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Debates of Nov. 17th, 2016
House of Commons Hansard #109 of the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was women.
Gisèle Chrétien
2016 Breakthrough Junior Challenge
SHARE Agriculture Foundation
National Child Day
Leonard Cohen and Bob Walsh
Attractions in New Brunswick Southwest
Transgender Awareness Week
Citizenship, Refugees and Immigration
Michael O'Neill
Operation Red Nose
Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner
Regional Economic Development
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship
Public Services and Procurement
Controlled Drugs and Substances Act
Gender Equality Week Act
Second ReadingCanada Pension PlanGovernment Orders
November 17th, 2016 / 1:55 p.m.
Garnett Genuis Conservative Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, AB
Mr. Speaker, I do know that this member is very concerned about small businesses in my riding, whether they be olive importers or others.
I want to ask him specifically about the impact the proposal will have on small business. We have heard of studies done and concerns raised by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business. We do know that a survey was done in Ontario relating to the ORPP and the negative impact it would have on small business.
This proposal leads to a loss of jobs, fewer jobs created, and wage cuts. Would it not be better to use a private savings model in which individuals could earn just as much but save more of their money? Would that not be better for small businesses in my riding and his?
The Assistant Deputy Speaker Liberal Anthony Rota
Before we go to the member for Brampton East, I want to remind everyone in the House that debate is taking place. It is nice to see a friendly conversation amongst you, but if you do not mind, keep it down or whisper, as opposed to talking loudly, so we can hear the debate, which is very fulsome.
The hon. member for Brampton East.
Raj Grewal Liberal Brampton East, ON
Mr. Speaker, my hon. colleague across the aisle is a great guy, even though I mostly disagree with him completely on almost every issue. However, he is a personal friend and that is what makes democracy so great.
The single biggest reason why enhancement of the CPP is needed is the dire state of the private pension system. Anyone can look to statistics. The member opposite mentioned a study done by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, which has a 109,000 members. It testified at the finance committee.
The devil is in the details of their research. It was relying on responses from 651 members. A survey was sent to 10,000 of their members. It said members were against our proposal, when among its 109,000 members, only 651 members said that the enhancement of the CPP was a bad idea.
I urge the member opposite to talk to small businesses in his riding, because small businesses all across this country know that if their employees are taken care of, if their employees can look forward to a safe and secure retirement, that will benefit their bottom line in the short and long terms.
I encourage my hon. colleague across the way, who is a great guy, a smart guy, to support the CPP enhancement
Scott Duvall NDP Hamilton Mountain, ON
Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the speech by the member for Brampton East. We certainly agree with him that we need an enhancement to the CPP. However, there is an important part missing in this, and that is the child rearing and disabilities drop-out period that is in the existing CPP, but for some reason has been omitted in the enhancement by the government. As the member and I have heard from many stakeholders and organizations, this is a critical part. We need to know the answer. Has the government made a mistake and is it going to fix it by putting the drop-out periods into the enhancement, and will it support that?
Mr. Speaker, my hon. colleague has recently been substituting on the finance committee and I welcome him to the committee. He does really good work on the committee.
The fact of the matter is this. If people retire in Canada after 2019, they are going to have more money and all Canadians should be proud of that. We said at the beginning that the single reason that an enhancement of the CPP was needed is that in 1971, 48% of Canadians had a defined pension benefit plan provided by their employers, but that by 2011, it was 25%, and still declining. Employers are not providing employees and Canadians with defined benefit plans anymore. Canadians are struggling to save for retirement and enhancement of the CPP is critical.
The most telling part of this is that all the provinces agree with this, whether NDP, Conservative, or Liberal. This is something that all members in the House should agree with because Canadians deserve safe and secure retirement. I encourage the member and his party to support the bill.
Gisèle ChrétienStatements By Members
Paul Lefebvre Liberal Sudbury, ON
Mr. Speaker, I think we all know one of those rare gems who transform their community with their leadership. In Sudbury, Gisèle Chrétien's commitment to our community has made it a great place to live.
A tireless volunteer, Gisèle supports causes in the fields of health, education, economic development, and French-language services. She was the driving force behind the establishment of Collège Boréal and was its president for almost a decade. Gisèle has also served as the chair of the board of directors for TFO and Health Sciences North. She founded support groups for children living with diabetes, sat on the boards of the Children's Aid Society and Chamber of Commerce, and even published a book about leadership.
Just recently, she was awarded the 2016 Prix de la francophonie de l'ACFO du grand Sudbury, in recognition of her work. Gisèle is living proof that one person's commitment can enrich an entire community.
Congratulations and thank you, Gisèle.
JusticeStatements By Members
Michael Cooper Conservative St. Albert—Edmonton, AB
Mr. Speaker, last month, the Senate passed Bill S-217 by a wide margin with the support of Liberal and Conservative senators alike.
The criminal history of an accused seeking bail is relevant and material to the proper determination of a bail application hearing, yet under the Criminal Code, it is discretionary whether the crown leads such evidence. This loophole proved fatal to Constable David Wynn, who was shot and killed in the line of duty by someone who was out on bail, notwithstanding the fact he had an extensive criminal history. None of that information was brought forward to the attention of the judge.
Bill S-217 is common sense legislation that seeks to enhance public safety by ensuring that what happened to Constable Wynn never happens again. I urge the government to join its Liberal colleagues in the Senate and support Bill S-217.
2016 Breakthrough Junior ChallengeStatements By Members
Francesco Sorbara Liberal Vaughan—Woodbridge, ON
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to congratulate, Davina Potkidis, a grade 12 student from Holy Cross Catholic Academy in Woodbridge, for reaching the top 15 in the 2016 Breakthrough Junior Challenge. Founded by Facebook creators Mark Zuckerberg and Sergey Brin, the challenge is an annual global competition celebrating excellence in science.
Davina's achievement is highlighted, as the 2016 challenge drew 6,000 applications from over 100 countries. A superb student, piano teacher, athlete, and a member of her school's student council, Davina still found time to produce a video explaining what gravitational waves are and what happens when they hit earth.
The winner of the challenge will be selected on December 4 and will receive a $250,000 scholarship.
Let us wish Davina success as she represents Canada on the global stage. We are proud of this remarkable young woman.
Indigenous AffairsStatements By Members
Romeo Saganash NDP Abitibi—Baie-James—Nunavik—Eeyou, QC
Mr. Speaker, almost a year ago, just on the other side of the river here, the Prime Minister told the chiefs at the Assembly of First Nations the following:
We will support the work of reconciliation and continue the necessary process of truth telling and healing, we will work with [you] to enact the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, starting with the implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
The Prime Minister promised real change, yet unfortunately we have yet to see the real or the change in this case.
We are heading towards the 150th anniversary of this place we now call Canada. The first peoples of this country should not have to wait another 150 years to see their fundamental human rights protected, respected, and fulfilled.
I invite the Prime Minister to respect that promise of reconciliation with the first peoples of this country.
WinemakerStatements By Members
Neil Ellis Liberal Bay of Quinte, ON
Mr. Speaker, it is with great pride that I share with you another remarkable accomplishment from my riding.
Norman Hardie, a winemaker in Prince Edward County, has received global recognition for his county chardonnay. These accolades are a reflection of Norman's winemaking expertise and artistry, as well as the rich agricultural land that is home to Ontario's newest wine region.
His 2013 county chardonnay has been placed in categories that include "Matt Kramer's Most Exciting Wines of the 21st Century (so far)" and the 2016 WinAlign National Wine Awards of Canada platinum category. This year, his county chard ranked as the top chardonnay on the list.
I send my sincere congratulations to Norman Hardie for his passion and dedication to his craft. The international attention he is receiving is further raising the profile of the county, and inspiring budding winemakers in the area.
I encourage all of my colleagues to look for Norman's critically acclaimed wine, or tour the many wineries in Prince Edward County for a truly memorable experience.
SHARE Agriculture FoundationStatements By Members
David Tilson Conservative Dufferin—Caledon, ON
Mr. Speaker, I am very proud to recognize SHARE Agriculture Foundation, an organization founded by Peel farmers, which has had an immense impact on improving the quality of life in impoverished agricultural-based communities in the developing world. This organization has touched the lives of thousands in countries such as Honduras, El Salvador, Brazil, Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Haiti, Bolivia, and Cambodia, to name a few. SHARE has achieved this success through its unwavering commitment to the "pass on" principle, where individuals are provided with the necessary tools to improve their lives through their own efforts.
Earlier this month, I had the honour of congratulating SHARE on the 40th anniversary of its founding in 1976.
On behalf of the residents of Dufferin—Caledon, I would like to thank SHARE's extraordinary volunteers and donors, and wish this phenomenal organization another 40 years of continued success and excellence in creating healthy communities in the developing world.
National Child DayStatements By Members
Ramez Ayoub Liberal Thérèse-De Blainville, QC
Mr. Speaker, National Child Day in Canada is November 20.
