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OUR NEW 2022 CATALOG
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Vision of the Eagle
The Indian Ring
Louis l'Amour's Lost Treasures: Volume 2: More Mysterious Stories, Unfinished Manuscripts, and Lost Notes from One of the World's Most Popular Novelis
Blackthorne's Bride: A Bitter Creek Novel
The Righteous Revenge of Artemis Bonner
Rugged Trails
Preacher's Kill
Die by the Gun
Ride A Lone Trail and Massacre Creek: Two Full Length Western Novels
All Things Left Wild
Ralph Compton Shot to Hell
The Outliers
Coyote Wind
The Sky-Liners
Judgement Day: A Classic Western
Curly Jack
Snake Oil: A Patrick Flint Novel
Cutthroats
That Old Ace in the Hole
The Seekers
Legends and Tales of the American West
The Changing Wind: A Classic Western Novel
Stag Party: A Patrick Flint Novel
Path of Evil
Ralph Compton the Empire Trail
Sawbones: A Patrick Flint Novel
Author: Kay L. McDonald
Publisher: iUniverse
- Fiction | Historical | General
- Fiction | Westerns | General
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"L'Amour is popular for all the right reasons. His books embody heroic virtues that seem to matter now more than ever."--The Wall Street Journal
More unpublished works from the archives of Louis L'Amour: complete short stories, partial novels, treatments, and notes that will transport readers from the Western frontier to India, China, and even the future.
Exploring the creative process of an American original, the Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures series will uncover the hidden history behind the author's best known novels . . . and his most mysterious and ambitious unfinished works.
In this second volume, Beau L'Amour examines how his father made the transition from struggling pulp writer to successful novelist and uses his father's notes, journal entries, and correspondence to continue the process of seeking out how and why many of these never-before-seen manuscripts were written as well as speculating about the ways they might have ended.
These selections include the beginnings of a post-apocalyptic science fiction tale, a proposal for a nonfiction project based on the life of Renaissance-era traveler Ibn Batuta, and two chapters of a historical novel set in India about the origin of L'Amour's well-known Talon family.
At the other end of the spectrum are classic adventures, such as "In the Measure of Time," a chance encounter set on the high seas, and a science fiction film treatment set in Mexico, as well as seventeen chapters of a novel that reappears throughout Louis's journals and letters and speaks to his fascination with post-revolutionary 1950s China, leading him so far as to correspond with the Dalai Lama.
With rare photographs and commentary, this book further maps the journey L'Amour embarked upon to become one of our greatest storytellers and the diverse realms to which his imagination traveled, making him a true American pioneer.
Author: Louis L'Amour, Beau L'Amour
- Fiction | Action & Adventure
Our foremost storyteller of the American West, Louis L'Amour has thrilled a nation by chronicling the adventures of the brave men and woman who settled the frontier. There are more than three hundred million copies of his books in print around the world.
A tale of the Old West as it has seldom been imagined before-authentic, frontier-harsh, and ethereal. Scrag, a young man on the trail to Oregon, meets Justly, a young woman, and her mother and is drawn into their lives. Winner of the David Higham Prize as the best first novel published in the U.K. or British Commonwealth.
Author: John Loveday
Publisher: Mariner Books
From the wilds of western Oregon on the banks of the Snake River, young Jake Zane is offered a job he can't refuse.
After locusts clean out his fields, Jake Zane must turn to hunting and trapping for survival. He can earn a decent wage-and potentially earn a fat bonus-if he can live to collect it...
Zane is compelled to sign on as a wagon and mule train guard into unchartered territory, from Oregon to gold rush San Francisco. All that's between him and a bonus that will carry Jake and his family through another year are hundreds of savages, weather, a Sierra crossing, and wild animals on rugged trails. It's get there with the cargo, or all is lost.
The Two Thousand Grueling Miles series is a true family adventure tale full of can't put it down action.
Author: L. J. Martin
Publisher: Wise Wolf Books
- Young Adult Fiction | Classics
- Young Adult Fiction | Westerns
- Young Adult Fiction | Historical | General
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Johnstone Justice. Made in America.
A fur trapper by trade, Preacher can smell a bad deal from any direction no matter how well it's disguised. It wasn't always that way--he's got the scars to prove it. Now he's ready to pass on his deadly survival skills to a boy named Hawk, who just might be his son . . .
Preacher and Hawk ride out of the Rockies and into St. Louis, loaded with furs. It's Hawk's first trip to civilization and the moment he lays eyes on young Chessie Dayton he's lost in more ways than one. When Chessie unwisely signs on for a gold-hungry expedition into the lawless mountains, Hawk convinces Preacher to trail the outfit because they're all headed straight to the sacred Indian grounds known as the Black Hills--a land of no return. To come out of it alive a lot of people will have to die. And Preacher's going to need a heap of bullets for this journey into hell . . .
Author: William W. Johnstone, J. A. Johnstone
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
William W. Johnstone is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of over 300 books, including the series THE MOUNTAIN MAN; PREACHER, THE FIRST MOUNTAIN MAN; MACCALLISTER; LUKE JENSEN, BOUNTY HUNTER; FLINTLOCK; THOSE JENSEN BOYS; THE FRONTIERSMAN; SAVAGE TEXAS; THE KERRIGANS; and WILL TANNER: DEPUTY U.S. MARSHAL. His thrillers include BLACK FRIDAY, TYRANNY, STAND YOUR GROUND, and THE DOOMSDAY BUNKER. Visit his website at www.williamjohnstone.net or email him at dogcia2006@aol.com.
Being the all-around assistant, typist, researcher, and fact checker to one of the most popular western authors of all time, J.A. Johnstone learned from the master, Uncle William W. Johnstone.
He began tutoring J.A. at an early age. After-school hours were often spent retyping manuscripts or researching his massive American Western History library as well as the more modern wars and conflicts. J.A. worked hard--and learned.
"Every day with Bill was an adventure story in itself. Bill taught me all he could about the art of storytelling. 'Keep the historical facts accurate, ' he would say. 'Remember the readers, and as your grandfather once told me, I am telling you now: be the best J.A. Johnstone you can be."
Johnstone Country. Patriots Welcome.
In this thrilling frontier saga, bestselling authors William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone celebrate an unsung hero of the American West: a humble chuckwagon cook searching for justice--and fighting for his life . . .
Dewey "Mac" McKenzie is wanted for a killing he didn't commit. He saved his hide once by signing on as a cattle drive chuckwagon cook and bolting the territories. Turned out Mac was as good at fixing vittles as he was at dodging bullets. But Mac's enemies are hungry for more--and they've hired a gang of ruthless killers to turn up the heat . . .
Mac's only hope is to join another cattle drive on the Goodnight-Loving Trail, deep in New Mexico Territory. The journey ahead is even deadlier than the hired guns behind him. His trail boss is an ornery cuss. His crew mate is the owner's spoiled son. And the route is overrun with kill-crazy rustlers and bloodthirsty Comanche. Worse, Mac's would-be killers are closing in fast. But when the cattle owner's son is kidnapped, the courageous young cook has no choice but to jump out of the frying pan--and into the fire . . .
"Every day with Bill was an adventure story in itself. Bill taught me all he could about the art of storytelling. 'Keep the historical facts accurate, ' he would say. 'Remember the readers, and as your grandfather once told me, I am telling you now: be the best J.A. Johnstone you can be.'"
THERE'S CARNAGE IN THE CONCHAS IN THIS CLASSIC WESTERN DOUBLE.
Ride a Lone Trail
When Ken Macklin left the Double H a few years back, he had sworn never to return. But now that his father had been gunned down in ambush, he had no choice. Someone had to pay.
But as he trailed across the Lazy J spread, he learned he was being followed. It looked as if he were to be drygulch victim Number Two. For things were as bad as when he'd left, only now the valley was about to explode into open range war. All it had needed was the fuse, and Ken was it.
Massacre Creek
Tough cavalryman Sabin Shay faced his Cheyenne captors. He knew the price of defeat-and waited for his own destruction. But then he saw the hatred in the Redmen's eyes. If they just killed him plain and simple, he'd be lucky...
"The joy of reading Shirreffs' work is in his mastery of pacing and his tough, gritty prose." - James Reasoner, author of Outlaw Ranger
Author: Gordon D. Shirreffs
Publisher: Wolfpack Publishing
- Fiction | Classics
A lawman with bleak eyes stalks a ne'er-do-well with a rakish smile through a quiet waterfront town in Delaware, near the turn of the last century. Both have recently arrived by steamship from New Jersey, and as far as a Nanticoke Indian youth named Sonny is concerned, they can't leave Lewes the same way soon enough.
Sonny is trying to stay out of trouble and explore the puzzling affections being showered on him by the daughter of the wealthiest banker in town. But everyone seems to want something else from him, and some of it involves a thrashing by the banker.
Miss Lil has given him a cot off the kitchen and three square meals a day to do what needs to be done for her and her girls. Miss Lil is in the entertainment business, and her establishment has a secure little cottage just down the beach road, in a town that's always been good about keeping its secrets.
But why has Sonny's older brother gone off the rails, after springing him from that unpleasant boarding school in Pennsylvania? And what game is Miss Lil's favorite girl playing? She's always been sweet, but her out-of-town boyfriend seems to have turned her head.
Sonny can't explain what it means or why it all seems to be coming down on him. He only knows that life as he has known it is changing. Formidable men mean him no good. He'll be lucky to get through the next week.
Author: Jack Clemons
Publisher: Secant Publishing LLC
- Fiction | Fantasy | Historical
First in the crime-fiction series set in the modern-day west, starring a half-French, half-Indian "character of legendary proportions" (Ridley Pearson).
Officially, Gabriel Du Pré is the cattle inspector for Toussaint, Montana, responsible for making sure no one tries to sell livestock branded by another ranch. Unofficially, he is responsible for much more than cows' backsides. The barren country around Toussaint is too vast for the town's small police force, and so, when needed, this hard-nosed Métis Indian lends a hand. When the sheriff offers gas money to investigate newly discovered plane wreckage in the desert, Du Pré quickly finds himself embroiled in a mystery stretching back a generation.
For three decades, the crashed plane sat in the sun as the bodies inside rotted away to their bones. Two skeletons are whole, but for one nothing remains but the hands, the skull, and the bullet that ended his life. The crime was hidden long ago, but in the Montana badlands, nothing stays buried forever . . .
In Gabriel Du Pré, "Bowen has taken the antihero of Hemingway and Hammett and brought him up to date . . . a fresh, memorable character" (The New York Times Book Review).
Coyote Wind is the 1st book in The Montana Mysteries Featuring Gabriel Du Pré series, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
Author: Peter Bowen
Publisher: Open Road Media Mystery & Thri
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective | General
- Fiction | Indigenous
Peter Bowen (b. 1945) is best known for his mystery novels set in the modern American West. When he was ten, Bowen's family moved to Bozeman, Montana, where a paper route introduced him to the grizzled old cowboys who frequented a bar called The Oaks. Listening to their stories, some of which stretched back to the 1870s, Bowen found inspiration for his later fiction.
Following time at the University of Michigan and the University of Montana, he published his first novel, Yellowstone Kelly, in 1987. After two more novels featuring the real-life western hero, Bowen published Coyote Wind (1994), which introduced Gabriel Du Pré, a mixed-race lawman living in fictional Toussaint, Montana. He has written fifteen novels in the series, in which Du Pré gets tangled up in everything from cold-blooded murder to the hunt for rare fossils. Bowen continues to live and write in Livingston, Montana.
