Neuschwanstein CASTLE, BAVARIA, GERMANY Long before it helped to inspire Sleeping Beauty
Castle at Disneyland, Neuschwanstein was a refuge for Germany's King Ludwig 2 of Bavaria
who spent much of his kingdom's fortune building castles.
Neuschwanstein is the most popular, welcoming more than 1 million visitors per year.
Bran castle, BRAŞOV, ROMANIA The power of myth lives at this fog-cloaked
castle erroneously believed to be the home in Bram Stoker's Dracula.
The author never visited this fortress, commonly known as Dracula's Castle and guarded by a
ring of mountains in Transylvania, but the site still lures literature fans and the goose
bump crowd to its dimly lit corridors for tours and an annual Halloween party.
Chambord castle, LOIR-ET-CHER,FRANCE A stunning example of French Renaissance grandeur,
Chambord Castle is the largest in the château-speckled Loire Valley.
Built by Francis I in 1519 as a hunting lodge for the royal court, the symmetrical stronghold
was rarely lived-in.
There are one hundred rooms (of 440) open to the public and dozens of staircases, including
a double helix rumored to have been designed by Leonardo da Vinci.
The surrounding 21-square-mile park entertains with hiking and biking trails, boat rentals,
and a guided 4x4 tour to a normally off-limits nature preserve.
Moszna castle, POLANDAGES The former residence of the Tiele-Winckler
family was originally designed in Baroque style in the 17th century, but the later addition
of a neo-Gothic and neo-Renaissance wing brought Hogwarts appeal to the castle, especially
at night when its 99 Rapunzel-worthy towers and glowing windows shimmer in the outdoor
reflecting pool.
LEEDS CASTLE, KENT, ENGLANDGES Situated on two islands in the middle of a
lake, Leeds Castle is grand, romantic, and as close as you can get to a real "a once
upon a time" experience.
It was built during the reign of Henry I and has served as a royal residence for most of
its 900-year history—including to six medieval queens, earning a reputation as a "Ladies
Castle."
The 500-acre estate only opened to visitors in 1974 and now hosts year-round cultural
events, with three restaurants, a bed-and-breakfast, a yew tree maze, and falconry demonstrations.
PRAGUE CASTLE, PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC Like a fairytale village plucked right out
of central casting, Prague Castle is actually a complex of gardens, courtyards, lanes, and
historic buildings, including the gothic St. Vitus Cathedral where Czech kings and queens
were crowned.
This site is one of the largest castle complexes in the world at 753,473 square feet (sports
fans, that's about seven football fields), and since the ninth century, when Prince Bořivoj
established a fortification here, it has been the seat of monarchs and the official residence
of the head of state.
PENA PALACE, SINTRA, PORTUGAL Portugal's fanciful Pena Palace glows red
and yellow above the town of Sintra and can be seen from Lisbon on a clear day.
The UNESCO World Heritage site dates to the Middle Ages when Our Lady of Pena chapel was
built here.
Eventually transformed into a royal palace by King Ferdinand 2 in the mid 1800s, the
dizzying amalgam of Gothic, Manueline, and Moorish architecture is unique in southern
Europe.
No wonder the father of fairytales himself Hans Christian Andersen declared it the "most
beautiful place in Portugal."
Bojnice castle, BOJNICE , SLOVAKIAAGES The most visited castle in Slovakia is a setting
perfect for daydreams.
Built as a wooden fort in the 12th century, the castle changed hands many times but attained
its current good looks in the late 1800s from the last private owner, Count János Ferenc
Pálffy, who admired the majestic castles of the Loire Valley.
Sadly he died before renovations were complete.
His collection of paintings and other treasures are exhibited inside.
Night tours by candlelight are especially popular at Bojnice Castle, as is the annual
International Festival of Ghosts and Spooks held at the end of April.
Segovia fortress, SEGOVIA, SPAIN IMAGES Like most Spanish castles, Segovia was built
for defense, but little of the original structure remains, and its soaring round towers above
the confluence of two rivers now lean more fairytale than fortress.
The imposing stone edifice has seen many incarnations including as a royal palace (Queen Isabella
I was crowned here in 1474), a state prison, a military academy, and its current role as
a splendid museum of gilded halls, exceptional paintings and furniture, and armory.
It's even been a Hollywood set as the home of Sir Lancelot in the 1967 film "Camelot."
BUDA CASTLE, BUDAPEST, HUNGARY Time, history, numerous invasions, and prevailing
architectural styles have shaped Budapest's Castle District, since its original founding
by King Béla IV in the 13th century.
Stretching across a limestone plateau above the Danube River, the district's cobblestone
lanes lead to Trinity Square and Matthias Church, while inside Buda Castle, aka the
Royal Palace, is the Hungarian National Gallery and the Budapest History Museum.
From the white stone towers of the Fisherman's Bastion, the views of the Chain Bridge and
the city are dreamy.
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LETS REJOICE! Trump Just Landed one of the BEST Military Endorsements IN THE WORLD!! - Duration: 11:14.
LETS REJOICE! Trump Just Landed one of the BEST Military Endorsements IN THE WORLD!!
When Donald Trump says that soldiers support him, he is NOT KIDDING!
Apparently, it's not just American soldiers jumping on the Trump Train either.
Now legendary British general Army Lord Richards has stepped forward, and he is not just excited
about Donald Trump, he thinks Trump is EXACTLY who the world needs right now!
You see, Army Lord Richards has a few key areas where he REALLY disagrees with Hillary
Clinton…
The Islamic State is the biggest threat to Democracy, not Russia
We SHOULD be working with Putin to defeat ISIS and radical Islam
Hillary Clinton's "no-fly zone" in Syria is the biggest potential starter of WW3 in
existence The ONLY way to beat ISIS is to work with
Syria and deal with them after, not continue arming more militant groups
So, to give you the short and skinny of it, Lord Richards finds that Hillary Clinton is
the BIGGEST threat to the security of the entire world.
Hell, from the looks of it, she may be EVEN WORSE THAN ISIS!
So thank you, Army Lord Richards, for having the balls to step forward and endorse Donald
Trump publicly.
Also, I think every needs to hear your assessment of Hillary.
It really is an eye opener.
Now help Lord Richards get his VERY important word out there by sharing this with every
single voting American you know!!BREAKING Trump Can't Believe It!
Look Who Will Help Trump Make America Great Again
This story by Paris Swade.
Trump just won again.
The mainstream media is wrong again.
U.S. Steel CEO Mario Longhi says that he's going to bring about 10,000 jobs to America.
He says that he is going to do it because he is confident that Donald Trump will make
America great again.
Liberals…
It's time for you to get the memo.
Here is what CEO Mario Longhi said about his confidence in Trump.
"United States Steel would like to accelerate its investments and hire back laid-off employees
now that Donald Trump will be occupying the Oval Office," CEO Mario Longhi told CNBC
on Wednesday.
Check this out in the video below.
"We already structured to do some things, but when you see in the near future improvement
to the tax laws, improvements to regulation, those two things by themselves may be a significant
driver to what we're going to do," said CEO Mario Longhi.
*** This translates to them saying that he is confident in president Trump!
You know what to do.
Let's prove the liberal media wrong.
Share, share, share this article everywhere.
It's up to all of us to stand up to the mainstream media bias.
Are you guys tired of winning yet?
I'm not.
Let's keep this post going across the internet.
Share this with 3 friends that want to see jobs come back to the U.S! (h/t CNBC)SCREW
WALMART Trump Will Be So Pssed When He Sees How They Just Betrayed America!
This story by Paris Swade.
Walmart has now officially signed on to sell Black Lives Matter Apparel.
These shirts are going to display the phrase, "Black Lives Matter" and show a fist in
the air!
If you also remember, Walmart pulled an "All Lives Matter" bumper sticker after they
stated that they thought it was offensive.
These liberals are such a disgrace.
*** Help us share this 1 million times!
We need to let Trump see it.
Here are the pictures of the new product:
Walmart is now stocking it's shelves with Black Lives Matter gear.
Let's boycott them.
Let's show them that we the people don't care about their crap.
It's sick that they have such obvious support for a group that has called for the death
of cops.
*** IT'S 'unpresidented' and APPALLING!
***
Walmart also sells Thin Blue Line apparel and shirts that read "Blue Lives Matter"
and at the same time sells gear that promotes the killing of cops.
Let's make this go viral, patriots!
This Christmas season let's send them a message.
Help us by following the next 2 steps:
Comment 'SCREW YOU WALMART' below this post on Facebook.
Share this post with 3 friends.
If we can't get a million patriots to do this, then Walmart will have to address it!
We do not want this cop-killing nonsense in Walmart.
You hear us now, Walmart! (h/t Blue Lives Matter)(title image)BREAKING Election Recount
IS A SCAM!
Jill Stein Was Just Caught Red Handed…
Awe, sorry Liberals.
It looks like you should have just saved your money instead of giving it all to Jill Stein.
In case you are wondering, it is EXACTLY as bad as it sounds…
Despite having raised over $6 million of the $2 million she requested initially, Jill Stein's
campaign just announced they will NOT appeal the decision in Wisconsin to skip the recount!
But WAIT!
Didn't Jill Stein say that the reason she needed all that extra cash was to cover an
appeal?
Hmmmmmm….Very strange if you ask me…
I bet you guys are wondering what's gonna happen to all those millions of dollars now
that she is backing out.
I cannot say for sure other than the fact that it will NOT be going back to the donors.
Now, what she did was not a crime.
Her petition stated very clearly that she would get to keep any unused money to use
as she sees fit.
This right here is EXACTLY why I hate crowd sourcing.
Crowd Source funding has its merits, but it is also frequently used to scam morons out
of tons of money with next to nothing in return.
Honestly, you might as well spend your money on scratch off lottery tickets that have some
kind of pay-off.
Now that Jill Stein has shown her true colors and Hillary Clinton's final attempt at stealing
the presidency have been crushed it will be very interesting to see how the Democrats
react.
