And keeping our environment clean at all times is the responsibility of all on the system message from speakers. At this year's Work for Nature campaign hosted by the Nigerian Conservation Foundation, NCF. The event which was organized at Kushafel local government area in Lake Estates was attended by officials of the Lake Estates government as well as members of the public. A correspondent Paul George was there. This year's Work for Nature sensitization the 15th edition tagged solutions to plastic pollution highlights the importance of preserving nature and improving the quality of life across the state. From Kushafel local government secretariat down to Good Road, the volunteers work bearing placards with different inscriptions sensitizing the public on the need to keep the environment clean. The director general of the NCF, Joseph Onoja, who was represented by Ali Olayde says waste not properly disposed of is causing pollution to the environment. The reason for the advocacy is to change people initiative and idea about how they manage their waste. It is expected that every household should keep at least two separate waste systems whereby other waste are kept in one and plastic waste are kept separate because plastic waste now make money from those used plastic waste so they can actually resell and make money and people will use it for better purpose. Lagos State Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources Honourable Wahab Tokumbo represented by Dr. Asan Sanut says all hands must be on deck to ensure a clean and healthy environment. In the same vein, Chairman Kushafel Local Government Moyo Ogulewe expressed delight that the campaign was brought to his domain. He assured the organizers that he will always give his support to ensure a clean Lagos State. All hands must be on deck to ensure that we manage the maintenance of plastic pollution in the environment and he has preached the economic aspect of it where these things could be converted to money that just thrown it away. He mentioned the effort of the ministry where it has been piloted with a bank. You take your plastic waste to the bank, you collect money or you collect in cash or in kind and this, we believe, will remove whatever is going to the environment and then for use, purpose and use. I'm delighted these are things that the state government and the local government should be doing every month. About 2.5 million tonnes of waste is generated from plastic every year in Nigeria and we must find a solution to this. I've signed for it and the most important thing is we must deliver on our promises as a government. The students are not left out in the program as they promise to do the right thing by disposing off their waste properly. I would like to tell them that they should put it in practice to make a proper disposal of the waste in the proper place in the right place as we have the dustbin for plastic, nylon and so on disposal share. They should practice it in order to keep our environment clean. What we need to do to keep our environment clean is by dropping our waste in the dustbin, by keeping our environment clean, not littering the ground. Anytime we eat, anytime we snack, even though there's not any dustbin around us, we can't just keep the dust in our pockets or anywhere or hand it down and anytime we go to see any dustbin around us, we can't just drop it inside. We can't just continue keeping that on and can't make Nigeria The campaign held simultaneously at three different locations, Ikeja, Koshofeu Gudu and Lagos Island East local government areas. Paul, George, Plus TV News.


Hello everyone. Thank you all for coming. Does anyone know what a vegan is? No, no one in the class knows what a vegan is. Okay, this word's gonna come up a lot in my talk. Vegan is someone who doesn't eat, use, wear, or exploit animals in any of their day-to-day activities, any of their lifestyles. Who am I? Have I always been vegan? No. Have I always been sober? No. Have I always been trying to change the world and create peace? No. So we don't wear any of their skin, any of their fur. We don't use any of their feathers. We don't test, use any products that have been tested on their faces. So somewhere along the line, it's been programmed into us that animals are food.  Okay, and they would not think that that is food. And that's a pretty strong indicator that we should not be doing it. And what ended up happening to me is the environment shapes you. The environment that you're in will shape you into the person you are. Violence society will condition the people in it to be violent. And I've seen that my actions had reactions. Okay, and I couldn't see any good coming out of taking an animal's life against their will and eating their body. I didn't want that in my body.  I reflected inside myself and I said, what is it about me that I haven't changed? Okay, and ever since that man said to me about eating suffering and becoming suffering, I realized that it was hypocritical of me to say that I cared about some animals, cats and dogs, koalas.  You're challenging people's belief systems here. Things that we've been taught our whole lives from a child that we need milk for calcium, you need meat for protein, strong bones, all of these things that we've been fed by industry. Okay, so what I believed in myself, what I believed about animals, I aligned with my actions. A lot of people say they love animals, they care for them. Okay, and I truly believe they do in their mind, but their actions don't reflect that. Okay, animals are all born innocent, just like humans are born innocent. Animals stay innocent. The animals that we eat, herbivorous animals, get their protein from plants. Okay, all the all protein comes from plants originally and most of the nutrients do. We are their guardians and their protectors, okay? And we lure them into these traps. Okay, and they have done nothing wrong to deserve what we do to them. They can't speak for themselves. They are born innocent, okay? When have you seen a cow do something wrong? When does a chicken ever hurt anyone? These are innocent beings, okay? And they cannot voice their suffering to us. They cannot say to you, Hey, I don't want you to do that to me. Okay, that's what I do. I say, hey, they don't want you to do that to them. Animals needed my help the most because they can't voice their suffering to you. They can't say to you, Hey, I'm locked up in this cage about to get killed. Can you please help me? They can't. They can't. They are helpless beings. It's not a natural thing to want to kill animals. It's a natural thing for us. We're compassionate beings to want to care for animals. Even in the most humane farms, they still betray those animals when they put them on that slaughterhouse truck and send them to the slaughterhouse, okay? Now, I feel like it's even more of a betrayal because at least the ones in the factory farms know what's coming. The other ones feel like they're being led to the slaughterhouse by their parents. They're only guardians they've had. So you can imagine the betrayal the animals feel. We just want peace, okay? An activist is someone who sees an injustice and speaks out about it. My job is to wake people up. That's all. Not to have a go at anyone, not to make anyone feel bad. I'm not judging anyone. If we're going to treat people differently because of the way they look, or treat animals differently because of the way they look, we've got a problem here. And it splits the world apart, this ideology, speciesism. But we discriminate against pigs. We put them on trucks and we send them to slaughterhouses, okay? We put them in factory farms. We breed them. We use them for their bodies. We rip their flesh off their bones. We don't do this with dogs, but inherently they're the same. So the idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that's wrong with the world. We've chosen. These animals are the ones we use exploit and wear. These animals we care for. We do the same thing with animals. We generalize. Sheep and cows are all the same. Chickens are all the same. They are individuals with personalities, okay? They all are like your dogs have individual personalities. So do chickens, so do cows. So supply and demand is what keeps these slaughterhouses open. If you all want an iPhone, okay, they're going to produce more iPhones, aren't they? Yeah, that's how it works. Supply and demand. So if you all want a burger with some cow in it, what are they going to produce? They're going to produce more burgers with more cows in it, okay? So this is why the blood, okay, and the power is on the hands of the consumer.  