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1. This conviction is bad in law, and must be set aside. The Sessions Judge states that the prisoner pleads guilty to the charge, and that the only question is as to what punishment should be allotted. We find in the proceedings no record of the prisoner's plea, as required by Section 237 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, when he pleads guilty. All that we find is a narrative by the Judge of what occurred and of the statements made by the prisoner. We do not find from this, that the charge was explained as well as read to the prisoner (vide Section 237), and we do find that he did not admit one very important element in an offence under Section 211 of the Penal Code, viz., the intention to injure another. The prisoner is said to have represented that he made the false complaint unthinkingly. This certainly does not amount to a plea of guilty.
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Welcome to our main Transformational Village Festival Calendar, showing events in the North & Central American region. We've had to divide the calendar because the movement is growing so rapidly. See our other calendars for more events – International, Flow Arts, Burning Man Regionals and more.
If you know of fests I am missing – let me know! <3 Saphir
Transformational Village Festival or Visionary Village Festival, refers to temporary collaborative villages devoted to cultural transformation or the re-invention of humanity on earth. These events are not your ordinary music concerts. We are building a culture of caring – for each other, ourselves, our neighbors, our planet. These gatherings are collaborative open-sourced villages, devoted to experimentation and inspired co-creation of the world we want to live in. And we believe that YOU, that everyone, has gifts to bring to the table!
"In order to live in a world that we may make possible, a world that is thriving, balanced, peaceful, and just, we all have to engage in the endeavor to become that possibility. We are reaching out to you, because we recognize you as a Social Architect of the Now, offering a particular gift to the collective feast that is laid before us. As we all bring our individual experiences to the table, we each partake in the nourishment of being the co-authors of the greatest story ever told."
~ Jamaica Stevens
There is so much to experience in these villages now!
Check out our article 35 Ways Transformational Festivals Are More Fun!
The 2019 Transformational Village Fests
photo by Fish Makes Photos, Lucidity Festival
will be back next year
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CANTANDO LA VIDA (Singing Alive)
January 24-27, 2019 Finca Amrta, Costa Rica
A sharing and teaching gathering for ceremonial/devotional singing circles. We change the world as we transform ourselves with songs of light, love, peace on earth, and goodwill to all beings! Cantando la Vida is a member of the family of Singing Alive events (also happening in Cascadia, Appalachia and Hawaii) and exists to encourage the remembrance of this deep desire to sing from the heart. It provides resources in the form of 1) songs, 2) the community to sing them, and 3) support for those of us who want to live the teachings, the sadhana, of the songs. We therefore invite all who wish to activate and nurture their spiritual life in this way.
TRIBAL GATHERING (aka GEOPARADISE)
February 15 – March 4, 2019 Panama
Tribal Gathering is more than a festival, it is a place for the world to come together, where time is transcended, ancient and modern converge in symbiotic harmony, shaman manifest spirits of plants as musicians call on the ethos of imagination. Interfaith dialogue blends with a rich heritage of esoteric wellness, creativity, alternative cultures, active participation and love. Ultimately it is where we welcome the divine spirt of dance. Tribal Gathering is a meeting point for indigenous communities from all over the world. It is a gathering of tribes, from the past and present, the global transformational tribe and whoever feels the call to join in the celebrations. It takes place every year over the full moon of February on the Caribbean coast of Panama.
Feb. 28 – May 3, 2019 Uvita, Costa Rica
Come to a magical place where time slows down and the outside world drops away….come dance, play, celebrate, love , learn, teach, co-create, co-inspire and transform our consciousness and our world. With the collaboration of myriad talented allies, both local and international, we aim to co-create an event inspired by and inspiring the positive collective consciousness of all who are involved for the betterment of ourselves and of the planet.
WANDERLUST FESTIVAL Hawaii
February 28 – March 3, 2019, Oahu, Hawaii
Unplug from the ordinary, adventure awaits. At Wanderlust, our mission is to help you find your true north. True north is not a final destination: it's a path, a journey, and a yearning to explore and connect to your life's purpose. Wanderlust Oahu is a four-day yoga, music and food festival at the picturesque Turtle Bay Resort for yogis looking for a sea-escape from the winter blues with sun salutations, surfing and shoreside meditation.
April 12-14, 2019 Live Oak Campground, Santa Ynez, California
Moon's Eye View – From Moon's unique vantage point, she sees all that transpires on our pale blue dot — all our joys and all our pain, all of our creating and all of our destruction. She insists that we must be willing to fearlessly journey into the great unknown if we wish to share such an expanded perspective! Join us in our Kindred Quest to build the world we know is possible!
April 12-14, 2019 Tepoztlan, Morelos. Mexico
These beautiful folks attended our producers alliance in August and produce the first transformational festival we know of in Mexico. They have a beautiful vision of conscious community in collaborative celebration of life, and we encourage your support as they begin the journey of gathering. You will also meet them at Envision and Tribal Alliance; they are family.
April 26-28, 2019 Woodward Reservoir, Oakdale, CA
Celebrating the spring equinox as our planet enjoys another bountiful year and we grow stronger and more connected with each cycle completed. Our vision is a shared goal toward a cleaner, healthier, more organic existence. Serenity is a conscious gathering focused on art and music, experience an array of workshops, activities, and art installations. The body germinates, the mind sprouts, the soul nourishes, and the spirit blooms. We encourage sound and theme camps of all different kinds!
April 26-29, 2019 Los Coyotes Indian Reservation, CA
This isn't just another meaningless party. This is about finding a new kind of freedom. A point where you reach your mental breaking point and come to your specific realization that is meaningful at exactly the right place, exactly the right time, and exactly the stage of life that you are currently in. Desert Hearts is about coming together in love, collectively, individually, and supernaturally. This is about the healing of land and souls. This is about touching heaven, even if only just for a few days. What we are doing is real. It's more real and more true than anything we've ever been privileged enough to be a part of. It's time to wake up, into a dream world where real life is mystically blissful–to a place where we won't ever want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than our wildest dreams. This is what Desert Hearts is all about. We Are All Desert Hearts.
May 8-13, 2019 Buena Vista Lake, Kern County, CA
A celebration of art, music, performance, yoga, sustainability and life, LIB goes beyond any ordinary music festival. LIB is one of the United State's premier award winning events and has earned national recognition as a pioneer in the West Coast's conscious festival movement. With its world-class fusion of electronic music, performance art, spiritual lectures and hands-on workshops, the festival's overarching embodiment of cultural and environmental consciousness creates an atmosphere where attendees from all walks of life can find a way to connect with others as well as themselves.
LEAF FESTIVAL – Lake Eden Arts Festival
May 9-12, 2019 Black Mountain, North Carolina
For 24 years, each May & October an inter-generational family of 12,000 people join together upon the beautiful Lake Eden grounds to experience the power music, art and culture has to transform lives, strengthen community, and foster unity. LEAF Festival takes place on the site of the old Historic Black Mountain College with a stunning array of rolling hills, lakes, streams, and mountain beauty on hundreds of acres of comfortable camping grounds. LEAF scours the globe for artists, musicians, performers and facilitators that are not only masters of their craft, but who also care deeply for the power of arts education and family engagement.
May 9-13, 2019 Joshua Tree, California
Bhakti Fest is the premier yoga, sacred music, and personal growth festival in the United States. Bhakti Fest celebrates the devotional paths of yoga, Kirtan (sacred music), and meditation. Our festival is drug and alcohol free for the evolution of human consciousness through a heart-centered revolution. Bring your yoga mats to idyllic Joshua Tree, located in the beautiful desert region east of Los Angeles. Practice with the best yoga teachers in the world, dance to sacred music by world-renown Kirtan artists, and take workshops with leaders in the field of personal growth. Camp out beneath the stars or stay at one of our many accommodations on and offsite; enjoy the swimming pool and free filtered drinking water; stop in at The Bhakti Family Village and expose your children to other enlightened youth and families; enjoy the best vegetarian food at any festival. We are building community—please join us!
May 16-19, 2019 Joshua Tree, California
The Joshua Tree Music Festivals are produced by a family of friends and funsters convinced that music is the soul of life, and that art enriches and saves lives.
