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Call Outs & Cancellations: L.A.'s Club, Fashion, Beauty Figures Cloaked in Controversy
Lina Lecaro July 22, 2020
If 2020 could be summed up by one word it would be "cancelled." Due to coronavirus, everything from concerts to sporting events has literally been cancelled. But figuratively, there's been impactful cancellations and calls for them, too. In the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement's fight to end systemic racism following George Floyd's death, there's been a long due reckoning and what was once OK, just isn't anymore. We might be living in a post #Mettoo world and some bad people are finally paying for their crimes, but Donald Trump's (and his pals') treachery continues to go unpunished. It's a rough pill for many to swallow and it's no wonder a true cultural shift has occurred that's making us all more aware and less tolerant of discrimination, appropriation, objectification, harassment, hurtful statements and actions, and general shadiness. The statues are slowly coming down in more ways than one.
And however one may feel about "cancel culture" or the "Karen" problem, one thing is for sure- dialog and examination about how we communicate and treat others is always a good thing, and when it comes to marginalized or disenfranchised groups, it's an important thing.
But keeping up with who should be on our collective shit lists takes work. One week it's JK Rowling (for transphobic rhetoric) then its Nick Cannon (for anti-semitic statements), then it's Harper's mag (and everyone who signed that letter), then it's Kanye (for slagging on Harriet Tubman), now it's not Kanye (because he has mental health issues and we need to give him a pass), and it's Burger Records (whose hipster favor just went the way of FYF fest- read the report here). We don't know who's next, but we do know that in L.A. there's a lot of people who've done and said terrible things, and a couple of really significant ones that we haven't seen reported about anywhere yet. If you're into alternative culture, beauty, fashion or nightlife, here's what you need to know.
The local goth scene, fittingly, saw a lot of drama and darkness recently as the Hollywood hotspot Cloak & Dagger and its promoters came under fire amid allegations of sexual harassment and discriminatory treatment against people of color who attend their events. It all started when C&D hosted a #BLM themed Zoom gathering. As some black patrons began to speak about what they felt was problematic treatment at the club, another more vocal group of young white women took over the dialog to share other alleged traumas related to sexual harassment and intimidation by the club's hosts Adam Bravin and Michael Patterson. Bravin posted the message below on the club's Instagram page (to his credit, it has not been deleted so the 333 comments below help fill in the blanks) and its private Facebook group, while Patterson hosted a live Instagram question & answer session following the controversy (since deleted). During the Q&A, Patterson said that the popular nightclub -which already had its haters due to its "black card members only" admittance policy- is essentially dead over this, regardless of Covid-19's forced club closures. But it remains to be seen if the tight-knit community that was forged on FB via the club -which by the way touted itself as a "safe space"- will continue and maybe even re-animate when quarantine is over. Either way we know the goth scene will never die, though C&D always said it wasn't a goth club.
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Girls Night Out & GRL CVLT
In general if you're part of the private Facebook group known as Girls Night Out, it's sort of like Fight Club- the first rule is not to talk about it. But at 28, 500+ members it's not exactly a secret. These online groups can be a great source of support and love but also judgement and bickering- just like Facebook itself- especially when varying opinions are expressed. As the BLM protests started to get in full swing the contention that swelled within the social space was no exception. It reached a boiling point when the group's lack of moderators of color became glaringly obvious, leading to some changes in the group structure as well as an exodus and creation of more inclusive groups for some. Amidst all this, the GNO's most vocal leader Annaliese Nielson was served an epic cancellation from not only the group that she controlled, but the web all together, after it was revealed that her efforts to support BLM had a monetary component; posts (since deleted) emerged of her asking for donations for stuff like "new protest sneakers." Add to that, troubling allegations from ladies that came out of the woodwork concerning Nielson's other endeavors (her anti-rape activist-turned-cannabis brand GRL CVLT and her earlier days running the Suicide Girls-esque website God'sGirls) and it was enough to see the formerly omni-present social media figure virtually disappear. The Grl Cvlt "fvckrapeculture" account embedded below (Nielson is seen, center) is still up though not active, and the internet will probably never forget "Hulagate," when she charged cultural appropriation during a meltdown over a Lyft driver's dashboard hula girl.
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After the alternative fashion brand suffered some vandalism of its flagship L.A. store following the Fairfax protests, the founder of Dolls Kill fashion brand posted a seemingly pro-police post on her Instagram showing a photo of cops in riot gear outside her store, captioned "Direct Action in its glory." The backlash was swift and it led to a couple of apology videos explaining she was misunderstood, followed by donations to Black and trans groups. But it wasn't the first time the internet had called for a boycott of the brand. Previous controversies included featuring of tees and sweatshirts with the slogan "Goth Is White," selling Native American headdresses as Halloween costumes and charges that the brand does not carry or feature enough models and designers of color. As of this posting, D.K. seems to be working on addressing and changing these issues, but the comments on their IG show some on social are not quick to forget.
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You Tube Trio: Jeffree Star, Shane Dawson & James Charles
Need more tea than Facebook, Twitter and IG tend to provide? YouTube is where the serious soap opera level sagas go down. We can barely keep up with who's on who's side and who's taking a break (we'll miss Jenna Marbles, though) and who the public is favoring, because it changes by the day. Insider had the right idea, making an updated timeline to keep track of these three and their much-publicized disputes, which have led to losing endorsements and product collaborations for all. It's too much of a mess to try and sort here, but beyond the rumors, gossip, and obvious jealous grudges between these three -all of whom live in L.A. by the way- allegations of racism and inappropriate behavior towards minors make this story more than mere makeup junkie jive. Star's latest video explaining his side of the situation is below, but the internet seems to think this flamboyant influencer couldn't be cancelled even if he tried to be. We'll see.
UPDATE 7/27/2020: An earlier version of this piece mentioned a door person at Cloak & Dagger also saw allegations levied against them, but we have received multiple emails since this story published (some from people who worked there) that this was incorrect. While others were implicated within the multiple social media threads concerning problematic behavior at C&D, this did not involve the club's door people. We apologize for the error.


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Peppers are easy to plant. Prepare the soil 8-10 inches deep. Dig a hole that is as deep as the distanced from the first true leaves to the root ball. Put the fertilizer in the hole (see below). Put the plant in the hole. Put the soil in the hole and lightly press around the plant. Water thoroughly to settle the soil. Put a layer of compost 2-3 inches deep 18 inches from the stem of the plant (see below for explanation). Water one inch per week.
Our plants have been outside since the plants had their first true leaves. They are typically very sturdy and stocky from being in the sun, wind and rain. We get nearly 100% survival of transplants that way. They are not set back by transplanting outside and are way ahead of their green house peers.
Use a good balanced organic fertilizer like fish emulsion (fish). You can reapply a dilute version of fish to the foliage of the plants and soak the roots every 3-4 weeks until the fruit starts to mature. You don't want to have fish on any ripe fruit.
I do not recommend Miracle Grow as it over stimulates the plants. Yes, they look beautiful but MG creates a lot of foliage and not as much fruit. The fruit is often not as flavorful and MG is made of synthetic chemicals. When someone asks about pepper problems about 90% of the time they are using miracle grow.
Here is a trick to improve your fruit set. When the plants are about a foot tall and starting to bloom, spray the foliage with a dilute solution of Epsom salts. The dilution is one table spoon of salt to each gallon of water. The foliage will turn a dark green and the plants will bloom profusely. Epsom salts contains magnesium one of the components of chlorophyll which is why the leave turn dark green. Magnesium is also one of the core elements that plants need for reproduction. This is very inexpensive, you can get a pound of salt for a couple of dollars. Use the left over salt for a foot bath.
Compost is the true miracle worker in the garden. The layer of compost suggested above is to keep the young plant from contacting the soil. Most of the viral diseases come from the soil. When you use compost, every time it rains you get compost tea. Compost also feeds the biology in the soil. You will find earth worms like crazy around your plants. Compost is like popcorn (my favorite snack) for earth worms.
If you don't have compost of your own, you can get a 5 gallon bucket for $0.50 at the waste to energy facility or buy it for $25 per ton in bulk.