Not the horror that goes on in a slaughterhouse.  That is not what they want to do. We're putting these slaughterhouse workers in horrific conditions because we want to eat animal flesh. They miss a big piece in the middle, don't they? This is the animal on the happy farm. There's your burger. What about all the stuff that happens in between? There's a reason they don't advertise that to you. There's something happening along the line that we are responsible for. All animals are essentially children when we kill them. No animal reaches their natural lifespan. The flesh that we are eating are from sometimes infant animals. So we're essentially eating children. Eggs are part of the menstrual cycle of a bird. I don't know where along the line we've been so cleverly programmed to believe that this is food. They're bred to produce 300 a year, so nearly an egg a day. Okay, you can imagine what strain that puts on their reproductive organs, pushing our egg after egg, the calcium loss. And after 18 months of pushing our eggs, they go to a sanctuary. No, they don't. They get slaughtered for their flesh. Okay, so this is the life of a chicken. None of them get out alive. Another horrific thing that I found out about the egg industry is what we do to the male chicks. But a baby chick can recognize their sibling immediately after hatching. So you can imagine how distressing that would be separated from your sibling. Okay, and they go down this conveyor belt and they fall into something called a macerator, which is a big blender. And yes, they are fully conscious when they go onto this macerator.  Yeah? So does she have to be pregnant to produce milk? Yeah, she does. Okay, she only starts lactating when she's pregnant. Cows are no different. They're mammals like us. So they have to be impregnated. Are they becoming pregnant naturally? No, they're becoming pregnant forcefully. They get held down in a rack and the farmer will put his hand in her anus to hold the cervix. Okay, which would be very uncomfortable and they put a tube of semen into her and they impregnate her like that. So very distressing. And these are really young cows. I'm talking a year old. We are forcibly impregnating year old cows. Their children obviously want to drink their mother's milk. But we want that milk, don't we? We want to drink their baby's milk. So what happens to their children? All the calves are taken, okay? All of them from their mothers because they can't drink up all their milk. That's for us. Okay, the males will be killed sometimes on the first day of life, the first 24 hours with blunt force trauma, which is well fair standard. You can hit them with a sledgehammer to kill them on their first day of life.  The others, you know, if they want to grow them for veal, they'll grow them for a number of weeks and then they'll kill them for veal. What happens to the cow when she can't produce milk anymore? She gets sent to a slaughterhouse and her body will be eaten by human beings. And when do we stop drinking mother's breast milk when we've weaned when we're a toddler yet? We don't need it anymore. There's no biological need for milk anymore. Dairy contributes to hormonal cancers in humans. Ovarian breast and prostate, okay? I don't advocate for animal welfare, okay? And you might be surprised at that, but I'll explain why, okay? And veganism isn't about animal welfare.  We want two free animals. It means making their conditions a little bit more comfortable while they are enslaved and before they are murdered. And that's not what I want. That's not what I'd want for you if you were in a cage. I'd want you to be free, liberated. So the difference between animal welfare and animal liberation is freedom. Humane means to show compassion, kindness, or benevolence. Slaughter means to kill, basically.   These animals don't want to die. So that's something we have to remember. Animals do not want to die. So to take an animal's life when they have an interest in living cannot be humane. Is there a humane way to take an animal's life? Is there a humane way to enslave someone, to take away someone's freedom, to use them for their body, to exploit them? Is a bullet in the head a better way to die? Probably. Probably a better way to die. But I'll tell you what, we don't have an option between bullet in the head or a gas chamber. There's a third option, leave the animals alone, okay? And that's what animal liberation is. So to determine whether or not something is humane, first ask if you'd want it done to yourself. So how many people here are active in some way already? When I first started, I had this fire inside of my chest and it was calling out to me. If anyone else has that fire inside their heart, never deny yourself a chance to spread it because that's your purpose and it's calling out to you. This is where your food comes from. I want to talk to you about a couple of forms of activism that I find the most rewarding for me and the most powerful for me. One of them is anonymous for the voiceless. Everyone know what anonymous for the voiceless is. You're drinking the milk out of her, man. That's meant for a baby, yeah. But if someone's having an emotional response, you keep it in emotion. That's meant for a baby, eh? Let's have a baby milk, kids. That's for their calf. Their calves get taken from them so we can steal their breast milk. So the boy calves get killed, eh? Yeah, they suffer the same, eh? You keep it in their emotion.   Then you have power in what happens to these animals. Would you be interested in supporting ethical industries with your food choices, your lifestyle choices? You always have to remember that you're not speaking for yourself, okay? You're not speaking on behalf of vegans and veganism and yourself. This isn't for you. You're speaking on behalf of animals, okay? So you always have to do what's best for the animals in that situation. So you have to put your feelings aside as an ambassador for animals and say, okay, how can I speak to this person that's going to be best for animals? You don't like soy, try rice milk. You don't like rice, try coconut milk. There's about 20 in there, man.  And you see, if they're consuming the flesh of these animals, it's only fair that you see how it's made, hey. So these are all the ways we use animals for their body, their flesh, their milk, their eggs. You know what? It's the most fulfilling activism I do as outreach, having a positive conversation with someone. Okay, so what we're asking the public is to see if they think that that's okay. If they don't think it's okay, if they love animals, then the only thing you can do to remain consistent is stop buying the products which support their enslavement and their death. Another powerful form of activism is the save movement. Everyone here knows what the save movement is. Three minutes, three minutes. Give us three minutes. We'll only be two minutes with the animals. We'll only be two minutes, mate. Just give us two minutes and we'll let you go drive through. It's about facing the victims of your dinner plate. Because the moment you look at those animals in the eyes, you realize that it's not about you. Okay, we understand suffering. We've all suffered to a certain degree. I don't think anyone has suffered how the animals suffer though. Okay, no one here. I felt like I spent dairy cows there. This is what happens to spent dairy cows when we're straight into the slaughterhouse. Then you go out and do some outreach at AB. You watch how you speak for animals then on a different level, okay, and they can feel it. Do you think it's okay that we get joy at the detriment of other animals? Okay, animals on the trucks, there's feces all over them, okay? Because they're living in their own waste. Like here are the animals. This is a local slaughterhouse in your area. These are the animals you're probably eating, okay? And when they are being killed, they defecate on themselves. They are petrified. And they had a face and they didn't want to die. You can see the fear and innocence in their eyes. So no matter how cleanly it's done, it's still cold blooded murder. We kind of owe it to the animals. We've been eating their flesh. Let's go and, you know, bear witness to them once or twice and see what they're going through. I would say join your local save movement. Go out. You'd surprise yourself, really. Hello, hello, sweetie. Do you think it's justified to stab an animal to death for a sandwich when it's unnecessary? That's pretty much it. We've got the truth on our side. It's not really hard to convince someone that, you know, stabbing an animal to death for no reason is immoral. It doesn't make you, you know, Mother Teresa to say, okay, I've been hurting animals now. I'm going to stop. I can't, I cannot watch what's going on and not say nothing.  