"One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to enquire in his temple" (Psalm 27:4).
Beauties, moral, official, and spiritual, meet in Christ. In Isaiah 33 we read, that as King He shall be seen in His beauty, for then His subjects will have learned His redemptive work and His perfect suitability as Saviour and King. What a contrast there is between the lowly "Man of Sorrows" in whom Israel saw no beauty and the mighty Divider of spoils in His kingdom glory.
But, between the humiliation and the kingdom glory, there is a beauty to be seen in Him while still hidden from our actual sight in those heavens which conceal Him. This, I think, may be learned in the words of the Psalmist (27:4). "One thing," he says, "have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD." Here the Lord is not seen in humiliation, grief, and sorrow; nor in royal glory, but enshrined in the privacy of the temple, withdrawn from mortal gaze.
Can never rest on earth again.
Never, never! Henceforth, like Paul, they cannot see for the glory of that light; their eye and heart are fascinated by that which eclipses all the sights and glories of earth.
Is this a mere rhapsody, a dream? No, God forbid we should think so. The sorrow is that we so little accustom ourselves while in the rounds of our far too formal lives to allow that beauty to entrance our souls and rivet our affections.
Yet it is there for the deep heart enjoyment of every one of His loved and blood-bought people. Fain would He disclose Himself in all that He is to such, and cause their enraptured hearts to overflow in adoration and praise. Think how a vision of that beauty lifted the martyr Stephen clean out of all his surroundings and made him reflect some of its rays. Oh! how sanctifying is a vision of that beauty; how it transforms the whole life of the disciple. To such an one the Lord says, "I will manifest Myself to him" (John 14:21). This manifestation is individual and personal, but unspeakably precious. Let us covet, above all things, personal intimacy with the Lord, and that for all the days of our life, until we "see Him as He is" in heavenly glory.