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Edison Studios was an American film production organization, owned by companies controlled by inventor and entrepreneur, Thomas Edison. The studio made close to 1,200 films, as part of the Edison Manufacturing Company (1894–1911) and then  Thomas A. Edison, Inc. (1911–1918), until the studio's closing in 1918. Of that number, 54 were feature length, and the remainder were shorts. All of the company's films have fallen into the public domain because they were released before 1928.

History

The first production facility was Edison's Black Maria studio, in West Orange, New Jersey, built in the winter of 1892–93. The second facility, a glass-enclosed rooftop studio built at 41 East 21st Street in Manhattan's entertainment district, opened in 1901. In 1907, Edison had new facilities built, on Decatur Avenue and Oliver Place, in the Bedford Park neighborhood of the Bronx.

Thomas Edison himself played no direct part in the making of his studios' films, beyond being the owner and appointing William Gilmore as vice-president and general manager. Edison's assistant William Kennedy Dickson, who supervised the development of Edison's motion picture system, produced the first Edison films intended for public exhibition, 1893–95. After Dickson's departure for the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company in 1895, he was replaced as director of production by cameraman William Heise, then from 1896–1903, by James H. White. When White left to supervise Edison's European interests in 1903, he was replaced by William Markgraf (1903–1904), then Alex T. Moore (1904–1909), and Horace G. Plimpton (1909–1915).

The first commercially exhibited motion pictures in the United States were from Edison, and premiered at a Kinetoscope parlor in New York City on April 14, 1894. The program consisted of ten short films, each less than a minute long, of athletes, dancers, and other performers. After competitors began exhibiting films on screens, Edison introduced its own, Projecting Kinetoscope, in late 1896.

The earliest productions were brief "actualities", showing everything, from acrobats, to parades, to fire calls. But, competition from French and British story films, in the early 1900s, rapidly changed the market. By 1904, 85% of Edison's sales were from story films.

In December 1908, Edison led the formation of the Motion Picture Patents Company in an attempt to control the industry and shut out smaller producers. The "Edison Trust," as it was nicknamed, was made up of Edison, Biograph, Essanay Studios, Kalem Company, George Kleine Productions, Lubin Studios, Georges Méliès, Pathé, Selig Studios, and Vitagraph Studios, and dominated distribution through the General Film Company. The Motion Picture Patents Co. and the General Film Co. were found guilty of antitrust violation in October 1915, and were dissolved.

The breakup of the Trust by federal courts, under monopoly laws, and the loss of European markets during World War I, hurt Edison financially. Edison sold its film business, including the Bronx studio, on 30 March 1918, to the Lincoln & Parker Film Company, of Massachusetts.

Notable productions

Some of the studio's notable productions include The Kiss (1896); The Great Train Robbery (1903); Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1910); Frankenstein (1910), the first film adaptation of the novel; The Battle of Trafalgar (1911); What Happened to Mary (1912), one of the earliest  film serials; and The Land Beyond the Sunset (1912), which was directed by Harold M. Shaw and was later described by film historian William K. Everson as "'the screen's first genuinely lyrical film'". The company also produced a number of short "Kinetophone" sound films in 1913–1914 using a sophisticated acoustical recording system capable of picking up sound from 30 feet away. They released a number of Raoul Barré cartoon films in 1915 and the first film version of the Robert Louis Stevenson historical novel Kidnapped.

Legacy
Everson, calling Edison Studios "financially successful and artistically unambitious," wrote that other than directors Edwin S. Porter and John Hancock Collins,[T]he Edison studios never turned out a notable director, or even one above average. Nor did the Edison films show the sense of dynamic progress, that one gets, from studying the Biograph films, on a year-by-year basis. On the contrary, there is a sense of stagnation.

However, new restorations and screenings of Edison films in recent years contradict Everson's statement; indeed, Everson citing The Land Beyond the Sunset points out creativity at Edison beyond Porter and Collins, as it was directed by Harold M. Shaw (1877–1926), who later went on to a successful career directing in England, South Africa, and Lithuania before returning to the US in 1922.  Other important directors who started at Edison included Oscar Apfel, Charles Brabin, Alan Crosland, J. Searle Dawley, and Edward H. Griffith.

Notable films

References

External links

 EdisonStudios.net (includes a viewable Edison Studios 1910 adaptation of "Frankenstein")
 Vernon K. Flaherty and R. Brian Flaherty collection (R9144) at Library and Archives Canada. The collection consists of twenty documentary and fiction films by Thomas Edison.

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In a move everyone saw coming the Denver Broncos have announced that Gary Kubiak will become the team's 15th head coach. Kubiak and the Broncos top brass are finalizing the details of a 4-year contract.
Kubiak has deep ties in Denver having played for and coached the Denver Broncos for nearly a combined 20 years. He is expected to make Rick Dennison his offensive coordinator.
Kubiak spent the last two seasons as the offensive coordinator for the Baltimore Ravens. This past season he helped Joe Flacco have his best statistical season as a pro throwing for 3,986 yards and 27 touchdowns.
The biggest question headed into the Kubiak era is whether or not Peyton Manning will return for his 18th season.


