Today I'm announcing several initial steps my administration is taking to curb this epidemic of gun violence. On April 8th, President Biden announced a handful of executive actions meant to curb gun violence following shootings in Atlanta and Boulder. At the top of the list was a proposal to stop the proliferation of so-called ghost guns. These are guns that are homemade, built from a kid. Ghost guns or unregistered firearms that aren't assembled by licensed gun manufacturers are sold in highly regulated gun shops are most closely associated with this man. Cody Wilson, founder of Defense Distributed and creator of The Liberator, a 3D printed plastic gun that captured the public imagination. 3D printed guns wouldn't have serial numbers because they could be made entirely out of plastic they could bypass metal detectors. Defense Distributed's signature product is the ghost gunner, a do-it-yourself gun milling machine the size of a small printer that enables anyone with enough time and interest to create unregistered firearms simply by purchasing parts online, downloading specs from an online library like Wilson's Def Cad and assembling the final product. Wilson says the units fly off the shelves every time a major politician so much as mentions gun control.  Wilson is back at the helm of defense distributed after stepping away in 2018 when he was arrested for allegedly paying for sex with a 16 year old who may have misrepresented her age. The legal age for consent in Texas is 17. Wilson pled guilty to a lesser charge and is on probation. He's also had to register as a sex offender and agree not to purchase new firearms. Every farm that I own I'm able to continue to own so it's kind of a legal gray area actually which you know are the types of things I'm most comfortable with. How easy or difficult you know has it been to jump back into this role? I never truly left the company but to be the public head of this company is to face like a lot of scrutiny and that wasn't appropriate while I was under indictment but after the indictment was over there was really no legal difficulty anymore and the counting the state were cool so I didn't feel like it was fair to have anyone else face the difficulty in the scrutiny of running this company. Defense distributed has been fighting off federal and state legal challenges since its founding in 2012. Biden's requested rule change is the latest front in that legal battle. The president was vague on the details but he has asked the Department of Justice to issue a new rule on ghost guns within 30 days. Wilson anticipates that the proposed regulation will classify more gun parts such as the lower receiver that the ghost gunner modifies as firearms that would each require registration numbers branded on them. That was the rule change proposed by the non-profit gun control advocacy organization Every Town for Gun Safety which was founded by Michael Bloomberg. They think if they add more components and define more things as firearms that require serial numbers that means more background checks that means less DIY unfortunately I believe it means more 80% receivers more DIY. Why is that that it would have the counterintuitive effect? Well I think we're all good libertarians here right we recognize people actually respond to incentives and so if it's actually more difficult to buy an AR an AR upper receiver like from PSA because it's serialized and now I got to go to the through the background check and everything I'm now going to consider for the first time making an AR upper receiver. And while Wilson was a pioneer in the DIY gun space defense distributed is now just one of many players meaning regulating ghost guns will be more of a challenge. Just in the last year we've seen an amazing development of popular 3d printed kits which include Glock slides printed SMG that incredible hybrid and mostly 3d printed gun concepts which were far beyond like what we were doing just a few years ago. This community of people is not limited by the law defense distributed ghost gunner we always kind of build our igloo with building blocks of the law this other group of kids they've decided well actually we don't we don't respect the law at all and they freely illegally sure but freely share and advance the stuff even faster because of the opposition that companies like mine encountered leading up to even 2018 so again another example of an acceleration of what's an obvious technical endeavor. If you have the right kind of machine in your garage a raw block of aluminum is readily convertible into a firearm receiver. I think the interesting thing with these sorts of laws is there's this sort of growing gap between the what's on paper and what is enforceable in law. Karim Shia is a software engineer and co-founder of open source defense a gun rights organization mostly made up of engineers in Silicon Valley programmers seeking to distance the debate over the right to armed self-defense from the left right culture war. If you look at the path gun rights have taken over the past five years really that is the story of gun rights moving from a world of politics to a world of culture in 2020 between 7 and 15% of the people who are gun owners today in the US became gun owners in 2020 and the fastest growing segments within that were black people and women the way any network grows is kind of as a function of how active the nodes in a network are. So as people join if they are eager about getting more people to join that compounds really quickly and so the more it gets away from politics the faster it's going to keep getting away from politics and going to this place of just building a culture that everyone can be part of. In the tumultuous year of a pandemic mass protests riots and a contested election gun sales spiked across America and especially in big cities the firearm industry trade association says that more than five million registered gun sales in the first seven months of 2020 were to first time buyers. As people learn about guns they tend to be cool with them I think arguably YouTube and Twitter and Instagram are the biggest advances for gun rights of the past several decades at least and actually like arguably more important than any actual gun technology in terms of spreading gun rights. Gun violence in this country is an epidemic and it's an international embarrassment. In the COVID era the Biden White House is framing gun violence as a public health issue but Wilson believes the career bureaucrats at the ATFE have long had these regulations ready to go and we're just waiting for a president to enact them. Joe was simply able to take advantage of what the ATF was already preparing and ready to do and kind of wanted to do for the last four years so this might feel like a kind of warp drive or acceleration of the problem but in fact it's it's simply the problem of not being able to replace the permanent government bureaucracy that's installed in DC so Biden doesn't have I think unique ideas he's simply lent an agency which is willing and waiting to a more robust activist center you know funded by Bloomberg more installed in the government like Senator Mark Kelly brought the Giffords desk to the Senate and Menendez New Jersey Delegation Connecticut etc they have open lines to the executive now they're gonna constantly be asking the ATF to to shop in their wish list if there's a real Republican Party that's a big if surely they can stop a lot of it legislatively but you know this is the problem of a permanent executive staff and we'll always having to watch these rules. The old idea of how gun laws worked was this idea that safety comes from this central authority what the internet has changed is well rather than having a centralized model about who gets to be safe and how each person has a right to determine how they are going to be safe in other words if someone is trying to hurt you you have the right to stop them and that's pretty uncontroversial if you gonna think about it that way and so if you have the right to stop them you you have the right to the tools to do that. Biden is also proposing to ban pistol braces and push for more red flag laws that would allow police to confiscate someone's firearms based on reports of erratic behavior from acquaintances but Wilson says he isn't particularly worried about the effect of these rules will have on his business or on gun rights in America. Your general attitude every time I've talked to you regarding that question has been to say more or less that the technology simply outpaces the speed at which the regulators can react. Do you still feel that way or have they now started to catch up in important ways regulators and attorneys general have caught up I mean they can define the problem and the terms be specifically began with five six years ago but that doesn't mean that they can accomplish meaningful regulation of it it's kind of like you know they're using the laws like talisman as a kind of magical thinking like no one can really understand what you're doing with your computer where you're getting this information on the internet everybody knows that it's like the file sharing wars of the 2000s to this day you can pirate share anything you want online everyone knows that so we're probably to meaningfully challenge what we're doing right now there needs to be an act of Congress I don't see that happening in the next couple years.


