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Critical Essay by Peter Harris
SOURCE: "Forty Years of Richard Wilbur: The Loving Work of an Equilibrist," in Virginia Quarterly Review, Vol. 66, No. 3, Summer 1990, pp. 412-25.
In the following essay, Harris surveys major themes in Wilbur's poetry and explains how his work in New and Collected Poems forms a cohesive whole.
The publication of Richard Wilbur's New and Collected Poems brings under one cover his six previous books, plus 27 new poems and translations. Reading through four decades of work, comprising almost 250 poems, invitingly arranged in reverse chronological order, ringingly emphasizes the justice of his reputation as the master of his craft. His poetry celebrates the power of metaphorical language to divine the human implications of natural patternment, and it affirms the capacity of strict metrics to contain both the dictates of civility and the promptings of joy.
While Wilbur has extended his range of topic, theme, and metrical form, and while he has gradually become more direct, he has never found it necessary to alter the fundamental cast of his poetry as did, for example, Robert Lowell or James Wright. He has remained steadfast in his commitment to formalism, or, more precisely, to the indissolubility of form and value. Wilbur, like his mentor, Frost, has always been an equilibrist, up on the tightrope performing feats of association in the process of his search for an equilibrium between apparently opposed objects of desire. Most often, that opposition is construed in the poems as a yearning for a formal perfection beyond the depredations of time and an equally strong impulse to harrow the pleasures of the physical world. Put another way, the major theme in Wilbur's work reflects the central tension in Western metaphysics, between the ideal and the real, between being and becoming. At times, by virtue of his interest in essences, archetypes, and caught moments of perfection, Wilbur seems to express an informal neo-Platonism. For example, in "Complaint," he has shown himself willing to explore—in good faith, seasoned with comic irony—Ficino's proposition that, "In reality, each love is that of the divine image and each is pure." Eden recurs several times in these poems, most recently in an almost nostalgic way, as the place "where we first mislaid / Simplicity of wish and will." And in the wonderful poem "In Limbo," the speaker goes so far as to call himself "a truant portion of the all / Misshaped by time, incorrigible desire / And dear attachment to a sleeping hand."
The spiritualizing side of consciousness has moments, in Wilbur's work, when it accepts its truancy into earthly existence only with a shudder. In "Love Calls Us to the Things of This World," the soul, entranced by the angelic billowing of laundry on the line, somewhat shockingly describes mundane existence as "the punctual rape of every blessed day." For a moment, the soul hangs back from the onset of day and wishes for an existence comprised of shadowless felicity, "clear dances done in the sight of heaven." Only the heat of the sun reconciles the soul, in a mood of "bitter love," to accept that lovers will and must walk out in their fresh clothes "to be undone" and that even nuns must be clothed in "dark habits" to keep their "difficult balance." Finding that difficult balance between being and becoming, and between felicity and gravitas, is precisely Wilbur's forte. His work takes no particular position on formal religion, but it does seem to lean a bit, at times, in the direction of granting the archetypes a metaphysical rather than a merely psychological existence.
But the presence of metaphysical pathos in his work only intensifies the poignancy of Wilbur's devotion to physicality. It would be hard to find a contemporary poet more evidently solicitous of the irreducible particularity of the natural world. His aesthetic appreciation of the visible world is suffused with wonder and a sense of kinship. While he is no Whitman seeking to liquefy and merge with the scent of lilacs or to ventriloquize the barbaric yawp of a spotted hawk, Wilbur's poetry has always affirmed, as he puts it in the title poem of his second book, that "ceremony never did conceal … How much we are the woods we wander in." As contemporary connections with the major literary figures of the American 19th century grow more tenuous, there is still perceptible in Wilbur a direct lineage, through Frost, back to Emerson's insistence that we can liberate ourselves, and create a liberating literature, by exploring the implications of the proposition that "natural facts are signs of spiritual facts."
Instances of the seminal reciprocity between nature and spirit abound in Wilbur. Opening the New and Collected Poems at random, I find, in "Fern-Beds in Hampshire County," this characteristic surmise:
Whatever at the heart
Of creatures makes them branch and burst apart,
Or at the core of star or tree may burn
At last to turn
And make an end of time.
The human, the natural, and the interstellar world are all of a piece in this passage, by virtue of the fact that their growth, their fission, is fueled by the fire of procreation which is also the fire of de-creation.
Because the end of time imagined in the "Fern-Beds" seems a remote astrophysical event, the poet speaks with understandable detachment, but Wilbur's voice can be considerably more urgent when considering the possibility that humankind may end time and destroy nature prematurely. He does this most memorably in his widely anthologized "Advice to a Prophet," and, in the process, he shows his mastery of all the elements of poetry that interest him: the musical, the lyrical, the metaphorical, the descriptive, the dialectical, even the high rhetorical, to which he rises in the peroration that ends the poem:
What should we be without
The dolphin's arc, the dove's return,
These things in which we have seen ourselves and spoken?
Ask us, prophet, how we shall call
Our natures forth when that live tongue is all
Dispelled, that glass obscured or broken
In which we have said the rose of our love and the clean
Horse of our courage, in which beheld
The singing locust of the soul unshelled,
And all we mean or wish to mean.
Ask us, ask us whether with the worldless rose
Our hearts shall fail us; come demanding
Whether there shall be lofty or long standing
When the bronze annals of the oak-tree close.
The tendency to think of Wilbur as a cool formalist, detached, ironic, witty, has a basis in fact. But detachment and engagement are not necessarily opposites in poetry; moreover, there are any number of poems in the vein of "Advice to a Prophet," poems that boil high emotionally, that verge on hymns, that passionately apostrophize, and most of all, that celebrate. In fact, Wilbur is, first and last, a celebratory poet, most often of the transient epiphanic glories of the natural world. And whether the subject is natural or human, the central value in his work is love.
