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Recently the private organization 'Rättighetsalliansen' (a Swedish group fighting to increase copyright) decided to send a legal threat to the Swedish Pirate Party (PPSE) for hosting The Pirate Bay (TPB). Claiming that the website of TPB is illegal they accuse PPSE of "assisting illegal activity". Basically they use chilling effects to silence free speech because of commercial interests.
"A chilling effect is the inhibition or discouragement of the legitimate exercise of a constitutional right by the threat of legal sanction" – Wikipedia
Rättighetsalliansen is a pro-copyright company lobbying and threatening their way to an extended copyright protection. Through legal threats they hope to scare people to comply with their demands even though the current service has not been declared illegal. PPSE is providing bandwidth to TPB and thereby acting in a simal manner as any ISP is doing when selling their services.
Considering that the people behind TPB where charged for assistance to copyright crimes this would technically be assistance to assistance to copyright crimes. Instead of going after who you consider to be the real criminals you try to break the infrastructure. Going after a smaller entity that can't risk the consequences that might occur if they were proven guilty in a trial.
An off-line comparison to this would be to demand that the post-office delivering mails, that might contain illegal objects, should be shut down instead of trying to prove the illegal activity taking place elsewhere. The method used here is to threaten the mail-carrier working at the post office with legal actions against them (that they can't afford losing) unless they stop delivering mails to the address that was considered "illegal". Going after the weak link in the chain might stop the service temporarily (until the chain is mended again) but won't affect the real "illegal problem".
The copyright mafia has been keen on using chilling effects to protect their commercial interests instead of working at the real problem. The pirate movement is often the target since they are fighting for free speech against the copyright mafia trying to increase copyright and setting their own rules. In the UK the pirate party (PPUK) were personally threatened with legal effects for hosting a proxy to TPB. Since the chilling effects used were in the form of personal legal threats the PPUK decided to take down the proxy because of lack of resources and fear of consequences. In Netherlands the copyright mafia is currently in court with PPNL who decided to take a defensive stand-point despite lacking sufficient resources for all the costs that a trial implies.
When commercial interests have the possibility of silencing competition with the help of chilling effects the society is going the wrong way. Not being able to utilize free speech because you might rub a big company the wrong way is a dangerous precedence to set.
Other, mostly Swedish, sources on this: Pirate Times (English), Anton Nordenfur, Fredrik Holmbom, Christian Engström, Marit Deldén, Upphovsreträtt, Frekar, Magnihasa (also writing about chilling effects), Hax, Falkvinge, Mina Moderata Karameller, Free Thinking, Sugbloggen, Erkstam. Sundsvalls Tidning, Norrköpings Tidning, Gefle Dagblad, Norrländska Socialdemokraten, Göteborgsposten, Helsingborgs Dagblad, Norran

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Bulldogs winger Hazem El Masri has been called into the NSW State of Origin squad as cover for Jamie Lyon, who continues to struggle with a hamstring injury.
Lyon has failed to train with the Blues all week after straining the leg muscle in Manly's loss to the Bulldogs last week. Blues officials claim a decision on Lyon's fitness will be made over the weekend, but it's believed the Manly centre will be released from the squad if he fails to complete tomorrow's training session.
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French Billionaire's T-Mobile Bid Is Great for U.S.
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French billionaire Xavier Niel's interest in acquiring T-Mobile is the best thing that ever happened to the U.S. mobile telecommunications market, particularly if the former programmer and porn peddler does the same in the U.S. as he did in France with his Free operator.
Niel has been called France's Steve Jobs. Rather, he is the French telecom industry's Gerard Depardieu. Niel doesn't have the actor's passion for alcohol or a Russian passport, but he does have the long hair, the paunch, the modest background of growing up in a town with a 25 percent immigrant population, the disdain for the ossified French establishment, and no college degree.
If Niel, France's eighth-richest man with a $9.2 billion fortune, persists, the American public will be treated to the public relations kit that English-language papers have drawn on for years when profiling the exotic tycoon, little-known outside France. People will hear of Niel's father giving him a Sinclair computer at 14, his early programming feats and business success with porn chats on the Minitel (the French precursor of the Internet, which, unlike the modern version, allowed true anonymity), his month in jail and conviction for failure to declare income from peep shows, his role in starting the first French Internet provider.
Americans will hear the (apocryphal) story of Martin Bouygues, the owner of France's third mobile operator, saying of Niel's attempt to get a mobile operator license, "I have not bought a castle so I could let the gypsies invade the lawn." They will learn how Niel used the quote, published by the satirical investigative paper Le Canard Enchainee: He sent a truck plastered with "We Are Not Gypsies" to Bouygues's headquarters -- and made fun of Bouygues upon finding no lawn to park on.
None of that matters much. It's in France, with its somewhat stuffy business culture that still frowns on jeans and open-necked shirts, that such colorful personalities rate at the top. The U.S. has seen its share of boastful rebels. It's Niel's vision of how a telecommunications provider should work that could finally give Americans a taste of one of Europe's tangible life quality advantages.
Niel launched Free Mobile in January 2012, and by April of that year, the service had 2 million subscribers. Free offered unlimited calls, texts and data for 20 euros a month ($27), mainly using the capacity of its biggest competitor, Orange. (Martin Bouygues labeled the market leader a traitor to the industry's interests for doing a deal with Niel). Now, Niel's company has 12 percent market share, and it's still growing faster than its competitors. Martin Bouygues, who once declared he'd rather "croak" than sell the mobile arm of his empire to Niel, was on the verge of doing just that earlier this year, when he bid for France's second-biggest mobile operator, SFR, and had to satisfy regulators. A rival, Numericable, got SFR in the end, but Niel was the real winner: The French mobile industry failed to consolidate, and his gypsy camp on the nonexisting lawn was safe.
Some might say Niel compromised on quality to be able to start his price war. Free is still building its own network, so, according to the French telecom regulator, it scores lower in service quality tests than its three more established competitors. The latest review put Free Mobile's average download speed at 4 megabits per second, and the regulator tsk-tsked. That speed, however, is higher than what any U.S. operator's 3G is able to deliver. In fact, it's comparable to Sprint's 4G speed. Plus, in France unlimited data plans are really unlimited: Throttling speeds for people who use a lot of data is not such a universal practice as in the U.S.
