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What would a trauma-informed justice system look like?

Written for teenagers but with a heartfelt message at its core, debut novel ‘Seekers and Deceivers’ by Kevin Hoyer is the breathlessly exciting story of a land that rejects light and welcomes darkness with open arms.

When author C.L. Peck was a child, her mother would read her longer stories over a period of several days. Bedtime became a magical moment, with Peck and her mother exploring new worlds and peeking into the lives and cultures of people across the globe. It was a tradition that Peck brought with her to her career in education, with her own children, and now with her new book, ‘A Midnight Song’.

Fuzzy Logic Entertainment, the makers behind the multiple award winning redneck/time-traveling/sci-fi comedy movie, ‘The Importance of Being Russell’, are ready to roll with the shooting of their latest movie, Old Nick. The highlight of this upcoming comedy-fantasy movie is the debut of Alexis Grace, a former American Idol finalist. The makers are looking to collect $9000 in fund before May 7, 2014, through pledgers who would like to donate via the movie’s Kickstarter page.

Director and screenwriter of ‘Trapped in a Flash’ Ashley Jacoby lives with severe anxiety disorder.  She decided that she needed to help make a change in how mental illnesses are viewed when she noticed herself contributing to the stigma of mental health.  Ashley is now creating a website for mental health awareness using short films to portray people with a mental illness in their average day lives.  The short films will help teach high school students and teachers what it is like to live with a mental illness.

Vixen Noir, renowned dancer, performance artist, teacher, producer and director, announced today the launch of an Indiegogo crowdsourcing campaign for the funding of her first professional EP music recording.

The iTemple Voyager is the concept of a traveling exhibit of spiritual and healing art from nationally recognized, Oregon-based, artist Aaron Michael Pyne. The traveling exhibit will include a large scale outdoor Visionary Art gallery, meditation workshops, projections, chill space, and energy healing sessions. The temple will also include a marketplace of spiritual and holistic products for sale. Each community visited by the iTemple Voyager will be exposed to a new, deeper, spirituality through its offerings.

You may see a parade of over 35 cars driving through your town on Saturday April 26 — but you won’t hear them, or smell their exhaust! That’s because these cars are all electric vehicles (EVs), taking part in the first ever EV Rally in the North Bay. Shift to Electric 2014: Cool the Earth EV Rally is a multi-county event promoting EV driving to local communities and celebrating the love and benefits of driving and living the EV life.

FishFlix.com is an online store specializing exclusively in Christian family entertainment movies, and offering them at affordable prices. One can get the best collection of Christian movies and other DVDs for their family for everyone’s entertainment. If one is planning for family fun, these DVDs are a great choice.

UFC Fighter Liz Carmouche will use the song “Va Va Voom to the Moon” (Eurotrash Collective Remix) by Fans Of Jimmy Century as her official walkout song on April 19th at the Amway Center in Orlando for her fight against Miesha Tate airing live on FOX11.

Whether you are about to graduate or have been in the workplace for a couple of years, Laura Mathewson’s new book Bottom Line: Manners Matter has a bevy of advice and tips on business etiquette to help guide you through the modern workplace. Mathewson recently published the easy-to-read guide filled with reliable tips for navigating the business workplace.

The UFC released a recent article stating, “the former Marine corporal will be entering the cage with a walkout song befitting her status as one of the toughest fighters in the division. With lyrics like, 'You might be the king of hustle but I'm the muscle, you can be the king of bling but I'm the ring,' it's easy to see why.”

While streaming services have become a discovery engine for fan's to find new music, making music is only half the battle as bands struggle to thrive in today's music industry.

Top international rapper NazB has recently released his new singled titled "Shame" voicing strong protest against the heinous crime of rape. Featuring US RnB singer-celeb Dior, the single is meant to donate its sales profits to notable Swiss charity organization Weisser Ring.