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Carl Sagan: Cosmos, Pale Blue Dot & Famous Quotes
Called "America's most effective salesman of science" by Time magazine, astronomer Carl Sagan spent much of his career translating technical scientific explanations into something easily digestible by the general public. As a natural teacher, Sagan educated people not only through classroom lectures but also through interviews and television shows. His 13-part TV series, "Cosmos," has been seen by over 600 million people in more than 60 countries. The show was so popular that it returned to television in 2005. [See also our overview of Famous Astronomers and great scientists from many fields who have worked in astronomy.]
Life on the pale blue dot
Carl Edward Sagan was born on Nov. 9, 1934, in Brooklyn, New York. He attended college at the University of Chicago, where he earned his Ph.D. in astronomy and astrophysics in 1960, at the age of 26.
After completing postdoctoral work, he taught at Harvard University. When that school declined to grant Sagan tenure status in 1968, he took a position with Cornell University in New York, serving as the director for the Laboratory for Planetary Studies and the associate director of the Center for Radio Physics and Space Research.
Diagnosed with the rare bone-marrow disease myelodysplasia, Sagan underwent three bone-marrow transplants over the course of his life. Due to complications from the disease, he contracted pneumonia, which led to his death on Dec. 20, 1996, at age 62.
Making science interesting
Although Sagan was most widely known for his scientific communication with the general public, he made many significant scientific contributions as well.
When Sagan was in graduate school, many scientists thought the planet Venus was similar to Earth. As part of his doctorate research, Sagan computed the first greenhouse model for Venus' atmosphere, which revealed a higher temperature than previously suspected. Later, he suggested that dust storms on Mars caused the seasonal changes observed on that planet, and he also wrote a series of papers on the organic chemistry of Jupiter's atmosphere.
As an advisor to NASA, Sagan helped design and manage the Mariner 2 mission to Venus, the Mariner 9 and Viking trips to Mars, the Voyager system to the outer solar system, and the Galileo mission to Jupiter. He also helped brief astronauts prior to their trips to the moon.
Sagan helped lay the groundwork for two new scientific disciplines: planetary science and exobiology, or the study of potential life on other planets. He co-founded and served as the first president of The Planetary Society, an organization dedicated to inspiring and involving the public in space exploration. And he promoted the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute, where he served as a trustee.
But Sagan was far more visible as a scientific educator than as a researcher. He was gifted at breaking down scientific concepts into explanations that the public could readily understand, while avoiding talking down to them. He authored hundreds of popular articles and more than two dozen books, and he frequently appeared in Time magazine — landing the cover on Oct. 20, 1980.
"Carl kept feet firmly planted in both the planetary research community and in the greater worlds of science communication and science policy," astronomers Yervant Terzian and Virginia Trimble wrote in the American Astronomical Society's obituary for Sagan.
Sagan's books and TV episodes
In 1977, Sagan began work on the television series "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage," serving as writer and presenter. The first show aired on the Public Broadcasting Service in October of 1980. Between new episodes and reruns, the show was the most widely watched series on U.S. public television for nearly a decade. The show won an Emmy and a Peabody award and was broadcast around the world. Sagan's book of the same name (Random House, 2013) stayed on The New York Times best-seller list for 70 weeks and was the best-selling science book ever published in the English language at the time.
In addition to "Cosmos," Sagan also appeared as a guest on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" 26 times, calling it "the biggest classroom in history."
At Sagan's request, NASA commanded its Voyager 1 spacecraft to turn its camera on Earth, creating an image that came to be known as the "Pale Blue Dot," one of the most famous pictures of Earth from space ever taken. Sagan used that name as the title of another book. The sequel to "Cosmos," Sagan's "The Pale Blue Dot" (Random House, 1994) toured the solar system and the galaxy, arguing for the necessity of planetary science and the exploration of Earth's closest neighbors. This book, too, was widely well-received by the general public.
An earlier nonfiction book by Sagan, "The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence," (Random House, 1977) received the 1978 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction.
Although the majority of Sagan's work was nonfiction, he used fiction to present scientific principles in his 1985 novel "Contact" (Simon & Schuster, 1985). The story revolved around interactions between the human race and an advanced civilization of extraterrestrials. The novel sold over a million copies in its first two years of publication, and in 1997, it was released as a major motion picture starring Jodi Foster as main character Ellie Arroway (who was inspired by real-life SETI astronomer Jill Tarter).
In 2015, the Los Angeles Times announced that Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. was working with Sagan's widow, Ann Druyan, on a film about the scientist's life. The production company hasn't released any details about the movie since the initial announcement.
In Sagan's New York Times obituary, then-President of the National Academy of Sciences Bruce Alberts said, "Carl Sagan, more than any contemporary scientist I can think of, knew what it takes to stir passion within the public when it comes to the wonder and importance of science."
Notable Carl Sagan quotes and excerpts from his books:
"Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history."
— "The Demon-Haunted World: Science As a Candle in the Dark" (Ballantine Books, 1997)
"The significance of a finding that there are other beings who share this universe with us would be absolutely phenomenal. It would be an epochal event in human history."
— Quoted in CNN obituary, December 20, 1996
"At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes — an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new. This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense."
"Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact."
— Interview in the magazine Psychology Today (January 1996)
"For myself, I like a universe that includes much that is unknown and, at the same time, much that is knowable. A universe in which everything is known would be static and dull, as boring as the heaven of some weak-minded theologians. A universe that is unknowable is no fit place for a thinking being. The ideal universe for us is one very much like the universe we inhabit. And I would guess that this is not really much of a coincidence."
— "Can We Know the Universe?" in M. Gardner (ed.), "The Sacred Beetle and Other Great Essays in Science" (Plume, 1986)
"In a lot of scientists, the ratio of wonder to skepticism declines in time. That may be connected with the fact that in some fields — mathematics, physics, some others — the great discoveries are almost entirely made by youngsters."
— Interview in the magazine Psychology Today (January 1996).
"It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it not stirring to understand how the world actually works — that white light is made of colors, that color is the way we perceive the wavelengths of light, that transparent air reflects light, that in so doing it discriminates among the waves, and that the sky is blue for the same reason that the sunset is red? It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little bit about it."
— "Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space" (Ballantine Books, 1997)
"It is the responsibility of scientists never to suppress knowledge, no matter how awkward that knowledge is, no matter how it may bother those in power; we are not smart enough to decide which pieces of knowledge are permissible and which are not."
— Quoted in Lily Splane's "Quantum Consciousness" (Anaphase II Publishing, 2004)
"It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science."
— "Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science" (Ballantine Books, 1986)
"Our passion for learning … is our tool for survival."
— "Cosmos" (Random House, 1985)
"The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas."
"The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."
"If the dinosaurs had had a space program, they would not be extinct."
— Quoted by NASA Administrator Michael Griffin in a NASA press release
"The job is by no means done. We will look for the boundary between the solar system and the interstellar medium, and then we'll voyage on forever in the dark between the stars."
The Carl Sagan Center at SETI
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China's economy grew at an annual pace of 6.7% in the three months to June, official data showed, meeting forecasts for the period.
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History
The band formed in early 2008 after some of the band's current members started getting tired of just playing garage venues. After a few months of rehearsing, a steady buzz spreading through their home town, and after the joining of keyboard player Martin Nordkvist, they released the Melting Tracks EP. Having received some radio air play, the summer had them doing some Swedish festivals.

