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SCG publishes Code of Conduct for local cash recycling
Following a consultation which began in February this year, the Strategic Cash Group (SCG) has published the final version of the Code of Conduct for the Authentication of Machine-Dispensed Banknotes ('the Code').
It also published its formal response to the consultation, the results of which are reflected in the Code.
The Code requires retailers and ATM deployers to enable machine-dispensed banknotes to be authenticated using a device tested by the Bank. Robust banknotes authentication is vital to ensure that the public can always trust that the banknotes they receive are genuine.
The Code sets out banknote authentication standards for those businesses that self-fill their ATMs or self service check-outs using banknotes tended by members of the public (a process known as 'local recycling').
These are comparable to the high standards already required of the wholesale cash industry (which continues to supply the vast majority of banknotes acquired by the public). Nearly thirty consultation responses were received from ATM deployment, retail, banking, cash-in-transit and other companies.
Commenting, Chris Salmon, Executive Director, Banking & Chief Cashier of the Bank Of England, said: "We are grateful to all of the organisations that have provided feedback to the consultation. By clearly setting out the responsibilities associated with local recycling, the Code will help organisations make well-informed choices about their cash management processes. And compliance with the Code means that banknotes recirculated into the economy can always be robustly authenticated: a key pillar in maintaining the public's confidence in the currency."
Adrian Kamellard, CEO of the Payments Council, which is overseeing the Code's implementation, commented: "The Payments Council's central position in the industry makes us well placed to further manage the Code and to ensure that it delivers real benefits without getting in the way of business operations, especially for small retailers. Ultimately it's all about working together to uphold the public's trust in cash and we're looking forward to working with all parties involved to put the Code into practice."
View the document and supporting materials
https://www.paymentscouncil.org.uk/what_do_we_do/cash/cash_recycling_code/


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6 SORTS OF MUSIC YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT
You will discover A large number of differing types of audio that have distinct characteristics. The different sorts of incorporate:
They originated through the African-American operate tracks. The tracks are characterized by straightforward and basic patterns. The initial blues tune was printed in 1912 and was composed by Hart Wand. Before 1940s, blues songs was played unplugged but with the entry of electric powered devices, most of the music now heavily depends over the devices. Based on specialists, the songs will be the precursor of R&B and Rock music. There are many types of blues new music with the preferred staying Delta, Chicago, Soar, East coast, and leap blues.
It is said to generally be on the list of oldest surviving kinds of contemporary instances. A lot of people think about it as the most restrictive and official sorts of tunes. It really is sung with uncontrolled vibrato and complete emotional launch. Even though the audio is great, it often lacks the intimacy that is popular with most other sorts of tunes. There are various varieties of this songs including: opera, madrigals, symphony, chamber new music, choral and Gregorian chant.
This is the wide kind of songs that is characterised by a robust defeat, simple chord composition, and infrequently played loudly. The primary devices applied are electrical guitar, bass, vocals, and drums. Specialists report that the tracks originated through the fusion of nation music and blues. There are plenty of forms of this songs under this style. They incorporate: Rock n roll, southern, garage, glam and punk rock.
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Also called the classical Variation on the blues songs, it resulted from Amongst the black Neighborhood of the southern US. The tunes is usually executed by ensembles but in some instances, one artists conduct it also. The songs are characterised by African undertones which are obvious inside the combination of improvisations, syncopation, swing Notice, and polyrhythms. Just like other kinds of music, there are several kinds of jazz new music. They contain: Bebop, Chicago style, New Orleans, and fusion jazz audio.
From its title, this is a form of music that is definitely characterized by using electronic devices. The most common devices used are: electrical guitar, theremin, and synthesizers. It was common among the youth while in the 1970s and eighties where it had been heavily played during the Discos. Through the years, the new music has inculcated other types of new music like really hard rock, metal, and in many cases R&B. The different types of the music incorporate: crack, tough dance, trance new music, techno, UK garage, household music, ambient, industrial audio, jungle, and trance new music.

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It's 2015 and names like Batman and Spider-man are as well known as Homer Simpson or Santa Claus. The names that are becoming harder and harder to remember are those of the pulpy characters that helped shaped these modern day superheroes. i'm not that old, but it seems that unless you're over the age of 45 to 50 you've never heard of the Shadow or Doc Savage. Hell, even if you are of that age you still might not have heard of them! I have always had a particular fondness for Pulp characters. I'm not really sure why. It's not as if there are many groundbreaking stories that I can go back to time and time again. It's not even that they present fascinating character studies. Perhaps part of their appeal was the fact that they looked great and very much of their time. Perhaps it's more the latter. They are old fashioned and maybe a bit outdated but there is something remarkably idealistic and mysterious to them that has always captivated me.
I can appreciate almost any Pulp character from one degree to another but my favorites were and still are The Shadow, The Phantom & Zorro. Throw in a little love for The Lone Ranger and we're good. I discovered Zorro and the Lone Ranger very early on when I was a toddler growing up in South America. I came to know The Shadow and The Phantom much later in the mid nineties thanks to their, less than well received movies. I loved those movies so much at the time that I wanted to see more of them. TO my surprise it was exceedingly difficult to find much out there, even in the nineties.
Eventually I did find older issues here with The Shadow. I even came to learn that Bob Kane, ( The creator of Batman) Had heavily based our favorite Dark Knight on The Shadow with a big dash of Zorro. There's even a comic where Batman meets his inspiration. A very cool moment in comic history.
Thanks to two wonderful Biographies on The Phantom and Zorro I became more intrigued with the rich history of theses characters. The world building on The Phantom was so interesting! I'm still scouring Youtube trying to find them so I can watch them again. The Phantom was even more of a challenge in terms of comics or novels. I could only find a few but I did thoroughly enjoy those few. I wondered why there was so few of these cool characters out there.
I remember I had an eye opening moment when my Mother, Father , brother and I went to watch The Phantom in theaters in the summer of 1996. My brother and I were so excited and eager with anticipation but I didn't see much of a lineup outside for the movie. When I went into the theater it was practically empty. No more than 10 or 15 people at most. It was the first time in my short life at that point that I was ever in an empty theater watching a movie I thought everyone would love. I asked my Dad, " Where is everyone?" and he simply said " I guess no one remembers The Phantom".
A bit sad for me at the time but a true shame that people today don't know or remember that The Phantom was the first costumed crime fighter! Talk about obscurity. Along the years I got to know more characters like Doc Savage, Flash Gordon, Mandrake and The Spider. All the while thinking these characters will come back at some point, but they never did. The question is why? What they al have in common is that they come from roughly the same time period and it can be said that they work best in those time periods. The funny thing is that Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman were created in the 1930's much like the Phantom and countless others. The difference is that Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and the lot continued to grow with the times. They did it so seamlessly that it's often forgotten that they, in some ways, started out as Pulp characters themselves.
However when there are attempts to modernize Pulp characters like John Carter From Mars, it still doesn't work. Perhaps you could say that that was a lackluster movie but still. Modernization of these characters is often met with skepticism and scorn. I can see their point. I mean how can you really do a modernization of someone like Zorro? The period is sort of a key point to the whole story I think. Other characters do have a chance at this but it's going to take the right take on it. Change it too much and you loss the initial appeal of the character. Change too little and no one will care.
One of the recent delights for a Pulp fan like myself was the 12 issues Dynamite comics run called " Masks". It presented a handful of iconic pulp heroes teaming up for one story. Add art work from Alex Ross and I was back to my 11 year old self.
Gorgeous cover isn't it? I had heard that Sam Rami ( Director of Evil Dead and Spider-man) was dying to do his own film adaptation of The Shadow. I hope he does because I don't think we're any closer to bringing him or any of those characters back.
That was a nice treat. Do yourself a favor or at the very least do ME a favor and give Pulp a chance!
oooh … great memories here for sure! Growing up in Africa I had some great old comics with the Phantom and was really looking forward to the movie as well & I actually enjoyed it. I thought the Shadow however was done much better … it had all of the elements you'd be looking for in your Superhero movies – action, humour and romance!
Thats cool to hear! I always found them to be guilty pleasures in a way but I make no apologies for my nostalgia of these movies. Let's hope that some day there are more!