We all like to look effortlessly chic and it's probably what I strive for the most in all my outfit ideas. So I thought I'd share a summer lookbook with you all today with all the looks I've been wearing this July that really helped me create that look. At the end of this video, I'd be really grateful if you would follow the link in the description box below to subscribe to my channel and also follow me over on Instagram. Plus, that's where you'll find all the links to all the outfit ideas I'm sharing today. So let's start with this beautiful blouse that I'm wearing that I got from Reese. It's my one-hit wonder doing a lot of the effortlessly chic effort for me. Now I got this blouse at the start of the spring-summer season and it sold out pretty quickly. However, I noticed that it recently came back in stock which is good news for all of those who liked it too. Hopefully you can see in this footage that it's got those beautiful lace detailing panels and to look for blouses like this that just have that extra special detail to them that makes them stand out from the rest. It's a pretty oversized shape. There's definitely enough room in there and it's got a bit of a bohemian spirit to it as well which I definitely love. So despite the fact that the rest of my outfit is very chilled out, as you can see, I'm just wearing a pair of denim cut-off shorts and paired it with my gold sandals. But by adding a beautiful blouse into the mix, it instantly makes the whole outfit feel effortlessly chic and that's the trick really. If you're wearing something pretty chilled out and very low-key, think about adding just one piece that's a little bit more dressed up or it's got a bit of an interesting detail to it and that piece will single-handedly elevate your entire look, taking it from being a super-chilled outfit to something much more polished and effortlessly chic in no time. Next to an outfit I've been styling in a few different ways already since these trousers arrived. I love the shape of these. Definitely my new go-to piece for when I want that easy, everyday chic. They've been made from a blend of linen and cotton so nice and breathable for summer and that pleat at the front creates really nice shape down the leg. Then I spoil myself to these little beauties. I can't tell you how happy I am with them. They're elegant, classy, very original and ridiculously comfy. Money well spent, I think. So for my summer lookbook, I've styled my new favorite trousers and flats with a very simple bodysuit. I got this one a while ago but I'll link some similar ones she creates in the description box below as the brand has a really nice minimal style. It does scoop quite low around the arms so I've layered a plain black vest underneath but I think it works nicely and it feels really natural and effortless as a whole look. Now you might remember this dress from a summer dresses lookbook I did a couple of months ago now. There was lots of outfit inspiration in there so if you've missed it, I shall link it in the description box below. But this particular dress that I got from and other stories has fast become one of my favorites in my casual wardrobe. So over the last couple of months, I found myself styling it in lots of different ways. Both dressing it up and dressing it down. So if I want to go very everyday chic, I'll pair it with my Forever sneakers that I got from Everlane or possibly my high top Converse. I like those with this dress. But when I need to look smarter for certain occasions, I've been styling it like this and I actually really love this combination and find the addition of a blazer really helps to make the overall look feel more effortlessly chic. And actually the other thing I really love is the camel tone of the blazer sat against the baby blue of the dress. I think they really work together in a very elegant, timeless and sophisticated fashion. Think about if you could add a blazer into the mix. It might not be something you've immediately thought of but it can often have a really beautiful effect on your overall look. Next in my summer lookbook, to a dress that's equally had a lot of wear already, for one that I'd say gives off quite a different vibe from the dress before. This mini feels more girly, probably because of the fabric bringing embroidery on place. It's a bit more of a pretty feel I guess, which I'm fond of too, especially in summer. It's made from organic cotton, looks great with tan details and I just like adding a sprinkle of gold jewelry to finish. When I think about effortlessly chic outfit ideas, comfort is often one of the first things that springs to mind. If the fabric's too static, a fit too tight or it just isn't my style, chances are I'll never feel comfortable in it. So try and put comfort higher upon your list and that effortless chic vibe will start to shine through. Next up in this summer lookbook to an outfit, I feel like I've been wearing on repeat so far this July. It's definitely one of my favorites. It's very timeless, it's very elegant, it would be really easy to recreate and for me when I look at outfits like this, I see the beauty and the simplicity of it. So breaking it down, all I'm actually wearing is a cotton shirt and a pair of linen trousers. But the trick to looking effortlessly chic is making sure you buy the highest quality you can afford with those really basic pieces. So don't just go for the first shirt you find in Zara for example. Have a good search across all of the high street for that fabric content and high quality you're looking for. I personally really like cotton poplin' with shirts. It gives me that very crisp look that I'm after when creating these kind of outfits. So this outfit is one of my favorite go-to outfits for when I want to look effortlessly chic on a day-to-day basis. But it's also the sort of outfit that feels polished enough to wear out and about for meetings, heading to work. Never mind investing in pieces like this because they're those core staples that I reach for time and time again. And the result of course is the quality of those fabrics always shines through and then hence makes your outfits feel more effortlessly chic. Another day, another pretty summer dress and I think it's about time I had a chance to wear them all. I just have a thing for beautiful dresses in spring, summer. They make me feel nice and I love how they look as well. This is one I got from Farfetch a couple of months ago and though in my head I'm thinking I can't wait to wear this one on a beach I'm definitely getting my uses out of it until that point. I've worn this out and about a lot with sandals and I do like that look, but I wanted to show you how you could dress it up even more with a nice pair of mid-heels. I love broderian glaze and I equally love navy and camel together. So I've got a few of my favorites all rolled into one with this look. The dress is pretty low-key and relaxed and I've elevated the look with my handbag and