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Beyonce's sister Solange Knowles is breaking her silence about the elevator fight that happened at the Met Gala. She admits it even has a name! She calls the incident "that thing." So, what does Solange Knowles have to say about the public fight with her family? She says, "What's important is that my family and I are all good. What we had to say collectively was in the statement that we put out, and we all feel at peace with that." If you don't remember, that statement pretty much said that it's a private matter that sadly played out in public and both her and Jay Z have apologized to each other and moved forward. I still want to know what they were fighting about! I guess we'll never know!
YOU DON'T NEED TO GO THAT ALL OUT! To honor the Fourth of July, Flavor Flav got some fireworks. And, well… he was busted for having those illegal fireworks. Flavor Flav has been getting his fireworks shows busted since 2009. He's had thousands of dollars of fireworks taken from him and the past and has gotten two citations. Just last year, he had over eight thousand dollars worth in fireworks. It took a special unit to come get the fireworks, and they weighed over 100 pounds. If you are going to set off fireworks, be discreet!
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Borges in His Own Voice Borges: por él mismo sus poemas y su voz
Jorge Luis Borges
1. AMB Discografia 123-1; LP. Out of Print. [Browse/Hear Samples]
2. Visor, 1999; ISBN A8475224288; CD, $23.80 [Browse/Purchase]
A classic album of Borges reading from own works -- poetry, songs, and other fragments. According to the University of Notre Dame Archive, the album:
contains some of Borges' most well known poetry from his first publications, Luna de enfrente and Cuaderno San Martín, to his later works, El hacedor and El otro, el mismo. Before some of the poems, Borges briefly talks about the motive or the circumstances which inspired him to write it. These introductions give the listener a sense of what it would be like to sit with Borges among the company of his most intimate friends and listen to the "maestro" recite and comment on his poetry. As José Edmundo Clemente comments on the back of the album jacket, "Solamente la voz tiene la frescura del presente. Lo digo porque ningún texto reemplazará la felicidad de oír al propio Borges decir los versos de Borges." (trans: "Only the voice has the freshness of the present. I say this because no text will ever be able to recreate the joy of listening to Borges recite his own poetry.")
The original LP is tracked as follows:
Lado 1 1. El General Quiroga va en coche al muere (1.42) 2. Poema conjetural (2.50) 3. Fundación mítica de Buenos Aires (2.26) 4. Un soldado de Urbina (0.50) 5. A un viejo poeta (0.50) 6. Baltasar Gracián (2.20) 7. El Gólem (4.23) Lado 2 1. El tango (3.25) 2. Milonga de dos hermanos (1.15) 3. Milonga de Jacinto Chiclana (1.50) 4. Alusión a una sombra de mil ochocientos noventa y tantos (0.50) 5. La noche cíclica (2.45) 6. Límites (2.21) 7. A un poeta menor de la antología (1.25) 8. Everness (0.50) 9. Spinoza (0.47) 10. Poema de los dones (2.38) 11. Le Regret D'Heraclite (0.12)
Lado 1 1. El General Quiroga va en coche al muere (1.42) 2. Poema conjetural (2.50) 3. Fundación mítica de Buenos Aires (2.26) 4. Un soldado de Urbina (0.50) 5. A un viejo poeta (0.50) 6. Baltasar Gracián (2.20) 7. El Gólem (4.23)
Lado 2 1. El tango (3.25) 2. Milonga de dos hermanos (1.15) 3. Milonga de Jacinto Chiclana (1.50) 4. Alusión a una sombra de mil ochocientos noventa y tantos (0.50) 5. La noche cíclica (2.45) 6. Límites (2.21) 7. A un poeta menor de la antología (1.25) 8. Everness (0.50) 9. Spinoza (0.47) 10. Poema de los dones (2.38) 11. Le Regret D'Heraclite (0.12)
In 1999, Borges por él mismo was re-released on CD by Visor, with an accompanying 48-page booklet. Borges por Borges
Jorge Luis Borges Sello: Secretaría de Cultura/Presidencia de la Nación, 1999; 1 CD. [Listen to Samples]
This Argentine disc features several segments of Borges speaking, reading from his work, or reciting poetry. Terra's Web site features numerous samples from the work, available on RealAudio:
Página para recordar al Coronel Suárez, vencedor en Junín El Gólem Borges y yo Milonga de dos hermanos Milonga de Jacinto Chiclana La noche que en el sur lo velaron Límites Cuarteta El poeta declara su nombradía Le regret d´Heclarite Poema de los dones
This Craft of Verse
Jorge Luis Borges Edited by Calin-Andrei Mihailescu University of Harvard Press, 2000, ISBN 0-674-00587-3; 4 CD Set, $24.95. [Browse/Purchase]
From 1967 to 1968, Jorge Luis Borges delivered the Charles Eliot Norton lectures at Harvard University. Having never been transcribed, they were subsequently assumed lost -- until the end of the century, when a dusty recording was discovered in a library vault. There, committed to magnetic memory, was a voice from thirty-odd years ago, the voice of a poet himself now silent for half again that time. A voice perhaps even more vital today, after the long and often controversial course of postmodernism has delivered us to a new millennium; a voice urging us to keep language alive. In a welcome move sure to delight countless Borges fans, Harvard has also released the lectures as a 4-CD set. While the packaging is somewhat of a disappointment -- the CDs come tucked in the pockets of a flimsy and awkwardly-shaped cardboard folder, and little documentation is provided -- the sound quality is surprisingly good, and the price is very reasonable. I will be providing more comments just as soon as I have finished listening to the CD set. For a review of the lectures themselves, The Garden has a full description and review of This Craft of Verse online as a "New Book Feature." Books on Tape Selected Fictions (Penguin Audiobooks)
