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More than 80% back transition category for Aussie 'green' taxonomy, ASFI finds
Industry-led sustainability initiative issues recommendations for Australian sustainable finance taxonomy.
Paul Verney
More than four-fifths of respondents to consultations by the Australian Sustainable Finance Initiative (ASFI) support the inclusion of a transition category for Australia's "green" taxonomy.
The development of an industry-led Australian Sustainable Finance Taxonomy was announced as priority for 2022 by the ASFI in March.
Following nine months of work on the framework, including input from its 56-strong technical advisory group, ASFI published its 15 recommendations for feedback on Wednesday.
Included in the list is a recommendation for a "traffic-light colour coding framework" to distinguish green, transition and excluded activities under the taxonomy.
In October, ASFI published a "framing paper" as part of its efforts on the sustainable finance framework, drawing on the work on sustainable finance taxonomies in other jurisdictions, including the UK, EU and Canada.
Later that month, Kristy Graham, executive director of ASFI, told Responsible Investor that – given that the need for guidance on allocating capital to credible transition activities is emerging as a "key driver" – Australia's taxonomy "will likely need a 'transition category' with living criteria that will become more stringent over time".
Eighty-four percent of those who responded to ASFI's consultations, including the framing paper survey in October, agreed on the need for a transition component, the recommendations report revealed. Investment heavyweights Schroders, State Street Global Advisors and AMP were among those who shared their views.
The absence of a transition element from the EU's green taxonomy has been raised by market participants, including Patricia Plas, group director of public affairs at French insurer Axa. In July, she told RI: "Obviously what we as society need to do, and what needs to be financed, is the transition. The hole for the moment is how do you define that and where do you put the transition in the framework."
ASFI stated that feedback from stakeholders "indicated a strong preference for the inclusion of transition criteria in the Australian taxonomy to guide capital toward initiatives aligned with credible sectoral decarbonisation pathways".
The body added that the finalisation of the methodology for integrating transition activities into the taxonomy will be a matter for further consultation, alongside outreach on "identifying priority sectors to include in the Australian taxonomy" and "developing entity- and activity-level technical screening criteria".
Three suggested categories for transition activities are put forward with the recommendations: pathway differentiation approach; transition risk and opportunity approach; and activity categorisation approach.
Potential political headwinds to the work on the taxonomy are also raised in the recommendations, especially given current cost of living pressures. "The recent history of climate change politics in Australia also suggests that the likelihood of political sensitivities and controversies needing to be managed is high," ASFI wrote.
However, it continued: "To maintain credibility, the Australian taxonomy will need to develop the criteria for the high-emitting sectors, despite the above present-day challenges."
ASFI's recommendations also include making reporting on taxonomy alignment mandatory "where users are seeking to make claims around the sustainability objectives covered" by the framework. Such a requirement it stated would "assist with addressing greenwashing".
Greenwashing is a growing focus for Australian regulators. Last week, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) issued infringement notices to Vanguard Australia over alleged misleading disclosures.
In October, ASIC also revealed that super funds in the country are among those it is currently investigating over potential greenwashing.
Another recommendation from ASFI is that Australia should develop a "do no significant harm" (DNSH) criteria that meets its own "unique needs, including standards for respecting indigenous rights and heritage".
Under the EU's taxonomy, there are more than 700 individual DNSH criteria. ASFI stated that there could be "usability issues" if Australia adopted the EU's approach wholesale, but added that there "may be opportunities to simplify DNSH requirements without significantly compromising the Australian taxonomy's credibility and rigour".
It noted that the UK's Green Taxonomy Advisory Group (GTAG) is exploring options to streamline DNSH requirements to make the country's taxonomy more usable.
On the recommendations, ASFI's Graham said: "This report is the result of a collaborative process across the finance sector, with strong engagement from across superannuation, asset management, banking, insurance and financial services as well as government and regulators. The 15 recommendations provide a pathway for the development of a taxonomy that is science based, interoperable with international taxonomies and useable."
ASFI's recommendations paper will be open for public consultation until mid-February.
UK misses deadline
The recommendations come as the UK Treasury announced that it will miss its 1 January deadline to propose regulations on climate technical screening criteria for the UK's own green taxonomy, with a further update expected in early 2023.
James Alexander, CEO of UK sustainable investment body UKSIF, said he was "naturally hugely disappointed by today's statement confirming further delays to the taxonomy's implementation".
He urged the government to "restate its intention to swiftly delivering a science-based taxonomy and a clear timeline for implementation".


