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HTTP package for the MODULEWork Framework
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The HTTP Package of the Modulework Framework.
It provides a convient way of handling HTTP request and HTTP response.
So for example you could already create a application with these two classes:
$req = Request::makeFromGlobals(); $content = 'Hello ' . $req->query->get('name', 'Stranger'); $res = Response::make($content); $res->send();
This will app will great every vistor with their name or if the vistor didn' t provide the name in the query string it will fallback to "Stranger".
Of course this is a very basic example but it can do a lot more!
We could expand this and save the name into a cookie:
$req = Request::makeFromGlobals(); $name = $req->query->get('name', Stranger); $content = 'Hello ' . $name; $res = Response::make($content); $res->addCookie(Cookie::make( 'name', $name )); $res->send();
Or check if the method is GET or POST, so a user could also POST it' s name:
$req = Request::makeFromGlobals(); $name = $req->query->get('name', $req->request->get('name', 'Stranger') ); // Or just getting the method: $method = $req->getMethod(); $content = 'Hello ' . $name; $res = Response::make($content); $res->addCookie(Cookie::make( 'name', $name )); $res->send();
Or display the client' s IP:
echo Request::makeFromGlobals()->getClientIp();
Now we also send a cookie a too the user. But we can do even more:
$res = Response::make() ->setContent('Foo') ->setStatusCode(200) ->addHeader('Expire', 'never') ->setDate(new DateTime) ->addCookie(Cookie::make('foo') ->setValue('bar') ->setSecure(false) ->setHttpOnly(false) ) ->prepare($request) ->send();
Chained methods! Custom Headers! Custom Status Codes! And much more!
The Response class is intelligent enough to set the status code, if a redirect is issued:
$res = Response::make() ->addHeader('Location', 'foo.bar') ->prepare($request) ->send()
Will result in this header
HTTP/1.0 302 Found
Location: foo.bar
Date [...]
But the Request class can do even more, we can use it for very basic routing:
$req = Request::makeFromGlobals(); if ('/' == $req->getPath()) { echo "You are on the homepage" } elseif ('/foo/bar' == $req->getPath()) { echo "You are on the bar page of foo!" }
This is very basic and not best practice, but it shows for what we can use this class for!
There are also some more Response classes, like the RedirectResponse and JsonResponse class.
Here is an usage example:
$res = RedirectResponse::make('http://foo.bar') ->withCookie(Cookie::make('foo')) ->prepare(Request::makeFromGlobals) ->send();
As you can see very easy to use. NOTE! This is just a wrapper for a normal Response. You could also do this:
$res = Response::make('<extra>', 302, array('Location' => 'http://foo.bar')) ->addCookie(Cookie::make('foo')) ->prepare(Request::makeFromGlobals) ->send();
The only thing what is not shown in the alternative way is the HTML meta redirect (in case the header doesn' t fire).
The JsonResponse class is pretty straight forward as well:
$res = JsonResponse::make(array('foo' => 'bar')) ->prepare(Request::makeFromGlobals) ->send();
This would result in this response:
Content-Type application/json
Date [...]
{"foo": "bar"}
Pretty nifty, eeh!!?


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Residence staff at York Hall called University of Maine police late Sunday to report underage drinking. That led to four people, including one juvenile, being charged, university spokesman Joe Carr said Monday.
Eva Vandergrift, 18, who reportedly hosted the party in her dorm room, was charged at around 11 p.m. with furnishing a place for minors to consume alcohol, according to Carr.
The three other teens were charged with possession of alcohol by a minor by consumption. They are UMaine student Jacob Backman, 18, and two nonstudents, Katelyn Brenton, 18, and a 17-year-old juvenile, addresses unknown, Carr said. The juvenile's parents were called and one of them picked her up, he said. (Nok-Noi Ricker, BDN)

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Samsung has launched their latest ultra light and thin Samsung Series 3 laptop in USA and UK market. Dubbed as Samsung NP305U1A-A02UK (for UK market) and NP305U1A-A02US laptop (for US market), the machines has 0.9 inch thin and weighing at 2.71 lbs plus Scratch-resistant casing to protect from micro scratches from sand or small particles with ultra-slim bezel provides stylish design and offer maximum portability wherever you go.
The Samsung NP305U1A-A02 series is comes with a AMD Dual Core Processor E-450 (1.65GHz, 1MB L2 Cache) paired with a 4GB of DDR3 RAM, AMD Radeon™ HD 6320M graphics cards and 11.6 inch HD LED-backlit Widescreen Display with max resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels and support anti-reflective technology offering sharp, colorful, vivid colours and amazing performance for your daily tasking, play intensive games or just watch your favorite movies.
There is 1.3MP HD Camera that offering crisp resolution quality for video conversations or capture photos, Chiclet keyboard with multi-touch touchpad and scroll zone for easy and accurate typing, Bluetooth 3.0 for easy transfer data, 802.11 b/g/n WiFi to connect internet in Hot Spot area and 4-Cell Lithium-ion battery that optimized with Samsung's intelligent battery charging technology offering 80% of its original capacity for up to 1000 recharges, up to 3x longer life time than a typical battery and up to 3 hours of battery life. With Samsung control center and Samsung's exclusive Fast Start technology, the machines can boot-up in less than 3 sec from a hybrid sleep mode and control the configuration with a simple click.
In term of size, both of Samsung NP305U1A laptop measures in 10.93 x 7.72 x 0.9 – 1.08 inch with weight at 2.71 lbs. On the right device, you will find two USB 2.0 port and VGA port, on the left there is LAN port, DC in, mic combo, one USB 2.0 port and HDMI port, just in cas you need connect into HDTV, while on front there is multi in one card reader that support for SD Memory Card, SDHC Memory Card, SDXC card and MMC cards. For storage, Samsung NP305U1A-A02UK and Samsung NP305U1A-A02US offering spacious of storage with 320 GB – Serial ATA-300 hard disk drive.
Other features on the new Samsung NP305U1A notebook are Samsung Recovery Solution, Norton Internet Security (60-day Trial), Adobe Acrobat Reader and Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit Edition as the operating system. If you interested with this machines, both of them is available now for purchase in online retailers or local retailers for cost at £349.99 for Samsung NP305U1A-A02UK and at $479.99 for Samsung NP305U1A-A02US laptop.


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"When it came time to act, he voted against critical resources," the announcer says about Obama. "No to individual body armor, no to helicopters, no to ammunition, no to aircraft. The bill Obama opposed even had funding for veterans' medical facilities and rehabilitation programs. And why did he say no? Obama chose Washington politics over the needs of our military."
A casual listener might not notice that the ad's evidence is a single vote — a May 2007 appropriations bill.
It's true that Obama voted against that bill, which raises two questions. Did the bill contain the items mentioned in the ad? And were those really what Obama was voting against?
On the first question, yes, the U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Care, Katrina Recovery and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act of 2007 , which Obama voted against, included provisions for purchasing body armor, helicopters, ammunition and aircraft, and for funding veterans' medical facilities and rehabilitation programs.
But no, those items are not the reason Obama voted against the bill. As he took pains to explain at the time, he voted against it because it did not include a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq.
Congress' power of the purse is a crucial tool of leverage for influencing the president's foreign policy, and with this protest vote, Obama and 13 other Democratic senators sought to push President Bush to draw down troop levels in Iraq.
''This country is united in our support for our troops, but we also owe them a plan to relieve them of the burden of policing someone else's civil war,'' Obama said at the time. ''Gov. (Mitt) Romney and Sen. McCain clearly believe the course we are on in Iraq is working, but I do not.''
Implying Obama's vote was specifically against aircraft, veterans' facilities and the like is misleading — about as misleading as it would be to say McCain voted for the bill because it funded tornado aid in Kansas and bereavement payments to relatives of deceased congressmen, to name two of the many items in the bill not related to the war.
In some ways this ad illustrates the common wisdom that senators don't make good candidates for president, because senators often vote on controversial issues, and any one vote can be pulled out of context. For example, the Obama campaign, in responding to recent attacks, pointed to a 2005 vote to increase funding for armored vehicles. Obama voted to increase funding; McCain voted against it. The vote failed, largely along party lines.
