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Sweet Potato Jam - 5 Stars

Vegetarian

Vegan

Gluten Free

Dairy Free

This is such a gem of a recipe. If you're like me, you grew up loving jelly for it's sweet fruit taste but ambivalent towards jam, which had suspicious chunks of fruits and worse, seeds, lurking within. I eventually got over my aversion to chunks of fruit, but this jam has the bonus of a uniform texture, almost like a thick applesauce, that I really appreciate. This is delicious on anything. It's tangy, tart, and sweet, and oddly just like a sweet potato. If you're only going to make two recipes from this book, make this your second, along with the Sweet Potato Biscuits.

Ingredients:

1 to 1 1/4 pounds (2 medium) sweet potatoes, peeled

1 1/4 cups sugar

1/4 cup fresh lime juice (from 2 to 3 limes)

1/4 tsp kosher salt

1/4 tsp pure almond extract

Grate the sweet potatoes into long, thick shreds. (The grating disk of a food processor produces the best results, but the large holes of a box grater will work as well.)

In a medium bowl, combine the shredded potatoes and sugar and mix well with your hands.

Add the mixture to a medium large saucepan and set over medium heat. Cover and cook, stirring and smashing frequently with the back of a wooden spoon, until the potatoes have mostly collapsed, about 30 minutes.

Add the lime juice, salt, and almond extract. Stir well. Transfer to a lidded container and store in the refrigerator. The jam will keep for at least 2 months. 

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World’s Best Braised Cabbage

Adapted from All About Braising by Molly Stevens | 4 servings

Cabbage heads come in a range of sizes. If yours weighs more than 2 pounds—check your grocery receipt for its weight if you don’t have a kitchen scale—lob off part of it and use that portion for another purpose. This approach is a tip from the original author of this recipe. That is how thorough Molly Stevens is with her recipe-writing. If you don’t have a carrot on hand, leave it out. The recipe is better with it, but I have made a great version without a carrot.

Ingredients

1 MD head green cabbage (about 2 pounds)

1 LG yellow onion (about 8 ounces), sliced thick

1 LG carrot, cut into ¼-inch rounds

¼ Cup chicken stock, vegetable stock, or water

¼ Cup extra-virgin olive oil

Coarse salt

Freshly ground black pepper

Crushed red pepper flakes

Flaky salt (optional)

Preparation

Set one oven rack in the middle of the oven, and preheat the oven to 325℉.

Trim the cabbage head of bruised or discolored outer leaves. Cut the cabbage through the core into 8 wedges. Arrange the wedges in a large baking dish, such as a 9-by-13 dish. (Or in two 8-by-8 square baking dishes, if that is all you happen to have.) The wedges may overlap a bit, but your goal is to lay them in a single layer.

Scatter the onion and carrot across the dish. Drizzle over the stock or water and the oil. Season with salt, pepper, and red pepper flakes. Cover tightly with foil, set on the middle rack and cook until the vegetables are completely tender, about 2 hours total. After the first hour or so, turn the cabbage wedges with tongs. If the wedges fall apart, that’s just fine. If the dish begins to dry out, add a tablespoon or two of water.

When the cabbage is completely tender, discard the foil, increase the heat to 400℉, and roast until the vegetables begin to brown, another 15 minutes or so. Serve warm or at room temperature, garnished with flaky salt, if you like. Should you have leftovers, they are even tastier the next day. Eat at room temperature or reheat for 20 minutes in a moderate oven.

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We’re celebrating July 4th with  the ALAN Review article entitled “Where Are They Now? Remembering Our Most Popular Young Adult Authors.”

