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Thirty-Eight Deer Test Positive for Chronic Wasting Disease on Fulton and Bedford County Deer Farms

Harrisburg, PA - The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture today announced that 36 captive deer from a quarantined breeding farm and hunting preserve in Fulton County have tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD). Two additional deer from a quarantined Bedford County hunting preserve also tested positive. Both farms will remain under quarantine for five years from the date the positive tests were confirmed.

The 36 white-tailed deer were from a herd euthanized on September 24, 2018 after the Fulton County farm applied for and received federal indemnity for their losses. None of the deer tested showed signs of CWD prior to their deaths.

The department’s Pennsylvania Veterinary Laboratory in Harrisburg tested the deer, as required by the department’s CWD program. Positive test results were confirmed at the National Veterinary Services Laboratories in Ames, Iowa.

CWD attacks the brain of infected deer, elk and moose, producing small lesions that eventually result in death. Animals can get the disease through direct contact with saliva, feces and urine from an infected animal or contaminated environment. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there have been no reported cases of CWD infection in people.

Clinical signs include weight loss, excessive salivation, increased drinking and urination, and abnormal behavior like stumbling, trembling, and depression. Infected deer and elk may also allow unusually close approach by humans or natural predators. The disease is fatal and there is no known treatment or vaccine.

The infectious agent, known as a prion, tends to concentrate in the brain, spinal column, eyes, spleen, and lymph nodes. To prevent disease spread, these high-risk parts must be properly handled and disposed of where the animal is killed. Parts such as deboned meat, clean skull caps and capes present little risk and may be taken home.

The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture coordinates a mandatory surveillance program for the disease for 896 breeding farms, hobby farms and hunting preserves across the state. Since 1998, accredited veterinarians and certified CWD technicians have tested more than 35,000 captive deer in Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Game Commission collects samples from hunter-harvested deer, and elk and wild deer that appear sick or behave abnormally.

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President Trump: ‘Believe Me, There’s No Collusion!’

During a joint press conference with the President of Colombia today, President Donald Trump was asked his thoughts on the appointment of a special counsel in the Russian probe.

In response, the president reiterated some of what he had told some reporters earlier today, which he believes it is something that “divides the country.” However, he noted that he respects the move and that “the entire thing is a witch hunt.”

After boasting about job numbers and other reduction of illegal immigration, he then wanted it to be known that there is absolutely no collusion between him and Russia.

“Believe me, there’s no collusion,” Trump exclaimed. “Russia is fine, but whether it is Russia or anybody else, my total priority, believe me, is the United States of America.”

It should be noted that during his answer, he said he could only speak for himself. Hmmmmm…

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In an interview with The Guardian before travelling to Liverpool to speak at a fringe event at the Labour Party conference, the radical-left France Insoumise party leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon says he wants to invite Jeremy Corbyn to join an international club of like-minded movements amid a new 'era of the people'.

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The election this month of veteran left-winger Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the British Labour Party has been greeted variously with both delight and despair among the French Left. While Socialist Party bigwigs look on aghast at the election of what a minister described to Mediapart as “an archaic dinosaur”, one of its minority leftist rebel MPs called the event “a breath of fresh air”. Lénaïg Bredoux has been seeking out the reactions.


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Some mums-to-be pledge to have an epidural upon arrival at the hospital, while others hope to experience labour and birth without using this method of pain relief. It is worth knowing that while an epidural can be a relief, it does have a downside too. Learning all the facts will help you make an informed decision.

How does an epidural work?

The anaesthesiologist inserts a needle between two vertebrae in the lower back, stopping just short of the sac enclosing the thick cable of nerves (spinal canal) inside the spine. A fine catheter is threaded through the needle, which is then removed. Next, a mixture of local freezing agent and morphine-like medication is piped in through the tube, causing numbness below the waist.

The pros of an epidural

In most cases, an epidural provides very effective pain relief. And if you are having a difficult labour, this could make the difference between a positive birth experience and a negative one. An epidural can also be very useful in the following situations:

  • Sunny-side-up baby: If your baby will not move, facing your belly button instead of your backbone, an epidural may relax the muscles of the vagina and perineum, giving the baby just enough wiggle room to rotate and descend.
  • Exhaustion: If contractions have kept you awake for a long time, a nap made possible by pain relief can give you a second wind.
  • Hypertension: During labour high blood pressure, which can soar further during pushing, poses dangers including a small risk of stroke. One of the side effects of an epidural – a decrease in blood pressure – can reduce these risks.
  • Need for forceps or vacuum: An epidural prevents discomfort.
  • Non-emergency caesarean section: An epidural allows you to remain awake during the birth. General anaesthesia is only needed in very urgent situations, which account for a small minority of C-sections.

The cons of an epidural

Did you know that epidurals do not always work? Roughly five to ten per cent of the time, an epidural only provides patchy, partial relief, for instance numbing only one side of the lower body. Adding more medication or redoing the epidural corrects the problem in about 75 per cent of those cases. If you are one of those – albeit few – cases where the epidural does not work as expected, this can be extremely disappointing.

  • Limited mobility: Most epidurals keep you more or less immobile. But even if the resulting numbing is light enough to allow you to move your legs (a type of epidural that is only available in a handful of hospitals), in most centres you will automatically be hooked up to an IV and a foetal monitor, so you will not be able to walk or move around.
  • Less effective labour and pushing ability: This side effect can not only lengthen labour, but can also substantially increase the likelihood of a forceps or vacuum delivery. Some doctors say the likelihood increases by around 38 per cent, while others estimate that epidurals double or even triple the odds. Furthermore, over half of women who have an epidural will need the hormone oxytocin (which has its own risks) to strengthen slowed or stalled contractions.
  • Drop in the mum’s blood pressure: This can cause the baby’s heart rate to slow down, which is sometimes a sign of distress. If IV fluids and drugs do not bring the mum’s blood pressure and the baby’s heart rate back to normal, a C-section is usually the next step.
  • Perineal injury: Tears and other injuries are more common because epidurals increase the risk of a vacuum or forceps delivery.
  • Fever: For reasons that are not completely understood, an epidural significantly increases the likelihood of developing a fever during labour. In one study from the year 2000, nearly 12 per cent of women who received an epidural ran a temperature of 37.8°C or higher compared with only 0.2 per cent of those who did not receive an epidural. In case the fever signals infection, typically mother and baby are both treated (often unnecessarily) with antibiotics. The baby may also be admitted to the NICU for close observation.