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Falkland's students wishing to return to UK face mounting difficulties
UK hopes to ease some lockdown restrictions in March
Falklands exempt from UK requirements for pre departure coronavirus testing
Leicester lockdown expected this week because of a rise in coronavirus cases
Monday, June 29th 2020 - 06:00 UTC
Reports in the Sunday Times said the government was set to re-impose strict lockdown rules on Leicester "within the next few days" after a spike of 658 new cases
Home Secretary Priti Ms Patel added there had been "flare-ups across the country in recent weeks, in just the last three or four weeks in particular".
The English Midlands city of Leicester could face a local lockdown due to a rise in coronavirus cases, British Home Secretary Priti Patel said on Sunday.
"There will be support going into Leicester and in fact the Health Secretary (Matt Hancock) was in touch with many of us over the weekend explaining some of the measures, the support on testing, resources that will go into the local authority as well," Ms Patel told the BBC.
Reports in the Sunday Times newspaper said the government was set to re-impose strict lockdown rules on Leicester "within the next few days" after a spike of 658 new cases reported in the two weeks up to June 16.
The increases were linked to fresh outbreaks at food production plants and reports of large gatherings outside takeaway restaurants.
Ms Patel added there had been "flare-ups across the country in recent weeks, in just the last three or four weeks in particular".
"For local outbreaks, it is appropriate to have local solutions in terms of infection control, social distancing, screening and many tools," said Ms Patel.
The news regarding Leicester comes at a worrying time for the UK, a country badly affected by the pandemic.
Boris Johnson's government is set to ease virus lockdown restrictions from July 4 - despite predictions of a second wave of infections - by opening pubs, restaurants and hairdressers among others across England on July 4.
In the last few days, Britain has seen tens of thousands of people ignore social distancing rules and flood to beaches, hold street parties as well as Liverpool fans crowd the city after their football club won the Premier League.
Ms Patel added: "I think it's right that we are all conscientious about concerns of another wave. I think nothing would be more damaging for our country, for our economy if we do have a second wave."
Leading medical experts warned earlier this month of the "real risk" of a second coronavirus wave this winter.
More than 43,000 people have died due to the coronavirus, official figures show, though the final death toll is expected to be much higher.
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Today, the Big Lottery Fund announces five areas in England sharing £215 million to help parents of 0-3-year-olds.
There is strong evidence to show that what happens in the womb and through the first three years of life can profoundly affect a child's future.
Tens of thousands of vulnerable babies who may be at risk of a future of long-lasting health issues, unemployment or even criminal activity will now have a better start in life following a £215 million Big Lottery Fund investment to five areas in England.
The areas announced today have been awarded up to £50 million each – Lambeth, Southend, Nottingham, Blackpool and Bradford – in a ground-breaking ten year test and learn initiative to see what methods are the best for laying the foundations for 0-3-year-olds to improve their future health, social and educational outcomes. The investment aims to improve the life chances of more than 60,000 babies and children.
A cross-sector partnership of local health, statutory and voluntary sector organisations will work alongside local parents in each area to redesign local services and test how well they can improve social and emotional development, nutrition, and language and communication development in young children to prevent costly problems in later life.
Southend and Blackpool plan to create internationally recognised and renowned centres of excellence and sources of expertise, bringing together practitioners, researchers and parents to lead the change in delivery of services.
Across Nottingham activities will tackle the stress caused by family conflict and domestic abuse, parental substance misuse, and parental health problems. Midwives caseloads will be reduced from 100 to 40 in Bradford to enable a more personalised care, providing more home visits and establishing links with children's centres.
In Lambeth more than 50 new community champions will be recruited in the first year and trained to promote crucial advice.
Evidence will be produced over the ten years to show which approaches work best to demonstrate the social and economic benefits of investing to prevent harm, in order to influence early years funding across the country.
The Southend partnership, which receives £40 million will be led by the Pre-school Learning Alliance which aims to transform maternity care, parental support with activities delivered from key sites including a network of children's centres with a wide range of local, voluntary, statutory and health organisations involved. Midwifery and health visiting services will be increased and there will be improved access to high quality resources to maximise maternal health during pregnancy. The Centre of Excellence, Innovation and Best Practice will bring together practitioners, researchers and parents to lead the development and delivery of services and systems change. Workshops to improve 'school readiness', speech and language, and address obesity will be introduced alongside breastfeeding support workers. The partnership expects to improve the lives of 13,000 children in its target areas.
The NSPCC have been awarded £45 million to lead the partnership in Blackpool which is the sixth most deprived local authority in the country. Thirty per cent of babies experience poverty and the town has the highest levels of looked after children in the country. Work will address low breastfeeding rates, limited prenatal care, family conflict and domestic abuse, maternal obesity, child poverty, substance misuse, poor social cohesion and lack of exercise. Young children will be encouraged to eat more fruit and vegetables, health professionals will support pregnant women understand the risks of being overweight and midwives will be trained in newborn social and communications skills. Community environmental projects will include creating more open spaces for families to promote the benefits of being active, while education campaigns will focus on alcohol abuse, domestic abuse and mental ill health. The establishment of a Centre for Early Child Development will play a crucial role, aiming to become an internationally recognised and renowned source of expertise and innovation in services and systems from pregnancy to the age of three.
Across Nottingham as a whole, 39 percent of children are classed as living in poverty and one in four adults in the city have no formal qualifications. There are high numbers of children with early onset behavioural problems, chronic health conditions, unhealthy gestation and birth, and poor school readiness. The Nottingham CityCare Partnership receives £45 million and the project includes activities and interventions that will tackle the 'toxic stress' caused by family conflict and domestic abuse, parental substance misuse, and parental health problems. Projects will be delivered within pram pushing or toddler tolerance distance of all family homes, utilising 16 local delivery centres across the communities. This will include opening up community buildings in the evenings and weekend. All staff and volunteers in direct contact with children and families will receive accredited training in communication and engagement, family dynamics and child development, safeguarding and welfare. A new workforce of paid family mentors will be recruited and trained work alongside professionals.
Bradford Trident will lead the partnership in the town which receives £49 million to engage with around 20,000 babies and children over the ten years. According to Bradford Trident the district as a whole has significant deprivation and within the three target wards (Bowling & Barkerend, Bradford Moor and Little Horton) there are high rates of infant mortality, child poverty, poor oral health, high child obesity rates, low numbers of school readiness and high rates of domestic violence and child protection orders. Research shows that one in five children in the three wards have poor communications skills at the school readiness stage and one in three children have poor social and emotional development when starting school. Midwives caseloads will be reduced to enable a more personalised care, providing more home visits and establishing links with children's centres. A befriender scheme will be introduced for all expectant and new mothers affected by or at risk of postnatal depression, while a targeted service working with parents will increase their understanding of infant brain development. There will also be home-based language development programmes, outdoor play, story-telling, exercise activities and nutrition programmes.
In Lambeth, the National Children's Bureau, which receives £36 million, will improve breastfeeding rates, reduce childhood and maternal obesity, reduce domestic violence, improve social, emotional, communication and language development. The projects will be delivered at 26 sites, 13 of which will be enhanced and outdoor plays areas created. The new spaces will allow all those working with families to use the same base, share information and work with parents so that health professionals such as health visitors and midwives will work much more closely with the council's family support workers, social workers and 'community champions' to support families in a more coordinated way. More than 50 new community champions will be recruited in the first year and trained to promote key advice and build connections in the community to reduce the social isolation of some new parents. A further ten breastfeeding supporters will be added to the existing team.
• The Warwick Consortium, led by the University of Warwick, will measure the impact of this funding and share learning. The Warwick Consortium includes key figures in early years research from Oxford University, Ipsos Mori and Bryson Purdon Social Research.
• The London School of Economics will establish a robust cost-benefit framework that will measure the cashable savings to society and the public purse through A Better Start interventions.
• The Social Research Unit at Dartington supported the partnerships throughout the process by providing them with local data, helping them to identify the best evidence and facilitating community engagement.


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Atlas for a better view of atherosclerosis
Sunday 16 Oct 2022
If scientists know more about atherosclerosis, they may in the future develop new treatments for cardiovascular diseases that can occur in people with atherosclerosis. A better view of atherosclerosis is possible by creating an atlas of cell types involved. Researchers from UMC Utrecht and University of Virginia together received a $200,000 grant to make this atlas.
In people with atherosclerosis, the wall of the arteries thickens due to calcification and plaque forms. With the grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, assistant professor Sander van der Laan from UMC Utrecht and assistant professors Clint Miller and Chongzhi Zang from University of Virginia in the U.S. will together create an atlas of atherosclerotic cell types and the role of these cell types in the formation of such plaques. Sander explains: "We are going to create an atlas showing what different cell types, or 'single-cells', are found in the plaques of the coronary artery and carotid artery in adults. With this atlas, we can develop new treatments in the future for diseases such as heart attack, stroke, TIA, or intermittent claudication, which can occur in people with arteriosclerosis."
For the atlas of different cell types, the three researchers use datasets that are available to everyone, including one that the researchers recently published about. "Our main goal of this 'single-cell' atlas, called MetaPlaq, is to map out exactly which cell types and transitional cell subtypes are involved in the formation and progression of plaques. The MetaPlaq atlas will give us clues about the role of vascular and immune cells and the specific cell types responsible for plaques.", Clint explains.
Atlas for all scientists
When the atlas is ready, all scientists in the field of complex genetics and single-cell research can use it as a reference in genome-wide association studies. In this way, scientists around the world will be able to use a comprehensive open-source single-cell web-portal for arterial calcification, entirely in the spirit of Open Science. Clint: "This web portal is designed for all (clinical) researchers, not just for colleagues who can handle large data sets. Many more fellow researchers can gain relevant insights into the various cell types and molecular mechanisms via MetaPlaq. We also think that our atlas will thus provide them with possible entry points for the development of new drugs against atherosclerosis."
Disease risks and new treatments
The research by Sander van der Laan, Clint Miller and Chongzhi Zang will take about 1.5 years. The trio: "We expect that integration of public data and further data analyses will ensure that we get a better idea of which genes are expressed and which cell types are important. Thanks to the plaque atlas, we can take a step towards developing new biomarkers, substances that you can measure in the blood, enabling you to determine what the disease risks are for patients. Our plaque atlas also makes it possible to develop new treatments for cardiovascular disease in the future."


The heat is on for the ultimate summer outdoor cookware so we've reviewed the smartest BBQs on the market, so you can make like Tony Soprano at a board meeting.
Kicking off our smart BBQs is experimental genius Heston Blumenthal has designed a new 'all-terrain' portable charcoal grill. The Everdure by Heston Blumenthal Cube looks like a work of art and features stay-cool handles, an integrated food storage tray (prevents that whole raw/cooked contamination thing) and a handy bamboo lid that doubles as a prep board. In short, the poindexter chef has outdone himself. Fun fact: Heston tops his 'ultimate burger' with sherry-flavoured cheese.
If you literally have money to burn, then opt for this remote-controlled wood pellet BBQ that lights itself with the touch of a smartphone app. The Wi-Fi-enabled Bob Grillson Premium is German-engineered and pretty much does everything. The dual meat probes allow you to remotely tweak the tenderness of individual steaks via an app, and, when you're low on wood pellets, the BBQ will email you a stern warning. Can't manage another rack of ribs? Crank it up to 400°C and it doubles as a pizza oven.
Ever had trouble lighting a BBQ? Squeezing half a bottle of lighter fluid onto the coals in a fit of pique will probably work – it's not really that safe. Instead, why not use… [drumroll]... The World's Most Powerful Lighter? The Looftlighter magically sets light to charcoal, briquettes and wood in just 60 seconds without any fuel. How? By super-heating air that ignites your coals and cuts the time it takes to get them up to cooking temp. Worryingly, it also has an integrated bottle opener.