heels. Combined together I think the overall look feels effortless but sophisticated at the same time. Adding back to my linen trousers now for another way I've been styling them an awful lot this July. Now this look is me in summer but on a slightly cooler day which we do get an awful lot in the UK. So I'm styling them with a jumper that I got quite a long while ago now but it is still in stock so I shall link that in the description box below. That combined with my linen trousers and a few other details with my handbag, my belt, my sandals makes me feel very effortless but in a really low-key, laid-back fashion for everyday wear. You could wear a little camisole top underneath that jumper if you wanted to so then of course you've got the option to take it off if it gets a little bit hotter throughout the day. And equally if it's a very rubbish weather day you could pair it with a nice trench coat. I think that would really completely look nicely. As you've probably gathered from this look book linen trousers have become quite a go-to for me particularly when I'm really wanting to create that effortlessly chic outfit idea. I don't however think you need to spend a fortune on linen trousers as lots of high street stalls have got some great alternatives at the moment. It's just about doing a bit more research to find the quality you're after or let me do the searching for you which I'm more than happy to do. Loose fit jeans are one of the big fashion trends for this summer 2021 and this next outfit idea is how I've been styling mine recently. So obviously the jeans by their very nature of being loose and oversized are very low-key. So when I want to make my whole outfit feel more effortlessly chic and elegant and timeless I tend to add something a little bit more luxury into the mix. So in this case I've added a silk blouse that I got from Everlane. Now of course it doesn't have to be a silk blouse but have a good look through your own capsule wardrobe and find the nicest highest quality blouse or shirt that you've got and have a see if that would pair nicely with your very laid-back pair of jeans. It's that contrast of those high and low pieces that you might have in your own wardrobe that when blended together really help create a really effortlessly chic and polished look. And hopefully you agree from this summer look book that you absolutely don't need to go gland to create an effortlessly chic outfit idea. In fact if anything I prefer going more low-key and laid back and just letting the fabrics, the shapes, the cuts of those pieces do all the effortlessly chic effort for me. Sometimes the most simple and cost-effective pieces in my wardrobe end up becoming some of my favorites. And that's definitely the case with this lovely linen shirt I got from H&M a little while ago in this gorgeous shade of coral. It's all about the color. Find a beautiful shade like this and you'll notice your outfits feel effortlessly chic without even trying. So a bit like the look before I've just kept it very simple on my bottom half with the rest of my styling. I'm wearing my monkey jeans. These are the straight leg ones that I bought four, five years ago now. I've added my new tan belt just to give it a bit more detail and paired it with my gladiator sandals to make it feel very low-key on my bottom half. Finishing off with my new Merose set that I got from Palais Paris which seems to be getting a lot of wear recently. All I'm actually wearing is a shirt, a pair of jeans and some sandals. But if you keep an eye out for really beautiful shades of shirts and blouses that you integrate into your own outfits, it can absolutely make the world of difference to your overall look. One way to always look effortlessly chic with minimal effort is to find yourself one beautiful dress which is pretty much where I'm at with this next outfit that I've worn an awful lot already this July. I bought this dress a couple of months ago from Mango and the first thing that caught my eye was of course that lovely polka dot print. I actually don't have very much print in my wardrobe at all. I do love my neutrals. But this ticked so many boxes, I literally couldn't resist. First of all, it's made from Tancel which is beautiful fabric that's very sustainable. I love the shape of it. I thought it was very original but still very in keeping with my own personal style. It's got an element of grown-up, sophisticated, bohemian chic to it, which I love. Aside from wearing this one a lot so far this month, I wanted to point it out as well because finding yourself the perfect summer dress is one way that you can very quickly and easily get an effortlessly chic outfit idea. You don't have to think too much about your styling, it's one piece and you're done. All you've gotta do is think about accessories which with something quite elaborate like this dress, I will always dress it down with sandals, a beach bag, something very chilled to try and contrast with that quite elaborate full-on dress. It just isn't my cup of tea to wear a dress like this with high heels. I personally would feel too dressed up, I'd feel too glam and probably a little bit uncomfortable. That high-low juxtaposition is much more my kind of style but I also think it's more effortlessly chic as a result. Back to my old but new favorite jeans and to an outfit that's had an awful lot of wear so far this summer. So this is a bit more of a dressed up outfit than the other jeans outfit I showed you but not something so dressed up that I wouldn't feel comfortable wearing it in the daytime. I like the addition of my tan heels, obviously they give me a bit of height but it's also one of the trends this spring summer so I feel like I'm ticking that box as well and then I've tied in that color with the belt as well just to cinch me in a little bit more. That blouse is actually fairly old but I've noticed that it's recently come back in stock which is great news because I would say this is probably one of my favorite blouses, stroked shirts that I've got in my entire wardrobe. It's got that tiny bit of lace detailing around the collar which gives it more interest and then it fastens in a slightly unusual way. Now I've finished this look with that beautiful de Melier handbag that I got recently. This is the Santa Monica with the gold chain. I've linked it in the description box below. It just seems a shame to save it for evening only when I don't actually go out very much so it's been getting a lot of use in the day wear too recently. Talking of effortlessly chic evening wear, this next look has probably become my go-to. This is a dress I actually got probably a year ago now from a brand called Reformation. This dress has become quite classic for me in my own capsule wardrobe. I tend to wear it a lot in the daytime and dress it down with sandals or trainers but then I think it really shines the most for evening wear. And I've finished off the look with another evening bag I have from a brand called Paris 64. It's a very effortless evening wear look that is just my cup of tea. I really hope you've enjoyed this summer look book and it's given you lots of outfit ideas and inspiration. If you'd like to see all the outfits I wore this July then don't forget to follow the link in the description box below to see my daily style pictures over on Instagram. And again, if you're not already subscribed to my YouTube channel, I would be very grateful if you'd like to do so. Hopefully you'll join me back here next Sunday for lots more styling tips and fashion advice. Have a great weekend everyone.


