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Shelley's Spasmodic Afterlife
Shelley's political legacy passed through an often-neglected school of writers to world leaders and revolutionaries globally in the decades following his death. When assessing his legacy, we should not overlook those early, ardent appreciators known as "the Spasmodic School." Alexander Smith, Sydney Dobell, J. Stanyan Bigg, and even James Thomson B.V. took Shelley's call to a revolution conducted through imaginative sympathy seriously, and together, helped to fan his "fading coal" to flame.
Shelley's Spasmodic Afterlife
Mischa Willett
Northwest University
1. Matthew Arnold's much-derided jibe about ineffectual angels is not the only remark on Shelley's political impotence. Early reviewers were quick to dismiss both his radicalism and radical ambition. The Quarterly Review, for example, compares him (presciently) to a drowning man, flailing his arms about to no avail, as Kim Wheatley has shown (8). Wheatley argues that reviewers' vituperative recrimination of his project amounts to a kind of paranoid politics, casting his gestures as ineffectual for fear of their possible political power.
2. Scholars such as Mark Redfield, Paul Foot, David Duff, and Cian Duffy have recently made inroads into recreating the political Shelley, suppressed for so much of the century that followed him, and ignored for much of ours. Likewise, Shelley's influence on later poets has been repeatedly, if not comprehensively, remarked through the work of Anthony Harrison, Herbert Tucker, and others.
3. But a reconsideration of the political (broadly considered) in Shelley is due in the wake of recent scholarship from Slavoj Žižek and Jacques Ranciere, among others, tying the political and aesthetic. The bifurcation of those concepts is still very much with us. Eugene Stelig wrote in 2013, for example (of Wordsworth), "by the end of the decade, the identity conflict between poetry and politics was essentially over, having been resolved in favor of the former" (745-6). That attempting to write political poetry creates an "identity conflict" is taken for granted. This essay considers another dimension of the political in Shelley: not a revolution of the mind, nor the moral force of his verse and example, but the realpolitik carried on in his name, and the politico-poetic revolution he actually enacted.
4. Among the most important of Shelley's legacies is the overlooked school of poets writing in the years following his death, known at first derisively, and then popularly as the "The Spasmodics." The Spasmodics took Shelley as their hero and model, and unlike him, lived to see their (his) politico-poetic vision take shape. Through the Spasmodics then, Shelley's trumpet of prophecy sounded to legions of readers both in the English literary world and beyond.
5. My claims in this essay are three: 1) that despite Arnoldian-Victorianist portraits of Shelley as politically-ineffectual (and this despite the fact that, whatever his intentions, he largely was ineffectual during his short life) Shelley's effect on the popular generation of poets immediately following his death was both profound and heretofore unremarked, 2) that the most popular school thereof—the Spasmodics—are better categorized as a Shelleyan rather than Keatsian, and 3) that this is so in part because of their works' political force, despite that modern Victorianist critics—like the Victorians before them—call their work "apolitical."
6. This reconsideration will, I hope, do a few things for us. It extends work already begun by Susan Schmidt and Michael Rossington on Shelley's reception worldwide in the years following his death, especially among the working classes. It also offers a glimpse at how early Victorians—Christians, moralists—began the project of rehabilitating Shelley's work, and reputation, making it (if only slightly) more palatable for domestic consumption. In that, it participates in conversations on the Romantic/Victorian divide hosted by Richard Cronin and Anthony Harrison and gives us a picture of how Romantic, and more specifically, Shelleyan, poetics were incorporated into what afterward became known as the early part of a new period. Some ancillary questions pop up that might be further considered elsewhere: what does the Shelleyan poetic project actually look like, as distinct from Keatsian/Huntian/Byronic? What would a School of Shelley look like, if not this?
The Spasmodic Poets
7. So far have their magnificent stars fallen, that before saying anything substantive about the Spasmodics, a short introduction is required. [1] The Spasmodic poets are a group of once-popular writers working mainly on ars-poetic epics in the 1850s. Philip James Bailey (1816-1902), Sydney Dobell (1824-1874), Alexander Smith (1830-1867), and J. Stanyan Bigg (1828-1865) are the principle authors in this group, but there are other minor writers, and some major ones who can be so classed. [2] Understood as inheritors of the Romantic tradition, their work outsold everything in the nineteenth-century apart from Byron, but since they were mostly working-class writers, and because of Victorian critical reaction to late-Romantic epistemology, their fame died quickly by the 1860s.
8. In their 2004 special issue of Victorian Poetry, editors Charles LaPorte and Jason Rudy note that Spasmodism "struck nearly all readers as a demonstrably new mode of poetic composition," featuring "a wavering between poetic identities—masculine and feminine—virile and susceptible" (422, 424). Herbert Tucker points out their attention to "the sanctity of the moment of heightened perception, and the totality of the truth to which creative poets enjoy privileged if fitful access" (429). Both are expanding on George Saintsbury's definition of Spasmodism as
9. This is not quite true, however. Not only did earlier critics consider the Spasmodics a "school of poetry," with similar traits and goals and members, but the members themselves seemed to have thought of themselves as belonging to such a group and common project. The Cambridge History of English Literature described in 1922—44 years before Cronin's reference—that they constituted "a fairly definite group, of which...[Bailey] was the leader: the so-called Spasmodics" (147). Contemporary reviews also categorized these same authors as belonging to "a definite group": an article from The Leader in 1854 treats Bigg, Dobell, and Massey under the heading "The Latest School of Poetry." Smith himself writes in his posthumous collection of essays Last Leaves, "While noticing this ebb and flow of poetical reputations, it may not be too much to infer that the oblivion to which the Spasmodic School has been consigned for the last few years has been to a considerable extent undeserved" (174). In fact, The Scottish Review wrote of the Spasmodics as early as 1855, "Tennyson can scarcely be said to have founded a school; Bailey has" (347).
10. The Spasmodics then, were not "a school only in name" as Rudy, Cronin, and others argue, but were thought of immediately as one, with fixed members and characteristics, and thought of themselves as belonging to one. Although it is true that there isn't a formal aesthetic charter in place like Shelley's Defence of Poetry or Wordsworth's prefaces to Lyrical Ballads announcing an express purpose, the Spasmodics comprise a coherent school and a serious movement that merits discussion both as a group of individuals working toward a common aesthetic and as a body of work.
11. Furthermore, the Spasmodics were not only a school appreciated by the masses but were influences on most of the important poets then living. Charles LaPorte has recently shown how Smith's aesthetic balance informed and structured Elizabeth Barrett-Browning's masterwork, Aurora Leigh. Heather Morton has shown Spasmodic influence on Swinburne. The Rossettis were ardent admirers. Dobell was a close friend and literary encouragement to the Brontes. And these are just a very few. As will be shown, since they conceived of themselves as Shelley's wild west wind, blowing change and revolution hither and yon, their widespread poetic influence ought to be considered as part of Shelley's legacy.
