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Lord Hunt of Kings Heath: My Lords
Lord Peyton of Yeovil: My Lords, could someone from this side of the House say a word? I am much obliged to the noble Lord. I shall be very brief.
In Committee, in Amendment No. 17, I made a modest attempt to limit the number of people, to check the growth of a public benefit corporation to something short of a regiment. At the moment the Bill requires a minimum whereas a maximum is required. It seems to me that the idea of a public benefit corporation is an attempt on the part of the Government to give a superficial impression of being democratic. The likelihood is that it will be a mess. For those reasons I would have liked there to be a Division on this amendment, but it is absorbed into a forest of other amendments so I suppose that will not happen. However, I support every word that my noble friend Lord Howe said in moving the amendment. I hope that it will come to a Division, in which case I shall support him with pleasure.
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath: My Lords, I hope that noble Lords will not follow the advice of my noble friend Lord Lipsey. I have tremendous admiration for him and I am delighted that he has taken part in our debates on the National Health Service because he brings a very refreshing intellectual mind to bear.
This is a very important reform for the National Health Service. It would be devastating if the House were to reject the whole concept of foundation trusts and if that were to be confirmed in another place. We cannot
Such a situation leads to the fact that we have had so much restructuring over the past 20 years. I see a number of noble Lords in their places who have had a hand in that restructuring, including myself. It has lead to the concept of targets, targets and targets, central interference and micro-management. The very people to whom one wants to give space to run the health service effectively at the local level are disincentivised; their morale breaks down because they cannot carry out an effective job in the quite ludicrous over-centralised structure that we have.
The whole point about foundation trusts is the transfer of accountability from Parliament to local people. That is why the issue of democracy is so important. I say to my noble friend, having had a small role in the development of that policy, that the idea of democracy was not tacked on at a later stage. It was at the heart of the whole process when the policy was devised. Responsibility cannot be transferred from national level to local level without a transfer of accountability as well. To be accountable locally a democratic base is needed. That is why a membership structure is required for those foundation trusts that will enable the transfer of accountability to take place.
It is true that I, too, have had concerns about the Government's structure. I have made that clear on a number of occasions. I, too, do not understand why the board of governors is not the sovereign body in this legislative programme. I have never received a convincing response to that point. I share with the noble Lord, Lord Peyton, concern about the huge groupings. I can assure noble Lords that I intend to speak fully on my amendments in those groupings and I shall expect a full response. However much Front Benches may try to curtail debate and try to sort out the timing of votes, as individual Members we are permitted to debate our own amendments.
Here we are talking about the substance of the debate on foundation trusts. There are faults and flaws in the legislation, but my noble friend Lord Warner, in Committee, respondedI think very positivelyto many of the points put forward. The noble Earl, Lord Howe, is a very fair person and often he acknowledges the fact that the Government have moved on many issues. I put to him this point: I would understand a principled opposition to the issue of foundation trusts if, in Committee, my noble friend had simply pushed away all the issues and concerns that had been raised. But he has been generosity itself. Not only does he bring forward today a swathe of government amendments responding to points raised, but he also accepted in Committee a number of amendments that
At the end of the day, if we want an excellent health service, we need to give those running the health service locally the responsibility and the trust to do a good job. Surely foundation trusts are one major way to do that. I hope that the House will support the concept.
Baroness Cumberlege: My Lords, I want to respond to the noble Lords, Lord Hunt and Lord Desai. I fully support the case that has been put in opposition to this form of devolution to local hospitals that has been outlined by my noble friend Lord Howe. The noble Lord, Lord Hunt, and I used to work very closely together and at one time I was actually his boss. He was my chief executive and he was exceptional. He was imaginative, entrepreneurial and a person with huge skill.
A noble Lord: My Lords, and judgment.
Baroness Cumberlege: My Lords, not judgment, as I heard a noble Lord say.
The noble Lord and I worked extremely well together in the NHS and we knew it very well indeed. That is why I find it breathtaking that the noble Lord suggests that nothing has changed in the governance of the National Health Service over the past 50 years. He will remember very clearly, as I do, the right honourable Kenneth Clarke introducing many reforms that brought in a new concept that was NHS trusts. That took place just before a general election and members of the Labour Party were telling people that NHS trusts were set up to privatise the National Health Service. I remember visiting hospitals where elderly gentlemen and ladies had their wallets and purses because they thought that they would have to pay for the National Health Service. It was a disgrace.
Trusts were brought in and huge freedoms were given to most people: to the executive team, to the non-executives and to the chairs. They excelled and we saw tremendous improvements. In 1997 the Labour Party came to power. The new administration felt that they really understood the whole concept of power and how to run the National Health Service. Increasingly, they took more and more power; they took power away from those who were appointed to run hospitals, demoralised them and neutered them to some extent so that they could no longer do what they thought was appropriate for local people.
Now I want to be a little humble. I remember distinctly that when wethe Conservative administrationbought in NHS trusts, one of the things that we did was to concentrate all the skills, energy and excitement on hospitals. That was a flaw. All those attributes should have gone to the health authorities who were the commissioners. The same mistake exactly has been made this time round: the Government have again concentrated on the hospitals.
The purpose of hospitals is to treat and to cure and to do so with compassion and efficiency, so that there is cleanliness and clean linen and that there are good treatments that are effective and efficient. I am delighted that the noble Lord, Lord Lipsey, has had such good treatment at St Thomas's. St Thomas's is an extremely good hospital, and there are others. But there are also others that are poor, where records are lost, where there is no clean linen and where there are staff who are not employed but who come through agencies and do not have the same kind of commitment. It is that which needs addressing. It is the efficiency and the effectiveness of our hospitals that needs addressing. We should not be playing around with their governance.
If we need democracy in the health serviceI am not denying that we dowe need it at a different level. We need it with the primary care trusts, which decide the priorities in their area, where the money is to be spent and the major policies, working with strategic health authorities. I share enormous misgivings about the governance arrangements, not least because we are distracting the managers who should be running the hospitals but are now spending their time having to work through a whole new concept.
I thank the Minister, who sent me a copy of a letter after the Committee stage, addressed to my noble friend Lady Noakes, reminding me of a very interesting document entitled A Guide to the Preparatory Phase. On page 7, it states:
The guidance sets out a heavy burden of documentation, consultation and crystal ball gazing. It is complex; it is difficult; and for the first time it sets commissioning in a legal framework. It is onerous, but it has a comforting paragraph entitled, "Department of Health Reassurance". The reassurance given by the Department of Health to the brave people who are going forward is to set up a help line: a help line for people who should be running their hospitals. But they are going to attend, we are told, specialist events. Chief executives and treasurers are going to go for training. There will be seminars and source books. There will even be supplied secondees to hold the hands of top executives in the applicant hospitals.
I do not deny that that is necessary; I am sure it is. This is a whole new concept. Those people are going to need a lot of help. My point is that those people are managers. They have talent and skills, and there are not enough of them. They should be running the hospitals and concentrating their mind on reducing hospital infections and all the things that we know are not brilliant, but which need addressingnot in all hospitals, because some are good, but there are many that need a lot of help.
So I share very much the views expressed by the noble Lord, Lord Lipsey. It is absolutely right that we should not be tinkering with governance when there are better things that we should be doing with the National Health Service.
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The read was quite good, though! This didn't even come close to Princess Café, Café Aroma, or homemade panini sandwiches. 😦
And whoa, was that a short post or what? Perfect timing, since I just polished off a big bowl of oatmeal and snagged another spoonful of SunButter to nibble while I type this last bit up. 😉 I'm off to do some dishes and then head to school to get some studying done before going to morning Power yoga at my school!