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Vile Barry Oxendale punches girl, 15, in the face 3 times in brutal attack
Barry Oxendale, 39, grappled with the youngster and dragged her out into the middle of the road during a shocking robbery in Anlaby Road
Alex GroveSenior reporter
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A vile dad-of-five who made up bizarre claims about a "Jihadi knifewoman" terrorising Hull punched a schoolgirl in the face three times when she refused to hand over her mobile phone.
Barry Oxendale attacked the 15-year-old girl as she was walking home along Anlaby Road on February 3 at 9.30pm.
The 39-year-old targeted the youngster, who was on the phone to her friend, by asking her for the time before attempting to snatch the iPhone 5 from her grasp.
When the teenager unexpectedly put up a fight, Oxendale retaliated by attacking the defenceless youngster and dangerously dragging her into the middle of Anlaby Road.
The girl's mother, who has four other children, said: "He asked her for the time and gave her this weird look before trying to grab the phone off her.
How the attack unfolded
Barry Oxendale made false claims a 'jihadi knifewoman' had threatened him
"My daughter grabbed the phone back off him and with that he tried to get it back off her. There was a bit of a scuffle and he dragged her into the middle of the road.
"He punched her three times in the head and by this point she was screaming. Her friend was still on the line and heard everything that was happening."
Vile thug who keeps on beating up mother of his child gets what's coming to him
Fortunately for the terrified teenager, who had just met her boyfriend's parents for the first time, six men came to her rescue and managed to apprehend Oxendale. However, the mother says he then pulled out a knife before being arrested outside West Park by police.
The impact it has had on his victim
The attack happened near West Park in Anlaby Road (Image: Hull Live)
The schoolgirl Oxendale attacked had to be taken to hospital where she was met by her frantic mother who only found out about the assault through her daughter's friend.
The youngster needed X-rays after suffering reddening to her head and her mother was left terrified after finding out Oxendale had brandished a knife.
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"Knowing he had a blade was terrible and it got me really emotional," the 35-year-old said. "She suffered a really sore jaw but luckily there was no bruising.
"I do think about what could have happened and the first time I went past the scene of where it happened on the bus I just broke down in tears."
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Although the youngster, who is now 16, has recovered physically from the attack, the huge psychological impact is still taking its toll on the teenager. Her mum said: "She is always in her room, doesn't go out as much and she is always home now before dark. Before, she used to be five to 10 minutes late returning home like most teenagers are but now I don't even have to ring her because she is always home on time.
"She is never out past 7pm or 8pm at the latest and she does bottle things up. I do think she needs to get with her friends and go out but some days I prefer her to be at home and I worry when she is out."
Mum: 'How could he do that to a 15-year-old girl?'
Oxendale has been jailed for six-and-a-half years (Image: Humberside Police)
Oxendale, of Beckhole Close, west Hull, pleaded guilty to robbery as well as a string of other offences. This included a burglary on October 20, 2017, three shop thefts just two days later, and a breach of a suspended sentence which was imposed by the court on November 23, 2017.
He was jailed for six-and-a-half years in total after being sentenced at Hull Crown Court on Friday, but the schoolgirl's mum is not convinced that a spell behind bars will rehabilitate her daughter's attacker.
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"Knowing he is behind bars has made us happy but I have no doubt he will do it again when he gets out, unless prison can cure him.
"I've got five children and I think he has got the same number of kids too so I just don't understand how he could do that to somebody else's child.
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"How cowardly do you have to be to go for a 15-year-old girl? I hope to God it never happens to his children and I just hope he learns the error of his ways."
The false 'Jihadi knifewoman' threats
Oxendale was ridiculed after lying about a false "Jihadi knifewoman" running down an east Hull street with a knife last year
Oxendale, who describes himself on Facebook as a "stay at home parent," became the subject of ridicule in June 2017 when he made up false claims about a "Jihadi knifewoman" running down Westcott street.
The twisted dad told his partner at the time that he had just seen a "crazy woman all in black" running down the east Hull street with a knife shouting "this is for Jihadi." He claimed that police had arrived on the street and tasered the woman before throwing her in the back of a van.
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Alarmed by what she was hearing, his girlfriend put up a Facebook post which caused widespread panic. However, it was all a pack of lies, and Oxendale received a penalty notice for disorder for causing the wasteful employment of police after a team of officers were dispatched to Westcott Street to investigate.
After his deception, which came on the same day that Hymers College in west Hull was placed in lockdown following reports of an armed intruder, his now ex-girlfriend ended their five-and-a-half year relationship.
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The lies also came just weeks after terror attacks in London and Manchester, and his ridiculous claims were slammed by Hull mosque leader Imam Hafiz Salik who branded his actions as "dangerous."
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COP 17: Week 2
By Michelle Simon - 05 Dec 2011 21:24:0 GMT
Credit: The 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the 7th Session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties (CMP7) to the Kyoto Protocol
Tomorrow marks the entry of the Heads of States from across the globe to finalise COP 17 agreements and the way forward. Week 1 saw the negotiators from 194 nations come together to thrash out the negotiations process amongst ongoing divisions that have flowed over from one COP to the next.
President of COP 17, Ms Mashabane emphasized today and on Thursday last week, that the negotiators have been dealing with the difficult issues so when the ministers arrive we have very little issues. The US has not changed its stale stance. Canada, Japan and Russia are also adamant about non-commitment to a 2nd Commitment period for the Kyoto Protocol (KP 2).
The weekend saw mass movements from across the globe, at a count of about 5000 protesters, unified in their stance against climate and environmental injustices, corporate abuse, ecological destruction and human rights. Today, Greenpeace activists attempted their legacy tactics of taking activism to extremes and scaled a nearby building, a hotel close to the ICC, to hoist its banner in protest of the corporate influence and power over the COP 17 negotiations. Seven activists were arrested and detained.
When the historical polluters and their protectors, that is, governments work side by side in marginalising legally-binding commitments and ambitious targets to aid the global community, legitimate structures acting on behalf of the aggrieved masses have no choice but to resort to tactics that will make the cries visible and heard. The problem is it's ever so easy to criminalise dissent and go on making profits with a flick of the incident on one's corporate shoulder.
The age-old government (electioneering campaign) 'for the people' eventually becomes so detached from the people and allow themselves to be held to economic ransom by big business puppet-masters.
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CastleStorm
June 4, 2013 by Indie Gamer Chick 12 Comments
I'm always skeptical of a game that tries to mix multiple genres. I picture they're the product of a development meeting full of passive-aggressive types with no alpha-male to make the final decision. "Let's do a RTS!" "No, a brawler!" "No, shooter!" "Tower defense!" And then whoever is in charge just sheepishly says "whatever, just do them all." Often, those games turn out to be fairly mediocre. Jack of all trades, master of jack shit, or something like that. And thus with CastleStorm skepticism bells were ringing in my ears like someone had strapped me to a gong and smacked it with a wrecking ball.
Can you blame me? It's part tower defense, but you simultaneously call people to defend your castle while actively shooting the opposing enemies and their castle with a ballista, thus turning it into a gallery shooter. But, sometimes you'll have to take on enemy troops directly by calling your hero into play in a pseudo platformer-brawler. Huh. Plus, with the whole "knock over the enemy's castle by flinging shit at it" angle, there's a hint of Angry Birds in it as well. And all this from a studio whose claim to fame is a few video pinball games? I mean, I fucking adore pinball like you can't imagine. But pinball is about as relevant to gaming today as bloodletting is to modern medicine. Not only that, but I had people on Twitter telling me they had played the demo and came away about as unimpressed from it as anyone could possibly be. Thus I mentally prepared myself for a weekend of boredom.
Which happened. When I watched Cloud Atlas.
Not when I played CastleStorm. It was very fun.
Full disclosure: early Saturday morning, I suffered a moderately severe seizure that pretty much put me out of commission for the entire day. It almost certainly had some influence on the rotten time I had playing CastleStorm online, which I'll be getting to later. But the seizure also means I "lost" about two full hours worth of play time that I simply can't remember. I am told I was having a good time during it though.
We downloaded our copies of CastleStorm on Friday night. The first thing that impressed me was how a game with so many play styles could actually tie everything together in a quick-to-learn package. It never feels like there's too much to juggle. That's the most common problem with these smörgåsbord games. So without falling into that trap, it should be clear sailing, right?
Well, not quiet. But the single player game is hugely satisfying with a wide variety of objectives and really snappy writing. There's also a huge assortment of weapons, spells, and bonus rooms for your customizable castle that can be upgraded. Oh, did you say upgrade system? You mean that thing I'm known to abuse? Did I abuse it? You bet your sweet ass I did. One level involves "a frenzy" in which weapons don't have a cool down time. Here, I set the difficulty to hard, upgraded my Sheep (which acts like the yellow bird in Angry Birds) to its max level, and ended up clearing out the level in six-seconds a turn. I just replayed it doing this for about an hour. By time I was done, every weapon, spell, soldier, and room was fully upgraded. Yea for abuse! I then steamrolled the remaining game. Well, until it forced me to switch over from knights to vikings.
D'oh.
In retrospect I probably should have seen that coming.
It doesn't matter. I still had a great time. I haven't actually finished the Vikings section yet. I got my $10 worth just from the first half of the game. Oh, I will totally finish the Vikings stuff at some point. But I plan on saving it for a time when I have nothing to do and I need an activity I know I'll have fun with. That would be CastleStorm.
Graphically, the game looks pretty good, but I do have some complaints. The backgrounds are pretty noisy, with lots of stuff to distract you. Mind you, the game is beautiful, but I found this stuff to sometimes annoy. Now, that pesky epilepsy thing normally means I can't touch stuff in 3D, but I figured those noisy backgrounds were so noisy because of the 3D stuff. Things that look like they could be in the foreground probably look further back if you play in 3D mode. But that's not something I should risk. So I enlisted Bryce (who received the review code so that he could help me test online stuff) and Brian (who mostly just sat and gave Bryce advice, even when he was playing *me*. What an asshole, am I right?) to throw on the 3D glasses. They were both immediately blown away, declaring it the best use of 3D they had seen ever, movies or games. They raved about it so much that I threw the glasses on myself for a quick gander. They were right. It was absolutely stunning. More so than, say, Life of Pi or Avatar on 3D Blu-ray. Granted, because of my condition, I haven't been privileged to experiment too much with my fancy-schmancy 3D television. I only had the glasses on for about two minutes and I wish I could have done more.
It looks a little Angry Birdsish, but the structures in CastleStorm take more than a couple shots to take down.
Onto the multiplayer stuff. This is where the seizure bit comes in. We didn't play too much of the single-player stuff before we got into the multiplayer. Bryce and I played a few rounds against each-other and had a swell time. Your stats and upgrades from single player don't carry over to online play. You get a starting budget that you can use to immediately upgrade some of your stuff. It probably wasn't a good idea to spend that budget before I knew what I was doing, because once you spend it, as best as I can tell there's no option to start over from square one. So I was committed to using shitty upgrades that can't possibly help me beat people. That mistake was on me, but the horrible online setup is entirely on the developer.
And then the seizure happened. Completely unrelated to CastleStorm or any other game. I just have them every few days or so. This was a particularly nasty one that put me out of commission for basically the rest of the day. By the time I was able to play again, Bryce had put upwards of 15 hours into CastleStorm and I couldn't hope to be competitive with him again. But finding online matches against people of my experience level wasn't smooth either. I was a level one. The game mostly saw fit to pair me against someone who was a level 155. That's not a typo. I'm not even sure how he got up that high. The game just came out on Wednesday for fuck's sake. As it turns out, many people who were attempting to play on Live (including Bryce) would get stuck with this guy all weekend long. It felt like that World of Warcraft episode of South Park. The dude absolutely demolished me in, on average, 20 seconds or less. Fun? No. Annoying? Oh yea. Even worse, I never had a chance to make a single coin during these battles, which meant I couldn't upgrade my stats. And even when it wasn't pairing me up with Jenkins, I was way more likely to get paired up against guys thirty or more ranks higher than me than someone on my level. That meant quick losses and little if any earned coins to upgrade my stuff. It's a terrible online system. Borderline broken.
