So, for those of you on social media, we just wanted to let you know that you can follow us, retweet us, and post on social media as well. You can use the hashtag that you see on the screen at the moment for hashtag and child marriage, and you can tag Girls Inspire, the Commonwealth of Learning and Girls Not Brides. Now, without further ado, I'd like to pass it on to Mrs. Francis Burrell, who is a senior advisor for the Women and Girls and the team leader for education at the Commonwealth of Learning. Thank you, Cherise. Good morning, everybody, wherever you are in Asian Africa, and also our guest speaker who is in the UK, and then our staff and colleagues here in Vancouver, in Canada. This is our third webinar in our monthly series of webinars, which is part of our strategy to build the capacity of our partners and members in our community of practice on various issues which are pertinent to our strategy to end child and re-force marriage. As you know, Girls Inspire is a partnership between the Commonwealth of Learning and Community Organisations in Bangladesh. India, Pakistan was a weekend engineer to address the various women and girls faced that prevented their full participation in society, particularly the harmful cycle of child early and forced marriage. Thanks to grants from the governments of Australia and Canada, the Commonwealth of Learning will use ODI and Technology Enhanced Learning to support the schooling and skills training of 45,000 girls over the next three years. This webinar was organised to increase our own knowledge on the issue of child early forced marriage, and the objectives of this webinar are, the next slide, to discuss child early forced marriage and to share information on recent international developments that have an impact on CEFM. Girls Not Brides is a global partnership of more than 600 civil society organisations from over 80 countries committed to ending child marriage and enabling girls to fulfil their potential. They share cause conviction that every girl has the rights to lead the life that she chooses and that by ending child marriage, we can achieve a safer, healthier and more prosperous future for all. I'm very pleased to introduce Heather Hamilton, the Interim Executive Director of Girls Not Brides. Heather is responsible for ensuring that Girls Not Brides delivers on its strategy and advances their collective efforts to end child marriage. Most recently, Heather worked at the UNICEF Asia Pacific Regional Office on the Public Finance for Children initiative. Previously, she led several coalitions and networks on global issues as Executive Director on the ConnectUS Fund, a multi-foundation grant making initiative and as Executive Vice President and Chief of Staff, Citizens for Global Solutions, she has significant experience in organizational leadership, advocacy and strategy communications and has led numerous multi-organizational messaging initiatives on advocacy goals. Heather, I'm pleased to hand over the floor to you. It's delightful to be with you here today. Thank you, everyone, for taking the time. I have slides, so I'm going to start the presentation and... Oops, sorry. I have to click on Show My Screen first. I believe. Please bear with me. I don't... Is my screen showing? Not yet, Heather. OK. Could we try sharing it again? I've lost the little thing that says Share My Screen when I made the presentation full-size. Heather, we're just trying to reshare the screen with you. OK. Sorry about that. I hit full-size before that. There it goes. Share My Screen and then that full-size. Can everybody see it now? It's coming. Yeah, there's yes. OK. Fantastic. Well, it is really great to be with you here today.  And then we're going to talk a little bit about our theory of change and how it might be useful for your work and then talk a tiny bit about some of the recent developments that have come up recently at the international level that can help support national level work. So brief introduction to child marriage. Child marriage affects 15 million girls a year. That is 28 girls a minute. One girl every two seconds is married. One, two. That is how frequently it occurs. It affects one out of three girls in the developing world. There are over 700 million women alive today who were married before the age of 18, temperature of the world's population. And while rates of child marriage are decreasing, slowly, those rates of decrease are not enough to offset the growth in population. So if we do not increase the pace of change, we're going to see an increase in the sheer number of girls married. And we expect that 1.2 billion girls total will be married as children by 2050. That is the equivalent of the entire population of India. This is an issue that happens across countries, cultures, religions, and stable and fragile contexts. It's not just one religion, one part of the world. You can see from the stats on the screen that it affects all the regions. But a surprising chart is when you look at the countries of the highest absolute number of girls married before the age of 15, what you see is that this really isn't something that is isolated, that is just in Africa or South Asia. It's really a global issue from Mexico to Indonesia. So it affects everyone. And I think that's something that's surprising to a lot of people. So what is the impact of child marriage? When a girl becomes a bride, the consequences are lifelong and absolutely devastating. She's usually forced to drop out of school and housework, not homework, becomes her priority. She loses all the benefits associated with schooling, which I'm sure you are all very familiar with. But then she's also usually pressured to have children several and soon by her family at a time when pregnancy and childbirth are really dangerous for her. Girls under 15 are significantly more likely to die in childbirth than women in their early 20s. And these consequences span generations. The children of girls are 60% more likely to die before their first birthday than those that have older mothers. Because they're isolated and without power, child brides are at a higher risk of HIV and sexual, physical, and psychological violence throughout their life. Child marriage traps girls, their families, and societies in a cycle of poverty. The children of girls married young are likely to marry young and then reinforce this cycle of deprivation and rights violation. And that's really critical. It is a human rights violation. It deprives a girl of her rights to health, education, freedom from violence, and most importantly, the right to choose if, when, and whom to marry. All of these have massive impacts on the individual girl. But as the world has increasingly recognized, they make child marriage a major development issue. Child marriage is a barrier to eight of the 16 new global goals for sustainable development. Half the goals cannot be achieved without addressing child marriage, including education. So why does this happen? Parents generally want to do what's best for their children. They love their daughters. So why do they marry them early? In some places, because this is just the way it's always been done, it's just a tradition. There also may be financial transactions involved, such as dowry or bride price, which place a financial value on the life of a girl. The girl may have few other options. There may not be schools in her community to attend, or the schools aren't safe, or there aren't other economic opportunities in her community for her as an alternative to marriage. And in situations of insecurity, some families view marriage as a safe option for girls, not realizing the significant violence that she will face within marriage. But ultimately and critically, we have to remember that child marriage happens to girls because they are girls. While these are all drivers of child marriage, the underlying cause is gender inequality. This view that a girl has very little value outside of her worth in marriage, her virginity, and her so-called honor. So a little bit about girls, not brides. In 2011, the elders, which you may know as the group of elder statespeople who have really had an impact on bringing issues to the attention of the world, they wanted to look at this issue of the intersection of religion, tradition, and the oppression of women. So Mrs. Michele and Archbishop Desmond Tutu started having conversations about how do we do this? How do we get at this critical intersection? And so the executive director of the elders at that point, who is the chair of our board of trustees, Mabel Von Aranya, started having conversations about this with a lot of people. She was shocked to learn the scope of child marriage. I think we are all shocked to learn the scope when we first heard about it. That it's not just something that happens in a few places or isolated. It's really this one out of three, 15 million a year. But there was so little awareness across the spectrum from the general public all the way to global leaders of the issue itself and how it affects so many other issues. It was getting very little policy and programmatic attention. There was fantastic work being done, particularly at the community level. But there was no scale visibility and connection to other people making doing this work and so that people weren't able to learn what was working. So the elders brought together in 2011 a group of people who were really leading on addressing child marriage and Addis. And they said, what needed to be done? And this sets out the agenda for Girls Not Brides, what we reviewed a little bit earlier. The idea that we need to raise awareness, expand policy commitment and funding, and strengthen learning and coordination. On a more substantive level, since 2014, we've been working as a partnership on five major strategic objectives. The first is to really get the international community to acknowledge this and set that global norm, to get those intergovernmental institutions to make those commitments. The second is to really learn what is necessary to end child marriage, increasing the evidence base. Thirdly, we wanted to draw attention to those areas where progress was occurring at the country level, those countries that were taking early action on child marriage. The fourth objective was to increase the amount of funding in the field with an issue that affects so many girls. You cannot address it with scattershot funding. And fifth, we needed a global movement. We knew that this was an issue that required a movement and partnership. So in 2014, we brought together 150 researchers, external experts, and a lot of members to try and get at this question of what will it take to end child marriage? And what we came up with was the Girls Not Brides Theory of Change. This is a theory of change not