Students in Law 445 will consider the fundamental principles, statutes (the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act and the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act), and jurisprudence governing commercial and personal insolvency and bankruptcy in Canada.
Anthony Duggan, Stephanie Ben-Ishai, at al., Bankruptcy and Insolvency Law: Cases Text and Materials, 4th ed (Emond Montgomery, to be published in 2019)
Federal and Ontario Insolvency Legislation: 2019-2020 (Carswell)
100% open-book final examination
This course will be offered in the Fall Term of the 2019-2020 academic year.


Tyler Perry and his DVD producers have again put together an edition that will satisfy fans of his work. He provides a rather frank feature-length commentary where he's quick to point out little errors and the ways in which he tried to grow in all aspects of filmmaking from his last feature directing effort, Madea's Family Reunion. He obviously enjoys discussing his work and is not afraid to toss off a joke here and there, and he's gracious in singing the praises of not only the top-billed stars, but also the smaller supporting players and the crew members. That attitude extends to the three behind-the-scenes featurettes: the 14-minute "Tyler's Team: Cast and Characters," in which Perry discusses the casting process and he and the actors discuss their characters; the four-minute "Introducing the McClain Sisters," which gives a more specific focus on the trio of real-life sisters who play the girls of the title; and a two-minute segment on the rather unique technical considerations in shooting in the Georgia Aquarium. These featurettes include the expected talking head footage, but interspersed throughout them is some choice B-roll footage, such as one bit where Elba parks a car that starts rolling once he gets out of it, as well as various warm candid moments between the actors that support all the compliments being tossed around in the interviews. An extended cut of the film's church sequence, which points up how extensively Bishop Eddie Long improvised in his speech (as mentioned by Perry in the commentary) and features Judy Peters's complete, stirring performance of the song "Step Aside" (performed on the soundtrack album by Yolanda Adams), rounds out the special features in the disc.
Specifications: 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen; English 5.1 Surround; English and Spanish Dolby Surround; English and Spanish subtitles; English closed captioning. (Lionsgate Home Entertainment)


The Inner 6 are trained in the Yat Malmgren technique of Movement Psychology pioneered at Yat's own studio in London and later at the Drama Centre, where it became familiar to his students including actors Sean Connery, Anthony Hopkins, Colin Firth, Helen McCrory, Tom Hardy, Michael Fassbender and Simon Callow.
The technique is based on the work of Carl Jung (Sensing, Thinking, Intuiting and Feeling) and the architect of European contemporary dance, Rudolf Laban's analysis of human expression in movement and was extended by Yat for use by actors as a means of creating a psychologically detailed and fully realised character.
Yat was born in March 1916 in Gävle, just north of Stockholm, and himself had a distinguished career as a classical dance soloist. He later went on to create Drama Centre, London together with John Blatchley; Doreen Cannon (a former assistant to Uta Hagen) later succeeded by Reuven Adiv (a former assistant to Lee Strasberg); Harold Lang; and Christopher Fettes. Laban entrusted to him the completion of 'The Glossary of Terms Employed in Movement Psychology' which he did with no small measure of success, eventually completing the theory with the so-called 'Confluence of Externalised Drives'.
Christopher Fettes worked as Yat Malmgren's assistant and was a fellow co-founder of the Drama Centre. The Movement Psychology technique is now taught at GFCA with reference to his book 'A Peopled Labyrinth' in which he gives a detailed and comprehensive account of Laban's work brought to its conclusion by Yat, with the so-called 'Confluence of Externalised Drives'. Christopher's book is "a detailed account of that masterly achievement." ['A Peopled Labyrinth' About the Author, pg. 342.]
The book can be purchased from GFCA Publishing or by contacting the Giles Foreman Centre for Acting directly.


More visually impaired adults and children enjoy the fabulous world of books through our funding.
Can you imagine what it would feel like if the world of books was closed to you because of a disability?
Books not only educate and inspire, they also bring people together. Whether it’s at bedtime, in the classroom or at a book club, reading plays an import part in our lives and encourages opinions and ideas to be shared.
“If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books,” once said famous children’s author Roald Dahl.
However, this can be a bit of a challenge for the visually impaired.
The ClearVision Project is a charity that aims to help those with visual impairment by encouraging literacy and a love of books in children and adults. Their work increases the availability of books in accessible formats and promotes the use of braille, Moon and tactile illustrations. Reaching all ages across the UK, their work is impressive and far-reaching.
Their specially-created books put print, braille and Moon (an easier version of braille) together on the page with pictures so that people with a visual impairment and sighted people can read together.
The Axis Foundation’s grant of £4,000 to the ClearVision Project benefitted visually impaired adults and children who use the service by funding 100 dual print and braille newly fluent books.
Thanking the Axis Foundation, Director of Fundraising at the ClearVision Project said “We were delighted to receive your donation and would like to thank the Axis Foundation very much. With your help we can continue to meet the needs of our borrowers and bring them the joys of reading aloud and sharing books and stories.
The charity used our support to create several classic titles by popular children’s authors; including,The Enormous Crocodile by Roald Dahl, Lizzie Zipmouth by Jacqueline Wilson, The Big Red Balloon by the charity’s patron, former children’s Laureate Anne Fine and The Hodgeheg by Dick King-Smith.
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Asako Patricia Saito
Gaming, myths, and men who love men: A convergence of cultures in Dynasty Warriors BL texts
Asako Patricia Saito (PhD Candidate, Asia Institute, The University of Melbourne)
“Boys love”, or “BL”, is a female-dominated subculture which eroticizes the relations between men. Although its origins can be traced back to Japanese shōjo manga (girls’ comics) from the 1970s, it is only within the last decade or so that BL and its fans have become increasingly visible in the Japanese media landscape. Lesser known in Japan, however, is its popularity among fans outside of Japan. To illustrate the transnational nature of the BL fandom, this paper examines the convergence of cultures in BL texts created by contemporary Chinese, Japanese, and Taiwanese writers. The texts take inspiration from the beautiful male characters in Dynasty Warriors, a Japanese game series which features historical figures and events from the Chinese Three Kingdoms period. By referring to historical records, BL texts, and interviews with the people who wrote them, I demonstrate how a Chinese myth is linked in a transnational semantic chain with the contemporary worlds of Japanese gaming and BL. In this process, I hope to highlight the multi-directional and transnational trajectory of culture flows within East Asia.


Gifted education at home — meet a materials provider and climate change activist
A year ago, homeschooling was for a tiny minority of children. Today, schoolchildren are remote learners. The speed of the onset of Covid-19 has left some parents and institutions unprepared, but plenty of online resources are being made available for free. Nonprofit Sesame Street has made a great deal of downloadable or interactive content available. Schools can set a page of approved material for e-mail homework, or class work guided by a teacher over Instagram, Skype, Zoom and other platforms. Parents can track down the kind of resources and books best suited to individual children, including the gifted and talented, to keep them happy, occupied and learning.
Carolyn Wilhelm has been providing this kind of resource as well as publishing books on Amazon for junior readers. She owns the Wise Owl Factory website which she started after retiring from gifted education. Carolyn’s response to the ‘stay at home’ issue has been that earlier this year she almost retired from blogging and creating, but now she’s glad she didn’t. She has a BS in Elementary Education, an MS in Gifted Education, an MA in Curriculum and Instruction K-12. She has taught grades one, two, three, four, and five, as well as gifted education. Carolyn became a certified trainer for non-profit Climate Reality Project in 2019, and she is now a volunteer presenter on environmental issues, for schools.
Among the materials provided for free at Wise Owl Factory are worksheets based on books by other authors (with their approval), appropriate for the age level. Carolyn encourages children to read and while doing so, to study characters and learn facts, to compare and contrast people or countries. Demand for her material continues to rise with the Covid-19 lockdown. I interviewed Carolyn on her 2019 visit to Dublin with her husband Gary Wilhelm, a retired civil engineer, and their daughter Betsey.
You are a teacher and a versatile author, and write in a few different genres and for different age groups. Why did you choose to work this way and publish independently?
“I taught gifted ed to the whole school for two schools. I taught analogies, thinking skills, to kids aged from 5 to 12. Then we retired. Gary had built our house, a cabin on our land. We live there part time. Betsey is very keen on horses and she rides nearby. Gary has written a memoir about being a civil engineer in Vietnam during the Vietnam War, Good Afternoon Vietnam. I blogged but boredom set in. So, I put lessons on line for different age groups, with work sheets. As we are able to publish books independently on Amazon and we have time, that was our choice.”
I enjoy the concepts which you introduced in ‘The Frogs Buy A House’, to make children familiar with the terms and the issues around house hunting and moving. What is the best part of writing for children?
“The best part is when the kids like the story. Feedback makes all the difference. For Multicultural Children’s Book Day, I gave a book away, but I got no feedback.”
The lovely book about a family with an adopted daughter ‘A Mom: What Is An Adoptive Mother?’ has illustrations to show how the mom and little girl do not look the same. Who illustrates your books for you?
“My daughter Betsey wrote this as a Mother’s Day card for me. I thought it was so lovely that I wanted to make it a book. Betsey is named as an author but she didn’t want to be credited as the sole author. I found online an artist called Pieter Els who lives in South Africa. He created the illustrations to put this book on his CV.”
Dystopian middle grade fiction is quite a different prospect. Many adult readers will need no introduction to the facts around climate change. Your 2019 award-nominated Young Adult (YA) book looks at a dystopian future for young people in America and the UK. What prompted you to write ‘Climate Change Captives 2035’?
“This book started as a short story and I needed to do lots of research. I got so upset from all I was seeing that I made it book length. I aimed for middle grade, but with references to real articles so the students can look up the facts. An Al Gore symposium came up and my book was picked before publishing. The promoters said, “Why would we promote your book?” and I said, “I have three hundred thousand followers on Pinterest.” They said okay. Then I had to finish ahead of the symposium. Pieter Els created the illustrations for me.”
This YA book is set in a future Minnesota at the start, with depleted wildlife and limited resources. The only thing thriving is poison ivy. But the young characters still have to go to school and some are depicted as homeschooled. You pack a lot of references in by way of text notes. What are you hoping young readers and families will do after reading your book?
“I am hoping they will be better informed and will start to see what changes they can make. Al Gore showed us that storms are striking around the world and people are suffering. The readers will start to look at science-based papers like those I reference, and they can see that communicating with kids in other countries will help us all to learn.”
I am certain that Greta Thunberg would approve. Why did you involve young people from Northern Ireland in the story?
“A friend of mine called Crystal is blogging from Castleview Academy in Northern Ireland. She homeschools. Her real kids are in my story and they have their interests represented; nanoengineering, jujitsu, trees and baking. They wanted to be represented as 12 but are younger in real life. I was able to show them a chapter at a time and get their input.”
I enjoyed the ingenious ways people deal with the energy scarce future. I particularly like the concept that governments have to stop fighting wars and go to court instead, as wars are too costly to the environment. Which of your predictions for coping with climate change do you see as most likely to come to pass?
“When I read your book Dining Out On Planet Mercury I learned that the salt water will rise through the water table and kill trees in cities near the shore as the sea levels rise. I didn’t realise that before. I’m sure we’ll have to develop methods of tackling it.
“I camped out as a kid, I was a Campfire Girl. We picked up fallen wood for fires. We owned six acres of northern Minnesota and this had plenty of birch trees. But the birches died as the land got wetter and heat brought gypsy moth infestations. So already this is happening, and I show this in my book. I think we need more wind farms like the ones upstate from me, also general installation of solar panels to make power locally.”
Thanks for talking with me today.
The author, Clare O’Beara, has just published her fifteenth book on Amazon, A Pony For Quarantine, about a young teen girl in Ireland during the Coronavirus lockdown.