The claim in the RNC ad is technically true, but it leaves out important context that it was a single vote, and it distorts Obama's record by making him sound like he advocates cutting off funds for troops in the field. On several other occasions, Obama has voted in favor of funding the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Earlier this year, Obama voted for a funding bill that passed 92-6. McCain was absent.
In 2006, Obama voted for a war supplemental that passed 77-21. McCain opposed that bill, joining a group of Republicans who felt the legislation contained extraneous and unnecessary spending. In a news report, the Los Angles Times noted the Republicans "risked being labeled as voting against the troops to take a stand against what they considered excessive spending."
Although the ad bases its claims on a kernel of truth — Obama did vote against the 2007 bill — the RNC gives the impression that Obama opposes body armor, helicopters, ammunition and aircraft generally. The RNC ad is misleading enough to merit a label of Barely True.
Editor's note: This statement was rated Barely True when it was published. On July 27, 2011, we changed the name for the rating to Mostly False.


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Thomas S. Alexander (1801-1871)
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McIntire, Robert Harry. Annapolis Maryland Families. 2 vols. Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1979, 1989.
Proud, J. G. (John Greene). Memoirs of Deceased Alumni of St. John's College, Annapolis. Baltimore, 1868.
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Berkley, Henry J. "A Sketch of Thomas Harwood Alexander, Chancery Councellor of Maryland, 1801-1871." Maryland Historical Magazine 25 (1930) 167-169.
Obituary, The Baltimore American, 8 December 1871.
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Dennis, J. Upshur. "Some Personal Recollections of a Quartet of
the Baltimore Bar." Read at the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Maryland
State Bar
Association, n.pub., n.pl., 1905.
Maryland State Archives, Documents for the Classroom Series. Baltimore v. State, 15 Md. 386 (1860)
St. John's College Alumni Register 1793-1967. Annapolis, Md.: St. John's College, 1968.
Return to Thomas S. Alexander's Introductory Page
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676 Verbena bonariensisCommon Names: purpletop verbena, purpletop vervain, South American verbena, tall verbena Family: Verbenaceae (verbena or vervain Family)
Purpletop verbena is an erect, clump-forming perennial with stiff, widely branched stems. It can reach 3-6 ft (0.9-1.8 m) in height with an open, airy spread of 1-3 ft (0.3-0.9 m). The scabrous (sandpapery) stems and branches grow in an upright pattern and are square in cross section. Most of the leaves are clustered in a mounded rosette at the base of the plant. The relatively scarce stem leaves are opposite, 3-5 in (7-13 cm) long and clasping (i.e. the leaves have no petioles and their bases wrap around the stem). The flowers are purple, a quarter-inch across, and borne in rounded clusters about 2-3 in (5-7.6 cm) across. Botanists call this type of inflorescence a cyme: a flower cluster in which the center flower opens first, and later-opening flowers are on the ends of lateral branches that arise from below the first flower. Purpletop verbena displays its showy flowers all summer long, until the first frost of autumn.
Purpletop verbena, Verbena bonariensis, is native to Brazil and Argentina. It has escaped cultivation and become naturalized in disturbed areas in California and the southeastern US, from South Carolina to Texas, including all of Florida.
CulturePinch the first few shoots in spring to encourage branching. The more you cut it back, the more shrub like purpletop verbena will become. This plant often contracts powdery mildew, especially in humid summers. This causes unsightly white spots on the leaves but does not seem to have any effect on the health of the plant or on its blooming. Light: Does best in full sun but can tolerate a little bit of shade. Moisture: Purpletop verbena is fairly drought tolerant. Hardiness: USDA Zones 7 - 11. This verbena is a perennial in USDA zones 7-11 and grown as an annual in cooler climates. Propagation: Purpletop verbena is easily propagated from seed and it usually volunteers to do just that, whether it's in the gardener's design plan or not! It also can be started from cuttings of young branch tips in spring or summer, or by dividing the rooted clumps of young shoots in spring.
The airy, see-through habit of purpletop verbena makes it a good choice for the front or middle of a mixed border. It doesn't cast much of a shadow and you can see other plants behind and under it. Weave a line of purpletop verbena through a bed or border of other butterfly flowers. It's best planted in columns or masses because it is so thin it will be overlooked all by itself.
In mild climates, purpletop verbena will self sow rather freely. However, it is easily kept under control. Although it has become established in many areas outside its native range, it is not considered a pest.
There are some 250 species of Verbena and about a half dozen are in cultivation. The most popular is the annual bedding plant, hybrid verbena (V. X hybrida), the product of artificial crossing among several wild species. Various cultivars of this annual are available at most garden centers. Moss verbena (Glandularia puchella, formerly known as Verbena tenuisecta), is a closely related vervain originally from South America that now grows prolifically in fields and along southern US road shoulders. Moss verbena often produces huge expanses of brilliant red or purple by staying close to the ground below the mowers' blades.
Steve Christman 2/24/00; updated 01/05/01, 04/23/03, 08/12/03, 9/24/06, 7/23/16


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When Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation was read to tears of joy and ringing church bells 150 years ago on New Year's Day, perhaps nowhere did it resonate as deeply as it did on South Carolina's sea islands.
Blacks in the Port Royal and Beaufort areas southwest of Charleston had tasted freedom for months before President Abraham Lincoln's final proclamation of Jan. 1, 1863. The landmark document declared all slaves in states or any parts of states still in rebellion against the Union to be "forever free" from that day forward.
That's why Dec. 31 grew to be known as "Watch Night," as the slaves watched to see what would happen with their status.
Though Lincoln had no power to immediately enforce the declaration in areas held by the Confederacy, his proclamation stirred blacks already freed in the sea islands during the ongoing Civil War. They had been anticipating the document ever since Lincoln issued his preliminary proclamation in September 1862, signaling his intent to bring the Union back together without slavery.
"They were already witnesses to what this concept of emancipation was going to be like because that area had been occupied by federal troops since the end of 1861," said Bernard Powers, the chairman of the Department of History at the College of Charleston. "It meant new opportunities to work and undreamed opportunities to read and write."
This New Year's there will be numerous observations of the anniversary. One of the biggest is planned at the National Archives in Washington, where special, late-night viewing hours for the proclamation are scheduled today through Tuesday. A bell will be rung at midnight on New Year's Eve and the proclamation will be read the next morning.
African-American churches around the state, many of which have long commemorated Watch Night, will have special ceremionies as well.
Powers, who is black, will be in Beaufort on New Year's Day, where he will participate in a program at Tabernacle Baptist Church commemorating the reading 150 years ago of the proclamation in nearby Port Royal.
That historic day at Smith Plantation, which was dubbed Camp Saxton by the Union troops, hundreds of freed blacks joined federal authorities as the proclamation was read. During the ceremonies the 1st South Carolina Volunteers, a black Union regiment comprised of freed blacks, received their national and regimental colors and became a full-fledged component of the Union Army.
Lincoln's proclamation also went on to say the military would recognize the freedom of slaves and that freed slaves could enlist in the U.S. armed forces, scholars note.
The New Year's 1863 event was recalled by Susie King Taylor, a black woman who accompanied her husband, a member of the volunteers, during his campaigns.
"It was a glorious day for us all and we enjoyed every minute of it," she wrote in her book "Reminiscences of My Life in Camp: An African-American Woman's Civil War Memoir."
"The soldiers had a good time. They sang or shouted 'Hurrah!' all through the camp and seemed overflowing with fun and frolic until taps were sounded, when many, no doubt, dreamt of that memorable day."
A New York Times correspondent wrote about the event and the large crowd present.
Those attending came from Beaufort and Hilton Head Island on steamboats and would "long retain the remembrance as the first dawn of freedom," the reporter wrote, adding 10 oxen were barbecued for the occasion.
"I think for the black troops present it must have been an additional inspiration to them to continue the struggle with sacrifice and determination," Powers said.
The historian sees an analogy in recent history.
"When Barack Obama was elected the first time there are people like me who never thought we would live to see something like that in our lifetime. And we're talking 2008," he said. "You can recall the reaction of people when the returns came in and at the inauguration with tears streaming down black people's faces and white people's faces."
