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Steve Parrish writes for Silverstone, giving us the lowdown on everything MotoGP as we near the start of the 2014 season.
So what have us armchair experts deduced from the MotoGP winter tests…
We have had two in Malaysia and the final tyre test for the factory teams in Phillip Island, Australia, plus the Qatar test for the non-factory riders. There is no doubt in my mind that since Marc Márquez managed to break his leg on his dirt bike training just after Sepang, the rest have been given a chance to catch up. The problem being - the bench mark was absent! The stand out rider for me has been Aleix Espargaro on the open-class M1 Yamaha, and to be quite honest I could not really understand why Yamaha were pulling out all the stops to get his younger brother Pol, when Aleix had already mastered a MotoGP bike by embarrassing some of the factory riders last year on his ART Aprilia.
I am pretty excited about the open-class electronics that seemingly are improving every time out, especially since Ducati have divulged their factory data to the Dorna development team. They have clearly looked at all the options and decided to go down the route they used to win the Championship in 2007: speed and more speed. I am aware that top speed will not often win a race, but if you can blast someone down the straights it makes it very awkward for the nimble bike i.e. Yamaha to ride round in the corner. The factory Ducati with 24 litres of fuel will be a rocket ship - Cal Crutchlow is going to need a downforce spoiler in the arse of his leathers at Mugello!
Jorge Lorenzo has not enjoyed the new range of Bridgestone tyres that were delivered for the second test in Malaysia; with his incredible lean angle the stiffer construction seemed to affect him more than most. However, he is smart enough and got it sorted. Everything is so finite now with the chassis spec that even a slight change in the tyre throws everyone into a tail spin, causing the chassis engineers to trawl through the data to find the answer. That's why it was so simple in the days of open tyre rules, when you could just make another tyre to suit the chassis.
So what about the Doctor…it's often been said that you can't teach an old dog new tricks, but someone has! I was really disappointed with the way Jeremy Burgess was fired; it seemed so undignified and could have been handled in a far more diplomatic manner. It will be interesting to see if the new era pays dividends.
Back to new tricks, has anyone noticed how Valentino Rossi - the rider most other riders tried to emulate - has now got his elbow on the ground aka Marc Márquez. A wise man - if you can't beat them, join them! Vale is still a very fast and cunning rider, probably the smartest, but not the fastest. At 35 years old, second only to Colin Edwards in age, and with more money than he knows what to do with, I doubt he will beat the youngsters - who are still learning that a MotoGP bike can seriously damage your health! I believe he can still win some races, but I will be astonished if there is another MotoGP Championship in the mercurial Italian. I hope for his millions of fans - me included - he could round it out with 10 titles, however I still think he will miss the pragmatism of the creative maestro Jeremy Burgess when the chips are down.
Dani Pedrosa is still a massive talent, but I think he will only win a championship when Alpinestars makes him a set of leathers with an airbag that sends him skyward and gently lowers him down with a parachute. He is like a whippet, fast but very fragile.
That brings me nicely onto Cal Crutchlow, who is like a bulldog crossed with a Jack Russell, and a tenacious fighter. He received a lot of stick by signing for Ducati, just taking the money it was said, but I would say it was a smart move. Had he stayed with Tech 3 Yamaha and with a good tailwind, fourth in the Championship would be a realistic and good result. But who remembers fourth? At least with a Ducati factory bike he has a chance to develop something to suit his style, and if it doesn't work he will have a few millions in the bank. It's a short career, believe me.Bradley Smith has a big year ahead of him, mainly due to the fact that his team-mate is a formidable opponent, but with Brad's work ethic it will make for some great team rivalry. Bradley really impressed me last year and I hope he does again this year. It was unfortunate for his team-mate Pol Espargaro to snap his collar bone at the end of the final test, but young bones fix quickly and I don't imagine it will impede him.
As for Scott Redding, he is like a sponge absorbing new information every time he gets on the bike, and he has so much natural talent. Unfortunately, it looks like the production open-class Honda is a bit of a slug. I am sure they will be busy trying to address it, but it does look like Yamaha have got the best customer package at this time.
So that's where we are with less than two weeks to go. For me, the interesting part is who will be the first factory bike to run out of fuel - five percent less gas this year will cause some issues.
