Imagine being able to go back in time to relive those experiences from your childhood which have had the greatest impact on your life. Imagine being able to witness yourself as a child, but from the perspective of yourself today, looking at traumatic events with the understanding and compassion of an adult.

On the cutting edge of human health and mental wellness is the exploration of the effects of childhood trauma on the long-term health of human beings. Dr. Robert Block, former President of the American Academy of pediatrics remarked, adverse childhood experiences are the single greatest unaddressed public health threat facing our nation today.

American pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris looks at how exposure to adversity and trauma during their developmental years leads to mental health diagnoses such as ADHD, anxiety and depression. She points out the negative effects of trauma on the developing brain and immune systems of children, as well as how traumatic events can develop into chronic stress, and even PTSD.

Her viewpoint that behavioral and physical issues can be rooted in adverse childhood experiences (ACE) runs counter to the popular understanding of illness, which presumes strictly material causality and dismisses intangible psychological factors. A 1990s study on ACE, however, demonstrates significant corollaries between trauma and lifelong health, linking them to illnesses and high-risk and impulsive behaviors such as drug addiction.

Counseling, psychotherapy, hypnotism and even prescription psychotropic medications may be used to help people resolve traumatic experiences, but some view this type of healing as an issue of spiritual health. Dr. Gabor Mate looks at severe drug addiction as the result of childhood trauma, treating some patients with the ceremonial use of Ayahuasca.

Approaching trauma with the use of shamanic plant medicines can be quite effective, and the African plant medicine iboga is uniquely powerful in this regard. Ingestion of this sacred medicine is known to induce a powerful and visionary psychological experience which allow the participant to review and relive key moments of their past.

Iboga is a psychoactive plant medicine derived from the root bark of the Iboga tree, found in certain parts of Africa. It is administered ceremonially in rites of passage and healing ceremonies tended to by master shamen who have successfully negotiated the spiritual realms into which the medicine plunges its participants. It is known for its power to bring a person into direct contact with the realms of the deceased, and also for allowing a person to see deeply into their past in a way that permits open communication with themselves as they were in the past. The psychoactive journey typically lasts for up to 36 hours and dramatically detoxifies the physical body, as well as the psycho-spiritual body. [Source]

Remarking on how iboga assists patients with sever PTSD, Gary Cook of Iboga Wellness in Costa Rica remarks:

People that have gone through the iboga process to work on their PTSD describe the experience as comparable to 10 years of therapy compacted into a week. Iboga gives you a chance to go deep. It not only helps with detoxing the body, but the mind as well. As long as the person is open and willing to work on themselves, iboga is a powerful tool. Many people have said that it gave them a chance to relive a traumatic event from an observers point of view. During a retreat they were able to forgive and move on, experiencing closure for the first time. Also, it gave their body a chance to detox from anti-depressants that they have tried with no success. Every person has a unique life, therefore every person has a unique journey. [Iboga Wellness]

The journey itself is an adventure through the timeless realms of consciousness and the cosmos, looking at the entire library of information about ones life, and making corrections and connections to rewrite the present by re-integrating the past and understanding the future.

I commented on this experience in a 2014 article entitled, Opiates, Iboga and the Roots of Self-Destruction:

...the shaman or healer will guide the patient in additional iboga journeys, opening up an introspective experience where a connection is made with an over-soul or cosmic consciousness that assists the mind in a deep examination of the self from an objective, omniscient and timeless perspective. In this, a process of self-revelation unfolds which unravels ones past, offering life-changing insights and liberation from accumulated self-judgments and harmful thought patterns. For 12-24 hours the patient lies still, with blindfolded eyes, in a bizarre dream-like state where the brain behaves as if in REM sleep, but, while the conscious mind remains awake, very alert and able to interact with and direct the content of the mental journey. As the experience deepens, the barrier between the conscious and sub-conscious mind seems to dissolve, and the information in the sub-conscious mind becomes available for review and rejection by the reflective self. In this, a lifetimes worth of learned mental processes, memories, emotional impressions, false judgments and psychological conditioning that combine to inform and instruct the self are presented to the patient in rapid fire fashion... a sort of high velocity behind-the-scenes tour of ones personality. A multi-dimensional impression of ones character emerges, and they are given an incredible opportunity to re-assess or reject misunderstood feelings, traumatic events, implanted suggestions, negative self-images, and habitual behaviors. ~Dylan Charles

While the term adverse childhood experiences typically refers to severe physical or sexual abuse and/or emotional neglect, often, seemingly less significant events can also cause a lifetime of problems.

As an example, I like to tell the story of a friend who was able to overcome 54 years of emotional turmoil in one night during a powerful iboga journey. Going into the ceremony, she set the intention of working to understand why she had always had night terrors and high anxiety over an event which happened when she was less than two years-old.

For her entire life, she was carrying around the terrorizing imprint of this shocking event, which had all this time remained incomplete in her mind, leaving her confused and resentful. All she could remember was being stuck in a crib, screaming for help, as her mother and aunt came and went in a frenzy, totally ignoring her.

During her journey, she asked to relive this moment, and she did so, but from the perspective of herself as an adult, having a better understanding of human behavior and dramatic situations. Seeing herself in the crib in startling clarity, she was able to explore this event, and she discovered that this terrible memory was of the day her father had a heart attack.

She was able to see her father, collapsed in the hallway outside of her room, as her mother and aunt worked frantically with the medical crew to ensure his survival. Until this moment, she had never before understood why she felt so scared, confused and ignored,

Iboga gave her the ability to see what had really happened, and she was able to instantly forgive her family and herself of any enduring blame or guilt about the traumatic event. In the morning she was a brand new person, with a light and bright smile on her face. It was a life-changing and liberating realization for her.

The efficacy of shamanic and psychedelic plant medicines in treating the root causes of trauma, addiction, disease and behavioral disorders is being demonstrated by a growing body of research and experiential evidence. And as more and more personal accounts of such journeys are presented online, we inch closer to an integration of these medicines into the contemporary scientific worldview.

This article (How the Shamanic Medicine Iboga Can Resolve and Heal Childhood Trauma) was originally created and published by Waking Times and is published here under a Creative Commons license with attribution to DylanCharles and WakingTimes.com. It may be re-posted freely with proper attribution, author bio, and this copyright statement.

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PHOENIX (AP)  The only two black members of the Arizona Legislature were formally chastised for speaking out against a Republican lawmakers published column, which included a racial slur and they say derided black activists while attempting to discredit leaders of a teacher group protesting for better pay.

Rep. Maria Syms wrote in a column published in the Arizona Republic that the two best-known leaders of the #RedforEd movement are political operatives who are radicalizing Arizona youth. She called Noah Karvelis classroom exotic and said he prides himself on teaching students music from the hip hop artist Kendrick Lamar. Syms included a lyric from the Pulitzer Prize-winning artist that included a derogatory term for African-Americans.

Democratic Rep. Reginald Bolding, who is black, said he was offended by the language she used.

This article attempts to discredit this teacher because he may have introduced lyrics in the classroom written by a black entertainer, Bolding said. This article attempts to discredit this teacher because he takes inspiration from a black civil rights activist. This article attempts to discredit this teacher because he admires a professor that taught at a historically black college for women.

The more I read the more I was disappointed that it appears to be OK to use a racial slur about black people in the article, Bolding continued. Let me be crystal clear: Its not acceptable to us a racial slur even if that slur is used as a quote.

Majority Republicans voted to formally rebuke Bolding as well as the only other black member of the Legislature, Democratic Rep. Geraldine Peten, when she began speaking on the same subject.

The fight was at least the third this year where Democrats were shut down over what Republicans called violations of House rules of decorum and debate.

Speaker J.D. Mesnard was incensed over what he saw as violations.

I dont know why its so hard to follow the rules, Mesnard said. It doesnt matter whether you are white or black or brown on whatever the color the color of your skin is, you follow the House rules.

Syms defended the article and thanked fellow Republicans who came to her defense.

I think the one thing that we can agree on is that these terms are terribly offensive, Syms said. If anyone would read the article they would know that those words were used in the article to expose the offensive nature of language used by the leader of #RedforEd in the classroom. Every person in the state of Arizona should be offended by these racially offensive words that are being used in our classrooms right now.

Karvelis said it was ridiculous that his hip-hop lesson plans were being brought up and that he never used the racial slur in class.

Tens of thousands of Arizona teachers who have organized under the grass-roots Arizona Educators United group that Karvelis helped organize are set to strike starting Thursday. Theyre seeking a 20 percent teacher pay raise, competitive pay for support staff, annual salary increases, school funding boosts to 2008 levels and no new tax cuts until per-pupil funding reaches the national average.

Gov. Doug Ducey is offering a 20 percent pay raise but has mainly ignored the other demands. Republican leaders of the Arizona House and Senate say they wont bend to teacher demands for more than raises.

AZ Black Legislators Chastised For Chiding GOPer Column With Racial Slur


Have you ever sent a message on Facebook prematurely? Or littered with typos? We've all been there, desperately trying to recall a message as soon as we see the blue bubble filled with text appear.

