Steven Billy Mitchell, CBE, DCM, MM (born 28 December 1959), usually known by the pseudonym and pen-name of Andy McNab, is a novelist and former British Army infantry soldier.

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# Andy McNab sells stake in Mobcast ebook business to Tesco

Former SAS soldier makes almost £1m after ebook platform he co-founded was purchased by the supermarket firm

Andy McNab signs copies of one his books for soldiers at Tidworth Army Camp, Wiltshire.

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Former SAS man Andy McNab has made almost £1m after the ebook platform he co-founded was sold to Tesco for £4.5m.

Mobcast, which has 130,000 titles available for download to tablet computers and mobile phones, was founded by the soldier-cum-author in 2007 along with the company's boss, Tony Lynch.

The pair each held a 22% stake in the startup, with McNab's shares registered under his real name of Steven Mitchell.

McNab said: "As an author I always thought the ability to carry your library around and read on all your personal devices would be a huge benefit to all.

We have developed a product that makes this possible, and being acquired by Tesco ensures that this original vision will be available to as many people as possible."

Tesco's purchase of Mobcast is the latest in a string of acquisitions in the sector, adding to the grocer's purchase of film and television streaming service Blinkbox in 2011, as well as internet radio service We7 in June 2012.

Meanwhile, rival Sainsbury's has also been busy building a presence in digital entertainment: last month it signed a deal with digital video service Rovi Corporation while in June it purchased HMV's stake in ebook business Anobii for £1.

Tesco's head of digital entertainment, Michael Comish added: "We want our customers to have the widest choice in digital entertainment.

We are already one of the UK's largest booksellers and Mobcast will help us offer even more choice for the large and growing number of customers who want to buy and enjoy books on their digital devices whenever and wherever they want."

However, as the price tag suggests, the grocer is buying potential rather than the finished article.

Mobcast is too small for it to be required to file full accounts with Companies House, so its revenues remain a secret.

However, in the year to May 2011 it made a net loss of £816,338, up from £516,514 during the previous 12 months.

Apart from McNab and Lynch, staff held just under 2% of the business, while several outside investors including Anne Street Partners, Solon Ventures and GP Bullhound owned around 54%.

McNab joined the SAS in 1984 and served for 10 years including anti-terrorist and anti-drug operations in the Middle and Far East, South and Central America and Northern Ireland.

He has written about his experiences in the SAS in three books: Bravo Two Zero, Immediate Action and Seven Troop, with Bravo Two Zero selling over 1.7m copies in the UK.

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I have a little trouble recognising Andy McNab in the hotel lobby, which is not surprising since on every published photo, either his eyes are covered with a black bar or his face is in deep shadow.

It turns out that the eyes are an incongruously innocent pale blue, and they contribute to a rather boyish air.

My initial anxiety, that he might find some excuse to kill me with his bare hands, recedes.

McNab's unrecognisability is quite an achievement, given his degree of media exposure in the decade since he published Bravo Two-Zero.

That account of how he led an SAS patrol behind Iraqi lines just before the first Gulf War in 1991 was staggeringly successful: 1.7 million copies sold in the UK alone, translated into 16 languages, filmed by the BBC with Sean Bean.

He parlayed that success into a new career as a writer of gritty contemporary thrillers, and last year was declared the top-selling UK thriller writer.

He isn't sure about the precise figure, but he sold only something like 3,000 fewer than John Grisham.

While, clearly, he doesn't often do TV, he crops up in newspapers, offering an insider's view of military issues, and on the radio.

A couple of weeks ago, there was a minor scandal when his appearance on Desert Island Discs was suddenly pulled, apparently because the BBC judged that a discussion with Sue Lawley about hostage-taking might be upsetting in the wake of the kidnapping of Margaret Hassan.

The day we meet, he is off to TalkSport, Kelvin Mackenzie's mob, for a spot of technical training prior to standing in as presenter of the Friday night phone-in.

He lectures for the army and security agencies; and he is happy to do interviews.

Given all the publicity, it does occur to me that perhaps anonymity - McNab is not his real name - has become obsolete.

He has wondered about dropping it, but there are practical considerations: "The way it was portrayed - 'Oh, the Iraqis are after him' - it's a load of old crap.

As a 19-year-old infantryman in Northern Ireland, he shot dead a member of the IRA, an incident described in his second book, Immediate Action.

Subsequently, while in the SAS, he served with 14 Intelligence Group, a clandestine outfit involved in identifying IRA active service units and material: on both counts, he is a potential target.

Besides, these days he mixes with celebrities: "And actually the life isn't as good, it's shite because they can't go into supermarkets without people looking."

In any case, he happily admits, Andy McNab is now a brand: "I've sold beer, watches."

His new book, Deep Black (Bantam, £17.99), is the seventh to feature his hero Nick Stone, a disillusioned ex-SAS man who has ended up working on "deniable operations" for an ultra-secret, ultra-ruthless American government agency.

In this one, Stone goes searching for a charismatic Muslim leader; the quest takes him to American-occupied Baghdad, where he encounters an exotic cast of spooks, crooks, fanatics and old comrades - now working "the circuit" as security consultants" - and then on to Sarajevo, where, as usual, Stone ends up even more disillusioned than at the start.

The plot strains credibility, and the terse, slangy prose is sometimes repetitive (cannabis is invariably "waccy baccy"), but McNab's action sequences, the way that heroics are inflected with terror and self-preservation, do have an emotional conviction that few action writers manage.

His characters aren't heroes or supermen, but they are good at staying alive and intent on doing just that.

This is what sells the books: the implicit promise that, though they may be fiction, they are at some level, in some way, real.

At the start of the book - what would be the pre-credit sequence in a movie - Nick Stone is in Bosnia in 1994, staking out a cement works where a visit is expected from the Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic.

Stone's job is to aim the laser that will guide a smart bomb to the target.

McNab was, one assumes, never involved in an attempt to assassinate Mladic; but one also assumes that he has spent days on end lying flat in a camouflaged scrape in a padded sniper-suit, defecating into plastic bags and feeling his body-heat being sapped by the cold earth.

He talks a lot about getting the sensory details right - smells, tastes, physical sensations.

When he started writing Bravo Two-Zero, his agent advised him to read Touching the Void, Joe Simpson's gruelling tale of bare survival in the Andes, and that became "the template, the Bible".

He says that "The things that come out for me from it, number one, it's as if he's talking to you, so he's in a pub and he's telling you a story... so it's at you.

Number two, you have got the cold and pain, all those sensations."

To keep the first-person urgency (and because he found he can't just sit down at a computer and write), he dictates the books into a mini-cassette recorder, has his words transcribed, then messes around.

He talks about the difficulty of getting the structure, the flow, the importance of Nick Stone's "story-arc".

While a lot of the stuff comes straight out of his own experience, McNab also puts in a good deal of research.

Parts of Deep Black are quite a good primer on the politics of the Muslim world, like Channel 4 News plus swearing.

If he's writing about a place, he goes there, or goes back.

He was in Bosnia in the 1990s, doing reconnaissance and caching supplies and transmitters for downed aircrews to access; for this book, he returned to check details: "It's not only sort of the sense of the thing, it's, 'What's on the telly nowadays?...

Is it all Bosnians behind the counter now or is it a load of Turks?' "

For Firewall, set in the Baltic, he went to Estonia and Helsinki, where he met up with a number of Russian mafiosi: "They're great guys...

You know when you buy a suit you've got the little tag on" - he gestures at his cuffs - "whatever it may be, Hugo Boss.

They wanna keep them on so you know what suit it is...

