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Oculus Rift pre-orders now open, priced at $600
- Written by Petrus-Iulian "Devon" Fatu
- Published in Gaming Gear news
Oculus has opened the pre-order for the Rift, with a price-point of $599 and promises shipping to 20 countries starting March 28.
Oculus has officially opened up the flood-gates on pre-order for the Rift, though the price-point is somewhat steeper than originally expected, with a tag of approximately $599. The standard Rift bundle includes the headset with built-in headphones, microphone, sensor and an additional Xbox One controller.
The Oculus Touch, the controllers designed exclusively for VR has been delayed. The company has, however, promised that anyone who pre-orders the Rift will secure a place for Touch pre-orders later this year.
Rift also pre-packaged with EVE: Valkyrie through the Founder's Pack, which includes exclusive in-game content, the Valkyrie founder-status and additional content as well as Lucky's Tale, a VR platformer developed by Playful.
Oculus also promises a series of titles to be released for the Rift by the end of 2016, from AAA games exclusively designed to the Rift ( such as Edge of Nowhere , The Climb, Rockband VR and even a VR friendly Minecraft edition)
Oculus also released the following system requirements to get the "full Rift experience":
Graphics card: NVIDIA GTX 970 / AMD R9 290 equivalent or greater;
Processor: Intel i5-4590 equivalent or greater;
Memory: 8GB+ RAM;
Output: Compatible HDMI 1.3 video output;
Input: 3x USB 3.0 ports plus 1x USB 2.0 port;
OS: Windows 7 SP1 64 bit or newer;
The announced price-point is a bit over the original $300 ball-park Palmer Luckey announced last year. Still, the hardware in its current configuration seems to be worth its money - after all, this is a premium device with some powerful hardware behind it, and requires a beast of a PC to properly run. Besides the price-tag, Oculus is also trying to set a standard price for VR - and depending on how well the competition responds, the Rift might or might not be a success. We shall see what the Vive offers, and what its asking price will be.


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text: Bought my first cell phone last week, a Droid 2, and learned this morning that the Wall Street Journal has apps for BlackBerrys and iPhones but nothing so far for Android phones. The wsj employee said they are working on an Android app, but was not able to say when one might be released. Does anyone here have a best guess or rumor or whatever as to when it might be coming? I am so new to smart-phones & apps that I have no idea what to expect. Would it be released in weeks? months? a year or more? I am well within my 30-day cancel period and could consider switching to iPhone . . . I was really looking forward to reading the Journal on my smart-phone.


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I know I promised that today's post would be a tad shorter than yesterday's, however I'm not sure how well I've done in keeping it! Again, thank you in advance for allowing me this self indulgent 2 day wedding extravaganza, I promise to be featuring loads more gorgeous weddings next week!
Deciding on a theme / colour scheme / concept for our wedding was a lot more difficult for me than I had anticipated. I was not one of those girls who had her entire wedding planned out from the age of 6 and I admit hands down that my spatial awareness and interior design skills are less than perfect. Working as a designer in the creative industry, I did not anticipate having as much of a hard time making decisions! It could potentially have been the fact that I had inspiration coming at me from all angles of the wedding industry, but doesn't every bride?
Luckily I had the most amazing mother in the universe who patiently sat through my aspirations of having a wedding with pretty much every theme under the sun. I also had the most amazing bridesmaids who endured email after email from me waffling over this and that.
Instead of going into another long winded shpiel of how we came about desigining our wedding, I thought I would offer some tips / things I learned along the way and then share a few very candid mockups, iphone photos and moodboards. They are in no particular order as I'm sure any bride will agree, wedding planning is not a linear process!
All photos not represented in a moodboard have been taken by our fabulous photographer Marianne Taylor. Flower arrangements by Steph Turpin of Fairynuff Flowers and masterfully overseen by wedding planner Mary Lee Herrington of Forever & Ever Events on the day. All stationary was designed by my mother and I in conjunction with her handmade card company Paper Dragon, hand assembled with the loving help of my very best friends in the world, bridesmaids, their husbands, and everyone else we could get to help out! Special thanks to Sheila Smith, Judy Sells, Nellie Morales, Bibi Simkin, Giorgia Franchi and Chuck Dedeu for the countless hours before the wedding weekend you all spent helping to make this all come together. And a MASSIVE OMG thank you to my amazing mother for her incredible creative genius and amazing amount of patience with me 🙂
1. Make mock ups
It is amazing how two people can talk about the same idea for hours but have completely different visions in their heads. This is a bit extreme, but making mockups in photoshop to show both my mother, patient bridesmaids, florist and planner helped me communicate exactly what I wanted on the day. I used illustrator and photoshop, but they can be hand drawn if you want. Whatever you can do to communicate your idea, it will make you feel better as well.
2. Collect ideas all the time
I admitted yesterday I did not have a moodboard for our wedding which could have contributed to the length of time it took me to finally decide on a direction, but I found collecting folders and galleries of images made me feel a lot less pressure. This sounds a bit dramatic, but if I put all my images together in a single moodboard it would have been the size of Texas. Instead I had moodboards for concepts within the wedding – bridesmaid moodboards, flower moodboards. Attacking the idea in smaller chunks seemed to work alot better for me and allowed me to really think about each detail in depth.
3. You don't have to have a "theme"
As I mentioned above, I think my wedding went through every theme known to man. I wanted a Marie Antoinette wedding, an Alice in Wonderland wedding, a Chinese inspired wedding. Being a designer, I felt like the whole day had to have a concept behind it and I felt stuck, especially when I saw all the amazing weddings on the blogs with stories behind their naval, travel, or circus weddings.
When I realised that our day didn't have to be about anything other than ourselves, and that the theme could be "just because I like these colours" I felt relieved. It was ok that the reason we had greens in one room and teals in another was "just because I like it that way" and not because of any deeper meaning. The theme of our wedding was just "us."