Facebook has answered your calls and is introducing a new feature to its Messenger app, which will give you a 10-minute window to delete a message.

This comes after Facebook-owned messaging company WhatsApp recently gave users the chance to delete messages within seven minutes of being sent.

Twitter user Matt Navara spotted the new addition to the app and pointed out that it is 'coming soon' to users with the 191.0 version of Messenger on iOS devices.

The caption on Messenger in the Apple Store says: "Coming Soon: Remove a message from a chat thread after its been sent. If you accidentally send the wrong photo, incorrect information or message the wrong thread, you can easily correct it by removing the message within ten minutes of sending it."

This will be a welcome relief for Facebook users across the world who have immediately regretted sending a message with no way of retrieving it.

While there is not yet a release date for the new feature, we can only hope it's before the festive season gets into full swing: too many tipples can lead to risky messages.

You can now aposunsendapos messages on Facebook Messenger


Todays mail-bomb terror threat has all the characteristics of either a false flag or ANTIFA inspired attack.

Matt Bracken joins Alex to discuss the lefts agenda to use the bomb scare to smear conservatives who support President Trump.

Hoax Bombs Antifa False Flag


More than 24,000 people have died on the States roads since records began  about 5,000 more than the population of Sligo.

According to the Road Safety Authority some 24,255 people have died since the recording of fatalities began in 1959.

According to provisional Garda figures covering January 1st this year up until Saturday night, 130 people were killed on the States roads. The figure is about two less than were killed in the similar period last year.

However the Road Safety Authority which marks World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims on Sunday, has consistently said all road deaths are avoidable.

That view was reiterated by Minister for Transport Shane Ross who, addressing Remembrance Day, said too many people were left asking, what if?

If only the driver of the other car had not had that second pint. What if the other car had kept to the speed limit. If only she had worn her hi-vis jacket. What if he had put his seat belt on? were just some of the recriminations in which people engaged, said Mr Ross.

Far too many people are asking these questions, not just today, but every day as they struggle to cope with the tragedy that took their loved one from them he said.

The Department of Transport is working on graduated penalties for speeding which the minister has previously said he hopes to bring in to reflect the Governments determination to reduce the numbers killed on the roads.

Mr Ross is also concerned that some 50,000 drivers were caught using their mobile phones while driving. How many think they have gotten away with it, until they cause a collision? he asked.

Mr Ross said unbelievably there were people still out there  and in our parliament  who think its worth taking a risk and driving while over the [drink-driving] limit.

Whatever about risking their own lives  and surely they have families and friends who would mourn them deeply  they are also risking the lives of others.

That is, quite frankly, unforgiveable, he said.

Today, please spare a moment to think of them and the loved ones they have lost. And then remember that it didnt have to be like this. Road fatalities are preventable. Totally preventable. Which makes them all the more tragic, he said.

Drink-driving frankly unforgiveable says Minister for Transport


President Donald Trump continues to push the same old racism that he utilized in his initial rise to national prominence during the 2016 U.S. presidential election season. His team produced a new ad recently explicitly equating angry cop killers with immigrants to the United States, and CNN refused to run it. When Donald Trump Jr. accused them of hiding the truth, they responded  no, the ad is just racist.

The ad in question features footage of Luis Bracamontes during a trial in 2014, when he threatened to kill more police officers soon after having already murdered two others. Text overlaying footage of the murderer reads:

In fact, the reality of the situation is more complicated than that. Bracamontes was deported during the tenure of President Bill Clinton  who was a Democrat  before re-entering the United States and being deported again in 2001. The Washington Post reports that he seems to have last entered the U.S. under the tenure of President George W. Bush  who was very much a Republican, despite Trumps attempt to cast opening the doors to criminals as part of the Democratic platform.

Still, no matter the lies, the Trumps are keeping at it. To the president, the Democrats want open borders so that criminals and terrorists embedded with caravans of asylum-seekers can sneak into the United States. In fact, Democrats just aim for more humane immigration policies that exclude measures like the unnecessary separation of immigrant parents for their children. Concurrently, there remains no evidence that there are any Middle Eastern terrorists aiming to sneak into the U.S. via high profile caravans in Central America, and the vast majority of those involved are just asylum-seekers including plenty of women and children.

Nevertheless, Trump Jr. complained of CNNs refusal to get on board with their nonsense:

The Trumps antagonistic relationship with CNN  and the facts  goes way back. President Trump has long singled the network out as among the worst purveyors of fake news despite a glaring lack of actually faked stories.

Meanwhile, the president has been documented to have lied thousands and thousands of times upon taking office. Ahead of the midterms  which conclude in just a few days  Trump has dug into his positions of racism, lies, and beyond, pushing narratives including that of an impending migrant invasion and economic collapse if voters dare support Democrats. Trump Jr. has helped him push this narrative on voters, appearing at rallies across the U.S.

They dont seem to care. Across the United States, Democrats are expected to come in far ahead of Republicans in the overall U.S. House vote, picking up dozens and dozens of seats  and who knows what else.

CNN Brazenly Tweets Direct Saturday Response To Trump Jr Its Fantastic


During Brett Kavanaughs testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee last Thursday, he complained that if things rocked on, more accusations would come out about him and that his already ruined life would be ruined even more.

Poor Brett. It seems he was correct, and its not looking good for the good ole boy who just loves his beer.

In a letter sent to Senator Kamala Harris office, a horrific allegation was laid out for the senators.

In an interview between Kavanaugh and staff members for Senator Chuck Grassley and Senator Diane Feinstein, it was revealed that Senator Harris received an anonymous letter that detailed an event in which Kavanaugh, yet again, allegedly sexually assaulted a young woman.

The anonymous woman claimed Kavanaugh picked her up to give her a ride home; however, that was in no way his intention. He forcibly kissed her, groped her, and raped her several times. He was also with a friend.

The details below are graphic.

Kavanaugh kissed me forcefully. I told him I only wanted a ride home. Kavanaugh continued to grope me over my clothes, forcing his kisses on me and putting his hand under my sweater. No, I yelled at him. The boy in the backseat reached around, putting his hand over my mouth and holding my arm to keep me in the car. I screamed into his hand. Kavanaugh continued his forcing himself on me. He pulled up my sweater and bra exposing my breasts, and reached into my panties, inserting his fingers into my vagina. My screams were silenced by the boy in the backseat covering my mouth and groping me as well. Kavanaugh slapped me and told me to be quiet and forced me to perform oral sex on him. He climaxed in my mouth. They forced me to go into the backseat and took turns raping me several times each. They dropped me off two blocks from my home. No one will believe if you tell. Be a good girl, he told me.

So far, six allegations have been made against Kavanaugh.

You can read the entire transcript here.

Brett Kavanaugh Hit With ANOTHER Accusation This Time A Brutal Rape


Two out of five people said they had avoided visiting their doctor because they could not afford the appointment fee, a new survey has found.

Some 42 per cent of 1,000 adults surveyed said they had avoided going to the GP as they were too busy. The research was carried out on behalf of the Irish Cancer Society, to mark Cancer Week Ireland.

Just under a third of respondents (31 per cent) said they were worried that their concerns would waste the doctors time, and 29 per cent of people said they had avoided attending their GP as they were worried about what they might find.

Some 35 per cent of people said they had put off visiting their GP as they had too many other issues to worry about.

Growing waiting lists for appointments featured in peoples decision to avoid booking a doctors visit, with 28 per cent of people saying they felt they would have to wait too long for an appointment.

Some 27 per cent of people said they were too embarrassed to ask their GP about a symptom they had, and one in five said they felt it would be too difficult to talk to their doctor about a symptom or issue they were having.

The poll was carried out by Coyne Research over two days in July.

The Irish Cancer Society said the survey shows people may be missing early cancer diagnosis by putting off a visit to the GP, for various reasons.

Averil Power, chief executive of the society, said it was disappointing to see the range of barriers putting people off visiting their doctor. When it comes to cancer, early diagnosis can be the difference between life and death, she said.

No one should ever feel ashamed or embarrassed when it comes to talking about their health. Nor should cost be a factor in accessing professional medical advice, Ms Power said.

The research comes at the start of Cancer Week, run by the Irish Cancer Society and Trinity College Dublin, to promote public conversations around the disease.

In 2016, 1.68 million people had a medical card, and 470,000 people had a GP-visit card, both allow people to visit their doctor free of charge.

Two out of five people unable to afford doctors visit


(Natural News) It seems that Amazons latest tactic for spreading their left-wing disinformation and propaganda is through email. With an undoubtedly massive list of subscribers, the companys reach is practically unmatched. New reports say the latest fake news articles by The Washington Post are being emailed en masse by Amazon  the liberal publications parent organization. If youve got an Amazon account, it may be time to check your subscription settings, if you dont want to be bombarded with propaganda.

As The Gateway Pundit reports, Amazon sent an email to an untold number of customers denigrating FOX News, Sean Hannity and the majority of Americans that support the current President of the United States. In an effort to promote fake news, Amazon shared a story by The Washington Post which accused Fox News of ignoring the latest news about Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen. As the Pundit notes, these accusations are patently false.