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I recently had the opportunity to develop a small online booking system. This time round I was determined to make use of some development framework. Not for me the slow slog of writing all my code from scratch – surely we have moved beyond that now in web development?
The big question was – which framework to use? Since the advent of Ruby on Rails, development frameworks have become quite the flavour d'jour and there are now, well, maybe not thousands of them, but quite a few! The last time I heard there are about 80 development frameworks out there. I am not 100% user of this number, it could be a bit higher, it could be a bit more conservative (on the phpwact site you can find about 40 PHP frameworks listed). The point is, the web developer is now really spoilt for choice. Which is a problem in itself, since having too much choice can leave you dithering between different options.
This article is therefore about how I made my choice, which was CakePHP, and which factors I took into consideration.
Obviously, and certainly, I will get bombarded with "Why don't you try X framework, it is really much simpler to use…" type responses. That is quite OK, to each his own! But this is the choice I made and I am sticking to it. Frankly, the idea of going through another learning curve gives me the heeby-jeeby's….
I found that the selection criteria were not independent. In other words, once I have ruled out some frameworks due to some specific criteria, other factors came into play. It was therefore more a process of elimination than judging all the frameworks off a predefined set of criteria.
The first major selection point was: Ruby on Rails or not.
Obviously there is the attraction of using a brand new, hip, buzz-word hyped framework. You can't go wrong with something that is getting so much attention… or can you?
Let's look at some of the selection criteria that filtered out Ruby on Rails
1. Ease of installation and ability to run on shared hosting The problem is that most of my clients make use of a shared hosting environment. Can Ruby on Rails run on common-or garden variety type shared hosting? The answer was, I soon discovered – no. One needs to either have access your own private servers or run on a shared hosting environment that has Ruby on Rails preinstalled. Admittedly, there are a couple of them now starting up.
2. Minimize the learning curve Even though I knew that any new framework will involve a steep learning curve, I really did not have the guts to go through TWO learning curves – one for the language itself and one for the framework. I might still have been prepared to go through the learning curve though if it wasn't for the fact that RoR requires special hosting.
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4. Must have good documentation Under good documentation I count the following:
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– Examples and code snippets
– Screen casts and videos – although I do not see these as essential
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6. Regular upgrades and bug fixes..but not so close to each other that the software becomes unstable and unusable. Backward compatibility is also important.
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- CakePHP
- Seagull Framework
- WACT – since 'disqualified' since the latest version now requires PHP 5
- Zoop
- CodeIgniter
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6/8: Desert Overture in Tempe
Cartoons, stuffed animals and narrations will create a lighthearted, almost magical atmosphere for children of all ages at Desert Overture wind symphony's "Once Upon a Time" concert Sunday, June 8.
The concert at the Tempe Center for the Arts will mix hands-on activities with classical, pop and Disney music.
Founding artistic director Scott Helms said every detail of the concert, from coloring-book programs to on-screen projections to the diverse repertoire of songs, is meant to foster an appreciation of music in children and adults.
"We wanted to make it not only relevant for children but interesting for adults," Helms said.
Through such music as Sergei Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf," the symphony will teach young audience members about different wind instruments, which represent a bird, a cat, a wolf, a duck or other characters in the work.
A march of stuffed animals during the performance of Percy Grainger's "Children's March" lets young people become part of the concert.
Stuffed animals, which can be purchased at or brought into the event, will be donated to Phoenix Children's Hospital.
During a portion with music from "The Muppet Show," audience members can try their hand at making music on kazoos handed out during the concert.
Film clips from such Disney movies as "Frozen" and "Aladdin" will be shown as tunes from those soundtracks are performed, and "Bugs Bunny" and "Road Runner" cartoons will accompany classical pieces.
Helms said making sure that the music and cartoons synchronize adds an extra dimension to his job as conductor.
"It's kind of a high-pressure thing. It's up to me to make sure things line up. I need to know the score well and the video well," he said.
The wind symphony also will perform music from the video game series "Kingdom Hearts" and "Captain America: The First Avenger."
Ninth-grader Kristin Schmaltz of the Phoenix Children's Chorus will sing wih the symphony during a performance of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow."
Throughout the year, Desert Overture, a community group made up of LGBT members and straight allies in their 20s through 60s, puts on interactive concerts in the East and West Valley. (cq)
For past concerts, the group has performed music from "Fantasia" with a projection of the famous "Dance of the Hours" hippo segment, a memorial for John F. Kennedy with an accompanying slideshow and a "Name That Tune" game-show concert.
For Jay Bryant, a French-horn player and board member, Desert Overture has given him the chance to get back into playing music after a 15-year break after college.
French-horn players need to build and maintain strong mouth muscles, he said.
"The French horn has the smallest mouthpiece of all of the brass instruments. Being able to differentiate between the different notes is defined by different mouth movements," Bryant said.
Another French horn player, Heather Stewart, joined Desert Overture in 2011 after 20 years away from performing.
"I think what I have most grown in is to listen across multiple instruments and to really mesh with everyone," she said. "That's a skill that takes a lot of practice, to keep your ears open and listen to not only how you are playing but how you sound with everyone else."
Desert Overture: 'Once Upon a Time': 3 p.m. Sunday, June 8. Tempe Center for the Arts, 700 W. Rio Salado Parkway. $17, $12 for students and senior citizens, free for age 11 or younger. 480-350-2822, desertoverture.org.