That experience is enhanced when embraced in the great outdoors amongst fellow music lovers. Better still in an intimate setting, where the distinction between artist and audience is blurred, and a passionate performance can be truly relished in close proximity to the stage. Add FREE water to patrons, no service charges on reasonably priced tickets, and well … let the games begin.
June 6-9, 2019 Pinecrest, California
Are you ready to Love? SoulPlay is 4 full days of workshops and activities, including heart-opening connection, invigorating yoga, deep inner reflection and healing, blissful dance, and much more. We will have dozens of workshops to choose from, so you can choose how to explore your edge at your own pace and flavor.
June 13 – 16, 2019 Boulder, Colorado
Escape your ordinary. Come experience a weekend of deep practice, conscious community, & celebration with your favorite teachers like Yogrishi Vishvketu, Saul David Raye, Sianna Sherman, Laura Plumb and enjoy music by Wah!, Girish, Suzanne Sterling, Jaya Lakshmi and Ananda, and many more presenters to be announced! World class teachers. Inspiring music. Lifelong community. Be a part of a powerful movement as we honor the practice of yoga and celebrate life. Join us at:
June 20-24, 2019 Rye, Colorado
Sonic Bloom is a 4-day camping festival that brings live and electronic music, dance, art and human performance together in an atmosphere that inspires open channels of creativity for everyone involved, especially the audience…Together, we will create a resonant field in which to unify all forms of human creative expression. Come participate in our 10th annual festival with some of the highest quality live electronic artists and most cutting-edge producers to create what is an incredibly intimate boutique festival experience… a unified field.
June 20-22, 2019 Geneva, Minnesota
Project Earth has a different mission: To slow it all down and open space for the family to discover more of each other. We have been told by you, that the more intimate setting in the forest is just the right medicine for the Tribal convergence. Its our belief that our community has a lot of powerful connections to make and soul contracts to fulfill. The Planet and all life on her need conscious people now more than ever! We are the ones we have been waiting for… and the time has come for us to rise up. Trust me, no one loves to get their party on more than we do (it's an Irish thing) however… it's our hope to be more sober and clear at this crucial family gathering. No doubt we will be celebrating together and more than a few brews will be shared …let's just ask ourselves to commit to less and trust that it will be so much MORE !!! Respect and Love… see you on the playground soon! xoxo http://www.projectearthfest.com
June 20-23, 2019 Tolland, Massachusetts
Honoring and bringing together different sub-cultures this gathering is a yoga festival, it is a tribal belly dance festival. It is a world and sacred music festival, and dance party, a live art show, a place for ceremony, for permaculture, for sculptural works and circus arts. It is a place to care for the land and to eat organic food, and to be inspired and inspire our kids and our elders.
June 27 – July 1, 2019 Twisp, Washington
Fairy Congress is devoted to promoting communication and co-creation with nature spirits, devas and the faery realms. Are you one of the enchanted ones who speaks, plays and works with the fairy realm, the fae, nature spirits, angels or even dragons? Or are you simply curious and wanting to learn more? People from all walks of life, who want to learn to, set this June weekend aside as their very favorite. Profound teachings affect deep personal change as we work with friends across the veil, to bring LOVE into the planet, all shared with like minded friends who soon become family.
June 28-30, 2019 Ashland, Oregon
By sharing our gifts, supporting one another, and learning with more of the tools that can empower us, we can integrate these new lifestyle choices while enjoying ecstatic music & Edutainment! "It is possible that the next Buddha will not take the form of an individual. The next Buddha may take the form of a community – a community practicing understanding and loving kindness, a community practicing mindful living. This may be the most important thing we can do for the survival of the earth."
July 1-7, 2019 Location TBA the week before
The Rainbow Family gathers every year in the National Forests of North America, always during the week of July 1-7. The peak of the Gathering on July 4 begins with morning silence, broken by a community prayer for world peace and followed by a full day of (acoustic) music, dancing, feasting, and celebration. The event runs on the principle of communal collaboration with everyone bringing and giving what they have. Food is donated to the many kitchens that are responsible for feeding the Gathering, free of charge. The use of money is taboo, and prohibited items include alcohol, firearms, and sound amplifiers.
July 12-15, 2019 Merritt, BC, Canada
The rich culture that surrounds our music is a creative community of artists, scientists, designers, yogi's, environmentalists, freedom fighters, business minds, intellectuals, party-goers, poets and dancers. We believe the Bass Coast community is a supportive environment where we hope to inspire each participant to find deeper layers of themselves.
July 12-14, 2019 Veneta, Oregon
The Oregon Country Fair has 17 stages featuring hundreds of world class entertainers and performers, hand craft artisans and gourmet food creators lining up to provide, once again, an experience unequaled in the festival world. Dress up and come ready to participate in a time-of-your-life cultural immersion that nourishes the spirit. Explore living artfully and authentically on Earth, and transform culture in magical, joyous and healthy ways. The Oregon Country Fair creates a world unlike any other in a magical wooded setting.
July 18-24, 2019 Springville, California
Join Elements third annual tribal consciousness gathering! If you've ever felt that SOMETHING is missing in your life, you could be missing your TRIBE! Elements brings together top instructors in Ancestral skills to awaken your instincts. 3,000 year-old sequoia trees create a truly magical setting as we come together at a 5,000 year-old traditional gathering place of native peoples. Make a basket, start a fire by rubbing sticks together, sing and dance, camp and connect with your community. Live music around the campfire every evening. Fantastic kids program, too!
July 19-22, 2019 Piercy, CA
Northern Nights is a one-of-a-kind festival located in Cook's Valley campground in the red woods of Northern California. It is a transformative music festival with yoga, workshops, three stages and a silent disco, art, fashion, hammock lounges, a very special cannabis expo, and so much more!
July 19-22, 2019 Salem Oregon
In devotion to song, ceremony & heart felt communion with the healing plant Kin-dom. This gathering is intended to develop and strengthen 'medicine culture' thru the healing arts of holistic education, song-sharing, life-as-ceremony, and supportive community. It recognizes 'medicines' as the force of nature that cures dis-ease, that takes us from being sick to being free. This event aligns more with 'deep herbalism', which cultivates a relationship thru plants to the healing presence of Nature, a pro-active approach to health, and less with the 'shallow herbalism' of 'take the tincture and make the symptoms go away', a greener version of the pharmaceutical model. It acknowledges plants as elders in the society of nature as it exists on planet earth, and therefore teachers to the adolescent human species. As such, they can keep us aligned with the healthy functioning of the planetary metabolism, mirrored in our own inner and social ecologies. Plants enChant is intended to honor and give space for their wisdom, to activate our abilities to receive it, and put this guidance into practice.
July 19-21, 2019 Moncton, NB
"This festival has decided to say from its inception, 'How can we get as many people turned on to living in a way that's connected with the planet, as much as we possibly can?" —Michael Franti
Evolve is an annual 3-day summer celebration of music, culture, and social awareness. From its start in 2000 as a grassroots music and awareness festival featuring local bands, the festival has grown to showcase world-class performers from around the globe. Evolve also plays host to workshops that inform spectators about social issues such as personal wellbeing and environmental awareness.
July 24-28, 2019 Artemas, Pennsylvania
Big Dub Festival is the crossroads where great music & festivities meets human interaction. There are multiple stages of music with entertainment throughout each night until 6am, daily workshops, drum circles, bonfires, yoga, and more.
CASCADIA NW Arts and Music Festival
July 23-28, 2019 Granite Falls, Washington State
Extraordinary Possibilities : Explorations in Art, Music & Nature. In true NW style, we create our festival together and are seeking diverse participation from our region and beyond. Three days of camping with music, art, workshops, performances & artisan vending at the beautiful Masonic Family Campgrounds in Granite Falls Washington! One hour NE of Seattle.
August 2-4, 2019 Loveland, Colorado
The multi-genre music festival offers 7 stages of world class performances ranging from funk, reggae, bluegrass, jam, hip-hop, rock, electronic, folk to conscious roots music. Other primary attractions include all day offerings of yoga, workshops, art, film, activism, a renowned Children's Village, and all the fun and co-creative excitement that can be packed into a 3-day camping festival. All told, ARISE will feature well over 200 scheduled performances and presentations throughout.
