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Happy Diwali!
We are happy to announce that Swami Lakshmanjoo's teaching on "The Bhagavad Gita, in the Light of Kashmir Shaivism" is now available to buy or rent for video streaming. Click here…
These 26 videos of approximately an hour each of the 18 chapters of the Bhagavad Gita are available to watch online, rent, or purchase so you can watch on your computer or home TV.
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Book set of eight rare Texts on the TransformatioHappy Diwali-light2n of Consciousness
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- Manual for Self Realization: 112 Meditations of the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra
- Shiva Sutras: The Supreme Awakening
- The Mystery of Vibrationless-Vibration in Kashmir Shaivism: Vasugupta's Spanda Kārikā & Kṣhemarāja's Spanda Sandoha
- Light on the Tantra of Kashmir Shaivism; Abhinavagupta's Tantraloka Chapter One
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The Oral Teachings of Kashmir Shaivism
It was Swami Lakshmanjoo's heartfelt desire that his teachings of Kashmir Shaivism be preserved and be made available to all human kind. The last in an unbroken chain of masters, Swami Lakshmanjoo draws from the depths of his personal experience, and from the knowledge handed down through the chain of masters of the oral tradition of Kashmir Shaivism. This seven – book – series encapsulates the core knowledge and practice, essential to the understanding of this unique philosophical system.
About the Author
As a boy, Swami Lakshmanjoo's life was filled with a spiritual thirst to know and realize God. From a very early age he was filled with spiritual experiences. In fact, these experiences were so intense that his parents thought he was suffering from hysteria. They were very concerned and approached their family guru, Swamiji's grand master Swami Ram, requesting him to help their son with his hysteria. Swami Ram laughed and said to them, "Don't worry, I should have such a disorder."
As Swamiji grew older, his desire to completely realize and apprehend the world of spirituality became paramount. To make this a reality, he sat at the feet of his guru Swami Mahatabakak and took up the study and practice of Kashmir Shaivism. He became completely engrossed and enthralled in his spirituality, wholeheartedly practicing day and night, ultimately experiencing the fullness of Kashmir Shaiva realization. It is to his beloved Kashmir Shaivism that he devoted the whole of his life, teaching it to those who asked, and translating and commenting on what he considered to be the most important texts of this system. He became renowned as a philosopher saint steeped in the tradition of Kashmir Shaivism. With the growing interest in Kashmir Shaivism over the last thirty years, hardly any publication has appeared without a mention of Swami Lakshmanjoo's contribution to this unique philosophy.


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As a pre-Physical Therapy intern, I was one of the first interns to ever come to work in the Therapy Department; therefore, it was a new experience both for me, and the therapists that I worked with. Everyone was very open and excited to teach me everything from their treatment methods to their favorite foods. The amount I learned from each therapist in the department, whether I personally shadowed them or not, is immeasurable. On top of the success I had in my department, the relationships that I made with the other IMA interns was something that made my experience even more amazing. Sharing stories from our days in the hospital, having tough conversations concerning things that we saw, and exploring Kenya together is something that I will always cherish. Altogether, my experience with IMA was rewarding, impactful and life changing in many ways.
Upon my arrival in Mombasa, Kenya, I was completely unaware of the impact that the International Medical Aid internship program would have on me as an individual, and further, an aspiring Physical Therapist. The culture in Kenya was overwhelming, in the best sense. It completely engulfed me and allowed me to explore the ins and outs of a foreign culture and healthcare system. My experience through this internship program provided me the opportunity to break down various barriers, allowing my perspectives and attitudes towards everyday situations to be transformed.
Mombasa, being one of the two cities in Kenya that has major hospitals, has a public teaching hospital called Coast General Provincial Hospital. It is here where my internship began, and where I was able to learn from multiple different therapists to broaden my knowledge on Physical Therapy and foreign healthcare systems. My experience at Coast General, located in an area of extreme impoverishment, provided me with an environment that required me to understand and break down socioeconomic, racial, cultural and language barriers. The way in which Kenyans welcomed me into their country, and made sure I was learning everything that I possibly could, made me have a whole new respect for the way in which they live their day to day lives. Although I was from a different continent, and looked so different than the native population, I never felt as if I was a minority. I have always believed that people should be treated as human beings and not any differently based on their characteristics, and this experience allowed me to gain more perspective on this idea than I ever thought possible. I learned that being open and eager to learn about all groups of people enables individuals to gain insight and understanding of the world as a whole, expanding the capabilities and assets that such people have. I believe that having this desire and drive is important for Physical Therapists working in all settings, and I trust that it will benefit me greatly in the future. Through this perspective, I also learned the impact that a simple smile and wave has when there is a strong language barrier, being calm in situations that are outside one's comfort zone, and asking tough questions when one does not understand a cultural practice of another group.
In addition to these barriers that I learned to overcome through gaining perspective, the atmosphere of the hospital also presented itself with barriers concerning the resources and population of Coast General. The hospital is extremely under resourced and overcrowded, which gives ample opportunity for high stress situations. This atmosphere creates a barrier in itself, which often requires health professionals to make difficult decisions regarding the number of patients they will see in a given amount of time and the amount of resources they will use. From this, I learned from Kenyan Therapists the importance of patience, and giving their undivided attention to each patient in order to see the best results. There would be many times where the therapists would be called to other wards to see other patients, but they were always sure to stay with their current patients until the very end of their care. From the first moments I knew I wanted to become a Physical Therapist, I always admired the relationships that therapists had with patients based on the level of interaction that they had, and how they genuinely cared about their quality of life. By being able to form relationships in Kenya myself, I was able to practice this characteristic of Therapists that I thought so highly of at a whole new level. Through this experience, I learned how to better understand and adapt to stressful situations by remaining patient, but efficient, in order to give each individual that I form relationships with the proper care that they deserve.
Altogether, my experience in Mombasa, Kenya allowed me to acquire skills and perspectives that I hope to use in order to become the best Physical Therapist I could be. My experiences with this program not only reaffirmed my interest to become a Physical Therapist, but greatly expanded it due to the characteristics of the therapists and hands on work that I was able to observe. I desire to continue to give and learn from each community that I am able to work with, in order to continue expanding my knowledge on various groups and characteristics of people. The perspectives that I gained from this experience will stick with me throughout the course of my future career, where I will continue to learn and build upon them.

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Case Study
Self-Paced, Online Training Improves Patient Care
UCSF CEPC moved its in-person training to Bridge Practice, improving reach, engagement, and health coaching.
With a shortage of physicians and no shortage of patients, the way primary care is delivered in the United States needs a change. Some practices are meeting this challenge, shifting from the traditional physician-centered model to patient-focused teams, with the goal of improving access and quality of care.
The University of California, San Francisco's Center for Excellence in Primary Care (CEPC) was created in 2005 to respond to challenges that face the broader healthcare community with the goal of achieving the Quadruple Aim: improving patient experience, enhancing population health and health equity, reducing the cost of care, and restoring joy and satisfaction in the practice of primary care. Among its various offerings, CEPC provides health coaching skills training to healthcare leadership, providers, and staff nationwide.
The Objective
"We are a small but mighty center with ongoing demand for our trainings. We recognized the need for a health coaching program that can improve the interaction and quality of care provided to patients. By adapting our in-person offering to an interactive online program, we knew we could not only reach more teams and practices but also address the request for a self-paced curriculum — something that provides our trainees with more flexibility and accommodates their busy schedules," commented Chris Chirinos, CEPC Practice Coaching and Training Manager.
UCSF CEPC's Approach
The CEPC health coaching skills training emphasizes how members of the healthcare team can work collaboratively with patients to equip them with the knowledge, skills, and confidence they need to be active, informed partners in their care. "The Practice platform was pre-vetted by our training team as one that preserved the interactive nature of our training, which we were eager to retain in our online offering," said Chirinos about how CEPC selected Practice.
Training around 25 participants at a time, the online program is structured over 10 weeks, beginning with a kick-off webinar followed by a series of skills-based modules released weekly. Throughout the course, participants engage in role-play and peer learning activities based on real-life scenarios. The training ends with a pinnacle demonstration by participants to CEPC master trainers. "This 'capstone' activity that closes out our course is an important skills check that helps ensure our participants' understanding and mastery of the curriculum. Through two extended role-play scenarios, our trainees are tasked with using all the skills they've learned to health coach a fictional patient," added Beatrice Huang, Policy and Program Analyst for CEPC.
With the introduction of Practice to the program, the team at CEPC was able to:
- Broaden its reach to healthcare practices around the country and accommodate their busy clinical schedules with a tailored, self-paced curriculum.
- Empower participants to engage in mobile-enabled, flexible learning — from anywhere, at anytime.
- Track and report on participant learning, ensuring program scalability without losing the integrity or quality of the program.
How CEPC Measures Success
- Practical application of learning - Participants have taken the skills they learned in the program and are implementing them with regularity in their day-to-day work to better engage patients in their care.
- Program scalability - "The ability to easily pull analytics on which modules have been completed has been so helpful for us as facilitators. It allows us to quickly see which skills require more instructor attention, enabling us to make real time adjustments and provide feedback," mentioned Huang regarding the analytics Practice readily provides at the course and participant level. "The timestamped feedback and comments are really useful! It allows participants to identify what they need to work on, without having to figure out on their own what the instructor or their peers are referring to when they provide targeted feedback," said Huang about the ease of feedback engagement.
- Mobile-ready learning - "Our participants are not only located throughout the country but also work within organizations that provide varying levels of support for extended learning. Some organizations were very mindful about protecting time for its participants to complete the training program at work, whereas other participants had to find time outside of work to engage at the same level. With Practice's mobile-ready learning capabilities, participants had the option of completing the content and role-play exercises outside of the work day and on multiple devices," said Chris Chirinos, Practice Coaching and Training Manager.
- Tailored feedback - The ability to watch other video submissions — see others role-play and complete exercises based on real-life cases and scenarios — helped peers both give and receive individualized feedback. It also provided opportunities for participants to self-correct after observing their peers' video submissions.
To learn more about how CEPC has leveraged training programs and educational resources to prepare today's clinics and healthcare practitioners and champions to respond with technology-first, impactful practiced coaching and learning with Practice, contact us at [email protected] or 877.576.5364