You should have done something. You should have done something about it. You should have spoken up.   Why is it any different for farmed animals? Shouldn't be. I'd feel more upset seeing dogs being butchered alive than I would seeing a fish being dragged out the ocean. Okay, and I'd have to analyze that part of my psychology and go, wait a second, why do I care more about that dog than I do about that fish? Because they care about their dog. You know, they care about some animals, so they do care about animals. It's not hard to say, hey, like, what if that was your dog? You'd be on my side.  Would you want me up here speaking for you if you were in the animals position? Damn straight. I'm not here for your health. That's not why I'm here. I'm here for the animals. Okay, if you want to drink alcohol and destroy your health, that's not on me. If they go, oh, what, the health is vegan propaganda. So, okay, then go refute the scientific studies they've used, the peer-reviewed journals. Is that vegan propaganda too? Are those scientists still vegan? No. I don't care why people go vegan as long as they stop funding the industries that hurt animals. What the hell's filmed, okay? It's not, it's unhealthy to put suffering and violence in your body. But I'm only here because people's actions have a victim. So many people that would love to hear have this conversation and you could save their life. You could save animals' lives, you can help the environment. 91% of Amazon deforestation is because of animal agriculture, okay? It's not from palm oil. It's not from paper, from animal agriculture because we want to consume animal flesh. If you remain silent in a situation where you could speak about it, you're basically betraying the animals, aren't you? Because you know about what happens to the animals. There's three stages of truth, ridicule, since you laugh that, don't eat animals, laugh at you. Then there's violent opposition, people fight you, and then there's accepted as self-evident, okay? So all truth goes through three stages. You should be angry. Animals are being abused and tortured by the trillions.  Thing is, they can't hold back truth for long. They can try to slow it down. They can try to discredit it. They can try to create some doubt in your mind, but they can't stop it. If you were to say that the movement's not progressing, then you're just not looking at the evidence, it's right there in front of us. We're a society that cares about animals. We're bolt gunning them in the head, slaughtering them for an unnecessary reason. I always bring it to ethics. I want people to reach into their hearts and show empathy, okay? That's what I think keeps the world at peace. That's what really changes the world. People are going, okay, I'm going to do something altruistic for other people. That's why I always try to get them to connect with animals. Yeah, it's good knowing that you're not contributing to all of this violence. And to put that violence inside your body, you know, animals that didn't want to die in your stomach. Stop that. Yeah, you know what I mean? It's a scary thing to think about. It is. We shouldn't advocate for anything less than veganism. We don't advocate for vegetarianism. Do you know that? Animals are feeling, breathing sentient beings, okay? They're not objects, slaves or machines. They exist here with us and not for us. We've been cleverly lied to, like heavily indoctrinated to believe absurdities. 10,000 species a year extinct because of the actions of one species, us, okay? And people talk about pest animals. So that just goes to show a tiny print pick of light can brighten that room full of darkness. Okay, so we've got truth. We've got the truth on our side. And that's more powerful than any propaganda they can perpetuate, okay? They can only slow it down. They cannot stop it, okay? Injustice cannot last forever. I'm really important time now for veganism. It really is. The animals have got more soldiers out there speaking for them than they've ever before. You know, we're stronger together in solidarity than we are apart. The movement is growing exponentially, but it's only because we are standing up. We're standing up and we're speaking up and we're saying, hey, this is wrong. Being vegan isn't enough anymore. It's not, okay? We know what's going on. It's up to us to speak out. Courage is feeling the fear and doing it anyway, okay? And it's the most liberating thing you'll ever do.  And it's not too hard to come along and have a polite discussion with someone and opening their eyes. A lot of people just don't know about this.  Look what's happening to these animals. This might be the first time they've ever heard it.  So, you know, you probably don't want to see animals get hurt just like I didn't. Do you know what I mean? We're saying that they don't matter. They are just products for us to eat and use and kill. Are you a bit shy? Are you? I'd be scared of humans too, if I was you. Hey, darling. Hello. Hello. Oh. Is that Billy Scratch's meat? You could say you can take those pigs out of the gas chambers, put human beings in there, and what do you have? Look at that face. I hope humanity wakes up sooner than we had me or worse. Or worse. Yeah. Just think about where you're putting your money, mate. Do I think it's going to hold us? No, nothing's going to stop us at all. Like, you know, they can try, but it's just gone too far now. No, we're only being two minutes. Just one more minute. All right, guys, 10 more seconds. So, they market these foods to you like juicy and local and 100% Irish beef and delicious, right? But what I see when I see these advertisements is I see a suffered mother with a distended utter, you know? Probably a mastitis infection who just had her children taken off her for five years and then hung upside down and sliced across the throat and murdered. That's what I see. That's what I see. Now, I don't have a go at people who see the burger and go, oh, that's delicious. I used to too, but I've seen that much cruelty now, that much suffering, that I can't see anything else but that. I walk through the supermarket. I used to walk through the butcher and just see, you know, food.  But no, I've seen the process.   Okay, and I've smelt the fear and then it doesn't smell like death in a slaughterhouse. It smells like struggle. Okay, like fear, like feces. Okay, it's a horrible place for these animals. Everyone, this will be the last event that I've been to here. So it's been a really good week. Thanks to everyone who helped organizing Maria and everyone who put their heads together and helped get me over here. Thank you very much. Yeah, keep up the great work and I hope to come back soon and just keep fighting, keep fighting. And the more people that know about that, the more people that will change. All right, guys. Thanks so much for listening. Appreciate it a lot. Thank you. When I was in gangs using drugs, hurting people around me, I was getting criticized, okay? Turned my life around, started speaking up for animals, changed, trying to change the world, create peace. Still getting criticized. So the point is, you're going to be criticized no matter what you do. So you might as well follow your heart.


