Next, we have Member Statements, the Member for Kitchener Centre. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Dear Government, it's time to do better. This week we learned that you've cut even more services, and at first I was pretty angry, but then I took a moment, I took a breath, and realized Ontario's glass is half full. You see, you cut Indigenous programming, funds to friendship centres and breakfast clubs, not to mention cancelling the Indigenous curriculum writing sessions when we were supposed to be working towards reconciliation with First Peoples. But my girls' government group, 21 grade 8 girls from Margaret Avenue Public School, decided that the most serious issue to lobby about at Queens Park next year is violence against Indigenous women. You rolled back employee sick days and cut benefits for folks in Ontario, but Greg Mercer, a brilliantly dedicated journalist to local stories in the Waterloo record, made sure that we didn't forget the experiences of workers in my writing who contracted serious illnesses after dedicating their lives to the rubber industry. And because of their advocacy, WSIB is opening up 300 cases that were denied. And you tried to scare folks across Ontario by challenging unionized workers with back-to-work legislation before the bargaining even began. But high school students at St. Mary's Catholic School reminded me that leading by fear is not good leadership. And I met Team Canada on Sunday. These are people that are on their way to Jamaica to compete at the International Congress of Martial Arts. And they use martial arts to channel the energies of our ancestors in a really powerful way. They are going to use their power for good. So there you go again, trying to drag us backwards. And there we are, cups half full. Members, statements to member for Niagara West. Thank you, Speaker. Every year, tourists from across the globe come to Niagara to visit the amazing glowing light displays that make up the Ontario Power Generation's Winter Festival of Lights in Niagara Falls. The signature eight-kilometer-long route travels through the beautiful landscapes of the Niagara Park, Stephan Islands, and surrounding tourist districts to transform the city into a winter wonderland. The light dimensions include the iconic Zimmerman fountain, 15-three-dimensional Canadian wildlife displays, the world's largest Canadian-American flag, Noah's Ark, the lights at the top of Niagara's iconic skyline tower, over 50 trees in Dufferin Islands wrapped with lights, and the Toronto Power Generating Station's light show. As a treasured holiday tradition for people from around the world, the Winter Festival of Lights is attended by over one million visitors each season. It's so disappointing to see that the NDP want the lights to go out. Speaker, the last thing we want for those coming from far and near is to see the lights, is to disappoint them with a blockout. That is one of the many reasons why we have resumed the legislature, to make sure the Power Workers Union does not strike and leave those celebrating this Christmas season without any light. While we respect the collective bargaining process, the uninterrupted supply of power to Ontarians must be protected. People across Ontario do not deserve to have their winter warmth, safety and leisure interrupted by a strike. With that, I encourage all members in this House to work collaboratively to get this back to work legislation passed, which will guarantee that our province does not face a serious and damaging loss of power. Thank you. Member Stainless, the member for Ottawa Centre. Thank you, Speaker. I'm proud to rise today. Unfortunately, on a sad note, we have a housing crisis in Ottawa, as I know many cities and towns in this province do. While I'm looking forward to getting home and spending some time with my loved ones, and I know my colleagues and other parties are, I have to reckon with the reality in the city where I live, many families don't have a home to go home to. What we know from the research is that from 2014 to 2017, chronically homeless families in my city of Ottawa jumped by 143%. What that means right now, Speaker, is that there are 230 families right now in the city of Ottawa sleeping in motels and makeshift hotels because there is nowhere in the existing shelter system to house them. Since we opened our constituency office, Speaker, we are aware of people sleeping in cars, people sleeping in bus terminals, people sleeping outside rough. And this can't happen in a province and in a city with so much wealth, Speaker. I want to just draw our attention, particularly colleagues of mine that, like me, were raised with Christian values. That we have to make sure that the society that we have and the resources we have in abundance are shared equally.  They're essential to our nation's story, and they ought not to be scapegoated. We have to find the resources, and I'm confident that the mayor of our city, Jim Watson, is going to be making appeals to this government to deal with our housing crisis, and I want it dealt with now. Thank you, Speaker. Member Statements, the member for Stormont Dundas, South Glen Gary. Thank you, Speaker. Just over 20 years ago on January 1, 1998, the United Counties of Stormont Dundas in South Glen Gary were officially reorganized from 22 Miss Pallies down to six. As a member of the township's first council, I can tell you it was initiation by fire. As we considered cancelling the inauguration meeting on January the 5th due to freezing rain that was starting to accumulate, the next day rain continued. Power in our area became intermittent, and finally that night the power went off for good, and would take more than a month to fully restore. The next morning schools were canceled, and as I went to work for Bel-Canada, I realized the extent of the problem, as most of Hydro-1 power lines lay on the road. It was a disaster. By the end of the day, our switching centers started to shut down as batteries ran out of power. Cell sites became overwhelmed, and most communities, communications went dead. Our newly formed township council declared a state of emergency. Our volunteer fire department set up emergency shelters for most homes when we're without heat. People were forced to sleep on floors and shelters, and food was collected so the residents could be fed. Homes flooded when some homes stopped working. Some people even tried bailing water from some to deliberately limit the damage. Farmers shared generators to milk cows and water their animals. Volunteers organized limited number of generators to heat their shelters, feed and water animals, and to power gas stations so they could pump gasoline and diesel for cars, trucks, and generators. The SC and G Highlanders were called out. It turned out to be the most expensive disaster in Ontario's history, taking years to complete the cleaning up and repair of the billions of dollars of damage. Speaker Summon, who lived through these days and saw the hardship, disruption, and damage, I'm appalled that the NDP is actively trying to push Ontarians into another January power disaster. Thank you. Member Statements, member for Brampton Center. Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. As we head into the holidays, I really hope that I could be standing here to deliver a message of hope and positivity. After all, that's what this time of year should be about. But instead I stand here and reflect on the past week in utter shock and disgust at the cuts coming from the Premier's office. Reconciliation, special education, women's help, and the arts have all taken devastating hits. And by making these calculated cuts, the Premier is telling the people of Ontario very clearly they are not a priority for this government. Speaker, this government ruthlessly slashes away essential services for the sake of their bottom line without giving a second thought to how these impacts will be felt in our communities. A wise man once said that we should judge our society based on how we take care of our most vulnerable. I ask you all to really consider this holiday season how we are doing as a province. This holiday season, I have a Christmas wish, and I wish that we could finally get a government that will be accountable and transparent. I think the people in this province deserve to make sure that we live in a province where less people are forced to use food banks, where children can access vital community programs, and where children with special needs can get the supports they need to be included in our classrooms. And I really wish this holiday season that we finally get a government that is going to put the people of Ontario at the heart of the decisions that it makes. Thank you very much. Member Statements, the member for Orléans. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Today I'd like to say thank you to our community of Orléans. Over the past week, there were two great events that truly highlighted the general... I have to interrupt the member. The member needs to seek the unanimous consent of the House in order to give her statement. Mr. Speaker, I'm seeking unanimous consent on behalf of the member from Don Valley West to share my statement today. Member for Orléans is seeking the unanimous consent of the House to present a statement to the House now on behalf of the member for Don Valley West. Agreed? Agreed. Again, resume. I'm very sorry, Mr. Speaker. Mr. President, Mr. Speaker, proud to rise today to say thank you to our community of Orléans. Over the past week, there were two great events that truly highlighted the generosity of our community. On Friday, I had a wonderful time hosting our third annual movie night, which brought together over 600 people, artwarming to see generations of families spending rare quality time together to enjoy a free movie and popcorn. They also brought along with them a great number of toys for donations in support of our Orléans Cumberland Community Center toy drive. Merci à tous ceux qui ont participé. Thank you to all of you who participated at the Sinistar's movie theater. And Mr. and Mrs. Claus, who were a hit with the kids. The other event that I want to share with this House is, again, through very generous donation, Mr. Speaker, we were able to raise $1,000 to present to the Ottawa Warrery Home Foundation through an empty bottle drive at a local beer store. This organization first opened their respite home for disabled children and adults in 1982, and have been a great help to families and needs ever since. So, as we are celebrating this holiday, I want to wish everyone in Orléans, joyeuses, joyeuses, but Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and Happy New Year. Merci. Member Statements. The Member for Burlington. Speaker, in the beautiful city of Burlington, we have one of the most impressive Christmas light displays anywhere in the province of Ontario. It illuminates the neighborhood around Spruce Avenue. I am truly happy to see that the Mousson family is continuing this delightful holiday tradition started decades ago by their late father, Doug Mousson, a highly creative and talented gentleman. His work at Christmas time and his vision of bringing joy to the neighborhood with thousands of twinkling lights and fabulous creatures will continue to shine brightly thanks to the dedication of Doug's family. Doug Mousson was quite simply famous in Burlington. He died tragically last year in the week before Christmas after falling off a ladder. After Doug's death, the Mousson family said, and I quote, it started with a few strings outlining the house, next a few wired from reindeer's were added. When we noticed that people would stop and look at the lights, we realized that we weren't the only ones who enjoyed Christmas lights. They gave us the spark to get things really going, speaker. End of quote. From those humble beginnings came the realization that the magic of the tradition was contagious. The Christmas lights projects grew larger, brighter, and more spectacular every year. Doug started building custom decorations and welding them together. Year by year, more figures were added. Then in 1997, Doug started to animate some of the figures with a light controller used by DJs. Now the display includes the magic of dragon wagons, its tail soldier saluting at attention. I have no doubt that labor of love required to rebuild their father's magnificent display this year without Doug was bittersweet for their family. But I know I speak for many people in Burlington, young and old, when I say a heartfelt thank you to the Mousson family for keeping this wonderful tradition of family legacy alive for one more year. Thank you, speaker. Thank you. Member statements, the member of St. Catherine's. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Today, the community, the city of St. Catherine's and the whole Niagara region are mourning another loss of life. Over six days in October, our community lost two lives from jumping at the ongoing bridge in St. Catherine's. This is a crisis in our community right now. This government needs to step up. This government needs to install preventative barriers on the ongoing bridge in St. Catherine's today to save lives. St. Catherine's needs an expanded, dedicated mental health facility that runs 24-7. We need a facility that is there for the people for all hours of the day, Mr. Speaker. This stigma needs to be combated so that no one is left feeling stuck without hope. A study that was conducted by the Sunnybrook Hospital proved that netting reduced deaths on the Bloor Street viaduct from nine deaths per year to 0.1 deaths. Deaths by jumping declined city-wide over the long term after barriers were installed.  This is not a question of either or. Mayor Scensic and the city of St. Catherine's support the needs for barriers on this bridge. The Niagara region have already begun consulting a timeline. The province now must, must step in and fund the cost of a two to five million dollars for these barriers so that no more lives are lost. I reached out on behalf of the city of St. Catherine's in the community to the previous minister of transportation in October, to resolve the needs for barriers on the ongoing bridge to prevent future tragedies and to no avail. The commitment for this funding is needed and it needs to take place today. Thank you. Member Statements, the member for Kitchener, Conestoga. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'm here with my progressive conservative colleagues to make sure that 6,000 power workers, union employees do not strike and that people across Ontario have a stable power supply over the holidays and into the winter months. This strike could easily cancel upcoming sporting and cultural events that will be enjoyed by families and boost the local economy in my riding of Kitchener, Conestoga. On December 27th, I will be speaking on behalf of the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport at the 2018 University Challenge Cups Opening Ceremonies, a ringget competition that will draw 13 university teams from across the country. You might not know this, Mr. Speaker, but ringget is a fairly young Canadian sport being invented in my hometown of North Bay in 1963 by then Parks and Rec Director Sam Jax. Hosted by Wilford Laurier University, a total of 60 games will be played in Woolwich Township from December 27th to the 30th. These games will take place at the Woolwich Memorial Center and will be open to the public and entirely free to attend. What a great family event, Mr. Speaker. I must add to that in January, these areas will be hosting the 2019 Ontario Provincial Curling Championships. Again, these events and countless others across the province would not be possible if the NDP had their way in supporting a strike that would affect almost 50% of the power generated in Ontario. It is my hope that the NDP caucus will join us in passing this legislation quickly to avert this strike. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Member Statements, the member from Mississauga Center. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It's great to see my colleagues back in the house this week. This illustrates our government's commitment to the people of Ontario and that their needs and well-being come first. Keeping the Christmas trees lit and stoves on as we approach the holidays is a priority for our government. Mr. Speaker, I was thrilled to participate in the shoebox project spearheaded by the Attorney General and the Minister responsible for women's affairs in which my office collected items such as shampoo, toothpaste and small luxuries to fill shoeboxes which were subsequently donated to women's shelters in the region of Peel. I would like to thank all of my constituents who donated items with which we were able to fill 15 individual boxes. We also collected female hygiene products which will be donated to HOPE 24-7, Peel's Sexual Assault Center. HOPE 24-7 offers victims of sexual violence, clinical and non-clinical services, and I commend their CEO, Laura Zilni, and their entire team for the incredible work they do for the many survivors who often suffer in silence. The services that women's shelters and organizations such as HOPE 24-7 provide are crucial and often life-saving. These institutions, like so many in Ontario, depend on a reliable source of power. Mr. Speaker, can you imagine if the lights and heat were shut off even for a day? How many survivors would be impacted? Well, that's a number that at least on this side of the house, we are not willing to sit idly by to find out. That is why I am proud that our government and our Premier has taken swift and decisive action to ensure that women experiencing hardships this holiday season will have somewhere safe and warm to go to in their time of need. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Merry Christmas, happy holidays. The member for Mrs. Saga-Malton on a point of order. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'd like to take the opportunity to introduce my good friend, Victor Suarez, and Gada Malik to Queensborough. Gada is the official federal candidate from Streetsville. Welcome, Gada. Do you have a point of order? Do you have a point of order? Okay, member for Mrs. Saga-Iran Mills on a point of order. Point of order, Mr. Speaker. I just would like to take the privilege to introduce Mrs. Kamini Singh, who is now Mrs. Commonwealth, Euro-Atlantic from Canada. I also like to introduce Mr. Aspialia and Gada Hamadani, President at Queensborough. Welcome to Queensborough. We welcome your guests to the legislature, but I need to remind the members that we don't permit members to read from their devices. Reports by committees.


