We live in Artificial Intelligence Times. Futurist Times! Nowadays, everything IS math, computer systems and geometry for energy-efficient and humane algorithms…

Spatial Relations. Focus & Flows.

This is an article focusing systems change and systems design on an actual urgent Dutch racism and citizen-debt problem and the SYNERGY systems solutions that are INSIDE the problem.

Dance dance dancing an abundance with paradoxes and more. It is the feminine way of dealing with life’s sh*tties and designing new systems with AI (scenarios) and blockchains (smart contracts).

Time flies, I work already 35+ years among men in technology. I truly love my male colleagues but oh oh oh… women colleagues have often more sense… Because, WHAT do you use all those sciences and technologies for if not for healthy humanities?

And while many of us just surf the electromagnetic leyline grids of our fast-spinning planet with our superficial intuition just like migrant birds, dolphins and whales do, I founded an Abundance Academy in 2012 full of life-sciences, humanities, and design solutions to urgent human system problems…

SYNERGY & biomimicry patterns.

The problem often holds the solutions INSIDE.

Our easy method of ESG analysis (environmental and social governance, blue-green economy) involves PLACE ~ TIME | SPACE in the rhythms.

TIMING is how our planet works for real. it has nothing to do with time-management like the top-picture, since our Old Greeks, the language we speak in technology and Pythagoras math, have 2 words for time.

• Kairos = cosmological grids, weather, FEELING time go slow or fast
• Chronos = measured time. Not real time of course, but a figment of French imagination and Swiss clocks 400 years ago.

Old-fashioned, since Newton is now being replaced by Einstein and there will be more megalomaniac men trying to give us “truths”. You can go to Mother Moon and Venus or Father Mars with it, but that’s about all.

It has little to do with actual LIFE or SOLUTIONS to real-life problems. Or does it? Give us in the comments YOUR opinions.

Strands of accumulated wisdom matter for Education 4 ALL…

Our easy method of ESG involves PLACE ~ TIME | SPACE in the rhythms. Be Here & Now. Analyze. Design Solutions.

Quantum is just Time=Space and the direction of math strands is inversely related. But it’s what you DO with your quantum biology brain cells that matters most… The cosmology-AI teams are making the REALTIME AI-SYNERGY systems right now and I’m part of their rhythm-teams.

Exciting women-in-tech work for Healthy & Humanity.

In 2026, the Einstein Telescope will most probably be built in my Dutch area Limburg, which is also Max Verstappen’s area of minimum materials for maximum speed and maximum noise. Hahahahahaha…

Men and their loud combustion engines…

Quantum explained simply? If TIME goes bigger, SPACE goes smaller. A mirror. They don’t know how exactly yet, do they? Read our cosmology and biology-math-professor Johan Gielis and you might make sense of it all…

Helical Heartmath 💓 Nature Rhythms. Algorithms. The Heart as a rope model in a Unified Field of Moebius Math. And whales hunting without nets with sonar bubbles “Tuned for Attraction” in a Fibonacci Spiral.

So, how do we make all that math simple with ESG — environmental and social governance? Institutional toxicity???

Here is a suggestion I give my students and my own Dutch government. Systems Change on 2 levels:

• compassionate leadership
• computer systems

You take an urgent, BIG, institutional ESG problem. Like our Dutch childcare benefit scandal in 2021. It’s still not solved. Suicides. Child-abuse. Racism. And the aftermath is still wrecking lives and children’s futures.

It’s a huge shame! What does our government DO about it? Nothing! They debate and talk about left and right and whatever more…

What would be a better Dutch Design of Systems Change?

Step 1: You distill the urgent problem to its 2 or 3 root causes. What are those in the case of the childcare benefit scandal?

🔥 INSTITUTIONAL RACISM — people were called fraudsters based on non-Dutch sounding names. My son-in-law was one of them! I got angry! And then I turned my anger into education for young designers.

🌀 TIME-MATH — people had to pay back what they had spent on costs for childcare. You can’t UNDO the childcare. So why UNDO the benefits? Gaia Theory = Exponential Growth, tipping points, turning points: a fault of 500 euro became an exponential 90,000 euro by the TIME officials found out how their system had failed.

It wasn’t the fault of parents. But they paid the price. Not the officials. Officials stayed on board with their safe salaries. And even if they would have been fired they would have gotten benefits — paid for by — citizens and simple working-class people who take risks as well and never have a safety net.… White-collar “criminals” make laws that suit them, not their bosses, the “normal” entrepreneurial working-class people…

🤢 SUICIDE — in the end, some parents killed themselves over being called “racist names” and over these huge debts. Children were taken from their parents because their companies went bankrupt, they lost their houses, they became homeless, and marriages did not survive the huge debt and blame-stress.