August 9-12, 2019 Salmo, BC, Canada
Shambhala Music Festival was born from a vision as grassroots as it gets. On a sunny Labour Day weekend back 1998, some 500 people gathered at the Salmo River Ranch for a party that showcased local art and music. Since those early, heady days, Shambhala grew with enthusiasm by word of mouth, quickly becoming a staple event for the West Coast underground electronic music scene. Today it attracts world renowned DJs and artists and some of the most eclectic, energetic fans in the universe. Shambhala is built on Shambhalove which shines bright to this day.
August 9-12, 2019 Tidewater, Oregon
Beloved is a model for a culture that understands the depth of our connection with each other, to the planet, and to our souls. Beloved is all of the names and forms of the Divine, affirming their Unity.
We respectfully present sacred music from diverse global traditions; and see conscious dance music as fitting into the broader context of sacred and healing music. We also host interactive art installations, live painting, local organic cuisine, and workshops on yoga, healing, relationships, social and environmental justice, and the music and wisdom of ancient cultures. Our goal is to dissolve the boundaries that isolate us through music, dance, and play. We demand of ourselves that we deepen our own connection to, and respect for, the earth and that we educate and inspire participants to do the same.
SYMBIOSIS OREGON ECLIPSE NEXT in Dec 2020 Patagonia!
Dates and Location TBA
Symbiosis Gathering: Family Tree will not only be a time for celebrating the reunion of families and memories from past years, but will serve as a precursor for what may be the burgeoning brand's most important event to date: Symbiosis Gathering Oregon Eclipse 2017. On August 21st, 2017, a total solar eclipse will be visible over a small strip of land in the United States. Having secured a beautiful site situated in the direct path of the eclipse, Symbiosis will partner with revered international festival organizers to co-create an event unlike any in the world.
August 23-25, 2019 Hornings Hideout, North Plains, Oregon
We believe that the revitalizing, healing and transforming spirit of faerie is alive and moving actively in our lives: faerie inspires and provokes, heals and reveals, illuminates and transcends. At Faerieworlds, we invite you to enter the Realm as your magical self and release the beautiful, magical faerie spirit that's inside you! Array yourself in your best faerie finery! Join us and find new friends and discover wonderful enchantments of art, music and dance. Surrender to the glamour of faerie and let your heart and spirit soar in the woodland and under the stars!
August 25-Sept 2, 2019 Black Rock City, Nevada
Once a year, tens of thousands of participants gather to create Black Rock City in Nevada's Black Rock Desert, dedicated to community, art, self-expression, and self-reliance. They depart one week later, having created unbelievable artistic experiences, and having left no trace whatsoever.
Our intention is to generate society that connects each individual to his or her creative powers, to participation in community, to the larger realm of civic life, and to the even greater world of nature that exists beyond society. We believe that the experience of Burning Man can produce positive spiritual change in the world. The touchstone of value in our culture will always be immediacy: experience before theory, moral relationships before politics, survival before services, roles before jobs, embodied ritual before symbolism, work before vested interest, participant support before sponsorship. And we will always burn the Man.
September 11-16, 2019 Joshua Tree, California
Bhakti Fest is a four day music festival celebrating devotion through chanting, yoga, meditation and community. The Center for Spiritual Studies Inc, Bhakti and Shaktifest's Non-Profit Organization is a social enterprise dedicated to supporting collective evolution, and has raised funds for several causes and charities over the past 44 years. All of our presenters embody the spirit of Bhakti – deep devotion. We gather on 450 acres of inspiring desert land to express our love and devotion as one community through an enchanting array of activities.
September 12-15, 2019 Orcas Island, Washington
In this age of immense change our entire culture is being reevaluated. In this unprecedented time of intellectual and spiritual freedom we have the opportunity to create a brand new way of thinking and feeling. One day at a time we are discovering a new language for interacting. One moment at a time we are inventing new ways to celebrate.
So we invite you dear friends to join us in a grand celebration. Draw upon ancient wisdom, set some deep intention and with a bit of tech wizardry we hope to offer a heart opening experience to all. By sharing in the art and music of our community we strive to create pockets of peace emanating deep vibrations of love to the rest of the planet. May we be part of a peaceful revolution.
September 20-22, 2019 Lake Wales, Florida
2016 is a landmark year for deep peace-making and true environmental stewardship: a Global Shift is underway. Our international, cross-generational tribe of evolutionaries transcends national borders and divisions through the universal language of music, as we empower people and catalyze institutions. Together we are building a peaceful and sustainable world. Come Celebrate Earthdance Global's 20th Year Anniversary of Giving Peace a Dance.
October 17-20, 2019 Black Mountain, North Carolina
LEAF Festival celebrates 20 years of connecting cultures and creating community through music and arts. This kid-friendly setting (with childcare available) is perfect for family and friends to be a part of something greater, as the twice-year festival funds arts education programs for youth locally in Asheville, NC and globally in 10 countries. Enjoy a dynamic array of arts across 5 stages and 7 interactive villages that includes music, dance, healing art, visionary art, folk art, handcrafts, fire-spinning, poetry, puppetry and so much more. Let the energy flow as you align your body, mind and spirit with more than 50 healing arts workshops, hiking, biking, swimming and canoeing. The powerful setting of this intimate festival is the original site of Black Mountain College, where the first geodesic dome was constructed. Feel the connectivity at this family-friendly lake setting, nestled against the majestic Blue Ridge Mountains with plenty of room to explore your surroundings…or yourself.
New Years Eve Dec 30, 2019 – Jan 2, 2020 Lake Atitlan, Guatemala
Ready for an amazing adventure? Spend New Year's in Guatemala, gather on the shores of Lake Atitlan, under the watchful protection of a living volcano, dance to your favorite beats, study permaculture, make new friends with indigenous locals, and take home memories to last a lifetime. A convergence of past, present, and future, the objective is to expose the attendees to ancestral and post-industrial ways of living to provoke a shift in consciousness to rethink what lifestyles are possible in post-2012 reality. Including Psy Family Guatemala, with the primordial objective of the expansion of our consciousness until we reach levels of cosmic meditation in movement, influenced by the most high rhythm frequencies of primitive sounds, ultrasonic and psychedelic. The gathering forms part of an ongoing international tribal revival.
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OM REUNION presents SOLSTICE GATHERING
June TBA 2019 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Solstice is a week-long intentional gathering in the forest of Southern Ontario. Drawn by the summer sun, we camp, laugh, eat and dance at our temporary home in the woods. Sweetly anticipated by its community for the opportunity to gather, journey, love, stargaze, sunbathe, and more. https://solsticegathering.ca/
July 2019 TBA Texada Island, BC, Canada
Drawn from both inside and outside the community, artists, composers, bands, performers and participants from across the continent and beyond will converge for a weekend celebration of creative culture. The name says it all. A place where you can be you. Diversity Festival.
August 2019 TBA Golden, BC, Canada
Come be part of an exploration of electronic music, art, nature, and the infinite in the heart of Rocky Mountains near Golden BC, Canada. Motion Notion has always been something off the beaten path and a thing of discovery and amazement for all. Welcome to freedom and growth!
September TBA Astral Lights, Missouri
A Music and Art Experience featuring performances from some of the most cutting edge musicians and visual artists leading the way in their respective fields. Hoodie Salinas will share his true genius creating land art sculpture and stage design. Apex Collective will be painting all weekend, displaying their work, and also providing the backdrop for several art projection mapping concepts in conjunction with our VJ's. Datagrama's team will also once again projection map the main stage field trees each evening after closing. With Sunrise Sets, the late night Stargaze Stage situated in the Stargaze Field camping zone, and the very beautiful and rustic venue that is Astral Valley to explore each day with its caves, natural spring fed watering holes and showers, this experience and location promises to become a new favorite on the festival calendar.
October TBA Tumacácori, AZ
Experience the progressive and innovative lifestyle of a fully functioning EcoVillage – tours, live Global Change Music, food, art, kid's village, pony rides, and speakers on sustainability.
Avalon Organic Gardens & EcoVillage.
November TBA Ojai, Calif.
The One Love Experience is a three-day music festival that takes place at the idyllic Lake Casitas Recreation Area in Ojai, California on Oct. 7-9. The transformational festival blends a sensational array of musical talent with leading spiritual gurus and speakers of the modern day consciousness movement. Musical acts such as Matisyahu, Trevor Hall Band, and David Starfire take to the stage while thought leaders like David Wilcock, Yogi Cameron, and Gay and Katie Hendricks enlighten attendees through their workshops. The intention of One Love Experience is the celebrate life and humanity, together we can achieve a high vibrating state of love that create waves of positivity in the world.