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Social Media Companies Support New FCC ProposalBy Kyle Aevermann In Social Media
Last month, FCC Chairman, Julius Genachowski, proposed an outline of explicit rules that will soon protect consumer access to an open Internet. What is considered as "network neutrality," the rules will prevent broadband-based Internet providers such as AT&T and Comcast for example, from discriminating against certain types of services, applications, or online views. They will also require providers to have have public access to the companies manage-mental practices.
This morning, 24 major companies and social media sites, such as Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, Google & Sony, and which are all part of the Open Internet Coalition, sent a letter to the FCC, backing the support of an open Internet.
Dear Chairman Genachowski:
We write to express our support for your announcement that the Federal Communications Commission will begin a process to adopt rules that preserve an open Internet. We believe a process that results in common sense baseline rules is critical to ensuring that the Internet remains a key engine of economic growth, innovation, and global competitiveness.
For most of the Internet's history, FCC rules have ensured that consumers have been able to choose the content and services they want over their Internet connections. Entrepreneurs, technologists, and venture capitalists have previously been able to develop new online products and services with the guarantee of neutral, nondiscriminatory access by users, which has fueled an unprecedented era of economic growth and creativity. Existing businesses have been able to leverage the power of the Internet to develop innovative product lines, reach new consumers, and create new ways of doing business.
An open Internet fuels a competitive and efficient marketplace, where consumers make the ultimate choices about which products succeed and which fail. This allows businesses of all sizes, from the smallest startup to larger corporations, to compete, yielding maximum economic growth and opportunity.
America's leadership in the technology space has been due, in large part, to the open Internet. We applaud your leadership in initiating a process to develop rules to ensure that the qualities that have made the Internet so successful are protected.
The web, which up until now, was built as an open platform, meaning that new services and content providers haven't needed to seek permission to post anything online. According to Google, "This 'innovation without permission' effect has allowed countless individuals and companies to offer new applications to the world, businesses large and small to open shop online, and anyone with an Internet connection to share their opinions freely in the marketplace of ideas. It's not until recently, in the wake of dogmatic deregulation, that this open environment has come under threat."
The FCC has also created a new website, OpenInternet.gov, which ideally will be a place to join the discussions about the important issues facing the future of the Internet.' The website is also opening the site to the public in hopes of getting the thoughts and ideas of the public involved as well, to keep the Internet a place where everyone is in charge and have an equal voice. The FCC will announce it's first set of basic rule this Thursday in hopes to have the Internet be a place for innovation, economic growth, and free expression.


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Sr Gemma's profile on the official website for the Jesuits in Britain. jesuit.org.uk
This podcast series is a joint Bishops' Conference and Clifton Diocese production. catholicnews.org.uk/schools-of-prayer
Schools of Prayer:
Many of us lead busy lives but finding time for Christ in prayer offers us the nourishment we need to be at peace on our spiritual journey.
Monks, nuns and priests in Catholic religious communities often have deeply prayerful lives that bring them closer to the Lord.
So what can we learn from those with a devotion to great saints like St Thérèse of Lisieux, St Dominic, St Benedict, St Francis of Assisi, St Clare, St Bernard and St Ignatius?
What do each of these 'teachers' offer us as a tool for prayer and how does their prayer begin to shape ours?
From the Dominicans to the Benedictines, the Carmelites to the Franciscans, this podcast series explores some of these wonderful 'Schools of Prayer'.
Each contributor belongs to a particular family of prayer – for example, we ask a Benedictine to talk about prayer at the school of St Benedict – and ask what their particular founder offers us, as Christians, in our life of prayer.
If prayer is about deepening our relationship with the person of Jesus, how then do we draw on that particular witness and example?
How can we learn more about what prayer can be and apply something of their vision of Christian discipleship to our way of life and desire to love Christ?
Schools of Prayer is introduced by Dr Gemma Simmonds CJ – a sister of the Congregation of Jesus. Listen by using clicking on the tab below:
Learning from the Desert Fathers and Mothers
Canon John Udris, Spiritual Director at Oscott College, talks to us about the Desert Fathers and Mothers.
As the persecution and martyrdom of the early Christians came to an end at the beginning of the fourth century, a new form of heroic holiness began to emerge in the deserts of Egypt.
Its most famous icon was St Anthony the Great, sometimes known as Anthony of the Desert.
Imitating Jesus who went into the wilderness to pray and do battle with the devil, Anthony embraced a life of solitude and would inspire countless others who became known as the Desert Fathers and Mothers.
Silence doesn't figure prominently in our lives today, but silence was the chief feature of the desert into which Antony and others retreated – not to escape reality but to face it.
Canon John Udris:
"Noise is one of the distracting ways we avoid the most important issues about life and God – about others and ourselves. In the desert there are no distractions. Clarity accompanies the quality of its quiet".
In this five-minute podcast for our 'Schools of Prayer' series, Canon John Udris reflects on the Desert Fathers and Mothers, recalls stories to help us visualise their prayerful lives.
"One of the specific methods of prayer from the Desert tradition is what they called 'Talking Back'. Just as Jesus, when he was faced with the devil's temptations countered each one with words from scripture, the Desert Fathers and Mothers would do the same.
"They imagined themselves like the young David facing the giant Philistine Goliath and defeating him with nothing but a sling, a stone and his trust in the Lord. And so they proposed, as weapons against specific temptations, words from Scripture like stones to throw against those thoughts."
The School of St Dominic
We've a lot to thank the Dominicans for.
The Order of Preachers has furnished us with some of the finest minds – Doctors of the Church like the 13th century Friar St Thomas Aquinas for instance.
The Order has also given us one of our most well-known Catholic prayers – the Rosary.
So plenty to consider in this episode of our 'Schools of Prayer' podcast series.
Today we hear from Sister Hyacinthe, from France. She's a Dominican Sister of St Joseph who lives with the community at St Dominic's Priory in the New Forest, Hampshire.
"The Dominicans are at the origin of one of the most humble, popular and accessible forms of prayer – the Rosary.
"We often see artwork depicting our mother Mary giving the rosary to St Dominic – a prayer so precious and powerful that it's said to be coming from Our Lady herself.
"The Rosary is a wonderful fruit of Dominican spirituality. Although it was set out as a formal type of prayer in the centuries following St Dominic, it came from the Order and its origin and features are essentially Dominican.
"The Rosary is prayed by the whole person – body and soul. It's a very human prayer. We can pray it kneeling, walking, sitting or standing. We can even pray it running or doing the ironing."
Official website for St Dominic's Priory in the New Forest
Carmelite Prayer and Spirituality
Fr James McCaffrey OCD, a priest from the Carmelite Priory in Oxford, talks passionately about Saint Thérèse of Lisieux and Carmelite spirituality.
"An integral part of a Carmelite's relationship with God is to be a friend to him as well as to receive his friendship. To welcome his love with the desire to share that love with others. To give God pleasure and to relate to him knowing that he can suffer like us and understands us exactly as we are."