Never blame. Never shame…

Or put the “blame” between brackets… hahahahahaha. I do have to explain the bias of officials with a bit of passion, don’t I? I’m utterly angry at our government for making a mess and then… not solving this mess quicker…

My Abundance Academy students have to be aware that if they choose government jobs, they will be chosen and paid by working-class citizens and should make healthy systems for ALL, not just for themselves and their safe salaries…

The problems hold their solutions INSIDE. So, while you unravel the problem, the solutions appear in your mind’s eye. That’s called The Journey. The TAO. Unravel, experience, and you understand more…

… solutions…

It’s a huge shame! What does our government DO about it? Nothing! They debate left and right…

😭 maybe we can start with a Japanese solution of showing urgency and CARE - the responsible technologists can go on his/her/their knees and apologize from the depths of their hearts. 💞 Show real remorse.

Public blame taken by government officials who are in our citizen service and should be bowing to our needs and our safety instead of debating about left or right “being right”. What form should that apology take? I don’t know, that’s YOUR leadership style…

The Math = Gaia Theory = Exponential Growth: a fault of 500 euro became an exponential 90,000 euro by the TIME officials found out how THEIR system had failed.

The Humanity = Show you are responsible for your team that made a mistake and that you CARE. Promise to solve it ALL for prevention. And make your promise come true by perseverance.

The computer-systems itself should be repaired too of course.

❤️‍🩹 Repair for prevention: 1st root cause — racism — is easy to solve: anonymous systems. A number instead of a name. No picture. No gender. No age. Just anonymous.

❤️‍🩹 The 2nd root cause is about TIME, SPEED & DEBTS accumulating. Accumulation is the biggest problem in our systems always. Accumulation gives toxicity, accumulation gives exponential growth of toxicity…

AI now can solve it all without accumulative debts. In this case, NEVER EVER EVER ask for money back when institutional system fail.

• Quicker decisions! SUPER-FAST like a cheetah.
• Do NOT repair benefit-mistakes. Get the money from somewhere else in the system. And repair the math in the system immediately too, MISTAKE PREVENTION! Not repair.
• Get these victims new homes and give children immediately back to their parents. The longer it takes, the more the parents go down in self-pity. The longer it takes, the more children get used to their foster parents. They don’t want to go back to poverty and reality. Both are “biology of mind”.

Do you understand now why TIME (together with PLACE & SPACE) is crucial for ESG systems redesigns? TIME, TIMING, SPEED.

The Math = Gaia Theory = Exponential Growth: a fault of 500 euro became an exponential 90,000 euro by the TIME officials found out how their system had failed.

Systems change can be done with all kinds of modern math, energy-efficient algorithms, Web3.0 and heart-math-rhythms too.

• Blockchains — seems logical in this case, since accumulating debt IS a money system and crypto is the new way of DeFi. Decentralized finance and trust in a system. Smart contracts. Trustful interconnections.
• AI is the Artificial Intelligence with which you make predictions and solve the matter of never asking money back. You can IMMERSE future scenarios into your system and this is what most modern governments and modern companies are doing these days.

For me, in my biological mind, part masculine, part feminine, Blockchains and AI are like Life-Sciences. Paradoxes of male and female.

Seeming opposites but you need them both.

In a systems picture, blockchain and Artificial Intelligence (AI) represent two opposing but complementary forces — decentralized, immutable, and deterministic validation (Blockchain) versus centralized, probabilistic, and adaptive intelligence (AI).

Blockchain serves as the decentralized foundation for truth and trust, while AI serves as the engine for futurist insights and automation.

Happy Code like a Girl, dear women and girls in tech.

Make sure your codes are always used to solve a real & urgent human problem! Boris Lavrov wrote an old (2017) but insightful piece in the Toggle Tds Archive for The Medium Newsletter. The deeper HOW.

BLOCKCHAIN VS. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

And for the real scholars, here is an insightful PDF about how blockchains and AI can be used like complementary opposites.

Love from the leadership world of Abundance 4 ALL

Desiree — Woman in Nature... *by Nature *by Design

What Can AI Technology Do for Future Healthy Humanity? was originally published in Code Like A Girl on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Last Thursday Julian Gavaghan and the Woolwich Observer published the following story titled "Region left scrambling after water shortage poses development challenges".  Overall it is an excellent article and I say this despite recent criticism from myself aimed towards both the Observer and particularly the K-W Record. In the Record's case it had to do with multiple errors in a November 15/25 Record article describing the Elmira Water Crisis and the failed 2028 cleanup. Last Thursday's Observer article delineates the sensitive jurisdictional areas shared between the Region and the Townships and cities in regards to development growth. 