just for our secretariat or our partnership, but really a theory of change for the field on what it's going to take to end child marriage. It's informed the work of our members by helping them situate their work within the field to understand how their specific interventions fit into a larger process of change. It's also been adopted by a number of donor countries, the UN Global Program, and others as a way of informing their work. At the heart of this theory of change is what we call a catalyzing strategy, which is best articulated as a set of guiding principles or overall approach for how we believe change needs to happen. So we recognize that our work has to be long-term and sustainable. There is no quick fix to ending child marriage and that we need to be working at all levels. So not just the international level, but at the regional, national, and most importantly, community level. And that these efforts have to be coordinated so that we have maximum impact. And where possible, we need integration across sectors. So we can't just advocate for the Ministry of Gender to address child marriage as child marriage. We need to look at other ministries and other approaches, including education, including health, because this issue can't just be addressed within one sector. And then it stresses the importance that we need to learn and share from each other what are those effective approaches, not only at the big national level, but also very much at the community level as well. So that's where the partnership itself fits in. Looking more broadly at this area of change, there are seven levels in total from the problem statement third of the vision statement at the top. At the bottom, we start with this problem statement that we have 15 million girls a year married each year and that results in harmful consequences. And then moving up to the top, we have a vision that is explicitly about the end state that we want girls to be in. That we envision a world without child marriage where girls and women enjoy equal status with boys and men and are able to achieve their full potential. It's very important, it's not just about stopping child marriage, but that end state for the girl. In between, we really look at what it's going to take to get to these long-term changes. So these long-term changes that we wanna see is that girls are able to decide if, when and whom to marry and that married girls must be able to live an empowered and healthy life. It's important to note that we do really put a focus not just on preventing child marriage but addressing the needs of those girls that are married. So in between, what we have are those intermediate steps and I wanna draw your attention to the level of outcomes where there are four key outcomes outlined. When we think about child marriage, many people automatically go to that first outcome, laws and policies, that we should just change the law and enforce the law and that's going to be enough. And while it is certainly important and critical, we know that child marriage is not just something that law enforcement agencies can do. But we do need laws in place, they need to be implemented and enforced and we need to have institutional support structures around them like training law enforcement officials or police force on child protection but also questions about the civil registration system so that births and marriages are registered. But that isn't enough and unfortunately, many people stop there. The other things that we need to see is we need to see that there are services available to girls. They need the right services to avoid marriage and be safe and empowered as well as ensuring married girls have access to services that they need. This includes access to a high quality education, sexual reproductive healthcare and conferences like Jati Education, strong crowd protection systems and financial services like banking accounts so girls can save in a safe way. So drilling down, we then get to some of the more social norms changes. We need to mobilize families and communities. This is really about the work done at the community level with key actors and gatekeepers who rarely allow girls to be the decision makers in their own lives. We know that in many communities, child marriage is a deeply rooted practice and it takes time to change attitudes and behavior. So we have to work with key people like parents, grandparents, religious leaders, traditional leaders, teachers, so there are a number of ways that there's community engagement, conversation, working shifts, social norms, community conversations, street theater, et cetera. So it's really about raising awareness of the harmful impacts of child marriage and helping that environment that the girls are in really support their choices. But finally, and this is really at the center, we need to empower girls themselves. This means building their capacity to claim their rights. So this could be equipping them with the training skills or information or support networks that they need to thrive. So it could be things like girls clubs, safe space programs or economic empowerment savings group. We really wanna make sure that girls know their rights, that they have the opportunity to gain information and skills and feel confident using these skills. And one of the things that's really interesting here is there's some emerging evidence that this is really one of the critical aspects that tends to be missing in interventions and when it is missing, you don't see the kind of long-term impact that you want. So what does this look like at the community level? So I'm gonna profile a couple of members in each of these areas. So in terms of empowering girls, one of our members is the Kenya Center for Excellence in Kenya. They seek to empower and motivate young girls through education to become agents of change and to break destructive practice and not only of child marriage but female general mutilation which is connected in Kenya to early marriage. They run primary boarding schools for Maasai girls. In looking at mobilizing families and communities, there's some really interesting work being done by an organization called Blue Veins in Pakistan which they engage civil society organizations, media, lawyers, religious leaders and especially men and boys in communities to create zero tolerance for child marriage. They also lobby and engage policymakers and legislatures. In Guatemala, a population council is working to reduce the prevalence of child marriage in a holistic way by both encouraging girls to stay in school, the girls in parents, but also providing them with information on sexual and reproductive rights and access to the community services that are available to them. Young mentors run and facilitate programs discussing sensitive issues and how to access those services. In Morocco, Foundation Ito, which is a Moroccan women's rights organizations, they conduct an annual campaign to end child marriage. So they travel from village to village, knocking on doors and talking to families about the rights that women and girls are legally entitled to, which is the approach within the community empowerment. But on this caravan, they also provide healthcare and legal services, so looking at the services. But interestingly, they then also gather data on the prevalence of child marriage in moral areas which is not really available in Morocco to support advocacy work pushing for implementation of family codes and laws around married girls. So they're a really good example of an organization that has multiple interventions within the different strategies. So as was mentioned earlier, Girls Not Brides is a civil society partnership. We've got over 600 organizations from over 80 countries around the world. And it's important to note that our members come from a real diversity approaches that most of them, in fact, are not child marriage organizations. They come from education, health, human rights, girls empowerment. Interestingly as well, we're only 7% international NGOs and 20% of our members work exclusively at the community level. So this really is a bottom-up partnership. It's because we know that community level engagement is really important to change child marriage as a social norm. So looking at what's happened so far, since 2011 there's been a huge recognition of child marriage at the global level. There are resolutions that have been passed in the UN Human Rights Council and UN General Assembly with the push of our member organizations that lay out what countries need to do but really importantly to set a global norm that this is no longer acceptable. And really importantly, in the new global development goals, target 5.3 under the gender equality goal, there's actually a target that every country on Earth has now committed to end child early and forced marriage by 2030. We've also seen significantly increased funding but it really hasn't been enough to meet the scope of the problem and there's just really not enough to go into grassroots organizations. At the regional level, we're seeing really important developments as well. The African Union has embedded child marriage and other harmful practices in Agenda 2063, their 50-year vision, and then launched a campaign to accelerate the end of child marriage by having country-by-country launch campaigns on child marriage. In the Southern African Development Community SADIC, they've developed a model law for their members on how child marriage can be dressed at the legal level but importantly, that model law doesn't just look at the legal changes but the whole range of government services and interventions as well. We've also seen action in Asia at the regional level. The South Asia Association for Regional Cooperation adopted a regional action plan to end child marriage that officially recognizes child marriage as a human rights violation and lays out steps that member states need to take. Where we're seeing really exciting change now, however, is taking these big global and regional commitments and translating them into national strategies and nationwide initiatives to address child marriage. We have seen national strategies to address child marriage launched in a number of countries around the world and while they are very much in the very early stages of implementation, these initiatives have mobilized public support and interest in the issue and outlined the need for multi-sectoral work both to prevent child marriage and respond to the consequences of child marriage. Girls Not Rides has developed a checklist and analysis of national strategies and the checklist is there for organizations in country who want to work with their governments or even those developing these strategies in government to understand how best to develop these strategies not only in