The Crockett brothers go hog wild in this non-stop action adventure!
When Kansas Charley Kellett massacres a family on the Fourth of July, the only red, white, and blue Will and Gid want to see are the red of his blood, the white of his eyes, and the blue of his body as it hangs from the gallows...
Author: Robert Vaughan
Publisher: Wolfpack Publishing LLC
AN EPIC STORY OF THE JOURNEY TO JUSTICE IN THE EARLY AMERICAN WEST.
Curly Jack and his sidekick, the retired U.S. marshal Brodie Dent, just want to live peacefully and take care of their families and ranches. But bad guys keep getting in the way.
Whenever someone is in trouble, Curly and Brodie ride to the rescue and do whatever it takes to right wrongs and keep the peace.
"McKendree Long knows how to spin a yarn." - Johnny D. Boggs, Spur Award-winning author
Author: McKendree Long
Patrick Flint feels a calling to volunteer at the impoverished Indian Health Services clinic on the Wind River Reservation that he can't completely explain. His wife Susanne supports this-usually-but her family is coming for their first Wyoming visit, twelve-year-old Perry is stir crazy and looking for trouble, teenager Trish is dangerously in love, and she and Patrick are in the final stages of negotiations for their dream house. The Christmas holidays are not a convenient time for him to be gone, to say the least, or to be out of communication, which is exactly what happens when a series of blizzards knocks out power and phone lines all over the region. When Patrick arrives in Fort Washakie to a flirty reception from the young clinic manager, Constance, he discovers Big Mike Teton, a tribal council member, dead in the health center parking lot. The circumstances point toward poisoning, but local law enforcement pooh-poohs that idea the second Patrick brings it up. So does Big Mike's widow-none other than the lovely Constance. Stranded in the storm, Patrick follows his heart and the medical evidence in his quest to figure out what killed Big Mike. No one on the reservation seems happy about his involvement. But they aren't half as unhappy with him as Susanne is back in Buffalo when their realtor calls with a make-or-break counteroffer on the house, and she still can't reach him after two days of radio silence. As Patrick's investigation begins to ruffle the wrong feathers, a frantic Susanne loads up the kids and her extended family for a trek across Wyoming to roust her husband, only to discover she's not the only woman with a strong interest in the good doctor. Snake Oil is the second book in the Patrick Flint series of thrilling mysteries, a spin-off from the What Doesn't Kill You saga. Available in digital, print, and audiobook. If you like C.J. Box or Craig Johnson, you will love USA Today Best Seller Pamela Fagan Hutchins' Patrick Flint series. A former attorney, Pamela runs an off-the-grid lodge on the face of Wyoming's Bighorn Mountains with her husband, living out the adventures in her books with their rescue dogs and cats and enormous horses. What Amazon readers are saying about the Patrick Flint Mysteries: "A Bob Ross painting with Alfred Hitchcock hidden among the trees." "Edge-of-your seat nail biter." "Unexpected twists " "Wow Wow Highly entertaining " "A very exciting book (um... actually a nail-biter), soooo beautifully descriptive, with an underlying story of human connection and family. It's full of action. I was so scared and so mad and so relieved... sometimes all at once " "Well drawn characters, great scenery, and a kept-me-on-the-edge-of-my-seat story " "Absolutely unputdownable wonder of a story." "Must read " "Gripping story. Looking for book two " "Intense " "Amazing and well-written read." "Read it in one fell swoop. I could not put it down."
Author: Pamela Fagan Hutchins
Publisher: Skipjack Publishing
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective | Amateur Sleuth
- Fiction | Thrillers | Suspense
JOHNSTONE. KEEPING THE WEST WILD.
Not every Western hero wears a white hat or a tin star. Most of them are just fighting to survive. Some of them can be liars, cheaters, and thieves. And then there's a couple of old-time robbers named Slash and Pecos . . .
Two wanted outlaws. One hell of a story.
After a lifetime of robbing banks and holding up trains, Jimmy "Slash" Braddock and Melvin "Pecos Kid" Baker are ready to call it quits--though not completely by choice. Sold out by their old gang, Slash and Pecos have to bust out of jail and pull one last job to finance their early retirement . . .
The target is a rancher's payroll train. Catch is: the train is carrying a Gatling gun and twenty deputy US marshals who know they're coming. Caught and quickly sentenced to hang, their old enemy--the wheelchair-bound, bucket of mean, Marshal L.C. Bledsoe--shows up at the last minute to spare their lives. For a price. He'll let them live if they hunt down their old gang, the Snake River Marauders. And kill those prairie rats--with extreme prejudice . . .
William W. Johnstone is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of over 300 books, including the series THE MOUNTAIN MAN; PREACHER, THE FIRST MOUNTAIN MAN; MACCALLISTER; LUKE JENSEN, BOUNTY HUNTER; FLINTLOCK; THOSE JENSEN BOYS; THE FRONTIERSMAN; THE LEGEND OF PERLEY GATES; THE CHUCKWAGON TRAIL; FIRESTICK; SAWBONES; and WILL TANNER: DEPUTY U.S. MARSHAL. His thrillers include BLACK FRIDAY, TYRANNY, STAND YOUR GROUND, THE DOOMSDAY BUNKER, and TRIGGER WARNING. Visit his website at www.williamjohnstone.net or email him at dogcia2006@aol.com.
From Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Annie Proulx comes an exhilarating story brimming with language, history, landscape, music, and love.
Bob Dollar is a young man from Denver trying to make good in a bad world. Out of college and aimless, Dollar takes a job with Global Pork Rind, scouting out big spreads of land that can be converted to hog farms. Soon he's holed up in a two-bit Texas town called Woolybucket, where he settles into LaVon Fronk's old bunkhouse for fifty dollars a month, helps out at Cy Frease's Old Dog Café, and learns the hard way how vigorously the old Texas ranch owners will hold on to their land, even when their children want no part of it.
Robust, often bawdy, strikingly original, That Old Ace in the Hole traces the waves of change that have shaped the American West over the past century -- and in Bob Dollar, Proulx has created one of the most irrepressible characters in contemporary fiction.
Author: Annie Proulx
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Small Town & Rural
AN ENGAGING AND INSIGHTFUL WESTERN ADVENTURE.
He was called White Buffalo, and he would be the greatest medicine man the People had ever known. The spirit of the ancient gods beat in him like a savage drum - a mystical power as old as the land, as primeval as primitive man himself. But even as he fought to lead his people out of the darkness of the Stone Age, his world trembled on the brink of a great and terrible transformation.
It would be a century swept by the inevitable winds of change; a time when ignorant, evil men like the warrior Gray Wolf of the Head-Splitters would seek bloody vengeance, and when one man would fight against all odds to save his tribe and his heritage from brutal destruction.
"Coldsmith is a master storyteller." - Publishers Weekly
Author: Don Coldsmith
ISBN10: 164734607X
Jack Ryan meets Wind River
When a man who isn't who he claims to be befriends Patrick Flint and his son during a wilderness excursion with movers and shakers from across the globe, it puts the father-son duo dead in the bullseye of a murder target. To stop a gang of ruthless killers, the Flints must unriddle the mystery man's identity before the killers put a stop to them all.
"Best book I've read in a long time!" - Kiersten Marquet, author of Reluctant Promises
4.7-star series rating.
"A roller-coaster ride from the first page to the last!" - Merry, Amazon reader
Stag Party is the sixth book in the Patrick Flint series of thrilling mysteries, a spin-off from the What Doesn't Kill You saga. Available in digital, print, and audiobook.
If you like C.J. Box or Craig Johnson, you will love USA Today Best Selling author Pamela Fagan Hutchins' Patrick Flint series. A former attorney, Pamela runs an off-the-grid lodge on the face of Wyoming's Bighorn Mountains, living out the adventures in her books with her husband, rescue dogs and cats, and enormous horses.
Concho Ten-Wolves left the army to join the Texas Rangers. He lives on the Kickapoo reservation just outside Eagle Pass, Texas, on the Rio Grande Border between Mexico and the USA. His mother was a full-blooded member of the tribe; his father was black...both of them disappeared soon after his birth.
Concho does his job and takes his hits. He's made plenty of enemies who want him dead and now even his past is coming back to taunt him. A knock on his door late one night sets a chain of mysterious events in motion. He uncovers two skeletons on the reservation, a woman and child - murdered.
It doesn't matter that his enemies are coming for him, or that he doesn't know who they are or how they'll strike. The innocent dead deserve justice, and he'll see they get it.
"One of the most entertaining writers in the business!" - James Reasoner, Author of Rattler's Law.
Author: A. W. Hart
In this thrilling installment in bestseller Ralph Compton's Trail Drive series, a small ranch owner drives his herd into Mexico and is startled to find that human life comes cheaper than beef on the hoof.
Andrew Buchanan has a problem. His modest ranch in Southern California is being pressured by an unscrupulous competitor and the encroaching wave of the future--orange growers. The only chance he has to sell his cattle for real money is to take them south into Mexico.
The Empire Trail is five hundred miles of misery that crosses scorching deserts and clings to treacherous cliffs--and it's Andrew's job to find the best way across. But physical barriers are not the only thing he must contend with. A group of dangerous men are trailing the herd, determined to take the cattle or die trying.
But this is Andrew's livelihood that hangs in the balance, and he won't go down without a fight.
Author: Jeff Rovin, Ralph Compton
Publisher: Berkley Books
Ralph Compton stood six foot eight without his boots. He worked as a musician, a radio announcer, a songwriter, and a newspaper columnist. His first novel, The Goodnight Trail, was a finalist for the Western Writers of America Medicine Pipe Bearer Award for best debut novel. He was the USA Today bestselling author of the Trail of the Gunfighter series, the Border Empire series, the Sundown Rider series, and the Trail Drive series, among others.
A peaceful day of skiing for the family. The murder of a prominent judge's wife. A witness becomes the next target: thirteen-year-old Perry Flint.
Patrick, his wife Susanne, and their kids head to the mountains for a day of skiing. At the lodge, thirteen-year-old Perry is the sole eyewitness to the murder of a prominent judge's wife, only days before the first capital murder trial in the state of Wyoming since its reinstatement by the U.S. Supreme Court. Meanwhile, Susanne and Trish are gearing up to testify against ruthless killer Billy Kemecke at the trial, unless his criminal family can stop them first. With his family threatened from all sides, Patrick Flint will do anything to keep them safe.
In his third series installment, acclaimed author and horror filmmaker Eric Red brings his trademark volatile action and bloody violence to a classic genre, injecting modern speed and grit into Old West legend as Joe Noose hunts down the first known serial killer on the American frontier...
SCARRED FOR LIFE
A new kind of evil has come to the Old West. A killer as cold and hard as the Wyoming winter. He wanders from town to town. Slaughters entire families along the way. With grotesque glee, he brands the letter Q in his victims' flesh. Joe Noose knows the killer's identity. He recognizes the killer's brand. He bears the same scar from his childhood--and he's determined to stop this madman once and for all. Two U.S. Marshals have agreed to help Joe. But they've never hunted a killer like this before. A sadist who kills for pleasure--and scars you for life...
Author: Eric Red
Eric Red is a Los Angeles-based novelist, screenwriter, and film director. He wrote and directed the films Cohen and Tate (Hemdale), Body Parts (Paramount), Undertow (Showtime), Bad Moon (Warner Bros.), and 100 Feet (Grand Illusions Entertainment), which starred Famke Janssen and Bobby Cannavale. He wrote original screenplays for The Hitcher (TriStar), Near Dark (DeLaurentiis Entertainment Group), Blue Steel (MGM), which starred Jamie Lee Curtis, and The Last Outlaw (HBO) starring Mickey Rourke. In addition to publishing a number of horror and suspense stories, he created and wrote the SciFi / horror comic series and graphic novel Containment (SST Publications). Red divides his time between California and Wyoming with his wife and two dogs. He can be found online at EricRed.com.


