weekend. I see that you're no worse for the wear, and your comments today are a testament to what I'm sure was a calm, quiet, and sober celebration. Let's round 'em up!
Favorites and Duds from Today's Commenting
Favorites, in no particular order:
Strong morning, all around. RMJ=H kicked us off with the Comment of the Day over in the Lebron Circus story. Just a beautiful icepick of a sentence. And delivered so matter-of-factly! Glorious.
Also in the LeCircus post, snoop-a-loop executed a rare—but hilarious—picture gag that eerily presaged the day's Dan Gilbert news. How and what do you know, snoop?
IronMikeGallego fetched a razor from his toolbox for a good old-fashioned skewering of Drew Carey in the Dan Gilbert check-in.
I enjoyed TheInfantTyrone's adorable little pull in the Bear-Stuck-In-A-Milk-Jug video. (I also have no idea what Miss Ann Thrope was doing there.)
Milo Minderbinder elicited a cursing response from Petchesky in the Pistorius update. I don't know if that comment qualifies you as king or shutter-down of the interwebz, but that's a funny fucking comment, Milo. Have another +1 just for the hell of it.
marmol heater dropped into the Georgia Football Star Wars weirdness and offered a wonderfully trimmed-down dialogue that's perfect there. Just enough is left to the reader that we know exactly what's going on here, and what's going on here is some wickedly funny stuff.
This hook-and-ladder in the P.J. Hairston Punching story from DougExeter is seriously under-appreciated. Such strong-arm delivery typifies many of Exeter's comments like this—I'm thinking of his keep-government-out-of-football-but-also-keep-government-in-football line—and the Everyman desire he taps has broad appeal to the curmudgeon in all of us.
Lordy lord, that damn Manziel Dirt list is great, and I couldn't stop giggling there for a while. A number of Idiot photoshops made the favorites: here's Phil with some Magic the Gathering ("money order is fine" was a nice touch), and someone called Oddibe McDowell with, well, a water bill of all things. Let's see … well I'll be damned. Madoffs Mets tossed some serious shade at the Browns' offensive front to continue the day's theme of insult-comments-are-killing-Your-Curator.
Here's a nasty cringer from FreemanMcNeil in the Sleepy Suing Yankees Fan story. Admittedly, I had to refresh myself on Cory Lidle, but this is one of those stone-cold jokes that rewards a quick googling. Yikes.
Speaking of stone-cold jokes, I liked this open-palmed smack from DingoDen in McKenna's Dan Snyder piece. It's short, erudite, and engages the quoted sentence perfectly. Pow indeed, Dingo.
Two favorites in the Screaming Soccer Player video. marmol heater returned for some ridiculous self-deprecation, while Curtis Wenis made a sort of continuation joke that rests on a very nice pun.
Pleatherface brings us home this evening with a nifty little call-back to all those ridiculous spambots in the Johnny Football Nae Nae thing. Quick, good work there.
Duds are cancelled. Look at all those favorites! 15 of 'em! Tell us your personal favorites, omissions, or felony confessions down there, and sleep tight.


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Who Needs a Flu Shot?
Flu Vaccines Protect You
Have you had a flu shot? Most kids have and there's good reason. Like all vaccines (say: VAK-seens), this one can protect you from a pretty awful illness — the flu.
There are two types of flu vaccines:
- A shot, given with a needle.
- A spray mist, given into the nose.
For the 2019–2020 flu season, both types seem to work well. You should get whatever type of vaccine your doctor suggests. Some kids can't get the spray mist, such as those with weak immune systems or some medical conditions like asthma.
In most people, the flu causes a fever, body aches, and other cold-like symptoms. A person who has the flu will sleep a lot and feel sick, but will get better in a week.
The problem with the flu, also called influenza (say: in-floo-EN-zuh), is that it makes some people really sick. They may even need to go to the hospital. That's why a flu vaccine is recommended for just about everyone.
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Health experts recommend the flu vaccine for all people age 6 months and older.
Some people have a higher risk of problems from the flu. It's especially important that these people (and those who live with them) get vaccinated. They include:
- pregnant women
- kids younger than age 5
- people age 65 and older
- people of any age who have long-term health conditions
Until recently, doctors recommended that kids with an egg allergy not get the flu vaccine because it's grown inside eggs. But now health experts say that because there's only a tiny bit of egg protein in the vaccine, it's safe even for people with a severe egg allergy.
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Kids older than 9 need only one dose.
Are you younger than 9? You need one dose of the flu vaccine if:
- you have received the flu vaccine at least two times in your lifetime
A kid younger than 9 needs two doses if:
- this is your first time ever getting the flu vaccine
- you had the flu vaccine before but only got one dose
Kids who need two doses will get the first one and then come back at least a month later for the second one.
Are you scared of getting a shot? Talk with your mom or dad about it. They've most likely had lots of shots in their lives and know exactly how you feel.
Here are three tricks that make shots easier to handle:
- Hold a parent's hand.
- Make your arm go loose like cooked spaghetti before the shot goes in.
- Cough as you're getting the shot. (Some kids say they don't feel the pinch when they do this.)
When Do You Get the Flu Vaccine?
If you're getting the flu vaccine, it's best to get it in the fall, before "flu season." Flu season starts in October and usually ends in May. December, January, and February are usually the worst months for flu, when the most people have it and you're most likely to get it.
What's in a Flu Vaccine?
Influenza is a virus (say: VY-rus). The flu vaccine helps your body get ready to defend itself against that virus in case it tries to invade your body.
The flu vaccine contains a small amount of the flu viruses. But the flu vaccine won't give you the flu. The vaccine lets your body get ready to fight off the real flu during flu season.
New Year, New Vaccine
To be protected against the flu, you have to get the vaccine every year. Unlike some other illnesses, like chickenpox, the flu virus keeps changing. The vaccine needs to change to keep up with the types of flu viruses expected to cause problems that year.
Each year, doctors and scientists who study the flu try to predict which viruses will make people sick during the next flu season. Then they make the vaccine out of a mixture of the most likely viruses.
After the Vaccine
The flu vaccine is safe and most people have no problems with it. After getting the flu shot, the spot where you got it might feel sore. Some people might feel achy or have a mild fever. The nasal spray might cause mild flu-like symptoms. But those problems are nothing like the flu, which can make you sick for 1 or 2 weeks.
Once you get your flu shot, you can take another important step toward preventing the flu and other winter illnesses: Wash your hands well and often. When you do, you wash away those nasty germs that end up making you sick!


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Soccer lottery BIG in Japan
Sports tabloids are all gaga over the latest offering of the soccer lottery known as BIG. Thanks to a record carryover of ¥2.5 billion from last year's BIG lotteries, top prizes for the next round will be ¥600 million, which, if history is any indication, should result on a huge rush on BIG lottery tickets. In the annals of the game there has been a total of 118 first prize winners, 80 of which won ¥600 million each. In 2007, the first time such a huge jackpot was offered, the system broke down because demand was too high.