Another WaPo story promoted by Amazons emails alleged that President Trump worked with his lawyer, Cohen, to silence two women.  Both stories were selected to serve the left-wing narrative that President Trump is a criminal that needs to be impeached. Indeed, the political agenda here is clear. This is not the first time that Amazon has been accused of using technology, in one form or another, to push their political leanings on the masses either.

The use of email to spread propaganda and fake news is just one of the many tactics being employed by left-wing corporations to smear conservatives and quash dissenting opinions. Amazon, like other tech companies, has been using a third-party organization to silence conservatives. Specifically, the online retailer relies on the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) to police the Amazon Smile charitable program. By using a biased third party, Amazon is able to claim that their company isnt biased  though its not a very convincing argument.

An Amazon spokesperson told The Daily Caller News Foundation, We remove organizations that the SPLC deems as ineligible. The spokesperson further commented that Amazon uses the SPLC because we dont want to be biased whatsoever, but as Daily Caller reports, the Amazon mouthpiece was unable to confirm if Amazon considers SPLC to be an unbiased organization.

SPLC is a participant in the Smile program  yet they alone decide what other groups are allowed to participate. Only liberals would find a way to turn charity into dictatorship.

To make matters worse, Amazons beloved personal assistant, Alexa, has been accused of espousing liberal bias as well as spying on users. Recall last years viral video of Steven Crowder doing a question and answer session with Alexa: The device declared that Jesus Christ was fictional while praising the Prophet Muhammad, and also said there were more than two genders.

So the left-wing is using technology to silence dissenting opinions, spy on everyday people and push their political agenda. You know what they say, if it looks like a fascist and quacks like a fascist, it probably is a fascist. But the left-wing has already re-defined fascism to suit their agenda, too.

See more coverage of the left-wings latest atrocities and read more stories on Jeff Bezos at JeffBezosWatch.com.

Amazoncom now emailing its customers left-wing propaganda that bashes Fox News and claims Trump is


Thousands of dead fish have been left scattered across roads in North Carolina as flood waters recede following Hurricane Florence.

Fire crews have been sent to clear fish off highways with a hose after storm surges brought them far inland last week.

Penderlea Fire Department posted pictures of the unusual scene on one interstate road, writing: Well, we can add washing fish off of the interstate to the long list of interesting things firefighters get to experience.

It added: Hurricane Florence caused massive flooding in our area and allowed the fish to travel far from their natural habitat, stranding them on the interstate when waters receded.

Some commenters questioned whether leaving piles of rotting fish by the roadside would create a horrendous odour.

But the fire department responded: The smell is what it is; this was done for the safety of motorists since some of the fish were actually quite large and could be dangerous if hit, or if swerved around.

Be sure to keep your windows closed and air on circulate, we will be!

Hurricane Florence has claimed the lives of at least 43 people since slamming into the Carolina last week.

Emergency management officials said residents whose homes were damaged or destroyed will begin moving into hotel rooms Monday.

"Hurricane Florence has deeply wounded our state, wounds that will not fade soon as the flood waters finally recede," Governor Roy Cooper said Saturday.

In South Carolina, more evacuations were ordered over the weekend as rivers continue to rise in the aftermath of a storm that has claimed at least 43 lives since slamming into the coast.

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster has estimated damage from the flood in his state at $1.2 billion.

Dead fish litter North Carolina roads after flood waters from Hurricane Florence recede


It seems that disgraced Guardians of the Galaxy writer and director James Gunn doesnt just like to joke about pedophilia  he also attends pedophilia themed parties.

Featured on his website were photos of himself attending a To Catch a Predator themed party  based on the show which busted pedophiles who targeted children online.

The images feature the former Disney director dressed up as a priest surrounded by women dressed like young children.

Gunn was fired by Disney after many disturbing jokes about pedophilia were uncovered on his Twitter account. The company is now reportedly in negotiations with him, and may give him his job back, after actors from the GOTG franchise spoke out in his defense.

The offensive attitudes and statements discovered on James Twitter feed are indefensible and inconsistent with our studios values, and we have severed our business relationship with him, Alan Horn, chairman of  Walt Disney Studios, said in a statement at the time the tweets were uncovered.

According to reports that came out hours before these new photos surfaced, Marvel is also lobbying Disney to take Gunn back.

Tweets included jokes such as Eagle Snatches Kid is what I call it when I get lucky and other obscene comments about children.

Hollywood Director James Gunn Publicly Posted Photos of Himself at a Pedophilia-Themed To Catch a P


It was only a matter of time before Kellyanne Conways fallback media tactics became transparent to even the most casual of observers, but she got caught relying on them during an interview with Jon Karl on ABCs This Week and made Trump look even worse than he already has for the past year.

When Karl asked Conway a simple question that she was utterly unable to spin into an acceptable answer, she resorted to her well-known and highly recognizable method of conflating the point, playing the victim, and constructing a non-answer. The answer to this particular question, however, has no possible spin.

Since the question has only one possible answer  there is none  Conway flubbed through a few possible non-committal spins. Her first fallback was how unfair the media covers Trumps administration.

Karl pressed on, clarifying that he was asking which West Wing staff the president works with every day who can represent the needs of the black community. Conway had no answer, so she deflected with more the media is unfair attempts by talking about how not enough coverage was given to Mike Pences receipt of the remains of American soldiers from North Korea and how low the black unemployment rate is, although Karl had literally discussed the low black unemployment rate just moments before her interview.

She did eventually dredge up the name of one black staffer, JaRon Smith. He has no office in the West Wing and is not an adviser to the president.

Once upon a time, the GOP styled itself the new Tea Party, fighting for no taxation without representation, although they somehow turned that into some argument against billionaires paying taxes at all. Now, however, 13 percent of the population, who happens to also be the most vulnerable population in the country, has no representation in the White House.

Meanwhile, the presidents most recognizable adviser cannot even answer questions as to why that might be.

Kellyanne Conway Goes On Sunday TV Regrets Doing So In 7 Crazy Seconds VIDEO


Cabbage of any kind has always been one of my favourite things to eat, and thats because A: it cooks quickly, B: Indian food can be so experimental with spices  by adding just a little something it can completely change the taste of the dish!

I really love to ferment cabbage and enjoy it with various dishes. But here, cabbage isnt that popular, and especially not with children. One reason why kids dont enjoy or are not keen on eating cabbage in this country is that it can be very bland: after boiling alone the cabbage is just tasteless!

You dont have to add spices to make it taste better, you can add garlic, ginger or onions along with peas or beans, and saute, creating a whole new dish that will help people see it in a different light. I think cabbage is one vegetable that is really underrated!

Heat the oil in a pan on medium and once its hot, add the nigella and fennel seeds. Then add the curry leaves, but make sure not to burn the leaves by lowering the heat a little.

Once the pan starts sizzling add the grated ginger and cook for 2 minutes.

Add the green chillies along with the chopped cabbage and cook for 4-5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add the salt and turmeric and cook for further 2-3 minutes.

Once cooked serve hot with a chapatti or wrap.

Romy Gills restaurant is in Thornbury (Romyskitchen.co.uk). Follow her on instagram @romygill

How to make Romy Gillaposs cabbage with fennel and nigella seeds


The mask is off and the true radical face of the Democrats has been exposed. They are seemingly more concerned with protecting their radical open-borders agenda than the lives of innocent Americans.

Dem Reaction to Tibbetts Death Heartless Despicable


In the wake of this years Black History Month, there is no doubt that weve come a long way since the days when 60 per cent of employed black women worked as domestic servants, or since 44 per cent of white people said they would relocate if a black family moved in next-door. In the not so distant past, we have witnessed movements from Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr, the passing of the great Civil Rights Act of 1964 and most recently, the inauguration of the first black President of the United States.

There is a common belief that the struggle against racism has been from the ground upwards; that it has always existed and that with every bold step forward, ethnic minority people have achieved a greater social standing than they ever had before. History, however, tells us otherwise.

Racial prejudice as we know it today simply didnt exist, for example, during the Egyptian, Greek and Roman empires. It was noted that people came in a variety of hues, but only as an indication of where they may have come from.

Does responsibility lie with the millennial generation to move forward? Not necessarily. Another recurring belief is that to change societal perceptions, we must start with those in their 20s and 30s. These people are thought to have enough knowledge of the world to understand the issues at stake, but their opinions can still be influenced and moulded. The sad truth is that the attitudes of this generation are already too far ingrained and that when we reach a certain age, we actually shift the responsibility onto the next, and expect them to lead the charge.

In reality, biases start to take hold during childhood, so unless we are encouraged and led to reject them at a very early age, we wont move forward at pace. We wont build a society in which peoples experiences and the wider perception of racism is different to that of today.

Its encouraging to see some brands making concerted efforts to address this issue. In 1980, an official African American Barbie doll was created, alongside a Latina Barbie. These were the first of a collection that, to date, includes more than 40 different international Barbies. Fast-forward nearly 40 years, and this trend is still continuing. Thomas the Tank Engine, for example, has just recently introduced a roster of multi-cultural characters, such as Ashima from India and Yong Bao from China.