Perhaps it is this combination of devotion to craft and a capacity for joyful love, Wilbur's form and value, that has kept his work so vital for so long. Though he is nearing 70, the 27 New Poems, as they are referred to in the table of contents [of New and Collected Poems], show him near the top of his powers. All the characteristic interests are here renewed: a preoccupation with the relationship between what lies within and what lies beyond our ken, a probing for implications in minute particulars in the natural world, an affirmation of the capacity of art to make the world seem more like itself through metaphor. What sign is there, then, of Wilbur's relationship to his advancing years? Congenitally optative, devoted to what survives rather than to what is lost, he has never been much attracted to the elegiac mode, and has been most comfortable treating death as an event in the cyclical process of renewal. This doesn't change in the New Poems; however, one may detect, if not a faint valedictory mood, at least an increased attention to what lies outside the light.
In the first poem, "The Ride," the speaker, in a dream, rides through a nightscape of "shattering vacancies / On into what was not." Characteristically, though, the vacancies do not bother him; he survives them, and his main worry is how to keep alive the nocturnal mare that carried him through, and beyond, uncreation. Similarly in "Alatus," dedicated to "R.P.W.," whom we must assume is the late Robert Penn Warren, the poet meditates on autumnal change. Such change is figured first as a battle which the leaves lose: "Their supply lines cut, / The leaves go down to defeat." But this un-Wilburian conceit gets overturned in favor of a celebration of time's brave condescension:
This time's true valor
Is a rash consent to change,
To crumbling pallor,
Dust, and dark re-merge.
See how the fire-bush, circled
By a crimson verge
Of its own sifting.
Bristles aloft its every
Naked stem, lifting
Beyond the faint sun,
Toward the hid pulse of things, its
Winged skeleton.
No getting tangled in the bare ruin'd choirs for Wilbur. In fact, no "nothing" for Wilbur. In "Lying," a wonderfully supple aesthetic meditation, the poet denies ontological status to "nothing," referring to it instead as a "conception," albeit "most rare." Much as Borges denies "oblivion" in a sonnet Wilbur translated in Walking to Sleep, he finds "nothing" to be nothing in itself. Instead, it is "something missed," not gone in an absolute sense but redistributed elsewhere in the universe: "It is the water of a dried-up well / Gone to assail the cliffs of Labrador." This is the poetry of a man for whom wells are not forbidding cylinders of absence but vessels that can generally be counted on to spontaneously refill themselves from unfathomable sources. Whatever else he believes, Wilbur trusts that we all lie in the lap of an immense intelligence. "Step off assuredly into the blank of your mind," he counsels in "Walking to Sleep," "Something will come to you." How so? By virtue of an imperial faith that more things wait on us than we can ever know: "As a queen sits down, knowing that a chair will be there, / Or a general raises his hand and is given the field glasses."
Given his bent toward affirmation, it is not so surprising that the saddest, most valedictory moment in the New Poems is not strictly Wilbur's own, but his masterful translation of Joseph Brodsky's "Six Years Later," which concerns a love relationship that endured while all manner of change and dissolution occurred in its environs. The poem, whose refrain is the increasingly poignant "So long had life together been," closes with the couple drifting away through the double door that their life had comprised, out "into the future, into the night." Wilbur has spent years rendering new English versions of Molière and, more recently and just as brilliantly, of Racine. He has few peers as a translator of poetry, and no one since Pound has made better use of translation for expanding the evident range of his or her poetic sympathies. It might even be said that his translations dovetail so well into his individual collections that they should be considered aspects of his vision. The uprooted Brodsky breathes in air of loss which is not Wilbur's own, but is one for which he has evident sympathy. The closest Wilbur himself comes to Brodsky's pathos is in the gravely comic apocalypse of "Leaving," a poem about a moment of transformation brought by the descent of evening upon a garden party. As they leave the party, the speaker and his companion look back and discover that shadows have worked aesthetic magic:
Curt shadows in the grass
Hatched every blade,
And now on pedestals
Of mounting shade
Stood all our friends—iconic,
Now, in mien,
Half-lost in dignities
Till now unseen.
At the moment of departure, the archetypes intrude. Briefly the world becomes a stage, or gallery, which seems not less, but more, real than ordinary life. Wilbur's speaker is evidently moved but also embarrassed by having become iconic. He says he and his friends have "blundered into grand / Identities." It is important for Wilbur's sense of propriety that the dignities are not consciously assumed but rather revealed by an act of nature: "We had not played so surely, / Had we known."
After "Leaving," the New Poems primarily seek Wilbur's most familiar terrain, not the "outer dark," as he puts it in "Icarium Mare," but "a small province haunted by the good, / Where something may be understood." As it happens, rivers and oceans run through that province, and Wilbur goes a-fishing in them. In "Trolling for Blues," "Shad-Time," and "Hamlen Brook," Wilbur angles after metaphysical insight and aesthetic delight. "Hamlin Brook," the last of the new poems—excepting the somewhat disappointing libretto for the cantata, On Freedom's Ground—shows the poet in particularly fine and playful form. The issue the poem addresses might be described as one of gustatory epistemology: how do we "drink in" the instantaneous configurations that flow by us in such astonishing profusion? The opening of the poem might stand as object lesson to young poets about how to establish a dramatic situation, and the speaker's relation to it, with utmost economy and precision:
At the alder-darkened brink
Where the stream slows to a lucid jet
I lean to the water, dinting its top with sweat,
And see, before I can drink,
A startled inchling trout
of spotted near-transparency,
Trawling a shadow solider than he.
