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Better Nate Than Ever
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, a Publishers' Weekly Best Book of the Year, and a Slate Favorite Book of the Year. A small-town boy hops a bus to New York City to crash an audition for E.T.: The Musical.
Nate Foster has big dreams. His whole life, he's wanted to star in a Broadway show. (Heck, he'd settle for seeing a Broadway show.) But how is Nate supposed to make his dreams come true when he's stuck in Jankburg, Pennsylvania, where no one (except his best pal Libby) appreciates a good show tune? With Libby's help, Nate plans a daring overnight escape to New York. There's an open casting call for E.T.: The Musical, and Nate knows this could be the difference between small-town blues and big-time stardom.
Tim Federle's "hilarious and heartwarming debut novel" (Publishers Weekly) is full of broken curfews, second chances, and the adventure of growing up—because sometimes you have to get four hundred miles from your backyard to finally feel at home.
- Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers |
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- January 2014 |
- Grades 4 - 8 |
- Lexile ® 930L
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Better Nate Than Ever
by Tim Federle
About the Book
Thirteen-year-old Nate Foster doesn't fit in at his Jankburg, Pennsylvania middle school. Instead of being athletic and community-minded like his town-favorite big brother, Anthony, short, chubby Nate is a belting boy soprano who dreams of starring in a Broadway show. With the help of his best friend, Libby, he embarks on a definitely-not-parent-approved journey to New York City to audition for a musical version of the famous movie, E.T. Nate soon learns that getting to the audition is only the beginning of an adventure on which he discovers the true meaning of family, friendship, acceptance, and, most important, how to be his own best self.
Discussion Questions
1. As the novel begins, readers meet Nate and Libby in the Fosters' backyard. After reading this first chapter, list at least three worries Nate has about his upcoming adventure to New York. Also, list at least three concerns Nate has about how life is going in Jankburg.
2. Nate and Libby use a kind of shorthand in their conversations by referring to Broadway shows and song lyrics. Can you think of any shared experiences that you and your friends or family use to communicate in a special way? Explain your answer.
3. Throughout his stay in New York City, Nate finds himself delighted by the div see more
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Head Start mini grant to be used for concert focused on literacy
STERLING — A $1,250 mini grant received by the Northeast Michigan Community Service Agency Head Start in Sterling will be used to bring Paula Doak, known as the Merry Music Maker, to the area for a performance.
Amy Pratt, the area NEMCSA manager, said Doak's performance for Head Start students and their families will be the main attraction of a literacy night funded with the grant, which was received from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs.
"She's going to do a family concert, and her songs all promote literacy," Pratt said. "It's music and movement and sign language. She has different songs that are literacy based."
Pratt said Doak's shows are a hit with children.
"We know that she's a lot of fun, and the kids love her," she said. "She has great music that is meeting our goal for the literacy part of it."
The program will be open to any Head Start program in the county, Pratt said. There are two Head Starts, one in Sterling and one in Omer, with 34 students in each location, she said. Pratt said she also plans to invite students and families from the Pinconning Head Start program, which has 18 students.
There is currently no set date or location for the show, but Pratt said she wants to hold it at the Standish-Sterling Central High School auditorium.
"We're just starting the planning right now, but I'm hoping to have it at the high school, because we need a stage," she said. "Typically, we do it at the arts council building, but we're hoping to give it more of a theatre-feel for families."
The show will be free to attend, Pratt said.
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Sterling Head Start has applied several times in the past, Braun said.
"They've applied for a mini grant for a number of years now and have been very successful," she said.
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I use many Linutops to drive big flat TV's, running an inhouse developed information system. These TV's go into standby, when the video output is blanked, and wake up if it is present again. This worked well with Linutop 1.4 using the vbetool command. Under 2.2 this command aborts with a nasty error. A workaround (suggested by G. Pocentek) using "dpms force off/on" is not reliable: either the screen blanks at a moment where it should not, or it does not awake when it should. I think this feature to reliably shutdown/shutup video is of uttermost importance, and should be at the highest level of the priority list!
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A vastly improved version of my ChalkBoard game I uploaded to another site. :D
This game is essentially an online paint. Once you've registered to the game's servers (only used for this game) you are able to create and join rooms where you can show your drawing skills off to the world (or well.. just the people in the room with you). If anyone has any suggestions for features feel free to leave a comment.
I plan to do various updates, including more tools (line tool, smudge tool, text tool), saving a room name to an account (so only you can create that room), and basic room moderation.
New Features:
- Chat
- Performance improvements.
- Smoother drawing.
- Size.
- Better UI.
- Uses Kongregate account**
- Use a section as your avatar**
Note: ** = Not Yet Implemented.
Rated 2.5 / 5 stars
Sorry. Not doing it.
I am sorry, but having to sign up for a game on a website where I already have sign in for is foolish. If I wanted to play, I'd play on Kongregate. And if it is like paint with chat, I'll just open my paint program or photoshop or even find someone on MSN to draw with there. I'm sure you put a lot of effort into it, and I'll give you a neutral vote, but I'm not signing up.
I think what would help would be adding the guest feature. I'd probably try it then, but as this like this don't hold my attention long, there would be no point in me creating an account.
Yeah, I've removed that now as most people seemed put off.
Thanks for your feedback <3
Rated 0 / 5 stars
You say this is a vastly improved version? So what you are telling me is that the previous version worked even less? And on top of that it isn't working you expect people to input their login info from a website into a game made by someone not assotiated with the site? I think not. So some constructive critisism.
1. Make it work. The only thing I was able to do was create a 'login' and go to an empty chat room (if that is what it was), where the text I sent didn't appear, and I could change the background color. Leaving caused the 'game' to crash.
2. The second time I attempted to 'login' the screen glitched and brought me to the room area where i could not do anything because you had to login to do anything. The login screen by the way was still in the background.
As near as I can tell this is a poorly contrived game that doesn't really do anything at this point. The drawing doesn't work. The chat doesn't work. The login doesn't work. There is nothing overly redeeming about this 'game' as I can tell. And I can't really tell what it is supposed to do because nothing works. At this stage 0/5 0/10. Better luck next time.
Released an update (to add private servers), which put it down for about 10 minutes.. you must have been in there then (which was because i'm an idiot :) )
Feel free to try again now :)
Rated 1.5 / 5 stars
Personally, I don't like being forced to join other sites to play a game. There's a reason We come to newgrounds, man.
Also, you tell us nothing about the game, although from the title I assume it's a sort of drawing site. You mention no controls or anything, although you may do that in game. In reality, yes, I am mostly judging this because of the fact it wants me to join an entire other site to play; I can't play on here. I'm sorry.
You're not joining a site, it's literally just for this game.
I'll add a guest feature if you think it'll really help but I was planning to add things such as saving room names to your account, having customisable pens, etc ,etc.
Oh and I made the description in a hurry, I'll fix that :)
Thanks for your feedback.
Rated 4 / 5 stars
Has great potential!
I rather like it, the concept is sound but the execution needs just a bit of work. Some kind of color picker would be nice, as would a way to control trolls, but I love the community drawing aspect. There seem to be a few bugs that need to be worked out, but I hope you keep working on it, it has great potential!
Trolls can now be controlled via private rooms. Just set a password when you're creating a room.
What sort of colour picker did you have in mind? One like photoshop (where you choose a colour by clicking on it in a colour blend type display, and pick the brightness)?


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0919 hrs.
In an excellent piece of Wall Street Journal analysis on Toyota's mishandling of its quality recall, Jeff Kingston points out a host of problems that routinely turn otherwise outstanding Japanese companies into headlight-bedazzled deer in the face of crisis.
We'd Rather Not Talk About It
Kingston notices that there is something in the Japanese corporate culture that causes companies in crisis to go into communications paralysis. The real story behind the Toyota recall is that even this most admired of Japanese companies is utterly incompetent when it comes to the fundamentals of strategic corporate communications.