3. Decisions are the first hurdle, execution is the second!
Making decisions was massively difficult for me, and having 18 months to plan everything actually made it harder! I happily agonized over every single thing with my mom over instant messenger every day and full on skype conferences with her holding up different pieces of paper, fabric and ribbon. When I finally made a decision on even the smallest detail I felt I had ticked it off my list. The problem was, I then had to DO all the things I had finally decided I wanted. This is not always as easy as it seems. For example, after millions of discussions, books, blogs and magazines, I decided on the general look and feel of the flowers – graphic, simple pomanders with denser carnations on top of candlesticks with lots of different kinks and shapes to them. Awesome. But expanding on that thought, we bought loads of ikea candlesticks, spray painted them gold, and so on. In short, decisions are hard, but keep up the momentum and start doing the things you decide to do! Another example of this is when I finally decided I wanted a black cab to take us to the wedding venue. I thought deciding on this was the most difficult until I found out that there were no black cabs in Bath!
4. Think of the day in stages / scenes
A wise planner once told me (thanks Mark Niemierko!) that he thought of his weddings in stages. I'm not sure I interpreted it 100% but I remember sitting having breakfast with him last year and thinking "OMG he is totally right" (obviously) – As our entire day was held in different rooms, but in the same venue, I was worried about continuity between the different parts of the day. Each room had a distinct colour – the ceremony room was neutral, the drinks reception room was bright yellow and the ballroom was teal. This totally stressed me out because I initially felt like I had to have all these colours in all of these rooms and they were so not me. The idea of treating your wedding venue like a home / a set of rooms and looking at it from an interior design perspective might seem a bit obvious to some, but for me this was a liberating concept. I could have my topiary, cream, gold and greens in the ceremony room and my black, white, teal and golds in the ballroom and it would not look like a hurricane. No one is ever going to be in more than one room at a time and rooms in homes, hotels, museums and restaurants do not all match each other!! Hooray. This leads my on to my next point…
5. Not everything in the universe has to be matchy matchy.
Thank goodness. As I mentioned above, because I had so many ideas, I was worried that things were totally not going to match, look crazy and I would have an ugly wedding. Obviously there is really no such thing as an ugly wedding, but I was worried it would not turn out the way I wanted. Again, when I realised that not everything in the universe had to match, I felt better. For example, our save the dates and invitations were black and gold with very graphic designs. These differed in the types of paper we used for the ceremony order of service booklets as those were all different greens, golds and floral patterns but the typography used and the design aesthetic for all the printed material remained consistent. This was ok for me because the invitations were never going to be in the same room as the order of service booklets so they just felt like they needed to be part of the same "family" and not the EXACT same design. This then carried over into the menu design, and tablescapes etc.
The first thing my mom and I did when we started thinking about colours was go to Paperchase. I cannot tell you how many times I have been to that store in the past year and a half, people used to think I worked there and ask me questions we spent so much time looking at things. We based a lot of our aesthetic decisions on the papers we chose for things like the invitations, order of service booklets and menus because this was something we were both very passionate about and felt the most inspired by. We took different pieces of paper and put them next to each other, moved things around, put teals with greens with gold with yellows. At one point we had an entire table covered with different options. But it worked. It was definitely not a 1 stop decision, but we brought samples home and put them next to samples we had bought the previous week and figured out how each colour was going to work.
We also went to places like Designers Guild, one of my favourite interior stores, to look at how they used fabrics and then tried to interpret this into a wedding concept.
6. You will always need more time than you plan for
This probably applies to all of life as opposed to just weddings, but in the days leading up to the wedding I remember thinking "OMG how are we going to get everything done." And the answer was "We just have to." If ou ever come across something you can do right then and there, even if it is something as random as buying a mosquito net for your honeymoon, resist the urge to "do it later."
7. Enlist the help of friends, family and anyone else you can grab
I remember saying to Jack's family that we would love for them to come over to our apartment in the days leading up to the wedding and help out if they didn't mind? They all said "of course" but I don't think they realised what they were getting themselves into. From Wednesday evening until Sunday afternoon, we had what I can fondly recall as a "wedding sweatshop of love" in our living room with stations for goodie bag prep, favour box assembly, flag gluing, tissue paper flower unfolding, seating chart executing and goodie bag deliver schedule making. In short, there was LOADS to do. It was slightly stressful, but mostly amazing. Especially when our dads were working together making favour boxes and Jack's best man was sitting on the couch making paper flowers. It felt incredible to have such amazing, caring and PATIENT family and friends there to help and we could not have done it without a single person. People who were not even in the wedding party came over to help and we owe a massive thanks to my mom's fabulous friends who helped make each and every single tissue paper flower and flag.
8. The things you do yourself will be the ones you remember the most
One of my close friends who got married last year said this to me when we first got engaged and she was so right. Every time I asked myself "do we REALLY need to spray paint these frames, candlesticks etc" I would remind myself of this phrase because looking back I could not agree more. Some people DIY stuff because they think it might save them budget (which is not always the case!!) but my mom and I did it because we loved every minute of it. My mom is pretty much a creative genius and I could not have even begun to plan this wedding with out her.
9. Always be thinking of ways to make your wedding feel like "you"
Some of the details I think represented Jack and I the best were some of the last things we did. Sometimes its hard to think of the details without the big picture so always be thinking of how you can make your wedding personal. For example, I had always imagined we would need to do something for the fireplaces in the ceremony room. The space was so big, I wanted to make sure I kept it as intimate as possible and the fireplaces were begging to be used. My initial idea was to make posters with the word "love" in different languages based on the countries Jack and I had grown up in. This then turned into a massive infographic project displaying things about us like the varying distances between us over the 10 years we have been together, the number of years we had spent together and even the RSVP responses from all our guests. These posters then got reused in other decorative elements like our welcome letter in the goodie bags we left in hotels and the inside covers of the order of service. It was something we worked on in the last few weeks leading up the event and one of the things I love the most.
Another thing to remember is the "you" bit can be subtle. Having grown up and met in Hong Kong, we always wanted to have a bit of Asian influence in our big day, but it didn't seem to fit in very well. We managed to get a few things in there like having a Chinese poem for one of our readings, using black and white bamboo tablecloths for some of the tables, and including Korean candy we used to eat as kids in our goodie bags and that was enough for me. Not everything needs to be massive and over the top and obvious.
The last thing I'd like to mention we did was our RSVP cards had a little fill in the blank section where guests had to choose their main course and then choose a verb to describe what they were going to do at the wedding. I than tallied all the responses and created an infographic poster which was printed on the back of the welcome letter. It had people's names on it connected to the verb they submitted and hopefully made everyone feel like they had contributed to the wedding a teeny bit.