It's also a huge turnaround for the somewhat euphemistically named National Agency for Advancement of Sports and Health, which runs the various soccer-related lotteries under the "toto" banner. When it was launched back in 2001, toto was closer to a betting game than a lottery. Players choose which J.League teams will win in certain sets of games, and a player wins the jackpot (¥200 million maxiumum) if he or she chooses correctly on all the games listed. For whatever reason the system never really took off and lost money in the beginning.
In 2006 the agency started BIG, which removed all the brain work: a computer "guesses" the winners at random. This totally serendipitous version of toto became extremely popular, probably because the odds of actually winning a top prize (1 in 4.8 million) were greater than those for winning the standard Takarakuji lottery (1 in 10 million).
And the odds for this round of BIG are even better — 1 in 2.9 million. Tickets, each of which costs ¥300, started going on sale Feb. 18 and will continue until March 6, which is the first day of the new J.League season. Over the years, some commentators have complained about the soccer lotteries, saying that it sets a bad example, especially for children, to raise money for various national sports endeavors (including the Olympics) through gambling. But, in a way, BIG isn't gambling; or, at least, it isn't gambling the way toto is. Whether it's a waste of money probably depends on if you win.


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7th Annual Darrell Brown Memorial Youth Upland Hunt Oct. 27
Hunt for youth ages 12 through 18
Smoky Hill Pheasants Forever No. 424, in cooperation with the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism (KDWPT), Pheasant Runn Controlled Shooting Area, and the Hunting Heritage Group, Inc., will host the 7th Annual Darrell Brown Youth Upland Hunt, in memory of former volunteer Darrell Brown, on Oct. 27. The event will be held at Hays City Sportsman Club, ¼ mile north of I-70 off Exit 157 near Hays.
The hunt is for youth ages 12 through 18 years old. Each youth hunter will have the opportunity to harvest at least four birds while hunting over pointing dogs.
Participants will hunt and be mentored on a variety of related subjects, including how to hunt with pointing dogs, field safety, how hunting dogs are trained, gun handling, how to clean and prepare harvested birds, and what type of habitat to look for when hunting upland birds. The D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) program is also incorporated into the event.
Special hunts like this are part of KDWPT's Hunter Recruitment and Retention Program, called PASS IT ON. This program recruits new hunters and helps retain existing hunters to ensure the future of hunting and wildlife conservation.
To register for the hunt, contact Shayne Wilson at 785-628-1415, 8 a.m. through 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. There is no charge for the event.


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The Newsroom Season 1 Episode 6 recap
The following are some of the mistakes made by women in this episode:
Mixing up Georgia the state and Georgia the country.
Thinking "LOL" means "Lots Of Love" – even when you were born in 1988.
Changing your mind about something to do with your career because there is the promise of Gucci clothing.
Feeling someone's pecs while trying to get someone to give you career advice and take you seriously.
"Outing" a guest on national television when they didn't say anything on air. Forgetting until you're in trouble that the information was given to you off the record.
Using opposition research to get stuff you can "use" for your own personal purposes.
Using the arguably inappropriate term "Eskimo".
Telling a woman who is your superior that her wisdom leads to (explosion sounds).
Agreeing that your wisdom leads to (explosion sounds)
The following are most of the mistakes made by men in this episode:
Not allowing for the possibility that a comment section could be hacked by a computer in less than the predicted 50 years.
"Scaring" a coworker into making a mistake when you are "just trying to motivate them". "There's no way she'd done that if I hadn't given her my awesome pep talk."
Using incongruous "cultural" terms like Kurosawa and Madame Butterfly while discussing Japanese people.
Buying a ring to get the best of a woman you are supposed to respect .
Being too ruthlessly critical and abusive of a guest on your show when your views vehemently oppose his.
Referring, repeatedly, to a female colleague as "girl". Making a joke about it.
This episode was all about how sometimes people are scared, and that stops them from doing their jobs properly, or act out of character.
So I want to know who's scaring Aaron Sorkin. If this is the case and people only do bad work when they are being intimidated into doing so, then that means he's scared to absolute death of someone.
Because why else? Why else is this show like this? Why is it so concerned with integrity in its anchors but not at all upset that a bodyguard hit on an executive producer? Isn't that sexual harassment? No, of course I don't actually think Mackenzie was offended but if you're going to adhere to the letter of the law with one thing why not everything?
Why, in a last minute fix that makes you all look stupid, does your "girl" get excoriated for making a mistake she didn't make, while being given the empty statement that someone will stand "beside and in front of" her if there's fallout, assuming that having to lie about something you were right about doesn't count as fallout?
Why does someone having made a mistake – warranted or not – mean that their punishment is being called "girl" and a rectification of that mistake means that the horribly offensive term can be removed? Not only is this the highest order of bullsh-t, but it also takes away from a really interesting use of language. The show used the n-word - and someone said it aloud - in what I would consider to be "proper" context: it's something that we are unsurprised to see in the comments area of an unregulated blog. But they were so incredibly worried that it might be offensive, I guess, that we forgot about that moment in and around all the other offensive words that were used, not to mention the inexplicable "Will might have a death threat" storyline that seemed to exist just to have Terry Crews saying funny things.
I don't care. I don't care that McAvoy is learning that he scares people; the fact that it's because of/in spite of an abusive father seems cheap, as does the fact that we learned all this in an ersatz therapy session. I don't care because he refers to Mackenzie, a woman he lied to and belittled in this episode alone, as "my most trusted partner". Aside from the fact that it's visibly untrue and he obviously trusts Charlie more, I don't want to watch a man who can lie like that with impunity while making a big fuss over the truth or lies of the "little sister" he's entrusted with.
Think I'm boring? That the harping on the inequality of men & women on this show is enough already, and I should move on? ME TOO. But the "news story" this week was barely a story – maybe because they decided showing some of the footage of the earthquake would be exploitative, but then choose a different story, maybe? There were no inner workings of the newsroom this week; that meant we were mercifully short on Jim and Maggie, but there was nothing here that wasn't silly women and resentful men.
"How are you still working here?" Indeed.


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Rockford, Ill. – Before Saturday's 2013-14 regular season finale for the Rockford IceHogs, the club presented its team awards for their 15th season.
A total of eight awards were announced, with each player receiving their award from Chicago Blackhawks General Manager of Minor League Affiliations Mark Bernard, along with an IceHogs season ticket holder, prior to the game against the Charlotte Checkers.
Most Valuable Player honors went to forward Jeremy Morin. The Auburn, N.Y., native led the IceHogs with 24 goals on the campaign and ranked second on the team with 47 points despite playing in just 47 games. With his 24 tallies in 2013-14, the fourth year pro became Rockford's all-time leading goal scorer with 81 in 205 career games for the IceHogs.
Adam Clendening and Klas Dahlbeck were named co-Best Defenseman. Clendening picked up the team's leading scorer honors as he paced the IceHogs this season and ranked second among all AHL defensemen, racking up 12 goals and 47 assists from the blueline. The Niagara Falls, N.Y., native was also named a First Team AHL All-Star last week. Dahlbeck posted career highs in goals (10), assists (25), and a team-best plus/minus rating (+20) to share the award.
