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KMC extends Rs9 million to 'model schools' in the city
Bhanu, Sanskrit and Kanya secondary schools receive Rs3 million each under the metropolis' policy and programme
The KMC has allocated Rs3 million each to Bhanu Secondary and Sankrit Secondary which are run on the premises of historic Durbar High School. Photo: RSS
The Kathmandu Metropolitan City has extended Rs9 million in financial assistance to three community schools listed as model schools in its policy and programme for the current financial year.
The KMC has provided funding of Rs3 million each to Bhanu Secondary School and Sanskrit Secondary School operated on the premises of historic Durbar High School and Kanya Secondary School located in Chhetrapati.
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For this fiscal year, the KMC has put aside Rs10 million for the model schools. Model schools should give students access to technology, the right number of teachers for each subject based on the number of students, a good education that works well with technology, and more interesting programs than other schools.
Ram Prasad Subedi, head of the KMC Education Department, said that the schools should use the available funds to maintain their facilities and implement additional programmes to enhance the learning environment.
He stated that the schools have submitted their expenditure plans to the KMC. The city will monitor the schools to ensure that they adhere to the scheme.
The model schools are preparing to teach subjects such as cultural heritage, agriculture, and the arts. Under the scheme, secondary schools for girls study the preservation of historical heritage and the environment.
Similarly, Sanskrit School will instruct its students on the practicality of urban farming programmes, including ways to maximise the utilisation of the city's limited agricultural land.
Bhanu Secondary has added to its curriculum classes about arts and culture and the need to preserve them. The KMC is consulting with Lalitkala Campus on ways to proceed in this area.
Currently, there are 89 community schools in the metropolis. Around 52,000 students attend 59 secondary schools and 30 primary schools. Similarly, 150,000 students are enrolled in 540 private schools.
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What Happens After the Big Test?
Teachers share secrets on how to keep class engaged after SOLs
Jack Tessier, Features Editor
For many classes, the big SOL test can sometimes feel like the culmination of lots hard work and learning. That feeling, however, is misguided considering how there is still a month of school left.
The Virginia Standards of Learning outline what every student in Virginia should learn in certain subjects, such as Math and Science, and checks the progress through SOL tests. For teachers, getting in all the material before the long awaited, and for some, long dreaded test, can be a challenge. However, what they do after the big test with still a month of school left can a challenge to figure out too.
One teaching objective to accomplish after SOL would be to cover content that will get the students ahead in the next level. This works especially well for cumulative subjects like math.
Math Teacher Kurt Mergen teaches a variety of math SOL courses, including Algebra and Geometry.
"I'll teach the students fundamentals for the next course," Mergen explained. "I'll teach enrichment topics that aren't part of the VA Standards, or we'll take the time to do activities and applications we weren't able to before the SOL deadline."
Chemistry teacher Julie Wendlberger tries to end her course with a real-world application unit.
"I start a new unit on Forensics," Wendlberger said. "It is interesting to students and demonstrates real world applications of chemistry, biology and earth science."
Biology teacher Lisa Evans also starts new lessons that interest students in her Honors Biology class.
"If time permits, we do dissection of a rat," Evans said. Evans also believes that there can be a few free days in class after the SOL.
"I give my students a few free days to make up work or study for upcoming SOLs," Evans explained. "This also allows them to get caught up without adding stress to this busy time of year."
Mergen believes that, once free from the restrictions that "teaching to the test" can place on teaching, teachers enjoy more freedom in teaching the subject.
"I think it's a perfect opportunity for them to share their passions about their content area, or ask the students what they would like to learn before the end of the course," Mergen said.
The new final exemption policy allows students who have passed their SOL to be exempt from their final. While most teachers don't see how this would change the way they teach class after the SOLs, some see a decline in student effort after SOLs.
History teacher Mary Harper does project based learning after SOLs, but has noticed its effectiveness decrease after the new policy.
"Traditionally, students knew that putting effort into the projects after SOLs could be the "bump" they needed to earn a B for the year and therefore being exempt," Harper said. "Without that incentive, students are displaying a lack of motivation…to the point that I have heard several students saying that they aren't going to do it because they know they will still pass the class. If this continues, I may have to abandon the projects and go back to instruction and test/quiz assessments."
Junior Joseph Randall knows what Mrs. Harper is talking about.
"I've heard a lot students talking about not putting effort because they've passed their US History SOL," Randall said.
Despite the concerns, teachers will still do their best to pass on their knowledge of the subject to their students.
"I have taught 3 SOL courses and you never really manage to cover everything before the SOL," Wendlberger said, "There is always more to learn!"
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Gone are the days when being a vegan meant only having a salad on your plate. Of course, you knew that it never really had to be like that, didn't you? However, it's fair to say that it took just that little bit longer for restaurants to play catch up... but all is well; they're there now! Providing a multitude of options when you go out to eat (or even when you order in with vegetarian takeaway), you're as spoiled for choice as your meat-eating friends.
Perhaps you're vegan for health reasons, ethical reasons, environmental reasons, or even financial ones but there's no reason not to eat well. Contrary to what some people believe, there are so, so many amazing things that you can actually eat, across the board.
Despite having loads of options these days, sometimes you just can't beat some tasty tofu. Here are some of the places which do it best.
Mildred's is an amazing little mini-chain that can be found across London, specialising only in vegan and vegetarian food. Its plant-based offerings are enough to convert any meat eater out there, and if not? Well, there's more for you! Kimchi Broth gives you a real flavour of Korean cuisine, without the meat that often dominates a lot of their dishes. Barbecued spiced tofu absolutely steals the show but that's not all there is to it. Rice noodles, grilled pak choi, and, of course, kim chi, all swim in a delicious fennel, ginger, and star anise broth.
In the heart of Woking, you'll find Sokury, known for its vegetarian and vegan-friendly attitude and an array of dishes in support of that ethos. Their Special Premium Bento of the Spicy Tofu variety houses everything you might expect from a traditional bento box, with tofu instead of meat. Expect veggies, rice, and a lot of flavour from that tofu!
If it's Korean you want, it's Korean you're going to get thanks to Gogi. Serving up delicious Tofu Dolsot Bibimbap, the locals tip this as their absolute favourite dish on the menu. Rice is cooked in a stone pot with seasoned vegetables - and they even leave out the egg for vegans.
This place is a vegetarian or vegan's absolute delight. Everything on the menu at 222 Veggie Vegan has been crafted with you guys in mind! The Bean and Tofu Pancake is no exception. Blending the very best in black-eyed beans, they then add tofu and it all goes into a tender wholemeal pancake. The topping might be our fave, though - it's a delicious tomato and vegan cream sauce.
It's not all meat and cheese when it comes to takeaways, no matter what some places may have you believe. If you're hungry, vegans never need to go without when ordering from Deliveroo.


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Lillian Beynon Thomas
Writer and Social Reformer
by George Siamandas
In the decade between 1907 and 1917 she was one of the most influential women in Canada. As a writer for the Winnipeg Free Press and the Prairie Farmer, Thomas raised the consciousness of women. She was also one of the founders of the Political Equality league which fought the Roblin govt for the right to vote.
Lillian Beynon was born Sept 4, 1874 in Kings Ontario. Her family moved to Hartney in the south west corner Manitoba in 1884. After her father's death, her family moved to Winnipeg, and she received her Normal School certificate in 1896. In the next nine years she taught in various rural Manitoba locations developing a compassion for the lives of rural women. In 1905 a time in which women were only 11% of all college graduates, she received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wesley College and began teaching in Morden.
BECOMING A WRITER
It was John Dafoe of the Free Press who gave her a chance to write in 1907. It had been her life-long ambition. She wrote under the pseudonym Lillian Laurie and the column was called "Home Loving Hearts." Her column was not about how to be beautiful nor how to win a husband. Instead she told stories about women who had been abandoned, mistreated, and who had no legal rights to children. She began to be an advocate for social reform, for dower rights, and for temperance as she had seen how many farm families had been torn apart due to liquor. Thomas, well ahead for her times, also supported unwed mothers and illegitimate children. She soon realized that obtaining reform would come only after women had secured the right to vote for reform.
THE SUFFRAGETTE'S FIGHT
Manitoba was ahead of other provinces in lobbying for the right to vote. This was attributed to the Icelandic women that had come to Manitoba who had enjoyed the right to vote in their home country. The fight to ban the booze had started in 1885 and by 1893 the Women's Christian Temperance Union took up the voting issue.
In 1906 women who owned property were allowed to vote in municipal election. But the Manitoba government fearing they would vote in prohibition, in which the govt had a vested interest, took away their right to vote. This move strengthened women's resolve to pursue the vote. Thomas continued to write and was instrumental in the establishment of homemaker's clubs throughout Saskatchewan.
MOCK PARLIAMENT SKIT
In 1912 the Political Equality league was set up with Lillian Beynon Thomas as its first president. She helped set up a Speaker's Bureau whose members toured the province. Despite changing public support the Roblin govt refused women the right to vote and finally Lillian Beynon Thomas having seen a skit in which she decided to show thew absurdity of Roblin's reasons fro not giving the women the right to vote. The famous Mock Parliament skit at the Walker Theatre. Here the roles were reversed. Men came to women begging for the right to vote and were told that beautiful and cultured men should not receive the right to vote.
LEGISLATIVE BUILDING SCANDAL GIVES WOMEN AN OPENING
In May 1915 Roblin's govt fell after the scandal over the escalating costs of building the legislature. TC Norris the new premier promised women the vote. Lillian Beynon Thomas was also an advocate of social concerns. In 1912 she initiated a campaign to get nurses into rural areas and arranged for the exchange of care parcels between have and have not Manitobans. She gave exposure to the work of JS Wooodsworth.
WHAT HAPPENED TO LILLIAN BEYNON THOMAS
In 1917 she moved to New York with her husband AV Thomas where she studied short story writing at Columbia University. In 1922 they returned to Winnipeg were she began work for the Tribune. She also began to write plays and found great sucess in this new carreer. She died Sept 2 1961 at age 77.
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Андрија Мауровић (1901 — 1981) био је југословенски и хрватски цртач стрипова, сликар и илустратор.