catholicnews.org.uk/schools-of-prayer
carmelite.org.uk
Website for the Discalced (Teresian) Carmelite Family in England, Scotland and Wales.
The Prayerful Guide St Bernard of Clairvaux
Today we turn our prayerful attention to Saint Bernard of Clairvaux for our Schools of Prayer podcast series.
Sr Mary Apolline from the Berdardine Cistercian community at Brownshill, Stroud gives us her reflection on the remarkable twelfth century saint and reformer and also her life as a Bernardine sister.
We start with St Bernard's Prayer to the Most Holy Name of Jesus before Sr Mary Apolline tells us about the saint's reverence for the name of Christ:
"Saint Bernard encourages the devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus. He says: 'It is light, food and medicine… When preached to us, it is food… When we meditate upon it, it is light… When we invoke it, it is medicine that soothes our pains…'
"God loves us and he is always faithful to his promise. Whenever I say 'Jesus', I'm confident that I'll receive whatever I need because he loves me.
"Each time I say 'Jesus', it is, for me, an act of faith, an act of love and an act of trust.
"The name of Jesus protects from the power of the evil one who constantly seeks to do harm.
"The name of Jesus fills the heart with joy and peace, giving strength in our sufferings."
Official website for the Berdardine Cistercians of Esquermes
What lies at the heart of Christian prayer?
Fr James Hanvey SJ, Jesuit priest and Master at Campion Hall, University of Oxford, gives us an excellent reflection on Christian prayer for our Schools of Prayer podcast series.
He talks about the prayer of Jesus Christ himself and how he handed it to us – to the Church – to sustain us to this day and beyond as we seek to deepen our relationship with God.
"The whole of Christian life is a life in Christ. We are profoundly, deeply rooted in Christ. In him we live, we move and we have our being. It's Christ who carries us, who greets us, who meets us – who holds us before the Father.
"Praying in Christ also means the other deep dimension of that prayer is relationship. It's a prayer in and with the Church – the Body of Christ. Even on those occasions I can't pray or when I'm asleep – or not conscious of God – the prayer of the Church carries me."
The School of St Benedict .
In this podcast for our 'Schools of Prayer' series we take a closer look at Benedictine prayer and spirituality.
We travelled to the heart of the Cotswolds, to Prinknash Abbey in Gloucestershire, to speak to Fr Stephen Horton OSB, Prior and Novice Master at the Benedictine monastery. Prinknash is a monastic community of men, who live in the spirit of the Rule of Saint Benedict.
"St Benedict, in his Rule, is very specific about what we do during the day – it's sliced up, if you like, into prayer, work and meditation…
"We need to keep a balance in our lives – don't over do one thing to the detriment of another. For St Benedict, the balance is between psalmody, the Book of Psalms in the Bible, which is the staple of a monk's day, seven times a day we go into choir and we chant the psalms from one end of the book to the other. But also manual work, because we are not disembodied angels, we are like en-fleshed spirits – flesh and blood – and we have to realise that part of the reality of being human is to make our own living.
"Here at Prinknash we do that principally by making incense and we have other little industries. But in the end we are called back to choir. We go from work to choir, to eating, to choir, to bed – and that is the delicate balance.
Fr Stephen goes further:
"St Benedict is always insistent on coming back, coming back, coming back to the mid-point. There are no extremes in the Benedictine way because extremes can lead to spiritual insanity."
Official website for Prinknash Abbey
The School of St Ignatius
Today it's the turn of St Ignatius as we look at Ignatian prayer and spirituality for our Schools of Prayer podcast series.
St Ignatius of Loyola founded the Society of Jesus – the Jesuits – in 1540. Today there are over 18,000 priests and brothers present in more than 100 countries.
One of the 18,000 just so happens to be our current Holy Father, Pope Francis. His heart for social justice, deep prayer and inspirational teaching in some ways makes him a typical Jesuit.
So who can tell us more about St Ignatius and his teaching? How can we learn from Ignatian Spirituality to deepen our own prayer by having that personal encounter with God – that face-to-face conversation?
We visited Campion Hall in Oxford to speak to Dr Rob Marsh SJ:
"Of all the things I could say about Ignatius of Loyola's attitude to prayer, the one that strikes me most, is his belief that God is alive and active in the world and in our lives – in every corner of them. God can be found in all things.
"Prayer is the aspect of our life where we consciously practice at our relationship with a God we also find in our work and in our play. Or maybe it's better to say where God finds us."
Official website for Campion Hall, University of Oxford.
What lies at the heart of Christian prayer?
Fr James Hanvey SJ, Jesuit priest and Master at Campion Hall, University of Oxford, gives us an excellent reflection on Christian prayer for ourSchools of Prayer podcast series.
He talks about the prayer of Jesus Christ himself and how he handed it to us – to the Church – to sustain us to this day and beyond as we seek to deepen our relationship with God.
"The whole of Christian life is a life in Christ. We are profoundly, deeply rooted in Christ. In him we live, we move and we have our being. It's Christ who carries us, who greets us, who meets us – who holds us before the Father.
"Praying in Christ also means the other deep dimension of that prayer is relationship. It's a prayer in and with the Church – the Body of Christ. Even on those occasions I can't pray or when I'm asleep – or not conscious of God – the prayer of the Church carries me."
Our web section for Schools of Prayer.
Official website for Campion Hall, University of Oxford.


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Journal article Open Access
Bence, James R.
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Nature: Prestige Class
The King's Citadel operates in the interests and at the behest of the King and Crown of Breland. Originally formed as an elite unit of spies and scouts during the Last War, the Citadel became the eyes, ears, and sword of the Breland kings. Not every agent of the Citadel aspires to or qualifies for this prestige class; it represents the best of the Crown's operatives — those with the skills and authority to take on the most harrowing assignments for the benefit and glory of Breland's king.
The Citadel operates throughout Breland as the ultimate agency for dispensing the King's justice. Local watches and constabularies can call on its agents when a crime or situation poses a threat that spreads beyond their jurisdictions. Agents can also insert themselves into any situations, as they desire, since they wield the authority of the Crown. The Citadel also conducts operations beyond Breland's borders, gathering intelligence, performing covert missions, and vigilantly working to keep Breland safe from its enemies.
The elite agent is the best of the best, saved for the most dangerous, most important assignments or granted latitude to serve the King and Crown as he sees fit. With a title such as the King's Blade, the King's Shield, or the King's Wand, the elite agent answers to the highest-ranking members of the Citadel, the Breland king's intelligence adviser, or in rare cases to the King of Breland himself.
Part spy, part inquisitive, and part soldier, the elite agent serves crown and country with his heart and soul. He might have the training of a rogue or a fighter, a wizard or a sorcerer, but he has been forged by the Citadel to rise to the top of this extraordinary institution. Everything the Citadel elite does is for the good of Breland, and he sometimes receives missions from the Crown that require his unique abilities.
More often, however, he is left to his own devices. He is trusted to perform in the best interests of King and Crown without having to be constantly monitored or told what to do. He has his oath and his duty to guide him, and he is expected to always operate with the good of Breland in mind.
Region of Origin: Breland
Skills: Diplomacy 3 ranks, Perception 3 ranks
Alignment: Any lawful
Base Attack Bonus: +7
Special: Get recruited and trained by The Citadel,
and then get appointed as a special agent of the Crown.
Class Traits
Hit Dice: d8. Skill Ranks: 4 + Int mod.
BaB: Good. High Saves: Will.
Class Skills: Bluff, Knowledge (local), Knowledge (nobility),
Linguistics, Perception, Sense Motive
Level Progression
|Class Features
|●Citadel Training
|●Additional Action Points
|●Combat Sense (defense)
|●Bonus Feat or +1CL
|●Diplomatic Protection
|●Royal Contact
|●Combat Sense (attack)
|●Bonus Feat or +1CL
|●Disciplined Mind
|●Focused Smite
Class Features
Proficiencies: All simple and martial weapons, and with all armor and shields.
1.Citadel Training: Gains a +2 insight bonus on all Diplomacy, Perception, and Sense Motive checks.
1.Additional Action Points: The nr of action points received wen gaining a new level increases by +1.
2.Combat Sense, defense (Ex): Develops an intuitive ability to avoid danger. The character gains an insight bonus to AC = his class level (+2 at 2nd level, +3 at 3rd level, and so on).
2/4.Bonus Feats: Gains a bonus feat of his choice. At either or both levels, a Citadel elite can choose to increase his effective spellcasting ability in a spellcasting class he possesses instead of taking a bonus feat.
3.Diplomatic Protection: Receives a signet (a ring or a brooch) from the King of Breland denoting the agent's favored connection to Crown and Nation. This connection provides status and a certain level of protection from the law. In Breland, this protection is absolute (though violating the laws of the land can lead to trouble for the agent).
In the neighboring lands of Aundair, Thrane, Karrnath, and Zilargo, treaties and long-established agreements protect agents of the Citadel, but agents who push their luck (meddling in the affairs of government in lands other than Breland, killing wantonly, or otherwise flouting the law at every turn) are likely to suffer "accidents" that are completely disavowed by authorities in those lands. In other realms, a Citadel elite's diplomatic protection is meaningless.
3.Royal Contact: Has a contact close to the crown that provides information, assistance, and resources on an infrequent basis in exchange for the completion of missions and assignments that personally benefit the Brelish king. The type and degree of assistance this contact can provide is largely in the province of the DM.
As a general rule, this contact can perform the same function as a Diplomacy check used to gather information, a Bardic Knowledge check, any Knowledge skill check, a Profession skill check (to accomplish a specific task, not simply to earn money), or sufficient Craft skill checks to make or repair a single item.
Other functions are possible, at the DM's discretion. The character can call upon this royal contact no more than once per adventure.
4.Combat Sense, attack (Ex): Applies this same intuitive sense to striking opponents in combat as well as avoiding blows, learning to anticipate where an opponent will move. The character doesn't gain a bonus on his attack roll, but he can ignore the target's Dex & dodge bonuses to AC, to a max = (character's class level) in total bonuses.
For example: A 4th-lvl Citadel elite fighting a displacer beast (Dex 15, Dodge) in Sharn negates its +2 Dex bonus to AC as well as its +1 dodge bonus from the Dodge feat, bringing its total AC from 16 to 14. The same character fighting a hellcat (Dex 21, Dodge) negates 4 points of the creature's +5 Dex bonus to AC, and cannot negate its dodge bonus. Thus, he attacks the hellcat as if its AC were 17 rather than 21.
5.Disciplined Mind (Ex): Grants complete immunity to fear effects. Character also adds his Wisdom bonus (if any) to all Fortitude saving throws, in addition to his Constitution modifier.
5.Focused Smite (Su): The character may, once per day, add his Wisdom bonus (if any) to his attack roll and deal 1 extra point of damage per character level. He must declare this smite before making the attack roll.