The musical and descriptive delicacy of this passage matches the delicacy of the inchling itself. As in "Leaving," a shadow creates perspective by incongruity and, paradoxically, grants a substantiality to the young trout that the creature ordinarily lacks. The masterstroke is the unobtrusive use of the figuratively exact word "trawling" just where the sway of idiom would have us expect "trailing."
The poem goes on to detail the "flicked slew / Of sparks and glittering silt," as well as other minute glories in the stream before it pans back suddenly to show us, first, sky reflected on the water's surface and, then, birch trees which seem sublimely both to plunge and soar, "Toward where the azures of the zenith drown." After flirting with vertigo, the poet then springs the central question, "How shall I drink all this?" The concluding answer, for Wilbur is an answerer, shows a characteristic doubleness:
Joy's trick is to supply
Dry lips with what can cool and slake,
Leaving them dumbstruck also with an ache
Nothing can satisfy.
Wilbur affirms the importance of poems ending with a window and a door. Enough, and a thirst for more. A feeling of completion with no pretense that Hamlen Brook has been contained. The brook will clearly percolate onward, swelling, evaporating, re-emerging to assail the cliffs of Labrador.
If "Hamlin Brook" were, God forbid, to be Wilbur's last poem, it would be a fitting epitome. And New Poems would be a highly respectable finale. In poems I have not mentioned, it may be that Wilbur indulges his epigrammatic or hoary Horatian side a bit too fully, at least from the perspective of one who prefers his lyricism. But in reading backwards through Wilbur's collected poems, New Poems does not suffer much by comparison. That being said, The Mind Reader (1976) seems to me to edge out the others as Wilbur's best—or, at least, his most urgently moving—volume. I trust I am not merely displaying the vagrant prejudice of a crisis-burdened age toward the urgently personal in poetry, when I say I find "The Writer" and "Cottage Street, 1953," both in The Mind-Reader, if not the best, then the two most affecting poems that Wilbur has written. Part of the reason they hit with uncommon impact may be that Wilbur is usually so reticent. The reader, therefore, has the sense that, against certain ingrained commitments to preserving his privacy in the inevitably self-revealing vocation of poetry, Wilbur has, in these two poems, something quite private to which he simply must give public form.
Both poems are, of course, not mere autobiography but its transfiguration into something different, namely, poetry. Technically speaking, both are beautifully accomplished, though neither poem is particularly preoccupied with the pyrotechnic feats of metaphorical phrasing that leave us seeing stars in other of Wilbur's masterpieces, for example, "On the Eyes of an SS Officer" or "A Baroque Wall-Fountain in the Villa Sciarra."
"Cottage Street: 1953" draws no Frostian veil over its historicity. The poem is about Wilbur's agonizingly poignant encounter with Sylvia Plath soon after her penultimate suicide attempt. Inevitably, the poem breathes in an air of fatedness. Wilbur has been invited by the redoubtable Edna Ward to meet Plath and to serve her as a role model of the fulfilled poet, thereby lifting her spirits. Wilbur's description of this impossible situation is unforgettable:
I am a stupid life-guard who has found,
Swept to his shallows by the tide, a girl
who, far from shore, has been immensely drowned,
And stares through water now with eyes of pearl.
What makes this stanza so distinctively rich is not the borrowing of Shakespeare's pearls, however apt that borrowing may be, but the paradoxical use of the word "immensely" in the phrase "immensely drowned." As we accede to the stanza's conceit of a seaside drowning, the details of its geography tempt us momentarily to forget it is not literal, until we come to "immensely," which reminds us we are considering not just a beach accident which has unceremoniously snuffed a consciousness, but a self-induced drowning of the soul which, horribly, the body has survived, though it wears an uncannily posthumous stare.
As a feat of narrative poetry, "Cottage Street, 1953" is electrified by the contrast between the speaker's sense of helplessness, which links him to Plath, and the tremendously purposive decorum of the speaker's verse form which links him to the character of Edna Ward who, by her commanding civility, is attempting to catalyze a resurrection of Plath's spirit. We do not discover whether, in the short term, Ward's efforts have any positive effect. We suspect they do not, though there is no suggestion that Ward is behaving shallowly or hubristically by inviting them to tea. On the contrary, she is being true to herself. The ending of the poem dramatizes the stunning contrast between the tempered armature of Ward's sympathetic grace and the phosphorous trail of Plath's descending comet:
And Edna Ward shall die in fifteen years,
After her eight-and-eighty summers of
Such grace and courage as permit no tears,
The thin hand reaching out, the last word love,
Outliving Sylvia who, condemned to live,
Shall study for a decade, as she must,
To state at last her brilliant negative
In poems free and helpless and unjust.
It is a tribute to Wilbur's sure-footed sense of justice that he can end the poem with the Johnsonian judgment that her poems, though brilliant, are "unjust" and yet be confident that his judgment neither stings nor condescends because it occurs in such an intensely sympathetic context.
It is precisely this same intensity of sympathy, or, if you will, love, which brings Wilbur's justly famous "The Writer" so indelibly alive. All well-written poems implicitly justify the act that brings them into being. It happens that "The Writer" explicitly justifies the act as well. It shows, in the context of Wilbur's relationship with his daughter, why the act of writing is, when scrupulously practiced, also an act of love, one that can be simultaneously personal and yet disinterested in an almost pure, Spinozan sense. Both love poem and ars poetica, its two modalities coalesce as perfectly as value and form ever do. Other poems of Wilbur's are more dazzling, will astonish us more with their Nijinskian or Michael Jordan-like air time, their liberating sense of difficulties overcome, their deceptively effortless articulation of ineluctable intricacy, but there is something uniquely moving about "The Writer." Wilbur is often a surprising poet, but the quality of surprise in this poem is so fine, so retrospectively inevitable, that the poem seems, as only the finest feats of craft do, to possess an authenticity beyond the reach of artfulness.
