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In anticipation of getting my eaglemoss Akira class ship this month (or next month, whatever)...I went and looked up some info on it, and have found alot of conflicting things (I know right?), different lengths, 15 torpedo tubes (why?), and that it was originally designed to house fighters or somesuch, when even if the length of the ship is 464 meters (which I think is the larger size estimate, some have been as small as 270 meters or something.) I just have a hard time Imagining this ship being a better "carrier" than a Galaxy or a Nebula Class ship, seeing as they both have absolutely massive main shuttlebays. Federation Peregrine Fighters aren't the smallest sci-fi fighter out there after all. I can kinda get with the gunboat thing, even though 15 torpedo tubes seems VERY fanwanky to me (I NEED the federation to have all the bestest ships ever!) Is there any official statements by the designer as to the tubes and the whole being a carrier thing? or is this speculation on the fans part? and if this ship is a carrier..where is the front hangar door? I don't see it...
Yes, that's all from Alex Jaeger, the designer. I have no problem with it, I like it, in fact. But I assume that those 15 tubes are slow, simple, robust tubes. Think of it like this: Il Duce in Boondock Saints wears a vest with a bunch of pistols, while most folks would carry a submachine gun. I figure the Akira can fire 15 torpedoes at once, at degraded fire control, but usually fires 3-5, just like the Galaxy & Sovereign do, but they put all 3-5 through one tube. This gives the more combat-intended Akira more back up capacity than the more exploration & multi-mission oriented Galaxy & Sovereign. And think of the Akira, not as a super-carrier, but as a Light Aviation Cruiser - like the Soviets, who built cruisers with a flight deck to add some aircraft. Figure your Akira is intended to bring a good punch and a little back up with a few fighters.
I guess if it was intended to be a carrier...I would still think it would be bigger than the Galaxy or the Sovereign...But if thats what the designer intended, then thats what it is...I just think its a poor design
I agree with you, Tribble puncher. Something like this seems more like what a carrier design should look like to me. Although I do like Darkwing's description and explanation of the Akira as a Light Aviation Cruiser (Or in this case, maybe Light Auxiliary Vessel Cruiser?)
Thanks for the good words. And I used the real world term to make my idea more clear, so yes, in trek it'd be more like you put it. I just didn't like it when people dismissed Jaeger's idea and tried to figure out how it could be what he said.
I always thought of the Akira-class as a heavy cruiser with about two or four torpedo launchers (15 just seemed way too fanboyish for me and I never bought into the idea of it being a carrier with dozens of fighters for the same reason). Sometimes even an original designer can get carried away, IMO...
Exactly, we have existing ships that are better carriers or battleships....Bigger Shuttlebay?= Nebula, Torpedo Cruiser?= Nebula. The Akira just based on the looks of her looks like a Miranda MK II, smaller versatile cruisers meant to be fielded in large numbers, probably as a replacement to the excelsior. really if the designer wanted it to be a viable carrier...it should have been over a thousand meters long, of course it would have upstaged the ent-e in the battle scenes in first contact, so that couldn't be permitted.
The Akira is roughly the same size of the Nebula, and if the majority of the Upper two decks are devoted to shuttle/fighter operations, it would be fine. I have always assumed that the fifteen launchers were more like micro-launchers and they were used as anti-fighter emplacements.
Remember, too, "carrier" doesn't have to mean "Trek equivalent of Nimitz super-carrier". 15 micro-torp launchers doesn't give it any punch, and I'd think phasers would be better for point defense, anyway. The only way I can see 15 as not being out of line is if they're slow to reload, simple, robust, and stacked for redundancy. If it gives them the same output as most other ships, but they can lose more tubes before being unable to fire, then it's not unreasonable. If Jaeger meant that they really could fire 15 times as many torpedoes as anyone else, then I'd have to say that's unreasonable. If it fires *5* times as many torpedoes, then it's JUST a torpedo cruiser and can't be some kind of baby carrier in addition.
Why not? The TOS Enterprise had at least 6 (going by dialogue, not the one FX shot they endlessly reused), the classic movie Enterprise at least 4 (wall plaques), the Nemesis Enterprise-E had at least a dozen and the Megasizeprise in the latest movie had 72. 15 sounds reasonable for a combat-oriented vessel.
