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This is a very bad time for American women in the Supreme Court.
Three big cases were decided right at the end of its term that will profoundly affect women's lives, subject them to conditions that are never applied to men, and damage their ability to control their own lives and health.
In McCullen v. Coakley, the Court in a "faux-nanimous" decision in which the four moderate-liberals clearly played defense, found that a 35-foot buffer zone around the entrance to abortion clinics in Massachusetts was a violation of the First Amendment. The Commonwealth had established the zones in reaction to the brutal murder of two people at a Boston clinic in 1994 and the endless harassment of women and their families attempting to enter reproductive health clinics.
But Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the Court, swept aside reality, superimposed his own view of what happens outside clinics, and somehow found that so-called "sidewalk counselors" need to be protected more than the people who work at or make use of the clinics.
But for all his supposed concern for free speech rights, there's a catch: Apparently there are bad buffer zones and good buffer zones. Bad buffer zones are those at women's health centers, but good buffer zones can be implemented around polling places, for instance (they can even extend 100 feet, or 65 feet farther than the Massachusetts clinic buffer).
The court has allowed authorities to significantly limit protests in other contexts, such as at political party conventions where fenced-in "free speech zones" are erected vast distances from those to whom the speech is ostensibly directed. For some reason, the Chief Justice thinks that in the context of street protests the type of speech most deserving of First Amendment protection is the kind where women are forced to hear people harassing them about their sexual and health choices.
While he pictures in his mind sweet church ladies engaging in "personal, caring, consensual conversations," anyone who has ever been near an abortion clinic knows the reality is vastly different. He also talks about public sidewalks' "historic role as sites for discussion and debate," as if protestors screaming vile things at anxious women going to the doctor for a difficult procedure are somehow channeling Thomas Paine handing out copies of Common Sense in front of Faneuil Hall.
So what's so special about street-level abortion "counseling" that puts it in a different category than almost everything else, and why does the opinion express no concern whatever for the needs, desires, or feelings of the women forced to listen to the people demanding their attention?
The Chief Justice gives away the game when he writes that the anti-abortion activists bringing the case "are not protestors," and expresses sympathy with their complaint that they haven't been as successful in persuading women to change their minds as they would be if the buffer zone didn't prevent them from sidling up to within an arm's length and whispering their gentle words of persuasion. Ah, you see, anti-abortion activists aren't actual protestors, like you might see outside a political event or on the public sidewalk in front of, let's say, a bank. Those kinds of people can be forced into far-distant "buffer zones" that have chain-link fence around them. But when it comes to abortion and women trying to enter a medical clinic to exercise their constitutional rights, well, that's another story.
We wonder whether a future opinion by the Chief Justice will lament the fact that government-enforced speech restrictions left an Occupy Wall Street protestor unable to talk a stock broker into quitting his job and going to work in a homeless shelter. Perhaps we can all look forward to the day when he applies his new-found First Amendment assertiveness to something other than corporations and to people he sympathizes with.
Behold: Corporations with religious beliefs
Women's sexual choices and health came under attack again in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, in which a conservative 5-4 majority conjured up an entirely new entity never before seen in the entire history of our nation -- a corporation with religious beliefs.
The Court ruled that for-profit closely-held corporations have religious rights under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and can therefore opt out of the requirement that they provide for their employees insurance that covers the contraceptive services mandated under the Affordable Care Act. Let's put aside the obvious implications of this dumbfounding ruling on women's health, the number of laws corporations might opt out of via claims of religious belief, and the concern that it's only a tiny step to the application of this ruling to every corporation. Instead, let's just look at the mangled, disingenuous logic of Justice Samuel Alito's opinion.
The Court majority is adamant about the great harm done to corporate owners whose religious sensitivities are offended by government policies and the legal rights of their employees, but oddly only those religious beliefs that deal with women's sex lives are of sufficient import to warrant the Court's intervention.
Justice Alito goes out of his way to say that this ruling doesn't implicate corporations with owners whose religions abhor things other than contraception (although he doesn't explicitly rule that out). He tries -- and fails -- to be reassuring by writing that, "This decision concerns only the contraceptive mandate and should not be understood to hold that all insurance-coverage mandates ... must necessarily fall if they conflict with an employer's religious beliefs." If we take Justice Alito at his word, presumably religious business owners who are against blood transfusions (Jehovah's Witnesses), vaccinations (Dutch Reformed Church), psychotherapy (Scientology), or in the case of Christian Scientists, any kind of medical care at all, could be out of luck, but he never says why, probably because there isn't any logical reason why. Justice Alito is willing to invent an entirely new concept of corporate personhood, throw out precedent and centuries of legal theory, and magically ensoul craft stores and furniture makers, just to make sure women who have sex and seek to control their bodies via legal medical means are forced to jump through as many hoops as possible.
Harris v. Quinn decision also harms women
But Justice Alito wasn't satisfied with just one anti-woman decision last Monday. He also penned on behalf of his right-wing brethren the decision in Harris v. Quinn, a case that dealt with whether public employee unions in Illinois could collect bargaining fees from state-paid home health care workers who benefit from the contracts the unions negotiate on the workers' behalf. To no one's surprise, the Court, via another notorious 5-4 vote, found that requiring workers to pay union fees violates their First Amendment rights, meaning workers who don't like the union get to benefit from what the union does for them but they don't have to contribute to the mechanism that gains them that benefit. If union fees are voluntary, then it's easy to imagine that the union will have a hard time staying in business. Which, after all, is the whole point of the case.
Most commentators are rightly focused on the effects of this decision (and the future one it certainly tees up) on the ability of public employee unions to organize government workers and those who work within the new economy of low-wage, part-time, or nontraditional jobs, large numbers of whom are women. It is, not coincidentally, a way to weaken unions generally and disempower workers who often vote Democratic, and therefore stand in the way of the conservative agenda. Although at first glance it may not seem like it, this case is the cousin of Citizens United because at its heart it's about political power and who gets to wield it, and was funded, to no one's surprise, by the Koch brothers and the Walton family, among others, via a group calling itself the National Right-to-Work Legal Defense Foundation.
In this case, as in so many others, the people who must bear the brunt of the conservatives' crusade are overwhelmingly women. According to the Department of Labor, 90 percent of direct home care workers are women, and 50 percent are minorities. This case, by diminishing their economic power, is a direct and willful assault on the lives of those women, their families, and, importantly, the homebound people they care for. The willingness of Justice Alito and his four radical allies to damage the lives of struggling low-income women in order to benefit billionaires is tragic.
During Alito's confirmation battle, then-Senator Barack Obama, when explaining his vote against him said, " ... when it comes to his understanding of the Constitution, I have found that in almost every case, he consistently sides on behalf of the powerful against the powerless; on behalf of a strong government or corporation against upholding Americans' individual rights."
The president was right; a fact that now, eight years later, is painfully obvious. In fact, he could as easily have said the same about the four other conservatives on this Court ... and many of us did.
These three decisions, taken together, are an assault on the rights, health, and economic well-being of women in every corner of this country. But they are also a challenge to President Obama, to Congress, to the political system, and to the American people to take the action necessary to undo the damage that has been done to our country in the last several days. People like to say that the Supreme Court has the final say. But that's not always true. There are many legislative and regulatory remedies for bad decisions. The Court's conservatives are serious about what they're doing, and those of us who are appalled by this sorry spectacle should be the same, particularly when the members of the Court are chosen. If they want a fight, we should give it to them.


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Online, you'll find many recipes for employee surveys- "The 6 Steps to Great Employee Surveys…" etc. A quick scan of these articles and blog posts reveals that most of the advice is about survey design, to help you avoid an impulsively initiated survey without clear purpose. Poorly conceived surveys usually make things worse, and the survey industry and HR profession have responded with a large knowledge base about survey design and administration.
Let's assume you've been well informed by all this, and your survey is well intended, strategic, well designed and administered. Congratulations. You are 20% of the way home.
Yes, despite doing all the great things recommended by the experts, you can still miss the biggest opportunity inherent in employee surveys. The good news is that an employee survey can be a leverage point that can probably do far more good than you are now imagining. Here's how.