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Capybara::SpecHelper.spec '#window_opened_by', requires: [:windows] do
  before(:each) do
    @window = @session.current_window
    @session.visit('/with_windows')
    expect(@session).to have_css('body.loaded')
  end
  after(:each) do
    (@session.windows - [@window]).each do |w|
      @session.switch_to_window w
      w.close
    end
    @session.switch_to_window(@window)
  end

  let(:zero_windows_message) { "block passed to #window_opened_by opened 0 windows instead of 1" }
  let(:two_windows_message) { "block passed to #window_opened_by opened 2 windows instead of 1" }

  context 'with :wait option' do
    it 'should raise error if value of :wait is less than timeout' do
      # So large value is used as `driver.window_handles` takes up to 800 ms on Travis
      Capybara.using_wait_time 2 do
        button=@session.find(:css, '#openWindowWithLongerTimeout')
        expect do
          @session.window_opened_by(wait: 0.3) do
            button.click
          end
        end.to raise_error(Capybara::WindowError, zero_windows_message)
      end
      @session.document.synchronize(5, errors: [Capybara::CapybaraError]) do
        raise Capybara::CapybaraError if @session.windows.size != 2
      end
    end

    it 'should find window if value of :wait is more than timeout' do
      button = @session.find(:css, '#openWindowWithTimeout')
      Capybara.using_wait_time 0.1 do
        window = @session.window_opened_by(wait: 1.5) do
          button.click
        end
        expect(window).to be_instance_of(Capybara::Window)
      end
    end
  end

  context 'without :wait option' do
    it 'should raise error if default_max_wait_time is less than timeout' do
      button = @session.find(:css, '#openWindowWithTimeout')
      Capybara.using_wait_time 0.1 do
        expect do
          @session.window_opened_by do
            button.click
          end
        end.to raise_error(Capybara::WindowError, zero_windows_message)
      end
      @session.document.synchronize(2, errors: [Capybara::CapybaraError]) do
        raise Capybara::CapybaraError if @session.windows.size != 2
      end
    end

    it 'should find window if default_max_wait_time is more than timeout' do
      button = @session.find(:css, '#openWindowWithTimeout')
      Capybara.using_wait_time 5 do
        window = @session.window_opened_by do
          button.click
        end
        expect(window).to be_instance_of(Capybara::Window)
      end
    end
  end

  it 'should raise error when two windows have been opened by block' do
    button = @session.find(:css, '#openTwoWindows')
    expect do
      @session.window_opened_by do
        button.click
        sleep 1 # It's possible for window_opened_by to be fullfilled before the second window opens
      end
    end.to raise_error(Capybara::WindowError, two_windows_message)
    @session.document.synchronize(2, errors: [Capybara::CapybaraError]) do
      raise Capybara::CapybaraError if @session.windows.size != 3
    end
  end

  it 'should raise error when no windows were opened by block' do
    button = @session.find(:css, '#doesNotOpenWindows')
    expect do
      @session.window_opened_by do
        button.click
      end
    end.to raise_error(Capybara::WindowError, zero_windows_message)
  end
end

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package org.jivesoftware.smack.chat2;

import org.jivesoftware.smack.packet.Message;
import org.jivesoftware.smack.packet.MessageBuilder;
import org.jivesoftware.smack.util.StringUtils;

import org.igniterealtime.smack.inttest.SmackIntegrationTestEnvironment;
import org.igniterealtime.smack.inttest.annotations.SmackIntegrationTest;
import org.igniterealtime.smack.inttest.util.SimpleResultSyncPoint;
import org.jxmpp.jid.EntityBareJid;

public class OutgoingMessageListenerIntegrationTest extends AbstractChatIntegrationTest {

    public OutgoingMessageListenerIntegrationTest(SmackIntegrationTestEnvironment environment) {
        super(environment);
    }

    @SmackIntegrationTest
    public void outgoingMessageListenerTest() throws Exception {
        final String body = StringUtils.randomString(16);
        final SimpleResultSyncPoint syncPoint = new SimpleResultSyncPoint();
        final OutgoingChatMessageListener listener = new OutgoingChatMessageListener() {
            @Override
            public void newOutgoingMessage(EntityBareJid to, MessageBuilder messageBuilder, Chat chat) {
                Message message = messageBuilder.build();
                if (message.getBody().equals(body)) {
                    syncPoint.signal();
                }
            }
        };

        EntityBareJid peer = conTwo.getUser().asEntityBareJid();

        try {
            chatManagerOne.addOutgoingListener(listener);
            Chat chat = chatManagerOne.chatWith(peer);
            chat.send(body);
            syncPoint.waitForResult(timeout);
        }
        finally {
            chatManagerOne.removeOutgoingListener(listener);
        }
    }
}


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Q: what are the basic steps to start any game applications in iphone? I am not familiar with gaming application, So Now I want to start a simple kids game application which displays the score with limited time.
What are step to proceed. Do I need to register with game center, I don't know about this. Please give  me any suggestions that would help to start game application.
Thnak you,
Madan Mohan.

A: First of all, you will need to register an iPhone developer program, you won't be able to test your code on a device without it. Alternatively, you could purchase a copy of Xcode and develop on a simulator until you are ready for actual device. In any case, you will need the $99 program for publishing.
Now, you will need to learn Objective C. Grab yourself a book and understand how views work before designing your game.

A: If you want your app to run on a device (or to publish to the app store), you will need an iOS developer account for $99.  However, if you want to just test you device in the built in simulator on your computer, you can do it for free.
Next, figure out what kind of game you want to make.  Plan what is going to happen, what views are necessary, design an interface, write some code.  Thats the basic process.
You DO NOT need to regester with Game Center.  Game Center provides some easy to use feature for your app, such as simple to implement online leaderboard.  If you want to use them (you will need the $99 account, not the free account), set up Game Center.  I don't want to write a tutorial here since thats off topic.
Game creation is just like any other app creation.  I hope this helps.  You said above in a comment you are familar with Objective-C so start programming the game as you would any other app.

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April 16, 2019 2:57PM ET
Is This the Fastest an Administration Official Has Been Investigated for Ethical Misconduct?
Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt is under scrutiny four days after he was confirmed
David Bernhardt testifies before a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on his nomination to head the Department of the Interior in the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C.
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Whenever President Trump nominates someone to take over for whichever administration official was most recently forced to leave office, ethical concerns about the successor are soon to follow. But it's unlikely anyone has been investigated as quickly as David Bernhardt. On Thursday, the former oil lobbyist was confirmed as Trump's new Secretary of the Interior. On Monday, the department's inspector general launched an investigation into ethical concerns that have been swirling since he took over as the department's deputy secretary in August 2017.
The investigation comes after a group of Democratic senators and multiple ethics groups appealed to the Interior Department's IG to look into Bernhardt's conduct. On Monday, Deputy Inspector General Mary Kendall wrote the senators to announce she had opened an investigation based on "a wide assortment of complainants" alleging "conflicts of interest and other violations." She added that their complaint was one of seven she had received regarding Bernhardt's conduct.
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The concerns relating to Bernhardt's reluctance to leave his lobbying work behind after he started working for the government were spurred by a series of New York Times investigations:
While working as a lobbyist for California farming group Westlands Water District, Bernhardt worked to strip protections for an endangered fish in an effort to enable access to irrigation water. The Times reported in February that Bernhardt continued his efforts after he took over as deputy secretary in 2017.
In March, the the Times reported that Bernhardt led an effort to block the Fish and Wildlife Service from releasing a report about the danger pesticides pose for endangered species.
In early April, the Times reported that Bernhardt continued to do lobbying work months after he signed and filed an official disclosure promising he had ceased all such work. A spokesperson for Bernhardt said that the forms had been labelled incorrectly.
Trump plucked the 49-year-old Bernhardt from his lobbying efforts to become then-secretary Ryan Zinke's deputy in April 2017. He was confirmed that August before becoming acting secretary after Zinke was forced to resign last December amid — you guessed it — a flurry of ethical concerns. Trump then nominated Bernhardt to take over on a permanent basis. He was confirmed last Thursday by a vote of 56-41. All 53 Republican senators voted in favor of Bernhardt, along with Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV), Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) and Martin Heinrich (D-NM).
Though Bernhardt may be just as deserving of scrutiny as Zinke, he's at least made some sort of an effort to be principled. Last fall, the Washington Post reported that he carries around a card listing all of his conflicts of interest so he doesn't accidentally slip up and do favors for organization at odds with the mission of the department he's supposed to represent. The crib notes aren't likely to land him any sympathy points from the inspector general's office.
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The Clifford Paterson Medal and Prize is awarded by the Institute of Physics. It was established in 1981 and named after Clifford Copland Paterson. The prize is awarded each year for exceptional early career contributions to the application of physics in an industrial or commercial context. The medal is bronze and is accompanied by a prize of £1000 and a certificate.