It must have been something similar 150 years ago, he said.
"You can imagine what these people who in the twinkling of an eye had moved from slavery to freedom felt."


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Apple apologises over iPhone 4 signal display problem
Apple has issued an apology to customers over a problem with the iPhone 4 that can prevent signal strength from being displayed correctly.
Shortly after the phone's release, complaints emerged over signals dropping when the handset was held in a particular way.
However, Apple has now stated a software problem is causing the display to be inaccurate – with those who experience the sudden dip actually never having the strong signal in the first place.
The company has been heavily criticised over the design of the latest generation of its flagship product, but it insists software is the issue and it can be easily resolved.
A fix is to be issued over the coming weeks and it will use a new formula to calculate how many bars of signal strength to display.
Explaining the cause through a statement on its website, Apple said it was "stunned" by the discovery, noting: "Our formula, in many instances, mistakenly displays two more bars than it should for a given signal strength."
Customers were previously advised to avoid gripping the iPhone tightly by the lower left corner in order to avoid a loss of reception, or to buy a case for the product to minimise disruption.


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Remember when wasting time at work used to take some effort? You couldn't really
Anyone doing that yesterday might have stumbled across CNN Screening Room's
1. Musical
"Somewhere Over the Rainbow" – Wizard of Oz, Judy
There's no real arguing with this one. Although I would argue that The
2. Romance
"As Time Goes By" – Casablanca, Dooley Wilson
The article calls this choice, "[a]rguably the greatest pairing of song
3. Disney
"When you wish upon a star" – Pinocchio, Cliff Edwards,
"Beauty and the Beast" is not the best song from the movie. (Consider
4. Action/Adventure
Wrong, wrong, wrong. I like Aerosmith and "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing"
5. Comedy
"Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend" – Gentlemen Prefer
No argument here.
6. Roadtrip
"Born to Be Wild" – Easy Rider, Steppenwolf
This is a tough one. I cannot dismiss this selection because "Born to
But there's an awfully close runner-up: Marianne Faithfull's
While I couldn't find a video of the song from the movie, check out this video
Kind of eerie, isn't it?
And this is an interesting
7. Indie
The Donnie Darko song is perfectly good, but I'm overruling it in
8. Romantic Comedy
"(I've Had) The Time of My Life – Dirty Dancing, Bill Medley
I don't know that I would pick this, but I'll let it go.
9. Children's Movie
"Rainbow Connection" – The Muppet Movie, Kermit the
Perfect. Just thinking of the song makes me a little wistful and sentimental.
10. Biopic
"Lose Yourself" has its strengths, but I would put it no higher than
What have I forgotten? How would you edit the list?


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Data Acquisition-Manipulation (Kooten, 1987)
From Open Energy Information
Exploration Activity: Data Acquisition-Manipulation (Kooten, 1987)
|Exploration Activity Details
|Exploration Technique
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Surface soil-mercury surveys are an inexpensive and useful exploration tool for geothermal resources. ---- Surface geochemical surveys for mercury were conducted in 16 areas in 1979-1981 by ARCO Oil and Gas Company as part of its geothermal evaluation program. Three techniques used together have proved satisfactory in evaluating surface mercury data. These are contouring, histograms and cumulative frequency plots of the data. Contouring geochemical data and constructing histograms K720are standard evaluation techniques and offer a useful, visual summary of the data. Neither of these, however, allows the background andanomalous populations to be easily separated. Sinclair (1974, 1976) proposed the use of probability graphs to separate background and anomalies. Varekamp and Buseck ( 1983, 1984) incorporated some of these techniques in their discussions of mercury enrichment in various geothermal areas. The discussion below will deal primarily with applying probability techniques to surface mercury data. Probability graphs significantly help in separating mercury data into anomalous and background populations and provide a convenient way of analyzing complex data sets.
- Gerald K. Van Kooten (1987) Geothermal Exploration Using Surface Mercury Geochemistry
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Michelle Duggar has controversial marriage advice for newlyweds
Michelle Duggar's blog is filled with advice for newlyweds, as well as couples who have been married for many years. While it's not often relevant to the world at large, it's rarely as irksome as her most recent post.
Momma Duggar from the show 19 Kids and Counting decided to impart three helpful hints that she believes are integral parts of a wife's duties when it comes to her husband and maintaining a healthy marriage. Two weren't terribly shocking — one was to get outside marriage advice when you feel you need it, and another was to talk out marital disagreements privately, at least at first. However the third tidbit was downright offensive to any freethinking woman living in the 21st century.
More: New Duggars police report proves Jim Bob and Michelle should be in jail
Simply put, she said that wives should make themselves sexually available to their husbands all the time, day or night, no matter how they themselves are feeling. They shouldn't just be available, they should be "joyfully available," even if they're exhausted, covered in throw up, pregnant or bleeding from the head. Okay, I added that last one, but you get the idea.
Saying the advice was imparted to her by a friend right before she got married, she writes, "Anyone can iron Jim Bob's shirt, anybody can make lunch for him. He can get his lunch somewhere else. But you are the only one who can meet that special need that he has in his life for intimacy. You're it. You're the only one." Obviously, her friend was not aware of the extra-marital dating site, Ashley Madison.
As someone who's getting married in less than a year, I am so put off by this. Yes, men often have higher sexual appetites than women, but does that mean we need to cater to them 24/7? NO. Even if a wife is not the financial provider for the family, she does a comparable amount to keep her family afloat, which means she deserves to have her needs met just as much as he does. And sometimes those needs are falling asleep to Dancing With The Stars at 9 p.m. on a Tuesday without being entered by her husband.
More: Fans turn against Michelle Duggar after latest breakdown
The most cringe-worthy part was how complacent and obliging Michelle thinks women should be. She writes, "Smile and be willing to say, 'Yes, sweetie, I am here for you,' no matter what, even though you may be exhausted and big pregnant and you may not feel like he feels. 'I'm still here for you and I'm going to meet that need because I know it's a need for you.'"
Michelle says her husband "will sit there and listen to everything I need to tell him because he knows that I'm there for him, too. I'm meeting his needs, he's meeting my needs." You know, I didn't realize all women needed was conversation, and all men needed was sex. Thanks for clearing that up, Michelle!
More: Michelle Duggar admits she's not yet content with the size of her family
While the Duggar show may have been cancelled, it's safe to say this infamous family is definitely not going quietly into that reality TV-less night.


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On 18th July at 9.23pm, East Sussex Fire & Rescue Service responded to a fire in a three-storey property on Oak View Main Road, Icklesham, between Hastings and Rye.
Two fire engines were dispatched from The Ridge, Hastings and Rye fire stations. When crews arrived, they found smoke issuing from the three-storey domestic property.
Crews used two breathing apparatus and one hose reel jet to tackle the blaze in the first floor bedroom. Two more engines from The Ridge and Rye were dispatched to the scene along with the Incident Command Unit from Bexhill.
Crews used six breathing apparatus, one hose reel jet and a compressed air foam system to quickly bring the fire under control.
Crew Manager, Daniel Burnett said: "The fire is believed to be accidental caused by an electrical appliance. Always unplug appliances when you're not using them or when you are going to bed. Unplugging appliances helps reduce the risk of fire. You can help protect your home and your family by having a working smoke alarm and ensuring you check it regularly. It could save your life."
How to avoid electrical fires:
- Always check that you use the right fuse to prevent overheating.
- Make sure an electrical appliance has a British European safety mark when you buy it.
- Certain appliances, such as washing machines, should have a single plug to themselves, as they are high powered.
- Try and keep to one plug per socket.
- An extension lead will have a limit to how many amps it can take, so be careful not to overload them to reduce the risk of fire.
- Be on the look-out for signs of dangerous wiring such as scorch marks, hot plugs and sockets, fuses that blow or circuit-breakers that trip for no obvious reasons, or flickering lights.
- Check and replace any old cables and leads, especially if they are hidden from view – behind furniture or under carpets and mats.
- Unplug appliances when you're not using them or when you go to bed.


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CREST exams are recognised by the professional services industry and buyers as being the best indication of knowledge, skill and competence. They are a high-level aspiration for those taking them and increasingly a mandated requirement for those hiring or buying services. CREST exams are broken down into three levels.
