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VANCOUVER — Hayley Wickenheiser is calling Clara Hughes' shot.
"I think she's going to win," the Canadian women's hockey star said Saturday when asked about how her speed-skating buddy was going to do defending her 5,000 metres Olympics title on Wednesday. "I think she's in a great position.
"I'll call her shot for her. She'll laugh, but I know she's ready and I know she can handle it. I think she's going to win."
They travel in the same circles, so it only makes sense that they're friends.
This is the fourth Winter Olympics for Wickenheiser, 31, and third for Hughes, 37. And while Hughes also represented Canada in the Summer Olympics, highlighted by her winning cycling bronze in both the road race and time trial at the 1996 Atlanta Games, many forget that Wickenheiser has doubled up, too, competing in softball at the 2000 Sydney Games.
"We've done some cycling in the summer and sometimes we just meet for coffee and talk," said Wickenheiser. "I think I just have a similar mindset about sport. We work with similar people.
"We go back and forth with different things with each other. It's great to have somebody to bounce things off of from another sport.
"She gave me a Joseph Campbell book before the Games started. It's full of motivational quotes and different philosophical things about perspective and just dealing with life in general."
On Saturday, much of what Wickenheiser was dealing with was a practice session after two days off the ice. Canada has another skate Sunday and then takes on Finland in a semifinal game Monday at Canada Hockey Place.
They haven't played a game since thumping the Swedes 13-1 on Wednesday.
"It's great to be at the Olympics . . . I wish I could be at the Olympics forever," Wickenheiser said when asked if it was too long between games here. "I don't really mind."
She is tied for second in tournament scoring with 11 points, including two goals, in three games. Canadian winger Meghan Agosta leads the scoring chart with 12 points, including eight goals.
Agosta is already tied with former Canadian star Danielle Goyette for most goals in a single Olympic tournament. Goyette had eight in Nagano 1998 and bagged 15 goals in her three Olympics.
Thanks to her second goal of this tournament, Wickenheiser moved past Goyotte in all-time goals. The veteran national team player, who lives near Goyette in Calgary, said that they talk hockey frequently.
She has even heard from Goyotte this week, since she passed her friend in the record books.
"We had a good laugh about it," said Wickenheiser, held the Olympic all-time mark for points coming into Vancouver and has since upped it to 46, including the 16 goals.
The Americans face the Swedes in the early semifinal Monday at Canada Hockey Place, with the gold-medal showdown slated for Thursday.


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SUSAN BIGELOW: Connecticut must use transportation dollars more wisely
According to a new report from the libertarian Reason Foundation, Connecticut's highway system ranks near the bottom of the states. Connecticut got dinged for urban congestion, deficient bridges, and actually scored worst in the nation when it comes to administrative costs per mile. If you drive, that's probably not surprising. So what should we do about it?
There are a couple of ways to look at this report. One is to refute it, which is what Streetsblog, a site focusing on "sustainable transportation and livable communities," did. The report has made a splash in the media, they say, but its claims haven't really been evaluated properly. They pointed out the obvious, which is that states with higher cost-of-living perform worse in cost-per-mile and administrative costs. This is why a state like Georgia can do relatively well while northeastern states, California, and Hawaii sit near the bottom. Also, the report seems to favor rural over urban by giving weight to urban congestion, another reason why northeastern states do poorly. Yes, we have lots of cars and people, and not a lot of space. That isn't news.
It's also interesting that the two areas where Connecticut did very well, poor condition of roads in rural areas (1st) and fatality rate (2nd), weren't enough to bump us up in the rankings. The paper claims that each of the 11 factors measured were weighted equally, but it seems like the measures chosen were designed to make small, rural states look good and densely-populated urban states look bad. It's also worth pointing out that Reason is a libertarian think tank funded by the Koch brothers, among others, which means it becomes more difficult to separate the facts from the partisan lens through which they're seen. Therefore, take the report with a grain of salt.
Read the full column at CT News Junkie.

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Story highlights
- The DEA says UPS was aware online pharmacies were using it to ship controlled substances
- The shipments by illegal online pharmacies occurred between 2003 and 2010, the DEA says
- UPS says it will pay the $40 million penalty
United Parcel Service will forfeit $40 million in payments it received from illegal online pharmacies and take steps to make sure such businesses no longer use the shipper's services, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration announced Friday.
The steps are spelled out in a "non-prosecution agreement" between the shipper and the U.S. attorney's office in San Francisco, the agency said.
It said UPS was aware that, between 2003 and 2010, some online pharmacies were using it to ship controlled substances and other prescription drugs without valid prescriptions.
"UPS has cooperated fully with the investigation and has already taken steps to ensure that illegal Internet pharmacies can no longer use its services to ship drugs," the DEA said in a release.
UPS will pay the $40 million penalty and strengthen its compliance "with respect to Internet pharmacy shippers," Susan Rosenberg, a UPS spokeswoman, said in an e-mailed statement.
"We believe we have an obligation and responsibility to help curb the sale and shipment of drugs sold through illegal Internet pharmacies," she said.


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House Committee ignore facts and votes for failed voucher program
WASHINGTON - March 10, 2011 -
Today the House of Representatives Oversight and Government Reform Committee took an action that defies logic. It voted to approve $60 million for the failed District of Columbia private school voucher program (H.R. 471).
"In a time of painful belt tightening and scarce resources, it makes absolutely no sense to pour $60 million into a program that has yielded no evidence of positive academic impact on the students," noted National Education Association (NEA) President Van Roekel.
"The Committee's decision is a clear case of dogma triumphing over data," Van Roekel added. "The data show that the D.C. private school voucher program, which was intended to assist students attending schools designated as needing improvement under No Child Left Behind, has had no impact on students.
"The data specifically show that the D.C. private school voucher program has had no impact on student achievement in mathematics, no impact on male students, no impact on students entering the program in the second year of its existence, and no impact on those students in the lower third of baseline reading tests—that is, those most in need of assistance."