Recipients
List of medallists:

See also
 Institute of Physics Awards
 List of physics awards
 List of awards named after people

References

Awards established in 1981
Awards of the Institute of Physics
Physics awards

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Have you noticed a new item in our Butterfly Garden? We hung a clear plastic tube full of blue goo in one of the garden beds recently. A few weeks ago, Nathan Brockman, the Curator of the Butterfly Wing of the Reiman Gardens at Iowa State University, asked us if we would be interested in trying out a new style of butterfly feeder they were working on. We replied that we were definitely interested because we are looking for ways to supplement the other sources of food in the garden in order to increase the lifespan of our butterflies.
Now that we have the new feeder installed, we have to train the butterflies to recognize it as a source of food. This involves placing the hungry, newly emerged butterflies on the feeders when we release them after the museum closes. The hope is that they will form new behaviors and come back to the feeders rather than feeding from our plants and fruit only. This is where we need your help.
We need to know whether this feeder is being used by the butterflies and which species are feeding from it. We are hoping you will help us figure this out. When you visit the Butterfly Garden, you may see a butterfly on this feeder. Take a picture of it and send it to us. You can post it to our Facebook page, email us at Animalcare@smwv.org, or post it on Instagram with the hashtag #smwvbutterflies. We plan to tally the butterflies visiting the feeder each month and share the results on Facebook and our website. Thanks for helping!


March 24th-April 4th, 2019: Pastor Kristi Graner will be leading a team of 10 people from Dare To Believe to minister alongside True Hope Ukraine.
Statistics show that within 2 years of graduation 70-80% of Ukrainian orphans will become involved in crime or prostitution and 10% will take their own lives.
Our goal is to come alongside True Hope Ukraine to bless, support and release the love of Jesus in an area that is challenged in many ways. We'll do this by serving orphans of multiple ages, single mothers, supporting pastors, as well as reaching out to business and government leaders.
We would be grateful if you would not only pray for our mission and team but also consider financially supporting this trip!
For more information about True Hope Ukraine, visit their website at https://truehopeukraine.com/ . Tune in to our podcasts with Max Fetisov, Founder and Director of True Hope Ukraine, to learn more about his amazing vision and journey with God to rescue thousands off the streets of the Ukraine!