CREST provides a recognised career path right from your entry into the industry through to experienced senior tester level. We work with the largest number of technical information security providers who support and guide the development of our examination and career paths.
Key benefits of becoming CREST certified are:
The CREST Practitioner examinations are the entry level exams and are aimed at individuals with around 2,500 hours relevant and frequent experience. The CREST Registered Tester examinations are the next step and by passing this you are demonstrating your commitment as an information security tester. Typically, candidates wishing to sit a Registered Tester examination should have at least 6,000 hours (three years or more) relevant and frequent experience. The CREST Certified Tester examinations are designed to set the benchmark for senior testers: These are the certifications to which all testers aspire. By gaining the CREST Certified Tester certification you are recognisably at the top of your game as an information security specialist.
The CREST Certified Infrastructure Tester examination was the first assessment to be granted equivalence with the NCSC CHECK Assault Course in June 2008.


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Marvel Future Fight Gameplay 2015 [E1P3] is a gameplay / let's play video of a game called Marvel Future Fight with facecam and commentary about the following; Black Bolt Versus Thor, Black Panther & Black Bolt. (Play Marvel Future Fight → http://mcaf.ee/j9iap)
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Based on how the game plays, "Marvel Future Fight is a role-playing mobile game featuring some of Marvel's beloved and popular characters."
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Behavioral health includes a broad range of conditions such as:
If you are chronically suffering from behavioral health challenges, or have new symptoms that concern you, our family medicine doctors and care teams can help find a solution.
The Family Health Centers at our locations have in-office counselors and specialists who can work with you on a broad range of behavioral health issues.
Common behavioral health services we offer include:
If you would like to see a member of our behavioral health team, please contact one of our family medicine locations.
See our patient education resources below to learn more about behavioral health issues.
UPMC's Department of Family Medicine has several locations throughout the city of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County.
Find a family medicine health center close to you and call us to make an appointment or find out how we can help you with your primary care needs.
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With stock trading, there seems to be an app, of course, for just about anything.
Getting started? iTrade from Andrew Farley lets you try out ideas on a simulator based on a platform from, what else?, NerdTrade.com.
Already smart? Wall Street Scanner lets you analyze stock market data, news and social media from more than 5 million website and 14,000 sites in real time. You can forecast stock market movements, based on these, just like the pros. The cost? Nothing. It's free.
Etrade and TD Ameritrade, of course, also give you apps for free that keep you in touch, anywhere you go, with your personal trading accounts. They make their money on commissions.
Even Merrill Lynch now tries to ive is "self-directed" and advisory center customers the Edge, for iPhone. It lets them "trade stocks, ETFs, mutual funds and options while you're on the go" and check status of orders.
But the best idea of recent vintage comes from a mutual fund company, Putnam Investments.
Its Putnam PriceCheck & Save iPhone app takes the natural evolution of mobile apps to an unexpected but wholly logical conclusion that other financial services firms would be smart to copy. Particularly the Etrades and Merrill Lynches, who want to spur more trading.
[Not a bad idea now that trading volumes in the United States are down 45.5 percent versus a year ago, according to NYSE Euronext]
The conclusion: Show people who love to shop how to save money. Then get them to invest the savings. On the spot.
Here's how it works.
Your recreational shopper and reluctant saver walks into Target. He or she points an iPhone at the object of his or her desire, say a new flat-screen television with Netflix built-in.
The phone scans the bar code and throws up alternate sources of the same product on screen, from across the Web.
Then, it calculates the savings, if you proceed to order it from one of the alternate sites.
Finally, it asks – naturally – if you want to invest the savings that you just "made" in a Putnam fund in the 401(k) plan that you got through your employer.
No sweat savings. No sweat investing. With "found" money. While shopping.
The extensions are obvious.
Bank of America's counterpart app asks you if you want to transfer the same amount from your checking to your savings or home mortgage account.
BlackRock's counterpart asks if you want to put the amount into a rolling ETF purchase plan.
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney's app asks customers to put the savings into a managed savings account.
Goldman Sachs' app asks you if you want to put your savings plus a million bucks of your net worth into Facebook shares.
In any case, the principle is clear. Turn every spending opportunity into a savings, investing and/or trading opportunity.
What are you waiting for? Make your app for that, today.
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Chicago Auto Show sponsors boast that every domestic and import make is represented at the annual exposition in McCormick Place. Well, almost every make.
Missing is the Yugo. The what? Yugo is the new mini-commuter car coming to the U.S. this year via Yugoslavia. What`s so special about a Yugo? It sells for about $3,900. For details on the Yugo, as well as the Charade, Pony and a handful of other high-mileage but low-price, foreign mini-cars you may never have heard of, but soon will, see The Tribune`s Auto Show Section Thursday.


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Simple RGB… PLEASE!
RGB lighting is coming at us like a freight train. Light-O-Rama kicked off the trend years ago with their incredible Cosmic Color Ribbons. What newbies don't realize is that 16 foot (5 meters) ribbon of light with 150 little LEDs is broken into 50 pixels (think sections) and each pixel requires three control channels, one for red, one of green and another for blue. 50 pixels means 150 control channels. 12 ribbons means 1800 channels. Good gosh. Creating a sequence for a 16 channel controller is a challenge for most people.
Now I'm seeing RGB displays approaching 100,000 control channels. Any bulb, any color, any time. My head hurts just thinking about that monster!
There's got to be a better way. Most decorators don't have unlimited budgets and rocket scientist minds. It needs to be simple enough for my mother to use.
Looks like Light-O-Rama is ahead of the curve again as they introduce their geeky sounding CMB24B RGB controller. It's an eight pixel controller board. 3 channels for each pixel means 24 channels. More than 16 but certainly less than 100,000.
The trick is a new breed of RGB devices called single pixel (aka: dumb) lights.
A good example is an RGB flood. It looks like your typical small incandescent flood light but it's RGB and LED based… meaning the light produced can be any color of the rainbow and all controlled by the computer. Cool. A 10 watt (at 12 volts) RGB flood light is about $30 and outdoor rated.
Then there are the RGB based single pixel (dumb) light ribbons. Each is 16 feet long and has 150 LEDs… just like the Comic Color Ribbons, but all the LEDs are wired together meaning the entire ribbon is one color, but since it's RGB based, it can be any color you want. Now we're talking. I should probably mention a single pixel ribbon is only about 25% the cost of a 50 pixel ribbon.
Did I mention RGB lights use 12VDC so you don't have to worry about zotting yourself? I'm feeling safer already.
Now you can start thinking about leaving the lights up year-round. Since RGB pixels can be any color, you can theme your venue. Pink for Valentines, orange and purple for Halloween, red/green/white/gold for Christmas. See where I'm going? I'm getting pretty darn excited just thinking about this one.
The only gotcha right now is the Light-O-Rama CMB24D controller board doesn't include a case or 12VDC power supply. No big deal if you're a DIY type. It's a semi-big deal for my mother… at least right now.
The Light-O-Rama store has a new RGB section. Check it our at http://store.lightorama.com/rgbdevices.html
You might also check the September 2013 issue of PlanetChristmas for an article on how to deploy this 'Simple RGB'. Start at http://a2.planetchristmas.com/Magazine/September2013


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The goal for this week of our self-guided Introduction to Outreach class is to identify your audience and begin to establish a relationship with that audience. We're going to use Twitter this week to do a little bit of "market research," which is a useful technique to understand a target audience. Our version of this is to observe the conversations that people in and related to our audience are having.
Finding Your Audience on Twitter
Find at least 10 people in your audience who are on Twitter. Those people should be tweeting regularly (inactive accounts or people who tweet once a month won't be very useful).
How do you find people on Twitter who are in your specific audience? There are multiple ways:
- Is there a prominent person who is part of, connected to, or popular with your audience? If so, search to see if that person is on Twitter (hit the Search icon in Tweetdeck that looks like a magnifying glass that you used before to search for #SciFund).