There's also a cooperative survival mode, which is a little more promising. The problem here is one person gets to have all the fun by being in control of the ballista. The other person assumes the role of the hero. In the main game and during the online battles, the hero is a spell you can cast that puts you directly onto the battlefield to hack and slash enemies for thirty seconds or so. It's fun. For thirty seconds. But Survival mode lasts longer than that, and the hero has a limited moveset. He can swing his sword. He can jump. He can use a bow and arrow, though it's slow to use and tough to aim with. Or, if you want to be fancy, he has a charge move. That's it. It's simply not a play style that lends itself well to extended sessions. Of course, Bryce was having a good time. Of course he was. He got to shoot things. And trust me, no matter what mode you're playing with, the ballista is hugely entertaining to use, and scoring headshots with it is extremely satisfying. So he had all the fun while I got his sloppy seconds.
The game zooms in when you play as the hero. For what its worth, the controls of this mode are solid. It's just not very fun past the usual thirty seconds you normally use it.
I wish CastleStorm had some kind of casual online mode where two people can have the same attribute points. Just have every weapon, character, room, and spell set to level 5 (out of 10). I would play the shit out of that. When the playing field is level, CastleStorm can be a great competitive game. The problem is it's next to impossible to find someone who isn't going to throttle you in seconds. As a result, games play out like a highlight reel of the Harlem Globetrotters versus Washington Generals, and you're the Generals.
Regardless, CastleStorm is one of the most pleasant surprises I've had at Indie Gamer Chick in a while. It doesn't really do any one thing exceptionally well, but the sum of all parts is undeniably engrossing. The online stuff isn't so hot, but it wouldn't take too much tinkering to get that right. But really, the reason to own CastleStorm is the single player stuff. It's a fun quest, with a robust upgrade system. If you're into building things, the castle customization stuff is apparently well done and easy to handle. I'm not into that kind of shit myself, but Brian took over for it and said it was intuitive and enjoyable. I don't know if I would have had more fun if I hadn't lost my entire Saturday and thus my preferred playing partner, but I still highly recommend CastleStorm. I went into it with my expectations set to "cautiously optimistic" and came away knowing that Zen Studios will never be known as just those pinball guys again.
Although I should probably mention that I absolutely LOATHED this level. See that big, mushroom-shaped mountain-thing? Yea. It actually blocks your shots. At first, I couldn't even tell it was in the foreground. I constantly vomited curse words that my father didn't even know I knew when stuck here, which is where most multiplayer matches seemed to be set in.
Oh, and one last thing: CastleStorm? Really? That's the best you guys could come up with? CastleStorm sounds like something a sitcom writer would come up with on five seconds notice when they need the name of a fictional video game for the characters to be shopping for during the holiday episode. The actual game is oozing personality, but the name screams generic and forgettable. If it bombs in sales, it will be because of the name. Then again, the studio is called Zen Studios. Given how the frustrations of being paired with a guy 154 ranks higher than me induced a state of being in me that was anything but Zen like, I'm guessing their name is purely ironic.
CastleStorm was developed by Zen Studios
800 Microsoft Points thought all the banter in the game actually sounded very pinball-like in the making of this review.
CastleStorm is Chick-Approved. In the near future, all indie games on all platforms I review will be ranked on the Indie Gamer Chick Leaderboard. If you must know, CastleStorm would fall somewhere in the 20s.
A review copy of CastleStorm was provided to Indie Gamer Chick to test online features. The copy played by Cathy was paid for with her own money. The review copy was given to a friend who had minimal feedback in this review. For more on this policy, read this site's FAQ.
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July 12, 2012 by Indie Gamer Chick 11 Comments
Every once in a while, I need a break from XBLIG. I love you guys, but a girl can only take so many punishers before she needs a vacation from that. So, I'm going to review Spelunky, a recent punisher on Xbox Live Arcamuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
Damnit.
Spelunky is a game made by assholes, for assholes. Having put somewhere around ten hours into it since this last weekend, I'm wearing a jumbo-sized asshole badge on this one too. I couldn't help myself. I'm pretty sure that I wasn't even having fun, but at the same time I was practically hypnotized by what was transpiring on-screen. A series of colossal dick moves, one after another, so random and so spiteful that I'm pretty sure this is a game designed to specifically take players down a peg. I'm know people will say that I just sucked at Spelunky and thus I suck at games and life in general. You know what? Fine, guilty as charged. But Spelunky is a bastard.
The idea is you're a little explorer dude who has to go through a series of randomly-generated levels, looking for treasure, items, and exits. The game plays out like a platformer, but the first sign that Spelunky shoots baby giraffes with bullets made from the ground-up hoofs of their own mother is the fact that it's also a Roguelike. When you die, you go back to start, and any progress you've made will be lost. And you will die. You'll die from falling too far. You'll die from getting squashed by giant boulders. You'll die from being shot by arrows. Annoyingly, you'll die from dodging arrows, only for them to bounce off a wall and land on you. You'll die from bats. You'll die from trying to avoid bats. You'll die from trying to throw a rock at a bat, missing, and having the rock land on you. Everything seems to want you dead in this game. If Gandhi was in it he would probably spray you with bullets.
Oh yea, he's fucked.
I didn't make it very far into Spelunky. Most of that is on me and a little thing called greed. I'm incapable of doing a bare minimum to survive. The game is filled with tons of treasure just lying around, and I wanted all of it. But the game sends a bit of a mixed message, because Spelunky seems to actively discourage exploration. You only have a couple of minutes to "enjoy" each stage before a giant ghost monster thingie comes to kill you. Thus, you're forced to rush through each stage, which has far more things to explore than you can reasonably hope to grab. However, rushing means you don't have time to check to make sure there isn't something just out of sight that will immediately result in your death. In a way, I like how you have to calculate the risk versus reward. On the other hand, filling the game up with so much shit and forbidding a person from trying to collect it all makes me want to slowly insert a lit cherry bomb up the developer's piss pipe. Well, not too slowly. I'm not trying to blow my own fingers off here. In fact, maybe I should wait to light it until it's inserted fully.
Honestly, Spelunky isn't really that good of a game, mechanically at least. The controls are kind of weird. Jumping and movement are mostly fine, but I was constantly and unintentionally clinging to walls and leaving myself wide open for attack. Aiming your throws is a bit clunky too, and not without risk. If you try to throw a rock in the air, you're just as likely to kill yourself doing it when it ricochets off a wall and hits you upside your noggin. Items that are allegedly there to help you aren't safe either. I got a glove that allowed me to throw stuff better. And by better, I mean the shit you throw just keeps going until it hits something. This one time I threw a rock, and then about two seconds later the sound of the shopkeeper declaring his intent to murder me rang throughout the stage. Well fuck. Another time I bought a green glove, which allows you to climb. Sounded great, but remember that "stuck to the wall" bit I was talking about earlier? Multiply that by every fucking jump you make to get an idea of how useful it ultimately is.
Don't let the cute graphics fool you. This game is evil.
I think the biggest problem is Spelunky relies too much on just plain old stupid luck. This is mostly due to the random level design. Fans of the game disagree with me, while others have said that Spelunky is only 25% luck. I would suggest 1% is too much for certain games, but fine, it's only 25%. What does that mean? Well, most of the "damsels" that you need to fill up your health will be right out in the open. But sometimes she (or he, or a dog) will be stuck behind a wall that requires a minimum of three bombs to get through, and those are usually in short supply. Or sometimes the game will just randomly make a level dark and practically impossible to navigate. For a while I tried to work my way through those, but after hours of failure after failure, I said "fuck it" and started to commit suicide as soon as those godforsaken things popped up. I figured fate dealt me a shitty hand, and so fuck fate. I won't give it the satisfaction of watching me fall on a spike.
And then there are the fun random deaths. I'm willing to concede that 19 out of 20 deaths were entirely my fault. Having said that, in a game this brutally difficult, having just 1 of those 20 be something I had nothing to do with is just vile. And probably hilarious if you're a spectator. This one time I got to level 1-4 and I was having my best run yet. I had taken no damage, gotten my health up to seven points, built up over twenty bombs, ten ropes, and had enough items that I was better equipped to invade a small country. I start the level, walk a little bit to the right, and then an explosion happens somewhere off-screen. And then something that sent a shockwave down my spine occurred: the "TERRORIST!" splash that pops up when you "attack" one of the shopkeeper dudes popped up. When that happens, they pull out a shotgun and open fire on you, and it's nearly impossible to fight back. Sure enough, we ran into each-other not long after and I was killed. Fuck you, Spelunky.
Do you know what Spelunky really needed? A video sharing function. Without a doubt the most fun I've had from the game is swapping tales of my biggest failures with my fellow masochists. They're all over Twitter. Spelunky is the new "Big Fish Story" game of choice. Everyone that spends at least an hour with it walks away with stories of comical ineptness. Being able to send your friends videos of your most spectacular deaths would have been a huge selling point for the game. But alas, it's not to be. In fact, other than some lame leaderboards, Spelunky doesn't take advantage of Xbox Live at all. There's a way useless death match feature that's local-only. It's so badly done that I'm not sure why they bothered. Matches last just a few seconds, and finding three other people capable of lasting longer will be tough even for those of you with an actual social life. There's also co-op, but don't even bother trying it. Save some time and stab your nearest friend in the knee with a screwdriver. Trust me, this way is faster. You'll just end up wanting to do it anyway.
One of the most pointless modes I've seen added to a game in a long while.
Here's a thought: combine the death-match with the co-op, remove any bullshit about working together, and put the fucking thing on Xbox Live where it belongs. Make it a race/death-match where the four players are not anchored together on a single screen. A race to the exit, or the last man left alive. That would have been awesome. Hell, it might have even justified the 1200MSP price tag. Seriously, $15 for this? Out-fucking-rageous. This isn't an XBLIG we're talking about here. This is an Arcade game, yet it lacks some of the fundamental bells and whistles of the service.
I can't recommend Spelunky, because I feel doing so would make me a horrible person. Any fun you have playing it slowly vanishes, yet you can't stop playing. It owns you. God help me, I'm going to go play it some more as soon as I finish this review. And then when I'm actually playing it, I have trouble tearing myself away from it. One time I only quit because my battery charge went out. This isn't a game. It's a drug. And not one of those fun drugs that rock stars overdose on in the grand suite at a five-star hotel. Oh no. This is one of those drugs that hillbillies cook up in their bathtub in Bumfuck, Wyoming. One that's sold to you by a ragged-looking teenager that's missing half his teeth. One that you should know better than to try, because just one taste will hook you for life.
Oh fuck it, just buy the damn thing. Just make sure you cancel any plans you have pending in the coming weeks. And absolutely no faking German Measles to get out of work. I already did that one. By the way, chances are you won't have any more fun than I am having. I'm just telling you to buy it in hopes that Spelunky is secretly running some kind of bizarre version of a video game Ponzi Scheme and if I convince enough people to buy it, the game will suddenly become magically easier for me.
Spelunky was developed by Mossmouth
1200 Microsoft Points have never laughed harder than the time they spent a fortune on one of the helpers in Spelunky only to watch him jump up and impale himself on spikes only five seconds later for no reason at all in the making of this review.
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RALEIGH, NC (KTVI) – A federal judge has ruled that it is unconstitutional to issue pro-life license plates. U.S. District Court Judge James C. Fox ruled that unless the state produced similar plates supporting abortion rights then the pro-life plates cannot be issued.
The ACLU of North Carolina has filed a lawsuit with the U.S. District Court to seek a specialty license plate that supports a woman's right to reproductive freedom. They say the government cannot create a platform to express a political view without a method of expressing the opposite viewpoint.
Officials say the legislature repeatedly refused to authorize a plate that supported abortion rights.
In Nov. 2011 Judge Fox temporarily blocked production of the "Choose Life" plate. Now, that injunction is permanent. House Bill 289, authorized the production of a "Choose Life" license plate in the 2011 North Carolina legislative session.