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Quasi-contract types are when one party has an obligation to another party that's imposed by the law and separate from the agreement between the two parties.3 min read
Quasi-contract types are when one party has an obligation to another party that's imposed by the law and separate from the agreement between the two parties. If one person isn't capable of entering into a contract, the supplier can recover the property's price from the incapable person.
Quasi Contract Type: Payment by an Interested Person
Someone who's interested in monetary payment from another person who's bound by law to pay them is entitled to be reimbursed by the other person. For example, if a consignee had a fire in their vehicle during transit and suffered loss, the insurer can claim the loss so they can get compensated.
Quasi Contract Type: Obligation to Pay for Nongratuitous Act
If a person does something under the law for another person or delivers them something without having the intention of doing it gratuitously, the receiver is bound by law to pay the giver for delivering their product or service. If a tradesperson accidentally leaves their goods at another person's house, that person can't treat them as their own unless they pay for them. According to Section 71 of the Indian Contract Act 1872, someone who finds goods that don't belong to them and takes them has similar responsibilities as a bailee.
This section states that anyone who receives something that was delivered under coercion or by accident needs to return or repay it. For example, say a railroad company won't deliver specific goods to a consignee except if they get paid for the illegal charge of the carriage. The consignee will then pay the sum that was charged to receive the goods that he's estimated to recover, which means many of the charges were illegal.
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Implied contracts are based on the conduct of the parties. If one or more parties have an intent to enter into the agreement, the contract can be implied even if there's no oral or written agreement. Implied contracts aren't any less binding than express contracts are.
What Are Quasi-Contracts?
A quasi-contract is a type of contract and acts to have the same results as a regular contract does, but it's not considered a contract in the traditional sense. Instead, this is formed by the court so unjust enrichment can be avoided. These are often used in situations where there's no implied or express contract that will cause an unjust result. It is a form of equitable relief and lets the plaintiff recover the value that a defendant might not be obligated to pay otherwise. This contract is formed by a court order instead of an agreement the parties make.
The contract will become a quasi-contract when there aren't any official agreements between the parties when it comes to payment disputes over services or goods. The goal in creating these contracts is to prevent a party from benefiting from a situation when they shouldn't. This type of contract can offer less recovery than a regular contract, however. This is due to a traditional contract having their agreement terms laid out with both parties agreeing to them, even if it is just a verbal agreement.
In a quasi-contract, there will be just enough recovery to prevent a party from being unjustly riched. In a regular contract, a party can recover everything they're entitled to, in addition to labor costs or other materials needed to complete the project that was originally agreed upon, but that's it.
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Priest Delivers Poignant Argument Against Modernizing Religions
Mary Newman | January 6, 2020 | Devotionals
Many religious denominations today feel pressure to modernize the teachings of the Scripture to fit today's world, as well as unifying religions, but the former doctrinal czar of the Vatican has given a poignant speech, warning about the dangers of relativism and a "meta-religion."
Many are trying to reshape religions to fit modern times
Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, who is the Vatican's former doctrinal czar, delivered a January 1 homily in Phoenix at the 2020 Student Leadership Summit, which was hosted by the Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS), in which he delivered a profound and poignant statement against the modernization of religion to fit the times we live in.
While not doing so by name, Cardinal Müller seemed to be speaking out against the progressive actions of Pope Francis, as well as other religious denominations in the United States and around the world, which are trying to adapt the Gospels to fit the culture and lifestyles of today's modern world.
"In order to be admitted to this meta-religion, the only price the Church would have to pay is giving up her truth claim," Cardinal Müller said. "No big deal, it seems, as the relativism dominant in our world anyway rejects the idea that we could actually know the truth and presents itself as guarantor of peace between all world views and world religions."
Müller then commented that the post-Christian world welcomes these efforts to remake the Church "as a convenient civil religion."
God's word never changes – so why modernize?
One of the biggest arguments against modernizing religions to fit today's world is the idea of the steadfastness of God's word. If God's word is the truth – that truth doesn't change.
"For some, the Catholic Church is lagging behind by 200 years compared to where the world is today," Müller said, seemingly referring to recent comments by Pope Francis. "Is there any truth to this accusation?"
Pope wants to modernize the church – will he go too far?
On December 21, Pope Francis spoke of the need for the Catholic Church to modernize.
"The Church has remained 200 years behind the times. Why has it not been shaken up?" Pope Francis asked.
"There is always a temptation to fall back on the past," Francis added, "because it is more reassuring, known and, certainly less conflictual. Yet this too is part of the process and the risk of undertaking significant changes."
"The healthy approach is rather to let oneself be interrogated by challenges of the present time," the Pope continued. "Change, in this sense, would assume an entirely different aspect: from a surrounding element, a context and a pretext, from an outside landscape."
The Pope said the church needs to move beyond linear evolution, and at the present time is one of "epochal" changes and predicts that, by modernizing the church "would become ever more human and Christian."
But many fear that Pope Francis is pushing the church toward humanism and a global type of religion, as it moves away from tradition.
Modernization is the result of a life without God
"The crisis in the Church is man-made and has arisen because we have cozily adapted ourselves to the spirit of a life without God," Cardinal Müller said. "The poison paralyzing the Church is the opinion that we should adapt to the Zeitgeist, the spirit of the age, and not the spirit of God."
Müller urged "that we should relativize God's commandments and reinterpret the doctrine of the revealed faith."
Getting back to God
Cardinal Müller then spoke about how faith can bring us back and closer to God without the need to modernize religion to suit the times.
Anyone who has faith and believes "needs no ideology," Müller said.
"The one who hopes will not reach for drugs," Müller asserted. "The one who loves is not after the lust of this world, which passes along with the world. The one who loves God and his neighbor finds happiness in the sacrifice of self-giving."
The path to happiness
"We will be happy and free – when in the spirit of love – we embrace the form of life to which God has called each one of us personally," Cardinal Müller concluded, and then pointed out the path to happiness in life:
"In the sacrament of marriage, in celibate priesthood, or in religious life according to the three evangelical counsels of poverty, obedience, and chastity for the sake of the kingdom of heaven."
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Good Dads and Not-So-Good Dads in the Animal Kingdom
By David Manly and Lauren Reid on June 19, 2011
First off, to every father out there (biological or not), this is the time where we stand up and say thank you. We may not always show it, but we love you and appreciate everything you have done for us thus far.
Today is also the day where we celebrate the uniqueness of our fathers, as no two dads are alike. In fact, there are many different types – the "cool" father, the "don't get on the wrong side of me" pop, and of course the "don't tell your mother" dad.
It is not just in humans that fathers show such a wide degree of parenting styles, as the same is true in the animal kingdom.
The thing is, the role of being a father is often overlooked in many animals – they deposit their sperm and leave, their job complete, and leave the rest of it up to the female. While it may often be the case that the biggest role an animal father has in their offspring's life is the sperm they donate, some animal dads do go the extra mile and exceed all expectations. However, let us first look at some dads who are, quite frankly, not the greatest role models out there.
Deadbeat Dads
Lions are regal animals, and not just in a Disney's The Lion King sort of way, but they act calm no matter the situation and manage to look damn impressive doing it.
But the funny thing is, contrary to popular culture, male lions do not take an active role in raising their children. In fact, they are pretty lazy.
The female lions in the pride do all the hunting and killing for the family unit, with the male defending his territory against intruders and scavengers. All the male does is stand there are look tough, and maybe growl or roar every now and then.
Trouble arises when his dominance is threatened and he engages in a battle with another male. If he loses control of his pride, his offspring will be in trouble because one of the first things the new male will do is kill all the cubs that were reared by the other male. This is done because female lions do not become sexually receptive again until their cubs mature or die.
Therefore, as horrible as it may seem, the only way the usurper male can create offspring is to make the females receptive to his advances by any means possible. It is "survival of the fittest" at its best.
It must be tough being a bear.
They're cute, cuddly and portrayed in so many children's movies and television as friendly that people tend to forget how fierce they actually are. Suffice to say, they are not all loveable oafs like Winnie the Pooh.
Male grizzly bears have a huge territory, which can exceed over 3,000 square kilometers, which makes finding a mate extremely difficult. But, thanks to a male's sensitive sense of smell and a little luck, eventually a male and female will meet, mate and make little cubs.
However, when times are tough and food is scarce, grizzly bear males have been known to go after and kill any cub in his range (even his own).
Unlike lions, this killing of cubs occurs without a challenger usurping the dominant male, and scientists were baffled as to the explanation. However, recent research may indicate that since bears are opportunistic hunters, they will take advantage of any food source to help them survive, whether it be berries, fish or their own young.
Okay, so some dads occasionally eat their babies through an evolutionary prerogative. But don't feel too disheartened; now that the really bad dads are out the way, it gives us a perfect opportunity to take a warm-and-fuzzy look at some of the most admirable fathers in the animal kingdom.
The Stay-at-Home Dads
Marmosets
The female of these adorable little primates usually gives birth to twins, which can take its toll on any mother. The ordeal of pregnancy on the female is a rough one, as the newborns can account for over 25 per cent of her body weight! That would be like a human female giving birth to a 40-pound baby.
Understandably, after that ordeal (in addition to providing milk to the newborn), the female needs a break.
Luckily, this is where dad comes in!
Almost immediately after birth, the marmoset father grooms and licks the newborn to give the female time to recuperate. This is extremely important, as female marmoset can become pregnant again only two weeks later!
Rheas
These large flightless birds are super-dads who have no need for any help from mom. In fact, the sole male in the family group of up to a dozen females will be the sole incubator of the over 50 eggs for up to 40 days.
The male rhea will then chase anything, including females, away from the hatched chicks and raise them completely on his own.
What a guy.
The Teachers
There are many things that are peculiar about ostriches: their big eyes, the impressively large wingspan and the sheer size of their eggs. But one thing that most people are not aware of is that ostriches participate in true tag-team parenting.
After a female lays her eggs, the parents take turn incubating them: the female during the day, and the male at night. Zoologists believe that the male gets the night shift because, with his darker coloring, he will be less visible to predators and therefore be able to protect the nest better than the female.
Once the eggs hatch however, the male's job has only just begun. He will fervently defend the hatchlings from predators, as well as teach them to feed. Not bad for an animal that many people still believe sticks their heads in the sand at any sign of trouble (for the record, they don't).
Red Foxes
When you imagine a picture-esque animal dad, a red fox is not what springs to mind. They can be inquisitive, shy, mean and territorial. But, like most things, you have to look deeper than that.
After a female red fox gives birth, she must stay in her den in order to feed her young and keep them warm. Therefore, it is up to the male to venture out every six hours or so for food for himself and the mom. Talk about room service!
Once the pups have matured a little bit, dad will call his pups away from their mom to play with them. It is through this play that the father will pass on his knowledge of survival skills to the next generation. He will teach them how to hunt, scavenge and escape predators in a variety of ways, including hiding food for the pups to find and roughhousing.
After all, if you're going to teach something, you might as well do it in a fun way, right?
The Mr. Mom's
It is a simple story that we have all heard before:
Boy meets girl. Boy courts girl. Boy and girl fall in love, get married. Boy gets pregnant.
Yes, you heard correctly! Male seahorses accept the eggs, fertilize them and carry the eggs to term. In fact, the seahorse is the only animal where the male becomes truly pregnant.
So, how does this even work?
The female inserts her oviduct (where anywhere from 50-1500 eggs will travel through) into the male's specially adapted brood pouch (located on his abdomen). When the eggs are in place, the male fertilizes them and clings to a nearby plant and proceeds to wait a few weeks for the eggs to mature.
Every morning during the gestation period, the female seahorse will visit the male and engage in a greeting ritual that lasts for several minutes, before leaving once again. After a few weeks, the male will give birth to live young at night, and then return to his mate the following morning for the next batch of eggs.
When it comes to being a great dad, emperor penguins deserve to win an award year after year for the sheer amount of work and devotion they show to their offspring.
Female emperor penguins lay one egg at a time because it would require too much energy to produce more than one. At this point, most bird species would set up a nest and sit on it for hours at a time, often with the male and female taking turns to incubate the developing embryo.
But, that's not their style. No, emperor penguins are too intense for something as simple as a nest – they lay their egg on the cold Antarctic permafrost!
After laying her egg, the female is exhausted and needs to feed. So, she carefully transfers her precious cargo to the feet of her mate. This must be done with the finest precision, because if the egg slips onto the freezing ice or snow beneath them for too long, the unborn chick is unlikely to survive. Then, female then waddles off to the ocean to fill her belly, leaving daddy with all the parental responsibility.
The diligent father incubates his egg in his brooding pouch for the next 65 days, during which he does not eat. When the egg hatches, his job is to keep the near-featherless little chick warm since it cannot yet regulate its own body temperature. Therefore, in order to keep the newborn chick warm, all the fathers huddle together and form a giant phalanx of fathers and newborn chicks to try and conserve as much heat as possible.
And in a feat of reorganization, the males will circulate in the mass, allowing each group a turn at the cool outermost edge and warm center.
Eventually, the mother emperor penguin returns from sea, full of food and energy to devote to her newborn chick. She takes over from dad, and after over two months, it is finally dad's turn to fill his belly for the next shift change.
Not Bad, Dad!
Hopefully you can see from this article that there are some pretty fascinating fathers out there in the animal kingdom, all with their own unique style. While many male animals simply deposit their sperm and leave all the parenting up to the female, some really do go the extra mile.
So to all the dads out there, human or not, thank you for just being you!
1) Photo of Male Lion posted to Wikimedia Commons by Tony Brierton (Creative Commons license). 2) Photo of Grizzly Bear posted to Wikimedia Commons by Shellie (Creative Commons license). 3) Photo of Pygmy marmoset posted to Wikimedia Commons by Malene Thyssen (Creative Commons license). 4) Photo of Rhea posted to Wikimedia Commons by LadyofHats (Creative Commons license). 5) Photo of Ostrich posted to Wikimedia Commons by Nicor (Creative Commons license). 6) Photo of Red Fox posted to Wikimedia Commons by Alan D. Wilson (Creative Commons license). 7) Photo of Seahorse posted to Wikimedia Commons by Joanne Merriam (Creative Commons license).
David Manly is a Canadian freelance science journalist who holds degrees in Biology and Zoology, as well as a Masters of Journalism. Currently, he writes about the ecology, physiology and behavior of all different types of animals (from fungi to mammals and everything in between), as well as how to improve science communication and interaction between professionals and the general public. You can find David's work on his Lab Spaces blog, as well on his own blog The Definitive Host and on Twitter (@davidmanly).
Lauren Reid has a Bachelor of Science degree in psychology, and is currently undertaking an MSc in evolution and animal behavior at the University of Stirling in Scotland. Her interests include the evolution of sexual strategies, human-animal interaction, science in the media and dressing up for fun. She wants to be a science communicator when she grows up so she can make a living out of telling people how awesome science is. She can be found on Twitter (@psychogeek07) and through her blog, Phylogenetic Tree Hugger.
The views expressed are those of the author and are not necessarily those of Scientific American.
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AMISOM completes community empowerment projects in Beletweyne
By APO Group
24 December 2021 | 12:00 pm
The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) has set up a solar system at the Ugas Khalif International Airport in Beletweyne and has also started on the construction of sanitary facilities for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Hirshabelle State. These Quick Impact Projects are aimed at enhancing security at the airport as well as improve…
The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) has set up a solar system at the Ugas Khalif International Airport in Beletweyne and has also started on the construction of sanitary facilities for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Hirshabelle State.
These Quick Impact Projects are aimed at enhancing security at the airport as well as improve public health for persons living in the IDP camps of Haliye, Dugane, and Shabelle River.
The Commander of the AMISOM Police in Beletweyne, Major Ebenezer Benson, stated that the solar lighting system would enable the Somali police personnel to perform their duties and secure the airport especially during the night.
"For the past one year, the Somali Police Force was eager to get this solar panel in order to better secure the airport. Somalia's international partners, together with AMISOM, have made this possible. I know the police personnel will put it to effective use," said Major Benson.
The Hirshabelle Deputy Police Commander, Col. Hassan Mohamed Ibrahim, said the solar system would help the police officers to effectively perform their policing duties.
"We are grateful to the Indian government and our AMISOM partners for this solar power project. AMISOM built the airport police station and continues to support us in capacity building, in operations against terrorists, and in advancing our policing standards," said Col. Hassan.
Speaking during the commissioning of the construction of the sanitary facilities, the AMISOM Sector 4 Civil-Military Cooperation (CIMIC) officer, Ibrahim Yussuf Ahmed, said they would support initiatives to improve the lives of people living in the mission's area of responsibility.
"AMISOM has launched the construction of four toilets in each of the three camps in order to improve sanitary conditions for internally displaced persons," said Ibrahim Yussuf.
The Deputy Governor for Finance and Politics in Hiiraan region, Abukar Sheikh Abdullahi Madey, thanked AMISOM for supporting the IDP communities.
"The support comes at a time when the number of people living in the IDP camps has increased due to drought displacement. The old sanitary facilities were in a poor state and not enough. These new facilities will go a long way to improve living conditions in these camps," said Abukar.
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of African Union Mission in Somalia.
United States Embassy & Al-Azhar Institutes Celebrate First-Ever National Spelling Bee Competition in Egypt
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A lack of access to healthcare and medicines has been fuelling a host of opportunists aimed at filling the gaps, the report Trafficking in Medical Products in the Sahel shows. But, this supply and an imbalance in demand, has triggered deadly results. Bitter pill of trafficking In sub-Saharan Africa, as many as 267,000 deaths per year are linked to…