- Search for keywords on Twitter that might be associated with or used by your audience. For example, say you are a tropical ecologist and want to connect with coffee drinkers interested in the biodiversity potential of tropical coffee farms. You might search for terms like "organic coffee". Heck, a search for "Starbucks" might lead you to some very interesting people. Note that Tweetdeck has many search options. For example, as you can see in the image below, you can search for either tweets or user names that use your search terms. The "content", "users", and "engagement" options also listed on the same screen give you still more search options.
- Once you have found a person who seems to be in your target group, check to see who that person follows and who follows that person (see image below). Many of those people may well also be in your target group.
- When reading the tweets of a person in your audience, do particular hashtags seem to pop up frequently? If so, search in Twitter for those hashtags – they could lead you to yet more people in your target audience.
- After all this, are you still having trouble finding people in your audience? The problem could well be that you have not defined your audience properly. Perhaps you defined your audience too narrowly. Perhaps, what seemed at first glance to be a cohesive audience actually describes a set of people who have very little in common (and are consequently hard to search for).
For each person that you identify as an interest, be sure to follow them or write their name/username down. Congratulations! You now have a window into the minds of your audience. Now let's discover what your audience cares about right now.
Adding Your Audience Members to a Twitter List
The goal now is to get your 10 or more Twitter audience members in one place, so that you can easily keep track of what your audience is thinking. The ideal way to do this is via a Twitter list, which is a set of others' Twitter accounts. Anyone can create a Twitter list and you can add anyone you like to any list. You don't have to follow or be followed by anyone that you put on a list. The value of a list is that it allows you to group together tweets of a particular set of people or on a particular topic. If you group all of your audience members into a single list, you'll have one place where you can keep a finger on the pulse of your audience.
There are two kinds of Twitter lists: public and private. With public lists, the people who you add are notified; additionally, anyone can see it and subscribe to your list (as it's public). With private lists, no notifications are sent out and no one other than you can see it or subscribe. Though there are advantages to using either kind of list, we suggest you use a private list for this exercise. It will allow you to do your initial experimentation out of the public eye.
How do you create a Twitter list? In Tweetdeck, there is a "+" icon at the bottom of the leftmost column (1 in the image below). Hit "Lists" (2 in the image below).
In the box that comes up (below), you have the option of either a public or private list.
In this last box, you can add the Twitter users that you found to your new list. Just search for the users (you can use their real names or their usernames) and add them to your list.
Listening to your audience
Now that you have put your audience together, the next step is to listen to what they have to say. Read through the tweets of your audience to get a sense of the issues that they are tweeting about right now. How many tweets should you read through? You can stop when you feel you have something of a pulse for the current frame of mind for your audience. Pay particularly close attention to anything that surprises you about your audience Keep checking in with your audience from time to time over the week! The issues your audience tweet about (and therefore care about) may change and you want to have a feel for that change.
Lastly – and this is most important – start thinking of how you might connect your science message to the current concerns of your audience.
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In response to False flags in Syria:
That's the sad thing about the Obama administration. They've lied to us about so many things – ObamaCare, Fast and Furious, Benghazi, the IRS scandal, the NSA scandal, etc – even the most outrageous conspiracy theories seem worthy of a hearing. It's hard to rule out an outrageous conspiracy theory when you keep seeing the administration engaging in these outrageous conspiracies. Has this deceptive administration earned our trust on anything?
I don't ascribe to the point of view that Obama is merely incompetent. He's incompetent all right, but he also has an agenda that I believe is designed to weaken this country. So I tend not to dismiss anything out of hand.
That said, I was surprised that Rush was so willing to go out on a limb with that story. I have no idea who Yossef Bodansky is – he could be a complete flake for all I know, but Rush seemed to be impressed by his credentials.
And El Rushbo doesn't have a track record of peddling conspiracy theories. He tends to stay away from those I'm guessing because of the damage they do to one's credibility – and this one is really out there.
It's almost as out there as the Obama is a member of the Muslim brotherhood story (which I've *mostly* dismissed.) That's being reported in an Egyptian newspaper, which to me is an indication of how much the (non MB) Egyptian people loathe this president.


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Supervisor: Rick Galardi
Rick Galardi was first elected DeWitt Charter Township's Supervisor in 2000. He brings over 40 years of independent small-business management and ownership experience to his role as the Township's chief elected official. Rick has served on the Lansing Economic Area Partnership (LEAP) Board of Directors, the Greater Lansing Chamber of Commerce Regional Collaboration Initiative, the Greater Lansing Convention & Visitors Bureau's Strategic Development Committee, the Executive Committee of the Clinton County Economic Alliance, the Clinton Area Transit Board of Directors, and as vice-chair of the DeWitt Township Planning Commission. Rick has actively sponsored and supported extra-curricular programs for children of all ages, served as chair of the Boarshead Theater's Educational Out-Reach Program, and was founder and administrator of the annual "Good Kid Scholarship Program." Supervisor Galardi's policies stress communication & collaboration with our residents and the citizens & elected officials throughout the region. Rick maintains an open-door policy and stands ready to meet with any individual, group or association to discuss their concerns or visions.
Clerk: Diane Mosier
Diane Mosier was appointed to the position of Township Clerk in 1990, and elected to that position later the same year. As a lifelong Township resident, and the longest serving member on the Board, her experience includes many years of service to the residents of the DeWitt area. She is a past President and founding member of the Capital Area Municipal Clerks Association, and an appointed member of the Southern Clinton County Municipal Utilities Authority for over 20 years. She served on the DeWitt District Library Board for more than 10 years, and during her 26 years as Clerk, has served on more committees than we will list here. Along with the many statutory duties required of the Township Clerk, she is also an Accredited Election Official through the Michigan Department of State, Bureau of Elections.
Treasurer: Sandra K. Stump
Sandy Stump was appointed to the position of Township Treasurer in July, 2018. She brings over 30 years of non-profit experience managing accounting, payroll, HR and building operations for a large statewide trade association. After many rewarding years in association work, the Township Treasurer position provides an opportunity for Sandy to draw upon her skills and experience to support and work on behalf of the community she loves and calls home. Sandy and her husband, Brian, have resided in the Township since 1987 and have raised two daughters here. She is honored and excited to serve as Treasurer in service to the Township community.
Trustee: Brian Ross
Trustee: David Seeger
David Seeger was elected to the Township Board in 2000. A life long resident of DeWitt Township, he and his wife, Mary, operate Seeger Farms, a cash crop farm. David lives in the Bath School district where he, and his four sons, graduated. He is currently employed with the Clinton County Drain Commissioner's Office as the Drain Maintenance Supervisor. David currently serves on the Clinton County Farm Bureau board of directors. He served, as a citizen, on the DeWitt Township Public Safety Committee from 1991 until he was elected to the Board of Trustees. David now currently serves as the DeWitt Township Board representative to the DeWitt Township Public Safety Committee and the Clinton County Solid Waste Council.
Trustee: David J. Fedewa
Dave was elected to the Board in November of 2016. He graduated with a Bachelor's Degree from Michigan State University and went on to get his DMD degree from Washington University School of Dental Medicine in 1989. Dave has been practicing as a general dentist in DeWitt for 26 years, and has volunteered with the DeWitt Township Fire Department since 1992. Dave and his wife, Mary Jo, have lived in DeWitt since 1990 and raised their three children who graduated from DeWitt High School.
County Officials
Clinton County Courthouse
100 E. State Street
St. Johns, MI 48879-1571
(989) 224-5120
Commissioner: Kenneth B. Mitchell
4th District
15725 Grove Road
Lansing, MI 48906
(517) 899-5334
Commissioner: Robert E. Showers
5th District
1225 Calumet
DeWitt, MI 48820
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Commissioner: Dwight Washington
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4600 Clark Road
Bath, MI 48808
State Officials
Governor: Rick Snyder
P.O. Box 30013
Lansing, MI 48909
(517) 373-3400
Senator: Rick Jones
24th District
P.O. Box 30036
Lansing, MI 48909
(517) 373-3447
Representative: Tom Leonard
93rd District
N-1197 House Office Building
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Lansing, MI 48909
Phone: (517) 373-1778
Toll Free: (877) 859-8086
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President: Donald J. Trump
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
(202) 456-1414
Senator: Gary Peters
124 W. Allegan Street, Suite 1810
Lansing, MI 48933
(517) 377-1508
Senator: Debbie Stabenow
221 W. Lake Lansing Road, Suite 100
East Lansing, MI 48823
(517) 203-1760
Representative: John Moolenar
4th District
200 E. Main Street, Suite 230
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MARVEL'S TALK TO THE HAT: Fantastic Deaths & Kids Comics
When it's time to make the big decisions on the nuts and bolts creation of Marvel Comics, people have to Talk to the Hat.