As with "Cottage Street, 1953," "The Writer" touches on the struggle of a woman writer, in this case Wilbur's daughter. As we eventually discover, the stakes of her struggle are also high, though, thankfully, her situation is infinitely less dire than Plath's. She is caught up in the strenuous business of creation, to which Wilbur is especially sympathetic because it is his daughter who is laboring and because he is acutely aware, from experience, how fraught writing can become at the junction of ink and page. The expository part of the poem is simply rendered; the poet is thinking of his daughter, who is upstairs writing a story. He figures her situation in nautical terms, the first of two conceits which carry the poem's freight. The sound of her typewriter reminds him of a "chain hauled over a gunwale" which, in turn, leads him to imagine her interior life as "a great cargo, and some of it heavy." There is nothing particularly surprising or distinctive about the opening section of the poem, which, as it turns out, is precisely the point.
The poem changes direction when the daughter's typewriter falls silent, implying an impasse in her search for the mot juste. The poet personalizes that pause, as if it were an implicit rejection of his too "easy" imagining of her life as a voyage. As her typewriter begins again with a "bunched clamor" and then once more ceases, he is carried by the winds of association to a more precise, more intense, more completely adequate analogy that lifts this poem to greatness. The on-again, off-again rhythm of his daughter's typing reminds him of the fitful struggle of a bird that had once strayed into her room:
I remember the dazed starling
Which was trapped in that very room, two years ago;
How we stole in, lifted a sash
And retreated, not to affright it;
And how for a helpless hour, through the crack of the door,
We watched the sleek, wild, dark
And iridescent creature
Batter against the brilliance, drop like a glove
To the hard floor, or the desk-top,
And wait then, humped and bloody,
For the wits to try it again; and how our spirits
Rose when, suddenly sure,
It lifted off from a chair-back,
Beating a smooth course for the right window
And clearing the sill of the world.
The poem might have ended with the successful escape, and memorably. The strongly stressed set of adjectives describing the bird as a "sleek, wild, dark, / And iridescent creature" help objectify the struggle of creative energy to free itself through form. And the final phrase, "the sill of the world," makes clear that the issuance of the struggle is a moment of transcendence, the sudden sense of liberation that occurs the instant a stumbling block transforms itself into a stepping stone. But Wilbur has one more stanza for us, one that brings the largest implications of what has happened into even clearer relief:
It is always a matter, my darling,
Of life or death, as I had forgotten. I wish
What I wished you before, but harder.
And here we have it, exposed through explicit statement, the fundamental impulse that drives Wilbur's scrupulous decorum. The finding of the right analogy for his daughter's situation is both the measure of the quality of his love and of the quality of his poem. Craftsmanship, in this instance, becomes a kind of exemplary categorical imperative with existentialist overtones: either we are exacting in our search for what is right and, thereby, affirm life or we are seduced by fatal ease and become, symbolically, unquickened. "The Writer," a poem that begins as a caterpillar but becomes a butterfly, is only one example among many why, as long as we care about poetry, Richard Wilbur will be among the quick and not the dead, why he will remain a figure we turn to in order to renew the terms of our care, and not for poetry alone.
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50 years ago, 1963: An 11-year-old Huron girl found an 1895 $20 gold piece. Margaret Wechter, fifth grade, saw something shiny while walking through a corn field. The coin was believed to be a collector's item worth at least $35.
25 years ago, 1988: In a curious blend of pomp and secrecy the Air Force unveiled its Stealth bomber at a tightly orchestrated roll-out ceremony. The $500 million plane, designed to be near-invisible to radar, looked like a remarkably thin boomerang with three bulges on top.
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Beatrice Coron is a storyteller. Her work is about letting the viewer construct their own interpretation of her scenes. After a series of odd jobs and an art degree from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts of Lyon, she moved to New York in 1985. Her body of work ranges from intricate cutouts to public works and screen prints. Currently her cutouts are a part of "The Art of Storytelling" exhibition at the American Visionary Arts Museum in Baltimore, Maryland. I'd highly recommend checking it out in person!
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An Idea for a new class of BOP
An Idea for a new class of BOP - K'Vort Heavy BOP class
An unconventional idea for a new class of Bird of Prey using 3 variants availible individually or via bundle from the c-store. These are my ideas of what the Klingon Intelligence service could/would do to upgrade their capabilities. Although the same layout could be applied to a new Ferasan or Lethean ship design(hint,hint). Primarily reconassince ships but with additional armor and weaponary as fitting a deep recon ship that may be operating on its own or providing electronic intelligence via the sci version, operations support from the eng version, and a fast attack ship for the Tac version.
Tactical version:
Hull - 30000
Shield mod - 0.9
Turn - 19
Impulse mod - 0.20
Inertia - 70
Crew - 100
Devices - 2
Weapons - 4/3
Stations =
CMDR - Tac
LTC - Universal
LT - Eng
LT - Sci
ENS - Universal
Consoles =
Eng - 3
Sci - 2
Tac - 5
+15 weapons power
Special Console - To be determined
Science version:
Hull - 30000
Shield mod - 1.15
Turn - 16
Impulse mod - 0.20
Inertia - 50
Crew - 200
Devices - 3
Weapons - 4/2
Stations =
CMDR - Sci
LTC - Universal
LT - Tac
LT - Eng
ENS - Universal
Consoles =
Eng - 3
Sci - 4
Tac - 3
+10 auxilliary, +5 engine power
Subsytem Targeting, Sensor Analysis
Special Console - To be determined
Engineer version:
Hull - 32000
Shield mod - 1.05
Turn - 16
Impulse mod - 0.20
Inertia - 50
Crew - 300
Devices - 2
Weapons - 4/3
Stations =
CMDR - Eng
LTC - Universal
LT - Tac
LT - Sci
ENS - Universal
Consoles =
Eng - 4
Sci - 3
Tac - 3
+5 All power levels
Hanger bay (1) comes standard with To'Duj fighters
Special Console - To be determined
I would buy the full pack (hint,hint,hint,hint,hint.......)
considering the BoPs all use universal boff stations I don't see the point of this besides you wanting a BoP with less/more console slots and toys depending on variant.