12. Finally, the Spasmodics were not only influential poetically, but politically, to which notion we will shortly return in more detail. However little we think of them now, the Spasmodics affected world leaders in Italy, Germany, and Russia, among others, which we can add to Shelley's attempts at reform in Ireland, England, and Greece, since he can be considered the movement's progenitor. Some of this work on Shelley's political influence has been done. Bouthaina Shaaban, for example, maps references to Shelley in the Chartist press, a valuable reference for scholars working either on Shelley's reception or on Chartism. That Shelley's poetry was read by revolutionaries is not new knowledge, but that his politico-poetic ideals were fleshed out, more or less instantly upon the widespread availability of his poems, is.
13. The Spasmodics are referred to by their contemporaries as having belonged to "The School of Keats" (Clough 159). One critic in the Saturday Review compared Keats and the Spasmodics under the heading "Poetical Nuisances":
14. Even now scholars set them alongside Keats, thinking they wrote apolitical, escapist verse in an anti-classicist mode. I argue that we've been wrong on both those scores and that "The School of Shelley" is the more appropriate label due to the Spasmodics' deep engagement with his work and various homages to it, and for their Shelleyan political engagements.
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15. Among Shelley's first and most ardent readers were the Chartists. Chartist poet Thomas Frost records how reading Shelley made him "a chartist, and something more" (cited in Sanders 8). W. J. Linton records the reading of Shelley's Queen Mab as one of his formative experiences (cited in Sanders 8). If Shelley's attempts at political insurrection didn't always materialize, his attempts at poetical insurrection did. Shelley spawned a cadre of imitators—ballad-mongers, rebels—and many of these found their ways to Chartism.
16. In what he calls "the Chartist Imaginary," Mike Sanders shows how poetry was, for that group, no mere decoration but an essential component of the movement, since it "transforms the consciousness of the reader" (9). This is Shelley's project written on the polis. Sanders explains how exposure to writers like Burns and Shelley created in working-class writers a transformation that was "qualitative and total…it does not alter any specific opinions held by its readers, but is experienced by them as the acquisition of new powers in general" (10).
17. Chartist readings of Shelley are important here because many Chartists were also Spasmodics, and vice versa. In fact, some say the movements are indistinguishable. [3] Ernest Jones is the most important of these double agents, since he was widely acknowledged the last leader of the Chartists and is also included among the first Spasmodics. Phyllis Mary Ashraf, who also lists Shelley as an exemplar for Chartists in her Introduction to Working-Class Literature in Great Britain also has Ebenezer Jones and Gerald Massey as Chartist poets, which is important, since they are also always listed among Spasmodics. In any case, Spasmodism and Chartism shared numerous members, aesthetics, and concerns.
18. Not content simply to read Shelley's verse, and to espouse his politics, many Spasmodics penned him various forms of homage. James Thomson—the last Spasmodic—is known to history by his nom de plume, "James Thomson B.V.," which serves to distinguish him from the earlier James Thomson, author of The Seasons, and to acknowledge his debt to his two heroes. "Bysshe Vanolis" is meant to reference Shelley's middle name and the German poet Novalis. Thomson writes a defense in 1860 called simply "Shelley," deriding the harsh treatment Shelley received both during and after his life. Thomson argues,
19. In 1861, Thomson writes a long narrative poem, again called "Shelley," wherein he both recalls the earlier poet, and imitates his syntax. The poem begins,
UPON a grassy slope of shore I lay
Hour after hour, from sunset into night,
Outgazing tranquil o'er the tranquil bay,
And dreaming in a mood of rare delight.
Yes, for some hours, sky-pure sea-calm star-bright
My spirit was in tune with heaven and earth,
Nor felt the discords of its mortal birth. (1-7)
20. Thomson was not alone among the Spasmodics in revering Shelley. Sydney Dobell's lecture, "On the Nature of Poetry," delivered in Edinburgh in 1857, was a direct answer to Shelley's Defence of Poetry, and his own poems owe much to Shelley's. Dobell's friend and collaborator Alexander Smith offered a clear-eyed summary of Dobell's indebtedness: "Of all recent writers," Smith writes, "[Dobell] bears the closest resemblance to Shelley. He has much of Shelley's impracticability, exaggeration, and hectic over-color; he has all Shelley's subtlety, analytic habit and power, splendor of imagery, dramatic instinct, and rich-flowing lyrical impulse" (189). Smith may be overstating the case, as would be usual, but he's not far off the mark.
21. Though it is possible the Spasmodic poets came independently to appreciations of Shelley, they were likely encouraged so to do by the editor cum patron George Gilfillan (1815-1873). Reverend Gilfillan, an immensely popular minister from Dundee, Scotland, is probably the second most important critic in the early Victorian period, after Carlyle. Like the rest of the Spasmodic School, his reputation has faded, but as author of Walter Scott's biography and the best-selling Bards of the Bible, editor of Robert Burns, and much else, he was for a time a tastemaker without parallel. Gilfillan is often credited with having founded the Spasmodic School, since he was an early supporter of Alexander Smith and Sydney Dobell, to a large extent architecting their careers.
22. Gilfillan possessed a remarkable breath of literary taste and was in a position to inflict that taste on others. As LaPorte and Rudy note, "he worked toward broadening the usual horizons of the British poetic tradition" (427). They point out, rightly, that many lesser-known British poets, from Gilfillan's volume of the same name, have been vindicated by history:
23. Though most now condemn Gilfillan's moralizing conservatism, we should recognize how forward was his defense of the Satanic School in the 1830s (Buckley 50). Comparing Shelley to Keats, Gilfillan writes that the former is "superior"
24. The Spasmodics were criticized, as was Shelley, largely for the socio-political instability that their work suggested, and from the same quarters. This claim warrants a more space than I can give it here, but it is easy to imagine how Smith's epic A Life-Drama that crescendos in a rape scene, Dobell's Balder wherein a man kills his wife, might unsettle a conservative readership. Kirstie Blair reads a prejudice in early reviewers, noting how terms like "'irregular" and "perverted" hint at the potential immorality of this writing, and carry possible connotations of sexual depravity," a sexual depravity associated in the Victorian mind primarily with Shelley and Byron.
25. It is no surprise that the chief critic of Spasmodism, was William Aytoun, Tory and editor at (where else?) Blackwood's Magazine from 1839 to his death in1865. Aytoun wrote damning articles about Shelley and published them alongside damning articles about the Spasmodics, because to him, and to many, they comprised one movement: radicals. Aytoun is also where the term comes from. We owe "Spasmodic" as a specific poetic group to Aytoun, who pilloried these writers under that name in his satire Firmillian (1854), but we owe the literary term to Charles Kingsley, who in 1853 used it to describe Shelley's verse:
26. Spasmodic politics were more or less exactly in line with Shelley's. It was a working-class movement from the beginning. Bailey's first readers were the gathered printers and mechanics who helped produce the book and thereafter formed a literary club. Smith was himself a pattern-tracer in a Glasgow manufacturing house. Dobell was a religious non-conformist. Bigg was a firebrand editor. Jones was a Chartist. For the most part, they threw themselves into reformist causes with Shelleyan vigor.