An outstanding industry vet and fashion forward editor, Marvel SVP of Publishing Tom Brevoort is back on CBR News for Marvel's TALK TO THE HAT. Our latest weekly look inside the minds at Marvel spotlights Tom along with his signature pork pie and loads of comics news, views and discussion. Anchored by regular question and answer rounds with the denizens of the CBR Message Boards, each week Brevoort will shake things up with special guest stars, exclusive art reveals and new interactive features.
To start things off on the Marvel news of the year, Brevoort talks to CBR about the breaking of the news around breakout hit "Fantastic Four" #587, reactions to the death at the heart of the issue (so…spoiler warning one last time), recent debate on Marvel's dedication to kids comics and more! Read on, and be sure to scope Tom's weekly call out question to the fans!
Kiel Phegley: Welcome back, Tom! "Fantastic Four" #587 was the big news of the week, and any time we find one of these events Marvel promotes in the media, there's some tension between trying to drive the general public to the shops and keeping the Direct Market buyers happy. Was there talk before the push about spoiling the story for long term fans, or do you guys view that as a kind of necessary evil with cases like this?
Tom Brevoort: It tends to be more the latter, but not in a malicious way. That is to say, whenever you go out to the mainstream to try and promote anything, there's never a guarantee that you're actually going to get a story out of it or that said story will catch fire. In the case of "Fantastic Four," this is an example just like "The Death of Captain America" a few years ago, where our promotional guys did a great job, had a story get out there and it really clicked with people. To use the pun, it spread like wildfire from one media outlet to the next. For whatever reason, whether it was a slow news day or just the right time, this was a story that those other media markets were interested in and felt that their mainstream audience would be interested in. Whenever you go to those areas, you're not in control of the story anymore. We can give them whatever information we choose to give them — that may include giving them the book to read ahead of time or knowing the stuff that's coming up — and that's the trade-off to getting the story. Saying, "Hey, we've got a comic here a lot of your readers will be interested in, but we can't tell you why" isn't going to get a lot of response, unfortunately.
The tradeoff is that we don't control the AP or Yahoo! or USA Today. How they choose to report on these things is completely up to them. I read a piece this week on "Entertainment Weekly's" site that was negative towards the whole "Stuntism" of this issue. They were shaking their finger at us for making bread and circuses out of killing this character. It's not like we went to "Entertainment Weekly" and said, "Could you do a story that takes us to task and shakes a finger at us?" But that's the way this particular writer at this particular venue chose to frame his story. He feels this thing has some relevancy to his audience, but he's got a particular slant on the story, and that's how he reports it.
[After-The-Fact Update: The EW Reporter subsequently filed a story in which he recanted his earlier statements, having in the interim tracked down the Hickman run on FF and found it to be to his liking. So that's kind of fun, in my opinion — and big of him to publicly reverse his stance in that manner.]
Of course we don't want to spoil any of this stuff for the direct market. It's part of the reason we put the issue in a bag to begin with. But I know that in the larger sense, the greater good for comics, for readership, for the individual retailers, it's better if whatever story we're getting out there pulls people into the stores. It gets them excited and wanting to see what's going on and gets them into a place where hopefully the smarter retailers can hand-sell them something else beside this one book they came for. It's good even if all they can sell them are the second printings of the issues in the arc, which we were sure to get out this week as well. This is a really tangible way that we can potentially increase some of the traffic and readership in every comic book store in America. At that point, it falls to our retail partners to close that loop as best they can and keep those people coming back, making them feel welcome and interested and creating an environment that makes them want to return.
It absolutely sucks if you've been reading "Fantastic Four" for the past 17 months and then because you happen to click on Google, the reveal gets spoiled for you. I don't like it either. But in the grand scheme of things, I like the potential of getting people who aren't regularly buying our stuff to come in and try something out — whether those are new readers or lapsed readers or five to seven-year-olds or 20 to 40-year-old men. I'm glad to have them, and I'm sure every retailer who gets them will be glad to have that money in his cash register to keep his lights on and pay his bills. Now he'll be able to afford next month's product. I hear "Fear Itself" is going to be pretty good. He might want to invest some of the money in that. [Laughs]
The other response that's less clear cut out of the gate is the reaction from the readership to the story itself. I know in the past you've edited these hot button stories. I'm assuming that when you first heard from Hickman, "…and then I'm going to kill the Human Torch," your response was long the lines of, "Tell me why that's not a gimmick." Was that part of the discussion surrounding that arc?
Brevoort: Sort of. My reaction wasn't quite exactly what you're talking about, and part of that reason is the creator involved. You've spoken to Jonathan, I'm sure, and you've seen the way his brain works. He has a mind like few others, which is to say he's an inveterate planner. He thinks big and he thinks long and he thinks broad. When we first started talking about what he could do with "FF," he went off and came up with a big master plan. And that covered everything that's happened up to now and at least another year or 18 months more, stuff beyond what you've seen. He walked in with this — not every single nut and bolt was in place but the broad strokes of it were — for our first discussion. [Laughter] We were talking about this from the start, so it wasn't a case of him having to sell me on, "This is not a gimmick," because he had the whole thing mapped out.
And as tends to happen, some of the individual story beats shifted one way or another as we went, but this was the pitch. If I didn't think that the story was worthwhile — that the death was important and mattered and was genuine and sent the characters in the direction he was laying out — then we wouldn't even be here. 17 issues ago, somebody else would have been writing "Fantastic Four."
In terms of telling a story about the death of the character, the question comes up routinely because of the world we're in of, "How can we be expected to take this seriously? You know he'll just be back again!" And my unfortunate but realistic answer is that I cannot guarantee to anybody that any character we kill is going to stay dead absolutely forever. Even if that is the intention of every person who works at Marvel Comics today, who knows who will work here tomorrow or in a week or in a year or in five or ten years? People did things in the past that they intended to be permanent that got changed by the next generation of guys — or even by the same generation!
To me, what this story comes down to is this: Death is one of the very few life experiences that absolutely every organism on this planet has to deal with and will experience at some time. If you are telling the story about the death of a character, that story has the potential to be affecting to the maximum number of people. So long as you're telling this story in a genuine way that's actually about grappling with these issues and the very fundamental finish that is waiting for all of us at the end of our road, then you're fulfilling the job of a storyteller. That is to find ways to allow everybody to grapple with these larger circumstances looming in their own existence — to get a grip on them and to deal with them. That's the most anybody can expect out of a story about a character's death in almost any medium. Quite honestly, anybody could bring almost anyone back anywhere in fiction. One of the beautiful things about comic book super hero fiction is that, unlike the real world, death doesn't need to be final because these things are all ideas and lines on paper. We put them down to entertain, inform, surmise the human condition and have an impact on people's lives.
In the context of "Fantastic Four," the death of a family member and the death of somebody who will mean something different to Reed and to Sue and to Ben and to Val and to Franklin…that's a story that can have some real tooth to it in a family setting. I think people can take a lot from that, and that's the reason I honestly cannot worry about the idea that someone a day, a week, a year, ten years from now might bring that character back. Or even that I might do it at some point! [Laughter] What my focus has to be right now is, "Will this story deliver? Will people read this comic book and get more than their $3.99's worth of experience out of it? Will it matter to them?" The fact that these outlets are covering this story seems to indicate that there's a greater than average interest in the notion that this is happening. Sight unseen, this thing touches a nerve amongst some degree of pop culture enthusiasts. If those people are coming, let's give them a show and let them have an experience that's worthwhile. Let's show them everything comics can be and do — that it's not trite but can be meaningful and affecting.