This is Witchspace News for Friday the 17th of February 2023, I'm CMDR Buur. In Elite Dangerous News this week, human settlements in the witch head sector are being evacuated after Thargoid attack and an engineer goes missing. There's new hints at technology to keep us safer for longer in the maelstroms and Eftev wants your feedback on the war so far. If you like our videos be sure to subscribe and click that little bell to be certain you see all our Elite Dangerous content and community posts here on YouTube and if you want to directly support our work at the Burpit you'll find links to our Patreon and everything else below. Frontier took to the official forums again this week to gather further focused feedback from the player base on the current ongoing Thargoid war. In the post Senior Community manager Bruce Guerrido asks specifically if commanders were enjoying the Thargoid war were they motivated to engage in the war's associated gameplay are they optimistic or pessimistic about our chances of a win and overall what does everyone think of the direction of the narrative. This kind of focused feedback request is a recurring theme from Frontier with all things Elite Dangerous and it has seemingly yielded direct results. Two most recent examples being the new enhanced Xeno scanner and experimental weapons stabilizer very much responding to some immediate gripes surrounding Xeno combat in the Thargoid war. If you haven't yet given your thoughts on what is without a doubt the current poster child of narrative and events within Elite Dangerous good or bad you'll find a link in the video description to take you to this latest feedback thread specifically. To almost no one's great surprise it was announced on Galnet earlier this week that Aegis the former marginalised and largely berated Xenological Research and Defence Agency was being reformed and reactivated in a new and improved streamlined version of its former self. In reforging Aegis the galaxy is also taking the opportunity to embed a figurehead representative from each of the major superpowers and larger factions to oversee their respective contributions. From the Alliance, Empire and Federation come Deputy Prime Minister Angela Corcoran, Princess Ashling Duval and Congressman Tom Gillespie respectively. Independent specialists are also being invited to the party such as Professor Ishmael Palin, Citizen Ram Tarr and former key figure within Aegis Aydantana. As I mentioned at the top of this piece the fact that Aegis is now reformed following the disastrous events surrounding salvation's rise to prominence and the Proteus wave eruption in HIP 22460 isn't really a huge surprise as it has been hinted at a number of times on Galnet over the last few weeks. What was most intriguing about this piece as is often the case with Galnet is the paragraph right at the very end. In the closing lines of the article it's revealed that the first research project to slide across the desk of Aegis is a proposal by the Colonia region engineer Petra Ulmanova who apparently has a preliminary design for a method of extending the amount of time a ship can last in the highly caustic and corrosive environment of the Thargoid Maelstroms. Anywhere other than the outer edges of a Thargoid Maelstrom are extremely corrosive and as such it severely limits the amount of time a ship can spend in there. That coupled with the patrolling interceptors and caustic mines make it extremely challenging to snoop around or gather any of the new materials in the defensive clouds. Whilst we're still a long way yet from being able to resist or negate the pulse that emanates from the very centre of the clouds the ability to spend longer in that environment will undoubtedly make learning more about them easier and it has to bring us one step closer to finally piercing the veil and seeing just what is at the centre of our eight newest somewhat murdery neighbours gardens. As the weekly Thargsday tick rolled around yesterday the now familiar ebb and flow of the Thargoid War passed across the face of the bubble once again. As is always the case these days some formally largely peaceful human occupied systems either suffered a new Thargoid attack succumbed completely to the Thargoid advance or looked on nervously at their interstellar neighbours as the flaming front line grows ever nearer. There was a slightly odd but possibly significant wrinkle to that ebb and flow yesterday when a news piece arrived on Galnet stating that populated systems in the witch head sector had now been overrun with Thargoids. This is the kind of news story that we've seen before from the more distant bubble outposts what makes this one more unusual are the changes that were immediately readily apparent on the galaxy map and the actual consequences surrounding the invasion over and above just some non-human signal sources appearing in supercruise. In the galaxy and affected system maps you will now see the new Thargoid War iconography that indicates invaded systems and burning starports etc. Major starports and surface installations appear to have been directly targeted and are now either in the process of being evacuated or as is the case with Cinder Doc in Shenvi being completely abandoned. Cinder Doc you may remember was the home of the somewhat maligned and largely unappreciated Khloe Sadeesi. That entire large scale planetary post is now completely abandoned shrouded in green fog and covered in fresh Thargoid Goop. The whereabouts of Khloe Sadeesi who transmitted a garbled emergency message shortly before the port went dark is currently at least unknown. The limited digging around I've been able to do in the nebula since the update yesterday would seem to indicate that only major installations and starports are currently affected. The smaller surface ports and outposts that I've checked were all intact. There are at least two mega ships in the region and they have been attacked and just like Cinder Doc are foggy and goopy. Interestingly however they are landable still and are under emergency evacuation protocols where your ship is immediately taken below deck and there are now like the burning stations emergency evacuation missions available from there. If you decide to participate be aware however that there is not a conveniently parked rescue ship anywhere in the witchhead sector. If you're running evacuations you're coming all the way back to the bubble to drop off your escape pods some 930 light years. If you are operating in the region also be aware that there is no prison ship nearby. Anything that results in your incarceration will see you transported some significant distance from where you started. As best we can determine at this point the Thargoid actions in the witchhead nebula are not part of the system being used by Frontier to invade the bubble. There are no progress bars to be moved by player actions etc and whilst moving around the area I was hyperdicted a number of times not one of those hyperdictions resulted in immediately aggressive Thargoids they were all of the stop and search variety that we'd become used to before the maelstroms arrived. If I had to guess I'd say that what we're seeing in that region is hand placed and part of some larger plot movement that we are as yet at least unaware of rather than a further expansion of the larger war. Whatever the case we will of course keep an eye on it all and if that changes we'll let you know here. Can Aegis do any better second time around? Are you keen to push deeper into the Thargoid maelstroms and do you think humanity can be expelled from the witchhead sector entirely? Let us know in the comments below. That's it for now. Thanks very much for watching we'll be back later this week with more videos until then 07 commanders follow the greens on the way out and do keep clear of the toast rack. We very much look forward to seeing you next time.


Hello, everybody! Welcome. Welcome to what Chelsea eats. Although we're not talking about food, that is the general gist of what all of my topics end up being about is what are we feeding ourselves. And that can be from what we're actually putting in our physical mouth, what we're putting in our ears, what we are letting our eyes see, are we feeding on God's word. And those things matter. So today though, that's not the point of this video. We're going to be talking about dealing with constipation along with having fibroids or any kind of womb issue. And I'm going to give you some tips and solutions on what you can do to alleviate this problem with constipation. I get lots of people asking me, I get emails, lots of people asking me about constipation because of the position of the fibroids or that they feel bloated and they don't really release what's in their digestive tract. And I'm going to talk about this in a little bit more detail today to give you some ideas as to what you can do to help yourself on this journey. But if you're new here, welcome.  My name is Chelsea Knudsen and I am a Fibroid Healing and Life Transformation Coach. I help Christian women heal womb issues, emotional traumas using food, herbs, God's word and prayer as medicine.  