27. This is important to note because even contemporary scholars have imagined the Spasmodics as merely an aesthetic movement, uninterested in politics. Richard Cronin calls Smith's work "entirely apolitical," claiming that "by the time he wrote A Life-Drama, Smith had already given up on politics" ("Alexander Smith and the Poetry of Displacement").
28. Cronin here is likely following Arthur Hugh Clough, Matthew Arnold's friend and fellow Spasmodic detractor. Where Cronin calls Smith "escapist," and "obsessed with the Kentish countryside," Clough writes "Yet really, and truth to tell, is it not, upon the whole, an easy matter to sit under a green tree by a purling brook, and indite pleasing stanzas on the beauties of nature and fresh air" (99)? But that is not the Spasmodic project anymore than it is Shelley's.
29. True, Smith had been attending Chartist meetings, participating in a working men's educational co-op, and editing a reformist journal before publication of A Life-Drama (1853), and as Cronin points out, seeing the two Chartists hung in the town square was likely sobering. But his work didn't leave the political at that point, nor at any other.
30. To mark A Life Drama as the end of Smith's political phase is an odd choice, since his very next poetic effort was a collaboration with the Marxist/Chartist Sydney Dobell, called Sonnets on the War (1856). There are few more politically engaged collections of poetry in the entire age: Sonnets covers British positions on Hungary, America, Italy, and the Crimea, in a pull-no-punches manner. With titles like "The Army Surgeon," "The Wounded I," "The Wounded II," "Vox Populi," "Sebastapol," and "The Cavalry Charge," the charge that the Spasmodics were "apolitical" hard to maintain indeed.
31. Neither were these very political young writers simply twittering away in golden bowers about the war. Their poetry was actually read, and, some say, affected the outcome of certain political revolutions. The Italian liberation fighter Guiseppe Mazzini (also friends with another Spasmodic, Ernest Jones) wrote that Dobell's The Roman was the poem he would have written about Italy, had he been a poet (Kierstead 71) .
32. We should notice how rare this is. We have poems that interpret or record political events, and ones about revolutionary leaders that are popular with people, but rare is the political poem which is timely and forceful enough to have been read, much less lauded by the leaders of the movement it represents. And the poem was effective, as Christopher M. Kierstead writes. Mentioning The Roman as a template for Rossetti's later confrontation of the "Italian Question," he argues that Dobell's poem "was a politically useful means of vindicating the Italian cause in the minds of the British public at a time when it needed reassurance after the downfall of Mazzini's short-lived Roman Republic in 1849" (71).
33. Mazzini continues his exhortation to Dobell, seeming himself to channel Shelley, "and what you write flows from the soul, the all-loving, the all-embracing, the prophet-soul" (qtd. Kierstead 71). "Prophet-soul" is right; in an avocation coincident of "A Song: 'Men of England,'" Dobell, dropping all poeticisms, wrote in 1867 to the Italian rebels, "Fight! you mad, magnificent, foolish nation" (Ellis 210). Add that Spasmodist Ernest Jones was a personal friend of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, and the political range of Spasmodic poetics broadens significantly.
34. In a kind of answer to claims that Shelley didn't accomplish more politically, Kierstead writes, "Ultimately, the poet does not claim for himself the role of leader but instead, the role of instigator—one who senses the greatness of the cause and acts with an almost mystical force in bringing political events to fruition" (71). Mark Kipperman likewise writes defending Shelley's interventionist political poetry from detractors such as Matthew Arnold and, more recently, Susan Wolfson. He states that Shelley's hope in The Mask of Anarchy for the "moral force of the masses' protest" involves both a "class demand" for "urgent material needs," and a renewed "self-respect" in which they, the victims, "stand for the absolute moral order of reciprocal justice" (9). "Self-respect" is the "something more" alluded to by Hood who said that reading Shelley "made me a Chartist, and something more." The "mystical force" Krierstead mentions is what Kipperman likely has in mind when he answers concerning Shelley's political potency,
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Ashraf, Phyllis Mary. "Introduction to Working Class Literature in Great Britian: Prose Part 2." Lehrmaterial zur Ausbildung von Diplomlehrern. Ministerium für Volksbildung, Hauptabt. Lehrerbildung, 1979.
"Bailey and Tennyson." The Scottish Review, 3.12 (October 1855): 347-357.
Blair, Kirstie. "Spasmodic Affectations: Poetry, Pathology, and the Spasmodic Hero." Victorian Poetry, 42.4 (2004): 473-490.
Bouthaina Shaaban. "The Romantics in the Chartist Press." Keats-Shelley Journal 38. (1989):25-46.
Buckley, Jerome. The Victorian Temper. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1951.
The Cambridge History of English Literature. ed. A.W. Ward. Vol 13. New York: Putnam, (1917).
Clough, Arthur Hugh. Review of Matthew Arnold's Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems and Alexander Smith's Poems, in Isobel Armstrong, ed., Victorian Scrutinies: Reviews of Poetry, 1830-1870. London: The Athlone Press, 1972.
Cronin, Richard. "Alexander Smith and the Poetry of Displacement." Victorian Poetry 28.2 (1990): 129-145.
Cronin, Richard. "The Spasmodics." A Companion to Victorian Poetry. ed. Alison Chapman et al. Malden: Blackwell (2002): 291-304.
Gilfillan, George. George Gilfillan: Letters and Journals with a Memoir. Ed. Robert A. Watson and Elizabth S. Watson. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1892.
Kierstead, Christopher M. "Rossetti's 'A Last Confession' and Italian Nationalism." Worldwide Pre-Raphaelitism: Critical Theory, Popular Culture, Audiovisual Media. Ed. Thomas J. Tobin. New York: SUNY Albany, (2005): 68-80.
Kipperman, Mark. "Shelley, Adorno, and the Scandal of Committed Art." Reading Shelley's Interventionist Poetry, 1819-1820. Ed. Michael Scrivener. RCPS 2001. http://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/interventionist/index.html
LaPorte, Charles. "Aurora Leigh, 'A Life-Drama,' and Victorian Poetic Autobiography." SEL 53.4 (2013): 829-851.
LaPorte, Charles and Jason Rudy. "Spasmodic Poetry and Poetics." Victorian Poetry 42.4 (2004): 421-428.
"The Latest School of Poetry." The Leader 5:219 (1854:June 3): 521-22.
Morton, Heather. "The 'Spasmodic' Hoaxes of W. E. Aytoun and A. C. Swinburne." SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, 48.4 (2008): 849-860.
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Tucker, Herbert. "Glandular Omnism and Beyond: The Victorian Spasmodic Epic." Victorian Poetry 42.4 (2004): 429-450.