Anyone who has ever opened YouTube in front of a classroom knows the feeling of dread that comes with hoping that the "related" content in the sidebar really is related content. Likewise, you hope that the "related" videos at the end of the one you're showing are appropriate for your classroom. Here are five ways that you can avoid showing related content when you show YouTube videos in your classroom.
1. Put the video into a Google Slide and show it in full screen mode. This will remove all of the sidebar content. To prevent suggested videos from showing at the end of a video that you put into a webpage you will need disable the "show suggested videos" option in the embed code provided by YouTube. See my screenshot below for directions on how to do that.
2. Watchkin is a service that allows you to watch and project YouTube videos without seeing the related sidebar content typically seen on YouTube.com. Watchkin can be used in a few ways. You can enter the direct URL of a video into Watchkin to have the sidebar content removed. You can search for videos through Watchkin and have family-friendly results displayed (if a video appears that is not family-friendly Watchkin has a mechanism for flagging it as inappropriate). Watchkin also offers a browser bookmarklet tool that you can click while on YouTube.com to have the related content disappear from the page.
3. View Pure is a simple little tool that strips way all of the distractions of related videos, comments, and promoted videos. To use View Pure just copy the link of a video into the "purifier," click purify, and your video will be displayed on a blank white background. You can also install the View Pure bookmarklet to accomplish the same goal.
4. Quietube is a handy little browser extension that removes all the clutter from YouTube allowing you to view only your selected video. Quietube removes all advertising, sidebar content, comments, and ratings. Installing Quietube requires nothing more than dragging the Quietube button to your toolbard. Then anytime that you're on YouTube click the Quietube button to remove all of the clutter and just watch your selected video. Quietube works for Viddler and Vimeo videos too.
5. SafeShare.tv makes it possible to view YouTube videos without displaying the related videos and associated comments. To use SafeShare.tv simply copy the url of a YouTube video and paste it into SafeShare.tv. SafeShare also offers browser bookmarklet that eliminates the need to copy and paste links.