This trend can be seen in adult entertainment too. Dont forget that 50 or so years ago, it was rare to see ethnic minority characters on TV, and when you did, they were often blacked up white performers. Take the programme, Curry and Chips, for example. Black singer and actor, Kenny Lynch, was a regular on the show, but the lead role of a Pakistani immigrant was played by Spike Milligan; a white man. Whilst this would be unthinkable today, at the time the show was incredibly popular, even with minorities, who actually related to the stories and events depicted.

Aside from pandering to stereotypes though, historically, very few minorities have featured in adult entertainment. Again, that has changed dramatically. The most recent series of Doctor Who, for example, though experiencing criticism from some viewers for being too politically correct features its first female lead, as well as a black actor and Asian actress as the titular characters companions.

Despite some backlash though, the progress that has been made over the last 50 years shouldnt be underestimated. We need to ensure that this trend continues until diversity is seen in all forms of entertainment, both for adults and children, as well as in educational and business material.

The more we highlight the issue and encourage discussion, the more attention well draw to the fact that racism still exists. Currently, debates on race are fractious, challenging and confrontational. This is why most of us choose to avoid the topic altogether, looking the other way until a case arises that we simply cant ignore. Even then, we may have no better response than to wring our hands and wait for other news to push whatever has made us uncomfortable out of the headlines.

We may have come a long way, but there is still a lot to be done. First and foremost, we need to recognise and deal directly with the new strain of subtle racism that exists today. Racism is not a thing of the past  yet. But we can make it so.

We Need To Recognise That Racism Still Exists We May Have Come A Long Way But There Is Still A Lot


(Natural News) Its not the most pleasant topic, but at some point, youve probably thought about what youd like to happen to your remains when you pass away. You might want to be buried underground in a cemetery plot, or perhaps youd rather be cremated. One thing you probably havent considered is having your remains liquefied and then dumped into the sewers of your city, but thats exactly what is happening to some deceased Canadians.

Hiltons Aquagreen Dispositions uses a process called alkaline hydrolysis to dissolve dead bodies. According to their website, pressure, heat, alkali and water are used together to hydrolyze a persons body, with only fragments of bone remaining and any medical devices the person had implanted. Family members can recover things like pacemakers and titanium implants and have them recycled, while the bone fragments are then pressed into a white powder and given to the dead persons loved ones to be kept somewhere or scattered.

You might be thinking that nothing seems too untoward there, but the company found itself in hot water after it was discovered that they were draining the liquid byproduct of the process into the sewage system of the town.

In fact, the Bereavement Authority of Ontario suspended the companys license earlier this year. It was also noted that they did not always have a funeral director on hand during the cremations, which is a requirement to ensure the deceased person is given proper and dignified handling.

While its billed as an eco-friendly solution, its really the opposite if it means the heavy metals like mercury that survive the liquefication process are ending up in city sewage. And guess where that city sewage ends up? Many cities have been turning their sewage it into biosolids that are then dumped onto food crops.

The use of biosolids, or biosludge, is an upsetting practice under normal circumstances as it spreads pharmaceutical chemicals, industrial pollutants, and heavy metals onto crops, but its even more disconcerting to think that the food we eat could have been fed the remains of other people. Perhaps its not technically cannibalism, but its close enough to make many people feel very uneasy.

Without that final step of putting peoples remains in the food crops we eat, this might indeed be the eco-friendly solution it claims to be. Current methods are not perfect, with the concept of flame-based cremation requiring the same amount of gas and electricity that a single person uses throughout an entire month, according to the Guardian. It emits greenhouse gases and is also responsible for a significant portion of mercury pollution  16 percent in the UK  because of dental fillings.

Burial isnt much better, with coffins using up wood and often sealed using formaldehyde resin. Formaldehyde is also used in embalming bodies. On top of that, underground casket burials can take up a lot of land, which is already at a premium throughout much of the world.

The bottom line is that if youre seeking a green solution for your remains, you might want to make sure it is truly as environmentally friendly as it seems before you make such a serious decision.

Eco-friendly company comes up with ingenious way to dispose of the entire population using city se


Kim Kardashian has hit out at the mummy shamers after she turned her daughter into the contour queen.

Kardashian, 37, shared a video of five-year-old North experimenting with products from her latest makeup range.

The famous tot, whose father is Kanye West, was pouting with pink lips and glowing from her mothers highlighter.

Another Instagram clip sees her standing in front of a mirror with a thick strip of makeup on her nose and blue eye shadow as she attempts to apply lipstick with a brush.

She captioned the clip with a crown emoji and the words: Contour queen.

Aware that fellow parents could take aim at her decision to let North paint her face, Kardashian quickly explained that she let her loose with her makeup in a bid to bribe her daughter to leave the house.

North wearing shade #6 in the new Classic Blossom Collection, she wrote. Relax mum shamers its coming off in a few mins.

I needed a bribe to get out of the door... you feel me?!?!?!

It is not the first time North has sampled her mothers makeup. In June she left Kardashian laughing as she attempted to apply eye shadow from her Mario palette.

In a video shared to Instagram Kardashian tells her: North, what are you doing with my Mario palette? Stop it. Thats not how you put on eye shadow.

Kardashian, who also has son Saint, two, and seven-month-old daughter Chicago, recently came under fire from fans who accused her of damaging Norths curls by straightening her hair.

Kardashian previously opened up about her daughters love of curly hair and how she encourages her to appreciate it.

Speaking to Interview magazine she said: Shes obsessed with her curly hair, and if she finds someone who has the same hair, she runs to them and is like, You have curly hair like me? And we get to talk about it.

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In what was almost certainly the final act of his UFC career, Zubaira Tukhugov climbed into the Octagon and attacked Conor McGregor during the chaos that followed McGregors loss Saturday to Khabib Nurmagomedov at UFC 229. An apparently unrepentant Tukhugov took to social media Sunday to say that in striking the Irishman, he had followed through on a promise.

Tukhugov was among three members of Nurmagomedovs entourage arrested in the wake of the post-fight melee that marred the UFC lightweight champions victory in the much-hyped event. The men were reportedly released after McGregor declined to press charges, but its likely just a matter of time before Tukhugov is formally dismissed from the company.

If so, it may well have been worth it to Tukhugov to judge from his remarks Sunday, video of which was posted and translated in part by Karim Zidan of the MMA blog Bloody Elbow.

I slapped him as promised, Tukhugov said of McGregor to a camera. I promised to make him answer for his words, and I did.

Nurmagomedov made brief comments at a post-fight news conference in which he apologized for sparking the fracas by leaping out of the cage to violently confront a training partner of McGregors who was yapping at him during his four-round triumph. However, the undefeated Russian was also quick to ask reporters why the focus was on his actions rather than what he saw as unacceptable remarks by his opponent leading up to the event.

He talk about my religion. He talk about my country. He talk about my father, Nurmagomedov said of McGregor, adding, This is a respect sport, this is not a trash-talking sport. ... You cannot talk about religion, you cannot talk about a nation, you cannot talk about this stuff. For me, this is very important.

Nurmagomedov was referring to his father being called a quivering coward in a social media post by McGregor about a month before the fight, as well as verbal jabs that included Dagestani rat. McGregor also tauntingly offered whiskey to Nurmagomedov, a practicing Muslim, and called his Egypt-born manager, Ali Abdelaziz, a terrorist.

Nurmagomedov also brought up McGregors April attack on a bus carrying UFC fighters and staffers, an attempt to confront his nemesis over a previous confrontation between Nurmagomedov and Artem Lobov, a UFC fighter who is close with the Irishman. McGregor ended up pleading guilty to a misdemeanor in July, a punishment Nurmagomedov made clear he found insufficient.

Immediately after the melee, UFC president Dana White vowed that whoever jumped into the Octagon to attack McGregor will never fight here in his company. A disgusted White included Nurmagomedov in claiming, These guys are in big trouble. It is going to be ugly.

Nurmagomedovs $2 million purse has been withheld by the Nevada State Athletic Commission, pending an investigation into the fracas. He could receive a lengthy suspension that White indicated could cost Nurmagomedov his belt.

Tukhugov, also a Russian and devout Sunni Muslim, was scheduled to fight Lobov at UFC Fight Night 138 later this month, but he presumably wont be in the company at that point let alone on the card. Shortly before UFC 229, Tukhugov said that after squaring off with Lobov, he looked forward to taking on McGregor himself  outside of the Octagon.

He explained that he was deeply offended by McGregors comments in an Instagram post last month that if Tukhugov were a true Chechen, he would never assist in a Dagestani led attack on another Chechen, referring to Nurmagomedovs confrontation with Lobov.

In comments earlier this month to MMA Fighting, Tukhugov said in halting English, McGregor wants Chechen and Dagestani upset with each other  never do this, never, because were brother republics. Tukhugov added that instead of lobbing shots via Instagram, If youre a man, you tell him [to his] face, and said his preference was to have no cage for his planned showdown with McGregor.

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Having been in office for over a year at this point, U.S. President Donald Trump has had plenty of opportunities to share a whole host of excuses for the Russia scandal. Often, its fake news; sometimes, the Russians didnt meddle in the election at all  and sometimes, Barack Obama should have done more to stop it.

