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Our priorities for the next government
The next government must ensure that the focus on improving quality of care established in the wake of the Francis report is sustained. It will also need to set in train a transformation of services to meet the needs of patients more effectively. Looking further ahead, the big question is how to provide adequate funding to meet future demand for health and social care.
It is essential that politicians are honest with the public about the scale of these challenges. The stakes are high – without a clear mandate for change, the next government may find itself helpless to address them.
Our view of the challenges and priorities
We set out here our view of the key challenges and priorities for the next government:
More of our work in the run-up to the next general election
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The priorities for any government will be to promote self-help and people looking after themselves better. We believe more effort should be focused on building people's connections with their local community organisations in order to promote self-help. Our website http://www.useyourcommunity.com enables people to find their local community organisations and access them for services. We created our site because we found that many people did not realise there are local organisations in their area that they can turn to for support. Please raise awareness of the need for people to access their local organisations.
It would make sense to match patients with local services if they were of consistent quality and fit for purpose. Two families living in the same area are often treated completely differently and mostly this is down to how good the GP you are lucky enough to get an appointment with is. This also leads to conditions becoming more acute, as GPs are trying to save money and treating conditions locally which should be referred to a hospital, therefore, we in some cases, are achieving the exact opposite of that intended (ie reducing hospital admissions through A&E.
Hello. I have to do a short pitch next week and I am finding it difficult to find a short summary on the cost & effects of mental health problems in the UK. There is endless long papers on the internet but I just need the facts and reference to where they have come from. If you can help me at all, I would be most grateful.
Many thanks.
Julieanne Reel.
can anyone direct me on where I might find information on people with mental health issues having/using a personal budget and what is or isn't effective. I am doing an essay on personalisation agenda and the impact on people with mental ill health. Thank you
5 years into retirement I think those still in health should stop being brainwashed and take a good look at our health service: we are continually told that it is the best but as I travel the world I have yet to find a worse one. I am in Morroco at present hence the lack of punctuation...indeed I am struggling a little with the keyboard: Morrocans have social policy that works and is very different than that which I understood: free education from 5 to 16 support for those unable to work and free hospital care when required. I believe we need honest unbiased research into the best affordable care then support to make it happpen.
The problem with mental health related disorders is that the help in the community is virtually non-existent, not until people get to the stage of the mental health acts that they receive help. Instead of building more mental health institutions. Focus on funding recovery centres in the community available to the public.
Prevention is better than the cure.
These centres would have a knock on effect to the general hospitals aswell and reduce people being held under the mental health acts.
Ultimately, this idea, over a long term period, would save the nhs millions if not billions of pounds.

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Coles Myer has 'room to move' on capital
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Credit ratings agency Standard & Poor's yesterday gave a tick to Coles Myer's big profit improvement, saying the retailer now had financial latitude to devise capital management plans without jeopardising its BBB rating.
S&P's endorsement still leaves Coles Myer some way from an upgrade, but the retailer on Wednesday indicated it did not necessarily want a higher rating just yet and was "comfortable" at its current level.
While the credit agency was satisfied with Coles Myer's 26 per cent increase in full-year net profit to $576.5 million (before one-off gains), at least one equities analyst believes the best has already been packed into the retailer's share price.
In a report circulating in the market yesterday, Morgan Stanley's senior retail analyst, Martin Yule, downgraded his recommendation on the stock and told clients the shares were "pretty much fully valued".
He argued that the consumer peak might have already passed and Coles Myer's non-food businesses still had to prove they could be profitable if consumer spending weakened.
Coles Myer shares yesterday fell 16 ¢ to $9.16 after sliding 15 ¢ on Wednesday. Woolworths also eased, losing 8 ¢ to $13.53, as analysts considered the rival supermarket chains' competing claims to be either most profitable or lowest-cost operator.
Morgan Stanley's analysis contended that Coles Myer's cash flow had failed to grow at the same rate as profits.
Morgan Stanley also pointed to a disappointingly small improvement in key measures such as stock turns, and expressed far more caution than Coles Myer's executives about future industry conditions.
Most analysts disputed Coles Myer's claims that the currency's appreciation had had little effect on profits, with rough estimates of the earnings impact ranging from $60 million to $140 million.
Some argued that weaker consumer spending would put Coles Myer's profit goals at risk.
They also claimed that the food and liquor division had to pedal harder so the group was not relying for profit growth on Target, Kmart and Myer, the units most vulnerable to swings in consumer spending.
Credit Suisse First Boston told clients its analysts had doubts about further sales and earnings growth for Kmart as it appeared competitively constrained by stablemate Target.


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These are the wonderful comics entitled "The Misadventures of Whizzer Black."
There are the scenes of the leading role "Whizzer Black" being harassed thoroughly hard by women
around him. As it's in characters' explanation below, he is a freshman and the only male student at
the "University of Femdomia." And it also seems from the contents, he has married his dream girl
Constance and he is getting being teased at home every night.
I think it's very difficult to express the sexual theme by comics, without losing the fragrance of
eroticism. Because, laughter mind is critical mind that is separated a few steps from an object.
It is separated from carrying out empathy to an object and being excited.
But, this cartoon has got a splendidly rare success, without spoiling both humor and eroticism.
How attractive the each woman who appears and loves abusing a male is!
"Misadventures"? He doesn't seem so. Maybe there is no "lucky" male than him in this whole world.


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"Hate Purple"
14 Feb 2005
"Hate Purple"
Eliza by Rowan is finished.
I have frogged and re-knitted the sleeves three times. I have unpicked and re-sewed the seams three times. I'm still not so happy with the seams and may unpick and re-sew them again.
But the most frustrating thing is that I have to wait until Spring issue of knitty to find out how to 'pick up and knit' along a curved edge. Until then, the neck remains crocheted.