The House of Representatives has already slashed $700 million in funding from Title I and more than $1 billion from Head Start. These cuts will have a devastating impact on the education of children across the country.
"It is our hope that when the Oversight and Government Reform Committee proposal (H.R. 471) comes to the House floor, cooler heads and common sense will prevail, and the House will reject spending $60 million on the ideology-driven D.C. private school voucher program," said Van Roekel.
The research, including research by the Government Accounting Office, shows that vouchers do not reform or improve schools. In the case of the District of Columbia, pulling 1,200 children out of a system that serves 65,000 doesn't solve problems—it ignores them. Real reform comes about when educators, administrators, parents and community members work together to provide students with smaller class sizes, teachers who know their subject matter and how to teach it, and a challenging, research-based curriculum.
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The National Education Association is the nation's largest professional organization, representing
3.2 million elementary and secondary teachers, higher education faculty, education support professionals, school administrators, retired educators and students preparing to become teachers.
CONTACT: Sara Robertson (202) 822-7823, firstname.lastname@example.com


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Especially in the real estate sector, superior conversation skills are vital for establishing a foundation of trust with the customer and laying the cornerstone for future negotiations. Simple gestures, demeanour and word choice have the potential to create a pleasant atmosphere between you and your conversation partner. We will show you how to easily "break the ice" and use suitable smalltalk to pave the way for a successful business talk.
A self-confident manner is essential for a successful career as real estate consultant. The initial personal contact can take place at the property or in advance at the office. Either way, the customer wants to feel well looked after by a competent partner who knows what he is talking about and does so with confidence.
Whether this feeling is credibly imparted can already be seen in the first handshake. Sweaty hands or a less-than-firm handshake can be interpreted as nervousness or insecurity. A short, firm handshake, on the other hand, exudes sovereignty and presence. A firm, clear voice and concise introduction will leave a positive first impression.
Non-verbal messages
During the conversation, gestures and facial expressions should underline what is being said and make the conversation partner feel interesting and listened to. If the gestures and facial expressions do not correspond to what is being said, this could lead to confusion.
As in most situations, a friendly smile can do wonders, the trick is use the smile appropriately and in the correct dosage. "A permanent grin appears fake", warns Bayern 3 radio host Thorsten Otto in his smalltalk guide "Die richtigen Worte finden" (Finding the right words). Furthermore, a dialogue with a customer is not the place for exaggerated gestures, but for authentic body language with deliberate gestural expressiveness.
Smalltalk as cornerstone for business relations
A real estate consultant has the necessary know-how to advise his customers aptly. But at the beginning of a business relationship, the key is to not overwhelm the prospect with broad specialist knowledge and technical jargon. This may come across as pushy and or even as daunting to undecided buyers.
Especially in a business context, smalltalk should only be understood as a warm-up phase. Cleverly used smalltalk serves to establish a basis of trust which opens the door to future business relations and in-depth business talks. Interestingly, smalltalk is not always about choosing the right words. What is also important is that the dialogue partner gets the feeling that he, too, is an adept conversationalist. Confirmatory nodding, attentive listening and asking follow-up questions to what is being said are key to successful communication, especially during an informal conversation. This will make the conversation partner feel at ease and be more open for subsequent objective argumentation during the business negotiations.
Once you believe that your conversation partner trusts you, this can serve as a basis for constructive business talks.
As one of the world's leading companies for residential and commercial real estate as well as aircraft and yachts, Engel & Völkers disposes over many years of experience in talks and negotiations with private and commercial customers. We can provide you with specially trained professionals, who are highly skilled in customer relationship management and attach great value to harmonious business relations. You can rely on us in all real estate matters and are welcome to contact us, should you have any questions. To learn more, simply visit our website.


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How To Make Bar Soap Last Longer
How-To: Make Bar Soap Last Longer
Shower gels and foaming face cleansers often come in liquid or creamy form, but there's something special about finding a bar soap you just absolutely love. But like all good things, you eventually reach the end, but you can learn some tricks to actually make your bar last longer.
- High and dry: Keep soap out of water, away from the direct shower stream to avoid "melting." Soap-saving products come in all shapes and sizes to drain water out and keep your bar soap protected. Try a Wooden Slatted Soap Dish ($4) or a Suction Soap Dish ($8) that you can hang in your shower.
- The harder the better: We mean soap, people. Look for the French milled or triple milled variety, which is made at high pressure, resulting in a harder, dense soap that has less air and lasts much longer.
- Use a washcloth: Limit the amount of soap usage by busting out a washcloth, instead of just using your hands. A shower sponge or mesh sponge will also do the trick.
- Nothing but net: The Container Store's Netted Soap Saver ($2) allows you to drop small scraps of soap into the netted pouch for an exfoliating effect. Just make sure to hang it in your shower where the water won't hit.
- DIY: Unwrap new soaps and place them in a drawer or between layers of linens. This helps "cure" the soap (dry it out), making for a harder, longer-lasting bar.


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At the Jefferies Annual Technology Conference, Charles Songhurst, general manager of Corporate Strategy at Microsoft, answered various questions from investors about Windows, but he also talked quite a bit about Bing, Microsoft's decision engine. Songhurst started by describing Bing as "more focused results. You get more information per result. You get more detail. Try searching for a hotel in Bing versus a hotel in Google. It's about the different experience. And the more time we spend with focus groups with our marketing the more we realize there are just different psychographic preferences in search and natural consumer segmentation."
His conclusion is that Bing will, as a result, initially gain share without much effort: "And that nature of looking at the market means that there's a good chance that we can carve out a good 10 to 20 percent share niche just by differentiation." So far, over the last few months, that has remained true. Bing marched into double digits in August 2009, according to Nielsen (US-only data), with 10.7 percent market share. Yahoo dropped to 16.0 percent while Google edged forward to grab 64.6 percent of the US market.