I am somewhat concerned when mayor Shantz suggests that "We will have to work with our development community to ensure new neighbourhoods have the services they need." Woolwich's priority right now should be sustaining services including water and sewage to our established neighbourhoods who have been paying the freight through taxes for many decades. Secondly at least mayor Shantz suggested that Woolwich is working "with" not "for" the development community because it often looks like that. 

The Region of Waterloo has approximately 100 groundwater wells however lots of them are contaminated with industrial pollution including Trichloroethylene, benzene and NDMA. The Region have always found it politic NOT to discuss those MAJOR boo boos. Besides the industrial pollution there is also agricultural pollution from nitrates and Glyphosate as well as salt from our roads. Gravel pits are also a threat to our groundwater although they are rarely denied permits to either expand or dig new ones even closer to potential markets saving transportation costs to the aggregates industry.  

The Observer article also points out the very negative effects our current Conservative Premier has had upon our water sources with less oversight and Ministerial Zoning Orders. There was also discussion of the huge costs of building a pipeline from Lake Erie to Waterloo Region. I might suggest that perhaps further discussion around the alleged impossibility of mixing the two water systems with their different disinfection systems (chlorine vs. chloaramines)  would be appropriate.

The luxury real estate market is stepping into 2026 with confidence, clarity, and a noticeable shift in buyer behaviour. While North America’s luxury sector closed 2025 with resilience and renewed momentum, Waterloo Region is mirroring that strength in a way that’s especially relevant for local luxury homeowners.

Here’s what the latest data reveals and what it actually means if you’re buying or selling luxury real estate in Waterloo Region.

December 2025 delivered an unexpectedly strong finish for luxury real estate across North America. Instead of the usual seasonal slowdown, luxury sales increased month-over-month for both single-family and attached properties. Single-family luxury sales rose 9.4% from November, while attached luxury properties surged nearly 16%.

Median prices remained stable overall, reinforcing that this is not a hype-driven rebound. This is a strategic, demand-supported market shift.
Inventory expanded across most luxury segments, giving buyers more choice, while sellers remained disciplined and intentional. The result is a healthier, more balanced luxury environment heading into 2026, driven less by speculation and more by lifestyle priorities, financial planning, and long-term value.

Luxury buyers today are more informed, more selective, and more purposeful. Design quality, lifestyle functionality, wellness features, and location relevance are now just as influential as price.

While global luxury trends matter, real estate is always local. And Waterloo Region’s luxury market is quietly outperforming expectations.

Waterloo Region’s single-family luxury market closed December in seller-favoured territory, supported by strong absorption and stable pricing.

Key highlights:

• Luxury benchmark price: $1,100,000
• Total luxury inventory: 134 homes
• Total luxury sales: 28 homes
• Sales ratio: 21% (Seller’s Market)
• Median luxury sale price: $1,297,500
• Median days on market: 56 days
• Sale-to-list price ratio: 95.92%

The most active price band was $1.3M–$1.399M, confirming where serious luxury demand is currently concentrated.

This data signals a market where well-positioned, properly marketed luxury homes are still moving, but buyers are more analytical, and execution matters more than ever.

The attached luxury segment in Waterloo Region is trending more balanced, offering opportunity on both sides of the transaction.

Key highlights:

• Luxury benchmark price: $700,000
• Total inventory: 70 homes
• Total sales: 9 homes
• Sales ratio: 13% (Balanced Market)
• Median luxury sale price: $735,000
• Median days on market: 45 days
• Sale-to-list price ratio: 95.07%

The most active attached luxury price range was $740K–$759K, showing where lifestyle-driven buyers are stepping in.

This balanced environment gives buyers more negotiating room, while sellers who price and present strategically are still achieving strong results.

Across North America, luxury real estate has evolved beyond status and square footage.

Today’s high-end buyers are prioritizing:

• Lifestyle functionality
• Wellness and home performance
• Long-term adaptability
• Location-based value
• Design and move-in readiness
• Smart and energy-efficient features

Luxury homes are being evaluated as life assets, not just properties.

This same behaviour is now clearly showing up in Waterloo Region. Buyers are slower to act, but quicker to commit when a home aligns with their lifestyle, values, and future plans.

Sellers, meanwhile, are entering the market more selectively. Pricing is becoming increasingly data-driven, presentation is non-negotiable, and marketing quality is a defining success factor.

This is not a market for testing prices or relying on generic marketing.

