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Interim Guidance for Influenza Outbreak Management in Long-Term Care Facilities
The following guidance is current for the 2018-2019 influenza season. Please see Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices – United States, 2018-2019 Season for the latest information regarding recommended influenza vaccines. Please see Antiviral Drugs: Information for Health Care Professionals for the current summary of recommendations for clinical practice regarding the use of influenza antiviral medications
Long-term care facilities may be defined as institutions, such as nursing homes and skilled nursing facilities that provide health care to people (including children) who are unable to manage independently in the community. This care may represent custodial or chronic care management or short-term rehabilitative services.
Influenza can be introduced into a long-term care facility by newly admitted residents, health care workers and by visitors. Spread of influenza can occur between and among residents, health care providers, and visitors. Residents of long-term care facilities can experience severe and fatal illness during influenza outbreaks.
Toolkit for Long-Term Care Employers
This Long-Term Care Employers toolkit is a guide to increasing flu vaccination among healthcare personnel in long-term care settings. It includes resources intended to help long-term care facility owners and administrators provide access to influenza vaccination for their workforce, and to help anyone working in long-term care understand the importance of influenza vaccination for their employees.
Preventing transmission of influenza viruses and other infectious agents within health care settings, including in long-term care facilities, requires a multi-faceted approach that includes the following:
- Vaccination
- Testing
- Infection Control
- Antiviral Treatment
- Antiviral Chemoprophylaxis
Before an Outbreak Occurs
Influenza vaccination should be provided routinely to all residents and health care workers of long-term care facilities.
If possible, all residents should receive trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine (TIV) annually before influenza season. In the majority of seasons, TIV will become available to long-term care facilities beginning in September, and influenza vaccination should commence as soon as vaccine is available. Informed consent is required to implement a standing order for vaccination, but this does not necessarily mean a signed consent must be present.
In the event that a new patient or resident is admitted after the influenza vaccination program has concluded in the facility, the benefits of vaccination should be discussed, educational materials should be provided, and an opportunity for vaccination should be offered to the new resident as soon as possible after admission to the facility. Since October 2005, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has required nursing homes participating in Medicare and Medicaid programs to offer all residents influenza and pneumococcal vaccines and to document the results. According to requirements, each resident is to be vaccinated unless contraindicated medically, the resident or legal representative refuses vaccination, or the vaccine is not available because of storage. This information is to be reported as part of the CMS Minimum Data Set, which tracks nursing home health parameters.
Health Care Personnel
CDC and the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), recommend that all U.S. health care personnel get vaccinated annually against influenza.
- Health care personnel who get vaccinated help to reduce the following:
- Transmission of influenza
- Staff illness and absenteeism
- Influenza-related illness and death, especially among people at increased risk for severe influenza illness
- Higher vaccination levels among personnel have been associated with a lower risk of health care facility-associated influenza cases.
- Influenza outbreaks in hospitals and long-term care facilities have been attributed to low influenza vaccination coverage among health care personnel.
- Higher influenza vaccination levels among health care personnel can reduce influenza-related illness, and even deaths, in settings like nursing homes.
When there is influenza activity in the local community, active daily surveillance (defined below) for influenza illness should be conducted among all new and current residents, staff, and visitors of long-term care facilities, and continued until the end of influenza season. Ill residents, personnel, and visitors should be excluded from the facility until illness has resolved.
Even if it's not influenza season, influenza testing should occur when any resident has signs and symptoms of influenza-like illness. More information about testing is included below.
When there is a confirmed or suspected influenza outbreak
(2 or more ill residents)
If there is one laboratory-confirmed influenza positive case along with other cases of respiratory infection in a unit of a long-term care facility, an influenza outbreak might be occurring.
While unusual, an influenza outbreak can occur outside of the normal influenza season; therefore, testing for influenza should be added to testing for other respiratory pathogens during non-influenza season periods.
Even if it's not influenza season, influenza testing should occur when any resident has signs and symptoms that could be due to influenza *, and especially when two residents or more develop respiratory illness within 72 hours of each other.
- Determine if influenza virus is the causative agent by performing influenza testing on respiratory specimens (i.e. nasal swabs, throat swabs, nasopharyngeal swab, or nasopharyngeal or nasal aspirates) of ill residents with recent onset of signs and symptoms suggestive of influenza.
- In order of priority, the following influenza tests are recommended: reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR); immunofluorescence; rapid influenza diagnostic tests.
- Because of the possibility of false negative results during influenza season, if influenza is suspected and immunofluorescence or rapid influenza diagnostic test results are negative, perform confirmatory testing using RT-PCR or viral culture. Information on influenza diagnostic testing is available online or by contacting your state public health laboratory.
- Because of the possibility of false positive results, especially outside of influenza season, perform confirmatory testing using RT-PCR or viral culture if immunofluorescence or rapid influenza diagnostic test results are positive.
- Viral culture should be performed if additional information on influenza viruses, such as influenza A virus subtype, antigenic characterization to compare with vaccine strains, or antiviral resistance data, are needed. Additionally, viral culture can be used to confirm results from rapid diagnostic testing (as mentioned above)
- Determining influenza virus type or subtype of influenza A virus can help inform antiviral therapy decisions.
- Test for other respiratory pathogens as well if it's not influenza season.