"The shame and embarrassment of owning up to product defects in a nation obsessed wit craftsmanship and quality raises the bar on disclosure and assuming responsibility. And a high-status company like Toyota has much to lose since its corporate face is at stake."
Kingston is brilliantly spot-on in his analysis, to the extent that his story should be translated into Japanese and duly memorized by every Japanese executive who ever seeks to sell a product outside of Japan.Did They Export This, Too?
The only problem I have with the story is that Kingston implies that this particular form of non compus corparatus is somehow uniquely Japanese when in fact the problem is endemic throughout Asia. For all of their commercial, production, and engineering prowess, most of Asia's great companies share this giant blind-spot.
Twenty years ago, even ten, the severity of this problem might have been ignored. Protected by pliant local media all too ready to play down issues in deference to advertising dollars and coddled by governments at home and in countries where Asian firms set up large manufacturing bases, the specter of backlash was modest.
But in a world ruled by the radical transparency of the Internet, even the slightest stain on one's corporate laundry becomes a red flag for the world to see. And it is not just bloggers and tweeters driving this change, it is also a media desperate to sustain their relevance in the new information environment, and a nascent but growing anti-corporate, anti-globalization movement seeking to prove that corporations are, by design, malignant social actors.
In such an environment, an Asian company is dangerously exposed even on good days. On bad days – days like today as Toyota grapples with its current slow-motion nightmare – the company is on trial for its life in the court of public opinion.
The Blind Side
In over a dozen years in the communications business in Asia, I have encountered all manner of companies, startup to MNC, new and old, American, European, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Singaporean, Australian. In all that time I have never had cause to discard my initial impression of Asian firms as almost utterly incapable of anything but the most planned, scripted, stilted and disconnected communications, suited for an age long past, and incapable of protecting themselves when the wolves come howling.
This must change, and it will, because the crises will not go away. Even after we stop reading about Melamine Milk, Lead-Laced Toys, Rotten Drywall, Tainted Dogfood and similar examples of Asian corporate moral failure, China's companies will discover that even enterprises with the best of reputations and purest of intentions can become overnight targets of a global foaming-spittle lynch mob.
The only question is how many fine Asian companies will be permanently damaged or destroyed, how many lives must be ruined, and how many fortunes must be lost before that happens?
The Fish Stinks from the Head Office
It is time to stop seeing corporate communications as PR, to stop seeing PR as the "press wrangling" function of marketing, and to stop choosing earnest and attractive but otherwise incompetent individuals to take charge of a company's reputation.
But let's make this clear: the fault here does not lie in the under-staffed, under-funded, under-appreciated PR departments stashed in back offices around the region. The problem goes all the way to the top. Poor corporate communications bespeaks inattentive or incompetent corporate leadership.
Until Asia's CEOs and managing directors start paying some careful attention to this problem, we are going to watch an embarrassing procession of our best firms self-immolate. After all of the effort to create world-class Asian companies, what a pathetic waste that would be.


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"It is an extreme honor to be selected as a fellow. The opportunity will allow me network and establish important relationships with other leaders in the state. The focus of the program is to create leadership that will work together to transform Hawaiʻi. Our higher education system will be key in that transformation," says Lacro.
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LMG, DMZ bridge to EPI
i have a bottle of phorce which contains 15 mg of dmz and 30 mg of lmg. i just ordered some rpn havoc also to bridge into sometime. i just need some feedback as to exactly the best way to do this.
heres my cycle setup so far
Phorce 3 caps a day for 22 days (i had 6 pills left over from a previous cycle)
dmz 45/45/45
lmg 90/90/90
epi 00/30/30/30/40
cel cycle assist
fish oil
ON serious mass weight gainer
ON creatine
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taking 1.5 mg of letro every other day starting week 2 because im gyno prone with lmg
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clomid 50/50/25/25
pes erase
i weigh 175lbs with about 8% body fat im 5'11
taking in 3500-4000 calories per day on cycle and pct
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2nd day=back bicep abs
3rd day = shoulders traps calves
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any comments or feed back would be appreciatedLast edited by bgreen1234; 01-05-2013 at 01:03 PM. Reason: updated epi dosage
I can tell you already, people are going to tell you this is a bad idea, but if you already have your mind set, then I'll give you my advice. I did a very similar cycle, and I'm beginning my 3rd week of PCT. Let me start off by saying run the DMZ at least a week longer. Three weeks is not enough in my opinion. It'll just be kicking in REAL good, and then your cutting it off. I'll give you the stats of my cycle, which would probably have gotten flamed had I posted it before I started:
Test E 500mg/wk 1-12
DMZ 30/45/45/45/45/45 (weeks 1-6)
M-LMG 90/90/115/115/115/140/140 (weeks 1-7) 3 weeks off orals, then bridged the epi
Epistane 0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/30/40/40/40/40 (weeks 10-14)
I blew up! Lol. I'm a substitute teacher, and while on cycle, every time I was subbing a new class, I'd hear several comments over the course of the day about my muscularity hahaha. Kids have no filter, and will tell you exactly what they think! I'm 6', and I went from 190lbs to 210lbs VERY fast. Unfortunately, a lot of it was water weight. At the beginning of the cycle, I was consuming between 3500 - 4500 calories a day. I work out a similar routine, 6 days a week (on cycle, sometimes up to 10 days straight lifting), and daily cardio running between 2.5 - 4 miles a day. Despite my cardio and heavy lifting, I put on a lot of fat, so half way through the cycle, I drastically reduced calories, and aimed for about 2700 calories a day, my macros being Protein 250g, Carbs 275g, Fat 60g. My strength exploded on cycle. It felt like I could lift forever, and I loved the feeling of aggression it gave me. I would get comments from other gym goers too. I am by no means the strongest lifter, but I can hammer out the reps and sets. I would often spend an hour straight just deadlifting, squating, or doing incline bench. I would alter my routine often, just listen to my body, and try not to hit the same body parts 2 days in a row. I never had a gym membership before, so I don't know what my major lifts numbers were like pre-cycle, but at the peak I was deadlifting 375lb, squatting 275, and benching 250. Since coming off cycle, my strength and stamina isn't quite what it was on cycle, as should be expected. I haven't tried lifting super heavy, as I strained my quad the first week of PCT (that SUCKED), but I feel good in the gym, and my motivation hasn't deminished.
For PCT I am running formasurge 200mg weeks 1-4 then taper off weeks 5-7, Erase 3 pills a day, and Novadex 40/20/20/20. I also take milk thistle, fish oil, multivitamin, glucosamine, co-q10, hawthorne berry, tribulus, and ZMA. On cycle, I was running the formastane weeks 1-7, stopped, started to develop gyno, so I resumed the formasurge, and the painful little lumps under my nipples have disappeared. I wasn't even sure it was gyno, until I squeezed a nipple and I lactated! Yikes! Hahahaha So I'm sticking to the forma, and may be running it longer than advisable, but it works, and keeps gyno away.
My advice for the epi is to DRINK WATER. It is a dry compound, and I did not hydrate adequately. The epi eventually killed my cardio because of leg cramps, and the last week on-cycle I did NO cardio because of it. I think it was the reason I strained my quad the first week of PCT. Dry compounds cause crazy electrolyte imbalances in me, and make me cramp. I was squatting 265, and on my second rep, as I was lowering myself, I felt a pop then burn in my quad, and knew it was not good. I racked the weight, switched to upper body, and finished my session. The following 3 days I was unable to walk. I could not bend my knee, and I formed a HUGE nasty bruise on the inside of my thigh. I rested from the gym 2 days, and when I went back, it was all upper body for a week. I've been riding the stationary bike, ski machines, ellipticals, etc to get leg strength back. It's now been a week and a half, and I am able to comfortably run again. I think I'll rest my leg 1 more week, then start doing some light squats/ deadlifts.
Anyway, thats where I'm at now. Beginning week 3 of PCT, I am now down to 200lbs, and have some great new muscle coming out from hiding under the layer of water and fat I put on. I was getting **** on cycle from my mother, who told me I was getting fat, but she just told me yesterday I look skinny again. I've had issues in the past with depression, loss of motivation after a cycle, etc but this time my spirits are high, I am still as motivated as I was when I started the cycle, and I plan on finishing my PCT strong.