And that, I'm afraid is the end of it! I'm sure I've missed bits and pieces along the way, but I hope you can tell it's been an incredible journey, a lot of hard work, and the best time of my life. It felt amazing to see it all come together with the help of all my amazing friends (thank you again a million times) and it was so so fun to do this all with my mom. So I'm going to end with a beautiful photo of my amazingly helpful bridesmaids and of course the leading lady of the event, my mother, the most incredible person, designer, creative genius and friend in the world. LOVE YOU!


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Obsidian is pointing out a 6 minute Alpha Protocol GDC walkthrough video at Gametrailers, with Sega Assistant Producer Matt Hickman showing off a combat sequence using various skills.
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After watching that there's no more doubt with me : this is mass effect 1 with a more modern theme.
A good thing in my book :P
Not in mine … I'm worried a bit about the skill system, which looks too much like Mass Effect and not enough like Deus Ex or Bloodlines. 15 skill points for each skill? At least the cost seems to be increasing. I'm hoping that specializing will actually make a noticeable gameplay difference and is meaningful. Think sneaking/hacking with barely any weapon use vs. full frontal assault.
In the video it looked as if there was only one linear path you could take -- why choose between silent weapons or loud weapons then if they play almost the same and you are still on rails? But I realize that 5 minutes of generic gameplay can't tell you anything about how the full game will play out, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
I am less looking forward to this game after watching the video. The action looks clumsy. The AI does a lot of very, very stupid things, the animations are poor for today's standards and the textures are disappointing. Of course this could still be a great title. I sure hope so.
I felt a lot like Grandor Dragon after watching the video. I think I wanted Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory the RPG instead of Mass Effect 1: Shepard the Spy. In other words, I want the action to live up to the role-playing and vice versa. Seeing how the enemies behave in this video was disappointing ("Look, a guy with a gun run at him!").
It was also kind of disappointing to hear him call the abilities "our game's version of magic." I don't want switch-on abilities in a spy game; I want persistent skills (that you build up and specialize in) and gadgets.
But, as was mentioned above, you can't judge a game on a generic 5-minute video. I look forward to seeing more about the game as it gets closer to release.
i was looking forward more of that splinter cell chaos theory/ deus ex 1 feelíng. Sneaking on enemies, heck avoiding killing and getting seen altogether. Good point is that this game promises to deliver lots of dialog and grey moral decisions, to kill or not kill a terrorist leader based on an information you currently have. I really liked the end scene with the commanding officer.
The downside is that the combat doesn't feel very convincing. Most dissapointed i'm about the lack of realism. Player should be killed just as easily as the enemies, like in the splinter cell games. Now in that trailer the guy just stands there aiming carefully while the guards shoot his ass. Either A.I is braindead or he is using cheat codes or something. Even marines from half-life 1 used more sensible fighting tactics. For example why aren't those guards flanking, throwing nades, using cover fire, basic military training every grunt knows… And its a sad thruth that animations look indeed quite clumsy/stiff.
I'm also hoping that that there are more non-linear levels than one we saw in this trailer.
The character even took a tank (or APC) head-on! That was weird.
Nice demonstration of stealth there… NOT! ;)
Just looks like any other shooter. meh….
Well that just dropped a few points on the to-buy list :(
As always, I do not believe in neither hype, nor marketing. For a marketing video to be action oriented is hardly news.
There's bound to be more solid feedback before the release than this.
Very disappointing. Looks like random shooter. In my book espionage doesn't look like this.
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Question: How to overcome pornography and online videos and etc? My friend has a serious problem to overcome in spite of association.
What pornography is doing – and now, do you know, it's not just men who are watching pornography, it's 78% men which means 22% of women are watching and it's just going to get worse. So, the whole idea of pornography is that when a person is looking at pornography, he is thinking of how he can enjoy this woman. So there is no conception of relationship. There is no conception of responsibility. There is no conception of duty. There is no conception of romantic affection without sexual desire. It's completely self-centered. It's completely selfish. It's all about me. It's all about the person looking at it. It's a fantasy world because that world doesn't exist. That world doesn't exist because women do not walk around for men.
We were just reading this morning that there was this demon called Sankhasura and who had a big jewel on his forehead that he was really proud of. So he became really proud and so he stole Krishna's wives because he thought he was so beautiful they should be for him. So, reality is that women are not lined up for men to be their sexual slaves. So when a man is looking at pornography the woman becomes a sexual slave. So it's about him and his sexual slave. What that does is that it undermines the value of a women and that makes it more and more difficult to have any meaningful, balanced, wholesome, loving relationship with women because he has already put women into a particular relationship within his mind: "They exist for my enjoyment."
Another problem that happens is that the women he is looking at in these pornographic pictures are probably way more attractive than his wife. So it starts to disturb that relationship. It's already disturbing because it's altering his perception of women. It's devaluing his relationship with them. It's changing his belief system where women are really meant for one's enjoyment. In the sastras we learn from the story of Krishna stealing the cloths of the gopis that if a man sees a woman naked he has to marry her. So technically every pornographic picture that a man looks at, technically, he has to marry that woman. So these guys who are looking at pornography should probably have like 400 wives by now.
It's said that 50% of the men in this world, that means one out of every two men that you see walking down the street, view pornography at least once a month. It's a pretty sick situation. It's like an acid in the heart, and to what it does to the male and female relationship. It degrades the whole relationship. So, what woman in a right mind would want to marry a man who has viewing pornography since he has been a teenager? Average age a kid sees pornography is eleven. So ladies, do you want to marry a guy who has been looking at pornography at least once a month since he has been eleven? I don't think so. How do you think he is going to deal with you? You think he is going to be chaste? A chaste husband? It's going to be really hard for him. That's what he is bringing into the marriage. So, every time a man views pornography he is undermining his marriage or he is undermining his potential marriage if he is not married. He is undermining the relationship that he is going to have with his wife because he is implanting all these samskaras about women as object for his sexual enjoyment.
Another realization I had about pornography is that in traditional Vedic culture, when women went out they went out in palanquins which had curtains on all sides and nobody saw them. So in strict Vedic culture, men didn't even really see women. They only saw their mother, sister or wife. So then we advance it a little further. Men are seeing women and women don't really dress like they did in Vedic culture. So, ok – it's not that bad. But for men to see women other than their wife naked it's like unheard of in the history of the world up until the invention of the printing press. For men in general, as wide spread as it is, it's just not the way. God did not create us to see other people without cloths. Prabhupada said that is total animal life.