What did the gorgeous model say when I asked her to put it on? "Hate Purple". Of course you do darling. After all, you chose the colour yourself. This mothering business is such a thankless task.
Mustn't grumble. Tomorrow I shall share my progress in the neverending Clapotis yarn search. I may just have to bite the bullet and order the Lion & Lamb from America.
In the meantime I am endlessly knitting side-to-side in garter stitch trying to make a long cross-fronted jackety thing out of snippets of a pattern, snippets of a picture and an idea of my own. I will let you know how it progresses, but until it looks a bit more presentable she stays under wraps.
Did someone say Valentines' Day?


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Rob Zombie Premieres Video for "Well, Everybody's F**king in a U.F.O."
Rob Zombie has premiered the lyric video for "Well, Everybody's Fucking in a U.F.O." The song comes off his upcoming solo album, 'The Electric Warlock Acid Witch Satanic Orgy Celebration Dispenser,' due April 29 via UMe/T-Boy Records.
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SUBJECT : Rules of thumb for pumps 2-7
If you want to know a pumps capabilities, the rules are simple. Look at the manufacturer's published pump curve. The problem is that you do not always have the curve available. Pump companies test their pump to determine its performance, they have no need for general guide lines or "rules of thumb."
Over the years I've accumulated many of these rules to help me estimate pump performance. Here are a few of them:
These numbers assume that the lubricating oil is not being contaminated by water from one or all of the following sources:
An automobile engine running at 1750 rpm. would cover about 100,000 miles (160,000 kilometers) every 2000 hours (83 days in the life of a constantly running pump ). Auto manufacturers recommend changing their automatic transmission oil every 25,000 miles ( 40,000 kilometers)
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Mitsubishi WD380U-EST Ultra Short Throw WXGA DLP Projector Review
Specs for the Mitsubishi WD380U-EST
MSRP: $1299, Street Price $1249
Technology: DLP
Native Resolution: WXGA (1280×800)
Brightness: 2800 lumens
Contrast: 3000:1
Zoom Lens ratio: Fixed
Lens shift: None
Lamp life: Up to 3000 hours (Normal mode), 6000 hours (Eco mode)
Dimensions: (With lens) 12.8"W x 4.4"H x 10.2"D
Weight: 9 lbs.
Warranty: 3 years Parts and Labor on projector, One year or 500 hours on lamp
Mitsubishi WD380U-EST Projector Special Features
3D Ready – incorporates DLP Link 3D technology, when used with compatible 3D field sequential content and active shutter 3D glasses (not included) that support the DLP Link system.
PC-Free Presentation – The WD380U-EST can project slideshows or PowerPoint presentations (when converted to PtG files with included software), directly from a USB thumb drive.
Full Color Management – for individual adjustment of each of the projector's primary (red, green and blue) and secondary (cyan, magenta and yellow) colors. This allows the user to adjust the saturation, hue and brightness of each color to their tastes.
Crestron RoomView Network Service – The WD380U-EST supports Crestron's RoomView management system. This allows for centralized access and control over a single projector or multiple projectors simultaneously, as well as notifications which can be distributed to each projector.
Mitsubishi WD380U-EST Projector - Physical Tour
The Mitsubishi WD380U-EST has its lens slightly offset right of center when facing the front of the projector. The convex lens protrudes from the front of the projector because, like most ultra short throw projectors, the WD380U-EST does not project straight ahead, but rather upward diagonally from the projector, thus allowing it to be placed close to the screen.
A focus ring surrounds the lens, with its adjustment tab on top. Fortunately, with as much as the lens protrudes, the WD380U-EST comes with a fairly substantial lens cap. There is an IR receiving eye on the bottom right corner of the front panel and two front height adjustment feet in each corner. Unfortunately, there is no rear height adjustment at all. It continues to baffle me why manufacturers don't include four adjustable feet on multimedia projectors, especially short throw ones, as it would be much easier to square the projector to the screen (with minimal or no keystone correction) if all corner feet were adjustable.
On the right side (while facing it from the front) of the projector are a 10-watt, built-in speaker, an air intake vent and a lock bar. On the left side is an air exhaust vent.
Most of the left half of the top of the projector serves as a cover for the lamp. There is a single screw on the top edge of the left side of the projector that, when removed, allows for removal of this cover. This facilitates replacing the lamp when the WD380U-EST is ceiling mounted, without having to unmount the projector.
Toward the rear, in the middle, is a control panel with the most oft-used functions, plus indicators for power on and status (both lamp and temperature). There are buttons for Power, Menu, Navigation (Up, Down, Left, Right and Enter). The Enter button also functions to access the keystone correction and the Up/Down buttons also serve for keystone adjustment when not in the menu. The Left and Right menu navigation button also function to switch between computer and video sources respectively. Finally, the Up button also functions access the Auto Positioning, which provides proper display of a computer image.
Moving to the rear panel, we find a wide array of connections. Starting at the top left, there is a second IR receiving eye and an audio output jack (for an external speaker system), followed by two audio input mini jacks and stereo RCA audio inputs. These are followed by S-video and composite video inputs, RS232 serial control jack and a RGB monitor output jack. Next are two RGB/component video inputs, an HDMI input, a USB Type B jack and a USB Type A jack (for PC-free presentations from a USB thumb drive). Finally, we have an RJ45 jack for a network connection, a Kensington lock and the power cord jack.
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International Drive is one of Orlandos liveliest areas, as well as being a shoppers paradise, with an abundance of designer outlet stores, shops and boutiques, there is also a wide range of attractions including themed mini-golf courses, museums and numerous restaurants.