terms of the content but also the process, the inclusion of civil society in the affected communities but also what needs to happen in terms of implementation and that's available on our website. So looking forward, what do we need to see? We need to make sure that civil society organizations are seen as by all the actors from international organizations, development partners, governments as really critical partners in ending child marriage. Civil society organizations have a really unique role on this issue as a social change issue because they are at the forefront of actually understanding from the community level what the local drivers are, what the local challenges are and what it's going to take to move communities and so we need to see the political leadership from governments in actually working actively with civil society organizations. We need to also see governments taking responsibility for effectively implementing target 5.3. While we have an agenda and a commitment this doesn't mean anything if governments do not actually actively implement it and civil society has a role to play here in holding governments accountable. And finally, we need to really get at these root causes of child early and forced marriage. It's not enough to simply here and there have an intervention that looks at one of the drivers but all interventions need to incorporate tackling wider gender inequalities to shift the social norms that perpetuate child marriage. So that is the presentation. I'd love to walk through some questions and I'm just going to leave up a list of resources that I can circulate to you afterwards as well that we have that are available for people who want to be involved in the child marriage work. Thank you so much Heather for that presentation. I would like to open the floor to questions and answers for any comments from our folks on the webinar session and our attendees here at the comment office working. We invite you to make any comments by un-muting your line and you can do that by pressing on the red button that appears on your screen on go to meeting or you can type in the chat box and we can address those questions if it's you. Heather, can you see the comments in the chat box? People are commenting your presentation. Oh yes, thank you. I was just answering one of the questions there, a private question. I'd like to ask how to deal with post-CEFN situation. I assume that means once a girl is married. So I think that that is one of the things that we're actively looking at and trying to understand better. Obviously married girls need access to services from governments and localities. For example, they need access to contraception so that they can have control over when and if they have children and to avoid pregnancy when their bodies aren't ready. In many places, married girls are not allowed to attend school. There are actually laws against married girls attending school. So those laws need to be changed and they need to be given access to schooling. And there's also a community-based change question around this which is sometimes it's not laws that's prohibiting them but custom that their families or their communities say, okay, you're married now, your job is in the home and they need to understand that they need to have that kind of access. They also need access to legal remedies. Where child marriage is illegal and they want to leave the marriage, they need to have the capacity to get divorced. So there are some legal conundrums and issues around when if they aren't officially married under law they can't officially get divorced and therefore they don't have access to the services that can support women who are trying to get out of, say, a violent situation in the home. And they need somewhere to go. So if their families reject them, we need to ensure that girls who are married who want to leave those marriages have a safe space to go to. So those are just a few of the kinds of interventions we know are needed but we actually have some internal work going in the partnership to try and identify a broader range of activities that need to occur for these girls. Thank you, Heather. Sabina, I see that you've typed in some comments providing context to your question. Does that answer your question? You can click on the red button on your screen to speak. Hi, Cherise. Hello. Go ahead. It's a great presentation. I must say it gives a global overview about the child marriage issue. I just like to say that we are experiencing some of the cases where girls who are married before the age of 18 are now facing post-marriage issues like divorce and clash or conflicts with the husband in laws and now they have no place to go as the parents and keeping in view the socioeconomic situation of those girls. And as a civil society organization, sometimes we have no option to... I mean, these options to help them out or mandates are sometimes very limited and we can't provide them shelter, though we can refer them to some shelter or protection houses run by the government. But still, the issue is very complex.  It's the recent case which we experienced that one of the girls who visited our center previously and my colleague Sarjada just met her today and she shared with her that she tried to... she tried to take her own life and she attempted six suicide attempts recently because of the divorce and she's so young she can't handle all the social pressure and family and relatives or maybe all the people around they can't understand the trauma she's facing. So all we can provide her is some kind of counseling and a redirection or putting her through some kind of education or whatever we can do. It's just for the sharing purpose and maybe he can buy this bowl in that way because he has an extensive experience. Thank you so much. Maybe I'm taking more time. I would very much like to respond to that because there are several things that you said which I think are really critical. You mentioned the socioeconomic situation. One of the other kinds of services therefore Merry Girls is those economic empowerment opportunities the opportunities that if they're not returning to school they may be too old by that point or if there's no access to school they need alternative economic opportunities and I'm really sorry to hear about the girl who visited your center and what's really unfortunate and scary is that until I think it was last year or the year before the leading cause of death for adolescent girls in the developing world was maternal mortality. That's not true anymore. The leading cause of death for girls, adolescent girls in the developing world is now suicide and there's a Good Lancet article by Suzanne Petrone which makes the connections between child marriage and the disempowerment of girls and that increase in suicide. And the other thing that I wanted to mention is that in many countries there are child helplines that children can call to get assistance so that might be something to look into. I know that within SAIVAC which is the South Asian Apex body of Sark that is looking at child marriage that they're working directly with national human rights institutions and child helplines to ensure that there are responses for girls who are either going to be married or who are trying to leave a marriage. Thank you so much Sabine and Heather and thank you Sabine for sharing that story and Heather for those resources. And we just wanted to say actually that Sabine is speaking from this society for the protection of the rights of the child in Pakistan. For all of our girls and fire partners you know that for the context of the people joining us in the room today we just wanted to say that. We have a couple of questions that are coming on the screen so we have one from Mohammed Rizwan who is the Executive Director of Shijulai in Bangladesh and we have a question here in the room and we'll proceed with a question from Shariah in Bangladesh. So Rizwan would you like to unmute your phone and let us know what your question is? Hi, thank you for the presentation and I'd like to know why you decided to become a separate organization in 2012. It's a follow-up question that I asked before and also the second one is who started your organization and also I would appreciate if you would share more information on the work of foundation YTTO that you mentioned in your presentation. Thank you. Okay, great. So as I mentioned Girls Not Rides is a partnership with Started by the Elders. This is Nelson Mandela's group and includes a number of very prominent individuals but it's really Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Mrs. Grashen Michelle, Nelson Mandela's widow who were the initial push behind this and because they were looking for a way to address that intersection of tradition, religion and the oppression of women and the consultations that they did, what they heard from people working on child marriage once they decided that child marriage was what they wanted to work on was that what they needed was not only the kind of work that the Elders actually does which is the very high level interventions of these very prominent people but they needed a network, they needed a partnership, that they needed to work and learn together and coordinate action and that was not something that the Elders was the best position to do. So instead of just being a project of this organization which is very elite and high level the decision was made to split off Girls Not Rides and to create a separate secretariat that could fundraise separately and really service the needs of our members separately so that's how we became a separate organization. So we're a registered charity in the United Kingdom but we really are a secretariat that serves the needs of our members and not kind of a separate organization with our own agenda. And then you asked about Fondacian Ito. I think we actually have a case study on their work so let me, it would be good if the organizers can share your email address and I'll check with my team and see if we have anything more on them that I can share with you. I'm not intimately familiar with their work but I'm pretty sure that we have more information on what they're doing. We actually just did a learning exchange where one of our members from another country, I think Chad, actually participated on this caravan and then took the learning back to his own organization and so I'm pretty sure that we actually can share something of what he found as well. Thank you very much, Heather and Rizwan. Heather will be sure to share Rizwan's Fondacian Ito's review and connect the both of you. Now I'd like to proceed to the next question. We have Professor Dr. Sunshine Mishra, who's an education specialist here at the Commonwealth of Learning for England. Thank you so much for the