Sorry for the wall of text! Anyway, people will tell you its a bad idea to run two methylated compounds on a cycle, and they are probably right. I would run extra liver protection, DO NOT DRINK ALCOHOL, and just train like a beast! Watch your macros, and have fun. I love DMZ and M-LMG even though they turn me into the Michellin Man. Your cycle looks good otherwise, except I'd run the DMZ 4 - 5 weeks personally. Good luck brah. - 01-07-2013, 01:35 PM
After reading up on it more I decided to not bridge into the havoc and im just gonna save that bottle and get another to run it 8 weeks ..I met brock lesnar at my gym (he looks exactly like him ) lol and he has a hook up for test $80 for 10cc so im just gonna finish up this phorce that I have and then pct then give it a few weeks then do the test at 2cc a week(400mg) for 10 weeks along with the epi starting at week 3..idk if anybody would have anything to say about that but if they do oh well lol and pct and on cycle details will be the same..
if you are all of 1 day into the cycle now, why not just go ahead and get the test and start that cycle now? the phorce will work as well as a dbol kickstart would.
80 per 10mL vial? Damn that sucks. Youll want to have at least 3 on hand for the cycle. Ur original post shows an immense lack of research, which leads me to believe that u arent ready to inject urself. If i were u id call it quits and go Back to the drawing board...
I'm stalking this board! Haha j/k I just noticed your last sentence in the above quote. Start the epi day 1. Orals kick in much quicker than injectables, so kickstart the cycle with your Havoc. You'll get that "on" feeling much sooner, plus if you're running test 10 weeks, those extra 4 weeks being on test when you come off the epi will help you to solidify any gains you made from the epi. Taking epi 3 weeks in and running it 6 weeks means you'll be coming off the test and epi at the same time, which is a huge hormonal crash, and harder to keep gains. oh, and do the test at least 500mg a week.
Last edited by Richard Swoll; 01-07-2013 at 06:58 PM. Reason: extra info
If I remember correctly then yeah 80 for 10ml..if I do 2cc a week thats 5 weeks..and Im not stupid. .im not just gonna jam a needle in me without knowing the proper proceedure to do it correctly..and ur right about lack of research in the area of epi..ive never taken it before and figured id give it a shot.. I wasnt thinkin about the dmz being methylized as well as the epi. I appreciate advice but dont come on here just putting me down because I havent spent a year researching it. I researched it enough to protect my nuts, liver, heart, joints and keep my gains so as far as im concerned thats fine with me... I mean sure if I maybe reasearched it for another 2 weeks every day then I migjt find out some good info on how to maybe gain 3-5 more lbs off of it but im a full time college student..I already have enough research and work to worryabout
i would but i want to get a cycle and pct in before spring break ..which is beginning of march..so i have a month of cycle and a month of pct...im gonna get the test around that time also and start that with the epi cycle around the end of march. ill let u know what kind of progress i make in a few weeks..i kinda already feel a slight edge in the gym from the phorce.
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Sat, 23 October 2010
It's time for pomp, circumstance, and supervillains here at Amazing Spider-Man Classics! After a few days' delay due to school, the Classics team is now able to take a look at Amazing Spider-Man 28 and 29 with the help of Eddie deAngelini, comic archive researcher for With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story, a documentary which got its premiere at this year's San Diego Comic Con. Eddie also holds the claim to fame of owning every single issue of (The) Amazing Spider-Man, having closed his final gap of issue 2 at SDCC, where he met our own Josh Bertone and introduced him to The Man himself. Though we haven't stated it here in a while, our mission is the same as always, to explore every single comic book appearance of Spider-Man ever, whether it be as a feature in his own books, a guest appearance in someone else's, or even a random one-panel cameo somewhere. This episode, Peter gets to graduate from high school in issue 28 after a tussle with the newly-doused Molten Man. Then Betty has a breakdown when the Scorpion attacks in issue 29, and wouldn't you know it, Ned Leeds is the one there to comfort her. We have a lot of fun with these, taking time to really get into the character of Liz Allan, as Amazing Spider-Man 28 is basically her swan song for the next 100 issues. You might also learn just how much influence Aunt May has had in the machinations of the history of the Marvel universe. Though we aren't addressing your emails this time around, we always enjoy receiving them and hope to have a segment next time, so write and let us know what you think of these issues and/or our anticky antics! Or share your thoughts in the comment section below. We also always welcome reviews on iTunes, which will also receive response on the show. Enjoy! |
Sun, 10 October 2010
Bring back! Oh, bring back! Oh, bring back my Goblin to me! Welcome again to Amazing Spider-Man Classics where this episode, Jon, Josh, and Donovan take a look at the only two-part Green Goblin story that Steve Ditko gave us. And along the way, we are aided and abetted by the one and only J.R. Fettinger, a voice on the Spider-Man Crawl Space podcast panel and also the author of the Spidey Kicks Butt website. This episode deserves a good posting with some awesome art, but frankly, I am completely exhausted tonight. I will probably come back and revise this post, but right now I just want to get the episode out there. Two important announcements, though. Amazing Spider-Man Classics is now proud to be sponsored by Roll2Play, an online vendor for games and gaming accessories. They can be found at www.roll2play.com or at their Facebook page. I invite you to check out their product line and consider them when purchasing for your gaming needs. Also, this is 10-10-10, and the designer of our website here, Jim Wilson of jimwilsondesigns.com, has turned 30 today. So, happy birthday, Jim!! As always we enjoy receiving your emails, which we'll now be addressing nearly every episode (when we have any), so write and write often! Or share your thoughts in the comment section below. We also always welcome reviews on iTunes, which will also receive response on the show. Enjoy! |
Wed, 6 October 2010
Just a little note to let newcomers know that the Amazing Spider-Man Classics podcast and The X-Men Blog both run on this feed. There are filter links to the left under "Categories" if you want to just see one or the other, and RSS feed filters under "Feed Me!" if you'd like to subscribe to either. Amazing Spider-Man Classics is a podcast recapping and commenting on every Spider-Man book and appearance, from the beginning. The X-Men Blog is following a similar mission, in written form, for the X-Men books. I love feedback, so please leave comments on any post you read. Also please feel free to send us an email with your thoughts, and we'll read it on the air.
-- posted at: 1:00pm EDT
Wed, 6 October 2010
This is going to be a very brief post about a very brief appearance, but you can't accuse me of not being a completist. We discussed this book in depth and at length on episode 12 of Amazing Spider-Man Classics with Michael Bailey. It's one of my favorite Spider-Man books of this era, and the episode was a lot of fun. But here are the salient points for our X-Men discussion. Peter Parker's aunt May and girlfriend Betty Brant have been kidnapped by six of Spider-Man's chief villains, referring to themselves collectively as the Sinister Six, hence the name of the story "The Sinister Six!" This was done because Spider-Man had rescued Betty Brant a couple times in recent history, and when Betty was captured, May was in her company, so May got to go along for the ride. The Vulture is one of these baddies. He goes to the Daily Bugle and orders publisher J. Jonah Jameson to print a notice on where to meet up and rescue the women. Jonah agrees to print the notice but, knowing the edition won't hit for several hours, also makes a phone call to the Fantastic Four to see if they can help find Spider-Man. They don't know so they call the Avengers. When there's no luck there, the Human Torch writes a fiery message in the sky to get Spider-Man's attention. And that's where we come in. Essentially, these phone calls are all excuses to get Marvel's various superheroes some page time, to get readers over to their books. And next up in the line of advertisements is the X-Men. Johnny's fiery message is visible from Xavier's school. During a training session in the Danger Room, the Angel notices the message out the window. Professor Xavier says it doesn't concern the X-Men and to continue training. And that's basically it. Now, there's not a whole lot to be done with this, but there are just a couple things that jump out at me. First, I had always been under the impression that the mansion is quite a distance from the City. It's always described as being "in Westchester County", but in my head, I always translated that as upstate somewhere. And I was rather gobsmacked that they'd be able to see this message from so far away. Not being a native to New York, I had to look that up, and turns out that Westchester County does also include New York City. To say they're in Westchester County, to me, is basically saying they're near the City to the north, but not in it. So I guess it's not that far away, and they could conceivably see the message, though it'd be much smaller and closer to the horizon than it appears in the art here. Also, later in the series, the question of whether Spider-Man is a mutant will become kinda important to a couple issues of The X-Men. We'll be talking about those on the show and here, as we hit them. But I just want to point out that Xavier doesn't give the notion a thought at this point. Seeing as how we just moved heaven and earth to contact Namor, I think Xavier might have done something if someone had given him cause to think about Spider-Man, and he had suspected Spider-Man of being a mutant. But anyway, not much else to say. Later in the issue, the X-Men appear again, but they turn out to just be robots built by Mysterio, so I'm not gonna worry about that. Next up is The X-Men 7, where the Blob returns and we see the (wait for it) BROTHERHOOD OF EVIL MUTANTS!!! ....AGAIN!!! So we'll see you next time. As always, please leave comments below, or send an email if you'd like to receive a response in an email segment on Amazing Spider-Man Classics.