The best way to explore the many attractions on International Drive, is on foot, or jump aboard the I-Ride trolley bus, which runs continually throughout the day and evening; International Drive is also home to Seaworld, Aquatica and Universal Studios.
Pillinger World Travel can offer a good selection of 2 and 3 bedroom condos to rent on International Drive, ideal for those wanting home from home facilities, but who dont necessarily want to drive.
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Anderson man arrested on cockfighting charges
Police have arrested a man on charges he was organized cockfights in a central Indiana city.
The Herald Bulletin reports 23-year-old Celestino Jimenez-Cortes was released on bond from the Madison County Jail Tuesday after police arrested him on felony charges of animal fighting. The Associated Press couldn't reach him for comment Wednesday because there was no phone listing in his name.
Police seized 24 birds when they raided Jimenez-Cortes' home in Anderson after a witness told investigators he saw Jimenez-Cortes fighting roosters for money in 2012 and gave police a photo of Jimenez-Cortes with some roosters.
A police affidavit says Jimenez-Cortes told investigators he made the roosters fight because he wanted a photo taken for a tattoo he desired. He said he kept the birds for eggs.
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Free-Diving for Abalone in Northern California
To harvest abalone off the California coast, you need lung power—and more than a little stealth
YOU'D THINK it would be easy to creep up on a dinner-plate-size mollusk that has barely any means of locomotion. But there I was, feeling as sleek and furtive as a circus clown as I tried to take an abalone by surprise, wearing a thick, hooded wetsuit and 18 pounds of weights strapped to my waist.
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Not only has Rebecca Tay been to LFW, she's been shot (above) by famed street style photographer Garance Doré at LFW (you know you're hot when…).
London Fashion Week is calling (February 18-23, 2011)… and unlike New York, where it's all about looking your designer best, eccentric, individual style plays a larger role at Somerset House. Sure, you'll still see plenty of editors wearing that Celine bag, but you'll also spot more mix-and-match, high-low, new-vintage mashups. Here's the inside scoop:
Must-see shows: The biggies—Christopher Kane, Burberry, Matthew Williamson, Erdem, Jonathan Saunders—if not for the clothes, then for the high production levels and brilliant venues.
Must-see venue: The Topshop space in the former Eurostar terminal at Waterloo Station. It's a small hike to get up there, and H-O-T inside, but oh, so cool.
Noteworthy presentation: Anya Hindmarch. Last season's showroom was nautical themed, drawing editors to a boat on the River Thames. On one level was the collection of mega-cute accessories; on the other was a café serving up mini, fashion editor-sized portions of kedgeree.
Easy-to-spot celebrity: The perennially-cool Alexa Chung.
Packing essentials: Fashionable flats in a dustbag that fits in your fashionable purse, to slip on in the Tube once your fashionable five-inch heels have become too painful to be fashionable.
Hot shop: Yes, it's cliché, but Topshop, Oxford Circus. This megastore has the best collaborations, often scheduled to launch during fashion week. Previous designers: Chris Kane, Mark Fast, Ashish, and Meadham Kirchhoff.
Rebecca is the former Western Editor of FASHION Magazine and now Managing Editor of interactive content at Artizia.


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U.S. Not Leaving Afghanistan, Just 'Wants to See Other People for Awhile'
By Barry Hussein, KABUL – U.S.A. America defense minister Robert Gates brushed off rapid fire interrogation from town criers gathered at Denny's yesterday, as they (the criers) demanded to know if the United States (U.S.A America) was leaving Afghanistan as rumored on the street.
"Oh no you guys," Gates said, "we just want to see other people for awhile."
Most Parties Bad, Study Shows
By The Serge, LOS ANGELES – Prestigious Caribbean think tank MyGoodies released what amounts to a 35-year landmark study on parties, "Parties: a Study", today at Denny's.
The result?
Most parties are bad.
Poll: Cool People 'Don't Feel Cool Enough'
Forget the global financial crisis. A new shocking wave of global concern is shock-rocking shoppers and commuters and threatening to add more lumps to everybody's gravy, even those who chose not to order it. The cause for concern? Prestigious Caribbean think tank MyGoodies announced yesterday at Denny's that according to in-depth research most cool people "don't feel cool enough".
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Pentagon Chef Admits Strategy in Afghanistan Not Succeeding
VIRGINIA- Revered Pentagon head chef Pierre de Papineau has locked horns with the White House over the administration's plans to continue what the Grande Chef calls "a strategy that is, frankly, I tell you honestly, not working," in the war in Afghanistan.


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Mitch Kapor's avatar in Second Life. Screenshot by Fleep Tuque.
Over on my other blog Wired State, I have an article Who Was Really Behind the Anti-SOPA Campaign? Not the Grassroots but the Astroturf Machines of Mitch Kapor.
I think it's a pretty good summary, based on a lot of tech blogs bragging about the "real" forces behind the campaign (griefers can never help but victory dance!) -- which they hasten to tell you "isn't" Google and isn't some big tech company but scrappy little NGOs that "came out of nowhere," as Mike Masnick said, lying through his teeth. He knows full well in fact as I outline that it was a hardened and seasoned cadres of the anti-copyright movement who had been funded for years in a number of projects by Mitch Kapor.
Where has Mitch Kapor been all your Second Life, you ask? Do you remember him at the 5th birthday party when he spoke? That time he spoke about the "emotional bandwidth" of Second Life, a term I think actually an IBM lady invented. He called us "pioneers" -- but misfits:
When you see this resin, you should be seeing a big red vertical arrow just at the margin between the early adopter phase and the pragmatist phase. That is really where we are today and I think that has some very important implications and I want to talk about that for a minute. So the first is, in the earliest wave of pioneers in any new disruptive platform, the marginal and the dispossessed are over represented, not the sole constituents by any means but people who feel they don't fit, who have nothing left to lose or who were impelled by some kind of dream, who may be outsiders to whatever mainstream they are coming from, all come and arrive early in disproportionate numbers.