So the message for men – you can give this message to your friend who is viewing pornography – according to Prabhupada that is what animals do. It's not what humans do. Prabhupada said human beings are meant to cover their bodies. So if you're looking at a body that is uncovered you're not a human being. Also, Prabhupada said, "No cultured man would ever want to look at a naked woman." And the example given is Draupadi having her sari torn apart. There were no cultured men there. Men weren't protesting. So Prabhupada's point is that no cultured man would allow that to happen. And if the sari were pulled off, then no cultured man would have looked at her. They would have turned away. And now we have the exact opposite. Instead of turning away we're viewing picture of naked women one after another. And it's all these impressions are going into the hearts of men and making it difficult for them to be husbands or to be boyfriends. It's just like the worst thing. So I would say in whatever way they can get help, and of course Krishna consciousness is the ultimate solution for purity. But sometimes these addiction require more work, and as a friend you can really do something to really help them. You know, sexaholics anonymous is wonderful and there are so many other programs.
When I was growing up all the messages I got were to enjoy women. From my friends, from my society, from my father, it was like there is something wrong with you if you are not thinking that way. So growing up that way is a real challenge for us who are practicing Krishna consciousness – to practice sexual control. You grow up and your parent are telling you, "You are a really handsome young boy! You are a really pretty young girl! You should be able to attract a lot of girls! I bet the girls really like you! Don't they!? I bet they fall all over you! Yeah, go out and get them! Don't you have a girlfriend? Don't you have a boyfriend?" So you're getting all these messages. And then you consider that success if you have a boyfriend or girlfriend and you're thirteen years old. "Well, I guess I'm doing the right thing." And you want to learn whatever you have to learn about sex as soon as you can. So now statistics say that half of fifteen year olds have already had sex. So, you know, this is what we're dealing with, and the thousands of sexual messages that we're getting through the media, subtly or grossly.
There is a Christian book called Every Man's Battle written by two Christian men who grew up in a home in which their father was viewing pornography. It was like all over the place so they got to see it. So this book is about how they grew up addicted to pornography, as Christian men, as good Christian men, as married men, and their battle dealing with lust, not just addiction to pornography but addiction to sexual lust. I've heard them talk about it. And it's interesting because they were able to conquer their addiction but it took a while. It took them months and months and months but they were able to conquer it, and they really worked on it and they did it. So we can do it also.


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I will admit it. I have a BAD Starbucks habit. Any time I take my kids somewhere (gymnastics, play date, supermarket, really anywhere), I "reward" myself with Starbucks. This tea has changed me. Now I look forward to coming home to this refreshing tea. The infusion of fresh nectarines makes this Summery drink extra special. Add a little agave nectar and this drink is perfectly refreshing.
You can purchase a container specifically made for sun tea, but any large drink dispenser will do. I received mine as a wedding gift and it works perfectly.
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- 2 pomegranate iced tea sized tea bags (or 4-6 regular tea bags)
- 2 nectarines, sliced
- Agave nectar to taste
- Add tea bags to empty drink dispenser. Fill with cold water and top with sliced nectarines. Cover with lid and set outside in a sunny spot for at least 4 hours. You may have to increase the time to 6 hours, depending on the temperature outside. You will know it's done when the tea is dark brown. Remove tea bags and refrigerate.
- ** I prefer to sweeten my tea by the glass as some of my guests prefer an unsweetened iced tea. If you want to sweeten the whole batch, pour agave nectar or simple syrup in the bottom of the container before adding any other ingredients. **
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Hi, There are good Hotel Management schools in Singapore like SHATEC, Nanyang Institute of Management, University of Nevada Las Vegas Singapore campus, etc. The courses vary in duration from as less as 1 year and up to 3 years in some schools and several specilisations are available from Baking, Pastry Making, Casino Management and general Hotel Management.
You work experience in the industry should help you seek a good job and with the new casinos which opened up in Singapore recently, the industy has witnessed heavy infolw of tourists auguring well for Hotel Management industry professionals.
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Singapore hotel management courses are very well recongised around world. Singapore schools like EASB, Nanyang Institue of Management, ERC, School D' Hospitality are offering hotel mangement course with paid internship. When you are chosing college you make sure the college is certified by Edu Trust.
There are various courses you to choose like Hospitality Tourism Management, Event Management, Casino Management, VIP service Management. Resor Management , Culinary, Pastry and Baking
If you want a unique learning experience that will adequately prepare you for a success career in the dynamic and fast paced hospitality and tourism industry in Singapore where there are plenty of jobs availabe after successfully completing the course.
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If your business has claimed the Domestic Production Activity Deduction (DPAD or Section 199 Deduction), check the Form 8903 filed with your tax return. If the amount on line 10b is less than taxable income, there may be opportunities for more DPAD than claimed. Even if your business passes that simple test, there may be even more deductions lurking under the surface of the calculation itself.
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About Time - A First Look at Time and ClocksThe earliest people divided time into two intervals, nighttime and daytime. Today's atomic clocks divide time into picoseconds—trillionths of a second! How did we get from there to here? Paperback, 32 pages. Learn More
The Story of Clocks and Calendars - Award-winning history bookChildren will journey through time and across civilizations to learn how human beings have relied on calendars to tell us when to plant, harvest, and rest. Indexed, with cultural, science, and history references. Paperback, 48 pages. Learn More
Long Black Strip - From Azoka CompanyUnfurling this strip is quite a dramatic statement—it's just under 3 inches wide and almost 100 feet long! The Long Black Strip represents time from the beginning of the formation of Earth to the first human life on Earth. Learn More
Time Line of Life - From Azoka CompanyThis package provides beautifully made materials children will use to explore and research the history of life on Earth. Includes Timeline, Mute Chart, Die-cut Picture Cards, Era Labels, Companion Cards, and two books. Learn More
The Timeline of Early Humans - From Azoka CompanyThis set includes the laminated control (in Panel- or Mural-Style), two sets of companion cards, and a teacher's resource booklet. It shows the story of the human journey from the end of the Pliocene to the beginning of the Holocene, ending at the Bronze Age. Learn More
Maria Montessori Centenary Card Set - A 100 year historical retrospectiveTen picture/story cards celebrate Montessori's life and work in beautifully reproduced photographs in collaboration with AMI/USA. Place and date labels; short related facts. Learn More
Clock Rubber Stamp Set - Set of 3 stampsThis set of analog stamps gives you numerous possibilities for helping children learn to tell time. One stamp shows five-minute divisions (no numerals); the second shows one-minute divisions (no numerals); and the third shows five-minute divisions with hour numerals. Learn More
How Do You Know What Time It Is? - Wells of Knowledge Science Series by Robert E. Wells"A clock can measure time. But once there were no clocks! Long long ago, people measured time with the sun." From pre-agricultural solar calendars through the atomic clock, this absorbing book captures the history of time and time measurement. Learn More
Sand Timer Set - 3 pieces - 1, 2, and 3 minute timersTime literally passes before the child's eyes as white sand funnels down through the hourglass. There are many possible uses for the three plastic timers that comprise this set. These inexpensive timers are approximately one, two, and three minutes. 3¾" high. Learn More
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
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I, Chicken Master Josh, am alive, in no small part due to my Polar Bear Avoidance strategy. I ain't got no moly.