Luxury sellers in 2026 win when they focus on:

• Precision pricing
• Lifestyle-forward presentation
• Strategic exposure
• Elevated branding and storytelling
• Data-backed positioning

Waterloo Region remains one of Ontario’s most resilient and quietly competitive luxury markets. But buyers are sophisticated, and homes that don’t align with expectations are sitting longer and negotiating harder.

The opportunity is strong. The margin for error is not.

Luxury buyers now have more leverage than they did a year ago, without losing market stability.

This is a window where buyers can:

• Be more selective
• Negotiate intelligently
• Target long-term value
• Secure lifestyle-driven properties
• Enter the market without speculative pressure

Balanced conditions in the attached segment and seller-favoured momentum in detached luxury homes mean strategy matters. The right property, priced properly, still attracts competition. The wrong one creates opportunity.

Waterloo Region’s luxury market is entering 2026 aligned with the strongest North American luxury trends: stability, strategic demand, expanding choice, and lifestyle-driven value.

For sellers, this is a market that rewards preparation and professional execution.
For buyers, this is a market that rewards patience, clarity, and local expertise.

Luxury real estate is no longer about timing hype. It’s about positioning assets correctly in a smarter, more intentional marketplace.

The post Waterloo Region Luxury Real Estate Market Update – January 2026 appeared first on Kitchener Waterloo Real Estate Agent - The Deutschmann Team.

Thank God they are because politicians who don't fear the public unfortunately often hold them in contempt. In a perfect world there would be a constant level of mutual respect but that world if it ever was, no longer is. Our local papers here include the Woolwich Observer and the Waterloo Region Record (K-W Record).  I think Cambridge still have a weekly newspaper (Cambridge Times?) and Waterloo (the Chronicle). Certainly the papers here in Elmira have been all over the Region for their missteps from kicking homeless people out of their tents, to amassing a 700 acre industrial site from agricultural lands in Wilmot to screwing up assessing our water supply.  There are lots more including too much money to local police and too little to social agencies and mental health supports for the population. 

According to Luisa D'Amato's Opinion piece in today's Record there will be further answers provided at this Wednesday's Regional council meeting. Luisa is also advising that an Open Town Hall meeting is needed to regain and restore public trust. It would certainly help if it is done properly versus otherwise. A couple of points I must raise from Terry Pender's article in last Saturday's Record: Why is the Greenbrook wellfield still shut down after the ammonia/chlorine explosion there a few years back? If it is simple failure to purchase or repair damaged equipment then shame on the Region. On the other hand if it is due to the long known contamination plume being drawn from the Ottawa St. Landfill to the west, contaminating the wellfield, then fess up. Both Uniroyal and Varnicolor and God knows how many other industries dumped their toxic wastes into that landfill whether legally or illegally. Varnicolor got caught at least once illegally dumping liquid solvents  in drums into that landfill. Secondly we are advised that the aquifer that the Region found last summer to have low water levels was AFB2. Now if that is accurate that is a huge problem. Just look at the conceptual drawing included in Mr. Pender's article.  If AFB2 water levels are low then according to that drawing probably so are AFB1 located above it with only a partial aquitard between them.  This makes AFB2 a semi-confined aquifer versus a fully confined aquifer. Having two aquifers with a direct hydraulic connection would indicate that low water levels in the lower one probably also means the same with the one above. Unless... the Region are back playing games just like CRA did here in Elmira for decades picking and choosing inappropriate monitoring locations in order to fudge groundwater elevations.

A skeptic might also suggest that giving answers to most regional politicians is a waste of time based upon their past useage of data and information supplied to them by staff. Perhaps in the current critical climate they might focus their attention a little better. 

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KITCHENER - The Kitchener Panthers are proud to announce the signing of pitcher Evan Elliott.

Elliott was a key piece to the Kitchener rotation in 2025, making 12 starts on the season.

The former Texas Rangers and Toronto Blue Jays farmhand had a 6.86 ERA in 60.1 innings of work. He had 68 strikeouts to 35 walks, and finished with a 2-4 record.

He was a 15th round pick to Texas in 2021 and spent four seasons in the Arizona and Florida Complex leagues with the Rangers and Jays.

"I am excited to have Evan returning to our pitching staff," said general manager Shanif Hirani.

"Evan's high powered fastball and plus breaking ball make him an uncomfortable at bat for opposing hitters. His versatility to be able to start or come out of the bullpen will also be extremely valuable."

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EVAN ELLIOTT

• Bats/Pitches: R/R
• Hometown: Toronto, ON
• Birthdate: January 10, 2001
• Pronunciation: EV-in ELL-ee-uht

It’s a reality that millions of professionals face in Corporate.