presentation. I think coming in the morning, it's what's been spent for me in the new area and it's good to learn the kind of work that he was doing and the reason that my colleagues are attending to a lot. My question could be naive because I'm not very much involved in it but I know from some of the countries that they have legislative provision about legal aid of marriage. I'm trying to understand that how this legal provision, legislative provision for marriage aid is prevalent across the countries in the world and is there any difference in those countries which have a legal provision or just a case to get married and the situation that is political provision? Do you see the difference in the problem in these countries or there are other issues to implement legal structures? Yeah, I mean it's a very good question because it's a little bit of a complicated issue. So in countries that have a minimum age of marriage that has been long standing and not enforced and they don't have the birth registration systems to enforce it, the judiciary ignores it, communities ignore it. The legal age of marriage is actually not the way that we're going to see change. So telling people that it's illegal or raising awareness that it's illegal is not an effective response in those situations because the law in the absence of all of the other interventions is just not enough and in particular if it's not being enforced. And while there is some evidence that legal changes do not lead to decreases in rates of child marriage, there's also some good anecdotal evidence that efforts to change the age of marriage actually lead to broader, more comprehensive multi-sectoral approaches to end child marriage and community awareness raising. So a number of our member organizations have worked to change their national laws to bring them in alignment with the Convention on the Rights of the Child and other mechanisms that the legal age of marriage should be at least 18, which is the partnerships position that was adopted at the very beginning that there should be a legal age of 18. But it's not something that most people feel should be the focus of the work because it's not the lynchpin change agent. So sometimes it can be a very effective way of rallying around the issue and sparking a conversation about broader interventions that are needed or of raising awareness of the need to address the issue, but simply changing the law alone is never enough. I hope that answers your question. Oh, yeah. Thank you, Sanjayan. Thank you, Heather. We're now nearing the close of the hour. So we have time for a couple more questions. We see that there's a question from Shariar Alam from the Center for Mass Education and Science in Bangladesh asking about an explanation for target 5.3 of the SPGs. Shariar, I'm not sure if you'd like to unmute your phone and provide more context to that question for Heather. Hello. Hello. Go ahead. Hello, Heather. Hello. Can you please say hello? Hi, Shariar. Can you please explain the target 5.3 within the Sustainable Development Gold Order 2030? Sure. So as you're likely aware, last year the world committed to a set of global goals that everybody, every country, this is not just developing countries, will commit to achieving by 2030. There are 16 of these goals and the fifth goal is that we will work to achieve gender equality. One of the targets of that goal, the third one, target 5.3, commits to ending all harmful traditional practices including child early enforced marriage and female genital mutilation by 2030. Now, what's really important is not just that there is a commitment to the issue for the first time at this broad global level but that governments are actually accountable for progress on these goals. They actually have to report within the system of the Sustainable Development Goals to the high level panel on what their progress is and so not only they need to align their national efforts to achieving this goal but they then have to report on how they did every year so it's a new accountability mechanism and it's a new way of saying not only that the issue is really important but the governments have an obligation and for people at the national level being able to point to the Human Rights Council resolutions the UN General Assembly resolution the regional instruments and particularly this commitment in the global goals these can be important ways to go to your government and say you made these commitments these are your global commitments you said you would do it what are you going to do? I think that's great, thanks so much Heather and Charriere for asking that question the international commitment that we're all aiming to earn now I'd like to proceed to the next question from Dr. Ballet here who is the Vice President of the Commonwealth of Learning in the Ring Hi friends, this is Ballet here Hello Hi Heather there was a very good presentation very interesting you know mine is not a question but it's some suggestions and some points and some very interesting new insights which are coming in in this area first of all I wanted to check how far the demographers the population researchers are involved in your program the which researchers? the demographers and the population research experts you know because since to 1960 I have come across age at marriage is a very important area of study in the population research are they involved in your programs? we don't at the secretariat work directly with demographers and population research experts but I do know they are involved at the global level on helping to identify what are some of the indicators that for example the UN global program there is a joint program between UNFPA how are they measuring this and there are efforts to improve data collection around issues related to child marriage so UNICEF in the DHS and mixed surveys their surveys that they do with national governments collects information on the way it's structured is that it's the percentage of girls between the ages of 20 and 24 who were married before the age of 18 and the reason they collected that way is that that offers a snapshot of the prevalence rate for that given population whereas if you just measure the number of girls under the age of 18 married you could miss a girl who is currently 16 and gets married before 18 but there's a lot of other population data that's needed so was the girl pregnant before she got married how long was it after she got married did she become pregnant did she have to drop out of school so there are actually efforts to improve data collection of the Gates Foundation is very interested in this just launched a big campaign as well around these issues of child marriage thank you and there are two points which we found that in one of our studies I thought it would be obvious to you because we have been talking about women's empowerment as a very crucial for this particularly the economic empowerment but a recent study by International Fund for Agriculture Development iFAT shows that the fact that a woman is empowered economically does not mean that she's empowered at the household level there's a very crucial difference and they have come out with some interesting statistics about it and we also came across a very interesting study in Tanzania some time back that the disempowerment of men is a very important reason for the domestic violence and the status of women at the household level so the study suggests that there is a need to empower men so that at the household level the decision making process particularly the decisions regarding the life cycle decisions that could improve they also suggest that if you have to address these problems you also have to address the men and how far your program is focusing on this area so because we don't run direct programming but support the work of our members we have some case studies around work with men and boys but that's another one of the areas that we're actually looking at potentially setting up a community of practice around in the coming years I know that my team is really excited to learn from you from the Commonwealth of Learning about how you do your community of practice because we're just moving into that area one of the organizations that I mentioned the Blue Veins actually has been doing some really exciting work around men and boys but I don't know that we have a whole lot of information about that programming what I can do is look that up for you and send that over to you if you could just again I don't have the email address for everyone so if we could capture the request for further information and then I can follow up afterwards thank you thank you so much Heather and Bella now we have the next question we've got time for one more question and coming in to the closing remarks we see a question coming in from Anika who is from the Center of Math Education and Science in Bangladesh she's asking do you have any research or papers study on child early or forced marriage or any statistical documentation on the issue if you have any could you share this with us yes indeed there's a whole lot I just realized that I was answering in the chat box but sending it only to Muhammad so apologies I wanted to say thank you to everyone for all the positive feedback I really appreciate I'm glad this is useful and then on the on the studies we have actually a resource center on our website that has quite a few practical resources on child marriage so toolkit program development information etc all reports and studies page on the website which is a comprehensive set of every study that we can find on child marriage and in the resource center and other places you will find some of that overall statistical information the best one to look for are the resources done by UNICEF because the best data is coming out of UNICEF so there's a couple things from UNICEF on the site but again if anyone has very specific needs I'm happy to have my team follow-up and see what we have in terms of resources but do know that those two sections of our website we try to actually have that really comprehensive if there's anything out there that has been published on child marriage either as a resource or a study it goes up on that site and they're searchable by keywords regions languages there's quite a few materials in French so that's all available on the site thank you very much Heather and as a follow-up to this webinar we will be sharing the recording of the webinar and also a link to your website for girls not brides and the resources that you posted as well during your presentation and we'll be sure to connect you with the people that had follow-up questions and resources that were raised during the presentation now I just like to go just because we're coming to the hour there's one more question from Sifir from