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"Smile When You're Wasted" by Vienna-based Marc Miner
October 28, 2020 October 28, 2020 by Jodi Marxbury 0 Comments
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In his debut album, titled Smile When You're Wasted, Vienna-based country singer Marc Miner has one goal above all else – rebelling against the mainstream model in his genre as it's been shaped by the Nashville establishment – and from where I sit, he couldn't have done a much better job of hitting the mark here. From the galloping beat of "Whiskey & Weed" to the warmth of "Border Town Bar," "Last Words" and "Nothing Good Bout the Way I Live," Miner is a melodic singer/songwriter with some serious angst to his poetic sensibilities, which makes for quite the irresistible cocktail if you're as regular a country listener as I am.
WEBSITE: https://marcminer.com/
Harmonies shape the tone of "Everything but Modest," "Sweet Codeine" and "Over" more than the lyrics do, but there isn't a single situation presented to us in Smile When You're Wasted in which our leading man is giving us halfhearted content in either the lyrics nor the music. Instrumentally speaking, everything in this LP is pretty slick and multilayered as to be expressive to the same degree that the verses are, and that simply isn't something I can say for some of the mainstream chart-toppers I've listened to in the last couple of months.
There's a lot of lyrical focus throughout this album, but none of the climaxes here sound verse-centric at all. It's always a collective effort in songs like the instrumentally laid back "Easy Street" and "Strip You Down," with Miner acting only as the director on a set full of talented actors. Without the collaborative energy behind all of this material, I don't know that it would sound quite as full-bodied, and given the minimalist trend we've experience on this side of the Atlantic lately, this could explain why Smile When You're Wasted sounds like the diamond in the rough that it does.
All of the players in this LP are putting in some incredible enthusiasm, and starting with the natural drawl of Miner in the tracks "Sweet Codeine," "Warm Welcome," "Over" and "Empty Bottle Blues," it's hard for any serious country fan to turn away from the speakers as full-color harmonies inevitably blossom. I only found out about his work through the release of his debut this October, but if he's going to be operating at this capacity both in the studio and on the stage, he's going to find an American following a lot sooner than later.
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Country buffs interested in something different from an artist who is clearly as concerned with respecting the past as he is expanding on its lessons to forge a more diverse sonic future can't go wrong with Smile When You're Wasted and the melodic stylings of one Marc Miner this fall, and my gut tells me that other critics are likely to agree. Miner doesn't allow for personal poeticisms to devolve into impossible metaphors as a lyricist, and as a musician he constantly presses the paramount importance of a harmony over emphasizing a sexy beat – features that, I believe, are going to make him a mainstream star someday.
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Not got much money to spend? Not a problem. Candles are surprisingly easy to make and all you need is some household items, beeswax and a candlewick. You could even get creative and make it in a teacup or a mason jar! (Oooh so Pinterest). Check out how to make them here!
This is the perfect gift for your tea-addict mother. From black tea to oolong tea, the vast array of options will be sure to keep her enticed. Buy yours here.
Every chocoholic's dream come true. This Chocolate Making Party Kit from The Chocolate Hedgehog allows you to follow simple tips and recipes to make and pipe truffles, dip and decorate milk chocolate fudge and create flavoured chocolate bites (drool…). It's a great way to spend time with your mum and show her how much you appreciate her. Just try to resist gobbling down all the chocolate before Mothers Day!
Get ultra cheesy with a jar full of little notes describing all the things you love about your mum. From her ability to find anything that is lost, to her delicious Sunday roasts. It may take a little extra effort, but a compliment jar will show her how much she truly means to you and even give her a pick-me-up on her down days.
If you want to create a pamper day but don't want to break the bank, DIY bath bombs are the perfect solution. Making them yourself also gives you the opportunity to personalise the bath bombs to create whatever scent and colours your mum loves most. Just a few ingredients needed and you'll be giving Lush a run for their money! Find out how to make them here.
A simple way to create absolute luxury. Just get your favourite organic milk melting chocolate and some succulent strawberries and you're good to go! Why not check out The Chocolate Hedgehog for some unique ingredient inspiration.
Having a personalised family cookbook not only brings together all the details of her favourite recipes, but it also means you can steal a couple tips for yourself too! Check out My Family Cookbook here.
Instead of a card this year, why not make a scrapbook filled with photos and trinkets? Search through those boxes of old photos (and albums on Facebook!) to build a collection of some of the special moments you've shared together. Take a look at Etsy for some photo album inspiration!
If writing a personal note is more your kind of thing, try making a pressed flower card to share your feelings in this year. It's easy to do, cheap and beautiful. It's also a great one to get kids involved in! Find out how to make your own pressed flower card here.
Spring doesn't only mean fruity flavours. Try chocolate making at home by having a go at this brownie recipe. Made with delicious organic milk melting chocolate and white chocolate flakes it's nearly (but not quite!) as good as our Chocolate Making Party Kit.
Let's be honest, these easy to make brownies look like heaven!
As we hope (!) you're aware, Valentine's Day is just around the corner. If you're anything like us, we are already wondering what to do doing on the day itself. Unsurprisingly chocolate features at the forefront of most of our plans.
In fact, if we are being really honest, most of us are helping out with our Valentine's chocolate making class as Valentine's is one of the business times of the year for us!
Having helped out at many, many Valentine's chocolate making workshops over the years, we can honestly say that making personalised chocolates for your other half is always going to be a perfect Valentine's gift.
If you're looking for a little inspiration, we do offer chocolate making party kits, which contain all the ingredients and equipment you need to make your own truffles, fudge and flavoured chocolate bites.
We are also big fans of our sumptuous orange & pistachio truffle recipe and what says I love you more than a homemade selection of indulgent, melt-in-your mouth truffles?
The recipe is quick and easy to make. All you need are a few simple ingredients and half an hour spare.
Simmer the honey in a frying pan for a few minutes, or until it turns a medium brown colour and gives off a sweet caramel scent. Remove the pan from the heat.
Melt the chocolate au ban marie, making sure to stir frequently. In a separate thick-bottomed pan, gently heat the cream.
When the chocolate has melted into a smooth and glossy mixture, remove ¼ of the chocolate and keep in a separate bowl.
Pour the warm cream and caramelised honey into the larger quantity of chocolate and whisk the mixture until it has blended together.
Mix in 1 cup of the pistachios and half of the orange zest.
Set the mixture aside to cool for 5 minutes or so. Meanwhile, combine the rest of the pistachios and orange zest in a large bowl.
Once the chocolate mixture has set, use your hands to roll it into bite sized pieces, roughly 2 inches in diameter. Place the pieces on a chopping board and flatten with a rolling pin. Use the cookie-cutter to cut the pieces into lovable heart shapes.
Once you have your chocolate love hearts, carefully dip them into the smaller bowl of melted chocolate and then coat them with the pistachio/orange zest mixture.
Place the finished truffles on a serving tray lined with parchment paper and devour at will!
What's great about this recipe is you can easily vary the ingredients if you want to make them again. For example, you can replace the pistachios with hazelnuts or almonds for a subtle twist or if you'd prefer to spice things up, add five cardamom pods and a sprinkling of ground cinnamon or nutmeg.
If you enjoyed these truffles, and you'd like to read more from MyChocolate, please browse the rest of our blog.
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We hoped you enjoyed our first installment of Around the World in Chocolatey Ways. We are now thrilled to be continuing our journey with you on the second leg of our adventure, so let's get going!
Last month we took you through Mexico, Spain and England, this time let us transport you to the exquisite locations of Peru, France and Italy.
Home of the Inca tribe, the indigenous people of Peru have been using the Cocoa plant for centuries, long before the days of chocolate parties and workshops. These people chewed the Cocoa plant for essential strength to go about their daily treks and work in the mountains. Nowadays, the country is famous for its use of the plant to make yummy chocolate treats.
Chocolate made from real Peruvian cocoa is some of the most intense in the world, much like the rest of the country it is bold, impressive and totally unforgettable!