MERRILL - In 1891, Merrill opened the T.B. Scott Free Library.
It was one of the first 25 public libraries in the state, but looked nothing like it does today. Instead, it was just a small space inside City Hall.
Then, wealthy steel industrialist Andrew Carnegie's money came to Merrill.
One hundred years ago this week, Carnegie died a wealthy man. But he had also given a lot of his wealth away, much of it to build public libraries like the one in Merrill.
A pledge of $17,500 helped Merrill become one of 63 Carnegie libraries in Wisconsin and more than 1,600 across the country.
The original building, finished in 1911, is still used and still loved. Original shelving now holds magazines, audiobooks, and large print materials. The library has since expanded around it.
"The residents here in Merrill all have memories of this Carnegie building, whether it be from when they were kids, or when they brought their kids here, or when they spent time here," said Stacy Stevens, the director of the T.B. Scott Free Library.
One hundred years after his death, Carnegie's wealth remains on display as a gift to Merrill.
"This truly is an icon in this community, this Carnegie building," said Bea Lebal, the former library director.
The original library is designed in the Prairie School architectural style. Only three percent of the Carnegie libraries in the United States share that style.
Story By: Ben Meyer


- The Life Model: Living From the Heart Jesus Gave You & Joy Starts Here The Life Model guides you through understanding and developing strong maturity. This book is a priceless aid to restore anyone who has been through trauma. By James Friesen, James E. Wilder, Anne Bierling, Rick Koepcke, and Maribeth Poole.
- The Complete Guide To Living With Men How God designed men to grow and mature. This is the most complete description of Life Model maturity in print. Everyone has a father. Most people have a brother, son or grandson. Everyone needs maturity. By James E. Wilder.
- Freedom Tools - For Overcoming Life's Tough Problems This book is about the revolution, one that makes it possible to steer a course toward emotional and spiritual wholeness as well as help others do so. By Andy Reese.
- Designed for Fulfillment: A Study of the Redemptive Gifts by Charles R. Wade Jr. Understanding the redemptive gifts will give you a greater understanding of the potential that you have, as well as the challenges that you face. It will help you identify your individual strengths and weaknesses. You will begin to understand in a deeper way why God created you. You will learn to stop wasting your time on those things that are motivated by woundedness rather than by your Father's Design. By Charles R. Wade Jr.
- Blessing Your Spirit Our human spirit is responsive. When it is ignored, it will atrophy. When it is nurtured it will grow. Truth is the nutrient that most powerfully transforms your spirit. Your spirit needs to know the truth about you and about God. Some of that truth is spoken by the Spirit of God to your spirit and some is input that you deliberately seek. This book is a series of blessings designed to leverage the growth of your spirit. By Arthur Burke
- Breakthrough: Miraculous Stories of Healing and Hope - By Anita Andreas


Ross started writing a journal in May 1928, when he was a 24 year old medical student at Barts Hospital in London. In it he recorded his thoughts, theories, and goals that would eventually bring him recognition as a pioneer in the fields of cybernetics and systems theory. By the time Ross died in November 1972, after keeping his journal for 44 years, it had 7,189 pages, in 25 volumes.
In their condolence letters to Rosebud, Stafford Beer wrote "Look after Ross's papers. I have no idea what should be done with them, but they are very precious." and Gordon Pask echoed the same concern, writing "Please keep everything he wrote.". For the next 30 years, only members of his family had access to his journals.
Eventually, the family digitized his journals, papers, and correspondence, and in January 2003, gave all his archive material to the British Library, in London. A year later, in March 2004, on the last day of the W. Ross Ashby Centenary Conference, they announced their intention to make his journal available on the Internet. Since 2008, the digitally restored images of all 7,189 pages and 1,600 index cards have been available on this website in various views, with extensive cross-linking that is based on Ross's original index.
To start browsing Ross's journal, you can try any of the following:
The rest of this page describes the different views, what they are good for, and how to use them.
Because Ross wrote his journal sequentially in notebooks, numbered the pages, and indexed the contents, it's been possible to write XSL transformations that generate different views of the information in the journal and indexes. There are ten different views. They are summarized in the following table:
|Volumes||Bookshelf||Shows the spines and covers of all 25 volumes.|
|Volume||Contains thumbnail images of all pages in each volume.|
|Keywords||Index Page||The alphabetical index page contains the Cloud view and the Index view.|
|Cloud||A compact list of all 678 primary keywords, which link to the index entries.|
|Index||Contains all 678 primary index entries, with all secondary terms and links to all related pages, references, and other keyword-oriented views.|
|Cards||Contains images of the index cards for each keyword, together with the corresponding digital transcription and links.|
|Thumbs||Contains thumbnail images of all journal pages that are indexed for each particular keyword. The thumbnails are sorted chronologically and are grouped by year.|
|Pages||Journal||Contains the images of Ross's journal pages.|
|Entries||Summaries||Contains the text of over 2,300 summaries that Ross wrote at the end of his journal entries.|
|Categories||Other Index||The other index contains 830 cards, in 14½ different subject categories.|
|Time||Timeline||Chronologically lists all dated journal pages with the places where Ross was at the time.|
Together, these densely interlinked views make it easy to browse purposefully through Ross's journal and indexes.
This view shows the spines and covers of all 25 volumes.
It's as if you're visiting Ross and Rosebud at "Westons", the home that they lovingly created from an old village school in Tockington, near Bristol, England, and you're standing in front of the journals, which are on a bookshelf in the Bell Room. Ross is nearby, playing the clarinet, while Rosebud makes a pot of tea, and slowly, as you try to decide which volume to open first, you run a fingertip across the spines of the journals and notice their surprisingly coarse textures.
But the moment that you reach out and select a volume, you're sucked backwards out of the Bell Room, across the hypnopompic psycho-reality event horizon, and into cyberspace — where you're immediately confronted by the aesthetically distressing Volume View (go on, try it!;-).
This view contains thumbnail images of all pages in a volume. Above each image are any summaries that Ross wrote, any keywords that he indexed the pages for, and any entries in his other index that reference the pages.
Welcome! You're inside an abstraction of the meticulous mind-space of Ross Ashby. As your eyes dart from page to page, across summaries, keywords, and diagrams, your mind must re-adjust to the relentless raster of images, color saturation, and cognitive stimulation that is lighting up every isomorphic corner of your cerebral cortex. By skim-reading the summaries and keywords in this view, you can fast-forward, fast-backward, or clicksplore by following links through the network that is Ross-mindspace-time of over 44 years of his thoughts and ideas. Everything that might interest you in this view is clickable, and will jump you to the clicked entity in another view.
Ross's 860-card alphabetical index has been turned into a single 1 MB page. This makes it possible to search the entire index (all primary and secondary index terms) by pressing Control-F in your browser. This page contains two views: A keyword cloud and the alphabetically sorted index entries. To illustrate the different views, the following sample screenshots focus on the keyword Entropy.
At the top of the index page, the Keyword Cloud contains all 678 keywords.
Every keyword has an entry in the index that contains the complete transcription of the index cards.
This is the core of the index. From here, you have direct access to all related journal pages, references, and other views.
Keep in mind that Ross didn't index the contents of every page, so there are inevitably some journal entries that can only be found by luck or by systematically reading every page in a time period of interest.
In this view, images of the original index cards for a particular keyword are displayed with the transcription under them, on which the digital index and all keyword links are based.
This view is useful for checking index text that has been transcribed in [square brackets] because either we couldn't read it properly or we couldn't type it accurately. If you notice an error in the transcription of an index card, please click the 'Send Index Error Feedback' link for that card to email us, so that we can correct it.
This view contains thumbnail images of all the pages that were indexed for a particular keyword. It's ideal for investigating Ross's work one keyword at-a-time. The images are sorted chronologically, and are grouped by year. It reveals how themes weave through the journal across time. You can use this view to see when Ross first started working on a particular topic, and to identify the years in which he was more or less actively working on it.
More importantly, compared to the entries in the alphabetical Index view, this view shows which other keywords are associated with each page (and any summaries), which creates a semantic cluster that gives a richer impression of the contents of the written page.
This view contains the images of Ross's journal pages. This is the view that you arrive in if you click any page number link on this web site.
After the image of the journal page has finished loading, it is resized to fit the width of your browser's window.
In July 1941, Ross decided to write a summary at the end of each journal entry. This view contains over 2,300 summaries of his journal entries. The summary text also appears above the appropriate thumbnails and journal pages.
This view offers the most condensed summary of Ross's work. If you are interested in particular keywords, it's worth pressing Control-F to search the summaries for entries that might not be covered by the alphabetical index.
From 1948, Ross also marked the end of each journal entry with a distinctive doodle.
This makes it easier to see where one entry ends and the next begins.
This 830-card index is divided into different subject categories. Click on a category to view all the entries in the category. Category 7 shows that Ross wanted to write a book about the psychiatric applications of cybernetics.
The entries generally consist of one sentence and a page reference. All page references link to the appropriate page images, and the entry's text is included above the referenced pages. For entries that reference more than one page, the links included above the pages mean that these related pages are just one click away from each other.
This view lists all dated journal pages. It's useful if you want to find pages that were written on or around a particular date. If known, the place is also listed where Ross was when he wrote the page, which makes this the best view for seeing where Ross was and when.
If you've read all the way down to here without giving up, you'll probably want to take a look at the alphabetical Index next.


