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September 2012 G. Daniel DeWeese
Renowned bootmaker Paul Bond passed away in February. He was just 96 years old. He was "just 96" because, by all accounts, his youthful vigor belied his advanced years. Right up to the end of his life, Bond frequented the bootmaking shop he established in 1955 in Nogales, Arizona, to design boots and talk to his customers.
Bond was a man who left his bootprint on the heart and soul of the American West. Born into a Texas ranching family in 1915, he grew up riding horses and working cattle at his parents' ranch near Carlsbad, New Mexico. At 14, he apprenticed to a local bootmaker. The teenager also broke horses for the U.S. Cavalry. When he wasn't turning wild colts into sturdy war horses and packhorses, he was turning raw leather into boots for local cowboys.
By his early 20s, Bond was rodeoing—and having some success riding broncs and performing as a trick rider. He was a member of the Cowboys' Turtle Association, the predecessor to the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association, that forced promoters to share gate proceeds with rodeo cowboys, giving them a shot at a viable living.
During this time, Bond started making flashy boots for himself, his granddaughter-in-law Shannon Enciso tells True West. He tucked his pant legs inside the tall, colorful shafts he had designed to wow rodeo audiences. His eye-catching boots were also meant to "impress the ladies," Enciso admits. The boot trick apparently worked as he met his first wife, Joyce, at a rodeo where she was the rodeo queen.
To supplement his rodeo income, Bond opened his first boot shop in 1946. Contacts he made on the rodeo circuit eventually got his name around in Hollywood. "A lot of people that were riding at rodeos had turned into stunt people at the movies," he told Linda Wertheimer in a 2006 interview for National Public Radio.
The cowboys-turned-stuntmen ordered boots from Bond, and eventually major movie stars such as Gene Autry, Rex Allen and John Wayne became his customers. Bond also made a few saddles, including an "extra large one" for Wayne.
Bond told Wertheimer he preferred bootmaking to saddlemaking because he could be more creative with boots. "You could do some of the fancy work and put some…personality in a boot, make something out of them that people were proud of," he said.
He hung up his rodeo spurs to craft cowboy boots full-time in the late 1940s. A few years later he set up shop as the Paul Bond Boot Co. in downtown Nogales, a sleepy little town on the U.S.-Mexican border. To keep up with the demand for his boots, he needed the skilled leather craftsmen who were abundant along the border.
The locale's rugged scenery also made it a popular spot with Western movie directors. More actors came to Bond's shop, further cementing his reputation as a bootmaker to the stars. But actors, rodeo hands and other denizens of the entertainment and sport arenas were not his only clients. Ranchers and working cowboys flocked to Nogales for a pair of boots suited to each individual's taste and style. Bond had a knack for treating everyone the same, whether they were famous and wealthy entertainers or hard-scrabble cowboys.
Throughout his long career, Bond always made boots the old-fashioned way: handcrafted and hand-sewn with high-quality components—right down to the stacked leather heels and lemon wood pegs in the arch. His artistry and craftsmanship earned him acclaim and honors, including his induction into the Rodeo Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City and multiple recognitions as "Bootmaker of the Year" by True West Magazine, most recently in 2011.
While Paul Bond the man is no longer with us, his legacy of quality, artistry and value inspires and lives on through his descendants who now run Paul Bond Boot Co. in Nogales. As bootmaker Rodney Ammons said recently, Bond was a "real gentleman and a damned fine bootmaker."
G. Daniel DeWeese coauthored the book Western Shirts: A Classic American Fashion. Ranch-raised near the Black Hills in South Dakota, Dan has written about Western apparel and riding equipment for more than 25 years.
At the Paul Bond Boot Co. shop in Nogales, you will find custom wooden boot lasts from actors John Wayne (10 EE) and Gene Autry (9E), among others.
– Boot lasts by Tee Cook / Paul Bond Boot Co.; Wayne courtesy Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation; Autry courtesy Republic Pictures –
B-Western cowboy actor Monte Hale's custom order brown exotic reptile boots were sold with an original Paul Bond 1980 catalogue as part of a Monte Hale lot at High Noon Western Americana Auction that sold for an $1,800 bid in 2010.
– Courtesy High Noon Western Americana Auction –
Montie Montana wears his Paul Bond butterfly boots with Cuban heels (also shown in inset), which sold, with his shirt, this past January for a $1,500 bid at High Noon Western Americana Auction in Mesa, Arizona. The Wild West entertainer thanked the bootmaker with a signed photograph that hangs in the Nogales shop.
– Montie Montana photo and boots courtesy High Noon Western Americana Auction; Shop photo by Tee Cook / Paul Bond Boot Co. –
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(Keep in mind as you read this Book Review. We Blackafricans are lactose intolerant (unable to digest milk; we are also on the lowest rung of the American health ladder!)
Now: look up the definition of "Genocide." Part of growing up is the angst we feel when we discover that the authority figures we believe in are fallible. Robert Cohen's "Milk: The Deadly Poison" delivers one of the biggest, most devastating doses of instant maturity ever, with his graphic description of corporate (Monsanto) and federal (Food & Drug Authority) coverup and collusion. If this book doesn't stir you out of some of your bad eating habits, you might as well admit to having suicidal tendencies! Despite the immense media hype, especially on TV, that "Milk is a Health Kick," and despite Spike Lee's (& others') milk mustaches, what "Milk: The Deadly Poison" boils down to (pardon the pun) is that milk and milk products-butter, ice cream, cream, yogurt, cheese and the casein (milk glue) they're putting into everything for "binding," (including your favorite cans of tuna!) -all of these milk products are delivering disease-producing chemicals and hormones, to the unsuspecting public in America, including our babies and children. Everything about "Milk: The Deadly Poison", eerily repetitive, is shocking: the red/yellow cover print the Death's head on the red carton of milk, along with the ingredient list of "powerful growth hormones, cholesterol, fat, allergenic bovine proteins, insecticides, antibiotics, viruses and bacteria." Adding tremendous credibility to this publication is the name of the person who writes the Foreword, Jane Heimlich, the wife of the famous Dr. Henry Heimlich, of "The Heimlich Maneuver" invention. She states, among other dynamite allegations, that "You may not want to hear this but what you've been told all your life about milk is an outright lie. I suspected that milk was a health disaster back in the Spring of '94. At that time, while researching an article for Health & Healing, a newsletter with a half million subscribers, I learned that the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) had approved the use of a genetically-engineered hormone called "recombinant bovine growth hormone. (rBGH) The alleged purpose of the hormone, a $500 million investment on the part of the Monsanto Company, is to increase a cow's milk output. A more disturbing consequence of the bovine growth hormone is that it increases levels of a powerful growth hormone, IGF-I a key factor in the growth and proliferation of cancer. (My emphasis) From reporting on alternative medicine, I knew too well how the medical establishment can lie through its teeth. Reading this book, you will learn that milk contributes to heart disease and increases your risk of breast cancer. You will learn that milk is a poor source of calcium and why, and that milk is a prime cause of allergies (including asthma) and much more. You will learn that milk can even kill your infant. (My emphasis) At times, this book reads like a detective story."
This impactful Foreword leads right into an even more dynamic Preface by the author, Robert Cohen, who describes how a young Black lawyer, Clarence Thomas, used his influence while he was working for Monsanto (which has produced Agent Orange and Aspartame and the intrauterine coil, to get the FDA to allow dairymen in the U.S. to inject milk cows with a bacterium from fecal material, E.Coli (you don't wanna know!) and a hormone, recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone so that the cows would give more milk and so that the dairymen would, therefore, make more money. (You should remember: One out of eight women in America will develop breast cancer. Calcium in milk is not adequately absorbed. Milk consumption is the probably cause of osteoporosis. Sixty percent of America's dairy cows have leukemia virus. As a society, we have never been more overweight. By the time the average person in America reaches the age of 52, he or she has consumed in milk and dairy products, the equivalent of cholesterol contained in 1 million slices of bacon. (My emphasis)
Milk hormones exert growth effects on humans. Cancer, heart disease, asthma, allergies and so much more, are all made possible by milk. America was told that milk from rbST treated cows, (recombinant bovine somatotropin and E.Coli bacterium) was identical to the milk that had been enjoyed for generations. That statement was untrue. (My emphasis) After cows were injected with this hormone, their milk contained increased levels of another hormone, insulin-like growth factor-I(IGF-I), the most powerful growth hormone occurring in nature. rBGH (recombinant bovine growth hormone) is not approved in Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand or Europe. (My emphasis) Finally, if I reproduce all of the important information in "Milk: The Deadly Poison," I'd be reprinting the entire book. Anyone caring about their own and their children's, their relative's or their friend's lives, has got to read and digest the information (and not ingest milk or milk products!)
