Saya tidak akan berjaya sejauh-jauh seperti Huay Rens. Terutamanya kerana ia tidak benar-benar tanika. Saya akan bercakap tentang Gutenberg. Ia adalah editur berlaku yang berlaku dengan berlaku. Agenda itu adalah apa ialah Gutenberg? Bagaimana untuk di-install untuk bermain? Saya akan melakukan sedikit perjalanan pada editur baru. Selepas itu, kita akan mempertimbangkan beberapa pro dan con dari editur. Pertama, apa yang berlaku dengan Gutenberg? Ia adalah perlukan baru pada editur berlaku. Ia adalah nama setelah Johannes Gutenberg yang membuat pembentangan yang berlaku dengan perlukan yang berlaku dengan perlukan yang berlaku sekitar 500 tahun lalu. Ia tidak membuatkan perlukan yang berlaku dengan Project Gutenberg. Di sini, saya ada yang membuat pembentangan yang saya mahu beraskan. Ia adalah sesuatu yang akan berlaku dengan serta-salah yang kita datang sekali. Saya akan membuat pembentangan untuk mempunyai pembentangan yang saya mahu dapatkan. Saya benar-benar berlaku dengan castan yang saya tidak pernah mengeriakan. Tidak apa-apa pun, saya akan melakukan sedikit perlukan bagi pembentangan. Saya akan menyikastikan bagi pembentangan yang saya mahu mengeriakan. ada banyak kode short dan html kode sekarang untuk menjadikan kelihatan pelanggan dan Gutenberg mempunyai untuk membuatnya mudah untuk orang yang mempunyai dengan mengambil blocs yang sedikit dan juga menambahkan pilihan yang lebih awal tetapi itu berlaku semuanya kerana sekarang belum di dalam jadi sekarang ia di beta beta dan boh kerana tidak terlalu tinggi dalam pilihan perkara-perkara yang dianggapkan untuk menghubung ia tidak mempunyai, ia tidak mempunyai untuk penjagaan tidak menggunakan kelihatan pelanggan jika anda mencuba kelihatan pelanggan tetapi jika anda mempunyai kelihatan pelanggan, anda mahu menggunakan kelihatan pelanggan yang digunakan untuk mencuba dan membuatnya, saya membuatnya dari perasaan saya sendiri jadi sebab sebagai pengguna, kami berharap untuk mencubanya dengan menggabungkannya sebagai perusahaan kami boleh menyebabkan kelihatan pelanggan atau mencuba kelihatan pelanggan dalam projek GitHub dan semoga ini akan diberikan di WordPress 5.0 yang menghadiri sebuah pilihan yang sekarang adalah perusahaan pilihan setiap pilihan antara 4-6 bulan awak patut esok pada tahun yang akan berakhir ini berikan sebuah masa untuk pilihan pilihan pilihan dan pilihan pilihan dan pilihan untuk menggunakan kelihatan pelanggan bagaimana anda membunyai GuruTunberg yang sebenarnya membuatkan perusahaan pilihan secara recent It requires WordPress 4.8, which is the latest version. So to show you the page. So this is the parking page for Gutenberg. In here it also says here, this is a beta software. Do not run it on production sites. FAQ on how to get feedbacks and how to contribute. So to contribute to this, you do not need to be a developer yourself. You can just be an user who finally found some bugs or issues that you are not aware of and then you can go to their plug-ins. Go to their GitHub. So say for example, GitHub pages, they have a lot of feedbacks, testing feedbacks and issues raised. So the developers themselves, they can prioritize what to fix and what to put in, some of them are actually enhancements. Same goes for the support forums here. So moving on to exploring Gutenberg. This is what I'm going to cover hopefully in time. So first is the new menu comparing pretty old editor, new editor. The mobile view and also exploring some of the blocks there. Do remind me if I have sleep out some data. So first thing first, this is Gutenberg after installing. How you access it is through this menu option here. It has new post function, which you can actually see over here, or a demo. It's also a demo basically have this basic. Welcome to the Gutenberg editor. With all the different blocks already been used. And another way to access it is that after you install, you can actually see that there's an additional link here called Gutenberg, which will direct you to the Gutenberg editor. So let me first compare the old and new editor. So this is the new editor, right? This is the old editor. So you can see that it's a lot more cluttered with the various options at the sidebars. And there's also the extra stuff at the bottom here where there's text and everything else. And whereas in the new editor, right now it has the post settings hidden over here. You can actually, it's a drop-down menu. And actually has more screen space just for the post itself. To look at the mobile view, let me collect this menu first and just write. So let me go to there. So it's a responsive design. So you can actually see that the Gutenberg editor itself is already, you can actually edit on mobile without much fast. So if you look at this, it's the tiny MCE bus here is taking out a lot of space. And I also have other plug-ins installed on there. That's why it looks very bloated as well. On a pure vanilla one, you'll probably see only this much. But still it's a lot of space that has been used up. And then, now let's explore the blocks. So the blocks are basically broken into text blocks, table, live page, buttons, and bed views. So there are just some examples. So for text blocks, it's basically just text itself where you can input a text. And if you want to create a new block, you can just basically double-enter in order to break into a new block and enter your text in a new block. And not only that, you can actually adjust your block up and down with these buttons here and those formatting and alignments here as well. There are also other settings that you can see on the side here as well. I'm not going to in depth. You can play around when you are back at home. Table view. Let me try to find a table view. So this is a table view. So this table view here, you can actually insert right now to insert, we have to go all the way down and hit this plus button and insert the table. And then settings are not working right now. So as expected, there will be bugs, right? And not only that for a live HTML view, you can actually... Let's see. Yeah. I'm not able to get it out right now. Yeah, so this plugin just came out recently so I'm also a bit unfamiliar with these two, but basically what this live HTML editor is supposed to do is that when you switch over, you can switch over just only that block itself to the HTML view instead of looking into the text view itself because text view it's a bit messy, right? You will notice that there are additional text here, these additional comments here which is not in the tiny MCE. So if you look in the tiny MCE if I go to text it actually has it but it doesn't format properly right now. On the front end you will not see the text at all. So don't need to worry about that. Okay. And then there are also buttons that is included here. So basically buttons additional blocks which will help you to create call to action buttons without installing additional plugins or do additional formatting or stuff like that. So it's a good block for people who wants to create a product page or contact us button without really going into the design. Right? And there's also the embed function. Embedding is very simple. So just need to there's actually a long list of providers like Flickr, Reddit, Spotify, YouTube inside here already in this list. So basically just click on this and you just need to put in the YouTube URL. Right? Okay. So the pros of Gutenberg is that TANI MCE is good in a sense that it helps people to put in the stuff that they want into a site but it has to move on from TANI MCE because there are actually a lot of issues with TANI MCE sometimes you might some of you might face unexpected formatting issues some might and also how many writers do you know that actually know HTML? Right? Usually when writers finish writing already or go through the editor and editor will sometimes put in additional HTML in order to put in things like related articles or you may like this post as well. Right? And for publishers that like medium style editing Gutenberg is something that is similar to what medium has. Right? And actually a while ago Matt Gutenberg who is the WordPress co-founder and creator either one but he actually tried medium writing a post on medium to announce a new release of our WordPress version and thereafter on his personal blog went on to say that he's looking into how to better improve the writing experience and he said what's not better than to go into medium itself and experience the entire user interface and learn from there. Right? So that's one thing that I suppose taken from as you can see there's more screen space less distraction the blogs and alignment options are also making it easier for responsive sites it also works well on mobile so you can actually edit your stuff on mobile there's also the ability for team and blocking developers to add their own custom blogs. Right now because Gutenberg is something new so the developers more or less I wouldn't say hesitant but slowly gearing into providing custom blogs for Gutenberg Right? Given that there's a drive to include this in the WordPress core in at least a year time Right? But currently the core is that there's no markdown