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|Release Date: 9/26/12
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PATHFINDER #2Writer: Jim Zub
Artist: Andrew Huarat
Publisher: Dynamite Entertainment
Reviewer: Optimous Douche
I'm a long-time D&D dork, but sadly life has limited my days of hours-long campaigns with bong hits and Led Zepplin in the background down to 30 minute WoW jaunts between honey-do lists and dog walking.
So I'll fully admit PATHFINDER the RPG passed me by. Nonetheless, my love for orcs and crits remains steadfast and true. If I can't get carpal tunnel rolling 20 side die, I'm grateful to still have time for comics so Dungeon Masters like Jim Zub can run me through their campaigns on page.
Zub seems forever steeped in the ghost of Tolkien. Whether by design or circumstance I'm not sure, but it suits him. I'm a HUGE fan of Zub's tongue in cheek tale of yore SKULLKICKERS, where a dwarf and strong guy crack wise at traditional fantasy tropes – if you haven't read it, check it ooouuuttt.
For PATHFINDER, Zub straps on his serious face to deliver a tale of rhyming goblins infected by a virus that transforms them from their usual state of just being a nuisance into marauding blood-thirsty hordes.
Of course, no threat would be complete without a band of heroes to stop them in their tracks. Again, I don't know PATHFINDER the game for dick, but I do know fantasy. Zub not only strikes the chord of class balancing from a powers perspective, but more importantly, he provides a differentiation of voice in accordance with each class. The team consists of Valeros the drunken brash warrior; Seoni, the wise calculating sorceress; Merisiel, the doe-eyed elven rogue; Ezren, the wise wizard; Harsk, the surly Dwarf guide; and last but not least, Kyra the wise, soulful, and serene cleric.
Zub melds these personalities into perfect usefulness on and off the battlefield. Whether trading barbs in a bar or battle cries amidst bloodshed, each adds a new and distinct layer to the tale that would be missed were they not there.
Speaking of bloodshed, Good God is Huarat a great artist. From facial expressions in the quiet moments to dismembered goblins, Huarat expertly brings the moments of PATHFINDER to glorious life in every panel. Likewise with each background. When Valeros first meets Kyra in the middle of an open field, I could almost feel a soft summer breeze emanating from the page.
Fans of PATHFINDER are brain dead if they don't buy this book. Aside from seeing a campaign spring to life, the back of the book is packed with maps and enough 8d stats to almost make the book encyclopedic in nature. Not a PATHFINDER player? That's A-OK. Zub makes the story as close to other fantasy fare as possible without outright aping previous authors. In fact, I was pleased to see he has immense talent outside the immense snark of SKULLKICKERS. Parody isn't easy, but it's certainly easier than dipping into a well where many buckets have been before.
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FURY MAX: MY WAR GONE BY #6Writer: Garth Ennis
Artist: Goran Parlov
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Reviewer: The Dean
Jack Kirby once said that while Ben Grimm was likely the way most people saw him, Nick Fury was the way he wished people saw him. Had New York ever been teeming with Viet Cong or threatened by Cuban revolutionaries in the 1920s, he may have grown into the grizzled, ruthless man we see in FURY MAX: MY WAR GONE BY. Lucky for us, though, Teddy Roosevelt and his elite regiment of "Power Rangers" beat back Professor Ratigan's Foot Clan, preventing the spread of communism to New York, and Jack grew into the ever lovin' King of Comics we remember today (WARNING: this review may not be historically accurate). But say there were some alternate dimension where a grim, more vicious Jack loved nothing more than cursing and whores – well, this alternate reality may very well be where Garth Ennis found his Nick Fury here.
This is Ennis' third Fury-centric series (FURY MAX and FURY: PEACEMAKER precede this one), and arguably his best. MY WAR GONE BY is a guided tour of the Cold War that's sure to leave readers not just with PTSD, but also a better understanding of the man behind the eye-patch. The first four issues focused on Fury in French Indochina in the early 50s, as he witnesses the beginnings of a very different war with a very different enemy. Issue five then shot us ahead to the start of the Bay of Pigs invasion, where Fury and two other soldiers are tasked with assassinating Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. If you know your history, neither of these operations go so well, and Fury begins this issue in captivity.
There's a fair amount of Ennis brutality in these first six issues, but it's far more contained in this new series, and I think much more effective. MY WAR GONE BY is an attempt to explore the mind of Nick Fury, examining those moments that turned him into the grim, bitter man we see in more modern settings, or in some of Ennis' other stories. Those horrific scenes that warrant the MAX label go a long way in explaining the why behind Fury's permanent scowl, and they typically resonate long after you read the issue's final pages more for their psychological impact than for their gruesome cool factor.
When Goran Parlov draws a head being pressed in a vice, though, that gruesome cool factor is pretty considerable. Parlov joins Ennis once again for this Fury run, and I wouldn't have it any other way. You can almost see a little bit of light leave the Colonel's one remaining eye with every nightmare he lives through. I love the way Parlov draws Fury, but I knew that going into this, so what I'm most thrilled by here is the introspective tone he captures in his framing, and awesome sense of setting he maintains despite the closely cropped panels. The looks on his characters' faces alone go a long way in informing readers that these characters are strangers in a strange land, but like those disgustingly awesome horror elements, each opportunity to flesh out a background is effectively placed, making the varying locales distinctly memorable, and thus closely affiliated with those momentous events in Fury's life.
I usually prefer comics to their movie counterparts, and barring one or two exceptions, never get too excited when I hear news of a characters jump to the silver screen. That being said, I need to see this Nick Fury on film. If the only Fury you know is the guy who makes cameos in various Marvel movies, you should really give this series a shot. It doesn't get much better than Ennis and Parlov in general, but put them on a war story that delves into the mind of one of Marvel's preeminent badasses, and you've got an essential read on your hands.
BATMAN INC. #0Writer: Grant Morrison & Chris Burnham
Art: Frazer Irving
Publisher: DC Comics
Reviewer: Henry Higgins is My Homeboy
BATMAN INC. has been consistently the strongest Batman title in recent memory. The final act in Morrison's Batman epic, it's all been building to the climatic battle between the armies of Leviathan and Batman. Sadly, the tragedy in Colorado over the summer halted the series temporarily, and it feels like ages since we've seen any traction within the story. This issue bears the #0 numbering, reflecting DC's prequel month that is just finishing up. And while the story doesn't necessarily advance, Morrison uses the time to explore how exactly Batman recruited so many like-minded heroes to his cause. Morrison and Irving excel with the format.
Morrison uses the issue to tell how various heroes have been recruited by Batman. The vignettes following each hero transition seamlessly from the classical superheroics of Knight to the exciting recruitment of Dark Ranger to the comedic moments with El Gaucho. They never feel out of place, each one instead being its own fully constructed moment. The issue is fantastic, and is a joy to read.