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As a system administrator, you will most likely need to provide your users with network and Internet services. These services may include FTP, HTTP, or Telnet.
Although some software packages like Apache provide a single service (HTTP), there is also a master service called xinetd that can run multiple services at the same time.
It is also a widely used service in the real world, particularly when it comes to automating the installation of Red Hat. There are really only a few things that you need to know to be able to use the xinetd service. This package doesn't always come installed by default, so first let's install it.
With the service installed, you can shift your focus to the config files. The xinetd service has a master config file (/etc/xinetd.conf), which inherits all the settings of the services that it controls.
Aside from this master config file, a single directory (/etc/xinetd.d) contains individual config files for each service you would like xinetd to run.
As an example, let's set up a TFTP server, which can be used to back up config files for Cisco switches or to deliver data to clients during a PXE boot process (also known as a network installation).
Here, you can see the basics, such as which protocol it uses, whether the service is disabled, and what arguments are passed to the service during startup. For this example, all the defaults work fine. You may be wondering why I suggest leaving the service disabled if you want to use it. Services that are controlled by xinetd can be enabled in the config file when you enable them during the boot process.
but also those of all the services that it controls.
You can see here that the xinetd service is set to start on boot and that the TFTP service is the only service it will start.
The xinetd service understands services from /etc/services and ports from /etc/rpc. These two files define all services and ports that the system can use to offer different network services to clients using the xinetd master service.
the config file for the services that you want to use within the /etc/xinetd.d directory and restart the service before use.
For simple troubleshooting of any xinetd service, you can check the /var/log/messages file, which is the place where the /etc/xinetd.conf config file defines all logs to be sent.
Although the default configuration options are usually fine, you can also edit the information sent to the log file by editing the main config file.
They can be defined within the main config file for security restrictions. Usually, it is better to let the firewall and TCP Wrappers take care of restricting certain clients, but you should know that the options are available.
the appropriate firewall rule for each server you intend to use. Because you have configured a TFTP server for this example, you need to ensure that you createa rule to allow the TFTP server to be used.
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Pine River Capital Management Announces Acquisition of Warrants of S Split Corp.
TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Oct. 8, 2010) - Pine River Capital Management LP ("Pine River") announced the acquisition today by one of its funds of 481,000 warrants of S Split Corp. (TSX:SBN) ("SBN") representing approximately 12.26% of the total issued warrants of SBN. The warrants were acquired on the TSX for investment purposes. Each warrant may be exercised to purchase one unit comprised of one Class A share of SBN and one preferred share of SBN. Upon purchase of the units, Pine River would own 481,000 Class A shares of SBN, representing 12.29% of the outstanding Class A shares and 481,000 preferred shares of SBN, representing 12.29% of the outstanding preferred shares.
Pine River may from time to time, depending on market and other conditions, acquire additional warrants, dispose of some or all of the existing or additional warrants or continue to hold the warrants.