Taking home the Rookie of the Year award was Garret Ross. The 21-year-old notched 15 goals and 18 assists during his first professional campaign. He also led all Rockford rookies with a plus/minus rating of +11.
Since joining the IceHogs in December following a trade, Brandon Mashinter has provided a physical presence in the lineup and he was the recipient of the Heavy Hitter award. Mashinter totaled 34 points (14g-20a) and 94 penalty minutes.
Veteran Wade Brookbank garnered the team's Unsung Hero award. With 16 years of professional experience, Brookbank provided valuable leadership for a young IceHogs squad both on and off the ice. The 36-year-old wore an "A" as the team's alternate captain in 22 contests this season.
Forward Terry Broadhurst was named the Most Improved player in 2013-14. In his second pro campaign, Broadhurst spent the entire season in Rockford after splitting time between the Forest City and Toledo during his rookie year. The Orland Park, Illinois, native was fourth on the team in scoring with 40 points (15g-25a) in 71 games this season, tripling his output for goals, assists and points from a season ago.
Recognized by the AHL last week, forward Pat Mullane was saluted as Rockford's Man of the Year as well on Saturday. Mullane led the charge for the IceHogs in their community involvement all season long, making numerous trips to local schools, libraries and hospitals.


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The Colts were a nice little story six weeks ago.
That's when a team that started 1-2 and had "rebuilding" written all over it responded to the loss of rookie coach Chuck Pagano with one of those how-did-they-do-it winning streaks - and that was supposed to be that. Considering the Colts finished 2-14 a year ago, then said goodbye to Peyton Manning and turned the rest of the roster upside-down, the season was already a success.
Fans in Indianapolis knew can't-miss rookie quarterback Andrew Luck was bound to improve, but explaining the 4-1 run after Pagano left the team to deal with leukemia was tough enough, especially because there was precious little room elsewhere for improvement. The Colts still can't run the ball, and they still start rookies at nearly every one of the skill positions. The defense? Don't ask.
Yet the story just got better.
Indianapolis was outgained by more than 200 yards Sunday in Kansas City. The Colts lost the time-of-possession battle but still won 20-13 and locked up an improbable playoff spot.
"Mission accomplished," Colts interim coach Bruce Arians said, as though he expected as much. "That's all I can say. It's a fantastic feeling."
And the story is about to get better still.
Pagano has been cleared to return, perhaps as early as Monday. He might have been the only guy in the entire organization who was expecting great things when he took over, but an entire squad and staff have come over to his side in his absence.
Arians, who stepped in for his close pal and consulted Pagano throughout his ordeal, is a candidate for coach of the year. And Luck, who threw for a modest 205 yards and a touchdown, still made up a lot of ground in his race against similarly impressive first-year quarterback starters Robert Griffin III of Washington and Russell Wilson of Seattle because of something he didn't do - throw a costly interception.
Even the much-maligned defense got into the act, with Darius Butler picking off Brady Quinn's pass and returning it for a touchdown five plays into the game, and whole unit rising up to stuff Quinn on a quarterback sneak late in the game, turning the ball back over to Luck in time for a rookie-record seventh winning drive.
"Whenever teams go for it on fourth down, the defense takes it personal," Indianapolis end Dwight Freeney said.
If the defensive stand was a surprise, what Luck did with the opportunity wasn't. The Colts' running game is still little more than a chance for Luck to catch his breath, and despite the emergence of receivers T.Y. Hilton and Dwayne Allen, just about everybody in Arrowhead Stadium was looking at veteran wideout Reggie Wayne. So was Luck, who saw him cut through a seam in the middle of the defense, then fired a high, hard pass that Wayne latched onto in the end zone for a 7-yard score.
Luck owns the rookie records for most yards, most 300-yard games, most winning drives, and the strike to Wayne put him closer to the rookie record of 26 touchdown passes set by none other than Manning. And just like Manning, to whom Luck was often compared before the season, the rookie knew exactly what to say about all of them.
"I think it definitely means something. After the season I'll have a chance to reflect back on it. Obviously, it is nicer to be in the playoffs and know that," Luck said, "but it is nice to have a couple records that I'm sure will be broken in the next year."
What he said next, though, came as something of a surprise.
"I think we were confident in the locker room from day one. I remember going in, trying to gauge the feel of what it was going to be like. Guys were confident on this team, like Reggie Wayne who had never missed a playoff until that year. Dwight Freeney, Robert Mathis, those guys are winners, they know how to win, so I think they imparted some of that magic, if you will, on some of the younger guys, the newer guys.
"It was a confident bunch, we never prepared to lose a game, we always prepared to win, and I guess that worked out."
It's still a mystery exactly how, but Luck wasn't going to spend much more time dwelling on that than he did on accumulating records.
"I guess it will be an extra special Christmas," he said, referring to Pagano's return. "There will be a lot of emotions when he comes through the door. It's funny, there are probably 10 guys who have never met Chuck on the team, but I think they will be emotional too because I'm sure they feel like they know him, too, because his presence is felt so much in the building out here, and wherever we go."


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Morning Five: 03.02.11 EditionPosted by rtmsf on March 2nd, 2011
- The biggest news of Tuesday was undoubtedly the loss of BYU's Brandon Davies, a sophomore forward who was banging his way to 11/6 nightly, picking up scraps left over from Jimmer Fredette and Jackson Emery, the two leading scorers. Davies allegedly broke the school's honor code, and he was suspended for the rest of the season. The Cougars are tracking toward a #1 seed in the NCAA Tournament, but they'll need to prove that they can play just as well without Davies in the lineup as they have with him to satisfy the NCAA Selection Committee. Forward Noah Hartsock is expected to move into Davies' vacated center position, but Hartsock's power forward spot will need to be filled by a less experienced player such as Kyle Collinsworth or Charles Abouo. Very tough break for Dave Rose and the BYU program in its best season in a generation.
- In other news involving personnel losses (or non-losses), UNC backup guard Reggie Bullock will miss the remainder of the season with a torn lateral meniscus that he suffered during the weekend's Maryland game. This is not a huge loss for the Heels, as Bullock was only contributing 6/3 in about fifteen minutes per game this season, but he was third on the team in three-pointers made (29) and this will make Roy Williams' team a little more suspect against zone defenses the rest of the year. In much better news, Kansas State's Jacob Pullen had his right wrist x-rayed after banging it in Monday night's game against Texas, and although it was sore and swollen, there is no broken bone. He is expected to play this coming weekend in Senior Day festivities at Bramlage Coliseum against Iowa State.
- Luke Winn gives us his top eight potential bid stealers for the next two weeks — teams who could make strong runs through their conference tournaments to knock someone like Virginia Tech or Michigan off the 'last four in' line. Winn's list is a good one, but we'd perhaps add a few more names to the discussion: Washington State (Pac-10), Alabama (SEC), San Francisco (WCC) and any number of teams from Conference USA.