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[1] The best introductions to Spasmodism can be found in Weinstein: W.E. Aytoun and the Spasmodic Controversy, Herbert Tucker The Epic; and the editorial introduction to Victorian Poetry 2004. BACK
[2] James Thompson (B.V.), George Gillfilan, Gerald Massey, and J. Westland Marston are also associated with the Spasmodics, as are early Arthur Hugh Clough, Tennyson's Maud, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh. BACK


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What you are looking at is the current resident of the top of the list of things my sixteen year old wants for me to make for him when Lent is over. That boy has so much willpower it puts his daddy and I to shame. He gave up sweets for Easter. While I've been good about providing healthy sweet snacks (loads of fresh fruit, smoothies, and whatnot) and trying to work on sweets recipes while he's at work or at friends' houses to try to avoid tempting him, there is still the occasional moment when he's home and I'm working on something that is most definitely on his no-fly list right now. This is the boy around whom no bags of chocolate chips were safe. The boy who ate eight full-sized pieces of The Pioneer Woman's sheet cake in one sitting. The young man who can't walk past the candy counter at the store without buying something if he has money in his pocket.
…And he has given up sweets and stuck to it. He has full intentions to get back to it after Easter, though, and he has truly compiled the aforementioned list, and today's recipe ACTUALLY holds the first slot. It is what he wants to have to break his fast first, before Easter candy, before Easter breakfast even.
I was trying to hurry myself along and get this done and photographed before he got home from a friend's last week. It's not that it takes a long time, it's just that with four other boys, I kept getting interrupted. Those other four have given up -in descending order by age- texting, "Legend of Zelda", Minecraft, and "Bookworm Adventures". I roasted the bananas; someone needed help finding a book. I scooped ice cream into my blender; someone needed help getting a tennis ball out of the dog's mouth. I washed my hands. I promise. I split more bananas in half and sprinkled them with sugar and then caramelized the sugar with a blow torch; someone drilled into their hand while building a project out of wood. I washed HIS hands. I promise.
I finally got the milkshake made, drizzled caramel sauce around the inside rim of my glass, poured the milkshake in, topped it with whipped cream, drizzled on a little more caramel sauce and some chocolate sauce over the top, added one of the brûléed bananas and quickly grabbed my camera…
…right then the door swung open and there stood my sixteen year old master-of-his-will, staring at the milkshake and silently clutching his stomach.
At that moment, I won "Worst Mother of the Year".
That's when the list started. It's posted in my kitchen above my work space. So far, it reads:
- Roasted Banana and Caramel Milkshake
- Thin Mints
- All the chocolate in the house
While I spend part of my remaining forty days searching for a solid hide place for my chocolate, let's reflect on what makes these milkshakes so good. It is an unabashedly banana-y milkshake that isn't for banana haters. It's creamy, thick, with a sweet, concentrated banana flavour courtesy of roasted bananas.
How and Why to Roast Bananas
That's right. Roasted bananas. Have you ever had them? You take whole bananas in the peel and put them in a hot oven until the peels turn black. That's all there is to it! The high heat deepens and concentrates the banana's natural sweetness. It's kind of magical what roasting does to a plain old banana. You can even take a slightly underripe banana and end up with a sweet, fragrant roasted banana. Since we're already applying heat to bananas, let's talk about the brûléed bananas that top the milkshake. The recipe for them lives on this super ancient post from my 'interesting angle food photography' phase (sigh) but is redeemed by photos of my second youngest baby (Mah BAYBAY) from five years ago. He was so tiny. He's not now. He has big boy teeth. Could we please take a moment to be grateful that my photography has steadily progressed from that point? Yeah. Moving on.
The point is that the bananas have a crème brûlée kind of thing going for them, sweet and creamy with a layer of deeply caramelized, burnt-sugar on top. They're eyes-rolling-back-into-the-head good. Who needs a cherry on a sundae when you have brûléed bananas?
Cook's Notes
- You can roast extra bananas then squeeze them out of their peels and into ice cube trays to freeze for smoothies (ROASTED BANANA SMOOTHIES!), future milkshakes, or baking. They're darned good in banana bread.
- I used homemade salted caramel sauce because it's beyond words it's so good. If you don't want to make it or have a jar handy of the commercial sort, use that! Or if you want to go allllllll in, make this homemade dulce de leche, warm it up a bit, and drizzle THAT inside your glass.
- I used Schwan's Dulce de Leche ice cream and it was fabulous. If that's not available where you live, use a caramel swirl type ice cream. If you can't find that, substitue a nice French vanilla ice cream and add a couple tablespoons of caramel sauce to the blender when you make the milkshake.
- Because the milkshake is already so sweet, use lightly sweetened or unsweetened whipped cream on top.
Roasted Banana and Caramel MilkshakeRate Recipe
- 2 whole bananas
- 3 cups dulce de leche or caramel swirl ice cream
- 1/4-1/2 cup of milk depending on thickness desired
- Optional: ice cubes to make it super thick.
- 1 tablespoon caramel sauce warmed just enough to be pourable
- unsweetened or lightly sweetened whipped cream
For Garnish:
- additional caramel sauce
- chocolate sauce
- 2 halves of a bruleed banana 3 step tutorial found here
- Preheat the oven to 400°F.
- Place the bananas, still in their peels, on a rimmed baking sheet. Roast the bananas for 15-20 minutes, or until the peels have turned black and they look shiny and swollen. Remove the pan from the oven and let cool to at least room temperature before handling them.
- Cut the tip off of the banana peels and squeeze the room temperature, soft, roasted bananas into the blender. Add the ice cream and 1/4 cup of milk. Blend until smooth. If a thicker milkshake is desired, you can blend in several ice cubes to thicken it. If you'd like it thinner, add the remaining 1/4 cup of milk.
- Take 2 pint jars, or similarly sized glasses, and drizzle some of the caramel sauce around the inside rim. Let it drip down before dividing the milkshake between the two cups. Top each glass with a generous cap of whipped cream then drizzle a little more caramel sauce and some chocolate sauce on top. Nestle a bruleed banana half in the whipped cream and serve immediately! Leftovers can be poured into popsicle molds for wonderful banana cream popsicles.
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- 2Fry the boiled eggs until the skin is browned. Take eggs out and put it in a separate container.
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Legal scholarship must be related to legal education, so that teaching does not reflect only one aspect of legal training, whether it be black-letter law, clinical training, or feeble attempts to graft on bits of other disciplines. Instead, students must be exposed to a true synthesis of law and other disciplines and areas of learning. This will require a serious reconsideration of teaching methods, preparation of teaching materials, and ways of testing law students. Academic law should not be merely reflexive. Some attempt must be made, if possible, to avoid the intellectual lag of the law. It may be necessary to develop different streams of legal education - with a cultural intellectual degree and an intensive technocratic qualification.