The rebels' effectiveness is driving a rising death toll among the country's security forces that appears likely to hit a record level in June for the second month in a row. As of Monday, the state news agency has announced the funerals of 259 soldiers and police officers who were killed in combat with rebels this month, well ahead of May's pace, when 404 such burials took place.
There are at least two bomb makers near the city of Hama, one of the centers of fighting in Syria, who specialize in making low-tech drone weapons. One of them, "Ahmer," a former math teacher, agreed to talk about his creations, demonstrating how the vehicles are steered using a remote-controlled curtain opener. Like everyone else interviewed for this story, he asked that his real name be withheld, out of fear of government retaliation.
"I've made two so far, but I can't afford to make another one right now," Ahmer said. "They cost about $200,000 apiece." He showed off a YouTube video of his creation with obvious pride.
Despite some spectacular attacks that have claimed scores of lives in Damascus and generally are thought to be the work of al Qaida-affiliated groups, suicide bombings remain rare here, even as the anti-Assad uprising enters its 15th month. One such bombing occurred a few days ago at a small checkpoint west of Khan Sheikhoun in Idlib province.
A five-minute drive south of Kafer Zaita in the town of Ltamneh, Yusef has become a skilled bomb maker as the war has ground on. Before the war he was a farmer, tending a well-kept plum orchard a few miles outside town. Now he seems to have a hand in most all rebel operations in Idlib province, showing his face at meetings with United Nations observers, leading anti-regime demonstrations and fighting battles in pressed khakis and smartly ironed button-down shirts.
The main component of the homemade explosive is ammonium nitrate, a common fertilizer that Yusef has stockpiled in great supply at his orchard. He laces the nitrate with small bits of aluminum, which give the bomb a higher yield, he explained. "I shred the aluminum by putting it through a meat grinder," he said.
He said he learned how to make homemade explosives long before the war began. "When we were kids, we used this stuff to go fishing," Yusef said. He repeatedly denied having received any training in his craft, a claim that didn't seem particularly credible given the sophistication of his weapons.
When a group of Libyan fighters passed through Kafer Zaita a few days ago en route to Damascus, they were peppered with questions by rebels eager to find ways to fight the better-equipped army forces. One of the Libyans suggested soaking blankets in diesel fuel and leaving them in the streets: "When a tank rolls over it, set it on fire, with an RPG" – meaning a rocket-propelled grenade – "or a Molotov cocktail. It won't destroy the tank, but it gets so hot that the soldiers have to get out." The Syrians listened in rapt attention.
YouTube video of Syrian remote-controlled car bomb.


