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Laos - Lao People's Revolutionary Party Lprp
Party Structure
When LPRP leaders came to power in 1975 as victorious revolutionaries guided by Marxism-Leninism, they retained a zeal for creating a "new socialist society and a new socialist man." They declared their twin economic goals as the achievement of "socialist transformation with socialist construction." They asserted that in establishing the LPDR in 1975, they had completed the "national democratic revolution." (The national goal had been to expel the French colonialists and the United States imperialists. The democratic goal was to overthrow "reactionary traitors, comprador bourgeoisie, bureaucrats, reactionaries, feudalists and militarists...."). The LPRP claimed that it had won the national democratic revolution by winning a "people's war" with a "worker-peasant" alliance, under the secret leadership of the LPRP working through a national front. It proclaimed a commitment to "proletarian internationalism" and the "law of Indochinese solidarity" and at the same time defined Vietnam and the Soviet Union as friends and the "unholy alliance" among United States imperialism, Chinese "great power hegemonism," and Thai militarism as enemies.
By the late 1980s, as communism was undergoing a radical transformation in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, Kaysone and his colleagues on the Politburo still professed an adherence to Marxism-Leninism, but they emphasized the necessity for Laos to pass through a stage of "state capitalism." Following Mikhail Gorbachev's example of perestroika, Kaysone proclaimed in 1989 that state enterprises were being severed from central direction and would be financially autonomous. V.I. Lenin's New Economic Policy was frequently cited to legitimize the movement toward a market economy and the necessity to stimulate private initiative.
By the early 1990s, even less of the Marxist-Leninist rhetoric remained. The party has continued to move internally toward more free-market measures and externally toward reliance upon the capitalist countries and the international institutions on which they depend for investment and assistance. The "law" of Indochinese solidarity has been amended, and the LPDR's "special relations" with its former senior partner are no longer invoked, even though party spokesmen still insist that Laos retains a solid friendship and "all-round cooperation" with Vietnam.
Despite this erosion of communist ideology, retaining exclusive political power remains a primary goal of the party. In a speech in 1990, Secretary General Kaysone asserted the basis of legitimacy of the party: The party is the center of our wisdom. It has laid down the correct and constructive line, patterns, and steps compatible with realities in our country and hence has led the Lao people in overcoming difficulties and numerous tests to win victory after victory, until the final victory. History has shown that our party is the only party which has won the credibility and trust of the people. Our party's leadership in our country's revolution is an objective requirement and historic duty entrusted to it by the Lao multiethnic people. Other political parties which had existed in our country have dissolved in the process of historical transformation. They failed to win the control and support of the people because they did not defend the national interest or fight for the interests and aspirations of the people.
Origins of the Party
The LPP steadily grew from its initial 300 to 400 members ("25 delegates representing 300 to 400 members" were said to have attended the founding congress of the party). By 1965 there were 11,000 members; by 1972, as it prepared to enter into the final coalition with the RLG, it had grown to some 21,000 members; by 1975, when the party seized full power, it claimed a membership of 25,000; and by 1991, at the convening of the Fifth Party Congress, the LPRP claimed its membership had increased to 60,000.
The LPRP has been organized in a manner common to other ruling communist parties, with greatest similarity to the Vietnamese Communist Party. As in other such parties, the highest authority is the party congress, a gathering of party cadres from throughout the country that meets on an intermittent schedule for several days to listen to speeches, learn the plans for future party strategy, and ratify decisions already taken by the party leadership.
Next in the party hierarchy--since the elimination of the Secretariat in 1991--is the Central Committee, the party elite who fill key political positions throughout the country. The Central Committee is charged with leading the party between congresses. In addition to members of the Politburo and former members of the Secretariat, the committee includes key government ministers, leading generals of the army, secretaries of provincial party committees, and chairpersons of mass organizations.
When the LPRP first revealed itself to the public in 1975, the Central Committee comprised twenty-one members and six alternates. By the Fourth Party Congress, its size had expanded to fifty-one members and nine alternates. The average age of a Central Committee member in 1986 was fifty-two, with the oldest seventy-seven and the youngest thirty-three. The number of women on the Central Committee rose from three to five, including Thongvin Phomvihan, then Secretary General Kaysone's wife, who was chair of the LPRP's People's Revolutionary Youth Union and, in 1982, the first woman appointed to the Central Committee.
At the Fifth Party Congress, the Central Committee stabilized in size at fifty-nine members and took on a few younger, more educated men to replace deceased or retired members. At the time, the oldest member was seventy-seven, the youngest thirty-five, with 22 percent over sixty, 30 percent between fifty and fifty-nine, and 40 percent under forty-nine. Only two women are full members of the Central Committee, and two continue as alternates. Thongvin Phomvihan--who had ranked thirty-fifth in 1986--was removed, accompanied by rumors of excessive political influence in her business activities. Notwithstanding this setback to Kaysone's family fortune, their son, Saisompheng Phomvihan, was appointed to the Central Committee, ranking forty-fifth, and was named governor of Savannakhét Province in 1993. This appointment inspired some private muttering about the emerging "princelings," referring as well to Souphanouvong's son, Khamsai Souphanouvong, number thirtyfour on the Central Committee, who became minister of finance.
Despite the party's rhetoric asserting ethnic equality, the Central Committee has been dominated by lowland Lao. Upland minorities remain sparsely represented at the highest levels of party leadership. Only four members of ethnic minority groups were reported on the Central Committee elected at the Fifth Party Congress.
The Central Committee is served by a number of subordinate committees. These committees include, most importantly, the Office of the Central Committee, and five other offices: Organization Committee; Propaganda and Training Committee; Party and State Control Committee; Administrative Committee of the Party and State School for Political Theory; and Committee for the Propagation of Party Policies.
Since 1972 the genuine center of political power, as in other communist parties, has resided in the Politburo. Membership of the Politburo, and formerly that of the Secretariat, is drawn from the Central Committee. A small group of men--seven in 1972 and eleven by 1993--have provided the critical leadership of the communist movement in Laos. A signal attribute of this group has been its remarkable cohesion and continuity. The Politburo has been dominated for more than fifteen years communist rule by the same stalwart band of revolutionary veterans. The twenty-five Laotian former members of the ICP who founded the LPP in 1955, and from whom the Politburo was drawn, remained in almost identical rank until illness and age began to take their toll in the 1980s. Kaysone was named secretary general of the then secret LPP upon its establishment, a post he retained until his death in 1992. Nouhak retained his number-two position on the Politburo into 1993. It was not until the Fifth Party Congress that Souphanouvong, Phoumi Vongvichit, and Sisomphone Lovansai (ranking third, fourth, and seventh, respectively) were retired with honorific titles as counselors to the Central Committee. Prime Minister Khamtai Siphandon was promoted to succeed Kaysone as chief of the party, and Phoun Sipaseut advanced a notch in rank. In 1991 the Politburo numbered ten, including only two new members.
Although the exact manner of Politburo decision making has never been revealed, a collegiality, based on long years of common experience, appears to have developed. In addition to their powerful position on the Politburo, members exercise additional political power--perhaps even more than in most other communist systems--through important posts within the governmental structure. In fact, for many years, five Politburo members also held seats on the Secretariat.
At the Fifth Party Congress, the party abolished the nineperson Secretariat of the Central Committee and changed the designation of the head of the party (Kaysone) from secretary general to chairman. Until it was abolished, the Secretariat wielded influence second only to that of the Politburo. The Secretariat issued party directives and acted on behalf of the Central Committee when it was not in session, in effect managing the day-to-day business of the party. Khamtai Siphandon became party chairman in November 1992, but it is not certain whether he will accrue the same power and influence as his predecessor.
Each of the sixteen provinces (khoueng) is directed by a party committee, chaired by a party secretary who is the dominant political figure in the province. At a lower level are 112 districts (muang), further divided into subdistricts (tasseng), each with their own party committees. Administratively, subdistricts have been abolished in principle since around 1993, but implementation has been uneven across provinces. It is unknown whether subdistrictlevel party committees have also been abolished. At the base of the country's administrative structure are more than 11,000 villages (ban), only some of which have party branches.