Thats the excuse that Trump shared on Twitter this Saturday while overseas, where he will soon meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin himself.

Its not as though many people expect to find evidence that Obama covered up Russian election meddling in support of Hillary Clintons presidential candidacy.

No amount of rhetorical maneuvering from the current president will change reality. Obama, on a basic level, did do something about it, having imposed sanctions on Russian interests and expelled Russian officials from the United States after the election. Its Trumps own first national security Michael Flynn who undercut those very sanctions in talks with then-Russian Ambassador to the United States Sergei Kislyak, admonishing the Russians against taking the sanctions too personally considering the friendliness towards Russia of the then-incoming Trump administration.

Those communications were not immediately known. In the meantime, Obamas administration continued to work to address Russian election meddling. It was on January 6 of last year, in the last few weeks of the Obama administration, that the nations intelligence agencies  headed by individuals hed put there  released a comprehensive report to the public outlining their understanding of Russian meddling activities during the 2016 election cycle.

Then, Donald Trump took office. He has refused to take major steps to accept the responsibility of addressing Russian election interference. Reporter Jim Sciutto noted in response to another similar tweet from the current president that the nations current intelligence chiefs told the Senate as recently as mid-February of this year that Trump had given them no direction to counter Russian election meddling.

In the absence of presidential leadership, the task of addressing Russian election meddling has fallen to Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who the president routinely tries to undercut.

As recently as this past Wednesday, Trump posed the fallacy riddled question on Twitter:

There remains no evidence that any of Peter Strzoks personal feelings about the repugnant behavior of Donald Trump ever affected the course of an investigation.

This past Friday, the rigged witch hunt led by Special Counsel Mueller produced indictments of twelve Russian intelligence officers for election meddling related crimes. Those indictments provide the context for the presidents latest ranting about the investigation.

Whether he likes the idea or not, that investigation will continue.

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Amid an ongoing probe into separate allegations against Kavanaugh, the Iowa Republican asked Attorney General Jeff Sessions and FBI Director Christopher Wray on Saturday to look into what he described as materially false statements provided to Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) last week.

Grassleys letter to the law enforcement officials says that a man, whose name was redacted, contacted Whitehouse on Monday with a claim that Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted a female acquaintance of his on a boat in Newport Harbor, Rhode Island, in 1985.

The Judiciary Committee later questioned Kavanaugh about the allegations, which he vehemently denied.

I was not in Newport, havent been on a boat in Newport, Kavanaugh said. This is just completely made up, or at least not me. I dont know what theyre referring to.

The man who made the accusation later recanted his story, saying hed made a mistake, the Providence Journal reported.

Grassley said in his letter that the mans actions may have amounted to a crime.

The Committee is grateful to citizens who come forward with relevant information in good faith, even if they are not one hundred percent sure about what they know, Grassley wrote. But when individuals provide fabricated allegations to the Committee, diverting Committee resources during time-sensitive investigations, it materially impedes our work. Such acts are not only unfair; they are potentially illegal.

It is illegal to make materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statements to Congressional investigators. It is illegal to obstruct Committee investigations, he continued.

President Donald Trump ordered the FBI on Friday to launch an investigation into the sexual assault allegations against Kavanaugh, which the judge has denied. Several women  including Christine Blasey Ford, a California professor, and Deborah Ramirez, a Yale classmate of Kavanaughs  have accused the judge of misconduct.

Trumps order came on the heels of a surprise call by Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) to delay Kavanaughs final confirmation vote until an FBI probe  one limited in time and scope  is complete.

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The painter, inventor and polymath Leonardo da Vinci may have had a squint that helped him capture the Mona Lisas smile and create his masterpieces, according to researchers.

Doctors from the Optometry and Vision Sciences School at City University of London have diagnosed the Renaissance master with strabismus after analysing the eye alignment of works believed to have been modelled, in part, on himself.

Strabismus is a common vision disorder where one of the eyes looks inward, outward, up or down when the other eyes is focused on an object.

The condition is thought to be beneficial to painters as it lets them better focus on close-up flat surfaces and has been identified in a number of famous artists, including Rembrandt.

There are notoriously few validated images of da Vinci and historians can only speculate on the extent he put himself into his work. However, Leonardo's own text the Codex Atlanticus says that artists can't help but be self inspired, stating: [The soul] guides the painters arm and makes him reproduce himself,  since it appears to the soul that this is the best way to represent a human being."

"A number of famous artists have been identified as having strabismus on the basis of the eye alignment evident from their self-portraits, including Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Albrecht Durer, Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (who was also known as Il Guercino, Italian for the squinter), Edgar Degas, and Pablo Picasso," the studys author, neuroscientist Professor Christopher Tyler, said.

Some forms of strabismus are thought to facilitate artistic work by suppressing the deviating eye, which creates two-dimensional monocular vision advantageous to painting and drawing

While having two eyes focused on an object (stereoscopic vision) is integral to our depth perception, it can make translating three-dimensional scenes to canvas more tricky, as each eye will be seeing objects slightly to the right or left.

This can be illustrated by holding a finger in front of your nose and shutting your eyes alternately causing the digit to jump side to side.

If one eye deviates, the brain will deprioritise signals from the unfocused eye, preventing this effect and giving a more static image to work from.

For the study published in JAMA Ophthalmology, Professor Tyler measured the alignment in six art works believed to be partly self-inspired by fitting circles to the irises of each eye and measuring the average deviation from alignment.

Works included two drawings, two oil paintings and two sculptures. Among them his world famous Vitruvian Man sketch, the bronze sculpture David  reputedly a depiction of the young Leonardo and Salvator Mundi, his painting of Jesus Christ which recently became the most expensive in history.

In all cases, the eye misalignment was measurable, though not severe and averaged a 10.3 deviation from the focussed eye across the six pieces.

This negative number means the eye would tend to look outwards (exotropia) and Professor Tyler argues that da Vancis strabismus may have been non-existent when focusing intently on an object, but would come in when he relaxed into painting. This would give him the best of both worlds.

The professor said: The weight of converging evidence suggests that Leonardo had intermittent exotropia, with a resulting ability to switch to monocular vision.

This would perhaps explain his great facility for depicting the three-dimensional solidity of faces and objects in the world and the distant depth recession of mountainous scenes.

Leonardo da Vinci may have had an eye disorder that helped him paint masterpieces


Paul Ryan is on his way out so hes on a kamikaze mission to push through mass amnesty.

Ingraham tweeted: Warning to @realDonaldTrump: An effort is underway by liberal Repubs (+Dems) on a mass amnesty in the House thru a discharge petition, supported by @SpeakerRyan. Total travesty & mid-term turn-out killer.

Laura Ingraham then fired off a second tweet clarifying her first one about Speaker Ryan.

Ingraham tweeted: To clarify: @SpeakerRyan does NOT publicly support the discharge petition. GOP must stick with the clear & principled push for Kates Law, no funding for sanctuary cities, MS-13 bill. Amnesty wont pass in Senate anyway. #NoDischargePetition

RINOs and Dems in the House are essentially forcing a vote on mass amnesty.

More than a dozen House Republicans are issuing a rare challenge to their own partys leaders: Allow immigration bills to get a vote now, or well force a vote. Theyre circulating a petition to do just that, and its only seven signatories shy of overriding House Speaker Paul D. Ryans (R-Wis.) opposition and forcing votes on a variety of immigration bills to provide a path to citizenship for dreamers. It would be the first time the House has passed an immigration bill since Republicans came to power in 2011.

Americans dont want mass amnesty. We voted for Trump to end the amnesty insanity.

President Trump ran his 2016 presidential campaign on building the wall and putting America first.

In fact, in response to DREAMers demanding amnesty, then-candidate Donald Trump told reporters in February of 2016, I want dreamers to come from the United States.

I want the people in the United States that have children, I want them to have dreams also. Were always talking about DREAMers for other people. I want the children that are growing up in the United States to be dreamers also. Theyre not dreaming right now, Trump continued.

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FALLS CHURCH, Va.  State delegate Lee Carter wants you to know that he is in the midst of his third divorce, cant hold a job, lobbed homophobic insults when he was young, and may even have explicit photos of himself floating around on the internet.

Its not that the incumbent Democrat wants to lose the election next year; he just wants to get all of the potentially damning information out there before any of his opponents can.

I think weve moved past the age where folks in politics can pretend that their past doesnt exist, Carter, a 31-year-old first-term delegate from Manassas, told The Associated Press in explaining his decision to release the less-appealing aspects of his life in a series of 15 tweets.

Stephen Farnsworth, a political science professor at the University of Mary Washington, acknowledged that Carters strategy is unusual but said the approach might be crazy like a fox.

In the age of (Brett) Kavanaugh, trying to peddle false or incomplete narratives about ones past appears to be a high-risk strategy, said Farnsworth, referring to the Supreme Court justice whose nomination was in the balance after he was publicly accused of sexual assault when he was a high school student more than three decades ago. Kavanaugh vehemently denied the charges and was confirmed.

