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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Casey Barth kicked a 23-yard field goal in the second overtime to send North Carolina past Tennessee 30-27 in a Music City Bowl that will be remembered much more for the crazy finish of regulation that even gave the Tar Heels a chance to keep playing Thursday night.
Barth kicked a 39-yard field goal after officials reviewed what had been the final play of the game and decided to penalize the Tar Heels (8-5) for having "more than 11 men" on the field. The Big Ten officiating crew also announced T.J. Yates had spiked the ball with 1 second left.
That allowed Barth to run out the field goal that tied it at 20.
Tennessee (6-7) was stunned at the sudden switch that cost the Vols an apparent bowl victory to cap Derek Dooley's first season. Tyler Bray threw a 25-yard TD in the first overtime, but Quan Sturdivant picked him off to end the Vols' last chance in the second OT.
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Sen Lundberg cites discredited myth in civil unions floor debate
Daniel Gonzales
March 23rd, 2011
Today the Colorado Senate held a floor debate on SB 172, civil unions. The main opposition came from Senator Kevin Lundberg who we have video of thanks to The Colorado Channel.
We've all heard this myth, recognition of gay relationships in Europe (France & Scandinavia) has caused a breakdown in marriage and "the family unit."
Here's a video excerpt of Sen Lundberg saying it:
Of course no statistics were cited because there's no evidence to support it. In fact this very blog has previously done posts addressing the Scandinavian myth here and here, and Slate.com has a fabulous piece here.
The real data tells a very different story, in most Scandinavian countries marriage has been in decline for up to half a century, long before we pesky gays started publicly demanding equality.
In more recent times those countries have started offering various forms of gay relationship recognition and things have changed in a dramatic way, quoting Slate:
Danish heterosexual marriage rates are now the highest they've been since the early 1970's. And the most recent marriage rates in Sweden, Norway, and Iceland are all higher than the rates for the years before the partner laws were passed. Furthermore, in the 1990s, divorce rates in Scandinavia remained basically unchanged.
Now let's take a look at births outside of marriage in Norway (source). The date civil unions were enacted is shown with a red triangle:
How about marriage and divorce rates in the Netherlands? (source) Sorry there's no red triangle in this one but registered partnerships were enacted in 1998 and full marriage in 2001:
If Senator Lundberg has other data to prove his claim hopefully he'll present it when the civil unions bill goes for a 3rd reading on the Senate floor tomorrow.
Sen Lundberg (inadvertently?) demonstrates how his family enjoys heterosexual privilege
Daniel Gonzales
March 23rd, 2011
Today the Colorado Senate held a floor debate on SB 172, civil unions. The main opposition came from Senator Kevin Lundberg who we have video of thanks to The Colorado Channel.
One of the main ideas of heterosexual privilege is never having your family questioned.
Follow the logic if you can (paraphrased)
- I, Kevin Lundberg, had my wife hospitalized last week and nobody questioned our family, for I am just a simple man in a position of power… and heterosexual… and white…
- If there are gays in my district or elsewhere in the state, I haven't heard any stories of them having trouble in medical situations. Surely nobody would ever question the validity of a non-traditional family! And certainly not in the rural areas I represent.
- By extension there is no problem with gays making medical decisions and this bill is unnecessary.
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The Internet Goes Nuclear
Why the anti-SOPA blackouts are working—and why they should never happen again.
The frustration of the bill's backers is obvious in their spluttering responses to the online anti-SOPA campaign. Blackout-style tactics are a "gimmick," albeit a "dangerous" one, asserted senator-turned-lobbyist Chris Dodd, chairman of the Motion Picture Association of America. He cried that Internet businesses are "resorting to stunts that punish their users or turn them into corporate pawns."
What Dodd really means is that the tech companies didn't play by the established rules of the Washington game. Companies aren't supposed to broadcast their complaints and turn the public into corporate pawns. They're supposed to use lobbyists behind closed doors to turn legislators into corporate pawns. That's how it's always been done.
There's actually a good reason to do things the old-fashioned way. As delightful as it is to see Google and other powerful tech concerns turn Washington on its head, direct appeals to the public are a terribly inefficient way to influence federal policy. Bills like SOPA and its Senate counterpart, PIPA, are dizzyingly complex, and attempting to explain their ins and outs to the voting populace—let alone to make them care—is a massive undertaking. The reason that Wikipedia, Reddit, et al. have gone nuclear, and that Google is taking unprecedented steps, is because an emotional, smack-in-the-face appeal will always get attention even if it doesn't promote understanding.
Today's blackouts will succeed in steering public opinion. That doesn't mean, though, that we've seen the dawn of a new type of corporate lobbying. There's a reason companies don't just go on strike, Atlas Shrugged-style, every time they're concerned about a new piece of legislation. Even the most well-regarded businesses can temporarily withdraw their services in protest only so many times before people lose patience and start to look for a permanent alternative.
Besides, the only reason the tech industry had to go nuclear is that they didn't play the game well enough from the beginning. If tech lobbyists had been able to elbow their way to the table when SOPA and PIPA were being drafted, the laws would never have been so badly written. This guerilla anti-SOPA campaign surely wasn't Plan A—it was an option of last resort, taken because the well-connected entertainment industry had the tech industry boxed out in D.C.
Now that the geek lobby has awoken, that probably won't happen again. The big tech companies realized several years ago they could no longer afford to eschew the rough-and-tumble political game, and this experience will surely prompt them to ramp up their Washington lobbying operations more quickly. The next time a law arises that threatens their business, they won't have to black out their sites to get the world's attention.


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Clear your throats: NBC sings its way to the top
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) — Given how NBC's summer is going, the network might want to make sure that everyone it puts on the air in prime time has a good singing voice.
The nation's five most-watched television programs last week were all on NBC, and all were versions of "America's Got Talent" or "The Voice," the Nielsen Co. said Tuesday. That gave NBC the week's crown in the competition for top-rated network.
Meanwhile, Univision's telecast of the Copa Oro soccer tournament game between the United States and Mexico had nearly 8 million viewers, or more than anything on ABC or Fox last week. Nielsen was checking to see whether this was the first time a Spanish-language broadcast made the company's top 10 list.
NBC aired versions of "America's Got Talent" in prime time on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday — two hours each on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Judging by their ratings on other days, it was a wise choice: The new Thursday night series "Love Bites" was seen by a minuscule 2 million viewers. A new "Friday Night Lights" the next night had 2.8 million viewers.
HBO's season premiere of "True Blood" on Sunday had 5.4 million viewers, tying for the series high. Another million viewers watched when the show was rerun later that night, Nielsen said.
For the week, NBC averaged 6.2 million viewers in prime time (3.7 rating, 7 share). CBS had 5.9 million viewers (3.8, 7), ABC had 4.7 million (2.9, 5), Fox had 3.8 million (2.3, 4), ION Television had 1.1 million (0.7, 1) and the CW had 800,000 (0.5, 1).
Among the Spanish-language networks, Univision had a prime-time average of 4.1 million (2.0 rating, 4 share). Telemundo had 930,000 viewers (0.5, 1), TeleFutura had 540,000 (0.3, 1), Azteca had 190,000 and Estrella had 170,000 (both 0.1, 0).
NBC's "Nightly News" topped the evening newscasts with an average of 7.9 million viewers (5.2, 11). ABC's "World News" was second with 7.2 million (4.8, 10) and the "CBS Evening News" had 5.5 million viewers (3.7, 8).
A ratings point represents 1,147,000 households, or 1 percent of the nation's estimated 114.7 million TV homes. The share is the percentage of in-use televisions tuned to a given show.
For the week of June 20-26, the top 10 shows, their networks and viewerships: "America's Got Talent" (Wednesday, 9:16 p.m.), NBC, 13.5 million; "America's Got Talent" (Tuesday, 8 p.m.), NBC, 12.3 million; "The Voice," NBC, 12.05 million; "America's Got Talent" (Wednesday, 10:16 p.m.), NBC, 10.75 million; "The Voice Results Show," NBC, 10 million; "NCIS," CBS, 9.33 million; "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 8.84 million; "The Mentalist," CBS, 8.02 million; Copa Oro 2011 Soccer: U.S. vs Mexico, Univision, 7.98 million; "The Bachelorette," ABC, 7.76 million.
ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Co. CBS is owned by CBS Corp. CW is a joint venture of Warner Bros. Entertainment and CBS Corp. Fox and My Network TV are units of News Corp. NBC and Telemundo are owned by General Electric Co. ION Television is owned by ION Media Networks. TeleFutura is a division of Univision. Azteca America is a wholly owned subsidiary of TV Azteca S.A. de C.V.
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Is it normal to have extreme lower back pain in the third trimester???
I am 36 wks preggo and for the past few days I have have extreme lower back pain on either side of my spine. I have heard it could be the baby lying on my nerves but also read that pain can be something more serious like detached placenta etc. Has anyone experienced this and what can I do for relief??
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Sleeping on your side with a fluffy pillow between your knees actually does help this a little. I have Degenerative Disk Disease in my lower back, and the baby / placenta has pressed on my sciatic nerve in my back (actually, does pretty often LOL). It is a normal thing. Heating pads do work, but I would go back and forth between heating pads and ice pack - not too long with either. maybe 10 mins each.posted 06/08/2012 by Jentyree08
It's normal. I have it too. There's not much relief - I find mine gets even worse when I lie down for a while! I do wear a rebozo (check it out on google) to hold my pelvis together and this helps to reduce the back pain. Also, I get on all-fours under a very hot shower and that seems to help for a while. Good luck...posted 06/08/2012 by a BabyCenter Member
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Ahead of the June 10th date for the second-degree murder defense trial for George Zimmerman (pictured), a misstep by the former night watchman's legal team presented one of many new developments in the case. Attorney Mark O'Mara acknowledged that his team "misstated" the origin and nature of a video they planned to present as evidence against slain teen Trayvon Martin. O'Mara apologized via a brief statement on Sunday (June 2), but the Martin legal team alleges there was a fabrication.
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In a hearing last week, O'Mara stated that they obtained cellphone video of a pair of Martin's friends beating a homeless person in a bid to connect violent behavior to the teen's past. O'Mara was forced to recant the video, after it was discovered that the video taken from Martin's phone was that of two homeless men fighting over a bike.
The Martin family legal team took umbrage with O'Mara's actions, stating that the attorney fabricated evidence in a follow-up interview with the Huffington Post.
From The Huffington Post:
The video, to me, is one of the clearest examples of a pure fabrication," Jasmine Rand, managing attorney and head of the civil rights division of Parks and Crump's South Florida office, told The Huffington Post. "I have no idea where that information came from. It's inaccurate, and to spread that type of information on such an important case was a clear fabrication of the evidence. I think that the behavior of the defense, to me, would call into question their veracity as a whole. And if you fabricate evidence once, I don't trust that you wouldn't fabricate evidence twice.
As previously reported by NewsOne, "evidence" has been presented by O'Mara in a brash attempt to alter the image of Martin by linking him to guns, drug use, and a propensity for violence. O'Mara claims that Zimmerman shot and killed the 17-year-old, after Martin allegedly attacked him in February 2012 at a Florida suburban townhouse development.
Although Zimmerman appears by most accounts to have been the aggressor, steps have been taken to shape the murder of Martin as a classic case of self-defense.
Another wrinkle in the case manifested itself by way of the brother of brother Robert Zimmerman who shot down the findings of a state audio expert who analyzed a 911 called placed by a resident just before Martin was shot.
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Audio expert Alan Reich wrote in a four-page report that he heard Trayvon Martin begging for his life as reported by the Orlando Sentinel early last week.


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Britten's Boys
A new biography explores the music of Benjamin Britten, but does it give short shrift to the composer's infatuation with the underage?
When grappling with such material, it's tempting to say: Artists need not be saints. Certainly we don't require perfect records of behavior to appreciate the works of countless creative geniuses. Yet in the case of Britten's personal life, the more distressing avenues are of great potential use to our understanding of his art. His greatest operas are straightforwardly concerned with youthful loss of innocence. And, in the case of Peter Grimes, the loss of innocence entails abuse of several young apprentices at the hands of the outsider title character. This is indisputable, even if other aspects of the opera may appeal to our sympathies. The town's conduct in hectoring and condemning Grimes, for example, may not always be morally above reproach. Likewise, the tale of the loner condemned for his native state of being suggests a relationship to Britten's wartime pacifism (put forward by Britten's camp as the official metaphor carried by Grimes, during his lifetime). And the work also hints at the social stresses pursuant to a love that dared not speak its name in the era when Scotland Yard was actually spending time investigating homosexuals (including, for a time, Britten himself).
But the boys' bruises and corpses are not to be dismissed, either—nor does Britten's complex, sometimes sympathetic and sometimes harrowing music ever suggest that Grimes be viewed simply. Yet Powell, in this book, treats Grimes to the least substantial analysis of all of Britten's major operas. He has keen insights into the dramatic structures and implications of Death in Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Billy Budd, for example, but his 13-page description of Grimes is mostly padded with creative-process backstory, plot summary, and a tallying of initial critical opinion, for and against. He keenly notes the disingenuous public move taken by Britten and Pears, about the opera's supposed reflection of their pacifism. But in considering the two as a likeminded duo, he neglects to engage with the fact that one of the men was not just attracted to other men, but also to boys. On this view, it's natural that Powell would assign Grimes lesser status among the great Britten works due to supposed faults like the "irresolution" of its "disconcertingly muted conclusion." To others, it may feel as though Powell's drive for pursuing the most noble possible account of Britten's life has led him to under-read what many consider Britten's greatest, most complex work.
It's worth noting that much later on in Powell's book there is some valuable reporting that runs against his earlier, über-prim read of Britten's infatuations. Late in the book, Powell makes a reference to Britten's "troubled humanity" that sounds as if it contradicts his claim of lifelong "exemplary" behavior. And while Powell also provides a lovely account of Britten's mature lifelong partnership with Pears, his first (and still most important) interpreter, the author is also brave enough to venture that the tenor may not have fully understood the composer in some key ways. Indeed, Powell all but suggests that the consummation of their relationship was, for Britten, entered into as a reactive escape from yet another ill-advised entanglement with a late-adolescent boy.
To note that Powell's book seems to be in tension with itself is not to deny its other virtues. As you might expect from a biography of Britten written by a poet, the book offers some interpretive wonders when it comes to the composer's many settings of poetry. Powell's very strong on Britten's Thomas Hardy settings, known as "Winter Words" –particularly in the way that he analogizes a relationship between Wordsworth and Hardy, and the composer Gerald Finzi and Britten. And though Powell humbly poor-mouths his own skills as a musician (and score reader), his account of Britten's less-celebrated chamber works enlarged my own appreciation of Britten's musical language.
But my sense of Powell's hand on the scales about Britten's possible failings is unfortunate. In 2013, a biographer ought to be able to disentangle the objections of prior eras to the composer's now-uncontroversial homosexuality from the still-squirm-inducing adolescent fixations. But it's here, despite his obvious biographical command of the available literature (including recently published volumes of letters), that Powell punts. He notes how, in 1954, L'Express observed in its review of Turn of the Screw that the opera featured "the composer's customary intense preoccupation with homosexual love"—and quotes early Britten biographer Humphrey Carpenter's understanding that this was "the first time that homosexuality was mentioned in print in connection with Britten." Powell then describes the culture that would have allowed Britten's orientation to be so plain, yet exist without public comment, as made possible by "the power of British innuendo."
But Powell knows not everyone stood for this at the time. He's already related how, early in Britten's adulthood, the poet W.H. Auden was there—along with Christopher Isherwood—to encourage the development of Britten's dormant but obvious homosexuality. And the poet was also present, some years on, to scold the composer for the undying adolescent obsession. (Auden's earlier campaign proved influential to Britten, while his latter criticism busted up their friendship for good.) Now that much of the world has caught up to Auden's ability to distinguish between these aspects of the Britten persona, it's strange to read a book that posits those divergent behaviors as "complementary."