Hi, it's Bridget. I'm actually in my kitchen right now I just started to make some lunch and I've done other videos like this before and I thought I needed to capture this on video because As I was running my errands this morning getting the dog to the groomer and such I had this Feeling of the Bee Gees like there wasn't a song on the radio There wasn't any of that There wasn't any of that and yet I felt I felt like Should I channel them and I don't really know that much so you guys I was born like in the 70s But I and I've heard Bee Gees songs, but I do not know about the group like I don't know I know it's a family thing. I know There some of them are dead That's kind of what I know so I'm going to talk out loud with you while I'm getting my lunch ready I'm not actually going to officially channel them right now, but I'm going to talk to you about as a psychic how I start to get information from these potential Guests that I channel at above-life channel. All right so and It is a spring break week here at my house So you're going to hear other noises around that you would normally would not normally hear during my videos Because it's not just me and the doggies. It's actually me and my husband has been sick for several days with a bad cough he's working in the office next door and My son who's on the computer right now also has that cough thing. So you're going to hear that and that's just the way it is so All right, so I'm going to make some salad stuff for myself and try to get a healthy lunch in and And so what was happening so I'm feeling into the energy of them So what I did was I went on to YouTube and I listened to a song a BG song and then and I was watching I actually watched the video of it and I was watching and there were three brothers and It was how deep is your love or what? I'm not sure the name of the song, but it's that one and it's kind of like a ballad, you know and I was listening to that and watching the video and I kept seeing this one Person the faces of this one person. I kept going him him him And so I was talking out loud with my husband a little bit I said, okay, so I don't know the BG's and my husband's a bit older than I am So he kind of knows that stuff. So I said, okay, so who am I I'm here's what I'm feeling. Here's my initial Feelings again, I'm not talking to them. I'm not channeling them right now, but here's my initial feelings First I'm thinking it's gonna be hard to like separate them in the afterlife and talk to them individually But at the same time, it's really hard for me to talk to them as a group and not know who they are Individually because it gets confusing like I am already not that great with details. I don't need any more Over-detail stuff that I can't keep track of, you know, so I was like, huh, I don't know if I want to channel them We'll have to see how this goes, but so here's my initial feeling I Feel like right away I know Andy I know the name Andy Gibb and I think it's from back in the day I'm like solid gold. I'm gonna totally date myself There's this TV show you guys, you know and I know that I saw him sing on there once and that he was kind Of a heartthrob, but not really for me personally, but he was kind of a heartthrob guy and He feels like the most popular I'm gonna say that right away energetically. He feels like the most popular not just because I know who he is but because He just his his light feels really big in the heart space, but it feels really sad there's a lot of sadness and he feels really young and And so I know he and I know he's in on the other side. I know he's crossed over and then this but this image this These three men as I'm watching them sing I'm like The one that felt the biggest like had the most strength and like like the tallest biggest one is Barry and When I looked at him like I didn't even know you guys if he if he was alive or dead And I know some of you I'm sure some people are gonna go. How do you not know are you under a rock? Yeah, I'm doing a thing called living my own life. Thanks, you know I don't like pay attention to all that stuff and I don't have time to Google research all this before I I'm not gonna spoon feed people information that you can find yourself and if you're a fan You know you totally know, you know so yeah, all right It's just a little err there on that one But anyway, so he feels really like big and strong and I didn't even know if he was alive or dead I had to ask my husband I just say why is he feels like the leader and I don't know if he's actually the oldest but he feels like the leader this big strong energy and I said is he alive or dead and my husband said no, he's alive and I'm like, okay, well He feels like he has a heart thing going on like I don't know if it's a heart condition Or if there's a family thing with the heart or if he's had a heart attack, but there's a heart something going on and there's something with his guts and I'm not good with details. I'm not good with biology One of the organs, I don't know if it's pancreas liver I'm not sure but one of the organs or something wrong not right So he doesn't feel like he's in the great health just so you guys know and I'm sure you probably know that if if you're a fan All right, so That's what I know. That's the stuff that's coming forward and I'm not really sure So I asked my husband, I'm like who's who is this guy? I showed him the picture of the three men as they are singing and this one's Barry We said it. Okay. This one's Barry. He said this one. I think is Maurice and he said this one I don't know if it's Robin and Robin or Andy and I'm like it was Robin that I zoomed in on I'm like I Could feel him and he kind of felt like how okay, so the easiest one to channel would be The easiest one to channel would be Andy I think because he's just got the biggest energy He was like to me he feels like he had the most notoriety and the most popularity and Maybe it's because he had a short career and you know that kind of thing. I don't know I'm not sure again. I'm not channeling him. So I don't know the duration of the career I'm doing all the details right now in this video, but I Am really drawn to this this one. That's this this younger one like his face I don't want to say younger one, but he seems more like Somebody that would be maybe more behind the scenes or not necessarily want or need to be like right in the center of attention I'm gonna we'll say it's Robin It feels right. Although. I there's a different name for him. Like I want to call him Rob Something different not just Robin, but Rob maybe Rob or something or Ro or something different and I like his energy. I'm drawn to his energy, but there's something about his energy that feels Kind of how Andy was like shy, but yet in this public persona and wasn't sure how to handle a little bit a little bit overwhelm and very good-looking Andy, but Maurice doesn't feel like he had like the big looks like that and Not a big like persona or personality, but he feels very creative like I could see him writing songs And I could see him with the musical arrangements and I could see him just really Seen patterns and seeing things and putting things together For the group for the band and stuff that other people it wouldn't have been the same without him is how it feels And I understand that he's dead because my husband told me because I asked him I said no, he's definitely on the other side because I can feel him, but he's not chatty. He's not super chatty like hi he's not like that and Miss was like yeah, he's on that you know He's on the other side and I'm like well and he says well What do you think he died of and I'm like cancer and he says yeah, he did a cancer I'm like, okay because right away cancer see But it feels like he's an internal thinker very retrospective I'm very creative. That's what he feels like to me and Maybe like the one that not everybody knew very well or something like that like he's not fully seen or really Known or understood and I don't know known and I don't know if it's because He was so into like the music part of it the actual like the technical parts of things and how things fit together and how You know that or this that his brothers had such big personalities because Barry clearly feels like a big like the leader and Then Marisa's energy. I can't really I'm not really tapped into him a lot like he just feels kind of mellow and But he does feel like he has a temper like I feel like he I'm hot and I'm cold. I'm hot and I'm cold like sometimes can be really like and then other times be like Oh man, and I can't deal with this. I'm not dealing with this. I'm done.  