support so whoever likes markdown you have to stay off it for the moment The learning curve wise Well, some of if you are new to WordPress which guys are really not if you are new to WordPress the learning curve is actually very easy because you don't need to unlearn what you have learned and and so for that more experience actually took me a while as well the better part of today to actually get used to the interface there are no custom meta boxes yet so things like the use SEO plugin if you look at the Gutenberg interface just now realize that the use SEO plugin is not there Right? but they are looking into how to into how to provide the same same level of information to the users as well most likely in a using a pre-production pre-publication model there are also no responsive columns yet so the thing is that in WordPress by default there's no responsive columns but there are a lot of page builders like visual composer they they have responsive columns inside and that's something that a lot of people are looking for so this is something that a lot of people are actually looking forward to for eventual inclusion but WordPress compatibility is also a suspect in the sense that because it's a complete breakaway from tiny MCE there was or there is I'm not really sure a drive to include tiny MCE into Gutenberg as well as a blog which I there's some pushback on that as well don't bang on that so very compatibility compatibility with a lot of plugins we have to see how it goes when it release the transfer of view not being able to update to 5.0 it likely be there as long as the plugin developers or at least the developers of the plugins that you use or the teams that you use they don't update their site their files the projects accessibility accessibility in the sense that if you are not if you are somehow handicapped whether visual or what's not right now it's hard to use and their contributors who are looking to improving the accessibility of this as well so but you have to be aware that Gutenberg is still in beta and it's likely to be in beta for at least a year so the inclusion of it is like two major versions away so fixes and features have been work on at the moment so there are some props that I have to give shout outs that I have to give to first it's this article diving into the new Gutenberg WordPress editor so basically the reason why I give that is this presentation is structured around this clearly written post that was published two days ago while I was still scratching my head at that thing already yeah the groovy is in the audience WordPress sorry no Microsoft Singapore for hosting us and Microchain for allowing this PHP slash WordPress meetup to happen usually we have our meetup separately yeah right so who am I I'm Robert you can contact me that email address there and that is a caricature of me any questions and or feedback or anything you can raise now short quotes short quotes currently should still work but but it's best to move towards custom blocks after all short quotes are actually hacks that was put in in order to answer a question a future request from the end users they want to put in some custom customized stuff inside then yeah back then they realized we need something and short quotes was the answer yeah but it's still a hack yeah yeah you can install Jetpack for that yes thanks for reminding me but because I don't use Markdown so I did explore that feature what do you mean by Markdown? Markdown is basically a format writing format so instead of using like the H1 or H2 text right you basically use things like dash and the equal size to to hmm oh yes that is a good one yeah raw okay so this is front right we won't see much of it because it's really format but if we look at the at the raw it's basically like this yeah so you notice the headings are like using the hash sign text block the images are embedded in this manner yeah so some writers likes this yeah yes sorry right so let me right now it's not really well formatted so this is the front end oh yes iya iya iya so you can build custom blocks that might be developers who try to be creative and use this custom block functionality and basically extend to make it dynamic so we will see how it goes yeah after all it's something new yeah yes project you mean the oh this plugin this plugin is there for us to try out actually so it's for us to try out to give feedback to the contributors the developers right so in you mean you're talking about as a total editor by itself don't right now i don't think there's talks of that yet yeah ah you can i think but i'm not really sure about the yeah after all this is an open source project right now it's hosting on its own own own githrepo so you can go inside explore and see how how you can straddle out and spinning off your own make it a good but standalone yeah i think the strategy that WordPress always uses is to create a plugin is a new feature that experimenting for the call but before they actually call they actually build extension first so once extension improvement to work in this case it's actually is on trajectory eventually make hopefully make this part of the call so it can be was never originally planned as a separate project or something you can just plug into your own application or own website for your own new stuff but i guess since the code is all open source and javascript stuff is all there you could theoretically just look through that code and find parts that make sense to you and maybe rip it out or if you look deeper they may actually have a way to like if you want to use it in your personal site in a different capacity they probably have some guide there i guess if you look at the development guide of how to contribute new blocks and stuff you could also from there get some clues about how to release yourself but again it's a matter of leading to the source code yep master process like custom post types and founders or books yes for now we can't really use it but i guess like what i say it's two resources away it'll be next year or at least until the next meet or next year or end towards the end of next year so it gives the plugin and team developers sufficient time to update the teams and plugins to catch up with 5.0 right and i don't really think that you need to worry about WooCommerce after WooCommerce is under automatic right now and a lot of automatic stuff are working on WordPress contributing to WordPress core as well yeah so for you SEO plugin i also know that they are also looking into this and working a solution to to to fit into the editor's experience yeah any other questions no right okay so before i end off if an announcement to make it's WorkCam Singapore 2017 right so last year we actually hosted WorkCam 2016 Singapore 2016 and it was quite a crowd right so 2017 this is a URL okay so we are actually targeting about 250 attendees oh yeah okay let me show you so last year's photos first so at least you know i'm not pulling pulling words out of the air yeah so this is photos from last year right it was held here in microsoft for this year we are trying to look we are still looking for not looking we are confirming a venue right now at the moment right so don't worry about the location it will still be around town okay so this is a sum of photos right so the tracks are in the talks are in a two track format there will be talks for everyone essentially for designers, users business people, developers anyone that you can think of who use WordPress in one way or another there will be talks for them as I mentioned it will be held in town the date is October 28 it's a Saturday okay there will be after party after the conference location will be is to be confirmed and tickets will be released after the location is confirmed for the work cam okay so right now I know you are not the target crowd but we are as in for sponsors at least unless there are CEO's here who is willing to sponsor us any CEO or decision makers right but we are still looking for speakers right speak here okay right so we are looking for sponsors and speakers because speakers we don't need to be technical you can be someone who is talking for perspective of a designer or from an user your experience of using WordPress and what one WordPress to be in the future stuff like this just some of your talks information on the sponsors and speakers that are on the website right you also can reach out to us at the following address Singapore at workcam.org yeah we will have at least 5 5 pair of eyeballs looking at this email address yeah so that's all