Surveys in Context
Why do we survey our organizations? The first motivation is to gather information that isn't readily available otherwise. Why isn't it readily available? Because the organization's natural feedback loops aren't providing it. Just pause for a second and think about the implications of that.
This happens in all organizations…life moves fast, we don't always communicate completely, and relationships have varying degrees of trust. Plus, there's the "I might get fired if I say that" concern. So what we are willing to say to each other at work, and what we have the opportunity to talk about, are limited by circumstance and history.
Your organization's health, and thus its success, is improved when those feedback loops are getting stronger. Better and more timely information about how people are feeling, what's working well and what's not, the sense of optimism about the future, clarity about the vision…that's the stuff on which leadership thrives. And those feedback loops are never static; they are either improving or eroding.
Herein lies the true opportunity inherent in employee surveys – to improve those natural feedback loops so the surveys become less necessary, and the organizations function better.
Here's my premise:
- A survey should improve the organization's natural feedback loops and relationships so that a survey is less necessary going forward. That's the real measure of success; that's "where the gold is."
- How the survey information is interpreted, shared, and acted on will either strengthen or weaken those feedback loops. There's no neutral ground here; surveys always send a message and provide an experience to the organization that either strengthens those feedback loops, or weakens them.
How to Strengthen the Organization with Your Survey
This isn't complex. It can require a little courage and energy, but in the long run will leave you more energized and hopeful, less uncertain and anxious.
Let's look at the normal and traditional approach to interpreting the data, and by whom, and what happens afterwards:
- HR or a survey company sorts the data into themes and patterns, and identifies changes from prior years.
- Senior management determines which themes, patterns, and changes are important, and interpret what they really mean to the organization.
- Decisions are made by management about what to do (fresh commitments and action plans).
- A summarized version of the results and subsequent commitments/plans are shared with the employees.
Here's the message in that traditional approach: you (employees) provide the raw information to us (management), and we'll figure out what you are saying to us, and what we are going to do about it, and then let you know about it. Thanks for participating; we really appreciate your help!
Think for a minute about the implications of this message, for ongoing feedback, trust, and relationships.
Here's an alternative approach which will strengthen the feedback loops, improve trust, and create precedent and skills for better dialogue:
- A cross section of the organization sorts the data into themes, patterns, and changes. Using a structured, facilitated workshop, this group determines what the organization is saying to itself, about itself. This is framed as a learning experience.
Optional: Those representatives go back to their respective groups with this first draft, get further feedback, and then reconvene to improve it.
- This group then determines what to do about what is has learned. How we can make things better around here? What have we discovered, and what can we do with it?
Usually the results are more cultural than strategic, although sometimes new strategic goals emerge – we can easily improve the (program) so we can deliver more of (program results).
A simple structure for sorting the results is best, such as do more of, do less of, keep doing, start doing.
- Leadership translates those generalities into actions and integrates them into the normal strategic processes of the organization. This final result is communicated to all constituents.
The Benefits of This Approach
Accuracy: The interpretations of the data (themes, patterns, changes) will be much more on target. It is simply unfair to ask a senior management team to get this right on their own. No single group in the organization can interpret the entire organization very well. Senior management's role shifts from interpreting to ensuring good interpretive process.
Capability Building: The organization's ability to have a productive conversation with itself is strengthened.
The Culture You Want: This approach is adult-adult, with a strong statement that responsibility for the culture is shared by everyone. This is liberating throughout the organization.
Leadership Development: This requires mature, thoughtful participation, and provides an opportunity for "our best selves" to emerge. The informal leaders and grapevine become stronger forces for positive change.
This takes us back to the beginning: step one in anyone's survey recipe is to be clear about your intentions and desired results. I hope this has helped you reshape your image of your desired results, and helped you see the survey as a tremendous opportunity for positive change.
Summary of Some of the Differences
|Traditional Approach
|Alternative Approach
|Direction of Information Flow
|EE's to Management
|The organization to itself
|Implications for Responsibility
|All of Us
|Management-EE Relationship
|Interpretations about Others
|Interpretations about Self
|Action Plan Alignment
|A lot of work to get EE buy-in
|Shared tone and direction
|Feedback loop impact
|Creates survey dependency for "truth" speaking
|Improves candor, trust, relationships, and skills

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Our friendly staff can help you arrange a fun party with a range of activities.
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Please note that all children must be supervised during parties and child to adult supervision ratios apply to all pool parties.
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7 Stylish Pairs of Sunglasses You're Going to Obsess Over This Season
Sunglasses are a quick and easy way to update your daily ensemble. Choosing the right pair for the season may seem overwhelming, given all the new styles that are out on the market, so we're here to narrow down the hottest styles that you must check out right now.
The New Classics
Retro-style eyewear frames are making a glorious comeback, with a less than subtle modern update. This style of new classics is usually small in size, taking inspiration from the shades that were a big hit in the '80s. They aren't, however, your run-of-the-mill pair of cat-eyes or oval frames. Design houses such as Prada, Balenciaga, and Louis Vuitton have taken the liberty of upgrading these style to feature a futuristic detail to their designs.
Prada Ultravox
Prada Etiquette
Oversized Sunnies
Where would the fashion world be without oversized sunglasses? Whether you're off on a long-haul flight to an obscure holiday destination or out doing a spot of Christmas shopping, these oversized pairs can instantly dress up any casual getup—a departure from the small shades mentioned earlier.
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Color-Changing Lenses
Color-changing lenses are by no means new technology. Celebrities like Anne Hathaway and Jessica Alba sported them a couple of years back. But like any other great trend, these lenses are back and better than the last time we spotted them on the runways. Take a pair out for a spin during a tropical holiday vacation and watch it work its magic. It's like taking along two pairs of shades for the storage space of one.
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Lens Over Frames
There's something about the flat screen design of the new wave of iPhones that makes it seem even sexier. The eyewear equivalent of this design trend would have to be the flats lenses that are unconventionally placed over the frames. This trend ushers in a sleek collection of clean-cut sunglasses with a contemporary twist.
Ray-Ban Blaze round sunglasses
Bold Statements
Every season has its show-stoppers and this fall isn't any different. These sunglasses are all about loud, glamorous details. In the season that's known for sequined dresses and dramatic textiles, these bold sunglasses fit right in with your party ensemble.
Bulgari Serpenteyes
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Round Revolution
Round sunglasses have been around for the past couple of years, and for good reason too. This style gives off an antique vibe that instantly makes every outfit hipper than it already is. Pair it with the velvet coat of the season or even just a plain black shirt and you're ready to hit the town.
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Uruguayan defender Jose Luis Rodriguez says he is close to agreeing a move to Real Madrid, with the formalities potentially being completed by this weekend.
The 21-year-old right-back plays for Danubio, the same Uruguayan club where famous compatriots Diego Forlan, Edinson Cavani, and Jose Gimenez started their careers.
Rodriguez, who will initially join Madrid's Castilla side if he moves, says there was a chance a transfer could have been completed before Europe's August 31 deadline.
"Before Aug. 31 there was the opportunity to go [to Real Madrid]," Rodriguez said to Sport 890. "My agent is talking to them now, and in these next few days I should be able to travel and try to close it."
There is a possibility that he gets loaned back to Danubio after signing for Madrid, Rodriguez confirmed.
"Yes [coming back to Danubio is one option]," he said.
He also revealed that Los Blancos are not the only European club to have expressed an interest in the defender, although he added that only his agent knows the identity of the club.
"There is another side, but I would be lying if I told you I knew who it was."
Rodriguez added that he's likely to miss Danubio's next fixture, against Boston River on Sunday, as his transfer gets finalised.
"I will not be playing in the next match, I think.
"I trained all week like normal, but not as a starter. The manager knows I won't be starting."
Rodriguez will have a fellow Uruguayan at Madrid in midfielder Federico Valverde, who moved to the Bernabeu in 2016 from Penarol and is currently with the club's B side. The pair have spoken about Rodriguez's impending move.
"Yes, I've talked to him," Rodriguez said. "It's very good to have people you know people somewhere you could end up living."
The youngster says he's "anxious" to complete a move to one of the biggest clubs in the world.