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Introduction: Fold the Corners
Fold the corners to the middle of the paper.
Step 1: Fold 1/4 of the Wings
fold 1/4 of the wing so it looks like the picture, remember to fold both sides.
Step 2: Fold All the Way and Back.
Fold to match the photo and than fold back like you did in the last step.
Optional: fold the pointy tip inward to protect other people's eyes when flying. I can not be held liable for any dangerous activity that you engage in when using my plane design.
Step 3: DONE!!!
Now just fold the plane in half, put in the paper clip, and off you can go. This plane flys far so make sure you do it outside on a calm day. Just throw gently and it will go far.
Notes: If you throw to hard it won't fly far and you may get poked in the eye! If you built it wrong it will do stalls and inversions.
I may eventully put up a video on how to fly it.
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There is your video, the wind took my plane and pummeled it to the ground on both times. the first time the plane went about 17 feet and the second it went about 30 feet.
One last thing I forgot to add. To send a note to a friend in class or at work, just add the note on the paper clip.
Not a good idea to throw it across the room haha.
But still, nice Instructable.
P.S. You forgot to add in a 30 second (or less) video of it in flight!


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When you live in an area heavily covered with snow during the winter months, it is basic knowledge that your household cannot live without a winter vehicle that can help you in clearing the snow in areas around your home like the driveway, yard, and the front sidewalk. One example of what you can use is the ATV salt spreader.
You can get salt spreaders that can be attached to pick-up trucks, heavy trucks, and for the purpose of this article, all-terrain vehicles of 3 or 4 wheels. Using a spreader that is connected to an ATV is enough to clear out snow on fairly large areas that can be managed by one individual. A family with a large vacant space outside their house can get by with using a spreader mounted on the ATV instead of hiring a contractor to do the job. On another note, it also helps when you spread salt on snowy grounds to speed up the melting of the snow, and also gives you a less slippery surface. Or you could spread the salt by hand, which would also mean carrying a large bag of salt while scattering it by hand. Salt is known to quicken the melting of snow therefore spreading it on snowy areas is a good idea, which then makes the ATV salt spreader a really handy tool to have.
The ATV snow plow is another of the atv accessories that you can use for removing snow. The plow is attached to the ATV most of the time at the front and helps eliminate the need to invest in a snow plow truck if you already own an all-terrain vehicle or are looking at atvs for sale. Also, an atv snow plow is much easier to operate than the ones on trucks. Main roads are usually cleared by companies contracted by your local government. With the ATV and your snow plow, you can just focus on clearing the snow from your own driveway, or make a little extra cash with it by providing services to your neighbors when you have the extra time.


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UK Team Celebrate 55 years of Long Service
In recognition of continued commitment and dedication by members of the OEG Offshore Aberdeen team, Long Service Awards were recently presented for a combined 55 years of service.
Pictured L to R standing: Lorraine Mitchell - 5 years, Mark Rimmer - 5 years and seated Laura Keith - 10 years, Gemma Drewett - 5 years.
Congratulations to our colleagues who were unable to attend the presentation for your combined 30 years, including John Heiton and Ewan McLean.


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There are numerous types of bank with commercial as the most popular ones in 2020. There used to be more commercial banks in Nigeria but some of them had to merge or risk been shutdown according to a directive given in 2006 by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
This reduced the number of commercial banks operating in Nigeria to 21. Ten (10) of them have international authorization, another nine (9) were granted national authorization and the remaining 2 have regional authorization.
List of Commercial Banks in Nigeria
This article will always be updated to reflect new inclusion when the need arises. In the mean time, below are the current ones.
They are listed in order of international (first 10), national and regional (last 2) authorization.
- Access Bank Plc.
- Diamond Bank Plc.
- Fidelity Bank Plc.
- First City Monument Bank Plc.
- First Bank Nigeria Limited.
- Guaranty Trust Bank Plc.
- Skye Bank Plc.
- Union Bank of Nigeria Plc.
- United Bank of Africa.
- Zenith Bank Plc.
- CitiBank Nigeria Plc.
- Ecobank Nigeria Plc.
- Heritage Bank Limited.
- Keystone Bank Limited.
- Stanbic IBTC Bank Plc.
- Standard Chartered Bank Limited.
- Sterling Bank Plc.
- Unity Bank Plc.
- Wema Bank Plc.
- Suntrust Bank Nigeria Limited.
- Providus Bank Plc.
In case you were wondering which bank merged or were acquired, i have got you covered.
Prudent Merchant Bank, EIB International Bank, Bond Bank, Reliance Bank and Co-operative Bank merged to become skye bank.
- Intercontinental bank was acquired by Access bank.
- Oceanic bank was acquired by Ecobank.
- FinBank was acquired by FCMB.
- Skye Bank Acquired Mainstreet Bank.
- Sterling Bank acquired Equitorial Trust Bank.
Functions of Nigeria Commercial Banks
Any bank designated commercial must be able to;
- Accept deposits from communities, organizations, individual and government.
- Grant loans to eligible individual, corporations and government.
- Perform other basic financial transactions which include but not limited to money transfer (local and international), withdrawal, issue cheque and accept payment.
Head Office, Managing Directors & Year Established
Here are even more details on some of the commercial banks that operates in Nigeria. They all have their main office in Lagos.
Access Bank: Established in December 1988, located at 999c, Danmole Street, Off Idejo Street, Off Adeola Odeku Street, Victoria Island and Mr. Herbert Wigwe as managing director.
Diamond Bank: Is located at Plot 1261, Adeola Hopewell Street, Victoria Island. Its year of establishment is December 1990 and Mr. Uzoma Dozie as managing director.
Fidelity Bank: Founded in 1988 with head office at 2, Kofo Abayomi Street, Victoria Island and Nnamdi Okonkwo as director.
FCMB: Established in 1982, located at Primose Towers, 17a, Tinubu Street with Adam Nuru as its managing director.
First Bank: Founded in 1894, located at Samuel Asabia House, 35 Marina with Dr. Adesola Adeduntan as managing director.
Gtbank: Established in Jan. 1990 with Segun Agbaje as its current managing director. There headquarter is at 635, Akin Adesola Street, Victoria Island.
Skye Bank: Five banks merged to form skye in 2006 and its current managing director is Mr. Tokunbo Abiru. Their head office is located at 3, Akin Adesola Street, Victoria Island.
Union Bank: Founded in 1917, located at Stallion Plaza, 36 Marina and Emeka Emuwa is their current director.
UBA: Was established in 1949 with head office at 57 Marina and Kennedy Uzoka as managing director.
Zenith Bank: Founded in 1990 and is located at Plot 84, Ajose Adeogun Street, Victoria Island with Mr. Peter Amangbo as the managing director.
Ecobank: Its headquarter is at 21, Ahmadu Bello Way, Victoria Island and current managing director as Ade Adeyemi.
Stanbic Ibtc Bank: Head office is at IBTC Place, Walter Carrington Crescent, Victoria Island and managing director is Yinka Sanni.
Wema Bank: Their headquarter is at Wema Towers, 54 Marina, Lagos Island with Segun Oloketuyi as director.
There you have it on commercial banks in Nigeria. Kindly share this article using the social sharing buttons below.


