The ship only has two phaser arrays, one on each 'wing', and (possibly) a photon tube to either side of the forward hull. That is below the level of even a light cruiser in terms of weaponry, so I would have to classify this as a gunboat/runabout vessel. Certainly, it has notable phaser blindspots forward and aft, which mean it isn't designed primarily as a combat ship.
The lack of viewports means the crew are flying completely by sensors alone. Not a problem for a starship (where travel is too quick for normal viewports to be worth anything except for orbital observation, backup docking assistance, and general crew piece of mind), but the general shape of the hull, along with intakes and the above mentioned weapons level of the ship makes it a problem for a runabout. Such a ship must sometimes land on a planet (and this one is especially shaped and equipped for that), which makes having the pilot be able to use direct visual contact with their surroundings an important factor.
The warp nacelles are mounted directly to/in the hull, in close proximity to the crew. This is dangerous, and normally only found in low-power civilian vessels, alien ships whose designers do not have the same standards of safety as the main galactic powers, or when combat conditions make the protection afforded by the hull worth the tradeoff in risk to the crew. Thus, this ship seems designed for heavy combat, but there is an inconsistency here. If it is a runabout-class ship, the protection offered by the hull is too minor for the risk involved, and if it is a full starship, the weaponry is too light for the kind of combat making the warp engines hull-mounted would be worthwhile for.
Finally, the design is definitely not Human (which form the basis of most Starfleet designs..i.e. saucer and pyloned warp nacelles), so this would more likely be a result of alien design being used by Starfleet. I believe the Marquis might use a design like this, but I would have to look to see which race uses this kind of hull configuration. Maybe a Rigellian design?
I agree with others. The lack of anything to judge the scale makes it difficult to make an accurate evaluation as we don't know what it's supposed to be. My observations are above, but if you intended this to be a full starship instead of a runabout-type ship, I think it would need context.
My two cents.
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Ahmet Kamil Erozan, a member of the opposition Good Party, has criticized the country’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, for treating the process of this expansion of the military alliance as a matter of domestic politics. “Most likely, Sweden’s accession will also be approved after the elections,” he said, referring to the general elections called for May 14.
Only the pro-Kurdish opposition party Popular Democracy (HDP) has abstained from participating in the vote due to its position of fundamental rejection of all military and arms agreements, as explained by Hisyar Ozsoy, one of its deputies. On the other hand, Oszoy has accused the Government of having blackmailed Finland and Sweden, and of forcing Sweden to act against its own laws to deport the Kurdish asylum seekers in that country.
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The BBC has snapped up a new sitcom from Benidorm creator Derren Litten, fronted by former Coronation Street star Katherine Kelly, comedian Jason Manford and veteran actress Stephanie Cole.
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The BBC has also given the go-ahead to a new sitcom pilot from the creative team behind the Bafta award winning Murder in Successville.
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Katie Alfiere delivered a two-out single in the third inning to score two runs and back the three-hit pitching of Kelley Mollor as Woodland edged Holy Cross, 2-1, Monday in the first round of the Naugatuck Valley League tournament.
Mollor struck out 13 and walked only two as the Hawks (18-3) advanced to a semifinal game against Naugatuck today at 4 p.m. at Wolcott.
Aubrey Roulanaitis singled to start Woodland’s rally. Danielle Dickman followed with a single and stole second, and Alfiere’s hit up the middle brought them both home.
Holy Cross scored in the sixth inning on Olivia McGrath’s RBI single with two outs. McGrath also pitched a five-hitter with nine strikeouts and three walks for Holy Cross (11-10).
Watertown 12, Ansonia 0: Emily O’Connor held Ansonia to three hits while walking one and striking out 10 as the Tribe advanced to the NVL semifinals with the victory in Beacon Falls.
The Tribe banged out 14 hits, led by Trish Kowalski (3-5, two runs), Kelly Blake (2-5) and Nikki Mitchell (single). Each had two RBI for Watertown (12-9), while Ali Chapman and Nicole Mancinone both contributed two hits and an RBI.