Considering the pros and cons of epidural anaesthesia, you should make your own decision before the onset of labour so that you have at least one less decision to make and can concentrate on the labour and birth. Talk to your healthcare provider or midwife for advice.


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Dr Sarah Lynne Granger, MD is a medicare enrolled "Anesthesiology" physician in Fpo, Armed Forces Europe. Her current practice location is Usnh Box 21, Fpo, Armed Forces Europe. You can reach out to her office (for appointments etc.) via phone at (011) 539-972900.

Dr Sarah Lynne Granger is licensed to practice in Virginia (license number 0101245245) and she also participates in the medicare program. She does not accept medicare assignments directly but she may accept medicare through third-party (refer to Reassignment section below) and may also prescribe medicare part D drugs. Her NPI Number is 1538363304.

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  • Provider Enumeration Date: 06/13/2007
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Any physician or other eligible professional who prescribes Part D drugs must either enroll in the Medicare program or opt out in order to prescribe drugs to their patients with Part D prescription drug benefit plans. Dr Sarah Lynne Granger is enrolled with medicare and thus, if eligible, can prescribe medicare part D drugs to patients with medicare part D benefits.

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Nearly All Diabetics Should Be on Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs: Experts

News Picture: Nearly All Diabetics Should Be on Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs: ExpertsBy Steven Reinberg
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TUESDAY, Dec. 23, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- New guidelines from the American Diabetes Association (ADA) call for giving the cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins to all people with diabetes to help prevent heart disease.

These new standards bring the association in line with the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association, which also recommend giving low- or high-dose statins to all people at risk for heart disease, including people with diabetes.

"We agree that the decision to start a statin should be based on a patient's risk," said Dr. Richard Grant, a research scientist at Kaiser Permanente Division of Research and chairman of the ADA's professional practice committee.

"It turns out that patients with diabetes have the same risk as people with heart disease, so all of our patients need to be on statins," he said.

However, Grant said some people with diabetes may not need statins. These include younger, healthier patients and very old patients who have other medical conditions that shorten their life expectancy.

Heart disease is the No. 1 killer of people with diabetes, Grant said. People with diabetes are two to four times more likely to have a heart attack or stroke than people without diabetes, he said.

The increased risk of heart disease in people with diabetes is what was behind the rationale for this year's recommendations on statins, blood pressure and exercise, according to Grant.

"In the old days, all we thought about was sugar, and nowadays we recognize that the leading killer in diabetes is heart disease," he said. "You have to be aggressive in controlling risks."

He added that the ADA standards are updated each year to give doctors the latest guidance for diagnosing and treating both type 1 and type 2 diabetes.

The ADA recommends a moderate statin dose for people with diabetes who are under 40, or 40 to 75 without any other risks for heart disease. A high statin dose is recommended for people with diabetes who have heart disease, and for those between 40 and 75 who have other risk factors for heart disease.

Dr. Spyros Mezitis, an endocrinologist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, said, "We have to be aggressive with statins in diabetics."

People with diabetes who are not taking a statin should ask their doctor if they should be taking one, he said.

Mezitis added that people with diabetes should know their cholesterol, blood pressure, average blood sugar level and weight.

The new recommendations also call for a less strict diastolic blood pressure goal of 90 mm Hg, up from 80 mm Hg for most people. The diastolic number is the bottom number in a blood pressure reading.

In addition, the standards recommend that everyone exercise regularly. They also advise that no more than 90 minutes at a time should be spent inactive.

The committee also recommends people with diabetes do resistance training at least twice a week, unless they can't for other medical reasons.

The guidelines for people with diabetes also include:

  • A new blood sugar standard for children and adolescents -- a hemoglobin A1C of 7.5 or less. This test gives an average of blood sugar levels for the past two to three months, according to the ADA.
  • A statement that e-cigarettes are not an alternative to smoking or a way to help smokers quit.
  • A recommendation that people 65 or older get the pneumonia vaccine in two separate shots -- PCV13 (Prevnar), followed 12 months later by PPSV23 (Pneumovax).
  • Lowering the body mass index (BMI) threshold to 23 for screening Asian-Americans for diabetes. A BMI of 25 is what's usually considered overweight, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But Asians have an increased risk for diabetes at a lower BMI, according to the ADA.

The new guidelines will be published in a supplement to the January 2015 Diabetes Care.

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SOURCES: Richard Grant, M.D., M.P.H., research scientist, Kaiser Permanente Division of Research, chairman, professional practice committee, American Diabetes Association; Spyros Mezitis, M.D., endocrinologist, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York City; January 2015 Diabetes Care supplement

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Rose: ‘It’s exciting to be heading back to Perry Park.’

New Melbourne City signing Josh Rose will potentially make his City debut at the ground he started his professional career 15 years ago.

City travel to Perry Park in Brisbane to take on the Brisbane Strikers in the Round of 16 of the Westfield FFA Cup and the Club’s latest signing said it was an eerie feeling taking on the side that gave him his first opportunity as a senior player in Australia’s then top domestic league, the National Soccer League.

“It’s exciting to be heading back to Perry Park. That’s where it all began for me in the NSL a long time ago and it’s exciting to be able to go back there and play in the cup,” Rose said.

“I think it’s fantastic the cup system. Now that they are not part of the national league structure themselves, it gives these teams the chance to test themselves against A-League sides. It’s fantastic to see and it’s great for me to be able to be a part of that.