I care for a brother Jacob and he's got medication but he gets it changed so regularly that I don't know what's going on and it'd be nice to know what's happening and why it's getting changed so I could understand more about what's happening. When you're giving so much medication for the person you're looking after and you're not exactly sure what to do with it at first until you're shown by other people or how many to give, what days to give, what times, you know. It should be child friendly because I don't understand half the ways it's like on my brother's tablets and things like that so I'd kind of want it to be clearer and there should be someone like the doctors that should be able to explain it to you better so you can kind of understand without just reading something and being like what does that mean, you know. Also if we need to go pick up prescriptions at the pharmacies they won't let us do that if we're under 16. Instead of him having to drive up down there I could down drift walk because we've got local doctors in the village. It would be much easier if I could walk just prescription. Part of my mum first got diagnosed with a condition. I wasn't allowed in to appointments. I had to stay outside or I'd come up and see my mum when she was in hospital. It was only for about 10 minutes or something and I had to be shooed out so I couldn't see them checking out my mum. That bugged me because even to this day I still don't fully know what's wrong with my mum. I don't think doctors and nurses and people like that. I don't really ever see them because I'm always in school and if I'm with the doctor they don't really say much to me when I'm with my mum. District nurses, because I live in such a rural place I live in the middle of nowhere. They most of the time refuse to come and see my mum because we live so rural. My mum's got an ileostomy bag and she always runs out with them towards the end of the month and they don't like send her any more. They're trying to educate us more about health. If there ever was a problem in a house, the person would be careful, I was sick and there's no one else about. They're trying to teach us first aid so we might be able to stop or help. What would be nice is to get out to do one of my favourite sports, swimming, because it keeps my health right. It gives me a bit of stress free time. I'm still having counseling with the doctors to sort my anger out because sometimes I can't control it. I'm that bad, I just can't control it. I have to obviously go for my prescriptions as well and it does get horrible but at the time, sometimes I feel really happy about being able to help my dad. I don't think it's changing for the better if anything, we're being ignored and there should be a lot more medical support on hand. The teachers don't see that I sometimes miss a lesson or something to go sit in the in-carers office to talk rather than in a lesson because I'm stressed or I need someone to talk to. They don't see from my point of view why I'm there and teachers don't tend to understand. I think more teachers need to be aware that I'm a young carer because say if I haven't done my homework or say for whatever reason at home then they wouldn't know that it's because of him. They just thought maybe I'd be lazy or something like that. It is quite stressful at times because I've got my own work to do, like school work, GCSEs coming up now so looking after my mum is quite hard at the moment. I can't focus a lot at home. I find it really stressful all the time so I like getting out to do things every now and then when I can, young carers. It's great. The teachers do not understand where the in-carers come from, why they trwant but in actual fact they're actually trying to do things for their family and fit it all into the schedule with their education as well. Obviously I sit there worrying and worrying about how to concentrate for my work. I do worry a bit if I don't hear from her during the day or if I can text her and she doesn't text back. I don't think any of the teachers know and what I think could be an improvement is either they tell them or we have a little ID card just in general to show somebody that says it's like we're a young carer. I prefer people to understand what more I do for my mum. That's also an issue because I get the tension a lot for not doing my homework because of looking after my mum. I have a social worker called Mrs Clara and she's got a list of all the young carers and a couple of my teachers know because if you have homework and if you're late for a lesson they know why you might be late. That you have a reason like they wouldn't ask you in front of the class. I have to have a note and I would like to be able to just go in and say I've had to do this and this and that and they would understand that. I think there should be someone from a young carers project in all schools everywhere as much as possible. I'm in college now but when I was in school they had support there and people could talk to you about it. It would be good to have someone in college to talk to you about it and support you through it. They do quite a lot really. A week-silver comes in every couple of weeks to see how we're doing. It has a little session. They try to do that and take us out of lessons which aren't core subjects. They never take us out of English, Welsh, Signs or English lessons. So they don't want to effect that education as well. I think we should have a card of young carers to help us more with activities and other things we could do outside of school. There should be a bus pass for young carers so they can get to school if they need to, if they're late or something. Or they need to get back from school or they need to go shopping or something. I used to get really badly bullied and people take the make-out of the fact that I have to look after my dad and do his shopping and stuff.   