Perhaps more similar to the delicious chocolate you might learn to make at one of our chocolate making courses is that originating from France. Despite the fact you might perhaps hear more about chocolate from France's neighbours, Switzerland and Belgium (to which we will pay a visit at a later date), the French chocolatier's expertise is a very well-kept secret that needs sharing! Chocolate first arrived in France from Spain in 1615, when Anne of Austria, introduced the chocolate drink to her new husband, Louis XIII of France. The sweet treat was first popular among the court (who we're sure loved chocolate parties), before it quickly took the rest of the country by storm and earned the love it enjoys today. The country favours very fine, very dark chocolate, perfect dipped in a delicious café au lait. The country even have their own chocolate academy – we wonder what they'd make of our own chocolate classes.
You could in fact argue that it is thanks to the Italians that we can enjoy chocolate at all, for it was the Italian explorer, Christopher Columbus, who first set eyes on a cocoa plant and introduced it to the continent. Now, all sorts of chocolatey treats can be found there, including many varieties of gelato al cioccolato (or chocolate ice cream to us and you.) The homes of Italian chocolate are said to be Turin and Piedmont, where, like with many other foods in Italy, chocolate is an art form.
Ok that's all for week's trip around the globe, thanks for joining us and see you next time!
Perhaps your earliest chocolate memory is not one of actually eating chocolate, but of having it described to you by Roald Dahl?
His world of 'Chocolate waterfalls', 'lickable wallpaper' and 'cows that give chocolate milk' creates an irresistible allure around the silky brown substance that sets children's mouths salivating.
In fact- we're introduced to Wonka's chocolate kingdom at such a formative age, the book cements any juvenille choccy- intrigue into a life-long obsession.
If you weren't introduced to chocolate via Roald Dahl, then perhaps jolly old Father Christmas made the introduction?
Solid chocolate coins at the bottom of Christmas stockings, bumper tins of Quality Streets and Roses, and boxes of thick chocolate biscuits laid out for the scoffing. Perhaps you remember standing beneath a towering tree and giving it a little shake to dislodge one of the chocolate fondant treats?
No doubt you remember plunging your little arm deep into a tin of Roses, and finding all the purple 'hazelnut-caramels' gobbled already by a greddy parent? The shiny, coloured wrappers gleaming, with the empties rolled into balls and a surplus of pale green, praline triangles at the bottom.
There's a distinct 'chocolate progression' which takes place throughout life.
Playgroup is usually a time of chocolate buttons, popped into mouths and sucked until they disappeared. The kiddie sized bags just about the right size to make sure nobody was sick.
A humble 'Cadbury's fudge' at the bottom of a party bag never goes amiss, or even a 'Curly Whirly'.
Next is junior school- the Twix and KitKat lunchbox years. And do you remember the pleasingly chunky Caramel Rocky? There's a funny time of life, between the ages of 5 and 9 when children delight in biting the chocolate off the sides of the biscuit, methodically, if not ritualistically, and leaving the best bit til last.
In high school, one graduates into the world of Toffee Crisps and Lion Bars; (a preference for each makes and divided friends) gnawing through the chewy, crackly layers made exams that bit more bearable. (If only we'd had chocolate classes back then!) And of course, Yorkies were a favourite among many, for who could resist such a jaw-stoppingly chunky bar?
Indeed chocolate follows us like a sweet and melty guardian. It's the friend who doesn't ask any questions, bringing comfort at times of need from earliest youth til death do us part.
Now if this trip down memory lane hasn't got you in the mood for one of our chocolate classes then we suggest you go back and read some more Charlie and the Chocolate Factory!
As cacao beans grow in tropical and usually extremely remote and poor parts of the world, the working conditions of the workers doing the hard work – the harvesting – are often fragile to say the least. Wages can be compressed and slavery and child labour have been known to exist in some parts of Western Africa, where the majority of the world's chocolate bars originate from. It's a very serious and distressing part of an industry most people gain huge amounts of pleasure from numerous times on a daily basis.
Luckily, over the course of the last two decades, intrepid human rights activists have opened the worlds eyes to many of these issues and consumers have responded accordingly. Nowadays, chocolate in shops is no longer referred to as being merely 'chocolate'; rather it is prefixed with words like 'fairtrade', 'organic' and 'ethical'. This has been done by companies in direct response to the growing body of consumers who are not willing to simply sit back and consciously eat and enjoy cheap chocolate whilst knowing all too well about common industry injustices. The MyChocolate team are thrilled that this is the case as we strongly believe that the big players in the industry have a corporate duty to make sure people benefit on every level from the globes insatiable appetite for all things chocolate. The money pot is plenty big enough for them to be able to do this.
Fairtrade: If chocolate is marked as being fair trade, then you can eat it in the knowledge that those involved at its origin are making a fair amount of money from their commodity. Fairtrade see that farmers receive at least a certain amount of money and this is usually driven back in to the local communities. It's quite brilliant to think that when you're next in the supermarket in somewhere like London, Brighton or Manchester that you can help people out in a profound way by simply spending pennies extra on your chocolate bar. Lazy philanthropy at it's very finest!
Organic: If chocolate is labelled in this way then you know that it has been grown in an area which has been free of often toxic pesticides for a prolonged period of time. This can improve the health of the workers who harvest and monitor the cacao beans, as well as the immediate local ecology. There is usually a premium charged for these products but it's minimal and absolutely worth it in our humble opinion.
It's also worth keeping an eye out on individual brand websites because they will more often than not indicate that part of their money is spent on various admirable projects in the country where the chocolate originates from. This strengthens their relationships with their suppliers and it also helps them with branding, so do take a look.
If you fancy having some chocolate fun then please do get in contact with MyChocolate and we'll get back to you asap. Hopefully you can come along to one of our chocolate party's or corporate events and enjoy the sweet taste of some organic chocolate!
Did you miss our Chocolate Buttercream recipe from last week? If so, not to worry, you can catch up right here.
The first thing you want to do is set up a bain marie, which although sounds complicated, is actually a simple case of placing a bowl over a pan of simmering water.
With the pan heated at 30°C, place the dark chocolate inside and wait for it to melt. Once it has, set the pan to one side, letting it cool until you begin to see little crystals form on the surface of the chocolate.
When you can begin to see crystals, return the pan to the bain marie. We know this heating, cooling and reheating may seem a bit baffling at first, but this ensures the chocolate is tempered, which ultimately gives the finished product its shiny finish and satisfying snap.
Okay so with the chocolate reheated to 30°C, pour in a couple of drops of the orange essential oil and the chilli flakes, stirring them thoroughly into the mixture as you do so.
Mexico…chocolate's Garden of Eden. Central America can claim to be the birthplace of chocolate, where the sticky, tropical rainforests provide the ideal conditions for the Cacao Tree (Theobroma Cacao) to grow. Ever since the dawn of the Mayan civilisation 4,000 years ago, the tree and the cocoa beans have been coveted as a gift from the gods. The beans, traditionally mixed with spices, were fermented to make a bittersweet drink used in religious ceremonies.
The later-ruling Aztecs even used the beans as a currency, also believing them to be sacred – a gift from Quetzalcoatl, the God of Wisdom.
Today, Mexicans still prefer to start their day with a drink of chocolate, flavoured with traditional spices – cinnamon, cardamom and chilies. Although no longer used as a money, it is commonly sold in the markets in the shape of discs, a contemporary trademark for chocolate in this part of the world.
Our next country on the map is Spain, whose conquistadors brought cocoa beans back to Europe in the early 16th century. They were unable to pronounce the name of the Aztec cocoa drink, Xocolatl, so changed it to 'Chocolat', from which its modern name derives. Chocolat was found to be too bitter for European palettes however, so Spain became the first country to sweeten the beans with sugar cane. The country can also claim to be the first to open a chocolate factory and they remain a proud chocolate-producing nation today (it's famous modern brands are Valor, Trufas and Torras).
Chocolate arrived in England in 1520, delivered by none other than Christopher Columbus, and mass production of the food became big business for the Quakers at the time. In fact, some of the greatest chocolate companies there have ever been have derived from the Quakers, including Fry's, Cadbury's, and Rowntree (who later merged with Nestle). Fry's is famous for producing the world's first ever chocolate bar, in their factory in Bristol in 1847. Today the UK is still a prolific producer of chocolate, the fourth argest in the world no less, and was also the first country to produce organic chocolates.
That's it for part 1 in our 'Around the World in Chocolatey Ways' series. We've still got a lot of miles to travel, so make sure to tune in next time for a look at chocolate in Peru, France and Italy.