     An article written by Don Gallo appeared recently in the Summer 2019 issue of The ALAN Review entitled “Where Are They Now? Remembering Our Most Popular Young Adult Authors.” Among those remembered were four authors with whom I worked very closely during my years at HarperCollins and, with Don Gallo's and the ALAN Review's permission, I'm including those remembrances on the Balkin Buddies blog:

     Here they are in  the order they appeared in the article:

Paul Zindel [Tied for first place with S.E. Hinton in 1988]*

    Paul Zindel's death in March 2003 ended the brilliant career of a unique individual. Not only did he win a Pulitzer Prize for Drama and an Obie Award for Best American Play in 1970 for The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1965), but he was also one of the earliest writers in the field of contemporary literature for young adults. The Pigman, published in 1968, is still one of the most well-known and widely taught novels in the genre. He followed The Pigman with My Darling, My Hamburger (1969); Pardon Me, You're Stepping on My Eyeball (1976), The Undertaker's Gone Bananas (1978); Harry and Hortense at Hormone High (1984); and other novels with attention-getting titles. His writing revealed how well he understood teenagers, believing that “adolescence is a time for problem-solving – for dealing with the awesome questions of self-identity, responsibility,  authority, sex, love, God, and death” (Gallo, 1990, p. 228).

     In addition to Gamma Rays, this versatile author wrote a number of other plays, including And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little (1971) and Ladies at the Alamo (1975), as well as a number of movies and television scripts that include Up the Sandbox (1972), starring Barbara Streisand; Mame (1974), starring Lucille Ball; Runaway Train (1985), starring Jon Voigt; Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-glass (1985), with a cast of 50 stars that included Red Buttons, Ringo Starr, Scott Baio, and Shelley Winters; Babes in Toyland (1986), starring Drew Barrymore and Keanu Reeves; and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1989), starring Keshia Knight Pullman. During those years working in Hollywood, Zindel associated with numerous movie and television actors and became good friends with Walter Matthau who lived in the house next door.

     In his later years, Zindel, always knowing what would appeal to teen readers, turned from realistic fiction to monster/horror books, such as The Doom Stone (1996), Rats (1999), and Night of the Bat (2001) – all of them filled with suspense and action and all selected as Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers.

     Zindel reveals a lot about himself in his 1987 autobiographical novel, The Amazing and Death-Defying Diary of Eugene Dingman, except that the fictional Eugene grows up in Bayone, New Jersey, while Paul grew up on Staten Island, New York. Of his teen years, Paul says bluntly: “I was an awkward freak.” More about Zindel's early life, family, and adventures can be found in his autobiography, The Pigman and Me (1992), which was named one of the 100 Best of the Best Books published for teenagers during the last part of the twentieth century.  In 2002, the American Library Association bestowed upon Paul Zindel the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement, and later that same year, he was presented with the ALAN Award for his contributions to young adult literature.

M. E. Kerr [Tied for fourth place with Robert Cormier and Katherine Paterson in 1988]*

     Writing under the pseudonym of M. E. Kerr, Marijane Meaker was one of the earliest authors to gain notoriety in the YA publishing world with Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack!, published in 1972. Among her 20 popular novels are Is That You, Miss Blue? (1975), I'll Love You When You're More Like Me (1977), Gentlehands (1978), Him She Loves? (1984), Night Kites (1986), the Fell series (1987, 1989, 1991), and Deliver Us from Evie (1990). Kerr has always chosen to write about differences in people, “understanding them....trying to make sense of it all, never losing sight of the power love lends.”

     In an interview published in Teenreads, she explains her motives: “I was very much formed by books when I was young....I was a bookworm and a poetry lover. When I think of myself and what I would have liked to have found in books those many years ago, I remember being depressed by all the neatly tied-up, happy-ending stories, the abundance of winners, the themes of winning, solving,  finding – when around me it didn't seem that easy. So I write with a different feeling when I write for young adults. I guess I write for myself at that age” (“M. E. Kerr).

     Marijane Meaker began her career in publishing after she was unable to sell any of her stories to magazines. She presented herself as Ms. Meaker, a literary agent with six clients, and sent out her own work under various pseudonyms, male as well as female. One was a middle-aged female teacher writing true confessions (at $300 a story); another was a young college woman selling to magazines, such as Redbook and Ladies Home Journal; a third “author” told a story, titled “I Lost My Baby at a Pot Party,” about her child wandering from a house where a saleslady was pitching Teflon pots. Along the way, a Gold Medal Books editor convinced her to write a novel about sorority life, for which she earned $4,000 a book at a penny a word. This very resourceful writer also published two or three adult mysteries a year under the name of Vin Packer, and other novels were penned as Ann Aldrich and Laura Winston. Her books for children are published under the name Mary James. “A lot of my stories,” she says, “sold well enough for me to enjoy trips to Europe, an apartment off  Fifth Avenue in New York City in the 90s, and a Fiat convertible.”