Carters approach has the benefit of disclosing everything now, a year away from his re-election, making it old news by the time youre in front of the voters again, Farnsworth added.

The incumbent, for his part, rejects any comparison between his behavior and the accusations against Kavanaugh; he said nothing in his background is equivalent to the accusations of attempted rape levied against the justice.

Carter, whose admissions range from the trivial to the potentially serious, said hes made no effort to scrub his internet history to hide anything embarrassing.

Among his voluntary confessions: He said that growing up in the South he didnt always have the same revulsion for the Confederate flag that he does now.

And, Just like everyone else under 35, Im sure explicit images or video of me exists out there somewhere, he said. I never sent them unsolicited, and never while I was in a relationship. Thats just a reality of dating in the smartphone era.

Carter also said hes a rape survivor. He declined to discuss it any further, however, saying he did not want to name or indirectly identify the woman who he says attacked him when they were in a relationship.

The incumbent also released some details about one of his failed marriages, saying in his tweets that a custody fight for his daughter got ugly, to the point where a baseless claim for termination of parental rights was filed against me.

I agreed to pay arrearage I didnt actually owe in the settlement because it was cheaper than paying a lawyer, he wrote.

Carter, a self-described democratic socialist with an unconventional outlook on politics, was not considered a serious candidate by the political establishment when he ran last year against Republican incumbent Jackson Miller. He received little support from the state Democratic Party, and his campaign largely flew under the radar until Election Day, when a Democratic tidal wave helped carry him to victory.

As a result, he acknowledges his background didnt receive the same scrutiny as most candidates. He expects that to be different in 2019, when he figures he will be a top target of Republicans.

To all the Republicans who are tasked with following my social media, enjoy that oppo dump, Carter wrote in the last of his 15 tweets. Have fun in 2019.

As for the reaction hes received, he said theres a generational divide. Older people are shocked hed willingly disclose embarrassing facts in public, while younger people react with a shrug.

I put the bad out there with the good, he said. When it comes time to vote, they have a complete picture. They can look at my personal life, my professional life, and make their decision. ... I did this so we can focus on the issues, and the fact that people have messy lives wont be a distraction.

His expectation is that voters will be more interested in the issues than in his personal life. He says the socialist principles he advocates are popular once people get past the label. The core principle, he said, is that workers, not corporations, should enjoy the benefits of their own labor.

Bill Card, chairman of the Republican Party in Prince William County, said he was surprised by Carters online admissions.

In my generation, people dont live out their lives in public to that degree, said Card, 65.

But he said he expects that whoever the GOP fields to run against Carter next year will be as eager as Carter is to run on the issues. He does not believe either the socialist tag Carter applies to himself  or the policies associated with it  will appeal to the electorate.

A socialist is just a patient communist in my book, Card said. The end goal is the same.

Candid Virginia candidate voluntarily airs dirty laundry


Nice work Democrats!

 Republican voters are now more angry and energized that Democrat voters after the Kavanaugh attacks and hoaxes and the mob attacks by Democrat protesters.

Republicans are madder about the Kavanaugh controversy than Democrats are and more determined to vote in the upcoming elections because of it.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 54% of all Likely U.S. Voters say they are more likely to vote in the upcoming midterm elections because of the controversy surrounding President Trumps U.S. Supreme Court nominee. Only nine percent (9%) say they are less likely to vote. Thirty-four percent (34%) say the controversy will have no impact on their vote. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

Sixty-two percent (62%) of Republicans are more likely to vote because of the Kavanaugh controversy, compared to 54% of Democrats and 46% of voters not affiliated with either major political party.

Sixty-two percent (62%) of all voters are angry about the U.S. Senates treatment of Kavanaugh, with 42% who are Very Angry.

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Celebrity Big Brother star Ben Jardine has begged fans to leave Roxanne Pallett alone, saying she has been punished enough.

Pallett, 35, sparked mass outrage after she accused fellow housemate Ryan Thomas of deliberately punching her repeatedly in the ribs, despite footage showing he barely touched her during a light hearted play fight.

The former Emmerdale actress was trolled online with her Wikipedia page edited to describe her as a pathetic human being while others called for her to be banned from TV indefinitely.

Jardine, who struck up a friendship with Pallett in the house, said people need to move on from the incident.

Speaking to Lizzie Cundy on FUBAR Radio he said: I think everyone now should just get on with it. She's been punished, bless her, leave her be.

Jardine, who found fame on Married at First Sight, admitted he had a connection with Pallett despite her being engaged.

I was taken in with her, he said. We clicked, I'll admit that, and there was a connection.

When I looked into the little ones eyes you can see a little bit of a lost soul there.

Pallett walked from the house after hearing fans chanting for her to leave. She apologised for accusing Thomas of deliberately hurting her and said she accepts that she is the most hated woman in Britain.

Thomas broke down in tears on seeing footage of himself professing his innocence in the Diary Room after learning of Palletts accusations which saw him issued with a formal warning from show bosses.

Speaking to Jeremy Vine on Wednesday he said: Ive not seen any of that back. Its strange. You have no idea whats going on when youre in there. You just want your friends and your loved ones with you when something like that happens.

It caught us all by surprise. That house when something like that happens can become very isolated. It did for me personally.

Thomas said he appreciates Palletts apology, but has no plans to see her in the future.

I think Roxanne has been through a lot he said. Big Brother makes headlines, sometimes for the wrong reasons. I appreciate Roxannes apology and its time to move forward and not dwell on the past.

Shes suffered enough and I dont want to be a part of that. Shes got a lot to deal with and seeing her again is not my first priority.

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Evidence that Mesolithic hunter-gatherers in Ireland may have harmed their health by under-cooking their fish has been uncovered by researchers examining samples from a 7,500-year-old lakeside site in Co Longford.

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany, including Waterford man Robert Power, analysed parasites from the ancient site at Derragh, near Lough Kinale. They found new evidence that the humans of the time were likely heavily infected with a parasite from undercooked fish that causes tapeworm.

A science known as archaeoparasitology explores human infections due to contact with animals in an archaeological context. It is increasingly used as a tool in archeological research to investigate relationships between past humans, environments, diets and disease and can be particularly useful where there are no human or animal remains to examine, but where parasite eggs are preserved.

The Derragh site was first excavated 13 years ago and the only human remains found there consisted of a single tooth.

However, all 12 samples recently analysed by the experts in Germany found evidence of the parasite Diphyllobothrium sp., which had never before been detected in European Mesolithic populations.

In living populations, the majority of individuals with diphyllobothriasis, the infection caused by the parasite Diphyllobothrium sp., have no symptoms. But in about one in five infections, individuals experience diarrhoea and abdominal pain, and may also experience symptoms such as headaches, fatigue, constipation and pernicious anaemia.

Due to the rarity of Mesolithic human remains in Ireland, insights into health during this period have been limited.

The positive results from Derragh are the earliest reported parasites and the first unambiguously human-associated prehistoric parasites from Ireland, the research published last week in the Journal of Archaeological Science said.

Our research at the Mesolithic site of Derragh has made unprecedented insights into early Irish diet and health by identifying Irelands earliest case of fish tape worm infection, Dr Power added.

This find for the first time tells us how the health of Irelands hunter-gatherers was negatively impacted by under cooking freshwater fish that they ate. Although the health of Irelands first peoples is of great scientific interest it has been entirely unknown due to the lack of human remains from the period.

Before this work it was not known that the parasite fish tapeworm even was present in Mesolithic Ireland which only recently had emerged from the icy grips of the last glaciation.

Analysis of samples from the lakeside site shows it was occupied from 7420-3530 BP (Before Present, i.e. before 1950).

Dr Power, an archaeological scientist, said the research he conducted with six other scientists, was only possible as the site was excavated by the Irish Research Institute Discovery Programme between 2003 and 2005.

I knew about the site and I wanted to look at it further because I heard about some of the finds recovered from the site and the exceptional preservation of organic material.

There is no archaeoparasitology lab in Ireland but fortunately a colleague, Angela Perri, had recently set one up in the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology where I was doing my PhD. So it was my idea to have Derragh checked for archaeoparasites.

A small quantity of fish remains were discovered during the excavations at Derragh. The researchers noted all of this material was burnt, most of it to high-temperature calcinations. A majority of the remains were from eel.

Irish hunter-gatherers may have become ill from undercooked fish


(Natural News) Former Google engineer Jack Poulson resigned in August and warned that the evil corporation must be stopped. The senior researcher said he is fearful of Googles ambitions; the corporation is working with China to build an Android app that covertly censors and monitors Chinese citizens online.

The Intercept published details about Google and Chinas exploratory project, code-named Dragonfly. According to the Intercept, Google bosses demanded that employees not discuss the project with anyone. Google bosses allegedly instructed employees to delete the internal memo about the project. However, hundreds of Google employees have defied the orders and have written to the company in protest.

Google admits they have been working with China for several years to develop Android and other mobile apps such as Google Translate and Files Go. Their latest project finds the company working with Chinas leaders to develop a search engine that complies with Chinas authoritarian censorship laws. In a letter to U.S. lawmakers, Jack Poulson describes the project as disturbing. The Senate Commerce Committee received the letter during a hearing called examining safeguards for consumer data privacy. Mr. Poulson wrote, Dragonfly is part of a broad pattern of unaccountable decision making across the tech industry.