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Game of Thrones: Season 7, Episode 7 "The Dragon and the Wolf" (B+)
As usual, the second-to-last episode of the season was the most exciting, but I made sure to plant myself in front of my TV right at 9pm to watch this episode as soon as it premiered to avoid anything being spoiled. Last year, I waited a full two weeks after the finale aired to watch it, and I didn't get anything ruined, and there was plenty that could have been revealed to me and affected my experience. The intensity of the shocking moments in this episode weren't as crazy as last year's, but they're still quite notable. The opening shot of the army marching on King's Landing conveyed the grandeur of what we're experiencing, and Cersei shooting daggers at Tyrion when she first saw him was a signal that this wasn't going to be easy. Euron also tried to sabotage things by focusing on humiliating his nephew rather than helping the cause, and it seems that Theon finally found his courage when he stood up for Yara and rallied his army to go find her. Bringing the white walker back definitely worked, and it's just a shame that Jon is such an honorable guy that he won't swear falsely. Brienne pushed Jaime, but it was ultimately Tyrion who, begging for execution, won Cersei over - only he didn't. She's so selfish and eager to win that she's thinking only of her child and not its father, who she didn't seem to have any problem ordering her bodyguard to kill him. Jaime's response was formidable, and I think he's going to be noble and go fight alongside those he's pledged to serve, whether or not that means he'll reveal Cersei's duplicity. With new allegiances proven to be false on one front, it was reassuring and satisfying to see Sansa and Arya team up to turn the tables on Littlefinger, who couldn't talk his way out of a swift execution by Arya. It's good to see the Starks united, especially with the reveal, or confirmation, I guess, that Jon is actually a Targaryen, which means that he just had sex with his aunt. I suppose there's not enough incest on this show just yet, and that long-awaited hookup now can't be nearly as celebrated as it should have been. More importantly, that zombie dragon wasted no time in bringing down the entire wall, which means a whole new game is about to be played against the human race in the show's eighth and final season, which will be back sometime in the future. I think that this was the show's best season since its second, and I'm eager for its return, whenever that may be.
Season grade: A-
Season MVP: Peter Dinklage as Tyrion
Tuesday, August 29, 2017
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Qantas has received a welcome 95th birthday gift in the form of a return to an investment grade credit rating that chief executive Alan Joyce describes as a "welcome endorsement" of the hard work from everyone at the airline in recent times.
Ratings agency Standard & Poor's on Tuesday upgraded its long-term corporate credit and issue ratings on Qantas to 'BBB-' from 'BB+', ending a near-two-year period when the airline was ranked as below investment grade.
"Underpinning the corporate credit rating on Qantas is its dominant position in Australia's duopoly-like domestic aviation market where the airline's dual brands comprise about 63 per cent of domestic capacity," S&P analysts Graeme Ferguson and Paul Draffin said in a research note dated November 17.
"The group's strong balance sheet, conservative approach to capital management, dominant domestic market position, and a more benign domestic competitive environment, will underpin credit quality at the 'BBB-' level.
"The rating incorporates our expectation that Qantas will realise an enduring benefit from previously announced restructuring initiatives while limiting pressure on its balance sheet."
S&P said it upgraded Qantas's credit rating after the airline told an investor conference in Sydney on Tuesday it would maintain "a ratio of funds from operations to debt of more than 45 per cent throughout the cycle".
"We view this framework to be materially more prudent and creditor-friendly than previously announced policies," S&P said.
"Qantas's revised financial framework is more formal, forward-looking and preemptive. It places greater emphasis on acting preemptively to protect the balance sheet when the airline anticipates periods of financial stress."
S&P's decision means Qantas joins six other global carriers with investment grade credit ratings – Air New Zealand, Alaska Airlines, Lufthansa, Ryanair, Southwest and WestJet.
Qantas lost its investment grade credit rating in December 2013, in a year where the company also handed down a $2.853 billion statutory loss after writing down the carrying value of its fleet. Since then the airline has embarked on a series of measures – closing unprofitable routes, retiring older aircraft, reducing its workforce and lowering its cost base – to return to profitability and improve its financial metrics.
The turnaround resulted in a return to profitability in 2014/15, with Qantas posting a full year statutory net profit of $557 million and delivering a $505 million capital return to shareholders.
Joyce said Qantas was in a good position to reinvest in the business while considering the return of surplus capital to shareholders.
"Our focus has been getting the business to an optimal capital position and to keep it there throughout the cycle. Our approach to fuel hedging, to increasing revenue through better aircraft utilisation and to cutting overheads has all been part of this," Joyce said in a statement.
"This decision by S&P recognises that our strategy is delivering."
Qantas shares were up about four per cent at $3.70 in afternoon trade on Tuesday, compared with a one per cent rise in the overall market. Virgin Australia was up about 1.6 per cent at 43.7 cents.
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The Patrol Unit is responsible for keeping you and your family, your homes, businesses and neighborhoods safe. Patrol Officers answer alarm calls, resolve disputes, respond to a variety of calls for service and take most crime or violation reports. Knox County is divided into 14 Patrol zones. Officers assigned to each of these zones, patrol for any signs of problems, disturbances and unusual behavior. The men and women of the Patrol Unit are considered the backbone of the Sheriff's Office.
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How digital enterprises are scaling their data to infinity and beyond in the cloud
Digital transformation is fundamentally changing how enterprises need to do business to stay relevant. Optimizing customer relationships and making the business much more data-focused are not only the top two goals driving investments in data-driven initiatives today, they can typically result in a 5-10% revenue boost. However traditional data warehousing has been turned on its head and is failing to keep up with the digital economy due to:
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Studio 52 is a community artist space located in the heart of Allston, and is proud to support the Boston music scene and local artist community.
Mother nature has a strange sense of humor. Especially when in cahoots with rock and roll.
Last night the Boston area was besieged with flash flood warnings as a summer thunderstorm rolled hard into town right around dusk. The morning after, the waters have subsided, but not without one of our finer rock and roll bands, The Rationales, releasing a new album, appropriately titled Upstream.
But even without any sudden storms to dress up a lede, Upstream is a record with both contextual meaning and glow, another sterling effort from the blue-collar Rationales that holds up as further proof the sextet remains one of the more trusted bands to emerge from Boston over the past decade. Taking the title quite literally, the Rats have always swam upstream against the city's trends and styles; instead crafting a swirling cocktail of alt-rock, Americana, and power-pop, created on their own terms and judged by their own personal merits.
Upstream is officially out today and available to stream via Bandcamp and below, with its record release party set for tonight at the Middle East in Cambridge. We scored a taste of Upstream a few weeks back with the escapism video for "Take A Ride With Me", and recently the album was introduced properly via effervescent lead single "Ready To Go."
"The record has a lot of longer songs that we really worked on and arranged as a band," Rationales guitarist/vocalist David Mirabella tells Vanyaland. "Which is how we work on the songs I bring in most of the time. But every year or two I get lucky with a burst of inspiration where I just come up with an idea, fully formed, lyrics and all (which usually come later)… With 'Ready to Go,' I just sat down, started playing the intro, knew I had something I was excited about so I hit record. Three minutes later I had the song and that's more or less exactly how it wound up on the record. Its about energy and 'going for it' so its fitting that it was written in that same way."