Along with Darkwing, I always assumed that the 15 launchers were mostly there as being simple, direct fire models instead of the "shotgun" style launchers that the Galaxy class generation use. They're also angled in ways that make the launchers appear to be geared toward engaging multiple targets in some sort of saturation fire mode. The CGI model is kinda weird on the placement of the torpedo tubes. There's anywhere from 2 to 4 launchers on "flank" of the saucer that faces directly to the sides, and another single launcher that's located on the engineering hull. In addition you have openings for 4 forward launcher bays, and 2 rearward facing ports that have 3 tubes each. Then there's at least 2 more openings on the "under" side of the pod. That adds up to something between 17 and 19 launchers, which is consistent with Alex Jaeger's statement that there's 15 photon and 2 quantum torpedo tubes on the Thunderchild model. The torpedo tube pod is supposed to be modular and replaceable and Alex Jaeger also later noted that the "carrier" is more for carrying shuttles, workbees and runabouts than "fighters". I think the best way to rationalize it is that Akira is meant to be both versatile and easily configurable for different mission profiles. So the emphasis on having a larger number of auxiliaries on board with the "through deck" saucer (with most of the saucer volume dedicated to storage and hangar space) is to make it really easy to swap mission payloads in the form of shuttles and runabouts. The torpedo tube pod plus the side facing launchers suggest they're meant to basically spray torpedoes in different directions in independent firing modes, so maybe the ship is designed to engage a lot of small targets at once using a large number of single firigng torpedo launchers. Perhaps this was because Cardassians were using big numbers of Hideki style ships and during the Dominion War the prevalence of large numbers of Jem'hadar attack ships meant that having the ability to lob torpedoes in a lot of directions at small targets was a boon. There's 8 in the saucer plus the "pod" which has at least 9 openings for torpedoes. Jaeger stated in a later interview that the ship CGI model has 17 total launchers, totalling 2 forward firing quantum torpedo launchers,
If we look at modern aircraft carriers, they come in a vareity of sizes. From the large US carriers like the Nimitz Class to the smaller Invincible Class carriers that were used by the RN. And if go back to WWII we had the fleet carriers and the smaller escort carriers, that were used later in the war to escort the Atlantic convoys. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escort_carrier
Ah, the Akira class... On the one hand, its a sort of fanboi wannabe supership produced for a franchise that could not handle superships in any way shape or form, so the entire concept was dead on arrival. The giant "weapons pod" between the impulse farings was drawn with seven forward torpedo tubes, which ILM simply ignored and drew the torpedoes just coming from a random spot in the middle of all of them (which blows my mind to think of it: they KNEW it was a weapons pod, but they still didn't bother to put the torpedoes coming out of the actual tubes ). The features intended to be doors for a through-deck shuttlebay are too small for standard shuttles, let alone any known fighter the Federation has ever used. Last of all, the only time we see the Akiras, there are no fighters in the area; the only time we see the fighters, there are no Akiras in the area. On the other hand, the concept itself is basically a non-starter. The whole reason for HAVING specialized high-tech torpedo tubes is so that you do not need multiple tubes to maintain a high rate of fire. As alluded to above, its the difference between a submachinegun and a harness with fifty derringers strapped to it. That single torpedo launcher is generally perfectly sufficient: you can launch one at a time in rapid succession or six at a time in a scattershot. If you're in a situation where you need more than six photon torpedoes in a single volley, you're probably better off surrendering. As DESCRIBED, Akira is a starship that should be able to perform a Macross Massacre of up to 90 torpedoes in a single volley and should be able to launch a BSG-style fighter patrol to pound the hell out of its enemies. As DEPICTED, Akira is just an enlarged Miranda with a single torpedo tube and a forward phaser bank that goes "Bzzzzaaaaaawwwwww....bzzzzaaaaaaaawwwwww" and that's it. Its a fundamental dissonance between what the FX people want to do and what the designers want to do and the Akira class is born in the mutual ignorance between them. Similar thing happened for the Scimitar in Nemesis: Jaegar: The ship has 52 disruptor banks and 26 photon torpedo launchers ILM: We will render four disruptors and an occasional torpedo. Jaegar: But... but... 52 disruptor banks... ILM: Pew pew... pew pew pew... pew... pew pew... How's that? Jaegar: Couldn't you just show me what it would look like if it fired all 52 of those disruptors at once? ILM: Well, it does fire about 50 disruptor bolts during the course of the entire film....
I like the look of the Akira, it's a cool looking ship. But I guess it will be a miranda replacement in my own personal world. The Miranda was a robust design, The Akira seems to me like a continuation of that design lineage but a little more multipurpose, and probably much better crew accommodations.
Doesn't the same issue apply to the Enterprise-D as well? We see the ship unleash a wall of phaser beam and photon torpedo death at the Borg in "Best of Both Worlds" but in all other conflicts before and since it fires like the Akira in FC, one beam at a time with the odd photon thrown in for good measure.
Really? You think so? *I've* always thought the design that was the natural inheritor of the Miranda line, so to speak, was the Nebula-Class. But, to each their own.
Don't misunderstand, there's nothing wrong with the LOOK of the ship. It's a great design, fits right in there with Starfleet's overall patterns. It's the SPECS of the ship that are absolute baloney. No Starfleet vessel needs 15 photon torpedoes; they only ever fire them one at a time anyway, and even if they didn't, Star Trek is deeply enamored with the "They've hit us with our shields down, which means every single one of our 13 phaser emitters and six different torpedo launchers are now totally off-line" plot dvice.
Yeah, it is an unfortunate let down regarding post-TNG effects. They did the everything that can be brought to bear with the E-D in "Best of Both Worlds" and "The Survivors" and then stopped doing that for all other combat.
The Nebula class has virtually nothing whatsoever in common with the Miranda class other than the fact that its nacelles are beneath its saucer. If anything, it's an immediate predecessor of the Galaxy class. Akira works in the Miranda lineage because of its features. It's a (relatively) smaller vessel with a fairly large shuttlebay and a torpedo pod on the top of it. Probably not a very glamorous assignment, but they seem to do a lot of the Federation's grunt work. In Best of Both Worlds the point was trying to find a frequency the Borg couldn't adapt to. Otherwise, they'd just dump as much power as they could channel into whichever phaser strip was facing the target.