     M.E. Kerr's novels for teens have won multiple awards, including a Christopher Award in 1978, a Golden Kite Award from the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators in 1981, a California Young Readers Medal in 1992, the Margaret A. Edwards Award from the American Library Association in 1993 for her lifetime contribution to young adult literature, the Knickerbocker Award for Juvenile and Young Adult Literature in 1991, the ALAN Award in 2000, and the Golden Crown Literary Society Award for her groundbreaking works in the field of lesbian literature in 2013. In 1996, Long Island University awarded her an honorary doctorate.

     A collection of her short stories for teens – dealing with dating, love, race, bigotry, homosexuality, self-love, and  acceptance – titled Edge,  was published in 2015. And Highsmith: A Romance of the 1950s, a memoir recounting Meaker's relationship with famous mystery writer Patricia Highsmith, was published in 2003. Still writing at the age of 91, Meaker recently completed a novel about gay life in New York City during the 1940s and how she became a literary agent for her own work. It's titled Remind Me, based on the lyrics of an old song from that time written by Jerome  Kern and Dorothy Fields (1940): “Remind me / Not to find you so attractive / Remind me that the world is full of men.

Katherine Paterson [Tied for fourth place with Robert Cormier and M. E. Kerr in 1988]*

     Born in Qing Jiang, China, in 1932, the middle daughter of missionary parents, Katherine Paterson has lived in a variety of places, from Tennessee, Virginia, Maryland, and New York City to China and Japan, where she was a Presbyterian missionary. She now lives in Montpelier, Vermont.

     Her highly regarded novels include The Sign of the Chrysanthemum (1973), Of Nightingales That Weep (1974), Master Puppeteer (1975), and Rebels of the Heavenly Kingdom (1983), but she is known best for Bridge to Terabithia (1977), which won the Newbery Medal in 1978; The Great Gilly Hopkins (1978), which won the National Book Award in 1979; Jacob Have I Loved (1980), which won the Newbery Medal in 1981; and Park's Quest (1988), which made The Horn Book Fanfare Honor List in 1988. Published in 1996, Jip, His Story won the Parents' Choice Story Book Award and the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction in 1997. In 2006, Bread and Roses, Too won the Christopher Award and was a Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year, a Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People, a Parents' Choice Gold Medal historical fiction book, and one of Voice of Youth Advocate's Top Fiction for Middle School Readers.

     Paterson has also authored several autobiographical books about her writing, including Stories of My Life (2014), and is a coauthor of Consider the Lilies (Paterson & Paterson, 1986), a nonfiction book about various plants of the Bible that she wrote with her husband, John.

     Over her long writing career, Paterson has also received a long list of awards for her body of work. Among them are the Kerlan Award from the University of Minnesota (1983), the ALAN Award (1987), the Hans Christian Andersen Medal for Writing (1998), the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (2006), the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award (2013), and the Massachusetts Reading Association Lifetime Award, along with writing awards from Germany, France, and Sweden. In 2000, she was declared A Living Legend by the Library of Congress, and for 2010-2011, Paterson was the US Ambassador for Young People's Literature. She is also the recipient of more than a dozen honorary degrees, including ones from Vermont College of Fine Arts, the University of Maryland, Hope College, and Washington and Lee University.

     Paterson's latest novel is My Brigadista Year (2017), set in Cuba in 1961 during the literacy campaign that made Cuba a fully literate nation in  one year.

Robert Lipsyte

     The author of The Contender (1967) turned 80 years old this spring, as his ground-breaking novel passed the 50-year mark in print. Lipsyte is also the author of One Fat Summer (1977), Summer Rules (1981), The Brave (1991), The Chemo Kid (1992), The Chief (1993), and Raiders Night (2006) for teens, and for young readers, The Twinning Project (2012). Lipsyte's list of publications for teenagers isn't especially lengthy when compared to those of some authors who have been writing for the same length of time, but that's because writing books for and about teenagers is only one kind of work he has done especially well. He has also published a number of short stories, essays about sports issues, and biographies of several sports celebrities, such as Muhammad Ali, Jim Thorpe, and Michael Jordan, as well as several nonfiction books for adults, including Nigger, with Dick Gregory (1964), the African American satirist; Sportsworld (1975/2018); and Idols of the Game (1995). As the author of The Contender, one of the very first realistic novels about contemporary teenagers, Robert Lipsyte was honored with the Margaret A. Edwards Award by the American Library Association in 2001.