Semisecrecy of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party
Unlike other communist regimes, the LPRP has long maintained a semisecrecy about its mode of operation and the identity of its rank-and-file members. However, the LPRP follows the standard communist practice of planting party members within all principal institutions of society--in government, in mass organizations, and, formerly, in agricultural collectives. These individuals serve as leaders and transmit party policy. They also act as the eyes and ears of the central party organization. Although party members are admonished not to reveal themselves, it is not difficult for knowledgeable persons to pick out the party members in their organization. In each ministry, for example, the key power wielders are party members. All party members do not, of course, hold positions of authority. Some occupy the lower ranks, serving, for example, as messengers, drivers, and maintenance personnel.
By the late 1980s, some of the LPRP's semisecrecy had eroded. Party leadership lists, which, during revolutionary and early postrevolutionary days had been secret, were published. But a quasi-clandestine attitude remains among the party rank and file that can be explained by several factors. Clandestine behavior is an old habit that is not easily shed. Secrecy adds to the party's mystery, inspires anxiety and fear, and contributes to control. In view of its long history of revolutionary activity, party veterans fear infiltration and subversion. LPRP pronouncements during its first decade of rule frequently alluded to "CIA and Thaireactionary -inspired agents," and later, when relations with China grew tense, to the danger of "big power hegemonism." Moreover, party leaders appear to lack confidence in the quality of their membership, speaking from time to time about "bad elements" within the party.
The LPRP is relatively small compared with other incumbent parties. For example, the 40,000 members that the party claimed in 1985 represented 1.1 percent of the population (estimating 3.5 million inhabitants). In 1979 the Vietnamese Communist Party had 1.5 million members in a population of 53 million, or approximately 3 percent.
The LPRP has its roots in the Indochinese Communist Party (ICP), founded by Ho Chi Minh in 1930. (Ho Chi Minh led the struggle for Vietnamese independence and was the president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) from 1945 until his death in 1969.) The ICP, composed entirely of Vietnamese members in its early years, formed the Committee for Laos (or a "Lao section") in 1936. Only in the mid-1940s did the Vietnamese communist revolutionaries step up active recruitment of Laotian members. In 1946 or early 1947, Kaysone Phomvihan, a law student at the University of Hanoi, was recruited, and Nouhak Phoumsavan, engaged in a trucking business in Vietnam, joined in 1947.
In February 1951, the Second Congress of the ICP resolved to disband the party and to form three separate parties representing the three states of Indochina. However, it was not until March 22, 1955, at the First Party Congress, that Phak Pasason Lao (Lao People's Party--LPP) was formally proclaimed. (The name LPRP was adopted at the Second Party Congress in 1972.) It seems likely that from 1951 to 1955, key Laotian former members of the ICP provided leadership for the "resistance" movement in Laos, under the tutelage of their Vietnamese senior partners. In 1956 the LPP founded the Neo Lao Hak Xat (Lao Patriotic Front--LPF) the political party of the Pathet Lao (Lao Nation, to act as the public mass political organization. Meanwhile, the LPP remained clandestine, directing the activities of the front.
The Vietnamese communists provided critical guidance and support to the growing party during the revolutionary period. They helped to recruit the leadership of the Laotian communist movement; from its inception, the LPRP Political Bureau (Politburo) was made up of individuals closely associated with the Vietnamese. The Vietnamese furnished facilities and guidance for training not only the top leadership but also the entire Laotian communist movement. The Vietnamese assigned advisers to the party, as well as to the military forces of the LPF. Under the guidance of North Vietnamese mentors, LPRP leaders shaped a Marxist-Leninist party, political and mass organizations, and an army and a bureaucracy, all based upon the North Vietnamese model.
From their perspective, Laotian communists had not compromised their legitimacy as a nationalist movement by their dependence on Hanoi. During the revolutionary period prior to 1975, when LPRP leaders looked to the North Vietnamese for a sense of overall direction and cohesion, they found many common interests. Both parties faced the same enemies: first France and then the United States. They held a similar view of the world and of the desirable solution to its problems. In some cases, this affinity was strengthened by family relations (for example, Kaysone, whose Vietnamese father, Luan Phomvihan, had been a secretary to the French resident in Savannakhét) or marriage ties (Souphanouvong and Nouhak had Vietnamese wives).
Following the First Party Congress, it was seventeen years until the Second Party Congress was convened, in February 1972. The Third Party Congress met ten years later, in April 1982; the Fourth Party Congress convened in November 1986, and the Fifth Party Congress in March 1991.
Ideology of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party
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Since the LPDR was proclaimed in December 1975, its leadership has been remarkably stable and cohesive. The record of continuous service at the highest ranks is equaled by few, if any, regimes in the contemporary world. Laotian leaders have an equally impressive record of unity. Although outside observers have scrutinized the leadership for factions--and some have postulated at various times that such factions might be divided along the lines of MarxistLeninist ideologues versus pragmatists or pro-Vietnamese versus nationalists (or pro-Chinese), there is no solid evidence that the leadership is seriously divided on any critical issues.
In 1975 the Laotian communist leaders, most of whom had spent the revolutionary decade from 1964 to 1974 operating from Pathet Lao headquarters in the caves of Sam Neua Province, came down from the mountains to Vientiane to direct the new government. At the outset of their accession to power, they were suspicious, secretive, and inaccessible, and lower-level cadres were maladroit in imposing heavy bureaucratic controls. Travel within the country was limited, personal and family behavior was monitored by newly organized revolutionary administrative committees, cadres were assigned to disseminate propaganda, and seminars were held to provide political education for all sorts of groups. During these early years, the party squandered much of the goodwill and friendly acceptance from a population tired of war and the corruption of the old regime.
At first, Laotian communist leaders were committed to fulfilling their revolutionary goals of fundamentally altering society through "socialist transformation and socialist construction." After 1979 the regime modified its earlier zealous pursuit of socialism and pursued more liberal economic and social policies, in much the same manner as Vietnam.
For more than a decade after 1975, the Vietnamese continued to exercise significant influence upon the Laotian leadership through a variety of party, military, and economic channels. By the end of the 1980s, however--in particular following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Soviet bloc in 1991 and diminishing assistance from the Soviet Union to Vietnam and Laos--Vietnam turned inward to concentrate on its own problems of development. This emboldened Laotians leaders to jettison even more of their socialist ideological baggage, abandon agricultural collectivization, and move toward a market economy. Laos was also free to pursue an independent foreign policy. The single most important vestige of the former communist system was the solitary ruling party, the LPRP.
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Whereas communist parties in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe have crumbled, in Laos, the ruling communist party, the Phak Pasason Pativat Lao (Lao People's Revolutionary Party-- LPRP has retained undiluted political control. The constitution, adopted in August 1991, notes simply in Article 3 that the LPRP is the "leading nucleus" of the political system. LPRP statutes, revised following the Fifth Party Congress held in 1991, leave no doubt regarding the dominant role of the party:
The party is...the leading core of the entire political system, hub of intelligence, and representative of the interest of the people of all strata. The party formulates and revises the major lines and policies on national development in all spheres; finds solutions to major problems; determines the policies regarding personnel management, training of cadres, and supplying key cadres for different levels; controls and supervises activities of party cadres and members, state agencies and mass organizations.
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We made two wild boar driven hunts in Bulgaria at 30.11 and 14.12. The result was obvious in the attached photos. The hunters' groups were compact and that allowed us to make 4 drives every day. On the first hunting day we were able to shoot 5 wild boars and on the second hunting day our hunters made 25 shots targeting a 50-60 wild boars sounder and 8 were shot successfully.
On a wild boar driven hunting in Bulgaria 30% success shot rate is considered average and 50% success rate on the running boars is excellent.
If you are dreaming about wild boar driven hunting do not hesitate to contact me. I would be more than happy to organize such emotional hunt in Bulgaria but also I will personally accompany you during your entire stay in Bulgaria and will be hunting side by side with you.