Read by George Guidall. Translated by Andrew Hurley. Produced & abridged by John McElroy. Penguin Audiobooks, ISBN 0-14-086848-8; 4 Cassettes, $24.95. Out of Print. [Browse/Purchase Used]
Released to support Viking's Collected Fictions, this set of four cassettes presents abridged versions of Borges stories as read by the actor George Guidall. It contains the following stories and prose pieces:
Man on Pink Corner The Lottery in Babylon The Garden of Forking Paths Death and the Compass The Aleph The Maker Dreamtigers Parable of Cervantes and the Quixote The Story of Rosendo Juarez Borges and I The Zahir August 25, 1983 Shakespeare's Memory The Circular Ruins The Library of Babel The Immortal The Encounter
Garden visitor Robert Rodriguez reviews the set:
This collection of four audio cassettes is quite out of print, as e-mails to several Web merchants confirmed, one indicating that even their OP contact had never seen them. Of course, who would still have them unsold, or what owner of them would part with them? Guidall is a consummately intelligent reader, his skill and voice aptly suited to the precise yet abstract quality of Borges' fiction. Guidall does not condescend to contrived accents or dramatizations. His expression and intonation strike the perfect note. Hence, the tense inscrutability of the Chinese narrator in "The Garden of Forking Paths," the guttural German of "Death and the Compass," the arrogant civility of Argentinos in "The Aleph," and the quiet consternation of the narrator in "The Aleph," "The Zahir," "Shakespeare's Memory" and "Borges and I." All the favorites are here, though I wonder how an Irish accent in "Shape of the Sword" or the Arabic of "The Mirror of Ink" would read with Guidall. Only in "Man on Pink Corner" does Guidall use a street-wise Spanish accent, which, however, accords perfectly with this "realistic" story. The collection is called Selected not because the stories are abridged but the selection is. I listened to a copy borrowed as an interlibrary loan from my local public library. Somewhere in the Library of Babel are multiple copies of this wonderful collection of audiotapes that are inaudible or hopelessly scrambled, and certainly no one can own. NOTE: In "Borges and I," Guidall reads "seventeenth" century typefaces, not Hurley's "eighteenth." My original (Obras completas, Emecé, 1974) clears says "siglo XVIII".
Here is the capsule review from AudioFile.
Anyone who has struggled through the erudite complexities of a Borges story -- or tried to introduce a class to the beauties of language and imagination of the great Argentinean fabulist -- will treasure this excellent selection of 17 unabridged stories, newly translated by Andrew Hurley. Only a skilled reader like Guidall could achieve the range and enunciation needed to do Borges justice; and though Guidall's occasional use of a Spanish accent adds artificiality to a story already deliberately artificial, he proves in story after story that Borges read aloud is Borges at his best. Highlights include "The Garden of Forking Paths," "Shakespeare's Memory" and "Borges and I." --D.A.Walton ©AudioFile, Portland, Maine
Those wishing to learn more about George Guidall's credits may check out the Guidall Page on the Internet Movie Database. The Old Patagonia Express (Books on Tape)
By Paul Theroux Read by Michael Pritchard Books on Tape, Catalog #1871 Unabridged; Twelve 90-minute cassettes; Rental Price $14.95; Purchase Price $48.00. [Browse / Purchase/ Rent] This is not a book by Borges. It is a travelogue by Paul Theroux, and contains an anecdote of meeting Borges in Argentina. According to the Books on Tape Web site:
In THE OLD PATAGONIAN EXPRESS, Theroux rides the more or less continuous track from his home in Boston to the Great Plain of Patagonia in southern Argentina. His writer's eye misses no detail, and he serves up delights such as the brawling soccer fans of El Salvador, a bogus priest in Cali, and a desperate American woman searching for her lover in Veracruz. To this he adds an extraordinary account of his meeting with author Jorge Luis Borges in Argentina.
I have not heard this, and I would welcome any reviews or commentary. Performance The Palace
Read/Sung by Philip Larson Music by Roger Reynolds Compact Disc; Lovely Music Records. [Browse/Purchase]
A setting of the poem "The Palace" by avant-garde composer Roger Reynolds. This work is fully detailed on The Palace page at the Garden's "Music" section.
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After gathering information from a Canadian National Population Health Survey from 1998-1999 to 2008-2009, and analyzing three age groups of daily smokers (12 to 24 years, 25 to 44 years and 45 to 65 years), researchers from Concordia University in Montreal found that the 25- to 44-year age group was the least affected by cigarette taxes. Higher cigarette prices did not dissuade wealthier smokers from lighting up either, the study found.
"Contrary to most studies, we find that the middle-aged group, which constitutes the largest fraction of smokers in our sample, is largely unresponsive to taxes," study first author Sunday Azagba, a doctoral candidate in the economics department at Concordia, said in a university news release. "While cigarette taxes remain popular with policy makers as a key anti-smoking measure, their effectiveness largely depends on how people respond to them."
Policy makers' efforts to motivate people to quit by raising the taxes on cigarettes have primarily targeted groups such as high school students, the study authors noted.