The authenticity is vouched for in a paradoxical way by the fact that all his books are vetted by the MoD and the intelligence services (which never happens to Frederick Forsyth) to ensure he doesn't give away too much about SAS methods.

Negotiations can be protracted: "They normally start, 'Page 16 paragraph 2, to page 184 paragraph 4: Cut,' and from there it sort of narrows down over a couple of weeks".

The reasons for changes are sometimes obscure.

For Liberation Day, he was asked to change a vehicle; he assumes that the one he had originally put in had been used in similar circumstances.

On the whole, McNab is happy to oblige: he still has friends in the SAS, and has no intention of putting them in danger.

With Immediate Action, there was a very public fuss about leaking secrets, though the MoD had sight of the book months beforehand.

This is emblematic of his somewhat difficult relationship with the military.

On the one hand, Andy McNab is a fantastic recruitment tool.

He says that "I was responsible for 35 per cent of the infantry intake in the mid- to late Nineties," and the army has consulted him on recruitment and retention.

But they don't want to be look as if they actually encourage troops to write their memoirs.

He recalls reading a piece in the press in which military sources expressed outrage at his indiscretion.

At the time, he was sitting in the back of a staff car on his way to Catterick Camp to lecture to recruits.

The most topical part of Deep Black is the section set in Baghdad: McNab has been there several times this year, on behalf of the security company he has worked for since leaving the SAS in 1993, and spent time with American patrols.

He portrays civilians being horribly injured by shrapnel, panicking soldiers shooting at anything that moves.

He wrote an angry piece earlier this year about the degradation inflicted on prisoners at Abu Ghraib; he himself was kept there for some weeks in 1991, being beaten up and humiliated by Iraqi troops in rather similar ways.

What riles him most is the incompetence that permits such situations (he doesn't believe it is ordered from above): the bad PR puts other troops in danger.

But he is a realist when it comes to the politics of Iraq: "Nine out of ten times it's about commerce, always has been, always will be.

'Maintaining the UK's interest overseas'."

He cautions against the idea that the troops on the ground are simply pawns of the government.

"These guys do understand the political implications, they do understand sometimes the political bollocks," he says.

"The vast majority certainly of the infantry, they're coming from areas of high unemployment, left-wing tendencies, they're more left-wing than right-wing."

In Ireland, he recalls, a lot of his fellow-soldiers identified quite strongly with the nationalist cause: "However, tough shit.

They're on the other side, we're on this side, and the job takes over.

Andy McNab was found in a carrier bag outside Guy's Hospital in 1959.

He joined the Royal Green Jackets in 1976, and became the youngest corporal in the army at 19.

He served in Gibraltar, Germany and Northern Ireland.

In 1984 he joined the SAS, taking part in conventional and covert operations around the world.

Shortly before the 1991 Gulf War, leading a mission behind Iraqi lines, he was captured and tortured; his account, Bravo Two-Zero (1993), became the bestselling war book ever.

An autobiography, Immediate Action (1995), was followed by Remote Control (1997), his first thriller featuring ex-SAS man Nick Stone.

The latest, out this month, is Deep Black (Bantam).

He also works for a Hereford-based security company, and has acted as technical consultant on Hollywood films.

He has one daughter and four ex-wives; he and his fifth wife divide their time between England and New York.

His military honours include the Military Medal and the Distinguished Conduct Medal.

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His sister Rebecca Swift (died April 2017) was a poet and founder of The Literary Consultancy.

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Rebecca Swift speaking at The Literary Consultancy's What's Your Story? conference in 2016.

Rebecca Swift, who has died aged 53 of cancer, believed that anyone who writes and wishes to be edited and advised constructively and professionally should be given that opportunity.

To this end, in 1996 she founded The Literary Consultancy (TLC) with Hannah Griffiths.

It was the first of its kind – a manuscript assessment agency offering detailed editorial feedback to anyone writing in English anywhere in the world.

Set up in Becky's north London flat on a capital sum of £600, TLC never borrowed another penny.

From 1989 to 1995, Becky had been a junior editor at Virago Press.

At that time, the "slush pile" – that mountain of unsolicited manuscripts – was one of the first casualties of the editorial department: publishers no longer had the resources to read unsolicited manuscripts, which were returned to the writer with a standard note.

Becky test-ran the idea of TLC while she was at Virago, unknown to her bosses, writing her first report under an assumed name and even charging a small fee.

Her enduring belief in the link between the act of writing and the therapeutic process led her to an MA in psychoanalytic studies at the Tavistock Clinic in 1999.

Her thesis Are You Reading Me? explored the relationship between unpublished writers and readers in the publishing industry.

In her words: "TLC was born, perhaps to mop up some of that 'toxicity' that lay between production of a work and the apparently negligent 'reality' of the publishing world."

Through TLC she tirelessly sought to fill that gap.

On panels and platforms at literary festivals Becky talked about the work of TLC, and promoted her vision for it.

It grew into a service that offered a mentoring scheme as well as a free reads programme aimed at low-income and marginalised writers and backed by Arts Council funding.

The Free Word Centre in Clerkenwell, central London, where TLC was a founding resident from 2009 onwards, became a crucible for the literary events and annual conferences that Becky programmed.

The first, Writing in a Digital Age (2012), brought together writers, technology experts, literary agents, publishers and digital media gurus for the first time to discuss an increasingly complex publishing landscape which included the growing phenomenon of "indie" or self-publishing.

Born in Highbury, north London, and brought up in Hampstead, Becky was the daughter of the writer Margaret Drabble and the actor Clive Swift.

They divorced in 1975, and in 1982 her mother married the writer and biographer Michael Holroyd.

Becky grew up surrounded by writers – AS Byatt was an aunt – and one particularly, Doris Lessing, would influence her greatly.

They first met when Becky was a teenager reading Susan Howatch's sprawling saga Penmarric – which much to her delight turned out also to be a favourite of the great Doris.

This was the start of a lifelong friendship.

From her father, Becky inherited her love of music and musicals.

She was never far from a song - at her last public appearance in November 2016 celebrating TLC's 20th birthday, she picked up her guitar, accompanied by the jazz trio who had been performing all evening, and sang Suzanne in memory of Leonard Cohen, who had died that day.

From Camden School for Girls, she went on a scholarship to study English at New College, Oxford (1983-86).

She returned to London and took her first job in publishing, at Lokamaya Press, which published translations from Urdu and Hindi, before joining Virago.

Her publications include Letters from Margaret: The Fascinating Story of Two Babies Swapped at Birth (1992), a correspondence between George Bernard Shaw and Margaret Wheeler, and Imagining Characters (1995), a book of conversations between AS Byatt and the psychoanalyst Ignês Sodré.

Her biography of Emily Dickinson was published in 2011 by Hesperus in its Poetic Lives series.

Becky's own poems were published in numerous anthologies and she had been putting together a manuscript of poems which she hoped to publish.

She leaves a vast body of writing in the form of diaries she wrote daily for much of her life, fulfilling her need for introspection through this unflinching therapeutic ritual.

Becky experienced three periods of clinical depression, which informed her commitment to bettering mental health provision.

This she pursued as a trustee of the Maya Centre, a charity based in north London providing free counselling to vulnerable women.

She will be remembered by friends, family and colleagues for her wit, warmth and wonderful storytelling.

Noisy, confident and pioneering, she was curious about people, always wanting to push the boundaries in life and work.

She has left publishing in a better place than where she found it.

Becky leaves her partner of many years, Helen Cosis Brown, her parents, her stepfather, her brothers, Adam Swift, a political philosopher, and Joe Swift, a garden designer and TV presenter, and her two nieces and two nephews.