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In 2013 Da Costa raced in the Renault Renault 3.5 series, taking three wins on his way to third place in the championship. He also backed up his 2012 Macau Grand Prix victory with second place in this years edition of the prestigious F3 race.
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Andre Johnson to miss 6th game in row
HOUSTON -- Texans star receiver Andre Johnson will miss his sixth straight game as he continues a longer-than-expected recovery from a right hamstring injury.
Johnson ran on a separate field Friday as the Texans (6-3) prepared for Sunday's game at Tampa Bay (4-4). Coach Gary Kubiak has been saying for two weeks that Johnson is "very close" to returning, but not quite fully healed.
After Sunday, Houston has its bye before playing at Jacksonville on Nov. 27. Kubiak is optimistic Johnson will be ready by then.
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"We should come out of the bye knowing that he's ready to go, and be a part of our team as we go into those last six weeks," Kubiak said. "He's doing really good, but the smart thing to do is give him this extra time to rest and continue to have some guys step up and take his place."
Johnson said Friday that holding him out for one more game was "probably the best decision." He sat out practice all this week, and planned to put himself through a hard workout again Monday.
"I still could go out and play football," Johnson said. "We just felt the best thing was just to wait and go through the off week."
The five-time Pro Bowl selection was hurt in the second quarter of Houston's 17-10 win over Pittsburgh on Oct. 2. Johnson said he had a "setback" in a workout early last week that forced him to miss last weekend's 30-12 victory over Cleveland.
Johnson says he's progressed beyond the point where he's worried about aggravating the injury.
"I'm feeling good now, I'm excited about where I'm at," he said. "Before, when I was running, I always felt that pulling feeling. I haven't been feeling it. But the crazy thing is, you get so used to feeling something when you're running, you get to feeling certain things and you're kind of waiting for it to happen again.
"That's the point where I'm at right now," he said. "I think I'll be over that. I went and ran again (Friday) and I didn't feel anything."
The Texans have won three in a row since losing the first two games after Johnson was hurt. Houston has turned to running backs Arian Foster and Ben Tate to carry much of the offensive load, and tight ends Owen Daniels and Joel Dreessen and wideouts Jacoby Jones and Kevin Walter have played well in Johnson's absence.
"I know a lot of people didn't think we would be in the position we're in when I went down, because of things that have happened in the past," Johnson said. "We have a good team, a lot of weapons and a lot of guys who can make plays.
"Me now, I have to play catch-up," he said. "I have to come back and pick up the pace and get to the level where they're playing."
Johnson is the only Texan who played for the team before Kubiak arrived in 2006. Houston is still seeking its first playoff berth, and Johnson is happy that the team has continued to win this year without him.
"It's something that I've been waiting for for nine seasons," Johnson said. "It's finally here. We have a great opportunity. All we can do is take advantage of it."
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Updated on Thursday May 23, 2013
The next planned update will be in June. However, it may be updated earlier as conditions change.
Drought conditions as of May 23. There are no exceptional /D4/ drought conditions in South Dakota or Wyoming due to the recent rainfall. However, extreme /D3/ drought conditions are located across portions of northeastern Wyoming and western South Dakota. In northeastern Wyoming extreme drought conditions cover southern Campbell County. In western South Dakota, extreme drought conditions exist across southeastern Harding, northeastern Butte, the southern and central Perkins, and extreme northern Ziebach counties. Severe /D2/ drought conditions cover most of Campbell, Weston, and southeastern Crook counties in northeastern Wyoming. In western South Dakota severe drought conditions cover the rest of Perkins and Ziebach counties, a small area of southeastern Harding County, eastern Butte, Meade, Haakon, eastern Pennington, extreme eastern and western Custer, Fall River, western Shannon, and southern Tripp counties. Moderate /D1/ drought conditions exist over the Black Hills, across western and northern Haakon County, Jackson, eastern Shannon, Bennett, Todd, Mellette, and northern Tripp counties.
May began very dry; however, an upper level storm system brought significant rainfall to much of the area. Locations in the northern Black Hills reported 4 to 8 inches of rain over a five day period. Since rainfall amounts were terrain driven, areas in southwestern South Dakota and locations southwest of the Black Hills received very little moisture.Click here for a listing of rainfall reports.