     And that's not all. Among other things, Robert Lipsyte has been a highly respected columnist and prize-winning sports reporter for The New York Times, a correspondent for the CBS television program Sunday Morning with Charles Kuralt; the host of his own award-winning television interview program, The Eleventh Hour, on New York City's public television station, WNET Channel 13; author of a television documentary series about sports; and the Life (Part 2) series for PBS-TV on subjects of interest to older people. He is also the author of an entertaining memoir, titled Accidental Sportswriter (2011).

     In addition to speaking at a lot of high schools, Lipsyte recently has been flying to North Carolina for a week at a time to teach at Wake Forest University, which he says he enjoys very much. He continues to write a monthly column, mostly on local politics, for his hometown weekly, The Shelter Island Reporter, which he says “gives me as much pleasure as the old Times' column.” He also occasionally writes about sports and politics for a site called Tomdispatch, which distributes to a batch of leftish publications like The Nation and The Guardian. If that's not enough, after his cameo on the O.J.: Made in America documentary film (Edelman, 2016) that won an Oscar, he gets called often to pontificate on various TV documentaries, most recently on one about Sonny Liston, three on  Muhammad Ali (including one by Ken Burns), and another on that “hard year” 1968.

     Meanwhile, this very busy author has been promoting the film, Measure of a Man (Scearce, 2018), starring Donald Sutherland, based on One Fat Summer, Lipsyte's 1977 novel about a bullied teen. View the trailer at https://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/measure-of-a-man/. “I have toyed with a new YA novel,” he claims, but where will he find the time?

     *Based on the list of 169 authors' names Mr. Gallo sent to 41 present and past officers of ALAN in 1988, asking them “to identify the most important and popular YA fiction writers of the time and to add other names of writers they felt were as important.” Due to space limitations, he “limited this investigation to the top 30 authors included on that 1988 list.”

     The ALAN Review   Summer 2019

     Reprinted with permission from the ALAN Review and Don Gallo.

     I hope you enjoyed this excerpt and get to read the entire article. Personally, I feel honored to have worked with such incredibly talented authors as well as with all the amazing people at ALAN.

     For information on Balkin Buddies, be sure to visit our website or blog.

Catherine Balkin, Balkin Buddies

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Sweet Potato Biscuits - 5 Stars

Vegetarian

I can't overstate how wonderful these are, fresh out of the oven or leftover the next day. They're so simple and so, so satisfying. These aren't just one of my favorites from this book, but from the series overall.

Look at them! The sweet potato makes the dough a pleasant soft orange, and when you get a larger chunk of warm sweet potato....it's heaven. If you only make one thing from this book, make it this.

Ingredients:

1 cup roasted sweet potato flesh

2/3 cup whole milk

4 tbsp unsalted butter (1/2 stick) melted, plus 1 tbsp at room temperature

1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour

1 tbsp plus 1/4 tsp baking powder

2 tbsp plus 1/2 tsp sugar

3/4 tsp kosher salt

Adjust the top oven rack so that it is at the second highest setting. Preheat the oven to 450˚. Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil or parchment paper and grease the foil or parchment with th e1 tbsp of softened butter.

In a large bowl, stir together the sweet potato flesh, milk and melted butter until combined. In a small bowl, stir together the flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt. Sift the flour mixture into the bowl with the sweet potato mixture and stir to combine. Using a soup spoon, scoop 12 mounds of batter, each about 2 inches wide, onto the baking sheet.

Bake the biscuits, rotating the pan after 10 minutes, until the tops brown in some parts and the biscuits sound hollow when thumped with a finger, 15 to 20 minutes total. Let the biscuits cool for a few minutes, then use a knife to release them from the liner. Serve warm.