- Once an outbreak has been identified, outbreak prevention and control measures should be implemented immediately.
Implement daily active surveillance for respiratory illness among ill residents, health care personnel and visitors to the facility.
- During an outbreak, once a single laboratory-confirmed case of influenza has been identified, it is likely there are other cases among exposed persons.
- Conduct daily active surveillance until at least 1 week after the last confirmed influenza case occurred.
- Test for influenza in the following:
- Ill persons who are in the affected unit as well as previously unaffected units in the facility
- Persons who develop acute respiratory illness symptoms more than 72 hours after beginning antiviral chemoprophylaxis
- Note that elderly persons and other long-term care residents, including those who are medically fragile and those with neurological or neurocognitive conditions, may manifest atypical signs and symptoms with influenza virus infection, and may not have fever.
- Ensure that the laboratory performing the tests notifies the facility of tests results promptly.
- The local health and state health departments should be notified of every suspected or confirmed influenza outbreak in a long-term care facility, especially if a resident develops influenza while on or after receiving antiviral chemoprophylaxis.
Implement Standard and Droplet Precautions for all residents with suspected or confirmed influenza.
CDC's guidance titled Prevention Strategies for Seasonal Influenza in Healthcare Settings contains details on the prevention strategies for all health care settings. Specific recommendations are highlighted below.
Standard Precautions are intended to be applied to the care of all patients in all health care settings, regardless of the suspected or confirmed presence of an infectious agent. Implementation of Standard Precautions constitutes the primary strategy for the prevention of healthcare-associated transmission of infectious agents among patients and health care personnel.
Examples of standard precautions include:
- Wearing gloves if hand contact with respiratory secretions or potentially contaminated surfaces is anticipated.
- Wearing a gown if soiling of clothes with a resident's respiratory secretions is anticipated.
- Changing gloves and gowns after each resident encounter and performing hand hygiene
- Perform hand hygiene before and after touching the resident, after touching the resident's environment, or after touching the resident's respiratory secretions, whether or not gloves are worn. Gloves do not replace the need for performing hand hygiene.
Droplet Precautions are intended to prevent transmission of pathogens spread through close respiratory or mucous membrane contact with respiratory secretions. Droplet Precautions should be implemented for residents with suspected or confirmed influenza for 7 days after illness onset or until 24 hours after the resolution of fever and respiratory symptoms, whichever is longer, while a resident is in a health care facility.
Examples of Droplet Precautions include:
- Placing ill residents in a private room. If a private room is not available, place (cohort) residents suspected of having influenza residents with one another;
- Wear a facemask (e.g., surgical or procedure mask) upon entering the resident's room. Remove the facemask when leaving the resident's room and dispose of the facemask in a waste container.
- If resident movement or transport is necessary, have the resident wear a facemask (e.g., surgical or procedure mask), if possible.
- Communicate information about patients with suspected, probable, or confirmed influenza to appropriate personnel before transferring them to other departments.
These Precautions are part of the overall infection control strategy to protect against influenza in health care settings and should be used along with other infection control measures, such as isolation or cohorting of ill residents, screening employees and visitors for illness, furloughing ill health care personnel, and discouraging ill visitors from entering the facility.
In some cases, facilities may choose to apply Standard Precautions and Droplet Precautions for longer periods based on clinical judgment, such as in the case of young children or severely immunocompromised residents, who may shed influenza virus for longer periods of time.
Because residents with influenza may continue to shed influenza viruses while on antiviral treatment, infection control measures to reduce transmission, including following Standard and Droplet Precautions, should continue while the resident is taking antiviral therapy. This will also reduce transmission of viruses that may have become resistant to antiviral drugs during therapy.
Administer influenza antiviral treatment and chemoprophylaxis to residents and health care personnel according to current recommendations.
All long-term care facility residents who have confirmed or suspected influenza should receive antiviral treatment immediately.
Treatment should not wait for laboratory confirmation of influenza.
Antiviral treatment works best when started within the first 2 days of symptoms. However, these medications can still help when given after 48 hours to those that are very sick, such as those who are hospitalized, or those who have progressive illness.
Three influenza antiviral drugs approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration are recommended for use in the United States: oral oseltamivir (available as a generic version or under the trade name Tamiflu®), as a pill or suspension; zanamivir (trade name Relenza®), available as an inhaled powder using a disk inhaler device; and intravenous peramivir (trade name Rapivab®). It should be noted that some long-term care residents may have difficulty using the inhaler device for zanamivir.
Amantadine and rimantadine are NOT recommended for use because of high levels of antiviral resistance among circulating influenza A viruses.
The recommended dosing and duration of antiviral treatment is twice daily for 5 days. Longer treatment courses for patients who remain severely ill after 5 days of treatment can be considered. Dosage adjustment may be required for children and persons with certain underlying conditions. Clinicians should consult the manufacturers' package insert for recommended drug dosing adjustments and contraindications.
Having preapproved orders from physicians or plans to obtain orders for antiviral medications on short notice can substantially expedite administration of antiviral medications.
For more information on the antiviral agents see Recommended Dosage and Duration of Treatment or Chemoprophylaxis for Influenza Antiviral Medications.