Bidari in Pakistan and then we'll go to the closing remarks Sifir would you like to unmute your phone and ask the question hello hi go ahead Sifir we can hear you yeah well my question was not Heather actually this other gentleman who was speaking I forgot his name he mentioned disempowerment of men and said that empowering men would help that was something new for me and I wanted to know a little more about that yeah it was a study it was a study done in Tanzania somewhere in 2011 maybe I will pass I know I will send you the URL of that study you could have a look at it it's a very interesting study that would be it thank you thank you Sifir thank you Dr. Bella and what we are going to do also after this webinar is we'll create a discussion on the girls inspired community of practice and we'll start that discussion I see that there are some comments coming in here and we can take that discussion over to that first discussion webinar on the girls inspired community of practice and we'll send that link around as well to continue to the conversation without further ado I'd like to pass it on to Mrs. Francis Ferrara here at the Commonwealth of Learning for the closing remarks thank you very much much Cherie first of all let me thank you for facilitating the session you've done a great job thank you very much to all of you who have signed in from wherever you are and also to our is it fans here at the Commonwealth of Learning of our team that supported us by being here in the room with us today because without you we couldn't have had this webinar and most importantly thank you to Heather for having made this time to speak to our partners to give us more information indeed you have done a great job so far as Girls on Brides and this is really a wonderful resource Girls on Brides is a wonderful resource to all of us whether it is about reports, whether it is about advice this is a place we can go and get more information I'm indeed very happy that you have agreed to speak to us today and I see this as a first in a series of webinars that we can arrange in the future to make follow-ups and zoom into a specific issue in this regard as it go along so thank you very much everybody I have asked Cherise to put on the screen right now for all of you to see the website of Girls on Brides there were questions about reports et cetera and Heather has responded to it but that is the link that we have shown you earlier but here is the website go there and find all the information that you need and more but also we will as Cherise said we will continue the discussion on our community of practice we will give you the links there again and we also will share the study that Dr. Bala was talking about and Safir was asking about we will also put that link so this is what it's all about for us to have a better understanding of the work that we are doing so that we can make that difference in this regard ending this cycle of child early-force marriages we don't have all the information we cannot go in there confident and talk about these issues and that is why it's so important that we read about this that we empower ourselves in this regard so with that I want to thank you all once again and remind you of the fact that we will put recording also on the community of practice the link we will send it to all of you but finally you are all welcome to become members of Girls Not Bright if you visit their website you will also see how to become a member and that will also make you stronger as the individual organization being a partner of call but also a partner of Girls Not Bright with that let me thank you once again if there's any person who has a last word now is the time because we are just one minute over the hour thank you very much thank you if there's nobody then we say bye and we see Kuntal just join us at the end of the session from Sri Lanka Kuntal we will put the recording there for you to follow us and to follow up on what was said thank you bye bye all thank you good night everyone


definitely like I said very little weird with this flap-on-wheel. What's up everybody I'm EvilRabbit and we are here on a set of Corsa on the Xbox One.  So we are here to do a little Northsliven run in the BMW M235 race car just to see how the feedback feels and see how everything feels on the Fanatec rig. So we are going to be just setting this car is going to be well paddle shifters which is a good thing we have paddle shifters on our Fanatec rig. We are going to be just seeing how the game reacts and have a little fun on Northsliven and well see if we can survive Northsliven with this M235 race car. So we're gonna get right to it once we load in. All right we are here Northsliven looks like if we're doing two laps it looks like we have some new hindut. The people behind us our goal is to not crash and just finish the races. We are at a hundred percent for feedback default values. Oh and that's strong. That is a strong wheel. A lot stronger than that Lodgesick was. This is gonna be a workout to finish this. Go. Ow. Oh that's not good. Getting bumped around by these guys. We're staying somewhat in control though. It's that of course a whole nother monster. This car. Oh my and this force feedback is insane. Um you dead? Oh don't lose it. Oh my gosh. I probably would not have been able to hold that with my other wheel. We were able to hold it with this. This feedback is strong. The wheels definitely more intense. Ow why are these guys just hitting me? That guy's gonna lose it. Maybe not. Apparently we're getting beat by uh horses and stuff right now but like I said I'm not trying to win this race. Just trying to not crash and finish at least one lap here at Northsliven in this M235 race car. Hundred percent force feedback. Oh my god. Oh geez. Oh that hurt my wrists. Definitely gonna take some getting used to of this feedback and how intense this is here on a setto but I am enjoying this right now. As much as I almost hurt my wrist but we are good. We are also going to go probably uh oh I thought I was slower than that. Definitely need to play more setto here. So used to physics on forza that the feedback of physics on this game are insane. We are gonna do our best here today and just try. I've already racked once so my gosh. I'm not sure these feedbacks should be this strong. So if you guys have some feedback settings for a setto you're very curious what you guys are running for force feedback settings. I am on just the default game force feedback and this is very strong. Really rough. What? We're managing and having a lot of fun doing it. At least my wheels not wanting to die. It's always a plus right? Everything's working. We're good to go. We're way back in 16th but hey who cares. I had a chance the other weekend to play a setto on my buddy's PC with VR and uh well that's just by far the best thing in the world. I didn't need to slow down that much for that term but so if you guys want to keep seeing a set of course that you're on the channel let me know down the comment section down below.  Maybe do some racing drifting and stuff like that. I feel like we're gonna hit the drift circuit before this episode ends. We are gonna be on this wheel. It's gonna be a little bit different with that flat bottom but uh I'm up for the challenge here. Basically hotlaping here at North Sliven. Slowly getting back to the feel of how this game... getting back to feeling it's definitely more of a workout than the G920 was but I feel like this is much more real feel. Oh gosh. Oh as long as the wheels have rip out of my arms I have to do some like forearm exercises in order to play a setto. Slight a little bit there but we're good. I feel like I want to start doing some hotlaping in cars and try and get the best lap times in certain cars and see what cars are quicker. Is that something you guys be interested in seeing here on a setto? Let me know down comments down below. I guess we're gonna do some drifting after this. Trying to just focus and be as smooth as I can. That is not very friendly when it catches air like that. I keep forgetting this car has like a dummy downshift that won't let you downshift unless you're low enough for a PMWolf. So definitely a workout and definitely a huge change from Forza Motorsport 7. I feel like I could turn Motorsport up to feel like this now that I have a wheel that I know can take it. That's rough. Yeah I bet you don't want to let go. Nope you don't want to let go of the wheel there. Oh no not what you want to. Oh man. Alright so we died. So I feel like we should end that here and go try some drifting real quick and see how we do in an E30 on the drift circuit and see what we can do. BMW drift E30. Let's go load in and we should be on our handbrake. Handbrake should be working as well as our shifter. We should be good to go. We are gonna be using this flat bottom wheel so this could be a little different or we could be okay. Not sure. So Forza is definitely a lot of fun. Definitely more of a workout for sure. And just cockpit view a little bit back and then we're going to switch to... we're gonna leave everything out of this. Apparently my H pattern is not on. Technical difficulties, controls, advanced. Use H pattern. There we go. Now we're good. There we go. Definitely like I said very little weird with this flat bottom wheel but definitely feels a lot easier and a lot smoother to drift on the Fantaq than it did the G920. Feel like we can just get a proper wheel on here and have a lot of fun. Oh because that flat bottom is definitely causing some weird rotations on in my mind right now. Reverse entry? Oh how did we... how did that work? I'm actually surprised that worked. I can throw some serious reverse entries on this setup right now. Oh, losing it there. So if you guys want to keep seeing a side course on the channel make sure you tap the like button, hit the subscribe button. I do appreciate all the support. I feel like drifting with this wheel is a lot better than I was when I was trying to do this game on my G920 and it could just be because of the response of the wheel now. Oh I feel like we should get some Assetto Tandems now on the channel just because this feels so much better even though we just lost all that. Get a proper wheel on here. Not this flat cut wheel. Yep, definitely like how this feels. So make sure you guys follow me on Instagram and Twitter. All of it you found in the description box below. I think that'll do it here for today's episode. A little drifting, a little racing, getting back on the Assetto Corsa kick and well I feel like this game is gonna be that much better with this wheel. I thought it was gonna go for 360 so I'll do it for this episode here on the channel. I hope you enjoyed it and so until next time I'm EvilRabbit. I will see you guys next time.