It was the way the west in the U.S. was settled. It is the way Second Life has been settled. And in fact those early pioneers find a very arduous environment. In the early days, you really have to want to be here because life in certain ways is very very difficult, in fact too difficult for most people. It is unavoidable in some sense that there will be a very high attrition rate in the early years while a platform is being built out. It doesn't stay that way of course, it can't, but the difficulties of conditions cause those who stay to really bond together, have something in common.
Was it the way Silicon Valley was settled? So that boys from Brookly who once went to Yale and worked as psychologists could take up computer science and forge the new electronic frontier?
I always thought it was odd that for someone who invested in a company and led it -- and for such an idealistic company -- Mitch had nothing ever to say. He is very quiet. He never blogs any more and only produces anodyne tweets for the most part. Maybe his PR people told him that after that 5th birthday speech backfired, he should just not talk. I also think he totally lost interest in Second Life because he was immersed in other projects.
Remember, Philip was deposed from the CEO position and put in as board chair, which meant Mitch had to become then just a regular member of the board.
What do they talk about? Who knows, it's a private company and its minutes aren't on the record.
So despite the fact that we really know little about what he thinks or does, except what some tech blogs and a bit of mainstream media might report, Shava Nerd took enormous exception to my article outlining the connections among his various causes leading to the defeat of SOPA, dubbing it a crackpot conspiracy theory. Er, no, it's a report how Mitch Kapor funded the organizations and nurtured the people that killed SOPA -- people who had spent their lives fighting copyright, who only in recent years, with large injections of Soros money, began covering up this criminality with a "free speech" cause.
Shava has been busy self-righteously writing rebuttals -- and drawing in another guy who I had heard of but never encountered, the famous ESR, Eric S. Raymond, he of Cathedral and Bazaar, Linux, etc.
And they've both been savaging me on G+ and in my blog comments -- great! Bring it! I love a good argument.
But I stand by my post, because I didn't claim Mitch Kapor personally pulled a string and Shava and ESR lifted up their right arms and then clicked on an anti-SOPA petition, that's absurd. I said that inspired by his heavy ideological take on the Internet, his ardent belief in removing copyright, his still-capacious sums of personal wealth, he founded organizations that promote his beliefs and continue to influence politics and even have more influence than ever. These include Electronic Frontier Foundation, Participatory Culture Foundation, and Fight for the Future (this last one is more of a front organization, I maintained, as it has little substance -- it only has a very slight web page with just the anti-SOPA campaign and not much presence or depth).
Mitch seems to be ahead of his time. Lotus 1-2-3 wasn't user friendly, and never go used by more than a few hundred thousands -- Microsoft took the lead in office software. While we were wondering what happened him when he wandered away from Second Life, he was fervently pitching Miro as the next great home of democracy and disruption of TV. It wasn't. It seems mainly to survive as a way to arrange your porn and illegal movie downloads (and some would say that's a lot like what happened to Second Life, although I personally reject that analysis). He funded Downhill Battle to hate on and finish destroying the music industry after Napster got done with it, but it fizzled out, too, because the music industry didn't die on cue. EFF was founded to provide legal defense to illegal hackers facing legitimate prosecution and has always retained its criminalized feel, lawfaring away against copyright to beat the band. Participatory Culture...what does that do again? It's seems mainly a campaign funding vehicle to work on things like battling SOPA.
Of course, there are lots and lots of other things Mitch Kapor does -- helping underprivileged teens in inner cities and so on. He is widely admired as a nice guy by those who know him. And I'm sure if you tune in on a certain wavelength, he's just ducky. Who doesn't like a goatee and a Hawaian shirt? Sing along with Mitch!
But I find these organizations he has made and the people in him -- and of course the figure of John Perry Barlow and some of the others -- downright sinister in their destructiveness, all under cover of techno-utopianism. How did he meet Barlow? I can't find the answer to that question. Maybe they went to Bohemian Grove. Or a Dead concert? Or who knows...
This is a good info graph showing the connections.
Why do I return to the figure of Mitch Kapor?
Because I really resent the fact that he had a good thing in Second Life that had found a way to weld community/commerce/content (as c3 would say!) with more or less working tools (c3 would disagree) and a very avid if small user base. But he sneered at it because it wasn't ideologically correct according to his fervent open-source religion. In fact, everything about it revealed his open-source cult to be a fraud and a failure. That's probably why he turned his back on it.
People didn't want to create a commons and share and click and make Creative Commons licenses -- like he and his pals could pretend was happening in some huge phenomenon on the Internet (it was, and it wasn't...). When given freedom, they chose copyright -- and how. They fought fiercely for it. It more or less worked, even with the obvious holes. They also didn't sit around in politically-correct drum circles singing Kumbayah and figuring out architectural plans for greenhouses in Nepal. Instead, they built tacky malls, had kitschy art shows, went to maudlin amateur live music shows, and had tawdry sex. Imagine, the temerity! People always mess up things for the utopians!


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Tick-borne hemorrhagic fever viruses (TBHFV) are detected throughout the African and Eurasian continents and are an emerging or re-emerging threat to many nations. Due to the largely sporadic incidences of these severe diseases, information on human cases and research activities in general have been limited. In the past decade, however, novel TBHFVs have emerged and areas of endemicity have expanded. Therefore, the development of countermeasures is of utmost importance in combating TBHFV as elimination of vectors and interrupting enzootic cycles is all but impossible and ecologically questionable. As
Tick-borne pathogens are ubiquitously present throughout the world and are significant global health and agricultural concerns. Ticks serve as vectors and/or reservoirs for bacterial and viral pathogens with enzootic life cycles. The enzootic life cycle of many of these pathogens is often understudied, however with increases in agricultural activity and expansion into previously unutilized lands contact between humans, domesticated and wild animals, and ticks is increasing. Increased contact has resulted in recent emergence of several important zoonotic pathogens and in particular novel viruses. Tick-borne viruses (TBVs) account for a significant portion of tick-borne disease burden especially in the Eurasian and African continents.