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The plans here are cleared geared towards younger people the antiplans give ample internet access and not a large number of minutes although the number of minutes offered seems to be about the same as what Entel, Claro, and Movistar off. But what kid would care about that when all they want is internet? For my son I soliciated a plan of 200 minutes talk, 100 text messages, and 1 GB data services for 25,000 CLP which will be charged to my credit card each month.
To use the sim card in a phone you already have to have to set the access point name to imovil.virginimobile.cl. I did that then ran android app SpeedTest and it shows a download speed of 2.07 mbps and an upload speed of 0.43 mbps. This is fast enough for video and Skype and the same for Entel and Movistar phones I have.
For many Chileans cell phone service is expensive. Essentially there are two types of plans: pay-as-you-go and contract. Both are expensive, and both cause Chileans to speak quickly and for short-periods of time. A typical pay-as-you-go plan costs customers upwards of 100 pesos per minute (roughly 25 cents) and 50 pesos for every text message. Compared to telecommunication companies in the USA–like Sprint's prepaid BoostMobile service–that offer unlimited voice, texting, and data for only $50 per month–prices in Chile indeed seem very high.
Carlos Rucköldt has a typical contract plan. He pays the telecommunication company Entel 60.000 pesos ($120) per month for a limited minute family plan that does not include texting nor data. Every minute over the allotted amount costs upward of 100 pesos (roughly 25 cents). These prices cause Chileans like Rucköldt to use their cell phones sparingly. He says, "Generally, you have to speak little. We pay a set amount per month, and if we go over they charge us like crazy. It's very expensive."
These high prices have caused many Chileans to communicate by pinchas (pokes), a method by which a person without minutes calls another, and quickly hangs up after they pick up the phone.
Hope may be on the way as the British firm Virgin Mobile enters the Chilean market in March. The Virgin company based in the UK, is the same company as Virgin Airlines owned by famous chairman and CEO billionaire Richard Branson. Another one of Branson's companies, Virgin Galatica, will soon start offering space flights into low-earth orbit for $200,000 USD.
Virgin Mobile has stated that it hopes to become the leading mobile network virtual operators (MVNO) in Latin America. As a MVNO, Virgin Mobile will provide only telecommunications service to customers, relying on other companies networks. In Chile, Virgin and Movistar agreed that Virgin Mobile will use Movistar's extensive infrastructure to provide services to customers. Virgin Mobile Latin America (VMLA) Chairman Mike Wallace said of the deal, "We're also looking forward to working with Movistar, one of Chile's top mobile network operators. They were quick to understand the potential of partnering with VMLA as a way to serve existing and untapped consumers in creative ways – just as Virgin Mobile UK, the US, and other countries worldwide."
Virgin Mobile enters a Chilean market that has been dominated by several companies: Entel, Movistar, and Claro. Recently passed legislation now allows phone number portability, meaning users can keep their cell phone but change their provider. The government has said this will increase competition and lower prices. The addition of Virgin Mobile's to the market will likely do the same.
Just how Virgin Mobile will fit into the market is yet to be seen, but according to Daniela Santis, spokesman for Virgini Mobile Chile, the company hopes to claim a share of the market by targeting, "Youth and young-at-heart consumers, positioning itself as a fresh alternative to existing wireless providers through simple, transparent pricing, products and services tailored to its target segments, and world-class customer service."
While Virgin Mobile will not launch in Chile until March they have all ready begun an extensive ad campaign directed at frustrated cell phone customers. In one commercial that has been banned from several television channels, viewers see a pigeon's poop land on the statue of a mustachioed man. As the camera zooms in on the statue, the statue speaks and says, "Pronto, te van a dejar de cagar" meaning "Soon, they will stop crapping on you". For Chileans looking to stop "pinchando" and start using their phones for longer periods of time, one hopes Virgin Mobile is telling the truth.
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I'm glad that another company entering the Chilean market telephony and competition, drop the price of using the phone.
Good article!
Parece que no pasa nada, este proceso a sido más lento que una tortuga, esperamos ya operando a Virgin Mobile en Chile, ahí se verá si es más justo en precios y buen trato a sus clientes ya que por años nos han tratado pésimo la Cías monopólicas amparadas por la oscuridad……….