• Rebecca Margaret Swift, literary consultant and writer, born 10 January 1964; died 18 April 2017

Swift's father was the actor Clive Swift, and he was the nephew of David Swift. His mother is novelist Margaret Drabble, and his brother is academic Adam Swift.


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# Stevie Nicks Adds 2017 Dates to Her '24 Karat Gold' Tour

Stevie Nicks and Chrissie Hynde perform live in concert at Madison Square Garden on Dec. 1, 2016 in New York City.

Stevie Nicks will hit the road with the Pretenders in 2017 for a run of newly-announced shows.

The legendary Fleetwood Mac singer has added 20 dates to her 24 Karat Gold Tour, beginning Feb. 23 in Reno, Nevada and wrapping up April 6 in Uniondale, New York.

Live Nation will produce the shows in support of Nicks' eighth and latest solo studio album 24 Karat Gold, which features new versions of works primarily written and demoed by the Rock And Roll Hall of Famer between 1969 and 1987 but never officially released.

Nicks and Chrissie Hynde's Hall of Fame-inducted Pretenders are winding down a long stretch of 2016 concerts, which have been met with "huge ticket demands and stellar reviews," reps say.

"It's been thrilling to get on stage each night and sing some of my early gems from early in my career along with getting the chance to sing the material from my last two albums," comments Nicks in a statement.

The general ticket onsale begins Dec. 12, with an exclusive pre-sale for American Express cardholders starting Wednesday (Dec. 7).

Nicks and the Pretenders' touring commitments for 2016 come to a conclusion Dec. 18 at the Forum in Inglewood.

The new dates for 2017 are listed below.

Feb. 23 – Reno Events Center, Reno, NV Feb. 25 – Vivint Smart Home Arena, Salt Lake City, UT Feb. 28 – Moda Center, Portland, OR March 2 – Viejas Arena, San Diego, Calif March 6 – BOK Center, Tulsa, OK March 8 – FedExField, Landover, MDMarch 10 – CenturyLink Center, Bossier City, LA March 12 – Frank Erwin Center, Austin, TX March 15 – Smoothie King Center, New Orleans, LAMarch 17 – Nationwide Arena, Columbus, OH March 19 – PNC. Arena, Raleigh, NC March 21 – Amway Center, Orlando, FLMarch 23 –Jacksonville Veterans Mem. Arena, Jacksonville, FLMarch 25 –John Paul Jones Arena (JPJ Arena), Charlottesville, VAMarch 26 – Royal Farms Arena, Baltimore, MD March 29 – Bankers Life Fieldhouse, Indianapolis, IN March 31 – PPG Paints Arena, Pittsburgh, PAApril 2 – Prudential Center, Newark, NJApril 5 – SNHU Arena, Manchester, NH April 6 – Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Uniondale, NY

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# Zachary Quinto Returning to FX's 'American Horror Story'

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Following a four-episode guest stint as one of the haunted abode's former residents, Zachary Quinto will return as a series regular in the upcoming sophomore season of the Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk drama, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

Quinto joins Season 1 SAG and Golden Globe award winner Jessica Lange as cast members set to return to the series, with co-creator Murphy confirming her return early last month.

Following its breakout freshman season that featured the deaths of the Harmon family (played by Dylan McDermott, Connie Britton and Taissa Farmiga) who moved into the haunted L.A. abode, Murphy told reporters that Season 2 will feature an entirely new setting, story and cast.

During a visit to Bravo's Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen last month, Murphy said he was in negotiations with "four of the people who were on last year's show" but confirmed the Harmon trio would not be among them.

Murphy is expected to announce additional cast members for the horror anthology series Friday at the opening night of PaleyFest 2012 in Los Angeles.

American Horror Story, which likely will return in October, will take place in an East Coast mental institution and center on Lange's new character.

(In Season 1, she played the nosy, all-knowing Constance, who lived next door to the evil property.)

"We have designed the second season of American Horror Story completely around [Lange's] character," Murphy told EW.

"We are designing this amazing new opposite of the Constance character for her.

She and I have spoken about different things.

She has a lot of ideas and has a lot of input into her character."

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In 2013, Quinto played the role of Tom Wingfield in the American Repertory Theatre's production of "The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams. He was also in the Broadway reprisal of the production, in 2014.  In February 2016, Zachary appeared in the New York premiere of MCC Theater's "Smokefall".
 In 2010, Quinto's company Before the Door Pictures produced "Margin Call", an independent film about the financial crisis. Quinto played the role of Peter Sullivan in the film, in a cast that included Jeremy Irons, Kevin Spacey, Stanley Tucci, Penn Badgley and Demi Moore. "Margin Call" premiered in January 2011 at the Sundance Film Festival. "Margin Call" received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay, by J. C. Chandor. Quinto was an executive producer for Chandor's next film "All Is Lost" (2013) with Robert Redford as the sole actor.
 Not leaving television behind, in October 2011, Quinto began a recurring role on the FX series "American Horror Story" as Chad, former owner of the house.


She is also the author of "Chekhov: Scenes from a Life" (2004) and has translated two volumes of Anton Chekhov's short stories.

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# Tolstoy: A Russian Life by Rosamund Bartlett – review

A noble effort, but one that will not supersede earlier biographies of the master of fiction

First published on Sat 13 Nov 2010 19.05 EST

Tolstoy pictured in his later years telling his grandchildren a story.

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The state of Tolstoy's health was closely monitored by the press during the final phase of his life.

Years before his death in 1910, people worried about what it would mean.

"I dread Tolstoy's death", Chekhov wrote in a letter in 1900 – partly, he explained, because he loved the man, partly because he admired his beliefs (without sharing them) and partly because Tolstoy's immense authority seemed to justify "all the hopes and aspirations invested in literature".

While Tolstoy lived, Chekhov said, "crude, embittered vainglory" was kept in the outer darkness; "without him the literary world would be a flock without a shepherd, or a hopeless mess."

The symbolist poet Aleksandr Blok, writing in 1908, went further: "everything is still straightforward and not fearfully relativistic so long as Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy is alive …

The morning is still dewy, fresh, unfrightening, the vampires are drowsing, and thank God, Tolstoy walks …

And if the sun sinks, Tolstoy dies, the last genius departs – what then?"

For these two writers, and for many other men and women in Russia and around the world, Tolstoy was something more than a literary figure, and something more, too, than a sage and/or crank – his main occupation after his spiritual crisis in the early 1880s.

"If the world could write by itself", Isaac Babel said, "it would write like Tolstoy"; and though on one level this was romantic hyperbole (Tolstoy, as Babel knew, was exhibit A in the great critic Viktor Shklovsky's work on literature as technique), you can still see, while under the spell of War and Peace or Anna Karenina, what Babel meant.

Tolstoy had a complicated relationship with God: the pair of them famously reminded Maxim Gorky of "two bears in one den", a den not big enough for both.

But if, at around 1900, you wished to feel that, somewhere, a tremendously bearded character was underwriting the world's solidity and comprehensibility, the novelist might not have been your second choice.

Tolstoy's ability to deal, late in life, with the likes of God and the tsar on equal terms came from his acknowledged creative mastery.

Yet it also owed something to his aristocratic background, a background he shared with all the major Russian writers from the first half of the 19th century except Dostoevsky, and which Rosamund Bartlett puts a lot of weight on in Tolstoy: A Russian Life.

Family histories and childhoods are usually the dullest parts of biographies; Tolstoy's, in Bartlett's book, aren't, partly because the relative scarcity of evidence makes it easier for her to pick out telling details, but mostly because they help to put her subject's impregnable self-assurance in perspective.