I had the pleasure of celebrating National Child Day by talking with members of the Académie Ste-Thérèse student representative council at the instigation of UNICEF Canada. I was impressed to find that these young people are involved, informed, and able to think critically about school and community issues that matter to them.
I would like to congratulate prime minister Julien Lavergne Roberge, vice prime minister Philippe Tremblay, moderator Anthony Nasrallah, their 33 student council colleagues, and their teacher, Tollof Nelson, for his work. They are an example to us all.
I invite my colleagues to celebrate National Child Day and to continue listening to young people's concerns and interests. Our children are the future of our society and the leaders of tomorrow.
Leonard Cohen and Bob WalshStatements By Members
Sylvie Boucher Conservative Beauport—Côte-de-Beaupré—Île d'Orléans—Charlevoix, QC
Mr. Speaker, we lost two great artists from the Canadian music scene in the past couple of weeks.
The music of these two great icons, Leonard Cohen and Bob Walsh, provided the soundtrack of my youth and soothed my heart and soul.
Leonard Cohen and his brilliance treated us to over 20 albums, and many of his songs became timeless classics that will remain forever etched in our hearts and minds. Mr. Cohen won numerous honours and awards, and showcased our country all around the world.
With his own unique passion, Bob Walsh, the king of Quebec blues, thrilled us throughout his brilliant, exciting career and he, too, earned a number of recognitions. He left an indelible mark on our musical landscape.
I wish to extend my deepest condolences to the families of Mr. Cohen and Mr. Walsh.
Attractions in New Brunswick SouthwestStatements By Members
Karen Ludwig Liberal New Brunswick Southwest, NB
Mr. Speaker, as this is entrepreneur week, I am pleased to rise in the House and share a few of the many attractions brought to us by the good people of New Brunswick Southwest—the gateway to the Atlantic experience. At Roosevelt Campobello International Park, one can stroll around the summer home of president Theodore Roosevelt in one of Canada's few international parks. At Ministers Island, one can drive over the ocean floor, but if people plan poorly their car will be 15 feet under the full tide. We have whales just as Toronto has squirrels. Grand Manan is the dulse capital of Canada; those who do not know what dulse is should Google it. If people like golf, they should visit St. Andrews by-the-Sea, but be careful not to hit the par three too hard at hole 12 or it will end up in the Atlantic Ocean, and its next stop is Ireland.
There are hundreds more amazing got-to-see sights in the riding of New Brunswick Southwest, but one will never know if one never goes.
Transgender Awareness WeekStatements By Members
Hedy Fry Liberal Vancouver Centre, BC
Mr. Speaker, this is Transgender Awareness Week. Individuals and organizations across Canada will raise the visibility of transgender and gender non-conforming persons and the problems they face daily.
Trans youth face extreme bullying and violence in school. They have high dropout rates, mental health problems, and increasing levels of suicidal ideation. According to one Ontario study, 77% have had suicidal thoughts.
The Vancouver Police Department, in response to the hate and violence among trans persons, is leading the way in police response with a video called Walk With Me; and in partnership with Starbucks and B.C. businesses, created a safe-place sticker so trans persons can find a haven when threatened.
On November 20, we will observe Transgender Day of Remembrance to commemorate those whose lives were lost due to bigotry, violence, and suicide. On that day—
The Speaker Liberal Geoff Regan
The hon. member for Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan.
Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has refused to answer a very simple question I submitted about whether taxpayer-funded nanny services he receives qualify as a taxable benefit. The current government promises transparency but has delivered the exact opposite. Canadians have a right to know about the benefits that elected officials receive. When it comes to these benefits, whether a benefit is taxable is not a matter of discretion; it is a matter of law and the Prime Minister has to follow the law, just like anyone else. If he receives a taxable benefit from his employer, in this case from the taxpayer, then he has to pay tax on it.
The Liberal talking point on these nannies is that the Prime Minister has different needs because he has a young family. Well I would say to him that he is not the only person in this House or in this country with a young family. When most people need outside child care, they pay for it.
The Prime Minister should be prepared to answer simple questions about the benefits he receives, the Prime Minister should not expect to receive free child care at taxpayers' expense, the Prime Minister should follow the law, and the Prime Minister should pay his taxes.
Citizenship, Refugees and ImmigrationStatements By Members
Mr. Speaker, one of the most significant issues that I have had to deal with over the last number of years has been that of trying to assist in getting families reunited here in Canada, in particular in Winnipeg North.
It is with pleasure that I rise to acknowledge and commend the Minister of Immigration for doing a fantastic job at assisting in getting more and more families processed in a much speedier fashion. It is really all about that when we talk about immigration in many different ways under the family sponsorships. Reuniting families is a positive thing, and this is something that this government has established as a very important priority. I appreciate the efforts of the Minister of Immigration for all he has done in reuniting families through immigration.
Michael O'NeillStatements By Members
Wayne Easter Liberal Malpeque, PE
Mr. Speaker, today I stand to honour my friend and long-term employee on the Hill, Michael O'Neill, who passed away recently.
Mike's career began in 1981, first with MP Dave Rooney; then the NDP research bureau; and as luck would have it, in my office for the last 23 years.
Saying Mike was unique would be an understatement. His corporate memory, his research and analysis, and his passionate approach to political issues were one of a kind. He did not seek credit or enjoy the spotlight. He was a sounding board, a quick and insightful thinker with so much filed away in his brilliant brain, and always ready to help such that even during his illness he provided wise counsel. Mike was probably most happy doing a critical analysis of the government, even when we were the government.
To his wife Anne and daughter Eryn, we send our heartfelt sympathies. Michael O'Neill made this place a better place. His efforts improved the decisions for Canada; his loyalty was absolute. Our thanks go to Mike and his family.
Operation Red NoseStatements By Members
François Choquette NDP Drummond, QC
Mr. Speaker, I am proud to rise in the House today to say that the weekend of November 25 and 26 marks the start of the 33rd annual Operation Red Nose ride program in the greater Drummond area.
I want to congratulate Éric Stejskal, general manager of Boire & Frères, for his involvement in this program. He has been named honorary president for 2016.
I also want to congratulate Julie Dubois, coordinator of the Drummondville Operation Red Nose, as well as Dominic Villeneuve from the Fondation du Cégep de Drummondville.
All profits will go to the Fondation du Cégep de Drummondville in support of the student athletes on the intercollegiate sports teams at the Cégep de Drummondville, Les Voltigeurs.
I urge everyone in the greater Drummond area to get actively involved in this 33rd annual Operation Red Nose. People should not hesitate to call Red Nose if they have had one too many.
Medicine Hat—Cardston—WarnerStatements By Members
Glen Motz Conservative Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner, AB
Mr. Speaker, I am honoured to rise in the House to thank the great people of Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner for their support, trust, and hard work to bring us here.
I thank my amazing campaign team and the hundreds of volunteers for their commitment and tireless efforts.
I thank my wife, Sue, and our family for the sacrifices they have made and will continue to make.
As their elected MP, I look forward to holding the Liberal government to account on issues facing my riding, including the economy, job creation, pipelines, and keeping taxes low in support of families.
Residents of my riding also expect the government to ensure that our agricultural community remains strong and competitive.
On October 24, the residents of Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner sent a very strong message to the Liberal government that its policies are failing Alberta and Canada, and I am here to deliver that message.
Anti-SemitismStatements By Members
Salma Zahid Liberal Scarborough Centre, ON
Mr. Speaker, we continue to be shocked and dismayed to learn of anti-Semitic incidents across the country. These incidents remind us that we must remain vigilant, we must speak out, and we must actively work together to stop anti-Semitism in Canada. This kind of discrimination is totally unacceptable and we cannot let it go unchallenged.
All Members of this House are proud to represent every Canadian, no matter the race, the religion, or the community. Our differences ought to unite us, not divide us.
All of us in the House and indeed Canadians from coast to coast to coast must make it clear that religiously motivated attacks are contrary to Canadian values and principles. I ask all members of this House to stand together and condemn these shameful incidents.
Denis Lebel Conservative Lac-Saint-Jean, QC
Mr. Speaker, not a single job has been created in the past year, the first year of the government's term, and things are liable to get worse. Unprompted, the Prime Minister decided to publicly explain his attitude toward NAFTA and his negotiating style with the Americans.
Since the Pime Minister was naive enough to show his hand to the Americans, how can he assure Canadians that he will be able to protect jobs here in Canada?
Mississauga—Malton Ontario
Navdeep Bains LiberalMinister of Innovation
Mr. Speaker, our Prime Minister has been very clear from day one that he will advance Canada's national interests. The North American Free Trade Agreement is important to Canada, but it is also important to the United States. As I mentioned yesterday, nine million U.S. jobs are directly connected to the Canadian economy, and 35 U.S. states depend on Canada as their number one customer.
We recognize the importance of NAFTA. We will focus on good quality Canadian jobs. We will engage with the U.S. in a manner that will advance our national interests.
Mr. Speaker, it is bad enough that the Prime Minister has failed to create a single additional full-time job in his first year. Now, without being asked, he has offered to renegotiate NAFTA with the new U.S. president-elect, putting thousands more Canadian jobs at risk.
Now that the Prime Minister has naively shown his cards to the Americans, how does he plan to protect and save Canadian jobs, not the nine million American jobs?