Meanwhile, here's what the entrance of Free did to a French mobile user's average monthly bill (numbers are in euros, EUR1=$1.34):
In the U.S., a mobile operator's average income per user is $48.17. There is a lot of room on that lawn.
The U.S. telecom establishment is as worthy of Niel's contempt as the French one, but it's tougher to break into because of the market's sheer size and its insular nature. Besides, with U.S. companies suffering from the French concept of economic patriotism, it's not clear whether the American regulators are ready for a disruptive French entrant.
There's also the fact that Iliad, Niel's holding company, has a $14.85 billion market cap, and it offered $15 billion for T-Mobile. It will have to raise the offer for Deutsche Telecom, which controls T-Mobile, to drop its plans to sell to Japan's Softbank, owners of Sprint. Niel, an avid venture investor and known risk-taker, may be punching above his weight.
If the upstart is sent packing, though, it will be America's loss, not his.
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If you're into strategy and don't mind losing all of your free time and some of your work time, there's FreeCiv. Think Civilization recast as a full-on client/server multi-player setup. I've not played it recently (no time to game at all lately, too much code to write!) but the graphics requirements should be fairly modest.
The best advise I ever saw in terms of meeting people (it wasn't direct at me, but it was on a mailing list that I was on) was "if you want to meet and/or date people who are interested in X, you've got to put yourself where people interested in X are." That's true for any given definition of X.
Figure out what your interests are, geek or otherwise. Don't take a cooking class just to meet chicks if you don't want to know how to cook for your own sake. If you are interested in it, though, get out there and do it. Meet people. If you're looking for geeky relationships (friendly or romantic), find your local LUG, or an open source project you're into may have a local users group. If you're into Star Trek or role playing, look for a local fan club or D&D group or LARP. If you're a somewhat religious person, get involved with your church/synagogue/mosque/whatever. (Note: Do NOT do that if you are not genuinely at least somewhat religious.) Personally I'd recommend taking a massage class. Not only is it a very good skill to have, it's a skill that many people appreciate in a person (friendly or romantic) and my understanding is those classes tend to be mostly women, too.
The geekier groups are likely going to be mostly male, but that's OK. You're trying to meet *people*, not *women*. The women come later, because they're people too.
If you already have a few friends, see about tagging along with them to things they do. Odds are if they're your friends you have interests in common, which means you probably have *other* interests in common, too. If they're real friends, they'll be supportive of your endeavors.
I'll also add that when people ask me how I learned to dance, my answer is always the same: By being a bad dancer for a long time and not caring, until I got good at it. Socializing is a learned skill. It will take time to learn. Just remember that it's a much "softer" skill than programming, but that doesn't mean it's not as complex or challenging.
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Decisions are based on road temperatures, rather than air temperatures, and salting is likely whenever road temperatures are near freezing. Other factors like moisture, heat retention and time of day or night will influence the decision. Treatment by salt is normally carried out after the evening peak traffic period or before the morning rush. This is because frost and ice do not normally affect road surfaces until late evening or early morning. Usually it takes two hours to complete a salting route.
Which roads we salt
With such a large road network, it would be unrealistic and uneconomic to attempt to treat all roads. All key routes in Wiltshire will receive precautionary salting when ice is forecast. This will include all motorways, trunk roads, class A and B roads and the more important lower class roads. This should ensure the majority of road users live within a reasonable distance of a salted road. This network is under constant review and may be expanded during the current season. Please remember that the majority of minor roads will receive no treatment, and because arrangements may not always go according to plan, you should never assume a road has been salted
If temperatures are predicted to remain below freezing after the morning rush, then a larger network may be salted. This additional network includes mainly lower class roads serving housing estates and main accesses to villages and hamlets.
During longer periods of cold weather ,we may instruct salting to deal with persistent ice on minor roads which are not included within the precautionary or community networks, and invoke arrangements with town and parish councils to take action in their area.
Why we salt roads
Our aim is to make the county's roads as safe as possible for road users and to reduce delays caused by bad weather. We salt key routes when there is a risk of ice. The key routes in Wiltshire total a length of 1160km (725miles) which is 25% of the entire maintained road network. Using our fleet of specialist vehicles, we provide a 24 hour response in bad weather. A single precautionary salting treatment will cost, on average, £17,000
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We supply and maintain some 1600 salt bins located throughout the county. They are available for both residents and the travelling public for use on public roads and footpaths. Requests for refills can be made online or by calling 0300 456 0105. If you require further details, please contact your town and parish councils
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- Attempt to create a safe route through a path / street, rather than clearing the full width of a road
- Beware of traffic, wear bright clothes and work with neighbours
- Do not spread salt in the rain - it will only wash away
- If a bin is empty, use table salt instead
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In periods of prolonged snow the main snow clearing resources will be concentrated on priority routes until they have been opened sufficiently to maintain a reasonable traffic flow in both directions. Other roads are then treated in accordance with local priorities and conditions.
Ploughing will commence as soon as there is sufficient depth to plough and it is apparent that snowfall is continuing.
If heavy or continuous falls are predicted a snow emergency will be called and the Emergency Control Centre established. In this event, the county's entire fleet of gritters will be mobilised and supplemented with the council's owned snow blades and blowers that are allocated to local farmers or contractors.
Footways (to include footways, pavements, cycle routes and cycleways) will only be treated in times of persistent ice or snow. When this occurs, salting and snow clearing will be confined to those footways where there is a high pedestrian usage.
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Master Gay Way, you seem mad. Did your team just lose to the same team you tied w/ earlier in the season? Keep that wannabee NFL fan rah rah shit in San Fag son. And Iron Sheik, Locklear was playing well I am pissed that he's gonna be mia all year. It's always a struggle with the Giants.
Iron I hope you don't hold on to last year's NFC Title game all your life bro, let it go.