Irving's art may at times become a little muddled and confusing, but when it works, it works. During an early scene, Lucius Fox introduces Bruce Wayne to the next line of Batman androids. Watching the Batmen in action is simply fantastic. The blend of colours helps turn an oft-seen scene (of the hero getting a tour of the lab) and makes it visually engaging and exciting. The framing of the book is expertly handled, always finding an interesting angle or unique placement. No one character is mistakable with another, and Irving takes command of the comic in a way few artists can.
The flow of action later during the Dark Ranger vs. Knight fight is especially brilliant. Every time Irving gets an opportunity to show one of the Batmen in action, the comic kicks up and looks remarkable.
(5/5): An extremely solid comic, and one of the most enjoyable "prequel" comics to come out to the best of my memory.
TAKIO #3Writer: Brian Michael Bendis
Artist: Michael Avon Oeming
Publisher: Marvel Icon
Reviewer: Masked Man
So Brian and Michael's super-powered middle schooler keeps rolling along in her second miniseries. I didn't catch the first graphic novel, but if you're like me, never fear--Bendis does a good job of keeping everyone up to speed on what is going on in this issue.
It is an all ages comic, so Bendis keeps everything light and breezy. Aside from Oeming's artwork, nothing really jumps out at me in this issue. In fact, the issue is so breezy that not much happens at all. We do get two fight scenes, but it's pretty much the same fight scene repeated twice. The bulk of the issue mostly defines the changed relationship between Takio and Kelly Sue: once best friends, now enemies. The issue is so breezy, though, I didn't think it was necessary to spend that much time on establishing the change in the character's relationship, especially since I assume it's well covered in the first graphic novel. Be that as it may, Bendis does do a good job portraying the kids' relationship. And I did enjoy the hints of inner struggle between Kelly Sue and her father. Both are the bad guys, or secondary bad guys to the father's boss, but Bendis writes their dialogue in a way that suggests they are not really looking to hurt Takio or her younger sister Olivia. This does not stop them from kidnapping Takio to experiment upon her, though. So for me this was the best part of the book.
Oeming's artwork is as fun and inventive as ever. To a certain degree, I feel people hate him or love him. His work is very unique and I'm sure that puts a lot of people off. That uniqueness and dynamic quality of his work is sure to win him fans as well. The two pages of Olivia searching the house for Takio are very well done. On the other hand, I have no idea what is going on in the last two panels on page eight. People screaming, Takio posing--huh?
So if you are looking for a light and breezy well put together adventure book, TAKIO could be the book for you. It has flaws, like most of Bendis' work seems to have, but then the good , as usual, often outweighs the bad in his work as well. The next issue's cover looks pretty cool, but considering this issue's cover had nothing to do with the story inside, I'm not so sure that's a selling point.
AMERICAN VAMPIRE #31/VOLUME 4 TPBKWriter: Scott Snyder
Artist: Rafael Albuquerque
Publisher: DC Vertigo
Reviewer: Optimous Douche
Hollywood rapes entertainment and hipsters are voyeurs to the crime. Case in point - vampires. All across the intertubes poser geekdom bemoans the lack of originality and the complete bastardization of Transylvania's favorite bloodsuckers. Everywhere you look these faux intellectuals resound a chorus of "Twilight blows this and True Blood blumpkins that," as if vampire entertainment begins and ends solely in moving pictures. And I guess for these lazy complainers it clearly does. They blame Hollywood for doing its job of appealing to the 98% who gleefully lick the jukebox, begging to be taken advantage of, instead of simply logging their hipster asses off the internet for five minutes and looking towards some other medium of satisfying entertainment. You know--a form where originality still burns bright, where the story is a marriage of you, the author, and artist making the comic come alive by their design and your unique interpretation. Comics…I'm talking about comics.
I'm not saying the sheep of hate are wrong; there are flaws aplenty with the aforementioned properties of True and Twi (aside from being direct copies of one another in theme), but if the Internet complainers would actually crack open a comic for two seconds they would see that all of their complaints truly roll up into one overarching issue. For vampirism to truly matter there must be suffering, and I mean beyond the bemoaning of teenagers looking to get their Bellgina Edcocked. Both vampire and victim must feel one another's losses and laments and then sadistically feed upon those vulnerabilities - and I'm sorry, but the ending of a true vampire story should never be Asian massage.
This is why comic fans live in such solitude: we understand good entertainment doesn't always end happily—actually, the darker a piece gets the happier we seem to become. Oh, we'll revel in joy for a time, but then fully expect a piece to end with an atomic wedgie of the heart. This is the antithesis of formulaic Hollywood pabulum and why most comic properties end up losing a piece of their soul when moved to celluloid. 98% need their Prince Charming, the 1% of pseudo intellectuals need to feed on the 98%, and us final 1% of comic fans are merely left to watch the animals consume themselves from our island of ideation and originality.
When Scott Snyder started AMERICAN VAMPIRE a few years ago I knew there was something special in the pages…well, at least half the pages. For all of Stephen King's virtues, of which there are many, he is simply not a comic writer. Comics are not an exercise in littering a page with words; it's a dance between writer and artist, both consuming the page in equal parts. King handled the exposition of America's first vampire, Skinner Sweet, well enough but it was then unknown Snyder's exploration of 1920's aspiring starlet Pearl which had me truly enthralled. I'm on record--Google it. It was eminently clear even then Snyder was in this story for the long haul. The seeds he was planting in those first few issues would clearly take time to flourish. I don't think anyone guessed at the time he would rewrite the 20th century as he unfolded Skinner and Pearl's stories, but that icing on the cake of complex characterization makes me wish he would slow the fuck down as the present story arc puts us well into the McCarthy era. Since it took three years for us to get from the Old West to the 1950s, I fear we'll be at 2012 in no time. What then? Space Skinner? A Pearlonaut? Most definitely not.
31 is a pivotal issue for a few reasons: one, we are fresh off Pearl and Skinner banging out their blood lust while Pearl's decrepit husband was in a coma nappy. Two, we learn why Skinner really made Pearl. Basically, it was to shift the old vampires' jealousy of Skinner's ability to still get a tan on to Pearl so he could leave LA in peace and start up Sin City. Three, Hattie Hargrove, the anti-Pearl, returns on the last page as the grand puppet master of all 1950's vampire troubles. I'm laughing right now because with her slashed psycho Marionette cheeks and freckles she looks like a demented puppet. I'm easily amused.