on Sept. 24, Prince will not only make his first Chicago appearance since 2004 – which, truth be told, isn't that newsworthy, since about 99% of all the other cities in America haven't seen His Purpleness, either – but also kick off a residency at the Union Center, with a series of as-yet-to-be-revealed dates to follow. He has also announced that the shows are in alignment with Rebuild the Dream, which is a start-local/go-global economic initiative.
Check it out at the link; meanwhile, you'll be able to order tickets (and presumably, for more than just the 24th) starting Sept. 6 at the Union Center; but be forewarned, as the "buy tickets" link will take you to Ticketbastard.


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Q: How does Imagick::recolorImage function work? I have been looking in documentation, but it is poorly described that it can take matrix as argument. There is no explanation at all what is the meaning of parameters. To be honest there is one example which takes array of 9 values for an argument which is so more confusing.
Where can I find decent materials about this? Maybe someone know how to use this properly and can explain?

A: In ImageMagick command line, recolor was change to color-matrix and can be found at http://www.imagemagick.org/script/command-line-options.php#color-matrix. But a good reference to how it works is at http://designstacks.net/color-matrix, which has an interactive tool. Also see examples at http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/color_mods/#color-matrix
Basically, colors are represented as fractions in the range 0 to 1.
For a 3x3 matrix, each row represents the fraction of input red, input green and input blue that will be mixed (added) to form the output color. The first row computes the output red, the second row computes the output green and third row computes the output blue.
More columns are used for alpha and for bias (extra last column, if desired). More rows are for CMYK or CMYKA.
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— a jailhouse memoir —
Teddy Ruiz's reputation didn't align with his first name, with the Steady Teddys of the world, society's Winnie the Poohs. Ace, Ivan, Tito—these shadier, grittier names better suited Ruiz's history. A small-town larrikin, he had managed to etch the "Mr. Bad Boy" image into the scenery of his youth.
I'd never met him, but the stories were garish—beat up his old man for a lark at seventeen; tossed out the door of a polite party, he re-entered swinging a fire ax; broke a cop's arm with his own nightstick. Not heinous crimes by modern measure, but these dated to the West Coast's peaceful '60s, before Mac-10s and drive-by mayhem. In that context, Ted Ruiz had a rep. Still, it wasn't a name I expected to find scratched in the paint of my cell block, especially at County, where some of my cellies, for crimes even more sinister than mine, were waiting for transfer to the state pen.
"They booked you for trespassing?" The guy talking—the dude talking, named Dwayne, as I would learn—had been pushing a broom down the narrow cellblock hall. Now he stopped, looking at me, leaning on his taxpayers' broom on the taxpayers' floor in the Santa Barbara County jailhouse, corner of Anacapa and Figueroa. He was loafing, a fact I chose not to point out to someone who seemed inured to life in the joint.
"Yeah, trespassing," I repeated, staring at my bare feet, still grass- and dirt-stained from my venture of the night before, "and disturbing the peace."
"Is that a fact?" His accent was Billy Graham-Slim Pickens.
I nodded. "And malicious mischief." Though unschooled on the codes of incarceration, I sensed copping to the whole rap posed no risk to my standing among the prisoner class. The three-strikes rule wouldn't apply.
Disgusted, disappointed, Dwayne nearly spit bile. "Fucking screws!" he cried. It had the ring of learned opinion, and I hoped it didn't refer to me.
Cool Hand Luke-ish, I said, "Yeah. Yeah. What about you?"
"G.T.A." Yes, grand theft auto, but this was 1971, not a video game.
"What'd you steal?"
He considered me from under one rust-colored eyebrow, an honor-among-thieves appraisal. "Which time?"
"Which . . .? Oh."
Looking wistfully into space, as if in self-analysis, he began confirming things. "XKE," he said, "Olds 4-4-2. MGB. 409 Chevy. I guess I got into them letters and numbers." The observation seemed new to him, and he nodded. "I liked the Os, too—Camaros, Rancheros, El Dorados."
Wholesale boosting of high-value vehicles was well beyond my own criminal ambitions, but we were rolling now, Dwayne and I. "Anything else?"
"ADW." He was challenging my code-breaking skills, which must have been evident across my corrugated brow. "Assault with a deadly weapon," he said, as though explaining to a ten year old.
I looked around for an escape tunnel to mommy and daddy's house. Again, he read my mind.
"Don't sweat it. It was a cop. I don't hassle squares, no offense."
No offense taken . . . at being called a square by Dwayne while on his way to the Big House for—get this—trying to kill a policeman. Offended? Moi? In fact, I was relieved, though I doubt it was apparent through the film of sweat now covering all my exposed surfaces.
If I may explain—
It was Saturday morning. At about 11:30 the night before, I and a dozen other good-for-nothing teenage drunks stumbled out of a fraternity house near UCSB wearing only boxer shorts, and intent on popularizing ourselves with some of—any of—the local females. The communal alcohol-and-testosterone hallucination under which we were functioning argued that we were exceedingly desirable to young women, but invisible to authority figures. Within the hour, disabused of this imagined state of affairs, three of us were in the back seat of a Dodge black-and-white en route to the county lock-up.
Standing barefoot in one's choners, courting a mammoth hangover before a small crowd of sniggering coppers, while being fingerprinted and booked on three penny-ante misdemeanors makes for deep regrets in the small hours of the morning. Still, to paraphrase the man, Act like slime, you do the time. So, we were ready, right? Bullshit.
The two guys I got nabbed with were near strangers to me, one called Baff-man, patios for buffoon, and UCSB argot for deranged, someone who abused the rules. He thought the nickname made him sound licensed to raise hell, which he did. I'd met Baff-man for a few sober milliseconds in some lifetime before being handcuffed to him and hauled off to the calaboose. His buddy, Mike McLaughlin, was known as Jackal to his confederates, not because he scavenged dead meat that others had abandoned—though he did this—but because it referred to a scurrilous, untrustworthy creature beneath a dog's contempt. He liked the effect. Ah, college life!
At the last sorority house to which we'd laid juvenile siege, Jackal and Baff-man had been tossed without ceremony into the sheriff's car. I, in inebriated chivalry, and convinced that they shouldn't go to jail alone, behaved obnoxiously to all and sundry long enough to get collared and pushed into the backseat of the cruiser.
Once booked on the ground floor at County, we climbed three flights of stairs into a short corridor bounded by five-foot windows to the left overlooking the courthouse's spot-lit main wing—an icon of Spanish Colonial architecture—and the lawn of its sunken gardens, now shrouded in a veil of midnight mist tinged silver-gray by the light of a descending moon. On our right, opposite the windows, was a floor-to-ceiling wall of white-painted prison bars. Beyond them lay a parallel universe, another corridor onto which opened a row of square, iron-slatted chambers—the jail. Our guard marched us
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The KSU Ice Arena is a two-rink ice complex located on the campus of Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, United States.  The building contains two ice rinks, one with seating for 1,500 fans that is used for ice hockey and figure skating, with the other used for general skating.  The two rinks are connected by a large lobby and snack bar.  The facility also includes a meeting room and a skate-sharpening service.  The building was built in 1970 and underwent a major renovation project in 2006–2007 which included seating and locker room upgrades in the main arena.

Tenants
The building was built in 1970 for student recreation and as the home first of a club hockey team known as the "Clippers" from 1970–1980 and later for the varsity Kent State Golden Flashes men's ice hockey team, which played there from 1980 through the 1993–94 season when the university eliminated NCAA ice hockey due to budget concerns.  From 1992 to 1994 the team was a member of the Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA).  Since 1994, the arena has hosted the men's club-level team, which competes in the American Collegiate Hockey Association (ACHA) Division I as a member of the College Hockey Mid-America (CHMA). An additional club team that competes in the Division III level of the ACHA as a member of College Hockey East began play in 2019. The ice arena also hosts the Kent Cyclones youth teams as well as four area high school teams: Theodore Roosevelt High School in Kent, Western Reserve Academy and Hudson High School in Hudson, and Stow–Munroe Falls High School in Stow.  The arena is also home to the Kent Skating Club, associated with the United States Figure Skating Association. In 2021 the university announced plans to create a facility for the university's marching band there due to a planned loss of facilities elsewhere on campus.

Interior
The main arena, used for ice hockey and figure skating, consists of two sections of bleacher seating, one section along each sideline.  The north side bleachers are located behind the team benches and include a small balcony section and press area.  The south side bleachers are elevated as to be above the main entry of the arena and were built as part of the 2006 renovations, replacing the original floor-level retractable bleachers.  The new seating also includes an elevator for disabled access and allows fans to look right into the penalty boxes for both the home and visiting teams.

See also
Kent State Golden Flashes

References

External links
Kent State Ice Arena
Kent State Ice Hockey
Kent Skating Club

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Kent State Golden Flashes men's ice hockey

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We put together the annual CSE Winter Light Show: a display of over 250,000 lights individually sequenced to music every December in the Civil Engineering Courtyard. It hosts a huge variety of light features, including a snowman band, a 22' tall lit tree, and a 12' by 4' LED matrix. We build and program the control boards, build the light features, and individually sequence each light to music. The show has become an annual campus tradition, as well as a Teslaworks tradition. We are looking to recruit as many as people as possible to work on the project. No experience is needed, and students from all types of majors contribute to the light show. If you love lights, consider helping out with this amazing event!
No regular meeting times in the spring semester. Days will be scheduled in response to project necessity. Meetings usually start in exceed.
If you want to learn more about the project, come to one of our project meetings or contact Dylan Brady ([email protected]).


Bakewell pudding and the sandwich have been awarded places in England's Hall of Fame, beating off competition from hundreds of other foods.
Organised by national tourist board VisitEngland, the Hall of Fame Exhibition opens on St George's Day (23 April) at Observation Point on London's Southbank, showcasing the best of England, from the Beatles to Brunel.
The sandwich and Bakewell pudding were awarded gold and bronze awards, respectively, in the food and drink category, with Plymouth's gin distillery taking silver. The winners were chosen from a list voted for by the public, with the overall People's Choice Award set to be revealed tomorrow.
The search to establish England's Hall of Fame began in February when VisitEngland asked the public to submit their suggestions via an app on what England had brought to the world and what made the country such a diverse and fascinating place to visit and explore.
Categories included: The Great, The Good and the Notorious; Inventions & Discoveries; Food & Drink; History & Heritage; Culture & Entertainment and Sport & Leisure. Other winners included graffiti artist Banksy, Robin Hood and the Magna Carta.
Bakery products on the final shortlist of 10 products in the food and drink category included Cornish Pasties, Melton Mowbray pork pies and Yorkshire Puddings.
Julie Hurst, manager of The Old Original Bakewell Pudding Shop in Bakewell, which claims to be the custodian of the original recipe, said: "It is a huge honour for the Original Bakewell Pudding to appear in England's Hall of Fame and to find ourselves among some of the country's premium assets.


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Oromía (en oromo, Oromiya u Oromiyaa) es una de las diez divisiones étnicas o regiones (o Kililoch) de Etiopía. Con una superficie de 286 612 km² es la más grande del país. Cuenta con una población estimada de 35 millones de habitantes, constituyendo la región más poblada de Etiopía. Está poblado, mayoritariamente por la etnia oromo (antes llamada galla o gal'la ). Su capital es la ciudad de Adama.

Historia

Oromía fue anexionada a finales del siglo XIX a Etiopía. En 1918, el príncipe oromo, Lij Yasu (Miguel), hijo del rey de Wolo (Oromía) Mohammed Ali, llegó al trono pero al ser derrocado por Haile Selassie el reino de Wolo se declaró independiente. En 1935, con la invasión italiana ad portas, los oromo reclamaron ser reconocidos como estado. En 1936, los oromo combatieron contra los italianos y cesaron su guerra contra Etiopía. En 1941 reclamaron de nuevo ser reconocidos como un Estado independiente. En el mismo año, Oromo reanudó su guerra contra Hailes Selassie, pero con ayuda de aviones británicos fueron derrotados enseguida.

En 1963 se inició la rebelión dirigida por Waqo Gutu (revuelta de Bale) que se extendió por las tres provincias oromas; la cual no fue controlada recién hasta 1972. En 1964 se creó una organización pan-oroma la Asociación MatchaTulama (1964-1967) dirigida por el General Tadesse Birru. En 1967, dicha organización fue prohibida. De los restos de esta organización y otros grupos nacionalistas surgió en 1973 el Frente de Liberación de Oromo (FLO).