It's one thing to know that the landed gentry owned most of Russia's population until 1861, another to know that Tolstoy's grandmother owned a blind man who served as a human audio book, or that Tolstoy's father, aged 16, was given a peasant girl "for his 'health'".

Born in 1828, Tolstoy was brought up in a moderately enlightened noble household, which meant in this context that their serfs were rarely flogged.

Yasnaya Polyana, the main family estate, with wooden stands in the park for musicians to play Haydn from, and a coachman who "smelled pleasantly of manure", was soon fixed in his mind as the centre of the universe.

When the future writer was five or so, his eldest brother, Nikolay, announced that the secret of human happiness had been written on a little green stick and buried in their woods; in old age Tolstoy arranged to be buried at the indicated spot.

But in spite of the piety of some of their guardians (Tolstoy's mother died when he was one, his father when he was eight), the male children were essentially raised as hard-riding landowners.

Drinking, gambling and chasing peasant girls were Tolstoy's main activities as a very young man, and though he was ashamed of his rakish youth later, some of these habits were difficult to break.

His career as a fiction writer, his early reformist efforts, and, from 1862, his stormy marriage to Sonya Bers: all these are bigger problems for a biographer.

There's a lot of political and intellectual background to fill in and personal material to process – the Tolstoys were obsessive diarists – before you even get to the published works.

Bartlett's solution, as her subtitle indicates, is to treat him as an actor in Russian history rather than, say, an artist or a thinker.

As he'd have wished, his philanthropic projects get as much space as the fiction he's remembered for, fiction that isn't discussed in any depth.

Naturally, there's much interesting information: I hadn't known, for example, that Tolstoy not only fell out with Turgenev (as did Dostoevsky, whom Tolstoy never met) but also challenged him to a duel.

But the dutiful potted histories and near-total lack of critical discussion sometimes make it hard to remember why you're interested.

After Tolstoy's spiritual crisis – which caused him to give up meat, hunting and smoking, give away his copyrights, denounce his earlier writings as immoral and preach a pacifist, anarchist, highly personal Christianity – the biographer's job doesn't get any easier.

Yasnaya Polyana was soon filled with disciples who wrote down everything Tolstoy said and did.

The chief of these, Vladimir Chertkov, was hated by Sonya, and the adult children began to take sides in a struggle between Tolstoys and Tolstoyans.

Meanwhile, translations of Tolstoy's books made him a global celebrity.

Heroically pounding the enormous paper trail, Bartlett patiently unpicks her subject's quarrels with church and state, suggesting that his grand connections protected him as much as his moral authority.

Exhaustion, however, manifestly sets in, and after disposing of Tolstoy's flight from wife and home and his death at Astapovo station in under a page, she seems happier writing a chapter-length epilogue on the Soviet handling of his legacy.

Better access to the Soviet end of the story is this biography's main advantage over AN Wilson's Tolstoy, published in 1988, which it's billed as superseding.

But if you're after something more portable than Henri Troyat's exhaustive, elegantly written 1960s life, Wilson's book still stands up pretty well.

Although she's less eccentrically opinionated than Wilson, Bartlett is less engaged with Tolstoy's work and writes with considerably less flair; half translated-sounding idioms ("a matter of life importance") and cliches ("the flame-haired femme fatale") litter her text.

Wilson was openly contemptuous of Tolstoy's moralising, which had, to be sure, a dark, life-despising side.

Bartlett aims for even-handedness but ends up scolding her subject anyway, grumbling in asides about his humourlessness, vanity and "self-righteous hypocrisy", and even getting impatient with him for writing "very long" letters about the meaning of life, which is surely a case of telling off Lassie for barking.

It's hardly fair to compare her book with Joseph Frank's 50-years-in-the-making life of Dostoevsky, but in terms of English language biographies, at least, Tolstoy's great rival currently has the upper hand.

Rosamund Bartlett is a writer, scholar, translator and lecturer specializing in Russian literature.
 Bartlett graduated from Durham University with a first-class degree in Russian. She went on to complete a doctorate at Oxford.
 Rosamund Bartlett is the author of "Tolstoy: A Russian Life" (2010) and has translated Leo Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina" (2014).


Following a report by the Lunacy Commission into overcrowding at Knowle Hospital in the south of the county, a new site was required to house the expanding population.

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Park Prewett Hospital was one of a number of large psychiatric hospitals inspired by the Victorians and embodying many of their values.

The institutions were not unlike the large country houses of the time, being situated in large grounds, often with a farm attached, and being a good local employer.

The fact that the site of Park Prewett included a farm was no accident, as many inmates of the asylum would be expected to work there, fresh air and hard work being a remarkably good therapy.

Although not opened until 1921, the 'second county asylum'was first proposed in 1898.

This came about following concern that Knowle Hospital in Fareham had reached the limits for its expansion, and that a new location in the north of the county would be more suitable.

The committee of visitors of the Hampshire County Council asylum, chaired by Mr. W.H. Deane had narrowed it down to two sites in the vicinity of Basingstoke, Winklebury Farm and Park Prewett Farm.

At this time, the London architect George T. Hine, who had already designed a number of asylums, was called in for advice.

Although both sites were favourable, Park Prewett was chosen, although the provision of a line of trees to serve as a windbreak was recommended.

A suggestion for which we may be thankful, even today.

The Council bought Park Prewett Farm of 300 acres, part of the Vyne estate, for £30 an acre.

In November 1899 Mr. Hine's firm, Hine and Pegg was appointed as the architect.

Although held in abeyance for some years while demand had dropped, the building was firmly back on the agenda by 1908, and preparations for building began in 1910.

It was announced in the Hants and Berks Gazette of 16 August 1913 that the tender for construction from Thomas Rowbotham had come in at £258,777.

The main building was to consist of 15 wards housing 804 patients and 100 in admissions.

In addition there were to be 10 villas for various types of patient and a private wing for 100 patients.

In all, accommodation for 1300 patients, 167 nurses and attendants.

On 11th July 1913, the Joint Asylum Committee had been very pleased with progress on the foundations and the bridge over the railway line being built to service the hospital was complete.

Incidentally, this LSWR branch line served both in the construction of the site, and to bring coal and other supplies twice weekly up until its closure in September 1950.

The line was not suitable for passenger traffic owing to its steep gradient (up to 1 in 53) and tight turns.

The gradient was such that the loco had to be at the rear to prevent runaways should a coupling break.

When tested for passenger use at the start of the second world war during the only confirmed run, the coach buffers were fully compressed, and one of the coaches got stuck in the bank of the cutting on its return journey.

By the summer of 1914 a number of one storey buildings were ready for roofing.

Even the water tower had reached a height of 50ft.

Of course 1914 was not a good time to be building, and labour soon dried up.

This was somewhat relieved by the army requisitioning the hospital in September 1915 and deploying some of their own men.

Park Prewett thus opened in 1917 as a military hospital - Number Four Canadian General Hospital.

This designation came from the Canadian Army Medical Corps unit, newly returned from Salonica as part of support for the Gallipoli campaign.

The hospital remained in military hands for two years, and then the long process of conversion back to the original purpose could commence.

Finally, in August 1921, the hospital opened, accepting its first patients in the week beginning the 29th.

Four wards opened to begin with, many of the others were still full of the furniture acquired from the military and although the hospital was more or less ready it still bore many traces of its wartime experience and took some time to settle down to peacetime use.

Mr. Hines's brief had been to produce 'a plain building', and it was indeed quite utilitarian but the proportions were generous and designed to please - even the façade had a secret - one of the windows above the front door is blind, only there for the sake of symmetry.