Disgust, betrayal, angst, longing - the emotions run as deep through AMERICAN VAMPIRE'S characters as Snyder's exploration of American history. And VOLUME 4 of AMERICAN VAMPIRE is the perfect hard covered embodiment of this statement. Till this point Snyder has stayed pretty linear: He and Stephen King danced between the late 1800's and early 1920's in Volume 1, shifted to depression era for the tale of the Hoover Dam and Skinner turning the lights on in Sin City for Volume 2, splayed out both campaigns of WWII in Volume 3…but…but…but…now uses VOLUME 4 to play time travel roulette giving us a prequel of Skinner's time in F-Troop fighting the injuns, a trip to a very bloody Happy Days, and a little racism song and dance south of the Mason-Dixon line. The thing that makes these stories truly sing is that Snyder captures the zeitgeist of the time. The Indian extermination arc tests the merit of a man's soul as Skinner and his brother, like Cain and Abel, decide whether winning this war requires the final solution. You can guess Skinner's answer to this quandary. Our Happy Days arc explores the short-sightedness of youth as one rebel without a cause teen tries to exact vengeance against Skinner for slaughtering his family. Youth knows no consequences, which is the perfect armament in a war against a seemingly unstoppable foe. The final story focuses on a black taxonomist for the VMS in the Deep South when moonshine flowed freely and segregation was a law, not just a way of life.
Albuquerque's art adds the perfect atmosphere for this book, with his scratchy lines and ability to shroud a page in darkness without ever getting muddy or too obscure. I'll admit, he took a while to grow on me, but now I couldn't imagine anyone else in the driver's seat.
Titles like AMERICAN VAMPIRE and NEW DEADWARDIANS prove that the vampire genre has not been bled dry. Despite the surface virtues of immortality and godllike powers, vampirism only works if writers remember that it's a curse, not a blessing. While writers like Snyder give some of the vampire species an out from their traditional downfalls like sunlight and allow them to still feel human emotions, he intuitively counter-balances the blessings with great burdens of immortality and the insatiable thirst to feed on the sentient.
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #694Writer: Dan Slott
Artist: Humberto Ramos
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Guest Reviewer: Mighty Mouth
Spider-Man turns 50 this year (he looks pretty good for his age), and AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #694 wraps up the three part "Alpha" storyline before the big thrust towards issue #700 begins.
This story got off to an enthusiastic start. If you missed the last two issues, here is a little background to bring you up to speed: Mid Town High School student and resident wallflower, Andrew Maguire (don't look at me, I didn't name him) attends a class trip to Horizon Labs, where Peter Parker now works. During a demonstration of a new form of hyper-kinetic energy, in an act that can only be described as repetitive fate, Andy is accidentally charged with this newly created energy and ZAP! Alpha is born.
TA-DA! A new superhero in the spirit of Spidey! Well…no, not exactly. You see, Andy lacks the moral sensibilities and the strong upbringing that Peter Parker had. In short, Andy appears to be everything Peter is not. As the story progresses, Andy displays a lack of humility and an irresponsible attitude making him more a delinquent than a defender. Infuriated by this unruly behavior, Peter contemplates how to change this new hero back to a zero.
Ok, still with me? Good. This brings us to AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #694. First I have to say I absolutely adore the cover of this issue. Ramos pays homage to one of the all-time classic comic covers of the 70's. Yep--this issue's cover was designed after the classic confrontation from the1976 Superman vs. the Amazing Spider-Man one shot. If you're the nostalgic type, the cover alone almost makes the book worth the buy. Unfortunately, the cover is a tad deceiving.
Exploring the notion of how a young man who is the product of today's self-obsessed and glamour-crazed society handles attaining super powers is a novel enough concept. With these elements of drama and the prospect of a deep central question, the story felt fresh and inspired. So coming into this issue I found myself anticipating an ending worthy of a modern morality tale. Sadly, this was not the case.
The real problem I have with this issue rests in the all-too-expedient resolution, especially after a two issue build up. Don't get me wrong, I don't like this little shit "Alpha," not one bit. I couldn't wait for Spidey to take him down a few pegs. It's just that the conclusion of this tale left me saying aloud "Wait, that's it?!?"
This isn't to say that the story is a complete dud. There are some gripping action sequences regarding commercial airlines losing power, and Humberto Ramos' pseudo-manga style is growing on me. It's just a shame that Dan Slott squandered the opportunity to deliver a more substantial conclusion. Slott has crafted a number of enjoyable stories over his run on AMAZING SPIDER-MAN regularly. In fact, after that abysmal storyline known as "Brand New Day," Slott was instrumental in restoring AMAZING SPIDER-MAN to a worthwhile reading status again. That's why I felt a little let down with this particular issue. But, I digress; I guess everybody is entitled to miss the mark on occasion.
MARS ATTACKS! #4Writer: John Layman
Artist: John McCrea
Publisher: IDW Publishing
Reviewer: Masked Man
John and John's MARS ATTACKS! continues to impress me. Layman continues to build an elaborate history of Earth/Mars relationships and McCrea continues to draw the crazy, gore-filled action in an amusing fashion. One of the things I feel the two are doing really well is mixing the fun in will all the sci-fi action. There is a healthy sense of humor throughout the book, but it's no comedy as the Martians, lead by general Zar, tear up the place in a rather gruesome fashion. Overall this is an action book, which is fitting since the title is MARS ATTACKS!. And like an action book, the plot is stronger than the characterizations. Thankfully, Layman's plot is quite interesting.
This issue brings to light that Mars has been having trouble with Earth for centuries. Every time a Martian comes peacefully down to Earth, it ends in a blood bath. And now General Zar has had enough, deciding it's time to take out the trash! We also learn that the Martians have been abducting humans for a long while as well, probably trying to find out why we're so blood thirsty. As in the Tim Burton Mars Attacks! movie, things don't go well for these abducted people either. The ending of this issue was a bit too convenient, I think. As a civil war vet instinctively knows what a grenade is, an Aztec warrior manages to fly a space craft, and all the main protagonists manage to meet up with each other on the last page. I can't help feel Layman was a bit lazy and a bit rushed with all that.
With the artwork, it's still as cartoony as ever, but I feel it makes the gory action of the book more palatable. If someone like John Cassaday was drawing this book, it would not only suck all the fun out of it, it would also make all the kill shots too extreme for most of the viewing public. McCrea, on the other hand, draws all the popping eyeballs, melting bodies, and exploding heads in fashion that makes you laugh and appreciate that, that has got to hurt! As with the writing, McCrea's art showcases the action, with a hint of humor.
I'm always happy to see another MARS ATTACKS! issue at the store. For me it's a nice, well made alterative to all the superhero stuff I read. If you like monsters, action, horror, and/or aliens and sci-fi, you should definitely check it out.
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Oct. 3, 2012, 9:25 a.m. CST
Short one today?
by rev_skarekroe
Or just my imagination?
Oct. 3, 2012, 9:26 a.m. CST
Indeed Rev - You Are Correct
by optimous_douche
Oct. 3, 2012, 9:36 a.m. CST
Very short
by Joenathan
I may check out Pathfinder/
Oct. 3, 2012, 9:40 a.m. CST
If You Dig Fantasy Joen - You Will Dig PATHFINDER
by optimous_douche
Oct. 3, 2012, 10:15 a.m. CST
Why don't you assholes review Garfield?
by Metroid_Fetish
Best comic in the business, for sure.
Garfield...hmmm, why didnt I think of that?!