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Tuesday, August 27, 2019 9:00 am Room 1812, Pathobiology Building, OVC           Examination to follow in Room 2511, Stewart Building, OVC

Interested members of the Ontario Veterinary College are invited to attend the Final Oral Examination for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy of

Anastasia Stellato of the Department of Population Medicine

Thesis Title: “Assessing Strategies for Reducing Dog Fear During Routine Physical Examinations”

Examination Committee: Dr. Derek Haley (Chair), Dr. Lee Niel, Dr. Tina Widowski, Dr. Terri O’Sullivan, Dr. Margaret Gruen

Advisory Committee: Dr. Lee Niel (Advisor), Dr. Cate Dewey (Co-Advisor), Dr. Tina Widowski

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Tuesday, August 27, 2019 9:00 am  Presentation PAHL 1810 Examination to follow, PAHL 3826 

Interested members of the Ontario Veterinary College are invited to attend the Final Oral Examination for the Degree of Master of Science Sarah Hill of the Department of Pathobiology Thesis Title: “Understanding the Relationship Between the Tonsil Microbiota and Clinical Streptococcus suis Infection in Nursery Pigs” 

Examination Committee: Dr. Jeff Caswell, Chair of Examination Committee, (Pathobiology), Dr. Nicole Ricker, Advisor, (Pathobiology) Dr. Emma Allen-Vercoe, Advisory-Committee Member (Molecular and Cellular Biology) Dr. Robert Friendship, Non-Committee Member (Population Medicine) Advisory Committee: Dr. Nicole Ricker (Advisor) Dr. Vahab Farzan (Co-Advisor) Dr. Janet MacInnes Dr. Emma Allen-Vercoe

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Tuesday, Aug 27, 2019 1:30 pm Room 1812, Pathobiology Building, Ontario Veterinary College Examination to follow, in Room 2511, Stewart Building, OVC Interested members of the University Community are invited to attend the Final Oral Examination for the Degree of Master of Science ofMatthew McBride in the Department of Population MedicineThesis Title: “Control of sow breeding to improve reproductive efficiency and maximize farrowing room performance”Examination Committee: Dr. Olaf Berke (Exam Chair), Dr. Bob Friendship Dr. Terri O’Sullivan, Dr. Lee-Anne HuberAdvisory Committee: Dr. Robert Friendship (Advisor), Dr. Terri O’Sullivan ______________________________________________________________________

Wednesday, August 28, 2019 1:30 pm Room 1812, Pathobiology Building, Ontario Veterinary College Examination to follow, in Room 2527, Stewart Building Interested members of the University Community are invited to attend the Final Oral Examination for the Degree of Master of Science of          

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Thesis Title: “Diagnostic Reasoning Skills in Veterinary Students and Recent Veterinary Graduates”

Examination Committee: Dr. Olaf Berke (Exam Chair), Dr. Deep Khosa, Dr. Joanne Hewson, Dr. Jessica Gordon

Advisory Committee: Dr. Tracey Chenier (Advisor), Dr. Joanne Hewson, Dr. Deep Khosa ______________________________________________________________________

Friday, Aug 30, 2019 9:00 am Room 1812, Pathobiology Building, Ontario Veterinary College Examination to follow, in Room 2511, Stewart Building

Interested members of the University Community are invited to attend the Final Oral Examination for the Degree of Master of Science of

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Thesis Title: “Health Policy and Risk Communication for Indoor Tanning in Canada”

Examination Committee: Dr. Olaf Berke (Exam Chair), Dr. Jennifer McWhirter, Dr. Scott McEwen, Dr. Matthew Little

Advisory Committee: Dr. Jennifer McWhirter (Advisor), Dr. Scott McEwen, Dr. Andrew Papadopoulos

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Tuesday, September 3, 2019 9:00 am Presentation PAHL 1810 Examination to follow, 3826 Interested members of the University Community are invited to attend the Final Oral Examination for the Degree of Master of Science of Akash Jairaj of the Department of Pathobiology

Thesis Title: “Minimal residual disease monitoring in canine multicentric B cell lymphoma” 

Examination Committee: Dr. John Barta, Chair of Examination Committee, (Pathobiology) Dr. Stefan Keller, Advisor, (Pathobiology) Dr. Dorothee Bienzle, Committee Member (Pathobiology) Dr. Samuel Hocker, Non-Committee Member (Clinical Studies)

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More People Are Giving CBD Oil To Their Pets, But Experts Aren’t Sure It’s Safe

CBD oil, or cannabidiol, has become a popular cannabis product since legalization in October.