I'd like people to not take a make-out of us for going to young carers and I would like them to understand what a young carer is. To begin with I planned on staying at home and then just travelling to Wrexham University. But it really upset my mum and idea that she was holding me back from going away and living the uni life. So after some poking and prodding to go, I'm going but it's going to be difficult because more social workers are going to have to come in and help my mum. I feel sort of guilty believing a bit. I want to go to university but my stepdad looks after when I'm in school so I think you should be okay hopefully. Obviously I'll come and see her. I've got weekends or whenever I can come back and see her but yeah I guess I do worry when I leave. I can't go off to uni or anywhere like that because I won't be around much to help out my family. So it'll be a bit difficult. Yeah, things I've improved by access to the young carers project in school once a week. But other than that I don't think teachers are aware of the people situation at home. When social services were involved in me, they were there for me and my siblings but they tend to care more about the siblings and what my mum and my stepdad were involved in rather than me myself. I was pushed aside. I think it is important to have people there for you for the support and everything. But some people don't like it into other things and it's just easier to have people there to talk to and it's nicer because you can get through it a lot easier. It gives you an hour or a couple of hours away from what goes on in your house and it lets you know you're not the only one in the world that has to deal with these problems with other people you can't talk to and that is help available to help if needed. I think that's improved in a way that we can now get support from social workers meaning that we can sit down as a family, discuss problems, address solutions, things like that. Don't just shove young carers to the side. Don't put them into the dark, bring them into the light.


A very important element of our current health emergency response in the camps is the focus on the isolation facilities. We're repurposing a number of healthcare facilities and other multi-purpose and functional centres and building new ones in Uki and Tecna to make sure that once there is confirmed infection we're able to refer, isolate and quarantine the patients so that we're able to give them the care and treatment that they need. This is a very important component of the emergency because it is the only way we're able first of all to trace the infection and secondly to suppress and maintain it. We're working together with our NGO partners, the government and other UN agencies and while we're preparing for the worst case scenario I'm very optimistic that we will succeed.


Hi, it's Bridget. Welcome to Above Life Channel. The purpose here is to inspire your spirit and fill you up with hope. Today I'd like to have an afterlife conversation with Dr. Wayne Dyer. I specifically want to explore the topic of manifesting and law of attraction. So let's welcome in Dr. Wayne Dyer. Hello, Wayne. I know that I can call him Wayne because we've spoken before. I feel like we're on the first name basis. Is that correct? He says, well, you can call me Dr. Wayne Dyer. Oh, yeah. Okay. No, no, no, no, no. Okay. He's like, no, no, no, no. That's right. He's like, I like your hat. He already comments on my hat. Thank you. Actually, you know what? This hat I wore in my video when I channeled Amy Winehouse. You know, she's a singer and he says, I know who she is. Incredibly beautiful voice. Like I didn't know a whole lot about her. And so I had to listen to some of her music after I had met her the first time and channeled with her. And I was wow, really impressed like this kind of smoky voice. Very almost like she was in the wrong era. Like she was born way too late. Like she should have been way back and like the jazz and just beautiful voice. So anyway, so yeah, so that's where and I didn't really want to do my hair to be honest. So that's why the secrets of the trade, you guys, where a hat makes it easier. All right. So let's talk about I want to talk about manifesting give us some advice. Many of us who are watching above life channel are positive and we want to create the best life that we can for ourselves. We believe that we are accountable and responsible for the things that we put into the world for the energy that we have. We recognize that our energy is a force and a factor. And so we're not like, on the beginning steps of this, Wayne, we definitely want to be live a positive life and we want advice from spirits like you to give us the inside scoop on that. So talk to us about manifesting. Can you explain what manifesting is from a spirit standpoint? Sure, he says, sure, I can do that. I think it's more important to begin with the context of the human reality and recognize that the reality that you are facing is an illusion. It's actually already a brilliant manifestation. It's a co creation in which everyone participates in this illusion. And when I say illusion, I know that for some that can be very unsettling. But it really is what it really means is a common vision that you hold and in your common minds host this reality and you accept it as what is true. But in an energetic context in the universe, it's not real. What is real is energy. And that's what matters. Yeah, joke, I get it. I get it. Did you guys get that matter energy? Okay. So if energy is what matters, how can we manifest something different than if we're kind of co creating with our mind this illusion of what 3d reality is, you know, the desk, the chair, the house, the car, the job, the belief systems that we have, how do we manifest something different? How do we create change? How do we achieve our goals? How do we aspire to reach our mission? I mean, he says, that's a lot of questions, Bridget. That's many. I mean, what do you what do you what you're he says to me, what you're really asking is how can I be happy? And happiness is what success is measured by happiness is what success is measured by. And you will only know you can only know if you have achieved that success by being at the end of your life, the last leg of the journey and looking back. Then you will know, it's likely that you won't recognize the happiness and the happiest of moments, the most fulfilling of moments, you will not recognize while they're happening might get an inkling, you know, a sense that wow, this is really special, whether it's a peaceful moment with your grandchild, or whether it's a proud moment graduating from college, or, or getting the the news that a baby's been born. Just a few common examples that you can relate to. You know, these are significant moments, you know, these are special, but you don't realize that they're part of the fullness. The, the true success of what life is is to have these sequence of experiences. And it is not about control or even orchestrating the experiences. And simply what your human form expresses is the manifestation of what your soul comes in with. And your soul does have purpose. It has a deep drive and desire to experience, to experience life in a body as a person. And because of that, some of the sensitivities that show up and that create opportunities for experience that can cause negative things, like addictions, or bad relationships, or bad luck, or illness dis-ease in the body. I myself had dis-ease in my body, as many of you know, that's not what caused my death. My death was an exit point by choice, and I am grateful for the manner in which I left the body. I am very grateful. I mean, you can't get much better than that.  