Let me know where you're coming in, where you're watching from. I would love to hear about that. Do you struggle with any type of constipation issue or digestive issue? I would like to know that in the chat. Be sure to type your questions in the chat as I do the presentation and then at the end of my presentation, I'll be happy to answer questions. Also, if you haven't already, type in what type of reproductive issue or womb issue you are dealing with. And I know that my channel is all that I talk about fibroids often. I mean, most of the things that I talk about is fibroids because that is most of my audience, but I help people with any kind of womb issue. The other thing that I want to say about that is I have struggled with just about any type of womb issue you can name. I've had fibroids, ovarian cysts, PCOS. I had the large cysts on my ovary, on my right ovary. I have had heavy bleeding. I've had anemia. I've had all the symptoms of polycystic ovarian syndrome. I've had it also. And I may have even had a little bit of endometriosis too because there was a time period where I had like this pain that I would get. It was random. It wasn't like ovary pain. I know the difference between ovarian, like ovulation pain. And I think this was endometriosis, although I was never technically diagnosed. But there was a spot on my left-hand side of my womb area that would... It was small. It was like about this big and round and maybe the size of two to three inches of my abdomen. And it was just one spot, but it would feel like it was on fire when it would flare up and it would be so bad. And I said to myself, if this is what people feel all over their abdomen, as far as endometriosis pain, I have no idea how they survived it because I was barely able to handle it with just that little bit of pain. So I just wanted to share with you, just because you always hear me say, vibrates, vibrates, vibrates, and then I'm a vibrate healing coach, I help women heal all kinds of reproductive issues. So if you have been hesitant to reach out to me because of that, please don't hesitate because I do have experience with every reproductive issue that I haven't heard of one that I haven't had experience with. So not necessarily personally, but I have helped women with it because really they all have the same root cause from a physical perspective. There might be some things spiritually that are different, but slightly, but physically definitely the same root. Also, I've opened the doors to my group coaching program. It's called the Fibrate Detox Collective. If you want more information about that, there's information down in the description box and you can email me with questions if you have them. But anyway, let me get into the topic. We're going to talk about constipation and fibroids and I'm going to give you some tips and solutions. Don't forget to chat in if you have issues with constipation or digestive issues, and I will be sure to answer your questions if you have any questions about them if I haven't answered them during this presentation. But let me go ahead and get into the information. Constipation can be very brutal and it is one of the things that I believe leads to sickness and disease the fastest when you are constipated because it is old, putrified waste that is just sitting in your body with no place to go.  Now there is an old expression that the old holistic health people that they would call themselves natural hygienists back in the day. They would say death begins in the colon and you hear even modern day people talk about death begins in the colon but that's really what happens to people when they are constipated. So let me explain what constipation is.   And some of us, well, more and more of us aren't pooping every day. There was a time in my life, well, I'll get into my story in just a second but before I do that I want to also just completely explain to you what constipation is. So you see this, this part of your arm, this part of your arm is supposed to be like 12 inches or whatever. So when you poop, that's how much poop you're supposed to let out of your body depending on how much you eat.  It's got to have time to digest but in time over the 24 hour period, it should be coming out.  If you eat two meals in a day, you should have at least two poops.  But most people, they eat two, three, six meals every day and some people eat, will poop once or twice or none. Where's that poop? It's in a traffic jam in your digestive system is where it is. So it's stuck there and that's called constipation. Now, another form of constipation is when the person has diarrhea. You go to the bathroom and you have diarrhea.  Well, the truth of the matter is your bowel movements are supposed to be solid formed bowel movements. And when you have a watery stool, it means your body is taking water from your body and just trying to hit your digestive tract with hydration to try to push out what's in there. So that's why you have the loose stool. But the actual bulk of the stool is still stuck in there. And lots of people say, I'm not constipated. I will have a poop after I drink my morning coffee. And that's true.  The reason you pooped is because of the coffee. But let me explain to you why coffee makes you poop. Well, the caffeine in the coffee, it is, it stimulates your kidneys. And more importantly, it stimulates your adrenal glands. Your adrenal glands are responsible for your flight or flight mode. Like, are you going to like run away from something or are you going to freeze? So what happens is that caffeine hits those adrenal glands, it turns on the flight or flight mode. And what happens is it will signal your body to dump excess so that it can be ready to run if it needs to run. So that's why, like after that caffeine sits in, you have to go to the bathroom and let out a nice poop. And it does help you poop, but it's artificially stimulated poop. If you have to rely on caffeine and coffee or the coffee to make you poop, then you're constipated. Okay, so there you have it. Also, if you're just joining me, please put your questions in the chat. I will answer them at the end of this. Okay, what does constipation come from? Dehydration is one of those people. People just don't drink. And if they do drink, they drink things that don't hydrate them. So if you didn't see my video yesterday from the Perry menopause symptoms, you should go back and watch that and listen to the part where I talk about how you should get yourself dehydrated. I'm not going to go into that into any detail today, but hydration is important. So eating processed foods like sugar-laden foods, packaged foods, boxed foods, chips, starchy food, junk food, candy, soda, packaged foods, those types of things that leads to constipation. One of the big things that leads to constipation though is stress. The stress response is activated. Digestion is suppressed so that the body can reroute its resources to trigger the fight or flight. I just talked about that with the coffee.  This is what stress does too. The central nervous system shuts down digestion slowing like your contractions of your digestive system and it decreases the secretions in your digestive system, meaning like the hydration is in your digestive system just so that that is one less thing that it has to think about when you are stressed out. And just think about if you are stressed out all day long, the impact that that stress is actually having on your digestive tract. Stress can slow down your digestion in ways where it causes bloating, it causes pain, it contributes to constipation. And some people also when they're stressed out, they experience diarrhea. I know that this used to happen to me whenever I would get extremely stressed or fearful like you know that like somebody hit that fear buttoned on me and I would like go into anxiety and just be like yeah, I would have diarrhea. My stomach would feel like it was in knots butterflies would be flowing around my stomach and I would immediately have to go evacuate. That's my stressor experience. But some people also lose their appetite completely. Stress can also lead to digestive issues like Crohn's stomach ulcers irritable bowel syndrome. How many of you are stressed out and and if you are do you have a digestive issue. I would love to know it in the comments. But anyway, I want to tell you a little bit about my experience being constipated. Just so you know I'm not just talking out of the side of my head when I'm talking about constipation it's something that I know very intimately. I remember being a little girl and there was a window next to my next to the toilet in my bathroom and it was a pretty big window was a really old house at this time when I was a little girl probably four or five years old. Maybe going on six I don't know but it seemed like it was a long period of time so it was probably between those ages. But there was a window and back in those days it was like in the 70s and they had like these films that they would put over the window. But I would be sitting there and sitting there and sitting there trying to go to the bathroom and I remember my stomach being really big or swollen when I was a little kid I was really. At this point I was thin but my stomach was big and I know now that my stomach was big because I had a whole bunch of junk in my stomach that needed to come out. So I remember I got bored one day and I started peeling the paper from the corner of the window so that I could look out the window while I was sitting there. I didn't have anything else to do I was trying to poop I needed to poop and you know every now and then my grandmother would give me like. Like this met like some kind of laxative or something and it will help me go to the bathroom I can't remember the laxative but it tasted really good and it was brown and it was in this brown bottle. Some of you listening might remember that laxative maybe your parents gave it to you and it had this man on it. Anyway that's not important but throughout my life my early through my childhood and teens like I would go to the bathroom like once or twice a week.   I'm like no I never really have and then I started and then I shortly after that I you know recognized that I had PCOS and I started looking online believe it or not in the 90s about how to heal naturally from PCOS and I did find information there. There was information it didn't come in the form of video or anything like that there are lots of chat rooms and message boards with really good information and then that's when I learned about how you really are supposed to go to the bathroom. Every time you eat you're supposed to get rid of that thing get rid of the food that you ate you know a few meals ago it's supposed to be like a clock like a like a clock you're not supposed to hold that stuff in. And when you hold it in at least the sickness and disease and it's probably one of the reasons why I developed reproductive issues in the first place because I was so toxic from not going to the bathroom. So one of the things that you must do to heal fibroids or any type of reproductive issue is clean your digestive tract completely out and I do teach this in my coaching programs. So what do you do what do you do about this and the first one I want to talk to you about is stress you have to deal with the stressors in your life and here's how you do it. I know that there's all these things that you know the stress technique that stress technique and some of those things are great like the deep breathing exercises and all the things that you do that you can do. But really the one who is who can help you manage stress is is God go to God.  