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- Julie said...
Julie here, buried under tons of animation paper, but still alive! Not started working on Son's book yet, but soon I promise... My semester ends the first week of april. And I already have my idea!
Josh, I'm worried that you have not received Emon's book from Rob yet. I sent him a Flickr mail few weeks ago and got no response. Have you tried to send him a mail? (I mean, not via Flickr mail)
- March 16, 2010 at 8:23 PM
- aAron said...
I have none, but emon tells me he has 2? I've seen them in progress, they look great!
- March 16, 2010 at 9:16 PM
- emon xie said...
As happens I'm about to post them after I scan them in tonight, and will be handing them off tomorrow to aAron at the gym. Apologies for the delay, getting back on track again after a crazy winter season!
- March 16, 2010 at 10:14 PM
- claire said...
I am here too and moley-less... come to think of it, I haven't had a moley from this group since November.
- March 16, 2010 at 10:24 PM
- southofthecliff said...
I haven't heard from Rob either. I think his Flickr mail is the only contact info I have for him. I don't have his snail mail.
- March 19, 2010 at 3:17 PM
- Julie said...
I wrote him a mail last week to the yahoo adress appearing on his profile on flickr and no response yet... I think he has Emon and Claire' book.
- March 19, 2010 at 3:43 PM
- jennifer kraska said...
Currently polar bear free & living a moly-less life style.
I sent Aaron's to Morisssa a week or so ago.
- March 19, 2010 at 5:36 PM
- Burger Raff said...
I still have Ms. Kraska's.
- March 23, 2010 at 7:26 AM
- Kip Sauce said...
Hi guys I am alive and I sent out Emon's book and I am almost done with Claire's as well. I am having a hectic semester and I apologize for slacking. I promise I'll be on my game. Julie I actually wrote you and you never responded so maybe we have flickr mail problems.
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I applied through college or university. The process took 2+ weeks. I interviewed at Citi (Miami, FL) in March 2014.
I applied for the Latin America internship program. The whole interview process was different than what other companies do. We had an online excel quiz followed by some questions related to our background. I was then asked to give a video interview with 4/5 questions and submit them online using the portal that they provided.
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2 rounds of interview. Applied for HK Summer Intern and was in overseas so had 3 rounds of skype interview. All CV Based but pretty long. around 1 hour each. All of them are very nice, nothing fancy tho. Get Prepared for your CV and you will be perfectly fine.
I applied online. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Citi (Dublin, Co. Dublin (Ireland)) in May 2012.
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The phone interview was done with the HR person asking some general questions about my experiences and my strengths and weaknesses. Then, she scheduled for an 1:1 interview with a management person from HK who flew here. From my knowledge, there were several students from my school that got the interview. The 1:1 interview was harder. My friend who got the interview a few hours before me said he said her questions like did you read the newspaper headlines recently. But when he interviewed me, I was never asked that question. When I got to the interview, he asked me to start talking about myself and then he will jump me and start asking questions. He asked questions like why do you want to work at Citi, what do you know about citi, (he was looking for answers not just straight from their website. ), who do you consider to be citi's competitors and how is citi different from them, what do you know about banking. Those were the questions I remembered he asked. After the interview, I think I heard from them in a month or so because he had to go to other places to do interviews as well. A thing to note is that, they hire one person from each school. All the interns I met were all from different schools in UK, US, Canada, and HK.
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text: 8 August 2011 TenCate Protective Fabrics Americas makes headway into personal contacts with End Users In the ongoing effort to expand brand awareness, TenCate Protective Fabrics extends End Use Marketing events and shakes hands with some of America's heroes. Jacob Biros, a firefighter with Chicago Fire Department Engine #4, entered a promotional drawing sponsored by TenCate at the 2011 Fire Department Instructors Conference in Indianapolis and won his fire station a Char-Broil Infrared Grill, grilling tool set, cookbook, drink holders, t-shirts, chef's apron made of TenCate protective fabric, and a very special cookout sponsored by Char-Broil, and their chef, Barry Martin. In commemoration of the event, "Chef Barry" prepared three entrees and named them in the station's honor: Engine #4 Grilled Flat Iron Steaks, Engine #4 Grilled Chicken, served with Chef Barry's signature Hot-Cha-Cha Peach Glaze and Engine #4 Grilled Bone-in Pork Loin Chops with traditional barbeque sauce. Char-Broil also donated a Char-Broil Big Easy Oil-less Infrared Turkey Fryer to the station and Chef Barry prepared a turkey for the station crew. Many of the items involved in the giveaway bear TenCate logos and, are reusable items actually located in the station, will help to grow and maintain brand awareness and to remind end users how and why TenCate materials really do make a difference. Engine #4 is housed at the Chicago Fire Department Station located at 548 West Division Street, which lies in a district historically known as Cabrini-Green. Cabrini-Green is an area of the city long known for its harsh socio-economic climate, high-rise project housing and staggering crime rates. In fact, the station had to install bullet-proof glass to protect the firefighters from both unintentional and intentional gunfire. The bullet damage on the façade of the station is proof of the imminent danger the firefighters faced each day while working to protect property and lives. Attending the cookout on behalf of TenCate Protective Fabrics, Director of Marketing Elliad Granger and End Use Marketing Manager Kirk Owen were amazed by the station crew with tales of gunfire, hostile neighbors and numerous close calls . Said Mr. Granger, "It's one thing to risk your life on the job but it's something else to risk your life just showing up at the station for work." Thankfully, the tide is now turning in a positive direction. The last of Cabrini-Green's high-rise housing structures was demolished in March of this year and urban gentrification is fully underway. With the sound of gunfire falling silent and people taking back to the streets for walks, bicycling and a more suburban lifestyle, the pressure seems to be easing for the crew of Engine #4 and TenCate Protective Fabrics was glad to be a part of the transformation. Now that the streest are safer, the firefighters can once again concentrate on the job for which they were trained. "It makes a huge difference from an end user point of view," said Mr. Granger, "to actually be here, on the ground so to speak, and to shake hands with these guys and to build meaningful relationships with the people who give so much of themselves. It's nice to be able to give something back to them."