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So it goes in stories by Helen Schulman, Elissa Schappell, and Jennifer Egan collected in The KGB Bar Reader, an anthology of works presented at the weekly Downtown reading series known for embracing experimentation and launching careers. Like the uneven lineup at the KGB series itself, the Reader spans literary caverns, cutting a path that links celebrities with struggling unknowns: from established writers like Rick Moody, A.M. Homes, and Junot Díaz to unpublished (and sometimes untalented) young scribes. If anything links these stories together, it is New York. Even the works set in other locales--like Sheila Kohler's beguiling ''Cracks,'' which tells of illicit lust at a boarding school in an unnamed former British colony--function as vacations, transporting us wistfully to exotic lands that we experience nevertheless with a New York sensibility, then yanking us back to the city's familiar yet singular landscapes.
The Reader has numerous standouts, including Steven Rinehart's ''Make Me,'' the creepy and mesmerizing story of two high school teachers and former lovers who cross dangerous emotional and physical boundaries with two students. (Why is it that the most resonant pieces here are those that deal with misuse of authority and sex with minors?) And the texture of each selection is so unlike the one before that even the weaker entries don't detract from the satisfying balance of the book as a whole.


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XNA 2D Dynamic Lighting
While researching this technique I ran across many people asking for help with this and most of the help was pointing to broken links or deprecated information. While I make no claims about the quality of the code I do imagine that this will be useful to someone searching for this technique.
If you're just looking to get your feet wet you can download a working demo here.
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Background courtesy of Open Game Art
This scene without any effects applied.
The lighting mask dynamically created with additive blending.
The final rendered scene.
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- AnonymousSeptember 12, 2011 at 8:21 PM
Thats what i was looking for too.... but when i tryed to run the sample... i'm getting this error message:
XNA Framework Reach profile requires TextureAddressMode to be Clamp when using texture sizes that are not powers of two.
at line 140 in LightingDemo.cs
spriteBatch.Draw(mainScene, new Vector2(0, 0), Color.White);
Can you help me? what i'm doing wrong?
my e-mail is email@example.com
thanks a lot!!! - AnonymousOctober 3, 2011 at 2:07 PM
@Anonymous, To get rid of the Clamp error:
Paste this line of code inside the initialize method:
GraphicsDevice.SamplerStates[1] = SamplerState.LinearClamp;
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A lightweight moisturizer that never leaves skin feeling oily and absorbs quickly. It protects, repairs, and reverses the signs of aging with powerful antioxidants, peptides, and Dr. Gross' proprietary Chelating Complex, a blend of detoxifying compounds that protect skin from harmful elements. This anti-aging and ultra-light hydration also defends against breakouts.
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Gross also asserts that he uses cutting-edge technology in his products, a point which I concede given the number of superior moisturizers and serums he offers, all of which compete nicely with other well-formulated products. His products are expensive, but if you're going to spend a lot of money on skin-care products, you should be purchasing state-of-the-art formulas, and these do rate. Of course, this technology (read: efficacious ingredients) doesn't extend to every Dr. Dennis Gross Skincare product, but overall this is one line whose formulas have improved considerably since the previous edition of this book, and that is excellent news!
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The Beavers (11-1) continued their winning ways, breaking a 45-45 tie with a streak of three-pointers to start the fourth quarter, and defeating the host Scots (5-7).
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body is somebody in this room, which nobody must leave... leave the body in the room
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Everybody who is anybody shall leave the body in the room body. Take the tablets
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Colonel Pickering: Look, there hasn't been a murder.
Inspector Tiger: No murder.
All: No.
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(The lights go out. There is a scream followed by a shot. The light goes up. Inspector Tiger is dead. He has a bullet hole in his forehead, an arrow through his neck and there is a bottle marked poison on his lap.)
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All: Theresamanbehindyer?
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Constable: Right, sir. Nobody leave the room ask shall - somebody I leave nobody in the room body shall, take the tablets Tigerbody. Alself me to my duce introlow left body in the roomself.
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PUBLICATIONS DE L'INSTITUT MATHÉMATIQUE (BEOGRAD) (N.S.) Vol. 45(59), pp. 103--108 (1989) |
AN IMPROVED CONSTANT FOR THE MUNTZ--JACKSON THEOREMH. N. OdogwuCorrespondence and Open Studies Institute, University of Lagos, Lagos, NigeriaAbstract: We improve a Newman result [2,3] from 1974 concerning approximation of a continuous function by generalized polynomials. He proved that every $f\in C[0,1]$ there exists a generalized polynomial $P(x)=\sum_{k=0}^N c_kx^{\lambda k}$ such that $$ |f(x)-P(x)| \leq Aw_f(\varepsilon),\qquad x\in [0,1]\tag 1 $$ holds. Here $0=\lambda_0<\lambda_1<\cdots\lambda_N$ are given numbers $w_f$ is the modulus of continuity of $f$, $\varepsilon=\max\{|B(z)/z|: Re\, z=1\}$, $B(z)$ is the Blaschke product corresponding to the above set of $\lambda_k$'s and $A$ is a constant. Newman [2] proved that (1) holds with $A=368$. We show that (1) is valid with $A=66$. We prove this by slightly modifying Newman's proof and choosing the size of an interval, to which a suitable contradiction is extended, optimally. Classification (MSC2000): 41A30, 41A25 Full text of the article:
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Design and analysis of enhanced second harmonic generation in AlGaAs/AlOx microring waveguide |
Optics Express, Vol. 19, Issue 10, pp. 9408-9418 (2011)
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In this paper, we propose and analyze a multilayer AlGaAs/AlOx waveguide structure for efficient microring based second harmonic generation (SHG). Quasi phase matching (QPM) and resonance conditions can be satisfied by designing the width of the waveguide. Linewidth of SHG in microring resonators is formulized and investigated and it is shown that linewidth of wavelength conversion is in the range of subnanometer. Dependence of efficiency of SHG on input power and the loss is investigated for various conditions like single and double microring structures, different coupling coefficients and radii. In low loss condition, larger radius of microring needs lower input power for efficient SHG. Our proposed double microring structure provides 100% conversion efficiency with lower input power as compared with a single microring structure.