En 1975, el Dergue —el Gobierno militar marxista— prometió la autodeterminación a los distintos pueblos de Etiopía. Por un tiempo consiguió cierto apoyo, pero pronto se vio que se trataba de una dominación amhara. En la lucha contra la Junta militar participaron varios grupos nacionalistas y entre ellos el FPLT quien solicitó una acción común al FLO. Como este se negó el FPLT organizó un nuevo movimiento de liberación con los prisioneros de guerra de esta etnia: la Organización Democrática del Pueblo Oromo (ODPO) de tendencia marxista. Simultáneamente crearon también un grupo de oposición que en realidad pretendía representar a los Amhara: el Movimiento Revolucionario de Oficiales Democráticos Etíopes (MRODE).

En 1981 un grupo del Partido Revolucionario del Pueblo Etíope (PRPE) se había rendido al FPLT y con ellos se organizó otra organización amhara: el Movimiento Democrático del Pueblo Etíope (MDPE). Con estos grupos se formó el Frente Democrático Revolucionario del Pueblo Etíope (FDRPE). En 1992 el FLO anunció que no participaría en las elecciones y que se retiraba del gobierno de transición del cual era uno de los tres fundadores. La Coalición Democrática de Pueblos del Sur de Etiopía (10 partidos) rechazó los resultados electorales que dieron la hegemonía al FPLT y sus organizaciones regionales satélites.

Geografía
Oromía abarca unos 286.612 kilómetros cuadrados e incluye la antigua provincia de Arsi junto con partes de las antiguas provincias de Bale, Hararghe, Illubabor, Kaffa, Shewa y Sidamo. Los pueblos de la región incluyen Adama, Ambo, Asella, Badessa, Bale Robe, Bedele, Bishoftu, Begi, Bule Hora, Chiro, Dembidolo, Fiche, Gimbi, Goba, Haramaya, Jimma, Metu, Nekemte, Sebeta, Shashamane y Waliso, entre muchos otros.

Subdivisiones Administrativas

La Región Oromía se encuentra dividida en 12 zonas administrativas, cada una de las cuales se subdivide en diversos woredas, o distritos. En total la región cuenta con 180 woredas.

 Zona Arsi (20 woredas):
 Zona Bale (17 woredas):
 Zona Borena (12 woredas):
 Zona Illubabor (12 woredas):
 Zona Yima (13 woredas):
 Zona Hararghe Occidental (10 woredas):
 Zona Hararghe Oriental (15 woredas):
 Zona Shewa Occidental (23 woredas):
 Zona Shewa Oriental (12 woredas):
 Zona Shewa del Norte (12 woredas):
 Zona Welega Occidental (17 woredas):
 Zona Welega Oriental (17 woredas):

Demografía
Según a la información del Censo 2007 entregada por la Agencia Central de Estadística de Etiopía, Oromía tiene una población total de 27.158.471 habitantes, de los cuales 13.676.159 son hombres y 13.482.312 mujeres; la población urbana en tanto, alcanza los 3.370.040 de habitantes, o el 11,3% de la población. La región tiene una densidad de 76,93 personas por km².

De acuerdo a las cifras censales, la región presenta 5.590.530 viviendas, siendo habitadas por un promedio de 4,8 personas (3,8 personas por vivienda urbana y 5,0 personas por vivienda rural). En cuanto a los grupos étnicos, se incluyen aquellos pertenecientes a la etnia Oromo (87,8%), etnia Amhara (7,22%), etnia Gurage (0,93% - incluyendo Sebat Bet Gurage, Soddo Gurage, y Silt'e); el restante 4% lo constituyen otros grupos étnicos.

Del total de población, el 47,5% es musulmana; el 30,5% cristiana copta; el 17,7% protestantes; el 3,3% seguidores de religiones tradicionales; y el 1,1% restante lo constituyen otros grupos religiosos. En las zonas urbanas, los cristianos ortodoxos constituyen el 51,2% de la población, seguidos por los musulmanes con el 29,9%, 17,5% protestantes, y el 1,5% restante a otros grupos.

Partidos políticos
El partido Organización Democrática del Pueblo Oromo (ODPO) y el Frente Unitario de Liberación de Oromo forman parte del gobierno del estado. En la resistencia destacan el Frente de Liberación de Oromía (OLF), el Islamic Front for the Liberation of Oromía (IFLO). En la opoaición se sitúan el Oromo People's Liberation Organization (OPLO/IBSO) y el United Oromo People's Liberation Front (UOPLF)

En 1992 el gobierno se propuso eliminar al OLF al que se consideraba poco activo. Pero en 1994 los incidentes empezaron a ser frecuentes. En 1995 la actividad se extendió a Bale, Hararge y Borana. La guerrilla en la zona se considera enquistada, pero carece de apoyo exterior suficiente.

El Islamic Front for the Liberation of Oromia inició su actividad armada en 1994 pero desde 1995 no se mencionaron nuevos ataques. Está apoyado por Arabia Saudi. Un intento sudanés de reactivarlo más recientemente no tuvo continuidad.

Referencias

Región de Oromía


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I use Notepad++ with both English and Hebrew. As a result, I frequently have to change the direction of the text (ctrl+alt+'R'/'L'). However, when I do any of that, it reverses the whole document, including even the line numbers. Strangely so, if I minimize the window and open it again, it gets fixed.
Any reason for this peculiar bug? Any way to fix it?
Yes, it is seems to be a N++ bug in v6.5.
There are related bugs still open, see #1721, #3781 and I don't know if this is a coincidence, but a few hours ago the exact same bug that you found has just been reported, see: #4550!
As a general comment, if your language is a right-to-left one (like Hebrew), I would suggest to try another editor in complement. Because at some point you will need to edit a bidirectional text, and Notepad++ is not good handling that (has limited support). Check this Wikipedia list of text editors supporting RTL & bidirectional (and notice N++'s entry).
Old Notepad++ versions work OK with this function... Search for Notepad++ Pro.v6.3.3.rar that also include user.manual guide not present in recently versions.


I moderated several panels on trade and wrote a series for The Globalist about what TTIP means for consumers, from car safety standards and data privacy to regulations for cheese and sunscreen. And I authored an academic paper for the Friedrich Ebert Foundation comparing the U.S. goals in free trade negotiations with Europe and Asia.
Throughout the past year, I expanded the Flying Carpet Empire with training in new (to me) journalistic media. In June 2013, I took a weeklong documentary radio class at the Center for Documentary Studies in Durham, NC. My partner for the week, Natalie and I produced this feature about Zomppa, a local organization that teaches children about healthy food options.
In the fall I started working part-time at the Washington studio of German news TV channel N24. From N24's perch overlooking the White House, me and my Flying Hair provided live coverage about revelations that the NSA tapped German Chancellor Merkel's cell phone. Off camera, I produced packages on topics ranging from cyber bullying in U.S. schools to an interview with a New York-based heir to a German art collector whose paintings were looted by the Nazis.
As usual, I followed political developments in Washington. Here is an article I wrote about the NSA scandal for Zeit Online and another one for Das Parlament. Please see my tag bar on the right side of this blog for a list of articles in these andn other publications.
For Capital, I wrote a longer piece about how business groups and moderate conservatives are trying to take back the Republican Party from the right-wing Tea Party fringe. The Republican Mainstreet Partnership posted an English translation of my piece.
As a fun new gig I now write a column for America Journal about Transatlantic observations in my every day life in Washington. So far I've written about opulent American weddings (as opposed to more modest German equivalents), about the global reach of the U.S. tax authority, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and about buying houses and moving in Germany vs. the U.S. For the latest issue, I also wrote an essay about American highways and byways.–a chance to get very nostalgic remembering my own road trips in the past six years.
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Enjoyed Return of the Flying Carpet and The Journey of a Steak. The little one looks adorable in the photos below.
Thanks Elaine, and safe travels in Uganda! I wasn't sure if I should post a pic of him but I thought in this case it was ok to add a personal touch.


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The archaeological guides are written by well known archaeologists with the thought that they might evoke the spirit of these places for those are intersted in remains of Anatolian civilizations. Illıstrated with beauitiful photographs, equipped with helpful plans and drawings, they are essential to travellers to Turkey.
Metropolis is a city of the Mother Goddess in lonia. The classical city of Metropolis is situated 45 km from İzmir and the Aegean coast overlooking the Torbalı plain alongside the İzmir - Aydın motorway. In classical times the communication route was the Cayster River (Küçük Menderes) and Metropolis lay at the mid point between Smyrna and Ephesus. Lying beneath the classical citys is a Byzantine settlement and fort, also used during the Ottoman period. Metropolis lived its golden era during the Late Hekkenistic Period. Altars were erected in honour of Emperor Augustus during Roman Imperial Period. It became a bishopric in the Age of Byzantine Empire. Its people governed the city from its acropolis, worshipped gods, wandered and shopped in its stoa, decided on city in bouleuterion,
enjoyed plays in its theatre. Now archaeologists are excavating where Metropolis once built, tracking past civilizations autboring the story of hummanity reaching our days from centuries ago. The site has been excavated for the past 18 years by the Dokuz Eylül Üniversity, İzmir under the guidance of Professor Recep Meriç. From 2007 Dr Serdar Aybek from The University of Trakya has taken over leadership of the excavation.


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En géométrie, deux cercles sécants dans un plan sont dits orthogonaux si en chacun des deux points d'intersection les tangentes à l'un et à l'autre cercle sont orthogonales. Par raison de symétrie, il suffit que la propriété précédente ait lieu en un des points d'intersection. D'autre part, chaque tangente précitée à l'un des cercles passe par le centre de l'autre.