Oct. 3, 2012, 10:59 a.m. CST
Because Garfield Without Garfield is 10x better
by optimous_douche
Oct. 3, 2012, 11:28 a.m. CST
Alpha's a Douche but I Still Lervs Him
by optimous_douche
Oct. 3, 2012, 3:14 p.m. CST
I believe there is a Garfield comic book on the stands right now
by rev_skarekroe
Someone drop a couple of bucks for the team and metroid_fetish a happy man.
Oct. 3, 2012, 7:49 p.m. CST
So if I loathed Ennis's first Fury Max....
by mrm1138
...is it at all possible I would like either of the sequels? Seriously, that first mini-series was one of the worst comics I've ever read.
Oct. 3, 2012, 10:03 p.m. CST
I really think so, mrm1138
by TheDean
This feels like a much more considered approach to Fury, and less like he's just pushing the whole MAX thing for the hell of it. There's a real story to tell with MY WAR GONE BY, and some interesting character progression all over. I won't recommend PEACEMAKER because I just can't remember it well enough. I wanted to freshen up on it since before this series started, but I have no idea what I did with it.
Oct. 4, 2012, 3:39 a.m. CST
I like Sam Jackson and all but I really wish they went with the original Nick Fury in the movies.
by Sean
I know they are trying to put Fury's son front and centre in the comics (load of crap) but I hope they don't phase the original out.
Oct. 4, 2012, 7:16 a.m. CST
yeah, we need Garfield prequels
by Spandau Belly
I want to see Odie's backstory and learn about Jon's ancestors.
Oct. 4, 2012, 7:51 a.m. CST
Douche he is!
by Eric Schaen
Alpha is the embodiment of the entitlement and instant gratification generation; what's not to love (rolls eyes).
Oct. 4, 2012, 7:55 a.m. CST
By POPULAR DEMAND, here is Odie's backstory.
by Metroid_Fetish
Odie is a fictional character in the Jim Davis comic strip Garfield. He has also appeared in Garfield and Friends, The Garfield Show, two live-action feature films, and 3 CGI films. He is a kind but (slightly) unintelligent yellow-furred, brown-eared beagle (however between his first appearance and September 1979 his ears were black). In the live-action films based on the Garfield franchise, he is played by a dachshund though an actual beagle was seen at the talent show scene as one of the dogs barking at Garfield. In the comic of August 26, 2007, Garfield describes Odie's species as "purebred clown" after trying to find out what kind of dog Odie is with the help of a book.[1] Odie usually has a large tongue and slobbers in his appearances. After October 1997, he began walking on two feet, instead of all fours, just like Garfield, though this was demonstrated as early as 1989 (on the comic strips, Odie's first appearance on two feet was in the 1987 special Garfield Goes Hollywood). Also by this time his whiskers disappeared, and he was no longer depicted as a puppy, even if he hasn't become officially as a full-grown dog. In the television series, Odie's appearance is usually announced by the sound of the cavalry's bugling. He is Garfield's best friend and victim. History Odie was based on a car dealership commercial written by Jim Davis, which featured Odie the Village Idiot. Davis liked the name Odie and decided to use it again.[2] When Garfield was first submitted, Davis called Odie "Spot". He then visited cartoonist Mort Walker to show him his strips, and Walker told Davis "I had a dog named Spot". When Davis asked "Really?", Walker replied "Yes, in Boner's Ark, one of my comic strips". Davis said "Oops!" and changed Odie's name. Odie first appeared in the strip on August 8, 1978; the date is considered his birthday. There has been only one comic strip that celebrates Odie's birthday, in 1995.[3] He was originally a pet to Jon Arbuckle's roommate Lyman, but Lyman disappeared from the series after about five years (with the exception of a one-panel cameo appearance in the strip for Garfield's 10th birthday). The book and television special, Garfield: His 9 Lives, retcons Odie's origins, saying that Jon bought him at a pet store. In the motion picture, Odie was adopted by Jon at a veterinarian center. [edit]Speaking Odie is the only animal character in the Garfield series without a recurring voice bubble, as he is portrayed as a "normal" house dog. However, he was shown thinking "I'm hungry" on June 15, 1980.[4] He also has said "Hi to the people, dummy" and sang "Lady of Spain, I adore you" while Garfield was using him as a ventriloquist's dummy.[5][6] He also said "I don't know, I'm kinda scared," as a "mistake" in the cartoon episode Mistakes Will Happen, and said to Garfield, "No, you're beautiful" in the episode DJ Jon. More recently, he was seen actually speaking in one of Garfield's dream sequences.[7] As mentioned before, he sometimes thinks like Garfield.[8] On the cartoon, he speaks minor words such as "Ta-da!", "Huh?", or, more commonly, panting "Yeah, yeah, yeah!" He has said more intelligible sentences, such as "No horsey?" on the episode Dessert in the Desert, and on the first episode he even says "Right!" while agreeing with Jon. When he talks on the show, he speaks by actually moving his mouth, although other dogs have also been shown to do so. Odie speaks in a similar manner in Garfield Gets Real and its sequels, frequently saying "My bone!" In the Reading Ring game on the Professor Garfield site, if one manages to get the June 21, 2001 strip strip while facing Dr. Stripp, having the third panel will let the player hear Odie say "Uh-huh!" after Garfield's dialogue.[9] In the CGI Series, The Garfield Show, Odie is usually heard barking, but occasionally audible words are spoken. These usually consist of "uh-huh" (agreement), "uh-uh" (disagreement) and mm-mm (query), although "I don't know" is clearly heard in one episode. On episode Freaky Monday, Odie was seen speaking more frequently and fluently (because it is, in fact Garfield in Odie's body) as a result of being struck by an alien ray that swapped their bodies. In the same episode Garfield (Odie) gets kidnapped and boxed in by the local mailman as Odie is in Garfield's body and the mailman hates Garfield, and Odie (Garfield) jumps into the Mailman's vehicle to rescue his body. Because the vehicle is running wild, a box fell onto the road and Odie (Garfield) thought it might be the one containing (Garfield). To his disgust, he found a small computer and said "I risked my life for a laptop?" When Jon took Odie for a run down a street, Odie (Garfield) said tiringly "I had enough sport for a lifetime!" At times it's implied that due to his lack of intelligence, Odie can't speak. This is pointed out in Garfield's Judgment Day when Garfield asks him to "speak" and barks in reply. [edit]Odie's intelligence and tongue A running gag throughout the strip is Odie's idiocy. Garfield frequently calls him a moron, to the point where Odie was completely shocked one day when Garfield didn't insult him. He is mostly viewed as an idiot, but in rare cases, it is shown that he hides his high intelligence. For example: once while he, Garfield, and Jon were camping, he locked himself in the car. Garfield and Jon then gets suspicious when Odie turns on the radio and the lights and start eating chips, smiling while Jon and Garfield were trapped outside with no food or shelter during a thunderstorm. Another time, when Garfield and Jon were out, Odie was reading a huge book, smoking a pipe, and listening to classical music. Another running gag is Odie's impossibly long tongue. In one strip, when Garfield taunted Odie for not being able to write with his paws, he was completely bewildered when Odie's tongue grabbed a pen and wrote, "Hi there." In another strip, Odie is running around the family room, and Garfield grabs on to his tongue to see how long it is. The next panel shows Odie right next to Garfield, but