I cannot end this review without this addition: "There is a group of chemicals, recently discovered, Prions (my emphasis) which can reproduce themselves without DNA. Prions have been passed on from cows to humans. Mad Cow Disease is a Prion disease. The scientific name for Mad Cow Disease is "bovine Spongiform encephalitis." After the first exposure to a Prion, the onset of disease might take up to 20 years to develop. Prions are tiny crystals which replicate themselves and slowly destroy the human brain until Alzheimer-like symptoms develop.
A quote from Tim Lang in 1996 as Professor of Food Policy at Thames University: "We are in a mass experiment which is killing us. Never before have diseased ruminants (sheep) been fed to other ruminants (cows) and then fed to humans. We have interfered with the whole process of nature and what is now happening is one of our worst nightmares. This is a tragedy on a massive scale. The government has been so totally stupid."
Forewarned is (supposedly) forearmed, What does the government give out in Blackafrican neighborhoods? COW'S MILK: BUTTER, CHEESE. ..(WIC? Check out the hospitals and the schools, too!) MILK DOES NOT DO A BODY GOOD!
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The misappropriation of the term 'human rights' by political campaigners and the self-classification of various often opaquely-funded anti-Israel groups as 'human rights' organisations has not abated since the infamous events which overshadowed the Durban I UN conference over twelve years ago.
The underlying principle of human rights is of course that they are – as it says on the packaging – universal, applying to every person regardless of gender, colour, religion, sexual orientation, wealth, ethnic background and so forth. Hence, it is actually quite easy to distinguish organisations which are truly interested in promoting the human rights of the Palestinian people from those who merely exploit the halo of the term 'human rights' in order to co-opt its associated legitimacy for a political campaign.
One simple litmus test for 'pro-Palestinian' organisations is the examination of their activity in the field of women's rights. Do they speak out on subjects such as enforced dress codes and 'modesty' patrols, inheritance and child custody laws, domestic violence and lenient sentences for so-called 'honour' killings? Do they promote women's education and financial independence? Or do they – as is now sadly so often the case in the 'liberal' West – regard issues such as polygamy, gender segregation, forced marriage and female genital mutilation as part of the untouchable 'culture' of a patriarchal society which their own cultural relativism prevents them from criticizing?
Some of the most disadvantaged women in Israel are to be found in the Bedouin sector. Despite being illegal under Israeli law, polygamy is still high in that sector and birth rates are the highest in the country. Even though considerable progress has been made regarding the number of years of education, the educational gap is still large for Bedouin women. Rates of women's employment outside the home remain low, perpetuating the cycle of poverty.
One woman trying – and succeeding – to make a difference to the lives of Bedouin women is Amal Elsana Alh'jooj – herself the first Bedouin woman in Israel to attend university. Recently Amal was the recipient of an award recognizing her work and during the time she was in London to receive it, she was interviewed by the BBC for Radio 4's 'Woman's Hour' (from around 17:11 here) and for the BBC World Service programme 'Outlook' (from around 12:53 here).
In those two very interesting interviews Amal spoke movingly about her position as the fifth girl born to a family in which female babies are of lower value than male ones and of her mother's fear that her birth would prompt Amal's father to take another wife. She explained her strategies for making progress on the front of women's employment in a patriarchal society and spoke of the violence directed towards her when she married outside her own tribe and towards her father when he allowed her to go to university.
All that, however, is of no interest whatsoever to the Palestine Solidarity Campaign which registered its dissatisfaction with the interview in a letter to 'Woman's Hour' according to Amena Saleem who took to her keyboard to condemn the BBC for ignoring what she erroneously terms "ethnic cleansing" in its two interviews with Ms Alh'jooj.
The Palestine Solidarity Campaign is of course one of several organisations currently exploiting the Bedouin for its campaign of delegitimisation of Israel. It therefore comes as no surprise that the PSC regards Amal Elsana Alh'jooj's award-winning work promoting the rights of Bedouin women as insignificant and undeserving of coverage by the BBC, because what really interests the PSC is clearly not the human rights of the Bedouin or the Palestinians, but one-issue political campaigning against Israel.
One can only hope that "senior BBC executives" remember that the next time they are invited for a chat with PSC representatives.
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The song structures here are dense, riding on massive riffs, but Reznor's gift is his ability to break through those walls with killer hooks, making tracks like "Star......., Inc.," "The Day The World Went Away," and the multi-structured "We're In This Together," weirdly and wildly accessible.
Of special note is a wondrous series of songs midway through the first CD, starting with the guitar maze of the title cut and continuing through the classical/industrial explosion on the instrumental "Just Like You Imagined," the sonar propulsion of "Even Deeper," and the chaotic "Pilgrimage," which sounds like the score for a biblical epic in Y2K.
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In 2017, San Diego County District 3 Supervisor Kristin Gaspar was sworn into office, becoming the youngest woman ever elected to the board of supervisors. This month, Gaspar will become the new chairwoman of the board. Below, the former mayor of Encinitas reflects on her first year in office:
How has your life changed since becoming supervisor?
As mayor, I represented 63,000 people and as supervisor nearly 650,000. I also went from a $110 million dollar budget to over $5 billion at the county. There has obviously been a big learning curve, but I have really enjoyed touring my new district and meeting so many great people. I also feel fortunate working with my new colleagues who have such an excellent track record of accomplishment for the county.
You were the first woman to receive the Associated Builders and Contractors Excellence in Leadership award this year. What have been some of the other rewarding experiences of being a supervisor?
I partnered with Supervisor Dianne Jacob on The Alzheimer's Project. The project's key goals are continuing research to come up with a cure; enhance awareness; forging partnerships and funding for Alzheimer's research; improving care and services for those affected by the disease; boosting medical care for those with Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia.
Education and awareness are also important as we conduct a multi-faceted education and public awareness campaign. We will also be supporting state and federal legislation that increases funding for Alzheimer's research and resources for caregivers, family members and others affected.
I also partnered with Supervisor Dianne Jacob to address a pilot program called Seniors in Crisis. It was developed in East County to more effectively assist seniors who are in crisis and encountering law enforcement or cycling in and out of emergency departments.
In September I co-hosted an Empowerment Summit in partnership with Solutions for Change and Clarence Carter from the federal Office of Family Assistance, to explore new ways to address the region's toughest social problems. The purpose of the summit was to introduce a new vision where community-based social enterprise solutions fundamentally change the way we approach and assist families and individuals stuck in deep poverty.
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District 3 has been fortunate to be able to help dozens of organizations that enhance the quality of life for San Diegans. Some of the community groups and nonprofits that have received funds from my district are: the Scripps Ranch Little League, the Rancho Family YMCA, the Escondido Children's Museum, as well as the San Diego Children's Museum, Doors of Change, Just in Time for Foster Youth, Arts for Learning San Diego and Warrior Foundation Freedom Station.
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The M3u configuration page doesn't mention anything about Adaptive Bit Rate so my current assumption is that it is not aware.
If i understand you correctly, then it is possible to get a playlist of channels for dvblink. But you will need to create an own m3u list with direct links to channels with required bitrate.
Create a new IPTVSource and select this link under available.
What Venom describes is the ability of the DVBLink IPTV server to recognize the available bandwidth of the client, so that the server decides at which bitrate, the selected channel is send to the client.
For example, my DVB-C provider has a web page and app for watching TV from the browser or app. If a client starts up a channel, the server detects the client bandwidth and sends a matching bitrate stream to the client. The client first sees a low quality stream and when the client has sufficient bandwidth, the server changes that stream to higher bitrate and resolution that the client can handle.
This is a rewrite for the DVBLink IPTV server package as far as I can see it, because the IPTV server has to know which <physical_channel> it must select for the client for the <logical_channel>.
We always request the lowest bitrate first to facilitate quick channel change times.
We deliver a master list for the channel that looks like the following.
Our app then looks at the time it takes to download the last chunklist and makes the decision which bitrate to request next.
For HLS streams with adaptive bitrate the highest available bitrate is taken automatically.
But DVBLink for IPTV will not try to grab a lower bitrate stream if the bandwidth to carry the highest bitrate stream is unavailable correct? That's that behavior I saw anyway.
venom51 wrote: But DVBLink for IPTV will not try to grab a lower bitrate stream if the bandwidth to carry the highest bitrate stream is unavailable correct? That's that behavior I saw anyway.
It would be a nice feature to have. Can it go on the development feature request list or was this an architectural decision during development?