All eligible residents in the entire long-term care facility (not just currently impacted wards) should receive antiviral chemoprophylaxis as soon as an influenza outbreak is determined.
When at least 2 patients are ill within 72 hours of each other and at least one resident has laboratory-confirmed influenza, the facility should promptly initiate antiviral chemoprophylaxis to all non-ill residents, regardless of whether they received influenza vaccination during the previous fall. Priority should be given to residents living in the same unit or floor as an ill resident. However, since staff and residents may spread influenza to residents on other units, floors, or buildings of the same facility, all non-ill residents are recommended to receive antiviral chemoprophylaxis to control influenza outbreaks.
Antiviral chemoprophylaxis is recommended for all non-ill residents, regardless of their influenza vaccination status, in long-term care facilities that are experiencing outbreaks.
Antiviral chemoprophylaxis is meant for patients and residents who are not exhibiting influenza-like illness but who may be exposed or who may have been exposed to an ill person with influenza, to prevent transmission.
Use of antiviral drugs for chemoprophylaxis of influenza is a key component of influenza outbreak control in institutions that house residents at higher risk of influenza complications. While highly effective, antiviral chemoprophylaxis is not 100% effective in preventing influenza illness.
CDC recommends antiviral chemoprophylaxis for a minimum of 2 weeks, and continuing for at least 7 days after the last known case was identified.
Persons whose need for chemoprophylaxis is attributed to potential exposure to a person with laboratory-confirmed 2009 H1N1, influenza A (H3N2), or influenza B should receive oseltamivir or zanamivir. Zanamivir should be used when persons require chemoprophylaxis as a result of exposure to influenza virus strains that are suspected of being oseltamivir-resistant.
(For more information see Recommended Dosage and Duration of Treatment or Chemoprophylaxis for Influenza Antiviral Medications or the IDSA guidelines)
Antiviral chemoprophylaxis can be considered or offered to unvaccinated personnel who provide care to persons at high risk of complications.
While CDC recommends judicious use of antiviral medications for chemoprophylaxis to reduce the possibility of development and spread of antiviral resistant influenza viruses, chemoprophylaxis may be considered for all employees, regardless of their influenza vaccination status, if the outbreak is caused by a strain of influenza virus that is not well matched by the vaccine.
Antiviral chemoprophylaxis should also be considered in personnel for whom influenza vaccine is contraindicated.
An emphasis on early treatment is an alternative to chemoprophylaxis in managing certain persons who have had a suspected exposure to influenza virus. Health care personnel who have occupational exposures can be counseled about the early signs and symptoms of influenza and advised to contact their health-care provider immediately for evaluation and possible early treatment if clinical signs or symptoms develop.
For newly vaccinated staff, antiviral chemoprophylaxis can be administered up to 2 weeks following influenza vaccination with TIV. Persons receiving antiviral chemoprophylaxis should not receive live attenuated influenza virus vaccine (LAIV), and persons receiving LAIV should not receive antiviral treatment or chemoprophylaxis until 14 days after LAIV administration.
The latest CDC antiviral recommendations are available on CDC's influenza antiviral drugs page for health professionals.
Be Aware of the Possibility of a Drug-Resistant Virus
Residents receiving antiviral medications who do not respond to treatment or who become sick with influenza after starting chemoprophylaxis might have an infection with an antiviral-resistant influenza virus.
To limit the potential transmission of antiviral drug-resistant influenza virus, whether in chronic or acute-care settings or other closed settings, measures should be taken to reduce contact between ill persons taking antiviral drugs for treatment and other persons, including those receiving antiviral chemoprophylaxis.
Infection-control measures are especially important for patients who are immunocompromised to reduce the risk for transmission of oseltamivir-resistant viruses.
Notify the health department if a resident develops influenza while on or after receiving antiviral chemoprophylaxis.
Consider the following additional measures to reduce transmission among residents and health care personnel:
- Have symptomatic residents stay in their own rooms as much as possible, including restricting them from common activities, and have their meals served in their rooms when possible.
- Limit the number of large group activities in the facility and consider serving all meals in resident rooms if possible when the outbreak is widespread (involving multiple units of the facility).
- Avoid new admissions or transfers to wards with symptomatic residents.
- Limit visitation and exclude ill persons from visiting the facility via posted notices. Consider restricting visitation by children during community outbreaks of influenza.
- Monitor personnel absenteeism due to respiratory symptoms and exclude those with influenza-like symptoms from work until at least 24 hours after they no longer have a fever.
- Restrict personnel movement from areas of the facility having illness to areas not affected by the outbreak.
- Administer the current season's influenza vaccine to unvaccinated residents and health care personnel as per current vaccination recommendations. For the latest information on influenza vaccination, see CDC's seasonal influenza vaccination resources for health professionals page.
*Patients with illness associated with influenza virus infection often have fever or feverishness with cough, chills, headache, myalgias, sore throat, or runny nose. Some patients, such as the elderly, children with neuromuscular disorders, and young infants, may have atypical clinical presentations.