La figure formée par les deux centres O, O''' et un des deux points d'intersection est un triangle rectangle. Par le théorème de Pythagore, il en résulte la relation entre les deux rayons et la distance entre les centres : OO'  = R  + R' .

Réciproquement, si deux cercles sont sécants et vérifient cette relation ils sont orthogonaux.

Pour que deux cercles soient orthogonaux, il faut et il suffit qu'il existe un diamètre de l'un d'entre eux qui soit divisé harmoniquement par l'autre.
En effet la puissance du point O par rapport au cercle (c') est OA = OP' × OQ'.
On a donc OP = OQ = OP' × OQ'. [P, Q, P', Q'] est une division harmonique d'après la relation de Newton.

Application : étant donné un cercle (c) et un point M, distinct du centre O et n'appartenant pas au cercle, pour trouver les cercles orthogonaux à (c) passant par M, tracer le diamètre [PQ] sur la droite (OM) et trouver le point M' tel que [P, Q, M, M'] soit une division harmonique :
. Tout cercle passant par M et M', centré sur la médiatrice de [MM'], est orthogonal à (c).
L'ensemble des cercles passant par M et orthogonaux à (c) est un faisceau de cercles à points de base M et M'.

 Cercle orthogonal à trois cercles (de centres non alignés)
C'est le cercle, parfois anciennement appelé cercle orthotomique, dont le centre O est le centre radical des trois cercles et dont le rayon est égal à la racine de la puissance p du point O par rapport à l'un des trois cercles. Si O est à l'intérieur des cercles, p est négatif, le problème n'a pas de solution dans le plan métrique réel.

 Faisceaux orthogonaux

Étant donné deux cercles (c) et (c1) non concentriques, il existe une infinité de cercles (γ) orthogonaux à (c) et (c1), ils sont aussi orthogonaux à tous les cercles du faisceau déterminé par (c) et (c1).

Les cercles (γ) orthogonaux aux cercles (c) d'un faisceau F forment un faisceau Φ conjugué de F. L'axe radical d'un des faisceaux est la droite des centres de l'autre.
Si l'un des faisceaux est formé de cercles tangents, il en est de même de l'autre. Sinon si l'un des faisceaux est à points de base, l'autre est à points limites, et il y a identité entre ces couples de points.

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BlackBerry's Passport is getting troubled giant traveling again
The media knives are rarely sheathed for BlackBerry these days. Last month it was reported that the Canadian firm's year-long CEO, John Chen, had to ask his wife to stop flashing her Samsung smartphone at company parties. The boss' wife, articles chuckled, couldn't stand a BlackBerry. Even President Obama's fondness for the brand has been met with bemused derision.
When the firm's latest handset, the Passport, arrived in September, it gave Blackberry's doubters even more cause for cheer. Here was a company mired in falling profits, consumer apathy and a disappearance of its once-dominant market share, releasing a odd-shaped 'phablet' that looked like a fat version of its failing forebears.
But the Passport's reviews have come in. And the diagnosis is good. Its features, including a 13-megapixel camera, full QWERTY keyboard, 3Gb RAM and 32Gb storage have impressed tech journalists worldwide, who've chosen to deem BlackBerry's offer of up to $550 trade-in for a switch from Apple's iPhone as inspired, rather than desperate.
Now, with the Waterloo, Ontario-headquartered firm's first operating profit in five quarters behind it, Chen, who was brought in from Sybase last November, can claim an impressive turnaround. The Hong Kong-born chief immediately launched plans to cull 40% of BlackBerry's jobs. Manufacturing was outsourced and, in August, much of the company's IP and core technology was consolidated, with former Sony Ericsson CEO Bert Nordberg hired to head the division.
BlackBerry's smartphone market share still stands at a lowly 0.5%, from 2011's 13.6%. But while it remains rooted behind Android, Apple and even Microsoft, many analysts are upbeat about BlackBerry's Passport-era prospects.
"My impression of where they stand now compared to where they were 12 to 24 months ago, is that it does look like they're in a better position," says Richard Tse, technology analyst at Cormark Securities. "They've got a good handle on the cash structure. And they're saying they'll break even by the end of the year."
Tse points to hires such as Nordberg's to a bright personnel future. "They're picking off people from companies that have had channel experience," he says. "They're also picking up competitors on the MDM (mobile device management) side. The stock is down today, but the gyrations of the headlines will take time to focus on that side of things."
Tse warns that the success of the Passport – whose dimensions ape those of a Canadian passport – rests on a huge degree of execution. And though the product is sold out, even Chen admits that production has been low. But he describes its current product line as deeper and more robust.
"With a new platform in place, a new CEO, and a strategy focusing on the enterprise segment, which has always been BlackBerry's strength, BlackBerry now has a much clearer strategy going forward but also a more niche market to play," says Susana Santos, research analyst at WE Mobile Devices.
The Passport "not only stands out from the crowd but also it is immediate recognized as a BlackBerry device thanks to its distinctiveness and popularity a few years ago," adds Santos. "It brings very competitive specs and it shows some innovation. The Passport also showcases all the services the company has launched recently to serve enterprises (BlackBerry Protected, Blend, Hub, etc.) and consumers (Amazon Appstore access, BlackBerry Assistant and Story)."
The Passport's niche appeal means that it will not immediately revive BlackBerry's fortunes, argues Santos, who cannot reconcile its attack on developed markets with BlackBerry's main volumes in emerging markets. "However, in developed markets it will help the vendor to keep its current market share. It will be very difficult to attract users in the consumer segment but certainly will attract users in the enterprise segment and especially will help keeping loyal customers hooked to the platform."
Other promising signs for Chen and his charges include a security deal with Samsung, and unlocked consumer discounts at Amazon from $699 to $499. The Passport was Amazon's biggest smartphone seller during the annual Black Friday feeding frenzy.
Tech expert and consultant Scott Steinberg is bullish about BlackBerry's prospects, which are changing with an evolved business model. He says: " They've realized that differentiation needs to be a priority. At one point Blackberry was slow to move, and now they've realized it's important to move quickly, and in a novel direction. You have to give them kudos for being a lot more aggressive."
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Pay It Forward RT 2014 CHALLENGE–Collect, Donate and WIN!
to those who cannot access books of their own.
I challenge readers and authors to help me donate 50,000 books by the end of 2014, through my Hearts for Hearts Initiative.
And RT 2014 is the PERFECT opportunity to make HUGE headway in our goal.
How do you win $100 for the charity of your choice?
Set aside books from the free ones you collect at the 2014 Romantic Times convention in New Orleans, to donate to your community. It costs you nothing!
Not going to RT2014? Select books from your personal library to donate, find somewhere in your community to share them, and you're in!
Report what you've collected and where you want it to go in your community, on the Anna DeStefano Author FB page or in the comments of this blog post. I'll be talking more in both places about the Pay It Forward RT Challenge and Hearts for Hearts, from now through the convention.
I will choose a randomly selected winner from all who participate. The winner will be announced on the Anna DeStefano Author FB Page, and contacted from FaceBook (or via email, if you comment here), to ask where you'd like your $100 Prize donated!
Together, we'll build community, one story at a time!
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Who do you know, who is where you've been, waiting for you to help them stretch their wings and soar far beyond their dreams?
Just about a year ago, I was asked to mentor a math/science wiz at my son's magnet high school, who wanted to write a novel–a collection of short stories, actually. During our first meeting I realized that she in fact wanted to PUBLISH said novel. And as of this week, twelve months of hard work and back and forth and a lot of generous industry professionals pitching in to help later, she has.
Working with someone with stars in her eyes each time we talked about making her stories better and putting them out in the world for others to read has meant everything to me. I've received so much more than I've donated to this project, in inspiration and energy and the thrill of witnessing a seemingly impossible dream come true.
More to come on this project–I'll write a full article soon about her journey and every single goddess in this industry who's stepped in to make this happen.
But for now, as you help me celebrate Chinye Ijeli's Fresco, I ask you to consider paying forward your gifts and talents and connections by helping someone else reach their goals and beyond!
Mentoring. This Pay It Forward Friday's focus. Look into it. You'll be glad you did!
I will be grateful for every person I connect with today, letting them know whenever possible.
What will you "Pay Forward" today?
What will you Pay Forward today?
Pay it forward. We like the sound of it. We learn the difficulty of it. We must find our own way to it. We must make it real on a personal level, before it becomes a guiding force in our lives.
For me, that way began with Building Community One Story at a Time, which is my 2014 challenge: for this blog going forward, for the life I've been blessed to have, for my family and writing and service and teaching and editing and mental well-being.
I've already experienced some amazing results this year, trying my personal Pay It Forward mantra on for size, taking it out for a spin, stretching it at the seams to see what gives, throwing a pebble into the stream and searching the ripples for what is real… You get the picture. And you'll get more details here, daily. I'm so excited to share. I hope to inspire. I long to create a space where others can't wait to do the same. It's time to turn up the volume and live my 2014 challenge out loud.
Meditating on what could be my chance to give is no longer enough for me. There's more calling me than thinking about it. There's more calling each of us.
Deadlines and responsibilities and demands and successes and failures and fears and dreams aside, there's life to live. And paying what I've found forward, feeding myself with the energy of feeding others however I can, is that life for me. Living on "building" others up, in tangible and intangible ways every day, is already changing me. More than I could have imagined. It will change you, too. I challenge you to find out just how much.
What does it mean to me? I'm not sure yet, but I'll be finding my way out here every day. I invite you to search and experiment and share what you find, right along with me.
Begun a book-donation/community-based charity (Hearts for Hearts) and inspired friends, family, writers, publishing professionals and neighbors to donate thousands of books to those in need in their communities.
Mentored a high school senior, helping her (with assistance from more rock star publishing pro friends of mine) write, revise, edit, create cover art for and (very soon) indie publish her first novel on Smashwords.
Seeded a book donation program at my YMCA that drove member participation and resulted in a landslide of books and TWO community libraries (adult and children's) for members who can't afford to buy their own, all in a matter of months and launching by the end of April. A dream come true, and Hearts for Hearts is only getting started.
Begun a non-fiction project to share with other mothers/parents my experience raising and letting go of my teenager, proceeds of which will fund another, to-be-named, community-based assistance program for families not as lucky as mine who must conquer challenges I can't possibly imagine WHILE dealing the insanity that is loving, inspiring, guiding and letting go of our children as they grow.
Started mentoring/freelance editing again for a few select clients, feeding my passion for helping writers learn how to create the very best they can and set their voice free in the world for readers to find.
Finished one new novel (a long novella, actually), and begun a second, in a new series about community and family and the struggles beneath the seeming calm in the ordered world so many of us see when we look out our suburban windows. By the end of 2014 I will be close to completing a third, and I could be more excited about the spin-off on Mimosa Lane (younger and full of energy and light AND deeper emotions and challenges and successes!) my publishers supporting!
Given a keynote at a reader event, focused more on the "person" of my reader/writer audience than the business of publishing. I have another scheduled for the fall. I couldn't be more excited–more than I've been about any writer/publishing event I've been asked to speak at for years. The energy of immersing myself in that kind of "inspiring" opportunity was a revelation.
Delayed Valentine's Day? Let's delay it all year!
I live in the arctic tundra… I mean, in the balmy Deep South. In the last three weeks, we've had more snow and ice than we have in the last ten years–COMBINED. No one hundreds of miles of us has been able to leave their house for days this time around, let alone shop for their sweethearts.
So what does The Rumpus recommend you do? That's right, The Rumpus… A kick asz cool site, and they're spreading the word about Hearts for Hearts.
Looking for a last-minute Valentine's Day gift for the book-lover in your life? Why not pay that gift forward to your community?
There's a lot of "Holy Valentine's Day Interruptus Batman" going on around all over the place today. But what if Valentine's weren't about a single day? What if sharing love and inspiration and relaxation and escape were an everyday thing?
That's what we want Hearts for Hearts to be. It's a call to look closer at the community around you and find a way to help (the way the characters in my not-so-light-and-fluffy romance novels do). In my stories, there are always happy endings. But my characters and readers work harder than in a lot of other novels for their bright and shiny endings. The deeper emotions I hope their challenges stir ring truer to life, at least to me, and that makes the victories I live to write for these hard-working characters even more fulfilling.
So, yes, I write candy, hearts and flowers stories. Sort of. And I live in a candy, hearts and flowers neighborhood. Sort of.
But just a mile or so from me, there are pockets of need that I've been able to serve–by doing nothing more than giving away books. Books I've written, books I've read and loved, books my friends have been thrilled to share, too. My friends and I have personally given story (romance, fantasy, mystery, young adult, inspiration, non-fiction, you name it) to families living below the poverty level, foster care facilities, nursing homes, and even our local YMCA, where Hearts for Hearts has seeded new children and adult libraries for their members, many of whom join via scholarship.
And the donations just keep pouring in….
Love… What it means to you and me?
The best love stories are about so much more than the romance on the surface, even when the happily ever after ending is what all romance readers look for.
Some romance readers like sassy, some like funny, some like sweet, some spooky or dramatic or heart-pounding. But we're all going readers reading for an ending that inspires and encourages and gives up hope that our lives could be just as well-crafted and happily-ended.
But love stories can be about so much more.
I want that CONQUER THE WORLD reality for my characters, my readers, and myself. I want the the kind of happy ending we all hope for, no matter what gets in our way. The one where we'll fight, and we'll never fight alone, until we claim our HEA. And I HEART stories where kids are fought for and families are fought for and communities are fought for, no matter their challenges.