“It was my first NSL team so it was always going to be special to me. My wife has got a lot of family there and I’ve got family in Queesland so heading to Brisbane is always a good place to go and play for me.”

Rose’s transition to the Club has been swift and the former Mariner says he could not have had a better start to life as a City player with the potential to debut on Wednesday night alongside Neil Kilkenny and Tim Cahill.

“It’s been fantastic, everything has happened very quickly but all the boys here have made me feel like I’ve been here for five years already so they’re a great bunch of boys, they have really looked after me and helped me transition really well,” he said.

“We’ve all been working hard since we came in so we’ll see what happens tomorrow at training and go with that but things are going really well at the moment.

They’re (Kilkenny and Cahill) both really good professionals. They have been in the game for a long time so we’ll look after ourselves and with the coaching staff, they are getting us up to speed pretty quick.

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Body size can be measured by ‘Body Mass Index’ or BMI. BMI is calculated using height measured in meters and weight measured in kilograms, using the formula:

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30 – 34.9 Obese
35 – 39.9 Severely Obese
40 – 49.9 Morbidly Obese
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The initial treatment of choice for obesity is diet and exercise, which may be successful for some but is difficult to be successful and to continue long-term, particularly in the morbidly obese. There are meal replacement products but these are also often not long-term solutions. There have been some medications for treatment for obesity but these too are limited in their long-term use and success and can have unwanted side effects.

Currently, surgical therapy, as part of a multi-disciplinary approach to obesity, offers the only practical means of maintaining long-term weight loss and a reduction in obesity related health problemsand improving quality of life.

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PALO ALTO — The wife of the Palo Alto war veteran detained by North Korean officials for nearly a month after a visit there issued a statement this morning asking the Korean government to “return this 85-year-old grandfather to his anxious, concerned family.”

“There has been some dreadful misunderstanding,” Merrill E. Newman’s wife, Lee Newman, said in her first public comments since this newspaper on Wednesday broke the news of his detention.

Merrill Newman, a former Army infantry officer in the Korean War, had traveled to the reclusive country for 10 days last month with a friend and fellow resident of the Channing House retirement community in Palo Alto. The night before they were scheduled to leave, Newman was questioned by North Korean officials about his war service there some 60 years earlier, an interview that Newman’s son has said was upsetting to his father, who has a heart condition. The next day, on Oct. 26, as Newman sat on the Asiana Airlines flight ready to take off to Beijing, a Korean official escorted him off the plane.

“He has been detained somewhere in North Korea since that time,” Mrs. Newman said in the statement. “We have no word on the state of his health, whether or not the medications sent to him through the Swedish Embassy in North Korea have been delivered or why he was detained.”

She said that her husband of 56 years had been looking forward to making the trip for a long time. Friends have since received postcards he sent during his stay, describing “good times, good weather and knowledgeable guides.”

North Korea has confirmed through the Swedish Embassy in Pyongyang that it has detained a U.S. citizen, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters Friday in Washington, D.C.

The United States has no diplomatic relations with North Korea and is working through Swedish diplomats to bring Newman home.

Dan Sneider, a North Korea expert at Stanford’s Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, guessed based on past cases that North Korea’s acknowledgement of Newman’s detention will be followed soon either by its announcement of charges against him, or by his release.

Also today, the founder of the tour company that arranged Newman’s itinerary confirmed that Newman and his traveling companion booked the private tour through Juche Travel Services between Oct. 17 and Oct. 26. Those arrangements were handled by a state-run travel bureau that provides North Korean escorts who must accompany all Western tourists at all times, said David Thompson, whose company is based near London. None of Thompson’s employees served as guides.

“Mr. Newman had in place all necessary and valid travel documents to take his tour,” Thompson wrote. “We have no information concerning what has occurred to result in the current situation.”

Sources said Newman might have requested to see some specific, off-the-beaten-path sites at which he recalled fighting six decades earlier, and this might’ve been a red flag to his North Korean handlers.

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Security and Safety | October 25, 2018

Simulator helps improve operator’s critical thinking as well as command and control of railway procedures and protocols.

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Sleep loss leading to human fatigue is a serious issue affecting the safety of the traveling public in all modes of transportation. Simply defined, sleep loss is an inability to receive a proper amount and quality of sleep on a regular basis.

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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Presidential candidate Julian Castro acknowledged in Las Vegas on Friday night that he's not a front runner right now among the crowded field of Democrats while making a dig at his fellow Texan Beto O'Rourke, who jumped ahead of the pack when he entered the race this week.

Castro, speaking to about 50 people at a downtown Las Vegas bar, said he read an article earlier in the day that referred to him as "the other Texan" in the race.

"I'm the one from the other side of the tracks. I'm the one that didn't grow up as a front runner," said Castro, the grandson of a Mexican immigrant and former San Antonio mayor. "I'm the one that is going to work hard each and every day, if we have to crawl through all 50 states and knock on doors to get support in this race. I'm going to bring a voice of folks who also don't feel in this country like they're the front runner."

Castro's comments appeared to be a veiled allusion to a recent interview O'Rourke gave to Vanity Fair, where he said he was "just born to be in" the presidential race.

Castro, the former Obama administration Housing and Urban Development secretary, said that while he's not a front runner, he will be by the time the Iowa caucus starts.

Unlike the rest of the pack of presidential contenders, who have concentrated their early state visits on Iowa, South Carolina and New Hampshire, Castro has made monthly visits to third-in-line Nevada this year — all before bringing his campaign to South Carolina.

Nevada's caucus is seen as the first test of a candidate's appeal to a diverse population as the state boasts a 29 percent Latino population.

Castro, the only Latino candidate in the race, has highlighted immigration and used his visits to Nevada to meet with Hispanic business leaders, activists and students.

He's also highlighted his education plan for universal pre-K and moves toward "universal higher education," a proposal to offer tuition-free public colleges.

He spoke on stage Friday night on the back patio of the bar, as young attendees nursed beers and bikers from a vintage motorcycle show just beyond the fence revved their engines, nearly drowning out his words at times.