"We will be looking to travel soon – possibly before the weekend.
"Right now, nothing is concrete so I am very anxious.
"I lost a few a days' sleep while I waited for this to be resolved. I have already got my bags packed – but only halfway."
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School Library Services and Provision in Sierra Leone
Guide – Harrods's (2000), defined school library for being an organized collection of books used in a school for the effective use of teachers and pupils, however, usually for pupils. It could possibly comprise training books of useful resource and as well as books designed for home looking at and in you're care of a professional librarian, or simply teacher-librarian. It is actually variously label "Instructional Materials Centre", "Learning Hub or Media centre. Inches The School library serves being service agency which supports the schools' objectives and provides materials for everyone subjects in addition to all interest of enrollees and professors The faculty library can be described as supportive resource of the school curriculum, its terms, services, and development is inclined to aiding school programmers (Kennel, 1994).
Your local library generally have as your main intention acquiring, refinement, storing and disseminating material two of which school library is not really an difference. The faculty library possesses a vital factor to play in the information service. They deliver materials connected the curricular demands of everybody with the school community. The importance of providing this sort of resources are not overemphasized if ever the school library is going to be an instigator of and guidance for source of information based learning in the school. At the same time, in regards to information competencies, the library as well as its librarian, provides materials and services in varieties to allow both pupils along with the school community to apply these skills in finding the information they have. The purpose and attitude of higher education library assistance are instantly being realized and recognized by class's administrators and teachers. The fact that necessitates that school librarian turns out to be thoroughly familiar with those purposes like guidance, the reading programmed and also enrichment course for learners and lecturers. However, Albert Academy library does not have trained in addition to qualified librarian, who appreciates and is working those purposes in an effort to ensure that the service provision is fully attained.
Albert Academy Faculty Library – The Albert Academy was inaugurated over the 4th July 1904. It was until 1975 when the Albert Academy Alumni Association into their meeting thought it advisable that an extremely reputable institution must not go without having a library as being the development connected with school your local library was during its strongest peak regarded as. A notion to upright a catalogue building was born with that collaboration within the alumni association and the owners of this school indeed, this will unite. The assortment was founded with the use of having a place where college students could proceed and examine new tricks to further bolster their education curriculum fun-based activities and leisure in the process.
School Library Furniture – What To Buy, Where To Buy and How To Buy
Investigate has shown that the school library sources play a crucial role in your developing verdict and usefulness among kids. School choices furniture will be the most standard component that up some sort of well-organized choices and helps bring about students to come back and understand. Ideas for the purpose of Children's Collection Furniture – Library pieces of furniture for classroom is mostly a minimized version within the furniture utilized in other sectors of the local library. Main the different parts of the kid's library bedroom furniture include kitchen tables, shelving versions and seats.
Shelving units which have been shorter by means of small kitchen tables & chair are great for a baby's library. This facilitates children make use of the stockpile and vacation here for very long stretches as the quality of them an easier environment just for enhanced knowing. Fundamental Components of School Collection Furniture – The large number of fundamental factors of school selection furniture depends upon how they shall be utilized together with what information the local library will stash. A couple necessary choices furniture pieces include bookcases, recliners, circulation glove compartments, tables, regular display is short for, study carrels, e-book trucks together with library shelves.
In a few cases, media equipment is usually used for advanced your local library, so previously buying collection furniture, estimate the necessities of all the library ultimately. This will assist you to deal by means of any troubles someday. Using Transportable Library Shelves – Mobile local library shelving items are ideal for transporting books from a place to a different in different usage aspects. It helps get rid of the shelving units as soon as they are not active. A bookcase concerning wheels, display training books with storage and showcases are several different varieties of mobile choices furniture.
Utilizing Circle Library Tables for a best convenience – Round choices tables can be extremely advantageous in will probably be the libraries as they definitely help trainees to rest in sets for considerations and actions. Therefore, watchful consideration must be granted in the arrangement in round selection tables. These desks are suitable for areas just where interaction is usually maximal, by way of example meeting places. However, while arranging circle tables, be sure to provide ample aisle different ways to leave bedroom for going around. Also, they have to be well placed to be able to do in no way get when it comes to safety exits with the library. Best places to buy Choices Furniture Equipment – Library Furniture might be easily used in different websites; usually the actual furniture stores towards you or searching online also. Getting choices furniture as a result of schools which were renovating the libraries together with selling apart their classic furniture is recommended.
High School Students – Conducive Learning Environment
No matter what their time period of study commitments, students through all treks of living need a place that might be conducive that will learning, as a way to excel throughout their academics. Some sort of conducive grasping environment might be somewhere great for coaching, and it again varies because of student in order to student. Some students might find a noisy readymade meals restaurant an ideal place for you to do their version, while some people may decide to study in your bathroom. The most prevalent place is going to be somewhere hushed, where college students are make ample area and the perfect time to interact with the learning approach.
Assessment not to mention reference publications, as most certainly as training papers are indispensable learn tools for kids. However, they generally neglect the benefits of a great study surroundings. While Oahu is the best to check alone, some students might find it worthwhile to check in tiny groups, with several music and / or food for boosting their memory space. In importance, places while using the fewest distractions might possibly be the best suited for revision.
Any type of study surroundings that enrollees seek also needs to be addicted to the actual subject quite possibly concentrating at. For model, for Math concepts and Physics, where by calculations frequently apply, the place which enables discussion for the purpose of difficult questions is going to be preferable. Possibly where Math's training and Physics training are carried out, there might be frequent interaction from the tutor not to mention students towards foster better expertise in the formulae-based creative concepts. For various research-based subjects like General Daily news, Economics, Heritage, and is important, an amazing place are the reference section from the national assortment or education library. The volume of reference books is solely aplenty and for broadening students' information.
Whether for the purpose of Math's training, Physics education costs, or self-study with the various Disciplines subjects, it is important for students to remember is to buy a study environment which makes them sense at ease. They are able somewhere that's not too warm or chilled. If they've been heading for the purpose of freezing community libraries and / or tuition locations, they could be prepared also properly attired not to mention bringing toasty drinks. The site should not make sure they feel not well after reading through. Assistance should likewise be easy to find and reachable when selecting place to check. Besides exclusive help through friends not to mention teachers, students can also look to other designs of engineering, such because e-books and online language learning resources. Most your local library and pubs provide cellular Internet assistance for students busy.
Data Recovery Resurrects a School Library With Rescue for Pine Grove
To the morning connected with May 21 years of age, something developed. Suspicion dropped first with kids messing around with matches. But a fabulous Fire Office investigation eventually revealed not wearing running shoes was poor wiring during the walls in which started the particular fire. The short-lived building of which permanently situated the Pinups radiate Grove Primary School's library while in the town in Orkut, California was eliminate. The until now bright indoor had taken to the cast associated with a coal my. Well leading to an investigation seemed to be concluded, community paid members and companies donated a large amount in profit and services that will help rebuild. But there seems to be a dilemma.
The setting up still banded, but it is entire contents ended up being destroyed: books, shelves in addition to desks started ash along with embers. As you move contents were being insured, the records cache containing all of the contents was at a laptop about the burned desk from the building. The plastic of your laptop bore an intense resemblance that will volcanic eject. There seems to be no strategy to turn your computer regarding, and any backup to your data were being kept using a CD. The CD ended up being kept during the drawer on the desk applications the personal computer sat. As well as CD seemed to be now some sort of puddle for melted vinyl.
Fortunately, this is certainly when your working computer forensics practitioner entered any scene. With a mask in addition to gloves, the first organ of the project, after peeling this remains helix-copter flight desk, was the archaeological expedition to your location within the hard disk around the laptop. Being aware of where seemed to be half this battle. Your dermal program with many different attachments granted the excavation that will proceed apace.