God’s Loving Pursuit “As Humanity Escapes His Reality”
A Prophecy About the Metaverse
By Rev. Daniel W. Blair
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About the Book
You know that there’s something wrong with the world, but you can’t quite put your finger on it. It’s because you can’t see the big picture. Join Reverend Blair in an unforgettable journey from the dawn of history to the approaching apocalypse to unlock humanity’s most sinister and esoteric problem, which are driving them to an alternate reality, in an all-encompassing Metaverse. To unveil this big picture, the author takes us on a scholarly review of each epoch in Biblical history from humanity’s infancy to adulthood as the all-powerful God of creation lovingly pursues humanity in their rebellion, lawlessness, and great fear. Without understanding the big picture, humanity will be ultimately controlled, destined for demonic slavery, and led into a global catastrophe beyond measure. May the shocking truth in this little book allow you to see what’s really wrong with the world and more importantly how to fearlessly resist what’s already coming.
Stand Firm “Godly Counsel for the Last Days”
About the Book
“In the coming days, a solid theological belief system may be our only hope for standing firm in our faith…”
As we fast approach the end of days, we have seen an increase in demonic activity, psychological problems, and increasing pressure from the religious establishment to accept other belief systems in the name of tolerance. This ready resource will equip the end time saint to stand against the whiles of the devil and how to remain faithful to Jesus. Stand Firm by Rev. Daniel W. Blair is a beautiful book with group study questions and prayers at the end of each chapter. Reverend Blair is convinced that God has given the Christian everything needed for life and godliness, and he supports this by offering practical application. So as you go along your way, return to this book, again and again, to drink from the fountain of knowledge concerning your salvation in Jesus Christ and godly counsel on how to Stand Firm in the last days.
Final Warning “Because the Hour of His Judgment Has Come”
By Rev. Daniel W. Blair
About the Book
Blair gives compelling evidence that the new Global City is already being built by the beast of worldly power to enslave the nations by teaching them to follow his godless agenda. Reverend Blair asserts that the image of the beast is already being worshiped and the mark taken by millions who are completely unaware of their eternal consequences. You are invited to join him on an unforgettable journey to the edge of extinction to witness all the plagues, woes, and wrath of God as they are being poured out upon the Global City. And then he carries you to the threshold of hell to imagine the horror of eternal torment. This is a whirlwind of a book that will keep you on the edge of your seat from beginning to end. A must-read for anyone concerned about the future.
OTHER BOOKS RECOMMENDED BY PASTOR BLAIR
From the Cliff to the Cure by Natalie Bymaster
I just completed reading this marvelous book from cover to cover in nearly one sitting. I was immediately struck with the authors’ honesty and passion to speak the whole truth. The book was reminiscent of the Apostle Pauls’ testimony, which has always been a standard-bearer for the churches witness for a millennium. Step by step we followed the author through the trenches of psychological abuse as every lie was ingrained into her life, truly her life before Christ. Then we follow Natalie to the awakening and her salvation in Christ. She doesn’t stop there but continues with the passion of a missionary to unearth all the lies of the psychiatric industry, driving home the point again and again that the Bible gives us everything we need for life and godliness to escape their labels of “mental illness” and its unending life of misery. She gives clear and simple application for the truth with the deepest desire to set the captives free from the lies of psychology to a new life in Christ. I highly recommend this book, not as a novel but a great light shining in a dark world and to a church that has been deceived, written by a fearless soldier of the Cross.
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Guiding Principles for Biblical Counseling by Rev. Daniel W. Blair (Author)
When did we start referring our brothers and sisters to the world for counseling? When did Christian counselors stop believing that His Word had everything we need for life and godliness? When did they start going to the world for their guidance and approved methodology for counseling? Psychiatry and psychology have consistently asserted that people should be “salvaged” from the chains of religious upbringing and moral restraint. However, studies show positive moral and emotional benefits for those with religious faith. Churches and parishioners taking back control of their religions from psychiatry and psychology will accomplish the return to a morally and spiritually strong society.
This is a very practical book not only for lay and pastoral counselors but for every Christian who desires to help their brethren who have suffered under the hands of secular psychology and psychiatric drug addiction.
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by Philip Jones
Ecclesiastical law has often been identified with the law administered in the ecclesiastical courts. However, this law might be more precisely described as the law administered in Doctors’ Commons. Just as common lawyers practised from the inns of court, so ecclesiastical lawyers operated in Doctors’ Commons. It was the ecclesiastical inn of court, located near St. Paul’s Cathedral in the City of London.
The origin of Doctors’ Commons is recorded by Phillimore, quoting from a report of 1832 (Ecclesiastical Law, 2nd edition 1895, p.935). The site was purchased in 1567, although the society of lawyers which settled there dated from 1511 or even earlier, and so predated the Reformation. The site comprised chambers for the judges and lawyers, and ‘proper buildings for holding the ecclesiastical and admiralty courts, where they have ever since continued to be held’. By a royal charter of 1768 the inhabitants of Doctors’ Commons were incorporated as a college.
Phillimore’s account continues:
‘This college consists of a president (the Dean of the Arches for the time being) and of those doctors of law who … having been admitted advocates in pursuance of the rescript of the Archbishop of Canterbury, shall have been elected fellows of the college … no person can be admitted a member, or allowed to practise as an advocate in the courts at Doctors’ Commons, without first having taken the degree of Doctor of Laws in one of the English universities’.
This explains why Doctors’ Commons was so called. The ecclesiastical judges were chosen from among the advocates. As well as judges and advocates there were proctors, who performed functions similar to those of solicitors.
The history and work of Doctors’ Commons are the subject of two excellent modern commentaries, R.H Helmholz Roman Canon Law in Reformation England (Cambridge University Press 1990) and G.D Squibb Doctors’ Commons (Clarendon Press, Oxford 1977).
The cases decided in the courts of Doctors’ Commons were reported by some of the doctor-advocates who practised there. These included Joseph Phillimore, father of Sir Robert. Phillimore pere compiled collections of various reports cited as Phill. He also collected the judgments of Sir George Lee, an 18th century Dean of the Arches (cited as Lee). Doctors Addams (Add), Curteis (Curt), Haggard (Hagg) and Robertson (Rob) also compiled reports.
Dr Haggard’s compilations are divided into two categories. Hag Ecc are reports of cases in a number of ecclesiastical courts. Hag Con are reports of cases decided in the London consistory court only. Lee and Hag Con are 18th century cases, the other collections date from 1809-1853. These collections of reports are now published in the English Reports (ER).
Despite its association with the Church, Doctors’ Commons was rather secular in character. Archbishop Cranmer apparently appointed the first lay Dean of the Arches, Dr William Coke, in 1546, and the last ordained advocate was admitted in 1609 (Squibb, p.28). Thereafter Doctors’ Commons comprised only laymen, not clergy. Indeed the institution became so thoroughly laicised that by 1807 ordination was considered a ground of disqualification as an advocate! The Doctors probably had little contact with the clergy, except when the latter became involved in legal disputes.
It should be remembered that most ecclesiastical courts were not part of Doctors’ Commons. Only the courts of the Archbishop of Canterbury, principally the Court of the Arches and the Prerogative Court, also the Admiralty Court and the London consistory court, operated there. With rare exceptions it is only the judgments of these courts that appear in the published reports.
All the other bishops’ and archdeacons’ courts, including all the ecclesiastical courts of the Province of York, operated locally and their judgments were not reported. Thus it might be more accurate to identify ecclesiastical law with Doctors’ Commons rather than with the ecclesiastical courts as a whole.
The erudite Doctors lamented the poor quality of the local courts. Sir John Nicholl, Dean of the Arches, was particularly critical. In Lee and Parker v Chalcraft (1821) 161 ER 1439 he sighed that ‘If [the Arches] were not to admit the irregularities which take place in the Courts below, a party could hardly ever succeed in obtaining justice before this tribunal’ (p.1441). In Morgan v Hopkins (1818) 161 ER 1238 he allowed an appeal from the Llandaff consistory court, complaining that ‘Irregularities exist in many of the inferior courts: but they are conspicuous in the Court from which this appeal is brought: there the proceedings are not carried on upon the same principles which guide us in Doctors’ Commons’. He was a Welshman and native of the Llandaff diocese!
Most of the work of Doctors’ Commons was of a non-ecclesiastical character. Only a fairly small proportion of the cases decided and reported there are directly concerned with ‘the Church’ as it is now understood. Peter Winckworth calculates that of 1,065 reported cases in the 19th century, only 124 concerned an ecclesiastical subject (A Verification of the Faculty Jurisdiction SPCK, London, 1953, at p.29). The Church courts were mostly concerned with probate, divorce and maritime law (memorably summarised by Sir Alan Herbert as ‘wills, wives and wrecks’).
Of the ‘Church’ cases reported, some concerned clergy discipline and faculties. A large proportion concerned the alleged misfeasance of churchwardens and disputes over their election. There were disputes over ‘sittings’, the rights of parishioners to occupy particular pews in the church or chapel, known as actions for ‘perturbation of seat’. There were disputes between parishioners over their liability for church rates, or the amount due in respect of rates, or tithes. There may be only one reported case concerning the rector’s liability to repair the chancel: Bishop of Ely v Gibbons (1833) 162 ER 1407. When parochial feeling got out of hand, there were prosecutions for the offence of ‘brawling’ in the church or churchyard.
Of these classes of case, only the first two, clergy discipline and faculties, still occupy the ecclesiastical courts. Prosecutions of churchwardens and other lay officers, and actions for perturbation of seat, were abolished by the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Measure 1963, s.82(2). Compulsory church rates were abolished by an Act of 1868. Most lay liability to pay tithes was extinguished by the Tithe Act 1936. The ‘spiritual’ rector’s liability to repair the chancel was abolished by the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measure 1923. Jurisdiction to enforce the lay rector’s liability was transferred to the secular courts by the Chancel Repair Act 1932. Prosecutions for brawling were also transferred to the seculars courts by the Ecclesiastical Courts Jurisdiction Act 1860.
The creation of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners by Parliament, and the extensive legislation of the 19th century concerning pastoral reorganisation greatly reduced the scope of the ecclesiastical courts’ jurisdiction over the Church. Statutory regulation of pastoral reorganisation and ecclesiastical fees abrogated many local customs, and thereby removed the need for ecclesiastical courts to adjudicate them.
Eric Kemp traced the increasing involvement of Parliament in the regulation of ecclesiastical matters. He calculated that between 1530 and 1760 there was an average of 2.5 ‘ecclesiastical statutes’ every year. Between 1760 and 1820 the average rose to 10 a year. Between 1820 and 1870 the average leaped to 25 a year (Counsel and Consent, SPCK, London, 1961 at p.172).
The Doctors were understandably unenthusiastic about this new ecclesiastical activism on the part of the Legislature. In Bliss v Woods (1831) 162 ER 1235, which concerned the right officiate in a chapel, Sir John Nicholl found that the relevant Church Building Act ‘is so loosely and carelessly penned that it bears every appearance of having been hastily drawn’ (p.1249). In Varty and Mopsey v Nunn (1841)163 ER 616, a chuch rate case, the Chancellor of London grumbled that ‘It has been no easy task to discover the true meaning of the local Act [which fixed the church rate in the area] but that Act is light itself compared with the obscurity of the Church Building statutes’ (p.621).
Writing in the mid-20th century, Eric Kemp also regretted the heavy incursion of Acts of Parliament into ecclesiastical law that occurred in the 19th century. He argued that ‘a statute is not the best instrument for directing the spiritual life of a community [as] … the experience of the last hundred years has shown’ (An Introduction to Canon Law in the Church of England, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1957, p.75).
This deprecation of statute law may be a little unfair. Even if they had the inclination, the ecclesiastical judges and the clergy in Convocation had no power to effect significant structural reform of the Church so as to address the increase of population and urbanisation of the period. Only Parliament could do this. Structural reform was plainly necessary, to clear away the undergrowth of ancient and outdated ecclesiastical laws and thus enable the promulgation of new laws. Kemp himself observed that in 1832 there were no fewer than 386 ecclesiastical courts (p.49).
In 1857 the responsibility for administering the law concerning wills and wives was transferred by Act of Parliament to newly established secular courts. Jurisdiction over wrecks was transferred two years later. The reforms of 1857 ‘sealed the fate of Doctors’ Commons’ (Squibb, p.96). Despite protests, the land, buildings and library were sold of and the proceeds distributed among the remaining Doctors.
In ‘The Fall and Rise of Doctors’ Commons’ (Ecclesiastical Law Journal 1996), Paul Barber makes an interesting case that, although the college undoubtedly ceased to function in the mid-19th century, it was never truly dissolved. He speculates optimistically that ‘another generation might see the Doctor’s scarlet in the Ecclesiastical Court’.
The case law of Doctors’ Commons is still cited in modern divorce and probate law. It may well remain relevant to the understanding of Church of England doctrine. The case law was, after all, based on that doctrine, and the doctrine was unaffected by the reforms of the mid-19th century. The report The Canon Law of the Church of England (SPCK, 1947) referred to Lord Stowell’s ‘magnificent judgment in the case of Evans v Evans (1790) [161 ER 466] where he expounds the lifelong nature of the bond of Christian marriage … with a beauty of language, a lucidity and a reverence for the institution of marriage …’ (p.55). That judgment no longer represents the English law of marriage, but that does not mean that it does not express the Church of England’s doctrine of marriage.