I'm done with this man I'm done with this kind of thing and I when I see him crossing over to the other side I see a ramp instead of like stairs and that's interesting to me because it's metaphoric and so I Kind of feel like whatever it created or caused the circumstances for his death was a gradual thing and like was like not obvious But not surprising kind of thing. Well, maybe it was obvious. It might have been obvious It's kind of this gradual. Okay. I'm going over there I so I don't know if he had a long-term illness or what his exact situation was but There's a ramp instead of a stairway. So that to me that's different Okay, cuz from ramp would be a gradual progression into the afterlife for transition all right, so And I asked to I asked my husband I said does somebody recently die with their family because I feel like there was a transition that just happened or there's one That's coming up now. I do not make predictions. I Try really hard. Let's just say that I never say never right, but I try not to make predictions I'm not saying that anybody's gonna die related to the Bee Gees But what I am saying is it feels like there's a transition if there wasn't one recently It feels like there's they're preparing for one it could be anybody you guys in their family could be a grandpa could be a Grandma could be mom whatever although. I don't think I think mom is actually on the other side. So That's what I know and that's how it starts you guys. So Again, I had no and and today. I don't know if the date might be significant. It's March 12th 2019 March 12th. So that might be significant. I'm not sure but so I'm gonna I think I'm going to channel them I'm not sure who to channel or how to dig in Maybe I'll start with Andy because his energy is the easiest to connect with and when I say easiest you guys what I'm saying is It's it's big enough where there's enough people that are tapped into that energy like fan-wise that It raises it to a level where I can easily connect. So if There has to be some kind of a magnetism for me or some kind of a way like a plug-in that I can plug into and Get information from in order to want to be inspired to and motivated to do a channeling And so even though you guys like request channels of different people, that's great too by the way you guys I'm totally cool with that You could totally ask for me to channel other people and such but just know that I have a huge list and I Channel them when it feels right for me when I'm in alignment So when my energy is the best match to be able to plug in to that source of energy that then I can generate the best The best experience and And be as clear as possible, which we all know like the detail thing is really tough for me Because I'm focused so much on the energy and the exchange of the energy and bringing forward the essence of the message that they want to Convey which is different. It's totally I get that my approach is a medium and as a psychic here at above-life channel It's totally different than other psychics and mediums, but that's because I'm Bridget and I really show up the way I Made and it's gonna be different because Just because there's people that do the same kind of thing doesn't mean you do it the same way That's why you have different hairstylists. That's why you have different doctors. That's why you have different massage therapists That's why you have different types of schools and colleges and Different books you can read different authors different genres different musicians different movies all that right everything is different There's diversity in the world that isn't that beautiful and so at above-life channel that way I share my information with you and super Transparent and what you don't understand that I am not always right I am not even going to strive for perfection because that is a false Falsehood it's not even true or attainable. That's an ego-minded thing so I'm gonna be I'm gonna be really up front with you and share with you the details as I am perceiving them and receiving them and I'll do the best I can obviously to provide quality and Accuracy it does matter to me. I have a lot of integrity. It does matter to me But I'm going to be wrong and I'm okay with that I am okay with being wrong because many of you who are fans You can fill in the blanks and you can correct me and you can connect with other fans on that video and talk about The information and add enhance value added Energy to this conversation this connection which makes it so much more beautiful and so much more abundant so much more helpful and hopeful For those who are watching and having the experience. So we're all in this together And I think I'm gonna go listen to some more Bee Gees because I'm making a salad and that sounds like some good lunch music And I have a session this afternoon. So I got to get ready for that too. So This is Bridget at above-life channel. Thank you so much for watching. This is kind of a A previewing of how I'm getting information live I said it's actually occurring before I actually sit down or schedule time to channel and how I get the inspiration To channel because I got to be inspired you guys.  No, it's got it. I gotta be in alignment. That's what authentic you guys I would hope that you would Expect that here at above-life channel. Thank you so much for watching. I appreciate it And hopefully I'll channel one or all of these guys soon. Thanks so much for watching


This is a little talk. I actually was invited to give this in Poland at DevOps. So if you really like it, come to Krakow. And you can see a 30 minute version of it. But there's me. And it really just goes over how to kind of, as the title says, function and do well in a large company. So I've worked in several large companies, from Dell to BMC and little startups and places like that. And I've been in various roles from development to corporate strategy and M&A. So I've been exposed to a whole lot of folks and practices. And I've been cataloging for a while. And I thought I'd finally try to write them down in a compressed form. And I think in our industry, that's particularly important because a lot of us here and think about advice for sort of like cowboys or unicorns or things that don't seem normal or usual. People who are fine getting their boot caught in a strap and you've got to shoot your horse out to survive. Risk takers who are doing things in IT. But I think most of us are basically like city workers. We're garbage people, essentially. We have like a normal work process to do. We've got to keep up with it. We don't do our job. Bad things pile up. And we really have to maintain our mental fortitude because we're collecting garbage and making sure things are running. We're not doing exciting stuff. So first is a disclaimer. I work at Pivotal. And none of this applies to Pivotal. Pivotal is great and awesome. There's no cynicism or anything that you need to survive there. And also we're hiring. So you should come work for us. We just got a lot of money. So we have money to give to people and lots of fridges full of beer and sriracha cashews. We write on glass and stuff like that. So the first thing, if you're working at a large company, is you should think about bringing your own tools. Whatever centralized IT is doing from you from facilities to tools you're given are probably going to be insufficient and are not going to work out well for you. You're going to have all sorts of log jams you've got to get through.  