with his tongue literally wrapped around all the furniture, going through the hallway, wrapping around Odie himself and Garfield, and with room to spare, much to Garfield's shock. Another strip shows Garfield theorizing how he can have such a long tongue, and store it in his mouth. He then guesses that he has the rest of his tongue stored in where his brain should be, also stating how much of an idiot he is. Also, in one winter themed Sunday strip, Odie's tongue is stuck to a lamp post stretched from two blocks to Jon's dining room, prompting Garfield to tell Jon, "We need a blow dryer and a really, really long extension cord. [10] In The Garfield Show Odie's tongue is once again shown to be very long and stretchy. In the episode "Out on a Limb" Odie uses his tongue, in an attempt to lower Garfield down a very high tree. [edit]Relationship to Garfield Although Garfield often impugns Odie's intelligence, one strip[11] shows him enjoying classical music on TV with the novel, War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, nearby after Jon and Garfield leave the house. (According to Davis' comments in the 20th-anniversary book, "I couldn't resist.") Another has him lock the others out of the car on a camping trip, where he enjoys the sandwiches, radio, and chips, while the others just get wet. In others he has been seen setting decoys, completing a sudoku puzzle, completing a crossword puzzle (to Jon's amazement), writing poetry, and while playing as superheros with Garfield, finding a complete outfit to one-up Garfield's cape.[12] One theory is that there are two Odies, a smart one and the more common idiot. It may be that Odie is actually smarter than he appears, and merely uses the idiotic front as a means to gain an advantage over Garfield. In two strips, Garfield went to see what was at the end of Odie's tongue, and it turned out to be a second Odie (which Garfield dismissed as an effect of a bad can of tuna from the previous night).[13] Odie has managed to take revenge on Garfield occasionally, and Garfield sometimes cannot avoid noticing it. Garfield acknowledges this by saying "He's not as dumb as he looks, but then again who could be?" In the first episode of The Garfield Show an alien species that resemble lasagna scan Odie with a ray that indicates brain power - the result was zero. Garfield on numerous occasions actually does care a great deal for Odie, most notably in the first Garfield special Here Comes Garfield, in which Odie is briefly captured by the dogcatcher and a teary-eyed Garfield realizes through flashbacks of him and Odie playing together and how sad his life would be without him (in these series of flashbacks by Garfield, the song "So Long Old Friend" is played in the background). In one strip, Garfield states that Odie is made of rubber.[14] Other times Garfield tries to put the blame on Odie for some of the mishaps he has done. Jim Davis has stated, when asked why Garfield played so many pranks on Odie, that it was because "Odie is so kick-able. He sorta doesn't care. But Garfield would never hurt Odie for real. He just gives him a pinch now and again." Odie all too often gets kicked off the table by Garfield; once Odie tried to push Garfield off the table, but Garfield was too heavy.[15] In addition to getting kicked off the table, Odie is often the victim of Garfield's pranks.(Although, on a much earlier strip, Odie had kicked Garfield off the table while he was wearing a Garfield mask and Garfield was wearing an Odie mask.)[16] Curiously, Garfield has taken offense to others treating Odie in this manner. In one strip, he punches out another cat who beats up on Odie, insisting "Nobody beats up on Odie but me!"[17] Similarly, in Garfield: The Movie after seeing Happy Chapman use a shock collar on Odie, he says, "Hey, nobody gets to mistreat my dog like that except me!" That attitude is shown in an episode of Garfield and Friends when Odie is conned out of the grocery money by an alley cat. Garfield is visibly angry at what transpired and goes to great lengths to clear Odie's name. Odie does manage to get a little revenge on Garfield. Jim Davis stated in the 30th anniversary book that Odie gets back at Garfield every few months. Once, Jon accuses Garfield of clearing out his closet except for the T-shirt saying "I love cats." While Garfield professes his innocence, he is hurled out of the house. Comically Odie steps out to laugh at Garfield, wearing a plaid shirt, indicating he framed Garfield.[18] In one strip, while Garfield confesses how good friend Odie was as Odie never minds Garfield playing tricks on him, Odie slyly pastes a note on Garfield's back that reads "KICK ME".[19] Once, he managed to give Garfield a taste of his own medicine in a strip where Garfield tried to have fun with an Odie mask. Odie wasn't at the edge of the table, and while Garfield wondered where Odie was, he showed up and up (wearing a Garfield mask) and kicked the tabby off the table.[20] On at least one occasion, Odie was also prepared for Garfield trying to kick him off the table, setting up a pillow on the floor to land on after Garfield punts him. Yet another instance involved Garfield getting stuck in a tree and asking Odie (who sees him from the window) for help. Odie tosses Garfield Jon's bowling ball, and when Garfield curses Odie for his stupidity, the extra weight added by the bowling ball causes the tree branch to break and send Garfield falling to the ground. The final panel ends with Odie smiling evilly at the reader while Garfield notes how much he hates dogs. Odie would also commonly do things to Garfield, but he gets his revenge. In one storyline, Garfield gets beat up by a bulldog after kicking him and has to wear a cast for nearly a week.[21] The cast covers Garfield's entire body but his face. Odie torments Garfield throughout the duration of this time. In the final strip of the storyline, though, Garfield tells Jon that he'd like to keep his cast after being asked what he would like to do with it, and strikes Odie with it.
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Optimous's biography... I mean review
by King_Ink
I got four paragraphs into your magnum opus review of American Vampire and realized you weren't really talking about the book. You were talking about yourself... patting yourself on the back in front of your audience is one of the most unprofessional things you can do. This is coming from an Eisner nominated artist. This is coming from a professional jazz musician. Less about you, more about the subject. You're not nearly as clever as you think you are.
Oct. 4, 2012, 9:08 a.m. CST
Owned! Take that, bongslinger!
by Sean
Oct. 4, 2012, 9:44 a.m. CST
King_Ink - Open the Kimono Then We'll Talk
by optimous_douche
All this is coming from a man that hides behind a pseudonym yet has a slew of accolades behind his name. And has also clearly never read an article on this site before. My name is Rob Patey. Share yours and then I might be willing to enter a debate on what quality reviews should consist of, and the I might possibly care about your opinion based on the merit of your work.
Oct. 4, 2012, 11:10 a.m. CST
(Theme song from the good, the bad, and the ugly)
by Joenathan
Oct. 4, 2012, 11:14 a.m. CST
Why PATHFINDER? DOOM Misses DUNGEONS & DRAGONS!
by V. von Doom
The most recent series was a hoot. Far more witty, far better art, and far less bloody, than PATHFINDER. D&D seems to be on hiatus. They finished the third story arc and then ... nothing. No announcement about its fate for more than a year now, or at least no announcement made in Latveria. DOOM cannot understand how PTHF will find its footing in the market if D&D couldn't. Perhaps you peasants in the talkbacks know more -- inform DOOM forthwith!