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Appliance? Hip term or what? Reasoning behind it is that mobiles are difficult to upgrade/maintain, unlike a machine. So it needs to replaced like a toaster. Hence appliance. Although that too might change in the future. The reason why it is difficult to update say a Nokia phone I have been told is because new version of the Symbian operating system would mean porting all the quirky drivers, which is expensive. Any other views?


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Mumbai: Model Co-operative Bank Ltd Holds 104th AGM
Thu, Sep 30 2021 04:02:56 PM
By Rons Bantwal
Mumbai, Sep 30: The 104th Annual General Meeting of Model Co-operative Bank Ltd. was held at 10.30 a.m. on Thursday 30th September, 2021 online. Due to the pandemic related restrictions on gatherings this was the first time that the Bank was holding its AGM online.
The Chairman Albert W. D'Souza presided over the meeting and extended a warm welcome to the Shareholders / Members. He thanked them for participating online in the Annual General Meeting and reposing their trust in the Bank. The Chairman in his opening address to the Shareholders gave an overview of the economy and spoke on how the Bank was able to support it's customers during the pandemic. The Bank had kept all services operational and ensured care was taken for safety of customers and staff. He thanked the shareholders for their continuous support and encouragement, due to which the Bank has been able to grow from strength to strength. He appealed to the shareholders to avail of the services offered by the Bank and to introduce new customers to the Bank.
Financial highlights of the Bank include - achieved deposit of Rs.1103.33 crores and Advances of Rs. 572.28 crores i.e. a Business mix of Rs. 1675.61 crores; well controlled NPA level at 2.22%; capital adequacy ratio of 13.55%; CRR and SLR always maintained; CBS full implemented; Sound control and Regulatory comfort. The Bank has met all the parameters required for a FSWM (Financially Sound and Well Managed) Bank, which was commendable considering the economic situation caused due to Covid. The overall performance of the bank has been good.
The Chairman presented the Audited Statements of Accounts including the Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss Account for the year ended March 31, 2021. The Members raised queries and the Chairman and Officiating General Manager Zenon D'Cruz provided, clarifications to the queries to the satisfaction of the Members present.
Founder Chairman, John D'Silva addressed the gathering.
Directors Vincent Mathias, Paul Nazareth, A. C. Lobo, Sanjay Shinde, Thomas Lobo, Lawrence D'Souza, Adv.Pius Vas, Benedicta Rebello, Gerald Cardoza, Ancy D'Souza and George Castelino were also present.
Shareholders who interacted at the meeting giving their views and suggestions were Dr. Thomas Mathai, Neville D'Silva, Mark Oliveira, Edwin Menda, John Lobo, Robert Nazareth, Desmond D'Silva, Aldon Fernandes and Francina D'Souza.
Approximately 115 shareholders participated in the meeting on-line. The meeting commenced with a short prayer by Director Thomas Lobo and a reading read by Sr. Manager Beata Carvalho. Mr. Osden Fonseca (currently Asst. General Manager and to be General Manager & CEO - Designate) compered the programme. Vice Chairman William Sequeira proposed the vote of thanks.
We wish Model Co-op. Bank Ltd. all the best for the future and are sure that the Bank will grow from strength to strength under the guidance of it's Chairman and Directors, able and professional Management & Staff, support and patronage of Customers and Shareholders.
Sr. Sebastina MSA, Karuna hospital, Borivali, Mumbai
Fri, Oct 01 2021
The ingenuity and expertise showcased in the report and the chairman's speech speak well of the unmatched display of the untiring efforts and unflinching commitment to achieve the lofty goals the Model Co-operative Bank Ltd has set for itself. It is highly appreciative of the fact that it needs a special mention, going beyond all uncertainties, exhibiting the courage and dedication during these tough times as the Bank remains focused demonstrating its ability to execute on its strategy, under the expert guidance of its Chairman, the Directors, the Able and Professional Management and untiring efforts of the Staff. I congratulate you on your resounding success and wish the Bank that it continues to be well poised in taking advantage of growth opportunities, acquiring new possibilities and rebound on to its growth and transformation journey for the maximum benefit of the public. All the Blessings of the Lord be with you!!!
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Dr Gerald Pinto, Kallianpur
Congrats. All the best. Wish to be scheduled. Bank of our community.
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My mom loves to drink tea. Wherever she goes she always has a thermos of tea or at least hot water she can use to make tea. Since she can't eat fruits and many starchy vegetables she misses out on valuable antioxidants in her diet. Thanks to green tea though she is able to get antioxidants and health benefits she would otherwise be lacking. Turns out there are even better formulations of green tea that pack a nutritional and energy punch far beyond a brewed cup of green tea. The most potent is called matcha.
Until recently I had never heard of Matcha Green Tea. Apparently, matcha is specially grown in the shade so that the levels of nutrients and caffeine remain very high. When harvested the leaves are, traditionally, dried in the shade though the process has been moved indoors and modern drying techniques are used in a controlled environment to preserve color, flavor and prevent oxidation. The leaves are then milled into a fine powder which should be a deep, vibrant green and should have a strong green tea smell and flavor.
Thanks to Kiss Me Organics I received a complimentary bag of their Organic Matcha Green Tea Powder. It is culinary grade and can be used in smoothies, desserts like cakes or ice cream or to make traditional Japanese usucha or koicha. In our smoothies every day I use a greens blend so the matcha powder was a welcome addition. The powder is very fine and has a tendency to stick to everything it comes in contact with – and I mean everything. I would suggest using a long handled spoon because otherwise you will end up with matcha all over your hands. The packaging made preserving the powder a bit problematic. The zip top plastic bag wouldn't always seal and when you'd try to remove any excess air trapped inside some of the fine matcha would inevitably fluff out of the package. In the interest of cost, space and environmental savings I understand the choice of the plastic bag, but it's not the most convenient.
The matcha powder flavor really packs a green tea punch so you don't need much to really be able to taste it. Honestly, I was taken aback a little by the intensity of the green tea flavor at first. Once I knew what to expect it was OK. The Organic Matcha Green Tea Powder contains 137 times the antioxidants of brewed green tea, is said to improve energy, mental clarity, skin health and boost the metabolism. On the days that I used the matcha in my smoothies I found myself not needing a second cup of coffee in the afternoon.
I did discover that as with anything moderation is key. One day I went a little matcha powder crazy. I mixed some matcha in my egg custard to make my french toast and then later made some matcha green tea ice cream. The french toast was interesting with a strong green tea and mild hay like flavor that was pleasant and refreshing. It was a nice change for something that is typically very rich and sweet. After lunch I had some of the matcha green tea ice cream and I think I overdid it. My husband found the green tea flavor off putting but I really enjoyed it which is probablly why it was so easy to over do it. After about 30 minutes I developed an all too familiar caffeine stomach ache. Did I mention I'd also had a cup of coffee with breakfast? Yeah, it was too much. I did a little research and learned that 1/2 teaspoon of matcha powder has 34 mg of caffeine! I had significantly more than a 1/2 teaspoon that day.
Thankfully the powder came with, by download, a 50 recipe e-book with options from drinks to lunch to dessert. There were ideas in there I never would have thought to try. Since other members of the family turned their nose at the slightly bitter tea flavor of the powder I stuck to individual recipes or sweet preparations that I could try myself. I may try to sneak some matcha into a chicken dish or maybe even some rice for fun one evening.
When I learned about the benefits of matcha I thought it'd be a good option for my mom to use until that day. Because of her immune disorder she can't handle caffeine and only drinks decaf green tea or certain herbal teas. I was a little disappointed that I wouldn't be able to share this nutrient rich green tea powder with her, but it was nothing new when it comes to her dietary restrictions.
You can find Kiss Me Organics Organic Matcha Green Tea Powder on Amazon.
I love making healthy drinks. The greener the drink the better it taste to me. Some of my family get grossed out by it but I Love it!
It took some getting used to for me but now even my two young daughters like drinking the greens drinks I make :).
i like that you can add green tea powder to your smoothies! green tea has such great benefits and i would love to add it to make it that much healthier! i just need a better blender.
I know what you mean about needing a better blender. My sister in law gave us one for our anniversary and it worked marvels at first, but using it every day it's starting to show signs of wear and not work so well. There are days that I resort to using a hand held stick blender that I've had for years. It does OK, but not for heavy duty stuff all the time.
Thank you for explaining Matcha. I keep coming across the word, and knew it had to do with green tea, but was so confused.
I have green tea in different flavors every day, and think I would love to try this and being able to use it in recipes etc could be very exciting, who know might get my hubby off coffee all the time to try something new!!
I can't get past the bitter flavor of green tea, either. I don't even care for the flavored kinds, unfortunately.
I have never heard of this until now. I recently started cutting out soda because I am way to addicted to it and I found the only thing that stops the craving is green tea. I really want to try this to see if it helps with some of my health problems. Thank you so much for the honest review!