"Armour", the first music video from the band, was released on YouTube on January 16, 2012. It was directed by John R. Hallström.

On March 1, 2012 they released the band's first full-length album The Rock, the Vulture and the Chain, as well as a book of art in which artists have made interpretations of the band's songs.

Sound
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Members
Leonidas Aretakis – Lead vocals, guitar, songwriting
Johan Törnblom – Backing vocals, bass
Jon Wessling – Backing vocals, lead guitar
Martin Nordkvist – Synthesizer, keyboard, tambourine
Anders Aro – Drums

Discography
Melting Tracks EP - 2008
The Rock, the Vulture and the Chain - 2012

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Notes

External links
ALPHA 60 official blog
ALPHA 60 at MySpace

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November 19, 2009, 06:36:46
Yes, I am talking about Lufia II of course. Wasn't expecting this. Lufia and Lufia II on SNES are some of my favorite RPGs of all time. I hope they don't screw this up.
I'm super psyched about the returning music, Lufia I/II had some of the best game soundtracks. In fact, THIS MAY BE THE BEST GAME SONG EVER.
- Square-Enix requested the game
- dev team says it's not a port or direct remake
- different world from the SNES version
- Wave Device is a key element
- expect to use the dpad more than the stylus
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- 'growth of the RPG'
- scenario is based on Lufia II, will have lines that are the same as Lufia II, but overall the game is being rewritten
- town number differs from first and second game
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I've been interested in playing the Lufia games at some point because I'd like to play more SNES RPGs, so I guess I'll keep an eye on this as well.
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on: 11/19/09, 08:22:39
Lufia II actually had a lot of pretty high quality puzzles involved, which looking back on it, seems almost rare. I mean, most RPG puzzles are fairly basic, and come off as looking like an afterthought at best.
So I'm also very interested in knowing if they are going to be keeping the puzzle element, and if so, are they going to rehash the old ones or create totally new ones?
Is that the main character? Hawt.
In all seriousness, I honestly tend to be more interested in games with female leads (ie., FFVI sticks out of course, it has two!), so if that's the main character then I'm already interested.
Anyhow, Ihave no history with Lufia II, so I might be very interested in this just because. Hopefully it lives up to the rep the original game got.
roknin
Well... I think Maxim is probably the "main" character but really the story is kind of focused on both of them, as well as other party members.
Fair enough. Still interested. Just a sucker for female leads (no surprise why I'm such a big Metroid fan, right?).
This could be awesome. Kinda wish this was coming to Wii. It's not like the DS doesn't already have a million (or so) awesome RPGs under its belt and more on the way. :-P I'll keep an eye out for it. This, and the SaGa 2 remake, of course.
GameDadGrant
Looks like an action/RPG remake. Weird. It actually looks kind of cool, but not many developers seem to have pulled off 3D gameplay mechanics on DS very well so far, so... we'll see.
Also I had no idea that the developers of the original Lufia games were the developers of the Rune Factory games?! I think I definitely need to get ahold of one of those games now.
Haha, that's awesome, I didn't know that myself.
Frontier is a great game, btw. Not exactly A level or anything (it does scream PS2), but I played the hell out of it and at any time I could plop right back in and be addicted again. I might pop it in this weekend, been thinking about the game a lot lately...
Yeah Frontier is on my list of Wii games to check out, doubly so now that I know the Lufia team is behind it.
I never played Lufia... but this has my interest :)
Smerd
Hmmmmm, I am in the same boat as Smerd. Never played it, but this could be interesting, especially since I like RPGs. :D
Came in expecting a Wario Land 2 remake. I leave severely disappointed.
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Shoplifters, an Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, is currently playing at the Dipson Eastern Hills.
Shoplifters, Cold War, Destroyer, Serenity
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/ Feb. 2, 2019 10am EST
Annoying as it is that cities the size of Buffalo don't get to see many of the awards season favorites while national critics are adding them to their year end best of lists, the upside is that they tend to get to our theaters during weeks like this, when they provide an excellent cure for cabin fever (as well as an excuse to enjoy a heated theater for a few hours).
A story from the BBC today reports the rising number of elderly in Japan's prisons. Most of them get there because of petty crimes, committed because they see prison as the only alternative to fending for themselves on insufficient state pensions.
That tattering of the Japanese social support system is the background for Shoplifters, the new film from the masterful Hirokazu Kore-eda, winner of the Palme D'Or at Cannes and a nominee for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. As with many of Kore-eda's films, it looks at a family struggling to survive under difficult circumstances.
The parents Osamu (Lily Franky) and Nobuyo (Ando Sakura) work at back-breaking jobs, he as a day laborer on construction sites that offer no benefits, she at an industrial laundry. They share a small, cramped house with Grandma (veteran star Kiki Kilin in her last film), who has a small pension. Grandma's younger daughter Aki (Matsuoka Mayu) works behind a window in a peep show. Osamu supplements their meager income by taking young Shota (Jyo Kairi) out on shoplifting excursions. Hard as their lives are, though, they make room for a five-year-old girl, Juri (Sasaki Miyu), who is in need of shelter from her real parents.