I have always been an avid reader. During my free time, you can almost always find me cuddled up on the couch reading a good book and sipping on a warm cup of coffee. Now that Baby J is here, reading together is one of our favorite bonding activities! Today I’d like to share some of the benefits of reading to your newborn and show you how you can start reading with your newborn right away!
Why should you read to your newborn?
Reading to your newborn increases vocabulary and academic success as they get older.
Research shows that by reading to your newborn, you introduce her to many more words and significantly increase her vocabulary at an early age. Because she is exposed to more words, she is prepared to be more successful once she begins reading. Although you might expect those benefits, kids also have increased math skills and higher scores on standardized testing when they are read to as babies. Talk about a win-win-win!
Reading to your babies is an amazing bonding opportunity for both of you.
When you read to your baby, you give them your undivided attention. You’re not distracted by your cell phone, cleaning, or other obligations. Instead, you show your baby that he is important to you. It’s also an amazing opportunity for you to snuggle and hug your baby and talk to him in a soothing, calming voice. All of which increases your bond with your baby!
You foster an early love of reading with your baby.
By reading with your newborn, you start to develop a habit of reading as soon as she comes home from the hospital. You show your baby the joys of reading and help to create feelings of love, security, and fun with reading time. Children that are read to as newborns are significantly more likely to continue to read for enjoyment as older children and adults.
When should you read with your newborn?
Start as soon as possible!
Your baby is never too young to read and it’s great to start right away! The earlier you start reading with your baby, the earlier they will begin receiving the benefits of reading. Also, the sooner you start, the sooner you and your baby can bond over books!
Try to read for 15 minutes a day.
In order to fully receive these benefits and create a habit and love of reading, you want to make sure that you form a habit and read every single day. It’s better to read for short periods of time every day than to read for longer periods of time once a week.
To really light up the neurons in your baby’s brain, always try to read at least 15 minutes each day. We like to break this up by reading for a few minutes before morning nap, a few minutes during afternoon playtime, and a few minutes in our bedtime routine (often times during bathtime!). By reading before naps and bedtime, we slow down and start to teach that it’s time to sleep. (This also helps to reverse day/night confusion that many newborns have!). But we also want to read when Baby J is awake and active so he can interact with the book and watch the pages.
Don’t feel like you have to read every word or finish every book. If your baby seems distracted after a few minutes, put down the book and come back to it later in the day. Also, don’t be afraid to re-read the same book over and over. The repetition is great for your newborn!
What should you read to your newborn?
Read books with big pictures and lots of contrast.
When your newborn first comes home, her vision is still super underdeveloped. She can’t see very far (only about 10-18 inches!) and can’t see very well. To help her develop her sense of sight, it’s best to read books that have big pictures and high contrast.
There are tons of great newborn books that you can purchase or get from your local library! Many newborn books are in black and white or black and red to have tons of contrast for your newborn. Most newborn books also have only a few words per page or no words per page to allow for larger pictures.
Read books that have a sing-song rhythm.
By reading to your newborn, you are introducing her to new words and the fun of reading. But you are also teaching her rhythm, rhyming, pitch, and more! A great way to build these skills is to read books with a sing-song rhythm. These are fun for you and for baby and have a huge emphasis on rhythm and rhyming. They also make the perfect books to read over and over!
Read anything that you want!
The best part about reading to a newborn is that you can read anything you want! Your priority is not reading something that your baby will understand and you don’t have to worry about keeping your baby’s attention. If you want to read him your favorite mystery novel, a story from the newspaper, or an article from a magazine, that is perfectly fine!
This was a super helpful tool for us on nights when Baby J was extra fussy. I would swaddle him tightly, snuggle closely with him, and then read whatever novel I was reading at the time. He felt
How should you read to your baby?
Cuddle and snuggle with your baby while you read.
Although all of the benefits of reading are amazing, I strongly believe that the best benefit is being able to bond and build your relationship with your baby. When you read, take the time to snuggle and cuddle with your baby. Make it a priority for you to intentionally bond with your baby and enjoy some one-on-one time together. This is the best way to form a habit and love of reading because she will associate reading with cuddling and spending time with you.
Use lots of expression and make it fun!
Remember that when you read with your baby, you are teaching so much more than just vocabulary. You’re teaching rhythm, rhyming, pitch, noises, and more! Make reading fun and increase learning by using tons of expressions.
Use goofy tones and change voices with different characters in your story. You can also use a sing-song pitch and bounce your baby while you read. Take the time to stop and ask questions or point out things on the pages. (Look at the black kitty. Cats say meow.) Play games and make reading fun!
Bonus Tip: Read in front of your baby
If you really want to encourage your baby to read and build a reading lifestyle with your little person, don’t just read to your baby. Also, read in front of your baby. By reading your own personal books in front of your child, you are demonstrating that reading is valuable and it is worth your time. You role model great reading habits and significantly increase the odds that your child will become a reader too!
There are so many amazing bonding opportunities and benefits to reading with your baby. Use these ideas and get started reading with your newborn today!
How do you incorporate reading with your baby into your schedule?
Thanks for leaving a comment! I can’t wait to hear what you do at your house!