At an appearance earlier in the day before Latino business leaders, he said the Latino community's bilingual, ambitious young people are one of America's best assets as it seeks to remain competitive in the world. He mingled with former Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval, Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto and others before heading to a private meeting with former Nevada Sen. Harry Reid, a Democrat who is still a kingmaker in the state.

Castro also made an evening appearance at a women's conference of the League of United Latin American Citizens, the oldest Latino civil rights organization in the U.S.

As a heavily female crowd of about 50 people sampled hors d'oeuvres and sipped cocktails wine, Castor derided the president as someone who is "using immigrants as a pinata" and ignored their contributions to society. He also jabbed at Trump's "Make America Great Again" slogan, saying, "I won't want to make America anything again. I want to make this country better than it ever has been."

Castro said one of the moments he most looks forward to if he wins the presidency would be when he'd watch Trump leave the White House for the last time.

"Right before he walks off, just as he's about to leave," Castro said, "I'm going to tell him: 'Adios.'"


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BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Federal regulators have given final environmental approval for a South Texas liquefied natural gas and export terminal in a migratory corridor for rare animals.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Friday issued its report on the proposed Texas LNG terminal at the Port of Brownsville.

Critics raised concerns about habitat of the endangered ocelot, jaguarundi and aplomado falcon. The terminal would be on about 625 acres (252.934 hectares) near the Laguna Atascosa (at-uh-SKOH'-suh) National Wildlife Refuge.

FERC says construction and operation would have adverse environmental impacts, but those could be mitigated through planning, design, engineering and training. Recommendations include using electric motors to reduce noise and emissions, installing barriers to control erosion, planting native vegetation and limiting construction during breeding periods.

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A single very rare Klangfilm Duophon open baffle speaker system model KIL445 .

There were very few of these made back in the 1950's

This baffle comes with KIL205 8" full ranges and a single KIL406 15" bass driver.

 This baffle is original. I have repaired and restored it in a few places.A few of the Louvre were changed. I have replaced them with European Birch wood.

There was a bit of damage to the bottom of the baffle. I have repaired it.

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This is a very efficient OB system. The drivers blend very well. This is a great open baffle setup. This can be considered the grandfather of all open baffles. Many modern day designs have been copied from this speaker system.

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They wanted something similar for their 20th anniversary, and they worked with IWC to create the model you see here. Recognizing the trend of vintage-inspired watches as well as the popularity of IWC’s Pilot’s Replica watches in Australia, they decided to combine the two to create the Watches of Switzerland 20th Anniversary IWC Pilots Chronograph watch. […]

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The Army announced today a June 15 workshop that will convene a wide range of experts to inform a “Ground Combat Vehicle Blue Ribbon Panel,” made up of senior DoD and Army leaders. They will use ideas from the workshop to produce operational concepts and requirements for new vehicles to replace the cancelled FCS vehicles.

“The Army is still in need of a vehicle that can protect soldiers, and cope with 21st century operational requirements,” said Gen. Peter Chiarelli, Army vice chief of staff, in a press release. “The blue ribbon panel will take a fresh look at these requirements including capabilities, technologies and lessons learned from the FCS program.”

A group of “distinguished participants” will be drawn from academia, think tanks, retired and active duty military -- as well as program managers -- to provide input on the future operating environment, platforms, anti-armor threats, research and development, future requirements and network considerations, the Army said. The Army said none of the workshop participants should have direct ties to major Pentagon contractors. The all-day workshop will be held at the National Defense University in Washington; a six-member executive committee will then meet July 15.

The workshop will consider six focus areas for vehicle development, including: the operational environment 2015-2025; platform characteristics 2015-2025; platform threats; commercial off the shelf versus research and development with an intended fielding date of 2017; realistic requirements for tomorrow; and network considerations.

“We will work to include both lessons learned from the current fight and what we’ve learned from technology and build a better vehicle,” said Army Chief Gen. George Casey. “Our goal is to move forward.”

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Some Think Intermittent Fasting Is Bad For Women. Here's Why

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Unless you've been living completely off the grid for the last few years, you've probably heard a thing or two about intermittent fasting. Understandably, many people are wondering if it's really the panacea that everyone seems to think it is. Does intermittent fasting affect men and women the same way? If you have hormone dysfunction, is it still safe?

These are all questions I field every day, and my patients are right to ask these questions, especially when it comes to intermittent fasting and women's health. Women are biologically different from men, especially when it comes to hormone health. It's more common for a woman to get stress-related alternations in hormone health that affect hunger, metabolism, and reproduction—which could potentially interfere with the benefits of intermittent fasting.

Why some women should avoid fasting.

Right off the bat I'll say that no one knows for sure whether intermittent fasting can contribute to hormonal dysfunction. But I, like many doctors, have formed an opinion based on my personal experience, clinical observations, and the research that does exist. My opinion is that intermittent fasting can be done safely for most women—if done carefully and with the guidance of a practitioner.

Here's who should not attempt fasting on their own:

1. Pregnant or breastfeeding women

2. Underweight women with a BMI of 18 or under

3. Women with a history of an eating disorder

4. Anyone with major medical issues like diabetes or hypertension

This doesn't mean that if you fall into one of these categories you can't experiment with IF at all; it just needs to be done under the supervision of a medical doctor.

The truth about IF and hormone balance.

If you don't fall into one of these categories, IF is most likely safe for you to experiment with. That said, you may have heard chatter that IF might be to too stressful for female hormones and that it can exacerbate imbalances. Is this true?

Women are quite sensitive to starvation. For example, when women get under a certain body fat level, they may stop ovulating. If you're putting yourself in starvation mode on a regular basis with IF, could your hormones respond in a similar way? According to a few animal studies, it's a possibility. After two weeks of IF, female rats stopped having menstrual cycles and their ovaries shrunk, and male rats ended up with lower testosterone production. Insomnia was also more common among female rats.