2-2 and I think we make it. Skins have one easy ass fucking schedule but when they're not playing the Giants -- they play like shit so I expect the Browns to beat Washington next week. All praise be to NickyDooch.
And the Cowgirls man I won't even talk about them or the sorry ass Iggles.
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Wow look at the guy whos my team OWNED this season, punked in their house [the gay house in san fran since every san franite likes two fingers up their ass secretly] and got screwed last regular season when Boss was interfered with but no call. Speaking of no call -- where was that illegal hand no call on Bennett? ESPN showed it. Anyone who saw the game last night knows it was BS. But sports aren't determined by the zebras no matter what.
Crying about how tough your Niners are. Struggling with the Rams. Twice. I understand divisional games are tough. But you tied with the Rams. I guess you can take something from the God Men and say 'at least the GMen lost twice to the loser Skins and won it all'. Niners ain't no G-Men tho.
And now you pop off about GMs? No one knows your GM's name. His history in the league is futile at best. You wanna talk about great GMs and teams that are set you look no further then the defending Super Bowl Champs of the NFL. We BEEN set for the future and the present since we drafted Eli. Everyone who believes they are an NFL fan needs to bow to the greatness of the elite Jerry Reese and PRAY they had a GM like him. Not some idiot like say a Dan Snyder. I'll give you that the Niners are set for a while. But remember what the NFL stands for.
The Redskins will lose to the Browns in two weeks. Word to NickyDooch.
Noassatall but sexy in the facial region.
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This is what we had to deal with last night
Im sorry but that's a crackhead first down. Hail to the Crackpipe.
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All that fuck shit but you're bringing up the 80s. You're probably a 90's baby sucking on your moms tit when Steve Young won ya'll last ring in... 94? You wanna talk greatness? Stick to the 80s the only time ya'll was feared and that faggit 94 title against the Chargers... we've got titles in the last 4 decades son.
I hate teams that crown themselves before doing shit wtf is that? the Niners tradition has been dead since 1994. Gtfohere with that rah rah San Fran shit.
Even if the GMEN don't win again, I put the house on it that it ain't the almost 20 year drought great Niners.
MAD? When you cant seem to realize the gay population in NY is bigger and greater then any other city. You jump on my city because your ego has been hurt. I picture you a overweight underachiever with self esteem issues.
NINERS are 5-0 in the SUPERBOWL. We have 5 rings. The Giants have what?? Please remind me.
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• Hot Natured delivers "Benediction," a well-written, groovin' summer anthem
• Miguel Campbell will embark on his debut US Tour in September
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[VIDEO] Simian Mobile Disco "Species Out of Control"
Before the longstanding production duo Simian Mobile Disco unveils its new live show to the first North American audience on September 1 at FYF Fest, we're treated to a suitable dark music video for "Species Out of Control," one of the excellent cuts lifted from James Ford's and James Shaw's XLR8R Pick'd Unpatterns LP. What initially looks like headlights racing down a dark road (à la David Lynch's Lost Highway) gradually morphs into something more akin to a patently geometric DMT hallucination or maybe an alternate version of 2001: A Space Odyssey's time-travel scene. It's yet another mind-bending visual piece that matches seamlessly with Simian Mobile Disco's uniquely crafted and bubbling dance music.
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Hot Natured Release New Single "Benediction"
Hot Natured will release new single 'Benediction' on October 29.
Hot Natured – aka house music brothers-from-another-mother Jamie Jones, Lee Foss, Ali Love and Luca C – will release an album in Spring 2013 and this is the first sign of activity from the project in the run up to the LP.
Jamie Jones has been playing the tune at his Paradise party at DC10 in Ibiza all summer long, so if you haven't heard it yet, you know what to expect from 'Benediction'. It continues that lush, poolside sound that Jones and the crew are renowned for.
The quartet have written their new album between sessions in Los Angeles, London and Ibiza and if this single is anything to go by, it's going to be a sizzling affair. Which is just how we like it.
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Miguel Campbell Announces Debut US Tour
Leeds-based house artist Miguel Campbell will head out on his first US tour in September.
Campbell will be touring in support of Back In Flight School, his debut LP due for release on Hot Creations in October. He'll show off his pop and disco-flavored sound in seven cities, beginning with a Wednesday night party in Boston on September 12th. A couple days later he'll play at Verboten in New York with fellow house hotshots Wolf + Lamb and Soul Clap, then he'll be back in Miami for a night at theElectric Pickle, also featuring San Francisco trio PillowTalk, before taking on a Sunday party in Chicago. San Francisco and Denver are on the itinerary for the following week before Campbell wraps things up on Sunday the 23rd in LA at Culprit Session on the Standard Hotel Rooftop with Subb-an and Droog
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The banking sector will be the focus this week as several big names in that sector report earnings and investors ponder the impact of foreclosure halts on the industry and the broader economy.
In Asian markets on Monday, shares closed mostly lower. The Korean market was hit by recent disappointing earnings reports, while steel stocks rose in China on anticipation for higher prices on the metal. Japan's Nikkei closed flat, and South Korea's Kospi Composite dropped by 1.4%. China's Shanghai Index fell by 0.5%, and Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index dropped by 1.2%.
European markets were turning green this morning, reversing an initial negative start reflecting earnings uncertainty in the U.S.
The Dow Jones industrial average gained 0.3%, while the S&P 500 inched up 0.1% and the Nasdaq slipped 0.1%. Oil is trading lower by 1.2% Monday morning to $81.25; gold is trading slightly lower to $1372.00 an ounce.
Data regarding industrial production is set to be released this morning; economists predict an increase of 0.2 percent for September. Housing starts are to be reported on Tuesday, and crude inventories on Wednesday. The Fed will release the most recent Beige Book on Wednesday, as well.
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How much is too much when you are friends with an ex? Here are tell-tale signs that say you are moving towards being 'too close' to a former love.
Social Stalker
If you find yourself reminiscing, and indulge in social stalking — there's a problem. From old flirty mails/messages that you take refuge in to sepia-tinted pictures together — you need to ask yourself — why?