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Album Reviews, Country Music
Jarrod Dickenson Releases One Of A Kind Project With New Album "Ready The Horses"
May 22, 2020 raisedonitblog
Soulful singer and Texas songwriter Jarrod Dickenson officially released his newest project that he's been working diligently on in Ready The Horses.
The thing that stands out on this album from Jarrod is just the rich musical sounds. There's this great combination of country, Americana, and blues that makes the entire album a joy to listen to. Combine that with the stories that he tells through with his songwriting and you have a collection of great songs.
What makes Ready The Horses particularly unique is that it was recorded live, straight to 2" tape in a studio on the southeast coast of England.
We chatted with Jarrod about the inspiration behind this project, some of his favorite songs, and what he hopes fans think when they listen to the entire album.
When you set out to make this album, what was your goal and what were you hoping to achieve?
I wanted to make something new that was a slight departure from my previous albums. The record that preceded Ready The Horses, an album called The Lonesome Traveler, was very much a folk record. It features largely acoustic instrumentation, and the songs are all deeply rooted in storytelling. I am, and will always be a folk singer, but I wanted to stretch my legs a bit on this record, and explore some of the other styles of music that have been equally influential in my musical development.
I grew up listening to my father's record collection, which consisted of The Beatles, The Stones, Simon & Garfunkel, Jim Croce, Tom Petty, Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Who and others. That early foundation in rock and roll and folk music certainly left its mark. From there I got heavily into the blues with artists like Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters and B.B. King, which then also led me to the great Soul and R&B artists like Ray Charles, Wilson Pickett, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding and Sam Cooke. Then somewhere along the way I discovered Tom Waits, and the game was changed yet again.
All of that music has been inside of me for years, so with Ready The Horses I wanted to start letting it inform my own songwriting a bit more. I wanted this record to sound bigger, be more energetic, get down and dirty in places and stay tender and vulnerable in others. I certainly think there's a common thread throughout my music that my existing fans will still latch onto with this record, but it's most definitely a departure.
What things inspired you to make this album?
The main inspiration for me to make any record is simply that I love doing it. I love the process of writing songs, getting into the studio and watching that idea in my head come to life on tape. It's such a rush when it all starts coming together.
This particular album was almost completely written while I was living in a 250 square foot studio apartment in Brooklyn, NY. I was very much a part of the New York hustle. If I wasn't on the road, I was working 7 days a week at a day job just to pay my bills. Songs like "Faint of Heart" were a direct reflection of what I was experiencing at the time.
I think living in a place like New York, particularly when you have no money, forces you to either be defiant and vow to not let the city and all that comes with it crush your spirit, or you flee. I chose defiance, and I think a lot of that came through in my writing at the time.
What was the songwriting process like on this album? Did you write each and every song? Any co-writers that stand out?
Every song, for me anyway, comes to life in its own way. Sometimes they come in a flash, and sometimes I'll have little snippets of songs that literally hang around for years before it all clicks and that song can be finished.
I am a songwriter first and foremost, so yes, I write every song. There are a few songs that are co-writes, but not in the Nashville sense of co-writing, where you meet a stranger in an office building at 11:00am on a Tuesday, and you "write a hit". The songs that I have co-written are with good friends and fellow artists who are coming at this thing from a similar perspective and have the same end goal, which is to create something meaningful.
There are a few friends of mine with whom I've written several songs over the years, and it's always a very organic process. We know each other, trust each other's sensibilities and instincts, and always put the integrity of the song above any potential commercial viability. I know there are plenty of people who work well in the Nashville style of co-writing, but it simply isn't for me.
"Way Past Midnight"
Previously, you've mentioned that "Way Past Midnight" is your favorite song on the project. Why is that?
"Way Past Midnight" was just one of those magical moments in the studio where everything came together. We were going for a sort of Ray Charles meets New Orleans kind of vibe, and what came out of that was a really grooving, soulful tune. It has hints of Gospel and Blues and R&B, and tells the story of late night possibilities. It was a blast to record, and it seems to be a fan-favorite as well.
Aside from "Way Past Midnight" which song or songs are ones that you hold near and dear to you?
We perform all of the songs from this record live at least from time to time, and over half of them are in the set every night. "Your Heart Belongs To Me", which is a duet with my wife, is always a special one to perform live, and is very much a fan-favorite. We've had several fans say that they've used that tune as the first dance song at their weddings, which is a lovely thing to hear. "Faint of Heart" and "Gold Rush" are two of the bluesier, grittier numbers that make it onto most setlists, and "Nothing More" is a ballad that a lot of people seem to have really connected with as well. So there are plenty of favorites!
Were there any challenges or surprises that popped up during the recording process?
I don't know if there were any specific challenges really that popped up during the recording sessions. It was a very natural and organic process the whole way through. We had been on the road for a solid month playing 21 dates across the UK supporting The Waterboys, and the day after the final show we went into the studio and started recording. So we were fairly tight as a band at that point.
We tracked the record live, straight to 2″ tape, and mixed it down to 1/4″ tape. The only real challenge was time. Since I was funding this record out of my own shallow pockets, we couldn't really afford much studio time, so we tracked the entire album in 4 days. Since we were working on tape as well, we had to make quick decisions. We'd do a take, listen back, and then quickly decide if that was the one, or if we needed to go again. If we did another take it meant that we were recording over the previous take. So you had to be firm and resolute in your decisions!
I don't think we ever did more than 3 or 4 takes for any given song, and at least one tune, "In The Meantime" was just a single take. It was genuinely the most fun I've ever had in the studio, and I'm very proud of what we created.
Which 3 words would you use to describe this album?
I'll borrow the words Chris Hawkins of BBC 6 Music used to describe this album – "Storytelling with soul."
Lastly, what do you want your fans to know about this project?
More than anything, I simply want people to hear it. We put a lot of love into this album. It's honest. It's real. There was no studio trickery. No bullshit. What you hear on the record is what went down in the room. It's a bunch of friends crowding into the same room, making music together, live.
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This sample demonstrates how to create a base or root-level menu with submenu functionality. The root-level menu is created by inheriting the BaseMenu class from the ESRI.ArcGIS.ADF.Local assembly's ESRI.ArcGIS.ADF namespace and by implementing the [ESRI.ArcGIS.Framework.IRootLevelMenu](http://esriFramework/IRootLevelMenu.htm) interface. The submenu functionality is created by using existing ArcGIS functionality that is accessed by the class identifier (CLSID) and ProgID in ArcMap. Additionally, a custom command is created and is accessed as a submenu. This sample contains all of the code demonstrated in the [Adding a custom menu created in .NET to ArcGIS Desktop](http://e685b331-303d-47a0-ae4f-22a41ab3566b) walkthrough.