I'd prefer a new 'Heavy' Bird of Prey variant. A replacement for the aging B'rel platform.
Rather than an enhanced cloaking device, this one would have a phase cloak. When phase cloaked it cannot receive damage. Phase cloak operates like the enhanced cloak but not as good. Rather than 3 seconds to auto-recloak it takes 5 seconds.
Phase cloak enables torpedoes to be fired while remaining cloaked, energy weapons will decloak the BoP for 5 seconds. Only active external effects that disrupt cloak will bring it out of phase and apply the timer to re-cloak of 15 seconds-ish.
HOWEVER, when under phase cloak the ship receives timer penalties... all 'skillpoints' spent on Boffs that speed up their timers are nullified. Ergo, torpedo high yield takes a full minute to re-load rather than 30 seconds.
The BoP is also partially visible (aka stealth detected) for 8 seconds after firing torpedoes but it can't be locked on to. The visibility is enough to allow ships with PBAOE or other cloak-revealing abilities to close in and pull the ship back into phase.
Have this BoP have a console: Eye of Kahless
This console is similar to the new ability from jemhadar lockbox but with a twist: rather than the more you shoot a target the higher the chance weapon hits will disable a subsystem it will be that critical hits scored on a target have a good chance of disabling engines, aux or weapons (not shields).
Cmdr Universal
Lt Cmd Univ
Lt Cmd Univ
Lt Univ.
Lt Univ.
5 fore weapon
1 aft weapon
Weak shields hp
Raptor like hull hp
BoP-worthy speed.
Turn rate between BoP and Raptor but with higher inertia (sliding attacks more frequent).
Visual wise I'd make it a cross between the B'rel, the Heghta and a Peghqu raptor.
Hegtha hull (body), b'rel and heghta wing choices and pehqu 'nose' section and overall ship size.
When phase cloaked it cannot receive damage?
critical hits scored on a target have a good chance of disabling engines, aux or weapons ?
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so let me see can't take damage under cloak but can fire energy weapons and torpedoes from the same cloak plus a 14 universal boff slot ship which is 2 more than any ship in game! :eek:
I think you are expectations are a bit high sir, maybe just a bit ;)
Not so much.
Maybe if you were saying "Here's some new ships with battlecloak I'd like to see."
Go tool around in the heavy destroyer for a bit. See they made one already for you!
Battle Cloak, all uni boffs, little bitty hull, all make for a BoP. The other stuff really doesn't. Although I'd really like an all universal console slots bop, and just add in a five per type console limit on consoles. So if i want 5 engi consoles on my 9 console BoP I could have it. Just saying. I really like high shield power on my BoPs.
BoP's. Stick and move. Not ships that slug it out. My gut feeling is to think that you'll say that's just a matter of opinion. Oh well. If it walks like a duck.....
you have a lovely day now.
He would write the opposite of what he meant, then usually say "Think deeply on this and you will understand." If he'd had winking emoticons he'd have used them I think.
The idea of the thread was not a simple Hegh'ta, B'rel remake have those fly those, same with the heavy destroyer :), but to have Bop/Escort/Destroyer hybrid available created as a new ship design (Ferasan and Lethean style comes to mind primarily) that is unique in its own way (exterior style, potential custom bridge pack, etc) yet still pretty customizable like the vet ship or a bop for a variety of playstyles. The b'rel is still one of my favorite ships after a year of playing STO, but if the devs are ever going to attract new players to the KDF faction (new original ship designs, player costume options, and more unique KDF story content). would be a good start, hopefully season 8 will give us new shinies to play with and hopefully most of it wont be locked up in single character lockbox fashion.
As someone once said" I have a dream....." maybe a little more fleshing out of the KDF member species's idea of ship design by the devs could inspire some people to give KDF a try. :D
BTW Thissler love the vids,
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Coimbatore Corporation has decided to power deep freezers and ice-lined refrigerators with generators to overcome power cut.
Commissioner in-charge S. Sivarasu told The Hindu that the civic body would install the generators at 10 of its 20 maternity homes in the city so that it could store and later use oral polio and penta valent vaccines at the right temperature for safe administration.
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Mr. Sivarasu said that the Corporation would incur only around Rs. 1.50 lakh – a small amount considering the importance of the programme and health of the children to be immunized.
Health Committee Chairperson S. Thamarai Selvi said that the Corporation had identified 1,30,000 children in the zero to five age group to administer the vaccines. It had readied 196 centres for the purpose.
Corporation appeal: The Corporation has urged all residents in the city with children below the age of five to ensure that their children take part in the first phase of 18th annual Pulse Polio Programme to be held on Sunday (January 20).
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Besides mobile booths, the civic body has also established vaccination centres in railway junction and bus stands to reach out to those arriving from other States, he added.
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Nalammal's story can melt a stone. Parenting even one child with special needs is challenging, but she has four. And to add to it, poverty. Till two years ago, she also looked after her husband who was hopelessly crippled by depression before he passed away.