It's okay to be friends with a former lover, as long as you don't cross the line. If you find yourself checking your phone at odd hours for a reply from the ex, it's time to back off. Don't spoil a current relationship for the thrill you might find in nostalgia.
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Our book shelves say a lot about us — from epic heroes we swoon over to fantastical tales. And, many of us hold on to books because of memories of the past. If you see yourself re-reading the poetry booklet your ex gave you, you need to re-consider.
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It's the last day of April and I am so excited! I just finished my last test of the year and all I have left is finals coming up next week. It is really hard to imagine myself underway on Eagle in less than two weeks. I have been keeping up with my school work and I just finished the offshore sailing season last week. It has been pretty crazy at the Academy. We had a luau at dinner last week, the second class just had their ring dance on Saturday, and Castle dance (the firstie dance) was last weekend! We are all getting pretty excited about the summer, no matter where we are going. I just realized that I need to start to pack up my stuff and get ready to leave! We have had carry on for a few weeks now, and it is very nice. Last Thursday, one of my friends from my high school (the Science and Mathematics Academy at Aberdeen High school) came up as a prospective cadet. It was funny because I can't believe that that was me a year ago. I think that I have come pretty far in the past year. I have been successful in school, I have tried some new sports, I marched in the Inaugural Parade, I was restricted for a week because I had an Instagram account, I got my wisdom teeth taken out, and I have made some incredible friends that I am excited to share my summer with. I don't know that I have changed much at all, or a lot, but I definitely think that I have matured and I think that I appreciate the small things in life more than I used to. All in all, it's been a great year, and I have to say that I am not dreading the next three years. Although they are going to be challenging and not always fun, I can't see myself doing anything else.
My family is coming up right before I leave for Eagle which is nice because I will have been done with all my finals, and I can celebrate my birthday with them! (My birthday is this Sunday! I am turning 19!)
I am going to my friend's house for the long we get the weekend before finals. I am excited to relax before I get into that last week.
The next time I blog, I will be a third class cadet!
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- Sickle cell disease often causes crises, with episodes of pain. Many people with sickle cell disease also have pain between crises. Inflammation is an important part of sickle cell pain. It may be related to levels of nitric oxide. Nitric oxide is a gas in the body that helps relax blood vessels and may be related to the pain from sickle cell disease. Researchers want to study the relationship between blood levels of nitric oxide and pain in people with sickle cell disease. Researchers also want to study how certain genes express themselves related to sickle cell pain.
- To collect blood samples and other genetic expression information to study sickle cell pain and its relation to nitric oxide levels in the blood.
- People at least 18 years of age who have sickle cell disease.
- Healthy volunteers at least 18 years of age.
- This study requires a screening visit and four study visits scheduled 1 week apart. Each visit will last about 1 hour.
- Participants will be screened with a medical history and physical exam. They will complete questionnaires about pain levels (if any). They will also provide blood samples for genetic and other testing.
- Participants will have a breath test to see how much nitric oxide they exhale. They will also have a test of their ability to detect small changes in temperature and touch.
- Participants will keep a diary to record daily pain levels and pain medicines taken. They will write down what they eat to track foods that contain nitrates (such as meats like ham and bacon and vegetables like beets and spinach).
- At each of the four study visit, participants will bring the pain diary, provide blood samples, and have breath nitric oxide tests.
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Sickle Cell Disease Pain |
Study Type: | Observational |
Study Design: | Time Perspective: Prospective |
Official Title: | Biochemical and Genetic Mechanisms for Etiology of Sickle Cell Pain |
- Difference in whole blood gene expression in the peripheral blood of sickle cell subjects and matched controls during pain and pain-free states.
- Quantification of pain sensory perception, eNO, and laboratory correlates in sickle cell subjects and in matched controls
Enrollment: | 12 |
Study Start Date: | June 17, 2011 |
Estimated Study Completion Date: | December 5, 2013 |
Sickle cell disease is a systemic disorder whose proximate cause is a mutation in the beta-globin chain of hemoglobin. Although it is characterized by differing degrees and patterns of clinical manifestations, its major features include severe episodes of pain. The sickle cell pain crisis is one of the most typical characteristics of this disease and pain associated with crisis is reported to be more intense than other types of clinical pain by those with sickle cell disease and displays both nociceptive and neuropathic qualities. Pain in sickle cell disease is more widely experienced and poorly managed than previously considered. In one community sample, more than 50 percent of the patients reported experiencing pain on more than half the days of the study period. Painful crisis consist of pain experienced in different areas of the body, typically in the extremities, back, abdomen and chest and some studies suggest that patients experience prodromal or pre-crisis phases of their pain, some of which last up to 24 hours before developing the typical features of a pain crisis. The nature of pain experience in patients with sickle cell disease is not well documented nor are the mechanisms of sickle cell pain well understood.
Objectives: The first objective of the study is to characterize genetic expression data of sickle cell disease and matched controls at weekly time points over a 4 week period. The second objective is to measure levels of exhaled Nitric Oxide (eNO) and other biomarkers in sickle cell patients and in matched controls over the same time points. The third objective is to evaluate experimental pain perception in both groups.
Population: By stratifying patients by pain level, this study will recruit sickle cell patients with a range of symptom severity (N=45) and sex-, race-, ethnicity and age-matched controls (N=45) without sickle cell trait from the NIH Patient Recruitment and Referral Service.
Design: This is a prospective, exploratory study of steady state and acute pain phase in sickle cell patients. Participants will undergo evaluations (eNO and blood collection) during weekly clinic visits and keep a pain diary for 4 weeks after the first visit. All participants will also undergo one session of quantitative sensory testing.
Importance: The purpose of this study is to improve the understanding of the biochemical and molecular genetic mechanisms associated with sickle cell pain by characterizing the transcriptome of sickle cell disease during steady state and pain phases. It is hypothesized that analysis of the transcriptome will result in a panel of biomarkers that correlate with the severity level of pain and perhaps signal the onset of a painful episode. The successful elucidation of these relationships may identify novel targets for intervention leading to attenuation of sickle cell pain, improved treatment and less impact on quality of life and functional status.
Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older (Adult, Senior) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | Yes |
All subjects with sickle cell disease will be eligible for enrollment in this study if they meet all of the following criteria:
18 years of age or older
Diagnosis of sickle cell disease (electrophoretic or HPLC documentation of hemoglobin S only phenotype is required)
No vaso-occlusive crisis during the previous two weeks
Medically stable
Can speak and understand English to complete assessments and scales
All volunteer matched control study participants will be eligible for enrollment on this study if they meet all the following criteria:
18 years of age or older
Non-sickle cell trait or disease
Medically healthy based upon the history and physical exam and screening blood analyses
No chronic pain condition.
Can speak and understand English to complete assessments and scales
Ethnicity, age (within 5 years), and sex matched to that of sickle cell subjects already enrolled on study
Study participants will be excluded from the study if he/she has one or more of the following:
Inability to provide his/her own informed consent.
Drug or alcohol dependence/abuse within the past 5 years
Cigarette smoking or the use of any tobacco products within two years
Use of tranquilizers, steroids, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agents three or more times per week.
Clinically significant medical condition that will confound the analysis of factors associated with sickle cell pain, such as:
- Chronic inflammatory disease (i.e. rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, cirrhosis)
- Diabetes mellitus
- Uncontrolled hypertension
- Known malignancies
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01393847
United States, Maryland | |
National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, 9000 Rockville Pike | |
Bethesda, Maryland, United States, 20892 |
Principal Investigator: | Alan N Schechter, M.D. | National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT01393847 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
Study First Received: | July 12, 2011 |
Last Updated: | January 24, 2017 |
Keywords provided by National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC):
Sickle Cell Pain Genetics |
Sickle Cell Disease Healthy Volunteer HV |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Anemia, Sickle Cell Anemia, Hemolytic, Congenital Anemia, Hemolytic Anemia |
Hematologic Diseases Hemoglobinopathies Genetic Diseases, Inborn |
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on March 30, 2017


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Top flaky phyllo dough with a beautiful blend of berries and sweetened whipped cream for a lovely, fresh-tasting dessert.—Wolfgang Hanau, West Palm Beach, Florida
- 1 package (10 ounces) frozen sweetened raspberries
- 1 tablespoon port wine
- 1 tablespoon raspberry liqueur
- 1 package (16 ounces) frozen phyllo dough, thawed
- 1 cup butter, melted
- 2 cups fresh raspberries
- 2 cups fresh blueberries
- 2 cups sliced fresh strawberries
- 3 to 4 tablespoons orange liqueur
- 1-1/2 cups heavy whipping cream
- 3 tablespoons confectioners' sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1. Place the raspberries, wine and raspberry liqueur in a blender; cover and process until pureed. Strain raspberry mixture, reserving juice; discard seeds. Set aside.
- 2. Layer two sheets of phyllo dough on a baking sheet; brush with butter. Keep remaining phyllo covered with plastic wrap and a damp towel to prevent it from drying out. Repeat layers four times. Cut stack in half lengthwise, then cut widthwise, forming 12 rectangles. Repeat with remaining dough on three additional baking sheets. Bake at 375° for 6-8 minutes or until golden brown. Cool on pans on wire racks.
- 3. In a large bowl, combine the berries, orange liqueur and 2 tablespoons reserved raspberry juice; toss to coat. Cover and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
- 4. Meanwhile, in a large bowl, beat cream until it begins to thicken. Add confectioners' sugar and vanilla; beat until stiff peaks form.
- 5. Drizzle 1 tablespoon remaining raspberry sauce over each serving plate. Place one phyllo rectangle over sauce; layer each with 1/4 cup berries and 2 tablespoons whipped cream. Top with remaining phyllo. Yield: 24 servings.
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1 each: 215 calories, 14g fat (8g saturated fat), 40mg cholesterol, 143mg sodium, 21g carbohydrate (8g sugars, 2g fiber), 3g protein.
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State foreclosure laws influence borrower behavior
Borrower behavior is heavily influenced by consumer protection laws, particularly at the state level. States that have a judicial review of foreclosure activity tend to have higher delinquency rates and a bigger foreclosure shadow inventory. New York state is legendary for how long a borrower can live in his or her home without paying the mortgage. It can be several years. Judges push servicers, who aren't directly involved, to keep modifying the underlying mortgage.
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Seven of the top ten states for total non-current loans are judicial
Just under half of all states are judicial, but they're concentrated at the top of the non-current leader board. Mississippi is the highest, with 13.8% of all mortgages non-current, 12% in delinquency, and 1.8% in foreclosure. Mississippi isn't judicial, but the majority of the remaining top ten are. These states have high levels of shadow inventory. In fact, New York and New Jersey have incredibly high pipeline ratios. Massachusetts is increasing its pipeline ratio due to foreclosure prevention programs. Massachusetts is actually suing Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Federal Housing Finance Agency (or FHFA) over its foreclosure prevention programs. The states with the lowest delinquencies are North Dakota and South Dakota, with 1.9% and 2.7%, respectively.
Judicial states have had low home price appreciation
We've seen that home price appreciation varies widely by location. In the active California markets, there's tight supply, as the foreclosure pipeline has been worked through. In several California markets, you're seeing 20%-plus annual home price appreciation. In the judicial states—particularly New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut—you're seeing much lower home price appreciation. The shadow inventory remains huge. As a result, buyers are reluctant to step up in the face of such supply.
Implications for mortgage REITs
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Arnold Kling lays out what he sees as an interesting business model for a way to reform higher education in the US.
Essentially, have an independent company which provides the grading.
Alex Tabarrok points out that this fills in the last gap in the new business model needed for the internet to revolutionise education.
And boy oh boy does the education sector need revolutionising. We're still using Early-Medieval technology here folks, from before the rise of printing. I think it was Brad DeLong who pointed out that gathering in a room to hear a book being read at you makes perfect sense when a hand copied book costs several years' wages. Nowadays not so much: what actually is the point of the lecture therefore? Or at least the gathering in one room to hear it?