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Language:              C#, VB
Subject:               Framework
Organization:          Esri, http://www.esri.com
Date:                  10/17/2019
ArcObjects SDK:        10.8
Visual Studio:         2017, 2019
.NET Target Framework: 4.5
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### Resources

* [ArcObjects .NET API Reference online](http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcobjects/latest/net/webframe.htm)
* [Sample Data Download](../../releases)
* [What's new](http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcobjects/latest/net/webframe.htm#91cabc68-2271-400a-8ff9-c7fb25108546.htm)
* [Download the ArcObjects SDK for .Net from MyEsri.com](https://my.esri.com/)

### Usage
#### Add and use menu and submenu commands in ArcMap
1. Open and compile the solution in Visual Studio.
1. Start ArcMap.
1. Click the Customize menu and click Customize Mode. The Customize dialog box appears.
1. Click the Commands tab, and in the Categories area, scroll down and click [Menus].
1. In the Commands area, click My_Menu and drag it onto the ArcMap graphical user interface (GUI) in the menu bar area.
1. Click Close. You can now access the functionality on your custom menu and submenu items. See the following screen shots:

![Screen shot of the Customize dialog box.](images/pic1.png)
Screen shot of the Customize dialog box.
![Screen shot of the My_Menu command in ArcMap.](images/pic1.png)
Screen shot of the My_Menu command in ArcMap.

#### See Also
[Walkthrough: Adding a custom menu created in .NET to ArcGIS Desktop](http://desktop.arcgis.com/search/?q=Walkthrough%3A%20Adding%20a%20custom%20menu%20created%20in%20.NET%20to%20ArcGIS%20Desktop&p=0&language=en&product=arcobjects-sdk-dotnet&version=&n=15&collection=help)
[Creating toolbars and menus](http://desktop.arcgis.com/search/?q=Creating%20toolbars%20and%20menus&p=0&language=en&product=arcobjects-sdk-dotnet&version=&n=15&collection=help)
[Creating commands and tools](http://desktop.arcgis.com/search/?q=Creating%20commands%20and%20tools&p=0&language=en&product=arcobjects-sdk-dotnet&version=&n=15&collection=help)

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#### Licensing
| Development licensing | Deployment licensing |
| ------------- | ------------- |
| ArcGIS Desktop Basic | ArcGIS Desktop Basic |
| ArcGIS Desktop Standard | ArcGIS Desktop Standard |
| ArcGIS Desktop Advanced | ArcGIS Desktop Advanced |

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I've now done all the big 24-hour races this year: Daytona, Le Mans, Nürburgring and Spa. It's the first time I've done all of them in one year. It's a dream for a lot of drivers. I'm grateful to have that chance to do them all with Porsche.
People like to talk about which is most beautiful or the hardest and so on, so I thought this was a good opportunity to share my opinion.
For me, Nürburgring is the hardest. There's nothing else in the world like that track. The other part is there are so many cars, which makes for lots of slower traffic.
Then there's the weather; a couple years ago we even had snow and ice in the middle of summer.
My first time doing the race I prepared big time; for two weeks, I went five times a week to track days with an Audi R8 that Audi gave me to learn the track. I also watched a lot of videos. My speed was good. I was fast even compared to the experienced guys.
What you can't buy is experience and that showed in the race.
It was a really tough edition that year. I was driving at night and it started to rain really bad. There was so much water on track I was aquaplaning everywhere and I went off.
There was a red flag. I came in. They repaired the car. I was in for the restart from the red flag. There were surface flags in all the corners, but I didn't feel anything on the track in the first few, but then I got to a corner and there was oil and I went off again.
It was my first race for Audi, so I thought I was fired for sure. That one was definitely the hardest.
The 24 Hours of Spa is the most competitive in my opinion because there are so many cars in one class. I think we had 30 Pro cars this year. That's 30 cars with professional lineups and teams and lots of different brands. There's no race like that in the world.
GT3 is the main class. For me, it's definitely the biggest GT race at the moment and it's hard to win.
The blue flags don't get much attention, so you're fighting all the time, even if the car ahead of you is five laps down. It's a difficult race, and having a good performance there is helpful because it's a sprint from beginning to the end.
I want to say that after Spa, I mentioned on Twitter that I was disappointed with the level of driving in that race.
Some people took it out of context and thought I didn't want amateurs allowed in the race. That's not the case. I know they are an important part of our world and always will be.
They're probably a danger to themselves and others at this point in their career and another year of experience would benefit them.
You can tell they are panicking to be in such a field. They don't know where to go when all the cars are passing them. I'd probably do the same if I didn't have experience. It's like if you put me in a cage with a bunch of MMA guys, I wouldn't know what to do either.
Every year there has been one very big crash where someone is injured. I came along to that crash in Eau Rouge and I honestly thought someone wasn't alive.
Luckily that wasn't the case. What caused the crash was cold tires on a restart and an inexperienced driver who lost control and caused a big chain reaction. That type of thing has happened the last three or four years and someone has ended up in the hospital.
That's what I was referring to. I didn't intend to insult anybody.
The most prestigious 24-hour race is definitely Le Mans. It's maybe not the hardest or most competitive, but it's still Le Mans.
It's so famous and there's so much history. Everyone knows Le Mans. That means there's a lot of pressure and a lot of effort. The effort Porsche put into it this year was insane for me.
It's probably the biggest project I've been a part of. There are so many fans and everyone follows it. That race is super important for everyone.
I don't have a lot of experience at Daytona and those experiences weren't so positive. We weren't in a position to win. Daytona is special though. It's a race where all the details count.
In the past, you might say that you have to stay out of trouble and stay on the lead lap and then race for the last two hours.
Daytona might have been that way for a long time, but this year there were no cautions and it was a sprint race from the beginning. Daytona is special in that way. Strategy is important.
On the one hand you want to have a quick car on the straights, but you have the infield too, so the setup is quite important and difficult.
The first time I came to Daytona and I saw the grandstands, it was pretty spectacular. All of America is watching and history is made there.
I've been lucky enough to win Le Mans, Nürburgring and Spa. It's been my dream to win four, so I have to work on Daytona now.