To acknowledge the complexities of Britten is not to beg for the banning or suppression of his works. (I say: See every staging of a Britten opera you can.) But the relationship between his private life and some of his most famous creations is suited to provide fodder for much useful contemporary thought, and it's a shame a critic as astute as Powell isn't willing to dive in.
Britten, who famously stated that the artist's purpose was to be of service to the public, might, if he were alive, be able to take some comfort in the fact that his own demons (or "troubled humanity") might be relevant in that broadly useful way, above and beyond the obvious beauty of his musical gift. But we have to admit all ambiguities before this benefit can be offered up. Another way of considering this idea is suggested by a look at some of the lines E.M. Forster and Eric Crozier fashioned for the prologue of Britten's take on Billy Budd: "Much good has been shown me, and much evil. And the good has never been perfect. There is always some flaw in it, some defect, some imperfection in the divine image."
Benjamin Britten: A Life For Music by Neil Powell. Henry Holt.
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Getting pregnant after implanon?
I just got my implanon taken out last Friday. I think it was March 21 or the 20 and my fiance and are TTC. We started trying right away and but I've heard a lot of people say that after the removal they had issues getting pregnant and that it took a while. How long did it take some you guys to get pregnant after removal?
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So did you get pregnant how long did it take? I got my implanon removed Oct 6 2014 I had 2 period in Sept one on the 2 and 24 which are normally not what I do but I assumed its because it was 3 weeks til I had to remove my implant. Since I had a period a week before I got it removed does that mean I ovulate? Do I go by those af to know when to expect another or do I start over when this one arrives? How long did it take some of you guys to become pregnant. Did you have an af before?posted 10/21/2014 by baby3lovejg
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20th Century Khan - A Timeline!
I started a thread asking ideas for this TL but since it didn't generate much postage, I decided to just go ahead with the TL. The POD is that Grigory Seymonov, the Baron's superior before going to Mongolia dies in 1919, allowing the Baron to succeed him as Ataman. From there, he strengthens ties with the Japanese and becomes President of the Far Eastern Republic. Within the next few decades, he will grow immensely in power, eventually carving out a great empire that will stretch from Western Russia to Southern China. I'm calling the timeline; 20th Century Khan. Here it is;
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1919 - Ataman, Grigory Seymonov is shot dead on one of his raids on the Trans-Siberian Railway. His closest lieutenant, the Baron Roman Ungern von Sternberg, inherits the title "Ataman of the Transbaikal Host" and a small army of Cossacks and local tribesmen. With this, he becomes warlord of the Transbaikal region. He continues his army's raiding operations with monetary and military support from the Japanese.
1920 - The Far Eastern Republic is created as a result of the desire for a buffer state between Soviet Russia and Japan. Socialist, Alexander Krasnoshchyokov becomes its first president. Japanese troops continue to occupy Vladivostok. The Baron is approached by his Japanese benefactors and is "asked" to merge his small fiefdom into the FER, relinquish control over it and instead serve in the Republic's army. The Cossack Host and local tribal armies which he commanded also become part pf the FER's army, receiving the name, the "Savage Brigade" for their actions under their past two Atamans, the Baron and Seymonov.
Later that year, Admiral Kolchak flees his capital of Omsk under siege from the Reds and heads east, near the expanding borders of the FER whose military expansions are being led by the now Major General, von Sternberg. After being defeated in battle, he surrenders his army to the Baron and heads for the north of Irkutsk but is captured by pro-Soviet leftist forces upon getting there, after which he is put to a summary trial and executed by a Soviet firing squad. A detachment from the Red Army in pursuit of Kolchak engages instead with the Baron's forces. The two armies fight a short inconclusive skirmish that ends in ceasefire. The Baron continues his operations in expanding northward and westward, eventually capturing the Lake Baikal and the whole of Irkutsk for the FER.
1921 - The Baron's operations in expanding the Republic's borders earn him a promotion to General. He also has proved himself as one of the FER's most valuable officers but also as its most dangerous and unpredictable one. He earns the respect of the Army's lowly corporals but receives scorn and jealousy from the other high ranking officers. In June, The Merkulov brothers overthrow Krasnoshchyokov in a coup d'etat. He flees west to Soviet Russia. After a few days, the Baron enters the capital with his Army from Irkutsk and overthrows them in another coup de'tat. The Baron becomes the third president of the FER. He sends his most loyal lieutenant, Colonel Sepailoff to crush reactionary countercoups throughout the FER.
During the first few weeks of his presidency, several Jews are purged from the Army and are even executed. Rumors begin to circulate of the Japanese wanting to replace the Baron with someone less insane. In order to fight such a possibility, the Baron signs the Chita Agreement, a treaty that would allow for more Japanese (Kwantung) military presence in the FER and the opening of major Japanese naval bases in Vladivostok and land bases near the border with China.
1922 - The FER with help from the Kwantung Army whose newly stationed units allowed by the Chita Agreement arrived at the beginning of the year, the Baron launches an expedition to the North, to capture what is left of Eastern Siberia. He caprures a large chunk of the Yakutia. The Baron also signs an agreement with the Soviets that fixes the FER-Soviet border several miles east from the Omsk Oblast, ending the occasional border skirmishes.
In Mongolia, pro-Soviet Mongolian armies attack the capital, Urga but fail to defeat the Chinese armies stationed there. The Red Mongolian leader, Damdin Sukhbaatar is killed in the battle. This attack convinced the Baron of the need to take Mongolia for himself. This land had a special importance to the Baron for this was the heartland of the Mongol tribes he had befriended as a young officer in Siberia and the birthplace of Genghis Khan who he believed himself to be a reincarnation of. He draws up plans of a Mongolian invasion and sends them to General Shinobu Ono of the Kwantung Army. The Kwantung Army, then busy with operations in the north of China initially ignored the plan until General Ono and his staff revisited it. He replies with a letter informing the Baron that the General Staff of the Kwantung Army was "taking it into consideration". Another copy of the plan was sent to Tokyo where it was rejected by the Imperial Government but as the Kwantung Amy was largely independent of Tokyo, the plan would come into fruition.
In the Baron's plan, the Japanese army would not be directly involved in the invasion. It would be executed by the FER's army which would only need Japanese arms and funds instead of actual militray backing. He detailed a route for his forces to enter Mongolia through the Northeast and a plan for an effective siege of Urga. Also, part of the plan was a clever contingency in the event of a failed siege which involved creating the illusion of numerical supremacy. After the invasion, a Mongolian puppet state would be created and placed under the control of the Japanese. The reason this plan was attractive to the Kwantung General Staff was because a presence in Mongolia would mean easier and wider access to China in the event of war.
Meanwhile, the citizens of the FER found themselves more and more forced into the Baron's way of thinking. Buddhist Ethics suddenly became a subject in schools where children were required to memorize and recite the Eightfold Path. Statues of the Buddha, Genghis Khan and Atilla the Hun start popping up in public squares. Antisemitism became a state institution, garnering support from the radical White Russian factions of the FER's government. Antisemtic posters and billboards carrying vicious caricatures made their way to the streets of Vladivostok and Chita. Jews were being rounded up into ghettos. Some even managed to earn the sympathy of the Japanese soldiers stationed there. In one case, an old Jewess was dragged kicking and screaming into the Vladivostok Ghetto but was saved when a Japanese lieutenant intervened and told the lady to go back to her home. She was safe for that night but found herself in the Ghetto a few days later.