What does being a creator really mean? Are we just making pretty pictures or are we something more? In my eyes, we're storytellers, using every tool we can to create a lasting impact on our audience. From way back, we've used stories to entertain and to help us understand the world. It's the stories about real people's experiences that really hit home, whether that's through a book, a painting, a song, or even a video. So I want to share my own story in a time when stories matter most. It's about my journey with AI as a creator and why it can never replace the soul of our work. Are human stories. I've been making videos for over a decade and I've seen new cameras come, software updates go, but they've always just been tools to make storytelling easier. Then, out of nowhere, AI tools started making waves in the creative world. I figured it would just be another trend that would end up in the tech graveyard like 3D TVs. But because there were promising tools from editing your videos for you to even having AI avatars reading your scripts, I felt the pressure to not be left behind. My immediate response was to fight against that pressure. I had enough on my plate to learn and I was in this phase where I really wanted to improve my storytelling. And to be honest, sometimes I wasn't sure if I was on Instagram or an AI portrait gallery, and I just felt burnt out with this whole AI wave. So I chose to focus on my own path and what I believed to be important to me as a creator. But several weeks passed and eventually months. The buzz about AI didn't quiet down. Instead, it grew louder. Even creators I looked up to were adopting AI into the creative process. I saw podcasts being edited by themselves and Instagram creators producing videos that would have taken a small army of VFX artists to achieve. That was when the pressure I felt turned into excitement. There were so many AI tools that could streamline my video creating workflow. But it was generative AI, specifically stable diffusion that really caught my interest.  This was really important because directing and refining the output is what makes human involvement essential. So I set myself a challenge to make a short film that conveys how the power of music can transport us into another world. I quickly saw that this challenge was bigger than I thought. As a video creator, I know nothing about coding. What in the world is a gift? Isn't Python just a snake? Following tutorial after tutorial felt like following a cooking recipe without knowing how any of the ingredients taste. I had to learn a lot of new things just to start my idea. But I kept pushing sliders around and built confidence with each test image I would generate. Eventually I felt ready to finally start shooting. You know that good feeling when you play back your footage and everything looks perfect? Maybe you nailed focus or you got the lighting just right. That was how I felt putting together a rough cut. Imagining the transformation that AI would bring to the raw footage. Unfortunately, I only got to the easy part. Most videos that you watch play 24 frames per second. Now my plan was to make each frame of my video into an animation using AI. Sounds easy, right? It was anything but easy. I ran into problems left and right. Why was there so much flickering? Why was I running out of memory? Why did my face turn into silly putty? 90% of my creative process became troubleshooting and looking up Reddit threads for answers. Each shot took hours to export. And if something went wrong, I had to start all over again. It felt like learning how to use a camera again for the very first time and finding out all your shots were too noisy because you forgot what ISO meant. But just like completing a marathon or solving a Rubik's Cube for the very first time, your test of patience is always rewarded. The video I imagined in my head was playing right in front of me. I didn't need to hire any animators or computer programmers. This feeling of accomplishment wasn't just from creating something unique and personal. It was knowing how AI made up for my limited skill and empowered me to tell a story that would have been impossible just a couple months ago. Since completing that project, I haven't used stable diffusion again. Now, it isn't because I've rejected AI, but rather that it's only one tool out of many that I can pull out for the right job. Just like how I update my camera or editing software, I update my tools. But here's the thing about tools. They can't substitute for human stories. My short film wasn't spit out by an AI algorithm. It was inspired by my life journey, from the impact that music had on me, my appreciation for classical art, and the countless hours I spent learning to play the piano. Our desire to creatively express ourselves and be inspired is something that AI just can't grasp. But what AI can do is help us tell better stories, and that is such an important distinction. And what about the personal story I just shared with you about making the short film? The anxiety of feeling left behind, the frustration of watching endless tutorials, the feeling of success when I finally completed the short film. Can AI understand these emotions? I believe that's our gift as humans and how we bring depth and richness to our stories. And what about the beauty of our imperfections? The humanity of our struggles and mistakes? AI is always trying to seek optimization and perfection, so it can never tell stories that relate to us in the same way human stories will. Take Usain Bolt, for example. People cheer for him not just because he runs fast. It's because he can run fast while being born with scoliosis, suffering several injuries in his career, and overcoming doubts. It's your conscience speaking. Don't do it. Stop running. It's this shared humanity that makes us cheer for him and for others like him. This is the power of stories about us made by us and shared with us. Even if AI can generate incredible music and art, when there's no story behind the song or painting, we can't deeply connect with it. AI is all around us and already helps creators tell their stories better and more efficiently. For example, here at Artlist, you can already use AI-powered tools such as our search engine that lets you find footage by typing exactly the way you think. What comes up is amazing work filmed by real artists. Even their sound effects suggestion feature is AI-powered. Ensuring a perfect match with your footage. Although we've embraced AI-powered tools to streamline your search experience, these high-quality assets are always created by real people. So check out Artlist for everything you need to tell your best stories. Also, make sure to subscribe to the channel if you want more videos to help empower you as a creator. To be a creator, it doesn't matter what you use, as long as we remain the heart of the narrative. So, what's the human story that you want to tell?


In this video we are going to have a quick look at what the human embryo looks like around 14 days post conception. By this stage it is embedded or implanted in the endometrium of the uterus. We have already removed that surrounding tissue, so the first thing we see is this, the Sincitio troughoblast. Beneath that is the Cytotrophoblast. Together these two become the interface between the mother and the embryo. The most important part of this being the placenta. Beneath the Cytotrophoblast is this tissue called extraembryonic mesoderm. If we remove that layer we see a space known as the extraembryonic ceilum. You can see how the extraembryonic mesoderm in purple has formed this connection here called the connecting stalk. The extraembryonic mesoderm then covers the embryo in the middle here as well. So the extraembryonic ceilum is a space between these layers of extraembryonic mesoderm. Inner attached to the embryo proper. Outer attached to the cytotrophoblast. Let's take a look at all that in cross-section now. So this layer of extraembryonic mesoderm plus the cytotrophoblast and the Sincitiotrophoblast. These three together are known as the chorion. The extraembryonic ceilum also goes by the name of chorionic cavity which is really a much better name because it accurately describes what it is the space beneath the chorion. This inner layer of extraembryonic mesoderm covers the core of the embryo which consists of two flat disks and two spaces above and below. Together these two are known as the bilaminar disk which literally just means two layered disk and they're individually known as the epiblast and the hypoblast. The cells of the epiblast transform into the three layers of cells that become the bulk of the human body. For more information on that process watch our video on the first three weeks. This space here is the amniotic cavity and this is the yolk sac. The yolk sac has this little pouch here known as the alantoir. It becomes an important part of the umbilical cord. Click the link below to play around with this model yourself. I hope you found this video useful. Click like if you did and we will see you next time.


There's zero chance American farmland is allowed to crash. It's not possible. The government will subsidize farmers, especially because of the Ukraine. If you look at the history of agriculture as a whole, scientists think that humans have been farming sedentary for about 25,000 years. So it's really new. Say humans have been around 700,000 to a million years, depending who you ask. And so in the last 25,000 years, the total amount of food grown. We have to grow more of that than that in the next 10 years, on the same planet. Now we've got a lot of things going for us. We have fossil fuel that you can run diesel to run tractors. We have some modern techniques in terms of precision farming.