You may need to do some repentance meaning changing your mind about like some of the stuff you're doing in your life that you don't need to be doing anymore like he's been trying to get your attention saying stop doing this. Well, you need to stop doing this and turn change your mind about those things you're doing this contributing to the stressors can be sent in your life whatever it is, and then change your mind about it and walk the in the direction towards him, meaning God. You may need to walk through some forgiveness like you may be forget you know have some people that you do need to forgive like you're holding on to stuff from that causes stressors. And if you're afraid to forgive let me just tell you what forgiving someone from doing for doing something to you is not letting them off the hook is letting you off the hook. Believe me God will deal with the person who did something to you but holding on to unforgiveness is keeping you in perpetual pain and stress and all things that come along with it. The next thing you might need to do is lay down some idols is there anything in your life that you're putting above God. And that's like a really serious question most people don't take the time to really look at that. What's more important what do you think about all day. That's a good place to start what is the thing that is most dominant in your mind. And there's your idol that's probably one of the things that you can find out really quickly by just answering that question. You may you may need to spend more time or some more or time at all maybe you don't spend time getting to know him and learning what his truth is about your life. Meaning open your Bible up and read the scriptures and talk to him as you're reading so you can have a dialogue with him so that he can teach so Holy Spirit can teach you what it is that is true about your life and what it is that you're supposed to be doing. And a lot of times we're stressed out because we don't know what the heck we're supposed to be doing well we have a we have a book that he gave us a Bible. There's a Bible everywhere these days you can even find them like electronic ones online you can download an app I like I happen to like physical Bibles. I have electronic Bibles but my preference are physical Bibles. Find it and get in a place where you where you can read and learn.  And the truth of the matter is is I'm not here telling you to go quit your job but if you get with God you do those those steps God will lead you in what you're supposed to do for your job situation so that it is not wrecking so much habit on your life where you can't handle the stress that's coming from that you may even need to get rid of some relationships. People don't like that but sometimes we need to cut some relationships off so that we're not living under perpetual stress. Regardless of what it is God is the one who will help you because all things are possible with God. The next thing is hydration I already talked about it if you want to know more details go back to yesterday's video and listen to that part about hydration but you do need to be hydrated so the ways can move through your system. Next is stop eating the junkie foods if you haven't already downloaded my foods to avoid let's go download it read it and take it to heart and do what it says. I'm in the process of writing a new one. I'm just updating that information, making it a little bit more user friendly I should say but the one that's there is good enough. It has the information on it. The next thing that can help you is exercise get to get your digestive tract moving so when you move you help your you you cause your digestive tract to move. I don't know how many times I've been exercising like vigorously and all of a sudden after I'm done with who I got to go take a poop. And that's one of the ways that you can get your digestive system moving if you're having trouble with that. I also I think walking is the perfect exercise is the easiest exercise that you don't have to have any special equipment. You can just go outside and walk. I did recently buy a walking pad that is here in my office. Let me see if I can show it to you. See there it is right there is my walking pad. Can you see it? I put a link down in the description box below this video so that if you're interested in the walking pad that I have because every time I mentioned something that I have people are say where did you get it from. Well the link is down in the description box. It wasn't expensive. I love it. It's small enough for me to sit right back there in the corner and what I love about it is that it goes seven miles per hour versus versus some of the other walking paths that are like max four hours. So if I really wanted to get a little jogging I could get a little jogging too. The next thing you can use to help cleanse your colon or I'm sorry to get your colon moving is to use herbs to cleanse your colon. I'm not talking about taking a laxative because a laxative sure it'll move a little bit out but that's not helping you to heal your digestive tract so that you can like have regular normal bowel movements but I have something called the colon formula. Some of you may have heard me talk about it but what the colon formula does is it helps to heal the entire digestive tract, move some of that, move the mucoid plaque off the sides of your colon, move all the excess junk out of your colon and while it's doing that it helps to soothe and heal the digestive tract. Now you could use this formula for constipation for any kind of digestive issue that you have because the herbs in it are not just purgative herbs and there's not much purgative herbs in it. It has herbs that soothe the digestive tract. Now the next thing that you want to do is change your diet to a diet that is rich in raw fruits and vegetables. If you cannot take like eating a big salad, put it in a smoothie that's easier on a digestive tract and if you really can't eat raw foods, which I think that the reason that people say they can't eat raw foods is because they're not willing to go through that time to break it in, breaking their gut microbiome so if you cannot do that you can take your food and you can steam it lightly and eat it that way. That'll make it be easier on your digestive tract. So if you have any questions, hopefully just put them in the chat and if you didn't know already, I opened the doors to my group coaching program. So if you've been wanting to work with me to help heal you from, to help you heal from reproductive issues of any type, my Fibroid Detox Collective is open is starting on May 7. So if you're interested, there's a link down in the description box. And if you have questions about that, you can email me at info at whatchelseaether you can ask me questions here in the chat. Also remember with all of this with all of these issues, it is possible to heal. Remember, all things are possible with God. So I want to see what kind of questions you have, you may or may not have any. Callie I'm struggling with constipation Callie 83 constipation hopefully Callie 83 you can take some of the tips that I have talked about here today. And put them into practice so you can get some leave you can alleviate some of those issues with the constipation. Hi, I suffer from a lot of fibroid fibroids and possibly endometriosis and ovarian system sorry to hear that. Is it Danielle. It's a pretty I love the way it's spelled. I hope I'm saying it right. But if you haven't already downloaded my foods to avoid list that's probably the first place to start that's where I would start, because it's the easiest place to start to start to get relief from those things. I'm not saying that it's easy to change these things, but it is definitely the easiest simplest place to start. I'm going to get the recipe section on my YouTube channel is a playlist of my recipes down in the description box of this video should be reading the reading space I like your name. Let's see. Good Hey Monica do smoothies do smoothies do the same thing as coffee does stimulate a bowel movement, because whenever I drink a smoothie for lunch, I make a bowel movement. Okay, so here's the thing. So it could Monica, but it really depends on what you put in the smoothie. But if it's a basic clean smoothie, you know, like I teach like with no shenanigans in it like almond butter and all the stuff that people like to put on in their butter. But it's just like say it's a green smoothie says greens fruit and water and maybe some chia seeds or hemp seeds or something like that. That's not stimulating. So what's happening is it's that a smoothie is a pre pre digested meal sort of because it's already broken down. So it goes in to your body and it helps to move out solid waste because it doesn't have any work to do is close to juice except it has fiber. So it's pushing things out. So I don't think it's stimulating a bowel movement from a bad perspective is stimulating a bowel movement because it has fiber and that's what fibers supposed to do which is to move stuff out of your digestive tract. I hope that answers your question. Hi everybody hope you're all having a lovely day hi shy Lynn. I'm having a lovely day. Katrina yes, Father Johnson's yes that was it laxative was the name orange and white that's it. I remember that so well as a matter of fact it tasted so good I used to ask for it like not realizing that it was going to make me good but I used to ask for it because it tasted like candy I don't know what they put in sugar, probably. I have seven fibroids IBSC gastric parietes I can never say this sorry thyroid nodule and I am perimenopause with hot flashes my stress levels are high. Well, you can heal from every last one of those things you absolutely can it will take you some, some focus for you to do it, but you can do it all things are possible with God, you may want to consider my fibroid detox collective if you are needing help. But the first place I would start is that foods to avoid list if you don't already have it. Thank you. Yes, it is Danielle. Okay. All right, I don't see any other questions let me see I'm going to give you guys a minute to answer to ask any other questions that you might have. Okay, do you