This doesn't mean the same is true in humans, but unfortunately, there haven't been very many studies published looking at the effects of IF on women's hormone health. All we can assume is that there's a chance that fasting will throw off a woman's hormone balance and cause fertility problems.

If you're experimenting with IF and are concerned about hormonal imbalance, here are some signs to look out for:

  • Fatigue
  • Bloating
  • Depressed mood
  • Irregular periods
  • Headaches
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How to protect your hormones if you want to try IF.

In my practice, I don't find that intermittent fasting and hormone imbalance is a huge issue. There are thousands of women fasting with no hormonal issues at all. I tend to notice that this problem happens more for women who are extending their fast beyond 24 hours and fasting very often or women who have very low body fat to begin with.

So what's the bottom line? Unless you're on the list of women who should avoid fasting altogether unless your doctor approves it, it's definitely worth a try. The key is to check into your body when you start fasting. Monitor your energy, your menstrual cycle, and your hunger and cravings to know if you're on the right track. Start with just 12 hours of intermittent fasting two days a week, then increase to 14 or 15.

If you're concerned about hormonal imbalance, it's a great idea to work with a practitioner, like an integrative or functional medicine doctor or naturopathic doctor, that is familiar with fasting protocols and approaching women's hormone health from a holistic perspective.

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MQI terms economic revival as key to national sovereignty

Dr Raheeq Ahmad Abbasi, Secretary General of Minhaj-ul-Quran International, has condemned the NATO shelling on the Pakistani military check post in the strongest possible words and termed it as direct attack on the country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. He said that time had come to revisit terms of engagement with the US and NATO and formulate foreign policy in the light of national interests. He also underscored the need of taking steps for strengthening the internal unity to be able to fight off challenges at the external level.

He expressed these views while addressing a special session of Central Working Council of Minhaj-ul-Quran International, which met here today to review the situation after the NATO’s attack. Brig. (r ) Iqbal Ahmad Khan, Sheikh Zahid Fayyaz, Qazi Faiz-ul-Islam and other leaders were also present on the occasion.

Dr Abbasi said that the Pakistan military was fully capable of defending the territorial integrity and independence of Pakistan. No one, he said, should dare cast an evil eye on the country as people were ready to offer any sacrifice for the national defence.

Dr Abbasi urged steps to be taken to divest the country of its dependence on the foreign economic aid which came with heavy strings attached. The crutches have to be thrown off. He said that without financial sovereignty, the country would not be able to enjoy real freedom. “Only an economically vibrant and strong Pakistan can earn a respectable place in the comity of nations and become a power within the South Asian region,” he stated.


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Bishop Bruce Ough appointed to Minnesota

July 19, 2012

By: Amanda Yanchury

Bishop Bruce Ough will become bishop of the Minnesota Annual Conference and the Dakotas Annual Conference beginning Sept. 1, 2012.

The North Central Jurisdictional Episcopacy Committee announced this and other bishop assignments in the 11-conference jurisdiction on July 19 in Akron, Ohio. They assigned Bishop Ough, who most recently oversaw the West Ohio Annual Conference, to the new Dakotas-Minnesota Episcopal Area. The conferences are not merging.

“Bishop Ough and his wife Charlene will be a great addition to the Minnesota  Annual Conference,” said Judy Zabel, member of the North Central Jurisdiction Episcopacy Committee. “Bishop Ough has a proven track record of exemplary leadership. He has a heart for Jesus Christ, for sharing good news, and addressing issues of poverty. He is mission-minded and will lead by example.”

Bishop Ough was consecrated in 2000. As bishop he has served in the Ohio West Episcopal Area for three terms.

Bishops are assigned for four-year terms. They may be assigned to the same area for a second consecutive term, and in rare cases may be assigned to the same area for three consecutive terms.

General Conference 2008 reduced the number of bishops per United States jurisdiction by one, effective 2012. The North Central College of Bishops determined in 2010 that the Dakotas and Minnesota, while remaining separate conferences, would share a bishop as one episcopal area. The West Michigan and Detroit Conferences currently share a bishop as separate conferences in one episcopal area.

The primary office for the Dakotas-Minnesota Area will be in Minneapolis, for its proximity to the international airport. A transition team of representatives from both conferences have been meeting to plan how the conferences will effectively share a bishop.

Rev. Cindy Gregorson (director of ministries for Minnesota Conference) and Greg Kroger (Bishop's Assistant for Connectional Ministries for the Dakotas Conference) have been working together on the new bishop’s schedule for his first twelve months in the area. Opportunities to welcome the new bishop will be announced.

The bishop assignments for the quadrennium beginning Sept. 1, 2012:

Bishop Sally Dyck: Northern Illinois Episcopal Area

Bishop Michael Coyner: Indiana Episcopal Area

Bishop John Hopkins: Ohio East Episcopal Area

Bishop He-Soo Jung: Wisconsin Episcopal Area

Bishop Jonathan Keaton: Illinois Great Rivers Episcopal Area

Bishop Deborah Kiesey: Michigan/Detroit Episcopal Area

Bishop Bruce Ough: Dakotas/Minnesota Episcopal Area

Bishop Linda Lee: Retirement

Bishop Gregory Palmer: Ohio West Episcopal Area

Bishop Julius Trimble: Iowa Episcopal Area

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Days of deep freeze and dead bugs

Brrrrrrr!Other than killing off a few million ash borers and, you know, repelling the riff-raff, today’s brisk weather isn’t good for much. But it is getting us plenty of attention.

Holly Yan and Steve Almasy at CNN write: “In Embarrass, Minnesota, residents wondered whether they might see their record-cold temperature of 64 below zero, set in 1996, snap like an icicle. ‘I’ve got a thermometer from the weather service that goes to 100 below,’ resident Roland Fowler told CNN affiliate KQDS. ‘If it gets that cold, I don’t want to be here.’ ” Hey, it’s 90 miles to Wisconsin, dude. Enjoy the ride.