This book had the interesting effect of making me laugh, wince, and take notes, sometimes all on the same page! At the end of the day, I could not put the book down. I was captivated by a transparent pastor’s heart who struggled day after day to put Jesus before his city in effort to see many converted.
The book chronicles the life of Mars Hill Church in Seattle, Washington where Mark Driscoll has been the Senior Pastor since its inception. Driscoll takes readers through the various stages of growth from a small broken down Bible study with “Indie Rockers” and “artsy” folks to a thriving megachurch of over 4,000 impacting one of the most unchurched regions in the US.
In his narrative Driscoll explains, from first hand experience, some of the gestational development of the now prominent Emergent Church. Driscoll himself was involved, and in fact a leader in, a movement in the mid-90’s to mobilize missionaries to their culture, impacting them with the gospel of Christ. As this movement expanded and gained traction Driscoll had to separate himself from it:
“I had to distance myself, however, from one of the many streams in the emerging church because of the theological differences. Since the late 1990’s this stream has become known as Emergent. The Emergent Church is part of the Emerging Church Movement but does not embrace the dominant ideology of the movement. Rather the emergent church is the latest version of liberalism. The only difference is that the old liberalism accommodated modernity and the new liberalism accommodates postmodernity.” (p. 21)
So here Driscoll is distinquishing between Emerging and Emergent…himself clinging to the prevailing positives of the Emerging movement (missional, theological, active) while distancing himself from the atheolgoical wing of the movement (Emergent).


The Crow's Nest is situated on the second floor at 182 Main Street in Jonesport. Close by is a pizza shop, a hardware and marine supply shop, a bank, the Post Office, and the public library. Crow's can also be rented on a monthly basis with all the amenities, including utilities, TV, parking, and internet.
Also located in the building, on the first floor, is a delightful little nautical gift shop. It features the works of local artists, crafts, and beautiful gift ideas. The shop is open at 10am to 4pm each Friday and Saturday throughout the summer. Special extended openings are planned for the July 4 celebrations, and then again around the Christmas Holidays.


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A spell breaking, QUEBRANTE traverses the caves, ruins and phantasmagorias of Transamazon BR230 Highway, portraying its stones and its ghosts.
Set in the tiny town of Rurópolis (Pará) - the very first one to be build in the Highway to serve as a base for the workers that were building it - QUEBRANTE follows Ms. Erismar, known in the region as "The Cave Woman". A retired elementary school teacher, Ms. Erismar was the one responsible for the discovery of the region's caves: she would enter the dark unknown holes till their ends, with only a candle in her hands and a lighter tied to her pants - in case the flame would fade out.
A conversation between the moon and the stones, QUEBRANTE is freely inspired in Robert's Smithson project THE TRULY UNDERGROUND CINEMA (1971) and in the film THE VERY EYE OF THE NIGHT (1958) by Maya Deren.
FRANKENSTEIN COW (GREEN FLESH, GREEN FLASH)
10’ | 2021
Video Installation – Projection and Vertical LED Panel (250 x 150 cm) + Painted 16mm film and Digital
Produced by Gasworks London and Triangle Network
Frankenstein Cow is a romantic experimental documentary-sci-fi, situated in the present.
The installation portrays a tender Frankenstein Nelore cow as the main character of the solastalgia of the present time.
In 1816, the sky across Europe turned red thanks to the eruption of Mount Tambora. The romantic and surreal atmospheres of J.M. Turner, John Crome and Caspar D. Friedrich are the portrait and documents of this era. It was in that twilight summer that a nineteen-years-old girl named Mary Shelley wrote the first science fiction in history, about a tender, lonely animated meat machine: Frankenstein – or the modern Prometheus. In 2022, however, the volcano became human-kind, and Frankenstein, a cow.
History tells that whoever has the good fortune to see a Green Flash will have a great change in his life. With the work I wanted to give the Frankenstein Nelore cow a Green Flash, finally breaking her cyclical destiny.
CURUPIRA E A MÁQUINA DO DESTINO (Curupira and the machine of the destiny)
25’ | 2021
Documentary-Fiction | 24'40'' | DCP | Color | 16:09 | Brazil - France
Filmed in Amazonas, Brazil, on the roads Estrada Fantasma (Phantom Road) BR-319, Transamazônica BR-230 and in the real village of Realidade (Reality), “Curupira and the machine of the destiny” is the encounter in the present time between the creature curupira, protectress of the forests of Brazil, and the incarnated ghost of Iracema, a 14-year-old prostitute, fictional character in the film “Iracema - uma transa amazônica” (1974, Jorge Bodanzky and Orlando Senna. Iracema’s ghost sets out on his quest at the crossroads of the straight roads of Amazonas to find curupira and avenge the future.
ESTRADAS FANTASMAS (Roads Ghosts)
10’ | 2021
In 1970 the civic-military dictatorship shouted: “Down with the curupiras, macunaímas, botos, cobras noratos! Wood, manganese, bauxite, cattle, iron, soy now!”. Published in the very popular magazine Veja, in 1970, the ad is by SUDAM - Superintendence for the Development of the Amazon, an autarchy of the federal government of Brazil, created in 1966. In the late 1960s, the the government established through the civil-military dictatorship of Brazil launched its national and nationalist campaign for the occupation of the Amazon: "Integrate so as not to deliver". The developmental project had as its bastion the monumental straight lines that have been crossing the living mass of the forest ever since. It was only a few months before the publication of the above announcement that the military began construction of what were the first major roads to integrate the far north of Brazil. For Estrada Fantasma I invited two women that have been living Realidade District to hold a improvised cinema screen during the night, on the middle of the BR-319, known as the Phantom Road. The images that were projected are the National Archives of Brazil that register the construction of the road 50 years ago.
CÃES MARINHEIROS (Sailors Dogs)
7’ | 2020
Amazonas, Brazil: at the confluence of Rio Negro and Rio Jaú there are ruins of a small town called Airão. Founded by Portuguese missionaries in 1694, Airão concentrated the entire rubber production in the region. After rapid and unsustainable economic growth, followed by the d ecline of the Rubber Cycle, the city went bankrupt. A politician at the time said that the population it was being eaten by ants. Ruined, Airão was abandoned. Filmed in Velho Airão and Igapó-Açu BR319, Amazonas - Brazil march / 2020
27’ | 2019
Licantropia is an atonement of the figure of the werewolf, a creature shaped by men-kind as a scapegoat to give contour to cruel acts perpetrated by humanity through the course of history. Narrated by the moon during the course of a night and merging fiction and reality, the film is a collage of 16mm, digital, engravings, texte and anonymous testimonies. The werewolf, a hybrid being, operates always “in between”, transitioning around the limits of reality and invention, lie and truth, history and stories : it is an amalgam that merges in one single image the human and the animal, operating as an approachable bridge to investigate civilizing processes of domination through history.
12’31’’ | 2018
Ventura is an essay on the worlds, creatures and fantasies that inhabit the days of now: strange blurred mixture of a so called magnificent progress and sad nature. Mr. Ventura was born and raised in Angola, surrounded by elephants. Today, 40 years later, he makes his living by caring for an iron and wood elephant - a monumental tourism attraction, a mixture of automaton and contraption, lost in a city in the interior of France.
"Here, my poor elephant / ready to leave / and search for friends / in a world already tire / that no longer believes in animals / and doubts things."
18’ | 2016
Werewolf is a film and the outcome of a six months research art residency Bols Pampulha, in Minas Gerais - Brazil. Researching the figure of the Werewolf through the maxim “man is a wolf to man” and thinking about a creature like this in our time took me to the image of a deactivated iron- mining field: a men-shaped dismantled mountain. The land eaten by the mouth of the machines are the human part, and the brutal nature that lasts despite the exploitation, the wolf. A mining field is a landscape created by human tools — a post apocalyptic ruin of soil, an entropic scenario projected in order of the production of a so-called developmental progress, in the shape of fossil energy. An empty and silenced artificial contemporary desert.
A DOENÇA DA MORTE (the sickness of death)
10’ | 2012
2017 | performance with Pontogor and Maura Grimaldi
10’ | 2016
MORTINHOS (litte dead ones)
5’ | 2013
4’ | 2014
A car moves towards a dense, bulky, gloomy, grayish pink cloud and then penetrates the darkness. The audio, a mixture of beats and photographic flares, belongs to the artist's sound archive, and was recorded during the demonstrations against the World Cup in 2014 in São Paulo, Brazil.
9’14’’ | 2014
Terreno uses promotional films from American companies specialized in the production and sale of prefabricated houses to investigate the processes developed by man to protect himself from contingencies such as natural disasters. In these films, inside an industrial warehouse, full-scale models of houses undergo resistance tests to artificial natural phenomena.