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One of the common themes in the emails I receive from School Gate Style fans is what to wear with coloured jeans. They are a great spring/summer trend and can really brighten up your wardrobe but so many people are unsure about how to wear them. So I worked up a few photos myself wearing red French Connection jeans…
But my wardrobe is limited so I decided to ask my wonderful blog followers for their styling ideas – and I had a great response. I'm kicking off with my gorgeous niece Lilias in her neon jeans from Du Pareil which she wears so well with navy. And how cute are those Boden pumps!
Next we have Sue in her purple jeggings from M&S. At only £22.50, they are an inexpensive way to try out the coloured jeans look and they look lovely with her suede ankle boots. In the middle, Riona is wearing white Diesel jeans with a striped top & on the right, Morgan is wearing some fab True Religion turquoise jeans with a checked top – both of these jeans are from Clockwork Orange (online and in-store).
Next it's Anna, Suzanne & Holly. Anna's jeans are from Asda and her floral tunic from Red Herring. Suzanne & Holly have both gone with grey – another great way to offset the colour on the lower half of your body.
Continuing the floral theme, Ashleigh's styled her purple jeans for daytime and a night out. Get the right floral design and your coloured jeans really come to life..
Next we have some colour blocking – Rebecca's petal detail top is from Primark and cost just £2 (a steal!). Lesley's bright blue is brilliant with red jeans and check out those gorgeous wedges. Wendy's gone with a print t-shirt which picks up the colour of her jeans perfectly and brings the outfit together.
Cheryl (above) is proof that you can still wear coloured skinnies if you're petite. She makes the most of her 5′ frame by wearing wedge trainers and keeping her top half neutral. What a lovely shade of green and another fab scarf.
Lots of lovely shoe choices with all the coloured jeans here – I particularly like these jewelled pumps as worn by Amy from YummyStepMummy with her cobalt blue jeans.
Below left, it's another twin mummy, Alison, with her favourite jeans – M&Co green jeans for just £25. A great fit, not too skinny with a decent high waist. And finally, Claire, blogger over at Belfast Mummy, is rocking her M&S Orange jeggings with some animal print.
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She changed lyrics around for her Grammys performance
So there was us thinking the forthcoming BRIT Awards would be awkward as Taylor Swift is set to bump into her ex Harry Styles, but it looks as though we should have been more concerned about The Grammy Awards.
Taylor took to the stage at the huge music event in Los Angeles, performing We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together in front of a celebrity crowd including Jennifer Lopez and Rihanna.
It seems, however, that she changed the lyrics to (reportedly) accommodate a dig at her One Direction ex.
Putting on what sounded like an English accent for the song's middle eight section, Taylor stated: "He calls me up and he's like, 'I still love you' and I'm like 'I'm sorry but I'm busy, opening at the Grammys'."
Ouch, poor Harry. We love how feisty Taylor is though - she's clearly not going to be messed about by anyone, whether you are an ordinary boyfriend or a super famous one in One Direction!
Taylor Swift went on to win a Grammy Award for her Hunger Games soundtrack, Safe and Sound. Yay, congrats.
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The SPA is where you will check in on the day of your surgery. It is located on the third floor of Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend. Parking is available in parking garage S, located immediately north of the main hospital.
Patients served in the SPA admitting area include one-month old infants through senior adults. A nursing assessment and health history are combined to formulate a plan of care for patients undergoing a surgical procedure within any specialty, diagnostic gastrointestinal endoscopy, nerve block, photo dynamic therapy (PDT), bronchoscopy, electro convulsive therapy (ECT), or nerve conduction studies of botox injection.
Registered Nurses admit patients by assessing/reassessing pain level, health history, updating medical history, updating surgical/anesthesia history, and coordinating patient-specific information to complete the patient chart prior to a procedure.
Phase II staff care for patients who will be discharged the same day following a surgical procedure, a local anesthetic, or moderate sedation. The SPA staff will provide discharge teaching for patients and families, verbally and in writing. Patients receive prescriptions, along with written discharge instructions from the anesthesia staff, and specific physician instructions according to procedure performed. The staff also follows up with patients via phone 24 hours post-operatively.