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The following is an excerpt from IIDA's annual Industry Roundtable report, Industry Roundtable 23: The Future of Place, Experience, and Worklife. The roundtable took place at BMW Designworks in California. Read the full report here.
My prediction for 2050? That women leaders in the design world will triple.
Gabrielle Bullock, IIDA, FAIA, NOMA, Perkins and Will
While the design industry still struggles with diversity, progress has been made in recent years, and leading practitioners and manufacturers are deeply committed to the goal of inclusivity—both within their own organizations and with respect to the end-user for whom they are designing. Current efforts to diversify the talent pipeline ensure a more equitable future.
The profession will look very different in the coming decades, more reflective of the world at large. The design ecosystem will encompass a greater diversity of practitioners, collaborators, and partners and a wider range of ages and gender identities, as well as a broader cultural and racial makeup. (This will make for an intriguing Industry Roundtable: "In 2050, the age range around this table will span 80 years; some will attend via hologram; everyone will speak in their native language and the audience will hear it in theirs, whether attending remotely or in-person," Ryan Menke, Ind. IIDA, senior vice president of sales and marketing at OFS presages.) The industry will become more inclusive by default, but also by intention, as designers advocate and agitate for systemic shifts. "For instance, space and local/international codes can work together to support a growing community of gender nonbinary individuals," explains Mavis Wiggins, Assoc. IIDA, managing executive of TPG Architecture.
Multidisciplinary design professionals and firms with expertise and backgrounds in other fields are likely to disrupt our industry, which will be even better equipped to solve the complex, multimodal problems of tomorrow. "In thirty years," James Kerrigan, FIIDA, design principal of interiors at Jacobs predicts, "BMW will be here speaking about how they got into the design space by applying their production and supply chain know-how to overturn traditional construction approaches, delivering high-tech, sustainable, and beautiful design solutions for interior and exterior applications."
For now, inclusivity looks different at every firm, and so do the specific impediments to achieving it. As an example, Landscape Forms is currently endeavoring to make two very different populaces feel equally included under one roof. "Our production staff and our office teams are antitheses of each other, and here we are asking them to work together," Kirt Martin, vice president of Capitol One says.
Design, particularly of office amenities, has played a role in bridging that gap, he explains. So has giving employees as much choice as possible about when, how, and where they work. For Netflix, an impetus for addressing inclusion is the network's penetration into previously unexplored external markets—"countries that haven't yet experienced content the way we do, and from whom we're learning a lot," says Elizabeth Christopher, design manager at Netflix.
Design leaders are seizing opportunities to better narrate the stories of those who are oft-overlooked or excluded in our spaces and our culture. "In order to design a better world, we need to unpack the missing data: the missing stories of the people we purportedly design for," says Angie Lee, IIDA, AIA, partner and design director of interiors at FXCollaborative. Being inclusive also means considering vulnerable and under-resourced populaces, and being proactive about designing solutions for them, whether or not we're hired by clients to do so. "What matters now is designing for social equity and affordable living," says Martin. The industry will be challenged and emboldened to address pressing issues like urban density, overpopulation, and the housing crisis, and to help climate refugees. "Equality and justice for women and minorities will positively change our built environment," concludes Diana Farmer-Gonzalez, IIDA, Assoc. AIA, principal and co-managing director of Gensler's Miami office.
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Fanboy Comics Interviews Kat Primeau on Hollywood Fringe, 'Timeheart,' and Robot Teammate and the Accidental Party
The following is an interview with Kat Primeau, an actress in the musical improv troupe, Robot Teammate and the Accidental Party, which is currently performing Timeheart, a sci-fi space opera at the 2015 Hollywood Fringe Festival. In this interview, Fanboy Comics Managing Editor Dillon chats with Primeau about the premise of the show, how RTAP was formed, what readers may anticipate from Timeheart, and what makes Hollywood Fringe the best venue for the show!
Barbra Dillon, Fanboy Comics Managing Editor: Your one-act, Timeheart, is a sci-fi space opera currently playing at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. For our readers who may be unfamiliar with the show, how would you describe its premise?
Kat Primeau: Timeheart is an original time travel, musical comedy adventure that aligns with the sci-fi subgenre "space opera" in its scope and setting. When oddball inventor Bruce Greenstreet invents time travel, he is taken along for a cosmic quest to restore the universe, meeting his literal dream girl and a host of unusual characters from the future, as he journeys to the fabled center of the universe: The Timeheart.
BD: You have quite a talented team surrounding this project in the form of the musical improv troupe, Robot Teammate and the Accidental Party (RTAP)! What can you tell us about how the group was formed?
KP: Robot Teammate & The Accidental Party came together in 2012, when founding members started jamming on musical improv forms together in a living room and then at the (now closed) Bang Comedy Theater. Little by little, new members were auditioned and vetted until we arrived at our current make up of eight members in late summer, 2013. We've improvised hundreds of 15 and 30-minute musicals in the meantime!
BD: Leading up to this year's Fringe Festival, RTAP has made a name for itself by performing spontaneous original musicals based on an audience suggestion. What encouraged you to take on a scripted musical, and how would you describe the group's creative process in this endeavor?
KP: RT&AP had the great fortune of performing at iO West in a weekly cage match (where audience votes for who will return each week) for over 86 weeks. During that record-setting streak, we were able to refine our musical improv form, build our audience, earn a monthly iO and Golden Road Brewing show, and learn from some incredible improvisers. But, the set was only 15 minutes, and we craved more fulfilling work and a better pay off for our audiences, who seemed to really love the sci-fi/fantasy stories we were creating each week. One night, as we were gearing up to take team photos and watching tapes of our performances, we picked out costumes that became the seedlings of our Timeheart characters. We started meeting before each show to hash out an outline, then began improvising off of that outline, filmed those improvisations, wrote the scenes out from the best material, improvised then refined our musical numbers, and eventually held a reading at iO West for a small audience of writer/director friends this past March. After getting some feedback, we assigned a writing team to unify the world of the story, and we tweaked, tested, and cut material up until preview week at the Fringe!
BD: What makes the Hollywood Fringe Festival the best venue for Timeheart?
KP: Fringe Theatre by definition is meant to encourage experimentation and new ideas, with a built-in community of open-minded audience and structure for feedback and development. As a comedy ensemble looking to expand outside of the improv scene, and very much feeling like we are equal parts improvisers, live band, and musical theatre performers, it was a natural next step to develop something for this community. Audiences are really responding to the rock 'n roll vibe of the festival and our show, and while it's been difficult to explain our non-traditional development and production process in a world where a director or playwright is usually king (RT&AP ensemble directed, produced, and designed all aspects of the show), it has been a great showcase of our aesthetic and a testament to what we can do when we collaborate to such an extreme.
BD: As a geek-oriented individual and a fan of all-things sci-fi, the genre of your one-act naturally intrigues me. Is the show accessible for audiences that may not be science fiction fanatics?
KP: Timeheart may be based in sci-fi, but it is truly a universal story that speaks to audiences of all kinds. There's a love story, a heroe's journey, themes about loss and family, beautiful, catchy, original songs, and an over-arching call to be present and really appreciate the here and now. The comedy comes in jokes of all types (physical, puns, high, low, geek and theatre references, etc.), it's appropriate for all ages, and the most common feedback we've been receiving from audiences is that the fun we are having is contagious, which is incredibly inspiring! As not a huge sci-fi fan myself, it was important that the story stand alone, and I think we've struck a good balance of embracing that world without alienating those who don't "get it," per se.
BD: The show will be appearing at the Hollywood Fringe Festival until Friday, June 26th. Are there any future plans to perform the one-act at other venues?
KP: We are definitely interested in taking Timeheart on the road and have been approached by a couple of theatres about extending after the Fringe, but it will depend our schedules and if the conditions are right, so nothing official to announce just yet! Recording the Timeheart soundtrack and getting back to our regular musical improv gigs is the next immediate goal.
BD: Are there any upcoming projects that you would care to share with our readers?
KP: Robot Teammate & The Accidental Party will be continuing our musical improv shows at iO West, Golden Road Brewing, UCB, and Nerdist stages, back on the road for our regular gig at a really cool theatre in Lake Arrowhead, CA, recording bespoke songs for people on the internet (Check us out at fiverr.com/robotteammate!), and returning to the Geek & Sundry Twitch live.
BD: Lastly, what would you like to tell fans who want to learn more about Timeheart and Robot Teammate and the Accidental Party?
KP: We love our audiences and welcome feedback via our website, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram (@accidentalparty), and YouTube. We also perform for hire at private parties and events and are open-minded about collaborating and trying new things, so we'd love to hear from anyone who has questions or is interested in getting in touch!
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I usually spend August thinking about what I'll do when I'm back at school again in September but lately all I can think about is 48°C rain. I keep wondering about what lessons would prepare my teen students for a world where hot water falls from the sky, where oceans are too warm to cool nuclear reactors, and when road surfaces from India to the U.K keep melting.
What kinds of skills will be needed in order to thrive if a domino effect of deforestation and thawing tundra turns our planet into a hothouse?
I suspect that knowing how to parse a sentence or how to solve for x aren't going to be essential skills in such an environment.
I'd be willing to bet that teachers in 1918 were confident that a Liberal Arts curriculum would prepare students to fit socially and economically into a rapidly modernizing, industrializing world. An essential skill then was probably a sensibility to not stray too far beyond the boundaries of conformity while thinking critically about established ideas in literature, math and science. For most of the 20th century, high school graduates who had mastered this skill could look forward to decades of socio-economic rewards.
But is this skill still enough for students who will graduate into the third decade of the 21st century?
What do my fifteen-year-old students need to know?
Certainly there'll be discussions about the socio-cultural impacts of artificial Intelligence and the economic outlook for a "world without work", but I'm not quite sure where in our curriculum we'll be addressing living in a world where new colours have to be added to weather maps to display unprecedented heat.
Should we be teaching them how to recover after a wildfires or rising seas have destroyed their homes?