Many tick species carry TBVs and the clinical disease caused by these viruses vary broadly. Humans are typically incidental dead-end hosts for TBVs and outbreaks caused by TBVs are usually sporadic, however sustained outbreaks of disease have also been reported [
During the 1940s, physicians in the Omsk region of Russia noted unusual cases of febrile illness accompanied by hemorrhagic manifestations. Reports of disease were limited to a restricted geographic region and were associated with muskrat hunting and/or processing [
OHF has been reported in the Russian regions of Kurgan, Tjumen, Omsk and Novosibirsk; however the vectors of disease have a more broad distribution range (
Due to the geographically limited nature of the outbreaks clinical data on OHF is limited (
Comparison of disease signs between humans and mice following Omsk hemorrhagic fever virus infection.
|Incubation period
|3–7 days (average)
|5–8 days
|Disease duration
|8–14 days (up to 5 weeks in biphasic patients)
|9–13 days
|Disease signs
|Fever, cephalalgia, cough, myalgia, dehydration, gastrointestinal symptoms, facial hyperemia, epistaxis, gingival and vaginal hemorrhage, hemorrhagic rash, hepatomegaly
|Weight loss, piloerection, lethargy, hunched posture, conjunctival suffusion, neurological signs
|Hematologic changes
|Thrombocytopenia, leukopenia, neutrophilia, monocytosis
|Leukopenia, neutrophilia
|Pathologic changes
|Respiratory tract, uterus, liver, GI tract
|Brain, thymus, spleen, urinary tract, GI tract
|Case fatality
Following OHFV inoculation several animal species develop asymptomatic viral infection including hamsters, Norway rats, African green monkeys (AGM) and bonnet macaques [
BALB/c and C57BL/6 mice are susceptible to disease following inoculation of OHFV by the intraperitoneal (i.p.) and subcutaneous (s.c.) routes. The incubation period of OHF-like disease in mice is 5–8 days p.i. following either route of infection. At disease onset, infected mice display rapid weight loss, ruffled fur, general malaise, hunched posture and conjunctival suffusion with crusting. In addition, mice develop splenomegaly, splenic hyperplasia, splenic necrosis, necrosis and apoptosis in the cerebellum accompanied by infiltration of mononuclear cells, necrosis and inflammation of the thymus, and hemorrhagic manifestations within brain, liver, urinary/reproductive and GI tract. Infected mice also develop transient leukocytopenia and neutrophilia and increases in total bilirubin, blood urea and globulin levels [
Neither AGM nor bonnet macaques infected with high dose of OHFV develop disease signs. Bonnet macaques do not display viremia or any pathologic manifestations while AGM support OHFV replication and may transiently display a hemolytic syndrome, accompanied with leukopenia, thrombocytopenic purpura and increases in serum aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) without other disease signs [
OHF is a clinically important, but rare disease, affecting a select population within a geographically restricted area. Susceptible mice develop a rapid, inflammatory syndrome, which shares some similarity to the most severe cases of human OHF. Murine models will therefore be useful for evaluating the efficacy of OHF countermeasures such as vaccines and antivirals; however due to the differences between murine and human immune systems the predictive power of this model to define disease progression and correlates of protection may be limited. Therefore, further research is needed to characterize other animal models, especially AGM, which faithfully replicate the typical human disease progression.
Beginning in 1950s, cases of a novel febrile illness were reported in humans in Shimoga district of the Karnataka (formerly Mysore) state, India [
Despite the distribution of tick vectors, KFD cases are geographically restricted to Karnataka state and following its discovery annual epidemics, comprising of hundreds of cases, have been documented (
KFD begins with an incubation period estimated to be between 3 and 8 days followed by sudden onset of fever, cephalalgia, diarrhea and severe myalgia (
Comparison of disease signs between humans, mice and bonnet macaques following Kyasanur forest disease virus infection.
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|3 days
|3–5 days
|Disease duration
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|3–8 days
|6–8 days
|Disease signs
|Fever, cephalalgia, myalgia, diarrhea, cough, hepatomegaly, splenomegaly, epistaxis, bradycardia, oral and intestinal hemorrhage, meningoencephalitis
|Fever, diarrhea, bradycardia, hypotension
|Paralysis, weight loss
|Hematologic changes
|Leukopenia, thrombocytopenia, neutropenia, eosinopenia, elevated liver enzymes
|thrombocytopenia, leukopenia, elevated liver enzymes
|Not reported
|Pathologic changes
|Kidney, liver, lung
|Kidney, liver, lung, spleen and lymph nodes
|Brain, lungs
|Case fatality
Clinical presentations of AHF are reported as hemorrhagic manifestations accompanied by liver dysfunction with a case fatality of up to 25% [
To date no animal studies have been conducted with AHFV, however based on limited serological data sheep, goats and camels are involved in the transmission cycle of AHFV [
Several rat and mouse species, gerbil, porcupines, shrews, squirrels, cattle and NHPs (bonnet macaques) have been experimentally infected with KFDV [
KFDV was first isolated by intracranial (i.c.) inoculation of serum or tissue homogenates from deceased NHPs into newborn (2–3 day old) mice [
NHPs, specifically bonnet macaques (
Experimentally infected bonnet macaques develop diarrhea, bradycardia, hypotension, thrombocytopenia, leukopenia, anemia and elevated liver enzymes similar to humans [
KFD is a serious human illness with a limited geographic distribution. It has yearly incidence, which corresponds to peak activity of its tick host. Unlike many TBVs, KFDV has both rodent and NHP models. Although mice do not recapitulate human disease they are effective as screening models for evaluating vaccines and antivirals, while bonnet macaques more accurately recapitulate human disease.