He's currently in the HOH attempting to expose April and her lies. She's stammering and contradicting herself, but he's coming off as a complete lunatic. "This feels like jail. I can't eat. I can't sleep. I'm in jail because of somebody else's lie." He's also repeating once again that he was promised safety this week, and that the conversation to go after Steven was with her, Ollie, and Libra. This has all happened despite the fact that every single person (outside of Jerry's supposed comment to Angie) has assured him that he's safe. His quote of the afternoon? "I've not once said anything bad about anybody!" Yeah, right.
BTW, Ollie and April have never slept together because he "snores like a cow". Bwahahahahahaha! Edit: Now she has said that she spends time with Ollie because sometimes "it's nice to have somebody to cuddle with". Yeah, for a full 90 seconds.
Libra, for once, is playing smart. She's spending the day napping.
Keep digging that hole, honey. At this rate, he's very close to reaching the core.
I can't wait to see his DR talking heads, because you know he's bragging about what an awesome strategy this is, to rattle everyone and get them off their game.
I hope they fill that mysterious empty wall panel with a new house guest, and I hope it's someone I can actually cheer for. This season it seems like its been more of a, who do I hate the least, than anything else.
OMG, the diary room stuff on Tuesday (post-nomination) will be amazing.
Hopefully the hens are threatened enough by him to vote him out this week. Then again, that would require a minute amount of common sense.
Come on Ale, have you seen the way Angie is playing? Clearly she's the one playing the hardest and is the mastermind behind everything that's gone on in the house to date.
The ghost of Brian strikes again!
I have decided that after Angie is evicted my support is going behind, believe it or not, Renny. She just wanders around the house listening to everybody babble.
oh my so much for a quiet lazy day!!
and can someone clarify something for me, wasn't Jessie told he would be safe this week if he put up Steven and dan instead of renny?? and wasn't Keesha one of the people who gave Jessie her WORD?? and if so, doesn't that mean she went back on her WORD??
The BOY has Lost it!! I am not surprised though! I bet when he was a kid and his mom told him no to something he would badger her to death until he finally got his way!! He just doesn't give up!! If he keeps this up Angie just might stay after all!! Wishful thinking I know but at this rate it just might be a possibility!!


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Robert "Bobby" Luther Lewis, age 70, of Dolphin, VA passed away January 3, 2019. He is preceded in death by his father, John "Achie" Harman Lewis, Sr.; his brother, Billy Lewis; and his sister, Beverly Jackson. He is survived by his mother, Mable Temple Lewis; his children, Chad Lewis and wife P.C., Curt Lewis and wife Patti, and Wendy Glasscock; his grandchildren, Lindsey Lambert, Nicholas Glasscock, Harley Jones, Kurt Velvin, Megan Lewis and Mallory Lewis; his great grandchildren, Mason and Zach Lambert; his brothers, John H. "Buddy" Lewis, Jr. and Barron Lewis and wife Melissa; his brother-in-law, Larry Jackson; and numerous nephews. A graveside service will be conducted 2:00 p.m. Sunday at Liberty Church Cemetery, Dolphin, VA. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Liberty Church Cemetery Fund c/o Dorothy Lucy, 6062 Liberty Rd., Dolphin, VA 23843. Williams Funeral Home, Lawrenceville will be handling the arrangements.
So sorry to hear about Bobby passing, I know he will be missed. Thoughts and prayers with the family.


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7 Interesting Facts About Marrakech To Know Before You Visit
Marrakech is not the capital, largest, or oldest city in Morocco. Nevertheless, it is certainly the country's most intriguing one. Although disputed by some, there is a consensus among those who travel to Marrakech that it is Morocco's cultural capital.
Its famous sights, which include historic medinas and palaces to busy bazaars and alleyways, have given the city this designation.
It's also a honeymoon destination and a source of inspiration for creative and artistic individuals. Here, we take a look at a few interesting facts that make excursions to Marrakech so appealing.
1. Marrakech's Name Has Two Origins
Most historians note that the name Marrakech is rooted in the Berber phrase, murr akush, which means "the land of God". However, there are other theories surrounding the name's origin.
A second theory that suggests "Marrakech" comes from the Arabic words, murra kish, which mean to "pass by quickly". Apparently, this phrase was created to warn those who travelled to Morocco to watch out for thieves and wild animals in the city. For tourism purposes, naming the city as a reference to "the land of God" would certainly be more welcoming!
2. Marrakech Sits Near the Height of North Africa
Marrakech's prime location is just 50 miles north of North Africa's highest peak, named Toubkal (pictured above), in the Atlas Mountains. The city is referred to as a prime location because of its relative proximity to other key cities. Ouarzazate, a city considered to be the gateway to the Sahara Desert, is 122 miles northwest of Marrakech. And 110 miles west of Marrakech is the port city of Essaouira.
3. Marrakech is Hollywood's Second Home
Throughout the years, Marrakech has served as a setting for big-budget Hollywood productions. The masterminds behind many golden era films would travel to Marrakech due to its scenery. One such film was The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), which was filmed at the Mamounia Hotel. More recent movies were also shot in Marrakech. The creators and cast of Sex and the City 2 (2010) sojourned to the city and filmed the movie at the Taj Palace. Also, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015) had its filming take place in Marrakech at the Marrakech Stadium.
4. Marrakech is a Trilingual City
There are three main languages spoken in Marrakech (and all of Morocco) – Arabic, French, and Amazigh. During the early 20th century, the French occupied Morocco and for that reason, many Moroccan locals still converse in French today. Amazigh (the Berber languages) is a group of the lesser-known set of languages spoken by the Berber people of Morocco. There are many subdivisions of these languages, which vary linguistically among different Berber tribes.
5. Marrakech is Home to Famous Traditional Arabic Structures
Marrakech is home to a wide range of iconic structures, many of which were constructed during the last millennium. They include the likes of El Badi Palace, built in the 16th century by Saadian sultan Ahmed al-Mansour. The sultan constructed the palace with money received from the Portuguese after the Battle of the Three Kings.
There's also the Ben Youssef Madrasa (pictured above), a 14th-century university that was rebuilt in the 16th century. It is an impressive display of Islamic architecture that spans 17,976 square feet and contains 132 dorm rooms. Since 1982, it has served as a museum. This is located just 2 minutes on foot from Riad Farantchi.
6. Yves Saint Laurent Rescued a Piece of Marrakech
Algerian-born French designer Yves St. Laurent literally saved a piece of Marrakech heritage. Along with his partner, Pierre Berge, Yves bought the Jardin Majorelle when they discovered it was being converted to a hotel. Not only did they buy the property, but they also chose to live in Jardin Majorelle's Villa Oasis. To this day, a Roman pillar memorial stands in the garden to pay homage to the late Saint Laurent who passed away in 2008 from brain cancer.
7. Winston Churchill Recommended Marrakech to His Friends
Visitors of Marrakech have long recommended the city to friends and family members, and this is true even among former U.S. presidents. During the height of WWII in 1943, Winston Churchill begged Franklin D. Roosevelt to travel to Marrakech after the Casablanca Conference.
Churchill said to Roosevelt: "You cannot come all the way to North Africa without seeing Marrakech". That admonition was convincing enough for Roosevelt, as he agreed to a driving excursion from Casablanca to Marrakech with Churchill.
Travel to Marrakech to See It First Hand
Marrakech travel adventures offer the best of many worlds to its visitors. It is situated at an intersection of traditionalism and modernity, thus lending itself to a host of unforgettable sights.
We offer a variety of excursions to see the sights mentioned above. They include tours of the majestic Atlas Mountains, the beautiful Jardin Majorelle, and day trips to nearby cities like Essaouira.
For those of you want to see architectural, cultural and historical wonders, a Marrakech travel adventure will satisfy your soul!
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Every woman's menopausal journey unfolds in a uniquely different way. She may initially experience a subtle and mysterious hint of impending change. She may suddenly and inexplicably feel challenged to break free from self-imposed limitations created by her hesitations, her doubts, her fears. She may subtly attune to a silent heart whispering communicating the potent promise of dawning freedom, the enticing presence of new beginnings, the enlivening waves of a chaotic rhythm. She may experience an erratic upheaval that shakes the ground of her regular moon cycles like the eruptive power of a volcano. Or she may ebb and flow between the peaceful calling of a gentled wisdom and the disturbing discomfort of emotional and physical reactions. For these often shock her with their intensity and their compelling need to shake her from within. She may slowly awaken one morning to find her womb has suddenly ceased bleeding. And she may long for the regular flow of these lunar cycles that have been such an intimate part of her life for many, many moons.
She may gently fall asleep one evening, aware that the crimson blood of her womb will flow no more. Or she may live for days or weeks or months or years with erratic moon cycles that offer her no signs, no communication, no confirmation of their usual predictable presence and their regular way of being. For the ups and downs and dipping and flowing of ovulation and menstruation are now transforming into dynamic surges of power and burning flames of change.
She can surrender to the powerful energy of these changes. Or she can reject and fear and fight and deny their passionate presence and their capacity to turn her life upside down and inside out. Or she can welcome them invitingly into her body, into her belly, into her womb, into her heart, into her life. And she can nurture them and nourish them and treasure them and dare them to reveal the wise and powerful truth that shines within these potent waves of transformation.
Or she can run from their awesome capacity to draw her ever deeper into her fiery menopausal cauldron of power. This mysterious mistress of menopause loves to transform a woman on a deeply cellular level. For her purpose is to open, to deepen, to awaken, to inspire, as she weaves her magical capacity for birthing the fire of wisdom, of wholeness, of truth. If she welcomes this powerful phase of intense transformation, the divine intelligence of her menopausal muse comes forth as her teacher, guiding her from within with the loving heart of true maturity and the wise ways of the earth. For when menopause comes knocking at her door, her energy is preparing to shift, to move, to flow from a deeper and more real place than ever before.
She is ready to transmute, to rebirth, to clear out the old and to invite the new. If she enters this important transition with the awareness and wisdom of an open heart, she will not be the same woman she was before menopause began. Her body will change. Her perceptions will change. Her psyche will change. Her relationships will change. Her life will change. For her menopausal muse is the Goddess of Change.
The purpose of this spirit of menopause is to deeply awaken every facet of her being. She calls her to transform on a cellular level. She invites her into inner places where there is no turning back. She will ask her to be real. She will ask her to be true. For she communicates to her that she has now experienced enough, lived enough and loved enough to embark upon this powerful journey with the gentleness, surrender and acceptance that awakens the open flow of the wise, wise heart. She will hold her in her arms until she is fully infused with her power. She will nurture her and cajole her and shake her and seduce her until all of her habitual ways begin to disintegrate and disappear. And she will ask her to open to the rich bounty of ancient female wisdom that rests within her womb and within her heart. Every woman who willingly and consciously embraces this powerful transition faces a potent moment that deeply imprints her being. And this moment is choreographed by the mighty mistress of menopause calling her into her fathomless well of wisdom and her burning flames of fire.
If she is ready, these revealing and enlightening moments of reckoning and recognition will infuse her with the radiant power and beauty of every wise woman who has ever lived and loved upon this earth. And if she listens to the wild and wise and loving messages of menopause with her womb and not with her mind, her female wisdom will awaken as never before. For her body is preparing to open to the divine purpose of this important sacred journey.