The design of the main hospital was symmetrical with two main entrances.

The front door opened into a long corridor with administrative offices on either side and doctor's quarters above.

The corridor led to a central hall from which the other entrance door opened.

The porter's lodge was here and the hall was used for all the general business of the hospital; The dispensary and the path lab opened form it.

Behind it was the main (assembly) hall and behind that the kitchen.

From the entrance hall corridors led to the wards which formed wings on either side of this central block; one side for men and one side for women.

The wards were built round an open rectangle; On their outward side each ward opened onto its own airing court surrounded by iron railings discretely covered by laurel hedges.

On the women's side of the hospital were the laundry and the sewing room and on the male side the shops of the tailor, shoemaker and upholsterer.

Behind the tradesman's shops was the engineer's yard, including plumbers, carpenters, painters, electricians and the tinsmith.

The main hall was very much the centre of hospital life, with its large high vaulted roof and well sprung floor, including a stage and an orchestra pit it was ideal for concerts dances and all kinds of entertainment.

During the 1920's and 30's there was very little therapeutic care, although patient's often recovered there were many for whom the hospital was their life.

There were few drugs prescribed, apart from paraldehyde, with its characteristic smell of stale whisky.

A breakthrough in psychiatric treatment came with the introduction of malarial treatment for neurosyphilitic patients.

Insulin shock treatment also came into use in the 1930s, and later on there was a major development with the discovery and introduction of therapeutic electro-convulsive therapy..

In the early days of Park Prewett, nurses worked a thirteen hour day often dealing with difficult patients.

At mealtimes patients ate at long trestle tables using enamel plates and mugs with the so called lunatic knives and forks designed to prevent their use as weapons or for self harm.

By 1936 the patient population was already over 1300 and apparently set to go on rising, it was decided to build four more wards.

Idsworth and Kingsclere on the female side and Vernham and Winchester on the male side.

in February 1937 the proposals were accepted to provide the 128 new beds.

Building work began in January 1938 and was scarcely complete when war broke out.

Park Prewett was an enclosure dating back to the time of Edward I.


At the same pop-up, actor James Michael Tyler, who portrayed Central Perk barista Gunther, performed the first verse of the song with band The Rembrandts, who originally recorded "I'll Be There for You".

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And "Smelly Cat" too! At Central Perk, no less!

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## Two decades after co-writing the show's legendary theme song, "I'll Be There For You," they were introduced to the crowd by none other than James Michael Tyler, who played Central Perk manager Gunther.

## They raised their glasses to the show...

## And seemingly, fell right back into it as they strummed the first chords of "I'll Be There For You."

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## It was only the first verse, but it was perfect.

## And to top it all off, the band and the coffee manager gave an encore performance of the show's theme song.

## And Tyler pointed to the crowd when they clapped, right on cue.

## And even pulled a Mike, and played some air keyboard!

## All while Friends reruns played in the background.

## Watch "I'll Be There For You (The Reprise ft. Gunther)" below!

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Sunday's AFC Championship game was either an exhilarating evening of football or a torturous spell of televised déjà vu, depending on where your loyalties lie.

The New England Patriots beat the Kansas City Chiefs, 37-31, and they did it thanks to an extremely impressive and predictable Tom Brady touchdown drive in overtime.

Patrick Mahomes was electric in leading the Chiefs on multiple comebacks, but he was denied a chance to touch the ball in the extra period as Brady's ruthless march sent Kansas City tumbling out of the postseason.

Try to act surprised, but the Patriots are going to their 2,000th Super Bowl in a row.

This time, they will play the Los Angeles Rams.

Most NFL games come down to a couple important plays, but this contest was on a particularly sharp knife's edge.

New England scored a go-ahead touchdown with 39 seconds left in regulation, but Mahomes and the Chiefs manufactured a miracle push of their own to tie the game at 31 points apiece.

Some viewers may have believed this to be a sign of a tidal change—the momentum swing that would transfer the powers of one dynasty to a new host.

You can't kill that which does not bleed, and the Patriots are a machine made from steel, carbon fiber, and cut-up hoodies.

Even though they were never going to lose this game, the Patriots gave us a few moments that made the naïve believe.

Were it not for the dark laws of the netherworld that power their success, any one of these five plays could have sent Kansas City to the Super Bowl in the Patriots' stead.

With one minute left in the fourth quarter and the Patriots down by 4 points, Tom Brady had his pass tipped and intercepted.

The officials flagged Chiefs defensive end Dee Ford for lining up in the neutral zone and penalized Kansas City 5 yards.

The drive continued, and the Patriots scored a go-ahead touchdown.

Mahomes would lead a last-gasp drive of his own to send the game into overtime, but we already know what happens there.

Chris Hogan lets this ball slip just slightly.

IT'S A CATCH 😱 pic.twitter.com/CaVaSSPN8E

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The ruling on the field stood after the Chiefs challenged the call on the field, and it remained yet another third-down conversion for Brady.

Thanks to the adhesive crook of Hogan's arm, the Patriots continued a late drive that gave them a 24-21 lead.

Would they have been able to recover had they punted the ball back to Mahomes and the Chiefs?

The Patriots special teams captain called "heads" during the coin toss to determine possession in overtime.

He got it right, New England got the ball, and they walked through the Chiefs' defense and into the Super Bowl.

Given that the teams combined to score 38 points in the fourth quarter (24 for Kansas City, 14 for New England), it was pretty likely that the winner would be whoever had the ball last.

Tony Romo predicts the Chiefs make this stop …

CBS's color commentator isn't just a lively presence in the booth—he's a football Svengali who can predict plays before they happen.

Romo was so impressive on Sunday that it went beyond clairvoyance.

There was but one explanation for his gift: He wasn't predicting anything, he was making the plays happen with his mind.

This Sony Michel run on fourth down is proof, and it's a shame for Kansas City that Romo didn't conjure up something for the defense.

Usually means a motion and a run out wide to the right."

- Tony Romo before Patriots' playBrady motions; Sony Michel runs ball to right, scores touchdown.

… or Romo predicts a third-down incompletion here.

Romo knows exactly what's going to happen every time 🔊 pic.twitter.com/8A8Sv5uZUM

A dart to Julian Edelman, just as Romo foretold.

There were some other moments—a phantom roughing the passer call here, a botched Chiefs coverage there—but none of them actually mattered.

Tom Brady and Bill Belichick haven't missed out on a Super Bowl since Moses threw for 5 touchdowns against them at Mount Sinai Arena.

They'll play the Rams in Super LIII on Feb. 3.

But you didn't need Tony Romo to tell you that.

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Conference championships.:AFC: New England Patriots 37, Kansas City Chiefs 31 (OT).

Following an incompletion, Mahomes threw a short pass to Williams, who raced down the left sideline for a 23-yard touchdown completion, giving Kansas City their first lead at 21–17, with 7:45 left in regulation. New England then drove 75 yards in 10 plays to retake the lead, the longest a 14-yard run by Burkhead. Michel's 10-yard touchdown run made the score 24–21. The Patriots' touchdown drive was kept alive by a controversial roughing the passer call against Chiefs defensive lineman Chris Jones. Instead of third-and-long, the Patriots got 15 yards and a first down. Following the Patriots' touchdown, Kansas City quickly took advantage of a lost fumble that was eliminated due to a holding penalty on Patriots defensive back J. C. Jackson, and a later pass interference penalty on Jackson that gained them 23 yards. Mahomes then threw a 38-yard completion to Watkins on the 2-yard line, and Williams ran the ball in for a touchdown on the next play; Kansas City led 28–24 with just over two minutes left in regulation.
 Cordarrelle Patterson returned the ensuing kickoff 38 yards to the 35-yard line. Then Brady threw passes to Edelman and Chris Hogan for gains of 20 and 11 yards; Hogan's one-handed catch was upheld on review.