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I know almost nothing about the far East of Russia during the civil war, so i won't attempt in depth analysis or scrutiny
All in all, i like, and would enjoy seeing this develop
The OMB and the Invasion of Mongolia
1923 - As the Baron assembled his forces near the Mongolian border waiting for the Japanese go signal, an army of another kind assembled itself in the FER's cities. The dreaded O.M.B. or the Order of Military Buddhists began their first year of activity. The Baron's ideologically indoctrinated (and drugged) secret police started patrolling the streets of every city and town. There was a great difference in the way the OMB operated in the countryside and in the city. In the country, where they were less restrained in their actions, they rode together in packs terrorizing every village they come across, killing, plundering, burning and raping anything and everything they see. In the city, where their terror was more organized and orchestrated as they were always much closer to the "Monestaries" (which served as their local headquarters), they patrolled the streets both on foot and in gloomy black patrol cars baring their ominous insignia of a corrupted Dharma wheel, bloodred with sharp pointed ends and a skull in the middle. People started disappearing in the middle of the night. Jews, suspected "Bolshevik agents" and other innocent people were arrested and shot dead in public.
The O.M.B justified their random killings with what they called the "noble agency", a concept of the Baron's which he got from his unorthodox interpretations of Buddhist scripture. It states that "By slaying people, one does them a favor. If they were unable to protect themselves, it meant they were feeble and living under poor Karma. By dying in a state of innocence, they improved their position on the rungs of the cosmos.". It was this motivation that made the Baron and his followers kill with love except in the case of Jews.
This rampage and freedom that the OMB enjoyed however was shortlived. One night, on his way home, Alexander Narovtsky, head librarian of the Vladivostok Library (which now housed hundreds of Buddhist holy texts), a devout Buddhist himself and a close friend of the Baron was shot several times by a duo of rowdy OMB officers. The next day, upon seeing his dead body, the Baron shed a tear and was about to weep but then he reminded himself "Attachment is the cause of all suffering. I should not be sad, he is a higher being now.". He spoke affirming that what happened to his friend was a good thing but nevertheless, he had the two officers responsible for the librarian's death, beheaded. After the incident, he called for OMB officers to practice the "discipline of the Gautama". With this bold order, the number of housed burned down by the OMB and the number of people it killed, decreased significantly but the fear they struck into the hearts of the people never did.
On the economic front, things went according to the Baron's plans. Under Felix Balgokov, a former Red-turned-Buddhist convert who the Baron appointed Finance Minister, the FER's infrastructure was improved greatly. He opened new commercial and industrial centers in Chita, the FER's second major city. Farmers received much needed state supervision (which meant that some would be killed if they opposed but it helped more nonetheless).
Meanwhile, to the West in Soviet Russia, with Wrangel and Makhno defeated and the Civil War brought to a de facto end, War Commissar, Leon Trotsky proposes to the Central Committee an invasion of the East to retake the rest of Russia. Lenin, already bedridden and powerless at this point has no say in this matter. It was left to the Central Committee whose majority was full of Trotsky's opponents like Stalin, Zioviev, Kamenev, Rykov and Bukharin. All of whom opposed this. Although, Lenin himself was in favor of an Eastern reconquest, he called for the consolidation of Soviet power in European Russia and neighboring Eastern Europe and spreading the Revolution westwards first before returning to the East. Trotsky's plans for the East were ultimately turned down.
The invasion of Mongolia or Operation Chagatai as the Baron called it began on August the 11th of that year with the FER's cavalry led by the Baron's own Savage Division rolled into Mongolia from the Northeast as the plan stated. On their way to Urga, they met little to no opposition but upon reaching its city limits, they were greeted by a barricade of Chinese infantrymen who opened fire immediately. The Baron responded with a cavalry charge that broke through the barricade and entered the city. A moderate amount of urban warfare was fought by the two armies that quickly ended in favor of the Baron's forces. Upon reaching, the city center, reinforcements from the south had already fortirifed their positions leaving a pocket of the city out of the Baron's hands. He led his forces to the southern city districts and eventually succeeded in chasing out the Chinese. The Baron's cavalrymen then rode throughout the Mongolian countryside cleansing the land of remnants of the Chinese army, most of which had already fled south to Inner Mongolia.
Within three weeks of the initial invasion, the Baron had taken Mongolia. He founds, the Khanate of Mongolia and reinstates its deposed sovereign, the Bogd Khan as ruler. After several more weeks, he transfers the occupation to the Kwantung Army whose soldiers in the FER are transfered to Mongolia where they build new bases near the border with China. Although, his military forces have left the Khanate, the Baron remains as the "Governor of Urga", taking care of its civil affairs as the Japanese take care of military affairs. Also, the Baron brings with him a unit of the OMB to serve as his personal guard. He leaves his loyal subordinate Stepailoff, who is now Vice President at home to take care of the FER while he is gone. Tokyo at first spoke out against the Kwantung Army's occupation of the land and called for a withdrawal. But, unable to do anything about it, the Japanese Government eventually accepts the legitimacy of the occupation and recognizes the Khanate. For his efforts in the conquest of Mongolia, the Baron was awarded Order of the Rising Sun, First Class by the Kwantung General Staff.
Here are a few elements that you might want to add into the ATL. If anything, consider the idea that Baron Roman Ungern von Sternberg might find backing from foreign sources, depending on the amount of political and military success achieved.
Here are the plans for Japanese intervention to establish a Far Eastern Republic from 1918-1925:
Also, consider adding the Nikolayevsk Incident of March 1920 into the ATL, wherein Japanese were killed by Soviet forces:
To make things complicated, you should definitely add the American Expeditionary Force Siberia (AEF Siberia) which was ordered by President Woodrow Wilson to the region from 1918-1920. In the ATL, consider the considequences of an American and Japanese presence:
The commader of the White Russian Army, Admiral Aleksandr V. Kolchak, would certainly important to the ATL:
Considering that the Japanese helped back Cossack leader Grigory Semyonov until his death in 1946, he is definitely going to be an important character int he development of the ATL:
With the sudden loss of American support c.1924, consider the danger of an alliance with Nazi Germany during the 1930s and 1940s, with the case of:
Also consider the 1945 Betrayal of the Cossacks for the ATL:
With the material provided, you have enough characters to draw things out until roughly c.1955
Reforms in Urga, the Second Chita Agreement and the Capture of Trotsky
1924 - As Governor of Urga, a title equivalent to being head of state of the country, the Baron enacted several reforms that radically transformed the Mongolian socio-political landscape. The first thing he did was to introduce a new set of laws based on Buddhist ethics. Opposition to this primarily came from Mongolia's corrupt merchant class who virtually ran the country before his conquest. To fight this, the Baron set about disciplining them through the use of the OMB whose newest Monestary was set up in Urga's central avenue. They did everything from blackmail to assault to murder in order to silence the merchants. For the people of Mongolia, he introduced paper currency and a public transport system, built roads and bridges, renovated entire neighborhoods and established several public schools with Buddhist ethics being a primary subject in all of them.
To balance his good deeds toward the Mongolian people with his devotion and servitude to the Japanese, the Baron signs the Second Chita Agreement. This agreement opened up the FER and the Khanate even more to Japanese domination. Japan would be allowed to build factories in the cities of the FER and the Khanate. These Japanese factories would be powered by a mass of slave labor from Korea. In the following years, the FER and the Khanate, would see large numbers of Koreans enter its borders for work in the factories. In the south of the Khanate, near the border with China, the Kwantung Army built several fortified bases as they geared up for eventual war.
In the Soviet Union, the begging of the year was marked with the death of Lenin and the acceleration of Stalin to his future status of power at the expense of Trotsky. Trotsky who was recently demoted by the Central Committee to Secretary of Sanitation and Public Hygiene was disgruntled more than ever with his newest job and the Committee's steadfast opposition to him and his ideas. Using his connections to the Red Army, he summons a sizable army of cavalrymen numbering in the several thousands, to be led by his old friend, Mikhail Tuckhachevsky to the area near the border with the FER. He discarded his initial plan of taking Mongolia from the Baron due to the heavy Japanese presence there and instead drafted new plans to take Vladivostok through a lightning quick invasion, then dismantle the FER from there using Tukhachevsky's reinforcements. This phase would be be coordinated by Tuckhachevsky from behind the frontlines. He did not bother to consult the Central Committee and proceeded with his invasion on September 20th.