Kore-eda establishes the nature of this family in a mosaic of short, unhurried yet focused scenes that are neither mawkish not melodramatic. Even if she has been kidnapped, we don't doubt that Juri is better off here than she was with her real parents, who over the course of a year don't even report her missing to the police. Still, there is something off center about this family, which is revealed in the final section of the film.
Kore-eda elicits poignant performances from everyone in his ensemble, chose to accentuate the positive rather than dwell on the hardships. The bungalow where they live, surrounded by ugly newer apartment buildings, represents an older and clearly better Japan, even if what was honorable about that way of life has been reduced to the meanest circumstance. In the film's most touching moment, Osamu is asked why he introduced young children to the crime of shoplifting (one not taken lightly in Japan). His answer: "I didn't have anything else to teach them." Now playing at the Dipson Eastern Hills.
Competing against Shoplifters for the Best Foreign Language Oscar is Cold War, from Poland, also nominated for Best Cinematography (Lukasz Zal) and Best Director (Pawel Pawlikowski). It richly deserves to win in every category, though I would have to be the Oscar voter choosing between this and Shoplifters.
(If you enjoy handicapping this category, you'll be able to see Roma theatrically at the North Park starring next week; Capernaum opens at a theater to be determined the following Friday. Only the German Never Look Away, directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (The Lives of Others), will not have played here before the Oscars are presented on February 24.)
Like Kore-eda, Pawlikowski (named Best Director at Cannes) is a modern master at the peak of his game. You may remember his last film, Ida, winner of the Best Foreign Oscar. Cold War is a love story of sorts that plays out in Poland and Paris from the end of World War II through the height of the titular struggle in the mid-1960s. It was loosely inspired by Pawlikowski's own parents, who couldn't live together yet couldn't live apart.
As the film opens, Wiktor (Tomasz Kot) is an aspiring composer working for the Polish government to put together a troupe of folk singers and dancers. One small town audition brings him into contact with Zula (Joanna Kulig), who is almost as talented as she is ambitious. In the film's luminously gorgeous black-and-white photography, she looks to be the image of a film noir femme fatale, and she is the most mysterious aspect of a story in which she and Wiktor rise and fall, separately and together, in their homeland, as exiles in Paris, and other locations behind the Iron Curtain until their story comes to an end.
Cold War runs for less than 90 minutes, though it contains enough material for a story at least twice that length. Again like Kore-eda, Pawlikowski movies history along with great economy and visual panache. (His use of the squarish Academy ratio, seemingly extinct now that we all have widescreen television sets, seems odd, perhaps part of a plan to make a film that looks like it could have been produced 60 years ago, but he composes for that reduced frame beautifully.) Leaps in time are announced by onscreen titles noting the year, and especially in the final reel I was jarred to realize how much story he elided in those jumps, particularly a turn reminiscent of the classic epic Doctor Zhivago. Is Pawlikowski being modest, unwilling to bore his audiences? He doesn't come close to doing that. Now playing at the Dipson Amherst Theater.
If Nicole Kidman didn't get an Oscar nomination as Best Actress for Destroyer, making its belated local debut this week at the Flix Theater in Lancaster, it clearly wasn't because she and director Karyn Kusama weren't trying. Like Charlize Theron in Monster, the film that netted her an Oscar, Kidman and the film's make-up folk work overtime to bury her natural beauty for the role of a severely damaged character, a police detective whose life was ruined by a bad decision she made nearly two decades ago. With a complexion that looks like she's been sleeping on the beach for all that time, a fright wig and a Clint Eastwood-ish growl, she's barely recognizable. (In case we still had any doubt, she's accompanied by a musical theme that seemed to me reminiscent of Bernard Herrmann's score for Taxi Driver.) Which only raises the point, why not hire an actress who didn't have to go to such extremes to fit the part? She gets a few good scenes to play, particularly with her onscreen daughter. But while the plot, in which the old case is brought back to life by the re-emergence of a villain involved in it, has a nice twist at the end, that doesn't make up for the fact that the story otherwise doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
Before it opened last week, I remarked that the unpreviewed Serenity had the least interesting trailer of recent months, touting a noirsh-looking drama starring Matthew McConaughey as a fishing boat captain with a mysterious past that catches up with him when his ex-wife (Anne Hathaway) shows up looking for help. Having seen the film, I now understand the dilemma of the editor who had to cut that trailer: It's not the kind of film that you can boil down into two minutes of explanatory clips. The first hour or so of the movie seem like familiar genre stuff, but are obviously off-center, giving it an almost hallucinatory quality that progressively drew me in, eager to see where it was going. Unfortunately, that destination was a disappointment. But that's not to say that I didn't largely enjoy the ride provided by writer-director Steven Knight (Locke), creator of such British TV hits as Peaky Blinders and Taboo.