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- Title Weightless - Deutsch
- Released: 10/01/1998
- Length 01:10:56
- Language German
- Footage Type Documentary
- Copyright ESA
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A historical look at creating, and experimenting within, conditions of microgravity using parabolic flights.Contains archive and new footage from several different countries [including modern Russian experiments], illustrations and various presenters - including ESA astronaut Thomas Reiter.
German title: 'Schwerelos'.
Broadcast version
Ch1: German mix M/E music
Ch2: German mix M/E music
Ch3: M/E music
Ch4: M/E music
Text overlays of name during interviews.
There is a music clip at the beginning of the program (rock music).
Gen1 database entry of this dub entry is called 'Weightless : BR version"" (13/08/2009).
I think 'BR' stands for ''Broadcast version', but i'm not sure these productions (Gen1 and Gen2) are the same, as I haven't seen the Gen1 production.
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The Tray that Got Away from Haymarket Designs...
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- Jess said...
Bravo! Y'all were much more patient and diplomatic than I'da been. Now, onto more pressing matters: where can I get the same pair of turquoise dangle earrings sitting on the tray?
- December 11, 2011 at 1:49 PM
That is awful!!! What terrible business practices. I started following them on facebook b/c of your give away... I am going to unfollow them now. Thank you for letting all of your readers know.
- December 11, 2011 at 5:31 PM
- ERB said...
Wow. I cannot believe they did not honor their giveaway or even respond to you. I would have a hard time ordering anything from them knowing that as I would much rather support a company who values its customers and supporters. You all handled it very diplomatically though.
- December 11, 2011 at 6:30 PM
Oh my, and here I was going to place an order for their Greek Key duvet sets. After this, I am definitely staying far, far away. So unethical and such bad customer service!
- December 11, 2011 at 11:53 PM
- KimW said...
I too will be removing them from my pages. Thanks for the (tactful)candor!
- December 12, 2011 at 9:29 AM
- The Matters of Style Girls said...
The earrings are from Aqua in Palm Beach!
- December 13, 2011 at 5:32 PM
I recently had a HORRIBLE experience with Haymarket Designs. I was sent the wrong trays with the wrong monograms and received no communication when trying to address the problem. Thanks to the Richmond Small Business Bureau we were able to straighten it out, but it was the worst retail experience I've ever encountered. I DO NOT recommend Haymarket to anyone. I'm so glad others are being made aware of the unprofessionalism and poor business ethics that Haymarket Designs delivers.
- December 16, 2011 at 9:54 AM
- Margaret said...
So disappointing when professional relationships aren't honored- but it looks like they're only hurting themselves!
- January 5, 2012 at 10:08 AM
Thank you for these posts - I wish I had seen them before I ordered from Haymarket. Half of my order came in but they continue to refuse to return my emails or calls about the rest of the order - which I am still waiting on two months after ordering. I plan to dispute the charges with my credit card company and tell everyone I know not to use them!!
- January 15, 2013 at 7:35 PM
I have experienced a similar problem ordered a monogrammed tray last November. Still no tray, and no response to my e-mails. Terrible customer service!
- March 21, 2013 at 8:36 PM
I too am having a problem with Haymarket designs! I order a tray in January and still haven't received anything. They haven't responded to my 3 emails and 3 voicemails. Stay away!
- April 28, 2013 at 7:25 AM
My daughter ordered their personalized towels for bridesmaid gifts. We spend HUNDREDS of dollars on them. They just arrived (much later than promised) and they are paper thin. Seven of them fit in a box about the size of a shoe box for a pair of women's boots. I think I'll be contacting VISA to report them.
- July 18, 2013 at 4:56 PM
- Sarah Brooke said...
BEWARE of Haymarket Designs! This is the third (and worst and final) bad experience I have had with them. I ordered a monogrammed koozie as a gift and never received it and never got a response from them until I threatened to contact the Better Business Bureau. I finally did contact the BBB, at which point it still took 2 weeks to get a refund. Just glad I didn't order something more expensive. It's too bad they have awful customer service because they have cute things. Ugh!
- August 28, 2013 at 12:39 PM
Horrible customer service. I am waiting over a month for a simple iphone case. They said it was shipped two weeks ago. My follow ups...crickets. Perhpas public inquiries on facebook will get a response. I give them a week or i am contacting my cc company to dipsute the charge.
- September 5, 2013 at 6:00 PM
Just had to contact the BBB regarding my order. After 5 emails, no response and no order that was paid for almost 2 montsh ago, what more could I do. They also delete "dissatisfoed customer" posts on Facebook.
- September 9, 2013 at 4:08 PM
I had the same issue with a tray. I twitter and facebook bombed them, paypal disputed them. Finally, they refunded me because they knew I would not shut up or let it go. File a complaint with the internet crimes commission at ic3.com. I did finally get a refund. FRAUD!!!
- September 11, 2013 at 3:48 PM
BBB just closed my complaint because, after 10 weeks, Haymarket will only send my iPhone case (which I already replaced) rather than issue a credit. How do companies like this stay in business? Hopefully my bank will credit me for the never received order. I am facebbok and tweeting but they delete anything I say. Good PR!
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Monday, December 17, 2012
Bailey's Irish Cream Chocolate Chip Cookies
Sometimes I fancy chewing my liquor, instead
of nipping it…
And this is the cookie that meets that
This cookie has great flavors ~ Bailey's
Irish Cream ~ coconut and chocolate.