Welcome to my analysis for HeadTracks. Now, today's sample is not really challenging and it's not difficult to analyze, but it's quite fun. And I just want to share it with you so you can have some fun too. Okay, we will jump in right away and run it while it's looking at it with process explorer, is it? There it is. I agree. Okay, we renamed the file on the pen.exe extension so we can run it. Here a nice icon. And let's just run it. There's our process. And it opens up a small window with the title infect and the content label one. That's interesting. And there's an exception. The program crashes so far. It's no fun at all. And the reason is remote name could not be resolved because I have no internet connection. If you have an internet connection for your analysis machine, it will still not work because the remote host is not on mine anymore. And, well, what are we going to do? If you look at this sample with the end slide, and that's what I did first, I found some quite some interesting images in it, which I saw. Well, I want to get this to run so I can make some screenshots. How are we going to do that? There's a nice tool called Fiddler. And Fiddler is actually it's meant for web developers so they can debug their web applications. But it's also quite useful for malware analysis. For instance, if we run the sample, okay, quit it again. We run the sample. We will get here a protocol with a log file with requests that our sample made. And these are all the same requests with this host and it requests a site.html. So it's a get request. You can check some details here in the inspector tab and change the format of that request. Text or raw, hex or whatever. And here's another very interesting feature of this. That's the autoresponder. So we will just make Fiddler respond to that request by enabling the role. And we drag this right in here. So we basically copy the request in here. And we say we want our own custom request. Let's just start with providing a fiddlergif.dat. Save that. So now you see it's saved here. That's our respond and it's enabled. So this should be green. We will remove the things that we already captured and then run it again. Now, this time it doesn't crash. So that's good, but nothing else happens. It's still not found, right? Okay, kill the process, remove that. So we need to make the right response for this sample so something funny happens. And for that you have to analyze it. Now let's just take a short look into it. I won't go too much into detail, but I will just show you the location of the code where you find the stuff you need. It's not obfuscated. It's not packed. It's really quite easy. And you already see that it's not serious at all. Just based on the strings that you find here already. There's form one. And it kills task manager. That's interesting. And here is this timer one tick method. There you find a lot of compare string commands. And the strings that are in here, zero, verbung. Verbung is German for advertisements. The strings that are in here are the commands for this vector. So every command will make the vector do a certain thing. And this looks quite interesting. So one of the commands is music. Let's just try this. That looks like something nice. And we might want to see that. So we just say create new response and click on save. And now you can enter your response, which is music. And now you save that. And then run the form. And that's what happens. Lots of windows. We will just kill the process. Crying baby. System 32 not found. And the other commands are also interesting. So you might just want to try them out a bit. I will show you another one. And that's Kofen. Kofen means buy something to buy something. Create our response again and say Kofen. Save. And then run the sample. And that's what happens. It's basically a screen locker here. And it says kind XPII cleaner. And then some German stuff. Like best protection, no errors, best performance, system modding, life console. And it lives very long. So your PC will live very long. And here you can buy it. Okay, let's click on that. Okay, the payment options. And obviously it was meant to use the way that it messes up your computer with error messages and crying babies. And so then the screener will show up as a mean and say it will rescue you from these errors on your system. And you have to buy it. Yeah, that's interesting. I cannot close this anymore. It's a screen locker. So let's see you next time. Please try out the sample. It's worth it. It's fun. See you next time.


Hi you guys my name is Brittany and welcome back to my YouTube channel. You guys in today's video I am going to be giving you an in-depth view of amazing Africa from Amber O'Neill Johnston the Heritage Pack that we did for our history and geography study for our school year. So I'm so excited you guys to give you this final review and just let you know how we enjoy this amazing Africa unit study. So let's go ahead and get right on into it. So if any of you guys are new here to my channel again my name is Brittany. I am a homeschooling mom to three girls ages 10 4 and 2 and I am wrapping up my second year of homeschooling or technically I have finished my second year of homeschooling you guys. So I'm so excited that I am just trucking along this homeschooling journey. I really have been enjoying it and I cannot wait to share with you guys this amazing Africa review. So I made an initial video when I decided to go ahead and do this amazing Africa Heritage Pack from Amber O'Neill Johnston and I just made an initial review showing some of the picture books and the study. But in today's video I'm going to give you an overview and our final thoughts on using this literature based geography slash history study for our homeschooling year. So I have some notes in my phone you guys because I don't want to forget anything. So first and foremost this literature study is called Amazing Africa. It is very affordable. I believe this literature study is like is it $12. I'm not too sure I'm going to put the price right here but it's really really affordable. It comes in PDF. So when you get this literature guide you are pretty much getting your full on 36 week plan on how you are going to be going over all of the countries within Africa. So it focuses on 19 main countries through picture books. However you are going to touch on all of the countries all of the countries within Africa all the 55 countries within Africa you're going to touch on using the reference book that she listed below. So in total we have read 26 picture books. We've read two chapter books and it has three main books that you're going to be rotating along with your picture books. So this is a really full on literature Charlotte Mason type of study and I really really enjoyed it. So I'm going to show you guys the main books that we used and I think these books right here you absolutely need to do this study. At least I wouldn't recommend checking these ones out from the library because you're going to be using them just throughout the unit. So the first two are the two chapter books or read alouds. You can actually choose between reading one of these. I actually was kind of ambitious and my daughter just wanted to read both of them. So this is Anna Hibiscus and this one is number one car spotter and these two books goes along these two African children's just how they live what they eat. These were both just really funny and lighthearted stories and I really really love them. They were easy reads. They have pictures inside of these books. So they're really really cute. Number one car spotter I think was my daughter's favorite just because it was just so funny. She really really enjoyed that one. So these are the two chapter books or the read alouds that goes along with the pack. Along with that the main reference book you will be using is Africa Amazing Africa Country by Country and this book right here just goes over all the 55 countries within Africa. This is your main reference book. This is how you are going to get all your information about each of the countries you are going to be studying. However when you go through each week of the curriculum you're only going to be focusing on one of the 19 countries through your picture book. So this reference book you will be using throughout the course however you just have like a main focus within that week on whichever main country you will be going through. Hopefully this doesn't isn't confusing but um yeah so that's kind of like how it goes. So we have our read alouds. We have our reference book and then we have some more books that you go throughout each day using which is Africa is not a country. It's another main one Ashanti Tazulu and also you have the option to use this Draw Africa map right now. We actually didn't use this one which I'm so surprised. This one actually goes on step by step in drawing the continent of Africa. We actually just utilized the free print off that she has of an Africa map. So as we complete