In 2007, in the Huaiyangshan mountain range in China, patients with an unknown syndrome were reported. The disease was named severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) and was found to be a caused by a Phlebovirus of the
As of early 2013, SFTS cases have been identified in Henan, Hubei, Shandong, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, and Liaoning provinces of China and in South-West Japan (
The incubation period of SFTS following tick bite or unprotected contact with the blood of a viremic patient is unknown but secondary cases develop symptoms within 3 weeks of contact with a viremic SFTS patient (
SFTSV infection and disease progression has only been described in rodent models, however serological analysis implicates a role of cows, goats, sheep, dogs, pigs, chickens and hedgehogs in the SFTSV transmission cycle [
Adult BALB/c mice, Wistar rats, Kunming (KM) mice and both adult and newborn Syrian hamsters are susceptible to, but do not develop disease following, SFTSV inoculation by the i.p. or i.c. route [
Following i.c. inoculation of SFTSV newborn Wistar rats, KM, BALB/c, and C57BL/6 mice develop a severe, uniformly lethal disease (
Comparison of disease signs between humans and mice following severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus infection.
|Suckling Mouse
|Mitomycin C treated
|Incubation period
|≤21 days
|≤3 days
|Not reported
|6–9 days
|Disease duration
|3–7 days
|≤18 days
|≤21 days
|2–8 days
|Disease signs
|Fever, cephalalgia, myalgia, arthralgia, dizziness, malaise, mucosal hemorrhage, hemorrhagic rash, multi-organ failure, disseminated intravascular coagulopathy, neurological symptoms
|Weight Loss
|Weight loss, piloerection, lethargy and hind limb paralysis
|Hematologic changes
|Leukocytopenia, thrombocytopenia, elevated liver enzymes
|Leukocytopenia, thrombocytopenia, elevated liver enzymes
|Elevated total bilirubin, decrease in albumin
|Pathologic changes
|Liver, spleen
|Case fatality
A non-lethal C57BL/6 mouse model recapitulates some hematological signs of human SFTS (
Together the rodent data suggest that impairments in the immune system are required for development of severe disease as has been suggested to occur in severe human SFTS [
SFTS represents a novel viral hemorrhagic fever, which is currently geographically restricted to North-East China and South-West Japan but threatens a large population. However, lack of information on transmission, disease and endemicity, coupled with the potential of person-to-person transmission may allow SFTSV to spread and cause outbreaks even in distant geographic areas e.g. travel. Therefore, the development of effective postexposure treatments is imperative. To this end, existing rodent animal models of SFTS may be useful as screening models for vaccine development and testing of antivirals. However, rodent models do not mimic human disease progression or case fatality and therefore development of alternate animal models, ideally NHP models, would be desirable for further elucidation of SFTSV pathogenesis.
In the 1940s, soldiers in Crimea experienced a febrile illness accompanied by severe hemorrhagic manifestations [
In contrast to other TBHFVs, CCHFV is widely distributed and has been reported in over 30 countries spanning Africa, South-Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Western Asia (
CCHFV has a wide host range and can cause a transient viremia in many wild, domesticated and laboratory mammals [
Following the incubation period, typically 1 to 7 days post exposure, patients experience a rapid onset of high grade fever, fatigue, cephalalgia, dizziness, photophobia and myalgia, often with nausea, vomiting and diarrhea (
Comparison of disease signs between humans and mice following Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus infection.
|Newborn mice
|IFNAR−/− mice
|STAT1−/− mice
|Incubation period
|1–7 days
|≤3 days
|≤3 days
|≤2 days
|Disease duration
|10–12 days (average)
|4–5 days
|2–3 days
|1–2 days
|Disease signs
|Fever, cephalalgia, myalgia, arthralgia, dizziness, malaise, mucosal hemorrhage, hemorrhagic rash, multi-organ failure, disseminated intravascular coagulopathy
|Weight loss, piloerection, lethargy, hind limb paralysis
|Weight loss, piloerection, lethargy, occasional hemorrhage
|Weight loss, piloerection, lethargy, occasional hemorrhage
|Hematologic changes
|Leukocytopenia, thrombocytopenia, increase clotting times, increased pro-inflammatory cytokines/chemokines, elevated liver enzymes
|Thrombocytopenia, increased clotting times, elevated liver enzymes, increased pro-inflammatory cytokines/chemokines
|Thrombocytopenia, elevated liver enzymes, increased pro-inflammatory cytokines/chemokines
|Pathologic changes
|Liver, spleen, lung
|Liver, spleen, lymph node
|Liver, spleen
|Case fatality
Adult mice, rats, hamsters, guinea pigs, rabbits, ostriches, cattle, sheep, goats, donkeys, horses, and NHPs are susceptible to CCHFV infection but do not develop signs of disease [
Newborn mice and rats are susceptible to infection by the i.p. and i.c. routes and exhibit a uniformly fatal disease with neurological signs, which are uncommon in human cases (
Signal transduction and activator of signaling-1 knockout (STAT1−/−) and Interferon αβ receptor knockout (IFNAR−/−) mice are susceptible to lethal disease following CCHFV infection [
CCHFV is the most widely distributed TBHFV with an endemic area of >30 countries. CCHFV infects a wide range of mammalian hosts but only causes disease in humans, newborn mice and mice strains deficient in type I interferon signaling. While knockout mouse strains offer a tool to assess CCHFV countermeasures, disease progression in these animals differs from human CCHF, which limits the use of the models to study CCHF disease progression. Therefore, the development of animal models, ideally NHP models, which more faithfully reproduce human clinical manifestations are needed to assess disease progression and to confirm efficacy of CCHFV countermeasures
TBHFV are present throughout the Eurasian and African continents and are an emerging or re-emerging threat to many nations. To date, with the exception of CCHFV, TBHFV are geographically limited and not well studied. As a result, limited research tools, most notably animal models, are available for most of these pathogens. In the past decade, however, TBHFVs have emerged (
This work was supported by the Division of Intramural Research (DIR), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH). We would like to thank Tom Schwan (DIR/NIAID/NIH) and Martha Thayer for their assistance in obtaining tick distribution data. We thank Anita Mora, Heather Murphy and Austin Athman (DIR, NIAID, NIH) for their help with the graphical illustrations.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.