Both campuses of Sacred Heart Medical Center are tobacco free. Tobacco use is permitted only beyond designated property boundaries. Please check with nursing or volunteer staff regarding our tobacco-free policy implications.
There are family lounges throughout the RiverBend campus. Upon admission, ask your nurse which would be the best place for family or friends to wait.
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PUBLISHED: 09 Aug 2012 00:02:14 | UPDATED: 09 Aug 2012 00:30:19PUBLISHED: 09 Aug 2012 PRINT EDITION: 09 Aug 2012As of the end of June, the NBN had passed only 39,000 dwellings with fibre-to-the-home.
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NBN Co's corporate plan for 2012-15 shows that the national broadband network is behind schedule and over budget. And the pace of rollout is so slow that it will be easier for the Coalition to remake the project, based on the compelling argument that the NBN will take too long, and is too expensive to build.
Despite bullish comments from Communications Minister Stephen Conroy and NBN Co chief executive Mike Quigley on the NBN's progress, the crucial fibre-to-the-home deployment remains embryonic.
As of the end of June, the NBN had passed only 39,000 homes with FTTH and had only 3500 active FTTH connections – the NBN train has come a fair way already but has still barely left the station as it seeks to pass 12.2 million homes with FTTH by June 2021.
The plan forecasts the $37 billion network will have construction begun or completed for about 758,000 premises by December 2012 and 3.5 million by mid-2015.
The early deployment difficulties experienced by NBN Co are no great surprise. Although the NBN promises to create a world-class broadband network, it is an extremely ambitious project given the complexity of deploying FTTH in a market like Australia.
The markets where other universal FTTH NBNs are being adopted tend to be much smaller countries such as Singapore and Qatar where FTTH can be deployed relatively quickly and cheaply. And even the Singaporeans have encountered significant delays in installing last-mile FTTH connections. The Asia-Pacific region contained 72 per cent of the world's total 87 million FTTH subscribers at the end of 2011. This is because leading Asia-Pacific FTTH markets like Japan, South Korea and Hong Kong have very high population density, with most people living in multi-dwelling units in urban areas, which significantly lowers the cost and time of deploying FTTH.
The Hong Kong broadband network deployed its FTTH network at an average cost of about $US200 per home passed while Japanese and South Korean operators usually spend around $US1000 per home passed. By contrast, the NBN is costing about $US2900 per home passed because so many people live in stand-alone properties in sprawling suburban areas.
The current pace of the NBN rollout means that should the Coalition regain power at the next federal election, it will argue for pressing reset on the whole project, on the basis that the present NBN model will simply take much too long to build.
In drawing up an alternative NBN plan, any incoming Coalition communications minister should consider the recent report by the UK House of Lords that calls for the UK government to prioritise equal broadband access for all rather than pushing for superfast speeds for a slim majority of users.
And there is more to fostering an internet market than just bandwidth, such as the vibrancy of local content markets and cultural factors. The prevailing global obsession with downlink speeds ignores the fact that 100Mbps high-speed broadband has been available in Hong Kong, South Korea and Japan for many years and significant new ground-breaking services have not yet emerged.
The NBN has faced an extraordinary onslaught from its political opponents who falsely claimed that it would be an outdated white elephant that would be made redundant by some new amazing wireless technology.
This is incorrect. But the government's desire to deploy the perfect broadband solution via the primarily FTTH-based NBN is blocking the opportunity for a more practical approach that utilises delivery mechanisms other than fibre to the home, that are cheaper and are far better suited to the unique challenges of the Australian market.
Tony Brown is senior analyst at Informa Telecoms & Media.
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Ultimately, Magnussen Seniors F1 career petered out disappointingly after just 24 starts, but there are plenty of reasons to suggest Magnussen Junior will fare better in the top echelon of motorsport than his father.
Born in the town of Roskilde in October 1992, Kevin began his racing career with success in karts before jumping into single-seaters in 2008. In his first season he won the Danish Formula Ford championship in dominant fashion, recording 11 wins, 12 podiums, six pole positions and 10 fastest laps.
The following year he stepped up to Formula Renault 2.0, finishing second as rookie of the year in the Northern European Cup and seventh in the ultra-competitive Eurocup.