He met initial sucees in taking Chita and several towns west of it and in making his way to the outskirts of Primorsky Krai, the region to which Vladivostok belonged to as he took the FER's forces by surprise. But he was repelled in the small village of Ambroskaya by forces commanded by Sepailof. He retreated toward Chita where his forces were replenished by several reinforcements from the West. The tide turned when on the the 23rd, the Baron himself enterd the FER from Mongolia and met up with his cavalry. He led them toward Chita and prepared for battle with Trotsky. Occurring almost simultaneously was Tuchachevsky's arrest by the Cheka for acting without orders. His forces were dispersed immediately after, leaving Trotsky and his men doomed to certain defeat in Chita. The Baron's forces surrounded the city and got a surrender from the former War Commissar after only a few hours, leaving the city mostly unharmed. The Baron had captured Leon Trotsky. The "King of the Jews" was stored in a special cell in Vladivostok Prison where he awaited trial for unprovoked war, war crimes, advocacy of Bolshevism and Jewishness.
Soon, the Baron's offices in Vladivostok were filled with telegrams from Moscow, all screaming that the Soviet Government had nothing to do with Trotsky's actions. The Baron responded with a telegram, one that read like a ransom note.
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Something that might push things in the direction of war would be oil development. Remember this was one of the major points of antagonism between the United States and Japan, along with one of Germany's justifications for launching Operation BARABOSSA. In the ATL, consider the major consequences of oil being discovered in the region in c.1933. In OTL, the oil fields of Eastern Siberia weren't discovered until May 29, 1965. As such, one report by Halliburton stated:
Some characters you might want to have are the Russian oligarchs, who benefitted under the Yeltsin administration in Russia. Some Siberian actors would include Victor Vekelsburg (Russia's 3rd richest person, c.2000), Leon Blavatnik (British Petroleum, CEO-Russia, c.1997) and Viktor F. Vekselberg (British Petroleum, CEO-Russia c.1990).
Here are some events in OTL that could definitely make things uglier in the ATL for the Siberian governments in the post-1945 world.
1979- In Sverdlovsk, Siberia, there was an explosion at Compound 19, a biological weapons lab. 96 people were stricken from the release of anthrax bacterium and at least 66 [68] died. The name of the town was later changed to Yekaterinburg.
June 1982- "Farewell," a C.I.A. campaign of computer sabotage, stayed secret because the blast, estimated at three kilotons, took place in the Siberian wilderness, with no casualties known. "The pipeline software that was to run the pumps, turbines and valves was programmed to go haywire," writes Reed, "to reset pump speeds and valve settings to produce pressures far beyond those acceptable to the pipeline joints and welds. The result was the most monumental non-nuclear explosion and fire ever seen from space." At the Abyss by Thomas C. Reed (2004)
With the latter event, consider what would be the cost to the Ungberg regime if the CIA or MI5 considered the leadership, an "expendable resource"...
I always thought the Bloody Baron was an interesting figure, I like this timeline
Currently planning: "All who want revolution, step to the Left." -- Liao Zhongkai's China
Bolsheviks in Urga, Trotsky's Trial and the Foundations of Sternbergia
1924 (Cont.) - The meeting between the Bolshevik delegation led by Vyascheslav Molotov and the Baron later that month accomplished much. First off, they had agreed upon the fact that Trotsky acted independently and without the consent of his superiors in Moscow. Second, they signed a treaty that formally ended the Civil War in the East. Although hostilities between the FER and Soviet Russia had ceased long ago, it was only know that the war came to a formal end. Another thing the Bolsheviks had made clear was that they did not want Trotsky back. "He causes too much trouble there" Molotov said. "Its better if you keep him prisoner here". The Bolshevik Delegation left by train on September 27th. The following day with Soviet approval, Trotsky was tried in the Vladivostok High Court. With a quick and resounding trial, one not unlike the ones held by the Soviet troikas, the former War Commissar was sentenced to life imprisonment for a host of crimes both real and imagined, among which was the instigation of unprovoked war and taking part in the execution of the Jewish world conspiracy.
1925-'26 - 1925 year opened in the FER and in Mongolia with the planned mass immigration of Korean slave workers who were there to first build the large scale Japanese industrial program as stated in the Second Chita Agreement and then to begin work in those Japanese factories. To accommodate the new Korean workforce, the Baron built several Korean housing districts in and around the major cities of the FER and Mongolia. These houses were shabby and run down but good enough for slaves. As soon as the Korean were settled, they began work on the construction of Japanese factories. The of Urga and Vladivostok would change dramatically in the next few years as new and larger industrial districts would start popping up around the city limits. These big busy set of Japanese arms factories which were worked on by an exclusively Korean labor force were jokingly nicknamed "Koreatown" by the citizens of the Baron's domain. The occasional Korean revolt was always squashed by the OMB ensuring a loyal slave pool. By the end of these two years, the FER and Urga would contain 16,000 Korean laborers, a number which was to be expanded upon in the following years.
1927-'28 - After two years of faithful execution of the Second Chita Agreement, the Baron would score his next big show of servitude to the Japanese with the discovery of Siberian oil. A geological surveying expedition discovered oil on the nigh of June 11th of 1927. In no time, the Baron had given the Japanese exclusive rights to it, expanding Korean industrial slave labor to the new oil sector. Along with factories in the cities, oil pumps and oil wells rose in the frozen wastes, churning out not just arms and oil but great economic strength for the Japanese, all of which would be controlled by the Kwantung Army. Soon, the businesses of Tokyo would tap into the vast industrial strength of what was now called in Japanese circles, the "Sternbegia". A concrete definition of this term would be the vast largely slave-powered industrial and oil producing sectors of the FER and Mongolia. By the beginning of 1928, the civilian enterprises of Tokyo started shifting their industrial bases from the Home Islands to Sternergia. Soon, cars and foodstuffs would join the arms production industry as "Sternbergia's" main exports.
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1850 Election Campaign Political Handbills Being Circulated with Fake Candidates Signatures BE NOT DECEIVED!!"
November 5, 1850-Dated, Large Printed Political Broadside titled, BOLTERS FORGERY! JAMES C. SMITHS LAST KICK!," Very Fine.
This original, very boldly printed Political Broadside describes and attempts to counteract dirty politics of the day. It measures a large size of 12" x 17" and is dated Nov. 5th 1850. It is vividly declaring that certain handbills that had been circulated showing the support of the Democracy of Wayne" (Wayne County, New York) for a James. C. Smith, as a Candidate for Congress was a forgery! This Broadside proclaims, BE NOT DECEIVED!!"... "LET DEMOCRATS SUPPORT NONE BUT DEMOCRATS." Light expected tone, well centered with large bold print that is easily readable and make this a great Broadside for display. Rare, being the first we have seen.
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April Development Board
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The April is a handy companion for your Electric Imp card. This breakout board provides just the bare minimum for Imp life support - a socket, an ID chip, and a 3.3V buck power supply for high power efficiency. Small and it's easy to integrate into products for demos or even use in low-volume production. Power can be supplied using a USB-Mini-B cable from a USB Charger or standard USB Port, though the data lines are not connected to anything. Optionally, a battery connector can be soldered to the battery pads, P+, P-.
April can operate from any DC voltage from 3.3 to 17 Volts, and tolerates voltages down to -12 Volts. This is helpful for any application with removable batteries where they may be inserted backwards by the user. You may select between USB power and battery power by placing a shunt on the power select header. Please note that April does not have any circuitry for charging a battery and you should never short USB power to the battery pack. April uses the TI TPS62172 DC/DC Buck Power supply for 3.3V. It can provide an additional 100mA@3V3 to any boards connected to April, however if your application requires more than 100mA@3V3, it must have its own supply. The 3 pin jumper allows selection of the DC input source; jumper between the middle pin and the side labeled USB for USB power, and the other way for battery pack power (soldering the input leads onto the P+ and P- pads).
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Philadelphian Charles Godfrey Leland was a journalist, editor, poet, and soldier during the Civil War. What is he most remembered for writing and researching?