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There is little evidence of the swaggering tailoring of Bill Blass, none of the impassioned sensuality of Donna Karan.
His ideas for spring were all familiar tropes—so much so that the collection seemed perfunctory rather than impassioned.
In an impassioned call to action, he urged American doctors, nurses, and health care professionals to join Africa in its fight.
The impassioned activists who stress the issue have become less vocal and far less visible.
Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge, it is the impassioned expression which is on the face of all science.
The thought of the play is penetrating rather than impassioned.
He held, as he himself somewhere says, that "impassioned thoughts and sublime imaginings have no strength in them."
Many have felt this picture—at once so serene and so impassioned—to be a revelation.
It was a love-scene, and rather of an impassioned character; Villebecque was her suitor.
1590s, from Italian impassionare "to fill with passion," from im- "in, into" (see im-) + passione "passion," from Latin passionem (see passion). Related: Impassioned.


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Three self-styled Nazis who picketed the White House with anti-Jewish and anti-Negro banners were remanded for hearings in Municipal Court here Wednesday, after being arraigned this morning as a result of a demonstration in front of the President's residence this weekend. Four other uniformed Nazis arrested in the roundup of seven adherents of the American Nazi party forfeited bail of $10 each, thus avoiding trial.
The men were arrested following a fracas when a passerby tore down a swastika banner which they carried. Police charged the banners were designed "to excite passions and hatred." Jack Dubrowsky, 37, of Farmingdale, N.J., charged by the police with being the man who snatched the swastika banner from the hands of some of the Nazis, was also arrested and likewise forfeited $10 bail.
Police said one of Rockwell's men, identified as Ralph P. Forbes, 22, listed as residing in Arlington, Va., suffered a bloody nose. Forbes chose to appear in court as did Harry E. Blair, 24, and Lawrence G. Smith, 21, both listed as residing in Rockwell's Nazi barracks building. Following the arrests, 13 "Storm Troopers" appeared in front of the White House to begin a new picket line.


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With the help of Republicans, the Senate's Democratic majority has advanced a jobs bill, our colleagues at On Politics tell us.
Republican Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts broke with the GOP to vote to break a threatened filibuster, 62-30. Three Four other Republicans joined him. Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska was the only Democrat to vote no.
A vote on the legislation is set for Wednesday.
Here's a statement Brown, the newest senator, released before debate began:
I came to Washington to be an independent voice, to put politics aside, and to do everything in my power to help create jobs for Massachusetts families. This Senate jobs bill is not perfect. I wish the tax cuts were deeper and broader, but I will vote for it because it contains measures that will help put people back to work.
I was disappointed with the continuation of politics-as-usual in the drafting of this bill, as it was crafted behind closed doors, without transparency and accountability. I hope for improvements in that process going forward. All of us, Republicans and Democrats, have to work together to get our economy back on track. I hope my vote today is a strong step toward restoring bipartisanship in Washington.
Other Republicans who voted to end debate, called cloture, were Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine, Kit Bond of Missouri and George Voinovich of Ohio. He is retiring.
Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada said he hoped the vote marks the start of a "new day" in the Senate.
The bill would allow businesses that hire unemployed workers to forgo paying Social Security payroll taxes on them through December and give them a $1,000 credit if new workers stay on the job a full year.
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X Factor champion Alexandra Burke is at number one in the singles chart for a third week with Hallelujah.
Another X Factor winner Leona Lewis is still at two with Run, just ahead of new act Lady Gaga's track Just Dance.
Lady Gaga has been tipped by music experts to be one of the big names of 2009, so could be a big rival to Alexandra and Leona in future.
And to complete a pretty good week for female artists, the Sugababes climbed 60 places to 23 with No Can Do.
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Recap - Boston Defeats Toronto 5-2
Boston shook off a 11-strikeout performance by R.A. Dickey and still managed to post a 5-2 victory over the Blue Jays on Sunday at Fenway Park.
Boston was favored by -150 and came through for bettors backing them. The game went UNDER the consensus closing total of 8.5.
Boston got 7 innings from Felix Doubront, who gave up 2 earned runs on 4 hits, while striking out 2. He earned the victory, while the Red Sox got 3 RBIs from Jackie Bradley in the win.
Toronto's starting pitcher R.A. Dickey worked 8 innings, giving up 6 hits and 5 earned runs while striking out 11 in the loss. They got 2 hits from Kevin Pillar in a losing cause.
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New Structural Material - Fiber Reinforced Plastics
Carbon 3-D Fabric, developed by Kajima (above), was used in the curtain-wall panels of the Sea Fort Square building in Japan's demanding coastal environment.
The Need
Traditional structural materials are heavy and require a great deal of maintenance. If a new breed of structural material could be produced that was lighter, stronger and more resistant to corrosion, impacts, parasites and chemicals, it could be a good substitute for steel, concrete, masonry and wood.