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The Quality Companion
- Posted by Johanna on December 23, 2011 at 7:55 am
- Category: Books and Prose, KC
- CREDITS: by Mike Kooiman and Jim Amash
- PUBLISHER: TwoMorrows Publishing; $31.95 US
Review by KC Carlson
Out this week from TwoMorrows is The Quality Companion, an extremely detailed retrospective covering the long-defunct Golden Age publisher whose characters live on today via DC Comics. It's a long-overdue look at a publishing house that at the time didn't seem much different from most of their peers, but with today's advantages of hindsight, we now know was the "real deal", both with the quality of the creators that they employed (Jack Cole, Will Eisner, Lou Fine, Reed Crandall, Matt Baker, and many others) as well as the timeless characters they produced (Uncle Sam, Plastic Man, Blackhawk, Phantom Lady, and more). Even Will Eisner's The Spirit has connections to Quality Comics, as you'll learn in this fantastic history of Quality's publications, characters, and creators by authors Mike Kooiman and Jim Amash.
Normally, I dislike reviewing things before reading the entire book, but after spending a couple of hours spot-reading and flipping though its 288 pages (224 pages of detailed history, with 64 pages of full-color reproductions of vintage Quality stories), I decided that I wanted to take my time and savor every page. I haven't seen an in-depth history of a deserving company like this in quite a while. I'll be reading this well into January — and probably re-read it later in the year.
Not counting the story reproductions, The Quality Companion is split into four major sections, beginning with an amazingly detailed history of the company itself. There I learned that Quality Comics wasn't the company's real name, and that no one ever called Quality publisher Everett M. "Busy" Arnold by his real name, Everett. Plus, I found out why he was "Busy". I'm very much looking forward to digging-in on the sections detailing Quality's relationship with the famous Eisner-Iger Studio.
Next up is the history of how some of the Quality characters and concepts ended up at DC Comics after Quality folded. Bonus material here includes a handy sidebar on copyrights and public domain (as other Quality characters sometimes appeared at different publishers, usually unauthorized) and short, but informative, interviews with four DC writers who worked with the Quality heroes — Len Wein (creator of the Freedom Fighters), Roy Thomas (All-Star Squadron), James Robinson (Starman), and John Arcudi (JLA: Destiny). Early on, the Quality/DC agreement was so little known that even DC Editor Julie Schwartz wasn't aware of it when he was assisting John Broome and Carmine Infantino on the creation of Elongated Man in 1960. The original elastic character Plastic Man didn't show up as a DC character until 1966.
Following the chronological history are galleries (Who's Who-style) on all of Quality's major creators and all of Quality's greatest characters, A to Z. All are fully annotated with selected comicographies for the creators and complete checklists of appearances (both Quality and DC) for the characters. Finally, there is an extensive Endnotes section for all you documentation geeks (like me) out there. I especially appreciated the in-depth breakdowns of Quality's anthology titles, which were some of the best — and best titled — in comics! They include Smash Comics, Crack Comics, Hit Comics, National Comics, Military Comics, and Police Comics.
Part of why I'm gushing about this book is the incredible detective work put into it by Kooiman and Amash, who gratefully acknowledge earlier works by Jerry Bails and Hames Ware (The Who's Who of American Comics) and Jim Steranko (The Steranko History of Comics). Very few original Quality staffers and creators are still living, so the authors have put together perhaps the definitive history of a "lost" comics publisher from very little to work from, besides the comics themselves.
Speaking of the comics, the book reprints nine classic stories, in full color, featuring The Ray (art by Lou Fine), Phantom Lady (Frank Borth), The Black Condor (Fine), The Human Bomb (Paul Gustavson), Uncle Sam (Reed Crandall), Midnight (Jack Cole), Firebrand (Lee J. Ames), Wildfire (Jim Mooney), and Madam Fatal (Art Pinajian), all scanned from the original comics. Dick Giordano provides the cover, one of his last published pieces. In fact, the publishers wanted an art correction that went undone due to the artist's passing. (Full story on the copyright page of the book.) It's still a great cover, and it looks fine uncorrected!
TwoMorrows has built a business upon uncovering and telling the history of the comic book medium. The Quality Companion looks to be one of their best, and most eagerly awaited, projects. It is available in print at your local comic store (ask if you don't see it!), or digital copies are available at www.twomorrows.com. (The publisher provided a review copy.)