October TBA Los Coyotes, CA
This isn't just another meaningless party. This is about finding a new kind of freedom. A point where you reach your mental breaking point and come to your specific realization that is meaningful at exactly the right place, exactly the right time, and exactly the stage of life that you are currently in. Desert Hearts is about coming together in love, collectively, individually, and supernaturally. This is about the healing of land and souls. This is about touching heaven, even if only just for a few days. What we are doing is real. It's more real and more true than anything we've ever been privileged enough to be a part of. It's time to wake up, into a dream world where real life is mystically blissful–to a place where we won't ever want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than our wildest dreams. This is what Desert Hearts is all about. We Are All Desert Hearts.
November TBA Orlando, Florida
Zen Awakening is a transformational, music and arts festival. Featuring Celebrity DJ's, Bands, Yoga, Meditation, Spiritual Teachers, Holistic Teachers, Cirque Performers, Flow Dancers, Drum Circle, Group Chants, Fire Performers, Central Fire, Healing Sanctuary, Workshops, Theme Campsites, Permaculture, Kirtan, Camping, Organic Food Vendors and Art Installations.
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Forest Dance is a Healing and Expressive Art Ceremonial Fire Circle Gathering. Come join our family as we share in deep and profound celebration of our lives together on sacred land, in the hills of Costa Rica. Where the scent of the wild flowers and the sound the Cicada, remind us just how alive we can be together. Our facilitators and teachers will guide the circle on a profound journey helping us to access and reclaim our own core, our inspiration, and our connection to nature. Forestdance is a ceremonial gathering, a rite of passage. This gathering is so profound, so beautiful, that it has shaped a community. It has reignited passions for so many talented people, reclaiming inspiration, and has shown an alternative way to co-exist that many of us have stopped dreaming about long ago.
May 17-20. 2018 Spirit Crossing, TN
Kinnections are intimate gatherings designed to inspire and connect people through the synthesis of ancient tribal traditions and modern visionary culture. The Kinnection intention is to cocreate a tight, intimate container where people can come learn, grow, and celebrate all in the same space. The focus of these events is personal growth as well as collective evolution. We seek to create more than just a party. Kinnections bring the yummiest vibes and create a real sense of community where people are free to relax and be themselves. Come to a Kinnection to truly connect with yourself and others. The goal is to leave knowing everyone's name and to feel inspired and equipped to take the next step in your life. http://www.kinnectioncampout.org/
May 26-28,2017 Bloomingdale, Michigan
Three Days of Light presents: The Spring Emergence Experience is a small, intimate gathering, with only 500 tickets being made available. Part Festival/Part Retreat/Party Summer Camp, 100% INSPIRATION! ACTIVATION! CELEBRATION! Laugh, dance, sing, play. Learn, teach, grow expand! The Emergence Experience is a SAFE, WHOLESOME space for our ENTIRE family to open up and embrace our highest conscious self!
INLAKESH Sacred Ceremony, Music, Art & Dance Gathering
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Get ready to shift into a more exalted and expanded state at the second annual Inlakesh Sacred Ceremony, Music, Art and Dance gathering. Come join us at the sacred meadow and Casbah stage on the grounds of Jackson Wellsprings healing hot springs spa. Included in the sacred ceremonies from around the world at Inlakesh will be Sufi Zikr, Tea Ceremony, Pagan Goddess rituals, Healing Circles, Cacao Ceremony, Living Tarot, Sweat Lodge, and an Aloha camp sacred fire music circle. Sacred dance will include Sufi dancing, Ecstatic dance, African dance, as well as your own unique dance to the sounds of our amazing musicians. We will also feature some epic visionary artists, soothing sound healers, and uplifting workshops. Enjoy the hot soaking pool, sauna, and steam bath late into the night and some of the finest vegetarian and super foods on the planet. We look forward to rising up together to create a communal prayer to heal ourselves and radiate this energy to the whole world!
INSHALA FESTIVAL Hiatus 2018?
June Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada
Join us for this transformational festival, as we step into a new cycle of Creation & Celebration. Experience an extensive lineage of inspired Conference workshops; Connect and dance with a variety of local and international music performers. Enjoy the family friendly activities for all ages and interests. Inshala 8 – "Rebirth"
July La Patrie, Quebec, Canada
OpenMind is a Transformational eco-gathering that celebrates life through ecstatic celebration and intentional well-being. It's an invitation and reunification to harmonious communities from all corners of the globe, to share these inspiring celebrations of life in a wondrous natural paradise!
LUMINOSITY GATHERING Hiatus 2018?
July 14-17, 2017 Sunshine Coast, BC, Canada
Deep within the enchanted temperate rainforest of the Sunshine Coast, a luminescent seed has been resown. Join us in cultivating our third annual gathering in a fertile new environment. We bring to the BC west coast a carefully selected collection of cutting edge musicians, artists, teachers, and visionaries from around the globe. We offer you the chance to experience a taste of the next level paradigm in a synesthesiac environment of future psy frequencies, visionary aesthetics, conscious learning, community connection, and much more! Together we will co-create an intimate west coast experience like no other!
July 14-16, 2017 Keansburg, New Jersey
You're invited to enter a world where life becomes art and dreams become reality, set on an idyllic, undiscovered beach remarkably close to New York City. A seaside oasis where dreams turn into reality, with others who share the same vision of creativity, culture and connection. A gathering of open-minded spirits communing in music, dance, art, performance, technology, environmentalism, yoga, spirituality, family, and… connection.
July Lolo Hot Springs, Montana
PORTAL Music Festival is a Transformational Festival, offering three days to live, play and co-create with powerful healing workshops and all night music. PORTAL is a journey of intentional activation, joining the 'sacred' and 'creative'. PORTAL is a participatory all arts festival, a chance to to immerse ourselves in a magically creative world.
ATMOSPHERE GATHERING No 2018 Dates
August 18-20, 2017 Cumberland, BC
Nestled in the "legendary" mountain town of Cumberland, a growing village of independent entrepreneurs, herbalists, mountain bikers, young families… and good ol' boys, the community is a huge part of the festival, providing a wonderful backdrop to Atmosphere Gathering's collection of live and electronic elements. Enjoy inspiring sounds from across the musical spectrum, artistic wonders, contemporary dance performances and stimulating workshops.
PEACE VILLAGE FESTIVAL No 2018 Dates
August 19-21, 2017 Jackson WellSprings, Ashland, Oregon
The 9th annual Peace Village Festival takes place August 14th-16th, 2014, at Jackson WellSprings Hot Mineral Springs Resort, just north of Ashland, Oregon. This is Southern Oregon's Premier Peace, Music, and Arts Festival! The two stages feature an eclectic mix of music, including world beat, reggae, rock, folk, americana, kirtan, electronic, and more. With workshops, speakers, yoga & movement classes, an artisans' village, ecstatic dance, gourmet vegetarian food, a kid village, and a healing sanctuary, there is truly something for everyone. In addition there are altars and ceremonies, and a goddess temple. The venue's hot soaking pool, extra large warm swimming pool, sauna, and steam bath are open late during the event. With it close proximity to Interstate 5, Peace Village Festival is easy to access from all over the Western United States. This is an alcohol and drug free event that is fun for the whole family.
GREAT NORTH FESTIVAL Hiatus??? Defunct?
Sept. 8-10, 2017 Norridgewock, Maine
Featuring a wide range of national and regional music acts , along with some of the most renowned visionary artists in the world, including our main featured artist Alex Grey! This is our second year, being held September 19th through the 21st of 2014 at the BEAUTIFUL Last Breath Farm in Norridgewock, Maine. Please join us!


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text: Angel Time (Knopf), the first volume in Rice's new cycle, Songs of the Seraphim, focuses on Toby O'Dare, an ambivalent assassin who enjoys reading history and practicing the lute on the side. Just after he completes a big hit, Toby is recruited by an angel to return to thirteenth-century England to save an innocent Jewish couple from execution by a village mob. During his time-traveling quest, Toby seeks and finds salvation and redemption. The violence-drenched backstory of why Toby crossed over to the dark side veers delightfully into vintage Rice but has little relevance to the medieval subplot. Rice's vampires left an indelible mark, but fans of Lestat & Co. may find this new undertaking a little lacking in bite.