There's a certain trick that smart game designers use to mess with their players. You'll finish a level, all satisfied and cocky about it, and then the next stage will look exactly the same, with a twist. Maybe it's missing the crate that was the lynchpin of your first strategy, or maybe there's an extra enemy blocking the path. "Ha, you thought you were better than me," declares the game. "You are not." Baba Is You is the master of this design trick.
The more you play Baba Is You, the more you learn that it's all about experimenting, breaking, and subverting your expectations in every possible way. You might think you've come up with a clever solution to a puzzle only to find that there's a rule in your way, like "Door Is Door," which prevents doors from transforming into other objects. Sometimes you can only win by changing who you control, sometimes you can only win with precise movement, and sometimes you can only win by twisting your brain around like a pretzel in hopes that somehow, in some way, the answer will pop out.
As you keep playing, you'll discover new rules and objects. For example, one set of stages features the word All, and if you want to cause complete chaos, try seeing what happens when you declare that All Is You. (Spoiler: You'll suddenly find yourself in control of every object on the screen.) Words like And and Has add all sorts of new possibilities to the potential rule set, which makes puzzles exponentially more complicated. If "Baba Has Baba," then every time you die, you'll drop yourself. How's that for recursion?
Few games are as good at making me simultaneously feel like both a genius and the biggest idiot in the world, which is why I'm absolutely enamored of Baba Is You. It's adorable, ingenious, and 100% worth your time. It's a game where you fight crabs, push walls, and sometimes fight your way through mazes of doors.
...only to find that the next level is the same exact thing except there's a GODDAMN JELLYFISH blocking your path.