Seasonal Influenza Vaccination Resources for Health Professionals
Prevention and Control of Influenza with Vaccines. Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), 2010: Nursing Homes and Other Long-Term Care Facilities. MMWR 2010:59(RR08);1-62
CDC. Immunization of Health-Care Personnel. Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). MMWR 2011:60(RR07);1-45
Antiviral Drugs
2011-2012 Influenza Antiviral Medications: Summary for Clinicians
Seasonal Influenza in Adults and Children—Diagnosis, Treatment, Chemoprophylaxis, and Institutional Outbreak Management: Clinical Practice Guidelines of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP): Antiviral Drug Information for Health Care Professionals
Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP): Antiviral Drug Information for Health Care Professionals: Control of Influenza Outbreaks in Institutions. MMWR 2011:60(RR01);1-24
Guidance for Clinicians on the Use of Rapid Influenza Diagnostic Tests
Infection Control
Prevention Strategies for Seasonal Influenza in Healthcare Settings
Health care-associated infections and long-term care settings
Reported Outbreaks in Long-Term Care Facilities
CDC. Outbreaks of 2009 Pandemic Influenza A (H1N1) Among Long-Term Care Facility Residents — Three States, 2009. MMWR 2010:59(03):74-77
Additional References
Apisarnthanarak A, Uyeki T, Puthavathana P, Kitphati R, Mundy L. Reduction of seasonal influenza transmission among healthcare workers in an intensive care unit: A 4-year intervention study in Thailand. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2010; 31(10);996-1003.
Turnberg W, Daniell W, Duchin J. Influenza vaccination and sick leave practices and perceptions reported by health care workers in ambulatory care settings. Am J Infect Control 2010; 38(6):486-8.
CDC. Influenza vaccination of health-care personnel: recommendations of the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) and the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). MMWR 2006;55(No. RR-2).
Salgado CD, Giannetta ET, Hayden FG, Farr BM. Preventing nosocomial influenza by improving the vaccine acceptance rate of clinicians. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2004;25:923–8.
Saito R, Suzuki H, Oshitani H, Sakai T, Seki N, Tanabe N. The effectiveness of influenza vaccine against influenza A (H3N2) virus infections in nursing homes in Niigata, Japan, during the 1998–1999 and 1999–2000 seasons. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2002;23:82–6.
Cunney RJ, Bialachowski A, Thornley D, Smaill FM, Pennie RA. An outbreak of influenza A in a neonatal intensive care unit. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2000;21:449–54.
Carman WF, Elder AG, Wallace LA, et al. Effects of influenza vaccination of health-care workers on mortality of elderly people in long-term care: a randomised controlled trial. Lancet 2000;355(9198): 93–7.
Saxen H, Virtanen M. Randomized, placebo-controlled double blind study on the efficacy of influenza immunization on absenteeism of health care workers. Pediatr Infect Dis J 1999;18:779–83.
Wilde JA, McMillan JA, Serwint J, Butta J, O'Riordan MA, Steinhoff MC. Effectiveness of influenza vaccine in health care professionals: a randomized trial. JAMA 1999;281:908–13.
Potter J, Stott DJ, Roberts MA, et al. Influenza vaccination of health care workers in long-term-care hospitals reduces the mortality of elderly patients. J Infect Dis 1997;175:1–6.
- Page last reviewed: October 30, 2018
- Page last updated: October 30, 2018
- Content source:
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD)
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•The Randolph County Court has approved the addition of a youth agent to the University Extension Center Staff on a half time basis. It was felt that the addition of a youth agent on a part time basis would permit the Extension staff to expand the Youth program according to John M. Douglas. The goal would be to reach youth not already participating in some type of youth activities and to provide more assistance to youth groups already functioning
•J.L. Oglesby, assistant manager of the F.W. Woolworth Store, has been transferred to the Woolworth Store in the new shopping center at Tulsa, Okla. He will assume his new duties Monday.
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•Wal-Mart Associates and Moberly Manager Larry Mize presented a $1,000 special anniversary contribution to Lloyd James, representing the Friends of the Park Foundation in Moberly. The check is earmarked for playground equipment at Candy Cane City in Rothwell Park says Jerry Calvin, Director of Recreation and Parks for the City of Moberly. Efforts for the Candy Cane City project were commenced by the Moberly Kiwanis Club. Mize says that Wal-Mart marked the close of its 25th year January 31. Calvin issues special thanks to Wal-Mart and other businesses who have contributed to the Candy Cane project.
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•The Moberly City council approved the purchase of the building at 200 N. Clark in the Monday night meeting. Tentative plans include moving municipal court and some police officers to the location as well as using portions of it for storage.
•Ward Two, Precinct Two at the National Guard Armory polling place has extra help on hand for today's Super Tuesday presidential primary election. Featured in a photo were three youth workers from Moberly High School including Halli Carter, Leslie Grothoff and Andie Wiesner. They are featured with election officials Reta Brubaker and Nancy Norton. Marilyn Holland cast her vote, featured in a second photo.

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Bruce Baker '65 has long believed legendary Wabash Professor Jack Charles deserved to be remembered as the outstanding teacher he was from 1940 through 1980.
In 1994, Baker — with help from Charles' former students across the country — published a Festschrift as a way of honoring the man who was by many accounts the quintessential liberal arts professor. That volume can be found in the Lilly Library (PA 26.C48 1994).
But Baker didn't stop there. To further honor Professor Charles, he established the John F. Charles Memorial Lecture with the idea that each year one of Charles' former students would speak on the topic of classics or world history.