If you are excited and proud to be a part of Trump's America, show your support by
sharing this with all your friends and exposing Jill Stein!!ROCKY IS GOING TO WASHINGTON Look
What Position Trump Gave Sylvester Stallone…
This story by Paris Swade.
Donald Trump has now approached Sylvester Stallone to work in a top arts-related position
in the White House, according to the DailyMail.com.
The Rocky star loves Trump and is a long-time fan of him.
*** He is super pumped too!
The rumor is that Sylvester Stallone will take a position as a Chairman of the National
Endowment of the arts, according to the Daily Mail.
This is a federal agency that gives out money to artists.
He is going to punch it out!
What a great pic!
I can't believe that Rocky may be going to Washington.
This is awesome.
#SHARE THIS IF YOU THINK THIS IS AWESOME!
His appointment is going to have to be chosen by Congress.
That's why every red blooded American patriot that loves Rocky needs to share this article!
Comment 'PICK ROCKY' below this on Facebook and share it.
God bless America.
Sylvester Stallone is a very hardworking man and deserves to work in the government.
(h/t Daily Mail)(Flickr)
Thanks for reading, y'all.POUR OUT YOUR PEPSI Look At The SICK Thing They Said About
Trump Today!
This story by Paris Swade.
Indri Nooyi is the CEO of PepsiCo.
In 2008, PEPSI backed Obama with their Oba-logo and their Hopey-Change website.
Indri, the CEO, is a top Hillary Clinton supporter.
Indri told reporters that her employees were "all" scared and crying on the floor after
Trump's victory.
** She wasn't scared when Trump supporters were getting cold-cocked and sucker punched
after rallies!
Now, she feels scared.
Is Mrs. Indri serious?
I bet they weren't as scared as Trump voters getting beat by Hillary's paid protestors.
Let's take a look at that, Indri.
That's what your people endorsed.
That's real violence.
That's real racism, Indri.
Here is what she said about Trump winning:
"I had to answer a lot of questions from my daughters, from our employees.
They were all in mourning," said Indri on Thursday.
"Our employees were all crying," she said.
"And the question that they're asking, especially those who are not white, 'Are
we safe?'
Women are asking, 'Are we safe?'
LGBT people are asking, 'Are we safe?'
I never thought I would have to answer those questions."
*** Is she real?!?
I say we not accept her bigotry.
I say we will not accept her brown sugar water anymore.
I'm a Coke drinker, anyway.
Bye, bye Pepsi!
It's time for you to go bye, bye.
These companies need to learn what happens when you insult half the nation.
We are not racist.
We are not xenophobes.
We just want jobs.
Here's how we show them.
Comment 'NO MORE PEPSI' below this article on Facebook.
Then spread this article everywhere!
Share this with your friends and your friend's friends.
Thanks for reading, patriots! (h/t The Gateway Pundit)H*LL YEAH!
Sean Hannity Just RISKED His Career To Say 1 Thing About Melania Trump
This story by Paris Swade.
The liberal media has been attacking Melania Trump for "plagiarizing" Michelle Obama.
Republicans are coming to the defense of him in droves.
Everyone is now getting called for plagiarism!
You know why, huh?
We all know it's because the liberals saw that labeling Trump as a racist didn't work.
Now, they are trying to label everything associated with his campaign as racist.
In fact, look at the footage below.
Let's show the world how much Obama plagiarized speeches for his 2008 campaign.
Let's take a lookt at another one.
Sean Hannity then stepped into the ring and risked his career to BRUTALLY insult Obama,
Obummer, Ovomit, Satan's helper or whatever you want to call him.
Let's help Sean Hannity expose these liberals.
They are trying to ruin America, but we need to make America great again.
Go out and share this one Facebook.
Let's get the message out.
The Democrats may own the media but we have more people.
(h/t Yes I'm Right)
Trump all the way.
Thank you, Melania Trump, for your glorious speech.
Thanks for reading, y'all.
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How To Make a Facebook Page- (Fan Page Tutorial) - Duration: 8:32.
hey everyone in todays video we are actually going to teach you how to create a facebook
page.
it's super simple i believe everybody needs to have one so without further ado i'm just
going to jump right into it so that you can understand how to make a very super simple
facebook page.
ok so what i've actually done is open my facebook page and a facebook profile and we're gonna go down to where it says create page on the top
right hand corner with the arrow and its gonna bring you up a screen like this so you can
choose whether you are a local business company organization institute brand or product basically
what you're going to do is you are going to find out what your page is going to be about.
Are you a public figure are you a cause and community the page that we are actually gonna
start right now is a community page because i am making this for one of my clients so
we're just gonna get started.
So i can show you guys how that process is done.
Ok so lets see we're gonna go back in there Vegas or Bust is my page and what we're gonna
do is add a cover so the large rectangle square ontop is called a Facebook cover we're gonna
open up canva and we are going to create a design.
The design that we're actually going to pick is super easy its already labeled in there
saying facebook cover.
We're gonna click on that and then we're actually going to pick a lay out.
What i like to do is just create my own so what we're gonna do is we're gonna upload
an image from google which i have already found what I did was just type in las vegas
in google a high resolution and um i came across this picture that i really liked so
im just going to save it to my computer and umm lets see vegas dot jay peg and I am going
to save that its gonna bring it down to the bar on the bottom which you see right there
there we go so what i'm actually going to do is go into canva click the facebook cover
and were going to upload it to canva so those are all the pictures that I have recently
done and im gonna up load my own image the vegas.jpg is what i saved its actually going
to bring it up on the left hand side its gonna let me know when its done and we're just going
to put it into your facebook cover so what we're going to do is actually size it to the
size that I want to make it cover the entire square image and im just going to play around
with it let me see how do i want that well i like the lights umm i think its too much
street so as you can see canva is super easy umm perfect.
Almost great so im just add some text right now umm I just want to put a heading in there
so people know what they are doing when they come to my page.
And this one what they are dong is actually entering a sweepstakes so im just going to
put Enter to win a vegas getaway and im actually going to change the color right now I don't
like the black well lets change the type of writing I like first.
let me see oh there it is ok im actually going to change the size of it to thirty six umm
i just wanted to change the size of that as you can see you can change the size of anything
that you need it is super easy Im gonna pick a color i don't know I think Im gonna go with
yellow I definitely like the look of that im gonna change my font to bold and im just
going to put it into the top and lets see oops put it up to the top perfect.
So as you can see I am happy with my a with my design I actually do want to add a shape
real quick.
This is just something you can do in canva.
there is so many things in canva Im actually going to do a canva tutorial a in a little
bit.
But, I just want it to pop out a little bit so Im gonna make a rectangle just to cover
the letters and then what Im going to do is actually move it to the back and then im going
to make the transparancy a little bit see through so that it kind of just gives it a
gives it a little bit of a pop umm and that way you know it kind of stands out a little
bit more.
So I like the way it looks Im gonna download it now its going to save to my computer and
what we're going to do is upload it into Facebook.
Lets go back to facebook add a cover upload a photo and lets see where did it go actually
going to wait cancel that umm there we go there it is ok so i just had to refresh my
screen and its going to put it in there and I can drag or reposition it however I want.
I like the way it looks im going to save it and there I go.
And as for my profile picture Im actually going to use this same thing this is a super
easy tool in canva that you can actually use as well.
Umm so what Im actually going to do is go to file im just gonna go to Magic resize and
im gonna make it to a social media post and canva is actually going to do that for me.
which is super easy.
It just brings it from a cover to the size of a post and im just gonna download the exact
same thing.
Again Im not doing anything fancy with this, this is a fun getaway page.
Ah so I just want them to know what it is they are getting to especially when they just
see the profile picture a but you can do this for anything so im just going to upload my
photo.
let me adjust this real quick Fantastic.
So as you can see Facebook is super super easy to create a page.
Great Im just going to refresh and there I have a facebook page.
So umm these are all the things that you can do.
If you guys want to invite people, these are all my friends ah you know they I can also
invite them to all my pages Umm It has places for me to add a short description im gonna
share a photo I can advertise my business, get messages so this is a great tool just
for people who have something to share again whether you're an entrepreneur whether you
are a business coach whether you have a business or you know like i said do something fun ah
this is a get away page so umm it has all the information about who you are you're phone
number hours of operation your user name you can post videos here ah you can post photos
and just do posts just like a regular timeline but here's whats really cool.
Is that these three dots right here you can edit your page information as soon as you
get enough viewers you can view your insights umm you can invite your friends like i said
so there's all different kind of options that you guys can play around with your facebook
page.
If you guys found this video of value please like comment and share let me know how easy
it was let me know what you want to fix if you guys have any problems just leave a comment
below I will comment back.
So umm also make sure to leave your page that you created in a link below and i will go
head and i will follow you back.
Im so glad you guys stayed til the end if you guys want my pdf guide on how I create
an amazing facebook cover go ahead and click the link here here where is it gonna be here
click that link and ah you willl get my free pdf on how i create facebook covers.
So you guys have a fantastic day and I will see you next time.
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How Your Gym Outfit Can Destroy Your Confidence & Gym Performance + Physique Update - Duration: 14:02.
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Jaw-Dropping Traditional Small Japanese Home Renovation - Duration: 9:00.
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After visiting his incredible mountain cottage, when I found out that Daigo had also been
renovating a small house here in the village I had to check it out.
So, let's go take a look!
B: Good Morning Daigo! D:
Good Morning!
B: Nice to see you again, and this here is the new project isn't it?
D: Yes B: Can you tell me a little bit about the history of this place?
D:About 80 years ago, it's an old Udo house, it was for raising raw silk worms.
So, people didn't live here, it's for worms.
So 100 or 200 worms lived here, but now I've renovated this one.
VO: This home has been beautifully renovated, keeping as many of the original elements as
possible.
In traditional Japanese style, the home is wooden framed with earthen walls and even
keeps it's original charred cedar cladding.
B: Well, I'm really excited to take a look inside, can we take a peak?
D:Yeah.
B: Alright!
This is beautiful!
D:Thank-you.
B: I absolutely love the materials this home is made from.
These hefty wooden beams, the natural materials and textures, this is wonderful!