recommend colonics or hydrotherapy. Do you mean hydrotherapy are you referring to hydrotherapy where you immerse your body or are you talking about colonics or colon hydrotherapy. Is that what you're, is that what you're trying to say. So, if so I do recommend colonics if you want to take colonics but I'm more of a fan of high enemas. High enemas are I first of all they're less expensive and I think you have more control. Once you learn how to do them. And so but yes to your question. Let's see is warm lemon water good for constipation. So lemon water in general is good for hydration in general so it's going to help you with with the constipation problem. But one of the things that happens if you take warm lemon water first thing in the morning it will stimulate a very nice bowel movement especially if you take it as soon as you wake up. Yes. Do you recommend juicing or smoothies for women with reproductive issues any recipes you could share on on live. Thank you. So, I recommend both. Most of my my the beginning of my healing journey started with juicing I didn't really know anything about smoothies at the beginning of my healing journey so most of my experience with healing. I don't want to say most. I should say. I'm a I'm a Jew I'm a believer in juicing and the reason that is because it gives the digest attract a break but smooth so let me explain it this way. I think juicing is king and smoothies are queen. They serve a great purpose for healing but they have two separate. Purposes so juice goes straight to the bloodstream goes straight to the healing goes you know it bypasses having to do anything the digestive tract although there is fiber and juice believe it or not some people think that's not but there is fiber and juice. Smoothies also heal especially if you make it right. And, but it has fiber. So your body does have to do the digestion of it, which is not a bad thing, but it's just an extra step. It's not a bad thing at all. And the recipes, so I have a ton of recipes.  There's a ton of recipes. Nothing that I can think of right off the top of my head honestly. But yes, I think I answered okay how do you feel about putting spinach and smoothies. I think putting smoothies and putting spinach and smoothies are great. Lots of people have the question about oxalates and all the stuff. I tell you, people in their research put smoothies if you feel like putting spinach in your smoothies and put it in there. Like you'd have to take in like so much spinach like I have gone through spells where I would use a box you know the 16 ounce box of spinach in a day. It is good to rotate your greens like so if you use spinach sometimes use kale sometimes use arugula or whatever your greens are but like there's nothing wrong with putting spinach in a smoothie. Thank you for the information listening while getting an iron infusion all do you think fibroids push on or block bios making constipation as well absolutely that happens. Absolutely that happens so I'm sorry you're having to get an iron infusion and that really sucks I don't I have had that and I don't like it at all. But you can overcome just do whatever you've got to do so you don't need to do that again. It's not any fun. But yes fibroids can be in a position where it can cause constipation that's why I like enemas because you can manipulate how you put the water in and you and if the fibroid is big enough and you you can move the fibroid out of the way to let the water in to kind of allow your body to kind of moisten that area where there is poop that's stuck and push it out that way. And also as you change your diet your your the things will change in your digestive tract and can move past that fibroid. I can feel the difference in my energy levels when I put spinach in my smoothies good keep using it. Don't stop using the spinach just because they say not to use it. So okay ladies I don't want to hold you all day but that's that is all I have for today tomorrow I will be back. I forgot what I'm what I'm going to be talking about tomorrow but I'll be here tomorrow at noon Thursday noon Eastern Standard Time. And if no one told you know before I tell you that share this video with anybody you think that it could help because I know that people are struggling whether they have reproductive issues or not whether they've had a hysterectomy or not. This information is is good for people who are struggling out there. And also for if you're watching and you have had a hysterectomy and you're feeling shame and all that stuff don't feel shame because of it still participate in this environment because just because you got the hysterectomy or the surgery or whatever. Doesn't mean that you still don't need to heal your body because the surgery does not negate the fact that you still have the issue that caused the problem in the first place. So thank you so much I've learned so much and will be sharing good thank you Danielle. Do you have high animal products or do you you recommend I do and typically what I do is I I share that information in my group programs or in my coaching programs I don't have any place where I have that here right now. Let's see Chelsea when is the next fasting and miss the last one. It's going to be the end of this month the last week of this month I'll be making an announcement soon I can't remember the exact dates but like 2324 25 somewhere around there. You're welcome Katrina. All right. All right ladies I'm going to let you go I love you so much. And if you miss if if you if you're catching the replay please type replay in the chat and and put your questions in because I will answer questions as I can. All right lots of love ladies take care.


Hello and welcome to the session. In this session we will discuss the following question and the question says, let O is equal to the set containing the elements 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. B is the universal set. A is equal to the set containing the elements 1, 3, 5, B is equal to the set containing the elements 2, 3, 5 and C is equal to the set containing the elements 3, 8. Illustrate this information on a Venn diagram. Let's start the solution now. First step is draw a rectangle which represents the universal set. So we have drawn this rectangle and this rectangle represents the universal set O. The second step is draw three intersecting circles representing the sets A, B and C. Now if we look at the sets A, B and C, we can see that 3 is the element which is common in all the sets. Now since all the three sets A, B and C have a common element, so we have drawn three intersecting circles which represent the sets A, B and C. Now the third step is write down the common element of the three sets A, B and C in the common portion of the three circles. So we write down this common element 3 in this common portion between the three circles. Now consider the two sets A and V. We can see that the common elements between these two sets are 3 and 5. The fourth step is write down the common elements between the two sets A and B in the common portion of the circles A and B. The common elements between the sets A and B are 3 and 5 and we have already written 3 in this common portion, so we write 5 in this common portion between sets A and B. Now in the next step, we write down the remaining elements of the sets A, B and C in the remaining portion of the circles A, B and C respectively. Now the remaining elements of the set A are 1 and 7, so we write these elements in this remaining portion of the circle A. Similarly, the remaining element of the set B is 2, so we write this element 2 in this remaining portion of the circle B and the remaining element of the set C is 8. So we write 8 in this remaining portion of the circle C. Now the last step is write down the remaining elements of the set O which are not in the sets A, B or C outside the 3 circles but inside the rectangle. Now the remaining elements of the set O which are not in the sets A, B or C are the elements 4 and 6. So we write the elements 4 and 6 in the region outside the 3 circles A, B and C but inside this rectangle. So this is our Venn diagram for this question where the set O which is the universal set is represented by this rectangle. With this we end our session. Hope you enjoyed the session.


Hi there, Captain Paul Anzalata here, commanding officer of USS Gerald R. Ford. We're celebrating Military Spouse Appreciation Day here on Ford, and for me, to all the military spouses out there, are the spouses of our sailors. Some of our sailors are actually military spouses themselves as they do double duty on active duty and acting as a military spouse. For me to you, thank you for what you do. Thank you for your support. I know I can't do it without the support of my beautiful wife, and it just makes our crew so much better to have that support at home. Over the last 18 months, the crew has done amazing things. We've succeeded, but we've been under stress at the same time, and our families have been there to help us through it. As we get into full ship shock trials, we're going to need you still, and we just really appreciate everything you do for us. We can't do this without you. Thank you.