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THE FORBIDDEN SHADOW (LA SOMBRA PROHIBIDA), the second part of THE VALDEMAR LEGACY, will hit Spanish theaters January 28th. The film contains Paul Naschy's final performance. Below is the trailer.
News and reviews of the Spanish horror film, with a special focus on its first golden age in the 1960s and 1970s. Also, revelations from the collections of Spanish horror fans.
"I hope these memoirs will be used by my descendants as a guide. It's an initiation into a passionate world of rare and unknown sensations, a seductive and tragic world bred in pain and blood, the tragic eroticism of all the senses, finally ending in death."
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The first issue of my horror-mystery-fantasy film magazine, LATARNIA FANTASTIQUE INTERNATIONAL, is out now, with three features of interest to Spanish horror fans. The first is a premier review of Paul Naschy last outing as a werewolf--Ivan Cardoso's WEREWOLF IN THE AMAZON; the second is a lengthy interview with actor Andres Resino, in which he discusses his career and working on such films as WEREWOLF SHADOW, JACK THE RIPPER OF LONDON, MURDER MANSION and Jess Franco's DEVIL'S ISLAND LOVERS; and, last but not least, a translation of Gustavo Adolfo Becquer's "El monte de las animas"--"Spirit Mountain"--the inspiration for Amando de Ossorio's Blind Dead series.
Number 1 is a limited first edition limiting printing of 250 copies, all-color, 24 pages on 80 pound paper. Ordering info:
USA: Cost of issue is $7.50, plus $2 first class shipping/handling and bagging for a total of $9.50.
Canada: Add .50, for a total of $10.
Foreign: $11.50 total.
If you want your magazine boarded, please add $2, but that doesn't guarantee that postal delivery will not find a way to bend it.
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Thursday, December 16, 2010
El Conde Dracula Resin Kit
It's being auctioned on eBay at a start bid of $499--an unreleased prototype resin kit of Christopher Lee as Count Dracula from the Jess Franco film. Fine work, and the perfect gift for a Franco or Chris Lee fan from a well-to-do friend.
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Prince Philip was taken into the King Edward VII Hospital on Monday because of a bladder infection, and missed several events from the Queen's diamond jubilee celebrations, including a service of thanksgiving at St Paul's Cathedral.
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Tyrian (video game)
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|Eclipse Software
|Epic MegaGames
|Jason Emery (programming)
Daniel Cook (art)
Robert Allen (project manager)
|PC (DOS, Windows)
|June 10, 1995[1]
|Scrolling shooter
|Single-player, multiplayer
Tyrian is a scrolling shooter computer game developed by Eclipse Software and published in 1995 by Epic MegaGames.
The game was re-released as freeware in 2004, and the graphics were made available under an open content license in April 2007.
Tyrian was programmed by Jason Emery, illustrated by Daniel Cook, and its music composed by Alexander Brandon and Andras Molnar.
- 1 Plot
- 2 Gameplay
- 3 Development
- 4 Versions and re-releases
- 5 Audio
- 6 Reception
- 7 References
- 8 External links
The game is set in the year 20,031. The player takes on the role of a skilled terraforming pilot named Trent Hawkins, who is employed to scout out habitable locations on newly terraformed planets. His latest assignment is the planet Tyrian, which is located near the territory of the Hazudra, who are a lizard-like race.
One day, Buce Quesillac, a Hazudra and Trent's best friend, is shot in the back by a hoverdrone which quickly disappears into the sky. Buce lives just long enough to tell Trent that the attack was the work of MicroSol, the giant corporation that controls the terraformation of Tyrian. They want Buce dead because of his knowledge of Gravitium, which is a special mineral, unique to Tyrian, able to control the force of gravity.
Microsol wants to use Gravitium to power their warships, which could result in them becoming nearly unstoppable. They will stop at nothing to eliminate anyone who knows of its existence. Trent is the next person on their hit list, and Buce implores him to try to reach Savara, a free world. With that, Buce dies. Trent secures a small fighter, and departs for Savara.
Tyrian is an arcade-style vertical scrolling shooter. It was developed chiefly as a homage to the works of Compile, particularly their Zanac series.
The player controls a space ship fitted with different weapons (front and back, linked to the same button, and up to two external pods with their own buttons) and other equipment. The game presents a variety of enemies (some flying, some fixed, some on rails) and bosses, with many occurrences of fixed and/or indestructible obstacles. Before the player's starship is destroyed it must take enough damage to exhaust several points of shields (which regenerate over time) and armor.
Tyrian's full game mode features a credit and equipment-buying system, and the shield/armor hit points which are similar to game mechanics in Raptor: Call of the Shadows, another PC game from the same period. The arcade mode has characteristics from coin-op arcade shooters, such as in-game powerups and extra lives.
There are three levels of difficulty to choose from: Easy, Medium, and Hard, as well as the hidden options of Impossible, Suicide, and Lord of the Game. Hard difficulty and above employ enemies with more health as well as fire more bullets per second. Certain hidden levels are only available at hard difficulty, which provide ample opportunities for unique powerups and upgrades. In certain levels, the Hard setting also prevents the player from seeing enemies outside a conical line-of-sight. Upon completion of the game, the player receives a password for one of the several hidden ships, as well as the options for replaying the game at a higher difficulty setting.
Full story mode[edit]
The main mode is the single player full story mode. This mode includes storyline-related messages in the shop at the start of the level and when certain enemies are destroyed. At certain points in the game, the player has a choice of levels.
The player begins with one standard weapon, which may be upgraded or replaced. Later weapons include multi-directional cannons, lightning guns, beam lasers, heavy missiles, and homing bombs. The player's craft accommodates a front and a rear gun; where front weapons are mostly limited to forward arcs, "rear" weapons often come with wider coverage including side and rear shots. Some rear weapons have two selectable fire modes, focusing either mostly forward or mostly sideways/rearward. Both types of weapons have eleven levels, making them upgradeable 10 times, although higher levels cost exponentially more, as well as require a stronger generator to support them..
The player can purchase up to two "sidekicks" which fly alongside the ship. Some simply act as another weapon, others have stronger attacks but are limited by a limited ammunition pool. Other upgrades include increased shields, more powerful generators to allow for stronger weapons and shields, more armour, and higher maneuverability.
Shops let the player build a strong ship on a budget with no penalty for failing and trying a different build. Any weapon can be upgraded in stores, even if not available for sale, and any item can be sold. However, the player cannot obtain sold items again without reaching another level which offers them. In many cases a single secret level in the whole game may contain a unique weapon or equipment.
Arcade mode[edit]
In arcade mode, the player picks up the front guns, rear guns, and sidekicks along the way, instead of purchasing them. Front weapons are upgraded by picking up purple bubbles from destroyed enemies. The number of purple orbs required increases exponentially to advance to higher power levels. Front and rear guns can also be upgraded to the next level by picking up powerup pods, which are found by destroying a specific enemy. The ship, shields, and generators are not upgradeable, although the player is given a medium attribute ship.
It is possible to switch between the single player and (1 person) arcade modes using a secret routine (not cheat codes). Since it is possible to find exotic weapons early in arcade mode; using this switch allows such weapons to be brought over to single player. Likewise, generator and shield upgrades from single player will result in a better ship for arcade mode.
Two player[edit]
In the two player (arcade mode only), the players control two different ships, known as the "Dragonhead" and "Dragonwing". Both players can combine their ships into one, forming the "Steel Dragon", with the first player controlling the combined ship, and the second player controlling a turret. Tyrian enables the two players to be connected via modem.
The Dragonhead has front gun powerups (with more variety than the Dragonwing's rear gun pickups), has better maneuverability, and a smaller profile making it easier to dodge enemy fire. It also controls the "special" powerup weapons such as the Soul of Zinglon or Repulsor.
The Dragonwing is larger and slower but more heavily armored. It picks up the rear up powerups (although unlike the equivalent single player rear gun, the Dragonwing fires it mostly forward instead of the side or rear), and also controls the sidekick weapons. The Dragonwing has a unique "charge-up" ability for its main gun, where if the player decides not to fire for a short period of time, the power of their blast accumulates. There are five charge levels for each weapon, and collecting the spherical purple powerups gives the Dragonwing the ability to charge-up faster.
Timed battle[edit]
In this mode, available in Tyrian 2000 only, the player chooses from three levels to play in (Deliani, Space station and Savara). The game automatically starts and the player is given a set time to complete the level, while collecting power-ups, fighting off enemies and killing the boss. When the level is complete, the score is calculated depending on time, life, destruction and killed enemies.
Super arcade[edit]
The game also features 7 (9 in Tyrian 2000) hidden "super arcade" modes with specialized ships, requiring the user to type in certain codewords which are shown after beating the game. (The first code is given by beating the regular game, and each consecutive code is given after beating the mode which comes before it.)
Super Tyrian[edit]
This mode, which is enabled by typing "engage" at the title screen, disables all cheat codes and command parameters and sets the difficulty to Lord of Game (or Suicide if the Scroll Lock key is held down). The player possesses a Stalker 21.126 ship, along with a small shield and only one weapon, the Atomic Rail Gun. No other weapons are available; however the ship is able to generate many different weapons when the player performs particular sequences of movements and weapon-firing. The "headlight effect" is always turned on in Super Tyrian, which can obscure objects that are not within a 90-degree field of view in front of the player's ship.
Destruct is a minigame concealed inside Tyrian, reminiscent of Scorched Earth, with human-vs-human and human-vs-computer modes of play. It can be played by typing destruct at the main menu screen.
In the Zinglon's Ale mini-game, players must try to gather as much ale as possible, while dodging wave after wave of bouncing enemies, and clearing the screen of enemies fully before advancing to the next level. If not cleared, the game continues infinitely while growing ever harder.
Zinglon's Squadrons is a mini-game similar to Galaxian or Galaga. Large formations of ships fly down to attack. Individual ships in the groups break off to fly down in various ways. Players must destroy the whole fleet to advance to the next fleet; basically, they must shoot everything possible. Players must shoot all the small enemies to advance to the next level.
In the mini-game Zinglon's Revenge a giant ship projects a horizontal field of energy. Small enemies fall down from above and bounce around the edges of the screen and against the energy field. Touching the field or one of the small enemies means almost certain instant death. Players must shoot all the small enemies to advance to the next level.