And you can see a lot of Japanese influence in it's design but it's not necessarily traditional
Japanese style, is it?
You've definitely given this your own flavour.
D: I wondered if I should change from old to new.
The balance is very very difficult.
But most of them are original.
Wall is original, floor is original and of course structure is original but the items
are new, system is new.
So I think it's very nice, good balance at this house.
B: This kitchen, is very impressive, I really love this bit of wood!
D: I bought the whole wood from my friend.
It's very cheap, about 5000 yen.
It's size is 80cm (2.5ft) and length is 4m (13ft) and I cut so this wood and this wood
and this wood is all the same, same wood.
B: Wow!
D: Very cheap.
B: Super cheap, so 5000 yen, we're maybe talking about 50 USD, something like that?
D:Yes B: And again, like in the cottage you've just used very simple butane burners for your
cooking.
D: It's contemporary but very useful and very slim and stylish.
This is from music room in old elementary school, yeah, I used this.
This chair is from library of elementary school.
B: That is wonderful, I just love it when people find these little treasures and give
them a new life in their home.
D: It was very dirty so I rubbed and put oil, it takes time but it changed, the material
starts new life.
B: I think in cases like this all that extra work is really worth it, isn't it?
D: Yeah.
B: I really like as well, how this whole downstairs area just looks out onto that lovely little
garden that you've created there.
D: Thank-you.
B: And the style, again, it's so simple, very low maintenance, but doesn't it look wonderful?
D: Yeah.
I used stones and the colour is white and grey because the house is very dark, the window
of south is very small, so it is difficult to get sunshine so I used bright coloured
stones so it reflects and the room becomes very bright.
B: And what are these rooms over here?
D: This door is bathroom and toilet.
I picked up at the river this wood.
B: Really nice.
D: Yeah this room is bathroom and washroom.
B: This is lovely, look at that!
A very big shower, bath area and again, all of that wood and the grain in the wood just
jumps out at you, aye?
D: Yeah B: And what's this one next door?
D: This is toilet.
B: Ah, the toilet.
And I really like the little space saving features that I often see build into toilets
in Japan like this one, obviously whenever you flush it the water comes out so you can
wash your hands in the top.
Really, really great idea.
D: Yeah, very compact.
B: And shall we have a look upstairs?
D: Yes!
B: Again this place is just like a celebration of wood and wonderful materials.
And the design is so simple but everything seems to be perfectly in it's place doesn't
it?
D: Thank-you!
Here is sleeping place.
The size is perfect for a family and couples.
B: It's wonderful as well how you have the fire, the chimney goes right the way up so
it still allows all of the heat to come up and radiate throughout this upstairs area
too.
D: Yes.
When we're sleeping it's very warm.
B: So in total, how long has this project taken you to get to this stage?
D: Ah, it look one and a half years.
The house was quite different before I renovated it.
Everything was very, very dirty.
The floor, I took away and wash by water and paint, and paint, yeah it took a very long
time.
If I buy new materials, new woods, I couldn't leave atmosphere like this.
I wanted to renovate but I don't change the atmosphere because the space has history and
culture and 80 years of atmosphere.
B: And how much did this project cost?
D: It cost 3 million yen because I used old woods, I didn't buy material of wood.
B: 3 million yen then is the total cost?
D: Yes.
B: That is crazy!
That is really hard to believe!
VO: In contrast to the high cost of housing in big Japanese cities such as Tokyo, in rural
Japan you're able to find old homes such as this one for unbelievably low prices.
They take a bit of work to restore but the end result is undeniably worth the effort.
B: Daigo, this home is really exciting for me to visit.
You have done such a wonderful job of bringing together this wonderful, traditional style
home but giving it so much modern flare and character.
Congratulations on an incredible project!
D: Thank-you B: Thank-you!
Daigo has taken a wonderful, old, historic building and given it a brand new lease of
life with this wonderful almost modern flare.
His creative touch has certainly given this home at least another 80 years of life.
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SCREW WALMART Trump Will Be So Pssed When He Sees How They Just Betrayed America! - Duration: 11:14.
SCREW WALMART Trump Will Be So Pssed When He Sees How They Just Betrayed America!
This story by Paris Swade.
Walmart has now officially signed on to sell Black Lives Matter Apparel.
These shirts are going to display the phrase, "Black Lives Matter" and show a fist in
the air!
If you also remember, Walmart pulled an "All Lives Matter" bumper sticker after they
stated that they thought it was offensive.
These liberals are such a disgrace.
*** Help us share this 1 million times!
We need to let Trump see it.
Here are the pictures of the new product:
Walmart is now stocking it's shelves with Black Lives Matter gear.
Let's boycott them.
Let's show them that we the people don't care about their crap.
It's sick that they have such obvious support for a group that has called for the death
of cops.
*** IT'S 'unpresidented' and APPALLING!
***
Walmart also sells Thin Blue Line apparel and shirts that read "Blue Lives Matter"
and at the same time sells gear that promotes the killing of cops.
Let's make this go viral, patriots!
This Christmas season let's send them a message.
Help us by following the next 2 steps:
Comment 'SCREW YOU WALMART' below this post on Facebook.
Share this post with 3 friends.
If we can't get a million patriots to do this, then Walmart will have to address it!
We do not want this cop-killing nonsense in Walmart.
You hear us now, Walmart! (h/t Blue Lives Matter)(title image)BREAKING Election Recount
IS A SCAM!
Jill Stein Was Just Caught Red Handed…
Awe, sorry Liberals.
It looks like you should have just saved your money instead of giving it all to Jill Stein.
In case you are wondering, it is EXACTLY as bad as it sounds…
Despite having raised over $6 million of the $2 million she requested initially, Jill Stein's
campaign just announced they will NOT appeal the decision in Wisconsin to skip the recount!
But WAIT!
Didn't Jill Stein say that the reason she needed all that extra cash was to cover an
appeal?
Hmmmmmm….Very strange if you ask me…
I bet you guys are wondering what's gonna happen to all those millions of dollars now
that she is backing out.
I cannot say for sure other than the fact that it will NOT be going back to the donors.
Now, what she did was not a crime.
Her petition stated very clearly that she would get to keep any unused money to use
as she sees fit.
This right here is EXACTLY why I hate crowd sourcing.
Crowd Source funding has its merits, but it is also frequently used to scam morons out
of tons of money with next to nothing in return.
Honestly, you might as well spend your money on scratch off lottery tickets that have some
kind of pay-off.
Now that Jill Stein has shown her true colors and Hillary Clinton's final attempt at stealing
the presidency have been crushed it will be very interesting to see how the Democrats
react.
If you are excited and proud to be a part of Trump's America, show your support by
sharing this with all your friends and exposing Jill Stein!!ROCKY IS GOING TO WASHINGTON Look
What Position Trump Gave Sylvester Stallone…
This story by Paris Swade.
Donald Trump has now approached Sylvester Stallone to work in a top arts-related position
in the White House, according to the DailyMail.com.
The Rocky star loves Trump and is a long-time fan of him.
*** He is super pumped too!
The rumor is that Sylvester Stallone will take a position as a Chairman of the National
Endowment of the arts, according to the Daily Mail.
This is a federal agency that gives out money to artists.
He is going to punch it out!
What a great pic!
I can't believe that Rocky may be going to Washington.
This is awesome.
#SHARE THIS IF YOU THINK THIS IS AWESOME!
His appointment is going to have to be chosen by Congress.
That's why every red blooded American patriot that loves Rocky needs to share this article!
Comment 'PICK ROCKY' below this on Facebook and share it.
God bless America.
Sylvester Stallone is a very hardworking man and deserves to work in the government.
(h/t Daily Mail)(Flickr)
Thanks for reading, y'all.POUR OUT YOUR PEPSI Look At The SICK Thing They Said About
Trump Today!
This story by Paris Swade.
Indri Nooyi is the CEO of PepsiCo.
In 2008, PEPSI backed Obama with their Oba-logo and their Hopey-Change website.
Indri, the CEO, is a top Hillary Clinton supporter.
Indri told reporters that her employees were "all" scared and crying on the floor after
Trump's victory.
** She wasn't scared when Trump supporters were getting cold-cocked and sucker punched
after rallies!
Now, she feels scared.
Is Mrs. Indri serious?
I bet they weren't as scared as Trump voters getting beat by Hillary's paid protestors.
Let's take a look at that, Indri.
That's what your people endorsed.
That's real violence.
That's real racism, Indri.
Here is what she said about Trump winning:
"I had to answer a lot of questions from my daughters, from our employees.
They were all in mourning," said Indri on Thursday.
"Our employees were all crying," she said.
"And the question that they're asking, especially those who are not white, 'Are
we safe?'
Women are asking, 'Are we safe?'
LGBT people are asking, 'Are we safe?'
I never thought I would have to answer those questions."
*** Is she real?!?
I say we not accept her bigotry.
I say we will not accept her brown sugar water anymore.
I'm a Coke drinker, anyway.
Bye, bye Pepsi!
It's time for you to go bye, bye.
These companies need to learn what happens when you insult half the nation.
We are not racist.
We are not xenophobes.
We just want jobs.
Here's how we show them.
Comment 'NO MORE PEPSI' below this article on Facebook.
Then spread this article everywhere!
Share this with your friends and your friend's friends.
Thanks for reading, patriots! (h/t The Gateway Pundit)H*LL YEAH!
Sean Hannity Just RISKED His Career To Say 1 Thing About Melania Trump
This story by Paris Swade.
The liberal media has been attacking Melania Trump for "plagiarizing" Michelle Obama.
Republicans are coming to the defense of him in droves.
Everyone is now getting called for plagiarism!
You know why, huh?
We all know it's because the liberals saw that labeling Trump as a racist didn't work.
Now, they are trying to label everything associated with his campaign as racist.
In fact, look at the footage below.
Let's show the world how much Obama plagiarized speeches for his 2008 campaign.
Let's take a lookt at another one.
Sean Hannity then stepped into the ring and risked his career to BRUTALLY insult Obama,
Obummer, Ovomit, Satan's helper or whatever you want to call him.