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Those of us who love our canine companions know that dogs are grrrreat at doing many things: being improbable basketball stars, musical prodigies, and even hip urbanites.
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Oxford dominated a historic Boat Race today which saw both the women's and men's team celebrate victory for the first time.
Thousands of people watched from the sidelines as the Oxford women's team eased to victory first, followed by a second comfortable win for the Oxford men's team.
Female crews representing Oxford and Cambridge universities rowed the same stretch of the River Thames in London as the men for the first time in the 87 years they have competed.
President of the Oxford Team, Constantine Louloudis, who helped his team to secure a strong lead over Cambridge before crossing the finishing line said securing a double victory alongside the women's team was "wonderful".
"What a fantastic year. For us this is the most wonderful day to mark this historic occasion", he said as he was presented with the cup.
"I'm so pleased for Oxford University Women's Boat Club with their victory.
"And for our crew to win in that definite style, I'm so happy.
"This makes three in a row for us. I've been lucky enough to share a few victories with these guys and I couldn't share it with a better group of people."
Cambridge however watched on in disappointment as their rivals lifted the cup for the fourth time in five years.
The Oxford women's team also dominated their race, leading from the early stages, along the 6,800-metre route and finished 19 seconds ahead of their rivals.
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Album Rating: 3.5yeah i had fun with it. there's probably a lot of grammatical errors. i tried to just write it with some of me in it
eh whatever, probably end up rewriting it anyway.
just want people to listen to this
Definitely more expressive than some of your previous reviews, but you still need to work on your phrasing and sentence structure, which will develop the more you write and read. Be careful not to come off as fanboyish and also perhaps explain more throughly why you didn't give this a higher score.
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but he's right, you don't explain why you didn't rate this higherThis Message Edited On 11.08.08
I agree with Streetlightrock. Either you make tons of sentence fragments, or you do what I do, run-on sentences.
It's a good review otherwise, and I'll pos it.This Message Edited On 11.08.08
Album Rating: 3.5yeah, my main focus with this was to throw a little more of myself into the review, some other things suffered because of it, im going to revise and resubmit when i get home.
That intro sounds like a re-worked version of the intro to my review of The Famine's album haha...review is definitely more expressive and entertaining as Streetlight said but aside form the things previously said, I would say try to avoid saying things are "amazing" as it just sounds fanboyish...in fact if you take out that word that sentence reads just as good, if not better...
Album Rating: 3.5Nice finally glad to see someone review this, i've been digging this album for quite some time.These guys are REALLY under rated.
The only problem i had with this cd at first were Dereks vocals his lows were amazing, but his highs are so raspy that it sounds forced. It really takes a few listens to fully appreciate them.
It's hard to believe thats the same guy that fronts The Faceless. He sounds nothing like he did on here.(I release wish he would encorporate those lows there that he does here)
One last thing this was not their only release they had 1 earlier cd called "In Response To Affection."
There are so many bands doing the same thing it's really astounding. Which is a shame cause there are some very talented musicians that just happen to play a very played out style of music. But there are still a few bands that continue to try and resuscitate the corpse of an already decaying form of music. By still playing some of the most intense and heartfelt material they can.
The guitars don't sound like your traditional, over-produced guitars you would hear on an album like this.
Which is such a shame cause it is the one thing that newer albums seem to have a problem with now days.
The bass just needs pulled higher in the mix, its non-existent.
Album Rating: 3.5thanks to everyone who provided some sort of feedback, i will be revising this further when i get home making it a bit of an easier read and also some more explanation as to why i gave this the rating i did.
derek sounds so different on this album then on the faceless albums
Album Rating: 3.5that he does, i like him on both of them though
different sounds
Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound OffThis band is pretty raw. I wish they would do another album. Animosity tours out the wazzoo, so I'm sure recording is few and far between for these guys.
Album Rating: 3.5they have a new song on thier myspace but no talk of an upcoming album so i would say that your hypothesis is correct
Album Rating: 4.5one of my favorite heavier records ever, these guys brought the intensity and were able to shine above and beyond most in their genre
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You couldn't hear the bass on this album even if you cranked the subs up in your riced out, lowered Honda Accord.
Laughed so hard i cried, Wasnt expecting that sort of thing reading this review so it caught me off guard.
I've known about these guys forever and they're a god damn beast machine.
as far as the bass being non existent though..he's there, but he doesnt do anything overly impressive. Hence why its so low on the mix. he plays a couple small slide fills or out of place notes, but hes basically chugging along. I can only imagine what these guys would sound like with a bassist a la Arusha accord..fuck that would be intense.
Album Rating: 3.5Hopefully these guys have a new album soon now that Cameron left AGATG for them and Animosity is done
Album Rating: 5.0RIP
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A CHARITY single inspired by cancer hero Stephen Sutton is expected to top the charts today.
The upbeat track called Hope Ain't A Bad Thing was released in tribute to the 19-year-old, who died of bowel cancer last month.
Stephen wrote on his bucket-list that he wanted to get a single into the charts.
"Please support it and let's get it to number one"Jane Sutton, Stephen's mother
Songwriters Neon Brotherhood, from Stephen's home town of Burntwood, Staffordshire, then penned the tune.
It reached the top ten last week.
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Sometimes in high school sports, the region portion of the schedule can offer a fresh start. The Woods Cross boys soccer team has gotten off on the right foot in Region 5 play.
The Wildcats faced a difficult non-region schedule of Class 5A powers Viewmont, Bingham and Weber. Woods Cross more than held its own against the three foes but was unable to pull out a victory in any of the games. Each contest was decided by two goals or fewer.
But the battle-hardened Wildcats were undefeated after their first two league games.