Tyrian was developed by a credited total of 11 people, with "three main drivers" — Alexander Brandon (composer and writer), Jason Emery (programmer and level designer), and Daniel Cook (artist and interface designer). For the aforementioned developers, Tyrian was their first commercial video game.[2][3]
The origins of Tyrian began as an experiment in 1991, with a young Jason Emery showing his friend Alexander Brandon the preliminary workings of a scrolling background. The two continued developing, and eventually decided the work could be shown to a game company. Brandon wrote a proposal document and sent it to the two leading shareware game publishers of the time, Epic MegaGames and Apogee. However, the game lacked any sound or music, and the graphics were "definitely not professional". As such, "neither got overly excited", but both showed interest.
The two developers thought they would never find a publisher. However, after a long wait, Robert Allen—head of Safari Software—considered Tyrian to fit perfectly with their company, which handled smaller scale projects. Robert Allen had word from Cliff Bleszinski that Tyrian was very similar to Zanac, thinking that it should be followed up.
Robert Allen gave leads to sound coders and artists, the first being Bruce Hsu who created interface graphics and character faces. Artist Daniel Cook was hired after composer Alexander Brandon showed interest in his artwork, which was—unbeknown to Cook—"sent around" by a friend. After he was sent a short list of levels, Cook created sample artwork on an Amiga 1200. It was met with praise by the other developers, who asked him to "make some more!". The artwork was completed in a 4-month period.[2][4]
After work began on graphics, the popularity of Tyrian rose at Epic MegaGames. Arturo Sinclair from Storm Front Studios joined to create rendered artwork for planets and character faces. The developers wanted a "simple and fun" interface, and changed it at least three times before deciding on a final design. At this point, Tyrian was almost complete; with the "Loudness" sound system, near-completed sound effects, and a marketing plan head by Mark Rein. At this time, Tim Sweeney approached the team and informed them Tyrian was to be published as a full-fledged Epic MegaGames product. It was later released in 1995.
The data cubes found in the game's Full Mode contain various references to its parent publishers, including One Must Fall 2097, Jazz Jackrabbit, and Pretzel Pete (Tyrian 2000). The Pretzel Pete Truck and its weapon is a reference to the Pretzel Pete video game.
Versions and re-releases[edit]
Version 1.0 of the game was originally released as shareware, consisting of episode 1 of the game. Version 1.1 was the first published registered version, consists of the first three episodes, and includes various bugfixes. The registered version also includes the ship editor, which was later available as separate download. Version 2.0 added Episode 4 (An End to Fate) and several new game modes, like the two-player mode. Version 2.01/2.1 fixed some keyboard bugs and includes the "Christmas mode", triggered by starting the game in December.
Tyrian 2000 (3.0)[edit]
|Tyrian 2000
|Eclipse Productions
|Stealth Media Group, Inc. (XSIV Games)
Symmetry Entertainment (XSIV Games)
|Alexander Brandon
2004 (freeware)
|Scrolling shooter
|Single-player, multiplayer
In 1999, Tyrian was re-released as Tyrian 2000, which includes an additional fifth episode and bug fixes.
Additional ships include Phoenix II, Storm, Red Dragon, Pretzel Pete Truck (from the Pretzel Pete video game published by XSIV Games). The datacube "TRANSMISSION SOURCE: Epic MegaGames" game and was renamed "TRANSMISSION SOURCE: XSIV Games" with a Pretzel Pete game ad (however, other references to Epic MegaGames titles remain).
Although it claims Windows compatibility, this is achieved using a .PIF file, not by building a native Windows application.
Game Boy releases[edit]
World Tree Games developed versions for the Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance. After the publisher Symmetry Entertainment closed down, the European publisher Stealth Productions, Inc. (Stealth Media Group, Inc.) obtained the publication rights, but the game was cancelled.
Both Game Boy versions were eventually released in compiled format in 2007 as freeware by World Tree Games.[5]
In the Game Boy Color version, the Full Game incorporates a shorter story (from Episodes 1-4) than the original DOS game, but planet Ixmucane core always gets destroyed at the end, and the levels were redesigned. The rear weapon from the DOS game is not available. The player can carry two Sidekick weapons at once, but only one is usable at a time. New game modes and items can be unlocked by purchasing Extras using credits obtained by completing a stage.
The Game Boy Advance version incorporates graphics from the DOS game, but the level layout and game play are based on the Game Boy Color game. Two Sidekick weapons can be fired at the same time. Super Arcade and audio are not included. New to this game is Challenge mode, where additional levels are unlocked by completing existing Challenge levels.
|Carl W. Reinke (Mindless), Yuri K. Schlesner (yuriks), Casey A. McCann (syntaxglitch)
|The OpenTyrian Development Team
|Alexander Brandon
|Alexander Brandon
|Amiga, Android, BlackBerry 10 OS, BlackBerry PlayBook OS, Dreamcast, Nintendo DS, GameCube, Gizmondo, GP2X, Linux, Mac OS X, Maemo Platform, Pandora, PSP, Symbian OS, Wii, Windows, Zune HD (Windows CE 6.0)
|Scrolling shooter
|Single-player, multiplayer
In February 2007 the Pascal (and x86 assembly) source code for Tyrian was licensed for a small group of developers to re-write it in C, in a project named OpenTyrian, licensed under the GNU General Public License. There are no plans of releasing the original source code. Jason Emery released in 2007 Tyrian and its assets as freeware, along with some Game Boy and Game Boy Advance versions.[5] Following that announcement, in April 2007 Daniel Cook announced the free availability of his Tyrian artwork (not including the later work for the Game Boy Color edition and for Tyrian 2000) under generic liberal terms of the open content Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.[6][7] Since then the community development happened on a bitbucket repository with many ports for many mobile and desktop computing platforms.[8]
The music of Tyrian was created by Alexander Brandon with additional music by Andras Molnar, and is in the LDS (Loudness Sound System) format. The Tyrian 2000 CD includes 25 of the tracks in red book audio format. The red book tracks are omitted from the freeware version due to the download size. The tracks "ZANAC3" and "ZANAC5" are reproductions of two songs from the MSX/NES game Zanac.
Alexander Brandon released the music of Tyrian for free in August 2010.[9]
The game mostly received positive reviews. Tyrian scored 87% in PC Gamer (one percent below their Editor's Choice award).[citation needed] A reviewer for Next Generation complimented the use of a shop system for acquiring powerups, the ability to save games at any time, and the inclusion of a storyline to provide a reason behind "killing everything you see." He scored the game four out of five stars.[10] Computer Gaming World nominated Tyrian as "Action Game of the Year".[citation needed] The original developers Jason Emery and Alexander Brandon considered Tyrian's reception "far more" than their expectations.[citation needed]
- ^ 1999 saw the release of Tyrian 2000, an updated version of the game that contained an extra episode. 2004 was the year Tyrian was officially released as freeware. In 2007, the game's graphics were released under permissive license terms, and the game's proprietary Pascal source code was released to a group of developers to make an open-source C version.
- ^ a b Lost Garden: Free game graphics: Tyrian ships and tiles
- ^ Club Silicon: Tyrian Jukebox
- ^ Lost Garden: The joyful life of the lapsed game developer
- ^ a b worldtreegames (2007, archived)
- ^ Free game graphics: Tyrian ships and tiles on lostgarden.com by Daniel Cook (2007-04-04)
- ^ Lost garden license on lostgarden.com "All licensed items use the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License" (2007)
- ^ OpenTyrian on bitbucket.org "OpenTyrian 2.1.20130907 has been released. [...] There are also console builds for Android, Amiga, Atari Falcon 060, BlackBerry, Dingoo, Dreamcast, DS, GameCube, Gizmondo, GP2X, GP32, GCW Zero, Mac OS X, Nokia Internet Tablets, PSP, PS3 Linux, Symbian, Wii, Wiz, and ZuneHD."
- ^ tyrian-original-soundtrack on alexanderbrandon.bandcamp.com (August 26, 2010)
- ^ "Tyrian". Next Generation. Imagine Media (11): 181–2. November 1995.
External links[edit]
- Official website, repository, World Tree Games via Internet Archive
- OpenTyrian on bitbucket.org
- Freeware Tyrian page, based on DOSBox
- Tyrian Soundtrack
- Tyrian at MobyGames
- Tyrian 2000 can be played for free in the browser at the Internet Archive
- 1995 video games
- Cancelled Game Boy Advance games
- Cancelled Game Boy Color games
- DOS games
- DOS games ported to Windows
- Freeware games
- IOS games
- Linux games
- MacOS games
- Maemo games
- Open-source video games
- Vertically scrolling shooters
- Video games scored by Alexander Brandon
- Video games developed in the United States
- Creative Commons-licensed video games
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Simply put, The Velvet Underground's debut, The Velvet Underground & Nico, was a game-changer that, over the course of the four+ decades since its release, has served as a precursor to everything from glam-rock to punk to industrial and beyond, a deceptively unassuming album whose particular effect was best summed up in Brian Eno's famous pronouncement: "The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band." As the album cover suggests, the back-story of The Velvets' debut is very much about their brief stint as members of Andy Warhol's Factory, for it was through Warhol's mentoring and patronage that they were able to record (a now legendary) album that they themselves never thought would materialize. However, from the beginning of their association with Warhol, there was conflict. Paul Morrissey, an avant-garde filmmaker and factory regular, convinced Warhol that The Velvets needed a more appealing lead singer, as Lou Reed was prone to appearing withdrawn and abrasive on stage. German fashion model and fledgling singer Nico, whom Warhol had used in a few of his films, most notably Chelsea Girls, was Morrissey's recommendation to Warhol, who in turn set about convincing Reed and John Cale to accept Nico as the band's "chanteuse." Despite their initial resistance to the idea, Reed and Cale were eventually persuaded to not only accept Nico into the band, but to write a few songs specifically for her; being the intelligent opportunists that they were, they likely realized that being given new instruments, free rehearsal space, food, drugs, sex (of all kinds), and Warhol's pop-art cache were perks that few, if any, bands could ever dream of enjoying.
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Disc I- The Velvet Underground & Nico (Stereo Version)
1. Sunday Morning
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3. Femme Fatale
4. Venus in Furs
5. Run Run Run
6. All Tomorrow's Parties
7. Heroin
8. There She Goes Again
9. I'll Be Your Mirror
10. The Black Angel's Death Song
11. European Son
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13. European Son (Alternate Version)
14. Heroin (Alternate Version)
15. All Tomorrow's Parties (Alternate Instrumental Mix)
16. I'll Be Your Mirror (Alternate Mix)
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3. Femme Fatale
4. Venus in Furs
5. Run Run Run
6. All Tomorrow's Parties
7. Heroin
8. There She Goes Again
9. I'll Be Your Mirror
10. The Black Angel's Death Song
11. European Son
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New shows: This week Londoners are being treated to exquisite work by Hokusai and the famous Beyond The Great Wave. The collection of the great Japanese print master is being displayed at the British Museum and it will give you goose-bumps. Go – but not between 3-6 July, as the print works of the great artist are so delicate that they need re-shuffling halfway through the show.