Kaynor Tech 6, Norwich Tech 4: Ashley Martinez stroked a two-run single and Vanessa Stanislawski added an RBI triple as the Panthers advanced to the semifinals of the CSC tournament.
Amelia Gonzalez added a double and a triple, and Natalie Kight chipped in with an RBI single for Kaynor (14-2).
Northwestern 5, Terryville 3: Nikki Penn’s three-run home run in the top of the fifth inning proved to be the game-winning hit as the Northwestern Regional softball team clinched its first Berkshire League title since 1994 with a 5-3 win over Terryville on Monday.
Penn’s homer scored Sarah Lippincott and Lauryn Alibozek.
Alibozek, the winning pitcher, had two hits in the game for Northwestern, which improved to 18-1 with two games to play. The Highlanders clinched the title because both Terryville and Lewis Mills have four losses.
Terryville (14-4) was led by Ashley Hogan with two hits, Beth Grimes with a two-run homer and Taryn Vigeant with an RBI single.
The last time that Northwestern won the BL was when current coach Stacey Zematis was a senior with the Highlanders.
“It’s kind of neat to be coaching and win the Berkshire League,” Zematis said. “The girls are ecstatic. It’s great, because these girls really worked hard for this, and they deserve it. It is not like anything was handed to them and it is not like it was just one or two All-Stars who won it for us.”
Lewis Mills 11, Nonnewaug 5: Patty Clark went 3-for-5 with a pair of doubles and three RBI, and Molly Spargo had two hits and two RBI to lead the Spartans in Woodbury. Emily Bohmer went the distance for Mills (15-4), striking out 15. She also had two hits and drove in two runs.
Kelly Garrett led Nonnewaug (10-9) with a single, triple and two RBI. Becca LoRusso added a single, triple and an RBI and Sam Therault had a single, double and an RBI.
Housatonic 16, Wolcott Tech 1: The Mountaineers (8-11) qualified for the state tournament as they pounded out nine hits.
Ashley Washburn led the way with a two-run double and a single and a total of three RBI, while Jackie Underwood doubled, singled and drove in a run, and Genevieve Terrall collected two singles and two RBI.
For Wolcott Tech (0-18), Jen Smith singled twice.
Litchfield 10, Shepaug 3: Devan Meeker allowed only four hits on the mound and collected four hits at the plate to lead the Cowgirls (11-7). Sara Jeanfavre had three hits, scored twice and drove in four runs, and Camille Richards went 3-for-3 with an RBI and a run.
For Shepaug (8-11), Paige Neukom had two hits and an RBI, and Alexa Hopkins had a hit and two RBI.
The Spartans turned a triple play in the seventh inning. With the bases loaded, Hopkins caught a fly ball in left field. She threw home, but it was cut off by Meeker, who threw to second base to double up the runner.
Second baseman Nicole Hartman then threw to catcher Megan Piersall, who tagged out the runner trying to score from third base.
Gilbert 8, Wamogo 1: Jessica Shotwell struck out 13, and Emily Griswold had two hits and an RBI for the Yellowjackets in Winsted.
Nikki Hoxie and Jen Fritch both had a hit and scored two runs, and Wizza Miller had a hit, an RBI and a run scored for Gilbert (6-12).
For Wamogo (2-16), Megan Murray and Jamie Squires both had two hits and Robin Kohout tripled and scored.


“We’re very competitive,” said Abdul “Duke” Fakir, of the Four Tops. “That’s the way Motown was built. Basically we competed all the while. But we competed in a wonderful way – brother against brother.”
Fakir and Otis Williams, his opposite number in The Temptations, will be renewing their rivalry for the best tunes on Broadway this winter for a seven-concert stand between Dec. 29-Jan. 4 at the Palace Theatre.
The two men are the only surviving original members of their groups. “Him and I are in the same position,” said Williams. “Him and I are the last remaining members of our respective groups. We have love for each other.”
The Temptations had hits with “The Way You Do The Things You Do,” ‘‘My Girl,” ‘‘Get Ready” and “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg.” The Four Tops are known for “I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch),” ‘‘Baby I Need Your Lovin’,” ‘‘Reach Out (I’ll Be There)” and “Standing In the Shadows (of Love).”