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Louisiana attorney general Jeff Landry.
Calvin Freiburger
NewsAbortionFri Jun 8, 2018 - 5:11 pm EST
Louisiana spent $1 million defending against pro-abortion lawsuits
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BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, June 8, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) -- The state of Louisiana has spent more than $1 million defending pro-life laws from pro-abortion lawsuits since 2014, according to a new report.
The state has paid $1.14 million to private attorneys during that time frame for a total of five lawsuits, the Associated Press revealed Thursday after reviewing state records.
The laws currently tied up in court include a requirement that abortionists have admitting privileges at hospitals within 30 miles, a 72-hour waiting period for abortions, a requirement that babies killed in abortions be given humane burials or cremations, and efforts to deny Planned Parenthood state Medicaid funds.
Louisiana also recently approved a ban on abortions past 15 weeks of pregnancy, but that law won't be going to court, as it has a provision delaying it from taking effect until the fate of a similar law in Mississippi is decided.
"We will exhaust every legal option we have to ensure these laws are upheld," Republican Attorney General Jeff Landry said, explaining the state relied on its own attorneys and outside counsel. "In Louisiana, it is clear, we will not put a price tag on an innocent, unborn child."
A spokesperson for Gov. John Bel Edwards, a pro-life Democrat, also said the cause was worth the cost. State Sen. John Milkovich, another pro-life Democrat, agreed.
"There's no more valid, worthwhile or justified expenditure of money than money spent to stop abortion and protect the lives of the unborn," Milkovich said.
Adding to the state's price tag may be the recent court victory for Hope Medical Group for Women, which is now demanding $4.7 million in legal fees for their lawsuit over the admitting privileges law. The state has appealed the case.
The financial burden imposed by legal battles over pro-life laws are a recurring theme among pro-abortion activists. In 2014, the left-wing ThinkProgress wrote that Idaho, Kansas, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Texas had collectively spent more than $3.2 million defending their laws. A 2016 Huffington Post article highlighting Alabama, Wisconsin, and others presented the lawsuits as placing additional burdens on "cash-strapped" states.
Last fall, the AP reported that Arizona lawsuits cost more than $2 million, and its most recent report insinuates that defending the laws is wasteful because Louisiana faces a "looming budget shortfall that has colleges and public safety programs possibly on the chopping block."
However, the line of attack assumes that pro-life governments invited all the lawsuits by merely passing the laws, when in reality abortionists or pro-abortion organizations chose to initiate each of them rather than campaigning to repeal the duly-enacted laws in future legislative sessions.
"See the twisted logic?" Dave Andrusko asked at National Right to Life News. "States should never pass these laws in the first place, but if they know the ACLU or the Center for Reproductive Rights will drag out the case forever and a day, the state should quickly fold its legal tent once the law is contested."
"In other words, the ACLU and CRR ought to have a de facto veto power over which laws the state should passes," he continued. "Of course, the real objection the AP has is not the money, it is the pro-life policies themselves which the story diminishes, ridicules, and caricatures."
While the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Texas' admitting privilege law in 2016, it has previously upheld a wide variety of other pro-life measures, including 24-hour waiting periods, prohibitions on non-physicians performing abortions, parental notification and consent requirements, excluding abortion funding from state Medicaid programs, informed consent requirements, and 24-hour waiting periods.
Louisiana spent $1 million defending against pro-abortion lawsuits Louisiana spent $1 million defending against pro-abortion lawsuits News By Calvin Freiburger


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Introducing the David C Pollock Scholars 2022
Learn more about the David C Pollock Scholarship
The David C Pollock Scholars 2022
Each year, a talented group of global-minded individuals come together to bring fresh insights to the Families In Global Transition (FIGT) community. Drawn from all kinds of specialists in global mobility, the FIGT David C. Pollock Scholars contribute their new energy, perspectives and ideas to our community throughout the year.
The FIGT 2022 Scholars are:
Ana Ghiban
Ana, is a Research Master student and ATCK from Romania. Growing up as an expat kid and attending international schools in India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and China sparked her interest in questions of identity, class, and privilege, especially when it comes to cross-cultural engagement in (trans)national spaces.
Inevitably, these questions also gave Ana a cultural identity crisis. Alongside her interest in TCK-oriented research, her search for community brought Ana to FIGT. Currently,
Ana is finishing her MSc in International Development Studies at the University of Amsterdam, where she is writing my thesis on a multicultural group of small-scale farmers in northwestern Transylvania.
Cecilia Lui
Originally from Hong Kong with a Canadian upbringing, Cecilia brings a cross-sector, international and multidisciplinary background of more than 3 decades with her current work in communications, intercultural-inclusion, and career advisory work supporting professionals, families and youths on understanding, adapting, and connecting across differences in our increasingly multicultural and complex world.
She is the founder and director of ILIA Connect. Cecilia truly feels that her bicultural upbringing and the relocation to her birthplace in 2001, with two moves back to Canada over the past 20 years, has gifted her with the experience and knowledge to apply her cultural lens on all disciplines of her work across consulting, coaching, and training, supporting others in bridging the gaps of understanding in their transitions and adjustment to their new environments.
Cecilia delights in using her lived experience to help pave a path less challenging for others.
Jon Springer
Jon's family has two neurodiverse boys. He will be speaking at the upcoming Special Education Network and Inclusion Association's Europe conference in Bonn on the value of parent-to-parent support groups for parents of neurodiverse children.
As an American who spent half his life as an expat, Jon's international experiences vary widely. He spent an early childhood in Japan, repatriated at 5, studied in London, and spent 5 years writing "the great American novel" in Paris.
He lost his parents in an international plane crash, but still visits his wife's parents in the Czech Republic. He blogged for 4 years on the economies of Pakistan, Timor-Leste, Mongolia and Sri Lanka.
He is currently in year 8 as a trailing spouse of an international school Humanities teacher. He is now focused on "Tier Zero" - the rez de chausée - of building a Parent-Led International School Inclusion Alliance to advocate for (1) parent well-being and (2) the value of inclusion of neurodiverse learners at international schools.
Mami Oyamada
Mami Oyamada is a tutor at TCK Workshop, an online tutoring company based in Tokyo, Japan that provides academic support to school-age individuals going through a mobile, intercultural upbringing. She identifies as a TCK, born in Japan and having spent most of her childhood in the Midwest and South of the US. She is eager to connect with individuals with their own unique stories of intercultural experiences and challenges. Mami received her M.S.Ed. in Intercultural Communication from the Educational Linguistics Division at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education in May 2021 and continues to explore such individuals' academic and social experiences through her ongoing work.
Maria Luisa Blanco
Maria's life in four different countries inspired her to create Metta Academy, a digital ecosystem for language education and cultural awareness focused on Women. She will interrogate the very concepts of language and global mobility with us. www.mettacademy.com
Nonhlanhla Mkandla
Nonhlanhla is an entrepreneur, media practitioner, Afro jewelry maker, seeker of social justice and lover of all things creative. Born in England to Zimbabwean parents and raised in Zambia, Kenya and Ethiopia, she lives to travel.
As home is where she sets down her suitcase, FIGT presents an incredible platform for connecting with individuals with similar interests.
She looks forward to exchanging experiences and being part of the FIGT community. She is currently exploring research on Third Culture Kids.
Su'eddie Vershima Agema
Su'ur E. Su'eddie Vershima Agema [Su'eddie V. Agema or S. V. Agema, for short] is an award-winning creative writer, development worker, father and husband who loves traveling and building memories.
He has written and published some engaging creative work [fiction and poetry] related to the cross-cultural/global mobility field available online and in print.
Su'eddie was previously the Black History Month/Project Curator at the University of Sussex, where he earned an MA in International Education and Development as a Chevening Scholar. He blogs at http://sueddie.wordpress.com and is @sueddieagema on Twitter/Facebook/Instagram.