He won the general election against the Republican candidate, Mike McFadden, with 53.2% of the vote.

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# The Most Detailed MapsYou'll See From theMidterm Elections

By Amanda Cox, Mike Bostock, Derek Watkins, and Shan CarterNov. 5, 2014 09:24 AMSparsely populatedDensely populatedMostly DemocraticAbout evenMostly Republican

Dem. Mark Warner49.1%Rep. Ed Gillespie48.5% Fullscreen

Rep. Thom Tillis49.0%Dem. Kay Hagan47.3% Fullscreen

Rep. David A. Perdue53.0%Dem. Michelle Nunn45.1% Fullscreen

Rep. Tom Cotton56.5%Dem. Mark Pryor39.5% Fullscreen

Dem. Mary Landrieu42.1%Rep. Bill Cassidy41.0% Fullscreen

Dem. Al Franken53.2%Rep. Mike McFadden42.9% Fullscreen

Rep. Joni Ernst52.2%Dem. Bruce Braley43.7%

Fullscreen* Why are we so confident these are the most detailed maps you'll ever see from the 2014 Senate elections?

Precincts are the smallest level of geography for publicly-reported election results.

There were more than 175,000 precincts in the United States in 2012, fifty times the number of counties.

The maps here show precinct-level results, where available, from some of the closest Senate races.

Maps exclude early votes in counties that do not report them by precinct.

Some precinct boundaries are approximate.

By Amanda Cox, Mike Bostock, Derek Watkins, and Shan CarterAdditional reporting and research by Jeremy B. Merrill, Ken Schwencke, Alex Rosenthal, Nilkanth Patel, Haeyoun Park

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Iowa data comes from the Iowa Secretary of State.

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Minnesota data comes from the Minnesota Secretary of State.

Streets data by OpenStreetMap contributors.

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Franken was reelected to a second term in 2014. He won the August 12 primary election, in which he was challenged by Sandra Henningsgard, with 94.5% of the vote.


In 2012 Boerum hill was ranked #6 in NYC and #1 outside Manhattan in highest neighborhood median home prices among all NYC neighborhoods.

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# The 10 Most Expensive Neighborhoods In New York City

Two Brooklyn neighborhoods have made it onto a list of the 10 most expensive neighborhoods in New York City released by real estate listing website PropertyShark.com.

Dumbo, which ranked fourth in median home sale prices last year, had the ninth-highest median sale price in 2012, at $869,259.

And Boerum Hill, where prices have risen significantly in the past several years, ranked sixth on this year's list, with a median sale price of $950,000.

Manhattan neighborhoods remained firmly at the top of the list: the median sale price in two neighborhoods, SoHo and TriBeCa, topped $2 million.

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The north end of Smith Street was the center of New York City's Mohawk community, who came mostly from "Akwesasne" and "Kahnawake", Mohawk reserves in Quebec, Canada. (Akwesasne extends across national boundaries into New York state.) Many of the Mohawk men were ironworkers, while their wives worked at a variety of jobs and created the community for their families. For 50 years, the Mohawk families called their neighborhood "Little Caughnawaga," after the homeland of Kahnawake. Many families would travel back to Kahnawake in the summer.
 The Boerum Hill Historic District was first recognized and designated by the New York City Landmarks commission on November 20, 1973, after tireless efforts over many years by the Boerum Hill Association.
 The Boerum Hill Historic District was then listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. Many of its buildings are land marked.


He trains with hometown club Wakayama Rikkyo in the Wakayama Prefecture.

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### Nakamura Sets Steeplechase Collegiate NR, Kiryu Takes First National Title - National Track and Field Championships Day Three Results

Following up on Koji Murofushi's epoch-marking 20th-straight men's hammer national title yesterday, Yuzo Kanemaru (Team Otsuka Seiyaku) led a phalanx of other long-lasting champions in adding to their legacies on the final rainy day of competition at the 2014 Japanese National Track and Field Championships in Fukushima.

Kanemaru had a 10th-straight men's 400 m national title on the line, and with no genuine competition he cruised in for the win in 45.69, only the second Japanese track athlete in history to get the ten-peat.

Women's 400 mH national record holder Satomi Kubokura (Niigata Albirex RC) ran 56.39 for an eighth-straight national title, while 100 m national record holder Chisato Fukushima (Hokkaido Hi-Tec AC) picked up the sixth national title of career in 11.69 (-0.3), a fifth-straight win and fourth-straight 100 m/200 m double title.

Following Fukushima and 10000 m champion Yuki Sato (Team Nissin Shokuhin) yesterday, men's 400 mH champion Takayuki Kishimoto (Team Fujitsu) won a fourth-straight title in 49.49.

While not quite on the same level, 41-year-old women's 3000 m steeplechase national record holder Minori Hayakari (Kyoto Koka AC) added to her own legacy by finishing 7th, making for 20 straight years of finishing in the top eight.

What these streaks of domination say about the overall development of their disciplines is another issue, but the streaks added to the atmosphere of this year's National Championships.

Along with Hayakari's accomplishment, the women's steeple proved to be the race of the day.

Hayakari went out front from the gun but was soon reeled in by #1-ranked Misaki Sango (Suzuki Hamamatsu AC) and Misato Horie (Team Noritz).

Horie soon faded but was replaced by relative unknown Mayuko Nakamura (Tsukuba Univ.), with Chikako Mori (Daito Bunka Univ.), who set the collegiate national record of 9:58.98 two weeks ago at the Kanto Regionals meet, trying to make up the ground.

Sango pushed on at PB pace with Nakamura locked close behind her, but with 200 m to go when she made her move Nakamura could not respond.

Sango's winning time of 9:49.85 was the second-fastest in Japanese history behind Hayakari's 9:33.93 NR, while Nakamura came in at all-time #3 in 9:53.87, breaking Mori's two-week-old record.

Horie was just off her best in 3rd in 10:05.80, while Mori was caught at the line by another collegiate runner, Kanako Kitamoto (Meijo Univ.) and knocked down to 5th.

Like Nakamura providing some contrast to the dynasties, some new talent emerged in a few events to show that things are still moving forward.

In the men's 110 mH, Genta Masuno (Kokusai Budo Univ.) was just off the meet record as he ran a PB 13.58 (+0.4) for the win over last year's national champion Wataru Yazawa (Descente TC) who tied his own best of 13.59.

In the men's long jump, Kota Minemura PBd in 7.94 m (+0.6) to take his first national title, part of a strong Tsukuba University team that included Nakamura in the women's 3000 mSC and men's high jump champion Takashi Eto.

Nihon University was also strong, taking both the women's and men's 800 m thanks to Fumika Omori and men's national record holder Sho Kawamoto.

In the men's javelin, the ascendant Ryohei Arai (Suzuki Hamamatsu AC) threw 81.97 m to take down the event's last two national champions Yukifumi Murakami (Suzuki Hamamatsu AC) and Genki Dean (Mizuno), with independent Yuya Koriki (Tottori T&F Assoc.) also bettering the two past champs in 76.18.

The women's and men's 5000 m both played out similarly, the Japanese field mostly ignoring the Kenyan pacers and leaving it for a last kick to determine the winner.