MUMBAI: Tata Housing on Thursday launched a residential project, Avaha, at central suburban Kalyan in Mumbai.
"Kalyan as a region is witnessing rapid progress in terms of its livability index that is assessed on factors such as health and medical standards, safety, housing options and socio-cultural development," said Brotin Banerjee, Managing Director and CEO, Tata Housing Development Company.
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The project has been launched on Tata Founder's Day, which is celebrated in commemoration of the birth anniversary of Tata group founder Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata, the company said in a statement.
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PARADIGM SHIFTING: Lawrence Ferlinghetti's Life in the Trenches of Poetry
Lawrence Ferlighetti
A version of this profile first appeared in the Charleston Gazette in March, 1995 and later in the limited edition chapbook "In Search of Eros: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Ron Whitehead, William Plumley and Douglas Imbrogno" (White Fields Press, Louisville, KE, 1995. Chapbook Series #56). In reading this piece for the first time in two decades, I'm struck by how pertinent Ferlinghetti's insights are to this day, including his prescience about "the revenge of the white man." I interviewed him in 1995, yet witness the foresight a quarter-century ago about the Republican party's mission to unravel the New Deal: "It's been their enemy since the 1930s." NOTE: I scooped up uncredited shots of Lawrence from around the web. If one belongs to you, let me know and I will properly credit it!
IF LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI sticks to his professed daily schedule, then someone calling him at 9:30 a.m. in San Fransisco interrupts a poet on the job. "I paint from noon to midnight,' he says. "Midnight to noon the next day I'm writing poetry."
And sleep?
"I don't sleep,' says Ferlinghetti. "That's out."
I am waiting for my case to come up
and I am waiting for a rebirth of wonder
and I am waiting for someone
to really discover America
and wail
and I am waiting
for the discovery
of a new symbolic Western frontier
for the American Eagle
to really spread its wings
and straighten up and fly right
for the Age of Anxiety
to drop dead
for the war to be fought
which will make the world
safe for anarchy
and I am waiting for the final withering away
of all governments
and I am perpetually awaiting
a rebirth of wonder.
— excerpt from "I Am Waiting' (1958)
The stream flows on
Mention Lawrence Ferlinghetti's name and someone will instantly mention the Beat movement in American literature more than 30 years ago. A Ferlinghetti poetry reading and art show in Charleston, West Virginia in Winter 1995, is billed as "The University of Charleston presents 'And the Beat Plays On.'
Yet in his 76 years, Ferlinghetti has written 12 books of poetry and several novels and plays. He is an accomplished painter, translator and publisher. He wasn't even one of the original Beat crowd, who counted among their number such literary lights as Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder and Gregory Corso.
Still, it's OK to yoke his name to an era 30 years old. Beat writing isn't a "movement" dried up and done with, but a stream that flows on, says Ferlinghetti. "Most of them are still alive and writing. Most of the Beat writers still writing are still the only rebellion around."
Consider the national resurgence of Beat-style live poetry readings, on MTV, in poetry CDs such as Maggie Estep's "No More Mister Nice Girl," and in the nationwide "poetry slam" movement. "It's a continuation of what the Beats started in poetry and jazz," Ferlinghetti says. "I don't see much difference, except the participants are even more alienated than they were back then."
A Kleenex in a canyon?
Yet I recall what a college professor of mine had said after he'd published a poetry book. Producing a new book of poems, he mused, "has all the impact of a Kleenex tossed into the Grand Canyon."
I pitch a variation of this gallows poet humor to Ferlinghetti, who founded San Francisco's City Lights bookstore, which publishes many other poets. What impact can a poet hope to have when so few of the nation's millions read poetry?
"What do you mean so few people read it?" Ferlinghetti says, his voice rising a notch on the Celsius scale. "Every time journalists call me up that's what they say. One reason people say that is that so few newspapers run it. City Lights stocks one of the largest poetry collections in the country. We have the inventory on computer, we can track how many books of poetry we sell per month. It's an enormous quantity."
That's true, too. For all the reports of the death of writing and culture in the late 20th century, new poetry books sent out by publishers land regularly on bookshelves and in the book review mailbox of newspapers and magazines. And despite his wry comment, my college poetry professor poured a lot of work, and a lot of himself, into his book of Kleenex before he pitched it into the canyon.
You can be sure the poet milled about the edge listening for sounds afterward.
The little airplanes of the heart
with their brave little propellers
What can they do
against the winds of darkness
even as butterflies are beaten back
by hurricanes
yet do not die
They lie in wait wherever
they can hide and hang
their fine wings folded
and when the killer-wind dies
they flutter forth again
into the new-blown light
live as leaves.
— "Sandinista Avioncitos" (1989)
The only rebellion
The phrase "the only rebellion around" was first coined by Time magazine in 1956. A Time staffer employed it to describe Beat writers after publication of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" led to obscenity charges. The publisher? Ferlinghetti and City Lights, the first all-paperback bookstore in America and the epicenter of the Beat era at its outset.
"I wasn't one of the original Beats. I became associated with them by publishing them," says Ferlinghetti. If he was ever behind the parade, he caught up quick. His first self-published poetry book, "Pictures of the Gone World" (1955), was followed by "Coney Island of the Mind" (1958). That second book has been called a modern classic, translated into nine languages with more than 750,000 copies now in print.
When I am old
will they accept what I say
as the absolute truth
and call me Maestro
and pin the cross of light on me
And if they do, oh if they do
will it have been worth it after all
— excerpt "One of These Days' (1993)
What to do with dominant paradigms
Kerouac, front man for the Beat generation, died at age 47 in 1969, though his legend and influence barrels onward. Ginsberg has been canonized as a sort of latter-day Walt Whitman and poetic shaman. Snyder, Corso, William Burroughs and other Beat generation writers continue to write. And "Ferlinghetti, Lawrence" is almost a full column listing in the Encyclopedia Britannica. The anonymous writer of the entry makes a game attempt to define the headlong, unfettered, wide-eyed mystical enthusiasm that charged Beat writers, who "rejected the formal and academic writing then prevalent for work that reflected immediacy of experience and feeling — fragmentary or contradictory though it might be."
Ferlinghetti's City Lights in San Francisco helped launch the reputation and books of many a Beat writer.
Kerouac's listing nails the feeling a bit better.
His entry mentions the cross-country jaunts that led to his famous book "On the Road." These were trips made "by a number of penniless people who are in love with life, beauty, jazz, sex, drugs, speed and mysticism, but have absolute contempt for alarm clocks, timetables, road maps, mortgages, pensions and all traditional American rewards for industry."
One might also add to the Beat modus operandi a mission to "to subvert the dominant paradigm." That line pops up in Ferlinghetti's poetry and in descriptions of his life's work, both written and otherwise.
A 1993 oil painting from his "Sing Sing Series" shows a prisoner strapped into an electric chair, black hood over his head, awaiting execution in a country where the death penalty is back with a popular vengeance. The painting's caption reads: "This is not a man."
"This is not a man" by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
from the Fine Arts Museums of San Fransisco website
In his widely distributed poem "Buddha in the Woodpile," Ferlinghetti laments what might have happened if wisdom and compassion ("just one Taoist/just one Zen/just one Thomas Merton Trappist…") had been in the arsenal wielded by security forces at the Branch Davidians' cult complex in Waco, Texas in 1993. Instead, the bristling, massed forces of the State lit a match beneath that tinderbox.
The poem was an attempt to point out "an alternative paradigm," Ferlinghetti says. "The whole mass media of the country was reporting practically total agreement with government action. There was not one paper that published anything giving the point of view I gave in this poem, it seemed to me."
Ageless radical
Charlestonians can wish him a belated happy birthday when they see Ferlinghetti, although he says there's uncertainly about his exact place and date of birth ("probably b. March 24, 1919 Yonkers, N.Y.," says Britannica). Ferlinghetti's father died before he was born, his mother landed in a mental hospital, and he went to France to live with a female relative, where he was raised. They came back and lived on a Long Island estate, where his relative worked as a governess.
He later served as a U.S. naval officer during World War II, and earned degrees at the University of North Carolina, Columbia University and a doctorate at the Sorbonne in 1951. He has written poems in French, Italian and Spanish, and is multilingual enough to be interviewed in Italian a few months ago.
And, yes, now that he is older he has been called a "maestro." Booklist has dubbed him "one of our ageless radicals and true bards." For the ageless radical, the answer comes quick when asked what he thinks about the Republican takeover of Congress and the "Contract With America." Is this just a cyclical turning in American politics?
"It's sick all right," he responds. "It's the revenge of the white man. That's what the Republican program is. What's never mentioned is that the real enemy of the Republicans is the New Deal. It's the New Deal they're dismantling. It's been their enemy since the 1930s."
Charged with meaning
Speaking of enemies, aren't they lined up against poetry itself in the soundbite era, when no TV camera shot lingers more than five seconds before shifting restlessly in search of a more exciting image? Yet though teen-age drive-by shooters and morose Gen X clerks get all the press, there still exists the breed of young person who sat behind me at Ferlinghetti's reading, finishing the poet's most famous lines even as he uttered them.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti at City Lights in 2007
(photo from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Ferlinghetti)
What's the eternal appeal of sparse lines of words sprinkled on a page? Ezra Pound once remarked: "Great literature is language charged with meaning to the utmost degree." That lands close to poetry's insistent appeal, language burned down to the choicest, freshest, most meaningful words and imagery.
No excess, none of the white noise, the blather that routinely passes for communication. Equally important, the poet serves the role of the fisherman, writes Ferlinghetti, one who can read the weather before the rest of the world knows it's coming:
the sky is clear to the fisherman
even if overcast
He sees it for what it is:
a mirror of the sea
about to fall on him
in his wood boat on the dark horizon
We have to think of him as the poet
forever face to face with old reality
where no birds fly before the storm
And he knows what's coming down
and he's his own best lookout
listening for the sound of the universe
and singing out his sightings
of the land of the living
— excerpt from "Poet As Fisherman' (1988)
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:: ###startdir### %WORKSPACE%/mne-cpp/..