King Jorg Ancrath is twenty now and king of seven nations His goal revenge against his father has not yet been realized, and the demons that haunt him have only grown stronger Yet no matter how tortured his path, he intends to take the next step in his upward climb.Jorg would be emperor It is a position not to be gained by the sword but rather by vote And never in liviKing Jorg Ancrath is twenty now and king of seven nations His goal revenge against his father has not yet been realized, and the demons that haunt him have only grown stronger Yet no matter how tortured his path, he intends to take the next step in his upward climb.Jorg would be emperor It is a position not to be gained by the sword but rather by vote And never in living memory has anyone secured a majority of the vote, leaving the Broken Empire long without a leader Jorg plans to change that He s uncovered the lost technology of the land, and he won t hesitate to use it.But he soon finds an adversary standing in his way, a necromancer unlike any he has ever faced a figure hated and feared even than himself the Dead King.
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This whole series is fantasticdark and disturbing and extremely well written I would recommend this series to both fantasy and non-fantasy readers alike.
The cover I just LOVE the cover it suits Jorg perfectly However, I can't help thinking of The Coronation of Napoleon by Jacques-Louis David at the Louvre, Ok not the original, but the first sketch David did. In that sketch, Napoleon didn't allow the Pope to put the crown on his head, he did it himself, so yeah, Napoleon crowning himself, same as little fictional Jorg.
Brilliant though unexpected ending for one of the most beautiful and violent fantasy series I have ever read. Everything fits perfect, from de characters' destinies to the plot's ending. And the SF elements are also perfectly integrated, making this story even more intriguing. Despite Jorg Ancrath being despised by a lot of people, I think he is the most interesting character ever to step between the pages of a book. Highly recommended.


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Published: 02nd October 2019
Facebook's strategy designed to take on the Chinese short video-sharing platform TikTok leaked
With over 200 million users in India, TikTok, owned by Beijing-based ByteDance, is fast closing the gap with Facebook in the country
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Admitting that TikTok is doing well in the US and growing quickly in India, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled his own plans to counter the rising clout of the Chinese short video-sharing platform in meetings with employees, the details of which have now been leaked.
Saying that Facebook has a "number of approaches" to compete with TikTok, Zuckerberg said the company would first test the efficacy of its strategies in markets where TikTok is not already big, according to the details of the meeting published by The Verge on Tuesday.
With over 200 million users in India, TikTok, owned by Beijing-based ByteDance, is fast closing the gap with Facebook in the country.
"So we have a number of approaches that we're going to take towards this, and we have a product called Lasso that's a standalone app that we're working on, trying to get product-market fit in countries like Mexico, is I think one of the first initial ones," Zuckerberg was quoted as saying.
"We're trying to first see if we can get it to work in countries where TikTok is not already big before we go and compete with TikTok in countries where they are big," he said in response to a question on how Facebook plans to counter TikTok's growing cultural clout among teenagers and Gen Z.
In November last year, Facebook quietly released a stand-alone app called "Lasso" to compete with TikTok. The Facebook CEO also said that TikTok is almost like Instagram's Explore Tab.
"I kind of think about TikTok as if it were Explore for stories, and that were the whole app," Zuckerberg said. "We're taking a number of approaches with Instagram, including making it so that Explore is more focused on stories, which is increasingly becoming the primary way that people consume content on Instagram, as well as a couple of other things there," he said.
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When you walk out of your last exam at uni, you might feel a big sense of relief. No more late night cramming sessions to endure or labour-intensive essays to produce. However, this feeling of liberation may be short lived when you start thinking about work. The pressure's on to find a decent job and to start earning some much-needed money. This brief guide should help you to take your first steps along your career path.
To stand the best possible chance of landing a good position that's suited to your degree, it's important to cast your net wide. You can search for roles advertised on jobs sites, social media, networking sites, in newspapers and more. Also, if you're interested in roles in a particular field, check out specialist recruitment websites. For example, if you're looking for positions in science, technology, engineering or maths, you can take a look at STEM Graduates.
By making sure you explore all possible avenues, you minimise the risk that great opportunities will pass you by.
It also helps to be prepared to move to find roles. By considering job opportunities elsewhere around the country, or even the world, you can dramatically increase the number of jobs you can apply for. Being brave in this way may help to jumpstart your career.
Before you start firing CVs off to prospective employers, make sure you have honed this document. Bear in mind that the jobs market of today is a competitive place and employers often sift through reams of resumes to find the candidates they're looking for. Your CV should be succinct, accurate and well-written. It's also worth tailoring the document to suit specific roles. This will require some extra time and effort, but it could make the difference between landing an interview or not.
On a related point, make sure you spend enough time on your applications. Rushing this process and completing applications at the last minute is a mistake.
Once you reach the interview stage, preparation is a must – and plenty of it. It's important to spend time researching the organisation in question and you should also rehearse answers to common interview questions. Think up some queries of your own to ask the interviewers at the end of the session too. This will show initiative. Of course, it's also vital that you look the part for your interviews. Creased shirts and scuffed shoes are a big no no.


"Don't sit that close to the stage or he's going to pick on us," my husband whispered in my ear.
We had bought tickets to a local comedy club where comedian Bob Kelly was performing. He's an "A-list" comedian and has been doing stand-up comedy for over 10 years, performing nationwide, and most always drawing large crowds.
He's also one of those comedians who likes to engage his audience by "picking on" a few people, usually those sitting closest to the stage. I like the interaction and think it makes the evening more fun.
Of course, not everyone feels the same way. My husband sure doesn't … nor did our two companions for the evening. Unfortunately for all three, those were the last available seats.
So as much as they hated it, we wound up sitting right next to the stage. But, we managed to escape the evening unscathed. Bob picked on the people sitting at the table right next to us as well as a few tables behind us.
This wasn't our first time attending one of his shows. We had seen him two years earlier; in fact, the very last time he was in Maryland. However, that show wasn't as funny as this one.
As I sat there laughing (and listening) this time, I realized that comedians and copywriters have something in common that is their secret to long-term success: Testing.
One of the reasons Bob's routine was much funnier this time around is because he used the performances he had given over the past few years to test what remarks drew more laughs than others.
He used similar jokes and punch lines from his previous performance, but in some spots, he added more to them. And in other instances, he downplayed lines. He even got rid of some jokes altogether.
In essence, by testing out his lines during his other performances, he had now created a routine that drew laughs with every single line. In fact, I didn't see a single person who wasn't laughing the entire performance.
This is exactly how "A-list" copywriters create long-term sustainable careers. Like Bob, they're continually refining their skills and enhancing their marketing knowledge.
They know from clients who test offers which work best. And which don't. And from clients who test headline types, they know which style gets a higher response rate. Knowledge they can apply to their next paid writing project.
If a client gets a 300% lift in response using a VSL, they know that is a viable format to use. Or if a client manages to pull in a few thousand more leads from an advertorial used on ad networks such as Taboola or Outbrain, they know what types of marketing campaigns work best.
Testing and trying new strategies is how direct-response companies grow their businesses. And in turn, it's how copywriters climb the ranks to "A-list" status. It's also how they grow their incomes to six-figures annually.
But what if you aren't fortunate enough to work with a client who tests new approaches, new strategies, or new techniques? No problem.
That's why you get yourself seeded on different lists. "Seeding" is adding your name to a company email list so you receive information from them. (It's usually a unique made-up name for each list for easy tracking purposes.) Seeding lets you see what types of sales messages companies are using.
By tracking and studying those different messages, you gain a competitive advantage.
Getting seeded on mailing lists is the next best thing to having a front row seat for what is and isn't working. So use it to your advantage.
Your takeaway: Take control of your copywriting career. Don't wait for a client to tell you what's working. Find out yourself by studying sales messages received under your seed name.