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ArtsNewsEntertainmentWA News
Crossing the punchline
Shannon HarveyThe West Australian
Fri, 1 January 2016 7:22PM
Camera IconComedian and author Sami Shah. Credit: by William Yeoman.
Sami Shah is still unpacking boxes at his new home in Melbourne, having recently moved with his wife and daughter from the WA town of Northam.
"After two years in Northam, I told the real estate agent to put me somewhere where everything happens," Shah says on the phone, only half joking. "I got so sick of being away from all the excitement where everything happens. So he put me in Brunswick, where we have all these shops and restaurants and ingredients within walking distance. It's quite exciting. We love it."
The move east is the latest chapter in the Pakistan-born comedian's now well-known story, which in itself makes for great stand-up material.
A former journalist in Karachi, Shah migrated to Australia after coming too close to one too many suicide bombers. As part of their visa requirements, his family was placed in Northam for two years. The irony of living in the same regional town as the Yongah Hill Immigration Detention Centre (where Shah's wife worked as a psychologist) became the butt of many jokes for the diminutive, articulate, talkative comedian.
"Yes, I was mistaken for an escapee while shopping at Woolies," Shah laughs.
He turned the experience into both his autobiography, I Migrant, and his celebrated stand-up comedy show of the same name, which won best local act at the Perth International Comedy Festival in 2013. His story was also featured on Australian Story, Comedy Central, US public radio and a TEDx talk.
"I didn't even know you could turn your personal story into a one-man storytelling show," Shah says. "I didn't even know that existed until I came to Australia and saw comedians doing things like that."
Now, after wowing Fringe World audiences in Perth in 2015, Shah will be back later this month with two new shows: Islamofarcist, about becoming an apostate of Islam; and Punching Down, his more straight-ahead observational stand-up.
"Islamofarcist is the story of how I was born a Muslim and grew up in a Muslim household and why I stopped being a Muslim," he says. "I hope to explain to Australians why it's stupid to be Islamophobic but at the same time why it's stupid to say it's a religion of peace. So it straddles that line. I'm that weird guy stuck in-between, all by myself."
Punching Down is Shah's more straightforward, observational stand-up show. The honest, self-effacing, fast-talking Shah says it's a deliberate attempt to move away from doing his "fish out of water" routine and towards making it as "just another member of the Waleed Aly lookalike competition" in Australia's comedy capital of Melbourne.
"The biggest insult in comedy is being called an ethnic comedian, for only telling ethnic jokes. That's a red flag to say you're actually not a good comedian. "Here's how I see it," Shah explains more seriously.
"Yes, my story was interesting as a Pakistani comedian living in the middle of nowhere. That hook gets you through the door to the comedy clubs, to interviews on TV and radio and so on. And I was gigging about four or five nights a week all over WA. We lived quite well."
"But from there, you still have to prove yourself the same way as everyone else. Even Jerry Seinfeld says his name only buys him the first five minutes of a show. All I get is 30 seconds, I guess. After that, if I'm not entertaining, I'm done. They'll move on to the next story. There's no shortage of comedians who've done more, who've been through more and who are more interesting than me."
He says the move to Melbourne is a way of challenging himself to advance his career.
"In Melbourne, there are a million comedians to compete with. And there's a bunch of brown comedians who are smart and articulate and funny. Any space I stake for myself has to be more than that. I have to prove myself as more than an ethnic comedian."
"So I'm hoping I can do it here as well, and I have this theory that if I could make it in Northam, I could make it in Melbourne. There were no opportunities for comedians or writers in Northam but I worked out a way to make it work for myself. That's what I'm most proud of. Everything else is pretty extraneous. I take heart from that."
In the meantime, Shah's new chapter in life will include a documentary for ABC, radio, writing columns, publishing his first work of fiction and attaining citizenship.
"I've got enough projects to get me through the next few months, then the hunger sets in. That's why I'm looking forward to Perth Fringe. I regard myself a Perth comedian more than a Pakistani comedian, and I wear that identity with pride."
"But who knows? Three years from now I might be moving back to Northam to salvage my career," he dead-pans pragmatically. "I'm keeping that option open."
Sami Shah: Islamofarcist is at Noodle Palace on February 3-6 and 10-13. Punching Down is at Comedy Shack from January 27-31 and The Balmoral Backyard on February 7.