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Special Collections at the National Agricultural Library (NAL) houses thousands of treasures that are historical, one of a kind, and irreplaceable. Preserving these rare books, photographs, and manuscripts is a priority, as is providing access to them. Many of the materials are primary resources used for scientific and academic work and include beautiful images. Embodying the artistry and scientific discovery of an earlier age, James Bolton's Icons Fungorum circa Halifax Sponte Nascentium (1784-1792) and Deborah Griscom Passmore's Wildflowers of America (ca. 1911) were recently digitized. Now, everyone has access to these gems online, while the manuscripts are preserved in an environmentally controlled, secure space.
James Bolton (1735-1799), a British self-taught naturalist and artist, was best known for A History of Fungesses [sic] Growing about Halifax (1788-1791). The four-volume published work documents hundreds of fungus species. The volumes established Bolton's place in mycology and became a standard for mushroom identification in the field. It was based on Icons Fungorum circa Halifax Sponte Nascentium. Containing hundreds of detailed watercolor plates of fungi as well as descriptive notes, the six-volume manuscript began 4 years before the published work and finished 1 year after it. Three of the plates preserve actual specimens of fungi. These fungi are the only Bolton specimens known to have survived outside the United Kingdom.
Wildflowers of America, Malva and Verbascum
Moving to the 20th century manuscript, Deborah Griscom Passmore (1840-1911), a professionally trained artist and teacher, worked at USDA's Division of Pomology for 19 years. Becoming leader of the staff artists in her first year, she was a prolific artist, painting thousands of watercolors. Many of her watercolors are available through the USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection for high-resolution download. In addition to her work at USDA, Passmore continued to paint in her personal time. Proof of that effort is in her unpublished work Wildflowers of America. After her death, it was bound into an album and contains original watercolors and sketches. The artist signed many of the works, and Edward Lee Greene, a well-known botanist, provided scientific names of the varieties. NAL acquired the manuscript in 1924.
Wildflowers of America, Lobelia and Cichorium
Now, in the 21st century, these manuscripts are available online thanks to the work of NAL's Digitization Unit. Library technician Kelvin Posey digitized both manuscripts and described the unique challenges they presented. He employed a two-camera book cradle system to capture most pages of the Bolton volumes because they were bound together. However, he had to use an overhead camera system for those pages with plant specimens to avoid damaging the samples. The Passmore album was bound with warped pages, so Kelvin used the overhead camera with a vacuum table to gently straighten the warped pages. In the end, Kelvin noted, "It gratifies me to imagine someone appreciating the works without needing to know what it took to digitize them."
For more information regarding these treasures or any of our other holdings, contact NALSpecialCollections@usda.gov - By Special Collections and Digitization Unit, National Agricultural Library.
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(aka "Jipuragirado japgo sipeun jimseungdeul" or "Beasts That Cling to the Straw" or "Beasts Clawing at Straws")
Directed by Yong-hoon Kim
South Korea 2020
A Luis Vuitton bag stuffed full of cash sends a group of hard-luck lowlifes on a desperate chase for the fortune in this pitch-black neo-noir crime thriller. Fish-mongering gangsters, a greasy cop, an "innocent" gym cleaner, a young prostitute, her wife beater of a husband, her ruthless boss and her clueless boyfriend all violently scheme to get their hands on the elusive bag. First time director Kim Yong-hoon's witty thriller is a beautifully constructed puzzle that with each double-cross, the pieces fall into place. Starring Jung Woo-sung from Asura: City of Madness and Jeon Do-yeon, award winner in Cannes for her lead role in Secret Sunshine.
Joong-man, stuck in a thankless job and forced to care for his ailing mother, finds a huge bag of money left in a sauna. Tae-young, a customs officer in debt to criminal Mr. Park, plots with one of Park's henchmen to run a lucrative scam on a "sucker" attempting to flee the country. Mi-ran, an escort with an abusive husband, finally sees a way out when one of her clients offers to murder him in exchange for a cut of his life insurance policy. The three characters all cross paths with dangerous people and get themselves into increasingly deeper trouble as they attempt to cheat their way towards the ultimate payout.
The film is separated into six chapters: Debt, Sucker, Food Chain, Shark, Lucky Strike and Money Bag.
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Theatrical Release: January 25th, 2020
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Q: Are you surprised to find yourself a Raider? Justin Tuck said this afternoon that there was some surprise when he signed.
Woodley:"No, I wasn't surprised. From the moment that I came here off my flight, just the fans here were unbelievable telling me how important it is to stay here in the Raider Nation. I know a little bit about the history of the team and once I started talking to the coaching staff and telling me how they were going to use me in the defense, I was excited and I was saying that this place is going to be the place for me."
Q: Do they plan on using you as a defensive end? I know you played that in college, and linebacker in Pittsburgh. How do they plan to use you from your understanding?
Woodley: "Here, they are going to use me as a defensive end. I don't feel like it's any different than playing a 3-4 outside linebacker, where you are still kind of the defensive end. The only thing about the 3-4 scheme is that you are asked to drop back and cover receivers and you are standing up rushing. You still have to play the run, you still have to get after the quarterback, and that's no different from a 4-3 end. So, your hand is in the dirt and you're not dropping back in coverage."
Q: What do you think you and Justin Tuck can bring to this defense?
Woodley: "I feel like we bring leadership and experience to this defense. Me and Justin both have played in two Super Bowls. He has won two, I've won one Super Bowl but we know what it's like to be on a winning team, and we know what it takes to get there. I think that we're both proven guys, had some injuries here and there that slowed us up, but when we're 100% out there on the football field, we bring it, and we just try to go out there and help our team win football games."
Q: There was no hesitance – yes, this is a storied franchise – joining a team that hasn't had a winning season in 11 years?
Woodley: "Yeah, but just with a few pieces added to this team, this team can be a good team. When I played in Pittsburgh last year, we came out here to Oakland and we lost. So, I feel like Oakland has a good team. The past few years with the salary cap and the different things going on, Oakland wasn't in the situation, really, to go out and get free agents like they can get now, or even in the draft they weren't able to go out and draft a bunch of new guys because of the situation it was in. But, I think now coming this year, those situations have changed."
Q: What type of presence do you think you can bring in the locker room? As it has been said before, you come into a team that is not used to winning and that locker room morale is pretty important.
Woodley: "Sometimes when you have to change the course of the locker room a little bit, you have to bring guys in that have been there and who have won and played in Super Bowls because at the end of the day, guys in this league want to play in a Super Bowl, they want to have that feeling and sometimes you have to bring guys in that know how to get there. Once you bring guys in that know how to get there, now you have to get the players to follow you and you can have a better understanding of how to get to the next level."
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Prediction of lymph node metastasis in patients with endometrioid endometrial cancer using expression microarray.
PURPOSE: To characterize the gene expression profiles of endometrioid endometrial cancers associated with lymph node metastasis in an effort to identify genes associated with metastatic spread. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN: Tumors from 41 patients with endometrioid endometrial cancer grossly confined to the uterine cavity were evaluated. Positive lymph nodes were noted in 12 of 41 patients. RNA was analyzed for gene expression using the Affymetrix HG133A and HG133B GeneChip set, representing 45,000 array features covering >28,000 UniGene clusters. Data analysis was done using multidimensional scaling, binary comparison, and hierarchical clustering. Gene expression for several differentially expressed genes was examined using quantitative PCR. RESULTS: Gene expression data was obtained from 30,964 genes that were detected in at least 5% of the cases. Supervised analysis of node-positive versus node-negative cases indicated that 450 genes were significantly differentially expressed between the two classes at P < 0.005, 81 of which were differentially expressed by at least 2-fold at P < 0.005. Overexpressed genes included two cell cycle checkpoint genes, CDC2 and MAD2L1, which have previously been described in association with lymph node metastasis in other cancer types. The ZIC2 zinc finger gene was overexpressed in endometrial cancers with positive nodes versus those with negative nodes. CONCLUSION: Gene expression profiling of the primary tumors in patients with endometrioid endometrial cancers seems promising for identifying genes associated with lymph node metastasis. Future studies should address whether the status of nodal metastasis can be determined from the expression profiles of preoperative tissue specimens.
Berchuck, Andrew
Bidus, MA; Risinger, JI; Chandramouli, GVR; Dainty, LA; Litzi, TJ; Berchuck, A; Barrett, JC; Maxwell, GL
Clinical Cancer Research : an Official Journal of the American Association for Cancer Research
10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-05-0835
Carcinoma, Endometrioid
Endometrial Neoplasms
Lymphatic Metastasis
Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction


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Urban Brisbane: New Life for a Brisbane Icon – Hotel Review
Urban Brisbane: New Life for a Brisbane Icon - Hotel Review
Last updated . 14 February 2020
A $10 million refurbishment has given birth to Urban Brisbane, one of the best value for money hotels in the vibrant Queensland capital. Local Tiana Templeman checks in to check out just how affordable this inner-city stay has become.
"Tie me up tightly," says my husband, peering at the sash from his bathrobe. I walk slowly towards him and take the strip of fabric in my hand, see the words embroidered on it and start laughing. It appears he wasn't making me an offer at all, but was simply reading out the jolly instructions stitched onto his bathrobe belt. Our comfy slippers are similarly adorned with holiday advice, urging us to "Slow Down". And we're about to discover that Urban Brisbane offers guests plenty more reasons to smile.
This contemporary hotel on Wickham Terrace is a Brisbane icon and originally opened as the Gazebo Terrace Hotel in 1970, when it was the place to come for a night on the town. Local sophisticates sipped Brandy Crusta cocktails before adjourning to the rooftop restaurant for stunning city views (free), a plate of prawns ($5.25) and a bottle of Queen Adelaide claret ($6.50). Taking your special lady for a night out at the Gazebo was sure to impress.
The poor old Gazebo was really showing its age but, thanks to the extensive refurbishment program, it has been transformed into a stylish hotel with a refreshing sense of fun.
The rooftop restaurant is no more and the hotel has since undergone a $10 million refurbishment but staying here has never been more affordable. We're able to snap up a $99 deal during an accommodation sale and cannot believe our luck as we stroll through the modern, light-filled lobby. Cool tunes from a funky wall-mounted Bang & Olufsen sound system suit the laidback vibe and my husband and I are checked in with a smile.
Our allocated room with a queen size bed represents excellent value but we're keen to relive the glory days of the hotel and ask to see a suite. These are located at the front of the hotel and come with a separate bedroom and living area, large terrace-style balcony and 180-degree views of the city skyline. It costs an extra $100 to upgrade, which we do.
The poor old Gazebo was really showing its age but, thanks to the extensive refurbishment program, it has been transformed into a stylish hotel with a refreshing sense of fun. All rooms come with quirky bathrobes and Slow Down slippers, and our bathroom has designer soap which is "the cleanser of pores, the eraser of smells, the sudsy joy that wraps your body in social hygiene . . ." It smells pretty good too.
Hotel Urban Brisbane may be fond of a joke but the business of running a hotel is taken very seriously. Service is professional and it seems nothing we ask for is too much trouble (including hunting down a corkscrew to open the bottle of wine we brought from home). Our suite is spotless and in excellent repair, as is the room we were originally shown, and the cool monochrome colour scheme is sophisticated without being austere.
We agree that our lavish suite must be one of the best accommodation bargains in town, with similar rooms at other Brisbane hotels costing twice or even three times as much. It's worth noting that every room has a balcony, not just the suites, although views from those on lower levels are far less impressive (and priced accordingly, which seems fair). A higher floor warrants the extra spend and still equates to excellent value.
Our hometown sparkles like a disco ball as night wraps itself around the nearby parklands, trains give a jaunty toot as they depart Roma Street Station, and the Brisbane River shimmers like a silvery-grey ribbon in the distance. This is Brisbane as we've never seen it before and our plans for dinner in the ground floor Gazebo Bar & Restaurant are abandoned in favour of room service on the balcony.
My call goes through to the bar when I ring to place our order and, while no-one orders a Brandy Crusta, plenty of other drinks are served while I'm hanging on the line. So many, in fact, that I eventually give up and try reception. No apology is given but they explain the bar staff are flat out and offer to put me through again with a promise my order will be taken straight away – which it is. This proves to be the only glitch during our stay and, when two tasty meals are delivered on time and with a smile, all is forgiven.
Hotel Urban Brisbane is a 4.5 star hotel with 5 star service and an overall enthusiasm that money doesn't always buy. Much has changed in Brisbane over the past 40 years but one thing remains the same. Treating your special lady (or man) to a night here is still sure to impress.
Details // Urban Brisbane
Where // 345 Wickham Terrace, Brisbane.
Costs // From $159 per night (but keep an eye out for specials).
Hot Tip // Proud owners of a large sedan or 4WD should think twice about entering the car park, which is tighter than a '70s body shirt.
Contacts // www.urbanbrisbane.com.au, (07) 3831 6177.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. (KTVU) - San Jose police on Thursday night shot and killed a man who authorities said carjacked a UPS truck holding the driver hostage, who was eventually let go and was not harmed.
It all started with a police pursuit at 5 p.m. that began at Chynoweyh and Pearl avenues in South San Jose ending with a dramatic standoff on North 1st and South Trimble in North San Jose.
At 7 p.m., armored tactical vehicles boxed in the UPS truck in the North San Jose industrial park. Skyfox captured the suspect running off. Law enforcement fired one shot killing him. Moments later, a yellow tarp is seen placed over his body.
The sheriff's office said the suspect then got out of his car near Communications Hills, carjacking a UPS truck with the driver inside. Deputies deployed spike strips and the UPS truck finally stopped at North 1st and South Trimble prompting a heavy police response.
Friends identified the suspect killed as 33-year-old Mark Morasky of San Jose, who they said leaves behind a one-year-old daughter. They claim he called them from inside the UPS truck.
They claim he stole the UPS truck to avoid police out of fear he'd head back to jail. They said his rap sheet includes-residential burglaries and two strikes. They wished non-lethal force was used.
"He was about to make the decision to do life in prison so his daughter would have him and they took that option away from her," said Bazzani.
The sheriff's office took one female suspect into custody. It's unclear her relationship to the suspect. UPS released a statement that said in part they are thankful to local police who responded to the situation and are assisting with the investigation.