In the US at least, Bing is slowly making progress. When Bing launched in June 2009 it became available everywhere, but many features were, and still are, US-only. For example, the software giant recently added an Emmy Awards Instant Answer to the service. An instant answer occurs when Bing gives certain information (the time in a given location, the sum of two numbers, and so on) up top if a query is formed in a certain way. If you search for Emmy Awards on Bing, you'll get the wrap-ups for quick and easy access to the winners, links to photos and videos, and so on. Users who don't reside in the US, however, need to change their language in the top right to access this feature.
When investors asked if Microsoft was waiting on the Microhoo deal to go through before pushing Bing out internationally, the answer was that this had nothing to do with it: "It's more about taking the lessons from the US and making sure we have those lessons of what marketing works and doesn't before we spend in other countries, because you get better each time you go through that," Songhurst said, adding that it was critical to find "the marketing spend that is needed to gain share but that also has a positive return on investment." There are technical constraints as well: it's not just all marketing needs. "The second thing is just getting the product quality there in each different market. You have to modify your search engine per market and we're more focused on certain markets over others. It's much more driven by the internal product quality schedule than this is by anything deal related," he emphasized.
The international push, Silverlight, and mobile search
Although Songhurst wouldn't say which markets Bing would be pushed into next, he did say that markets like the UK, which don't require as much modification from the US version, were likely targets. We've noted the UK would be one of the countries to lose the beta tag in July 2009, but obviously there have been delays.
Speaking of US-only, earlier this week Bing added a Visual Search feature. Songhurst called it a "compelling user experience" and we'd have to agree, because it lets you refine your query by clicking images. The catch is that it requires Silverlight to work. Songhurst admitted that Microsoft was hoping to increase Silverlight penetration along with Bing. "One of the hopes is that Bing helps bring Silverlight along."
Bing users can use the decision engine just fine without Silverlight, but for that specific feature, they're prompted to install the Flash competitor (with a popup we frankly noted is a poor way to do it), if they don't already have it. "Every time you use that product, that guarantees that Silverlight is installed. If we can get other users to install Silverlight from scenarios that we create, then it massively reduces the burden for the content providers themselves to switch and support Silverlight as well." It's not that simple, as this Visual Search is just feature in Bing, which is still third in terms of market share, not to mention that there aren't that many Visual Search galleries right now.
When asked about pushing for the mobile space, Songhurst claimed that "mobile search is something we are very, very focused on. We've eternized what Google have been saying over the past few years which is they see mobile search as one of the biggest areas. In fact I think Eric Schmidt said at one point that it may be bigger in total volume of searches than PC searches." So what does that mean for Bing? "The way that Bing is designed is slightly more tailored, slightly more costumed, slightly less results, and slightly more data per result, actually suits the mobile world."
All of that may be true, but the Google brand crosses over just fine into the mobile world, and Microsoft will need to find a way to offset that if it's going to become popular there. We agree that the opportunity is present for Microsoft, but so far we haven't seen them present any coherent strategy detailing how they're going to make headway in that area.
For both increasing Silverlight market share and pushing into the mobile space, bundling deals will be very important. "We will always do other distribution deals for Bing," Songhurst confirmed. "You know there are two types of searches. There are destination searchers, which you pull to your site by marketing. They are people that come to your site and enjoy it and like it and come back. And we'll do that by marketing product quality. Then there are casual searchers who search on the site that they happen to come to. And those searchers you have to win by distribution deals." Given that Ballmer said in June 2009 that he plans on spending many billions of dollars on search, this really shouldn't surprise anyone. The companies Microsoft strikes deals with will go a long way towards determining how Bing shapes up as a competitor to Google.
You can check out the webcast on Microsoft's Investor Relations page.


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|This page uses content from Wikipedia. The original article was at Spirit (comics).
The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with Hey Kids Comics Wiki, the text of Wikipedia is available under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Cover detail, The Spirit #6 (Feb. 1975), Warren Publishing. Illustration by Will Eisner, Colored by Ken Kelley
|Publication information
|First appearance
|Register and Tribune Syndicate, June 2, 1940
|Created by
|Will Eisner
|In-story information
|Alter ego
|Denny Colt
|Team affiliations
|Central City's Police
The Spirit is a fictional masked crimefighter created by cartoonist Will Eisner. He first appeared June 2, 1940 in "The Spirit Section", the colloquial name given to a 16-page Sunday supplement, distributed to 20 newspapers by the Register and Tribune Syndicate and reaching five million readers during the 1940s. From the 1960s to 1980s, a handful of new Eisner Spirit stories appeared in Harvey Comics and elsewhere, and Warren Publishing and Kitchen Sink Press variously reprinted the feature in black-and-white comics magazines and in color comic books. In the 1990s and 2000s, Kitchen Sink[clarification needed] and DC Comics published new Spirit stories by other writers and artists.
The Spirit chronicles the adventures of a masked vigilante who fights crime with the blessing of the city's police commissioner Dolan, an old friend. Despite the Spirit's origin as detective Denny Colt, his real identity was virtually unmentioned again, and for all intents and purposes he was simply "the Spirit". The stories range through a wide variety of styles, from straightforward crime drama and noir to lighthearted adventure, from mystery and horror to comedy and love stories, often with hybrid elements that twisted genre and reader expectations.
The feature was the lead item of a 16-page, tabloid-sized, newsprint comic book sold as part of eventually 20 Sunday newspapers with a combined circulation of as many as five million copies. "The Spirit Section", as it was colloquially called, premiered June 2, 1940, and continued until October 5, 1952. It generally included two other, four-page strips (initially Mr. Mystic and Lady Luck), plus filler material. Eisner worked as editor, but also wrote and drew most entries—generally, after the first few months, with such uncredited collaborators as writer Jules Feiffer and artists Jack Cole and Wally Wood, though with Eisner's singular vision for the character as a unifying factor.