The Technology
One new material that has the potential to meet these demands is starting to show up on the construction industry market, it is Fiber Reinforced Plastics (FRP). Some technologies that have been developed using FRP materials within the last few years are listed as the following:
- Structural Shapes
FRP can be made into constant cross-section structural shapes, such as W-sections and tube sections, through the pultrusion process of manufacturing. Almost any shape, or combination of shapes, can be created with the pultrusion process. Pultruded structural shapes have good strength characteristics, are very light, require little or no maintenance, and can be erected easily and quickly.
- Concrete Reinforcing
FRP has all of the major requirements to provide adequate tensile and compression reinforcing in concrete structures, but eliminates many of the poor qualities of standard steel. It can be used in applications requiring reinforcing in one, two, or three dimensions, although pultrusion can only be used to create one-dimensional reinforcing. The other types of configurations are developed by weaving mats of fibers, impregnating them with resin, and then curing the resin.
- Prestressing and Post-Tensioning Tendons
Generally, concrete has been prestressed and post-tensioned with high-strength steel cables to help it resist tensile stresses, reduce cracking and deflections. However, FRP has many characteristics that make it a better candidate for the tendons in concrete structures compared to steel, including high tensile strength, flexibility with regard to size and shape, light weight, and corrosion resistance. Especially, since FRP does not suffer any adverse affects from exposure to environmental factors, the post-tensioning can be greatly simplified by allowing the cables to reside outside of the structure itself. With this change, the concrete will not have to accommodate post-tensioning ducts thus reducing concrete fabrication time, and the process of installing the cables is much simpler. Some characteristics that may make it a poor candidate for this application are not fully understood, but could include low modulus of elasticity, creep, and fatigue. If FRP is to become widespread as reinforcement, these issues must be addressed and resolved.
- Pre-Engineered Structural Systems
FRP can be used to create structural systems that have enough strength to resist service loads, and can decrease life-cycle costs as compared with traditional materials. Especially, the components can be manufactured off-site, significantly reducing on-site construction time and increasing quality control. Using the pultrusion process, manufacturers can create almost any constant-cross section shape they like, allowing them to be creative with the structural members and connections they use. Typically, these systems are unique to the designer and manufacturer, as no standards have been developed for these systems.
The Benefits
The benefits include: low weight, high strength, ease of erection, and corrosion resistance. These factors combined lead to lower install costs and lower maintenance costs. When the manufacturing process is perfect and the standards have been developed, the initial costs may be lower as well. All of these factors could lead to lower life-cycle costs than using traditional materials.
For the applications of structural shapes in FRP, several companies have manufactured the structural shape products, such as Mitsubishi Kasei Corporation in Japan. However, currently the building codes do not allow the use of these members due to a lack of testing for properties strengths.
For concrete reinforcing, FRP has been used in many applications as a reinforcing bar, especially in harsh marine environments where its full potential can be exploited. One example of this use is concrete subbeams of the ground floor of a three-story apartment house built by Mitsui of Japan. 3-D meshes have been used by Kajima Co. as concrete reinforcing for a 23 story building in Japan.
FRP prestressing and post-tensioning of concrete structures is currently the most widely used application of FRPs. One example in Canada is a highway bridge in Calgary, Alberta. Carbon FRP (CFRP) was used to prestress the two-span, bulb-Tee sections. It was opened to Traffic in 1993 and undergoes continuous monitoring of its structural integrity. Another example that uses FRP for prestressing is a concrete berth built by Sumitomo Construction Co., Ltd. in Japan. FRP rods were used for prestressing simply supported hollow girders used in a barge. An example related to post-tensioning is a bridge in Marienfelde, Berlin, that uses glass FRP to externally post-tension the structure.
A major effort is undertaken to develop new hyprid and all-composite construction methods. Among the hyprid structures are concrete piers reinforced with rebars and glass fiber reinforced pulltruded rods. Moreover, carbon fiber reinforced composites sheets are laid into the deck construction of new bridge or the replacement of the damaged steel or concrete decks, and new bridge columns are being wrapped with carbon reinforced composites sheets. The first short-span road bridge was built in Russell, Kansas, which was opened on Nov. 9, 1996. It was designed and fabricated by all fiberglass composite and performed as well as steel or concrete bridges. The first all-composite full service bridge is currently being built at an estimated cost of 55 million dollars to connect two parts of UC San Diego campus over interstate I-5, began from 1996 (Wallenberger, 1995). Other examples include several footbridges crossing streams and rivers in Western U.S. national parks. Composites were chosen for these bridge because they are environmentally friendly in their materials and construction techniques.
One barrier to the widespread use of these technologies using FRP materials is that they have not been broadly accepted by building code authorities. Some concerns still remain about FRP's fire resistance, long-term creep characteristics, and failure mechanisms. Also, every manufacturer of FRP uses a different combination of resins, fibers, and geometry. This has led to significant difference from brand to brand, and no set of standards (ASTM, AASHTO, etc.) has been developed for FRP.
Points of Contact
- Professor Antonio Nanni, Civil Engineering Department, University of Missouri-Rolla, 119 Butler-Carlton Civil Engineering Hall, Rolla, MO 65409-0030. Phone: (573)341-4400. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
- Coordinated Program for Research on Advanced Composites in Construction, NSF, September, 1994.
- "New Leadline Line-up." FRP International, Spring 1993, pp. 4.
- Li, Victor C. "New Construction Materials Proliferate in Japan." Civil Engineering, August, 1995, pp. 38-41.
- International Research on Advanced Composites for Construction. Bologna, Italy. June 9-11, 1996.
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Neither the Construction Industry Institute nor Purdue University in any way endorses this technology or represents that the information presented can be relied upon without further investigation.