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Seahawks will collect typhoon relief donations Sunday
From the Seahawks:
RENTON, Wash. - The Seahawks announced today the American Red Cross will have volunteers at all gates on Sunday for the Seahawks game collecting cash donations to aid in the disaster relief from the recent typhoon in the Pacific. The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation will match all donations collected from Seahawks fans.
Fans are also invited to donate online through the American Red Cross' disaster relief fund at the following link: http://www.redcross.org/cm/seahawks-pub
Since its initial landfall on Friday, November 8 in Eastern Samar, Philippines, more than 600,000 people have been displaced, and more than 1,400 evacuation centers have been opened. The Philippine Red Cross is reporting at least 1,200 deaths, with the number likely to increase as previously inaccessible areas are reached.
The American National Red Cross is registered as a 501(c) (3) non-profit organization. Contributions to the American National Red Cross are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law. The American National Red Cross' tax identification number is 53-0196605.
For more information visit RedCross.org.


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Kata Noi bay
You will find here some ideas for visiting the island during your stay:
Most downtown buildings have more than a century and was erected during the first period of prosperity from the exploitation of tin. Their architecture, which is called Sino-Portuguese, is a mix of Chinese and Western influences. This style is also common to all coastal areas of mining on the Malay Peninsula. The historic center is located on Thalang Rd axis (with the pretty "soi" Rommani) and Phang Nga Rd.
Thalang Rd got a complete renovation and the Phuket authorities had the good idea to hide in the pavement the frightful electricity and telephone cables that distort the streets of Phuket (unfortunately in all the cities of Thailand). Phang Nga Rd has not yet been renovated but worth the visit for the On On Hotel where was made the movie "The Beach" in 2001 with Leonardo Di Caprio.
Located at the top of a hill (350 meters high) between Chalon Bay and Kata Beach, Phuket Big Buddha offers a 360 ° view over the South of the island (Chalong Bay, Cape Panwa and Phuket Town), over the Eastern (Rawai and the Promphep cape) and over the West (Kata Noi bay, Kata and Karon).
You can access via a rather steep road that offers lovely views of Chalong Bay and Karon beach. You will find some restaurants where you can admire the scenery while enjoying delicious Thai dishes. On clear days you can even see Phi Phi Island about 40 kilometers in the South-East. The statue is about 45 m high. This is one of the most popular sites of Phuket.