They taste like Bailey's and even smell like it. Due to the cake flour, they have a
light texture. This is definitely
a grown-up cookie, with a slight hint of whiskey making them appealing.
Note the large amount of cookies this recipe
makes. They go fast; therefore, I
make 6 dozen at a time ~ halve it, if that suits you better. I like pecans in cookies, but some
family members do not, so I omit them in this recipe. If you like them, add 1
cup of chopped pecans.
These irresistible cookies are a bit boozy,
a bit sweet, and a whole lot tender ~ a perfect Christmas treat for your family
and friends too!
Bailey's Irish Cream
Chocolate Chip Cookies
1 cup butter
1 cup granulated sugar
1 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 cup Bailey's Original Irish Cream
4½ cups cake flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 (12-ounce) package semi-sweet chocolate chips
1½ cups coconut
Confectioner's sugar for dusting
In a large bowl, cream butter, sugars until fluffy with
electric mixer.
Add eggs and mix well.
Add vanilla and Bailey's Irish Cream, stirring well.
Combine flour, baking soda, and salt in a small bowl.
Mix dry ingredients into the creamed mixture.
Add chocolate chips, coconut and nuts, if desired.
Drop by the teaspoonful onto ungreased baking sheets.
Bake at 375 degrees for 8-10 minutes.
Cool on sheets for 5 minutes.
Transfer to a rack to cool completely.
Dust with confectioner's sugar.
Makes 6 dozen.
Be sure to visit my friend, Linda's blog, @My
Kind of Cooking for great tips and delicious easy recipes!
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The impossibility of religious freedom
- Responsibility
- Winnifred Fallers Sullivan.
- Language
- English.
- Imprint
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2005.
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- 286 p., [10] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
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- Sullivan, Winnifred Fallers, 1950-
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-280) and index.
- Contents
- Acknowledgments ix Note on Sources xi List of Illustrations xiii Introduction 1 Chapter One: Outlaw Religion 13 Chapter Two: The Trial: The Plaintiffs 32 Chapter Three: The Trial: The Other Witnesses 54 Chapter Four: Legal Religion 89 Chapter Five: Free Religion 138 Appendices Appendix A: Relevant Law: Excerpts from U.S. and Florida Constitutions, RFRA, FRFRA, and Rules and Regulations of Boca Raton Cemetery 161 Appendix B: Expert Reports of Broyde, Katz, McGuckin, Pals, and Sullivan 179 Appendix C: Ryskamp Opinion 219 Notes 245 Bibliography 269 Index 281.
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- Publisher's Summary
- The Constitution may guarantee it. But religious freedom in America is, in fact, impossible. So argues this timely and iconoclastic work by law and religion scholar Winnifred Sullivan. Sullivan uses as the backdrop for the book the trial of Warner vs. Boca Raton, a recent case concerning the laws that protect the free exercise of religion in America. The trial, for which the author served as an expert witness, concerned regulations banning certain memorials from a multiconfessional nondenominational cemetery in Boca Raton, Florida. The book portrays the unsuccessful struggle of Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish families in Boca Raton to preserve the practice of placing such religious artifacts as crosses and stars of David on the graves of the city-owned burial ground. Sullivan demonstrates how, during the course of the proceeding, citizens from all walks of life and religious backgrounds were harassed to define just what their religion is. She argues that their plight points up a shocking truth: religion cannot be coherently defined for the purposes of American law, because everyone has different definitions of what religion is. Indeed, while religious freedom as a political idea was arguably once a force for tolerance, it has now become a force for intolerance, she maintains. A clear-eyed look at the laws created to protect religious freedom, this vigorously argued book offers a new take on a right deemed by many to be necessary for a free democratic society. It will have broad appeal not only for religion scholars, but also for anyone interested in law and the Constitution.
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Not a day goes by that I don't wonder whether my kids suffer from underdeveloped senses. They can't seem to smell the dirty socks that have been on their feet for a week. They scarcely hear me calling them to do their chores. And they're blind to toys and dirty clothing strewn from pillar to post in their rooms. But, according to the Discovery Channel, when an animal is deficient in one sense, he compensates by over-developing another.
Personally, I can swear by that on a stack of Dr Spock books. Until they're teenagers, whereupon they eat anything placed in front of them -- dead or alive, their every taste bud is on alert 24/7, ever vigilant to be called upon to activate the gag reflex lest something green, unsweetened, lumpy crosses their paths. All kidding aside, scientific studies show that kids have a more heightened sense of taste.
This, and the oversensitivity to touch some kids have that places them at constant odds with sock seams and shirt labels, has got to be one of the biggest sources of consternation for parents. I, for one, was sure my eldest son would shrivel away and disappear. It seemed he was born with a peculiarity at birth: he could only eat food that was beige: French fries, cookies, cakes, bread and pizza. (Okay, so he's colorblind). My husband and I fussed over him every time he hovered over a plate. We begged. We pleaded. We bribed. We threatened. And nothing.
We bought special supplements that tasted like a combination between sawdust and manure. We took him to specialists to see if there was something physically wrong with him. But nothing helped. He was an incorrigibly picky eater who seemed destined to remain 48 pounds for the rest of his life. Now, as I look at that boy, now 14 and taller than I am, I wonder why I wasted so much time and worry over his eating. Heck, he puts the hottest picante sauce on nearly everything he eats -- even his cereal. Now I obsess over the grocery bill instead.