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Scheie Vision
Scheie's Vision Loss Support Group
Scheie's Vision Loss Support Group: Creating a Lasting Impact
Sheri Drossner (left) and Ranjoo Prasad, OD (right) lead the Vision Loss Support Group.
By Nora Laberee and Kristen Mulvihill
Scheie Vision Annual Report 2018
With its first meeting held in January 2017, the Penn Center for Low Vision Rehabilitation's Vision Loss Support Group continues to expand in size and impact.
Led by Ranjoo Prasad, OD, the center provides support to individuals with visual impairments that can no longer be improved through medical or surgical means. The support group embodies this mission, serving as a platform for members to share their experiences and learn from various guest speakers.
"I feel that the support group is going very well, beyond our expectations," said Dr. Prasad. "There is an amazing connection that the members have found among each other."
Meeting each month in the Ralston House, the Vision Loss Support Group is led by Sheri Grand Drossner, a Clinical Research Coordinator at the Scheie Eye Institute with a Master's Degree in Social Work. Each meeting consists of individuals with a range of diagnoses and visual abilities, all of whom share a desire for emotional support and encouragement.
"I'm seeing the connections, which is great, and I'm hearing the participants voice that they truly value coming and they look forward to coming," said Sheri. "The group gives them hope and inspiration to accomplish things they've been struggling with."
The group hosts occasional guest speakers who share knowledge on various topics, including the assistive devices and technologies available for patients with vision loss. In addition to guest speakers, the participants hold valuable open discussion during meetings.
"The group discussion just takes a life of its own," said Sheri. "People do talk about their fears and anxieties, and then people are there to encourage and support. People have questions about services, or maybe something we've discussed in the past."
Several participants expressed how the support group has introduced them to information and resources to which they would not have otherwise been exposed. As more technologies are developed to assist individuals struggling with vision loss, learning how to properly use and find adequate funding for these technologies becomes difficult.
One member, Marlene, emphasized how she learns from both the speakers and the other members. "We get good information and a great speaker who lets us know that there is stuff out there that can help us," Marlene said. She has been a member for a while. "I haven't missed a month that I can think of."
Another member of the group, Yvonne, acts as an advocate for other individuals struggling with their vision loss. "My whole goal is to educate and empower people," she said. "Some people say they don't think they can make it, they say, 'Oh losing your sight, that's it.' But I've learned, that's not it. There's so many resources." Newer members of the group look to experienced members like Yvonne to help them through the unfamiliar and difficult parts of vision loss or impairment.
In the last year, the group has steadily grown. If the group continues to expand, Sheri and Dr. Prasad plan to incorporate caregivers into the sessions, or if opportune, create an entirely separate group for caregivers.
Both Sheri and Dr. Prasad also intend to implement outcome measures to determine the group's impact on patients with low vision or blindness, and how the group enhances their quality of life.
The Vision Loss Support Group meets on the last Tuesday of each month at the Ralston House from 3-4PM. For more information, please contact Sheri Drossner at 215-662-8177.


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\chapter{Examples}

\section{Assurance Quality}
At each source code change, the developper must compile and check that examples
compile fine on all supported architectures.

Consequently, the available examples with the release compiles. Sometimes, you
can experience some errors since the examples are not run. If you think you find
a bug, please report it to the developper team.

\section{List of provided examples}
This section details each example and the services they use.
These examples are available in each release of POK.

\begin{itemize}
   \item
      \textbf{arinc653-blackboard} :
         test the blackboard service
         of the ARINC653 layer. This test relies on an AADL
         model that describe a blackboards between two tasks.

   \item
      \textbf{arinc653-buffer}:
         test the buffer service of ARINC653.
         It uses AADL models.

   \item
      \textbf{arinc653-queueing}:
         test ARINC653 queuing ports with AADL.

   \item
      \textbf{arinc653-sampling}:
         test ARINC653 sampling ports with AADL.

   \item
      \textbf{arinc653-threads}:
         test ARINC653 processes instanciation.
         Uses AADL models.

   \item
      \textbf{case-study-aerotech09}:
         An ARINC653 examples case study
         for the AEROTECH09 conference. It uses two partitions
         that communication temperature across inter-partitions
         communications.
   \item
      \textbf{case-study-sigada09}: a system that contain three partitions
      with different design patterns (non-preemptive scheduler,
      ravenscar partition, queued buffers). This example was used
      as use-case for a publication in the SIGAda conference (SIGAda09).
   \item
      \textbf{case-study-mils}: a distributed with two nodes that communicate
      data at different security levels. Data are encrypted using cipher
      algorithms provided by the libpok layer.
   \item
      \textbf{case-study-ardupilot}: a case-study made from application code
      found in the ardupilot project. See.
      \texttt{http://code.google.com/p/ardupilot/} for documentation about this
      application code.
   \item
      \textbf{case-study-integrated}: a case-study that shows we can use POK for
      real avionics architecture. For that, we define an avionics architecture
      using AADL and generates code for POK using Ocarina. The initial model is
      defined by the Software Engineering Instute (SEI). See
      \texttt{http://www.aadl.info/aadl/currentsite/examplemodel.html\#Family}
      for more information about this initial model. Note that we convert this
      model from AADLv1 to AADLv2 to make it working with Ocarina/POK.
   \item
      \textbf{data-arrays}
         Test the use of array types and their use
         in communication with queuing ports. Use AADL
         models to describe types.

   \item
      \textbf{data-arrays2}
         Test the use of array types and their use
         with sampling ports. Use AADL model to describe types.

   \item
      \textbf{esterel}
         Use of a third-party language as application-layer.
         In this case, we use Esterel generated code. Use
         AADL models.

   \item
      \textbf{events}
         Test the use of events ports between threads located
         in the same partition. DO NOT use AADL models.

   \item
      \textbf{exceptions-handled}:
         Test the exceptions catching (recovery
         handlers). Use AADL models.

   \item
      \textbf{heterogeneous-partitions}:
         Define two partitions with
         different architectures. Demonstrate that the build
         system can generate, build and run different modules
         that have different architectures.

   \item
      \textbf{libmath}:
         Test the inclusion of the libmath library in the libpok layer.
         Use AADL model.

   \item
      \textbf{lustre-academic}:
         Test the inclusion of Lustre application code
         inside partition. Use AADL models.

   \item
      \textbf{middleware-blackboard}:
         Test the use of blackboard service. Use AADL models.

   \item
      \textbf{middleware-buffer}:
         Test the use of buffer service. Use AADL models.

   \item
      \textbf{middleware-buffer-timed}:
         Test the use of buffer service with timeout.
         Use AADL models.

   \item
      \textbf{middleware-queueing}:
         Test the use of queuing port service. Use AADL models.

   \item
      \textbf{middleware-queueing-timed}:
         Test the use of queuing port service with timeout.
         Use AADL models.

   \item
      \textbf{middleware-sampling}:
         Test the use of sampling port service.
         Use AADL models.

   \item
      \textbf{mutexes}:
         Test mutex service (POK layer).
         Use AADL models.

   \item
      \textbf{mutexes-timed}:
         Test mutex service with timeout. Use AADL models.

   \item
      \textbf{network}:
         Test network driver (rtl8029) on x86 architecture.
         Use AADL models.

   \item
      \textbf{partitions-scheduling}:
         Example with different schedulers.
         Use AADL models.

   \item
      \textbf{partitions-threads}:
         Test thread instanciation (POK layer). Use AADL models.

   \item
      \textbf{semaphores}:
         Test the use of semaphors (POK layer). Do not use AADL
         models.

   \item
      \textbf{simulink}: Test the inclusion of simulink code. Do not
         work since it needs a dedicated runtime to work. It needs additional
         services in the libpok layer to work. This additional work is not so
         difficult to provide, we just need time !
\end{itemize}