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(190.2620) Nonlinear optics : Harmonic generation and mixing
(190.4410) Nonlinear optics : Nonlinear optics, parametric processes
(230.5750) Optical devices : Resonators
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Original Manuscript: March 23, 2011
Revised Manuscript: April 20, 2011
Manuscript Accepted: April 20, 2011
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Mojtaba Gandomkar and Vahid Ahmadi, "Design and analysis of enhanced second harmonic generation in AlGaAs/AlOx microring waveguide," Opt. Express 19, 9408-9418 (2011)
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Upon entering the ship the decor is stunning. It's got that "new car" smell and everything is shiny. No purple & florescent pink lounges here.. they are replaced by plush silver and blue-grey lounges surrounding an ice bar where bartenders serve up "smokin' drinks" made with dry ice. The cabins are great. Larger than your average ship cabins and with in-cabin bathrooms where you can dry yourself off without knocking yourself out on the cabinet door when you turn around. This must be where they get their 5.5 star rating but for us, it was all down hill from here.
This is my 14th cruise, and my families 10th cruise with Celebrity. Here's what I thought......
Food & Service
The main dining room food is below average for this class of ship. Beef was either sinewy or tough, with exception of some select dishes. Chicken was almost always dry and chewy. Fish was always overcooked or tasteless as with the vegetables. Starters/appetizers were boring as was the desserts. At More
least there was always a decent selection of ice cream and sorbets and the coffee was good.
The main buffet restaurant, with the exception of breakfast which isn't difficult to get right, was a disaster. The same selection everyday, food was dry and overcooked, the carvery was either overcooked, undercooked, unseasoned or so salty you couldn't eat it, food even looked unappetizing ! With the exception of pastries. If that wasn't bad enough, the service was horrendous. Plates sat on tables for ages, staff walked around either in a daze or just chatting to each other and forget friendliness or pleasantries. Complaints to staff or even guest relations go unnoticed. One morning I watched as one particular wait staff just walked in and out of the kitchen area with the same empty tray, stopping just to ogle at passing women, or chat with a mate. This is Celebrity 5.5 star service ?
Other dining areas were either chargeable , $5 for a sandwich, $3 - $4 for a cupcake or ice cream or up to $40 for a specialty restaurant. The Aqua Spa dining area which used to be open all day long till late was now only open 2 hours for breakfast and 2 hours for lunch. Little extras, like make your own pizza stations or Yogurts and Smoothies were now $5, Hot sandwiches or panini's previously included in your cruise, were now $5 extra. Everywhere you looked there were extra charges. What happened Celebrity? It wasn't like this on your Millennium or Infinity ships!
Excursions/Activities and Entertainment
As any seasoned cruiser knows, the excursions are overpriced and you can have just as good a time making your own itinerary but to arrive at a port and then have to pay an additional $8 to $15 just to get from the port to the destination is unbelievable! I paid for a cruise to Istanbul , Mykonos and Athens, etc.. not a cruise to the ship terminal then make your own way to town if you want to walk yourself. The folks that did do the tours were sadly disappointed as they were nothing but a glorified "do it yourself" tour with stops at this shop or that shop to purchase items.. some times for over an hour !!! as with the carpet shops in Istanbul! Ridiculous!
Activities were few and far between. The few we did make it too were either cancelled or were progressive, for example the Trivia.. you couldn't just join in it was like a tournament that you had to join on day one. I cant say too much about the shows in the Theater as I only saw one (because the babysitting fee was extortionate) but it was comedy and I actually felt sorry for the poor woman as no one laughed or got into it... In fact, overall I felt the ship was boring and had no atmosphere to speak of. Thank goodness for the guy doing a daily "Zumba" class by the pool or there would be no life on the ship at all!
I hate Casinos but my husband loves them and went every night. Needless to say the Casino always wins in the end but the dealers don't need to give you any snide remarks about not tipping them. "News Fash" pit master ... Cruise guests are from all over the world, and casino rules vary. We are from England and my husband is Australian... It is completely illegal to tip dealers in casinos in both of these countries! If it is policy to tip dealers on Celebrities ships then have a sign on the table!
This was our BIG mistake..we believed the Celebrity Refection brochure when it stated it had "something for everyone" including kids. Well, at least you hope it had something for everyone especially as they charge full adult price for your 1 year old and 4 year old. We cruised six months earlier with Royal Caribbean on the Radiance and it was unequivocally superior! Not to mention cheaper! We expected the same or even better from Celebrity as after all,it is rated as a 5.5 star ship. There is unfortunately no crèche , although the ship could easily offer this service as their teen area was massive and always completely empty. It does do babysitting for the extortionate price of $20 per hour plus gratuities ($6 per hour on Royal) but we declined that generous offer and is it that difficult to put a baby change table in the handicapped toilets ? At least a few of them so you don't have to change the baby on the bathroom floor?
Celebrity, at least mention online or in your brochure that kids under 12 can't eat in any of the specialty restaurants and if I ask you about making an exception if we came to dine early or off-peak at least get back to me.. I'm still waiting for a call!