In retrospect, I learned that picky eaters nearly always grow to become more food tolerant. As a doctor and as a mother who's been there and back, let me share some suggestions with you until your children get to that point:
1. Take comfort in knowing that their bodies are smarter than both them and us put together: Like a smart bomb, it will seek its target -- in this case, the nutrients they need.
2. Offer new things frequently from all different food groups, and invite them to help pick out different foods during your grocery shopping.
3. Keep junk food out of your house so that when they're hungry, their only choices are healthful food or starvation. I've yet to see a child pick the latter option.
4. Try to observe particular tastes and textures that turn your children off and avoid them as much as possible.
5. When they're old enough, let them help prepare some meals. There are some cookbooks that have fun and easy to make dishes that are assembled more like an art project than a meal, turning pears into porcupines and celery sticks into pirate ships. Being involved in the selection and preparing of meals may give your children a sense of control and ownership over their eating habits.
6. The most important piece of advice I can give you: NEVER make a big deal over your children's picky eating. If they sense that getting them to eat is more important to you than to them, they'll use their pickiness to manipulate you into a power struggle. Stay calm and shrug off their refusals. Then say something like, "Okay, if you don't want to try this, that's fine, but you're really missing out." There is strong evidence that making a fuss over dinner is linked to the development of eating disorders. 7. When your children are past the toddler stage, say around five or so, it's okay to calmly say something like, "Okay, you don't have to eat what's on your plate, but next meal is breakfast," and then keep their plates ready to reheat and serve in case they become hungry later on. But don't be their short order cook and prepare them something different than the rest of the family. If they goes hungry that night, they'll catch up the next day.
8. Give your children a vitamin to fill any nutritional gaps, if you think their eating habits are particularly atrocious. My kids love Gummy Vites, because they taste just like Gummi Bears. I have to hide them so they won't take more than one a day
9. Around age 11 or 12, you can insist they take at least one bite of every food on their plate, but draw a line beyond which you refuse to push. There is nothing that incites rebellion more than making your children remain at the table until they've finished everything on their plates, even way past their bedtimes.
If you follow these suggestions, I promise you'll look back on these days and laugh (or cry) when you watch your 6-foot, 250 pound linebacker raid your refrigerator like a F-5 hurricane takes out a cornfield. And as you apply for that second lien on your mortgage to pay the grocery bills for your human garbage disposal, you'll wonder why the heck you were ever worried in the first place!
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Technical College Reykjavik Tækniskólinn |
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School type | Vocational, Private |
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Age range | 16 and upward |
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The Technical College Reykjavik (Icelandic: Tækniskólinn) is an upper secondary school in Reykjavík, Iceland, providing both vocational and specialized programmes. It was formed in 2008 through the merger of its two predecessors: Iðnskólinn í Reykjavík and Fjöltækniskólinn. It is subdivided into 13 trade-specific schools, which collectively make up one of the largest schools in the country.
These schools are located at Skolavorduholt, 101 Reykjavik:
School of Building and Construction Trades
School of Design and Handicraft
School of Electrical Technology
School of General Academic Studies
School of Hairdressing
School of Information Technology
The Multicultural School
School of Continuing Education
School of Master Craftsmanship
School of Engine Technology
School of Marine Engineering
Located at Hateigsvegur, 105 Reykjavík:
Icelandic Flight Academy
The school is owned by the following Icelandic business organizations:
The Federation of Icelandic Fishing Vessel Owners
The Federation of Icelandic Industries
Samorka – Icelandic Energy & Utilities
The Icelandic Shipowners' Association
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My idea – Jennie Gottschalk's performance.
The idea was that the number 60 (years of Israeli Independence represented by the Star of David) and the word GO look similar.
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Avner Bar Hama Sculpture at Malha Mall, Jerusalem
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Been There, Dung That: A persistent, patient dung beetle is one of the heroes of the new nature documentary "Microcosmos."
It's a small world in 'Microcosmos'
By Richard von Busack
PARENTS ARE ALWAYS ASKING what they can take their children to see. They could certainly take them to see Microcosmos, a beautiful French documentary on insect and pond life, ranging from good-sized spiders to bugs so small that a raindrop literally knocks them for a loop. An hour seems to be the exact amount of time the average man, woman or child can watch animals without narration, though, so children may start to get restless near the end.
Microcosmos begins with a swooping shot, just like the one near the beginning of Blue Velvet, showing us the life teeming at the roots of the grass. With a very big lens, high-speed film and infinite patience, the filmmakers observe insects in birth and death and copulation. There are quite suspenseful scenes of a stag beetle fight, the cute-as-a-bug mating of lady bugs, the pious hypocrisy of the praying mantis--I wouldn't want to anthropomorphize much more than that, since there is no narration probably for just that reason. There is a certain amount of anthropomorphizing in the Dead Can Dancestyle choral soundtrack, which supplies dissonant, angst-filled sounds for a parade of caterpillars and a lullaby for wasp larvae sleeping in the hive. One outstanding sequence: the struggles of a dung beetle to roll a dung ball home after it accidentally immobilizes it on a thorn. When this beetle--who is smarter than a few people I've met--actually managed to free his cargo, the theater burst into applause.