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Home Health & Fitness Coronavirus Help Front Line Appreciation Group (FLAG) Metro Detroit is Feeding Medical Workers
Front Line Appreciation Group (FLAG) Metro Detroit is Feeding Medical Workers
Driven to help health care workers battle COVID-19, a group of six local moms delivers meals with their nonprofit, Front Line Appreciation Group, or FLAG, Metro Detroit.
Jennifer Lovy
What happens when a few moms put their heads together virtually — because they can't leave home — and start brainstorming ways to help those impacted by COVID-19? In the case of six Bloomfield Hills and Beverly Hills women, a lot of good happens.
Practically overnight, a group of like-minded women formed an organization called Front Line Appreciation Group Metro Detroit, or FLAG for short.
The idea was simple: Collect monetary donations to purchase food from area restaurants and deliver those meals to the hard-working staff at local hospitals and medical facilities, who are overwhelmed with work caring for COVID patients.
Not long after, they applied to become a nonprofit organization and were granted 503(c) status — so donations to their cause are now tax deductible.
Feeding the front lines
"During a time when so many of us were feeling helpless, we wanted to focus our energy and make a difference," says co-founder Lindsay Pollina, a stay-at-home mom in Bloomfield Hills. "We aimed to collect donations from the community to help those on the front lines at the hospitals, while also benefitting our local restaurants.
"We got the idea from the original FLAG group in New Jersey," she adds. "By that night, we launched our Facebook group and started spreading the word to our friends and other groups on social media."
In the first three weeks, they raised $150,000 from a community of 21,000 Facebook followers and served more than 20,000 meals, according to founder Dani Gillman, a community activist from Bloomfield Hills.
Coordinating the process takes a lot of time, which is already at a premium for these women, many of whom are balancing working from home and family responsibilities.
Not that anyone is complaining. They are especially thankful to all those who have made financial contributions to FLAG and thrilled to see the positive response from struggling restaurant owners and from healthcare workers.
One hospital employee told FLAG organizers if it weren't for their efforts, the hospital staff would be living on saltine crackers and Jell-O.
Photo from Front Line Appreciation Group (FLAG) Metro Detroit's Facebook page
"The overwhelming gratitude of the front line workers and the restaurant owners is the most rewarding part of all of this," says organizer Monica Toomey, who owns Ascend Equestrian and a virtual skincare business.
"The nurses give us a window into a world none of us can truly comprehend, but they share it with such conviction and compassion. They are the heroes, and we remain in awe of them daily."
Helping local restaurants, too
Organizer Lauren Edgell, an aerospace engineer who is working on rocket development and human space flight, adds that she loves hearing the relief and gratitude from the restaurant owners when she calls to place an order.
Cory and Jakki Zirbel own a Subway franchise in Royal Oak. Recently they filled an order for 700 sandwiches and delivered the food to some employees at Detroit Receiving Hospital.
"We cannot express the gratitude we have for FLAG," the Zirbels say. "They provided our business the opportunity to keep our doors open, retain employees and contribute to the amazing front line workers in our community.
"It is such a great feeling to be able to be part of their movement. We honestly don't know what the status of our small business would have been at this point without their support."
Co-founders Pollina, Gillman, Toomey and Edgell are joined in their efforts by Laura O'Brien of Beverly Hills and Sarra Brinjikji of Bloomfield Hills. To learn more about the work of these six women, and how you can give involved, visit the FLAG of Metro Detroit website.
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Virtual Factory
A series of online projects inspired by the architecture and ambition of The Factory.
About The Creators
We Dwell in Possibility is a queer gardening simulation designed by Robert Yang, a videogame developer whose work explores gay subcultures and intimacy, with visuals by cartoonist and illustrator Eleanor Davis.
Subverting crowd simulations used by architects of physical buildings, We Dwell in Possibility invites the player to create their own improvised landscape. A virtual heaven or hell, or maybe both at once – a society. After planting bodies and ideas, players can watch them grow while AI 'peeps' move across the screen.
We Dwell in Possibility contains cartoon sexual imagery and nudity. It is suitable for audiences 18 and over.
To play and enter the game, press the below.
I am under 18 years old
Not compatible with iPads yet.
Best experienced landscape.
Notes and Inspiration
Virtual Factory is a major series of online artworks inspired by the architecture and the ambition of The Factory, a new cultural space located in the heart of Manchester (UK).
We've invited some of the world's most exciting artists to make online works that throw open the doors of our future home before they've been built – laying the foundations for what will be possible at The Factory.
The four artists will reimagine our world and construct new worlds of their own, reclaiming the virtual environment as a space for infinite possibility. The programme features new work from:
LaTurbo Avedon is an artist and avatar that shapeshifts through the digital realm and multiplayer games such as Second Life and Final Fantasy. Your Progress Will Be Saved, which launched Virtual Factory, premiered in summer 2020.
Tai Shani is a Turner Prize-winning visual artist who crafts dark, fantastical worlds drawing on forgotten histories – including The Neon Hieroglyph, the second Virtual Factory event, which premiered in March 2021.
Robert Yang is an artist, writer and game designer who has created a series of acclaimed videogames on gay culture and intimacy, and who premiered We Dwell in Possibility, his Virtual Factory work created in collaboration with Eleanor Davis, in July 2021.
Jenn Nkiru is known for her powerful films on Blackness and Black identity and her new work will complete the Virtual Factory series in late 2021.
As videogame creators develop ever more compelling and complex online universes, it's impossible to ignore their influence on our world. Virtual Factory explores how artists are responding to this cultural shift, pushing us to consider how virtual architecture can become an extension of our bodies and minds.
Follow the journey on social media by using the hashtag #VirtualFactory.
About The Factory
The Factory is a new world-class cultural space currently being built in the heart of Manchester, UK. Inspired by our city's unmatched history of innovation, it will be the year-round home of Manchester International Festival – a space for the world's greatest artists and thinkers to make, explore and experiment, and for communities and individuals from Manchester and beyond to meet, exchange ideas and learn new skills.
The Factory is designed by Rem Koolhaas's OMA, with Ellen van Loon as Lead Architect, and backed by Manchester City Council, HM Government and Arts Council England. You can discover more about The Factory and experience a virtual tour on the MIF website.
In April 2021, Turner Prize winning-artist Tai Shani took us beyond the merely mortal and into the mystic with The Neon Hieroglyph, her first online artwork.
'The building of a house we will never live in – a house for our ghosts where the gothic and the hallucinatory collide.'
Tai Shani creates worlds that are at once dark yet luminous, both feminist and fantastical – and in The Neon Hieroglyph, she constructed a story-world that draws inspiration from her research into ergot, a fungus that grows on rye and other grains from which LSD is derived, as a psychedelic catalyst.
Ergot played an important part in the North West's agricultural, social and medical history: linked to local crops and breads, outbreaks of ergot poisoning caused mass hallucinations, with the last reported UK incident during the late 1920s in Manchester. The Neon Hieroglyph used these experiences to spark new visions and alternative realities: a dreamlike CGI journey that takes us from the cellular to the galactic, from the forests to the subterranean, from the real to the almost unimaginable.
Composed of nine short episodes and featuring a mesmeric soundtrack by Manchester-born composer-musician Maxwell Sterling, The Neon Hieroglyph anticipates the kind of extraordinary new art that will be created, produced and presented at The Factory in the coming years.
Commissioned & Produced by Manchester International Festival
Photo credit: LaTurbo Avedon
Website design & development: Knoth & Renner
Robert Yang & Eleanor Davis
We Dwell in Possibility is a queer gardening simulation shaped by intimacy and politics – designed by Robert Yang, a videogame developer whose work explores gay subcultures, with visuals by cartoonist and illustrator Eleanor Davis.
Robert Yang is an architect of virtual space whose work addresses the politics of videogame worlds, asking: who do these worlds represent and who do they exclude? Subverting crowd simulation software used by architects of physical buildings, We Dwell in Possibility invites the player to create their own improvised landscape. A virtual heaven or hell, or maybe both at once – a society.
Simulated AI people – 'peeps', as Yang calls them – move around naked, alone or in crowds. The seedlings they plant grow into suggestive 'trees' that periodically bear fruit – and it's then for the peeps to decide whether to eat the fruit and transform themselves, or to destroy what they've just created.
Free to play, We Dwell in Possibility is the latest new world anticipating the kind of work that will soon be created, produced and presented at The Factory.
Robert Yang
Robert Yang makes surprisingly popular games about gay culture and intimacy. He is most known for his historical bathroom sex simulator The Tearoom and his homoerotic shower sim Rinse and Repeat, and his gay sex triptych Radiator 2 has over 150,000 users on Steam. He was previously an Assistant Arts Professor at NYU Game Center. He holds a BA in English Literature from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MFA in Design and Technology from Parsons School of Design.
Eleanor Davis
Eleanor Davis is a cartoonist and illustrator whose books include How To Be Happy, You and a Bike and a Road and Why Art?. Her latest graphic novel, The Hard Tomorrow, won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Graphic Novels & Comics. She lives in Athens, Georgia (pre-COVID) and Tucson, Arizona (mid-COVID).
Design by Robert Yang & Eleanor Davis
Visuals by Eleanor Davis with assistance from Sophia Foster-Dimino
Code by Robert Yang
Music by aya
Sound design by aya & Andy Grier
Thanks to Drew Weing, Eddie Cameron and the HaxeFlixel community
Commissioned and produced by Manchester International Festival.
LaTurbo Avedon
The first Virtual Factory project, Your Progress Will Be Saved, is an online experience created by avatar artist LaTurbo Avedon that reimagines The Factory within Fortnite Creative.
Your Progress Will Be Saved is a journey through LaTurbo Avedon's world – an adventure down a rabbit hole that leads ever-further away from reality, into depths that probe our relationship with multiuser spaces. Starting from a familiar-looking apartment, you'll soon escape into the more alluring online wonderlands of music, entertainment and social connection within a vast, virtual architecture. Some will find solace here – but others will look deeper, searching for the seams that hold the illusion together. Your progress will be further rewarded if you find your way out…
Your Progress Will Be Saved has been made within Fortnite Creative, a sandbox game developed and published by Epic Games. It's part of the hugely popular video game Fortnite, which is spearheading a new generation of online multiplayer games that combine socialising, live events and user-generated spaces.
Experience Your Progress Will Be Saved here.
LaTurbo Avedon is an avatar and artist that exists solely online, creating work that emphasises the practice of non-physical identity and authorship. Avedon has spent the past decade developing a body of work that illuminates the ever-growing intensity between users and virtual experiences, pursuing creative environments that deepen the meaning of memories found in cyberspace.
turboavedon.com
LaTurbo Avedon - Artist
LaTurbo Avedon and Team Cre8 - Design and Gameplay
Tuesday 13 July, 13:00 BST
aya with NTS | MIF Live
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We want as many people as possible to enjoy Virtual Factory, which we've developed with accessibility in mind. This website has been tested by individuals with visual, auditory and learning disabilities and their recommendations have been incorporated where possible, though we recognise that the site will not be fully accessible for everyone.
We Dwell In Possibility can also be found on Itch.io
To play the game, click and drag on the figures and objects using your mouse or mouse keys, or just sit back and watch.
• This game is a 'sandbox' format, which means that there is no complicated set of instructions – you can explore at your own pace, try things out and see what happens.
• You can also choose to take no action and simply watch what plays out on screen.
• If you pause the game at any time, the instructions above will be there for you to see as a reminder.
• Major visual events in the game are supported by corresponding sound events.
• This game has a conventional control scheme, and you can use your mouse keys as an alternative to a mouse if you prefer.
• You can choose to play the game at a slower speed if you prefer. To adjust this, click the question mark (?) symbol in the top left corner of the screen and select 'sim speed'. This will switch the game to the slower speed setting.
• You can also choose to mute the soundtrack if you would prefer to play in silence. To mute, click the question mark (?) symbol in the top left corner of the screen and select 'Sound:On'. This will change to 'Sound:Muted'.