Thank goodness it does have a kids club for the over 3 yrs. old , which I have to say was excellent and without it, the cruise would have been complete torture for us. The staff in the kids club were complete professionals and my 4 year old loved it. So Celebrity got something right here but listen... Don't market your ship to families if that is not your target customer! It's better for everyone that way !
All in all, it was not a pleasurable experience for us as a family and we are not the only ones who thought so on the ship. So if you are Honeymooners or 50th Wedding Anniversary cruisers and want to spend an extra $40pp a night to eat in the specialty restaurants.. then this ship is for you.
But for us.... we bid Celebrity farewell as we will not cruise with you again. Goodbye! Less
Published 06/25/13
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The cabins are great. Larger than your average ship cabins and with in-cabin bathrooms where you can dry yourself off without knocking yourself out on the cabinet door when you turn around. We were two adults and two kids in an inside cabin and we had enough room! This room was particularly good as it was quiet, no lounges above it and we were in a little hallway off the main hallway & close to lifts. It is in the front of the ship though on level 7 however, so in rough seas may not be your best choice if you suffer from sea sickness.
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New ship idea, Caitian Stealth escort
Since the use of cloaking devices by the federation is prohibited by a treaty, why not then circumvent that. The caitian stalker fighter is a great example of the use of stealth without a cloaking device.
A tier 5 escort ship for the z-store, having passive stealth just like the stalker fighters from the Atrox Carrier.
Chameleon class escort:
Hull Strength: 27,000
Shield Modifier: 1.15
Weapons: 4 Fore 3 Aft
Device Slots: 3
Bridge Officer Stations: Commader Tac, Lt. Comm Uni, Lt. Uni, Lt. Eng, Ensg Uni
Console Modifications: 4 Tactical, 3 Engineering, 3 Science
Base Turn Rate: 22 degrees per second
Impulse Modifier: 0.20
Low Energy Signature
+10 Weapon Power
+10 Auxiliary Power
Can use cannons
Thoron Beam Generator (Universal Console Mod), same as stalker but would look similar to the Heavy Graviton Beam from the Maco set (without the knockback)
The ship is light agile and armed, with its light armor and low energy signature the ship can engage larger vessels and overpower them before they even know hit them. The ship is designed to counter the ever growing number of ships utilizing cloaking devices, it is capable of getting close to an enemy ship bombard it and then fall back waiting for its passive stealth to kick in so it can go in for another strike. Perfect for hit and run tactics, the ship is capable of deploying a Thoron Beam (Universal Console Mod). This console can generate a beam that deals moderate damage to an enemy, but also drains the target's Auxiliary Power and may take its Auxiliary Subsystems offline. There is also a chance the Thoron Beam will jam the target's sensors, making it even harder for the target to detect the Ship.
If im missing any info or your thoughts and comments would be nice, I have a good idea of how I want the ship to look but I suck and drawing and don't know squat about design lol.


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The tornado hit. The volunteers came and went. And now the North Side waits patiently -- once again.
It was a sleepy hot, humid Sunday in May, almost a year ago now; a day for barbecues and cool lemonade. I was enjoying the laziness, slapping the season's first mosquitoes, swapping stories with neighbors over the back-yard fence.
Sunday always holds that last piece of delicious relaxation before the workweek starts again, and I was savoring it, mentally counting the days until my teaching year drew to a close. Once the summer heat kicks in, students' minds drift elsewhere.
Mine does, too. I stretched and yawned, and was thinking of calling one of my boys to light the grill. It was very still. Then the tornado sirens started screaming.
Strange -- there was no wind, no rain. I scanned the sky and saw that to the north, it was deep purple-black. Since it seemed fine where I was, I stayed put, leaning on the fence and surveying the yard, thinking I would put off lighting the grill until I saw what the weather was going to do.
I watched the evil black band obliterating the northern half of the sky. It seemed a living thing, moving, roiling and sending out electrical flashes. There was a heady, humid, metallic scent in the still air around my house as a sudden cool breeze sent leaves scattering across the grass.
The sky began to flash like a disco strobe, on and off and on, on, on, off. I called my boys inside.
We huddled around the television. As usual, the weather screens were brilliantly flashing with alerts in red and orange. The line of storms was tracking across north Minneapolis, only seven miles from my home but a world away.
North Minneapolis was the 'hood, the inner city, a place of intensity. I thought of my students and hoped they were able to take cover. Then I didn't think about it much more. The storm never really hit my neighborhood, and I chalked it up to hysterical television stations trying to make a crisis out of nothing.
The next morning, my clock radio kicked on at 5:30. I reached over to hit the snooze button and something made me freeze. They were talking about north Minneapolis. Hit hard by the storm. Very hard. Schools were closing.
My stomach clenched. No. That meant my students, inner-city kids who were vulnerable in every way, were in the middle of this. No. In the dim morning light, the television news reports confirmed the radio accounts. North Minneapolis had been blasted.
Soon after, the phone rang, and it was my principal telling me that school was closed. They didn't know much yet, but word was that the area was flattened.
Thousands of trees were down. Block after block after block. Impassable. No electricity. A disaster zone. I couldn't go back to bed, because I was worried about my students.
Nervously, I flicked on the television and watched in horror as station after station showed the North Side. Parts of houses, shingles, sheds and porch railings lay askew. There was a boat smashed into the top of a house and a stray cat pouncing from board to board, mewing. A woman in a gaily colored head scarf stood alone, hunched and hopeless, as she stared at the mess.