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Handling Unsupported Formats
At the time of this writing, the audio and video elements in different browsers don't necessarily all support the same types of audio and video. The reason a particular browser doesn't support a particular format might be due to the age of the format, competition with an endorsed format, or patent restrictions that the browser's parent company doesn't want to deal with. Media tags have several methods to deal with this.
Listing Multiple Sources
Instead of specifying a single source, the developer can choose to list multiple sources to let the browser choose the appropriate one to use. The following snippet lists two sources for a video tag and the fallback message if neither format is supported or the browser doesn't support the video tag.
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Although listing multiple sources is an option for a static page, it's not great for applications with dynamic content. For those instances, using the tool Modernizr is recommended. We'll discuss Modernizr in more detail in Chapter 2, but consider this a primer.
Using Modernizr
Checking support for a particular format is slightly different. Verifying support for MP3 files is done by checking the value of Modernizr.audio.mp3, but the value returned isn't true or false. The HTML5 spec states that the browser should return its confidence level that it can play the format. The return value will be "probably," "maybe," or an empty string. When we use Modernizr.audio.mp3 in a conditional clause, any non-empty value is treated as true and the empty string is treated as false.
CSS3 doesn't fit the scope of this book, and readers are encouraged to explore the specification if they are interested in it. Like HTML5, CSS3 extends its predecessor (CSS2) by adding new features and codifying previous proposals, such as web fonts and speech, which were introduced in previous versions but not widely supported. A useful website for further information is http://www.css3.info.
HTML5 Drawing APIs
An interesting area of the HTML5 spec is the new drawing APIs. Canvas, SVG, and WebGL provide bitmapped, vector, and three-dimensional drawing capabilities, respectively.
The canvas element started its life as an Apple extension to Webkit, the layout engine powering Safari and Chrome, to display Dashboard gadgets and additions to the Safari browser. It was later adopted by Opera, Firefox, and related browsers, eventually becoming a component of the HTML5 specification. The beta release of Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) has brought native support to all major browsers, although support in IE9 is not as complete as the aforementioned browsers.
The canvas element can be most simply described as a drawable region with height and width attributes using JavaScript as the medium to draw and animate complex graphics such as graphs and images. A full set of 2D drawing functions is exposed by the JavaScript language. Given the close relationship between JavaScript and ActionScript, a Flash drawing or animation using ActionScript can be easily ported to JavaScript with only moderate effort. Canvas will be covered in more detail in Chapter 5, "Creating Games with the Canvas Tag."
SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) is a mature W3C specification for drawing static or animated graphics. The ability to inline SVG without the use of an object or embed tag was added in HTML5. Vector graphics use groupings of mathematics formulas to draw primitives such as arcs, lines, paths, and rectangles to create graphics that contain the same quality when rendered at any scale. This is a marked benefit over images whose discernible quality degrades when they are displayed at a scale larger than that for which they were designed.
Conveying Information with Microdata
A web application or API parsing a page can interpret HTML marked up with microdata and respond to it. For instance, a search engine that returns results marked up with microdata could be parsed by a browser extension or script to better present the data to a visually impaired or colorblind user. Microformats are a preceding concept that serves the same goal. One key difference between microformats and HTML5 microdata is the way that the data is denoted. As shown in Listing 6, microformats use the class property of an object to indicate the fields on an object.
Listing 6: hCard Microformat Example

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Microdata uses the same concept with slightly different notation. Instead of marking properties using classes, the itemprop keyword is used. The keyword itemscope marks an individual unit. At its core, microdata is a set of name/value pairs composed into items. Listing 7 shows a microdata example. The itemtype property indicates a definition of the object and specifies valid properties. You could use microdata to encode the names and scores on a leader board page or instructions and screenshots from a game.
Listing 7: Microdata Example
<p itemprop="address" itemscope
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HTML5 marks a groundbreaking change in how we interact with the browser. This excerpt highlighted the major additions that apply to our needs. You learned how Google Chrome Frame brings HTML5 features to IE browsers as well as the multiple ways to draw assets.
In exploring HTML5, in addition to its drawing APIs, you learned about features that allow you to run computationally heavy tasks without blocking the browser, setting up bidirectional communications channels between applications, and enabling offline execution of applications.
You can download chapter code at www.informit.com/title/9780321767363.
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Mount Kelly UK is a fully co-educational School for children aged between 3 and 18 which offer day, flexi and full boarding. The school can trace its root back in 1860 and was officially established in October 1877. Mount Kelly UK has growing steadily and flourished in both reputation and today the student number is slowly approaching 600 In 2017 Mount Kelly Overseas (MKO) have been established which is a stand-alone business that remit to open a number of International Mount Kelly campuses in different market across the globe with the first venture in Hong Kong and second venture in Malaysia.
With the strategic location, on the edge of Dartmoor National Park, Mount Kelly UK provides an outstanding range of opportunities beyond the classrooms to broadening and developing pupils' experience in a structured and safe environment. Mount Kelly has a well-deserved reputation for exceptional pastoral care. It is important that every child feels that they are listened to, supported and nurtured.
To produce a well-rounded student, Mount Kelly UK is maximizing the ability of every child. Therefore, sports, clubs & activities, music, and drama are given as much importance as academics. With the globally recognised swimming programme, Mount Kelly UK has produced outstanding Olympic representatives since 1980. This programme has helped to develop, coach and educate some of the finest swimmers in United Kingdom for more than 35 years. During this period, Mount Kelly has produced more than 80 International Swimmers, of which, 28 competed at the Olympic and Commonwealth Games, winning 5 Olympic and 9 Commonwealth medals respectively. Among the various famous alumni we have Dawn Airey, CEO at Getty Images, Lord Owen, former Foreign Secretary and Leader Of SDP, novelist and former ITN correspondent Gerald Seymour and many more.
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Mount Kelly School Hong Kong is the first overseas branch school for Mount Kelly Overseas in Asia. It is conveniently located in the heart of Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon which is the most vibrant business district in Hong Kong and has started its operation in 2017. As the first member of the Mount Kelly foundation, MKSHK is bringing an outstanding British curriculum developed over the course of 140 years to Hong Kong.
The Austine Place accommodates Babies & Toddlers (6 – 36 months) and International Preschool children (3-6 years old); Whereas The Austin Tower accommodates Preparatory School and College students (Year 1-8).
Mount Kelly seamless transition enable students to transfer between the schools. Hence, MKSHK students are able to continue their studies in Mount Kelly UK after their Year 8 studies. A key feature of MKSK co-curricular offering is Shackleton programme. It is a hugely successful programme developed at Mount Kelly UK, focused on nurturing leadership, practical skills and teamwork.


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There is a plethora of prefabricated (off-the-shelf) wheelchair back supports on the market today. As a clinician, recommending the correct type of back support is only half the battle. Together with your equipment specialist (e.g. RTS, ATP, and/or manufacturer representative) you also need to make sure it is sized and set up appropriately to meet your client's needs.
In 1995, when Gabriel was 11 years old, he sustained a complete spinal cord injury (SCI) at the T3-T4 level as the result of a bicycle accident.
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The cover title of this book may be somewhat confusing for those not familiar with this field. The author is not referring to bilharzial involvement of the small and large intestine but to infection with the blood fluke, Schistosoma mansoni. The 20 chapters of the book, 3 of which were written by other experts (C. J. Schiff, V. de V. Clarke, E. Lee Husting) from the same area of Africa as the principal author, attempt to cover the entire field but do so rather superficially. As stated in the title, the monograph is essentially concerned with the clinical aspects of
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Mercedes-Benz's iconic G-Class will get its very first full redesign because the nameplate's launch. Despite its remaining power, the G-Class came very near to meeting its demise just a few years earlier. Mercedes had even released last edition models in some markets and was prepared to kill off the icon, but strong need from the United States, Russia and China– thankfully– encouraged the automaker to reverse course.
Our newest spy shots reveal exactly what seems the same boxy G-Class that's been with us– in civilian form– given that 1979, but if you look a little closer you'll notice major distinctions. In fact, Mercedes informs us that the revamped G-Class will have simply one exterior part in common with its predecessor.