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Paris aims to complete the withdrawal of 3,000 soldiers this year but will keep a permanent 1,000-strong combat force in the former colony to support a UN peacekeeping mission of African forces.
Despite concerns over persistent Islamist attacks in the north and the lack of security in many areas, France is pressing Mali's interim government to organise national elections to complete a democratic transition after a coup in March 2012. "It's the start of the pullout," the army spokesman said. "The aim is to be down to 2,000 in July." He said about 100 men from a parachute regiment that had been based in Tessalit, in the foothills of the Adrar des Ifoghas mountain range, had now left Mali.
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Crodino 100ml
Crodino is distinctive and in Italy it is the non-alcoholic single serve aperitif par excellence, the most consumed, the most renowned. The secret of its success is the unique and appetising flavour obtained thanks to the traditional extract drawn from a mix of infusion and distillated herbs, plants and fruit pieces that are rigorously selected.
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Being Grant Morrison: From "HAPPY!" To MorrisonCon & Beyond
For the better part of the past 20 years, Grant Morrison has been leading the charge for groundbreaking superhero stories at both DC and Marvel Comics. However, as 2012 zooms to its possibly Apocalyptic end, the writer is looking to change up where and how his counter-cultural ideas will manifest next.
This September, Image Comics will publish its first creator-owned series from the writer – the crime noir/psycheadelic pony/Christmas fable "HAPPY!" with artist Darick Robertson. And to hear Morrison describe it, the book is only the first step in a new set of stories that will see him break off from regular superhero work for the foreseeable future.
Below, Morrison tells CBR News how a cascade of events from the publishing of his superhero manifesto "Supergods" to the plans for the September Las Vegas meeting of the minds called MorrisonCon have all combined to launch him on a new phase of his writing career – one where Batman and Superman will step aside for a new wave of characters, starting with an insipidly cute cartoon horse.
CBR News: Before we get to the books, congratulations on being named a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire! What's that whole experience been like for you?
Grant Morrison: It was absolutely unexpected. I've always been treated as a fairly marginal figure round our way, and it was nice to get a little recognition, but I have no idea who put me up for the honor. You have to go through a strict and rigorous check from Buckingham Palace and the government. It was funny to think that all these people had to read some of my wilder stuff in order to pass me for the award. [Laughs] But I was quite touched that I'd been acknowledged at all.
And so did you get to go to Buckingham Palace for a big ceremony?
Not yet. I'll be doing that in the next couple of months, I guess. They do the recipients in batches. The weird thing is that my dad got one of these things back in 1998 for a completely different reason – for his community work. So I've kind of done this before with him. I've been to the Palace before, but I've never been up close with any of the royals. I'm looking forward to seeing what it's all about.
Do you feel more chivalrous? This is supposed to be an honor of chivalry, right?
No, it actually made me feel more evil, I think. [Laughter] I mean, when a howling witch hunt turns up on cue to accuse you of "joining the Establishment" as if you'd signed up for the Secret Society of Super-Villains, what else can you do but cackle and rub your hands together?
I'd love to tell you I'm now qualified to join the Round Table and declare war on Narnia but the truth is, absolutely nothing has changed.
This award has kind of brought around the latest round of attention for you in the mainstream media, the last of which came for "Supergods" which is just out in paperback. I got the feeling that going out and talking so much with the readership was as much of a process for you as writing the book was. Did you learn anything about the form after all that discussion?
Once you finish these things, it really is like squatting out a bizarre, book-shaped child you've been labored over. [Laughs] Honestly, once I'd wrapped 'Supergods', I felt like I'd said everything I needed to say about that stuff. Besides wrapping up "Batman Incorporated" and my Superman work right now and "Multiversity" kind of getting done, it felt like a farewell. I love the book, and the paperback edition is even better, with new material and corrections but the ideas were ones I had in my head for a long time and I've kind of moved on to thinking about different areas of interest.
I think a lot of people are surprised that you've remained dedicated to writing superhero comics for this long. Did you always foresee a waning of that work, or did it sneak up on you that "I'm not sure if I need to write anymore superhero stories"?
The idea was always that I'd keep doing it as long as it gave me a lot of pleasure and allowed me to express myself . And it still does, but I can see the end coming closer. I'm coming to the end of long runs and stories I've had planned in my notebooks for years and the stuff I'm developing now is quite different.
The "Action Comics" run concludes with issue #16, "Batman Incorporated" wraps up my take with issue #12, and after that I don't have any plans for monthly superhero books for a while. "Multiversity" is eight issues and I'm 30-odd pages into a Wonder Woman project but those are finite stories.
I'm not saying that I'll never write superheroes again. It's just that my relationship to them has changed especially after finishing the book and I'm not sure if I want to maintain the same kind of relentless level of production.
Do you think that's come from the process, or has something happened with the proliferation of superheroes in the wider culture that's impacted how you view them?
I think I've kind of worked through everything I've ever felt about these characters. It was a bit like going to the psychiatrist and lying on the couch for just long enough to realize "What was I thinking?" [Laughs] I don't know. I know there are plenty of different ways to use them, but right now I feel like I'm coming to the end of a long intensive period where I was talking about certain ideas using the language of superheroes, if that makes any sense. I want to try out some new ideas and explore the opportunities that keep coming up to write novels and screenplays.