It was 2015. The summer night was heavy, and the office air was stagnant. I was nursing my 10th cup of coffee, staring at a vending machine that seemed to judge me for how often I pressed the button. It was 10 PM.

The next morning, the clients arrived. I sat there, heart racing, data ready. But they didn’t even look at it. They detoured to a completely different topic.

Later at lunch, I asked my manager about the data I’d sacrificed my sleep for. She shrugged. “I didn’t think they’d ask for it, but I wanted us to be prepared just in case.”

My jaw dropped. I thought about the 10 PM cab I almost missed. I thought about the 10 other times when this had happened in the last 6 months. I realized that while I was busy being “available” for these “just-in-case” tasks, my actual KRAs (Key Responsibility Areas) were gathering dust.

A train of thoughts engulfed me, “Is my career growth getting a massive hit because of this Fake Urgency ?”

Years went by, and here I am.

Through years of experience and mentoring from senior leaders, I developed a 4-step framework to protect my time and my career.

1. The art of saying No
2. Verify the deadline
3. Protect your deep work
4. Fear of Layoff

Don’t say ‘No’ immediately. Instead, ask for the trade-off. When a new ‘urgent’ task hits your desk, use this script:

‘I understand this is a priority. To ensure I give this the focus it needs, which of my current high-priority tasks should I move to the back burner to make room for this?”

This forces your manager to acknowledge your workload and take responsibility for the prioritization.

Often, “urgent” is just a default setting for a manager.

“Ask them: ‘What is the impact if this is delivered tomorrow morning instead of tonight?’”

You will be surprised how your manager can relieve you from the stress.

Your value as an engineer is the quality of the systems that you build, not how fast you reply to Slack messages.
Block two hours a day where your status is ‘Away.’ Use that for the heavy lifting work.

This is a bitter truth. Layoffs hardly depend on how good or bad you were. It’s a strategic decision taken by the company. Do not let fear of layoff overshadow your growth as a professional.

If you find yourself in the cycle of fake urgency, remember: Availability is not a skill; understanding when to say NO is. The most respected professionals aren’t the ones who do everything — they are the ones who know exactly what not to do.

Thank you for joining my journey

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When: Saturday May 2nd, 3:00 – 4:30 pm

Meeting Point: St.Andrews Park, Cambridge (Lansdowne Rd S,)

Walk Leader: Michael Krupp

Florence Dickson, granddaughter of the Honorable William Dickson, created the neighborhood of Dickson Hill. Many of Galt’s elites built and owned homes in this neighborhood. This will be a look at those homes and some history of the people who owned them.

When: Friday May 1st, 7:00 – 8:30pm

Meeting Point: Queen’s Square, Cambridge

Walk Leader: Michael Krupp

This walk will look at locations in downtown Galt and surrounding area where Hollywood and Streaming Production have been filmed. A description and discussion of how Cambridge was used as a backdrop will be included.

When: Sunday May 3rd, 3:00 – 4:30 pm

Meeting Point: Queen’s Square, Cambridge

Walk Leader: Michael Krupp

As we walk around the many old buildings of downtown Galt, you will hear tales of William Dickson and his family. Stories such as the duel William had with William Weekes and the interesting war stories of William and his two brothers Robert and Thomas during the War of 1812 are just a few of the exciting tales that will be told

When: Friday May 1st, 6:30 – 8:00 pm

Meeting Point: Centre in the Square, 101 Queen St. N.

Walk Leader: Fiona McAlister

A stroll down musical memory lane. We will start at Centre in the Square where we’ll talk about the Kitchener Symphony, Gilbert and Sullivan society, and the popular artists who have played there and end at the former site of The Lyric which hosted everyone and everything from the first performance of the K-W Symphony to Rush. In between, we will learn about everything from early German choral music to blues festivals.

When: Saturday May 2nd, 10 – 11:15 am

Meeting Point: 175 Moore Ave

Walk Leader: Fiona McAlister

We would visit graves of some of the founders and builders of Kitchener such as Johann Peter Schneider, Emil Volgelsang, and Louis Jacob Breithaupt along with the graves of Catherine Ubel (who has the earliest date of birth in the cemetary), Peter Susand – who was the first black writer to publish a book of poetry in Canada, Morris Wahanskky with his hammer and sickle grave stone. We will talk about the history of the cemetery (including that it used to be segregated by religion) and the move to its current location and what is entailed in moving a cemetery. We’ll talk about the flu pandemic that ripped through Kitchener and the young men who died in WW1

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