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Addressing the Deceptive Practices of Anti-Abortion Pregnancy Centers
Addressing the Deceptive Practices of Anti-Abortion Pregnancy Centersazegers2019-09-09T12:59:42-04:00
The National Institute for Reproductive Health is committed to assisting advocates in addressing the deceptive practices of anti-abortion pregnancy centers. Anti-abortion pregnancy centers are anti-choice organizations that often pose as women's health clinics, but their real aim is to dissuade pregnant women from choosing abortion. Extensive national research, as well as reports conducted in states such as California, Maryland, New York, and Texas, has revealed that anti-abortion pregnancy centers regularly use deceptive and manipulative tactics to achieve this goal.
Spurred by these investigative reports and resulting pro-choice advocacy, several localities have taken action to protect consumers from the fraudulent practices of anti-abortion pregnancy centers by passing legislation or resolutions. Although some of these ordinances are no longer enforced following legal challenges, advocates in several cities have been successful in regulating these dangerous centers. NIRH stands with localities around the country as they fight to protect their communities' rights to unbiased medical information and comprehensive reproductive health care, including abortion.
The state of California passed a law regulating health care providers and anti-abortion pregnancy centers in 2015, the Reproductive FACT Act. Although several anti-abortion pregnancy centers in northern California have filed a lawsuit, claiming that the law is unconstitutional, the court has allowed the law to go into effect during the litigation. Rewire covered the latest court decision allowing the enforcement of the law.
In Northern California, anti-abortion pregnancy centers have sued local officials who are responsible for the law's enforcement in an attempt to coerce them into not enforcing the Reproductive FACT Act. This targeting of local officials is a unique tactic in anti-choice advocates' fight against the law. Read more at Lost Coast Outpost.
Read more about the options for regulating anti-abortion pregnancy centers at Slate.
In 2010, NARAL Pro-Choice California released a report detailing the deceptive practices of anti-abortion pregnancy centers entitled "Unmasking Fake Clinics: the Truth about Crisis Pregnancy Centers in California." In 2011, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed an ordinance prohibiting anti-abortion pregnancy centers from making misleading statements or posting deceptive advertisements about their services. First Resort Inc., a local anti-abortion pregnancy center, sued the City for civil rights violations, and a federal court upheld the law in 2015.
Read NARAL Pro-Choice California Foundation's CPC report.
Read the San Francisco ordinance.
The New York Times covered the introduction of the bill, and Huffington Post covered its initial passage.
SF Gate covered the 2015 federal court decision to uphold the ordinance
In 2009, NARAL Pro-Choice Texas Foundation released a report that highlighted the misleading practices of anti-abortion pregnancy centers, "Taxpayer Financed Crisis Pregnancy Centers in Texas: A Hidden Threat to Women's Health." The following year, the Austin City Council passed a resolution that required anti-abortion pregnancy centers to post signs notifying people entering the center that the center does not provide abortion, abortion referral, or contraceptive services and does not have a licensed medical provider on site. Following a court challenge, the City Council revised the ordinance to remove references to abortion and contraception, requiring only that anti-abortion pregnancy centers post signs notifying potential clients whether or not a medical provider was part of the center's staff. However, in 2014, a federal court judge struck down the ordinance, ruling that it was unconstitutionally vague.
Read NARAL Pro-Choice Texas Foundation's 2009 and 2014 investigations into anti-abortion pregnancy centers.
Rewire covered the 2010 ordinance, and Burnt Orange Report covered the 2012 revision.
Read the revised 2012
View the 2010 and 2012 City Council meetings.
The Austin Chronicle covered the federal court ruling and the history of the ordinance.
Baltimore and Montgomery County, MD
In 2008, NARAL Pro-Choice Maryland released a report entitled "The Truth Revealed: Maryland Crisis Pregnancy Center Investigations" that highlighted the deceptive practices of anti-abortion pregnancy centers in the state. The following year, the Baltimore City Council passed an ordinance requiring anti-abortion pregnancy centers to disclose whether or not they provide or make referrals for abortion or contraception services. The Montgomery County Council passed a similar ordinance in 2010. Local anti-abortion pregnancy centers and Catholic officials filed two lawsuits against both jurisdictions, and in 2011 a U.S. District Court blocked the laws from being enforced. A three-judge panel of Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals initially upheld that ruling in 2012. However, the case was heard before the full Fourth Circuit en banc in late 2012, and the court overturned the initial ruling on both ordinances, remanding the cases back to the U.S. District Court for further discovery. The District Court then ruled against the Montgomery County ordinance in 2014. The Baltimore case is still pending and remains enjoined until a decision is reached.
Read NARAL Pro-Choice Maryland's CPC report.
Read the Baltimore ordinance and the Montgomery County ordinance.
View the 2010 Montgomery County Council meeting when the ordinance was passed.
Rewire covered the history of the Baltimore case following the Fourth Circuit's 2013 ruling.
NARAL Pro-Choice Maryland's timeline of the litigation on the ordinances
In 2010, NARAL Pro-Choice New York, now the National Institute for Reproductive Health Action Fund, released a report on the deceptive practices of anti-abortion pregnancy centers in New York entitled "'She Said Abortion Could Cause Breast Cancer': A Report on the Lies, Manipulations, and Privacy Violations of Crisis Pregnancy Centers in New York City," based on an undercover investigation they conducted with several volunteers. The following year, the New York City Council passed an ordinance requiring anti-abortion pregnancy centers to post signs and otherwise disclose information about the services they provide, including whether a licensed medical provider is on staff at the center and whether center staff will refer women for contraception and abortion services. The law also contained a provision requiring anti-abortion pregnancy centers to treat all health and personal information they receive as confidential. Several local anti-abortion pregnancy centers sued, arguing that the disclosure requirements violated their First Amendment rights. They did not challenge the law's confidentiality provision. In 2011, the US District Court for the Southern District of New York held that the law was vague and issued an injunction preventing the city from enforcing the law. However, in 2014, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals overruled the District Court, holding that the law was not unconstitutionally vague. The Second Circuit then upheld the requirement that anti-abortion pregnancy centers disclose whether or not they have a medical provider on staff, although the court struck down the requirement that anti-abortion pregnancy centers disclose whether or not staff would refer for contraception or abortion services. When the anti-abortion pregnancy centers appealed this ruling to the Supreme Court, the Court declined to hear the case, allowing the Second Circuit Court ruling to stand and enabling New York City to begin enforcing this part of the law.
Read NARAL Pro-Choice New York's investigation into CPCs.
Read the New York ordinance.
In 2011, New York Civil Liberties Union filed an amicus curiae brief in support of the New York ordinance.
Read a summary of the court cases surrounding the ordinance in the National Partnership for Women and Families' Repro Health Watch.
Read about the Supreme Court decision not to hear an appeal to the Second Circuit Court's ruling in
Read our , one of the young women who went undercover for the investigation.
In 2013, the Chapel Hill Town Council unanimously passed a resolution entitled "Accurate Health Information for a Stronger Community," supporting the right to medically accurate information in women's health care, pregnancy, and contraceptive services and encouraging the North Carolina General Assembly to take action to regulate these centers. The resolution also condemned North Carolina's funding of anti-abortion pregnancy centers through "Choose Life" license plates, as well as an anti-choice state law that requires, among other provisions, that the State maintain a database of anti-abortion pregnancy centers and provide this information on their website and in printed materials as a resource for pregnant women. NARAL Pro-Choice North Carolina supported the passage of the resolution, and Executive Director Suzanne Buckley spoke at the hearing.
NARAL Pro-Choice North Carolina and the Town of Chapel Hill issued press releases about the resolution.
Chapelboro covered the passage of the resolution.
Read the agenda item and summary from the Town Council here, and the resolution here.
Dane County, WI
In 2011 and 2012, NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin Foundation conducted an investigation into the practices of anti-abortion pregnancy centers and released a report, "CPCs Exposed: The Truth about Deception at Wisconsin Crisis Pregnancy Centers." In 2013, the Board of Dane County, where Madison is the county seat, unanimously passed an ordinance to ensure that the County only contracts with facilities that provide unbiased and comprehensive medical information. County officials were moved to action after learning that a state public defender had referred a minor seeking judicial bypass to Care Net, an anti-abortion pregnancy center, and sought the assistance of NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin to ensure that this would not happen on the local level in their community. Although this ordinance will not prevent state officials, like the public defender, from making these referrals in the future, it ensures that county clients receive comprehensive, unbiased reproductive health care information from county-funded organizations.
Read NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin Foundation's investigation into CPCs.
Read the Dane County ordinance.
NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin released a statement praising the ordinance.