and we study each country within Africa we're able to like the color in that country label it. And this is where you get your geography study in. So I really really enjoyed this one even though we didn't use it. We did reference this one a lot. So you can just print off the free map that she has included within her PDF or the link in her PDF or you can use this book Draw Africa. But this one I would say is optional in the pack. So these right here are not all but some of the picture books that we read within the unit study. Again it's a total of 26 picture books. However I will let you know a lot of these picture books you are able to type in on YouTube and you will find someone that's reading aloud most of these picture books. I was able to utilize my library for the picture books that I didn't purchase. However I'm gonna go back and purchase the rest of the picture books with this Africa unit because I know for sure I want to do this unit again with my younger kiddos. We had so much fun and I'm gonna go ahead you guys and just highlight our favorite books because it would take me forever to go over all 26 picture books that we read. So I asked my daughter what was her top five picture books that we read and she told me so I'm gonna share those ones with you guys. Okay you guys the first one of our favorite books was One Plastic Bag and this goes over the story of Isha too and her impact that she made on her community by starting to recycle all of the plastic bags that she's seen. By her starting to recycle the plastic bags that she's seen she was able to provide jobs and opportunities for other women to be able to make money in her community and also she was able to really make a true impact in Gambia. So this was a great story. One plastic bag we also followed this one up with a documentary. Deep in the Sahara was a great book about a young girl who was excited to be able to wear her first hijab hijab. I believe that's how you pronounce it and it just goes along her story as she is following all of the women in her community and she's trying to figure out how she wants her hijab to be and this was a beautiful told story. I love the pictures. I love the diversity and I really love just the image that of self-awareness of empowerment, women empowerment. This was a really beautifully told story and this was one of the first stories that we read. Brielle really enjoyed this one. So we love this story deep in the Sahara. Another story we enjoyed was the perfect orange which was like a folktale from Ethiopia. This goes over a folktale about I believe is Tashai. That's her name and she gives a beautiful gift of a perfect orange to the king and the hyena. He brings a gift to the king and it just is a really cute folktale. I'm not going to give you away any of the rest of it. The illustrations was beautiful and we really enjoyed this one when we went over Ethiopia. Bringing rain to Kapiti Plain was one of Brielle's absolute favorites. She really enjoyed this. I love this book because it has like this rhyming repetition to it. It's really, really cute. It's really cute of all of the traditions and the things that this African tribe does to bring rain to Kapiti Plain and it is really, really cute. I love it. It is a cute folktale. The illustrations is really, really adorable and I enjoy this one thoroughly. Another book we loved was One Hen and One Hen went over a story of Kojo Kojo. I believe that's how you pronounce this name if I butchered it. I'm so sorry but it just talks about the impact of this One Hen that had to him and his village and I really love this one. This is based off of a true story so we followed this one up with a documentary as well. The illustrations is really, really beautiful and I really enjoyed One Hen so these are like our top five favorite books that we read within our Amazing Africa pack. So these were like I said our top five books out of the unit but we really enjoyed all of them. Amber, she really did an awesome job selecting all the literature pieces that went along with this Amazing Africa study. So this unit study is actually geared for ages one or not ages. This unit study is actually geared for grades one to three. However since my daughter was in the fourth grade I decided to add a couple of more things to bump it up and to give her more of a challenge. We could have really kept it where it was and just read in the picture books but I just wanted to just take this opportunity to really challenge her in her writing skills. So the whole year Brielle actually she worked on writing informational or expository paragraphs. So I found this you know cheapy composition book and I went to CrayolaPages.com and I printed off each of the countries that we were going to go over in depth in the unit study and Brielle had to write a paragraph about that country within Africa. She colored in the flag and it's just so crazy just looking at the growth in her writing from when she did her first country within Africa until she did her last country within Africa. It's just so amazing like seeing how well she did. She really enjoyed coloring in the flag and I really enjoyed using this as a writing opportunity. Like for South Africa Brielle she had a lot to say and it's just crazy how she went from writing one paragraph to ending off the journal writing about three paragraphs about each of these countries that she was going over. So I really enjoyed adding this exercise within it. Another thing that I added in is when we do unit studies I love for us to focus on one person. I actually got this idea from Tori from the Oglesville Han. When she does science unit studies with her kiddos she loves focusing on one person. So the person we focused on was of course Nelson Mandela and it was really really great. I didn't add this who was book until we got to South Africa because I felt like if we would have started it too early it probably wouldn't have made much sense but when we were getting closer to South Africa I pulled out this book and it was so amazing learning more about Nelson Mandela. I also utilized this fan dex right here that I got from book outlet for about I think two dollars and this right here this fan dex also goes over each country within Africa and it gives more facts. They're more in-depth facts some of the facts are hardcore truths and I definitely would say if you're going to use this fan dex with your younger kiddos just read over it before you read it because it talks about war and just a lot of things. So I just used these as a reference a lot of things I didn't always go over with Brielle but I really love the beginning of it where it talks about the population religion it gives each of the agriculture products and it just talks about just the main basic facts of each of the countries within Africa so I really loved utilizing this cheapy resource and this was really really fun to use. Another thing that I added into the unit study was we read Along Walk to Water which was perfect when we got to Sudan. This was a great read aloud so we started off our school year reading this one and it was amazing because once we got to Sudan we were like wrapping up Along Walk to Water and it was just a beautiful addition to it. So those were just some ways that I just added in a little extra for Brielle because she is an upper elementary and I kind of expected more of her. I definitely will say this unit study even though she classifies it as grades one two three I definitely will say that you can really use this for all of elementary because even as an upper elementary student they really have fun just reading like all of these picture books. I mean I enjoyed it and if you want to add in or beef it up you can definitely assign your kiddos like some writing assignments that's a definitely a way for you to use this unit as a family study. She also includes some video options when we're going over each of the countries. She does suggest in her pack when you first read it to just preview the videos just to make sure it's not any information that you don't want your kiddos to know or any videos you don't want them to see just pre-watch them. I actually didn't run across any videos that I felt uncomfortable with Brielle seeing because again she's older however if you do have a younger kiddo you might not want them to see all of the videos so do preview the videos but their videos that she has is just a suggestion it's not it won't make or break the unit. Sometimes we didn't watch the videos we just stuck to reading the picture books and reading all the reference books that she had. So overall you guys I really enjoyed this unit. I really enjoyed like all the thought and the effort that Amber put in her selection of all of these books. I mean the guide it looks so simple but as you get started reading all of these beautiful literature pieces it really just adds like a Charlotte Mason richness to your homeschool. This unit study has gotten me like in love with literature based learning and