Делујући у малој земљи с неразвијеном стрип-традицијом, земљи неажурних посленика културе, Мауровић је, нажалост, искусио судбину многих великих уметника и остао је готово анониман изван њених граница.

Биографија
Андрија Мауровић, рођен је 29. марта 1901. године у малом месту Муо, крај Котора, као седмо дете Бокељке и Словенца, апотекарског службеника аустро-угарске војске. Након краткотрајног боравка у Кракову, у Пољској, породица Мауровић се преселила у Дубровник, где је Андрија провео дане дечаштва и младости. Био је слаб ђак, али је од најраније младости показивао таленат за цртање. У јесен 1920. године први пут одлази у Загреб у намери да студира сликарство, али се због беспарице враћа кући.

Прва изложба
Као осамнаестогодишњак, 1919. године, на једној заједничкој изложби је у Дубровнику изложио своје прве радове. О успеху тог првог излагања нема никаквих података, али већ следеће 1920. године Мауровић поново излаже и то 32 слике у техникама акварела, уља, пастела и угљена.

"Фали му још доста тога - особито у техници; боје му немају свјежину и прелази су тврди али се све то даде постићи школом и вјежбањем. Мауровић је сада у 8. разреду гимназије. Овако млад нас је зачудио својом првом изложбом" - писала је тадашња критика.

Студије
Краће време (1921./1922) бавио се глумом у сарајевском позоришту, а глумио је и у неколико немих филмова. Показало се касније да је ово кратко филмско искуство увелико одредило његов начин кадрирања стрипова и илустрација.

Након одслужења војног рока у Нишу, по други пут одлази у Загреб како би отпочео са студирањем на "Краљевској академији за умјетност и обрт", што је био тадашњи назив за Академију ликовних уметности. Уписао се у класу Ферде Ковачевића.

Овога пута Финансијски проблеми су мањи јер га је припомогла дубровачка општина. Ипак Мауровић је зарађивао за живот израдом илустрација за плакате, часописе и књиге. У то време правила Академије забрањивала су студентима такав рад, па Мауровић убрзо прекида студије. У архиви Академије нису пронађени документи на основу којих би се могло утврдити да је дошло до сукоба са управом и да је Мауровић искључен са Академије.

Професионалац
Након прекида школовања у потпуности се посвећује илустраторском раду. Повремено објављује карикатуре у дубровачком "Јежу". Међу сачуваним бројевима "Јежа" први Мауровићев цртеж насловљен је Мадам Помпадур и тај цртеж можемо сматрати његовим најранијим сачуваним цртежом ("Јеж", Дубровник 1921., бр. 4 од 1.5.1921).

Од 1925. године повремено сарађује и са тада најзначајнијим хумористичко-сатиричним часописом у Хрватској "Коприве", а од 1928. добија поверење да ради насловнице и задње стране за тај часопис и покоји цртеж унутар броја. Током 1930. године већину насловница је урадио Мауровић што говори да је стекао углед и статус међу илустраторима и карикатуристима. Сарађивао је са великим бројем новина и часописа међу којима су "Јутарњи лист", "Новости", "Коприве", "Женски свет" и "Кулиса".

Златно доба: 1935—1941
Увозни стрип, претежно амерички, средином тридесетих година почео је да осваја читаоце, па су уредници загребачких "Новости" одлучили да отпочну са објављивањем домаћег стрипа, а тај велики посао су поверили Андрији Мауровићу. Свој први стрип "Вјереница мача", према делу француског писца Паула Февала, "Новости" су почеле објављивати 2. маја 1935. године. Репринт овог Мауровићевог првенца, у оквиру библиотеке "Великани хрватског стрипа", објавио је Осијечки "Формат" 2006. године.

После "Веренице мача", првог "романа у сликама", уследила су два научно-фантастична стрипа, "Подземна царица" и "Љубавница с Марса", а онда су се као на покретној траци почели ређати стрипови: "Плен демона џунгле", "Разбојникова вереница", "Крволок од Танипура", "Огњем и мачем", "Златарево злато" и многи други. Велику славу је стекао са своја прва два вестерн-стрипа "Тројица у мраку" и "Седма жртва" за којима следе "Господар Златних брегова", "Последња пустоловина Старог Мачка", "Сабласт зелених мочвара"...

Стрип јунаци напречац освајају публику широм земље, а свом творцу доносе огромну славу - и исто толико новца.

"Зарађивао сам по седамдесет-осамдесет хиљада тадашњих динара месечно, а за тај новац је кућа могла да се купи". - рекао је Андрија Мауровић. "Али, како је долазило, тако је и одлазило: пиће, жене, лумповање, чета пријатеља који се за трен окупе око човека пуног пара; колико год да их има, никад довољно, и ништа ми од света тога није остало..."

Свој стваралачки врхунац Мауровић је имао између 1935. и 1941. године. У другој половини педестих година (1956-60) није објавио ниједан стрип покушавајући да се врати на путеве чистог сликарства. Често је говорио да га сликарство одмара, а да је стрип упропастио његов живот. У периоду 1970-76 такође се уздржава од цртања стрипова. У 1976. објављује свој последњи стрип "Повратак Старог Мачка".

Други светски рат
Почетком рата (1941-43.) Мауровић није цртао стрипове, али је током 1943. и 1944. за "Забавник" нацртао следеће стрипове: Гроб у прашуми, Сеоба Хрвата, Кнез Радослав, Томислав, Златни оток и Ахурамазда на Нилу.

Пред крај Другог светског рата Мауровић је приступио партизанима и био у саставу Осме кордунашке дивизије. Углавном је радио плакате и зидне новине. Након рата је нацртао опус од 6 кратких стрипова из партизанског живота. Ти стрипови су обједињени у стрип-албуму "Приче о одважним људима" (Издавач: КИЦ "Привлачица", Винковци 1989). За насловницу је употребљена његова слика (уље на платну) из 1945. године .
Стрип-албум "Приче о одважним људима" садржи следеће стрипове:
 "Бродоломци на отоку Мега" (Сценарио Марцел Чукли. Прво објављивање "Хоризонтални забавник", 1952)
 "Против смрти (сценарио Вицко Распор. Прво објављивање "Омладина", 1954)
 "Ранков одред" (Сценарио: Махмуд Коњхоџић и Норберт Неугебауер. Прво објављивање "Плави вјесник", 1961)
 "Време одважних" (Сценарио Руди Аљиновић. Прво објављивање "Стрип магазин", 1966)
 "Истините приче о малим борцима" (Сценарио Руди Аљиновић. Прво објављивање "Кекец", 1967/68.), садржи збирку кратки стрипова: "Пријетећи поздрав", "Заслађени бензин", "Мост је поправљен", "Спашено село", "Руке увис", "Лекови су набављени", "Спашена жетва", "Сналажљиви курир", "Бег из дома", "Уништени плакати".

Последњи шести стрип из партизанског опуса под називом "Синови слободе" није објављен у овом албуму јер су оригиналне табле изгубљене, а репринт из "Модре ласте" није био задовољавајућег квалитета.

На ивици понора
"Пио сам по десетак литара вина дневно, по два литра најјаче ракије од кукуруза, пушио по осамдесет цигарета, предавао се једнако неумереним чулним уживањима - и тако преко двадесет година, док нисам доспео на руб понора, на границу потпуног растројства и краха. Тек онда, кад ми је већ било четрдесет пет година, успео сам да се тргнем, да бих колико-толико продужио меницу живота." - изјавио је Мауровић за магазин "Старт" .

Дјело
Андрија Мауровић је за живота нацртао преко 200 стрипова. Велики број стрипова је урађен по књижевним делима међу којима је вероватно најпознатија адаптација "Гричке вјештице" по мотивима истоименог романа Марије Јурић Загорке. "Вечерњи лист" је први започео објављивање, у периоду 1960/62., али је стрип у целости објављен у едицији "Стрип-стрип", у издању "Lykos" (који ће касније променити име у "Епоха"). Едицију је штампао "Вјесник" 1962. године у 14 свезака на укупно 364 странице.