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Mon, 4 October 2010
Hello again, X-Fans. I hope you're enjoying this blog, when it's available. School's been kicking my butt this semester, so progress has been slow, but let's see what we can get done today. We're looking at an issue that struck me a bit oddly the first time I read it. Issue 6 of The X-Men is entitled "Sub-Mariner Joins the Evil Mutants!" and I didn't know a whole lot about Sub-Mariner when I first read this, at least little past his appearances in the first ten issues of The Fantastic Four. Since then, my knowledge of Marvel's universe has vastly increased, but even still Sub-Mariner remains one of those characters who just isn't so high on my radar. He was, of course, one of Marvel's leading heroes in the Golden Age, along with the Human Torch and Captain America, and Marvel tried to revive him along with those two in the 1950s, to little success. But ever since he began reviving his superhero line again, Stan has been trying to bring attention to Prince Namor, the Sub-Mariner, including him as a regular villain in The Fantastic Four and having him show up randomly in other stories as well. So I guess it was only a matter of time before the X-Men fought him. This would not be a frequent event, though, and to my knowledge, the character's recent resurgence and inclusion in the X-branch of the Marvel Universe is an exception to how the character has been handled over the decades. But enough about the Sub-Mariner, for now. Let's look at the book! On the Jack Kirby cover, we see the title emblazoned over the Sub-Mariner, flying on his cute little ankle wings toward the X-Men cowering in the foreground. We're told this is a "Special Guest Star Issue". I am not entirely sure to whom this is intended to refer. On the one hand, Sub-Mariner seems the obvious choice, but in the bottom right corner, it also says "Also Featuring: Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch!" Now, the art has the entire Brotherhood depicted, but we're having our attention drawn to the mutant twins. I guess letter-writers were starting to pull them out as favorites. Note: Scarlet Witch has her correct color scheme now, but Quicksilver is still blue. Oh! One thing I forgot to mention last time is that Marvel Girl's look has changed. She has lost her cowl look in favor of a mask that lets her hair show. The basic spiked shape of this mask will remain with the character's look for decades, though other details of her costume will of course change many times. Open up to the splash page. We have our now-usual banner in the top left corner "X-MEN: The Most Unusual Teen-Agers of All Time..." and the title "Sub-Mariner! joins The Evil Mutants", and the credits are "Written with the flair of Stan Lee, drawn with the air of Jack Kirby, inked with the care of Chic Stone, lettered on a dare by S. Rosen". The picture itself has an exciting dinner going on. It's just Xavier's students around a table, but there is so much going on in this image that it definitely conveys a level of excitement to draw you in. Good job, Jack Kirby! (pages 1-2) We open at dinner. The cook has the day off, so Jean has helped out by cooking. Scott good-naturedly zaps Hank's hand for reaching across the table. Warren thinks about how good it is to see Scott smile. Bobby uses his ice powers to make pie a la mode. But Jean snatches it away telekinetically when he picks it up to eat without a fork. The professor is reading a newspaper article about the Sub-Mariner and muses about whether he may be a mutant, determining that there is now no time to waste. Sub-Mariner must be found before he can join Magneto. So, this is a rather domestic scene, which is an important part of the X-Men at this time. They're basically in a boarding school, so it'd be remiss to never see them just hanging out having a meal. Warren reinforces Scott's morosity by pointing out how his smile is the exception to the rule. But here's one thing that gets me. Bobby says he's going to use his icing powers to make pie a la mode. Now, Bobby has hypothermic powers. He sucks heat out of his environment, causing the moisture to freeze. Ice and snow are NOT ice cream. He hasn't made pie a la mode, he's made snow cone pie. This doesn't sound appealling to me AT ALL! There's some rather obvious dialogue here to bring new readers up to speed. I do believe, though, that this is the first time we've seen the term "Homo superior" applied to mutants by one of the heroes. It'd be interesting to know how Xavier felt about that term, coming from Magneto and being applied to all mutants. Though, of course, with all the retconned history we learn over the years since this, it's entirely possible that Xavier had been using the term well before the first issue. The sudden interest in Sub-Mariner is very contrived. It comes out of nowhere and for no apparent reason becomes Xavier's driving motivation of the day. What's even more contrived is that Magneto gets the same idea at the same time. (pages 2-4) Magneto is obsessed with finding Sub-Mariner before the X-Men do. The Toad doesn't think they'll be able to subdue him because he's so powerful. Magneto boasts of his power and fancy guns, and when Cyclops suddenly appears, Magneto lets off a blast that goes through Cyclops and narrowly misses Mastermind. Quicksilver dashes to make sure it doesn't hit his sister and is able to outrace the beam and hurl her to safety. Cyclops was, of course, one of Mastermind's illusions and after knocking him over with a magnetic blast, Magneto remembers the Sub-Mariner and sends out his astral form to find the mutant sea-prince. Again, why is finding Sub-Mariner so important all of a sudden, to two different groups separately? Out of nowhere. Don't like it. Also, Xavier wondered if Namor might be a mutant, but Magneto seems convinced of it without having even met the man. This is, by the way, on the hidden mid-Atlantic island base that we saw two issues ago. Nothing happened to it before except that the X-Men chased the Brotherhood away. They spent the next issue working out of their space asteroid. Now they're back on their island. Magneto boasts of his power and then whips out a gun. See, the cool thing about being Magneto is that you don't even need a weapon. We don't see him brandish one very often. I can't wait until Scarlet Witch grows a backbone. She's pretty useless right now, and frankly, it's kinda annoying. Magneto has "brain power second only to that of Professor X". We didn't know this before. Though we've seen him on the astral plane in a previous issue, it wasn't under his own power. Xavier helped him remotely, though that didn't make much sense at the time. Learning here that he has the power to project his consciousness unassisted helps explain that previous scene. (pages 4-7) Our merry mutants are in costumes for training. Xavier excuses himself, leaving the training session in Cyclops' hands. He then sends out his own astral form to find Namor. Exploring the ocean depths, he senses the proximity of an evil presence. Deciding this must be Magneto, he runs away. Magneto passes through and finds Namor's base. Namor is in a rage over being spurned recently by Susan Storm and defeated by the Fantastic Four. Magneto decides that he's too angry to approach, so he finds a greedy servant and commands him to pass along a message to Namor, promising that in exchange the servant can be made ruler of Atlantis. The cool thing about this very brief training session is that we see the first hints of Cyclops' future leadership of the team. With one brief exception, we never get any hints from Xavier that he ever intended anyone else to take leadership of the team until Cyclops first quits the team waaay down the road. Another element of Cyclops that comes out here is that he's "finally getting his power beam under his complete control". This is a problem that never comes across clearly. What problems he has controlling his eye beams beyond covering them with his visor, I'm not too sure. I was going to give Xavier credit for being able to detect Magneto's presence before Magneto could do the reverse. But then, Random Guard in Namor's palace could also detect Magneto's aura of evil. So Xavier doesn't get extra points. I do have to wonder, though, at Magneto's astral form exuding this huge evil aura. It's an interesting notion. We get a reference here to recent events in The Fantastic Four 27. For those who are interested, Namor has recently been abandoned by most of his subjects. He has only a few soldiers and servants remaining to him. And he's still pining away after Sue Storm at this point, so to get her to love him, he kidnapped her, but Reed dashed to the rescue, and he and the rest of the Four fought Namor and his minions until Sue told Namor that she really loves Reed, and that she isn't just kidding, and Dr. Strange whisked the FF away before Namor could kill them all in a fury. (Dr. Strange? Yes, Dr. Strange.) So, I'm guessing this scene is something like five minutes later. Cuz Namor is still in the middle of his berserk fury rage over being spurned by Susan and defeated by the Four. (pages 7-9) Xavier catches up the X-Men on Magneto's activities and tells them he has located Magneto's hidden island. They then set out to visit Magneto's island, where he is awaiting Namor's answer. But