A Minnesotan, writing in the Bangkok Post, says: “My home state of Minnesota in the United States is getting a lot of attention today and for good reason. It is cold — just as cold as the planet Mars in some places, they say. … Our homes are heated, so extreme cold is manageable — unless, of course, you are forced to go outside. To prevent that, schools are closed until the temperatures ‘warm’ and many businesses, including grocery stores are closing as well. By Wednesday, things should be back to normal however, when the high for the day could reach a ‘balmy’ -15. And when it reaches zero, it will feel like spring.” Riiiight. And the alternate spelling of St. Cloud is “Yakutsk.”

Back in the realm of reason, Paul Douglas is saying: “-67F. coldest wind chill ever observed in the Twin Cities: January 22, 1936 (new formula). This would have been a wind chill of -87F using the wind chill formula in use before 2001. … It won’t get THAT cold, but an air temperature of -25F coupled with 25 mph winds will make it feel like -50 to -55F early this morning. … One small silver lining: the mercury has to reach -40F or colder to kill off beetle pests in Minnesota’s North Woods. RIP bugs.”

Says Paul Huttner at MPR: “Here’s the excellent and timely response Lee [Frelich, director of the Center for Forest Ecology] sent my way.

Paul: I think the forecast temperatures that we will experience in the next several days will cause a lot of mortality for emerald ash borer in MN. … Winter mortality for emerald ash borer is definitely temperature dependent. The larvae can supercool to a certain point, but they die if they freeze, and there is variability in tolerance among individual insects. … the few insects that do survive the upcoming cold spell might be more resistant to cold than an average insect, and give rise to a new generation of more cold-tolerant insects, although we don’t know much about this type of selection in emerald ash borer.’

Speaking of St. Cloud, Glen Schmitt of the Times says: “During the 2012 deer season, archery, firearms and muzzleloader hunters combined to shoot just shy of 187,000 deer. Predictions heading into the most recent season mostly indicated a harvest that would be about the same or slightly up in 2013. As of Friday morning, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources had yet to release official harvest totals for 2013. But with the archery season wrapping up on Dec. 31, the numbers tabulated to date show that hunters shot 172,250 deer this past season. That’s a 6.5 percent decline from the previous year.” In other words, there’s still plenty left to take out your grille and headlights.

Jim Adams of the Strib has an update on former Mayor R.T. Rybak’s heart attack.  He was sitting in his car when some friends who happened to be skiing in the park, saw him looking distressed and called 911. ‘If he had waited another 15 minutes … the outcome could have been completely opposite,’ Dr. Betty Grey said at a news conference Sunday at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis. … Grey said heart tests on Monday will show the extent of heart muscle damage, but Rybak is expected to fully recover and be discharged by midweek. He will begin a cardiac rehabilitation program.”

On the propane explosion(s) in Rogers Sunday, Pat Pfeifer of the Strib says: “Residents in The Preserve at Commerce, a 192-unit complex at 13600 Commerce Blvd., were knocked off their feet, glass from shattered windows was embedded in opposite walls and people from as far away as a mile said their houses shook … The complex’s 5,000-pound propane tank, buried in the ground, did not explode … The problem occurred in the unit above the propane tank. It converts LP gas into gas that can be used to help heat the huge complex, which has an indoor pool and meeting rooms.”

If you missed it, Mike Meyers’ commentary in the Strib on the importance of getting tough with “invincibles” is a darn good read: “In 2014, the uninsured pay only $95 for failure to sign up for Obamacare, or 1 percent of their income, whichever is greater. The penalties gradually climb to $695, or 2.5 percent of annual pay, in 2016. After that, the maximum penalties rise at the pace of inflation. Here’s where an unofficial tax on the uninsured could increase the young invincibles’ incentive to carry insurance. Why should hale and healthy young people, never mindful of accidents or illnesses that might befall them, worry about medical bills if they escape paying, in part or altogether?” As Meyers says, it’s called “personal responsibility.”

If only we could run industry on politicians’ b.s. … Mark Steil of MPR reports: “On the far side of the state’s newest renewable power plant lies the heart of a nearly $45 million operation designed to produce an abundant supply of energy. Past a maze of storage tanks, ductwork and pipes in the new plant are two huge digester tanks, each of which holds about 1.6 million gallons of vegetable waste and cow manure. When the slurry of corn silage and manure is broken down by tiny organisms called methanogens and fermented, it creates methane gas to fuel four electricity generators that will send eight megawatts directly to the city of Le Sueur’s distribution system.” I mean a week of Capitol Hill alone could power all of Hennepin and Ramsey counties.

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  1. Submitted by Pat Berg on 01/06/2014 - 08:43 am.

    This morning

    My first thought upon waking this morning was “Cue the climate change deniers!”

    3 . . . . 2 . . . . 1 . . . . . .

    (Oh by the way, love the kitty cat graphic!)

  2. Submitted by jody rooney on 01/06/2014 - 08:45 am.

    Perhaps the “invincibles” need to see a

    list of what common repairs cost.

    I believe my broken wrist was about $9,000 to repair.

    Or perhaps it is still not to late for the tough love speech from parent to child. “If you become really ill I will not let you die for lack of treatment but I would prefer not to be bankrupt.”

  3. Submitted by Jeff Michaels on 01/06/2014 - 08:49 am.

    Global Warming?

    I am looking forward to when Mr. Douglas provides his perspective on how dangerous our cold weather would be if we did not have global warming (oops) climate change going for us.

    • Submitted by Joel Fischer on 01/06/2014 - 09:43 am.

      The thing is…

      Without the global warming, which is causing climate change, we might not even be having this particular cold snap.

      If you don’t know why, then you probably shouldn’t be discussing global warming and climate change.

  4. Submitted by Karen Sandness on 01/06/2014 - 10:16 am.

    Yes, things are happening exactly as the climate change models

    predicted: some places hotter, some places colder, stronger storms of all types.