2019 Mercedes-Benz G-Class Design
The prototype is significantly larger than the current G-Class, with our professional photographer telling us there's close to 4.0 inches of extra girth. Elements like the windshield, hood and grille are all visibly wider than on the present model.
The wider body and matching broader track has actually been adopted in order to accommodate brand-new suspension that aims to enhance stability on and off the roadway while also enhancing interior space. At the very same time, the brand-new model's body is much shorter. This can plainly be seen in shots where both the model and existing G-Class are present.
Another essential modification should be the increased use of aluminum and high-strength steel in the building and construction to help reduce weight, perhaps cutting the current model's 5,665-pound curb weight by as much as 440 pound. There need to also be the latest from the Mercedes technology portfolio consisting of new driver-assist features, electronic power steering, and an innovative infotainment system.
Regardless of the modifications, the brand-new G-Class should remain as rugged as ever. For example, the trip height does not seem changing and it appears like a live axle remains at the back. We 'd also anticipate a long-term four-wheel-drive system, decrease transfer case, and 3 differential locks to stay.
Among the primary factors for the style overhaul is stricter emissions guidelines. Therefore we might wind up seeing some more fuel-efficient choices in the powertrain department consisting of a possible plug-in hybrid setup.
2019 Mercedes-Benz G-Class Engine
Mercedes' brand-new inline-6 engines are expected to be used though in the United States a V-8 engine must feature mainly. Of course, Mercedes-AMG options will still be on deal, as they currently represent more than 50 percent of G-Class sales worldwide.
2019 Mercedes-Benz G-Class Release Date
The new G-Class is anticipated to hit the market in 2018, as a 2019 model. Its arrival will coincide with the 40th anniversary of the G-Class nameplate. A colony Rover Defender is because of arrive about the exact same time, therefore keeping the competition between the ultimate utilities alive.
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Nike officially unveils the 2013 Year of the Snake Collection. The Chinese new year is upon us and with that brings a celebration and Nike has chosen to do that in a big way. The official collection boasts 8 pieces (mambas original number) and all will be themed around the serpent that is that animal of the year. Hit the jump for detailed photos as well as info on the entire lineup.
Things start off with 3 versions of the Zoom Kobe 8 including a special off court version of the shoe. The ZK8 "Black Mamba" embraces Kobe's nickname and seamlessly translate his slick movements into buckets, all while dressed in black snakeskin throughout. The ZK8 "Danger" features a red Engineered Mesh upper forged in a came print and was chosen to be bright red in order to alert on comers to the impending destruction ahead. The Zoom Kobe 8 "EXT" is an off court example for the mamba to relax in, choosing to swap out performance intended EM for a more casual Vac-Tech upper that features blue and gold accenting against a predominantly red upper that reminds people to still proceed with caution despite mamba being away from the dojo.
The Air Force 1 collection also features a 3 pack of shoes to celebrate the special year. The pack features ene high and two low versions paying homage to the Chinese new year in different ways. The Air Force 1 Low CMFT is the more colorful option receiving a red upper with alternating snake to suede paneling. The outsole and liner use purple as a contrast and all of this sits on a very unique snake skin midsole. The Air Force 1 High CMFT version features mostly black for the base, but uses an authentic looking snake print for the toe box. Black and blue snake print makes up the mid panel and strap, while a red snake is used for the Swoosh. The pack comes complete with a Nike Air Force 1 Foamposite that is dressed in a 100% black snake upper that is sure to make you moan — in a good way.
The final two pieces featured a special Nike Zoom Huarache 2k4 and Destroyer Jacket to add some gear to the footwork. The 2k4 boasts some authentic details like in the rear of the shoe, which shows off a menacing pair of snake eyes (no dice). The all red shoe is accompanied by red snakeskin on the toe cap and heel, as well a set of fangs that peek out of the air ducts that are a staple of the 2k4 design. The Destroyer Jacket is black with hits of purple and gold, and features the writing "YEAR OF THE BLACK MAMBA" on the weatherproof strip.
Keep it locked in at Modern Notoriety for full release details on the entire collection. The Year of the Snake Collection also features many other goods like T-shirts and warm-ups, all of which can be found on Nike.com along with the rest of the pack when it releases. Let us know which pieces are a must have for you in the comments section below.
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Somone mentioned to me a while back that I should consider selling some of my thrift store finds, and at the time it wasn't so appealing (why would I want to sell them if I liked them so much?). :) I got to thinking how I wouldn't just have to sell my clothing, but offer other cute skirts that may not be my style or size. Of course they must be modest, modern, (no "old ladyish" pleated skirts from the 70s and 80s!) feminine, high quality name brands, and only in like-new, gently worn condition.
Just today I added two skirts and will be putting more up in the near future. Yes, the free shipping code can be used on them until mid-night tonight!


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I've been waiting for a moment like this all season to sit there and go 'that is the standout team in League One'. On Saturday that happened.
I've been waiting for a moment like this all season to sit there and go 'that is the standout team in League One'.
On Saturday that happened.
Luton Town might not have played the prettiest of football; it might not have been as explosive as some of the football we have seen from Fleetwood Town in the wins over Doncaster Rovers and Scunthorpe United.
But I left Highbury thinking if Mick Harford's side are to win League One, then they would be worthy winners.
As champions-elect they had everything; steel, confidence, quality and skill.
From the way Alan McCormack ran the middle of the park to Matty Pearson's brilliance at the back and across the board, you could see from the off why this confident crop are top of the pile.
Speaking pre-match, Joey Barton had wanted to test his Town players against the best in the division and see where they are at.
Ironic then that, at 2-0 down, it was a chance for him to trial something new and it might just have been what we have been looking for all season; Lewie Coyle in central midfield.
Barton had thrown Wes Burns straight back in after his absence for Ash Hunter with Jason Holt in for the injured James Wallace.
There had been questions as to whether Burns would be full-back or forward given his performances in Coyle's three-match suspension.
However, after the Leeds United loanee got his shirt back due to Burns' ankle knock for the 1-0 win over Bradford City, the Welshman was a striker once more.
It was not a day for forwards though; it was one where both sides made a case for their respective defences.
Pearson was a rock at one end, while at the other, a bloodied Harry Souttar and Ash Eastham continued their glowing partnership.
Neither side had a sniff with Ross Wallace just trying his luck from distance and the visitors also unable to unlock Fleetwood.
Paddy Madden was perhaps guilty of a poor first time finish for once as he rifled Sonny Bradley's clearance from Wallace's free-kick way over.
Referee Peter Bankes littered the turf with yellow cards as the tackles flew in on a fiery game but the Hatters showed they were up for a battle; yet more proof that they are the best team in the division.
With Fleetwood pressing, harassing and the tackles flying in, they stood up to the challenge and gave as good as they got – even if both sides were guilty of wasting their subsequent set-pieces.
With both sides also renowned for their prowess on the counter-attack, it took the visitors until their 40th minute to show their capabilities on the break.
Danny Hylton's backheel released McCormack, who slid in Andrew Shinnie and with Fleetwood all at sea, Holt flew in.
A set-piece was awarded, George Moncur did the rest and it was a goal worthy of winning any third tier encounter with Alex Cairns arguably put off by James Justin's dummy.
You could not argue they did not deserve it with a touch of class sprinkled on a gritty performance.
Then, in the second half, it was a howler from Cairns that gave them a cushion.
Eastham had switched ends again to protect his keeper from the earlier blinding sunlight but he had butterfingers for once as Pelly Ruddock-Mpanzu's effort rolled home in the 49th minute.
Fleetwood refused to roll over but eyebrows were raised when Barton made a change and the board showed Ashley Nadesan replacing Holt.
What was he doing?
It turned out Nadesan was going into the front three, Burns moving to full-back and Coyle in the middle of the pitch.
It worked as Coyle took to centre midfield like a duck to water with Burns again impressive at full-back.
Hunter also came on to add some sparkle and it was no surprise that they got their goal as Madden popped up with yet another first-time finish from Nadesan's knock down.
Defeat is never pleasing but despite still failing to earn a single point after conceding first, Fleetwood showed fight.
It will be interesting after a week's training if Burns at right back and Coyle in central midfield is the way forward.