finding it proves less easy than they had thought. Now, I was under the impression this was the same hidden island fortress that we saw two issues back. The island fortress the X-Men have already visited. So why is finding it again such a problem? Has Magneto made the island mobile somehow? There's a funny scene with the Beast doing a stunt that goes wrong, so Marvel Girl grabs him mid-air telekinetically, and when he proves too heavy, the Iceman whips up a pile of snow (or is it a pile of ice cream?) to cushion his fall. (pages 9-13) Namor's soldier conveys Magneto's message, an offer of alliance in battle against mankind, mentioning in the process that Magneto is a mutant "the same as you are!" Namor's response is "Why has that thought never occurred to me before??" and he agrees. So he hops in a sleek underwater racer, and goes to Magneto's island. Once there, he arrogantly ignores Magneto, so Magneto decides he just needs some titillation to gain his attention. He sends the Scarlet Witch to talk to him, but as she approaches she "carelessly makes a gesture" sending a hex at some machinery near Namor. That gets his attention, but before anything else can happen, the Angel attacks. Namor grabs him and physically hurls him from the island. Fortunately, his vector carries him toward the ship where the rest of the X-Men still are. Beast leaps to catch the Angel out of the air and Iceman gives them an ice chute to slide down to the deck. Angel reports the situation to Xavier, who commands to ready the attack. Okay, I need to address this whole "Namor is a mutant" thing. Namor is a hybrid of human and Atlantean. This explains his ability to survive in both the ocean and out of water, or at least explains it as much as comic stuff ever gets explained. But since he's a hybrid, I never thought of him as a mutant. And when Magneto speculates along those lines in this story, I wrote him off as wrong. But Marvel has run with that ball in recent months, even publishing "Namor: The First Mutant". So I had to figure out how it was that they could say he's a mutant. Then it became oh so obvious. He has wings on his heels. Neither Atlanteans nor humans have wings on their heels. So that, along with possibly other characteristics unique to him, could definitely be considered a mutation, and a manifestation of the X-Gene. So there's that. I think it's handled a little half-handed in this book, but the philosophy over being or not being a mutant is rather undeveloped at this point in the X-history. Namor deigns to visit Magneto to seek alliance, but when Namor arrives at the island, he wants nothing to do with Magneto. This is one of the reasons I really don't like Namor that much. He's so damn arrogant all the damn time. And Magneto's reaction doesn't really improve his standing in my eyes either. "Hmmm, Namor won't talk to me. I'll send a FEMALE to get his attention." And the sad thing is, it seems to work. Namor seems impressed by the Scarlet Witch. So much for Susan Storm... I am having trouble wrapping my brain around Wanda's total lack of control of her powers at this point. I guess it could be a reason that young mutants should be trained in use of their powers. But the way it's worded, "Oh, no! I carelessly made a gesture! It will cause my hex power to operate!" So every time she flips her wrist, bad stuff happens? That's gotta suck to be her... Namor grabbing the Angel in both hands and hauling him off the island in one throw... Classic. (pages 13-18) Before the X-Men can attack, Magneto uses a giant magnet weapon on his island to send a blast that destroys the wooden ship the X-Men are on. Iceman creates an ice platform and all the X-Men (including the Professor) are able to walk across it to the island. After shrugging off an illusion from Mastermind, the team is attacked by Quicksilver, who is stopped in his tracks by a telekinetic lift in the air from Jean. The Scarlet Witch is worried about her brother, and Magneto insults her for her emotionalism. Namor decides that he cannot ally himself with a man who would speak thus to a female, so he and Magneto fight. Cyclops blasts them all with his beam, sending Magneto and the Brotherhood flying. Mastermind surrounds the X-Men in an illusory mist, and though they can't see, the X-Men are able to retaliate with the Iceman freezing up the room. Magneto flees with the Toad and Mastermind, but the Scarlet Witch stays behind to help her brother. So, why the hell are the X-Men traveling on a wooden ship, with old-timey sails for motivation? That makes no sense. It also makes little sense how a magnetic blast would destroy wood. But ah well... When Quicksilver attacks, Cyclops exclaims, "It's impossible! No one can attack with such blinding speed!" And Quicksilver replies that of course HE can, and I have to wonder if Cyclops just forgets things sometimes. This is, after all, their third encounter in a handful of days, it seems. You'd think he'd be fully cognizant of the fact that there's a speedster on the bad guys' team. It's awesomely ridiculous that the driving wedge that forces apart the alliance between Namor and Magneto is not some power struggle or conflict of opinion on what the team should do. No. Namor refuses to ally with someone who would speak harshly to a woman. It's so NOT women's lib, it's hilarious. Marvel Girl is able to hold Quicksilver in the air with no problem, but she couldn't hold the Beast earlier in the story. I guess that's Stan Lee's subtle way of calling Hank fat. When Magneto leaves without the mutant twins, I got all excited that this would be where they finally break off from the Brotherhood and start becoming their own characters, but alas such is not to be. (pages 18-22) Wanda demands that the X-Men free her brother. Namor backs her up, and fights back against the X-Men's attacks. Xavier intervenes in the violence, showing that Quicksilver has not been harmed. Namor exits in a rage at the futility of seeking allies among surface men and bemoaning the attractiveness of surface women. As Namor is walking across the island, Magneto uses his giant magnet weapon to throw Namor to the ground and begin to crush him. Namor breaks loose by thrashing his fists against the ground, pulverizing it and causing tremors that wreck the gigantic magnet. Namor dives back into the ocean. Magneto leaves with Mastermind and the Toad in one of his magnetic ships from last issue, snagging Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch magnetically as he goes. Jean is glad their prisoners escaped, because "that witch is much too attractive!" And the story ends on a rather silly note. There's a panel here where we see Scarlet Witch from the back, so that her head looks like a pink bowl of chocolate ice cream. Magneto's gigantic magnet weapon seems rather redundant to me. He already has magnetic powers; why not use them? Or if this is an amplifier, why not say that? I don't think Magneto is the type to use other weapons when he is present at the situation himself. Namor swims off to further Namor adventures. Quicksilver's and the Scarlet Witch's brief freedom from Magneto is abruptly ended. And Jean Grey's complete shallowness of character is brought to light for one of the first times. Of course, I shouldn't knock her too hard. It's really just typical of the way Stan Lee was writing women at this time. NEXT ISSUE: A startling change occurs in the lives of the X-Men! What could it be? We'll have to see a couple of posts down the road. Let's Visit the X-Men has four out of the five letters talking about Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch, asking for more, for them to have their own series, for them to join the X-Men, etc. So no wonder the cover has their names featured. And the Special Announcements Section has two points worth mentioning: firstly, the editors acknowledge cries for The X-Men to go monthly but admit it hasn't done so cuz they don't have the time to do that many books; secondly, the state of Namor as a mutant or not is still being debated in the Bullpen at this point and they throw it open to the readers to see what they think. So that confusion wasn't just in my own head. Interesting. Overall, not a great issue, despite some good moments. Several opportunities were lost due to storytelling tropes of the day. It would have been nice to see some exploration of how and why Namor is a mutant, but as we learned in the letters column, Stan Lee didn't know himself if that's the route he wanted to take. Up to now, Jean Grey has rarely shown herself to be as shallow as other Marvel girls of the time period (no pun intended); so her reaction to the Scarlet Witch's beauty seems a bit out of place. The whole reason for the plot was contrived. Magneto rarely used his own magnetism, instead relying on doohickeys. The mutant twins shone a little, though, so that's good. And this makes four out of six issues so far that have featured Magneto, and three of those with the Brotherhood. Time for a change of scenery next issue. Well, that's it for another round. Sorry these are so few and far between. Next up will be a shortie as we look at the X-Men's role in the first Amazing Spider-Man Annual, then we'll be back for an in-depth look at issue 7 of The X-Men. Thanks for reading. Feel free to comment below, or write an email to hear a response on Amazing Spider-Man Classics.