echo off
:: ### %0 Batch filename itself ###
set arg0=%0
:: ### %1 First command line parameter - suffix ###
set arg1=%1
if "%arg1%"=="" set arg1=default
set filename=mne-cpp-windows-x86_64-%arg1%.exe

echo Starting MNE-CPP Windows Installer Build; file name: %filename%

mkdir mne-cpp_installer_shadow_build
cd mne-cpp_installer_shadow_build

:: Visual Studio 2013
call "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat" amd64

:: Visual Studio 2015
:: call "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat" amd64

:: -- Copy Files --
:: -MNE Lib-
rmdir "..\mne-cpp\tools\ifw_installer\windows\packages\org.mne_cpp.suite\data" /s /q
mkdir -p "..\mne-cpp\tools\ifw_installer\windows\packages\org.mne_cpp.suite\data\bearer"
xcopy "..\mne-cpp\bin\bearer" "..\mne-cpp\tools\ifw_installer\windows\packages\org.mne_cpp.suite\data\bearer" /s /e /y
mkdir -p "..\mne-cpp\tools\ifw_installer\windows\packages\org.mne_cpp.suite\data\iconengines"
xcopy "..\mne-cpp\bin\iconengines" "..\mne-cpp\tools\ifw_installer\windows\packages\org.mne_cpp.suite\data\iconengines" /s /e /y
mkdir -p "..\mne-cpp\tools\ifw_installer\windows\packages\org.mne_cpp.suite\data\imageformats"
xcopy "..\mne-cpp\bin\imageformats" "..\mne-cpp\tools\ifw_installer\windows\packages\org.mne_cpp.suite\data\imageformats" /s /e /y
mkdir -p "..\mne-cpp\tools\ifw_installer\windows\packages\org.mne_cpp.suite\data\platforms"
xcopy "..\mne-cpp\bin\platforms" "..\mne-cpp\tools\ifw_installer\windows\packages\org.mne_cpp.suite\data\platforms" /s /e /y
mkdir -p "..\mne-cpp\tools\ifw_installer\windows\packages\org.mne_cpp.suite\data\translations"
xcopy "..\mne-cpp\bin\translations" "..\mne-cpp\tools\ifw_installer\windows\packages\org.mne_cpp.suite\data\translations" /s /e /y
xcopy "..\mne-cpp\bin\*.dll" "..\mne-cpp\tools\ifw_installer\windows\packages\org.mne_cpp.suite\data\*.dll" /y
::xcopy "..\mne-cpp\bin\vcredist_x86.exe" "..\mne-cpp\tools\ifw_installer\windows\packages\org.mne_cpp.suite\data" /y
xcopy "..\mne-cpp\bin\vcredist_x64.exe" "..\mne-cpp\tools\ifw_installer\windows\packages\org.mne_cpp.suite\data" /y

:: -MNE Scan-
rmdir "..\mne-cpp\tools\ifw_installer\windows\packages\org.mne_cpp.suite.mne_scan\data" /s /q
mkdir -p "..\mne-cpp\tools\ifw_installer\windows\packages\org.mne_cpp.suite.mne_scan\data"
::mne_scan
xcopy "..\mne-cpp\bin\mne_scan.exe" "..\mne-cpp\tools\ifw_installer\windows\packages\org.mne_cpp.suite.mne_scan\data" /y
xcopy "..\mne-cpp\bin\xShared.dll" "..\mne-cpp\tools\ifw_installer\windows\packages\org.mne_cpp.suite.mne_scan\data" /y
xcopy "..\mne-cpp\bin\xDisp.dll" "..\mne-cpp\tools\ifw_installer\windows\packages\org.mne_cpp.suite.mne_scan\data" /y
xcopy "..\mne-cpp\bin\xMeas.dll" "..\mne-cpp\tools\ifw_installer\windows\packages\org.mne_cpp.suite.mne_scan\data" /y
::mne_scan libs
mkdir -p "..\mne-cpp\tools\ifw_installer\windows\packages\org.mne_cpp.suite.mne_scan\data\mne_scan_libs"
xcopy "..\mne-cpp\bin\mne_scan_libs" "..\mne-cpp\tools\ifw_installer\windows\packages\org.mne_cpp.suite.mne_scan\data\mne_scan_libs" /s /e /y
::mne_scan plugins
mkdir -p "..\mne-cpp\tools\ifw_installer\windows\packages\org.mne_cpp.suite.mne_scan\data\mne_scan_plugins"
xcopy "..\mne-cpp\bin\mne_scan_plugins" "..\mne-cpp\tools\ifw_installer\windows\packages\org.mne_cpp.suite.mne_scan\data\mne_scan_plugins" /s /e /y
::mne_rt_server
xcopy "..\mne-cpp\bin\mne_rt_server.exe" "..\mne-cpp\tools\ifw_installer\windows\packages\org.mne_cpp.suite.mne_scan\data" /y
mkdir -p "..\mne-cpp\tools\ifw_installer\windows\packages\org.mne_cpp.suite.mne_scan\data\mne_rt_server_plugins"
xcopy "..\mne-cpp\bin\mne_rt_server_plugins" "..\mne-cpp\tools\ifw_installer\windows\packages\org.mne_cpp.suite.mne_scan\data\mne_rt_server_plugins" /s /e /y

:: -MNE Browse-
rmdir "..\mne-cpp\tools\ifw_installer\windows\packages\org.mne_cpp.suite.mne_browse\data" /s /q
mkdir -p "..\mne-cpp\tools\ifw_installer\windows\packages\org.mne_cpp.suite.mne_browse\data"
xcopy "..\mne-cpp\bin\mne_browse.exe" "..\mne-cpp\tools\ifw_installer\windows\packages\org.mne_cpp.suite.mne_browse\data" /y

:: -MNE Analyze-
rmdir "..\mne-cpp\tools\ifw_installer\windows\packages\org.mne_cpp.suite.mne_analyze\data" /s /q
mkdir -p "..\mne-cpp\tools\ifw_installer\windows\packages\org.mne_cpp.suite.mne_analyze\data"
xcopy "..\mne-cpp\bin\mne_analyze.exe" "..\mne-cpp\tools\ifw_installer\windows\packages\org.mne_cpp.suite.mne_analyze\data" /y

:: Build Installer
qmake ../mne-cpp/tools/ifw_installer/windows/windows.pro -r
nmake clean
nmake

dir
cd "..\mne-cpp_installer_shadow_build\"
dir
ren mne-cpp-windows-x86_64.exe %filename%
cd "..\mne-cpp"
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According to a recent research, Alphabet, Google's parent company, invested the most cash in the blockchain business compared to any other public firm, spending $1.5 billion between September 2021 and June 2022.
In an updated blog post by Blockdata on Wednesday, Alphabet (Google) was identified as the investor with the most significant funds among the top 40 public organisations investing in blockchain and cryptocurrency startups.
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Select the information databases or resources most likely to answer the type of question being asked; utilize keywords and concepts; combine multiple search terms and Boolean connectors.
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…and client preferences to make the best clinical decision. Before integration, other considerations beyond applicability must be considered, such as biologic, socioeconomic and epidemiologic issues.
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Disseminate evidence to colleagues within your organization, and beyond. Outcome dissemination can be done through intra- and inter-departmental in-services, journal clubs, online media, lectures, conferences, posters, and manuscripts.
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