Let's help Sean Hannity expose these liberals.
They are trying to ruin America, but we need to make America great again.
Go out and share this one Facebook.
Let's get the message out.
The Democrats may own the media but we have more people.
(h/t Yes I'm Right)
Trump all the way.
Thank you, Melania Trump, for your glorious speech.
Thanks for reading, y'all.LETS REJOICE! Trump Just Landed one of the BEST Military
Endorsements IN THE WORLD!!
When Donald Trump says that soldiers support him, he is NOT KIDDING!
Apparently, it's not just American soldiers jumping on the Trump Train either.
Now legendary British general Army Lord Richards has stepped forward, and he is not just excited
about Donald Trump, he thinks Trump is EXACTLY who the world needs right now!
You see, Army Lord Richards has a few key areas where he REALLY disagrees with Hillary
Clinton…
The Islamic State is the biggest threat to Democracy, not Russia
We SHOULD be working with Putin to defeat ISIS and radical Islam
Hillary Clinton's "no-fly zone" in Syria is the biggest potential starter of WW3 in
existence The ONLY way to beat ISIS is to work with
Syria and deal with them after, not continue arming more militant groups
So, to give you the short and skinny of it, Lord Richards finds that Hillary Clinton is
the BIGGEST threat to the security of the entire world.
Hell, from the looks of it, she may be EVEN WORSE THAN ISIS!
So thank you, Army Lord Richards, for having the balls to step forward and endorse Donald
Trump publicly.
Also, I think every needs to hear your assessment of Hillary.
It really is an eye opener.
Now help Lord Richards get his VERY important word out there by sharing this with every
single voting American you know!!BREAKING Trump Can't Believe It!
Look Who Will Help Trump Make America Great Again
This story by Paris Swade.
Trump just won again.
The mainstream media is wrong again.
U.S. Steel CEO Mario Longhi says that he's going to bring about 10,000 jobs to America.
He says that he is going to do it because he is confident that Donald Trump will make
America great again.
Liberals…
It's time for you to get the memo.
Here is what CEO Mario Longhi said about his confidence in Trump.
"United States Steel would like to accelerate its investments and hire back laid-off employees
now that Donald Trump will be occupying the Oval Office," CEO Mario Longhi told CNBC
on Wednesday.
Check this out in the video below.
"We already structured to do some things, but when you see in the near future improvement
to the tax laws, improvements to regulation, those two things by themselves may be a significant
driver to what we're going to do," said CEO Mario Longhi.
*** This translates to them saying that he is confident in president Trump!
You know what to do.
Let's prove the liberal media wrong.
Share, share, share this article everywhere.
It's up to all of us to stand up to the mainstream media bias.
Are you guys tired of winning yet?
I'm not.
Let's keep this post going across the internet.
Share this with 3 friends that want to see jobs come back to the U.S! (h/t CNBC)
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HELL YEAH! Sean Hannity Just RISKED His Career To Say 1 Thing About Melania Trump - Duration: 11:14.
H*LL YEAH!
Sean Hannity Just RISKED His Career To Say 1 Thing About Melania Trump
This story by Paris Swade.
The liberal media has been attacking Melania Trump for "plagiarizing" Michelle Obama.
Republicans are coming to the defense of him in droves.
Everyone is now getting called for plagiarism!
You know why, huh?
We all know it's because the liberals saw that labeling Trump as a racist didn't work.
Now, they are trying to label everything associated with his campaign as racist.
In fact, look at the footage below.
Let's show the world how much Obama plagiarized speeches for his 2008 campaign.
Let's take a lookt at another one.
Sean Hannity then stepped into the ring and risked his career to BRUTALLY insult Obama,
Obummer, Ovomit, Satan's helper or whatever you want to call him.
Let's help Sean Hannity expose these liberals.
They are trying to ruin America, but we need to make America great again.
Go out and share this one Facebook.
Let's get the message out.
The Democrats may own the media but we have more people.
(h/t Yes I'm Right)
Trump all the way.
Thank you, Melania Trump, for your glorious speech.
Thanks for reading, y'all.LETS REJOICE! Trump Just Landed one of the BEST Military
Endorsements IN THE WORLD!!
When Donald Trump says that soldiers support him, he is NOT KIDDING!
Apparently, it's not just American soldiers jumping on the Trump Train either.
Now legendary British general Army Lord Richards has stepped forward, and he is not just excited
about Donald Trump, he thinks Trump is EXACTLY who the world needs right now!
You see, Army Lord Richards has a few key areas where he REALLY disagrees with Hillary
Clinton…
The Islamic State is the biggest threat to Democracy, not Russia
We SHOULD be working with Putin to defeat ISIS and radical Islam
Hillary Clinton's "no-fly zone" in Syria is the biggest potential starter of WW3 in
existence The ONLY way to beat ISIS is to work with
Syria and deal with them after, not continue arming more militant groups
So, to give you the short and skinny of it, Lord Richards finds that Hillary Clinton is
the BIGGEST threat to the security of the entire world.
Hell, from the looks of it, she may be EVEN WORSE THAN ISIS!
So thank you, Army Lord Richards, for having the balls to step forward and endorse Donald
Trump publicly.
Also, I think every needs to hear your assessment of Hillary.
It really is an eye opener.
Now help Lord Richards get his VERY important word out there by sharing this with every
single voting American you know!!BREAKING Trump Can't Believe It!
Look Who Will Help Trump Make America Great Again
This story by Paris Swade.
Trump just won again.
The mainstream media is wrong again.
U.S. Steel CEO Mario Longhi says that he's going to bring about 10,000 jobs to America.
He says that he is going to do it because he is confident that Donald Trump will make
America great again.
Liberals…
It's time for you to get the memo.
Here is what CEO Mario Longhi said about his confidence in Trump.
"United States Steel would like to accelerate its investments and hire back laid-off employees
now that Donald Trump will be occupying the Oval Office," CEO Mario Longhi told CNBC
on Wednesday.
Check this out in the video below.
"We already structured to do some things, but when you see in the near future improvement
to the tax laws, improvements to regulation, those two things by themselves may be a significant
driver to what we're going to do," said CEO Mario Longhi.
*** This translates to them saying that he is confident in president Trump!
You know what to do.
Let's prove the liberal media wrong.
Share, share, share this article everywhere.
It's up to all of us to stand up to the mainstream media bias.
Are you guys tired of winning yet?
I'm not.
Let's keep this post going across the internet.
Share this with 3 friends that want to see jobs come back to the U.S! (h/t CNBC)SCREW
WALMART Trump Will Be So Pssed When He Sees How They Just Betrayed America!
This story by Paris Swade.
Walmart has now officially signed on to sell Black Lives Matter Apparel.
These shirts are going to display the phrase, "Black Lives Matter" and show a fist in
the air!
If you also remember, Walmart pulled an "All Lives Matter" bumper sticker after they
stated that they thought it was offensive.
These liberals are such a disgrace.
*** Help us share this 1 million times!
We need to let Trump see it.
Here are the pictures of the new product:
Walmart is now stocking it's shelves with Black Lives Matter gear.
Let's boycott them.
Let's show them that we the people don't care about their crap.
It's sick that they have such obvious support for a group that has called for the death
of cops.
*** IT'S 'unpresidented' and APPALLING!
***
Walmart also sells Thin Blue Line apparel and shirts that read "Blue Lives Matter"
and at the same time sells gear that promotes the killing of cops.
Let's make this go viral, patriots!
This Christmas season let's send them a message.
Help us by following the next 2 steps:
Comment 'SCREW YOU WALMART' below this post on Facebook.
Share this post with 3 friends.
If we can't get a million patriots to do this, then Walmart will have to address it!
We do not want this cop-killing nonsense in Walmart.
You hear us now, Walmart! (h/t Blue Lives Matter)(title image)BREAKING Election Recount
IS A SCAM!
Jill Stein Was Just Caught Red Handed…
Awe, sorry Liberals.
It looks like you should have just saved your money instead of giving it all to Jill Stein.
In case you are wondering, it is EXACTLY as bad as it sounds…
Despite having raised over $6 million of the $2 million she requested initially, Jill Stein's
campaign just announced they will NOT appeal the decision in Wisconsin to skip the recount!
But WAIT!
Didn't Jill Stein say that the reason she needed all that extra cash was to cover an
appeal?
Hmmmmmm….Very strange if you ask me…
I bet you guys are wondering what's gonna happen to all those millions of dollars now
that she is backing out.
I cannot say for sure other than the fact that it will NOT be going back to the donors.
Now, what she did was not a crime.
Her petition stated very clearly that she would get to keep any unused money to use
as she sees fit.
This right here is EXACTLY why I hate crowd sourcing.
Crowd Source funding has its merits, but it is also frequently used to scam morons out
of tons of money with next to nothing in return.
Honestly, you might as well spend your money on scratch off lottery tickets that have some
kind of pay-off.
Now that Jill Stein has shown her true colors and Hillary Clinton's final attempt at stealing
the presidency have been crushed it will be very interesting to see how the Democrats
react.
If you are excited and proud to be a part of Trump's America, show your support by
sharing this with all your friends and exposing Jill Stein!!ROCKY IS GOING TO WASHINGTON Look
What Position Trump Gave Sylvester Stallone…
This story by Paris Swade.
Donald Trump has now approached Sylvester Stallone to work in a top arts-related position
in the White House, according to the DailyMail.com.
The Rocky star loves Trump and is a long-time fan of him.
*** He is super pumped too!
The rumor is that Sylvester Stallone will take a position as a Chairman of the National
Endowment of the arts, according to the Daily Mail.
This is a federal agency that gives out money to artists.
He is going to punch it out!
What a great pic!
I can't believe that Rocky may be going to Washington.
This is awesome.
#SHARE THIS IF YOU THINK THIS IS AWESOME!
His appointment is going to have to be chosen by Congress.
That's why every red blooded American patriot that loves Rocky needs to share this article!
Comment 'PICK ROCKY' below this on Facebook and share it.
God bless America.