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Joe Chindamo : Represented Artist
Random Audio Sample: Rainbow shower (vocal music) by Joe Chindamo, from the CD Heaven on earth
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Artist website: http://www.joechindamo.com
"Joe Chindamo is closer to the model of the complete musician of Bach's time - composer, performer, improviser - than classical music's modern custodians. Chindamo's range ofreference is encyclopaedic and his art tender; his virtuosity never hectors, but disarms. It is music of seduction." Anna Goldsworthy, Pianist, Author
"For those who for any length of time have followed Joe Chindamo's remarkable career as one of Australia's preeminent jazz musicians, it surely comes as no surprise to discover that his increasing forays into composing for the concert hall are reaping rich rewards; pieces characterised by his inimitable combination of knowledge, subtlety, wit and consummate artistry." Brett Dean Composer, Conductor, Violist
"Joe Chindamo is the most gifted jazz pianist of his generation." David James, music critic and author of 'The World's Best Jazz Club - the story of Bennett's Lane
Joe Chindamo is a musical polyglot whose art defies classification. While forging an international career as a brilliant jazz pianist - producing 23 CDs, topping the jazz charts in Japan and touring the world with the genre's leading figures - he was working as first call pianist on over 60 film soundtracks and performing & recording with a plethora of leading artists from the worlds of opera, jazz, theatre and pop.
More recently Chindamo has emerged as a coveted new voice in contemporary classical composition, receiving numerous commissions from Australia's leading soloistsc Chamber groups and symphony orchestras (incl. the ACO, the Australian String Quartet, the Queensland Music Festival, the Queensland & Melbourne Symphony Orchestras and the High Commission of Australia in the UK).
His Concerto for Drum Kit and Orchestra was commissioned and premiered by MSO at the Last Night at the Proms in Melbourne 2018, and conducted by Sir Andrew Davis. In November of the same year, he was commissioned to compose a string orchestra work for the centenary of Australia House, London - Joe Chindamo conducted the work himself in the presence of HRH Prince Charles.
His work with the brilliant violinist Zoë Black (with whom he formed a duo in 2011) has been widely celebrated. The duo has performed in Canada, Italy, Japan and the US and in September 2015 premiered Chindamo's reversioning of J.S. Bach's iconic Goldberg Variations at Carnegie Hall to great critical acclaim. They recorded their first CD Remaginings in 2012, followed by Dido's Lament and The New Goldberg Variations, each receiving ARIA nominations for best classical release of 2014 and 2015 respectively.
Joe Chindamo — current to November 2019
Zoe Black (2011 - current)
The Fitzroy tales : Six scenes for string quartet Commissioned by Allotropy!.
Tango Preludio, after a theme by F.Chopin : for violin and piano (2012) Commissioned by Freshwater Trio.


Leh survives on tourism during the short summer. And why not? For these four months, Ladakh is like Yosemite on steroids. The population balloons ten to twenty folds – mostly Israelis, Germans, Scandinavians. But food is scarce. People grow vegetables in their backyard, keep cows for the milk for their young ones, and hens for the eggs. But this poultry, milk and produce never make it to the restaurants.
So, the restaurants adapt. The menu is often eclectic – Italian pastas and pizzas, Mediterranean pita and hummus, Mexican fares (but why?), crepes and pastries. Italian pasta turned out to be well improvised macaroni with tomato sauce spiced with cumin and cilantro. We didn't try the pizza but it looked suspiciously like large naans, the raised flat bread baked in earthen ovens, served with a variety of toppings like paneer, garbanzo beans, or peas. Mediterranean pita and hummus translated to variety of white breads served with garbanzo bean paste. My husband was tickled when he found a restaurant offering Tandoori Nuns (naans). He had let loose a series of horrible cannibalism jokes.
Since I never saw a single local at any of these restaurants, I was careful with what I chose to eat – typically stuck to chappati or boiled rice with plain daal, lentil without oils and spices. Even during this peak tourist season, we saw kitchens run out of staples like macaroni or fruits. Neighborhood mom-and-pop shops would often sell food items like biscuits and chips well beyond their expiry dates. The banana crepe my husband had on our last day in Leh would cause three days of diarrhea and vomiting. Yet, all around us, tourists were happily eating big meals, the Europeans after their treks and and the Israelis when they got the munchies. Maybe one needed either a drug addled brain or a trekker's appetite to digest the restaurant food.
I confess, I have sweet memories of the tea. None of the Darjeeling goodness that I normally fuss over. Made with condensed milk, this was a creamy, sweet and plentiful. Wherever we went, we were sure to be offered a cup of hot steaming tea. Imagine yourself sipping a cup of this tea at Khardoung La, the highest motorable pass in the world with the view of scattered snow, fog laden mountain tops, and Buddhist prayer flags flapping wildly in the freezing wind. A cup of hot tea warms you for a few minutes, the minutes that you need for those memento photographs.
On a few occasions, we did experience the local food. Dinner at a guesthouse in Likir village was a vegetable soup with nuggets of dough cooked in the hot soup, no spices or herbs. At Lamayuru, we had lunched on dry chappati and tea. In Leh, our hostess had brewed us the salty buttered tea (regular not yak butter) popular in the Himalayan regions. In Diskit, our guide had offered us a local brew made from fermented grains which we had found to be completely disgusting. We were also offered Maggie instant noodles, a popular meal among the locals. That did not come as surprise. Even in remote villages, we would see empty packets of Maggie littering the streets.
Irrespective of whatever we ate and wherever we ate, the view was always fantastic. Looming Himalayas were always in the view, sometimes combined with views of monasteries. In Diksit, the menu offered "Cream of Spanish (spinach, I guess)", and the view offered a Himalayan rainstorm, an unusual event in the high desert. The dinner settings were often romantic in a rural and charming sort of way, accompanied by garden or tent seatings and open fires.
Every so often, there would be a sense of adventure associated with a meal. Like when we were hitching a ride with a truck. Our truck driver had bought some apricots from a roadside seller and offered them to us. He was holding these golden orange little fruits in his hands that were caked with engine oil. There was no way we could have refused. So, I ate a few and was holding on to the pits when I noticed that the driver was throwing his pits out of the wind shield window. There was no glass. We would be traveling on treacherous mountain roads on the front seat of a truck without seat belts and a wind shield window. Fantastic!
Travel Note: Please click on the Ladakh trip travel album for all pictures from this trip.