There are so many activities people do to improve their health, optimize their lifestyle, biohacking, and as much as I hate that term, you know, most of it works to some degree. But if you don't have the simple stuff down, the rest doesn't matter. And even someone like myself who's been involved in researching and practicing a healthy lifestyle since I was a teenager, I still have a difficult time with those basics of that simple stuff. It's important to understand that you shouldn't worry about fine-tuning and critiquing things if you can't even fall asleep. And there's quite a few examples of stuff like this, each to varying degrees of effectiveness. Hot cold therapy such as cryotherapy, ice baths, saunas, hot yoga is actually something very beneficial if you can fit it in here and there. Other things such as blue light blocking glasses, red lamps, blood flow restriction bands, armenial solutions to overarching issues. Reduce the Wi-Fi and EMF.  You know, forget that red light. Go get some sun. And don't strap yourself up BDSM style. Figure out a proper workout routine. So I've come up with six categories in order of importance. Diet, water, Wi-Fi, EMF, sleep, grounding, and exercise. Many things we do for health can be lumped into one of these categories. However, they usually don't accomplish the main goal. And although these are ranked in an order, all of them must be addressed to feel your best. The degree to which you address certain things may not be necessary, but there is a minimum for each one. You know, you don't have to go super crazy, optimize 100%. You just need to get enough of each category correct to become healthy. And this is kind of what I go over in consultations with people. We address personal lifestyle factors and try to get everything to a baseline. What differentiates one person to another is how we can achieve each of these categories based on subjective living situations, budget, whatever it may be. And that can be surprisingly difficult. So you guys can check out my book, The Ancestral Indigenous Diet. I have an audio book on that as well. You can even go to frank-suprano.com where you can schedule a personalized consultation. Number one is diet. And obviously the main focus of my YouTube channel, optimizing and perfecting diet takes years and years and years of nutritional research, understanding, and I'm still learning every day how to figure out to balance vitamins, minerals, fatty acids. That being said, it's more important to remove the negatives from your diet as opposed to adding the positives. People get really held up with, oh, this food is nutrient dense. That food is so good for you. Yeah, but are you poisoning yourself with too much of something? You know, don't worry about being super strict, dieting like a madman, restricting calories. Just buy your food organic, high quality. And by local, I don't necessarily mean local as in close to you, although you might find some good stuff. I mean that local quality tends to be grown naturally and very fresh. And not only do you want your food to be as high quality as possible and remove those negative components like agrochemicals, herbicides, pesticides, insecticides. You want to focus at least 60 to 70% of your calories from meat, from animal products to get in those nutrients that most people are deficient in from a standard American diet. In addition, it's fairly easy to start with that baseline and figure out what you're missing by addressing each nutrient on an individual basis. The carnivore diet kind of does this, except it's not really balanced from a vitamin or mineral perspective. The carnivore diet does, however, give you a clean enough slate to figure out what you need to fix. On paper, you know, carnivore with potatoes or even pasta would actually be far more balanced. Basically, mostly meat with some unprocessed carbohydrates is a great start.  Am I imbalancing my nutrients? Number two is water. And I've done many, many dietary videos on my channel. I've also done at least half a dozen on water. And that principle of removing the negatives applies here, you know, avoid the pollutants.  I'm assuming that most nutrition channels don't really talk about water that much, unless they're selling some electrolytes because, you know, with a lot of this health stuff, there isn't money to be made, you know, including water and some of the next few topics I'm going to mention. And I'm sure if UPS Ground shipping water to everyone was affordable, they would find a way to make money on it. Some of you may be lucky enough to live on a property that has a natural well or spring. You know, some of those really beautiful farms I saw in Pennsylvania last week, I was very jealous. If not, then a reasonably affordable option is to install filtration on your home, both distillation and reverse osmosis. Even then, the only real safe best bet is to get water from that well or spring yourself by traveling to it or perhaps buying some class bottled spring water. Like you guys see me drinking all the time. Number three is Wi-Fi and EMF reduction. And as you guys can see, there's a theme here where we're reducing the negatives as opposed to the positives. This is definitely the least talked about topic because there's so much money in keeping people connected to their phones and media 24 seven. It's becoming the norm for teenagers to stare at their cell phones until three or four in the morning. Very basic here. Just turn everything off at night. Router, phones, electronic devices. Once you get your body recovering overnight from this radiation, you'll feel a world of a difference. I mean, going out and camping for a day or two and then coming back into the city and putting a phone next to your head. That'll help you understand the difference. Further steps can be taken to hardwire all your devices, even your phone. In some scenarios where the person is living in an apartment or has no control of their surroundings, further measures can be taken to shield themselves and the room that requires several hundred dollars in investment and a little bit of know-how to block the frequencies that are in our modern environments. I did a video over a year ago on how to do this. Maybe I'll do an update video and this type of radiation causes many health issues, whether it's eczema, psoriasis, IBS. It's really endless. Usually a combination of high Wi-Fi environments and a fairly poor diet triggers the problem and then regardless of what the person does in their lifestyle, until they reduce the Wi-Fi, they can't fix the issue. This is another thing I help people with and I direct them in how to deal with those tricky and unique scenarios. Number four, we have sleep. Although I would rank this higher than everything else, the reason you're not sleeping might be because you're in a super high Wi-Fi environment, might be because you're allergic to something in your diet. So these few factors might need to be corrected before you start sleeping properly. And there's no rule to the amount. Just make sure that these factors are correct, then sleep as much as your body naturally desires.  I know that is incredibly difficult and unrealistic for most people, but you want to be somewhat in line with it by reducing your light exposure at night and maybe even blackening your room with curtains or whatever just so you don't wake up earlier than your body needs to. And you might want to take other aspects of your lifestyle off to add to sleep. So if you're body building and you need to get in seven meals a day, maybe do five meals and get some more sleep. If you're a workaholic or you like exercising five hours a day, add more to sleep after you fix these other factors and you'll feel better. Number five is grounding. And if you don't know what grounding is, it's simply being in contact with the physical earth. The earth has electrons that act as antioxidants when we are in touch with it. So by wearing rubber sold shoes, being in a building on the second floor of my house right now, you're essentially causing damage and oxidative stress to yourself. And this is difficult because even in a city, suburban areas, the Wi-Fi and the EMF can disrupt the natural frequencies in the ground, which makes grounding actually harmful. You know, I've tried grounding to the copper pipes in my house as well as, you know, attaching a grounding rod outside and then connecting myself with the wire. But there's so many unnatural, non-native Wi-Fi fields that you can't grab. And I have a video on this if you guys are interested in learning about this further, but there's two basic solutions. One, you can go hiking barefoot or with like earthing shoes or leather sold shoes. That's why the Native Americans wore moccasins. Two, if you're not in a high frequency town or city, you know, you can ground yourself using certain devices that are available online and maybe even going to a park is pretty good. But here, you're in New York City, not so lucky. One little thing I've noticed is the few times where I went out to a farm or I went out to the beach and I came home, I slept a lot better than usual. So don't overlook any of these things I'm suggesting to you guys. There's a reason they're on this list. You know, there's a reason I've been researching health and nutrition for 10 years and this is what I come up with for a 10-15 minute video. So for number six, exercise. And there's many facets to this. Some main ones being an increase in muscle, lean body mass, increased antioxidant activity from said exercise, as well as improved gut motility.  There's much less weight on your joints, your tendons, your ligaments when you move around. The antioxidant activity from exercise really helps prevent a lot of modern lifestyle factors and pollutants that we should be removing as much as possible anyway, but there is a small amount that can't really be removed. That's where exercise kind of helps even that out. Gut motility, very important for preventing dysbiosis, SIBO, CFO, candida overgrowth, bacteria imbalances, and long-term stomach issues. This ties in a lot with preventing gut issues from high Wi-Fi environments because what happens is the Wi-Fi causes so much oxidative stress that your intestines and your digestive system start dysfunctioning and not absorbing nutrients, but your gut bacteria and the fungus is relatively unaffected by the radiation and they're having a party and when you combine that with no exercise and the food is just sitting there, that's where you have the health issues. That's why so many people are having problems with these new devices, poor diet, lack of exercise, and missing all these other factors as well. So it's pretty easy to see how if you miss a couple of these that the others go haywire, but as we said in order of importance, you know, if you don't ground, it is very, very helpful and I think it's necessary, but again it's not the end of the world where as, you know, if you're poisoning yourself in your diet and whatever you're drinking, a whole different story. So thank you guys for joining me today. Hopefully this helps some of you that might have been overlooking certain aspects of your lifestyle. I mentioned several things that you guys can check out earlier. Just go to frank-tepano.com if you'd like to learn more. Thanks again for joining me today guys. Let me know what educational videos you guys would like to see and I will see you for tomorrow's video if I don't lose my mind or at least go crazier enough to not make a video.