- 1 Publication history
- 2 Fictional character biography
- 3 Ebony White
- 4 Other characters
- 5 The Spirit and John Law
- 6 Assistants and collaborators
- 7 Latter-day Spirit comics
- 8 In other media
- 9 Collected editions
- 10 Notes
- 11 References
- 12 External links
- 13 Further reading
Publication history
In late 1939, Everett M. "Busy" Arnold, publisher of the Quality Comics comic-book line, began exploring an expansion into newspaper Sunday supplements, aware that many newspapers felt they had to compete with the suddenly burgeoning new medium of American comic books, as exemplified by the Chicago Tribune Comic Book, premiering two months before The Spirit Section.[1] Arnold compiled a presentation piece with existing Quality Comics material. An editor of The Washington Star liked George Brenner's The Clock, but not Brenner's art, and was favorably disposed toward a Lou Fine strip. Arnold, concerned over the meticulous Fine's slowness and his ability to meet deadlines, claimed it was the work of Eisner, Fine's boss at the Eisner & Iger studio, from which Arnold bought his outsourced comics work.
In "late '39, just before Christmas time," Eisner recalled in 1979,[2] "Arnold came to me and said that the Sunday newspapers were looking for a way of getting into this comic book boom". In a 2004 interview, Eisner elaborated on that meeting:
"Busy" invited me up for lunch one day and introduced me to [sales manager of the Des Moines Register and Tribune Syndicate] Henry Martin, who said, "The newspapers in this country, particularly the Sunday papers, are looking to compete with comics books, and they would like to get a comic-book insert into the newspapers"... Martin asked if I could do it... It meant that I'd have to leave Eisner & Iger [which] was making money; we were very profitable at that time and things were going very well. A hard decision. Anyway, I agreed to do the Sunday comic book and we started discussing the deal [which] was that we'd be partners in the "Comic Book Section", as they called it at that time.[3]
Eisner negotiated an agreement with the syndicate in which Arnold would copyright The Spirit, but, "Written down in the contract I had with 'Busy' Arnold — and this contract exists today as the basis for my copyright ownership — Arnold agreed that it was my property. They agreed that if we had a split-up in any way, the property would revert to me on that day that happened. My attorney went to 'Busy' Arnold and his family, and they all signed a release agreeing that they would not pursue the question of ownership."[3] This would include the eventual backup features, "Mr. Mystic" and "Lady Luck."
Selling his share of their firm to Iger, who would continue to package comics as the S. M. Iger Studio and as Phoenix Features through 1955, for $20,000,[4] Eisner left to create The Spirit. "They gave me an adult audience", Eisner said in 1997, "and I wanted to write better things than superheroes. Comic books were a ghetto. I sold my part of the enterprise to my associate and then began The Spirit. They wanted an heroic character, a costumed character. They asked me if he'd have a costume. And I put a mask on him and said, 'Yes, he has a costume!'"[5]
The character and the types of stories Eisner would tell, Eisner said in 1978, derived from his desire
...to do short stories. I always regarded comics as a legitimate medium, my medium. Creating a detective character would... provide me with the most viable vehicle for the kind of stories I could best tell. The syndicate people weren't in full agreement with me... [I]n my first discussion with 'Busy' Arnold, his thinking centered around a superhero kind of character—a costumed character; we didn't use the word 'superhero' in those days... and I argued vehemently against it because I [had] had my bellyful of creating costumed heroes at Eisner and Iger... [S]o actually one evening, around three in the morning, I was still working, trying to find it—I only had about a week-and-a-half or two weeks in which to produce the first issue, the whole deal was done in quite a rush—and I came up with an outlaw hero, suitable, I felt, for an adult audience.[6]
The character's name, he said in that interview, came from Arnold: "When 'Busy' Arnold called, he suggested a kind of ghost or some kind of metaphysical character. He said, 'How about a thing called the Ghost?' and I said, 'Naw, that's not any good,' and he said, 'Well, then, call it the Spirit; there's nothing like that around.' I said, 'Well, I don't know what you mean.,' and he said, 'Well, you can figure that out—I just like the words "the Spirit."' He was calling from a bar somewhere, I think... [A]nd actually, the more I thought about it the more I realized I didn't care about the name."[6]
The Spirit, an initially eight- and later seven-page urban-crimefighter series, ran with the initial backup features "Mr. Mystic" and "Lady Luck" in a 16-page Sunday supplement (colloquially called "The Spirit Section") that was eventually distributed in 20 newspapers with a combined circulation of as many as five million copies.[7] It premiered June 2, 1940, and continued through 1952.[8]
left|260px|thumb|A classic Eisner cover for The Spirit, Oct. 6, 1946. Note the innovative use of title design, the mix of color and black-and-white, and the shadowing and texturing that combine for exotic noir effect. Other Spirit stories could be whimsical, gritty, folklorish, sentimental, horrific, or mystical, yet always humanistic.
Eisner was drafted into the U.S. Army in late 1941, "and then had about another half-year which the government gave me to clean up my affairs before going off" to fight in World War II.[6] In his absence, the newspaper syndicate used ghost writers and artists to continue the strip, including Manly Wade Wellman, William Woolfolk, and Lou Fine.
Eisner's rumpled, masked hero (with his headquarters under the tombstone of his supposedly deceased true identity, Denny Colt) and his gritty, detailed view of big-city life (based on Eisner's Jewish upbringing in New York City) both reflected and influenced the noir outlook of movies and fiction in the 1940s. Eisner said in 2001 that he created the strip as a vehicle to explore various genres: "When I created The Spirit, I never had any intention of creating a superhero. I never felt The Spirit would dominate the feature. He served as a sort of an identity for the strip. The stories were what I was interested in."[9] In some episodes, the nominal hero makes a brief, almost incidental appearance while the story focuses on a real-life drama played out in streets, dilapidated tenements, and smoke-filled back rooms. Yet along with violence and pathos, The Spirit lived on humor, both subtle and overt. He was machine-gunned, knocked silly, bruised, often amazed into near immobility and constantly confused by beautiful women.