hopefully I can like carry this on in our homeschool because it was just so easy to pick up the picture book and just read it. A lot of the times the picture books we would read like after our morning basket and it was just really really great great times. I just thoroughly enjoyed it. So this amazing Africa pack I would definitely recommend it to anyone to do. She does have other Africa packs. We are actually going to be doing her heart and soul pack next year where we are going to be going over the main book heart and soul and then we're going to be reading some of the other books that she has selected and curated for that particular unit. That unit is for grades four through six which is going to be perfect for a burial. So yes you guys definitely check out Amber. I'm going to leave a link down below to her website so you can check out her blog check out all the other things she has on her website you guys. She has like book recommendations. She has like so much she has so much information and personal experience. She really pours her heart into her blog and I definitely would recommend anyone to read it. So you guys I hopefully hopefully you enjoy watching today's video. Hopefully this kind of gives you a more inside in-depth view of this amazing Africa pack and um yeah as always you guys thank you so much for watching today's video and I look forward to seeing everybody in my next one. Bye


Good morning and welcome to episode 9 of the Lakeland 100 training series. My name's Stephen, this is Film by Run, let's get into it. Today we're going to be reviewing what the goals are for the Lakeland 100 and then looking at race specific training. So what running am I doing which is going to prepare me for the Lakeland 100 terrain? That's what's coming up. First we have to look at last week's training. I started on Monday doing 20K. So 10K nice and steady on the seafront in the morning and then 10K nice and steady with Zwift at the community run in the evening. On Tuesday we had the Film by Run 500 in the morning. If you haven't seen this before the Film by Run 500 is a 500 meter climb. It's 4.2 kilometers in distance but we set the treadmills at 12%. Which means that for every one kilometer we run we climb 120 meters. So over 4.2 kilometers that's 500 meters of climbing. We try and keep the heart rate low, it's not a cardio session. It's a muscle session for the calves and the quads. Then in the evening 9 hilly miles with the running club outdoors. Wednesday was a tough session. I did the Wednesday workout on Zwift which is 11 kilometers in distance but it's got 7K of kind of over threshold and under threshold intervals. So I was doing 15 kilometers an hour for 600 meters and then 400 meters at 14 kilometers an hour. I managed to complete the actual reps themselves but the intervals the last two I just had to walk in between because I was so hot and tired. But anyway we got it done. Thursday saw us doing the Film by Run 500 again and then Thursday evening bagged that badge. So that was about 9 kilometers. I think we did 10 kilometers actually bagged that badge. So that's about 14K for Thursday. Friday was another double day. So in the morning I did 18 kilometers flat on the seafront. Nice and relaxed filming the Lakeland 100 series video and then in the evening I did 9K ZLDR recovery run on Zwift. Saturday was another hard effort. So I had the interval session on Wednesday and then I did a hard fast 5K on Saturday morning at Park Run and then we did an easy 9K in the evening on the treadmill. So that left Saturday as a very easy day. I only had to do 12 kilometers in order to make up my full 120K target for the week. So 12 kilometers on Saturday and that was my week done. So overall I did 70 kilometers indoors on the treadmill on Zwift and 50 kilometers outdoors. And if you look at heart rate zones, well in zones 4 and 5 because I did two hard efforts this week I've managed to get up to 8% in zones 4 and 5. But just for fun let's break it down in two other ways. So in terms of the number of activities I did let's have a look. I did 12 activities, 12 sessions. Two of those were hard efforts. So as a percentage that's just over 16% hard effort. And if we do it in terms of distance I did 120 kilometers of distance. 16 of that was hard efforts. So 14% of my running was a hard effort this week. Look at it how you want. It's fun to break it down sometimes like that. So last week a few people asked me what my goals are for the Lakeland 100. And I realized I hadn't said anything about it since the first episode which is up there if you want to watch it. I am looking at the Lakeland in the same way as I looked at the Archive Attrition. Most people who've done both the Archive Attrition and Lakeland seem to finish it in a similar time. So I'm reckoning if I can do it in a similar time to Archive Attrition that is 30 hours. So my goal for Lakeland 100 is to finish it in under 30 hours. Now from what people tell me the first half of Lakeland 100 is more difficult than the second half. I've just been stung by nails on my leg. The first half is more difficult than the second half. Still I think if I can get the first half done in 15 to 16 hours and then the second half in 14 or 15 hours. Let's see. So race specific training. If you know the lakes you'll know how gnarly it is. So lots of rocks. You'll have some fields. You'll have some bogs. Even in the height of summer there are some places that are going to be wet. You'll have long steep climbs and long technical descents. So what am I doing that's mimicking that kind of terrain? Well if you want to mimic it almost exactly, well you'd go to the lakes wouldn't you? In Recky the course you would go to Scotland maybe somewhere around Kinlochleven and Ben Nevis. Maybe you'd go to Snowdonia or you'd go to the Breckon Beacons. Any of those places will have similar terrain. So it just so happens I am going to one of those places. Next week Victoria and I are running UTS the Ultra Trail Snowdonia 50k. That is going to be almost ideal conditions. Ideal terrain to mimic what's going to be found in the Lakeland 100. But here in Sussex we also have some pretty gnarly terrain sometimes. This is very loose rock similar to what you might find on some of the Lakeland trails. And this is on the South Downs way. So of course there's going to be a lot of elevation in Lakeland 100. And so I'm trying to get in at least 1000 preferably 2 to 3000 meters. That's about 9000 feet of elevation gain every week. So between 5000 and 9000 feet of gain a week. Just to prepare my legs for the incline but also for the descents. People often forget about how much you need to train your quadriceps for these descents. So that in Lakeland 100 my legs aren't completely trashed by half-glaze. So the best thing we have down here on the South is the South Downs. They're absolutely beautiful. The hills aren't huge but some of them can be technical enough to provide a decent simulation of the Lake District. It's never going to be perfect. But the South Downs is a pretty good stomping ground. So another race specific thing is time on feet. The Lakeland is going to take me at least 30 hours to do. Hopefully a little bit less possibly a little bit more depending on how things go. But I'm trying to spend about 10 to 12 hours a week on my feet. But the UTS 50K next week that is going to be about 10 to 12 hours on my feet in one go. So excellent time on feet experience there. I'm also relying on a little bit of past experience so I know what I can do. I know what I've done before. So despite the number of miles I do each week on a treadmill, I am keeping up a lot of outdoor mileage. I'm keeping up a lot of trail running, a lot of gnarly running, a lot of uphill and a lot of downhill. And it's all going to help. Even the treadmill running, keeping pace, keeping a good time, keeping a good rhythm. All that is still going to help with the Lakeland 100. So if you've got a race coming up it's well worth checking on the terrain and the conditions and the environment that you're going to be running in. Firstly, are you going to run on the flat or is it going to be hilly? Is it on tarmac? If it's hilly, what are the hills like? Are they nice tarmac hills or are they bolder fields that you've got to climb up? What time of year is your race? Is it in winter or is it in summer? Makes a difference to the kind of kit you use, the way you train. Is it going to be hot or is it going to be cold? What kind of clothes are you going to be wearing? Is there any portion of your run that's going to take place at night?  All of this affects how your training goes and what you plan to do in your training block. And if you haven't seen the rest of the Lakeland 100 series then click on this link just here and I'll take you to the playlist. Otherwise we'll see you next week for episode 10 of the 100 series and we'll be ramping it up to 130 kilometres. If you enjoyed the video please do subscribe and we'll see you next week. Take care, bye-bye.