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Answer: Witchcraft, pagan traditions, and the occult.
Charles Godfrey Leland was a noted journalist, editor, and poet, well-known for his writings on craft, folklore, and occultism.
Born in Philadelphia in 1824 to merchant Charles Leland and Charlotte Godfrey, he graduated from the College of New Jersey (later Princeton University) in 1845, later studied in Munich, Germany, and traveled extensively throughout Europe. After his time abroad, Leland returned to Philadelphia and began working for magazines and newspapers. He edited publications such as the New York Times, Vanity Fair, the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, Knickerbocker Magazine, Continental Magazine, and the Philadelphia Press. During the Civil War, Leland enlisted in the army and fought for the Union at the Battle of Gettysburg.
After the war, Leland returned to Europe where he penned the majority of his work, particularly focused on handicrafts, pagan traditions, gypsy culture, and beliefs in witchcraft. Throughout his career, he produced more than 50 books including The English Gipsies (1873), Johnnykin and the Goblins (1879), Leather Work, A Practical Manual for Learners (1892), and Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches (1899). Leland declared his book, The Witchcraft of Dame Darrel of York, was a researched account of "Fairys, Elves, Goblins, Bargests, Ghostes, Gasters, Bendys, Pixys – Pillicockes Hobthrushes, Friar Rushes, Pictrees Dules, Night Hagges, Giantes Yethhounds, Devilkins, Spoornes, Robin Goodfelows, and all theyr kinde." He died in Florence, Italy on March 20, 1903, and his ashes were interred in Philadelphia's Laurel Hill Cemetery.
Image: The Historical Society of Pennsylvania's collection of Charles Godfrey Leland's papers (#363) contains some of his published and unpublished manuscripts. It also contains poetry, records on his studies at Princeton, and travel diaries.
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MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD arrives from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment on April 20, 2004 in its DVD and rental VHS debut. Garnering 10 Academy Award nominations, and taking home the Oscar for both Best Achievement in Cinematography and Best Achievement in Sound Editing, the $90 million box office hit journeys to DVD in a beautifully packaged double-disc Collectors Giftpack. Loaded with awe-inspiring behind-the-scenes bonus features, the DVD includes a 28-page collectible booklet and exclusive maps that follow the adventures of Captain Lucky Jack Aubrey.
Russell Crowe portrays Captain Jack Aubrey, the dogged British frigate commander engaged in a spectacular high-seas cat and mouse chase with a heavily armed French warship, directed by Peter Weir.
Timed to coincide with the DVD arrival, MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD will be broadcast exclusively to all U.S. Armed Forces personnel deployed worldwide at 8:00 pm on April 20. The movie is expected to reach one million troops stationed in 178 countries around the world through the Armed Forces Television Network and beamed to virtually every U.S. Navy ship currently located in the Persian Gulf, the Mediterranean Sea, Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans through the Direct-to-Sailor signal. Honoring the courage and leadership of the men and women who put their lives on the line every day to serve their country, ground troops stationed in Baghdad will also be treated to a private screening of the DVD.Fox will also release MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD on rental VHS, as well as a single disc widescreen or pan & scan DVD, available for the suggested retail price of $29.98 while the Collectors Giftpack is priced at $39.98. All three DVD versions of MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD the Collectors Giftpack, Widescreen Single Disc (aspect ratio 2:35:1) and Pan & Scan Single Disc (aspect ratio 1:33:1) are presented with a maximum bit rate, 5.1 Dolby Digital and 5.1 DTS audio and French 5.1 and Dolby Spanish Surround.
The Collectors Giftpack offers an in-depth behind-the-scenes look at the making of the epic adventure including six deleted scenes, four multi-angle battle scene studies, a one-hour exclusive making-of documentary, three new featurettes, an interactive sound recording demo, the HBO First Look Special, theatrical trailers and a still gallery.


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In short: Well organised, flat, fast 10kmIn full: Well organised local road race. Flat and fast. Well done to the organisers on re-arranging the start/finish given the wet weather.Phoenix trail makes for a nice traffic free 2nd half of the race.Decent goody bag with a proper chocolate bar! T-shirt and medal. Medal with the name of race / date on them would be a plus.Overall a good, flat well organised race.Date of review: June 28, 2012
In short: Great race, good organisation, v hotIn full: This was my 1st time running this race, but I will definitely be back.The only downside was that it was 3 laps and it was v hot, but never got bored just hot!The course was flat, well marshalled, 1 water station per lap and had good support. It had a great atmosphere with plenty of supporters and the animals to keep you company!It is good value as you get free entry into the park. The medal and goody bag had plenty in it (water, banana, pen, pencil, cake).I'll be back.Date of review: May 28, 2012
In short: Decent race, but needs to be traffic free for safetyIn full: I would do this race again because it is close to where I live.Positives are the downhill finish and decent scenery for a road race. Generally the organisation was efficient. I agree with another reviewer that it was hard work getting the chip off at the end, so maybe use cable or bag ties to fasten chips through the laces.The major negative was that it has become increasingly dangerous due to their being 2 way traffic on most of the route. With 1500+ runners doing the race it would be better if 1 side of the road was shut off. I understand that this may be expensive, but would be a great addition.Obviously the weather was awful and I felt for the marshals, but more support from them would have been nice!Date of review: March 11, 2012
In short: well organised race, I'll be back next yearIn full: V well organised half marathon with good marshalling and signs.As others have mentioned more trail would have been nice, but great not having to run on roads!1st 6 miles along the canal towpath was reasonably scenic, but the miles in the woods were much better.I was expecting more hills, but was also grateful there weren't more!Overall a good race that I will be back for next year.Date of review: November 23, 2011
In short: Well organised and great sceneryIn full: V well organised race. Well marshalled and signposted. Was nice running through the woods.Only downside was the start as it got quite crammed and jammed up.I'll be back next year.Date of review: November 5, 2011
In short: Hot, hot, hot, but still a great race and will be back next yearIn full: It has to be the hottest race I've done. Great scenery, but too hot for the hills! I hadn't done enough training this year due to injury, but still haven't missed one yet and will continue to travel back from London for it!The swipe card checkpoints are better than last years "dibber" system. Getting split times at the end is still a good idea. The additional checkpoint kept people honest across the field near Bordley Farm. The unmanned checkpoints were marked more clearly with signs than last year.My only gripe is that the t-shirts were none descript this year. The t-shirts from the 1st 2 or 3 races were great as they had the year on them, the event, and a map of the route. The ones this year simply had marathon events written on them. Please, please revert to t-shirts that explain the race that we have run.Apart from that the organisation was fantastic as have all these races that I have run.I will be back again next year, but I will have done more training!I recommend you come and run this before it gets too popular. There were 225+ in the 1/2 and 90+ in the full marathon.This is a must-do race as it is a spectacular one-off.....Date of review: June 7, 2010
In short: Well organised raceIn full: This was my 3rd year on the trot doing this race. It was well organised as have the other races. The only reason I am not running again is because I am looking for new race challenges, which are slightly less crammed on the route.The pen/wave system at the start is a good idea, but I just wish people would be honest about their estimated times when entering! It just means that those behind end up passing lots of people that are walking! The support is good all around the course and it is nice running with a reasonable number of other people, but I think the sheer numbers of people can inhibit getting a PB.I would recommend this race more for beginners and intermediate runners looking for good support and excellent organisation.Date of review: June 3, 2010
In short: Well organised enjoyable flat raceIn full: Bit warm for me, but the race was well organised and the marshalls were very encouraging.Some of the towpath was a bit uneven and narrow due to repairs, but it was great running along the river on a sunny day.This is a flat race which is welcoming to all abilities. Really enjoyable running along the river.The pint glass was a nice touch and the water stations were very welcome!I would defintely recommend this race and I will be back next year.Date of review: April 19, 2010
In short: 2nd year on the trot and will be backIn full: Well organised race with good marshalls.Challenging hill, which you do twice, but keeps things interesting!Good value for a London 10km and probably one of the best. Good that there are not too many runners because some of the route would get clogged up.Highly recommended if you live in London as easy to get to by public transport etc.Will be back next year.Date of review: March 16, 2010
In short: Newcastle and the North East did themselves proud....In full: The best part is the atmosphere as the whole of the north east came out to support or so it seemed! Only better atmosphere is the London marathon. Locals were using hosepipes to cool runners down, giving out water, playing music and v supportive.Urinals were a good idea.Also plenty of water at starting pens and even at Metro stations!Downside was far too many runners - no hope of a PB if you have been truthful about your finishing time! The roads at various points are packed particularly at the start and finish.They need to ban ipods etc as saw too many ambulances trying to get to people, but couldn't get through runners listening to music! This is a critical issue and they need to ban them now. Also if you are trying to pass people they are unable to hear you.Take your own toilet roll! Simply not enough toilet roll. Felt sorry for the ladies.The entry fee of £45 is v expensive for a 1/2 marathon. They know they will get enough entries so the price can be as high as they want it to be!Technical t-shirt should be included in the goody bag.The entry fee should include either a day pass on the Metro or free travel on the buses!Left feeling that I got robbed by the organisers at every opportunity!Also if you defer you don't get any of the £45 entry fee and have to pay all over again next year - is this the spirit of running?Great atmosphere, but just too many runners. I expected more from it all!Date of review: September 21, 2009
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Tuesday, January 05, 2016
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Whoa! It's been years since I have posted on a blog!