Bill Cook '66, who has been a visiting professor at Wabash for the last two years, delivered the first talk Monday night.
Cook has taught at State University of New York at Geneseo since 1970, where he holds the title of Distinguished Teaching Professor. He is internationally known as a speaker, author, and authority on Medieval and Renaissance history.
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Where you live determines how long you wait for a new liver, but Johns Hopkins researchers propose a plan that prioritizes a patient's need for a liver, rather than their zip code. (Photo: Associated Press)
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Arsenal midfielder Jack Wilshere will not be available for England Under-21s' Euro 2013 campaign, Stuart Pearce has confirmed.
Goal.com revealed this week that the 21-year-old is likely to sit out much of the season's remaining weeks after picking up a recurrence of the ankle injury that forced him out of the entirety of last season.
Reports had suggested that Wilshere could feature in this summer's tournament in Israel, but the former Three Lions left back has admitted he is too important to Roy Hodgson's senior squad.
"Roy will be the one that guides it, full stop," Pearce told reporters. "It will be his call on who he thinks needs that tournament experience at this level. Wilshere and [Danny] Welbeck are so important to the seniors that they'll go with them, but there's a point where we have to see the emergence of young talent.
"You've only got to look at, say, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain. A year ago, everything was on an upward spiral and he was playing regularly.
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The former Three Lions left back believes that the senior national side will only be successful in tournament football if a culture of winning is instilled by youth teams also winning trophies.
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My opinion on the cursive writing debate
This morning, I learned on Michael Leddy's blog that today is John Hancock's birthday and National Handwriting Day. I suppose that's why I thought about handwriting, as I was making a mental list this evening of some large and small changes during my lifetime. In the last half-century, I've seen schools nearly give up teaching cursive writing.
My grade-school teachers in the 1950s and 60s had nice handwriting, and they were determined that we would learn a similar longhand script. We had daily assignments to complete from our Palmer's Penmanship books, and we were graded on our efforts.
How I detested penmanship! But the agonies of penmanship practice were worthwhile. By the time I was a young adult, I had developed a personal, legible, and fairly fast style of handwriting. Because my teachers insisted on mastery, I've never been handicapped or embarrassed by my handwriting skills or an inability to read (most) handwriting.
Today's teachers still "cover" cursive during spelling classes in second or third grade. However, the necessary practice to develop a smooth, flowing script is no longer required. Many students never give up printing. Some young adults can't read cursive handwriting. Some cannot even sign their names with connected letters. I don't blame the students. If schools no longer insist on a mastery of handwriting, most children will not choose to master the skill on their own.
Yes, times have changed. I realize that today's schools have a lot to teach. I realize that we're all typing and texting on our various electronic devices and not writing by hand as much. However, cursive handwriting remains a skill that's worthy of practice. In the adult world, neat, clear handwriting lends dignity and authority to every pen-and-paper communication. This is especially true of an attractive, distinctive handwritten signature. Consider John Hancock's famous signature. Then imagine his name, hand-printed in manuscript letters. Need I say more about the gravitas of good handwriting?
A person who cannot read and write in cursive is not as well-educated as a person who is fluent in cursive. It can't be denied. I think it's a shame -- yes, shameful -- that schools are doing such a poor job of teaching the handwritten form of the language.
Interested in improving your handwriting? Here are two good articles to read:
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Tips for Improving Your Penmanship
James of the The Heelers Diaries recently told an interesting story about handwriting -- see #3 in his list of nuns from Planet Zorg.


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ArenaLive - the new tournament UI and the interview with Vadrak
Posted 23 October 2012 - 04:04 PM
As there are few people out there that did more for the arena scene than Vadrak I welcome him today for an interview.
Hildegard: Hello and welcome Vadrak. First of all congratulations to ArenaLive, you work is highly appreciated. You know what follows next.
Vadrak: What did I eat today?
Hildegard: Yes! Of course!
Vadrak: For breakfast I had a piece of apple cake (so I guess the cake is not a lie!) and after uni I cooked me some pasta with Camembert cheese-sauce and spinach.
Hildegard: I like that choices. What made you start working on the tournament UI?
Vadrak: It first came to my mind when I was watching a NAO or AJ tournament with friends and there were problems with the unit frames showing the wrong people, games had to be restarted and so on. I think everyone who watched these tournaments remembers that time.
I thought instead of customizing normal unit frames, it would be a better idea to build unit frames from scratch that are designed to fit the needs of an arena tournament and therefore save the nerves of both, organizers and viewers.
Since I was busy with my exams at that time, I nearly forgot about it, until Vishas (he knew of my idea) asked me, if I could program a UI for the European tournaments you just started to organize. It was semester break, so I agreed and gathered my ideas how it should look like and started to create the addon which has now become ArenaLive.
Hildegard: How did the testing go?
Vadrak: Well at first I just invited friends into a group and looked if the unit frame basics were working (like hp- and powerbar), this was a very short period and no big problems appeared back then, because most of those functions already were done by blizzard, so I just had to edit them a bit to fit to the needs of the UI.
As soon as the basics were working, I coded the instant cast icons ( they were inspired by the ones that the old tourney UI used) and we started the first larger test. At that point there were only some small bugs, but nothing that wasn't solvable.