The interminable winter is making millions of us depressed and ill. Every artery and bone feels frozen and slow. Some days, even with the heating on, our flat doesn't warm up enough and so, like so many other Britons, I hug hot water bottles and drink too much tea. In an ordinary winter, deaths in the UK rise because of illnesses either brought on or made worse by cold temperatures. The mortality figures here are higher than in Russia with its truly savage climate. Now think of the homeless men and women sleeping rough. How do they survive when the temperature dives to between zero and 4C? Many don't. They die, nameless and missed only by the few who shared their pain. We don't even have proper numbers for these unknown dead. Where are they buried?
As a nation we used to talk about those who were dispossessed. Shelter, Centrepoint and Crisis campaigned to a relatively receptive population. Princess Diana did much to highlight this blot on our landscape. But when she died, concern seemed to die too. Those without places to live include the itinerants on our streets and others we don't see – families living in temporary accommodation and in hostels.
I worked for Shelter once, then a chic charity supported by rock stars and fashionistas, which allowed it to extend its good work, helping those hit by the storms of life and without a roof over their heads. As part of my training, I was shown Cathy Come Home, the devastating BBC play, broadcast in November 1966, written by Jeremy Sandford and directed by Ken Loach. The story is of a young couple, Cathy and Reg, happy and in love with each other and their baby. After being injured, Reg is sacked by his employers and their lives crash. When they are evicted and unable to afford another home, they are turned into a "social burden". Their child is taken into care, the cruellest, final cut.
At the time the film was debated in Parliament, it aroused the nation's conscience and it led to the setting up of Crisis and Shelter. Now we are slyly slipping back from that caring society to one holding Victorian attitudes to work, poverty and misfortune. Today's employers once again hire and fire at will; welfare is considered shameful for those who need it; we are told the destitute have made "lifestyle choices" to subsist and cling on to life, and, worst of all, there is no official acknowledgement of the structural reasons for homelessness.
Shelter warns that every 15 minutes a family finds themselves homeless or perilously close to it. Crisis is equally worried about the rootless, roaming, impoverished families it sees. The charity rightly says a home is not only a physical place of security, but contributes to one's identity, one's sense of being human.
Official local authority figures show that homelessness fell significantly between 2004 and 2009. Then, in 2010, the numbers started going up again. According to the non-political data analyst SSentif Intelligence, between then and 2012 there was a 25 per cent increase in people needing places to stay and a significant drop in funding to meet that need.
In Birmingham, for example, the response to this steep rise in homelessness was a cut of 29 per cent in spending on these people, many of them children. Increasingly, once employed middle-class individuals are finding themselves in this position, not because they think it's cool but because they were laid off in the recession. The Yorkshire Post recently ran the story of Jason, a retail manager who lost his job, was thrown out by his partner and ended up on the streets. I have seen families with infants living in B&Bs in conditions we would not accept for dogs. There was damp on every wall, the windows and toilets were broken, and yet the landlords were charging good money for them.
Urban rats live better than these poor folk, stripped of all hope and dignity. But, unfortunately for them, they have no RSPCA to come and rescue them. Our nation indulges a spoilt, rich Royal Family, keeps a vast army, wants to spend many billions to replace the Trident nuclear deterrent, hands tax cuts to the richest even during the downturn, but won't look after the most wretched on its land, 220,000 of whom are children.
The changes that came in early April will create yet more homelessness as people can't pay their mortgages or their high, private-sector rents. Lee Halpin, a radio presenter and filmmaker from Newcastle, was trying to document the plight of these people by living for a week as they have to. After just three days of sleeping rough and scrounging for food, he was found dead, apparently of hypothermia. His story could have been our Cathy Come Home. But it raised barely a breeze of concern. Hard times have really and truly ossified our hearts.