I have been drifting away from the SPARK and I'm thinking I had better get going-
" you use it or lose it "
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Monday, April 09, 2007
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Ok, so I am back from my yearly Gulf Shores vacation and Yes, I did gain a couple of lbs. Not bad, I feared that I would of gained more than I did. Now it's back to the treadmill, elliptical, and eating the right foods. I did eat hamburgers, ... Read more
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Well, now it's the middle of march and it's time to look back and see if I have made any progress? Well, I have lost weight, though not as much as I really wanted to or could have.... I think that if I really look back I could hav... Read more
Monday, January 29, 2007
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Well, not where I should be, weight wise, that is. I would say that I am about 5 lbs behind! I'm not giving up. Maybe I will drop a few lbs. all at once soon.... Read more
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i AM BEGINNING TO FEEL LIKE I MIGHT BE GETTING SOMEWHERE. DON'T FEEL SO BLOATED. BEEN STICKING WITH THE DIET AND EXERCISE, AND WATER CONSUMPTION. i think i might be seeing the scale loose some lbs too. ill weigh myself in the morning and recor... Read more


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i'm not going to blather on, as i have to finish drawing the book. but i thought i'd share one of the opening sequences in it's formative stages – as we nail down colour and the look of the book. speaking of colour – i am blessed by the able talents of jordie bellaire in this department. check her stuff out. it rocks.
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last month saw me attend C2E2, of which i had a glorious time. this is a convention i look forward to visiting every year.
the last day of the show saw Archaia officially announce my involvement in their project Tale of Sand. the graphic novel to be released later this year is an adaptation, by me, of an unfilmed jim henson and jerry juhl screenplay from 1974. according to the archives, this is the only full length henson script never to see the light of day. it's been sitting in a box on a dusty shelf for almost 40 years! it is my honour, with archaia and in conjunction with the henson company, to directly adapt this story into a graphic novel. the story is a dark existential one of a man's journey through… well that would be giving too much away. for a bit more insight into Tale Of Sand, here is an interview i did with TGTwebcomics regarding the project, as well as archaia's stephen christy talks with fox chicago. the book is set for a 2011 fall release.
so, needless to say, i am going to be busy.
this brings me to the second thing i wanted to talk about; kukuburi and butternutsquash.
during C2E2 many a fan stopped by my table asking about the return of both kukuburi and the squash. it's sad for me to say this, and i have posted on it earlier, that the squash is over. at least in it's current form. there is one more strip which is 99.9% done which i will post shortly to close the online chapter of BNS. it's been a long haul, but it's time is done. rob and i feel that we lost our way – and never really regained our footing. we still stand proudly by what is online, but it's time to be realistic. we do plan a 'complete' collection of all that is squash, and we have ideas of a new way to bring the squash back, when the time is right. we will keep you abreast of the collection as things develops.
this now brings me to kukuburi, which i hold near and dear and wish i could be working on every day. but truth of the matter is the book is quite labour intensive. i really don't think people realize just how much time goes into a page of that book – time which i unfortunately don't have at the moment. i had hope to be updating again by now, point in fact is that the story is written, the pages roughed out, hell there are 20 pages sitting here drawn in need of inks and colour. but with the tight deadline and amount of work required to complete Tale Of Sand my immediate dream of returning to the book has been shelved.
at C2E2 i asked fans if they would rather see me update one or two pages a month or wait till i have time to return to things proper. they all said the latter.
despite monopolizing my time right now, Tale Of Sand will allow me, once completed, to take a few months off and focus on kukuburi. i know many of you have been waiting almost a year for more story… of which i am gracious, i just ask you for a few more months.
that said, another discussion that took place at C2E2, with a prominent publisher, was in regards to the collected edition of kukuburi….
more on that as things develop.
sigh. okay, that was bad.
bad humour aside… this month make mine marvel! i've been a busy boy over the past few months and now i get to share. ...]]>
sigh. okay, that was bad.
bad humour aside… this month make mine marvel! i've been a busy boy over the past few months and now i get to share. hitting the shelves this march are Captain America And The First Thirteen written by Kathryn Immonen and Deadpool Team-up #883 written by Skottie Young with art chores on both courtesy of lil' old me. captain america and the first thirteen debuts march 9th and deadpool a little later in the month, not quite sure of the date yet… but once i do i'll shout it from the rooftops.
click the above links to get some sneak peaks!
the pencils (showcased left – click to enlarge) were done quick and loose as i wanted most of the work done at the inks stage. whereas with a sci-fi piece i would pencil rather tight to convey that tech accuracy the old west is all about loose brush strokes and moody blacks… well for me at least.
ready to go i hit up google for reference but all that came up was lame ass jonah hex movie snapshots. i gave up rather quickly and decided to go from memory… so if the accuracy is a bit off… meh.
oh, and if you missed it the first time round, here's another western pinup i did years ago showcasing hawk, son of tomahawk and madame 44.]]>
and i thought it'd be a perfect way to share a little bit of my process.
archie is americana, and i wanted to push forth that flavour with this piece. to help capture this i based the composition on the classic norman rockwell piece seen to the left. i also wanted to evoke a very clean and classic line of yesteryear, akin to old newspaper strips so i decided to ink this piece with clean and fluid lines using my go to brush; a winsor-newton sable series 7 #2 and 3.
1) initial inks; 2) a larger version of the above image.
more to come as i have time…]]>
all day.
cobwebs in my brain and as much coffee as i ingest it does nothing.
so i took this unfocussed opportunity to tackle last weeks comictwart selection;
all day.
cobwebs in my brain and as much coffee as i ingest it does nothing.
so i took this unfocussed opportunity to tackle last weeks comictwart selection; corey walker's ostrichard. as much as i wish i could join in every week in reality i am a twartist in absence for the most part. however, when i was presented with the ridiculousness of ostirchard i had to participate… despite being late. thanks to nathan for presenting us with (and introducing me to) corey walker's dysfunctional hero. i had a few ideas as soon as i laid eyes on this fine fellow – but the idiotic simplicity of this one won me over.
I wanna do a book starring this guy.]]>
well, it's a little chill here, but regardless – this little femme has been sitting on my desktop for probably 12 months waiting for a dash ...]]>
well, it's a little chill here, but regardless – this little femme has been sitting on my desktop for probably 12 months waiting for a dash of colour. so i thought, before i leave the studio for the weekend… why not.
a happy hallowe'en to you all!