- Remember former Binghamton guard DJ Rivera, the former America East star whom coaches refused to vote for POY in 2009 even though he was clearly the best player in that league? Oh, he also was partially responsible for the implosion of the Binghamton program when he was arrested in the fall of 2009 for swiping a debit card and subsequently using it to purchase snacks, cigars and a large-screen television before getting caught. His arrest along with Tiki Mayben's commensurate arrest for selling crack cocaine resulted in several players getting kicked off the team and a national scandal that the school is still recovering from. Why is this relevant now? On Monday, Rivera pleaded guilty to the crime — fourth degree criminal possession of stolen property — and he will face nine months' probation, which, if he keeps his nose clean, will allow him to reduce the charge to a misdemeanor and pursue a basketball career overseas. This plea marks the final chapter in the scandal — BU has gone 20-40 since the program was destroyed that summer.
- Maybe these guys should talk to our friends at HSAC so as to learn how to properly perform an interesting study. Virginia Tech, fresh off three straight years on the wrong side of the bubble, commissioned statisticians at the College of Science to determine what the biases are that go into making bubble selections into the NCAA Tournament. Their conclusion: a team's RPI, its strength of schedule, and its historical pedigree factor prominently into successful bids. In other words, everything you already knew. Across campus, no doubt, Hokie researchers have recently proven that water is indeed wet and sunshine comprises the majority of daylight. Here's a memo to Seth Greenberg: how about instead of hanging your hat on a few big-time wins every season, you beat the teams you're supposed to beat, especially at home.


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With nearly two million members and $12.8 billion invested in KiwiSaver, nzherald.co.nz is launching a four-part video series about the retirement savings scheme.
Five years since it kicked off, KiwiSaver is still a mystery to many New Zealanders and we decided to provide a simple guide which covers the nuts and bolts.
Experts Mary Holm and Chris Douglas tackle all the basic questions in a way which is easy to understand and jargon-free.
Part One: KiwiSaver Beginner's Guide
* What is KiwiSaver?
* Can anyone join, and how do I join/opt out?
* How much do I pay and how much does my employer pay?
* What does the Government contribute?
* Who should or shouldn't choose KiwiSaver?
* What are the alternatives to KiwiSaver?
* What happens when I change jobs?


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From Fedora Project Wiki
Core Principles
- Fedora is about the rapid progress of Free, Open Source software and content.
- Fedora believes in the statement "once free, always free."
Objectives of Fedora
- To create a complete general-purpose operating system built for and by a community — those who not only consume, but also produce for the good of other community members.
- To build the operating system exclusively from free and open source software.
- To do as much of the development work as possible directly in the upstream packages. We will in general prefer moving to a newer version for updates rather than backport fixes.
- To provide a robust development platform for building software and robust general integrated set of software that balances the needs for both desktop and server users.
- To be on the leading edge of free and open source technology, by adopting and helping develop new features and version upgrades.
- To emphasize usability and a "just works" philosophy in default configurations and feature designs.
- To promote rapid adoption of new releases by allowing for easy upgrades, with minimal disturbances to configuration changes.
- To include a wide range of packages that fits into the various different needs of the users. This package set is limited, of course, to packages that Fedora can legally provide, and also subject to our packaging guidelines.
- To establish and implement technical standards for packages, ensuring the quality and consistency of the operating system.
- To produce robust time-based releases every six months but also using a release model that allows the development team the flexibility that it needs to ensure quality while making sure that a release does not slip indefinitely.
- To provide timely updates for releases, throughout the lifetime of a release.
- To promote a global perspective by supporting as many languages and geographic locales as possible.
- To ensure that releases will always be available for free download in binary, source packages and as downloadable images.
Non-Objectives of Fedora
- Fedora is not interested in having a slow rate of change, but rather to be innovative.
- Fedora is not interested in being a platform for proprietary components.
- Fedora shall not be a dumping ground for unmaintained or poorly designed software.


text: Aleco 252 Report post Posted August 16, 2017 Everything you'll need to dominate ranks 10 through 5 on the ladder. In part three we learn about "line up theory", the art or matching up threats and answers. We also explore the importance of mulligans and why it may not always be correct to ship away expensive cards. Legend in the Making: Part 3 Ranks 10 to 5 - Line Up Theory and Mulligans The first two parts of this series taught a top-down approach for approaching decisions in Hearthstone. Mastering these broad and fundamental concepts of Hearthstone gave us the weapons to dominate any opponent attempting to fight us unarmed. Knowing your role at rank 20 is like bringing a knife to fist fight, and having a plan at rank 15 is like bringing a gun to knife fight. Understanding the big picture concepts which are relevant in nearly every game creates a huge degree of separation between ourselves and our opponents, but as we progress up the ladder and begin to learn about more and more narrow topics this margin begins to shrink. The massive advantage which comes from "having a plan" against an opponent who doesn't is much smaller than the advantage you'll gain from learning about "line up theory" in part three against an opponent who hasn't learned this same concept. This is the nature of progress. The gap which separates us from our competition grows smaller and smaller as we get better and better. The margin for error shrinks. The difference between victory and defeat is no longer a misunderstanding of the matchup, it's attacking the wrong minion on turn 7 or shipping away the wrong card in our mulligan. This is why it is critically important, now more than ever, that we internalize the broader lessons from parts one and two before moving on to the more specific concepts which I cover in parts three and four. You stand to gain a much bigger by mastering the broadest skills first. Section 1 - The Essence of Progress Making Smaller Circles As we gain experience and internalize concepts on a deeper and deeper level, questions which were once complex and demanded a significant portion of our thinking power start to be answered instinctively. The macro becomes second nature and our minds become free to begin worrying about the micro, then the old micro becomes our new macro and the process repeats itself. This is a process called "making smaller circles" in The Art of Learning, a book which I've recommended ad nauseum in this series. To turn the macro into the micro we should endeavor to learn depth, not breadth. Our goal isn't to collect new heuristics, it's to completely master the lessons we are still learning. By seeking to understand the finest details of every concept we will eventually be able to internalize them on a subconscious level, and this is what will ultimately enable us to answer difficult questions instinctually and automatically. As it applies to Hearthstone, the biggest advantage which will come from making smaller circles is the amount of thinking time it will buy us. By gaining the ability to quickly evaluate something which would have once taken us a long time we free our minds to focus on something new. We get to think more, and thinking more is often thinking is smarter. The higher up we climb the ladder the smaller our margin for error becomes. A great way to minimize on these errors is create more time for ourselves by making smaller circles. But there is another, much more simple way to buy ourselves more thinking time. Slow Down! As the margins between defeat and victory tighten the costs of making mistakes are greatly magnified. There's a huge difference between a mistake due to a lack of understanding a making a mistake due to a lack of focus. Mistakes made from a lack of understanding can only be corrected with time and practice, while mistakes made from a lack of focus are entirely preventable. A turn in Hearthstone times out after 75 seconds, and with 20 seconds left the rope will appear across the middle of the screen. There is no penalty for taking each turn to rope and there are no bonus points for playing quickly. However, there is a massive penalty for playing too fast and making mistakes as a result. The most your opponent can do to complain about how long you are taking is emote "Hello", so what do you have to lose by taking more time? I can't teach you how to be smarter or have better focus, but I certainly share with you a framework for making the most out your time each of turn. More time means more thinking, more thinking means smarter decisions, and helping you make smarter decisions is the entire goal of the "Legend in the Making" series. Here are some steps you can take to ensure that you're using time to your advantage: Decide what the plan is. If there is still time left in the turn before you must act (the rope hasn't appeared yet), see if you come up with a different plan. If there is no other plan, use the rest of your time to plan out future turns and consider the outs for you and your