After this test and some feedback I got from the people that helped testing, I wasn't happy with the instant cast icons anymore, so I got rid of them, tried another approach and eventually created that thing I call cast history (the small icons beneath the cast bar) which gave me a headache more then once, but in the end I guess it was worth it.
Then the first real test with the European tournament team took place, with shout casters, streamers etc. which was a very interesting experience and I guess my addon, which at that point consisted only of the nearly done unit frames, did very well.
Well, by the end of the test I had gathered lots of information and could fix most of the bugs, that appeared during the testing. But since I got lots of new Ideas (e.g. creating an easy manageable scoreboard) work seemed to never end.
Then I got contacted by Michael Chapman, who organizes the Curse King of the Hill series and he asked, if he and his team could use my addon for the games last Friday. At first I wasn't sure if the addon is ready for tournaments, but I finally agreed (since there was no real alternative) and one could say, that the KotH became the final beta test for my addon this way. After the event I got some feedback from the KotH team (thanks for that), fixed the last few issues and uploaded the release version to curse.
Hildegard: So, looking forward. What do you think could come in the future as further development?
Vadrak: Apart from some less interesting things, like smaller bug fixes and some code cleaning, I'd really like to further improve the addon in it's ease of use. One new feature, that goes in this direction, is a small plug-in that was written by a friend of mine. It enables you to store teams in a drop down, that will automatically load the name and the player's that belong to this team into ArenaLive. I guess this feature could be really awesome for larger tournaments and it will definitely be part of the next larger update.
Another idea I had in mind is to add a role check, like we know it from Blizzard's Dungeon Finder, where one can choose between "player" and "spectator". Depending on what role you choose, you will either be loaded into ArenaLive's unit frames (player) or your unit frame will be hidden on the tournament participant's unit frames (spectator). The problem with this one is though, that not only the organizers, but also the players would have to install this addon, in order for it to work properly. I guess I'll need to get some feedback for this idea first.
And last but not least: I'll probably help out the shout casters and streamers not to join the arena too early, by simply disabling the "Enter Match" Button for the time it takes until the gates open (1 Minute if I'm right) and re-enabling it after that time.
Hildegard: How far is the step from your addon ArenaLive to a fully functional spectator client, used for LoL or CounterStrike?
Vadrak: That's an interesting question. Although I'd really like to see Blizzard releasing a spectator mode for WoW arenas, I guess we don't need this anymore. Since most of the features you need for a fully functional spectator UI are already included in ArenaLive or can be created with the tools we already have.
The only thing that I and I guess many others are really missing, is the possibility to get a 3rd person view of other players (like with priest's Mind Vision). So it would already be enough I guess, if they just add a button to watch the game from your teammate's point of view as soon as you're dead.
Hildegard: Or even a "enter as ghost/spectator" function. That could be used to extend the spectator client to Raids, Dungeons and Battlegrounds. Could one adapt ArenaLive to help stream other contents than arenas?
Vadrak: Basically it would be possible to do that, but first you would have to do small changes to the structure of ArenaLive, since in the current version it only shows the unit frames inside of the arena. But you could do that without big effort.
Hildegard: So if anyone wants to contact you, has questions about the addon or even wants to create different versions for other purposes - how should they contact you?
Vadrak: If you have any questions, encountered bugs or want to give me improvement suggestions regarding the addon, I would recommend you to leave a comment on the ArenaLive Curse page or use the ticket system at curseforge.
Since the addon is released under the terms of the General Public License, you can freely modify the addon to fit your needs without asking me. But if you want to get some advice regarding the structure of the addon or something like that, then you can also either PM me here at AJ or you can send me a mail to: [email protected]
Hildegard: We come to the end of the interview. Any shout-outs?
Vadrak: Well thanks for having me and yes, I'd like to thank a few people.
First I'd like to thank my good friend Shisei, who wrote the team storage plugin I mentioned earlier. He also helped me fixing a lot of bugs and to figure out as to how to program some parts of the addon.
Next I want to thank Vishas for contributing parts of the spelltables to the addon, Kazot for his ideas and helping me find a name for the addon and Diziet for some feedback/improvement suggestions (some of them will be added in a future build, e.g. bigger Buff-/Debufficons).
Then I've to thank the european tournament team and stunlocked for their testing and feedback and last but not least I want to thank the whole curse King of the Hill team, it was a lot of fun working together with you last week.
Hildegard: Thank you for the interview Vadrak.
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Video with ArenaLive - Curse King of the Hill tournament - part one
Video with ArenaLive - Curse King of the Hill tournament - part two
European tournaments - assembling a team
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Although this UI seems pretty fancy and nice i do believe that there could be some minor changes that would make it even better. Personally i would like to see a countdown on the trinkets, racial and any major cc like they show in the corners of the UI.
If I got your point right, then this is achieved by also installing OmniCC along with the addon. It just wasn't active on the screenshot featured in the article.
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why would u ever cast holy fire instead of mindspike?
i like shooting thunderbolts from the sky at my enemies just like my pikachu
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Is it possible to just use the party and enemy arena frames +spellalert and leave other stuff out somehow, the options didnt give much choices, Btw do you have to fill the frames by writing at start of every game or can they do it somehow automatically?