The long-running friendship between Avon Theatre owner Skip Huston and paranormal author Troy Taylor will manifest in yet another collaborative venture when the "Supernatural Spookshow" premieres on Friday, January 19, 10:30 p.m., at the Avon, 426 N. Water St., Decatur, IL. Along with spinning the ghost stories intertwined with the venerable movie house's 90-year history (see item: 11/29/06), Taylor will introduce a double-bill of vintage chillers hand-picked for the event, I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE (1943) and STRANGLER OF THE SWAMP (1946). Admission will be $5.
One of several low-budget, "suggestive" horror films produced by Val Lewton and directed by Jacques Tourneur in the early Forties for RKO Radio Pictures, I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE stars James Ellison, Frances Dee, and Tom Conway in what has been described as "Jane Eyre in the West Indies" with voodoo overtones. STRANGLER OF THE SWAMP is an atmospheric mystery churned out by German director Frank Wisbar and prolific "poverty row" studio Producers Releasing Corporation that features Rosemary La Planche, Robert Barrat, Blake Edwards (eventual director of BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S and THE PINK PANTHER), and Charles Middleton ("Ming the Merciless" in the FLASH GORDON serials).
Taylor is the founder of Decatur-based Whitechapel Productions Press, an imprint that specializes in the supernatural and lists numerous Illinois titles in its catalog, including the Avon-centric Flickering Images (2001). Many of the tales amassed by the author during his travels have also been collected for larger publishers, such as in his entry of the popular "Weird U.S." series, Weird Illinois (Sterling Publishing Co., 2005). Beyond the printed page, Taylor conducts numerous ghost-sighting excursions throughout the Midwest, including the Haunted Decatur tour co-founded with the Head Honcho in 1994, and leads the American Ghost Society in its quest to document evidence of the hereafter on Earth.
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Nginx, the popular open-source Web server, goes commercial
Following in the footsteps of open-source companies like Red Hat and SUSE, Nginx's developers are offering a commercial version of its flagship open-source program, the popular Nginx Web server.
By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols for Networking | August 25, 2013 -- 20:47 GMT (13:47 PDT) | Topic: Servers
Anyone who pays any attention to Web servers knows that Apache is the most popular Web server. What only professional Web developers and administrators know is that Nginix, a high-performance, open-source Web server, is battling with Microsoft's Internet Information Services (IIS) for second place .
Now, in order to leapfrog IIS and claim the No. 2 spot for itself, Nginx (pronounced Engine-X) has announced the availability of Nginx Plus, a fully supported version of the server program. This new version comes not only with professional support services, which have been available since February 2012, but with additional features. The commercial version has been developed and supported by Nginx's core engineering team and is available on a subscription basis starting at $1,350 per instance per year.
"There has been immense interest in a commercial version of our open source software for customers that require enterprise oriented features and services," said Gus Robertson, CEO of Nginx. "The launch of Nginx Plus provides businesses with precisely all the innovation of our open-source product paired with advanced features and services that deliver greater agility and reduce complexity for our customers." Robertson concluded, "It's all the things that people know and love about Nginx plus additional features and support."
According to the company, "As business requirements continue to evolve rapidly, such as the shift to mobile and the explosion of dynamic content on the Web, CIOs are continuously looking for opportunities to increase application performance and development agility, while reducing dependencies on their infrastructure. Nginx Plus provides a flexible, scalable, uniformly applicable solution that was purpose-built for these modern, distributed application architectures.
Specifically Nginx Plus will offer Web application health checking, commercial-grade activity monitoring, advanced load balancing, dynamic reconfiguration, extended logging capabilities, high availability, and adaptive media streaming. The advanced Web server has been tested and certified for use in production on Amazon Web Services' Linux instances, Red Hat, CentOS, Ubuntu, and Debian.
The new product is likely to find customers. According to the August Netcraft survey, Nginx has 14.55-percent of the total Web market, with more than 100-million active Web sites. Of the top million sites, Netcraft shows that, with 136,815 sites, Nginix is the second most popular Web server with 14.89-percent of the world's busiest Web sites.
The company claims that Nginx is the most used Web server among the world's top 1,000 busiest sites. The business also asserts that it powers 35-percent of the world's top 10,000 busiest sites, and 44-percent of the sites on Amazon AWS. Among Nginx's current users are such Web powerhouses as Netflix, Dropbox, Pinterest, Airbnb, WordPress.com, Box, Instagram, GitHub, SoundCloud, Yandex, and Zappos.
In short, there's more than enough of a customer base for Nginix, the company, to have every expectation for the commercial version of Nginx, the open-source Web server, to be a rousing success.
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Supreme Court upholds 2016 note ban with 4:1 majority verdict
NEW DELHI: More than six years after the Centre's decision to demonetise the Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 denomination notes, the Supreme Court in a 4:1 majority verdict on Monday upheld the 2016 move, saying the decision-making process was not flawed merely because the procedure emanated from the government. Ruling that the decision to scrap […]
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Supreme Court to pronounce verdict on pleas against demonetisation on Monday
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court is scheduled to pronounce its judgment on Monday on a batch of pleas challenging the government's 2016 decision to demonetise currency notes of Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 denominations. A five-judge Constitution bench headed by Justice S A Nazeer, who will retire on January 4, is likely to pronounce its […]
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Aware of "Lakshman Rekha" but will examine demonetisation: Supreme Court
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court said on Wednesday it is aware of the "Lakshman Rekha" on judicial review of government policy decisions but will have to examine the 2016 demonetisation decision to decide whether the issue has become a mere "academic" exercise. A five-judge bench headed by Justice S A Nazeer said when an issue […]
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NEW DELHI: The note printing subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has failed to explain how disclosure of data on Rs 2000 notes and Rs 500 notes printed after demonetisation will affect economic interests of the state, the Central Information Commission (CIC) has noted ordering its disclosure. The Bhartiya Reserve Bank Note Mudran […]
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India's economic growth held back due to demonetisation, GST: Raghuram Rajan
By Lalit K Jha WASHINGTON: Demonetisation and the Goods and Services Tax (GST) are the two major headwinds that held back India's economic growth last year, former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan has said, asserting that the current seven per cent growth rate is not enough to meet the country's needs. Addressing an audience at the […]
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Dallas Stars Recall Cameron Gauce
CEDAR PARK, Texas – The Texas Stars, American Hockey League affiliate of the NHL's Dallas Stars, announced today defenseman Cameron Gaunce has been called up to the NHL. Gaunce (GAWNS) becomes the sixth different player this year from the Texas roster to be called up to the NHL.
Gaunce, 24, has posted three points (one goal, two assists) in 29 games played for Texas this season. Last season, he split his time between Dallas and Texas. With Dallas, he appeared in nine games recording a +1 plus/minus rating and seven penalty minutes. With Texas, he recorded 18 points (three goals, 15 assists) in 65 regular season games. In 18 playoff contests, he recorded four points (four assists), including three assists in the Calder Cup Final series-clinching victory.
The 6-foot-1, 210-pound native of Sudbury, Ontario was selected by Colorado in the second round (50th overall) of the 2008 NHL Draft. He was acquired by Dallas from Colorado in exchange for Tomas Vincour on April 2, 2013.
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Spring 2016 - Vol. 11, No. 1
Choosing Wisely XV:
Topics from the Heart Rhythm Society, the Society of Hospital Medicine-Pediatric Hospital Medicine, and the American College of Chest Physicians and American Thoracic Society
Alan S. Peterson, M.D.
Associate Director, Family and Community Medicine
Walter L. Aument Family Health Center
This is my 15th article on "Choosing Wisely" from the Board of Internal Medicine Foundation. As previously noted, each specialty group is developing "Five or 10 Things Physicians and Patients Should Know."
I. RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE HEART RHYTHM SOCIETY
1. In the absence of other indications for pacing, don't implant pacemakers for asymptomatic sinus bradycardia.
Pacemaker implantation is clearly indicated in patients with symptomatic sinus node dysfunction. However, there is no clear evidence that pacemaker implantation benefits asymptomatic patients with sinus bradycardia who have no other reason for pacing nor need for cardiac resynchronization. Like any other operation there is risk and cost. In addition, persistent inappropriate right ventricular pacing may have harmful effects on heart function.
2. In patients with New York Heart Association (NYHA) Functional Class IV who are not candidates for either cardiac transplantation, a left ventricular assist device as destination therapy, or cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT), don't implant an implantable cardioverter-defibrilator (ICD) for the primary prevention of sudden cardiac death. (Class III, contraindicated)
These patients have extremely high mortality, and were not included in the primary prevention trials of ICD therapy. Current professional society guidelines recommend against implanting an ICD in such patients.
3. In patients unlikely to survive at least one year due to non-cardiac comorbidity, don't implant an ICD for the primary prevention of sudden cardiac death. (Class III, contraindicated)
When there is no reasonable expectation of survival from a non-cardiac illness for at least one year, the explicit goal of primary prevention of sudden death with an ICD is not applicable.
4. When both symptoms and heart rate are acceptably controlled by well-tolerated medical therapy, don't ablate the atrioventricular (AV) node in patients with atrial fibrillation.
AV node ablation and pacemaker implantation may provide benefit in some patients when heart rate and related symptoms cannot be controlled by medication therapy, (Class IIa, indicated) or when there is concern for possible tachycardia-induced cardiomyopathy (Class IIb, may be considered). However, according to current professional society clinical guidelines, the risks of AV node ablation outweigh the benefits among patients with no symptoms and who have appropriate rate control with well-tolerated medical therapy.
5. In patients with ischemic heart disease who have experienced prior myocardial infarction, don't use Vaughan-Williams Class Ic antiarrhythmic drugs as a first-line agent for the maintenance of sinus rhythm.
Class Ic antiarrhythmic agents (i.e. flecanide and encainide), have been demonstrated to increase mortality in patients treated with these agents after myocardial infarction. Current guidelines therefore recommend against (Class III, contraindicated) the use of these agents (as well as propafenone, because it is also a Class Ic agent) in patients with known coronary artery disease with left ventricular dysfunction or concern for possible ischemic myocardium at risk.1
II. RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE SOCIETY OF HOSPITAL MEDICINE—PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL MEDICINE (SHM)
1. In children with uncomplicated asthma or bronchiolitis, don't order chest radiographs. National guidelines rely on physical examination and patient history for a diagnosis of asthma and bronchiolitis in the pediatric population. Studies have shown limited clinical utility of chest radiographs for patients with asthma or bronchiolitis. Reducing their use will reduce cost and radiation exposure, and will not compromise diagnostic accuracy and care.2
2. In children with bronchiolitis, don't routinely use bronchodilators. Studies in the literature have demonstrated that use of bronchodilators in children admitted to the hospital with bronchiolitis have no effect on any important outcomes. Providers should also consider the potential impact of adverse effects of these drugs on the patient.
3. In children under 2 years of age with an uncomplicated lower respiratory tract infection, don't use systemic corticosteroids. Again, guidelines recommend against the use of corticosteroids for management of bronchiolitis. Studies with other viral lower respiratory tract infections fail to demonstrate any benefits.3
4. Do not treat gastroesophageal reflux in infants routinely with acid suppression therapy. Antireflux therapy has been demonstrated to have no effect in reducing the symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) in children. Concerns regarding the use of proton-pump inhibitor therapy in infants include an inability to definitively diagnose pediatric patients according to the established criteria of GERD, lack of documented efficacy of acid suppression therapy in infants, and the potential adverse effects associated with acid suppression therapy.