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Data released by the Higher Education Statistics Agency on 23 January show that 7,540 people worked as part-time researchers in 2012-13, up from 6,770 three years earlier.
The growth in part-time research-only contracts has outstripped that of research-only contracts overall. Part-time contract numbers have jumped 11.4 per cent since 2009-10 but the total number of research-only contracts has risen by just 4.6 per cent over the same period. Full-time positions have increased by 3.3 per cent, from 33,700 in 2009-10 to 34,810 in 2012-13.
A total of 42,350 academics are employed on research-only contracts at UK higher education institutions.


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Casa Brazil has teamed up with the Phoenix Suns in honor of the underprivileged children of Semeador and Vidança! For every ticket we sell through the link below, a portion of the proceeds will be donated to Casa Brazil.
The Phoenix Suns play vs. The Memphis Grizzlies on Monday, March 21st at 7pm.
Link to purchase tickets at a special rate:
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Iowa Region SCCA is meeting for their first event of the year in Oskaloosa Iowa. The Oskaloosa Airport is a great autox venue with plenty of runway for the course and paddock space.
The T3hClap.com/Penguin Garage STI will be there, be sure to stop by and say hello. If you're interested in joining don't hesitate to message us here or anywhere on Social media, it's always fun to meet new faces and get more drivers racing!
Event day schedule:
7:30AM-9:15AM - Tech inspection
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9:15 AM - Novice walk
9:30 AM - MANDATORY driver's meeting
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Price £10.95
Format Hardback
Published 1988
Length 132 pages
Pamela Vermes
On 13 July 1965 more than 2,000 people crammed into the memorial service for Martin Buber.Yet, during his lifetime, some had said his work was esoteric, impossible for most people to understand, and he was branded a dubious interpreter of Jewish values.
Who was he then, this gifted man whose studies ranged from philosophy to education, to psychology, to politics, to biblical studies and further? He denied that he was a philosopher or theologian. He refused to accept the feasibility of union with God – the declared aim of the mystic. His role was that of a guide rather than an instructor. 'I demonstrate reality,' he insisted. 'I have no doctrine. I conduct a conversation.' He found it intolerable that religion should be a thing apart, a sacred speciality, and called for the recognition of divine Presence in everyday life. From the Bible and from Hasidism, Buber, an existential interpreter, drew and reformulated truths which Jews and non-Jews alike recognize as necessary to the development and wholeness of the individual.
That he was a Zionist there is no doubt though he belonged to a minority which sought a compromise with the Palestinian Arabs. He abhorred bloodshed and sought a peaceful co-existence between the two peoples.
About Pamela Vermes
Pamela Vermes is the author of Buber on God and the Perfect Man (Scholars Press, 1980) and the literary editor of the Journal of Jewish Studies.


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Discover more about the Arts Council's ongoing development strategy.
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This project aims to develop a network of artists working with children and young people in Sligo, Tallinn and Budapest.
Through this network, the aim is to share and celebrate arts practice across Ireland, Estonia and Hungary and research the needs of artists in terms of European connectivity and online supports. The project will begin with a residential weekend for artists in Sligo in January 2013 and over the course of six months, a series of online events and local hub meetings will take place with artists connecting from across the three participating countries. The project will culminate in regional showcase events in each country in June 2013, engaging the wider community and Practice.ie network.
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Residents of the 'garden town of Staffordshire' and visitors alike are welcome to Biddulph Valley Leisure Centre. Whether you choose to use our swimming pool, gym, or sports hall, our doors are open to help you take positive steps towards a healthier lifestyle.
On this page you'll find everything you need including facility info., benefits of becoming a member and membership prices. You can even save time and sign-up online by clicking one of the join online buttons below.


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Personality clashes and conflict within the workplace is inevitable. Often managers are skilled technicians, but may not proactively manage conflict between staff due to various concerns, e.g., worried about saying the wrong thing, or worried about making the situation worse. The following tips and strategies can be used to by managers to effectively manage conflict and performance issues in the workplace in order to mitigate against presenteeism, absenteeism and the lodgement of grievances and compensation claims. This list is not exhaustive, but is aimed at providing a starting point for managers to manage conflict in the workplace.
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Sample the charm of western France and northern Spain on a European cruise. Discover Portugal's glorious coastline and explore the vibrant cities of Lisbon, Biarritz and Bordeaux. Or you may decide to journey to tulip covered Holland, cosmopolitan Brussels or the delightful Channel Islands on a European cruise. Wherever you go, you are certain to experience European charm, variety and relaxation. With so many exciting things to see and do, Europe appeals to most people. Our range of Europe holidays visit a wealth of beautiful, historic and cosmopolitan cities including Paris, Rome, Venice, Valencia, Madrid, St. Petersburg and many more.
Things to do
- Ascend to the top of the Eiffel Tower for amazing views of Paris
- Marvel at Antonio Gaudi's masterpieces in Barcelona
- Tour the ancient ruins of Pompeii
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Catnip Buds with Muslin Bag
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These organically grown catnip buds are cut straight from the plant and dried on the stem. Each 1/2oz bag comes with a 3 by 4 inch refillable muslin bag to keep your favorite feline happy. Grown with care, the catnip flower buds used to make these toys are hand harvested and processed in Washington State. Organically grown catnip is a safe, natural, and healthy treat for your purring friends.
-Remove leaf and buds from stem. Discard stem.
-Stuff muslin bag with the buds, flowers, and leaf.
-Or… add buds, flowers, and leaf to other toys and scratchers that your cat loves.


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Winter Wonderland
A thick white blanket of snow covers the hills and valleys. It is quiet and peaceful and in the forests. The lakes are frozen. The animal tracks are puzzling. Here and there you will discover wild game lured from its hiding place in search of feed. Packed warmly, you can take a walk in the cold, clear winter air or enjoy a horse-drawn sleigh ride……a great time relax and let your soul dangle and to enjoy the "staade Zeit", a quiet time, a time of contemplation.
Whether quiet and tranquil or fast and sporty, whether Bavarian curling, sledding, snowshoe-hiking or tobogganing; the vacation resorts in the Ilz Valley and the "Dreiburgenland" (Three Castle Country) will fulfill all your winter dreams.
Cross-country ski-tracks lead winter athletes and snow-fans through the fantastic countryside. An untouched winter landscape, loose powder snow, silence and solitude await the snowshoe hikers on their tours. This, in particular, is also an ideal way for non-skiers and individualist to enjoy nature during the winter period. Snowshoes can be borrowed. Away from the mass tourism of the Alps, adult and children skiers will find numerous opportunities to improve their technique alone or in ski courses on our ski slopes equipped with lifts and floodlights. And, there will always be time to stop at an alpine hut for a Bavarian "Brotzeit" (snack), before you, of course, go sleighing downhill. Enjoy great fun for the entire family!