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I love valentines day. Not just because it involves chocolate (but hello, it's definitely a plus) but because it's a day to celebrate love. Not that any day can't be a day to celebrate love, but let's be real- ain't nobody got time for that- kidddding. Okay, okay, but I really believe it is important to celebrate love + we should totally do it more often. So these cute bugs are for valentines day or just celebrating love on any random day- andddd bonus! they are super easy to make! You might even have the supplies in your house right. this. second. Bam. You're welcome. ["You've been bit... by the love bug!" printable in supplies list]
Supplies: Candy (I used mint M&M's, milk chocolate M&M's, lemon heads, and skittles) | Target up&up portion control plastic baggies | Embroidery floss | Scrapbook paper | Black craft foam sheet | Scissors | Hot glue gun| Black sharpie | washi tape | YOU'VE BEEN BIT PRINTABLE
First things first, put your candy in your snack bags. The portion control bags are super easy because they are resealable and easy for little hands (or your husband because you know twist-y ties and husbands) but you could really use any plastic like bag. I wanted my bee and ladybug to be a little shorter so I stitched across with some embroidery floss (not a necessary step, just based on preference) and then cut off the excess under my stitching (don't cut first and then stitch because it will be a lot harder). I added lines to my bags with a sharpie just for a little extra detail.
Next I cut out the shapes of my bugs. These three bugs went great for this. I also planned to make a butterfly (hence the skittles) but I didn't really dig it, so I scrapped it. These three cuties made the cut- literally. I cut out the wings, heads, antennas, etc. based on the bag + bug size. You could really do it any way, but this is what worked for me. I just free hand cut the shapes because that's just how I work. I like when it looks more organic and handmade, not perfect and cookie cutter. I mean, there's a time and place for cookie cutter, but I usually like to wing it (craft rebel). When I was gluing them to the bag I used just a dab of hot glue so I didn't melt the plastic. The only thing I didn't glue on were the heads, I used washi tape to stick the heads to the bag so it would make it easier to open.
I made the [You've been bit printable] for some extra fun. I printed the PDF out and cut them based on the size of my bug's head size. Then glue them on! I added some polkadots with my sharpie.
This was such a fun little diy that can be given to anyone and it's super easy and quick. Celebrate love + give someone a lovebug to make them smile! Happy love day!


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Gasoline prices to drop
Drop in refiner capacity makes consumers pay
News release
Paradise, NL, June 19, 2007- Gasoline will come a little cheaper for consumers in Newfoundland and Labrador this week as prices are forecast to drop by a rough 3.3 cents a litre with 13 days out of 14 to report from, that's according to George Murphy of the Consumer Group for Fair Gas Prices. Heating and stove oils are showing an increase of close to 6/10ths of a cent over the same time period.
"A look at the numbers from last weeks inventory data shows that Big Oil is making consumers pay for their past folly. We've seen Big Oil pay out big money to shareholders rather than make the strategic investments in refineries maintenance. Every time we see a refinery outage, we see the fruits of that. If refiner capacity drops against consumer demand, they still win," said Murphy.
"Right now, Big Oil is heavily dependent upon foreign imports of refined product. That will be a strategic mistake to the consumer if demand picks up in other centres where this refined product is coming from. If the markets lose these imports to the North American market, we could see some sharp rises in pricing to the consumer. Because they're not refining enough to keep up with demand and relying heavily on imports, we've effectively seen the creation of a 'house of cards' on the markets that the consumer could end up paying for in the end.
"Refinery capacity dropped in an Energy Information Administration report from last week. Numbers last week showed that capacity dropped in the gasoline demand period to fall to 89.2 per cent. While the same report showed a very modest growth in gasoline inventory, the numbers remained very bullish to traders. Numbers for the rest of the regulation period started to trade up again erasing some of last weeks predicted five cent drop at the pumps that should have happened.
"What is odd with the increase on heating and stove oils is that demand for distillates has increased over the same period last year. I'm still worried that there is going to be a sustained increase in heating and stove oils this winter if Big Oil doesn't address refining problems. We're still not seeing big increases in inventories of that fuel group, nor are we seeing drops in the cost price of those fuels. Spots are a rough two cents over what they were for the same timeframe last year."
"People should be concerned that numbers for heating and stove oils aren't backing down the way they normally would. This is the time of year that we've seen those figures back down but they aren't. If this keeps up and nothing changes, we'll be back into relief programs for those who can't afford to pay for heat again and governments will be forced to act in response to Big Oil's folly. We're getting too dependent upon foreign imports to catch us when the markets are failing us."
For more information, contact;
George Murphy
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Asian LIMA Offices and Rep Cooperate with Taiwan Licensing Event
LIMA China, LIMA Japan and LIMA Korea joined forces to assist with the 2016 Taiwan Licensing Seminar and Trade Meeting Event held on 27th July at the Taipei International Convention Center. Organised by the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) to promote Taiwan content in the international licensing arena, the event included educational seminars, panel discussions and business matching sessions with overseas buyers.
LIMA Greater China was instrumental in helping organise the event and Tani Wong, Managing Director, gave an overview of licensing as one of the key educational sessions.
LIMA Japan and LIMA Korea assisted in by promoting the event to their membership, which resulted in local country members attending as buyers to the business matching session.
Event URL: http://www.accupass.com/event/register/1606160224011713838460#anchor-content
News source with photos (in Japanese): http://www.licensing.or.jp/20160808taipeilicensing/


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FEC – WiFi Home Control – 17th November
Frampton Electronics Club (FEC) are excited with the interest for the up coming 3 week project which starts on the 17th November, and continues on the 24th and finally on the 1st December for this year. We will be back in January with a new project. If you have any ideas on projects please do contact us by email @ firstname.lastname@example.com.
WiFi Home Control is a custom system which allows you to control certain things in your home. We have built two example which shows the potential of what could be achieved. We have a mains socket, and WiFi controlled roller blind, which will be on display during the project.
But what could you build? Why not come along and see what you can build in our 3 week project. It is only £2 per person with the option to purchase all the parts at the end of the project for only £8. There is no obligation to purchase though.
Lets make something!


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|Department of the Army
|Fort Bliss, Texas
|Name of Contracting Activity:
|Multi-Phase Multi-Discipline Renovation
|Date of Contract Award:
|Contract Value at Award:
|Awarded Completion Date:
|June 15, 2013
|Actual Completion Date:
|March 4, 2013
|List of Key Personnel:
|Project Manager, Quality Control, Superintendent
|List of major subs/trades:
|HVAC, Plumbing, Electrical, Selective Demo, Drywall
Aztec Contractors, Inc. served as Prime Contractor for this Multi-Phase Multi-Discipline Renovation project. Major scopes of work included civil, new construction, renovation, demolition, electrical, mechanical and communications. Hangar Floors Sealing: Hangar floors required simultaneous seal and paint of 232,000 SF total hangar floor area in Buildings 11203, 11212, 11308, and 13400. Major scopes of work included prepping, sanding, and application of polyurethane. This project required full coordination and communication with the Government to move aircraft in-and-out of work areas. Safety Lines and Traffic Mirrors: This project involved painting yellow safety lines on warehouse floor and installing traffic mirrors at Buildings 1109 and 1110. Approximately 1,650 LF of 4" safety lines were installed on warehouse floors and 18" convex-quarter dome traffic mirrors at exterior of bay doors. Add Quiet Rock: This project required the installation of5/8" Quiet Rock at Building 11685, a highly secured, fully operational and occupied facility. The work required remove/replace a portion of drop ceiling and raised flooring to provide new Quiet Rock wall in SCIF rooms 1051 and 1068 at Building 11685. Existing carpet was carefully removed and placed back. Communications and electrical were furred out to accommodate the new installation. This highly secured area required that all construction personnel be accompanied by Government escorts throughout the work site including grabbing materials and using the restroom. Additionally, all tools were inspected prior to starting work. Renovate Restrooms: This portion of the project required renovation of the existing Men and Women's restrooms located inside Biggs Park to include floors, walls, ceilings, electrical, plumbing and upgrade of HVAC system.