In the women's race Kenyan pacers Rosemary Wanjiru (Team Starts) and Grace Kimanzi (Team Starts) had a lead of around 40 m after just one lap, but while Wanjiru pushed on to a PB 15:19.00, Kimanzi faded and was nearly run down by 2013 Japanese national champion Misaki Onishi (Team Sekisui Kagaku), who took off from the pack with 500 m to go and scored a second-straight national title in 15:32.74, just 0.34 seconds behind Kimanzi.

Relative unknowns Miho Shimizu (Team Hokuren) and Chiaki Morikawa (Team Starts) took 2nd and 3rd, both just under 15:40.

10000 m winner Kasumi Nishihara (Team Yamada Denki) attempted to double but quickly lost touch with the leading Japanese runners, finishing well outside the top ten.

Better luck in the men's 5000 m for yesterday's 10000 m winner Yuki Sato (Team Nissin Shokuhin).

The Japanese field initially tried to go with slow-starting Kenyan pacer James Mwangi (Team NTN), but once Mwangi got into gear the Japanese men let him go chase his 13:22.00 finishing time and focused on each other.

Masato Kikuchi (Team Konica Minolta) initially did the work with Sato right behind in the position he likes best, tailed by Keisuke Nakatani (Komazawa University) and Hiromitsu Kakuage (Team Konica Minolta).

Kikuchi and Sato were soon alone, but as they backed off and settled into a comfortable cruising pace 13:28 collegiate Genki Yagisawa (Meiji Univ.) and 2014 Kanto Region 10000 m champion Kota Murayama (Josai Univ.) came up in a hurry.

It could have been a very entertaining race if the two university men had gone right by the two pros, but instead they tucked in, relying on the strength of their last kicks against proven kickers Kikuchi and Sato.

Yagisawa abruptly stalled, and while Murayama stayed behind even as the pros slowed, up came the chase pack.

With one lap to go Murayama made his move, Sato predictably running right behind him.

300 m to go and Sato kicked by, but Murayama hung on until the home straight before Sato shook free to pick up his first 5000 m national title and first double in 13:40.99.

Murayama was next in 13:43.16, Kikuchi just back in 13:44.43.

A sudden downpour spelled the end for hopes of fast times in the night's main event, the men's 100 m, where all-time Japanese #2 Yoshihide Kiryu (Toyo Univ.), 18, faced London Olympian Ryota Yamagata (Keio Univ.), Beijing Olympics bronze medalist Naoki Tsukahara (Team Fujitsu), past national champion Masashi Eriguchi (Team Osaka Gas), 200 m national champion Shota Hara (Jobu Univ.) and more.

Defending champion Yamagata was quick at the gun, but the same slow start that hampered Kiryu in the semi-final was a problem again and he spent the middle of the race catching up before inevitably pulling ahead to take his first national title in 10.22 (+0.6).

Yamagata was next in 10.27, with Yu Onabuta (Chuo Univ.) a surprise 3rd in 10.32.

Tsukahara was the first pro athlete, 5th in 10.35.

Kiryu's next target is the upcoming World Junior Championships where he hopes to win his first gold medal in international competition.

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1. Rosemary Monica Wanjiru (Kenya/Team Starts) - 15:19.00 - PB

2. Grace Kimanzi (Kenya/Team Starts) - 15:32.40

3. Misaki Onishi (Team Sekisui Kagaku) - 15:32.74

4. Miho Shimizu (Team Hokuren) - 15:39.63

5. Chiaki Morikawa (Team Starts) - 15:39.77

6. Michi Numata (Team Toyota Jidoshokki) - 15:40.35

7. Yuika Mori (Team Yamada Denki) - 15:40.37

8. Riko Matsuzaki (Team Sekisui Kagaku) - 15:41.12

9. Yuka Miyazaki (Team Kyudenko) - 15:42.13

10. Eri Makikawa (Suzuki Hamamatsu AC) - 15:43.43

1. James Mwangi (Kenya/Team NTN) - 13:22.00

2. Yuki Sato (Team Nissin Shokuhin) - 13:40.99

3. Kota Murayama (Josai Univ.) - 13:43.16

4. Masato Kikuchi (Team Konica Minolta) - 13:44.43

5. Aritaka Kajiwara (Team Press Kogyo) - 13:45.88

7. Ryo Kiname (Team Mitsubishi Juko Nagasaki) - 13:47.05

9. Muryo Takase (Team Nissin Shokuhin) - 13:48.83

10. Kazuya Namera (Team Subaru) - 13:50.36

3. Yukina Tanimoto (Tsukuba Univ.) - 2:06.87

2. Shoei Tanaka (Morioka City Hall) - 1:49.39

3. Shohei Oka (Wakayama T&F Assoc.) - 1:49.53

1. Yuzo Kanemaru (Team Otsuka Seiyaku) - 45.69

3. Naoki Kobayashi (Tokai Univ.) - 46.38

1. Chisato Fukushima (Hokkaido Hi-Tec AC) - 11.69

3. Anna Fujimori (Aoyama Gakuin Univ.) - 11.84

5. Naoki Tsukahara (Team Fujitsu) - 10.35

1. Misaki Sango (Suzuki Hamamatsu AC) - 9:49.85 - PB

2. Mayuko Nakamura (Tsukuba Univ.) - 9:53.87 - NUR, PB

3. Misato Horie (Team Noritz) - 10:05.80

4. Kanako Kitamoto (Meijo Univ.) - 10:12.40 - PB

5. Chikako Mori (Daito Bunka Univ.) - 10:12.53

1. Takayuki Kishimoto (Team Fujitsu) - 49.49

2. Akihiko Nakamura (Suzuki Hamamatsu AC) - 49.95

3. Yuta Konishi (Team Sumitomo Denko) - 49.97

1. Satomi Kubokura (Niigata Albirex RC) - 56.39

3. Sayaka Aoki (Team Toho Ginko) - 58.10

1. Genta Masuno (Kokusai Budo Univ.) - 13.58 - PB

2. Wataru Yazawa (Descente TC) - 13.59 - PB

2. Hiromi Takahari (Hitachi ICT) - 2.20 m

3. Naoto Tobe (Chiba T&F Assoc.) - 2.20 m

1. Kota Minemura (Tsukuba Univ.) - 7.94 m (+0.6) - PB

3. Tomoya Takamasa (Juntendo Univ.) - 7.73 m (+0.7)

2. Hitomi Katsuyama (Tsukuba Univ.) - 59.56 m - PB

3. Suzuka Asada (Mukogawa Joshi Univ.) - 58.71 m - PB

2. Sotaro Yamada (Nishinomiya T&F Assoc.) - 17.64 m

3. Ikuhiro Miyauchi (Nihon Univ.) - 17.63 m

1. Ryohei Arai (Suzuki Hamamatsu AC) - 81.97 m

2. Yuya Koriki (Tottori T&F Assoc.) - 76.18 m

### One Month Until the Japanese Olympic Marathon Trials

It's one month to go until what's bound to be the best marathon of 2019, Japan's 2020 Tokyo Olympics marathon trials, the Sept. 15 Marathon Grand Championship Race.

Up to now Japan has typically picked its Olympic and World Championships marathon teams based on performances in a series of specific races, primarily the Fukuoka International Marathon, Tokyo Marathon and Lake Biwa Marathon for men, and the Saitama International Marathon, Osaka International Women's Marathon and Nagoya Women's Marathon for women.

This time around they're going with a U.S.-style one-shot trials race, the MGC Race.

People had a nearly two-year window from August, 2017 to April this year to hit tough standards to qualify.

Only 34 men and 15 women made it, and after withdrawals for the Doha World Championships the MGC Race's final entry list is just 31 men and 12 women.