You probably know her as Marsha Holland, Barb's mom on the Netflix hit "Stranger Things" – but Atlanta actress Cynthia Barrett is about to take "strange" to a whole new level in her latest stage role.
Barrett is currently starring in Be Here Now, a comedy written by Deborah Zoe Laufer that's taken over the mainstage at Lawrenceville's Aurora Theatre. Barrett plays Bari, a woman caught in something of a funk – and also happens to be dealing with some strange headaches. It's the first time Cynthia Barrett has taken the Aurora stage, but certainly not her first time in front of audiences; along with her role on "Stranger Things," the actress has appeared on locally-filmed shows including "Drop Dead Diva" and films including Insurgent.
Be Here Now runs at Lawrenceville's Aurora Theatre through October 21st, with shows on Tuesdays through Saturdays at 8:00 p.m. and on Saturdays and Sundays at 2:30 p.m.
Good Day Atlanta's Paul Milliken spent some time at the theatre with Cynthia Barrett, learning more about the play and her busy career as an Atlanta-based actress.


Catalan gastronomy is world famous thanks to the likes of Ferran Adria, Carme Ruscadella and the Roca Brothers. It has evolved from simple market cuisine to creative tapas with ever-changing taste sensations and flavours. During this walking food tour of Barcelona's central, but authentic, Sant Antoni district we chart 'The Evolution of Catalan Cuisine' from its humble (but delicious) beginnings, to the modern fare which the region's celebrity chefs have made famous. We start with a (very brief) historic introduction to food in the city, before taking tour of Sant Antoni's wonderful Art Nouveau food market, which was recently refurbished and reopened for business. Here we'll taste some of Spain's famous hams and cheeses from historic vendors. Next we'll visit a traditional style bodega, to taste the classic cuisine that Catalans have enjoyed for generations. We'll even get to make our own pan amb tomaquet (tomato bread), and drink from a Spanish porron vessel. After stopping off at an artisan food store for some craft olive oil tasting, we'll head to a lively modern tapas bar for creative tapas, revealing what modern Barcelona eating habits are all about. Finally, what better way to round off a food tour than with a refreshing glass of Valencian-style orxata, with pastries, at a classic cafe?
We visit the Sant Antoni food market, a bodega, artisan food store, tapas bar and cafe.
We limit this activity to a max. of 8 people.
La Confiteria Bar, near Paral-lel Metro Station (we'll send you a map when you book).
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If you would like a private experience, led by one of our local foodies, then contact us on info@tapasandbeers.com with your requirements.