That is easy. And let me tell you, I don't think I deserve that. I was not a perfect man. I was not a perfect man. But I will share with you as well, too. It's never too late to manifest. It's never too late to. And really, what manifesting is, let's get to the core of it. What manifesting is, you guys remember this is Wayne Dyer talking. I'm just sharing what he's sharing. The best I can with matching the words that he's sharing through. This is his message, Wayne Dyer, Dr. Wayne Dyer in the afterlife. What manifesting is, is it is the realization that of, it is the realization that your soul is seeking for you to connect with your desires.  And the reason why they drive you is because you need to acknowledge them because that is what manifests. It's called man. I, fest, for a reason, man, humankind.  And guess what, it's going to show up in lots of ways and it's going to make a whole mess of things. It's going to make a whole mess of things. Your life is going to be messy. Because the point of being connected, the point of pursuing your desires is not perfection. Perfection is a falsehood in the mind. It is part of the illusion. So I'm not saying, no, do not get me wrong.  And yes, in my work and my teaching says, Bridget will very much point out, ego edge got out. It does, it does challenge the thought of God inside of you.  How will you contribute? That is your choice. That is your choice.  You are seeking the connection to your desires that is housed within your soul, even though you might think it's in your heart, it is in your soul, that's where it programmed in. That's where it came in. That's where the formula is. That's where the magic formula is. You will feel the frustration, the fight inside of you, the internal fight between your mind and your soul and your mind and your soul in your heart, in that space in the heart is in between its negotiator between the mind and the soul, between what is humanly manifest, and what it's not what is dormant. And your mind makes great arguments.  But you don't need an order of protection against your spirit. You don't need that. That's false. That's a false hood. That is not the truth.  You are pure. If you are seeking or striving for perfection, for not making mistakes for getting it done right the first time, then you're in the wrong arena. You shouldn't don't watch this. This isn't going to help you. This is not for you. If you think your mind does everything, this is not for you. Don't watch. Don't stop listening. This is for those who seek the truest connection to truly manifest and create the life that you want. The success that you're seeking is happiness, is a wholeness, is a unity. And in that unity, in that marriage, it's not always roses and cherries. It's not always wonderful and harmonious and skipping through the fields and picking the flowers. And it's not always that. It is a balancing. It is a sometimes the mind is the one that bows to the spirit and sometimes the soul recognizes the youthfulness of the mind because the mind is youthful. The mind does not live beyond the human experience. So the next logical question you should ask me is how then am I, excuse me, just crossed my legs here. Wayne Dyer is chatting away here. Oh my goodness. We don't lose our microphone here. Technical, technical stuff, human technical. The next thing that you should ask me is then how if I don't have an ego mind, if there's no context of mind, then how can I speak? How can I use words? How can I reflect and remember in the memory, the human experience? Well, that's a good question. Don't you agree? We're talking about manifesting everyone, right? That's a good that is a good question. I get asked that actually. How is it that you can relate to us, Dr. Wayne Dyer?  And you don't do what about the mind? How does the mind fit in here? Do you have the mind? Do you access the mind? What is it? Tell us about that. Tell us about that. He says, Oh, Bridget, you know this. This is divine mind. This is the one mind. The universal mind. This is the universal consciousness. This is the oneness. There is access to a library to resources to information. You simply go to that file. You pull it. This is old school now. You go to the card catalog. Do you remember when libraries had card catalogs? Wayne Dyer speaking Dr. Wayne Dyer speaking. Not Bridget. Dr. Wayne Dyer. Remember when they had card catalogs, you had to go in and you had to do that and all that.  It's like that. I go to the place. I pull out the topic. I look up at the thing and I'm like, Oh, this is my memory of this. I access it. Easy. It's instantaneous. You must know that there is no time space. There's no gap. There's no here and there. There's no geographic location to spirit. Your spirit, it's true. It's living in a body. It has a vessel. It's like flowers that were plucked. Flowers that were plucked and put in a vase. And eventually the flowers die. But you still have the vase. Your spirit is like the vase. Life is like the flowers. Still have the vase. The sacred container. Sacred container has access to everything. Oh, everything. So there's no memory. That's a moment. There's no time space. So everything is accessible here and now which is why it gets confusing with like the past life stuff and the future life stuff and the decades of your life stuff. And maybe it's why the older we get the less we remember because we don't need to remember because the mind is working so hard trying to keep you safe because that's what it is. It's it is structured on fear based mechanisms and that which can be proven as fact and tangibly touched with a body. If it can't be touched with your fingers or proven with the mind, then it doesn't exist in the human experience or context. When the truth of the matter is the human experience and context is only temporary. And what is is infinite is the eternal which is the soul and the energy energy does not go away. It does not die. And that's how you're channeling. That's how Brigid and I are communicating. That's how we connect. That's how we like you want to talk. You have access right now in the body to any powerful inspiring thought leaders, poets and authors and great speakers and leaders and scientists and journalists and all these. You have incredible access to all their knowledge and wisdom. You just have to ask. And when you ask, then you must be in a channel to receive. You must be a vase. So you must be in your spirit. You can't access this in your mind. You need your mind because otherwise your mind will block. Your mind is good with resistance and the fear to keep you safe so it keeps out outside influences that cannot be easily understood by the mind. And so when you try to channel, tap in, connect to some famous person, whether it be Abraham Lincoln or St. Francis of Assisi or Maya Angelou, whomever you can do that if you choose to do that, but you are the vase. You have to remember that you are you have to tap into that in a in a context where you can accept it and where you can can be in. He's trying to like so he's showing me the vase like flowers, the metaphor of the flowers, but he's pulling it filling it with water and the water is the communication. The what holds the information and what holds the messages. So the water part is like the energy that flows and so you have to be able to access that.  