And mentors are great. That's fun to get educated. But having a champion is even better. And a champion, think of someone who's fighting on your behalf and is doing things for you. And I've been lucky to have both, especially champions in my career. And they actually work out a lot better than just having mentors. The second one is as you get to, not second, but you do more and more work, what you want to start doing is avoiding people assigning homework to you. And also you want to have a way of avoiding people making you do work. And you can always do what I call assigning homework. Have them write a brief or a report or about this project that they want you to work on. Now conversely, you can be on the other end of this and you have to be worried about it. The more concerns you have and the more you complain and the more you ask questions, people will start assigning homework to you. And you'll have busy work to do outside of your normal norms. So that could be totally normal and great if you want to do it. But be aware of falling into the trap of doing a lot of extra busy work for people out of your chain of command or responsibility. So another thing I've noticed that when you're in a large corporation, if you want to innovate, all the way back to where we get this from, from Lockheed, you really need to hide out and do a sort of skunk works project. Unless you're working in one of these great unicorn places like Pivotal where, of course, you could do that. But you'll find that you'll be safer from the machine killing you than if you hide out. And another thing, this is more to my young self, is when you work at a large company, you're thought of in terms of your total overhead, not your salary. So look at all the perks you have, like matching 401Ks and discounts for your wireless and all that. And mercifully go get all of them. Like, expensing from mileage to the airport is a great extra source of revenue that you might have. Finally, not finally, but also if you're a large company, before we get into the presentation slide part, it's good to focus on relaxing and not overworking too much. Try to work as little as possible in an advisable way. But think about a big company is a nice place to hang out. People describe companies as being resorty, which that sounds awesome. So try to take advantage of that, because that's also part of your comp. Now, this is the presentation, the slide part of the presentation, going over tips for meetings and slides, which I think is a vital part for surviving in a large company, especially outside of the world of development. So the first thing is I would think about when you're putting together your presentations, think about them as a document accidentally printed in landscape mode. Not like this presentation with big pictures and things like that. Like, it's a document that's going to be emailed around and it's going to be something that people read as if it were a word document. And second, when you're titling things, this is just a little tip, use what's called a McKinsey title. And there's some examples here, but basically have your title be the brainwashing thing you want to see or into whoever's mind that you want them to think. And then below is the stuff that supports that conclusion or statement. Next, it's always good to assume you'll never get past the first slide. I've been in many meetings where we did huge monumental things and we never got past the cover slide. Like, a presentation is more about you thinking through what your discussion is, your argument, counterarguments, really strategizing what you'll do. It's more of a storyboard. So if you're ready for that, then you'll be happily on the first slide there. And next, this is just good in general, but especially for a presentation, a lot of what you're doing in knowledge work and large company stuff is always making a decision and getting, getting, or requesting someone to do something. So always know what you want from someone should you encounter them. Always have an ask ready. So finally, if you're in a large corporation and you're the kind of person who thinks this is all funny, or you recognize it, you need to have some way of surviving in there, right? And I think, I think there's this good song from a good old Texan about like, you've got to really steal your mind to survive in that large corporation because it's probably a reason you're there instead of just running away from it. Now there's a lot of other good references here. One of my co-workers at Dell Matt Baker had a great presentation about presentations for executives.  And this is a fantastic book from the early 80s about understanding how corporations operate and the people in them. So this is my last slide with the stack of rocks and everything. Like I mentioned earlier, we've got a great conference coming up and, you know, you should check that out because they're paying for my airport mileage for this conference. And, you know, if you want to get more of these slides, you can just go to cotay.io slash bigco and I'll be out at the pivotal booth in around. Thanks.


Sometimes you see unusual things at CES and I saw a gentleman walk around in boxers and looks like some nice tights here. His name is Thomas Callitiyama and he's from Spartan Boxers. What do you have here for CES? Yes, so at Spartan we want to save humanity and we are doing this with boxers. So this is a high-tech boxer brief that protects your nuts from cell phone and Wi-Fi radiation because as a man if you keep your cell phone in your pocket it's bad for your health, for your fertility. You have more and more studies coming out and showing this and for example you have the Cleveland Clinic in the US which is a main institute for male fertility and they show that men who keep their cell phone more than four hours a day in the pocket they experience a 50% reduction in spam counts. So that's quite of scary and we wanted to keep using technology, keep carrying our smartphone in our pocket but we wanted to be protected. So that's why we've designed this high-tech boxer with a unique and patented technology called WaveTech which is silver fibers which are waved into the cotton of the boxer and it recreates the same principle than a Faraday cage like your microwave for example. Yeah. Keep all the radiation outside. And yet this does not feel like a Faraday cage. Excuse me I'm touching your boxers but these are not the ones he's wearing people but they're very very soft. Exactly we wanted to have a really soft really comfortable boxer because we didn't want to have a different underwear and really when you when you wear this boxer you can't see the difference with a regular boxer. So are they machine washable I hope? Exactly they are machine washable and also the cool thing with silver it's it's also antibacterial so you know you will stay fresh until the end of the day. That is fantastic so are these on the market yet? Exactly so we are sitting already on the website spartanunderwear.com and we are sitting worldwide. This is a really really interesting idea I noticed a while ago that Apple stopped referring to their laptops as laptops. One day the word laptop was gone they were called they were called notebooks and now and it was right around the time that reports came out about men where it's sitting with a laptop in their lap and the heat and apparently Wi-Fi and other radiation not so good for the fertility so that's that's a really interesting thing. So how much are Spartan Box? Yeah so it's starting at $35 for a pair. Wow 35 bucks for a pair well how bad do you want to have a baby there you go right? Yeah but it's it's more than just an underwear it's also a protective underwear with technology so. It's underwear that's saving the world humanity as you said. Exactly so we really want to save humanity. All right and so people would go to spartanboxers.com to check this out? To spartanunderwear.com. Spartan underwear.com or you can follow the underwear at Spartan Boxers. Exactly. Thank you very much this is fantastic I'm glad I saw you. You're welcome bye.