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Ferro Corporation Urges Shareholders to Vote White Proxy Card
Ferro Corporation Urges Shareholders to Vote White Proxy Card
Highlights Strong First Quarter and Company's Increased Full Year Guidance
Reiterates That the FrontFour Group's Interests Are NOT Aligned With Those of ALL Shareholders
Provides Details Related to A. Schulman Proposal
CLEVELAND--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Ferro Corporation (NYSE: FOE, the "Company") announced today that it mailed a letter to shareholders in connection with the Company's Annual Meeting of Shareholders to be held on May 15, 2013.
The Ferro Board of Directors unanimously recommends that shareholders protect their investment and vote "FOR" the Company's experienced and highly qualified directors - Richard C. Brown, Gregory E. Hyland and Ronald P. Vargo - by telephone, by Internet or by signing, dating and returning the WHITE proxy card.
The full text of the letter to shareholders is below:
Dear Fellow Shareholder:
We have been pleased to speak with a number of Ferro shareholders over the past few months and, as always, we have appreciated your insights and input. During our discussions and in our recent letters to you, we have reviewed the value creation strategy developed by your Board and management team and the ways in which all of us at Ferro are collaborating to pursue that strategy and drive value for all shareholders.
Now is the time to act to protect your investment. The Annual Meeting of Shareholders of Ferro Corporation will be held on May 15, 2013 - just a couple of weeks away.
We ask that you please take a moment TODAY to vote "FOR" the Ferro Board's nominees - Richard C. Brown, Gregory E. Hyland, and Ronald P. Vargo - using the enclosed WHITE proxy card. You may vote by telephone, by Internet, or by signing and dating the enclosed WHITE proxy card and returning it in the postage-paid envelope provided. Your vote is very important!
FERRO'S STRATEGY AND EXECUTION ARE ALREADY GENERATING RESULTS (see graphic)
Since the Board's decisive actions last fall, the value creation strategy has already begun to generate substantially improved financial results. This is evidenced by Ferro's strong first quarter 2013 earnings report and increased full year earnings guidance, as well as our recently announced additional cost savings:
Adjusted Earnings Per Share
- In the first quarter of 2013, adjusted EPS from continuing operations was $0.10, exceeding the guidance range of $0.05 to $0.07 and beating analysts' average expectations of $0.04
- Ferro recently increased full year 2013 adjusted EPS guidance to $0.35-$0.40, a 40% and 33% increase from the initial guidance given on February 6, 2013
Cost Savings
- Over $30 million in cost savings expected for 2013
- $70 million in aggregate cost savings in 2014, with $85 million worth of identified cost-reduction projects
- Selling, general, and administrative costs reduced by 15% in the first quarter of 2013 compared to the first quarter of 2012
The Ferro Board and management team are intensely focused on enhancing shareholder value by divesting non-core businesses, streamlining operations to reduce costs and pursuing high-return growth investments.
As evidenced by Ferro's recent first-quarter 2013 earnings, Ferro's Board is guiding the Company through meaningful, measurable execution of the value creation strategy, which already is driving increased shareholder returns. Moreover, your Board's recognition of the importance of balancing historical knowledge and experience with fresh, new perspectives is reflected in the Board's composition. Five of the nine current independent directors, along with our newly appointed CEO and President, Peter Thomas, have joined the Board within the past four years. These members bring new perspectives, experience, and skills, complementing the historical knowledge and continuity of leadership of the Board as a whole. Below is a tally sheet reflecting your Board's experience:
Director | Independent | CEO/CFO | International | Chemicals & | Accounting & | M&A | |||||||
Peter Thomas | X | X | X | X | |||||||||
Sandra Austin | X | X | X | ||||||||||
Richard Brown | X | X | X | X | X | ||||||||
Richard Hipple | X | X | X | X | X | ||||||||
Jennie Hwang | X | X | X | X | X | ||||||||
Gregory Hyland | X | X | X | X | X | ||||||||
Peter Kong | X | X | X | X | |||||||||
William Lawrence | X | X | X | X | |||||||||
Timothy Pistell | X | X | X | X | X | X | |||||||
Ronald Vargo | X | X | X | X | X | X | |||||||
Given the positive earnings achieved by Ferro in the first quarter of 2013, it is unfortunate that a group of short-term shareholders - the FrontFour Capital Group and Quinpario Partners (the "FrontFour Group") - is seeking to elect a slate of self-interested nominees with an agenda to undermine our value creation strategy. The FrontFour Group's stated agenda is to press for the sale of your company, turning a quick profit for themselves without regard to the impact on long-term Ferro investors. This agenda threatens to derail the Board and management team's successful execution against the value creation strategy and the important progress Ferro has made in the past six months.
- The FrontFour Group has disclosed no specific plan to improve Ferro's financial and operational performance. Instead, it continues to claim credit for actions that Ferro initiated months before the FrontFour Group appeared on the scene.
Inexplicably, the FrontFour Group claims that initiatives undertaken as part of Ferro's value creation plan - including the divestitures of our solar pastes and pharmaceuticals businesses - represent your Board's reaction to a letter from the FrontFour Group dated January 23, 2013. This is nonsense.
Our value creation strategy was announced in October 2012. We said then that we would be cutting expenses and exploring strategic alternatives for our solar pastes business. In fact, by November 2012, we were identifying additional cost savings and had already entered into negotiations with the buyer of the solar pastes assets. We also by then were already in negotiations with the buyer of the pharmaceuticals business. Whatever self-serving version of events the FrontFour Group might present, the fact is that those initiatives were well underway BEFORE the FrontFour Group's January 2013 letter. For the FrontFour Group now to claim credit for those initiatives is disingenuous.
Don't let the FrontFour Group deceive you. It does not understand Ferro's businesses and has no plans to generate value. That's why the best that it can do is try to claim credit for the strategy already produced by your Board and management team.
- The FrontFour Group is focused on its own interests, not those of all Ferro shareholders.
While none of the three FrontFour Group nominees has proposed a plan for or demonstrated a commitment to adding value for all Ferro shareholders, particular caution is warranted regarding Mr. Quinn, whose actions and statements are inconsistent and self-serving.
Mr. Quinn was a candidate for Ferro's CEO position in December 2012. He interviewed with Ferro's executive-search advisors on December 18, 2012. On the same day, Mr. Quinn's hedge fund, Quinpario Partners, executed its first-ever trade in Ferro stock, buying 300,000 shares. We find the timing of this purchase highly irregular, especially if the trade occurred after the interview. Further, Quinpario sold those 300,000 shares on January 7, 2013, taking what might be viewed as a short-swing profit while Mr. Quinn was still a CEO candidate. Having one's hedge fund make such trades while seeking the top leadership position at the very same public company could create the appearance of impropriety. These actions strike us as a triumph of self-interest over prudent judgment.