    Those of us who grew up in Minnesota and are above a certain age remember when -20°F temperatures were common enough that no one ever dreamed of closing school. There were years when daytime highs stayed below zero for weeks at a time. This was true at least through the early 1980s, when I left Minnesota for Oregon.

    I moved back in 2003, dreading the prospect of the Minnesota winters that I remembered, but none of the winters so far, not even this one, have been as frigid or as snowy as the ones I remember from the 1980s and before. With this year’s early subzero temperatures and last year’s late snowstorms, the seasons seem to be out of whack.

    I saw an article today that explained today’s weather as the result of the normal polar air mass splitting and reaching southward. It said that such phenomena may become more common as the Arctic warms.

    • Submitted by Lance Groth on 01/06/2014 - 11:10 am.

      Well stated. Winters over the past 20 years have been nothing at all like the winters I remember from the 60’s & 70’s. I can only conclude that denialists resident in Minnesota are either too young to have such memories, or are recent immigrants to the north. They also focus only on transitory temperatures, conveniently ignoring multiple converging lines of evidence, such as ocean acidification, species migration, ice melt, weakening of the jet stream, etc.

    • Submitted by Pat Berg on 01/06/2014 - 11:20 am.

      “New” windchill v.s. “Old” windchill

      I’ve been somewhat confused by the windchill numbers cited – especially when statements have been made along the lines of “We haven’t seen windchills this low in forty years” (when they were predicting windchills of around -40 to -60). More recently, articles have been a bit more careful to include the qualifier “new formula” when citing numbers, but I wanted to know what the “conversion” was – especially when I remember darn well one chilly winter night when I was in college and they were warning us to stay in the dorms due to windchills approaching 80 below (I believe actual temperature was something like -25) and I KNOW that wasn’t more than 40 years ago!

      So I found this:

      So it looks like my recollection of -80 windchills would be closer to -60 by the “new calculation”. It helps me a little with how to calibrate all the current reporting against my memories and experience.

    • Submitted by Joel Fischer on 01/06/2014 - 11:57 am.

      and the biggest change we’ve been seeing is in the low temps. If I were to hazard a guess, I’d say that this winter…actually most of the past 12 months or so…will show up as an anomaly as we go forward. Nighttime temps have been progressively getting warmer in the last 15-20 years.

      The Southern Hemisphere is seeing a VERY warm summer. The area currently beneath the polar vortex is about the only place on the globe experiencing below normal temps right now.

      It may be brutal out there today, but I actually find it rather refreshing to get a taste of the climate that used to be normal for Minnesota, if only for a short while. Hopefully, the pine beetle and Emerald Ash Borer populations will be negatively affected…and the moose population positively affected…by this somewhat normal winter so far.

  5. Submitted by Jeff Michaels on 01/06/2014 - 11:50 am.

    What about Antarctica?

    I also read the article describing how global warming “may” be responsible for our cold because the Arctic is rapidly warming and pushing very cold weather south as the result of a trapped jet stream. Creative writing “may” be a strong point for those on the left side of the political spectrum

    It is unfortunate Antarctica is not heating as well. Then that unique mixture of scientists and tourists, who were on a very mysterious South Pole mission that establishment news media stories failed to describe, would not have been stranded for days by heavy ice.

    • Submitted by Joel Fischer on 01/06/2014 - 01:17 pm.

      How do you know Antarctica isn’t warming?

      It’s an honest question. If there is credible, peer-reviewed research showing that Antarctica is not being affected, I’d love to read it.

      The Arctic is clearly and obviously being affected, which makes sense considering it is mostly ocean. Antarctica is very different. It is a mass of rock and ice surrounded by un-disrupted ocean currents which circle it keeping the warmer waters from reaching the landmass.

    • Submitted by Lance Groth on 01/06/2014 - 02:16 pm.

      It’s not, huh?

      Antarctica is not heating? Allow me to point you in the right direction for further research.

      I don’t know what MinnPost’s policy is about posting url’s, so kindly use Google to search for the following:

      “Arctic melt versus Antarctic freeze: Is Antarctica warming or not?” – National Snow & Ice Data Center

      “Antarctic Peninsula: rapid warming” – British Antarctic Survey

      “Five basic Antarctic facts for climate change sceptics” – The Guardian

      “Global warming expands Antarctic sea ice” – Nature

      “” – Open Source Systems, Science, Solutions

      And, as a primer: “Global Warming Facts, An Overview” – Cool Antarctica

      Please note that none of these sources are Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, Breitbart, or Fox News; i.e., these are serious sources who base their conclusions on actual data.

    • Submitted by Logan Foreman on 01/06/2014 - 03:57 pm.

      As my father used to say

      Ignorance is bliss

  6. Submitted by Greg Kapphahn on 01/06/2014 - 12:50 pm.

    The Primary Climate Change that I’ve Noticed

    Is the persistence of patterns. The jet stream, rather than shifting from a primarily east to west pattern with the bottom of it’s curve at some point in the country, the top of it’s curves running over central Canada and the entire pattern moving West to East while also tending to move low and high pressure systems from East to West,..

    now, seems not to move. It gets stuck for days, even weeks at time where it shoots far into northern Canada, even the Arctic, then swoops far to the south, and stays in a relatively stationary position for long periods of time.

    Here in the US these persistent jet streams patterns have left those of us caught on the North side of the jet stream staying chilly and wet and those on either it’s West or East side staying hot and dry – for weeks at a time.

    As we saw last summer with the first half being cooler and much wetter and the second half being reasonably warm but much, much drier than normal, the persistence of weather for days and even weeks at a time is a definite change from the weather I remember in earlier years, which, although it might have tended to be warmer or cooler than normal in any given season, it still tended to change every few days and almost never stayed consistent for a month.

  7. Submitted by Jackson Cage on 01/06/2014 - 03:11 pm.

    C’mon Joel and Lance..

    ..Ole’ Jeff’s got his political agenda and he’ll be darned if he’s gonna let science and cipherin’ and reasonin’ stand in the way!