Stranger things have happened in a funny old season but , on this occasion, you just have to take your hat off to the Hatters.


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What You Will Learn
During the first year of the program, students will engage in job training activities within the Portage Lakes Career Center facility. They will work to develop basic skills in housekeeping, laundry operations, dietary care, grounds-keeping, customer service, retail services, and basic food preparations. During the second year in the program, students will continue to develop their employability and independent living skills through specific transition services and instruction in the classroom for 2 day of the week. The remaining 3 days of the week, students will be transported to work sites to apply their skills in a supported environment for up to 2 hours a day.
Added Support
The program is designed to provide a high level of support to a maximum of 12 students each year. This provides a lower student to support personnel ratio and more opportunities for individualized instruction and reinforcement.
During the first year of the program, students will be supported by their classroom instructor and a classroom aide.
During their second year in the program, students will be supported by their classroom instructor, a classroom aide, as well as designated job site mentors who will work closely with the students to further develop their skills and success in a real-world work environment.
Exploring PLCC Programs
Students in this program will explore existing CTE programs at PLCC such as: Building Trades, Electrical Technology, Welding, and HVAC.
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I've enjoyed being a career tech instructor at Portage Lakes Career Center (PLCC) for past 4 years. Prior to teaching at PLCC, I served 6 years in the US Navy, and worked new construction plumbing, HVAC and electrical work for 10 years as a self-employed contractor. After that, I worked for PLCC doing maintenance of the equipment and facilities for several years. I've been married for almost 20 years and have 3 children. In my spare time, I enjoy going to my kid's activities, working around my home and golfing.
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Written by Deena Douara
In a time of gluten-free, whole grain, stevia and quinoa, Erin Maynes just wants to focus on delectable food. Fun, tasty, quality food. Her online marketplace, foodiepages.ca, caters to all tastes, but the focus is on independent Canadian-made gourmet items like Acadian Sturgeon, birch syrup and chai energy crisps.
The food, wine and kitchenware are sold as individual treats, as subscription boxes, or as tailored gift collections, such as the Joyful Morning, Snack Box, and Artisan Entertaining boxes.
"Our marketplace represents the best of the best products. We have that extra guarantee that our vendors truly are extraordinary."
She's not the only one to say so. FoodiePages.ca has been recommended by The Marilyn Denis Show, Toronto Life, Style at Home and Food & Drink Magazines. It has also received a regional Premier's Award for Agri-Food Innovation Excellence.
Maynes says she gets customer feedback on products to ensure that only the favourites get posted to the site. Having been around now for about four years, she says new vendors apply on a weekly basis. Those items get distributed through a "tasting box," and surveys determine what products remain. The site currently includes products from over 200 food producers, small wineries, and kitchenware makers from across the country.
The website describes the meticulous selection process as also encompassing concerns like "sustainable and responsible practices, and having organic, non-GMO, unprocessed and chemical-free options.
Food exploration would seem to be in Maynes's DNA. Family trips from Quebec and Prince Edward Island to Italy and France involved discovering cities through food by shopping at local markets, loading up on fresh ingredients and cooking together. "Our days often revolved around preparing meals."
Ironically, Maynes's first job after graduating with her business degree was actually in industrialized food — sourcing mass-produced chicken wings and beef and patties for restaurants.
"It spurred my interest even more — I was curious not just about exploring food but about buying food where I knew the producer and knew where it was coming from."
Through that exploration, Maynes met many small food producers and learned about the challenges of starting a new business. That was where the idea for Foodie Pages first originated.
Despite having received much media coverage and high-profile endorsements and partnerships, Maynes is the first to admit the way she got into the business was misguided.
"I didn't know anything about startups, so looking back it was a really naïve thing to leave my job and start something new on my own without testing the idea or talking to a whole lot of people beyond food producers I knew."
Fortunately, what Maynes has discovered is that her customers are highly engaged and the trend of wanting to support Canadian businesses is only getting "more and more powerful."
It also helped that she was based in Toronto, where there is an abundance of food producers, foodies and business supports.
"When you think of great food cultures, you don't normally think of Toronto," says Maynes. "You think of Brooklyn, New York, Italy – but I was happy to learn that Toronto has second largest food and beverage cluster in North America – after L.A." She adds that Toronto's great diversity produces interesting, diverse food options.
To support those primarily small businesses, the city offers online resources, commercial kitchens and food-specific supports like the city's Food Starter program. As a result, Maynes says she's seen food businesses accelerate annually.
She herself received guidance from MaRS and OCAD's Imagination Catalyst, which offered a "plan of attack." Despite that fact she studied business, she explains that starting one's own involves a different approach.
Maynes says what MaRS's mentorship and the incubator helped her with most was to uncover where the greatest market opportunity was so that she could stop wasting funds, time and energy or other avenues.
Which means more funds, time and energy to spend on farmer's markets, artisanal ghee and fair-trade coffee.


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It's time for another Oddball Art Co challenge. This time on the blog, the challenge is to show off your coloring skills! I used this adorable little fairy from the Oddball Art Co Etsy shop. She is Fairy Girl Image No. 70 in the shop. I took a small canvas from Michaels and sprayed it with different Dylusions and Color Shine sprays in variations of orange, yellow, and pinks. To create the bokeh style background I took two Heidi Swapp stencils and used white gesso to create those see-thru areas that look like orbs of light. I also took one of my pink stamp pads and a makeup sponge and used the same stencil to create darker circles. I really like the way the background came out. It's bright and pretty but also has this ethereal quality! I colored up this digi with my Prisma color pencils. I did add a bit of lace trim to the bottom of the canvas and a large cluster of various flowers just for some interest. Hope you guys like it!
The challenge will run from July 15th until August 14th. If you'd like to play along, join us on the blog and link in your project! You just have to create a project that shows off your coloring skills and you could be entered to win 3 digis from the Etsy shop of your choice!
Below are some close-ups of the project. Can't wait to see what you guys create for the challenge. 🙂
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Stretch Marks The Beauty Of The Body
Just Flawless…
After seeing stretch marks in Rheya Swim's new swim line pictures, others can feel more comfortable about the flawless body. Seeing models with visible stretch marks are an eye opener for everyone to love the body for what it is. Some are calling Rheya Swim's swim line pictures more realistic. Others are calling this wonderful. This can be a breakthrough for everyone to stop depending on photoshop or air brush to define them as beautiful. This can be a relief for everyone to not be so pressured into getting the perfect body the media sees as beautiful. Everyone can finally see that true beauty awaits in the inside of the body and heart.
True Beauty…
By looking at a model that has visible stretch marks, others can feel that this model can relate to them. Others can feel as though having a flawless body can be a flaw. Others can have the confidence of their own imperfection body. Others can slowing stop shaming something so little as in a few stretch marks on the body. By having fashion brand owners like Chloe Madison to stand up to air brush, others can finally love their natural body with no problem.
With stretch marks finally being able to be loved, everyone can slowing love other parts of the body that is seen as a flaw. It is been time for everyone to start loving the natural body and not photoshop.
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DARTMOUTH, Mass. — The Endicott men's golf team finished eighth overall (shot 633) out of 18 teams at the Westport Hampton Inn Invitational this past weekend, hosted by UMass Dartmouth.
Trinity (Conn.) won the two-day tournament with a team score of 606, while Babson finished second (620), and Rhode Island College was third (621).
Meanwhile, for Endicott, Athan Goulos (Peabody, Mass.) led the Gulls with a two-day score of 152 (74-78) to finish sixth overall, individually.
Carter Knox (Hinesburg, Vt.) followed in 29th place (83-75-158), while Dylan Seeber (New Hartford, N.Y.) was 36th overall (81-79-160) and Tyler Smith (Morgan, Vt.) ranked 53rd overall (83-81-164). Drew Benshoff (Concord, Mass.) concluded Endicott's lineup in 59th place (82-84-166).
Endicott will play in the Johnson & Wales University (JWU) Invitational on Saturday, April 21 and Sunday, April 22 in Warwick, Rhode Island at the Valley Country Club.
For the latest on Endicott Athletics, follow the Gulls on social media on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube.>


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Hi everyone!