По романима Шеное је урадио "Златарево злато" и "Чувај се сењске руке". "Љубавница с Марса" је дело Алексеја Толстоја, "Огњем и мачем" Хенрика Сјенкјевича
 Комплетан опус можете погледати овде: Стрипови Андрије Мауровића

Постхумно је НЛЦ Медиа Група, Загреб објавила Мауровићеву збирку еротских скица и цртежа под називом "Кандаул".  која је штампана у неколико издања. Цртежи су рађени у оловци. На појединим местима оловка се размазала, па текст није довољно читак. На неким таблама сличице су разрађене до најситнијег детаља док су на другима остале само као просте скице. Мауровић се није превише трудио јер је стрипове са еротском садржином радио из разоноде, само за себе.

Смрт
Последњих година свог живота Андрија Мауровић је у својој околини важио за чудака и ексцентрика. Прихватио је спартанско-аскетски начин живота, определио се за најстрожи вегетаријански начин исхране, устајао зором а легао с првим мраком. Одрекао се порока и друштва људи и вратио се својој првој љубави - сликарству.

Након краће болести умро је у оскудици 2. септембра 1981. године у властитој кући у Загребу, на Пантовчаку 45.

Мауровић је 9 година након своје смрти сахрањен по други пут 16. децембра 1990. године. Писцу Мауровићеве биографије, новинару Александру Војиновићу, припада заслуга, поред писања биографије, што су Мауровићеви посмртни остатци премештени из гробнице која је била у катастрофалном стању у пристојну гробницу на загребачком гробљу Мирогој.

Признања
 Културно друштво клуб девете уметности из Љубљане (Вошњакова 4.) је 1978. године установио награду "Андрија"
 Загребачко невладино удружење "Арт 9", које окупља стрип цртаче, сценаристе, колекционаре, историчаре и стрипофиле, установило је 2009. године награду "Андрија Мауровић" која се додељује хрватским стрип ауторима за животно дело.

Напомене
На интернету се често провлачи нетачан податак о међусобној вези Андрије Мауровића и Влаха Буковца. За магазин "Старт" (бр. 163, 23. април 1975) Мауровић је дао интервју ("Живот уложен у стрип") у којем је рекао:

"Када сам дошао на Академију, мој професор актова Ванка силно ме поштивао и једном ме упитао гдје сам прије студирао. Тада сам изрекао прву умјетничку лаж. Слагао сам да сам учио у Влаха Буковца, који је тада био професор у Прагу. Ванка ми је одговорио да је то видљиво из мојих радова. И ковачић ме цијенио. Било ми је врло жао кад сам морао отићи с Академије јер сам се уздржавао од свога рада".

Влахо Буковац је од 1903. године, па до своје смрти 1922. године, радио и живео у Прагу.

Референце

Књиге као извори
 Александр Војиновић "Андрија Мауровић: Пророк апокалипсе". (Издавач "Профил интернационал". )
 Андрија Мауровић: Познато и непознато (Галерија "Кловићеви двори". ).
 Стрип албум "Мајстори југословенског стрипа". Предговор Вељко Крулчић "Андрија Мауровић - Непретенциозни геније". ("Истарска наклада", Пула 1986)
 Стрип албум "Мауровић". Предговор Дарко Главан "Андрија Мауровић - од уметности до стрипа и натраг" (НИРО Дечје новине, Горњи Милановац 1983)
 "Кандаул, еротска оставштина" (Предговор Драго Гламузина "Еротска имагинација Андрије Мауровића". Издавач НЦЛ Медиа група.
 Славко Драгинчић и Здравко Зупан "Историја Југословенског стрипа" (Издавач НИШРО "Форум", Нови Сад 1986)

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 Андрија Мауровић отац ЈУ стрипа - ТВ новости, октобар 1975.
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 Маестро девете уметности
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Рођени 1901.
Умрли 1981.
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Horizon Media's Karina Dobarro To Be Honored For Her Executive Leadership in Hispanic Television
By Joe Schramm, President, Schramm Marketing Group and Producer, Hispanic Television Summit
Karina Dobarro, SVP, Managing Director, Multicultural & International Brand Strategy at Horizon Media is being honored this year at the 18th Annual Hispanic Television Summit with the award for Executive Leadership in Hispanic Television and Video. Dobarro will accept her award, presented by Broadcasting & Cable and Multichannel News during the Annual Hispanic Television and Video Awards Ceremony starting at 12 noon p.m. ET on Monday, September 21. The ceremony comprises Day 1 of the four consecutive day virtual presentation of the Summit, which is the premier annual event for those in the busines of TV for Hispanic audiences, worldwide.
The award recognizes Karina for the contributions she has made professionally through her role as a "media decision maker" where she is responsible for increasing and sustaining media commitments through Horizon's multicultural practice, which she built over the past six years. The practice supports nearly 30 brands. Dobarro said, "My job brings me great personal satisfaction. I see our team's role not only as strategic advisors but as advocates of Hispanic consumers and media." She added, "I believe in collaboration and partnership. I believe together, we are stronger."
Upon learning that she was selected, Dobarro said, "I'm honored. This recognition reinforces the work our Horizon Multicultural team does to advance Hispanic marketing and inclusive media practices." Dobarro has had an admirable career. She was initially hired to build the multicultural practice and was given the added opportunity to lead the international network relationship. She also developed the business plan for a new entity that became 305 Worldwide, Horizon's multicultural content and creative agency. Today, she is also leading an agency wide effort called "Project Embrace" to advance inclusive media practices by empowering employees with new diversity trainings and tools.
Dobarro added, "The racial justice movement has brought light to the lack of diverse talent and inclusive practices within the advertising industry. We see a shift where minority segments are at the forefront of marketing conversations." She closed by saying, "I am hopeful that this is not just a trend, but a true movement for our advertising industry."
The award ceremony and the entire Hispanic Television Summit can be experienced for free. For more information or to register, please go www.falltvevents.com/2020/HispanicTV


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Q: Discovery Document for Google Email Migration API v2? Today Google announced a new version of the Email Migration API. The API appears to follow Google's normal REST format but I've been unable to determine the service name and version information for the API in order to use it with the google-api-python-client.
Is there a discovery document for the new API and if so what is the service name and version?

A: The discovery document was slightly delayed from the actual release, but it's now available through the discovery service or directly here.

A: For now, I've been able to write my own non-standard discovery document. It's probably buggy/incomplete but it's working for me for test messages and the Python API Client.
{
 "kind": "discovery#restDescription",
 "etag": "\"BgGz67p-6wsAbOn4St98QhtBGbA/blODPd9XLaVQKZp7pexaIpilnaw\"",
 "discoveryVersion": "v1",
 "id": "emailmigration:v2",
 "name": "emailmigration",
 "version": "v2",
 "revision": "20130717",
 "title": "Email Migration API",
 "description": "API to migrate messages to Google Apps Gmail Accounts",
 "ownerDomain": "google.com",
 "ownerName": "Google",
 "documentationLink": "https://developers.google.com/admin-sdk/email-migration/",
 "protocol": "rest",
 "baseUrl": "https://www.googleapis.com/email/v2/",
 "basePath": "/email/v2/users/",
 "rootUrl": "https://www.googleapis.com/",
 "servicePath": "email/v2/users/",
 "batchPath": "batch",
 "parameters": {
  "alt": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Data format for the response.",
   "default": "json",
   "enum": [
    "json"
   ],
   "enumDescriptions": [
    "Responses with Content-Type of application/json"
   ],
   "location": "query"
  },
  "fields": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Selector specifying which fields to include in a partial response.",
   "location": "query"
  },
  "key": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "API key. Your API key identifies your project and provides you with API access, quota, and reports. Required unless you provide an OAuth 2.0 token.",
   "location": "query"
  },
  "oauth_token": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "OAuth 2.0 token for the current user.",
   "location": "query"
  },
  "prettyPrint": {
   "type": "boolean",
   "description": "Returns response with indentations and line breaks.",
   "default": "true",
   "location": "query"
  },
  "quotaUser": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Available to use for quota purposes for server-side applications. Can be any arbitrary string assigned to a user, but should not exceed 40 characters. Overrides userIp if both are provided.",
   "location": "query"
  },
  "userIp": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "IP address of the site where the request originates. Use this if you want to enforce per-user limits.",
   "location": "query"
  }
 },
 "auth": {
  "oauth2": {
   "scopes": {
    "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/email.migration": {
     "description": "Write access to Email Migration API v2."
    }
   }
  }
 },
 "schemas": {
   "Mail": {
    "id": "Mail",
    "type": "object",
    "description": "The metadata for a mail message.",
    "properties": {
     "isDraft": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "description": "The message is marked as a draft when migrated to the Gmail mailbox."
     },
     "isInbox": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "description": "The message should appear in the Inbox, regardless of its labels. By default, a migrated mail message will appear in the Inbox only if it has no labels."
     },
     "isSent": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "description": "The message is marked as \"Sent Mail\" when migrated to the Gmail mailbox."
     },
     "isStarred": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "description": "The message is starred when migrated."
     },
     "isTrash": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "description": "The message is marked as \"Trash\" when migrated."
     },
     "isUnread": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "description": "The message is marked as unread when migrated. Without this property, a migrated mail message is marked as read."
     },
     "isDeleted": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "description": "The message is migrated directly into Google Vault. Once archived in Google Vault, the message is only visible to a Vault administrator."
     },
     "labels": {
      "type": "array",
      "description": "The labels applied to the message when migrated.",
      "items": {
        "type": "string"
      }
     }
    }
   }
  },
  "resources": {
   "mail": {
    "methods": {
     "insert": {
      "id": "emailmigration.mail.insert",
      "path": "{userKey}/mail",
      "httpMethod": "POST",
      "description": "Insert a Mail resource into a user's Gmail account.",
      "parameters": {
       "userKey": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "The email address or email alias of the user's mailbox to migrate the message to.",
        "required": true,
        "location": "path"
       }
      },
      "request": {
       "$ref": "Mail"
      },
      "scopes": [
       "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/email.migration"
      ],
      "supportsMediaUpload": true,
      "mediaUpload": {
       "accept": [
        "message/rfc822"
        ],
       "maxSize": "32MB",
       "protocols": {
        "simple": {
         "multipart": true,
         "path": "/upload/email/v2/users/{userKey}/mail"
        },
        "resumable": {
         "multipart": true,
         "path": "/upload/email/v2/users/{userKey}/mail"
        }
       }
      }
     }
    }
   }
  }
}