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Man, bunch of bumps and bruises for Los Yankees this spring, eh?
And Mike Trout—This Is Your Life!
Picture by Bags
Man, bunch of bumps and bruises for Los Yankees this spring, eh?
And Mike Trout—This Is Your Life!
Picture by Bags
So I guess Gio is actually going to happen? Cashman sure does love collecting old pitchers with 4th / 5th rotation potential.
Manny $300
Bryce $330
Trout $423
That's over a billion clams
And hey, real baseball at 5:30 in the ack emm.
Hoping for a report Tokyo Jazz.
[2] Hey rbj! I couldn't get tickets, but of course watched the games on TV, rare night-time MLB for me. (Now you all know what morning baseball is like, it's actually really fun). Ichiro didn't look great his last ABs but was so amazing watching him say goodbye here. Nice to see the Mariners get off to a good start too though it probably won't last.
[3] Dude, how'd you get the games. MLB was blocking me for some reason and I couldn't find them on regular TV. (Well, that's mainly because I don't know how to work our home remote, and also because Minako is the real controller.)
I am glad Ichiro finally found the nuts to retire. It's gotta be hard on him. Baseball really was his whole life, his every waking moment. Next stop Cooperstown!
MLB TV replayed the game last night, and I watched the last few innings. I know MLB has been criticized before for sending two teams half away across the globe to play two or three games, but they got it right this time. For what he has meant to World Baseball, Ichiro clearly deserved this stage. It's no surprise that the crowd wasn't as raucous as the Bronx was on Mariano's or Jeter's last night, but it was still something special. That Ichiro made out in his final two at bats really didn't matter. The moment for me, though, was when he came off the field. Scott Servais played it exactly right. His defense went out to play the bottom of the ninth, but then he pulled the entire team off and had Ichiro wait out in right field for a beat until the public address announcer told the crowd he was exiting the game. All the Mariners waited in front of the dugout, and Ichiro hugged each one. Three standout. Dee Gordon faced Ichiro and bowed, but Ichiro immediately rebuked him. "No! Come on, man!" And then they embraced. Felix Hernandez was clearly emotional as they hugged. But the best and most memorable was Yusei Kikuchi. The Japanese-born pitcher had started the game, making his first major league appearance in front of his home nation fans. That would probably have made the experience special enough for him, but the added layer of Ichiro, clearly amped things up for him. Think about this. He's 27, so he was nine when Ichiro debuted with the Mariners in 2001. I don't think it's a stretch to imagine a young Kikuchi with posters of Ichiro on his bedroom wall, waking up early every morning to watch his hero playing in the major leagues, dreaming of following in his footsteps one day, the same dream likely shared by countless Japanese boys back then. And here he was, pitching in Ichiro's final major league game. When he hugged Ichiro, he became that nine-year-old boy again. He hugged him, and then broke down in tears. It was a moment he'll never forget. Neither will I.
[5] That moment when Kikuchi hung his head and stated weeping made everyone watching a 9-year old for at least a moment.
A helluva career, there and here.
[3] Thanks. Was able to see part of it on rerun. Heck of a career, but Father Time always wins (except, it seems, with Tom Brady.)
[5] Yeah, that was a great scene. Nice re-creation Hank.
I guess there IS crying in baseball!
Meanwhile, Cashman couldn't help but get his Shane Robinson 2.0 for the 2019 roster. Apparently you can have too much pitching. But I see you, Mr. Cashman, I know you are setting up your scapegoat for if the championship evades this team yet another year, and you can sheepishly wave your hand over the IL and say, "well, things didn't exactly go as we had planned..."
Yes they did, Brian. Yes they did.
[4] Boat, sorry I only just saw your post now! I was watching through my mlb.tv app, same as usual. Wasn't it on NHK-BS as well?
[5] Great summary as usual, Hank.


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text: Explore the wild countryside of Los Cabos with this thrill-seeking excursion to Migriño beach driving an all-terrain vehicle. Explore the wild countryside of Los Cabos with this thrill-seeking excursion to Migriño beach driving an all-terrain vehicle.Highlights- Admire a different side to Los Cabos as you go off the beaten track - Travel though the rugged desert and wind your way through canyons - Enjoy free time to explore the beaches and dunes at your own leisure! This guided adventure takes you through the rugged beauty of the region's deserts, mountains and canyons, before embarking on a thrilling river crossing to reach the magnificent Migriño beach. Once there, you are free to explore with your four-wheel ATV the more than 5km of beaches and dunes before reaching dramatic cliffs that boast spectacular views of the Pacific Ocean. Groups consist of no more than 20 ATVs with two guides, who speak Spanish and English, and are qualified to give first aid. Safety precautions and how to drive the vehicles will be outlined before departure. It is advised that you wear jeans and sun cream, while a bandana, helmet, goggles and bottled water are included in the tour price. To drive an ATV, participants must be aged 16 or over, or be taller than about 150cm. Children aged four or older can travel as pillion passengers but pay the adult rate. There are three excursions daily. These adrenalin-fuelled expeditions last approximately two and a half hours. Others The individual ticket allows one person per ATV. The double ticket allows two people per ATV. Languages English Redeem informationVoucher type: PrintedPrinted Voucher. Print and bring the voucher to enjoy the activity.LocationStarting point: Pick up at the hotel available upon request. Please indicate your hotel when booking.End point: Same as starting pointScheduleOpening dates10:30 - 12:3013:00 - 15:0015:30 - 17:30Duration: 2 HoursGuiding optionsGuiding type: GuideRequirements5 years old to go as a passenger and 16 years old to handle vehicle (the driver needs to have a license).


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15 May 2018 г.
Eugeny Alexandrov participated in docMOF 2018.
Senior research scientist of SCTMS Dr. Eugeny Alexandrov, Head of the Laboratory of New Crystal Materials' Synthesis, made a report at the 1st European Doctoral Symposium on Metal-Organic Frameworks held in Raitenhaslach monastery (Germany) from April 29th to May 2nd, 2018.
12 September 2017 г.
Andrey Golov and Pavel Zolotarev came back from «EuCo-TCC 2017».
SCTMS researchers, Andrey Golov and Pavel Zolotarev participated in the 11th European Conference on Theoretical and Computational Chemistry (EuCo-TCC). The conference was held on September 4-7, 2017 in Barcelona (Spain).
8 September 2017 г.
The Congress and General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography 2017 (Hyderabad, India).
Prof. Vladislav Blatov and Dr. Eugeny Alexandrov took part in the XXIV Congress and General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography 2017 (IUCr). The Congress was held in Hyderabad International Convention Center on August 21-28, 2017.
30 November 2016 г.
Conference of the Russian Science Foundation grantholders.
Eugeny Alexandrov came back from the scientific conference of the Russian Science Foundation grantholders "Fundamental chemical researches in the 21st century" that has been conducted at N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow) on November 20-24, 2016.
28 September 2016 г.
"Science of Future": four oral reports and eight poster presentations.
Samara Center for Theoretical Materials Science took part in the 2nd International scientific conference "Science of future" that was held on September 20-23, 2016 in Kazan Federal University (Kazan, Russia).
23 September 2016 г.
Two researchers of SCTMS took part in the European Conference on Python in Science.
Andrey Golov and Pavel Zolotarev participated in the European Conference on Python in Science that took place on 23-27 of August in Erlangen (Germany).
19 September 2016 г.
Nadezhda Nekrasova took part in the ISC 2016.
Nadezhda Nekrasova, SCTMS researcher, came back from the 31st International Symposium on Chromatography (ISC2016). The Symposium took place from August 28 until September 1, 2016 at the University College Cork (Cork, Ireland).
10 June 2016 г.
SCTMS delegation took part in the national conference in Suzdal.
From May 30 to June 3, 2016 the 8th National Crystal Chemical Conference was held in Suzdal. Ten researchers of Samara Center for Theoretical Materials Science took part in the conference.