I tried to go in that day; the streets were entirely blocked by trees. Electrical wires were hissing on the ground. It was too far to walk in to school, too dangerous.
When I went the next day, there were roadblocks and police barricading all entrances. The video footage on the news continued. Finally, on my third attempt, later that same day, the police checked my school ID and waved me through the barricade.
I parked my car, unloaded a big tray of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and was able to walk in the five blocks to the school. What I saw on the way brought tears to my eyes. There were small children darting around like stray cats, and I passed my sandwiches to them, three at a time. A few adults were out as well, smoking and wandering in groups, surveying the scene. Desolate.
One person died in the storm, and another died during the cleanup. Thousands of trees were felled. The stately old oak, elm and ash that had stood sentinel for decades were now lying across roads and smashed into rooftops: a loss of life like no other for this community.
Many older homes, vulnerable and sorely needing maintenance before, were now badly damaged. In the end, school was closed for three days. Some students were homeless, and many huddled in basements of damaged houses with no electricity or water.
When we reopened, it was with relief, because now the students had a place to go. Instead of regular lessons, we spent time talking and helping students process the tragedy. Together, we worried about those who hadn't yet checked in. I have never felt as needed or as vital as a teacher.
The people of Minneapolis rushed in with aid. My son's school, Benilde-St. Margaret's, came in like a fairy godmother and offered every student a backpack filled with necessities like detergent, toothpaste, clean T-shirts, books and snacks.
It was amazing. Volunteers roamed the area by the hundreds, helping with cleanup, cooking hot dogs and offering counseling. At first, the outpourings were hugely generous, and then, as with most disasters, they gradually trickled down to almost nothing.
Now, we are approaching the one-year anniversary of the tornado. The federal government decided that this tornado wasn't a true disaster and was unworthy of any cash to fix things up. So progress has been slow.
Lots of homes received new roofs, windows and porches -- welcome maintenance that was overdue -- thanks to insurance. Sadly, though, too many houses still sport blue plastic tarps over the damaged roofs.
Tree stumps grace every corner and front porches lean askew, victims of the tornado winds. More than a few absentee landlords took the insurance money and ran, leaving the rotting homes behind to join the growing inventory of north Minneapolis abandoned homes.
And one year later, the students in my English class will sit at computers and continue the healing process by writing about their experiences. They made it through, and so will north Minneapolis.
There are positives. The mayor delivered his state of the city address at the Capri Theater, here on our school campus, and in the speech was a pledge for renewal of the North Side.
The weary North Side has heard this sort of thing before. So it will wait, patiently as always, and see how much actually happens.
Tiny, sticklike trees are being plopped into the ground in place of the grand old masters. In them reside the tiny green buds of hope for the future.
Maureen Mulvaney teaches at PYC Arts and Technology High School in north Minneapolis.
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This lapse was, truthfully, a minor disappointment in a stage year that brought swarming, darting, luminous firefly memories to my brain. Theater truly is more precious than film because you will never get the chance to see your favorite actor deliver that line again in a way that makes the world stop and all of humanity, past and present, unite around the one emotion that performer has invoked. Like a choir director, theater arranges the voices of actor, audience, and the outside world so you understand that we are all adding to one great collective cry of joy and sorrow. Sound a little dramatic? Let me grab my purple brush and coat the subject further: Theater is an echo of everyone who has ever felt loved, betrayed, powerful, and powerless. And like all echoes, it departs from its source, hangs ghost-like in the air, and then evaporates. As Joseph Campbell explained during his prolific lifetime, people misunderstand the concept of eternity. Eternity is the present, because it's the point where the past and future truly do unite. Theater is a cozy little truck stop with strong brew and a great jukebox located at the intersection of these lonely, thrilling crossroads.
Whew. Let me light up a cigarette and remind you that there are no trophies or certificates to mark The Jimmys. Also no money. But note that with The Jimmys, I try to highlight strong work that was missed in the Dallas Theater Critics Forum, the Leon Rabins, or the Observer's "Best of Dallas" issue. There is, perhaps inevitably, some overlap.
Rhonda Boutte and Walter Hardts, Homework, The Undermain: The Undermain declared this two-weekend run of an adaptation of Franz Xaver Kroetz's poverty play a "workshop production," but with the exception of their masterful Therese Raquin, it was the most potent thing I saw on their stage all year. In a show so pared-down it bled from the quick, Rhonda Boutte and Walter Hardts imparted with breathtaking simplicity one truism often overlooked in Gothic depictions of urban poverty: The worst part of being poor might be the boredom. The grinding monotony of this married couple's lives infested acts both physically satisfying (masturbation) and physically extreme (an abortion Boutte's character performs on herself with a knitting needle) with a listless ennui.
Nye Cooper, Reefer Madness, Pegasus Theatre: Cooper seems to be a one-man comic ensemble, at least from his work in Pegasus Theatre's poker-faced adaptation of this drug-war propaganda classic. Assuming supporting assignments, Cooper became the unctuous boyfriend who gets his gal hooked, a pest of a kid brother, and a beer-bellied Southern prosecutor. They were all anchored in impressive character detail, but ultimately allowed to sail on Cooper's falcon-like, swoop-in-for-the-kill comic timing.