Sylvester Stallone is a very hardworking man and deserves to work in the government.
(h/t Daily Mail)(Flickr)
Thanks for reading, y'all.POUR OUT YOUR PEPSI Look At The SICK Thing They Said About
Trump Today!
This story by Paris Swade.
Indri Nooyi is the CEO of PepsiCo.
In 2008, PEPSI backed Obama with their Oba-logo and their Hopey-Change website.
Indri, the CEO, is a top Hillary Clinton supporter.
Indri told reporters that her employees were "all" scared and crying on the floor after
Trump's victory.
** She wasn't scared when Trump supporters were getting cold-cocked and sucker punched
after rallies!
Now, she feels scared.
Is Mrs. Indri serious?
I bet they weren't as scared as Trump voters getting beat by Hillary's paid protestors.
Let's take a look at that, Indri.
That's what your people endorsed.
That's real violence.
That's real racism, Indri.
Here is what she said about Trump winning:
"I had to answer a lot of questions from my daughters, from our employees.
They were all in mourning," said Indri on Thursday.
"Our employees were all crying," she said.
"And the question that they're asking, especially those who are not white, 'Are
we safe?'
Women are asking, 'Are we safe?'
LGBT people are asking, 'Are we safe?'
I never thought I would have to answer those questions."
*** Is she real?!?
I say we not accept her bigotry.
I say we will not accept her brown sugar water anymore.
I'm a Coke drinker, anyway.
Bye, bye Pepsi!
It's time for you to go bye, bye.
These companies need to learn what happens when you insult half the nation.
We are not racist.
We are not xenophobes.
We just want jobs.
Here's how we show them.
Comment 'NO MORE PEPSI' below this article on Facebook.
Then spread this article everywhere!
Share this with your friends and your friend's friends.
Thanks for reading, patriots! (h/t The Gateway Pundit)
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So don't, Take advantage, don't leave my heart damaged To understand that things go a little bit better when you plan it
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The Oxford Comma Wars! Are you PRO or ANTI Oxford Comma? - Duration: 4:00.
So men,
It's come to this.
War between our two schools of thought
Years from now, they'll call this war...
For years, linguists, grammar nerds, and pedants
have battled over the Oxford comma
In a series of three or more items, should there be a comma after the penultimate item?
Or...
Meh
Two schools of thought: The pro Oxford Commanists.
and the anti commas meet today to
finally decide its fate
The Oxford Commanists have made their arguments known
It avoids confusion, If I say:
Without that comma, it implies Obama and Trump are part of the gang!
How do they not get it!?
COMMA!
Hah! The same tired argument!
We get it from context!
We know Obama and Trump aren't in a gang so it's redundant!
NO COMMA!
Isn't it strange that we as Americans
Fight FOR the 'Oxford' comma
While the British and their media fight against it
Is it just the name "Oxford"?
If it were called the 'Delaware comma',
Would it have this much support?
I guarantee you it would not!
And so, we must fight to the death
To decide if the Oxford Comma dies,
Or lives on forever in all its glory!
COMMA!
There is a consensus on this
That that extra comma is pedantic and prissy
Hah! You're saying the queen is an Oxford man and a poet!
Even with an Oxford Comma there,
The previous coma doesn't necessarily stop the Queen from being an Oxford man
Enough! Now we settle this!
Prepare to die, Oxford Commanist!
Actually, sir, I didn't agree to come and fight
So I need to leave!
Johnson, what is this nonsense!? You signed a contract to fight!
Ah but no sir, If you read the contract,
It specifically stipulates that our activities would be limited to:
Yes, exactly. You signed a contract agreeing to be shipped to war
and you were shipped to war.
Congratulations, Johnson you can read
No no no. See in that clause, it specifically states:
"Training for combat or being shipped to war"
I only signed up for training, not actual war!
I'm with them on this! If you actually wanted us
to fight in the war you should have used
that Oxford comma to show two separate things
Johnson I grant you that perhaps
in contracts it's necessary to avoid confusion, but
Let's not forget what this fight is really about
The Oxford Comma...
It clogs up writing!
Enough!
Prepare to die, Oxford Commanists!
Wait
What?
You didn't put a comma between "red white and blue"
Of course not. It seems less free!
And America is all about freedom baby!
What?! I'm going to say:
Do you hear how that sounds?
Do you HEAR how that sounds!?
But wait!
If I can make an exception,
and you can make an exception,
Why can't we all just get along?!
Co-exist in this grammatical whirlwind of a language
I guess we could just use it when it improves clarity
And perhaps we should use it to avoid confusion
particularly in contracts
And not be dicks about it
Yes. Exactly.
After all it is just one comma
I love you
I love you,
I love you, friend
I love you too, bud.
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My First Edited Video!!! With funny Commentary - Duration: 10:22.
What's goin on guys, Hope your having a great day!. My name is Eridann(3ridann)
Welcome back to the Channel.Hopefully you guys will like this video, and I just want to say...
Thank you for watching my past couple of videos. Sorry i haven't been uploading for the past three days or so...
I just downloaded this new editing software, so hopefully all of my videos will be a little bit better from now on.
I also had a few problems just recording gameplay, but that should be fixed now
I will now be uploading about every day or two just like I was before.
Over Spring break though I should be uploading everyday.
This will be my first edited game, and it is not that long. I am trying to keep these videos shorter.
It is some highlights of me playing ranked in Rainbow Six Seige.
Hopefully you guys end up liking it :)
There ends up being someone pretty funny in it
Hope you guys have such a great day! Thanks for watching. If you like this hit the like button.
Comment in the comments section to tell me what you want to see next. Thank you!
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Web Event: Do Tax Saving Investments In The Name Of Children Make Sense? - Duration: 5:59.
Should you be making tax saving investments in the name of your children?
Many people make tax saving investments in the name of their children to provide for their future needs
Is it necessary to do it this way? What are the issues that may come up in the future?
For people making a last minute tax saving investment in the name of their children, what are the things to remember?
Anything construed as a transfer of income from the parents to the children is not acceptable under income tax regulations
Income tax authorities want to tax everything in your name
This is because primarily it is your income
Tax saving investments are long term in nature. By the time they mature, children may be adults by then
While investing one should keep this in mind
If provided by the scheme, these investments can be tax free for the children when they grow up
If you invest in PPF in the name of your child, your contribution, interest and maturity proceeds are all tax-exempt
If PPF matures by the time child grows up, it is tax free for the child
In case of tax-saving FD in the name of child, you will get tax deduction for your contribution
But Interest during the five year period will included as part of your income and taxed accordingly
Taxability of income from the tax saving investment made in the name of the child is imporant
If the tax saving investments mature when the child becomes a major, he or she would be entitled to take decisions about it
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Polished Presentations with PowerPoint Online - Duration: 3:50.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
- Today's students have lots of experience
when it comes to using technology
to create short bursts of communication,
whether it's in a tweet, a story, post, or a text.
Unfortunately, they may not have lots
of experience using technology to craft
more dynamic messages rich with video, text, and images.
- I heard this quote at a conference I went to last week.
"Ask a student to create something the world will see,
and he will make it good.
Ask a student to create something
only teacher will see, and he will make it good enough."
- Our students can produce very polished presentations,
when given the opportunity to present a topic that
is meaningful to them, and that can be shared with the world.
- I heard your students did an amazing job
with their presentations in front of the school board.
What were they presenting, what were their topics?
- You know we have 20% time each week in my class?
- I've heard your students talking about it.
What is that?
- It's where I give students one class a week
to work on a project that interests them,
or inspires them.
I've seen some cool things happen because of it.
So as part of our persuasive writing assignment,
I invited them to work in pairs to present
their case for why all our school should have 20% time.
- That sounds like a great writing assignment.
I'm curious, though.
Why did you have them present it to the school board?
- I look at it this way, someday they
will be giving presentations in college, or in board meetings
of their own corporations.
I need to start getting them ready for presenting
in front of real world audiences, not just me.
Plus, you'd be amazed at how much better their presentations
were.
It was not the same as when they present it to me.
- I bet.
- The presentation content was high quality,
but the part that impressed the audience most,
was the professional look, mainly
because of the enhancement features available now
in PowerPoint online.
- I'd love to see one of these presentations.
- Let's have one of my students walk us through it.
- First, I log in to my Office 365 account,
and I clicked on this presentation I created,
on putting time to the test.
The design menu appears and gives me
options for creating a slide that
has a lot more to it than just clip art and bullet points.
That's not all.
There's also a new transition, called morph,
that makes it look like I put a lot more time animating slides
than I did.
I have three slides that I'm going
to use to add some animation to the clock.
I wanted to use a clock so it would show
the significance of the time.
Now there's just a couple more steps.
I created a clock, then added line
shapes to move the minute hand so that it reflected
the importance of time.
Then I moved the minute hand on each slide.
I clicked on the transitions tab,
and chose the more transition for all three.
Now when I put it in slideshow mode,
PowerPoint merges the slideshow together
with the morph transition.
- Impressive That's not the PowerPoint I'm used to.
It's a very polished presentation.
- Having students collaborate to create polished presentations
for an authentic audience is a skill
they will need to be college and career ready.
When they leave my classroom their presentations
won't be for a grade.
It will be to make a sale, prove a case, or inspire others.
Just by changing their audience, the quality of the students
work greatly improved.
They knew the presentation was not only going
to be graded, most importantly, they
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>> Hello and welcome to the final instalment in our series of webinars
on sexual violence prevention in Ontario schools.
This webinar series is part of Ophea's Campaign Messengers Taking a
Stand Initiative: a school based approach whose goal is to build the
capacity of students and educators in Ontario to be leaders in their
schools and addressing the root causes of sexual violence and
harassment through the promotion of healthy relationships,
consent and equality.
This is the last in the series of free webinars.
So our previous two webinars were presented by Alyx Duffy from
Egale Canada Human Rights Trust and Véronique Church-Duplessis
from White Ribbon.
Today we are very excited to have Julie Lalonde, project manager of
Draw the Line with us to break down some of the specifics and introduce
you to the Draw the Line campaign - a free and useful tool for breaking the
silence on sexual violence.