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Verizon has released the 2016 edition of their annual Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR). Their crack team of researchers have, once again, produced one of the most respected, data-driven reports in cyber security, sifting through submissions from 67 contributors and taking a deep dive into 64,000 incidents—and nearly 2,300 breaches—to help provide insight on what our adversaries are up to and how successful they've been.
The DBIR is a highly anticipated research project and has valuable information for many groups. Policy makers use it to defend legislation; pundits and media use it to crank out scary articles; other researchers and academics take the insights in the report and identify new avenues to explore; and vendors quickly identify product and services areas that are aligned with the major findings. Yet, the data in the report is of paramount import to defenders. With over 80 pages to wade through, we thought it might be helpful to provide some way-points that you could use to navigate through this year's breach and incident map.
As defenders, you should be reading the report with an eye for your industry, size, and other characteristics to help build up your threat profiles and help benchmark your security program. Take your incident to breach ratio (you are using VERIS to record and track everything from anti-virus hits to full on breaches, right?) and compare it to the corresponding industry/size.
Remember, the DBIR data is a biased sample from the overall population of cyber security incidents and breaches that occur and every statistical transformation introduces more uncertainty along the way. That means your takeaway from "Part Deux" should be "we're not getting any better" vs "THE DETECTION DEFICIT TOPPED 75% FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY!"
Endpoint monitoring, kicking up your awareness programs, and watching out for wonky user account behavior would be wise things to prioritize based on this data.
"Hundreds of breaches involving social attacks on customers, followed by the Dridex malware and subsequent use of credentials captured by keyloggers, dominate the actions."
So, when interpreting the results, keep an eye out for the above components and factor in the Dridex component before tweaking your security program too much in one direction or another.
In the significant majority of cases, defenders have law enforcement agencies (like the FBI in the United States) and other external parties to "thank" for letting them know they've been pwnd. As our figure shows, we stopped being able to watch our own backs half a decade ago and have yet to recover. This should be a wake-up call to defenders to focus on identifying how attackers are getting into their organizations and instrumenting better ways to detect their actions.
Identifying critical assets and access points?
Monitoring the right things (or anything) on your endpoints?
Getting the right logs into the right places for analysis and action?
Deploying honeypots to catch activity that should not be happening?
If not, these may be things you need to re-prioritize in order to force the attackers to invest more time and resources to accomplish their goals (remember, this is an battle of economics).
We're still having issues patching or mitigating older vulnerabilities, many of which have tried-and-true exploits that will work juuuust fine. Leaving these attack points exposed is not helping your economic battle with your adversaries, as letting them rely on past R&D means they have more time and opportunity. How can you get the upper-hand?
Develop a strategy patching with a holistic focus, not just react to "Patch Tuesday"
Don't dismiss mitigation. There are legitimate technical and logistic reasons that can make patching difficult. Work on developing a playbook of mitigation strategies you can rely on when these types of vulnerabilities arise.
"Threat intelligence" was a noticeably absent topic in the 2016 DBIR, but we feel that it can play a key role when it comes to defending your organization when vulnerabilities are present. Your vuln management, server/app management, and security operations teams should be working in tandem to know where vulnerabilities still exist and to monitor and block malicious activity that is associated with targets that are still vulnerable. This is one of the best ways to utilize all those threat intel feeds you have gathering dust in your SIEM.
This post outlined just a few of the interesting markers on your path through the Verizon Data Breach Report. Keep a watchful eye on the Rapid7 Community for more insight into other critical areas of the report and where we can help you address the key issues facing your organization.
Watch my short take on this year's Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report.
Join us for a live webcast as we dig deeper into the 2016 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report findings. Tuesday, May 10 at 2PM ET/11AM PT. Register now!


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module EnumerableSum
  def sum
    total = 0
    each do |value|
      total = total + value
    end
    total
  end
end

class Array
  include EnumerableSum
end

class Range
  include EnumerableSum
end

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Discussion in 'Flooring' started by YonaCarkey, Apr 17, 2019.
My husband and I are installing a raised floor bathroom over a concrete floor in the unfinished portion of our basement. We bought our house with a bathroom of this nature and the previous owners of the house tore up the floor of the shower and there were other issues with the structure basically rendering the bathroom unusable. We completely removed the structure and are re-building it to add to the value of the house. Construction is something neither of us are familiar with so naturally we have questions.
I really want tile or vinyl to be laid. I have read about concrete staining and I really don't want that.
The picture shows over a 3inch gap between the concrete and where the raise bathroom floor is...how do you close that barrier?
!st of all, all the floor joists should have been WPT lumber.
Why are you concerned about, ""finish" the floor under where the bathroom will be", it'll be covered and out of sight, or if your concerns is drainage in the event of a leak in the future plumbing, there are prescribed tests required prior to covering the would bring any faults to light, or you can remove the floor joists and finish the total floor in a product of your choice, reframe the floor, rip a 2x to fill the gap under the rim joist, which needs to be full bearing, with weep holes, IN CASE THERE IS A LEAK.


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Mozambican gold panners search for gold along the Nhaduwe River outside the Gorongosa Park on 25 May 2016 in Gorongosa, Mozambique. Photo: JOHN WESSELS / AFP
Mozambique News
Mozambique, 14 tonnes of gold, rubies smuggled: Official
Gold, rubies, garnets and tantalite – used to create surgical steel – have been smuggled out of northern and central Mozambique
by Agence France-Presse
in Mozambique News
Fourteen tonnes of gold, rubies and other precious minerals have been smuggled out of Mozambique so far this year, a senior official said Monday.
Mozambique sits atop some of the world's richest deposits of gemstones, often extracted by small-scale miners who don't have access to formal markets.
SMUGGLED MOZAMBIQUE MINERALS
Gold, rubies, garnets and tantalite – used to create surgical steel – have been smuggled out of northern and central Mozambique, said Fernando Maquene, a senior official in mineral resources ministry.
"We are seeking ways to combat the expansion of criminal networks that violate our territory and our strategic resources, to ensure that these resources can generate income to develop local communities," he told Radio Mocambique.
MOZAMBIQUE ILLEGAL MINERAL TRADE
The illegal trade in precious minerals is largely centred in northern Mozambique, where an Islamist insurgency has displaced an estimated 800 000 people.
Mining for precious stones and selling them on illicit markets, sometimes through corrupt local officials, has become a way of survival for people who fled their homes, according to a report earlier this month by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime.
READ: Mozambique launches new force to fight Islamist unrest
RUBY EXTRACTION
Cabo Delgado province, the most affected by the insurgency, is home to the Montepuez ruby mine, which currently supplies more than half of the global market for new rubies.
The mine has extracted 600 million dollars worth of rubies since formal operations began in 2011.
CRACKDOWN ON SMUGGLING
Supreme Court judge counselor Rafael Sebastiao said the justice system was working to crack down on smuggling cases.
"Sometimes there is a lack of transparent mechanisms and evidence to hold accountable those involved in smuggling," he said on radio.