“I never would have imagined that I’d still be here singing songs that are half my age,” joked the 73-year-old Williams. “Those songs feel fantastic even if it is 60 years later.”
The two groups tour often and were last on Broadway in 1986. Their concerts are part nostalgia and part education, reminding the audience of the Motown sound and celebrating such songwriters as Lamont Dozier and brothers Brian Holland and Eddie Holland.
“I’m very committed on keeping the legacy as strong as possible and hopefully to strengthen it,” said Fakir, 78. “We can only be ourselves, be the best we can and come out swinging.”
The songs they’ll sing are part of modern music’s DNA and the men credit their timelessness to having a story to tell and a great groove. “You have some great music and some great lyrics, and all you have to do is just sing it and just let it flow,” said Fakir.
Both were more critical when it came to discussing today’s music, with Williams admitting, “I’m not that impressed with some of the stuff that I hear on the radio.” As for Fakir, the anger and personal attacks he hears in rap and pop are a turn-off: “The more disrespectful you are, the better they like it. It’s just changing times. That’s the way of the world.”
One irony of their upcoming Broadway concert series is that it will take place not far from the show “Motown,” about Berry Gordy’s Motown Records which features songs from both groups. Fakir and Williams have both seen the musical several times and like it.
“It just shows the greatness of Motown that we can be right down the block from the ‘Motown’ show,” said Williams. “You can leave that theater and come to our theater and see us do it in person.”


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• This information may end up being worth exactly what you paid for it, but I’ll pass it along anyway. There are definitely rumors out there that Chick-fil-A is scouting Lawrence for a location for a new store. Whether the rumors are true or not, is another matter. But I’ve heard from multiple sources now that Chick-fil-A is considering sites on Sixth Street and on 23rd Street. But, if I had a dollar for every time I heard a Chick-fil-A rumor, I would be able to buy several Chick-fil-A sandwiches. But I decided to pass this one along because the rumor seems to be gaining steam, and if you can’t dream about a Chick-fil-A on a Friday, when can you dream about one?
• Lawrence Public Library leaders are doing more than dreaming about raising $1 million to help expand the downtown library. Kathleen Morgan, development director for the Lawrence Public Library Foundation, confirmed that the campaign has raised all but $158,000 of its $1 million goal. Morgan also confirmed that the approximately $220,000 in state tax credits that the project has been awarded have been snapped up by donors. I think there also may be some news coming on possible naming rights for portions of the library. I’ll poke around some more on that.
I also mention the $1 million fundraising campaign because I still get some questions about why the library expansion project is now often referred to as a $19 million project when voters approved $18 million. Well, the $1 million in private fundraising is the answer. The private fundraising component was always part of the plan, and we had reported that at various times. But during most of the campaign, we did refer to the project as an $18 million project because that is how much taxpayers will be liable for. Recently, I’ve started calling it a $19 million project so people understand the full extent. I know, it sounds like the type of trick my wife tries to pull on me each month when the monthly chocolate bill comes in the mail, but really, it is not anything like that. Sorry, if I’ve created confusion. (What? You don’t get a monthly chocolate bill?)
• I’m wondering what you think of the idea of the Lawrence Public Library perhaps finding a temporary home while its downtown facility undergoes an expansion. That idea was floated at Thursday’s library board meeting. The current plan is for the library to stay at its existing location at Seventh and Vermont and have construction crews work around them. But architects have said if the library moved to a temporary home it might cut the 24-month construction project in half. The chair of the library board indicated the group may consider such a move, but said if the temporary space wasn’t downtown that could be a problem. I’m wondering what you think about that. Does a temporary space for the library have to be downtown or could it be in one of the vacant buildings on the edge of the community? It should be an interesting discussion. City commissioners likely will receive a presentation from architects about that issue and others at their Nov. 1 meeting.