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NEWS Plane returns to LAX after scorpion stings woman aboard
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(CNN)Passengers in an Oregon-bound flight got a creepy-crawly surprise this weekend: a scorpion. The Alaska Airlines flight headed to Portland returned to Los Angeles on Saturday after a woman reported she was stung by the eight-legged animal. Link
ALERT Boston's Logan airport receives 7 inches of new snow since midnight, pushing city to snowiest month on record with 45.5 inches for February – @msnbc
ALERT More than 75 flights at Chicago O'Hare Airport cancelled due to weather; 45 cancelled at Midway – @NBCChicago
NEWS Woman stung by scorpion on flight #AS567 from LA to Portland
A scorpion stung a woman on the hand just before her flight from Los Angeles to Portland took off. Flight 567 was taxing on the runway Saturday night when the passenger was stung. The plane returned to the gate and the woman was checked by medics. She refused additional medical treatment but didn't get back…
NEWS Have a look at this colorful Kitty A330
May seem a nice looking paint job but have a look on board this airline and see what you think Link
ALERT 7 injured when United Airlines plane hit by turbulence en route to Hawaii on Saturday, officials say – @NBCNews
NEWS SAA resumes daily Joburg – New York service
South African Airways will resume its daily nonstop flights between Johannesburg, South Africa, and New York-JFK International Airport, on March 7th. The resumption of the nonstop service on the northbound flight from Johannesburg to New York-JFK will reduce the overall travel time on the route by nearly 90 minutes.
NEWS Heathrow appoints chief financial officer
Heathrow Airport Holdings has appointed Michael Uzielli as Chief Financial Officer. Michael, whose starting date will be confirmed shortly, is currently Finance Director for British Gas where he has led a highly engaged finance team.
NEWS JetBlue welcomes a new special livery to mark their 15th anniversary
NEWS (Video) Mooney Flying around the US and Canada
Some of my favorite clips from flying my favorite airplane over the last few years covering most of the country… (includes BTR, MIA, CLT, HOU, E38, SAT, EFD, CXO, AWO, YVR). Link
ALERT Plane carrying Mississippi State University's basketball team makes emergency landing in St. Louis after engine troubles, team says – @16WAPTNews
NEWS Aerial Photos: Lufthansa Reveals Retro Livery on Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental
A retro-painted Lufthansa 747-8i (D-ABYT) made an appearance at Boeing's Everett plant this week. D-ABYT is slated to be the 1,513th 747 delivered. These pictures were captured from the air. Link
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Würth Elektronik eiSos has extended its free online design tool, REDEXPERT. The simulation software is a highly precise option for AC loss calculation in switch mode power supplies, and now supports calculations for a whole range of other components.
LEDs for horticultural applications, wireless modules, photodiodes and foil capacitors are among the product groups now included in the simulation tool. The properties of the components can be predicted under different operating conditions using stored data. A special feature of REDEXPERT is that the calculations are made on the basis of real, measured laboratory data.
The software relieves developers from having to do much of the mathematical calculating and simulating work involved with qualifying components. Taking DC foil capacitors as an example, all the graphs required for a powerful design analysis are available - based on measured data of the change in capacitance, impedance and ESR versus frequency.
With the 'Range Estimator,' ranges can be calculated depending on a given data rate and link budget.
The newly integrated 'Horticulator' enables the design of individual lighting recipes for the use of horticulture LEDs. Starting with information on the number of LEDs used, the input current and the input connection temperature, the full spectra, photosynthetic photon flux (PPF) and wavelength colour ratios can be calculated, among others.
The photodiodes and phototransistors from Würth Elektronik eiSos are now covered in REDEXPERT and are represented by curves of the viewing angle, spectral sensitivity, irradiance and emitter-collector. A useful tool for the development of wireless solutions - the 'Range Estimator' - allows distance ranges to be calculated as a function of a given data rate and link budget.
Würth Elektronik eiSos developed REDEXPERT, a new model for determining inductor core losses that is available to design engineers as an easy-to-use development tool.


Shivam has become the biggest disaster in Ram's career and it has kind of brought him back to square one in terms of his career.
The first Tuesday collections are almost nil in all centers and in some areas, screenings have been stopped due to lack of audiences.
Collections in first week could not cross more than Rs 6 to 7 crores worldwide, trade pundits say.
Even after that it will not add to the collections as Rudrama Devi and Bruce Lee will be taking up almost all theatres from next week onwards.
Until the release of Pandaga Chesuko this May, Ram was going through his worst phase. However, even during that time, he managed to get decent collections.
While Shivam saw highest openings on day 1, it crashed on second day and the collections further dipped by Tuesday.
Ram was hoping to repeat the same magic of Pandaga Chesuko with Shivam but now Shivam's debacle has created a huge dent in his image. He will now have to wait till the next time to prove his stamina.
Also this is fourth consecutive flop for producer Sravanthi Ravi Kishore who has been producing films only with Ram these days. All of them Ganesh, Endukante Premanta, Masala and the latest Shivam are big box-office duds.


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Harassed Muslim fodder seller sets himself ablaze in Punjab
Source URL: http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31804&articlexml=Harassed-Muslim-fodder-seller-sets-himself-ablaze-in-13102015015028
Oct 13 2015 : The Times of India (Mumbai)
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
A Muslim man, who had been selling fodder outside a cow shelter, set himself on fire on Monday afternoon after being harassed by an employee of the gaushala.
Having suffered nearly 40% burns, Eid Mohammad (35) recorded his statement before a magistrate and said he was being harassed for the past week because he was a Muslim selling fodder. He has accused the employee of insisting that he move away from his spot on the Bathinda-Dabwali road.
On Monday , Eid poured pet rol on himself and set himself on fire, after which passers-by and volunteers from NGO Sahara Jan Sewa took him to the civil hospital.
He has now been shifted to Guru Gobind Singh Medical College in Faridkot. Police have registered a case against one Monu on charges of abetment to commit suicide.