opponent. If there is another plan, compare and contrast the advantages of both plans to decide which one is better. If there is still time left in the turn after you've compared the two plans, try to see if you can come up with another plan and repeat this process. There will probably be many turns where this process feels laborious and unnecessary. Your first instinct will often be the correct one and might feel as though you just wasted time and effort for no benefit. The beauty of this process is that it doesn't truly matter if your decisions don't change as a result of this extra time and focus, because to reflect and ask yourself questions is the fastest way to internalize the finer details of the game! This is how you make smaller circles. Think of the effort you're spending now as effort you won't need to spend again in the future if you encounter a similar situation. Taking the extra time to reflect on your decisions in the present not only decreases the likelihood that you make mistakes (which allows you to win more games), it encodes your patterns of thought into instincts which will free up additional thinking time in the future for you to do even more. This enables the cycle of learning and improvement to repeat itself. Self reflection is not only key to ensuring we don't make mistakes, it the essence of progress and rapid improvement. Section 2 - Line Up Theory Hearthstone is a game of threats and answers, both of which can come in many forms. A threat might be a wide board of buffed-up Murlocs thanks to Murloc Warleader, and answer to this threat might be a single Dragonfire Potion. A 12/12 Edwin VanCleef is a threat which can be answered by 12 power worth of minions. A threat is anything a player can use to win the game if their opponent doesn't have an answer for it, and an answer is any way to remove a threat. The battle of aggro vs control is fundamentally a battle of threats against answers. It's the aggro player's job to present the threats their opponent is least likely to have an answer to, and it's the control player's job to answer the threats presented by the aggro player in such a way that they will still have the ability to handle the next one. It is often the case that a specific answer lines up against a specific threat in such a way that one player comes out of the exchange at huge advantage. A classic example is the threat of Tirion Fordring and the answer of Polymorph. Casting Polymorph on Tirion cleanly answers his big body, his Divine Shield, and his Deathrattle trigger. Without a Polymorph, answering a Tirion might require a combination of your hero power, some spells, and minion attacks just to take down his 6/6 Taunt body, and when everything's said and done your opponent still gets a 5/3 weapon. Sounds like a disaster! Cards like Polymorph and Hex line up very well against Tirion while most other answers line up against him poorly. This is "line up theory", a method for assigning specific answers to specific threats in an effort to create advantages and avoid disasters. Lining Up Decks We can use line up theory to help us understand the correct approach to most matchups. Through line up theory we can determine which matchups are "ask and answer", or classic aggro vs control games where the lining up of threats and answers is determined most by the present, and we can also discover which matchups are dictated more by a deck vs deck approach to lining up threats and answers. Let's see an example of a matchup where threats and answers are far more important than roles, and where the "plan" is to have the correct answers to line up against the correct threats. Giant Miracle Rogue is a deck with some very powerful threats and the ability to quickly cycle through its deck to consistently find them. It also runs a very limited number threats due to the density of its cheap spells. They typically look to set up a single turn where they clear their opponent's board and play out a massive Edwin VanCleef and/or multiple Arcane Giants and overwhelm their opponent on tempo with the size of their creatures. Evolve Shaman is a deck which looks to control the board early with cost-effective creatures and board clear spells. By keeping their opponent's board empty in the early game they seek to take over the mid to late game with a powerful Doppelgangster + Evolve play or to kill their opponent outright with Bloodlust and a wide board of minions and totems. It would be accurate to say that both of these decks are midrangey and have combo elements to the way they play. Depending on the way the cards line up on a game by game basis either deck could be the aggro deck or the control deck if you approach the matchup purely from the perspective of roles. However, due to the way that the threats from Miracle Rogue line up against the threats from Evolve Shaman, this matchup has the potential to be incredibly lopsided if the Evolve Shaman player understands line up theory. Let's look at the threats that the Miracle Rogue is packing: Edwin VanCleef Sherazin, Corpse Flower Two Arcane Giants The rest of their minions in the deck aren't there to end the game on their own but to facilitate the strategy of the deck. Though the deck could also manage to drudge up a threat with a Hallucination or Swashburglar, the likelihood that they find anything which threatens to end the game on its own from these cards is quite low. If we look at how the answers from Evolve Shaman up against these threats, we find that the Evolve Shaman is perfectly suited to answer these threats at a tremendous advantage. The Jade Lightnings line up well against the Gadgetzan Auctioneers, while the Lightning Storms, Maelstrom Portals, and Volcanos can easily clear up the other roleplayers. The two Hexes can handle Sherazin, Edwin, or an Arcane Giant at a mana advantage, the Devolve can handle the Edwin or Sherazin at a mana advantage, and a combination of minions and spells can add up to the 8 damage needed to finish off the final Arcane Giant. When you line up the two decks against each other the default strategy for the Evolve Shaman player should be clear. The Evolve Shaman just needs to be able to deploy each of their lined up answers against the Miracle Rogue's lined up threats and they will eventually be able to run them out of gas. From the perspective of line up theory, any Shaman deck running two Hex and one Devolve should be favored against a Giant Miracle Rogue which is light on threats. Their answers are naturally advantaged against their opponent's threats, and they will be heavily favored in any game where they can deploy these answers on time. Whenever you can identify a matchup where your threats line up favorably against your opponent's answers or vice versa, your best bet is to approach the matchup from the perspective of line up theory and aim to win the game by abusing the natural advantages of your specific threats and answers against theirs. There will be the occasional game where one of the Shaman's much needed answers is on the bottom of their deck or where the Miracle Rogue draws well and is able to play their threats too quickly, but the chances of losing a game to these circumstances are much lower than the chances of losing in a more traditional midrange vs midrange matchup. Generally speaking, decks which have more answers than their opponents have threats are favored in games which go long when playing with line up theory in mind. This implies that decks with fewer answers than their opponents have threats should try to find a way to end the game quickly before they get overwhelmed by their opponent's threats. The Narrow Answer When lining up decks against one another you'll often find that there are only one or two key cards in either deck which demand specific answers from their opponent. Polymorphs for a Tirion Fordring, or Volcanic Potions for a Living Mana, for example. It may not always make sense to mold your entire strategy from the perspective of line up theory, but the knowledge of how these threats and answers line up against each other still has an impact on the way you play out the game. When playing against an opponent who has a threat in their deck which demands a specific answer from your own, the goal is to hold onto your narrow answer for as long humanly possible. Patience is key, especially if your opponent also understands how line up theory works. Whoever bites first and plays their threat into a narrow answer or uses their narrow answer on the wrong threat will often lose as a result. Unless you're under direct threat of dying, hold onto that narrow answer at all costs and find a different way to answer your opponent's other threats. You might also find yourself in a situation where you have access to a threat which can completely take over the game if your opponent lacks the narrow answer. In an ideal world you would construct a situation where your opponent is forced to deploy their narrow answer on the wrong card, but you won't always have this luxury. If time is not your side, it's often correct to throw your threat out there and pray that they don't have the answer in hand. If time is your ally, then it's probably best to hold onto your threat until you're sure the coast is clear. Section 3 - Mulligans Mulligans are among the most complex and important decisions in the entire game, yet they are often overlooked or taken for granted as deterministic. The majority of deck guides I've seen around the internet list cards which are considered "keeps", but this completely fails to recognize the importance of matchups when it comes to mulligan decisions. More thorough deck guides will list the cards which are keeps in every matchup, and though this is certainly a step closer to the truth it still doesn't tell the entire story. To be to fair to all the excellent deck guide writers out there, there are certain decks which will almost always want to keep certain cards. For example, I very rarely mulligan away Wild Growth while playing as Ramp Druid. It's a card you can play early and is simultaneously critical for the deck's gameplan, but is it always correct to keep two Wild Growths? Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't. There are certain matchups where double Wild Growth is the stone cold nut, but there are other matchups where it might be more important to dig for something that impacts the board. In this section I'll attempt to teach you all of the different factors I've discovered for informing mulligan decisions. Factors can vary wildly in importance from matchup to matchup, hand to hand, and deck to deck, so the real talent to mulligans is knowing when each of these factors takes precedence over the others. Mana Cost The level zero, most basic mulligan tip that everyone learns first is to mulligan away your expensive cards so that you can find cheap ones that you can play early. It makes sense why you'd want to do this as it's very advantageous to curve out (use all of your mana on cards which cost as much mana as you have available that turn), and you can't exactly curve out in the first few turns if you are sitting on a hand full of expensive cards. You can think of all the other factors I discuss in this section as reasons not to mulligan away more expensive cards for cheaper ones. If you were to enter into a completely unknown matchup then the mana cost of your cards would almost certainly be the most important factor, but at these ranks we are never entering into an unknown matchup. Line Up Theory The time you have to mulligan is the all the time you have to determine if your current matchup is "ask and answer" or is dictated by line up theory. Before sending away a single card you should have a decent idea of whether or not line up theory is the axis by which you'll be attacking this game, as this will completely dictate your mulligan decisions. It should be fairly straightforward to understand how line up theory impacts your mulligans. If you're in the position of the player who has more answers than your opponent has threats then you can't afford to ship a single answer from your opening hand. You have inevitability on your side if you can assemble all of your answers before they can assemble all of their threats, so you shouldn't be too concerned if your hand appears to be slow. If you're in the position of the player who has fewer threats than your opponent has answers you likely can't afford to ship a single threat. The way you win is by playing one more threat than they have an answer for, so you're also in the market for any cards which might force your opponent to spend one of their precious answers on the wrong target. The Matchup Some cards have the ability to completely take over a game on their own in certain matchups. If you know exactly which deck you're up against then keeping these cards in your opening hand is always the correct decision, regardless of whether they cost 10 mana or 1. If nine of the last ten Druids you faced were playing Jade, then you stand to gain much more by holding on to Skulking Geist in your opening hand than you do by mulliganing it away. Let's explore why. In this example nine of the last ten Druids we faced were Jades, which extrapolates to a 90% chance that the current Druid you are currently facing is also a Jade. If you assume that keeping the Skulking Geist drops your win percentage from 50% to 0% against all other Druids (which it doesn't), you're still only giving up 5% win percentage over the course of 10 games (50% or .5 divided by 10). This means that keeping the Skulking Geist would still be the smarter decision if getting to play the card increased your overall match win percentage against Jade Druid by more than 5.6% (50% or .5 divided by 9), which I'm almost certain that it does. Though it might seem greedy to keep an expensive or narrow card in your opening hand without being certain what you're up against, the numbers show that it's often correct to do so. Try to resist the urge to mulligan away an expensive card in your hand before considering the odds that it could tilt the matchup in your favor. Consider the prevalence of each deck in your opponent's class, as well as the impact an individual card has on the overall win percentage in each matchup. It's far too complex to calculate exact numbers, but with time and practice you can start to get a sense for when and why you should keep certain narrow or expensive cards in your opening hand. Conversely, there are cards which are typically strong in opening hands but must be mulliganed away based on your opponent's class or the expected matchup. These cards might line up poorly against the enemy's Hero Power or common class cards. For example, minions with one Health are typically miserable against Mage, and early Deathrattle cards like Kindly Grandmother with 2 power or less can get blown out by Potion of Madness. The ability to recognize when it is correct to mulligan away cards that are typically strong is just as important as the ability to recognize when it is correct keep cards that are typically weak. 50% Theory It is often correct to hold onto a card which might not be ideal but is just above the cut. In what I call "50% Theory", I always try to stop and ask myself if there is a greater than 50% chance that the card I'm thinking about mulliganing away will turn into a worse one. I often find that my first instinct is to mulligan away a less than perfect card to try and find something better, but that when I apply 50% theory I realize that my odds of improving my hand actually decrease by shipping the card away. Curving Out Another reason to keep potentially expensive cards is because your hand can naturally curve into them. For example, let's say you're playing a deck which typically always mulligans away 4 drops in the dark. If the other two cards in your hand are a 2 drop and a 3 drop, then it could potentially be worth keeping the 4 drop so long as it is a natural follow-up to the other two cards. Checking the curve of our hand can also help us catch when we might have too much of a good thing. Many cards which are typically excellent in opening hands might not pair well with the other cards in our hand, or even with a second copy of itself. N'Zoth's First Mate is typically the best card for Pirate Warrior on turn one, but the second copy should almost always be shipped away. The same can often (though not always) be said for Innervate, depending on what the final card or cards in your opener are. If you're on Aggro Druid and your opening hand is double Innervate + Bittertide Hydra, then you have a potentially game winning play on turn one. If your hand is double Innervate + Living Mana, then you'll want to ship both the Living Mana and one of the Innervates to try and find yourself a better curve. The Checklist To recap, here are a list of questions you should ask yourself about each hand while mulliganing: Based on my opponent's class and the local metagame, which decks could my opponent be playing? Is this a line up theory matchup? Are there any narrow answers or threats in my hand? Do I have any cards which are very powerful against one of these decks? Am I increasing my overall win percentage by keeping these cards? Do I have any cards which are very weak against one of these decks? Am I decreasing my overall win percentage by keeping these cards? Does this hand curve out? Does it have a game plan? Do I have any expensive cards which I should mulligan away for something less expensive? If so, is there a greater than 50% chance that getting rid of one of these cards will yield a worse result? It's important to note that the de facto "most important factor" of mulligans, the mana cost of the cards, is the second to last question when working down this checklist. This isn't to say that the mana cost of the cards in your opening hand isn't important, it's just that there are many other things you should be thinking about as well. Another thing of note is that I never stop to ask if I have cards in my hand which should be automatically kept. I believe that you can get yourself into trouble by thinking about cards as "automatic keeps", and should instead start off by viewing each card through the lens of the specific matchups you're anticipating. Granted, to this day I have still never mulliganed away the first copy of Flametongue Totem, but I'd like to think that's because I have yet to encounter a matchup where it isn't good in my opening hand and not because the card is an "automatic keep". Conclusion Line up theory can help us think about our boards, hands, and decks as distinct sets of limited tools. By lining up our tools against our opponent's problems we can attempt to organize our game plan into the most effective and thorough plan possible. Some matchups are dictated entirely by line up theory, while in other matchups we can use the lessons we've learned from line up theory to gain small edges in efficiency. Mulligans are an often overlooked or misunderstood facet of the game, but they are sometimes the most important decision we make in the entire game. By taking the time to carefully consider all the reasons why we should or shouldn't keep each card in our opener, we are adding one more edge to our game which will help propel us to the next stage of the ladder. For the fourth and final installment of Legend in the Making, I will discuss all of the subtle ways that game behavior can inform the exact content of player's hands. By analyzing the ordering decisions and tiny mistakes our opponents make we can glean much more information about our their game plan than you might think. Please join me in part four as we make the final push towards our ultimate goal of reaching Legend. - Aleco Part 1 - Ranks 25 to 15 - Knowing your Role and Embracing Mistakes Part 2 - Ranks 15 to 10 - Having a Plan and Playing to Outs Part 4 - Ranks 5 to Legend - Tools for the Climb and the Art of the Read 3 3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Kaling has the right stuff for 'Mindy Project'
No one ever got rich betting on television to be too original.