Swedish Athletics Federation official Lorenzo Nesicalled it "the most difficult marathon race ever to quali

### MGC Race Olympic Marathon Trials Qualifier - Naoki Okamoto

Naoki Okamotoage: 35sponsor: Chugoku Denryokugraduated from: Tottori Chuo Ikuei H.S., Meiji Universitybest time inside MGC window:

1st, 2018 Hokkaido Marathon, 2:11:29 – PB

DNF, 2018 Boston Marathonother major results:

4th, 2019 Shibetsu Half Marathon, 1:03:53

2nd, 2019 New Year Ekiden Fourth Stage (22.4 km), 1:05:13

1st, 2018 Chugoku Corporate Ekiden Sixth Stage (19.0 km), 56:25

We're picking Okamoto as our official dark horse of the men's race.

The second-oldest man in a field, Okamoto is a journeyman corporate leaguer who never broke 2:12 and whose PBs all came a decade ago.

But, nearing the end of his career, over the last two years he has really come on…

### Running the 2020 Tokyo Olympics Marathon Course Part Three - Men's Marathon and Overall Summary

Today marks one year until the men's marathon at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

For the third time in the last week, once last Friday with one year to go to the Olympic women's marathon, once on Monday with a likely competitor in the men's marathon, and again today, I ran most of the Olympic marathon course taking temperature and humidity readings every half an hour to get a handle on what kind of conditions athletes in each race can expect to be facing.

Between the three runs I covered about 80 km, and including the two times I did it last summer two years out from the women's marathon and men's marathon about 135 km, on the Olympic course.

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Kansai Jitsugyodan Track and Field Championships

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National Junior High School Championships

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### 2019 Japanese Distance Rankings - updated 7/22/19

Women's and men's 5000 m, 10000 m, half marathon, marathon and overall rankings.

Aug. 21-24: National Junior High School Track and Field Championships, Osaka

Aug. 24: Hiroshima Cross-Country Meet, Hiroshima

Sept. 6: Meeting Internacional de Atletismo, Spain - Nozomi Tanaka

Sept. 8: Taiyuan Marathon, China - Kenichi Jiromaru, Hisae Yoshimatsu

Sept. 8: Muenster Marathon, Germany - Yumiko Kinoshita, Yoshiko Sakamoto

Sept. 12-15: National University Track and Field Championships, Gifu

Sept. 14: Shizuoka Long Distance Time Trials, Shizuoka

Sept. 15: MGC Race 2020 Ollympic Marathon Trials, Tokyo

Sept. 15: Sydney Marathon, Australia - Haruka Yamaguchi

Sept. 20-22: National Corporate Track and Field Championships,, Osaka

Sept. 21-22: Nittai Univ. Time Trials, Kanagawa

Sept. 27: Doha World Championships - Women's Marathon, Qatar

Sept. 28: Doha World Championships - Women's 10000 m, Qatar

Sept. 30: Doha World Championships - Women's 3000 mSC, Men's 5000 m, Qatar

Oct. 4: Doha World Championships - Men's 3000 m SC, Qatar

Oct. 4-8: National Sports Festival, Ibaraki

Oct. 5: Doha World Championships - Women's 1500 m, Women's 5000 m, Men's Marathon, Qatar

Oct. 5-6: Nittai Univ. Time Trials, Kanagawa

Oct. 6: Doha World Championships - Men's 1500 m, Men's 10000 m, Qatar

Oct. 6: Kurayoshi Women's Ekiden, Tottori

Oct. 12: Shizuoka Long Distance Time Trials, Shizuoka

Oct. 19: Denka Athletics Challenge Cup, Niigata

Oct. 20: National Corporate Women's Ekiden Quaifier, Hyogo

Oct. 20: Takashimadaira 20 km Road Race, Tokyo

Oct. 26: Hakone Ekiden Yosenkai Qualifier Half Marathon, Tokyo

Shohei Oka (born 28 May 1990) is a Japanese middle-distance runner who specializes in the 800 meters. He competed for Japan at the 2014 DécaNation. Oka placed third overall in the men's 800 meters at the 2012 Japan Championships in Athletics.


Stacy Lambe of BuzzFeed described the single as "unexpectedly more gothic" than fellow drag queen Sharon Needles' music and "club-friendly", but criticized the lyrics as a "hodgepodge of boasts".

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Following in the footsteps of RuPaul, the stars of Drag Race are making a go at individual music careers.

And each with their own level of success.

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The always funny and always controversial Manila gives us her signature style in the video for "Hot Couture."

The beat is addictive even though the vocals and lyrics don't quite live up to its potential.

Here Shangela gives us full on Shanglea, which is all the reason you love and hate her.

But it's her personality that draws you in.

She probably channels Ru's style the best even if she's still rough around the edges.

The Miss Congeniality of Drag Race does here what she does best: humor.

Her funny, snarky lyrics play well with the gay club synths and make up for her lack of vocal range.

But hey, we're not here for the Xtina notes are we?

The season 4 winner released her first single in October.

It's a nice mix of gothrock, with an homage to The Smashing Pumpkins and the visuals of Marilyn Manson.

The song is unexpectedly sophisticated and dark without being over the top.

Her debut album is expected in January of 2013.

Raja's latest single, "Sublime," didn't do much to further her music career.

But her debut video is a mix of amazing visuals with a fun, hardcore dance beat.

It's unexpectedly more gothic than Sharon while still be club-friendly.

Sure the lyrics are just a hodgepodge of boasts but we can let is slide.

Willam comes with the most experience and has had the most success.

She's been in the music scene longer than most of the girls - fronting a band, riding high with parodies and working the club scene.

While "Trouble" may not be her best track --her duet with Drake Jensen is surprisingly good-- it's the overall package (and not the one she's tucking) that brings it together.

While writing for Yahoo! Music, Parker included the single on her list of the seven "actually great singles" by "RuPaul's Drag Race" contestants. She described it as one of eight "listenable" singles released by the show's participants. FemaleFirst's Daniel Falconer agreed with Parker, placing the song on his list of the best music to come out of the reality television show.
 Several media commentators were divided on the single's composition. In his review of Raja's entire music catalog, Adem Ali observed that his sound was "an acquired taste". Bradley Stern of "MuuMuse" wrote that the song was too "erratic for [his] taste", but was more positive to the remix done by Prince Vince. Stern described the remix as "nothing but pure sweat and sex (for dinner!)". The "Dallas Voice"'s Rich Lopez wrote that the song lacked a strong or memorable hook, but appreciated Raja's decision to experiment with music. He compared it to the early work of Nine Inch Nails and Jeffree Star.


She competed in the women's coxed four event at the 1976 Summer Olympics.

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Full name: Catherine Ann Menges (-Zagunis)

Born: September 9, 1952 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Affiliations: Vesper Boat Club, Philadelphia (USA)

Related Olympians: Wife of Robert Zagunis; Mother of Mariel Zagunis.

Prior to the 1976 Olympics Catherine Menges competed at the 1974 and 1975 World Championships, rowing in an eight in 1974 and the coxed four in 1975.

She attended Connecticut College, graduating in 1974, where she competed in both rowing and swimming.

Menges was later inducted into the Connecticut College Hall of Fame.

She rowed for Vesper Boat Club in 1976, while she was attending nursing school at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating with a BSN degree in 1977.

Menges married [Robert Zagunis], who rowed men's coxed fours at the 1976 Olympics.

Their daughter, [Mariel Zagunis], became a fencer, competing at the 2004, 2008, and 2012 Olympics, winning two golds and one silver medal.

Catherine Menges (born September 9, 1952) is an American rower.