From your question I guess you want to use the addon not as a spectator UI, but as normal unitframes in everyday arena? Since this isn't the intended use of the addon, it is neither possible to disable unitframe parts nor are the names filled into the frames automatically, if the names differ from the ones before.
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why would u ever cast holy fire instead of mindspike?
i like shooting thunderbolts from the sky at my enemies just like my pikachu
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Thats what i wanted to know thanks. Is there anything similar comparable to the partyframes you have there, showing the instant casts history is one of parts i would like to have.
Not at the moment, but if more people would like to have a party/arenaframeset based on the arenalive theme, I could create an addon for that. I don't have that much time for coding at the moment though, since the semester started last week, so it probably would take a long time, until it is done. :/
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Last weekend, Walton County inmates participated in the local community clean-up at Legion Park sponsored by Commissioner Sara Comander. However the sight of prisoners in black and white striped jumpsuits shooting hoops raised eyebrows among a few passersby.
Driving past the park last weekend, Destin resident David Wood said he saw a dozen or so inmates playing basketball while officers sat in lawn chairs.
"There was a piece of heavy equipment off to side. It would be my guess they were waiting on something," he said. "Seems like a waste of taxpayer money to have a dozen employees sitting in lawn chairs on a Friday and Saturday. There could've been a better use of county employees' and inmates' time if they didn't have any work for them."
According to Major Stan Sunday, director of the Walton County Department of Corrections, the inmates were just taking a break to "shoot some hoops" in between citizens delivering their trash. The quarterly clean-up days are the county's answer to keeping the community free of unsightly waste dumped in the woods or on the side of the road. Inmates collected approximately 4000-pounds of trash at last weekend's clean-up.
The department has received calls about inmates working in the community in the past, but Sunday said it's not a common complaint. Commissioner Sara Comander has been working with inmates since 2004 when she was the public information coordinator with the Clerk of Court�s office. Since taking office as a commissioner in 2006, she has worked alongside the inmates at community clean-ups and has never heard any complaints about the program.
"I find them respectful, decent and more than willing to work," she said.
While Wood says the inmates are probably �fine citizens,� he told The Sun he would rather them play ball on their own court � especially since the jail does have a court of its own.
"It's not a nice public image for the county," he said. "What if you wanted to take your kids to the park or if your 13-year-old wanted to go to the park with some friends?"
The Florida Model Jail Standards and the Florida Corrections Accreditation Standards requires that inmates have the opportunity to have a minimum of three hours of outdoor exercise per week, weather permitting.
To work inside and outside of the jail facilities is considered a privilege and requires inmates to go through an initial classification and an objective classification interview. Inmates allowed to work outside their cell are called trustees.
"It is through this process that their eligibility to become and work as a trustee is determined," Sunday said. "Obviously, not all inmates are eligible. Of those that are eligible to work as a trustee, some are restricted to working inside the facility due to their classification and risk assessment. Others, again based on their classification and the approval of the support services lieutenant, are eligible to work outside the facility."
According to the Walton County Department of Corrections policy, inmates are selected based upon current and past charges, disciplinary records and overall adaptation to the jail environment. The eligibility of any inmate to participate in the work program is solely the decision of the classification department.
Inmates granted the privilege to work outside the jail perform tasks countywide such as trash pick-up, lawn maintenance, building maintenance and roadwork and right-of-way maintenance. They are a common sight along the side of the road, even along Scenic Highway 98. Anytime an inmate is working outside the facility, he or she is accompanied by an officer or a trained, certified county employee.
"The chance to work outside in the community helps occupy their time and energy doing something productive," Sunday said. "Many jobs have the potential for them to learn a vocation or trade, thus helping them with their chances of gaining meaningful employment upon their release and becoming productive members of society � and the inmate labor is a tremendous resource for the county."
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I seethe in rage and weep tears of unimaginable sorrow as I see my family come to rescue me. My son and daughter, flying over-watch as my wife descends to free me from the arcane bonds that hold me. I attempt to call out, to warn them away but I cannot. I can not speak. I can not move. I can only watch, helplessly as I see those I love fall prey to the hunters. My wife approaches, smiling, her mouth moving but I can not hear her beautiful voice. I commit that smile to my memory, knowing it will be the last time I ever lay eyes upon it. I watch her stop, and whip around to face a sensed threat, but it is for naught. These creatures had found an ancient sidhe weapon, one meant to combat my race, and used it against her. Her blood sprays, hitting me; I taste it apon my lips. As she falls, I see the life leave her eyes and part of me dies with her. At that moment, I did not believe any greater pain could be had.
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While not an in-depth study of womanhood — it basically scratches the surface, serving as what Gohn calls a "springboard" for deeper study and discussion — the book does make that connection with Mary. Gohn demonstrates how the big picture of God's plan for women is manifested in the Blessed Mother and is essential to understanding the dignity and beauty of womanhood.
"Blessed, Beautiful, and Bodacious" is very much testimonial in style. It is an intimate look into the life and struggles of a woman who searched and found her own beauty and purpose. Gohn offers very personal insight from her experience with decades of women's ministry and as a wife and mother. Her stories are very relatable, but they do at times tend to overpower the subject matter of the book.