Furthermore, although Mr. Quinn holds himself out as an advocate for good governance, in fact, when he was a candidate for our CEO position, he sought special treatment for himself, attempting to circumvent the thorough and fair process established for vetting CEO candidates. He tried to have the process pushed aside because (as he put it) he was "uniquely qualified" for the position. And in an email to Ferro's executive-search advisors on December 20, 2012, Mr. Quinn stated:
"I have several things in the hopper currently and...I do not have much of a desire to be part of a typical search process..."
We find it noteworthy that the FrontFour Group launched its proxy contest the day after Mr. Quinn learned that he was no longer under consideration for the post.
A leading proxy advisory firm also has expressed concern about Mr. Quinn's governance standards. In 2009, when Mr. Quinn served as a director of Tecumseh Products Co., proxy advisory firm Glass-Lewis stated that:
"[We] believe that shareholders and the Company would benefit from the removal of Mr. Quinn from the board . . . [Mr. Quinn's removal] will send a firm message to the remaining members of the board."
Also contrary to the illusion he seeks to create, Mr. Quinn failed to achieve even market-level performance as the leader of a public company. Mr. Quinn holds himself out as having a record of value creation during his tenure as CEO of Solutia, selectively using as a starting point the stock market lows of 2009. What Mr. Quinn fails to tell you is that the period was selected because it provides the illusion of outperformance. The truth is, beginning with Solutia's public listing and exit from bankruptcy on February 28, 2008, until January 26, 2012, the day prior to the announcement of the sale of Solutia to Eastman, Solutia significantly underperformed its peers. For this period - virtually the entirety of Solutia's existence as a public company under Mr. Quinn's leadership - Solutia's 14.1% share price performance was less than half of the 33.9% return generated by its peers.1
The FrontFour Group also has repeatedly criticized Ferro's involvement in the solar pastes business, a business that Ferro had been in for many years, contending that Ferro should have taken "decisive action" to sell the business unit in early 2011.
But just the year before, in March 2010, Mr. Quinn caused Solutia to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to acquire a solar-energy business of its own, Etimex Solar. At that time, Mr. Quinn was effusive about the potential of the solar-energy sector, saying:
"Renewable energy is an acknowledged source of long-term growth...I am extremely excited about Etimex Solar and the role it will play in Solutia's future success."
Now that it suits his purposes to change his tune, Mr. Quinn and his colleagues in the FrontFour Group contend that Ferro should have been exiting the solar-energy sector at the very time that Mr. Quinn was paying a premium to get into it.
- The FrontFour Group backs A. Schulman's unsolicited and inadequate proposal to acquire Ferro.
The FrontFour Group consists of hedge funds and their managers, a group whose interests are not aligned with those of other Ferro shareholders. Indeed, the FrontFour Group continues to push for a sale of your company to A. Schulman, based on A. Schulman's low-ball $6.50 proposal. Bear in mind that, under the proposal, half of the $6.50 that Ferro shareholders would receive in the transaction would be in the form of A. Schulman shares.
The divergence of interests between the FrontFour Group and Ferro's other shareholders is apparent from the FrontFour Group's continued support of such a transaction when Ferro's earnings results, earnings expectations, and share price have grown stronger while A. Schulman's have weakened. Indeed, since February 13, 2013, when A. Schulman made its proposal, A. Schulman's share price has declined by 22.9%.2 Had your Board accepted the proposal, the value of your investment would have eroded considerably along with the value of the A. Schulman shares you would have received.
It is clear that, despite its supposed interest in the "future of Ferro," what the FrontFour Group is really considering is its short-term investment. Having seen the value of its investment in Ferro shares rise by approximately 76% in a few short months, we believe the FrontFour Group's goal is to liquidate its stake by forcing Ferro into a fire sale of your Company to A. Schulman. The management team and Board should not be diverted from their focused execution of our value creation strategy by negotiations on a low-ball proposal. The better course is to support the value creation strategy, which already has begun to generate enhanced value for all shareholders.
Consider who stands to gain the most from your vote: ALL Ferro shareholders or a short-term-focused hedge fund out to sell your company on the cheap? PLEASE VOTE THE WHITE CARD TODAY.
A great deal of misinformation has arisen regarding Ferro's response to the A. Schulman proposal, misinformation that the FrontFour Group has helped to spread. We want to set the record straight. Here are the facts leading to the Board's determination that A. Schulman's unsolicited proposal of $6.50 per share is inadequate.
- Joseph Gingo, A. Schulman's CEO, requested to meet with Peter Thomas, then Ferro's Interim CEO, on December 7, 2012. At the meeting, Mr. Gingo expressed that A. Schulman had an interest in acquiring Ferro.
- Even though no specific proposal had been made, Ferro's Board of Directors, with assistance from the Company's independent advisors, analyzed on its own initiative a potential combination of the two companies. The Board's conclusion following that analysis was that Ferro's value creation strategy presented a better value proposition for Ferro shareholders.
- Almost two months later, on January 28, 2013, Mr. Gingo called Mr. Lawrence requesting an in-person meeting.
- Mr. Lawrence and Mr. Gingo met in person on February 13, 2013. At that meeting, Mr. Gingo provided a letter outlining, at a high level, a combination with Ferro at $6.50 per share, half in cash and half in A. Schulman stock.
- At that meeting, Mr. Gingo also pressed Mr. Lawrence to arrange a quick response to the proposal, but Mr. Lawrence informed Mr. Gingo that the Ferro Board would need adequate time to properly consider the matter, in consultation with its independent advisors.
- On February 26, 2013, following a second review with its independent advisors of a potential combination with A. Schulman, this time specifically reviewing the $6.50 per share proposal, Ferro notified A. Schulman that it did not believe the proposal was in the best interest of Ferro's shareholders.
- On March 4, 2013, A. Schulman publicly announced the proposal that A. Schulman had previously made and that Ferro had previously rejected.
As the facts show, your Board carefully considered the A. Schulman proposal. Simply put, A. Schulman's $6.50 proposal was not then and is not now in the best interests of Ferro's shareholders.
Your company is executing on a value creation strategy that we believe will deliver greater value to Ferro shareholders. In fact, your company has been strengthening its performance, reporting higher than expected first-quarter earnings and raising its 2013 earnings guidance, while A. Schulman has stumbled, missing analyst estimates and its own first-quarter guidance and lowering its earnings forecast for 2013. Your Board carefully analyzed the A. Schulman proposal and then stood firm, despite repeated criticism from the FrontFour Group, and refused to negotiate a low-ball sale to a stumbling A. Schulman.
The value of your Ferro investment is at stake. We urge you to vote today by telephone, by Internet, or by signing and dating the enclosed WHITE proxy card and returning it in the postage-paid envelope provided.
We thank you for your continued support of Ferro.
The Ferro Board of Directors
Your Vote Is Important, No Matter How Many Shares You Own. |
If you have questions about how to vote your shares on the WHITE proxy card, or need additional assistance, please contact the firm assisting us in the solicitation of proxies: |
Shareholders Call Toll-Free: (888) 750-5834 |
Banks and Brokers Call Collect: (212) 750-5833 |
We urge you NOT to sign any Green proxy card sent to you by the FrontFour Group, even as a protest vote. If you have previously submitted a Green proxy card, you can revoke that proxy by using the enclosed WHITE proxy card to vote by telephone or by Internet, or by simply signing, dating and returning the enclosed WHITE proxy card in the postage-paid envelope provided. |
Ferro's definitive proxy materials are available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
1 The Solutia peer group is comprised of mid-cap specialty chemicals companies including: Albemarle, Ashland, Cabot, Chemtura, Cytec, FMC, HB Fuller, Rockwood, RPM, and Valspar; Source: Bloomberg |
2 As of the market close on April 26, 2013, the last trading day prior to the mailing of this letter. |
About Ferro Corporation
Ferro Corporation (http://www.ferro.com) is a leading global supplier of technology-based performance materials and chemicals for manufacturers. Ferro products are sold into the building and construction, automotive, appliances, electronics, household furnishings, and industrial products markets. Headquartered in Mayfield Heights, Ohio, the Company has approximately 4,700 employees globally and reported 2012 sales of $1.8 billion.