The flashes of intrigue are constant on "Ready To Go" and elsewhere across Upstream's seven tracks. The guitarwork on "Trade You" takes the song into another rock/pop stratosphere, and "Under The Gun" has (dare we say it), some remarkable late-'80s power ballad vibes. Combine that with rootsy, everybody-all-in closer "Dulcinea" and the FM radio jubilation of the aforementioned "Take A Ride With Me," and the Rats' have crafted one hell of a complete LP.
It'll be on full display tonight at the release party, a celebratory bill that includes friends and lovers Oldjack, The Curtis Mayflower, Red Red Rockit, and a new project called Nate Rogers and The Unreliable Narrators, which also features Missed Connection leader Magen Tracy and no hope/no harm dude Adam Hand (who is also doing time with the Rats on pedal steel guitar and percussion). Deets on the flyer; score advance tickets here.
THE RATIONALES + OLDJACK + THE CURTIS MAYFLOWER + RED RED ROCKIT + NATE ROGERS AND THE UNRELIABLE NARRATORS :: Thursday, August 3 at The Middle East Downstairs, 472 Massachusetts Ave. in Cambridge, MA :: 7:30 p.m., 18-plus, $12 :: Middle East event page :: Advance tickets :: Facebook event page :: Featured photo courtesy of the band


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With broadband becoming pervasive, applications need to be developed to harness all that bandwidth. The Bell Advanced Solution Innovation Centre opened in Ottawa Thursday to help Canadian small and medium businesses capitalize on the opportunity.
The centre is a partnership between Bell Canada and one of Ottawa's technology titans, Terry Matthews, founder of companies like Mitel Networks and Newbridge Networks. Its aim is to enable rapid development of Internet Protocol (IP)-based business applications for specific SMB verticals that would enable businesses to get their offerings to market faster.
Participating with Bell will be employees from four Matthews-owned companies. Mitel focuses on voice over IP, March Networks on video security over IP, NewHeights on converged voice, video and data products that add value to IP PBXs, and Ubiquity on Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)-based communications software for service providers.
"It's not about brick and mortar," said Karen Sheriff, president of Bell Canada's small and medium business group, at a news conference. "It's about a partnership between two terrific companies that really believe we have a long way to go to bring the Internet to life for our customers."
Sheriff said the Internet has been around for a while, but especially in the SMB space it hasn't come close to hitting its side. Just two years ago, she said, many of her SMB customers didn't see how broadband access could help their business. Now, the business case is clear.
"There's so much out there, and the applications have not been developed," said Sheriff.
That's where the innovation centre comes in, and that's where Matthews told the news conference he has placed his bets.
By 2000, Matthews said he divested himself of all his holdings in networking, investing solely in products and applications that run on top of IP broadband.
"There's an astounding opportunity here that hasn't been around for a hundred years, and as far as I'm concerned I'm going to participate and pig-out in it," said Matthews. "Now that the last mile is lit, you can sell things you couldn't sell before."
He said broadband is enabling more then just fast downloads from the Internet. Multimedia environments and applications can be created for specific verticals, driving collaboration and business efficiency.
"There's some great applications coming along for retail, some very good applications for hospitality, for senior citizens homes, and some great applications for transport," said Matthews.
He added the benefits are so much more then just voice over IP, and a vendor needs to go to a business with more then just VoIP to be successful.
"You go in with tangible business benefits, meaningful things that business gets," said Matthews. "In particular, the small business market because there's so many of them…You get that one right and you rule the world."
And according to Michael Binder, an assistant deputy minister, Industry Canada, getting that one right is crucial to the future competitiveness of Canada's economy. Binder told the news conference that we live in the network economy, and to succeed you must continue to be creative and innovative.
"It's a very competitive world, and we must not be left behind," said Binder. "The IT sector, and its enabling effect, is the biggest single input into our productivity growth."
Despite our success, Binder said the US has been more productive and more innovative, and we need to change this if we want to keep up with the US, and maintain our high standard of living.
"We need to see more centres like this across the country," said Binder. "It is not enough to do research, we have to get better at commercializing our research, developing new products and services and creating new, innovative companies."


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The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual/Ally Round Table of the New York Library Association is committed to supporting the information needs of the LGBT+ professional library community, and the information and access needs of individuals at large. We are committed to encouraging and supporting the free and necessary access to all information as reflected by the mission of the New York Library Associaton.
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The centre provides a 50m competition pool with an hydraulic floor, learning pool, sports hall, fitness gym, cafe and community room. The project was completed at a cost of £10m in a little under 2 years.
The challenge was to stitch this huge building into the small-scale context of the conservation area. This was achieved by the manipulation of the form in relation to the slope of the site. Solving this problem won us the competition and has provided the community with a valuable new facility.


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LA starlet DYLLAN has just released her highly anticipated, debut EP not your goddess. The collection consists of four songs that wonderfully illustrate the eclectic songwriter's ethos, essence, and mastery. Listen below.
To celebrate the drop, DYLLAN performed at Hollywood's magic den, Madame Siam. She drew the crowd in closer with each dreamy, tantalizing melody. DYLLAN stood among her synths and a laptop, holding her electric guitar for some and mastering the stage without. She has a mystic, meditative quality to her tone that is at once alluring and bold, entrancing us with her unexpected melodies and rhythms. The electronic songbird danced throughout each of her songs, gently tapping away and playing her guitar with graceful ease.
Each song on not your goddess contains a classic DYLLAN undertone, weaving experimental waves into a colorful pop palette. In what is perhaps her most mainstream tune on the EP, 'Devotion', it's easy to feel like you're inside of a female pop song that's time-traveled from the 90s and finally surfaced in 2019 via the sparkly muse, DYLLAN.
As she grooved in her own world, DYLLAN let us in on her most intimate song, 'My Fears.' She put away the electronics for the EP's final track and told us her story about misplaced compassion and loyalty.
"So it was Christmas time and I was pacing around Brooklyn, reeling, imagining if I just bought him a Christmas tree maybe he'd be okay. 'Try to make it seem like we just need some light…as a consolation as if I was in the wrong…'" DYLLAN explains, citing the lyrics. "I was trying to pinpoint a particular incident; some transgression I could fix instead of the basic fact that he just didn't want to be with me."
Entering a genre-league of her own, DYLLAN just put herself on the map with the release of this personal, authentic project. Stream not your goddess on all platforms and keep up with DYLLAN's shine on Instagram.
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Romney Takes Credit for Auto Industry Turnaround, Reignites Bailout Debate
LANSING, Michigan - Just hours before making his return to his native state of Michigan where he will deliver a speech at a local university here, Mitt Romney reiterated his claim that he should be given credit for the resurgence of the auto industry, reigniting the debate over how the auto industry should have been helped and inviting criticism from Democrats, one of whom dubbed the claim a "new low in dishonesty."
"My own view, by the way, was that the auto companies needed to go through bankruptcy before government help, and frankly that's finally what the President did," Romney said during an interview with ABC News' Cleveland affiliate WEWS on Monday. "He took them through bankruptcy. That was the right course I argued for from the very beginning. It was the AW and the President that delayed the idea of bankruptcy."