You have to be able to have a clear pathway, have flowing water, have energy. Your energy has to be flowing. So you have to have like your chakras. You have to have some kind of awareness where your chakras are aligned. Chakras are energy centers of the body. This is Bridget. For those of you who don't know chakras C-H-A-K-R-A-S chakras yeah to think about it. Oh so okay I have to say something. This is Bridget. Excuse me Mr. Dwayne Dyer, Dr. Dwayne Dyer. Sometimes it's really hard to use my ego mind when I'm in this kind of a channel because the energy is so I'm so in an energy flow state that that's all I'm feeling and thinking and connecting to. Thinking mind, one mind, divine mind that I can't recall normal things like uh how do I spell chakra because that's not what the point of above-life channel is. Getting spelling accurately is not the point of above-life channel. I just want to clear by that. There you go. So now I just stepped into my ego mind. There's an example of that and Dr. Dyer says mm-hmm so now isn't that interesting how that happens isn't it? It does right? He says well what were you afraid of right there? Okay I want to share this with people. What do you mean what was I afraid of? I'm not I don't want to talk about that, really talk about me Bridget. Okay yes I'll say it. Afraid of fear of criticism and judgment. It gets old after a while, it really does. He says so don't care. Gee I wish I would have thought of that and of course okay thanks.  One of my personal criticisms with Dr. Wayne Dyer and he knows this and I'll totally share it forthright if if you've seen my other video I may have talked about it. Actually was at I had the opportunity the privilege to hear Dr. Wayne Dyer share some of his stories on stage. I think it was 2013 at a soulful writers conference that I attended in Colorado and I had the opportunity to go up and meet him and I just didn't want to. I just felt like it was really I felt like there's a part of him that's so ego with so ego minded and like oh me me me me and I was like kind of I mean I could feel the really deeply spiritual part of him but yet I could also feel the very human part of him and the human part of him I didn't like the spiritual part of him I do very much like and so I think that since that's a reflection since what we feel from someone else that's presenting to us that we're kind of repelled by is a part of resistance or a piece of ourselves that needs to be healed and so I think for me I would acknowledge and recognize that the being a person that has been a type A very driven person successful in my human career with my in my education and my college degrees and all that really kind of coming at to center and uniting my spiritual experiences with my human intellect has been definitely a path for me a very intensive journey I think that's probably why when I work with people I I really honor the mind because I recognize that the brain must be on board in our process and honoring that and understanding the resistance and why we are here in a body and utilizing our mind and our body in our spiritual journey working together has been a huge part of my process but overcoming some of my own barriers of the resistance that I have for not wanting to be judged and um wanting to tell people off quite frankly because I definitely have a warrior advocate like stand up for other people but also warrior like oh yeah bring it you know kind of energy like I'm like that like I'm sassy and some of you guys don't know me like that but that's how I am that's how I am okay and he knows it so he's poking at me a little bit to bring it out and so I've learned a lot from Dr. Wayne Dyer because of that the reflection of humanity and the parts of me that I don't necessarily like either the parts of me that get challenged by resistance and things that's human that's part of the process you guys that's how we grow okay it's annoying and frustrating that's how we grow that's like the point right is to be a person yeah to be a person have the experiences so do you have any tips like what are like the top three things for manifesting that we should know oh you can hear my dogs barking upstairs that's all right this is what happens when you're like a mom and you have like four kids and four dogs and a busy house there you go guys real life manifest give me like three tips to manifest Dr. Dyer he says be yourself be yourself and if you don't know who you are you better find out and that means you got to spend some quality time with yourself and that means you got to be in he's trying to say like quiet space so I would interpret that so he says know yourself you got to know yourself so I would interpret that as like meditation writing journaling just for yourself get to know your own self what is what are you like what do you like because you change your preferences change your interests change you might even know what you like and he marks all you've been doing is raising kids or working so hard you're never home or you know what I mean you you've been busy with like human life so now let's get in and spend some time with yourself as a soul don't feel ashamed don't feel guilt don't feel bad about not spending that time with yourself now this is where you're talking just give yourself permission to do that so Dr. Dyer says to manifest first thing is to be yourself in order to be yourself you got to know yourself so I mean spend time with yourself okay be yourself he says all right it's what's the second thing he says be healthy you got to take care of your body I know you know I know your people don't want to hear this but you got to take care of your body because it's what you're living in right now you know it's like your cars you know think about your car how short lived your car would be if you didn't do the oil changer you didn't put air in your tires or you didn't even put gas in it what if you didn't put gas in it what if you put a different kind of gas in it's not going to run very long is it so you got to be healthy and being healthy means you know take care of your bodies whether that's going to the doctor or getting your physical or you know doing some movement getting a little bit active I'm not suggesting you got to run a marathon but get get active