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Photography is art and practice of creating durable images. I was attracted by photography some 2 years ago when my cousin brother got a brand new digital camera. I was really excited to use it and was able to click some pictures but the result of the images i got was horrible. My holding position of camera and other important were completed wrong and that time I was very disappointed. I decided to learn and know about digital cameras and I started my research but at that time I was not provided with internet access by my parents..so I started to get books from my friends and sources like going to a professional photographer and to know more about things but slowly I started to ignore and lost my interest but suddenly some 10 months ago I was inspired by my friends who had started a club for amateur photographer and started to know about them and finally, it's back in my life and this time I am really enjoying it with taking different sort of photographs. Some completed blurred and some with wrong ISO or shutter speed but I will give my 100% and soon be a good photographer.
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At the request of our greatest supporters, who cannot get enough of the museums events and activities. Here is a Schedule of events through next year! Thank you for your support;
2019 Fall Concerts
Plaza Party!
Saturday, September 21, 7:00pm
River Rats in the alley
The evening opens with Josiah Whitley and Charlie Haskins in a collaborative performance of painting and music, followed by The Marys, featuring Casey Smith, performing their latest original music. Free event.
Jazz Fridays
Friday, October 11, 7:00pm,
Recording artist Marlin McKay graces the stage with his band. An evening of easy, rich, soulful jazz.
Tickets; $8 general admission,
$6 members, seniors, students
Sunday Classics
Sponsored by Bard and Jan Suverkrop
Sunday, November 17, 2:00pm
Michael Chertock returns to open the Sunday Classics series. Always a memorable afternoon!
Tickets; $8 general admission,
$6 members, seniors, students
Country Christmas Concert
and Holiday Open House
Thursday, December 5, 7:00
Ring in the Holidays at the Museum!
Direct from Nashville, The Farmer and Adele fills the Museum with holiday favorites, and sing-a-long! Free and open to the public!
5:30 pm: River Currents Exhibition Opening Reception: Meet the Artists!
Katherine Cox, Lacy Golden Davis, and Santha Gwyn exhibit their most recent work
Followed by cookie decorating, Christmas crafts, and concert! Lite bites and refreshments
2019-2020 Exhibitions
September 14 – November 24….In the Kricker Gallery
Southern Threads
Anita Cooke, Ruth Miller, Nonney Oddlokken
Inspired by traditional needle-working methods, these three artists have taken fiber work to new heights, bringing innovative approaches to piecing, embroidery, and applique.
Opening Reception September 14, 1:00-4:00
September 14 – January 5….In the Richards Gallery
Highlights from the Ackerman Collection
Working with Collection Manager Jenna Yoakem, Kent State intern Kaleb Burchett has been scanning, and rescanning images and materials from the Carl Ackerman gift of photographs and ephemera. Presented here are a collection of new scans and old favorites.
December 8 – January 14….In the Kricker Gallery
River Currents
New work by Katherine Cox, Lacy Golden Davis, and Santha Gwyn
An in-depth look at the work of three local artists. While working in different media, they each reflect a personal narrative of the region.
River Currents Opening and Holiday Open House
Thursday, December 8, 5:30 pm
With The Farmer and Adele Country Christmas Concert and Sing-A-Long at 7:30
February 15 – April 11, 2020….In the Kricker Gallery
Grace Martin Taylor:
A Life in Art
Born in Morgantown, WV in 1903, Taylor studied at WVU, and then at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Taylor spent a lifetime exploring printmaking, painting, and collage, reflecting a unique Appalachian sentiment throughout her work. Her work is in many public collections, including the Smithsonian, Boston Museum of Art, and the British Museum.
January 15 – June 10, 2020….In the Richards Gallery
Queen Brooks
Coming to art later in life, Queen Brooks has wasted no time in developing her own, unique voice. Working in multi-media, and often forming constructions, Brooks' work is refreshing, honest, and captivating. Holding an MFA from OSU, Brooks has received the Lila Wallace, Readers Digest International Artist Award, granting an artist-in-residence in the French port city of Abidjan on the Ivory Coast. She has received many awards, including the Ohioana Career Award.
April 25 – June 10….In the Kricker Gallery
The Pattern of Love: The Work of Sumiko and Kaname Takada
Husband and wife artists Sumiko and Kaname Takada share a life in clay. Each, in very different ways, explores the intricasies of complex geometric designs integrated into, and onto, elegant vessel forms; she inlays colored clays into carved designs while he layers glazes in complex geometric patterns over the surface.
June 27 – August 25, 2020
In the Kricker and Richards Galleries
Cream of the Crop
The best of the region! Open to artists who reside within an 85 mile radius of Portsmouth, the Cream of the Crop is a competitive, juried exhibition that showcases the best of the region.
It is the time when our community embraces the unique voices of creativity from our distinct area.
Artwork due June 13 – 16.
Opening reception and awards June 27, 6:00 pm.


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"For the enemy to be recognized and feared, he has to be in your home or on your doorstep. Hence the Jews. Divine providence has given them to us, and so, by God, let us use them, and pray there's always some Jew to fear and to hate. We need an enemy to give the people hope. Someone said that patriotism is the last refuge of cowards; those without moral principles usually wrap a flag around themselves, and the bastards always talk about the purity of the race. National identity is the last bastion of the dispossessed. But the meaning of identity is now based on hatred, on hatred for those who are not the same. Hatred has to be cultivated as a civic passion. The enemy is the friend of the people. You always want someone to hate in order to feel justified in your own misery. Hatred is the true primordial passion. It is love that's abnormal. That is why Christ was killed: he spoke against nature. You don't love someone for your whole life - that impossible hope is the source of adultery, matricide, betrayal of friends ... But you can hate someone for your whole life, provided he's always there to keep your hatred alive. Hatred warms the heart." (Umberto Eco, from The Prague Cemetery)
Limbo #2 (of 6) by Jim Campbell (letterer), Dan Watters (writer), and Caspar Wijngaard (artist). $2.99, 22 pgs, FC, Image.
The idea of television being a stupefying force isn't new, as Watters even kind of admits in this issue, as he has Max Headroom, of all "celebrities," acting a bit as Virgil to Clay's Dante as he navigates the strange world behind the television screen. The idea of recycling celebrities either for ironic effect or nostalgic effect - Max can work both ways in this issue - isn't new either, but Watters isn't trying to tread new ground here, just expose more of the ouroboros for what it is, which is never a bad idea. He gets a double effect, though, and that's why the issue is clever. Clay is trapped in Limbo (hence the title of the comic), and he has no memory of his "life" before he arrived there, which seems par for the course in this book. However, he strives to know who he is, unlike, it seems, like most inhabitants of Limbo. That already makes him unique, and the fact that he's a private detective - helping people unravel mysteries when he's trying to unravel his own - is a good idea, too, as it explains why he gets himself into trouble in this and the first issue. But Watters takes that mystery - the idea that Clay is wandering in a wasteland - and ups the ante with his journey through the weird television landscape of the "teleshaman" (that gentleman on the cover). The double layer of Clay not knowing who he is and then being sucked into a place that attempts to destroy your own identity and make you into a mindless slave is fascinating, as Clay struggles with convivial and homicidal talk show hosts, a skull-faced chef, Betty Boop and crazed cartoons, and many other expressions of televised consumerism. The idea that we draw our identity from television is part of this, and because Clay doesn't have an identity (or at least one he knows), it makes his trip even more fraught. Wijngaard adds static to the equation (not surprising, given the analog world that Limbo seems to be), and static is always a good metaphor for incomprehension and confusion. Watters is lucky to have a collaborator like Wijngaard, who is really good on this comic. He makes Limbo a weird, creepy place full of odd characters, from the pipe-smoking magnetic tape man to the teleshaman himself. Wijngaard doesn't alter his style too much to show the different creatures Clay stumbles into as he moves through the television landscape, but he does a little on Betty Boop and the cartoons, which is neat, and the two pages on which Clay "jumps" channels is very nicely done. His art when Clay is in a video game is inspired, too.
I imagine that the rest of the series will be about the main plot of Clay trying to find out who he is. That's fine and all, but Watters shows here that he's not afraid to add deeper meaning to the comic, and I hope he doesn't forget that moving forward.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ½ ☆ ☆
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Straitjacket #2 (of 4) by Malaka Studio (letterer), Guillermo Sanna (artist/colorist), El Torres (writer), and Jennifer van Gessel (editor). $3.99, 24 pgs, BWR, Amigo Comics.