Her eldest daughter led the life of a normal child and was her only support. Working as a nurse in a city hospital, Lakshmi was married off early but committed suicide at the age of 22, unable to bear the humiliation at her in-laws for coming from a family with a history of mental illness. That was some 20 years ago.
Today at 60, Nalammal continues to struggle. Fighting her tears with a toothless smile, she says, "I feel no one understands what it feels to be their mother." Married at the age of 13 to a daily wager, Nalammal's struggle began with poverty induced family calamities. Both her sons, Murugesan and Balakrishnan, fell to substance abuse early on and suffered from severe psychosis. They would even assault their parents. The two daughters, Dhanalakshmi and Dhanam, suffering from borderline mental retardation remained undiagnosed initially and grew up in a house infested with violence.
It was Lakshmi, who with her contacts in the medical field, sent her mother and brothers to the M.S.Chellamuthu Trust and Foundation (MSCTF), Madurai, for treatment. Hearing her story, the Trust founder and noted psychiatrist Dr. C Ramasubramanian adopted the entire family. Not only were they brought under medical care but Nalammal and Dhanalakshmi were also given odd jobs in the rehabilitation homes run by the Trust to uplift their financial condition. Dhanam started working in a local textile shop.
But the brothers discontinued their treatment and once even ran away from the centre. Later on, Murugesan was sent to the Institute of Mental Health, Kilpauk, Chennai, and subsequently to the State Government-run Centre at Paramakudy, where he is still under treatment.
In between, when Dhanalakshmi showed signs of improvement, she joined a textile mills for higher pay. But yet again tragedy struck when her right leg came under the machine early this year. Once again the MSCTF stepped in to help her with surgery, recovery and getting an artificial limb besides all the paper work in the Labour Court for compensation from the mill owners.
Given the inter-personal conflicts between the siblings, Nalammal has now made a choice: to keep her four children in different places and dividing her time between them. The two sisters now live at the Home for Mentally Challenged supported by the State and run by the MSCTF near Thathaneri. Balakrishnan stays with the mother in a small rented house near the Home.
"Sometimes it is very hard to be their mother. I know they will never have a normal life. But I cannot abandon them. I keep reminding them I am here for them," she says. Tending to every adversity with grit is something that now comes naturally to Nalammal, who credits her every living moment to Dr. CRS.
"He is like God, who understands people like me and my children. Mentally challenged people see life for what it is in an honest way. The things we complain about daily are the things they wish to have," she says.
The memories of her sad motherhood must have left deep scars on her psyche. But she hides it and only looks at me with empty eyes as though asking who is responsible for her predicament. There must be so many like her. But Nalammal by sharing her love, she makes all her children feel worthy of being alive. If they know Nalammal's story, perhaps their illness would become somewhat easier to bear.
(Making a difference is a fortnightly column about ordinary people and events that leave an extraordinary impact on us. E-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com to tell about someone you know who is making a difference)
In response to readers' queries and offers of help, Soma Basu adds that the family has been adopted by the Madurai-based Chellamuthu Trust and all queries can be rooted through them at 0452-2586448 or firstname.lastname@example.com
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About Us
NEA Health Information Network is committed to student health and safety, and we believe that healthy students, healthy educators, and healthy learning environments are essential to great public schools. We support the "whole child," and we believe that all students deserve the academic and nonacademic supports required to succeed in school and in life.
Our Vision
Every student and educator is healthy, safe, and ready to succeed.
Our Mission
To empower educators to champion safe and healthy schools where students thrive. To support learning, we address critical health and safety needs, bringing together the best in:
• public health and health care practice,
• active partnerships, and
• insights and actions of a national network of NEA members.
We work with educator leaders to build school-based solutions that improve the health and safety of students, educators, and school environments.
1. An engaged and active NEA member network that provides leadership and works with community partners to advocate for the health and safety of students, educators, and the school environment.
2. Improved student, educator, and school health and safety.
Our Values
These principles guide our work and define our mission:
• Social Justice—we believe in the equity of access to health and safety. We are committed to furthering the respect for the worth, dignity, and equality of every individual in our diverse society.
• Professionalism— we believe that success is driven by integrity, transparent and collaborative communications, and effective program design. We are committed to the highest level of efficiency, quality delivery, responsiveness, and service.
• Partnership—we believe that work is done best in collaboration with others. We are committed to actively seek the partnerships of educators, parents, families, health care professionals, and other stakeholders essential to realizing success.
• Innovation—we believe that, in a constantly changing world, we must be constant learners, flexible, and ready to adapt. We are committed to innovating in order to find quality health and safety solutions that empower educators and that help students achieve their highest potential.
• Knowledge—we believe in accessing and applying the best available data to inform our programs. We are evidence-driven and research-based, committed to measuring the progress and impact of our work in order to strengthen our program designs.
Helping Members and Students to Make Good Health Choices
Helping Educators to Bag Junk Food in Their Schools
Tired of seeing junk foods and sugary beverages in school stores, vending machines, and cafeteria à la carte lines? Studies show that restricting sales of unhealthy snacks and beverages in schools can improve children's diets, reduce weight gain, and even increase school food service revenues. That's why NEA HIN launched BagtheJunk.org, a new resource to educate, mobilize, and empower the school community to replace junk snack foods and sugary drinks sold in schools with healthier options. The site features advocacy tools such as organizing tips, policy briefs, fact sheets, and sample letters along with current news, trends, and thoughts from experts in the field. Hungry for more? Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest!