Well, hello and welcome to Jonathan from the heart. I'm Jonathan Astley of Jonathan Astley.com I'm so excited to be doing this short video for you today. Our topic. Do you have a broken picker? Let's try to fix that. What does broken picker look like like this? Broken? Broken? All right, really quickly if you're brand new to my YouTube channel, please hit the subscribe button hit the bell So you can be notified of new videos and if anytime during this video the content resonates with you Please hit that like button so I can be seen in the YouTube algorithms really quickly. These are my weekend videos I shoot out on my balcony very similar to the videos I shoot my private group called midlife love mastery This is a group where you can have direct access to me on a regular basis and based on the questions you write in I Post personalized videos just for you. So in the description below check out my VIP group. All right, let's talk about the broken picker What does that look like? broken All right, so what is a broken picker? Well, that's typically the experience of going out with the wrong men over and over and over again in other words your capacity to pick someone Who's aligned to who you are and what you want is broken meaning you haven't really developed the skills To really vet another human being and repeat that you haven't developed the skills to vet another human being It's partly because we've been indoctrinated in this fantasy Based on movies based on divin Disney based on books That relationships are rather easy and all you have to do is just magically sit there in your feminine energy and the right man will claim you I Mean think about the fantasy of that how often does that really happen that you just sit back in your feminine and the Guy's just gonna claim you so you guys know I have an issue with that narrative so The reality is this dating is so much more complex now than ever before because dating didn't exist Thousands of years ago. It didn't exist in caveman days. It quite frankly didn't even exist a couple hundred years ago There was mating but there wasn't dating and what I mean to say is if two people liked each other a hundred years ago They'd hang out for a few weeks. They'd get married so they could get laid. I mean, that's the reality of things There wasn't a real dating process compared to today And and we are in we are in an experience like nothing other Especially in the last 10 or 15 years because of our little smartphones didn't exist before we have this swipe dating We have online dating. We have all these different ways of meeting people and all of a sudden It's chaos out there. So no wonder human beings have a broken picker in addition Most human beings aren't familiar with what's known as the Amago the Amago and what the Amago is It's basically and I'm gonna give you the cliff note version of it And by the way, if you want to learn about it Highly check out the book getting the love you want by Harbell Hendricks and Helen Hunt Check out this book because this will make a lot of sense if you tend to pick the same type of person Over and over again and the Amago is basically our I'm gonna this is my version of it So is it's just basically we have a habit of choosing people that are familiar to us from our parental Upringing I'm repeat that we choose people familiar to us. So for example, if we had an emotionally unavailable parent We oftentimes choose people like that because we're trying to heal our parental wounds I'm repeat that we're trying to heal our parental wound. We're trying to get mommy's approval We're trying to get daddy's approval So if you have a propensity to choose someone who was like your father, for example And maybe you had an emotionally unavailable father Maybe an emotionally stunted father maybe even had a father that had anger issues We oftentimes choose people like that in our relationships Because we're actually trying to heal that wound with that parent This is why I highly recommend checking out getting this book So you understand why you might have made choices in the past That caused you to repeat a pattern and now you can do it from a more conscious aware place When you're actually in the dating process Okay Now the primary reason why we all have a broken picker is because we've bought into what's known as what I call the deception of chemistry or The belief that chemistry equals relationship success I repeat that we all have this belief that chemistry will equal relationship success And if you haven't seen my relationship iceberg, I'm going to show this to you right now And above the waterline is chemistry and we that's known as attraction Okay Now below the waterline is compatibility shared values blendable lifestyles and emotional maturity So I'm going to lean into this for a few minutes this entire thing So let's talk about chemistry for a moment. I Believe there's two types of chemistry. I believe that there's sexual chemistry Sexual chemistry and then I believe that there's energetic chemistry Energetic chemistry so sexual chemistry is oftentimes especially for us men What drives us to want to pursue a woman? So when you're hearing how men are hunters and men like to take the lead and they like competition they chase Well, it's oftentimes they're chasing lust or maybe even limerence and limerence is extreme infatuation They're chasing lust that's sexual chemistry And it's pretty obvious with these guys because they Hyper-focus on the sex piece they hyper-focus on that and none of the other pieces that I'm about to share Which is centered around energetic connection and Energetic connection has a component of sexuality to it So energetic connection is when you're connecting on an emotional level.  You're even connecting on a creative level Okay within creativity because we all human beings have a level of creativity And when you're actually tapping into someone else's creativity, you're feeling a level of energetic connection This is those spaces when guys and ladies meet each other and they feel a sense of knowing they feel a sense I know this person because they're vibrating on an energetic level and there's a layer of sexuality Underneath it, but that's not the driving force. It's in the mix, but it's not the driving force Sexual chemistry is typically the guys are leading with sexual chemistry. It's kind of like Okay, this is Willy Wonka, right Willy Wonka in the chocolate factory, right? It's the candy It's the candy store that we're attracted to that the sweetness, you know That's that the sexual piece, but that's not all of what happens in a relationship to make it go with the distance So this is one of the primary reasons men and women have a broken picker because they either hyper-focus on the on The sexual chemistry and they're not really leaning into are they experiencing energetic connection with this person This is why if you really want to get highly attuned to your intuition I highly recommend checking out my book.   There's a link below to get my book because it's really designed as a tool for personal development self-help and spiritual work So you can actually start to tap into your intuition You'll actually start knowing if you're following that pattern of the amago Are you following the pattern of sexual chemistry? Are you actually leaning into your heart-centered space and really tapping into Energetic connection with another human being. Okay. Now, let's go back to shared values Blendable lifestyles and the most important piece you're gonna want to stick around to this Emotional maturity. Okay shared values. Okay. I want you to think a hundred years ago when two people lived In a town or village most likely everybody was most likely very similar Most likely very similar particular in their area of their values Okay, now come to a place that like Los Angeles where I live It's a melting pot of different cultures different races different politics different religions Which leads to different values all of that stew of our our upbringing our culture our race What was I just saying I just Just had a little brain fart there all of these things make up our values Oh the politics and religion and when two people and by the way, you know, two people can have You know healthy values. It's not an issue of healthy values It's really more aligned with shared values So when people have completely different values in other words, let me give you an example one person values Healthy lifestyle. I mean they eat absolutely clean and the other person's a chain smoker likes to eat pizzas all day long And it really doesn't take care of their body one person values health and the other person values What's the word I'm thinking gluttony. Let's just say okay It's okay that that person values gluttony. They're allowed to do whatever they want in their life It's and yet it's going to clash with someone who values health. So having shared values is Hugely important to the success of a relationship. Okay, and let me give you another value really quickly punctuality It's one of my top values I'm not going to hold someone up to the level of my value of punctuality and yet I do believe it's a level So in other words, I'm okay with someone being late, you know, that's just part of the process It doesn't mean you have to be absolute in your values But I'll tell you when you have differing values. It makes it very complicated. Okay number two or number technically number three Blendable lifestyles blendable lifestyles This is where a lot of people have real challenge in relationship and this is particularly true for those who are doing the long-distance Dating, you know long-distance dating is very difficult just to build the first hundred hours of familiarity with one another to build the layer of trust that it takes to have a successful relationship and then the real Continuity that goes on so blendable lifestyles is about continuity Are we doing social activities hobbies mutual interests spending time with family and friends or can our lifestyles blend with one another? Or is it you have a lifestyle here? I have a lifestyle here We get together, but it's going to be difficult if you can't find a way to blend those eventually start moving into Blending it together and a lot of people don't recognize that