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Siauliu bankas' clients can supplement their accounts by six currencies free of charge
Please be informed that since January 20th 2012 no fee shall be applied while supplementing the bank accounts by the bigger number of currencies at Siauliu bankas.
Henceforth the clients' will be able supplementing their account by Great Britain's sterling pound, Norwegian krone, Swiss francs and USA dollars banknotes free of charge. So far free supplementing of bank accounts was possible by only litas and euros .
The smaller fee of 0.3 per cent from the amount shall be applied supplementing the accounts by not warn-out banknotes of other foreign currencies.


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Thursday, April 15, 2010
my creative space....
It is my friend's birthday today and she is about to depart on a 3 week trip to Paris staying with friends whilst there, who's apartment looks out at the Eiffel Tower...What luck !!
She likes to keep a journal when travelling so could not resist making this fabric journal cover for her last night..
I only had a fat 1/4 of fabric and wanted to fit the Eiffel Tower on the front of the cover so it was a bit tricky. and scary....measure twice cut once and all that...no wine for me whilst doing this little number!
I laughed at myself when I made the fabric covered button. Why did no-one tell me it was so easy peasy..I think I shall make lots more of them..what fun !
I added her initials on the suitcase tag...wonder if she will notice?
I used this tutorial and apart from the mishap of cutting the pink elastic too short and having to resort to black elastic, it all went smoothly.
So shall go wrap it and take along for her Birthday get together.
Pop over here to see what other creative peeps are up to..
x PJ x
9 comments:
- m.e (Cathie) said...
what a great gift, and what a lucky friend to receive it & also be travelling to paris!!
- April 15, 2010 at 4:56 PM
- Nick and Lou said...
You have done a wonderful job on that gift. It will be great to share all of her experiences when she returns. xxNick
- April 15, 2010 at 6:06 PM
- Kate said...
What a great pressie!
Noone tole me self covered buttons were easy either. Maybe I'd better make some too.
- April 15, 2010 at 8:31 PM
- clare's craftroom said...
That cover is just beautiful , what a lucky friend and not just 'cause she's going to Paris !
- April 16, 2010 at 8:13 PM
PJ, I've added a link from the notebook tutorial to yours. What a good idea to use a Paris fabric for a gift for a friend going to Paris!
- April 17, 2010 at 6:10 PM
- Sherrey said...
What a delightful way to gift a friend about to leave on a trip! Lovely job, lovely friend you are.
- April 21, 2010 at 7:33 AM
- My Casa Bella said...
How absolutely adorable! Love that fabric, and I know what you mean about the fabric buttons, I always bought buttons for the handbags I make, but I couldn't find the right one, so I chose to do a fabric covered not knowing what I was getting into, and Voila! a beatiful button appeared.I will make those from now on as well.....:)
- April 29, 2010 at 1:07 AM
What a great journal for a trip to Paris. Have you ever made a cover for a steno book and used blue jeans to put a pocket on the front? Pocket would hold pen/pencil and of course would have a row of stitching to hold the pen in place. Great for beside the phone for messages and can be changed out when full. Sew through some of the pages for tear off notes.
- January 30, 2011 at 10:45 AM
Could you please share with us the name of your beautiful fabric?
- October 25, 2011 at 4:11 AM


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Back in the Game Therapy is proud to announce its association with the Dr. Balabhai Nanavati Hospital located in Mumbai, India.
Nanavati is a premiere healthcare institution based in the western suburbs of Mumbai and has a legacy of more than sixty years and is well-known for providing best-in-class and cutting edge medical care services.
This partnership allows for Back in the Game patients who travel to India to continue their physical therapy treatment plans. Your BITG therapist will be in close communication with your assigned highly trained and experienced physical therapist through telemedicine capabilities to insure you stay on track.
This is the first of many partnerships we will establish as we take Back in the Game global.
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Veteran John grew up in a forces family and served in the RAF from the age of 18.
Encouraged and supported by his wife, John has trained with his labrador Hazel right through to qualified status on the PALS programme.
John is self-employed running his own business teaching bushcraft - and so Hazel gets to go on some great outdoor adventures, always by Johns side.
With his training and education background, we are delighted that John has agreed to become one of our mentors for other Veterans joining the programme.
Carl and Shadow
Gen and Ben
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Controlling cloud costs is a leading challenge for enterprises at each stage of their cloud journey.
Fortunately, companies utilizing a public cloud can benefit from the strategic partnership between Google and Rackspace. Google Cloud Platform is a state-of-the-art, cost-friendly public cloud, and Google has selected Rackspace as its first managed services provider for GCP, based on Rackspace's vast cloud expertise and dedication to a fanatical customer experience.
With Managed GCP by Rackspace, companies can maximize their cost savings on Google Cloud while also saving on hiring, training and retaining top talent to operate their cloud operations. In this post we will focus on the ten most significant cost-saving opportunities.Read this blog to learn more!


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Breaking Free From Your Comfort Zone
Your comfort zone - it's warm, it's cozy, it's safe. It's kind of like your mother's womb and well, you know how that goes, at some point you have to get out of there!
Personally, I'm not crazy about the term "comfort zone".
I think it should be renamed the "staying stuck zone" instead. Because unfortunately, that's what it really is.
And whether we like it or not, we sometimes have to venture out of it in order to make things happen in our life.
There are lots of ways that we stay in our comfort zones.
It might staying in a job that you hate. Or maybe it's staying in a relationship that you know isn't working anymore. It might be choosing not to have a tough conversation with your kid because you are afraid to. Or choosing not take the leap and move to that city that you love where you vacationed last winter.
Staying in your comfort zone might seem like the path of least resistance but in reality, it's the more difficult one. We can't grow if we stay stagnant.
The truth is that we all have 2 roads that we can go down - the safe one that has all of the street lights. Or the darker road where we can't see the turns around the corner.
The safe road will take you in one big circle.
With the darker road, you may not know where it leads to but there might be something great at the end. But fear not, the darker road doesn't have to be as scary as it seems.
This is where your intuition comes in.
When you hone your intuition skills it's like having a flashlight to take with you on the darker road. You still don't quite know where it will lead, but at least you have something that will light your way as you go down it.
It will give you little glimpses that you are on the right track and it will show you which ways to turn.
When making decisions in life, weighing the pros and cons is certainly important but it's also just one piece of the puzzle.
Trusting your gut feelings should play a major part as well. And while feelings can sometimes be easy to dismiss, remember that they are there for a reason.
They will make stepping out of your comfort zone... just a little more comfortable.
About the author: Kelly Anne Buchanan
Kelly Anne Buchanan is a life coach who helps people break free from spirit draining careers and build businesses that they love. She is giving away her free PDF "3 Mistakes That Are Keeping You Stuck In A Job You Hate".
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Welcome to our website
L´Antica Ruota is a family run hotel and restaurant in the centre of the ancient spa town of Annweiler. This idyllic location sits at the foot of the historic castle Trifels.
Since March 1997 the Mirabile Family have welcomed guests with a mediterranean ambience, generating a special holiday setting within the relaxing surroundings of the Palatinate Forest nature reserve.
Here you and your family can truly get away from it all. Whether you plan an active holiday, a short break to recharge your batteries, or a major familiy celebration, at L´Antica Ruota you and your guests will always feel comfortable.
We look forward to welcoming you
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Paco Rabanne Pure XSeau de toilette for Men
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Paco Rabanne Pure XS Pure XS Eau de Toilette will become your secret weapon in seduction! Discover this sensual fragrance that will complement your unique charisma perfectly.
- a spicy fragrance
- for the modern, self-confident man
- for both everyday wear and special occasions
- Top notes
- Ginger, Thyme, Green Notes, Bergamot, Grapefruit
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- Leather, Vanilla, Cinnamon, Liquor, Apple
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- Woody Notes, Myrrh, Patchouli, Sugar, Cashmeran, Cedar
- Fragrance category
- aromatic, spicy
About the brand Paco Rabanne
Paco Rabanne fragrances are built on the idea of luxury, quality and sophisticated extravagance. These aromatic compositions which come in uniquely distinctive bottles are just as unusual as the life and work of the designer who gave them his name.
Paco Rabanne is a pseudonym that made Francisco Rabaneda Cuervo famous. This Spanish designer grew up in France where he worked in several Parisian fashion houses before he founded his own brand in 1966. His eclectic designs from unusual materials then quickly started drawing attention and earned the brand global recognition.
The first Paco Rabanne perfume was introduced only 3 years later and has been since followed by dozens of fragrances for both women and men. The initial floral compositions were later joined by woody and spicy ingredients which provided the brand's signature sex-appeal. Paco Rabanne 1 Million is a prime example of this quality and a true modern classic.