So it's not entirely surprising that among the new fall offerings, we have two comedies on separate networks about single doctors who are lucky they don't screw up in the operating room as often and as spectacularly as they do in their personal lives.
"The Mindy Project," premiering tonight on Fox, and "Emily Owens MD," coming next month on the CW, vary in overall quality, but both are graced by talented and appealing actresses in the lead roles: Mindy Kaling ("The Office") in the Fox show and Mamie Gummer ("The Good Wife") in the CW show.
If there's any kind of competition between the shows, "The Mindy Project," created by Kaling, gets a head start, and beyond Kaling's deadpan appeal, it's a better show. But that isn't to say it's perfect.
Kaling plays a young OB-GYN named Mindy Lahiri who's been addicted to romantic comedies all her life, to the point that she's able to recite dialogue from films such as "When Harry Met Sally." Unable or unwilling to realize that her rom-com addiction has led her to raise her dating expectations to unrealistic heights and that real life is not a Katherine Heigl movie, she's not above getting it on with handsome, womanizing colleague Dr. Jeremy Reed (Ed Weeks) between rounds.
But much of her energy is devoted to trading barbs with another colleague, Dr. Danny Castellano (Chris Messina), who is always ready to steal one of Mindy's patients when one of her dates goes haywire and she can't make it back to the hospital in time for a delivery. He's also ever ready with opinions about Mindy's wardrobe and how effective it might be in interesting her impending first date: Most of all, he says, she'd do well to drop about 15 pounds.
It's the kind of sniping that inevitably leads to true love in the rom-coms Mindy Lahiri loves so much.
Kaling is good enough to make the C-plus dialogue sound better than it is. She's got that aforementioned great deadpan delivery, which is put to better use here than it was on "The Office," where she also played needy but kind of creepy.
"The Mindy Project" couldn't work without Kaling, not just because her name's in the title but because we really couldn't believe a cookie-cutter Hollywood blue-eyed, blond anorexic being desperate for romance, much less empathize with her. Like Lena Dunham of "Girls," Kaling is more "real" than most TV sitcom stars, and that's a welcome asset.
But she and Dunham have something else in common, and that is that their characters may be looking for love, but that doesn't mean they're willing to compromise themselves to get it. When Mindy goes on a first date with a guy played by guest star Ed Helms, she fails miserably at being subtle while she directs the conversation to subjects that will reveal his position on drugs and, as we can see from her smartphone checklist, his feelings about the Occupy movement.
It's challenging to judge a show based on a single episode, especially the pilot, which is usually and necessarily burdened with having to explain who all the characters are and how they relate to each other in about 23 minutes. Still, two things are clear from the "Mindy" pilot: First, that the writers need to do some work to make the secondary characters less of a cliché and, second, that Kaling has the stuff to go the distance.


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Valid for Submission
Z05.2 is a billable code used to specify a medical diagnosis of observation and evaluation of newborn for suspected neurological condition ruled out. The code is valid for the year 2020 for the submission of HIPAA-covered transactions. The code is exempt from present on admission (POA) reporting for inpatient admissions to general acute care hospitals.
The code Z05.2 is applicable to newborn patients only. It is clinically and virtually impossible to use this code on a non-newborn patient.
|Short Description:
|Obs & eval of NB for suspected neuro condition ruled out
|Long Description:
|Observation and evaluation of newborn for suspected neurological condition ruled out
Index to Diseases and Injuries
The Index to Diseases and Injuries is an alphabetical listing of medical terms, with each term mapped to one or more ICD-10 code(s). The following references for the code Z05.2 are found in the index:
Code Edits
The Medicare Code Editor (MCE) detects and reports errors in the coding of claims data. The following ICD-10 Code Edits are applicable to this code:
- Perinatal/Newborn diagnoses - Newborn. Age of 0 years; a subset of diagnoses intended only for newborns and neonates (e.g., fetal distress, perinatal jaundice).
Present on Admission (POA)
Z05.2 is exempt from POA reporting - The Present on Admission (POA) indicator is used for diagnosis codes included in claims involving inpatient admissions to general acute care hospitals. POA indicators must be reported to CMS on each claim to facilitate the grouping of diagnoses codes into the proper Diagnostic Related Groups (DRG). CMS publishes a listing of specific diagnosis codes that are exempt from the POA reporting requirement. Review other POA exempt codes here .
CMS POA Indicator Options and Definitions
|POA Indicator Code
|POA Reason for Code
|CMS will pay the CC/MCC DRG?
|Diagnosis was present at time of inpatient admission.
|Diagnosis was not present at time of inpatient admission.
|Documentation insufficient to determine if the condition was present at the time of inpatient admission.
|Clinically undetermined - unable to clinically determine whether the condition was present at the time of inpatient admission.
|Unreported/Not used - Exempt from POA reporting.
Replacement Code
Z052 replaces the following previously assigned ICD-10 code(s):
- P00.89 - Newborn affected by oth maternal conditions
- P00.89 - Newborn affected by other maternal conditions
Convert Z05.2 to ICD-9
- V29.1 - NB obsrv suspct neurlgcl (Approximate Flag)
Code Classification
Code History
- FY 2018 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2017 through 9/30/2018
- FY 2019 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2018 through 9/30/2019
- FY 2020 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2019 through 9/30/2020


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NAS Panel Rife with Undisclosed Financial Ties to Polluters
Watchdog Groups Call for Removal of Mining Co. Reps.