I think "FF" #587 is a great comic book. Jon and Steve Epting and the perennial backbone Paul Mounts did a superlative job on this issue as they have every month. I stand behind it as a good piece of work, and I'm glad that so many people will experience it. Some of the books that have received this kind of attention in the past maybe haven't put the best foot forward, but I can look at this one and say, "This is good — regardless of whether it's in a bag or whether it got any attention."
However affecting that story is moving forward, we're not sure where it's going to be…
Brevoort: Well, next month there is #588, which is the final issue of "Fantastic Four" and is all about the emotional fallout of this issue. It's another lovely piece of comic book work — a mostly silent issue. There're a couple word balloons in it, but it's almost entirely done silently. Nick Dragotta illustrated it, again with Paul Mounts coloring, and did a beautiful job, and I don't think anyone who comes to that comic will be disappointed. There's also a second story drawn by Mark Brooks that contains actual words, so don't fear Jon is cutting corners or not carrying his share of the water.
And then we're going to move into the future with "The New Book." It's still a little premature to talk about exactly what the New Book will be except that we've been soliciting something with the initials "FF" and what I've been saying all along is that it's going to be the same thing only different. It'll embody the same tone and spirit and style of "Fantastic Four" while at the same time being completely different and totally contemporary. This has been one of the larger goals since Jonathan wrote page one, panel one of issue #570 — this and what lies beyond this. This is a big huge change and transformation for this entire franchise from "Fantastic Four" into something else, and Jon's using this as a catalyst for all that. But exactly what that is is a bit premature to say.
Moving on, since last week there's been some discussion online about Marvel and comics for kids, part of it kicked off by what you'd said on which readers Marvel was focusing on. But before we get into some more specifics on this, I understand you've got one idea to speak on for starters, yes?
Brevoort: Specifically I wanted to respond to some things one person had written in the comments last week. We talked a little bit about the bookstore market and where the audience is coming from, and somebody — in the sort of mock outrage we see a lot on internet chat boards — did a whole diatribe on "This is exactly what's wrong with Marvel! They're not reaching out to the young readers and focusing solely on lapsed old guys! It should be done the way it was when I started reading comics!"
I think the flaw with this thinking is two-fold. One, we care a great deal about the younger audience. We've been very aggressive in courting younger readers through our Marvel Adventures line that gets distributed to a bunch of places our other books don't. But two, the real mistake there is that this is not 1970-whatever anymore. I started reading comics in the early '70s, and my earliest comics were bought at a 7-Eleven. And that's not an experience that anyone in the past ten or 15 years is going to duplicate. The entirety of mainstream magazine publishing has changed since then, along with every other medium. The whole landscape of how we publish and distribute our books is different. And we can pine for the great glory days when television was black and white and there were only three channels and radio was all great dramas. But as wonderful as those days may have been, they are gone. The world has changed and they are not coming back. That is nostalgia talking.
And it's a good kind of nostalgia. I have wonderful memories of going to the 7-Eleven and spinning the spinner racks and finding whatever the new comics were and being excited about them. And wanting to pass that sort of experience on to the next generation is great.
But the thing to understand is that the world kids are living in today is not the world that I or anyone who came into comics in-between has lived in. I think today, more than anything else — and this will get me in more trouble on the boards than anything else I say this week –Â the two places you're going to see younger readers coming to Marvel in the future are number one, digital. I know a million eyes roll at that, but I fully believe that is true. I see it with my own kids. I see it with my nieces and nephews. They live in a digital existence. They are so comfortable and conversant and happy on computers or handhelds or laptops. This is how they socialize and interact with the world, much more so than with any tangible media. They don't read books. They read screens. So I think digital is a huge part of it.
And the number two thing as a gateway drug these days is animation. I think it's undeniable. It's been growing in that direction since the '90s and the prevalence of the Marvel cartoons like "X-Men" and "Spider-Man" and the DC cartoons throughout that same era like "Batman" and "Superman Adventures." The thing I hear from retailers these days is that kids are coming into the stores who saw "Super-Hero Squad" or "Avengers" and suddenly know who all these characters are, even some of the more obscure ones. They're much more interested and eager when they spot a comic book with them in it, and can say, "Holy smoke! There's a comic with Ms. Marvel in it!" I think that too is a gateway drug that's a lot stronger than it used to be particularly because of the kind of stories they can now tell in animation, and the way they tell them. The sophistication those stories possess is a lot closer to the comics — particularly the comics of 20 or 30 years ago — than cartoons used to be. Pick a superhero cartoon show — I'll point to "Avengers" but I could just as easily say "Young Justice." These cartoons are an absolute entree to the kind of sophisticated world-building that exists in the Marvel Universe. And it's a real easy stepping stone for the young reader since it comes right into their house.
I think those are the real gateways for younger readers now. I could spend a tremendous amount of time, effort and energy trying to get comics back onto spinner racks in 7-Elevens. But that would be a waste of resources because the reason there aren't any spinner racks in 7-Elevens anymore is because they were no longer fiscally feasible. The amount of money those racks generated for the amount of space and maintenance they required was not worthwhile for that organization. All the wishing in the world on my part is not going to change that. I think it's imperative for us to reach out to the youngest possible demographic and appeal to their sensibilities to draw them into this world, but I think you're going to see that through digital and animation more than traditional comic book publishing.
Well, I think part of the discrepancy people see on publishing is that as far as Marvel's output goes, monthly print comics is still where the money needs to get made first. And there are examples out there that have people wondering whether Marvel can sell enough kids comics to make anything of them long term. Brian Clevinger's "Captain America: The Fighting Avenger" series getting knocked from ongoing to one-shot was a recent point of discussion on this where Brian even said he heard there were no more kids comics at Marvel. What do you say to that? How hard is it to make a kids product successful?
Brevoort: Again, I'll say that we've been very aggressive over the last seven years or so in creating material that is aimed at a younger audience. And nothing's going to change on that moving forward. I think particularly people in the Direct Market don't notice it so much, because they simply don't pay attention to it. They don't realize how many comics like that there have been. There's been a "Marvel Adventures Spider-Man" comic for close to 100 issues now. It's changed its name once or twice, and it's changed its numbering once or twice, but that book is continuing and is not going away. The monthly "Marvel Super Heroes" book, which is the catch-all for everything else right now, is not going away. The question is "How much of this kind of material do you need at any one time?" and "Are you doing the best job with it that you can?"
We have enough pipelines into enough different distribution areas — be that Target or Wal-Mart or Scholastic or book stores — for the repurposing of this material that even if the Direct Market orders a fraction of zero copies, it's made up for in these other avenues. It's not an arena in which we can publish willy-nilly, but it is an area where we devote a certain amount of resources and have consistently done so. And we will continue to publish this material. I don't think of it in terms of being an absolute loss leader. We continue to think of it in terms of "This book will sell approximately X units in the Direct Market, but it will also make money here, here and here. So that works."
And this is entirely my opinion, so take it for what it's worth, but I think that some of the problems that "Thor The Mighty Avenger" had and perhaps "Captain America: The Fighting Avenger" will have — I haven't read that book yet so I'm just speculating in that case — is that I think they tended to wander off message a little bit. That is to say, with "Thor: The Mighty Avenger," it got a great response and a huge outpouring of love and support…from 20 to 40 year old men. And that's great! [Laughs] We love that audience, and we sell a lot of comics to them, but that's not really the audience that that book was intended to reach. The audience that it was intended for was, it seems, bored or disinterested or not engaged by it. For whatever reason. It doesn't mean that "Thor: The Mighty Avenger" wasn't a good, well-done, well-executed title. But it may mean that in the course of developing and launching that book, all the folks involved wandered a little bit astray from what the actual goal of doing that book was.
I suspect the same sort of drift is probably apparent in "Captain America." More than anything else, once we sat down to look at these things — particularly with "Cap" — we said, "Hold up! Does this actually accomplish the needs of this line? Does it fulfill the mandate properly?" As everyone says, we have a dozen Thor books and a dozen Cap books. If this is literally just another one of those that doesn't allow us to reach an audience in the Wal-Marts and Scholastic Clubs and so on, what the hell are we doing here? At that point, it becomes a book that has to survive just in the Direct Market, and it can't.