The Wildcats' March 21 game at East was a thriller, with Woods Cross moving to 2-0 in Region 5 with a 3-2 win. Facing a 1-0 deficit at halftime, the Wildcats scored all three of their goals in the second half to come away with the victory. Junior Luke Madsen scored two of the goals, while sophomore Colby Sugden added the other.
Following a game on Tuesday against Box Elder (after our press deadline), Woods Cross will head to Ogden on Tuesday. After their first two league games, the Wildcats were already halfway to last season's region win total of four.
The Vikings' season has gone almost opposite to the Wildcats.
Viewmont went 3-0 during non-region play, beating Woods Cross, Bingham and Lone Peak 2-0, 2-1, 2-0, respectively. Following a scoreless tie against Layton in the region opener, the Vikings went 1-1 last week to bring its region record to 1-1-1.
On March 21, Viewmont blanked Hunter 1-0 on the road. Senior Elijah Moon put a shot into the back of the net in the second half to account for the game's only goal. Senior goal keeper Tyler Trump helped the Vikings secure their fourth shutout of the season.
Two days later, the Vikings suffered their first loss of the season at home against Syracuse by the score of 3-2. Preston Pitt and Tanner Pace registered goals for the Vikings. But Viewmont couldn't stop Syracuse star Matt Clark, who scored all three of his team's goals, including a pair in the decisive second half.
The loss to Syracuse was significant because it was the first time in program history that the Vikings had suffered a defeat at the hands of the Titans. Syracuse opened in 2007.
The Vikings looked to bounce back at home against Davis on Tuesday (after our press deadline). The team will next travel to West on Friday. Viewmont split its two meetings with the Panthers last season; both games were decided by one goal.
Davis lost 3-2 to Layton Mar. 21 for its first region loss on the year.
The Darts and Lancers were tied 1-all at halftime before Layton scored two goals to Davis' one in the second half for the winning margin.
Davis has a 1-1 record in Region 2. The Darts who West this afternoon at 3:30 p.m.
Bountiful lost 6-1 to Ogden Mar. 24.
The Braves scored its lone goal in the first half and couldn't stop Ogden's offense from finding the net in the loss.
Bountiful has a 1-1 record through the first two weeks of region play. Bountiful hosts East on Tuesday after our press deadline, then travels to Bonneville for a Friday game at 3:30 p.m.


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Calcutta, Sept. 26: The government intends to spread the growth of information technology and enabled services beyond the city.
'There is no doubt that Calcutta has emerged as the locomotive of IT growth. Now we want this growth to visit other places with potential for an even economic success and creation of jobs,' the principal secretary of the information technology department, G.D. Gautama, said today.
The emphasis on having the IT momentum channelled to the districts appears to be rising from an increasing realisation in the government and the CPM that the confinement of the tech drive to the city could spell trouble.
The governments of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, which operate from the tech capitals of the country ' Bangalore and Hyderabad ' have often been accused of ignoring the rest of the states when it came to sharing the IT pie.
Figuring on the Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee government's radar are Durgapur and Kharagpur, where software technology parks would be inaugurated in October.
Preparations for more such parks are underway in Siliguri and Haldia, Gautama told The Telegraph on the sidelines of a job fair organised by Genius Consultants.
The IT secretary shared the government's growth plans with tech professionals at the fair. 'We are looking for land in both the places (Durgapur and Kharagpur),' he said.
Infotech minister Manab Mukherjee, urban development minister Asok Bhattacharya, Gautama and a clutch of officials will visit Siliguri on Monday to showcase the prospects of IT and IT-enabled services to business and industry bodies in north Bengal.
Central assistance to the tune of Rs 4 crore and state funds worth Rs 1 crore will go into setting up the software parks. The state government will provide the land.
Negative stereotyping of Calcutta ' power cuts, poor infrastructure, militant trade unions and lack of work culture ' is giving way to an appreciation of the city as an emerging powerhouse, Gautama said, adding: 'Software majors across the globe are taking us seriously.'
Giants like TCS, IBM, NIIT, Price WaterhouseCoopers and others are expanding operations in the city. The second units of HSBC and Satyam will be commissioned soon, followed by the projects of Reliance and ITC Infotech.
R.P. Yadav, the managing director of the company that organised the job fair, said: 'We are planning such fairs in Delhi and other parts of the country later this year. Calcutta has begun to taste top-of-the-mind response from professionals. There is no doubt Bengal in its totality will start appealing to them before long.'
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Just what was the 'Ark of the Covenant'?
The discovery of the biblical 'Ark of the Covenant' remains the aspiration of every modern-day Indiana Jones and every swashbuckler, but this celebrated treasure has so far eluded detection by everyone who has set out in its search. There are 179 references to the 'Ark of the Covenant' in the Bible, and when analyzed, the 'Ark' itself was an enclosure built to protect an exceptional object of some sort that was housed within the confines of the Ark.
It is little-known, but not one biblical narrative describes what was actually accommodated within the confines of the Ark, and the reason for that is simple: the authors of the Bible had never seen it.
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The biblical accounts were compiled millennia after the time of its existence, and they were allegorical attempts to describe the existence of something elusive and complex that originally created a lasting memory passed down through the ages by oral tradition. Their contradictions about its size, its capabilities, and what happened to it, supports ever-growing evidence that the Old Testament was not composed of hard facts or literal versions of ancient events, with this belief supported in one of the oldest extant records from Alexandria, Egypt;
'It [the Old Testament] is a collection of ancestral customs, native myths, and ancestral philosophy'.
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Brad Arnold is cleaning out a horse stall. That's right. The lead singer of multimillion-selling rock band 3 Doors Down calls me as he's tending to his three horses at his home in Nashville. Who says there is glamour in rock 'n' roll?
In fact, if you dig any of those ubiquitous 3 Doors Down radio hits — "Kryptonite," "When I'm Gone," "Here Without You," "It's Not My Time" and the new "One Light" — yet have no idea what the band members look like, don't fret. That's by design. In a world of image-conscious pop stars who turn out to be style over substance, 3 Doors Down is pretty much the antithesis.
"We've always just focused on our songs," said Arnold, 34. "If there's a look that sums up 3 Doors Down, it's T-shirts and blue jeans. We just try to put out music that people can relate to in their life. I don't want to talk about cars and rims and running. Knowing that a song helped somebody through a hard time in their life, that's what it's all about. You are responsible for what you say when you are standing there in front of an audience."