Using an intermediate language for data AND code?
Post-Apocalyptic RPG forums | Development | Programming (Moderator: Technomage) | Using an intermediate language for data AND code?
Right now one needs to know python in order to contribute in one way or the other.
The data is stored in yaml, but there is no real quest engine in place?
without having to know python?
can also be used for simple GAME logic?
That game logic can be kept simple.
I think these are the main elements of it perhaps?
My idea is that perhaps a simpler language could be used as intermediary, and then this file is parsed and interpreted correctly.
That way, people could already contribute to the game, without having to know python.
Re: Using an intermediate language for data AND code?
Well, quests and dialogues are defined in yaml files. So, yes, you don't need python knowledge for these. Dialogues even have actions that are run when one selects a specific dialogue response.
What do you mean by "real quest engine", btw?
I think whole point of data-driven engines in our component-based approach is to put as much of the structure of the project into data files, as possible. YAML in our case.
So that by playing with data you can pretty much develop a game: adding/removing things from map, influence how items are crafted or how NPC behaves, add or remove a stat from the mechanics or change the levels that PC needs to "level up" a given ability.
I guess YAML is simple enough for non-coders, yet it will make cooperation - both in designers group and between designers and programmers - rather smooth and easy.
Whole point, as I understand it, is to put all the logic in python files, and all the data the logic is fed with - in text files. So that programmers will focus more, for example, on how entities communicate when one is trying to hit another while fighting (the thing you don't want to see, shevy), while designers will figure out what RPG mechanics will be applied in case of such event (I guess that's what you're interested in).