The feature ended with the October 5, 1952, edition.[8] As The Comics Journal editor-publisher Gary Groth wrote, "By the late '40s, Eisner's participation in the strip had dwindled to a largely supervisory role. ... Eisner hired Jerry Grandenetti and Jim Dixon to occasionally ink his pencils. By 1950, [Jules] Feiffer| was writing most of the strips, and Grandenetti, Dixon, and Al Wenzel were drawing them."[10] — Grandenetti penciling as a ghost-artist, under Eisner's byline, said in 2005 that before the feature's demise, Eisner had "tried everything. Had me penciling 'The Spirit'. Later on it was Wally Wood", who drew the final installments.[11]
Fictional character biography
The Spirit, referred to in one newspaper article cited below as "the only real middle-class crimefighter", was the hero persona of young detective Denny Colt. (To be precise, Dennis Colt Jr.) Presumed killed in the first three pages of the premiere story, Colt later revealed to his friend, Central City Police Commissioner Dolan, that he had in fact gone into suspended animation caused by one of archvillain Dr. Cobra's experiments. When Colt awakened in Wildwood Cemetery, he established a base there and, using his new-found anonymity, began a life of fighting crime wearing only a small domino mask, blue business suit, red necktie, fedora hat, and gloves for a costume. The Spirit dispensed justice with the aide of his assistant, Ebony White, funding his adventures with the rewards for capturing villains.
The Spirit was based originally in New York City which soon changed to Central City, but his adventures took him around the globe. He met up with eccentrics, kooks, and femme fatales, bringing his own form of justice to all of them. The story changed continually, but certain themes remained constant: the love between the Spirit and Dolan's feisty protofeminist daughter Ellen; the annual "Christmas Spirit" stories; and the Octopus (a psychopathic criminal mastermind who was never seen, except for his distinctive gloves).
Ebony White
[[wikipedia:File:The Spirit 10.jpg|thumb|The Spirit with Ebony White. The Spirit #10 (Fall 1947), Quality Comics. Cover art by Reed Crandall.|]] Eisner is sometimes criticized for his depiction of Ebony White, the Spirit's African-American sidekick. The character's name is a racial Pun, and his facial features, including large white eyes and thick pinkish lips, are typical of racial Blackface caricatures popular throughout the "Jim Crow" era. Eisner later admitted to consciously stereotyping the character, but said he tried to do so with "responsibility", and argued that "at the time humor consisted in our society of bad English and physical difference in identity".[12] The character, who was consistently treated with respect by the strip's fellow cast-members, developed beyond the stereotype as the series progressed, and Eisner also introduced such African-American characters as the no-nonsense Detective Grey who defied popular stereotypes.
In a 1966 New York Herald Tribune feature by Eisner's former office manager-turned-journalist, Marilyn Mercer wrote, "Ebony never drew criticism from Negro groups (in fact, Eisner was commended by some for using him), perhaps because, although his speech pattern was early Minstrel Show, he himself derived from another literary tradition: he was a combination of Tom Sawyer and Penrod, with a touch of Horatio Alger hero, and color didn't really come into it".[13]
The DC Comics' Spirit comic-book series of the late 2000s portrays White as a street kid, driving a stolen taxi.[citation needed] He is portrayed as putting his street experience and his daring attitude to work at the Spirit's service.[citation needed]
Other characters
- The Octopus is the Archenemy of the Spirit. He is a criminal mastermind and master of disguise who never shows his real face, though he is identified by his distinctive gloves. In the second issue of the 1960s Harvey Comics Spirit comic book, his name is given as Zitzbath Zark. (Vide sitz bath.)
- P'Gell is a femme fatale who perennially tries to seduce the Spirit to a life of crime at her side. She seduces and marries wealthy men who invariably die in mysterious ways, and uses their money to fund her crime empire in Istanbul and expand her influence and control over the underworld. After moving to Central City to find the Spirit, she continues her modus operandi of selected marriages with the creme of society, even gaining an ally in the form of Saree, the young daughter of one of her deceased husbands. In the 2000s DC Comics version, P'Gell was once a young socialite in love with a doctor, working in Third World countries, and turned to a life of crime when he was killed. P'Gell was ranked 52nd in Comics Buyer's Guide's 100 Sexiest Women in Comics list.[14]
- Sand Saref is a childhood friend of Denny Colt, and knows he is the Spirit. Working in espionage, she usually ends up on the opposite side of the law from him. She appears several times, always involved in some criminal scheme. (Vide sans serif.) Sand Seref was ranked 73rd in Comics Buyer's Guide's 100 Sexiest Women in Comics list.[15]
- Silken Floss is a nuclear physicist and a surgeon, who acts as the accomplice to the Octopus.
- Dr. Cobra is a mad scientist whose chemicals and machinations inadvertently help Denny Colt become the Spirit.
- Mister Carrion is a morbid con man with a pet vulture, Julia. (Vide carrion.)
- Darling O' Shea is the richest and most spoiled child in the world.
- Hazel P. Macbeth is a witch with a Shakespearean motif and apparent magical powers.
- Lorelei Rox, an apparent siren, appeared in a September 1948 strip and subsequently in 2000s DC Comics Spirit stories.
- Silk Satin is a tall, statuesque brunette with a white streak in her hair, originally an adventuress who later reformed and worked as an international troubleshooter for the insurance company Croyd's of Glasgow. In later stories, its revealed she has a daughter, Hildie, who motivates her to stay on the straight path. In the 2000s DC Comics revival, she is a smaller, more slender, blond CIA agent. Silk Satin was ranked 72nd in Comics Buyer's Guide's 100 Sexiest Women in Comics list.[16]
The Spirit and John Law
Several Spirit stories, such as the first appearance of Sand Saref, were retooled from a failed publishing venture featuring an eyepatched, pipe-smoking detective named John Law. Law and his shoeshine-boy sidekick, Nubbin, starred in several adventures planned for a new comics series. These completed adventures were eventually adapted into Spirit stories, with John Law's eyepatch being changed to the Spirit's mask, and Nubbin redrawn as Willum Waif or other Spirit supporting characters.