Cautionary Note on Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements in this press release may constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Federal securities laws. These statements are subject to a variety of uncertainties, unknown risks, and other factors concerning the Company's operations and business environment. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those suggested by these forward-looking statements and that could adversely affect the Company's future financial performance include the following:
-- demand in the industries into which Ferro sells its products may be unpredictable, cyclical, or heavily influenced by consumer spending;
-- Ferro's ability to successfully implement its value creation strategy;
-- Ferro's ability to successfully implement and/or administer its cost-saving initiatives, including its restructuring programs, and to produce the desired results, including projected savings;
-- restrictive covenants in the Company's credit facilities could affect its strategic initiatives and liquidity;
-- Ferro's ability to access capital markets, borrowings, or financial transactions;
-- the effectiveness of the Company's efforts to improve operating margins through sales growth, price increases, productivity gains, and improved purchasing techniques;
-- the availability of reliable sources of energy and raw materials at a reasonable cost;
-- currency conversion rates and economic, social, regulatory, and political conditions around the world;
-- Ferro's presence in certain geographic regions, including Latin America and Asia-Pacific, where it can be difficult to compete lawfully;
-- increasingly aggressive domestic and foreign governmental regulations on hazardous materials and regulations affecting health, safety, and the environment;
-- Ferro's ability to successfully introduce new products or enter into new growth markets;
-- sale of products into highly regulated industries;
-- limited or no redundancy for certain of the Company's manufacturing facilities and possible interruption of operations at those facilities;
-- Ferro's ability to complete future acquisitions or dispositions, or successfully integrate future acquisitions;
-- competitive factors, including intense price competition;
-- Ferro's ability to protect its intellectual property or to successfully resolve claims of infringement brought against the Company;
-- management of Ferro's general and administrative expenses;
-- Ferro's multi-jurisdictional tax structure;
-- the impact of the Company's performance on its ability to utilize significant deferred tax assets;
-- the effectiveness of strategies to increase Ferro's return on capital;
-- the impact of operating hazards and investments made in order to meet stringent environmental, health, and safety regulations;
-- stringent labor and employment laws and relationships with the Company's employees;
-- the impact of requirements to fund employee benefit costs, especially post-retirement costs;
-- implementation of new business processes and information systems;
-- the impact of interruption, damage to, failure, or compromise of the Company's information systems;
-- exposure to lawsuits in the normal course of business;
-- risks and uncertainties associated with intangible assets;
-- Ferro's borrowing costs could be affected adversely by interest rate increases;
-- liens on the Company's assets by its lenders affect its ability to dispose of property and businesses;
-- Ferro may not pay dividends on its common stock in the foreseeable future; and
-- other factors affecting the Company's business that are beyond its control, including disasters, accidents, and governmental actions.
The risks and uncertainties identified above are not the only risks the Company faces. Additional risks and uncertainties not presently known to the Company or that it currently believes to be immaterial also may adversely affect the Company. Should any known or unknown risks and uncertainties develop into actual events, these developments could have material adverse effects on our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
This release contains time-sensitive information that reflects management's best analysis only as of the date of this release. The Company does not undertake any obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements to reflect future events, information, or circumstances that arise after the date of this release. Additional information regarding these risks can be found in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the period ended December 31, 2012.
Reconciliation of Reported Income/Loss to Adjusted Income/Loss | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
(Dollars in thousands, except per share amounts) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
For the Three Months Ended: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
March 31, 2012 | December 31, 2012 | March 31, 2013 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Net Income | EPS | Net Income | EPS | Net Income | EPS | |||||||||||||||||||
As Reported ($000) | $ | 3,846 | $ | 0.04 | ($63,876 | ) | ($0.74 | ) | $ | 883 | $ | 0.01 | ||||||||||||
Special Items: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Restructuring | $ | 199 | - | $ | 3,576 | $ | 0.04 | $ | 6,051 | $ | 0.07 | |||||||||||||
Discontinued Operations | (707 | ) | (0.01 | ) | 371 | - | 8,421 | 0.10 | ||||||||||||||||
Taxes 1 | 623 | 0.01 | 20,205 | 0.23 | (2,569 | ) | (0.03 | ) | ||||||||||||||||
Pension 2 | - | - | 17,432 | 0.20 | - | - | ||||||||||||||||||
Noncontrolling Interest | - | - | - | - | (394 | ) | - | |||||||||||||||||
Other 3 | 1,576 | 0.02 | 16,951 | 0.20 | (4,057 | ) | (0.05 | ) | ||||||||||||||||
Total Special Items | $ | 1,691 | $ | 0.02 | $ | 58,535 | $ | 0.67 | $ | 7,452 | $ | 0.09 | ||||||||||||
As Adjusted | $ | 5,537 | $ | 0.06 | ($5,341 | ) | ($0.07 | ) | $ | 8,335 | $ | 0.10 | ||||||||||||
Net Income = Net income attributable to common shareholders |
EPS = Diluted earnings per share |
Notes | ||
1 | Adjustment of reported earning and of special items to a normalized 36% rate. | |
2 | Pension and other postretirement benefits mark-to-market adjustment of related net liabilities. | |
3 | Includes gain/loss on divestitures, certain severance costs, impairments, ongoing costs at facilities that have been idled, and certain business development activities. | |
Reconciliation of Reported Income/Loss to Adjusted EBITDA | |||||||||||
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For the Three Months Ended: | |||||||||||
31-Mar-12 | 31-Dec-12 | 31-Mar-13 | |||||||||
Net Income Attributable to Ferro Corporation | $ | 4 | ($63 | ) | $ | 1 | |||||
Loss (Income) from Discontinued Operations | (1 | ) | (1 | ) | 8 | ||||||
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Interest Expense | 6 | 7 | 7 | ||||||||
Income Tax Expense | 3 | (4 | ) | 1 | |||||||
Depreciation & Amortization | 13 | 16 | 12 | ||||||||
Charges | 3 | 59 | 3 | ||||||||
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So I spent some time refining your code Paulie_D and now the only size you set is the figure. Using the (old) flexbox syntax to get the figcaption to sit dead center, otherwise you have to change the padding value on the figcaption h3.
Here it is!
DeTodo, if you want to use this code, it might be better. A note about the flexbox syntax though, it is deprecated, but all browsers support it. The newer syntax differs, but only Chrome supports it.
The text doesn't center on the hover. A possible fix is to apply padding-top. The way you applied the background image prevented changing the value of top to anything other than 0.
EDIT: Reread your post above. I guess my Firefox doesn't respect the "old flexbox syntax" haha.
pmac627, ooh I had no idea that Firefox no longer supports the old syntax. Thank you for pointing that out! It's odd they would remove that, and then not add support for the new syntax.
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Garden potluck Wednesday at Chilliwack's community gardens
A new group is emerging to maintain and run the Sunshine Community Garden in Chilliwack.
A garden potluck to start the conversation about it is set for Wednesday night at 5:30 p.m. at the gardens on Sunshine Drive.
"All Sunshine Community gardeners and individuals interested in the well being and continued creation and maintenance of the garden are welcome to gather for a potluck and a conversation about the emergence of a new group to manage the continuing governance and operation of the garden," wrote organizers about the Aug. 1 event on the Facebook page devoted to the gardens.
Everyone is asked to bring a cold or hot dish to share with the group, something to sit on like a chair or a blanket, utensils, and dishes.
In the wake of the success of the Sunshine Community Garden this year, it has outgrown its status as a subcommittee of Food Matters Chilliwack, so they've created a distinct group.
The next month will see some changes to the contact information and web presence of the garden group. Check out www.foodmatterschilliwack.com and www.facebook.com/sunshine.communitygarden for details.
"We are amazed with how quickly the community of Chilliwack has come together and supported all of these local food initiatives," says Jason Delisle of the Sunshine Community Garden group. "I am excited to see these two groups continue to passionately connect people and food and look forward to their continued growth."
Both organizations will be looking for new members to help coordinate activities and events.