Welcome Julie.
>> Thank you, so if folks have questions throughout please feel free
to put them in the chat box and I might answer right away or I might
wait until the end depending on where I'm at in the flow and I'll make sure
to leave some time at the end if folks have general questions about
the campaign or something that you are hoping that I would
cover that I didn't.
So, a reminder that the campaign is Draw the Line.
It's Draw-the-line.ca
That's us on social media, as well.
The reason why our campaign came to be is because violence against women
remains a critical issue in Ontario.
Just some statistics to really set the stage about not only the reality
of sexual violence but the intersectional analysis that I think
is really key to understanding this issue.
So, sexual violence costs Canadians about $4.8 billion a year and it is
one of the few crimes where the cost is placed entirely on
individual victims.
So, everything from missed work or class to individual lawyer costs to
having to move and so it is costly to everyone but one of the few in which
the cost is actually borne by the victim themselves.
Statistically, what we know is between 1 in 3 Canadian women, 1 in 6
boys and 1 in 5 trans folk will experience sexual violence
in their lifetime.
You'll notice that we differentiate between women and boys; the reason
being that if you're born a women and you've lived your whole life as a
woman the chance of you being sexually assaulted remain fairly
high your entire life.
That includes elderly women.
But if you are born a boy and you live your life a man and you live to
be an adult and you've never sexually assaulted, unless you're
incarcerated, your chance of being sexually assaulted remains low.
And what we know is as women hit puberty their chance of being
sexually assaulted skyrockets and when a boy hits puberty the chances
of him being sexually assaulted plummets dramatically.
That's why we make a differentiation.
I've been working in the sector for over 10 years.
I did front line nine years with survivors and all of the men I've
worked with in my career were all survivors of childhood sexual abuse.
So, we're talking really about young women and young boys who are at risk
at the same level and not necessarily men later on in life.
But similarly although women remain at risk their whole life, women under
25 have the highest rates of sexual assault and criminal harassment,
which is how stalking is defined under the Canadian Criminal Code.
In terms of intersexuality, not all women are impacted the same way.
So, girls and women with disabilities are four times more likely to
experience sexual violence but their also more likely to experience sexual
violence by someone that they know, a caregiver or a family
member or a partner.
Indigenous women are three times more likely to experience violence,
they're also much more likely to be killed as a result of that violence.
Less than 10% of sexual assaults are reported to police.
This is always my reminder to folks that the stories we hear about in the news
are because it was reported to police.
Media cover stories based on police reports, so what we hear in the media
might feel like a lot but is that 10% of what happening in our communities.
Also important is that 80-95% of people are assaulted by
someone they know.
That's really, really important for folks to understand who work with
youth and even just as a member of the community as a bystander the vast
majority of us assume that sexual violence is happening by strangers
that is people in trench coats are jumping out of bushes.
And when I work with children, I think back to when I was a kid and
the only formal education I ever got on sexual violence was that to not
get in the car with strangers and that I was going to be kidnapped and
sexually assaulted by a stranger even but children are far more likely to
be sexually assaulted by someone they know and if the only information we
give them is stranger danger when they do experience sexual violence that's
part of the reason why there's a lot of confusion because they don't
understand how that possibly could've happened because they didn't see that
the risk and they couldn't even comprehended that as a
form of violence.
But, it's really important when you work with youth to understand that no
one is talking to them about sexual violence unless you are.
So, Draw the Line, knowing that context, the Ontario government
launched the campaign and funded the
Ontario Coalition of Rape Crisis Centres (OCRCC),
which is who I work with,
and Action ontarienne contre la violence faite aux femmes.
In 2011, we had Ontario's first sexual violence action plan where the
province really wanted to address the fact that sexual violence was one of
the few crimes in Canada that was going up.
Rates were going up.
All of the crime was stagnating or lowering and yet sexual violence rates
were going up and up and up.
So, the province said that we really need to have a prevention campaign
and not to talk about sexual violence after it's happened.
So, they said they funded both OCRCC and Action ontarienne to develop a
bystander intervention campaign.
So, we are currently funded through the Ontario Women's Directorate now
known as the Ministry of Status Women in the province.
Our campaign engages bystander.
You'll see here the big fancy academic definition that we use and
the reason why we make it clear what we mean is that some campaigns work
on the premise that you need to know someone in order to intervene.
So campaigns like Neighbours, Friends and Families that target people in
terms of their relationship to a victim or someone who's been
victimized, which is great and a super important campaign but our
campaign was we've got the clear directive that it was meant to engage
absolutely everybody.
So, is important that unless you are the victim or the perpetrator
you are a bystander.
And what's important about that is that that means that other survivors
of sexual violence can be the bystander.
And what's really important to take that into consideration when you talk
about what it means to intervene because if I'm someone who has
experienced sexual violence I might be triggered or might be scary for me
intervene because it's too scary for me to think about it happening again
vs. someone who is in a privileged position who's maybe never
experienced violence who doesn't view intervening with us in the
same level of risk.
And our campaign rally challenges what we know of the bystander effect
which was first was in the medical community where they realized that
the counterintuitive piece which was that people were actually less likely
to intervene if there were other people around and it was very
counterintuitive because the sound, okay, well you would think the
presence of other people would shame someone into doing something but in
fact generally one of two things goes through peoples minds which is
someone else's business, some else is going to do something, I've got
somewhere I've got to be or this realization that okay well no one
seems to be alarmed by what happening are not doing anything about it so
why should I put myself out there.
What's really important to understand about sexual violence is that it is a
crime and a form of trauma that is rife with myths and stereotypes.
It's not just that people don't intervene because they think
someone else will.
They don't intervene because they've internalized a whole host of messages
about sexual violence.
The idea that women who drink, women who dress a certain way, women who
flirt with men, women who party hard, women from certain neighbourhoods,
women with quote/unquote reputations that they are the only people get
sexually assaulted and therefore they had it coming.
This is were also where a lot of stereotypes: Islamaphobia,
xenophobia, homophobia, trans-phobia, ableism, ageism, this idea that
that's how they are, or you know how people are in those communities,
people from those neighborhoods that classism and all that kind of stuff
comes up about how it's an othering of the issue, so I don't intervene
because that's how they are and there's nothing I can do about it.
People also don't intervene when it comes to sexual violence because they
don't even know what to look.
So, there's a famous case in the United States in a small community
called Steubenville, Ohio were a young woman was sexually assaulted,
was intoxicated at a party, passed out, people literally carried her from
party to party, sexually assaulted her and took selfies of
themselves doing it.
And when eventually made it's way to police and the people in the pictures
were questioned as to why didn't intervene, they all said it was
because she wasn't fighting back so it didn't even register
as a problems.
She was just lying there.
So, people literally don't even know what sexual violence looks like and
that's part of the reason why don't intervene.
Also people don't intervene because they're afraid of retribution.
So, the smaller the peer group, the more difficult it is to intervene
because you know these people and in a youth context, speaking as someone
who grew up in a rural area, you're partying and hanging out with the
same people you've known since kindergarten.
So, why intervene?
If I call out Paul party on Friday, I'm going to have to see Paul the
next day and probably for the next few years so I'm a little bit more
afraid of what's going to happened to me if I say something vs. if I'm in
Ottawa and I'm calling out someone while I'm waiting for the bus that
I'm never going to see again.
So, it's really important that we create that empathy with youth about
the difficulties in intervening and how social capital is your entire
world when you're growing.
And one of the last reasons why people don't intervene when it comes
to sexual violence is because they don't know what to do.
So, they register what they're seeing as problematic.
Maybe they have this gut feeling is not okay but they don't know what to
do about it because we don't give them practical tools and that's
really where our campaign comes in.
So, core campaign principles; it's gender right off the bat.
So, we don't shy away from acknowledging that sexual
violence is a gender crime.
It predominately impacts women.
97% of perpetrators are men.
That does not mean that 97% of men are perpetrator but we have to work
with what the research tells us which is that the vast majority of people
who been victimized are women.
We do have some scenarios that are moving towards recognizing violence
against transgender, nonconforming and non-binary folks but we are very
clear in the gendered nature of this crime.
We also work from a harm reduction standpoint.
So, rather than telling youth, you know, when I go to campuses instead
of saying "don't party, don't go out during frosh week" we talk about
how to reduce harm.
When it comes to online sexual violence which I'll talk about in a
minute, we talk about it from a harm reduction standpoint, rather than
traditionally sort of abstinence standpoint.
We also try to make a resource is very acceptable.
Our campaign was not originally designed for the education sector, it
was created for the public at large, we've since refined some of our
messaging to speak to the education sector.
But regardless it was really important for us to have a very, very
acceptable in terms of language.
Things like we don't have faces in any of our posters or materials, we
use infographics to tell a story so that actually anybody can see
themselves reflected in the campaign.
We also have a practical focus which is really important and as a public
educator is the thing I'm the most obsessed with, which is we can't just
say if you see something say something.
People absolutely need tools.
They need to know what to say.
They need to know who to say it to.
What to do.
And that's what the research has shown us that unless you give people
practical tools at best they feel disempowered from doing something but
worst case they become apathetic because they think the problem is too
large and nothings going to change so why would I bother putting
myself out there.
So, when we launched in 2012, we launched with six original scenarios.
And for those of you who haven't seen it before, you can see here that we
really ask sort of ambiguous question.
Nothing is very blatantly black and white and that was purposefully.
We felt like if we asked questions where the answer was too obvious,
people would just tell us what they think we want to hear.
And so, it is important for us to situate people in scenarios that are
realistic, that are relevant, these are things that happen to everyday
folks all the time, we see this on the news but also that are a bit on
the line where people or maybe not even sure that they're seeing it as a
form of sexual violence and that was purposeful.
So, these are our first scenarios that we launched.
Then we partnered with folks like a Egale for scenarios on violence
against transwomen and girls, Nishnabe Aski Nation for scenarios specific to
violence against indigenous women and girls and then White Ribbon for
scenarios specifically talking men engaging other men.