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Southwest Terror Fest: An Interview with David Rodgers
Bruce 2016-09-08
Bruce · September 8, 2016
This is the fifth iteration of Southwest Terror Fest. How's the experience been putting this annual fest together for the last half decade?
[Laughs] That's a loaded question. At times it's awesome, and at times it's a fuckin nightmare. The payoff has generally been pretty great, we've only really had one day of Terror Fest that was what I would call a complete failure. That was the Sunday show of the second year. That was pretty bleak. The last year three years everything has been pretty great, but logistically it's a goddamn nightmare a lot of the time.
Who else has been putting the fest together with you?
Dave Carroll and Larry Horvath are my other two partners, the other two full-time responsible people. If anything fails, we're the ones that have to deal with it. Dave was doing it with me right from the get-go. There used to be this thing in Downtown Tucson called Club Crawl. Spring Crawl and Fall Crawl, two different ones. All the venues downtown would fence it off, it may have been before your time. The last year there was this club called Vaudeville. The last year of Club Crawl, we knew it was closing down and we threw a show there – Take Over and Destroy played, I don't remember who else, was a few years ago now. The three of us were talking and thinking, 'what do we do now that this is over?' It was really cool to be part of this thing, and we were talking about Maryland Deathfest, and Dave used to go to this pop punk festival all the time that I think was in San Diego. We thought maybe we should do something like that in Tucson. We took a drink of whiskey and an hour later we decided we were going to it in Tucson. The next day, after we sobered up, we texted each other and asked if we were serious or just drinking last night. We were just like, 'fuck it, let's try it.' That's how that all happened.
You recently moved out of Arizona. Have you had any difficulty coordinating the event since moving?
Not necessarily. Nowadays we live in a really easy environment to be involved in music. In 2016, this is the easiest time to be involved with music. You can plan tours on Facebook. Book festivals on Facebook. Between that and Soundclound and a billion blogs out there premiering bands every day, the digital age has made things incredibly easy. Even ten years ago, you were emailing and calling people all day; now it's just a series of emails sent out to booking agents and bands you know personally. Being online and me being here, everything can be done through email or phone. The only thing that's made it difficult lately is that one of the venues has changed hands. Thrown a monkey wrench into the works, but we've dealt with a lot of that over the phone. Luckily with Dave and Larry living in Tucson, if there's anything that has to be done hands-on, those guys can pick up that end. The internet has just connected everyone, so throwing a festival is much easier than it was 10-20 years ago.
I know you coordinate with a lot of local Tucson businesses, which of those are involved in the fest this year and to what capacity?
We've always tried to keep sponsors local. Some of the bands that we book don't want to always be associated with corporate sponsored festivals like PBR or Scion. At the same time, sponsorship's not bad if you keep it on a local level. Moon Smoke Shop has a bunch of locations in Tucson and they've been involved with us for five years now. We have the Distillery, Empire Pizza and a burrito eating contest every year. All these places are where people that play in bands go to when they're in town, or where locals go every day. Why not get those people involved? Since they've been involved, we've eaten Empire Pizza dry of pizza during the festival. It all works really well in the end using local people, because that's really what it's for.
SLEEP at SWTF IV
Photo: Josh Ford
In the past when putting together the fest, I know that there were several bands you were trying to book like Pig Destroyer and Agoraphobic Nosebleed. What was the story behind getting them to play this year?
That's all timing. I've tried to book Pig Destroyer for the past three years now and it just hasn't worked out. They were almost on the show last year, but Scott Hull ended up pulling his live show last fall to work on stuff, and Agoraphobic Nosebleed too. As long as you keep in touch with them, it might happen down the road. We've been trying to book Converge now for three years, but that's four guys with intense schedules – especially Kurt Ballou, who's constantly in the studio. Hard to get them on board for stuff like that. This year, we finally got Old Man Gloom involved, which led to Sumac getting on the show. That's how these things kind of work over the years. Getting Neurosis, Sunn O))) and Goatsnake a few years ago obviously opened up bigger doors for us and added a level of respectability. People are thinking, if Steve Von Till is going to play this festival, it must not be bad. In the end, it works and there's a lot of bands out there and even if it doesn't work, I'll keep pursuing them.
When piecing together all these bigger acts together each year, like Neurosis, Sunn O))) and Sleep, is there specific goal that you want to achieve?
Roughly, yes, I'll say. It's changed over the years, though. The first year, if you look back at that lineup, was very mixed. There was no genre-specific shows. It's more like everyone was playing with everyone. One thing we noticed was in-and-out among the fans. They'd like Territory, but wouldn't like Take Over and Destroy, and vice versa. In year two, we switched it up with four days of four different themes. It worked better for us, you could direct the crowd for that music towards that night. Once we got on that and better attendance that year, we'd get the headliners and build the shows around that. When we got Neurosis, we asked them who they wanted to play with, and they gave us options like The Body and Author & Punisher, and it was an awesome show and everything tied together. Year three was the proving ground for that, and since then we lock the headliners in and place the appropriate bands around them, and build a show that way. We try and mix things up. We don't want to have just slow or fast music. This year, we did have a little bit of a drive to put on a more grindcore and hardcore influenced show. Next year, we're thinking about doing some black metal bands. It's all up in the air as to who we can get. We're going to keep going after Converge until we get them. We'll see where it ends up, a lot of it is luck of the draw. It's hard to plan farther than a wish list.
DROPDEAD at SWTF IV
Personally, what bands have you been most excited to see play the fest so far?
Being the guy that throws it, it's hard for me to pick some out. I like every band we put on the fest. We don't use people we don't personally get behind and enjoy. But that said, I mean, fuckin' Neurosis, obviously a dream for me; Sleep, Infest and Agoraphobic Nosebleed. There's a lot of hype with regards whether the Friday or Saturday lineup is better. I like both, since I booked them. But Saturday night I got to book Agoraphobic Nosebleed and Infest, and I never thought in my life I'd see Agoraphobic play live shows. Every year, there's someone for me that just ties it together for me.
I saw Infest play at KOTM Fest last year and that was probably one of the best sets I've seen in a long time. I'm stoked to see them this year again.
That's a good example of how things work out. When Mike Genz was booking King of the Monsters last year and said he was doing the fest in late summer, he contacted me and we didn't want our events to overlap. I sent him a list of who I thinking of for that year and he sent me a list and we found overlaps here – what do you want to do? We ended up picking and choosing. We both had Dropdead and Infest on our lists. I said cool, let me get Dropdead this year and you take Infest for KOTM Fest, and I'll get them next year. I think Sleep was another one we both had on there, and he gave me Sleep because he wanted to go with more punk and hardcore and keep it in that direction. Weird shit like that always happens and it works out in the long run – now we have Infest in Tucson this year.
Amigo the Devil at SWTF IV
One artist you've had play a lot is Amigo the Devil, and his impromptu sets have become a fest staple. How did he originally come into the fold and what do you feel his continued tenure brings to the event?
Danny played for the first time on the disastrous day four of year two; there were maybe 30 people in the building when he played and he held all of them in the palm of his hand when he was playing. I had no knowledge of him before that – he's a friend of Dave Carroll's, and he was backing Danny and said, trust me, when you seem him, it'll come together, trust me on this one. We went ahead and booked him, and he played a 30 minute set, and it was amazing. That's all it took for him, and I said, hey, do you want to come back next year, and him and I got to talking about it because I think he had come through Tucson again. Instead of having one traditional short set when you'll be in Tucson the whole weekend, why not play a bunch of sets? Year three was the first year we did that, and he played at the Rialto and at 4 A.M. in the middle of Congress. It just kind of snowballed from there. Last year we did the same thing, except we added afternoon sets at Wooden Tooth Records and the Distillery. It'll be the same thing this year, and we told Danny he's welcome to play any year if he wants to drive out here. He's got an open invitation. The Body, Lee and Chip, also have an open invitation to play Terror Fest every year, because we love those dudes.
They're the best.
They are THE best. The way they handle their music and especially the way they handle the music business is perfect. Amigo the Devil and The Body can play Terror Fest any fuckin year they want.
I welcome them. Back to Tucson and local businesses, what do you think the fest brings to Tucson as a community that other events do not?