Oct. 4, 2012, 11:20 a.m. CST
Well if King_Ink Never Responds
by optimous_douche
As happens so often with these poke and runners, I will close with... Name one artist that doesn't bring a piece of themselves into their creation. If you want a plot synopsis, it's a big wide open internet and there are summaries aplenty to satiate your thirst for a synopsis of 22 pages.
Oct. 5, 2012, 9:19 a.m. CST
Rob Liefield.
by Metroid_Fetish
He doesn't bring a piece of him into his artwork. Well, pieces. Feet, to be exact.
Oct. 5, 2012, 9:24 a.m. CST
I LOVE how @King_Ink took issue with you talking about yourself Douche, but then couldn't get through a 4 sentence post without mentioning himself and his accomplishments.
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For two days, the UCSF School of Nursing faculty and staff pondered its long term future, sketching the beginnings of an ambitious blueprint to guide the nursing program over the next five years.
August 04, 2011
Mary Blegen, director of the Center for Patient Safety in the UCSF School of Nursing, describes the importance of interprofessional teamwork to improve the quality and safety of patient care.
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Janice Humphreys, a associate professor of Family Health Care Nursing, is working with an interdisciplinary group of UCSF colleagues to study the long-term health and aging effects of intimate partner violence with funding made possible by UCSF's Clinical and Translational Science Institute.
July 01, 2011
Daphne Stannard's story mirrors an important shift in nursing: the tightening connection between the ivory tower and the practice setting or, as the nurse researcher puts it, "diminishing the dichotomy between academia and service."
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Crossfire Hurricane , the 2012 documentary celebrating The Rolling Stones ' 50th anniversary, will be released on DVD and Blu-ray disc on May 21 . The film charts the history of the band from its formation in the early 1960s through the arrival of guitarist Ronnie Wood in the mid '70s.
The movie, directed by Brett Morgen , is highlighted by plenty of rare and previously unreleased archival footage, including concert performances and candid conversations with the group. Crossfire Hurricane also features extensive new interviews with the entire current Stones lineup, as well as with former band members Bill Wyman and Mick Taylor .
The DVD and Blu-ray releases contain a number of bonus features, including unreleased scenes of the band performing in Germany in 1965 and at the NME Poll Winners Concert in 1964 and 1965, footage from a 1964 appearance on The Arthur Haynes Show , an interview with Morgen, and a theatrical trailer.
Crossfire Hurricane got its theatrical premiere this past October 18 in London at a red carpet event attended by all of The Rolling Stones. The band members also were hand for a similar premiere gala held in New York City on November 13, two days before the movie's U.S. television debut on HBO.
The Crossfire Hurricane DVD is priced at $14.98, while the Blu-ray lists at $19.98. The film also will be available for purchase as a digital download.
In other Stones news, the band has added a June 9 concert at the Bell Centre in Montreal to the upcoming North American leg of their 50 and Counting tour. Tickets will go on sale to the general public this Saturday at noon ET and can be purchased at RollingStones.com/Tickets .
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The IRS accepts plastic but, unlike mechants, it doesn't pay the fee for you to use it, which is up to 2.35%.
This article is by Mark Jewell of the Associated Press.
Use a credit card to pay taxes to Uncle Sam, and interest charges aren't your only worry. Expect to pay fees of at least 2% on the amount of taxes owed. And that has nothing to do with whether you pay off the balance quickly or not.
Those fees are big enough that using a card to pay should be a last resort.
Regardless of how big the tax bill, any convenience from paying by credit is likely to come at a steep price. That's important to understand because some card issuers are promoting use of their cards to pay taxes, including offering discounts on electronic tax filing products for those using plastic to pay.
With tax season shifting into high gear, here's a look at the fees:
Why the fees exist: The Internal Revenue Service says it has contracts with three companies that handle card transaction-processing for tax payments. A 1997 law bars the agency from paying anything to the companies, and the IRS doesn't receive or charge any fees for card payments. The companies collect fees directly from the taxpayers for serving as the middleman, and in turn forward payment to the IRS posting to taxpayer accounts.
A similar process occurs with retail credit card purchases. The retailer might get only $9.80 or so from a $10 purchase. The rest goes to the transaction-processing company and the card issuer. The retailer agrees to the arrangement on the presumption that customers are more likely to buy where paying by credit is an option. With tax payments, the taxpayer directly covers those processing costs.
How much: The charges -- called convenience fees -- range from 1.95% of the amount of taxes paid to 2.35%. At the highest rate, a $1,000 tax bill would be $1,023.50, with the fee added in.
The companies that provide the payment services are: Link2Gov Corp.; RBS WorldPay Inc. and Official Payments Corp. Details on each company's fees, and the tax-payment websites and toll-free phone numbers the companies operate can be found here.
Taxpayers who choose to make tax payments with a debit card are assessed fees per transaction, from $3.89 to $3.95. The card must be a Visa debit card or an NYCE, Pulse or Star debit card.
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Credit card payments can be made by phone and online through the payment-processing companies. Tax preparation software and tax-prep professionals also often are set up to accept credit cards.
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Everett's Grey & White Room with Vibrant Pops
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We were keeping Everett's gender a surprize from our friends and family and had to hide the nursery from everyone throughout the pregnancy so we wouldnt ruin the surprise. Took a while to decide on what colors to go with because we didnt want it to be a typical blue boy nursery, so finally decided on grey, white, orange and teal for their vibrant yet soothing, modern feel.
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- Dresser: my childhood dresser repainted white
- Ceiling light: Urban Barn. Came in bamboo color, we spray painted it white
- Grey crib blanket: Etsy store SirBubbadoo
- Elephant mobile: Etsy store Sugar and Spice Studios
- Owl stuffed animal: Pier 1 Imports
- Orange skinny boy cuddle toy: Etsy store dentsdeloup
- Cardboard elephant head: Cardboard Safari
- Boy fishing print art: DIY Google clip art
- Maternity self portrait: photograph
- Fox and rooster art: page from a childhood book
- Orange & teal elephant art/You are my sunshine print art: Etsy shop Tessyla
- Sushi art: DIY
- Elephant head on vintage dictionary page: Etsy shop MadmanIncognito
- I love you forever print art: Etsy seller AmenPrintables
- Everett & alphabet print art: Etsy seller SweetDaisyDesigns
- Sushi playset: Amazon.ca (Melissa & Doug)
- Owl decal: gift
- Chair: Ikea Poang rocker
- Floor lamp: Ikea
- Orange throw blanket: Ikea
- Orange pillow: Etsy shop buddhabearstudio
- Wall paint colors: white - Behr ultra powdered snow. Grey - Behr ultra creek bend
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- Shadow boxes: already had from Walmart. We painted them white
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Great room with a fantastic color scheme. I really loved the framed "chevroned" elephant, what are you going to put in the stock IKEA frames?