Now of course all of these scenarios can be relevant to anyone in any
context but that's sort of the initial intent was to sort of refine
the message to speak to the reality of certain communities that are not
traditionally represented in these kinds of conversation.
And then just recently within the last few days or so White Ribbon
has launched a new scenarios to speak directly to the elementary and
secondary sector.
These are just a few here, there's whole slew of them that speak to
really specifically to the elementary and secondary sector but of course
are relevant for all kinds of folks, as well.
In terms of their content, same thing, visuals that are really
eye-catching that put people in a position of thinking about their
role as a bystander.
All our resources can be downloaded for free and I will remind you of
this a few times throughout our conversation but if you go to
draw–the–line.ca you can download all of our graphics in
high-resolution free.
We have the most posters, not just the graphic that you see there, but
also as a postcard style templates where you have a scenario on the
front and how to draw the line on the back.
All of our resources are free even in print form, so if you want to
connect with me afterwards I can send you out resources for any of our
scenarios in your community and it's free including shipping.
What I want to do for the next piece is really just walk you through
examples of what our campaign looks like on the ground and how we
approach it from a different way than most traditional campaigns, so here
you'll see here is one of the first scenarios that we launched which
sadly is as relevant today as it was in 2012.
Which is: "a friend sends you a naked a picture of a girl he knows.
Is it a big deal to share it with others?"
And they are also available in French, as well.
So, the typical approach to this question, this scenario.
And I can say this with complete confidence as someone who travels
across the province for this campaign and has conversations with everybody
from people in the fifth grade to Parliamentarians if folks remember
when sexual harassment and sexual violence came out as something that
was happening to members of Parliament on Parliament Hill.
I live in Ottawa and I was tasked with going and training members of
Parliament on how to intervene around sexual violence.
So I had the pleasure, the privilege and the difficulty of talking to
average folks every day about sexual violence.
And this is typically how we would approach that issue, so it
would be this sexting.
So, I would say this is a case of sexting and I'll unpack why
that's not the case.
Secondly, this idea of she shouldn't have sent the photo in
the first place.
The real issue is why was even taken a picture of yourself.
And three, a focus on a penal approached that's very punitive and
focusing on how this is problematic because it's against the law.
So, that's sort of the typical approach to
conversations such as that.
We look at it a bit differently, that we pivoted a bit to talk about how if
we are going to agree that sexting is a term that exists in the world,
which I guess you have to accept that that's our contribution
to the dictionary of the 20th century, sexting is consensual.
It's the sharing of photograph between consenting adults.
Online sexual violence is not consensual.
It is a form of violence and this is actually a conversation
about consent.
And the reason why we think that we can make that differentiation is not
just because it's a semantics issue, its because if we tell youth or even
adults that all sexting is bad in all contexts all the time then the second
youth takes a picture or second a youth gets a picture sent to them
they think they've already done something wrong so it doesn't matter
what I do next because I'm already in trouble.
That's one of the main reasons why we make the differentiation but secondly
it because you want to reinforce that it's an issue of consent.
This is a problem because she did not consent to you seeing her photo
and you know that.
And the difference between texting and online sexual violence in the
different sex and sexual assault and we need to be talking about
the role of consent.
Secondly, the photo already exists; so hammering home that she shouldn't
have taken the photo in the first place is literally not helpful.
If the photo already exists, you can go back in time.
What we do now?
And what's important about that, as well, is even for youth who would never
in any context send a naked picture of themselves.
They don't like.
It makes them uncomfortable.
They still have a role to play in this conversation when you just focus
on don't take pictures your tuning out the vast majority of people in
the room who are going to be a bystander.
And that's really what's important for us, focusing on the core issue
which is this is an issue because of bystanders.
If someone who took it sends it onto someone else who sends it
onto someone else.
Things just don't go viral on their own.
Our response is also to talk about how this is an issue of, you know,
feeding the trolls.
People take pictures of their girlfriends or their partners or
classmates and they circulate them because they get the reaction that
they're looking for and we focus on the reaction and changing the reactions,
that's when you see a change.
And so, when we tell people there is an incentive for that person to take
their girlfriends picture and circulate it because he gets social
capital, we get to make fun of her, we get to shame her.
But if there's no incentive for him to do it why would he keep doing it?
And lastly, this is where I talk a lot about lateral violence so women's
and girls being cruel to other women and girls who's photos
are circulating.
And so talking about how if your friends photo is circulating through
the school, even if you would never have taken a naked photo of yourself
it's still really important that you support her, that you ensure that she
gets support, that she gets help even if she makes decisions that you don't
agree with her or that were different than your own decisions.
And then we talk about the practicality because no youth in
Ontario has their minds blown by the existence of sexual violence online,
they know that they're it every day.
What they need are tools, so what we talk about, you know, don't send it
on to other people that's imperative.
If you can avoid it, don't look at the picture in the first place.
If sends you a link or go look up this thing don't do that that.
We're going to solve the problem by not feeding the troll so its
important that you have a conversation with your friend about
how it was inappropriate of them to send that picture and this is
super awkward now.
That's your girlfriend.
I know her or this is a classmate of mine.
And we really need to end the incentive that they currently have,
which is if I do this people are going to give me props.
We really need to nip that.
Also important if you know the person the photo you need to tell them.
Yes, it's super awkward but it's already awkward so just lean into the
awkwardness and have a conversation with her.
Maybe she doesn't even know that her photo is circulating and maybe she's
humiliated she does know and just wants to know that someone supports her in
getting help and in reporting it.
And lastly, after we report it we talk about the legality, we talk
about child pornography laws in Canada, we talk about bill C-13 but
also important is that simply reporting it is not enough, if you
can go back to class and tell everybody: "do you know that Julie's
pictures are circulating through the school, like what a slut.
Oh my god, that's so funny."
And talking about how the rumour that a photo exists can be as damaging
as the photo itself.
This is sort of an example of how we take an issue that youth are hearing
about all the time and I know in my role I oftentimes follow police
officers who come in and talk about "here's the law and you're going to go
to jail for child pornography or your life is going to be ruined or you're
going to be on the sex offender registry."
And we know that does work for some folks.
I would say even myself.
There was no social media when I was in school but if there was a cop had
spoken to me in that way that would have set me straight 'cause I was
that small minority of people who was super keener who didn't want
to get in trouble.
But the vast majority of youth say: "I just don't have to get caught.
As long as you don't get caught you're fine."
Rather than having the larger conversation about how does this even
happen in the first place and at this isn't just bad because
it's against the law.
It's bad because you're harming another human being.
And really ending the incentive for this to continue.
So, I'm just going to walk you through one more scenario and then
open up for questions.
So, alcohol is facilitated sexual assault.
Huge issue.
We have a number of scenarios to talk about it everything from in a bar
context to parties.
I come from a rural area as I said where regardless of how old you are:
you're partying at people houses, you're having bush parties,
you're not going to bars.
So we do have a questions specific to the bars but we also have these two
scenarios here and here on which speak to rural folks and to youth.
And the typical approach to talking about alcohol facilitated sexual assault
is this is why you shouldn't drink.
You drink and something bad is going to happened to you, these things are
inevitable, there's no way to interrupt that.
The second you drink, something terrible happens you.
But then there's a gender component, that I think we really need to be
honest about that I can tell you every September when something
happens on a campus I get a call from the media saying that the issue is
young women binge drinking on campuses and women going to bars
thinking that they can drink like men.
And this is why there's all these rates of women being
sexually assaulted.
This really onus from women that they are drinking and being intoxicated is
what put them at risk and therefore it's their fault, had they not been
drinking that would not be in that position.
But also, a 'boys will be boys' attitude where women who are
intoxicated brought it on themselves but men who are intoxicated absolved
of responsibility because he was just drunk.
He's not a bad guy, it's just he's like that when he drinks.
But the core of that argument that I think a lot of people don't want to
face is that you're basically making a misandrous argument.
If you're arguing that men see women vulnerable, see women intoxicated,
see women isolated from their friends and they can't help but take
advantage of that situations.
That's really the undertone of the typical approaching even though most
people wouldn't want to name it that explicitly but that's really what
you're saying is that men see women vulnerable and they can't help
himself or all men that way when they're intoxicated.
They just take advantage of women.
So, we really challenge that when we talk about our work and we talk about
alcohol facilitated sexual assault.
We talk about how, myself included, when I moved to university and started
school I got a huge lecture for my mother about how to protect myself from being roofied
and drug facilitated sexual assault which is a huge problem and I'm not
downplaying that at all.
But the research has show that alcohol is the number one
date rape drug.
Half of sexual assault in Canada involve alcohol purposely over
serving someone, for example.
So, we talk about how alcohol facilitated sexual assault is
not a miscommunication.
It's not I had a couple drinks, you had a couple of drinks, you wake up
the next morning and all of a sudden she cried rape quote unquote.
We're talking about people who purposely get someone drunk or
purposely wait until someone has had too much drink to sexually assault
them and so we really name the problem is like men are not
inherently programed to see a woman intoxicated and take
advantage of them.
It's a choice that was made and the woman being intoxicated is not
putting herself at risk in that sense.
And the expression I use a lot is that the consequence for drinking too
much for women should be a hangover and not sexual assault.
So we really name that as a purposeful act and then we talk about
consent from not just the legal definition but from a
moral standpoint.
The first question I hear when I talk about alcohol facilitated sexual
assault is how drunk is too drunk?
How many drink should she have before I'm legally in trouble and that's
really problematic to me because you're reinforcing the idea that you
just basically want to know what you can legally get away.
And that's not what we want people to be thinking about.
We want people to be having healthy interactions all the time and if
there's any doubt in your mind that person is not going to be okay with
what happened tomorrow then you shouldn't be having that interaction
like you shouldn't be hooking up with people with this fear of being that
you're going to be accused of sexual assault the next day.
It's really a depressing way to approach it and instead we prefer to
come at it from healthy relationships approach of enthusiastic consent and
talking to people about not just no means no but also what does
enthusiastic consent look like?
What does it look like to check in?