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It is no surprise that after chef Marthinus Ferreira trained under the experimental and unconventional British chef, Heston Blumenthal, he would have odd but delicious ideas about food.
Ferreira's restaurant DW 11-13 has already received accolades that his former teacher would be proud of.
He chose, however, to demonstrate a firm favourite and not a strange delicacy.
"What I also learnt under Heston was to bring out the most flavour in each dish that you can. The food may be different, but it is delicious. Take one good ingredient and make it stand out."
Beer batter is a simple but delicious way to serve seafood.
Prawns, he says, are a quick option and just about everyone loves them. "They're easy to do at home. And the beer batter can be prepared before guests arrive."
Start with a 330ml bottle of beer. He uses Windhoek Light, for its dry and bitter flavour but also because it has low alcohol content, especially for those diners who prefer malt flavours rather than an alcoholic, residual flavour.
Add half a kilogram of regular cake flour gradually while whisking vigorously to avoid lumps. "Add more flour until it resembles a pancake mix. The batter will be runny but ribbony. The malt gives a great flavour to the sweet prawn meat, and the bubbles and yeast will make the batter puff up beautifully," he says.
Add salt and pepper, and a squeeze of lemon to taste.
Use deveined and deshelled tiger prawns, but Ferreira advises to "keep the tails on to make dipping easy and for presentation".
Holding the prawn at the tail, dip quickly into the batter until the prawn is coated. Then dip into deep, hot sunflower oil. "Hold onto the tail until the batter takes shape."
Fry until golden brown, no more than a few minutes depending on the size of the prawn.
Ferreira serves the prawns with a sweet chilli puree. Avo puree or marinated aubergines also make good accompaniments.
No. This fine restaurant is not named after a cryptic code for a magical additive – though many believe it does stand for a secret ingredient in the fare. The post-modernist moniker of one of the top restaurants in South Africa has a more simple origin – it is shorthand for the address (11–13) at Dunkeld West (DW), an upmarket mall in the suburbs.
The sublime simplicity of the fare has put this overnight culinary hot-spot on the map like a GPS landmark. The minimalist décor of the chic bistro, in lime-green tones, creates a sleek metropolitan ambience from the elegant cocktail lounge and bar to the dining zone with its banquettes in the comfort zone. The spotlight is on the perfectly plated food of award-winning chef Marthinus Ferreira, who transforms South African ingredients on a global, contemporary plate.
He honed his skills in the kitchens of Heston Blumenthal, Gordon Ramsay, and Dominic Chapman. Back at his own restaurant in his native South Africa, Ferreira focuses on local, seasonal ingredients – enhancing the natural tastes and textures of South African seafood, meat, and produce with his own brand of culinary wizardry. For starters, try pan-fried scallops in hazelnut vinaigrette – or beer-battered prawns.
Food critics often quip, "Never trust a skinny chef." Well, you don't have to worry about that around here. The big, bold chef cooks with dollops of passion, creating hearty dishes with intense combinations of flavour – and a twist in the tail that bears his signature in brilliant garnishes, sauces, and stocks. His signature dishes on a refreshingly simple bistro menu are inspired by the classics – curry-cured salmon; roast rack of lamb with caramelised tomato jus; or roasted quail with raspberry jus.
His exquisitely plated fare is deceptively simple – bringing fine dining into the comfort zone. In an age when many chefs focus on the complexity of dishes and showy technique, Ferreira makes his mark by paying great attention to detail. He goes back to the basics – creating classic combinations such as slow-roasted farm chicken with truffled mash and well-aged rib-eye steak with Bordelaise bone marrow sauce. And he says he does use secret ingredients – star anise, and butter, butter…and more butter!
Pride, passion, and perfection are the three mantras of Marthinus Ferreira, chef-patron of DW Eleven-13.
Ferreira has worked in the United Kingdom in the Michelin-starred kitchens of Heston Blumenthal at The Fat Duck, and Gordon Ramsay's Riverside Brasserie. He names Franck Dangereux – formerly of La Colombe (rated 12th in the World's 50 Best Restaurants 2010) in Cape Town – and Dominic Chapman at The Royal Oak as mentors.
He defines his food as "simple, modern European with South African flair." For inspiration, he says he looks to market ingredients – to make a Jerusalem artichoke soup when in season – and goes through his cookbooks regularly to create new dishes.
Hmmm . . . I've been trying to think about what struck such a cord with me in this place.
It's round the back of (lets be fair) the rather old and weathered Dunkeld Centre. I mean the centre is almost a landmark of JHB by now and probably only second to the Takkie Centre inside it.
Unfortunately for the restaurant I think this is its biggest detracting feature. While I did go for a lunch rather than the usual dinner, the fact that its on the back of a parking lot (if you sit outside) really does distract from the simplistic magnificence of this place!
Once you get past that though it's really a magical treat!
The decor is simple yet modern, with perfect touches of elegance that carry through to the people and even the food. So let's get into it!
Chow – I have only felt this way in a handful of restaurants around the world!
They range from Michelin star restaurants, to a small Sushi bar in Barcelona, to the back streets of Rome, to some touches of brilliance in Stellenbosch and Paarl.
The point I'm trying to make is the status of the restaurant isn't important – the quality of ingredients & their combination, presentation and most importantly the fact that the dish feels like it was prepared specifically for you rather than churned out of a kitchen en-mass – that is the real secret!
To start I had the steak tartar which I try eat in every restaurant I go to. This ranks as, if not the best, certainly in the top two that I can recall (top three actually but the third was at 4am in Paris after the Boks had just won the world cup and thats just not fair).
Following this I had a flawlessly cooked (and I like it bleu so it's generally never perfectly cooked), richly decadent steak and chips (don't be fooled by the simplicity of the name and rather read the salivating explanation) which was sensational!
These two dishes with the great Springfield Wild Yeast (not the best combination for my meal – but it was for the other meals and it really is delicious) just rounded off a perfect Saturday lunch in Joburg!
Ambiance – I think I have covered this in the preamble. I just had to get it out because besides that this place was really a hidden gem (like something that by mistake got dropped by the restaurant gods on JHB rather than Franschoek).
Service – The service was friendly, in the correct dosage and always with a smile which in this case was refreshing rather than annoying. Perhaps when it came to food and wine choices I would have like a bit more explanation or knowledge (this may only be because it was lunchtime and therefore the dining 'pomp and circumstance' is diluted somewhat).
Cost – Again I must confirm that this has nothing to do with the actual pricing but rather the value for money of the meal (and probably the experience as well). In this instance I was blown away by the cost of the meal. I have eaten at average family style restaurants for the same price as this exceptionally talented man is selling some of Joburg's (and probably the country's) greatest dishes.
This is without doubt one of the greatest value for money restaurants I think Ive had the pleasure of eating at anywhere in the world and it has inspired me to stop being so nice about mediocre restaurants and start critiquing properly! Had this been the only lesson I learned it would have been well worth it but then I wouldn't have been allowed to continue to share this tremendous experience with all who will listen!
This little gem of a restaurant is the Dunkeld suburb's secret.
The word "tucked away" gets bandied around like a kitkah in my mother's house on a Friday night.
The phrase is used to create a romantic setting, but only after my visit to DW eleven-13 do I really get it. Hiding in the Dunkeld Shopping Centre behind a fruit and flower shop is a sophisticated but comfortable restaurant.
Unless you find it by accident or by word of mouth, you're unlikely to come across this little gem. It's the suburb's secret and it fills up fast even though it's Wednesday.
Now it's time to tuck in.
To start, the Alaskan crab cocktail topped with corn sorbet.
I get nervous when I see crab on the menu; and not because its unkosher – yes, bad Jewish girl.
It's just that squeaky-fake crab sticks are enough to put me off.
But this was the real deal and the starter was superb. The crab was firm and fresh in creamy avocado, mixed with fresh cos lettuce, tomatoes and chives.
The corn sorbet with a hint of cayenne pepper was refreshing but also sweet and overpowering with the crab; but yet nonetheless a delicious combination.
The braised lamb shoulder was excellent. Succulent and tender, it was served with potatoes and a honey parsnip puree. I enjoyed the different textures in this meal from the soft meat, to the crunchy potatoes and smooth puree. This is probably the second-best lamb dish I have eaten to date – the best being my mother's of course.
For dessert – a lemon soufflé with lemon sherbert and berry coulis. This one is for the sweet tooth type.
Though very sweet, the lemon soufflé was light, fluffy and refreshing and was a perfect ending to this fantastic meal.
A wonderful experience with friendly and efficient service, top ingredients and a creative chef will have me return again for more.
Ferreira says that it's great to win this type of award as it helps with marketing, which brings more people to the restaurant. His food is creative with attention to detail and I highly recommend you to try DW out. From my meal at DW I realise that our local culinary landscape is dotted with talent.
The restaurant will be running a special menu for Valentines Day, as well as their usual a la carte menu. Ferreira says that depending how he feels on the night, he may create a few special treats as well.