La vida loca de Marta (paperback)
Who is this book for? La vida loca de Marta is a brief novel written in Spanish for language learners. It is the appropriate reading level for most students in Spanish one (near the middle of the year) or above, especially those taught using TPRS© or TCI. La vida loca de Marta is written mostly in the present tense, but it does not shelter grammar. There are instances of "advanced" grammar so beginners can begin to see the language in a more complete context.
Description: Marta is a single mother who is trying to do it all. She has two kids, is working as a secretary in a law office, and is taking classes at a local college. She does all this while her family is living thousands of miles away in Mexico. Will Marta still be able to balance everything when she meets a great guy?
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MY WORK IN PROGRESS: AN HISTORICAL NOVEL ABOUT ANNIE OAKLEY
She's the American icon everyone's heard of...and nobody knows.
Anne Oakley was the female star of Buffalo Bill's Wild West, which toured the globe from 1884-1908. But though Annie's name is familiar, she's erroneously thought to be the crass backwoods girl in the musical "Annie Get Your Gun" or the lady sheriff in the Fifties TV show—and she was the polar opposite of both.
Annie Oakley hailed from Ohio and was a proper Victorian lady who dazzled crowds with her shooting, then retired to her show tent to embroider. Her astonishing gifts impressed her employer, William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody, the former scout who was the most famous man in the world circa 1900. But their relationship went awry when she began to steal his glory.
My novel traces Oakley's journey from her teenage match against her future husband, Irish-American marksman Frank Butler, to her triumphs and reversals as "the peerless lady wing shot" of Buffalo Bill's Wild West. In the form of a memoir, my plot reveals Annie's struggle to combat Cody's corrosive envy during the summer of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee (London 1887), and her battle to overcome memories of childhood trauma so she can embrace her own success. As tension builds with her mercurial boss and her baffled husband, Annie makes a bold decision that tests her courage and changes her life.
I introduce a fictional character, Luce Barlow, who adds spice when she gets involved with Bill Cody, and present an accurate portrayal of the real figures who appear, such as Chief Sitting Bull (who adopted Annie into his tribe), Cody's frustrated partner, Nate Salsbury, and the womanizing Edward, Prince of Wales, one of Cody's close chums.


North Carolina’s new voting law, passed within a month of the Supreme Court’s 2013 decision to gut the Voting Rights Act, is among the most restrictive in the nation, and it disproportionately affects minorities, young people and the elderly. Why are so many states making it harder to vote, and what are the consequences for our democracy?
Sundance Now Doc Club's Take 5: Justice in America is a collection of five short films on today's hot-button issues and features originally commissioned work from filmmakers with a passion for impactful, socially conscious storytelling.
Directed and Produced by: Rachel Lears
Produced by: Robin Blotnick
Executive Producers: Joyce Deep, Marcus Lee
Director of Photography: Rachel Lears
Editor: Robin Blotnick
Featuring: Hakeem Dykes, Maria Palmer, Alberta Currie, Jay Delancey, Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, Carolyn Coleman
Release Date: 2016
Runtime: 6 min.


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Titanic's Enduring Legacy
Len Goodman explores the Titanic's enduring legacy a century after the ship's sinking.
Episode: Titanic's Enduring Legacy
To mark the centenary of the Titanic tragedy, host Len Goodman takes viewers on an exploration of the ship's 100-year legacy. This unique account of one of the greatest disasters in history brings together for the first time — through their descendants — the individual stories of those who constructed or sailed on the doomed liner.
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The Bridge Poetry Series highlights an esteemed literary tradition: poetry inspired by art. This series establishes a unique opportunity for Wisconsin poets to write and read ekphrastic poems—poems that describe artwork. Find out more about the series and read poems from this year's events:
Bridge Poetry Series reading, May 17, 2012:
in response to the exhibition Spark and Flame: 50 Years of Art Glass and the University of Wisconsin–Madison
Bridge Poetry Series reading, November 1, 2012:
In response to the exhibition Offering of the Angels: Paintings and Tapestries from the Uffizi Gallery
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Gospel – GOOD NEWS
Apart from God we are children of WRATH.
Grace – unmerited FAVOR.
God’s Riches at CHRIST'S Expense.
Because you are a WRETCH, Salvation is found by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone. And then, you’re a Righteous WRETCH.
Jesus + nothing = SALVATION
Jesus + anything messes up EVERYTHING
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|Event:||Workshop on Mindfulness Poems|
|Date:||January 9th, 2018.
|Time:||6:30 PM to 7:30 PM|
|Location:||Canton Public Library 40 Dyer Ave. Canton CT |
|Shared reading and discussion of Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems, with Joan Hofmann as facilitator.|
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The goal of the Library of Congress Veterans History Project is to honor American veterans by preserving their life stories.
Although the Library of Congress at loc.gov/vets has created a well- designed how-to Field Kit that details the process, some may want assistance in performing the interview.
We volunteers at the Veterans History Project of Naples are here to either perform the interview or to instruct others how to do it.
This is a free service. No money will be solicited or accepted.
If you live in the Naples-Fort Myers Florida area and are interested in either being interviewed or instructed in the process, please CONTACT us.
On the LINKS page are URLs for veteran fraternal and service organizations. If we have omitted an organization you have found of value, please CONTACT us.
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Welcome to Micro Learning Nuggets. In this section, we look at some of the common mistakes / errors made by nurses and offer suggestions on how to avoid / prevent them. Each learning nugget consists of:
- Problem: identification and brief description of the nursing error / mistake
- Consequence: what may happen as a result of this error / mistake
- Solution: suggestions on what to do to prevent this nursing mistake from happening.
Click on the title to view and/or download the Micro Learning Nugget (PDF format).
4.8 Using Restraints
4.11 Educating Families
4.12 Understanding Death


New 2015 edition of DISCOGRAPHIES:
The new edition will content all discographies already published with new verification (to increase the precision and the reliability), sometimes completed by missing information and of course, by new ones since 2006. An important part of record covers have been verified again and replaced if needed, and reissue covers have been added, if different.
At last, the glossary and the description pages will be totally rewritten, with more details, in order to answer to the requirements from the fussiest ones>
Many new discographies of artists, past and present, have been added.
Just to give you an indication of the size of the future book set, here are some figures measured as of 11th of March, 2015:
- More than 40,000 discs included, with 31,000 detailed ones,
on a total of around 2,463 pages, up to this day
- 6 volumes with 382 / 417 / 436 / 467 / 463 / 298 pages.
- Present division of the 6 volumes (provisional):
0-9 + A-B / C-D / E-K / L-N / O-S / T-Z + various artists
2 addenda are planned for those who still use the 2006 edition, and don't want to buy the complete book set again:
- 1st addendum: updates for already published discographies
(329 pages, up to this day)
- 2nd addendum : new discographies (340 pages, up to this day)
The DVD-ROM version will contain the whole 6 volumes above in PDF version (Acrobat Reader). For size reasons, we plan to keep the division in 6 files.
In DVDROM edition only: an additional file with more than 9,000 discs up to this day (463 pages), entered as it comes and sorted by artists and issue years, will be added as a bonus file. It will not contain 100% complete discographies and will not be exhaustive for the artists which are missing in the paper edition.
The DVD-ROM version offers the following benefits:
- Possibility of search in the text or zoom (Acrobat Reader functions)
- Content and format are same than the book set version, but with coloured covers
- Print is possible, but with "ART & CHANSONS" printed in a grey frame.
- Can be read in all platforms (Windows, MacOS, Linux), with Acrobat Reader 7 min
As previously, the DVD-ROM will be sold separately or will be sold together with the paper edition, at the conditions described in the Orders page.
For financial reasons, the paper edition will be printed in W&B, but the DVD-ROM will contain coloured covers...