Those aren't mere sound bites. Arnold is one of the nicest and most genuine rock-band frontmen I've ever had the pleasure to interview. He's earnest in the best possible way. He's a guy who has no interest in the trappings but instead is trying to make the music matter.
"One Light," with its instantly memorable refrain "it takes one light to shine," is Arnold's mantra.
He regards the song, one of three new tracks on 3DD's 2012 album The Greatest Hits, as an uplifting call for action. It's a do-good song without any of the histrionics.
"People start to think that maybe their voice can't be heard and their light can't be seen," he said.
"The darker the room, the brighter that one light shines. No matter how small it is, it inspires other things. You can do one thing and it inspires somebody to do something so much bigger than what you have done."
Arnold founded 3 Doors Down in 1996 in Escatawpa, Miss., with buddies Todd Harrell on bass and Matt Roberts on lead guitar. Rhythm guitarist Chris Henderson joined in 1998. In 2005, drummer Greg Upchurch took over the kit permanently. Last year Matt Roberts departed the group; in his place now is Chet Roberts (no relation).
3 Doors Down signed with Universal Republic Records in 1999. The first single, "Kryptonite," from its debut album, 2000's The Better Life, was an across-the-board smash, a Top 5 pop, adult Top 40, alternative and modern rock staple that catapulted The Better Life to sales of 6 million copies in the U.S. More than a dozen years later and with 19 million in album and single sales, Arnold hasn't lost sight of where he came from.
"I have been blessed by God to be able to play music for a living, and I can appreciate it so much because it's what I love to do. But before this I drove a tractor at a refinery oil field. I can appreciate what I am doing now because I love it, but I also loved driving that tractor," Arnold said.
"If you love what you do for a living, that is an awesome thing. We are all on the same road. We are all headed to the same place. No matter what lanes you are on that road, you face the same problems and the same feelings — whether it is somebody with seemingly all the success in the world or just somebody having a hard day."
No hard days allowed during a 3 Doors Down concert. Arnold and company are touring with fellow rock group Daughtry for a co-headlining tour that brings them Friday night to Verizon Theatre in Grand Prairie. The 3DD show will be an all-hits gig, Arnold said.
There should be a new 3DD studio album by spring 2014.
Meanwhile, Arnold is having a blast during the trek.
"We trade places every night," he said of co-headlining with Daughtry. "So many times in tours like that, it can turn into a competition, but that's not the way it is. We have had a great time on the road with these guys."
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It is three hundred years since the world toppled on its axis, and civilisation was destroyed. In this savagely reshaped world ruled by brigands and war-makers, a rider seeks a lost city. Pursuing a dream to calm the violence in his soul, Jon Shannow, the brigand slayer - The Jerusalem Man, desires only peace. But from the Plague Lands emerges a fresh terror.
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Ashe Acharya John Rockwell and Acharya Melissa Moore
July 26–August 10, 2014
Enlightened Society Assembly is a Shambhala program that emphasizes the view of the intrinsic goodness of all beings and society, practices that rouse bodhichitta and compassionate openness, and confident activity that engages fully in the world. In particular, living up to its name, this Assembly will focus on how we can create enlightened society on the spot, at home, in our city and nation, and wherever we go.
This program works to integrate study, practice and community with an aim to understanding the basic goodness of oneself, others, society and the phenomenal world. Under the guidance of an Acharya and another senior teacher, Enlightened Society Assembly will provide an opportunity for you to fully engage and integrate these teachings and practices while living in a Shambhala practice environment.
Preparation and Prerequisites: Students applying to the Enlightened Society Assembly should have completed the following before the program (please note that these are new requirements) :
Shambhala Levels I through V
Everyday Life Series: Meditation, Contentment, Joy, Fearlessness and Wisdom
Basic Goodness Series (if possible)
Rigden Weekend
One Weekthun
Membership in your local Shambhala Meditation centre/group
Please read the following paragraphs as they contain updated and important information.
Attending Enlightened Society Assembly is a two-part process that includes first applying to the program with the Shambhala International Office of Practice and Education based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and then registering with Shambhala Mountain Center.
In order to attend Enlightened Society Assembly, you must submit an online application and be accepted by the Office of Practice and Education, based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The application is reviewed by the Office of Practice and Education, in order to ensure that each participant is adequately prepared.
NOTE: As of May 14th, registration with Shambhala Mountain Center is only open to those who have submitted and application and recieved an official acceptance letter from the Shambhala International Office of Practice and Education. If you have begun an application and need to complete and submit it, please follow the link below. No NEW applications are currently being accepted.
Registering with Shambhala Mountain Center allows you to pay for the program and requested housing. Registering for lodge housing submits your housing preference, but does not guarantee it. Importantly, registration with Shambhala Mountain Center alone does not guarantee your attendance at Enlightened Society Assembly.
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Once you have submitted an application, the acceptance letter from the Office of Practice and Education will contain a link to register with Shambhala Mountain Center. The registration deadline for ESA is June 15th, 2014. Participants registering after this date will incur an additional fee.
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Ashe Acharya John Rockwell first met Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche in 1975 and entered the Buddhist and the Shambhala path. Over the many years of his journey, he taught Buddhist Studies at Naropa University, was co-director of Karme Choling, and was Director of Shambhala International. In 1996, he was named an acharya (senior teacher) by Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, and in 2001 was appointed the Ashe Acharya, in charge of the Shambhala Office of Practice and Education. For seven years he was resident acharya at Karme Choling in Vermont. During this time, he studied Taoist qigong with Eva Wong who authorized him to teach. Due to a long-time passion for the forest and nature, he is engaged in a naturalist training course with the Wilderness Awareness School. He now lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia with his wife and travels internationally to teach.
Acharya Melissa Moore
Melissa Moore, PhD., has been a Shambhalian since 1979. She received her Master's degree from Naropa and a PhD in Psychological Anthropology from California Institute of Integral Studies. She became an Acharya (most senior teacher in the Shambhala tradition) in 2012. She co-founded, and is a head teacher in, The Karuna Training, a two-year professional training program in contemplative Psychology now offered in 7 Countries. Dr. Moore has worked in community behavioral health for several years and was the founding director of The Felton Institute, a mental health research and training Institute in San Francisco from 2005 – 2016.