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Canadian Political Discussions
How to modernize antiquated and entrenched Canadian political landscape
New URL and Website Name
By myata,
September 3, 2021 in Federal Politics
myata
Neither of the duopoly party-corporations shows any interest in bringing this country's political scene in line with the contemporary realities and this is entirely understandable - status quo serves them best of any other possible options as rival-twins wait for their turn at non accountable and self-rewarding power. I see only one realistic possibility for a change: increasing the number of real issue and agenda parties, that need to be present in the political arena if not in the Parliament turning into a show and eventually, likely over a long time, move toward a change better reflecting the political landscape of the country.
It means that Greens, PPC, regional and up to a dozen of other parties have to find away to enter and stay in the political scene and discussion for decades. How can it happen in the current reality though?
Edited September 3, 2021 by myata
Sep 3 myata changed the title to How to modernize antiquated and entrenched Canadian political landscape
Location:ottawa valley
Interests:Floating along the river.
7 hours ago, myata said:
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I was thinking the same thing.
It doesn't matter if they never win a seat, as long as they have a cohesive, clear, compelling vision apart from what the old brands are doing.
The goal is to provide new ideas that themselves will become popular.
It hinges on the presence of active and involved citizens. If the only thing the population needs from the politics is to replace one face they've grown bored of with another, or look for consolation in uncertain times, then we got the best possible and nothing more could and will happen here. Every organism, social and political including, would adapt to its environment, and do only as much as it requires from it.
We're talking about essentially different models of governance in this century. One is a duopoly of party-corporations whose sole purpose is to govern. They do not have specific issues and / or agendas can change them on the fly ("the election reform") and focus all efforts on gaining the power and keeping it as long as possible. In addition, once in power there's no effective checks on the governing party-corporation, simply none. By voting, citizens pick one of the corporations for the next period and that's it - they have no further say, influence or control of political process.
The second model is based on coalitions built based on the issues and agendas of highest importance to the citizens. By voting citizens can choose the issues of importance, build a government that will be focused on these issues rather than its own priorities, and keep it under control via coalition structure, where constituents maintain full independence and not managed by a single Politburo, that is, party office.
Which of the models can and will perform better in this century known for rapidly developing complex challenges that need quick and intelligent reaction?
It sounds good. Need to flesh it out more.
What are the institutions and methods that the new approach would use? How do you test them? How do you bring them about?
Our system is not perfect, but the best. Quit fixing things that are not broken.
27 minutes ago, PIK said:
It's great to hear a conservative say the system is not broken. With respect, a lot of conservatives do think it is. The social policy discussions seem to have no practical application now that we have adopted a socially liberal stance. And so we argue about abstract questions.
The current political model with two monstrous party-corporations in the governing duopoly focused almost exclusively on the power is naturally encouraging authoritarian trends and methods in the governance of public matters. If anyone needs a confirmation of that they wouldn't need to much but to open the eyes and read the news. Is it an adequate style and model for solving modern problems and challenges? Can it work as effectively in the 21st century as it did in the 18th and 19th? Has anybody promised that?
How can the change be brought about? We are talking about a society where changing a few lines of text can be a barely surmountable challenge spanning decades, then let go of (Senate reform, elections reform, fixing for a generation). Make your conclusions from here.
As a matter of fact there's another practical way to return to representative democracy, wonder which would have more chances in reality of the country? We can prohibit political parties influence on elected MP in any form, down to criminal responsibility, like interference with justice (that would bring up the question of enforcement and for that one would need an independent from political influence justice system and where would we get one? RCMP is still "tighlipped" on the SNC scandal). No whipping, no obligatory party canvassing, no suggestive phone calling from party office, a party is only a political club to define agendas and discuss matters and anything but "we agreed or disagreed here but of course elected representatives are entirely free to vote in the interest of the public" is a no-no, strong and clear.
Now if we wanted to go this way we would only need to find a majority party that would put it into legislation.
-TSS-
Location:Finland
Interests:Politics all over the world.
Why don't you give PR a try? If it doesn't suit your political culture then scrap it and come back to FPTP. However, unless you try you'll never know.
40 minutes ago, -TSS- said:
Oh that would be the simplest choice of course, but the public seem to not understand it and certainly neither of the duopoly twins would want it.
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Discover the hidden beauty of Thailand and Laos as you travel through verdant jungles for three nights and four days, including Phimai, Khao Yai National Park, and the Friendship Bridge over the Mekong.
Your journey begins with an afternoon departure from Bangkok and a warm welcome by your steward. As you settle into the privacy of your well-appointed cabin, indulge in afternoon tea and pastries served by the attentive steward. View the changing vista and the sunset from the unique observation car as the train journeys into northern-eastern Thailand. Later that evening, enjoy an aperitif accompanied by live piano music in the sumptuous bar car before you savour your first dinner onboard amid the elegant setting of the beautiful restaurant cars. Retire to your cabin which has been transformed into a cosy bedroom.
Breakfast is served in your cabin before the train arrives in Hin Dat where you disembark for an excursion to the UNESCO World Heritage site of Phimai, one of the most important Khmer ruins complex in Thailand. Return to the train for lunch as the journey continues to picturesque Khao Yai, where you will spend a delightful afternoon touring the vineyards and an opportunity to sample the wines. Rejoin the train in early evening to prepare for dinner and exchange stories of the day's experiences with fellow guests. Afterwards, spend an enjoyable evening in the bar car and be entertained by the pianist. Overnight on board.
After breakfast, the Eastern & Oriental Express will cross the Mekong River via the Friendship Bridge linking Thailand to Laos. Passengers will disembark for a full day's excursion of the capital city of Vientiane, including lunch at the historic Settha Palace Hotel. View the contrasts of gilded Buddhist temples alongside French colonial architecture in the timeless and relaxed atmosphere of the city. Reboard the train late afternoon and depart for the return journey to Thailand, relaxing in the observation car or saloon lounge. As night descends, enjoy cocktails and another delightful dinner. Overnight on board.
Indulge in a leisurely breakfast as the train proceeds to Bangkok, arriving mid-morning.
Visit a Vineyard & Wine Tasting of "New Latitude Wines"
E&O crosses the Friendship Bridge into Laos.
Prices are per person based on sharing accommodation (except for single cabin) and include all table d'hôte meals and drinks on board with complimentary tea and coffee in your cabin, and all sightseeing and excursion as described in the itinerary.


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Bobbista durante la metà del XX secolo, ai campionati mondiali vinse una medaglia d'argento a Cortina d'Ampezzo 1953, nel bob a quattro con Andreas Ostler, Heinz Wendlinger e Rudi Erben.

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You set the alarm, put the keys in the door and you lock it, and another day comes to an end. Some days are better than others, and your thoughts wander. You didn't get anything accomplished today that you wanted to. You got up that morning, looked at that Android phone of yours, and, to your dismay, you already had 40 e-mails to sort through. You checked your voicemail, 14 messages to respond to, and then there were all those text messages. You skipped your Red Bull and corn flakes breakfast again as you headed to the dealership to begin your day…or were you beginning somebody else's day?
The day started out as many days do for Rob Twilight. Daily dealership needs awaited before he even rolled out of bed. Distractions attracted, reactions detracted. Wading through all the requests that generally started his day always brought unexpected twists in the daily plot. What needed to be accomplished wasn't even in the script this morning, or most mornings.
Attending to all those e-mails, texts, and phone messages took time. Thank goodness for all those gadgets that keep us informed, he thought. Before Rob knew it, a good part of the day was gone. Another day of production destruction. He hadn't even thought about doing what he thought he'd be doing, when he should have been doing it. Rob was working in the Distraction Zone. No plot, no script, just ad libbing the day away. The daily reruns of distraction had a lot to do with his shortfall of daily achievements. All the gadgets and the technology that kept Rob connected 24/7 were having the opposite effect, they were more often disconnecting him from what needed to be done, and something needed to change.
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Right now, tomorrow's global leaders could be teenagers looking for a way to make a difference in their communities, high school graduates experiencing their first year of college a long way from home, and young professionals seeking opportunities for service. They're today's youth and young adults, and their actions will significantly shape the world's future -- and that of Rotary -- for years to come.
Given their important role, youth and young adults are a critical focus for the Rotary Club of Del Mar -- a means of fulfilling the Object of Rotary and truly fostering the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise in young individuals the world over. Whether it's through Interact, Rotaract, Rotary Youth Exchange, or Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA), Rotary's youth programs provide young people an opportunity to develop their character and embrace new experiences while exposing them to the organization's values of service, high ethical standards, and peace.
Interact is Rotary's service club for young people ages 12 to 18. Interact clubs are sponsored by individual Rotary clubs, which provide support and guidance, but they are self-governing and self-supporting. The Del Mar Rotary sponsors Interact Clubs at Torrey Pines High School and Cathedral Catholic High School.
Rotaract is a Rotary-sponsored service club for young men and women ages 18 to 30. Rotaract clubs are either community or university based, and they're sponsored by a local Rotary club. This makes them true "partners in service" and key members of the family of Rotary. The Rotary Club of Del Mar sponsors Roteract Clubs at San Diego State University and the University of San Diego.