Since year three, we've started bringing in people from out of town – we have a lot of Phoenix people that come down. Not only that, we have people from all over the world that are flying into it now, and these people are coming in and spending money. Do the math: if there's 750-1000 in town for the festival and they all spend $100 apiece or $1000 into the economy – I mean, Tucson can use money. Tucson really is a special place, the way it's set up with everything being downtown, so many of the venues and the practice rooms and the area is small enough that the people, the fans and musicians, live downtown. People can ride their bikes and walk to venues and shows, and that's one of the reasons Terror Fest works so well there, because it has such an accessible, welcoming downtown area. People can come in stay at a hotel and then not have to rent a car or anything, literally just walk around downtown for the weekend and hit every restaurant, bar and venue and art gallery, and whatever the fuck they want to see is all within walking distance. I think what we do, even on some small level in our niche part of the world, is raise awareness as to how cool Arizona is, and especially how cool Tucson is. Playing into that, we also use Tucson bands every year. We don't have to put Arizona bands on the lineup – most festivals don't handle things that way, they just bring bands in from out of town and go for that name value. What good does that do for Arizona musicians? Wouldn't do a damn thing to have a show and have them not be on it. It's just love for Tucson and Arizona, and it's a way that punk/metal dudes like myself, Dave and Larry can give back in whatever small way.
You also run Battleground Records, tell us how that's been going and how that started?
It's been going pretty good. Everything has its ups and downs, of course. Last year was a rough year for us. We started a few years ago, myself and my good friend Ryan. Kind of like the festival, we started it out to focus on some Arizona bands and help put out some of the stuff that I had to release for Godhunter as well. It grew from there, we started picking up bands from Phoenix, then picking up bands from California, and it snowballed. I keep working hard and I am bouncing back from last year. I've released a bunch of awesome albums lately: Vehemence's comeback album, CHRCH's new album Unanswered Hymns, which people have just been losing their minds over. Eight Bells album; critics love that thing, sold a ton of copies of it. They're on tour with Voivod. The new Methra album came out July 4th, because those guys are ridiculous and they wanted to pick the most ridiculous release date, so why not July 4th. I have a lot of fun doing the label and I have a couple more albums coming out this year. I'm planning for next year already, and it's something I plan on doing for years.
I feel like when you're young and in your 20s – especially in music and art in general – it's cool if the system supports you for a little bit, because you're young and you're getting your feet under you and that's how things are supposed to be. When you get to my age, which is 43, and yes I'm getting old now, I feel like people like myself that have been here and done it – I don't know if mentoring is the right word, because I don't mentor anyone, – but you kind of have to give back at some point. If nothing else, the skills that I've developed over the years, like the ability to actually get a vinyl record pressed and released, and how to get write-ups for it from blogs and magazines and stuff like that. 25 year old kids, nothing against them, not all of them have that skill, because that's stuff you have to learn over time. People don't just write a song on guitar and know how to release the album at the same time. It's a completely different skill set. It's not like a duty, but you know, I like to help people and that's a lot of what the record label is, me helping people.
What specific persons and bands have you taken a special interest in to help along?
All of them on the label. I released a bunch of albums from Arizona bands like Lago, Naught, Via Vengeance, and these are all good friends of mine and what I'd consider good people. They're also good musicians, so when you put the two of those together for me, that's the kind of people I want to help. Same way I did the Oryx and Languish split this year. I love all the people in both of those bands, and I think they deserve whatever help they can to get their music out there.
What's on the horizon for the label, anything specific that you can say?
The rest of this year, I have a collaborative release between Theologian and Lament Cityscape that is just fuckin incredible. I don't even really know how to describe it, it's just super heavy, Neurosis and Jesu kind of music. That will be out in August. The Fuzz Evil full length will be out in maybe September or early October, and they're from Sierra Vista. I moved into Tucson around 2006, and they were one of the first bands I made friends with in that scene and I played some early shows with them. We kind of stuck together and helped each other out over the years. Totally happy with their new album because it's a pretty great stoner rock adventure.
Back to Terror Fest – what do you have planned so far for next year? You mentioned black metal earlier, but what acts and venues will be involved, anything you can let the lid off right now?
We will keep asking Converge to play until we get them. I've definitely talked to a few other bands that I don't want to give away. We have black metal leanings for next year.
What venues have you enjoyed working with best so far? I know you have some secret shows planned again for Gary's Place.
I always like doing stuff with Gary's Place when we can. If nothing else, we know now that when we do the secret shows each year, we cover their month of rent with basically that one show. One month a year that allows them to breathe a bit and Oscar Hernandez and Cord Boyd are both great dudes and very, very good for the scene. We love working with them. We also really like working with Club Congress, honestly. I think they're the best people in town to work with.
Was there anything else you wanted to add for CVLT Nation's readers?
Tickets are on sale on the fest's Facebook page. Full festival passes are sold out, of course. Everyone can still buy tickets to individual shows. I would tell some people that some of the smaller ones, like the Malignus Youth show, are getting close to selling out. Don't wait until October to buy your tickets or you'll miss some of these sets. I've been trying to hammer that into people and that's probably the most important thing I can say – the reason we put these on sale so early is Club Congress and the Flycatcher are both 300 max. venues and they're getting full.
Thanks for talking with us man.
Really appreciate you guys putting this together.
Thursday Early Show @ 191 Toole:
10:30 – end – Sumac
9:10 – 9:55 – The Body/Full Of Hell
8:00 – 8:40 – Kowloon Walled City
7:00 – 7:30 – Generation Of Vipers
6:00 – 6:30 – North
9:55 – 10:30 – Theologian/Lament Cityscape
8:40 – 9:10 – Senior Fellows
7:30 – 8:00 – Waft
6:30 – 7:00 – Via Vengeance
Thursday Late Show @ Secret Location
1:00 – end – ??? ????
12:00 – 12:40 – Order Of The Owl
11:00 – 11:40 – Akris
Friday Early Show @ 191 Toole
10:00 – 11:00 – Pig Destroyer
8:40 – 9:25 – Despise You
7:30 – 8:10 – Final Conflict
6:30 – 7:00 – Gay Kiss
5:30 – 6:00 – Trench
9:25 – 10:00 – Full Of Hell
8:10 – 8:40 – Wake
7:00 – 7:30 – Vermin Womb
6:00 – 6:30 – Sorrower
5:00 – 5:30 – Disservice
Friday Late Show @ Club Congress
12:50 – end – Old Man Gloom
11:50 – 12:30 – Behold! The Monolith
11:00 – 11:30 – Mountain Man
10:15 – 10:45 – Nonpareil
Saturday Matineee Show @ Club Congress
2:00 – 3:00 – Malignus Youth
1:30 – 2:00 – Suciedad Discriminada
Saturday Main Show @ 191 Toole
10:00 – 11:00 – Agoraphobic Nosebleed
8:40 – 9:25 – Infest
7:30 – 8:10 – Power Trip
6:30 – 7:00 – Sex Prisoner
5:30 – 6:00 – Junkie Vomit
9:25 – 10:00 – Theories
8:10 – 8:40 – The Drip
7:00 – 7:30 – ACxDC
6:00 – 6:30 – Wvrm
5:00 – 5:30 – Magguts
Saturday Night Late Show @ The Flycatcher
1:00 – end – Malignus Youth
12:20 – 12:45 – Final Conflict
11:40 – 12:05 – ?????? ???????? ???????
11:00 – 11:25 – Get A Grip
Sunday Main Show @ Club Congress
11:00 – end – Saint Vitus
9:50 – 10:40 – The Skull
8:45 – 9:30 – Witch Mountain
7:50 – 8:25 – Khemmis
7:00 – 7:30 – CHRCH
6:15 – 6:45 – Grey Gallows
With special performances by Amigo The Devil throughout the weekend.
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4 in the AM. I wanted to do a PM run but I found out that my physics professor had granted me a chance to redo all my physics homework for extra credit, but I only had 5 hours to do the 2 months worth of HW. I finished it with one minute left at 11:59PM and I still have some Engineering and English so I think the time for running is not currently present. Sorry to all my fans, I'll make it up later in the week when I have more time.
School + 4 laps of Hilton Park. Ran the third lap at approx. tempo, and tried to do the fourth lap at what felt like low 6-minute pace and speed up a bit the last 200m or so. Was more on feel since there aren't any markers on the .75 mile laps. Ran 5:30 pace on the "tempo" part, and 5:42 pace on the slower part. On the 4th lap, I thought I went way slower than low 6 minute pace because it felt that easy. Legs felt like they could have done a lot more, lungs hurt but that's just me getting over a sickness. I've been really really slacking with workouts lately so I was afraid all my fitness was gone, but this really felt pretty easy. It wasn't supposed to be hard though, it's more of just feeling what tempo pace should be for my tempo run tomorrow.
AM - 4. Went to Jason's Deli after. Felt odd as I used to go there all the time growing up in Texas, but being alone gave me some time to reflect on things like growing up. And how the 7.99 salad bar is a major steal. Definitely got my money's worth from that.
PM - I hit the first 1.5 miles of my tempo at under 5:10 pace and stopped there. I wasn't yet, but I knew with my current fitness, blowing up would be right around the corner. Still, surprised it was that fast!
Went to class in the morning and slept all day after since I've been doing schoolwork until very late lately, so all my miles were saved for around 7PM. Started at 7:20's per mile and worked down to what the tempo yesterday was supposed to be around(5:40's per mile). 6:30 average pace, so right in the middle of 5:40 and 7:20.
PM - 6 @6:38 pace + 2x300m strides both in 52.
Shakeout at 3 PM. Pure jogging, + a stride and some drills after.
Workout at 8PM, 2x(600, 400, 300, 200) with next-interval recovery. I ran 1:49, 70, 47, and 31 for set one and 1:45, 64, 44, and 29 for set two. Left knee feels a little sore after from driving my knees up after no speedwork in a good while.
AM - 4. No knee soreness as i stretched a good bit last night, but legs still felt very heavy. Glad I got it done. Not glad about IOS 11 bugs.