Fighting Child Hunger with Breakfast in the Classroom
There are more than 25 million children in our nation's public schools, many of whom come to school hungry. That's why NEA HIN works in partnership with the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC), National Association of Elementary School Principals Foundation (NAESPF), and School Nutrition Foundation (SNF) – collectively known as Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom (PBIC). NEA HIN collaborates with NEA local leadership, school teachers and education support staff to implement the program. NEA HIN offers training for school employees and provides a BIC toolkit to teachers and education support staff. During the 2011-12 school year, NEA HIN worked with partners in 10 school districts to deliver breakfast to 20,000 additional students. Through the program, a total of 70,000 students in 12 states and 13 school districts will benefit from Breakfast in the Classroom.
Helping Students Live Healthy Lives
All students should live healthy. That's why NEA HIN provides free instructional materials to support educators' efforts to teach students in grades K-3 about healthy living. The Healthy Steps for Healthy Lives kit provides a guide featuring 14 instructional activities, a MyPlate poster offering visual examples of healthy living, and food cards identifying the five food groups. Lessons feature a "modifications" section to enable educators to tailor the activities for their classrooms and are aligned to federal nutrition guidelines. Grouped by three themes – THINK Healthy, EAT Healthy, and MOVE Healthy - the versatile program includes activities that address multiple learning styles and utilize a mixture of grouping structures. Healthy Steps for Healthy Lives is tied to national curriculum standards in all academic content areas for grades K-3.
Helping Educators Stop Students from Abusing Prescription Drugs
One in four teenagers reports taking a prescription drug not prescribed by a doctor. Rx for Understanding, 10 cross-curricular lessons for middle school students, aims to equip students with the decision-making skills they need to avoid the dangers of abusing prescription drugs. Aligned with the National Health Education Standards and Common Core State Standards, Rx for Understanding contains five sequenced lessons for grades 5 – 6 and five sequenced lessons for grades 7– 8. Each set of lessons acts as a mini-unit. The lessons can be organized to match curriculum standards. Materials are available in hard copy or as a free PDF download.
Supporting Safe & Healthy School Environments
Helping School Employees Prevent & Manage Food Allergies
Is there a plan in place at your school to handle a food allergy emergency? NEAHIN and the U.S. Department of Agriculture have released, Food Allergies: What School Employees Need to Know. All school staff - bus drivers, teachers, paraeducators, custodians, and food service workers - should understand food allergies and the role of school employees to help prevent and manage food allergic reactions. The booklet provides information on the signs and symptoms of food allergy reactions, how to respond to food allergy emergencies, and how to prevent reactions by creating allergen-friendly classrooms, through proper cleaning and other strategies. NEA HIN offers printed and online booklets for free, in English and Spanish. Click here to download the booklet or order a hard copy.
Helping School Employees Prepare for and Navigate School Crises
The NEA HIN school safety program assists NEA members with school emergency preparedness, response, and recovery. NEA HIN works directly with state and local affiliates to help prepare for emergencies and to facilitate immediate, effective, and appropriate crisis response. The program covers incidents that significantly disrupt learning environments (PK-12 and higher education) both on campus and at sanctioned events. Incidents have included acts of terrorism, natural disasters, school shootings, suicides, and school bus accidents. NEA HIN has responded to over 100 different crises. NEA HIN provides resources to educators on preparedness, response, recovery, and effective communication through its Crisis Guide.


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In Parker v. Lyons, 2013 WL 1624336 (C.D. Ill. 2013), a candidate filed a nominating petition with the requisite number of signatures and was later served with a quo warranto action by the State's Attorney. The quo warranto action alleged that the candidate's prior felony theft conviction made him ineligible to hold a school board seat under Illinois law and sought to have the candidate's name removed from the ballot. The circuit court enjoined the candidate from running and ordered that his name be removed from the ballot. The candidate then filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois.
Specifically, the candidate alleged that the State's Attorney "selectively targeted" him with a "rarely-used enforcement mechanism" because of his reputation in the community. The Court held that the candidate could not challenge the State's Attorney's decision. Applying the reasoning described in Enquist v. Oregon Department of Agriculture, a U.S. Supreme Court case, the Court stated that the decision of what actions to commence is an exercise of discretion on the part of the States Attorney.
The candidate's second claim alleged that, as a black male, he was subjected to race discrimination when he was removed from the election in order to preserve a white majority on the school board. The Court found that this claim survived the motion to dismiss because the candidate alleged the circumstances leading to his discrimination claim in detail. The third claim alleged that the Illinois law preventing an individual with a prior felony conviction from running for school board violated the First, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments. The Court found that the candidate adequately pled this allegation with respect to the First and Fourteenth Amendments, stating that the claim is plausible. We will provide updates as this case develops.
* Caitlyn Sharrow, a second-year law student at Loyola University Chicago School of Law, is a Loyola Education Practicum Student. The Practicum, part of Loyola's education law curriculum, was created to provide law students with practical experience at education law firms and organizations. Students receive academic credit for their Practicum experience.
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text: Healthy Recipes Apple-Walnut Rice Recipe E-mail recipe Print recipe To save this recipe, register now! Quick Info: Servings Quick Meal Contains Nuts GERD-Friendly Heart-Healthy Nutritional Info (Per serving): Calories: 220, Saturated Fat: 1g, Sodium: 150mg, Dietary Fiber: 2g, Total Fat: 8g, Carbs: 35g, Cholesterol: 0mg, Protein: 4g Carb Choices: 2.5 Recipe Source: Prep Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 25 mins Total Time: 35 mins Ingredients 3/8 cup(s) rice, brown 1/2 cup(s) water 8 teaspoon wine, white 8 teaspoon juice, apple 1 teaspoon margarine with plant sterols, Plant Sterol (e.g. Take Control, Benecol, etc.) 3 1/2 tablespoon apple(s), chopped 2 tablespoon nuts, walnuts, chopped Preparation 1. Combine rice, water, wine, apple juice, and margarine in a 2-1/2- to 3-quart saucepan. Bring to a boil; stir once or twice. 2. Reduce heat, cover, and simmer 15 minutes, or until rice is tender and liquid is absorbed. 3. Add apple and walnuts. Fluff with fork. E-mail recipe Print recipe To save this recipe, register now!