You may have noticed it becoming a more frequent occurrence – media coverage of celebrities getting caught up in ridiculous events and legal issues (think Justin Bieber's current marijuana and prescription drug troubles), or in some cases, a celebrity dies as a direct result of drug or alcohol addiction. As I write, the most recent celebrity to suffer this fate being Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Whereas the deaths of celebrities bring the deadly consequences of drug and alcohol abuse into the spotlight, I think it's critically important to note that they're not the only ones suffering and ultimately paying the price for the strength of their untreated disease.
And yes, drug and alcohol addiction is a disease. It is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit.
"I want to be a junkie!" – said no one, ever.
That's like exclaiming, "I want to die from cancer!" which was also said by no one, ever.
Addiction, like cancer, chooses you. You don't have a say in when, where, how, or why.
According to SAMHSA, over 22 million Americans reportedly abuse alcohol or drugs. What if those people got the help they deserved to treat the disease that they suffer with daily?
At The Watershed, we receive well over 10,000 unique calls every month from addicts, alcoholics, or their loved ones, who are desperately looking for treatment. It's encouraging to know that we're able to accommodate several hundred of those callers every month by bringing them to our treatment facilities in Florida or Texas, and providing them with the treatment they so desperately need.
But what about the other thousands upon thousands of individuals who are still in need, but unwilling or unable to travel or afford private addiction treatment?
One of the many reasons I am proud to work for The Watershed, is our dedication to making sure that we provide telephonic interventions and treatment resources to every individual who calls looking for help – whether or not they can come to The Watershed. We want them to get help somewhere – now – while they still have the gift of desperation; that little voice screaming for help and hope. As far as I am aware, most other treatment centers are unwilling or unable to provide such a service. From my vantage point, most just don't care.
But, even though we take the extra step to provide an entire Resource department, equipped to provide treatment program options local to the individual in need, complete with phone numbers, websites, meetings, and other resources for those who can't or won't come to our facilities; even though we follow up for weeks on end, making sure they continue to pursue treatment options; we are all still painfully aware that our voice could be the last one they hear.
The disease of addiction is strong, and when it feels threatened, it's especially deadly. I envision the disease as a voice screaming, "If I can't have you, then no one can!" over, and over, and over, and over… drowning out all other voices of hope and healing.
Every single day, we learn of individuals who didn't make it – addiction won; sometimes within hours of our last phone conversation. Sometimes, the deadly reality of this disease makes it hard to remain positive. To keep the hope alive, we must focus on those lives that we helped to save – one day at a time.
I'm very proud of the fact that The Watershed has treated over 40,000 people in just less than 16 years. It's amazing to think about how we have been able to impact the lives of so many.
Not impressed? Want something more amazing?
There are over 24 million individuals living in long-term recovery in this country. Wow.
That tells me there are a lot people more people than I had realized who, one way or another, have found a new life, free from drugs and alcohol.
That's a lot of hope. A lot of hope I didn't know existed until I researched it, and watched a great documentary called The Anonymous People.
people in long-term recovery? What if they spoke up about the joy of a life in recovery, and what if we could double that number? What if we could break the stigma associated with drug and alcohol addiction, paving the way for more and more people to get help? What if those 24 million Americans felt comfortable speaking openly about the joys of a life in recovery, and encouraging others to seek the help they deserve, so they, too, can live a better life!
I haven't always worked in addiction treatment, nor can I recall being overly exposed to addiction or alcoholism for the majority of my life growing up in the Midwest. Heck, I even lived virtually around the corner from Hazelden for years, and had absolutely no clue that it even existed. I didn't really know what recovery was; my only "exposure" being a few movie scenes depicting 12 Step meetings.
Many people share the false perception I had about how an "addict" fits the commonly held stigma of the homeless guy living under the bridge, begging for money to fuel his habit. There's so many things I didn't know, it's mind-boggling to me now.
I didn't know that 13 years old is the average age that most addicts and alcoholics began using.
I didn't know how easily accessible prescription drugs, heroin, meth, etc. really are… to anyone.
I didn't consider that a few of those friends who I went to college with who drank daily might actually have a problem. That maybe they weren't choosing to go through life drunk.
I didn't know that the average addict or alcoholic is not a homeless troll, but is actually your neighbor, friend, or loved one who is trying desperately to keep life together in a delicate balancing act until one day, it all just falls apart. And then those falling pieces just keep rolling downhill, destroying everything in their path.
I didn't know that addiction wants the person and the body it possesses to die.
are something our parents warned us about, and told us to steer clear of them. And I guess for the people who "lucked out" and don't suffer from the disease of addiction, they go about their daily lives, assuming that everyone who doesn't "look like an addict" is "normal".
The reality is that a significant percentage of those millions upon millions of people living in long term recovery are living their recovery joyously, but not publicly. The reality is that those millions of people can't talk openly about their addiction or recovery without the quizzical stares and judgments. The reality is that the hope for a better life isn't as easily communicated to another who is trying so hard to suffer quietly and in the dark for fear of judgment and shame.
Why is it so stinkin' hard to talk about addiction and recovery? Why do so many people cringe at the words "addiction" or "addict"?
Because our society long ago built a, "Don't ask; don't tell," stigma around addiction. If you don't talk about it, you don't have it. And if you don't have it, you're accepted by your friends, family, and your career or job isn't in jeopardy.
This stigma further fuels the crippling fear that keeps so many addicts and alcoholics suffering silently.
"Chances are that someone you know is addicted to drugs right now; you just may not realize it.
What if we weren't ashamed of those addicts and alcoholics in our lives, but tried to help them instead? What if we tried loving them until they learned to love themselves?
To clarify, I'm not saying go out and buy drugs to enable a habit, or conversely, force someone into rehab. What I am saying, is that most addicts and alcoholics use drugs and drink to hide; drown out the fear of not being accepted; push down those feelings of inadequacy; to just get through the day. It may seem a simple task to just muddle through daily life for most people, but to someone suffering from the disease of addiction, life is too complicated, stressful, and/or driven by fear to deal with it all clean and sober.
What if our love overpowered their fear, and your fear, too?
Have you ever wondered, like I have, what if those brilliant, drug addicted individuals searching for a better high, who construct such delicate chemical concoctions such as methamphetamines and bath salts, turned their attentions to the cure for cancer. Maybe we'd already have a cure for it, and who knows what other diseases.
This long lasting stigma, which prevents millions of individuals in need of treatment from getting help because of the fear of being pushed out of social groups, losing their jobs, or simply being shunned or shamed by family and loved ones needs to be broken.
The idea of the "homeless addict living under the bridge" isn't accurate; your typical drug addict is actually the guy next door who has a family and a career… all precariously balanced, and slowly ruining their loved ones lives the longer they wait to get help.
If you know, but haven't acknowledged the addict or alcoholic in your life, it's time to love them – show them you care; that you want to help them get to a better place; that they're not the social outcast who has no hope, just like that voice in their head keeps telling them – over, and over, and over; louder, and louder, and louder.
If you're suffering from addiction, know that there are people out there who understand, and who want to love you until you can love yourself. Recovery is a reality for you, and you are most certainly worth it!
Rest in peace Philip Seymour Hoffman, and all of the other addicts and alcoholics who have died too soon from this terribly powerful disease, and the social stigma that keeps them from getting help before it's too late.


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My niece asks the question 'why?' at least 100 times a day.
Guess how old she is? Almost 3. Sounds familiar? So what is she really doing when she asks 'why'? She is beginning to understand her relationship with the world. She is getting a sense of the behavioural parameters that regulate what she can and can't do.
Do we ever lose that need to understand our world? I think not. So what can we learn about leadership from a 3 year-old? Perhaps that just like the relationship between parents and children, positive relationships between leaders and followers are built on supporting people to find the answers to their questions about 'why'?
In the seminal article "The Work of Leadership", published in 1997, Ronald Heifetz and Donald Laurie introduce the concept of adaptive change and challenge the then traditional understanding of the leader-follower relationship. In particular, they emphasise that "leaders must rely on others within the business to raise questions that may indicate an impending adaptive challenge."
The Centre for Workplace Management at Melbourne University recently surveyed 2,300 managers who indicated that 75% believe they have the know-how to be good leaders, but 25% don't have a good leader to look up to and a further 35% say they don't have a leadership role model altogether. So despite people thinking they know about leadership there is clearly a number of leaders not practicing it. What can happen when managers become leaders? They stop answering the question of 'why'.
What happens when we grow up? When we get older and wiser we rely on our experience and expertise to 'know' and 'expect'. We also sprinkle a few assumptions here and there and become our own experts about other people. We no longer consider the 'why' in the lives of the people around us. And therein lies the risk when progressing from manager to leader: losing sight of the need to hear and answer our peoples' 'why?'.
Without clarity about the 'why' from leaders, followers are unsure about purpose, objectives are mixed and the reasons to execute and behave become confused - not unlike a child. Great leaders excel at responding to their people asking 'why' - they encourage being questioned and are concerned when their people are not talking about their 'why'. Imagine a 3 year old not asking 'why'?
Leaders - challenge your followers to ask 'why' and give them the clarity to succeed.