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CAVE Launches Endowment Drive
To commemorate our 50th anniversary, CAVE is creating an endowment. With a goal of establishing a $25,000 fund, we kicked off the endowment at our anniversary celebration in October. Speaking to alumni about the importance of giving back, Deanna Berg (BA, Liberal Studies, '95) announced she, along with her mother, Rhonda Berg, have each pledged each to the endowment for the next five years.
Our students have great stories of how they have made a positive impact on the community. The people and organizations CAVE serves value our efforts as well. What will the next 50 years bring for CAVE? Surely, CAVE volunteers will be impacted by their experiences while serving others in our community. An endowment will allow us to do even more good in our local communities and enhance our students' experience. An endowment gift is a permanent assurance for CAVE to remain on the cutting edge of providing meaningful volunteer opportunities, developing student leaders, and serving a broad base of community needs.
Although CAVE receives generous support from the Associated Students and the University, we often have to turn away volunteers and programs because we exceed our valuable resources. That's why—and in celebration of our 50th anniversary—CAVE is creating an endowment, so we can do even more good in our local communities and enhance our students' experiences. Our endowment will allow us to offer better programming with more supplies, improved training, more meaningful volunteer recognition and reflection, and closer community partner relationships.
You can help. This is your chance to show your appreciation for CAVE and help us increase the quality and quantity of volunteer and leadership opportunities for our students. To make your contribution, visit www.csuchico.edu/givetoCAVE.


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Few expected Team Europe, a 50-1 underdog at the start of the World Cup of Hockey, to contend for a title at the eight-team tournament.
Not only did the Europeans defy expectations just by getting to the final, they showed they belonged in the best-of-three showdown by pushing the powerful Canadian side in the series opener. They're hoping a few adjustments in Game 2 on Thursday night will help force a deciding game.
"We're playing this game tomorrow without any fear," said head coach Ralph Krueger. "We're going to go head-on again. I thought we were eye to eye with Canada in a lot of situations yesterday and we're proud of that.
"But that doesn't make us happy. We want to end up winning this game tomorrow."
Canada struggled at times in Tuesday's 3-1 victory at the Air Canada Centre. An uneven performance over the first 40 minutes was eventually replaced by the precision and crispness that the host side has displayed throughout the tournament.
Team Europe, anchored by blue-liner Zdeno Chara and forwards Marian Hossa and Anze Kopitar, put some early pressure on Canada and had plenty of opportunities. However, Tomas Tatar was the only player who solved netminder Carey Price.
Krueger didn't bother with a morning skate on Wednesday and instead held a short team meeting. He feels there is plenty for his team to build on in the must-win Game 2.
"We've picked a couple of simple areas that we think we can improve on that I'm not going to mention here today for obvious reasons," Krueger said. "That's been our mantra is every game, find one or a maximum two things to improve on and to work on.
"We've identified those quite clearly and we hope that you'll be asking about them tomorrow night in a positive way."
It's a tall order for any team to knock off the unbeaten Canadians, never mind a collection of players who are teaming up together for the first time. If the turnovers can be kept to a minimum, Europe could have a chance if goaltender Jaroslav Halak gets hot and the team's offence finds its rhythm.
But the way the reigning Olympic champions are playing, it will take a complete effort to force a winner-take-all Game 3 on Saturday night.
"They are great players. They are the best in the world right now," Tatar said. "We all know. But I think we're on a pretty good journey as well and we're playing good hockey.
"We're not afraid to play anybody right now."
Canada is 5-0 in tournament play and has outscored the opposition 22-7 overall. Europe, meanwhile, is 3-2-0 with 11 goals scored and 11 against.
"You have to believe," Chara said. "You have to have the right approach, the right mindset. It's a best-of-three, so we really have to focus on our game tomorrow and give it (our) all."


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For reasons that are lost in the mists of time Fantasy Bob has compounded this rich natural inheritance by attempting to play cricket - a game so rich in opportunities for disappointment that it makes the serious thinker wonder that it must surely be the product of the Scottish reformation. Sitting mortified in the dressing room with your head between your hands, and your tail between your legs it is unconvincing to think that the cause of your disappointment could have been devised in the idyllic pastoral setting of the Hampshire Downs. Surely a windswept moor in Lanarkshire is more consistent with the mental and spiritual torture that you are enduring.
It goes without saying that FB has faced most of the forms of disappointment that this cruel game can devise. His ineptitude, his misfortune, his lack of preparedness, his clumsiness, in short his general hopelessness is exposed at some point in most matches. So inured is he by this long experience that he no longer regards these humiliations as cause for disappointment. Indeed he is disappointed if nothing disappoints him. This is the Scottish way of looking at things.
But even FB has not experienced the 2 contrasting forms of disappointment on display at Edgbaston yesterday.
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Virander Sehwag is disappointed even beyond his back teeth. He achieved the monumental feat of a King Pair. 2 balls faced - 2 times out. So much for the man who was going to be the saviour of the Indian batting line up - he looked as unprepared as the rest of his team mates. There was some disappointment all around the ground, for the crowd would truly love to have seen Sehwag at his best - a contrast in batting styles to Cook which could have brightened a grey day. It was not to be. Disappointing.
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But the most fantastic King Pair was many years ago. Playing for South Africa against Australia at Old Trafford in 1912 (there was a triangular tournament that year), Tommy Ward was dismissed first ball in each innings by leggie Jimmy Matthews. He gave Matthews a hat-trick in each innings. This was Ward's debut Test. Just as well he was South African (although born in Rawalpindi) for that's more disappointment than even a Scottish person could stand.
But as Martin Luther King said, 'We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope.'
After all, there's always the next innings.