"I pushed the idea of a managed bankruptcy, and finally when that was done and help was given, the companies got back on their feet, so I'll take a lot of credit for the fact that this industry's come back," Romney told WEWS .
President Obama's National Campaign Co-Chair - and member of the "Obama for America Truth Team" - former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland responded to Romney's claim, writing in a statement, "Mitt Romney may think he can fool the American people by hiding his belief that we should 'let Detroit go bankrupt,' but the American people won't let him. His comments today that he will 'take a lot of credit that the [auto] industry has come back' are a new low in dishonesty, even for him."
"At the time the loan was extended, auto industry leaders were saying that they couldn't keep the industry alive without a lifeline from the federal government," said Strickland. "And so, the President did something politically unpopular at the time and he gave them a lifeline to restructure and because of his decision to do so, the industry is prospering and spurring growth across the nation."
Romney has suggested before that the managed bankruptcy that the auto giants went through was his own idea, and did so explicitly in his controversial 2008 New York Times oped titled, " Let Detroit Go Bankrupt ," in which he argued that a so-called "managed bankruptcy" would have resulted in a faster turnaround.
The auto bailout was funded with Wall Street bailout funds and begun under the Bush administration. Romeny's 2008 oped opposing it hasn't always played well with Michigan residents, many of whom were relieved to see the industry saved, regardless of the means in which it was done.
But Romney has not backed down from his 2008 position. Just a a few days prior to the Michigan primary earlier this year , he wrote another oped in the Detroit News that echoed many of those same messages.
"Managed bankruptcy may sound like a death knell," Romney wrote in the February piece. "But in fact, it is a way for a troubled company to restructure itself rapidly, entering and leaving the courtroom sometimes in weeks or months instead of years, and then returning to profitable operation."
"In the case of Chrysler and GM, that was precisely what the companies needed. Both were saddled with an accumulation of labor, pension, and real estate costs that made them unsustainable," wrote Romney.


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IFOAM EU: What will change with the new Organic Regulation?
Politics Politics28.06.2018 Editor
IFOAM EU has put together a briefing on what the new Organic Regulation will change for farmers, processors and certifiers.
Nicaragua: Riots affect organic farms and social initiatives
Politics Politics25.06.2018
In mid-April the riots began in Nicaragua. The people expressed their frustration after more than a decade of oppression. Since then, the Ortega regime has been crushing the people´s revolt with brutal force. There is a need for soldarity.
EU Commission criticises eco-control authority in Sri Lanka
Politics Politics20.06.2018 Leo Frühschütz
The EU Commission has had an eco-control office in Sri Lanka checked and has come across massive grievances. These "undermine the credibility of the control system", it says in the audit's report.
EU: New regulation reduces use of antibiotics
Politics Politics14.06.2018 Editor
According to the new regualtion farmers in the EU are to document the use of antimicrobial drugs in their animals.
Ukraine: Positive development of the organic sector
Politics Politics12.06.2018
Olga Trofimtseva, Deputy Minister on European Integration at the Ukrainian Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food, and Natalie Prokopchuk, Project Manager of the SECO-FiBL Project "Organic Market Development in Ukraine", share the same opinion: "The organic market in Ukraine is constantly developing." According to the State Statistics Service of Ukraine, the country has 42.7 million hectares of agricultural land and 289,551 ha are cultivated organically. Due to the geographical location, widespread fertile black soils and proximity to potential international buyers, the country has favourable conditions to expand organic agriculture, says an official report of the Ministry.
EU plastic regulation puts manufacturers under obligation
Politics Politics05.06.2018 Editor
According to a proposal by the EU Commission, ten disposable plastic products are to be withdrawn from the European market.
India: Uttarakhand with a law for organic
Politics Politics01.06.2018 Editor
The government of the North Indian state Uttarakhand will soon bring in a law to give organic farming a legal backing, writes the Hindustan Times. The reason is a big demand for organic products in the domestic and foreign markets.
EU: new organic farming rules adopted
Politics Politics23.05.2018 Editor
In a press release the Council of the European Union informed that on 22 May the Council adopted new EU rules on organic production and the labelling of organic products.
Green Brexit: the future for food, farming and environment
Politics Politics22.05.2018 Editor
The British association Organic Farmers and Growers (OF&G) together with other leading organic organisations is urging government to recognise the opportunities organic offers to deliver a green Brexit.
India: Food regulator plans a GMO label
Politics Politics15.05.2018 Editor
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has made a proposal to labal all packaged food products containing genetically modified (GM) ingredients.
USA: smiley label for GMO foods introduced
Politics Politics15.05.2018 Editor
GMWatch UK informed about the proposals of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to label food that contains genetically engeneered ingredients. The drafts show smileys and sunny faces as labels.
Global protests: March Against Monsanto #MAM
Politics Politics15.05.2018
The organisation March Against Monsanto #MAM announced that 2018 May 19th will be the date for the 7th international March Against Monsanto grassroots campaign. The global events will take place in hundreds of cities on six continents with the objective to further educate and raise awareness about Monsanto's genetically modified seeds and the increasingly toxic food supply, as well as its merger with the German pesticide, GMO and pharmaceutical giant Bayer.
USDA released proposal for regulations for GMO Labeling
Politics Politics10.05.2018 Editor
On Monday this week the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released the long-awaited proposed regulations for the mandatory disclosure of foods produced using genetic engineering (GE or GMO), which it calls "Bioengineered foods." This is reported by Sustainable Pulse online.
EU bans three bee-harming neonics
Politics Politics04.05.2018 Editor
Following a proposal of the European Commission, the EU member states have banned three bee poisonous pesticides for outdoor use. Germany also supported the ban. However, for environmental associations, the new regulation does not go far enough.
Naturland demands fair wages for cocoa farmers
Politics Politics03.05.2018 Editor
Cocoa is the main source of income for over five million smallholders, mostly from West Africa. At the fourth World Cocoa Conference from 22nd to 25th April, 1,500 players from the cocoa industry met to exchange views and also to discuss the working conditions for cocoa farmers. On this occasion, Naturland demanded the conference's participants to take action by passing concrete resolutions in favour of cocoa smallholders.
Acrylamide: New requirements for minimization
Politics Politics26.04.2018 Leo Frühschütz
The new EU Acrylamide Regulation came into force in April. The new regulation aims at a further reduction of the harmful substance, which is mainly found in fried, roasted and baked products and is considered carcinogenic in animal experiments.
European Parliament's plenary adopts the new EU organic regulation
Politics Politics19.04.2018 Editor
Today, the European Parliament adopted the text for a new organic regulation, as preliminarily agreed by the Council and the Parliamentary Committee on Agriculture in November 2017. The voting was very clear: 466 MEPs voted in favour of the new regulation and only 124 against.
New documentary about "Monsanto's Toxic Tricks"
Politics Politics18.04.2018 Editor
The Greens in the European Parliament released a documentary on the glyphosate scandal. The video shows in interviews and statements how Monsanto attacks organisations and scientists. Watch the film "Monsanto's Toxic Tricks".