Considering that Torres is the current best horror writer in comics (yeah, I said it), it's kind of neat that he takes one of his older horror comics (The Veil) and puts it in the same universe as this one. I love shit like that. It's clearly explained, too, so you really don't have to have read The Veil (although you should; it's tremendous) to get what's what in this book. Torres knows that good horror occurs inside the mind, so while he gives us horrific, Morrisonian monsters (they have needles on their fingers, for instance), he keeps us in "reality" so that he can explore the idea that Alex, the protagonist, isn't really seeing these things and is, in fact, hallucinating. The hardest thing in this kind of horror is to make us disbelieve the main character - the main character is the main character, after all, so we're pre-disposed to think that whatever the main character says it happening is actually happening, and damn the doctors and their "logic"! So Torres spends some time explaining what could be wrong with Alex and how she could do some of the things she does, which doesn't exactly make us disbelieve her, but at least makes it plausible that she's truly insane.
The idea of pain is central to this issue (and this comic), as the doctors are trying to lessen Alex's pain even though that's part of who she is, while Thomas lives with both physical pain (I would imagine, as he's in a wheelchair) and emotional pain from the actions that put him in one. He committed a horrific act of violence, as did Alex, yet he's a respected doctor while Alex is in an asylum. Torres hints at the pain he feels, as he's obsessed with forcing Alex to internalize her own pain, much as he seems to have done. Alex ignores him because of what she has seen, but it's an interesting dichotomy that Torres has set up - Alex acts out and is institutionalized, while Thomas suppresses and is awarded by society. If Alex is correct (which, again, we assume she is, as she's the main character), her sacrifice of her brother was a meaningful one, while Thomas's sacrifice of the girl he killed in his drunken stupor isn't. Thomas's murder was accidental, but his drinking wasn't, while Alex's deliberate murder was, as she sees it, for a far greater purpose. Thomas tries to kill Alex's pain because he has tried to kill his own, but Alex knows that her pain keeps her vital. As with Limbo, this isn't a new theme, but Torres does a nice job with it. What do we do when that which makes us alive is taken from us? That's something worth exploring.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ½ ☆ ☆
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Trees #13 ("In the Trap") by Warren Ellis (writer), Fonografiks (letterer), and Jason Howard (artist). $2.99, 20 pgs, FC, Image.
Ellis brings up a compelling point in this issue: Why the hell wouldn't people move as far away from the trees as they could? It seems that might cost them in the long run.
This is an action-packed issue of Trees, as Ellis packs the first 8 pages with exposition and then says, "You know what? Fuck it, I'm tired. Hey, Jason Howard - draw a lot of shit blowing up." So Howard does, and it's really well done. His depiction of New York has always been nice, as it's clear it's still a large city but the raise in the sea levels has turned it post-apocalyptic, with buildings rising from the water and boats chugging through deep canals between skyscrapers. There's a haze at sea level, which turns the buildings ghostly and adds to the sensation of decay and tragedy. The mayor sends drones and police in to clear out the smugglers, and they do it with extreme prejudice. Howard stages the fight really well, as he gives us a good sense of the buildings right around the ambush site so that when the smugglers run, it's clear they have places to run to. What's really nice is the way he draws the faces - the head smuggler figures out something is up a bit too late, and his face reflects that, while the mayor's evil, shit-eating grin is terrifying as he contemplates the murders he has ordered. Ellis, as he tends to do, ends this issue very abruptly, but the title of the issue gives us an indication why - both police and smugglers are caught in a trap, which snaps shut on the final page and cuts us off from the rest of the story. Of course, the characters in the first part of the issue make the allusion more obvious, but that theme carries over, and as the police and criminals battle around the New York tree, they don't realize they're locked into traps as much as anyone else living near a tree. They just don't see it. Oh, look at Ellis, commenting on people's lives while writing a weird science-fiction comic!
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆
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Gotham Academy #12 by Cloonan, Fletcher, Kerschl, LaPointe, and Msassyk.* $2.99, 20 pgs, FC, DC. Hugo Strange created by Bill Finger and Bob Kane.
* There are no credits in this comic. Those names are from the cover. I assume they're the same as always, which means this is Becky, Brenden, Karl, Serge, and Michelle, but it might not be!!!!
This is the final "real" issue of Gotham Academy before the "Robin War" crossover (which I also bought this week, as my shop didn't get this issue when it shipped, what, two weeks ago?), so I'll talk about why I'm dropping this book. It's tough to really figure out why, because it's a clever conceit, the art is good, and I tend to like comics that are set in a superhero universe but don't necessarily star superheroes. I don't even think it's the fact that I'm an old person and this is all youth-oriented and hip. I like a lot of other books that star characters much younger than I am, which is, at my age, basically all of them. So what's going on with this?
Beats me. I know that I'm just not connecting to the characters. Maps is probably my favorite, but even she doesn't really have the best personality. Olive remains fairly dull, and her protestations about being Maps's friend just don't feel real to me, because she doesn't really act like it. It's weird that after 12 issues, I don't really have much sense of who the characters are - I mean, I know some external things about them, like Olive's mother issues, but I don't know why Olive was ever attracted to Kyle, for instance, and Pomeline remains a cipher. Cloonan and Fletcher just seem to shuffling them from adventure to adventure, but even the adventures don't seem to have much weight to them. It's really hard to explain, because of the fact that this book just isn't connecting with me, so whenever I think about explaining why, I just lose interest in even doing that.
I also don't like the fact that Fletcher and Cloonan are using established Batman villains as faculty of the school. I mean, Hugo Strange is one of the absolute oldest Batman bad guys, so the fact that he's, you know, a bad guy in this issue when they've been trying to show that he's not all that bad isn't really that surprising. I mean, he's Hugo Strange! So even the adventures and the bad guys aren't that interesting. It's just frustrating.
Obviously, there are always comics that people just don't connect with, and no amount of critical acclaim or peer pressure will change that. I've failed to connect with comics in the past, and I will in the future. Unlike some other comics I stopped getting, there's nothing I can really say about Gotham Academy that points to why I don't like it. It's just not doing it for me. And that's okay.
Rating: Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
One totally Airwolf panel: A picture of Claudia Cardinale, because why the hell not.
Codename Baboushka #3 ("The Conclave of Death Part Three") by Simon Bowland (letterer), Shari Chankhamma (artist), and Antony Johnston (writer). $3.99, 22 pgs, FC, Image.
Speaking of comics that aren't thrilling me, we get to Codename Baboushka, which bothers me more than not digging Gotham Academy, because it's written by a writer I tend to like and it's creator-owned, so I want it to be better. First of all, Chankhamma's art isn't wowing me. It's definitely not bad, but when I'm reading this comic, I'm too aware of things that don't work. Her choreography is okay, but occasionally she tries to cram too much into a panel and it throws the perspective off, as is the case when Annika gets bonked on the head - it's too cramped, so it doesn't have the impact it should. When the pirate smacks Tanaka across the face, the panel is too small, so the sweep of his arm and his weapon look out of perspective and the smack doesn't look as devastating as it should (the fact that the book is surprisingly bloodless - the panel below notwithstanding - is strange, too, given how violent it is). Chankhamma's background work isn't great, either. I know that the action is taking place on a cruise ship and therefore might be as bland as she draws it, but there's very little sense of the spaces in which the action occurs. Felton's room, which has been trashed, is oddly blank, and right before Annika gets bonked on the head, she's walking down a hall that Chankhamma chooses to color with a dull green, destroying any interesting parts of that setting. She does this a lot - the characters are colored well so they stand out, but the rest of the book seemingly takes place against dully colored screens. It makes the book a bit enervating. When she does use more colorful backgrounds - Annika and Seamus end up in what looks like a jungle at one point - she simply "paints" in green leaves with very few holding lines, which is a different kind of strange, as it's contrasted with the heavier lines she uses on the figures, and therefore still seems to place them in a different place than the backgrounds, as if the backgrounds were green-screened in later. It's a frustrating read, because it's clear that Chankhamma is a decent artist, but the shortcuts (I assume these are shortcuts) she takes makes the book less immersive.