(if i was on the ball we could'a had a trick or treat theme here at smkog… but i wasn't. c'est la vie.)]]>
this week see's me attending the NYCC. i've gone every year as a tourist and enjoyed the show immensely – this year however will be my first year with a table, i won't have ...]]>
this week see's me attending the NYCC. i've gone every year as a tourist and enjoyed the show immensely – this year however will be my first year with a table, i won't have much swag, perhaps a print or two and some original art. but i will be doing sketches and commissions;
$60 headshot/bust on 9×12 bristol (as can be seen in the above post)
$120 for full figure commissions on 11×17 or 11×14 bristol.
*additional characters are $30 for headshots and $60 for full figure.
i look forward to seeing you all there!]]>


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Food shipments in Afghanistan decreased during the U.S. bombing, putting millions of people at risk. Despite warplanes and armed soldiers, Afghan aid workers helped 23,000 families by buying staples locally and setting up an underground ration system. One two-month supply, made possible in part with money from U.S. Lutherans, reached a widow named Rahilla (her full name) living near Kabul.
Rahilla: "We stayed home during the bombing, which destroyed a camp used by Al Qaeda just up the road from here. We were afraid, and a nearby house collapsed, but we had no place to go.
"I've been a widow since a rocket landed here in 1996. The Taliban were fighting the Northern Alliance. One day, just over there, a rocket killed my husband. His [government] job was all we had. We don't own any land. Neighbors and relatives give us food and money from time to time. That's how we survive.
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Nan Katayi(Indian Style Cookies)...!!!Author: Siddhi Shirsat // Category: Cakes N Cookies, Dry Snacks
Recently i was again in mood of baking something and made this Indian style Cookies called as "Nan Katayi", as i had not made them recently ...This are one of the most famous and simple Indian cookies...They do not require any special ingredients also,they can be made in no time and are eggless to. If steps are followed properly then they turn out crispy, tasty and melt in the mouth cookies.
- 2 cups all purpose flour(maida)
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1 cup ghee(or vanaspati butter)
- sliced almonds and cashewnuts
- 1 tea spoon baking soda
- 1 tea spoon fresh cardomom powder(or vanilla essence)
Sieve baking soda and flour for 2-3 times and keep it aside.Heat the ghee till it melts and add it to the flour and also add all the other ingredients except dryfruits and mix it well. Kned it well without using any water.While kneding press it well so that no air gap remains in it.
Form a ball of it and keep it aside for 4-5 hours.After the standing time is over grease a baking tray with ghee and preheat the oven for 180 degrees. You can even baking them after 30 mins if you do not have time, but keeping the dough longer yields better results.
Make small lemon size balls of the dough and press them a little, put dry fruits in the center hole.You can keep them plain also.While making dough balls and pressing them be careful as they can break soon as dough is not that sticky. You can grease your hands with ghee to make handling of the dough easier.
Arrange this balls in the greased tray and leave 2 inches gap between them.Bake them at 170 degrees for 25-30 mins or till they get slight cracks on top.
Cool them and keep in air-tight container.They remain fresh for 15-20 days.
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Honoré de Balzac lived in this house from 1840 to 1847. Of the eleven Parisian residences of the writer, it is the only one which exists today. This house is also a witness to that which made the village of Passy during the last century: a place of holiday for city dwellers yearning for the country. Situated on the banks of the Seine, on a hillside, Balzac's house was officially transformed into a museum in 1949. It is the seat of the Balzac Studies Group and of the Balzac Society of Friends.Balzac took refuge in this dwelling in 1840 after having left the Jardies, at Sèvres, which was seized by creditors. At the epoch, the house was concealed by another building, a hotel into which it was necessary to enter, go down two floors and then give a password in order to arrive at the author's pavilion. Living under the borrowed name of Mr. Brugnol (the name of his housekeeper-mistress!), Balzac composed in this place a large part of his monumental masterpiece, La Comedie Humaine. La Rabouilleuse (The Black Sheep), Le Curé de Village (The Village Priest), Les Paysans, Ursule Mirouet, Honorine, Mémoire de Deux Jeunes Mariées, Modeste Mignon, Splendeurs et Misères des Courtisanes (A Harlot High and Low), La cousine Bette (Cousin Bette), Le Cousin Pons (Cousin Pons) and Une Tenebreuse Affaire (A Murky Business) were also all written in this house. Balzac wished to equal, through his writing, the work accomplished by the Emperor. In 1825, he had the "honour" of becoming the lover of one of the former glories of the Empire, the Duchess d'Abrantès, widow of General Junot. Thanks to her secrets and memories, he approached closer to this period of French history. She inspired him in the drafting of La Physiologie du Mariage (Physiology of Marriage), and, in exchange, he helped her write her memoirs which appeared from 1831 to 1835. Balzac's househas conserved its general aspects. If the furniture has almost disappeared because of later moves, the rooms have kept their proportions, their fireplaces and their ceiling decoration. The museum visit starts in the vestibule with an evocation of the writer and of the quarter, then, in Balzac's bedroom, with that of his family and of his close friends. Notably, his famous gold and turquoise knobbed cane is exhibited there.In the former living room, the memory of Madame Hanska, "the foreigner" who became Madame Balzac a few months before the death of the writer, is rekindled. Through a hallway, one reaches the study, the most moving room of the house with its stained-glass windows, its black marble fireplace, its Versailles parquet, and above all Balzac's armchair and table, of which he wrote: "I possessed it for ten years, it saw all of my misery, wiped away all of my tears, knew all of my projects, heard all of my thoughts. My arm almost wore it out moving back and forth over it as I wrote." The other rooms very richly illustrate the work and the life of the writer while a documentation centre, consisting of a library and an etching room, possess a collection of studies dedicated to the illustrious writer and a beautiful collection of first editions.
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- This article is about the Ghiscari people and culture. For the language see Old Ghiscari
- "Lamenting their lost empire, the descendants of Old Ghis grew rich and fat."
- ―Ser Jorah Mormont
The Ghiscari are a people and culture established on the region of Ghiscar and cities like New Ghis,Astapor, Yunkai, and Meereen. The modern Ghiscari are, in fact, a mongrel race descended from the original Ghiscari and a dozen races driven together by the Ghiscari Empire and its subsequent fall and subjugation by the Valyrian Freehold.
Ghiscari no longer speak the language of their forebears but a dialect of High Valyrian which also includes words of the dead Ghiscari tongue.
Prominent Ghiscari
- {Kraznys mo Nakloz}, of the Good Masters of Astapor. Burned alive by Drogon during the Sack of Astapor.
- {Greizhen mo Ullhor}, of the Good Masters of Astapor. Killed by Unsullied during the Sack of Astapor.
- Razdal mo Eraz, Master of Men and Speaker to Savages, of the Wise Masters of Yunkai, scion of the House of Eraz.
- {Prendahl na Ghezn}, one of the captains of the Second Sons mercenary company. Beheaded by Daario Naharis.
- Oznak zo Pahl, a Meereenese.
- Hizdahr zo Loraq, of the Great Masters of Meereen, scion of the House of Loraq.
In the books
In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels Ghiscari are a people clinging to the glorious past of the Ghiscari Empire. Their culture, language and religion, however, has been largerly replaced by that of their Valyrian conquerors.
Modern Ghiscari have dense, dark amber skin and wiry hair with red highlights. Ghiscari men the Slaver Cities are known to wear their hairs teased, oiled, and twisted into fantastic shapes such as wing or horns. They also wear cloaks of yellow with copper disks sewn on. Their tunics are embroidered linen. Below the waist they wear pleated linen skirts and sandals. The richest classes, who are primarily made up of slavers, wear the Tokar, a impractial outfit that forces the wearer to hold it with a hand - and a symbol of status, as the wearer indicates they do not perform any kind of labor. Ghiscari are also fond of rich foods; such as dogs, octopus stew and duck eggs.
Just as their Valyrian rivals are often associated with dragons, Ghiscari associate themselves with the symbol of the defunct Ghiscari Empire: the harpy.
See also
Cultures and Peoples of the Known World
|Sothoryos & isles of the Summer Sea
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