this is where there's a big hang-up now in blendable lifestyles You have to also recognize that people might be going through a lot of stuff in their life People that are going through divorce and contentious have issues with their jobs and have issues with children maybe issues with their health and So this is part of their lifestyle and you have this really clean lifestyle meaning you you you know This person doesn't have their crap together and you have your total crap together It's gonna be hard to blend your lives together if that's going on The fourth the most important piece about your picker that I want you to lean into is Emotional maturity emotional maturity and if you haven't seen this illustration I have This is emotional maturity and relationship skills And if you haven't seen and by the way what I'm about to say is this is not a fact This is my opinion roughly 20% of the population has clinical issues I mean real clinical issues that make it difficult for them to be in relationship and Maybe if we're lucky 20% are healthy have good relationship skills And that's that's I'm being generous when I say 20% and the vast majority are dysfunctional dysfunctional And this is because most of the time humans who have had childhood wounds and traumas Childhood and wounds and traumas create negative patterns and limiting beliefs in their life that make it very difficult To actually be emotionally mature in relationship This is why I continually recommend the book the Hoffman process the Hoffman process This is a deep dive in healing childhood wounds and traumas that cause our negative patterns and limiting beliefs in life Which makes it very challenging to lean into love to lean into love Hmm by the way my coffee mug says love yourself love yourself It always starts with self-love if you want to improve your picker Now ultimately I've shared with you a lot of content here The real challenge with most people's broken picker is centered around they hyper focus on chemistry and that tends to be more sexual Chemistry than actual energetic chemistry number two they don't really understand how Importance of the compatibility piece in the relationship and within compatibility is Shared values and it's really important to ask better questions in the early stages of dating So you don't get attached to the possibly the wrong person and That third piece when I talk about blendable lifestyles Another way, you know, this is really where a lot of you ladies. I got to tell you this fantasy Well, if we love each other everything will magically work out, you know All the complications in our lives all the stuff that's going on our lives if there's actual love This will work out Listen, I'm here to say, you know, that's a fantasy now I'm not suggest that people that don't genuinely care for each other can't overcome obstacles That is not what I'm suggesting whatsoever But I will tell you most human beings are rather myopic in their lifestyle and they're not Contemplating the importance of shared lifestyle or excuse me having lifestyles that are blendable And I will tell you that while men oftentimes tend to be the ones in midlife to end the relationships more often a Big proponent of it is because of this piece, but they'll never ever ever ever ever say it out loud They'll never say it out loud. Well, actually, that's not true, you know, that 20% Remember of emotionally healthy guys will share that that is probably problematic in the relationship and by the way in the long-distance dating just recognize this that is the Easiest exit clause for a guy to say listen, you know what I just decided I can't do this long-distance Thing it's that it's a built-in exit clause This is why I'm really wanting to caution most of you to be very Mindful before you enter into a long-distance dating scenario because it's always there a guy can always say, you know What I just decided I don't want to do this long-distance thing And I can't tell you ladies as a coach how often I've heard this over and over and over again and Lastly that emotional maturity piece I really want to lean into this because this is where most of you falter and by the way You're equally as ladies you are equally as unskilled as men I know many of you have this fantasy that you're just is you're just so much better at the dating and Relationship process than men and I can tell you as a man who's been single out there I mean you women are just as have just as many issues on the emotional side as men Men just don't have tend to be as expressive out in the public around this and women just happen to be so I want you to own This stuff, too Because if you don't own Maybe that you need to improve your relationship skills. Maybe you need to improve your communication skills This is why I don't have a copy of the book. I highly recommend Nonviolent communication by Marshall Rosenberg. I highly recommend that book and by the way There's a link to Jonathan recommends books in the description below So how we going to fix our broken picker first off is with awareness today I've laid out so much content to make you deeply aware to start paying attention and being more Intentional in the dating mating and relating process instead of being in this fantasy realm That's so many of you dance in and I'm here to say many of you dance in this realm This is why I continually recommend book after book after book To actually make you so better prepared to be in a relationship That you'll actually start to attract in that person that you're going to feel energetic connection that person values They're going to be closely aligned to you and where your lifestyles have actually the capacity to blend one another and then lastly the Relationship skills the emotional maturity that will actually help you overcome the oftentimes Obstacles that we are all facing in the dating mating relating realm today and When you're you have the skills to communicate at a better level you'll be able to overcome them much easier than those that do not Is this sinking in is this resonating is this helping with your broken picker? Please let me know by posting a comment below Also, if you have something to share I do my best to read them all if you like my t-shirt my coffee mug Please let me know all right. This would be a great place to wrap up this video today And like I always do first off. I'm gonna give myself a big gigantic Jonathan bear of self love I'm gonna reach into the camera and give you a hug of love if that's okay I'm gonna ask you to turn to someone a pet a teddy bear Or a pillow and give it or them a hug of love because hugs are a great source of love and we can all use more love In our lives. Thanks a bunch. Bye now. Bye. Bye


Hey stampers! Welcome to another week of Watch It Weekly Wednesday. I'm Aubrey, part of the Stamp and Jill Creative team, and today I'm excited to share with you one of my favorite stamp sets from the new 2020-2021 Annual Catalog. This is what it looks like. I wish I could open it up and show you all what's inside, but I can't quite do that yet. But if you don't have a demonstrator and you want a catalog, just let us know in the comments below or email us at sudemonstrator.gmail.com and we would be happy to send you a catalog. It starts June 3rd and it is a really fun one. We're excited about it. But one of the, one of my most favorite ones that we've already been able to order as demonstrators is this one. This is Celebrate Sunflowers is the stamp set. This cute sunflower set. And it also comes with some dies, these sunflower dies. And there's ones that coordinate and cut all these out. And it has cute sayings. Let's celebrate you. Thanks a bunch. Know that you are loved and congratulations on reaching a whole new level of wonderful. So cute, so fun, and it's been really fun to play with. Another one of my favorite things about this suite of products is this cute paper that also comes. It's very bright and fun and flowery and very cute. It also has all of the new in colors that are in this new catalog. So let me show you those colors. We had a lot of fun playing with these different colors that are new. Let's see if I can remember all the names. We have Bumble Bee, Just Jade, Magenta Madness, Cinnamon Cider, and Misty Moonlight. So cute. These are some of my very favorite colors in colors that they've come out with. I am in love. So much fun. So I've been playing with this because it coordinates so well with this paper. The DSP that comes in this suite. So let me show you some of the cards I've come up with using those colors and this paper and this cute set. So here's some pretty simple ones that I came up with using Just Jade, Cinnamon Cider, Misty Moonlight, Bumble Bee, and Magenta Madness. Are those not so cute? And also you can see the new ribbon that comes with. So let's bring that in. So this is the new in color ribbon that comes in the catalog. It's really, really cute and it ties super well. You have it in all five colors. Very fun. In this suite you also get these cute flowers for every season gems. They're super cute. There's these clear ones and then green ones. And the green ones are kind of iridescent and they're very fun. Okay, let me show you a few more cards that I've come up with playing with this set. We have this Thanks a Bunch with a little cutoff fold there. And here's one. Know that you're loved. This one I did as a gift card holder. So you open it up and then you can put a gift card down in here for somebody. And then it just holds it down just like that. So cute with that paper. Oh, I just love the paper. And then this one I used the note cards and envelopes. They're flowers for every season. Memories and more cards and envelopes.  And they come with this fun envelope that matches. Each of the in colors are featured in the pack. So super cute. So fun. So I've been having so much fun playing with this Celebrate Some Flowers set and the coordinating products that go with it. If you're interested in measurements or any any details on these cards, make sure you check our blog at stampandjill.com and we'll have details on there. Remember, these products are available starting June 3rd. And if you need a catalog, let us know. Thanks so much for watching and we'll see you next week for another Watch at Weekly Wednesday.