The original John Law stories were restored and published in Will Eisner's John Law: Dead Man Walking (IDW Publishing, 2004), a collection of stories that also features new adventures by writer-artist Gary Chaloner, starring John Law, Nubbin, and other Eisner creations, including Lady Luck and Mr. Mystic.
Assistants and collaborators
Like most artists working in newspaper comic strips, Eisner after a time employed a studio of assistants who, on any given week's story, might draw or simply ink backgrounds, ink parts of Eisner's main characters (such as clothing or shoes), or as eventually occurred, ghost-draw the strip entirely. Eisner also eventually used ghostwriters, generally in collaboration with him.
Jules Feiffer, who began as an art assistant circa 1946 and later became the primary writer through the strip's end in 1952, recalled, "When I first worked for Will there was John Spranger, who was his penciler and a wonderful draftsman; better than Will. There was Sam Rosen, the lettering man. Jerry Grandenetti came a little after me and did backgrounds, and Jerry had some architectural background. His drawing was stiff but loosened up after a while, but he drew backgrounds and inked them beautifully. And Abe Kanegson, who was my best friend in the office, was a jack-of-all-trades but mostly did lettering and backgrounds after Jerry left. Abe was a mentor to me."[17]
Eisner's studio also included:[8][18][19]
- Art assistants: Bob Powell (1940), Dave Berg (backgrounds, 1940–41), Tex Blaisdell (1940–41), Fred Kida (1941), Alexander Kostuk a.k.a. Alex Koster (1941–43), Jack Cole (1942–43), Jack Keller (backgrounds, 1943), Jules Feiffer (1946–47), Manny Stallman (1947–49), Andre LeBlanc (1950), Al Wenzel (1952)
- Inkers: Alex Kotzky (1941–43), John Belfi (1942–43), Don Komisarow (1943), Robin King (year?), Joe Kubert (1943–44), Jerry Grandenetti, (1948–51), Jim Dixon (1950–51), Don Perlin (1951)
- Letterers: Martin De Muth (years?), Abe Kanegson (years?), Sam Schwartz (1951), Ben Oda (1951)
- Colorists: Jules Feiffer (years?), Chris Christiansen (1951)
- Ghost artists (pencilers): Lou Fine and Jack Cole (variously, during Eisner's World War II service, 1942–45), Jerry Grandenetti (1951), Wally Wood (1952)
- Ghostwriters/writing assistants: Toni Blum (1942), Jack Cole (years?), Manly Wade Wellman and William Woolfolk (variously, during Eisner's World War II service, 1942–45), Klaus Nordling (1946, 1951), Marilyn Mercer (1946), Abe Kanegson (1950), Jules Feiffer (1951–52)
Latter-day Spirit comics
[[wikipedia:File:Spirit Harvey1.jpg|thumb|Harvey Comics' The Spirit #1 (Oct. 1966). Cover art by Will Eisner.|]] A five-page Spirit story, set in New York City, appeared as part of a January 9, 1966 article about the Spirit in the New York Herald Tribune.[13]
Harvey Comics reprinted several Spirit stories in two giant-size, 25-cent comic books published October 1966 and March 1967, each with new Eisner covers.
The first of these two 60-page issues opened with a new seven-page retelling of the Spirit's origin by writer-penciler-inker Eisner (with inking assist by Chuck Kramer). Also new was the text feature "An Interview With the Spirit", credited to Marilyn Mercer; and writer-artist Eisner's two-page featurette "Spirit Lab: Invincible Devices". Seven 1948-1949 Spirit stories were reprinted.
The second issue opened with a new seven-page story by writer-artist Eisner, "Octopus: The Life Story of the King of Crime," giving the heretofore unrevealed origin of the Spirit's archnemesis The Octopus, as well as his given name (Zitzbath Zark). Also new was the two-page text feature "The Spirit Answers Your Mail", and writer-artist Eisner's two-page featurette "The Spirit Lab: The Man From MSD". Reprinted were seven 1948-50 Spirit stories.
Warren Publishing and later Denis Kitchen's Kitchen Sink Press published extensive reprints, first as large black-and-white magazines (the Warren part of the run eventually having a color section), then as trade paperbacks. The magazines often featured new Eisner covers.
Two new stories were written during this period "The Capistrano Jewels", a four-page story published in the second issue of the Kitchen Sink reprints in 1972; and "The Invader", a 5-page story (reprinted in The Will Eisner Color Treasury). Issue 30 of the Kitchen Sink series features "The Spirit Jam", with a script from Eisner and a few penciled pages, plus contributions from 50 artists.
In 1976, an oddity called "The Spirit Casebook of True Haunted Houses and Ghosts" was published.[citation needed] The Spirit plays the EC host, introducing "true" stories of haunted houses. The Spirit makes a cameo in Vampirella #50.[citation needed]
Kitchen Sink Press did a complete reprinting of the post-WWII Eisner work in a color comics series. The publisher started another series intended to reprint the stories from the beginning; it lasted only 10 issues.
1990s and beyond
[[wikipedia:File:Spiritcircle.png|left|thumb|Promotional art by Darwyn Cooke for DC Comics' The Spirit|]] Kitchen Sink also published a series of original Spirit stories in 1996-1997, including contributions from Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, Paul Chadwick, Neil Gaiman, Joe R. Lansdale and Paul Pope.
In the mid-2000s, DC Comics began reprinting The Spirit chronologically in the company's hardcover Archive series, in an approximately 8x10-inch format, smaller than the Kitchen Sink and Warren publications.