Welcome to the First Sunday Best Essay Series on StoryboardC. This is a story I am honored to have found to tell you and share how it has and is continuing to help me with my own current story as of late. My Doctor recently advised me to actively seek out finding others with trauma to triumph stories. To help me truly understand that I am not alone (nor are you) in the quest to embrace the startling changes that life brings us sometimes.
Then enters Liz Murray. I 'stumbled' upon Liz via a Audible version of the book, Hero (2013). Which is the latest from Best Selling Author Rhonda Byrne of ‘The Secret Film/Book fame. Liz's remarkable story was one of the many featured, but hers resonated the most with me. How she became a authentic Hero of her own life and now is committed to helping others do the same. I was so blown away by her accomplishments despite all the circumstances stacked up against her. But, what most touched me was the love and hope she mustered up from a fractured upbringing. She chose to not repeat the "destined" cycles of despair, but instead she chose to fall in love with the possibility of Life.
Liz’s Story reads like a harrowing script from a Lifetime Movie (actually it became a Lifetime Movie, Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story. 2003). Liz and her older sister Lisa were born to loving, yet drug addicted parents. Lifestyle after effects of living the glorious 1970's drug and disco era of NYC. By the time she could remember in there family's modest Bronx apartment, her parents addictions were in full swing, but despite it all Liz still found love in their dysfunctional household. Yes, she and sister experienced severe neglect at times at one point sharing a chap stick and toothpaste to not use but eat. Any money that came into the house was to feed her parents addiction. This was all she knew. But, there were still moments of love. Especially while listening to her Mothers own dreams of someday getting clean and creating a better life for them. Those dreams never came to fruition, so at 15, Liz left home after her parents divorce. She got by on friends couches, public stairwells and even sleeping on the subway. She coined this time, Breaking Night (which later would become the title of her Best-Selling Memoir, Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard.). What her friends and her called Staying up all night, actually it was her homelessness. Then at 16 she had the ultimate wake up call, her Mother’s passing from complications of AIDS due to years of drug abuse. Heartbroken, homeless and a High school drop out. She knew that her own Mothers 'One day things will change’ hopes would never come, but Liz still possibly had a chance for hers.
Soon after burying her Mother in a cheap pine box, her life was significantly shaken... with only a journal, her clothes and a photo of her Mother at her own age (who as well experienced homelessness) decided to dream again. When most girls were planning for Prom, Liz was in survival mode and decided she needed to go back to school. Not applying for College, but just finding a high school that would take a girl who was too 'old'. She received so many rejections and at one point she was truly ready to give up. Liz was hungry, tired and defeated. Liz then wrestled with breaking down and using her last money to buy a slice of pizza instead of catching the subway to apply to the last Alternative High School on her list. But, In a pivotal turning point she thought, “What if? Just What if this could my last chance?” So, the slice of pizza/hunger was put off and she chose to take action and the train... and the school did in fact accept her! Then soon after another 'What if' appeared, What if she got straight A's? And She did! What if she applied for a New York Times Scholarship for College? She did and got it! And during this time she was still homeless, but with the love and support of her high school she got through. She found that focusing on what is good, outweighed any struggle. Eventually after people heard her story about receiving the scholarship, letters of encouragement and help even flooded in. Then she pushed her 'What if' even further... What if I apply to Harvard? She did and got in!
Now Liz helps others look, 'For love of Possibility' in every circumstance.Teaching others to embrace the possibility of our own WHAT IF’s. The ultimate reminder that each and everyone one of us has a Potential that is Timeless.
*Liz Murray is a graduate of Harvard (yes!), International best-selling Author, Inspirational Speaker, student of Masters at Columbia University, Researcher and last, but not least: a Mother herself. **Below in the StoryboardC Notes, I have featured all the links to interviews, articles and her amazing TED TALK that inspired this essay.
What I personal have learned from Liz's Story:
Our Potential is Timeless. We all have heard the old saying, “It's never too late...” A lot of us balk how unrealistic it might sound. But, I call total BULLSH*T! What I have learned in my own life in the last year is we make the decision of CAN’T, which is actually more of a WON’T. I won’t do it because... I am afraid of failure or being alone and the list goes on and on. But, You Can do anything you put your mind to and yes it might not work out as you expected. But, you Can try your darnedest and just maybe you might even be surprised that something better comes along:) No effort is ever wasted!
We always have a choice... either to give up or keep going. We all have challenging times. But, even when things seem bleak and hopeless, we still have one thing CHOICE on our side. The Choice to not give up and Keep Going. Liz recently reminded me of The Serenity Prayer (and you Have to check out (here) How a Gift from a Drug Dealer through his own Moral Choice made a lifelong impact on her own life, "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference". I can't change many things in my life or past. But, I can change the little things I do have control over. Turning fear into Action. And making the choice to forgive myself and the past.
Compassionate Forgiveness. The strongest lesson I have learned from Liz is the power of forgiveness. Every time Liz spoke of her Mother Jean her voice would crack with deep compassion and love. There never was one ounce of Judgement or Anger. Reminding me for true Change we must forgive others, our past and even ourselves. I know this is something very hard to do, maybe even the hardest of all human virtues to practice especially when regarding compassionate forgiveness towards our own past indiscretions.
I want to conclude this essay with you beginning to think of your own What if's Right Now. What is the first thing you think of when you wake up? That Heart's desire you want to accomplish. That Dream in your life you have put on the Back Burner. That One day I will do it thing?
The TIME is actually NOW. For the LOVE of POSSIBILITY, Begin.


Thursday, September 23, 2010
Fairy tales and mind games
Years ago, I read 'The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales' by Bruno Bettelheim, a book that discusses and illustrates at length the necessity of grotesque and violent elements in children's fairy tales, and the role of their psychological truths in understanding emotions. More recently, 'Mirrormask' by Neil Gaiman, brought those theories to mind. Mirrormask, while not being one of those ancient fairy tales, functions in a similar way. It's unsettling, because its scenery is exaggerated and symbolic. As if to make a point about this inner landscape being off the map, there are no page numbers. Its characters behave like archetypes in dreams. They express fears and hopes that don't make sense in the real world, because they don't belong to the world of the senses, but rather to the untouchable theatre where emotions play out their eternal battles for supremacy.


The second edition of 'High Potential: How to Spot, Manage and Develop Talented People at Work' by Ian MacRae, Adrian Furnham and Martin Reed is out now!
In a previous article, we discussed the six key personality traits that help us understand how people act and react at work.
The first edition of High Potential: How to spot, manage and develop talented people at work was published in 2014 to provide a framework for identifying, improving and keeping high potential in the workplace. Alongside co-authors Adrian Furnham and Martin Reed, I am excited to release the second edition, which has been updated to answer more of the reader’s questions, and provide a deeper and richer range of real-world examples of spotting, managing and developing high potential at work.
The book covers crucial topics such as understanding high potential personality traits, a detailed analysis of what factors make a good employee or a great leader and insight into why people choose to leave or stay at a company. High Potential is key reading for anyone looking to develop and nurture future talent in the workplace.
It outlines the skills for:
- Clearly understanding and defining potential
- High flying personality traits to look for
- Selecting positive high potential traits and weeding out traits like manipulation, superficial charm or narcissism
- The best assessment and management methods
- Managing high potential employees and developing their careers
So what’s new in the second edition?
More practical tools
High Potential is written to be an engaging and practical book with ideas and tools to be used in the workplace. The second edition puts even greater emphasis on turning ideas into practical and feasible action in the workplace.
Business leaders, HR departments and anyone interested in improving the workplace will find the real-world examples helpful to show how to bring best practice to life.
New examples and case studies
Case studies and profiles of businesses are used throughout the book, using examples from different industries, departments and individuals. The new edition of High Potential introduces even more company profiles and individual case studies including a psychometric profile of a notable world leader, an analysis of the personality of a good leader and examples from business.
Emerging trends explained
The world of work is rapidly changing, and workplace tools and resources are developing at a dizzying pace. Insights from Big Data, new developments in personality testing and behavioural analytics have come a long way in the four years since the first edition of High Potential.
The second edition explore emerging trends in much greater detail, and looks to the technology, techniques and opportunities that are coming down the pipeline and continue to shape and change the world of work.
Increased focus on the High Potential Trait Indicator (HPTI)
Since the High Potential Trait Indicator (HPTI) was introduced in the first edition of High Potential, tens of thousands of people have completed it, and further development has made the HPTI an even stronger tool for identifying and working with high potential in the workplace.
The new edition of High Potential integrates the HPTI into much more of the book’s content, providing a more holistic look at high potential in the workplace and how personality testing can be used effectively in the process.
To find out more about High Potential, or to purchase a copy, please click here.


Physical Education, Sports and Rehabilitation - Sports and Rehabilitation Medicine
The educational discipline which aims to develop the physical competence, knowledge of movement, and safety to use these in a range of activities which promote an active and healthy lifestyle is called physical education. Physical fitness consists of various elements such as strength, endurance, flexibility, cardiovascular fitness and body composition. Physical education promotes the development of confidence and generic skills like communication, collaboration, creativity and critical thinking. It includes the study of conventional games like badminton, football, basketball, etc., as well as modern day sports like fencing and skateboarding. This book is compiled in such a manner, that it will provide in-depth knowledge about the theory and practice of physical education. Most of the topics introduced herein cover new techniques and the applications of this discipline. The book is appropriate for those seeking detailed information in this area.