I’m guessing the Borders location at Seventh and New Hampshire streets will get some discussion as a possible temporary home. One library board member, though, indicated she had heard that space likely wouldn’t be available. I’ve been doing some checking and haven’t heard of a tenant being found for the Borders location once the Halloween store vacates the space after the season is over. But perhaps that has changed. I’ve got some calls out on that. But it also could be that the Borders folks don’t want to take the building off the market for the 12 to 18 months that would be necessary to accommodate the library. I’m guessing that the vacant space in the former Riverfront Mall also may get some discussion. (Full disclosure: Members of the Simons family, which owns the Journal-World and this Web site, have an ownership interest in the Riverfront property.)
UPDATE: I talked to the broker for the Borders property. He confirmed that he does not yet have a tenant lined up for the Borders space once the Halloween store closes for the season. He also said his group wouldn't rule out talking to the library about temporary space, if city leaders decide to move in that direction.
• Look for more lighting changes in Downtown Lawrence. As we previously reported, the city used about $170,000 in federal stimulus funds to install LED street lights on part of Massachusetts Street in downtown. But that amount was only enough to do about half the lights on Mass. Well, now the city thinks it has figured out a way to do the rest of the lighting project using federal funds. The city has about $150,000 left over from the $858,000 federal grant — which also paid for part of the sustainability coordinator’s salary and new heating and cooling systems at the public library. Originally the city had planned on using that $150,000 to upgrade lighting at the library. But delays in finalizing the design for the expansion of the library has screwed up the timing of that project. The city needs to spend the federal dollars or risk losing them. Now, the city is proposing to use the $150,000 to complete the rest of the downtown lighting project. The city thinks it will be a good investment. After one month’s operation with the new LED lights, the city is estimating that the lights save about 16 percent on energy use. City commissioners are scheduled to approve moving ahead with the lighting project at their meeting on Tuesday night.


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Her daily routine was to attend Mass, write in the morning, then spend the rest of the day recuperating and reading. Everything That Rises Must Converge written. In "A View of the Woods" we read of trees that are described as "sullen" and "gaunt ," of "threadbare" clouds, and "indifferent" weather. Kennedy in and supporting the work of Martin Luther King Jr.
Wise Blood completed and published. Thus, as the bitter Mrs. Friedman and Lewis A. In this period, the notion of grotesque is expanded to include the good as grotesque, and the grotesque as good.
She described her peacocks in an essay entitled "The King of the Birds".
The Bulletin, and The Southern Cross. Yet he winds up becoming a kind of Christ figure when he is crushed by a tractor that is "allowed" to roll over him, essentially crucifying him.
Usually the character "recognizes his need for repentance and either accepts or ignores the opportunity. In this way, her writing is intrinsically esoteric, in that it contains knowledge that is hidden to all but those who have been instructed as to how and where to look for it, i.
Young Flannery attended St. In reality, her writing is filled with meaning and symbolism, hidden in plain sight beneath a seamless narrative style that breathes not a word of agenda, of dogma, or of personal belief.
He had often had the illusion that it was in motion and about to descend mysteriously and set the icicle on his head. Along with her more conservative Catholic detractors mentioned abovewho find, as critic Melvin J. Note these last lines from "The Enduring Chill": I was just there to assist the chicken but it was the high point in my life.
Politically, she maintained a broadly liberal outlook in connection with her faith, voting for John F. It is reflexive, in that it is no longer necessary, as it once was, some years ago, when the study of literature still sought legitimacy among the accepted academic disciplines.
Everything since has been an anticlimax. She is facing death. However, the fact that this does nothing to save her, that she is immediately shot for her trouble, is where the reader is likely to be thrown off. From throughshe wrote more than one hundred book reviews for two Catholic diocesan newspapers in Georgia: He later published several of her stories in the Sewanee Review, as well as critical essays on her work.
Turpin and then proceeds to throttle her severely. Belief, in my own case anyway, is the engine that makes perception operate.
He closed his eyes and thought: I was in it too with the chicken. In the case of the Polish immigrant Guizac in "The Displaced Person," it is his foreignness, the fact that he is an outsider perceived as a threat by the various rural types in the story, that makes him a freak.