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Walter Wallace Jr. would still be alive if he were white
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What Kamala Harris told me when I asked about her and Joe Biden
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Safe Injection Sites: A Community Forum
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Crestview Police investigating Tuesday bus crash
April 25, 2018 / holtnews
CRESTVIEW, Fla., April 25, 2018–The Crestview Police Department is investigating an afternoon wreck on P.J. Adams Parkway that sent eight people to an area hospital Tuesday.
Around 2:33 p.m., police officers responded to a call about an accident involving an Okaloosa County Transit bus and a Honda passenger car that had crossed into the path of the eastbound bus.
The transit bus flipped and skidded before coming to a stop. (CPD)
The nearly head-on collision happened shortly before P.J. Adams' intersection with State Road 85 and caused the bus to flip upside down and skid down the side of the road, coming to rest on the south shoulder less than 10 feet from a wetland.
The bus occupants, including the driver and six or seven passengers, and the driver of the Honda, who was that vehicle's sole occupant, were transported by Okaloosa County EMS to a nearby hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
P.J. Adams Parkway was closed in both directions while the scene was investigated and the wreckage was cleared.
The road closure also affected S.R. 85 traffic because of backed-up turn lanes onto P.J. Adams.
The busy road reopened about an hour-and-a-half after the accident was reported.
The Crestview Fire Department and the Crestview Police Department Chaplaincy Division also responded to the accident.
The Honda crossed into the path of the eastbound transit bus. (CPD)
Officers on scene said the Honda driver will be cited upon her release from the hospital, with charges pending.
Crestview Police Department release and photos
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Ruth Williams [Heverly] (February 12, 1926 – February 10, 2005) was a pitcher who played from  through  in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at , 139 lb., she batted and threw right-handed.