Enjoy the unique experience that is only recently available – a guided fishing and snorkeling tour of the Sapodillas Cays in Belize. The reefs in this area of the world are second only to the Great Barrier Reef of Australia. There is an incredible variety of tropical fish and as well as a myriad of coral and other sea vegetation – truly a snorkeler's paradise.
It's also a fisherman's paradise whether you are a novice or seasoned fisherman (woman). This tour offers deep sea fishing as there is a major drop off from the reef to the deep sea as well as reef fishing in the shallower areas.
For fishing enthusiasts there is trolling for Grouper, Wahoo, and Great Barracuda, Big eye Tuna, Kingfish, Spanish Mackerels and Black fin Tuna.
The bottom fishing harvests Mutton Snapper, Grouper, Red Snapper, Yellowtail Snapper, and a colorful variety of highly delicious other Reef Fish Species.
Minimum of 5 Days for "Parlama Tours" but please enquire about our shorter trips that are available without our sport fishing launch.
Seal Cay – Tom Owen's Cay- See Details at bottom of page.
Prices start as low as $195 USD per person per day based on a four person tour and include transportation from Guatemala City or Antigua to Rio Dulce and return. All meals, accommodations, fishing boat and guides, fishing and snorkeling gear, and tour fees are included. Not included are tips or alcoholic beverages. Let us know the number of people in your party and your interests and we will customize a tour for you!!!
For Fly Fishing enthusiasts there is the ever popular Bonefish and Permit which are plentiful in the shallows of the beaches surrounding several of the Sapodillas Cays. The Flats Barracudas (a real heart stopper) are plentiful and give great fighting action. We also offer the opportunity to go Tarpon fishing. If you've never experienced a school of around 100 tarpon splashing and leaping out of the water (they weigh in the neighborhood of 60 – 120 lbs.) then it's an absolute must see and do. Catching one is the experience of a lifetime.
Snorkeling- For those of you who enjoy viewing the underwater sights you are truly in for an amazing experience. On calm days the clarity for snorkeling is absolutely amazing – the water is crystal clear for optimum visibility for about 20 feet. A lot of the coral is from 5 feet to 15 feet deep so easily visible right from the surface. The Sapodillas Cays is a protected area and in recent years has been declared a World Heritage Park. This means that commercial fishing of any kind is no longer allowed. Therefore the marine life is flourishing – it's an astonishing feast for the eyes.
You will see Sea Turtles, Rockfish, Hogfish, Barracuda, Sharks, Stingrays, a myriad of colorful and vastly different corals such as deep purple Sea Fans waving in the underwater current, Brain Coral, Sea Sponges of various colors, Stag horn Coral, Fire Coral, and many others that you will have fun trying to identify. There are all kinds of sea life in the coral – some Coral Heads are like a small world of their own with their own eco structure – you will see Rock Crabs and Lobsters hiding in the Coral Caves as well as the spiny purple Sea Urchins, Anenomoes of various sizes and colors, as well as many varieties of small and larger colorful coral reef fish – the black and yellow striped sergeant majors, the blue fluorescent damsel fish, fabulous schools of Blue Tangs who suddenly change color when they change their course and the sun strikes them another way. They go from a deep cobalt blue to a powder blue with orange tinges. There is nothing like swimming slowly through the coral and being joined by a school of hundreds of graceful Blue Tangs!!!!! Sometimes you will encounter hundreds of thousands of tiny neon fish – it's quite the experience to watch the sun catching their rainbow colors and to see them parting every which way as you swim through them.
The sight of an Eagle Ray elegantly gliding through the water with its six foot wingspan is truly something to behold. Seeing a Green Moray Eel poke it's head out of it's cave for a feeding – Tom Owen's Cay has a few resident Moray's that are fed by fishermen cleaning their catches – is also quite the sight to see.
The Sapodillas also provide some pretty incredible Bird watching. The Arctic Terns have made their nesting grounds on Tom Owen's Cay (months of April to July or August). Right from your hammock on the upper porch of your room you have a "bird's eye view" of the Terns as they feed their young and interact with the rest of their flock.
There is also an Eagle's nest right offshore of Tom Owen's Cay where two Ospreys have taken up residence. They can provide hours of entertainment watching their daily activities. One of the most spectacular sights to see is when an Osprey takes a triumphant soar around the whole Island showing off his recent catch of a large Red Snapper that is larger than he is. His talons clutch the fish tight and the fish arches his body and splays his fins in outrage, trying unsuccessfully to flee his fate. The Osprey is indeed triumphant – what a magnificent creature!
Those are just two examples of the bird life but there are many marine bird's to be seen at various times of the year. Some of them help us spot the schools of fish. We watch for them out on the open sea when they follow the schools of bait fish that the larger fish are chasing.
There are a couple of nighttime activities on the Islands. Since there are no lights for miles and miles you can see an incredibly clear sky so stargazing is at an optimum. See if you can find some of the more common constellations. Also, if you take a flashlight down to the shore you can spot all kinds of marine life – the fluorescent orange shine of Shrimps peeking out from all over, Spiny Lobster, Brittle Stars as well as the phosphorescence of tiny sea organisms. The night is also a good time to spot the Moray's. Of course, the other more obvious night time activity is probably one of the soundest sleeps you'll ever enjoy with only the sounds of Mother Nature – balmy Caribbean breezes and the sound of the waves lapping up onto the shores.
Seal Cay – Rooms in 2 Large Yurts (Semi-Permanent Tents with wooden floors and latticed wooden wall bracings, comfortable double and single beds, lounge and bar area, bathrooms and fresh water showers – maximum capacity 10 persons.
Tom Owen's Cay – Small Stone Yurts for single or double occupancy and hotel rooms that are somewhat rustic but very clean and with a lovely seaside ambiance and artistic flair. The whole hotel is made of washed up coral pieces and cement. There are lovely tile mosaics in all the rooms and the main lobby and bar area as well as beautiful seascape wall murals. Sleeping capacity of up to 14 persons.


WALLKILL, NY — A pilot and three passengers miraculously survived a terrifying crash when their small plane lost engine power after takeoff and plummeted into the front yard of a house.
"I think God was their co-pilot," Wayne Dunnigan, 51, said yesterday outside his Ulster County home, where the wrecked single-engine Cessna 172N remained on the lawn.
The aircraft, piloted by Robert "Butch" Schmidt of Bay Shore, LI, and carrying three Long Island friends, crashed about 9:45 p.m. Thursday.
Two of the passengers were trapped and had to be pulled out by rescuers.
Dunnigan said his barking dog alerted him something was wrong.
"I opened the door and I saw a plane in the front yard and I thought, 'You gotta be kidding me,' " he said.
Schmidt, 48, and John Brienza, 51, were airlifted to Westchester Medical Center. Robert Kroll, 42, and Anthony Errera, 31, were treated at St. Francis in Poughkeepsie.
Brienza told family members that the plane's engine had stalled on takeoff, a relative said.


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I just went through and made a counting on were we are by galaxy.
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Nosebleeds (epistaxis) are very common. Most nosebleeds occur because of minor irritations or colds. Some nosebleeds are caused by injury to the face or nose. Nosebleeds can be frightening for some patients, but are rarely life threatening. Persons taking ACM's (sometimes called blood-thinning medications) such as warfarin (also known under the brand names Coumadin, Jantoven, Marevan, Lawarin, Waran, and Warfant), apixaban (Eliquis), dabigatran (Pradaxa in Australia, Europe, USA and Canada, Prazaxa in Japan), rivaroxaban (Xarelto), clopidogrel bisulfate (Plavix), nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), or aspirin have an additional concern. Is my medicine causing or contributing to my nosebleed?
Persons who have recently had an INR test which was in their target range probably should not be worried about their warfarin dose. Persons who have their own INR monitor and self test can do an INR test around the time of the bleeding. If the INR is within the therapeutic range, the warfarin is not likely to be playing a major role in causing or worsening the bleeding. If the INR test result is not in the target range, the dose of warfarin may need to be adjusted. If the INR is above 5.0 and the nosebleed is not easily stopped, it may be advisable to seek medical attention. In this situation, a healthcare provider may suggest low-dose oral vitamin K and/or nasal packing. Persons who are taking other classes of anticoagulant or antiplatelet medicines may have to contact a health care provider to determine what to do.
Fortunately, most nosebleeds are not serious and usually can be managed at home, although sometimes medical intervention may be necessary. Nosebleeds are categorized based on where they originate, and are described as either anterior (originating from the front of the nose) or posterior (originating from the back of the nose).
Anterior nosebleeds make up more than 90% of all nosebleeds. The bleeding usually originates from a blood vessel on the nasal septum, where a network of vessels converge (Kiesselbach plexus). Anterior nosebleeds are usually easy to control, either by measures that can be performed at home or by a health care practitioner.
Posterior nosebleeds are much less common than anterior nosebleeds. They tend to occur more often in elderly people. The bleeding usually originates from an artery in the back part of the nose. These nosebleeds are more complicated and usually require admission to the hospital and management by an otolaryngolist (an ear, nose, and throat specialist).
With the index finger press against the side that is bleeding or if both side are bleeding pinch the nostrils together and apply direct pressure with the thumb and index finger for approximately 10 minutes.
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One out of every seven people will develop a nosebleed at some time in their lives. Nosebleeds tend to occur more often during winter months and in dry, cold climates. They can occur at any age, but are most common in children aged 2 to 10 years and adults aged 50 to 80 years. For unknown reasons, nosebleeds most commonly occur in the morning hours.
Inability of the blood to clot is most often due to anticoagulant medications.
Topical nasal medications, such as corticosteroids and antihistamines, may sometimes lead to nosebleeds.
Liver disease, chronic alcohol abuse, kidney disease, platelet disorders, and inherited blood clotting disorders can also interfere with blood clotting and predispose to nosebleeds.
Vascular malformations in the nose and nasal tumors are rare causes of nosebleeds.
High blood pressure may contribute to bleeding, but is rarely the sole reason for a nosebleed. It is often the anxiety associated with the nosebleed that leads to the elevation in blood pressure.
Bleeding usually occurs from only one nostril. If the bleeding is heavy enough, the blood can fill up the affected nostril and overflow into the nasopharynx (the area inside the nose where the two nostrils converge), causing simultaneous bleeding from the other nostril as well. Blood can also drip into the back of the throat or down into the stomach, causing a person to spit up or even vomit blood.
Excessive blood loss from nosebleeds does not often occur.