I shouldn't exempt Johnston, either, because his story could be better. I like Johnston's writing and I like Johnston personally, but something is off with this. The way this book unfolds is simply too predictable, and it's something I've often thought about, as I do write occasionally (not as much as I'd like, but occasionally). I wonder about predictability, because a writer has to be careful about being too predictable but also not being too crazy that plot points appear out of nowhere. It's a very fine line, and I know that writers have places to be and things to do, so predictability sometimes becomes a necessity. Johnston was never too predictable when he wrote Wasteland, and the late, lamented Umbral didn't slide too much into predictability, either, and his current work on The Fuse, despite seeming to be built for predictability (it's a police procedural, for crying out loud!), avoids it for the most part. Johnston likes spy stories, however, but he hasn't quite figured them out yet, it seems. The Coldest City was a bit too by-the-numbers for my taste, and so far, so is Baboushka. Like Chankhamma's art, it's not like the story is bad, it's just predictable. Anyone who couldn't see the ending of this issue just isn't paying attention, and even though I'm never looking for surprises, this one was easy to spot even for a doofus like me. It gets back to predictability - Johnston obviously wanted to end this issue with Annika in peril, and that's fine, but I wonder if he stopped to think that the way she got there was too predictable. I'm certainly not a great writer, but when I write, I'm constantly thinking of the way the plot would play out if it were a popular television show or middle-of-the-road movie. If I find myself going in that direction, I tend to stop and rethink what I'm doing. Johnston has created an interesting character with Annika, but he's put her into a standard plot, and it's almost like he can't escape it. He's beholden to no one on this book, so I wonder why he would go along this route. I'm a terrible plotter - I like creating characters, and usually my plots come second and if you ever read my work, you can certainly tell - so I don't know what the temptation would be in this kind of situation. I just know it's frustrating reading this, because like a lot of comics I want to like, I can see the goodness lurking in it, but it just doesn't make the leap to good. I'm definitely going to read the entire arc (I don't know if next issue or the following one is the final issue of the story) and assess it, but right now, it's just bugging me because I read it with a weird mixture of anticipation and trepidation, and who likes that?
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ½ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
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Rebels #9 ("Stone Hoof") by Jordie Bellaire (colorist), Jared K. Fletcher (letterer), Andrea Mutti (artist), Brian Wood (writer), Spencer Cushing (editor), and Dave Marshall (editor). $3.99, 22 pgs, FC, Dark Horse.
What makes revolutions so upsetting to the regular folk (not the actual rebels, who are keen on it, nor the rulers, who could conceivably lose their lives) is the fact that people tend not to like change, even positive change. Nostalgia is not a positive force, no matter how much I claim that Manimal is the greatest work of art ever conceived by man, and when nostalgia is yoked to the upheaval of revolution, is becomes something even more insidious. "Stone Hoof" isn't exactly a story of the American Revolution, as Rebels purports to be about, as it takes place during the French and Indian War (1754-1763), but it's still about this fracturing and what it does to people. Wood tells of Stone Hoof, a young Shawnee who helped build a fort in the Ohio Valley before the war and befriended Will Henderson, a British settler. When the war begins, Stone Hoof visits the fort after an interim of several years and tries to warn Henderson about the Indians rising up, but a few years after that, the Shawnee are part of the alliance with the French and attack the fort, leading to a final confrontation between Stone Hoof and Henderson. Henderson wants things to return to an antebellum idyll that was able to accommodate Stone Hoof, but people grow up and situations change. Wood wisely doesn't belabor the point, but he still makes it - Henderson doesn't want the Indians to grow up, so to speak, and when Stone Hoof does, he doesn't know how to handle the fact that the boy who helped him has his own ideas about life. Wood slides in the paternalistic attitude many whites had toward those people they considered "inferior" - Stone Hoof is never a slave, and Henderson seems far more enlightened about the natives than more settlers, but he still yearns for a time when Stone Hoof was a boy and did what he was told. Time is the great destroyer, true, but war also severs us from our past and makes anything from before the violent times seem better. It was certainly better for Henderson, but probably not for Stone Hoof. Henderson, naturally can't really see that. Even though Stone Hoof isn't particularly happy with his French allies (who see the Indians in much the same way as the British), he's making his own decisions now, and that bothers Henderson. It's an interesting idea to bring up in the middle of a story about warriors fighting each other, and it's well done by Wood.
I won't say anything much about Mutti except to note that he's still doing amazing work on this series. I don't know how long this series will run, but I hope Mutti is always available for the random single issue or short arc. That would be nice.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ½ ☆ ☆
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Gotham Academy #13 ("Robins vs. Zombies") by Adam Archer (penciller), Brenden Fletcher (writer), Sandra Hope (inker), Serge LaPointe (colorist), Steve Wands (letterer), and Rebecca Taylor (editor). $2.99, 20 pgs, FC, DC.
Like the issue prior to this one (issue #12, see above), I have very little to say about this one. I don't plan on buying "Robin War," so I'm a bit lost - why are Robins illegal, for instance? - but I figured the one-two punch of this and issue #12 would allow me to get a better handle on whether I wanted to drop the book. Even though this isn't part of the "regular" run, it still features the characters from the book, so I figured reading two issues of them together might help with the fact that I find them bland. Um, nope. Fletcher tries to create false drama when Maps is pissed that the new girl is staying in Olive's room for one night, as Maps thinks that means Riko is now Olive's BFF and they both suck, but at least the drama only lasts a page because it's really stupid. The Court of Owls thing was just weird - I don't mind that they show up out of nowhere, because, again, it's a crossover and experienced readers roll with it, but were they zombies? If so, wha-huh? I always like it when people figure out ways to deal with strange things that don't involve punching them, so Olive's talk with the main zombie was neat, but as usual with Gotham Academy, so much of this just felt ... dull. Again, I guess it gets back to the fact that I haven't really connected with the characters in GA, so anything they do isn't all that interesting, but I thought maybe reading two issues in a row might make me care a bit more about them. It didn't, but that's okay. Everyone doesn't have to like everything, after all.
Rating: N/A
One totally Airwolf panel: Since I'm in a Pink Panther mood (see above), here's Fran Jeffries, because why the hell not?
Stray Bullets: Sunshine and Roses #10 ("Enough Rope") by David Lapham (writer/artist) and Maria Lapham (editor). $3.50, 28 pgs, BW, Image.
Up above, I mentioned how Shari Chankhamma sets Codename Baboushka in a place that doesn't have many distinguishing features, and that's too bad, because a good misc-en-scene can really help a comic be more memorable. It's not the only reason or even the most important reason that Stray Bullets is so good (and I don't mean to compare a veteran like Lapham with a relative newcomer like Chankhamma, but there it is), but the fact that Lapham always puts his characters in places that look real (and probably are, at least they were in Baltimore in 1981) is pretty cool. As Beth freaks out and drives all over the place buying suspicious contraband, we get a sense of how far and wide she travels in just a few panels. Lapham uses nice big shadows to show how dark Beth's and Orson's lives are becoming as they scheme, using them particularly well in the panel where Beth looks around at the wreckage of the room and realizes how insane their plan is (even though we know they're still going through with it). She talks to Kretchmeyer at a miniature golf course, and Lapham does a nice job both with the wide-open space of the place (to make sure the two aren't overheard) and the weird, childlike nature of the game itself, as Beth and Orson are almost children playing with the adults, and they really don't know what they're getting into. Rose's crappy apartment lends her pathetic life even more sadness, and Beth's journey from her apartment to Nina's is a fascinating voyage both from squalor to luxury but also safety to danger. Lapham always makes sure that the action in his books takes place in recognizable and authentic places, even the Amy Racecar fantasies, and it's part of what separates Stray Bullets from other comics. I mean, it's not fair to compare one of the best comics out there right now with a new book with a newer artist, but it's still something that struck me as I read the books this week.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆
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Harrow County #8 by Cullen Bunn (writer), Tyler Crook (artist; writer, "Tales of Harrow County"), Simon Roy (artist, "Tales of Harrow County"), Ian Tucker (assistant editor), and Daniel Chabon (editor). $3.99, 26 pgs, FC, Dark Horse.