Parker for Obadiah Elihue, a prophet and a friend of Job respectivelyMr.The best opinions, comments and analysis from The Telegraph.  kwjWXajbWjnQta 投稿者：Archie 投稿日：/10/13(Mon) More or less not much going on worth mentioning.
Pretty much nothing seems worth. The Dark Side of the Cross: Flannery O'Connor's Short Fiction by Patrick Galloway. Introduction. To the uninitiated, the writing of Flannery O'Connor can seem at once cold and dispassionate, as well as almost absurdly stark and violent.
Mary Flannery O'Connor (March 25, – August 3, ) was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist. She wrote two novels and thirty-two short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries. She was a Southern writer who often wrote in a sardonic Southern Gothic style and relied heavily on regional settings and .Download

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text: Glacier outburst floods are a major hazard in glacierized catchments. Global analyses have shown reduced frequency of glacier floods over recent decades but there is limited longer-term data on event magnitude and frequency. Here, we present a Holocene palaeoflood record from the Río Baker (Chilean Patagonia), quantifying the discharge and timing of glacier floods over millennial timescales. A catastrophic flood of 110,000 m3/s (0.11 Sv) occurred at 9.6 ± 0.8 ka, during final stages of the Late Glacial Interglacial Transition, followed by five flood-phases coeval or post-dating Holocene neoglacials. Highest flood frequencies occurred at 4.2-4.4 ka, with 26 floods of minimum discharges of 10,000-11,000 m3/s, and 0.6 ka with 10 floods exceeding 4600-5700 m3/s. The largest modern outburst flood recorded surpassed ~3810 m3/s. Thus glacier flood magnitude declines from the order of 0.1 to 0.01 Sv over the Early to Mid Holocene, and to 0.001 Sv in the instrumental record.

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UK broadcaster CITV has commissioned ITV Studios and New Zealand-based Pukeko Pictures to make a second series of Thunderbirds Are Go, even before the first has premiered.
News of the second commission breaks just as the official web site for the show is launched at www.thunderbirds.com (You haven’t missed much – but you can sign up for the show’s newsletter).
The second 26 x 30’ series of Thunderbirds Are Go, which is reinvention of the original 1960s series co-created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, will air in 2016 and 2017. The first series is set to premiere on ITV and CITV in spring 2015.
“The unique mix of CGI animation and incredible model sets gives each episode of Thunderbirds Are Go a theatrical feel rarely seen in children’s TV that has generated huge interest globally,” enthused Steve Green, EVP, kids’ content and distribution at ITV Studios Global Entertainment. “Having 52 episodes of this quality takes our discussions to a new level.”
ITV Studios Global Entertainment has pre-sold the series to international broadcasters including TVNZ in New Zealand, Australia’s Nine Network, Noga in Israel and pan-Arab broadcaster MBC. A 52-episode run is very likely to make the series more attractive to potential US buyers, which would confirm its expected commercial success.
“I’m delighted to confirm that a second series of Thunderbirds Are Go has been commissioned,” added Jamila Metran, head of programming for CITV. “We are so excited for the launch of our reboot of the iconic children’s show and look forward to bringing the adventures of the five Tracy brothers to our audiences in 2015.”
As we’ve previously reported, a number of licenses for the show have been agreed, including one for a new magazine and annual, published by DC Thomson, toys from Vivid Imaginations and a series of activity, novelty, sticker and storybooks that will be available across both print and digital formats from Simon & Schuster.


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Recently, in the Guardian, Naomi Wolf did magic.
She concocted up a frothing, delicious right-wing theory of government conspiracies and political crackdown using fairy dust made up of progressive narratives and good, old-fashioned paranoia of the privileged.
It is one thing to critique police brutality and Obama’s silence around it, and another thing entirely to “reveal” that OWS is being suppressed by government forces commanded by King Obama (from Australia) because OWS wants to (among other things) “draft laws against the little-known loophole that currently allows members of Congress to pass legislation affecting Delaware-based corporations in which they themselves are investors.” .