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- Thad Says:
December 23, 2011 at 10:28 AMWow, looks great.
I read Spiegelman and Kidd's book about Jack Cole and Plastic Man a couple of years back and fell in love with Cole's work (and with the presentation). This sounds like another great work in the same vein, and I may have to give it a look.
A couple related links:
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1999/04/19/1999_04_19_076_TNY_LIBRY_000018012?currentPage=all — Spiegelman's original New Yorker article that formed the basis for the book I mentioned
http://product.half.ebay.com/_W0QQprZ1924913 — the book itself, cheap! at half.com
And a lot of the old Quality stuff is public domain and available at digitalcomicmuseum.com . - Thad Says:
December 23, 2011 at 2:09 PMMeant to add: I read that Spiegelman was working on a followup to the Cole book, focusing on Lev Gleason Publications and Crime Does Not Pay. He said that the most amazing artifact he'd uncovered as part of his research was Bob Wood's confession (Wood was convicted of manslaughter after beating a woman to death — I've read in some accounts that it was his wife but the details have varied according to different sources).
- James Schee Says:
December 24, 2011 at 1:07 PMHuhI may have to check this out, as I've been interested in The Ray character since I read the Harris and Queseda mini in the 90s with his son.
I'd also like to see something with Phantom Lady that doesn't involve her dying too.:) (I've only seen the character in 2 stories and both the woman calling herself PL dies)
Is it odd that I always get these characters and the Charlton characters mixed up? Well not in terms of characters, ut who fits with who, etc.
- Eric Gimlin Says:
December 24, 2011 at 1:29 PMJust grabbed the Digital version of this; I might not have $32+ of interest in it but $11? Sure!
I'm not sure TwoMorrows digital policies would work for the bigger companies, but they're certainly close to a model for what I like as a buyer: Much cheaper from day one, no special software required, no problems moving from one computer to another.
- Grant Says:
December 24, 2011 at 9:00 PMGreat review. My wife got this for me for Christmas so can't wait for tommorow to open it. I always enjoy reading about these characters. Quality, Charlton and Atlas/Seaboard are three companies whose histories I have always been fascinated by.


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As they maintained their smiles afterwards, there were frowns at Ferrari where Felipe Massa was only sixth with 1m 21.659s and Kimi Raikkonen seventh with 1m 21.829s. The Finn missed his last run as the chequered flag ended the session, however, so the jury is still out on whether Ferrari are still struggling to optimise the balance of the F2007s.
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Natalie Jensen benefit concert Aug. 31
Posted By John Moore On August 1, 2009 @ 9:41 am In Uncategorized | No Comments
Last year, actor Natalie Jensen [1] gathered 36 members of the local theater community for a remarkable and uplifting benefit concert that raised more than $6,500 split between the Susan G. Komen breast-cancer foundation and the Pikes Peak Region Peace Officers' Memorial.
Jensen's husband, Jared Jensen, was a Colorado Springs police officer killed in the line of duty at age 30.
Her efforts earned her a 2009 Denver Post "Special Accomplishment" Ovation Award.
This year, "Heart and Music" will be held at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 31 at the Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., in Colorado Springs. The cast includes a who-who from the Denver and Colorado Springs theater communities, including Joanie Brosseau-Beyette, Rob Costigan, Paul Dwyer, Michael Gold, Brantley Haines, Sally Hybl, Thad Valdez, Markus Warren and dozens more.
Last year's attendance was more than 400, and the CSFAC seats only 420, so you are encouraged to make your reservations today. Cost is $20. Call 719-634-5583.
The cast (as of Aug. 1):
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quote:No, but only because I fear this may be his last year in Baton Rouge...
quote:Amd what is this conclusion based upon? Do you believe he is going to retire or decamp to another job?
quote: Miles was seriously considering retirement after this season
quote:Just a rumor I heard from someone a few weeks back that came out of nowhere that Miles was seriously considering retirement after this season. Personal issues, time with family, etc. Caught me by complete surprise and have not heard anything else from anywhere else...but the reasons given sounded logical. Nothing more than that...I am still hoping it was completely wrong, FWIW.
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