How are you today? We are here with another my muse video for my creative year and I Don't know what to tell you except that if you follow me on social media You already know my muse is screaming at me to get back into my watercolor doing back to doing my daily drawings and painting eyeballs Why eyeballs? I have no idea.  I wasn't getting eyeballs What I first did was I started collecting eyeballs from friends and family. I have pictures of eyeballs not the actual eyeball and I actually paint from a digital copy of the photo usually on my phone or iPad But in the back of this journal is going to be these little printouts of upset eyeballs Some I've painted some I haven't done yet and on the back it actually says the person's name whose eyeball this happens to be and Some day when somebody is looking at the journal it will be an interesting game to see if they can pick out Whose eyeball is whose from this stack? in the journal But I'm having fun painting the different ones and you wouldn't think that there would be that much different between them because how different Couldn't eyeball be but they're actually very different And I'm having a lot of fun doing them. I intended to do them all this way in more of a traditional manner or this way But then as I was started working in the journal I was reminded by some social media posts of an artist Debbie Weir and She does these sort of doodly At semi-obstructed faces and things and I love her work So I thought you know, I'm going to paint what the one eyeball more traditionally And then I'm going to do one Debbie Weir style and so I'm continuing to do that throughout the book I do the one person traditionally and then I do their eyeball crazy traditional crazy traditional crazy so I Am up to this one that I did So tonight later tonight. I've got to paint her crazy so It's fun focusing on a particular Thing whether it's a body part like eyeballs or it's flowers or Limiting your focus or limiting your materials and then seeing what you can do with that That's a lot of fun and I find it challenging I find it interesting and definitely my muse is screaming at me to keep doing that for a while So I'm going to I have this small journal with a couple clips to keep it open And then my art toolkit Watercolor kit, which is normally in my travel art case But I've been take it's easy for me to take downstairs. So I Have to replace this you're gonna say what the heck is that? It's a piece of a mr. Clean magic eraser It is really great for lifting up your watercolor paint if you get too much in the wrong spot Or you get too much water on there and it gets to be too too drippy so That is a really good thing to use and though there will be I've been asked about eyeball tutorials We will be doing that I Think later in the month. I'm not going to do it for the my muse video because it'd be too long of a video But definitely I think that we'll be doing that But if you already are playing with watercolors and you have a mr.  We've got to replace it because this one's past it I have a Some kind of spray bottle. This is actually from a Screen protection thing for my laptop I take that back. I think it's for my old Kindle But it's the same size as the mini mr. By Ranger so that would work too. I always have a piece of paper while I'm at least doing the eyeballs a piece of test paper to test The paint colors on when I'm mixing them in the watercolor palette I need something This works for me to have a little scrap of paper in here. So I do I Have my travel watercolor palette, which is a small pan And I've taken the insert out that's supposed to fit the watercolor pans so that I can get more colors in here These are mostly Koi, but there are a few Daniel Smith colors in here Yeah, that's only two brands that are in here Koi and Daniel Smith and this actually this this Selection of colors works really well for me not only for the eyeballs But when I'm traveling this is a selection of colors that I work that I use that work for me really well There is a tiny travel Windsor Newton paintbrush here. I don't use it that often, but when I am working and I need a small Something with a small tip. This is actually a really great brush Oops, I do not have my reading glasses on so that just fits right there. There's a sponge there I can wipe the brushes off on Mostly it's just filler to hold things in place You could use any bag for this. I haven't had this art toolkit bag, but there's a lot of bags out there I have a Couple different black pens one that's water soluble one. That's not this is a sharpie pen. This is a pilot varsity Fountain pen in black black paint pen a white Uniball Signo pen actually a couple of small brushes that don't need to be in here because I haven't been using them So we're gonna actually take those out There is a ruler for a straight edge a couple of extra binder clips and a piece of a gift card To scratch in the paint and these mini binder clips I really just use to hold that in place Underneath here. I have a rag Some wax paper This if you have to close your book and things are still wet this would come in handy a Needable eraser to erase the pencil should I decide to do that which I don't often this is an extra piece of wax paper a piece of plastic wrap now one of the techniques that you can do in Watercolor that we'll discuss at a later date But and I've shown before is when your watercolor paint is wet and really juicy scrunch up a piece of plastic wrap in And stick it onto the page and push it push it down wrinkles at all and let it dry Just let it dry naturally when it is dry pull this off and it's gonna leave an interesting pattern in your paint I also have some salt for the same reason while the paint is wet You can drop the salt in there and just let it dry naturally and when it's done Shake the salt off rub the salt off and it'll leave an interesting pattern And then of course the needable eraser in case I want to erase something Pencil sharpener a couple of koi water brushes. I love these. They are easy. They're portable This is the larger one, which is I believe eight point eight ounce and the smaller one. I think it's point four I have a Large brush tip and a fine and the fine Here I believe yeah large and fine I believe so these are nice because they actually are meant to travel with so though Base which has the water in it comes at this black Stopper you can fill this with water put the stopper in it I've taken this a lot of different places on planes all over the place. It doesn't leak I've at least I haven't had a problem with it yet and then the top separately So I have the two bottoms and then the tops and then I have a selection of Mini-colored pencils. I have this is just a regular to be pencil. You see where that's from I when I see these I usually pick them up I have a short to be low all pencil if I want something that's water soluble and really dark I have a white crayon if I before I start painting I want to leave an area that's white But I don't want to you know get paint there I'll put some crayon on that and this will keep it from getting water paint on that section of the paper I also have a ballpoint pen in here and some mini kids