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I think the issue is based on power consumption. By flipping the BIOS switch, you significantly increase the power draw to the card. There are PSU's out there that would not be able to handle the load, thus creating an unstable experience. Without that switch being flipped, the chances of such a thing happening are completely determined by the PSU itself. In that case, the only solution is to get a better PSU.
They're probably voiding the warranty because they don't want people simply returning the card because their PSU isn't up to snuff and take that mistake for their card being defective and returning it. It's all about maximizing profits.
That's actually another beef i have with both cards to be honest, as the GTX590 is rated at 365 watts TDP and the HD6990 is at 375 watts TDP and this is at stock clocks for both cards, so once overclocked, they'll both go well north of 400, maybe even beyond 450 watts wich is just insane in terms of dissipating that kind of heat and keeping either card quiet with the stock cooling,.
But more to the point, they only use a pair of 8 Pin PCI-e power connectors, wich along with the 75 watts provided by the PCI-e slot itself totals 375 watts in total....So where is the extra power coming from especially when you overclock both of them?....I know they both use advanced power management features that work with the drivers to minimize power draw to the absolute minimum requirement needed, but still, any Power supply is going to be pushed pretty hard here, as they're usually rated for 25 amps per 12 volt rail, wich totals 300 watts, and each pair of PCI-e connectors (6 + 8 pin), usually uses a single dedicated rail.
There's only a few power supplies that don't use multiple 12 volt rails in their design, and one that comes to mind is the silverstone zeus series, wich uses a single massive 90 amp rail for the 12 volt line(1080 watts), but they are expensive....
The one thing i like is what Asus did with the ARES series of cards, specifically the HD5970 version that also packs 4 GB of ram(2 per GPU of course), but they designed their own PCB for this one, and in this case using 3 PCI-e power connectors(8 + 8 + 6 pin setup), so that the cards have at least 450 watts provided to them....They knew they had a power hog on their hands and designed to power delivery accordingly...
That didn't happen with the GTX590 or the HD6990 cards though, and the PCI-e spec also allows for triple slot coolers to also lower temperatures and less noise since the fans don't need to turn as fast as they do(especially with the HD6990) given the heatsink's larger surface area...
In short, both these cards overstep the reasonable limits even for hardware enthusiasts in terms of power use, thermals and noise, and i wouldn't even think of buying either one without imediately going the water cooling route, since that at least solves 2 or the 3 problems, even though i have to spend a fair amount more money extra and more work setting that up as well.....
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Online video goes mainstream in Asia Pacific.
Across much of Asia and the world, online video consumption has become nearly synonymous with Web usage. Of the six markets in the Asia-Pacific region currently reported in comScore Video Metrix, nearly all see more than 80 percent of their online audiences watching online video.
Not only does online video reach a large number of visitors, but it is also one of the most engaging online activities. In Japan, viewers spend nearly 17 hours a month consuming video with double-digit hours also spent in Hong Kong (12.7 hours) and Singapore (10.4 hours). As high-speed broadband continues to gain adoption enhancing the user experience, it is expected that visitors will continue to consume more video content online.
Online Video Goes Mainstream
Online video used to be considered an activity largely for younger users, but as content options have continued to expand, online video viewing has become ubiquitous across demographic segments. A look across Singapore, Hong Kong, and Malaysia revealed that although there are higher engagement rates among some segments, online video viewing is no longer dominated by a single age group of users. Malaysia experienced the greatest disparity in demographic usage with viewers age 15-24 accounting for 39 percent of video viewers in July.
In terms of viewer engagement, viewers age 15-24 represented the most "tuned in" segment across the three markets. Hong Kong saw viewers in this segment consume more than 20 hours of online video during the month, with Singapore viewers 15-24 watching nearly 15 hours per month. Interestingly in each market, visitors age 55 and older represented another strong segment of engaged users.
Although each market has its unique demographic patterns, it's important to note that online video viewing is a mainstream Web activity with a far reach and engaging quality.
Online Video and TV: What's Next
There is no doubt that video will continue to play a strong role in the online consumer experience. In an arena that was once dominated by user generated content, online video is maturing considerably as a medium with more professionally produced content – including broadcast TV content – capturing consumers' attention, and shifting the dynamics of "where, when, and how" people consume video content.
In Singapore, MediaCorp recently launched xinMSN with Microsoft and offers users the ability to catch up on the broadcast local shows that they have missed. Media Prima in Malaysia, the largest free-to-air TV stations, has offered "catch-up TV" since last year and just launched Tonton for video-on-demand over the Web. There are other similar plans in the region.
Where will these initiatives lead? A look at cross-platform TV viewing in the more matured U.S. showed that 35 percent of viewers are either cross-platform (Internet and traditional television) or online-TV viewers only as the dynamics of TV-viewing continue to change with a growing number of content options available online.
Broadly, audiences are increasingly enjoying the option of tuning in to their favorite scripted TV programs online because they value freedom and personal empowerment. This has both a time and a space component - in time, with on demand viewing on one's own schedule, and in space, with the convenience of watching wherever you want, and on the screen that is most convenient to you.
What will be important for the industry is how to effectively monetise online video content, an area that is still in its infancy. Questions such as which types of video ads are most effective, the debate on the free versus paid model for content viewing, and the cross-platform synergies that exist will be important for the industry to address as the online video space continues to evolve.
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