Why not have such lectures recorded and distributed? Which brings us back to the point which Kling is addressing. How do we then measure who has learned what?
And this is a problem that has been addressed: solved even. We in the UK have for the exams we take at 16 and 18 just such national (and competing) exam boards. Schools teach as they wish to whichever of the syllabi they wish to then all pupils take the same exam which is then marked and graded by the exam board. This allows both variance in modes and methods of teaching but also something close to a rigorous and comparable measurement method.
We also have a similar system in tertiary or higher (or even college) education. Here is the University of London's offerings: an economics degree from the London School of Economics for £4,500. That's the total fees by the way, not just one year's.
In fact, the University of London itself is exactly such an organisation as Kling is describing. No one "goes to" the University of London. You go to King's or the LSE, or UCL, Imperial (before it dropped out of the system), Queen Mary's etc. But everyone's degree is one from the University of London: because that university exists exactly and precisely to provide the accreditation, the standards, for the component colleges.


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Alexander Godunov, The World To Dance In
A portrait of the Soviet dancer
Charismatic, sensual, and unyielding in his quest for artistic independence, Godunov's personal odyssey has led him from a fatherless childhood in Russia to superstardom in the West. His defection, watched by the world in 1979, marked one of many battles fought in the name of freedom by this rebel with a cause, whose discipline and sacrifice have brought him to the top of the international dance world.
Dazzling performances, including duets with Maya Plisetskaya and Cynthia Gregory, complete this total portrait of today's leading male dancer, who frankly discusses a career which has been as tumultuous as it has been brilliant.
Alexander Gudunov
Movie director : Peter Rosen
Music genre : Ballet
Duration : 58 min
Production date : 1983
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This composite image, created by combining data from several different telescopes, shows the center of spiral galaxy NGC 4151, dubbed the "Eye of Sauron" by astronomers for its likeness to the malevolent ever-watching eye in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. Researchers think X-rays generated by a supermassive black hole produced the blue 'pupil' of the eye. The red around it is made of neutral hydrogen. More at Space.com.
Credits: X-ray: NASA/CXC/CfA/J.Wang et al.; Optical: Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes, La Palma/Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope, Radio: NSF/NRAO/VLA
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This article is your guide for setting up a clustered IBM WebSphere Process Server for Multiplatforms V6.0.2. With it you can successfully navigate the relevant terminology, concepts and decision points to successfully design and implement a deployment environment. By taking this step-by-step approach through the design, installation, configuration and verification of a single-cell, clustered environment, you can see the impact of the planning decisions you need to make. When your decisions match the choices of the article, then your deployment environment will be a fully functioning "reference" implementation.
This document is a guide to implementing a representative IBM® WebSphere® Process Server clustered environment. It provides an overview of the WebSphere Process Server environment, and then describes planning, installation, configuration, and verification that all components are working correctly. The topology, or layout of servers for this representative environment includes several computer systems and several server processes and as a result provides opportunities for scaling and failover support. In this document, we refer to this representative environment as the "reference topology." This reference topology is generic enough to enable you to implement it on many platforms and with many configurations. For illustrative purposes, we define a "reference implementation" with the following platform and configuration characteristics:
- The hosts are all running UNIX® -based operating systems.
- The database is IBM Universal DB2®.
- The hardware and software requirements as defined in hardware and software requirements have been met for all systems.
- The topology consists of a single cell, comprised of three physical computer systems.
- The router is IBM® HTTP Server.
This reference implementation and the reference topology on which it is based are described in more detail later in this document. Your operating system and database might differ from those used in our reference implementation. If so, you will need to alter the details of some of the procedures that you follow; for example, command file names and database creation procedures might differ from those stated in this document. This document points out those situations where applicable.
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- This file contains the reference guide
- The WebSphere Process Server V6.0.2 Information Center contains the documentation for WebSphere Process Server V6.0.2.
- "Clustering WebSphere Process Server V6.0.2, Part 1: Understanding the golden topology " (developerWorks, April 2007) Presents a few topological solutions for WebSphere Process Server clustering and discusses the trade-offs of the various approaches.
- "Clustering WebSphere Process Server V6.0.2, Part 2: Setting up the golden topology " (developerWorks, April 2007) Set up a basic clustered IBM WebSphere Process Server V6.0.2 installation using a step-by-step approach.
- WebSphere Process Server and WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus deployment patterns, Part 1: Selecting your deployment pattern (developerWorks Nov. 2006) helps you identify the application properties and availability expectations that you can use to select a specific deployment pattern.
- WebSphere Process Server and WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus deployment patterns, Part 2: My first WebSphere Process Server cluster (developerWorks July 2007) provide a deployment environment for simple process server modules and mediation modules.
- WebSphere Process Server V6 class: Installation and administration of WebSphere Process Server V6.
- The WebSphere Process Server for Multiplatforms Information Roadmap helps you get started with WebSphere Process Server.
- WebSphere business integration zone
- Browse the technology bookstore for books on these and other technical topics.


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MONDAY, Nov. 8 (HealthDay News) -- Breast cancer patients who smoke or previously smoked have a higher risk of dying than nonsmokers with breast cancer, new research finds.
"Women who were smokers or had a history of smoking had a 39 percent higher rate of death due to breast cancer," said study author Dr. Dejana Braithwaite, an assistant professor of cancer epidemiology at the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center of the University of California, San Francisco. Their risk of death from other causes was also elevated, she said.
The findings are to be presented at the American Association for Cancer Research's annual meeting on cancer prevention research in Philadelphia, which runs through Wednesday.
Previous studies looking at the relationship between active smoking (as opposed to secondhand smoke) and survival among women with breast cancer have produced mixed findings, she said.
"The strength of our study is, it's a very large study of over 2,000 women diagnosed with breast cancer" at two sites in the United States, she said.
For this study, Braithwaite followed 2,265 women of many ethnicities, all diagnosed with breast cancer between 1997 and 2000, for nine years on average. The researchers looked at whether smoking affects breast cancer-related death rates and death rates from other causes.