Googles head of search, Ben Gomes, spoke with the BBC about it. Right now all weve done is some exploration, but since we dont have any plans to launch something theres nothing much I can say about it.

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Googles chief privacy officer, Keith Enright, confirmed that the company is working with China on a project named Dragonfly, but the company has assured the world, We are not close to launching a search product in China.

In order for a search product to be released in China, it would have to comply with extensive blockages and content restrictions. In order to expand their power, Google would have to restrict freedom of expression and information to comply with Chinas great firewall, which blacklists any news and information that questions communism and other topics not approved by Chinese leaders.

Mr. Poulson gave more details about Googles plans. This includes a detailed blacklist that complies with the Chinese governments demands. Terms mentioned in the blacklist include human rights, student protest, religion, and Nobel prize. Several phrases involving Xi Jinping and other government officials are also not allowed in the search. Googles plan also violates Chinese citizens privacy, allowing joint venture companies unilateral access to user search queries based on the users phone number.

Google has allegedly written code that directs a Chinese users search to only display government-approved data. This manipulation of data applies to user searches on regional air quality data. Due to these efforts alone, Google has violated their own internal policies on privacy and have showed their true intentions: suppressing human freedom.

U.S. leaders must stop taking money from Google and stop being swayed by their evil agendas. Under the Obama Administration, Google enjoyed a revolving door with the government, sitting in on the former Presidents weekly meetings, while funding the former administrations campaigns and enjoying lax regulations from the FTC. Google should be kicked out of government policy and favor. Instead, the rule of law should apply; Google should be shuttered until they show proof that they are not engineering censorship in their products based on political gain, government favor. America should be a place where digital privacy is of utmost priority, where people are secure in their houses, papers, and effects. America should be a place where people are not tracked, a place where freedom of speech, information, and expression is guaranteed online. Because of their track record of suppressing conservative content, Google should be subpoenaed weekly to court to give proof that their platform is treating all Americans equally.

U.S. companies that try to suppress freedom of expression, speech, and thought should be held to a high standard or be kicked out of the country and sent directly to China, where they can continue to cozy up to totalitarian, thought-control regimes. If Google wants to join China in their efforts to censor and control its citizens, then they should move their headquarters there so they can better feel the oppression that they wish upon everyone else.

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MOSCOW, October 27. /TASS/. The Russian-German trade turnover rose almost by
25% in first eight months of 2018 year-on-year, according to the documents
prepared for the upcoming visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to
Istanbul for the quadrilateral summit on the Syrian settlement along with
French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Turkish
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and a number of bilateral meetings between the
leaders on Saturday.

In 2017, the trade between Russia and Germany gained 22.8% to $50 bln. "In
January-August 2018, the Russian-German trade increased by 24% (plus $7.5 bln)
compared with the same period in 2017 to $39 bln. Russian exports to Germany
rose by 35% to $22.1 bln, while imports grew by 12% to $16.9 bln," the
Kremlins press service said.

The total amount of accumulated German investments in the Russian Federation
exceeds $18 bln, while Russian investments in Germany stand at $8.1 bln.

Meanwhile, the trade turnover between Russia and France added 22.5% in
January-July period of 2018 year-on-year, while the Russian-Turkish bilateral
trade went up by 30% in first eight months of this year, the documents for the
summit said.

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Russian-Germany trade up almost by 25 year-to-date Kremlin says


Britoins are getting their biggest pay rise for three years as record low unemployment heaps pressure on employers to bump up wages and ministers loosen the public purse-strings, official figures showed on Tuesday.

Across the UK economy, pay was 3.1% higher than a year earlier in July, the Office for National Statistics said  the biggest increase since August 2015. Driving the increase was a 3.2% annual rise in private-sector pay  equalling the best for three years  as well as a big jump in public-sector pay growth after the scrapping of the 1% cap.

In July, when ministers announced inflation-busting settlements for the armed forces, prison officers and teachers, annual growth in public-sector pay hit 3%, the strongest growth for six years. With inflation at 2.5% in July, UK workers are now seeing stronger real-terms pay rises as the immediate effect of the pounds post-referendum devaluation fades from the figures.

Although the unemployment rate is at its lowest level for more than 40 years, at 4%, employers are still on the hunt for staff, pushing vacancies to the highest level since records began in 2001. Between June and August there were 833,000 job vacancies, some 44,000 higher than a year earlier.

The data will reassure the Bank of Englands rate-setters who have been looking for stronger evidence of falling unemployment to make itself felt in pay growth. Nomura economist George Buckley said rises in pay over the past three months could add up to wage growth of more than 4% if seen over a full year, potentially paving the way for another rise in interest rates as soon as February. He said: If we have got a deal and it is put through the House of Commons before then there is no reason why they should not raise rates.

The pound, already bolstered by EU negotiating chief Michel Barniers emollient comments on a deal, gained ground today, moving further above $1.30. The Bank of England is all but certain to hold interest rates at the current 0.75%, but Anthony Kurukgy, a trader at currency broker Foenix Partners, said markets could be set for a surprisingly hawkish outlook from the Bank given this weeks developments.

The British Chambers of Commerce meanwhile flagged up vacancies as further evidence of persistent skills shortages. Economist Suren Thiru said: Firms continue to report that attempting to recruit staff with the right skills is an increasingly uphill struggle.

Biggest pay rise in three years lifts prospect of early rate hike


Two middlemen have each been sentenced to four years in prison for corruption offences in the first ruling of a huge bribery trial involving oil giants Shell and Eni. A judge also ordered the seizure of more than $120m from the pair.

Nigerian Emeka Obi and Italian Gianluca Di Nardo were convicted of international corruption by a Milan court for their role in a $1.1bn deal for rights to one of Nigerias most promising oil blocks.

Italian prosecutors allege that hundreds of millions of dollars from the 2011 sale of a field was distributed as bribes.

A judge ordered authorities to seize $98.4m from Mr Obi, and 21m Swiss francs from Mr Di Nardo.

The pair had elected to have a fast-track trial which took place behind closed doors and meant that their sentences would be reduced if they were convicted.

According to prosecutors, Mr Obi was in frequent contact with Eni executives trying to broker the sale and intended to pay out some of the money as kickbacks to politicians and Eni managers.

Now all eyes will turn to the main trial, with a hearing scheduled for 26 September. Both Shell and Eni deny any wrongdoing.

Thirteen individuals are also in the dock including Eni chief executive Claudio Descalzi and his predecessor, Paolo Scaroni as well as four former Shell employees, among them Malcolm Brinded, former executive director for Shells upstream operations.

For years Shell had claimed that it only transacted with the Nigerian government when buying the oil field, known as OPL245 which is thought to contain around nine billion barrels of crude. After years of investigations by NGOs, the London-listed company admitted that it had known former Nigerian oil minister and convicted money launderer Dan Etete had been behind the deal.

Mr Etete, who is a defendant in the case, awarded OPL245 to a company called Malabu in 1998, which it later turned out he controlled.

Antonio Tricarico of the Italian NGO Re:Common said Milans public prosecutors were right to bravely take on the two companies and several of their senior managers.

The time has come that the Italian government, as main shareholder of Eni, considers suspending all those managers involved in the case until the final judgement, he said.

Lanre Suraju, Chairman of Nigerian NGO Human and Environmental Development Agenda said the conviction vindicates what international and Nigerian civil society has claimed for years: OPL 245 was a corrupt deal.

As Shell and Enis trial looms, time will tell whether its just the middlemen who pay the price for this epic crime against the Nigerian people, he said.

But one things for certain: this judgment will send shivers down the corporate spines of the oil industry  and will surely alarm Shell and Eni employees and shareholders who have been repeatedly told that there was nothing amiss with the OPL 245 deal.

A spokesperson for Eni said the company acknowledged the judgment and maintains "full confidence" of the appropriateness and legality of its actions.

"This was a completely legal and legitimate transaction conducted directly with the government of Nigeria," the spokesperson said.

Two middlemen convicted of corruption over Shell and Eni Nigerian oil field deal


George Soros is a major talking point in American politics, as Republicans desperately try to control the narrative all around. They claim that he funds Democratic debauchery, and even pays actors to play the part of victims of tragedies that happen all across the country.

Now, Soros has apparently been targeted by conservatives, and this time, its not a meme or hashtag. According to Huffington Post:

Law enforcement officials responded to an incident at the home of liberal billionaire George Soros on Monday evening, an officer with the Bedford, New York, police department told HuffPost. Soros has been a frequent target of conspiracy theories and fear-mongering by hyper-nationalist conservatives in the U.S. and Europe, who often rely on anti-Semitic tropes when they characterize him as a shadowy figure who is encouraging mass migration and torpedoing traditional Christian culture. President Donald Trump has personally attacked him as well. A spokesman for Soros declined to comment on the record about the role that rhetoric might have played in inspiring an attempted attack on the billionaire. The Anti-Defamation League did not immediately to a request for comment.