At this time, we are absolutely committed to the younger readers and kids audience. The line as a whole right now — which is just two books and some things on the side — is all moving into Steve Wacker's world. Steve has been very vocal about wanting a crack at these books because A) he's got some experience with this kind of material, having worked on the "Adventures" titles at DC and B) because he's got young kids and has a real aptitude for this stuff. He likes the challenge of telling a complete story for the age group in 20 pages that's also exciting, adventurous and heroic for the kids. I think he's going to bring a lot of energy and passion for producing this kind of material in the same way he has on "Amazing Spider-Man" and "Daredevil." So we'll be doing more going ahead.
I don't know exactly what was communicated back to Brian and by who and in what state. It sounds to me — coming second or third hand rather than hearing Brian say stuff — I wouldn't be surprised to find that people who told him this were trying to weasel their way out of their own responsibility for the situation. "Oh, it's not you, Brian, Marvel's getting rid of everything!" That sounds like hand-waving. That sounds like somebody not taking responsibility for their part in building something that doesn't fulfill the mandate we need fulfilled. Certainly if that's the case and those editors are still here on staff, they're going to hear from me or Axel or Joe or whomever because this is not the way we like to communicate with our talent. We want to be upfront with them about what's going on. It's not a pleasant message to have to convey to someone: this project you've thrown a lot of your energy and talent into is being truncated before it even comes out. But I'd rather be forthright and say, "Brian, here is why we've made this decision. You can agree with it or not agree with it. I certainly understand you're closer to it than anyone making these decisions, but here is what the deal is and why it's happening." Had that conversation taken place that way, Brian wouldn't have walked away with the idea that Marvel is shutting down younger readers publishing. That could not be further from the truth. It is completely the opposite of the message. Our message is that we care about this kind of material greatly, and through no one's fault, the book you've put together does not put the ball in the hoop as we need it to. It's a tough message, but this is the job, and part of that job is to call guys up and say, "We need to make an adjustment, and here's what it is. Sorry about that." That goes for everybody in editorial.
But to reiterate, we're not stepping away from kids publishing or younger readers publishing — whatever you want to call it. We're going to be doing more, and we're going to be devoting more specific and more energized resources to doing it well. I'm sure after hearing this, there will be plenty of posts from 20 to 40-year-old men telling me how this is all awful and how we don't want quality, we just want to put out pabulum. And I appreciate that emotional response. I just don't care about it in this instance as much as I do the response of the seven-year-olds.
As a final question on this topic, do you have any book that Marvel has put out in the past seven years where you'd say, "This is the model we're trying to replicate," or are you still looking for the thing that really connects with younger readers?
Brevoort: I think there always tends to be drift. Which is to say, when we started out, we began with some fairly specific parameters. That came about because, at the beginning, Alan Fine commissioned a bunch of focus groups. It's one of the very rare times in Marvel's publishing history where we've done actual focus groups. But Alan comes from a consumer products background, and this is the way he is used to rolling. So he shook the money loose and said, "We're going to do some focus groups because it's important that we bring the next generation of readers in." Probably over the ten years before that, we lost two or maybe three generations of readers because we weren't hooking them young enough. And we wanted to learn exactly what kinds of things that particular audience was attracted to.
And without revealing any of the data that came back — because it's all proprietary, obviously — we learned some very specific things about what a six-to-ten or eight-to-eleven audience wants and likes. If you put all sorts of stuff out in front of them, what are they most interested in and what do they respond best to? That's what formed the basis and guideline for how we approach these books. But when you're publishing month after month — partly because of a turnover of people, creators and editors, and partly because of the grind of just getting out issues — you sometimes lose sight of what you're pushing against. So it's good every so often to have a little refresher and say, "Hey! Here're the parameters that we're dealing with. Here's what a regular Marvel comic should be all about." The same thing applies to the younger readers books.
I think in general — and I say "in general" because like anything it has its ups and downs — the "Marvel Adventures Spider-Man" title is a good example of the kind of book we're talking about. I'm trying to dance about this because I don't want to give away any of the information that came out of the focus group specifically, but that book applies the principals that we learned there about telling good, strong, single issue stories that nonetheless have a larger arc to them. It's a book that does not present artwork that to the audience looks or feels "kiddie-fied." I think to that audience, it's a big thing, and it's one of the specific philosophical differences between what we do and what DC does. DC, in trying to duplicate the look of the Bruce Timm cartoons or "Teen Titans" or what have you, produces artwork in their younger readers titles that, based on what we saw, comes across as "kiddie-fied" to that audience. You know you're in a bad spot if seven year olds feel the stuff you're selling them talks down to them. They want it to look like a genuine, no foolin', super hero comic book.
So within the 100-issue run of "Marvel Adventures Spider-Man," there are probably individual issues that wandered away from those philosophies from time to time. Right now, we're trying to focus again and go, "We've lost sight of this and this. Let's get back to it." But that is a title that has connected with a certain audience. It's been our biggest subscription book for the longest time — equaled only for a while when we did that crazy promotion on the three times a month "Amazing Spider-Man." It's a book whose circulation is mysterious to a lot of people because it doesn't all come from the Direct Market. But you put that out in your Targets, Wal-Marts and Scholastics, and readers come. And that's what we want.
It looks about time to wrap up our inaugural TALK TO THE HAT, but I know there's something you wanted to tell fans about their involvement in the column moving forward.
Brevoort: One of the things I'd like to do more of in this space as we move ahead is to solicit information from the readership, and get you all involved a little bit. To that end, I'm going to try to put some sort of question out there every week to foment discussion on the boards. So, just to begin on a positive note (and don't worry, we're sure to get to the negative stuff before long), I'd like to hear about a recent Marvel title that you hadn't been reading or really been into that you sampled based on a news blurb or a bit of promotion or what-have-you, and that you really enjoyed and got hooked on. What storylines or series launches have we marketed in such a way as to get you to sample them–and then, when you sampled, found you liked them?
Also, we want to be answering your Reader Questions every week, or as often as is possible, so we'll always be in the market for good, interesting questions from you guys. Ask away in the appropriate thread at the link below.
And from time to time, I'd like to see about inviting in a "guest fan interviewer" to ask a series of questions (but mainly to make Kiel fear for his job.) I'm not certain what the mechanism for this will be quite yet — how we'll choose a person, and how we'll conduct the interview. But if we can work out the bugs, it should make for a cool chance for somebody to interact on a meaningful one-on-one manner.
Additionally, I want to start featuring other guests in this space, to whom you readers can ask specific questions. So I'd love to hear about who you'd want to hear from. Even if you don't know the person by name specifically, but would like to talk to "the guy who selects what stories to reprint" or anything like that — we can make it happen!
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Standing on principle or waiting for a better deal?
James M. Berklan, Editor
In case you hadn't heard, Omnicare, THE biggest pharmacy services company in long-term care facilities today, put out notice that it wants to buy the nation's second-biggest such company.
It seems that firm, PharMerica, doesn't want to be bought. Well, maybe. Actually, all signs are that the PharMerica does want to be bought. Maybe just not by Omnicare. Or for the offered payout.
Speculation in trading circles put the No. 2 looking for a suitable buyer back to at least this spring. Various closed-door meetings among bankers and other investor types actually led the Securities and Exchange Commission to inquire as to what the heck was influencing the company's valuations. Many knew something had to be brewing.
Then, it comes out that PharMerica had in fact actually approached Omnicare about possibly making the purchase — according to Omnicare CEO John Figueroa. The Big O twice made bids in private, but it did not get the answer it wanted either time. So that compelled Omnicare to blare that it was trying to buy PharMerica for $15 per share, or more than $700 million overall.
The stalked quickly announced the purchase offer wasn't in stockholders' best interest. PharMerica's financial and legal advisors — note the order — were "unanimous" in their disapproval.
More than a few people have noticed the air of deja vu to the way Omnicare pursued, and ultimately swallowed, NeighborCare six years ago in a deal worth about $2 billion.
Peeling back the rest of the PharMerica statement tells insecurity about a host of issues: regulatory, lack of clarity on how to get past antitrust issues, potentially lengthy court proceedings, high risk. And — bam! — no "assurances of Omnicare's ability to complete a transaction on a timely basis or at all."
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