The Valiant Series is Joanna White’s debut series.
Valiant takes place in a smaller corner of a galaxy that is much bigger than it seems. Each of the first ten books take place on different worlds. Radon has been sent to find people of great power, called the Chosen. They are the only ones who can stop the spread of Corruption from taking over the entire galaxy.
Journey with them as you read each exciting book with these heroes against overwhelming odds. Will they overcome?
Or will darkness consume everything?
Hunter: Book 1 in the Valiant Series
A reckless young woman named Averella does what no woman has ever done.
She disguises herself as a man and purposefully gets herself arrested and thrown into Zagerah. Her brother Gabriel was taken, and with his disease, he will not survive on his own. She has no idea what to expect inside the prison; all she knows is that once men get taken, they never come back.
The Hunters will find her.
Genetically altered to be faster and stronger than humans, the Hunters use their powers to find and kill every prisoner who enters Zagerah. The only ones who can defeat them, are in fact, themselves.
Jared is a Hunter. It’s all he’s known, all he remembers. He kills ruthlessly and without regret, one prisoner after another. When a new prisoner Dalex shows up, everything begins to change. Jared goes undercover to make Dalex and the other prisoners believe he is one of them, a prisoner himself.
No one knows the truth.
He will trick them.
Toy with them.
Then, he will kill them.
PRAISE FOR HUNTER:
“Hunter is a beautiful start to the Valiant Series. Following characters that are both flawed and courageous, the book explores the themes of family, bravery, and redemption.” – Abigail
“I have never read a fantasy book that I could follow, that being said, not only could I follow Hunter, I loved the story! It was easy to see in my mind, picture everything happening, seeing the scenery, the characters. There isnt anything about this book, and thank goodness, series that I would change. Now on to book 2, Shifter!” – Brian Tabatha Robinson
“Now I am hooked! I loved the darkness and oppressiveness of Forgotten and this set the scene for Hunter. Now after reading this new tome, I am ready for Sightless, a short story set between Hunter and Shifter, this latter novel to be released in July, 2019. I am so hooked on this series, I have asked for an Advanced Reader’s Copy of Sightless!” – Perspective by Peter
“This was such a beautiful story of love and forgiveness. It was beautifully written, clean, and had Christian morals. If you love Christian Fiction/Fantasy, this book would be just what you’d be looking for with a little romance that enhances the story.” – LaDonna McCall
Shifter: Book Two in the Valiant Series
Beroan is a shapeshifter, part of the dragon clan. His clan’s Alpha, Sirath, wants to watch the world burn.
For ten long years Sirath has attacked villages, killing thousands of humans and burning towns to the ground. Beroan has had enough, but his resistance will only end in suffering.
Nsi is a human living in a small village with her grandmother and cousin. Her ignorance about the existence of shifters won’t protect her for long. Her family was killed in a dragon attack when she was younger, and now dragons have come again. Now she will stop at nothing until the dragon shifters are stopped, to save humans from suffering the same fate as her family.
Together, Nsi and Beroan will risk everything to save humanity from Sirath.
Darkness is spreading through the galaxy, Corrupting one world after another, and now it has come for theirs. Sirath already belongs to the Corruption of darkness.
He will not stop until he burns down the world and leaves it covered in fire and ash.
PRAISE FOR SHIFTER:
“After reading ‘Hunter’ I was interested in learning more about the Valiant series, and was very excited for the release of ‘Shifter.’ I breezed through the read, because I could not put down the book, and was left wanting more when the story ended.
It did not disappoint!” – James Q. Meservy
“I loved the first book, Hunter. And Shifter was even better” – LaDonna McCall
“This is by far the best out of the Valiant series that has been released. Previous to this has been Forgotten, Hunter, Sightless and now Shifter. Samurai is coming later this year, as long as the publisher accepts it (Come on, Ambassador International, get on board!). This series is very imaginative. Each novel is set on a different planet in the galaxy where Darkness and Corruption are spreading to each world.” – Perspective by Peter
“My review today is on the Christian Fantasy, Shifter. This is a Valiant Novel. I don’t usually read fantasies but I did really enjoy this one. This book is well written and full of colorful characters. There are several twists and turns. I know you will love this one.” – Glenda Parker
Samurai: Book 3 in the Valiant Series
Okada Akari and Sakamoto Megumi just may be two women in over their head.
Okada Akari is a samurai, the daughter of the Chief Advisor to the Emperor of the Sakamoto clan. One day on a mission, she is captured by a mysterious warrior and taken to an enemy camp—an enemy filled with strange, foreign powers the likes of which her world has never seen. What’s worse, a foreign stranger is supplying her enemy with weapons her people cannot hope to fight against. Yet that is only the beginning of her journey, one filled with war and love, sacrifice, and darkness.
Sakamoto Megumi has wanted to be a samurai her entire life. However, as the daughter of the Emperor, training is impossible. When the Emperor is assassinated, she is thrust onto a throne she never wanted. As Empress, she must find a way to become a leader her people will look up to, instead of a weak woman unfit for the throne. Her generals are waiting for her to make a grave mistake. Falling in love with her high general might very well be the mistake they were waiting for.
Corruption has touched worlds before, but this time, it will take more than a few Chosen to stop it before it fills the hearts of everyone around them – even the hearts of their closest friends and allies.
PRAISE FOR SAMURAI:
:”Loved the fight scenes, felt like a movie being played out! Some characters you fall in love with. I can’t wait to see what’s to come next! And will be going to check out the first two! This was my first book by Joanna white and will not be my last!” – Amazon Customer
“The ending is full of suspense, well-paced action, high stakes, and emotion.
Christianity and spiritual warfare are well represented.
The imagery helped me imagine the scenes.
The contrasts of life and death, love and war, and beauty and decay create a story that feels relatable and relevant.
Overall, Samurai is like a beautiful dance and a ferocious battle.” – Scott Pruitt
“This was an action-filled story that was throughly engaging. You’ll love the characters and will want a cup of coffee and tea to be prepared to read it cover to cover.” – Rowan Creech
Assassin: Book 4 in the Valiant Series
Sold into slavery by his own parents at the age of seven, Aidan has spent his life enduring torture and training. Now, as a fully grown man, he is an Assassin. He kills whoever the king wants dead without question or regret.
Until another assassin comes for the king’s daughter. The path to protecting her will only lead to corruption, which has already touched the hearts of many in the entire kingdom. Their love will be the source of their undoing and it starts Aidan down a path of lies and darkness.
Darkness that has already taken root inside his heart.
***This action-packed, romantic new installment to The Valiant Series takes place before Hunter and it’s about the Chosen who started it all.***
PRAISE FOR ASSASSIN:
“I was hooked from the first page. The descriptions of the land and culture added so much to the intrigue of the story line. This is a brilliant read! It pulled me in from beginning and held my attention. The world building is detailed and imaginative. This novel has strong, well developed characters and an interesting story line that keeps you turning the pages.” – RAP-PAR
“Evil and power is such a strong desire for some that they can’t say no to it, then it is to late to turn back. It’s so heart wrenching what this assassin goes through, but there is still a little sliver of good in him. This story will make you think of what God does for us and how much He loves us and wants us to follow and be with Him! I’m rooting for this assassin to prevail and conquer this evil in the next book!” – Ahjumma
Earth. Home to an alien race called Ietons that have enslaved humankind. Growing up as a slave has made Jace believe he’s nothing—just a worthless animal for Ietons like his owner Archer to mistreat. Not only is Jace struggling to make it a day without being brutally punished, but he’s also falling in love with Archer’s daughter. If they’re discovered, death will be the least of Jace’s worries.
When beasts start mounting attacks, Jace is caught in the middle of something much bigger: a war to save earth—to save the entire galaxy. All Jace wants to do is save as many humans like him as possible and the woman he loves. But how can Jace do anything, when he’s only a slave? When he’s just a mortal?
Or is he?
PRAISE FOR MORTAL:
“I think the author is getting better and better at writing. Mortal kept me entertained and wanting to get to the end. Can’t wait for her next book. Immortal!” – Amazon Reviewer
“Great prequel to this series.” – Kathryn
COMING AUGUST 14th, VALIANT BOOK FIVE: ROGUE
Where will the Chosen find themselves next? What does the Darkness have planned? Can they stop it or is it already too late?
Lynia has always dreamed of being a Conclave Mage. To join them, she goes on dangerous jobs with constructs she summons using magical keys.
Lynessa is nothing like her sister. All she wants is a normal life, but she keeps getting dragged into Lynia’s schemes. It doesn’t help that she finds herself attracted to one of the constructs—a being of magic, not flesh.
Along the way, Lynia discovers a mysterious black key, one that summons a rogue mage who is powerful enough to disobey her commands. He also makes her laugh and experience feelings she’s never had before.
But the rogue mage knows more than he’s letting on, and the sisters discover dark secrets that threaten to destroy life as they know it.
Together, they must work to save their world… or watch it be destroyed by darkness.
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Check out some awesome fanart for Hunter submitted by fans of the book:
Jared and Averella, Submitted by: Hannah Rayl
Jared submitted by Anne Zedwick
Jared and Averella Submitted by: Ariel Paiement
And some art I was messing with for Jared and Averella from the website Artbreeder.