Should they consider how they'll respond to the millions of migrants whose homes will have become "the mouth of a shark" as the poet Warsan Shire so eloquently describes?
A century ago a few teachers may have encouraged teens to question militarism in the aftermath of The Great War but any suggestion that relentless economic growth would lead to millions of deaths and an uninhabitable planet would likely have resulted in a referral to an asylum. After all, the age of mass consumerism was just beginning and there were all those newly-electrified gadgets to buy.
Any day now the back-to-school ads will be popping up on screens everywhere. We'll keep being reminded to buy, buy, buy. The tragic irony is that we have created an economy that is utterly dependent on consumer confidence and yet it's mass consumption that is leading us to a new norm of rain that falls at 48.3 degrees Celsius and rivers too warm for salmon to spawn.
And there's the rub, isn't it? When our education system is a product of, and is sustained by a consumerist society, is it hypocritical to challenge our conformity to consumerism?
What is the role of teachers in the necessary transition away from our fossil-fuel dependent economy?
Within the next 24 months, my Grade 10 students are going to have to make choices about future education and careers. What should they know about how their lives may be affected given that many experts are predicting that the "oil bubble is about to burst"?
Does my teaching role include preparing my students for a post-consumer society? Can we actually return to a time when we were known by our "societal roles (parents …doctors, plumbers, etc.) or political status (voters)" not just by our roles as consumers or customers?
What does one teach when the world is burning?
Author Lizanne FosterPosted on August 9, 2018 August 13, 2018 Categories Education for the 21st centuryTags climate change, new curriculum1 Comment on What do we teach while our world is burning?
I don't know how to help you. I know what you need but I don't know how to get it for you. You're an artist. You see the world through a cartoon lens. While I talk, you draw crazy creatures. You should be in an art class, all day, every day. Instead you are slotted here to study what you're not interested in.
Next to you sits your friend who loves to dance. She skips class often, finding it unbearable to sit for long hours each day. I don't know how to help her either. I wish I could have her submit a dance instead of an essay on what it means to be Canadian.
Every now and then I find a fissure within the restrictions of the curriculum into which I can slip assignments that allow you to creatively show what you know. But those fissures are few and far between, crowded out by what has to be done to prepare you for the mandatory government exam.
I know that you want to learn. I know you want to think about more than what's in the textbook. I know you want to be able to create the things that roam around in your imagination.
I know you are numbed by the mediocrity of daily routines in the classroom.
I would love more than anything to be able to completely change them for you. To redraw the boundaries, or perhaps to erase them.
But it doesn't matter how innovative I can be with what I teach, we are both still caught in a system that resists transformation. Its very structure stifles.
The San Diego zoo is the most innovative in the world, recreating natural habits for the animals, but it is still a zoo. There are still walls that restrict and confine. No matter how innovative teachers are in classrooms, for as long as you are examined and tested and age-batched, nothing has really changed.
If I could design your learning experiences, I'd have you spending time with all kinds of artists, shadowing them through their day, helping when you can. I'd have you teaching younger children what you know. I'd have you sharing what you know with other students, with parents, with your community. And every now and then I'd have you tell me what you've learned about yourself through all that you did so that together we could plan what you should do next.
You once asked me why teachers asked so many questions, why you had to answer so many textbook questions. I used to have an answer for that. I used to say that you needed to know the answers so that you could be an informed citizen, understanding why things are the way they are today.
But I realized that that is impossible. How are you supposed to memorize all that has happened in the past, from all the different points of view that are witness to today's news? Your brain is simply not designed to do that. If you wanted to understand anything at all happening in the world today, there are a myriad ways you could find out. A few swipes on the device in your pocket can take you anywhere that human knowledge is.
So my answer to your question is that I don't know why you are asked so many questions. I don't know why teachers ask you questions whose answers they already know.
What I do know is that you're going to have to know the stuff we adults don't know: how to live in a world of climate change; how to have an economy that does not destroy the environment; how to make a living in a way that feeds your soul; how to find love, and how to find where you belong.
You certainly don't belong here, sitting in classrooms for six hours each day, desperately trying to feign interest in what a teacher is saying.
Where you do belong is in a school that is more like a library, a place you would go to exchange information with others, a place of conversation and connection, a place where teachers are like midwives, supporting students to become who they are meant to be, helping them to find their place in the world.
Just as you turn those images in your mind into pictures on a page, I wish I could transform my ideas of what schools should be into reality.
I wish I could draw the way you do.
Naomi Klein may not have had our public education system in mind when she made this call to action in the final chapter of her book This Changes Everything but let's consider the possibility that our public schools could provide a place for the exploration and practice of an an alternative worldview, one that could save civilization.
What if, to prepare our children for the complete restructuring of our political, economic and social systems necessitated by the climate change crisis, the dominant paradigm in schools was not competition for grades but instead collaboration to solve real problems?
What if, instead of preparing students to be careerists and consumers in an extractivist economy, schools focused instead on preparing our children to be global citizens, aware of how their choices and actions impacted the lives of all other global citizens?
What if, instead of teaching our children the traditional literacies – reading, writing, numeracy – we also taught them ecological literacy, social literacy and emotional literacy, and other ways of "reading the world"?
And what if we did all this within the framework of ubuntu, the African philosophy that suggests that I am because we are, that my ongoing existence depends on the existence of others?
Could adopting the ubuntu worldview save us from the slide toward a state of barbarism that will inevitably exist should the climate change predictions of the Pentagon and the Intergovernmental Committee on Climate Change (IPCC) be allowed to come to fruition?
Imagine a school where students are competent not only in reading, writing and arithmetic, but are also able to "read" the land around the school, noticing when there are changes in the natural environment and what those changes mean.
Imagine schools where diverse groups of students, guided by teacher-mentors, worked collaboratively on projects that solved actual problems, gaining valuable experiences while doing meaningful work.
Imagine schools where project-based learning and place-based education were not the exceptions that they are now but instead were part of a seamless connection between classrooms and the communities surrounding schools.
These innovative teaching practices are just a few of many that teachers have developed while simultaneously having to contend with multiple challenges in public schools brought about by a neoconservatist assault on public education everywhere.
Teachers are always keenly aware that they are midwives for their students' futures. Now, more than ever, they need to be supported in the work that they do to prepare students for a chaotic and challenging future.
Instead of defunding public schools and bashing teachers, wise politicians, guided by an enlightened public, should realize that teachers, not corporations, are critically important to our future.
There is no economy without an environment.
Our children's future lives depend first on there being a livable environment. In contrast, corporate profits depend on the denuding of our land, the pollution of our water and of our air.
The kind of world we will all live in by the time our kindergarteners graduate will depend on who and what we as a society choose to support on the road to the future.
The choice we collectively make will change everything.
Author Lizanne FosterPosted on January 18, 2015 January 25, 2015 Categories Education for the 21st centuryTags climate change, public education2 Comments on Can Teachers Save Civilization?
Anyone who spends time with children or teens knows that they sometimes say the most profound things, perhaps without actually meaning to. It's as though their eyes can see the world in ways no longer possible for those of us who have fully conformed to conventional ways of thinking, those of us who no longer see the ordinary magic that surrounds us.
Each year I am reminded of this ordinary magic when I take my students on a three-day camping field trip. Even though it's the most exhausting and stressful thing I do – imagine being responsible for 30 teens for 72 hours – I know that their experiences at camp will be what they remember for the rest of their lives. They come back to school each year to tell me so.
There is nothing extraordinary about the camping field trip. They canoe, complete a high ropes course and engage in various teamwork challenges. But it's what happens to them in between these activities that they remember most of all.
In teenspeak it's called bonding. And, as in all words that teens repurpose, its meaning goes beyond what may conventionally come to mind, of two or more things being fused together.
When I first heard the term I had to ask a lot of questions before I fully understood what it meant. Teens don't always articulate clearly the full meaning of what they're trying to express.
Bonding, I learned, is what happens when they stay up all night (despite my best efforts to discourage this) talking to each other. The topics of these talks range from the silly to the sublime but no matter where they begin, they end in a deeper understanding of each other. They get to this place of understanding when they learn how much they have in common with each other; how so many of them have similar struggles, the same concerns and worries. They learn that they're more alike than not, that their families and circumstances are similar despite cultural divides. It's this deep understanding of each other that leads them to experience what they call bonding.
Scientists would have a different way of describing these "bonds", the ties that bind us to each other.
Christmas is a perfect time to consider this most astounding fact about our existence.
Consider that our biological connection to each other extends far beyond the family with whom we share the Christmas meal. It can be traced all the way back, through thousands of generations, to our first home in Africa. The food we eat during this time of feasting connects us to the earth chemically and those chemicals themselves are the result of the atoms spewed by stars into the universe.
Science has long provided the evidence for this most astounding fact. Why then do we live each day oblivious of it?
If we walked through our days acting on this fact, we would not still be engaged in debates about whether we should protect our environment or not. Engaging in such debates is akin to wondering whether we should protect our bodies from the cold or whether we should breathe air free of smoke.
If the education of our children was based on this fact, we would radically change what we call school and would do all that we could to prepare our children to survive through the age of climate change.