5. In children with acute respiratory illness, don't use continuous pulse oximetry routinely unless they are on supplemental oxygen. The clinical benefit of continuous pulse oximetry in infants with acute respiratory illness is not validated or well documented, and has previously been associated with increased admission rates and increased length of stay.4
III. RECOMMENDATIONS FROM AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CHEST PHYSICIANS AND AMERICAN THORACIC SOCIETY
1. For evaluation of indeterminate pulmonary nodules at more frequent intervals or for a longer period of time than recommended by established guidelines, don't perform CT scan surveillance. Intensity of surveillance should be guided by the likelihood of malignancy. In those with no prior history of cancer, solid nodules that have not grown over a 2-year period have an extremely low risk of malignancy (although longer follow-up is suggested for ground glass nodules). Also, intensive surveillance such as repeating CT scans every 3 months for 2 years or more has not been shown to improve outcomes such as lung cancer mortality. Extended or intensive surveillance exposes patients to increased radiation and prolonged uncertainty.
2. In patients with pulmonary hypertension resulting from left heart disease or hypoxemic lung diseases (Groups II or III pulmonary hypertension), don't routinely offer pharmacologic treatment with advanced vasoactive agents approved only for the management of pulmonary arterial hypertension. Evidence and clinical practice guidelines have not established benefits of vasoactive agents (e.g., prostanoids, phosphodiesterase inhibitors, endothelin antagonists) for patients with pulmonary hypertension resulting from left heart disease or hypoxemic lung diseases. The use of these agents may cause harm in certain situations and also is a costly use of resources. Therefore, prior to having approved agents initiated, patients should be carefully assessed (including, at a minimum, right heart catheterization, echocardiography, chest CT, six minute walk test, and pulmonary function testing) to confirm that they have symptomatic pulmonary arterial hypertension.5
3. For patients recently discharged on supplemental home oxygen following hospitalization for an acute illness, don't renew the prescription without assessing the patient for ongoing hypoxemia. Hypoxemia often resolves after recovery from an acute illness and continued prescription of supplemental oxygen therapy causes unnecessary cost and resource use. When initially prescribed, the plan should be established to re-assess the patient no later than 90 days after discharge. Medicare and evidence-based criteria should be followed to determine whether the patient meets criteria for supplemental oxygen.
4. In evaluating patients for possible pulmonary embolism who have a low clinical probability and negative results of a highly sensitive D-dimer assay, don't perform chest computed tomography (CT angiography). In patients with a low clinical score using Wells or Geneva scores followed by a negative D-dimer measure with a high sensitivity test (e.g., ELISA), pulmonary embolism is effectively excluded. In such patients the cost and potential harms of CT angiography (including radiation exposure and the possibility of detecting and treating clinically insignificant pulmonary emboli with anticoagulation) outweigh the benefits.
5. Among patients at low risk for lung cancer, don't perform CT screening. For patients at high risk for lung cancer (i.e., individuals age 55-74 with at least a 30 pack-year history of tobacco use, who are either still smoking or quit within the past 15 years), low dose chest CT screening has the potential to reduce lung cancer deaths. In low-risk patients, however, CT screening also has a number of adverse effects – such as radiation exposure, a high rate of false-positives, harms related to subsequent evaluation of benign pulmonary nodules, and overdiagnosis of indolent tumors – which outweigh the benefits.
UPDATES TO PEDIATRIC HEALTHCARE SCHEDULE
Recently the American Academy of Pediatrics provided the following updates, including the evidence on which they are based.6
• Vision screening: This was changed from routine screening to a risk-assessment approach because healthy young adults rarely develop new vision problems.
• Oral health: A new recommendation for fluoride varnish from ages 6 months through 5 years of age.
• Alcohol and drug use assessment: The addition of a CRAFFT screening tool for adolescents. This can be seen at http://www.Ceasar-boston.org/CRAFFT/index.php.
• Depression screening: There are new recommendations at ages 11 through 21 years of age.
• Dyslipidemia screening: An additional screen between ages 9 and 11 years of age is now recommended in response to the obesity epidemic.
• Hematocrit or hemoglobin: Measurement at ages 15 and 30 months has been added to detect iron deficiency anemia, which can negatively affect neurodevelopment.
• HIV screening: Now recommended between ages 16 and 18 years of age.
• Cervical dysplasia screening: No longer recommended for adolescents. Screening begins at age 21 years.
• Critical congenital heart disease (CCHD) screening: Newborns should be screened prior to discharge using pulse oximetry to detect CCHD that may have been missed with prenatal ultrasound.
The "Recommendations for Preventive Pediatric Healthcare," also referred to as the periodicity table, includes links to the American Academy of Pediatrics policy statements that provide the evidence on which these changes are based. Links to the validated screening tools are also included.
NEW ASPIRIN RECOMMENDATIONS
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) released new aspirin recommendations for those aged 50 to 59 years old with a 10-year cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk of 10% or greater. They used a calculator created by data from The American College of Cardiology and The American Heart Association to predict 10-year risk of CVD, and applied it to 11 randomized, controlled trials evaluating the use of aspirin for primary prevention of CVD. In addition, they also examined data from several primary and secondary CVD prevention trials that reported on colorectal cancer risk reduction seen with aspirin use.
Based on this analysis they issued a grade B recommendation that adults aged 50 to 59 years old, who are not at increased risk for bleeding, should take low-dose aspirin for the prevention of CVD and colorectal cancer. Also, a grade C recommendation was issued, which stated that for patients between 60 and 69 years old, the decision about aspirin should be individualized as there is insufficient evidence to recommend routine aspirin use in this age group.7
NEITHER CALCIUM SUPPLEMENTS NOR HIGHER CALCIUM DIETARY INTAKE AFFECT FRACTURE RISK
Experts and practitioners have perennially recommended that the elderly ingest at least 1,000 to 1,200 mg of calcium daily to prevent fractures, and many of us have followed this recommendation. Investigators in this systematic review examined evidence from randomized, controlled trials and observational studies to determine the effects of dietary calcium and calcium supplements on fracture risk in those over 50 years of age.8
Fifty-eight cohort studies of the relationship between dietary intake of calcium, milk, or dairy and fracture risk in over 700,000 participants were analyzed. The majority of the studies (74%) reported no association between dietary calcium intake and risk for total fracture (14 of 22 studies), hip fracture (17 of 21 studies), vertebral fracture (7 of 8 studies), or forearm fracture (5 of 7 studies). Positive associations in the remaining studies were weak. Also, neither milk intake nor dairy intake was associated with fracture risk. Analyses from 26 randomized trials (69,000 participants; mostly women) in which the effects of calcium supplements (≥ 1000 mg daily in most studies) on fracture risk were assessed showed calcium supplements lowered risks of total fracture (relative risk, 0.89) and vertebral fracture (relative risk, 0.86) but not hip or forearm fracture. Evidence of publication bias was found in some trials.
Widespread untargeted use of calcium supplements in older patients is unlikely to result in lower incidence of fractures. A companion meta-analysis shows little effect on bone density (BMJ 2015;351:4183). Calcium supplements also have been associated with harms, including adverse cardiovascular events (BMJ 2011; 342:d2040), renal stones, dyspepsia, constipation, and malabsorption of some medications like thyroid pills.
CHOOSING WISELY---IS IT MAKING A DIFFERENCE?
A recent article in JAMA Internal Medicine used a national health insurance database and compared claims for seven services before and after the early "Choosing Wisely" lists were released in 2012. Only two targeted services saw small reductions. Among their findings were 10% relative reductions in the percentages of patients who underwent imaging for headaches with uncomplicated conditions (14.9% to 13.4%), and those who underwent cardiac imaging without cardiac disease (10.8% to 9.7%). The percentages of preoperative chest X-rays, low-back pain imaging with red-flag conditions, and antibiotic use for sinusitis, were largely unchanged.
The percentage of women younger than age 30 who were tested for human papilloma virus rose from 4.8% to 6.0%. Adults with certain chronic conditions who were prescribed nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs increased from 14.4% to 16.2%.
The changes suggest that more interventions are needed for wider implementation of "Choosing Wisely" recommendations. What do you think might be helpful?
SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE INTERVENTION TRIAL (SPRINT)
A recent article in UpToDate made recommendations for BP goals in patients 50 years or older with systolic blood pressure from 130 to 180 mmHg and an additional risk factor for cardiovascular disease (other than diabetes, proteinuric chronic kidney disease, or stroke, for which they make separate recommendations). The goal should be a systolic blood pressure of 125 to 130 mmHg if standard manual (auscultatory) measurements are used, or systolic blood pressure of 120 to 125 mmHg if automated oscillometric blood pressure measurements are used, rather than higher values (Grade 1A).9 The goal in most hypertensive patients had been less than 140/90 mmHg, or less than 150/90 mmHg in older adults.
The SPRINT trial was a multicenter, randomized, open-labeled trial performed in 9,361 hypertensive patients in the United States after a median of 3.26 years. Therapy was intensive compared with standard treatment, and reduced the rate of mortality (3.3 vs. 4.5%), as well as the primary endpoint (5.2 vs. 6.8%), which was a composite of myocardial infarction, acute coronary syndrome, stroke, heart failure, or cardiovascular death. Intensive treatment did increase the rates of acute kidney injury, syncope, and hyponatremia, but not orthostatic hypotension or falls that resulted in hospitalization. UpToDate now recommends lower systolic pressure goals (depending on the method of measurement) for non-diabetic adults 50 years and older at high risk for cardiovascular events. Recommendations for other groups, including those with proteinuric chronic kidney disease, have not changed based upon these data. A research trial concerning blood pressure goals for patients with diabetes is hopefully to be released in 2016.
FAKE PEER REVIEW A PROBLEM FOR SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS
An editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine has called attention to the problem of peer-review fraud, where people chosen to review manuscripts are associated with the author or are the author using a fake identity.10 The editorial writer notes:
• In the past few years, more than 250 articles that underwent fake peer-review have been retracted.
• Most of the articles originated in China and Southeast Asia.
• Pressure to publish quickly, and in the best journals, can influence authors and editors to game the system.
Verifying the identity of peer-reviewers should reduce the problem, but new ways of gaming the traditional publication models will be invented more quickly than new control measures can be put in place.
1. Fuster, V et al. American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force. 2011 ACCF/AHA/HRS Focused Updated Incorporated into the ACC/AHA/ESC 2006 guidelines for the management of patients with atrial fibrillation: a report of The American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on practice guidelines. Circulation 2011 Mar 15;123(10):e269-367.
2. National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Asthma Education and Prevention Program. Expert panel report 3: Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of asthma. Bethesda (MD): National Institutes of Health; 2007 Aug. 417 p.4051.
3. Panickar, J et al. Oral Prednisolone for Preschool Children with Acute Virus-Induced Wheezing. NEJM. 2009 Jan 22;360(4):329-38.
4. Alverson, BK et al. Continuous Versus Intermittent Pulse Oximetry Monitoring of Children Hospitalized for Bronchiolitis. Abstract presented at ICWeek 2012. San Diego (CA). 2012 Oct 19.
5. Hoeper, MM et al. Diagnosis, Assessment, and Treatment of Non-Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2009;54(1 Supple):S85-96.
6. Bell, LM. MD Reviewing Committee on Practice and Ambulatory Medicine and Bright Futures Periodicity Schedule Workgroup. Pediatrics 2015 Dec 7.
7. USPSTF. Aspirin to Prevent Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer. 2015 Sept. www.uspreventiveservicetaskforce.org/Page/Document/draft-recommendation-statement/aspirin-to-prevent-cardiovascular-disease-and-cancer.
8. Bolland, MJ, et al. Calcium Intake and Risk of Fracture: Systematic Review. BMJ 2015 Sep 29;351:h4580.
9. SPRINT Research Group. A Randomised Trial of Intensive Versus Standard Blood-Pressure Control. NEJM 2015:373:2103.
10. Haug CJ. Peer-review fraud: Hacking the scientific publication process. New Eng J Med. 2015; 373:2393-2395