Okay, so as part, good afternoon. And as part of the Comparative Kinship Project, which Gordon has widely introduced, in the first talk, I'm focusing on animals and animal economy. And it's an element of the Pictish economy that is completely unknown, or which we know very little at the moment. So in this talk, I'll be presenting our very first results, basically from four remains that we've recovered from some excavations. And to illustrate the lack of archaeological information that we have about the Pictish, and especially the animal economy, in 2014 Quartz International published a special issue on archaeology in Europe. And it was quite telling because the map they produced basically showed Scotland as a dark spot. There was not even one site mentioned. Nothing. There's loads for England, a lot for Ireland, but nothing for Scotland. Ireland is probably the country in Europe with the best record when it comes to animal economy. It's a good archaeological record, very good textural record, and a good parliamentary record as well. And the works like many led by Finn Barman comic have shown the importance of cattle in the economy in Ireland in the early middle period, and especially for daring. It's a daring economy. Cattle is usually the basic unit for wealth. It's also used for payments towards the elites. And this is a contrast with England. England at the time, sheep, though cattle are important, but sheep are much more important in England than they are in Ireland. So it's a different economy between the Anglo-Saxon world and what's happening in Ireland. What does come out though is that the consumption of pigs is rated to feasting and often to high status sites. So often cattle is not only a source of meat. It's also used for traction, plowing, for daring, as I mentioned, and also the use of hides, including making vellum. Sheets and goats can be used as a source of meat, but they're also used for milk and, importantly, wool. And pigs are usually just a source of meat. So basically, in England, though England and Ireland benefit from a rich record, and we have no real comparison of that quality for North East, for England or for Scotland, and especially North East Scotland, it does not mean that there are no sites of your remains. So here are some key picnic sites for which there are formal remains. I've done and captured Craig, Port Mahomak, Port Guenos, Katniss. And as you can see, there's a clear gap for North East mainland Scotland. But our recent excavations have yielded some formal remains. Not big assemblages, nothing comparable to Port Mahomak or even in Orkney or Shetland. But we're starting to be able to pull a kind of picture of what might be going on at these sites. So, as Gordon has mentioned, these are high-status sites, for which we've had some elements of what we're going to say about animal economy. So, Birke has been presented already, but the site is supported by site. And we've had two seasons of excavation there in 2018 and 2019, and we've got about 3,000 bone fragments. So, it might not seem huge, but for this part of Scotland, it's pretty good. Unfortunately, the identification rate is pretty low, only 15%. So, at the moment, in terms of bones and vitreous species, we're ranging around 500. So, this is Birke Heads, so there's basically... So, this is the Upper Citadel, this is the Lower Citadel. And over half of the bones come from the Lower Citadel in this trench 18. So, this is trench 18, which is 18 metres long and you can see it's revealed a large wall and some occupational deposits here that are darker coloured. So, possibly we're looking at a large building for which we don't have the edges. And as you can see, the bones are relatively well preserved, coming from different areas. And we've just given the surface of these deposits. So, we can see this slot is only about barely 10 centimetres, we've gone down about 10 centimetres at the very most. And we're very pleased, quite a distant sandwich for this material. I did a bit of math rapidly, if the total volume, if we expand the whole of these black deposits or dark deposits, essentially we could yield from assemblies of around 26,000 bone fragments, which would give us about 4,000 or 5,000 identified bones fragments, which then would make it almost comparable to Port Mahoma, for the picturesque period of Putnamar. Metatab, recently excavated, good bone preservation, again a very small intervention. And the bones are well preserved, but only a small assemblage of about 1,000 bones. Again, hopefully further excretions will reveal more. And if we look at the formal composition, what you can see here is cattle is dominant at Burghead, it's also dominant at Metatab, and we've got sheep and pig on both sides. So, the three main domesticas that you get are dominant. We get a bit more diversity at Burghead than we do at Metatab, which would be a sample or a size of sample. We get the old thing like Badger and Fox, a bit of domestic fowl, some birds, very little fish, as you can tell it's the same from Metatab, very little fish. Even in Burghead's coastal site, we get very few fish. So mainly cattle dominated, and at Metatab, so you can see how the M&Is are very low at the moment. The interesting one is for Metatab with pigs in terms of minimum number of individuals are actually higher than cattle. So, we all get to see a picture of pig being relatively important at this site. So, to compare the composition of Burghead and Metatab to other Pictish sites, I've thought of them here in terms of percentages, and you can see that for all Pictish sites, cattle are high-dominant, and pig usually are ranked second, with the exception of the Shetland and Orkney sites, which might be an environmental issue there that maybe sheep are better adapted. Rani, we've got some remains from Rani, identified by Ingrid Mainland, a small assemblage, but you can see there's actually a high number of pigs versus compared to cattle. It's actually the site with the highest number of pigs, and pigs overall might be underrepresented. It's been noted for Clatch-a-Craig, the Zorg parages who identified the assemblage in the 1980s, did say maybe because pigs were sort of young that bones don't preserve as well, and maybe pigs are actually more important than they seem to appear. So, rapidly the graph that explains how it works, it's a cattle to pig on the horizontal axis, on the vertical it's sheep to pig. Basically this line here, anything below, pigs are more frequent than sheep, and everything to the right of this line, it means cattle is more dominant than pigs. And here it means that these sites, there's more pigs, and here there's just many cattle. So the interesting thing here is that we've got our high status sites, which seems to cluster here, where pigs are relatively important, and you've got Port Mahoma, the monastic site, which is completely under the spectrum with very few pigs. I plotted Iona, which is not in Pickland, it's on the west coast of Scotland, but it does seem to have a similar signature to Port Mahoma. We've got an outlier in Clatch-a-Craig, I've put Danad, which is Dalrata, so the west of Scotland, and it's got a different, it seems to have a different signature to our northeast sites, and Dunbar is in South East Scotland, it's in Lothian, it's an Anglo-Saxon site, and you can see it's got the signature of what's been noted in England, where sheep are more important. Do we have a picnic signature? Well, as I say, if it's too good to be true, it's probably not true, the sample's too small for the moment, but by adding as much data as we can from Ireland and from England, maybe something, maybe this bag will still be visible or not, but what seems clear is that monastic sites and secular sites are different. So this is ongoing analysis, so we don't have a lot of data yet, but I plotted this looking at bone fusion for cattle, and basically it's giving you the survival rates per age group. And what you can see here is that the survival rate is pretty high, which means that most cattle get slaughtered after 36 months, so they're quite older animals. If this was beef consumption, you'd get a drop around here when animals are at their prime to be a consumer's beef. And we've got Cassie absence of very young calves, and very few here killed in their prime. And this is actually similar to what Fimba McCormick has done for Ireland, and you can see they've got a lot more sites with different site types, but he's identified a daring economy in Ireland, and this is the profile, so you can see here, very few calves, very young calves, and much older individuals. And this is part of a daring economy, or the use of cattle for daring, and it seems that we might have a similar pattern here. And the reason you get very young, you don't have very young calves that are slaughtered because they're used to, so the calves produce milk, so they need to have the calves till about six months. We've also been, our colleague Kate Britton has also been conducting isotopes analysis, looking at human diet and also looking at diet of animals. And it's also been, the projects have been looking at diet and subsistence. And what you can see here, so she's been using various isotopes, so carbon that shouldn't give you the diet. So what you can see here is that these are human, these are pigs, and you can see the variety is actually quite boring, they're all plussed here. What this shows you though is that there's in-between freshwater fish and pigs. So even though salmon are very important on the symbol stones, they're clearly, they're not eating salmon. If they're eating salmon, they'd be somewhere around here. So they're in-between pigs and freshwater fish, suggesting that pigs are actually an important part of the diet and freshwater fish as well. And you can see cattle are down here. So this kind of fits the pattern of cows being used for daring, also probably traction plowing. And for diets, more pigs in freshwater fish. She's also done some analysis on the animals, on animals, and the interesting trend here is that the sheep, which are, there's a few dots here that these are sheep, they cluster higher than the cow in nitrogen and so she thinks it's possibly salt marsh raising which give the sheep a higher value. And the pigs are close to the humans, but the pigs have got a very varied values and this possibly can be linked to them being reared in woodlands rather than in backyard pens behind her houses, which you might get in the later evil period. She's also been looking at strontium and sulphur, which gives you where geography the animal is coming from. And the interesting thing here is you can see these are from Birkhead.  But on the other hand, the cattle have a very wide distribution of values and this suggests that they come from much wider region than sheep and pigs. And this could suggest maybe payments to Birkhead coming from a larger hinterland. So it could suggest the control of Birkhead on a quite larger region. So to summarise, cattle predominate at pinkish sites and our sites that we've estimated are showing this trend to continue. Cattle mean used for dairying and come from wider region than pigs and sheep. Pigs are likely to have been the main contributor to the diet in terms of protein. Sheep and goats are seen from this island, they're not very frequent. And so generally, it seems that the pinkish economy is something more of that of Ireland than that of England at the same time. And when we go next, well, obviously continued as rockville analysis, looking at age of death and body part representation and doing some metrics as well to try and understand more if there's dairy economy by looking at maybe separating males from females and trying to understand more if some of these sites are consumer sites or producing sites or are a bit of both. Do we have improved breeds? In the comic I showed that the sheep are not improved, but we don't know for Scotland yet. We'll be releasing final collections that don't have available data. Text-to-mine textual sources for the food that we have and we'll generate a large database of own remains to include the Irish sites and the English sites and that's the next key to see if we do have something quite specific for the pigs or if it resembles one of the other two economies. And Kate's going to be doing more biomedical analysis. Thank you.


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