I think it's safe to say that "HAPPY!" is the first project we're going to see in the wake of this change. For a while, we'd only seen a teaser and it was hard to parse what you and Darick Robertson were working up. Now that the solicits are out, it may be even harder! What's the genesis of this book? Did you want to do your own version of the kind of "hitman crime fable" we see so often these days?
I've always wanted to try a crime story. I wanted to do my take on that type of book – the hard-boiled anti-hero and the mafia villains and all that but I never had a strong enough story hook. I was looking for a way to put my own stamp on the genre and it finally clicked with "HAPPY!"
I was ambushed by this track by The Hollies, the '60s band, and it was like the most saccharine, sweetie pie music you can imagine – "Pegasus The Flying Horse." I like quite a few songs from the band's psychedelic mid-period but this is just a hideous piece of twee. It even has this neighing sound as the last few bars play out! [Laughter] It's so sugary and weird and although it's probably about LSD, the lyrics of the middle 8 section bring a weird "pervy uncle" presence to the whole sordid affair. You can look it up on YouTube if you want because I just can't do it justice.
But I was listening to this music and thought, "Imagine the most cynical, fucked up man in the world having to deal with this – with a sickeningly upbeat little cartoon character – each trapped with the other." What would it be like if the Bad Lieutenant teamed up with Pegasus the Flying Horse? By this time, I knew the Happy the Horse would be tiny. And it struck me that I could throw "Christmas story" in with this as well. I've always wanted to have a go at a classic Christmas story like "It's A Wonderful Life" or "A Christmas Carol" but with characters drawn from the shock headlines of the 21st Century. So this idea seemed to lend itself to that and it gave me a chance to do the kind of wider, symbolic pop cult critique that I like. It just grew from there. Adam Mortimer who's directing "Sinatoro" is good friends with Darick Robertson and put us in touch. I've met Darick in the past, but we've never worked together. I found out that he was free, he loved the idea, we pitched it to Image and now we're half way through a four-issue series which starts in September. It all came very naturally out of this weird combination of ideas.
Have you ever been to Disneyland and experienced "It's A Small World"?
I've never actually been to Disneyland and probably never will. My parents wanted to take me there when I was younger, but we had no money. So I was cruelly cheated! [Laughs] It just wouldn't be the same now.
You description of the Hollies song reminds me of how that ride's music repeats over and over again and kind of drills its way into your brain. When you mash those kinds of things up against "heartwarming" stories like "It's A Wonderful Life" it can be tough to separate a positive ideal from an ingratiating experience. Do you see any aesthetic pleasure in something so saccharine?
Well, what excited me was the notion of not necessarily the song…but the story possibilities it suggested. In that sense, there's definitely aesthetic pleasure in something saccharine but for me the pleasure only comes when you slam that rinky-dink magic kingdom stuff into its opposite and watch it all kick off, particle accelerator style. After doing all these noble super characters for so long "HAPPY!" is like the chains coming off the cellar. It's bile and loathing, and relentless foul-mouthed scatological dialogue on every page – and Happy the Horse.
I loved the idea of dragging this bright creature into a very unpleasant world – a creature who is absolutely cheerful and will not give in. To the point of irritation. He's this indefatigable spark of positivity, and I'm pitting him against the absolute darkness and damnation of the world of the story. The tone and setting of the book is closer to what I was doing back with "The Filth" than anything I've been doing on "Batman." It's a really super noir comic, though I don't want to explain what Happy is or what he looks like. You'll see that when the book comes out. But circumstances bring him into this hitman's life, and he says, "I need your help to save a kid who's in trouble." Cue pedo-Santa. Three days to Christmas with a new twist every day. I poured everything I know about making comics into this and I'm really pleased with it. It's a crude, sensationalistic, trashy piece of work but it runs like a death machine.
What's it been like to work with Darick? I get the feeling that he's done so much long form work on creator-owned comics, but he's often overshadowed because he's working with Warren Ellis or Garth Ennis or whomever. What does he bring of his own to make this series uniquely what it is?
That's exactly it. Once I started to see the series' pages come in and saw how he'd designed the Happy the Horse character…I mean, it's like a special effect what he's done with this little…thing. It's quite amazing. And he's set against this sleazy world of New York in the bleak midwinter, and there's snow falling and filthy slush in the gutters, and everyone's fucked up, and everyone else is a bastard. Darick really captures the grime and the violence, which I knew he could do, having seen the stuff he did with Garth Ennis and Warren Ellis but I had no idea how brilliantly he'd render Happy. What I like most about the work is that it's all very personal. It's not airbrushed and light boxed. It's old school art with big Indian ink shadows and zip-a-tones. It's really very hand-drawn looking, and that totally suits the visceral nature of the action.
You are one of a number of guys who after years of working for DC and Marvel are packing up and moving over to do a project at Image. Of course, you were just talking about a bit of a personal sea change for what you want to do, but there does seem to be a lot of guys flocking to that publisher right now. Do you feel a part of that wave of creator-owned sentiment?