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What does the IPCC say about flooding?
February 24, 2014 UncategorizedIPCCPaul Matthews
In view of the current wave of hysteria about flooding and the bogus claims from people who ought to know better, it's timely to have a look at exactly what the IPCC has said about flooding.
IPCC SREX 2011
In late 2011 / early 2012 the IPCC published a Special Report on Extreme Events, known as SREX for short. This was a joint production of WG1 and WG2. Here is the statement on floods from the SREX SPM:
There is limited to medium evidence available to assess climate-driven observed changes in the magnitude and frequency of floods at regional scales because the available instrumental records of floods at gauge stations are limited in space and time, and because of confounding effects of changes in land use and engineering. Furthermore, there is low agreement in this evidence, and thus overall low confidence at the global scale regarding even the sign of these changes.
So they don't even know whether flooding is increasing or decreasing – in which case it might have been more logical to say that there is not really any detectable change. On possible future change, they are similarly uncertain:
Projected precipitation and temperature changes imply possible changes in floods, although overall there is low confidence in projections of changes in fluvial floods.
AR5 2013
Turning now to the AR5 report, the first point to note is that the SPM does not include the word "flood" at all. There is an item in Table SPM1 on heavy precipitation events, which says there have been "likely more land areas with increases than decreases", a less confident statement than in AR4 ("likely over most land areas").
In the main text, flooding is discussed in chapter 2, section 2.6.2.2. Here is what it says (references removed):
AR5 WGII assess floods in regional detail accounting for the fact that trends in floods are strongly influenced by changes in river management. While the most evident flood trends appear to be in northern high latitudes, where observed warming trends have been largest, in some regions no evidence of a trend in extreme flooding has been found, e.g., over Russia based on daily river discharge. Other studies for Europe and Asia show evidence for upward, downward or no trend in the magnitude and frequency of floods, so that there is currently no clear and widespread evidence for observed changes in flooding except for the earlier spring flow in snow-dominated regions.
In summary, there continues to be a lack of evidence and thus low confidence regarding the sign of trend in the magnitude and/or frequency of floods on a global scale.
Roger Pielke provided a useful summary of what the IPCC AR5 actually says about extreme events. His final are words were prophetic: "Of course, I have no doubts that claims will still be made associating floods, drought, hurricanes and tornadoes with human-caused climate change – Zombie science – but I am declaring victory in this debate. Climate campaigners would do their movement a favor by getting themselves on the right side of the evidence."
Meanwhile, in a sequence of posts, Paul Homewood has been looking at the facts and plotting the Met Office's own rainfall data (see for example here, here and here). It is quite clear from these graphs, and the graphs in Figure 3 of this Met Office document, that there is no trend in rainfall over the last 100 years.
Update 26 Feb:
The GWPF have produced a useful short video about the floods, the dubious claims of a climate link and the muddled statements by the Met Office on this. They also mention the IPCC SREX.
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You forgot to mention the text from the other columns of the AR5 WG1 SPM Table SPM.1:
"Heavy precipitation events. Increase in the frequency, intensity, and/or amount of heavy precipitation.
Likelihood of further changes:
Early 21st century: Likely over many land areas
Late 21st century: Very likely over most of the mid-latitude land masses and over wet tropical regions"
Thanks Richard, I am less interested in the AR5 model projections of future flooding than in actual past data. I think this is a significant difference between climate scientists and sceptics – how much weight one gives to past observational data and how much to model projections.
[…] a significant difference between climate scientists and sceptics […]
I had to shake my head when I saw a comment from Richard at BH recently in which he asked "what is the skeptic position?" OWTTE. I would have thought that by now he might at least have figured that out for himself 😉


For homeowners, going on your roof probably isn`t an everyday occurrence.
That`s why Joseph Nolte trusted an Erie Insurance Group adjuster check his roof in Manchester Township, York County and explain if he any damage after a hail storm in May of last year.
"The adjuster told me we had damage to our ridge vent, our gutters, our down spouts, our fascia, our window screens, the air conditioner vents were all damaged, but he said the roof was fine," said Nolte.
Then, he started seeing a lot of his neighbors get new roofs.
He says he counted 44 new roofs.
"It`s kind of peculiar how all these homes on this development are all getting roofs out on from a hail storm and we weren`t."
He hired two contractors for a second and third opinion.
"I had two professionals tell me there`s damage in my roof and the insurance company says no," Nolte said.
He then filed an appeal with Erie insurance and says he spoke with a claims expert for Erie.
"I said I have all this damage and somehow mysteriously the roof is fine and he said yes. And I said, I don`t get it. And he said `Mr. Nolte, as far as I`m concerned this is a done deal."
Nolte started talking to a lawyer.
"We went to the company to try to get them to reconsider it and they basically said go pound sand," said Scott Cooper, a partner at Schmidt Kramer.
The lawyer filed a writ of summons, which is the start of a lawsuit.
He says Erie was served that paperwork in December.
The lawyer claims Erie Insurance Group acted in bad faith and is seeking a full roof repair for Nolte.
He believes another FOX43 Finds Out report about Erie Insurance Group customers saying their roof claims were low-balled, while other insurance companies paid for new roofs in Southern York County, can help prove the bad faith accusation.
"This is a development that is miles away from the development that you did the story on so if it`s the same company, that`s one of the things you look at in an insurance bad faith case. You say there has to be some type of systematic denial or something in common from all the claims," said Cooper.
When FOX43 Finds Out recently spoke to an Erie Insurance Group agent, she told us Erie recommends only speaking to contractors who are HAAG certified, which means they`re specialized in a certain type of roofing training.
The lawyer says the contractors who went on Nolte`s roof and told him he had damage.
"They didn`t explain why they think the estimates were wrong. And there were two estimates within $400-500 of each other. It wasn`t like a vast difference."
As for Nolte, he`s been an Erie customer for 38 years.
This is the first time he`s ever had an issue and is now second guessing his choice.
"You put your faith in this company all these years and you never question anything and now I start to think, is there something else I should be questioning as well?"
There is another option besides a lawsuit, people can file a complaint with the Pennsylvania Insurance Department.
A spokesperson says the department looks at every complaint to see if the insurance company is following the laws and regulations in the state and also if it's following the plan or policy in question.
It can issue civil penalties or fines against the insurance company.
The department does look at both sides of the the issue and recommends the customer gives their side of the story - especially if that includes things like a 3rd party contractors report.
The insurance department told us people filed 14 complaints related to hail damage against Erie insurance last year.
it did not find any violations by the insurance company.
Though the insurance department cannot decide whether or not a specific claims should be paid or if the claim payment was sufficient.
The Department sent FOX43 this statement: "In terms of the complaints we investigated from 2018, we did not find any violations of the standards insurers must following in documenting, investigation and processing of insurance claims. We do not have the authority to adjudicate claims, therefore we cannot determine whether or not a specific claims should be paid or if the claim payment was sufficient."
We did reach out to Erie Insurance Group about all of this again, and FOX43 was sent this statement: "Just informing you that we have no further comment outside of what I sent you below when you first reached out regarding this situation."
That original statement read: "Due to privacy laws we cannot comment on particular policyholder claims or coverages. Our adjusters go to great lengths to readily identify hail damages to homes, businesses, autos, etc. In southern York county we've received and paid hundreds of hail losses from this most recent event. However, a small percentage of the time, there are claims presented where we find no damage."
FOX43 Finds Out also spoke with a local Erie insurance agent and she shares her side of the story.


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"I am so delighted that it is finally going to be open and everyone can start using it again. Thank you for your patience, I know this is long overdue."
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According to new research, miscarriages related to frequent male pot use tended to occur within eight weeks of conception.
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Men who use marijuana at least once a week are twice as likely to see their partner's pregnancy end in miscarriage, compared to those who use no pot, new research suggests.
Miscarriages related to frequent male pot use tended to occur within eight weeks of conception, which bolsters suspicions that marijuana use damages sperm in some essential way, said lead researcher Alyssa Harlow, a doctoral student at the Boston University School of Public Health.
Some previous studies have indicated that pot use can lower sperm count and reduce the active movement of sperm, Harlow noted. There's also a possibility that marijuana could cause DNA damage in sperm.
"We would expect that the sperm was healthy enough to fertilise an egg, but any damage to the sperm might result in early pregnancy loss," Harlow said.
For the study, Harlow and her colleagues gathered data from more than 1 400 couples in the United States and Canada who were trying to conceive.
Men were asked about their pot use – whether they used marijuana less than once a week on average, once or more a week, or never. About 8% of the men said they used pot at least weekly, compared with over 82% who said they never use it.
Nearly 19% of couples who did conceive wound up reporting a miscarriage, the Boston University researchers said.
The association between frequent pot use before conception and miscarriage persisted even after researchers restricted their analysis to couples in which the female partner didn't use marijuana. Those couples also had a doubled risk of miscarriage if the man used pot at least once a week.
More research needed
The researchers controlled for a number of factors that could influence risk of miscarriage, including smoking status, alcohol and caffeine intake, weight, amount of sleep, history of sexually transmitted infections, and mood disorders.
That said, only an association was seen in this study, and Harlow noted that there may be other factors associated with either marijuana use or miscarriage that weren't taken into account.
"More research is needed," Harlow said.
Mitch Earleywine, an advisory board member of NORML, the pro-marijuana non-profit organisation, agreed that this study cannot prove a direct cause-and-effect link.
While the researchers did a "stellar job" of accounting for other factors that can increase miscarriage risk, he said, "We should keep in mind that marijuana use was not assigned at random here." Earleywine is a professor of psychology with the State University of New York at Albany.
There are cannabinoid receptors within both sperm and male testicular tissue, indicating that the chemicals in pot do have some direct effect on male reproductive health, said Dr Harris Nagler, a fertility expert with the Smith Institute of Urology at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Great Neck, New York.
Based on that, Nagler would recommend that men abstain from pot while they're trying to conceive.
Dr Scott Krakower, assistant unit chief of psychiatry at Zucker Hillside Hospital in Glen Oaks, New York, agreed, noting that, "This study suggests a potential link, and men should be aware of the negative implications it could have. As there is a variable time it can remain in your bloodstream, both men and women should avoid use altogether when planning for a family."
Although more study is needed, fertility expert Dr Taraneh Nazem also thinks that "we should be counselling male patients about these preliminary findings." She is an assistant clinical professor of obstetrics, gynaecology and reproductive science with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City.
"I think we have enough evidence to suggest there is a potential negative impact from marijuana use on male fertility," said Nazem. "If a male patient is trying to conceive with his partner, I would counsel him to make some lifestyle modifications based on this preliminary data."
Earleywine agreed.
"The millions of regular marijuana users who have successfully sired children with ease will balk at the idea, but those couples who've endured this outcome can certainly consider decreasing frequency of use for a few months in an effort to have children," Earleywine said.
The study was to be presented at the annual meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, in Philadelphia. Research presented at medical meetings is considered preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal.
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