This is another video I made using the Free stamp set which comes with the Cardmaking and Papercraft Magazine Issue 62(February). I hope you enjoy this video and check out my previous video using the same stamp set and , there is one more coming soon.
You can use the same layout with different stamps of course.
Take care,
Friday, January 23, 2009
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Hi everyone!
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Gorgeous card and great video. If you pop over to my blog I have left something there for you.ReplyDelete
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Thanks,I have tried to go to your blog but it says you have not enabled access to your blog and you have to do so under profile to publicly share blog...
Let me know when I can visit you:)
Hi Tassy... This card is really good. SO MUCH WORK you put into your cards! Wow. It is all so perfectly done.ReplyDelete
Yes, it is so sad about Suzanne. I was so shocked when I found out. I hope her family (her kids) are doing okay. They must be in so much pain.
Okay - here are your interview questions! I look forward to reading your answers! When you do, will you send me an e-mail? So I can know when to read it (and which of your blogs you will post it on!) My address is email@example.com
1. If you could receive one small package this very moment, who would it be from and what would be in it?
2. If you could read the private diary of someone you know would you do it? (If they would never find out...)
3. If you had to describe yourself as a child in one word, what would it be? (Or how about TEN words?)
4. What is the best time you've ever had with your family?
5. Where is the most beautiful place in the world?


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How to Prevent Bed Bugs from Multiplying if You Can't Afford A Professional
Some of the saddest calls I receive are from single moms whose children have scabs and rashes from bed bugs.
They can't afford much more than the mortgage or rent and putting clothes on their backs and food on the table.
The bed bug pest control companies estimate was way more than they could ever afford.
They feel lost, embarrassed, ashamed, and afraid and don't know where to turn.
Many times, I too have cried hearing their fears.
This is time for compassion and understanding for me.
I listen to them as they explain their dilemma so that they feel understood.
I then ask some reflective questions to analyze their situation.
I first ask if they had a bed bug inspection.
At this point, they are usually fixated on the fact that they can't afford a bed bug exterminator service.
This is when I redirect them to new possibilities.
It usually starts with a few deep breaths and a moment of silence and I begin.
Understanding What You Are Up Against
FACT: Bed bugs are a year-round threat for anyone who has blood running through their veins.
They've become a worldwide problem and will be as common as the flea in our near future.
Infestations take time to build and don't happen overnight.
We all need to be more vigilant in our bed bug awareness and prevention.
Under the right conditions, one female bed bug can cause a small infestation within a couple of months.
Then, like a penny doubled daily, can escalate into a much more serious infestation within 4 to 6 months.
Checking for signs of bed bugs will insure full-fledged infestations don't build-up.
But not many people do that.
Read up on bed bugs and their nature on our sites knowledge base here.[1]
Know Your Risk Factor
Some people are at much higher risk for picking up bedbugs than others.
Those with vocations that go into other people's homes for example.
- Maintenance workers, plumbers, electricians, handyman work, etc.
- Caregivers
- Firemen and paramedics [transfer patients with infestations on their gurneys and ambulances].
- Police [when an arrestee occupies their squad cars].
- Hotel employees.
- Those who work in certain health facilities.
- Those in call centers, office cubicles or anywhere many people gather.
- People with children at elementary, high school or college.
- And those whose homes are a revolving door and couches that house overnight guests often.
You get the picture.
Anyone, at any time, can fall subject to bed bugs.
I wish I could say that if you do X, you will never encounter a bed bug problem, but I'd be lying.
Bed bugs are here, and here to stay.
So, we all need to be careful of what we bring into our homes and on what articles we bring them in on.
Acknowledge any bed bites, tiny bugs in bed, baby bed bugs, insects that resemble bed bugs, or bed bug bite symptoms.
Don't blow it off thinking it was a flea or mosquito bite.
If you travel, read how to pack BEFORE your trip and what to do when you get home so you don't introduce a bed bug.
- Clean up the clutter!
- This may be the best time to go through stuff to see what you need in life.
- Get rid of things that take up space.
- Especially things in cardboard boxes piled in corners of rooms.
- Don't pick up things that people have thrown out on the curb.
- It's amazing how many calls I get because someone saw a cool dresser or couch on the curb with a sign saying FREE.
- Stay away from these things!
- Be very careful of what you bring home from a thrift or second-hand store.
- I've gotten calls from people that told me they donated bed bug ridden things to Goodwill.
- Stay away from bed bug bombs, sprays, lotions and potions. Most of which will only spread them further.
Don't Go It Alone
You don't need to feel alone when dealing with bed bugs.
Obviously, the longer you've had bed bugs the more work you will have to do.
But if affordability is an issue, get ready to put in a little muscle for a while.
Sometimes what not to do is more important than knowing what TO DO.
Avoid nonsense you read on the internet about dryer sheets, herbs, oils and such.
Don't use bed bug bombs, sprays, etc. They will spread your problem quickly.


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Audi TT 3.2 DSG 2003 Road Test
Be very grateful for the 2003 Audi TT 3.2 DSG. The Germans are clever people. They may be first to lay towels on the hotel sunloungers every morning. But if they make a product we want even more than they do, they let us have it first.
Britain just happens to be Audi's best customer for the TT. They sell us 9,000 a year. But sales of the 225 were dropping off a bit because Brits were waiting for the 250bhp 3.2V6 DSG. So the first 3.2 DSGs to come off the production line have been RHD coupes, all for us.
This is a scoop road test, too. Because though a few others drove the TT DSG yesterday, they haven't yet been able to get their words in print.
First the techie bit. DSG stands for 'direct shift gearbox'. It uses basic technology seen in the late 1920s in the fluid flywheel Wilson pre-selector gearboxes adopted by Armstrong Siddeley. With them you pre-selected the next gear you wanted. But did not actually get it until you dipped a foot pedal.
Audi has taken this idea into the 21st Century with what is really two gearboxes and two 'wet' clutches in one. Reverse, 1st, 3rd and 5th sit on a centre shaft. 2nd, 4th and 6th sit on an outer hollow shaft. Whether you drive the car in manual or automatic mode, the next gear up or down is always pre-selected. But the clutch for the gear you are in is engaged and the clutch for the next gear is disengaged. When you select the next gear or the box electro hydraulics select it automatically, the first clutch disengages and the second clutch engages. The next gear up or down is then pre-selected and waits for its clutch to engage. Each gearchange takes 0.2 of a second and changes up and down are quicker and smoother than on any other semi-automatic box, including those on Ferraris. Not only that, you can left-foot brake without upsetting it, and upshifts take place at full throttle if you wish. There is no need to lift. The system and the electronics take care of everything.
Even if you are in fully automatic mode and get stuck behind a truck, for example, in 6th gear, just boot the throttle and it will 'kick down' to 2nd in 0.9 of a second. Because 6th and 2nd are on the same shaft, it cannot do this directly, so instead briefly selects 5th, pre-selects 2nd, then engages the second clutch to give you 2nd gear.
The car also has a system that apes Formula 1 'launch control'. Keep your left foot on the brake. Select 'Sport' mode on the transmission quadrant. Switch off the ESP. Floor the throttle. The engine then revs to 3,200rpm, where it develops peak torque, but no more. All you have to do is slide your left foot off the brake but keep the right fully planted and you take off, redlining through all six gears if you have the space. But because you have set off at comparatively low revs and because of the way the twin wet clutches work, you could if you wanted to do this repeatedly without straining or overheating the box.
So what was it like to drive?
Very stiffly sprung, for a start. But very grippy as only a quattro four-wheel drive system can be. And the engine/gearbox combination work brilliantly whatever mode you chose. You can simply leave it in D, pull it back to S, or slip it across to self-selection Tiptronic mode then use either the lever or the steering wheel paddles to change gear. Unlike all the other systems I have driven, there is never any hesitation changing gear. You just go whap, whap, whap through them far faster than you could ever change manually and, of course, with both hands firmly on the steering wheel at all times.
It's a great car. And being automatic as well as being more powerful than any TT before, it's going to win the TT an awful lot of new friends.
Techie notes: The DSG is a maintenance gearbox. The oil cooler sits on top, but it also has an easily changed oil filter. Transmission fluid and filter need changing regularly. The engine is twin chain-cam, developed from VW's VR6. And, unlike all other TT's it's non-turbo, so no need to simmer even after a hot run.