It lacks the psychoactive characteristics of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) — meaning it won’t get you high — and it can help with myriad health issues, including inflammation, arthritis, and joint pain.

Now, some users want to see if the oil can offer similar benefits to their pets.

According to Dr. Scott Bainbridge, co-owner of Dundas West Animal Hospital in Toronto, there is little research on the topic — but what studies have been done suggest that CBD can have some positive effects for animals.

“I think it’s fair to say that… what works in medicine is usually applicable to animal medicine,” Bainbridge told Global News. “But we are talking about a different species… and the number of receptors for CBD that a human has may vary from a dog or a cat.”

‘We do need to do more research’

Hardly anything is known about how cannabis interacts with an animal’s brain. For this reason, Canadian veterinarians aren’t included in the Cannabis Act as practitioners who can prescribe cannabis products. In fact, there aren’t even any legal CBD products on the market for animals.

In Bainbridge’s view, a lot more research needs to happen before it can be safely incorporated into treatment plans.

“I can see the potential for [treating] things like anxiety, arthritis or chronic pain… but we do need to do more research in the area,” he said.

Two major studies have researched the effects of CBD on dogs.

A recent study out of Cornell University tested the treatment of arthritis in dogs with CBD and found a significant decrease in pain, an increase in activity and no observable side effects.

Likewise, a study at Colorado State University from June assessed the efficacy of CBD when treating epilepsy in dogs. Results were similar: 89 percent of dogs who received CBD had a reduction in the frequency of seizures.

However, just 16 dogs participated in the clinical trial at Colorado State — a sample size which isn’t large enough to provide reliable evidence for the benefits of CBD on dogs with epilepsy.

“It’s kind of a dangerous gray area,” said Sam Hocker, assistant professor of medical oncology at the Ontario Veterinary College.

Currently, the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association (CVMA) doesn’t endorse the administration of cannabis — neither CBD or THC — to pets.

According to Dr. Enid Stiles, the vice president of the CVMA, this is due to the limited scope of research. However, more studies are underway now that marijuana is legal in Canada.

“We’ve been working judiciously in the past couple of years — ever since we knew legalization was coming — to determine what ways we might be able to help veterinarians,” Stiles told Global News.

“Health Canada is in the midst of doing research… but I think it’ll be a few more years before [veterinarians] are actually able to prescribe.”

In the meantime, Stiles is worried that the policy for cannabis and pets varies from province to province.

For example, the Ontario Veterinarian Medical Association (OVMA) has forbidden its members from even discussing the use of cannabis with patients.

“We can’t legally discuss it… we’re not allowed to make recommendations,” said Hocker. “What I tell patients when they bring it up is that we just don’t have a lot of evidence at this point to tell us its impacts or ill effects.”

This concerns Stiles because she believes pet owners will continue to give their pets CBD regardless of the law — and she thinks it would be safer if they could at least consult a veterinarian before doing so.

“As a practitioner, I would much rather have a conversation than a pet going home and somebody giving him or her a product that could be harmful,” she said.

“But I think that time is going to change that… It wouldn’t surprise me if the regulatory bodies were going to be changing [their stances] pretty shortly. Not being part of that conversation… there’s far more risk with that.”

In January 2018, the CVMA provided feedback to Health Canada on proposed changes under the Cannabis Act.

In it, the group argued that veterinarians should be included under the definition of “medical practitioner,’ which would grant them access to prescribe cannabis to their patients. The group also wrote that human cannabis products should have labeling that includes messages to protect the safety of animals.

If you still want to try giving your pet cannabis Bainbridge’s first recommendation is to consult your veterinarian before administering anything. If you live in a jurisdiction where veterinarians aren’t allowed to offer advice about cannabis, proceed with extreme caution.

“You want to make sure you’re not dosing it too heavily,” said Bainbridge.