• Older mobile devices may experience poor sound quality; in this case, we advise muting the game (as above) or trying on another device.
• You can pause the game at any time by clicking the question mark (?) symbol in the top left corner of the screen.
• You can adjust the brightness of the game display choosing either 'High Contrast', 'Dimmed' or 'Default'. To do this, click on the question mark (?) in the top left corner and select Screen:Default. This will cycle through to dimmed if pressed once or high contrast if pressed twice.
We Dwell In Possibility by MIFestival
By Robert Yang
We Dwell in Possibility is a queer gardening simulation game about planting bodies and ideas, and watching them grow into a kinetic landscape. It was made over several months in collaboration with illustrator Eleanor Davis and musician aya.
Some people may be familiar with my past work: uncanny CG beefcake sex games that toy with hardcore gamer aesthetics, which only run on laptop/desktop computers. For the longest time, I've wanted to make a gay mobile game, but I was unsure how to get my queer politics past Apple and Google's anti-sexuality censors. Browser games celebrate the open internet that exists beyond Silicon Valley's sterilised closed garden. However, the photorealistic 3D graphics of my past games are too heavy and slow for a mobile browser, so I need to make a 2D game even though I've neglected my 2D visual skills. Fortunately, MIF's support has made my collaboration with world-famous illustrator Eleanor Davis not only possible but enjoyable.
Does this game represent a shift or break from my existing work? Maybe. Eleanor's lush visual style is certainly more beautiful than any of my uncanny CG hunks. But formally, I still try to simplify my game interfaces (how to play: drag objects around or do nothing) and embrace a short run time (each simulation loop is about 10 minutes) because I'm still interested in non-traditional audiences. And like my previous games, this project is still very much about bodies, politics and sex. Maybe this project represents a 'virtualisation' of those concerns. Players essentially role-play as gods looking down over their garden, passive or active at their own whim. It's a zoomed-out perspective; it's not immersive, it's a simulation.
And in this simulation, the player sculpts an invisible landscape. Naked simulated AI people ('peeps') arrive and flow across the terrain. Peeps bring objects to plant in the garden, like trees, coffee shops, statues, colossal buttplugs and other necessities. There are dozens of different possible plantings, which can make peeps happy, angry, horny or even Tories. From this simple model of politics, sexuality, and landscape architecture, the player improvises a virtual heaven or hell, or more likely something both at once – a society.
On the Virtual
This is a virtual artwork in a virtual exhibition in a Virtual Factory. The word 'virtual' does a lot of work, so much that we rarely question what we even mean by 'virtual'. In her book Narrative as Virtual Reality, Marie-Laure Ryan outlines some common understandings of virtual:
virtual as 'digital': inspired by computer concepts like virtual memory.
virtual as 'potential': Aristotle argued an acorn has virtus (power) to become a tree.
virtual as 'fake': Jean Baudrillard's simulacrum, a false virtual double that replaces the real and becomes hyperreal, seeming more real than reality.
For artists, critics and similar occupations prone to exaggeration, Baudrillard's argument is particularly seductive. It warns of a deceptive Other that will replace Us. Reality is under attack! But Ryan is sceptical that her entire sense of reality depends on what this French guy says, and she emphasises a different French guy's ideas – Pierre Lévy's theory of le virtuel:
virtual as 'pluralistic': a virtual thing functions as many different things.
virtual as 'non-linear': a virtual thing is not anchored in one space or time.
virtual as 'inexhaustible': using a virtual thing does not lead to its depletion.
The naked simulated people ('peeps') of We Dwell in Possibility embody le virtuel: they have 2^3 (= 8) different body configurations (thin or thick, breasts or no breasts, penis or vagina) and 6 different skin tones, resulting in 48 possible combinations of body traits; they wrap-around the screen edges in an infinite loop; they can run endlessly without tiring; and sometimes they can even fluidly change their chest or genitals at will.
But I disagree with Baudrillard and agree with Ryan: the virtual does not replace reality. The pandemic has made this clear. Virtual schools, remote offices and Zoom parties have not replaced physical schools, in-person offices, or actual parties – instead, these virtual doubles have just created more school, more work and more people to confront. Peter Sunde, co-founder of the Pirate Bay, famously retorted to lawyers: 'We don't like [saying IRL – In Real Life]. We say AFK – Away From Keyboard. We think that the internet is for real.' If anything, virtual things generate far too much reality, and it's all happening to you right now.
Ryan presents two strategies for this 'virtual as deluge': goal-oriented utilitarians wade through the ocean of shit (aka the internet) to reach their destination, while flâneurs stroll the World Wide Web with minds open toward serendipity and surprise. But more often, we're something in between: we're players.
On Games and Simulation
Gamers enjoy playing with simulations, and that pleasure can teach us a lot about the nature of simulation. The difference between a simulation and its reality is its 'simulation gap', and this lack of correspondence is what makes simulation games interesting. Do not mind the gap! Without this gap, there is nothing to play.
There are 'sims' like SimCity, which seek to be taken semi-seriously as semi-scientific primers to urban planning for educational use in schools. Yet the original SimCity defined crime solely as 'distance from a police station' and nudged its players into libertarian-style low-taxation pro-sprawl strategies. These aren't scientific models – these are political arguments. When designers streamline complex debates like 'what makes a city' into a simplified sim, they inevitably embed their own politics, and the rhetoric of the sim launders these politics as a fact-based algorithmic truth. The sin of the sim is that it minds its gap and tries to hide it.
Then there are 'simulators' like the infallible industrial-grade accuracy of flight simulators (and the game Flight Simulator), which we use to train actual real-life aircraft pilots. But in the last decade, gamers have imbued/tainted this word with a sarcastic tone. For example, the modern simulator game Goat Simulator lets you live as a goat...who also possesses the chaotic power to destroy a small town and ruin countless lives with its 50-foot-long elastic tongue. It totally fails to simulate what being a goat is like – if anything, it simulates how to be a sociopathic asshole – but that absurdity is the point. A truly accurate goat simulation is both impossible and undesirable.
We Dwell in Possibility is obviously not pretending to be a medical-grade 'sim' of society, but still seeks to transcend the slapstick irreverence of a 'simulator'. There's something interesting between these two notions of simulation. Again, we play in the gap.
And in my early prototype, that gap was way too wide. I began by coding some basic cellular automata, a technique popularized by Conway's Game of Life (1970) where cells (or anything, really) live or die based on crowding, but it felt too fiddly with small shapes that changed too quickly. I realised I wasn't interested in population so much as people.
I shifted direction to something more like Claude Shannon's Theseus (1950), a mechanical mouse that 'learned' how to navigate a maze by flipping magnetic switches beneath the floor. This is essentially how my simple peep AIs move across the screen: when you drag your cursor (or drag your finger) you're also painting a 'flow field' beneath the floor, and the peeps follow that invisible current. The implication is that understanding AI requires us to redefine what we mean by intelligence. Here, the 'brain' is distributed across the landscape.
Landscape Architecture and Ecology
Traditionally, Architecture with a capital A has looked down on landscape architecture as a lesser art, neglected beneath the 'great men' erecting skyscrapers. But today, millennial climate crisis dread and lack of land ownership have culminated in a profound anxiety about future access to green spaces, clean air and water. Environmentalism has never felt more urgent. We must fix what past generations have done to this planet or everything will die. And part of that process is recognising the world as an ecological system where we all affect each other.
At a glance, this game is about simulating many people moving through a landscape. It mimics the crowd simulation systems used by real-world architects to test building and street circulation. Given our limited resources and time, we had to limit the simulation to a simple ecology.
In We Dwell in Possibility, the ecosystem has four parts:
'Peeps' walk around and sometimes pickup nearby 'Plants'.
'Plants' (eg large flowers, trees, furniture, statues, kiosks, etc.) can attract Peeps; some Plants modify Peeps by giving them 'Hats'.
'Hats' temporarily change Peeps' politics and behaviours.
'Players' (ie you) can redirect Peeps and pick up Plants, but cannot affect Hats.
An example of this ecology in action:
A Churchill Statue 'Plant' looks for nearby Peeps to influence.
A Peep is attracted to the statue, and gains a Union Jack Hat.
The Union Jack Hat makes the now-Conservative Peep dislike a nearby Buttplug Obelisk, so the Peep picks it up and wants to get rid of it.
If the Peep walks off-screen while carrying an object they dislike, they delete that object from the simulation.
You, the player, can intervene and rescue the Buttplug Obelisk and/or delete the Churchill Statue to prevent future Peeps from gaining Union Jack Hats.
There are dozens of possible Plants and Hats, randomly distributed in each simulation. I won't detail them all. If you're curious, you can just play through a few times and you'll probably encounter most of the combinations.
But my favourite part of this design are the political ramifications of my simple and flawed code architecture. I coded Peeps to wear only one Hat at a time, but then I also had to hack-in handheld objects (cupcakes, coffee, shopping bags) as 'Hats' they wear on their hands. But this system design means Peeps must choose: they can either eat a cupcake or they can be a Tory, but they cannot do both. I'm sure there's a very deep political truth in there somewhere, and I've left it as an exercise for the player.
By now, We Dwell in Possibility's political metaphors are painfully obvious. To use the word 'metaphor' here also strains the meaning of the word. But the design and upkeep of communal public spaces is precisely a political matter – there's no getting around it. Which statues should remain and where? Who is allowed to sell products and services in a park? Who is allowed to sleep in a park? These material questions of governance require political justifications.
As the player, you must indirectly negotiate all these decisions with the Peeps, who bring their own politics and desires into the garden too. For example, there are police in this game. They wear cute little rainbow flags. Should police exist in this garden? Liberal players might try to 'balance' a police presence with 'limited gayness', queer players might prune all the police entirely and Tory players might engineer a cringe garden consisting solely of police and high street retail, etc. In video games, we call this a 'sandbox' – a simulation that is less about 'winning' and more about playing with systems that may or may not reflect your values.
I wanted to respond to a lack of politics in crowd simulation art, to push a crowd simulation that has a specific perspective rooted in a specific historical moment. I'm a big fan of KIDS by Michael Frei and Mario von Rickenbach, but personally I can't treat bodies so generically. I also appreciate Ian Cheng's Emissaries series, but dislike its mystification of AI as fantasy novel lore.
The best part of making a sexual-political simulation is the glitches that arise. In my notebook, I've written cryptic phrases: 'Don't let police ponder cupcakes. Shorten Churchill shadow. Dancing and kissing should be more common. Don't let trees cum. Flowers shouldn't cum at night. Those with hearts should be able to dance.' I wrote these notes as work task reminders to fix various bugs and problems, but this project's queer politics elevates this to-do list into poetry.
The title We Dwell in Possibility is from a poem that begins 'I dwell in Possibility' (poem #F466A / #J657) by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), one of the greatest American poets who only became widely-read years after her death. Perhaps the most distinctive aspect of Dickinson's poetry is her punctuation, an ambiguous mark that contemporary readers have interpreted as em dashes – as if she couldn't stop this flood of feeling, interrupting every image and idea:
I dwell in Possibility –
A fairer House than Prose –
More numerous of Windows –
Superior – for Doors –
Of Chambers as the Cedars –
Impregnable of eye –
And for an everlasting Roof
The Gambrels of the Sky –
Of Visitors – the fairest –
For Occupation – This –
The spreading wide my narrow Hands
To gather Paradise –
Honestly, it's not Dickinson's best poem, and perhaps it's a little too straightforward, not enough mystery. 'A fairer House than Prose' refers to her obvious preference for poetry over prose, followed by some architectural/heavenly imagery. Poetry is a place where she can live with God.
'To gather Paradise –' is an amazing last line, though. It's as if poetry ('Paradise') is more than a place, but also a strange substance, that she is 'spreading wide [...] to gather', a virtual contradiction. 'Possibility'/'Paradise' is like this weird virtual thing that we create for ourselves.
But my favourite method is to imagine Dickinson at her most obscene. Imagine someone like Cardi B rapping that last stanza, and it comes off more like she's bragging about how her virtual poetry hands can pleasure the hottest women ('spreading wide my narrow Hands'... 'Visitors – the fairest'). Now that's a Possibility we can all dwell in!