The final Spirit art by the late Eisner appeared in the sixth issue of The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist, from Dark Horse Comics.
DC Comics
The DC Comics one-shot Batman/The Spirit (January 2007), by writer Jeph Loeb and artists Darwyn Cooke and J. Bone fully introduced the Spirit into the DC Universe, although he had previously garnered a brief cameo in Batgirl: Year One. The first issue of the ongoing series The Spirit, written and pencilled by Cooke and inked by J. Bone, debuted the following month. It ran through issue #32 (Aug. 2009), with most running a single 22-page story. The series updated some concepts, with Ellen's Internet skills helping to solve a case, and Ebony White stripped of his racial stereotype characteristics. The team of Mark Evanier and Sergio Aragones became the series' regular writers beginning with issue #14 (March 2008), with Mike Ploog and later Paul Smith providing the artwork.
In other media
Daily strip
From October 1941 to March 1944, there was also a daily, black-and-white newspaper strip of The Spirit. These were later reprinted in several collections. DC's The Spirit Archives Vol. 25 collected all of these strips.
Reprints of the Spirit's adventures ran in Quality Comics and Fiction House publications shortly after their newspaper debuts.
TV movie
The character was the subject of a 1987 television movie starring Sam J. Jones as The Spirit, Nana Visitor as Ellen Dolan, and Garry Walberg as Commissioner Dolan.
- Main article: The Spirit (film)
The film adaptation The Spirit, written and directed by Frank Miller, was released in theaters by Lionsgate on December 25, 2008. The film stars Gabriel Macht as the Spirit and Samuel L. Jackson as the Octopus.[20]
Denis Kitchen, the Eisner estate's agent, said in a July 8, 2006 online interview that a radio series had been in development: "It was pitched to the estate by a couple of producers, one of whom is very experienced with NPR, so we have been back and forth on how that would work. Again, it would be premature to tell you it is going to happen, but it is in serious discussion."[21]
Collected editions
The comic strips and comics have been collected into a number of volumes:
- Will Eisner Color Treasury (1981, Kitchen Sink) (ISBN 0-87816-006-X)
- Spirit Color Album (1981, Kitchen Sink) (ISBN 0-87816-002-7)
- Spirit Color Album, v2 (1983, Kitchen Sink) (ISBN 0-87816-010-8)
- Spirit Color Album, v3 (1983, Kitchen Sink) (ISBN 0-87816-011-6)
- Art of Will Eisner (1989 2nd ed, Kitchen Sink) (ISBN 0-87816-076-0)
- Outer Space Spirit (1989 Kitchen Sink) (ISBN 0-87816-012-4)
- Christmas Spirit (1995 Kitchen Sink) (ISBN 0-87816-309-3)
- Spirit Casebook (199x Kitchen Sink) (ISBN 0-87816-094-9)
- All About P'Gell: Spirit Casebook II (1998 Kitchen Sink) (ISBN 0-87816-492-8)
- The Spirit Archives: (DC Comics)
- Volume 1 (2000) (ISBN 1-56389-673-7) through Volume 26 (2009)
- The Best of The Spirit (2005 DC Comics) (ISBN 1-4012-0755-3)
- The Spirit Book 1, Collects Batman/The Spirit and The Spirit #1-6 (DC Comics)
- The Spirit Book 2, Collects The Spirit #7-13 (DC Comics)
- The Spirit Book 3, Collects The Spirit #14-20 (DC Comics)
- The Spirit Book 4, Collects The Spirit #21-25 (DC Comics)
- The Spirit Book 5, Collects The Spirit #26-32 (DC Comics)
- The Spirit: Angel Smerti, Collects The Spirit #1-7 (DC Comics)
- ↑ Holtz, Allan (May 9, 2013). "The Chicago Tribune Comic Book: Introduction". The Stripper's Guide. Archived from the original on May 10, 2013. http://strippersguide.blogspot.com/search/label/Chicago%20Tribune%20Comic%20Book. Retrieved May 10, 2013.
- ↑ Panels #1 (Summer 1979), "Art & Commerce: An Oral Reminiscence by Will Eisner", pp. 5-21, quoted in Quattro, Ken (2003). "Rare Eisner: Making of a Genius". Comicartville Library. Archived from the original on December 20, 2009. http://www.comicartville.com/rareeisner.htm.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Will Eisner interview, Alter Ego #48, May 2005, p. 10
- ↑ Kitchen, Denis. "Annotations to The Dreamer, in Eisner, Will, The Dreamer ([[wikipedia:W.W. Norton & Company|]], New York, 2008), p. 52. ISBN 978-0-393-32808-0
- ↑ Template:Cit news
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 "Will Eisner Interview", [[wikipedia:The Comics Journal|]] #46 (May 1979), p. 37. Interview conducted Oct. 13 and 17, 1978
- ↑ Eisner, The Dreamer, "About the Author", p. 55
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 Series) at the [[wikipedia:Grand Comics Database|]]
- ↑ Eisner Wide Open, Hogan's Alley #11, 2001
- ↑ Groth, Gary (May 2005). "Will Eisner: Chairman of the Board". [[wikipedia:The Comics Journal|]] (267). Archived from the original on April 29, 2008. http://web.archive.org/web/20080429204530/www.tcj.com/267/e_groth.html.
- ↑ "A 2005 Interview With Jerry Grandenetti!". (Requires scrolling down) The Warren Magazines: Interviews. February 3, 2010. Archived from the original on June 15, 2010. http://www.enjolrasworld.com/Richard%20Arndt/The%20Warren%20Magazines%20Interviews.htm.
- ↑ Eisner interview, "Never Too Late". Time. September 19, 2003. Archived from the original on March 19, 2011. http://www.time.com/time/columnist/arnold/article/0,9565,488263,00.html.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Mercer, Marilyn, "The Only Real Middle-Class Crimefighter", New York (Sunday supplement, [[wikipedia:New York Herald Tribune|]]), Jan. 9, 1966; reprinted in Alter Ego #48 (May 2005)
- ↑ Frankenhoff, Brent (2011). Comics Buyer's Guide Presents: 100 Sexiest Women in Comics. [[wikipedia:Krause Publications|]]. p. 37. ISBN 1-4402-2988-0.