We start with the journey today we want to see how we can use the metro train because it's one of the cheapest here with two rail per each ride you take or each station you go so we shall start by moving to the nearest waiting station where we can wait for the bus that directly take us to the metro station for the metro link that's the metro link free of charge metallic buses that take you direct to the metro station and this is actually how it looks like remember today we are going to see how we can use the metro the metro train to any destination that we want to go and definitely you know it's the cheapest around the public transport that you can have at a time comparably to other means of taking the Uber at the race remember we are looking at we are discovering we see what definitely how you can enjoy the country and how you can definitely have the cheaper services so this is the waiting area this is how it cool it is it is cool it is every station and it's actually very quiet and conditioned it's a very good waiting area remember outside we're in the park we in the park at all and for those that have visited the park at a lately you know what i'm talking about so this is how the park looks like there is a branch this is how the area looks like so we definitely look at we are going to use the metro link that's the metro link and the waiting area so we definitely have to wait for it and that's the construction that's right and those are the other areas so we are waiting for the bus right over here until we get to the next destination remember i talked about the metro link card this is how it looks like and it depends there is a gold there is a gold card it depends there is a gold and the standard card so this one i'm using a standard card because i wouldn't want to go to the VIP section i need to know normally as a normal person so this is how the card is and you normally only recharge it every single every single time that it's off your credit you can recharge it starting from 10 katharine that is the start-up point of it also definitely we we are right over here let's us try to see how we can wait for for the metro link that can take us down to the metro station then we can proceed and try to move we are discovering kathar you want to see what the best definitely you can do in this country and how you can definitely move on into a country like any other person to remind you for people who are moving out and close them you still need to have the mask or we send it out of the mask so that is the bus you see that's right over the bus is coming right here and we're going to take the bus then we move on and we try to see how much i can use this at a time and enjoy so you move with me you get another bus i'm called negatifia metro station and definitely this is definitely you see how it's a new travel experience we see a film is also open you can definitely also have it this is how the metro station that looks like and the speed is very good the area is very big and definitely you can have yourself move on these are the metro buses free of charge that you can take and move wherever you want to go so we are moving this is the metro station you definitely see this is the one we are using right now so you definitely let's move getting to the metro station this is how it looks like for people that have not come here this is the cheapest means of transport that you can have you only need to travel wherever you have to to travel and without exiting if you exit then you have to they'll have to charge you another tour here but if you are moving from one metro station to another one station to another without exceeding then definitely you definitely have to definitely have to pay that so remember the covid the covid precautions still say wear a mask at all times and if you are unaware don't travel stay safe and space you need to maintain so that one this is how the metro station looks like it's pretty very nice very beautiful metro station and this is how it looks like it's pretty very good so we are moving we're moving to the metro station I want to try to see how we can access the cheapest public transport so remember this slide in going down slow to take the escalators still will have to go this is how very nice very clean the environment so I'm going to sap in my card now right now I'm given permission to go this is what I was telling you so when you have this when you sap in your card it will give you permission to go inside that means you're already inside the metro station now you are given access to take the metro stations wherever to your destination that you are going to so I'm exiting I'm exiting out of the bus the metro station which is pretty very good so I think I'm moving and it definitely what you can do all right so let us go together okay so I'm exiting now


Thank you very much member statements the member for Niagara Center Thank you speaker next week is nurses week in Ontario COVID has shown the vital role that nurses play in every aspect of health But frontline health care workers are reaching out to my office in droves and many are at the breaking point Our nurses are working tirelessly often with minimal support in Niagara Our ICU capacity is at 108% and our level three ICU the highest level is at 164% Despite this unprecedented strain on our health care system, this government has yet again refused to support new nurses in their work Frontline health care workers report that when exposed to COVID-19 in the line of duty They are sent home without pay while the premier was able to take 12 paid days for his isolation The health care workers on our front lines are left with nothing I've raised the issue of unpaid isolation numerous times with this government and the minister the Niagara health system stepped up When this government wouldn't and provided isolation pay while this government dragged its feet that program expired on March 31st And nurses are once again left carrying the financial burden and added stress How is it possible that in our current situation this government would place additional stress and anxiety on the backs of the workers Who are already carrying us through this crisis nurses and health care workers have been fighting on the front lines They should not lose one cent of their income when exposed to a virus this government has failed to contain Shame on this government for their lack of support for our nurses and frontline health care heroes when they need us most Next we have the member for Burlington. Thank you so much speaker across North America this week Occupational health and safety is in the spotlight as employers work workers and safety Organizations focus on the importance of preventing injury and illness in the workplace at home and in the community This week has been observed in Canada the United States and Mexico since 1997 Speaker for decades Ontario and Canada have led the way in improving workplace health and safety most recently the auditor generals 2019 annual report found that Ontario has the lowest time injury rates of any province for the past ten years But we can do better That's why I'm proud that tomorrow for the first time ever we recognize Occupational safety and health day in Ontario Every year on the first Tuesday in May this day will help promote health and safety by highlighting the rules and responsibilities of employers supervisors and Workers to support and nurture a health and safety culture every day in every workplace to mark this inaugural event I'm hosting a zoom event together with the League of Champions and health and safety experts from across Ontario at 10 30 a.m. Tomorrow to register. Please visit Jane McKenna MPP dot ca slash safety and health Hope you can join us. Thank you speaker The member for Windsor to come see speaker my thanks to you for chairing the panel Let's select it Ontario's first poet laureate to wander the memory of Gord Downey of the tragically hip Scarborough's 29 year old Randall Adjaye will be an officer of the legislature for a two-year term I thought it might be appropriate this morning for a bit of poetry speaker. I've called it Randall He's hip. Oh, so hip our new friend Randall His poetry has spoken word. He does so well not Tragically hip, but oh oh so hip. He's Ontario's first Poet laureate When Gord Downey would be oh so proud as Randall always attracts an appreciative crowd The laureate position was named in Gord's memory here in our provincial parliamentary In doing so we honor Gord's legacy and Randall brings the same intensity Not tragically hip, but magically hip. Yes. Oh, so magically hip His spoken word his poetry Creates the possibility to educate and motivate for all of us to appreciate a new modern passionate and literate poet laureate The memory of Gord Downey and there's no debate His lyrics it's been a long time running a long time in coming, but it's been worth the wait Thank you very much the member for mississauga Malton. Thank you missus speaker missus speaker I would like to spotlight an incredible organization from my writing of mississauga malton Serving the community for 35 years seven locations in brampton mississauga and oakville with 140 staff who provide excellent culturally appropriate service to newcomers families women and seniors Indus community services is a true community partner During the pandemic indus hosted over 5,000 virtual adult day service sessions helped over hundred people 150 people in fact miss speaker filed their taxes through their free clinic as part of our government's 12.5 million investment strategy for high priorities community indus has provided 36,000 people with information on testing and distributed over 12,000 PPE kits They also created a website up now health dot org which provides information about covid 19 resources in hindi urdu tamil bengali and punjabi I want to thank 24 community health ambassadors for going door-to-door in my writing Talking to the people and providing them with the information and the resources they need A decade ago. I served on indus community board and i'm proud to have played a small part in their journey I would like to thank mohine