Many music fans undergo a rollercoaster of emotions whenever their favorite artists announce a new tour- at first they are alive with possibilities, then they are distressed as they try to book tickets, left panicking as the tickets cost so much and disappointed as they sell out before they can put funds together. It was in response to this frustration that a group of entrepreneurial music lovers put together Cheap Ticket Sorted, in which a cabal of dedicated hunters would secure concert tickets and pass them on to real fans at amazing prices.

Musical acts rise to fame because they excel in a combination of virtues, from technical ability with instruments to creative composition to emotional intelligence. This is perhaps why music inspires a fandom like few other forms of media, and why seeing a favorite band live can go down as the opportunity of a lifetime. Unfortunately those opportunities are increasingly hard to come by as demand for tickets pushes prices up and ensures they sell out fast. Cheap Ticket Sorted was launched to combat this trend and provide fans with connections to independent sellers who offer cheaper tickets even after the major providers have sold out.

In an age of instant online streaming many people are predicting the death of cinema, but with such a premium on consumable media being instantly available and for a low price, one of the unexpected effects has been to drive up a premium on live events at which individuals simply ‘had to be there’. Live music, theatre, sports events and Las Vegas shows and command a new demand from fans and this has driven prices up and made tickets more scarce. Cheap Ticket Sorted is a website that offers a revolutionary approach to finding tickets, which helps people get cheap tickets quickly.

Many people are looking to improve their lives and create happiness and success. Ronald Lew is proud to announce the launch of his new book, Dare to Imagine: 18 Principles for Finding Peace, Happiness, and True Success. The book offers hope and advice for people who are looking to improve their lives and find peace, happiness, and success. The book shows readers how miracles really do happen in the presence of love.

‘Ocala’ is a feature film that portrays the desperate condition two men find themselves in after suppressing secrets from their past as survivors of childhood sexual abuse, and the threat that it has to not only destroy their lives, but the lives of those they love.

Flawless Production is currently developing a drama feature film called “Armenia, My country, My Mother, My Love." Film producer Nerses Arutunyan sais “ We want to make a big film and release it in April 2015, for the 100 year commemoration of the Armenian genocide. It is our duty to make the world know, recognize, apologize and redeem for the memory of those children burnt alive, for the tears of our desperate mothers and for the helplessness of our fathers of that cursed year: 1915, year written in blood in every Armenian soul! ”

Novelists are artists too, and independent author Tracy Falbe is part of the creative community of sellers on Etsy. Her Etsy shop is called Perfect Pages and now includes signed paperback copies of her historical fantasy Werelord Thal: A Renaissance Werewolf Tale.

In ‘Branding Tree for Restaurants: A Revolutionary Guide to Grow Your Restaurant into a Brand’, David Dodson outlines his proven methods for helping executives and their teams find their own answers and clarify the beliefs of their brand.

In ‘The Disease-Free Revolution’, author and health educator Ron Garner details how he reached seventy-six years of age in the best health of his life.

According to statistics published in the NRF Index and Forrester Research, linens and home decor items are the 13th most popular items purchased on the internet today, totaling $26 billion dollars in annual sales or 13% of the market share. Home decorating experts, however, are pointing to a shift in decorating trends in light of the recent recession and consumers' need to save money on non-necessities. They're finding less expensive ways to create art in their homes and still decorate in fashionable ways. One such way experts suggest filling vast blank spaces is with large custom canvas prints.

Over the past three years, ‘new adult’ fiction has seen an undeniable boom – bridging the gap between traditional young adult novels and adult fiction. Fitting perfectly into this category and storming the literary scene with gusto, author Karen Seymour is delighted to announce the launch of ‘Unearthed’.

In Jay Begler’s dazzlingly clever novel, ‘Love in the Time of Apps’, a mega-company, Pragat Corporation, develops a web-based Zagat-like rating system for individuals using personal the data they’ve mined from, the web and other, more mysterious sources. Everyone in the country is “Pragat Rated.” Oprah? She’s a 29. Madoff? Well, no surprise there: he’s a two.