- ↑ Frankenhoff p. 48
- ↑ Frankenhoff p. 47
- ↑ Transcript of March 24, 2010, Feiffer interview at the [[wikipedia:Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art|]], published as "Backing into Jules Feiffer: An Exclusive Q&A". FilmFestivalTraveler.com. 18 April 2010. p. 2. Archived from the original on March 19, 2011. http://filmfestivaltraveler.com/film-arts/50-previews/674-backing-into-jules-feiffer-an-exclusive-qaa.
- ↑ Leiffer, Paul; Ware, Hames, eds. (1999). "Comic Strip Credits S-Z". The Comic Strip Project. Archived from the original on February 24, 2012. http://www.bpib.com/comicsproj/creditsSZ.html. Main page archived from the original on July 4, 2012.
- ↑ Yronwode, Cat; Tumulka, Wes, eds.. "The Spirit Checklist". WildwoodCemetary.com. Archived from the original on January 15, 2011. http://www.wildwoodcemetery.com/checklist.shtml.
- ↑ The Spirit (movie official website)
- ↑ "Denis Kitchen Interview". A Spirited Life (official site, author Bob Andelman). July 8, 2006. Archived from the original on April 28, 2004. http://www.aspiritedlife.com/blog/2006/07/denis-kitchen-interview.html.
|This section includes a list of references, but its sources remain unclear because it has insufficient inline citations. (October 2009)
- Will Eisner official site
- Grand Comics Database
- Transcript, Eisner's keynote address at the 2002 University of Florida Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels' Will Eisner Symposium
- Jack Kirby Collector #16 (June 1997): Will Eisner interview
- Archive of Heintjes, Tom. "Will Eisner's The Spirit", AdventureStrips.com. Reprinted from The Spirit: The Origin Years #1-4 (Kitchen Sink Press, May–November 1992). Original page Original page.
- The New York Times Syndicate obituary, by Sarah Boxer
- The Comics Journal #267: Excerpt, "Will Eisner: Having Something to Say" (interview)
External links
- The Spirit at the Open Directory Project
- The Spirit at the Comic Book DB
- The Spirit at the Internet Movie Database
- Tumulka, Wed., ed. Wildwood Cemetery: The Spirit Database. WebCitation archive.
Further reading
- Andelman, Bob. Will Eisner: A Spirited Life. ISBN 1-59582-011-6.
- Feiffer, Jules. The Great Comic-Book Heroes. ISBN 1-56097-501-6.
- Jones, Gerard. Men Of Tomorrow. ISBN 0-434-01402-8.
- Steranko, Jim (1972). The Steranko History of Comics 2. Supergraphics.
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15. Re: Bootstrap JTA in unit testvasilievip Dec 18, 2013 1:03 PM (in response to tomjenkinson)
Tom Jenkinson wrote:
Its not really the best way to report an issue by raising a pull request on the QS repo
Yeah, thats true. Let me quote his response here:
Gytis wrote:
I have checked Hibernate's trace logging and apparently it cannot join the JTA transaction during the invoke of TestEntityRepository.save method. The problem is that transaction is created before EntityManager, which by default cannot join such transaction. What you need to do is either create EntityManager when the transaction is active i.e. inside TestEntityRepository.save and TestEntityRepository.findAll methods or invoke entityManager.joinTransaction() inside of @Transactional method.
Here is a stack overflow link which explains the problem: Skipping JTA sync registration due to auto join checking
So, basically EntityManager cannot "automatically" join transaction in my code.
Tom Jenkinson wrote:
I think Gytis has answered your question on the PR?
Yes, that was very helpful. Now I'm wondering what is the best way to make it automatically "join" JTA transaction w/o touching application code
BTW: If I'll plug "entityManager.joinTransaction()" into sample code - it works just fine. Should I go ahead and create JIRA ticket and make another pull request which will have my testcase available in samples?
16. Re: Bootstrap JTA in unit testvasilievip Dec 28, 2013 1:24 PM (in response to vasilievip)
Here are my results:
- Deltaspike team says lgpl is not compatible with apache license: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DELTASPIKE-473
- Sample project which shows JbossTM integration with deltaspike: vasilievip/cdi-jpa-jta-generic-dao · GitHub
17. Re: Bootstrap JTA in unit testtomjenkinson Jan 9, 2014 9:57 AM (in response to vasilievip)
Hi Ivan,
Did you manage to get answers to your questions, if not please do let us know what status you are at and we can pick it up again.
18. Re: Bootstrap JTA in unit testvasilievip Jan 9, 2014 10:11 AM (in response to tomjenkinson)
Hi Tom,
Yes, I managed to get JbossTM in unit tests with help of your team. There is also example available in JbossTM quickstarts:
quickstart/jta-and-hibernate/src/test/java/org/jboss/narayana/quickstarts/jta/TestCase.java at master · jbosstm/quicksta…
I'm also managed to use CdiTestRunner from deltaspike with JbossTM for my unit tests to unit-test CMP (I can't say "integration-test" because of tests speed , and this looks very cool:
cdi-jpa-jta-generic-dao/src/main/java/com/acme/services/ProductService.java at master · vasilievip/cdi-jpa-jta-generic-d…
19. Re: Bootstrap JTA in unit testtomjenkinson Jan 9, 2014 10:24 AM (in response to vasilievip)
Great, thanks for the update - glad you managed to get it working
20. Re: Bootstrap JTA in unit testvasilievip Jan 9, 2014 11:28 AM (in response to tomjenkinson)
BTW: The JTA+JMS+CDI in unit tests is also very common case, example in quickstarts would be very nice to have:


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