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A Saint-Simon of Our Time
In the Twenties: The Diaries of Harry Kessler
Count Kessler's diaries begin when he was fifty, three days before the Armistice, and end in 1937, a year after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, when he was an exile living in Paris. Mysteriously, there are no entries between New Year's Eve, 1933, and May 25, 1935.
Like Saint-Simon, though deeply involved in politics he does not seem to have exerted a decisive influence on events. Before the war, apparently, he had collaborated with Bernard Shaw in an effort to improve Anglo-German relations. Later he went on several diplomatic visits, to Warsaw, to London, to Genoa. His most ambitious plan was to reorganize the League of Nations. Perceiving, quite rightly, that a league based on national sovereignty would be impotent to deal with any serious crisis, he proposed a league made up of international collectivities—labor unions, churches, professional groups, etc.—but nothing came of it.
Unlike Saint-Simon, who was only concerned with France, Kessler was one of the most cosmopolitan men who ever lived. Partly educated in France and England, he was completely at home in both. There is hardly anyone in political or artistic circles in either country whom he does not seem to have met. The only notable exceptions, so far as I can make out, were Winston Churchill and T. S. Eliot.
At this point I should like to take a slight exception to the description on the dust-jacket of the 1920s as an "era of cultural renaissance." There were, to be sure, important figures like Brecht, Weill, and the Bauhaus Group who were creations of that decade, but most of the greatest writers, musicians, and painters had started their careers before 1914. What had changed were their audiences, who were now ready to appreciate them. Furthermore, I am unwilling to apply the term "renaissance" to a period which saw the rise of such asinine movements as Dada and Surrealism.
Count Kessler was known as the "Red Count," but he was never a communist. He was a pacifist and a liberal. For Germany he thought the only viable form of government would be a Socialist Republic, but I doubt if he would have made this a must for all countries. It was rather that he hated the Hohenzollerns and the German military cast. Of the Kaiser, he writes:
He was both shy and intemperate, screaming his head off to hide his embarrassment. His brutality and his cheap posturing were means of self-protection and self-deception, a purely personal matter for which all of us are now paying the price by way of political destruction and economic ruin. This rabbit roaring like a lion would be history's most ridiculous monster if his performance had not resulted in such suffering and rivers of blood. The mendacity of his behavior undermined policy and the state, substituted sham and show for sound Prussian tradition, and distorted the perspective of almost the entire nation.
Not that he imagined that, with the abdication, the Golden Age had arrived. Of nearly…
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Chief of Blackfeet Nation Calls on President Obama to End Oil Leases on Sacred Tribal Lands
Tribal leader seeks president's support to protect the Badger-Two Medicine
BROWNING, MONTANA — Chief Earl Old Person of the Blackfeet Nation recently asked President Obama for his support in ending oil leases in the Badger-Two Medicine in the Rocky Mountains.
The Badger-Two Medicine is 165,588 acres, and is surrounded by the Blackfeet Reservation, Glacier National Park, the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex and the Rocky Mountain Front. This largely roadless area is of significant cultural and spiritual importance to the Blackfeet Nation.
Chief Old Person, a member of the Blackfeet Tribal Business Council since 1954, noted that the Treaty of 1855 and the agreement made in 1895 reserved traditional rights, including access to practice tribal religion. He also said that the Badger-Two Medicine is sacred to the Blackfeet people and is known as the "Backbone of the World."
"This area is part of who we are; it's a part of our creation story," said Old Person. "We go to the Badger-Two Medicine to gather medicines and food, and to be closer to our Creator."
Without consultation with the Blackfeet Nation, the Reagan administration leased the Badger-Two Medicine in 1982 to oilmen for $1.00 per acre.
Of the 47 original leases issued, 18 remain. The tribe has pursued the cancellation of these leases. In 2013, leaseholder Sidney Longwell of Solenex, LLC, filed a lawsuit in district court to begin drilling. No ruling has yet been made.
"I have a responsibility to help protect our sacred lands for our children and their children," said Old Person. "I call on President Obama to work with the Blackfeet people to protect the Badger-Two Medicine from the threat of oil leases that will desecrate the land."
Old Person also extended an invitation to Obama to visit the reservation and Badger-Two Medicine.
"Blackfeet Country is beautiful," said Old Person. "I'd invite the president to join me for a tour of the Badger-Two Medicine. He has a duty to protect our treaty rights but, more than that, if he saw what we are fighting for, it would be a powerful thing."


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Saluting Shiva: Honouring the Male Body with Tantra Massage
May 19, 2018 @ 11:00 am - May 20, 2018 @ 7:00 pm BST
Saluting Shiva: Honouring the Male Body with Tantra Massage
19th &20th May, 10am to 6pm
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Tantra Massage provides a safe and sacred space for a man to experience new and life-affirming aspects of his sexuality. Discover how to worship the make body and honour the masculine through Tantric touch.
Specific elements of this weekend:
- Lingam massage techniques for healing and pleasure
- Anal and prostate massage techniques to awaken to receptivity and deeper pleasure
- Discover how to cultivate sexual energy and integrate it into the body rather than losing through ejaculation
- Honouring the masculine principle of Shiva through Tantric ritual
** Who is this workshop suitable for? **
This workshop is open to anyone with an interest in sacred sexuality and the art of touch, whether in your personal or professional life.
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Please apply via our online form – https://tantramassagetraining.co.uk/apply
** Do I need a partner? **
No partner is required to attend our workshops. Over the course of the weekend, we invite you to partner with different people in different exercises.
If you wish to share this experience with your beloved, then you are welcome to come as a couple. You are completely in choice as to whether you partner with each other exclusively for the duration of the workshop, or work with other people in the group. People who come as a couple usually find that some exercises they feel comfortable to do with other people and some exercises they prefer to do together.
** Who teaches the course? **
Gayatri is a Sacred Sexuality practitioner and facilitator with a vision of creating 'Heaven on Earth' through blissful encounters. She is inspired to support others in a shame-free and celebratory expression of their sensual and sexual nature and believes that when we experience pleasure fully, it has a transformative effect; creating more love, awareness and aliveness. As a fully earthbound goddess, Gayatri is known for her refreshingly natural, joyful, and vibrant approach.


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What is the dream meaning, symbols and interpretation about pencil? Let's see the dream explanation as following:-
Dream of pencil is a herald of health and happiness.
Dream of buying a pencil is portentous of good physical health.
Dream of using a pencil is a good omen indicating that good fortune is approaching.
Dream of sharpening a pencil reminds the dreamer to enjoy the happy times.
For a young girl to dream of using a pencil, denotes that she will be very lucky to have a perfect marriage.
ZhouGong's Dream Dictionary
In the Chinese culture, dreams are linked with a virtual person called ZhouGong after a popular book ZhouGong's Dream Dictionary which has been passed down from thousands of years ago. The book categorizes seven types of dream that people usually have during sleep. With thousands of years of history, ZhouGong's Dream Dictionary has been popular in China as well as in the Chinese communities for its excellence in explaining different dreams in particular those unusual and weird. While some believe that the book shows people's superstition, others believe that the objects or scenes that show up in dreams have close relationship with the dreamer's health or mental status.
Dream interpretations and dream meanings provided here are for entertainment purposes only. ChinaAbout.net makes no claim, nor endorses, the accuracy, intent or utility of any dream interpretation provided above.


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CNA News – CNA – Emilia Christofi – CYPRUS/Nicosia 20/05/2018 14:51
Cyprus' oil and gas resources should be equitably shared between both communities on the island, says Cohen
Cyprus' oil and gas resources should be equitably shared between both communities on the island, in the context of an overall settlement said Jonathan Cohen, Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs. Cohen replied in writing to questions concerning Cyprus, submitted by Bob Menendez, the Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
UN and US officials express strong support for CMP work
UN and US officials have expressed strong support for the humanitarian work carried out by the Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus (CMP), a press release issued by the Committee said on Saturday. According to the press release, the three members of the Committee held meetings in New York, Washington and Virginia, during which they briefed the UN leadership and US authorities on results achieved and remaining challenges, while areas of cooperation were identified in the fields of advanced genetic analysis, training in investigation techniques, aerial imagery and information management.
Cypriot MPs to attend PACE Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy meeting in Athens
Leader of the delegation of the House to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Stella Kyriakides and member George Loucaides will take part in a meeting of PACE's Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy, that will be held on Tuesday at the Hellenic Parliament in Athens, Greece.
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English Questions for CDS & CAPF: 14th October
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Directions (1-10): Look at the bracketed part of each sentence. Below each sentence are given three possible substitutions for the bracketed part. If one of them (a), (b) or (c) is better than the bracketed part, indicate your response on the Answer Sheet against the corresponding letter (a), (b) or (c). If none of the substitutions improve the sentence, indicate (d) as your response on the Answer Sheet. Thus a 'No improvement' response will be signified by the letter (d).
Q1. The government plans to (take up) the construction project soon.
(a) take on
(b) take off
(c) take in
(d) No improvement
Q2. The doctor (has advice) him to take proper diet.
(a) has advised
(b) had been advised
(c) was advised
(d) No improvement
Q3. (Being a pleasant evening), we went out for a long drive on a highway.
(a) as a pleasant evening
(b) it being a pleasant evening
(c) with a pleasant evening
(d) No improvement
Q4. We (are looking forward for) a positive response from you.
(a) are looking forward to
(b) have been looking forward at
(c) should look forward at
(d) No improvement
Q5. He (promised to mend) his ways.
(a) had a promised to mending
(b) promised for mending
(c) was promised of mending
(d) No improvement
Q6. We do not (agree on) certain things.
(a) agree at
(b) agree about
(c) agree of
(d) No improvement
Q7. There are two pens here and (either write) well.
(a) either have written
(b) either wrote well
(c) either writes
(d) No improvement
Q8. He jumped off the train while it (had been running).
(a) has been running
(b) ran
(c) was running
(d) No improvement
Q9. I (didn't see) him since we met two years ago.
(a) am not seeing
(b) have not seen
(c) have not seeing
(d) No improvement
Q10. He has painted that picture so often that he can do it with his (eyes closed).
(a) arms full
(b) eyes opened
(c) mind blank
(d) No improvement
S1. Ans.(d)
Sol. Take up (phrasal verb): to begin to do something.
Hence no improvement is required.
S2. Ans.(a)
Sol. "has" is used in perfect tense and takes '3rd form of verb' with it. And the sentence should be in active thus "has advised" is the correct option.
S3. Ans.(b)
Sol. "We" cannot be the subject of reference of "time i.e. evening" thus a temporary subject to use is ''it''.
S4. Ans.(a)
Sol. "be looking forward to" is the expression that we use to show waiting for something eagerly.
S5. Ans.(d)
Sol. No improvement.
S6. Ans.(d)
Sol. No improvement.
S7. Ans.(c)
Sol. "either" means pointing out individual things or person and "either" acts as a "pronoun" thus it will take singular verb with it.
S8. Ans.(c)
Sol. "while" shows duration and it should be used with "continuous tense". "While" is also a subordinate conjunction and the clause after "while" is subordinating clause which itself shows a point of time, thus perfect continuous should not be here.
S9. Ans.(b)
Sol. "since" is used to show the point of time and with that perfect or perfect continuous should be used however "see" is a stative verb whose continuous is not used thus present perfect should be used. Thus option (b) is correct.
S10. Ans.(d)
Sol. No improvement.