So often we think of politics and activism and belief as these terribly dry painful things that we're better off avoiding. Everything is on fire and nothing can be helped, so one must keep their head down and tend to one's own garden. But maybe this game is suggesting there's also some possibility of pleasure out there, and maybe we can all live in it.
Click or drag mouse cursor on various things.
Swipe around on your phone, or do nothing and just watch.
At the end, decide whether you've won or lost.
This is a garden. You can't 'win' or 'lose' a garden, but maybe you'll find a way...
Find that utopia.
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Chlorophyll – its therapeutic place in acute and suppurative disease
Preliminary report of clinical use and rationale. Gruskin B. Am. J. Surg. Jul 1940;49-55
Elimination of bacterial infections relies on two approaches:
• destruction of bacteria by administering certain chemical compounds, and/or
• building up the body's resistance to bacteria.
The former approach is generally associated with a number of side-effects such as toxicity and irritability. This paves the way for other alternatives that have no adverse effects on the body. Chlorophyll is one such alternative that has been studied extensively for its use in treating infections either as a single therapy or in combination with chemical compounds. This paper reviews about 1200 cases ranging from acute infections of the upper respiratory tract to chronic lesions such as skin ulcers, sinuses and fistulae.
It has been suggested that chlorophyll inhibits the destructive actions of the bacterial toxins that destroy the walls of the cells and tissues in the human body. Furthermore, chlorophyll may suppress production of toxins by bacteria.
That chlorophyll has an indirect effect on bacteria is suggested by its ability to eliminate the foul odour of infected wounds. This effect has also been noted in cases of ulcerative carcinoma.
The safety of chlorophyll is well established and both oral and venous administration is free of adverse effects.
Chlorophyll accentuates healing of open skin wounds, skin grafts and deeper wounds such as fistula, (an abnormal channel between an internal organ and the skin.) It is well tolerated and does not cause any irritation to the skin surface. For deeper wounds liquid chlorophyll can be used for irrigation.
According to two ear, nose and throat specialists who reviewed 1000 patients with acute and chronic sinusitis and rhinitis (e.g. colds, flu, hay fever), a single day's treatment with chlorophyll packs inserted at the back of the nose cleared the infection in many of them. Chlorophyll was also helpful in clearing infections of the ear. The absence of any kind of toxicity was also noted. The specialists reported, "There is not a single case recorded in which either improvement or cure has not taken place."
A dermatologist noted significant improvements with the regular application of chlorophyll ointment in patients suffering from various disorders of the skin, particularly varicose leg ulcers.
Chlorophyll was also found to be beneficial in treating infections of the rectum and uterine cervix.
Conditions such as osteomyelitis (infection and inflammation of the bones), post-operative infections, infections of the brain and other organs associated with formation of pus and bleeding from the gums have all been treated successfully with chlorophyll alone or in combination with other treatment modalities. Definite improvement in symptoms have been observed in patients suffering from these conditions.
The evidence from these reports is convincing and indicates the need for further research to support the widespread use of chlorophyll as a therapeutic option for numerous disorders and conditions.
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Di Resta 'surprised' at dithering team decision making: When asked by and AP journalist how he felt about the lack of announcement from Force India over the 2013 team drive line-up he replied, "I am surprised there has been nothing yet.
TJ13 has been questioning for some time why Di Resta himself has not been confirmed and now just 3 weeks away from the 2013 cars hitting the test track in Jerez, this is more than just being tardy and must surely be disconcerting for the Scottish driver.
Di Resta's views on this are, "The team have said they will announce it in good time as to where they are going to be, and I have to respect that", but when it was suggested this must affect his preparation he candidly responds, "Ultimately, it does.
Paul continues, "[but] I know who my team are, who my mechanics are. I'm feeling quite good about it, very positive. I've been at the factory and the vibe is very high." This appears a little defensive IMHO.
I was chatting to someone this weekend who is both experienced and wise in the matters of F1 team operations, and I told him of my increasing surprise at Force India's lack of announcement of Di Resta. He smiled and said he was not. I pressed him on the matter insisting there is absolutely no reason not to announce a driver who will definitely be racing in 2013.
He asked me one question. "When football clubs may be about to change owners or managers, do they announce new player contracts or leave those decisions for those about to take responsibility?". Of course, this may be viewed as utter speculation but it does give a sane reason as to why Di Resta has not been announced.
Meanwhile, TJ13 has consistently reported on Mallya's non-F1 affairs – on the basis they could affect the Force India team greatly. In the last week I've reported the Indian bank consortium is close to issuing a winding up order on Kingfisher airlines and that the Indian tax authorities have repossessed Mallya's private Airbus airliner which cost about $80m.
I now appears the stricken airliner's 4,000 employees are reaching the end of their tether too. They have not been paid for the last 8 months salaries whilst being promised by Mallya a number of schedules for repayment that have come and gone with no money forthcoming.
According to the Economic Times, the employees representatives met last week to decide upon a course of action. They have now warned they may petition for a winding up order of the company and in the meantime have also submitted a memorandum to the ministries of corporate affairs, civil aviation and labour, seeking an investigation into the management of the company.
Further, Force India's other owner's Sahara have failed to comply with the Indian Securities Authority to repay around $4bn to small investors who have been defrauded by the company. The ISA has repeated its order and a new deadline for February has now been given.
Anyway, to tie up this section in Di Resta and force India, here's an interview he just gave the Autosport Show in Birmingham. Some people in the twittersphere got upset with his comments about Schumacher..
Heikki definitely out of Caterham: I have suggested on occasions since starting the blog that Heikki would do better to play and talk less about golf and appear more committed to the cause – a feeling held within the team for a while. Whilst there has been no announcement from Caterham to confirm my headline, 2 things have happened over the past few days that make the 'tea leaf' reading pretty easy for us here at TJ13.
First Heikki tweeted his surprise at not yet being re-engaged by Caterham (a tweet now deleted), then Mike Gascoyne has been airing his views on 'matters ' to crash.net.
Okay, Mike is not directly involved with the F1 team anymore and is heading up Caterham Composites for Tony Fernandes but it is inconceivable that Fernandes would not utilise Gascoyne's experience and knowledge when deciding upon driver line up. Whilst the matters above will have had a bearing on the matter, it is the lack of a decent sponsor that will have been the biggest negative in Kovalainen's corner as Gascoyne reveals.
"I think budgets will be very hard this year, as it is tough out there for everyone financially," he explained, "We can't expect anything to happen overnight, but we want to make sure that Caterham Group is financially viable and it builds up its resources to being a long-term F1 team. Steady investment to make sure we are here in five years, ten years' time and to be a solid midfield team, a fifth to eighth place overall player, is the aim.
"We realise what the game is. People boom and bust easily. We have come in and done a very steady job compared to other new teams and have been professional, but we've taken a step back and said 'okay, we are not going to get there straight away, we need to manage our budgets, mange investment and build up our resources so we are here for the long term'.
In the meantime, the bullishness of Petrov'e representatives is fading. Following his race in Brazil that secured Caterham 10th place ahead of Marrusia there were voices that believed this would be enough for Caterham to reciprocate with gratification and sign the Russian for another year.
TJ13 has consistently said, sentiment means nothing in F1. Well done Vitaly, but where is 2013's cash coming from would be the predominant thoughts on Caterham bosses minds.
She added: "We're at the waiting stage, which is linked to the team's restructuring. We completely depend on them and can't speed anything up." Kosachenko said reports in the German media that Petrov had found new sponsors were not true.
"So far, we haven't managed to find new sponsors. Where do journalists get this information from? I'm a journalist myself and I know very well how this can just pop into someone's head," she said. Russian state company Russian Helicopters and chemicals firm Sibur were Petrov's chief sponsors last term.
Crash Testing: Topical at this time of year. i posted some footage from a few years ago of crash testing, but this is hot of the press.
Caterham get more realistic: Mike Gascoyne told me pre-season 2012 that this would be the year when Caterham would become 'irksome' (I paraphrase) to a number of the established teams. However, it appears he now accepts these and other comments – about how quickly Caterham can progress – were probably a little rash.
After the silence from Todt and the FIA on the F1 doctor matter, I and a few TJ13 readers were strangely longing for the return of Max Moseley. It appears Gascoyne too considers his stewardship principles far better than the present regime.
"In the late 1990s and early 2000s, there was an era where it was just a spending war," he noted, "They have tried to change that and Max Moseley's spending cap is something I still fully support, because [teams] are still spending near £300 million on going F1 racing for two cars and 20 races. How is that justifiable in a green and socially responsible era?
When doing OTDIF1 during January it has been strange thinking that in days gone by, F1 races were already under way for the new season.
1980 : Buenos Aires was the venue for the first round of the championship and Alan Jones' win in his Williams Ford set him on his way to that year's drivers' championship. Conditions were harsh, and sections of the track had to be relaid overnight after drivers complained it was falling apart during qualifying. It was hardly surprising when the repairs disintegrated from the tenth lap onwards making the surface slippery and 15 cars retired. Nelson Piquet and Keke Rosberg were second and third respectively, both standing on the podium for the first time, while Derek Daley took a career-best fourth.
I understand what an ex-team boss meant when he told me 'before Bernie – we were racing in fields'. Amazing how Villeneuve stands a few feet from the kerb watching cars still racing pass him before he crosses the road.
1957 : Local delight as Juan Manual Fangio, driving a Maserati, won the season-opener in Argentina on course for his fifth and final world title. Stirling Moss put his Maserati on pole position, but lost ten laps when the throttle linkage broke as he made a juddering start from the grid. Only Fangio and Jean Behra, who came second, finished all 100 laps as Maseratis took the first four places. Peter Collins, who led early on, was forced to retire a quarter of the way through with clutch problems. With the exception of one old Ferrari 500, all cars that took part were either Maserati 250Fs or Lancia Ferrari 801s.
1974 : Former world champion Denny Hulme, who had announced his decision to retire at the end of the season a few weeks earlier, won the season-opening Argentina Grand Prix, his last F1 victory. It did not go down well with a huge 120,000 crowd, including President Peron, which for 50 of the 53 laps had cheered local hero Carlos Reutemann before he was forced to retire. Reliability was a major worry as only six of the 26 starters completed the race.
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What's this supposed tweet which Kovalainen deleted? I'm surprised because he just said to Autosport the team was trying to find a solution to keep him.
So it seems the two Airline boys can't decide who will drive their respective cars. Four very valuable seats it seens. I guess they will be milking every single last cent from any prospective driver given they are in the position of power.
Good bye Heikki, Jaime, Kamui, Adrian and maybe Vitaly and Paul. You can join Nick, Anthony, Vitantonio, Taku, Jarno etc. It has been very nice knowing you. All pretty talented.
Maybe head over to Indy Car with Sato and Power. At least you'll be paid a salary and have a real chance to win given similar spec cars.
I think I'd rather race to potentially win in Indy Car and earn a nice income then race for either of the Airline boys to be treated like a cash cow, pay the staffs wages, have no chance to do well, and then be treated like garbage, publically chastised and finally replaced by useless youngsters who are willing to part with huge dollars thanks to either a government or the backing of a big corporation due to family or nationality. If you can get a drive in a top 6 team in F1, great. If you can't, go to another series.
Just remembered it's three available airline seats. Pic is confirmed for an Air Asia airline seat.
Pretty sure di Resta's comments on MS meant "he's a pita to overtake", etc. Not "he's Mr Magoo". But I'm also pretty sure comprehension is no longer taught in schools anymore, so I'm not surprised at some "twits'" reactions.