Aaron Ginsburg, The Taming of the Shrew, Kitchen Dog Theater: Director Ginsburg orchestrated some dizzying physical comedy and, along with sound designer Scott Shaddock, created aural spotlights that illuminated Shakespeare's sometimes murky comic wordplay. In the process, they accomplished a rare thing--rounds of contemporary laughter from a notoriously dense, 400-year-old playwright. This was the most delightful, accessible Shakespearean comedy I've ever seen--and that's a good thing.
Susanna Guzman, Latin American Evening, Teatro Dallas: Guzman has the fragile beauty to play eyelash-batting ingenue roles for the next 15 years, so it's all the more satisfying to realize how Guzman and Teatro director Cora Cardona have worked against that expectation. Guzman played two marvelous roles in this evening of one-acts: a grim, husky-voiced nurse with a body-parts checklist in "I Die, Therefore I Am" and a lonely single woman in "The Repetition." The latter was especially moving, because Guzman, wearing a mask in the Cuban bufo style, did almost all her acting with her body. Watching her tilt her head, tense up her narrow shoulders, and clasp her hands in a position of yearning raised goosebumps.
Martin Holden, The Ladies Room, Theatre Quorum: Dallas playwright Angela Wilson either has been spying extensively on conversations between blue-collar heterosexual male buddies or is really in touch with her masculine side. Or maybe she just has a great ear for dialogue. In any case, it couldn't have sounded better coming from the mouth of anyone but Martin Holden--hair slicked back and eyebrows arched--as the fair-weather friend of Carl Savering's rapidly deteriorating ex-football player. Holden made the first act of The Ladies Room a marvel to watch as the karaoke singer with an inflated sense of his own romantic skills. His pre-show version of Celine Dion's Titanic theme was a hilarious knockout too.
Dalton James, Mark Farr, and John Flores, The Ultra-Happy, Super-Sad, Megavariety Revue, Our Endeavors: I always like to review a show as late in its run as possible, because invariably the performers only get better, more focused, more attuned to the emotions running through themselves, each other, and the playwright. Catching Scott Osborne and Patti Kirkpatrick's ultra-ambitious, super-ballsy, mega-original musical revue at Deep Ellum Center for the Arts a second time, with a big and very enthusiastic crowd, made me wish I could rewrite a lukewarm review. Dalton James wrote and performed what may have been the night's showstopper, his rap-fueled take on the old Latin saw vini, vidi, vici--"I came, I saw, I conquered." His "Big Black Boots" brought the house to cheers as easily as the imaginary gay bar into which James stomped (flashing the title footwear) was brought to its knees--or so he thinks. Meanwhile, Mark Farr and John Flores wrote a quieter but equally sensational comic ensemble piece, "The Soil in Which It Grows," where a lowly copyboy (David Goodwin) brings down the wrath of Y2K and Godzilla through his virtual love technology. They called it "comic-book theater," and the original music, lighting design, and stylized performances practically had me seeing the actors' dialogue in giant word balloons.
Cindee Mayfield, Death Defying Acts, Theatre Three: I could watch Cindee Mayfield put on or take off a glove all day long--meticulous yet seemingly unconscious of it, working it finger by finger, concentrating just enough on the process to let you know her character isn't quite comfortable with the deception she's perpetrating. Such were the subtleties I noticed in Mayfield's sparkling comic performance in Woody Allen's Central Park West, the last one-act of Theatre Three's Death Defying Acts. I didn't even like Allen's rattletrap, misanthropic farce, but Mayfield, who's proven she does that aging New York debutante thing so well, was delicious as she came apart at the seams.
Tina Parker, The Glass Menagerie, Kitchen Dog: After my effusive review of this production and the Dallas Theater Critics' and Leon Rabin awards it snagged, some in the theater community who'd seen it thought director Tina Parker's three-ring version of the Wingfield family overrated. Let me continue my unqualified endorsement and say this: Kitchen Dog's Glass Menagerie hooked me more for what it did with the circus myth than for what it did to Williams' script. Theater for theater's sake is a straitjacket I refuse to wear, and Parker and her cast clarified for me my own lingering unease and neurotic fascination with the P.T. Barnum milieu by imposing on it the dysfunctional framework of one of American theater's two or three most famous families. Circus performers have always seemed the quintessential existentialist freaks--humans trapped by an identity they've adopted strictly for show--and this perception fused smoothly with both Tom Wingfield's sad struggle to emerge from family chains and Tennessee Williams' own fascination with magic, illusion, and deception.
Guin Powell, Ontological Proof of My Existence, 11th Street Theatre Project: I hope the reason that Guin Powell doesn't perform on Dallas stages more often is that he has a busy, fulfilling personal life, and not that it's difficult for a black actor in this town to get roles. Powell is a tall guy with penetrating eyes who doesn't have to get all riled up to give audiences the sense that his character contains dark storm clouds of feeling. He did get downright scary when he exploded in Black, Theatre Quorum's production of the Joyce Carol Oates script, but eventually everyone in that show became overextended by Oates' preoccupation with violence. He was an ominous hovercraft of threat in 11th Street's production of a better Oates script, Ontological Proof of My Existence. A daddy figure filtered through a sex abuser's id, he was both nurturer and exploiter of Laurel Whitsett, prostrate in an abandoned building with only the eerie echo of a dripping sink to accompany their twisted harmony. Which leads me to:
Laurel Whitsett, In the Jungle of the Cities, Kitchen Dog: Whitsett made a fine foil for Powell in the 11th Street show, but I wanted to cite her much smaller role in Kitchen Dog's strong production of this overwritten Brecht script. To bastardize Stanislavski's commie acting-company pronouncement: There are no small parts, only actors with talent too small to grab your attention. As the girlfriend of the beleaguered, fatally principled librarian hero, Whitsett was to die for in a small, stock part you forget is difficult to play well--the sloppy drunk. Whitsett slurred and slouched her way into the pantheon of sad-funny, dipsomaniacal greats.