I love reading television recaps. I'm sorry, I just do. The ones at The A.V. Club are really good, and the superhero shows Comics Alliance does are pretty good, too (especially when Jesse L. Martin breaks out his Business Beanie, which he really hasn't done enough this season). On one site (I can't remember which, sorry), they speak of the rapidity with which The Flash goes through plot, as it really does seem to zip quickly from one plot point to another. The speed of the plot means we can't dwell on the ridiculousness of some of the plot points, unlike on, say, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., where lingering on plot points highlights how stupid they are. This idea came to my mind as I read Harrow County, which is eight issues in but has just finished its second arc, and Bunn seems to be "churning through plot" quite a lot. I expected a bit more out of Kammi, to be frank, but who knows if she's gone for good. I still like Harrow County, but I do worry about the pace. Bunn wants to write a horror story, it seems, but the pace of the book makes it feel more of an action comic, as the instant we get anything weird and creepy, we speed to the end of an arc and we get a fight to determine the future direction of the book. It makes me wonder why Bunn is doing it this way, and I hope it's not because of the publisher. Dark Horse has moved, it seems, toward four-issue trades, and so far, Harrow County has conformed to that, with two four-issue arcs. So the question is: Did Bunn do this because Dark Horse suggested he do it, which would be kind of annoying. Bunn could have wanted to zip through plot, certainly, but it seems weird for a book like Harrow County, where mood feels more important and it needs time to ferment. Emmy has already come to terms with her past and met her "twin sister," and we're only on issue #8, which seems fast. If Dark Horse suggested he tighten things up, that would suck, because why would they want something that they know needs a slow burn and then ignore that? If Bunn shifted it to fit Dark Horse's "four-issue trade" format, that sucks too, because as much as it would be his choice, it would still be something different from the story he wants to tell. I don't know what's going on behind the scenes with this comic, but I smell something fishy.
Of course, I still like the book. It's neat, and Crook's art is really good. But you know me - I wonder about these things. Of course, I also wonder where the final arc of The Sixth Gun is. COME ON!!!!!
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ½ ☆ ☆
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Black Panther by Christopher Priest: The Complete Collection volume 2 by Jim Owsley (writer) and a bunch of artists. $34.99, FC, Marvel.
I still find the fact that Marvel splits these "complete collections" into more than one volume hilarious, but that's okay. This looks fun. And hey, is that BP mackin' on Storm? That's just crazy!
Flinch volume 1 by lots of writers and lots of artists. $16.99, FC, DC/Vertigo.
Nice of DC to collect this, right?
Planetes Omnibus volume 1 by Makoto Yukimura (writer/artist). $19.99, 523 pgs, BW, Dark Horse.
Man, I really have to catch up on my manga reading. It's piling up!
Quest for the Time Bird volume 1: Ramor's Conch by Serge Le Tendre (writer), Régis Loisel (artist), Ivanka Hahnenberger (translator), and Lizzie Kaye (collection editor). $39.99, 230 pgs, FC, Titan Comics.
Who doesn't love French adventure fantasy from the 1970s? Commies, that's who. Although, considering that most of France was Commie in the 1970s, maybe they do like 1970s French adventure fantasy!
Underworld by Ed Brisson (letterer), GMB Chomichuk (artist), Lovern Kindzierski (writer), and Alexander Finbow (editor). $24.99, BW, Renegade Arts Entertainment.
On the back of this book, Kindzierski and Chomichuk are described as "two of Winnipeg's most successful creative minds." I know I shouldn't find that humorous, but I really, really do.
The Complete Voodoo volume 1 by Craig Yoe (editor). $29.99, FC, IDW/Yoe Books.
There's not a lot of Matt Baker art in this collection (most of it is from the Iger shop), but there's some Matt Baker art, and any Matt Baker art is worth a look!
We Can Never Go Home volume 1 by Tyler Boss (colorist), Jim Campbell (letterer), Josh Hood (artist), David C. Hopkins (letterer), Patrick Kindlon (writer), Brian Level (artist), Matthew Rosenberg (writer), and Amanda Scurti (colorist). $9.99, FC, Black Mask Comics.
If this isn't any good, I'll just blame Travis. I find that works for most things.
Hey, let's take a look at the scheduling of the comics and if they came out on time! That's always fun!
Black Panther: 9 December. Right on time!Codename Baboushka: 9 December. Right on time!Flinch: 9 December. This is 15 years old or so, so it's not surprising it's on time.Gotham Academy: Issue #12 came out on the 11th of November, but it got screwed up in the shipping to my store. Issue #13 is right on time, though!Harrow County: 9 December. Right on time!Limbo: 9 December. Right on time!Planetes: 9 December. Right on time!Quest for the Time Bird: 16 September. Three months late. Better late than never!Rebels: 9 December. Right on time!Straitjacket: 28 October. This may have come out on time, but my store didn't get it and needed to re-order it.Stray Bullets: 18 November. Three weeks late. Yet worth the wait!Trees: 16 September. Three months late. Oh dear.Underworld: 9 December. Right on time!The Complete Voodoo: 28 October. Six weeks late. Why? No man can say!We Can Never Go Home: 25 November. Two weeks late. So sad!
Money spent this week: $215.22. YTD: $6990.77
As you might have noticed, the blog turned 11 a few days ago, and I've been writing for it for about 10¾ years of its existence. I'm not sure how I became aware of the existence of the blog, as I had just started my own blog in September 2004, but I'm sure I was led there by some comics blogger who was smarter than I was. I poked around on the old archives and found my first comment, on 20 December 2004 about a post that Brian put up on the 19th, so very soon after the blog started - he asked for our favorite X-Men issues, and boy howdy was I going to answer that! So I'm definitely an OG on the blog, although I noticed that Dan Apodaca commented on the very first "real" post - the first two were introductory - on 11 December, so he's even more OG than I am. Dan's the only one of the very early commenters that still occasionally comment here (unless some people have changed their screen names), but I still miss him because he doesn't comment as often as he used to (hi, Dan!). Anyway, I think it's very cool that CSBG is still trucking along, as it's a rare leftover from that period of blogging, what I would call the "pioneer" phase of comics blogging (and blogging in general). That period began, what, around the turn of the millennium or maybe a year or two later (Neilalien started in 2000, if I recall correctly) and lasted until the "Wild West" phase, around 2007-2010, when the scene really exploded and things were just crazy. Now we're into the "civilized" period, when everything has settled, many early blogs have fallen away as people got respectable jobs, and the sense of insanity is gone, even though there's a some very good quality out there. I love writing for this blog, even if I have some issues with the format (I really hate the ads at the bottom of each post, but that's just something we have to live with, I guess). I think it's a great blog, and I'm kind of bummed that many of our contributors don't contribute any longer. I love reading The Dread Lord and Master's weird posts, and Other Greg's reminiscences, and Chad's occasional drop-ins (I haven't commented on his Dreadstar posts, but I read every single one of them), but I miss the others. I know Kelly is too busy conquering comics to write for us anymore, and I'm pretty sure I know why Sonia has taken a break, but I don't want to comment further about that, and I miss the other writers, too, who have come and gone. Still, it's a lot of fun writing here, even as my time gets crunched even more and I can't spend as much time with it as I'd like. So Happy Birthday, Comics Should Be Good, and as always, I have to thank Brian for offering me the gig. It's been very cool.
I don't have much else to say this week. I guess there's some sort of science-fiction movie coming out this week that people seemed jazzed about, so maybe I'll write more about that next week. I expect I'll see it, but I'm not sure when I'll get to it. We'll see.
I did want to do a Top Ten List, and today I'll list my favorite post-1988 Marillion songs. I've already listed my pre-1988 favorites, but their original lead singer, Fish, left the band after their 1987 album, and their new lead singer, Steve Hogarth, brought a different vibe to the band. I know some people gave up on the band after that, but I think Marillion is still terrific with Hogarth, and I've been a big fan of their work even post-Fish. I was inspired to do this by the announcement of their new album, which I hope will be out in 2016 (Marillion was an early pioneer of crowdsourcing, as every one of their albums since 2000 has been financed that way, including this new one), and their new tour dates, which will bring them to Philadelphia on 6 November 2016. I've already seen them twice, but I'm going to try to be in Philly for that concert. Who's with me?!?!? Anyway, this was a hard list to make, because they're my favorite band, but I think this is a good list. As always, the songs that just didn't quite make the cut, like "House" and "Interior Lulu" from 1999 and "Cathedral Wall" and "These Chains" from 1998, are as close to the list as the tenth and ninth songs on this list, but I just like those a bit more!