make some smart choices about your health just do that so be who you are and be healthy focus on your health physical body health that's what he said hmm and then the third thing he says this is about manifesting it as third thing he says is ask for help he says ask for help and he shows me angels so I do a lot of work with archangels some of you may know that if we've had private session you know that I work with archangels a ton why because they're great they're so easy to connect with super easy they're non-denominational when I say archangels I don't mean religion one religion one way one practice I mean angels nice sweet good energy tons of different skill sets tons and so that's what I see when he says that but he says get support ask ask for support you know not just human support soul support spirit support you got he's like so everything he's telling us is about connecting with the energy that puts us in a place to to be in a positive flow the best state that we can be in in order to be able to manifest to bring forward that which is true for us bring forward the connection to our desires and our soul and allow our mind to not stand in the way because why because we know we know ourselves we know who we are do you know who you are that's the first step that's the first most important sorry I got a band aid here because I cut my finger with brand new knives I was cutting up an apple and I cut my finger so sorry I know it's ugly but hey it's life I'm taking care of myself I did take care of myself know yourself okay be healthy in your body and the third thing is ask for support ask for help specifically your healing team of angels archangels you may have healing helpers that are saints or guides or you might have totem animals or you might have ascended masters which basically means like saints and all different kinds of deities that cross multiple cultures that cross denominations that cross religious boundaries there's lots of helpers you guys and that helps to inspire your spirit and to make you feel good so that then you can make healthy choices and know yourself and spend time with yourself and not feel guilty that you're not working harder or you're not playing ball with your kid instead you're spending some time with yourself you might be journaling you might take a nice bath and listen to a great audio that gives you information about manifesting love attraction or positive motivational talks and things like that right all right anything else is there anything else dr wane dire that you'd like to say says no i think that about that about sums it up now he says i don't want to get he says i don't want to get you over time okay all right thank you thank you and he says pay attention to your energy that's what he's leaving us with pay attention to your energy it makes all the difference it makes all the difference especially when you're trying to manifest thank you all right you guys i hope you've gotten to know me a little better through this video i'm trying to let you see my full authentic personality and i am a little sassy at times and that's just the way it is if you don't like it don't watch okay it's all right with me all right so this is bridget at above life channel the purpose here is to inspire your spirit and fill you up with hope i hope that we've done that with our conversation about manifesting with dr wane dire in the afterlife if you've liked this give it a thumbs up that's a good thing to do that give it a thumbs up or you can make a comment if you like too that helps if you know somebody that loves dr wane dire or that needs to hear this message go ahead and share it with them that's a good thing to do as well spread the love spread the inspiration spread the hope i really appreciate that all right remember the most important thing remember this is your life this is your life so live it live it thank you so much for watching


Hey folks, good morning. It's Hari Swaminathan and I wanted to make this quick market update yesterday was a massive day in the SMP It went down by about 38 points and you can see that the VIX actually had climbed over 15 Yesterday this morning. It seems to be a little Lower in the pre-market. It's 9 a.m. Eastern time today and that's Friday August 13 So here we are and seems to be a little bit of a of a reprieve here But it's yet to be seen. I think the big drop yesterday was some of it was probably due to the Barcelona event as well as The fact that various CEOs were resigning from business councils and everything here in the US now VIX being that high gives you an opportunity to capture some volatility crush if the downturn doesn't continue and it seems like it's been stable since I've been watching about one to two points not a whole lot, but perhaps something like a bear call on the SMP would be the way to go so if we analyze this and if you want to put a bear call like say Seven days away. I think you can get quite a bit of premium there so here if you see the plus or minus move is about 45 so 24 30 plus 45 about 24 75 and perhaps we can go to about Go to about 24 80. I believe let's check it out if there's any Options any money there? So if you go to about 24 80, there's nothing there. So seven days is too far I mean, it's too close. Let's say 14 days 14 day bear call and you're getting a plus or minus of 61 so about Say 24 2500 close to that would be there's no premium there as well So you can come to maybe 11 delta and at 24 80 you can do it But seems a little bit risky. So I thought that made there may be a trade over there But I don't think it's worth it because 24 80 is only about 50 points away and Plus or minus itself the one standard deviation is 61. So that won't make sense Perhaps the best thing to do maybe to come to the closest if you wanted to do sort of like an intraday trade I think the price is there might be a little attractive. So for example here 24 50 things like that the plus or minus is 16 even for today, which is like very high and that's obviously because the Wicks level has gone up so so much Now normally if the plus or minus is 16 for one day, you would know you could potentially buy a strangle however, because the volatility is high and it's going to get crushed I would not recommend that and So maybe a vertical Or even an iron condor because today seems to be somewhat flattish. So maybe an iron condor 20 points away 15 points away at You know 24 45 and 24 20 or 24 15 might make sense So but this volatility is going to get crushed today So, you know, if you wanted to take advantage of an intraday situation, this is what we would do You also have to keep an eye on the Happenings outside of the markets because I think a lot of that might drive The sentiments for today also. Anyway, just a quick day trade opportunity I suppose for today if you wanted to sell some premium and take advantage of the high wicks This is what you could do. You could do an iron condor just on the front side itself. Thanks