Has anyone used these Epoxy Rustoleum products?
Post subject: Has anyone used these Epoxy Rustoleum products?
No I have not but getting ready to use the Rust-Oleum marine primer and Marine topside paint on my build.
Only place I've ever heard of coal tar epoxies being applied has been to in-hull aluminum or steel fuel tanks.
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After nine successful years of collaboration with the Over the Edge World group of destination mountain bike shops, we are venturing off on our own and changing our name to Thunder Mountain Bikes. We want to express our gratitude for the support and guidance in the opening and success of OTE Sedona, as well as for having been a part of the OTE tradition and legacy.
Over the Edge has an amazing story starting with Fruita, Colorado. The trails and community have been an inspiration. Nine years into this journey, it's now time to step out on our own.
Thunder Mountain Bikes will continue providing world-class service in the same location with the same exceptional staff. We have no doubt Over the Edge will continue to do great things. We look forward to continuing to share the passion, giving them a high-five on the trails, and supporting them in their future endeavors.
- Mike Raney and Jason First
A note from Paul Aieta, Over the Edge World; "Mike and Jason have run an amazing operation there, and we wish them the best in their new venture."
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Recently, the Toronto District School Board reviewed the attendance levels at three high schools in Etobicoke - Kipling Collegiate Institute, Richview Collegiate Institute and Scarlett Heights Entrepreneurial Academy. It was decided that Scarlett Heights would be closed, Kipling would be re-named, and Richview would see no changes.
There has been a large and passionate response on Facebook by students and alumni from Kipling about this ill-conceived notion. The Toronto Star, CityTV and other media have also taken notice.
Kipling Collegiate has a long and proud history that deserves to be preserved and honoured. Too many music awards to count, decades of superiority in football, and famous alumni including: Liona Boyd (world renowned classical guitarist), General Tom Lawson (former Chief of the Defense Staff), and Kirsty Duncan (current federal Minister of Science), among others. Former teachers and principals have joined our campaign.
The "reasons" for renaming Kipling stink of political correctness. The claim is that students who are transferring from Scarlett might feel left out. The fact this never happened when other schools have closed, or the fact that there isn't the same need to rename Richview (suspiciously because one of their alumni is former PM Stephen Harper) stinks.
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The Adventure of Making Friends
by Susan Kwiatkowski
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The semester has ended at the local university. Days of sitting on the window sill outside classes listening attentively to lectures about mathematics, science and languages just to name a few, has come to an end for Wizer, an owl. Now the time has come to spread his wings and start experiencing life outside the university. Wizer travels all over the land in search for unique and different animals to make his friends. WizerBuddies: The Adventure of Making Friends is the story of how he travels, meets animals that are different, and the tale of how their friendship begins. What is not anticipated are the life lessons they experience and learn together on their journey?
Publication Date : 8/29/2014
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Page Count : 38
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Wizer is a highly educated owl who is very proud to be himself. He's happy to be different and he follows his own path. All he needs now is a group of special, like-minded friends that are ready to experience all that the world has to offer, Wizer the Owl spreads his wings and journeys to strange new lands. On his adventure, Wizer meets other animals, all different from himself. Can Wizer and his new acquaintances overcome their differences and become the best of friends?
In today's global world it is important to teach your children the importance of diversity. In WizerBuddies: The Adventure of Making Friends, a wise old owl travels the world in order to experience the cultures and diversity of others. With simple, easy-to-read passages and vivid illustrations, Wizer's adventure inspires young readers to be themselves and encourage others to do the same.
Susan Kwiatkowski lives in New Jersey with her husband, Bob, who encouraged her to follow her passion of writing children's books. She began writing at the age of ten while traveling the world with her military family. Her family and travels are the inspiration for her books and characters.
This book is great. I am a kid and I loved Wizer and the rest of the animals. What a great way to make friends and be yourself. I cant wait to read more books about Wizer.
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