The majority of my creator-owned stuff is published at Vertigo but I've been putting out creator-owned stuff through all kinds of publishers since the late '70s and I still own everything from "Captain Clyde" and "Abraxas" to "St. Swithin's Day," "The New Adventures of Hitler" and "Bible John" all the way up to the more recent stuff with Liquid. I've always put out my own books in tandem with the DC Universe trademark stuff I like to do, like "JLA" or "Batman," so in some ways this is business as usual for me. But there's definitely some kind of centrifugal movement away from the mainstream toward new and more personal, expressive, creator-owned stuff, and I think it's partly because cinema has appropriated so much of the stuff we've been doing in comics for the last thirty years. Movie superheroes finally look better than their comic book counterparts. And creative people are more informed and want to own their ideas, and to be able to protect them or profit from them. The audience has developed a fresh appetite for new characters and stories which is driving a shift toward those kinds of stories again. Writers and artists are experimenting again. The future's back and you could feel the floodgates opening at Image this year, in particular. It seems like everybody's got something new coming out.
So yeah I'm happy to join the bandwagon if only it's to remind people I've been riding it for decades!
"Happy!" Seemed right for Image. Karen [Berger of Vertigo] doesn't like stuff that puts children under threat and this book definitely does that. Robert [Kirkman] and Eric [Stephenson] at Image have been great and I've agreed to do some more stuff with them. I have a few ideas brewing after "HAPPY!" It's good to feel a little afraid – to try a different company and a different way of working and get familiar with different strategies of publishing. I have more Vertigo stuff planned too so I definitely feel the pull more strongly toward the creator-owned end of the spectrum and that seems to be the general consensus. I just read Ed Brubaker talking about his farewell to trademark superheroes and moving on to concentrate on developing his own stuff. So something's going on. Migratory patterns are changing. The superhero monthlies can always use new blood anyway.
MorrisonCon is coming in a few months time. Ron Richards and James Sime brought this idea to you, but as I understand it, you dove right in. What does that opportunity to have an entire weekend of discussion and art provide to you that you haven't had before?
The idea for MorrisonCon came from James Sime and his partner Kirsten Baldock and from Ron Richards. They had this idea of doing something less like a comic convention and more of an event like a music festival where you paid to hang around backstage with the acts and everyone stayed in the same hotel in Vegas.
I saw the opportunity to stage one of those weird, life-changing events where the boss takes you out and you go hunt each other in the woods. [Laughs]. I saw the potential for a kind of Happening, as they used to say. A chance to rewire heads and get some creative sparks flying.
They asked if I'd lend my name to it and I did but I should say – if only to answer critics who've accused me of profiteering – that I don't make a single cent out of this. I'm doing it for free because it seems like a brilliant idea. I wish it wasn't called MorrisonCon though because Robert Kirkman will be there, and he's like 100 times bigger than me! [Laughs] Is it too late to call it KirkmanCon and shift some more tickets? Who doesn't want to sit around the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas talking to the creator of "The Walking Dead" about why we love the dearly departed?
We're going to have high-level anything-goes panel discussions and we're asking all the writers and artists to do something a bit different like perform eerie candle-lit readings or draw you hung-over at breakfast. You know, Darick Robertson will chase the blues away with guitar and vocals. I'm doing a new spoken word piece channeling Mr. Mojo Risin', the Egyptian Gods and Howard Hughes with new music by Gerard Way. Stuff like that. We have surprise guests from film, TV and the alternative arts. Some of the most fertile minds in and on the fringes of the comics business will be hanging around talking about where our art form stands, and what happens next, now that we've conquered the world. Multimedia opens up whole new ways of creating comics that could involve, music and performance and art, so we're bringing comics people together with film-makers, photographers, musicians, models, directors and visionaries to talk mad talk and light up the Strip.
One of the interesting things about the change in comics culture over the past ten years is that you no longer have to be centrally located in New York or London or what have you. Now you can exist wherever and collaborate via e-mail. Do you feel like there's a qualitative difference to getting together in the same physical space as a collaborator?
Oh yeah! I haven't written an e-mail since 2005, and I can't find the time or inclination to maintain a web presence or keep my Twitter account fed with trivia. I hardly ever talk to my collaborators aside from personal notes in the scripts, so it's always great to catch up with them in person.
I wish I could be more like Warren Ellis, and have a commanding internet presence but I can never think of anything to say online. I waste days perfecting a few lines of an e-mail or tweet It's pointless. For me nothing is faster, sexier and more rewarding than communicating with people in person. God knows, it's a shocking idea, but we've been doing it for thousands of years! I kind of like all the gestures and hesitations and flashing eyes that bring a conversation to life. I've never met Jonathan Hickman, and I'll never write him an e-mail, for instance, but meeting him in Vegas to talk about science and futurism in comics and whatever – that's very exciting.
And everybody, including the people who've bought tickets, will all be hanging out in the same space and talking about this stuff that excites us all. Friendships will be made. Lives will be changed. It's a unique one-off event and if you miss it you miss it forever.
The mainstream press has kind of presented this as an alternative to Comic-Con, which I wonder if that misses the point a bit.
It's nice of them to have us in the same sentence, but Comic-Con is a mega-event and we're what's known as "boutique" – in fact we're more like a drawer in a small dressing table at the back of the boutique. [Laughs] This is intimate in a way Comic-Con could never be. MorrisonCon an alternative in the sense that it's pretty much the opposite of Comic-Con. We're not even trying to operate in that space, but it was nice of them to compare us.
Stay tuned later this week for more on Grant Morrison's DC Comics work.


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