Global contest for the world's best agroecology policies
Politics Politics16.04.2018 Editor
At the 2nd International Symposium on Agroecology, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the World Future Council (WFC) and IFOAM – Organics International kicked off a global contest for the world's best agroecology policies.
Canada: Quebec government supports organic industry
Politics Politics13.04.2018 Editor
Quebec Province´s liberal government recently unveiled a policy and a high budget to encourage the development of the food sector, including organic farming.
Germany: 20% organic acreage until 2030?
Politics Politics10.04.2018 Editor
Almost six months after the election of the new German government last September, the governing coalition between CDU/CSU and SPD is now in place. One of the agreed goals of the two parties is to achieve 20% organic cultivation land by 2030. Julia Klöckner (CDU), new Federal Minister of Agriculture and Food, is about to implement the announcements for sustainable agriculture.
China submits new maximum residue limits for pesticides in food to the WTO
Politics Politics03.04.2018 Editor
As we can see from the Global Agricultural Information Network (GAIN) report by the American Department of Agriculture (USDA), the People's Republic of China has recently submitted an extensive list of pesticides with corresponding maximum residue limits (MRLs) to the the World Trade Organization (WTO).
UN moves towards recognising human right to a healthy environment
Politics Politics02.04.2018 Editor
©Since long there has been a strong demand of many NGOs and of the organic sector towards political representatives worldwide to take more responsibility for a healthy environment.
Organic India: shape of things
Politics Politics27.03.2018 Editor
A strong regulatory framework and multiple policy initiatives lay the foundation for the rapid development of the organic foods sector in India in the coming years. With the surge in demand for organic foods, and the subsequent influx of new products into the market, organic certification has become crucial to ensure quality and prevent fraud and mislabelling. Certification develops confidence amongst consumers about the product's genuineness as Organic. It also certifies that the product does not contain any non-organic ingredients and that it complies with the organic production standards laid out by regulatory authorities. Let us take a look at the certification processes in India for organic products.
Sikkim bans entry of non-organic foods
Politics Politics27.03.2018 Editor
Consolidating its organic stance further, the government of Sikkim has recently announced a ban on the supply of all perishable vegetables, mangoes and bananas into the state, from March 31 onwards.


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Daimler gives trucks to Haiti aid effort
Truck manufacturer pledges 20 trucks to Haiti to help the island recover from a devastating earthquake
February 3, 2010
Trucks are being sent to the poverty-stricken island of Haiti in an effort to help it recover from the recent devastating earthquake.
Daimler Trucks is sending 20 of its Fuso Canter trucks to help deliver vital aid materials to Haitians in need of medical help and food supplies.
The company says the Fuso's high payload capacity is ideal for distributing blankets, medicines, food, and water in the refugee camps.
"Everyone who looks at the images coming out of Haiti is asking himself, 'What can I do?' And trucks are what we do best," Daimler's Andreas Renschler
Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince was struck by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake on January 12 and it is estimated 200,000 people have died.
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"Resource revenue is expected to fall to levels not seen since the 1970s as Jason Kenney's UCP government announces deficit projections $16.8 billion higher than previously forecast"
"Alberta is projecting a historic deficit for the 2020-2021 fiscal year as resource revenues decline to levels not seen in decades.
In a first quarter fiscal update, Finance Minister Travis Toews gave Albertans a closer look at the combined toll on provincial coffers of what he called a "triple black swan event": the COVID-19 pandemic, the ensuing global economic crisis and the collapse of oil prices.
The deficit is now projected to be $24.2 billion — $16.8 billion higher than government estimates in the 2020 budget released in February.
The increase is largely due to a major decline in government revenue, which is now projected to be $11.5 billion lower than estimates in the budget. Revenue from non-renewable resources is expected to be $3.9 billion lower, while income tax revenue is expected to be down $4.3 billion."
Ainslie Cruickshank reports for The Narwhal August 27, 2020.


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Quick expert opinions:
Doug Farrar: Durham faster than your pssession receiver. Quick to/thru seam, good downfield. Vertical. Cuts on short routes. YAC guy.
Rob Rang: For Seahawks fans panicking about Kris Durham, check out Youtube video. + Acceleration, body control for size
Eric Williams: Durham said his visited Seattle before draft, and has been working out with Charlie Whitehurst in Georgia.
Russ Lande: Love the pick of Kris Durham (WR - Georgia) as he has the height, speed, jumping ability and hands to be a big, dangerous down field threat.
Hawk Blogger: Don't know Kris Durham, but he sounds like a Stokley understudy. Tall slot guy with good speed and hands.
Rob Staton: I like the Kris Durham pick. Good size and hands, worth a flier in round four.
Still wondering the production is despite playing behind AJ Green. Durham's route arsenal was awful limited. Still, he has the tools to grow into some NFL skills. Just surprised we passed on Edmond Gates, Greg Salas, and Tanden Doss for a guy without numbers.


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10 ,June 2019
The date, 8th of March, has been highlighted as INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY, the day which is celebrated all over the world, but only of one day, or a week. A day full of celebrations and honouring the braves, attending functions, but what about the rest of the days, where women still have to fight for themselves, stand up against the world.
What I wanted to do was just to express my views on women's day as an ordinary 19 yr old girl, how I support it and how I criticize it. Talking about Women's Day can be considered as a hot topic as it recently passed. From what I experienced is that from the day women's day week starts, even the little bit of feminism that exists in a person comes out in full force. People start to show their respect and support towards women. And now, during the socially overactive era, the most common or the only way to express ourselves is through social media posts. Posts related to women rights, supporting women with the trending hashtag – "#iamawoma" or "#proudtobeawoman", which are mostly limited to the cell phone screens. It's not that the posts are just about supporting women, but also criticizes about how we are only showing our maximum support to women on women's day. I guess that's the irony, that on women's day, people are criticizing each other that we support women only on women's day.
What everyone needs to understand is that we don't need special rights or special treatment, all we need is EQUAL rights and EQUAL treatment. When I say "all we need is EQUAL rights and EQUAL treatment" I mean that it's not the duty of men to respect and empower women, but to see them as equal and women should not also search for validation from men. It is not always HER against THE WORLD; sometimes it is US against OURSELVES .
And therefore for me being at Lloyd Law College has been a great experience as at Lloyd Law College the importance of being a girl or a woman has always been recognized and can be seen through the different arena where women are leading the way be it research, moots, debate or academics. The team representing Lloyd Law College at the Concours Jean-Pictet Competition - 2019" at Paris, France was an all girls similarly the team that represented Lloyd Law College at XV Law Centre I Delhi University Moot Court Competition 2019 was an all girls team which also won the Best Memorial Award and the Best Researcher Award. Also at the CLEA Mooting (India Round) Competition 2019 it was girls who led the charge for Lloyd Law College,Top llb colleges in noida and won the Best memorial.
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