The book is divided into the three sections identified in the title: blessed, beautiful and bodacious. The initial "blessed" section looks at the basic dignity of women. While Gohn does beautifully describe how God's relationship with Mary helps shape that identity in the second chapter, the first and third chapters tend to describe the dignity of humanity in general more than it actually unpacks the dignity of women in particular. While this general synopsis was not as specific as it could have been, the general explanation of human dignity and our relationship to God is still valuable.
In the "beautiful" section of her book, Gohn identifies what she calls the four universal qualities of womanhood, gifts that are "innate in every woman, inherent in her nature": receptivity, generosity, sensitivity and maternity. These four chapters, one devoted to each trait, were quite inspirational and can help the reader identify areas for personal growth. However, without contrasting these purportedly feminine gifts with those more inherent in men, parts of this section felt lacking in strongly portraying all four traits as fundamentally feminine gifts. To see that reciprocity, complementarity and deeper distinctions between womanhood and manhood could have given a fuller understanding of these gifts.
The third section, "bodacious," will tug at the heart of any woman. It goes into detail about "recovering our bodacious mission to be mothers." Gohn explains that everything we do as women is influenced by our femininity, the core of which is "our design and capacity to receive, conceive and nurture the gift of life."
This is something that has been lost in our culture, where the gift of maternity is often seen as an obstacle and an unjust intrusion on a woman. But Gohn captures the truth: that maternity is an incredible blessing and defining gift of women.
Overall, Gohn offers a lovely introduction to Catholic womanhood. I recommend it for anyone who is new to the topic. It'll give you a taste of feminine genius and encourage you to keep digging.
Jennifer Rey is web editor at Our Sunday Visitor.
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Pamela G. Smart
Associate Professor of Anthropology and Art History
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Specialization: Anthropology of artworlds; museums studies; cultural formations of modernity and postmodernity; symbolic economies of exchange and political economies of collecting, patronage and philanthropy under globalization; cultures of expertise.
Pamela Smart received her MA and PhD in anthropology from Rice University. After establishing and directing the Visual Culture program at Otago University, New Zealand, she joined the Binghamton University faculty in 2003, as assistant professor in anthropology and art history.
Smart's teaching addresses anthropological approaches to art, artworlds, and aesthetics, along with museum studies, and visual culture more broadly. Her research is concerned centrally with the character of the aesthetic as a socio-cultural phenomenon, and the methodological problem of analyzing it ethnographically. She pursues this interest through the institutional form of the art museum, examining the ways in which aesthetic dispositions are produced through the exhibitionary, managerial, and performative practices of museum personnel, understood in relation to the specific personal aspirations and political economies that animate museums.
Sacred Modern: Faith, Activism, Aesthetics, (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2011), investigates The Menil Collection, in terms of its particular historical roots and its distinctive institutional expression. The Menil Collection is underpinned by a complex set of commitments that the museum is called upon to advance. It is predicated on establishing an engagement with its works that is acutely aesthetic rather than pedagogical in character, eschewing the usual museum rendering of art as history. It is the character of this aesthetic, the processes by which it is produced, and the sensibilities that it is meant to generate that are the primary focus of this ethnographic study. It is also centrally engaged with anthropological enquiry into the mutually constitutive character of relationships between persons and objects, and the ways in which material worlds might be mobilized in the service of the sacred.
Her current project, Guggenheim Abu Dhabi: Making the Museum Global, addresses the international ambitions of the Guggenheim Museum, focusing on the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi. This project pursues three key lines of inquiry. The first concerns the identification or formulation of an aesthetic that has currency transnationally, and the second, reciprocally, concerns the creation of a transnational public for a museum that must at the same time address local political and cultural imperatives. Thirdly, the Guggenheim (like the Louvre and the Hermitage), in its global franchising of its brand, and the leveraging of its collection, has put pressure on orthodox understandings of art museums as social forms. This study examines this redefinition of the museum, in relation to a constellation of questions that address the political economy that underwrites massive cultural projects such as this and the distinctive political aspirations of those who seek to host them.
Sacred Modern: Faith, Activism, Aesthetics. (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2011).
"Aesthetics as a Vocation," in Art and Activism: The Projects of John and Dominique de Menil, Laureen Schipsi and Josef Helfenstein, eds. The Menil Collection/Yale University Press, 2010, pp. 21-39.
"Possession: Intimate Artifice at The Menil Collection," Modernism/Modernity 13.1 Spring (2006): 19-39.
"Crafting Aura: Art Museums, Audiences, and Engagement," Visual Anthropology Review 16.2 Fall-Winter (2000-2001): 2-24.
"Art of Transport, " Southern Review 33.3 (2000): 292-307.
Exhibitions Curated
Masks: Transforming Journeys, co-curated with Amy Groleau. Roberson Museum, September 7th,2007-April, 2008
Marking Milestones: Rites of Passage as Rituals of Belonging, co-curated with Amy Groleau and David Gerstle, Roberson Museum, March 6th-November, 2009
Courses Taught
Undergraduate Lecture Courses
Introduction to Visual Anthropology (200 level)
Visualizing Differences (300 level)
Anthropology of Art and Museums (300 level)
Undergraduate and Graduate Seminars
Cultures of Collecting (400 and 500 level)
Aesthetics, Politics, and Religion (400 and 500 level)
On Value (400 and 500 level)Anthropology of Art and Museums (500 level)