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) panel investigating the cleanup of the Coeur d'Alene Superfund site in Idaho is rife with members who have undisclosed financial ties to major corporate polluters, watchdog groups say. According to documents filed with the NAS by the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), six of 19 members of the panel have ties to mining, electric power, chemical, and other polluting industries. CSPI says the NAS should remove two members with the most direct and obvious ties to mining companies, and bring further balance to the committee by adding new experts that represent environmental groups or the affected communities.
Decades of mining has made the Coeur d'Alene region one of the most polluted sites in the country. The NAS panel is charged with reviewing the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) cleanup plan for the site, but environmentalists say that the review is designed to thwart or delay the cleanup.
"If the panel is to have any credibility, it cannot have members who are connected to the companies or industries responsible for polluting the site," said Merrill Goozner, director of the Integrity in Science Project at CSPI. "And the NAS should appoint some experts that actually reflect the perspective of the impacted communities. The mining industry is certainly free to criticize the EPA's cleanup plan if it wishes, but it need not do so from a perch on a government panel."
According to CSPI and NRDC, the appointments of Teresa Bowers and Corale L. Brierley run afoul of the Federal Advisory Committees Act (FACA), which prohibits the appointment of people with financial conflicts of interest to government panels unless the conflicts are unavoidable and immediately disclosed. Bowers is a principal of Gradient Corporation, which helps mining and other industries reduce their legal and financial exposure in pollution cases. Gradient represents the National Mining Association which in turn represents at least two companies responsible for polluting the site. Brierley consults with mining and chemical companies, and holds patents on techniques that have been licensed to companies that may be involved in the cleanup.
Last week one member of the committee with an even more obvious tie to a mining company involved at the Coeur d'Alene site resigned. Rosalind Schoof of Integral Consulting, Inc. had represented ASARCO, a major Coeur d'Alene polluter.
"If you needed advice on environmental cleanup, you wouldn't call on a polluter or their hired guns," said NRDC senior scientist Jennifer Sass. "Regrettably, that's what the NAS is doing."
CSPI and NRDC supplied the National Academies with a chart outlining the industry affiliations of the panel members.
Contact Jeff Cronin (jcronin[at]cspinet.org) or Ariana Stone (astone[at]cspinet.org).


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Welcome to Hoover Southtown
Hoover Southtown Motors offers quality preowned cars.
We have served our community for over 20 years in the automotive industry with an impeccable reputation for before, during, and after the sale customer satisfaction. We sell quality used vehicles and stand behind each and every purchase. With 70% repeat and referral business, our customers always take advantage of the savings in our extreme service policy. This policy enables them to get parts and labor for any automotive need at wholesale cost for any car they own. We won't just go the extra mile, we'll go two.


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It's that time of the week again, the time when I realize another week has passed and I've forgotten to collect my favorite handmade and vintage items. Shoot! I'm not really good at these weekly articles.
This little group really has no theme but I see I've chosen 3 different pieces of jewelry. I've been searching more and more for handmade jewelry because I'm growing ever so tired of cheap jewelry that falls apart so quickly. Not only that, it looks cheap. I'd rather have just a couple pairs of really well made earrings than a drawer full of crap. You know what I mean?
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I took the advice of the majority and kept this in a grid type format, it's easier this way anyways. As long as you like it, I'm happy!
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- AnonymousFebruary 25, 2011
OMG those Navajo baby leggings are killing me!ReplyDelete
nice choice!!! love the bag, the rings and the bracelet!!!!ReplyDelete
WOW, so many beautiful things in this post! i've decided that your taste is impeccable - i always love everything you post about, really.ReplyDelete
Thank you for including my soap here. Some items in this collection are already my favorites. :) Thank you again.ReplyDelete
ohhhh thanks for including us!ReplyDelete
love being included here. many thanks!ReplyDelete
I know exactly what do you mean about high quality jewelry. It's better to have a few well made pieces than lots of cheap ones. I feel the same about cloth, I rather buy less but high quality and unique designs.ReplyDelete
I love your finds here, thank you for featuring my Pebbles Earrings :)
- JenneFebruary 27, 2011
Thanks for posting this, I immediately fell in love with the pebble earrings and bought them in silver!ReplyDelete
You have amazing taste and I really enjoy your blog a lot!
Keep up the good work!
many thanks for including my ring in this awesome collection!! I will make a post about it in my blog right now! (naventin.blogspot.com) :)ReplyDelete
love the girly cat dress!ReplyDelete
Those earrings are ridiculous! I want them...badly.ReplyDelete
the cat dress is so amazing!! and i wish they had those little pants in adult sizes. i would rock 'em. thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
if i had a hope chest. i would put that in my chest.ReplyDelete
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Saint Tropez
Knitted pullover
€ 34.95
Colour: Seagrass
Choose size
Buy 2 and get a discount.
The offer can be combined with style A8661, R2503, J2046, and A2510.
Saint Tropez knit with 3/4 rib sleeves. Loose fit, round neckline, and close-fitting rib sleeves. Style measures 59 cm from shoulder to hem in size. M.
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Size and length:
- Fit: Casual fit
- Length: 58.5 cm corresponds to size XS
- Composition : 80% Viscose, 20% Polyamide
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This HowTo describes how to use OmegaT in conjunction with Atril's Déjà Vu CAT tool.
You are an OmegaT user and are requested by a customer to deliver a translation in Déjà Vu's file format. This can be achieved (for Déjà Vu DVX) by use of Déjà Vu's "External View" file format.
The Déjà Vu "External View" file format is a feature of Déjà Vu DVX. It enables editors who do not possess Déjà Vu to edit translations produced in Déjà Vu in such a way that amendments can be reincorporated easily. In the same way, users of CAT tools, including OmegaT, who do not possess Déjà Vu can translate files prepared by a Déjà Vu user.
A Déjà Vu "External View" file takes the form of an RTF file containing a multi-column table, including columns for the source and target text in which each segment occupies a table cell. In an as-yet untranslated "External View" file, the target column is empty. A "translated" External View file is produced by entering the translation in the target column. To translate the file in OmegaT, proceed as follows:
1. Convert the file from RTF to OpenOffice.org format.
2. Make a copy of the External View file, and delete from it the content of all columns except the source-text column.
3. Translate this file in OmegaT in the usual way. Inline tags within segments take the form of serial numbers within curly brackets, i.e. {1}, {2}, etc. Be careful to preserve these in the same way that you would handle OmegaT's own inline tags (the inline tag functionality of OmegaT, such as the tag validation function, is not available in this case, however).
4. After completing the translation and creating the translated documents, copy the translated column from the translated file back into the target column of the original file.
5. Convert the file back to RTF format.
In order for this procedure to be used, the Déjà Vu user must prepare the source text file and supply it to the translator in the Déjà Vu "External View" format. More information on the format and the procedure for its creation, for both users of Déjà Vu and of other CAT tools on the helpful blog maintained by Kevin Lossner.
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