Baseless conspiracy theories that also happens to fall within the net of right-wing objectives and agendas. Naomi Wolf has the cultural capital within the progressive/liberal movement that allows her to go to right-wing rallies, make right-wing arguments and come off as a “brave, radical leftist” or something. Make no mistake, Naomi Wolf is our typical, white libertarian activist. Some wariness is much advised.
As ABL points out:
If Homeland Security, the FBI, and federal law enforcement officials were working in concert to violently crackdown on the Occupy movement, that would be a huge deal. If — as Naomi Wolf baselessly charged — the feds were being ordered to do so by Congress and the White House in order to protect their personal wealth, it would (and should) be a significant scandal.
ABL goes on to pull apart Naomi Wolf’s thinly stretched imagination with plenty of links and you know, information.
What I find annoying about Naomi Wolf’s article is essentially the same thing I found annoying about The Beauty Myth. This idea that police brutality and suppression just began yesterday against brave OWS protesters who are critiquing financial systems that benefit the rich.
Via San Francisco Bay View (a post also filled with that thing called information).
In the aftermath of police actions in NYC, Oakland and elsewhere, some justifiable outrage and even more hyperbole abounded. Scott Olsen, the injured Iraq War veteran who galvanized Occupy Oakland critiques of police action, was described in various blog posts as “the Crispus Attucks of the movement.” Never mind that he is white. Or alive.
A recent NYPD action that moved protesters off a public sidewalk and resulted in 20 arrests was described by an observer as “the most egregious violation of constitutional rights I have ever seen.”
Rodney King? Oscar Grant? Amadou Diallo? Sean Bell? Abner Louima? Troy Davis?
How many millions more?
And where you been?
“Those of us who do not have white skin are the most policed people on the planet. Oakland Police Department shoots unarmed Black men and takes white men who engage police in shootouts into custody alive.” – Rich Ejire
I am not really challenging OWS protesters’ courage, but there is something deeply privileged about “discovering” ages-old oppression (ex. police brutality) that people have been talking about since forever. (As Naomi Wolf recently gasped, “the scales fell from [her] eyes”!)
Instead of connecting these wrongs to existing power structures that repress people of colour, sexuality minorities and anyone who is perceived as weak, poor and disposable — these narratives instead feel the need to come up with entirely new explanations for their injustices. When in fact, these systems have been in place and humming smoothly for a very long time now and its only recently that college students, elderly white ladies and American war veterans are getting ensnared.

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Who contributes to making Pip the person he is in the end?supporting examples or quotes from the book to aid in the summation please.
More than anyone, Joe contributes to who Pip becomes. At first, Joe is a positive influence by telling Pip that he is "oncommon" and that he should not lie. After Pip moves to London and adopts a haughty attitude, Pip rejects Joe; yet, Joe's influence is present in Pip's rejection, for he feels guilty in his treatment of Joe. Always there is Joe, who represents the happiness and comfort of home. After being burned, Pip is carefully and lovingly tended by Joe, his father figure to whom Pip finally returns as a prodigal son, penitent for the years of rejection. "Ever the best of friends," Joe still tells Pip.
Another influence upon Pip is the convict Magwitch who places upon Pip his feelings of haunting guilt that lay upon him throughout the novel. Initially repulsed by Magwitch when the convict visits him in London years later to tell him he is the benefactor, Pip comes to realize the decency that is in the poor man of London streets who was a victim of his poverty. From Magwitch, Pip learns to appreciate the love that he does have; it is Magwitch's death that effects Pip's true maturity.
Pip's personality, like all of us, is formed from the many experiences and people he encounters in his life. Obviously, Joe contributes to Pip's caring and kindness. Even when Pip has been unkind to him, Joe takes care of Pip and pays his debts. Miss Havisham contributes to his expectations, She taunts him with Estella who contributes to both his sense of love and also abandonment. In addition, Magwitch makes it possible for Pip to have more "expectations" when he decides to make Pip a gentleman. This causes Pip to become more of a snob than a true gentleman. In the end, because of all of his experiences, he realizes who his true friends are when all of his "expectations" and money are gone. But that is the point of the book, which is really a coming=of-age novel.

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