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In the web development world, Flash doesn't get much love these days.

I asked our developer Sam about this, as I like to do on topics that I don't know that much about. I said, "Sam, tell me the latest word on Flash?" and he said "It needs to be dead."

So what happened? What's so bad about Flash?

1. Requires a Flash Player

Want a video or animation on your website? From 1996 up until about 2010, you probably would've looked no further than Adobe Flash. When Adobe released their multimedia platform Flash in 1996, it was revolutionary and changed the way websites looked and worked. Users had to make sure their Flash player was downloaded and updated and voila, animations and videos! It was really cool.

Now, most people don't bother making sure they have the latest Flash player updated and installed on their computers. In fact, users are encouraged to block sites that use Flash because of security issues.

2. Security issues

Flash has a long history of security flaws, malware, and bugs.

The site CVE Details reports that 63 total flash vulnerabilities were found in 2011. The most common Flash security vulnerability being executable code, denial-of-service, overflow, and cross-site scripting. These issues have resulted in many security experts advising against installing Flash or suggesting that internet users employ tools to block Flash. The site gives additional Adobe Flash Player details and documents CVE security vulnerabilities, versions and detailed reports.

3. Doesn’t work on Apple mobile devices

Apple led the movement away from Flash dependency back when they released the iPhone and later the iPad. Flash is terrible for mobile devices because it drains battery and eats memory, and of course because of the many bugs. Because of this, Steve Jobs announced his mobile products would not support Flash. Jobs comments here about Flash in 2010 he says "Flash was created during the PC era – for PCs and mice." Of course, Jobs was proven right as Flash is essentially dead in the era of tablets, smartphones and touch screens.

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There are much better solutions now for animation. The new standard is the HTML5 Canvas element.

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Today in the news, a man from Los Angeles, California named Arthur Winston retired at the age of 100.  He worked in the mass transit system since 1934!  I did not even know they had a transit system in 1934.  In his 70 plus years of working, he had only taken one sick day.  I thought this was a nice story, but what really caught my attention was when they asked him what his secret was to staying alive and kicking for so long.

He replied, “I pay CASH for everything” among other things that he listed for his secrets to staying alive and healthy.  I thought this was so interesting that one of the top things that this man listed as something that kept him alive for this long was paying cash for everything that he bought.

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For those of you personal financial experts that are still convinced that debt is a tool, I pose one question to you:  would you rather live till your a 100 years old, or would you rather own a credit card that charges 5% interest and you invest it at 5.5% interest into a CD to make a whopping .5% interest on it.  I read about this crap all the time on the internet.  People are always talking about ways to beat the credit system.  The funny thing is that I never hear stories about people actually beating the system.  What I usually hear is people around my workplace joking about their horrible credit or their unbearable debt load.

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Going out in your wellies in the rain and digging someone else’s hedges is so last year – especially if you’ve been doing environmentalist stuff for a while and are a bit wary of paying for the privilege of working all weekend. So about an environmental weekend where you get to hang out with big happy brown pigs and work without PAYING for it, courtesy of TribeWanted?

Is the choice really just wellies, tea, and digestives with Nigel, the slightly odd bloke from accounts, or endless hours getting a bit bored actually in the Jacuzzi of a 5 star hotel “somewhere in the Norfolk Broads”?

There is a new breed of mini break available, which combines environmental idealism, inspirational ethos sharing, and sexy young things. All this, without having to actually PAY to WORK, a concept that I, like many ex volunteers, have already learned the hard way. as seen in the BBC series “Paradise or Bust” is based in Fiji, but is running new mini breaks nearer to home. I headed down to a camping based weekend in Cornwall to investigate, (and not work, and drink cider).

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Later I turn in for an early night with the chatter from the fire drifting across in the background.

Of course camping does have its downsides. It’s freezing, and somehow the balmy sunshine has been replaced by torrential rain!

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On Saturday I wake up feeling like the Michelin man, due to the fact that I am now wearing every single layer of clothing I have brought with me. After a steaming shower aided by a full campfire breakfast I defrost. Then it’s off to our first stop of the day, New House Farm (from the BBC’s “It’s Not Easy Being Green” series).

After a workshop on green living, we tour the farm to see a whole range of green technology in action.

The farm sports a water wheel, which powers the buildings lighting. It also boasts a wind turbine, a small scale plant for biodiesel made from local waste, and a compost toilet.

The garden is producing almost all the fruit and vegetables used on the farm. They also have a delightful array of oinking, quacking, scratching free-range animals, contentedly roaming around. These include rescued battery hens, ducks, geese, and two very lovely big brown pigs.

The pigs are known only as ‘the girls’. A sensible decision has been made on the farm not to name anything that will eventually be eaten. Sad for the girls, but no one seems to have told them the reason for their anonymity, as right now they are two very visibly happy pigs indeed.

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After lunch we depart for the giant gleaming biodomes of the Eden Project. It’s like Disneyland, but for plants.

Eden has recently given birth to the Biodegradable foam filled surf board, and surfers being the right-on dudes that they are I’m sure they’ll embrace this. I’m told it’s not water soluble.

As we finish our tour I am starting to feel all educated-out. It’s a good job we have a very basic pastime planned for the evening – the pub.

We are minibused to the local watering hole and an intercountry pool championship ensues. We have possibly the most raucous game of the “Who wants to be a millionaire” pub video game ever. Shrieks of “we’ve won! We’ve won!” greet our £1 sweepstake. Eventually we are all driven back to the camp site and gradually fall into our tents.

The next day Clemmy, her mum Elaine, and I walk across the beautiful cliff tops past wheat fields, wild grass and flowers. The sun changes its mind and we wander happily while we swap names and recipes for wild plants.

But, alas, it is time to go and I jump back on the train to the Big Smoke. The countryside flashes past and my mind speeds just as quickly, full of inspiration and ideas. Green ideals are not just for old hippies, and more and more people are using their leisure time as an opportunity to incorporate these ideals into their lives.

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