Thanks Luna!
We put photographs of my husband with Everett in one frame, and myself with Everett in the other frame :)
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Librarians want to help students succeed with your research assignments. Our interactions with students in the library show that success involves not just the mechanical steps of doing research, but also the critical thinking skills that are needed to make good judgments along the way. We try to help students focus on the objectives you have in mind when you assign research projects. Do you want them to:
- Develop a sense of the core journals in your discipline?
- Understand how an issue has evolved over time based on broad reading of the subject?
- Understand how to evaluate sources of information for reliability, authority, bias, accuracy, and scope?
- Begin to incorporate outside ideas into their own knowledge base and then support their own original ideas with outside sources?
We offer assignment-based, tailored instructional services to help students achieve your goals. And we can provide active support right up until the due date. What can we do to support the objectives you have embedded in your research assignments?
Students are great consumers of technology: Smart Phones, Instant Messaging, DVD's, and the Web. Their ability to be critical users of information, however, is less developed. These students are not unlike the sixteen-year-old who has learned the mechanics of driving a car, but is only beginning to develop good judgment behind the wheel. This judgment only comes with experience. Students' comfort with technology is often greater than their ability to select reliable and useful information, incorporate that information into their knowledge base, and effectively use it to accomplish a specific purpose.
General Progression
The abilities to effectively find, evaluate, and utilize information define a set of skills called "information literacy." Students' information literacy skills develop throughout their time at Marquette in an incremental manner. The steps toward mastery can be viewed as progressive performance levels: beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels. Students' ability to conduct research as freshmen is different from the ability of a senior, which is different again from that of a graduate student.
In order for students' skills to advance to higher levels, it is important to provide guidance and support over the course of their time at Marquette. Showing them the ropes one time as freshmen does not normally provide the level of support needed for the developmental process to occur. It is helpful when students receive subsequent instruction, at appropriate points along the path, on how to handle more complex research tasks than those which have previously been required of them. This subsequent instruction has been referred to as "scaffolding," where faculty and librarians provide continuously higher levels of support as the students move up to more difficult critical thinking tasks. When students are required to engage in a new and more complex research activity, a new layer of support is placed on top of the previous layers, in a "construction site" scaffolding manner. This process is not unlike the support provided to children as they acquire language skills. Adults explain the more complex language rules over time--a period of years, as children become more advanced and utilize progressively complex rules at subsequent stages in their development.
Specialized Fields
As students move to higher levels of ability, they develop a confidence in their ability to conduct general research. At this point, a second challenge is to help students successfully navigate through information in different fields, understanding the unique contexts and processes used to create and disseminate information in each field. This learning process occurs through normal classroom activities in a particular field of study, as well as through active research assignments with which librarians can assist.
Information literacy consists of five skills, as defined by the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL), a division of the American Library Association. The skills are intended to apply to any information seeking situation, whether it's deciding where to get a bank loan or completing a course assignment. Sample components for each of the five skills are found below. The complete list of skills can be found on the ACRL web site at "Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education."
How well do your students perform the following skills?
- Define and articulate the need for information.
- Identify a variety of types and formats of potential sources of information.
- Consider the cost and benefit of acquiring the needed information.
- Select the most appropriate investigative methods or information retrieval systems for accessing the needed information.
- Construct and implement effectively-designed search strategies.
- Retrieve information online or in person using a variety of methods.
- Extract, record, and manage the information and its sources.
- Articulate and apply initial criteria for evaluating both the information and its sources.
- Synthesize main ideas to construct new concepts.
- Compare new knowledge with prior knowledge to determine the value added, contradictions, or other unique characteristics of the information.
- Apply new and prior information to the planning and creation of a particular product or performance.
- Communicate the product or performance effectively to others.
- Demonstrate an understanding of intellectual property, copyright, and fair use of copyrighted material
- Follow laws, regulations, institutional policies, and etiquette related to the access and use of information resources
- Acknowledge the use of information sources in communicating the product or performance.
In an academic environment, the employment of these skills usually begins and ends in the classroom, with a library research component tucked in the middle, as follows. Normally under your guidance, a student will identify their information need by selecting a topic for a research assignment and focusing on a narrow question related to that topic (skill one). They will then access the needed information through library-hosted databases, library-owned books, or web sites (skill two). The next step, evaluating the information critically, is normally based on reliability criteria along with your requirements for the assignment (skill three). Students are then challenged to incorporate information effectively, which requires the ability to synthesize main ideas, to construct new concepts, and to identify contradictions or unique characteristics of the information (skill four). Finally, students must use information ethically and legally, understanding related economic, legal, and social issues (skill five). Together these skills contribute to the student's ability to complete a course-defined project.
We have found that in general, the more we can tie together the library and classroom elements and support students' work in a unified approach, the better the students' experience will be. While faculty and librarians can identify clear delineations between classroom activity and library activity, the student views their work as a seamless process.
Research Paper Grading Rubric (for research component)
Assessment is a fundamental part of the university's work and librarians are interested in supporting your efforts in this area. One benefit of adding assessment of information literacy skills to your assignments is that it can be done without expending too much time of your own. A librarian can create an assessment tool, explain the process to students, and collect and decipher the results--if you wish for the librarian to be involved at this level. As with any new endeavor, discussion between you and the librarian is crucial at given points to ensure that the process meets your needs, but you can let the librarian perform much of the work.
You may already have information literacy components embedded in your existing course. Adding a method to measure student performance in this area may be straight-forward--as easy as asking them to answer a few questions related to their research methods and experience.
Formative and summative assessment are two means of assessment that focus on different goals. Formative assessment allows for "checking in" with students while they are on the path to mastery of a skill. Formative assessment of information literacy skills can be conducted 1) at the end of a class period that has provided an opportunity for students to practice these skills, or 2) in the midst of a research project. Summative assessment (required by NCA and for use in assessing Marquette's core courses) is a measure taken at the end of the student's journey, to determine ultimate skill acquisition. Summative assessment of information literacy skills can be conducted after students have completed a research project. This approaches allow students time to internalize new concepts, fully employ new skills, and reflect on their research experience.
Methods of formative assessment can include:
- in-library, documented activities, allowing students to perform specific skills and to demonstrate knowledge
- research logs, allowing students to "narrate" their research process in real time (including challenges, discoveries, and conclusions)
Methods of summative assessment can include:
- analysis of annotated bibliographies
- reflective paragraphs submitted by students with their project describing their research experience
- end-of-project questionnaires, allowing the collection of responses to particular questions
The following is an example of an information literacy skill that can be measured. The libraries offer access to over 250 electronic databases and selecting the appropriate one(s) for a particular project or subject area can be difficult for a student. In addition, identifying appropriate journals and trade magazines for a particular subject can prove challenging for students who are not familiar with many of the reputable sources in a given field. An exercise that would address this issue would be to ask students to provide a short reflective paragraph with a term paper that describes the basis on which they chose a particular database and articles from particular journals. Either you or the librarian affiliated with your department could review these descriptions, applying criteria to measure the extent to which a student used good judgment.