Good morning, John. In the year 2000, I lived in Florida, and I voted in my very first presidential election. And the decision between George W. Bush and Al Gore was decided by 537 votes in the state of Florida. In the wake of that election, which was so close that the Supreme Court had to decide whether or not to continue efforts to recount ballots that were missed-punched and suddenly phrases like hanging Chad and butterfly ballot entered the National Exocon, a lot of people cried fraud. This was made worse by a legitimate error in a computerized election system that counted a precinct with 600 voters as negative 16,000 votes for Gore. The glitch was caught, but seen by many as an indication or even proof that election machines had been hacked in favor of Bush, possibly intentionally with a plot between Republicans and the manufacturer of the machines, as the CEO of that company was a major Republican donor. Which just seems like maybe not. Do that if you run the voting machine company! Among my friend group in college, a lot of people just sort of went on with their lives assuming that the Republican Party had defrauded democracy and that George W. Bush was an illegitimate president. But we were like ultra-lefty college students. Al Gore didn't say that. None of the Democratic leadership said that. Even Ralph Nader, the third party candidate, didn't say that. Everybody came together, decided we had a new president, we had done democracy, we had done the American thing, and even if it had some flaws, we were gonna move forward together. President Trump doesn't talk like that. Before the 2016 election, he repeatedly said that plots by the Democratic Party were going to deprive him of victory. Even after he won the election, he said he only lost the popular vote because millions of undocumented immigrants voted.  President Trump talks like a political pundit and that's not just a difference in style. When you have the power of the office of the President of the United States behind you, there are things you shouldn't say because they attack the foundations of the country. Saying without any like semblance of or even intention toward proving it that there's widespread voter fraud funded by the people who oppose you, that's like it weakens democracy. That's what President Trump has done. It's what he continues to do. He's lied about undocumented immigrants voting. He's lied about people in Pennsylvania voting multiple times. He's lied about people in Massachusetts being bused up to New Hampshire to vote. He outright said during the campaign, the only way we can lose is if they cheat. The Republican Party has long made the case that individual people voting fraudulently is a big problem. A lot of people who know a lot about this disagree with that, but that is the thing that they say. And they've used that for decades as a way of passing laws that make it more difficult for people to vote, particularly poorer people. But the path from that where like voter fraud is a big problem to if I lose it's rigged is a pretty long path and also one that no politician has ever walked down because they're aware that that erodes the like faith in democracy. It's literally calling on your supporters to not accept the results of an election. Democracy works because people have faith in the system, but lies about voter fraud erode that faith. One of the government's main goals should be to prove its own legitimacy. And if a leader is doing the opposite of that, it's hard to imagine reasons for that outside of wanting to retain power after losing an election. I don't believe that any leader is greater than democracy, and I think that very few people in America do. And that's the very obvious reason why rhetoric like this should be unacceptable to all of us. John, I'll see you on Tuesday. If you're in the US, November 6th is the day. A few really great resources have popped up this year to help you make sure you're registered and to help you research the issues and candidates in your area. And I've linked to them below.


Time you're from on systems and I had posted a couple photos on my social media channels and in some forums You know I'm discussing a small little project we did for a client and Basically putting Wi-Fi at their boat dock pretty simple job for well What's gonna be hopefully something bigger later, but more to the point people asked right away? Why not just run fiber? Why did you run cable now? The reason I even bring that up at all is because the run does exceed the 100 meter slash 300 feet General limit that you have with normal cable, but this isn't normal cable because of that distance We use the game changer cable and I've reviewed this previously which I'll leave a link to down below and There are a few factors to think about when you're designing any type of project for a client You know and just because fibers really cool and fancy because it's fiber and cables kind of boring But definitely gets a job done there are your circumstances and things you should think about when you're putting this together Which is why I'm making this video Just kind of a quick thought process on these and what it you know It looks like if you do run fiber and put a job box on there and some future Expandability ideas before we dive into the details if you'd like to learn more about me and my company head over to Lawrence systems comm I like to hire short project There's a hires button right at the top if you'd like to help this channel in other ways There are affiliate links down below that help out the channel and other ways to connect with us including our forums Or we can have a more in-depth discussion Now let's talk about this now the game changer cable will go Not only the 100 meters, but up to 200 meters or over 600 Something odd feet that you will be able to run this cable with POE. I've reviewed it. I've talked about testing it It's pretty wild how well this stuff works and we do like it And that's why I thought it was kind of neat when we were putting it in for someone where I could show a Direct use case for it and with the comments of why not fiber? I figured hey Why not talk about that real quick? Just you know put the thought process out there first is All this is his Wi-Fi for a dock second They were already going to be trenching because they had to run other service lines out there to the dock So we already have direct burial cable right here Which is this particular one from game changer is the direct burial which means yes It's a little bit more expensive than average You have to check with suppliers to get that it's not sold on Amazon. Sorry. It's usually sold by the large cable vendors But then what about if you wanted to do something with fiber now? You can get fiber even if you don't have the tools to terminate fiber You can have it cut at custom lengths Then have the ends put on there and then you can get jacketed fiber So it's armored essentially so you can actually bury it as well But still fibers a little bit more delicate than this even with the jacket on there It makes me worry a little more, but once you get jacketed fiber. Yes, I know it's pretty solid It should be fine, but if we go jack and fiber I can't just run it directly into the Wi-Fi device because well, this doesn't carry power over it Also, you need to have something to terminate into so we need to switch. So all right Let's get a little edge switch here. So I had a sitting on desk We'd have to get a switch and you can't just leave this sitting out at the dock They don't have a building down at the dock It's well, it's a dock and there's water and there's wetness and well it rains here in Michigan So you need to put it in a job box. So then we have a job box here And this is a job box by Altilix and we could then mount the Engine here and then it's got a plug and we can plug this in and plug in a PoE Or we could just switch to a PoE switch to be able to power it And now we've got a lot more equipment than we had just running one cable Now this will be something that may be added in the future because well once you have Wi-Fi you go Hey, I have this line running all the way down here Could I put cameras down here? And yes, there is power down at the dock So a job box may be in their future when they decide to add a camera on things like that But once again, we don't have to recable it We just where the destination of the cable is will change and be different But there's a you know different thoughts on this now Another question that may come up is why not a site to site now I'll say the sites have really come down over the years and I haven't reviewed any of them recently I have plenty of reviews on a channel the previous ones that we've used and we still use some of their ones I just haven't reviewed them and that would have been an option But yeah, then we have to mount something to the house and they like everything really nice and clean living on the water and Then we've had to put a pole up to mount it So you're not just looking at it and the only thing out there is one little pole Which we have the Wi-Fi device on maybe in the future site to site be cool But I like the reliability and you know stability especially because you're already trenching They were already putting other service lines out there. So having this cable works really well So we could have went fiber definitely an option But would have added to the complexity and I feel a little bit more that fiber generally speaking is a little bit more delicate You sure aren't splicing fiber out in the field unless you have the right tools to put the ends on like I said You could have bought it pre fabbed at the ends and that's fine But you're also standing out there on a dock doing it. Not that that's terrible It's actually a beautiful place to stand. It was really nice today. We're out there But this is just a simpler and more practical solution even though it does exceed that 100 meter limit But that's why I reviewed the game changer cable because it's great for those one-off uses and I break some of those Use cases down inside that video But this is a real-world time where we did real-world use case use one of these to solve the problem now one note on These job boxes and like I said leave a link to where you can get these in Amazon one Buy a lighter colored one so the devices in here don't overheat to if you live in a really warm climate You'll want to get one of these with fans in there some type of active cooling to cool it off because once you seal these in here They're great weatherproof boxes But heat buildup can be an issue either you have to put something to shade it So it doesn't hit direct Sun having a lighter colored box for those you wondering Scott I think this is ugly being that it's just a beige box like this But you know Black box may blend in or look better the other side of it is make it hotter and you don't really want the switches overheating So those are my quick thoughts on this particular topic I'll leave a link to that game changer cable video review where I break down some of the Details of how they managed to take a cable like this and get it to go that extra distance And for those of you interested in what these outdoor job boxes these aren't that expensive buy them on amazon They come with a kit for all the mounting to put everything in them We've used them quite a bit on a lot of different projects, especially where you know, you want to get a multiple PoE switch In there to handle something larger like a few cameras, which may be something in the future for that particular project They have a Wi-Fi now with one device, but later you have the job box and add some cameras Yeah, that might be a pretty handy thing to have but just so people are wondering how that gets done I'll leave links to that and let me know what else you think down below If you would have ran fiber or ran site-to-site or ran the game changer cable Let me know. 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