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The first semi...
Jeopardy! round..
Daily Double: $600 Music Festivals. Harry and Jane are tied at $400 to Pat's $1600. Harry can bet the max of $1000. He goes for a fifth on this: the Beale Street Music Festival in this city has been called the "Mardi Gras of the Mid-South." "What is Memphis?" Correct for $600. He would sweep that category.
Scores at the half.
Double Jeopardy! categories:
Daily Double #1: $800 Out Of Your League. Pat has $5200, $2200 out of first place currently enjoyed by Jane. Pat bets $4000 on this: "Happy Mothers, Breastfed Babies" is the motto of this league whose name includes the Spanish for "milk". Pat... stutters absolutely nothing, leaving him with $1200. Correct response: what is La Leche League.
Daily Double #2: $1600 I Died A Deadly Death. Harry is on $10,200, behind leader Jane by $4400. He bets $4000 on this: on November 8, 1887, TB claimed the life of this OK Corral vet; he's pretty famous for an ex-dentist. After a loud groan, he loses to $6200 on Doc Holliday.
At the end of Double Jeopardy!...
J-Archive.com wants you to crush. For a third time.
- This is a repeat from the last TWO times, but Pat has only one option.... bet it all and HOPE that Jane and Harry do something really REALLY dumb. - Harry wins if he bets at least $6401 (but not more than $6600) and is correct, forcing Jane to bet to win. - Jane wins if she bets $1801, but no more than $12,999, and is correct.
Final Jeopardy! category: USA
Correct response: what is Hershey, Pennsylvania? Pat's response: What is Hershey, PA? RIGHT. Wager: $800. Total: $1600. Isaac's response: What is Hershey, PA? RIGHT. Wager: $8200. Total: $16,400. Jane's response: What is Hershey, PA? RIGHT. Wager: $4000. Total: $18,600.
FINALIST: Jane Curtin
Does Jane really pay attention to her competition? There is a moment when Harry could've won this had Jane been wrong and he'd been right. But at least she is where she needs to be. Meanwhile, Harry goes back in the booth with $100,000, while Pat heads across the backlot with $105,300.
Three more stars tomorrow.
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Jan 12, 2010
Where I stayed
The last thing Rachel and I wanted to accomplish before leaving the island was to go on a spice tour. Since Joy had done one when she was in Zanzibar earlier, it would just be the two of us. Well, the two of us, plus Bran, who we were wondering what else he could mooch off by us continuing to book through Mr. Hilali. Hilali had organized pretty much everything we'd done on Zanzibar, so it was appropriate that he not only put together our spice tour, but arranged for us a ride to the port as well to buy our tickets for the overnight ferry. On the ride to the port, he was trying to start friendly chit-chat with us and started talking to us about America. When he found out I was from New York (don't ask me what this upcoming connection is, just roll with it), he asked me if I knew 'Swahznigga.' Excuse me? That started getting a little uncomfortable as he kept repeating the word and Rachel and I looked at each other wondering what the hell was going on. Finally he added, you know Caleeforna? Ohhhhh, Schwarzenegger. Good times with bad accents.
Most spice tours that get organized through the commercial brokers in Stone Town take you out to a large plantation and is apparently very commercialized. The tour Hilali worked out for us was much smaller; it was basically on a spice farm and it was just the, now, three of us. We had a great tour guide, Hassan, who was friendly, informative and had this enjoyable little English verbal tic in which he added 'them' before every noun.
I was nervous about the prospect of walking around outside for a couple hours with the state of my stomach, but whether the aroma of the herbs and spices helped, or my body decided it would just behave itself, the tour actually made me feel better. Briefly, anyway. While Hassan led us around to the different spices and fruits -- jasmine, coroman, cinnamon (the queen of spices), cloves (the king of spices, because they are forced to sell it to the government as its biggest cash crop), natural lipstick, massive jackfruit, starfruit, pineapple (which I didn't realize took a full year to grow), vanilla -- there was a kid, who was only referred to as 'boy' running around cutting the spices so we could smell the samples. The whole time he was whittling things and weaving objects out of plants. We had no idea what was going on. The kid was like a little monkey, the way he gracefully and easily climbed up, down and around trees. And yes, I realize in our hypersensitive society it's 'racist' to describe anyone who's black as a monkey, well, grow up, because this kid got around branches like he'd born in them.
When the tour was concluding, we found out what he'd been making the whole time out of the plants. A tiara, purse, ring, necklace and bracelet for Rachel, a crown, watch, ring and tie for me. All this in a little over an hour. As I said, this kid was crazy. We stocked up on spices and filled up on fresh fruit before leaving Hassan and 'boy' with a generous tip to head back to town. We reunited with Joy with a mere eight hours to kill before we had to be in the port for the ferry. It's amazing how much time you can pass with one lunch, some souvenir shopping and a sheesha, especially with the 'relaxed' service approach of Tanzanian waiters. We ended our time in Zanzibar, the way we started, with a meal and a couple cold ones at Mercury's. Beer doesn't taste quite as good as good mixed with Imodium, but this is the scenario I had no choice to face with a dodgy stomach going square up against an overnight ferry ride and an eight-or-so hour bus ride coming up back to back. Adventure travel at its finest.