Attainment of Knowledge and Performance of Skills
The two components of learning that can serve as the focus of assessment are the attainment of knowledge and the performance of skills.
Factual knowledge associated with library research include understanding:
- the variety of information sources available and the issues inherent in choosing a source
- the differences between an article database and the Web
- the process by which databases search for information
- the benefits of employing various synonyms to retrieve additional information on a topic
- the criteria by which information can be judged for reliability and usefulness
- the nature of scholarly conversations in various discourse communities (health sciences, engineering, history, sociology, etc.)
- the variety of services available to students in the library
Skills that students might perform include:
- matching their information need with an appropriate research tool
- using a specific research tool effectively
- using advanced searching techniques (boolean operators, synonyms, limiting)
- effectively evaluating an information item for its usefulness
- making good judgments about the editorial purpose of a magazine or journal (to inform, to entertain, etc.)
- making good judgments about the credibility or expertise of an author in popular or trade magazines
- effectively selecting web sites based on authoritativeness, point of view, coverage, currency, and accuracy
- effectively incorporating outside information into their arguments, recommendations, or projects
- using the correct formatting conventions for citations and bibliographies
The best window into what students can do with their information literacy skills is a course-required project that incorporates these skills. A librarian can provide assistance in measuring the information literacy-related pieces of the project.
Do you teach a core curriculum course? Six knowledge areas include research or information literacy components: Rhetoric, Diverse Cultures, Histories of Cultures & Societies, Mathematical Reasoning, Science & Nature, and Theology. We are happy to work with you to create a plan to support student research and information literacy skill development in your core course. If you would like to talk over possibilities with a librarian familiar with your discipline, please contact us.
As a side note: Library staff currently serve on the Core Curriculum Review Committee and the University Assessment Committee. Through this involvement, we are staying abreast of issues and developments related to the core.


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These science and technology sites on the Internet provide a starting place for researchers in this field. They provide a diverse range of information on Australian science and technology resources as well as providing links to other useful sites.
- Australian Research in Trove - provides access to the research outputs of Australia's universities.
- Australian Academy of Science - promotes science through a range of activities.
- Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre - includes online resources, including Bright Sparcs (biographical database of scientists), and the online version of Technology in Australia 1788-1988.
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- Defence Science and Technology Organisation - role is to ensure the expert, impartial and innovative application of science and technology to the defence of Australia and its national interests; access provided to online publications, including technical reports and journal articles.
- science.gov.au - provides access to a selection of Australian Government funded scientific institutions and events, research organisations, and government departments.
Agriculture and the environment
- Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (Australia) - has the dual roles of providing customer services to the agricultural, food, fisheries, forest and food industries, and addressing the challenges of natural resource management.
- Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities - develops and implements national policy, programs and legislation to protect and conserve Australia's environment.
- Fisheries Research and Development Corporation - plans, invests in, and manages fisheries research and development throughout Australia.
- Institute of Foresters of Australia - provides a detailed summary of forestry in Australia and links to relevant websites.
Biological sciences
- Australian National Herbarium - includes a number of free databases such as the Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) and Flora of Australia Online.
- Birds Australia - dedicated to the conservation, study and enjoyment of Australia's native birds and their habitats with links to free online publications and databases, including Ornithological Worldwide Literature (OWL).
Earth sciences
- Bureau of Meteorology (Australia) - information on climate, hydrology, weather warnings and much more.
- CRC Reef Research Centre - information on the Great Barrier Reef, current research and online scientific publications.
- Navy Meteorology and Oceanography (METOC) - acquires, manages, produces and distributes meteorological and oceanographic information to support the Defence Force and national infrastructure.
- Australian Mines Atlas - developed by Geoscience Australia with its supporting partners Minerals Council of Australia and Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism. The Mines Atlas is continually being updated with new mineral resource, location data and company web links.
- Australian Institute of Health and Welfare - Australia's national agency for health and welfare statistics and information.
- HealthInsite - an Australian government initiative providing access to quality information about human health.
- National Health and Medical Research Council - contains information on research funding, ethical issues and more, with links to reports and other publications.
Physical sciences
- Australian Astronomy - features extensive links to astronomical research, teaching, and public education facilities and activities.
- Australian Mathematical Society - contains information about the society, its publications and conferences, as well as more general information.
- Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) - promote the development of nuclear energy and associated technologies in Australia.
- IPS Radio and Space Services (Australian Space Weather Agency) - offers a comprehensive range of services to Australian and overseas agencies operating in the fields of radio communications; land, sea and air transport; broadcasting; defence applications; spacecraft operation and geophysical exploration.
- Joint Australian Centre for Astrophysical Research in Antarctica (JACARA) - detailed information on current projects, and online publications.
- Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI) - a gateway to what is happening in chemistry in Australia.
- Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research - encourages knowledge creation, cutting edge science and research, international competitiveness and greater productivity
- Food Science Australia (joint venture of the CSIRO and the Victorian government) - Australia's largest and most diversified food research organisation committed to turning scientific research into innovative solutions for the food industry in Australia and overseas.
- IP Australia - the federal government agency responsible for granting rights in patents, trade marks and designs.


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Today is the first day that NFL teams can utilize the "franchise tag" on players they don't want to lose to free agency, but haven't reached an agreement with. Though we'll cover that very topic in a post later today, Adam Teicher at ESPN gives his take here.
It makes no sense for the Kansas City Chiefs to use the franchise or transition tag on any of their prospective free agents this year. None of those players could be considered essential for the Chiefs next season or beyond. The Chiefs will also be tight to the salary cap and would find it difficult to take on another bloated, one-year salary.
The NFL Combine is just five days away, and that seems to be the focus in the league this week. If you've missed them, make sure you scroll back and check out co-editor Ben Nielsen's series on the combine — here's his latest one — and he's got another one coming out later this morning. At the Mothership, Chiefs Insider Reid Ferrin has a great post up chronicling how current Chiefs fared at the annual NFL event.
If you had to label which Combine drill is the headliner, this is it. Speed kills and the 40-yard dash is where guys like Chiefs Pro Bowl S Eric Berry (4.40 sec) and Pro Bowl RB Jamaal Charles (4.38 sec) show their Olympic-like speed. Each athlete is timed at 10, 20 and 40-yard intervals. WR A.J. Jenkins was the fastest Chiefs player at the Combine; he crossed the line in 4.37 seconds.
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I see them all too often and I always want to know. Mostly, because
you are funny and clever (hello, Mr. Mott, et al!), I want to hear
your responses as to why they are doing this.
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to me in a while. Sorry for the un-family-friendly aside. It was
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