What do you do if someone you have a crush on you and want about them but
they're super drunk and like really kind of acknowledging that consent is
the issue here, not just what the law says.
And then you have really lastly naming this assumption that drunk
girls are asking for it, is in fact when you pivot it the other way,
is in fact saying that men can't help themselves, men have to take advantage of
drunk women or that sexual assault perpetrators are monsters who can't
be stopped when, in fact, we know that alcohol facilitated sexual
assault can be interrupted.
People can disrupt what's happening.
So, I'm leaving room for questions and and any feedback that folks have
but I do quickly want to let you know about what this looks
like on the ground.
So, if you're an educator in a school context or you work with youth maybe
like youth programming, every sexual assault centre in Ontario is trained
to deliver Draw the Line content.
So, you can have someone from your local
sexual assault centre come and deliver a workshop.
If you prefer to have someone out of town, I know in rural communities, in
particular it's more incentive to have someone outside the community.
You are more likely to have people kind of get excited about it.
You can you have a school assembly on that topic then folks can invite me
personally to come and deliver the content.
I have workshops that we deliver from middle school to
high school and onward.
It's free all schools have to do is pay for my travel if you want me to
come; I'm based in Ottawa.
But otherwise your local sexual assault centres are trained to
deliver the content and they also have the advantage of being
councillors and being able to bring front-line workers.
Oftentimes the concern is, you know, what it will bring this conversation
to our school and then we kind of open the floodgates and folks are
triggered, folks are disclosing.
What do we do?
When I come and speak at your school, I will always bring councillors with
me but if you want to talk about this issue on your school and you're
concerned about disclosures, I would connect with your local sexual
assault centre to have councillors come and be present if folks are
triggered or they have questions.
And all or our scenarios as I said can be downloaded for free
of our website.
We also have YouTube videos.
Some learning guides to find ways activated in your school and of
course Ophea is always a great resource.
That's my information there if folks want more information or they wanted
to get print resources sent to them.
And lastly to flag that May is sexual assault awareness month in Ontario
and so during the month of May we have some really interesting
programming that we deliver through social media to kind of get folks
interested in the issue and so if you also want to organize events in your
community for May Sexual Assault Awareness Month and you don't really
know what that would look like we are here to also be a resource for you to
help you activate that in your community or your school.
I don't know if folks have any questions, I'll give you a few
minutes and keep folks are typing if you have any questions about the
content of what it looks like or even about the campaign itself,
feel free so ask away.
>> Thank you, Julie.
So as she says will give you a few minutes to take your questions but
while we are waiting maybe I'll start with a couple of questions.
So, you know, you give presentations across Ontario and beyond the
provinces, as well.
In an education setting, so with other students or teachers, what are
some of the most commonly asked questions.
What topics or what questions do people get hung up on the most?
>> Great question.
So, I would say when we have conversations about online sexual violence,
I can say that youth have made some pretty serious progress since
we launched in 2012.
So when I launched in 2012 and I would ask people "your friends sends
you a naked picture of a girl he knows, is it a big deal to
share with others?"
Everyone was like: "No, screw her, she made bad choices;
why would you even do that? It's obviously not going to end
well," blah blah blah.
Youth have a bit more nuanced now, which is great, but I think there's
still a lot of "she should have just not taking the picture in
the first place."
People really get focused on shaming the woman who's photos have
circulated and have a more wholesome conversation through a workshop.
We talk a lot about why do people even send picture in the first place?
We talk about coercion.
I can tell you that the number one thing I hear from women after young
girls and women after I present is coming up to me and talking
about coercion.
Young women are really, really interested in talking about coercion
and in particular not because we talked with consent which is really
important but when we frame it strictly as a no means no and yes
means yes conversation we don't talk about things that I hear from young women
like this guy's been texting me nonstop for two weeks asking me to
send him a naked picture and I don't really want to but I'm afraid if I
don't he's not going to want to date me or my boyfriend said that if I didn't
send him a naked picture that means I don't trust him and I really want him
to know that I trust him so I did send a picture but now I'm afraid
it's going to get out and if it does I technically said yes but I
didn't really want to.
Those kind of conversations like cohesion is like the number one thing
that you want to talk about in that context and then the biggest question
is around that shaming piece and for me sort of unpacking the visceral
reaction of "oh my God, why did she send that picture that was a stupid
thing" and then completely absolving the perpetrator of the
responsibility.
>> So building on that then, what do you think Educators should do?
So, Ophea does a lot of work with the schools and our primary
audience is educators.
So, what can educators do when they're working with students and
have some of these issues and sort of more generally to create safer
environments at school.
Well, I would say it there's stuff going on in the news you know that
the youth in your life know about it.
Like if there's a big court case, everything from John Gomeshi to Bill
Cosby to the Oscars with Casey Afflect and before that Chris Brown
and even the case in Halifax that just came out.
Youth I know are online, they're seeing the new and I think that's
such a great entry point to talk about like: "hey, you know, at the
Oscars, someone that multiple women have accused of sexual assault got an
Oscar, got an Emmy and there's controversy around that and now he's
forced to answer that and what do you think about that?
What do you think as a consumer of media?
What do you think about that?"
I think it's a really great way to kind of open up the conversation and
then harm reduction approach; I know it's hard when you're in school and
you really have to come at it from like being risk-averse but I think
creating that space for youth to just be real about what they're going
through and things like coercion, for example.
I was so blown away when I started this campaign.
I never anticipated how much that would be a topic of conversation so
if you're talking about consent whether through the curriculum or
something comes up like unpack that and talk about coercion because I've
had sessions where you can literally spend half an hour unpacking
what coercion is.
I've gone into work or to schools where thought I was going to talk was
two scenarios and all I talked about was the one scenario "your favourite
singers assaulted his girlfriend and do you downloaded his latest
single?" We spent 45 minutes with a bunch of high school students talking
about that and them going back and forth and debating and some
saying "I can separate the artist from the art," and other people
saying "no, that's putting money in his pocket."
Giving them the space to have that critical thinking, which we all know
youth love to share their opinion and they love that space where you're
when treating them as someone who has a perspective that you want to hear.
So, I'd say piggybacking off what's happening in the news and talking
about coercion; those are huge.
I'm just going to read out a question for folks.
I got a question if I have any tips for breaching the topic with
elementary students specifically?
Do any of the scenarios tend to lend particularly well to
younger students?
So, great question.
So if you head to our website we just launched new scenarios with white
ribbons that are very specific for the elementary sector.
You'll notice some of the scenarios look like duplicates but the same
scenario is worded differently if you're in the elementary or
secondary sector.
I would say that's a great place to start everything from even if your
friend sends you a naked picture of me and I've had a conversation with
students in grades five and six and some of them had already taken photos
as horrifying as that might be.
But even if they haven't that's true prevention.
It's really important for me to drive that home for folks that alcohol
facilitated sexual assault should be something that we talked about in
high schools, should be something that we talked about with
younger folks.
You can say okay they're not drinking but they will and you want them to
have those tools before they go on to university or college and out into
the world where they're drinking so I think that's a great place to start.
And when I teach the online sexual violence scenario to elementary
school students the only thing I really change is I don't start with
the definition of consent in the criminal code because that language
can be a bit hard to wrap your head around and it's very much framed
around sexual activity but instead have a broader conversation about
consent which you are already doing and in the curriculum and just kind
of expanding that to talk about consent in the in the broader sense.
But I would say that online sexual violence is not new for youth and the
question is really interesting to talk about with youth about what
does it mean to be a bystander when you're talking about a celebrity and
what does that say about your values if you're giving money to the person
or you're supporting this person by going to the show or
watching their movies.
I think it's a really great way to start from where folks are at.
And just a reminder to folks that you can download all of our scenarios for
free, so if you wanted to start a conversation in your classroom you
can download a graphic or you can print them or you can download it and
put it up on a slide and just kind of get people going.
Honestly, I don't know any youth that doesn't want to spend time
and time and time talking about their consumer choices and it's such a
great entry point for getting them to think about what the music you listen
to and the movies you watch says about your values in ending
sexual violence.
It's a great conversation starter.
>> Alright, so just before we wrap up here any final key messages that you
would like educators to take back with them from this presentation or
from Draw the Line in general?
>> I would say that if you're having a conversation with youth you work
with students, thank you, we need to be having this conversation with
everyone and everyone.
It's really, really important for me as someone who works with every
sexual assault centre in the province.
The amount of violence and trauma and harm that could be prevented if we
were just brave enough to have these conversations and to do
them the right way.
So, fear mongering, we know, doesn't work.
Framing this idea that it's up to women to protect themselves;
I really encourage you to flip that on it's
head and say that your encouraging the idea that
men are preditorial and I really think what message are you sending
men or the young men in your classroom or the young men that you
work with when you say that you know it's up to women to
protect themselves.
What are you saying about the men in that room?
And kind of thinking about in that way.
It's brave and it's difficult and I know it's hard when you're in a
school system in particular and you feel like there's just so many
parameters of what you can and cannot say but these kinds of conversations
are lifesaving for folks and what we know that's true trauma informed care
means not shying away from the issue and saying "we just don't want to talk
about it because it's going to upset people" but really
leaning into creating the idea of creating a safe space for people to
open up and talk openly.
And be prepared to hear what you don't want to hear.
I think that's a big one.
If I go in there and every single
question I ask youth they give me the right answer,
I know they're telling me what they think I want to hear and it's
really important for youth to say: "You know, I'm probably going to keep
listening to that music it's my favorite artist and I'm not going to
call the cops on my best friend if he sends me a picture of his
girlfriend.
I know what child pronography and I
know I need to call the cops but that's my best friend.
Like, I'm not calling the cops on him."
And we need to create space for youth to be honest about that, so we
can challenge it.
And so just continue to be brave just be brave in the work you're doing and
thank you from those of us who work with women and men and transfolks
who've been traumatized like thank you for taking on true prevention.
It's such a gift to the rest of our sector that you are willing
to do that work.
>> Alright, so if there's no more questions we'll wrap up but thank you
Julie so much for that presentation.
That was really great.
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