10. "Between You And Me" (2001). This is the first track off Anoraknophobia, and it kicks the album into high gear nicely, with a pulsing guitar part and joyous lyrics and singing by Hogarth. It drives us forward well and sets a good tone for the album, which is a bit happier than the previous two albums. It's also from the last really good-to-great Marillion album (the four since have ranged from their worst album to just decent), and this song is a good table-setter for that, too. The lyrics are here.
9. "You're Gone" (2004). Marbles is one of those just decent albums, but this song is tremendous. The music is spooky, as Steve Rothery's guitar comes in with eerie tones, but it also has a great beat, with very cool drumming by Ian Mosley. Hogarth's plaintive lyrics about lost love and the brief moments where two souls can be together (this is a musical version of Ladyhawke, essentially) are really nice, and this was before his voice started to go, so he sings it really powerfully. Here are the lyrics!
8. "Afraid Of Sunrise"/"Afraid Of Sunlight" (1995). These are two different songs, but they're linked, and it's really too difficult for me to separate them, so I'm not going to! The first song is a bit more languid, while the second one starts quietly but builds to a painful conclusion, as the songs are about self-destructive streaks in people and how it drives them to greatness and death. Hogarth's lyrics, which are never going to be as poetical as Fish's, are still excellent, as he cuts more to the core of things: "I'm already dead, it's a matter of time." These are the lyrics to the first song, and these are the lyrics to the second one!
7. "Brave" (1994). This is the title track of Marillion's "comeback" album (after an attempt at commercial success with Holidays In Eden in 1991, which did not go well), and it's terrific. It begins with bagpipe-sounding keyboards (I assume they're Mark Kelly's keyboards and not an actual bagpipe), and throughout the song, we get nice, eerie reverb backing up Hogarth's terrific vocals. The lengthy instrumental section in the middle makes the song more insistent and scary, as the lyrics about a missing girl turn into a strange search through unfamiliar worlds, with Kelly doing some stellar work that feels both immediate and reminiscent of Fish-era Marillion (this album is probably the most Fish-era-esque of Hogarth's albums, so that's not surprising). Check out the haunting lyrics here!
6. "Waiting To Happen" (1991). Speaking of Holidays In Eden, while it's probably Marillion's second-worst album (which doesn't mean it's bad, as Somewhere Else is so much worse than any album they've ever released, but something has to be second-worst!), mainly because of their blatant attempt to grab commercial success, that doesn't mean there aren't good songs on it, and this excellent love song is the best one. The music is very nice, Hogarth's lyrics are sweet - my favorites are "We took ourselves apart / We talked about our faces / You said you didn't like yours / I said I disagree" - and he sings with great conviction. It's just a wonderful song. Read the rest of the lyrics here!
5. "Genie" (2004). Hogarth began to have trouble with falsetto on Marillion's next album, but he still manages to do a nice job with it here, which helps make the song work. This is a terrific song about being scared of change but trying to embrace it, and Hogarth sells it well, while Rothery's soaring guitar solo makes it a more triumphant song than we might expect. This is my favorite Marillion song of the past 15 years - it's a perfect mix of yearning, trepidation, fear, and hope, and the band does amazing work with it. Take a look at the lyrics here!
4. "Man Of A Thousand Faces" (1997). This Strange Engine isn't a great album (it's pretty good, though), but it starts off with this amazing song, with superb lyrics by John Helmer about history and the way humanity has changed over the centuries. Hogarth sings the lyrics beautifully, and Rothery's acoustic guitar provides a nice backdrop until Kelly's piano solo comes in. The song ends with a lengthy quasi-instrumental section that becomes spacey and hectic, as the musicians swirl the song into a tornado of sound, with strong bass by Pete Trewavas and pounding drumming by Mosley. Here are the lyrics!
3. "Easter" (1989). Marillion's first post-Fish album, Seasons End, was the first CD I ever bought, and it includes this great song about the Easter Rebellion of 1916. Hogarth's voice is wonderful, as he sings the heartfelt lyrics really well, but the song also features a nifty short keyboard solo by Kelly and a brilliant guitar solo by Rothery (it does sound very much like a Fish-era solo, but that's probably to be expected). It's just a great song. The lyrics are here!
2. "King" (1995). Afraid Of Sunlight is a superb album, and it ends with this great song, which is about the price of celebrity and even the strangeness of celebrity itself. It builds slowly throughout its 7-minute run time, until it bursts open with a rage of crashing drums and haunting guitars and painfully sad vocals, as Hogarth ends with "I hope for your sake you've got what it takes to be spoilt to death" before Rothery crunches in and Mosley's drums and Kelly's keyboards build to a thunderous and disquieting crescendo. It's really a wonderful song. See the lyrics!
1. "Go!" (1999). This song begins with a pulsing guitar and a spooky keyboard before Hogarth comes in with his ethereal lyrics about changing your life for the positive. The lyrics (which you can read here) are short and not as metaphorical as some of Hogarth's, but he sings them with beautiful conviction, and the music behind him is tremendous. The song builds to a great moment where Hogarth sings "Wide awake on the edge of the world," and it always gives me chills, especially with Mosley providing such nice clashing cymbals behind it. marillion.com is a wonderful album (it's not the best post-Fish album because it has a couple of lousy songs mixed in with so many great ones), and this song is emblematic of its power.
I don't have much else to write about today, and it's already Sunday afternoon, so let's do some Totally Random Lyrics. No one guessed last week's, which were from "You Were The Generation That Bought More Shoes" by Johnny Boy:
Here's some for this week!
"I'm not the only soul who's accused of hit and runTire tracks all across your backI can, I can see you had your funBut, darlin' can't you see my signals turn from green to redAnd with you I can see a traffic jam straight up ahead"
That's probably too easy, but such is life!
Have a great day, everyone!


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Emmerdale's Daz involved in drunken hit and run after kids' dangerous joyride
Daz Spencer is involved in drunken hit and run on tonight's Emmerdale.
But he's not the victim, as Daz is the dangerous driver behind the wheel of the car when it hits a person in the road.
Daz gets into this mess after being left stranded in the middle of nowhere after misreading the signals with new boss Trish.
Outraged at his claims that she wants him, furious Trish kicks him out of the cab without his wallet or phone.
Stunned Daz then comes across his car, which has been left in a field after the kids take it on a dangerous joyride.
Daz gets the wrong end of the stick with Trish
Daz is kicked out and left stranded
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Noah and Leanna steal the keys then trick Amelia into joining them as they speed down the country lanes.
Tensions quickly boil over and an argument ensues between the misbehaving schoolchildren.
Leanna is distracted when Amelia pulls her hair, causing the car to come off the road and swerve onto a grass verge.
The kids decide to take Daz's car for a joyride
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While walking home, drunken Daz is mystified when he spots his car.
He decides to risk driving home while drunk, which has deadly consequences for someone.
Who has been hit by Daz's car? And are they dead?
Daz is going to be in big trouble
Meanwhile, Doug offers an olive branch to Bob after punching him in the face.
Elsewhere, Paddy returns to the village and makes a gesture to Chas.
*Emmerdale airs tonight on ITV at 7pm and 8pm
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Corruption: Minister summons report on crooked officers
KARACHI: Sindh Minister for Food and Mines and Minerals Manzoor Hussain Wasan on Monday summoned a report on officers of Food Department involved in corruption scandals.
He said this while issuing instructions to departmental officers at his office, where Secretary Food Laeeq Ahmed. Director Food Ahmed Ali Qureshi and other officers were present.
The minister asked to accelerate investigation process against the negligence and corrupt officers in his department. He said good workers should be appreciated to enhance the performance of department while the no irregularity and bribery would be tolerated.


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