Consuming too much cannabis can cause excess sleepiness, depression, wobbling, pacing, and agitation, as well as salivation and vomiting, among other symptoms.

However, these symptoms are caused more often by the consumption of THC rather than by CBD. Ensure that you haven’t left THC products in a place where your pet could reach and potentially consume it.

Should your pet need a new medication or surgery, be completely honest with your veterinarian about what you’ve given him or her. “There can be interactions between CBD and other drugs,” said Bainbridge.

Bainbridge, Hocker, and Stiles all emphasize the need for harm reduction, at least until more is known about how cannabis interacts with animals.

“Probably one of the biggest concerns about CBD is that it comes from hemp… which is a weed,” Bainbridge said.

“You have to be really careful where it’s been planted because it sucks all the toxins out of the soil.”

Bainbridge is actually more worried about your dog consuming other toxins found in soil — like heavy metals — than he is about the CBD.

“There’s not a lot of regulation right now… At this point, I’m not comfortable recommending a product.”

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More People Are Giving CBD Oil To Their Pets, But Experts Aren’t Sure It’s Safe was originally published on Hearts Of Pets

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中國富豪悉尼扎堆賣房 奶茶妹的房還沒賣出去

中國人又一次在澳洲豪宅市場上活躍，但這次卻是為了賣掉悉尼的房子，甚至不惜虧錢拋售。

據《Domain》網站報道，中國問題專家指出，中國大陸的經濟和政治環境促使許多投資者撤出了悉尼的住宅市場，但本地中介表示，新州政府最近出台的土地稅以及對房地產市場進一步下滑的擔憂，加劇了中國買家的拋售潮。

居外網首席執行官Carrie Law說：“富有的中國大陸人對海外房地產投資一向謹慎，在當前的政治環境下，他們變得更加謹慎。”

精品房產咨詢公司Basis Point的創始人David Chin表示，中國經濟的低迷促使一些中國巨頭需要籌集現金來支持他們的業務，“不管怎樣，他們都將在2019年即將到來之前出售他們昂貴的度假屋”。

本周早些時候，中國超市業億萬富翁張軒松（ZhangXuansong，音譯）的妻子黃巧蓉（HuangQiaorong，音譯），出售了她在2015年末以3600萬澳元的價格購買的Vaucluse豪宅。LJ Hocker DoubleBay的Bill Malouf和The Agency的BenCollier拒絕透露銷售價格，但消息來源稱，該房產以近4000萬澳元的價格賣給了一個當地家庭。

這棟由Luigi Rosselli設計的豪宅，最近幾年被黃的夥伴、京東聯合創始人劉強東租下，而劉強東的妻子章澤天（奶茶妹）也在出售她在悉尼CBD的頂層公寓。

報道稱，奶茶妹在2015年以1620萬澳元買下了位於Stamford Residence的頂層公寓，現在正以1500萬澳元的價格尋找買家。

總部位於上海的航運巨頭黃善年（Shannian Huang，音譯），也在出售他俯瞰海德公園的頂層豪華公寓。黃在2013年以1700萬澳元的價格，為他的兒子Hugh Huang買下了這套房產，現在以2600萬澳元的價格重新掛牌上市。

消息人士稱，Hugh Huang也在討論出售他在Piper Point的海濱房產，他于2013年以1435萬澳元從悉尼FC主席Scott Barlow手中購得該房產。

被稱為中國蓋茨比的商人Sam Guo，在9月以1800萬澳元的價格，將其位於Hunters Hill的歷史豪宅Windermere推出市場，但最近已經將價格降至1500萬至1600萬澳元。

房地產大亨、上海連合房地產（Shanghai United）的衛平（Ping Wei，音譯），去年曾以1.4億澳元收購了悉尼Double Bay洲際酒店，本月早些時候則出售了他在Longueville的豪宅。

不過，Malouf表示，仍有針對中國買家的高端銷售，僅在最近幾周，Vaucluse就有3次銷售額超過2000萬澳元的交易，但這類住宅的預算與幾年前相比已經縮水。他說：“如果他們的預算支出超過4000萬澳元，現在更有可能2000萬澳元就買到了。”

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