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tempest (tèm´pîst) noun
1.A violent windstorm, frequently accompanied by rain, snow, or hail.
2.Furious agitation, commotion, or tumult; an uproar: "The tempest in my mind/Doth from my senses take all feeling" (Shakespeare).

verb, transitive
tempested, tempesting, tempests
To cause a tempest around or in.

- idiom.
tempest in a teacup or  tempest in a teapot
A great disturbance or uproar over a matter of little or no importance.

[Middle English, from Old French tempeste, from Vulgar Latin *tempesta, variant of Latin tempestâs, from tempus, time.]

TEMPEST [Transient ElectroMagnetic Pulse Surveillance Technology]-
Military espionage technology which reads the ones and zeros emitted by a computer monitor from as much as a kilometer away.

Truth

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth . . . and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English philosopher, essayist, statesman. Essays, "Of Truth" (1597-1625).

• 604 track _Tempest (Union Jack Remix)_ MP3 by Salamander
• acid techno track _Evil Tempest_ MP3 (192k) by Mundo Muzique off of _Synewave New York Volume 1_ compilation CD on Kickin #027 (1995)
• drum & bass release by Vector Burn off of _Promised Tomorrow/Flame Surfacing_ MP3 (56k) 12" on Critical Recordings #002 (2002)
• indie rock emo track _Tempest_ MP3 (192k) by Cursive off of _The Storms Of Early Summer: Semantics Of Song_ on LBJ (1998)
• IDM techno rave track _Tempest_ MP3 by Edge Of Motion off of _Ad Hoc_ 12"x2 on  100% Pure #002 (1996)
• dark ambient tribal progressive electronic track _Heart Of The Tempest_ MP3 by Steve Roach off of _On This Planet_ on Fathom (1997)

• video (mpg)(55.6megs) for _Subdivisions_ MP3 by Rush off of _Signals_ (1982) features kid playing _Tempest_ arcade game

the first popular color vector graphics arcade game - released by Atari

• (the first popular vector graphics arcade game was _Asteroids_, also by Atari
• Q: Why do you think Tempest became such a 'cult' game? A: Feeling of total immersion, almost like a trance or zenstate, you get into when playing it. - the programmer for Tempest

Year: 1980

Orientation: Vertical
Type: Vector
CRT: Color
19-inch Wells-Gardner 19K6100

 Conversion Class: unique
Number of Simultaneous Players: 1
Maximum number of Players: 2
Gameplay: Alternating
Control Panel Layout: Single Player
Controls:
Rotary: Optical
Buttons: 2 - Fire, Superzap

Sound: Unamplified Mono (requires one-channel amp)

You control a yellow crab-shaped shooter that travels along the outside rim of a  3-dimensional tunnel, shooting enemies down the alleys of the tunnel while avoiding  any coming down the alleys. The tunnel takes on many different forms, and the  shooter has a special "superzapper" that enables it to kill all enemies present in the tunnel.

The game is well known for its unusual triangular-shaped cabinet that is very pleasing to the eye. A less attractive cabaret and cocktail model were also produced.

Originally called Vortex in the prototype stages, this was Atari's first color vector game. Supposedly, the original creators were trying to develop a 3-D monster game.  They were not very happy with the finished product since they wanted even better graphics but were unable to achieve their goal with the technology at the time.

• play, _The Tempest_ by William Shakespeare.  inspired late fifties sci-fi classic film _Forbidden Planet_ starring Leslie Nielson.  this film was the first to use a soundtrack that contained electronic instruments exclusively, with prominent use of the Theremin.

• Miranda was the name of the daughter of Prospero, the magician

1 The Book of Water.
This is a waterproof-covered book which has lost its colour by much contact with water. It is full of investigative drawings and exploratory text written on many different thicknesses of paper.

There are drawings of every conceivable watery association - seas, tempests, rain, snow, clouds, lakes, waterfalls, streams, canals, water-mills, shipwrecks, floods and tears. As the pages are turned, the watery elements are often animated. There are rippling waves and slanting storms. Rivers and cataracts flow and bubble. Plans of hydraulic machinery and maps of weather-forecasting  flicker with arrows, symbols and agitated diagrams. The drawings are all made by one hand. Perhaps this is a lost collection of drawings by da Vinci bound into a book by the King of France at Ambois and bought by the Milanese Dukes to give to Prospero as a wedding present.

William Shakespeare
The Tempest

2 A Book of Mirrors

Bound in a gold cloth and very heavy, this book has some eighty shining mirrored pages; some opaque, some translucent, some manufactured with silvered papers, some coated in paint, some covered in a film of mercury that will roll off the page unless treated cautiously. Some mirrors
simply reflect the reader, some reflect the reader as he was three minutes previously, some reflect the reader as he will be in a year's time, as he would be if he were a child, a woman, a monster, an idea, a text or an angel. One mirror constantly lies, one mirror sees the world backwards, another upside down. One mirror holds on to its reflections as frozen momentsinfinitely recalled. One mirror simply reflects another mirror across a page. There are ten mirrors whose purpose Prospero has yet to define.

William Shakespeare
The Tempest
 (passages from the film _Prospero's Books_ (vhs/ntsc) directed by Peter Greenaway)

the cherub from _Prospero's Books_ appears in the video (vhs/ntsc) for _378_ by Emergency Broadcast Network off of _Telecommunications Breakdown_ (a reference to Led Zeppelin's _Communication Breakdown_ MP3) CDPlus  on TVT (1995) alongside the Dalai Lama

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