An explosive device was found on Monday in a mailbox at the Westchester County home of George Soros, the billionaire philanthropist who is a favorite target of right-wing groups, the authorities said. A law enforcement official confirmed that the device was found near Mr. Soross home. It did not explode on its own, and bomb squad technicians proactively detonated it, the official said. Federal and state law enforcement officials responded to the scene in Katonah, N.Y., a hamlet in the upscale town of Bedford in northern Westchester, after the Bedford Police Department received a call about a suspicious package at about 3:45 p.m. An employee of the residence opened the package, revealing what appeared to be an explosive device, the police said in a statement. The employee placed the package in a wooded area and called the Bedford police.

Soros was not home at the time of the attempted attack.

BREAKING Bomb Found In George Soros Mailbox Detonated


(Natural News) A study published in the Journal of Natural Science, Biology and Medicine has shown that being deficient in vitamin D may lead to or worsen rheumatoid arthritis. Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease wherein the immune system mistakenly attacks the joints, creating inflammation. This inflammation causes the tissue lining the inside of the joints to thicken, which in turn, cause swelling and pain in and around the joints.

Vitamin D is said to have immunomodulatory and anti-inflammatory properties, and a deficiency in this vitamin is associated with autoimmune disorders, including rheumatoid arthritis. Therefore, researchers from Guru Gobind Singh Medical College and Hospital in India studied the link between vitamin D and rheumatoid arthritis. (Related: Vitamin D deficiency symptoms explained: the top 9 warning signs.)

In the study, they aimed to determine the differences between vitamin D levels in a healthy population and rheumatoid arthritis patients. Then, they correlated vitamin D levels with rheumatoid arthritis disease activity.

For the study, they recruited a total of 100 participants aged between 18 and 75 years. Half of the participants were rheumatoid arthritis patients, while the other half were healthy individuals. They measured and compared the levels of vitamin D of the participants. Then, they examined the vitamin D levels of rheumatoid arthritis patients in different stages of disease activity.

The results revealed that most of the rheumatoid arthritis patients  particularly 84 percent  were vitamin D deficient. Their vitamin D levels were also significantly lower than healthy participants. The researchers also saw that the levels of vitamin D tended to decrease as the disease worsened.

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Based on the findings of the study, the researchers concluded that vitamin D deficiency is more common in people with rheumatoid arthritis patients and this deficiency may cause or worsen the disease.

The current recommended daily dose of vitamin D in the U.S. is 400 international units (IUs). However, most experts suggest that this is not enough and that all adults should take at least 2,000 IUs of vitamin D every day. Getting exposed to direct sunlight for 10 to 30 minutes a day can boost vitamin D levels. However, this may be difficult due to colder temperatures and inclement weather. During this time, people are more likely to stay inside their houses and fail to get enough sunlight vitamin. So how do you avoid vitamin D deficiency, especially during winter? One of the best ways to prevent vitamin D deficiency is through diet. You can incorporate these vitamin D-rich foods to your diet:

Read more news stories and studies on the importance of vitamin D on health by going to VitaminD.news.

Being deficient in vitamin D may worsen rheumatoid arthritis symptoms


Nick Grimshaw has revealed that his early starts for Radio 1s Breakfast Show have had a negative impact on his love life for the last six years.

The presenter, 33, said that finally stepping down from his role as Breakfast host and switching to drivetime means that he can finally start dating again and potentially find love.

I think I will have more time to put my life first. I have committed to this show, especially the last year, and I have put my head down. But now I can go for dates with people and the new show will help, he told the Daily Mirror.

"I have been trying to date people, but you dont want to day date and even two weeks ago, I went on a date and then he said, do you want to go to the cinema, its at 8.20pm?.

And I was thinking, 8.20, arrggh the film wont start until ten-to-nine so it wont finish before 11 so home and asleep at midnight and that is if I fall asleep straight away.'

He added: "It does send you a bit mad and sort of becomes your life, because everything you are watching and consuming each day you are trying to produce content for the next morning, because you cant do it before 5am."

Grimshaw said that he has had a number of short-term relationships in the past and has even tried dating app Bumble, but to no avail.

The DJ took over the early-morning radio programme from Chris Moyles six years ago but announced his departure in May saying he was "really tired".

He will be replaced by Greg James and will take over his Radio 1 drivetime slot in a job swap between the pair.

Grimshaws final show aired on Thursday morning, opening with Kanye West and Jay-Z collaboration N***** In Paris - the first song he played when he started the job in 2012.

In May 2018, Grimshaw became the Radio 1 Breakfast Show's second longest-running host in the programme's history, taking over the previous record held by Tony Blackburn.

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A police officer who tasered her forces race relations adviser in the face after mistaking him for a wanted man used unreasonable force, a misconduct hearing has heard.

Acting sergeant Claire Boddie claims she believed 65-year-old Judah Adunbi was a threat when she discharged the weapon in Bristol in January last year.

A misconduct hearing at Avon and Somerset Polices headquarters in Portishead was told that she and a colleague mistook Mr Adunbi for wanted man Royston McCalla when they spotted him walking with his dog.

This case starts off with an incident of mistaken identity, said George Thomas, presenting the case against Ms Boddie.

It escalated from that to the point at which PC Boddie used a Taser on Mr Adunbi. One of the barbs of the Taser struck Mr Adunbi in the face, causing a minor injury to his chin.

Ms Boddie, 47, was cleared of unlawfully discharging a taser and assault by beating at Salisbury Magistrates Court in May.

During the trial, Ms Boddie  regarded as a well-trained officer with more than 20 years experience of frontline policing  said she felt the use of force was reasonable in self-defence, to defend her fellow officer PC Darren Weston, and in order to make an arrest.

She said she was acting in accordance with her training and the force she used on Mr Adunbi was lawful, claiming he posed a threat as he had keys in his hand and was using violence to escape.

Footage taken from bodycams worn by Ms Boddie and PC Weston showed the officers repeatedly asking Mr Adunbi to identify himself, with the community elder replying: I'm not telling you my name. I have done nothing wrong.

He is heard shouting: Why you coming to torment me? Go f*** off about your business and don't follow me. Stop, stop, if you put your hand on me I'm gonna f*** you up.

"I'm not threatening you. I'm telling you if you put arms on me I'm going to defend myself. This is not the first time you have done this."

In separate mobile phone footage, a neighbour is heard telling the officers: "He is just trying to get into his house. Leave him alone."

Mr Thomas said Mr Adunbi, who had previously been stopped by police officers in the belief he was Mr McCalla, was under no obligation to provide officers with his identity.

"It is apparent from the footage that angry though he is, Mr Adunbi is indignant that he has been stopped," he added.

Footage showed Ms Boddie drawing her taser at Mr Adunbi and used it to put a "red dot" on him, before putting it away.

There was a scuffle after Mr Adunbi used his keys to open his gate and Ms Boddie discharged her taser in what Mr Thomas described as an "unnecessary, unreasonable or disproportionate use of force in the circumstances".

He said there was a "three second window" between Ms Boddie claiming she had seen Mr Adunbi punch PC Weston and her discharging the taser.

"It doesn't appear that she really takes any care to aim it, other than roughly in Mr Adunbi's direction, before she pulls the trigger," Mr Thomas said, saying the weapon was discharged when he was moving away with his hands down.

"It is not alleged that PC Boddie deliberately aimed that taser to Mr Adunbi's face."

Mr Adunbi was later taken to hospital to have the barb removed.

He was a member of the forces independent advisory group which raises policing matters which could cause the public concern.

Giving evidence at her trial, Ms Boddie said: I was not sure it was Mr McCalla. I wanted to give him the opportunity to identify himself and calm him down.

In a statement made after the incident, which was read to the court, she described Mr Adunbi as hostile from the start.

At the misconduct hearing, Ms Boddie said she was acting using the police National Decision Model at all times and in the knowledge Mr McCallas file had markers for violence and weapons.

She claimed Mr Adunbi threatened that he would "put to sleep" PC Weston, adding that she took this to mean: "That he was going to kill him."

Ms Boddie said she drew the taser for the first time but Mr Adunbi was still not "fully calmed down" and she still viewed him as a threat.

After putting it away, Mr Adunbi was in a "fighting stance" and used his gate to "crush" PC Weston as the officer attempted to handcuff him, she said.

In a statement, PC Weston said: "He has pulled the gate against me with a lot of strength. I have tried to grab his left wrist to apply handcuffs and he has wrenched it from me with force. He needs to be arrested."

Ms Boddie said she believed Mr Adunbi had punched her colleague and drew her taser for a second time, aiming it at Mr Adunbi's chest area.

Ms Boddie started her policing career in 1994, working at Avon and Somerset Police as a special constable before joining Wiltshire Police as an officer in 2008.

In 2012, she attended an initial taser training course and was authorised to carry the weapon. She completed refresher training in 2013 and transferred back to Avon and Somerset Police that year.

Ms Boddie then completed a second initial taser training course in 2014 and has not previously been accused of misconduct or using unlawful force.

The misconduct hearing, which is expected to last for two days, continues.

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