sarin chandachi for lifetime of volunteering and congratulate past edy kittichada and current edy gurpreet malhotra For that dedicated team for their tireless service and taking indus to these heights with this message I want to say thank you for your services during this tough time. Thank you, mr. Speaker Member for hamilton west and castor dundas Thank you It's always an honor to rise on behalf of the good people of hamilton west and castor dundas And for the last year and a half our residents in fact everyone in ontario Has endured so much during the covid 19 pandemic So it's been an inspiration to witness the resilience the creativity and the innovation in our community But mr. Speaker with spring just around the corner I'm delighted to highlight some wonderful green initiatives in my writing The hamilton seed library is an issue of the of the local hamilton gardening community and maintained by green venture It's a hub for folks to borrow share and donate seeds at no cost Another great program or gardening project is the grower row program This program was a response to the covid 19 crisis and is a way for local gardeners to help fight Food insecurity so gardeners commit to planting an extra row of produce and they're in their home gardens to Donate to local food banks both neighbor to neighbor and the hamilton community fridge have been recipients Of this and have been able to offer locally grown fresh produce to folks in hamilton We also have the pollinator project Which is a partnership of a hamilton naturalist club and environment hamilton and they're helping gardeners to create spaces for at-risk pollinators And i'm happy to say that my office is also excited to play a role in growing pollinator gardens We have pollinator friendly native wildflower seeds available for individuals and community groups who are interested In community greening projects. So I want to give a big thank you to all of our local gardeners to all of our community Groups who are not only growing gardens, but are also helping to grow resilient communities. Thank you, mr. Speaker Next statement the member for don valley west. Thank you very much, mr. Speaker Mr. Speaker, ontario's green belt is the source of pride to me and to the vast majority of the people of ontario Not because of any partisanship or politics Polling numbers show that nine out of ten ontarians support the green belt and that 86 of ontarians Agree that the green belt is one of the most important contributions of our generation to the future of ontario It is an active stewardship of land water trees and wildlife for future generations In my tenure as premier, we received literally hundreds of requests to open up the green belt to make adjustments for development Only in a handful of cases did we respond? We believe that the green belt should never be shrunk But should only be expanded which we did and continue to plan further expansions In ontario, we have a government currently that has turned back the clock on environmental protection The forward government has decided that ministerial zoning orders which override local decision making will be the rule Rather than the infrequent exception They've revisited our government's decision to cancel the building of highway 4 13 And are now pushing to build this unnecessary highway against the wishes of local communities and environmental good sense And now the government has appointed the least environmentally responsible former environment minister in ontario's history To tear that body the order the tear of the the green belt council, mr. Speaker Norm sterling oversaw the tragedy of walkerton He voted against the green belt act and he argued for a decrease in the size of the green belt in his debate of that bill The forward government claims that it supports the green belt, but there is absolutely nothing in its actions that support that claim, mr. Speaker Next we have the member for scarborough aging court Good morning, mr. Speaker In the last few weeks, we have heard and witnessed increased act of racism against our asian neighbors and friends The anti asian bigotry hatred and prejudice are alien to our society They contradict canadian values and traditions The perpetrator of these crimes do not represent The canadian and ontarian people My writing of scarborough aging cause is a diverse society that enriches our daily lives And i am proud of it over 50 percent of The residents are from south asian descent I have heard from so many of them and listened to their anxieties I have even participated in two press conferences organized by various community organizations To sensitize the public about these heinous incidents and condemned it furthermore They launched coalition to stand on guard and eliminate such Acts regrettably the kovat pandemic Exasperated this phenomenon Especially against the chinese community I am pleased to say that various community organizations regardless of their background And elected officials notable canadians and the public at large are standing up in support of Asian community and slamming such behavior as against our peaceful and law abiding citizens Mr. Speaker It is our duty to condemn these deeds by a tiny minority and educate future generations of the catastrophic result of prejudice Exxonophobia and hated in our society. Thank you member statements the member for tronald anport Thank you speaker speaker. Why does the premier want to prolong the kovat pandemic? I can't figure that out and neither can anyone else in this province Last week the premier brought in a half measure On paid sick days after more than a year of pressure from doctors nurses public health advisors and many others They told him what was needed to stop transmission of the disease in workplace to bring it under control And he still won't do what's needed to actually bring the pandemic under control Last week the premier brought in a partial version of what the science table had called for A ramped-up focus on virus hotspots instead of providing the vaccine necessary for the hottest outbreak zones For the amount of time needed to actually win He gave us much less than we needed Speaker this is not the first time he's ignored the science and prolonged the pandemic In february scientists told him that if he opened things up We would have many more cases and many many more deaths Prolonging the pandemic and he went ahead and he prolonged the pandemic More deaths more misery more frustration for a public that has had its fail It's time for the premier to stop stalling Stop with half measures and actually do what we need to do to end the pandemic and let people Get on with their lives. Thank you speaker Member for oakville Thank you speaker and it's an honor to rise in the legislature this morning This past year has been unlike any that we can ever Look back in history to and it has been truly hard on everyone In my writing of oakville and throughout the province of ontario But it is our first responders who continue to be The experienced frontline duty officers that have experienced the brunt of this pandemic This past weekend on saturday may 1st It was first responders day and we all took a moment to thank the incredible work and sacrifices of these hard working men and women Despite the extreme challenges and difficulties this pandemic has presented We continue to rely on them every day and we count on our first responders to be there when we need them most Oakville and hulton are fortunate to have great leadership from the hulton regional police under the leadership of chief steve tanner Hulton paramedics under the leadership of greg sahaj and the oakville firefighters under the leadership and direction of chief paul What's so known that support our community whether our first responders wear a police and ems or a fire uniform They put others before themselves every day on the job Not only does my community count on them for our safety and health and importantly our pandemic response But they support our community with charity events and educational opportunities I'm extremely grateful for the accomplishments and sacrifices of the local first responders and responders throughout ontario. Thank you speaker Member for mississauga center Thank you speaker on friday I received my first dose of the covet 19 vaccine at the mississauga hospital in my riding of mississauga lake shore And i want to thank the hardworking staff Volunteers at the trillium health partners who ensured the process was smooth seamless as possible I also want to thank dr. Ben watt the the Tour of the uh, sorry care point health for working with me to set up a vaccine clinic for essential workers at sure good foods Workplace and community pop-up clinics began last week at maple leaf foods maple lodge farms and will continue this week at amazon canada Last week was world immunization week And we hit some important milestones in peel as of friday over 531,000 doses have been Administrated in peel we hit 70 percent coverage for population over 60 and 40 percent For all other other adults because in the past few weeks the number of doses delivered to peel has been among the highest in the province as per capita base of the 1,000 doses the provincial province expected to receive this week alone about 151,000 almost 20 percent will be allocated to peel for the hotspot community that need it most Most adults in peel will be eligible to book an appointment beginning this week This is the best way to protect you and your loved ones and our frontline health workers So i urge everyone to take this vaccine as soon as possible. Thank you Say thank you to the member for mississauga league short Member for london west has informed me she has a point of order if she wishes to agree Yes, thank you speaker I rise on a point of order to seek unanimous consent to bring forward a motion to pass bill 239 The official opposition's paid sick days bill so we can follow the science table's advice to protect Ontario workers from covet 19 and make sure no one has to make the difficult choice between staying home if they are sick and paying the bills To bring forward a motion to pass bill 239 agreed