colored pencils. So My muse has been screaming at me She really wants me to keep up with the water coloring to use limited supplies Right now. So that's what we're gonna do. I would love to see all of you do the same work with limited supplies Challenge yourself to do something different I I It could be anything. I have done challenges like this where I've challenged myself to do 12 little quick paintings in 10 minutes and Did they all come out good? No, was it fun? Yes, it's not always about the quality of work It's about just having fun with the process and getting re-inspired right now This is really inspiring for me and it's a little bit bulky but it's not too bulky for me to take somewhere if I need to and I feel like we're gonna be out somewhere that I Want to take this to go painting so think about how you can challenge yourself and Look up Debbie Weir. She's really inspiring to me right now. I did order her book. It's on the way I can't wait till it comes in. She has one on Amazon I'll put it in the description below, but if you have something right now that's really inspiring you I would love to hear about it. So either leave something in the comments below or if you're a member of the my creative year Facebook group We would sure love to hear about it over there. So please share Let's keep the group over in the face in Facebook a kind supportive group That's what we're all about sharing freely and being supportive. So let's keep it that way and Yeah, let's share what our muses are saying right now The most important thing of course besides like share and subscribe if you will I would sure appreciate that is please go out and have a great day Listen to your muse. She won't steer you wrong Not normally and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later. Bye guys


It's May, it's May, the lusty month of May. It's gonna be May. Hey, welcome back to our Studio Direct, it's the Corbett. That song should be done in April. And you can follow us on Instagram, Twitter for more juicy content. Thanks to Patreon, follow us on Twitter to count and subscribe if you like. But it's gonna be May. I'm never gonna hear that song the same way. It's gonna be May. Again.  Who? Anushka Shankar. Ravi Shankar's daughter. Oh, really? Yeah. When? May 30th. She's gonna be in Glendale performing her dad's music. Apparently it's Shankar does Shankar. Oh, wow. Yeah. That sounds awesome. Yep. Maybe we'll go. Yeah. Uh, anyways, today we got a new video from the Village Cooking Channel. The Village People. Yes. What? Much better than the Village People. Uh, but it's they're making Pav Bhaji. Oh, heavenly. This is gonna be, all right. I've made Pav Bhaji, uh, on, I have my breakfast. A while ago, but and we, I don't know if we, no, we did. When we, when we got to Mumbai, I believe they had it for us. Yes. They had made some for us to eat. Uh, I don't think we went anywhere to get, maybe I'm wrong. I don't remember having it elsewhere. We didn't eat a ton in Mumbai. No, we ate. I mean, we ate, but there weren't particular, we didn't set out to go find. Yeah. I wanted to do videos of like going out and getting street food and which would be awesome. Yeah. We didn't have time. Yeah. But this is gonna be fan, fan, friend. I can already, here we go. Smell it, taste it, feel it. Pav Bhaji. I'm gonna eat it. I'm gonna eat it. I'm gonna eat it. I'm gonna eat it.  I don't like it. I don't like it. I don't like it. I don't like it. I don't like it. I don't like it. I don't like it. I don't like it. Ah, yes. Hawaiian rolls. Exactly what I would expect. You guys get Hawaiian rolls. And Johnny's not here. He's about for it. Oh, that guy's dead. Do P. Hens make that same sound? Why does everything look better when they do it? It's because it's as good as it gets. That sound grown right there. Potatoes. You know what potato is in Hindi? Alu. Tomatoes in a pot. Potatoes being minced. That's some wet. Mashed potatoes is Irish spaghetti. I figured it out. It's the staple food. Not wrong. That's very appealing. I like the peels. I do too. I like mashed potatoes with the skin in it. But they're not making mashed potatoes. They're making Babaji. Throw in a little mustard oil and it's Bengali. Am I right? No. Everything is so smooth. We don't ever really get to see how long everything takes. I'd love to know how long it takes to do the certain things. A couple minutes. It's hot! Butter. He just said, this is from God. Yeah. Slather me. It's the stuff that makes it smell really good. I used to mix my peas with my mashed potatoes. Yes. So I made this before. I love peas in your mashed potatoes. Wop, wop, wop. I just want to... More butter. Of course. I want to do to this what Rhett and Link did in the big thing of cereal that made his dream come true. Did you see that? Rhett's dream was to take a bath in a bowl of cereal. So they did it. They went to a cereal factory and got a giant bowl of milk and cereal. He was giddy as a little kid, laughing uncontrollably in his bowl of cereal that he was bathing in. They're going to slather butter. Slather! Not the cleanest of... I don't care. Oh, baby. Get them juices all over it. That's what I'm saying. This is just soaking up all that buttery goodness. I love it when buns are slathered in all the juice. Look at those wet buns. They're slathered in butter. Are your buns slathered in butter? Are you just happy to see me? I don't know what that means. Sloppy Joe. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's kind of the Indian version of the sloppy Joe. Now I want a sloppy Joe. Your mom gave me a sloppy Joe. Hey, yeah.  Well, wait a minute. What happened? That looks so good. I bet. The simple joys of life right there, baby. Oh, my goodness. Oh. That's a good one right there. Delicious. I already ate that right now. Without hesitation. I would rather have that than most breakfasts. It's not a breakfast. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. It's not a breakfast. I don't care. I'm thinking breakfast because it's morning. I'm hungry. As glorious as everything they do, it's just consistently wonderful. I may have asked this before. Do they put the recipes in there? I mean, I don't think you're going to cook it for them. I was going to say, how do you change the portion? Because they're always cooking for a huge amount of people. I don't believe they do. But man, is that delicious. That looks so just... Food porn. Especially Pav Bajie being just like this. The fact that everything is just slathered and buttered. Yes. And tasty goodness. And it's warm. The textures are satisfying. You have the bread and you have the mushy middle. And it's so filling. I love filling the mushy middle. I love filling up that mushy middle. When it's dripping.  Oh man.   Smooth. If the monkey had hair, it's not so smooth. But if you have a bald monkey and you put the butter on that bald monkey, that's going to be pretty dang smooth. That was wonderful. Let us know what other videos from Village Cooking Gen or others that we should check out. If there's one that we should try to recreate, let us know. This is all I've got now? That's going to be incredibly disappointing. Kind of like your love life. Here we go.