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January 6, 2012
Pakineau's post play takes down Miners
Pakineau's post play takes down Miners
By Robyn Rohde
BHG News Service
It's a rare occasion that teams match Parshall's height in the post.
The Braves found one last Thursday as the combination of 6-foot-2 Anna Iverson and 6-foot-2 Kaycee Link was nearly too much for Parshall in the 58-53 non-conference win. The win move the Braves to 4-2 on the campaign.
The teams traded inside looks before Beulah's Cheyanne Pederson took the 7-6 lead with the trey. From that point Parshall dominated the rest of the quarter. Nicole Packineau had the putback and Cheyenne Packineau had the turnaround jumper to end the quarter up 12-7.


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FremantleMedia, one of the largest creators and producers of entertainment brands in the world, has adopted FORscene in its US based productions for wide-area review. Zach Jarosz, Executive Director, Post Production said: "For Americas Got Talent Series 3, we wanted to allow our producers and production team world wide access to rushes and rough cuts as soon as they were ready. FORscene delivers this in a simple and efficient way. I enjoy using FORscene and am looking forward to rolling it out across my upcoming productions". You can read the full announcement here.
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Adam Phillips – Life Grip
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- 14:57 The great thing about fearSkip to cue
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- 31:00 Overcoming the number 1 fearSkip to cue
- 38:57 Staying sharp and focusedSkip to cue
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Adam Phillips FOUNDER – LIFE GRIP
Our company mission is to: "Improve Mental Health and Prevent Disease through Nutrition Meditation and Active Lifestyles".
I came from a life that was in a rapid downward spiral, bad health, poor lifestyle, partying with drugs and alcohol and grinding through my own mental battles which that lifestyle put me in.
I managed to come out on the other side and I made a commitment to my health and my business and create the cleanest supplements available on the market and share my story of growth and transition to all that can relate to my story.
You can't have a positive mindset, without being fed the right foods. You can have goals, targets, and dreams, but if you're body and mind isn't being nourished correctly then any attempt at any dream or target will be futile. On todays show our guest is Adam Phillips. Adam is the founder and owner of Life Grip supplements.
His mission is to – Improve Mental Health and Prevent Disease, through Nutrition, Meditation & Active Lifestyles
Adam is an expert in adaptive nutrition and his story is one of determination and gold old entrepreneurial grind, but ultimately, it's a journey of discovery. Adam is a close personal friend of mine and is a mate who certainly knows how to "GO ALL IN." I'm excited he is here and I know that you are going to learn something from his wonderful story.
Welcome to the show
Adams All In Story
The biggest "All-In" for Adam was when he finally decided to get rid of his fear of heights (acrophobia). And to overcome it, he decided to take an online 10 jumps course.
Like any one else, he had to face the "resistance" that came in his way when he was about to involve himself in this uphill task. But once he was all in, he found that it wasn't that bad as he used to think.
The great thing about fear
Adam believes that overcoming fear boosts one's self confidence, improves worth and that omnipresence of fear teaches a lot during the process.
For him, fear is the gap between where you are and where you want to be. So it's really curicial one should be courageous enough to defeat fear and jump overcome it to get what you want.
Dealing with failure
Adam shares an interesting strategy regarding how to deal with failure. What he does is to take failures in moments. Whenever he feels down, he just accepts the fact that whatever he's feeling is a temporary thing.
He notices his emotions, identifies them and then he let them go. He also suggests the same to other people who are going through this phase. Just don't get disheartened by small failures, and just wait for these negative emotions disappear - nothing lasts forever!
What would you say to a younger person?
For a younger person his message is that they should consider their actions vs their dreams. One must be able to see that whatever he or she is doing will take him or her to the destination they want to go.
It's very important to figure out what you want to be and what it is for which you are passionate about! Once you know it, then you can easily adjust your decisions accordingly. In short, learning to live by your true core values is the key.
Overcoming the number 1 fear
Nowadays Adam's trying to overcome his fear of public speaking. For him, it's even bigger fear than jumping out of a plane!
He understands that it's a common thing that people (at large) are afraid of speaking before a huge audience, but he had one more problem that really affected his confidence, a speech impediment. This amplified his fears however now that Adam is on the other side of it all, he realised that the speech impediment was not a problem, rather it was just a small hurdle.
Staying sharp and focused
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They also designed a device structure with a mixed-order distributed feedback grating sitting on top of one of the electrodes used to inject electricity into the organic thin films. The grating alternated first- and second-order Bragg scattering regions in order to provide strong lateral optical feedback and efficient vertical outcoupling of the laser emission. It was further
optimized to also control the flow of electricity in the devices and minimize the amount of electricity required to observe lasing from the organic thin film.
Electrically driven under pulse operation, the organic semiconductor laser diode (OSLD) exhibited spectral line narrowing with increasing current density, with lasing occurring at the long-wavelength band edge (480.3nm) of the Bragg stopband.
Last March, the researchers have founded a startup called KOALA Tech Inc. (short for Kyushu Organic Laser Technology Inc.) and plan to overcome the final obstacles to the commercialization of organic laser diodes which they anticipate could be simple to manufacture, cheap, and tunable. Such organic laser diodes could then be integrated into other organic-based optoelectronic platforms for low cost spectroscopy, displays, medical devices and LIFI telecommunications.
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Four-course feast brings foodie event back to Festival program
It's the signature food event that will tempt tastebuds, showcase the freshest in TNQ produce as well as incorporate the best in local performers, entertainment and the arts.
For the first time in 12 years, the Longest Lunch will feature on the Cairns Festival program, offering a fantastic four-course feast and matching drinks from 12pm on 27 August, under the covered terrace in the Harbour Lights dining precinct.
The feast will be served up by Ochre Restaurant in partnership with Dundee's and Marina Paradiso, with organiser and Ochre owner Craig Squire saying the time was right to bring a foodie event back to the festival program.
"The idea is to have a food event that is pleasurable and relaxing," he said.
"It will be a long Sunday afternoon session in a fantastic location, providing a nice environment to relax and enjoy Cairns."
Marino Paradiso will provide an antipasto dish, Dundee's will make the alternate drop main and Ochre will supply the alternate drop entrée and set dessert for the afternoon with the dishes featuring fresh produce including seafood, Tablelands beef and chicken and Daintree chocolate.
Art pieces created by local artists will adorn the tables and another highlight will be when the waiters' drink handling skills are put to the test during a relay race along the boardwalk.
Teams of four from each restaurant will face off during the relay race in which they have to run along a 50 metre track while carrying cups of water on serving trays.
For more information about the Longest Lunch and to book tickets, click here.
Cairns Festival officially starts on August 25 and runs until September 3 with a long list of events for everyone throughout TNQ. For more information on the festival, click here.