During the follow-up, 164 women died of breast cancer and another 120 from other causes.
Besides a 39 percent higher rate of dying from breast cancer, the smokers and former smokers had an even higher rate of dying from other causes -- twofold -- compared to never smokers. Past smoking was defined as having smoked 100 or more cigarettes in their lifetime.
Looking at subgroups, Braithwaite found that the women most affected by smoking were those with tumors known as HER2 negative, those of lower body weight, and those past menopause.
The link can't be explained definitively, she said. One possibility is that the chemicals in tobacco smoke can make breast cancer more aggressive. But the assumption is, the longer one has gone without smoking, the less the risk, Braithwaite said.
In the study, 893 were former smokers, 173 current and 1,199 never-smokers.
"Their study is important," said Daniel Wartenberg, a professor of epidemiology at the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in Piscataway, N.J. He previously studied the effect of passive smoking on breast cancer death rates and found no link.
If these findings are confirmed by other studies, he said, "that's a really important message, that getting people to stop smoking and prevent exposure may have a significant effect on reducing cancer deaths."
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SOURCES: Dejana Braithwaite, Ph.D., assistant professor, cancer epidemiology, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco; Daniel Wartenberg, Ph.D., professor, epidemiology, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute, Piscataway, N.J.; Nov. 7-10, 2010, American Association for Cancer Research's Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research annual meeting, Philadelphia
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Arctic Wildlife Portfolio
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Birds, mammals, and sea mammals of the arctic are featured at this web site from the Smithsonian. Click a tab to see a list of arctic wildlife. For each creature, you will find a photo and facts. Play the Polar Pairs game to test your knowledge about these animals. Click to find matching pairs, and then read information about the arctic animals. Read about a 19th century naturalist and his work. Check the glossary for definitions.
Animals; Wildlife
The Animal Kingdom
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Animals come in many shapes and sizes, but they all need to eat food for energy. They live in many different habitats, but they can all move around with the help of their nerves and muscles. All animals are made of lots of cells. Find out more about vertebrates and invertebrates. Discover how to sort animals into classes, orders, and families. Did you know that a snake uses its tongue to taste scents? Find out why giraffes don't get dizzy when they raise and lower their head.
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Metazoas include sponges, flatworms, bony fish, and mammals. Multicellular and motile, they move around and find food to eat. During the Cambrian explosion, many new species showed up in a short period of geologic time. Investigate how invertebrates are divided into groups based on symmetry and the way the blastula folds. Invertebrates include cnidarians, molluscs, annelids, arthropods, nematodes, and echinoderms. From clams and squid to sea stars and spiders, the invertebrate family is vast and varied.
Animals; Invertebrates
Animal Baby Images
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Old Mac Donald had a farm, and on that farm he had many animals: ducks, cows, sheep, and more. Do you know what sounds they made? Baby farm animals have special names. Click on an image of one of the animals and find out the names of the babies. Learn the names of the male and female animals. Listen to their unique sounds. Click to see larger, real-life photographs of these animals on the farm.
Animal Fact Guide
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From California condors to three-toed sloths, you can find amazing facts about your favorite animal or ones you've never seen before. Did you know that the warning barks of prairie dogs give a description of the approaching predator? Bonobos will try to imitate human behavior, even driving a golf cart. Quokkas are marsupials that were mistaken for rats. Tasmanian devils give birth to up to fifty joeys, but only four will survive. Green anacondas can weigh over 500 pounds.
The World's Largest Archive of Animal Sounds and Associated Video
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The Macaulay Library has swung its doors open to the public! More than eighty thousand sound and video clips of birds and other animals are now accessible through the Library's web site. The collection currently emphasizes North American birds and animals but also includes many samples from around the world. Search the archives for any animal--from a visitor to your backyard feeder to an unusual insect from the other side of the world--and learn about the many creatures, common and uncommon, with whom we share the planet.
Animals; Animal communication
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Learn more about hundreds of different kinds of animals at this amazing web site. With a search engine powerful enough to allow you to choose which animal group (22 different categories!), where it lives, habitat, diet, conservation level and or world records about them you should be able to find the animal you are looking for quickly. Check out each animal's individual page for information about diet, behavior, reproduction and much more. Detailed photographs are also included.
Animals; Wildlife
The Learning Zone - Animals
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Zoology is the study of animals and how they interact and live in their environment. It is important for us to understand the animals that we encounter so that we can be safe while enjoying their presence. This site will give you a look into what characterizes a living thing. These are movement, reproduction, sensitivity, nutrition, excretion, respiration, and growth. You can also learn about endangered and extinct animals as well as a look into the tree of life and animal classification.
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Meerkats and flamingos! Fossa pups! A black rhino! Oh, my! San Diego Zoo offers an archive of its "Baby Videos"--streaming video clips of the young animals and interviews with their caretakers. From the menu, choose the baby animal you would like to see. Each entry includes an excellent text introduction, too, with facts about the animal and its debut at the zoo. Learn more about the lynx, giraffe, sun bear, elephant, bonobo, and other newborns at this site.
Animalia - The Animals
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More than nine million different species of animals live in different places around the world. Tiny animals have a few cells, but others are much bigger than you. All animals eat other organisms and have specialized cells grouped into tissues by function. Most can move around their environment and reproduce sexually. Phyla separate vertebrates from segmented worms and arthropods. Other marine phyla include cnidarians, echinoderms, mollusks, and sponges. Meet amphibians, birds, mammals, crustaceans, insects, and reptiles from New Hampshire.
Careers with Animals
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If you like working with animals, have you ever thought about getting paid to do that? There are many careers that involve animals to choose from such as an animal activist, animal trainer, wildlife rehabilitator, veterinary assistant, horse or dog groomer, animal behaviorist, kennel attendant, animal control officer, naturalist/wildlife biologist, animal photographer, shelter/rescue sanctuary manager, and many more. Turn your love of animals into a rewarding career of taking care of or training animals, or helping educate people on animal care and treatment.