Ruth Williams debuted in the AAGPBL as a 20-year rookie and had a solid if unspectacular career that spanned eight seasons. Used as a spot starter and reliever, Williams collected at least ten wins in five of those seasons, while her 2.19 career earned run average ranks her twelfth in the all-time list of AAGPBL pitchers with at least 1,000 innings of work. During her career she hurled eight two-hitters, one of them a no-hitter going into the ninth inning of a contest.

Born in Nescopeck, Pennsylvania, Williams began playing softball at age 12 in a church league. When she was a sophomore at East Stroudsburg University, Williams played for the New York Traders, a fastpitch softball team that paid her travel and food expenses for her to play during the weekends. After her father read about the AAGPBL in a Philadelphia Inquirer advertisement, he motivated his daughter to attend a tryout in Allentown. About 400 girls attended, and three days later she received an offer to join the league.

Williams opened 1946 with the Racine Belles, but ten days later was transferred to the Fort Wayne Daisies. She was relegated to a bench role for most of the year, pitching in just one game while striking out a batter in one inning. She was traded to the South Bend Blue Sox a year later. Meanwhile, she finished her Physical Education and General Science degrees from ESU and began teaching at Wissahickon High School in Ambler, Pennsylvania.

In 1947, Blue Sox manager Chet Grant gave Williams a chance to join the pitching rotation, which included the experimented Jean Faut, Phyllis Koehn and Ruby Stephens. Williams responded with a 12–8 record and 1.70 ERA in 25 games, striking out 48 in 180 innings. Her performance slacked to a 10–10 mark and a 2.25 ERA in 1948, but she still managed to strike out 55 and collect 160 innings in 23 games.

Her most productive season in 1949, when she posted a 10–6 record with a career-high 1.64 ERA, which ranked her as the ninth best in ERA and winning percentage (.625), helping her team tie for first place with the Rockford Peaches. Since she was still teaching in Pennsylvania, the Blue Sox flew Williams in for the Memorial Day weekend in order to pitch. She then won two games and returned to school to finish out the school year.

Williams started 1950 with South Bend, but was traded to the Peoria Redwings during the midseason and ended the year with the Kalamazoo Lassies. She combined for a 5–10 record with a 3.47 ERA in just 19 games. She did not have much run support from the Lassies and recorded losing records for the remaining three years of career by going 10–11, 10–12 and 8–12. Nevertheless, she posted low earned runs averages of 1.96, 2.48 and 2.12,  pitched a career-high 174 innings in 1952, and finished ninth in ERA in 1951.

Following her baseball career, Williams married Leonard Heverly and continued her work in Ambler. The couple adopted two sons, Richard and Mike, but tragedy struck in 1980 when her husband died in an unfortunate traffic collision caused by a drunk driver. She retired after the accident.

Williams later attended the AAGPBL Players Association reunions. The association was largely responsible for the opening of Women in Baseball, a permanent display based at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York, which was unveiled in 1988 to honor the entire All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.

In 1995 Ruth Williams Heverly suffered a heart attack, which slowed her life down considerably for the next ten years. She died at her home in Ambler, Pennsylvania, just two days short of her 79th birthday.

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Thunder gods gold... 1946. This is the abridged edition Storm says was published in May, 1946. It reprints sections of Thunder Gods Gold, with many photographs. Over the years Storm printed abridged versions of Thunder Gods Gold as advertisements for the complete work. This one cost a dollar. "Refund Offer: The title page of this Newstand Edition, if torn out and mailed directly to the publisher with the $1.75 balance, will be accepted as a complete $1.00 refund applying upon the purchase of the Treasure Trails Edition which will be sent you postpaid. Dealers cannot honor this offer."


An Oregon native, Megan is a Criminology and Religion student who lives with her husband, daughters, and menagerie of eccentric pets.
These days, my inspiration for writing would be all the fun conversations and brainstorms I have with my husband during our late night "insomnia parties".
I generally go out and purchase a new notebook. I then begin writing down ideas, names, character biographies, anything that comes to mind.
I would have to say that I am both an outliner and a "seat of the pants" writer. I have notebook upon notebook with ideas, dossiers, and plot bunnies. I used to use whiteboards, which were all over my apartment (including the windows and doors), but now I mostly use audio recordings if I can't write down my ideas.
When I sit down to write, I just go until I hit a block, at which point I will take a break and come back when the block is gone.
Yes, I talk to my characters. Kalen and Tweek would have to be the loudest of the two in my current series, but (to give up a small spoiler of my next book) Sigyn and Moros tend to need separating a lot more as of late. The twins do not get along, and like to pick at each other until I put them on opposite ends of my brain.
I have had moments while I was writing, where one of my characters would shout, "Seriously?! I don't talk like that!" and I have to pause and let them finish before I go back and fix what I'd just written.
I was originally approached after posting a few teaser chapters on a writing website, and was published through a new publishing company known as Umbraprojects Publishing. When the market crashed in 2008, so did the company, and I began to search around for a new publisher. After several rejection letters, I decided to self publish. I originally went through Lulu, but didn't like the distribution options and charges. A friend pointed me towards Createspace, and while it's not perfect, it works for now.
I think that we should continue to publish hard copies of the books, even though it is easier and cheaper to do eBook only. There is just something about holding the actual book in your hands.


Tanya Holland is a local photographer who has suffered from depression for many years. Tanya feels it is important to find and give strength to those who have depression or help someone understand it through her art.
This is how Tanya feels about her pictures. Each photo Tanya presents to you shows how someone has altered its natural state, either for the better or by mistreating it leaving it still beautiful but changed.
"Flaws are Beauty so in fact there are no flaws!"