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Taxation Laws Amendment (Trust Loss and Other Deductions) Act 1998 (17 of 1998)
Schedule 1 Trust losses and other deductions
Part 1 Income Tax Assessment Act 1936
Division 3 Application and transitional provisions
22A Transitional - family trust elections
(a)	a family trust election can be made in accordance with subsection 272-80(2) of the trust loss etc. Schedule specifying the 1999-2000 year of income; and
(b)	assuming that a family trust election could specify the 1996-97 year of income, the 1997-98 year of income or the 1998-1999 year of income (the qualifying year of income ):
(i)	a company that would otherwise be prevented, by section 63B or 63C of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 or by Subdivision 165-C or 175-C of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997, from deducting in the qualifying year of income an amount in respect of a debt would not be so prevented; or
(ii)	a company that would otherwise be prevented by Subdivision 165-A, 175-A or 175-B of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 from deducting an amount in the qualifying year of income would not be so prevented; or
(iii)	a company that would otherwise be required to calculate its taxable income for the qualifying year of income in accordance with section 50C of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 would not be so required; or
(iv)	a company that would otherwise not be entitled, in calculating its taxable income for the qualifying year of income in accordance with section 50C of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936, to take into account an amount, by reason of subsection 50D(2), in ascertaining the eligible notional loss of the company under section 50D, would be so entitled; or
(v)	a company that would otherwise be required to calculate its taxable income and tax loss for the qualifying year of income under Subdivision 165-B of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 would not be so required; or
(vi)	a company that would otherwise be prevented by Subdivision 165-CA or 175-CA of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 from applying in the qualifying year a net capital loss from an earlier year of income would not be so prevented; or
(vii)	a company that would otherwise be required to calculate its net capital gain and net capital loss for the qualifying year under Subdivision 165-CB or 175-CB of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 would not be so required; and
(c)	the trust concerned passes the family control test (see section 272-87 of the trust loss etc. Schedule):
(i)	if the qualifying year of income is the 1996-97 year of income or the 1997-98 year of income - at all times from the beginning of that year of income until the end of the 1998-99 year of income; or
(ii)	if the qualifying year of income is the 1998-99 year of income - at the end of the 1998-99 year of income; and
(d)	the Taxation Laws Amendment Act (No. 2) 2000 receives the Royal Assent:
(i)	if the trustee is required to furnish a return for the 1998-99 year of income - after the time when the trustee furnishes the return; or
(ii)	if the trustee is not required to furnish a return for the 1998-99 year of income - after the end of 2 months after the end of that year of income;
the election can instead specify the qualifying year of income.
(a)	a family trust election can be made in accordance with subsection 272-80(2) of the trust loss etc. Schedule in relation to a non-fixed trust (within the meaning of section 272-70 of the trust loss etc. Schedule) specifying the 1999-2000 year of income; and
(b)	a franked dividend or a franked distribution (both within the meaning of section 177EA of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936) was included in the assessable income of the trust of the 1997-98 year of income or the 1998-99 year of income (the qualifying year of income ); and
(i)	if the qualifying year of income is the 1997-98 year of income - at all times from the beginning of that year of income until the end of the 1998-99 year of income; or
(d)	either the Taxation Laws Amendment Act (No. 2) 1999 or the Taxation Laws Amendment Act (No. 2) 2000, or both, receive the Royal Assent:
(3)	The election must:
(a)	be in a form and manner approved by the Commissioner; and
(b)	be made:
(i)	if the trustee is required to furnish a return for the 1999-2000 year of income - by the time when the trustee furnishes the return; or
(ii)	if the trustee is not required to furnish a return for the 1999-2000 year of income - before the end of 2 months after the end of that year of income or before the end of such later day as the Commissioner allows.
(4)	If a family trust election is made in accordance with subitem (3) specifying the qualifying year:
(a)	if the trustee is required to furnish a return for the 1999-2000 year of income - such information about the election as is required by the return must be included in the return; and
(b)	if the trustee is not required to furnish a return for that year of income - the trustee must, before the end of 2 months after the end of the 1999-2000 year of income or before the end of such later day as the Commissioner allows, give the Commissioner such information about the election as the Commissioner, by notice in the Gazette, requires.
(a)	a family trust election does specify the qualifying year of income in accordance with this item; and
(b)	the trust is not prevented by the trust loss etc. Schedule from deducting a tax loss, or an amount in respect of a debt, and is not required to work out its net income and tax loss under Division 268 of that Schedule in the qualifying year or any later year of income that occurs before the 1999-2000 year of income;
no liability to pay family trust distribution tax arises under Division 271 of the trust loss etc. Schedule in respect of a conferral of a present entitlement to, or a distribution of, income or capital that took place during the qualifying year or the later year of income.