Careers; Animals
Critter Chemistry
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The active role chemistry takes in the animal kingdom is discussed at the web site of Chemical and Engineering News. This site offers a lengthy list of articles from Chemical and Engineering News that introduce different amphibians and reptiles, birds, fish, insects and mammals. Each article explains the chemical connections found in the animal. The site is updated often and the articles change. Find out how critters use chemicals to defend themselves and to disguise themselves.
Natural History Notebooks
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The Canadian Museum of Nature offers a wonderful web site with a variety of animals to illustrate. In the "Natural History Notebooks you'll find lots of fascinating facts about 246 animal species. You'll also learn about the amazing diversity of life on Earth (both past and present), and why it's important to protect that diversity". See drawings of mammals, birds, fishes, endangered species, reptiles, amphibians, invertebrates and even prehistoric life. Illustrations of animals are done by Charles Douglas, former chief illustrator for the museum.
A-Z Animals
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Just about every animal you can think of can be found at this web site called A-Z Animals. The list goes from the Abyssinian to the Zorse. You can find an animal by scrolling though the alphabetized list or you can scroll through the scientific names. You can also search by the group the animal belongs to or by the location where the animal is found. Find out which animals are vulnerable, endangered, critically endangered an extinct and look at pictures of different animals.
Abandoned Lion, Tiger And Hyena Cubs Form Unusual Bond
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Three baby lions, one baby tiger, and a baby hyena all sleep and play together like one big happy family. They don't know that they are supposed to be enemies. The baby animals play and eat side-by-side with their temporary siblings. They were all rejected as infants, and have formed an unusual bond. The tiger cub leads the pack, while the mischievous hyena often fights with her adopted siblings. The timid lions grow larger than the tiger, and all the cats will be bigger than the hyena.
National Geographic Kids
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If you love animals, care about the environment, or just want to have fun, then "National Geographic Kids" is for you. Browse facts, pictures, and video clips of the planet's most amazing animals. Then, take a journey around the world by clicking on People and Places. Once you're done exploring, read a collection of real-life stories about animals, people, and events. Be sure to also click on the tabs for videos and photos, for some amazing visual images. Other features include fun activities you can try at home, along with cool games that are just a mouse click away.
Animals; Environmental issues and education; Science; Homework help
Animal Pages to Color Online
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Do you like to paint animals? If so, this is the web site for you! This web site, All About Nature, offers hundred of animals to download and print. Facts are given for each animal along with a description of the anatomy and diet of the animal. Paint animals like the Aardvark, North American Beaver, Whale Shark and many more. This web site is easy to navigate and you will find the animal you are looking for in the complete index.
15 Animals That Are Living Fossils
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A fossil is a preserved remains of a prehistoric organism, but there are some animals that are considered ?living? fossils?they?re actually alive! A living fossil has few or no living relatives, has evolved very little for millennia, and have often survived several mass extinctions. They include the aardvark, the red panda (not close to the usual panda), the lizard-looking tuatara, the beautiful nautilus cephalopod, the tubby purple frog, the duck-billed platypus, the feisty mantis shrimp, the hagfish, the hoatzin, the koala, the pig-nosed turtle, the horseshoe crab, the scary goblin shark, the elephant shrew, and crocodiles.
Animals; Fossils
How to Stay Safe Around Animals
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Animals are fun to be around, as anyone who has had a pet or enjoys the outdoors knows. Animals need to be treated kindly. It is important to know when to stay away from them to stay safe. People yell when they get upset or angry; animals bite or scratch. Animals may also bite if they are scared, if you take away their food or toy, if you wake them up, or if you pull their ears or tail. Animal mothers may bite if you get near their babies.
Safety education; Animals
Animal Information
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Have you ever wondered what a beluga whale sounds like? Check out the animal sounds library on this website to listen to different animals sounds. This website is an excellent resource for all types of animal information. There are great links for in depth information about all kinds of land and water animals as well as a section that gives you just a brief description and picture of all kinds of animals. You can even go on an underwater safari on this site.
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What animals are used to carry mail? How many mosquitoes can a bat eat in an hour? Does a ring-tailed lemur bark or meow? What are the two heaviest land animals? Test your knowledge about animals and learn a lot, too. Each twenty-question quiz on this site is randomly composed from over 800 questions. After submitting your answer, you get a response that tells you whether you were correct or not and provides a detailed explanation of the animal in question. This is a fun way to learn about animals!
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Wherever you live, you are probably close to an animal of some sort. Maybe it's an insect or a mammal or a fish or a reptile. With so many different kinds of animals in the world, it's nice to be able to find out about each kind. The Australian Museum is a great place to begin your exploration of animals. Just click on a photo and start your studies. Learn about spiders and their relatives, fishes, birds, worms, invertebrates and many others. There are great photos and many, many facts.
Animal myths: How much do you know?
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Find out what myths are associated with animals, and if some of them might actually be true. Are bats really blind? Do elephants really have a long memory? Even today, we still follow along with the myth that groundhogs (Punxsutawney Phil) can predict winter's end. The real answer to that might surprise you! Each question presents a choice of three answers, or a choice of true or false. After you choose, it will show you the correct answer. A paragraph that tells the true story about the animal and the myth will appear under the question.
What is an Animal?
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Did you know that an insect is considered an animal? With that in mind, how many animal species do you think inhabit the earth? Scientists estimate that number around 9 or 10 million! Animals can weigh from a range of a microscopic few cells to many tons like the giant squid or blue whale and anything in-between. The largest species of animals are insects, and the humans? group, known as the vertebrates, is fairly small in comparison. Animalia is the Kingdom name, and animals differ from plants in that they (animals) lack the rigid cell walls that plants have.
Animals; Biodiversity
Arctic or Antarctic?
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Where does the collared lemming live, or the colossal squid? This interactive quiz asks which animals live in the Arctic (North Pole) or Antarctic (South Pole). Answer "Arctic or Antarctic" for the narwhal, penguins, crabeater seals, and the beluga whale. The quiz tells you immediately if you are wrong or right. Once you have answered all seven questions, the last page will provide more details on the answers to each of the questions.
Animals; Arctic regions; Antarctica
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