If we shaped our economic activities based on this fact, any action that could lead to the poisoning of waterways, the pollution of airsheds and the extinction of species would not only be rejected but not conceived of in the first place.
If our individual and collective decisions, whether political, social or economic were based on this fact, we would be living in a far different world, one where consumption was not cancerous, one without poverty or pollution, one where peace was more than a pipe dream.
We would be living in the kind of world we wish for each other in the greeting cards we exchange at this time of year.
At this time of celebration of family and of joyful feasting, I hope we will pause to consider this most astounding fact and that we then resolve to act on it in the new year.
Have you noticed that when politicians in the US and Canada talk about education reform, the reason they provide for why change is necessary is because of what "the economy" needs. They tell us that the reason we need to change what happens in schools is because we need to grow the economy and the only way to do that is for schools to produce the kinds of workers that corporations want. Given the fact that there can be no economy without a healthy environment, isn't this focus on what the economy needs a bit short-sighted?
In this age of climate change, shouldn't we be asking what our environment needs and then preparing our children accordingly?
The children who entered kindergarten in 2014 will be graduating in 2027. Although we cannot predict with any certainty what the economy will be like then, thanks to the work of thousands of scientists over many decades, we now have a good idea of what the physical world will be like within a few decades if the gathering in Lima, Peru this week fails to make definitive decisions about mitigating climate change.
There are a few future scenarios that we have to consider in thinking about the world current kindergarteners will graduate into.
One is the scenario painted in exhaustive detail by the the IPCC, the Intergovernmental Committee on Climate Change. In this scenario, any economic policies based on constant growth will be rendered void by the pervasiveness of extreme drought, extreme floods and extreme heat leading to food shortages, among other things. There can be no work done for "the economy" if the workers have no food to eat.
Should our kindergarteners therefore learn how to grow food in extreme conditions?
Another future scenario is painted by the Pentagon which has said that climate change will be a "threat multiplier", increasing political instability around the planet.
Should we prepare our children then for constant war on an overheated planet where people fight desperately for access to food and water?
There are more apocalyptic scenarios in a similar vein to the ones already mentioned. Scenarios that would turn the fiction of The Hunger Games into bleak fact.
But there are also other scenarios that are just as possible. Scenarios in which our 2014 kindergarteners graduate into a world where the cancer of constant economic growth has been routed and replaced with degrowth and economic policies that fit within the physical capacity of our planet.
To prepare our children for such a world, for the complete restructuring of our political, economic and social systems necessitated by the climate change crisis, we need a restructuring of our education systems so that collaboration, connection and creativity replaces the dominant paradigm of individualism and competition in schools.
An education system structured around connection, collaboration and creativity would, in addition to providing education in traditional literacies, prioritize a new set of literacies. These literacies – ecological, emotional, technological, critical and social – would be framed by ubuntu, the African concept that "I am because we are".
A child educated in such an education system would graduate with ecological literacy skills to be able to 'read' the land, the sky and the oceans, with emotional skills to increase well-being and decrease stress, with skills that enable navigation of technological landscapes, with critical literacy skills to question political media and messages and with social skills that will decrease the possibility of conflict and increase the potential of working collaboratively.
A child educated in such a way would see the problems posed by climate change in a completely different way, just as the Net generation reads the world differently to those born before we got the Internet.
And we need new ways of reading our world. So many of us think of our environment as a thing that is "out there", disregarding completely the fact that we humans grow out of the environment as an apple does from a tree.
There can be no apple if there is no tree.
We are because the earth is.
This should be what we teach our children, this above all.
If all the delegates meeting this week in Lima, Peru, knew this and acted upon it, we would not have to fear that the scenarios posited by the Pentagon and by the IPCC could come true.
So much depends on that meeting in Peru because this week is when we begin to create the world that our current kindergarteners will graduate into.
Alice, a neighbour's 6 year old daughter, is learning how to read. She's learning how squiggles on a page can be filled with meaning. She's learning that these squiggles 'say' things. A whole new world is opening up for her, a world of different spaces and places she can travel to through those squiggles.
But I wonder what other kinds of reading she will need to master in order to make sense of the world in this age of climate change? Should she know how to 'read' the land as her ancestors used to do? To know what to expect when certain flowers are in bud or when the wind shifts or when particular birds arrive in the garden?
David Suzuki seems to think so. In a recent column he makes the case that children should learn how to observe the natural world. What he calls "observe" others like David Orr and Fritjof Capra call ecological literacy, a way of observation that decodes signs in nature in the same way that we decode squiggles on the page in traditional literacy.
If children learned to read their environment, what changes could we expect in society as they grew up?
One change perhaps would be the eradication of what Richard Louv calls nature deficit disorder, a result of children spending less time outdoors and too much time indoors, cut off from the natural world.
Each year when I take my teen students on field trips into natural spaces, I am amazed at the transformation that happens when they spend time among the trees or just skipping stones on the water. It's as though they have just woken from a deep sleep and are seeing the world anew. In effect, they probably are, given the amount of time they spend staring at screens instead of their immediate environments.
If children learned to read their environment, they would have first hand experiences of changes wrought by climate change, experiences and knowledge that could not be 'spun' by the fossil fuel industry that spends billions each year fuelling climate change denial.
Environmentalist often lament the fact that our children can recognize more brand logos than they can tree leaves. Ecologically literate children would not only be able to name trees and describe their leaves but would also be able to name the kinds of fauna that depend on the tree for survival.
An ecologically literate child would know that she was not in the environment, that the environment was inside her.
An ecologically literate child would know that some forest bathing would do more for her stress level than retail therapy would.
An ecologically literate child would know the connectedness of all things, that whatever we do to the earth, we do to ourselves.
The scientific revolution gave us new tools to read the world beyond the visible light section of the electromagnetic spectrum. Before that dramatic change in the way we saw the world, we had to know how to read the land for our own survival and so paid close attention to every detail of the natural environment. These days we would sooner check the Weather Network online on our computers before we went outside to see what the weather was.
Before the scientific revolution, we would know when seasons changed when we saw signs of the coming change in trees, in plants, in the sky. Now we look at a calendar.
If we could integrate the kind of knowledge humans had about the natural world before, with the knowledge that we have gained through math and science, how much more could we read and see and know about this place, our cosmic home?
In an age of climate change, when all around us nature is signalling her distress, perhaps one of the most critical skills we all can have is the ability to read our environment, the ability to read the sky, the land, the water, the plants and the trees.
We can't all have the knowledge that the scientists on the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change do, but we all can know a little more than we currently do about what is normal and what is not in the natural world around us.
We should all join Alice in learning how to read, ecologically.
Why are we allowing the BC Liberal government to hijack our education system to provide workers for the fracking industry at a time when climate change, caused by massive emissions of greenhouse gases, is already wreaking havoc in the lives of millions of people around the planet?
Why we are funnelling our children toward an industry that is associated with environmental death and destruction, an industry that has a long track record of contaminating waterways?
I can understand why adults who already work in oil and gas industries would continue to do so, but why, at a time when there are viable alternative energy industries, are we not preparing our children to live in an age of climate change?
Evidence that the BC Skills for Jobs Blueprint is nothing more than a fracking industry recruitment drive is abundantly clear in the LNG seminars that are currently touring our province. Designed to spin all the benefits of the fracking industry, there will be a lot that will not be mentioned in the presentations to our children.
Groundwater being contaminated by undisclosed chemicals won't be mentioned. The folly of pursuing training for a single industry won't be mentioned either. And certainly the fact that fracking wells leak dangerous methane gases daily, won't be mentioned.
What will be mentioned is how much money our children will make in the jobs not taken by the many Temporary Foreign Workers we are to expect.
But even when money is the topic, what won't be mentioned is how many billions oil and gas corporations will make and how little of that will actually be collected in taxes, how little they will pay for the extraction of our collective resources and the destruction of our environment.
Why are we standing by while profit is prioritized above ensuring there is a livable planet for our children?
With the money that they will earn, where will our children go to buy a new planet once the oil and gas industry has destroyed the possibility of human life on this one?
Why is it so difficult for people to understand that we are not in the environment, that the environment is in us.
Whatever we put into our water, we put into our bodies.
Whatever we put into the air, we put into our bodies.
Whatever we put into the soil, we put into our bodies.
Is the fact that there are PCBs and other pesticides in the breastmilk of nursing mothers not enough to cause us to pause and to reflect upon what we are doing in the name of the economy?
There can be no economy if there is no healthy environment.
Our children are entering a world they did not create. What kind of world is our education preparing them for?
When enormous resources are being spent in a spin machine that is trying to persuade our children that the only viable option for employment is an industry that destroys the environment, what are we doing?
Why are we not insisting that our children are trained for skills in green technology industries? Why are we not demanding that our governments follow the example of countries like Denmark that are rapidly moving away from fossil fuel dependence?
Why not teach our children a new way of being in the world, a way of living that does not destroy what our lives depend on?
Why are we fracking our children's future?
Would a poem elucidate our options more clearly?
a sun shape rolling like a wheel of light.
only, this world will not self-destruct.
flows from the faucet into our bones.
to earth one night through the roof.
coats the down of the drowning auk.
with the dead moon for company and warning.